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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
Administrator on a Live
Mans Estate.
From the New York Sum-

FROM tne New ork Sun.
Twenty years ago, man living
in this city made deposit of mo
ney in a savings bank here. He
then went away. For fifteen
years he was not heard from
About five years ago another man
applied to the Surrogate for letter:
of administration upon the estate
of the man who had deposited the
money in the bank. He repre-.
sented that the depositor was
dead and he was appointed ad.
ministrator upon the depositor's
estate. He then went to the bank
and demanded the money. AL
though he did not present the
bank book which is furnished tC
depositols, the officers were salts.
fed all was right, and paid over
the money to him.
The absent depositor recently
returned to New York. He went
to the bank, showed his handbook
to the officers, and asked for his
money. The compound interest
had made the amount about twen-
ty-six hundred dollars.
The officers recognized the man
as the one who had placed the
money In their keeping, and ad-
mitted the authenticity of his
handbook, and that, if it had not
been for the administration upon
his property, he would be entitled
to his money. They informed
him that they had paid it to his
administrator, and referred him
to that person-whose name he
had never before even heard-for
the missing sum. The teller
wrote upon his bank k-book: "We
refer you to your own administra-
tor"
The depositor has thus far been
unable to find the man who took
his money. 1t is understood that
he has commenced proceedings a.
gainst the bank. The case will
raise some novel and very interest
ing questions of law. 1t would
seem that there is little difficulty
in New York in taking'out letters
of administration upon the estate
of persons, judging from the facts
of this case.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

A French Journal is responsible
for the following: "In a certain
small provincial town, one of the
residents, M. A. B., found his
house was rendered both damp and
dark by the contiguity of a large
tree which was asinconveniently near
to his windows. He would gladly
have had it cut down, but the
tree belonged to the commune
and was not to be meddled with.
Being a man of resources, he sent
for insertion to one of the Paris
papers the following paragraph :
"There is still in existence one of
the trees of liberty of 1888. 1t
may be seen at X, close to the
house of NJ. A. B., and the passers-
by reverently uncover their heads
to this venerable witness of our
grandest struggle and our most
iilustrious victory" Three days
afterward an order came from the
Prefectur in Paris for the Mayor
of x. to cause the said tree to be
cut down-which was accordingly
done forthwith"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

and she (the sow would be right
peart to git in again"
Charley and / went to bed and
the feas commenced operations.
We rolled, fought fleas and tried
to sleep, but it was no use, hun
dred fresh and hungry ones came
to the funeral of every one killed.
At last we were forced to get up
and strike a light, when We saw
that our shins were covered so
thick as to be actually black; we
started for the stage, taking our
clothes with US. Inside the stage,
l put my ordinary under and over
clothing upon the coach, and then
wrapped up in my great coat; in
fifteen minutes that was full of
feas. and / threw it out and put on
my other clothes. Texas feas are
good travellers, and a very few
minutes was time enough for them
to find the way from the inside
of my great coat to the inside of
my shirt; then another change,
Charlie meanwhile fighting the
other wing, and swearing. We
were not allowed to close our eyes
the whole of the night-must have
changed our clothes thirty times
each.
We asked Old Coffee whether
the feas were always troublesome;
he said "no, they're most all gone
noso, but long back there was q
right smart of them here"
More goat meat and corn bread
for breakfast, at the very reasona-
BILE price of two bits a meal, and
the river having fallen during the
night, we hitched up our mules
and SCOT"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
In Richmond, on Wednesday

In Richmond, on Wednesday,
two young girls from the country,
daughters of a proud and distin,
guished Virginia family, were
brought before the Mayor, having
been taken from a house of i'll re.
pute by the police at the instance
of a relative, anxious to reclaim
them from a life of shame. One
was Is and the other l8, and both
were beautiful. Alleged cruelty on
the part of their father, and pow
erty and destitution, forced them
to seek shelter in the haunts Of
vice.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
A Wild Scene.

