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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

tits estimated that SEQ, 0,0OO,O ,OO0
lead pencils are used every year.
In Germany, where the pencil
trade is most flourishing, there
are several manufactures, the lar
gest of which is at Stein, kept
by the Faber brothers. 1t is a
family business with them, their
father and grandfather being en-
gagged in it before them, and has
been carried on until the name of
Faber, as a pencil maker, is re-
nowned. There are several man.
ufactories in this country, where
nearly all the work is done by ma
ckinery; butin Germany the PEN
cils are mostly made by hand.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

William Hyde, a farmer of Lo-
rain county, Ohio, so years of age,
becoming tired of living alone,
procured the importation of a
venerable came from Cleveland.
Following the rule adopted by
some churches, he proposed to take
her upon trial, and, if everything
was satisfactory, afterward, have
the marriage ceremony performed,
to which the lady assented. When
the morning of the first day of
probation came the oldlady backed
out, and took her departure for
Cleveland. Nothing daunted, and
apparently being determined not
to lose about Sl8 he had expended
in anticipation of his bridal, an
other was found to take the place
of the probationist, and they were
soon made one.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
A Hot Bath.

A ludicrous and amusing incl
dent occurred in connection with
the Gentle opposition to Mormon
authority. A man coming from
the Weststopped atthe hotsprings,
just outside of the city, and hav-
ing heard much of their medical
properties, was about to bathe in
one of them. After be had dis
robed, and justas be was about
to plunge iii stranger approached
and told him he could not
bathe in that spring. The west
ern Gentile's ire became aroused
at once, and thinking that it was
another instance of Mormon des-
potism, he Immediately replied =
''The h-ll l can't. I'd like to
see old Brigham or anybody stop
me-" and in he plunged, but he
got out sooner than he got in, for
it was boiling spring. His anger
against the Mormons had not per-
mitted him toask thestranger why
be could not bathe there, but he
was determined to show Brigham
that he could not stop him from
bathing.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

Mark Twain Samuel NJ. Glen.
ens) is described as a man OF a.
bout 80 years of age, sparsely
built, Of medium height, and wears
on his face a dark brown NOUS
tache. His features are as fair as
a boys, and in his two eyes there
wrinkles boundless humor. He
dresses in scrupuIous black pants,
vest, and swallow-tailed coat, and a
small diamond glistens in his shirt
bosom. In lecturing, he seldom
casts a glance on the manuscript
on the tripod, but walks listlessly
to and fro before his audience.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

Brigham Young, who has helc
out remarkably, considering his
experience, has at last suecumbeG
to apoplexy. A Salt Lake dis
patch says slIE
'.Theprophet was stricken down
Z in his private Office, and it was
sometime before assistance could
be rendered him, from the fact the
serious mishap was not known to
the clerks in the outer room
He was Immediately conveyed to
his residence, and is now lying on
a conch surrounded by all his
family. He has rallied once since
the attack, and it is thought he
will survive, this being the. first
Of theusnal series of three attacks,
the last one proving fatal" d
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
Potatoes a Remedy for
Bots.

Late in the summer, the large
horse or gad-fly, is busy in laying
its small, yellow egg on the hairt
on the sides and legs of horses
which, being glutinous, adhere
there. The horse, in licking him.
self, touches the eggs, which burst
whena small worm escapes, which
adheres to the tongue and is car.
ried with his food to the stomach
where it clings to the coat of the
stomach, and feeds and grows there
until spring, when it passes ou'
of the body and soon becomes q
fly. Youatt and Spencer, in their
work on the horse, claim that bots
do not injure a horse, and cannot
be removed from the stomach by
medicine; they say the bots pass
away in the spring. For more
than fifty years | have heard of
horses, and have seen them, said
10 be sick of bots, and to die of
them. Many with a view TO re.
move them, pour molasses and
milk down the throat of the horse,
of which it is said the bots are
fond; so that they are thus led to
let 60 their hold of the stomach.
This is soon followed by pint of
tanners oil OF some other active
-cathartic, causing the horse to dis
charge the bots.
When visiting a friend a few
months since, a worthy brother
clergyman, he informed me that
a horse having died OF the bots
in his neigbborhood, bis stomach
having been eaten through and
through by them, some of them
were put in spirits Of turpentiDe
and other fluids commonly fatal
10 the life of worms and insects,
but they do not suffer from them.
They were then put in the juice
of the common potato, and died in
stantly. Another horse in the
same neighborhood was suffering
severely from bots, when q quart
of Irish potato juice was poured
down his throat, which soon re-
lieved him of pain and large
quantity of dead bots passed away
from him.-Cor. ~ Y. Observer.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

