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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
The Young Lawyer.

The tie which bound q certain youth
TO u lawyers office was severed yester-
day, and his parents were happy
They wanted the boy to make n great
lawyer, but he was getting along too
fast. he pursued his studies with an
Rrdor which cast judicial shadow
DER the household aud created consid-
erablc neighborhood talk. He got
trusted for candy and repudiated the
bill on the ground that he was mi
nor. lie bought a dog and went into
bankruptcy. He borrowed a pair of
skates and dared the owner to get out
a writ of replevin. He borrowed fifty
cents and then made the lender his
assignee.
But the worst of it was in the fami-
ly. He had legal name for almost
everything, and his desire was to
prove to his parents that he was just
absorbing dead loads of law. If he
wanted a potato at the dinner table he
would remark:
Father, file my claim against that
baked potato and I'll prove the in
debtedness this afternoon" If he
wanted bread he said: Mother, get
me out a writ of attachment for q
piece of bread.
1t was expected of him that he
would light the fires but no sooner
had he gained an insight into law than
he said to his father
Pm going to move for change of
venue unless some other arrangement
is made"
He moved for stay of proceedings
when asked to go to the grocery, and
if chided for being out late at nights
he replied
"File your declaration and give me
chance for jury trial"
W hen he was in a good humor he
would sit and regale his mother with
stories about how Old Chancery was
going up town one night and met Old
Equity and asked him how Degree
was getting along. Old Pleadings and
Exceptions came along just then, and
there was big fight, and the young
lawyer would slap his leg and add
II Indictment had only been there
he'd have whaled the whole crowd ~
The other day the long suffering
father severed the tie. He was trying
to bear up hoping for reform, but as
he sat down to the tea table his son
frightened up and remarked
"The defendent will now take the
stand ard be sworn, Now, sir, did
you or did you not come out of Girls
void street saloon at IL O'Clock this
morning, wiping your mouth on the
back of your handP Tell the jury all
about it, sir"
1t was little ton much, and the boy
doesn't study law any more. He plays
with a wood pile in the back yard
Cincinnati Trade List.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
SYSTEM.

We had two neighbors in my boy
hood who pursued methods directly OPP
posite in their manner of doing work.
One was systematic. The labor for
the day was written out and strictly
adhered to, When n job was begun it
was made the order of the day. All
hands turned to and made light work
OF what would otherwise have been
tedious and unpleasant. His work
was always done in season--well done,
because done under his supervision,
and by previously conceived plan.
His premises were very neat and
orderly. He added largely to bis in>
heritance.
The other had no system, but worked
at random. His force were divided,
each man doing a different kind of
work on different part of the farm. He
seldom finished job in the time of it,
but left them oftentimes for a long
time unfinished, His work was almost
always behindhand; much of it was
poorly done. His promises were in a
slOvenly and disOrderly condition.
Although hard working man, he ad-
ded but little to his property. Both
have long since passed away, but the
effect of their different management
is as visible to-day as during their
lives Cor. Country GeQtlCmUn.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
The County Treasurer's Bill.

The Importance of the recent act of
Assembly increasing the compensation
Of county treasurers, and the frequent
requests for its publication, induces us
to give the text in full,
The act to amend and re-enact Sec
lions Is and 80 of an act approved
March 20, 1875, prescribing the duties,
powers, liabilities, and compensation
of certain county officers, providing
for the collection of taxes, and for the
repeal of chapters 81 and AS of the
Code of 1873. Approved March 20,
1875.
/. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Virginia, That sections 10
and 80 of chapter 269 of the Acts of
Assembly of lS74-75, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
2 Is. He shall be allowed for his
services In receiving and disbursing
the county levy, five per. centum on
the amount of money so received and
disbursed not in excess of $4,000, ex-
cept the treasurer of the county OF
Rockbridge and the treasurer of the
county of Botetourt, the supervisors OF
which counties, may fix the compen-
sation of said treasurers for the collec-
ton and disbursement of the county
levies for said counties; and upon the
residue Of said levies, except in the
county of Rockbridge and the county
of Botetourt, he shall be allowed three
per oentum.
so. Every treaurer or collector
shall be allowed for his services in the
receiving and paying over the revenus
on amounts of $4,000 and less, five
per centum on the amount in excess
Of SIC. 600 and under $50, 900, two per
centum on the amount in excess of
$50, 900 and under $1,000, one and a
half per centum and on the amount
i'm excess of $50, 900 one per centum !
provided, that upon all State taxes and
county levles except as to the county
levies In the counties Of Rockbridge
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11

