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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
A School-house full Of
Scholars Struck by
Lightning
[From the Dubuque Times, June II

From the Dubuque Times, June u
While the storm was at its
height, the Methodist Church at
Savanna, Illinois, used as a school
house was struck by lightning
The school had been'dismissed and
the scholars were standing about
the doorway waiting tor the
storm to subside, when a bolt of
fire struck the gable end of the
church, tearing off the siding
ten feet in width, reaching the
lower sill and moving a large guam
tity of plastering on the inside,
while the door castings were shiv-
cred into fragments and the floor
was covered with ruins.
At the time of the accident, as
we have before stated, the scholars,
about sixty in number, were hud-
died together in the doorway, and
every one was more or less injured.
One small boy had his boot taken
of, and was thrown down by the
shock, but soon recovered, picked
up his boot and started for home.
Miss Emily Sinclair had both
shoes torn off from her feet, the
lightning in its course going near
the instep down to the sole, leav-
ing zigzag tear around 10 the
heel. The eyelets in the shoes
were melted, while the feet of the
girl were badly blistered, but,
strange to say, the shock made
her insensible but for a few mo-
ments. A Saxton was seriously
hurt, his body being badly blistered,
but hopes are entertained of his re.
covery. One of the citizens sitting
in a doorway fifty feet from the
church, was knocked down for a
moment, but as soon as he could
recover himself he rushed over
and found four children apparent
ly lifeless. They were carried
home, and remained in that state
for hours, but were finally resusci.
tated. The affair, as may be i'm.
agined, caused great excitement,
and fathers and mothers, whose
little ones CHANGED to be in the
church, were almost bereft Of rea,
son.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A remarkable incident hap
pened to the wife of Rev. P. w. Ish,
of Springfield, Pa, last week, by
which the substance of a dream
was verified. On Monday night
Mrs. Ish dreamed that a brother
of hers employed in a saw mill
had been killed. Something in
the nature of the dream led her to
relate it in the morning to her
family and neighbors, and before
night she received a telegram sum-
moning her to attend the funeral
of her brother, who had been sud.
denly killed, as foretold in her
dream.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
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MANUFACTURED BY
The Mason & Hamlin
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and fine quality and variety of tone, and in
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STYLE Give Octaves Five Stops. viz:
Viola, Diapason, Melodia, Flute Tremu-
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STYLE Alive Octaves. One Stop. viz:
Tremulans. Price, $3.50.
| So 4 liberal discount from above prices Il
Churches Clergyman and Sunday Shoo's.
! Circulars with illustrations sent to any
address.
Also an Illustrated Catalogue of the Mason
& Hamlin Cabinet Organs, FREE, to any one
desiring it. Address
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Opinion of ColfaX in the
West.

The Cleveland Plaindea7er says
of Colfax that he is ga politician
by trade, and is notorious in In
diana as chronic Office beggar;"
that he twas elected to Congress
in 1854 by the 'Know-Nothing'
party, and he was one of the bit
terest, loud-mouthed defamers of
our foreign-born fellow citizens in
that memorable campaign ;" and
that she is best known as a mere
partisan intriguer, as full of Rad
ical bitterness as Old Thad, him
self, and possessed of neither
strength or comprehensiveness of
mind, nor generosity of DISPOSE
ton"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The Freedman's Bureau is
to be prolonged another year in the
South. Cost to the people, fifteen
millions Of dollars. Object, half q
million OF colored votes land at
least seventy votes in the electoral
college) for the proper candidate.
That Bureau employs 7O3 clerks
and agents whose salaries sum up
$500, $40 year, with ''pickings,'
ETC., not mentionable. Each pc.
litical party, in the good old times,
used to pay its own expenses, get
out its own campaign documents,
pay its own stump-speakers, and
SO on, but now the majority in
Congress makes the treasury pay
for all on one side, and puts the to-
tai into the national debt. The
other side of the political house
(the out siders) has to pay its own
debts. A few years ago the
people would not have looked on
alphabetically at such misconduct.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

