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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
The President and His Policy
How He Came by 1t.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 10.-The cores
pendent of the Evening Times, who
interviewed President Hayes while en-
route to Fremont, asked the President
how he came to construct his policy,
which was seemingly 30 at variance
with his views while on the stump in
his last gubernatorial campaign. The
President replied as follows
"Well, those views began to take
form in the words of my letter of ac-
ceptance. l considered the situation
of things in the South, saw how inn
possible it seemed to restore order and
peace and harmony. l saw the vio-
lence and bloodshed at their elections,
how white Republicans, as well as
blacks. were shot down during their
political contests, and 1 asked myself,
"Why is it, and how long must this
continue q Those men down South
the white educated citizens, are as
good men as you or they are Chris
,tians. not thieves. nor cut-throats. nor
bandits. Yet they see these things
and tacitly approve them, if they do
not take part in them. Why is it, and
how long will they continue? While
thinking these questions over my
mind reverted TO the scenes of the
war, and an incident at the battle of
Cedar Mountain came to my mind
1T was hard fought engagement,
and for a time we could not tell how
it would end. We who were in COM
mand had determined that if certain
would give certain orders, but if il re-
suited otherwise different orders would
be given. With our field glasses we
were watching the course of things
A u at once | saw commotion in the
thickest of the fray. The artillery had
got to work and were throwing shells
fast and with uDerring aim into the
solid ranks of the enemy. Heads
were being blown from their bodies,
arms and legs torn from their sockets,
and souls sent to one world or the 9TH
er, all unprepared, and yet | rejoiced
and congratulated my fellow Officers
that we were victorious. How could
this be? Why was it? 1t was be-
cause we were at war. That one word
solved il my mind the problem of the
South. The people there wero at war.
There was a conflict going on, the So
cial and political relations OF the peo-
pie were not natural, not harmonious.
There were disturbing elements among
them, and while they existed or were
unduly active there would be con-
flict. Let the cause of the conflict be
removed, and there will be peace and
ultimately harmony and prosperity"
"But," said the reporter, I'VE do
not see much disposition in the South
to manifest loving temper towards
us of the North"
The President mildly retorted -
"How do you know? You form your
opinion, no doubt, from reading. the
papers but editors of newspapers do
not always represent the popular,
general feeling of the people, either
North or South. think most of the
people in the South, as l know there
are in the South, are more disposed
to encourage fraternal harmony, social
and business relations, than the extre-
mists, who, unfortunately, too often
get control of newspapers, but even
they, or most of them, will come
around all right in time"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
Nominees for the Legislature.

Nominees for the Legislature.
The CAMPBELL county Conserva'
tive Convention, which met Satur-
day, nominated Charles w. But
ton, Esq, editor of the Lynchburg
V1RGINIAN, Col. D. Reed Arnold
and Howard Fl. Withers, Esq, for
the House Of Delegates,
SUFFOLK, VA, Sept. 1O.-At the
County Convention held here to-day
Capt. Samuel S. Shriver was unani-
mously nominated to represent Nanse.
mond county in the next House of
Delegates.
In Giles county Jno. ID. Peters
is announced for the House.
In the Giles Tazewell District,
j. Hoge Taylor, W. A. French
and Samuel Leece are candidates
for the Senate.
In the Montgomery trick
District, A. A. Phlegar, anti
funder, gets the nomination over
the present incumbent, Col. Perm,
who is a iunder.
In Tazewell, Rees Carroll, Ro
Steele and j. r. Witten are cans
didates for tie House.
In Russell, Messrs. Kindrick,
Secat, and Music. are candidates.
In Augusta, Hon. John Echols,
funder, is running for the House,
and Col. j. II. Mcclure is a candi-
date for the Senate, and opposes
any increase of taxes.
AT the convention to nominate
conservative candidate for the
House of Delegates, held at Cul4
pepper Court House last Monday,
Mr.. James Barbour was nomina-
ted. 1t is said that Mr.. StrotheY
will run as an independent candi-
date. Bnt it matters not who runs
as an independent or otherwise,
Barbour will be elected by an
overwhelming majority.
The Conservatives of Botetout
have nominated Sam'l Burger Jr.
for the House. Capt. Reynolds
will run as an independent.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

