Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-04-23
SIDE-WALK
On THE SIDE-W ak
AUril 23rd 1878.

The season is propitious. Last week
/ attempted To prepare you for The
worst Easter could do. The fruit sup
niles or the world for 1878 lay like del
i.ste sIeepinC FAIRIES in their cups of
| bloom. Boreas had only to blow his
breath rudely on them and all this
/ widespread bounty would be no more.
The fact is BOIeas seems to have no
| resivoir of SHOWS and ice from which
to draw. He failed last winter to lay
| in his usual crop of ice and store it in
side the arctic circle. If he bad done
go be had only o blow his breath
southward at this time and ruin,
equal to that of the lice. frogs and To-
! Gusts of Egypt, would have blighted
this beautiful temperate zone. | ought
TO nave known this last week, and l
mean, when Bennett discovers the
North Pole, to get Uncle Sam to estab-
lreh a weather bureau on that precise
locality. | shall then have Edison to
mount it with a huge steam phOnO-
graph, and we shall know just when
the north winds are coming 80 we can
get ready for them.
Last Saturday gave US a soft; sweet,
warm rain, that made the face of all
nature smile. Sunday was absolutely
a day of sunny glory. Thegrass grew,
the wheat cTept up by inches, stTaW-
berries sweIled for mans use, and the
Young fruit filled the land with the
/ odor Of discarded flowers. Earth and
sunshine seemed in the embrace of
mutual love. Such was Easter Sun
day. Eggs went up to 10 cents, but
the little ones bought them and they
allowed no rest for older heads until
they had them colOred ard formally
engraved. And now the Frost King
rpars his dog wood flags of truce on
evev wooded hill TO indicate that sum-
mrr and he have made peace for a
good long season. No mistaking the
signs of the dOg-wOOd bloom. The
farmer can plant his corn, and only if
the showers shall come he can have
suspended the curse, when thou til
lest the earth it shall not yield thee its
increase"
Such is Faster for 1878. Arise thou
~sIupgard and be glad. Christ as risen.
The seed of the woman has bruised
the Serpent's head. The Cross has
confronted and subdued the world
At last even Turkey IS under It's do
miuion. and the days and glory of Con
etautine illuminate the BosphOrus.-
But this is sentiment. and you ask
what has this to do with the Sidewalk.
Be still, thou unbelieveri The man
W hose soul is not elastic under the
grandeur of triumphant spring is sor-
did and fit for treason. strategems and
spOils. Shakespeare stole deer, Ii is
said, but he kmelt down before the
splendors of nature and his soul e
handed until he overs above all men
since st. PauI's day. He has tinged
all history since his day, end his name
will live while the cross is planted on
the continents of earth.
Prof. Jno. L. Buchanan, having
gotten his name up ~ a literary pleas
er of the public must pay the penalty
b. OF such glory. On " edneSday eve
ming. Nav LIST, he will deliver an adj
dress to the students of Prof, HuLtOn's
Jefferson Male Academy, at Blount'
vile. am told that the editor of tht
2 Ne7cs wilt I've along TO look ami listen.
/ Blouutviile is II glorious old town, Mir
Editor, and you should go. We meal
t to look well To BlountvIlle this sum
mer. If / mistake not we shall tax,
v the Chanceilnr and the Judge botl
from Blountviile,
, From this time onward until pump
ktns shalt ripen you eau count tn
9 lovely days OF Bristol. Was eve
town go delightful. We have the pref
TEST girls and the sweetest roses in al
this latitude. Our homes are all new
aud Hastily adorned. The hills o
d Bristol girdle her like the shores ant
r highlands of a lovely lake. Her shad'
trees are the rich maple and graceful
elm. To crown all we have within
the circlet of our hills the finest are
for hog raising and sWine-bleedlnge v
n er seen. They are numbered 10y hun
dreds already, and their numbers ar
rapidly ~augmenting. They grunt IN
K finest notes of the g9nUt, the.
e roll in the glory Of each mad-hole.-
II mud-holes are scarce they max
more of them. They rub the fines
coIors which this soil affords on IN
| whitest of our fences. They are fin
| s~cavengcrs. for they permit no decay
q ed picket to remain on garden fences
Willie we sleep they feed on onions
and thus perfume their breath wit
the finest odor known since the day
n of myTrh and acacia.
They encourage "a fieas to habit
q , of industry and they keep the abomi
nabIe grass from growing on our con
ie mons. / understand the GOodso
e council will not permit any citizen [
=. own and let Iun at large in the tow
more than %, unless he be a mem bC
of the board. and then he is limited
so. This is too lad. Why not let l
=. have a hundred each?
There seems some hope of new buiiC
10 ing this season Mr. j. j. Adams
q hauling brick, sand and lime for ii
- 4 Nh IFr.hr May Af-f