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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
Col. FulkersOn's Speech on the
Funding Bill.

Col. FulkeTsOn's Speech on the
Funding Bill.
The Richmond WING of the
18th, pays the following handsome
compliment to our Delegate, Col.
A. Fulkerson, for his able speech
on tie proposition of Mr.. Massie
to require coupons to be endorsed
genuine" by the Treasurer, with
the date of the endorsement be-
fore they can be received in pay
ment Of taxes.
Mr.. Massey's bill, in relation to
counterfeit coupons, came up next
| The speech Of the session was made
| by Mr.. FulkersOn in favor of it. This
! effort was q very remarkable one
! Without any attempt at fine language
at imagery, ornament, or what is call
! ed elOcutiOL, Mr.. Fulkerson plunged
/ into his subject in quiet, unOstenta-
| tious and business-Iike manner, aud
! by the mere force OF Intellect riveted
the attention of the House. His man.
neT is perfectly plain, and his voice
rarely rises above conversational tone.
He took the most advanced ground
against the Funding bill, and main
tanned his views with rare ability
The subject is SO hackneyed that we
did not suppose any new ides in re-
gard to 1t could be presented, out This
speech showed that after all SAID upon
IL in the last three or four years, some.
thing fresh, new and original, was vet
in reserve. We cannot, i'll this COL
umn, undertake to report speeches,
and Mr. FulkersOn's was so well con-
nected and knit together that it would
be almost impossible to present it i'm
fragments. His principal grounds
were that the question of taxation is
political questiOn-an essential part
of sovereignty. and that no Legisla-
ture and no court can properly destroy
circumscrlbe or abridge It. 70 do so
would be a violation of State rights
He argued that in disregard of this
sovereign right one Legislature had
endeavOreG I'd tie the hands Of all fu-
tufe Legislatures for thirty four wears.
and The Court Of Appeals had sane
TONED it. He did not believe that the
people would long submit to such
usurpati0n. He skctched the history Of
the Funding bill, showed how it was
psSsed aud made some pointed and
sccrImnniOUs references to those who
were its leading advocates Speaking
of the talk about the dishOnor of at
tempting TO bring about q reversal of
this bill, he said that the funders were
guilty Of gi2ring Inconsistency. They
he'd that the whole debt was due by
the State, aud could paid while they
do not have the pluck to bring in a
bill To pay six per cent. The anti |
fundeTs cauc out manlully and said !
that Elk per cent. could not be paid,
and It Wa useless To sttempt 1t. |
Which we're the most honest and con !
g mt
Some Of Mr. FUlkerson's remarks |
were the most inci-Ive thst ~e have |!
heard during the session. His speech |
showed not only great power, iufor- /
nation, and reflection but remarkable !
acumen and subtlely.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
Scene la the House Of Repre-
SCntatiyes.

Scenc ia the House OF HcpTc-
scntatiyes.
Last Thursday while the radicals
we're busy sscking the Uniou for tic
benefit Of themselves, before they GO
oat of power on the 3yd of Marcel
next, John Young Brown, the young
Representative from Kentucky, at
tered the following bril-! liant but uu,
wise truth, AMI for it, was, on mo-
ton Of Hale of New York, drawn be-
fore the bar of the house, and cea-
sured by the speaker:
There was great excitement. in the
! House to-day, arising from a speech OF
{ MIR. Brown, of Kentucky, on the Civil
! Rights Bill, in which he spoke of Mr..
Butler, of Massachusetts, in the fol-
| lowing terms:
What should be said if the accusation
OF the Southern people should come
! from one who is outlawed in his own
! home from respectable society, whose
/ name il synonymous with falsehoOd
/ who Is the champion and has been on
all occasions of fraud, who is the
spOloglst of thieves, who is such a
! prodigy Of vice and meauness that to
describe him imagination would sick
en- and ihvective would exhaust itself.
In Scotland years ago there was man
| whose trade was murder. aud lac earn
ed his liveiyhood by selling the bodies
OF his victims for gold. He linked his
name To HE crime, and to-day though
out the world il L. known As "Burk
ing"
The speSker-DOes the Chair under
stand the gentle ma to h.. referring i'm
this language to member of the
House?
Mr.. Brown-NO sir, am describing
an iuviduai who is in my mind's eye.
The Spesker-The Chair understood
the gentleman TO refer TO n member of
the House.
Mr.. Brown-No, sir call no
names This mans name was linked
To his crime, and to-day, throughout
the world, il is known az Burking. If
! was 10 desire to express all that WAS
pusillaUimnus ia war; inhuman in
peace; forbidden ia morals, aud in
iAitOuo III BNt4NlNHs SilOuiG Cdlt IL Dul-
lerizing
For this violation Of parliamentary
order y resolution of censure was pass
ed upon Bro~n, after very exciting
debate, and was sdmonisned by the
Speaker.
The Civil Rights Bill then went
over until tomorrow.
0u Saturday, Butler got the floor
and was eqa,ily severe and guilty in
his dcnunciations Of Brown, and of
course was not censurcd. Mr.. Hale
of New York, however. called han,
to order, and Brown very shsrp>
ly replied that he hoped that the Gen,
Hemda from n. Y. would allow the
member from Mass. to proceed. We
think Brown did prevaricste, but his
temptation was great, and then the
boy is young. He Vas elected before
he was old enough to be seated in
the House,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
The Antiquity of Iron.

