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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The Congressional Globe of the
Thirty-seventh Congress contains
two speeches, one made in March
and the other in April, by different
gentlemen, which are duplicates,
the Bohemian who undertook to
supply them having sold the same
to both purchasers. This is but a
repetition, however, ,ofwhat happen
ed in Philadelphia in 17S0,when a
ready writer furnished one of the
'1etters to constituents" in which
Congressman then aired their elo-
quence, to the Hon. John Clopton,
Of Henrico county, Va, and then
sold a ver6atim copy of the same e.
pistle to the Hon. Thomas Claib-
orne, of the Brunswick District.
Somehow the two letters were
compared, and although each gen.
tleman endeavored to show that
the one stole the letter from him,
their constituents refused to re-
elect them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Mixed Up Slightly.

Here is little article from the
pen of Mark Twain, giving al
account of a visit, while in New
York, to the great Bible House
Still on the fifth floor is huge
room with nineteen large Adams
steam presses, all manned by wo.
men, -four of them confounded
pretty, too,) snatching off bibles
in Dutch, Hebrew, Yam-yam,
Cherokee, ETC., at rate that was
truly fructifying to contemplate.
q do not know the meaning of
that word, but 1 heard it used
somewhere yesterday, and itstruck
me es being an unusually good
word. Any time that [ put in a
word that doesn't. balance the SEN
tence good, l would be glad if you
would take it out and put in that
one.) Adjoining was another
huge room for drying the printed
sheets (very pretty girls in there,
and young) and pressing them
(the sheets, not the girls.) They
used hydraulic presses, (three OF
the prettiest wore curls, and nev-
er sign of a waterfall-the girls,
[ mean and each of them is
able to come down with the al
most incredible weight of eight
hundred tons of solid, simon-pure
pressure, (the hydraulics | am re-
ferring to now, of course,) and
one has got blue eyes, and both
of the others brown. All, me! |
have got this hydraulic business
tangled a little, but l can
swear it is no fault of mine. You
needn't 60 to blame me about it.
You have got to pay just the
same as if it were as straight as a
shingle. I can't afford to 60 in
dangerous places, and then get my
wages docked in the bargain.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
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@ A liberal deduction will be made to
persons advertising for three, six, nine, or
twelve months.
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that of its individual members. 0rTNo de-
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stances.
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continued until ordered out, and payment
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done on New Type, and on as reasonable
terms as any Office in Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Grant as a Church Goer.

The Radical papers announce
with a flourish Of trumpets that
Grant has taken a pew in DR..
Sunderland's church. In so do
ing he has shown his complete
subserviency to the party which
promises to elect him to the
Presidency. This DIR. Sunderland
is the same individual who, when
Chaplain of the Senate, was re-
buked by a Conservative Senator
in the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Chaplain of
the Senate be respectfully request
ed hereafter to pray to Almighty
God in our behalf, and not to lee
ture Him, inform Him what to do,
or state to Him under pretence of
prayer, his, the said Chaplain's,
opinion in reference to His duty
as the Almighty, and that the
said Chaplain be further requested
aforesaid not under the form of
prayer to lecture the Senate in
reference to questions before that
body.
After endorsing negro suffrage
and eating any amount of dirt to
secure the Radical nomination,
Gen. Grant could not more fitly
finish up his record of shameless
subscrviency than by making a
pretence of piety and joining DR..
Sunderland's church.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

At Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Ellen
White, after a six weeks illness,
suddenly deceased, at least the ply
cisians certified to her death, al
though the mother alone refused
to believe her dead. She was to
have been buried on Sunday last,
and on Saturday, while a neighbor
and the mother were standing be-
side the supposed corpse, the
door, which had been left open,
shut with loud noise, which had
the effect ofso acting upon the girl
as to set her life blood in motion.
She sprang up in led, throwing
her arms around hermother's neck,
and wept tears of joy over her es-
cape from being buried alive. The
young lady stated that during the
trance she fully realized all that
was going on, but her will was
powerless. Her situation was one
of perfect happiness except when
the thought of being buried alive
possessed her.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Rich Dispute.

Two men living in Denmark,
Madison county, whileriding home
the other day, got into a debate
about the attractiveness of their
wives.
McCrackin proudly declared
tlat his companion was the most
desirable. This assertion excited
the chivalric indignation of the
Doctor, who instantly drew his
law-maker, or revolver, as COM
mon phraseology has it; and sent
Bob a specimen of its contents,
which missed the mark, however.
McCrackin had an epitome of his
opinion also put up in cold lead
and powder, and he lost no time
in attempting to give the Doctor
areply, but accidentally the weapon
fell from his hand to the ground,
and he was compelled to crowd
spurs to his horse for safety. The
Doctor hastily whanged away at
McCrackin while on the JuWp,
and succeeded in making one or
two slight indentures in him af-
ter he had got off long distance.
The Doctor feeling religious
confidence in the pardoning mer-
cy of grand jurors in Madison
county, directly surrendered him
self to the Sheriff, and will wait
for the county authorities to de-
eide the serious affray which a
rose from the modest question,
"Who had the best wife"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

Dead in the Streets.

