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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

disappeared in single night, and Gu
riously enough, this work of desola-
ton goes on mainly upon the eastern
side of the river. Here at Memphis,
as at Vicksburg, Columbus, Fort Pill
low and Randolph, the resistleSs, faith
Omless river, whose course none may
anticipate and none can resist, pursue
its appointed tasks with force and
pertinaeity which bas Iessened proper
ty values between Wolf river and
Fort Pickering many millions of dol
lars. Great as is the damage already
done by the mighty river, the calami-
ty begotten is steadily progressive, and
none can tell when "a DETECTION of the
willfui current may relieve the ankle
ties of those owning property along
the river shore between the navyyard
and Fort Pickering. The city once
imagined that in the navy-yard il had
basis of credit to be used in the per-
fection of its railway system. The
Little Rock road at one time was
strengthened in its resources by a
mortgage on the navy-yard. The
mortgage subsists, but the proper has
been disposed of by power against
which chancery may issue its hun
dreds in vain. Plainly enough while
the river holds its present course, there
is no assignable limitation to its des-
tructiVeness.
Late news says that the river at Bon
net Carre is being slowly washed away ;
although every eXertiOn is being made
to stop further spread. The roar of the
current can be heard for a mile, and
the damage to the crop is estimated at
twenty thousand hOgsheads.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
IT From the Nashville Union and American.
THE APPROACERENG MUSICAL
~ - TREAT.

To THE EDtToRs HoE, THE usIoS AND AMERICAN:
A certain number of cur enterpris-
ing and charitable citizens have fitted
up grand concert hall, to be used as
a place for public entertainments du-
ring the Exposition. The hall will
seat fifteen hundred people. Many
distinguished persons are expected to
be present. President Davis and
number Of Confederate officers, the
bishops and ministers of all denomi-
nations are invited to attend. The
finest musicians of New Orleans, Mo-
bile, Memphis, Louisville, Cincinatti
and st. Louis, also Madenloiselle Nils
son have all been invited to take part
i'm the musical entertainments OF the
occasion. Every effort has been made
TO render it the grandest musical festl-
val ever before produced in the South
or West. Accounts OF 1t VIII Oe given
in the leading papers OF the cities be-
fore mentioned, and it is hoped that
large parties from each of themIwrit
be present. The programme for this
festival will be published each week
in ADVANCE The first evening on
which the coccert hall will be opened
will be Friday May II, when one of
Mendelssohn's finest productions, the
Grand OratoriO of Athalie, will be
given. There will be magnificent
representation of some of the courts
of the Jewish temple, where many
tragic incidents in the life of Athaliah,
the daughter of JeZebel, occurred. =
The ladies taking part will be in the
costume of Jewish princesses, and the
gentlemen in the dress of the priest
and Levites-the High Priest, Joab,
himself, in tile gorgeous attire worn
hy him. and attended by scribes, pres
ents to his armed followers the youth
full Joash attired in regal robes, pro-
claims him their king, the last of the
roval line of David, through whom Is
to come the promised Messiah. There
will be one of the largest organs of the
CITY removed to the concert Hall for
the occasion, and full military band
as an orchestra. No troubleor expense
has beer spared to render it in the
finest stvle in which an oratorio has
ever before been produced in America.
We hone that the citizens from ali
narts of our State will so manage their
visits TO the Exposition that they may
have the Measure of seeing this mag
nificent specialize We do not doubt
that they will do so when 1t is known
that the proceeds from this whole tes-
fiynl will. be devoted 10 the Confcde-
rate Orphans.
THE ORPHANS FRIEND.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
JUG=cs Of Election in washing.
ton Co., Va, fer IS7I.

