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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16

YOUR opinion Of the outlook now I?
Since my last, in which l gave you
Col. Fulkerson's ideas on the Rail-
road question and other things at Es-
tilleVille at the June court, which was
the first time he went into print on
the railroad subject, see others are
looking to him as the coming man for
Congress. Well, Just turn him out on
a clear track if you want to see good
running. He is only to be heard TO be
appreciated as tie peoples man These
mountains and hills will come TO time
when the voting is to be done. See
that you go to the Convention in due
form. At home the work demands
attention, and. if square and fair, we
will all abide the r suit. Every tax
payer should be awake to his interest
aud check the threatening, pending
dangers, State and National, v hich
are now looking us square in the face.
Col. FulkersOn is the man 10 put on
guard. His past history is a warrant
for the future, and ] glory in his in
pluck. A man of work and not of
words only is in demand in the 9th
District, and as approaching events
cast their shadows before them, we
must look out good men to ill each
post in State and National legislation.
In this way the Office seeks the man.
may write at disadvantage, as it is
the general idea that mountain people
are uncultured and uniformed, con-
sequently inferior in their judgment
" those who enjoy the facilitiea offer
ed in towns and cities for the eleva-
tion of our race, educatiOnally, &c
Be that az it may, you will find a
Will in them, and nerve 10 support
it. They are going 10 look sfter the
farmers and mechanics Interestingly
want to see where all their labor and
toll has gone TO, and who is around
now making other and further eXsc-
tiOns from them Many of this class
want Col. f. as their standard
in the 9th, and if the indeX-finger Of
time is not on the wrong hand, think
we will trOt him out, and, if we do,
then we win.
IF | am correct as to the signs of the
times, will there not be an effort made
by the BOndhoIders to change State
debts into National debts. and there
by put the fetters on the producing
and tax-Paying part of our population ?
I take that view of it from Mountain
Top. Go on with readjUstment-.
Keep your powder dry-"stand firm
at the wheeln till the fight is over,
and victory, which comes inch by
inch, will be ours L c.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
From the N, Y. Herald, 7th
The Berlin Congress,

Batoum has been fought for by the
Russians in the Congress as valiantly
as it was in the war, and yesterday
this impOfian! issue, that threatened
the failure of the Congress. was de-
termined in favor of the Russian pos
session of that important point
The frontier of Roumelia, the wal
idemnitY-these are difficult points
that the plenipotentiaries have not
yet been able to determine in accor
dance with their respective views OF
what is due to justice and to them
selves.
The division of the Bulgaria, that
Russia would have made all free, into
two provinces, one of which is free,
the other partially free, but the
southernmost border of which does not
couch the Kgean as Russia desired ;
the limitations of Turkeys right to
defend on the Balkans the northern
boundary of the southern province :
the retrocession to Russia of Bessa- =
rabia. and the Gift instead to Ruoma- =
MIA of the whole Dobrudschia the
military occupation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina by Austria. with or
without the consent of the Porte :
the Independence of Servia and the
definition of It's frontier the inde-
pendence of Montenegro and an ad-
djtion of territory with a seaport
these are points already practically
agreed upon in the Congress, but not
determined in all their detail.
AS to the demand of Greece aod
the liberation from Turkish misruie
Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus aud
Crete, the Congress rather iavOrS the
"cOnsolidation of the Ottoman EN-
pire" than the aspiration for free
dom. What shall be done about the
Dardaneles and what is to became Of
the project of British protectorate
in Asia Minor, are points that are yet
misty, save in SO far as we have been
enlightened with regard to them by
the English correspondence in Berlin
who derive their information from the
eatGu4ge of the British pleuipoten-
tiaries, in which they are evidently
and purpOsely filed up with fctions
intended TO mislead the public.
Are the points not yet determined
Of such gravity and likely to be 50
firmly insisted upon from either side
that the failure of the Congress to
guarantee peace is possible? Every
effort will be made to avert war. but
there are points as to which effort has
its limits. How can Russia yield on
the war idemnity? But Russia. Eav>
ing bound herself not to insist upan
territory in discharge Of the war
idemnity, naturally wants 20 knoa
what she is TO have in place Of it
from a penniIess and bankrupt nation.
and there is no one to give sdtis-
factory answer.
In the concessions yet to be made
to get perfect agreement there are
a great many humiliatlons, and on
either side the temper in which Pow
erS find it possible to yield is far less
elastic than it was. But the decision
of the Batoum problem clears the
board of great danger.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
The sol Distant honest men are

