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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29
County School Tax.

The State superintendent of
public instruction has received
from the county superintendent
the following information rela-
tive to the levy of a special
county tax for the support of
the public schools:
Grundy county-The county
court ordered, at the April term,
1875, levy Of 10 cents on the
500 and 80 cents on polls.
Putnam county-An order
for a levy, subject to approval
Of the people, was voted down
by the people.
Hawkins county-Tcn cents
on the 500.
Williamson county = Five
cents on the 500 and 81 on
polls. The superintendent re-
ports that the free school sys-
tenn is growing in favor, and
that larger levy would proba-
bly, have been made but for the
clamor for retrenchment.
Bradley county-Ten cents
Ell the 500 and go cents on
polls.
Hardeman county-Fift y
cents on polls.
Weakley county-The court
refused to act, on the ground
that the Legislature had suspen-
ded the collection of taxes.
Haywood county-Five cents
on the 500, 81 on polls, on
merchants and tipplers two
thirds the amount levied by the
State for the same purpose, on
horse and mule dealers 81 80
each, and on peddlers, shows
and on all other privileges, ex-
cept those OF physicians, law
yers, auctioneers and architects,
the same levied by the State.
Henry county--No levy or
dered.
Hancock county--The court
refused to levy a tax because
they had not received the acts
of the legislature.
Sullivan county-The court
refused to make a levy.
Upton county-No levy
made.
Rutherford county - T e n
cents on the 500, 80 cents on
polls,and half the amount levied
by the State on privileges.
Franklin county - Twenty
cents on the 500 and so cents
on polls-complaint of hard
times.
Giles county--Ten cents on
the 500 and 81 on polls.
Bedford county-Fifteen cents
on the 500 and 81 on polls.--
The school, says the superinten-
dent, was formerly unpopular,
and the levy is considered very
encouraging.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29

information on certain points, that
I invite all who wish TO see me
personally, or to address me by
letter, in regard to any points, or
as to the formation of small colo.
MES, &C.. to do so freely. My office
is at 205 Nicollet Avenue, Mime
apolis, Mimi. P. D. Address,
Box l3. w. Il. HATCH.
Minneapolis, MINI.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29

A Virginia city father whose
youngest source of trouble is con-
tinually running away, has at
length acknowledgements and pasted
the following placard to the back
of the little wretch:
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29

The spelling mania is raging.
Parties of four in the cars turn
two seats facing each other and
spell,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29

wThere was a heavy snow
storm in Ohio last Saturday
night.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29

Put it on with some scallops,
engraver: CONNECTICUT, Presented
to the Democratic Party of the u
nited States, April 5, 1875, by P.
II. Sheridan, Lieu. Gen, U. S A.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29
INSOLVENT NOTICE.

INSOLVENT NOTICE.
DURSUANT to an order of the Clerk of
Il the County Court of Lincoln county,
Tenn, upon the suggestion of the a1minis-
traitor of the estate of
David Franklin, deceased,
Of the insolvency of said decedents estate,
notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims against said estate to present them
10 the Clerk of said County, authenticated,
on or before the LIST day of April,
1873, for pro rata distribution, or they
will be forever barred
news D. a. FRANKLIN. Adm.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29
DENNOEVTKO.AH.

TNHE cOpartnerShip of John Y. Gill &
l. Co., is dissolved by mutual consent,
to take effect from February l, 1875, T. j.
Gray and Thos Thomson retiring. John
Y. Gill assumes control Of the Elk River
FIGURING Mills and will hereafter run them
on his own account. The books and ac-
counts are in the hands of John Y.
Gill and T. j. Gray, and all persons indebt-
cd to the old firm will please make imme-
date settlement.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29
ANNOUNCEMENT
''EFaaggIIIt.ITiiI' EigA School i# Boys, y
For 1875.

