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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

high estimate. They have not
only done more for their peculiar
art tn any other house, but to
every deserving enterprise they
give such hearty and substantial
supper. as in many cases has as
sured an otherwise uHattainable
success To the abso ute superb
lority of their instruments they
have just received the testimony
OF that queen of pianis.s, Mime.
Essipof, all of whose New York
concerts were given in Steinwav
Hall, and whe used the Steinway
pianos at her every performance
in America. Her tribute to this
superiority is careful and discrlm-
mating, but is as hearty as that
of Rubins;ein and List. Liszt,
by the way, ought by this time to
have 2 profound respect for the
musical mechanics of America.
Some time ago he chanced 10 see
in the warerooms of the Hlnover
Germany agent for the Mason
& Hamlin Organ Company, a cabi.
net organ which so far surpassed
anything he had ever seen that he
Immediately gave orders through
his agent for a similar instrument
to be built in particular manner
which he described. This unso.
llclted order from the acknowl-
edged king of the mnsical wolld
was naturally felt to te something
OF an honor, when other makers
would have given their ears for
the privilege of presenting. him
with one Of tleir instruments.
Great pains and care were there.
fore taken with the Li.zt Organ,
which turned out to be, by the
acknowledgment of the makers.
the finest they had ever produced,
and which has elected from the
maestro a letter of wondering ad-
mlrotiOn. Theimprovementsm made
during their study upon this. in
strument prove so unexpectedly
great that they are 10 be perma-
nently introduced into their mar-
and the Liszt Organ
will hereafter occupy a regular
place in their catalogue.
RADIX.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
The Pistol Nuisance.

The following sensible re-
marks on the custom Of carry
ing concealed weapons are ta-
ken from the Nashville Ameri-
can:
The bearing of concealed
weapons should be a peniten-
tiary offense. The government
should set the seal of its disap-
probation upon a social custom
which, we repeat, has the ten
dency to breed a nation of cow
ards and assassins. The moral
sense of the community should
outlaw the mock-heroic senti-
ment of its brute clement, whose
instructive b 10 o d-thlrstiness
makes pistol-bearing the badge
of its manliness. The practice
is a disgrace to the only civil
lied nation that tolerates an
abuse carrying such a woe and
misery, degradation and re-
morse in its train. Pocket pis-
tolls are not necessary for the
defense of life or property, nor
the maintenance OF law, nor the
preservation Of social order.
They should be abolished, even
with the determination, if nee
essary to the eradication of the
evil, of those pestilential social
nuisances with whom the pistol
bearing disease has become
chronic. Epidemics and the dis
asters by food and field are suf-
ficient to the depopulation of
the earth, without these death
dealing devices to increase the
trade of the sexton and the uu-
dertaker and enlarge the field
of operations of the orphan
asylums. The average limit Of
life is too brief to require arti-
fetal facilities to hasten the exit
Of the human race. Life is Sc
rious enough and human suffer-
ing general enough over the face
Of the earth, without the aid of
ingenious inventions for the
speediest and most convenient
deprivation Of the lives which
an all-wise and mysterious and
awful Providence has ordered.
We may not expect to realize a
millennium of Peace and Love
upon Earth; but we might ma
terially improve and elevate our
civilization by some reform in
the matter of numbering each
other.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
Another New SWindle

The following item is going
the rounds Of our exchanges
Another new swindle has been
developed, the moduS operGRdl
of which is as follows: A pack
peddler calls at a house with a
fine lot of articles which he of
fers at ruinous sacrifices. He
makes a sale and goes on his
way. The next day two men
drive up TO the house with a prin-
ted bill, giving an account Of
the robbery Of a certain store.
They claim the goods. and usu-
ally bulldoze the purchaser into
giving them up. 1t would be
well for newspapers throughout
the State to give these swim
dlers the benefit of a gratuitous
advertisement, so as to guard
their readers against such i'm
posters. People who do not
read the papers would then be
the only sufferers-and this
class, it may be added, are gen
orally the ones who are taken in
by the plausible rascals.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
PharisaiCal Piety.

