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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

An enterprising New York showman
mas made an engagement with first
class burglar. whom he intends to exhib-
II thrvEsshout the country in order that
there may be no doubtof the scoundrel's
authenticity, ne will carry Nth HIM his
credentials from Sing-Sing. Albany. and
Auburn, where ne has served. in ali. not
less than fifteen years. This moral ex-
hibitiou is chiefly designed for women,
whose perennial interest," in burglars $50
notorious and unwavering.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

Some of the niceties of vienneee
etiquette are thus described: No OIL
Ger Of cavalry dare carry a parcel, in
uniform, no matter how small it may
be, book or even fan rolled MP in
paper, though he may do 20 out Of uni
form; neither dare ne enter one hone
cab, although he may drive around in .
two horse vehicle to his hearts ccuseut-
An officer of infantry or artillery, how
ever, whether in or out of uniform, may
carry what he pleases- and drive IN
whatever conveyance suits nm bess.
But then infantry officers are mot out Of
the pale of fashionable society, shiIe
the bold Dragons and gay au4zz. IRE
lis chief ornanents.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

heoIy W1IQ DScC0B kpe98B Oh the
Crows A. Dnors :. Aside frpm the
special queseion Of profit and loss, we
have awaru side toward the cxDw; he
is % much Ike one of ouselve. He
10 lazy, and that Is human; he's cum
ming, and that h human. He takes ad-
vantage of tAoee weaker than himsef |.
and that Is manlike. He 10 shy. and
hides for tomorrow what he cant eat
to-day, showing . real human provi-
dence- He learns tricks much faster
than he learns useful things, showing
true boy-nature- He thinks his own
color the best, and loves to hear his
own voice, which are evident traits of
humanity He viii never work when
he can get another to work for him-a
genuine humanity trait He eat. what
ever he can get his claws upon. and y
less mischievous with belly full than
when hungry, and shat is like man. He
Is NJ war with all living things except
bis own kind, and with them when he
has nothing else TO do. No wonder
men dexPlse crows They are too much
like mem Take of their wings, and
put them in breeches, and crows would
make fair average men. Give men
xings and reduce their smartness . lit
tie. and many Of them would be almost
good enough TO be Crows
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

A DISAPPOINTED youth in Oregon Ne
Gently veniured to bring an action for
breach OF promise against . lady. She
pleaded that when their engagement
was broken of she presented him with
$3.50 and 4 bottle of cologne Is com
pensation for the loss Of affections. The
jury decided that this Was quite suf6-
cient, and gave q verdict for the lady.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
Proprietor.
VOL. XIX---NO. 81.
& Curiosity of Figures.

AS a species of puzzle for our
friends, we publish the follow
ing singular manner in which a
Dublin chambermaid is said to
have got twelve commercial
travellers into eleven bedrooms,
and yet to have given each a
separate room. Here we have
the eleven bedrooms:
II I3l4I5I8I7I8I9I1OFu
"Now," said she, 'sif you two
gentlemen will go into No. l
bedroom, and wait there min
ute, I'll find a spare room for
one of you as soon as 1 have
shown to the others their rooms.
Two in No, l.. she put the third
in No. 2, the fourth in No. 3,
the fifth in No. 4, the sixth In
No. 5, the seventh in No. 6, the
eighth in No. Z, the ninth in
No. 8, the tenth in No. 8, the
eleventh in No. 10. She then
came back to No. ], where you
willremember shelcft the twelfth
gentleman along with the first,
and said, i have now accOmmoda-
ted all the rest and have still a
spare room, SO you will please
to step to No. II you, will find
tempty." Thus the twelfthman
got a bed room. Of coHrse there
IS a hole in the saucepan some
where; but we leave the reader
o determine exactly where the
allacy is, with just a warning
to think twice before deciding
as to which, if any, of the -trav-
elers was the "odd man out"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
A Young Man Who Meant
Well.
From the Hartford Post. /

