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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07
The Railroad Men.

Railroad men, like other folks,
Possess the right to crack their jokes;
But they, like all things have their seasons
When figured down to stubborn reason.
1t is not wise, on Sabbath days,
For them to walk in wicked ways;
Nor is it wise to venture near
Where others drink and curse and swear.
From whiskey they should all abstain =
Treat evil company with disdain;
But go TO church and try to pray
Keeping holy the sabbath day.
IF habits such as these they'd form,
They'd better feel in time of storm;
And while engaged at daily duty
See the world clad in robes of beauty.
Some engineers outshsed the gale.
When downward turned upon the rail
And next, behind, they puff and str lin
With slipping wheel and creaking train.
Yet void of fear the engineer
Of dangers front the pioneer,
His brave heart lies tween it and they
lie carries o'er his iron way,
The fireman alert and keen
Must forge the sinewy arms of steam,
Which rolls the ponderOus caravan
Between the marts oftoiling man.
The conductor meets the scoff and jecr
Of roughs and dead beats In his sphere
And oft without in wind and rain,
Stands tagging down the coming train.
The brakesman, oblivious to bliss,
Stands out on dangers prec1pice;
1t sleet or blaze he holds his train,
And dies when wrecks bestrew the plain.
Out on the track with iron bar,
The section hand7 are seen afar:
The tre3cherous slids and fallen stone,
They heaye and smite with mShy a groan,
Toiling till dark from early dawn,
To!lIng, he sings his rustic song
Ali day, all night, in heat or cold.
de dies while young yet looks lac old.
ltell you, to follow railroad WAYS,
a man will not live half his days;
For men of brains will sec il won't paw,
To toll all night and work all day.
The man W leads railroad life,
Can stay but little with his wife; :
His children stI etch. their hands ard cry,
When on the tiain he thuLders u.
To THE EDITOR.
If yon should wish the authors card.
You'll find it on the Bristol yard;
Where he has toiled lengthy lime,
Ahi Claims title to this rhyme.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07
From the Southern CHltivator.
= SWEET POTATOES.
Best and most Successful Mode
of Cultivating and Preserving.

OF CIlltivating and Preserving.
Much is being said in the agricultu-
raj papers on every subject except
the sweet potato, which | think one of
the most important crops raised d1SOuth,
and crop that has been shamefully
neglected. shall try in few words
to give you my plan Of growing them,
which | think viii giveany of the read
ers of the CultivatOr success, ii they try
it. In the first place, select for bedding
just such pOtAOe as suit my taste, VIZ {:
rather large and long, and Of smooth
skin, of the pure yellow yam. To
prepare the bed, spade up sufficient
space, which should be Of rich yellow
earth, and raised several inches high.
L then put on a good layer of stable
manure, then rich earth about one
iHch thick, then the potatoes, about Z
inch apart, fhefi ffch earth again,
finishing with q heavy coating of
manure. As soon as thc potato begins
to sprout, ths tJp-coating OF manure
should be taken oil, and more earth
well pulverjsed put on.
In the next place, select land Of
dark color where there is but little or
no red clay. About the 10Th Of March
| plough this land 10 Inches deep.
breaking it up broadcast. WhCn the
potato slips are large enough for plant
ing. L prepare my rows, by laying
them Off 4t feet apart, and pIowing
from II to II inches deep. and am care
full not TO have high bed as was flse
custom be ore the ", and is now wit
many planter.
In cultivating them. the first plow-
ing is done with bull-tongue. which
is put in the ground as deep as good
mule eau take it then hoe out well,
and keep the grass ont an the year. The
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07
The Growth of Memphis.

Nothing can be more encouraging
or gratify ing than the growth of the
city of Memphis. 1t has often been
sadly scourged. but it quickly
rebounds from depression. The DIP
peuI claims that no city east of the
Mississippi river can show greater or
healthier progress. 1t gives figures
as follows: In 1850, population 8,841;
in 1874, 65, 200; in 1854, value of
town lots. $G.706. 600; in 1772,
$25, 600. 600, a very good exhibit,
and one justly to be proud of,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

1t teens that Judge Gillenwaa
ters has been interviewed during
his Blountvillo Court. He express
cd himself in favor of fewer officers
and cheaper ones, and of more
money, and as opposed to permit
ting the democrats to regain pow-
er. But then he wants the repub-
licsn party 10 advance backward a
little with him.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07
Written For the Bristol News.1