ly," describing his life as negro
minstrel, says: ! obtained my
first view of the great Mississippi
and the practical working OF Lynch
law at the same time. The night
of our advent at Cairo was lit up
by the fires of an execution. A
negro it seems, was the owner or
lessee of a wharf which
had been moored to the levee of
that town, and which he had turned
to the uses of a gambling saloon.
People who had been enticed into
it had never been seen or heard
of afterwards. The vigilance
committee, then governing Cairo,
had frequently endeavored to lay
hold of the negro and bring him
to trial; but he had secret passages
from one part of the wharf-boat
to the other, by which he always
eluded his pursuers. Having no
doubt that he was guilty of sever
al murderers, the vigilants, on the
night of our arrival, had come
down to the leVee two or three
hundred strong, armed, equipped,
and determined to make the
wretch surrender. In answer to
their summons, they received
nothing but insults from the ne
gro, still out of sight and Sc
cure in one of his hiding places.
At a given signal the wharf boat
was set a6re and cut adrift, and,
as it foated out into the current,
the vigilants surrounded it in
small boats with their rifles ready
to prevent the escape their victim
When the wharf-boat was well in
to the stream, the negro appeared
boldly at the place which, in the
middle of all river craft OF that
kind, is left open for the reception
and discharge of freight. And
now a scene occurred so sensation
ally dramatic, SO easily adaptable
to the stage of these latter days,
that would not dare relate it for
truth if had not witnessed it with
my own eyes. The. negro was
not discovered until he had rolled
a large keg of powder into the
middle of the open space just
mentioned. AS he stood in the
light of his burning craft it could
be seen by the people in the small |
boats in the river that he had a |
cooked musket, with the muzzle
plunged into the keg of powder.
Then the negro dared them to
come and take him, pouring up
on them at the same time such |
horrible oaths and curses as have
rarely come from the lips of man. !
The small boats kept proper dis
tance now, their occupants caring
only to prevent his escape into the
water. As the flames grew thick
er around him, there the negro
stood floating down into the dark
ness that enveloped the majestic
river, with his cooked musket in
the keg Of powder, and cursing
and defying his executioners. He
was game to the last. We heard
the explosion down the stream
and saw the wharfboat sink. The
next day / spoke with the leader
Of the band in the boats-a short
wiry little man, with a piercing
eye. He said he had not the heart
to shoot the "nigger," because he
showed such pluck. He even
confessed that, for the same rea-
son, he felt almost sorry for the
victim, after the explosion had
blown him into eternity.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

The following is a young minis
ter's idea of the expansive ma
ture of the human mind; "Yes,
my friends, the mind of man is
SO expansive that it can soar from
star to star, and from sacbelite to
sachelite, and from seraphene to
seraphene, and from cherrybeam
to cherrybeam, and from thence
to the center of the dome OF hea-
ven"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
ESQ.

G-S-Nk.
I wonder what the letters mean!
wonder if they show
That some are stationed high in life,
And some are standing low!
If yea, wonder sohtch they mark!
Icannot teu-can you p
Whether tits honor or disgrace
To be an Esq.
IT is true that in another land
They do meaning own,
And note the faintest ray that's shot
From the scintillant throne;
But sending for bootblack here,
cannot tell-can you?-
Why should, would, could, ought to writ
"Sam johnson, ESD"
And writing to man of parts,
Whose claims to honor flow
From mighty deeds or stirring words,
What do the letters show?
That they will lustre cast on him
| cannot think-can you p
We nothing add, sir, though we write
Addendum: esq"
"But we mnst scme distinction make"
Indeed IT'S very right;
But quite as easy for the blind
To tell the dark from light.
What court shall sit upon the claims?
would not dare-would you?-
Say who would be a simple MAN,
And who an Esq
If thou would'st challenge mems respec:
So labor that thy name
May glisten with an inborn light
Upon the scroll of fame;
Our very schoolboys, sir, would laugh
And so, think would you
Ger Commentaries, written by
j. Caesar, ESD"
Ireally wonder men of rank,
And men of genius, too,
Don't drop forever, and at once,
The senseless Esq.
See, gentlemen, we nameless folk
Are aping after you;
marvel that you will still use
Plebeian Esq.
Pm no reformer; would not choose
To make myself mark
For Customs arrows, while her ours
In stupid chorus bark;
Follow the fashion, if you please
1t may be meat for you
But let me shoot for rarer game
Than common Esq.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