THE sol Distant honest men are
exceedingly anxious to change the
Issue between themselves and the
Resdjusters. They say it is hon
esty vs.. reputation, and thus hav-
ing decked themselves in the man
tie Of virtue they strut before the
world like crusaders against all the
thieves of the earth, and swear
they are the defenders OF the mag
ma charta of contract. The mild
est possible method of dealing with
these men is to denounce this as
species of shameless cffrontery.-
The facts are that instead of de-
Tending the sacred right of contract
they are defending the overthrow
and violation Of contract. They
are defending the Funding Bill
and seeking its perpe'uation. The
iEsue between them and the Read
justers is the question of the right
TO violate the contract made be-
tween the State and the creditor
when the debt was solemnly crea-
ted. 1t is a falsehood that the
Readjusters wish TO repudiate the
debt. They simply wish it subor-
dinated, as it was agreed it should
be to the prime necessities of State
administration, and then that as
much of it be paid as the altered
fortunes of the people will admit.
To state the issue differently is
slandsr and at the spme time an
admission that the Funders are
unable to resist the logic of a
proper statement Of it. The Fnns
ders thus liken themselves to the
culprit who said he would prefer
having the executioner put the
rope under his arms.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
Hill on Hayes.
THE GEORGIA SENATOR SAYS HE WILL
RAVE NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH
THE PRESIDENT.

THE GEORGIA SENATOR SAYS HE WILL
RAVE NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH
THE PRESIDENT.
During an interview The other day
between Senator Ben. H. Hill and a
reporter of the Atlanta Constitution q
gentleman stepped up TO Mr.. Hill and
solicited his influence with President
Hayes for friend
DO you wish me to think kindly
OF you and treat you politely ?' said
Mr.. Hill.
"Of course 1 do" replied the gen.
tleman.
well. then, ," said Mr.. Hill, "nev-
er ask me TO have any communication
of that sort with the President Ny
self-reSpect will not allow me to think
of such thing. / vote on his ap-
pOintments a. a Senator, but shall
have nothing further TO do with Ihem.n
You see, Mr.. Hill went on to say,
when the President was first inaucu-
rated, moved by his fair promises,
offered to aisist him, so far | could, in
improving the Southern civil service.
which, under Grant, was notoriously
bad. He thanked me for nv offer,
promised to accept my suggestions,
and to call on me for infOrmatiOn.-
Under this state of things | felt that |
might be of some service to my peo-
pie by improving the officials that
were put over them. | made several
suggestions to the President that were
based purely on the fitness or unfit
ness Of the applicant, as judged from
my own knowledge. uut myself out
Of the way to do this. And with what
effect Why. the President has new
eT acted on a single suggestion that
have made-he has never shown any
disposition to do so. While he pro-
fesses great respect for me as a public
man, he is governed almost entirely
by men for whom he can have no re-
spect When / saw that he took the
suggestions Of such men ss Kellogg
before he would take mine, | felt that
my own respect, and the respect I had
for my people, and for the position /
hold, would not allow me TO go any
further
Il have, therefore, determined to
make no more suggestions and to
hold no further communication with
him upon the subject of appointments.
All this rumor about my having such
an influence with the President is
false. do not feel that l have any
and l shall certainly not try tO have
any. Every man, it appears, connect
Ell with the frauds, has been rewarded
some way. But the President does
not seem to want to know the opin.
iona of tn real representatives of the
South. So you needn't talk to me
about going to see him or writing him
letter. I don't care what sort of an
appointment it is. fit was simply to
halo 'hurrah' when Gabriel blew his
horn l wouldn 'taask him to make the
appointment
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
Gold and Bonds.
WHY BEN WADE WAS NO LONGER RE-
QUIRED IN PUBLIC LIFE BY HIS
PARTY

