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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27
A Young Lady Sues for
Breach of Promise.

For the first time in the State
of Maryland an offended lover
in Baltimore, having settled in
his mind that he loved "nos
wisely but too well" has taken
to law to recover the sum of
$4,000 as a proper return for
the "waste" of his youthful af-
fections. Jacob Lenze through
hiscounselhas broughtsuitin the
city court against Mary Schoman,
and set forth, with al the for
mality of legal procedure, that
there had been an agreement
between them to marry one ar
other, and reasonable time for
such marriage had elapsed, and.
Notwithstanding the fact j. that
he had always been ready and
willing to enter1into the bonds
of matrimopy with the defeu-
dant, and 10 surrender his "sin-
gle blessedness" in u spirit Of
knightly honor, the subject Of
his hearts desire had neglected
and refused to fulfllher promise.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27
The Iron Crown Of LON,
bardy.
By JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.

! The crown is regarded as stand
ing at the head of the symbols of
earthly dignity and power. In
all Europe there is probably not 6
more highly priced AID honored
relic than the SO called Iron Crown
of Lomb rdy. The first king
crowned with it was Agiluff
King OF Lombardy. twelve hun.
dred years ago. In the year TIA
it was placed on the brow of
Charlemagne. When Napoleon
/. was to be crowned king of Ila-
ly, wishing to invest the occasion
with pomp Of ceremony never
surpassed, he sent for the Iron
Crown Of Lombardy, to give i'm
pressiveness to the pageant.
For nearly thirteen hundred
years this crown, which has been
deemed the mCst sacred of all
earthly treasures, has been guar
ded night and day, by an armed
sentry, in an iron chest, in the
castle of Mama, in Milan.
The Iron Crown! Why is it SO
called? Why is the iron deemed
more precious than fretted gold
or glittering gems? Twining a.
long amidst rubies, and damon Is,
encrusted in the paFest gold, there
is thread of apparently com
mon iron wire. That wire gives
the crown its name. For ages it
has made it the object of almost
idolatrous worship. Princely
ladies, gaze upon The crown, and
are blind to the priceless gems, as
they look eagerly for the wire
None but the pur st sacerdotal,
hands must touch this sacred crown.
The legend says. and the faith
of Catholic Europe accepts the
declaration, that this iron circlet'
was drawn out from, one Of the
spikes With pierced the hands
of our SAVIOUR. 1t is this which
Civ the IroR Crown lis celebrity,
its almost supernatural sanctity.-
What a victory Christ has wont
Once the soldiers crowned the
Galilean rabbi in derision Of his
claims to be king, and soon af:
ter nailed him to til, cross. Now
tLe crowned heads of Europe rev.
erence what m re legend reports
10 lie q relic of that Crucifxion.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27
Rules for Business Men

From some published ''Rules
for Business Men" we extract
the following in relation to ad-
vertising:
ITO compete sfully
with a neighbOr, participate in
the facilities afford ID to go ahead.
"Don't depend upon your
own lungs alone; use the lungs
Of the press.
"Make it known by printers
ink that you are prepared to do
business.
"Sell at small profits for cash,
and make it known through the
newspapers.
"All that any honest, legiti-
mate concern requires is fair
Judgment, close industry, un-
wavering integrity, superior
workmanship, fair prices, and
to do better by customers, if.
possible, than othersin the same
business-and give it publicity
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

Thlrt is 0 woman in Washing
ton who has buried five husbands.
Recently she married a SIXTH
Upon the day Of the wedding a
man called at the Louise of the
groom, asked for that gentleman,
and then proceeded to measure
his body with a tape line. The
infatuated groom entertained an
idea that this might lie a man
sent around by his tailor. After
the ceremony in the church how
ever, the husband was surprised
to observe this same person stand
ing in the vestibule and Winking
luriously at the bride as the party
came out to the carriage. just as
they were starting IF the myster-
ious being put lis head into the
carriage window and whispered
to the bride, 'Got a ready made
one that'll just suit him Beauti-
ful fit !-beautiiuI !" When the
happy man demanded the name
of the intruder, the bride blushed
and said she believed he was some
kind of an undertaken. Then
the man was not quite so happy.
He was ha dly happy at all, and
a gloom seemed to overcast the
honey moon. Perhaps the un-
dertaker WAS rather too prompt.
But still, we like to see a man
take an interest in his busi: ess. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27
7SIsRuirep epaefpg,
perseverance,.

