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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19
The Enormous California Grape
vine.


vine.
A description ofthe monster grapes
vine that is to be shipped from Santa
Barbara California, to the Centennial
Exposition, will tax the crcdulity of
Eastern hort 'cuiturists, This vine II
without doubt the largest Ia the world
The celebrated vine at Hampton
Court. England, grown under glass, is
nine inches in diameter three feet
from the ground, while the California
Nmc is fourteen inches in diameter
three feet from the ground. aud nearer
10 the ground has a measurement OF
eighteen inches In diameter, or fifty
SIX inches In circumference, while lis
foliage has long covered a space
equal to 10. 900 square feet. The
Hampton Court vine produces an
nually from 800 to 2,O0t pounds Of
grapes. The product Of the Cali
ioruia vine. rs estimated by one Of
The State Commissioners to the Ccn>
tcnnial, has often annually reached
the immense number Of 800 cluS-
ters of an average weight Of one and
one half pounds each. or nearly
l2,O00 pounds. 1t is of She variety
known rs the Mission grape, and Uas
planted by Donna Maria Marceliaa
de Domiuguez at the birth Of child.
according to the custom Of The cuun-
try. Its age is between fifty and sixty
Years. For several years it has shoTn
evident s:gns Of dscaying yigCr, and
has now been dug up, scctiouized. and
boxed, after weeks Of labor. for re
moval 20 the East. a daughter vine
growing on the ground Of the old
VINE, is row sixteen years old, and
sixteen inches in diameter three feet
from the ground, and makinga growth
i't the rate Of an inch annually, hay-
iag The la-t year furnished 5000 20
1000 puands Of grapes. which were
l"Hckcd and eaten by visitors from
AIs. - 20 Jan. 20
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19
From the Detroit Free Press
unjust Suspicious.

The other day a Detroit husband
went on fishing excursion with a
small party Of friends Returning at
midnight he pounded on the door and
awoke his wife. As she let him into
the hail, she saw that something allied
him. and cried out:
"Why, Henry, your face is as red
as paint"
Gnesser n't," he replied, feeling
along the hall
"A"d I believe you've been drink
ing" She added
"Whazzer mean by znat?:' he in
CURED. trying to stand still.
"Oh! Henry, yoar face would never
look like that if You hadn't been
g
wi to blame p he ASKED, tears in
his eyes. ''S'pozen big bass jumped
up'u hit me in tn face AZ make it
rrd-mi to blamcE
And he sat down on tho floor and
cried over her unjust suspicious
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19
L.dway H.gh I.hoo!:

I-GleasanGy located ahout four miles
West Of Emory and Horny college
VIII BEGIN IT. Fall Session.
sepsemher 6ia- 1875.
\ thorough course Of study has been
proyiird. and iafe opportunities are
offered go tho-e. Of Limited means,
who wish 10 prepare themselves for
Cu'lrgo.
TUITION. from - 90 10 SO 30 per
session. Of five months. toNTIS-
GENT FEE. = 90 BOARD can lie oh
tanned IN the neieliLorhoGi. Gt S. 90
per month, rooms. lights and fuel in
cluded.
For farther particulars, address.
V. !. q CasF, c.aie syri8S, ~. o.
Sos. y. WYT.sR Head.E YeB
Aug. 5. III
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19
? HVHOMAS
HOUSE,
Re opened by
J. ". THOMAS,

Main Street, Bristol. Tenn.
HAVE again rropencd the Thorn
1 a. House. on Main Street, gnd an
prepared to furnish frSt-CIass accom-
mediation 90 tine puniic. No money
and no pains viii be spared 4, make
The hotel ali IL was in its palmicst
days.
Boarders will be received on god
terms.
Being provided with good stables
ana prepared to furnish stalls. food anu
attention to horses.
Rail road passengers will find the
house located in easy distance Of the
Passenger Exchange. the tables well
furnished and lodging unsurpassed.
Portcr7 regularly at the trains 60 re-
ceiye baggage and conduct passengers
Jan s. tiff
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19
P.cII"a' Information for the
People.

