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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
HUNTINGTON.
An Effort 10 make a City.

Mr.. Redfeld writes to the Cincin'
natti Commercial, the following con-
corning the new City of Huntington
which has nothing to do now but wait
until capital and men shall 90 there
and build it. A great deal has been
said about this young place, but we
venture the price of years subscrip-
ton to the Nelca that Bristol will sur
pass even the thoroughly blown and
mapped City of Huntington. ED.
News:
Reader, you have heard of Hunt
ington? or course you have, or else
you are not a reader. 1t is the city OF
magnificent expectations. In ali the
hotels and steamboats, you see maps
and plats of the city hanging up, ac-
companied with the information that
there are few more lots undisposed OF
and so forth.
Well, we landed at Huntington and
walked forth into the city, and found
that it contains seyenty-fve or hun
died buildings, most of them of tenn
poraTy and unsubstautial character.
Outside of this Huntington is series
Of good farms lying along the Ohio
river. The country for Il considerable
distance around is owned 10y the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railroad Company.
When they determined TO have the ter
minus or their road at the point where
Huntington now is they bought up,
through their agents, n large scope OF
country, and are now grading il and
LAYING it off into streets and alleys.
The location is good, but il takes some
thing more 10 make city than a Tiv-
er and a railroad.
Several fine cars were standing upon
the track, ready for business when the
great route is omen that shall connect
the Ohio with the Atlantic ocean. y
gap OF less than one hundred miles yet
remains 20 be completed. The points
in Huntington favor are these: IL
viii he the western terminus OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for the
present; Il will contain portion oil
the company's repair shops, and 1t Is
at the head Of strictly sPeaking) the
Z reliable navigation of the Ohio. II
! will be transfer point between Rich'
! mond and the East and Cincinnati.
This will make a brisk place, but mol
n large city.
The buildings at present erected ART
OF temporary character, being frames
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
= Compliment Acknowledged.

A correspondent of the Jonesboro
Patriot, writing from Bristol, pays the
Editor of the Neocs a compliment
which we will do ourselves the Eonor
to reproduce in this connection. We
thank Mr.. /. Z. HARDWOOD, the writer,
and say to him that We have at
heart, the pleasing duty of working
Bristol up through pleasant and pros
porous paths, to a position which will
be the means of honoring and bene-
fitting the country between Knoxville
and Lynchburg. To this task we
have devoted the NeocS, and to this
end we will continue to talk and toll,
deeming that it is a thing so possible
that in the good providence of God
we viii live to see it.
We make the following extract:
Though but little time has elapsed
since L changed my citizenship from
Bristol to BoOn's Creek, the improve
ments which have taken place are as
tonishing. A great many of the lots
purchased at the Johnson and King
sale have been decently enclosed and
not few of them have handsome resi-
dences upon them.
One of the most satisfactory changes
which have been effected is the effort
of the business men to systamatize
trade. There is already a Boot and
Shoe store and we understand Nessrs.
James & Co., will direct their atten-
ton to the Dry Goods business eXclu-
sively, in the spring. The credit in a
very great measure is due to the ener-
getic and liberal efforts of the Editor
of the Bristol Ne1OS. He has done and
doing a vast deal of good for Bristol
and deserves as he receives, the res
pect and confidence of the citizens"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
The Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ollie RIsIroad.

The Louisville (Ky) Ledger of Fri
day last has the following important
information, which will be read with
interest. The Ledger says:
" We learn that arrangements have
been about completed between the
Louisville and Nashville, and the At
latte, Mississippi and Ohio railroads
whereby the Louisville and Nashville
road will assume, in part, the building
of the gap in the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio road between Bristol, Va,
and Livingston, KY, distance of one
hundred and sixty-miles. Our infor-
nation is to the effect that the work
will be put under contract immediate
ly, and pushed forward with all posi-
bic energy to a speedy completion
The first work to be put under con-
tract will be the tunnel at Cumberland
gap, four thousand two hundred feet
in length, three thousand feet of which
are in Kentucky, and will be built by
the Louisville and Nashville road,
while the balance of the tunnel, and
the road thence to Bristol, will be
built by the Virginia company.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
MANIFEST DESTINY.


