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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20
Chief McDonough in
Trouble.

Our readers will doubtless re
member our having published a
week or so ago, a communication
addressed to the Chief of the St
Louis Police, by a Eorsaken hus-
band, which letter was first pub.
lished In The St. Louis Democrat.
1t seems that the runaway
"wilf" read the letter III the Dem.
ocrat. and is son the rampage, "
Gas Joe. Gargary would say(,
threatening to come back and ''go
for her recent lord, and in case
she carries her threat into execu-
ton, the husband proposes to re-
taliate on Captain McDonough.
Hear him:
CHARLESTON, Ill, Dec. %,
l072.-Sir. When | wrote you
about my wifi goin off an leavin'
me, i went down to Jasper county
to spend a few dais with some
frien's an just cum back an got a
letter from my wifi, an hel is too
pal, an brim stoun skase, an no
pich on han-cuss you an him
too. She sais she seed mi letter
in the Missory DimOcrat, an it is
all an internal ly an she will
com bac' an sew ne Cor false i'm
prisonment an put NEE whar the
dOrgs wont blight NEE, and sow
forth. This rIled me like thu--
der, an | went and seed Vandike
aboat it, an be sed for NEE not to
be skured, an he sais 700 had no
rite to let them are newspaper
fellers have mi letter, an that |
can sew yoo for obtaining goods
under falls pretenshians, an l
have a hel of a noshun to do it
cusS you an bur an him too, an
this is to notify 700 if she Gums
back yoo'l catch bel, as l am the
troo blew from old Kaintuck.
Cuss YOU an hur an him too!
A. ]. Snow.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20
S1:GhqleeP Pqeirg2,
BY-AND-BY.

There's little mischief maker
That is stealing half our bliss,
Sketching pictures in dream-land,
That are never seen in this:
Dashing from our lips the pleasure
Of the present, while we sigh,
You may know this mischief-maker
For his name is "By-and-By."
He is sitting by our hearthstones,
With his sly bewitching glance,
Whispering of the coming morrow
As the social hours advance;
Lettering mid our calm reflections,
Hiding forms of beauty nigh
He's a smooth deceitful fellow;
This enchanter, "By -and-By."
You may know him byhis wincing,
By his careless sportive air;
By his sly obtrusiye presence,
That is straying everywhere;
By the trophies that he gathers
Where his sombre victims lie;
For a bod determined fellow
Is this conqueror, "By-and-BY."
When the calls Of duty haunt us,
And the present seems to be
All the time that ever mortals
Snatch from dark eternity,
Then a fairy hand seems painting
Pictures on a distant sky,
For cunning little artist
Is the fairy, 'By-and-By."
"By-and-By By" the wind is singing;
'By-and- By" the heart replies;
But the phantom just before US,
Ere we grasp it, ever flies,
List not to the idle charmer,
Scorn the very specious lie.
Only in the fancy liveth
This deceiver, "By-and-By."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20
A Missouri Pioneer.

n missouri pioneer.
When r, S. Stephens, Gen
eral Manager of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railway, was
pushing that enterprise south
ward at the rate of three miles
a day, he came across a veteran
Missouri farmer, who for fifty
years had lived or his frontier
plantation undisturbed, even by
wars, rumors of wars, ,pestilenc e
or famine, so far from disc ase
and telegrapils was he. One
night the advance men came
upon his old farm house when
the following dialogue ensued
Then you are going to build
a railroad are ye?
Yes.
Whar EN- it comm from, and
whar am it gwine to?
From Sedalia., in Missouri,
down through Missouri, Kansas,
the Indian Territory, and so on
through Texas to the city of
Mexico.
And yo,d are gwine to run it
through my plantation?
Yes,
Do you hear that, old woman?
We've got to move!
Not necessary. All we want
is the right ofway.
Wal!-you can have that are
but who'd a thought a railroad
would ever hit us?
You have a good farm here?
Yes-far to middelln'.
How many acres?
About four thousand.
Not many improvements?
Mott takes me SO long to look
after the cattle, / can't improve
much.
Have you a good we'll on the
premises?
Yes-a clippin' good one, on
ly it leaks a little.
Leaks? How's that?
Yousee we dug forty feet when
we came to a rock but no water.
Then / walled it up, and we
haul the water from the river,
about forty barrels day, and
fill into it.
We don't use more'n five bar
rels a day, all the rest leaks out
somehow. l was gwine to dig
another well next year, but
praps / can hire the water haul
ed on the cars cheaper than /
can build.
Fourteen years this old plan
ter had hauled forty barrels a
day rather than dig a new we'll
or bring water in a pipe from a
spring only a mile away.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The Seth Thomas Clock Com
pany have just sent to Mansfield,
Ohio,a clock six feethigh, six feet
wide, and four feet deep, costing
$2,500. The pendulum is four
teen feet long, and the pendu-
lum ball weighs 300 pounds.
The weights weigh over 1,0OC
pounds each. The works are to
be set in the lower story of the
building, while the hands and
dial are placed in a high tower.
The gas that illuminates the dial
viii be turned on and off by the
motions of the clock.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