FORGOTTEN. = Many persons
seem to forget that the 18th amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States has been adopted
and is part of the supreme or
ganic law. This amendment dis
qualities all persons who, before
the war took an official oath
to support the Constitution of the
United States, and then gave aid
and comfort to the rebellion,
from holding State, county or mu-
nicipal Office aOao, unless relieved
by a vote of two-thirds of Con-
gress. Such is the law, and such
is the rule required to be observed
in electing men to office or in ap-
pointments to Office
The test oath for all United
States officers requires the party
to swear he never directly or in
directly gave voluntary aid or
support to the rebellion. And
this oath is only relaxed in the
case of persons relieved by act of
Congress-.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
Long enough has been my song,
Perhaps 'twere better shorter
Sir, you do exceeding wrong
To withhold myquarter.

A Kentucky schoolmaster fell
in love with one of his purils, says
the Danville Advocate, and mar.
ried her, although she was only
thirteen. As he used to scold her
like the child she was, she went
back to her mother and he roamed
off elsewhere. After awhile each
was informed Of the others death,
and each proceeded to marry again
The girls second choice very
kindly died ia year or so, as
did the schoolmaster's, when he
married a third time only to be
divorced. About two weeks ago
this much married couple met
by chance, joined their fortunes
again, and as the girl has arrived
at years of discretion, they expect
to be happy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

From present indications the
insurrection in Cuba is in q fair
way of being a success. The
government troops in all the later
engagements have been worsted,
and additional risings are reported
IN several large towns. The in
surrectionary forces are within 16O
miles of Havana. The British
Consul has notified English sub
jects to Immediately register.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

Gen. D. Fl. Hin, in his maga.
azine, "The Land We Love" fol-
December, speaking of Pollard,s
pretended history OF the war,
says: "There was not a drum
mer or colored servant in Lees
army who had not more accurate
knowledge Of the battles Of the
late war than the bomb-proof
penny-a-liner who sets himself up
as their chronicier.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
a worthy quaker thus wrote

A worthy quaker thus wrote i:
81 expect to pass through this
world but once. If, therefore,
there be any kindness / can show,
or anything good thatI can do to
any fellow human being, let me
do it now. Let me, not defer or
neglect it, for | will not pass this
way again"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
GARRIBR'S A5DDR@gS
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FATEFTETnLE OBSERVER.
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l. NSzS%>-O To
Eighteen hundred and sixty eight
Was extraordlnafy-qdite- III
For most exorbitAnt prices of meat,
And the rumpus of old Billy Wyatt,
For a summer intolerably hot
To him wanting shelter o'erhead,
To fat men and women whose lot
Was to sleep close together in bed;
For long and dispiriting drOuth
That made the waters go dry
Made farmers low down in the mouth,
4. And corn prospecuyely high.
Despite them all,
o, hear ye all
Hear, o England-hear, o France
Hear each nation
In creation
clad wearing pants
The OBsERVER-this newspaper-
A bright torch mid gloomy vapor-
Modest both in dress and features,
Dearly loving those sweet creatures
That give Lincoln county glory,
If you'll list, will tell the story.
Several churches large and high
Near the Square are located. oa
And some citizens thereby ,t.l
Are by knowing ones suspected
To havesnapped old Satan's fetter-
Changed from doing bad To better ~
They are-no, it would shame them
Here to print them-can you name them
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

