davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-07

ew-A shoemaker, intending to be
absent a few days, lampblacked a shin
gle with the following, without date,
and nailed 1t upon his door: =" viii be
home in ten days from the time you
see this shinSle."
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apply their mental discipline to moth.
ing beyond their profession. They
are chess players only. Instances of
Of serious illness have often been pro-
duced by defeats at chess, and it is
more than probable that the indispo-
sition of distinguished opponent of
Mr.. Morphy, the great American he
70 of the recent tournament in Eu-
rope, has been caused by his being
vanquished. In conclusion, we may
add that Chess steadies the mind,
soothes the passions, restrains the i'm
pulse of unbecoming haste, improves
the reasoning faculties by positive &C.
ton, promotes inductiye philosophy
in its relation between cause and ef-
feet, teaches foresight, circumspec.ion,
caution, and self-reliance, occupies the
hours Of recreation in a way that pre-
vents their employment in frivolous
amusements of dissipation, and in
some measure indoctrinates its disci.
piles with those truths aad that intel
lectual practice of combined logic and
the mathematics, taught in the high
est classes of education. Therefore
it is, that we hail the revival of chess
as favorable feature in our country,
and as good omen for society at
large.
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Story of ACat.
The Boston Massachusetts, Her

The Boston Massachusetts, Her
aid tells the following:
Two years and half ago, one Of
our citizens, to 0biige a friend, the
captain of ship about to sail to the
East Indies, gave him a cat for the
purpose of keeping the vermin on
board in proper subjection. Pussy,
during the intervening time, voyaged
to Calcutta, thence to Liverpool, back
to Bombay, thence to Charleston,
South Carolina, and finally to Bos-
ton. A few days after the arrival Of
this ship in our port, the former own
ers of the cat were sitting at break.
fast, when in walked Tabby, just as if
she had never been from home. and
after she had taken a review of the
premises, she came and jumped upon
the knee of the household, as had
been her wont in olden times. The
story is curious evidence of attach
ment to locality in the animal, and a
singular proof Of retention Of men,
ory."
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The FOiceleSS.

We count the broken Tyres that rest
Where the sweet wailing singers slumbsr--
But o'er their silent sisters breast
The wild flowers who will stoop to number
A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them
Nay, grieve not for the dead alone
Whose song has told their hearts sad story
Weep for the voiceless, who have known
The cross without the crown of glory
MOI where Leucadian breezcs sweep
Ger Sappho's memory-haunted billow,
But where the glstening night dews weep
On nameless sorrows churcbyard pillow.
O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lips and fading tresses.
Till death pours out its cordial wine
Slow dropped from Misery's crushing
presses,
If singing breath or echoing chord
, To every hidden pang were given,
What end less melodies were poured, -
As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
ALOVER STILL.

"No longer lover, exclaimed an
aged patriarch; "ah, you mistake
me if you thiuk age has blotted
out my heart. Though silver hairs
fall over a brow all wrinkled, acd
cheeks all furrowed, / am a lover
still. l love the beauty OF the
maiden's blush, the soft tint of flow
ers, the singing of the birds, and
above all, the silvery laugh OF a child,
/ love the star.like meadows, with
almost the salne enthusiasm as when
with my ringlets flying loose to the
wind, and my Cap in my hand, years
ago, | chased the painted butterfly.
/ love yon dame. Look at her.
Her face is care-worn, but it has
ever had smile for me. Often
have l shared the bitter cup of sor-
row with her-and so shared it SEEM
ed almost sweet. Years of sickness
have stolen the freshness of her life,
but like the faded rose, the perfume
of her love is richer than when in
the full bloom of youth, and matu-
rity.
Together we have placsd buds
in the pale, folded hands of the
dead-together we have wept over
little graves. Through storm and
Sunshine we have clung together;
and now she sits with her knitting,
her cap quantity friiled, the old
style handkerchief crossed white and
prime above the heart that has beat
SO long and truly for me. the dim
blue eve that shrinkingly fronts the
glad day; the sunlight throwing her
farewell, kisses her brow, and leaves
upou its faint tracery Of wrinkles
angelic radiance. ! see, though no
one else can, the bright glad young
face that won me first, shine through
those withered features, and the
growing love Of forty years thrills
NV heart till tears come.
.sSay not again / can no longer be
a lover. Though this form be
bowed, God has planted eternal love
within. Let the ear be deaf, the eye
blind, the hands paIsied. the limb;
withered. the brain clouded, yel
the heart, the true heart. may hole
such wealth of love that all the pow
er of death and the victorious grave
shall not be able to put out The
quenchless flame.
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ASTOUNDING DEvELopEsIENr.-M