Seldom doreligious papers deliver
such telling stories straight from
the shoulder as is the following
from the Methodist Recorder.
"The name which is above ev-
ry name is frequently taken in
vain by professed pious people.
For example: In ordinary bust
ness letters it is common for an
order for new looks, or a commu-
nlcation on a purely secular sub.
ject, to close with the phrase,
yours in Christ Some year ago
we received a most abusive epistle
in which the sourest possible
spirit was manifested, and all
sorts OF hateful names misapplied
on account of some supposed ed.
itorial detection, and the self same
letter ended with Your Brother
in the Lord Adam Poe of the
firm of Swormstead & Poe, Meth
odist Episcopal publishing agents,
Cincinnati, used to look with sus-
picion upon every business com
munication that closed with such
pietism as Your in Jesus He
said his experience proved the
singular TACT that his largest loss
es, and the biggest commercial
lies, SO to speak, were traced back
to the correspondents who trif1ed
thus with sacred things. There
is a suggestion here worth remem-
bnrinr
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
Church Directory.

Presbyterian, ayettevIile-services ev-
cry Sabbath at 1890 and at night; Rev Geo
Hal, special supply; Sunday school at A NJ.
Methodist-services every Sabbath at
1890 and at night; Rev r E Travis, pastor;
Sunday school at 8 O'Clock.
Cumberland resbyteTian--services 3rd
and 4thSundays each month at IL O'Clock A
M and at night; Rev w Estill, pastor; Sun
day school at 8.
Union Church, Pleasant Plains-services
1st Sabbath each month at IL and night by
the Methodists; Rev Mr. Barham, preacher
in charge-2nd and 4th Sabbath each month
at IL by the Associate Reformed Presbyteri-
ans, Rev ] B Muse, pastor. Union Sun
day school at 8.
A r Presbyterian, New Hope, services 1st
and 3rd Sabbaths at IL; Bethel, End and
lth Sabhaths at 11-Rev A S Sloan, pastor.
Methodist, Mulberry-seryices 3rd Sun
dav in each month at IL O'Clock and every
Sunday night; RevWJ Collier, pastor; Sum
day School at 8.
BAPTIST, MuIberry-services 1st Sabbath
in CT ch month at II. Rev VIM Huff, Iasto~.
Cumberland Presbyterian, Mulberry
services 1st Sabbath in each month at IL
and night; Rev Jas Campbell, pastor.
Urited Presbyterian, Lincoln-services
every Sabbath at 1l:15 A NJ; Rev w Wait,
pastor; Sunday school at 10.
Methodist, Shady Grove, (Shelton's
creek)-services 1st Sabbath in each month
at IL o'clock; Rev j. Parks, preacher in ch
Liberty Grove-services End Sabbath at
IL A M; Rev w a Gill, preacher in charge.
Cumberland Presbyterian, Oak Grove,
(near Flyntville)-services 4th Sabbath in
each month at IL o'clock; Rev A w Suth-
erlend. supply.
Methodist Oak Hirl-services 4th Sab
bath each month at 10 O'Clock.
Cumberland Presbyterian, Kelso, Rev n D
Craw d, pastor.
Methodist-service End Sabbath at 10 A
NJ: Rev w b Lowery, P C.
Cumberland Presbyterian, Oak BILL, Rev
J d Tigert, pastor.
PROSPECT, Wells hill, Saturday before I'd
Sunday, each month, Rev B I King, pastor.
Hester's Creek, Saturday before 4th Sun
day. each month, Rev b I King, pastor.
Methodist, Flyntviile--services 4th Sab
hath at 1870 A. NJ; Mt Hermon, Flintyille
circuit. services 1st Sabbath at lO:3O A Nj;
Macedonia, Flintville circuit, services 3rd
Sabbath at 1890 A M-Rev David u Ray,
preacher in charge.
Missionary Baptist, Norris Greek, Duck
eve)-eervices End Saturday and Sunday in
each month; Rev s L Sanford, pastor.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
Stephen Brinkley Hanged
After Seven Trials, in Each of
which he was Convicted of Wife
Murder.