A rebel soldier named Clayton,
who lives in Person county, N. c..
was released from prison at the
close of the war and landed in
Philadelphia ragged and without
a cent of money. He met with
an old bachelor gentleman, who,
taking fancy to him, sent him TO
an old maiden sister living in the
country, to be employed by her on
her farm. He worked all that
wear for the old lady and saved
money encugh TO bring him home.
The otherday Clayton received no.
tice of the old lady's death, and
that she had left him the whole of
her estate. The estate contains
abont I60 acres Of good land-lies
46 miles from Philadelpbia-is
we'll stocked and has all the con-
yenienees of o model farm.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

And then came Senter full of wrath,
Believing at all who creased his path,
"a path so crooked that his fate
Must be to cross it who walks straight)
Onward he went in furious drive,
TO where the loyal League did thrive;
Loud S3nter spoke--they were elate--
Much they enjoyed the dOings great,
Yet Notwithstanding the great speech,
q, Thewhiskey drank, the Oaths they'd saker
Congress was beyond their reach,
And Lewis Tillman badly beaten!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

Aletter writer in the South says
you can not go on q cotton plsnts-
ton in Alabama now without hear
ing the command, "Senator, start
right of to your contemplating;
"Judge, you 60 and bring my horse
round !" or aColonel, have q shoe
put. on that mule right along
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

A coroner's jury in Wisconsin
has decided, in the case OF a nah
run over while attempting to get
on a railway train, that he came
to ais death by. "wilfnl and wan
ton exposure to. unnecessary dan
ger and peri. :"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

CURE FOR FELeN.-As soon asst
is satisfactorily ascertained that
the diseased action constitutes a
felon, etdthe point Of infamma-
ton be laid open to the bone by q
sharp instrument, and a perfect
cure will be established within
twentyfour hours eaT
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07


The medical students in the Uni
versity at Louisville, KY, seem to
have unnecessary difficulty in OBJ
tanning subjects for dissection. At
any rate, resurrecting expeditions
are not uncommon. A few nights
since couple of them went on an
errand of that sort across the Ohio
river. They secured the "stiff'
and got it aboard their boat safely;
but in rowing across the river
they fell into the rapids, the boat
capsized and they were all thrown
into the icy water. In the shock
the lid of the coffin came open and
the body was tumbled out; but
by chance one arm was thrown
over the keel of the boat, and the
bright moonlight displayed the
CHASTITY sight of the corpse, bolt
upright in the water, sailing down
stream with wagging jaw and roll
ing head, mocking the horror
stricken students.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

Last October we had grand Fair
Where every fine gelding and mare,
Mule, donkey, hog, heifer, and COW,
Fine wagon, fine buggy, and plow,
Fine paintings, fine linseys and wide,
And thousands of fine things beside
Were shown, five days, on the ground
Prepared by the liberal bounty
OF the generous citizens found
In the limits of old Lincoln county.
Each owner was sure of prize
And the gaze of wondrous eyes
Some got blue badge
And were glad,
Some got red ones,
Some got mad,
Came to town,
Gotstrychnine whiskey,
Grew morose
Or capered frisky,
Ran their horses,
Broke town rules,
Ripped and snorted"
Round like fools.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

P. T. Dietrich, who committed
suicide in New Orleans had been
married three times. His last wife
hadpreviously lost two husbands by
suicide.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
A new Hymn Book.

