Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-01-11


Jersey or Brooklyn sides. and
have habit Of 6eipg up late O
nights, can safely Indulge in ala
extra -IneFRsRg~ha -ahd excuse
their appearaBCeT at business at
10 a. M, by claiming 10 have been
an hour or so On the ferry boat
a little trick which they have
learned to- perfection.
} Now that the snow and ice ef.
feetsatty cover everything edible
on the ground, to the great indig-
nation of our million sparIews,
we have pretty sight in the
City Hall park where The little
brown rascais get free lunch cv.
| cry day, and are served by "a col
ored waiter. The sable bird fan
cier appears promptly every after
noon at 8 o'clock with a basket
OF bread on bis arm. He clears
away The snow near the fountain,
and scatters the bread crumbs
upon tue ground. A flock Of
Isparrows is always in attendance,
and the number of birds seem to
increase daily.
Our business men, tired OF
the tedious and apparently end
less delay in deciding the cleo
ton, have prepared a strong
memorial to Congress to hurry
matters. The movement is a
broad one, the signatures al
ready obtained comprising those
of the very largest business
houses and capitalists of the
city to the number of over u
hundred, and might easily DO
increased 10 thousands. Eff
forts are being made TO interest
the corresponding classes of
Boston and Philadelphia in the
matter, and thus to bring the
greatest possible pressure to
bear on Congress, which, it
would seem, can hardly afford
TO disregard the non-pOlitlcal
appeal of such yitally impor-
tont interests. 1t is estimated
that five hundred millions of
capital are already committed
10 the memorial.
The lines are getting harder
and harder for thieves and 9th
or criminals in New York. The
RoSucs' Gallery, an institution
highly unpopular among the
fraternity, has just been over
hauled md put in what is TO
them painfully good order. As
its name implies, the Gallery is
a collection of photographs Of
every offender Of any impor-
tance who is umlUcky enough to
fall into the hands Of "the best
police force in the world" and
has resulted in seriously damag-
ing the formerly lucrative Lu-
sinesS Of pocket picking and
petty thicycry. When COM
PEELED to sit for his picture tho
thief usually endeayors to de-
feat the object by moving and
thus spelling the negative, or
twisting his face into the most
horrible contortions for the pur-
pose of rendering it unrecog-
nizable, but after a little healthy
discipline from the officer in
charge is forced to submit qui-
city. The collection now en-
braces over two thousand pho
tographs, and there is dupli-
cate lot i'll each police station.
The cost of this lovely album
TO the city has been between
seven and eight thousand dollars.
Beckwith, the defaulting
cashier Of b. Il. Babbitt, has
got through his trial on the first
two of the ten indictments IL
gainst him. The net result thus
far is ten years in States prison.
If he goes on in this way ho
will have TO live as long as the
Patriarchs tosatisfy the demands
Of justice. Mr.. Babbitt seems
10 be particularly unfortunate
II his employees, Beckwith be-
ng about the dozcnth man he
las had arrested for similar Of
ences.
Another pious fraud, an en-
Ilator Of Pond, Winslow, Bart
EFT and their iIk, has this week
,hoWn his cloycn foot. This
inc his name is Swan, Il trusted
awycr and broker Of Wai
trcet, a shining light Of The
a trustee of the Union
4eague, etc, etc, and the IL
Mount he got away with is vari-
'usly estimated at from one 10
wo hundred thousand dollars.
RADIx.
10 Ned and 10.