| HNHE first session of the Fayetteville
| L High School for Boys will begin jan
nary 18th, 1875, aud close June 18th
following. We propose to make it thor
oughly graded school; but as this will re-
suire some time, we are not able to an
nounce the grades at present. Having stud
led the question Of textbooks and consul
ted with others, we find very foreible rea-
sons in favor Of adopting substantially the
course of books used bv Prof. Hatcher in
the Female Academy" OF course our
grades will very nearly CORE pond with his,
and so will our IA es Of tuition:
First and Second Grades. $12.OO
Third and Fourth do 80. 1850
Fifth and Sixth do -. 24OO
High School do 80. 24.GO
Incidental fee. ....... Ito
You will notice that these terms are for
six months.
Students will be charged from the time
they enter until the close of the session.
Special arrangements may be made in
special cases. One-half Of the tuition and
incidental fee payable at the beginning Of
the session. Deduction only in case Of
protracted sickness.
We offer you a permanent school and
ask your patronage. Respectfully,
+. NJ. FISHER.
Dec. 10, 1874. r. B. FISHER.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29
Es.1fy,GD,s'sssy, aIaiiig, EfaHHaf,

Alto ARIR R&fB TTG.
The little children of the neighborhooC
whs cannot attend school during cold wealth.
er will lave an opportunity to attend fOr
two months. Also, thsse who wish tc
study
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-04-29
BOOKKEEPING

Advanced class per month. GO
Primary DO do do .......... eco
bookkeeping full ourse.......... $500
Incidental fee per session. -...... 20
Those entering upon the study Of Book
Keeping this session and do not finish it will
be kept until they perfect the study. We
guarantee no positions in business; that
would be an imposition upon common sense.
There 10 always a position for the thor
oughly drilled student. april s
The New York herald., 1875-10-16
The Politicians and the Peoples
Candidates.

The peoples ticket for the county Judicial
offices was completed last night. The work
has been well done. The nominations are
as strong as they could well be made, and
the list, as a whole, will be heartily accepted
by the citizens of New York, and will be
elected by them at the polls. The politicians
made some effort to crafty personal prefer
ences here and there on the ticket, but the
attempt was respectfully but firmly resisted,
and the result will be satisfactory to all. The
republicans deserve credit for the sincerity
and good faith with which they carried out
the spirit of the resolution adopted in their
Convention and aided to put forward
honest, independent, capable candidates
without regard to political considera-
tions The only struggle they made
was to secure such names as would
commend themselves to the approval of the
respectable portion of the community and
would guarantee the purity and independence
of the Judiciary and the proper administra-
tion of justice.
In point Of capacity the ticket completed
last night is immeasurably superior to that
made up by John Kelly. Taken on its merits
alone it should command the support of the
electors and receive large majority. But
when the circumstances attending the Tam
many nominations are considered the success
of the peoples ticket should not for an in
stant be doubtful The Kelly candidates in
fact represent nobody but Kelly. They
were not the choice even of the men who
met together and went through the farce of
nominating them. 1t was one overbearing,
incapable, stubborn and prejudiced man
debating to o great party what they
should do. Prominent members of the
Convention and of the Tammany General
Committee declared their preference for Re-
corder Hackett above all other candidates,
and deplored. the obstinacy and arrogance
which forced them to remain silent and to
submit to the nomination of Mr.. Smyth. 1t
was evident, even to the partisans of Kelly,
that he had resolved to pack the Bench and
the District Attorneys Office with his own
favorites Whatever may have been the mo-
tives that prompted such desire the exper-
iment cannot but be full of evil 1t would
make the Judiciary, and especially the Grim
inal Bench, in reality the mere political tool
of party leader, however honestly disposed
the judges might personally be. 1t is against
this evil precedent that the people will now
combine, and it is fortunate that while de-
feating q reprehensible attempt to degrade
the Bench by making it trading shop for
political office-seekers they can secure judi
cial officers of tried capacity and integrity.
The ticket headed by Hackett and Phelps
will be triumphantly elected.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

REGISTER REGISTER IA correspondent
to-day calls attention to the necessity of reg
istering the whole respectable vote of the
city if we would defeat the attempt of Kelly
to seize upon the criminal and civil courts
and again crowd the Bench with the tools of
Tammany. The suggestion is well-timed.
The partisans of the new Boss will GER
tainly register, and the independent voters
who do not believe in delivering up all our
political rights into the hands of an arrogant,
blundering, incapable man should do the
same. The law requires a new registration
every year, and unless this requirement is
fulfilled an elector loses his vote.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

