Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-10-21

with less loyalty and fewer honcrs'
might simply askito be ferried across
the river. The chap was running
two concerns and evidenlly thought
he had witnessed the pointing Of
the remark that every dog has its
day. Alas the ferryman and the
Internal Revenue Department, and
the brief day Of opulent loyalty
are gone-only the old chair and
tho cliff remain. Things haze
changed. Virginia ha7 given her
thirty millions to the Internal Rev
enue; bnt the good cd State is not
dead. The chairs If opulence IN
which her unfaithful children sat
and smiled, while her Drawer peo-
pie groaned, are very much delapl-
dated, and the rocks beneath which
they sheltered, like Jonah beneath
his gourd, no longer shelter them,
while they no longer eat The grapes
of our beautiful Eschol. Virginia,
grand in her history, sublime in her
heroism and lovely in her ruin,
smiles as she speeds such parting
guests, and ali her expansive pow
crs clap their glad hands with JOY
as she puts on the robes of her re-
cuperation. Aye, God will bless
her, even in his Establishments!
Darkness overlook us at Peters,
town, and as Harrison Fizer, the
prince Of drivers, sped us through
its streets, the wheels of our coach
cut the State line and We were in
West Va.
A drive of ten miles under star
light brought us to the Red, famed
as the resort Of consumptives. The
place is much out of repair, but
enough remains of its loneliness
and its fine architecture, its elegant
graveIled walks and stately trees,
20 set fancitul mind dreaming of
Fairy land.
West Virginia has its prosperi-
ties and its troubles. The Q. Il O..
r. r. had scarcely made these peo~
pie glad with the scream of its
whistles, driving the drones and
loaters from the track of progress,
when the present panic sent its dis
astrous wavts about them. | find
here a few who lose by Jay Cook
& Co, but every one asks, "what
of Fisk & Hatch 2" Aye! 1 begin
already to see that their suspension
means trouble here. Already have
the G. 81 o. Railroad Co. discharg-
ed every employee not absolutely
essential to TIC running Of the daily
trains. This means reduced bust
ness, and the absolute cessation OF
all forward policy. There is little
sympathy for them, as they are said
to be strictly on the make in all
their movements. 1t may do very
well for our grumblers to curse our
Virginia road under Malone, but
here is a company which first buys
lind quietly through some unknown
agent, and then, without consulting
the public convenience, establishes
depot and sells at speculative rates
| its own lots, to those wishing to set
tie there. 1t is said they refuse to
pay dollar higher for land than
old prices, saying that the increased
value has been brought about by
them. Nor is this all. [ am told
the company is rapidly excluding
from all official connection with the
rond, every native Virginian,
and is rapidly stocking it with radi>
c,I importations. Shall we turn
over to Mr.. Scott the remaining
roads of the State? Answer We
men of Virginia.
| am consuming the hour which
divides the days and must close
To-day | spent a pleasant hour with
my old friend, VIM. B. Crump, who
has the finest landed estate in Sum-
mers county. There were pleas
ant and familiar faces, and alas :
there were others wont to meet us
in those hospitable halls, but they
are not Blessed memories Of the
past and dim visions of the enchan~
ted land Irvine their shadowy, but
reSplendant forms about such social
but partial "reunions" until tears,
like pearls of our lost estate, trail
their silvery paths NJ on our chang
ed checks, and we get up and go
hence. 1t must come to this
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