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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-11-16

H. B. MoaaAx, Sheriff.
W. A. MILAN, .erc- 4.
q. 8. CoLs, Deputy shsriFs.
= J. A. SiLvERTooTH,) s<S - - -
W. +. HIckzRsoS, Judge Of Circuit Court
RAxE McKIxxEY, Clerk do de ,
JAxxs II. HOLMAN, Attorney General,
A. 8. MARKS, Chancellor.
DAVIS W. CLARk, Clerk and Master ~
II. C. CowAx, Judge Of County Court.
JoHS z. Gill, Clerk do do
JANIS D. Scorr. Trustee.
P. D. BoTcB. Register. 80. . ..s-a .'s'
%. WALLAos, Ranger.
VIZ. B. HRDarErH, TAx-Collector.
Z. C. McLAUaHLIx,, Coroner, 81
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-11-16

"HOlc HuHiDCN VI OeAoA N@A@NT1 >
i Horse and Buggy, with silver-mounteo
Harness, worth 5000; one fine toned Rose
wood Piano, worth $500! ten Family Sew
ing Machines, worth 800 each! five heavy
cascd gold Hunting Watches and heavy gold
Chains, worth $500 each five gold Ameri-
can Hunting Watches, worth $125 each. ten
ladies' gold Hunting Watches, worth 500
each 500 gold and silver Lever Hunting
Watches Tin alb worth from $40 to 1900
each; ladies' gold Leontine Chaing, gents
gold Vest Chains, silver-plated Casters, solid
silver & double-platedT Table and Teaspoons,
ivory-handled Dinner Knives, silver-plated
Dinner Forks, silver Vest Chains, Photograph
Albums, ladies' gold Breastpins and Earrings,
gents gold Breastpins, Shirt Studs Sleeve
Buttons, Finger-riDgs, gold Pens, (silyeF ex-
tension,) etc. 'TYkOleaHBber GIFTS, 5000.
Tickets limited 10 10000. Agents wanted
to sell tickets, to whom liberal premiums
will be paid. Single tickets 81; six tickets
s.; twelve single tickets $40; twenty-five
tickets $50. Circulars containing full list
of prizes, description Of the manner Of
drawing, and other information in reference
TO the Distribution, will be sent to any one
ordering them. All letters must be address,
cd to Il L. d. SINE, Box So,
OFFICE, Cincinnati, O.
- 1Ol ". 9Th st. 7fs eet6-7t .
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-11-16

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1> all kinds of Pamphlet Printing esanot
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
RfDGWAY. PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY u, 1871

masts, and he had been drifting about
ever since till his beasts were nearly
starved. He had a miserable crew, half
of them being his showmen, and he him
self was his own captain, trusting to his
mate to navigate for him. They had
prepared the long-boat for leaving,
should no vessel fall in with them, but
had made frequent abortive efforts to
rig iury-masts as we'll. In their last at
tempt the spar had fallen, and the heel
of it smashed the cage containing the
byenas, and all hands had to make a
speedy retreat to the after cabin, and
Keep below till daylight should enable
them to shoot or otherwise secure them.
Our fire, by exciting the beasts, attract
ed their notice, and at first they thought
it was a burning ship. The light seen
by the boat early in the night was made
by burning some spirits OF wine out OF
the cabin window, and they now pre-
pared to repeat the signal, hoping to at
tract our attention; but this time, in
stead of hanging it out of the cabin
window, they managed to open the
hatchway and push it out on the deck,
where the beasts were prowling about,
restless with the hunger which torment
ed them.
The crew stayed three days with us ;
we rugged them up jury-masts, and,
what was of greater consequence, sup
Piled the captain with plenty of the
beef from the whale for his animals and
thus saved him from ruin for the poor
man had invested all he had in the me-
nagerie. We heard afterwards that he
got safe to Callao, and I suppose is in
California long before this.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
The New Paris Police.

