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The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-03-16

Ok the outside Of to-day's paper VIII be
found ,.Poezn," containing many local hits
about the doines ~ the people of Mountain
City We do not rscO:nRenA it for its poetry. !.
hut pubiish it by request, asst is said TO show
= fair condition Of Affairs IN the aourishins
town on the banks Of fhe OWyhee. ri
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
BRISTOL, VIRGINIA TENNESSEE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 49, 1870

should not make an engagement in
indefinitely long on the plea that he is |
the creature of civilization. II she |
makes the kind Of engagement which !
is long, he should resolve that 1t shall !
not be prolonged beyond a certain
date.
Although the ladies, with their
graceful impetuosity, say that six
months is quite long enough, yet we
think that the Roman law was proba-
bly, quite fair in permitting term of
two years. After that, let the pair, II
the pair have made up their minds
that, for them marriage is the supreme
earthly good, get married at any risk.
let them emigrate, keep a school, live
in an attic, work with their hands, go
without sugar and butter, let the lady
make the bed and lay the tablecloth,
and the gentleman answer the bell
and black his own boots. Having
made their log-house in the backwoods
of social life in their youth, they will
probably shake down into some good
| thing before they have finished. But
| If they are people who fear Mrs. Grun-
| dy, and who are nothing If they are
not genteel, they are hardly SAtitled to
the dangerous luxury of long engage
ment.
| The chief terrors that for the parent
birds surround long engagement aris-
| es from the wretchedly mistaken views
of marriage that prevail among the
| majority of women. Any one, we
think, who attempts to take wide
and impartial view of life would find
it extremely difficult to give u clear,
unwavering note In favor of either
marriage or celibacy. When the cham
ces are so evenly balanced, we cannot
imagine why there should be such
morbid anxiety on either side. We
often think that woman of liberal,
refined tastes, fond of life, of society,
of intellectual pursuits, makes dis
astrous exchange when she surrounds
herself with multitudinous cares OF
life. Even If we take the extreme
case of those who must do something
for their own livelihood If they do moi
, marry, there are still undoubtedly dis
coverable equivalents or consolation
Mothers and daughters, for the mos
, part, attach an exaggerated Importance
TO marriage. They regard it an end
, in-itself instead of being, as 1t really
is, means TO an end. Marriage i
.. not life but the accident of life. Wheth
er married or unmarried, whether en-
! gagged or not engaged, the active or tn
! spiritual side of religion, intellectual
pursuits, social and family claims, the
ties of friendship and relationship, tn,
elevation and development of one
nature, win make up the main sub
! stance of wise and good woman's life
= Marriage, per Sc, ought not to be nee
! essary for usefulness or happiness, am
certainly could not alone confer them
: when these beneficent energies ar
: present, either state may be taken a
= God may send, and even long en-
Z gagement may be cheerfully borne
{ without the risk of either ridicule O
= compassion The Picddaiy Papers.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18

the colored insane, and TO remove
thereto those of that race who We're at |
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, thus |
leaving in that institution sufficient |
for the white insane,
who, as before stated, were in different |
jails and other places of confinement |
in the State. That arrangement has
been carried fully into effect. The
property thus turned over to the State,
withouctost, is of considerable value.
1t consists of eighteen acres of land
now under lease to the State for ten
years, at an annual rental of two hum
dred dollars, whereon stand several
wooden buildings worth five or six
thousand dollars, one additional wood
en- buildings has been erected, and
some necessary improvements and re-
pairs made at the expense of the State.
Beds, bedding and other necessary ar
ticles, which were in use or stored on
the premises, were purchased from the
Government at a nominal price.
The lease and plan of the grounds
and buildings are on file in the Office of
the auditor of public accounts. The
report herewith submitted of the SUI
perintendent of public buildings, who
at my instance has had charge of THIS
property for the past month, contains
a statements of the expenditures made
by the State, the condition and capaci-
ty of the institution and the number
of patients now under treatment.-
With the further expenditure of a
small sum 1t is believed that all the
colored insane of the State can be well
and comfortably accommodated at this
asylum for the next ten years. / would
| 10 w
| be at once enacted organizing this asy-
! lufn upon the plan of the Eastern and
! Western Lunatic Asylums, and pro-
viding for the care and custody of all
The colored insane of the State at the
same.
l have been requested by the author
tiles of Randolph. Macon College to
submit for your consideration a propo-
sition in writing, for the sale to the
State of the property of that institu-
ton, situated in Mecklenburg county
for an asylum for insane colored peo.
pie. My great respect for the gentle
men who make this proposition, anC
my high appreciation of the ultimate
objects they have in view in making
the same, induce me to comply witt
their request, although my sense of du
ty compels me TO decline to recon
mend this purchase at this time.
Having thus called your attention t
some of the most important subject
which demand your immediate atten
ton, and the consideration of which
will necessarily occupy your attention
for some time to come, shall brinl
this communication to close. i shal
/ nj an early day communicate to you
r statement of the financial condition
of the State, with such recommends
= tions as commend themselves to nj.
, Judgment, and some suggestions for tn
> amelioration of the condition of tn
: livery largo debtor class in our State
Public improvements, immigration
: education, and other important sui
. jects, will be discussed in communicf
!, tions to be hereafter communicated
!, your honorable bodies.
!. GILBERT c. WALKER.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
Bpistur Asms.
FRIDAY, February 10, 1870.
MAGAZINE NOTICE.

