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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
the Cumberland Express.

This is the title of new paper 20 be
started in a few days 10y Messrs. J. c.
Payne, late of the Lee county Sentinel
aua Mr.. r. a. Ayres, at Estillville,
Va. Of course it will be democratic in
politics, and frUgn the name we pre-
sumo ii will be devoted to local inter
esgs largely. as it should be.
Mr.. Payne has had considerable ex-
perieEce in the newspaper business
and 9r. Ayers is young lawyer and
Yields very ready pen. We wish
The Efprcss every possible success.
but We tell our friends that TO make
it %. ibey must go into it With view
L Permauence, aud thai means labor
and plenty of it.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
TUESDAY, OCTO8ER 20. 1874.
WHACK!
EIcaTulliu and Terry Fight.

McMulliu and Terry Fight.
Gov. McMullin and Gen. Terry
fought at Estillville last Tuesday
GOV. MeMullir was speaking and sta
ted that Gen Terry had said he was
prevented from speaking at Lebanon
by q set of rufiians. The statement
was denied 10y Gen. Terry. In their
contradictions they came to blows. but
were soon parted. We have the state
ment from a party direct from Estill-
willie.
The affair at Lebanon occurred on
Tuesday, one week preceding. Our
informant says the Terry men and
McMUllin men were about equally di-
vided, but that some parties who were
drinking determined 10y their disorder
TO prevent Terry from replying and
succeeded ut it. This affair, we are
reliably informed, has had happy
reaction in Terry's favor, and he will
now carry the county of Russell.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
Hyacinths and Understanding
Plants.

The, hyacinth is perhaps the most
popular and most universally cuIti-
waited of all the dubious flowers. In
the garden. as in the greenhouse or
the parlor-window it gives general
satisfaction for its beauty and fra
GRANGE. 1t is of the easiest culture.
perfectly hardy, has delicacy and
variety of foliage and delicious per-
fume. No wonder, then, at its great
popularity.
For winter-blooming, it is not we'll
to commence too soon when they
are to be started in glasses from the
beginning of October to the first or
middle of December is the best time.
Fill the glasses with water (raIn>wa
ter, because it is softest, is best
place in the bulbs so that the base of
each barely touches the water, and
put them in a dark, dry place to
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
4 SOLOMON WANTED.
Two Claimants for q "A
Singular Case-'Fhe sword
of Justice Invoked.

A singular and interesting case
was before Judge Coles, at Plttsyl-
vania Courthouse, last Saturday, on
q writ Of hateaS corpus. 1t appears
that an Italian organ-grinder, accoin-
panied by Il woman ard child, were
on the street. the man grinding his
organ and the woman with the child
begging. \ Mrs. Sa!Iie Francis, from
Wards Springs, in Pittsylvania coun-
ty, came up and claimed the child
and had the Italian arrested. Mrs
Francis gave a straight, plain and
fearful story. She says she was di-
yorced from her husband in Halifax
county in 1872; that the only child
living was given to her husband,
Felix Francis that he went to Ten
nessee, taking the child with him,
and some time Afterwards wrote to
her that the child was accidentally
drowned in a barrel of water, Af-
forwards he wrote to her father that
the child was living and doing well
and that few days ago these ILal-
ians came to Wards Springs where
she was living, and that
SIZE RECOGNISED THE coy
as her child as soon as she saw it.
She rushed to it and took it in her
arms, and thinks the child showed
signs of recognition of her, but that
the Italian woman snatched it from
her and abused her roundiy, threaten
ing to cut her life oct if she touched
the child again, and scOiding the
child severely, since which the little
boy refuses TO notice her.
On separate examination of the
Italians their stories differed widely,
the woman stating that she had five
children, four OF them now living III
New York. The man stated bis sis-
ter 1.-THE woman with him) had never
had but three children, and two of
them we're dead, the boy in controversy
being the only survivor. The Dan
Vile Ne,cS says: The child is des>
crIbed as being very.
HANDSOME AND sPRIGHTLY,
and possessing none of the charastic
marks of Italian parentage. We hear
that nearly every lady in the village
visited the Jail to see the child, and
expressed much sympathy with the
supposed mother. Mrs. Francis
bears an eminentiy good character,
aud her evident distress moved the
hardest hearts to sympathy, 1t is
said that several OF her neighboFs
will swear positively to the identity
Of the child.
Judge Coles ordered the sheriff TO
take the child in charge till Monday.
Mrs. Francis gave the names Of the
witnesses whom she wanted summons
ed, and Major G.. T, Rison, the Com
monseaith's attorney, has written to
a brother Of Francis, in Tennessee.
in regard to the child. Mrs. Francis
is firmly convinced that it is her
child.
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TERRY GAINING GROUND

