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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
Horrible Death.

The Wilmington Commercial
contains the following horriblestO-
ry: .i~a
A child about eleven years old,
a daughter OF Mr.. Davis, who re-
sides on State Hill, in Chester
county, about one mile and half
from the Spread Eagle Hotel, died
from hydrophobia, on Monday
morning, July l9, after the most
horrible suffering. She was bitten
on the finger by her uncle's dog
about nine weeks ago; the dog
disappearing thereafter, SO it was
not known whether he was mad
or not. 1t was known, however,
that he was one of the fox-hounds
attacked by mad dog near the
Chester county line about three
months since, and most Of which
were bitten. The child showed
no symptoms Of hydrophobia until
Saturday afternoon, when she had
a spasm, refusing to drink or look
at water. At first the spasms
were divided by intervals of halt
an hour, gradually becoming more
frequent and severe until Monday
morning at two o'clock, when her
suferings were ended by death.
During the spasms she would froth
terribly at the mouth, snap and
bite, and upon hearing Of water,
would enter upon a worse form of
convulsion. When the fit was off
she would beg that her family
connections be kept from her lest
she might bite them. On Mon
day morning all the dogs known
to have been connected with the
fox hunt mentioned were killed.
II was before doubted whether the
dog which attacked them was reat.
Aly mad
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
Personal Police Of an EN-
porOr
peror

the Paris correspondent of the
New York Times, in alluding to
the enthusiasm manifested at the
recent reception given the French
Emperor on the boulevards, says !:
81 must repeat what l stated in
one Of my former letters, that a
great deal Of the enthusiasm man.
ifested on that occasion was manu-.
factured. Along the line Of the
boulevards were stationed at inter-
vals groups of police in plain
clothes, who did nearly all the
cheering, and otherwise tried to
impart a stimulus to the crowd.
l do not know that you are aware
of the fact that the Government
has in It's pay body of 1000
men, who precede or accompany
the imperial family on all its ex-
petitions. They receive about
two dollars per day besides their
travelling expenses, and they con-
tinually change their disguises, so
as to avoid observation. Their bu-
siness is to prepare for their majes-
ties, to get up an enthusiasm when
the population is disconnected or
Indifferent, to watch for the first
evidence of plots against the life
of the Emperor, and to surround
his person when they have reason
to apprchend that an attempt is a.
bout to be made against it. This
force is quite distinct from what
is called the secret police, and has
a separate organization and chiefs
of its own.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
LOST LOVE.

The sere leaves hide in the hedges,
The long grass shiVers and signs,
And the bleak wind blows through the bare
gaunt boughs
Under the sullen skies
The great clouds cover on mountain-tops,
Heavy with coming SHOWS
And our love, our lost love, darling,
1t died with the last years rose.
The springs first smile will melt the snow
From hill and scaur and fell
And the daisy will wake in the sheltered
brake,
The primrose star of the dell.
The beck will CLINT down the steep hillside
Freed from its frozen chain;
But our love, our sweet love, darling,
Will never bloom again.
The soft west wind will whisper low
Through the gracious morning dew,
Till the tender green of young buds is seen
+ To brighten the birch anew;
Till the low clear notes of the mating birds
Through the feathery copses ring;
But our love, our dead love- darling,
1t has no second spring.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

ing his throat. Beating him a.
way from his prey, they found the
suspicious of Mrs. L but too cor
rect it was her husband-but
the teeth Of the dog had done
their work, and he was dead.
1t appears that he had returned
to his home at 5 o'clock on the
previous evening, and hearing Of
the departure of R., and the inten-
ton of his daughter to spend the
night with the young wife, he pos
itively refused to allow her to do
SO, assigning some frivolous cause
for the refusal. That night he
left home, saying that he was 60
ing to sit up all night with a sick
who lived some miles
distant. 1t is supposed that he
concealed himselfin the woods un-
til midnight, and then, influenced
by unholy lust, forced an entrance
into the house of R., to violate
the person of the wife of the latter.
When the case became known, the
most intense excitement prevailed
in the county, and had not Provi-
lence punished the criminal he
would probably have been hung
% the nearest tree by the enraged
populace.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
TTwo Dollars for one wear !,

