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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-07
Public Sales.
SHERIFF. SALE.
No. 1872.

= No. 1872.
DY virtue Of one writ Of venditiOni ex
I'D ponas to me directed from the honora-
bic Circuit Court Of Lincoln county, Ten
nessee, at its March term, 1877, in the case
Of John II. Rees, Administrator OF w. II.
Rees. deceased, against j. j. Latham, X. B.
Ramsey and J. P. Edwards, | will expose
TO public sale to the highest bidder, for
cash, at the courthouse door in the town OF
Fayetteville, Tennessee, on
Saturday, June 9th, 1877,
all the right. title. claim and interest that
X. B. RAMSEY has in and to the following
described
Tract of Land /!
ness the homestead) situated in civil dis
trict No. 4, Lincoln county, Tennessee, and
bounded as follows, to-Wit-Beginning at
A walnut stump, James CampbelPs north
east corner, running south ssh deg west
l2I poles to a stake at fence, south AZ deg.
west 20 poles 10 n stake, Ben. Towards
north east corner. south deg. west with
Clinison's line 172 poles to a stake near a
fence. Towards corner. east G4h poles 10
chestnut corner. north 241 poles to a
stake at a fence. east 81 poles TO stake on
the east boundary line Of the said. Camp
BELLS tract, north 1917 poles to the begin
ming, containing
1879 Acres, More or Less!
Levied on as the property OF r. B. Ram.
seyi to satisfy one Judgment against him and.
the other parties named, and in favor Of
John ii. Rees, administrator, &C., for $235.13
besides interest and costs.
W. A. WILLARD,
: mayl7-oss9O Sheriff.
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We want all the
G090 BAR TEE ]

Bring us your Wheat, Corn. Feathers,
Rags. Bceswax, Ginseng, Dried Fruit, EGGS,
and any thing else that will sell, and get
the market price for it in cheap goods or
groceries. Thankful for past fayors.
iarl } l. BRYANT L co.
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LYNCHBURG.
WANTED!
9y. Suitable al! ACKNOWLEDGMENT!

A SITUATION in city, town or coun-
N try; can furnish the most factory
references from the best families in Ameri-
ca. lam willing TO give
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bGJ- Advertisements are inserted in the or
.l,r 10 which they are handel IN.
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For Magistrates and Constables, just printed
and for sale at this Office.
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Proof.
WHAT IS NEEDED.

Dosrox, Feb u, 1871.
Dear Sir-AbOrt one year since found myself
in feeble condition from general debility.
NEGETINE was strongly recommended TO me
by friend WHO had been much benefited by its
uso. ] procured the article, and after using sew
eral bottles, was restored 20 health and diseon-
tiaHed its use. feel quito confident that there
is no medicine SUPERIOR 10 !. for those complaints
for which 1t Is especially prepared, and would
cheerfully recommend 1t to those who feel that
they need something To restore them 20 perfect
i. l.. PETTIYGnL.
Firm Of S. NJ. Pettingill Co., l0Ssate ST. Boston.
Cr'cisxATr. Nov. &c. ls72.
Dear Sir-The two bottles Of VEGErINE fur
nishcd me by your agent, my vile Las used with
For long time sho has been troubled With
dizziness and eostiseness; these troubles ara
sbo was also troubled with DyspepSta and
General Debility, and has been crs..Iy benefited
TLos. GILMORE s-I1ss Walnut street.
FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN.
NArIcK, Mass, June l, 1872.
Air. II. r. STEVENS:
sussion Of Rev. y. 5. best. Of this place. have
been taking NEGETINE for Dyspepsia, Of
which have suffered for years.
have used only two bottles and already feel
DR. j. W. CARTER
Report from Practical Chemist and
ApOthecary.
BOsToS, Jan. I, 1874.
Dear Sir-ThIs Is to certify that have sOld At
retail 154h dozen QS52 bOttles) Of your NEflE-
TINE since April ~, 1870, and can truly say that
81 has given the best satisfaction OF any remedy
for the complaints for which 1t Is recommended
that I ever sold Scarcely day passes without
some Of my customers toslifying 10 its merits on
themselves their friends. perfectly cog
infant OF several cases of ScrofulOus TumoTS
being cured by NEGETISE alone in this yicin-
lily. Very respectfully yours,
To II. II. STEVENS, Esq.
Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
vEGETINE Is SOLD BIZ ALL DRUGGISTS.
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nr% Our real estate transfers
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j. L. Bryant. II. B. Morgan.
J,L,BRYANT g. co.,
fit LyNChbagTG,

