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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
Dtntpre Of t6e Muses.
ss6 l--.- Q s.
awake Up, Little Bessie,

Past six O'Clock in the morning,
And Bessie is still sound asleep;
OF this wonderful, rosy dawning
She's had not so much as peep.
The birds meath her window are wild,
With their efforts to waken the world;
They think 'tis an indolent child
Under the coverlid curled. .
For they have been up since the dawn
With rosy touch painted the east,
And from hillside, meadow and lawn,
Have gathered their morning feast; III
Have poured out the joy of their hearts
In many sweet roundelay t
And now they are lonely for BeSsie,
And are calling her out to her play.
"Wake up, little Bessie .' they cry,
r ''And spring from your soft, dOwny nest
The sun is far up in the sky. 4 ~.
The fresh air out here is the best.
At the very first gEmmer of light g.
That tipped the gray hills far away,
We sung gOod-by to the night,
And welcome the fair, rosy day.
1--WE focked to your window in crowds,
And tapped with our beaks on the pane ;
We gave you q grand matinee,
Then back to our home few sgain
We bathed in the brook meath the hill,
And dressed all our feathers with care,
We are back to your window, and still
Find you sleeping so lazily there.
"The robin is picking his berry,
The woodpecker taps at the tree,
The thrush on the bough Of the cherry
Calls loudly for you and for me
Then wake, little girl, in the morning,
When the flowers are all bathing in dew;
When the wonderful beauty belonging
To young life, is fresh, bright and new.
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
Exchange in an Omnibus.

The New York Mat tells OF
a Brooklyn lady %#hho took pas
sage on a Broadway omnibus
with only five dollars in her
purse, and who was particularly
struck by the appearance of a
fellow passenger, who was
dressed in the most magnificent
style and wore on one Of his fin
gers a superb diamond. After
getting out of the omnibus she
found that her pocket had been
picked. The editor goes on to
say:
She wondered all the way
there, who had picked her poek-
ct, and blamed, alternately, all
the honest people that had rid
den with her on the stage; but
she never for a moment harbored
a suspicion of the gentleman of
the ring and things. She got
home and told her neighbors,
who consoled her in the usual
neighborly way, "by hoping it
would be a warning to her."
''she was very lucky to get off
SO easy" etc, etc. She told her
husband, who laughed at her un-
til she cried, she says, then kiss
ed her and gave her ten dollars
to buy a new purse. j.
A friend dropping in after
dinner, she had to tell the story
all over again. Strange to say,
she never suspected the gentle
man withthe solitaire. .s.r.
"Was he in when you paid
your tare?'I ..sU II
''He was" ,...e @
"Could he have seen your
purse, and where you put it?"
"Wh ny, OF course ne cOuid.
"Did he get up and then sit
down again-the second time
beside you?" a
."He did, but ....,
"Where's your pocket?"
"Why here" said the lady
plunging her nervous fingers
(for she was excited by the cross
questioning) deep into the pock-
ct of the dress she still wore
"right here. And, God bless
mel" said she, as she withdrew
her hand again, GAS I'm a living
woman, but here's the ring!"
True enough, The exquisite,
in abstracting the purse, had
left the solitaire behind him.
A Broadway jeweler values
it at 81, 800. s. -ae
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
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80 (5 thy Counys Truths"
Established December l5ih, 1850.

