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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A dismal complaint goes forth
from the Hayes organs as the day
for Mr.. Tilden's inauguration
draws near. They profess to be
terribly anxious about the "pOor
black man" in the South, the Re-
publicans who will be strangled
by President Tilden's orders, ETC., !,
etc. The true cause of this wall
ing over the inevitable death of
Grants carpet bag monstrosity is
the prospective loss of "good steal
ing" The Republican thieves
bave robbed the Southern States
of 1858, ,590,746 GS since the close
of the war, and would like very
much to continue in the business.
But they will not be permitted
to do so.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
A Storm of Grasshoppers.

The Washington (Mo.) o.
serUer of a recent date has the
following: "Last Sunday night,
at about ten o'clock, there was
an immense number Of grass
Ihoppers passed over and through
this town. The night was very
dark but the choppers" came
butting against the buildings,
rafting against the windows,
entering the houses at the win
.dows and doors, and playing
havoc with the oyer-superstl-
tious, for many persons had
gone to bed and were in their
first sweet sleep, as the chop
pers" commenced to rattle a.
gainst the glass Of the windows
and jump about the rooms, ma
king an internal small noise like
unto parcel of baby spirits
out on their first spree. It was
a strange experience for those
who were awake and took the
pains to go out doors and listen
to the odd small noise that filled
the air, produced by the concus-
sion of their wings and the but
ting of their heads against any
obstacle in their way. AS far
as could be judged from the
noise they made, they were in
great force, and came from the
north going in southern direc-
ton; but many thousands came
to grief in town, either giving
out through fatigue or the many
accidents Of attempting to make
night trips without good pilots,
as the next morning thousands
of dead and manned grasshop-
pers were lying about loose on
the streets, in the yards and
houses. They were Of the larg-
est type Of Rocky mountain
species, some Of them measur-
ing fully three inches in length
from "head to toe" They evil
IDENTIFY came across the Missou-
ri river, which at this place is
fully three-fourths Of a mile wide,
and those that did not perish III
town kept on toward the land
Of perpetual green.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

Mr.. Pickens Smith, of Fulton
County, Georgia, eloped on the
1lth of January with Miss Ida
Baker and married her. a short
time after the bridal pair had re,
tired for the night the girls ia.
ther appeared on the scene and
commanded his daughter to re.
turn home with him, which she
did. On. the 18th the husband
had her brought into Court on a
writ of habeas corpus, but his at
torney announced that the girl
would not live with his client,
and withdrew the case, Ida turn
ing her back oupon poor Pickens
and walking away with her ia
ther.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
Mail Directory.
Fayetteville Post-Omce.

Railroad-leaves every day except Sun
aay at 7:45 A. NJ; arrives at s P. NJ. Supplies
the following Offices: Kelso, Lincoln, tlynt-
ville, Oregon, Georges Store, Flora, Hunts
Station, Salem, Winchester and Decherd.
Shelbyville stage--arrives Monday, We'd
uesday and Friday at 10 A. NJ; leaves same
days at 2PM. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch
burg, Bonneville, County Line, Shelbyvllie.
Huntsville stage-leaves Monday and
Thursday at s A. M; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at Arm. Supplies Harpers Branch
Goshen, Halle Green, Meridianville and
Huntsville.
Shelbyville horse-leaves Mondays and
Thursdays at s A. M; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at P. N. Supplies Norris Creek,
Chestnut Ridge, Hawthorne and Shelbyyille.
Pulaski horse-arrives everv Friday at II
NJ; leaves same day at 1890. Supplies Cy-
ruston, Boons Hill, Millville, Pisgah, Brad
shaw and Pulaski.
Blanche horse-lea' IS every Friday at
s A. M; arrives Saturday at 3 Pm. Sup
plies Camargo, Molino Geld Water, Blanche.
Money Orders can he obtained at this Of
fee upon post offices in all parts ef the L.
nited States. A list OF Money Order offices
NAV be seen on application. Rates Of COM
mission for Money Orders are as follows:
Not exceeding SIS. 10 cents
Over Is aDd not exceeding $50. 10 do
do 30 do do 40. 20 do
do 50 do do 80. 25 do
W. p. DcUTHAr, ?. NJ
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
Alive in an Air Tight Cof-
fin

