Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-03-31
TUES0lY. MARCH 81, 1874.
EVENT and COMMENT

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QrKEN Victory, in her address to the
new Parliament, says: ''phe DELAY
aud expenses attending the trarsfer
Of land i'm England, has been felt to be
a reproach TO our law and a serious OBJ
stacle 10 dealing in reabastate property. {,
This sounds very much like Queen
Vic is no old fogy. Call it young
England if you wishl =
The lady crusaders cgainst the whis-
key shops of Cleveland Ohio, have
been mobbed, several of them hurt.
and policeman killed while attemp-
ting to protect them. All of which
goes to prove that woman can't rule
men by ruling whiskey, though they
may rule whlskey by ruliIg men.
Judge Dent, bro,her-in-law of Pres
ident Grant, Democrat, a catholic,
and at one time anti-administration
candidate for Governor Of Mississippi,
is-dead,
The Norfolk Gift Concert, goes over
to the 9Th of May.
The Z. Tenn. Va. d Ga. r. r. Co
on Tuesday last, declared a semmi an
nual dividend of three per cent, paya-
BILE on the LIST Of a April.
The Mayor of Cleveland Ohio,
has warned the woman cru
saders, that he will protect all persons
in their legal rights, aud will with the
whole power of the city police, dis
perse all assemblages in front Of any
ones place of business. We guess he
will get a dead head ticket for 1874. to
every bar-room in the city. But then
We can't see how the MayOrcGuld have
done less that he has.
The Bald Mountain continues to bel
low its subterranean thunders, 10 the
terror of the natives. We still believe
il is the spirit of old Hickory awaking
from its democratic sleep of fifteen
years.
The British troops undertook to car
ry civilization TO the Kingdom of Ash
antee, and after a triumphal entry into
Coomassie, the Capitol, laid the beitu-
tiful and wealthy city of that bold and
energetic people in ashes, just because
King Kotfee aid not come in and treat.
We guess Africa has now poor Opin-
ION of the civilization of England.
The Legislature, after slaughtering
the bill To increase the jurisdiction of
Justices to 500, have taken fresh hold
"f the matter, and il is hoped they will
pass il, for certainly under the new
court bill, it is a necessity.
rrI,o Cr.,,;oI ,.o,.o,,,,,o,,t - -,
puintet with unlimited powers, Don
Joe de la Concha, Governor Gener-
aI IL Cuba, and Porto Rica. instead of
.Iovelar. How is that for a Republic?
Appoint one man 10 rule CuLa with
uiIlimited powers. BeurieI, who
bUtchered the crew of the Virginius,
has hecn rewarded with rank Of Field
Marshal.
Barnum advertises in London for
f.e construction of his transatlantic
balloon OF course if it he made IN
london, il will be transatlantic, but
~ To its crossing the Atlantic in 1874,
u viii have to be done on board some
vessel and the custom house officers
viii prick it quicker than did Prof
Wise The Graphic bubble.
Lewis who arrested Webb, the sur
Niviug murderer of.old man Reynolds
near Knoxville, and the three Sartins,
who pretended to have done SO, have
kept Knoxville supplied with disOr-
der since their entry within the city
The SIrtius watch for Lewis, and fl
IIally Lewis shoots one of them. Then
Mayor Staub has them arrested OH
peace warrants, unlOads them Of their
arms and requires security in SlOOW
each, to keep the peace. Lewis gives
bond and the Sartins go to Jail. Lew
is is acquitted of shooting Sartin, but
Iiued for shooting within the corpora
iion. And this warrants the conclu-
son that if he had only shot Sartin
outside the city, he would have done
perfectly right. Sartin is very low,
but being very mean is not dead, aud
means to get well. Sc transit gloria
EpOEriHc.
Rev. NJ. T. Lipps, the Delegate from
Wise County, is AN Ironside Baptist
preacher and breaches nearly every
sunday for the Peniteutiary cOnvicts
in Richmond, and thus while he has
been sent as a delegate to the Legisla-
igre, he goes as one also TO the lost
sheep of Virginia