TERRY GAINING GROUND.
The sober, second thought of the
people is apt to be correct, Oar in
tercOurSe with a large number of
representative men from various por-
tons of the Dist. last week at Abing-
don gave us 4 fine opportunity to
cam the drift of our approaching
Congressional Election. There is no
sort Of doubt that Gov. McMulIin is
steadily losing ground aud that Gen.
Terry is daily becoming stronger.
Our soberest thinkers see plainly that
1t will not do to tear up and destroy
onv party in the district. The future
Looks 50 Omiuous of danger and tie
gu5s of federal power on the heights
81 Washington point too plainly at
lRe heart o. our State Government
far US 70 pat our own hand TO its
oy,r throw. Gen Terry will very GER
tsinly be elected and he ought to be.
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IA. STATE MEDICAL SOCIE-
TY.


Annual Meeting at Abingdon.
The fifth Annual Convention of
the State Medical Society of Va,
was held'at Abingdon on Tuesdsy,
Wednesday and Thursday of last
week.
The body was called TO order, in
the Town Hall, at II o'clock, by
the President, DIR. Tebault, of
Princess Anne. About fifty M.
D's., from various portions of the
Commonwealth were present
Among them the following: Hon.
Fellows. Drs. Robert S. Payne and
Harvey Black. President, DIR.
Alfred g. Tebeault. Drs. John S.
Apperson, 9. 81. Baker, ". T.
Barr, Benz. Blackford, Z. N.
Campbell, G, T. Oauthorn, j. E.
Chancellor, VIM. p. Christian, F.
d. Cunningham, ". G. Dabney,
L. B. Edwards, r. I. Elicit, W. F
Figgaf, J. r. Goodwin, Fl. M
Grant, T. d. KEENAN,, Henry La
than, Geo. s. Luck, James Z
Pharr. Robert J Preston, W S
6toakley, Thomas B Ward, James
L White, VIM White, + n Wood,
OBJ jerks, T L Painter, Vim Il
Bramlette and VIM L Dunn.
After very able frate. rnal address
by DR.. r. L. Payne, Of Lexington,
n. c., the Society ado urned to
meet at the Presbyterian Church
at TIP p. NJ, when eA,-GOv.
Wyndham Robertson delivered the
address of welcome on the part OF
the citizens of Abingdon.
MR. RoBERTsoN's ADDRESS.
Gentlemen Of of the Medical Society
Of Ia:
L have been requested by the
Town authorities of Abingdon, and
also by the Abingdon Academy OF
Medine, to extend to you
hearty welcome TO our little
metropolitan village of the South
West, and to acknowledge the COM
pimen you have paid it, by selecting
1t as the seat of your present years
deliberations. It is the peculiar priv
ilege gentlemen, Of your profession,
beyond all Others, 10 receive an unai-
lOyed welcome wherever yea 20. All
The rest have some drawback attached
10 their functions, ctk9Ntd cHlGEt.
which abates more or less the pleasure
with which we wjtne~s the discharge
Of them. The lawyer has the cure Of
our private rights, but he cures by liz
limitation and killing; the Politicisa
bas the cure of the general 01elfsre,
but two often give 10 party snS TO self
what is due to bis whole cc0ntry
alone the minister Of the gospel has
The cum, of souls, hut he deals in ter
ForsAD( ALARMS equally, as in hopes and
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
Great Bargains
n New Fall Goods offered by

in New Fall Goods offered by
MIS-, 2. GALLOWAY.
A great variety of new style Hats,
Bonnets, Rouches, Lace
Fichaes, Neckties, Bows,
and every article for ladies to be found
in a first-class Millinery Establish
Iaent.
Come one and all. aud examine our
Stock. We have adopted strictly the
CASH SYSTEM. Our motto is quick
sales and short profits for cash only.
Oct. 6.-3nas
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VIRGINIA HOUSE,
" Formerly Prices HOTEL
MAIN STREET. ABINGDON. VA.

Tie Proprietor has opened at this place a
First-Class Hotel for the accommodation Of
Summer Boarders and the travelling public.
Fare good as the county affords. Board per
day, 81.
A comfortable Omnibus for the accommo-
dation of passengers and citizens will meet
all trains.
WA. A. WAUGH, Proprietor.
Jan. 81, '74-tf
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
L. BLAcklEr, W. H. RobFkrsos. a
BLACKLKv-
BlacklGI, Robertson & BlaGkIgI,
Attorneys at Law, 6
Real Estate Agents.