The body Of a man who wen
to California to regain his healtl
was recently shipped in a metal
lie coffin for his former home il
the East. When the Centra
Pacific train arrived at Ogder
Junction the corpse was con
signed to the Union Express
Company, and placed under
charge of Express Messenger
Frank Burgess. While the
train was in the western part Of
Nebraska, Mr.. Burgess heard
sounds from the coffin which led
him to believe that the dead man
had come to life. 1t was in the
night, and he heard the sounds
when he was doing and half a
sleep. Again the noise was
heard, and the attention of the
Messenger was riveted to the
coffin, and the horrible possibil-
ity that the dead might be alive
thrust itself upon the Messen-
ger so forcibly that he called
the attention Of other employees
to it, but, after listening a mo-
ment, they merely laughed at
him. The convictions of the
Express Messenger, however,
were so strong that he had
heard means from the coffin
that he had the case opened
when the train made its next
halt. The weather was very
cold and upon the inside Of the
glass plate of the coffin there
had accumulated a thin film of
frost, such as might have been
deposited by the breath of a per-
son confined in such narrow
quarters. The face was also
drawn up against the glass plate,
and other disturbances indicated
life. While Burgess had no
doubt that the man, though dead
then, had been alive in the coffin
the other employees explained
that the accumulation Of the
frost upon the glass as the nat
ural exhalatiOns of the dead
body, and the disturbances of
the corpse as due to the move
ments in shipping.
A private dispatch, received
from Chicago last night, says
that when the coffin arrived at
its destination and was opened
unmistakable proofs of the ter
rible truth were discovered.
The hands were clenched, the
lips bitten and the mouth filed
with bloody froth. The man
had been alive, and it was his
that had been heard,
but not recognized Omaha
Herald.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
:URQlre8 8oefrn,
ONE LIE BRINGS ANOTHER.

ONE LIE BRINGS ANOTHER.
There's just one thing l want to say,
My sisters and my brothers,
And that is, if you tell one lie,
You are sure to tell some others.
Iknow at times it's very hard
To own a naughty action,
But truth, once uttered, fills the heart
With joyous satisfaction.
While, if you stOop to tell a lie,
To cover up wrong doing,
Your heart is filled with guilty dread
With hopeless woe and rueing.
You dare not brayely meet the eye
Of father or Of mother,
And to cover up the lie you've told,
You're sure to tell another.
A child's first lie, like mans first glass
Of rum, or ale, or whisky,
Makes way for more to follow fast;
And is dangerous and risky.
Without the first glass you are safe
From the drunkard's thirst Of fire,
And if the first lies never told,
You'll never be liaI!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

When Deacon Smith, of the
Cincinnati Gazette, paws over his
copy Of the New York Times and
finds bigger lie than even he can
tell, be retires into a cave of gloorn,
from which he finally appears with
his war paint resolved to overtop
the lie or perish in the attempt.
He has not yet perished, as he
never fails to fall back on bis Cen
eral Cary falsehood.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

The Boston Commonwealth
says: "a store near the center of
the business part Of this city,
which formerly has rented for
$4,000 a year, has just been leas-
ed by a firm for $1,000, and an
other, built since the fire, and
paying for time $4,000 a year,
is now rented for $4,000. These
examples show how it is that
people of nominal wealth feel the
pressure of hardtimes. There are
thousands Of such instances"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

Apropos of Prince Napoleon's
recent bid for popularity by attack
ing the church.
One evening at little dinner
party at the Palais-Royal, the
prince said to Emile de Girardin:
"What would you do should |
become emperor some of these fine
days?"
I'D 60 to Belgium and remain
there while you were on the
throne"
"What-during the whole Of
my reignl You are jesting."
"Ah!' replied M de Girardin,
with smile, sit wouldn't be long
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
A Comma is an Instru-
ment of Fraud

ment OF Fraud.
The claim of the United States
for the return of the Sl,500,O0O
lent to help out the centennial
exposition has been rejected by
the United States circuit court at
Philadelphia, although there are
abundant funds remaining in the
hands of the managers with which
to satisfy it. Consequently, un
less the decision Of the court is re.
versed on appeal, the 81 100000
will be distributed among the
shareL olders in the enterprise,
and be just so much taken out of
the public treasury for their ben
eft. That this would be the re-
suit was foretold by the opponents
of the loan at the time 1t was pro.
posed, and was Indignantly de-
MED by It's friends Some of
them, at least, were disingenuous
IN their denial, and intended that
the money should be a gift and
not a loan, as is evident from TIE
peculiar wording of the bill ap
propriating it.
The clause which was relied on
to protect the interests of the ma
ti0n, aud which was used to Sc.
cure votes for the grant, read
thus -
The appropriation hereinbe-
fore made shall be paidiuto the
treasury Of the United States be-
fore any dividend, or per centage
Of the profits shall be paid to
the holders Of said stock"
The advocates of the grant
prolessed to read these words
with a comma after the word
"dividend," and persuaded the
public that no dividend Of any
kind would be paid to the stock
holders until the loan from the
United States had been first re-
turned. Now, by their counsel.
learned in the law, they have
successfully contended that
there is no such comma, and
that only a dividend or per
centage of the profits" was in
tended. Inasmuch as a diyi-
dend Of capital is not a dividend
of profits, they have got the
judge to say that the stockhol-
ders may pocket the 81, 100000
as returned capital, and the
United States must lose the
whole.
This is not the first time that
q comma, or the want Of it, has
been made a fsh-hook to pull /.
money out Of the treasury. A
clause in the tariff act Of 1875, /
by the omission of this modest /
sign of punctuation, admitted .
free of duty all kinds of foreign .
fruits, when the intention of |
congress was merely to exempt
fruits imported for the sake of
their seeds. THE trick in that
case was universally denounced
and speedily frustrated; but in
regard to the $1,500,000 now in
question, the nation is very pos
sibly without a remedy. The
whole transaction is in keeping
with the character of a city
which shelters Addition, Diyis-
ion, and Silence Kcmble
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