ATLANTA, Ga, June 15.-Ste-
Iphen Brinkley was hanged at
Newman to-day for the murder
of his wife nearly four years ago.
| The case has been in the courts
over three years and has been
tried seven times, each time
going against the prisoner.
Twice he has been snatched
from death by writs of lumotico
araQulrendo, once by respite of
the Governor, and once by
proving that one Of his jurors
had bet gallon Of whiskey
that he would be hanged. Sew
eral times he has been examin-
ed by physicians who were sent
to pronounce upon the condi-
tion of his mind, and once by a
medical commission sent out
from Atlanta. His case has ex-
cited widespread interest. He
has a brother in Memphis who
has. spent over $4,000, it is
said, in the attempt to save him
from the gallows. For the past
two weeks the most extraordi-
nary efforts have been made to
secure executive interference.
Three Governors, Gov. Stone
of Mississippi, Gov. Porter, and
Gov. n. S. Brown OF Tennes-
see, have each sent papers to
Gov. Colquitt asking for elem
ency for Brinkley.- Gen. N. B.
Forrest and Gen. W. II. Jack
son, with whom Brinkley serv-
ed during the war, wrote to
Gov. Colquitt, saying that they
believed the condemned man
was Of unsound mind, and that
he bore The reputation of being
crazy during the war, and was
discharged from the army on
that account. The Governor,
however, refused to commute
the sentence.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
The New York Christian o.

The New York Christian o.
server says: Messrs. Tracy and
Chapman, the ex-President and
ex-Cashier of the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank at Hartford,
Conn, were sentenced last Thurs
day to long terms in the Corhecti-
cut State prison, Notwithstanding
it was shown that from the bank S
money which they had lent to
their friends, they had themselves
received no benefit. It was thought
that the culprits would be SEN
fenced to the Hartford county
Jail, but Judge Shipman, in pass
ing sentence, emphasized the i'm
portance of making an example
of bank malefactors. Mr.. Tracy
has been for many years a leading
citizen of Hartford.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
The Payment Of the State
Debt.

4 The jackson San has this to
say on the question of the hon.
est payment Of the State debt:
'"The man who can and will
not pay his honest debts is a
dishonest rascal, and the hand
of every honest man should be
turned against him. The man
who teaches the people that re-
.pudiation is a relief to a State,
and a proper remedy to seek, is
a oorrupter of public virtue,
and enemy to public morals, a
political libertine who would,
with sweet treachery on his
tongue, befoul the character of
the State; a knave who would,
with professions of friendship,
wound the honor Of the people
in its vital part and sow the
seeds of villiany in the minds
OF the rising generations, teach
ing them the Spartan code of
morals, which made theft the
leading feature of public educa-
tion. We are drifting along
without protest, discussing the
largest amount that we can
probably compel our creditors
to yield up, and the disciples Of
reputation who always work
under the guise of demagogues,
are quietly sowing the seeds
that must bring forth crime and
disgrace as its fruit, if permit
ted TO go unchecked. 1t is time
for honest men to speak out
who do not want fraud and dis
grace to become the rule in all
business transactions. Dishon-
esty never prOspered any man
long, and it will damn any COM
that tolerates it,"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
Death Of Rev. DR.. James
p. Pressly.

The Associate Reformed
Church has met with a severe
loss in the death of the venera-
bic DIR. Pressly, who was for
thirty-seven years Professor in
Erskine College at Due West,
5. C., and for ABOUT the same
number of years During the
same time) Professor of TheoI-
ogy and Greek Exergesis in
Erskine Theological Seminary.
The associate Reformed Pres
6yterIaR says of him that he:
was the "oldest minister in the
Associate Reformed Synod of
the South, and one who has
been identified with her Col
lege and Seminary from their
very incipiency almost, and who
has done as much to give Them
character as any other" He.
died in the sevcntieth year of
his age. DR.. Pressly belonged
to a family remarkable for the
number Of ministers of the Cos
pei which it contains. In tho
list of his brothers, sons, and
other very near relatives, may
be found the nrnes of not less
than twelve = amongst them
that Of the Rev. DIR. w. j. Low
ry, pastor Of one Of our church
es in Louisville, Ky.-Southe1n
Presbyterian.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

swell, how's business been
to-day" was the inquiry put
TO Center Street merchant by
his customer Saturday evening.
"Poor as jobs turkey" was
the sofrowful reply; "been cool
and blustery, and they didn't
bite. wqE .r9 .
1t was we'll along toward
morning before it occurred to
the merchant that his customer
had asked about trade, and not
about his luck fishing. When
his wife discovered him the next
second he had his pants on wrong
side before and was breaking
for. the front door, exclaiming
"By gracious, this must be ex-
.plianed! He'll think l take them
for suckers"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