II EEPS a full line of goods in all the
EA different branches of trade, viz: All
grades of fancy and staple Dry Goods,
Made Clothing, Boots, Shoes and Hats
We also keep the best Of Coffee, Sugar and
other groceries. Iron, Nails. Horse and
Mule Shoes. Castings, Cook Stoves, Tin
ware, &C., all Of which we toiH sell
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Saturday, June 9th, 1877,
all the right, title, claim and interest that
4. +. SEBASTIAN has in and TO the following
AnecriLad
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all the right, title. claim and interest that
HESEY KELso, deceased, has in and 10 the
following dts,ribed
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21

Z We ought re had more stump
oeeches. 81. ,e agonized p. P.
Did not DOnnell, 20 out! lnsatlate
a,rhar,lWin not I 2 suffice.-St. Paul
DssPatch- zs
DoIne1ly spoke out in four places;
4-twice IN his own town at the request
N his co1stitpents, and at two places,
hylspecial request. on the line OF the
81. Pa& SPs r, r., on his way from
Stevena county TO st. Paul.
He cared aolittle whether the prop
osftion was voted up or down that he
did not even go home to vote, although
. within twenty miles of his home on
election day.
I He did not originate the bond prop
osition, he had to vote for or against it
in the Legislature and he concluded
that it was better to pay half now
than run the risk of paying lall six
/ years from now. Times will tell
whether he was right. ''The end.
Shakespeare says, .'tries the man.
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
WHAT WE OWE.

Reader ,are you curious in statistics!
Have you patience to carefully study
mass of dry figures! If so read the
following, from the Labor Tribune,
and ask yourself what we are coming
to:
The National Government owes 49,
2OO, 100000; the railroads owe ST. $780,
100000; the States and cities owe
$1 ,OOO, 100000. We owe the national
banks $9S0;OO0,0O0; private banks,
1850, 600, 900; we owe on mortgage
securieties $4,000, 100000. We owe
on private debts, notes, book ac-
counts, ETC., few more thousand
million. This total Indebtedness is
simply appalling. 1t is ruinous, yea
more ruinous to a man who imagines
he does not owe dollar, as to the
debt oppressed man who is in hope
less depression. Some financiers esti-
mate this total debt at $43 ,OOO, 900, 900;
others $4,000, 100000. Nearly all
this Indebtedness besrs interest. Some
is moderate, most of it high. Suppose
it to be 10 per cent. Here is an annual
charge of 81, ,2OO,OOO,OOO per year,
which labor must pay. Say the inter
est was even 8 l-2 per cent.the annual
interest paid to those who loaned this
money is 81 ,0OO, 900, 900. This amounts
to $25 per head of population every
year. Labor pays this. How long is
this to lastl Forever!
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
HIGHRATES OF INTEREST.

A contemporary aptly remarks that
few persons properly estimate the diff
ferences between a high and low
late of interest, and therefore often
borrow money at ruinous rates that
no Legitimate business can stand. But
few have figured on the difference be-
tween and 8per cent. One dollar
loaned for 100 years at 6 per cent.
with the interest collected annually
and added to the principal, Will
amount to $340. At per cent. it
a.,amounts to ss2,203, or nearly seven
Ntimes as much. At 3 per cent, the
usual rate of interest in England, it
amounts to 1925, whereas at 10 per
cent, the usual rate in the United
States, it is sl3,SO9,* or nearly one
thousand times us much. At II per
cent. it amounts to $84,675, or more
than four thousand times as much. AT
18 per cent. it amounts to $15, las, ,OO7 !,
and at "a per cent, (Which we some
times hear talked of) it reaches the
senormous sum of $2,55l, 100, ,4O4, or
:. more than the State of Ohio is worth.
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
THE SCHOOL BOOK SWINDLE.

The Stiilcdter Messenger has the
following very sensible remarks on
the school book ring:
"Gov. Pillsbury is determined that
the provisions of the cheap text books
law enacted last winter shall be car
ried out if he has power to secure its
enforcement. Sanford Niles. of
Rochester, one of the commissioners
named in the act, rendered his resig-
nation recently on account of non
sympathy with the provisions of the
act, but Gov. Pillsbury persuaded him
to retain his place in the board. School
book publishers are making most
desperate fight for the purpose of pre-
venting the successful enforcement of
the act, for they see that if Minnesota
succeeds in asserting her independence
of the school book ring other states
will follow in her wake, their power.
full combination will be broken, and
millions of dollars of extortionate
profits will be lost to them. 1t be
hooves the people Of Minnesota wi q
have so long suffered from this gigan
tic monopoly to give this act fail
trial. If it fails we can not be any
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
THE DIFFERENCE.