acter, and should not be in rights,
we urge upon all white voters to
maintain their superiority upon
all occasions, and not degrade
themselves to the level of brutes.
We are willing to grant the ne
gro the property he makes, and
protect him in it. We would
grant him rights suitable to his
condition under the law, and its
full protection, but none of his
governing if you please. The
South, in what the abolitionists
would call its worst days, always
granted this much, and would be
willing still to do SO, if they were
not so oppressed, and these and
other things demanded with Sc
much impatdence.
But we call upon. all white
men to give Radicalism its quietu'
by all lawful and honorable means
Show up the dangerous tendency
of such principles. Let the Radi
cal himself see he is treading per
ilous path, and if he does not care
for honesty he will probably re
gard his own safety. Let the ne
gro see that it can only result il
their utter extinction. And lie
all prepare next November for tn
final and glorious burial Of tn
Radical party.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Real Estate Transfers.

The following transfers of real
estate have been registered since
our last:
W. W. Gill to James Fulton,
lot in Fayetteville-$2,l 100.
Joseph Stubblefeld, declaration
of homestead.
c. C. Boyd and James Fl. Bell
to B. F. Ramsey, lot in Fayette-
ville-SSSS so.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The body of Willie Holmes,
drowned in White River, Indiana,
seveal weeks ago, was ploughed
up in a cornfeld, five miles below
indianapolis last week, where it
had been deposited by the high
water.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

nE The report of bloody
collision between the Kuklux and
negroes at Chapel Hill proves, on
investigation, to be greatly exag-
gerated. Shots were exchanged,
thenegroes retreating toward Shell
byville and Murfreesboro. No
blood shed, as far as known.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
H. Messrs. Gordon & Steele

b. Messrs. Gordon & Steele
are hard at work repairing their
mill-dam-it having been breach
ed by the water short time
will soon have it in
good order again, after which
they will be ready to grind wheat
and corn and card wool in a man.
ner not to be surpassed. So they
say.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The whole congregation at a
church in Napierville, Illinois, was
poisoned on Sunday, the 9TH inst.
1t appears the members were cele-
brating a love-feast. The meal
had been prepared in a copper
kettle, and allowed to remain in
it all day, till the liqnid had be-
come oxydized. The scene that
followed beggars description. In
different parts of the church
were the sufferers; some sitting,
some lying on the floor, and all
the most excruelatlng
pains. Medical assistance was at
once summoned, but it was long
time before the entire number
(about one hundred and thirty
could be attended to. About
twenty of the number were re-
garded as in a dangerous condi-
ton, but none have, as yet, died,
and it is hoped that all will re-
cover.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
More New Goods.

l have now got a new supply of
fresh goods purchased last week,
and [ have made up my mind to
sell them to the first one that comes
along with the money. My assort-
ment is good. | am still taking
Corn in exchange for goods.
May %, 1868. Z. ]. GRAY.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
E~ A Georgian, who got dis

E& A Georgian, who got dis
satisfied with the situation at
home, took the western fever,
and reached Omaha, Kansas. He
writes home to Macon, the follow
ing word to young men, which we
copy with the remark, that, if
they will work the soil or in the
shop at home, they'll Improve
the country, and the country will
in turn improve them. 1t is
not necessary to 60 to Omaha,
Honduras, Brazil or any other
region to work, when that is all
that is needed to make Tennessee
improve:
And now a word to the young
men South who have Omaha Fe-
yer. Cure it at once: Omaha is
no place for you. If you have
the nerve and endurance to stand
alone and undergo hardships; in
short, if you are a manly resolved
young man, the West offers great
inducements. Come to Kansas,
to Nebraska, to Colorado; come to
work, to improve the country, and
the country will in turn improve
you.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

At Central depot, on .the Vir-
ginia and Tennessee Railroad, a
few days ago, aman named Charles
Holloway was soundly caned by
a young lady whom he had SIAN
dered.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
b. M.HAICHER
North side of the Square,
In the lGVly-fttGd Room next Door TO
WRIGHT 8 TRMMTEAM'S,

