Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-10-21

Tor about $4,000 acres more, In large
tracts, are going on, with every reason
70 believe that they will be successful.
The right of way along the entire line
has been obtained. Over two millions
In corporate subscriptions have actually
been subscribed, and vote in different
localities will soon be taken on q mill
lion and half more, in all of which
success is expected with great conf
dence.
When we get five millions in money
and 500, 900 acres of land, Northern cap
atalists have agreed to subscribe eleV-
en- millions.
The people have IL perfectly i'm their
power to have the work commenced
with a thousand hands in three
months.
Will it be done? We answer. posi-
bly, in three, probably in six months.
Mark the prediction .-Ddnvile Times.
DEATH OF DIR. CoLEMAN.-A Dis
patch was received here, yesterday,
from Bristol, announcing the death In
that place of DIR. Richard y. Coleman,
formerly q well known citizen of Am
herst county. He was a son of Cap
tain Lindsay Coleman, of Amherst.
and leaves n large number Of friends
| regret to hear Of his death. For some
time past DIR. G.. has been a sufferer
| from consumption, and il was this in
| his long home. He was about forty five
years of ge.-Lymchburg Republican.
An WunK.-A large force has been
| put to work on the canal, at the second
| lock above the city. The force is now
| engaged in making brush dam. from
the lock to the island, so as to divert
the water from the Water-works pond
into the river on the Amherst side.
When this is done, the " wash-outsn
will be repaired, and all the work on
the Lynchburg level pushed forward
with the utmost rapidity. -Lynchbury
Repubiicdn.
FIRE-We learn from the Pearisburg
| gazette that tobacco barn, belonging
| to Mr.. Rogers. of Giles county, and
| containing about a thousand pounds
of fine tobacco, was consumed by fire
on Friday last 1t is heavy loss to
Mr.. r., being the result of hard
years work. The fire was accidental
in its origin.
ARREST OF MEssRs. BARBOUR AND
| Richmond. Oct. I2.-Mes-
srs. Barbour and Walker, the par
ties to the recent challenge, were ar
rested to-day by the Chief of Police,
under apprehen5ions of another collis-
ion, and bailed to answer tomorrow
morning.
Judge Jas. II. Cox of Chesterfield.
has been nominated for Congress
against the august Porter.
SUICIDE.-George Wolfe. who re-
sided some three miles from this place,
| committed suicide yesterday morning
at the barn of Lafayette Umbarger's
| by cutting his throat with razor. He
had shown symptoms of arrangement
on the day previous and guard was
kept over him. On Friday morning
he started from his home when one of
his guard attempted To stop him, he
| knocked the guard down with stick
of wood and ran about mile and a.
half from his home to Mr.. Umbarger's,
in whose barn he was shortly after
wards found, having cut his own throat
from ear to ear with razor be still
grasped in his hand.--ndrioR Star.
DANvILLE MovING.-The Council
has ordered that vote be taken, on
the 10Th of this month, on hundred
thousand dollars subscription to the
Norfolk and Great Western Railroad
and like amount TO the Lynchburg
and Danville road.
OF the result, there can be no doubt
-DdRuWe Times.
Senator Waddell OF Augusta was de
feated before the Legislature last week
for the Office of Corporation Judge o.
StauntOn. Mr.. Smith was the sue
cessful mar.
PUBLIC SPEAKING.-TLere will be {
public dicussion this afternoon be
tween Judge Alexander REEVES (Radi
call and Col. II. T. w. Duke, (Conserv
tive, the rival candidates for Con.
grcss i'm this district. The hour anC
place of discussion will be bulletineC
this morning.-Lynch6tTg Nrgin.an,
Ex-Governor WILLIAM SMITH Il
out in a letter in which he counsel'
the Conservatives OF Virginia TO cal
themselves " Democrats. "-Lyaeh6urs
FirginidR.
INCENDIARY FIRE-The large to-
bacco house of Mr.. Jubal ~ McCcmas
: in Carroll county, was burned TO tn,
! ground on Sunday morning Last. Los,
between $3.50 and $1,000. The fire wa:
the work of a incendiary. -Nont9on
cry Messenger.
THE HoMEsEAD.-The cases In
which parties applied to Judge MahooC
!, for n nldnddmus to COMPEL Judg'
Merritt, of Floyd, to appoint commits
sioners to lay OFF their homestead
under the recent act of Assembly
came up last week in the Circuit Cour
of that county. The Court upon ar
gument of the cases, entered on orde
compelling the Judge OF the Count,
Court TO appoint the commissioners
NOttigO3ney.y MESSENGER.