J. Blyth Smith, foreman in the
office OF the New York Star, has
absconded with the money which
he was expected to pay to his type
settlers. His reckless manner of
spelling blithe onght to have sug-
gested, to the proot.reader at least,
that there was something wrong
about him.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A wise resolution Of the New
York board Of health consisted in
authorizing health Inspectors to
visit the residences of persons who
died from contagious diseases and
endeavor to prevail upon the rela
tiyes to dispense with public lune.
rails, as far as practicable.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

81 have fully resolved" he said
at the breakfast table yesterday
morning, "not to touch a single
drop of the Old Thing this year,
so help me gracious" His wife
looked pleased, and all his friends
congratulated him when they
heard of the new departure. At
night when ne went home, at IL
o'clock, he was hurrahing for Gen.
eral Jackson, and calling on the
Louisiana Returning Roard to
throw him out if he ever touched
a drop OF the Old Thing in bis life.
Subsequent developments revealed
the fact that the Old Thing was
water.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

Up in Muscatine the musical
and literary young men of the
Unitarian Church organized the
Muscatine Unitarian Musical Phil
osophical Society, but when the
abbreviated title came out in
print-M. U. III. P. S, it struck
in on the Association and killed
-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A lunatic, whose mental disor-
der is not suspected by strangers,
recently Travelled through Ken
lucky and bargained to buy hun.
dreds of farms at ridiculously high
prices. The elation of the farm
ers was speedily f5llowed by dis
appointr ent.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

They tell of a Burlington edit
or, very explicit and conscienti.
ous man, always given to explain
himself very clearly, who began
his prayer last Thursday night,
"Paradoxical as it may appear to
Thee, 0 Lord i
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

England is the home of eccen.
tricity," say foreigners. 1t might
be added, more especially Of
eccentric testators. Early in the
century a rich Englishman left
his daughters their weight in
one pound bank notes. The eld-
est got S5l, 200, the youngest $751;
344.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

81 wish | were you about two
hours" she said, with great tender
ness. "And why, my dear?'' be
asked, with considerable interest.
because" she said, toying affec-
tionately with his watch chain,
"because, then | would buy my
wife new set OF furs."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

Colonei Yardiey, who ran for
Governor of Tennessee last fall,
has brought up as a second as
sistant of the Knoxville Fire Mar.
shall. If man aims high enough
he is pretty sure to bit something.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A New Hampshire editor re
ceived q stem winding watch as a
Christmas present, and at once
traded it of for a dog and a shot
gun, and some other articles
nee led ln a newspaper Office.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A correspondent writes to
know III it was eating his wife
that made Bluebeard so strong. "
We do not so read history. A
thoughtful referenceto "Plutarch's s
Lives" shows that Bluebeard was
so strcHg because he was Glade
at'er.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

Two years ago dying wife in
Iowa named her successor, set the
wedding day, and her widowed
husband and the nominee have
just been married.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

Some men don't lie, but then
they talk very much like other
people who make little truth 60
a great ways.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A bill has been introduced into
the Legislature poStponing, the
collection Of the taxes for 1876 to
the FIRST Of October next. The
bill has passed the Senate on ITS
FIRST and the House on its scconI
reading.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
TERMS.

SE Two Dollars for one year. ,ard-
rtG6ty an Gdeohce; Two Dollars and
Fffty Cents if payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out of the county
70 be paid fer an adcGace.
Rzr Single copies, Five Cents each
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

A mother and daughter mar
ried brothers 10 Tuscaloosa, Ala,
and the mother got the youngest
husband.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15

GssJ- Advertisements inserted at One Dol
lar per Square of Ten Lines or less for the
Erst insertion; Fifty Cents for each cOntin-
uance. BSrLocal and Special Notices,
Twenty Cents per line.
B6- Obituaries and calls on candidates
Fifty Cents per square.
Ga7- The privilege Of yearly advertisers
is strictly limited to their own immediate
and regular business; and the business of
a ! advertising firm is not considered as in
Guiding that Of the individual members.
nSy- No deviation from these terms under
any circumstances.
EGy- Advertisements not marked with the
aumber of insertions when handed in, VIII
be continued until ordered out, and pay
ment eXacted.
BST No advertisements inserted gratui-
ousl,
Bs5- Advertisements of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price.
Bg-Announcing candidates-County Five
Dollars; Congressional, Senatorial or Flote-
rial, Ten Dollars to be paid in advance.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-21
LOUISIANA.