We have the February number ofthe
New Eclectic. The table Of contents
il more attractive than usual The
True Story of Mrs. Shakespear's life
and DR.. Jones' report on Anderson
vile are exceedingly interesting. Turn
bull & Murdock, Baltimore. s4.00 per
anDum.
Tho Old Guard edited by Thomas
Dunn Euglish is most interesting
work. The poems by the editor are
beautiful and far surpaSs those usually
found in Magazines New York. $500
per annum.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18

Lay the gem upon my posomi
Let me reel her sweet warm breath )
For strong chill DER me passes,
And know that this Is death.
would eaae upon the treasure--
Scarcely gwen ere GO
Feel her rosy dimplsd fingers
Wander Ger my cheek Of snow
lam passing through the waters,
But sblessed shore appears;
Rneel beside me, husband dearest,
Let me kiss away thy tears
Wrestle with thy grief, my husband,
strive from midnight until day,
1t may leave an angels blessing
When II vanishes away.
Lay The gem upon my BOSOM
'fis no, long she can DO there
See how TO my beart she nest'ss,
'Tis the pearl love to wear
II In after years beside thee,
Sits another in my chair,
Though her voice be sweeter music,
And her face than mine more fairs
II q cherab call thee Father J"
Far more beaatiiul than THIS,
Love tho hr't-bo-n J. Oh my husband
Turn not from the methsrless.
Tell her sometimes oil her mother
You may call her by my name
Shield her from the winds OF sorrow
II she errs, on gently plame'
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
John ohlmaman,s Ney Year.
How ne CeIsbrates it I'm san Fran
cisco.

lFrom the San Francisco Bulletin, Jaa. 2.
All who can afford 1t appear in rich
apparel the women expend large
quantities of vermillion on their cheeks
and lips, and paste and gold foil artif-
cial flowers and base metal jewels in
their hair.
Their holiday calls and receptions
were not inaugurated yesterday, but
to-day they will be IN order. Stlll,
company was not refused yesterday
....; .s .s..,- curious visitor was invited 10
their hospitalities s-brandy, tea, and
tobacco, preserved fruits, ginger root,
cigars, and watermelon seeds.
The noise of FIRE crackers and bombs
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18

until we reflect that Rocky Ridge
away on In the dun solitudes Of thd
mountains, and these poor despera-
does have hardly aily ainusemefits.--
Mr.. Slade afterward wentto Montana
and began to thin out the population
as usual--for he took q great interest
in trimming the cotlslls aud rwulaiing
the vote--but finally the Vigilance
Committee captured him and hanged
him, giving him just fifteen minutes
to prepare himself in. The paper said
he cried on the scafinld.
1Yle Vigilance Committee is whole-
some regulator in the new countrie5l
and bad characters have lively dread
of it. In Montana one these geiitle-
men was placed on his mule and in
formed that he had precisely fifteen
minutes to leave the country in. Ito
said, "Gents, If this mule don't ba,k,
| five'll answer
! But that is sufficient about the des-
peradoes. I merely wished TO make a
passing mention Of them ms a Califor-
mia production Buffalo Express.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18

