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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22
The Evening Post (Rep.l says

The Evening Post (Rep.l says
there is some sarcasm, but more
truth, in the following paragraph
of the New Orleans Times, in
which it speaks of the decision OF
the Electoral Commission in tue
Louisiana case:
"Whatever else may come of the
dec sion Of the High Joint, the
doctrine of States rights has been
established by the highest tribu.
nal ever set up in this country
The S1uth has gained by a peace
ful arbitrament what it strove BY
four years of war to gain by the
arbitrame ut Of arms, aud 1T ls not
a little remarkable that it has been
gained against her WILL
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

If any man has heretofore fail
ed 10 recognize the necessity of
saving, let him look around aud
observe the condition of men over
fifty who are without means and
seeking employment. No ODe
will take them. "We caA get
young men, why take old r. peo-
pie say. "Why in the world do
you keep that old fellow p asked
hotel proprietor of his head wait.
er, who had retained a man past
fifty, an excellent worker, in the
plate room This is the prevail.
ing feeling.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

A few night since MIR. c. Gee
cox, OF Freehold, N. Y, me- with
a p eculiar accident. Under the in
flueuce of a dream, he arose from
his bed, and thrust his hand into
a stove. The pain resulting from
the burn awakened him, but not
before his fOger Bsils were in a
crisp, and his night robe in cin'
ders. He is an employee on the
railroad, and bad been tOrmented
by the complaints of passengers
about The stoves, and was proba~
bly, dreaming about them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22
sheep" says Ketchum, pushing

,sneep, says hetchun, pushing
up.
"Didn't you read the warning
TO peddlers on the fence. Aim
you afraid of the dogs?" shouted
the old man.
"Warnin'!" says Bill, giving
himself away.
Gall right" sings out the old
man, quicker than lightning.
"You're no peddler. You want
to see my property. Come mp,
I'll show it to you
"Well, this stumped Bill a
good deal, but he plucked up and
followed Calcott into the upper
room, keeping one eye round him
and taking in everything, but
making a great show of trade.
"This room," says Calcott, sis
where | sleep. There isn't any
lock on the door, and this room
is where l keep my money.
Here, I'll show what's in it
stand still-because when | pull
the door open it starts a telegraph
machine, and three of the best
men i'll the country start from
the village--they're officers. :"
With that he jerked the door
open.
Bill was a little nervous, and
he couldn't help showing it.
"lf any of your gang should
come here at night Ill put you
up to a trick-cut the wires first;
they run across the road below
the big gate. Don't be nervous.
Do you see that ?-it's gold.
Feel the weight of it. These are
diamonds. Can you tell a real
spark when you see it? ! should
say they were worth, in the mar
ket, between $4,000 and S4O,-
900.
The old man kept up this kind
of patter standing there in his old
calico wrapper, Bill Ketchum
watching him with one eye, and
wandering whether he was insane
or just the smartest man he'd ev-
er met. lie had an idea that it
was just the easiest thing to
knock him over as be stood there
and walk off with the plunder.
But thai hint about the telegraph
stopped him. Then the old man
showed him out, and when he got
into the ball he says: "You're
the first peddler / ever saw that
carried a revolver in his breast
p, cket."
Bill started a little, for he had
an idea that Calcott had seen it.
"Ho, ho!' says the old man;
$50 you haze got one?''
The last thing he said to him
as he was going down the steps
was: "You re not smart enough
for this job, my man."
Concluded next week.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

A man who jumped overheard
recently to s.ve his wife from
drowning, has explained bis ac'
ton satisfactorily to his friends.
He said she had a good deal Of
jewelry on her person, and gold
was high.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