FTwo Dollars for one year, mva-
tally IN aduance
U- Single copies, Ten Cents eaca.
Advertisements inserted at One Dellsr
per square of Ten Lines or lsss for he first
insertion; Fifty Cents for each coutinuance,
c5- Local and Special Notices, Twenty
Gents per line.
OF A liberal deduction will be made TO
persons advertising for three, six, nine. or
twelve months.
CT Obituaries and calls on candidates
Fifty Cents per square.
0T The privilege Of yearly advertisers Il
strictly limited to their own immediate and
regular business; and the business Of an aa-
ver1slng hrm is not considered as Including
that OF It's individual 10 emhers. ONrNo de-
Walton from these terms under any circum-
stances
% Advertisements not marked with the
number Of insertions when handed in. will be
continued until ordered out, and payment
exacted.
" 10 advertisement inserted eratu .touslv
t1S Advertisements of an abusive nature
Will not be inserted at any price.
t6s Announcing candidates Five Dollars
to De paid in advance in every case.
" sOD 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, 1869-08-19
Enormous Exhibition of
Power.

A paragraph has been recently
Igoing the rounds of the press, 10
which it is stated that tie greatest
blast CD record was recently made on
the proposed site Of fort in San
Francisco harbor. Twelve tons of
powder we're fired at once, dislodging
$4,000 tons of rock. So far as the
quantity of powder exploded is COZ
cerned, this is probably true, at least
in regard to ordinary blasting and
mining operations; much larger
quantities of powder have been ex-
plodsd accidentally and in military
operations. The greatest exhibit
ton Of power Of which We have any
knowledge was the blast at the
Round Down cliff at Dover, Eng.
land, January 26th, l843. The
cliff was 375 feet above bigh-Water
mark, and as a projection OF it pre-
vented a direct line Of the South
eastern Railroad being taken to the
the mouth of the Shakespeare Tun-
mel, it was resolved to remove the
obstruction by blasting. Three gal
leries, 800 feet long, were excaVated
in the chalk rock. Nine tons Of
powder were placed in the bottom of
the shafts, arranged in three sepa-
rate charges. which weie fired stimuli
tineously by means Of powerful vol
taic batteries. As soon as the cur
rent was sent through the wires, a
low, faint, indescribable subterraDean
was heard, and, immediate.
ly after, the bottom OF the cliff be-
gan to bulge out, and then, almost
Immediately, above 500 feet in !
breadth Of the summit began grad
ually but rapidly to sink. There
6as no roaring explosion, no burst
ing out Of fire, no violent and crash ,,
ing splitting Of rocks, and eonpara-
lively speaking, but very little
smoke. For proceeding Of mighty |
and irrepressible force, it had little
Or nothing Of the appearance OF
force. The rock seemed as lift had !
exchanged its solid for a fluid nd
ture, for it glided like stream into
The sea, which was at the distance of /
100 yards from its base. By this
blast one million tons Of rock we're
which would otherWi,e
have required the labor Of thousands
Of men for upwards of twelve
Country Gentleman.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
Curiosity at the Boiling
Point.

