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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
Refusing to be Married
for Life.

Albert Knight, a graduate of
the Northern School Of Alba
ny, was to have been married to
one of Malta's Saratoga coun-
ty tairest daughters, and with
al a woman Of some pecuniary
means, as we'll as unbIemished
reputation. The guests were
all assembled. The would-be
bride and bridegroom were
decked in their gayest attire for
the occasion, and the Rev. Mr..
Webster, of Jonesyille, just ar
rived to put on the finishing
touch to the nuptial knot,
when Mr.. Knight wished a pri-
vate interview with the minis
ter. The interview being gran
ted, he refused to be married
unless Mr.. Webster would leave
off the part of the ceremony
where it reads, Gas long as you
both live For, says Mr..
Knight, the laws Of the State
grant divorce for certain rea-
sons, and [ do not know as. L
can live with her all my life, and
| do not want to take vows up
on myself that | might not be
able to fulfill. Mr.. Websterre-
piled that he was not there as a
lawyer; he had come only in an
ecclesiastical way, and if he
wished to be married he would
marry him according to the rules
of the church. Whereupon Mr..
Knight entered into a logical
discussion of the subject, I'M
til the divine, becoming DISCUS
ted, sought the woman's mother,
and informed her that Knight
did not wish to marry herdaugh-
ter, and left for home. The
tired guests then sat down to
what was to have been the bri-
dal feast, which had been kept
waiting during the long dis
cuSS1On.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
H'OE's'ieC0s'-.
z A. Singular Story.

al Recent proceedings iq one of
the English courts have brought
to light a singular story, while ex-
hibitipg in an exceedingly, un-
pleasant view the practical work.
ipgs Of certain English laws, In
the year 1926 a lawyers clerk, a
young man Of good family and
education, was tried ON the charge
Of stealing two watches from his
employers Office. The accused
had become addicted to drink, and
from the evidence it seemed doubt.
full whether he intended to steal
tie watches, or merely pocketed
them in a drunken freak. URder
these circumstances he was fined
one shilling only for the unlawful
possession of the property, after
which he went to- Australia. In
the year 1851 he disappeared, and
after q long time his7next Of kin
took out letters of administration
under the supposition that he7was
dead, whereupon the Crown at,
once claimed forfeiture on the
ground that he had been convicted
Of felony, There were two sums
in dispute. ore Of $4,000, the
other of $4,000. The Vice-ohan-
cellor has declared the claim of
the Crown TO the largerasum only
made out, so that the representa-
tiyes of the family are permitted
to- retain the $4,000 while the
Crown appIopriates the sum of |
because nearly half a
century ago the late owner Of the
property was convicted of an of
fence which was then, considered
sufficiently punished by aipe Of
one shilling. ..-, fsa r.sTf 4
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
TERMS.

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Fifty Gents if payment be deferred three
months. All papers going cut Of the coun-
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p Advertisements inserted at One Dollar
per square Of Tea Lines or loss for the first
insertion; Fifty Gents for, each continuance.
C@ Local and Special Notices, Twenty
Gents per line.
0cT A liberal deduction will be made to
persons advertising for three, six, nine, or
twelve months
ET Obituaries and calls on caESida'es,
Fifty Cents per square.
0%T The privilege of yearly advertisers Is
strictly limited TO their own immediate and
regular business and the business of an sd-
Vertising firm Ia not considered as including
telat of its individual m emhers. 0rYNo de-
Viation from these terms under suy circum-
ntsnces. a... .-t -rss-.-g
0rI- Advertisements not marked with the
number Of insertions when handed in, will be
continued until ordered cut; aud payment
exscted.
OF No advertisement inserted gratu. tousiy
k17 Advertisements of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price.
S11 Announcing candidates Five Dollars,
10 be paid in advance in every case.
OF lob Printing Of all kinds nestly
done on New Type, and on as reasonable
erms as any Office in Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

We are told of the death of an
American named Roberts, leaving
a fortune of 100000. When his
father set him up in the second
hand clothing business, in which
be made bis money, be was advis
ed by that father "never TO let his
expenses exceed IS Cd per week. "
He adhered to the advice, and
one of his last struggles was an at
tempt in his seventy-second year
to live on a diet Of horse chestnuts.
1t was failure, and he went to
ioin his reverend ancestor in a
place where the weekly expenses
are still less.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
Telegraphing Without an
Instrument.