In Inc paper, and one day il
seems Tony Frost, down at
Dobbs' ferry, struck it. That
was the way it got to the gang.
They pooh-poohed it as "chaff, %
but Frost it seems went up to
Glen Spring, poked about, re-
connoitered the premises, and
came down to the city with a
big yarn for his pals. His re-
port was that the old Muny"
had got sign on his fence in
forming everybody that passed
that here was the unprotected
house full of valuables that the
river gang didn't dare to walk
into. aHe was sure, too, that
there wasn't any CANNON about
the stuff, for he'd found out
that old Calcott was immensely
rich, and kept nearly all his
wealth in his house.
Now / don't suppose it's rea-
sonable that regular cracks
man should bite at such bait as
this; but Tony Frost kept pok-
ing away at it, and one day
somebody in the gang said it
was too much to have the pro-
fession insulted in that way,
unless they were all afraid of
the old duffer. After that To-
ny Frost went to the house, got
up as a tramp, and tried the
back door. The moment he
krocked it flew open, and an
old mans voice hailed him over
the stairs, "Hallo there; what
d you want ?"
"Summat to eat,if yer please"
says Tony, shutting in and TAX
ing good look around.
600 down and try the kitch-
en-" shouts the old man, "and
don't stand gaping round that
way. If you want to examine
the house, come up when your
belly's full, and I'll show it to
you"
With that Tony goes down
the way he came and walks into
the kitchen, where a little girl
was washing dishes. She gave
him some bread and meat and
talked quite freely. To his as
tcnishment, she told him that
the old man had lots of money
in the house. She'd seen it.
She also told him that she lived
in the village and went home
every night. He must have
made a favorable report, be-
cause it wasn't long after that
when Bill Ketchum, who was
the ring leader of the river gang,
thought he'd take look at the
house. So up he goes playing
the part of a peddler, and drops
the neatest little pack in front
of the place where he sees the
sign. There it was, sure
enough, nicely lettered in red
on white ground, and inviting
all burglars, house-breakers,
sneak-thieves and assassins to
come in and take what they
could get. The house stood a
good ways back from the road,
and as Bill went up the wide
path he had a good chance to
take in the dwelling. 1t was a
large brick house with a high
stone foundation and an iron
etoop. There wasn't a shutter
nor pair of blinds on the place.
And if anybody had tried to set
it afire he would have given up
the job as bad one.
Ketchum got in through the
kitchen. He had a lot of things
in his pack that tickled the fam
cy of the girl, and he let her
amuse herself with them while
he ate a sandwich she had Civ
en- him, and asked her a lot of
sly questions. But he couldn't
get much out of her, simply be-
cause she didn't know anything,
SO he made up his mind to in
terview the old man, and pokes
about till he got up stairs, and
was hailed over the balusters.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

The question of the Presidency
is now settled. Whether satislac-
tory or not, it is settled. Now let
every body go to work. Let uS
have a Dermalent revival OF trade .
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22
FHR CRiCKSMAN'S DEFEAT.

