Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-15
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BRISTOL, April 4, 1874.
A few days since "OccaSiopap' favored
you with letter in regard to Bristol news
and matters. L dc not mean to rival him
| Tor her as a correspondent, but to give,
now and then, few jottings.
The indications for the past two months
have been favorable to the prosperity of
this place In addition to the large wool
ell factory, which is in process of erection,
| by Col. Lewis, two others are under con-
| tract and a fourth one contemplated.
| These are to be for the mandatory of cot
ton yarns. There is also to be another to-
bacco factory erected in the summer.
Mr.. Ferguson is to erect a splendid
| building for hardware purposes; Mr..
James a Town Hall and other buildings.
The Border Fair Grounds are being put in
condition. and other improvements going
on The Valley Railroad, from Stanton
to this place, is a failure for the present.
The "Mahone ring" was too strong for
it. BY the way the people are beginning
to feel the pressure of this tyranny and
absolutism. A gentleman in this place
has opened his battery on this monopoly
through the Bristol Courier, of this week.
He states facts. The employees of the
road are behind fUe months pay, They
can get supplies Ivy sending to Lynchburg
for them. Can purchase them at " Ma
homes railroad storem BY this means
some get an occasional payment.
Now, there is in contemplation aea0
plan for paying ofllthe employees-in bonds,
payable t,Co years hence, and non. transfer
able! Those who have been loudest in the
praise of the would-be railroad king are
quietly subsiding less to say in the
praise of their great " tinancier." 1t is
thought by some that large numbers will
quit laboring on this road from necessity,
| if from no other cause.
The health of Bristol is very good for the
time of year. There are several cases of
| influenza, sore-throat, &c.,-no malignant
diseases. Fabulous stories have gone
abroad as to the dleadful mortality of
this place. They are the results of loose
talking. And in this regard this town
is justly famous. l have heard
much of Free Lovers" Free Sellers :"
and "Free Thinkers" but this is the
free8t talking place between the Lake and
the Gulf. For the past few weeks "gos-
slippers have done their work admirably.
Strangers-peIsons who have but recently
located in the place-have occasion to re-
mark that "a free.talking or gossip cru
SADIE, instead of temperance, seems to pre-
vail in Bristol" 1t is not uncommon to
hear in the stores and on the
streets the most uncharitable assertions
| accredited to gentlemen, and even to
ministers pastors of the churches
| remarks that they should have used
regarding each other, or their respective be-
| liefs or Churches. Theseare found to be with
| out the slightest foundation, yet result in
| the alienation of the best of citizens, and
| especially the religious denominations of
tho place. I am assured bv the best of cit
| liens, that the harmony and good feeling
| in these relations have been much destroy
| 4 iutr dam afaI
| Certainly Bristol should sustain her schools,
| if for no other purpose than to train up a
generation of people who will frown down
| such conduct-a generation that would
| scorn such trespass upon good society.
| There is leaven at work: the presence
of the flourishing schools and press which is
| an earnest ofbetter times, when traduction
and evil-speaking will give place to
a more enviable spirit-that of
regarding with charity the opinions and
failings of one another. Abingdon, Ma
rion and Wytheville, even Jonesboro', ore
said to be freer of this curse than this place.
Another paper is being published at the
| Courier office-the " Classic IndeG." 1t is
! the second enterprise of the Emory and
Henry College students. This makes Sic
papers published in this place, .fte ofthem
at the Courier office.
Mr.. VIM. Burrow, the proprietor of the
| Courier firm, is one of the most active and
enterprising newspaper men. He gives
promise of standingat the head of the list,
at no distant day in the publishing lire.
Mr.. Slack, sticks to the press. I am told.
he did like to get on a farm(?). But he is
more familiar with type and scissors than
with agricultural implements.
| Capt, Fowler is called an agreeable
editor" And so he is. Mr.. Smithson, a
brick mason, took tartar emetic for cream
of tartar this morning. He can not live.
Fault uot with the druggist
SoJoURNER.