A young man named Gill, Of
Gaines, Michigan, went to bed
and dreamed that tree was
falling toward him. In his
frantic efforts to escape he
jumped into the middle of the
floor and thence through win
dow over two tree-tops, land
ing in snow nine feet from the
building and thirty feet from
his bed. The window was bad
ly smashed, but he wasn't hurt
at all. sa 5zif- r -r.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

Russian government surgeons,
accompanied by Cossacks, have
been vaccinating the people of
Central Asia vi ct armes. Their
mode of procedure is to pounce
upon a village, seize the inhabi-
tants wherever found, and in spite
of projections insert the benefi-
cent virus. The people are SUI
perstitious, and conceived the idea
that the punctures were marks
preliminary to transportation.
At Chodshent recently they broke
out in open mutiny, and slaugh.
tered a number of the vaccina-
ters.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The people Of W estern Nortf
Carolina are agitating in favor
of annexation to EastTennessee
and the formation Of the estate
of Frankland." The AshevilIt
Pioneer says; .-r,
We naturally belong to East
Tennessee. Our population is
homogeneous--the surface of
our country is much the same
our produce are the same, and
nearly all our diversified inter
ests could be harmonized, much
better than they can ever be
in connection with the people
to whom we each now, political
~, belong. There is capital and
enterprise in East Tennessee:
and Knoxville, though far in-
land, is now aplace of more i'm
portance, for it's trade and man
ufactures, than any one OF the
pnny little fishing towns on orr
coast, which we are asked to
sacrifice so much to support
Let our people think Of this
matter. and get up petitions to
allow us to join in the East Ten
nessee movement for a new
States We will escape much
taxation and expense by rleav-
ing North Carolina. ''l
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

1t is estimated that in Eng
land more than three thousand
infants are every year suffocated
by their mothers, who have them
with them in bed. In Bavaria
there is a law which prohibits
parents having children under
two years in bed with them, the
result being that instances of
suffocation of infants are very
rare there. eaaayI
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The great seal of the State of
Virginia was lost during the cap
ture OF Richmond in 1865, and
and a new one aiterward adopted,
bearing in place of the historic
CSC Sepper Uranus, the words
Liberty and Union" But a
short time ago the old seal was
returned, and the question arose
as to which was the legal seal
Of the State. The matter was
submitted to the Legislature,
which decided in favor of the old
seal. '.l ~ 1908
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The New York World states
that justifiable homicide is now
held to include "the case Of ev-
cry man who kills any other man
on account of any woman, and
of every woman whqlkills any
man OH any untwhatever." T"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

1t is pleasing to see light
ning-rod peddlers go down my
steps, and they can't complain
that / don't assist them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

Boston has sopfe cars on it's
streets. railways and contem-
plates putting on a few hog cars
for those who chew. -r9L s
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The reigning belle at a fash
ionable assembly in Wisconsin
lately create a sensation by
sneezing her false teeth out.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

'G live by my pen," said a po-
ct, wishing to impress a young
lady. HYou look as if you
lived in one" was the reply
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

Chicago mince pies are easily
distinguished from the pastry of
other cities, from the fact that
cockroaehes are usedin the place
of raisins in their manufacture.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The foH6wingis the latest A
merican style Of describing a
catastrophe: "Mrs, Swan, of
Cochran, New York, lighted her
fire with coal oil on Monday,
leaving a husband and one child" "
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

A Georgia woman is credit
ed with having raised a large
family, although not out of her
teens. 1t was her mother-in-
laws family and she did it with
a keg of PowdeEs planted in the
.ef1ltlF44rE.r ce1ltlF44r.r E.IIIY4TTEYAg aft or
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20
Circun1stantial Evidence.