1 don't suppose you feel much
interested in burglars, nor ar
their habits a very choice theme
in polite literature; but ther
that occurrence at Glenn Spring
was really an extraordinary af
fair. You see, the way / came
to get wind of it was through
"Calico Charley" as they called
him. / was on the force then
as a sergeant. 1t was when Ac-
ton and Kennedy made it too
hot both for the politicians and
the thieves. We used to boast
at that time that we had the
best police force in the world.
Well, ,"Calico Charley" went up
ten years for helping to crack
old Oppenheimer's place there
in the Bowery. 1t was an un-
lucky job for him all through,
and as / was one Of the specials
that "piped" and took him, and
as | had known him off and OH
for a long time before that, it
was just like me one day, when
| was up at Sing Sing, to go o.
yer to the stone quarry and get
the keeper to let me have talk
with him. l got his whole his
tory. He wasn't one of your
common cracksmen. Not a bit
of it. He was too sharp by a
long shot for that sort of a thing.
Don't you run away with no.
ton that burglars are awful
smart chaps. That's a queer j.
dea that people get out of the
story papers. Let me tell you
that I've had nigh onto fifteen
years chance to find out, and
I've never seen one that would
not run his head into a slip
moose the minute he had any
luck. On, nc. / heard the
chaplain say once, over to the
island, that a man whose mind
and body was all right wouldn't
be a thief no more'n a healthy
fellow'd be a pauper. There's
always something the matter
with 'em. A twist in 'em some
where that knocks 'em fiat when
a sound man gets after 'em.
Calico Charley, as / was go
ing to say, was pretty much of
an exception. He was brought
up well. His father was one of
the best machinists in the coun-
try, and he took more pains to
make a man of his boy than the
fellow deserved. The old man
had a little place down there in
Maiden lane when / was a sha-
yer. | recollect it well. 1t was
a kind of machine shop, where
he made and sold three or four
tricks he'd invented himself.
He had the boy Charlie with
him-a bright, smart chap he
was then. When he was 21 he
got to be pretty lively about
town, for the old man had saved
up a handsome property and let
Charley have more money than
was good for him. Then they
got up a new safe-lock, and it
made big stir, and l believe
they went into that sort Of thing
pretty heavy. Any way Char
icy went over to the first worlds
fair in London. There he got
tripped up. l never heard ex-
actly how it was. They put up
a job on him Of some kind, and
got him mixed up with pretty
bad London "mob." The story
that we heard was that he pick
cd Il safe-lock for a party that
shouldn't have been picked.
Any way, he got in with the
wrong crowd, and they would
not let go of him, He staid O.
yer there about five years and
got to be a regular first-class
sneak, and worked half a dozen
Jobs in the most scientific man
ner. We got word from Scot
land Yard that he was coming
back, and 1 dropped in at the
\, - - MILL
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

MS mean way OF living, anu His
luck in buying some downtown
property before the people had
any idea how big the town was
going to be, he'd como to be a
regular nabob. I couldn't get q
word out of him about his boy.
He said he'd given him up, and
was going to retire from busi-
ness. Money must have come
in pretty fast to the old fellow.
He showed me half a dozen
patents that he was going to sell
out; any one of 'em must have
been worth a pile of dollars.
Now l think of it, it was CAL
colt who put the first Franklin
ite in an iron safe, and he inyen-
ted the rubber flange which pre-
vented the thieves from using
the air-pump when they wanted
to blow up safe.
1t seems that when young
Calcott started for America he
had made up his mind to cut his
London acquaintances and
tricks, and square it by going
back to the old man. None of
us knew it at the time. Well,
when he got here curious thing
happened. We had a man in
the Central office by the name
of Meehan, who was in with an
East side mob. He was broke
about year afterward. Nee
han had got word from the Lon
don gang, and he met young
Calcott on the dock with facts
enough to send him up; and he
made straight offer to him to
stay with the East side gang if
he didn't want to end his ca
reer for usefulness. What does
Calcott do but hum and haw
and go to see some of the fel-
lows, and finding himself prct-
ty we'll staked out, gives in and
opens fresh lay of industry.
He said afterward that he in
tended to cut 'em the first
chance he got. Bat he never
did. He got to be big chief in
as dangerous a gang as ever
worried the men in Mulberry
street. We thought we had
him two or three times, but he
slipped through our fingers.
There wasn't a clean job in iron
put up anywhere but it had the
marks Of his tools on it. When
the war broke out he was in
New Orleans, and we lost track
of him for five or six years.
1t was in the winter of 1865
that the gentlemen's places a.
long the Hudson were broken in
to by a river gang. You may
recollect it. Judge Schermer-
horns place at Glen Spring was
entered one night and robbed
of $4,000 worth of property.
The papers made a good deal
of fuss about it, and we had
three or four men working at
it. One day Mattison comes
into the Office with a copy of
the Glen Spring paper-HerdId, d,
l believe it was = and says
"Look at this. Here's ago.
Read that" And he pointed
out all advertisement. This is
the way it read:
"All burglars, house-break-
ers, sneak-thieves, and assassins
are hereby notified that l have
over $50, 900 worth of coin, jew
els, and silverware in my house,
which they are welcome to if
they will come and take it. No
dogs, servants, or laborers about
the place. The house is a mile
from any other residence, and
the only occupant is an old man,
not in very good health, by the
name of JOHN CALooTT."
dts some old lunatic," says
I, ewho hasn't got money
enough to get credit"
mo" says Mattison. 'They
say up there he's worth half a
million. He lives in a fine
Lo,eo oil hv hiu,salf ohOut two
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22
TERMS.