eeplS.
FIRSTLY.
shall continue To keep my work
up 10 lis present standard OF excel
CncC.
SECONDLY.
My best endeavor- viii be. to i'm
prove us quality in every respect.
THIRDLY.
To announce To ali and every one. n
great reduction in prices, and still in
creasiag the acknowledged largest
stock from Richmond 10 Memphis.
LASTLY.
Call, examine, and purchase at the
New Model Jewelry Store.
Bristol, Z { GOodson,
Tenn, Va.
Aug. left,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19

lt.tg"st Pref ties, and Cheapest
Cold Rings at PIcken's new Model
Jewelry Store. June I5-tl
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19
August, SCHOOL 1919
AND
CCAAEGz IEAE BsgLS
EaR PusE!C on PGElEE senolLs.

WE DESIRE To PLNcE BEFORE TIE PEO-
IA PIE cur facilities for supplying THEN
wants. w viii send IN mGii, PDs'"ya phil. GHy
PUBLICSCHa0L BOOKS SOLD st STATE CeE-
TRACT PRICES.
TO our friends IN the county we say - your
,ctghh.fbood store dCas not KEGS the bouks-sepd
a. .fi sr To- rs ard we wi -sfl their 60 Won by
mail re 30 Hot ssRd Pa5ljc N-,osi BOoks IRE y
lGS'lOe.
Teach rs and dealers are requested % send their
orders t. Us, A. we will suraiy th"irAvauts ~
same discounts given by Northern publishers AID
iobbers on hand a good general assaItu.eft %
school STATIONERY a. low prices
VIGTOg AN-JER.
LyEei,5a &, Va
Aug, 3, e,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19

J. 3. BAEER, Gr University Va.
Z. Z. CARsoS, Or. Va. Nil. Institute Principals.
~ II next Session of this Institution two terms
- Of ~ weeks each, will begin the last Nom
day in August, (t,Iv 3biA Pupils charg- ed from
time IT entrance to eud 81 term For particulars
apply to the Principals 1t abingdon, Va.
Aug. l7-3t.
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No s
DIR. J. NJ. KING.

Grtiaat- Of the B.r'ina~s college ofDeatsl SIR.
C.TU.)
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19

Largest assortment of Silver Plate
engraved free, at PIcken's new Mod
JeWclTY Store. June l5-tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-10-19

20 me Devil set forth on his conjugal quest
OF queen Tor the realms below,
But lac tpGud that he lost his natural rest.
ana las progress was terribly slow
FOR the woman Dee wanted was hard 10 find
Aud the cares Of his kingdom weighed on Li
mind
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
JEErERaSlN Davis.