ASTOUNDING DEvELoPEMENT.-Mr.
S. S. Jones, late president of the
Iowa Central Air Line railroad
in letter to the directory resign.
ing his Office, states that the COS,
Of his company getting the Iowa
land grant through Congress dur
ing the session Of 1854 was seven
hundred thousand dollars! The
orignal"pecuniary compliments were
bestowed in the. shape Of lands, ol
which the Air Line Company goi
something near 100000 acres; bn,
subsequently the lands were ex.
changed for the stock Of the com.
pany to the amount stated.
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srTwo DoIIarsf or one yearif paid al
the time of subscription; Two Dollars
and Fifty Gents WITHOUT DEVIATION,
after the expiration of three months.
PAIl Bills for Advertisements, job
Work. or Subscription, considered due
when contracted except against those with
whom we have running accounts.
0trSubscribers failing o order discontin-
uance of the paper at the expiratl on OF the
time for which they may have subscribed,
are considered as wishing to renew; and it
viii be continued to them accordingly.
rNo Paper viii be sent out OF the
county unless paid for in advance.
OF Advertisement inserted at one DOi-
lar per Square of Twelve Lines
or Less for the first insertion; F1uy
Cents for each continuance. -,
nF Persons advertising by the veal, VIII 0e
charged Forty Dollars fora whole col "
umn, Twenty Dollars Tor one,hal''
Zen Dollars for one-quarter. NO aec'd-
tioa from tn. Sc terms under any e'rcana stances
" The privilege of yearly advertisers Is
sfy;ctly limited to their oaon imnaeatate ana
reoular business: and the business OF an ao-
vertising firm is not considered as liiciuolnS
that of its individual members
0TAnnouncing candidates Ihfee uo'i'''S
10 be paid in aclUance an every case.
sFAdyertisements aot marked with the
number of insertions when handed In VIII
be continued until ordered out, ana Pdy'''en'
enacted.
rNo advertisement inserted gratu'tousty. -,
ltTAdvertisements of an abusive NATURE '0i'
not be inserted at any Price.
EFIOb Printing, of ALL ku'ds' hedey
done on New Type, and on as reasohaDie
terms as any Office in Tennessee.
TNo Paper will be discontinued al1.i ~
all arrearages are paid up-ercept @' "''
option of the Publisher.
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presses,

Mr.. Benjamin T. Theus died sud-
denly at his breakfast table, 10 Sa.
vaDnah, on the 29th ultimo. Mr..
Theus was practical printer, and
has filled several public offices with
satisfaction. He was a rative OF
Charleston. The Republican men,
tions, as a somewhat singular coinci-
dence, that Mr.. Theus wife, a year
since, also died at the breakfast table
without any previous warning.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

WANTS To Cone BACK.-We learn
tsays the Montgomery MaiD that
the negro woman who ran away from
her owner, Col. Samuel G. Jones, of
this city, while in New York, a month
or two since. has written a letter to
a friend of Col Jones, in Virginia;
asking intercession 10 gain 2ermis:
sion for her to come back home again.
She expects to starve or freeze to
death in New York, if she is not all
lowed to return.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