S4r Two Dollars for one year. tnva-
rta0tg IN 0dr0Rce; 1--WE Dollars and
Ftsty Gents If payment be deferred three
moAths. All papers going out of the county
TO be paid for IN ..vance.
Bas- Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22
Communication.
Our New York Letter.

burning or Aladdtn's Palace
100000 of Gold and Jeweli
In the Furnace Panic In 8
ChuRch-The Charge of the 4,
0OO-COOlness of the Clergy
Six Persons Trampled to DeatI
Fall of o Warehouse.
TO ihe Editor of the Observer
New YORK, March 9, 1877.
The week has been pretty
well filed with interest and ex-
citement. The peaceful out
come of the long crisis in Wash
ington, the imposing ceremo-
nies of presidential inaugura-
tion held at a time and under
circumstances which render
them the most impressive in
half a life time, the initial strug-
giles of our new and strangely
conditioned administration -
all these events, though trans
piring outside Of New York
are of as vital and intense in
terest to the city as though the
City Hall were the National
Capitol, while besides this grand
train of occurrences, we have
had enough local happenings to
keep our eyes and ears we'll oc-
cupied.
On Thursday ynighta fire broke
out in the large building on the
corner of Bond street and
Broadway, owned and occupied
by Robbins & Appleton, agents
of the Waltham Watch Co.,
and by the next morning it was
level with the ground. The
completeness of its destruction
was, queerly enough, the result
of the thoroughness of its pro-
lection; the building being
closed SO firmly with bolts, bars
and shutters that it was almost
as hard to get into as an iron
safe. The firemen were thus
kept out for so long a time that
when at last their streams could
be brought to bear the flames
had acquired irresistible head
way. The building burned was
a regular Aladdin's palace, a
sort of a mine of gold, silver
and precious stones, being oc-
cupied from roof to cellar by
ten firms dealing in watches and
jewelry. Over forty iron safes
full of these valuables were ex-
posed to the fiery furnace, and
many of them are yet too hot to
be opened to see what proper
ton of the $2,0OO,000 which
their contents represented has
got to be replaced by the in
surance companies. Robbins &
Appleton and the Gorham Sill
yer Companies had the most al
stake in this disaster but are
not only we'll insured but are
too large concerns to be seri-
ously affected by the occurrence
in any case.
Our next largest sensation is
the panic at the immense
Church of St. Xavier on Thurs
day night, which lacked not
much of repeating the Brook
lyn catastrophe. 1000 persons
packed the church whose pas
tor was drawing highly col
ored picture of the pains anc
horrors of the lower regiont
when a woman overcome witt
nervousness and fear tainted q
way, thereby alarming some
person in her neighborbood
more excitable than logical, in
to crying "FireP' The effec
was electrical. The audienc,
already wrought UP 10 a higl
pitch by the discourse, and hav
ing the Brooklyn Theatre vivid
ly in mind, caught the infec
ton of terror, and in an instan
the attentive quiet of the plac
was changed into such a Pan
demonium as only similar cir
cumstances can create. Al
thought of spiritual things wer
suddenly dissipated, and tn
instinct of the body for it
own preservation ruledsupremt
A pell-mell rush for the door
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

A baby elephant has been born
in Forepaugh's menagerie, now
wintering at Germantown, Pa,
and is the only one ever born on
American soil. The mother is
the performing elephant "Bet-
sy," au enormous animal, over
IL feet high, and the new conner
is only Is inches in height, a
male, and beautifully formed.
The youngster is doing we'll.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-03-22

The Chinese of California use
water. melon seed for food, and
shipments of thousa nds of pounds
OF these novel provisions are made
from one town to another.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-03
Our Poor.
I.EIISGToS, Mo, Janra,

