Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-04-21

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}. R. steptoo, of Bedford, recently had an
arm broken by a stick of wood, which fell
/ from hePile near the cars,in which he was
sitting, having his elbow in the window.
Mr.. -ArpeQ, of Tennessee. reports, from
the House Committee on Labor and Education
a resolution that sos, 900 be appropria ted ,ut
Of the Federal Treasury for the beueft oi
William and Mary College at Williamsburg
! Virginia. The committee state that fully
that amount of property belonging to this
venerable institution, now nearly two hun
dred years old, was destroyed by the Union
! forces in 1852. General Meade characteriz-
e5 this as lone eff those deplorable acts o.
useless destruction which occur in all wars -
Hon. James NJ. Mason reachef Baltimore
on Saturday afternoon, and will place him
self under the charge of Drs. Chisolm and
Miles for The treatment Of eyes, his sigh
having besome impaired in CONSCIENCE of a
debilitated nervous system.
ToRN TO DEATH BY DoGs.-The Norfolk pa
pers inform US that the negro boy Nose, who
was so terribly torn by dogs few days since
near thht city, is dead -
The "Cenlral Hotel, - in Norfolk, has just
been completed at the corner Of Main and
Commerce streets. 1t is owned by J. C.
Deming.
The Bristol and Cumberland
Gap Road.
The meeting of the Stockholders of
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
railroad company, appointed for Thurs
day, May the 18th, has been cailed, it
is understood, to arrange for commenc-
ing the construction of that great and
important work, the extension from
Bristol to Cumberland Gap. The
public mind is so familiar with all the
features of this great link in our inter
State chain of railways, that we feel
it to be unnecessary to give details on
the subject. To open communications
between our Virginia seaboard and the
mighty West has been the earnest de-
sire of three generations. Men of ad-
vanced views who have now long since
been gathered to their fathers, saw in
their day, what is now so universally
felt by Us all, that Through Virginia
lie the highways to the Sea, and in
the Chesapeake Bay the ports of the
West.n The Originators of that svs-
tenn of communications reaching from
Norfolk to Bristol, did not fail to per-
ceive that, great as it was, it would be
incomplete without q link from Bris-
tOl to the Kentucky line thus adding
the great western fields Of supply to
those oi the Southwest No one is so
impressei with the importance Of
completing this connection as the sara
cious and iar-secirg Presifent OF the
A tantic, Mississippi and Ohio road
Happily his directory and stockholders
are in full accord with him. They all
know the value Of the projected link
and are fully imbued with the enlarg-
Ell views, pub IT, spirit and indOmitable
resolution Of their chief II is fit that
he, under whose ausIiCes the several
links were gathered into a connected
chain, should nc ihe means OF compile
ting the system by adding another
link. This done. he will have realized
what has been the dream OF threegen-
tions.-Richmond HhiG nj =
Yegro Is. Railroad Company-suf Com
promised.
RrcnMoND. April 12.-The- suit fo-
five thousand dollars damages, institu-
ted in the United States Court. by
Judge J. p. Wright, colored, of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina,
against the Richmond ard Danville
R:ilIOad Company, was compromised
this morning by the payment of
twelve hundred dollars byt the Railroad
Company to the plaintiff.
The damages were claimed by the
plaintiff, on the ground that he was
forcibiy elected from a fiTst-class car
on the said road. solely or account of
color, Notwithstanding that be held
a first-class ticket. The case was par
TALLY heard yesterday.
II, NJ. Bowden, Esq, member of the
House of Delegates from Norfolk city,
died of hem0rrhage Of the lungs Tues
day evening at Windsor station, on
the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad.
He was en- route to Richmond when
prostrated by his sudden illness. Mr..
Bowden was a member of the State
convention which formed the present
constitution.-RichmOnd Wing.
The DOUBLE DAILY LINE. = We
learn that Mr.. It. w. Bowers, Of the
Wilmington Locomotive Works, is in
the city for the purpose of consulting
Gen. Malone relative to furnishing
new rolling stock for the double daily
line, soon to be established between
this citV and Chattanooga. The re-
suit of the visit has not transpired,
but The opinion prevails in well in
formed circles that new and valuable
trains will he secured, at satisfactory
prices, in time for the OCeasion.-