The PEOPLE OF STATEN ISLAND evince their
indignation at the attempt of the Jacobus
Vanderbilt ferry monopoly to drive off all
opposition and to continue to prey upon the
islanders by patronizing the Garner line of
boats and allowing the boats of the Jacobus
Vanderbilt line to run nearly empty. This
is practical method of testitying their dis
approval of the lawless acts of Jacobus
and the oficious Blunt But this is not
enough Whatever may be the result
Of the pending suits, it is certain that the at
tempt to forestall the action of the courts by
the violent destruction of private property
should bo rbbuked and punished. A Grand
Jury should take coGpizanee Of the outraGa
The New York herald., 1875-10-16
q. nsibIe CIergymen.

The Chicago Board of Education has set
tied vexed quest. on IN sensible and prac.
ticable way. The q,4 estion OF 'the Bible in
the schools" came up b. ere by an old regu-
lation the public schools were opened with
the Lords Prayer, singing a . reading por-
ton of Scripture. To this Ro nan oathoiics
objected because the Bible reaA iroin was
not the version they use; the Hcs re"s oD-
jected because they do not accept tn ~"
Testament; many Germans objected bee. use
they reject the authority of tlse whole BIbl,'.
Each was undoubtedly right from his stand
point. The public schools cannot justly be
used to inculcate any form of religious belief
After bitter controversy the Board of Edu-
cation have decided that prayer and Bible
reading shall hereafter be omitted, and we
are pleased to see that such eminent clergy
men as the Rev. Robert Colyer and the Rev.
DIR. Swing commend the action of the Board.
The public schools have nothing to do with
religious training. They are secular and, in
the broad sense, political institutions. 1t is
of the utmost importance to the security of
liberty and intelligent government that all
the children of the community shall have
common school education. The possession
of an elementary education enables men and
women to make an easier and better living,
and thus checks pauperism, which is one oi
the dangers of civilized nations. 1t is un.
doubtedly help toward moral living and
self-restraint, and thus checks the increase
OF crime. 1t is also means to help the citi.
zen to vote more intelligently on a public
policy, and thus saves the nation from costly
blunders. These are the considerations which
justify the existence of public schools.
None of them require religious teaching
within these schools, and, moreover, in this
country this is carefully and almost univer-
sally done by the different Christian denom-
nations in Sunday schools, which now have
religious instruction as their main object
1t is of the utmost Importance to the pros
perity of our public school system that il
shall be everywhere secularized, SO that no
class of citizens can justly complain that
their children are perverted to religious be-
liefs contrary to those held by the parents.
The action of the Chicago Board OF Educa-
ton is, therefore, highly commendable, and
we are glad that it has the support OF such
eminent clergymen as we have named.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16
Crowner's Quest Law.

About year ago the renowned Croker,
Coroner of the city and county OF New York,
and, by the grace of John Kelly, an infuen-
tial member of the Tammany General Com
mittee, was brought prominently before the
people through his alleged association with
the assassins who. killed poor McKenna with
the bullet intended for the heart of ex-Sheriff
O'Brien. The same energetic member of
Kelly's bodyguard now again appears upon
the scene as q witness before the Senate COM
mittee charged with the duty of inquiring
into the management of the several depart
ments of the New York city government
From his last exhibition Kelly's Coroner has
proved that he is less familiar with the laws
applying to the Office he holds than with the
utility of a revolver in an election fight. 1t
appears from his testimony before the COM
mittee that his diffidence as to his
own capacity is such that he has
been in the habit Of empanelling a
jury in cases where death has been
caused by smallpox, or when he has been
called upon to view the body of stillborn
infant because, in the Coroners own words,
che never wanted to take the responsibility
of rendering any verdict upon himself :"
The verdict which the people of New York
might feel disposed to render upon Kelly's
Coroner might not be very acceptable to that
lineal descendant of the historical Dogberry
But his mistrust of himself, unfortunately,
costs the city very large amount of money
in unnecessary jury fees, and as the Coroner
gets five dollars more for an inquest when he
summonses a jury than when he does not,
perhaps after ALL there is more cunning in
Croker's modesty than would at first sight
appear.
This whole business of coroners' fees is
subject to gross abuse, and Comptroller
Green, who does q great many Objectionable
things, certainly deserves credit for the per-
tinacity with which he has resisted the at
tempts of the coroners to plunder the city.
The fees allowed by law are swelled by all
manner of devices, until the coroners Office,
which occupies but an inconsiderable por-
ton of the incumbent's time. has become
one of the most remunerative in the city.
The fault lies mainly in the looseness of
legislation. No discretion, or very little,
! should be left to those officers who, under
the political dictatorship of your John
Kellys, are usually of the Croker stamp. The
statute should define in what cases juries
should be summoned and in what cases they
should be dispensed with, and the Office
should be made salaried one. 1t would be
worth while to fix liberal compensation, if
| by that means we could obtain better class
of officers than those who usually fill the
position. The office is an important one,
and it is scandalous that the political scum
of the wards should SO frequently be used
as the material out of which coroners are
made.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