WRIGHT 8 TRMMTEAMSS,
rs now receiving a new and very
j desitable stock Of Spring and
Summer Goods Of the latest styles,
embracing general variety Of sta
pie and fancy Dry Goods, ready
made Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats.
ladies and gent's,) Queens aud
Hardware; in fact, all the leading
articles usually kept iu a frst-class
retail house. Thankful! for The pa
tronage extended since i have been
in Fayetteville, hope by strict at
tention TO business, and a good
stock of Goods at as low prices as
they can be purchased in the market
TO merit liberal patronage. Call
and examine ny stock. Mr.. w.
w. Perry, well known to the people
Of this community, can be found at
all times behind my counter, ard
would be GLAD to have bis cid friends
and former customers call on him.
The usual Barter Of the country ia:
ken in exchange for Goods.
aprill6 B. NJ. HATCHER;
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A colored woman in Washing
ton is under arrest tor stealing the
dead body of her husband, valued
at $500. The body was claimed
by another colored female as her
property, she being the youngest
wife of the defunct African.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

Lh@ James 81. Woods & Co.
have a good supply of fresh meat ev-
cry morning, which they are ready
to deliver at the residences of Gus
toners, after market hours, they
having first selected the pieces
they wish. st.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

@. The bill removing disa-
bilities from many citizens of this
and other Southern States, passed
the Senate on the 18th. 1t has
gone to the House.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A Berlin newspaper asserts that
the opinion widely prevails in
Paris that war viii break out in
Europe before the close of next
autumn.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
GREAT DlSfRIBU Ti0N.
by the Metropolitan Gift Co.
Cash Gifts to the Amount Of s25O,000.
EVERY TICKET DRAWS A PRIZE.


Fine Oil Paintings. Framed Engravings, Sill
assortment Of Fne Gold Jcwelry, in all
valued at
s..0OO,OOo
A CHANCE TO DRAW ANY OF TIE
ABOVE PRIZES by purchasing Sealed
Ticket for 25 Cts. Tickets describing each
Prize are sealed in Envelopes and thoroughly
mixed. On receipt Of Is cts. Sealed Ticket
viii be drawn without choice and delivered
at our office, OF sent by mail to any address
The prize named upon it will be delivered
to the ticket holoer on payment Of ONE
DOLLAR. Prizes will be Immediately sent
to any address. as requested, by express or re-
turn mail.
YOU WILL KNOW WHAT YOUR
PRIZE IS BEFORE YOU PAY FOR IT.
Any Prize may be exchanged for another of I'll,
same pa',Ie, NO BLANKS.
T Our patrons can depend on fair deal
ing.
REFERENcEs.--We select the few follow
ing names from the many who have lately
drawn Valuable Prizes and kindly permitted
US to publish them:
S. 7. Wilkins, Buffalo, New York, 81 900
Miss Annie Monroe, Chicago, ILL.,, Pia o VAL
ned at $3.50, Robt. jackson, Dubuque, Iowa
Gold Watch. $3.50 Philip Mccarthy, Lou
isville, KY, Diamond Cluster Ring, $500; r
A. Patterson, New Bedford, Mass, Silver
Tea Set. Sl75: Miss Emma Walworth. Mil
waukee, Wis, Piano, $500; Rev. I. w. Pitt
Cleveland, Ohio. Melodeon, Sl25.
~ We publish no names without per-
mission.
OPINIONS OF THE PREss.--"They are doing
the largest business the firm is reliable, and
deserve their SUGGEST Weekly Tribune, Feb
%, 1868.
I'VE have examined their system ant
know them to be fair dealing firm IN
Y. Herald, Feb. 8. 1868.
Last week friend Of ours drew a $50
prize. which was promptly received"--Dai
ly Nea0s, Mar. g. 1868.
Send for circular giving many more refer
ences and favorable notices from the press
Liberal Inducements TO agents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Every package of Sealed En-
velopes contains ONE CASH GIFT. Six ticket
for 81; Is for g: 35 for s; ITO for SIS.
All letters should be addressed to HAIR.
PER, WILSON & CO., 173 Broadway, N
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Medical IIIumination,

EOUR Maguifcently illustrated Medical
IL Books, containing Important Physiolog-
ical Information for Men and Women, sent
free on receipt of Is cents. by addressing DR..
John Vanderpool, No. 80 Clinton Place, New
York City.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

D& Yesterday was a gala
day with the Masons. The fes-
tival is in progress as we 60 to
press.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

~ On Saturday last Presi-
dent johnson vetoed the Southern
reconstruction bill. The same day
the House PASSED it over the veto.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
For the Fayetteville Observer.
Text and Commentary.


