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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-09-29

building of a church for instance. in a
community where the unas>isted eff
forts of its citizens would be INSULT
cient. Before lis completion some
Imagined neglect of A generates dis
content in his mind and Immediately
the design is conceived of prejudicing
others in his favor, for the purpose of
frustrating the end originally propos-
ed.
Again two lawyers or two physi-
clans are employed in bad cast; a
case requiring the utmost vigilance
and skill in the Preparation for its
treatment. The question OF primacy
disturbs their equilibrium and before
it is regained and the difficulty, il
ever, is adjusted the client or patient
as the case may be. loOses the advan-
tage which harmony and celerity of
action is calculated to secure.
We believe in a proper appreciation
of self but when it assumes such
frightful proportions as in the suppos-
ed cases already indicated is il not
censurable in the highest degree.
Very Respectfully,
Ter
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elected at each triennial convention.

is elected at each triennial convention.
The number of bishops is 81, and of
clerical and lay delegates 312. Besides
the general convention there will be
meetings of the domestic and foreign
committees, the societies for the il-
crease of the ministry and the, liffu-
sion of the PRAYER book the members
of which, together with the large num-
Der of visiting clergynen and iaymen,
Will invest this occasion with the deep
est interest, and appeal largely to Bal
timore hospitality Besides the amer
lean bishops the Church have the sat
isfaction of Welcoming the Lord Bish-
op of Litciifield, (Selwyn.) England,
and probably one or more bishops from
the Dominion of Canada.
The sessions begins on Wednesday,
October 4. and after the general open
ing services the Two houses will assem-
bic in Grace Church Chapel. and the
lower house of clerical and lay dele
gates in Emanuel Church. which has
been kindly, offered by the rector and
vestry for that purpose. The session
continues about three weeks, during
which many of the bishcp; and other
visiting clergymen may he heard in
the pulpit. The deliberations of the
house of bishops are not open to the
public.
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Ianancse Customs.

Hon. James Brooks, OF New York.
who has been on visit to Japan,
writes home to his pape-, the Evening
Express: ... .-....- "a, s...--...
HThe Caucasians live beautifully here,
many of them near their places of bu-
siness, right OH the open bay, and 9TH
ers on the bluffs abOve-and 5000
here in the way of living goes farther
than $50, 900 in New York city. They
shut up shot at 4,-drive or ride till Z,
and at d sit down to dinner, their eve
ming amusement, after which. and a
long sitting at dinner they go to bed.
Dinner is the great event of the day.
Tiffin at l O'Clock, as they call lunch,
the intermediate event,-and there
fore, the most is made of dinner No
theatres. no opera for Europeans, 10
libraries, nowhere to spend their eve
nings, they frantically dine, and un-
healthily sleep after such dinners, with
Chinese almost always their cooks
The Chinese take to all trades, and
Chinese make the best house servants
here the japanese not well taking to
that sort of thing, save in nurses for
children. aE -.. rer..
One of the curiOsities of the Fast is
the all sorts of clothes everybody (of
the male sex wears. / am not wri-
ting now of the nature-clad JaI anese-
but they often get east eff European
clothes. or big slOp shop European
clothes, which. when put on, amuse
one TO see. There's a drOn fellow,
with nothing OH but old trowsers and
straw shoes! There is another, with
red European shoes, yellow frock coat,
Calcutta hat a hat branching all over
the head, forward and backward only
though, and stuffed so thick with light
stuff that no suns rays can pierce
through it, Spectatles on too, and
looking as wise as if sNme great phi
loscpher. There is another yet. with
a frOck coat only, no shirt, 10 trows-
ers, no hat, no nothing else! When
European fashions are taken by the
Japanese, they rush into them, as do
the Central American negroes. or the
North American Indians. But the
hats of the Europeans of this country
are of the oldest, drOllest, most varie-
gated kind yOu can well imagine.
bring here my American Lead cover,
a poor concern, under japanese sun,
or in IA japanese rain. / cover it all
over with white linen, and a big tail
down the neck, to shed off the hot sun
rays. Another sports a big Calcutta,
English invented hat, made in imita-
tion of the Turks sash, wrapped
round his head or cap tfez) on hot
day, also to ward off the suns rays
Another yet, fresh come, to look jaun-
ty, sports his American straw hat.
In short, we have all sorts of hats hu-
man ingenuity has invented, and
hence, we look like so many birds of
passage, if not of prey. a..r.
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One of the features of this age is a
desire t. concentrate an the whatev-
er may he meritnriuus in an object es-
pccialIY If that object he accomplished
O the evidences tend to its perfectness.
You meet man upon the streets and
il is almost impossible to enter into Il
naSsing conversation without being
bored bv the related achievements or
anticipated prospects of the inevitable
l.
Indulgence, indeed, has almost in
corDorated il among the virtues of our
would be refined and intelligent SOcie
ty-
The strict rules of criticism that
Johns n. Garrick and others preSribed
hv which To jnd"e of the merits of IA
person would now, if introduced, he
re. ar,led an unplrdonab trespass
upon the domain of cultivated taste
and the literary prov erbs alter which
Shakespeare fashioned his inimitable
Dramas and which others of lesser
light Thought indispensable. That
the I should always be kept behind
the stage,n finds but few votarieS
among US, and by many is regarded a
barbarism peculiar To a state of civili-
Zallph IKE ltldl III Nliltn tliC Ottc
aud Essayists of past ages breathed
and moved. r
Was heprinciple attended with no
other consequences than such as re-
suits TO the parties concerned we would
yield TO its universally aud suffer il
10 pass unnoticed as a permissive folly,
/ but as il often defeats aims and puFpo-
ses which would if completed beof in
calculable benefit TO the world. we
must. tho we make ourselves obnox-
/ ious to the charge of resisting the spir-
I il of the age condemn ii.
r. To Illustrate: A number of parties
actuated by benevolent motives associ-
/ ate themselves together for the prose-
4 cution of some worthy object 'Ths
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VOL. VII.

