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The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-12-07
STANDING COMMITTEES.


Mr.. Sparrow from the Judiciary Commit
tee, reported favorably on certain bills.
Mr. Broadfoot, from the Committee on
Corporations, reported faYorably several
bills. .
A message was received from the Gov
ernor recommending that the General As
sembly urge the appropriation of suffi-
cient amount to complete the Improvements
of the Cape Fear Bar. Referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee.
INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. {ohns introduced resolution con-
corning internal revenue on tobacco and
distilled spirits. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Marler introduced a resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee 10 report
bill for the relief of sheriffs Placed on
the calendar. -----.----.--
Mr.. Wilcox introduced resolution in re-
lation to per diem Placed on the calendar
Mr. Dickey introduced resolution in
favor of the sheriff of Cherokee. Referred
to the committee on Proposition and Griev-
aUCeS
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

TTwo Dollars for one year. snva-
taBg IA advarct.
or Single copies, Ten Gents each
SPAdvertisements inserted ct One Doilsl
ner square Of Ten Lines or less for the FIRST
Insertion; Fifty Cents for each continuance,
@ Local and Special Notices. Twenty
Gents per line.
hTA liberal deduction viii be made TO
persons advertising for three, six, nine, or
twelve months.
0r Obituaries and calls on candidates,
Fifty Cents per square.
or The privilege Of yearly advertisers is
strictly limited TO their own immediate ahd
regular business; and the business of an ad-
yeftising firm is not considered as including
that of lee individual members. G~rNo de-
Walton from these terms under any circum-
stances.
az Advertisements not marked with the
number of insertions when handed in, will be
continued u5tiE ordered out, and payment
exacted.
HTN No advertisement inserted gratu'touslc
EP Advertisements of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price:
.t1s Announcing candidates Five Dollars
10 be paid in advance in every case.
OF Job Printing of all kinds neatly
done on New Type, ard on as reasonable
terms as any Office in Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

Look Our FOR THIEVES. The
Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution makes this
startling announcement: "Spies,
emissaries and incendiaries have
been sent from all parts Of the
Yankee States to Georgia, that
the presses and pulpits may
from data thus furnished them
resound with tales of murder,
Ku-Klux outrages, disloyalty, etc.
A majority Of these spies now in
Georgia are in the guise Of Min
listers of the Gospel, teachers,
health-seekers aud some pretend-
ing to look for homes. Let the
people of Georgia watch them ;
they are paid spies, sent out to
Georgia and all lparts of the South
by the Northern Methodist Churh,
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton and the Grand Army of the
Republic. Their business is to
lie, malign and SANDER the South
ern people"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

The Planters Banner, pat-
lished at St. Mary, La, says
."Large numbers of field hands
hare been brought to St. Mary in
the last four months from Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Car
olina, and other States; and moro
are coming. The best field hands
this season in st. Mary get $50 a
month and rations of pork, corn
meal, etc. We doubt if there is
a county in the whole North
where the best of these hands
could get SIS month on a farm
the year round and rations, or
board, and a house to live in
These high wages are rapidly at
tracing Virginia and North Caro-
lima negroes to this county, which
viii have a tendency to, reduce
wages. There are no crops but
sugar, rice and cotton that can.
yield profits q justify such rates"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

A ferocious dog has made a
great deal of trouble in Fall River,
Mass. Last autumn he bit a boy :
and said boy has since exhibited
symptoms Of hydrophobis. Upon
the strength Of these, the boys
parents have sued the dogs owner.
seeking to recover the neat sum of
$4,000. But this is not all. The
dogs owner and the afflicted pa.
rents belong TO the same church ;
and the whole subject has been
ferredintoanecclesiasticaldis dis
pute. Good graciousl polemics.
complicated with hydrophobia4 I
Was there not swapping, and snarl-
ing, and growling, and barking
enough in that department. of hu-
man energy? A church quarrel
arising out of a case of raad.dog-
it Is melancholy indeed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

