Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-01-08
Our Richmond Letter.
January 5, 1873.

lLluh. 10 CitaIEt tudA bIluiOA bSI'i'
the close Of tue session. ! heard
hotel keeper to-day remark. that h'
had not for years. seen T that wa
go intent on business, or so constantly
occupied. And yet but little appear.
on the surface as yet. There is plenty
OF work ahead. The revision of tht
Criminal Laws, RcappOrtionment o.
the State, and the Public Debt alone
will give this body enough to do
The school population seems likely tc
become the basis Of Reapportionment
and it will give Washington and
Smyth theil Senator. This is wisely
resolved on. The census of 1870 was q
ootch. Many of the marshais omit
ted entire neighborhoOds, and made
speed and not accuracy their objects.
The school population is taken 10y the
clerks Of the District School Boards,
and is the most accurate and eXhaus-
tive enumeration known.
The silent Investigations Of the FL
nance and other committees will o 0
be completed, and then work viii be-
gin in earnest. Think the public a
look hopefully for the result. The
Funders rave and swear in one breath
that we can do nothing, and next that
we will ruin the State. If | mistake
not, We will be able to prove that they
cannot in the end prevent readjust-
meDt, but that they are e~ndeavoring
to prevent it. Senator Massey got off
q good thing in tie Senate a few days
ago. He said some miser said preach
ers were always talking about money
money. To this one of them re.
piled they should he allowed to talk
about il, for they had less Of it than
any other class Of mankind. And,
said Massey, we shall not Object to GER
tsin Fundcrs who are always talking
shout honor honor, for they have less
Of 1t themselves than most anybody
lse, and they should he allowed the
luxury OF talking of It,.
Mr. Fowler's bill to facilitate the
extinguishment Of vendors leins
which was defeated in the Senate last
year, has agnin passed the House and
gone TO the Senate. 1t does away
with the cumbrous, tedious aud costly
method Of deeds Of release and allows,
All acknowledgement of the eXtin-
guishment TO be made before any OIL
Ger authorized to take the acknOwl-
Cdgemcnt Of deeds, to be certified on
the deed, or a certified copy of it, and
requires the clerk to note the fact on
the margin OF the deed book, for
which lac gets a fee Of 30 cents.
Col. Fulkerson has Introduced sevC-
raj bills which look TO a destruction Of
the coupon feature OF the Funding
Bill, such as requiring license taxes
and school tax to be paid in money
and also a bill of q more complex ma
ture, including the features OF the first
two.
Gen. Etarke, republican, or, more
technically, middle political d~elegate,
from Brunswick, to-day presentcd a
resolution in the HoUeo TO appoint a
COMMITTEES TO wait on the Governor
and request Of him a copy Of his in
augursl for publication. He urged lis
immediate adoption, w~ithOutthe usual
lRth via the committee. 1t met with
opposition, as it should have done,
and was, 10y a vote Of 90 to Il, sent TO
the committee. II does not contain a
legislative recommendation, or q line
or word of official information. II is
nor was not addressed TO the
General Assembly, and is merely an
address to the %populace assembled
To print it at the expense of tEe State
is to convert the Treasury and the
Legislature into machinery for the
dissemination of electioneeTing and
political buncombe. His letter, az
cepting the August nomination, Is
lust as much a State paper. learn
that the Governor Is quite core under
the popular displeasure created 10y his
inaugural.
Under the present school law the
school census would have to be retaken
next August, but a bill has passed the
House postponing it to 1879, aud every /
n We years thereafter.
My room. mate, Mr.. Johnson, OF
Giles, is on the Investigating Com
now going through the Second
Auditors office, and is one of the I
most industrious and competent work ,
ers of this General Assembly. That :
committee cannot be able to report for {
, week yet. !
Mr.. Jonas S. Kelly, who was quite c
lick at home during the holidays, has {
returned and gone to work. lie kicks 1
IN a small dust in the committee on re- {
renehment. and has made character
by his vigilance and boldness in at /
acking extravagance. +
My friend Oglesby. OF Wythe' is one 1
+ the truest and siaunchest OF all the (
members Of this body. | regret 4
hat DR.. Mcconnell, of Scott, has not Il
ct been able to return. aud his friends "
,ere fear he IL quite sick at home. y
EulkersoD, Of Lee, Chase. OF Wise, u