Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-01-20

IS beset by c4rs, and who have aboi
'e as much id ea or respect for poetl
e as for witch craft, jbine4 in the mirt
it with great glee. They crowdf
j around old Kasm, and stamped au
i roared as a circus. Tie judge an
sheriff. in va ain tried to keep order
: Indeed, his honof smiled out lou
: once or twi be! and, to cover his ri
: treat, Rrete hded I'd cough, and fine
t the sheriff FIVE dollars for not keet
/; ing silence in oouFt. Even the oil
r clerk, whose immdmorial pen benin
, his right eaF had worn the hair fror
J the side Of his head, and who ha,
not smiled IN court for twenty years
, and boastt|d that Patrick Henry
couldn't di{turb bi i'm in making up
Judgment dntry, actually turned hi'
chair from the desk, and put dowr
his pen; af afterwards he put his HANG
to his heal three times in search d
lit, forgetti1g & in his attention to old
Kasm, wha he had done with it.
! Old Kas In vent on reading and
commenting by turns. forget
what the inenable trash was.
wouldn't 1kcollectit if / could
My equanimity win only stand a
phras c or t Ko that still fingers in my
mem Dry, fl ked there by old Ka$m's S
irldicqle. l had something about my
"bosom's dnguish' = about the pas
sion that Fas' consuming me; and to
illustrate il, or to make the line jim
gle, put in something about ''Egypt's
Queen tax ing the Aspto her bosom"
which, fa the sake of rhyme or
metre, ! ca He'd the0'1venomous worm"
--h6w th4 confopnded thing was
broug ght in / neither know nor want
to i now. When old Kasm come to
that, he 9aid he fully appreciated
what the oupg bard had said be
lelie we'd itl He spoke Of yenomous
wor4lS. Nov, if he (Kasm) might
pres ume I'd give the young gentle
mon advice, he would recommend
Swain PJteht Vermiluge. lie had
no loabts 1T would eflcctually cure
him Of bis nlalady, his love; and at
last bat Il Pt least, of his rhymes
whidh woul ID be the happiest passage
in his even Itfal history.
couldll ii stand it any longer. ]
had borne 1T to the last point Of hp-
man endur hnc Be. When it CAM only
to skinninE, l was there; but when
be shower{ I'd down aquaioltis pa tie
raw, and tiIeI seemed disposed to rub
it in, | fldd -4Gii e1api ecasi. The
iast thing 4 heard was old Kas b call
ing me bhck, amidst the SHOUTS Of
the audieII Icd--but no more.
4
The ne4t information I received Of
the case wh hs in a letter that ctme to
me at Ma tchez, my new res ldence,
from Hicl4s, about Il monthafietwards,
telling me that the jury (on Ihioh ]
should hafe stated old Kasm lad got
Two iniideR Is and four antiml llsons)
had given fnI a verdict for deifndant;
that before t be court adjourned Frank
Had got sober, and moved
for a new tfial, on the grounl that +
the verdict was against the ev idence,
and that tie plaintiff bad Dot had
justice, bJr{qsoa Of the incom peteay
2ftAis couEsR and tie Q5uqdonmen3 IF |
Is case, ilnd that he got a new trial,
Gas we'll he should hare done.)
READ THE ADvERrIsEMrNTs.--
The n, \. Day Book has an excelt4
lent article ina recent issue, entitled
The "slista he Of Advertising"
The Whole cause Of the false mo-
lions ip'rfgbrd 10 advertising is fun
lamengab It arises, on the part Of
advertise RS, in a total mlsconcep-s
'ion Of Il Ie value of even single
Iipe. Tbd, line may 60 into every
section u the country, and bring
;ustom tp the advertiser, long after
he has forgotten it. Every remark
an impression Of some
Kind; an|l in newspaper it meets
he eyes IoF hundreds who take the
papers lbr business as well as in-
Newspapers are The
great textures Of the day; the man
who negEeeis them or underwriters
hem hs} not one spark Of tie 10Th
century Hl him. lie is a mistake
rom thinning TO end; he should
lave bedh born, ,have lived, aud gone
he way oi AL the earth, years and
'ears agp- t