A curious case of mistaken
identity was tried few DAYS
since before a New Orleans Police
Judge. 1t appears that a couple
residing on Howard street of that
city have frequently had social
disputes, which time and again
have terminate in free fight
In such cases, the husband, while
temporarily victorious, generally
has reason to regret his success
1t so happens that the wife inva-
riably watches her chances, and
never forgets to pay back her lord
in kind. In recent dispute the
usual resort was had to blows, and
the husband left after administer
ing the customary castigation.--
Now next door lives a gentleman
In whom the sense of curiosity has
been highly developed. He is a
little weazGn-faced specimen of
humanity, slender and crooked as
a veritable Paul Pry. He had
heard the dispute next door and
was very anxious to know the re-
suit, and, for this purpose, had
crept into the alley-way and had
lain with his ear propped against
the crack of the door to hear what
was going ON. The wife, the mean
while, was proceeding with her
supper, grumbliDg at her husbands
brutality, and bewailing her own
Her attention was,
however, attracted by a sort Of
scrambling noise at the door, and
then she heard the suppressed
breathing which Mr.. Paul Pry, in
his anxiety to crafty his curiosity,
did not take sufficient heed to sup
press The wife at once conclu-
ded that it was her husband, come |
to listen to what she should say
in his absence. Angry at his cru
city, and wishing to he revenged,
she dipped up dipper full of boil
ing water, and before Mr.. Pry
knew what was the matter, the |
'calding liquid had filled his ear
md run over his face. With a
yell like that of some wild animal,
ne fed, crying murder y at the
.op of his voice. Or course, this
brought the police around him,
md very soon the whole party
we're in custody. The Court
'ailed to participate in Mr.. Pry's
'ense of injustice, and decided
hat lady had a right TO throw
lot water under her doorstep, if
The wanted to; and if prying and
persons were around
md got burnt, it was their own
With this decidedly /
uncomfortable opinion, the. COM
claimant was forced to be satisfied
,ut it may have the effect of re-
training his impertinent curiosity
n future, and compel him to keep
lis ears off his neighbOr's door
tep.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
Bufaloes on the Railway
Track.


A correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune writes from Sheridan,
Kansas
"Vast herds Of buffalo Craze a.
long the line of the railroad, and
are frequently seen from the cars
and not unfrequently SO near that
many are shot with rifles in the
hands of passengers while the cars
are in motion. Yesterday we saw
upwards of thirty, by actual count,
but about half a mile off. We
also saw several elk and ante
lope, and one wolf, and dined on
venison and buffalo steak.
"Sometimes a large herd has
been surprised near the track by
a train of cars. The shrieking of
the whistle and the rushing of the
train has produced such panic of
fear, that the herd has rushed
pell-mell along, and the same di-
rection with the train, and at al
most as great speed, thus affording
splendid opportunity for shooting
from the cars. In one case the
engine killed several which were
on the track. Numerous carcasses
are seen of the noble animals,
which have been slaughtered and
left to perish along the line of the
road.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

1t is no longer secret of the
chemists laboratory that clear
golden syrups can be made from
starch and sulphuric acid; that de-
licious wines and brandies can be
made from beet-root; that bar
rel of peanuts can be transformed
into excellent coffee; that lard
can absorb an enormous quantity
of water in certain conditions
that in fact there seems no limit
to the adulterations that an in
tellectual chemical cheat can prac-
tice upon his fellow-men.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
9slupls Of tic a}lnsfs.
IF.

AZ
If our path were strewed with roses
That concealed no singing thorn;
Ii the hour when one joy closes
Saw another newly born
Ii our dreams were full of beauty,
And our walking hours of peace,
Would we feel for those whose duty
Never gives their hearts release
If our dwelling were palace,
Where we knew no pang OF pain,
Where the red wine in life's chalice
Bore no bitterness, no bane--
Would our sympathies awaken,
Would our velvet hands be spread
For the outcast, the forsaken,
Who has neither home nor bread
If our raiment were the fairest
That the Indies could afford
If the daintest food and rarest
Daily crowded our gltttering board.
Gould our full hearts know the sorrow
Of the patiently toiling poor,
Who tremble lest tomorrow
Bring gaunt famine to their door
If we knew no lack, no losses,
Disappointment, toll, nor care,
Would we succor him whose crosses
Are too wearisome to bear
If we slept on silken couches
Prankt with costly gems, and gold,
Would we pity him who couches
By the wayside in the cold ?
If the world were juster, truer,
In its censure and its praise
If our doubts and fears were fewer;
Fewer weary nights and days;
Ii there were no graves behind US
Where the loved and lost ones sleeps,
No sweet memories to bind US,
Would we weep with those who weep
If our hopes were never blasted
If our love grew never cold,
If our strength and beauty lasted
TIL a hundred years were told,
Would our hearts be humbly given
To the giYer of such bliss
Would we ever think of heaven
As better place than this
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