The following lines are unaccom-
panied by the name of the author,
but some of the Stanzas are not with
out point. At any rate, they give a
railroad mans views of railroad lite.
ED News.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

WHO would have tho3ght it? 1t is
mot so long ago since the Hon. Heli-
ry s. Foote offered $1,000 for the scalp
OF an aholitionist. Funny enough,
however, he didn't improve the first
good Chance that offered, since he and
Wendell Phillips dined together the
other day at the restaurant of a Wash
ingtOn colored nan.-AaShUiiic Ban
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

Bald Mountain still continues to
rumble, but as it is some so miles
away, it has not shaken any one
here in his purpose or person.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

Mime. Bazine. is not installed in the
prison OF her husband in the Isle Of
Marguerite. She has been treated
with consideration, and the small lOdg-
ing assigned her is cOmmodious. But
she has no permission to 90 over the
island and, being subjected to the
same regime az the Marshal, she can
only take walk on the terrace of the
building. The oldest son of the priso-
ner has been with him since the arri-
val of the latter, while the other son
and the daughter came with tie moth
er
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

a certain clergyman Of Brooklyn,
while at poultry slow, looking at a
hen, exclaimed:
"What beautiful creature ~
Tue hen hearing that;
Laid two eggs in MS hat,
And thus did Hen Reward Beecher
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
LAW DEPARTMENT.

J. B Minor. LII. D., Prof Com. and stat aw S.
y. SOuthall. Ii, D., Prof. Equity aud Law Aerch-
ant, lnternst'l Law, etc. sessien begins Oct. |, ,
1878, and contipues nine HlOnths. lHstruei on By
textbooks and lectures combined. illustr ted By
boot-Court exercises. For Catalogues, ply az
u University of Val to WM. WERTEA bAkER,
see'y PAe'y.
August ls-
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07
OUR VIRGINIA DEBT.
1914, 600, Or Nearly a million
more wanted by the B0nds
holders.

A few days ago Senator Thom-
as, Chairman of the Finance Com
mittee, presented the following ex-
hibit of our financial condition,
which he said he had prepared from
materials at his command, and
vouched for its correctness.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

Railroad men, like other folks,
Possess the right to crack their jokes;
But they, like all things have their season.
When figured down to stubborn reason.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

If l had spoken. [ should have been
certain to make a fine speech any
how, and, whether | got tie best OF
it or not, all the Democrats from
Maine to Louisiana would have sworE
tlidt [ made inince meat of Mr..
Clay
This was a shrewd view. and it
must haze Occurred to Mr. Marshall
beforehand. but it unfortunately
required more nerve tC act upon it
than he happened to have at the
pinch. The truth is, Tom MARSHALL
| always felt the moral mastery Of Mr..
Clay, and almos: always chafed under
it to such degree that his WELL
known estTangement from that leader
of men was, at bottom, probably
owing as mitch to this one cause as to
all other catises united. It was a
kind of tribute that genius paid to
character.
MARSHALL, in at least one p6ifit of
his Congressional career, however,
gave satisfaction to ffr. Clay. for he
cherished and expressed as great
contempt for the administration of
Tyler as Nr. Clay himself felt, de-
claring on the floor of the Ifodse
that when the history of the Country
was written the Tyler administration
might be put in parenthesis, which
he defined from Lindsey Murray as
"a clause of a sentence inclOsed be-
tween black lines or brackets, which
should be pronounced in low tone
of voice. and might be left out at
together without injuring the sense
For this sally Mr.. Clay might well
tand probably did) forgive much.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-07

Expenses of Government 100000
Interest on State debt, including
arrearages to July 1874 2,242 ,0SS
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
Boys, Heed This!

