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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

There is an iron safe in Cincin.
natl which lay for six years on
the bottom of Lake Erie with
$4,000 in it. 1t was got out by
diving bell process, and now
serves its old purpose 10 an ex.
press Office.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

"You are pretty as picture,
he mutiered, gazing into her up
turned face. "and it would have
been a great deal cheaper for me
il IAad taken your picture In
stead oi yourself
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

The spicy American Newspa-
per Reporter says: "The journal.
lists Of Denver have formed a
Press Club. The objects, of
course, are mutual Improvement,
the cultivation OF literature, art,
and cheap, co operative drunken.
ness"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A West Virginia law enacts
that if any person shall be con-
Icerned in managing a rattle or
gift enterprise, at a church fair
or festival, he may be imprison-
ed a year and be fined $500, and
the property shall be forfeited
to the State for the benefit Of
the school fund.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

Nobody can tell how many dis
putes for the front side Of the bed
have been settled by moving the
bedsteads in the centre Of the
room.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A man at Keokuk has cut out
and pasted in a scrap book ac-
counts OF eleYen hundred differ
ent boiler,explosions, and now be
wants to sen the collection foI
$500.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A Biblical scholar in Qerma-
ny has been doing solne pretty
close figuring-to determine flie
dates of events described in the
Old Testament, and announces
as one result the discovery that
Noah issued from the Ark on
September 18th, 3443, at six o.
clock in the evening.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A small boy 10 Amherst, Mass
lately swallowed a small tin trum-
pet. He has it in him to make a
good musician, and now only
needs proper training.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

Out Of 1T ladies in Michigan
University, only four have taken
TO law. How many have taken to
lawyers is not stated.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A very large majority of the
newspapers of Tennessee have ex.
pressed their condem. nation of
the refusal of the Legislature to
settle the State Debt. While
many of them opposed the sixty
cents proposition nearly all of
them favor the acceptance of that
of fifty cents.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A nose which gets red after
walking, or drinking bot tea, de.
notes somsthing wrong with the
digestive organs, for the cure of
which medical advice should be
taken.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28
By c. BARSHART.

Remember thy Creator now,
While in thy youthful days;
To Christ thy Lo;d and Saviour bow,
And early seek His face.
Remember now thy sovereign Lord,
And give him now thy heart; .
And ponder well HE holy word,
And choose the better part.
Before the evil days shall come
And thou no pleasure take,
Or thou art called to thy long home
Thy last account to make.
The pleasures of this life are small,
And few they are at most;
But what If thou shouldst gain them al
And then thy soul be lost?
What gain or profit would you make,
When you come to lifs's goal, =
Or what exchange would you then take
For your immortal soul?
OF all the pearls and gems so fir
In&eean's caves we find,
What psarl or gem can we compare
With the immortal mind.
The body will while survive.
TheE, in the grave be cast,
But the immortal soul shall live
While eternity shall last. ~
The great conclusion let us hear,
The whole duty Of man;
For tio1 keeps His commandments here,
This is the gospel plan.
For God viii into Judgment bring
All things beneath the sun,
Good OF bad, every secret thing
That We have ever done.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

The Bible tells you not to call
a man a fool Bet then If be real
ly is one what are you TO do. since
the Bible enjoins you to tell the
truth. Answer throughthe mail.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

A Kansas City man shot at q
cat. He winged the Thomss, bnt
it was Thomas Mccarthy, one Of
his neighbors.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

DR.. Mary Walker says this
country viii be flowing with riy-
|er-r-r-s Of beglnd.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28
EINllaleeR Roetpa,
For the Fayetteville Observer.
THE MOTHER TO HER INFANT
By JESSIE FERGUSON saowsE.

A blossom unfolding, how fair to the view,
A rosebud of summer, encircled with dew;
Dear babe OF my bosom, Oh well may
they be,
Tho flowers loveliness, emblems of thee
Nc shadows have fallen-hfe's morning
how fair,
How tranquil thy bosom, stranger to
care,
How sweetls unconscious, how mild and
serene,
No clouds have arisen to darken the scene.
2Tis tie opening of life. and its earliest
The May-day Of youth. but the years com
When called to wander the underworld
alone,
How then viii it fare with my loved one.
my. own.
May angels be with thee, and still be thy
guide,
Fo shield--to protect thse when far from
my side,
Fresh, opening and fair as thy life's sunny
morn,
May pleasures perennial thy pathway adorn.
So dearly prize thee, thou source of my
joy,
Ny sweet, sunny rosebud, my beautiful
boy,
Aye, dsarer by far, ard more precious to me,
Than gems OF the mine, or pearls OF the sea,
Is the pride of my healt, and each moment
shall prove,
A mothers pure, deep and unchangeable
love
And tho it may seem to thine innocent soul,
That o'er-the bright future no shadow will
roll,
Yet often will memory revert to the past,
To the days of thy youth. far lovely 10 last,
Revert to. the past and reflect With sigh,
On scenes so endearing forever gone by;
Turn thou to the source where true bappi-
ness lies
For the fountain of bliss has its home in
the skies
Unfailing and pure are the pleasures thus
given,
AS they flow from that fountain whose
source is in heaven.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