The reappearance of MIR. Blodg-
cit, of Dewitt, N. Y, who was
supposed to have been murdered
near that place some five years
ago, proves that innocence as well
as murder twill out" and shows
the danger of trusting too impiic-
itly to circumstantIal evidence.
One night, about i've years ago,
Mr.. Biodgett, wealthy well.to-
do farmer left his home with the
intention of going to the neigh
boring town of Collamer, to pay
some workmen who were there
erecting building for hm, and
for that purpose carried consid-
cradle amount Of money with him,
and AS the distance between the
two towns was incopsiderabIe, set
out on foot. As Mr.. Blodgett did
not return home that day OF the
next, considerable anxiety was felt
concerning him by his friends and
family, which was increased by
the fact that be had not been seen
in Collamer. Inquiry elected the
fact that a woman living in a lone
ly house in the road between De.
Witt and Collamer heard, or i'm
agined she heard a struggle before
her house, and a cry of murder
sent up by some one in agony
Being frightened, the woman
locked herself in, and made no at
tempt to find out the meaning of
the mysterious sounds; and exam
ination of the scene Of the sup.
posed murder threw no light On
the subject, Mr.. BIodgett was
given up for dead and suspicion
fell on a bad character naLed
Carney, who was arrested on a
charge of committing the crime,
convicted on purely circumstat-
tial evidence, and sentenced to
death, which sentence was COM
muted to imprisonment for life.
A year or two after Mr.. Blodgett's
disappearance, skeleton was
found in q pond not far from the
scere of his supposed murder,
and as it appeared to be that OF
the missing person, his family
gave up all doubt as to bis death,
and administered on his estate
Some two weeks ago one of Mr..
Blodgett's SOUS received letter
from him, dated at Emporium,
Pennsylvania, stating that he was
alive and well, but needed money
to enable him to return home
The son Immediately repaired to
the place indicated, and was over
joyed to find his father alive and
we'll, but penniless, Mr. Blodgett
declines to give any reason for his
disappearance, but says, however,
that no attempt was ever made
upon his life. The family affairs
are somewhat embarrassed by the
reappearance of the missing man,
as his property had been divided
among bis heirs, who will proba-
bly,, however, fleet an arrange
ment with him. 1t will be seen
from the above that an innocent
man barely escaped a shameful
death, and endured a long i'm
prisonment simply because of an
overweening belief on the part
of the jury and public in circum-
stantial evidence. as.A'..-@'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

cribe.-From the Democratic
Republican, Hamilton, ". Y.
Jan. 9th, 1873.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

IWI.L-' q AZ n ma FslF-I II -
NO hoop skirts are now seen
in the streets of Paris says a
correspondents from which we
infer the habit of raising dress
es on theT street ccrossing has
ceased. iogl evisGsIZs egsd dfFF
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

The United States, it appears,
is soon to receive an influx of inn
migration from Russia. A cable
telegram a few days ago an
nounced that the Russian Men
nOnites, an outgrowth of the
Baptist denomination, were ma
king arrangements to plant an
extensive colony in the United
States. This sect now numbers
about 100000 souls, and when
they emigrate they, moYe in q
body like a large family. They
have had experience in various
countries, being driven from
place to place by religious per-
secutions. They at last found
an asylum in Russia, but have
decided to leave it, again ON ac-
count Of the rigor and require
ments Of the military system
now in vogue there, sFiainio7q r.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-20

AT q recent Conpeeticut we'd.
ding, in repeating the words, "If
you know of any just cause" etc.. /.
the minister looked at a,nerVous.
young man directly in front of
him. The fellow sprang up with
much haste and trepidations and
blurted out, "Oh, no, bless, me ,
not the slightest objection, sir
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31

