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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
A Hog that went to a Flu
neral.

A few days ago says the
Louisville COur.-Journal, while
a funeral procession was COM
ing up Ninth street, on the way
to Cave Hill cemetery,a hog,ap-
parently about one year of age,
ran from the corner of Ninth
and Jefferson, and followed af-
ter the hearse. The corpse was
that of a man who died on
Eighteenth street. But this
fact has no connection with the
very singular action of that
swine. After proceeding for
some considerable distance be-
tween the hearse and first carriage,
only uttering now and then a
friendly grunt, some persons at
tending the carriages tried to
drive the brute away, but instead
of running out of the way he on
ly stuck closer to the wheels Of
the hearse, and thus he followed
on to the grave. Here he skir
mished out to the side and stood
watching the proceeding until the
coffin was lowered. Then he
gave a sudden spring and rush.
ed squealing to the grave in spite
of the men who tried to beat him
back, and had be not been caught
by the hind leg and held fast,
would have jumped headlong into
the grave.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

One night last winter George
NJ. Brown, lawyer of McGregor,
Iowa, got drunk and slept in a
gutter. In the morning he was
SO badly frozen that both of his
hands and one OF his feet were
amputated. Iowa has a civil
damage law, which makes the
liquor seller pecuniarily liable for
the consequences Of drinking his
liquor. Brown drank at elk sa-
looms that night, and his wife
has sued the proprietor of each
for $4,000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
A Speck of War.

The Corpus Christi Gazette
says: From our Rio Grande
exchanges, as well as from our
correspondence, it appears that
no little excitement exists
along the line of that river. =
Armed men in large bands are
making their appearance on A
merican soil, and for what pur-
pose is mere conjecture. The
military at Ringgold and al
Brownsville hold themselves in
readiness to operate at a mo-
ment's notice against the intru-
ders, but up to our latest advi-
ces no cause had been given
them for so doing. Irhabi-
tants along the river feel great
ly concerned, and trouble is an
ticipated. To US it appears as
a desperate resolve on the part
OF Mexican people to involve
the United States and Mexico
in a war, and the sooner they
succeed the better it will be for
the peace and quiet of both
countries. Bad blood exists,
and it's fiery heat must be cool
ed. Outrages perpetrated upon
Mexicans by Americans and
Uice uersa, have so prejudiced
the races and engendered bad
feeling that hardly any salve
will prove healing but a resort
to arms. Even if does not ex-
tend beyond a second Cortina
war, it must come sooner or la
ter, and let every one be pre-
pared.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

The ingenuity of the cattle
thieves in Russiaiis something
wonderful. The other day
one of them entered a farm in
the night, put two pairs of list
shoes on a COW, and then took
her home. The farmer, hearing
noise, called together his
neighbors and pursued the thief,
and although they were some
what puzzled by the absence of
the cows footprints, she was e.
ventually recovered.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A lady once consulted DR..
johnson on the degree of tur-
pitude to beattached to her sons
robbing an orchard. "Madam, -
said johnson, sit all depends up
on the weight of the boy. Ire
member my school-fellow Da-
vid Garrick, who was always a
little fellow, robbing a dozen
orchards with impunity; but the
first time | climbed mp an apple
tree-for | always was a heavy
boy-the bough broke with ne,
and it was called Judgment. l
suppose that is why justice is
represented with a pair of
scalesp
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

Daniel Boone, the Kentucky
pioneer, must have had a large
supply of rifles. A number,
each Of which is said to be his
veritable rifle, are now in pos
session of different persons, and
the owner Of each points to the
notches on It's stock, explains
that they are the record of the
number of savages shot with
the weapon, and repudiates the
genuineness of the other six.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
Country Newspapers and
the Credit System.
The Rnltimnra lNlLal savS.

The Baltimore Suo says:
One Of the evils under which
the country press long labored
was that Of an indefinite credit
system, but it is believed that it
has been largely relieved from
this, and it is hoped will be en-
tirely emancipated therefrom
speedily. The press in this way
grows more efficient and valua-
BILE to subscribers as we'll as the
public generally. When un-
trammeled by losses and get
ting all its earnings in cash, it
can do better service in every
legitimate field. The people
of the counties should take
pleasure, as it is to their inter-
est, to thus sustain their local
papers. No state in the Union
can claim a more respectable and
honorable body Of journalists
generally than are those con-
ducting the country press of
this State. There is, with rare
exceptions, an avoidance Of
that which would derogate from
the good character of the press.
Subjects are generally treated
legitimately, and i'll many in
stances much industry and be-
coming interest is evinced in
connection with local affairs.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
How They Buried a Sena-
tor Seventy Years Ago.
From the Beaufort Tribune.