WHY BEN WADE WAS NO LONGER RE
QUIRED IN PUBLIC LIFE BY HIS
PARTY.
EMBELLISHMENTS CHAMBER, |
WASHINGTON, Dec IL 1867 {
My Dear Sir.-YOurs of the Sth inst,
is received, and most cordially agree
with every word and sentence of it.
| am for the lahoriug portion of our
people. The rich can take care of
themselves. While l must scrups-
lousl y live up to all the contracts of
the Government and fight reputation
to death. l will fight the bondholder
as resolutely when he undertakes to
get more than the pound of flesh We
never agreed to pay the five-twenties
in gold. no man can find it in the
bond, and | never will consent to have
one payment for the bODdhOIder and
another for the people. 1t would sink
any party, and ought to. To talk of
specie payments, or a return to specie
under present circumstances, is to
talk like fool. 1t would destroy the
country as effectuaIly as a fire, and
any contraction of the currency at
this time is about as bad. But / have
not-tlme to give my ideas in full.
Yours truly. BENZ F. WADE.
Capt. A. Denny, Eaton, Ohio.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
Tribute of Respect.

We, the undersigned committee,
appointed by the Worthy Master of
Mill Point Grange, No. 949. to draft
resolutions in regard to the death oi
our beloved brother, George WOlfOrd,
having discharged the duties imposed
upon us beg TO submit the following !:
WHEREAS, II has pleased the Heav-
enlv Father, in his wisdom and provi-
dence, to take from our midst our es-
teemed and faithful brother. GEORGE
WOLFORD, on the Goth of June, 1878,
after long, painful struggle with that
desceptive but fatal disease, cOnsump-
ton, who passed trium phantIy from
the sorrows Of earth to the joys and
rest that remain for the people of GGd,
and who was. in every respect, a good
and exemplary man, upright in sll the
relations of life as husband, father,
nPiEhbor and citizen. For near fifty
years he was devoted member of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, and
very Jealous (charter) member of our
order of P. of H. Therefore, be 1t
ResolUed. l. That we bow in hum
BILE resignation to all-wise fiat of the
Master above.
I'd. That we cherish the many vir-
tues and eXcellencies of our departed
brother, aud as a public token of the
high esteem in which he was held by
us that this Grange Hall lie suitably
draped in mourning, and that each
member of this Grange wear the usual
badge of mourning for so days.
Sd. That these proceedings lie spread
upon the minutes Of the records of
this Grange. and that the Secretary
forward a copy of the same 10 the
Bristol NeaOS and Bristol Courier for
publication, and that a copy be deliv
cred by him to the bere4ved family
with the assurance of our deer, heart
felt sympathy with them in this sad
dispensatinn.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
VEGETINE
FOR DROPSY,
I never shall
Forget the First Dose.
Mr.. Il. R. STEVENS -
PRoYIDENcE.


Mr.. Il. R. sTBvESs:-
Dear Sir,-I have been a great sufferer from drop
81. / was confined to my house more than year
Six months Of the time was entirely helpless
wSs obliged 10 have two men 70 help me IN ana
out OF bed. ! was swollen 10 inches larger rbgYl
my natural size around my waist IsuEer-d d 4
could and I've. I tried all remedies fof Drop
~. / had three different doctors My friends an
expected ! would tio many nights was expect
ed to die before morning At last Vegetina was
sent me by friend I shall never forget the first
dose. I could realize its good effects from day to
dSy * as getting better. After had taken some
or bottles could sleep quite we'll uighfs.
began TO gain now quite fast. After taking scrle
10 bottles, c0uld walk from part of NY room
to the other. Ny appetite was good the dropsy
had at this time disappeared 1 kept taking the
Negetiue until | regained my usual health !
heard Of great many cures by using Vegetine
after got out AMI was able 20 attend to my work.
am carpenter and builder. ] vii! also say It
has cured an aunt OF my Wife's Of Neuralgia. who
had suffered for more than 20 years. She SAYS
she has rot had any neuralgia for eig ht month
H1uHor. ] have no doubt I'm my Mid il Will cure
any humor 10 is great clea 0f the blood Il
is safe to give child will recommend It to :hs
world. My father Is 81 years Old, and he saws
there is nothing like it to give sire 9Th and life to
an aged person. ! carnot he too thankful for the
use oft. l an, very gratefully. yours.
JOHN ;. SoTTAGE
ALL DISEASES OF THE BLooD.-If VEGErIyE
will relieve pain, cleanse, purify and cure such
diseases. restoring the patient TO perfect hzlith
after try ing different physicians, many remedies
suffering for years, is II not conclusive proof, II
you are sufferer, YOU can he cured Why Is
this medicine PerfCrmiug sUcE great cures? p
works IN the blood, i'm the circulating nuid. Il
can truly be called the Gre u Blood Purifier The
great source of disease originates in the blood
il, 10 purify and renovnts, las any just claim up
On Cblic attention.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
Sensible Letter from a Bristol
COIOred Man.
TO the People of the South.