DEAR BRETHREN:-Thep pesilence at
Memphis seems to abate very slowly,
if at all. Ihe suiierings and priva-
tions of the people of that stricken
c!ty are unparalleled III our history,
and the contributions IN relief of their
distress are almost exhausted. They
have the better reason to expect Hid
from us because many of them are ia
tivcs Of n 1rth CaroIilla
therefore request those uf you who
have NOT already made collections for
this object in your respective c"nGrc-
CATIONS to do % as soon as may be.
lie gives twice who gives quickly
Collections may he forwarded to
Dr. y. j. DeRosset, of this city, wln
Will immediately remit them
| remain very truly,
lour friend and brother,
TROMA., ATKINSON,
Bishop Of the Diucrsa Of North
Clrolina.
The papers in the State generally
are requested to insert this letter in
their columns.
A new manner of catching rats is ex-
citing great interest among the return
ing househoiders in Madlson-ayeuae
A barrel is filled half full OF water. A
layer of powdered cork is laid on It's
surface, and over this layer Of com
meal is sifted. A chair aud Il box or
two are plac d unobtrusively in the
neighborh"od, whereby the rat gains
the edge of the barrel He sees
nothing but the meal. He has no in
nate ideas to teach him to beware of
the treacherous foundation on which
that tempting surface rests. ii G shifts,
he leaps, and goes gently down
through meal and cork to his watery
grave. if any of his friends see him
disappear from the edge of the barrel
they haste after him to get .beir share
Of the probable plumber. alld are in
turn taken i'll by the hospit;.5',, death.
The plan seems effective as against the
rats, but is calculated to destroy their
confidence in human nature.-NctO
York Tribune.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31
CAPE FEAR RAl.RICUI.TIIRaI AS.
SOCI2TION FAIR

The officers of the Cape Fear Agri-
cultural Association are preparing.
with much energy, for it's Fifth An
nual Fair. The time has been fixed
for the second week in December, be-
ginning on the 9th of the month, and
ending on the 18th, SO that it will not
interfere with the Charlotte and
Sampson Fairs, on the one hand. or
the Superior Court of Sampson on the
other.
The President and members of the
Executive Comm ttee were present at
the State Fair and secured some of the
finest stock and articles on exhibition
for our Fair. On each day of the
Fair there will be trials of speed, both
trotting and running, from some of
the fastest horses in the country.
The Shooting Match, for a fine
breech-loading, double barrel gun, will
certainly take place, probably Wednes-
DAY Of the Fair week.
For Friday a magnificent Tourna-
nent, with Knights dressed in full
armor, with ball at night, has been
arranged.
A grand Gift Concert is in active
preparation, and will be duly an
nOunced.
We hope onr people throughout this
section Of the two States will lend all
their energies to assist the Manage
ment. Independent of the "hard
times, tLere is no reason why the
next should not be the best of the
Fairs held here.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31

The Salisbury Waterman qualities
It's recent declaration of independence
OF party lines, and says:
Our independence amounts to just
this: We are for purging the Demo
cratic party, or the party that opposes
Radicalism, of all the faithless and
corrupt leaders it may have held.
To this extent the JOURNAL goes
heartily with the Waterman. We are
ready at any and all times to purge
the party of faithless and corrupt
leaders, and we decidedly prefer that
course to ali abandonment of our party
and its principles. We decidedly
prefer to drive out faithless and cor
rupt leaders rather than to permit
them to drive us out.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31
DIRECT SEzEE'NENE 0E' <rGE's'oN
TO EUROPE.

