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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
NONRESIDENT Notice.
n Chaneery at Fayetteville, Tenn.

Eliza L. Phillips VS.. Pinkney D. Phillips.
February Rules, 1877.
an motion of complainant by counsel,
W and it appearing to the satisfaction of
the Clerk and Master from the allegations in
compliments bill, which are sworn to. that
the defendant, Finkney d. Phillips, is nom
resident of the State Of Tennessee, so that
the ordinary process of law cannot be served
upon him. 1t is, therefore, ordered by the
Clerk and Master that said nonresident de-
PENDANT appear on or before the first thre e
DAYS OF our next Chancery Court to be held
for Lincoln county on the LIST Monday in
April next, 1877, at the courthouse
in Fayetteville, and plead, answer or demur
to compliments said bill, or the same will
be taken for confessed and set for hearing
ex parie as to him.
1t is further ordered that this notice lie
published for four consecutive weeks in the
FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER.
d. W. CLARK,
Feb. SO Clerk and Master.
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-HOVNE Oaad LOT /!
Arcade Building!
SHERIFF SALE.
No. 1912.


DY virtue Of one writ of venditioni
- exponas to me directed from the hon.
orable Circuit Court of Lincoln county,
Tennessee, at it's November term, 1876, in
the case Of E. P. Gibbs and James Maddox
against James Smith, and 0. G.. Smith, en-
dorser, and Sarah A. and 0. G. Smith, stay
ors, l will expose TO public sale to the high
est bidder, for cash, at the courthouse
door in the town of Fayetteville, Tennessee,
on
Saturday, February 18th, 1877,
all the right, title, claim and interest that
SARAH A. SMITH, stayor, has in and 20 the
following described
Tract of Land
situated in Civil District No. 15, Lincoln
county, Tennessee, and bounded as follows,
to-wit:-On the north by the lands of Mia
min Smith, on the east by the lands of Mi
iamin Smith, on the south by the lands of
j. G.. Biles, and on the west by the lands Of
- Taft, containing
80 Acres, More or Less!
Levied on to satisfy one judgment against
her and the other defendants named, and
in favor Of E. p. Gibbs and James Maddox,
for $3.50, besides interest and costs.
w. A. WILLARD,
jan. 1S-n$9.60 Sheriff
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-02-15
LAND CASES, LAND WARRANTS, and
SCRIP.

Contested Land Cases prosecuted before the L 3.
General Land OGice and Department of the Tnte-
rior Private Land Claims. Mining and Pre-
EmPtiOn Claims, and Homestead Cases al
tended to- Land Scrip in 40. 80. and 100 acre Pic
for sale. This Scrip i ass enable, and can be
located in the name of the purchaser upon any
Government land subject to private entry at 81 Is
yer acre 1t is of equal value with Bounty Land
Warrants. Send stamp to GILMORE 4 GO. for
IlanlIlhlnf of InSlrIIciinn
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PUBLIC SALES.
CHANCERY
Said OF LAND !

On Wednesday, February Fl, 1877.
IN obedience to a decree Of sale pro-
l. nOunced at the October term, 1876, of
the Chancery Court, at Fayetteville, Ten
essee, in the cause OF john S. EdmistOn
and w. X. Bledsoe, administrators, | will
attend at the cOurt-houSe door in the town
Of Fayetteville, Tennessee, and offer for
sale to the highest bidder the following
Described Tract OF Land!
situlted in Civil District No. IL, Lincoln
county, Tennessee, and known as lot No 3
OF the Edmiston lands, and bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning a a stake in the road, iho
southeast conner Of lot No. !, an running
from thence south 212 deg. west 90 poles
TO stake, tho north cast corner OF the
lands of w. Il. Bledsos, thence south SSi5
deg. west with his line 702I poles to stake,
thence south IA poles TO a rock, thence
south 0T1a deg.wcst Ia poles to a rock, then
north II deg. west 20 poles to honey To-
Gust and white ash, thence north AZ deg.
east 1913 poles TO box elder and white
ash, thence north 52l6 deg east rs poles to
a mulberry, thence north 29la deg. east SO
poles TO stake, thence north G4R deg.
, east 80 poles to a stake, the south west cor
ner of lot No. /, thence south SO deg. east
6 poles to a blackberry. thence north $50
deg. east 4SM poles TO blackberry, thence
south 9 deg. east 2 poles to a stake, thence
ncrth 1875 deg. east 10 poles to a small
ash, thence north 80l2 deg. east l2111 poles
to stake, thence north 64la deg. east rs
poles 10 the beginning, containing
81 Acres and ll6 Poles!
Said land Will be sold TO enforce vendors
lien, having previously been sold to one j.
+. Price.
TERMs.-Said land will be sold on a cred
J It OF six and twelve months, notes to bear
inieres t at per cent frIm day of sale, ex-
cept the costs already attached and attach
/ ing TO said judgments and s1le, which must
be paid in cash. d. w. CLARK,
/ e and u. and Special Commissioner.
feb. ], 1877
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8 e a 81 z S