A young and energetic gen
tleman of this city, noted for the
promptness and decision with
which he always acts in cases of
emergency, took the train on
the Hartford, Providence and
Fishkill Road, for Waterbury,
where he had business to trans
act. When the train reached
Plainville number Of passen-
gers alighted as usual. In the
seat opposite our gentleman
friend were a lady and her boy,
a little fellow five or six years
of age. As the cars stopped,
the lady peered out of the win
dow, rose hastily, seized the boy
by the hand and walked hurried
ly with him to the rear of the
car. The two had scarcely
passed out of sight before our.
energetic young friend noticed
that the boys hat, tin whistle,
whip and other toys were lying
on the seat which had just been
vacateds The train started, and
hastily concluding that the lady
in her hurry to get off at the
station had unwittingly left them
our friendrushed across the aisle,
and gathering up the hat and
tops slung them out of the win
dow. A change came over the
spirit of his dreams as the lady, |
a moment or two later, came up
the aisle, leading her boy by |
the hand. She didn't stop at
Plainville. The laugh that was
heard in that car when the lady |
returncdmade our young friend
sick. He apologized to the la.
dy, explained how he came to
throw the things out Of the win
dow, and went back to his seat
in a frame of mind anything
but happy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
TERMs.

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Fifty Cents if payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out Of the coun-
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rA Advertisements inserted at One Dollar
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insertion; Fifty Cents for each continuance.
CF Local and Special Notices, Twenty
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o. A liberal deduction will be made to
persons advertising for three, six, nine, or
twelve months.
OF Obituaries and calls on candidates,
Fifty Cents per square.
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strictly limited to their own immediate and
regular business; and the business of an ad-
3srtising firm is not considered as including
that of its individual m emhers. OETNo de-
Walton from these terms under any circum-
stances.
OF Advertisements not marked with the
number of insertions when handed in, will be
continued until ordered out and payment
exacted.
OF No advertisement inserted gratu,touslv
TS Advertisements of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price.
0e Announcing candidates Five Dollars
to be paid in advance in every case.
OF Job Printing of all kinds neatly
done on New Type, and on as reasonable
terms as any Office in Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

Cotton.

i 1t is estimated that Texas .alont
| contains land capable of yieldin!
Is, 100000 bales of cotton annu
ALLY; that is, considerably more
than is consumed at present by the
whole civilized world. The prob,
lem now to be solved by the South
is, not that of producing cotton
cheap with free labor, but of i'm
proving methods of agriculture
! and cheapening the cost of hand
ling and of transportation. Near
ly all reports from the cotton dis
tricts promise a larger supply than
last year, and it is probable that
prices will tend downward for sew
eral months TO come. English
consumers seem to think that a
steady decline in cotton will take
place, and that prices will fall so
low that they will be enabled to
resume working full time after
January l, when the American
crop of the year begins to reach
Europe. Our crops to England in
1871 were only about $4,000
cwt. less than in 1869. During
1870 and 1871 the imports of A
merican cotton into Great Britain
were l5,662,935 cwt., and from
British India {, 1898, ,9O6 cwt., show
ing an excess from the United
States during the first two years
of 8,770,049 cwt. The most im-
portant point established by these
returns is that the staple industry
of the South has revived, and is
likely to prosper more under free
dom than under the former sys.
tenn of slavery. At present it is
gratifying to learn from the statis-
tics of the trade recently publish
ed in this country and in England
that the south is rapidly recover
ing her formerposition as the great /
cotton field of the world. From
the report of the British Commits
sioners of Customs for 1871, just |
issued in London, it appears that
the supply of American cotton in |
1871 was 9,273,910 cwt., against
6, 1895, ,045 cwt. in 1870 and 9 9,963,- |
800 cwt. in 1860. With these I,
figures the american statistics tai |
ly very nearly,the total production !
in 1859 60 having been 4, 1897 !
bales, and in 1902, 4,115, l07 |
Planter.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

A Coon SFoRY.-A thrasher
tells this story: "Old Schmit likes
to see folks that work for him get
up early. So when we were
thrashing there one fall, he had
an alarm clock hung right over
our bed. Charley West who did
the driving on the machine last
year, had never heared one be-
fore, and going to bed with no 9TH
er light than that of the moon,
neither of us took much note of
our surroundings. The next NOR
ming about an hour before sunrise,
the alarm went off rattle.te-smash,
making noise enough to raise the
whole neigborhood | was lying
awake at the time, but Charley
jumped out of bed like a wild man,
shouting whoa! Whoa!I WHoA!!l'
Then as he began TO comprehend
the state of affairs, 'By George!
Sam,' said he, 4 thought l could
see every cog flying out of that old
drive Wheel
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

