Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-01-05

Col. G. III. Collins. a prominent law
yer Of Sparta Tenn, shot himself re
Gently, while temporarily insane from
a dIsordeTed liver He was worth
$4,000 and during the war, command
ed a confederate regiment.
Ex-Gov. Parsons Of Ala, has been
appointed Dist. Judge, to succeed the
Infamous carpet Dagger, Busted, who
las gone back to n. Y, proving that
the carpet bagger is but bird OF
prey, aud where the carcase is not
there. he stayeth not. Parsons is q
good appointment. So said.
After the Vicksburgers had killed
and buried 100 negroes who undertook
10 take and sack the city, and had
nearly forgotten the little trouble, The
President issued his proclamation, tell
ing them that if they did not 20 to
their homes and he quiet, he would
ytc. &c. Now this is just what the
Vicksburgers want to stay at home
and he quiet, and this is just what it
has about been impossible TO do while
sadicalism is uncaged.
David NJ. Galbraith; recently died
In GreenevIlle Tenn, after the ampu-
lotion of the leg near the hip, render
ed necessary by a wound from knife
on the Ind Of November 1874. The
american speaks OF him as a noble and
useful citizen.
And now we are to have another
Democratic newspaper at JonesbOro'
to he called the Journal, and to he
owned hy fifty shareholders We think
this looks like spreading the party I'M
tti IL will be "toO thin Divide your
party on two papers, and then up you
20, boys.
Ye negro has now commenced rap
ing the little daughters of his New
England friends. Last week one of
them raped the lille daughter of
Judge Lowell, OF Boston, and the
child was so young, that, to accom-
plish his hellish purpose, lac used a
knife. The little girl drf eyed herself
home, aud told the shocking story
The negro was arrested, identified, and
then bdiLed ia the sum OF go 600 ana
this IL the way they do thILgs down
10 BOsting."
Chas. O'Connor, the ablest lawyer
of New York, says any State can
change it's constiti0n by any fair vote
Of the people, aud that any PROVISION
of one constitution requiring that IT
shall only be changed in aLy harticn-
lar way, rs imperative and void. A
State is like an individual. It's will is
SITS hig hest law, and when that will is
fairly expressed, there can he $50 APP
peal from it.
In McMinn Co., Tenn, a little boy
named Thos. A Cross, aged eleven
years, picked up an old musket and
blew out the brains OF little play
mate named " lingo. Tonne just
pulled the trigger TO show that the
gun wasn't loaded, aud would not
shoot, but il did shoot.
II il said that thirty millions OF dol
lars have been paid uut for hogs 10y the
Pork Packers ct the west i'm the last
sixty days, aud money realized by the
tanners Tor their hogs is mole by near
" ten millions than ever before. II
this i,+ SO we do not see how bacon can
rule very high next season.
or the IS 00O negroes in Virginia
liza To prll tax nea ly s.. 600 Of them
have paid. This il much.better ttan has
been expected. Out Of $1,000 white
10000 paid.
Gerfet Smith one of the earliest and
most noted HbOlitiunists of New Eng
land died on the 18th uitO. Just in
time TO be enrolled among the diSting-
uished dead Of 1874, If he had waited !
only four days longer we intended to |
close the neurological list against him. |