The Chicago Tribune publishe ee
the exploit Of Capt John n. Hills,
when on a snow-bound train near
Salisbury, Vt, in 1868. Capt.
Hills, without instruments of any
kind, except the wire on the poles,
proposed, nevertheless, TO tele-
graph to. Rutland. The superin-
tendent was incredulous, butCapt.
III. quic~ly cut the wire, and COM
municated with the officers of the
road at-Ratland, merely striking
the ends of the wire together
thus making and breaking the
1elegraphic curcuit as he would
have done with the key of an ordi-
nary operating instrument. An
engine was Immediately sent to
the relief of the blockaded train.
But the entire operation required
the receiving, as we'll as the send
ing, of messages. This was the
crucial test Of Capt. Hills ingenui-
ty, skill and nerve, and, untiI this
was accomplished, the superinten-
dent and passengers felt no assur-
ance that the message sent had
been intelligibly communicated to
the officers at Rutland. Striking
his wires together, we wrote to the
operator at Rutland as follows:
Trouble. Answer slowly. l am
working without an instrument; |
will receive your answers through
my tongue. lie touched the
frosty wire to his tongue, with the
same result, Gt first, as that enjoy
ed by the boy WHO undertook to
lick the frost from his skate steel,
but found that the steel knew
more about licking than he did.
The wire wouldn't go until it was
warmed, and then kindly took the
skin off with it. So the wire was
heightened and carried into the
car. After it was warmed, Capt
Il. received the messages by put
ting one end Of the wire above
and the other under his tongue,
and letting the electric curren:
pass though it, when he was able
TO rsad by the succession OF sharp
and somewhat painful electrical
shocks. His success was perfect,
and he no! only sent and received
messages for the superintendent,
0nt for several Of the passengers.
The only ill consequence of the
exploit was the total loss Of taste
which Capt. H. suffered for sever
al days afterward,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
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~N~-~-~~~~~~N~~~O~.~.~NNNN~~~~>
-; THE WORLD. -r
-'Tis all great show, -a""
The world that we'er in asEB7
None can tell when twas finished,
None saw it begin;
Men wander and gaze through ff1.,
Its courts and it's halls, g.if|
Like children whose love is
The pictuTe-hung walls.
There are flowers in the meadow, s
There are clouds in the sky,
Songs pour from the woodland.
The waters glide by: '5tA DO
Too many, 90 many
For eye or Tor ear, ---asf ff.sE- q
The sights that We see
And the sounds that we hear.
A weight as Of slumber
Comes down on the mind, ii-
So swift as life'S train ...
To its objects we're blind;
l myself am but one.
In the fleet-gliding show
Like others | walk,
But know not where | go.
One saint to another
| heard say, How longh'
listened, but nought more
l heard OF his song.
The shadows are walking
Through city and plain L ...
How long shall the Light
And its shadow reman?
How long ere shall shine -.r
In this glimmeIing OF things
The Light of which prophet
In prophecy sings? 81 ..-
And the gates of that city
Be open, whose sun ....r
No more to the west
Ire cipctrif cba l r,,Df
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

One of the jurors in the late
Ritchison trial, after being excus-
ed from serving because OF his op-
position to capital punishment,
was asked by neighbor how be
came to get off. Heg answered,
"Oh I'm opposed tocapitnlpuHisl :
,ment. a"Are you, indeed |! why,
what would you do1with a man
who should deliberately wayIay
and shoot down one Of his neigh
bors? Hang him; sir! Id new
er send him up to the capital TO
be punished" at -ae.sFlt
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