WILL practice in the counties Of sulli-
van and Washington, and in the Federal
and Supreme Courts at Knoxville, Tenn
Is real estate agents We offer for sale large
amounts Of improved and unimproyed min
eral and farming lands. in quality and on
terms to suit the purchasers. Oar agents
will meet cmigrant ships, regularly, at Nor
folk and New York, and will be in constant
correspondence with Emigration Societies
and Mining Companies in Europe aud the
United States. Persons having lau,s. a Z.
Tenn, 5. W. Va, and Ky, for sale f any
description, will ind purchases thro.sh our
agency. Capitalist wishing to inves; b Iron,
Coal, Lead, Grazing and Farming la,d-. and
Water Power, will find it to their iuj, It to
examine our lands, We also ole, own
property for sale.
OFFICE on Eif'h rect.
Aug. %, IS73.-tf.
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-APPIETONS'
AMERICAN CYCL0P hDTA.
lew Hrrlsed EdIlinn.

Entirely rewritten by the abIest writers on every
subject Printed FROM new type, and illustrated
with Several Thousand Engraviugs and Maps
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
Il. @ ANDERSON.
Attorney at Law.

AND GENERAL COLLECTING AGENT
TazeWell c. r., Va,
VIII be in regular attendance An III.
courts of Tazewell, the cireuit co,,rt
of Washington and RUSSELL copnties
and Federal court at Abingdon. Spec.
iai attention: given to the claims of
S[eshto's against hankrupts
es-Heral court at Abingdon,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
EFFECT OF SLAVERY.

Slavery had large influence in inn
parting form and spirit to the civiliza-
tion of the South. II was early intro
ducsd into the colonies, and became
Incorporated with their institutions,
and greatly affected the habits of So
ciety. 1t rendered labor, at least such
as was usually performed 10y slaves.
disreputable [; and contributed largely
to the leisure and idleness of the higher
classes of society, and not little to
the degradation of the lower.
The inhabitunts of the South, rot
being commercial people, had but
little intercourse With foreigners so
that their opinions, tastes, customs,
manners, and social life, slightly
affected from without were developed
from their transatlantic training,
their native tendencies and their pc
culiar circumstances. Being mostly
of English descent, they retained, in
an unusual degree, the Conservative
spirit and virtues, as well as the sports
designations and vices of their ances-
tors.
The spirit of chivalry, prevalent in
| Europe at the time of the settlement
of the colonies, was imported into the
| EDOult1, SdFS W TIC IlISutI CldSoCS
of society, impaired to them its REIN
ing influence, and entailed on them
| serious evils. From this scource
sprang the duel, not peculiar to the
| South, but far more common here than
at the North. Southerners were taught
not to bear an insult but to demand
reparation for it, at the cost of blood
and life itself. The custom caused
many field to be stained with human
gore, brought sorrow and desolation
into many a happy. family, and en-
Uttered the life of many a promising
young man Chivalry produced other
| fruits besides revenge and misery
From this same spirit arose a'hjgh re-
gard for honor. The Southerner
might be rash ; but he was not. likely
to he mean. He might be idle. dissl-
| pated, drunken and OverbeariHS but
he scOrned Iieing, was above al the
/ tricks and frauds of trade, and the
man who offered him q bride had
cause to dread having his nose wrupg.
| He was addicted to horse-racing, but
he was no jockey. The same spirit de-
| yelOped itself in a
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HIGH REGARD FOR WOMAN.

Everywhere, and by all classes, she
was treated with the greatest Difference
and respect. No man would sit, while
she stood. The best position in pri-
vate circles and at public places, was
cheerfully accorded to her and every
man, not degraded by vice, felt bound,
not only to treat her with esteem, but
to defend her honor. if need be, with
his life.
Hospitality was a reigniDg virtue in
the South. A Southerner might lack
public spirit, might fail to devote his
means to educational, religious or
charitable purposes, might even be
penurious, but his house and his table
were open for his friends, and even for
strangers. One, Of respectable appear
snce and manners, might travel, in
any direction, and find feOd and lodg-
ing, without money and without
price ano leRue the hospitable abode
with q hearty invitation to return at
pleasure. This hospitality, in many
cases, knew no limit but that imposed
by the lack of means.
EKtravagance was one result OF this
fondness for the entertainment OF COM
pany. Many families were reduced
from afiuence to poverty by keeping
open houses, and furnishing generous
fare to all who might choose to share
in their bounties. One of the greatest
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20

evils of slavery was the reckless waste
which it engendered Slaves, believ-
ing the resources of their masters TO
be exhaustless, had no motive to take
care and the masters themselves, not
duly valuing the means for which
they did not labor, scattered them
with an unsparing hand. To be in
debt, was the rule of the Southern
planter. His large crops were usually
expended before they were matured
and men of great possessions were Of
ten embarrassed by debts and mort
cages, and suffered severely from ex-
tortioners.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-08-13