MUNlFIoENT LIBERALTTY.- AT the
late meeting Of the Alabama Baptist
State Convention, at Gainesville, it
was announced that Jere. II. Brown,
Esq, Of Sumter county, Ala, would
support as many as fifty.one the
illogical students at Howard College,
allowing to each $3.50. This would
make SI2.750a year given by this
liberal gentleman. Howard College
is Baptist Seminary at Marion, Of
high stauding.-Montgomery (Ala.)
Confederation.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The HEBREw.-The word Hebrew
signifies TransAuyianus, he that
cometh from the other side, namely
OF the river Euphrates, and is sup
posed to have been given to Abra-
ham on his arrival 10 Canaan. The
word Palestine signifies the land of
the Emigrant. Hew propbetieally
symbolic are the names Hebrew and
Palestine! They both indicate that
not one man alone was to be a wan
derlng Jew, but that every Jew was
condemned to be more or less an
exile and a pilgrim. PerpetuaIly is
the lsraelite a man that eometh from
the other side, far, far of, and every
land that bis foot touched is to him
the Land of the Emigrant, wberd
ne hath no continuing place of abode:
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JAPANESE MODE OF TRADE.-A let
ter from Simoda, to the Philadelphia
Ledger, says: -t ~ y ii9s 81
Speaking of the stores Of Yeddo,
Mr.. Harris observed that we would
be surprised at their size, at their
contents, and at their great number
of statesmen, each of whom had bis
dozen or more shop boys standing
behind him to execute bis orders.
Upon entering the immense building
you see no goods at all, he said
They are all stored in fre-proof
buildings in the rear. Wien Gus
toner enters and asks for any thing,
the salesman orders the shop boys,
the shop boys apply at the re-proof,
the keeper of the fre-proof checks
against each one that which he takes,
the salesman makes his sale, each
shop boy returns to the fre-proof
bis part Of what remains, and at
night the salesman accounts to his
employer for the difference. Thus
is business conducted in the large
houses OF Japan.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

"A WIFE INSURANCE CoMpANY."-
Some Of the principal capitalists Of
London are engaged in the formation
of a new company for insurance from
damage BY fire. In consequence of
the constantly occurring accidents,
BY which ladies. owing to the i'm
mensity of their dresses, are either
burnt to death, or have large por-
tfon of the valuable and extensive
stock of drapery which they carry
about them destroyed, these eminent
financial gentlemen have determined
to form Wife Insurance Company:
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Railroad lnVes.ments----Imporfapt
Decision. flofs1s %

The Wheeling Times states that
Judge Woodward, of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, has decided
that a court of equity would not
compel a county or corporation to
pay more than the amount actually
realized by railroad company from
the sales of its bonds. The Times
adds:
"A very brief consideration of the
subject willshow how such decision of
a court of equity. as 10 our railroad
bonds, would affect US practically
The city Of Wheeling has some
100000 invested in corporate rail-
road subscriptions, exclusive of the
half million in the Baltimore road
Now, We suppose that the several rail
roads to which this 100000 were
subscribed actually received only
$500, 1000 from the sale of our bonds.
Then according to The decision Of
Judge Woodward, the city of Wheel
ing ought to be compelled to pay
only the S3O0,000 which the railroad
companies actually received from the
sales of our bonds. Whether our mu-
nicipal authorities will ever submit
the question 10 a court Of equity is
more than we can says
The Times, however, further states
that Judge Woodward not only de.
'cided that the bondholder cannot re-
cover more than the railroad got ior
The bond, but also that the county
must pay the interest upon the full
amount of the bond.
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Gboife paetry.

TIE FROST
Once more from my Northern home,
In the silence of the night,
O'er hill and dale / come
In the power cf my might.
| come when the moonbeams pale
Softly light the starry skies,
And fall on the grassy dale
That in quiet beauty lies.
Alone Ispeed on my way,
Without companions l come;
And naught, save the moons pale ray,
Looks down on my far-off home.
In solitude and alone
I silently speed along,
But my path shall yetbe known,
} For in it shall glide throng.
The sleet, the hail, and the snow
Shall follow along my track,
And the way which l shall go
Is the way that they will take.
As l pass, leave my mark
On meadow and flower and tree,
And on yonder grassy park .
l will dance in merry glee.
pause by the crystal spring
That sparkles in yonder vale,
And over its breast l fling
A coat of glittering mail;
Aud over the silent lake,
That rests in slumber profound,
l expectedly break
Without motion or sound.
A lesson I'll teach to man,
In the falling of the leaf, 'a
How his life Is but span,
And his stay on earth but brief;
If on earth he joy would win,
His name 'mong the good enroll,
He must shun the frost of sin,
And with love light up his soul.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Mr.. VIM. e. Calvin, Of this coun-
ty, killed COW few days ago fol
beef, having in her NAV one hundred
and ten nails of various sizes. and
the brass hinge of carpenters rule :
rather indigestible food we should
think to fatten on. The nails ap'
near never to have been used, though
it may be, that the gastric juices oi
the stomach may have had some
agency 10 giving them a new and
bright appearance Athens (Ala.)
Herald.
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ithout any previous warning.