dreamed, replied the convict,
that while you read the death
warrant to me on the scaffold, q
man came in through the crowd
and stood before us, with grey
dress, white hat and large whis.
kers, and that a bird futtered over
him and sung distinctly-'this is
Lewis the murderer of the traveller.
The officers and jailors held a
short consultation, which ended
in asdeterrninatioa to look sharply
after the man in grey with the
white hat; accompanied with
many hints of the resignation of
the prisoner, and the possibility
of his innocence being asserted by
supernatural agency; the prison
doors were cleared. and Greel, pale
and feeble with a bymnbook in
bis hand and O mind all Ineekness
and humility, was seen lettering
from the prison to the scaffold,
He had no sooner ascended it than
his eyes began to wander over the
vast concourse of people around
him witha a scrutiny that seemed
like faith in dreams and while.
the sheriff read the warrant. the
conyict's anxiety appeared to in
crease; he looked and, looked
again, then raised his hands and
eyes towards the clear sky, as il
breathing a last ejaculation, when
10! as he resumed his first posi-.
tion the very person described
stood within six feet of the ladder |!
The prisoners, eye, caught the
sight, and flashed with fire while
he called out, there is Lewis, the
murderer Of the traveller and The
jailor at the same moment seized
the stranger by the collar. At
first he attempted to escape, but
being secured, and taken before
the magistrates, be confessed the
deed, detailed all the particulars,
delivered up par. of the money,
informed where another part was
hidden, and was committed for
trial-while Creei was set at lib
erty and hastened like man out
of his senses from the scafeld.- -,
Three days has elapsed sCreel
had vanished Immediately after
his liberation, when the pretended
Lewis astonished and confounded
the magistrates by declaring Creel
to be her husband ; thatsiie had
concealed the disguise and per-
formed the whole partly his di-
rection that he had given her the
money which he had till then sue
cessfully concealed about his per-
son and that the whole, from tho
prison to the scaffold scene, was a
contrivance. to effect his escape /;
which having been effected, she
was regardless Of consequences.
Nothing could be done with her
#-rhe was set at libertyand Meth
er she nor her husband were heard
of again.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
A Lesson on Perseve.
rance. OF 10.

Alta recent Sunday school con
cert in an eastern city, an anec
dote. was related TO the children
which is too good to be lost. 1t il
lustrates the benefit of perseye
rance in as strong a manner as ev
Ter did Bruce. One of the cor.
1porations of the city being in want
iof q boy in their mill, piece Of
paper was tackled on one of the
lposts in prominent place, SO that
the boyscouldseeit as they passed
The, paper read - - ~. ..-.sf
s."'Boy wanted-calf at the Of.
flee to morrow morning"
AT the time indicated, host of
boys were at the gate. All were
admitted, but the overseer was a
little perplexed as to the best way
Iof choosing one from so many,
and said he, ..,.
Boys, l only want one, and
here are a great many; how shall
1 choose ?"
After thinking a moment, he
invited them all into the yard,
and, driving nail into a large
tree, and taking short stick, told
them that the boy who could hit
the nail with q stick, standing a
little distance from the tree, should
have the place. The boys all
tried bard, and after three trials
each, signally failed to hit the
nail. The boys were told to come
again next morning, and this time
when the gate was opened, there
was but one boy, who, after be-
ing admitted picked up the stick
and throwing it at the nail hit it
every time. 45.. .e.4t
'How is this ? said the overseer.
What have you been dong e. 81.
And the boy, looking up with
tears in his eyes, said:
you see, sir, | have a poor
old mother, and I am n poor boy.
/ have no father, sir. and thought
| should like to get the place, and
to help her all l can; and after 60
ing home yesterday, I drove a nail
into the barn aud have been try
ing to hit it ever since, and / have
come down this morning to try
again. = :
The boy was admitted to the
place. Many years have passed
since then, and this boy is now a
prosperous and wealthy man, and
at the time of the accident of the
Pemberton Mills he was the first
to step forward with gift of one
thousand dollars to relieve the
sufferers. His success came by
perseverance. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
A Western Way.

The Des Moines Qowa) &ates-
man gives the following details
of a recent divorce case in that
city: ''Not many months ago
one of our citizens, having con-
.ceiYed the idea that he and his
wife were not such affinities
as they ought to be, induced
her to take her child and 90 to
visit her father and mother, who
resided in Ohio. Once there
she was persuaded to remain
by her husband, who wrote to
her in the meantime that he had
no money to send her sufficient
to pay her fare back to DeE
Moines. Finally she procured.
the necessary funds from her
father andreturned to her former
home this week to find that her
husband had obtained divorce
from her during her absence,
and, of course, without notice
to her. She. is now working as
a servant in the family of the
lawyer who procured the bill
for her husband. 1t appears
that her. husband is possessed
of considerable means, and that
he produced evidence in court
to prove that she had run away
to California with another man.
The Statesman says it suppress
es the name OF the parties, for
obvious reasons, but the facts
substantially as related" s.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
How Gen. Young Got in
the First Time.