Among the items of the ac-
counts presented for the funeral
expenses uf Hon. Francis NAL
bone, a Senator frem Rhode Is
land, who died in Washington
in June, 1909, and whose remains
were inferred in the Congress
sional burial ground, are the
following:
16 PC unds crackers .............S3 60
liz pounds cheese at 25 cents 80, 2 81
The committee to audit the
contingent expenses Of the Sen
ate directed that payment be
made for crackers, but rejected
the claim for the cheese. The
next voucher presented to them
for their approval read thus:
Z gallons best Madeira wine. -. s2s 90
gallons Cognac brandy. ...... 8 90
IL pounds almonds at 40 cents . 4 80
10 pounds raisins at so ceHts..... 5 90
Of this account the commit
tee would only allow for ''for
four gallons wine and three
quarts of brandy, $780, but
they passed another voucher for
fourteen pounds of pound
cake, ST." purchased from Mon
sieur Julien, a confectioner, who
also supplied "twelve pounds
crackers"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A Minnesota Judge, in pre-
nouncing the death sentence, ten
derly observed: "If guilty, you
richly deserve the fate that awaits
you; if innocent, it will be graf
ifcation for you to feel that you
were hanged without such crime
on your conscience; in either case
you will be delivered from a world
of care"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
Mail Directory.
Fayetteville POst-Ohice.

Railroad-leaves every day except Sun
d.v at 6 A. M; arrives at 5 P. NJ. Supplies
the following offices: Kelso, Lincoln, Flynt-
willie. Oregon, Georges Store, Flora, Hunt S
Station, Salem, Winchester and Decherd.
Shelbyville stage-arrives Monday, We'd
-esday and Friday at 10 A. NJ; leaves same
days at 2PM. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch
burg. Bonneville, County Line, Shelbyville.
Huntsville stage-leaves Monday and
Thursday at A. M; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at 4P.N N. Supplies Goshen, Halle
Green. Meridianville and Huntsville.
Sheibyvills horse-leaves Mondays and
Tbursdays at 8 A. NJ; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at Arm. Supplies Norris Creek,
Chestnut Ridge, Hawthorne and Shelbyville.
Pulaski housewives every Friday at II
NJ: leaves same day at 1890. Supplies Cy-
ruston. Bcons Hill, Millville Pisgah, Brad
shaw and Pulaski.
Blanche horse-leaves every Friday al
81 M: arrives Saturday at P. N. Sup
niles Camargo, MolinO, Cold Water, Blanche.
Money Orders can be obtained at this Of
6c. upon post offices in all parts eff the u
,ited States. A list of Money Order offices
NAV be seen on application. Rates of com
mission for Money Orders are as follows:
= nQn
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
A Plot for PIaywrights.

.
We remember tradition of
the Mac-a-Cheek Valley that
would be well to commence
with. After the fight and de-
struction of the Indian towns
in that locality, one of the vol
unteers, wandering through the
woods, saw the head of an In
dian peering at him from behind
a rock, and without a whereas
of any length and a resolution
quite as brief, brought his gun
to his shoulder and fired a shot
that tumbled over the inquisi-
tive aboriginal. To the hun
ter's horror he found the vic
tim Of the female sex, with a
papoose strapped to her back.
He removed the babe, and he
and his companion buried the
mother. He carried the infant
over a hundred miles to his log
cabin, on the banks of the Ohio,
and adopted the boy. He grew
to manhood, a shy, wild fellow,
with no taste for civilized pur-
suits, and a love for the woods.
The situation was not pleas
ant, for the youthful Lo was ex-
pected to work for his living,
and the labor was of the hard
est. To make matters worse,
he had the misfortune to fall in
love with his patrons daughter,
a beautiful girl with no end of
suiters,and as an Indian in those
days was regarded as little bet
ter than a negro now, his love-
making did not prosper. Her
love was soon plighted to an
other, and as the wedding day
drew near the young Indian
disappeared. The marriage came
off with its usual rough merry
that consisted of rifle
shooting, races, and wrestling
during the day, and dancing
and drinking at night.
The married couple had le-
tired to the bridal-chamber. that
made one end of the double log
cabin, and the merry-making
went on all night. The next
the two so lately uni
ted for life were called to break
fast. They did not respond,
for the very good reason that
both were dead, being found
murdered on their bridal-couch.
All knew who the ayenger
was; but to leave no doubt upon
that head a wampum belt, worked
by the poor girl years before, was
found upon the floor at her feet.
But he was never heard of after.
tie seemed to vanish into night
and memory. The poor father,
recognizing the hand of retri-
button, took to drink, and was
to Congress. He is
remembered as a member of the
Committee of Ways and Means,
and accumulated quite a prop
erty out of subsidies and In
1ian contracts. He is spoken
Of to this day by an aged, red
nosed, life insurance agent as
hat 'blOOdy old Brown, who
was Jackson man, with bad
breath and q worse tempcr."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A band Of Missouri horse
thieves, who were pursued into
the Indian Territory recently,
were oyertaken near Ochmulgee,
and a desperate fight ensued,
in which five of the villains
were killed, and the rest of the
gang-three in number-were
mortally wounded and died in
the course of the day.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
The Paterson Cow Case
Settled.