The leading features of Mr..
Hayes administration are said TO
be now accepted-at least, they
are endured-by most of those
who at the first were ready to ex-
press great dissatisfaction. He
can certainly give more trouble
to the disafected in his own par
ty than they are likely to give
him; and as the leading Democrats
of the country give their adher.
ence to these measures, there are
good prospects of pleasant and
prosperous administration.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
|SIGReige8 8Qetpg,
For the Fayetteville Observer.
A DREAM.
BY JESSIE FERGUSON BROWNE.

In dream, while slumber bound me,
Forms ethereal seemed around me;
Gazing upward beheld
One, by all unparalleled
One that seemed divinely made,
Flowing robes around him played,
Gorgeous pinions spreading fair,
Posed him lightly in the air;
Heavenly splendor crowned his brow,
Glorious vision, whence art thou?
Smiling then he answered me,
"Wait, oh mortal, wait and see;
When like MS thou art divine,
Like our glory shall be thine,
Bliss devoid of every woe,
Such as mOrtals never know,
Such as thine has never been,
Purified from taint of SIM
Thus the seeming angel spoke,
Ere from my dream awoke;
Then began his heavenly fight.
High ascending from my sight,
Was it all mere delusiOn?
All phantasy-a vision?
Dreams perchance may be ideal,
But surely Heaven must be real.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
New York's Rat Catcher.
Gone to st. Louis to Rid the Lin
dell House of it's Many Rodents.

dell House of its Many Rodents.
From the St. Louis Times.
Richard Toner, a profession
al rat catcher of, considerable
notoriety in New York city, ar
rived in st. Louis yesterday,
and has taken a contract to rid
the Lindell House of rats. He
is accompanied by one assis-
tant andhas thoroughly trained
ferret. Mr.. Toner ssays that
rats begin to breed at the age
of three months and once every
month thereafter produce a lit
ter Of thirteen; that the num-
ber of the litter never varies,
and is always composed of
twelve males and one female;
that if the number of females
were as great as males, rats
would become a plague that all
the terriers and rat-catchers in
the country could not keep
down.
He began operations at the
Lindell last night, in the pres
ence of half a dozen persons.
He armed himself with a dark
lantern, a gunny bag, and a pc
culiar constructed pair of
tongs or nippers. The tongs
are about two and a half teet
long, and have handles IKE
shears. Mr.. Toner gave the
bag to his assistant, and took
the dark lantern in his left hand
and the tongs in his right. E.
quipped in this manner, he crept
about the cellars among the bar
rels and boxes, and ever now
and then seized rat with the
tongs. The assistant, who kept
right at his heels, Instantly o.
pened the mouth of the bag and
the rat was dropped into it, the
process of capture not occupy
ing over ten seconds. He SAYS
that when he throws the strong
light from the lantern upon a
rat it does not run, but simply
turns so as to prevent the light
from shining in its eyes. AS it
turns there is no difficulty in
seizing it with the tongs.
Mr.. Toner did not make any
use Of his ferret until about 1
o'clock, when everything was
quiet in the house. He first
went all over the premises, ex-
amining the rat holes to famil-
iarize himself with the rats
"runways." He says the rats
have certain holes to run through
when they are frightened, and
that an experienced rat-catcher
can soon learn how these holes
lead. After acquiring this
knowledge he sent his ferret in
to a rat hole and stationed him
self at the other end of the hole.
For instance, he found a rat
hole in the pantry and traced
its course down into the cellar,
where it came out in some COR
ner. He started the ferret into
the hole up stairs and stationed
himself below with his tongs.
The ferret pushed his way along
the turnings Of the hole and
drove the rats ahead of him. AS
the rats ran from the hole in the
cellar Toner picked them up
with his tongs and droped them
into his bag.
Toner owned the largest rat
pit in New York.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

A Brooklyn lady was awaken.
ed the other night by movement
under her bed. She thought of
thieves Immediately; but her hus.
Rand, npon being awakened, said
he guessed the noise must be
made by the family dog. He
reached his hand down to the
floor, and in q moment felt a
warm tongue tapping it. Then
he went to sheep and awoke il
the merning to find the apartment
generally "cleaned out." The
tapping was a clever device of a
thiet
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
There's a cow with five heads.

