davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-10-20

During the past Six Years its worth has
been testified to by thousands of Scientific
Men, School Teachers, Students, Physicians
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

In LUCK.-Newspaper men are
in luck. III. G. Mclaughlin, late
editor of the Murireesboro Monitor,
has been called to become candi-
date for the House the friends
of Frank o. McCord, editor of
the Pulaski Citizen, want him to
run for the Senate; and the peo-
pie of Upton county have peti-
toned Sam Rose, of the Record,
to represent them in the next Leg
islatnre. Goodness knows we
have need of somebody in that
body that has some sense about
newspaper advertising; somebody
that will blot out of the statute
book the presumptuous, silly act
requiring newspapers to publish
legal advertising at a price that
would starve a church mouse,
and instead, authorize 1t to be done
IN the paper haUing the largest cir
culation, and paying for it the
price that the publisher charges
other people. The Index will
never support any man for the
Legislature who is such an eyre
giols ass as to suppose that we
can be compelled to work in that
way Humboldt Lnder.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

GLYCERINE AND It's UsEs.-Com.
paratively but few years have
elapsed since glycerine was thrown
away as a waste product from
soap and stearine candleworks.-
Now it is one of the most useful
products. Tubs and pals satura-
ted with it will neither shrink
nor dry up. Leather soaked in it
keeps moist and pliable. 1t is
used for extracting the perfume
of flowers; to preserve animal sub
stance from decay; and hence is
valuable for preserving" purpos-
es. 1t is employed in pharmacy,
dying, brewing, liquor-making,
wine-keeping, and for a vast vari-
ETY. of other purposes. With
nitric acid it forms nitro glycerine,
one of the most powerful explo-
sives known.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08
General Joseph E. John
ston on the War.
I'M the New York Herald. |

Next to General Lee, General
Joseph E. Johnston is about the
most celebrated of the surviving
Generals OF the Confederacy, and
;n this view it may be interesting
TO lay before our readers the opin-
ions # that officer on the Franco,
Herman war. = Passing
from the mere strategetical view
of the case, the General remarked
that ne was surprised to know
of so much sympathy in the South
for Prussia Napoleon is regarded
as wise and sagacious ruler, who
has made France one of the freest
countries in Europe, and that no.
where could a man find better
protection for his life and proper
ty than there. The sympathies
of Europe should be with him, as
certainly if the French armies
were defeated the result would be
the dethronement of the Emperor,
and such an event. would convulse
Europe for long time to come.
AS to Prussia, the government
there was the most despotic in
Europe. To q playful suggestion
that Gen. Lee and himself should
be sent over to settle this little
matter, General Johnston laugh
ingly replied that neither could do
much with their limited knowl
edge of German. A General
should know his men, and just
here, he thought, was the error
in the employment of American
officers with the Egyptian troops.
1t was very we'll for the officers
who were well paid, but would
not be SO well for the Egyptians
The General is now residing in
Savannah, Georgia.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

An effort was made recently to
throw the Chesapeake and Ohio
mail train off the track, at a point
near Hanover Courthouse, Vir-
ginia. The engine ran against a
bar OF railroad iron laid across the
track, but, fortunately, pushed it
off. There were piles of wood on
the track at intervals for hundred
yards or more. Two negro boys
who were found near the place,
were arrested, when the youngest,
about twelve years of age, confess
ed that they had placed the OBJ
struction on the track to stop the
train, SO that they might get on
and ride to Richmond.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08
geuple of the a3lnses.
ANGEL FOOTBALLS.
Pitter-patter on the carpet