THE SPIRIT OF CHIvALRY IA row oc-
Cured at the City Saloon on Monday
evening between chivalric kentucky
gentleman and young citizen or Chill
cothe, in which Judging from the appear
ance of the Kentucky gentleman's coun-
tenance the following morning, he came
out second best. At the close OF the
fight the scion of chivalry deprecated
such an ungentlemanly mode of settling
the quarrel, and challenged the Chilli
cothean to mortal combat in. accordance
with the principles of the code. The
time was set for the following morning,
but when the hour arrived the Kentucky
gentleman was not on the ground. and
and as a consequence there is now mo
blood on the moon" - C1izhcpthe Gazette.
That was pity,for if both had been
present. there might have been two fools
less. What the public would like tc
know is, where was the young citizen 81
Chillicothe 2l' Was he on the ground2
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ME DIcAL.

DR.. J. Walkers California VIM
egar BitterS are purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the native
herbs found on the lower ranges Of Sier-
ra Nevada mountains of California, the
medicinal properties of which are extract
ed therefrom without the use of Alcohol.
The question is almost daily asked, s'What
is the cause of the unparalleled success of
VINEGAR BITrERs?" Our answer is,.that
they remove the cause of disease, and the
patient RECEIVERS his health. They are the
great blood purifier and life-giying prin-
ciple, perfect Renovator and Invigorator
I of the system. Never before in the history
{ of the world has medicine been COM
pounded possessing the remarkable quail
ities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the sick
of every disease man is heir to. They are
gentle Purgative as well as Tonic, reliey-
ing Congestion or inflammation of the
liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Dis
bases.
If men will enjoy good health. let
hem use VINEGAR BITTERs as medicine,
md avoid the use of alcoholic stimulants
b every form.
R. HI. MCDONALD s. CO..
Druggists and General Agents Francisco, Calfor-
nia, and Washington and charlton Ss New York,
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers
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Those Old sots.

Tho unvashed negro, with his oily,
.1,;n;ro slin. is not tfra only oderiferous
sn, ssa-son one meets in his pilgrimage
through our crowded Streets. hotels,
farry-boats, street cars, railways, etc Be
sides this fragrant he-goat, who over
mowers lesser smells, we encounter the
tobacco sot, whose stink Is so proiounos
encounters him; and strange - 1t may
appear. to hygienist, the old sot-aa-aoss.-
conscious of the fact that his filthy smell /
can be disagreeable to nostrils more re
fined God pity and reform him Il
Then there is the born-in-the-biood
Teutonic
''LAGER BEER soTs-
He begins on two or three glasses
day. and emits but moderate beer-odors
and he is only a moderate nuisance But
after a while he swillsN it becomes q
walking or waddling beer-tnb on two
short thick legs, and an aldermanic1
belly Then his odor is SO thick one
may cut it with knife. He is a pent
up pestilence, and fit food for cholera
WHISKY soTs."
These are common. They tumble
about for a few years above ground,
walking sepulchres, encumbering the
earth, filling saloons, alms-houses, jails,
prisons, and after bringing distress and
innumerable curses on all they touch.
or who touch them, they drop from the
gallows and are handed over to the doc
tors for dissection, or are wheeled over
to the potters field and tumbled into a
drunkardis grave.
OTHER KINDS OF sOTs.
We have a large number among ui
who belong to other classes of ''sots,
though they don't know it. One become.
f0f TJer oh, toll or
fftysquart bottles of patent medicateC
slops, called remedies, composed in th'
main of bad brandy or rum, or gin, Of
whisky, and now they think they canno
live without them. They would CLAIM
to be only moderate drinkers" no
drunkards nor sots They take wha
the doctor prescribes and though at frs
it was loathsome, now they must hav'
it." They are sots.
1t is the same with those who eanno
live without their. porter, their wine, o
their clear grog
There are tea and coffee sots-old
dried-up, leathery, saffron-colored res
tures-nervous, sleepless, peevish, FIRE
full scolds, who being miserable then
selves, are never happy until they max
everybody else miserable They are gnc
aware that those dreadful sick-heat
aches" those dizzy spells" those qualn
ish states of the stomach arise from tC
much tea or coffee drinking. Whe
they stop the one the other stops. Tht
cannot reason, nor trace the effect to tt
cause.
Then there are tobacco-snuffing ar
tobacco-rubbing or swabbing sots, whiV
is the concentration of nastiness ar
nasty sottishness.
The subject siekens us, and nothir
but a,sense of duty induces us thus to i
vite our readers to such a loathsome 1
past. "Ohl that we could see ourselv
as others see us. Science cf Health.
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poAD NOTICE.-A PETITION WILL, RE
HI presented to the Commissioners of Hack
son County, Ohio, at their next regular session
IA ia september praying for q changein a part of
Ine road leading from Winchester to frvirSs
station, said change to commences where said
road road crosses M the creek between the lands of
running from there the nearest and best ronte
through said Webb's land to intersect said road
again where it crosses the Guyandotte road at
the south end of Job BuclSley's lane yacafine
SO much of the road as lies between those two
points -, PETITIONERS.
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HAVE YOU TRIED
J u R u B II B A
ARE YOU
Weak, Nervous or DebiIitated .