Peter Nelson, of South Troy,
New York, recently discovered tha..
his wife loved somebody else better
than she did him, and, unlike most
Outraged husbands he sought out
the destroyer Of his peace and
disposed of his. better half for SIT
in cash, and sewing machine valued
at $40.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

NORTHERN DEsTITUrIoN. 1t is re:
ported that fifty to one hundred la:
boring men left Davenport, Iowa,
recently, leaving their families while
they seek work South. Many Of
their families are left with but lit.
tie means Of support. Tie parting
is said to have been a sorrowfnl
sight-wives and children crying
on shore, and husbands and fathers
on the boats.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

An amusing and painful incident
recently took place in Cincinnati.
Two young gentlemen afflicted with
St. Vitas' dance met. and each sup
posing the one to be mocking the
other, a fight occurred Of a most des-
perate character.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

DANGEROUS SpEED.-Ths express
train from Buffalo,, New York, ran
to Rochester, distance of seventy
miles, IN l hout and 251 minutes,
including three stops on the way.
on Friday morning last. This was
at the rate of one minute and tbir-
teen seconds per mile, without de-
Quoting for stoppages:
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The elephant that got loose from
the menagerie in Mississippi the
other day, and was shot in the head
with Mississippi rifle, died very
suddenly and easily, after terrifying
the inhabitants, and doing considera-
bic damage in other respects, utterly
ruined one planter 10 Kinds county,
according to the Vicksburg South
ron s account. 1t says:
Passing through his plantation,
the huge beast came across two stacks
of fodder--one of the stacks be de-
voured instantly, while be hoisted the
other on his trunk, and bearing il
before him, shield for him, he
marched on in solitary grandeur
He soon reached a point, where the
negroes of the plantation we're TAX
ing their dinner, when the unusua
sight which met their eyes so fright
ened them that they all turned whtte.
When their fears subsided, finding
that they were all white men an(
women, they deliberately walked
off, and left the owner Of the planta
ton without a solitary darkey!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

A young gentleman Of twelve, and
a young lady Of eleven, of Albany,
took notior to elope for the purpose
of getting married, on Tuesday
They were overtaken by :heir anx-
ious frierds, who agreed that exactly
seven years from that time the mar
riage should take place.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Frank Hill. clerk in the Little
Rock (Afk) post office, has been
sentenced to hard labor in. the State
pehitentiary for six years, for iobbing
the mails. Jlsi. D .e1il sd'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Neal Dow, the originator of the
Maine law temperance statue, and an
unusually fierce and fanatical aboli-
zionist, was elected to the Maine
Legislature from the city of Portland
on the 18th inst. His principal op-
ponent was negro, named Peter
Francis, considered by many the
more respectable man.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

A Cincinnati paper has come TO
the conclusion that if score of the
cowardly wretches who 60 about town
beating unfortunate women we're res
pectably killed, it would be well for
the community in general, and re-
tributive justice in particular Re
specially killed is a good phrase.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Use OF PORK. - In the Ohio Agri-
cultural Report, made by the State
Board OF Agriculture, the following
passage occurs: at is hoped that,
as civilization progresses, pork, as
an article Of diet, will fall into dis
use; it must be gratifying to every
philanthropist to learn that IN Ohio
there is certainly great decline in
the use of it as an article of food. .
This must be deep and sincere
conviction to be promulgated by
the Agricultural Board of a State
one of whose chief staples is pork.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

- The deaths Of unknown persons
in New York have averaged five hun.
dred annually for the past three
years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

p A Judge out West has recently
decided that /. might be insanity to
sign another mans name to i cheak,
in place Of your own; but Mhes ysa
draw the money On the chsab and
spend 1t; there is q e+i asal of
sanity In the prosS'- -'a' w.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
"Under the Rose What it Means.