Pitter-patter on the carpet
Comes the sound of tiny feet,
And the blending of their footballs
Makes melody complete.
/ can hear it in the sunlight,
Then it seems a carol gay;
And they enter with the moonbeans,
But their joyous fairy lay
Changes to soothing nocturn,
As the night succeeds the day.
Other people cannot hear them,
1t is granted me alone
To discern a precious presence
In each timid, tripping tone.
Some have listened bat my wee ones,
Shrink from strangers. So, you see,
Outside ears have never heard them;
They but come to comfort me.
Ialone may know my darlings
By their footsteps melody.
One was taken while he studied
How alone to cross the room
And heard his timid stepping
Out into the midnight gloom.
Now he totters! Insecurely
Dimpled feet have touched the floor,
And he falls, but angel brothers
Lift him, as in days before
And again he ventures forward,
Pit-pat! pit-pat! Ger and Ger.
So l recognize each stepping;
And though dear ones all have flown
From beyond my loving vision,
am never quiet alone.
Old and deaf to earthly soundings,
/ can yet discern strain
Keener hearings ne'er discover;
All their listening is vain |!
And | know by every football
Earthly loss is heavenly gain.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08
Proprietor.
VOL. XTI---hO. 80.
Profanity Cured.

We once knew an old man who
was brimfull of good nature and
benevolence. full OF charity and
all manner of kindness. He was
never angry with any person, and
yet, strange to say, he fell into
this dreadful habit from telling
amusing anecdotes interspersed
with oaths, until it grew upon him
SO fearfully that be went so far
that be used oaths without being
aware of it. We paid him a visit
when we were q little fellow and
took the liberty Of asking him one
day :-"Uncle John, do you know
how often you curse p "No, my
son." said he after a moments re-
Election. ''Let me tell you what
to do: Now just notice for me,
and tell me of itevery time you
hear an oath from my lips" The
next day be played at whist with
some friends We sat in hearing
and counted sixty oaths within
the space of three hours, uttered
by him and his partner during the
morning. Neither of them were
angry during the time. With a
somewhat pardonable pride in be-
ing able to reprove an old grey
haired man, we said-"UDcle John, +,
| have counted yours and Mr.. LIS
oaths, shall l tell you how many?"
Certainly"
"Sixty !"
They looked at me, and then
at each other and were silent un-
til Uncle John spoke. "My friends,
this will never do; we must stop
it." They shook hands across the
table. How L. kept his resolve
we know not, but we never heard
Uncle John swear again. He died
a Christian.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08
TERMS.


1sTwo Dollars for one year, i'sva-
= 1tf "a advance.
single copies, Ten Cents each.
<rts Advertisement inserted at One Dollar
pet <saare of Ten Lines or less for the hrsi
i;sss,{Ion Fifty Cents for each continuance.
<z.77p Local and Special Notices, Twenty
Gents per line. 49,
A liberal deduction will be made to
psrsons advertising for three, six, nine, OF
.tteire months.
ar Obituaries and calls on candidates,
Fifty Gents per square.
f1y- The privilege of yearly advertisers Is
ets;cily limited to their own immediate and
f<ss,lar business and the business of an ad-
<<aising firm is not considered as including
thzt of its individual m emhers. 0CTNo de-
sfztion from these terms under any circum-
zteEces.
AZ Advertisements not marked with the
11Inber of insertions when handed in, will be
ctatsnued until ordered out, and payment
@Escted.
NJ No advertisement inserted gratu.tously
T Advertisements of an abusive nature
vii not be inserted at any price.
RPs Announcing candidates Five Dollars
ID be paid in advance in every case.
nT Job Printing of all kinds neatly
done on New Type, and on as reasonable
tsrms as any Office in Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

AN ANGEL.-This comes from
a n. Y. correspondent. If any
body knows of a similar case il
would be refreshing, in these days
of luxury and selfishness on the
one hand and poverty and distress
on the other, to make it known to
the public:
There is a young lady of vast
wealth residing in the vicinity of
Union Square, who employs her
leisure and pocket money in buy.
ing cloth, muslin, and calico by
the wholesale, and cutting it into
garments. She takes her carriage
and goes into lanes and by-ways,
giving work to needy people; and
when finished and literally paid
for she generally bestows the COM
Portable garments on those poor
men, and their children, who
"fought and bled" in the late war.
None are turned from her door
without the help that maketh the
heart glad. She i said to be
highly accomplished, agreeable,
modest, and seeks happiness in do.
ing good to all. She is devoted
TO her good work and a dear rela'
tive, and has refused the hands
of some of the leading men of the
nation.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

