Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-07-07

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additional subscription Is had in Rock
! bridge. Lexington and Roanok,
were represented in the meeting
! County subscriptions were received
aud ratified, increasing the amount %
stock. Robert Garrett was re-eIet tee
President, with the old Board of Di
I rectors.
MAJ. BROUGHMAN.-We are gratifi.
cd to learn that Major Wilfred Brough
man. the young Englishnan. whose
arrival i'm Virginia we have chronicIed
has finally completed contract fol
the purchase of Mr.. John G.. Crockett,
farm. This tract of land Is known a:
Locust Hill, " and Is situated in tho
lower end of Wythe, about four mile:
from Max Meadows, adjoining the
Fort Chiswell estate, and directly upon
the Macadamized road. 1t contains
about 100 acres, and is decidedly one
! of the finest estates in the country
| the purchaser was better pleased with
| It than auy farm he has visited i'm the
| State, hence the purchase.
We understand that Major BrOugh.
am intends going largely into the gra.
zing business, for which this land il
admirably adapted, and that he has
made arrangements to import his stock
labOIers, implements, &c, directly
from England. The lands cost him in
round numbers $23, 500, and is no doubt
well worth the money. We welcome
Major Broughman to Wythe with
much pleasure, and wish him abun'
dant success in all his Undertakings
WytheUiue Enterprise.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD
"A meeting Of the Stockholders o.
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
Company took place at Front ROya
on tie 29th inst. The meeting wa.
quite fully attended, and some II, 00C
shares of the stock (more than one-half
subscribed were represented.
The meetidg was organized by call
ing John w. Ashby, Esq, Of Page, t.
the chair, and appointing Thomas n.
Ashby, of Warren, secretary.
The Chair briefly explained the Oh
ject of the meeting, and buiness wa:
proceeded with immediately. MajO,
i. Il. BOrst, of Page then presented 8
preamble and resolutions to the meet
ing, providing for the mortgage of the
road, and the issuing of the bonds OF
the company, based upon that mort
gage, TO the extent OF SO. 600 per mile,
Immediately upon the whole line OF
the road, from HagerstOwn in the
State of Maryland To the Tennessee
line.
Mr.. J. Edgar Thompson, the Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Central Rail
road Company, was made one of the
trustees in the mortgage. and iisa p EtAsi.
dent OF the company, 10y the resolution
of the meeting, has the appointment
of the other. The other names sug
gested were Henry w. Clews, Esq,
banker, of New York. and jacob Rus
Russell, Esq, of New York. President
of the God Exchange Bank, of New
York. One or the other of these two
eminent bankers and financjers will
more than likely lie appointed TO act
with MIR. Thompson, which will make
the negotiations Of the bonds certain
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The resolutions were unanimously
adopted, Cheering speeches were made
10y Mr.. 4. II. Boteler and Others.
The Board of Directors are to meet
in Philadelphia in "A few days TO con-
firm the proceedings of the stockhold-
ers' meeting, steps will he taken i'm
mediately To negotiate the bonds, and
and the work he pushed vigorously
forward. We are happy now to say
thai confidence in the construction al
the road is fully established.-Pdgt
Courier.
MORMoNIsM.-We had not heard, I'LL
a few days ago, that Normonism haC
a q.
Franklin. We learn that for severn
wears Mormon missionary has beeI
sent every summer tO this region. a
few weeks ago four families emigrateC
from Franklin to Utah, and it is rumOr
ed that one from Bedford will soon fol
low. These families were induced Il
emigrate by the prophesy of one Eide
T.. W. East, who, writing 10 some OF
them, says: There will be distress
ing times i'm this nation before the
close of 1872. Yes, worse than thai
witnessed i'm the late civil war" The
fools are not all dead yet.-BcdforO
Sentinel.
At the White Sulphur Springs, Wiz
ginia. a new billiard-room, eighty-fOu
feet long and thirty-six feet wide ha!
tGRI - hOOfs
handsomely furnished, has been estab
lished near the main entrance OF TIT
hOteI.-NeiU York Herald,
POSTAL AFFAIRs.-New post Office:
have been established in Virginia n
follows: At Lewisville, King Georg'
county, with Samuel Manning, post
master; at Passpatansy, in the same
county, with Lewis Cross postmaster
and at Big Rock, Buchanan county
with Thompson Elswick postmaster.
CONVICTION OF CHANo'N.-Th'
third trial of ex-MayOr ChahoOn, FOL
completely in the Haunstein forgery
which has been in progress for ont
week, was concluded Thursday eve
ming the jury finding him guilty foi
a term of two years in the peniientary
| with a recommendation fer executive
clemency. The jury went to call OF
the Governor in body, yesterday. N
his behalf. He had been previousiy
| convicted for five years, but a new tri
al was granted on law points.
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