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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02

A eIoudburst may beaserious
thing in the Cheyenne region,
where the streams run. down
from the mountains Recently
there was'a a sudden and uncon-
monty heavy fall of rain there.
Almost without any warming
wave seven feet high rolled
down the Chugwntef. a dc
taehmcnt-of the Third Cavalry
encamped near the bank was
overwhelmed by the flood. The
dry bed of the creek, on which
no water had flowed for six
years, suddenly became a river
fifteen feet deep. #'. ~
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02
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Ihe most hopeful sign OF this
movement Is that the relormers
do not rave and shrek about cid
er and lager beer quite as much
as has been ,tIieir habit in previous
crusades, but are directing their
efforts mainly 4igaihsL siflie low
fggqggeries qpd gig nj .xAisR
Statistics show to lie ihe lnSiksa.
tors OF seven eightEs oil the clsy5
leGhi41 uO18uf1eBFe ~ 1bO
The electric fluid during this
storm played numerous pranks a.
hong buildings, doing various aud
fantastic damage. Iu one case it
tore a shower Of shingles 'lr,ga the
roof Of a barn, in Which half
militia regiment had taken re
Iftge. Ia another, it ran Into The
telegraph office of 4 little subnr-
ban town, upset but did moi seri-
ously hurt two young lady occu-
Ipants, and then quietly melted
the magnet coils aud keJs of tie
instrument, finally passing Of as
roiselessly as it entered. A ABrook-
IIyh man, driving along the out.
skirts of thet5whdnrihg the Storm,
Elett his buggy for 40 minute 10 go
Into q sal0oh for Some beer.
PWhen he came oat he was slight
IBa astohjshed to find his horse
Lying dead in the gutter, and
PbdlI of FIRE Waiting iipth Street.
phe tehperahct folks viii have to
restrain their naturap impulse 10
point a moral with this Incident.
Tor il more than probable that
-g6ihg after that teer was all that
saved the mans llle.- RADIx.
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02

y Gcrmm-l'oIi-h company
of coloni SIS has purchased "'',-
900 acres Of land in A'aan7.-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02

GRcmember, whom yhn arc
tNlking to, siBY said an indi9-
nant parent to aipirWtUy bow
ri am your father. Nv ell,
who's to blame Tor that: slId
the young impeltineuccy "ta.ha
me-"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02

IA Canada "speculatorp has been
reaping a harvest ian this Q wise ?
lie stole six hogs at Owen S5dhd,
and sold them at Clifford, stole
them again, and sold ! them at.
Brussels; stoletIlem again, togethJ
er witpa9few bags Of wheat, and
sold them b to a apork packing es
tablishment III n9ListoweI, where
they were Immediately slaughter.
ed and cut up, and thus rendered
soinconvenientfor transportation
that they were left alone. He
made aunet proiit,of about three
hundred and fftysd0Aars Oh all
these operations.2sR Y.1di 9sh97.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02
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AnAstonished

IL r1sus7 Minersl journal. ~ tedW
A lDptchman7 in the Pennsyl.
vania oil regions let his lands to
an oil company last,spring on con-
dition of receiving oae,eighth qef
the oil procured. The yelliproY.
ed to be pretty good one, and
the farmer began to think the oil
men should give him an better
chance, and ventured DO :ell them
SO, They askedsohim what he
wanted He saidthey ought ITO
give lhim gone-tWelfth.1s The ar
rangement was fnall lgl made. with
the understandinglt that the Dutclr
man was not to tell any anes aoAll
went, smoothly until the diyisi;sn
day come, when eur . friend was
early at hand tolPee how much
better off he would be ,underithe
new bargain,w Eleven barrels
were rolled TO one side for the Gil
men and one for hip.sH Hows
dish ?2R sad he,i Fl think Iawas to
get, more Tas beforedj You have
made some mistake. b The mat.
ter was explained to him that he
formerly got one barrel out Of ev.
cry. eight, bpt itlwas1 his pEQposi.
ton to take one out of, every
twelve, This revelation 9g took
him aback. lie scratched his
head, looked cross and relieved
his swelling breast of feelings of
Self.reproach by Indignantly re-
marking, "WelI, dat ish the first
time as ever / knowed eight was
more as dwelVe p 1924 o,'i''
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-08-02