L~EIISGroS, No. January II. ls,-.
EDiToE I>ThLLisE>CEs-OLr citizen, n.ca-
sionaii. get up musical and literary entertain
ments for the benefit Of various ENTERPRISE, .uch
as the centennial exposition. LeNIn.ton Libra
ry. etc. These. al course, are very commeud.-
Die. anu our citiArns ~howet their appreriat!ou
by patronizIng iiberHlly these entertainment,
Now, sir, would II not he much more commcn
dable If we wcra 10 get mp -0mc KIND Ut an en-
tcrtaiunrnt, the proceeds [" he used tor lie ben
eit OF the suffering poor in on mii-l2 Scarcely
y day passes but soIGc one appeals 10 u for as
sistsnce, or We hcar of some iallow-creu;nrs in
our town who is actually destitute Of the nrcr.-
sarles OF life. | feel confident that our musical
ami Literary friends would he more than willing
TO contribute their assistance toward any such
enterprise and Certainly our citizens would lend
their assistance by patronizingit it. The proceeds
could be placed IN the hands of IA few reliable
gentlemen, who would Gee that It WAS judicious-
ly expended in the right way. :
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-03
MORE OF EN- NABBED.
me way OF the TraEsgressor Beng
made worry hard in Lafay-
cite County.

IL mas tor some time been evident to those who
axe informed upon the subject ti.t In,.,, a..
regularly organized band of horse rr,,.vr. N
western Missouri. who hav, their sturious Mt
certain distances apart, where they exct,.ur.
t"'>--, "%uutlItrn horses coming north and
northern horses going south. thus kespiuy M 3,
frSuinr stream ia each direction Prosecuting
Attorney \ "ung md Sheriff MOunijny arc an
III" tran al these gentry and have Succeeded in
past few weeks. The last cast of tn. ne, ,r,.
inade on "Wednesday night, when deputy sheriff.
Joseph bowman amt Joseph { tlnn. c,n-t,Ila
fi. Mckee and MIR. Frank Tut, arrested in
l''vcr township the following named u,rsnos
VINO are charged with various thetts of hor.es
ana are probably implicated IN tiicits of CATTLE
And other stock John Rrckrr. ST. Newton
RH"hcr, his son, Andy MilIar, James Morrow.
and Dennis Clark, colorei. 1t is but INST 10 s,y
th'' the proof IS not the same in ali the cases.
and that som" OF these parties hpye
heretofore borne good characters. Tn.
have Cor some time been looked ON
with suspicion. another Of the + mlly John
Jr.. being already in Jail inr .r.niiup a
COW IN which liils transaction he was assori,trG
with VIM smith, who II also In iall W., are
eIai To So. our officers takIu- sucn yiyorous
''epa 10 eradicate crime in our mi,ist, and with
'nr present county and civ officers W, think
thai thieves and vayahonds will couclui. IN
iminlsrate TO SONS more cOngenial cline The
trial Of these parties will take Mace
squire Reck on next Thursday.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-03

The very best agricultural paper which
comes TO our desk is the American AgricuI-
turist, published monthly blythe Orung"Juid
Company. New York City. 1t Is rrplr;e
with the finest engrayings If improved stock .
useful mechanical devices anrI architectural
designs. besides bein. ably edited in All its
departments. A NUMBER which lies before
US contains several cuts of article, needed.
but never thought of by the farmer. any one
"i which would more than repay a sub,rri-
Der for what lie would have to nav for ,h.
paper for q year. 1t is not often that we
praise books or papers. though there is not
IA week that we ito not have quite a number
sent TO us for notices. but We were so much
struck with the value of the paper tina, we
give 1t this gratultous mention. Though
We are in no way interested In Increasing
It's circulation, We will furnish it to any sub
scriber TO the 1ntellisencer ut its lowest club
rates, 81 10 per mum. 4 sample COPY
may be seen al this office.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-03
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