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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
The Miseries Of q Rich
Man.

The New York correspondent
Of the Rochester Democrat is res
ponsible for the following:
Alexander T. Stewart clears
one thousand dollars day, Sun
days excepted, all the year round.
Cornelius Vanderbilt pleads gull
ty to twice thatsum, while William
B. Astor rates his income at four
thousand three hundred and thir.
ty dollars per diem. Sleeping or
waking, the last named gentleman
finds a three dollar bill dropping
into his hat ever minute of the
twenty-four hours. He cannot
sit down to converse with his ply
sician without having a little
more wealth, if not health; he
cannot unburden his mind with
out feeling his burden increasing
in his pocket; and he cannot
walk down Broadway, however
the weather may be, without meet
ing a shower of money. At tevery
turn cash stares him in the most
insolent manner; banks fling their
dividends at his head; ruthless f.
nanciers beat him with coupons;
Implying and soulless corpora
tions dump their lucre at his door
step; and contemptuous bill-stick-
ers plaster his door with green
backs. One might wonder what
that fellow has done to merit this
treatment, and the only charge
that can be brought is that he is a
rich mans son, and therefore must
suffer.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
VOL KEENO. 6.
Domestic Sensation.

We get the following from the
Louisville Democrat of Saturday !:
There was a genuine sensation
created In certain circles IN this
city yesterday by the circulation
of report to the effect that a do
mestic petard had exploded in q
Main street merchants home in
the east end OF town, which prom
ised to result in TIE permanent
separation of the aforementioned
merchant from his wife.
Rumor gives the following YER
sion of the affair, and from the
fact that we have but that old gos-'
sip word to depend upon, we re-
frain from publishing the names
of the parties, least an injustice be
done to two persons who have
hitherto enjoyed the respect and
confidence of every person who
knew them.
Two or three weeks ago the
husbands jealousy was awakened
on returning from short trip to
Frankfort, by finding the photo
graph of young gentleman under
his wife's pillow. From the fact
that the original Of the photograph
was frequent visitor to the house
and a pretended intimate friend Of
both, Suspicion of his wife's virtue
";as aroused, which, however
fiercely it burned, he had the good
sense to conceal for the time being.
He nevertheless kept q strict
watch on his household, and, az
the story goes, he came home on
Thursday evening at about ten
o'clock and found the psrlor win
dows darkened by the curtains,
and the door securely fastened
within. He attempted to shove
it open, but failed, when he heard
hustle within the apartment and
the next moment his wife opened
the door. He rushed past her
and into the dining-room, where
be found the young man he sus-
pected trying in q hasty way to
arrange bis rather disordered cos
tune. On seeing the now enreged
husband, this gay visitor ran out
of the house and escaped, leaving
his feminine victim to breast the
storm as best she could.
There was a scene, of course,
and the outraged husband notified
the guilty woman of his intention
to procure a divorce at once.
The lady, we understand, il
about to return to Nashville, hes
former home.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

f Cleveland gentleman, while
crossing the Atlantic, sealed a bot,
tie and consigned it to the waves ;
the bottle contained the history OF
some dastardly thief who had sto
len the whiskey and drank it, and
a request to the finder of the bot
tie to send the same to his address
at Cleveland. What was his sur
prise the other day, ->after six
months had passed, to receive
from Brighton, England, the iden-
tical waif which had been washed
ashore covered with barnacles.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
Teluple Of the 8lusts.
THE OUTSIDE DOG IN THE FIGHT.

You may sing of your dog, your bottom dog,
Or of any dog that you please;
I go for the dog, the wise old dog,
That knowingly takes his ease,
And. wagging his tail outside the ring
Keeping always bis bone in sight
Cares not a pin in his sound old head
For either dog in the fight.
Not his is the bone they are lighting for,
Aud why should my dog sail in,
With nothing to gain but certain chance
To lose his own precious skin?
There may bea few, perhaps. who fail
To see 1t quite in this light,
But when the fur flies had rather be
The outside dog in the fight.
know there are dogs-injudicious dogs
Who think itquite the thing
To take the part Of one of the dogs,
And 60 yelping into the ring:
But care not pin W hat all may say
In regard to the wrong OF the right,
Ny money goes. as well as my song,
For The dog that keeps out Of the fight.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
HoRsE-HA1R SNAkEs.-A CORES