A man came into our office
the other day to pay for his sub
scription and presented a ten
dollar bill. Of course we could
not give him the change, and we
sent our assistant wG9, by the
way, is pretty shrcwd in lTloney
matters, with the gentleman to
the necrest store to obtain the
necessary change. They wenton
down the street, from one store
10 another, and as they turned
the corner towards Nmdoi.a, our
assistant sent us word to foyA ard
his spring clothing to St. PAaul
by the first train. We know h e
viii never return till he gets
change for the bill jForthjng-
Ia 1drocnfe.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

"a lady in Fairfield, Mass,
discovered that her daughter
was about to elope. She didn't
make any fuss about it, but the
night on which the eIopement
was to be did, gave her daugh-
,terran opiate in her tea, so that
the girl did not awake until
next morning. Meanwhile the
lover had grown tired of wait
ing, and left in disgust.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

Mr.. Disraeli's name has been
pronounced in almost as many
ways as ShaksPeare's has been
spelled. In one of his recent
speeches on the ministerial crisis,
Mr.. Disraeli was compelled 10
quote from a document received
from the Queen, in which his own
name occurred. He pronounced
his name very distinctly and en-
phatically, with the accent on the
second syllable, the whole rhyn-
ing with Bailey" and The fact is
worth masi.ng a note Of,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

A worthy Kentucky farmer be-
ing asked if a daughter, recently
married was still living with him,
replied: Ne, SirL Wien one of my
gals swarmS she must hunt her
own hive.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

A woman oat Pelham, N H.,
lived to the age of go o. "t;ip maiden
ueditation s1fancyafree, IA but by
some strange dispensation ,sbesnc-
ceededI in getting married, then,
and since that time has had no less
than four r different husbands, and
is now a widow lying in wait for
another victim. 5sr{
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
Il al be thf Co untfy s, thy Gods, ana TRUTH B. I,
The Gibbet.


l. Thomas Smith, (colored, who
murdered Thomas Braden in May,
! 1871, about twelve miles from
louisville. KY, paid the penalty
Of his crime on the gallows. He
held interviews with reporters of
the papers, telling a curious story.
Some time ago Smith rubbed cro-
ton-oil on his face and person, pro-
ducing blisters which resembled
smallpox eruptions. and CON-
planned Of pains in his back and
head. The Jail physician, DR..
| Pope, and another physician, pro-
nounced it a case OF smallpox,
and Smith was removed to the
eruptive disease hospital, from,
which he escaped a few hours af-
ter bis arrival, and was recaptur-
ed at an expense to the jailor Of
about $500. Smith wrote state
ment, which appeared in the
Louisville papers, that he paid DR..
Pope S72 for furnishing him the
croton oil and sending him to the
pest-house He said that he knew
he had to die, and would not die
with a he on his lips; that bis
statement was true, and he would
reassert it on the scaffold /
He persisted in asserting bis
Innocence even in the prayers on
the scaffoId, until told to take his
stan6 under the trap, when he
gave way and confessed bis guilt !
The execution took place in the
open commons south of the city. !
Probably seven thousand people !
were present. The mnrderer's
neck was dislocated by a fall of |
thirty inches He did lot strug-
gle much, and the convuisive
movements ceased in four minutes |
Death ensued in six minutes. The
body was cut down at the end of |
twenty minutes. Smith was al
desperate character. The mur- |
der for which he was hanged was
cold blooded, and for the purpose
of robbery, though the murderer
got but a small amount. The
murdered mans wife was at the
execution in carriage, and wit
messed the entire scene. Smith
labored under high excitement on
the scaffold. He prayed ipcohe-
rently, and lastly begged for a lit |
tie more time. He had made |
many misstatements in regard to
different persons connected with |
the trial, all of which he retracted.
This is the first execution in Louis
vile for three years.
Chas Malley, (colored,) who,
was convicted of the murder of an
Old white man, a clock mender,
named Munroe, in July last, in
Alexandria, Va, was hanged in
The yard of the Jail, in the pres
ence of a large concourse of peo-
pie. The roofs Of the houses in
the vicinity, and he steeples, and
all prominent points were crowded |
with people anxious to see the exc
cution, and the crowd was SD great
that ingress to the Jail was almost
impossible. The dropfell 12:39, |
and the body hung about twenty
minutes. Malley made short
speech aEtributing his fate to whis-
ky. He met death with great
.composure. Several of the colored
preachers attended the doomed
man. together with a committee OF
the Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciatiru There was no dIstur,
baEce whatever.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
The following verdict was