The Iron dye says that n wedge or
plate of iron has been discovered nm
bedded in the masonry of the great
pyramid. 1t has been q great puzzle
to those who attributed the first use of
iron To date not much more than
300 years back, how sHch sharp and
well defined hieroglyPhi:s could have
been cHt on pOrPhyrO, granite aud the
hardest stone as are found on the
tOnhs, temples aud sarcophagi Of an
cient Egypt. But the piece OF iron
found in the great pyramid. shows
that this blftaI was. produced and
wrought in, tile age of King Cheops.
which is placed by some antho tiles
a. far back as $500 years ago. The
similarity of earlier inscription on
stone to those made in the time OF
King CheOps suggests the superstition
that iron may have been i'm use more
than six centuries ago.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
A California Duel.

There was duel Tuesday in the
suburbs of Sau Francisco, between
Paul Zecchi. AN eX-Confelerate officer,
aud Ives. Northern man. a resident
of Georgia. visiting there The cause
of the duel WIS that Zecch dtiring The
wal was instrumental III the execution,
a. spy. of a brother Of Ives. At the
first fire Zecchi. who fired in the air,
was hit in ihe shoulder He demand
ed another shat. which Ives refused
Zecchi then attempted To shoe. him
self, but Was di>aTHrd 10y his seconds.
The police are investigating the mat
ter
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
One of SIakspearc's Pail
Bearers.

1t appea that one of the pall-bear-
ers OF Shakezpear is buried in the old
huryIngground of Fredericksburg. Va.
On Il tombstone is the following in
scription Here lies the body Of Ed
ward Heider. practitioner IN phvsic
aid chirurgery. Born in Bedford
shire, England, in the year of our
Lord l542 Was contemporary with
and one nf the pail bearers 10 the body
ot William 5haks-pef ~. After a brief
illness his spirit asceBded in the year
Of our Lord 1918, aged seventy,six.."
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
ANDREW JOHNAOE.

The reception of Senator An
drew johnson at Memphis, was
one ofthe grandest and most re-
markable of the day. Never was
Tennessee so conspicuous as she
now is, and those who have doub-
ted the propriety of comforting up
on the Ex~Presi lent this supreme
honor of tic State, must now be
convinced that there was in it a
positive stroke Of that national in
stinct, which often surpssses politi-
cal wisdom. 1t was 4 difficult
thing for defeated and unforgiven
people to endorse the man whom
their enemy had honored. 1t WIS
difficult to be national, while the
nation ptsa their prosecutor. Yet
history will have to tell, that Tens
nesseP, c, vercd with the blood snd
b:'uise Of battle, left for q time her
own wounded mrewarded, ard put
her cos,licst robe on her great
child, whose enlargement from
her ho refused 10 perpetuate for
the sceptrc Of supreme power
Who longer can say that national
lcyo and loyalty are dead in the
Sonth Toss up either the old
presidential coat of Andrew John
son, or the little Panama hat Of
Charlie Ross, and Nh eclectric
thrill of a common Americanism,
touches every heart that once boun~
ded st the sight Of the Southern
Cross. fall the men in the I'm
ion, we have sent the most nation
al to the Senate. Mr.. johnson is
= man of the most wonderful origi-
nslity. There is about him the
solidity Of iron, the weight of gold,
and .hc elasticity of steel. In
adaptsbiiity to occasion and ncces-
sity, there are more sides to him
than to the prism, and
toss him as we may, he slights
with the right one up. 1t is rsth-
or imprudent to say he will not be
the man for 1876. Since IS he
has been hated North, as men have
seldom been, even in that mercu.
rial cline. Prior to 1865 the CEN
sure of him in the South amounted
to frenzy. Both of these peoples
have for ten years, looked upon the
costly spectacle of dissolving in-
stitutions, until they have begun
TO admire the iron in the man =
Iron il is, for neither the one nor
the other have been able to bend il. |
We hope the Southern men are
now too wise to name or advocate |
any man for the presidency. Ger
tainly they had better wait and |
let the North pass upon Mr.. john
son, if he has to be passed upon
for that crowning honor which is to J
head the second century OF our re
public, as Washington did the first.
We expect TO see Mr.. Johnson
pursue a course, the comprehen-
sive scope and w:sc originality Of
which, will cause an Infatuated and
intoxicated people to pause, and
again wonder how one so strong
ard combattivc, can beso brave and
temperate.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
Bill and 10.

