Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-07-15

VICE President Wilson Is said to be
almost hopelessly paraliiic. His
condition is similar TO that of Judge
Chase, and his labors must be limited,
even il By great care he can so far re-
cover az 10 labor al all.
". w. MURRAY has been appointed
Z. =. Attorney for the Western dis
trict OF Tennessee.
VIZ learn from the Salem Times
that L. J. Dyerle, aged 80, recently died
from the effect Of a wound received
from cradle while harvesting. The
s.the, it seems, struck stump and
the changed motion threw the blade
against his thigh, 60 as TO Cut the fe-
moral artery. Mr.. Dyerle was man of
unusual stature, and was pretty well
known in this country as q tobacco
trader.
II is said that Jonesboro' Is 10 have
two more republican papers at an early
day; one OF them TO be called the
Hornet" That any editor embarked
ou 50 wild scheme. should frequently
horn IT, q little we are ready TO be-
lieve. We need a few more such
sheets, and We need them just at
Jonesboro.
THE Chilhowie Iron Co., has pur-
chased from Joseph Atkins, fifteen
acres of land on the rail road at the
East end of Marion. for the erection OF
their new furnace.
Mr.. G G.. GoonELL has completed q
Il of
- tons per day. The locality is three
miles West of Marion, and is the Gen.
ire OF a vast bed of the mineral.
The Seconds in The Richmond duel
have been indicted for being accessory
to the murder OF MOrdecai.
the Shah of Persia, now travelling
in Western Europe, spends S24O.000
per Gay and is said 10 be about as vul-
gar aud brutal as MOdoc indian.
Since the arrest OF Kate Stoddart for
the murder of Goodrich, she has at
tempted suicide aud is either insane or
feigns insanity. Goodrich ought to
have been Killed and II is likely Kate
had large pr0gocat;0n for the act. If
it he true that he procured the perform
ance of q mock marriagd ceremony be-
tween them she did right to kill him
There seems 10 be no cholera In Ell
tber Chal lauoOga or Nashville and
there is q general abatement of the
,scOurge at other points. There were
two deaths at GreeueYilie on yeSter-
day.
Sweetwater has voted In favor of in
corporation.
The farmers on Fork Creek in Mon
roe Co.. Tenn. suffered heavily by the
recent storm.
Prof. Ia Mountain, the balloonist, in |
making an ascension near IOnia, Mich /
igan. on tie fourth, fell a distance Of
half mile a3d was mashed into a jel- |
ly'
Alex. Mcdonald writes from Vienna !
to the Lvachburg ViTginSan, that the |
cattle exhibited there are not by amy /
means equal 10 those exhibited al our !
south West Va. fairs.
The steam ship City of Washington.
from Liverpool was wrecked few
DAYS ago on the coast OF Nova Scotia.
The passengers aud cargo were saved.
The Captain says he has not seen the
suu or stars since he sailed, until after
The wreck. He was steaming at nine
knots through dense fog and ran
aground in two hundred yards Of the
breakers.
When Wqiworth assumed his striped
suit at Sing Sing he jestingly remareu
~ look as if had got a base ball suit
on
Judge Guigon has decided that sur
Caon Cullen must testify IN the duel |
case at Richmond, hut Cullen says he
will not, aud his counsel have appeal
cd 70 the Supreme Court. Mean while
the Or. is nomially com fitted for con
tempt. He testified very freely before
Ih- inquest and is much blamed for his
V3Scilation.
Or r. c. Craig Is appointed Post
Master at Clear Branch, in this county
instead OF David kessner resigned.
Prof. Wise has entered into a con-
tr2tt with the proprietors of the N y. (
Graphic by which they are to furnish
ana equip his Balloon for a voyage
across the Atlantic. He expects to
start early in August aud seems conf
dent of success. The Balloon will be
the largest ever made.
TIE murder of Goodrich in Brooklin, ;
last winter, has been fastened upon ,
Kate Stoddart. in whose trunk were
found Goodrich's seals, rings and
pocket BOOK. And thus is "out" the
great Brooklin mystery. Her true
name proves To be Minnie Waltham, ,
and she came from Massachusetts,
She has confessed the murder ami as
signed as the reason that she had been
living with him in concubinage and he 3
wanted to cast her of. She objected i.
and begged, but all TO no purpose, and
finally she shot him and escaped.-i !
New can't the police find the murderer I
of Nathan, for without it they cannot /
say that murder t0iH out.
lin. Brown, who murdered Mrs.
Dogier and Mrs. Jones in Nansemond
an The list oil June. was hanged in Suf-
falk on the lIth inst. y son of Mrs.
Homes was permitted To witness the eX- ,
ecution from a privileged position
W Thin the ropes. a negro who had l
r,ju,bed a tree TO witness it fell and '
LrcKe his neck. Brown reiterated his =
former confession.
Al Jackson, Tenn, on the 10Th inst,
,Lers If 10 be convention of those
r. orahie 10 the formation of new c
=, ont of west KY. west Tenn. and ,
= nth Miss, 60 be called Jackson -
,r,ujd make one OF the first. istates
ia tie Union.