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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

The Chicago Tribune" now
comes out squarely with de-
mand that the gigantic fraud"
called kellogg's administration
be got rid of, and thus bases it's
demand on business principles:
''The Republican party has al
ready suffered from the odium
attaching to the Louisiana bust
ness far more than the party
possession of that State can ey-
er be worth to it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11
How He Flagged a Train.
TSt. Louis Republican. l

How He Flagged a Train.
[St. Louis Republican,
Almost unfortunate man is
Tom Welch, a person not a mil
lionaire, lately employed IN the
service of the Chicago and AL
ton Railroad. Tom did not oc-
cupy a prominent position in
the management of the road;
he was one of the useful class
working under section bosses,
who travel on hand-cars and
attend to keeping the track in
order, and that he has been dis
charged is really no fault of his.
Toms labor was of the class in
which good clothes would be
out of place, and Tom wore
patched garments, his panta-
looms especially being Of the
most ancient and dilapidated
type. In fact, so long ago were
those pantaloons first put on
that most of the original mate
rial disappeared months since,
and in his seat the patches had
been so often renewed that on
the occasion of the last patching
Toms good wife found Difficult
ty in finding material suited for
the purpose. In her strait the
worthy woman was driven to
the use of bright red flannel,
and when those red flannel
patches were placed upon the
calf of his back. Tom,
from a rear view, looked as if
blushing continuously at his
own appearance. Now, it so
happened that a few days ago
the "boss" sent the faithful
Tom out along the track to
screw up tae track more firmly
the connections Of the rails, and
so industrionsly at work Tom
went STOPPING over to the work,
and presenting a blazing view
to any one in the proper direc-
ton. The up train from the
south was late on the day in
question; the engineer was, as
he expressed it, ''lettin' 'er rip"
Suddenly the watchful eye Of
the man running the locOmO-
tive perceived the danger signal
halfa mile in front, and instant
ly the engine was reversed, air
brakes applied and the train
brought to a stand-still. For Il
Il long time the train was held.
but the signal failed to ap-
proach nearer, though it bob
bed back and forth across the
track in a most uuaccountable
manner. Itwas wonderfully ac-
tive flag. Tired of waiting, the
conductor finally told the en-
gineer to go on slowly, and so
the train forged gingerly ahead.
So the train went OH until with
in quarter Of a mile Of the
signal, the engineer keeping Il
keen look out. Then all at
that engineer swore an oath so
big the fireman almost tainted,
and at the same instant pulled
the throttle wide open. The
train dashed fiercely ahead at
sixty miles an hour, but the en-
gineer swOre at a bigger rate
than that. Then the conductor
came and helped him swear,
and the air turned blue. The
train got to its destination be-
hind time, and the next day Tom
Welch was discharged, Just be-
cause the Company had a pref
ldice against a man who wore
patches big enough and red G.
lough to flag a train.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11
EXPIRATION OF A LEASE FOR .g9!

EXPIRATION OF A LEASE FOR g9 q
YEARS.-An estate in England
let for 999 years, recently rever-
ted to the original holders, or rath-
er their representatives. The
lind is at Woolwich, and was
church property thousand years
ago, but was leased to the crown
for military purposes. Sew in
cidents," as an English paper re-
marks, "could speak more elo-
quently of the stability Of Eug-
llSh institutions, and the law.
abiding nature of Euglishmen and
their respect for the rights Of
property, than there should be an
unb.oken continuity of possession
from the time of Alfred the Great
to that of Queen Victoria.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

Ben Turner, of Newburg, Ind ,
run away with another mans
wife and children, and next day
he visited the disconsolate ex-
husband and remarked: "See herel
| want you to come right over to
my house and take them d-m
brats of yours away. | don't
want 'em around me. Your old
woman has got good home now
with me, and | don't want to see
you loafng around there after
you get them children!" We have
the authority of the St. Louis
Republican that the demand was
honored; but it's pretty big story.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

An agricultural journal says:
What constitutes a perfect hog
We don't know much about farm.
ing, but we would say that the
man who ate twenty four eggs,
forty raw oysters, pound of Linn
berger cheese, and a dish of saur-
kraut, and washed che lot down
with ten glasses ofale, would ad-
mirably fill the bill.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

\ Missouri woman, who APP
piled for a situation as car dri-
Yer, being asked if she could
:nanagemules, s,scornfulIy replied,
"Of course can. Pvc had two
husbands
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