Reecher's.-We have this hands, m :
magazine for July, August and Sep
tember. The July No. has a spIen
did steel portrait of the artist, Miss
Emily Sa;t;r. 1t is quite a good
magazine and costs but 81 per annum.
Beecber & Sons, Trenton. n. j.
Ec'e tic Maga2ine. The October
number of this Magazine is at hand,
and its contents are of more than
usual interest. The article from the
Quarterly Review on Darwin's De.
scent of Man, is by far The ablest and
most scientific attack that has vet
been made on this remarkable book.
Among the other articles Of note. we
enumcrItc the following: Sir WI
ter SOFT; The Herschels aud the
Star Depths War, a poem. by Hon.
ROdcn Noel; A Fcsta in Venice:
Patty-Chapters MI. to XLVI.; In
Kamtchatka and the Country of the
Ko axis; The State Papers of France;
The Literary Life-IT.; Marie OF
Nillelranche; Pike County Ballads;
Medieval GnId>miths Continuation
Of the Deep Sea Explorations; Ma
rian May; Sir John HerscheI; Art,
Miscellany" &r. a fine portrait Of
the great astronomer, Sir John Her
schel, embellisheS the number.
i. r. Pelton, Publisher, los Ful-
ton Street, New York. Terms s. per
yer; single copies Is cents.
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TIL +. Tenn. DENTAL A~SO'I p
r.aN met in knoxville on the 2ist
Gur tuunsman. DR.. a. j. Damn. Was
appointed clinical operator for The
Thursday following. ani ras also ap-
pointed om a Cnmm't,ce Ia resent 4
iii to tic nc.,t Leei>ia u e to re@u-
LIE the practice og Deni stry in tho
S.ajc d.. W. +. FoNlrr. Of Gee q
VIE. red an essay ON "Maa;icaiiom
and D DIGESTION" whi2h was pronoun-
ccdand able and excellent production.
Dr. 4. J. Dunn was appointed Vice
President of tl'e AHSsociiiion for the
cn,u,ag ye1r. ani Br st"i " s selected
rs the po.nt for special meeting or
the 1st Wcdnr>d " IN JHna next
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An Old and Distinguished Resi-
dcni Of. the Pa"I(ic CoHSt on u
Pleasure Tour Through the
United States. Accompanied b.
His Wife and Children.