Bsg@ No advertisements inserted gratul-
ousl,. 11#5aE 80 AsiHf
BS5- Advertisements of an abusive nature
will not be inserted at any price.
BGyrAnnouncing andidates-COunty,t Five
Dollars; Congressional, Senatorial or Flote-
rial Ten Dollars to be paid in advance
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
A ETOssson Sold at auction.
Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.I


American newspapers have often COM
mented upon the fact that in some parts of
England woman have been sold at pub
lie auction during the last century.
Yesterday the novel sight of woman
being sold under the hammer was wit
messed by hundreds of people in front of
Currie's auction store. When it became
known that such sale was to be made
a large crowd gathered to see if the
authorities would allow such disgrace
full scene to go on. At half past ten the
woman was brought out. Her name was
unknown, but she was recognized by
some of the bystanders as person who
had worked in millinery establishment
ON G st eet before the fire, and her char
acter had never been questioned. She
seemed perfectly composed in the pres
ence of so large crowd, and never moved
muscle of her face as the auctioneer
called out for the first bid. She stood
in an elevated position, dressed in plain
muslin, without any attempt at display.
She was handsome brunette, with regu-
lar features, dark hair and eyes, and a
complexion as pure as wax. She was
finally knocked down for eight dollars,
and, to the surprise of everybody, the
bidder was married man. He says
the woman issomewhat dilapidated, but
he thinks he can melt down the wax
and make her up into tapers for Christ
mas trees. She originally cost eight
hundred dollars in New York, the work.
manship being of the best, and was for q
long time displayed in a Broadway mil
liners window before she was shipped tC
the Comstock,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
HoaU Sitting Basfs Raised asl Army

HOac GeEtln0 BNd Nausea Nh Army
1t is not generally known among per.
sons outside of the Sioux country how the
great Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, origin
ally acquired the little band of desper-
ate men who follow him so faithfully,
nor how he has maintained his unbroken
file. Ever since Sitting Bull first de-
clared war upon the United States
in general, and the whites about the
Black Hill in particular, he has con-
stantly extended invitations to the
Sioux on the reservation to join him
with their families. But the universal
opinion among the reservation Indians
being, as before stated, that he was a
fool, has prevented nearly all from en-
rolling themselves under his banner,
and Sitting Bull has been compelled to
rely for recruits on the Indians who
have committed crimes in the settle
ments, and who have been forced to
leave the jurisdiction of the white mans
government. For instance, when a
Sioux engages too extensively in horse
stealing, or in heated moment muir
ders a white man, he flies to Sitting
Bulls camp, where he isalways received
with open arms. This refuge has been
kept open by the great chief for num-
ber of years, and thus he has ascontinuously,
although slowly, added to his force the
most desperate men, who dare not re-
nounce their allegiance, no matter how
much they desire, for fear when they
return to the reservation they will be
punished for their crimes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
runrE FI.H.R ,IAIDENs.


Three maidens went sailing out into the world,
Out into the world Of n ballroom floor:
Each thsught II her hair most gracefully curled,
And their mothers stood watching them out from
the door;
For men must work that women may keep
The length Of their revels, lest ever they weep,
And their fond mamma be sc0wling.
Three fathers sat up by their ledKers so blank,
And they eonned their accounts with their heads
low down;
And they added their bills and their checks on the
bank,
And read the dread roll Of the days wrecks in
town;
But men must work, lest the women should
weep
Though lonely his lot and troubles deep,
The pattern papa's not growing.
Tires bankrupts were posted in merciless print
In the morning Gd1efte, as the panic went down
And their daughters went duly from frenzy to faint
Tor the tragedy thrilled the elite of the town;
For men may work, yet the women will weep,
And the sooner they're married, the sooner 10
aleep,
And defy the mamma and her scowlipg.
m York fyfUpSOp
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
Ages of Prominent Men.
New York Graphic. ]