HoRsE-HAIR SNAKEs.-A CORES
pondent of the Scientific American
writes as follows "When l re.
sided in Pennsylvania, I. in com.
pany with many other lads, used
to tie bundle of horse hair into q
hard knot, and then immerse them
lii the brook, when the water be-
gan to get warm, and in due time
we would have just as many AMI.
mails, with the power oflocomotion
and appearance of snakes, as there
were hairs in the bundle. Ihave
raised them one-eighth of an inch
in diameter, with perceptable eyes
and mouth on the but end or root
part of the hair. Take such 8
snake and dip it into an alkaline
solution, and the flesh or mucous
that formed about the hair will dis
solve, and the veritable horse hair
be left. They will not generate
in limestone water, only in free
stone or salt water"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

a prize of ten dollars was re-
Gently offered to any member of
the Connecticut Teachers Institute
who would write and spell cor
rectly the words in the following
sentence: ''It is an agreeable
sight to witness the unparalleled
barrassment Of a harnessed
peddler attempting to gauge the
symmetry OF peeled onion which
a sibyl has stabbed with a poniard
regardless of the innuendoes of
the lilies Of carnelian hue" -
Thirty-eight teachers competed
for the prize but not one was sue
cessful.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
The Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune

a Conservative paper, says:
"We can testify to the fact
that red hot literature is not so
much sought after in this section
as it was before the last Presiden-
tial election.
Sensational papers always mis-
represent, and, therefore, deceive
their patrons. Pomeroy's paper
has grown rich by pandering TO a
sectional hate, and the South has
grown poor in the same way, by
cultivating the insane prejudlces
that the war produced.
"When red hot literature is driv-
en- from our homes we will be bet
ter prepared to forgive the past,
weigh the present. and to look
calmly into the future"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
Tricks Of Politicians.
The "Ruff1ed Shirt" Can
VaSS in Indiana.

The Rev. VIC. Smith, in a recent
work called the Indiana Miscella.
ny, tells the following political
anecdote:
In 1912, Joseph Chapman, the
same who. despairing Of the sue
cess of his party, was admonished
to "crow Chapman, crow" and
Thomas Walpole, a Whig lawyer,
who then resided in Greenfield,
were opposing candidates for State
Senate. Walpole had been in the
Senate and Chapman in the House
of Representatives. The Sena-
torial District was composed of
the counties of Hancock and
Madison. The canvass became
warm. The candidates stumped
the district together. Walpole
was neat in his apparel and wore
rufled shirts. Chapman was pc.
culiarly slovenly in his appearance.
In those days the Democrats
charged the Wings with being the
"rufled shirt gentry" By this
they made many votes among the
yeomanry of the country. Upon
this charge Chapman rang the
charges well against Walpole as
they met upon the stump from
time to time, often pointing to the
rufles on ms bosom as evidence of
the truth of the charge.
They had spentsome two weekss in
Madison county, speee.hhing every
day but Sunday. All this time
Chapman had not changed his
linen, and it became SO much soiled
that even he could not endure it
any longer. He told WaIpole
one evening that he would be un-
der the necessity of going home,
in order to get a clean shirt, and
wouldnot be with him the next day.
Walpole objected, and proposed
to lend him one. Chapman said,
"That will not do. Your shirts
have ruffIes ON them, and you
know l am fighting the rufled
shirt gentry" Walpole replied,
"You can button your double
breasted vest over the bosom and
hide the ruffles." He consented,
and next morning put on one OF
Walpole's shirts. That day it was
Chapman's turn to speak first. In
his speech he reiterated the charge
of "ruffled shirt gentry" and point
ed to the rufles protruding from
WalpoIe's bosom. When he
closed his speech Walpole arose,
and. with great Indignation, referred
to the abuse he had received from
Chapman during the canvass for
wearing ruf1ed shirts. Said he:
Fellow citizens, | do wear rufled
shirts: you see them now in my
bosom. am an honest man. |
do not try to conceal them. l
abhor a hypocrite. What charac-
ter shonld be SO much despised as
that of a hypocrite? This dishon-
est, hypocritical opponent of mine
has been abusing me from day to
day for wearing rufled shirts, and
l have borne it patiently, refusing
to expose his hypocrisy. l will
expose him now, and prove that
he weares ruffled shirts as well as
l." At that moment he caught
hold of Chapman's vest, as he
sat near him, and tore it open,
when out popped a handful of
rufles. At this the audience
raised a tremendous shout. Chap
man was so much surprised and
confused that he failed to tell that
he had on Walpole's shirt. The
trick gained several votes for
Walpole.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

One hundred years ago an old
gentleman living in the lower part
of Virginia, picked up a stone to
shy at a rabbit, but noticing the
stone glittered considerably, took it
home for his children to play with.
Subsequently his family physician
offered him six dollars for;t, which
were refused, and six Marylanders
offered him $100, 900 for it, in land
and negroes, which were also re-
fused. In process of time the
stone, (which the story says is a
diamond, as it ought to be- passed
into the possession OF DR.. Dougher-
ty, of Massachusetts, Pa, whose
children are the legal heirs. The
weight is claimed to be $50 carats,
and here the story ends.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

