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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-09
IuESDAY. FEBRUARY 9 1875.
EVENT and COMMENT

II costs New York So $50 30 10 bury
it, dead Mayor, Havemayer. This
was about twenty dollars pound for
the old gentleman.
The modoc war is said to have cost
$4,000. Cheap we think A couple
of our Indian Agents can steal more
than that in half the time.
NJ. II. Clark, State Senator from the
Danvile District, died Oh the list IN
slant. This. with VI. II. Harrison,
Representative from LoudOn, MAKES
two Of the present legislature that
have died the present session.
Rush Burgess, who holds the key to
the Federal Revenue Of Richmond,
found two burglars i'm his house on
The 3lst ulto at 3 A NJ, aud Killed
oneof them at the first fire Of his pistol.
The verdict of the inquest was that
Rush did right to kill the said COrne-
Illus johnson.
Ed. s. Gregory, the brilliant editor
OF the Petersburg JndeT, is a candidate
for the Clerkship of the House OF Rep
resentatives, ana we wish he may get
the position. He has the capacity for
the position, and he deserves some
thing good.
Your money or your life is still the
alternative of these who will not
work. In Memphis on the LIST, the
Express Messenger, while delivering
package To a bogus concern had Z
rope thrown around his neck. bag
over his head aud was robbed Of all
his packages containing $4,000.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-09

Daniel. are both dead, the Fugi-
tive Slave law repealed, the negro
children of the South being edu-
Gated at the expense of the whites,
and the white girls of the North
enslaved in the kitchens of those
white men who run the sacred
organs at their boosted churches.
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CUR EXCHANGES.

PEARBURG. The Gazette says
that Sheriff JOHN Hale Of Giles Co. /,
having a capias for Robert Beasley,
on account of Illicit dis,il!ing, the
Litter went over to PeterstOWn which
is on the State line of Va. aud w.
Va. Being a Mason, he attended a
meeting of the Lodge which lap
pcned to be just in the edge Of Va.
and so Sheriff I.le vent for him.
At this point Of the game, the Ga
zette Alys, the members OF the Lodge
interfered in nvor of Besley, and lie
escaped, Hale firing threein efFcCtual
shots a: him.
LEE County The Sentinel says :
Goa Saturday last a train of fifteen
carts passed through here on their
way to the Cumberland Gap Roilroad,
in Kentucky. BE patient, We IL have
train Of carS running through here
before great while" We don't
know what this means, but we de
sire to ask, what became of that
Legislative committee which agreed
to 90 70 kentucky and .epo;t ahcth
er any responsible party won!d meet
the Va end Ky. branch of tie \.
". & o. Il. r. at the Gap.
Prot. L. LongleE Jr,, has been
sick OF pieurisy.
The people of Jonesville, week
ago gathered all their buckets, and
with them splsshing over with water ,
ran to put cat an old sedge field
which was on FIRE, thinking it was the
Academy. Wil,oughby, those good
people will settle with you for that
story.
GREENv1LLE-In teRigencer.- Roht.
]
McCorkle, of the firm of S. E. Snapp
& Co., and one of natures true noble
men, died on the 3Oth of consumption,
81 40
| Ror C1or,o~t riobardson orGraon-
Vile, rang his church bell two hours
o., bo. rolinio,, ,I,ot =, practical and
,~,.aa.n -
c;r, 81 ,,ortor ,or,,,,- boa
iii r. uor,,,or E,or,,o nrono,.t,,
.;.I, . oco oar,o- g III - H. No..
,a,i..Iron q &c pbil,dor,,,io cTr
60 COO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS old En-
breville Iron Works has been rented
10 ADDISON lreadWay Tor sos
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-09
LITTLE PHIL.
A PHILIPPE.

