Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-05-28


rust has already wrought injury
Talk as you please about rust only
en- the bIsdes.n The blades feed the
ear. and il it kills the blade before the
blade has done furnishing food by its
chemical transfer and mixture OF the
atmospheric constituents which 1t
sends down its central line to the stalk
where Ii meets and units with the
steam the stalk draws upward from
the soil. IL DW dwarf the head of
wheat. At lart We have q glorious
season. Corn does not grow much
bat il is acquiring z aud age it
Elust have bEfore it will do we'll. Oats
has Its glory and fruits are all filing out
and acquiring size before dry wealth
ar can have u chance tOdwarf them. -
Such . strawberry season We have
rarely had. They have not had
enough Of hot sunshine 10 make them
sweet, but the greatest amount of fine
large berries have hepu produced
Robins, a birds aud the cunning red
headed wOOdpecker are here. II they
are feasting on early cherries which
have swollen and turned red. Then
we have the Colorado potato bug. he
is here and no mistake. and he il here
in numbers like the countless soldiers
of Russia. The old ones are very
pretty birds" as the irishman said
about the road bottle. but [ don't like
his occupation" The young ones are
the most disgusting sights / ever
looked at. Our gardeners are shaking
them off into tin basins. This and
watering The vines with Il mixture OF
water aud Paris Green are the only
known remedies.
| Butter is down to shilling a pound.
There now. Butter your bread on
both sides, for in 80 days you get him
at 20 cents. If you choose. put it up
in self scaling glass cans and put down
in Your cellar or your cIstern for win
ter Use.
The wedding of Mr.. J. ?. Faris, our
lively and successful Main Street mer-
chant, to- Miss sally English last We'd
nrsday evening, at the Presbyterian
Church, was n of the most brilliant
of the wedding occasions of Bristol
A very large number Of people were
present, and Mr., ROgan. the officiating
minister, was graceful aud ornate in
the ceremony. The bride was richly
and gracefully attired in all the taste
which marks and distinguishes the
magnolia in her native Mississippi -
The attendants were eighteen i'm mum
her, and were selected from the elite
of the vicinity. Rarely has a Bristol
wedding excited so much interest -
An invited crowd assemble at the
residence of Col. JnO. q. English, al
Beaver Bend" in the purleius #
town. and after All elegant and costly
supper dispersed, the hlissful couple
emharkirg on the iron journey of life
by taking the midnight train for
Baltimore
To fair gazelle. with Southern eye
And graceful mein, a brief good bye.
a thousand hearts will wish the yoke,
Made from VIrginia's noble oak,
May lightly rest upon thy neck,
Steadying thy step through life, and
yet |!
The sidewalk mar must tell thee here,
That love aud faith and hope may steer
Thy bark with hevenIy tenderness,
Aud Mercy make thy trials less,
But yonder down the future IN
Troubles trooping with their drums:
These are the hosts with banners
spread
That womankind must meet-not
dread.
The unseen hand, if thou wilt trust,
That woke from nothingness our dust,
viii guard with sword OF fire thy
breast.
And deck thy couch for endless rest.
Charley Thurman is back from
TaZewell with II new horse. Charley
loves a nice horse, ami on SIGH lie
pushes his %ciothlng enterprise among
the good people beyond The Ciinch
Mountain.
Mr.. 5 r Ferguson has gone north
again. What new hardware he viii
buy | caHnot I II. Tut he means tusi-
ness when Lee starts.
johnny James has turned up ut Fort
Worth, Texas. He likes il and pro-
poses to stick. Good luck to john
He is one of the very best of fellows,
and Bristol was loJseI when he went
South.
Mr.. Phillips, of the house of Apple
ton & Co New York, is i'm town in
the interest of the Cyclopedia. the
most valuable work ever bound into
book form.
Messrs. L. A. COrnibert and V. Do
riot are making a beautiful wooden
watch, lady's size and dust proof. !
which the former will take with him
To the Paris Exposition, for which he
will sail June 18th.
Elder A. RouIh was presented with
a son last Sunday. and this is his 18th
child.
Saturdays storm blew a small hur-
rscane in the SPahr neighbOrhOOd =
Trees and fences lie in mournfuI ruin.
Wipe your mouths, ye lovers Of
Peach and Honey. If eve you had II
year of jubilee this is hit There
will be more peaches and more 'stil-
lin" and more honey and more apple
brandy than ever you "hearn tell of"
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