is prodigious, and the individual or
firm that can burn most of them Is
considered as excelling in manifesta-
tions OF regard for the occasion. One
company kept up paper fusilade for
over an hour, and attracted about 1000
Cinnamon to the locality. Swarms of
white boys collect at such places, and,
facing the storm Of explosives, fight
and wrestle for the possession Of those
crackers which do not go of.
THE STREET MERCHANTS.
One looks in vain, during the fIoli-
days, for the ancient Chinese eobbler,
with his kit Of tools, and pile Of danl-
aged boots and shoes, ON the sidewalk,
but in his stead is the vendor of cam
dies and sweetmeats, cigarattos and
ginger-roOt. No word escapes the lips
Of these stolid fellows unless a sale is
solicited. They look sleepy and dis
couraged, but some of the youngest
and poorest patroDize them.
coNoRArUI.AUoNs.,
The Chinaman who desires to greet
his friend or neighbor shakes his own
hands; If man, his fingers are doub-
led together; If to female, the palms
| are placed together and the hands sha-
ken up and down. The presentation
of an orange signifies that the party
| presenting II wishes the recipient a
happy New Year and good fortune
generally. They bow (or pretend to
bow to those OF equal rank, and infe-
riors bend the knee. The former do
not bow 10 the latter.
| THE CHURCHES.
In each of the temples the reigning
joss has been treated TO a new coat oi
brick-coiored paint, which makes his
pOuchy face glow as If he lad Just de-
scended from the celestial realms. lie
looks perfectly healthy and contented
Before him are forests Ofsnlall sputter-
ing tapers, which arc supposed to send
up to his divine nostI'ils most agreeable
perfume, but which are an abomination
to the olfactories of mortals. His dev
otee walks in, bows reverently few
times, bending in front of the altar
and muttering some set prayer or in
vocation at the same time. Then IN
shakes tin box, in which Is placed
large bundle of bamboo sticks witt
: writing on each. He shakes patientl,
, and draws with anxiety one piece at
: time. If the character is lucky hi
prayer is answered, and he departs ful
, ly confirmed in his belief that joss /
IA splendid old fellow. In one of thes
, temples is porcelain bell said to b
, 5000 years old. 1t looks like an oh
! one but its tone is as changing as ever
: Over the bell is a drum, and the nois
made blythe two instruments is mos
: confusing. During the season scarce
1 ly an hour passes when some Pagan
not bending at the shrine and shaA
! ing the fortune dice or prayer-box.-
5 The people divide their ceremonies In
: to five classes-sacrificss to heaven an
!. earth, worship of the gods and idol
r belonging TO the family, worship
defunct ancestors, prostration befoI
living parents and grand parents, Ne
Years calls. The theaters are alway
open night and day, and are thronge
from pit to gallery.
/ Large numbers of white persons a
:. tend at these and at the churches, an
/ among the merchants respectable pc
sons of our own race are always we
:, coined cordially and with extreme p
/ liteness.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
Dental.
en- JOHN KEYS, MD, D. D. S.

A GRADUATE In both Medicine and
IN Dentistry, but who devotes his time ex-
clusiyely to Dentistry, will be found at his
Office, next door to Ensors Drug Store, az
all times, except when professionally absent.
He will visit Blountville on Monday OF
each Court week. He win also bo at Jones
vile, Lee county, at the Circuit Court.
Aug l4-u
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
MILLINERY.
THE UNIVERSAL GUIDE

The most valuable assistant in Dressmaklng ey-
or issaed Any igdN can make ladies' or children's
dresses by u. Thousands sold weekly. Agents
wanted every where. A splendid ciaSce for iaoies
TO mako asoaog ia a light aud tasiefai businsss -
FOR further Information. address J, WlcKLffHr
(Box 0g5) Newark, New Jersey, sole agent lor the
United States Jan T-ly
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
Legal.

