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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

Der, found their way into the
Tennessee National Bank at Mem
phis.
The honorable Representative
from Massachusetts Mr.. Hoar
would have ascertained another
fact in relation to that education.
al fund if he had been as astute
in prying into the cracks and
crevices Of his own party organi-
cation as he has been into those
of the Democratic party. He
would have ascertained that after
the people had been scourged by
war, plundered to poverty, almost
painting for life, his party loaded
them with accumulated millions
of public debt, and seized upon the
school fund and sunk it in the
bank to which | have alluded.
Only about two hundred and sew
enty-three thousand dollars of this
fund have been recovered, aDd
the balance may never be mcov-
cred. That is what your party
did for education in Tennessee.
The people Of Tennessee, by
their delegates in convention in
1870, In their amended constitu-
ton, rededicated the original
school fund to the inviolable use
of common schools, also appropri-
ating the State taxes derived from
polls. The Democratic Legisla-
ture Of Tennessee, in 1870 and
1871, reorganized the common
schools, assumed the payment OF
the interest on the whole amount
of the school fund, and authorized
the counties to levy the school
tax, as | have before stated.
Mr.. Speaker, so far as the popu-
lation of Tennessee is concerned,
while we may deplcre the illiiera.
cy OF part, we are proud OF 1t IN
the main. Though they may not |
have had the polish OF Massa-
chusetts school, we are proud OF |
the magnanimous and heroic vir-
tues Of our SEWERS and Shelbys
and their mountain troops, whom |
they led to Kings mountain,
where they found the pivot point |
Of the American revolution, aud
there struck blow deemed by |
Mr.. Jefferson to be the seal Of A
merican independence. 1t was
the end Of disaster to the Ameri-
can arms. The tide turned. The
battles of Cowpens and Guilford
Courthouse followed in rapid
succession, and the final blow at
Yorktown. The descendants OF
the Kings mountain heroes and
the descendants OF the other pio-
neers of Tennessee, a race of peo-
pie with as good brains, muscles,
morals, and virtue as are to be
found on the American continent,
are the men whom the gentleman
would degrade with the imputa-
ton of the grossest ignorance.
What Tennesseean does not re-
member with pride our Jacksons,
Folks, CAROLS, Grundys, Whites,
Bells, Fosters, and long line OF
statesmen and patriots too numer-
Gus to mention on this occasion,
as well as her noble peasantry?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

A farmer residing near Utica.
N. Y, while being run away
with by pair offrightened horses
shouted, Il leave my wife ST. 0 600;
no time to make a will. He is
still alive, but badly bruised.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

Rev. Geo. W. Carter and Gen.
A. S. Badger of N. O., fought a
duel on the 18th with rifles, neith-
er hurt, kissed and made friends.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

CONE To GRIEF.-The two
Treasury clerks who peached on
Grant about his Indebtedness to
the Government have come to
grief. A Washington letter says:
The two clerks, Hunt ntand Green,
of the Third Auditors office, who
were so indiScreet as to disclose
the fact that the records In their
division showed the President to
be in arrears to the United States
in the sum of $4,000 and the
Third Auditor $500, have paid
the penalty for telling family Sc.
crets. They have been summoned
hefore the Government execution
er. and informed that they chad
no right to know anything outside
of their official duties, therefore,
the Government could dispense
with their services The Third
Auditor is a New Hampshire car
pet-bagger, but appointed from
North Carolina. He has refunded
and so has the President. "Let
us have peace.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07
"When Your. Cheap Di-
NOrco is Grautedss

When your cheap divorce is granted,
Mother, and you leave the West,
Shall stay with you or father?
Tell me, mother, which is best
He'll be much surprised, fear me,
When Ire knows what you have fled,
And, unless you hover near me,
He'll appropriate your child.
Mother, if the move was needful;
If the income you and he
Shared SO long at last has bred an
Incompatibility
If you'll be his wife no longer,
When returning from the West,
Which am | to love the strongest
Tell me, mother, which the best
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

Where have you been since
the coy kicked? is a delicate
way the .Chicagoans have of re-
fcrring TO the late calamity.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

"Yourself and gentleman, " sthe
way invitations to parties are eX-
pected to read this year.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07
The Story Of a Rose.