There was little man,
And be had-a little gun;
And his bullets, they were made of lead
lead-leed.
He went to the South
And he burnt his little mouth
When be sent back word, I'm not afraid
frdid-fraid.
Now this bully little man;
With his bully armed band,
Had Matched up planning nice-nice-nice
Says he: It's pity
If you'd just call them banditti
I'd settle up your business in thrice
thrice-thrice.
Go On my little man,
And work your little plan,
For you have the support OF all of us-us-
US.
Till the country in a roar,
Spread your name from shore to shore
And get US in devil Of a lhuss-muss-
nIuSg.
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NJ l.. BLAekrAr, ". ii. RossRTsds, o.
BLACKLFv-
Bl35klGy, Robertson & BlaGElsT,
Attorneys at Law, 6
Real Estate Agents.

WILL practice in the counties of Sulli
van aud Washington, and in the Fedora.
aud Supreme Courts at Knoxville, Tenn.-
~ real estate agents we offer for sale largs
amounts Of improved and uuimprovej min
eral and farming lands, in quality and on
terms to suit the purchasers. Our agents
will meet emigrant ships, regularly, at Nor
folk and New York, and will be in constant
correspondence with Emigration Societies
md Mining C'I1panics in EuroI and the
United States. Persons having l. Ljs in +.
Icnn., :. W. Va, and Ky, for lie. Of any
description, will find purchases u rough our
agency. Capitalist wishing to in,tri N ROB
Coal, Lead, Grazing ard Farming len Is, and
Water Power, will fad il to their ! t--e,t 70
examine our Lands. We also ,i,t loNn
property tor sale
OFFICE Oh Fifth Street.
Aug. p, IS1J.-tf.
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DESCRIPTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE.

DESCRIPTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE.
Mary is about fiitenn years of age.
She has black hair and eyes and a
fair complexion, and altogether her
face is pleasant t. lock upon. Her
friends here believe that Ier portion
of her uncle fortune is worth between
eighteen and twenty thousand dollars.
1t is herpurpOse to get an education and
fit herself for respectable station in
life if she can get relieved from
Demmer's attentions BY the-way,
she has little to say against him, but
has a decidedly small opinion of the
merits of 3Irs. Demmer. 1t will be
necessary az some time for her to 60
TO Philadelphia to attend TO her prop
eEty, and it wiH be just as impossible
foI Demmer to get possession of her
iii Philadelphia as in Richmond now
that it has been discovered that the
fugirive-slSvc law has been repealed.
The only way Demmer can possibly
get control of her unless she v0Iuntl-
rily goes or is kidnapped into New
Jersey, is TO have her indicted for
appropri2 ting ten dollars, that being
tue amount Of his money she took
from an open drawer to pay her way
to Richmond l, is scarcely likely
that that is such All off nee as to be
i0d;ctable in a ga. TO authorize the
Governor Of New jersey to maze a
requison Tor her upon the Governor
of Virginia. one if it is, Demmer with
his professions of love, would scarce
iy pursue that course:
Commissioner Peasants found out
shortly after he had issued the war
rant for the arrest Of Mary. Henbest
that tie fugitive slave law had been
repealed. but he thought proper to
keep his own counsel s-ta
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CONFLICTING STATEMENTS.