For Magistrates snd Constabes, Just printed
and for sale at this of6Se.
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PENSIONS.

All Officers. Soldiers, and Sailors wounded,
ruptured, or injured IN the late War however
slightly can abtain a pension by addressing GIL
MORE Il 60.
Cases prosecuted by GILMORE * CO., be-
fore the Supreme Court OF the United states, the
Court of Claims, and the Southern Claims Com
mission.
Each department of our business is conducted in
a separate bureau, under charge of the same eX-
pcrienced parties employ Ell by the old firm
Irompt attention to all business entrusted to
GILMORE & co. is thus secured. We desire
win success by deserving it. GILMORE & 90.
629 Street, W Washington, ID. T.. ieb 10
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ARREARS Of PAY and BOUNTY.

Officers, Soldiers and Sailors OF the late
war. their heirs, are in many cases entitled TO
money from the Government OF which they have
no knowledge. Write full history or Seryi ice, and
state amount OF pay and bounty received kn-
close stamp to GILMORE %, and n full Ioply
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CAegaecea'y SesEe OF


Situated in Lincoln county, Civil District
No. 10, State of Tennessee, and bounded as
follows: North by John Sandlin, East by
Joseph English, decd, South by Thomas
Tipps, West by Mrs. Scroggins-containing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01

laboratory. He was recovered from the
| debris, in which by his side was found
the dog with a broken head.
After her first grief was calmed, she
sent this telegram to the person who had
forwarded the fatal dispatch:
''Scnd my poor Cheri by the fastest
train NME. Cn
On the following Wednesday arrived a
large black box, which was not absolutely
in the form of a casket, but Nine. G..
thought it must be the form of those used
in Spain. The obsequies proceeded and
Mon. G. was carried to the cemetery St.
Owen, and inferred in the fifth division,
third alley, twenty seventh tomb, Mag,
nificent wreaths were deposited upon the
casket; more than two hundred persons
assisted at the ceremony. What was
Madame C.'s immense surprise, upon re-
turning from the cemetery, to find this
telegram:
We have sent Cheri, your dog, as you
desired, but is it necessary to inter your
husband here -
It was the dog which was in the family
vault. " 1t was quietly removed by night,
OF q day all the world knows the history
perhaps, more volatile, aN-.,iar ~.
maybe.-Pdris Cor. MtdoGukee Wisc6HA
san.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
The Green Three.Cent Stamp, and
What Will Succeed 1t.

BY about the middle of next May the
public will have seen the last of the
present three-cent stamp and begin to get
accustomed to something red or possibly
a new tint. The best and fastest color
known, the green three, has proved a
placer for stamp-washers, who take Oft
the oily cancellation without acid or
alkali, and set the stamp af1oat again.
So far the Department has found noway
out of the difficulty, and the long series of
experiments Just completed has resulted
in nothing more than the assurance that
the green is the poorest of stamp colors.
At the time it was adopted no other nation
used it for its unit of letter postage, and
with its disuse the common stamps the
world over will run to reds and browns.
With the change of color, May 1, there
will be change in design. The medal
lion head of Washington will be retained,
but it will be relieved by an open space of
white, and the scroll-work will have a
different pattern. Altogether the new
stamp will bear some resemblance to a
stamp of sixteen years ago, which most
people have forgotten. The white back
ground is adopted in the hope that any
attempt to wash the stamp will leave this
part irretrievably soiled. @ @
. Some OtheN general changes IN the
stamps are likely to follow the making of
a contract May 1, and a new head is
likely to be introduced in the shape of a
medallion of Liberty, one step towards
bringing more similarity between the de-
signs Of coins and stamps. There is some
intention of putting this design on the
five-cent stamp, used for the most part
for foreign postage.
Conference and correspondence with
other postal authorities show that loss
from the rel use of stamps is much more
frequent here than abroad. 1t is scarcely
known in England, and there the stamps
offer the additional temptation of being
easy to counterfeit The practice has re-
Gently begun in India, and the frugal
folk is giving the Anglo-Indian office Sc
rious loss by its skill in dealing with can
celed stamps N. Y. World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
An Eccentric Wanderer.