The bullion sheets are very fond of
alluding to the greenbackers' paper
mills and printing presses. They new
er allude to their own bond mills.
They forget that'they have used up a
great deal more paper and ink in
printing bonds, than has ever been
consumed in making greenbacks, and
still they keep the mills running. and
their constant cry is ''more, more. =
Indianapolis Sun.
! Neither do they allude to the fact
| that their national bank notes are
-jprinted on the same kind of paper,
and in the same building, and on the
same press as the greenbacks;--yet
the greenbacks are "rags" while the
..sational bank notes are ''the best cur
irency in the world -
Why simply because the people gel
the use of the greenbacks free while
they have to pay the bankers $4,000,
600 per year for the use of the bank
notes. in the shape of interest on thu
bonds on which they are based.
Why could not the bankers banl
on greenbacks and thus save the ma
tion $4,000, 900 per year! Why!
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
RISING IN THE WORLD.

THE ANTI I-MONOPoLIsT is at last q
paper of general circulation. Last
year we put in a bid for the publica
tion Of the tax list of Ramsey county
and we were ruled out, and the con
tract given to the st. Paul Dispatch,
although it's bid was more than one
half larger, on the ground that the
ANTI-MoNOPOLIsT was mot paper
of general circulation
But there is no virtue like perse.
verance. This year we again put in a
bid, at the same figures, and the result
is, the contract is awarded us for the
printing Of the taxes of the 9th Ward
West st. Paul. for the year 1874 and
previous years.
Those whose souls languish to rev
ell in the wild delights of such ex.
citing paragraphs as slot block 10
1.88" or IS. e. IA of n. w. IA of n. e
IA s. 90, t. 12O, r. 7O'' etc., continued
through many columns, will shasten tt
subscribe for THE ANTI-MONOPOLIsI
before the edition is exhausted. One
Of George Elliott's novels is nowhere
compared with the thrilling interest
of a Minnesota tax notice.
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
A CURIOUS VIEW.

The Rabbi Gattheil,a distinguished
Jew, in New York synagogue, de-
clares that there never was teacher
better treated than Jesus was by the
Jews. He was welcomed, warmly in
Jerusalem, and was hailed as the
prophet of Nazareth. There was no
ill-will shown toward him then. He
goes into the temple and drives out
the money-changers, though they had
as good right to be there as
the merchants of this city have to ply
their trade. Still there was no ILL
feeling. It was when some injudi-
cious youth raised the cry, ''Hail the
son of David - that the people
were displeased. This was a revolu-
tionary cry; it meant the overthrow
Of the reigning dynasty-it meant
war on the Romans. Itwas answered
by the Roman legions marching into
the temple and trampling under foot
men. women and children. Then it
was that the political complications
began which ended with the death of
NaZarene.
This will not hold water, for the
record is clear that Pontius PLATE,
who represented the Roman authority
sought to save Jesus; and that he was
executed for theological, not govern
mental reasons. 1t is true, that the
technical offence for which he suf.
fered death was treason in conspiring
to overthrow the Roman authority
but this was because the subject
Jews had no power to inflict death
for opinions sake. Plate did not be-
lieve for an instant that the bare
footed, bare-headed, unarnNd prophet
was trying to organize a military rev
olution against the Caesars; but the
Jews were indignant because Jesus
had said that he could overthrow the
temple and build it again in three
days, and they slew him. He died &
martyr to religious intolerance and
bigotry, as many hundreds and thou
sands of all creeds have died since.
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
PROTECTION.

