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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

Gentlemen who wear wigs should
not consider it necessary, as is often
done. when raising their hats to
ladies, 10 lift the top-plece also-
On a hot day it may be cooi,ng' 90
.bnt ladies have no particular fan
cv for bald heads on the street
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

There is a prospect after ALI
that an era of good feeling may
soon commence in Virginia. A.
Lynchburg paper acknowledges
the receipt of an invitation to Mt
tend weddingin the first colored
circles Of that city, and proposes
to accept it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

!, We have lately heen reading
of person who was killed by a
cork which struck him in the
eye when drawing it. But il the
cork has killed its one man, con-
slider how many the bottle has
killed without a word being said
aboutit r''osi5Lg sd1 et Y,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

The Lord Lieutenant of.Ireland
gets one hundred thousand dollars
1.-THE highest salary, in Great
Britain. Hefhas very little to do
and plenty of assistants to do it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

By a recent law ip England,
parents who neglect, their children
may be sent ~tp~-plisop for six
months and asfinilar penalty is
attached to the husband who fails
to maintain his wife.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

trees in Florida have the
advantage of holding their leaves
all winter, like an evergreen, but
it is a drawback that they bear
no fruit.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

DEAFNEss,-Take five drops of
sassafras oil, hall an ounce of
sweet oil, mix a drop into the ear
once Or twice day. Another.
solution of kreosote is also recon-
mended, the only sensation pro-
duced being an agreeable warmth.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

When about to kiss, instead Of
puckering pp-the mouth, as though
about to-perform ON the fageolet,
says'aT contemporary the lips
should besarrangedsas if going to
pronounce the word "mo- -lasses." !"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12
Earthquakes in Califor-
q MIA.

Heavy shocks Of earthquakes
occurred in San Francisco, Calilor-
MIA, on the 2lst ult. Several
buildings were completely demol-
ished, and considerable number
badly damaged. Five persons
were Killed outright and numbers
were seriously injured by the fall.
ing of chimneys, walls, &c. .lq
The water in the bay, it is said,
was perfectly smooth at tie time
of the shock, and no perceptible
disturbance took place. The
shock was felt on board the ship
ping in the harbor, as if the ves-
sells had struck a rock.
Twelve shocks were felt on
Wednesday, and the shocks con-
tinued until early on Sunday
morning.
The loss is estimated at two
millions of dollars.
In the interior the destruction
is also severe. The villages of
San Leandro and Hayward are
almost in ruins.
The ground cracked open in
many places, and from some of
the assures came clouds of dust,
and from others water gushed out.
The Radical party contains
something over twenty thousand
men who, in the various grades of
the party organization, are recog-
n!zed as ''leaIers. In 1860 the
aggregate possessions of these men
amounted 20 S1,027,000. In
1868, their aggregate possessions
amount to 1874, geo, 600. The
difference is the amount which
their support of the party has en-
abled them to extract from the
substance of the people. Is it
any wonder that they should de-
sire continuance Of so profitable
an occupation as they find the
'cause of loyalty to be?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-12

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, 1868-09-18

Coop NATURED PEOPLE.-Beg good DaturN
ed if you can, for there is no attraction so
great, no charm so admirable. A face that
is full of the expression of amiability is al.
WAYS beautiful. 1t needs no paint and no
powder. Cosmetics are superfuous for it.
Rouge can not improve its checks nor lily
white mend its complexion. Its loveliness
lies beyond all this. 1t is not the beauty
that is skin, n,dcep. For when you gaze into
the face of noble hearted man or woman,
Ii is not the shape of the cheek, the hue of
the lip, or the brilliance of the eye. You
see the nameleSs something which animates
all these and leaves for your instinct sense
Of grateful fascination you see an indescrib-
able embodiment of heartfelt goodness
within, which wins your regard in spite of
external appearance, and defes all the criti>
cal rules of the aesthetic. Cultivate good
nature, therefore. 1t is better chan apples
Of gold set in pictures of silver for gold
will take to itself wings and fly away silver
will tarnish in time, and both, when abund>
ant lose their comparative value; but good
nature never, never loses its worth-never
abandoas its possessor to the mental poverty
of the malicious-uever loses its hold on the
esteem of the world 1t is always in fashion
and always in season. Everybody admires
it. 1t never grows stale. 1t costs little to
acquire, and nothing to keep. Yet it is be-
yond diamonds in its worth to its owners,
and can neither be stolen nor lost, however
neglected. Surely this is jewel that mer-
its a search, and, when found, merits a pro-
lection. Possess yourselves of it, young
women no talisman will find you so bewitch-
ing in the judgment of the sensible among
the otEer sex Secure it, young man, you
could have no better attraction for loving
xopan, and no safer guarantee of domestic
happineSs.
, 1868-09-18
THE RAINBOW.