From advance sheets Of THE ALDINE FOL
February we take this vigorous poem by the
e,itor, Mr.. Richard Henry Stoddard:
Nothing IS as it was of old,
Where cities stood the cattle browse,
Weeds strike their roots through royal
mould.
The lizards bask in Casar's house.
What Cheops built the pyramid?
Whose dust, if any, there is hid
II these, the master races, fell,
Much more the tribes whom they FER
f. threw
From whence they came no man can tell,
Nor wither vanished like the dew.
The same destruction now, as tlen,
Makes obsolete thege outworn men.
Thered man, whom our hardy sires
Found in possession of the land;
Who built in woods his wigwam fires,
And smoked his pipe; or, bow in hand,
Crept on the wild deer, or the bear
Or tracked the panther to his lair;
Who, grim, and hard of heart at best,
Daubed in his war-paint, stole away
With twenty devils in his breast,
To where his hated foemen lay;
Whom, if asleep he could Inot find,
And his strong arms in pinions bind.
To burn him at the dreadful stake
He would devote to sudden DEATH
As suddenly his scalp would take.
And mock the rattle in his breath,
Then, if papoose and squaw he saw,
Would massacre pappoose and squaw?
These bronze barbarians Of the Past,
Cast in the mounds Of hell, are gone,
Their world was wanted far and fast
We drove them towards the setting sun,
Ay,--and if future need should be,
Wen drown them in the western sea!
With iron nets we hold their trail
They find US wheresoe'er they go,
Though fierce they cannot make us quail,
Nor match the rife with the bow,
Wen give them graves and let them try
The happy hunting grounds on high
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
Southern RaiEroad Enterprise.

The Louisville ledger learns that
arrangements have been about COM
pleted between the Louisville and
Nashville, and the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio railroads, whereby the
Louisville and Nashville road will as
sumo, in part, the building of the gap
in the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
road between Bristol, Va, and Liv-
ingston, KY, a distance of 1915 miles
Our information is to the effect that
the work viii be put under contract
Immediately, and pushed forward
with all possible energy to a speedy
completion. The first work 20 be pat
under contract will be the tunnel at
Cumberland Gap, 1000 feet in length,
5000 feet Of which are in Kentucky,
and will be built by the Louisville and
Nashville road, while the balance of
the tunnel, and the road thence to
Bristol, will be built by the Virginia
company.
This load is known as the Norfolk
route, or the trans-contiueutal railroad
and already 40S miles of it, from Nor
folk to Bristol, are completed and be-
ing operated The completed portion
of the road is divided into the Norfolk
and Petersburg division, the South
Side division, and the Virginia and
Tennessee division, and the road is an
almost air line from Norfolk by way
of Petersburg, and is an air line, rs
near as possible, from Bristol to Lou
isviile.
This road is most important one to
the commercial interest of Louisville,
inaSmuch as it will be the shortest and
most direct all-rail route from Louis
vile to the Atlantic sea coast at both
Norfolk and New York. The compile
ton Of the road will make Louisville
independent of the present trunk linee
East, giving her cheap frei@hts. tina
shortest routes, and immunity from
the damaging freight-rate discrimins-
tons made against this city by the
present lines East. 1t gives 10 Louis
Vile a most decided advantage in the
wa; of Il line tO-New York over Gin
cir natl and all other Western cities.
The completion ofthis road to Louis
Vile, and the completion of the Louis
vile, New Albany and st. Louis Air
Line Railway, completes the great
trans-continental railroad of America
and reunites in one unbrOken chain
the Atlantic at Norfolk with the Pa
ciiic at San Francisco. The enterprise
is most truly grand one, and the
gap between Livingston and Bristol
will cOnsummate it; for before that
gap can be built the Air Line road
will he finished to st. Louis.-N y
Daily Bulletin.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02

Mr.. WM. KING of Lynchburg is
ont in a circular advocating the for
nation of IN organization in South
Western Virginia for the sale of Va,
cattle in the city of Baltimore, and
he makes the success of the enter.
prise appear very practicable. We
think the idea good enc and well
worth the trial proposed. Mr.. King
is a worthy and energetic, business
gentleman Of decided ability, and as
the chief officer of the company could
render valuable service. We hope
our Washington county friends will
respond promptly TO the suggestion
he makes. -.--. 20
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
Ntakcs.

Stokes lives in prison like 4 prince
in royal quarters. lie is dressed in
the most extravagant style and has
ali the luxuries which money begets /;
and relies confidently on being &C
quilted. 4 gentleman from New
York. recently in Bristol. says that If
he should be discharged, the mem
bers of Fisks regiment viii kill
him. Our laws have becomea farce
and it seems that money can defy
justice. Only the poor, whom we have
always with US, 60 to the dungeon
and the eallows. Truly does the y.
Y. Wonld say TIA we. have become
the jan Fisk OF nations. ~.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
a Sharp Cut.