A Washington letter to the
CouIier-J ournal contains this
spicy narration: - .r sre
Gen. p. M. B. Young who
was in Congress two years ago,
has been returned from Georgia,
and also took his seat yesterday.
He owes his place chiefly to
that eccentric character, Thad.
Stevens. His disabilities had
not been removed when he ar
rived here in 1869 to present his
credentials of election. He
called on "Old Thad," and told
him that he wanted his assis-
tance in getting his disqualifi-
cations removed. The follow
ing colloquy ensued:
Gen. Young-"Mr. Stevens,
i am a Representative elect
from Georgia, but as l was a
general in the army, they
won't let me take my seat
Old Thad.-"The hi they
won't. A Representative, with
credentials of your State, and a
general in the army, and refused
you your seat?'' s.
Gen. Young-''Mr. Stevens,
Twas major-general in the Con-
federate army" . f.-
Old Thad.-Well, of course
you are going to act with us"
Gen. Young-"NO, sir, !
won't. / fought you on the bat
tie field and l expect to fight
you in Congress. l am "a
straight out Democrat q.l
Old Thad.-.'A major-gener-
al in the Rebel army ar:..yy, ana you
come here asking me to help
you! / like your impudenee,
and I'll be id if | don't!'' la 81.
And he did. In a few days
Young was sworn in.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
[ PrOp3'teCOr..
VOL. XVIII NO. g.
Convenient Matrimony
Two Husbands Living
with One Wife-Result
Of an Indiana Divorce.
tErom the Kansas City Bulletin !

tFrom the Kansas City Bulletin.
About two years ago a peaceful
family living in De Kalb county
Indiana, had their family circle
broken up in the following man,
ner: .;..
A man boarding in the house
of Mf. Blank, was discovered to
be. Oh too intimate relations with
Mrs. Blank, who being fair even
to ''auburn locks" and fat to cor
pulency, was no despicable object
of jealousy. Mr.. Blank on dis
covering the intimate relation ex-
isting between. his wife and boar
der, made the following sensible
proposition: Said he, "Harry,
you, love Bet, and Bet loves you.
I'll give her up to you for good,
providing you take the FIVE chill
dren into the bargain. Take
them, Bet, and the furniture, and
tSke care of them" The bargain
was made. Harry took the wife,
furniture and FIVE children, and
the husband took his valise and
departed for the West, after OBJ
tanning an Indiana divorce.
The family moved to Kansas
City, and took up their abode near
the gas house, where they now
reside. About u year ago the
eldest son, aged about eighteen,
discovered his father was in Kan
sas City, and learned further that
he was boarding at Mrs. Mahafey's
clearinghouse on Maine street.
The son, at the fathers request,
took his father hours where his
old wife and second husband were
living happily, a sixth child hav-
ing been added to the circle
Finding it more pleasant to be
with his old wife and his own chill
dren, the philosophical husband
applied for, and was received as o
boarder.
Strange as it may appear, the
two men continued tolive in peace
together during the past year the
old husband strictly adhering to
his contract respecting the wife,
leaving her entirely to Harry.
During his residence there, the
youngest child died, and though
it was not his own, Mr.. Blank
paid all the funeral expenses.
The wife, with her two hus-
bands, takes her seat at the table
each day, one on the right side
and the other upon the left; her
first husband she designates as
"the old man." the second hus-
band as "Harry."
We were shown the model pair
carrying water from the river,
yesterday, and thought as we
looked upon them, that their
equals have never been found in
Kansas City.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
Scribner's MONTHLY.