A final cause-Customer (who
wishes to return horse he has
lately bough0-"He's kicked the
carriage into lucifer matches, and
no one dares get on his back.
What he was made for | can't
think" The dealer -''To sell, ]
shoull say
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

afterwards. In the Senate
chamber Clay was making one
of his great speeches, and Ran
dolph had become very much en-
fee6led and emaciated, was ly-
ing down, he heard Clay's voice
echoing throughout the Halls
with unusual eloqueRce, said to
his attendant, ''raise me up, !
wish to look on that face once
more before / die" Randolph
was possessed of great eccen-
tricities. On q certain occasion
while in Congress he presented
what he deemed an important
bill, and made a considerable
speech in its behalf insisting
that it should become a law
There was a member from some
one Of the other States, who
had been a matchmaker, rose
from his seat and began to crit
icize and denounce it in heavy
terms. When he had finished,
Randolph rose and taking his
watch, and extending it in his
hand towards the matchmaker,
said with a great deal of sarcasm,
"Sir, take that and examine 1T;
you may be a good judge Of
tlck-tjcks, but l perceive you
know but very little about poll
tics"
When walking the streets Of
Richmond on Il certain occasion,
he was met by a man who was
much offended at him, and accos-
tedhim, "Sir,I don't give the way
to a d-n rascal Randolph re-
sponded, 81 do," and walked
around him. He was highly re-.
fined, and was very courteous
and etiquetical in his manners.
1t is said he crossed the Allan
tic thirty-three times. While
in the old world he visited Il GER
tain court. The King and
Queen received him with cour-
teous demeanOr. 1t was custom
ary for the received guest, on
retiring to Joav himself out
This ceremony was performed
by Mr.. Randolph in such a
as to elicit great encom-
iums from the crowned heads. |
He was particularly fond of |
sporting, was splendid son the
wing" He had his canine poin-
ters and a favorite ficld-piece, !
and his skill caused unusual
for che was one Of the
Dcst shots in Virginia"
Another of his peculiarities
was that he always parted his
lair in the middle and kept up
The primeyal custom Of wearing
1nee-buckles. He was an old
bachelor, but in the early part
If his life he came near uniting
lis fortune with one of Virgin
as fair daughters, but the fates
1ecided that he should stem
'the turbid waters of life
lone. He was an extremist on
he State Rights doctrine, and ,
ought bravely and persistently I
gainst the concentrating ten
lency of the Federalists of that
ay. Nevertheless his antago- :
ism to Freesoilism-as Aboli- !
iOnism in its incipiency was t
ermed in those days-hc manu- a
litted all his slayes-abOut three {
undred-and made provisions I
n his will for their mainten- .
nee one year. He dctested G
yankeedom-so much so that +
e would not employ its people ii
, bind his books; he sent them u
, England. This extraordina-
= mana genius and scholar, G
atriot and statesman, passed n
.om the scenes of earth in g
Philadelphia in, 1888, being a--b
out sixty years of age. In all d
is writings he invariably sub &
cribed himself John Randolph p
f ROANOKE. q
\ Missouri woman, who APP =
Iia6 for n sifuatiOn aS car dri- /
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

A Montana editor bemoans the
calaEities of 1874, in the follow
ing touching strain: "First that
Beecher business, then The grass
hoppers, then the Democratic vic.
tories, and now an increased tax
on whiskey. What is the poor
country coming toy
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

Speaking of inferences," said
Judge Lord, of Boston, ''when we
see a crowd at the Charleston
Navy Yard, we infer, not that
there is to be Il war, but All cleo
ton.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11
Communication.
For the Fayetteville Observer.
A Few Gleanings from
the Life of" ohm Ran
dolph of Roanoke"
Virginia.