The following from Mr.. Beck is
one of the keenest thrGstS on record ::
A REFUGE FROM THE PENITENTIA-
RY.-In the debate in the House OF
Representative Monday, Mr. Beck
referred to the Governors and other
rulers of the States South, who, he
said had been guilty Of ali sorts OF
robheries. He named Holden, Scott,
CLAYTON and Brownlow, and in cen
nectiOn with the latter, said they mad
taken refuge from the penitentiary in
the Senate of the United States.
Mr.. Garfield called EIr. Beck to or
der.
The speaker said it was out of order
to thus refer to member of the CO.
ordinate branch of Government.
Mr.. Beck did not think that he was
out of order in saying that these men
were seeking refuge in the Senate of
the United States.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02

THE JoIxr CoNIMITTEE.- The
Joint Committee on Finance last
night agreed to report a bill the lead
ing features of which arc the follow
ing: 1. Repeal of the reccivability Of
the coupons for taxes and public dues.
2. OF all the debt not funded. two
thirds to be funded in bounds running
thirty four years bearing three per
cent. fortwelve years, six per cent. for
ten and nine per cent, for the remain
ing twelve years. s. The debt funded
under tho Funding bill may be ex-
changed for bonds of like character,
bearing the several rates Of interest as
indicated above III not exchanged,
NAV nevertheless receive the rates of
interest specified in this bill. 4. 4 dec
laration that Virginia is not response
Bile for the third of the debt assigned
10 West Virginia and will not pay any
portion Of it, except such portion gift
as NAV be committed to her rs trustee
bv West Virgiuia.-R. IFhia
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
a Rev Anocdotc ea Washington

Or. Francis Lieber tells the follow
ing story OF Washington. He and
Jefferson had been discussing the
question OF division Of the legisla-
tive department into two houses:
Jefferson one day visited Washing
ton, and full as Jefferson was of
French views and ideas politics, and
everything else, he Zealousiy at
tackled the system Of two houses
General Washington replied thai
Jefferson was much better Informed
than himself on sach topics, but that
lie himself would adhere to the exper-
fence of English and American histo-
~. "You yourself" said the General,
"have proved the excellence OF two
houses this very moment" ,"
said Jefferson, chow is that !" ''Iou
have" replied the heroic sage. "pOured
your hot tea from the cup into the
saucer to cool it. 1t is the same thing
we desire of the two houses"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02

one or two stories high, thrown to-
gether in a row on the river bank,
with little regard to artistic arrange
ment. They are mostly devoted to
trade in a small way, and one j no.
ticed had the sign Independent
Drugs" painted upon its gable end.
l don't know what kind Of medicine
would come under that head.
l fell in with man from Greenup
county, KY, who said he had come to
the city of magnificent expectations
TO get work, but had failed. can't
find the head men of this here 5usi-
ness,n he said, and wish L was at
home. I'll never run around agin
looking for cities whar there amt
any," I suggested that Huntington
was a good place for a city. Yes"
said he, "the location is pretty large
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
JOB WORK
FRIDAY. February 2, 1872.

The Tyson -LNJUNcTIoN is to be
tried again, as wiz be seen by the
following. Really we expect that
these poor fools viii be yeIping at the
iron heels Of Mahone's iron horse
when he shall have plunged through
Cumberland Cap for the green pastu-
rage OF the blue grass region in Ken
lucky. In the mean time the great
enterprise inaugurated by this true
and able Virginian goes noiselesly
but speedily toward its grand con-
summation. The A. N. & o., line is
bis work. 1t is the only real VIrgi-
MIA enterprise of magnitude left us.
The Ches. & O., road is gone into
foreign hands. The Canal IS begging
in the rags of Virginia's restitution.
The Fredericksburg line is being
paved and gnawed at by the Penn.
Central. The good old common
wealth puts her various stocks into the
hungry hands Of her pursuers while
she flies from and abandons the strug-
Gle for national connections, but Ma
hone, starting unaided and dollarlcss
in his grey uniform with the smut
ard clay of the crater upon it, has
taken the broken and corroded links
Of the Southside and has already
made of them the grand enterprise
which in his hands has baiiled the
hitherto supreme skin of the mightiest
combination which ever assailed the
peaceful ard benefcient policy of a
State. From the first Gen. Malone
has had a plan. In no one instance
has it failed Of the result he predic-
ted. And now in the final stage of
its grand proportions which were con-
ceived by him in the midst of our
physical ruin these puppets of Virgi-
miss pursuers are aiming TO behead
him, seeing that he must be slain or
Virginia survives. Really but for the
inquiry Of its design, this thing would
be unworthy of notice. 1t has al.
ready failed, and can do no more.
1t will start through the courts to the
sound Of brass, much ike the baflied
chieftain, who to the sound of mar
tial music marches forth to final sur-
render. 1t will do to amuse a be
wildercd and dismayed class of fools
who think Scott invincible and may
play its part in the farce which viii
soon pass into tic historic silence Of
defeat. But meantime the steady
march of Southside consolidation
continues. Here is the item:
THE Tyson INJUNCTION CASE TO
DE BROUGHT INTO COURT AGAIN.
/ ne IelSiSbuIB JtOcG SUITES JildJ an
amended bill in the injunction suit
of Tyson as. Gen. Malone, &c. was
filed in Lynchburg last week, and no
tice served upon the authorities of the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Rail-
road Company. The bill is exactly
the same as the old one, except that
the parties to the suit have been al
tered so as TO include the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, whereas in the original title, the
defendants were General VIM. Malone
and the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad Company. The case will
come up before Judges Bond and
Rives, in the District Court of the
United States for the Western District
of Virginia at the next, March, term of
the COnrt.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02