Come, dear old comrsde, you and
Will steal an hour from days gone by
The shining days when life was new,
And all was bright with morning dew
The luEty days Of long ago,
Vixen you were Bill and was 10.
Your name may faunt titled trail
Proud as a cOckerel's rainbSg tail,
And mine as brief appendix wear
As Tom O'Shauters's luckless mare ;
To-day, my friend, remember still
That L am 10 and you are Bill.
You may win the great worlds envied prize
And grand you may look in peoples eyes.
With II. o. N. and L. L. D.
In big brave letters fair to see
Your fist, old fellow OFF they 20
How are you, Bill How q syou, 10!
You may win the Judges ermined robe,
And teach your name to half the globe,
You may sing mankind deathless strain,
And make the dead past live again,
The world may call yod what it will,
But you an2 | are 10 and Bill.
The chafng youngsters stare and SAY;
See those two buffers getting gray
They talk like fellows in their teens!
They're mad at fate, that's what it means -
And shake their heads they little know
The throbbiDg hearts of Bill and Jo.
How Bill forgets his hour Of pride,
While 10 sits smiling at his side,
How 10, in spite of stern Disguise,
Find the old look in his friendly ewes
Those calm, kind eyes thst nell and fill
As 10 looks fondly up 10 III.
An, pensive scholar, what is fameH
htiul tongue OF leaping fame,
A giddy whirlwind's tickle gus,
That lifts pinch OF mortal dust.
few swift years, and who can sbov
Which dust was Bill and which was ,io2
The wearv idol trkes his stand,
Holds out his bruised and bleeding hand,
While gaping tn 5usanle come and 60
How vain it seems, this empty show
Till all at once his pulses thrill
lis earnest jos God bless you, Ball !"
And shall we breathe in hap pier spheres
The names that pleased our mortal cars;
n some sweet lull of harp and song
For earth-born spirits none too long,
lust whispering of the earth below
Where this was Bill and that was Je?
No matter while our home is here
No sounding name is half SO dear,
When fades at length our lingering day,
Who cares what pompOus tombstones say?
1ead on the hearts that love us still
Tic facet 10 ) HE ,jacct Bill.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16

WELLS ANNUAL OF PHRENoLOGY
AND PHYsIOGLOMY for 1915 contains
MANY Portraits, Geographic, and
Characters Of leading men;. ali tie
Presidents of the Tinted States; Canon
Kingsley; james Lick, Pere Hyacinth;
Won Kaubocb; John T,ndaIl, ;. John
Laird Character in Shakespeare ,
Our EYes-Blue, Black, Grey Green,
Large, Small, Almond, etc, with
more than twenty Illustrations; all
about Sleep; Eiting to Live; and
Living to Eat; Biushiug. Ctuse aud
Cure > Our Faces Open Books; Horse
PnreuoIogy - Cheerful Face : What
Am / Good For2 and muc!. other
useful aud entertaining matter.
Large octave. full of pictures. sent
first post for Is cents. Address s.
r, WELLS. 1853 Broadway New York
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16

been granted, and the service will
begin on the first Of next July
The result is one which will afford
ground for congratulation to all of
our people. Bristol needed and
desired more frequent and direct
communication with Scott and
Lee.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
Postal TeiegraDb:

The judiciary Committee of the
House, the dispatches state. have re-
commended the passage OF Gen. But
ler's postal telegraph bill. It may or
may not becume a law, but as its
provisions will interest all business
mCn. We cOndenSc its various points.
Ii first provides that all teiegraphic
lines OF communication shall be made
pOSt-rOads and the POstmaster>Gen
eral is auth. rized To advertise for the
transmission of all Government dis
patches la the same manner as the
transmission of the mail are now adj
vertised for 1t provides that COM
paBies shall receive aud forward dis
patches from other companies without
any extra charge Tor designating the
point where the same came upon its
line, and prohibits preference being
given to any class OF business, and
prohibits the Sev, raj companies,
inland and ocean, being interested.
directly or Indirectly. il the coil &c
ton aud Transmission Of commercial
news
The rates for special kilograms to
newspapers AID commercial news as
sociatnns is to be the same: which
rates shall be publicly displayed :.
snch rates in no case to exceed tue
rates charged TO the Associated Press.
or other press association on the
lSt Of January, 1879. All kilograms
are required 20 be privileged COM
muuicati"ns in Law, TO the same ex,
tent that sealed letters now are; and
the contracts shall not be divGlged
by any agent or officer of the com.
prny, except tor pupU$es of Justice.
hy order IF court Of competent
jri>d'ctinH. Aud, lastly. it makes
the d'vuIging of the contents of any
telegram, or willtuI delay in sending,
or injury to telegraph lines or APP
pArntuS, a misdemcanor. punishable
by fine or Imprisonment. -NuShCiHe
Banner.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
Extravaganza in New York.

In recent sermon Talmage Said -
"A statistician has estimated that
there are i'm New York and Brooklyn
4, 500 who eXpend annually 81. COO each
in dress. 1t is,nO rare thing when the
wedding march sounds to see drag
ging through the aisle bridal dress
that cost 81 COO or $1,000 Things
have come to such a pass when we
cry over SIN we wipe the tear away
with $3.50 pocket handkerchief"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
NEW MAIL ROUTE.
Bristol to EstIlIville-Six Times
a Week.

At last, after years of effort, we
are able to announce, that through
the influence of Hon. r. r. Bnt-
Ter, new daily mail line direct
from Bristol, via Blounlvillc, and
Norrell's Mil, 10 EstillviIlc, ha,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16

CPECTAL NOTICE TO ALL PAR
- TIES without regard to sex color
o. previous condition. whose surnames
commence with any Of the following
ptters:
Az L.TR. MI E.G XIV
v. u. Z. JE.sB. emo. nv.
Call at VICTOR & AMBLER'S an
buy initial paper at one-half price.
COHI:EsriciaI Vote Paper n 3
per QIliTe.
Envelopes az SC. pr Parkagr.
Latest styles Ladies Notes aud En-
veloprs, assorted tjnts. legal fold. in
handsome chrOmn boxes at less than
ever sold in Lynchburg.
VICTOR Il AMBLER.
Dec. 1'74.-tf
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
y. L. BLAoALAT, W. II. RoBKKrsos, q,
BLACEIEv-
BIaCkIGI, Robertson & BIaGkIGI
Attorneys at Law, G
Real Estate Agents.

WILL practice IN the counties Of SuIr,
van md Washington, and in the Feder..
and Supreme Courts at Knoxville, Tenn
~ real estate agents VIC offer for salc larrr
amounts OF improved and uuimproyed min
eral amt farming lands, in quality AMI "a
terms to salt the purchasers. Our rrcnfs
viii meet emigraHt ships, regularly, nj Nor
folk and New York, and will be in constant
correspondence with Emigration Societies
md Mining COMPANIES in Europe ard tte
Lhltei states. Persons having lands in p.
icnr.' ,. ". Va, aud Ky, FOR sale, Of {. y
description, viii Gui purchases through r,r
agency. Capitalist wishing 30 invest in I'm,
Coal, Lead, Grazing and Farming lands B.
water Power, viii fud it 10 their iBtsrsst B..
examine our lands. We also ofer ta- -
property for sale
OFFICE on Fifth rect.
Aug. %, IS73.-tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
PREHISTORIC AMERICA.
Remarkable Discoveries by the
Hayden Expedition.
Remains OF High Civilization
Found III Southern Colorado
and Northern Arizona
The Writing of the
Rocks

The correspondent of the New
York World in speaking of the re-.
sults of the Hayden Expedition
says:
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-16
RAILS FOR ONE YEAR.

