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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
What shall we do with Utah !?

WnM shall we do with Utah ?
Utah had apopulation IN 1870 of over
$4,000, which has since largely increas-
ed, as the next census will show. The
claims of that Tarritoiy for admission
into the Union as a State are very strong
and undoubtedly will soon be pressed
upon Congress. What can Congress do |?
The increase in population has given
the Mormons larger majority than ev-
er, and under a State Government they
would control all the offices, as they do
under the Territorial Government. Mr..
Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, suggests
the annexation of Utah to Idaho, or the
northern portion to Idaho and the
southern portion to Nevada. But nei-
thcr Idaho nor Nevada likes the propo-
siton--in fact, both fierccly oppose the
annexation, The New York Times has
been thinking over the matter, and finds
II very awkward question to deal with,
but cannot be dodged much longer.
The aphathy of the Government in
regard 10 polygamy adds somewhat to
the awkwardness Of the situation. A
vigorous enforcement of the law would
virtually put an end to the practice of
plural marriage, and thus remove the
most Objectionable feature of Mormon
ism, If II did not result in the disintc-
grafton Of the sect, and render Mormons
measurably decent. But this would re-
qliire considerable time. Cincinnati
Times.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13

may be extended to me and others !" but
when he came to speak of the business
of the chastisement his words began to
choke in his throat, and he was greatly
agitated, and it was only by extraordi-
nary effort that he was able to proceed.
As it was, few words were stihed in
utterance. Hats and hands were placed
before many faces as the prisoner closed
and stood with head bowed awaiting the
dread sentence
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
- - - : - :
From Tho Rich mond whig.

The danger Of such arnlcr as HAYES
was thus described by JvNrus, over
century ago: "A faultless, insipid
equality In his character, is neither ca
pablo OF virtue or vice In the extreme
but II secures his submission to those
persons whom he has been accustomed
to respect, and makes him dangerous
Instrument of their ambition. Secluded
from the world, attached from his In
fancy TO one set Of persons and ono SET
Of ideas, he can neither open his heart
10 new connexions, nor his mind to bet
ter information. A character of this
sort Is the soil iittcst to produce that OBJ
stinate blgotry In politics and religion,
which begins with meritorious sacrl-
fee of the understanding, and finally
conducts the monarch and the martyr to
the block"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
SENTENCED.

Judge Christian, his voice husky, then
sentenced the prisoner to be taken to the
penitentiary for two years, the execu-
ton of which sentence was suspended
until August IS, to afford counsel oppor-
tunity to appeal to the Court of Appeals,
which meets ,Julv 10. .tg,s
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
paper,

7
Rev. J. S. Kennedy, writing in the
Holston MrlhodiSi, declares, as he
promises hereafter TO show, that Job
built the great Pyramid of Egypt
Very like. He is said to have had
rather more than average amount OF
patience, but with all that, we bet he
did not lift many Of those huge stones
into position, What amount of pa
patience he must have displayed sit
hing in the shade while the Etheope-
ans bumped themselves at the "job. :"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
booths Crazy ISneny Plea ds
is-.. Guilty. H

Chicago, May o.--Gray, who attempted
TO shoot Edwin Booth, pleaded guilty Of
assault with intent TO kill, and was re-
manded for sentence until Mr.. Booth
shall have made his statement In court
and inquiry is made into the mental
condition OF the prisoner.
The town of Altoona, pcnnsylvanla,
IL to be sold under the hammer, to the
highest bidder, unlcss her debtis imme-
dintely settled. Under the lava OF the
State OF pennsylvania, which only lays
taxes on The corporations of different
kinds within lts borders, such a sale can
be made. Ifanybody has money to In
vest In a city Of thirty thousand inhabls
tants, here is an opportunity. The
City's debt amounts TO something over
four thousand dollsrs.--knor. Tribune,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13