In jocuud boyhood's gay career,
No care, no blight, no sorrow near,
OFT in wild hope, I've followed on,
Upland and vale, woodland and lawn,
IL eager chase
To gain the space
Where heavens gay arch found resting place
Brcathless, toiled from hill to hill
From bill to hill the vision few,
Lingering on earth, yet lingering still
Without my reach-within my view.
In mankind thus-a grayer child,
Hope, like that arch celestial, smiled,
App1reling in colOrs gay
The toy-the wish of every day
Alures the view,
And we pursue,
Fond fools to find our day. dream true.
SulI far as ever from our eyes,
tn expected blessing H'o0ks the slght,
And like the r4fubOw of the skies,
DissUlves in tears, or fades in night.
Love, glory, fame, ambition-all
Hues of the brightest-fastest flyi
Dark days of twilight round us fall,
As one W one we see them die.
Thrice happy they
To die away
As to that fading bow It's given
Rising in death from earth to heavenl
, 1868-09-18

RosEs AND THoRNs.-Roses aud thorns
an emblem of our path through life. With
some the roses enamel the ground, wherever
their footsteps tread with others the thorns
rise up at every turn, wounding and entang-
ling them in one inextricable maze. Much
of mans .unhappiness arises from false esti
maze of human life. He promises himself
that which is unattainable, and then mourns
because he cannot attain it. Not but there
are some who it would seem, were born to
adversity-from whose lips the cup of pleas
ure. if ever lifted, has been dashed in an
instant. To such, the only consolation will
be an approving conscience, hope, and resig>
nation. Those with whom the roses abound,
will do well to gather them while they may ;
while Others, who complain of the thorns,
NAV partially extract them by cheerfuluess
and content 1t would be as unreasonable
to expect summer without '0fHter as Roses
without TtOrHs.
, 1868-09-18


LADIES SHoEs.-The ladies are particu-
larly fond of having small feet to show, aud
will endure almost any punishment merely
for the imaginary pleasure of being thought
to possess them. They will be squeezed
pinched, and tormented for a month, rather
than for one second Of time an unshapely fg-
ure of foot should chance to peep out from
beneath the drapery in which they are en-
veloped. Only lock at the soles of "a woman's
shoe, and you may see the reason why she
is always, in large towns and cities, and in
high life, so bad a pedestrian. Woman is
formed by nature to walk as well as man,
and she does walk as we'll in humble life.
She tramps barefooted to church in Scotland
for miles without sigh or a groan, and sits
down by the burnside to wash her feet and
put on her stockings and shoes before she
enters the sacred pile. 1t is then she begins
to limp and halt, then that she shows symp<
toms Of pain in walking. 1t is not economy
that makes her once more bare her toes
when she betakes herself, leaving church, to
her journey homewards. In fine Summer
day, the Scotch dairy maid, or farmers
kitchen maid, is light of heart as we'll as
nimble of feet, when with stocking hanging
over her arm, and her new tight shoes in
her hand, she trudges along; bantered by
every plow,man that passes, and having
smart reply for every rustic wit that dares to
have word with her. 1t was SO once, but
fashion is gradually diminishing the number
of such rustic scenes, and bare toes are be-
coming a rarity. But bare were good toes,
the toes that could walk five or six miles
to church and back again, and think nothing
of it. Whereas half mile is too much for
shOd metropolitan dame, with hard cOrns
on the outside of her toes, and soft corns be-
tween them. There is little doubtthat tight
ness of shOeing has incapacitated women for
walking. 1t is a milder form Of the Chinese
system of con6ning the lady's feet, and stop
ping their growth.
, 1868-09-18