A rose witt SO pretty a little
story, and so full Of romance as
this, ought to be beautiful, and SO
is the Cherokee Rose. Here is
the story told of it: ..r-
AN Indian chief Of the Semi
nole tribe was taken prisoner by
his enemies, the Cherokees, and
doomed to torture, but fell so Sc
riously i'll that it became necessa
ry TO wait for bis restoration to
health before committing him to
the fire. And as he lay prosua,
ted by disease in the cabin Of the
Cherokee warrior, the daughter
of the latter, a young, dark, faced
maid, was his nurse. She fell in
love with the young chieGtain,
and wishing to save his life, urged
him to escape. But he would not
do so unless she would flee with
him. She consented. Yet be-
fore they had gone far, impelled
by soft regret at leaving home,
she asked permis ion of her lover
to return for the purpose Of tear-
ing away some memento of it.
So, retracing her footsteps, she
broke sqng from the white rose
which climbed up the poles of her |
fathers tent, and preserving it du-
ring her flight through the forest,
planted it by the door of her new
home in the land of the Seminules.
And from that day this beautiful
flower has always been known be-
tween the caves of Florida and
throughout the Southern States
by the name OF the Cherokee Rose. !
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07

The Baltimore American Re
puUican) favors the Government
paying Mrs. Gen. Lee for the
Arlington estate, which was
purchased during the war at tax
sale. The American says:
"The land cormOrants who at
tend large sales may rest their
claims on the title given by the
x-gatherers, but a great nation
cannot afford to take advantage
e,f circumstances and literally rob
the real owner, who i'll this case
neither knew of the seizure nor
its sale"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-03-07
Here is what they sing at pub

Here is what they sing at pub
lie examinations in a Vermont viii
Iage, to the tune of Yankee
Doodle" visitors and all joining
in the chorus
l anything on earth can make
A great and glorious nation,
1t is to give the little ones
\ thorough education.
ChoYeGS-Five times five are twenty five,
Five times six are thirty,
Five times seven are thirty-five,
And five times eight are forty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
Dangers Of Modern Ships.

An English newspaper reports that a
circular has been issued by the British
Admiralty calling attention to the dam
ger TO workmen employed in the double
bottoms and other inclosed places in
our modern ships, arising from the
presence of foul air. They are told to
use the air fan free, make for the door
on the first appearance of dimness in
their lights, always work in pairs, and
not venture in until assured they may
do so with safety. That the danger is
no imaginary one, the writer adds, he
knows well and many times he has
been surprised to see how, in spite of
orders, warnings, expostulations, men
will venture into such places carelessly
or worse. During the building of the
lrOn-clad Northumberland, one of the
painters was found suffocated i'll the
double bottom. II is said he had gone
III there to sleep, unfortunately
without thinking of the danger to
which he exposed himself. Again, one
of the engineer officers of her Majesty S
ship Buffalo was rendered insensible,
and but for ready assistance would
have died inside the boiler, where he
had incautiously gone shortly after it
was opened. On anot' occasion a
stoker of the iron cla' Hercules was
rendered insensible, al :. remained Sc
riously Ill for some hours, by inhaling
the foul air issuing from the door he
had just opened on one of the boilers.
The noise caused by his falling tools
called attention to something wrong.
He was found lying with his head over
the door, where he had fallen in his
Inconsistencies, and there he would
hive died but for the help at hand.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
StingleSS Honey Bees

In many parts of South America, but
more particularly where the antbear
ranges, there are industrious honey
bees without stings. They usually
take possession of hollow trees, in
which they construct rows of wax cups,
nearly the size of half an eggshell.
When full of honey, they are capped
over to exclude air, which preserves
the contents i'll fluid state. When
one pot is finished, they proceed with
another, and thus store up an immense
amount of delicious food, of which they
are invariably robbed without the pow
er of offering resistance.
At the exact season when ants eggs
are deposited nature has SO arranged it
that the ant bear, which subsists almost
entirely of ants, avoids those hard clay
ppsamlds, the massive homes of thsee
ingenious insects, climbs the bee trees,
and thrustlng in its long whiplash
tongue, feeds sumptuously on honey
till the new crop of ants are large
enough for food. just as the honey ID
exhausted tneir wants are amply pro-
vlded for. Thus alternately animal
aud vegetable aliment is secured by an
unalterable Law, so that ants are kept
within control in one direction, never
becoming sufficiently numerous to de
strOy the source from whence their own
necessary food is derived.
. Thus the race of ant bears are sus-
tanned during particular period neces-
sary for the preservation of the race of
ants and the poor bees are instru-
mentalitles for sustaining the law with
out any apparent compensation for
thelr uncoasing labor, beyond the
privilege of slipping nectar from the
flowers and enjoying unrestrained lib
erty on the wing.
Who does not discover in the fore
going relation, an exact reference of
means to ends? 1t is an illustration
of the admirable adjustment of cause
and effect, which secures the perpetri-
ty of species, and demonstrates beyond
question, the existence of an omniscient
Law Maker-because such laws do not
make themselves.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03