1t will not do TO take the antedated re-
h,sals of public men TO be candidates.
Grant Ia declaring that he will not run
ngain for President, and Hendricks pre-
maturely declined to run for Vice Presi-
dent second time. These are mere
dinldenocs. Even woman Is represent-
ed by the poet us yielding to importunl-
BY aftor the most absolute dcclination.
She
"swearing shs wsuld ne'er consent, consented"
nnd politicians, az rule, are not armed
with more resolute virtue, = Rtchmond
l yhiay ~ WI rlll.t III ft I
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13

BY a curious coincidence Capt. J. F.
McElhany and DIR. Thos. d. Herman,
the former prominent lawyer and the
latter a prominent physician of Russell
Co., recently broke an arm. Capt. NJ.
by fall from vertigo, and DR.. X. by
his horse falling with him.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
A strange Case.

The Richmond .Slait thus sums up
one of the most curious and yet sus-
picious cases, Of which we have read.
(Ep, NRws.)
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
R.TeSSt0N0k C.N2.aS.
JOHN G. SUMMERS,
: "a ttOrney-at-Ilaw

--S ICoEIiSy-a -at-IIdW W. Nf-
WHLpracuce in the county and Oircui
Courts Of Washington, Scott, Smythe ahG
Russell. Also in the Court of Appeals and
U. s. District Court. .-.i.. '',... 3.
Special attention paid to suits in Bank
ruptcy. Office Main Street, Abingdon, Va.
Sep. 23-ly -r.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
CORNELIUS A. GRAY
Barber and Halr.Dresser,

FRONT STREET. BRISTOL TENN
Desires the patronage Of the public
Polltenees and attention given TO Ai
and satisfaction guaranteed !.
May ~ iB74.-tf
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13

The heavy frosts on last Thursday and
Friday nights destroyed nearly all the
fruit in this vicinity. Early vegetables,
such as potatoes and beans, were also
considerably damaged Marion Herald.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13
TUESDAY. D MAY. is, 1879,
I-II7 y I -,--T-I 7-ILI- u. 7
EVENT and COMMENT,

The Lee Sentinel records the particu-
lars of an affray between g. w. Sullivan
and w. c. Cary, in which the latter was
severely dubbed and the former severe
ly cut on the shoulder blade. The citi-
xens looked on and let them fight 1t out.
Cary is in Jail.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-05-13

Martha Washington College will be,
until the close Of the present session,
under the care Of Prof. f. f.. Hoss. In
the meantime the family Of the late
President Dupre will be allowed to
draw his salary. The Standard says the
names of two former Presidents, Jones
and Harris and also Prof. Buchadan Of
Vanderbilt, are spoken of for the next
presidency of the institution.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

fTen per cent entrance will be charged the above
races.
Three horses enter; two more to in
all the
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17
NOTICE.

THE ANNUAL NJ TE TING OF THE CARSON
j RIVER WOOD COMPANY will be held at the office
Of J. w. HAYNIE & CO, Carson City, Nevada, on
Thursday, the 1st day of May. 1879.
By order of the Board of Trustees.
G. F. FORD Seeretery.
Carson City, New, April lst, 1879 mi
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17
FOR SALE.

W OFFER MY HOUSE. SITUATED ON
Ill Curry Street. between King and Musser, for sale.
Also my furniture sewing machine library ETC. Buyers
invited to view the premises. A. WAlTZ.
Carson May q, 1879.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
THE CRISIS IN IRELAND.