CONFLICTING STATEMENTS.
The statement Of Mr.. nemmer
conflicts with Mary'Sstory and with
information from diainterested par-
ties Obtain ed by the officers of the
Spring>Street Home. she was carried
to the Spring Street Home upon her
arrival mere as the best provision that
could be made for her by the phiIan-
tirropic gentlemen who had taken an
Interest in her welfare. She afirms
that she led a miserable existence at
Denimer's and .hOVgh not exactly a
servant, was treatrd very cruelty, and
that Denmer and wife constantly
tainted her with the habits Of her
brothers. and SO she determined to
run away. She wanted to travel. and
said she had heard a great deal
about Richmond; and il she could
make money here she would 90 to
Florida to live amid the grange
groves, &c. &c. From Florida she
NdALGO ~ 90 10 TOE ihiAhC 81 MA
nilia, and when she became rich
woman she would let her people know
where she was" &c She has bad
from the beginning an aversion to re-
turning to Demmcr's, and, from all
the information we can OBTAIN, is not
much more in love with her brothers.
1t as chiefly on her account that
the officers Of the Spring Street
Home resisted all the attempts to get
possession of her. Personally, or
as an association. they can have no
other interest in Der than the promo
lion Of her welfare, She has not for
several days been at the Home, but
is in private family. where she is
we'll taken care Of,
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LII IN / AhSSA 4 III II n Ole w AitA~4t
TON.
Mr.. Dcmmer has The following
credenlal from the Mayor Of his city {:
"MAYoR's OFFICE, Cry HALL, !
.'TEENToN, Nj, Jan. %, 1915. {
"Mr. John Demmcr, aho is about
going 20 Richmond, Va. to endeayor
50 obtain pussesSior of bis adopted
daughter, IS a gentleman of chara cter,
aud standing in Ibis Community,
@here Ire has long ztesided. Having
resided opposite to theIu ION the same
street for somef time, and having
been personally acquainted with both
-him aud his wife tor years, | take
pleasure IN bearing testimony to their
exemplary standing as citizens and
from ms personal knowledge cannot
think that either of them are -capa
bic of in any way maitreating child;
but are directly the opposite, Hav-
ing some knowledge of the means
aud parties by which the girl w,s in
duced to leave hef adopted parents
and the reason thereof. I am satisfied
that both Mary and her interests
would be safer in the hands Of Mr..
Demmer, Respectfully; 8
..'na' JOHN BRIEsT, Mayor pr
TESTIMONY OF Mr.. DEMNESs PAS
.oToRs i}5#2
F Mr. DINNER has also the follow
ing from his pastor: a.
. .H.fL ST. MARY $ CHURCH, /.
TTENToN n j.
1850 b. january "a 1873.
ITO Whom it May Coaceru:
This is to certify that John Dem
mer, Esq, for the last fqpr years
organist IF St. Mary's church, Trep-
ton, n j.. and an old resident of
this city, Is o"e Of our most respected
citizens, gentletnan of unlicensed
moral character and integrity, and a
good and practical Catholic He is
in every way calculated and compe,
tent TO raise aud educate any child he
may thinkmoper to take under his
charge, @ AETHoNY SMITH.
'Psstorsof 81, Mary's, Trenton,
n. j."
DEMMER' S VISIT TO RICHMOND.
Mr.r Demmer was iI- Richmond
about two weeks ago. He made sp-
plication at the Home for Mary, but
Mary vas not willing to return with
him, and consequently the officers
would not deliver her up. lie went
back to Philadelphia. described the
Home not fiattefiugly to one of Mary's
brotters, aud induced him to come
here aud Try to getbet away. He failed
also, Mary would not leave With him.
On Monday, Demmer fer the second
time Jeff Trenton for Richmond, with
letter of introduction from Hon.
George w. Biddle, Of Philadelphia,
to Mr.! William Green, whom he en-
ployed as counsel. He says he and
his wife love Mary. and that their
affection for her is the sole thing that
has moved HIM 10 endeayot to secure
hr. lie thinks that influences are at
aork TO pre'ent her from returning.
a I'd that otherwise, and if left to her
Own free viii, she would gladly 60 back
to Trenton,
He describes her as 4 pure Cir,
though inclined to be hot-tempered
Her sister, who is younger than she
i, is bound out az servant to come
one in Philadelphia. Demmer says
Mary often begged him to adopt her
sister 2 $50. ard that he consented TO
DO so, but the Philadelphia party,
whose servant. she is, refused TO give
her up. $50
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BRISTOL VIRGINIA & TENNESSEE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY g. VIII