of him under the provisions of the
9th section of this act, shall be guilty
of q misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than
twenty nor more than one hundred
dollars, one>third to go to the inform
err, for which such dealer and his
sureties shall be liable On his bond,
which may be collected by summary
process, by motion, on ten days mo-
tice, in the name of the Common.
wealth. and upon conviction for a
second violation of the provisions of
said section he shall forfeit his license,
which shall not be renewed for one
year. Any person prosecuted for
violation of the provisions of the
fifth section of this act shall be ais
lowed to testify in his own behalf.
ONE BAR~KEEPER REPORTED.
Yesterday Mr.. H. Westerhoff, the
proprietor of the bar-room and res
taurant on Main street, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth, was reported
to Commissioner of the Revenue r.
b. Munford for failing to turn the
crank as required by law, Mr.. Mum
fcrd declined to give the name of the
infOrmer, and stated that it would be
his duty to report Mr.. Westerhoff to
the Commonwealth's attorney, who,
in his turn, will have to bring the
case before the grand jury.
Last night the bar-keepers were
all busy, and the punch bell was
ringing merrily The principal bar.
rooms on Main street and those OH
Broad had their registers working
we'll. The work of putting the punch
up is necessarily slow, and therefore
the retail groceIs will probably not be
reached to-day.
At some of the bar-rooms last
night the figures on the dials of the
register were far mp in the hundreds.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
Communicated.
LETTER FROM OBSERVER.
A Few Plain Facts about the
"HOnOr of Va and how the

EunderS Propose to Keep 1t.
To the Editor of the NeaOs
The issues involved in this canvass
are of immense importance to the peo-
pie of Virginia. and it behooves every
voter to consider we'll who he votes
for. In no State in the Union are the
people so heavily taxed, according to
their ability to pay, as we are. Yet,
whilst grooming under the hurthens
of taxation, we see our debt" an
nually increasing at the rate of more
than half a million dollars. Under
the operations of the famous act known
as the Funding Bill one-third of the
public creditors get no interest at all
while the other tWo-thirds get from
six to fifteen per cent. on their tnuest-
9laen6s in Virginia bonds. Those who
are in favor of Fighting that great
wrong are called "repudintionists' u
while those In favor of continuing
that wrong and injury claim 10 be the
only people in Virginia who are in ia
vor of unfolding the "honor" OF Va,
aud of acting in good faith" towards
her creditors.
Now, we can see no "honor" in
cheating one creditor out of simple in
terest to pay aa0ther pound inter-
Way ''good faithn is kept by refusing
to pay one class of bondholders any
interest whatever on their securities.
The honest, stEaightOut advocate of
the Funding Bill is ia favor of (R-
creased taxation to pay interest in full
to eUerV bondholder-the dodger, the
trimmer, the wolf in sleeps clothing,
saws, "reduce the eX penses of the State
"government, and thus cave enough,
"without increasing the taxes, to pay
''the interest on the public debit
But see how a plain tale confutes this
Dretense, Whenever any measure
such as leasing the Penitentiary. re-
ducing tho pay of members. or that of
any public officer, Wits proposed or in
trodticed in the Legislature, all such
were found VotiHg may"
That arch-enetny of Virginia, who
was, some years ago, unfortunately,
governor" of the State, once pro-
posed doubling the polt-tdr to pay the
bondholder compound interest, and
such as he are the kind of men who
boast of their "hOnor and good faith"
mot to our own peOple-but to the
northern and foreign bondhOlder. We
don't want the strikers, abettors or mp
holders Of men of that class TO repre-
sent us In the Legislature. They can
not serve God and mammon, aud II ia
useless to expect them to do any other
way than to follow after their own
We now have five candidates for the
House of Delegates in Wellington
two of them were members OF the
former Legislature, and, SO far as the
people have indicated their opinions
Ia reference to their legislative course,
they honestly, fairly and faithfully
represented public sentiment. IL the
other three are in favor OF Increased
taxation, and are opposed to an equit-
able "readjustment" OF the pubic
debt, so as TO pay Interest to az 81 or
creditors. and at the same time not in
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
THE DISPATCH AND MIR.
BARBECUE.

