Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-04-15
EVENT and COMMENT.

The SNowVILLE--Dublin -Newbern
People came near having brilliant local,
last week, by the prudential act of one
of its neighbors, who to save his own ba-
con placed his ash-box contiguous to the
Office of said People, which said Office
barely escaped destruction therefrom.
But the People has an advantage in the
fact that if it had been burned out in
Snowville it would have still had Dublin
and Newbern from which to continue its
existence.
THE SNowvILLE People has its printers
baptised every fortnight.
THE CUBAN rebellion is looking up
Spain herself now fails to get the recogni-
ton which she has so long withheld from
the Cuban Republic. Strange, is it not,
that a republican rebellion which began in
little Cuba should become the disease of
the whole kingdom, but stranger still that
Spain should withhold republican lnde
pendence from the little Island, and then
demand it herself. 1t would surprise us
very little if Cuban independence should
be successful first
THE HUNDRED thousand dollars insu-
rance on the life of Horace Greeley has
been paid. It was probably in quite a
number of companies
THE SUPREME Court of the United
States has decided that the retroactive
feature of the Georgia Homestead Law,
is unconstitutional OF course this deci-
sion is applicable to Virginia, ard it
would seem that the new Bankrupt Law
VIII not then apply to those debts which
were created prior to the adoption of the
Homestead exemption In Virginia that
date is the Goth of January 1870.
The decision is very important one.
THE VALLEY Railroad seems to have
been resurrected and the people between
Salem and Staunton are now in fine hope
of It's being let to contract in few weeks.
Ifit should stop at Salem, it will be mere
local road.
Dr. GEO. r. ATKINS formerly of
Smythe Co., Aa., recently committed
suicide in Arkansas, by taking Chloral
We conversed with this gentleman last
autumn when he was starting to the west
and remarked to a friend that he seemed
to be out of mental balance.
A PENNSYLVANIA firm is said to have
leased several farms in Grayson, Co., Va,
for the purpose of mining for silver ore,
which is said to be very richly developed |
on them.
AXLEY LOCKHART was recently killed !
by falling stone while mining for coal in
Tazewell Co., Va.
II. T. HOOPER, of Pulaski, who was
recently shot by j. B. Wygal is, by the
Virginia People, reported as getting well |
The gentleman will doubtless live to read |
the numerous notices of his death VIII ich |
have recently appeared in the Virginia
papers.
WEST VIRGINIA has new liquor law,
which makes the vendor of the liquor
for the acts of all parties to
whom he sells liquor, while under its in
fuence 1t also requires the open selling
of the liquor in all cases, forbidding the
selling or drinking in cellars or behind |
screens or painted or stained windows.
GEN. BRADLEY T. johnson is writing
a biography of Chief Justice Chase, who
will assist him in the matter
Mr.. J. MosBY Davis is candidate for
the House of Delegates from Tazewell
County, Va.
THE NASHVILLE Banner says the
president and directors of the Tenn &
Pacific Railroad will be reelected, land if
Gen. Manney be let alone he will build
that road to its termini. Bristol is one
of its termini.
THE New York Ledger, says Gov Dix
refused to pardon Foster in order to pro-
mote his son, Rev. Morgan Dix of Trini-
ty church to bishopric. This is very
serious charge from Bonner 1t emanates
from a high source and strikes at lofty