PROF ESSIONA AL
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
Medical.
DIR. WIN. N. VANCE,

II ATE Of Kingsport, resides in BRISTOL
Ia He win attend TO professional call,
rom town and country.
OFFICE, in Kings Block--frst door onL
he rigbt--up stairs. aug IA. "
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18
MISCELLANEOUS

GtCUSHINGS Il BAILEY.
B03R SEELERS AND STATION g
2B2 BALrinoRB srEKEr, BALTIMORE, As,
The largest aud best assorted stock IN the city Of
SCHOOL, LAW,
MEDICAL, DENTAL, classical, and
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.
COUNTING HOUSE STATIONERY.
BLANK BOOKS made 10 order la any style OF
binding and ruling aug ~ ON
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18

ID. e. BAILEY
A TToRNEY.AT.LAw
N AND NOTARY PUBLiC.
Bristol, Tenn. q Va.
k1s Practices In the CourSs Of Sullivan.
Washington. Carter and Johnson Counties.
Tennessee; Washington aud Scott COuutes.
Virginia.
(OfHce in Law Building, west end Nickels
House,) jan ly
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-02-18

Five Judges of the supreme court Of
appeals, sixteen judges of the circuit
courts and over one hundred county
and city Judges are 10 be elected by
Won. who win hold their offices respeo-
lively In the order named for twelve,
eight aud three years from the LIST OF
January next. This Is u grave and
responsible duty and surrounded by
serious Observation-Disclosures.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22

THE ENGLISH EDUOATIONALB BILL.
The British Parliament is busily engaged in
discussing an Educational bill. But in at
tempting to establish general free school
system, it is involved in a maze of difficulties
by the sectarian controversies which have
hitherto kept the mass es of Great Britain en-
slaved in ignorance. The wisdom of the
American policy of making a broad distinc-
tion between religious and sectarian instruc-
Gon is fully vindicated by the dilemma of the
Eaglish statesmen, and their experience
should incite us to guard more carefully than
ever from innovation our present system
Practically, no child is taught his alphabet at
public school in England until arrange
ments can be made to simultaneously instil
into his mind the doctrines of this or that
oatechism; and the delays and quarres
of Churchmen, Dissenters, and Catholics
lead in many instances to total neglect of
secular instruction. Here, we insure the latter
by public appropriations, and leave the va
rious sects to perform their duty in the
churches and the Sunday Schools. In Eng
land the attempts to combine both forms of
instruction result in numberless cases in
deplorable religious as we'll as secular igno-
rance. The proposed new system may greatly
improve the educational facilities of English
children; but it seems to be still radically de-
fective in the provisions which Mr.. Bright
unsuccessfully attempted to amend, inasmuch
as the character of the instruction in the re-
spective schools is to be subject to the regu-
lations of vestries or other religious bodies.
Tho nav measrre anDears we'll calculated to
accomplish at least one good end-to greatly
increase the amount of aid given by the gov
ernment to popular education, Help has
hitherto been doled out with niggardy
hand, and for the advance made in that direc-
tion the people may be thankful. There
seems to be no provision, however, for the
normal schools which are a necessary adjunct
of every effective system, and an adjournment
rather than an adjustment of the sectarian
squabbles which have made the rsasses of
England the most ignorant civilized people
on the face of the globe. ..
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22
THE TRAINING PRIVILEGE.

The abuse of the franking privilege has be-
come an old story, and, both in and out of
Congress, all right-minded men admit that
the time has come when neither the interests
of the country nor the self-respect Of decent
men in either the House or Senate will per-
NIT the longer continuance of the scandal.
There are still Senators and Representatives,
however, who contend for the franking privi-
lege, who have the impudence to abuse the
Postmaster General for his efforts to have it
abolished, and who assert, in spite of the
petitions that have poured in from all parts
of the country, that the people are not
opposed to members of Congress using the
Government mails for expressing goods of all
kinds for themselves, their families their
friends and acquaintances, and all
others whom it may be expedient to
conciliate by favor that costs nothing to
the giver. 1t would have been thought,
however, after all the noise that had been
made about the matter, that members of Con-
gress would use an ordinary amount of dis
cretion in the disposal of their franks, and in
view of the little difficulty with regard to the
sale of cadetship that rendered it quite
probable a few days ago that Hon. r. r.
Butler, of Tennessee, would be expelled from
the House in disgrace, that he at least would
have taken some care to avoid further odium in
a:matter of this kind. 1t is pleasant. .illustra-
ton of the beauties of the franking privilege
and the impunity with which members of
Congress abuse it, when we find in New
York paper the following document, which
was addressed to the editor under the frank
of the Hon. Mr.. Butler, of Tennessee;-
''WAsuIEaTON March 1s.--Edltor New York Tri
bune-Dear Sir 81 wish you would please insert In
your paper for one week the following
"CorrespOndence.-A young lady OF talent ant
ability desires the love and correspondence OF nice
NELLIE MOETRosE,
''P. o., washington, ID. o."
The question here is, whether Mr.. Butler is
in addition to his Congressional duties, en-
gagged also in a matrimonial brokerage busi
ness, or presuming that Nellie Montrose il
really desirous of obtaining the love and GORE
spondence of nice young gentleman, what in
ducements did she hold out to the Representa-
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22
TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1870.