Many people seem to forget that char
acter grows !; that it is not something
to put on, ready-made, with w%omanhood
or manhood but day by day, here a lit
tie and there a little, grows with the
growthandstrengthen with the strength
until, good or bad, it becomes almost a
coat of mail. Look at a man of bust
ness, prompt. reliable, conscientious,
yet clear-headed and energetic. When
do you suppose he developed all these
qualities !? when he vas a boy ? Let us
see the way in which a boy of ten years
gets up in the morning, works, plays,
studies, and we will tell you Just what
kind of a man he will make. The boy
who is late at breakfast, and late at
school, stands a poor chance to be a
prompt man. The boy who neglects his
duties, be they ever so small, and then
u himself by saying, 81 forgot |
l didn't think p will never be a reliable
man. And the boy who finds pleasure
in the suffering of weaker things, will
never be a nsble, generous, kindly man
"a gentleman.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
II WOOL TRADE.

The latest published statistics regard
ing the wool trade OF the United States,
seows q gratifying increase in the guam
tity of wool produced at home, as com
pared with that of other years, notwith-
standing the depressing influences of
dull trade and tine panic. The total
production last year is estimated at
ia, 100, 600 pounds, against 160, 600, 900
pounds for 1872, and LAG, 000, 600 pounds
for 1871. The stock of domestic wool
in the three principal markets, New
York, Boston and Philadelphia, on the
first of the present month, was 1,46O, 100
pounds greater than it was last year,
while that Of foreign was Ii, 46s bales
less. The trade in foreign wool fell off
considerably, owing to the decrease in
consumption and the abundance of do
nestle wool, the importations being
Al, 775,8S5 pounds, against 90, 1906, 5S1
pounds for 1872. In regard to prices
an improvement began in November,
and has continued. Domestic fleece
wool is now ten cents a pound cheaper
than in January, 1873, and clothing
woods have declined in the same pro-
portion.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
Parents

We were much impressed lately by
the orderly behavior Of q large family
of children, particularly at the table.
We spoke of it to our host ; and he
pointed to a paper pinned on the wall,
on which were written some excellent
rules. He said he gave each child who
obeyed the rules, a reward at the end
of every month. We begged a copy
for the benefit Of our readers. They
were called RULES and Regulations for
Parents Paradise :"
l. Shut every door after you, without
slamning it.
2. Never shout, jump, or run in the
house.
3. Never call to persons up stairs, or
in the next room, if you wish to speak
to them, go quietly where they are.
4. Always speak kindly and politely
to the servants if you would have them
do the same to you.
5. When told to do, or not to do q
thing, by either parent, never ask ,phy
you should or should not do it.
6. Tell of your own faults, not of
those of your brothers and sisters.
Z. Carefully clean the mud or snow
off your boots before entering the house.
8. Be pror'pt at every meal hour.
8. Never sit down at the table or in
the parlor with dirty hands or tumbled
hair.
10. Never interrupt any conversation,
but wait patiently your turn to speak.
II. Never reserve your good manners
for company. but be equally polite at
home and abroad.
II. Let your first, last, and best conf
dant be your mother. -Okiuer Optics
Magdzine.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
GENERAL BEAuREGARD has tried the

GENERAL BEAUREGARD has tried the
"~tireless engine" on the New Orleans
street railroad Of which he is President
two years, and believes in it. 1t starts
with a pressure of 125 pounds and
makes a six-mile trip with an average
loss of rs pounds. One engine is equal
to nine mules, is more manageable, and
a be more easily stopped and started
again; and the expense of running a
road With this species of motive power
is only a quarter the cost of mule power.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03

with a wild scream he fell through.
Every cheek blanched in an instant !! an
expression of terror broke from the lips
of the boys: ooh! Frank lockwood
is in" Apparent as the danger was tc
all of US, there had been no real antici-
patton Of it !; there were no safeguards
against it, and 10 provisions to meet it
in case of accident. Here we were, a
score of boys, none more than thirteen
or fourteen years old ; all the morning
lifted up our sports to the very pinnacle
of enjoyment and delight, now, in a
point of time, a moments space, sud-
denly brought face to face with death +!
What shall we do? Oh! if we only had
a rope or a board, OR something to do
with ; fear cam over every one, for it
was a moment of awful anxiety and sus-
pense. We looked helplessly into each
others faces !; no man was near, and be-
fore help could be summoned, he would
certainly drown or freeze to death. 1t
was enough to terrify every one of us ;
it hushed every voice, it paralyzedevery
tongue but Franks, who was clinging
to the edge of the unbroken thin ice.
ooh save me !" he shrieked, "save
me I! ave me !" and his cry went to the
heart of a noble boy in that company.
Pausing only for a single moment to
think, he proceeded quicker than
thought to act. With surprising sa-
gacity and promptness, he got down fiat
upon the ice, thus distributing his
weight upon the surface, and pulling
himself forward upon the thin ice mp to
the perishing boy, grasped him firmly
by the wrists.
Gone of you get down fiat ON the ice,
and crawl up and take hold of my
ankles, and the rest of you form two
lines, join hands, and take hold of his
ankles" This was done in much less
time than it requires to relate it,
and in another instant, with a triumph
ant shout which rings in my ears to-
day, the boys pulled altogether, far out
upon the solid ice, and Frank lockwood
was saved.-Hearth and Hcme.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
A New YORK paper says a forme,

