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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12
Butter Makers.
Scenes in a Vermont town

The thriving town of st. Adams,
in Vermont, has become the great
butter-market of the United
States-more than forty-one mil
lion pounds of butter having been
shipped in eighteen years. An
interesting sketch of this trade is
given by correspondent of the
Boston Journal, as follows:
Tuesday is the regular butter
day. The farmers from the sur
rounding towns come in with their
two-horse teams and market wag-
ons with the last weeks churnings,
in ashen tubs. The wide streets
are alive. Over four hundred
wagons are gathered around the
square, and the farmers with their
wives and daughters are bargain
ing of the products of their dairies,
Or making purchases at the stores.
at is interesting to watch the
farmers making their bargains
with the traders. 1t is diamond
against diamond. Shrewdness is
an Inherited trait of the Vernon
tiers. Men who get up at 8 o'clock
in the morning, who have their
COWS MIXED and in the pastures
before the sun is up, and who drive
spanking teams ten miles to mar
ket before 6 o'clock, are not like
ly to be over reached in a bargain.
"These farmers in slouched
hats and thick boots are lords of
the soil. No peer of England's
the Duke of Devon
shire, with his deer parks at
Chattsworth, his long walks and
avenues and splendid palace is
more independent than these land
lords at st. Albans. Far more
deserving of titles are they than
many of the sprigs of aristocracy
on the other side of the Atlantic.
If they were to elevate one of
their number to peerage of their
own an appropriate title would be
Duke of Butterland, and this
round-faced woman before me,
whose hands have moulded the
yellow balls il the ashen tub fit
for an honest man to spread on
his bread, should be Countess of
Churn.
"These dairymen are true aris-
tocrats. 'They look the whole
world in the face, for they owe
not any man.
"They are owners of the soil
1t is their business to turn these
buttercups, dandelions and succu.
lent grasses into golden butter.
They are rich, they are intelligent
enough to comprehend what is
going on in the world. st. AL
bans butter-men are shrewd
enough tc sell the products of their
dairies instead of holding for high
er prices; they don't get their fin
gers burnt after the manner OF
the Minnesota wheat growers.
"These men," says a gentleman
residing here, "are all holders of
bonds. They have
money in the banks. They live
we'll, and enjoy life.'
"We have not yet been able to
understand why st. Albans is able
to make the market for fine butter
throughout the country; but soft
is. 1t may be interesting to your
readers to know how much IS
earned by the churn and cheese
press in the eight or nine towns
which send their produce to St.
Albans. The following statement
has been kindly supplied by gen.
tleman connected with the YER
mont Central Railroad, and shows
the amount shipped from 1851 to
ncoo,,ba,. 81 1Q6Q
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

The bowels Of the earth have
been heard, not by way of a volca.
no, but by letter. A correspon.
dent writes to an Eastern paper
from "l, $50 feet below daylight,
Pewable mines, Lake Superior
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

A wedding took place near Dry
Grove, Miss, a few days since, in
in which the bride has scarcely
reached her tenth year, the groom
being over six feet high and thirty
eight years of age.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12
Courted, Married and Di-
voTced, All in Six
Hours.