Mr. Demmer left for Trenton last
night, ha'ing been advised that he
had 10 legal remedies bat be says
he will never give her up. and hopes
the future will solve all difficulties,
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age-was regularly linden tured to
Demner; as he says, to prevent her
from being interfered With by outsi-
ders, but he never intended for her to
know of The indenture, ard always
meant To treat her, and always did
treat her, as his daughter. He taught
her music, and his wife gave her in
structims in the elementary branches
of learning. Demmer represents that
Mary was generally a WE'LL behaved
girl. End that she lived in his family
contentedly until about a year ago.
MUCH TROUBLE ABOUT A sHALLFoR
TUNE.
About a year ago a rich uncle OF
Mary's, named Hlmbest, died in
Philadelphia. La his lifetime he
had never contributed the sm2 Hest
amc INT to the maintepce of Mary or
her sister and four brothers. By his
will, after making few small be
quests, he left his whole fortune for
the establishment OF all asylrm for
infrm people,. but the will having
been made within thirty days Of his
death, by the law Of Pennsylvania IN
relation to requests vas declared
void and the entire fortune reverted
to his heirs. Mary's portion ass
about one. thirtieth of the whole estate,
say between $4,000 and $40, 900 net
Demmer declares that he positively
refused to qualify IS her guardian,
but that she voluntarily chose Mr.,
Jesses S. Wilson, of Bucks county
Pa. who resides just across the line
but two or three miles from Trenton
He was required to qualify upon hei
estate, estimated to be worth not less
than 81 ZOO. but has not yet done so
as his brother, who is to become hi>
surety, is an officer in the ARMY and
is stationed at or near Boston. Two
of Mary's brothers sold out their pOr
tons to SPECTATORS. They never
visited Mary until she became III
heireSs > then they came to see her,
and one Of them desired 10 have him
self installed rs guardian in place OF
Wilson, as Wilson had not qualified,
The visits of Mary'S brothers produc.
ed III her mind discomfort. On the
9Th Of December, when Demmer and
wife were absent from home, she
absconded. Demmcr asserts that
upon his first visit TO her here. about
Two weeks ago, Mary told him that 4
gentleman narled Myers (she believ-
ed) had bought her ticket for her,
He learned Of her whereabouts
through a Philadelphia drummer
named Stubs, and this was his sec
ord visit here to get possession O
her-hiS daughter he calls her.
LETTER FROM THE MAYOR OF TREN-
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1rGIeSStOnaI carts.

Zcgai.
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The Story CT Seven Oaks
American Life and Scenery, I"

including descr ptive papers American cities,
will open in January with narrative OF WESTERN
Discovery AND ABvENTURE. by MAJOR Powell.
whose descent Of the Colorado ! one 81 the most
niHgufceuce Of its illustrations Whit possesSIrg
gre.ter variety and wider iatersst. Also another
illustrated series. ......
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$780, l-
--. J. ...
will buy
FIRST MORTGAGE PREMIUM
BOND
will buy a

DO4ND
Of the New York Industrial EXpcsi-.
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These bonds are issued for the pur-
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FOr-this purpose the Legislature OF
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and these gentlemen have purchased
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The building to be erected viii be seven
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The modoc war is said to have cost
$4,000. Cheap we think A couple
of our Indian Agents can steal more
than that in half the time.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-02-09
" 4 Farmers Vacation in EU7GB9, )"

Six articles recounting The experience 81 we'll
known American farmer and aEin"cr COLONEL
WAXING. Of uEieu Farm. Newport. Il. L during
tour through some ofs lsss freqHrft- parts OF
Western Europe. in the AEtumu OF 1873.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-15