The Richmond DIsPATCH quotes
from a recent speech of Hon.
James Barbour, who has recently
been nominated for the House of
Delegates from Culpeper, propo-
siton for destroying the Funding
Bill. The plan proposed the issu-
ing Of certificates of debt of small
denominations to be sold to the
taxpayers, either for less, or at the
same price as the coupons that are
receivable for taxes. The DIsPATCH
adds "This adroit proposition is
quite characteristic of Mr.. Bar
bour's subtle genius" &c,
Now, it is proper to state what>
ever Of praise or blame is due to
this proposition is not due to Mr..
Barbour. 1t was first proposed in
1875 by the Editor Of this paper
while candidate for the House of
Delegates. 1t was proposed by
Mr.. Fowler as a means by which
tho State, if every other means
should fnil, could disengage her.
self from the dishonoring dilema of
the Funding Bill. 1t was annouc-
cd by Mr.. Fowler to leading anti
funders in the Legislature of last
winter and the winter previous
1t was, by some Of the a6iest men
in RichmO0d, pronounced the only
feasible plan yet discovered for the
end proposed, and some of these
gentlemen had the proposition al
luded to in an editorial of the
WING. Mr.. Fowler also showed
to Gov. Kemper a resolution in
which it was embodied, but it was
not deemed by friends that the
time had come to present it. The
plan occurred to the editor of this
paper in this wise: He asked hm-
self the question, elbow is it that
the bondholder gets his money be-
fore the State gets it p Answer ::
Because the bondholder is the eX-
elusive owner of a coupon that is
receivable for taxes, and he sells
this to tax payer at lower price
than the State will sell a tax receipt
the coupon being itself tax re-
ceipt and nothing less.
"Then, cannot the State take to
herself this peculiar privilege by
arming herself with either coupons
or tax receipts (call them what you
willy which che can sell as cheaply
to tax payers as the bondholders
do Z"
The answer was easy, Ger
tainly she can !"
1t would render worthless the
humiliating concession which the
State made to the bond holder
1t would overthrow the Funding
Bill, and when that Bill is over
thrown the road of honor is easy
enough. Tho State would then
pay all ratoably. and as much as
she could.
The measure ID not Mr. Bar
bour's.
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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
Physiological Census.

The results Of the physiological CEN
sus of the schools in Germany are
partly as follows In Prussia 1927, =
776 individ Ials were examined 43 per
cent. had blue eyes and 81 per cent.
brown. In Bavaria only 20 per cent.
had blue eyes, 33 per cent. had brown.
In Bavaria ga per cent. We're blondes,
46 brunettes in Prussia ~ per cent.
were blondes aud % per cent. bru-
nettes. The conclusion is reached that
the brunette element comes from the
South. About one-third OF the He
Drew children are shown to he blondes.
This fact is not TO be interpreted TO
arise from a mixture of races.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
The Virginia Campaign.

The following ticket, we are in
formed, was presented on Saturday
last by a meeting of the original
friends of "readjustment" In Augusta
county Geo. Seabright for the Sen
at, and J. Dunn Craig, q Brown AL
Ian, and Col Williams, for the House
OF Delegates. Rich. Wing, 1lth.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

DR.. Tut has been en-
gagged In the practice of
medicine thirty years, and
oralong time was demon
strator of anatomy in the
Medical College of Gcor-
gia, hence persons using
his Pills have the guaran-
tee that they are prepared
on scientific principles,
and are free from all
quackcry.'
lie has succeeded in
combining in them the
heretofore antlgonistic
qualities of a StyeRgihsH-
ing, fHrgatiUr, dHGd PHy.
UyiHg tonic. =
Their first apparent eff
feet is to increase the app
petite by causing the ibod
to properly assimilatc.
Thus the system is nour-
ishcd, and by their tonic
action on the digestive or
gans, regular and healthy
excavations are produced.
The rlpidity with which
trysoRS take on fcSk,
while under the influence
of these pills, OF itself in
dictates their adaptahility
to nourish the body, and
hence their efficacy in cur
ing nervous debility, mel
ancholy, dyspepsia, vast
ing of the muscles, slug
gishncss of the liver,
chrome constipation, and
myth tothe system. Sold
In ray Street, New York.
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crease the rate of taxation, they should
say so ptdjaLy-otherwise silence in
this particular may fairly be con-
strued as indicating that they are fun
der candidates and favor increased
taxes. 1t is for them to answer, or to
"be let seveerly alone" as Mr.. Daniel
said about West Virginia's third"
OBSERVER
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

get his leg crushed in thresing ma
chine week or two since, had the in
jured limb amputated by DR.. Alexan-
der, of Elizabethton. He is doing
well, and likely to recover, though he
will have to go on crutches.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