LONDON, November 20.-The speeches
for which Michael Davitt and James
Bryce Kellan were arrested in Dublin,
Telegraph, in Castlebar, were made at a
meeting on the I'd instant at Gurteen,
County Sligo.
The following placard has been posted
in several places in County Mayo:
To THE PEOPLE OF MAYO: Fellow
countrymen: The hour of trial is come.
Your leaders are arrested. Davitt and
DAILY are in prison. You know your duty.
Will you do it? Yes! You will! Balla
is the place of meeting, and Saturday is
the day. Come in your thousands and
show the Government and the world that
your rights you will maintain to the end.
Rescue, in the mightiness of your num-
bers, the land and liberty. God save the
people. Balla, Balla.. Saturday next,
Saturday next
All the London morning journals APP
prove of the arrests except The Daily
News, which makes them the occasion
for partisan attack
James B. Kellan is lawyer and lect-
urer on political economy.
1t is believed that Irish affairs were
the subject of deliberation at the Cabinet
Council
A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says the Government are placed
in possession of much information by the
landlords in connection with the rent agi-
tation in Ireland, which, for obvious rea-
sons, the landlords cannot make public.
These statements show that many tenants
who are in position to pay their rents,
are willing to pay, are kept from doing
so by fear of outrage from others who
cannot or will not pay. 1t is understood
that large number of processes of eject
ment have been and will be applied for
for, while it is feared that execution of
these processes will produce some difficult
ty. 1t is believed, if they are administer
ed only in cases where there is no want
of ability to pay, if time for payment is
given to others, the agitations will be
much reduced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
BURR ROBBINS HYENAS.-JA A

BURR ROBBINS HYENAs.-JANEsvI
Wis, November 20.-A savage fight oc-
Cured last evening in the hyena den, on
Colonel Burr Robbins farm, just south
of the city limits. Robbins winters his
circus and menagerie on his farm here,
and five hyenas have passed through the
season together, behaving themselves as
becomes good peaceable hyenas, until
last night, when they held 'highena"
carnival among themselves. They went
at each other with sharpened teeth, glar-
ing eyes and bristling hair, and fairly
made things hidious with their growls of
anger. One of their number had his
nose literally chewed off clear up close to
the eyes; also one fore Iaw munched off
by his merciless brother and sister hyenas.
The fight is said, by all old showmen that
witnessed the bloody affair, to have been
one of the fercest ever seen in menage-
rie. The hyena, having his paw ard
nose bitten off, kept up the fight as best
he could with three paws land minus a
nose, until a bullet was sent into him,
thus ending at once his misery and quel-
ling the conflict.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

1t is reported from Washington that
the increased business prosperiety of the
country affects the Custom House receipts
much more than it does those from the
internal revenue. For several days past
the customs receipts have averaged about
three-fourths of million dollars daily,
and the prospect is that the public debt
statement for this month will show large
decrease, A correspondent says that it is
Secretary Sherman's ambition to reduce
the public debt below $4,000, 0,000,00C
during the ptesent Administration. II
looks now as if he would do it within the
next ninety days. 1t is now only some
$27, 100000 above $4,000, 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
IMPRESSIVE WARMING TO MOTHER

IMPRESSIVE WARNING TO MOTHERS
Mothers, have a care that a passion for
dress and personal display be not gener.
ated in the hearts of your daughters.
How many lives have been blighted, how
many souls dragged into the depths of sin
by craving for dress! Teach your daugh-
tiers modesty and contentment. Begin
when they are little. Don't make your
children, who should be all innocence,
women of the world in a sense before
they have got into their teens. What
should children know of the fripperies OF
fashion? Yet how many little miss OF
s or is, owing to the foolish indulgence
of parents, as vain of an elaborately
trimmed dress and as alive to the charms
of "style'' as one twice her years. Teach
your little girls the beauty Of modesty
and the virtue of contentment from their
earlier years, and when they grow up
they will be nobler women for it and
abler to withstand the temptations Of the
world. 1t was only the other day that a
young girl in the West committed suicide
because of the dishonor which she had
brought upon herself and her family by
a petty crime into which she had fallen
through the love for Catholic
AdUd2lce.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26