Rutherford B. Hayes will be fifty-ive
years old October 4, 1877.
William A. Wheeler is in his fifty
seventh year.
Samuel J. Tilden is in his sixty-fourth
year.
Thomas A. Hendricks will be fifty
eight September II, 1877.
Ulysses S. Grant will be 6fty-6ve April
27, 1877.
Thomas w. Ferry, President pro tenn
pore of the American Senate will be fifty
June l, 1877.
Simon Cameron will be seventy eight
March 8, 1877.
Hamilton Fish will be sixty-nine
August 8, 1877.
William Maxwell Evarts was fifty
nine last month, February, 1877.
Oliver Perry Morton will be fifty-four
August 4, 1877.
George F. Edmunds was forty-nine
February IA, 1877.
Frederick I. Frelinghuysen will be
sixty August 4, 1877.
Allen G. Thurman will be slxty-four
November Is, 1877.
Thomas F. Bayard will be forty-nine
next October.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
An A2kdaclO9gs SspialdLe.

There seems to be no limit to the au-
dacity of swindling. A few days since
stranger went to Harrisburg, Pa, and
pretended to have patent for the man
ufacture of a superior quality of wool.
He professed to have chemicals by which
he could convert cotton into wool.
Strage to say, he found victims who made
arrangements to employ him at good
salary to put his invention into success
full operation. Under his supervision
the alleged necessary machinery was
erected in one of the shops and all was
in readiness, when they found that the
" wool "had been pulled over their eyes,
for after gathering together under various
pretenses, quite sum of money, the in
ventor was suddenly missing. The par
ties waited for days for his return, when
a suspicion flashed across their minds
that they might have been the victims
of an imposition. The stranger having
left behind several demijohns which he
had represented contained the magic
chemicals, they opened them to find
them filled with water.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
LIES MISERY.

we SOW the glebe, we reap the corn,
we build the house where we may rest:
And then, at m oments, suddenly
We look up to the great wide sky,
inquiring wherefore we were born
For earnest, or for Jest?
ii.
God keeps his holy m ysteries
Just on the outside of mans dreamI
In diapason slow, we think
To hear their pinions Iise and sink.
While they float pure beneath His ewes.
Like swans adown a stream.
III.
And, somtimes, horror chilIs our blood
To be so near such mystic things;
And we wrap round us, for defense,
Our purple manners, moods of sense
As angels from the face of God,
Stand hidden in their wings.
And, sometimes, through life's heavy swound :,
We grope for them-with straneled breath.
We stretch our hands about and try
TIE reach them in our agony
And widen SO, the broad life-woand
Which sosn is large enough for death.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08
THE LOOM OF LIFE.

All day, all night, can hear the jar
OF the loom Of life, and near and far
II thrills with its deep aud mufhed sound,
A the tirelens wheels 80 always around.
Busily, ecaselesaly gees the locus
In the Light Of dsy and the midnight giosm.
The wheels are turning early and late,
And the wooi Is wound In the warp Of fate.
Click cIackl there's thread Of love wove In !;
Clioki claeki another Of wrong and kia;
what q eheckered thing will this life be
when We zee It unrolled In eternity
Time, with a face like n mystery,
And hands an busy - hands can he,
sits at tho loom with ita warp oulspread,
To catch fnits msshes each glancing thread.
when shall this wonderful web be doneH
In q thousand years, perhaps, or one;
Or tomorrow. Who knoweth, not you, nor ],
But the wheels turn ON and the shuttles iy.
An, aad-eyed weaver, the years are slow,
But each one Is nearer the end, know,
And some day the last thread shall be woven in;
God grant Il be love instead Of sin.
We are spinners Of wool for this life-web-say
Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day?
II we're batter, then, oh, my friend, to spin
A beautiful thread than n thread OF sin.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08

A LADY school teacher in a western
town resigned her position, because when
she undertook to correct the big boys
they would attempt TO kiss her-give her
a smack" for a blow. Fourteen hun
dred old girls have applied for the vacant
position
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08

