Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-07-04
SIDEWALK LETTER.
ON THE SIDEWALK
July 4th, 1876.
To the Editor of the Ne,os!

July 4th, 1876. J
To the Editor Of the Ne,Us:
BE it remembered that In this Gen.
tennial year of republican govern
ment in American certain people of
Virginia and Tennessee, called the
Peple of Bristol, have resolved that
they are stockholders in the Fourth OF
July. Stores are closed and all bust
ness suspended in Bristol. The Band
of Hope have their Pic Mic at Blue
Spring, one mile from town. The
Declaration of Independence must be
read in these parts once more. Let
the guns at Philadelphia send their
loud notes Atlanticward aud Noun
tainward. The Bristol Boy, Young
America, has his fireworks, and these
people are merry. Independence still
sends its magnetic current through
their blood. Liberty is not dead
America, the new Canaan for man.
kind, is the brightest star that decks
the brow of History. Let our chill
dren read how that once more their
fathers became glad and were happy,
and that they to-day girded up their
loins anew and went on fresh journeys
over the fields of time.
What blessed year this promises to
be. The husbandman is happy. The
rains are temperate and unprecedent-
ed in their regularity. The weather is
warm the corn is black and glossy in
the bending breezes Wheat Is stack
ed upon the sunny hills, and the gras-
ses have covered the earth with q
growth the like of which has never
been for years. The gardens smile in
their rich abundance, and the tables
are furnished with Injuries untold. -
The Centennial is here, and we have
neither plague, pestilence nor famine
Hampden Sidney has made Rev. J.
d. TadlOek d. D., an instance of the
just reward of modest merit. Rev. L..
b. Wharton, former Rector of st.
Thomas Church at Abingdon, has been
d. D'd.by William and Mary, of which
he Is distinguished professor.
Ground has been broken for the
new Methodist Church on Main st.
DR.. Hicks has contracted with Mr..
Adams for the brick work of his
dwelling. The brick will be made
this summer and put up next spring.
A meeting of Changers and Tobac-
conists was held at Dunn d Co.'S. yes
terday, and Prof. Winston engaged to
erect a Tobacco Warehouse in time for
the fall trade.
Gen. Santa Anna is In Knoxville
to-day. He travels by carriage in the
old way, and will doubtless come
through Bristol.
We are about to lose for awhile sew
eral of our citizens. VIM. Mcfarland
goes to California, and Samuel Hoff-
man starts for that State tomorrow.
They expect to return. VIM. Thomas
goes TO st. Louis.
Our Baptist friends are raising funds
to build Baptistry in their Church.
Some of our sick are sick indeed
Mr.. Andrew Seneker, is in his Slst
year and his recovery is not looked for.
He is gradually sinking. Mr.. Thomas
Johnston is very low and his case is
doubtful. Mrs. Bondurant is painful
ly ill. Mr.. Jacob Gregory's little
child died last Sunday and another
one Is sick. Miss Sally Wilbar is re-
covering from protracted illness. Mrs,
Mary Jones has been quick of dropsy.
Col. Mcclellan and Capt. Denny
have agreed to let Sullivan decide be-
tween them, by a preliminary vote,
for the Senatorial track at the August
election.
Charlie Sewers is said to have lost
500 worth of weat and oats by the
French Broad freshet. Both crops
had been cut and shocked. ".E.
Keep comfortable Call at Fergu-
sons, who has an invoice of Fly-traps,
price rs cents, and then call at Bam-
bergers, who can sell you Centennial
suit, which you should hand down
through your children a hundred
years. .......
Doriot has returned from the Cen
tennial with many lovely articles in
his line. s.