SO the People of the South.
FELLOW CITIZENS The subject
to which we propose to call your at
tention for a sh rt time is. General
Education. mixed with justice. As
you well know il as an important
subject, one which cannot he exhaust
ed, We have no time to write muck
upon this subject, nor in such style
as we desire, and as the subject mer-
it's. But we cannot repress the Gis>
position to say something as repre-
sentatives of our race.
Altogether We are sensible of our
deficiencies, never having enjoyed the
many advantages, which common
school education confers upon one,
it cannot be expected that we can do
this subject justice; yet we are called
upon to say something in regard to
education and justice. Let us look
at the situation of our race at the
emancipation. We were four mill
lions and half strong who we're uu-
able 10 write our names and many of
US could not read the blessed word
Of God. Since that time some Of
the down trodden and oppressed race
have made themselves familiar with
the entire course of Mathematics,
Physiology, Philosophy, and many
of the other higher branches. And
we hope that the day is not far dis
tant when the many difficulties and
obstacles which have too long re-
tarded the progress of our race. shall
be annihilated > ignorance eradicated
and knowledge diffused throughout
the entire South. We would like to
have the same facilities granted us
that our white friends have, Institu-
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
Alex. stephens as an Uvcrcoat.

We saw Alexander Stephens on the
cars the other day We thought it
was somebody's Overcoat thrown Ia
the only unoccupied seat in the coach
and, picking it up, we started to throw
IL across the back of the seat, when 1t
began to kick andswear. We dropped
it, and as it hit the floor voice said T:
Pm Alexander Stephens sir" He
is as thin as June sbad, weighs about
thirty pounds, and sitting sideways it
will take six such ss he is to fill a car
seat,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
TUESDAY, JULY 1G, 1878.
THE CANVASS in SULLIVAN.


Col. Gregg has a field Of opPo-
nents for the House. Mr.. Bach
man has concluded to try the thing
on again. Mr.. w. II. Hawley,
Major Mcdowell, and Esq. Nor
tell are also on the track. The
ono Issue is the State debt, and we
hope we shall have all these gen.
tlemen boldly make known their
sentiments on the stump. Last
Tuesday evening Mr.. Hawley wss
in town and was called on for a
speech at The Nickels House porch.
Being a low-tax man of the exs
tremist type, he was replied to by
Col. R, NJ. Wiley, who announced
himself opposed to anything savor-
ing of reputation. He said he
had been in the Virginia Legisla-
ture in the olden days when the
Virginia debt was contracted and
he knew the value of State credit.
Mr.. W. D. McCroskey replied to
him and facetiously said Col, Wi
ley had aided in making the debt
and then ran to Tennessee to get
rid of paying it. Col. Wiley is
not a candidate and merely took
part in the discussion in obedience
to his general convictions as a pub
lie duty on the part Of each and
every citizen.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16

TIE n. Y. HERALD arraigns
England for glaring inconsistency
in that she denied the rightof Rus
sia to make any changes in the map
of Europe without the permission
of the other powers in congress
assembled, and now because the
powers so assembled give to Rus
sia Batoum, England proceeds to
negotiate privately with Turkey
for the Island of Cyprus. In other
words the treaty of San Stefano
was at the special request of Eng
land laid before the congress for its
modification and now England is
first to refuse submission.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
General BUtler'S new DepaT-
tur0.