Last week a train bound fol-
Texas on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad had on
board a large number of trave-
lers and emigrants, among them
a lady with a little boy aged sew
en- years who had the. ague,.
When about sixty miles below
the Kansas line the little boy
who had been walking about the
car during the evening, fell off.
This was not known by the
mother until the train had gone
two miles, and the lady sought
the conductor and asked him to
back the train, which he refused
to do. The lady then asked
him to stop the train and let her
off, which he also refused to do,
and, in spite of her tears and
entreaties, carried her down to
the next station, where she was
compelled to. stay over night
and wait for the uptrain the
next morning. On return the
boy was found. He had crawl
ed up the embankment among
the grass. and arstinp his head
among the wild flowers, and
drenched with the terrific thun-
der storm of Friday night, he
was dead.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
The Employment Of
"DrummerS

The Journal of Commerce is in
clined to think that a reaction is
approaching in the method of at
tracing custom. The employ
ment of drummers 1--WE are told) is
essentially demoralizing. 1t al
most certainly debauches the agent
sooner or later, and tends by the
instrumentalities used to the iniu-
ry of the morals and habits ofcus-
toners. Even where these evils
can be avoided it is most expen-
sive agency, and this will lead to
its disuse, since if employers are
not sick Of it, the buyers must see
that they have to support it, and
must eventually decline to lay in
their stock subject to such costly
machine for distribution. 1t is
great mistake to suppose that these
local and travelling solicitors of
custom are at all necessary TO the
transaction of a large business.
The first essential is brains, then
sufficient credit and capital to pre-
sent desirable stock. Judicious
advertising will announce this to
every man whose custom is worth
having, Courtesy and fair deal
ing will complete what is thus au.
spiciously begun, Drumming leads
directly to dissipation and licen-
tiousness; but if it were morally
unexceptionabie, it is too heavy a
tax. to be laid upon the distribu-
tion of goods. Country merchants
are growing as shy of these red
faced borers as the farmers are of
the lightning-rod agents or patent
pill peddlars. Have a stock worth
selling, announce the fact to the
public in the columns of a news
paper, and when acustomer is thus
found make it for his interest and
pleasure to come again.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
Expulsion Of the Jesuits
from GERMANY.

The London News says: "Prince
Bismark doubtless considered the
cost when he resolved on the eX.
pulsion OF the Jesuits from Ger
many; though he knew he was
dealing with an order which has
evaded, perplexed or baffled the
arts of the ablest statesmen in
Europe. 1t is now announced
that the enforced departure Of the
Jesuits has led to popular riots in
Rhenish Prussia. In the mining
and manufacturing town of Essen,
the Roman Catholics resolved to
back up the protest of their Bish-
ops against the new law by or
ganizing a torchlight procession, in
honor of the expelled fathers, on
the eve of their departure. To
allow public manifestation against
the law would have been veryun.
like Prussian authority; SO the
procession was forbidden. The
prohibition resulted, on Friday
last, in a riot. The mob attacked
and destroyed several houses, and
were proceeding to greater lengths
when TIVE battalions of soldiers ar
rived and put stop to the pro-
On Saturday, however,
the disturbances were renewed,
and the soldiers were compelled
to charge the crowed, and order
was not restored until a considera-
Bile number of the rioters had been
wounded"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
A Tale of a Tooth.

A remarkable case is reported in
surgical dentistry upon The author
ity of prominent English paper.
A member of the Odontologicsl So
ciety in that country had abstracted
tooth from a gentleman, which had
forsome time been painfully affected
by changes Of temperature. After
the Performance of the operation,
the dccayed part of the tooth was
scraDed from the croEn, tie dental
c2Eal from which it Vas taken
cleansed, aod the tooth put 5ack in
lls pisce, where at The end of a
fortnight it: renewed its duty as a
healthy masticator. For three or
four hours after the operation there
vas dull aching pain, which, how
ever, entirely ceased before noon Of
the following day, though some
remained. The Boston
Times, IN giving credeDce to The re-
port, says that E,l known dentist
Of that city has, in several instances,
succeeded iu the same operation.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
4lIeOZReleeRI9qefRgg, lIeOZ
TRUST ONE ANOTHER.


