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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04

ESs- Advertisements are Inherited IN the order
II, ,ciich they are handed in.
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CANDIDATES.
ELECTION: SATURDAY, MARCH Ara, 1866
FOR SHERIFF..

OF We are authorized to announce w I'm
III. sioOrcs. Esq, candidate Tor Sherlh
Of Lincoln county.
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Stray9 Taken UP.

1st. Kind of Animal is gire,s-2ad. Color
3rd. Description-4M. Aye--5th. Posters
namae-6th. Time and Place of arrest
7th. Valuation.
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Last Monday.

Last Monday.
County Court met last Monday,
but in consequence of the small
attendance of Magistrates, adj
iourned the Quarterly Term I'M
til next Monday.
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Land for Sale!
by virtue of decree OF the Circui

RY virtue OF decree oil the CiYcult
~ Court OF Lincoln county, Tennessee, pro-
nounced at the November term, 1865 will
offer for sale, on the premises, on Thurs
day, the siI day Of February next.
The Lands
belonging to the estate of John Paysenger,
deceased, lying in Lincoln county, Tennessee,
Civil District number IL, on the waters of
Kelly's Creek, containing about 10 acres, and
will be sold on a credit of one, two and three
years, except 10 per cent OF the purchase
money, which will be required in cash.
Bond with two or more good aud approved
securities will be required of the purchaser,
and lien retained upon the Land until the
purchase money is paid.
Jan. 4, 1866 RS. wOODARD, Clerk.
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of which Elijah Smith died seized and pos
sessed, consisting of several adjoining tracts,
lying in Lincoln county. Tennessee, District
number II, on the waters of Kelly's Greek.
Said Land will be sold on the premises, upon
credit of one and two years, except the IN
divided interest in the 20 acre tract, which
will be sold for cash. and also 20 per cent. on
the whole of the purchase money will be re-
quired in cash. Said Land will be sod sub
ject to the widow Mary Smiths right of dow
er, but including the remainder, after the ter
minaiion of the dover interest.
Bond with two or more good and sufficient
securities will be required of the purchaser,
and lien retail ed upon the Land until the
purchase money is paid.
Jan. 4, 1866 r. S. WO0DARD, Clerk.
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Sale of Land.

Sale Of Land.
A valuable tract of Land is aG-
vertised in this paper to be offered
to the highest bidder at Executors
Sale.
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qeatbs.
DIED.

In this place. Monday. 25tb ult., after long
illness, Mrs. JUDITH DENNIS, wife of Rev
Samuel Dennis, aged SO years.
She possessed all the qualities that adorn a
woman.
III this county, on Swan Creek, Monday, 25th
ut. of small ,pox, Mr.. WILLIAM Nc
GOWN, aged about 80 years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04
SE'IvTaE TIP

EVERY ONE owing me must =.r,.s
~ come up soithort delay and settle, Ak
or they will have to do it with an Off Essky
Ger. | am in earnest this time, for am COM
PEELED to have money, as everybody is now
operating on the cash eystem. Hereafter, a
longer credit than THREE MONTHS ,0M not BE-
giUen. | have to pay cash for every article,
and must have the cash to carry on my shop.
jan 4, 1861 JOEL COMMONS.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04

Elm "a e. AH ~ ke
IN pursuance Of the last will and
testament of fey'on Wells, deceased, will
on Saturday, the 27sh day Of Jan
uary 1866, offer for sale on the premises,
to the highest bidder, upon credit of one,
two, and three years, with interest from the
day of sale, the following
Tract or Parcel of Land,
in Civil District Nc. 81, Lincoln county,
Tenn essee, being lot No. 3, as laid off by the
commissioners appointed in said last will and
testament, containing l69 acres and 80 poles,
and bounded as follows--North By lots num-
bers and 5, East by lot number 4 and the
Land OF |. s. Porter. South by
and West by the Dover
Tract of Mary B. Wells.
Bonds with two or more good and sufficient
securities will be required of the purchaser,
and lien retained on the Land until the
whole of the purchase money is paid.
THEO. HARRIS, Executor, dc.
jan. 4, 1866.
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BEST DIsTIILERY IN THE COUNTY,
I'M CHANCERY,