l
| Hours.
| Odd cases sometimes come ur
in our justices courts, and one OF
the oldest of them was case be
fore Justice Maak yesterday morn
ing. The functionary being in
his Office, was awaked from pro.
found snooze by the entrance of
two individuals, a man and wo.
man, responding to the names of
| Louis Fisher and Louisa Meyer.
| who notified him in a few expires
| sive words, that the dearest wish
of their hearts was to be united
in the bonds Of matrimony. JUS
tice Maak bestirred himself, invi-
ted the party to take seats, sum-
moned a few witnesses, procured
license, and in less time than we
have been writing it, the parties
were declared to be man and wife,
and left the Office locked arm-in-
arm, Lappy as an alderman at a
corporation dinner. Thus mat
ters wen. along swimmingly un-
til the afternoon, when who should
come before Justice Maak again but
the same parties, accompanied by
servant girl as interpreter. The
latter at once explained to the
justice that a great wrong had
been committed, and that the new
ly-made wife desired a divorce on
the ground that her husband was
a married man before he married
her, and had a wife and four inter-
esting babies living out six miles
in the country. Mr.. Fisher did
not deny this soft impeachment,
but pleaded in excuse that he had
grown tired OF his old wife, and
thought it no harm to take anoth-
er. He had found her in the
person of Mrs. Meyer. From the
statement of the latter it appears
that she has been but three weeks
in this country, and is hardly post
ed in regard to our laws and in
stitutions. Yesterday morning
she met Mr.. Fisher at q hotel.-
The latter was very agreeable,
and after convcrsing with her for
the full term of fifteen minutes,
informed Louisa that she bad sto-
len his heart, and begged her to
keep it, only taking his body with
it. Louisa consented, and was
basking in a sea of bliss, until, as
cruel fate would have it, some
friends arrived who knew Fisher,
and who were not slow in inform
ing her that she had invested her
affections in a piece Of masculine
property that belonged to another
woman. On hearing this the fair
bride went almost frantic. She
plunged about the room, tore out
her hair by the roots, and request
ed to be informed why she had
ever been born. As no one could
solve her problem, she went to the
justice with her story, but he was
powerless, and could only recon-
mend the arrest of the false hus-
band for polygamy. Whether
any arrests were made we did not
learn Fisher, it is understood,
is looking with longing eyes to-
wards Salt Lake City, and it is
not improbable that before many
months he and his new bride will
be in Brigham Young's domin-
ions--Dubuqate Herald.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12
The Sandwich Islands must t

IIV DdHuHEVH 1oIos1IuD
a cheerful place for horses and
donkeys. According to a cores
pondent these animals are used as
shark bait. The plunging animal,
whose head is fastened to a buoy,
attracts large shoals of the shovel
nose monsters. which ravenously
tear the launches and fanks of
the poor beast, and they are heed
less of the Kanakas in canoes, who
spear them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

Chinese emigrants smuggle OPT
uG into San Francisco in the soles
Of their shoes, the tops of their
bamboo hats, and the handles OF
their umbrellas.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

During the recent freshet in
Connecticut, a Waterbury editor
telegraphed another at the scene
of action, "Send me full particulars
of the food" The answer came,
"You will find them in Genesis. .
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

Two children, aged fifteen and
thirteen years, tried to get married
in Des Moines, a short time since,
and being refused copiously wept.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

One Cincinnati brewer paid
$50, 900 a year for the ice used in
his business. This speaks badly
for the temperance Of Porkopoli.
taus.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

= A little domestic trouble IN
where a man eloped
:.b his brothers wife, has been
e"m;cably w, settled by an equitable
a:~ ,:..;s;o,, Of children and furniture
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

There are seven colored mem
bers of the new Virginia Legisla-
ture,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

A theft of IS is a penitentiary
offence in Indiana. A man In
Union county recently stole bag
ot wheat which was proved to be
- srorth S4.99 7-l2. This being
orIv petit larcescy, he was SEN
tene,.d to Jail for sixty days
Ere.tweIffhs of cent more would
sent him to ihe penitentiary.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-08-12

The Fourth District Court In
San Francisco has granted a di-
vorce to a young and beautiful
lady who was married to Joseph j.
Smith of Salt Lake City. The la
sdy testified that Smith is a dea.
con in the Mormon Church, and
that he always treated her kindly,
they having lived pleasantly to-
gether for several years. Recent
". however, Smith concluded to
have a second wife, TO which Mrs.
Smith objected, and SO when the
deacon took home his new bride,
,v;te No. l returned to her mother.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05