Scribner's Monthly for March
will, we think, be pronounced a
most brilliant and entertaining
number. The illustrations, about
fifty in all, are peculiarly excel.
lent and attractive. Prof. Mau.
ry's second article on "Weather.
Teiegrams and Storm. Forecasts"
has the leading place, and is pro-
fusely illustrated. The Professor
treats an important and timely
subject in a decidedly graphic and
popular manner, and no one should
neglect to read these articles and
the practical adaptations of the lat
ter to the purpose of agriculture,
commerce, and the ordinary bu.
siness of life. Next comes an ar
ticle on "King Gambrinus and his
subjects" giving an interesting
account of a visit 20 celebrated
German beer house, with splendid
ly engraved sketches of character
istic scenes, and portraits of some
of the frequenters of the place.
The picture of ''The Mournful
End, gives a palpable point to
the moral of the article. In this
number we have also an extreme
ly valuable illustrated paper on
Life in the Cannibal Islands,"
which will be continued in the
April number, and contains full
and interesting particulars of the
history, resources, and prospects
of New Zealand. Mr.. j. c. Bates,
the writer, is an American gentle
man who has recently returned
from nine years residence in
the F'Cannibal Islands," and the
present series is all the more time
ly when we learn that a grand
attempt is contemplated to induce
emigration thither from America
Other articles of striking interest
are graphic personal sketch of
"Victor Emmanuel's Queen" by
Mrs. Kinney; another powerful
story by Miss Trafton, "WilI She
Ride or Walk?" "The Cefestials
in Sunday-school," giving an ac-
count of the singular manner in
which the Chinese operatives are
taught in the Sunday-school at
North Adams, Mass; and "The
Ancient Fenians," q learned Curl
Gus paper by Prof. Seelye. The
poetry of this number is by Eliz-
abeth Akers Allen, Lois Brooke,
and Mary L. Ritter. Mrs. Aliens
@sIn Garret," is one of her most
beautiful poems. DR.. Holland, in
"1'he Topics of the Time," under
the head of Lecture Brokers and
ture-Breakers," treats of the
causes of the decline of the lee
ture system; and calls attention
to the subject Of bonuses, COM
missions, etc, as ga Growing Vice
Of Business" In the sold Cabi.
net" we find a description and ex.
planation of the American Mrs.
Jarley's "Wax, Work Show" also
a "Letter to a Young Poet" A
new department. is added to this
month, entitled, Beyond the
Seas" "Home and Society,""
treats entertainingly of "Little
Dinners" English Ivies," and
"The Work-Basket." There are
the usual notices of new books,
and Mr.. Bush, the artist, gives us
seven very amusing sketches Of
ga Musical Party" But to many
the chief charm of the number
will be the new installment of
McDopald's vopderfnl story
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
ARemarkebIe Escann

"A correspondent of the
Plattsburg Mo1 Register,
some days ago. told tliisiren1ark-
able story which happened in
IGrundy county: ~ : = .
ga Mr.. John. Andrews a
popular and weH-to-dos farmer
in the neighborhood, had dug q
well some forty feet deep, when
it was discovered that the well
was about to cave in. Mr.; AH1
drews gathered up an armfu1 of
short boards, and went down o
pole ladder, fastened to the side
of the well, to lay them across
the part of the weh walled up.
He had not more than reached
the bottom, as it was thought,
before the well caYed in, filing
up to few feetof the top. The
alarm was given, and the neigh
bors gathered, but all believing
him dead they returned to their
homes to, make arrangements to
come next day and dig him OUT
"Mrs. Andrews and two grown
daughters, and seyerai CsdhalIer
children refused to leave the
spot, and sat ON log near. tho
well, crying, until late in the
evening, when all at once they
saw Mr.. 4 Andrews . emerging
from the well, and covered with,
clay and coming toward them.
The children ran, screaming, TO
he house, bolted the doors and
tastened the windows believing
It to. be. their father's ghost.-s
But Mrs. Andrews ran to, meet
lim, screaming at the top of her
voice .Oh John! Oh John! Is
that you? Is that youY When
she reached him she fell fainting
1t his feet. s., -r-s. --.,. sef~.r
sIt seems that when he got to-
he bottom of the well he looked
up and saw the top giving way,
md believing he had not time
% make his escape he slipped
lnder the boards which he had
aid across the well, when the
whole thing fell in upon him.,
All hope at first gave way, and
he was about to let himself drop
ntO the water below and end at
once his miserable feelings.-
But feeling above, he found tho
clay easily crumbled, and. hope
'evived. The pole ladder, it
seems, was still standing, and
aking holdof it withonehand,
he with the other scratched for
lear life, the dirt falling into
he water below as he dragged
us bodyupwards. It seems he
lid not suffer muchin breathing,i
IS fresh air came down the pole,.
round which the dirt was loose
y. packed. In the incredibly
hort time of seven hours ho'
cratched a. hOlesOme forty feet
Ong, through which he made
lis escape. This is one of the
larrowest hair-breadth escapes
rom a horrible death on re-
ord. "3..aG .yiEDl'"8q' ID. ,.-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
My loyin1 wife ] Ime, comm 6mt