and pour over the liquor ley over this
nat cover that will fit closely, and place a
heavy weight upon it; when turned from
tho mold, garnish with sprigs of parsley or
celery Serve with fancy pickles or.
French mustard.
In many households this vegetable is
classed among forbidden indulgences. on
account of the disagreeable odor arising
from it while cooking This may be avoid
ed almost altogether by the following care
ful mode of preparation:
Quarter the cabbage and removed the
hard stalk, wash WELL and cut as for very
coarse cold slaw cover well with cold
water and let it 50 remain over night tor
for ten hours;) change the water the next
morning. When ready for boiling, remove
the cabbage With skinner and put it into
a liberal allowance of boiling water
From thirty to thirty-five minutes steady
sufficient Leave the pot uncovered, so
| as to prevent any dripping of water upon
the range, as this is one of the causes of
bad OdOr. Add salt after the cabbage is
| tender, ten or fifteen minutes before re-
moving it from the fire.
If corned beef is cooked at the same
! time, it is we'll to add some of the fat
| skinned off of the liquor (after the inn
| purities have been removed) to the boiling
cabbage-a half-pint or more. A piece OF
beef suet, size of an egg, will answer as
we'll when there is none of the corned beet
liquor at hand The Jersey Wakefield,
Flat Dutch, and Drum head Savoy are
choice varieties, each in its season.
Cabbage must be so thoroughly cooked
| that we can mash it easily with The blade
| of a knife. Put it in colander and press
out the water well Season more, if nee
esary, with salt, butter, and pepper (if
preferred Cabbage in this way is palata
bic "a much more inviting dish than when
cooked by the old method.
Never cook cabbage with salt meat II
is always a good sidc-dish with corncd
M ats. The fact of cabbage being 50 Otter
poorly cooked has brought them both into
disrepute. For those who prefer having
the cabbage more in shape, we would adj
wise them to half the cabbage, remove The
bard stalk, and throw boiling water over it
so as to get rid of all insects, then plunge
it briskly into cold water; tie the cabbag,
in thin netting or muslin and boil for
longer time than when it is finely cut
| Hearth and Home t.s'F
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
That's n Man.

A farmer in Illinois had a neighbor
across the Wabash in Indiana who was
keeping pauper on contract at his
house. In the corn hoelng season the
Illinois man sometimes borrowed his
nelghbor's pauper to help in the corn
field. Bill Turner had a pauper work
ing for him. aud as none of the people
IN the neighborhood had ever seen a
pauper, they were very anxious to get
peep at him. Consequently some
twenty of them joined together one dav,
armed with their shot guns and rifles,
and Went over to Turner's to see the
strange creature. They got cautiously
over the fence, ami came up to where
the men were working.
"Bill," said Silas Brown, their
spokesman, "wo've heard that you've
got a pauper working for you, and we
don't like to see it,
Bill thereupon pointed out the OBJ
iect of their curiosity. The visitor
walked around the astonished pauper
and silently surveyed him from every
point of view. At last Silas spoke.
tLook here, Bill Turner" said he,
E'you can't fool u.s. that's mani"
We wish all those in charge of char
liable institutions had the same idea
about paupers as Silas had.-HeorH
and Home.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03