THE valuable farm of Mr.. Jos.
HARRISON, one mile east OF Jefferson
vile Va, and containing 2j8 acres %
splendid blue grass land, has been
sold to Mr. |. f. Graham
late Of Baltimore, at $55 per acre.
The farm is noted orc, and for
compactness Of various yaluabie.f flea
lures is worthy Of special nntice. 1t
was for very many years known as
the Hartman farm. .-aa..
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02
A Sensitive MAN Dlcs at Seeing
Himself CariGaa.zEcd.

The following singular announce
ment appears in the Deaths" column
of the Cincinnati Gazette:
DENIsoN-At Atchison, Kansas,
January 10th, Joseph DcnisOn, ID. D.,
President of the Kansas State Agricul-
taral College. In the Kansas Farmer
of the 18th appeared the ctiigy of a
maniac undergoing the severest con-
tortions incident to cramp collie, and
labelled Joseph Denison, D. D." 4
copy accidentally fell into the hands
of the president. lie uttered fear
fuI agonized groan. sank in q heap
upon the floor, and died.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02

4 STATE OFFICIAL MIssING.-The
Richmond correspondent of the Pc
tersburg Progress says:
The joint committee Of Printing Of
the two houses Of the General Assem-
bly, ia aanifesting some uneasiness
a6Out the affairs Of the Superintendent
of Public Printing. The present in
cumbent CT the Office (Mr. Shaflter)
left on the night preceding the nOni-
nation of his successor and VIXEN last
heard from was in Canada. Mr..
Walker, the recently elected Superin-
tendent, is unwilling to take charge
of the Office until Mr.. Shaffter's pa
pers have been examined and his affairs
satisfactorily adjusted. In the mean
time a colored clerk is in charge of
this important department OF the
Government
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-02

JAS, P. Taylor, son ofHon. Nat
G. Taylor has succeeded in having
his new revolving MitTaiileuse pat
ented, by the principal Governments
of Europe.
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Town Property for Sale.

7 am authorized to offer for sale the
Powell property. on Va. Iiiil, and the
Thompson property on Scott Street,
Goodson. !. 9 Fowler.
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ATTORNEY AT-LAW.

VIII. practice in the County and Circuit
Courts of Washington, Scott, Smythe and
Russell. Also in the Court Of Appeals and
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-29
KING WILLIAM.

~ This champion five year old stallion of
f1S 1871, will make the season at Maine Hotel
~ sAuburn Me. He is sixteen hands high
-lAAI blood bay with black points, and has a
public record of the fastest old colt ever rails
ed in Maine, mot private record but public as follows
Aug. 81, at Forest City Park, he beat field of six
horses in hard contested race of five heats Sept 9Th
at the New England Fair, Lowell, Mass. he won in
three straight heats disancing five horses in 40
243, 242; Sept 2Sth, at Portland he won the cham
pion race for all five year Odds in Maine trotting the
fifth heat in 42s without break; and the offer to
match him for $500 $1,000 to beat the best public
record Of the best FLOODED and gamest trottiny stallion
in the world remains unaccepted to this day, and
though claimed that Hiram Woodruff pronounced his
sire the best Stallion the world ever knew facts show
that in 1860, twelve years ago, Hiram says in his
book he was the best stallion that had vet an
peared. Since then three stations have beaten Geo
NJ. Patchen's record, two of them, Geo. Wilkes and
Jay Gould, being descendants Of Hambleton who
stands first the list of seventeen that have beat
230, while the Clays fourth the list with eleven
below 2:30, and to make it more binding Long Island
Black Hawk stands second fifteen of his postertvhay-
ing beaten 2:30. As King William is great grand son
of Long Island Black Hawk, and Tom. Patchen
great grand son Of Henry Clay, think intelligent
breeders will not need a slate and pencil to cypher
out the problem for themselves.
King William stands for S25 the season closing
Aug list, $40 to warrent at Maine HOTEL Auburn
Me-, in charge of Geo. w. Steward, who will take
pleasure in showing him to any gentleman who may
call to see him. mayld&wtf-WIS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-29
TO LET.
To Let.

A T Morrill's Corner, Deering-A genteel brick
"A dwelling house, pleasantly located, near horse
and steam cars has 10 rooms all the modern ap-
pliances, stable &c. and first class in all respects
Apply to Chas. E. Morrill,, near premises, or W. II.
Jerris, Cahoon Block. my11tf