I'M HANCERY-
David T. Hobbs and wife and othersl Dec
VS.. Rules.
John and Joseph Farrar and others.) 1865.
I'm motion Of complainants by their coun-
" sci, and it appearing to the satisfaction
of the Clerk and Master from the allegations
in the bill, that defend ants Hiram franklin and
wife Jane are non-residents Of the State of
Tennessee--It is, therefore. ordered that pub
LEGATION be made in the FAYETTEvILLE OBsEa-
YER, newspaper published in the town of
Fayetteville, for forr consecutive weeks, COM
mandhg said defendants 10 appear at or before
the next term of the Chshcery Court, to be
holden for the county of Lincoln, at the court
house in the town of Fayette9ills, on the
fourth Monday II; February Eert, and plead +,
answer or demur to complainanis' bin, or the
same will be taken for confessed, and set for
hearing ex parte.
A copy; R. FARQyHARsON.
dec II elk and II.
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I'm CHANCERY.

James w. Holman, Adm, and others Dec.
VIC. Rules
c. P. Flack and others. 1865
ON motion of complainant by his counsel
~ and It appearing to the satisfaction of the
Clerk and Master from the allegations in the
bill, that defendants G. p. Flack, Il. d.
Turner and wife Martha a., S. X. Nc
Fsrland and wife Musadora L., George B.
Beason ard wife Amanda NJ, Elvira, jose
phino, Robert T. and William A. Rountree
and James nj. Allen are non-resid ents of the
State of Tennessee-It is, therefore, ordered
that publication be made in the FAYETTEVILLE
OBSERVER, newspaper published in the town
of Fayetteville, for four consecutive weeks,
commanding said defendants to appear at or
before Il e next term Of the Chancery Court,
to be holden for the county of Lincoln, at the
couit-house in the town of Fayetteville, on
the fourth Monday in February merit and plead,
answer or demur to compliments bill, or the
same will be taken for confessed, and set for
hearing ex parte. A coyy:
dec IL R. FARQUHARSON,C C. &c NJ.
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Sales before Our Next.
Two tracts of Land in 4th civil
district, by II. s. Woodard, clerk,
Wednesday, 10th inst.
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Grammar.

Grammar.
A noun of multitude is word
by which any number of substan-
tives may lie combined in a singu-
lar form, as, "The Tennessee Leg
islature-a gang of FOOLS"
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1865.

1865.
A calendar for 1866 may be
found on our fourth page.
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Land for Sale!

by virtue OF decree of the Circuit
- Court of Lincoln county. Tennessee, pro-
nounced at the November term, 1865, will,
on Wednesday. the 7th day Of Feb
ruary next, offer for sale the
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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
AGRICULTURAL, &C.
Experiments. with Potatoes.

sent you last year an account of several
experiments l tried in seeding potatoes,
which was published in the April number of
the Farmer. From these experiments, and
many similar ones which have tried, be-
came thoroughly convinced that large pota-
toes were better for planting than small ones,
or large potatoes cut in severa! lieces that
the butts OF large potatoes was better than
light. have tried this year to ascertain the
precise quantity of seed necessary to hill,
and although have not done what in
tended, l think have made some approx
nation towards it.
Three or four butts are the right quantity
of seed to hill. Less than three gives a
smaller product more than four gives no
greater product, and more small potatoes.
The following is the result of an expert
ment with seventeen hills of potatoes III
hills with two butts to hill, which yielded
103 lbs. 8 ozs II hills with three outs to
Mill, which yielded III lbs. ozs; II hills
with four butts to hill, which yielded 131
lbs. 8 ozs The hills being three feet apart,
four butts to hill, would require 213 bu-
shells more seed to an acre than would be
required were there only two butts to a hill.
The extra produce would be, according to
my experiment, 1924 bushels to an acre !;
leaving gain of 101 bushels over and above
the extra quantity of seed. Here is quite q
gain from heavy seeding. This experiment,
repeated, might give little different result;
but am satisfied it would be only little.
| send you this account because think there
is an immense loss every year in the potato
crop, in consequence of scant seeding. Most
farmers plant either small potatoes, or large
ones cut very fine, putting two or three
pieces in hill. Cor. N. e. Farmer.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
Swiss LaunIreSSeS.