When the disorders of Babyhood at
tack your Baby use at once DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup and notice its rapid and
beneficial effect. % cents per bottle.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

Continuous effort impoverlshes the
blood unless 1t is kept pure by suita-
BILE food when needed) DR.. Bulls
Blood Mixture.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18
From the Richmond Wing 18th.
The MOffett Register at Work
Yesterday in the Bar-ROOms.

The Commissioner of the Revenue
and his deputies were yesterday en-
gagged in the work Of putting up the
Monett Registers in the different bars
rooms in the city and by last night
he had succeeded in supplying the
main bar-rooms, but he has now at
least two days additional work before
him. The deputies engaged In puts
ting up the Registers were very much
delayed by parties asking questions
and explanations &c. Of course
these were readily given to the bars
keepers and their assistants, but oth>
err outside parties appeared to be
More anxious to witness the operas
tions of the machine than the bar
keepers themselves, and annoyed the
deputies considerably. Most of the
bar-keepers took the Registers with
a good grace, but some objected
very much to using them, and growl'
ed considerably.
DRINKS RAISED.
Up to late hour last night the
number of drinks taken compared fa>
vorably with the alterations of form
err days. AS soon as the register
would be put up in the bar-room the
price of drinks would likewise ascend
lrom ten to fifteen cents. The price
of beer was not raised, but on the cons
tracy the size of the glass was lowered
oae.tenth. which is about the aver
age the beer>drinker leaves in the
bottOm of his glass; therefore he
will get his moneys worth in future
by emptyiGg his glass entirely. Many
men got up early in the morning and
took their fill for ten cents before the
registers we've put up.
IDLE CURIOSITY.
Some people went in yesterday aud
drank simply from curiosity to see
how the register worked. In such
cases the bar, Keepers did not charge
them for drinks, but made them plank
down fifteen cents for the privilege
OF turning the crank once.
PENALTY FOR NOT TURNING THE
CRANK.
The law prescribes the following
penalty when the bar-keeper fails to
tun the crank and register the drinks
as sold:
ANY licensed retail or bar>roOm
liquor dealer, for every willful failure
to perform any Of the duties required
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

The Buchanan and Clifton Forge
hallway has already ten OF its thirty
Ioar miles graded.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-09-18

THE Jonesboro' Herald & Tribune
learns that Charley Smith. of Carter
county, who was SO unfortunate AS to
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Congress, Legislature, or County off,
es, each So 90
Town and Township offices $50
The above rates will be rigidly adhered to-
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PRICE LIST
OF
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.
SASH

SASH
CnBcR Rail OR Lar SASH, S LIauT WINDOW,
WIDE BAR, GLAzRD:
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DOORS

nu-The above are prices ?. o. 3. cars at Bris-
tol. Tenn, and Lynchburg, Va, and all inlerme.
diate points between tEOse places. Prices Tor
siIes not above enamoraied will DO promptly given
ON application.
M. 4. GEE 90 CO.,
Marks, street. opposite A. O. Depot,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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ADVERTISING RATES
RATE FOR ONE YEAR.