and one day, it having come 10
her ears that a fast young man had
spoken lightly of her, she armed
herself with a cowhide,. and en-
tering the store OF a Third street
bookseller, which the young man
was in the habit of frequenting,
and before any one could interfere,
she gave him a sound thrashing
After this, she became notori-
Gus as the paramour of Major
Fitch, an officer in a Michigan
regiment during the war, and for
a time Provost Marshal at this
point. The Major had wife and
child, but he succumbed to the
wiles of the siren, and abandoned
family, honor, position, everything,
for this frail woman. His wife,
whom he had left in Michigan dis
covered the state of affairs, and,
with the love of a true woman, at
tempted to reclaim him; but he
drove her from him, and, heart
broken by her sorrows, reason was
dethroned, and she became an IN
mate of mad house in Michigan.
The downward course of the Ma
jor was swift and sure, and he
soon became so low and degraded
that the woman who lured him to
destruction cast him off. Then,
when he became an outcast from
home, friends and society, and
when the wretched woman for
whose guilty love he had periled :
md lost all, drove him from her.
presence, ,remorsetook possession of
DIS soul, and be became araving ma
niae, and, strange to relate, was
placed in the same asylum with
ais wronged and injured wife.
From this city Mrs. Fitch went
70 St. Louis, and there lived dis
'oiute life; and on the last trip cf
he ill-faled StoneWall took pas.
sage on her for New Orleans, and
vas supposed to have been lost,
4 letter received in this city q
ew days ago brings to light new
,hapter in her life. She was not
ost as was supposed, but was res
'ued from the burning steamer,
md for reasons best known 10 her
elf did not contradict the story
# her death. The writer of the
etter, who knew her in this city,
ecognized her in the streets Of
Kansas City, No., and upon inqui-
y, learned that she had recently
'een married to an elderly gentle
nan of considerable wealth who
ived near that place. She told
he gentleman that she had forsa-
Ten her evil ways, and begged of
i'm not to reveal her past history.
lie declined to make any promis-
s, and in a letter to a friend in
his city gives the particulars OF
eg last matrimonial venture.
Whether or not she is sincere in
er repentance, time alone can
ELL. Her husband is devotedly
ttached to her, and she is sur
cunded by every luxury that
yealth can purchase, while her
NO victims, the Major and his
Tiie, doomed to a living death by
er Vaccinations, are dragging
ut their existence in public
lad-house.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07
lFrOm the New York Herald.
Caught a Tartar.

A short time ago, gentleman
engaged as an agent for an exten.
sive agricultural implement estab-
lishment in this city, had occasion
to 90 to one of our national banks
to get check cashed. The check
was for two thousand five hundred
dollars. After getting it cashed
the gentleman walked out Of the
bank with the money in his hands,
and while upon the sidewalk he
stopped awhile to place it in bis
calfskin wallet. Just then he OBJ
served two well dressed young men
standing on s;oop near by and
overheard a remark made by one
10 the other:
'Look at the heap of money
that countryman has got-there
is a chance for good stake,
Johnny"
To be sure the agent bad the
appearance of having come in from
the rural districts, being dressed
very shabby, and having bis trow-
sers in his boots. But, as the Sc
quel will show, he was not so
"queer" as he looked, but on the
contrary, was as ''smart as they
made EN-" The "man of money"
started up State street, followed
up closely by the young men, and
on reaching Pearl street, he was
approached by one of themr who
accosted him thus:
evil you please tell me where
Hudson street is 2"
"Don't know, I'm a stranger in
the city; just come in from Gull
derland," remembering that he
had been ''spo:ted" as a country
man by the young gent who ap-
preached the query.
After answering the question
the agent continued on up North
Pearl street, as be entered Sher-
mans real estate agency Office he.
noticed that his two "friends" still
dogged on his steps. They re-,
mained outside the door awaiting
his return, snrmising, no doubt,
that hewould merchandising And
they were not disappointed, for in
two minutes "their man" made
bis appearance again on the street.
But of course they were totally
ignorant OF what his business was
in the Office. Being aware that
these men were following him for
no good purpose the agent very
wisely left all his money with his
friend, Mr.. Sherman. and then
stuffed his wallet with scraps of
newspaper. He then sauntered
out determined to "see the thing
out" He passed up Maiden Lane
crossed Eagle street, and going a
long near the Capitol Park. when
he wss again accosted by one of
the men who inquired of him what
time it was.
"Can't tell you; left my watch at
home," replied the agent. AT
that the sharper handed a green
back to the agent and the latter
drew forth his wallet stuffed with
scraps of paper. lie no sooner
did SO than the thief snatched the
wallet from his hand and ran off
with the speed of a deer. Ut
course the agent did not pursue
him, but chuckled to himself over
his good luck in getting $40 for an
old wallet filled with newspapers.
He expresses himself well satisfied
with the swap.
sS-O-sS
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