and Botetourt, collected by him after
the first day of December, he shall re-
ceive four per centum in addition to
the regular commissions provided for
in the first part of this section, and of
section Is of this act; and provided
further, that upon all poll tax collec-
ted after the LIST day of December, and
paid into the treasury before the 18th
day of June, he shall receive All addi-
tiOnal compensation of fifteen per CEN
tum. Any treasurer or collector shall
have the privilege of electing wheth-
er to receive for the collection and dis
bursement of the revenues and county
levies for the year 1875, the compen-
sation provided for by the existing
law, or by this act; but nothing here
in contained shall be construed as au-
thorizing the allowance of compensa-
ton, either in whole or in part, under
both systems.
2. This act shall be in force from its
passage.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
Old Clothes.

Sheer not at old clothes. They are
often made holy by long sacrificesj by
careful folding away, that they may
last until the dear ones are provided
for. If many an old coat could speak,
what tales it would tell of the noble
heart beating underneath.
4Onder rusty garment would repeat
the struggles of devoted father, whose
son is earning laurels at the college
hard by. How he counted his farth-
ings and choked down his pride, that
his boy, his noble boy, might yet do
him honOri
That faded shawl, folded tightly over
spare shouldersI Year after year has
the mother cleansed and mended, and
laid it carefully away (as she called it)
good as new" that her blue-eyed
daughter might have an education. -
And the mother smiles over the dim,
dusky- patterned ribbon and prim, old
merino that were cleaned up to enable
her to buy Beesie pretty bonnet, and
q dress such as she deserved.
Oh, that blessed self-denial of aspir-
ing poverty Hallowed be the old
bonnets, old cloaks, old coats, ay, and
old shoes, when such love points to
them as monuments.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
The Reason Oustar Didn't Tell.

Congressman Franklin, Of Missou-
ri. has addressed letter to General
Custar, asking him if the late Scores
tary Of War ever issued an order de-
claring that officers of the army
should not hold any communication
with Congressman. General Custar
will reply that when the law chang~
ing the appointment Of post-traders,
Belknap issued such an order; that
II was in the broadcast terms, prohib,
iting officers Of the army to "write
letters to members of Congress-"
without first submitting them to the
Secretary Of War. This correspon>
dence viii put an end to the sheer
Ing inquiries Of the party press why
General Gustav did not make the
facts in his possession known before.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
THE OLD CANOE.

We believe these beautiful verses.
again going the rounds anonymously,
were written by Albert Pike,-EDs.
AVALANCHE,
Where the rocks are gray and the shore steep.
and the waters below look dark and deep:
Where the rugged pine, in it's lonely pride,
Leans gloomily over the murky tide;
Where the reeds and rushes are long and lank
And the weeds grow thick on the winding bank:
Where the shadow is heavy the whole day through;
There lies atits moorinBs the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped
Ikea seabird's wings that the storm has loppod
And crossed on tho railing, one DER one
Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busily back aud forth between,
The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the solemn owl, with the dull ''too-wLoo,"
Settles down on the side Of the old canoe.
The stern, half sunk In the Shiny wave,
Ro.s slowly In it's living grave;
And the green moss ereeps o er Ills dun decay
Hiding its moulding dust away,
Like the hands that plants DER tomb flower,
Or tho ivy that mantles the falling tower;
While many blossom OF loveliesthue
Springs up DER the stern Of the old canoe.
The eurrentless waters are dead and still,
Put the twilight wind plays with the boat at will,
And lazly in and out again,
1t floats the length Of It's rusty chain.
Like the weary march of the hands Of time,
That meet and part the MONDAY chime.
And the shore Is kissed at each turning anew.
By the dripping bow Of the old canoe,
Oh many time with ceaseloss hand,
have pushed itaway from the pebbly strand,
And padded II down where the stream runs Quick,
Where the whirls wide and the eddies thick,
And laughed as leaned DER the rocking side,
To see that the faces and boats were two,
That were mirrowed back from the old canoe.
But now as lean DER the cru milling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there is grave grown,
A nd the laugh that hear lie sober tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skif wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things;
Bat love to think of the hours that sped
AS rocked where the whirls their white pray shed
Fro the blossom or the green grass grew
DER the moul dering stern Of the old canoe.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
A Mystery of Perfume.