Perseverance,
Young man toiling on obscurely,
Struggling 'gainst an adverse tide,
With high and honest purpose
Which the mocking world derlde;
Flint not, fear not, brave the current,
Face the tide however rude,
Truth will triumph, thou wilt conquer,
God will ne'er forSake the good.
Do the. proud deride thy calling,
Mock thine efforts at the start,
With a scoffing coldness, CALLING
To thy proud and honest heart?
Persevere. Attain station
With the gifted and the great;
Those who now scorn Thy vocation,
Then will gladly kiss thy feet.
Has the vsnomed breath Of slsnder
On thy lonely name been blown,
From the serpent soul Of envy
That would keep theworthy down?
perseverei with manly patience,
Time will heal the wound you feel,
From thy name such taint will vanish
As the breath from FURNISHED steel.
For encouraging example
Scan the names on history'S page,
Those who most their race have honored,
Giving glory to their age;
Names of Newton and Of Franklin,
) nd hundred more as bright,
Names that gain increasing glory
With the worlds increasing light
Persevere! Unccasing effort,
Humble though, and weak it be,
May o'ercome Whate'er opposes,
And work miracles for thee;
BE assured reward will follow,
Good will come to him who delves,
Honest industry will prosper
Heaven helps those who help themselve
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27
A Tour in the South.

CGlumbia-The Old Times and the
New-Decay of the First Fami-
lies-A High Old Legislature
Ignorance, Corruption and Ras-
cality-Law Makers of Both Col
Ors - WhittemOre, the Cadet
Peddler-T Two Speakers, Both
COIrOed-A Legislative Smoke
PattersOn's Purchase - Whole
sale Bribery.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

SENATE ADJOURNED until the I'll
instant. Then the two den,
of cOrruptionists came out of
their Chambers and mingled to-
gether in the corridor.
In calling the South Caroline
Legislature den Of corruption.
lists | speak advisedly, and have
nothing to take back. They
are even more contemplate anC
venal than their predecessors
whose conduct would make the
very cheek of midnight blush.
In all the history of all the
States, and in the history OF
Europe, Asia, Africa and Aus
tralia, there is no record OF
such body of '1aw-makers" as
now disgrace the Capitalof Caro-
lima. With money enough you
can put through any bill or be G.
.lected TO any office within their
gift. The mass of them are for
sale like sheep in the shambles,
with the exception that they sell
themselves.
PATTERSON BUYS THEM.
For proofI have no occasion
to go far back, John j. Patter-
son bought his late election to
the Senate. Without money he
would not have got a vote, not
one By expending between
sixty and seyenty-fiTe thousand
dollars he bought ninety votes
them as you would
buy so many bHshels of potatoes.
There is no earthly doubt of this.
His agent, " orthington, was
seen to pay the money to two
negro Legislators twenty min
utes before the vote was taken.
One man in the Senate got thir-
ty-fve hundred dollars. The
vote was taken in the Senate
first, and there is where ne paid
the heaviest, as he wanted the
moral effect Of a handsome vote
on the first ballot. He got it..
He paid forit. He is Senator,
but he bought the place. He
knows he bought it; the MEM
bers Of the Legislature know lie
boughtit; GovernorScottknows
he bought it; everybody knows
it here, and / shall do what l
car to let other people into the
light.
The night after the election
he was arrested far bribery and
taken to jail, but released on
writ Of habeaS corpus from
Judge Mackey without petition
Or prayer as required by the
State Constitution. But tie
hing is not through with yet.
There are some nice develop
ments ahead.
This man Patterson is Il Penn
sylvania sharper, who has been
the Legislature for some
time. He buys them when he
wants them. 1t is to be hoped,
for the good of the country, if
not for the honor (?) Of the Re
publican party, that this is his
last purchase for some time
yet.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

A rural editor, lamenting the
death of cone Of the best adver-
tisers and subscribers we ever
had' thus touchingly concludes
his obituary eulogy: ale pos
sessed the love, confidence and
esteem of all who knew him and
some who did not, and, save a
slight poker debt to Mr., did
not owe a cent in the world"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

Too MEAN TO LIvE.-The
tmeD who were too mean to live
have actually died-died by their
own meanness. They were broth
ers, who lived in Illinois; two
miserly butchers, worth $4,000,
and with a goodly pile of wood
at the door. Coming hoGe at
night to a cold house with a cold
owe, each went to his cold couch
to sleep away the terrible cold Of
the recent Arctic wave. But the
wave was too much for them, and
they We're found in their beds dead
and frozen stiff. Possibly this i'll
wind will blow good to some poor
suffering heir. t..s.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27
Mixed Marriages.


