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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
To Keep off ChilIs.

The Alexandria Gazette gives q
few rules for the avoidance Of ague;
First, do not go into the open
air before breakfast. Second, keep
out of the night air as much az
possible. Third, sleep with the
window closed no matter how cool
and inviting the night air may be.
These rules well observed will keep
off chills. Those who cannot OBJ
serve them can have ague and take
qulnine. If objection is made that
individuals are known who violate
all these rules and escape ague, it
is only necessary to say that there
are some persons who will not take
anything, who pass inharmed
amongst cases of smallpox, yellow
fever, and other violent CONTAGIOUS
diseases. .''.'o
Thick foliage it seems intercepts
and absorbs miasma, as it is said,
swiftly running streams. It has
been observed that residences in
aguish localities, surrounded
thickly by trees, were exempt un-
til the trees were cut away, when
the residents were attacked as their
unprotected neighbors were previ-
ousIy. A cheerful fire burning on
the hearth, morning and evening,
will tend to dissipate miasma. A
prominent medical gentleman, for.
merly a resident of New Orleans,
states thath kept off yellow fever
by this simple means when it was
raging in that city, though hourly
exposed to it. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
A Specimen Carpet-Bag.
ger.

A few weeks ago a paragraph
went the rounds showing how @
loyal carpet-bagger in South Caro-.
lima raised the wind by inducing
the negroes to believe that itswas
necessary for them to be married
right away, and that he was a
man to do it for a liberal fee. 1t
was said that the fellow raised a
considerable sum by this neat
"Yankee trick" and prospered SO
we'll that he was elected to repre-
sent a district of that reconstruc ted
State in Congress. We have since
heard more of this fellow. 1t
seems that he belongs in Massa-
chusetts, where he was known as
B. E. Whittemore. He followed
the occupation of book-keeper in
the Bay State, but his employers
found that he was inclined to
''keep" money that did not belong
to him, and he found it for his
health to go South. How many
were victimiged by him we do not
know, but have heard Of two
One was a Boston house, where he
was detected in stealing, and a
portion of the "swag" was taken
from his pockets by the police
He then emigrated to Waltham,
where something transpired which
led to an inquiry into his an
quiry into his antecedents and he
found it for his advantage to take
sudden departure, taking with
him about thousand dollars of
his employers money. The next
heard of him, he turns up "loy-
al member of Congress from South
Carolina, made 20 by the votes of
confding colored sovereigns. He
is noble specimen of the genus
carpet-bagger, and of such is our
Congress to be composed through
reconstruction. Candor compete
US to add, that we regard him as
honest and respectable as a good
share of the members sent by the
same party from the North. The
thieves are not confined to the
carpet-baggers, by any means
Mor1oich Conn., Advertiser.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
VOL XV---N0. s..
What it Costs to keep q
Hotel.

| The New York correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette writes :
Speaking of hotels, do you know
how extensively the accounts Of q
frst-class establishment foot up in
the course OF year3 The bills
of irst-class hotel for supplies
are enough to support good many
small families, especially if they
practice economy, and don't keep
dogs and horses and Saratoga
trunks. For example, I will give
you some items from the balance
sheet of the Astor House, the old
est first-class hotel in the city
The Astor House pays seventy-fve
thousand dollars for groceries, in
cluding $4,000 for -four and
S22,00 for butter. who would
suppose that its butter would cost
nearly three times as much as it's
flour2 but SO they tell me,) The
marketing bill is about $l50,0O0
they pay one man from S55, 900
to 100000 for beef alone, and the
balance of the hundred and fifty
goes for mutton, veal, pork, poul-
try, vegetables, fish, etc. The
milk and cream for the Astor cost
SD, 900, about two-thirds of it be,
ing for milk and one-third for
cream. Eggs cost about $4,000,
the average use being one hundred
dozen daily, or twenty-six thou
sand annually. The gas bill is
Sl4, 1000, and the coal bill pretty
much the same; friction matches
cost dollar and half a day, or
about $500 a year; good many
Of these are not used in the house,
but find their way into the pockets
of the patrons. Who wonld think
of paying for wooden toothpicks
when any body can whittle one
with little trouble? A million are
used every year in the, Astor
House, at an expense of something
less than a hundred dollars
Brown tissue paper, cut to about
the size of common note sheets,
costs about twelve hundred dol
lars, and sometimes great deal
more, according to the patronage
the house has received. The bill
for liquors for the bar-room is q
heavy one, but fortunately for the
proprietors, the amount received
from patrons is great deal more.
With all these figures staring him
in the face, man who can keep q
hotel is entitled to all the praise
of his fellow-citizens, and can be
set down in the list of philanthro-
pists and practical benefaetors Of
his race.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