Duriug the last ninety years the
Methodist Church in the State of
New York has increased ten per
cent. in membership; twsnty-thres
per cent. in churches fifty-seven per
cent. IN parsonages one hundred aud
forty per cent. in the value Of church
edifices and very largely in Sunday.
school aud educational facilities.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

ADTERTIs1NG.--The Boston
Traveller noting the wealth that
judicious advertising has brought
to some men, says "that no aGVer.
tisement has had a greater or more
unexpected result than little
three line notice recently appear
ing in a corner Of a New York pa
per. 1t has created a sensation
all over the country, and has al
ready driven three Congressmen
in disgrace from public life, while
others are trembling in their seats
from the same cause"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

An Indiana paper tells this story
of a cruel womanwho lives in the
town of Muncie in that State: ''By
her cruelty, she drove two of her
daughters from her to seek home
among strangers. She beat and
bruised and starved them until they
were forced to fly. The last thing
she did to them was to take as
many pms as she could hold in one
hand and rake up and down their
arms with the pointsl She also
took an orphan child, living with
her, and put it in a pen where sew
eral hogs were fattening and tried
to make the brutes tear the flesh
from the child's body"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

An ehterprising Texas journal
lst undertook to establish a newspa-
per in an Indian town. I he local,
In reporting a powwow, misquo-
ted one of the chiefs. The In.
dian scalped him. The editor
found fault with the proceeding.
Next day posse OF Indians went
and scalped the whols Office
There is no paper published there
now.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07


present position.
/ She ate the food that wa
brought to her with appetite, AM
would have risen from the bed
apparently unconscious that sh
wore no garment but a shroud
had not Ashley persuaded her &
lay down and sleep again.
He left her sleeping, and wen
into another room profoundly
puzzled. Here was this beautiful
woman, ignorant, and almos
helpless as a child, thrown upor
him for protection, as it was cleal
that she did not remember any
thing that would lead to the dis
eoyery of her friends. 1t was
possible that her senses had lefi
her altogether, never to return
all the rest of her days. Hel
speaking English was another
puzzle. She might be an English
woman-her beauty was certainty
of the Saxon type--or she might
only have learned the English
language, but if SO how came
that language TO have been re-
tanned when all else seemed gone?
His perplexity was interrupted
by the entrance of the cause of
it. She stood at the door, wrap
ped round in one of the bed COW
erings, looking at him with a sweet,
childish, vacant expression that
was touching in its helpIessness.
| must call her something, he
thought, as she stood apparently
waiting for him to speak her
name shall be Mary
Are you better, Mary, and
will you sit in this chair?'
She paid no attention to the In
quiry, but took the offered seat,
and began silently rocking her
self to and fro. 1t had such a
ghostly appearance to see her
there by the lamp-light robed in
the long white drapery, with her
beautiful face still pale, no longer
deathly, rocking herself in silence,
that Ashley felt sensation very
like fear thrill through him, for
he could not bear this. He took
up book, the first that came to
hand--it was an English one
and offered it to. her, asking if
she would like to read.
She took it with a childish smile
and laying it upon her knees be-
gan to futter the leaves back,
ward and forward, playing idly
with them.
Good heavens!' said Ashley to
himself, she is mad, imbecile at
any rate; I must do something
with her.
But it was impossible to think
with her before him, and, taking
her by the hand, he said
Nov, Mary, you must go back
to bed, and tomorrow
She did not wait for the end
IF the sentence, but rose at once,
to do as she was hidden, threw
Down the book, and letting fall the,
that had enveloped her,
walked quietly back to the inner
room.
Ashley fastened the door, and
felt as if he were going mad from
sheer bewilderment. She must
have clothes the very first thing,
aow were they to he procured
without taking some one into his
,onhdence2 Even if he knew
where TO go for them, he knew
nothing of what woman's clothes
should be. 1t was evident then
that some one must be toio OF the
extraordinary adventure, and it
vas evident that it must be a wo-
nan in whom be con6ded, as he
practical help of a kind!
no man could give him. i
The morning dawned before he!
,ould arrange any settled plan,
md finally he decided that he
,ould not if he would rid him
'elf of the charge of her, there,
ore she should remain In his
house, and he would tell all to
he one acting as his housekeeper,
nbo ohanoed IN no absent at the
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