We yesterday met Very prominent
member of the old Spanish house of
Don LeOninus, av -ntrlLle old seaman
who has been engaged for the last TWEEN
ty-five yea rs in the pearl-oyster and
fishery business, OH tie west coast, and,
having amaSsed a princelY TO tune
cakes, in our opinion. a very sensible
view of life aud. with his family, is
visiting all the principle points of IN
terest between San Francisco and
New York.
There is something very romantic
in the old gentleman's history. Cast
adrlft wheL very young, in fact, born
upon the very shores of the Pacific. he
grew up with an ardent desire to follow
the sea for an existence. In a few
Years, after becoming and adept in the
art of diving, he would frequently
make excursions to the bottom of the
ocean for oysters, in which the costly
and elegant pearl were wont To nestle,
without any other protecting armOr
than that which was furnished by ma
ture, and often, while making these
perllOus voyages, was savagely attack
ed by that pirate of the ocean, the
blood thisty shark, and the numerous
deep and Jagged sears which he will
always carry bear testimony to the
desperate nature of these bloody and
sangulnary encounters. He has been
to the bottom of the ocean over five
thousand times, and very frequently
has been accompanied bv lis wife and
children. They never yet have used
the diving apparatus or the bell, and
think such ncw-fangled ideas cause
more deaths in Que year than would
occur in a lifetime with tie armOr
that nature furnishes them. H wife
and children have az GcOmpaned him
so often in his diving excursions that
the" are nearly As proficient us him.
self in searching for the treasures of
the deep seG. There is one thing very
remarkable about this wonderful fam
lily, and that is their extraordinary ap-
petite for fresh fish, preferring it at all
times to the choicest mOrsels of meat,
and t is said that the old gentleman
will consume several pounds at a SIN
gle meal when right hungry, and the
rest of the family are vOraciOus fish
eaters. SO long have thay been isola-
ted from society that they have lost
;he use of the English language entire
-ly, and make their warts known
through and Interpreter who accom-
panies them always. The markets are
secured daily in search of the choicest
fish, and, should their interpreter fail
in procuring the daily quantity con-
>umed hv them, they manifest their
dissatisfaction in bursts of anger teri
bic to witness. The above would seem
10 saver pretty strongly of fish, but if
any one has any doubts about the truth
OF the story let him yisit Old John
RobinsOn's museum. n.enagerie, cara
van and Circus, which will come to
Bristol on Saturday September the
30th, and he will see the old monster
sea-ion, his wife and two children,
and he will he convinced that the above
is no idle tale of fiction, but a truthful
representation of the sea-lion.
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wALKERIN NICARAGUA.
The "True Story" Of One Of Jo-
aquin NIiIIer's Heroes.

Some verses by the new poetical ce-
lebrity, Joaquin Miller. upon "Walkt
in Nicaragua" commencing He W; S
Il brick, and brave as bear" recall
to the public notice a man who, though
forgotten in the rush of stirring events
which followed hard upon his tragical
death, once occupied a wide share of
the worlds attention. With an au
dacity worthy of the Spaniards of the
sixteenth century, Walker revived
the glories of AIvOrado and Gil Con
zales on the same fields, and set the
whole of Spanish America ablaze
with his bold fillibustering. He raj
lied to his banner, high advanced in
the very Paradise of the Indies, the
most daring and chivalrOus youth of
the South, established working gov
ernment, procured the connivance of
leading American statesmen and the
money of capitalists. managed part OF
the cabinet at Washington in his in
terest, awakened the angry apprehen-
sion of England, then interfering in
her meddiing, pottering way with the
Mosquito question" and was finally
crushed, after an obstinate and gallant
defense, by the combined power of all
Central America.
William Walker was born in Nash
Vile, Tenn, in 1924. He was puny,
studious boy, and received what is
called at the South a classical educa-
ton, at the University of Nashville.
He Toved about the world until 1858,
having been a teacher, an editor, a
lawyer, a physician, and then broke
out" lin California phrase as filibus-
ter. The writer saw him in 1853. "A
more unpfomising hero could not be
imagired.. He was slight in figure,
only five feet four inches tall. His
face was common and dull. His COM
plexion light, pimpled and freckled.
His mouth was wide aud cnar e. his
eyes grayish blue, no beard, and his
hair thin and yellow. He may have
been personally brave, but he made
no display of it. He was not dash
ing leader, and was rarely under fire
He was cool, retieent, and forecasting
| He had no personal magnetism, neveI
had the affection of his men, though
doubtless he had their confidence
| The partial success which he die
achieve, and which came near being
an entire and magnificent success. wa.
due to the popularity of the cause o.
which he was champion, and his OWL
belief in it. He was an active apostle
of this manifest destiny" doctrine
and his faith, eoRstaHcy and boldnes:
allured the bustling spirits of the time
The underlying purpose was the ex
tension of slavery to new and richie
fields, and the aggrandizement o
Southern Empire. All such asplra
tions perished in the bitter struggle o
our late war, and Walker and his mel
died in vain, their graves unknown
their gallant deeds untold, till now, il
song or story. -.--.t.u. t.H s- i-.
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Tkse ErscnDlal Gener"I COnVen-
ton Df the FrOtcStanT EDiSco-
pal Church Of tho United States
Discourse by Rev. MIR. Lea
kin.
[aeportcd for the Baltimore SUM-
The Rev. Mr.. George A Leakin,
rector of Trinity Church, Corner OF
Broadway and Pratt street, delivered
an interesting discourse last evening
upon the character and objects of the
''Iriennial General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States" which commences its
session ia this city on Wednesday,
Oct. 4, and continues about three weeks.
Mr.. LeakIn, after some preliminary
observations in reference TO the first
general council mentioned in the Acts
of the Apostles, stated that there has
been since the time of Christ oecumen-
ical, provincial and diocesan councils,
as, for instance, the Oecumenical cOun-
Gil of Nice. From the time when the
service of the Church of England was
used, in 1878, at Baflin Bay. and still
later in 1907, at Kennebec, Me-, and at
jamestown, Va, the same year, there
was no general convention in this cOuu-
try, there being no diocesan bishops,
aud the colonial churches depending
or the authority of the Bishop of Lon
don. Means were. however, taken to-
wards the conservation of Bishop Sea-
bury, in Scotland, 1884. Bishops
White and Provost in 1857, and Bish-
OPP Madison in 1870, and these four
united in the conservation of Bishop
Glaggett, of Maryland, in 1892. The
| first general convention was in 17S9,
when our present prayer book was
| ratified by the Bishops, clergy and
| laity, to be used from and after OctO-
Der L, 1870. This church traces her
descent from the apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ, through the Church of
| England, to which she declares herself
indebted, under God, for the first foun-
dations of long continuance of nur-
sing cate and protection. 1t consists
now of thirty-nine confederate diOceses
under the care of bishops using the
same liturgy and yielding obedience
to the canons enacted by the general
! conference.
The body which meets tFienniaily is
composed of the house of bishops.
wlicli consists of all the diocesan and
missionary bishops in the American
church, aud of the house of clerical
aud lay delegates, consisting of four
clergymeu and four laymen from each
diJ Jctse 1t le, is,ates for the American
church within the limits of the United
States, but can make no alteration in
the constitution, liturgy or officers, un.
less the slne has been adopted in one
convention. submitted TO all the did,
ceses, and afterwards adopted in an.
other convention. The president bish.
op is the Right Rev. Bishop Smith, oi
Kentucky, (ex-officio from his senior.
ity The president of the lower house
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LIGHT.
By WILLIAM PITT PALMER.

