Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-02-15

the axe and cross-cut chorus for several
months. They started instanter for the
hills. If you wish to see them you will
have to take to the brush. There were
q good many other bidders and prices
ranged all along up to 371a cents. |
learn Capt. Smith has already sub let a
good many thousand at 10 cents. Mr..
Patrick Hagan was in town yesterday
and Gen. Imboden made him the due
payment on some $4,000 acres of land
lately bought, through Mr.. r. A. Ayers,
the Company's attorney. 1t lies n. E.
of the coal beds at Stone Gap. Thus
rapidly shifts the preliminary scenery
of this strictly business play. Before
the leaves Of next summer have fallen
there will be change in things in this
part of the moral vineyard.
The most chiefly" secret of this stu
pendous movement reached my cars this
morning, and / am allowed only to say
O. X. 1t means and demonstrates bust
ness.
Speaking of the A, NJ. o., learn Maj,
Fink will be retained at the head of ac-
tive affairs, and while it is customary to
compliment success, | will seriously in
dulge in the remark that he seems a born
and cultivated rail road manager.
Hon. j. b. Richmond passed through
Bristol Sunday night last, stopping at
the Ni3kels House. He will in few
days have the 2. o. at Benham's re-es-
tablishcd with G. Acuff as p. NJ. / have
never known better man in Congress
than he to attend to such matters.
Mr.. W. F. Rhea, has purchased the
Taber lots on Solar Hill and will erect
n dwelling on them. The site is very
beautiful.
Mr.. W. D. Jones, of Philadelphia did,
the other day, the handsome thing, by
enclosing IS to the A. G. Smith fund.-
A neat contribution from Mrs. L. f.
johnson, should have been sooner ac-
knowledged. Prof. Ketron, of Kings
ley Seminary, responds by sending his
contribution to the same.
have just incidentally learned that
Senator G. T. Smith has brought suit
for libel against Col. j. Marshall McCuc,
of Nelson, growing ON of the acerblties
that followed the last falls canvass.
Rev. r. II. Parker, has regular Sc
ries Of evening revivals at the NJ. f.
Church. He is assisted by the other
ministers Of town, and there have been
some prominent conversions. lie is eX-
pccting aid from Il distance.
Messrs. B. i. Duaney g. Co. have
opened a grocery business at the stand
lately occupied by Mr.. Ro. Pile. Mr..
Lee Smith is assisting them.
Quite serious accident to Mr.. Elias
Luttrell occurred last Tuesday at the n.
Fork bridge on the N. G. The tram
way being wet, the descent Of the car,
heavily loaded with stone for the center
pier, could not be controlled by the
brake. lie and Mr.. Geo. Gibson were
on it. The latter saved himself by
jumping into the water, but Mr.. LlIt-
trell held on until the car ran off at the
end of the track and had one bone Of his
leg broken by the rock when the plunge
came. With characteristic literally
Capt. Gibson and Gen. lmboden had him
conveyed to Bristol, where the company
are having all medical attention paid
him at their own expense. He is doing
well. 1t is very serious thing when a
man dependent on his labor, is suddenly
disabled. His labor is his whole capitol.
Capt. Walthall and DR.. Murphy have
leased n vein of beautiful marble on Mr..
Morrell's land, south of the Bristol and
n. G. location.
Maj. Wood, having ensconccd Gen.
Imbodcn In the newly arranged and very
comfortable office of the Tinsalia Coal
a. Iron Co., on Front Street, Is now fit
ting up next door thereto an elegant
sample room for travelling salcsmen.
My friend Capt. Thurman spent the
week in town and has now gone east for
large stocks for his Nashville and Little
Rock Houses. Much ms we regretted 1t
his removal TO Nashville was for him
success. lie * one of the Merchant Ma
hobs Of that city, and he has not had to
wait the usual time to impress his popu-
laity upon strangers. lie Is perhaps
now the most popular merchant at the
Tennessee Capitol. If his Little Rock
House Is equally successful he will In n
few years prove TO be n merchant prince.
Mrs Thurman will remain east for some
months, dividing her time between
friends at Bristol, Burkyillc and Rich
mond.
The Philothesmians of King College
will celebrate their twelfth anniversary
ut Conway Hall, on the evening Of the
25th inst. Dcclalmor, u. A. lilly; First
Orator, j. II. Winston, Jr. Debate-Quc-
ry--Is II probable that inferior animals
have n future exlstenceS Allrmatc, j.
I. Vance and NJ. W. Doggett. Negative,
Chas. w. Latham and Charlie lIon'mcls-
ter. Second Orator, Il. y. Gregory.
How the measles do rage! | can't
cnumeratc. The Editor Of the NEWS
has about three "Qf hcm' at his house
to-day.
Please notice that the Scott street
property sale by Messrs. Fulkcrson and
Blanchard, con'rs, has been postponed