Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-05-21
gIDE-WALK LETTER.
On THE D WALK,
Nav 2Ist 1878.

here we are at the very tTtSt ilue ara
no mistake. The 10Th of May is the
Kitty Hawk Of the year. II we can
make that we cal sail ahead. We
have made it, hut il gave us IA weather
drubhIrg we cannot SOON forget. II
is said il left a two inch snow at MI.
Airy md that the Iron Mountain put
on lis white mantle, but | cannot aver
that these rumOrs are true 1t Is now !
gone. Let it 90. The hot days are
here at last. Strawberries are on ev-
erv table and green peas on quite a
number of them. Other vegetables, l
fear, are Il long way ahead of us
Corn is doing 40 good and vines less.
But Peaches il any man ever had
a better crop than ~eveTyhody's crop Is
now. that MAJ must have been Adam
For some strange reason apples nTe
not 30 abundant a. Peaches. Some
varieties are very full. Others by no
~ e II Dwarf pears and grapes aie
dning we'll.
see ora the street Mr. Arthur L.
Gallo, n French gentleman. who de-
rlarcs this To he the country for the
Beet Sugar business. He is
ant with the method of Masking and
refining Beet Sugar. and says IL Will
prove Ia he the hest business yet intro
ducrd. He has succeeded in getting
some seed and will raise enough this
=, ason to show how much it will
yield and how profitable it can i've
msde. | am glad 10 see this expert
ment about To he made. The Beet
Sugar business can he made to pay
largely. The re.idium after making
the sugar is a splendid food for stock.
We are even with our tennessee
friends. They cannot cry Wallace's
Switch at us any more. Onlv let
them remember Greeneville. Breth-
rem this will not do. If you can car
ry your district at all you will deserve
credit, and with this split Incurred
you just cannot carry it at all. l
learn there is TO besanOther cOGven
ton called. Right.
Our Presbyterian friends of the
First Church did well with their sup
per despite the weather. which could
not ave been worse the first night
They made over 500.
/ see Col. N. NJ. Taylor and Mr.. J.
r Anderson have pocket knives made
of tie Cranberry iron. dug from the
Cranberry mines in Carter county,
Tenn. The blades are spIendidIy fin
ished and are strongly magnetic. This
il a small, but ! think significant IN
dicati0n. Capitalists are determined
TO bring that iron Out Of those hiiis.
DR. Snllius has employed n thorough
" scientific landscape gardner. Eor
wears he was third in rank on the
Central Park force. Col. stanton. OF
the A & &, r. R., telegraphed t" New
York for n gardner capable of doing
~ Lookout Mountain, and this gen
tleman was sent him Stanton bi"kt
and the decoration OC Lockout went
hy the board, leaving our gardner
without a job. arh h. is working his
way back To New York. 30 lie says.
At u rate he undtrst tnds The bust.
ness and | am glad to have him work
on Bristol. We can teach him s"nr'-
thing. He can't go Iack to New York
and live twenty four hours without
putting a hundred sows. hoars and
pigs in Genital Park. II StHI.tcn had
taken lessons from Bristol n" could
have hal Lookout decorated AT a cost
that would not have broken him. The
Bristol hogs could decorate ii in Il
week. I'll bet there are snw- IN tbs
town. and on Nam street at that,
which wOuid root Bragg's Observable
ry off the precipice at Lookout, or
make Table Rock 20 t~hundeting into
the valley. Oar iowa boards must
excuse the. The boards excuse i Q
hoaTs and they must XctISr me II !
bore them. am u little 8ntiqUaied
in my notions, and men do not give
up notions just because OF their AL
tinQuity y few days ago J saw the
wife of an eminent Judge eUdeavor Ia
get into u Main street store and failed
in the effort. The side walk was fuA
of hogs and some of them were on the
doorstep. | could name the store,
hut ! fOrhpar, non hear of no man
i'm town who does not admit that this
hog nuisance has gone too far. All
admit il ought 10 he limited. No y
now in=tifieS the number that our law
permits. The fact is, that Will ha-
con was high there was SOM" rXrusp
for it.. But with bacon NJ five and n
half cents. hog round. there is to ex-
ruse for it all. Talk about -~cavemgPr~!
No man should he allowed t. put
filth in the street. see Il good mary
Of our merchants have the waste from
their stores swept into the streets. To
the sad Disagreement of our town
The Brist ii officers viii in a few days
have tins cleaned up and require them
To do so no more. | hope GOudson
will follow.
Thurman and Picken and Warren
went to Mendoza. ami they say they
had "A nice time while there but
caught thunder going and COMING
Picken and Warren broke dawn 'alf
way. Speaking Of Warren | am re-
minded f Guy Whittier, who. learn,
has gone with % horses to Kansas,
which is a new horse market far this
country, but | suppose he knows what
he is about.
John Henuinger lost his little Jewel.
WhOopiuC-cough aud Bronchitis are
two much at once, and the little fell
low died.
Tyler Galloway. cnlorpd. had a four
year old child, last saturday. Drained
with q hoe in the hands of an
other child The lick was entirely
accidental, hut il brought q piere of
the skull an inch long aud three
eIghts of an inch wide. DR.. Hicks
dressed the wound.
I regret Il learn that estimahle lady.
Mrs. Z. H Spneker. was Yesterday
again stricken with paralysis and has
since been ~speechless.
We are to have two more suppPrs
Ivy the churches. The Second Church
calls for your quarters 9th and 9Th Il
June. College DAYS will then te over
aud all will he fun and strawberry.
like The MethOdists will then hr
on hand. aud. ~ they mndestly cone
last, we must not ruh our full sinm-
arhs. take u chew of tobacco and for
got them.
Tomorrow night the Fairi tels come +;
| hear them tap the marriage drum.
The graceful willows whisper love,
The Beavers moonlit waves above.