TrQfeSstonal cards.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-15

SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION. At a
recent meeting of the Polytechnic Club
OF the American Institute, Mr.. Boyle
told the following incident At new
ly erected light house along the New Is
land Sound an old sailor was recently
appointed as keeper On one of the first
evenings, when trimming his lamp, he
neglected his instructions to draw the
curtains down, and the setting sun, shin
ing through the large lenses, had, of
course, its rays concentrated in focus,
and as here the lamp is placed, the heat
was sufficient to light it, to his utter
amazement. He put it out, but had be-
come SO nervous for theswhole night,
that his own image frightened him as he
saw it reflected in the plate glass of the
lantern, with the dark sky outside and
the strong light inside. The next morn
ing at daylight he put out the light,
when at sunrise the sun lit it up again,
Tor the same reason as it happened the
evening before. This was too much for
the old salt. He Immediately packed
his trunk and left, without notice to any
one, and was only missed when at night
the lighthouse remained dark. When
found in the neighboring village, de-
ciared that the lighthouse was bewitched,
that Satan had lighted the lamp twice,
and that he had seen him in person dur
ing the whole night outside the tower,
looking in at him. 1t was, of course,
his own image that he had seen. His
supposition was, to besure, not very. com
plimentary to himself in regard to his
own appearance, but he was not to be
induced to return at any price
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-15

REMEMBER THIs.-Now is the time
OF the year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever
Coughs, Colds, and fatal results of pre-
disposition to Consumption and othe,
Throat and Lung Diseases. Boschee'.
German Syrup has been used in thi.
neighbOrhood for the past two or three
years without single failure to cure
If you have not used this medicine
yourself, go to your druggists. Davis &
Arnold, and ask them of its wonderful
success among their customers. 2 dose.
viii relieve the worst case. If you have
no faith in any medicine just buy a Sam.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-15
Throwing the Old Shoe,

FROM tue 4 Hllhuolpnla Times.
Very few, probably, of the thousands
who throw their old shoes after bridal
parties as they are leaving home know
anything of the origin of the custom.
Like almost all of our common customs
its origin is ancient, and can be traced
to Bible times. 1t was then the custom
for the brother of childless man to
marry his widow, or at least he had the
refusal of her. If he chose to reject
her, the ceremony was public, and con-
sisted in her loosing his shoe from his
foot and splitting in his face.
His giving up the shoe was symbol
of his abandoning all dominion over
her, and her splitting in his face was an
assertion of independence. There was
an affair of this kind between Ruth and
Boaz. In some parts of the east it was
custom to carry slipper before a newly
married couple as token of their sub
lection.
The custom as it exists with us is
very old in England and Scotland. The
usual saying is that it is thrown for luck
and that is the idea in this country,
but originally it meant remuneration
OF authority over the bride by the pa.
rents. 1t was formerly custom among
Germans for the bride, when she was
conducted to her bed-chamber, to take
off her shoe and throw it among the
guests. Who ever got it in the strug.
gle to obtain it received it as an omen
that he or she would soon be happily
married.
Train, in his history of the elsie Of
Man, says On the bridegroom
leaving his house, it was customary tc
throw an old shoe after him, and in like
manner an old shoe after the bride on
leaving her home to proceed to church
in order to insure good luck to each re.
spectively, and if by strategem either Of
the brides shoes could be taken off by
any spectator on her way from church,
it had to be ransomed by the bride
groom"
In Kent, England. after the couple
have started on their tour, the single
ladies are drawn up in one row and the
bachelors in another, An old shoe is
then thrown as far as possible, and the
ladies run for it, the successful one be-
ing supposed to be the first female who
will get married. She then throws the
shoe at the gentlemen, and the one who
is hit by it is deemed to be the first male
who will enter into wedlock. Generally
it is considered the older the shoe the
better.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-15

we give to Thee and Thy cause and
kingdom, subject to mortgage of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
(sl50.0oo), We bequeath it to our
children and our children's children, as
the greatest boon we can confer on them
Subject to the mortgage aforesaid), and
we trust that they will have the grace
and the money to pay the interest and
lift the mortgage. Preserve it from
fire and foreclosure, we pray Thee, and
make it abundantly useful to Thyself-
subject, of course, to the aforesaid mort
gage"