Brigham Young has offered Ben
Butler $4,000 to come to Salt
Lake and settle. Brig. argues
thst The Government viii be SO
pleased to get rid of the Beast.
tha, it will let polygamy slide
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

We can suggest means by
which :he Government will have no
more trouble about the failure of
people to cancel revenue stamps.-
Just havs a picture Of Beast But
lsr on each, and our word for il eye-
ry stamp will be punched. Most
people would consider it religious
duty or great pleasure to black
the Beasts eye, just for luck, and
the Government would save stamps
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07

But how could he rid himself O
the lovely incubus? 1t was In
possible that the men who ha
brought it might be bribed to TAX
it back again, and if they shoui'
refuse-but he was incapable o.
distinct thought upon the sub
:. ject, and could only determin'
that in any case the beautiful thinI
before him should be treated will
reverence and respect. He gent
ly covered it from head to foo
with a long white cloth, and lock
ing the door of communication
between his bedroom and tn,
room in which it lay, threw him
self upon the bed without un
dressing, for the night was nearly
gone.
/ But his sleep was broken, ant
his dreams were feverish, and il
some way all connected with what
lay in the next room. Now il
seemed to him that she glided in
through the locked door, with
hands folded on her breast, and
eyes still fast closed, and stood
by his bedside, and now the
dream was that he had opened a
vein in one of the delicate arms,
and that warm blood poured from
it fast; and suddenly he woke
with a cry of horror from a ghast-
ly dream that he had entered the
room, and found that some un-
known hand had anticipated him
in the work of dissection.
The horror was upon him al
ter he woke to know if it was q
dream, and opening the door he
looked in upon the table. No
change there of any kind. The
long sheeted figure lay in the half
light of dawn as he had seen it be-
fore in the lamp.light, very
straight and still.
1t was not until nearly noon
that Ashley raised the covering to
look once again upon the lovely
dead face, and when he didso saw
with wonder, not unnixed with
terror, that q change had come
upon it. He could not tell how,
but in some way the face was not
the same. He looked into it long
and curiously. Surely change
had passed over the eyes, for
though they weie still fast shut,
they looked now as though closed
in sleep rather than death. He
lifted an eyelid tenderly with his
finger; there was not death in
the eye; unconsciousness, trance,
there might be, but not death.
He was certain now that she
was not dead, though he could
find no life in her pulses. For
hours he.strove to call back the
spirit, until at length color re-
turned, and warmth, and life, and
she lay before him sleeping tran.
gully like child. He had placed
her on his bed, and now sat by her
side with a throbbing heart, to
await her awakening.
She slept SO long. and in the
waning light looked so pale,
that be feared she was again about
- So
ofaIl into the deathly trance from
which he had with SO much diff.
Guilty recovered her. In his ter
ror Of that he cried out for her
to awake, and the sound of his
cry woke her with a start.
He had prepared a speech that
was TO calm and reassure her,
when she awoke bewilderedto find
herself so strangely clothed and
lodged; but she no more needed
calming and reassuring than an
infant too young to know Its moth
er from any other woman. She
looked round with a wondering
gaze that was almost infantiie,|
and her eye resting upon Ashley
she sat up in the bed and asked
r p A
him in his own language for food.
1t was evident that she had no
recollectionSf illness, and neither
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07
gfnlple Of The aaasee.
Lend a Helping Lana.

- - - ~~~- -
Lift little Lift alittIe!
Neighbor, lend helping hand,
To that heavy laden brother,
Who for weakness scarce can stand.
What to thee with thy strong muscle,
Seems light and easy load,
Is to him ponderous. burden,
Cumbering his pilgrim road.
Lift little Lift little
Effort gives one sudden strength;
That which staggers him at rising.
Thou canst hold at arms full length.
Not his fault that he is feeble,
Not thy praise that thou art strong;
1t is God makes lives to differ,
Some from wailing, some from song.
Lift alittle! Lift little!
Many they who need thy aid,
Many lying on the road side.
Meath misfortune's dreary shade.
Pass not by ike Priest and Levite.
Needless of thy fellow man;
But with heart and arms extended,
Be the Good Samaritan. -
Old master Brown brought his ferule doEr
His face was angry and red;
Anthony Blair. go sit you there,
Among the girls" he said.
So Anthony Blair, with mortified air.
And his head hung down on his breast,
Went right away and sat all day
By the girl who loved him best.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07
A Sons Answer.