Returning Board Hayes Commit
tee are nosing around in Louisiana,
where they are not wanted and have
no business. Everybody knows that
the State of Louisiana cast its vote
for Tilden and the Democratic State
Ticket. and all the smelling that
Hayes Committee caR 30 will not
convince the people that it was other
wise.
All that is necessary to be done is
to withdraw the troops and Louisiana
will have peace and a good sound
Democratic government AS soon as
the soldiers were taken from the sup
port of the infamous pretender, Cham
berlain, in South Carolina, all is
peace and harmony, and so it would
be in Louisiana. If the people of that
state are just let alone they will have
a grand government and will live in
peace and prosperity.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-21

vice, but the worlds people have
learned to put little faith in promises
and names. Many an innocent man
has been beguiled Of his dollars be
cause the New York advertising hum
bug to whom he sent them had ''the
Bible House" rs postoffice address
In the Colonization Building in this
city, erected with funds given by
good men for noble purpose, the
liquors sold were Of the worst quality,
the "doctors" were quacks Of the low
est class, and the lawyers to man
were shysters. We need not believe
in reformed and "non- partizan"
civil service simply because interest
ed politicians use those words to de-
scribe it.
Very radical Republicans are in
quiring Of late what sort Of man
this Joe Bradley is, anyway, who is
on the Supreme Bench. Like the
founder Of Rome he "builded wiser
than he knew.
A despatch received to-day giving
accounts of terrible fire in ST. Louis
causes Washingtonian's to congratu-
late themselves on their exemption
from all such Affections. Our avenues
and streets are enormously wide, va
rying from rs to 100 feet, the public
squares are numerous, and we have
an unlimited supply of water. |
doubt if any other city in the Union
is as free from destructive confagra-
tions. MEMO.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-21
An Editorial Brutus.

An editor out West INDUCES in the
following talk to his subscribers and
patrons. The famous speech of Bru-
tus on the death of Caesar, as render
ed by Shakespeare, is made to do SER
vice in this amusing travesty !:
''Hear us for our debts, and get ready
that you may pay; trust us, we have
need, as you have long been trusted;
acknowledge your Indebtedness, and
dive into your pockets, that you may
promptly fork over. Ifthere be among
you-one single patron-that don't
owe us anything, then to him we say,
step aside; consider yourself a gen
tleman. If the rest wish to know why
we dun them, this is our answer: Not
that we care about ourselves, but our
creditors do. Would you rather that
we went to Jail and you go free, than
that you pay your debts and keep us
moving? As we agreed, we have
worked for you as we contracted,
we have furnished the paper too you;
but as you don't pay, we dun you.
Here are agreements forjob work; con-
tracts for subscription, promise for
credit, and duns for deferred pay
ments, Who is there so green that
he don't take paper? If any, he
need not speak, for we don't mean
him. Who is there SO green that he
don't advertise? Ifany let him slide;
he amt the chap either. Who is
there so mean that he don't pay the
printers? If any, let him speak, for
he's the man we're after"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Apr. II, IT.
South Carolina to-day is under a
government of her own people. The
Constitution of the United States,
which guarantees here Republican
form of government, but which has
been made the tortured instrument of
depriving her of one, is not less in
force within her territory to-day than
in New York or Massachusetts,. For
this result, and the utter rout Of those
who have preyed upon the State, her
people may thank a public sentiment
throughout the country, which has
become toe strong to be resisted-so
strong indeed that the man forced in
to the presidency by those who
thought to resist it, has been compel
led instead to go with it.
There is but one more State to be
redeemed. Louisiana must follow
South Carolina, and the only question
seems to be whether the President
will await the slow motions of his
Commissioners, or, by bold move
ment, disperse the crowd Of imposters
and usurpers who are living at once
upon his support and upon the life
blood of the State. The last adyices
from New Orleans are to the effect
that the President must move soon.
or the whole population Of Louisiana
will join in completing the good work
before he can take part in it.
The President repeats the an
nouncement that he will remain in
Washington during the summer
months, and his example, it is hoped,
will have weight with his Cabinet
Ministers and. their subordinates.
This will help to restore the feeling Of
respect formerly felt for public posi-
tons and their occupants, and make
them places Of honor rather than of
convenience or means of gain.
The few changes so far made by
Secretary Schurz in the Interior De
partment have been in the way of pro
motion. The promised general reor-
ganization has not commenced, eli
Their in thator the other Departments.
Of course the promotions in the In
terror were promotions Of Republicans,
Chandler having left no subjects for
promotion except Republicans.
High promises are, made of ire.
formed" and mon partizan'' civil ser.