THE HONEST SENTIMENT of the people
rebukes poor Kelly's attempt to crafty his
personal malignity against Judge Hackett,
and to deprive the Bench of fearless and
upright Judge. The Bordentown Register,
although a democratic paper, says of Re
corder Hackett This Judge has been very
severe on offenders, sending them to prison
for the longest terms. The public have
generally approved of this and hoped he
would be renominated. John Kelly stated
in the Convention last evening that in the
days of the Ring Hackett had voted with it,
and was therefore Objectionable but his
friends say that Kelly's opposition is a per-
sonal matter and arises out of the Judges
action as counsel in case where Kelly as
Sheriff was plaintiff Whoever is right. the
action of the Convention has strengthened
the anti Tammany party"
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

A SINGULAR SCENE was enacted in the trial
room at Police Headquarters yesterday. The
redoubtable Colonel James Kerrigan, being
called as a witness to testify in the case of
Captain McCulloch, refused to answer the
questions put to him until the Board of Com
missioners had shown him their authority
to interrogate him. 'You are yourselves
under charges" said the fiery Colonel, "and
you cannot question me until you have
purged yourselves of such charges" In
vain the presiding Commissioner insisted,
and in vain the counsel to the Board per-
sisted Kerrigan was immovable; so the Court
shrugged its shoulders at last and adjourned
until Monday
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

The PRESS outside of New York is as en-
phatic as the city papers in denouncing the
attempt of poor Kelly to drive Recorder
Hackett from the Bench. The Ogdensburg
Daily Journal Recorder Hackett OF
New York city, has been the terror of crimi-
inals, and is distinguished as an intelligent,
courageous and pure judicial officer. Tam
many has refused him denomination. 1t is
the most significant act that reformed Tam
many has ventured upon, and is one that
will open the eyes of a great many people in
this State"
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

The HERALD By FAST MAIL TRAINS. -Ne1cs-
dealers and the public throughout the States Of
-Neac York, Neao Jersey and Pennsylvania, as
aoeu as in the West, The Pacific Coast, the North
and Southwest, also along the lines Of the H,td-
son River, Ne,o York Central and Pennsylvania
Central Railroads and their connections, lcM b
supplied Nth The HERALD, free Of postage.
Extraordinary Inducements offered to ne'rsdedters
I1y sending their orders direct to this office
The New York herald., 1875-10-16
The Police Decentralization.