A New YORK paper says a former
principal of marlborough Academy,
at one time, On the approach of a tenn
pest, insulated a chair on four pieces of
glass, and, as he thought, politely in
vited a Young lady to sit ON his lap for
safety. To show the popularity of the
man of letters, the young lady replied
she had rather be struck by lightning.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03

IT was in Collinsyille, Conn, that a
mighty economical old gentleman wrote
twenty-seven lines (35S Words on a
single postal card.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03

LOSSES IN THE PRCSSLAN WAR.
The loss on each side in the recent
Franco russian war was perfectly
appalling. On the part of the Ger
mans it was in killed 1926; wounded,
81 1887; missing, 6,195. Total, 116, 94S.
OF the French SO, 900 we're either
killed in action or died Of their wounds.
This does not include the deaths among
the civil population caused by slaughter,
famine, grief, etc. Nor does it include
a large number of deaths resulting
from wounds. Altogether, it will be a
low estimate to multiply the above
number by four. In other words nearly
half a million of lives were sacrificed
on both sides in this war, entered upon
by the responsible authors with q
light heart" as the French Minister
declared Mt the outset.
This statement in relation to the
French enables us to find the balance
sheet of the empire under Louis Ma
poleon. Upwards of 100, 900 French
men are moldering away in the Crimea,
40, 900 died in Italy, $4,000 in Mexico,
and 10, 900 in sundry other distant ex-
petitions. If we add to these the
SO, 900 men killed during the Franco
Prussisn wal we have a total of 294, 600
victims besides those outside of the
army
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
VARIETIES.

LADIES who light up well at night
Those who have lantern-jaws
WHAT clergyman is always within a
hundred of being correct? A curate
(accurate-c).
A MORNING paper speaks of "thieving
in the outskirts" which may be inter-
preted, picking ladies' pockets"
An old lady hearing some one reading
about a Congressman-at-large rushed
to the kitchen door shouting "Sarah
Jane, Sarah Jane! don't you leave the
clothes out all night /; mind I tell you;
for there's a Congressman at Target"
ENTERTAINING remarks-man on mule
to friend on sidewalk: "Howdy?"
"Howdy elbows your health p
sob! it's tolsrable-how's yourn?'
"Tolerable." "Folks WE'LL" "Tol-
cradle. Your'n well?" eyes, tel
cradle"
IT isn't always best to call things by
their right names. A young gentleman
called a coach dog q Dalmation hound,
and was informed by his sweetheart
that if he could not refrain from pro-
family in har presence they must hence
forth be strangers.
As A rich and p~retentious ~inancier
was looking at some paintings which he
proposed to buy, the dealer pointed to
a fine one, and said "There is a dog
after Landseer." els it realis?" ex-
claimed the pretender. "What is the
dog after him for 2"
JONES and Brown were talking lately
of a young clergyman whose preaching
they had heard that day. what do
you think of him ?" asked Brown. az
think" said Jones, "he did better two
years ago." "Why, he didn't preach
then !" "True," said Jones "that
is what 1 mean"
THE DEVIL AND THE LAwYEns.'
The devil came up to the earth one day,
And into the court he wendell his way,
just rs the attorney, with very grave face,
" as proceeding to argue the points in = case.
Now a lawyer his majesty never had seen,
For to his dominions none ever had been,
And he felt very anxious the reason to know
Why none had ever been sent to the regions below.
Twas the fault OF his agents his majesty thought,
That none of these lawyers had ever been caught;
And for his own pleasure he felt a desire
To come to the earth and the reason inquire.
Well, the lawyer who rose, with a visage SO grave,
Made out his opponent a consummate knave;
And Satan felt considerably amused
To hear the attorney so badly abused.
But soon's the speaker had come to n close,
The counsel opposing him fiercely arose,
And heaped such abuse on the head of the first,
That made him q villain of all men the worst.
Thus they quarreled, contended and argued %
long,
Twas hard to determine which Of them was wrong:
And concluding he'd heard enough of the fuss,
Old Nick turned away and soliloquized thus:
They've puzzled the court with their villainous
cavil,
And, I'm free to confess it, they've puzzled the
devil;
My agents were right to let lawyers alone,
II I had them they'd swindls me ont Of my throne.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03