A good joke is told of a preacher
i in Nebraska, who had dined with
a friend Just before afternoon SER
vices Asit happened, this friend
occasionally luxuristed in a smile
of the ardent, and sometimes car
ried a morocco-covered flask In
his overcoat pocket. BY mistake
the minister took the friends over
coat on his departure, and, walk
ing into the pulpit, began the ex-
ercises without dofing the gar
ment, it being rather chilly in the
room.
Looking very ministerially over
his congregation from behind his
Ispectacles, he began drawing from
bis pocket, as he supposed, his
hymn book, with the Introductory
remark that the congregation
would sing from a particular page
which he had selected beforehand.
The minister held the supposed
book up in full sight of the con-
.gregation, and attempted to open
it sideways, but it was no CO.
The situation was realized In a
moment, but alas! too late.
His reverence was dumbfounded,
the audience giggled, and the
whole scene was made ludicrous
by a fellow in the back part of the
congregation, not altogether too
sober, who 'drawled out:
"Say, mister, kin we all (hic)
jine in that ar hymn"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03
TERMS.
~Two Dollars for one year, inva-

"TwO Dollars for one year, inva-
riably IN GdUanoe.
or Single copies, Ten Cents each.
Advertisements inserted at One Dollar
per square of Ten Lines or less for the first
insertion Fifty Cents for each continuance
~ Local and Special Notices, Twenty
Gents per lias.
GA liberal deduction win be made to
persons advertising for three, six, nine, OF
twelve months.
OF Obituaries and calls on candidates,
Fifty Cents per square.
OF The privilege of yearly advertisers is
strictly limited to their own immediate and
regular business and the business of an ad-
vertising firm is not considered as including
that of its individual m embers. 0TNo de-
Walton from these terms under any circum-
stances.
OF Advertisements not marked with the
number of insertions when handed in, will be
continued until ordered out, and payment
exacted.
OF No advertisement inserted gratuitously
Is Advertisements Of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price.
BDe Announcing candidates Five Dollars,
to be paid in advance in every case.
OF lob Printing of all kinds neatly
done on New Type, and on as reasonable
terms as any Office in Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03
deMmH FAYETTEVILLE 3,

similar items, accounted for many
circumstances that astonished me
We followed the trail over a mile.
Now and then we saw that wolf,
fox, and other animals had prac.
tised their trailing instincts on the
elk's tracks. Here and there he
would show me where a snake, a
rat, and prairie dog had crossed
the track. Nothing had followed
or crossed the track that the quick
eye of Daloria did not detect. He
gave an account Of the habits of
all the animals that had left their
footprints on the track, also Of
the state of the weather since
the elk passed, and the effect of
sunshine, winds, aridity, sand
storms and other influences that
had a bearing on these tracks.
The old man, like all trailers,
was reticent, but on this occasion,
seeing that I was interested, be-
came especially communicative.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03
Nepotisnn.

Gen. Grants extraordinary fond.
mes for providing for his family,
and friends, at the expense Of the
public crib, has caused great COM
motion in both Radical and Dem
ocratic circles. The best view we
have ever seen taken of the sub
iect is contained in this letter of
Thomas Jefferson's to a kinsman
seeking for a place
DEAR SIR: The public will never
be made to believe that an appoint
ment of a relative is made on the
ground of merit alone, uninfu-
enced by family views; nor can
they ever see with appreciation,
offices, the disposal of which they
entrust their President for public
purposes, divided out as family
property. Mr.. Adams degraded
himself infinitely by his conduct
on this subject, as Washington had
done himself the greatest honor.
With such examples to proceed by,
l should be doubly inexcusable to
err. 1t is true that this places the
relations of the President in a
worse situation than if he were a
stranger, but the public good,
which cannot be effected if It's con-
fdence be lost, requires this sacri-
flee. Perhaps, too, it is compen-
sated for by sharing in the public
esteem. THoS. JEFFERSON.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03
Tea SWindlers.

