Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-02-06
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Tie following falIl ii letter ter lyvl4asIair was direct
J ed to % MI. Robert r Smith,, S jl,,
!. Huntsville, Ala, !, care of Old Bob; 3cd
MrylSmithshasop opTobablylremeyed
as he has failed to atake9it.out.a -
, The Postmaster, therefore, has
J. fuirrhiishedit for publication at . hoping,
in this mannen n itolm it may maasi reach Nslea its its
, destlnation:Ituohs9oq 9it ;ta9
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ban Yfri.li aseJans ls62. .nsJa
! Dear rBgb:;-IIere we AREAS the
clown says, away .doYnISSso9gttlh IN IN
Dixie, on, Dog River, II 3 niles
/ Solthqof. ,Mobile-,.l YOU may thank
your stars Bob Bob that you didn'tl did #
Hjoin lus, for, thls,is the 1eussedessst st
place eyer you went any where to
stay all night LonesomfeE-5-o1 Z b, NO, g.
it ;aint lonesome g Bat; and as fcr
the sccirty, its delightful; ID Peo7i
lple don't tlinlS lnoI more Qr h Of dying
than you do of going "a a bEst.-
What. iwould .yop think, # you
Fwas dead, if the fellows We're all to
t1ollow at you, as yop went 2by IN
your box, Good f bye, Old FelFr-ggot
yquHri fGpprlqgsshH lq3gsshH hsy}, Would hy you
There's a new disease broke out
Ehere-thei "camp disease" they,
call it., The first symptom as a
horror. of gunpowder. The. pa
tient can't abide the snlen lof<it,
but is seized with a nervous treIa-
bling in the legs, and a whiteness
about; the liver. and feels q strong
inclination TO advance backwards,
That's the way wafer serves mad,
dogs. Then comes. what our Major
calls Home, Fever, and next the
sufferers wife and nine children
ARE; taken sick; after, WHICH the
poor fellow takes a collapse and
.tkeh q relapse, But its silmpii mighty ghl,S hard hard
ito geta discharge or even en- a a.,tbu1 tur5z :
lough-Tawful hard, Fact, 1s you
can't do it without work ing the
the thing pretty low down. ~ ,'.ri1I
I'll tell you what, Bob, between
You and me, .llhi afraid I'm taking
the disease myself, i don't tt,Ilkkse, Ilkkse
the reports | hear eyleyyii day frem
the coast, We hear, cannon BOOM
ing down there by, the h lhyour, }, and nd,
! they say, the Yankees, are going 70,
play the very devil with our ducks, !,
1think Il can detect q faint, smell
of powder in the b,eeze, and feel
a strange desire 10 go into some
) hole. OF other. It n}ay be the eli
mate: ] hope 50, but, don, don't see e how
that Should make me turn 50 cold
about. the havresack every time +
see "a .bayonet, If ! only had
some good spirits, now, take eve,
ry morning, ! thinkI could ,stand, It
very wei. Please. send 1me some
Immediately upon receipt of this.
1 an .B.-Mark the box Drugs, eare
i Surgeon y,tor 2nd BAIT, Ala Yolss.e313
Oar Major is sharp, as /, bHer,, s.
and down on Brandy, like q duck
on q Junebug. It was, only last
week .he took a DemijohIn away
from an y old bigger WHO had { s. snug, mlra,,
gled it it into camp,-sent the old,
/ dafkesy agiipiin, with q flea lea il ipa his, bis
/ ear. and and .milade a. ! smash s Of his
/ Brandy. y3l If YOU'D send some of
! that You YOU used to set out in the,
counting fhtf 1f room, ! could set both
the Climate lt and the Yankee, IS s. lat at
defiance us, say nothing Of there
skbeing three furloughs to every bot,
! tie. That's q fact capable OF de-
monstrationg as" Peteasays.,nAe
works,it out by aAlgebra, and gets
the answer Hrst, says bes sup
fpoA x equal to | bottle Brandy,
and " equal TO ! DFamii then it
follows that Axis eaaalte ,slq5n
4 tliere,beiagssiA Igesd grans ta, 11e
luuHt.s. Now it is, fafact assumed
land. admittedly that two cDraunls,
,lskillfully applied, will bring one one
/ fnrlough: thereforeN-6 6qS6 drains
EA3 forlougaa- That's isoineslainf
,1iit-s,sna 1T o@sseb fa@-raisu sum yas is "a
,lsum.aodj sdi qigpa OF cnots inca
n This beats all the teuntries, BOB,
] yo,r dever saw. yrTie sfreesrare nil
las greena asgamyI officer; andr the
weather is like summer and the