THE CONFEDERATE DEAD AT Ell
MIRA, New YoRK.-The Southern
people will be gratifed to read
the following statement by the
correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch:
/ went to Elmira last Sunday,
and strolled over the burying
grounds where two thousand nine
hundred poor Confederates are at
rest. The grounds are orderly
and neat; each grave has head.
stone, on which are recorded the
name, company, regiment and
State of the deceased, and also a
register number, which tallies
with like number in the regis
ter book where full particulars of
each one are recorded. Most of
the deaths are 1864 and 1865;
many from North Carolina, the
fourteenth, and of Cobb's Legion.
I noticed new headstones were
being put up where there are signs
of rotten ones, and the whole
showed fully as much care as the
United States Government takes
with their own dead. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
TetupIe Of the #msss.
The Hearts secrets,

A wild, wet night! The driving sleet
Blurs all the lamps along the quay:
The windows shake; the busy street
Is yet alive with hurrying feet:
The wind raves from the sea! al
Solet it rave! My lamp burns bright;
|. My long days work is almost done;
curtain out each sound andsight--
Of all nights in the year. tonight
Ichoose to be alone.
81 se.A 18d 1te
Alone, with doors and windows fast,
Before my open desk stand \
Alas ! can twelve long months be past,
My hidden, hidden wealth, since last
Iheld thee in my hand?
So, there it lies From year to year
/ see the ribbon change the page
Turn yellewer; and the very tear
That blots the writing, disappear
And fade away with age! ID
Mine eyes grow dim when they behold
The precious trlfes boarded there
A ring of battered Indian gold.
A withered hairbell, and a fold
OF sunny chestnut hair.
Not all the riches of the earth,
Not all the treasures of the sea,
Could buy these house-gods from my hearth !;
And yet the secret of their worth
Must live and die with me.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
Oath Of the Loyal League.

Mr.. Evans, the late Secretary
of the Loyal League at Jackson,
Miss, who has renounced his con-
nection with the vile institution,
exposes the secrets and diaboli-
cal rules of the order, among
which is the following oath
81 do solemnly swear, in the
presence of Almighty God, and
these members, and on the Decla-
nation of Independence, that l
will protect and defend the prin-
ciples set forth by the Republi-
can party, and support none but
reliable Union men for Offices, and
that will defend the principles
of the Republican party against
all foreign and domestic foes, and
pledge my life, sacred honor and
danger, TO face the dagger at my
heart in defense of the principles
of The League"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
A Meriden (Conn.l spe

A Meriden (Conn.) speculator,
tearing a crisis some years ago,
turned his property over to his
wife, and she being jealous of him
land with good cause, It's said,) }
has ever since refused to give il
I'D. Even now, after her death,
by the provision of her will, he
can only have the income of the
property and that only so long as
he remains widower, the prop
erfy in the case of his marriage to
90 TO oneio of the churches of that
place.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
PEN PICTURES.