Mrs. Bibers house was built upon re-
claimed marsh below Center Station,
Oakland, California: and her husband
was in cold, wet graveyard. Her heart
was true to him and to the four cherubs
he had left behind him, the Oldest four
teen and the youngest in the cradle. A
white card outside the door proclaimed
that the widows property was for sale.
On January 25th good-looking man of
pleasant address, attired in coarse check
shirt and canvass pantaloons, a rough
coat and army brogans, called and offered
to buy the house. He said he was
miner who begun digging as son of toll
on the arid plains of Arizona, and now
he was worth 100000. He was lonely
and solitary, and wanted to settle down
and have home. She sighed, made
touching reference to the wet cemetry
and to the four cherubs; said she, too,
was lonely and solitary, and sighed
again. He said he would buy the house,
and then went out to get his supper. In
the evening he returned, and she enter
tanned him with fathomless sighs and de-
sulitary conversation after the manner
of Mrs. Nickleby. He asked her to marry
him, and she said she would. The next
day-it was Wednesday-they went to
San Francisco and were married. For
two days she was happy, notwithstanding
the ominous remark of one of the cherubs
who had surreptitiously examined his
stepfather's pockets. "He amt dot
no dold in 'em." On Friday her brother.
in-law discovered that her husband was
lunatic from the Napa Insane Asylum
who had wife in Fruit Vale, and whose
Arizona mines were the inflated currency
of a diseased imagination. She turned
him out. On the next day the lady from
Fruit Vale called to say that Mrs. Bibel
was the fourth widow with landed prop
erty who had been deceived by the crazy
miner. Mrs. Biber sits in the parlor ovel
the reclaimed marsh, sits by the window
and counts the pools of water on th'
moorland, sits by the hour and thinks o
the moist cemetery, sits and weeps ant
scolds the cherubs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08

ACCORDING to Langley's forthcoming
directory, San Francisco has now popu-
lation of round 100000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08

A HEAD properly constituted can ac-
commodate itself to whatever pillow
the vicissitudes of fortune may place
under it,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08

THE most fashionable CATERS nova
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-08

The remains of Roman house, with
part of the heating arrangements, were
recently discovered near Mengen, in
Wurtemberg. In the mosaic flooring of
the principal room was depicted Me-
dusa head, completely preserved. Rem
nants of frescoed walls were found
North of Mengen, near Ennetach, many
coins and remains of Roman buildings,
and a'fnely executed but headless statu-
cite of Mercury, were brought to light
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-05-11
"We Passed That"

It's one thing to have an object in life,
it is quite another thing to know when
we are aiming at it. Many begin we'll,
but after time get off the course; then
their life is more likely to 60 wrong than
right. The following incident has its
moral for all who are aiming to do right /:
During beautiful summers night, on
one of our great lakes, the master of u
boat thought that he might take few
hours rest, and entrusted the rudder into
the hands of his boy, a somewhat simple
minded lad. "Do you see that star
straight before u.s." he said to him, point
ing to the Polar star.
"Yes."
"Well, you have nothing to do but to
keep the boat straight in that direction"
II understand"
The captain fell asleep. The boy did
the same. The wind changed, the boat
turned out Of its course more and more,
till at last it had made a semi-circle.
The boy awOke; he was astonished to
see behind his back the star which just
now had been straight before him, but he
did not the less continue towards the
south, from whence it had first come.
Two hours after the master in his turn
awoke. He cast one glance upon the
sky and another upon the boy.
swell, stupid! what are you doing2"
"I'm still keeping always straight be-
fore me, rs you told me-"
"Ah, indeed! and the Polar starr"
"Oh, the Polar star Why, we passed
that long ago"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-05-11
Gems From ''DOn QuixOte."

Beauty in modest woman is like FIRE
or a sharp sword at distance; neither
doth the one burn nor the other wound
those that come not too close to them.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes
open.
The absent fear and feel every ill.
Self-praise depreciates.
The dead to the bier; the living to good
cheer
All women, let them be ever so homely,
are pleased to hear themselves celebrated
for their beauty.
Squires and knights-errant are subject
to much hunger and ill-luck.
Liberality may be carried too far in
those who have children to inherit from
them.
Virtue is always more prosecuted by
the wicked than beloved by the righteous.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Honey is not for the mouth of an ass.
No paddock, bolts or bars can secure
maiden so we'll as her own reserve.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
The wittiest person in a comedy is he
who plays the fool.
There is no book so bad but something
good may be found in it.
We are all as God made us, aud often
times great deal worse.
We cannot all be friars, and various are
the paths by which God conducts the
good to heaven.
Covetousness bursts the bag.
BY the streets of "By and by" one ar
rives at the house of Never"
Between the Eyes" and mo" of a wOm-
an would not undertake to thrust the
point of pin.
Other mems pains are easily borne.
A bad cloak often covers a good
drinker.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-05-11
DR.. Holland.