,Pronunced by one of the most eminent
ines in Europe to be the finest PRODUCTION
of tine same length in our language.l
From the quicksned womb of the primal
gloom,
The sun rolled bleak and bare, "
,Till wove him a vest for his Ethiop breast,
Of the threads Of my golden hair;
And when the broad tent Of the armament
Arose on irs airy bars,
ucnciled the hue Of the Batehless blue
And span.led it round the stars.
Ir.intod the flowers of Eden bowers
And their ieIves of living green,
AM mine were the dyes IN the sinless eyes
OF Eden's Virgin queen.
And when the teud's art on the trustful heart
Had lastcue1 lis mortal spell,
lu the silver Y sphere Of the first born tear
TO the trembling eaIth 1fsn.
When the waves that burst Ger a world &C
cursed
Their work Of wrath had sped,
And the Ark's lone few, the tried and true,
Came forth among the dead.
With the wondrous CLEANS Of my bridal
heams
bale their terrors cease,
As wrcie on the roll Of the storms dark
scroll
Coils covenant Of Peace.
Like rall at rest on senseless breast,
Nights funeral shadow slept
Wien shepherd swains, on Bethlehem
plains,
Their lonely vigils kept
When flashed on their ri-!'t the herIlds
brght
OF Heaven redaeming plan,
AS they chantcd the morn OF Savior born,
JOY, JOY. to the outcast man.
EsuaI favor | show to the lofty and low,
On the Just aud unjust | descend;
Zen the bind, whose vain sphere Iol in
darkness and tears,
F"cl my smile, tie best smile Of a friend:
Nay, the flower Of the waste by my love is
cmbI aCcd
As She rose in She garden of kings,
AZ the chrysalis bier OF the worm appear,
And, 10. the gay butterfly wings.
Ihe dcsolafe Morn, like mourner forlorn.
Conc'..ls all the pride of her charms,
iii bid the bright hours chase the night
from her flowers
Aud lead Yer young day to her arms!
Aud when the gay rover seeks Eve for his
lover
And sinks to her balmy repose,
] wrap the soft rest by the zephyr famed
west
In curtains of amber and rose!
From my sentinel sleep by the night dreaded
deep
"iEe with unslumberiug eyes,
u Icu the cynOSure star Of the mariner
T. blot eh from out the sky
Aud guided by me through the merciless
sea.
Though sped by the hurricanes wing,
He compassless, dark, lone weltering bark
10 the Heaven home safely he brings.
| wa.cn the flowers in their dew-spangled
bowers,
The bird. IN iher chambers Of green,
Aud mountain and plain glow with beatty
agalu,
A .uey hask in the manual sheen,
@, & such the glad worth of my presence
on eanth,
1aourL fearful and fleeting the Will
Whit srlp.i = must rest on the home Of tie
b!"-i.
.y.r blfn.it with the Deiiy's smile
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The Los. County.