My ioyin wife j line. comm ONE
mex week, and hav forgiv you for
jawin me. lie come on the Q
o'clock trane and shall stay ome
hereafter and tri to be an altered
man. / want peace and SO do
yew, why shouldn't we luv each
other as we used ter when we first
jined together in the wholly bands
of maddox; i've jiIed atemperance
society, but il yew jaw me again
for comm ONE I'll wallnp ye like
City, for we must have peese as
grant ses.9o41sg 10 lsrrcw
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
a Boston illicit distiller Of whis.

a Boston illicit distiller Of whis-
XIV, who was fined $500, under
the United States revenue law, and
tailed to pay, was sentenced to five
years imprisonment in whatever
Jail in the State suited him best.
He, echose .Lenox, and, with bis
wife, occupies nicely furnished
rooms there, being allowed the lib
erty of the jail and the privilege
Of going to the post, office,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
Grantis the heaviest .deale,

Grants the heaviest dealer IN
second hand political furniture in
the world. No sooner do the
people repudiate q Radical. than
Grant buys him up as a great
bargain, and stores him away in
an office. Vide Schenck, Drake,
Warner, Abbott and Holden, the
defeated patriots and great states
men of the party-they are all
comfortably provided for and dis.
tributed. q ..7,st e.t .of- f-1s..r-,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02

An eccentric minister in a large
parish had seventeen couples to
marry at once in a grand common
service at church. In the course
of the weddings he asked one of
the men to pledge himself to the
wrong woman. The man natural
ly protested, but was told, ''Hold
your tongue! 1 will marry you
all now and here; you can sort
yourselves going home"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02

The following conversation took
place few days since, between a
Inaster-builder and a day-laborer
"What wages do you expectY''
"Why, l can work for dollar q
day, or seventy-fve cents a day, or
fifty cents a day. When l work
for dollar a day, l works. when
I gets only half or quarter,
/ tIke it aisy."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02

The preliminary proceedings in
a Michigan divorce case are thus
chronicled:-Ths wife chopped a
good wagon to pieces, entirely
running it, split open $50 sap
troughs and burned up 10000
shingles which her husband had
made. The latter, not to be out
done. smashed up a stove and took
off a trunk which the wife claims
had money in it, and she has now
got him into Jail on a charge of
larceny, and is monarch of all she
surveys, which, at present, isn't
much. N
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02
"I thought | understood you to

81 thought | understood you to
say that your father was a mer-
chant only a few weeks ago, said
a lady to. a little girl who was so
liciting aims, "and il that is so,
how could your family have been
reduced to beggary?'' at is true,
ma'am; !; my father kept a peanut
stand, and last week be took q
bad two dollar bill and failed!"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02

A couple of FIRE eaters, one
from each of the Carohnas, North
and South, met at Augusta to
fight a duel the other day, but, as
the Mayor had them bound over
to keep the pence in the sum OF
$500 each, and as they were not
mad enough to fight at such an
enormous expense as that, they
put up their deadly weapons and
went back home. If the Com.
missioner Of Internal Revenue
would order a two hundred dol
lar stamp to be put on every d1el.
there would be fewer Of thdm
than there are. NiA lh3ii9T
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02

The St. Louis street lamps have
the name Of the street on the top,
and all man has to do to find ont
what street he is on Oisto climb
on the top of a house They are
much handler than the old kind,
for people who live in attics.: !
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-03-02

An exchange says: "Terra
Haute claims to have whisky that
takes mems finger nails off"
That's. nothing. Marietta has
whisky that will carry all the
furniture out Of q mans house,
throw, him out In the street, lock
the door and carry away the key.
-Mdrtetta Relister.