Look into your brothers eye, man,
And bid him read your own
One-half the strife OF human life =.
Is born of guile alone ,
Deceit creates full half our hates,
And half our love it slays;
Look into each others eyes, men,
And meet each others gaze.
Pardon your brothers faults, man,
And ask that he forgive
Could human sin no pardon win,
No mortal soul might live.
No need of Heaven were none forgiven,
For none would reach it's doors
Pardon your brothers faults, man,
And bid him pardon yours.
Feel for your brothers grief, man,
No heart is safe from woe,
Though lips and eyes full oft deny
The 'sorrowing weight below,
A gentle vile, a pitying smile,
May sweetest balm impart,
Feel for your neighbor's grief, man,
And you may win his heart.
Stand by your brothers side, man,
And bid him clasp your hand;
To him be just, and yield the trust
That you from him demand.
How simply wise with soul and eyes,
To trust and still be true
Do to those we love, man,
What we would have them do.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
A Lucky Doctor.

A Chicago paper tells the follow
ing:
The old law "Tis better to be
born lucky thau rich" finds a re.
markable illustration in the case
of a young physician of this State,
who unless report bellies him, has
stumbled accidentally into the po,
session of a fortune. His name is
T. L. Matchett, and be resides
somewhere in the central part of
Illinois. Our information is de-
rived from a gentleman who is
travelling through this section in
the interest of a business house,
and is a friend of the fortunate ply
sician. In the month of Septem-
Der, 1865, Mr.. Matchett, then a
resident of Springfield, ILL.,, was
passing through Chicago, and
while waiting for the train at the
Burlington and Quincy depot be
saw lady with a child in her
arms, also waiting for a train.
While still in the depot, the child,
a little girl, was seized with vic.
lent sickness, and the mother was
seriously alarmed. Mr.. Matchett
rushed to her assistance, took care
OF the child, and succeeding in re,
storiug it before the train started.
His timely act of assistance, coup
led with the manner in which it
was rendered, won the lady's heart
and she was profuse in her express
sions Of gratitude. But at this
moment the train came, and the
young man, bidding her a hasty
adieu, jumped into a car and was
off. The lady, before departing
on another train, made inquiries
concerning him, and found out all
about Mr.. Matchett, and where
he lived. And then she jumped
into car and was off. Here end
ed the first chapter of the ro-
nance. Passing over the inter
vening pages, which are blank,
we rush at once to the denoue-
ment. A few months ago the Ia
dy died in the town Of Aberdeen,
Scotland, and in her will she be-
queathed to her benefactor the
handsome fortune of 100000. 1t
is said the money is alread depos-
tied in some Eastern banH await
ing its claimant.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03
Prayer Answered.

A Miracle in New YOrk-StOIen
Property Recovered.
New York Letter to Boston Journal.
There is a house in Fifteenth
street, New York, in which a reg
ular prayer-meeting has been held
weekly for over twenty years.
Last week young lady boarding
in the house heard some one 10 her
room at night. 1t proved to be a
burglar, who stripped the room,
carrying of, among other things,
a new silk dress and a gold watch
belonging to the young lady. The
watch was highly priced as belong
ing to her father, who, some time
ago was shot by burglar. Sad
dened by the loss, and not know
ing any thing else to do, the young
lsdy shut herself up in the room
and began to pay for the recovery
Of her lost goods, especially for her
new silk dress and watch. A day
or two afterWard, at the edge Of
the evening, a bundle was left at
the basement door; it contained the
watch and the new dress. A
piece Of brown paper, soiled, torn
and Jagged, had on it some writing,
by one not accustomed
to the fine arts. The note stated
hat the writer had robbed the
house, was Immediately taken sick,
Ind could get 10 peace of body or
mind. He had concluded, there.
ore, to return those things, but
he rest he had parted with. If |
le lived he would earn money E. |
lough Ito pay the balance. The
7oung lady has no doubt that the
goods were returned in direct an
iwer TO her prayer.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03