They are such important and much desired
personages, that they must be engaged some
time before they are wanted you must also
bespeak the fountain near which you reside,
by mailing on it piece OF paper, on which Is
written, that on a certain day named, Ma
dame so and SO requires the great stone
trough into which the water runs, for her
lessive, and then no one on that day dare
put finger in it without your leave.
The whole business of the wash last four
days. On the first day the clothes are
stepped in cold water only. On the second
| they are all put together in an immense tub,
over which is laid strong linen sheet; on
this great quantity of wood ashes is placed
and then boiling water is poured on them
tlll the linen is covered with the lye. Then
they are allowed to lie an hour, when the
liquor is run off through tap; then more
boiling water is allowed to filter through
the ashes, and this process is repeated till
evening. The third day the linen ia taken
out of the lye and well washed with hot
water and soap, and the fourth, it is re-
moved to the fountains to be rubbed and
beaten on boards, rinsed and blued. When
the linen comes out of the lye, any one unac-
customed to this mode of washing would
! be sure to think it irretrieyab!y ruined, so
yellow is it, and it is not till it has oeen
well thumped and rnsed in the fountain
that it regains its color and becomes beauti-
| fully white. ....-....
These washerwomen are peculiar ana
distinctive race. They are the greatest
gossips, the loudest takers, the biggest eat
ers and sometimes drinkers, of any in the can
ton. They are all ugly, old, and bent, with
lean hands, wien faces, and thick limbs
All wear immense hats, with knob at the
top, and their old petticoats and jackets
look as if they had been buried hundreds Of
years and then dug up again. The three oil
four days that, twice in the year, they are
on visit to your house, your servants have
quite enough work to do in cooking q
variety of dishes to suit their fastidious ap
petites, for they have diet peculiar to theil
body; and if you don't oblige them in thii
respect, you are left in the lnrch, and your
linen must 60 unwashed.
After all is dried there is ironing for seve
raj days, during which every female in the
house is pressed into service, as well as two
or three !aundresses, and then when all il
aired, mended, and put away, there is quie
in the house for five months or more; and
am not sure if we had but the same immense
supply of linen, we should not find it ,
better plan, both as regards the bleaching
of the clothes aud the comfort of our house
holds, than our everlasting, unsatisfactory
order destroying weekly washes. al
my life i shall think of those weird
looking women, gabbling and bawling ava,
at the fountain, and am convinced that
could return to Switzerland two hundre'
years hence, the race would be unchanged
and that one of the first things that my eye
rested on, would be, to all appearances, tn
same crooked, wizened hags standing in th
mud round the Village life !
iS,eitssrland.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
P @ E 7 | G. A l..
OUR DEAD.


Nothing is our own we hold our pleasures
just little while, ere they are fed;
One by one life robs us of our treasures;
Nothing is our own except our dead.
They are ours, shd hold in faithful keeping
Safe forever, all they took away; r."
Cruel life can never stir that sleeping,
Cruel time can never seize that prey.
Justice pales truth fails; stars fall from heaven
Human are the great whom we revere;
No true crown Of honor con be given,
Till the wreath lies funeral bier.
How the children leave us, and no traces
Linger of that smiling angel band;
Gone, forever gone and In their places
Weary men and women stand.
Yet we have some little ones, still ours;
They have kept the baby smile we know.
Which we kissed one day, and hid with flowers
On their dead white faces long ago.
When our joy is lost, and life win take Il, b
Then no memory of the past remains;
Save with some strange, cruel sting, to make it
Bitterness beyond all present pains.
Death, more tender hearted, leaves to sorrow
Still the radiant shadow-fond regret;
We shall find in some far, bright tomorrow,
Joy that he has taken, living yet.
Is love ours, and do we dream we know it,
Bound with all our heart-strings, all our own!
Any cold and cruel dawn may show it,
Shattered, desecrated, overthrow.
Only the dead hearts forsake us never;
Love, that to deaths loyal care has fed,
Is thus consecrated ours forever,
And no change can rob US of our dead.
So when fate comes to besiege our city,
Dim eur gold, or make our flowers fall,
Death, the angel, comes in love and pity,
And to save our treasures, claims them all.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
Trout Fishing.