In Philadelphia, on the 1st
: inst, Judge Ludlow rendered
the following decision in the
case Of The City vs.. William
son, for desertion. This case
presents a number of questions,
all of them interesting, and
somewhat novel. The realplain-
/ tiff here is a woman who alleges
that she married defendant
lived with him as her husband
for sixteen years, and was
mother by him of sevenchildren,
all of whom are now dead ex-
cept two, and one of the sur
vivOrs appears with his motL-
erin court. The defendant does
not deny that he went through
the ceremony of marriage with
this woman, and that the cere-
mony was performed by a Cath
Ole priest in Antrim, ireland.
The cohabitation and birth of
children during the period of
sixteen years is admitted; but
the defendant declares that he
is and always has been aProtes-
tant, and interposes as fiat bar
to this motion an English stat
ute, passed in the nineteenth
year of the reign of George II,
which declares (charter 13, Sec
tion 1, 'That every marriage
that shall be celebrated after
the 1st day of May, 1746, be-
tween q Papist and any erscn
who hath been, or hath prolessed.
him or herself to be a Prote5-
tant at any time within twelve
months before such celebration
of marriage, or between two,
Protestants, if celebrated by q
Popish priest, shall be and is
hereby declared absolutely null
and void to all intents and pur-
poses, without any process, judg-
ment or sentence of law what
soever." As a consequence it
has been argued thatthe children
of the Sc parties are bastards and
their mother a concubine.
Story, in his Conflict of Laws
(p. IS, 81, 81 and 92,) in sub
stance maintained that Wheney-
er the laws of a foreign coun-
try are in violation of the laws
of God, sound principles of
morals CT settled principles of
public policy, they will not be
recognized. We shall not be
told that a husband and father
may oomeinto this jurisdiction,
make it his domicile, and then,
when followed by his wife and
shall deliberately turn
them cut upon the world, pro-
claiming that every right has
been destroyed by virtue of an
antiquated statute.
The evidence here seems to
be doubtful vpon one point, but
the weight of it seems to estab-
lish the fact that this defendant
considered himself good e.
nough Catholic to contract! this
marriage; to live unmole.ted by
any legal authority; to become
the father of seven children by
this wife; nor did the defendant.
discover how thorough a Pro-
testant he was until it became
convenient to abandon his wife,
a denial here and con-
tract another marriage with an
other woman in this country.
1t gives me great satisfaction
TO be enabled to render a decis-
on in favor of this wife, to make
his faithlesshusband and father,
who did not hesitate to brand
lis own offspring in an oTcn
court of justice, 10 understand
hat justice is administered here
md that his conduct does not
'ail to meet with the sternest
md most uncompromising judi
'ial condemnation. The court
orders the defendant to give
security for the maintenance of
lis wife. lea, zfssa-.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

DIR. Green, the Boston City
physician, has had already thir-
ty-six cases. Of persons who had
the smallpox the second time,
and five or six cases that had
taken it for the third time.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

An exchange says that ga
Cleveland rooster sold for $3.50" "
We would hate nightly to be
forced to give dollar and fifty
cents for. the man who bought
that rooster. 49,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

What a grand thing it would be
if the French vintage would en-
tirely fail, Tor then the manufac-
turers Of Imported champagne"
in this country would have to stop
selling their vile stuffs for time,
or they would have to sail under
their own flag.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

Disappointed lovers of the
male persuasion, attention!
Young Mr.. Lucas, of Middle
ton, CT, courted Mrs. Markham.
He loved her well, and also
spent about 5000 on her; inclu-
ding Sunday, travel. But,tho
widow married another fellow,
and Lucas, broken-hearted and
IdisconsoIate, sues for his $50,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

A Richmond man carried home
a photograph of an actress which
he had drawn in a lottery, and
his wife put out one of his eyes
under the impression that it was
a local rffair.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-03-27

"Mf Speaker, Oh, Nj. Speaker aIs
"Ihad. the flo fust.s" .s"sssss - .s.a
"Both of them are out eforder.
"CaH the yeas and nays on it.
= 81 rise to,a question Of substi
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
A Bad Boy.