Alta Court continued and held for
Washington County on the 18th day
April, 1871; the Judge of this Court,
this day appointed the following
Judges of Election to serve during one
year from this time:
AT ARINGDoN-F. =. Findley, b,
j. Morrison, James Fields.
At Coon HorE-Peter Hope, Moses
r. Latham, VIM. :. Caldwell.
-4r-G -GooDsoN-Hugh NJ. NIillard,
Joseph w. Owens, G. ii. Lynch. 3 .
AT HALLS BoTToM-Moses II. La
tham, jeremiah c. Rush, James y.
King.
At WESLEY FLEENoRs-Joel Kay
Tor, +. r., Lancaster, Joseph III. Bar
kcr. sAs
AT ADAM PETERS-J0seph Deck,
Joel Il. Benham, w. F. Hughes.
AT WHITES MILL-Emanua Rede-
for, Henry ID. Cuddy, A. NJ. Shultz.
AT WoRLEYs-Abner Hughes, Jas.
IL. Stickley, James Phelps.
AT MAHANAIM CHURCH-M. II.
buchanan, Samuel }. Hutton, Joseph
McNew.
AT FULLENS SCHOOL HOUSE-A.
J. Taylor, VIM. Henderson, Samuel
.Sandifcr.
AT Rock SPRING SCHOOL HOUSE,
John Edmondson, Cedar Creek, J
Bopj. Reid, c. s. Catron. .rl11
AT FRIENDsHIP-Wm. H. Price,
Michael IL. Duff, Samuel Byars-
And the following Commissions of
Election to serve during thesametime.
Emanuel Rodefor, Moses III. La
than, NJ. IL. buchanan, L. 5. Find
day, Joseph w. Owen. f.l1a.. s.i 81
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

4 rich Lead mine has been discov-
cred at Abner's KnOp in Montgomery
County
Taxes for 1871 must be paid to the
County Treasurer instead Of the Sher-
if.
j. Marshall IIanra, late editor of
the late Southern Opinion. died re-
Gently in Maryland at the age Of thir-
ty-oight.
The trial of Johnson II. Sands.
charged with completely with Cahcon
IL. the IIaunstein forgery case, was
commenced in Richmond on the 3rd
4 Jury will be summoned from the
state at large.
Mr.. Il. II. Lynch, deputy County
Court Clerk, at Abingdon, has been
smitten by paraly sis, but is improving.
Senator Johnston has been i'll since
his return from Washington, He is
recovering.
Mr.. Wallace Maxwell, near
Austin. Texas, and a former citizen
of Washington County, Va, died re-
Gently. His brother, DIR. 4. c. Max
wen. of this viciI.ity, lately removed
TO point near him and died within a
week after his arrival. The coinci-
dcnce is both singular and IsaitftIl.
A little girl named Anna Grew was
killed near Beese Steers ia Tazwell
County, on Saturday 29th alt. by
having the roof of the house blown
on her. .-. .-r.
Sam'l. Laird has been appointed
j. VI at Jeffersohville cicc Chas.
Ncwburg. removed.
STRANGE DISEASE. = The Peters
burg Courier says a new and fatal
disease is prevailing in that city,,
which the physicians cannot manage.
Chief among its symptoms is I sort
of paralysis of the neck, by which
the head is forcibly drawn back and
remains in that position until death
cnSucs to relieve the sufferer.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

son, New York ; Grant, Virginia; w
,. Arlington, Tennessee.
Committe on History and Micros.
copy-Drs. S. p. Cnttler, Louisiana
Barker, Pennsylvania; Hanckel. South
Carolina.
Committee an Dental Therapeutics
--Drs. Kingsley, New York; Burr,
Georgia; Rambo, Alabama.
Committee on Operative Dentistry
-Drs. Herman, Tennessee; Knapp,
Louisiana; Holland, Georgia.
Committee on Mechanical Dentistry
Drs. Rodrigues, South Carolina :, Roy
al, Georgia; Wright, South Carolina.
The other committees not vet APP
pointed. =. -.
On motion, the association adjourn
ed to meet in Richmond, Va, at 10
o'clock. on the last Tuesday in July,
1872.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
THE EKC-KEUX.
Proclamation of tie President
By The the President of the UaitcC
Hnf0e-A DrooIcy,,3<tf;n,,