No one has yet been able to analYze
or demonstrate the essential action of
perfume. Gas can be weighted, but
not scents. The smallest known crea-
tures-the very monads of life-can be
caught by microscope lens and made
to deliver up the secrets of their or
CARNATIONS, but what it is that emil
mates from the pouch of the musk deer
that fills the whole space for years and
years with its penetrating odor-an
odor that an illimitable number of ex-
traneous substances can carry on with
out diminishing its size and weight
and what is it that the warm summer
air brings to us from the flowers, no
man has yet been able to determine.
So fine, so suitable, so imponderable,
il has eludGd both our most delicate
weights and measures, and our strong
est senses. If we come to the essence
of each odor, we should have made an
enormous stride forward, both in hy-
giene and in chemistry, and mono
would profit more than the medical
profession if it could be as conclusive
ly demonstrated that such All Odor pro-
ceeded from such and such a cause, as
we already know of sulphurate hydro
gen, ammonia, and the like.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
Tie Chinese Anttation.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3.-The six
Chinese companies, at a meeting Sat
urday night, indited a letter to Chief
of Police Ellis, complaining that the
present agitation has already provoked
assaults upon their people, and that
they fear that, unless they are check
ed, a bloody riot may be the result.
They profess a willingness to lend
their aid in obtaining a modification
of the Burlingame treaty, but ask pro-
lection under treaty rights.
The following dispatches was sent
by the Chinese Company to-day TO
Ming Wah hospital at Hong Kong:
"Chinese immigration must stop.
Excitement increases every day against
our people,"
The Senate to-day adopted a resolu-
ton to appoint committee of five
senators to make full investigation
of Chinese immigration, with power
to send for persons and papers. They
will prepare memorial for presenta-
ton to Congress on or before next
December. setting forth the results of
the inquiry in full.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
Power of Kindness.

A poor woman used to give an ele-
plant, who often passed her stall in
the market, a handful of greens, OF
which he was very fond, One day be
was in great fury, and broke away
from his keeper, and came raging down
the market-plaee. Every one fled, and
in her haste the market-woman forgot
her little child. But the furious ele-
plant, instead of trampling it to death
picked it up tenderly and laid it on
one side in place of safety. Do you
think she was sorry she gave him his
handful of greens as he went by? No.
We never loase by kind action, no
matter to whom IL is done.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
[Cincinnatti Commercial, Arril IL
BELLS REVELATIONS.
And Now Let the President be
Heard From.