THEY say that the chief astronomer at
the Washington Observatory was dread
fully sold few days ago. 4 wicked boy,
whose Sunday School experience seems
only to have made him more depraved,
caught FREELY, and stuck it, with the aid
of some mucilagc, in the center of the
largest lens in the telescope. That night,
when the astronomer went to work, he
perceived blaze of light apparently in
the heavens, and what amazed him more
was that it would give couple Of spurts
and then die out, only to burst forth again
in a second or two. He examined it
carefully for few moments, and then be-
gan to do sums to discover where in the
heavens thatextraordinary star was placed
He thought he found the locality, and the
next morning he telegraphed all over the
universe that he had discovered new
and remarkable star of the third magni-
tude in Orion. In q day or two all the as
tronomers in Europe and America were
studying Orion, and they gazed at it for
hours until they were mad, and then they
began to telegraph to the man in WASH
ington to know what he meant. The dis
coverer took another look, and found that
the new star had moved about 18,O00, 0OO,-
600 miles in twenty-fOur hours, and upon
examining closely he was alarmed to per-
ceive that it had legs! When he went on
the dome the next morning, to polish up
his glass, he found the lightning bug.
People down at Alexandria, seven miles
distant, heard part of the swearing, and
they say he infused into it much whole
souled sincerity and vigorous energy.
The bills for telegraphic dispatches
amounted to $4,000, and now the astrone-
mer wants to find that boy. He wishes
to consult with him about something
M1r adler.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
Appetite.

AT certain seasons, as in spring and
summer, the appetite of even the very
robust is apt to fail, and the relish for
meats and heavy food to wane. This is
all right enough, for animal diet in warm
weather heats the blood, tends to head
aches, and is generally unwholesome, un-
less sparingly used. On the other hand,
fresh vegetables, berries, fruit and bread
are cooling, corrective, and what the
palate most Graves. Don't be afraid to go
without meat for month or so, and, if
you like, live purely upon vegetable regi-
men. We will warrant that you will lose
no more strength than is common to the
time, and that you will not suffer from
protracted heat, as when dining on the
regulation roast.
Many persons regard hearty desire
for food as something Cnrefined, indeli-
cate, and to be constantly discouraged.
This is greater and more harmful mis-
is just as necessary for the man who
works only with his brain to eat beef and
mutton, as for the man who labOrs solely
with his hands. The stomach and the
brain are twins; the former being the
elder, and having prior right to care. Let
that he we'll provided for; and it will sus-
tain its brother. The people who strive
to check wholesome and natural appc-
tite are the people who regard dinner
merely as a feed, not the center of an
agreeable social custom and as the domes-
tic event of the day. We are sorry for
them, as they must regard eating at all as
prosaic duty, obligatory on them be-
cause they have bias in favor of living.
We all know that we must eat to live; but
we by no means live to eat simply be-
cause we enjoy what we eat. We are not
gourmands because we relish chops, nor
are we invalids because we want straw
berries.
A good appetite is a good thing; but
not if it is to be worried by urging or
neglect-"Home and Society,"" in Scrib-
ner's for August.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
Chinese Philosophy.