A gentleman in Auburn recent
ly dropped his wallet and several
hundred dollars in the morning,
while going out of his yard. His
dog saw it drop in the snow, and
stayed by it all day, until the
masters return home, when the
faithful animal attracted his at
tention, and paved it from under
the snow.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
How Politics are Man
aged in Tennessee.
Nashville correspondence of Cincinnati Com
mercial Radically

Nashville correspondence of Cincinnati Com
/ mercial (Radical.)
Will we have peace? Not if
johnson comes home and goes in
to the gubernatorial canvass
There will be no peace for the wick
ed and the righteous will be kept
pretty well stirred up. Stokes
will also be here, whether he is
nominated or not, for it is writ
ten, "And the devil came also"
Stokes, Brownlow, and johnson,
with the small fry of both parties
stirred in for variety, will make
things delightful, and there will
be enough ''red hot times in the
South" to make an interesting
codicil to Pomeroy's plotted story.
But will johnson accept the
nomination for Governor? Some
have the very best authority for
saying that he will, and others
have equally good authority for
saying that lie won't. No one,
however, has any authority for
saying that he don't want to, and,
after weighing all the evidence at
my command, l am pretty well
satisfied that he will come home,
be nominated, accept, and go to
stirring up monkeys after the
most approved style.
The people will go to hear him,
regardless of party, sex or color,
and the result will be, he will
make converts from Radicals
But will he convert enough to
elect him? From present indi-
cations he will not. A majority
/ of $4,000 is not easily overcome,
and not only that, but the Radi-
Gals won't let him be successful
if there is any way, fair or Unfair,
to prevent it. They had rather
see the very old devil eDthroned
in the executive chair at Nashville
than Andrew Johnson. They
could have some little influence
with the devil, but not a bit with
johnson. The registration system
will be vigorously enforced, and,
if we may judge the future by
the past, all those who are enti-
tied to certificates will not be able
to get them, that is, when they
are little doubtful. II a coun-
ty is about to go for Johnson, des-
pite the franchise law, that coun-
ty will be snuffed out by the exec
utive snuffers, which the law so
wisely provides for the purpose
If, after all, the Radical candidate
is defeated, and Andrew Johnson
elected, then "to make it all come
out right" one precinct will be
thrown out here, another there,
somebody will have failed to take
all the oaths required, who acted
us clerk or judge of election, where
the balIOt-box is flush with Con-
servative votes, and out that will
90, while if the contrary is the
case, and the box is we'll stuffed
with ."them that will do" no ques-
tions will be asked about who took
the oath and who didn't, but the
presumption that everything was
properly done will govern.
/ do not write this to advance
the interests of any party, for |
am not a party man, but simply
that the readers of the CONNER
ciol may know why it was that
5he Conservative candidate, wheth-
er he be Johnson or any other
man, was as overwhelmingly de-
leated as they viii learn when they
open the Commercial bearing date
Friday morning, August 6, 1869.
"a stitch in time saves nine" and
a puzzle cleared up in advance
saves labor.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

A lost art has been discovered
by accident. A gentleman, while
experimenting, immersed a piece
of marble in kerosene. Shortly
afterward he discovered that the
marble was thoroughly permeated
with the oil. Upon experiment
ing he soon learned that marble is
capable of receiving nine different
tints by the use of kerosene oil.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

One of the most prominent rem
edies employed at the Michigan
Lunatic Aslum is a greenhouse.
where exotics are in perpetual
bloom. Delirium is often begulled
by boquets, and when these fail,
music is frequently found to have
as many soothing charms for the
maddened mind as for the savage
breast.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
A man was executed in Brigham

Aman was executed in Brigham
Young's dominious the other day.
He was brought ironed into the
courtyard, where there was q
crowd of some four hundred, and
seated in chair. He then read
aloud chapter from the enew testa-
ment, the irons were taken off his
hands. and, at signal from the
Sheriff, he was shot dead.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
A few days ago a passenger o

A few days ago a passenger on
a train near Chicago was ap-
preached by astranger, and inform
ed that the conductor wished to
see him Immediately in the bag
gage car. The passenger started
for the baggage car, followed BY
the stranger, and when he had
reached the platform of the second
car, he was set upon by a gang of
three or four men, who garroted
and robbed him Of 5000. The gang
then jumped off the train and
made their escape.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
Quite Romantic.