Twas a child lay still in the citys street
With its head ON the steps of stone,
For they were the only mothers breast
That the little head had Known
The frozen limbs with their sCanty rags
Had nought to fear from the storm,
Yet the snow came down in the wintry nigh
And covered the childish form.
Twas a carriage rolled over the stony way
And manly form within
Reclined on the cushions velvet ease
Revolving his projects of sin;
Did he start rs he pass'd that fatal step,
Did 1t flash on his guilty mind
That the accusing soulof his unknown child
Had gone up to God on the windf
Twas wretched woman came reeling along:
En- the snow seemed to shrink from her face,
For dishonor and death were written thereon
And each vice had there left its trace.
She staggered along till she came to the step
And there fell where the soft snow was heap'd,
Twas the unknown mother had reeld there to
die
By the side of her child in the street.
Twas star that peep'd out from the edge of a
cloud
And cleaned on the face of the child
1t seem'd as the lock of woe were gone,
And thepale young lips had smild.
For there in the bosom of that bright star
The weary child was at rest;
The injustice of man could no longer harm
1t was safe in the home of the bless'd.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

Senator Pomeroy, Of Kan.
SaS.

The Leavenworth (Kansas)
Conservative says that it was emo
trap" when Senator Pomeroy, of
Kansas, offered, through his broth
er-in-law, to Colonel Cooper, to
sell four votes against impeach-
ment for $4,000. He was to
dispose of his own vote, and three
others of his Radical colleagues,
for that sum. The Conservative
thus enlightens us in regard to
Pomeroy's antecedents. 1t says:
"Pomeroy and his brother-in-
law have been in this business
of buying and selling before. The
first adventure Of this kind in
Kansas was in the Legislature of
1861, when he purchased forty
nine Republican members to vote
for him for Senator, over Marcus
J. Parrott, and paid them out of
the money deposited with him by
the generous people OF the East
to purchase food and raiment for
the starving poor of Kan
sas. Men are now living in Kan
sas who know about the amount
paid to each member, and some
who saw portion of the money
paid to the purchased. Itappears
he is not now in the purchasing
line; he is occupying the role of
salesman! Kansas! are you not
proud of your Senator?"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

DR.. Murdock, of Richmond,
Mich, has a dog, that is a con &C,
slant companion of his cow. The
dog sleeps with her, follows her In
to the fields, and does not leave her
for a moment. The cow is equal
" fond of the dog, and will lick it
with her tongue, and manifest 9TH
er signs of affection for the dog,
The dog brings her home, and
seems to take kind OF paternal
care for her. Those who have
seen the dog perform, say it is a,
musing to see the solicltude ana
care exhibited by him for his
"charge."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

Halls Journal of Health tells
tourists how to secure extra at
tention: "Take a pretty girl
along; if you have not a daugh-
ter or sister, look around among
your country cousins, and whenev-
er you find her pay her expenses
and in the long run you will find
it largely remunerative in the di-
rection we have named. We have
tried it and speak from experience.
We once took a really beautiful
girl with our family as nurse for
our youngest child, and we shall
never forget the partialities shown
US everywhere; the fact is, it made
such an impression on our mind
that we resolved that if we ever
made an important journey again,
we would arrange in some way to
have some young, beautiful face
along"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

Two enterprising individuals in
Cadiz, Ohio, have bought a whole
township, % O40 acres, in Stanton
county, Nebraska, and will cul-
tivate it as farm. Their resi-
dence will be put in the centre,
with streets laid out and an ave-
nue. around the whole estate, lined
with the Usage hedge. "This," :"
says a correspondent, sis only 9
sample of our Nebraska farming ?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
VOL. AV--NO. 10.
Ratifying.

AS the Radicals have given up
impeachment as a bad job, and are
now devoting their attention to
'sratifying," we suggest considera-
ton of the following at their vari-
Gus ratifcatious:
They can ratify the action of a.
Republican Senate in acquitting
Andrew johnson.
They can ratify the discontinue
and disgrace of the Congressional
impeachers.
They can ratify the failure of
Butler, Stevens, Logan &Co. to car
ry out the Radical programme.
They can ratify the failure of
Ben. Wade to reach the Presiden-
tial chair.
They can ratify the detection
of seven Republican United States
Senators.
They can ratify the loss from
their ranks of the Chief Justice of
the United States.
They can ratify the loss from
the War Office OF the usurper, Ed
win M. Stanton.
They can mourn together the.
loss of New York, Pennsylvania, O.
hio, and Connecticut, and the GER
tain prospect of defeat in Novem-
Der.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
A Negro ''Orator" on the
Rampago.