the President of the United States, for services
which would be richly compensated by salary
OF three thousand dollars. The clerks can
rarely be induced to act promptly unless they
receive extra pay; and as they are usually APP
pointed rather on account of their services as
partisans than their capacity as chirographers,
the conveyancers tell us that they discharge
their nominal duty in "a 0ery imperfect and
detecttCe m0nneri" Other Row offices are
managed very much in the same style; and as
a practical result the people of Philadelphia
are feeced to the extent of several hundred
thousand dollars per annum, and at the same
time very poorly served. The remedy for
these evils is palpable. Fixed salaries should
be given to these officials, and if the fees
continue to be unnecessarily large, the city
treasury, instead of money loving politicians,
should be benefited by the enormous charges.
The chief obstacle to this reform, heretofore,
has been the stubborn opposition Of the mem
bers of the lower branch of the Legislature.
They are always ready to help an office-holder
to plunder the people, but never willing to
rescue the people from the vampires.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
TIE REPUBLICAN, MO VEIENT IN


A CABLE telegram announces that the Repub-
ican movement in the south of Spain has
assumed such imposing proportions that the
Government has introduced q bill to suspend
the rights of individuals, ''until the insurrec-
ton is suppressed" This measure is the
Spanish equivalent for suspending the habeas
corpus, and perhaps something more, and it
is so odious to the Republican deputies that
they will probably withdraw from the Cortes
if the proposed bill is passed. Another re-
port from Paris alleges (on apparently INSULT
cient authority, however, that if Ferdinand
of Portugal does not accept the Spanish
crown in eight days, Spain will be a republic.
We do not wonder at the impatience of the
people. The increasing strength of the re-
publican movement is natural consequence
of the protracted delay in selecting king.
AS the present rulers act only Professionally
OF temporarily, and to a considerable extent
arbitrarily, until q definite adjustment of
some kind is effected, the masses very pro-
perly demand that this uncertainty should
cease. They have tried kings and queens for
centuries, only to find each new monarch
greater incubus than his predecessor; and
since there is SO much trouble in selecting a
new titled oppressor they are not unwisely
concluding that it is desirable to give re-
public a fair trial. Since that form of gov
ernment would afford the people an oppor-
tunity to select a ruler by popular vote and
to depose him peacefully in a few years, if
his administration should prove unpopular,
it is difficult to explain the reluctance of the
existing rulers to republicanism on any other
hypothesis than that they are secretly welded
TO the interests of some one of the claimants
to the throne, and that their present move
ments are controlled in much larger degree
by this devotion to a dynasty than by a
patriotic regard for the welfare of the nation.
The new Republican outbreak may exercise
an important influence upon the relations be-
tween Spain and the United States. 1t will at
least admonish Prim and Serrano of the danger
of provoking WARMTH this country, and make
them more anxious than ever to hasten an
adjustment of the Cuban question.
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no W DEEDS ARE RECORDED.

A NUMBER of leading conveyancers have
united in letter complaining that deeds are
very imperfectly recorded in this city. They
state that "errors and omissions and illegible
passages are often found in the most impor-
tant evidences of title, and that ''the evil to
be remedied is the lack of skill and instruc-
ton in those employed in transcribing deeds,
&c, which are not recorded in a fair and legi-
BILE hand as is by law required" 1t thus ap-
pears that notwithstanding the outrageous
fees and exactions which those who transfer
property are compelled to pay to the Recorders,
and their clerks, the real duties of that office
are performed in a miserably inefficient man
ner The income Of the head official is esti-
mated at thirty thousand dollars-and he Is
thus paid FIVE thousand dollars more than
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
4 JUDICIAL DEFENSE or THE
POLICEMEN.