The Medical Association of the
United States, at it's recent session in
Chicago, unanimously adopted Sc
ries of resolutions asking the abolition
of the tariff on quinine. 1t is asserted
that this tax works double swindle
it enables few manufacturers in
Philadelphia to exact from 80 to SIS
per cent. more for the nauseous but
necessary drug than they would other
wise get, and in enables them to adul-
terate it. which they could not do if
the pure article from other countries
was allowed to compete freely.
That's the way it works. If you
once admit that the capitalists engaged
in ithe great industries are to be ''pro-
tected," through bounties taken from
the pockets of their fellow citizens,
then every man who owns a pill fac.
tory, or a nickel mine or any other
two-penny industry, rushes in and de.
mands to be protected also.
Is it right that the whole people OF
the United States should pay from &c
| to 80 per cent. more Tor the qulnlne
Ia necessity of life in some sections,
and then be content to put up with ar
inferior and adulterated article, un
der the pretence that the workmer
in those few Philadelphia factories
are 'sprotected!" Does anybody be
lieve that those workmen get 55 pei
cent. higher wages than their fellow
workmen engaged in unprotected in
dastriesi Not bit of it, they are al
down to starvation rates, but we pa,
IS per cent. more for our quinine al
the same. The profits 60 to the own
ers of the pill factories. 1t is /,
shameful humbug.
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
WONDERFUL CONCEPTION.

Tombs and graveyard monuments
are pretty much all of one fashion !;
but one has been designed in France
terrible in it's significance. We
quote:
IN. Bartholdi, the sculptor of the
colossal Liberty is, according to
an article by Charles DeKay in Scrib-
ner for June, the author of design
for grave-stone of singular vigor
and boldness, which commentaries
the men fallen in French ranks during
the late FrancO-Prussian war. What
the feeling in Colmar at annexation
to Germany must be, can perhaps be
| learned from brief mention of the
design.
The head stone is severely plain but
massive, and upon it reads these
words only:
| "Morts EN- Combattant
IA Septembre 1870"
The grave is covered by two great
slabs of stone, but one of them has
been pushed up by an arm. This arm
reaches out from the dark evening of
the grave and gropes ION the surface
of the other slab for a sword which
lies near. The arm and sword are of
bronze. The idea of this tomb re-
minds one of the Gothic ghastliness
that pleased Albrecht Durer and the
engravers of this day, but the monu.
ment is also one of those trumpet
calls, silent but never ceasing, which
keep alive hatred and finally summon
a conquered nation to terrible acts OF
retaliation"
There is something awful in that
conception:-the arm of the dead
blindly cropping for the fallen sword
with which to strike for revenge.
Is it well that the dead cannot rise
or many a tomb would be pushed
open, and many hand would be crop
ing for instruments of death. There
is passion enough among the living
it is well that the dead are only dust
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
INCREASING THE DEBT:

"A COItSpOIlucuG VI Iu0 lUUtUUUpOCS
Sum says:
But how do we find matters, if,
instead of keeping our Greenbacks as
money, we convert them into bonds,
and add the $7lO,O0O,O 900 to our inter-
est debt? This one per cent. for the
sinking fund was raised by tax on
the people as an extra to the amount
required to meet the current expen-
ses and the interest on the bonded
debt. By converting the Greenbacks
into bonds beariug the average rate
of interest paid on the balance of the
bonded debt, we find that it adds to
the annual interest paid $40, 1926, 900.
This increase of interest amounts to
| $l2, ,260,685 more than the one per
cent. provided for by the sinking
fund.
Thus it will be seen that the Debt
would be annually increased instead Of
diminished, Notwithstanding the use
of the oneper cent. provided for by the
sinking fund.
We have made an estimate as to
how this account would stand in thirty
years. We find that instead Of having
the debt paid and the people relieved
from taxes at that time, the debt
would be increased from $2,758, ,431, ;
571 to $4,132, $50, ,636-an increase of
81 ,379, ,128 ,O65!
We ask our readers to show this to
their neighbors, and ask them wheth-
er they want to see such policy car
ried out as will in thirty years nearly
DOUBLE THE NATIONAL DEBT, and in
the meantime will consign the people
to such condition Of poverty and
decentralization as will endanger their
liberties
Is it not time to call a halt, abandon
both the old parties, and unite with
the Independents?
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21

worse off than heretofore, while if it
succeeds hundreds of thousands OF
dollars will be saved to purchasers OF
school books, thousands of whom are
unable to pay the prices charged
therefor and have consequently al
lowed their children to grow up in
ignorance or with fewer educational
advantages than would have been en-.
joyed but for the extortionate prices
demanded for school books
We would urge upon our readers
that they see that their township
clerks do their duty under the act, by
ordering such books as the township
may want. We are told that some o1
the clerks have been ssapproached'
and induced to oppose the execution OF
the law.
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
THE BASIS OF REFORM.