~ THE EVENING TELEGRAPH, from
its original establishment, has been in the
receipt of telegraphic news from the New
York Associated Press, which consists of
the Zti6HAe, Times, Herald, W0'zd,
SIN, ToN,uaI Of Commerce, E0eRing PoSk
Commercial Adveytise,, and EOehiAg En-
4,rSS. The success which has attended
our enterprise is, in itself, sufficient evil
dence of the freshness, fullness, and relia-
bility of the news which we have received
from this source. We have now entered
into special contract by which THE
EVENING TELEGRAPH has the erciuSi0e
use of the news furnished in the afternoon
by the Associated Press to its own men,
bers, the North american, inquirer,
Ledger, Press, and A.ge of this city, and
the leading journals of the East, North,
West, and South; and hereafter THE
TELEGRAPH will be the 0nLy e0eNiMg
pape, pn6AiShed in MtS city in which the
afternoon dispatches of the Associated
Press will appear.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22
PAUPBRLsM IN PHILADELPHIA.

WE publish elsewhere a number of the sta
tistics embraced in the annual report of the
Guardians for the Relief and Employment
of the Poor of the City of Philadelphia" 1t
will be seen that the total net cost for Aims
house and outdoor relief during last year
was $41O 235 40 The average population of
the Almshouse was 329S Gan increase
over the previous and all former year,,
and outdoor relief was administered to
45,573 persons. Pauperism has attained
proportions which would have terribly alarmed
our staid ancestors, and even in our age,
when public debts and expenditures are popu-
larly regarded with an amazing degree of in
difference, the necessity of making some
effort to utilize the labor of the dependent
classes must soon be recognized. Under the
present system the aggregate amount of
relief extended is enormous, whether we
consider the expenditure or the number of
persons assisted, while the gross amount of
revenue derived from the renumerative ''em-
ployment" of the paupers is extremely small.
The women have done some sewing and the
men little manufacturing, but the total
fruits of their labors not sufficient to effecta
material reduction in the vast volume of expen-
ditures. 1t proper that the Almshouse should
bemanaged on humane as well as economical
principles, but the necessity of displaying a
humane spirit to oppressed taxpayers should
not be ignored, and in mercy to them vigor-
GUS efforts should soon be made to diminish
the ever-increasing burdens of pauperism and
crime. Every person capable of productive
,lNA 80 30 thn n,ohn
the prison should be put at work of some
kind, and the industrious citizens of Phila.
delphia should no longer be compelled to
maintain thousands of able-bodied men and
| women in idleness.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22

tive from Tt nnessee for him to fr INK her ad
Neriisements over the country 1t seems to
us that this is a case clearly calling for Con-
gressional investigation, but we fear that too
many members are in the same boat with But
Ter, and that, as in the matter of selling cadet
ships, fellow feeling would make them won
drous kind, and exceedingly unwilling to
punish severely offenses of which they them
selves are not altogether innocent.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22
Truly Noble.

We have been requested to publish the fol-
lowing letter.
New YORK, March 1, 1S71-To the Patriots
having charge of the Monument to Victor Noir
-Gehtlemen:-I honor the brave! l am of
America, American / import from bleeding
France her brandy, her champagne, her claret,
her olives, and her sardines. l dispose of them
at No. HOS Llspenard street. New York. where
my peculiar facilities enable me to offer unusual
Inducements to the tradel l am with you and
against tyrants VaUe la freedom! / inclose
seven francs as a contribution to the monu-
ment! ID. e. d. BETTE.