4 meeting Of Aston Grange No. 3j3
was held III Decatur, Dekalb county,
Oh Monday, at which the low price to
which cotton had declined at Atlanta,
and the expediency of shipping cotton
direct to Liverpool by the planters
were the chief topics OF discussion.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Ic,.0}G
says:
The following paper was circulated
among the farmer; for their signature,
and signed by eve y one to whom it
was shown:
Whereas, Cotton is selling in Atlanta
at 133 cents and whereas, the same
cotton is worth in Liverpool to 9ld
in gold, equal to 19@194c. currency;
and whereas, bale of cotton can he
shipped via Port Royal or Charleston
and sold in liverpool for less than
S15 per bale, it is clear the farmer is
losing sic to $50 on every bale sold in
Atlanta. Be it therefore agreed among
lis, whose names are hereto signed,
that we viii ship our entire crop to
Liverpool via Charleston or Port
Royal, sending our own supercargo,
who will sell it to the manuf icturt,r,
and account directly to NJ for the pro-
ceeds.
More than two hundred bales were
subscribed before sundown. The
matter has been placed in the hands of
Mr.. Joseph Reese, Master of Aston
Grange, Edward Cox and others,
among the most enterprising and ac-
tive citizens of the county, and it is
| confidently expected that two thousand
bales will be ready for shipment by
the 1st of November.
Let every farmer in the county of
DeKalb, or any of the adjoining, coun-
ties, who desires to make the venture,
apply at once to Joseph Reese, Master
of Aston Grange, No. 33, Decatur,
Georgia. and he will give the desired
information as to when the vessel will
he ready to sail from Port Royal.
Commenting on this movement the
Atlanta Herold says:
We fear orr sanglline temperament
may overstep the bounds of moderation
in the value we attach to the movement
first inaugurated by the farmers in old
DeKalb. But let our readers stick a
pin right here and remember what we
say. The day that this first shipment
of cotton is made to the European mar
ket by, and in behalf of the men who
produced it, and the venture proves a
success, it will lead to the most COM
plete radical and startling revolution
that was ever witnessed in this coun-
try. It will place Liverpool at our
| very doors it will make gold the cur
rency of Georgia and the cotton States:
II will save the seyenty millions of bloc q
money sweated every year out of the
toiling men Of the South by middle
men. and most of them in New York
it will, in two winters, build up a vast
| shipping centre at Port Royal, and so
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31

The .SriGntiHc 43ncricda describes
the new wood carpeting that is coming
into extensive use, rs follows "Ihe
fabric is made of Stats or more Orna-
mental shapes, glued or cemented upon
a cloth backing. The Stats or strips of
wood are of different colors, and are
arranged to produce all the effects of
tesselated floor, mosaic work, etc, and
being about quarter of an inch in
thickness, they will wear many years.
They are finished in oil, and altogether
so tightly that the joints are rs perfect
as those IN inlaid work. The surface
thus produced can therefore be scrub
bed, washed and oiled when needed,
precisely like other floors made Of or
namental woods, which floors they re-
semble in all respects when laid
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-31
From Cur :-;yius = q . - poa

From 'tGT :-;vIr'ls y q y - lj|I
5TarEsylLLr, y. C, Oe5. 18th, 1873.
Cof. s. y. n5p7-
I>EAi; :;.5;: Since i is Important 70
prevent rvery inaccrracE, however
Slight. from creeping auto the valuable
record roF! are 80 successfully and use
fully engaged IN ;n4iiimg ~, ! beg
space to correct afl erroneous impress
sion which seems - have existed in The
minds of 5amc "f the gallant soldiers
OF the 9th \ G. (Fishar's) N"gt.
In reading thc very interesting and
correct HccOunt, given l'T General
CIingman N rour issue Of tine Sth inst, =,
concerning the part performed hy that
noble regiment in tfc fr-t battle Of
Manassas, i learn for tIac FIST time that
some Of its Icen Thought tia Eontejer-
ate regiment which 1t appears, fred on
them by mistake, was al Alabama reg
iment. Without haiilg able u state
what regiment it was, ! can state with
perfect certainty that it was not an
Alabama regiment. On!E onn Alabama
regiment participated in that battle
acti vey -that was tho :th Ala. Ot',.'g
Alabama regiments were 0n the line
of Bull Run, hrt much too remote to
IRE 3 SllOI IN Int :icIu&i rOilI.lct. ii"
4tn Alabama was in thr same hrigal"
Bcc's) with the eth =. G.; bnt the
pcs.tion Of the former was 1t All times
far to the right Of the latter and to the
right of Ricketts, battery. SO that il
was impossible for il Ia hHv" fired
shots which came from the left and
rear of the 9Th \. c. | am wClla"Qllain-
ted with the positions of those rcgi-
ments on the field, having leen with
the tth Ala. every moment Of the day,
and having traced OFT afterwards the
ground fought over Ivy the 9Th y. c.,
under the guidance % participants IN
that fight who belon rei 70 the 9th. |
am able to affirm, therefore, with abs"-
lutte certainty, that the 18th Ma. could
not have fired upon it,
I have taken the troubie 10 make
this statement because | am unwilling
that any soldier of the noble 9Th should
lay that mistake at the door Of the
regiment to which I, and many other
North Carolinians beside me, belonged.
I am happy to say that we were doing
a much better business than killing
our comrades that day.
In haste, yours,
WM NJ RoBBINs,
Major 18th Ala.