NoNsENsE-To urge. o fellow
to eat when he doesn't want to.
"Do have another piece of steak.
have some more strawberries LET
me help you to something more,
can't 1? Why, you don't make
out half a meal-do have another
warm biscuit, / made them myself,
and l know they are nice" Such
and similar expressions one will
meet with at almost every house
he happens to take friendly meal.
Persons will urge visitors to eat,
even if they have stoutly refused
two or three times, until one must
eat In order to get rid of the coax
ing. We took such another teas
ing land the victuals too) the 9th
er evening, aud suffered with head
ache all next day, just to please
our friend, but we inwardly cursed
him, every time our temples gave
a throb and our stomach INDUCED
in twist. Don't urge your Wis
itors to eat; it is confouRded bad
manners, and you are rendering
them liable to headache and dys.
pepsia, two aflictions for which we
are sure they will not thank you.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
An Appeal TO the Coming
Woman:

An Appear 10 LL6 coming
Woman.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
whose Intellectual ability and 50.
ciaI position entitle her to the hon
5rs OF leadership in the new cruz
sade, boldly marks out the next
step towards sexual equality in
the following:
''The true idea is for the sexes
to dress as nearly alike as possible.
We have seen several ladies dressed
precisely like gentlemen, who ap-
peared far more elegant and grace
ful than any real man we ever
saw. A young lady in Fifth Av-
enue, dressCd in male costume for
years. Travelled all over Europe
and this country. She said it
would have been impossible to
have seen and known as much OF
life in womap's attire, and to have
felt the independence and security
she did, had her sex been procIailn-
ed before all Israel and the sun"
"To this complexion" then, ''has
it come at last" The coming wo-
man, whose advent has been so
long prayed for by feminine de-
votees on both sides Of the ocean;
this earth-born angel, who was to
combine in her OWE person every
physical perfection, who was to
know every thing worth knewing;'
and to be everything worth being,
and by whose influence dull, de-
graded man is to be lifted from
the dust wherein be grovels, and
fitted for happiness here and hea-
ven hereafter--this coming wo-
man upon whom all eyes are turn
ed, all hopes fixed, is to dawn on
our astonished vision, clad not in
the delicate drapery of a celestial
but in the commonplace
coat, pantaloons and hat of ordi-
nary masculinity Instead of
stealing away our vices, she ~
simply going TO steal our clothes,
and discarding dimity to aspire to
1roadcloth.
We solemnly assure Mrs. Stan
on that this will never do. Man.
Kind are proyerbially patient and
ong suffering toward the weaker
iex; they have given to them
hese many thousand years, a lib
raj share Of their protection, their
owe, and their money, and they
nay be induced hereafter to share
With them the burdens and privi-
eges of citizenship, but our petted
larlings must understand that
here is one barrier that they can
lot pass, and that barrier is erect
d by the tailor. Take our arms
Vhen you please, take our affec-
ion when you want it, take our
ash whenever we have any .
pare, take the ballot, If you must
ave it, but in the name of decen-
y permit us to retain nndistnrbed
of our breeches. These
ifurcated integuments are bound
D us by the ties of long associa-
on and intimate acquaintance;
arsh fortune has frequently robb-
d US of health, wealth and friends,
ut even in the bitterest storms
adversely we have never yielded
ur pride or our pantaloons.-
hey are indivisible, and Mrs.
tanton must neither humiliate
le one nor wear the other.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
The Wrong Man in the
Wrong Place.