Virginia.
AS there are but few copies
of the 'Iife Of John Randolph
of Roanoke, Va.;" extant, it be-
ing now out Of print-and as ]
have been favored with an OPP
portunity of perusing one, !
propose to furnish your readers
a few gleanings from its pages.
He was undoubtedly the most
extraordinary man Of his time.
Quick in perception, superior in
oratorical powers, and imbued
with a profound erudition, he
won a national character co-ex-
tensive with any Of his cotempo-
raries. His writings are Otter
referred to, as being the most
chaste productions ever COL
structed in the English language.
His speeches are frequently
quoted as samples of concise
ness, pungency and vast pene-
tration of thought. His speech
on the Tariff is a production of
no ordinary merit, and it will
continue to rank among the
best ever delivered in the halls
of the nation. He must have
been a popular man among his
constituents as he served them
fourteen terms in Congress, and
Gen. jackson when President
appointed him Plenipotentiary
to England and filled the posi-
ton with great credit to HIM
self and honor to the United
States. Clay, Calhoun and
Webster were his cotemporaries
in his last days, and he was pres
ent at the advent Of those great
statesmen into the halls of
Congress. He was led to re-
mark on one occasion respect
ing Clay and Webster, that cit
would be we'll to watch those
young aspirants, there was no
telling the extent their ambi-
ton would induce them to go
if they saw proper to adopt the
wrong course" 1t appears he
kept his eye on Clay, as they
differed often on subjects of
public concern" When John
Q. Adams was President, Hen
ry Clay was made Secretary of
State, and Randolph saw prop
er to differ very widely from
their adopted policy, and
during a heated discussion of
some subject bearing on the adj
ministration he was prompted
to characterize it as ga coalition |
Of Blifful with Black-leg," at
which old Harry became highly |
offended, and Immediately dis
patched a note to Randolph de- !,
manding full reparation or ac-
cept a challenge to settle the
affair on the "feld Of honor
Randolph proposed no ameni-
ties for his untoWard remarks,
but accepted the challenge
Randolph's friends endeavored
to dissuade him from his course.
He remarked, "I am called to
the field and l am going" A
long the western shores Of the
now classic Potomac was the
place selected to decide the diff
ference, with deadly weapons,
IF these great statesmen. Just
IS the sun was shedding his last
'ays along that gushing stream,
hey met and passed salutations.
Their seconds made all necessa-
y preliminary arrangements,
md when the word "fire" was
given, Clay pulled down on
Randolph, the ball passing
through the skirt of his coat,
md leaving himunscathed. Ran
lolph fired his into the air, ney-
II attempting to shoot at Clay.
Clay perceiving this sprang to-
wards Randolph with both hands
extended, ,and exclaimed, 81 hope,
Randolph, you are not hurt; from
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11
TERMS

"a Two Dollars for one var, tava-
:'td6ty an adc6nce; Two DoiBrS aud
Fifty Cents if payment be defered three
months. All papers going out of be county
TO be paid for G7s Advance.
Bag Single copies, Five Cents sch.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-03-11

To remove dandruff-Go ont
on the plains aud Insult AN Ln--
in.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21

cial to your own immediate inter
ests, and threatens to visit its retri-
button in the near future. It is like
killing the hen that laid the golden
eggs, in order to secure the mass Of
gold, supposed to be concealed
within her.
Again, the lands that are thus
running are not only to be the source
of sustenance for the remainder of
oar oaon term of life, but they are
the hope of our children and grand
children after us. The present
life time use of them alone is ours.
Have we any right to abuse and de-
stroy the reversionary interests of
those who are to come after us?
Would this not be an invasion of
their rights2
There is even a moral question
involved in this reckless waste of
soil, which is to be the hope of fu-
ture generations. In the nature of
things we can only claim and en-
joy ife-interest in mother earth,
and have no more right to abuse
this life-interest destined to pass
down for the use and benefit of our
brother-man. that shall come after
US, and who is the legitimate heir
expectant of this property, than we
would have to poison the waters of
the stream passing on to be used
by others below us, merely because
the spring rose on our farm.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21
Fayetteville.