The following verdict was
pronounced" alta late Coroner's
inquestheld in Monroe, says the
Telegraph:
owe de jury, finds dis niger
cum to his deth by a smash on de
he'd, while he was in the water
unable to protec his sef, he bein'
a dec han, or the boat Ozark in
de Tholemu bayou"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

A German printer named Con-
rad Lutz, now living in Burling
ton, Iowa, has received official i'll.
formation that be has been drafted
into the Wurtembnrg Iandwehr
Inasmuch as heleft Germany when
two years old he intends remain
ing in the landwehr he is.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

The New York Sun is over
hauling the stationary account Of
Congressmen. 1t says:-ln the
House of Representatives about
S31, 900 in round numbers was ap.
proprlated for stationary and news
papers. Of this SUN $4,000 was
drawn by members in greenbacks
and converted totheir personal use.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

A chernbic little fellow told his
kindly school teacher recently,
that he doesn't want 10 6e an angel
SO much as he did. He prefers to
grow up, so to Congress and re-
ceivc back pay.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

Mrs, Jenkins, who is a widow
and rather poor, makes no secret
OF her feelings for an old bachelor
who has a very large farm and a
comfortable dwelling. She says
she loves thevery ground he walks
on, and adores the house he lives
in. Something like true love, that.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

The latest story of an absent
minLed manis that of drug clerk,
who Tiled his customers bottle,
and receiving therefor a nice new
twenty-five cent scrip, pasted it
on the bottle aud put the label in
the cash drawer.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

The funniest suit for breach of.
promise Of marriage on record is
to come beGnre Pittsburg court
the plaintiff being q wom2.n with
a husband, and, as stLie claims. a
good one. The man who Tilted
ber ami maT;l.-d another in her
youth IS peE.Hessed of considerable
veal h, s at ID
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

The Boston man who wrote a
splendid book, entitled -"Use-
ful Hints for Ugly Girls" won
ders why there is no more de-
mand for his work. His pub
fishers say they have only dis
posed of one copy, and that was
stolen.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

A sorrowing friend, writing of
the death of an estimable lady,
said "She has gone to her eternal
rest" His dismay can only be
family imagined when upon a
"proof' of bis obituary notice be-
ing sent to him, he read, "She has
gone TO her eternal roist.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

The March winds were strong
out in Kansas. One day gust
took up sixty feet Of plank side
walk in Lawrence, with a lady
walking upon it, and carried them
both bodily into the MIDDLE of the
street. "
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

a Connecticut youth, whose
mother undertook to spank him
one day last week, stabbed her
in the arm with his pocket-knife,
stole, all the money she had IN
the house, and went where such
a bad boy might wei expect to
Co--to Chicago. y eiin
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

q ADubuque testator formally
gave, devised, and bequeathed
his wearing apparel to his wife,
for the reason that. che had been
accustomed to wear EN- during
her married life. I aAggazs.l
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
Al Schedule for the Bull