Recently a current of wind OF
heated air passed over and through
a four acre field of cotton, in the
neighborhood of Pomaria, South
Carolina, from the effects of which
in a few hours the whole field
whitened and died, no life being
left in it. The same current, it is
said, prostrated two pieces of corn,
turning over one half to the right
and the other to the left, the sec
ton being divided by a fence,
without doing other injury.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

Itisa we'll authenticated fact that
the May Flower had no sooner
landed the Pilgrims on Plymouth
Rock than she sailed directly to
the coast of Africa, and brought
a cargo of slaves and sold them to
the settlers in the West Indies /;
and it is said the first voyage was
less profitable than the second.
The Pilgrim fathers, like their de-
scendants, the carpet-baggers, paid
for their passage in prayers.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

A European correspondent
writes of the command given for
the demolition of all the fine vii
las on the Rhine which occupy
positions favorable to the play of
artillery. These sumptuous es-
adjustments are almost number.
less: "It is a dreadful thing to
tear up by the roots the adorn-
ments of lovely landscape, and
still more distressing to think that
the commanding points so lately
crowned with the highest embodi-
ments of artistic culture are like
ly to be made the points d'dppul
for bloody cannonades but such
is the fact. The owners of these
villas have been given three days
In which to level their fair struct-
ures to the ground. Should they
fail to perform the work within the
stipulated period, the Prussian
troops will doit for them"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

A census curiosity is reported
by the Athens Journal-a family
composed of husband, wife, and
three pairs of twin children
"The husband was the second
husband of the wife, and the wife
was the second wife of the hus-
band. The wife by her first hus-
band had pair of twins, the first
wife pair Of twins by her first
husband, and now the second wife
has pair Of twins by her second
husband.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

AGerman bankcyof New -Roch-
ellie got on the lightning train,
which didn't sop at his place, and
jumped off while the train was
on the fly, 1.-the air. The under
taker saisit was a moral impossi-
bility :, make handsome corpse
of fsm, as he seemed to spread
a,ound so.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The Memphis appeal publishes
a letter from Gen. Bate addressed
to the editor of that paper. declip
ing to be a candidate 70, Govehor
on account of bis, |ssabllifies not
being removed In the course of
bis Ietter4~ says: "Neither have
T wr;Nen letters nor visited any
nav y(of the State with the view of
tfanufacturing public opinion to
be welded for my preferment."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The New York Tribune says :
1t may relieve the Pious minds of
those who fancy that the Chinese
immigration will make idolaters
of US all, to learn that the Chinese
shoemakers at North Adams all
go regularly to church on the
Lords Day, and : that the leader
of the company is jealous Meth
Odist.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The Chicago Dental Society
some time since turned one mem.
Der out because he persisted in
advertising his business. Being
turned out was the biggest kind
of an advertisement for him, as
he has been overrun with custom
ers ever since, and the rest of
the society want to be turned out
now.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08
Missing Fifteen Years
A Strange Story.