In explanation Of the cataStrnphe.
of. which intelligence was given yes
terday, by which an entire county of
Florida Is represented To have sunk
and been replaced 10y a lake, we are
tcld that tho ocean water flows under
bog crusts in that State for many
miles, that saltwater fishes have been
taken in sink holes" or openings in
this crust sixty miles from the sea
shore, Analogous phenomena i'm TO-
calilics nearer at hand are mentioned.
Such caving in scared the people of
Orange county, New jersey. lately.
and recalls the similar phenomena in
Iowa that recently, in the same way.
destroyed several miles of railroad
that had been built over an unSus pee
ted lake. So, too, in York county,
Maine. the railroad that had been
completed around in Alfred suddenly
sank, and when tlIe cause a. sought
it wIS found that an unSuspected
pond. sixty feel deep, lay under the
meadow over which the lad had
been constructed. But in Florida such
conditions exist more extensively than
anywhere elSe.-BGH San.
f|'
l1iaASE Of l1tE NOhIl1. NsAiSDllNA
RAILROAD To RICHMOND AND DAN
VILE RAILROAD The lease of the
entire road of the North Carolina COM
pany-(223) two hundred and twenty
three miles-from Charlotte. y. c.,
to Goldsboro', y. c., by the Rich
mOnd and Danville Railroad COmpa-
ny, was conSummated on yesterday
(September llth) for thirty years, at
tS26O,O00l two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars per annum. Posses
sion fully delivered this tiorning.-
And it is now operated under the con
troll of Col. a. :. Buford, president
of the Richmond and iDanville rail-
road, thus completing his plan of
continuous line from Richmond and
chesapeake to Atlanta, Ga, and cen
tral South. The lease gives general
satisfaction, as in the best interest of |
both contracting companies, and es-
ta6lishes a great thOrough-fare from |
the Eastern Atlantic Stat under one |
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Nh. CALDnELL has cred from
the WylheVille E1'5e,.3.|ae and Mr
c. Y. Mathews wilt conduct, that
Journal hereafter. 1t ha~-beCn 4 very
swightly paper under the firm of {
& N. and we doubt not Mr. Matthews
will carry his double burden in so
spirited a manner that We will scarce
know the difference.
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r AN NlNG

ArR Jos r. AsDERsox having purrbaeed the
lvl Interest ofs w. stoveF IN the Tanning Bu-
siness heretofore conducted under the style OF
stoveT & LE-vaait. we win eohiinue the business
under the style Of ANDERSON bESAOLf AZ
the same yard IN the Town ~ GOodson, whore we
will psy she highest market price for Hides and
Bark. In Leather, Goods OF Cash
Aprii I-u ANnEESON / DEVAULT.
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Sabbath school Convention.

Editors Bristol NcUS:
At meeting of the
Executive Committee, on Wednes-
day The 20th inst, it was agreed upon.
and determined to nave a Sunday
SchOo! Convention, at Union, on Sat
urday the 9Th of October, 1871. The
Services to commence precisely at
10 O'Clock, a. NJ, and to this conven-
ton all the Sabbath Schools of every
denomination are most earnestly and
heart lv invited. Let there be a gener-
al rally of the Sabbath Schools all
over the County, and let every one
come with their baskets of provisions
and let us have grand Sunday
School Jubilee.
Thec0mmittee havesecured the SER
vices of Rev b. G. NIanari, who will
ndli ess the Convention on the occa-
sion.
The. committee suggest the prOpriety
aud respectfully ask the various Sab
bath Schools throughout the county
to appoint from their respective schools
three delegates who will be charged
with the special duty of representing
the various Schools in this Conven-
ton; and the committee would i'm
press upon the minds of the delega-
tion the great importance of being
promptly at their posts at tire time ap-
pointed fully prepared TO eHter at once
upon the duties and exercises of the
day. And we trust that Christians of
every name and order will enter heart
and soul into the work, aud with hon
est Christian hearts unite all their eff
forts for the prom ton of the interests
of the grand and glorious cause.
Very truly,
b q. MCDOWELL,
Chairman 5. S. Elk. ('amA- -
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ORDER OF EXERCISES.

|. Qualification of Teachers.
,. What kind of lessons should we
use?
3 What are the duties and RESPONSE
Utilities of parents and church mem
bers in regard to the Sunday School?
4. Where is the minister's place in
the Sunday School?