Two negroes jumped fom train
running forty miles an hour, in
Georgia, last week. One landed on
his head, and at last accounts was
combing his hair with a horse
rake to get out some powders it
had accumulated in the process.
The other struck his shin against
a decayed stump and gave a job
to the Coroner.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

The great ice mandatory at
New Orleans is one of the won
ders of the age, yet its process of
converting distilled water into
solid blocks of crystal ice are said
to be SO simple as to beget surprise.
Not very much space is required
fer the purpose, and the hull of a
ship, it is said, can be used quite as
advantageously as a building upon
shore. The water can be dis
titled from the ocean brine, and
the very best quality of ice man
ufactured, at a cost, in most local,
tiles, much less than the natural
article can be furnished for.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

Some time since Portland, Me,
man had his pocket picked Of $500.
Shortly after, he received a letter
from the thief, stating that he had
started in business with his capital,
and that he should ray interest on
it until he was able 70 return the
principal. Two payments Of in-
tercst have already been made.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

Ralph Hardman was stronger of
the opinion that the gentleman who
left the violin in his care was swim
dler, and that the director was a
partner in the business, and that,
together, they had made him their
victim. That night shoddy was
marked up ten per cent.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

A few days ago a rattlesnake in
yaded kitchen in Forest City,
MINI, while Mrs. Burnett and her
daughter were at work. The Ia
dies beat a hasty retreat, but re-
turned when they had armed them
selves with long poles. After
brisk fight, Mrs. B. pinned the
wriggling reptile into q corner,
and held him there while Miss Mel
lv gave the finishing strokes
He measured three feet by two
and.a-hall inches.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

A Chicago paper remarks =
awe are in favor of capital pun
ishment, or the whipping post, in
the fewest possible cases; and they
include wife-beaters, folks who
make butter without salt, and
booksellers who sell books with
the leaves uncut"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

There are now eighty-seven
chartered Masonic lodges in Yer
mont. The whole number of Ma
sons in the State, according to re-
ports in the hands of the Grand
Secretary, exceeds eight thousand.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

"That was a horrible affair,
said a gentleman in company, "the
murder of Dean, and the sealing
up of his remains in a tin box
'What Dean," asked a half doz.
en- voices at once. "Sar Dean,
replied the wag.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
An Episode Of Campaign.
ing in Western Texas.
How a Texan with Many
Herds Lived-a Night
at Cofee's Rancho.
From the State Journal.

the mud on its up trip, several
hours behind time, delayed by the
heavy rains. / was on the box
with Charlie, the driver, who was
urging the mules to their utmost
that we might reach and cross the
Guadalupe by "hy" in the morn
ing.
Just at dark we reached Coffee's s
Rancho, on its bank, and were
greeted with the pleasant infor-
nation that the river was "boom-
ing ten feet past fording," so there
was nothing to do but put the
mail and baggage in the house,
build a pen around the stage to
keep the cattle and goats from it,
and resign ourselves to the de-
crees of fate with as much patience
as possible.
The old woman faxed around
to get supper, while I engaged
with the head of the family in
conversation with a view to the
pursuit of knowledge.
Glow many cattle have you
got, Mr.. Cofee?"
oval, I don't know; there's five
or six hundred cows coming up
every uight. I allow there must
be three or, four thousand head in
the bush"
"You must make good deal
of butter from SO many cows"
"No, we ginerally gifts our but
ter from the Dutch settlement,
(comfort) over here, but we're out
now"
"Why don't you make butter
for the market? You might turn
off a thousand pounds month,
if you tried, and it is worth fifty
cents in San Antonio, AS miles
distant.
'It's too much trouble, stranger.
You see there's no one but me and
the boys, (three or four, men
grown, loafng about and some
how we never keered about it."
"Got many horses ?"
"Had a right smart along back
but the Injins have been gittin
'em, and l don't reckon we've got
more'n a hundred left"
GLOW much corn and garden
stuff have you this year?"
"Don't raise no crops. The hogs
alters gifts in, and faint no use;
+ox v,,,,ob trouhlo
'How many hogs have your"
"Don't know. / go out in the
brush and blow "a bugle) fur 'em,
and there's SO darned many comes
taint no use to try and count 'em."
The old woman puts in and says,
''supper's ready, set by, stranger"
and Charley draws up a nail keg,
while l find a seat on a section
sawn off a log. The table is with
out cloth, and is decidedly short
Of civilized feeding tools, fare con-
sists ofgoat meat fried in fat-corn
bread and river water. ] was not
very hungry.
The lady of the house (near by,
for the table was spread out of doors
under a tree and lighted by a rag
in a tin cup of grease) made the
customary excuse for the poorness
Of the fare, that you may hear at
almost every table-however sup
plied-apywhere in the Union,
from the St. Johns to the Rio
Grande, not even skipping the ser
want question, for since her mig
gers left, she'd had to put up with
doins, for she never was
'no great of cook no way"
Supper out of the way she told
one of her "boys'' to "drive out
that old sow and pigs from under
the bed for she lowed the stran-
gers was tired" The boy did as he
was bidden, but remarked "t'warnt
no use, fur it was gwine to rain,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