First inch $40 co
Each subsequent inca 4 90.
To iind the rate for shorter time, first find
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imparting health and sire
everywhere. Office, IS n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-12
Lovely Woman. 1"

In according to woman the palm of
lOveliness, the lords of creation think
they have done the whole duty of man
by her, and that they have nothing to
complain of if they deny her the mental
ca pucity to which they lay claim them
selves. They will tell you that Mary
SOmerville among the scientific, Rosa
Bonheur among artists, the host of
prime dome among musicians, George
Eliot" among novelists, are only excep-
tions to the rule, and prove nothing in
favor of the sex. Hamerton has the
further audacity to assure us that
women who are not impelled to study
by some masculine mind are not supe-
rior at the age of fifty to what they
were at twenty-five, entirely overlook
ing, it seems to US, the knowledge
which comes to every woman through
experience and the hard friction of life,
as well as the maturing and developing
of her intellect by the lessons of every
day, though she may be so unfortunate
as to be quite without the impulse from
the "masculine mind" Is not every
one among us required daily to use her
Judgment? and does not judgment in
crease with use as well as muscle? and
is it not conceded tn be one of the su-
preme faculties of the mind? 1t is only
those women who have been in the
habit of leaving every question to the
decision of some male dictator who are
weak in this respect, and throw dis.
credit upon their sex.
"If we meet no gods" says the sage
''it is because we harbOr none;" aud we
should fear that those who speak with
disrespect of the feminine intellect
have simply been unfortunate in theil
associates, whether accidental or Sc.
lected.
''For your handful of female astrono.
mers, artists, poets, and the like" the
male objectOr may say, 1--WE can count
our tens of thousands" without remem.
bering the centuries during which hi:
sex had the start of ours, when letter:
were prohibited to women, and they
were allowed only to think sucf
thoughts as their rulers chose for them
1t does not at all follow because you arr
acquainted with all the dead and living
| languages, with all the literatures o
the world and the sciences thereof, tina
| the original powers of your mind ART
greater than yOnder plOwman's, bu
only that such as fell to your shart
have been fostered and encouraged be
yond his. Considering that we havt
been thus distanced in the matter o
artificial development, it is surely {
great argument in our favor if even ont
among us, labOring under such disad
vantage, has gained an acknowledge
equality with the ablest of the ''supe
rior" sex. 1t is certainly a modest con
ceit on the part of man that he shoulC
possess the lions share of mind ant
muscle both, one of which we SHOULD
hesitate to deprive him if it did not i'm
pugn the justice of our Creator, as wei
as His wisdom.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-12
The Magdalens of Chicago.

An invitation has been extended to
the fallen women of Chicago to reform,
and Mr.. Moody has preached an excel
lent sermon to them. So far as ques-
TONED they have exhibited a willing
ness to turn from the path they are pur-
suing if some feasible plan is devised
to enable them to go on successfully.
There is no trouble about the sentiment
tai part of the business. We can all
beg this wretched class to embrace re-
ligiOn, and all rejoice over the reports
in the papers that even one has been
rescued from her dreadful life. But
how about the practical part? Miss
Kate MunsOn has led the life of a pros
titute for five years. She wants to re-
form. She 1UiH reform. She is deter
mined to quit her horrd avocation at
once. She had a father and mother
both living when she entered upon her
life of shame. Both are dead now, and
she has no kindred willing to receive
her. She does not know a great deal
about the practical work of a house
| hold, but she would try to learn. She
can do plain sewing. Who Will receive
| Miss Kate Mnnson into their household?
| Taking the repentant girl by the hand
in the Tabernacle is Que thing; taking
| her into our families, where she will
mingle with our children, and where
the strange quiet will form such q strik.
ing contrast to the glare and excitement
of five years. life of sin, is another
/ We know that the allurements of vice
are great, and that the girls continu-
ance in her refOrmatOry course is doubt.
ful. Her earnings will be scanty, hel
dress poor her position in a worldly
sense strange and trying. Her reSolu
tion to reform must be supported by
| Christian counsel and kindness, or it i:
almost sure to fail her. Who is ready
to offer the employment, furnish th,
home, and watch over the reclaimed
woman? Where are the families willing
to do their part in the labor of refOrma
tion? We do not doubt there are such
but we fear that when it comes to tn,
test they will be few. And if the fam
lilies willing to take this upon them are
limited and insufficient, where elst
shall the converted women go? Their,
is, to be sure, an Erring Woman
Home, but the very name is an adver
tisement Of depravity, and it can aff0rC
at best but temporary refuge to tn
fallen.
The words of Mr.. Moody have fallel
upon many hearts among this elias
that ache to accept the promised bless
ing; but there must be way opened,
practical path marked out for them t.
follow, or preaching will be in vain
What assurances, what promises, wha
encouragement can be held out to thes
women?