JUDGE LUDLOW, in his charge to the Grand
Jury yeste rday, denounced the modern sys-
tenn of treating prisoners like ''boarders at
hotel, and he" also alleged that ''the great
cause of crime" is the abuse of the pardoning
power There is doubtless great force in
these structures, as we'll as in his complaints
Of the defective license laws, but we can
scarcely perceive the wisdom of his course in
connecting with these condemnations a vol
unteer defense of the policemen of this CITY,
The drift of his argument is that the public
must account for the present carnival of
crime in some other way than by ascribing it
to the defects of Mayor Fox's force. He is
right in assuming that that defect is not the
sole cause of the frequency of crime, but he
is wrong in endeavoring, indirectly to create
the impression that the policemen are not in
large degree answerable for the present un-
fortunate condition of affairs Willingly or
unwittingly, Mayor Fox has sadly mismanaged
the police department. He may have been
animated by correct motives but a very bad
place is said to be paved with good intentions,
and he has undeniably made a number of
very inappropriate appointments, at the in
stance of unscrupulous partisans. All official
agencies for the suppression of crime, COM
bined, are of comparatively small Importance,
in great cities, if the police fail to do their
duty, and really bad policemen are worse than
none
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The Philadelphia Library.
MEETING TODAY.

mEhllNG TO-DA1.
Continued from last edition.
Mr.. McMurtrie objected to the present acceptance
of the bequest the building should be first erected
and rendered to the company, as prescribed by the
Will; thus the company would escape the legal
charge OF cousion with the executor to evade the
consider also that in accepting q trust they bound
themselves to meet every requirement of the trust
whether the funds provided should be sufficient for
that purpose or not. He moved the following resO-
luton to be inserted as an amendment on striking
out all after the word resolved
In the opinion OF the stockholders, the time when
they can be asked to accept is that pointed out by
the will, when the bidding Is completed, and the
lia iites which will he assumed can be aScertaned
and measured, with the means of performing them.
After some further discussion the vote was taken
upon Mr.. McMurtrie's amendment, and it resulted
81 ayes to % nays.
Mr.. Phillips amendment was lost by 2S ayes to 30
nays the Chairman casting the deciding vote
ON amotion to adjourn, the vote was 80 ayes to
80 nays.
Many members started Immediately t u leave, but
the chairman stated he had not announced the re-
suit of the VOTE and requested the vote should again
be taken by tellers to obvate the difficulty in de-
Gliding. his was objected to by several, as some
membt rs had left the room.
On motion vote was taken by tellers Messrs.
Fraey ard Tighman being appointed. The second
vote resulted 81 ayes to 30 nays.
The chairman asked what action should be taken
on the votes OF the proxies?
Judge Stroud asked v hat the proxies were.
They were read, and the chairman decided they
had right to vote on the question of adjournment
Judge Stroud appealed from the decision.
Several members asked If the proxy papers were
stamped.
Judge Sharswood decided that question was not
properly before him.
pointed whereon stock vote should be taken upon
the square issue OF the committees report, and it
should be thoroughly advertised.
. Pending It's acceptance the discussion was con-
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
THE. FINE ARTS.
Opening of HaseItine's Art Gallery

OuculHR HuseItlne'S Art OIilIefys
The Art Galleries OF Mr. Charles Il. Hasetne, at
No 1925 Chestnut street, have been closed for some
months for the purpose of making extensive altera
tions and improvements that will adapt them more
perfectly for exhibiting rst-cass works OF art and
for the convenience and comfort Of lovers OF art
who may desire to resort to them. handsome
walnut staircase has been constructed, opening
communication directly from the store to the gal
leres upon the second floor, which will be deemed
great Improvement over the old arrangement by
which admission to the galleries was gained
by steps leading directly from the street. The walls
IN both stories are panelled 10 within few feet OF
the ceilings, for the display OF the pictures, and
above the paneng they are frescoed with original
designs by NJ. Haseltne in the Greek style, and the
same patterns are continued the ceilings in SUBJ
dued and harmonious cOloring The OrnamentatOn
is peculiar, and the whole ding up of the galleries
indicates an artistic taste that is extremely rare
The floors OF the priocpal galleries are inlald with
different colore woods, and in the centre they are
covered with carpets OF rich and elegant design The
furniture is handsome, and the whole fitting up of
the establishment is such to make It an attraction
OF itself independently OF the gems of art displayed
upon its walls.
Inc lower apartment is devoted to engrayings
chomos artists materials, etc, and the second moor
to choice foreign and American pictures ana sta :
tuay py artists Of the highest reputation.
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SICKLES.