A row of bright little faces,
A patter Of dear little feet,
And loving arms closely entwining,
Mothers warm kisses to meet.
Three little cups on thetable,
Three little chairs by the wall,
Three little curly heads nestled,
Each on its pillow so small.
All! who can not read me this riddle of joy;
They're mother's own darlings, each dear little
boy.
Three little tear-stained faces,
Little bare unwashed feet,
Shripkingly, timidiy stealing,
In terror, lest blows they meet.
Bare dry bread on the table,
Cold hard bench by the wall,
Straw, and scanty torn blanket,
That will hardly cover them all.
No kisses tonight on each little brow;
God pity and help them! They're motherless
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
An Orators Trick.

Mrs. Lydia Maria Child tells the
following anecdote of Edward
| Everett:
"When Mr.. Everett was pre-
pairing lecture or address he is
said to have been in the habit of
arranging everything very care
fully before hand. On one occa-
sion, when about to deliver a
speech at Lexington in comme-
moration of the battle on the 10Th
of April, l775, he inquired wheth-
er any one who had fought on
that occasion was still living. Be-
ing informed that one old man
survived, he called upon him, and
after some conversation concern
ing the events of the Revolution,
he said:
'In my address / shall make
an allusion to. those who fought
at the battle Of Lexington. /
want you to sit in front of me,
and when I begin to allude to those
heroes l want you to stand up"
The old soldier obeyed his in
structions; but as soon as he arose
from his seat, Mr.. Everett extend
ed his arms as the statue now
does, and exclaimed: 81
"Sit down, venerable sir! Sit
down. 1t is for. Us to stand in
your presence
The aged man obeyed the di-
rection, but in the simplicity Of
his heart he was quite bewilder-
ing by such contrary orders. He
had no idea how effects were pro-
dpced in oratory, and he after
wards said to friend:
81 don't know what Mr.. Everett
meant. First, he told me to get
up, and then when ! got up he
told me to sit down."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

At Tiffin, Ohio, last Sunday. a
physician succeeded in amputat-
ing the leg of a tiger which had
been viciously chawed and mu-
tilated in a fight with panther.
After tying down the tiger and
supplying him with chloroform, he
was taken from the cage and his
fore paw cut off to the satisfac-
ton of the owners of the show.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

.bAGalifornia paper speaks of an
enterprising and highly successful
murderer, as having va wonderful
talentIfor bereaving any family he
does not happen to like aods ,ai
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

More than one hundred acres
Of land in the vicinity Of Lyons,
Ionia county; Mich.,, are planted
in peppermint, and . one thousand
pounds Of pure oil have been
made thus far this season. a9oa sh
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

Charleston papers notice as the
first instance Of the kind ever
known, that the rice birds which
are SO destructive to the crops
have in several cases deserted the
rice fields and commenced a. vig-
orous attack on the caterpillar in
the cotton fields.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

A homesick dog recently travel
led 900 miles, and got back to his
old home in Missouri by instinct.
After November there will be an
exodus of homesick two legged
dogs from the South, hunting their
kennels much farther off.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

1t gives one an idea of the ex-
tent to which billiard playing is
carried in this country, to read that
a single billiard table mandatory
in New York employs more than
400 men; and that it had on hand
at one time three hundred finished
tables, and four hundred 10 process
reconstruction. gss5sq
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15
PhySic in China.

During the recent visit to this
country of the Chinese Ambassa-
dors, one of them stated, in reply
to the inquiries of a physician,
that it was not customary in Chi
ma, except among the lower class
of people, for the doctor to see or
touch female patients. In order
to ascertain the pulse of the sick
woman, string is tied around her
wrist and extended outside the
window to the doctor, who holds
the string between thumb and fin
ger, and by this sort of telegraph
is enabled to count the pulsations.
This seems a.ludicrous plan, but
it is far less mischievous than our
custom of admitting men doctors
to the private apartments of fe-
males. The opportunities for the
medical education of females in
this country are yearly increasing,
and we hope the day is not far dis
tant when the ladies will be able
to rout the men from the sick
room, and compel them to stand
out in the cold, under the window
sills. In China only women nur-
ses attend during child birth.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

There Isl il 4 house in Brooklyn
occupied by a fifth wife and FIVE
'mothers.ih-law. ahe
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