The capital of our sister county
of Lincoln presents many evidences
of commercial thrift and public en-
terprise. In addition to the usual
quota of dry goods and grocery es-
Establishments, it has several business
houses whose specially seemed to
us to be the traffic in grain. We
learned from Mr.. Gray and others,
that the shipments of the one article
Of wheat from that point this year
amounts to the sum Of 100000
bushels. And this in addition to
the shipments of the manufactured
article from the Elk River FIGURING
Mills, run by water, and the Fay
etteville Steam FIGURING Mills,
Messrs. Gill & Robinson, proprie-
tors. Her Wooden Mills, Hampton,
Holmon & Co., proprietors, with
modern improved machinery, turn
out first rate article of jeans, and
every description Of wooden goods.
Also an extensive Steam Planning
Mill, Messrs. Cooley, Bradshaw &
Turley.
In the matter of banking tacili-
ties Fayetteville is abreast of the
most favored inland towns. The
Lincoln Savings Bank, Col. d. W.
Holman, President, NJ. D. Hampton,
Cashier, and the First National,
J. G. Woods, President, R. S.
Woodard, Cashier, Next we men
ton the Female Academy, John W.
Hatcher, Cne of our former students,
Principal, and the Fayetteville High
School, now ancillary to the Van
derbilt, Rev. Mr.. Fisher, Principal.
Churches, Presbyterian, Cumber-
land and Methodist. So, to sum
marize Fayetteville's advantages.
we mention-four mills, two banks,
three churches, two schools, 8
thrifty dry goods and grocery busi-
ness, her fertile soil, her tall blue
hills, her pastures green, her hospi-
table homes, her pretty women, her
spicy press, her intelligent, christian
people, and whatever else may go to
make up a desirable town. Fayette-
vile is a good place. We are glad
we have sampled it, and would like
to go again.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21
TRIGG'S STORE.

1 have told you where Trigg's 8
Store was, of our good land, water
and good society &c, and that is
about all the news that / have that
will interest your readers. Willis
B. Orr's wife presented him with
a fine son, the 2Ist of Sept. There
is more sickness here than has been
for several years, DR.. Perry, is do
ing a good practice. Some of our
citizens are going to move to Texas
this fall, all of the Clarks haze
moved from this neighboIhood ex-
cept ffty-seven. Rev. w. j. Brown
is talking of taking q circuit, if he
leaves this circuit the neighbor
hood will miss him very much. If
You want the best sorghum that is
made call on Mr.. Woliver, he makes
it right.
Now Mr.. Editor, I think this will
be my last, unless there should
something transpire that 1 think
would interest your readers. Ihope
l have offended none, thank you Mr..
Editor, for giving my communica-
ton room in your interesting paper.
Adieu tO all, DAENEL.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21

An honest old Granger approach
ed affable young man who adorns
the general delivery window OF the
post office yesterday, and asked;
"Is there any letters Cor the Orig
gesses hereY'
The young man sbufiied through
"G's" deck, and said mo, sir"
"Any for the Stebbinsesp'
The young man counted the IS"
deck, and said "No, sir"
''Well, and for the BnncesT' and
the old man put on his specks 70
see for himself.
Then young man, is there any let
ters for the Middlebrooksesg' aud
the old man empted some peanut
shells out Of his pocket 70 make
room for the letters.
The young man slung the @M's"
faster than tramp pTiRter in q
country newspaper shop, and wear
lily said mo, sirP
"Then who in the thunder is sll
them thar letters and pigeon holes
fur, anyhow, by gumF ripped ont
the indignant old man; and before
the young man had time 70 reply
the old Granger was shutting down
the street swearing that ''this
here post Office is a blamed merno-
perry like everything else these
times r'-AtlaHta Constitution.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21

This office owns one pair of scis-
sors-just one, and our venerable
Senior took them with him to Lin
coin, and what was to be done, but
resort to an old shoe-knife to do
the clipping.
By the way, these scissors have a
history-ante bellum, bellum, and
post-bellum. flour old friend, Dave
Martin, who walked the streets of
Columbia, long, long years ago, will
excuse us, we will name him as the
donor of these same scissors, to l..
W. McCord, some score of years
gone by. Both of these ancient
gentlemen date far back into the
hoary past. But back to the scis-
sors. They went with their owner
through the war, and came out
keen and uncorroded. But we sub
nit to Mess Hill & Ballentlne il
twenty years are not full long
enough to keep the same pair, and
further, whether one hardware house
is expected to keep our office sup
piled with this indispensable article,
and still further, whether one spe-
ciaZ man in the Office is to have al
the scissors, and the melons and
apples, as well. We pause for q
reply.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21

Rev. j. ]. Ransom, who was for
mally set apart to the foreign mis-
sionary work at the late. Conference,
was in our Office last week. Mr.. R.
is the son of Rev. R. P. Ransom, P.
E. of the Franklin District, and was
making a farewell visit to his friends
in Giles, preparatory to his destined
mission-feld, Brazil, South Amer
lea. He leaves New York in Nov.
for Rio Janeiro,-the voyage some
$500; miles the time, by steamer,
twenty-five days.
Mr.. Ransom is a young man
whose literary advantages have been
good, and we have it that he has
made a most excellent use of them.
He graduated in June of 1874, at
Emory and Henry, Va, and for the
the past year has served a church in
the immediate suburbs of Nashville.
We witnessed the ceremony of his
conservation to his work, in the
midst of a very large assembly.
This being the only event of the
kind, but one, (that of the setting
apart of DR.. D. c. Kelly, for China,
at Franklin, some twenty-five years
since, that had ever occurred in the
Tennessee Conference, the occasion
elected an unusual interest.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21
More Grain and Less Cotton.