A PROFESSOR in Berlin is just now ex-
hibiting a lot of performing fieas, and
they have an operate troupe of parrots
in Lima. We shall probably have next
a grand mosquito concert, and a ballet
by trained bed-bugs.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
BRHGy' BARY

A contemporary says that Briggs has
a boy baby, about ten months old, who
is admitted to look just like his father,
and to be the smartest boy baby of his
age in G street. The other morning the
child was sitting on the floor, playing
with five or six buttons on a string, and
taking an occasional nibble at an apple
to bring out his first crop of teeth. Mrs.
Briggs and a neighbor were talking
away as only women a gossip, when
the baby hid the buttons under a mat,
and started to finish the apple. A bit
of the skin got in his throat, and he
gave a cough and a whoop and paved
the air rolled over on his head.
ooh, them buttons! He has swal.
lowed them buttons p cried the moth
er, and she yanked him up and shook
him.
"Pound him on the back" yelled
the other woman, trying to hold the ba-
by's legs still.
"Run for the neighbors !" cried Mrs.
Briggs.
"Oh, he'll die ! he'll die - screamed
the other as she ran out. And the
neighbors came In and made him lie on
his stomach and cough, and then turned
him ON his back and rubbed his stom-
ach and logged him about all sorts of
ways, until he got mad and went to
bowling. Then the boy ran for Briggs,
and Briggs ran for the doctor, and the
doctor came and choked the baby, and
ordered sweet oil and a mustard plaster
and told them to hold him on his back.
Everybody knew that those six buttons
were lodged in the baby's throat, be-
he was red in the face and be-
cause he strangled as he howled and
wept. They poured down sweet oil,
and put q mustard plaster across him
and wept over him, and his mother said
she could forgive herself. The
doctor was looking serious, and Briggs
was thinking that he hadn't done any
thing to deserve such a blow, when one
of the ome pushed the mat and dis
coverd the buttons. Then everybody
laughed and danced, and they kicked
the sweet oil bottle under the bed,
threw the mustard plaster at the doctor,
and Mrs. Briggs Rugged the bowling
angel TO her bosom, and called him her
'wopsy topsy hopsy dropsy popsy little
cherub."
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03

WIN. B. Aston is eighty. Heis worth
500, OO0, 900, it is said. Most of his
property is in the city of New York.
His name has not figured on a subscrip-
ton paper, for the relief of the $1,000
poor in New York, this winter. He will
leave the world soon as a respectable,
but relentless miser, and if at his death
his estate is to be cut up and distribut-
ed, the sooner that event transpires the
better will it be for the world.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Little Boy Blue.

Little Boy Blue.
Little Boy Blue,
What shall ! do?
Here l am making
Music for you!
Little Boy Red,
Come out Of bed;
Look at the spsrrows
out on the shed.
Little Boy White,
Laughing and bright,
Sister is sure you're
4 dear little sprite.
Red, White, and Blue,
What shall we do
Rattle cum prattle,
Here's music for you!
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03
DON'T DRINK TO-DAY, MI Boz.

Don't drink to-day, my boy!
Let not tae sparkling slass. saEiastA
That woos but to destroy,
Touch lips Just fondly sealtd
With mothers Kiss, my boy; WE
Her hope of earthly bliss
Is told in asking this-
Don't drink to-day, my boy.
Turn from the treaeh,rops friend. mai
Who would ba,elv dacox
As Circe did the men.
She Toasted to DESTROY.
Touch not the liouid fire. q,
A fiend ia lurkins there
Rebuke the temp,er dire.
Don't drink TO-DAY. nv bow.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-04-03

Do LEWIS full name is "Diocle-
tian."