Friday evening the Radicals of
Chattanooga assembled at the
City Hall to do honor to John L.
Langston, the ''colored orator. %
For the benefit of Ohio Dem
ocrats, and our naturalized citizens,
we publish some extracts from the
affair as written by a correspon-
dent:
My hearers, do you know of
what elements the Democratic
party of Ohio is composed? l
will tell you: They compose the
scum of population; (cheers,) the
cut throats, whiskey drinkers,
midnight assassins, thieves and
prostitutes. (Deafening yells.) In
my own county in Ohio, there are
but few Democrats who can either
read or wife. Numbers of them
come in my Office and get me to
write their names tor them, while
they sign with the x. Talk about
the white Democrats of Ohio! I
will take a negro from the cot
ton field, give him three months
schooling, and my word for it, he
will be more intelligent than the
majority of the children of the
Democrats of Ohio. Look at me.
(Cheers.) l am a better lawyer
to-day than any Democrat in my
country. [ am better orator to-
day than any Democratic politi-
clan in the State of Ohio"
Langston also said:
"The colored people are in ia
vor of impartial suffrage to the
natives Of the soi."
The speaker repeated the re-
mark several times, to the exceed
ing indignation of some Germans
in the crowd. One of them named
Deutsch, and the only German
Radical in Chattanooga, out of
voting population of two hundred,
shook his fist in Langston's face
and told him that a foreigner was
as good as a anigger." This little
scene created considerable excite
ment, which, however, was soon al
layed by the negro speaker hurry
ing away in disgust from the Ger
mans.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The Supreme King of Siam has
published an official list, with the
names of his children, the dates of
their birth, and the dates of those
deceased. The whole number is
eighty-one, of whom the eldest
was born in 1928, the youngest in
1868. Sixty-six are now living.
The late second King had sixty
three children, of whom thirty are
now living.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
How it Came About.

There are no doubt many persons
who are curious to know the cause
of the strabismal condition of
Beast Buffers eyes. The follow
ing little "pome" tells the story
most admirably:
How SPooN BUTLER Cor CRoss-EYED.
Little Benny Butler
Sat in his chair,
Looking DER the table
If any spoons were there.
On each side of Benny
Careless spoon was tossed |;
He tried to watch them both
And so his eyes were crossed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
Old gentleman at railroad dc

Old gentleman at railroad de-
pot buys a ticket, putting his wal
let between his teeth while he
counts his change, then with a
startled look, turns around, flies
about, searching everywhere,
frequently to make nervous IN
vestigation of his pocket, shakes
his head, and resumes his tramp.
Comes finally to the ticket win
dow again, and says: "Have
YOU seen"-and the wallet falls
from his lips to the counter
esThere It's now! In my mouth
all the timel" He smiles benig-
nantly, the crowd laugh bolster
ously, and the curtain falls.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A citizen of Massachusetts
died recently, aged eighty-eight
years and seven months, having
been a rigid temperance man fol
over forty years. A few days be-
fore his death he was advised by
his physician to use a little brandy
as stimulant, necessary to sup
port life, but declined doing SO,
lest he ''might acquire a fondness
for LIQUOR"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A gentleman travelling through
part of Tennessee writes from La
Grange that the crop prospects in
the. country over which he has
travelled were never better. He
says farmers generally anticipate
a heavy yield of corn, oats, wheat,
rye, and cotton, though he says
the last-named article is not plan
ted in such large quantities as
last year.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

At st. Paul, Mimi, the other
day, drunken fellow who show
ed a disposition to pommel every
body who came in his reach, was
pretty roughly handled by the of.
ficers in taking him to the lookup.
When finally secured he changed
his tone to begging and crying
Being told that he should not have
resisted the officer, he "boo-hooed''
with indignant pathos, II didn't
resist him; he resisted me-"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

"My DEAR" said lady to her
husband, "these friends here will
not believe me, when 1 say I'm
only forty years old, You knos0
that I Ispeak the truth, don't your"
81 certainly shall not deny it, my
love, since you have stuck to the
point for the last dozen years, to
my certain knowledge"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25
During the late war, after a Ions

During the late war, after a long
march, a captain ordered, as
a sanitary precaution, that the men
should change their under-shirts.
The O. S. suggested that half Of
the men. only had one shirt each.
The captain hesitated for a mo-
ment, and then said: "Military
orders must be obeyed. Let the
men change with each other"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

In Atlanta they have negro
who is gradually turning to white
man. We have had no such
phenomenon as that here; but
we have had a good many aohate
men who have suddenly turned
negro. 1a
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