For fifteen or twenty years an odd
looking genius, dressed from head to
foot in leather, has made irregular jour
neys from this neighborhood to some
place or places in the northern part of the
county. Nobody knows who he is, where
he comes from, where he goes, what his
nationality is, or what is his age and
name. He generally travels by unfre-
quented roads, and whenever spoken to
always pretends that he does not under
stand the language. We say pretends,
because only few DAYS ago he met
young lady in sleigh in Trumbull and
asked her in very good English her des-
tination and what were the contents of the
sleigh. The suit he wears is always the
same, ard apparently is made of boot
legs ripped open and coarsely sewed to-
gether. lis boots are a wonderful ac-
cumulation of leather, one patch being
fastened upon the other till they are
simply huge, unwieldly masses. His hat
looks like boot leg cut off and a top
sewed in one end, and piece to serve
for a frontpiece on the other Everybody
along the roads knows him, and the same
title, g The Leather Man." is always
given him. He gets his food by begging,
and always appears to have a first class
appetite. Taken altogether, he is very
singular combination, and very many
people would like to learn more of him.
He sometimes comes along at intervals of
couple of weeks. and then again will be
absent for weeks ana occasionally months.
Bridgeport Comm STANDARD.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01

A DUTcHMAN in the Pennsylvania oil
regions let his lands to an oil company
last spring, On condition of receiving one
eighth of the oil procured The well
proved to be pretty good one, and the
farmer began to think. the oil men should
give him better chance, and ventured to
tell them so. They asked him what he
wanted. He said they ought to give him
one-twelfth. The arrangement was final
~ made, with the understanding that the
Dutchman was not to tell anyone. All
went smoothly until the division day
came, when our friend was early at hand
to see how much better he would be off
under the new bargain. Eleven barrels
were rolled TO one side for the oil men
and one for him. 'How's dish 90 said
he. g / think | was to get more as be-
fore You have made some mistake"
The matter was explained to him that he
formerly got one barrel out of every
eight, but it was his proposition to take
ole out of every twelve. This revelation
took him aback. He scratched his head,
looked cross, and relieved his swelling
breast Of feelings of self-reproach by in
dignantly remarking: Well, dat ish the
first time as ever | knowed eight was more
as dwelve. ."-.Hiner5' J03t7raqt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
LOUISIANA.

In obedience to the orders of Gen. Au-
CUR, the State Librarian who was deposed
by the Nichols Government on the pre-
ceding day was, on the Goth, reinstated
by the Nichols authorities. L. J. Bar
ron, of Nachitoches Parish, left the Re-
publican House on the Goth, and was
sworn in and seated by the Democratic
House.
In the Republican Legislature, on the
22d, the House Committee, appointed to
inquire into the charges made by Pinch
back that members had been Dribed by
Sauer, a member of the House, to vote
for Gov. kellogg for United States
Senator, submitted a report that they
had examined under oath sixty two
of sixty six members present, and
every one had declared, distinct
ly and emphatically, that he had not
ton to vote for Kellogg. The committee
state that the evidence given satisfies them
that improper influences were attempted,
but not by Sauer, and not by any one in
the interest of William p. kellogg. The
testimony was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
At Cabinet meeting, in Washington,
on the 2Sd, statement was submitted by
Col. Burke, on behalf of the Supreme
Court appointed by the Nichols Govern
ment, and protesting against any inter
ference with them, or any recognition of
the appointees of the Packard Govern
ment The statement concludes by affirm
ing that The latter cannot be recognized and
put in office by the President without rec
ognizing the Packard Government, since
the Judges holding over, Howell, WHY
and Morgan, have made no claim under
this right, but, assuming that these Judges
would consent to hold court pending the
controversy, how could they be reinstated
without a recognition Of the Packard Gov
ernment and prejudicing the cause of the
Nichols Government, pending investiga-
ton thereon by Congress, the proper de-
partment to determine the controversy?
On the oath, the Louisiana Republican
House passed a resolution expressing
full faith and confidence in the Presi-
dent of the National Senate, and re-
| questing the Senators and Representatives
| of Louisiana to oppose the passage
| of the Electoral Compromise bill.
On the preceding day Gov Pack
ard addressed 8 note to Gen. Augur,
| saying he was informed that parish Of.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
ALI Saved from Fire.