This remarkable witness, Bell, has
not sought this examination. On the
contrary, he has been living Obscurely.
and only happened upon the stand
because he had applied to Belknap for
post-tradership. There are docu-
ments in the Treasury Department
that corroborate this testimony. Dis
trict Attorney Dyer is said to have
known all about it. He and eX-Sena-
tor Henderson are in Washington,
and have been interviewed, and they,
according to our special correspondent,
confirm Bells testimony.
We cannot avoid q very disagreeable
impression III this connection, that
the Presidents appearance in it is eX
tremely infelicitOus. He had no call
to send spy TO st. Louis to know
whether Babcock was guilty. He
probably had clear opinion on that
subject. When we take and examine
together the items Of interference by
the President with the trial of Gen.
Babcock, It is difficult to elude con-
illusions of the most painful character,
The appearance of All old scout en-
plOyed at the direct urgency of the
President OH q thin pretense, who was
urged to destroy evidence and promis-
GU u IS"hIh lOI uOllIS 81, anu lllOl tllcu
by the innocent Babcock that it would
be the better way not to make par
tlal job of it, but to destroy the whole
or none--all this wears q sinister
aspect that will disturb the whole
country. When we take into consid-
Grafton that the report to the President
by the old scout that his Secretary
was guilty, was followed by his dis
missal, it seems likely that the worst
Interpretation cannot be far from the
true one.
Certainly this testimony could not
stand unsupported, but it has dOcu-
mentary support, and is confirmed by
men of unquestiOned character and
intelligence-among them the Assist
ant District attorney, who did his duty
In the prosecution of Avery, and, sue
ceeding, was dismissed, and the Dis
trict Attorney who prosecuted the
Presidents Private Secretary, in spite
of the protest of the Attorney General,
deprived of witnesses by the stolen
letter, and surrounded by spies, The
testimony of Bell not only throws a
broad light upon the Babcock trial,
but ELIMINATES the Administration,
The President seemed to be an eager
witness in Babcock's case. Perhaps
he will appear before Mr.. Clymer's
committee. His testimony would be
quite pertinent. Indeed, 1t seems in
dispensable, and it should be given
without circumlocution or delay. BabA
cock and Chandler and PierrepOnt are
also wanted to complete the story.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11

IFTOm mo Iowa Stnte JOurnlI.I
Snow a Hundred Feet Deep-the
Kind of Storms they have oil
the UniOn-Pacitic-F Fight
Ing through Drifts.

AhfS ShAOuS IL APElkLS.
Mr.. &. +, Clarkson returned from
his California trip recently, and relates
some interesting incidents of his re-
turn over the mountains. He left San
Francisco at eight o'clock, on Wednes-
day, March 10. The telegraph bad re-
ported u fearful snow storm in the
mountains, commencing on the 18th.
Surprising the road would be opened
Ivy the 18th, Mr.. Clarkson started
hOmeward.
All along the Sacramento Valley
everything was smiling. The cattle
were luxuriating in the the grass knee
high, and the plains were decked with
flowers. At 2. p. NJ. the train turned
eastward to ascend the Nevada noun
tains, and by 10 o'clock reached Blue
Canyon, from which to Truckee the
snow was from four to twelve feet
deep, and in the gulches 1t was in some
places one hundred feet deep. Those
who have kept snow gauges on the
Nevadas report fall of 3S9 inches of
snow during the winter.
Immense snow plOughs, operated by
locomotives and hundreds of Chinese,
had opened the roads over the Nevadas
and the train was on time until it
reached the town of Wells, on the
Humboldt mountains. There they
overlook the trains which had left San
FrAhciecO for the four days previously
The road from Wells to Toano (thirty-
six miles) was still blockaded, no
trains having passed over that section
for four days. The snow was any
depth from four to fifteen feet. AS the
wind was still blowing, to open the
track with shovels was as futile as
emptying the ocean dry with a spoon.
Seventeen locomotives were assembled
at the western end of the blockade,
eight OF which were put behind an
immense snow plough. The five pas
.senger trains were massed into three,
and thus arranged charge was made
on the obstruction, AS such power
was haard to resist, in three hours the
,snow7plough wac pushed through to
ToanO. end the caravan of trains
reached Ogden only three hours be-
hind time. But the successful trial
demonstrates that trains can be push
ed through any blockade ever likely
TO impede any .road. The change COM
Ding down ,the snnountains was as great
as that going up them. In the valley
OF Salt Lake farmers were ploughing,
and the atmosphere was mild.
Starting out again In q few hours
the deep SHOWS were encountered on
ItAe Wasateh range, 80 deep that at
some of the villages the combs of the
roofs OF some OF the houses could alone
he seen. But there was no ObstIuc-
ton; YET the cars crowding along be-
tween snow banks as high as the roofs
was interesting TO the passengers.
On Saturday. the 18th, the train
encountered q fearful snow-storm on
the Rocky Mountains, at Sherman,
lasting until midnight Of Sunday
Sometimes there was danger of the
train being blown from the track. -
Taken altogether, Mr.. G. gives glow
ing account OF the scenes and incl
dents of the entire trip from San Fran
cisco to Des MOines.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
A Bill that the Indian Ring and Gen. O.
0. Howard VirtuOusly Oppose.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The ms
dian ring is here in full force, works
ing hard to defeat the bill reported
from the Military Committee trans
ferring the control of Indian Affairs
from the Interior to the War Depart
ment. This bill will probably be
called on Wednesday next, and put
upon its passage. If it becomes
law, it will certainly save from five to
six million dollars year. and break
up one of the strongest corrupt CONS
binations in the country. Every
conspicuous army officer who has
been called upon by the committee
has, with one exception. favored the
transfer, and given cogent reasons
therefor. Gen. o. o. Howard whose
connection with the chiefs of the
Indian ring here is notorious, alone
argues against the change. He is the
only one out of the thirty-seven
officers of high rank, who have had
large experience on the frontiers, who
fayors a continuance of the old order
of things.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
The Lamentable Condition Of affairs in
the Government Asylum.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The testi-
mony taken before the Committee on
Expenditures in the Interior depart.
ment in regard to the management of
the Government asylum for the iu-
sane in this District, has developed q
most astounding condition of affairs.
There have been the most fragrant
abuses, the most mprovident manage
ment, and the most diabolical cruelty.
Witnesses are to be examined tO-mOr-
row who will, it ID said, reveal some
horrible cases of cruelty. 1t is openly
charged that poor man in this city
who was in possession OF information
which might have been prejudicial to
the reputation of certain high officials,
was inveigled to the police .headquar-
tiers, and that there two physicians
were in waiting who signed a petition
to the effect that he was insane, and
he was kept in the asylum for nearly
two years. The man is now in bust
ness here, and his friends declare that
he never was Of unsound mind. The
present superintendent of the asylum
is a member of the Police Board, and
it is not unlikely that a Job Of this
kind was set up and carried through.
Restoration of Pensioners,
The pension bill passed by the
House to-day does not grant any ar,
rearages, but it puts on the pension
rolls all soldiers who served ten days
in 1912, and restores those who were
stricken off the rolls for alledged dis
loyalty, and all the widows of SOL
diers who served before 1850. The
chance of passing the bill in the Sen.
ate is decidedly doubtful.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
From tho Chicago Trlbuno.
The Newest Thing in Bankruptcy.