The answers of Police Commissioners Mat
sell and Disbecker to the charges preferred
against them and to the request Of the Mayor
for their resignation were made yesterday.
The counsel by whom the answers were writ
ten have oyershot their mark and whatever
credit they may have won as sharp contro-
yersialists has been gained at the expense of
their clients interests. They have been
numerically severe on Mayor Wickham.
They have made an ingenious and not al
together unsuccessful effort to convict him of
inconsistency They have turned upon him
with the rebuke that if the police force has,
as he alleges, been inexcusably inefficient
and demoralized beyond hope of recovery,
he has himself as the head of the city gov
ernment for over nine months made no effort
and offered no suggestion or direction for its
reformation or improvement. They have
disclosed the fact that he secretly united
with the arraigned Commissioners in
the lobbys defeat of the bill intro
duced by his own party at the last
session of the Legislature to separate the
street cleaning business from the Police De-
partment. They show that in some instances
the Mayor is not so familiar with the de-
tails of the police laws and regulations as he
might be. But at the same time they prove
conclusively that their clients, Disbecker and
Matsell, are not fit to be at the head of the
police force of the city; that their con-
tinuance in their present positions is incon-
sistent with the public interests and with
the harmony and efficiency of the city gov
ernment, and that their removal has
already been too long delayed.
1t is absurd for Disbecker and Matsell to
tell the people of New York that crime has
not increased in this city within the past
two or three years that the charge that
gambling houses and panel houses exist
throughout this city to an alarming extent
and with astonishing notoriety is a reckless
assertion entirely untrue !" that the recent
presentment of the Grand Jury was the
result of undue operations" and that the
New York police force is ''as efficient in
the discharge of its duties as any existing in
any city in Europe or America" The reckless
ness OF such statements can only strengthen
the puDlic conVlctlon tnat the present neadS
of the department are either incapable or
dishonest. When it is notorious that cap
tains of police have been the pensioners or
blackmailers of the violators of law; that
detectives have been in the pay of thieves
and have in return afforded them protection
and immunity, and when the Police Com
missioners themselves have shifted precincts
and remanded detectives to patrol duty on
these very grounds, it becomes something
worse than impudence to put forth such
assertions in an official document. If any
thing more could be needed to prove that
Commissioners Matsell and Disbecker are
unfit for the positions they occupy it would
be found in the tone of their reply to the
letter addressed to them by the Mayor in the
discharge of his official duty
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

THE HAYT1AN DIFFIcULTY.-The habit of
American Ministers and Consuls in South
America and the West Indies of affording
protection to political refugees has been
brought to the attention of the State De-
partment in connection with the Haytian
difficulty, which has been happily settled by
the Punishment of Canales
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

THE DEPosrToRs in the Third Avenue Saw
ings Bank appear to be at last on the right
road to the protection of their interests.
They have determined to obtain an order to
examine all tho books and papers Of the
bank, with the object Of discovering whether
the receiver appointed at the instigation Of
the bank is proper person to be intrusted
with the duty OF winding I'D its affairs.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

OFFICIAL NEWS from Constantinople, by
cable, reports the defeat of a body Of in
surcents by the Turks, and the submission
pf seventeen refractory villages to Turkish
nuthority. Probably we shall hear tomorrow
of the withdrawal Of all the forces on both
sides and the amicable settlement Of all out
standing difficulties. The Turkish see-saw
liz constantly in motion.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

AT LAST TwEED's ANSWER to the complaint
in the six million suit has been filed. While
answering, however, the great defendant
reserves his right to his appeal against the
last adverse decision in his case refusing
him stay of proceedings. He denies that
he did combine, agree or conspire with the
late James Watson as charged, and gives q
general denial to all the allegations in the
complaint.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

A HORRIBLE STORY of double murder at
Gowanus yesterday morning is told in
our columns to-day The two victims
were respectable .colored men, and their
murderers were white roughs, who inter-
tered with the party to which the deceased
belonged while they were enjoying picnic
in q park at Bay Ridge. Another revolving
crime is recorded from Barre, VT, where an
old man was brutally butchered. The mur-
derer in the latter case has not yet been
traced.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

THE BLACK HLIs.-The last days of the
Grand Council with the Sioux, having in
view the cession of portions Of their reserva-
tions and the wants of the Indians, as de-
veloped in the negotiations, arc graphically
depicted in our correspondence from Red
Cloud Agency published this morning.
The New York herald., 1875-10-16

THE STORY of the one million bond forgery,
in which Roberts, Gleason, Ralston and
others figured, and in connection with which
the Liberation of Spence Pettis from the Bos-
ton State Prison was sought some time since,
has been revived by the suit reached in the
Superior Court yesterday but went over to
NEXT term