IT was not the fire alone, but the panic
and the fire, that destroyed the 800 or 400
lives lost in the Brooklyn Theater. The
terrible calamity recalls the burning of
the steamboat Phoenix, many years ago,
on Lake Champlain.
The fire was discovered at midnight,
when the passengers were in their berths :;
the boat was three miles from land, and
yet not life was lost. Why?
The Captain, Richard NJ. Sherman, had
a cool head, brave heart, and resOlute
will-though he was but a youth of twen-
ty-two years.
Awoke by the cry, "Firel frep' the
passengers rushed on deck and made for
the boats. At the gangway they were
met by Capt. Sherman, who, abandoning
all hope of saving the boat, was de-
termined to save the passengers. With a
cooked pistol in each hand, presented
toward the frightened crowd, he cried:
"Back | will save you all; but [ will
shoot the first person who approaches the
boats"
They grumbled, wept, but held back
With the calmness of a statue, Capt. Sher-
man saw that the boats were properly
lowered, and the passengers, one by one,
slowed in them. After all the passengers,
but none of the crew except the rowers,
had embarked, the order was given to
shove off.
Reaching the shore, the passengers were
landed, and the boat returned to the burn
ing steamer and took off the crew. Capt
Sherman. who had reserved gang plank
to aid him in escaping, remained on board
to see that all had escaped.
After the boats had showed off, he dis
covered under a settee the chambermaid.
She had tainted Lashing her to the
gang plank, he launched her overheard
And then, satisfied that no living being
remained on the burning steamer, he
jumped in the water, and, by means of a
settee, reached the shore.--YOuth's Com
paniOn. -.-.... ~.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
MISSISSIPPI.

Merryman L. Howard (colored). : of
Jefferon County, and Mr. Richards (colored law
yer), of Claiborne County, testified to intimida-
ton to prevent colored Republicans from holding
political meetings. The former said he left the
State fur DAYS before the last elecion. a he con-
s1d~red his lite in danger: was still afr id he
Would be XII ed should he return to his home at
FaYeue. The latter stated thatfully one third of
the voters IN Claiborne County were denied regis-
ration by fraudulent means. the Republicans OF
mat county being theron hly intimidated; cleo
ton DAY passed quietly in the county W D.
Gibbs, lawyer from Yazoo County testified ne
was candidate for Presiden ia Elector at the late
election in Mississippi On the Democratic ticket:
canyassed en- counties, making politi al speeche-
IN them all and clIimed that he great change in
the vote of Mississippi since 1874 was caused by
cnange OF political sentiment among the colorrd
s6tfFd the tttaet ittat intni dari0n had been re-
nveer saw anything OF lid hrIuseII.- 1>rt he
J. S. Burton, of Marshall County, tes-
tified the 23d, that he is a Southerner by BIRTH
was in the Confederate army, and is RepubL-
can; thinks the Democrats carried the elections
of 1875 and 1876 in Mississippi by intimidation;
that is. they threatened not to employ colored
men who should vote the Republican ticket
where the Democrats have control, they seek to
break down leading Republicans by having them
unjustlY indicted
Before the Senate Committee On Privi-
leges and Elections, on the 24th Mr.. Lee, Repub-
lican candidate for Congress n First Mississippi
District at the late election, testified that the
Democrats carried his State by fraud and intimi-
dation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
TIE ELECTION INVESTIGATIONS.
TComplled from Associated Press Reports, unless
Otherwise Des1gnated.l
LOUISIANA.