"What will you take to drink p
asked a waiter ofa young lad, who
for the first time accompanied his
father to public dinner. Uncer.
tain what TO say, and feeling sure
that he could not be wrong if he
followed his fathers example, he
replied, I'll take what father
does"
The answer reached his fathers
ear, and instantly the full respon-
sibility of his position flashed up
on him. If be said, "Tll take ale, !"
as he had always said before, his
son would take it also. And the
father shuddered as the history
of several young men, once prom
ising as his own bright lad, and
ruined by drink, started up in SOL
emn warning before him. Should
his hopes also be blasted, and that
open-taced lad become a burden ?
But for strong drink they would
have been active, earnest, prosper
Gus men and if it could work
such ruin upon them, was bis own
lad safe =? Quicker than lightning
these thoughts passed through his
mind, and in moment the decis-
ion was made. "It the boy falls
he will not have me to blame"
and then in tones tremulous with
emotion and to the astonishment
OF those who knew him, he said,
waiter, I'll take water J" and from
that day to this, strong drink has
been banished from that mans Ia
BILE, and from that mans home.
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The |. Latest News, / J: y !.
THE SITUATION.
sqpmarygof tle PersgnnqlIe( e te9|
EIeI ISiS Skh eBslA A inoag glthe GdrlaaAs!
LONDON, November Q.

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a cGrFGsS4h0ent II =! ~ W, .Gaa lsSt ~ y,
from Versailles on tne ~, glyes sns!os,
lowing compEenenS IevieW51L '.l tne XII. it'
&c ssss Ss! e. T. - s$
men III toE l0henslse seEYlce ~ she s..Sl neln
Paris IS apsolale!y lmPIe nao!e " ascn
and can nc conquered oniy " ua:n ssatVas.Sa N..n
There 4 NpunCan 9Ijl22 " alls III Sul,s
last ION two noSI e poa ,,a,ar
are SIX armies oatslae ol EaEs, hunloel u.'a,.
Ing SSv1Vg drille9 anu wen arlnSa Sa,aEh aSn
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ents Of Franc.t .tlreuFs Inc garIrisGns' .Ia a'.o o.
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.atnemeal57eYbA q wsN

Win locate. HiefpSra thirty sfSi7 schp6ls and
a college, besides iiifIfl erous churches, ,Bap-
tit, Methodist, Episcaf linn Presbyterian
~ 4 rs1'3IsR; y / $$8
milesStrom Portsmouth,, 1t which q scr
mon was preached by Rev. Thomas 8.
NLalcom, Of Philadelphia. Tho arrange
nicnts VI CBprtStnoItb HeJek aglmirSbly
made by William Coftinger, ESD, Of
Washington city. The friends Of the
Ameridqp COLONIZATION s9riety xi|l e.
If II \ f.sla3l NJ.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-10
,helIellslataa .aAsl
P.oIrTIcArEI rEElIIlIgs ElIIiigs AID ssIE

~
-In New YpI CITY 1t is usual for can.
dtdates to 60 % church sa6SSG6Pf eSdidg
Edlo6tiou; II they never did befoCeI astf'tO
sa.lsCy. eopsitpepts of their good moral
SfhrIcteE. 3lG 'r'''s'''A
The prince If gil campaign orators,
Tom Cor%ln, Of Ohio, was in the habit Of
saying that "a man man Who should attempt IL
lresh speech dn every stump Would neyes
'hays any speech worth iisteBlng o. -
-Vies8EG dihD CdfaS f1Y AlBg Re.
publican parts E4ss q i q ql4eGe9t sdl y Indiana
because SO much scratching" was done'
even bym6niwib never tbeEdfeSdted any
thing but the straight ticket.
4feis said u 6smgc Francis Train
that he brought his wlfe alltheMsayIback
frpm Europe upon, one occasion in oYEdeer
tlIat sliel Night sivc BiFth 10 d son,
who yopld, ,bs elIIgiblo p The Pregidgcy.
The Odd t6I bed tou tdbsa . grl@ .
4New Orleans politicians dc trying a
new dodge. George Rg.iWalsh is the
RffPp4lIf9 sf ssafpdiffa]F fHn'
\ Long JOHNNY WFentWortils of Chicago,
atSisf sebandialA AsbGa oia9la sRa
nj sver %%i50oll'%g .1ts,.y,iR.,, ,,,4.