The following story, as was told
to US, happened near Lake City,
Indiana, where there lived, at the
breaking out of the war, wealthy
farmer whom we will call Blank.
This man kept large number of
servants; among them was good
and religious young girl, possessing
unusual personal attractions
She was courted by an officer of
some rank in the Federal army,
while at home recruiting for his
regiment. When the day of his
departure came, he made known
to the servant girl how deeply she
had interested him, and begged to
know if there was any hope. She
confessed that his attachment was
reciprocated, and they were at once
affianced.
"Should Mr.. Blank" said Jen-
ME, "come to know of this, l
should at once be discharged. He
believes that it was his daughter
for whom your visits were intend
ed"
"ShoHld this be so" returned
the fond lover, "only write and let
me know, and you shall not suffer"
With an affectionate kiss, and q
promise that both would be pune
tual in their letter writing, they
separated, he to join his regiment
among the boys of the Potomac.
He waited long and anxiousIv
for tidings of Ii lis loved one, but
not orc word was received to ease
MS troubled mind. Finally. his
own letters were returned. What
could it all mean? Was Jennie
false? lie could not believe it.
After the soldiers departure,
Mr.. Blank took Jennie into room,
fastened the door, and, with a raw
hide in his hand, commanded her
to tell him if she was betrothed to
Colonel C. When the poor
girl had told him all, be had her
blindfolded, taken to the great
city of Chicago, and there left,
without friends or money.
He reported that she had died
of cholera, and, to make the decep-
ton complete, built a false grave.
When the war was over, and
Colonel returned home, he
made his way at once to the old
graveyard, and sought out that
of his lost Jennie. After bathing
the little mound with tears, he
made his way to the house of Mr..
Blank to learn the particulars.
While he was there the guilty man
ordered the tombstones for the false
grave. In due time they came,
and were placed at the supposed
grave with some evergreen ffow-
ers. COL had been a mourner
from two years before the war
closed until December, 1868, when
business called him to Chicago.
There, in a street car with a bun
die Of sOiled clothes which she was
taking home to be washed, he
found lis buried Jennie. He flew
across the car, taking her in his
arms and almost screaming with
JOY. He could scarcely believe
his eyes, but it was Jennie, and no
mistake. He had found her at
last.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
A tin tube made like a syphon

A tin tube made like a syphon.
driven into the vent of a barrel Of
wine or cider, and the other end
Inserted into vial of water, will
pevent the air from entering the
barrel, while the gas escapes
throurh the water. Make the bar
rel otherwise tight. When the
,cidsr,er wine is done working, the
water in the bottle will cease bub-
ling. 1t requires no filling up, as
there is no loss.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25
A Western Romance.

We find the following sensation
al story in the Leavenworth Bulle-
tin. Take it for what it's worth !;
Some days ago tall grey haired
Tian visited this city in quest of
a long lost sister. Years ago the
daughter, then with her parents in
.1uence, in Vermont, was mar
ried to a surgeon of an English
regiment stationed in Canada. In
a few years the surgeon died, and
the widow, as soon as she discard
ed her "weeds of mourning" mar
ried a dashing young man in Mon
treal. Her second husband proved
to be a gambler, and greatly neg
lected her. They removed to Chi
cago, where the husband gambled
away all the money belonging to
his wife and was finally murdered
in a adrunken brawl. Her friends
deserted her, and finally a negro,
long in her service, was her only
friend; the colored gentleman en-
listed in the army, giving his boun-
ty to the widow. At the close of
the war, the negro left the service,
and the widow married him, and
the pair settled in Leavenworth.
Here the wealthy brother found
his sister, generously forgave her
uniting her fate with the negro
servant, and placed them in com
Portable circumstances.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

Californians have an economical
way of getting to the White Pine
mining regions in Nevada. They
enter the service OF the Central
Pacific road, get a free ride to the
end of the line, and then strike
for the mines.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

A Chicago doctor has been fined
fifteen dollars for kissing married
woman, her Chicago husband was
fined five dollars for thrashing the
doctor, and a Chicago schOol-teach-
er was fined fifteen dollars for beat
ing a little girl because she broke
a elste-pepcil,.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

The best way to affix labels on
plants or trees is said to be to
write the words with a lead pen
Gil on zinc. The writing proves
more distinct with age, and can
not be effaced.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

A cargo of wheat from Calilor-
MIA, which recently arrived at
Boston and was sold, returns q net
loss to the parties interested Of
over $4,000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

It is no uncommon thing 10
Scotland for farmers who enter
upsn lease of nineteen years, to
invest some $50 or SO per acre
on. drainage, lining and other i'm.
movements.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

A horseman says he has cured
the worst kind of scratches he ever
saw with two applications of white
pine turpentine, thoroughly rub
bed in.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

A lady in New Hampshire re-
-Sently determined to exchange
for currency silver dollar which
she had carefully kept for thirty
five years. The money changer
astounded her with the information
that it was counterfeit.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

The Appleton wis Post says
that salt mixed with q little but
ter sells readily there at 20 cents
per pound.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

According to the late Paris ad-
vices, Louis Napoleon is going in
to the newspaper business: I'M
less he has a pile hen get busted
sure
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-03-25

In the vicinity Of Dubuque, the
value of one bushel of wheat is
required to carry another to mar
ket.