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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
A Noble Boy.

WE'LL saw boy do something
the other day that made me feel good
for week. Indeed, it makes my
heart beat with tenderness and good
feeling. even now as 1 write about it.
But let me tell yon what it was As
[ wa. walking along the streets of a
great city, l saw an old man who
seemed to be blind walking along
without any one to lead him. lie
went very slow, feeling with his cane.
He's walking to the highest part
Of the curbstone," said | TO myself.
'"Aud its very high, too; l wonder if
and if some one wont tell him
start him in the right direction ?"
Just then boy, about fourteen
yelrs old, who was playing near the
corner. ran up to the old man put his
hand through the mans arm, and
said
LET me lead you across the street :"
BY this time there were three or four
others watching the boy. He not on>
ly helped him over the crossing, but
led him over another to the opposite
side of the street. Then he ran back
to his play! Now, this boy thought
he had only done this man kind
ness, while | knew that he had made
three other persons who had stopped
TO watch the boy turn away with
tender smile on their faces ready to
follow the noble example he had set
for them. | know that | felt more
gentle and forgiviDg toward every Que
for many days.
Another one that was made happy |
was the bay himself. For it is in
possible for Us to do O kind sct, or to |
make any one happy without being |
better or happier ourselves. To DC
good and do good, is to be happy |
This is PVery enes mission here ia
this world. Then again, The kind Of
bow here shows Tie kind of man VOC
are going to lie. IL you are a kind
gentle boy, vnu Sill be q generous
benevolent maD.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
SHOCKING TRAGEDY II
HASCOEK.
FATAL TERMINATION OF A FAMILY
FIGHT MOTHER AND FATHER
KILLED AND A BROTHER AND SIS
TER WOUNDED.

Through a gentlemen who return
ed yesterday from HancOc k
county, We learn the particulars
of the most horrible tragedy ever
enacted in this section. The Difficult
ty originated in the family of J. n
Epperson, who lived five miles north
east of ThOrnc HILL. Hancock county
Epperson and wife. it appears, sep
arated some time since aud the hus-
band stayed away until Wednesday
last. Upon his return a fight be-
tween himself and wife ensued. dur
ing which John EppersOn. a QUE
armed son, interfered to protect his
mother. In the ARRAY the father.
armed with knife, inflicted several
serious wounds upon the son, who
subsequently, gained possession of
the weapon and killed his father
immediately after this. Tom Epper-
son. another son, came up and asked
his brother John il he took his fi>
theirs part in the fight. To thi,
john replied that he protected his
mother. Thercupon Tom immedi-
ately fired on bis brother, who ran in
to the house. The mother here in
terfered TO protect her one>armed
son, aud while eudeavoring to do so
was shot through the heart AS
she fell lifeless in the doorway Tem
fired at his brother, missing him how
ever, ard striking another brother,
George. in the thigh. Another shot
MORALLY wounded sister. George
is only slightly wounded. Tom es-
capped aud has not been spprehended.
John EppersOn, the one-armed son.
vas arrested. tried aud acquitted on
the plea of self-defense. The TRACES
dy in the locality rendered famous by
the -Leger fight, about a year
since, and naturally creates general
excitement in the community.
KnOz0iHe tribune.
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Some OF Josh Billings PhilOso-
Day,

have no Ohieckshun to a man part
ing biz hair In the middle, bur shall
aIlwuZZ tnHi-t upon his finishing up
the job bi wearing Il short gown ard
peLuknat
There ir such thing az ton much
energy. J haze seen tb0Ze who were
like = hound in the chase get away
aheG Of the fox.
Ihare are CRATE many roads that
lead 10 heaven. but after yu get there
only one gateway TO enter.
Ii we would only profit hi our al
experiences or the experiences Ov
others II would be almost impossible
tor even lightning tO strike Us; but
rather than DO this we prefer to KNOX
out what ia braHrs We hav got against
st3ieaody'- stun wall. and then howl
Gbnut the weakness OV reason or the
mzlIace Ov 70 tune.
Iuere IL nothing that we hay got so
little "v. ard nblliug We think We
ha. ,,,,i ~ ma h oy, III originality.
Ii the little bits 0v things that
fret and worry Us; We kan dodge an
eieplau; but kBn't fiy.
Ii aiU't so much the amount man
knOws ~ the ability 10 use what he
duZ kun al the right time and place
that makes him power.
| have been treing 10 find out for
ihe last forty years ct Whar time nv
life mhn is the mnSt phnOliSh, and
just Us su0n as / fluid out will let you
kno
The hardest man TO convince il the
one who agrees to everything yu say.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
Never Marry a Man who Drinks.