A Southern paper reports that
whooping cough is shaving a sue
cessful rum" in a town in Louis
lana. The author of the para
graph speaks of the troublesome
disease as he would of a popular
play:
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16

An Atlanta paper says that a
white woman of that city recently
gave birth to twins, boys--one
white and one colored-and adds
that the father is a scalawg.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
An Adroit Sell.

110 pukCudSCu d AOOh Ii0 lOl NulCu
be paid fifty cents, and then asked
permission to leave his box while be
did few errands do6n town. Old
Hardman-a dealer in new and
second hand clothing-h had no OBJ
lection.
at is violin" said the gentle
man, which I prize very highly. at
was given to me by an Italian who
died at my fathers house. l beg
you will be careful oft, SIR
Mr.. Hardman promised and the
owner Of the violin departed.
Towards noon while the old cloth
ing dealer was deeply engaged in
selling suit of shoddy for baDg-up
Prussian Tricott, stranger entered
the store-a remarkable well-dressed
man, with distinguished look
The violin bcx Was in sigh! upon
the skeIf, and as no one was near to
prevent, the new conner slipped a.
round and opened the box and took
out the instruments very dark
hued and an ancient looking one.
"Hark!' cried Hardman, when be
heard the sound Of the violin.-'
"What for you touch dat, eh?"
The stranger explained that he
was a prolessor-that he was leader
of an orchestra-and that he could
never see a violin without trying it.
And then he drew the bow across
the strings, playing q few passages
Of fine old German waltz.
"My soul!" be cried, after be had
ran bis fingers over the instrument
awhile, "this is the best violin ] ever
sawl There is not a better one in
the city--a perfect, genuine old
Cremona! I will give you hun
lred dollars for it"
Hardman said it was not bis.
81 will give you hundred and
fifty--two hundred"
Mr.. Hardman was forced to ex-
plain how the violin came to be left in
bis store. The stranger had taken
put bis pocket book, and drawn forth
.wo one hundred dollar bank notes.
He put them back, remarking:
81 must have the violin if money
will buy it. When the owner re.
.urns you will ask him to meet me
here at six o'clock. If he cannot
10 that, tell him to call at the Acad-
amy of Music and inquire for the
director Of the orchestra. Will you
10 it?"
Hardman said be would.
"But," suggested the stranger,
you need not tell the man what !
nave said about the violin, nor what
have offered, because be may have
10 idea of what a treasure he pos
Iesses. Vow will be careful and
,ircumspect."
The stranger went away and
Ralph Hardman reflected. In the
course of an hour the owner OF the
violin returned and asked for bis
oox. But the shoddy man had been
,aptivated by the golden bait.
What would the gentleman sell
his violin for?
At first the gentleman would not
listen to the proposition, but after a
deal of talk be confessed that he
himself was a professor, and could
no: well afford to keep such a valu-
sble instrument.
He would sell it for one hundred
md sevenlY-fve dollars-not pen
by less.
Ralph Hardman paid the money,
md became the legal posSessor Of
The violin, ready to take anywhere
rom three hundred to five hundred
dollars from the director of the orches.
ira, as be might be able.
But the director did not come
At the end Of week Hardman
carried the violin to professional
friend and asked him what was its
real value. His friend examined it
and said,
''Two dollars and a half without
4 box"
k J
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THE MARYLAND
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF BALTIMORE
OF BALTIMORE.