VEG E is made exclusively from the juices of
carefully selected barts, roets and herbs, and so
strongly concentrated that it will eectuay eradicate
from the system every faint of ScrofuLa, Scrofu-
IOus Humor. Tumors, Cancer. tancerous
HumOr. Brysipelas, Salt Rheuu. ssyphiiitTc
Diseases, CanIker. Eaintness at the stomach.
and all diseases that arise from impure blood Sci
aticR. Inf1ammatOry and Chronic Rheunia-
tisn, Neuralgia, Cont and Spinal Complaints,
only be effectuay cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive diseases of the skim
POstuies, PnmpIes, BlOtcItes, BoiIs, letter,
scaldhead and Ringworm, VEGETINE has never
failed to effect permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back. Kidney Complaints,
Dr0psy. Female Weakness. Benchorrhea.
arising from internal ulceration and uterine diseases
and General Debility. VEGETINE acts directly
upon the causes of these complaints Itnvigoraes
strengthens the whole SYSTEM acts upon the secreive
regulates the bowels.
For Catarrha Dyspepsia. HabituaI CostIve-
ness, Paipita alton of the Heart. Headache,
Piles, Nervousness and General prostration of
the Nervous System, medicine has ever given
such perfect satisfaction the VEG ETINE. 1t puri
es the blood cleanses all of the organs and
controlling power the Nervous system
The remarkable cures effected by VEGETINE have
induced many physicians and apohecaries whom we
know to prescribe and use it in their families,
In fact, VEG is the best remedy vet discov.
BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed before the public
Prepared by I'll. K. STEVENS. Boston, Mass.
Price SI.2l Sold by all Druggists
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
An incident Of He Dprs.v-

The return from the Derby races is
always accompanied by fun and froIic,
but the London News gives an incident
of this years return which happily
combines fun and frolic with lynch
law. On the evening of the races the
occupants of four-horBe drag were
amusing themselves as they approached
home 10y pelting pedestrians with -four,
peas, land other missiles" They
pulled UP i'll the Clapham road for re-
freshments, leaving three OF their num-
Der to care for the horses, and these
three proceeded with their sport. I'm
fortunately they threw flour on the
wife OF a railway porter, who immedi-
ately called on the crowd to storm the
drag. No sooner said than done, and
i'll an instant the funny gentlemen were
pulled from their seats, carried to q
horse-trough, soundly ducked, rolled
in the mud, and then sprinBIed with
their own -four. AS soon as possible
they and their comrades drove rapidIy
away amid the jeers and boots of the
crowd.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
Use OF Paris Green.

At regular meeting of the Natural His
tory Society of the Michigan State Agri-
cultural College, last Monday evening (3pd)
an essay was read by Dr. Kepzie, Subject
Use OF Paris Green on Potatoes. in which
nc stated Chat it was not poisonous unless
used IN excess although it contains two
deadly poisons, arsenic acid and arsenitc
OF copper, 1t formed an insoluble precini-
tate with the ferTic oxide, Drown Hm-
nmlde orc) contained in the soil, as he has
proven by several experiments.
The argument some have advanced.
ihSt Ears Green is insoluble in water, and
HeqGe does not poison the potato, does not
h9ld true, rs It IS only insoluble in pure
water, and all our rain waters contain i'm,
pVfltles and small trace of ammonia in
winch Paris Green is perfectly soluble
FROM bis experiments he has derived the
following results: W 'iio
lst. That the potato does not contain
any arsenic.
Ind That Paris Green can he used in
Quantities SO small rs TO kill the bng and
not poison the potato.
LANSING, MICHIGAN.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03

Mr.. Thomas Fitzpatrick put his two
road mares to the pole early in the
spring. As both are good steppers
they promised to make q rapid team.
Both are high-strung, and each seems
to have a good opinion of himself. The
two were cautiously polite to each
other, but there was no strong display
of affection. While gently driving in
Central Park one day, the sorrcl mare
made an awkward step, and cut the bay
mare on the ankle. The accident ap.
peared to stir up bad blood. Madden
ed with rage, the bay mare bit the sorreI,
and this act Of hostility was quickly
resented. The mares now forgot
their politeness, and each struggled to
infict as much injury upon the otheras
possible. On arriving at the stables
and being detached from the wagon,
instead of walking quietly to their
stalls, they turned upon each other
with great fury, and engaged in savage
fight. They were separated with some
difficulty. But now it is ont of the
question TO drive them together. When
they come within sight Of each other.
their eyes flash and nosir1ls snort def
ance. If left to themselves they would
surely engage i'll q conflict bitter and
remorselcss in The extreme.-ItYf,
FfeI0 O2ld FUTY1
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
Northern Pacific Railroad Comnany.