A few days since, young couple
just married at Waterbury, Conn, !,
got on board train on the Manga
tuck Road, bound for Bridgeport
They had a sweet time, billing and
cooling in proper style until the train
reached the junction. While wait
ing there, the groom took a stroll
on the platform, and the bride also
improved the time TO walk to the
forward end of the car. AS the
train started, she returned, and see
ing her husband, as she supposed,
she popped into the same aeat, and
lovingly rested her heal on his
shoulder, while the cars passed
through the covered bridge. Un-
fortunately she had mistaken her
man, and as the cars emerged from
the bridge trembling voice whis-
pered in her ear that he didn't quite
comprehend the situation. Look
ing up, the bride found an unkno wn,
blushing youth, while her liege lord
vas standing in the aisle, with a
look of blank astonisbment on bis
face, not knowing what to make of
"such conduct as those." The er-
ror was corrected at once, but the
fun was toomuch for the occupantsof
the car, and every sleeve contained
an enormous though quiet laugh.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

DR.. Carriere, of st Jean du
Gard, in reply to the offer of the
Marquis d'Orches of a premium of
twenty thousand francs, for a prac-
tical method Of determining death,
furnished the following, which he
says he has practiced for forty
years Place the hands with the
fingers closely pressed one against
the other, close to lighted lamp
or candle; if alive, the tissues
will be observed to be Of trans
parent, or a rosy hue, and the ca
pillary circulation of life in full
play; if, on the contrary, the hand
of a dead person be placed in the
same relation to light, none of the
phenomena are observed-we see
but hand as of marble, without
circulation, without life.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

Boston is to have a statue of
Frederic Douglas. It is also pro-
posed to give the efhgy Of Wash
ington a. coat of black paint, SO
that it may be consistent with the
prevailing shade of Massachusetts
politics.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

The New Orleans Times thinks
that sin political power the ballot
box is now being rapidly superce-
ded by the contribution box, if
we are to judge by the short his
toryo of the administration" +"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19
Old Grant Picked Up.

The number and variety of sto-
ries which are told on old Jesse
Grant, the individual to whom we
are indebted for our present stable
government, are past computation.
Here is the last one: Ayoung man
over in Covington, the other day,
met and accosted old Jesse, al
though ignorant as to who he was,
and requested him TO furnish him
with change for a five dollar bill.
He acceded, and while making the
necessary transfer, being 10th to
lose an opportunity to make him.
self known, he took occasion to say,
"Young man, do you know that
you are talking to the father of
the greatest man in the coun-
try?" He was Immediately in
formed by the party addressed that
he was not aware that he stood
in the presence of one who had
that proud distinction. "Yes,"
resumed the garrulous Jesse, han
ding over the desired change, 81
am the father of the NEST illus
trious hero this country ever pro-
duced." The young man looked
at him for moment with an ex-
preston of grave astonishment on
his face and then exclaimed,
"What, you don't tell me you are
the father Of Stonewall Jackson
The parental author of our Presi-
dent turned upon his heel su
premely disguised.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

If you are truly benevolent and
charitable, perhaps you will,
when you see a neighbor in dis
tress, ask some other neighbor to
help him.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

Mr.. Wood, a painter of West
Randolph, N. Y, met with a sin
gular accident recently. Havinga q
pipe in his mouth while in scuf-
fe with friend, his opponent hit
the pipe in such a manner as to ac-
tually force it through the under
Jaw, SO that it protruded out of
one side OF his neck.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

The bachelors look out for
number one; the married man fer
number two.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

A Calcutta savant has startled
India with the affirmation that a
race of tailed men and women are
70 be found in the forests of Bor-
REQ. He says that his information
comes from Sarawakfraders, who
state that this "missing link" race
live in the trees, have bows and
arrows, and other rude imple-
ments, and subsist entirely by
hunting. An expedition is to be
sent in search of this curiosity.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

The McConnelsville (Ohio) Her.
aid relates the following court
scene:
At the last term OF our Court of
Common Pleas, in the case of Miss
VS.. an impeaching wit
ness was called and asked the usu-
al question
"Do you know the reputation of
Mr.. for truth and veracity in
the peighborhood where he re,
sides 2"
"Well," said the witness, "his
reputation for veracity is conslde
rably talked about"
"What DO you mean by veraci
ty?" said the cross examining at
torney.
@Why, l mean he's bad after
the wimmin y
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

Misery may love company, but
italso loves to get-out of it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-19

It is understood that South
Abingdon, Mass, produces more
boots and shoes, in proportion to Its
',o,;nlation, than any other town
81 the United States.