A man in Massachusetts, has
lost the sight tof an eye from being
bitten by a spider,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

Five hundred lawyers have
been added to the list in New
York city within . year. rsinaf
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-15

An old nof. 60, Benz. Tea.
chnnt by name, residing at Eagle,
New York, has been convicted of
poisoningrhis wife, and sentenced
to be hung. ), The condemned is
weil-to-do farmer, and long mem.
Der of the Baptist church. His
wife had become an invalid, and
and as he thought, burden which
it were yell to- be rid of. The
sickly wife not giving satisfactory
intimaticn Of dying soon enough
to Q satisfy the wish Of the old
wretch, he expedited matters by
administering poison from time
TO time, mixing the same with
her anodynes. oe
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
4ALLIPOLIs, OHIO, MARCH 12, 1868

poor child lying bound upon the
grass, who, however, was too much
terrified to give them any account Of
Whist had happened.
Haenchen, in few words, told all,
and then her spirit, which had sus
tanned her through such scenes OF
terror. gave way under a sense OF
safety and relief, and she fell faintine
in their arms, and was with much
difficulty recovered. The machinery
of the mill was at once stopped and
the inanimate rulfisii dragged from
his dreadful prison; Heinrich, too,
was brought from the rniller's cham
Der, aud both in shert time we're
sent bound under astrong guard to
Bonn, where they soon after met
the reward of their crimes.
The story of this extraordinary
presence of mind concludes by tell
ing us that Haenchea, thus efiectual.
ly cured of her penchant for her un-
worthy suitor, became the eventually
the wife of the miller's eldest son,
and thus lived sll her life in the
scene of her imminent danger and
happy delIverance.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
Anscdots Of shermen

When Gen. Sherman wac at Atla,
ta preparing for his famous ~march
to the sea-" an order was promnlqst-
e6, directing all civilians 10 leave
Atlanta North or Seeih) within
twelve days. The day Of its issue a
gentleman entered Sherman's Office
and inquired for the General The
latter answered very promptly, s.I
ana Gen. Sherman I" The eolloauy
was nearly as follows:
Citizen-General, lam a Northern
man, from the State Of Connecticut.
have heen living at Atlanta for near
ly SIX years; have accumulated con-
siderable property here, and as I
see you have ordered all citizens to
leave within twelve days, came to
see If you would not make an excep-
ton in my case. / fear, if leave, nv
property viii be destroyed.
Shermsn--What kind of property
do you own, sir? Perhaps I wlll
make an exception in your case, sir.
Citizen i own e bleck Of stores,
three dwellings, a plantation two
miles out of towr, and foundry.
Sherman-Foundry, eh! what have
you been doing with your foundry?
Citizen-Have been making cast
ings.
Sherman-What kind of castings?
Shot and shell, and all that kind of
things?
Citizen-Yes, 1 have made some
shot and shell.
Sherman-You have been making
shot and she'll to destroy your eoun.
try, have ysu? and yen still claim
favor on account Of being a Northern
man! Yes, sir, / will make an ex-
ception in your case; yen shall 60
South to morrow at sunrise. Adju-
tant, see that this order is carried
out. Orderly, show this man the
door.
Citizen--But, General, can't go
North?
Sherman-Ne, sir Too many of
your class there already, sir.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
JANUARY 22p, 1876.

Resolyed, unanimously, That Paul
Fearing. Esq, Doct. Jabsz True and
Ephraim Cutler, be committee to
estimate the value of the lands in
Campus Martius, and the garden lots
annexed to the private houses built
in that square; and, thst they report
to this meeting at 2 2o'clock, this af.
ternoon. x
The aforesaid committee reported
as fellows:
GENTs:-Your committee appoint
ed to assess the price the proprietors
of houses in Campus Martins ough,
to pay the Ohio Company for the
garden lots affixed to their heuses,
the proprieters having the land on
which their houses stand without
further consideration, beg leave 70
report, that those proprietors who
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
Curious Medley,