The Kansas City Times gives
the following story
"Nearly fifteen years ago there
lived on the banks of the Ohio,
but a few miles from the city of
Louisville, man by the name of
Henry G. Danforth, the family
consisting of himself, wife and one
child, daughter only a little over
two years of age. One day the
child escaped the vigilant eye OF
the mother and wandered from
the house. Search was made,
but no trace could be found of
their darling, until reaching the
banks of the river her little bon
net was seen near the margin Of
the water. Then, indeed, the
little one ives mourned as dead,
and only a mothers heart can
fathom the agony OF the bereaved
parent.
Time passed on. Other chill
dren came to take the place of
the lost one at the fireside, and
the first storm of grief at the ter
rible affliction had given way to
quiet submission. Still the blue,
dancing waters of the Ohio always
caused inexpressible sadness 20
their bereaved hearts. Five years
ago the family removed to st.
Louis, where they have resided
ever since.
Last Saturday Mr.. Danforth re-
ceiyed an anonymous letter
from the city, urging him to come
up Immediately if he wished to
find his daughter, whom he sup
posed was drowned thirteen years
before. He arrived in the city
on Monday last, and proceeding
to the place Designated in the let
ter found a woman whom he had
known in other days rapidly near
ing the grave, and a young girl
in attendance upon her. She
pointed to the child Immediately
upon his entrance, saying, "This
is your drowned child" and en-
tered upon an explanation which
convinced him of the truth of her
words"
at seems that he himself was
the innocent cause of the affair
The woman had loved him previ
GUS to his marriage, and when the
words were spoken binding him
to another all the worst passions
of her nature were aroused and
she determined upon revenge, and
how faithfully she executed her
threats the above will testify. She
had kept herself informed of his
whereabouts and when she knew
that shortly death would claim
her as his victim she determined
to make all the reparation in her
power. Who can paint the joy |
of the father on finding the dead |
alive? The woman it seems had !
only been in our city some six
MONTHS coming from Cincinnati, |
to which place she had first fed
with the child. She said she had
always treated her as she would
her own daughter, to which the
child testified, and begged that
the woman might be taken with
them. The result was that the
three took the train on the North |
Missouri Railroad for st. Louis,
and ere this the waiting mother
has received the embraces of her
long lost daughter.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

During the year 1859 there
wore brought to and distributed
from Atlanta, Georgia, 26,76O
mules ; since January, 1870, Is,
240, making a total in eighteey
months of 10000. These We
all sold at prices averaging pc Pc
haps, 5000 per head. TbIasesiIeo &c
gate cost of these mH0 " 'H'
purchasers was So, ,00p'oV' y
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

A lady who sings in the choir
of certain church in New York,
having been laughed at for mar.
rying a very small man, remark
ed that she had always found short
metre hims the easiest to get
along with.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

There was a row in a boarding
house in Rising Sun, Indiana, a
few days ago, when meddIesome
servant informed the boarders that
an elegant soup of which they
had eaten freely was made of kit.
tens.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08
ths ends thOa am at Be thy cOuatry hy Gods and rra'
FAYETTEVILLE TENNNH: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5 1870