Since the outraged and indignant
farmers of Winnebago county, Ills,
compelled the Secretary of their Ag-
ricnltural Society to cancel the en-
gagemcnt with JEFF Davis, the latter
has saw fit to publish in the Memphis
appeal "a column or so of similar let
ters, TO vindicate himself. Among
them we find the following, by which
il appears that the capital of Iowa
was ambitious to secure the services
of the great arbitrator as a sort of
candal appendage TO their vegetable
show:
DEs MONIES, Aug. IL, IS75.-Hon.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, Memphis, Tenn
My Dear Sir: ] notice to-day that
you will be i'm Illinois on the l4th of
September, to deliver an address be-
fore an agricultural society there. /
presume you will be flooded with in
vitatiOns from all parts of the coun-
try when this Is more widely known.
] write YOU at once, hoping that l
may reach you before YOU have an
.neaRc,ncnt Cor cithcr OF Tic laS !,
-2lst, 22d, or 23d of September. At
that time the Fair of the Central
iowa District Agricui4srat. society
will be held in Des Moines. wish
in this to extend to you an invitation
to be here on one of the three days
mentioned-the 22d preferred-and
deliver the annual address before the
society. would like to have YOU
deliver the address on the grounds
in the afternoon, and then deliver an
address on a subject which - will
choose, in the opera house in the
evening. hope you will feel con-
strained to accept the invitation and
be with us at that time. As an evil
dence of the sincerity and good feel
ing of our people i'm the matter, |
will state that the matter was sug-
gested to me by Hon. j. S. Clarkson.
editor of The Iowa State Register, the
leading Republican paper in the
State. Central Iowa will give you
rOusing welcome. Please write me
and state your terms. am very anx-
ious that this should reach you in a
favorable time, and | can chronicle
your acceptance of the same. am
your obedient servant,
p. p. BRIsTow, Secretary.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
CROP REPORT.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The De-
partment of Agriculture reports the
average condition of spring wheat on
August lst. in all the States producing
it, except California, as SIG per cent.
Minnesota, and 80 in Nebraska. Tho
condition Of winter wheat is not re-
ported, except statements that vast
quantities were swept away or dam
aged in degrees ranging from serious
injury to utter ruin. Corn, the aver.
age condition in all the States 10 96.
Corn-The highest averages report.
ed are in Kansas ll9, Tennessee ia
Missouri liz, Missippi Ill. New Jcr-
sey and Arkansas l.O9, Virginia los,
West Virginia LOG, Connecticut,
Maryland and Nebraska LOS. Penn
sylvania and North Carolina LOS,
Kentucky l.O2, Delaware and Alabama
| 90, lllinois 80, New York 96, Ohio
81, Iowa 81, Wisconsin 50. Indiana
and Minnesota SO, Georgia S5 and
Texas S5. The other states range be-
tween So in South Carolina aud 50 in
Now Hampshire.
Oats-rhe average condition of the
country is 81. The States above the
average are Mississippi. l.l9. Texas
Arkansas and Wisconsin IL, Yer.
mont l0s, Connecticut, New York and
California 1.0l, Oregon LOO, Michigan
l.Ol. Now Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Louisiana and Iowa are the average
Kentucky. Indiana aud Nebraska. ar,
down to 63. Kansas ia &c, South Caro-
lima and Delaware 20, Tennessee n
Virginia 76, Illinois Is; other state
range between 50 in Maryland and 8,
in West Virginia, Ohio being 81
Potatoes promise an extraordinar,
crop; average condition Of all tn
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

Treason 10 RcpubltcAA Prtscspies.
a,.z We would rathce have NO Part In
stirring up strife, but when such 9
ssntiment.as the following appears fl q
prominent itomish paper, tho organ
of an Archbishop, it ought not to be
passed in silence.
ain the future, when we shall have
gained the ascendency in this country,
as we surely shall, then will 1t be true,
even rs our enemies now say, that
there will be no more religious liberty,
- there ought not to be-"
That is the uttersnce of the Shep-
herd Of the Talley, Catholic paper OF
st. Louis. We put it candidly to our
friends of that order il they expect the
American press to stand idly by while
some of their organs are thus boldly
proclaiming crusade against relig-
ious liberty in this country.
Ii 10 almost inconceivable that any
man would have the audacity to pub
lish such q sentiment within the
charmed circle of this republic. Yet
this person must have the approval OF
his superiors in his atrocious and trca-
sonable sentiment. We choose our
language. An utterance such as we
have quoted 10 treason against the
principles of this republic--it is al
abuse of the freedom of the press, q
freedom which the writer of that par.
agraph would abridge as he wonld
that of religion aud conscience. -
Rochester Eapress.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

change of 12,000 votes to defeat Kirk
wood ; presuming that the party is as
strong now as it was last year (Which
it is not), and these we claim Kirk
woods views OH license and salary
grabbing will give us.-Burlington
Gazette.
We do not recollect whether the
Gazctte's figures are exactly accurate
or not, nor do we care to examine, as
it is a matter of little moment, but il
does take cheek, we think, i'm a journ-
al to argue a victory to be wrune
from the Republican party. when, by
the Gazette's own showing, the major
ity for that party for 1874, was an in
crease of nearly five thousand over
the vote of 1873. In 1872, when the
Republican majority went down the
lowest, the Gasette's party buried its
defunct carcass, and hoodwinked sew
eral thousand Republicans into join
ing with them in so-callcd reform |:
moreover, then the Grange was
prostituted to political purposes in
very many counties. In the year fol-
lowing, many of those Republicans
who had been seduced into the arms
Of Democracy, saw their folly, and
hence the Republican majority was
increased. Now that straight De-
mocracy has been revived, save that
ii bears the name of "What-is-it," !"
hardly corporal's guard of allies,
once deceived by Democracy, remain
with them, and Iowa will drop back
mot to Presidential majority, but
to her usual majority of near or quite
10000 in State elections, to be rolled
up to GO,OOO in the Presidential year
1876. None know this better than
the G0zette. but there are those-and
they are majority in the Democrat
ic party-who yet fondly cling to the
"Lost Cause" and would stimulate
their partisans to fight OH in the face
of defeat by falsely stating the pros
pect of victory.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
ESTABLISHED 184s