An Alderny COW, owned by
George Addy, in Patterson, n.
j., was settled a few weeks ago,
and placed in the public pound
by the keeper, Charles Spittlc.
The owner of the COW bro rght
suit before a Justice of the
Peace, and recovered judgment
of 500 and costs against the
pound-keeper on the ground
that the seizure was made in
Manchester township, outside
of the city limits. The pound
keeper appealed to the Court
of Common Pleas, and judg-
ment was reserved. 1t was
shown that the COW was in Man.
chester township, but an accu-
rate survey of the ground
proved that the pound-keeper
stood within the Paterson city
limits and caught the cow by
the tail, drawing it back over
the boundary line. The evi-
dence was so closely examined
that it requires the measurement
of the cows tail to decide
whether it was'possible to effect
a seizurein the manner described,
and the result seems to. have
confirmed the story, for Judge
Barkalow gave his decision on
Saturday, reversing the judg-
ment of the lower court.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
A Baltimore lady of wealth

A Baltimore lady of wealth
and piety is said to have re-
NAMED single until the age Of
forty years, refusing many Of
fers, because she had resolved
to marry no man except a clers
gyman. A while ago she was
welded to a penniless but de-
vout pastor Of Il little church,
and the honeymoon was hardly
over before he resigned his
charge and set up as a broker
with her money.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
A Boston paper SAYS: Almost

A Boston paper says: Almost
every day deserving girls apply
at the bureau for work, who have
been without food for twenty
four and forty eight hours Only
last week a nice New England
girl, born on a New Hampshire
farm, dropped on the floor from
utter exhaustion, when it was
found that in four days she had
eaten nothing but two buns.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
S1EEURaleeRgaetp9,
For the Fayetteville Observer.
Introductory Lines for a
Scrap-BOOk.
BY JESSIE FERGUSON BROWNE.

BY JESSIE FERGUSON BROWNE.
Sacred be to all that s chaste,
All that IS lovely, bright and fair;
Formed with most exquisite taste,
Richly stored with treasures rare.
Beauty's thoughts are here enshrined,
Gems of art and genius too;
Lasting monuments of mind,
Each fair page presents to view.
Not the formal, studied lore
More elaborate tones contain;
'Tis the pure and sparkling ore,
Of rare, peculiar vein.
Such thy polished pages fill,
Cherished volume of my choice;
Let me seek them when l will,
Pearls l find of rare device.
Charming source! whose pleasing powers
Grouped in fanciful array,
Sweetly charm the languid hours,
Chase their lingering flight away.
When with other pleasures sated,
Thine our "ennui' doth relieve;
Moral, vigorous, elevated
Seek and find sweet reprieve.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

An Iowa woman went to
church one Sunday and "experi-
enced religion" Arriving home,
she called her children about her
and said: 81 am pious now, and
l am going to give you two days
to get religion. If you don't do
it,in that time I'll whale your hides
off. l have learned my duty.
Do you hear me?"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

The Sultan of Turkey has an
income of ten millions a year,
and he spends it with amazing
rapidity on the peculiar oriental
luxuries, while thousands of his
subjects are actually dying Of
starvation. A subscription is
now being taken up in England
to relieve these poor devils,
while the Sultan is luxuriating
in his harem.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

The London papers announce
the arrival of a new phenome-
non in the shape of a veritable
Cyclop; that is to say, to those
uninitiated in mythology, gen.
tleman with only one eye and
that in the middle of the fore
head. He does not hail from
Mount Etna but Australia, and
bears the unclassical name of
Piper Wilson, aged twenty-five.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A man was recently found ly-
ing insensible in the street by
the police Of Baltimore. He
has since been claimed by a wo-
man who positively identified
him as her husband, and by a
young man, a stranger to the
woman, who is just as positive
that the man is his father.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

Said a Missouri preacher;
"There's a powerful sight of gig
Cling going on back thar in the
corner, and it's to be stopped, or
the Lord will delegate me to open
the door and throw some one out!"
1t was stopped.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A bill has beer introduced in
the Illinois Legislature to do away
with treating to drinks. 1t pro-
vides that any man asking anojh-
er to drink any Intoxicating Iiqr-
uorbe shall fined anywhere from
$40 to Sl00
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
Some simple folks in West