"Ah, said he as | entered, "I
knew the Lord would bless you.
/ have been praying for you all
day" sa
AThanks," I said, "but never
mind about the blessings: All ]
want is some mush and blankets
and your horse in the morning to
take me Watertown." W
"Yon shall have them" he said,
''but shan't | read you chapter ?"
"No."
"The Lord has blessed your"
he said inquiringly.
eyes," / said, ''he has-I have
done what | wanted, and got rid
of my horse besides," and these
were the last words | said to the
old man till about 8 O'Clock in the
morning.
About that time, sir, l was
dreaming of having a gay old time
| was awakened by a sharp pain
in my cheek, and a loud 'sthug"
in the floor beside me. / clap
ped my hand to my cheek and
felt blood /; between me and the
window was the old mans form.
Why, sir, a streak of lightning is
nothing to a mans nerve at such
a time. Before you could say slack
Robinson" before there was time to
form a single coherent thought
found myself doing the very best
thing / could--clutching the old
man by the throat and pressing
the muzzle of my empty pistol to
his temple-he shaking like an
aspen leaf.
"Oh, don't shoot!" he screamed,
"Jesus was always merciiul."
"Was hep said | giving his
throat an awful squeeze.
"Oh, don't kill him, walled the
old woman, "the Lord will bless
you if you don't
SECT up, you, Jtzebel, and
strike light, or / will send him
and you, too, TO the Prince of
Darkness" growled l.
The light was struck.
What did l see? Oh, nothing
in particular-only the floor was
torn up, and grave dug to put
me in, where the wolves would
not disturb me. I had noticed
that the boards were loose when /
first came in. As / saw this |
couldn't help knocking the old
man down with the barrel of my
pistol and pitching him into the
hole. | put his Bible into my
pocket as a memento; and in
three minutes was on his horse
and on the road to Watertown.
Not quite unmolested, though,
for as turned the corner of the
fence bullet whizzed spitefully
by me. l turned round. The
old she devil was standing in the
doorway, with a rifle smoking in
her hands.
"You darsn't come back" she
screamed.
"You're told gal, I darsn't," !"
thought l, plunging into the dark
ness.
A weary midnight ride that was
to Watertown. Not that the pain
of my wound was much, for the
axe had but scraped the skim
But the unutterable melancholy
of night in the almost virgin for
est, the indescribable sounds, the
cayote's yell, the sad wailings and
mourning rustling of the leaves,
filled me with a blueness that was
awful blue-set me to thinking
of things almost forgotten, and
things that were sad to think of |
then-of days that were differ
ent from these days-well-
When Tom Vincent, like a man,
paid me five hundred dollars, l
went into the picture agency bu-
siness, and have not touched card
since. |
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The boy at Wilmington Del,
who put a lighted fire. e.cracker in
the bunghole Of a barrel of kero-
sene, just to see it fizz, has not
come down yet, and that occurred
on the 4th.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

On a trial Of locomotive speed
a few days ago, on the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad, from
Nashville to Murfreeshoro, a dis
tance of 80 miles, the time was
made in 90 seconds.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The last surviving member of
a consumptive family at Lowell.
Mich, is said to have recently at.
tempted to cure himself by roast
ing the heart and liver of a sister
lately deceased, and inhaling the
fumes.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

A Western editor in chronicling
the death of a prominent citizen
says: at was a great blow to the
family, which consisted of his SON.
in-law and a few boarders."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

AfashiOn-writer says that GER
tain mothers get up fashionable
babies by rouging the cheeks of
the little things, and sewing blood
curls inside their caps then they
look "sweet."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

A. G. P. Dodge, of New York,
has presented the theological sem
mary at Alexandra, Va, $780,
600. This is the same institution
to which W. II. Aspinwall gave
$4,000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The Leavenworth (Indiana) In
dependent is responsible for tie fol.
lowing:
We heard of a boy, the other
day, who accidentally swallowed a
silver half dollar. They gave him
warm water, and tartar emetic, and
antimonial wine, and poked their
fingers down his throat, until the
boy thought he would throw up
his toe-nails. After awhile along
came a doctor, who. understood
these cases. He gave the boy a
small dose of patent medicine, and
in less than ten minutes he threw
up the half dollar in five cent pie
ces! Science is a big thing.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

The Ohio papers are telling a
thrilling little romance of a wan
derer meeting his wife over the
grave of her second husband.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

A trout in the fsh-pOnd of a gen.
tleman in st. Johnsbury, VT,
jumped from the water recently
and caught the nose of a small
boy who had his face near the
water. This is by no means sup
posed to be a fish story.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

When the war ended Kansas
had no railroads at all. Now she
has more than a thousand miles
of railway within her own limits,
and an abundance of railway con-
nections with every part OF the
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

ROndout IN. " young ladies'
are organising society for the
encouragement of young men who
desire to marry.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

h.II IsII1 olnh which y las adopted the
s;mnle sim @ and pAodous name of
paslanassnwslksag.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

Two drunken parents of Syria
cuse n. L., are under arrest for
having starved to death a child
four months old.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

Columbus, Ca, has a slipper
club" The members slip around
and get all the drinks they can.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-09-08

Pulaski, Tenn, has popuIa-
ton of 2,077, VIZ: whites I,l6O,
and colored 9l7. :