In his Newbury speech, on the 4th
of July, General Butler declared war
against the national banks and laid
down his own platform in these
words My position is that we
should issue four hundred millions in
nOn-interest bearing bonds of the
United States to settle the unemploy-
ed labOring men of the United States
upon the public lands Of the United
States. - He added mo more
notes of the United States can be
issued than the people choose TO
take, and if they bear no interest
those which are issued involve the
country in no debt. IN. Y Herald
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
EY-PRFsInFNr DAVIS

Ex-PREsIDENT DAVIS made a
speech at Mobile last Wednesday,
in which he said Albert Sidney
johnson was the greatest soldier
and ablest man, civil or military,
confederate or federal: He also
reasserted his mistaken belief in
the doctrine of secession.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16

THE Western farmers hope for good
results from the Cong essInnal apprO-
priation of 500 to investigate the
diseases Of swine. The sO-called hog
cholera causes an estimated loss OF So
000, 900 a year to the farmers of Mis-
souri, and Illinois alone, and. though
the Legislature of the former State
offered a reward of $4,000 for the dis
covery of specific remedy for the di-
sease, no such remedy has ever been
discovered.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
communicated

MOUNTAIN TOP, July IL, 1873.
Editor Of the Nei0s
This is a warm location Just now 4;
920 in.the shade one day. several days
e0o. The heat must come up, as see
from your paper that things are get
ting warm In the Valleys. What is
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
yThag the Grant Movement
Means.
Cincinnati Commercial

There is an organized movement to
bring Gen. Grant forward as q candi-
date for the Presidency. 1t rests upon
a quadrlsteral of bankers in New
York, Philadelphia, Paris and Lon
don. 1t has appeared in several State
Conventions Cf the Republican party
notably that in Illinois. Shouts for
Grant are ELECTED from public meet,
iugs ~ often as the experiment seems
consistent with the theory of sponta-
neity. The argument for Grant is
that the country needs a strong Gov
ernment; that the property must be
protected by the sword against an
archy that the teTrors of the threat
ened Communists should be assuaged
by the Man on Horseback. In other
words, the Grant movement is avOw-
edly confession, so far as it goes,
that the Republic is failure, and the
plea for the establishment of militia
ry despotism If there is demand
for Grant for third term, there will
be an increased demand for him for
fourth term: and the next thing is 10
bestOw the Chief Executive office for
life and provide for the succession
without disturbing the people.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
VEGETINE
I OWE MY HEALTH
TO YOUR VALUABLE
VEGETlNE.

NEWPORT, KY, apr, %, 1877.
MR IT. r. STEVENS -
Dear Sir,-IIavinE suffered from 4 breaking out
Of CdHkerOUs Sores for mere than FIVE years caus-
ed by accident # a fractured bone, which frac-
tufe ran into running sore, and having used ev-
cry thug could think Of and nothing helped me-
until ! had taken six bottles of your valuable
medicine which Mr.. Miller the arothecary recon-
mended very highly. The sixth bottle cured me-
a.d all can say is that owe my health to your
valuable Vegetine.
Your most obedient servant,
ALBERT vow ROEDER.
''It Is unnecessary for me to snumeraie the di-
seases fer which EEGETINB should be used. !
know Of no disease which will not admit Of its
use, with good results. Almost innumersble com
plants are caused by poisonous secretious In the
blood, which can be entirely expelled from the
system by the use of VEGETINE. when The blood
is perfectly C!sansed. thu dis rapidly yields
all pains cease healthy action is plomly restor-
ed, and the patient cured"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
W.T. FOWLER D. D. S
GREENVILLE. TENN

GREENVILLE, TENN
WILL furnish partial or full setts Of
w TEETH according to the most improv-
ed method, and where parties cannot visit
his Office, viii call and take Impressions,
Filling and Extracting done, and all work
guaranteed. No work solicited exeept for
Cash. Sept l7tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-07-16
LEVY BROTHERS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRY GOODS JIERCHANTS,
1OI7 and 1919 Main Street,
RICHMOND,

WEAVE tho largest DRY GOODS House in the
GA state Purchasing their goods In large
quantities from manufacturers, Importers, and at
the large trade
AUCTION SALES,
enables them to offer extraordinary inducements
to cash purchasers. They ask but one price and
hat the lowest. They keep on hand at all times
a full assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Fancy Goods Notions, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mat
ting &c. Samples and lists Of goods furnished
upon application. Express charges prepaid to the
A. NJ. q o. K. 4. on all goods ordered amounting
to Ten Dollars or over. april 2, '7S-ly.
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ADVERTISING RATES
RATE FOR ONE YEAR.


For Congress. Legislature, or County off,
es, each as 90
Town and township Offices 2.50
The above rates will be rigidly adhered to