SB Tx'o Dollars fer one year, snco-
ruby ~ ddU0Rce, Tw0 Dollars end
Flfty Cents ii payment be deferred three
nonths.. All papers going out Of the county
tc be pnid for In odrance.
BIZ Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

And the other fell in too, boys,
And the other tell in there, too.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28
A Wing for the Young.

y MI ~ " UNI a AN.
Augusta. Ga, Dec. 20, 1877.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

What gain or profit would you make,
When you come to lifs's goal, =
Or what exchange would you then take
For your immortal soul?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

OF all the. pearls and gems so fir
InReean's caves we find,
What earl or gem can we compare
With the immortal mind.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28

Remember thy Creator now,
While in thy youthful days;
To Christ thy Loid and Saviour bow,
And early seek His face.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26
MINOR NOTES.

The Louisville Courier-Jourual which
ought to know, says Kentucky raises more
hemp, needs more of it. and uses less of it,
according to the population, than any other
State in the Union.
When Representative Eugene Hale married
Miss Chandler, her father, ex-senator Chand-
Ter, gave him : 100, 600 fora wedding present
and at the coming Of every grandchild check
for $50, 900 has been forthcoming, to be plac-
ed to the credit of the little one as the neuclus
of its future fortune
Messrs. Morrill,, of Vermont; Sargent, of
California; Cameron, of Wisconsin; Mat
thews of Ohio; Davis of Illinois; Herman
of New York, and Morgan, of Alabama, are
special committee Of the United States Senate
to report a plan for taking the next census.
Ex-Gov Moses Of South Carolina, who was
recently arrested at New York, has been Civ
en- up to the South Carolina officers, and his
recent wholesale confessions of official wrong
doing will now doubtless be used against him.
The last Kentucky legislature appropriated
5000 for the erection of n monument over
the neglected grave of Zachary Taylor, and
wants Congress to give an equal sum. Presi-
dent Taylors grave is near Louisville on the
banks of the Ohio, and near it, on the Ohio
side Of the river, is the equally neglected
grave of President Harrison.
The Rothschlds of London desire to take
10000, 600 of United States q per cent
bonds, and two treasury agents left New York
last Thursday, with that amount of the bonds
for London to reopen an American bureau of
the treasury at the Rothschilds. Three mil
lions Of the 4 J per cents were sold last week
by the New York syndicate.
All the minis are now at work on the new
silver dollars. So far there have been about
900, 900 coined, but less than half a million
have been issued in exchange for gold. There
was quite n brisk demand for them at first as
curiosities but that demand has abated, and
il remains to be seen how long they can be
maintained on par with gold with all the
mints in the country running day and night
in their production.
An interesting case has recently been de-
cded at Philadelphia. Not long ago YER
dict for $4,000 was given against the Phila-
delphia and Reading railroad company for
the killing of policeman at a crossing. After
the verdict it was found that F. NJ. Taggart
had served ON the jury as S. NJ. Taggart An
| effort was made to have the decision set aside
on this account and inquiry showed that a
! number Of other suits had been tried before
! iuries made up of men of wrong names. The
court rules that this makes no difference, and
that the serving as TX" on a Jury by a man
named ''Y" does not inyalidate its proceed
! ings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26
Can the Republicans Control the NoXt
House OF Representative