Are you SO Languid that any exertion reouires
more OF an effort than you feel capable of MAX
ing?
Then try JURUBEBA, the ,xonderf,,1 a., =,
4l 4Lau ~ nx1sorator which acts befle6ciallv on
the vital forces 'ASor 10 all
IL Is no alcoholic appetizer, which stin11otoy
Ior snort time only to let the sufferer fall d
lower depth of misery, but it is a yeeetabla
tonic acting directly on the liver and snIeeI, e "
regulates the Bowels, quiets the neivas
and gives such a healthy tone to-lthe xxho1Ss
system as to soon make the invalid feel IiIre q
new person. eA AiiAe
It's operation is not violent but is charac
1erlzeu Dy great gentleness; the patient exneri
but gradually his troubles -ssui'S'
Fold their tents, like the Arabs
And silently steal away"
Ihls Is no new and untried discoverv bnt
las nas peen long used with wonderful remedial
ieaI ~ and II pronounced by the highest med
I4 I4t the most powerful tonic and
ASK your druggist for if
FOR sale by FULLER & FULLER. .Cbica0o III
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NEwADvERrIsEMENrs.
LIVINGSTONE is DEAi3.
200 Pianos and Organs.

wan De sold at Lower Prices for cash or On in
in LII OF Ior rent, in city or country 1lIr
Ssrs6 Syn 4 Nc 4s4 Broadway, than ever before Of
Tr.e,,s 81 ~ TeW York. SPECIALITY: Pianos ana
PIlce of the instrument. illustrated CAS- 1ns
1i- 1mialied- large discount made to Mir pisfers ues
churches, Schools, Lodges, etc. 4A-,iS'ers'
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CoLUMBUs AND HOOKING VALLEY
r "A IL ROA ID.
SHORT LINE TO LAKES & NORTHWEST.
TIME TARIE
TIME TABLE.
express trains daily as follows:

Direct connections made at Lancaster for
Circleville, Zanesville, and all points on the
CINCINNATI & MuslSingum Valley Railway-and
at Columbus for ell points East and West No
change of cars from Columbus TO Philadelphia
New York, indianapolis, and Chicago -
s. A. BUELL.. General Ticket Agent.
tNO. w. DOHERTY, Sup't
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TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

stations marked thus ~ are nag stations. and
Trains VIII stop when signaled to Coso N
~ n w ". PEABODY, Master Transp.
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WAGON SHOP.
II oUIs BERDEL,
Wagon & Carriage Maker.

shop in the brick house formerly occun,a,, ,,x
W. A; Glll1land as a gunsnlith shop on Po,sss
mouth street, near the q Gtbson House, y
He carries on the Wagon aad Bneov ,,,alz,
business IN all Its branches --AoA iAs
RhEEaanIRING Ell SnsRING done on short notice.
V"S On hsnd and forsale. Iaus25, ,70-y
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DAUBER 8 BROTHER,

We wish to inform the people of jackson ana
surrounding country that we will sell furniture
atlower prices for cash than it has been sold At
for some time. Parties wishing to buy win
ma 1t to their interest to give us a call before
elsewhere. We solicit share of
the public patronage. Call ana see our goods
and learn our prices.
Dauber n BROTHER.
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RAILROADS.
MARIETTA AND CINCINNATI
. a ILR O A ID.
ca r d TIME.
Took effect May 10, 1874.

Passenger trains going west
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SOMETHING NEW
ATEN & MARSHMAN.

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