French View of His Diplomatic Powers.
Paris Correspondence London Times.
The note lately addressed by General Sickles
to the Madrid Government with respect to the
Cuban insurrection and to the probability of
early American recognition of the Insurgents as
a belligerent power is at variance, as you are
doubtless aware, both in tone and conclusions,
with the recent diplomatic communications that
have passed between the Spanish Minister at
Washington and the United States Government.
General Sickles diplomatic experience before
he went to Spain was extremely limited, and,
perhaps, altogether insufficient to enable him
rightlyto estimate the value of his words and the
effect they might produce. 1t is presumabe
he has been little surprised and
startled at the excitement his ill-considered
communication has occasioned, and he may have
had his eyes opened to the propriety of modify
ing that which he too hastily said. 1t difficult
to believe that his government will approve him.
There is no preteXt for recognizing an insurrec-
tion which does not hold single town or strong
position, and which owes its prolongation
mainly to the climate that prostrates its oppo-
nents, and to the facilities afforded it bya thinly
peopled country abounding in cover and offering
many obstacles to the operations of regular
troops At the time of General Sickles' appoint
ment as United States Minister to Madrid, the
choice was greatly criticized and generally
deemed a bad one. 1t has not received the sane
ton of the American Senate, and that body
would do itself credit by refusing to confirm in
his new functions man who, to say nothing of
what may be alleged against his past life, has
made so bad first appearance in his new capa-
city of a diplomatst.
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The Recent storm.

NEW YORK, oct. 5.-The Erie Railroad is all right
IRON Jersey City to Buffalo.
ALBANY, Oct. 5.-The New York Central Railroad
Is all right. The Hudson River and Harlem roads
are still blocked The easements and cellars in this
city are Hooded and boats are plying i'm Broadway.
LEWISTON, Me- Oct 5.-Several million logs were
carried away by the freshet. j. NJ. Thompson was
III his mill 1t when was washed away and was
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BALTIMORE, oct 5.-In the case of George Snyder
against G. c. and A. X. Fulton, proprietors of the
Baltimore American for $1,000 damages for alleged
libel, on trial in the Superior Court for some days
past, the jury this morning rendered verdict for
the plaintiG for $3.50 damages. His counsel moved
an appeal, and the case will probably come before
the Court of Appeals at its next term. Counsel for
the defendants moved arrest of Judgment.
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FIFTH EDITION
EHE L LATEST me ws.
The virginin Lc.isInture.

RICHMOND, Oct b-The Legislature convened at
neon with full attendance. In the House a tenn
pora1y organization was effected, with William
McLaugn IN, OF hockbridge, as speaker, and H. e.;
tomorrow, when permanent officers viii be elected.
Fowler, Wells, Republican, protested against any
Olncer, temporary or permanent, taking his Seat,
met with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lewis in the chair.
me organization IL not yet completed, but will be
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Baptist Church Burned.

AUGUSTA, oct. 5-The Second Baptist Church, /
China, Me-, was burned yesterday by inCendtare'
all of whom have been arrested. The building wa
not insured
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Prize Fight Postponed.

FORTRESS MONROE, Oct. 5-The prize fight for the
lightweight championship, between Sam COilyer
and Charles Dougherty, did not take place to-day.
The parties met at jamestown Island, but
Dougherty being 2T pounds over weight, forfeited
the money. About 300 Spectators were present.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
For ADDITIONAL Special Notices see The Inside IA

seSg- PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY. - Essay THIS EVENING: - "Ter
Years Experience in Pear Culture" by Dr. j. S
HOUGHTON. It,