MIND YOUR BUsINEss.-Is common
advice, but not the less judicious. Who
has not follies enough to answer for without
prying into his neighbor's affairs? Is there
a man living who has not been imprudent at
least once in his life? What if that impru-
dent step we're whispered to the world?
Would it be just? Then seek not to uncover
the concealed fact. Mind your own affairs,
and look into your own heart, and if you
have not crimes and follies enough to answer
for, here's our head for football.
, 1868-09-18

HoNEsTY.-A boy whose honesty is moro
to be commended than his ingenuity, once
carried some butter to q merchant 10 coun-
try village to exchange for goods. The but
ter having a very beautiful appearance, and
the merchant being desirous of procuring
such for his own use, invited the boy to
bring him all the butter his mother had to
spare. Il think,' said the boy, she can't
spare any more, for she would not spared
this, only rat fell into the cream, and she
did not like to use it herself
, 1868-09-18

AGENTLEMAN school teacher once thought
it advisable to give some lessons in polIteness
Among other things. he told the boys that
in addressing a gentleman they should say
'Sir, and gave them examples and made ouite
a lesson of it. One boy was particularly
delighted and took occasion to speak to his
teacher often to show be profted BY his
teachings When he went home to dinner
his father said: Tom, have some meatD
yes, sir, thank you The next thing the
child knew his fathers hand came whack on
his ear, and his fathers voice Numbered
forth, whats that you say? I'll teach you
to sass your dad T! Tom gave up being
nolite.
, 1868-09-18

PLEAsURE.-Pleasure is to woman what
the sun is to the flower, if moderately en-
loved. it beauties, it refreshes, and it i'm
proves if ifimmoderately, it withers, desolates
and destroys. But the duties of domestic
life, exercised as they must be in retirement
and calling forth all the sensibilit:es oil tne
female, are perhaps, as necessary to the tull
developement of her charms, as the shade
and the shower are to the rose, confirming
its beauty, and increasing is fragrance.
, 1868-09-18
Laming HorSes.

The horse is one Of the most powerful
ambitious and sensible of domestic animals
and yet in q certain sense, is far from being
q hardy one. In this respect the horse L
not equal to the rough and tumble usage
which the mule or even the OK can bear
without exhibiting marked signs of the sew
ere discipline to which they have been SUBJ
jected. In reviewing the many horses daily
througiug the streets Of the larger towus
and cities, the number of defective ones can
scarcely fail Of being remarked. Some are
ailing in the fore limbs, others in the hind
ones, aud n0t . few in bUth. pLis 80 -
necessarily the result of age, defective blood,
nor Of special hard work. though in some iu>
stances il may be so, but much oftenter is
the consequence of careless handling or posi-,
tive cruelty on the part Of those to whom
they are entrusted. As has been already
intimated, the horse, in certain sense, is a
delicate animal, and if pounced upon in q
passion, while encumbered with harness, and
possibly with load too heavy for easy move
ment, the chances are that efforts to escape
punishment will result in such an over,ten-
sion Of the muscles as to produce permau-
ent lameness. Every one conversant with
the rough and tumble work of the farm, the
lumber forests, stone quarries, the docks and
the like, will have encountered many dif6cul>
ties in which teams and teamsters have their
tempers and powers of endurance severely
tried. Both become excited and fractions,
and whatever the fault, if fault there be, the
horse is likely to receive pretty severe treat.
ment, if not permanent damage. Not few
horses are lamed under such circumstances,
while others are injured by want of proper
consideration on the part of those having
them in charge-not from positive i'll treats
ment, but by carelessnesss in placing the
animals in such situations as to cause un-
wonted exertious to escape from an appre-
hended danger. Rough, boorish men are
not suited to the care of an animal having
the spirit, tenderness aud susceptibility per-
tanning to the horse. and were such less fre-
quently entrusted with the management Of
stable stock, there would be fewer limping
and comparatively Valueless horses in our
public thoroughfares than there are at press
ent The greatest care, it is true, cannot
prevent accidents to horses, in all cases, but
with proper attention the number of the
halting ones would constitute the exception,
aud not the rule. as is now too often the
case.-RurdL Nep Yorker.
, 1868-09-18