BIZ the the President of the United
tdtes-A Proclamation
The Act of Congress, entitled an
Act to enforce the provisions of the
| l4th Amendment to the Constitution
! of the United States, and fer other
purposes, approved April 20th, A. D.
| 1871, beidg a law of extraordinary
| public Importance. ] consider it my
| duty to issue this, my proclamation
calling the attention of the people of
| the United States thereto, enj0ining
on good citizens, and especially on all
| public officers, to be serious in the en-
| forcement thereof, and warming all
persons to abstain from committing
any acts thereby prohibited. This law
| of Congress applies to all parts Of the
| United States, and will be enforced
everywhere to the extent of the pow
| eTs vested i'll the Executive.
| But imasmuch as the necessity there
| for is well known to have been caus-
ed chiefly by prosecuted relations of
! the rights of citizens of the United
States, by combination of lawless and
disaffected persons in certain localities.
| lately the theatre of insurrection and
military conflict, do particularly ex-
| hort the people of those parts of the
! country to suppress all such combina-
| tiQns by their own voluntary efforts,
through the agency OF local laws and
to maintain the rights OF all citizens
of the United States and to secure to
all such citizens the equal protection OF
the laws. Fully sensible of the respon-
sibility imposed upon the Executive by
the acts Of Congress to which public
| attention is now called, and reluctant
to call into exercise any of the extra
ordinary powers thereby conferred
upon me, except in eases of imperative
necessity, /, nevertheless, deem it my
duty to make known that I will not
hesitate to exhaust the power thus YES
ted in the Executive, whenever and
wherever it shall become necessary to
do so, for the purpose of securing to all
citizens Of the United States the peace
| full enjoyment of the rights guaran-
teed them by the Constitution and
Laws. 1t is my earnest wish that
| peace, and cheerful obedience to law
may prevail throughout the land, and
| that all traces of our late unhappy civ
! il strife may be speedily removed
| These ends can he easily reached by
| the acCuieScence in the results of the
| conflict now written in our cOnstitu-
| ton and by the demand of a proper
enforcement of equal, just and impair
| tial laws in every part of our country.
| The failure of local communities to
| furnish such means for the attainment
of results so earnestly desired, impos-
es upon the national Government the
| duty of putting forth all its energies
| for the protection of its citizens of ev-
cry race and color, and for the restora-
ton of peace and order throughout
the entire county.
In testimony whereof have set my
hand and caused the seal OF the Uni
| ted States 10 be affixed.
Done at the eityof Washington this,
Sd day of May, in tie year OF our
Lord, 1871, and of the independence OF
the United States, the ninety-fifth
| year.
(Signed) .. S. GRANT.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
OUR NEBRASKA CORRES-
PONDENCE.
PAPILLION, NEBRASKA,
Nav ISt 1871.


Editors NetOS::
The NeIUS looks like the face of
an old friend that one has met among
strangers, far away from home. In
deed you have no idea what satisfac-
tion it is to look along your columns
and read names and places with which
l have always been familiar. l see in
your issue of April 7th you had light
frost on the 4th, now what think you
of our climate when l tell you that
on the 10th we had snow storm las
ting six hours after which there was
ice one inch thick. Eighty miles
northwest of here two men were fro
zen to-death Fire-wOOd was scarce
and they tried to keep warm on whiS-
Ky with result as above stated. But
this is an unusual occurrence.
Nebraska is undoubtedly one of the
finest farming and stock raising States
in the Union. The vast rolling prai-
ries are the finest pastures in the world
From April until October the grass is
green and during winter cattle live on
the hay as it cures on the ground
They need no other shelter than that
afforded by the bluffs or hills.
The soil is from two to seven feet
in depth,
There is no timber, all is prairie,
which in summer is one vast ocean of
green intermingled with the most beau
tiful flowers, eye ever beheld. To con-
vert these natural meadows into farms
we have only 70 break the sod and we
have the finest farming land in the
world and which produces at the fol-
lowing rates per acre wheat Is to 80
bushels, corn so to so bushels, oats,
barley &C., in proportion, while this
is the promised land of potatoes, 200
bushels per acre, being a common crop.
/ raised them last year at the rates of
$50 and dlenty of them weighed over
one and a half pounds each.
The country is settling fast, princi-
ply by Germans. But | mnst close
| fear / have trespassedsOn your time.
Yours, &c. q. w. w.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
A CURIOUS PHENOMENON.
The Caying I'm CT tlse Mississippi
Banks ana Why it is sali en-
One Side,

The caving in of all the bluffs on
the eastern side of the Mississippi, from
Cairo to New Orleans, has led to Curl
Gus conclusions. 1t is said that the
motion Of the earth on ITS axis or some
result of some general law of nature
must have begotten this uniform and
constant abrasion of the eastern shore
of the river. Fort Pillow has wholly
disappeared. There is not a ves.ige
of the earthworks erected by Gen.
Pillow and Others at Randolph. The
river has cut caveTnous depths for its
strong currents beneath the everlas-
ting bills, and these nave slowly crum-
bled and fallen, Il grain Of sand at a
time, into the ahysses of the mighty
deep. Now aud then hillsides have
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
T'ise Masonic Grand Ledge Sf
Virginia AND the Grand Orient

