Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
GLEANiN0s FROM PAPERS,
Win Editorial SprinkIings.

the principal inhabitants and mer-
chants Of the city. On the day af-
ter the fire old Yusseff Pacha, who is
debtor to M. II. Abbott for a sum of
several millions Of piasters, went to
them and said, having heard that
all the bills they held of h:s'had been
destroyed, he bad brought copy of
his account with them, taken from
bis books, and also fresh bills for the
amount due. This example was fol-
lowed by all the Turkish debtors to
the firm. se
DRUNKENNESS ATA PREMIUM
novel case has been decided in En-
gland, in favor Of clergyman Of the
Established Church which has excited
some comment in the public journals.
In the Court of Arches, clergyman
plead guilty of gross acts of intoxica-
ton, and the use of profane and in
decent language. It even appeared
that on one occasion he took with him
to church, when about to offciate
therein, bottle of spirits, of which
he drank considerable portion, so
as to render him unfit to decently
perform the service. Yet notwith-
standing he had been once suspended
for a similar offence, and reinstated in
his curacy, the Court refused to de-
prive him Of bis office.
The Irish census table. just pub
lished, reports that in one year there
we're Ito deaths from starvation!
The editor Of the Medical Times,
commenting upon this appalling
statement, says: "The figures must
be far short of the truth. The har-
rowing details given in the body
of the report leave no doubt
that multitudes perish by the way
side, and in the cherries Irish hovel,
whom neither policeman nor coroner's
inquest ever took note Of"
DEPOT DEFUNcT.--The Chattanoo-
ga Advertiser of the 9Th, says the
new brick walls of the passenger de-
pot, in construction by the different
at that point, fell in with a
great smash on Tuesday last, The
building was some 800 feet in length
and not covered, and the heavy rains
Of late settled the foundation on the |
inside, causing both the side walls to |
fall for $50 feet. The depot was |
much too contracted in the first place.
A friend of that noble animal, the |
horse, suggests the necessity Of warm
ing the bits on the brides before |
putting then the horses mouth
The temperature Of the air is such as
to make the iron, when put into their
set like hot iron and give |
them pain. To prove it to you. put
your tongue in contact with piece
of cold iron out of doors, and find
how easily it will take the skin of.
CALLED OF THE LoRD.--Hon. D. s. !
Dickinson said, in a recent speech, |
that the political parsons who were
politics said they "were
called of the Lord.'' He said he
knew the Lord in ancient times did
on one occasion, use a jackass to de-
liver message, but he was not a.
ware that such was the case at the
present day.
"HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. "A let
ter writer from San Francisco, Califor-
MIA, says that $40 per month are
common wages for female domestics
there. He writes: at would aston.
ish you to see some Of our servant
girls in Montgomery street. A
SIS blue velvet dress, a $50 bonnet,
gold chains and big canoes to match
are not at all unfrequent."
A Foolish QuEsTIoN.--The Mis-
souri, Synod of the Lutheran Church
have bad before them the inquiry
whether the bread at the communion
table must be cut or broken! After
several days of prayerful consider
alton, and the most solemn debate,
it was decided that it was heterodox
to break the bread, and that it must
hereafter be cut by the minister into
small pieces. 0a HSF}A
A friend wants to know what has
become of the Buck Hunters Wei
answer, that they are coming out OF
the little end Of their horns. |
Disease-its Cure.
There are thousands of cases throughout the