Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-09
LETTER.
OK THE SIDE
IuIv 9th 1879


These sweet, refreshing showers that
have gIaddeDed our hearts and refresh
ed our hills. were all due to the moon
so said. ! heard a colloquial knot.
last Saturday afternoon, say this IS a
"a dry moon" All agreed hat they
had never seen the moon hang so much
OH one end. you see." said one Of
them, ''It means the water is all poured
out, and we need not look for any rain
this moon" In less than an hour We
had a shower. On Sunday, P. NJ, still
another. It's all in the moon. As
tronOmers tell US the moon cracked
open and all its water ran down The
cracks to the inside.
Two johnson county men, Eph.
Queen and Jack Fletcher, went up on
the crooked whiskey ladder q few days
ago, before L. s. Commissioners, j. p.
Raider. Address them in BlOuntville
Jail.
Typhoid fever is making some head
way in our town. Miss Mary Farris.
aged Is, died on Wednesday of 1t at
the residence of Mr.. G.. r. Vance,
whose youngest son is very low with
1t. His oldest son, James, was thought
at latest adviees to be taking it. On
NJ nday Of last week Mrs. Mary, wife
of ]. NJ. Dewald, died OF the same dis
ease, aged 80. These hints should be
enough to to secure the cleansing of
u town. WhOOping-cough is max
ing all the little fellows in town heave
and set to at a fearful rate. Some OF
the little cherubs have died OF it. Last
Tuesday an infant Of Mr.. w. Waliing
died of it.
The Methodist ladies are to have a
supper in the James store house. near
the church, next Thursday evening.
Ice-cream and cake will be the staples.
Have no fears OF a f~ailure-the Mite
Society never fails.
Rev. Oscar Bunting preached on
Sunday, at the Episcopal church, a
most excellent sermon, and will preach
next Sunday at IL, A. NJ, also. He
has just been ordained q Priest in the
+. Church. DR., j. A. Dickey, with
his family, has run away to cool of at
the Blue Ridge Springs.
A vein Of really fine marble has
been found on the farm of Mi. Joseph
w. Owen. near town. It is Of rather
dark shade. but the quality is perfect
and the color may improve when lower
are reached. Out ear the
Three Springs road between Messrs.
Wagner's aud Harris a chalybeate
has beer discovered,
Bro. Lewis Parks slid into matrimO-
ny last week, marrying Mrs. Silvia
SUsong, and 30 here's much JOY to Bro.
Bristol has been asleep on the silver
guestiOn-thai is a portion of Bristol.
IhnEn Uhn Ennf nnn aun p I'm nn6 40 W
as long AS Bristol paid more for
Mexican dollars than other people did,
was opening the way to u spec
and Bristol was the place to
them to and sell them. They did
This thing. They sent off and bought
at 80 and used them in Bristol at
100. A few weeks of this was suffi-
to exhaust our little store OF
yreenbacks' and now we have nothing
but tile Mexican dollar. The Bank
into it, and as 1t had paid Out a
number of them it endeRvOred
TO put OH a bold front and said it would
them. 1t did receive In III and
il soon found ii had its balances to set
tie north and east to the tune of SO
per thousand. It then limited
1epOsitOrs to four tenths and afterw8rd
10 two fifths Mexican dollars. This
1nly inc eased the pressure, and on
last IL 'bucked" against the
NJ. d without reservation. The street
II hum Of excitement. and III Sat
Irday q meeting OF the business men
It the Mayors Office undertook to
grapple with tie crisis. There was
To turn ones back on sill
Yer was neither Bristol nor human
To take the NJ. y VS. to lose seven
per cent. at Bank, for it was evident
he Bank had to stop it or so under
The Bank agreed To take them and
make the most economical use it can,
'tserving ten per cent. OF them for ii
Ial settlement with the parties. Nor
II: Whenever you pay more for the
VI. DS. than the other centres of trade
10, you will sOon have your craws fill
d with them and be like the toad full
IF shotgun may look very we'll but
'ou can't jump very far.
Did you see the medal PickPn made
o. the Jonesville 0ratOrical contest p
Il is a beauty. being surmounted with
|. crown, on which is the word ora
Keep Cool. ThOmmie BettertOn
Keeps fresh and cold watermelcns al
rags on hand at low prices. An i'm
nense one of them was used to cool
the NeaOS Office ready for the
Fourth. They are the very finest and
rhom. will keep them all season. And
20 keeps a fine family grocery store
You Bet. Everything fresh and cheap.