Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-03-23
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] lopKINSvILLE, KY.
March II. 1874

dead with the neuralgia, (if 4 hat S
the way to spell it, and | hope that
these few lines may find you enjoy
ing, &c "W hat is the neural ia?~
One Of the inventions Of the enc
my, and distantly related to The
toothache family. 1t is better felt
than describe d. Con corning it, how
ever, | will ] ct fall the general re-
mark, thai it IS not any anody4e to
speak Of in fact, it is considered by
good judges to be n BIT at all co ndu-
Give to sleep, more particularly IN its
active stages With my limited ex-
perienc6Qf it$ result 5, I am prepared
to give it DIS my deliberate and
prayerlnl oplll bon, Il at the neur algia
is prominently qualified and calcula-
ted to knock @tired natures sweet
restorer' into a cooked hat. Oh its
origin / know nothing. 1t may have
come from Pandora Is box with the
many other delectable nick nacks for
which We are indebted to that love
tolenof John w. Jqpiter's; bat most
probably it has been invented since
the days Of job on reaectio ion, it
most certainly has, Or the devil is
overrated for Ingenuity No devil
with any pretensio Ds to cut ness,
would ha We ire ubled the patient old
man with boils, when be could have
taken a pop at him with the n eural-
gia l. one twinge Of which would have
done the business for poor Job, at
once. lie not only would have fall
en- in with the pious suggestion Of
his amiablq spo pse, but in all 7prola-
biliiy his MUD would bavo been in a
delightful fran G, for kicking the
bucket and his grandmother at tie
same time.
It's midnight, precisely between
the 10th and 18th Of March, id the
year Of grace '54. l am sitting up
in bed crdss-legged, like a Turk, with
my port folio on my knee, writing to
kill time. ] feel very much like al
Turk is supposed to fee, and to make
The similitude more complete, | have
a towel twisted around my head by
way of turban. You will easily
conceive that l am having a gopd
time Of it all to myself, The room
looks as bachelors rooms usually do,
everything piled on top Of every
thing, and presents most freezing
and masculine appearance. OF course |
you have seen til Q picture entitled |
'singIe hlessedn6ss," vi here young
America is schted on two chairs, en-
in a fessihg gown and clouds
Of cigar smoke, with all the nipple
ments Of comfort around him, and he
ooking as though be 9 AIRED not a
Id dime. We'll, am thinking
hat a sketch Of this room with its
I'D fogy lopllihg occd pant, would be
good offset to that fancy sketch,
nd present the other side of the
question very fairly ] feel myself
his blessed N pmeut to be the very
Distraction of single blessedness. Ii
) the hour when, it is said, witches
counted upon brdomsEiclls pay calls
f ceremony. Perhaps may have
call Anything to break this hor-
ID monotony. The worlds hushed &
/ slumber- The silenro-deep, pro- II
,und, and awful, is broken only by ;
lo mulIled beatiogs ofimy own heart, :
I'D the dismal Yelling of some
If (sod) dog. The killing of that q
og to be the first con valescent act P
my life. ! G
Nothing new in HoHkinsville- we r
ever have news here, We haze no use !
r it. We are a quiet, orderly, >
ace loving, church going people .
e have nd river large opough to- a
'eraow US, Consequently we have no II
larf for steamboats, to blow up at, t,
o have no runaway mat ches, )
fights, no murders, no earth
lakes, and such like; but we have a
epty Pf pretty girls AID corn cakes, q
d we "pu1sue the even tenor Of our pl
"" and "don't care. Of
l have just returned from a brief Il
journ at Smithlanl. The great
esticn there is, wha ether they shall
We a dam or not. BY all means let J.
be built. All who speak expert n
,ntally of that town, unite as with :. -
e voice in saying, fdam Smith - -
ID I have d slight hcquai ntan6e - -