''"At AEAJ ASsN AM aisAN-h ~
1875, SUMMER ARRANGEMENT 1915
an and after May 81, 1873, Passenger Train
" will run rs follows :
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord ut 1910
JAM and Accommodation Train at 1910
A.M*for White River junction, connecting
it'll train for Well River, st. Johnsbury,
warton, Newport, Willoughby and Magog
Lancaster, and thcWhite and Franconid
Mountains. Also, with,rains for Mont
pelier, Mansfield Mountain, Burlington, St..
Albans, Rouse's Point, Montreal, Ogdens.
burgh, and the West.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Concord at
5.H7 ?. M for White River Junction 4 Bristol.
EVENING EMPRESS TRAIN leaves Concord
at $50 Y. NJ. for White River junction, con-
Meeting with trains for Montpelier, Burling-
ton, st. Adams, Rouse's Point, Montreal,
Ogdensburgh, and the West.
*Or on arrival OF trains from Boston, Wor-
cester, Portsmouth, Portland, &c.
DOWNWARD TRAINS
tMoRNIYG EMPRESS TRAINieaves White
River junction for Concord at l.5O A. NJ, or on
arrival Of trains from Ogdensburgh and Mon
treal. This train is run to Boston on Sunday.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves White r.
junction for Concord at GOO A. NJ.
tBRIsTol TRAIN leaves Bristol for Concord
at $50 A. N. and Franklin 1T 9.O5 A. NJ.
tNIAIL TRAIN leaves White River Junction
for Concord ut 1925 p. NJ, or on arrival OF
trains over the Vermont Central, Passumpsic,
and White Mountains Railroads.
DAY EXPRESS TRAIN leaves White River
junction at 4.i4 p. NJ, or on arrival of trains
from Montreal and Ogdensburgh Brattle.
boro, Keene, Bellows Falls, Windsor, &C.,
connecting at Concord with train for Man
chester, Nashua, Lowell ald Boston.
tTheso trains connect ut Concord with
trains tor Manchester. Lawrence, Ports
mouth, Portland Nashua, Worcester, New
York, Lowell, ard Boston.
GEO. f. TODD, Supt.
Concord. n. H., May It'll 1875.
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SELLING EGGS BY WEIGHT "A
correspondent Of the american Grocer
writes as follows in reference to the
manner Of selling eggs:
"One change l should like to see
brought about in the manner OF selling
eggs and, instead of by the dozen, to
see them sold and quoted by thepound.
Now there is no more justice in con-
sumer or retail dealer being asked to
pay a certain price for lot of eggs
that will only weigh II or Is ozs.
land even some lots as low as IA ozs.) },
when the next customer may get for
the same price lot that will weigh
20 to "a OF. (and sometimes more),
than there is in selling short-weight
canned goods or rasins. Can't the
subject be agitated to the extent of
bringing the attention Of the trade
strongly enough to the matter to ere
ate change =? | presume there is a
standard weight for eggs, but if so |
have never seen il"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-09-15

GREEN's AUGUST FLowER.-lt is
natural for people suffering with Dys-
pepsla and Liver Complaint or any de-
rangements of the digestive organs,
such as Sour Stomach, Sick Head
ache, Habitual Cos,iveness, pal plta,
ton of the Heart, Heart burn, Water
brash, gnawing and burning pains at
the pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin,
Coated Tongue, and disagreeable taste
in the mouth, coming up Of food after
eating, low spirits, &c, to put off
from day to day buying on article that
they know has cured their neighbor,
friend or relative, yet they have no
faith in it until it is to1 late. But if
you will 90 to o. G. Kimball, Drug
gist, and get a bottle of GREENS AUG
usr FLOWER your immediate cure is
as certain as you live. Sample Bot
tie of this medicine can be obtained
for 10 cents to try its superior virtue.
Regulars 70 cents Try it, two
doses will relieve.
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BEYON Id.

have friend, cannot tell just where,
For out of sight and hearing he has gone !;
Yet now, as once, breathe for him prayer,
Although his name is carved upon stone
O blessed habit of the lips and heart
Not to be broken by the might of Death.
A soul beyond seems how less far apart,
If daily named to God with fervid breath.
If one doth rest in God, we well may think
He overhears the prayer we pray for him:
Our Father, let us keep the sacred link
The hand of Prayer Loves holy lamp
doth trim.
Were the dear dead once needless of Gods
will,
Meeting our prayer that he might be for
given;
Against all creeds, that prayer uprises still,
With the dim trust of pardon and of
heaven.
--Ch0rl0tb II. Bates.