THE representative organ at the
capital, the State Leader, sends out
the following wall:
"We must have organization in the
State. Will the friends Of reform,
the lovers of peace and order, those
who desire change in our State gov
crnment all lend their efforts i'm OBJ
tanning an organization. The paid
hirclings of the party in power have
an advantage which can only be over
come by the organization Of the party
opposed to them. The State Central
Committee is powerless unless aided
by the friends i'm the cause
II sees how terribly the Democracy
have got their foot in it by throwing
off on the Anti-Monop-Liberal ele-
ment this year, and in the agony of
dispair calls upon "the friends of re-
form" to organize. The Leader don't
say word about Democracy in this
appeal. Too late too late !---nothing
can save the resurrected old "putrid
reminiscencc" from a Waterloo over
throw.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

The Scranton tPa.) Times says: "But
few that live along the Lackawanns
have become conscious of the fact that
1t is stream of death. No where is
there to be found living thing in its
waters. But few years since there
were large numbers Of tish and cells In
it. One might see in passing along its
banks between Scranton and Provi-
dence, numbers of b0ys and men fish-
ing. Their occupation is completely
gone There are no snakes. NO lizards,
no frOgs, no toads, no reptiles Of any
sort found, and no wild game upon its
waters. Everything is dead. Tho
water, at all times, is perfectly trans
parent. But while It has produced
death to every living thing that has
made Its waters lite home, It has, at the
same time, improved the health of all
who have come to reside near H..
These singular influences are attribut-
ed TO the drainage from the coal mine,
which finds ito way into the river.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
A Curioslu story.

A curions story has been raked up
among the old accounts in the War
Department, showing how a clerical
error had tragic result. An officer
during tho war WAS wrongiully
charged with defAlcAtion amo uniting
to $l,GOO, and being unable to readily
demonstrate his Innocence, he COM
mlttcd suicide. The balance erro-
neOusly made out against him was
placed 10 favor OF another officer, who
knowing 1t 10 be mistake, caused the
matter TO be hunted up. The result
WAS y post-movtem yindication OF ths
man who preferred death TO nnde.
served disgrace. The story is inter
osting by reasOn Of its threo unusual
incidents,--the clcrE's fatal error, the
suicide from such cause, and the liv-
ing ofiicer's refusal to accept money
which was believed to belong to him
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

The Hon. w. s. Groesbeck, of Ohio,
and Judge Ranney, also, both among
the most distinguished Democrats in
the Buckeye State, decline to take
part in the Ohio canvass. Groesbeck
says:
"He has mo sympathy with the rag
money cry of the party He is mot
in harmony with the platform. He
says he is "a hard money man ; be-
lieves in sound currency, and wants
paper dollar to be worth a dollar
and adds: Gold is the only iegiti-
mate standard of value. am DEM
ocrat, and always have been; but I
don't subscribe to the financial plank
in the Democratic platform. IL is
against all precedent in history, and
is contrary to the teachings Of the
party in the past"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