Gov. Wells, President of the Louis
lana Returning Board, was examined in Wash
ington on the goth before the House Committee
ON the Powers, Privileges and Duties of the House
in Counting the Electoral Vote, and said there
was vacancy in that Board which was not filled
because the members could not agree upon the
man; DIR. Kennedy proposed by the Demo-
Gratis, but portion of The ard objected tt him:
there were -four members acting the Board, all
of them Republicans; they never resolved to
reject or admit another person as men,
her of the Board; no vote was ever taken on
the admission of Dr. Kennedy as ii member Of the
Board; it was several days after the Board had
commenced examining the returns that Zacharie,
repres- ntiDg the Democrats, protested against
further proceedings unless the vacancy was
filled; but the vacancy was not filed; witness
said the result of the canvassers was made mat
ter of record and the returns showed the number
of votes rejected; had no recollection whether the
record he refused to produce showed the whole
number OF votes cast In Louisiana and could not
recall hat he knew single man who voted con-
trary ID his wishes because of intimidation
Gen. Anderson. member of the Returning Board,
testified that there obiestion to DR.. Ken
nedy becoming member of the Board because
he was not gentleman, but because members
did not approve of his appointment; witness
favored supplying he vacancy, and spoke TO sey-
eral persons about taking the place; two-thirds
of the votes thrown out were for Iilden EeciO ;
a great many affidavits charging intimidation
and fraud sworn to in New Orleans,
but the majority we're sworn to outside
of that CITY: when asked if he meant to say that
in every instance where a vote was rejected the
return, when the Board obtained possession of it.
contained either statement of the suspension Of
the election. that there had been intimidation, or
an affidavit to that effect, witness replied in the
affirmative saying there had been intimidation or
fraud, or some illegal prastice; such statements
and afidavits he believed were in the Office OF the
Secretary of State of Louisiana; he thought the
kellogg Electors received 500, and the McEnery
Electors q, 900 votes.
United States Marshal Pitken was ex-
amined by the Morrison Committee in Washing
ton, on the 22d; he said money was not paid out of
United States funds to witnesses brought to New
Orleans ard whose testimony was used by the
Returning Board; he paid Uni ed States witnesses
in the usual course; the number of paid special
deputies employed by him $40, their duties
being in New Orleans; they received pay for only
one day, except seventy-five paid for ten days:
about 1.5C0 special deputies acted in other parts
of the State, but received no pay.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Beverly Nash (colored), of Columbia,
S. c., was before the House South Carolina Com
mittee on the Esd, and testified that he was one of
the Hayes Electors also a member of the SEN
ate: that, on the day the Electors met, L. D
Childs, President of the South Carolina
National Bank, told him that if he could
get three Republican Senators to go over to
the Democrats and seat the claimants of seats
from Laurens, Edgefield and Abbeyville Cow
ties, he could get money for doing-Sl0,0GO for
each one secured. Then said Childs, 6 there
is the Electoral vote; if you will agree to vote
for Tilden you can get $4,000 now and $4,000
more the thing Is consu minated"
Wtness declined the offer.
A Columbia Is. c. telegram of the
23d says: /" Col. L. D. Chids, President of the
Carolina National Bank. of this city. makes affi-
davit denying the statement made by Senator
Nash yesterday before the Congre: sional Investl-
eating Committee, at Washington, to the effect
that he (Chllds) attempted to bribe him (Nash)
to cast his vote for Tilden Childs says he made
no proposition whatever to Nash relative to cast
ing the Electoral vote, and that he never had or
knew of any money applicable to such purpose
Mr.. Nash, of Columbia, reiterated his
testimony on the Gath as to the alleged attempt to
bribe him to cast his Electoral vote for Tiden,
etc; he said Childs had asked him 20 say nothing
about the conversation they had in relation to the
money offered, but that he (witness) had said he
should say nothing except what was true.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
Burying a Dog in Mistake for Hus.
band.

a CERTAIN Madame Cheri, her very
number and all is given in Paris, had
been married five years, when her hus-
band was called to leave home and go to
Spain. He was accompanied on his
journey by a large, black dog, a great
pet in the family, and which had the
somewhat pretentious name of Cheri At
the end of month Madame c. received
Iamentabie news. Her husband had per-
isbed by the explosion Of chemical