There's q cow with five heads
if you go 10 the Central Park
you will see it," said a New
York joker TO "a breker. The
broker went TO the Park, bu,
didn't see the five-headed cow
and on next meeting his friend
took him to task for his deception
81 didn't deceive you,' said the
joker, Il said if you went to the
Central Park you would see it
and didn't you see the Park?'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
A grove of the great trees of

A grove of the great trees of
the Yosemite has just'been explor-
ed. 1t is ofan altitude similar
to that of the-other groves, 5000
feet. Instead, however, of being
only cluster Of forty trees, it is a
six-mile-square collection of ten
thousand. { There are trees in il
estimated to be from 100 to 1900
years old.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

Not long ago an aged lady of
Fontainebleau died, leaving
large property, and, among 9TH
er befuests, left to a local ply
sician who had long attended
her a huge oaken trunk, the
opening of which excited great
expectations. But the con-
tents did not prove to be partic-
ularIy valuable. They were the
drugs and doses which he had
supplied to her for years past.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

There is said to he a church in
Berlin made en- ireIy CT paper.
TIE idea is carried ont by having
little pages to Introduce visitors
to the quirp, while the preacher
is known as the Papiermasher
of the pulp-it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

A fashion report SAYS that gen.
tlemen's hats are provided with
new kind of ventilator which will
last much longer than the hole
style. Anything that will out
last hole must be valuble adj
dition to the resources of a people.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

Another American poet going
to Europe. 1t was he who wrote
of a shipwreck at sea, "Thus fif'
ty weary souls went and hit the
dust;" and who wrote Of a fire in
an ice. house, $50 10000 pounds
of ice were thus reduced to ashes.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

A valuble newfoundland dog, in
Wakefield, Mass, rebelled against
wearing the mazzle. He did his
best to tear it off, and failing, de-
liberately walked to pond and
drowned himself.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

Whenever you read of "reign
Of terror in any Southern State,
you can calculate that some car
pet bagger has lost his grip on a
lat office.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

An Indiana farmer who posted .
notice reading: mo hunting on
this farm, was surpis d to lind
it to read, ON u second inspection:
. M hunting on this Larm-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

When You hear q mother ealb
ing to her son to "Corre here ami
shut the shutter" and hosg hin
respond, { 1t is shut, mother. and.
| can't Shut it any shutter" do
you ever pause to analyge the del
icate beauties of cur lans uage?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

The war between Chicago and
St. Louis is being carried too far.
A Chicago paper says: Last
Tuesda7, while St. Louis young
woman was putting on a pair OF
ball slippers, she foand missing
sealskin jacket in the toe of one
of them"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

New HAVEN, June 17.-Rev.
John S. G. Abbott, the histO-
rian, died at his homo at Fair
Haven to-day, aged seventy
one years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

Extract from a letter from
Atchison, Kan: "The ground is
tremendously dry hers; the big
lain of last week did. not reach the
ground; the grasshoppers stood on
their hind legs and drank the
water as fast as it fell! So | am
informed, but this may not be
true" s
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28
TERMS

S Two Dollars for one year, .sya-
rtdoty tn ddc0nce; Two Dollars and
Fitty Gents if payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out of the county
TO be paid for IN odUance.
S9r Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

There is a merchant possess
ing decided ideas where the line
of credit should be drawn, who
announces by a placard in his
show WindOwon Broadway: "In
God we trust. Ali others are
expected to pay cash."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-06-28

Newspapers who style each 9th.
er "the thieves own or "the
thieves organ," must be run by
people whose habitual associates
are "plugs" or ''cyprians. 15s1aQ