Secretary of War McCrary has COM
pleted his annual report. Among other
things he reviews the expenditures on ac-
count of the army, which have now been
bought down to an ante-bellum basis, and
are proportionately smaller than ever be-
fore in the history of the Government.
The history of the Eads jetties work,
which was completed last Summer, is
given at length, and much space is devot-
ed to the operations of the army during
the year, with history of the several
outbreaks. The Indian outbreak in Col
orado is lightly touched upon, as the Sc
tretary does not wish to anticipate the re-
suit of the Ute Commissioners, but it can
be inferred that if the commission fails to
accomplish what it seeks, the Utes will
be severely dealt with.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

New YORK DEMOCRACY.-NEW YORK
November 1S.-The effort to reconcile
the democratic facions in the city and
State is pushed with considerable energy,
but with very poor hope of success. Til
den democrats claim that the whole
movement is managed by John Kelly,
while Kelly says he is not making and
will not make any effort to approach his
enemies on the subject. 1t is noticeable
that no prominent Tilden democrat has
announced that his side is ready to re-
concile to Kelley When approached on
the subject the reply is ''Leave the mat
ter to the next State convention Tam
many democrats say eve will do moth
ing of the kind" The next State con-
vention will be controlled by Tilden just
as the last one was. We will only be
willing to have the matter settled by the
National Democratic Committee. And
to this proposition the Tilden men will
not listen, as they say the National Com
mittee has no right to interfere in State
matters. 'The antiTammany men are
all trying to get back into Tammany
Hail." said one of Kelley's State commit
teemen to-day. 'They are anxi Gus for
reconciliation, and, to this end, Peter
Rowe, the new Sheriff, has promised to
make Joel O. Stevens, one of Kellys
strongest supporters Under Sheriff; you
will see that before spring all prominent
Tilden, democrats will desert him and
come back to Tammany." The Tilden
men pronounce this sort Of talk ridicu-
lous, and it undoubtedly is, but this
brief excitement shows the hopelessness
of the democratic quarrel.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

News from Liberia, the negro colony
on the west coast of Africa, to which many
of the colored people of The United States
have been induced to emigrate, shows
that the latter have suffered terribly since
their arrival there The climatic fever
carried off large number of them, and
in their poverty they had no shelter, lit
tie food and no medicine, and only rem
nant of the emigrants survive. Eighteen
of them arrived in New York last week,
who tell doleful tale, and Others they
say, would gladly return if they had the
means. They are evidently the victims
Of swindlers, who were instrumental in
getting them to 60 to Liberia, promising
them food for six months after reaching
there, and not keeping their contracts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

VIRGINIAs BLUNDER-A gentleman
from the North who has been largely en-
gagged in the iron business in this State
for some years past, and who is also pro-
miDently connected with railroad now
being constructed in the valley, told us
yesterday that the prospects of Virginia
have been set back twenty years by the
recent election. This is what we predict
ed. time and again, would be the effect
of large vote in favor of population in
any shape or form. The people of Vir-
ginia have lost much and gained nothing
by the recent strong vote for reputation
since the contract made with the bond
holders is irrepealable as to all who
choose to avail themselves Of it. Even a
measure for repeal cannot be passed while
the present Governor is in office. What,
then, has been gained by this senseless
war on the public creditors, except de
feat for those who made it, and disgrace
to all the people of the State? That is
about all.-Lynchbwg Nrginian.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

THE HoT OCTOBER of our
readers who find it necessary to begin
conversation by talking of the weather
will find in our local columns enough
facts about October weather Of this and
preceding years to make the subject a
principal instead of merely preliminary
topic. Some very cold weather in the
latter part Of the month may bring down
the averages, but October, 1879, has al
ready scored enough hot days to make the
month phenomenal in the sense to
which one of our correspondents objects.
In the ffty-four years for 1925 to 1878,
there were ,674 October days. During
only eleven out of those 1,674 days the
thermometer marked SO degrees or up
ward. But utDduring October, 1879, the
thermometer at the same place has mark
ed 20 degrees or over on eleven out of
seventeen days. This high temperature
for October was reached on less than l
per cent of the October days prior to
1879, but on 65 per cent. of the days in
the record for this mouth There are
many other facts of interest in the record
for this month There are many other
facts of interest in the article, all going to
show that this has been very remarka-
BILE month, and furnishing an eleven
days wonder to those who study the ther
mometer.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
NO. 8.

