Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-09-21
Cleaning ! from cur Exchanges,
Win Editorial ,SprinEl;nqs.

e. b. 4 enn has. withdrawn from
the New York Prattsvilie Advocate.
One Of his last editorial acts was to
give his pfrty-or patrons, It don't
appear wRich-the following left
handed compliment He eommends
to theirsattention, 1st Timothy, 9th
chapter, 9TH verse ''Perverse DIS
PUTINGs, men Of CORRUPT MINDS, and
DESTITUTE OF THE TRUTH supposin5 that
GAIN is godlIness; from such WITH
DRAW THYsELF!'
There is said to be MN in New
Brunswick, 90 yelrs ofage, who reads
the newspapers, printed in the finest
type, and is waited upon by great
great-grand-daughter, - years ofage,
who is but three feet and three-fourths
OF an inch tall. lie has grand
daughter who is four feet eight inch
es tall, bat who weighs two hundred
and eighty-slx pounds She cannot
stand upon her feet more than thirty
minutes at one time.
A county official named Ennis, re-
siding in Washington, d. c., had n
quarrel last week with his wife, which
induced him to thrash her, After
this was over, he gave her an order,
which she refused to obey, and he un-
dertook to repeat the dose. The
lady, not liking this treatment, took
a chair, and turnedAhe joke complete
ly by nearly breaking her loving hus-
bands head.
FIRE IN AsHEs--A correspondent
of the Chicago Democratic Press
says that in a bin where he stored
ashes, every layer being wetted rs
deposited, he found tie bottom Of
the heap one surface Of fire, after
period of two years had elapsed since
they were deposited The bin con-
tanned some two hundred bushels,
and the top of the heap, deposited
eighteen months, was wet There is
evidently some unknown application
OF. the laws relating TO caloric here
to be discovered.
The Emperor Nicholas is getting
ugly on the hands Of the allies. He
is reported to have said, in reference
to the English:
They may repol me from the
Danube; they may enter Constradt,
aud take poss tssion of ST. Peters
burg; they ma y force me to retire
from Moscow; bot they must drive
me from the wiIds Of Siberia, or take
me prisoner in the mountain passes
OF the Ural, bcfnre | cease to strive
for the position | have taken
A farmer in Connecticut took up
a post fence which bad been bails
fourteen years. He found the posts
that were set as they grew rotted
off, aud thoFe that were inverted
sound and good Set your posts
head down if you wish them to last
We have ofteh seen this fact men
tioued
Ii is little singular that the city
Of ST. Louis, is the chi, place IN
Missouri, where tie people vote by
ballot. In all other portions pi that
State the people vol e piua 0oee-by
procIaiming the nnines Of the per-
sons they vote ior.
OPP FELLowsnIP.-The official
report of the Grand Lodge Of /. O.
o. F., RECENTLY assembled at Balti-
more, shows 7abont BIO lodges;
100000 members; $3.50, 900 OF
expenditures Tor the beneYoentpur-
poses oil the organization.
Newark, a. J..Sepf. G.
The American Protestant Asso-
:irtion Of New Jersey met at New
lrk yesterday. and formed line Of
,roce ssion. While the procession
vas passing the Catholic church, a
PISTOL was fired from the church in
0 the procession, which was tile
ignal Tor great riot. The pro-
rssion rushed Ialo the church and
oInpIeleIy ridlled it, tearing up
e benches, demolIshing the altar,
nd destroying the organ, &c.
Some days ago a genlIelnanly
oking stranger called upon Il sex
n in Louisville, Kentucky, and or
cred child's grave dug, offering
ten dollar bill in payment for the
rvice, and receiving eight dollars
return. No chiId's funeral ap-
caring af the aDnoInfeI t;,ue tI,a