In ancient times there lived q man
Shien. During travelling tour he had &C.
casion to rest for the night at road-house.
The weather was insufferably hot, and
with in the room mosquitoes swarmed by
thousands. Shien fortunately had pro-
vided himself with curtains, but unfor-
tunately the curtains were insufficient to
resist the enemy. His efforts to keep
them out were in vain, sounds of buzzing
in unpleasant proximity still continued,
and writing under the intolerable tor
ment of their stings, his thoughts trans
planted themselves to his own peaceful
home. He reflected on the spacious halls,
cool couches, and the crowd of hand
maids to fan and wait on their lord; and,
continued he to himself, how is it that I
should have suffered one moment of ennui
in such a paradise? Why leave to seek
pleasure and find misery abroad? Dur
ing these meditations he observed the
keeper of the post, who had no curtains,
pacing the room with the mosqitoes
swarming around him. But what seemed
to him inexplicable was that the man still
appeared to be in perfect good humor.
Shien, still writhing in misery, exclaimed:
my good fellow, you are one hundred
times worse off than myself, but how Is
it that, while am in torment of mind,
you on the contrary seem happyr' The
keeper replied: 'Sir, I have just been
recalling to mind the position I was once
placed in; when a prisoner, bound hand
and foot, was helpless prey to these
murderous insects, unable to move mus
Gle, they preyed upon me with impunity,
and the agony was unbearable. It was
the contrast of that horrible period with
my present condition that produced that
feeling of contentedness within me. Shien
was startled by the mine herein unfolded.
Would, he thought, that the world In
ordinary life would but daily keep in
mind, and carry out such . principle Of
analogy. How vast then would be the
result to man i-NQrtA China HrQld.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

dorse the present prohibitory liquor law
Of West Virginia, and we pray that itmay
be continued and enforced"
The Moravtan wishes "that religious
journals which profess to seek the glory
of Christ might seek to promote it In
more excellent way than in beating out Of
each other what they consider heresy."
The wish is expressed in connection with
q discussion between the Independent and
the Intelliaencer.
One of the Professors at the College
of Sarbonne, France, has been in England
soliciting funds to aid in establishing
schools in Luxembourg district, a strong
hold of Catholicism. In an address the
Professor says that France has not profited
much by the hard lessons of the war, and
in his opinion only the Bible and Protest.
ant schools can save her.
The American Baptist Mission to
Burmah has suffered much Of late from
the ill health of its missionaries. There
have been five men and women disabled
within short time; and, although several
recruits have gone out, there have not
enough been sent to make good the places
of those who have been forced to leave
their work. Notwithstanding these dis.
couraging features, the work is on the adj
vance, and several new schools have been
planned and put into operation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

we suppose New Jersey-and from the
western wildst to the far-Off isles of the
Orient this gigantic racket should IBID
the slumbering millions of heathendOm
awake and join the happy. nations IN
singing that sublime invocation to praise,
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Now this scheme is magniflcently patri-
otto, but it is also bewilderingly big; it
will be we'll to think of the consequences.
The combined yell of forty million pair
of lungs-we set it low, because some
seditious persons probably wouldn't yell
with the proposed instrumental accompa-
niment, would produce noise not to be
particularly sneezed at, and it might
'sbust things" What if 1t should rend
heavens cOncave, frighten the moon from
its orbit, split the planets, crack the sun,
or topple over the foundation of the uni.
verse itself-who is going to clear up and
fix things next day! We should hardly
want such bill for repairs, and We can't
expect the effete monarchies to chip in
it isn't their funeral. But just think Of 1t,
every man, woman and screaming infant
in this 'tarnal Yankee nation, standing
with breath drawn in, shoulders back,
and toeing out, ready to pour out their
souls in one gigant !; "Hoop-la" at given
signal! IF the signal shouldn't come,
after all, it would be an awful come down,
wouldn't itD 1t is really to much the
mind cent grasp it. Talk about waking
the 'slumbering millions of heathen-
domw Why, it would scare em to death.
Our poor Indians would think we meant
them, and would incontincntly seek last
reservation in the waves of the Pacific.
And this extending the yell into foreign
countries would he q little perilOus.
Americans are not numerous enough
there. Away down in Australia, for in
stance, if some grizzly American miner,
the only one in the vicinity, probably,
should hang around the telegraph station
all the forenoon, and, at the signal, sud-
denly begin to howl and cut up, they
would think he had gone daft and would
knock him on the head, after the custom
of those primitive provinces. The more
civilized foreigners would stare at us and
call us a pack of fools, while the fellows
in the other planets would wonder what
on Earth was a-going on, and we should
be subjected to their impertinent remarks
for several days. Mono, this thing won't
do; we had better 60 a little slower. A
few more punches of fire crackers, and
another pin-wheel or two, will answer
just as we'll, and will be infinitely safer
Springfield (Kass.) Republican.