"Third. We denounce all forms
of reputation as a national crime
prolonged cheering and national
honor requires the payment of
public Indebtedness in the utmost
good faith to all conditions at
home and abroad, not only accord
ing to the letter, but the spirit of
the laws under which it was con-
tracted. Applause. = Chicago
Radical Platform.
Thad. Stevens, the Radical dri-
yer and chairman of the Commit
tee of Ways and Means in the
Radical House of Representatives,
is reported to have said in a de-
bate in the House during the
present session of Congress, in
reference to the United States 5.
l20 bonds:
"By the terms Of the laao asnde,
schich they aeere issued, the Interest
is payable IN coin, and the princt.
pal IS payable az LEGAL CURRENCY. .
John Sherman, Senator from
Ohio, and chairman of the Com.
mittee of Finance, in the United
States Senate, in a letter address
ed to Hon. A. Mann, jun, Brook
Ilyn Heights, on the Goth of March.
1868, says:
| "My construction of the law
lis the result of careful eXamina
|tion, and | feel quite sure an i'm
partial court would confirm it it
the cause could be tried before
court. l send you my views as
fully stated in a speech. 1oul
idea is that we propose torepudlatt
or violate a promise when we OF
fer to redeem the principal IL
legal tenders.
II think the bondholder violates
his promise when he refuses t.
take the same kind of money be
maid for the bond. If the case
is to be tested by the law, | an
right; if it is to be tested by Jay
Cookies advertisements, an
wrong. T hate reputation OF
anything like it, but we ought mo-
to be deferred from doing what Is
right by fear of undeserved ep
Iithets. If under the law as II
stands, the holder of fve-twentles
can only be paid in gold, then we
are regulators if We propose tc
pay otherwise. If, on the other
hand, the bondholder can legally
demand only the kind of money
he paid, then he is a repudlatol
and an extortioner to demand mo-
ney more valuable than he gave.
John Sherman.
! Thad. Stevens and John Sher.
man, the selected financial chiefs.
one of the House and the other Of the
Senate of the Radical Congress and
party, are clear and explicit in the
expression of their opinions, that
the principal of the United States
five-twenty bonds is payable in
"LEGAL CURRENCY" LEGAL TENDER
greenbacks. And if paid Sin the
utmost good faith to all conditions
at home and abroad, not only ac-
cording to the letter but the
spirit of the laws under which it
was contracted" as the Chicago
Platform declares, it will be in
illegal currency" illegal tenders"
according to the opinions Of Thad.
Stevens and John Sherman.
~ Messrs. Gordon & Steele
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
WANTED-AGENTS.

NE want First Glass Agents to sell the
w new Star Shuttle Sewing Ma.
chine. Price $50 90. $40 90, $50 90, and
SlO0 90, according to style and finish. Ex-
traordipary inducements offered to good sales
men. Send for circular and sample Of sewing
Address d. III. BEACH & CO,
.e4 Second ST., Memphis, Tens
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
RadicaliSm.