Among the other changes which the
revolution of last September effected in
Paris, was the reduction of the police
force of the city from the military-look-
ing being he was-with cooked hat, long
sword and enormous mustaches, to the
simply dressed citizen. The police of
Paris in their old uniforms We're obnox-
ious to the people because they had
learned to look upon them as instruments
of the Imperial tyranny and intimida-
ton. In this the Committee of Safety
acted with unusual discretion. They
doubtless prevented second revolution,
and saved the Republic" The CORES
pondent of the London Standard thus
describes the new Partisan police: al
saw three of them this evening, and
thought at first they were undertakers
assistants out of place. They are got uI
most funereally, in pilot coats, with enor-
nous trowsers and cheese-cutter caps, al
raven-hued, and just one little bit o.
color in an unhappy little tri-colored
cockade in their head-gear. After look
ing at them. for some minutes ight
broke upon me. The new guardian O
the public peace is the old sergent-de-UiH
with clean-shaved face, his cooked ha
and rapier removed"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
II Acknowledge the Corn"

This popular phrase, it seems, was first
used in Congress, being q remark MADE
by Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe, Member
of Congress from Kentucky. 1t was in
acknowledgment of the deductions OF
an argument for protection made by
Hon. Andrew Stewart, just elected to
Congress from the Westmoreland District
(Twenty-frst) of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Stewart was in Congress when Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster We're there,
and advocated protection. He recently
made a speech, in which he referred to
the fact. At the same time he related
an incident which gives the origin of
the well-known phrase, 81 acknowledge
the corn"
In lS26-forty-two years ago-this
subject (protection) was before Congress,
and we were discussing it. was try
ing to show to the farmers of the coun-
tay that they were purchasing foreign
agricultural productions in the form OF
goods, while they left their own pro-
duce at home without a market. I said
Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky sent their
haystacks, corn-fields, and fodder tC
New York and Philadelphia for sale.
Mr.. Wickhfe, of Kentucky, jumped
up and said:
"Why, that is absurd. Mr.. Speaker
I call the gentleman to order. He is
stating an absurdity. We never send
hay-stacks or corn-felds to New York
and Philadelphia"
"Well," said, "what do you send 2
"Why, horses, mules, cattle, hogs"
"Well, what makes your horses, mules
cattle, and hogs? You feed hundred
dollars worth of hay to a horse, yor
just animate and get upon the top o
your haystack and ride it off to market
| (Laughter.) How is it with your cattle
You make one of them carry fifty dol
lars worth of hay and grass to th
Eastern market"
Then l came to the hog question
Said l:
"Mr. Wickliffe, you send hog wortl
ten dollars to an Eastern market; hov
much corn does it take at thirty-thre
cents per bushel to fatten it 2"
"Why, thirty bushels"
"Then you put that thirty bushels o
corn into the shape of hog and max
1t walk off to the Eastern market"
Mr.. Wickliffe jumped up and said:
"Mr. Speaker, l acknowledge tn
| corn"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
A Russian WOlf-hunt.

The programme of regular "wolf.
hunt" in the provinces is always the
same. At some abnormal hour "be-
tween the night and the day." you are
aroused, (almost, as it seems, before you
are we'll asleep from rough couch in
one of the little log-huts Of some outly-
ing village, by violent shake OF the
shoulder, and a hoarse voice admonish-
ing you to "get up, and look sharp
about it, for there's no time to lose"
You make hasty toilet, and, sallying
forth, see in front of the nut, in the dim
light of the coming morning, a huge,
dark, shapeless mass which, as your eyes
get used to the darkness, assumes the
form of a broad, heavy, three-horse
sledge, with very high sides, not unlike
an enormous washing-tub), around
which are fitting three or four spectral
figures with lanterns, the fitful glare
making their grim, bearded faces look
grimmer and less human than ever.
Guns, ammunition, haversacks, are
slowed away in the bottom of the con-
veyance-and Qast, but not least) a
young pig your query respecting which
elicits from the leader of the party only
the oracular answer that "it'll come in
handy by-and-by;" and, all being now
ready, the hunters squeeze themselves
into their places, the driver shakes his
reins with wo-o-oiN p and away we 60
into the darkness. Mile after mile of
the frozen waste goes by like dream,
till at length the spectral shadows OF
the forest slowly gather round us, and
the squeals of our unlucky pig (whose
ears one of our party is now pinching
Justify begin to be answered by another
sound, which no one who has heard il
will easily forget-not the long melan-
choly howl wherewith a supperless wolf
may be heard bemoaning himself on the
outskirts of Moscow, almost any night
in the week, but quick, snarling cry
as of one who sees his dinner coming
and wishes to hasten the bringer of it
And there they come at last, the gaunt
wiry, slouching fellows, with theil
bushy tails, and fat, narrow heads, and
yellow, thievish, murderous eyes. There
is perhaps nothing on earth more thor
oughly mean and hateful-looking, al
first sight, than the genuine Russian
wolf; but the rascal has certain pic
turesqueness of his own notwithstand
ing, though of a disagreeable kind
There is something grand in the dogge(
and sinister tenacity of his pursuit
coming on, with head thrown forward
and sharp white fangs unsheathed, un
tiringly and unrelentingly, like haunt
ing Fate,
With his long gallop, which can tire
The hounds deep hate and hunters fire."
But there is no leisure for moralizinI
now; for the wolves are already almos
level with our sledge, and it Is time t
let fly. Bang! The foremost of tn
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
How II was Done.