Old Caleb Gushing, now in his
seventy-third year, while in Par
is last May, devoted three hours
each day to the study of French
under an eminent teacher. Now
when we reflect that he has spo-
ken and written the French Ian
guage fiuently for over forty
years, some idea of his de
votion to study may be arrived
at. If at such an advanced age
he desires to acquire, as he says,
"a greater felicity of express
ion," is any body justified in
considering it "too late" to un-
detake anything?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

Z
A Question: Settled, : In the
Superior Court in Baltimore, a
few days ago, the widow oil fewis
Follmar recovered $4,000 from a
life insurancecofnpa ny, which bad
insured her husbands life for that
amount, the insured having come
to his death through suicide. For
the defence it was set up that Foil
mars policy was rendered null and
void through his having commit
ted suicide, as there was a stipu-
latiou to that effect in it when it
was issued to him. Bot the Court
ruled that if the jury should find
from the evidence that the de-
ceased Killed himself in q fit of
insanity which overpowered bis
consciousness, reason and will al Z
thus acted from a mere blind and
uncomfortable impulse, the compa-
MY was liable; whereupon the jury
a verdict in favor OF the
widow.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

HER GIFT.-Not many days ago
there was an appeal made in St,
Johns Church, Ithaca, New York,
in behalf of "The Society for the
Increase of the Ministry" Facts
had been presented showing that
the supply of young men for the
pulpit was too small, ,and money was
asked to aid young men to study
for the ministry. Envelopes
were placed in the slips to be fill
ed out as promises for future gifts
by those lacking present means. A
lady wrote, "Name and amount,
$1,000; address, Ithaca; time when
aoomea are admitted tohe ministry" !"
This voucher She placed on the
collection plate as it was passed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

A young man in Marion dream,
ed that he had to get I'D and
light a lamp, aud accordingly
rose up in his sleep, struck
match, but instead Of lighting
the lamp, he applied the match
to the bed clothes, and quietly
returned to bed to wait the re-
suits. He was soon aroused,
and hastened to put out the
light, but not until he was minus
a portion of his bed clothes,
and with burned fingers.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

A country merchant went to Chi
cago few days ago to purchase a
bill Of goods. The last that was
heard Of bim be was in bis room
surrounded by seventeen drummers,
who had craKled through the tran
som, while an energetic reporter
was below stairs pumping the clerk
for the age Of the unfortunate man
and he probable circumstances Of his
family.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

r An indulgent Kansas parent
sold his cooking stove for 81 in
order to take his thirteen children
to the circns. He says circus
only comes two or three times a
year, and, besides, he never had
much to cook on the stove, any
how. fif
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

It is found that the bite of a
madman is poisonous as well as
that Of mad dog. A case oc-
Cured lately in the Schenectady
Poor House. 1t was not fatal,
but the bitten limb had to be am
putated to save the mans life.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

There is a man in Portliud,
Maine, who supports his fcmiiy in
handsome style by simply tying an
able-boditd cat by the tail to a
clothes IiOe every night, and then
going out 10 the morniug to collect
tide soap, shaving cups, brushes, etc.,
thrown into the yard by angry board
erS in adjoining houses.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

20 A couple were recently married
in Terre Haute, after fourteen
years courtship, during which
they had each written and received
two love letters week, ora total
of two thousand nine hundred and
twelve. <. ~
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

s@The Cincinnati Enquirer is
responsible for the statement that
Rabb, who sent the bull pup to Pres
ident Grant, from Cleveland, and
forgot to pay the express, was del
egate 10 the Strayed out convention
at Louisville.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-03

A couple of Galveston (Tex-
as) young men went out bath
ing, had a fine time, got ready
to put on their clothes, and
found them missing. They we'd
ed their way through the streets
of the town avoiding all the
gasslamps, land as they approach
ed their clearinghouse they
were dumbfoundedto find all the
lady boarders sitting upon the
porch by which they would
have topass to gain their rooms.
They sought an adjoining lot,
where they remained until all
had retired, during which time
they were literally "chawed up"
by mosquitoes.