Some simple folks in West
Boylston, Mass, have just been
"done" in a very contemplate
way. Two well-dressed scamps
found out the deaf people in
town, and then proposed to cure
them for from $50 to 500 each,
according to their extremity, as
king,of course, an advance pay
ment. Some paid from $40 to
$50 down, and were ornamen-
ted with a wire contrivance
which came over the head and
down behind the ears, and which
they were to wear four hours a
day for eight weeks, as it would
keep up a current of electricity
that would ultimately restore
the functions of hearing entire
ly. The swindlers, Of course,
have gone, but some of the
dupes are still wearing their
foolish head gear.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A St. Louis sergeant of police
froze to death few nights ago
while making his rounds. This is
another awful commentary on the
foolish custom of closing saloons
at l l o'clock. MiloUdukee NeaUs.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A clergyman at Taunton, Mass,
lately asked his parishioners to re-
duce his pay, as many members OF
his church had lately been reduced
in theirs. They cheerfully com
piled.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

Miss Nilsson has been ordered
by her physician to a warmer eli.
mate; but Mr.. Nilsson says that
if there is a wormer climate than
the one he has lived in for some
months back be isn't aware of it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A New Orleans paper says the
dollar stores in that city are the
places you can buy a twenty five
cents article you don't want, for
four times its value.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

The following is again on its
rouuds: "To FIVE and five and
fifty. five the first of letters add;
twill make thing that killed the
king and Grove a wise man mad. "
1t was published first about TWEEN,
ty years ago and has never been
correctly answered. But they say
there is an answer.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

"Your son died rather sud-
denly yesterday of throat dis
ease" is what an Idaho sheriff
wrote to a fond mother in Indi-
ana the other day,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

An Oregon girl sent for doctor
to cure heart disease. He told
her 10 take something. She took
Peter a Sacramento youth, and
her heart now makes its regular
three hundred revolutions in a
minute and she is happy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
A girl screamed in a lectur

A girl screamed in a lecture
audience in Layfayette, Oregon.
Then all of the other girls scream
ed, General CONSERVATION en-
sued, and a rush for the doors,
people were bruised, clothes torn,
and the room at length was emp
tied. The first screamer had seen
RAT
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

At a funeral at Madison, Me-,
lately, the man who. was buried
was placed beside two of his
dead wives, while two living
ones attended the funeral.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

"How beautiful it worked!" ex
claimed Nevada widow who had
Just been to see her husband
hanged. =
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

"Is there any man in this town
named Afternoon" inquired a
Mississippi postmaster, as he
held up a letter directed "P. M. "
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A dressmaker's apprentice
speaks of her cross-eyed lover
as the fellow whose looks are
cut bias.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
TERMS.

2T Two Dollars for one year, tasa-
ftGbly in adonnce; I've Dollars and
Fifty Gents if payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out of the county
TO be paid Cor IN adcGsce.
B9- Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A Newark policeman had a
pair IF boots halfsoled last fall
with a clearinghouse beef steak,
and he hasn't had wet feet all win
ter.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

On the wall over the bed Of a
dying woman in Cohoes, N. Y,
a cross appeared. 1t began
with mere outline, dcepened in
color until the woman died, and
then faded. She saw it, and
superstitiously regarded it as a
premonition Of death. The
neighborhood was intensely ex-
cited and hundreds went to see
the cross. AT length a matter
Of fact newspaper reporter in
vestigated, and learned that a
leak in the roof had let water
into the plastering, the discolo-
ration taking the significant
shape by chance, and that when
the rain storm was over the
cross faded. tits probable that
fright aggravated the woman's
disease and killed her.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15
The Savannah Advertiser has

n LEO 20 ItlIIIttAa @A-NN u o10 81 -.
this announcement:
Since the passage of the Civ
il Rights bill, grocers decline to
sell "black" or white" pepper;
"colored pepper" must be ask
ed for. This will be insisted on,
in order that grocers may be
protected from the "pains and
penalties" of the bill.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

A man in Terre Haute ate a
quart Of sawdust on a wager
He will probably have a pain in
his lumbar region if he sticks
to such board as that.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

Struck Aisle-The man who
fell down in church.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-15

Rr Advertisements inserted at One Dol
lar per Square of Ten Lines or less for the
first insertion; Fifty Gents for each cOntin-
uance. B9-Local and Special Notices,
Twenty Cents per line.
us Obituaries and calls on candidates
Fifty Cents per square.
RaS- The privilege of yearly advertisers
is strictly limited 10 their own immediate
and regular busines; and the business of
an advertising firm is not considered as in
oluding that of the individual members.
BE- No deviation from these terms under
any circumstances.
R- Advertisements not marked with the
aumber of insertions when handed in, will
be continued until ordered out, and pay
0ent exacted.
E6S- No advertisements inserted gratui-
tOusly.
s5- Advertisements of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price.
E- Announcing candidates Five Dollars,
SO be paid in advance in every case.