The Chicago Tribune in comment
ing upon the speech of Senator Nc
Donald, made in Ohio, i'm reply to
Senator Morton, makes the follow
ing very truthful remarks:
at will be seen, therefore. that
Senator Mcdonald confirms to a re-
markable extcpt thc declaration OF
SenatOr Morton as to the purposes
and aims of the Democratic party on
the subject OF the currency. The
clamor about more greenbacks is a
fraud, there is not Democratic
statesman who does not know that
there is not responsible court i'm the
United States that would not prompt
ly deny the power of Congress at this
time to make new issues of Treasury
notes and legal tender. There is
not Democratic lawyer in the coun-
try who does not believe with Sena-
tor Morton that the present green
backs are not a legal-fender, but are
in violation of the Constitution. The
talk, therefore, of issuing more green
backs is mere mask in order to ef-
feet the abolition of the National
Banks-to make room for the restor-
alton of the red-dog and wildcat
State Bank currency of the ante-war
days. They want "cheap money" and
plenty of it by creating an iIrespon-
sible bank at every cr0ss-road, not for
banking purposes, but to issue notes.
Whatever doubt there may be of this
fact, this was the true purpose of the
Democratic party. Whatever ideas
there may have existed that Senator
Morton had exaggerated or misun-
derstood the Democracy, has been re-
moved by Senator Mcdonald, who,
following, as he said, the impulses Of
his Democratic education, frankly de-
clared greenbacks to be unconstitu-
tional as legal-tendcrs, and National
Bank notes impolitic, leaving the
country no other resource than re-
turn to the old State bank SYSTEM
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
A Husbansl Treea !.

A citizen who was driving along
the jackson road the other day. says
the Vicksburg Herald, saw a man up
. tree near the roadside, and hslting
he inquired:
What are you doing up there?"
The man made no reply, and the cit.
iZen continued:
What's the cause Of your being up
there ?"
At that moment . woman rose up
from the fence, and remarked:
''Pm the canse, stranger, and II you
will wait till he comes down you'll
see the worst field of carnage around
here that ever laid out doors!"
"The citizen drove on, and she
turned to the man up the tree and con.
tinued:
"Polhemus, I can't climb, and you
know 1t; but il you'll drop down here
for two minutes, I'll give you quit
claim deed to the farm"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

The Washington Chronicle would be-
sorry to see "such an advanced State as
Iowa going back to the gAllows." We
think it would be . fine thing to see such q
''gons back State advance to the erection
Of the gallows. The Chroaicle says put
your mnrdsrers in prison andN "never le,
them out" The trouble is they will gel
out. Prison walls and executive Justice arc
too easily broken through. And, then, II
the State don't erect aallows the people
will. It is . lamentable condition OF af-
fairs when the citizens take the law into
their hands.-Dausnport Gazette.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01

THE Burlington Gazette and other
Democratic journals are softening the
point made by Leffler i'm his speech
at Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa. These
papers claim that Letter nowhere adj
vocated a $1,000 license. TO this,
Senator Young, Of the Atlantic Iele-
graph replies as follows:
"Shep Letter said i'm his speech in
Atlantic that he was in favor of max
ing saloon licenses $1,000 each. The
writer hereof heard him say it, and
can get affidavits from twenty men--
half of those present-that he did say
it. He said he wanted to place the
license so high that there would be
but five or six saloons in Burlington,
Instead Of a hundred as there are
now-'and then,' said he, the saloons
will be in the thickly settled, business
portion of the city, and will not be
out on all the streets, tempting boys
and young men to step in unObserved.
That is the kind of a man the person
al liberty candidate is. The fact is,
Mr.. Letter thought he was in one OF
the interior countless when he was
here, and consequently tried to make
his license sentiments as acceptable as
possible to the prohibitionists. He
thought the simple statement that he
was license man would satisfy the
license element, and the 81 900 part
would satisfy the prohibiionists. He
stated that he had been member OF
the Methodist Church twenty years,
and he did that to conciliate the pro-
hibitionists, by making them believe
that he was license man because it
would be best for the cause of tenn
perance."
If the Gazette says what ii does up
on the authority Of Mr.. Leffier, then
it is a question Of veracity at issue
between State Senator Young and
Mr.. Letter. Mr.. Young is brother
of j. T. Young, Secretary Of State,
and is well known to many gentlemen
hereabouts. Senator Young's repu-
tation is most excellent with every
man who knows him, and he will
support his statement with the afiida-
Wits of many citizens. il necessary.
The fact Isl Leffier was playing one
of his tricks. He would please the
temperance men of Atlantic, and he
or his friends would lie out of it
now.