The writer who said that, said all
in a few words. 1t is a motto that
every girl might lave written upon
the wall of the peaceful little chamber
where she dreams, and she often
makes up her mind to marry the
"dear, good fellow" whose only fault
is taking glass too mitch now and
then and reform him after marriage.
II is all the more necessary that it
should be written there. because the
men who "drink" are by no means
the worst men in the world. We
know that generous, warm-hearted
men. men of intellect and men OF
power. have found the temptation too
bard to withstand, and that many a
man otherwise contemplate and
wicked. has never had glass too
much il his life; although it is also
rue that under the influence of liq-
uor, men have done deeds. the very
thonght Of which sicken their souls,
If ouly men who drink we're despi-
cable in all ether respects there
woald be little need of the warning
but. as it is, let every mother whis-
per it. Whatexer his charms or his
natural virtues may be. no woman
can be happy with drunkard. And
he who would not give up drink fol
his sweetheart's sake viii never givs
up TO please his wife.
anything can check man Il
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energy and decision are likely to car
ry him through over Maj. Dorman.
THE READJUsTER's CAUCUS

met again tonight and adopted tn,
report of the business committee
agreeing to support and urge the re
passage of the Barbour Bill and tht
supremacy of the Free School System
and also recommending a meeting o.
the Readjusters Of the State in the
city of Richmond, on a day yet to
be named. "for the purpose Of organ
ization." 1t will be noted that this
does not commit the caucus TO any
antagonism to the organization of the
Conservative party, with view to its
destruction.
The Finance Committee of the
House had a four hour session last
night on the subject of
A CONFERENCE OF THE BoNDHoLDERs.
After long and heated discussion a
bill was reported to the House asking
the principal bondholders to visit
Richmond on the 18th of January, to
confer with the Finance Committees
of the two Houses. 1t declares that
we cannot accept their recent offer
and will treat with them only con
the basis of principles of the Barbour
Bill" 1t is not in the least likely
the bill can pass before the holiday
recess. There is some difference of
opinion about the propriety of the
invitation. Some of the members
fear it may result in a settlement that
may necessitate an increase of taxa
ton. Others believe it will result in
no settlement at all, and that it will
merely demonstrate the fact that the
bondholders do not mean to make
any settlement that will be satisfacto-
ry and just to the people of the State
who are eternally urging that an eff
fort should be made for a settlement
by negotiation, to play their last
card This would clear the deck Of
rubbish and leave the naked question
tor the people to deal with. They |
would then know what they would |
nave to to do at the next fall election. |
A disguised legislator of decided |
prominence and ability has Just now
in my presence that cit
;osts id sight more to govern
nan than he believes he is WORTH"
md so | will close
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
Our Richmond Letter.