A correspondent OF the Boston Herald
classes DIR. Holland among the fortunate
authors, and adds this graphic sketch:
beginning as physician in Western
Massachusetts Che was born at Belcher-
town. he surrendered the practice of
medicine to edit literary journal; went
to Mississippi; was superintendent of
the public schools at Vicksburg for a
year; returned North; connected himself
with the Springfield Republicans; sold
out; travelled in Europe; conceived the
plan of Scribner's Monthly at Geneva
1.-THE plan was consummated on the Bridge
of Mont Blanc) returned here, and in
1870 the magazine was issued. He is its
editor and owns one-third; the other two
thirds being held by Roswell Smith and
Scribner, Armstrong 81 Co. Holland is
as much liked as lecturer as littera-
teur. In the dullest seasons he has more
invitation than he can accept, and these
come from every section of the country.
"From all literary sources he must
have an income of from $4,000 to
$4,000. Now in his fifty-eighth year,
he is much younger in appearance. He
has scarcely any gray hair; he is straight
as an arrow; not more than thirty In
feeling, and possessed of limitless health.
He has a strong, handsome, very notice
able face. His eyes are gray or hazel;
his hair black; his complexion dark;
his nose aquiline; his mouth firm, and he
looks as if he might have aboriginal
blood. He is very pleasant and affable;
loves company, and has every season
verv aureeahle literary recentiOns at his
comfortable and elegant home in Park
avenue. While he holds his own opin-
ions tenaciousy, he is altogether tolerant
of the opinions of others, aud reckons
among some Of his best friends men and
women of the art tribe who are radicals
and rationalists in matters of belief. He
has an interesting family, consisting of
two mature daughters, and son some
years younger, and is in his tastes and
feelings strictly domestic"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-05-11

COMB FoUNDATIoNs.-The american
Bee Journal thus answers the question,
"What are comb foundationsl" 'Take a
piece of empty honeycomb and cut off
the cells, until nothing is left but the di-
vision wall of wax between the two OPP
posite sets of cells, and you have comb
foundation. The latest production, how
ever, consists not merely of the dividing
wall but also slight depth of the cell
walls themselves, on each side, and these
cell walls, although slight in depth, may
be of such thickness as to contain enough
wax, so that the bees may work out or
prolong the cells to their full depth with
out any additional material. These comb
foundations are given to the bees in their
broad chamber, enough being put in a
frame to fill it, in whole or in part, per-
haps only narrow strip being used for
surplus honey, enough being given to fill
the boxes, or merely enough to give the
bees a start. The object is to save the
time Of the bees in secreting the wax and
the honey used in its production"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-05-11
An Indian Duel.

A citizen Of Sioux City, who has spent
much time among the agencies OF the
up-river Indians, says it is amusing as
we'll as touching to hear an Indian sing
his death sing. Our informant was at
Standing Rock few months since,
and one day he observed an unusual stir
among the Indians. Soon two bucks
came forth from different lodges, each
with gun in his hand. They walked
out some little distance from the rest of
the Indians and took posts, distant from
each other about fifty yards. At given
signal they turned, raised their rifles to
their faces and fired. Both fell, wounded,
one fatally. They were Immediately sur
rounded by friends, who made no partic-
ular effort to bind their wounds, but sim
ply stood around talking among them
selves and gesticulating, while the wound
ed Indians, as soon as they fell, began
the death song There was little music
in it. 1t was sort of deep-down, un-
natural tone of voice, kept up for half a
minute or SD at q time, when 1t would
cease, and the sufferers would in the in
term make q confession of all the evil
deeds they had ever done. They would
tell of the massacres in which they had
been engaged; how many scalps they had
lifted from the heads of white people; the
number Of ponies they had stolen, to-
gether with all sorts of important and
unimportsnt evil doings in their lifetime.
This accomplished, they were ready to
give up the ghost.-Omaha Herald.