In the Public Health Congress con-
vened by the King of Belgium, one
delegate caught the glimpse of an i'm
nortant truth when he observed that,
if the general condition of the people
we're improved, they would drink less.
--Harper's Weekiy.
That's it. The root and ground of
Ill moral reform is just laws. An
oppressed people are always a poor
people, and poor people are very apt
n be degraded people. Sin is kind
,of moral sweat, whose fountains are
dirt and wretchedness.
70 the drunkard intoxication is
often substitute for a thick coat, q
w,1m FIRE, . full stomach and bright
hrnne. Give him all these and rum
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
GOOD NEWS IF TRUE.

WASHINGTON, June 12.-President
Hayes although, in former years pre-
disposed like many other hard money
adherents to the prevalent doctrine Of
finance writes in favor of a single gold
standard, has materially changed his
views during the progress of general
discussions regarding the wisdom and
propriety of the act of 1873, which de-
monetized the old legal tender silver
dollar. He is now in favor of it's re-
monetization and of the adoption of
the double standard Of gold and sill
yer, or in other words he favors full
return to the condition of things in
relations these subjects which existed
previous to the legislation of 1872,
being convinced that such return to
the former system will greatly pro-
mote the resumption of specie pay
ments, an object that he regards as of
the first Importance. While however
he considers the legislation of 1873 to
have been hasty and uncalled for in.
reference with the legal tender pow.
ers of a large portion of our circu-
lating medium, he has not yet formed
any determination to bring the sub.
ject officially to the attention of
Congress, although it is by no means
improbable that he may hereafter
conclude that some recommendations
on his part on the nature above out
lined will be advisable.-AssociGted
Press Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-ssI think
John is a little mixed on that point
himself" said Hayes recently of the
Secretary of the Treasury, in group
which sat talking at the White House
on the silver question. He had just
been expressing his particular wish to
see the dollars of our fathers restored,
ond to have once more the silver dol
lar and the fold dollar circulating side
by side, whic was the Presidents way
of putting it, but which, as a matter
of fact, they never have done, and
never will do. After a weeks stay
here, and the most constant inter
course and consultation at the White
House, Gov. Thomas Young, Hayse's
successor, has gone back to Columbus
and written letter fierce for the dol.
lar Of our daddies. Hayes talks con.
stantly in favor Of the same fat and
heavy coin, and it was in answer to q
question as to whether Secretary
Sherman agreed with him that he
made the remark just quoted. Sher.
man put his views into bill lsst
winter which devised various ways
Of giving the country the silver dollar
without letting it get into the treas.
ury. receiving it for customs or pay.
in9 the debt In it. Close observers o1
The anti-monopolist., 1877-06-21
THE HARD TIMES.
The WinOna Herald says:

Inc w mona HoraIO says.
.'It is worthy of remembrance that
during the late campaign the revival
of business was constantly thrust be-
fore the public and the universal cry
among the Republican leaders every
where was: ''get Hayes elected and
business will Immediately revive"
In support of this delusiOn, fraudulent
representations were industriOusly
circulated to the effect that confede-
rate bonds went up in London every
time the news from Washington indi-
Gated the election of Tilden. The
fluctuatiOn in bonds and gold were
daily pointed to as indications that
trade was in sympathy with the elec-
ton of Hayes. But more particularly
after the iniquitous decision Of the
10. Bradley Commission it was discOv-
cred that Congress had the power to
defeat the conspiracy, they again
raised this phantom of a revival of
business and used it as bull-dOzer to
frighten Congress to acquiesce in that
villaniOus decision. Hayes is Presi-
don't and since the 5th day Of March
has been exercising the functions of
that office, but where is the 'srevival
of business :" Echo answers, where!
The general commercial condition of
the entire country is one of disaster
and anxiety. The thousands who
struggled bravely through the long
stagnation are yielding to their fate
and crowding bankrupt courts, and
smile sadly when asked if the election
of Hayes has brought s'revival OF
business. The most stupid Of NOR
tails can now readily discover that it
was only pretence, knavish trick
of unscrupulous politicians to obtain
Office and nothing else. On the con-
trary the tendency of the times is to
greater depths Of dependency and
financial distress, on every hand, in
every city, town and village, in the
entire land, the CRY Of distress con-
tinues and increases in volume and
extent with the rising and setting OF
every sun, while the future has sscarce
one ray Of hope for better times foI
years to come. There Is but one
thing, and that is reform in every.