I The President Of a Railroad
Company had an unruly bull,
(which got on the track and stop
ped the train, whenever it hap
pelied to be near when one came
! up An engineer who had been
stpped sey eral times thought he
had been delayed as often as was
admissible with the rules of the
] Company, He therefore. ran O.
tyerithe ami NAL, and in due time
was called up before the Presi-
dent Of the company to be, adj
monisheGl for his behavior. The
: President desired to know Of
THE engineer fhe knew whose
bull he had run over and killed?
The engineer informed him that
he did..5 Then why didyou run
foVer hin? ? said the President.
FFThe engineer replied, thatif they
wisncd a bull torun on the track,
he must, have, a Schedule, and
run on it, and .notinterfere with
the one he-was running on. The
engineef was allowed to go on
with his train m
/ PTeko ~ III ~ q.
A PHILADELPHIA JUROR
4AgspeeiaE term was commenced
this mornings thez'oH court
room. When the jurors were
'raskingste be .excused,>one of
! the panel presented aanoyel ex-
.,t.cdse.. He was a5distressed look
ing creature, his pantaloons mi
mus suspenders, but heldin place
1 Iby.ta knotty rope around the
waist. His apology foraa shirt
scarcely coveredshis nakadness.
Advancing to the front, Of the
bar, he exclaimed. ID: .- s1s2
l,zsF"J Judge, Iwantto be excused
from this ere jury" 5,r-, .aos,
+, Judge Paxson n---'i e WhY??"
I..s2,J j ,Juror-''BecauseFve aconsci-
scruples agin sending a
man to. prison" .s,.ogaa. 81 g ,o-
: i'soI go. Judge Paxson---- g i'sY 7 on ihaYe?"
Jdror--"Yes,s for there is too
! D.
much false swearing-Ik know
iforIhave been there myself"
tissssJudge Paxson Sa'.Why have
Eyousever been in prisonp
tssaJ Juror-"Yes, / have"
L .s' Judge ,Paxsoh@7z = fG|eNNhat for?'
tl'.. !s,ss Suror-=-33SsS SNW ell, for rape, high
way robbery, assault and bate
Fryo and larceny '.s..r..s 's'-s,ss-r =
r - ,JudgeP Paxson-- =: 'sY J, on cango."
APkiladezph9a Bu5tetan,,9 March
7 2ftiE.s 1sss sss gl sss.sst7 s7
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

, A contemporary speaks of a
fashionable tailor as being zone
of the old warehouses of the
trade" A heavy charger we
suppose,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

Decidedly the newest device
for promoting salvation was
practiced during a religious re-
vival at Chittenango n. Y
where it was announced that "re-
freshments would be served TO
converts gratis p This suggests
the query whether the churches
could find it TO their advantage
to borrow any thingelse tromthe
saloons,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

Five hundred and thirty wo-
men in the United States are
doctors, twenty-four are dem
fists, five lawyers and sixty
eight preachers. as- t5.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

~ A man writing poeicalIy of
the weather, says: ''The back
bone OF winter is. broken, but
the tail. Ha@s Yet occasionally. "
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

"Your children may never have
wealth, observed n reigbboring
clergy man TO his congregation,
bat when they grow up it will he
something for tEem to bnast that
their fathers were not menbers OF
the Forty second ConsIcss.'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15

in sympathy with the Patrons
of Husbandry in every fair and
legitimate effort to- bring rail
road and othersmonopolies,a to
their senses. aol.od is f7g-9 .1f1o
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
A Disguised sNigger.

io'H A short time since a colored
man entered the Office 5of the
clerk of the county court and
advancing to table where the
deputy clerk was busily tengag-
ed, he produced a marriage IL
.cense for which he paid The
legal fee afew days before.
.,,' 70 Boss" said he,,oo.poking the
license underthe nose of the ab-
sorbed deputy. S7i - Ii72h
What iFa99Fs'lEAwas the impa-
tlent response.
eg9YBpss" continued the Narky,
e"de lady declines dis d6cfment,
end + foftqb ofebb it it to ogf5t5smp get my y money
oa9tGkF-J b1s ,y5ilat.Y lsfutaI
a little consoling to the
to zbe told some went fur
thersand Jared worse, bat when
assured his money could not be
returned, he turned Indignantly
on his ,4double-soled pumps and
muttered as he made his exit,
80 Everybody gone back on de
- a.