Aman cannot well describe that which
he has never seen nor heard but the
absolute words of one such scene did
once come to the authors knowledge.
The couple were by no means plebeian,
or below the proper standard OF high
breeding; they were handsome pair,
living among educated people, sufficient
ly given to mental pursuits, and in every
way what a pair of polite lovers ought
to be. The all-important converse
ton passed in this wise. The site of the
passionate scene was the sea-shore, on
which they were walking in autumn.
GentIemdn-"W Well, Miss, the long
and the short of it is this: here / am
you can take me or leave me-"
Lady scratching gutter in the sand
with her parasol, SO as to allow little
salt water to run out of one hole into
another)- OF course know that's all
nonsense"
Gentleman" Nonsense By Jove, il
isn't nonsense at all. Come, Jane, here
l am; come, at any rate you can say
something"
Lady" Yes. / suppose 1 can say
something"
Gentleman-" Well, which is it to be
take me or leave me z"
Lady (very slowly, and with voice
perhaps hardly articulate, carrying OF
at the same time her engineering worl
on wider scale -" Well, l don't exactly
want to leave you. ."-1rol0pe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
COMPRESSED Air MS a Motor.

Horace H. Day writes to the Paterson
Press in reference to compressed air as o
motor: 80,
Perhaps less than two per cent. OF the
water power of our vast country has
yet been utilized. The force now run
ming to waste is destined to add untold
wealth and play no mean part in the
nations destiny. The time has indeed
come for fuller investigation OF this
most important subject.
Thanks to Sommeliere and his associ-
ates thanks to France and Italy, whose
money was at his disposal; we can to-
day, and with great profit to all who
will engage in the business. :" bottle up
and transmit to places where wanted,
and use this waste force through COM
mon engines, without necessarily dddang
anything neao.
To-day company for this purpose is
organizing in the city of Rochester, New
York. 1t has purchased the Lower
Genesee Falls, one mile from the H. f..
depot, and can utilize FIVE hundred horse
power. This company will place pipes
through the streets, similar to the ordi-
nary gas pipes; these will always have
a regulated pressure of condensed air,
affording power to factories and work
shops, and carrying large profits at less
than ten dollars per horse power per
annum for its use.
Every other building-every dwelling
may have small pipe connecting
with the main and then avail itself OF
the recent discovery at tr;fiing addi-
tional cost. The cooking can be done
in the kitchen; gas-light sent through
out the house, and never-failing streams
of cold, pure air, to lower the tempera-
ture and for ventilation, with no other
trouble than to open and close a small
STOP cock. Our churches need no longer
be closed against the excessive heat Of
summer. The pipes through which the
gas flows to illuminate may in time bt
channels for conveying streams Of very
cold air-regulating the temperature a
will.
By the discovery in both Europe ano
America of machinery to be run by
steam or compressed air, the drilling o.
rock, its raising and removal, tunnels
canals, and all rock excavation, must IL
the future be done by machinery. Th'
Burleigh Rock Drill Company, of Fitch
burg, Mass, is building thousands o
these simple machines, whose perform
ances are as wonderful as they are Ger
tain, and of light cost.
The nations necessities, the demand
of increasing commerce, the completion
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, tn
steady increase of population penetrat
ing the productive Northwest, vii
soon combine to override all local oppo
sitions, and make Indispensable the con
struction of the Niagara Ship Cana
and the other connecting links throug
Lake Champlain and down the Hudso
River to the ocean.
When this time comes the power c
Niagara Falls, by the aid of compresse
air, will operate machinery to bore th
rock and raise it from its bed, and tn
whole work will only afford amusemer
for hundred men for less than twent
months and when completed the ms
chinery used can be turned to accour
in running mills upon its banks and tn
lakes, united at cost so much belo'
the estimate of engineers by old pre-
. cesses of work as to make its construt
tion certainty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12