A Texas man gave it as his opinion,
vben ;mnortuned to take out a policy IN a
life insurance company, that fellows life
was SO mighty uncertain abOutthere it"asn !
worth insuring.
, 1868-09-18

A GENTLE HINT.-A spruce young beau,
gallantiDg bis intended few evenings since,
was conversing upon the late turn out, when
be remarked, that he wished he was able to
support all the factory girls in Lowell one
six months, be would do it to prevent their
returning to the mills His fair one, who
had been a silent listener to his patriotic
discourse, replied, with a sigh, 'Ah /! l wish
you we're able TO maintain one Of them
, 1868-09-18

TRAGEDY IN DENVER CITY.-A trick
Was recently attempted upon young woman
residing near Denver City, Colorado Terri,
tory, which resulted fatally, as practical
jokes too often do. A young man Of the
neigdbOrhood disguised himself as ghost
Of the usual orthodox pattern, and betaking
himself to a forest as the young woman was
passing through it, suddenly appeared before
her in bis unearthy semblance. Nothing
daunted, the brave young woman, who had
Previously been annoyed by similar appari.
tons, drew a revolver and fred. She had
not intended to hit, but only to frighten the
Slost; but, unluckily, the ball passed direct
= through the poor ghosts heart, who fell
~ The forest dead-a victim to ill'tlmed
Peasautry.
, 1868-09-18

THE NEARER THE Sun, THE GREATER
THE CoLD.-This phenomenon is explained
by the sunbeams bringing to the earth both
light and heat as they descend to warm the
hottest valleys or plains, and passing through
the upper strata of the atmosphere, but leav,,
ing them always of temperature much be-
low freezing This low temperature is prov
ed by the fact that all lofty mountains, even
under the equator, arc capped with nevera
melting suows; and the higher the peaks are,
though, therefore, nearer to the sun, the
colder they are. Thus eronauts iu their
balloon car, if they mounted very high,
would be frozen to death if not protected by
very warm clothing. Another fact of tho
same kind is that glass globe full of cold
water, or even ball of ice, will, in the
suns rays, act as burning lens.
, 1868-09-18

AN Irishman, fresh from Hibsrnia, caught
a bumblebee in his hand. supposing it to be
a humming bird. 'Oeh,' he exelliming,
how hot bis fut is =
, 1868-09-18
To City Subscribers,

On and after this date, the STATESMAN will be
served to City subscribers at 50 cents a month"; pay
able to the carrier Those who have paid in advance
will have their papers continued until the time ex-
pireS.
, 1868-09-18
NUMBER 40.
Matrimonial Felicity.