We clronicled last week the
hanging of q negro about eight
miles below town in the neighbor-
hood OF Halls Store, for the Of
fence of committing a rape upon a
white woman. The community
said amen to the act-it was just
and right. We know not who did
it, whether Ku-Klux or the imme-
date neighbors, but we feel that
they were only the instruments of
Divine vengeance in carrying out
His holy and immutable DEGREES.
So much for the act itself, but
il has other aspects. We see
moreover in this act the legitimate
fruit of Radical teachings. But
very few Radicals wish their mis-
ehievous doctrines of negro equal
ity carried out in their own per-
sons and families. In fact, they
do not advocate these principles
because they honestly believe in
them, but in order that they may
retain power and keep W deviltry.
They are pretty much as Chief
Justice Chase said of abolitionism
years ago, owe are not abolition
lists because we lore the negro, but
because we hate his master"
But what do these precious Rad
ical worthless teach? That the
Declaration of Independence is lit
orally true, that GALL men are Gre
ated free and EQUAL" that there.
fore the negro should be allowed
to sit on juries, vote and hold Of
fee; that he should be treated in
society like the white man, Gas
men and brethren )" that "due
admixture of the rich blood Of Atri-
Ga with the thinner blood of the
Anglo-SaXon" would be of essen
tial service to our race; and a great
many other things not recognized
as lawful by that musty old doc
cument called the constitution Of
the United States.
Now what is the natural result
Of such teachings, drilled into the
"cullud cuss from Africa" at meet
ings of Union Leagues2 When
the white and the black meet up
ON the same level, is it to be won
dered that the black should consld-
er himself rs entitled to the social
privileges of the former, and en-
deayor to avail himself of them!
Met at the threshold of the fam
ily with loathing and contempt,
their devilish natures are excited,
and they attempt to take what they
cannot obtain otherwise. Happl-
" for the white race, it is in the
majority in this country or we
might have the scenes Of San-Do-
mingo enacted here. IF they knew
they had the power, with such
leaders. who would be safe? 1t
was only the other day a negro
mob paraded the streets OF Wash
ington. We ask again where is
this tending unless it is to negro
and negro ruler
But the negro is not SO much
To blame for this. With but lit
tie mental and moral power and
a great deal of the animal, ne is
easily led by the superior mind
When that leading mind is exert
ed for good, it makes him a hard
working, industrious and faithful
servant, and a most devoted chris
tan when it, is exerted for evil 1t
makes hin very devil. The as
ISOLATION with the superior race
has in this country improved the
blacks, and we are glad to see some
of them doing well, but how long
will it take Radicalism to degrade
them to brutes2
Believing, then, that this is a
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-07

nance them. The Investigation, alter
! the examination of one witness, was
postponed until Monday.
George French, a negro, one hun
dred and six years old, died in Pough-
keepsie yesterday.
The steamship Ocean Queen, from
Aspinwall, arrived this morning.
William S. Pennington, son of the
late Joe. Pennington, and Secretary
of Legation, at Paris, under President
Lincoln, died yesterday, at his late
residence in-Newark.
AT the meeting Of the Board of
Managers of the American Bible
Society, held on Thursday last, grants
of books were made to the Freedmen
Aid Society of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, to the American Bible
Union for distribution by the Baptist
Missionaries in Minnesota, to the
Marine Agent of the New York So
ciety, and to the Brooklyn Bible So
ciety for distribution on board vessels
sailing to foreign ports. Spanish
Bibles and testaments for distribution
in the West. aud various other appro-
priatiOns of money were made for
printing and binding the Scriptures
in Florence and Natal. The entire
2,O3l.
The heavy storm ceased here this
morning.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-07
BE mPHIS.
News from Arkansas-AII QuIet In
Conway COunty-BlOOdy Tragedy
In LeWlSyille, AFkaBsas-SeVePa
White Men and Negr, es Killed.

MEMPHIS, September 5.-Arkansas
papers to the lst are received. They
report everything quiet in Conway
County, and that the belligerents had
been disarmed.
Governor Clayton and Hon. A. Fl
Garland addressed large number of
citizens at Lewisburg on the 18th,
counseling mutual forbearance
The Arkadelphia. Clark County,
Standard of the 29th, has a report
that a bloody tragedy occurred last
week in Lewisville, Lafayette County,
the extreme southwest county in
the State, resulting in the death of
seven negroes and five white men.
The circumstances of the case were
substantially as follows:
A negro man had committed a hOr-
rid outrage upon little girl thirteen
years old, and the citizens executed
summary punishment upon him by
hanging. a brother of the negro
went to town after the execution, aud
behaved himself 10 a very insu' tin g
and riotous manner, and using threats
against those who had hung his broth
er. The people of the place, after
bearing his insults for some time,
hung him also. The negroes then, of
the town and neighborhood, collected
together, to the number of forty or
fifty. and made general attack upon
the town, which was met by the citi-
zens, with the above result.
The crop reports are very encour-
aging. particularly in the southeast
ern portion of the State. The crops
In Auchito and Columbia Counties
are suffering for rain.