FRIGHTFUL ExPLosIoNs.-SAN FRAN
CISCO, CAL. November 18.-A series of
terrific explosions occurred in tunnel No.
g. ON the gNarrow-Gauge Railroad from
San Jose to Santa Cruz, about midnight
last night. The first took place at II so
P. NJ, the second at 1855 P. NJ, and the
third at 1920 A. M. They were chang
ing shifts at the time the first explosion
took place. Seventeen Cinnamon have
been taken out, all horribly burned.
Twenty-four dead remain in the tunnel.
A Chinaman named All Wo was taken
out burned about the chest and injured
internally. He was found dead in his
cabin an hour afterward, strangled with
silk scarf. The Cinnamon say that he
hanged himself, but the indications are
that he was strangled by his friends to
put him out of his misery, Two white
men named Linkle and johnson, were
brought out terribly burned, but it is
thought they may live.
There is a terrible scene of suffering in
the camp, and ruin all around the mouth
of the tunnel. The engine for pumping
air is disabled, pipes broken, sheds wrecke
eel, and broken timbers scattered all
around. The gas prevents any attempts
to recover the bodies at present The
work will be delayed two months No
blame is said to attach to the contractors.
The scene of the disaster is almost ON
top of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in a
region where coal oil abounds, and where
boring for wells is actively prosecuted.
There is vein of oil running right
through the tunnel, and the soil can be
ignited in places, and will burn freely.
Explosions Of gas, and fires resulting
from the same, have been of frequent ssoc-
currence there, and have already result
ed in the loss of several lives. The ut
most precaution has been necessary in
working there, and only by the use of
air compressors has progress been pos
sible. 1t is expected, however, that with
clear tunnel the natural current of air
will be sufficient.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

There is in the popular mind some sort
of connection between long -winded
names and royalty, and probably no
British subject would venture to call his
daughter Victoria Adelaide Maria Louisa
as the Queen did hers, Or Alexandra Car
oline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, as the
Prince of Wales did his; and yet it is not
long since no person in the royal family
or in any other family, in England, had
more than one Christian name. Such a
thing was probably never known before
the accession of the Stuarts. The eldest
son of James /. was born in Scotland, and
named Henry Frederick, but no other
child of his bore two Christian names,
nor did any child of Charles l., except
Henrietta Maria, named after her mother
who was Frenchwoman. No King of
England bore two Christian names before
''the illustrious and High Borne VIII:
Pr. of Arrange" who ascended the
throne as William I'LL, after the revolu
ton of 1888, and he was Dutehman.
The fashion of numerous names did not
become fully established until the advent
of the Hanoverian family, and it has
been mainly the growth of the last cen
tury. Queen Victoria herself has shown
a great fancy in this direction, and prov
ed almost as prolific of names as she has
of children
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

Madrid dispatches bring intelligence
that the Cuban Senators and Deputies
have at last agreed to support the bill for
the emancipation of slavery in the island
the form proposed by the Ministry: This
probably insures the passage of the bill
by the Cortes at an early date. 1t is a
measure which is really designed to per-
petuate slavery for at least another genera
ton under the guise of enforced labor
contracts after the maintenance of slav-
cry, as at present, has become so difficult
as to amount to practical impossibility.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26

AN UNFA1LING EVIDENCE OF GOOD
TAsTE.-The judicious use OF some dell
cate perfume is an unfailing. evidence OF
good tastes. The most polished OF all
lands class sweet scents among their most
important luxuries. DIR. Prices Unique
Perfumes-Alista Bouquet, Pet Rose, etc.,
are the gems of all odors.
Senator David Davis is reported Sc
riously i'll at Lenox, Mass. His illness
was brought on by the recent death OF
his wife.