By the lake where dropped the willow,
Row. vassals. row:
want to be an angel,
And jump Jim Grow.
An old crow sat on hickory limb,
None knew him but to praise;
let me kiss him for his mother
For he smells of SehReitzer kase.
The minstrel to the war has gone,
With his banjo on his knee; 9
Be aNoke ta hear the SHREK
There's light in the window for three.
a frog he would wooiDg go,
His hair was curled TO kill;
: He used to wear an old gray coat,
And the sword Of Bunker Hillr
on in the Silly night,
Make way for liberty he cried;
won't go home till morning.
With Peggy by my side
am dying. Egypt. dying,
SasaDnah. don't you cry;
Know how sublime thing il is f--.s
= To brush away the blue tailed ~.
The hoy stood on the bnrning deck.
With his baggage checked for Troy;
One of the few immortal names,
His name was Pat Malloy.
Mary had little lamb.
He could a tale unfold;
He had no teeth 10 eat a hoe cake,
As his spectaeles were goid.
Lay on lay on. Macduf.
ian wants but little here below,
And T'm to be queen of May,
So kiss me quick and go. -
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
w The Nation, writing about the

1 The Natlon, Wrising apout tne
"Crisis at Washington" says Mr..
johnson "has the satisfaction OF
knowing that he has now nobody to
say word for him, and that there is
not a man left in the country who
does not think him either fool or q
knave. His disappearance
from the scene will new be heart
felt relief to everybody" This is
cutie near the truth of the matter
Not being ''availablep to any party
as an official, the individual Andrew
johnson has become of no account.
The Nation puts another point terse-
ly, thus:
"If every court in the country next
month pronounced the Tenure OF
Office act unconstitutional, 1t would
not in the least improve Mr.. John
sons position. What he is about to
be tried for is not only his disobe-
dience to the law, for OF this deci
sion tha. the law was unconstitutional
that is, null and void-psigh alb
solve him, but this taking upon him
self the functions of the Judiciary,
and deciding for himsel. that IL was
unconstitutional, and acting in his
official capacity under his own ruling.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
~ The Cbevenne nanars cIai

w The Cheyenne papers. claim
that besides gold. the territory of
Wyoming is rich in the baser metals
Copper, iron and lead are found in
inexhaustible quantities siong the
base of the mountains for long dis
tance from the Colorado line north
Good servieeahle coal can be found
in quantities to suit all over the Lar
annie Plains, in which same neigh
borhood a goodly sprinkling of oil
and mineral springs have been re
ported In the new Territory the
agriculturist will find excellent farm
ing lands contiguous to m untain
ranges, which will always afford
good markets for the produce he may
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12
mJeFDavis was in New Orleans

W JEFF Davis was in New Orleans
on Wednesday. The fire companies
were out on parade that day, and all,
as they passed the st. Charles Hotel,
gave him repeated cheers. AS they
passed Gen. Hancock's headquarters
they took off their hats, and their
bands played the Bonnie Blne Flag
In spite of the untiring efforts Of the
President to commend the flag with
thirty six stars, or upward, to public
affection, bunting of that pattern con-
Times singularly scarce in New Or
leans. In the parade, bat six out OF
thirty companies carried the fag OF
the United States.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-12

hold lots Nos. l, 2, 5, 4 and 5, paw
sixty-six cents per square rod, that
those who hold lots Nos. 6, I, s, 8
and 10, pay seventy.five cents per
square rod, and those who hold lots
Nos. II, II, 13, IA, Is, 1e. II and Is.
pay forty cents per square rod.
All of which is humbly submitted
BY your humble servants.
p. FEARING,
j. True,
Z. CUTLER.
MARIETTA, Jan. ODD, 1876.
Resolved, that their report be &C
oepted.
ResolUed. That Genl Rufus Put.
nam and Benz. /. Gilman, ESQ.,, the
committee appointed to sell all the
unappropriated lands in the pur-
chase, be directed to convey to the
several proprietors, the house lots
and garden lots contained in said re-
port.