The season for trout fishing has arrived.
AS there are quite number of citizens of
Sunbury who delight in capturing the
"speckled Beauties" we give place to the
following bit of practical information re,a-
tive to trout fishing, from the Country Gen.
teman:
First, as to the habits of the trout. They
seek in the warm season, clear, cool, running
water. In winter, they retreat to the deeper
water, such as fords and deep holes. The
trout may be said to dislike civilization, and
its old haunts, he takes good care to leave
also. There are many streams in this region
which twenty years ago yielded trout abund-
antly. that are now almost deserted. Soil
tude is therefore indispensable to their in
crease, except when propagated by artificial
means. When spring opens, and the streams
are warmed by the sun, the trout run up
into the brooks and may then be taken by
experienced anglers. The trout is very shy,
and he who would catch him must keep
without the range of his eye as much as pos
sible. Noise does not frighten him. They
usually lie under logs or the edges of roc ks,
or under banks, or in any place where seclu-
sion can he obtained. When in search of
food, as at sunset or in the early morning, or
at times on cloudy days, they are all about
the stream, but will oftenest be found in
quick water or in the very deepest water.
Second, .he best time to catch. This is
usually in the morning and at evening.
Cloudy days preferred to bright days be-
cause the fish are then less liable to see the
angler. Often in pond fishing, a light ripple
on the surface of the water is as good as
cloudy weather. And often, too, I have had
great success in the brightest days. 1t is
impossible to tell just when they will bite
best. My rule is to go whenever l get ready,
and take the chance. April, May and June
are the best months.
Then as to the bait. For brook fishing
there is nothing better than the angle worm
or a dew worm.
For pond fishing, the artificial fly, and SO
rice eersa. Large trout, however, are often
est caught with the fly. Minnows are good
and will frequently tempt large trout when
the worm and fly both fail.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09

Coon SUBSTITUTE FOR PAINT.-For the
benefit of our readers, both in town and
country, we publish the following recipe for
making wash for buildings, which is said
to look almost as well as paint. We quote
from the Chemical Gazette.
"Take clean water-tight barrel, or other
suitable cask, and put into 1t a half bushel of
lime. Slack it by pouring water over it,
boiling hot, and in sufficient quantity to
cover it five inches deep, and stir it briskly
till thoroughly Stacked. When slacaing has
been effected, dissolve in water and add two
pounds os sulphate of zinc and one of COM
mon salt. These will cause the wash to
harden, and prevent it cracking, which gives
an unseemly appearance to the work. If
desirable, a beautiful cream color may be
communicated to the above wash by adding
three pounds of yellow ochre, or a good pearl
or lead color by the addition of lamp, vine
or ivory black. For fawn color, add four
pounds of umbe--Turkish or American, tho
latter is the cheaper-one pound of Indian
red and one pound of common lampblack
This wash may be applied with common
whitewash brush, and will be found much
superior, both in appearance and durability
to common whitewash.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
The System Of IIorse-Shoeing,

The Paris correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph gives the following account of a
new system of shoeing horses, the invention
OF Paris blacksmith:
Instead of the shoe being placed-fre-
Guently much too hot-on the hoof and
burning its own resting place, the outside
of the hoof is cut away round the foot to
about the depth of half an inch this leaves
ledge into which the shoe fits, and is then
flush with the frog, which just touches the
ground and the whole foot rests on the
ground instead of being raised, as of old, by
the shoe. The visible advantages of this
are-that the foot is little pared, and that,
instead of a great heavy shoe, the animal is
shod in what are little more than racing
plates. The advantages by theinventor are,
that the horse never slips, that the shoe
allows the foot to expand naturally, and
that it lasts as long, and is as cheap as the
old plan. We naturally objected that the
foot was less protected, and consequently
more liable to injury; to which the inventor
replied that horses in state of nature have
no shoes, that the frog hardens, and that
he has been for months shoeing the Paris
omnibus horses, which pass over very rough
streets, in his new fashion, and with great
success.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
TERMS OF AnvEnrrsuN...
The Round Table illustrates the yrioo