RICHMOND, Dec. IS, 1873.
The Legislature will adjourn day
after tomorrow and may be in at
the printing of the next issue of
the Meas, but the printer will cry
copy and l imagine l hear that
cry now through a 325 mile tele-
phone, and l must write something in
advance. We are now in the midst
of the
ELECTION OF CIRCUIT JUDGES.
OF the I6 circuits to be supplied we
have elected Judges for the first nine,
and in eight of them the incumbents
have been reelected. In the Dan
vile Circuit, Treadway, the incum-
bent, declined reelection, and Ber-
riman T. Green was elected over Mel
son, of Franklin, and White, OF
Patrick. Nelson received a heavy
and very fattering vote, which was
due to the speech made by the excel
lent delegate from Franklin, Waddy
T. James, who is one of the most
popular members Of the HonSe, and
who made speech which made very
large number of votes on the spot
fra little time could have been al
lowed, ! think he would have elected
man.
fbe most animated and desperate
) coneest.was in the 9Th Circuit. Judge
B. w. Lucy, of the House, opposed
Judge Montague The Funders vo
ted solidly for Montague, and the Re-
adjusters, as usual, divided on Lacy,
and Montague was reelected by a
decided majority. Lacy desl ved a
better support than was given him by
the party to whom he had stood as
true as any man.
Tomorrow, think, we shall elect
the remaining 7 Judges. There viii
be perhaps only one contest that OF
the Staunton Circuit. Judge Nc
Laughlin is said to be the most re-
markable and able Judge on the Vir-
ginia bench. He is a funder, but his
great ability, wonderful Vapidity. and
accuracy of work and Sunbcundec
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 81. 1873.
EVENT and COMMENT.

DIR. Z G. Powell, late member o
the House Of Delegates from Dinwid-
die Go. on the 18th inst. ina Difficult
~ resulting from an argument at thu
table seriously stabbed in the breas
r. G. Shell. leading lawyer of The
county. Shells condition is quite
dangerous and DR.. Powell has beer
bailed in the sum Of $4,000.
Hon. Bayard Taylor, our minister
TO Germany, died ten days since in
Berlin. His disease was of the kid
neys and was mistaken for dropsy.
He died Unexpectedly. He vas a
good poet and having travelled over
the world. was noted as a newspaper
correspondent. His Song of the Camp
will alone make solid fame.
Hon. Beverly B. Douglass, mem
Der of Congress from the first Va.
Dist, died in Washington D. c.. the
23rd. He was defeated for the next
term by Colo Beale and Gov. Holli-
day will doubtless appoint Beale as
his successor.
The snow storm of the 23rd. was
in England and Scotland the heav-
lest known for 80 years. In New
the snow was three feet deep
Mr.. J. A Ccwardin in his New
Orleans letter says Gov. Nichols has
only one leg, one arm and one eye.
Yet he pronounced him whole (soul>
ed) man.
Tennesee's Debt with interest adds
ed to January 1879 is little over -
aud a quarter milliOns-exactly 81,
274.OI7. But Tennessee has no tax
receivable coupons, like those OF NIr>
ginia.
Even ST. Louis with all her ives
terD grip aud pluck, could not hold
her great bridge over the Mississippi.
Il was sold a week ago at public auc-
tion to satisfy the claims of the bond
holders
Bob TAYLOR was married at Ash
willie n. G.. 18th. inst. 10 Miss SaIlie |
Baird. No Buncombe in this, Of
course. ]
Knoxville refused to allow the av
erage young American to fire torpe-
does and pop crackers on Christmas
day. La about ten years from this
date the said Y. A. will. if that same
mayor should put up his head for
Office, fire several pop crackers under
his tail. The young American must
have a chance
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

his career of dissipation, IT will bs
the dread of losing the girl be loves.
Say. "You shall never, never have me
unless yon forsake the bottle" and
you may conquer him. Failing in
that, ali your wifely tears will fail
also. Don't marry him. Better
weep over your dead hopes. and go
single to your grave, than suffer what
drunkard makes his wife suff,r
Never marry man who drinks.-Ad-
nance
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

Edison's patent for q diyisable
electric light would have been issued
Wednesday, as it has reached the
last stage. its issue having been
ordered, and only needing the pay
ment of the final fee. Until this is
paid the Commissioner of Patents
withhOlds his signature. Edison S
delay 10 this matter is due to the
fact that the condition of his applica :
ton for patents in Europe are SO sit
uated that publicity might hinder
their issue. By delaying the pay
ment of the final iceland this delay
can be continued six months). the
patent remains secret, while ready
for issue any moment.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

n rrs...,..- o.aAgs.-.e - - 80.
'spo' Der arross y hen She is Obliged :
'aa,sh then, for being a4rsghty
M. mother, I don't A4aean tha
NJ sometimes van are real cross iik
e are, and I thought Christian
nuldn't be. T"
he. none Of Us forget in any ser
zee for the F>aster that the pow.
Il what we - is greatly Influences
what we re-. FtriB Dem.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