The Newest Thing in Bankruptcy.
A New Yorker, while journeying
the other day, was recognized by an
other citizen doing business near the
BOwery
"Well, l hear that you had to make
an assignmeut?u
"Yes, dat is drew" replied the 9TH
er.
And your brother, over on Chath-
am street.-The assigned, too, didn't he =?
you zee, it was just like dis" said
the Bowery man. ~ was owing a
good deal. l makes over my stock to
Jacob and Jacob makes over his stock
to me, and l do his peesness and he
does my peesness, and dem vellers vat
was after money doan got some"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mrs. PartingtOn's Mild Protest

"Do l look like an octagon?n asked
Mrs. Darlington, as she sat at break
fast yesterday at the Grand Central,
Oakland. with the Chronicle before
her, and George, the beaming and ge-
NAL exponent CT gastronomic science,
pouring her Mocha: "Do look like
an octagon?" placing her finger
smilingly on the paragraph fixing her
age at seventy-seven. IAN octagon,'
indeed !" she continued, not severely,
a smile wreathing her lips as the odor
of the coffee exhaled, and her specta-
Giles were dewy with the rising vapor
from her cup, "they will, perhaps,
make me a centurion next and a relic
of antipathy, but this is the year for
such, and perhaps l should be grateful
for it, as age is honorable, and l might
find a place at the great National Im-
position. Yet il is best not to assume
Years any more than virtues, and l
Shall be content if l am never older
than | am now. This coffee is very
fragrant, George" and as she spoke
she gazed into the cup, seeing therein
her good looks reflected, which sixty
years had not impaired, while George
beamed down upon her with radiant
satisfaction,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11

EXCITEMENT is running high in
California over the Chinese ques-
ton. If measures are not inaur
guratcd to prevent it, an outbreak
among the people is imminent
The Hong Kong Immigration
company have telegraphed, "Chi-
nese immigration must stop" Ex-
element increases every day
mong our people"