The Round Table illustrates the vulgar
| passion for notoriety which has come to be
such an Americanism by saying that it
knew man who was detected in dis.
graceful theft, and the affair was to have
been quietly hushed. But he begged hard
to make public confession, on the score of
conscience as he pursuaded himself, but
most obviously for the sake of notoriety.
This passion is being directly fostered by
the so-called ladies who make heroes of
murderers, and lionize seducers who may be
unfortunate" enough to be convicted.
The old fashioned custom of rejecting q
man as juror on the trial of capital of
Tenders because he has been intelligent
enough to read the newspaper reports of the
case and sane enough to form an opinion on
the basis of those reports, is, we rejoice to
see, falling at last into disuse. In the choice
Of the jury for trying Probst, in Philsdel-
phia, the Court admitted as jurors those of
the panel, who, notwithstanding the forma-
ton of an opinion, answered that they
would be governed in their verdict by the
evidence before the Court. This is q deci-
sion of q common sense.
The Government has given the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company the contract to
carry the mails to China at $500,000 per
annum for ten years. The ships now build
ing in New York are 800 feet in length, with
5000 horsepower. They will cost 81, ,0O0,-
900 each, and be incomparably the finest
vessels in the world. On the first of Janu-
ary, 1867, they commence running monthly
from Sanfrancisco to Shanghai, with q
branch to the Sandwich Islands,
1t is rumored that Hon. Edward Cooper,
private Secretary to the President, will short
ly wed Mrs. Slower, the widowed daughter
of President Johnson.
A curious accident happened on Broad
way, N. Y, on Friday afternoon. A man tear
ing down the sidewalks of seven story house
near Broome street, partially suspended from
rope tied around his body, missed his foot
ing on the wall, and was nearly hung to
death before being rescued, the rope having
slid over his waist to his neck, where the
moose frightened. a.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-09
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1866.
OLD SERIES, VOL. 26, NO. 35.

! He approached the bed, bent over il. and
said, Il fear it is too late i -.
Perhaps not answered. AT ali
events, make every possible effort
"He did, of course, everything in his pow.
er; but in few minutes he dessted, say.
ing, as he shook his head, A little, and !
have reason to believe, only little too
late.' - ...
"Since that time," st. Clair resumed, Il
have never known a moments peace NV
wife's tears for her father fell on my heart
like drops of fire. Each look she gave me
seemed to read my inmost thoughts. She
never spoke that did not imagine she was
about to accuse me of my crimes. Her pre-
sence became oppressive. Withdrew from
her and from her society. fancied men
looked suspiciously upon me. l had no
companionship but with conscience
"At length Agnes sickened and died.
She left me the whole of her fortune, and
married again. But the curse of double
murder was upon me. The evening on the
river, and the old mans death. chamber, are
eternally presented to my fancy, and leave
me no rest.
"You have now heard all {; aud now, may
ask, are you ready to frame my will as
have directed? I am possessed of quarter
VI " o.iei ~ " IuC
heirs of those originally entitled to it."
could not but admit the justice of the
proposed restitution; but, with some diff
Guilty, prevailed on the wretched man to Sc
cure moderate competency to his wife and
children.
1t grew late. ...
"Henry st. Claire" said I, rising to take
my leave, ''let this subject now drop forev-
er There are remedies for the stinps of
conscience; apply yourself to Them, and you
may yet pass years of happiness in the soci-
ETY. of your family"
81 know there are remedies" he answered /;
"and will not fail to seek their aid"
Not many days afterwards / received a
letter announcing the death of my unhappy
friend. He was found lying lifeess on the
floor Of his chamber, with an empty phial
clutched in his stiffened fingers, which left
no doubt as to the remedy by which he had
sought to quiet an accusing conscience,