"Under the R0Se'---.What it Means
This proverbial expression, like
most others that have been long in
use, cannot be traced With absolute
certainty to its origin, but can only
lie made the subject of copjectures
more or less probable. Some Of
these conjectures are as follows: >
| l. 1t was ouce customary for the
Popes to consecrate roses, aud use
them as presents, inexpensive 20 the
giver, but of great prize in the eyes
of the credulous receiver. From
this originated the practice of plae.
ing roses over the door of confession
ais, and as The most profound secTe.
cy Was there observed, the rose soon
became an emblem of secrecy.
2. The expression took its origin
from tie adoption of red and white
roses es the respective emblems Of
the houses of York and Lancaster,
during the bloody wars with which
they desoIated England. These op-
posite e,nblems were the signs of the
! taverns near the Parliament House,
10 Westminster, where we're the head
quarters Of the two rival factions;
and as measures of annoyance or of
defence we're adopted in secret con-
clave at one or the other Of these
taverns, everything secret was said
! to he done "under the rose"
8. 1t is certain, however, that the
rose was the emblem of secrecy long
before coDfessionals we're established,
or Workers or Lancasteyians plotted
against each other. Harpocrates,
the Roman God of Silence, was rep
resented as a young man, with one
finger placed on his lips and a rose
in the other hand, 1t was said that
Cupid gave him the rose to bribe him
from betray ing the amours of Venus.
The ancients therefore sculptured a
rose over the doors or on the ceilings
Of their festival halls, as a hint to
Ler guests that nothing which was
said in moments Of conyivialily was
to be repeated elsewhere. Some in
stances of the same practices are to
be found in modern buildings. 1t
was in the pavilion of an Amsterdam
burgomaster's county-seat, and be-
meath a stucco rose which ornament.
ed the ceiling, that William III.
communicated TO his host and anoth-
er burgomaster bis intended invasion
Of England. In the dining-room OF
the '.Bear club" in Birmingham,
England, there was once a carved rose
in the centre Of the ceiling, Under
which it is said that the Jacobite
members of the Club, in its early
days, use to drink as their first toast
The health of the King, under the
rose" meaning the Pretender. Iu
the hall of Lullington Castle, in
Kent, was to be seen, a few years ago,
and perhaps still, carving of rose
surrounded by an inscription as TO-.
lows:
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

WARS IN A NAME.--The name
of the precincts in Schley county,
Georgia, are Pond Town, Lick Skillet,
Bump Head, and Nubbing Hill. A
very euphonieus catalogue, truly!
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The United States Economistesti-

The United States Economistesti-
mated the consumption Of boots
and shoes iu the. United States at
seventy-six millions Of pairs per
year, valued at eight million dol
lars. About twelve million pairs
are made in Massachusetts,, one-half
Of them in Lynn.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The Winchester Home Journal
states that the hog cholera has killed
mol. less than $4,000 worth OF hogs
in that county since April last.
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WHOLE NO. SsS.
JEDDO.

A correspondent Of the London
Times writes from Shanghai an ac-
count Of Lord Elgin's arrival at jed
do, in Japan:
During Lord Elgin's stay nearly
all the officers of the squadron we're
enabled to pay him a visit. In front
of the temple where he resides, in
the aristocratic Quarter of the city.
was street; which continued for ten
miles as closely packed with houses
and as densely crowded with people
as it is from Hyde Park corner to
Mile End At the back oft stretch
ed a wide and somewhat dreary aris-
tocratic quarter, containing the resi-
Gences OF the three hundred and six
ty hereditary brinces-eaeha petty
sovereign In bis own right; and many
with half dozen town houses.
and some of them able to sccommo-
date, in the Same mansions, ten thou
sand retainers. JI zel r5
The area of the city is equal to, if
not larger, than that of London. and
contains 100000 inhabitants
The Castle alone is computed to be
capable of containing 100000. For
ten miles around there were extraor-
dinary evidences Of civilization; the
people are clean and most amiabIe:
there are no beggars, and the climate;
fertility, and beauty of the country
appear to be unequaled: m