"a
As there has been some commOtion
in the Masonic Fraternity of late,
caused by the action of the various
Masonic Lodges in Paris, we give be-
low the status of the Grand Orient
with tue Grand Eodge of Virginia. -
The Richmond Enc Vircr says:
AS the cable dispatches are now fill
ed daily with the strange anti-MasOn-
ic performances of bodies in Paris pro-
Tossing to be Masens, we called on the
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Virginia yesterday, Colonel Thomas +.
Owens to obtain some information in
regard to this procedure, uuheard of
in the history of Free Masonry, from
his official stand point. He informed
us that in 1869 the Grand Lodge OF
Louisiana communicated to the Grand
Lodge of Virginia that the Grand Ori-
ent of France, having invaded its ju-
risdiction in an unwarFantable man.
ner, that grand body had formally in
terdicted any Masonic communication
between all bodies under its jurisdic-
ton and said Grand Orient. The mat
ISI InOiS cSptCldlly COIu plllileO Oi WIS
the granting of Masonic charters by
the Grand Orient of France to negro
Lodges in louisiana.
After an investigation of the matter,
the Grand Lodge of Virginia endorsed
the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, and
ceased communication with the recOg-
nized head of the French MasOns.
The Grand Orient of France subse-
quently issued circular. declaring in
substance that it was anti-MasOnic to
discriminate on account of color, and
the present Grand Master took the po-
sition that nothing from that body
could be received by the Grand Lodge
of Virginia, for the reason that by the
action of the latter on the commune
cation of the Grand Lodge of Louisi-
ana, it had entirely severed all commu-
nicatiOn with it. In this he was sus-
tanned by the committee on the Grand
Masters address. And so the matter
now stands.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
8tisfpG At@s.
FRIDAY, May IL, 1871.
uGilS.

BT c. An.
One hour past midnight, and the sky Is dark, al
No CLEAN of moon or stars ,their rays are all
o,,scgred bv the curtains dense streak Of light
Inar die sky The cold serere, and winds iai. il
gheir lporst seem doing. vail, shine (, then
peep. wild means a. II the storn-aends held
ni,h carnival ; anon a sigh, like child
wheo grieved and sobbing then agsin husb, 7
Aud stiffness reigps.s 3 : fttEl "
Who comes abroad, in such a night, with face
S. white with tips compressed aud trembling form,
So quickly tread, the darkeued rivers bank,
Aud turn her wistfal gaze, on its deep bed7
why backward turn, With almost hyingSiePs,
And haste Ger bridge Of narrow PlApk, With g11ss
stin Downward why bend, and LOOK beneath that
Tall, dark structure; where in the Light Of day
s. tn.rsV rsoisy wheels keep time TO busy
Hsnds7 What seeks this frai young girl win on oniy
The faint Hght, Of hiokeiing lamP'
Ilas she her jewels lest,
rsspsake precious' Alas sot these; she seeks one
Dearer far 4 A.Gither, mad ,oih totHef
F;,0erstill The hours 50 by, no trace Is - --
Foupd. Lost, lost and where The bitter night
/. doing now it, work this fair girl she -.
Almost faint. the feeble light within her hand
stlI burns and by its light, traveller
Belated. finds her in his path. lie stooPs,
And lifts, and bears her TO her home, for not
stranger Is she to his eyes. Too well a---
He knows the meaning Of this scene. The door
Scare. gained, and hark! what noans are these
who treads
The noor with steps that tell Of frantic moodf -
A mothers STEP mothers voice; All what
A watch is hersi One ray OF light comes TO
Her now Her child, her only one, brings comfort,
And now, together their lone watch they keep.
And whotakes note Of minutes when each counts
An hourr Orwho can count the hours, with each
Breath full Of asony'
oh, wine, thou "mocker''' On man who tempis
Thy fellow men; what word Of mine can speak
The damaisg, dreadful work, thou doest'
Thou closest up the gates Of Heaven TO
Souls. Thou bidst them roam without resting
Place. Dire backness their path no bright hope
OF light Sad, eomfortess, bereft OF friends,
PercIance terror TO themselves, blight
oa Gods fair-earth,
Father above how loug shall man abuse
Thy blessings giveng How long, by means Of
These, send mortals 10 the PIT of woe'
Oh send sweet peace, with dove-like influence
To soothe aud comfort wounded hearts and stay
oh stay the hand that deals destruction out.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
DELINQUENT TAXES.