The very flower Of our corps of CORES pom.
dennts is stopping at Newport, aud vouches
for the following
Last night after laying down in my cham
Der, and being unable to sleep, delicously
cool as 1t was, L could not help overhearing,
from the thinness Of the partition and the
open transoms, dialogue between the occu-
pants Of the adjoining room. They we're
evidently man aud wife, whom few years
Of matriuony had robbed of the sentiment
they set out with.
Jane, don't crowd me so keep your own
s'@s of- the bed This In auythins b~s-a
tender tone.
why, William am not crowding you,
and If was, you ought to be too gallant to
tell me OF 1t. There was a time when you'd
have kissed me for what you scold me now
The feminine voice shook little at the con-
clusion Of this sentence.
Perhaps so; but what's tho use of talking
Of the past. Galantry is played out; that's
for lovers, not for married people,
Didn't you declare, William, that you'd
always be my lover?
Il don't remember; l suppose / said a
great many foolish things in those days
You want to get up a scene. Women are
death on scenes
You're downright rude, William; You'll
make me hate you, Mr. Thompson. (Jane
was evidently getting up her temper) If
you said foolish things in those days, | did
one when married YOU
Il wish you hadn't
so do |, with all my heart; you can't rel
gret it worse than do
| detest being an unexpected confdant of
any one, particularly of men and their wives.
| had coughed and hemmed a dozen times,
to let them know was an unwilling listen.
er, but they didn't heed me.
'Mr. Thompson, you're a brute. You'll
repent this. Ill find men who will treat me
politely, if you WON'T
I'm sleepy. Do stop thattOngue OF yours.
Jane YOU'RE moro of a devil than | ever
thought
I'm the DEVILS wife, you wretch. I'll
get up aud sleep somewhere else, so will
This was getting too bad; l was resolved
to hear no more, so | cried out Fire! Firel'
very Justify Jane aud William were up in
second. As ran into the hall they we're
there too.
Jane was pretty, and the tears in her eyes
maue her look prettlerj ana her white robe
falling gracefully about her form made her
more than fancy had painted her. As got
opposite the door, Mr.. Thompson, who was
Juggling out trunk, said to me:
AS you have nothing, sir will you be
kind enough to take the bundle and fishing
tackle in the corner? Never mind my wife,
she'll take care of herself
| did not pause. l hurried down the hall
l was conviced Mr.. I. was brute, and his
wife suffering saint.-Erchange.
, 1868-09-18

4, 4 BOY eight years old, in one of our pub
q, ~ schools, having been told that a reptile
rs : an animal that creeps,' on being asked to
s.g's ,aI one on examination to-day, promptly
'4u Fiumphantly replied "a baby
, 1868-09-18

AN exchange says Bonner holds the rib
bons' like a veteran turtle. Certainly, he
Is a fDexter>ous driver.
, 1868-09-18
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-29
FREE TRADE.

Il il unaccountable how, after forty years
oc DISCUSSION upon the tariff subject, any
man of ordinary reading and intelligence
can misunderstood the positions Of the two
parties. In pleasant conversation with
republican friend, on that subject, few
evenings since, he remarked that "he was
opposed to the democratic policy OF tree
trade" Believing that he labored under
nisapprehcnsion in the matter, we asked
him what h. understood by free trade, as
advocated by the democracy. He at once
replied -"open ports to all the world, no
dnties, no custom houses, no customs reve.
nue. officers, no tariff" This shows how
little the question is understood by men
who are supposed to be intelligent.
The parties, in this country, on the tariff
question, are free.traders and protectit n SITS.
The democratic party is the free.trade party,
and what it means, by free trade, is a tariff
arranged for revenue--a tariff Of duties, upon
tue pTOHuCtlOnS anu manufactures VI okuSi
countries, fixed with especial reference tc
revenue 80 arranged as to bring the great
est amount OF revenue to the public treas
ury. If, incidentally, any branch Of manu-
features or agriculture, shall be encouraged
and fostered thereby all right. But rev
enue should be the first object Of a tariff.
The protectionists are in favor of tariff
arranged for protection and not for revenue
They want tariff laid upon foreign imPor
tations, which shall act as a prohibition.
With the democrats, in arranging a tariff
revenue is the object, and protection the in
cident.
With the republicans, protection is tn
object, and revenue the incident.
The democratic policy is the true polio
for the millions.
The republican policy is the policy Of con
centrating wealth at the expense OF the mil
| lions
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-29

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Gee delivery, who would ike to receive and
read the WEEKLY ARGUS during the cam
paignY Don't send US any except names Of
persons you know will call for and take and
road the paper Send Us the full names
plainly written, and notify all the men that
the paper has been paid for, for them un'''
Nov. 7, and see that the papers are regu'",
" taken from your post office, You can a.
ford to DO this, we reckon, if somebody s''0
pays for the paper. If this matter '' p,1P
erly attended to it will carry 'c"oS'""V
truth to many house where no" It 10 "o'
fairly understood and many men, seeing 'helr
interests and the interests o' 'he'f country
require a change administration will v0''
the democratic ticket. Send US the names
at once.