Appleton's Journal makes th,
following charge against New
York tea houses
Within few years a large mum
berof tea companies have sprung
up in the city, which claim to i'm
port direct from China, to furnish
superior article at reduced rates
and which advertise largely al
over the country. We are assur
ed by those claiming to know
that several of these tea estab
lishments are organized frauds up.
Cd the people, that they use the
leaves of the Camela, which Sc
closely resemble genuine tea
that they are frequently mistaken
for them by botanists; that they
largely import and palm off upon
purchasers Chinese '4ie tea;" that
they use the leaves of ash, plum
and other trees, and mingle them
with good tea; and furthermore,
that they redry and color genuine
tea leaves that have once been
used, or have been damaged by
water, &c. There is one of these
companies which we are told,
does nothing else but purchase
damaged cargoes or chests Of
tea, and then dries it on the
roofs of certain buildings not a
thousand miles from where we
are now sitting. The drying pro-
cess having been completed, a
small quantity Of a superior arti-
Gle is added to the damaged in or
der to give flavor; and it is then
done up in packages for distribu-
ton all over this country. Those
who are accustomed to patronize
these tea establishments would
certainly do well to analyze and
test the quality OF the article
which is dispensed to them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03
Sleeping Together
The claws of Life" saws /:

The claws of Life" says:
"More quarrels arise between
brothers, between sisters, between
hired girls, between schoolgirls,
between clerks in stores, between
apprentices in mechanic shops, be-
tween husbands and wives, owing
to electrical changes through which
their nervous systems go, by lodg-
ing together night after night un-
der the same bed clothes, thaneby
any other disturbing cause. There
is nothing that will so derange the
nervous system of a person who
is eliminative in nervous force, as
to lie all night in bed with another
person who is absorbent in nervous
force. The absorber will go to
sleep and rest all night, while the
eliminator will be tumbling and
tossing, restless and nervous, and
wake up in the morning fretful,
peevish, fault-fnding and discour-
aged. No two persons, no matter
who they are, should habitually
sleep together. One will thrive
and the other will lose. This is
the law; and in married life it is
deied almost universally.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03
TstapIe of the a3lnsss.
BEAUTIFUL HANDS.

Such beautiful, beautiful hands!
They're neither white nor small,
And you l know would never think,
That they were fair at all;
I've looked on hands whose form and hue,
A scuIptOr's dream might be,
Yet those aged wrinkled hands,
Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful. beautiful hands!
Though heart were weary and sad,
These patient hands kept tOiling on,
That the children might be glad;
/ almost weep, as looking back,
To childhOOd's distant day,
think how these hands rested not,
When mine were at tkeir play.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands!
They're growing feeble now,
For time, and pain, haveleft their mark,
On hand, and heart, and brow;
Alas alas the enearing time,
And the sad, sad day to me,
When meath the daisies, out of sight,
These hands will folded be.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands,
Beyond the touch of care,
They will in fairer, better lands,
The palms of victory bear;
Where crystal streams, thro' endless years,
Flow DER the golden sands.
And where the old grow young again,
III clasp my Mothers hands.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03

HIS STYLE.-The Erie Di8pateh
tells this of a young man of Erie
who imbibes GA young fellow,
respectfully connected and we'll
known here, used to get drunk
very frequently. Shortly before
Browns hotel was closed, he was
one day, as usual, under the infu-
ence of benzine, and stumbled at
the head of the stairs leading from
the landing to the front door,
Down he came heels over head,
humping from step to step, until
he was landed in a rather promis-
cuous looking heap. A stranger
who was just entering the hotel,
thinking the fellow had sustained
serious, if not mortal injury, ran
to pick him up, but the drunken
man majestically waved him off,
staggering to his feet, and in re-
sponse to the prOfered assistance,
roared out: Now you jes lem me
lone. Want no slob'rin round
me. / allus come down stairs
that way"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-06-03

The juries in Illinois are liberal
in their awards for railroad acci-
dents. The following is the esti-
mated tariff in ordinary case For
a simple fracture of leg, Sl2,000j
for a compound fracture of a leg,
$4,000; for broken ribs, $4,000
each; for a finger knocked out of
joint, 81, 900; for a bruiSe on the
head, 81, 900; and lesser and great
er injuries in like proportion.