Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-08-05
TAzEwELL c. II. Va,

EAsAHs anu ~ W llN VI bilC HiOtlCo WHICH,
crown our beautiful and grand South
west, rather than talk OF the strange
antiquities of the old world. Will the
reader believe that | would rather be
here than at Vienna? That l would
prefer rather 20 gaze upon these silver
streams and purple mountains, with
their herds Of fatted cattle about them,
than to follow, with Mark Twain, the
carpeted way over which wbirls the gil
dcd coach wheels of his oriental sub
Unity, the Shah ? 1t is true.
arrived -at Glade Spring, after a
night of comfort at that good hotel,
the Thompson House, | had 4 splen
did "Trip, at the fresh and fragrant hour
Of sunrise. across to Saitville. The
to-be-famous. Seven Springs, were at
our feet as we slid over the rails which
make the curves through the gap of
Walkers Mountain. That magnif-
cent spot Of earth, called by the ineu-
phoniOus name OF SaItville, burst on
our sight like vision. What lucky
thing that Stoneman and Floyd Hurt,
have both paid their attention to t.
The one destroyed and the other re-
constructed, but must say that Hurts
reconstruction far eXcclS in beauty,
symmetry and good taste, any radical
reconstruction of which | have written
and you have read. The abominable
curses yclept furnaces Of ante 6ct1laa
days are gone with Stoneman and
those mural monuments which he left
10 his memory are all gone too. The
entire basin OF four hundred acres has
been swept of its curious deformities
and its hiddeous piles Of primitive ma
sonry. New and beautifully designed
buildings greet the eye. the new fur
naces wear the modern appearance of
elegance and thrift which indicate
skilled and competent direction. The
fertile meadows seeIn to have been
carpeted for Mr.. Palmers Iordly
quadrupcd. Tastefully adorded home
steads. Church building marked by
decided architectural beauty and very
attractive, new depot buildings adorn
the margin of tie matchless plain
Shall forget the tidy but commodious
hotel in which Charley Harris minis
ters to the appetite OF those who pass
that way? Hardly, for if the reader
should he found in Saltvile, he too.
would doubtless decide that it deserves
n newspaper notice. | found there
waiting for transportation TO the
Thornleigh House at Liberty Hill,
New Orleans gentlemen with his fam
lily. Whether he had fled from the
weather bureau or from the shadow
OF the Freedman's Bureau, was left
IN doubt. He did not seem to fancy
Beauregards' uniflcation, nor Kellog's
usurpation. He had the usual dole
ful story surmounted by roseate hopes
and said they would yet win. To my
query why he did not leave the
acursed place and seek peace and pro-
lection among white men further
North, he replied they could not sell
their property without loss, and I was
left to believe that the New Orleans
nabob If Old preferred the di!apidated
livery OF opUlence with the torments
OF black domination to a competence
among the people OF Virginia or Ten
nessee. left him at the Thornleigh
House and very good place it was to
come to.
AS we passed through the canon at
Laurel Fork, / observed in the face OF
tie perpendicular rock which makes
It's Southern wall, at least, three hun
dred feet above the stream, a Lateral
fissure which las for many wears
been occupied by a colony of bees. (
which have left on the gray sand
stone below trail ofwax which serves
Ia indicate the locality. 1t is said that
no one has been bold enough to reach ]
1T but confederate soldier who during
the war met with defeat in the at
tempt Failing to storm that fortress /
he retreated in good order and left his
pitcher in the niche close by. That |
colony of bees is about the only free /
and independent government which
exists in the South. 1t has dified the /
assaults OF carret-baggers and recon
structionists, and unilicationists and .
Office seekers and tax collectors and 1
assessors. That colony has use for
neither homstead-nor bankrupt exem-
ptions, and il it is not happy family /
it ought to be.
/ find here halls crop of wheat and |
the most enormous yield of grass and /
oats which have been cut for a dec
kade. The hay harvest is not yet over,
and oats is being cut just NOW.
The cattle are rolling in all the lux
ury which blue grass can furnish. /.
Capt. Peery has yearllngs which
weigh thousand pounds and ! see .
two years old for which $50 are offered. |
The Dairy business has been intro
duced andis in successful operation
Az fine Cheese as you ever saw any
where, is made here, and shipped TO
market. Capt. w. +. Peery and DIR.
VIM. Hicks are the pioneers in the
enterprise.
Mess. Briton and Peery are now en-
& aged in il and the Messrs Bowen in
the Cove intend to engage in it at an
early day.
On Tuesday the County appointed
delegates 10 the Convention at Rich
mond, Maj Cecil, Col. II. S. Bowen
and J. Moeby Davis Esqr, were the
The republicans appoin-
ted Messrs. Samuel Laird and l.. V.