IA. G SHIPLEY, COLLECTOR OF TIE PUB UBLIC
TAXES for the County OF sullivan, do hereby re-
port to the Court, the following Tracts Of Land,
Town Lots and parts OF Town Lots, as having been
assessed for Taxes for the years lS6S aud 1863,
which Taxes are due and remain unpaid, and the
respective owners Of thessm have no goods and
chaitIcs Tithin my County, on which ! can dis
train for said Taxes to wit:
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

Old AND New PLACES-FoR RAIs-
ING Fowls. During 1869, [ raised
about $50 fowls on an old place where
fowls had been raised more or less for
years. The Consequence was, / lost
at least onc-third of all hatched, by
the much-dreaded gapes. | tried
nearly all the remedies recommended,
but my only success was in removing
the worms with a feather trimmed for
the purpose. This year, l am on
new place where no fowls were ever
kept. | set my first hen on january
26th; | have now about l4O chicks
out, some one-third grown, and not
single case of gapes or other sickness
Yet treatment the same in both years
-Pogltrg Bulletin. ans 81 -gIil
-IlIi li'If ....r.f q y a.
a.~err ! i
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

SEMI-WEEELY Sun, S2A YEAR,
OF tbs same size Ral general Character rs
TIE WEEKLY, bit with greater variety OF
misrcl aaco15 rcal:ac, aaI fsT2!il!7s tIe news
to is subscribers with ccs'c- f-,shlcss. because
II comes twice a week i1steaI Of once oaiy.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
LAURA FAIR.

A ROMANcEoF EVIL LIFE, AND WHICH
DID OCCUR on THE 3RD DAY OF THE
ELEVENTH MONTH ioF THE SEW
ENTYETH YEAR OF THE NINE
TENTH CENTURY.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

Cali atuthe News Office and
- see our Doty's Washer and
:! Singers Sewing Machine.
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TEE DAILY Sun, So : y-..r.

A rreGmi1eGtiT read nc rovsnape-, with TIE
rlis=es cFc,I.ai'1 n n -. Up a Free tnde-
pc1deht. AID itsl'ic . t1 IO-IiCs. a the news
1'om eyi gWiIcse. " r-sI-s COPY by lla.l
50 Gets Il5ata, o. g > q ysa-.
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TERMS TO CLUES


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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

Iii therefore considered by the court that judg-
ment he and Is hereby entered against the afore
said tracts Of land and sown lots or parts of lots
in the name Of the State for the sums annexed 70
each being the amount Of taxes costs aud charges
aue severaiy therein for the years 1865 1859 and
Il X ordered by the Court. that the said several
tracts of land lots paris Of town lots or 80
much thereof shal be sufficient. Of each Of them
TO satisfy the taxes costs and charges annexed 10
them severa!iy. be sold the Law directs.
A true cory from state Record, Pages 293 and
Test: A II. BULLOCK, CLERK.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12

SAN T RANIIHNU+ July =
Oh. my darling my darling! how
can YOU do me such injustice as to
doubt my love? If my letters have
seemed uncummunicative with regard
10 what / am doing, it is because l
have had nothing to tell, because my
life each day is spent in the same mo-
notonous way. You will scarcely be-
lieve me when tell you that l have
never. since arrival, stepped foot
out of the door of my room in compaaT
nv with a gentleman; no one accom- accom-
NAMES me to my nealss have never
been at any place OF amusement nave w
received no attention from any one,
and when "A visitor calls in the even
inc II receive none i'm the day J lFis
understood between ina and myself
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS
ONLY ONE DOLLAR 4 YEAR
oNE nUNpEED CoPIEs roR es

Or less than One Cent Ce-v. Let there be a
$50 CLUB a. every I'ust O@lce.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-05-12
Yirgini:a News.

A rich Lead mine has been discov-
cred at Abncr's Knop in Montgomery
County
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-25
TERRIBLE HAIL STORM

10 the Eo1tors OF the Union ana American.
TRIUNE, Tenn, April 90, 1S71.-A
terrible hail storm passed through this
section of country on Wednesday, the
10th inst, about 2 o'clock in the after
noon, that excels anything in the way of
hail storm that has ever been witness
ed in this section, so say old citizens of
this neighborhood. The storm lasted
about fifteen minutes and was terrible
to behold. The stones averaged from
the size of hen egg down to PARTRIDGE
egg. Strange TO say, nothing suffered
any material damage. Luckily vegetation
was not far enough advanced to suffer
much. But allow me to say it beat
anything ever saw, to see great chuncks
of ice coming down as thick and tast as
rain and to see the stock maddened with
fright and running to seek shelter. l
think the storm was much harder east of
this, as a very dark and angry cloud
lay in that direction only one end of the
cloud passing over this place. G.