AS the farmers of Giles are now
in the midst of their wheat sowing,
We would invite their attention to
the subjoined reliable statistics COM
piled from the crop-reports of the
State of Tennessee, by Major VIM.
J. Sykes.
We have bestowed q degree Of
careful attention on these facts and
figures, and while we were prepared
to expect some such showing as we
fnd developed, still, we were by no
means looking for SO heavy a dis
crepancy between the relative cur
rent values of the farm products
and farm-lands of the cotton grow
ing sections on the one hand, and
the grain and stock growing sections
on the other. Major Sykes says:
Let US take four Middle Tennes-
see and four West Tennessee coun-
ties-Giles, Sumner, Maury and
Williamson in Middle, and Fayette,
Hardeman, Madison and Gibson in
West Tennessee = and compare
them. have not included Shelby
and Davidson, because the cities Of
Memphis and Nashville are in them,
and might be thought to affect the
price of land. The value of farm
products in these counties is as fol-
lows: Middle Tennessee, 1868, ,O56;
West Tennessee, SIO,O54, ,O60. The
value of farms IN these counties is:
Middle Tennessee, S29,IOO.728;
West Tennessee, $I6,OSO,856. 1t
thus appears that while the value of
farm products is greater in the West
Tennessee counties by 1897, ,0O4, the
value of farms in the Middle Ten
nessee counties is greater by $13,-
Ol9,872. The value of farm pro
ducts per acre of improved lands is:
Middle Tennessee, $40 80; West
Tennessee, $19 so. The value of
farms, divided by acres, of improv.
ed lands, stands thus: Middle Ten
nessee, $40 so per acre; West Ten
nessee. $31 per acre. The average
value of Sll the lands in these coun-
ties, per acre, according to the
comptroller's report, is: Middle
Tennessee, $14 98; sWest Tennes-
see, $40 81; a difference per acre of
81 81 in favor of Middle Tennessee.
l have now given the facts as to the
value of agricultural products, and
also as to the value of improved
lands; and they present the strange
anomaly of counties having the
greatest value of farm products per
acre, as well as per county, yet
having the least valuable land, or
rather the land commanding the
least price. Why are these thingsP
Let us look little further and we
will see. The following table ex-
Dlains the raasOn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21
Rat out ofPlace

AS an evidence that the qualities
ofnerve and downright pluck are not
confined. exclusively to the heroic
men of creation, there is herewith
offered the narration of a circum-
stance wherein young lady bore
herself bravely under such trying
circumstances as would have severe
ly tested the most dogged determin-
alton ever shown by the average
genus homo. On Sunday last this
young lady was at church, when,
during the delivery of the sermon,
she suddenly became aware that
something Of crawling nature was
making an expedition up her leg.
Startled, as may we'll be believed,
she was for the nOnce bereft of the
power of action, and therefore
chased each other through her mind
extremely lively and fearful appre-
tensions touching snakes, rats, and
host of disgusting creatures, but
with q determined effort she recov-
cred her presence of mind, and by
the time the @thing" had got a short
distance above her knee she clutch
ed it throgh her dress with a wise
like grip and held on like grim
death. Since the first revelation of
the distressing circumstances she
had not spoken a word, nor indeed
given and outward sign of the men
tai torture which she must have
suffered, but sat rigid and compos-
ed, firmly grasping that "horrid
thing" which she knew was some
living creature, when, upon being
clutched, it gave forth a squealing
sound. For full three-quarters Of
an hour the brave girl sat there as
composed as ever, still retaining her
hold to the close of the service,
when she departed homeward, never
relaxing her grasp till reaching
home, when, giving a hurried ex-
PLANTATION TO her mother, she tainted
dead away. A quick examination
revealed the presence of a rat, dead
as a doOr-aail, as the cause Of the
unhappy adventure, which for lively
interest and the revealing of a re-
markable spirit in the mind Of a
young girl is not often matched in
this latter day.