Whitesburg Times: On Sabbath
night, 9Th inst. Mr.. Kerren Ander-
sous store, OF Hawkins county. was
broken open as we understand from
Dir. Gatron, by Matt. BOman. half
witted fellow, who took as much as
he could well carry of OF
shoes. jeans, calico. earhobs. rings
and breastpins. They were found
concealed near Jim Lawsoa's aeuse.
Bomsn and Lawson are in RDgers-
vile Jail.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

A FANCIFUL genious suggests to
the Scientific american that it is now
time to celebrate the completion of
the first cubic mile of humanity, and
gives a calculation to show that the
bodies of all mankind from Adam
down to the present time, il closely
packed without diminution of vol
ume, would exactly fill that space
and estimates the aggregate weight
of mankind to date at 4,2l2 900, 900
tons,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

DR.. Eddins, recently sentenced by
Judge Baxter at Memphis to two
years in the peniteutiary for ballot
box stuffing. was delivered at Nash
vile last Tuesday. The american
says: He is sixty two years old and
in rather delicate health. On this
account he was assigned a place in
the hospital. 1t is said that a pets
ton for his pardon has been put in
the hands of the Hon. Casey Young.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
Rheumatism is a Disease of the Blood

The blood IN This disease, is found to contain
an excess of fbrin. VEG ETINE acts by converts
ing the blood from its diseased condition to a
healthy circu lation NFGETISR regulates the
bowels which II very important ia this complaint.
One bottle of egetine viii give relief hut. TO
effect permanent cure. il must be taken regular
ly, and may take several bottles especially In
cases of long standing. VEGETIS6 is sold by all
Druggists. Trv It, and your verdict will he lhe
same as that of thousands before you, who ssy,
81 never found 50 much relief as from the use ~
NEGETlN E." which is composed exclusively OF
BGTks, Roots and HerJS.
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Maj. d. Kirkpatrick, prominent bus.
mess man and wholesale liquoa dealer OF
Chattanooga, died Tuesday last.-KRoc
Chronicle
The pay car of the E. T. V. & g. R.
r. came down Christmas day from pay
ing off the employees on the upper end
of the li1e.-I6.
The Newport Reporter estimates that
sixty-seven horses have died in the
counties of Cooke, jefferson, Greene
and Hawkins.
ChattanOOga's bell for the new court
house, weighing 5000 pounds clear of
| fixtures, and costing $775, has arrived,
and they hope to have it up in time to
ring in 1S79.-KnOr. Chronicle.
We have scarcely ever experienced a
more bitterly cold day than was Christ
mas day. Although the sun shOne out
brightly without an obstruction all day,
it hadn't the slightest effect, but it was
freezing all the while.-RnOT. ChrOni'
Gle.
Three negro cOnvicts, Armstrong, Can
non and Holt, scaled the walls of the
penitentiary at Nashville last Sunday
and started to escape, but were recap
tured. All were dangerous characters,
and Armstrong is in for forty years for
series of rObberies in Nashville.
At the Morrstown Circuit Court last
week, as reported in the Gdzctfe, Lucy
Mcbride, cOlOred, was convicted of muir
der in the second degree and sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary fOf de-
l. Isl
Jury refused to find Il true bill against
Ed. Donaldson, also cOlored, charged
with killing a negro woman with an AK.
BLACKwoOD's MAGAZINE for Deem
Der has been repnblished by the LEON
ARD SCOTT Publishing COMPANY, ~
Barclay Street, New York, and fully
sustains the reputation Of this famous
magazine. as always containing some
thing fresh and instructive. and furnish
ing the best stories that are published III
periodical literature.
OF stories, we find here a continual
ton of the serial, John Caldigate, " and
short one, complete in this number.
entitled The Cottage by the River"
which touches on the supernatural, and
is based upon facts which actually oc-
Cured, and of which 10 explanation is
attempted.
The paper on Journalists will at
tract our brethren OF the press. 1t in |
Dictates the changes in the world of lit !
erature which have taken place during |
The last twenty years, and among other |
points out the duties and |
qualifications of the correspondent, ''our |
own Tour war" and ''our Special" |
whose contribution form so important !
a feature in the newspapers of tie day. |
''The Progress of Naval Architecture |
notes the wOnderftIl<n increase in the num- |
Der of ir0n-built ships, and shows where !
these have a superiority over those built |
of wood.
Other articles are "The Fruit and |
Vintige of Herefordshire, and "The /
Berlin Settlement.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