WASHINGTON, June 12.-The Committee on
racine Railroads of the House made report
MONDAY upon the resolution of February IA
to investigate and report upon the actual
condition OF the Northern Pacific Railroad
company, The statement Is vOluminous, en-
braclng all the evidence adduced before the
Committee. The following is a brief SYNOPSIS:
There were no charges, of any kind what
soever, made against the management of the
Company, and, in order to meet the sugQes-
tions made in communications referred to the
Committee or any OF its members, as well as
all questions of a general character, the Com
mlttee put lnterrOgatories to the Company,
which were answered under oath. The range
OF the inquiries was designed to cover tho ac
tual condition OF the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, and to be exhaustive. The evidence
shows that the affairs of the company are in
sound and clear condition thus far. The road
has been constructed by contractors, to whom
the work has been left, after public competi-
tive bidding. No Director. officer. or engineer
OF the company has been i'll any way pcCunia-
rlly interested in the construction contracts or
the purchase of materials or supplies The
building OF the road has progressed as rapidly
as prudent financial management and the per-
| manent interests OF the road permitted. The
the best quality. The Ion is all of
American manufacture, and from Ameri-
can ores. There will be in operation at the
end of this year five hundred and seventeen
miles of the main road. Surveys entirely
across the Continent have developed an exc ell
lent route, with easy grades, and through a
country OF much average fertility. In add
ton to the portion already completed there is
now under construction and preparing for con-
tract, east and west of the Rocky mountains,
| ] OBI miles OF track. Gu aiding is in progress
in Dakota and Washington Territories. The
Company has examined, plated, appraised
and prepared for mar ct SIS, 800 acres of its
lands in Minnesota and Washington Territory,
at a cost of one cent per acre; and of these
lands applications are ON file for the pur-
chase OF lac, 2o4 acres. The Company's policy
IS to sell its lands cheap to actual settlers
The lands are held by trustees as security fol
bonds sold by the Company, and no portion OF
the grant can be diverted from this purpose
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
The Bishop of Manchester and s'Punch. >

The Bishop of Manchester lately
made a speech, in which lie was repre-
scented to have charged the cartoons of
Punch with an impure tendency. The
subject having been taken up by the
editor of Punch, the Bishop has writ
ten a letter to that journal, in which
he SAYS:
&c What I meant to say, and what [
believe l did say, was this The
light literature on our drawing-room
tables, the engravings in ourillustrated
papers, even the cartoons of Punch, in
dictate that the tone of fashionable So
ciety, if not actually impure, is peril
ously close to the border-land of I'M
purity Nobody who knows the way
in which your artists hold the mirror
up to nature, and illustrate the fobiles
of the age, would charge them with
ministering to impurity indeed, I
have often admired the skill or the
right feeling with which they have
touched on delicate ground; but / was
thinking of the general tone of that
fast, fashinable life which those pic
lures illustrate, and whose folIies they
often SO admirably expose. | deeply
r,Gret that | should have been mis-
reported -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
Tea TipplinG.

The attention of tea drinkers, espeo-
tally of those who, from their devotion
to the decoction which cheers but not
inebriates, are entitled to the name of
tea-bibbers, is respectfully called to
the words of wisdom of an English
physician, DIR. Arlidge. The Lancet
quotes him as saying that tea tipping
is not whit less dangerous to health
than the inordinate use of opium or
alcohol In anything but moderate
quantities it is as distinctly narcotic
poison as either of them. He says: It
is capable of running the digestion,
of enfeebling and disordering
the hearts action, and of shatter-
ing the nerves. And it must be re-
membered that not merely is it ques-
ton OF narcotic excess, but the enor-
nous quantity of hot water which tea
b1bbers necessarily take, is exceedingly
preiudicial, both to digestion and nu-
triton. In short, without pretending
to place this evil on level as TO gen
eral effect, with those caused by alec
holic drinks, one may we'll insist that
our teetotal reformers have overlooked,
and even to no small extent encouraged,
a form of animal indulgence which is
as distinctly sensual, extravaganza and
perniclous as any beer-swilling or gin
drinking in the world