THIS is well established and entirely
reliable Company. II is the only Maryland
Company. Such has been its marked sue.
cess that it declared and paid in cash as large
aDividendast the Oldest and largest Compan.
les in the United States.
Its Directors are men Of known integrity
and commercial ability to whom the public
can look at all times for Just and careful
supervision of It's affairs. II must be clear
to every intelligent mind that, II we would
secure the largest prosperity 10 our State
and people individually, we must build IN
our own institutions by keeping capital Al
home. The laws trade, self respect and
self interest combine TO make this the
Company for Maryland.
DfREC TORS.
Hamilton Easter, Allen A. Chapman,
George p. Thomas, Hugh Sisson, Hiram
Woods, George ii. Miller, Thomas Cassard,
William Devries, Charles Webb.
MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
DIR. ID. Mills, Westminster; DR.. Manakee,
Union Bridge; DR.. Waters, Watersville
DR.. Boone, Middleburg; Or. Correll, Ia.
neytown; DIR. Burlington, Of New Windsor;
DR.. Henry +, Beltz, Of Manchester. DR..
Shaw. of Uniontown DIR. j. W. Steele, Of
Freedom.
Persons desiring TO insure their lives win
do well to consult The above.
ANDREW J. MYERS,
State Agent,
will travel through the county during the
Summer, and attend the Courts, 10 transact
the business Of the Company.
Now, gentlemen, you have the chance TO
insure in good, safe, and cheap Company
without sending your money out OF the
State. sp30--tf
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NyHE undersigned announces to the public
IL that he hiss taken the shove Hotel. The
House 10 new, and furnished throughout with
New Furniture, Bcds, &c., and Is prepared 10
accommodate either fransient or permanent
boardcrs- The Table will always be supplied
with the best IN the market, and the Bar stock
Cd with the choicest brands Of Wines, Liquors,
Ales, Segars, &c. Ths location is very desira-
bic. being only few yards from the Depot
The ss.bling 4 large and ample, and attentive
0stIers always on hand to wait upon travellers.
J. A. KLEFF,
aug sly Proprietor.
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WHOLESALE & RETAIL q
s T. o r E.
5 minutes walk of the Depot, West End,
Westminster, Nd. nv
John I. Reifsnider,

vOA4A - NcAAcxAA0eF,
calls your attenhon to his large and vaned
stock Of Goods.
Ladies Dress Goods--A fall Ine of the
latest
Plain and neat styles--I have paid special
attention to this part.
Mourning Goode--A good assortment.
ilks-plain black and colored.
Mems Ware-the largest and cheapest
stock ] have ever offered to the public.
Domestic Goods-crowded in this line.
Notions and Trimmings nice assert
Eeut.
Carpeting and Oil Cloth-This depart.
ment has been largely improved.
Housekeeping Articles that is needed.
Oil Cioth-linen and paper window shades
and fixtures.
Hats-Ladies', Misses and childrep's
Shoes.
Queensware- common ware to the finest
French China.
Groceries, oil, paints and glass.
Hardware and building material, bought
direct from the Manufacturers and their
agents.
All the above goods are for sale ut small
advance. Call before purchasing and ex,
anime my stock
JOHN L. REIFsNIDER.
have secured the service Of Mr.. r. Hen.
ne, q first class Tailor. Goods made up to
order.
Goods delivered to the depot free.
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III AIDES FURS 1t y. r REIFsSIDER'S
~ French Sable, Siberian Squirrel, Water
Mink and Erinins, for sale q small profit
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NEW style Grey Drsss Goods for suits, -
jsiy 4 >. R. Bssays&c