"VEaETIHE," says Boston physician, ''has no
equal Hs blood purifier. Hearing of its many
wonderful cures, after all other remedies had
failed I visited the laboratory aud convinced my
self OF it, genuine merit II Is prepared froIn
b2rks. Roots and herbs, each Of which is highly
effective. and they -ipounded IN such a
manner a tc Prodeee astonishing results"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

Morgan Dispdtch: The track of the
Cincinnati Southern Railway is now
finished to the Cumberland River, and
trains may be running to BurnsifIe Point
BY the first of january. Burnside Point
IS sixty miles from Wsrtburg.
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The Childs Question.

A mother whose spirit is undiScip-
lined, and whose ways are uncon~
trOIled. may talk well about the
"dear Saviour who took the children
il His arms and blessed Them" bu
her influence over her ewn little ones
will be OF the kind WHICH would need
the solemn charge "Forbid them
not to come unto me"--for what
more sadly binders the Christian
training of a child than ''the habit
of flashing out the fretfu! thoughts and
feelings" which, under the power of
Jesus, the believer should learn to re-
press?
"Mother, are you a Christian ?"
asked little boy one night, as his
mother gave him,a goodnight kiss.
The question startled her. She
had been for many years q professed
follower of Jesus, and vas active in
many ways in the service OF the Mas
ter. She had never been troubled
viii doubts as to her spiritual condi-
ton, for she knew that her hope was
founded on Jesus alone. the cruciied
Redeemer. and not on any sorks of
righteousness that she had done.
Aud yet the question startled her.
Had it been put by any one Of her as
socia.es. she would have answered
"Yes' at once. But The query from
her own little boy made Der hesitate.
Why should he have asked such a
question? Had he cause to doubt
her sincerity? All this passed rapidly
through her mind, as she bent over
TO give an extra tuck to the coverlet,
and then Strengthening herself up. she
pessporsd the answer by asking am
other. n
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Read s asennent +:
VEGETINE
HAS ENTIRELY CURED ME.
BosTox. Oct. 1870.

NJ. p r. srEvsSs;-
Dsar Sir.-My daughter sfter having a severe
attack OF WhnnViHE CoGgn. wss Ieft in Il feeble
state of health. Being advised by fIiend she
tried the NEGETINE, and after using fe bottles
" ~ fGlly restored To health.
have been a -reaT sHderes from Rheumsiism
have taken several bottlsr Of ths VEaETISK for
this complaint, and am happy to sGY has ehtire-
l. cured me. have recommended he VEGETISF
10 others with the good Iesnlts II is efeai
cleanser and purifier " the blood il Is Pleasant
to take and can cheerfuily recommend it.
JAMES MORSE 364 Athens street
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31
VEGETINE.
NOTHING EQUAL 70 IT.

MR. II. e. sTEvESs.
Ds0r SIR have been troubled with Scrofnla
Cank-r, and Liver Complaint for three years
N"tLing ever did me any good until ] CONNIE need
using the VEGETISR. I am now getting along f rst
rate, and still using the VEGETISE. ] consider,
there is rothing equal to it for such complaints.
CAT heartily recommend il 10 everyb body.
Eonrs truly, Mrs. LIZZIE VI. PACKARD,
No. 10 Lagrange street, South Salem, Mass.
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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-12-31

y Bob TAYLOR was married at Ash
Vile n. G.. 18th. inst. 10 Miss SaIlie
Baird. No Buncombe in this, Of
course.
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Maj. d. kirkpatrick, a prominent bus
mess man and wholesale liquor dealer of
Chattanooga, died Tuesday last.-Knor.
Chronicle