pack rolls over on his side, kicking con-
vulsively; but the rest gallop on un-
needing. Bangl bangl and two more
fall dead, blotting the snow around
them with o smear of dull crimson
Some of the boldest pursuers swarm up
to the sledge, and attempt to leap over
the encircling barrier; while we ham
mer them with the butt-ends OF our
pieces, and chop at their paws with
hatchets, and slash them across the eyes
with hunting -knives-the two hindmost
of our party meanwhile cracking at them
over our shoulders as fast as they can
load. So for time the running fight
goes fiercely on, making altogether a
yery striking tableau. The white, skel-
eton tracery of the frozen forest; the
long, snaky line of the pursuing pack,
shadowy and spectral, as if bodied OF the
mist from which it emerges; the whirl-
ing figures of the foremost wolves amid
the tossing spray of snow and curling
clouds of blush smoke; the ceaseiess
flash of the busy rifles; the steamlnng
horses, urged to their utmost speed; the
driver, with his broad, sallow face all
ablaze with excitement, shaking the
reins, and hanging forward to ply the
whip the huge, cumbrous sledge, rock
ing and reeling over the snow with its
freight of struggling forms-an this,
seen in the dim, uncertain light OF the
early dawn, has weird and ghostly ap-
pearance, suggestive of an attack OF COB
lin highwaymen upon one OF those
phantom mail coaches in which the bag
mans uncle made that marvellous jour
new which so much astonished Mr.. Pick
wick. But "the pace is too stiff to last,
as our leader observes with knowing
grin. A run at full speed through half
| frozen snow tries the feet of even full
grown wolf too severely to be continued
beyond certain time; and, in the face
of stout resistance, the beasts inherent
cowardice is sure to come to the surface
sooner or later. Already three or foul
gaunt, shaggy-haired veterans, who have
probably made a good supper over
night, begin to hang back, as if doubt
ing the wisdom of risking their lives fol
a hypothetical breakfast; the speed O.
the rest slackens by degrees; and a
length the whole pack drop of, as If by
tacit agreement, leaving us to pursue
our way unmolested. AS we emerge
again into the open plain, across whicl
the first beams of the rising sun are jus
beginning to fall, we see the last OF ou
grim followers sinking away like be
lated spectre into the ghostly shadow
of the forest that we have quilted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
The Cinnamon.

A common Chinaman has no other
idea of life than to work steadily, do his
own cooking, washing, ironing, and
mending, and spend a great deal less
than he earns. His father and all his
ancestors, as far back as to the time of
Aaron or of Abraham. had no other idea
of life. A hut, few yards of cloth,
double handful of rice and wheat,
slice of pork, frying-pan, and strip
of rush mating for bed-these are
what he is born TO, and with these, in
his own land, he expects to die, and die
content. When he comes to America,
his simple aim is to lay up small sum
of money on which he can live at ease
when he goes back. Isaw miner, fifty
two wears old; he looked thin and'worn,
as though he had never known anything
but steady toll and rough fare. He has
been here five years, and has three hun
dred dollars in gold. Last Monday he
took the steamer to Canton. He will go
home to his wife, and be man in easy
circumstances the rest of his days. They
make no eight-hour protests; they have
no strikes; they cannot understand
what trade-union means. They will
work for fifty cents till they hear of
some man who gives sixty. Then they
go to work for him till they know of a
chance to make seventy-fve. They have
no bar-rooms they drink no strong
drink; they do not fight, or curse, or
break things. But they love to smoke
in the evening, and it amuses them
greatly to throw pile of little brass
coin, ten of which make cent, on the
middle of a table, and bet that, when
the heap is counted off, it will turn out
odd. Some bet dime that it will count
out odd, as twenty-seven or thirty-one.
Others bet twenty-five cents that the
count will be even. did not see any
body bet over twenty-five cents, but l
was told that late at night they grow
reckless and bet their pipes and their
clothes, all their tobacco, and at last a
wife. But the class of gamesters is not
large. Most of them, after work, cuddle
down by little fire, where rice and the
legs and head of hen are boiling, and
chatter about the days work, about
what some other miner or laborer has
found, about what some wicked "Meli-
can man" has done, about home, and
having their ashes carried back to China
to sleep besides the bones of their ances-
tors and under the grim smile of some
ancient wooden god. Presently the
chatter lulls away, the little rush beds
are spread, and Chang-Ty, in dreams, is
far away in the Flowery Land. But
with daylight, he ties up the little roll
of rush carpeting, lays it on a shelf, eats
a cup of boiled wheat and sucks
chicken-wing, and anon the pick, with
slow but unceasing swing, is hacking
into the bank the barrows are filed
the planks are handled, the rails are
spiked, and the work goes on as fast al
though pushed by Irish muscle or Amer
lean nerve.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
LANGUAGE FROM TRUTH
.... Full JAMES.

