Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-10-20
The Banquet,

The Banquet.
The Abingdon Medical Academy
gave last Thursday evening, at the
Washington House 70 the attending
members of the State Medical SOCIETY
a magnificent banquet. Some twelve
or fifteen other invited guests were
present, After the adjournment
OF the Society the members march.
ed at 10 o'clock to the Dining
hill, which was decorated
rated In most admirable taste and
furnished in the most elegant Style
The preparations we're on a scale
almost magnificent. A fner table
has perhaps never been spread in the
Virginia mountains and more sub
stantialIy accomplished and respecta>
bic company perhaps never partook
of the hospitalities of Abingdon.
Tie dishes were prcfuse. varied and
elegant, the wines were abundant and
costly and the cigars as fragrant as
the almost divine climate of Cuba
can produce.
The toasts were numerous and
many Of the responses eloquent,
interrupted only by appIusc and by
volIeYs from the masked batteries OF
champagne.
The social enjoyment was without
exception, and of the highest order,
running far into the small hours of
the morning.
We append such of the toasts as
have been furnished us.
OUR GUESTS; The Medical Society
of Virginia From Tide " alter, from
Piedmont and the Valley they come
to our mountain region may their
visit be rs pleasant to them among us,
as we are sure it will he profitable to
us.-Dr. Tebault.
orr GueSts.-The Delegates from the
Medical Society of n. Carolina. En-
gagged in common cause, the allevia-
ton of human suffering, we strike
hands with them as brothers.-Drs.
Payne and BahDson.
To Our Depdrtrd Bro. 4. p. Pres
ton True type Of the Physician,
blending as he did in his character the
magnamimity of true manhood with
the tenderness OF Notwithstanding
and in silence.
The Medical Schools of University Of
Tjrginid and Richmond May the
eScutcheOns Of their future career be
IS untaTnished, and ther future records
be as worthy Of the praise of all Vir-
ginia as their past.-RespOuded TO by
Drs. Cunningham, McCaw and Cham
cellor.
The UnkRO,cn Heroes Of the Profess
sion {: Whose calm deliberate courage,
aud whose cheerful martydOm in
plague and pestiience entltle them to
more glory than knIghtly deeds Of
mailed heroes:-Resronded to by JAS.
l.. White, Jr.
Vets, horton & Simpson The
great triumvirMte, The discoveries of
those agents which take from pain its
sting BE theirs the honor for the
greatest boon ever bestowed on suffer
ing humanity. May the eXertiOns they
have made to benefit humanity entitle
them to be engraved upon the tablets
of memory.-Responded 10 b. DIR.
GIcaveS.
The Dental Profession: Co-Labor-
ers of the medical profession, who have
lessened the amount of disease, aud
have preserved the beauty Of the better
part of humanity Responded to by
DIR. Grant.
The Medical Staff Of army and Ma
yy in the future az in the recent past,
may they upon land and upon
sea sustain the reputation
they have won for courtesy and kind
ness and may they prove true to its
trusts and sacredly guard our consti-
tutional rights.
THE PRESS.-The advocates and de-
tenders of right and justice the expo
nents of wrongs, cruelties and Oppres-
sion.-Responded TO by Messrs. Fow-
Ter, of the Bristol News and Pendleton
of the Marion Herald.
The Female Colleges Of abingdon
Our pride and our ornament the hope
of our future intellectual excellence
Responded to by Pres. Davidson.
WoMAN.-Her domain the heart;
her sphere the home-circle with true
mOdesty she eXclaims
I'VE NEEDLE not in questions high,
A nObler mission ours.
We follow where man leads the way
To hide the flints with flowers"
Responded to by Jno. A. Buchanan.
THE CONGRESS OF THE L. S. /: May
it learn from the past its duty for the
future, aud achieve for our people the
true idea of its founders the relation
of the States to the Federal Govern
ment. All hail to the time when we
can eXclaim,
'EQUdnt Mare CORjWlcH
Guam FLEctIS DiverSi."
Responded to by Senator J. w.
Johnson.
TRE LEGAL PROFESSION OF VIR-
GINA: AS its distinguished members |
formed the ground work of our Gov
eminent, may 1t in the future as in |