Strange storiesare floating about
among European Court circles res
pecting the private habits of the
Emperor of Russia. 1t is said
that he is drunk most of the time,
and that his recent illness was
not a slight stroke of apoplexy,
as was reported by the continen-
tai papers, but simply an attack
of the delirium tremens.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

In Connecticut, recently, boy
killed a spotted adder with stick,
and soon afterwards took that part
of the stick which had come in
contact with the snake into his
hand. He was Immediately seized
with severe pain in the hand and
arm, and his body began to swell
and was covered with red and
black spots. Whiskey cured him;
but it was a remarkable case of
poisoning.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

"Mamma, why does papa cal
the newspaper an organ?" "Be.
cause papa wants to go to Con
gress, and he can't go without
facing the music. "What is
facing the music mamma ?''-
"Giving stamps to the organ-grind-
er, my child"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A New Haven paper, describing
the localities of the prominent in
stitutions of the city, says: "The
Medical College is on the road to
the Cemetery, the Divinity Col
lege on the road to the Poor House,
and the Law School on the road
to the Jail"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The fish in lake Mollychunke.
munk, Maine, are said to be super
ior to those of either lake Woole-
yoksebacook or Moosetoekmegau-
tic. Those of lake Chaubungog-
ungamaug were all very fine, but
they all got choked to death in
trying to tell where they lived.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A reader, we judge he is hen
pecked, writes that he "takes no
stock in the new woman's club" -
He says the cold woman's club"
is enough fothim, and frequently
too much.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

"Charlie, I was very much shock
ed to hear you singing, Pop goes
the weasle,' in church" "Well,
mama, I heard every body else
singing, and that was all the tune
I knew"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

The retail sales of intoxica.
ting liquors in the United States,
it is asserted, amount to nearly as
much as the total value of all
railroads in the country, with their
equipments, which are estimated
to have cost 81, ,655, 060,790.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

An old and experienced farmer
says that swelling jaws in sheep
can be effectually cured by rub
bing the inside Of the jaws and
mouth with a mixture made of
alum and salt, equal parts of each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

O, the pup, the beautiful pup !
drinking milk from the china cup,
gamboling round SO frisky and
free, first gnawing bone, then BIZ
ting a flea; jumping, running after
the pony, beautiful pupl you'll
soon be Bologna.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A Radical editor in Indiana
says that a Radical, according to
the very definition oftie word, is
one who goes to the roots of things.
So is a grub-worm.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A singular freak of nature, COM
bined with art, was seen in an
Arkansas town, recently, in the
shape of a man with three ears
one on each side of the head and
a third, which belonged to another
fellow, between his teeth.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

An orator who had raised his
audience to a great height by his
lofty soarings, exclaimed, II will
now close in the beautiful and
expressive language of the poet
/ forget his name-and-and-I
forget what he said, too"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A celebrated lawyer once salo
that the three most troublesome {
cases that .he ever had were a
Young lady that wanted to be mar.
y;ed. a married lady who wanted a
divorce. and an old maid who
J;dn't know what she wanted,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

1t is said, that whenever the
peach does not succeed well plan
ted on Its own roots, it should be
budded on the plum, as it will
then be very healthy and SO hardy
as to endure an extreme change
of temperature.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

A kiss, says a French lady, costs
less and gratifies more than any
thing else in existence.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-25

There are said to be one S, hun hun.
dred and four thousand Chlnese }
n the Pacific States, and they
are A. now coming over faster than
arc
ever before. 9fa
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

TOf1rINs: NOTORIOUS PREPARATION, for Instant
ID " clesning Kid Gloves. For sale by $3.50
.srqosaaa sTaai oN - R.sT MARTIN, Druggist,
sb8f6 enc ~ .bgIisaa sa L7t3 iraf Bel Mir, Md.
ta4nap1 ata si7a3a 3fa..4 b 1f e 3 1as a
ssl-r f'--ff rsI aac asf-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

PACKING Snow UPoN WHEAT.-The
Wisconsin Farmer recommends packing
snow upon winter wheat by rolling il
down with common roller The idea
was suggested by this occurrence. A
man hav;ng occasion to haul wood one
winter across his neighbors field Of
winner wheat, engaged to pay him what
ever damage it might do to the wheat.
presuming that more or less damage would
accrue. The road was staked out, so that
it could be accurately distinguished at har-
vest time. But there was no need oil
stakes, for all through the season the
wheat upon the track was whole head
and shoulders above any other part of the
field, and the yield Of grain was proper.
ii 'nalely larger. The difference was so
marked that the little manure dropped
upon the track could not nave produced
it, and the conclusion reached WIS that
the snow where the teams passed, being
trodden hard, melted la'er in the season
than that in the rest of the field, and the
wheat was protected from the freezings
and.thawings in the spring, which are sup
posed to destroy winter wheat.