BY =. BRET HARTE.
DO sleep; do I dreaml
Do 1 wander and doubt
Are thin 20 what til - seem,
Or is visions about
Ia our civilization a I dlurei
Or Is the Caucasian played out!
Which expressions are strong;
Yes would feebly imply
Some account of wrong
AS was worked Oh on William my parjner,
Which his name 1t was ". Nye.
He came down to the Ford
On the very same day
F'Of that Lot cry, drawed
' BY those sharps at the Bay;
And he says to me, Truthful, how goes itf
1 replied, T" 1t is far, far IRON gay
"For the camp has gone wild
On this Lottery game,
And IA even beguiled
Injin Dick by the same"
Which said Nyo to me, 'Injin is pizen-
Do YOU know what his number Is JamesP
replied, "7,2,
l9.S4,is his hand;"
Which he started-and drew
Out a LIST, whicu he scanned
i Then he softly went for his revolver
). With language / cannet command
0 Then 1 said, "william Nyer'
J, But he turned upon me,
: And the look in his eye
= Was quite pipfnl 20 see,
. And he says: You mistake; this poor InJln
protect from such sharps as you be-
was shockel and withdrew;
But gtieve to relate,
H When he next met my view
1ntin Dick was his mate,
And the two around town was lying
In frighfully dissOlute state.
Which the war-dauce they had
Round tree at the Bend,
Was sight that was sad;
And 1t seemed that the end
Would not Justify the proceedings,
As quiet remarked TO q friend.
FOR that Injin he fed
The next day to his band;
And We found Wi liam spread
Very Loose on the strand,
With peaceful-like smile ON his featured,
And dollar greenback in his hand
Which, the same when rolled out,
We observed with surprise,
WHAT the pnjin, no DOUBT,
Had believed was the prize
Them fig ures in red in the corner,
Which the number Of notes specifies.
Was it guile, or a dreaml
Is II Nye tuat doubt
Are things what they seem,
Or is visions about
Is cur civilization failurel
Or is the Caucasa an played ont
Overland Monthly for January.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12

A new line of steamers is to be estab-
lished between Portland and Boston in
the spring, to run in connection with
the Portland and Ogdensburgh Rail-
road.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12

A history of tobacco is announced in
press, illustrated with fine cuts.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-12-28

FRE-Between and O'Clock this friday morning.
Mira BELLS dwelling on Poplar Street. discovered to
he on re The alarm given but it found useless
to try to save the building Efforts then directed
saving the dwelling Of F. vAS BusKRK adjoining which
effected without much difficulty wind being
able Mira BELL and family awakened by J. NJ BECK
EFT inst i'm time to escape she with dress and the chill
dren with only their night clothing portion of the
household goods saved but all the bedding and cloth
ing which were pstairs burned Trunks belonging
to who had been boarding there containing clothing
&c. valued at 800 also burned. The origin
Of the FIRE is not known.
This house and its contents comprised the whole
BELLS possessions She is in debt the addition
built to it. about year Turned out Of doors with
family in mdwinter with but remnant Of her goods left
here is subject for the generosity of the public. sub
scrtion paper is already in circulation and citizens
are giving with their accustomed liberality.
The building insured for 81 600 in the American In
Surance Company of Chicago If the Company is worth
anything, and pays up. il will enable Mrs BELL start
This house Tor the original part Of i of the old
residences Of White Cloud having been built in the
mer of 1857, by NJ. b. BOWERS.
We suppose shall hear now for a few days. a good
deal Of talk about Hook and Ladder Company then
will die out until the fire shows the need of But
this is matter upon which have harangued citizens
until we are tired and the subject is stale.