As elected by the people the present House
stood l43 Republicans and $50 Democrats.
The Democratic clerk of the last House and
the Democratic members of the present
House, including General Butler, have thus
far, so revised and reversed the will of major
tiles in constituencies that, as now adjusted
the House is made up of 1871 Republicans
and ljG Democrats, a Democratic majority of
~. Now the question is Can the Republi-
cans hold their own and gain enough districts
to give them majority
1t is fair to assume that the manner in
which the Democrats have manufactured
their majority will react against them in the
districts where the will of the people has
been reversed. 1t is fair TO conclude that Mr.,
Patterson, who represents Colorado, but who
was beaten in the reelection by one thousand
majority, viii not be permitted to continue.
We do not believe that the people Of the
Third Massachusetts, District will leave the
matter in such a shape next November that
Mr.. Dean viii occupy Mr.. Fields seat. Mr..
Pacheco Of California is said to be confident
of reelection.
In the South it is quite probable that the
Republicans will lose n number of Congress-
men. Adyices from Tennessee indicate that
the Republicans will gain one or two mem
beers. and there are rumors that EN-Gov. Al
corn will be an independent candidate in
elected. In 1876, in the Fourth District of
Alabama the two Republican candidates had
Csc votes more than the Democrat elected
In the North quite number of Democrats
were elected by very small pluralties In
Connecticut Mr.. Landers' plurality over Gen.
Hawley was only 1870 in 1876. The fact that
Mr.. Phelps, now the Democratic member
from the New Haven District, has voted with
the infationists, and that the vote in 1876 was
inflated, affords reasonable ground for the
Republicans to be hopeful of carrying it in
November. In one of the Chicago districts,
where the National and Socialist movement is
strong, Mr.. Harrison, Democrat, had but G42
plurality. In the Eighteenth District the
Democratic plurality was but 20, and in the
Nineteenth the Republican and Greenback
candidates had III, 500 votes to -, $50 for the
Democrat who was elected. In the Sixth
Maryland District the Democratic plurality
was only II. In the First New Hampshire.
Mr.. Jones's plurality in 1877 was only 43, and
at the late election the District was Republi-
can on the vote for Governor. The Thirty
Third District of New York was lost in 1876
by the Republicans running two candidates,
The two Districts in Ohio composed of Gin
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26
Recent Financial Legislation.

In the May Scribncr DR.. Holland voices the
New England sentiment on tho silver bill with
admirable force and dirrctu,ss:
There is not the slightest question that it
has been the long-csiahlishcd md, rstanding
between the milton and its creditors that its
debt would he paid in gold Those who have
strenuously maintained that this understand
ing should he honorcd have been Extensively
stigmatized as "god-bags" "bloated bond
holders, and so ON to the end of the list. But
who are these creditors What they are
abroad. we do not know, but here they are
very largely those who cannot afford to lose
principal or interest. They are widows and
orphans whose money has been invested in
governments for security they are saw
ings-banks they are insurance companies
mutual and otherwise. The bonds are held
rs the most sacred trust funds. because the
word of the government is behind them.
They are the basis of the whole bank circula-
ton of the country. Our financial system
rests on them, and our silver people, rs a
measure Of relief O., give stab at the value
of these securities. Can infatnation 30 any
further than this: Are our legislators chill
dren Children or knavcs they would seem
to be. If names are to be called from the
other side, we may as well respond 1t seems
to US that the day which General Butler hopes
to see when United States bonds will be
quoted at fifty cents on the dollar. will be
rather a sad one for our people-silyer men
and all.
But there is something beyond all this of
which we wish to say word. No document
has placed the relations of this subject to the
national honor in any better light than the
presidents veto of the silver bill. II was
simple statement of the facts As a nation,
We break our word and betray our honor 10y
voting to pay our public debts with clipped
dollar" THIS is the deepest wound of all
and We ask our Western friends to believe
what is strictly true-that there is no mercon-
AIRY motive involved in the opposition of the
East to the silver bill that compares ut all i'll
strength with its chagrin and sense of nation
al degradation and shame. Nothing was ever
sincerer or more genuine than the feeling that
by this act America has lost caste. We have
felt genuine pride in the strength Of our Sc
curities in the markets of the world. We
have noticed with great satisfaction the re-
funding of these securities at the lowest rate
of interest. We have eXulted in the fact that
while no other nation dreamed of paying its
debt, our own debt was actually being paid.
We have looked forward to the proud day
when the money we handle should be no more
a lie. but when it should be,the money OF the
nations. We are humbled'by the spirit of re-
pudiation, by the first act of reputation, by
a feverish and tumultuous return to financial
chaos, by the successful schemes of dreamers
and demagogues in an attempt to cheat our
creditors and get something for nothing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26
Vermont jail Statistlcs.

The Burlington Free Press has lately pub
lished n summary of the jail statistics Of the
State for the year ending Sept. 30, 1877, from
which it appears that the whole number of
persons committed to jail for that year was
90 OF these, GiS were Americans, 25i for
eigners. and of 80 the nationality was not
stated. The men arrested numbered S33
and the women &C. The offences charged
were as follows Arson -, adultery H. AS
sault -, ditto with intent TO kill 4, abortion
,. bastardy !, breach of promise %, breaking
windows ,, burglary 30, bigamy $, breaking
jail 1, debt 90 writ of execution Il, forgery
II, highway robbery >, keeping house Of i'll
fame &, horse stealing II, ntoXication $40
larceny 10G, lcwdness I, murder ., commit
ting nuisanct ,, passing counterfeit money .,
petty larceny :, perjury ., rape 9, robbery >,
selling liquor 10, stealing 6, stoning cars .,
tramps /, trespa,s I, vagrancy 81, violations
of city ordinances ., manslaughter !, cruelty
to animals careless use of firearms, famish-
ing Islander, pocket picking, and refusing to
aid officers l each p persons were arrested
on ''writs' and Of the causes of arrest were
not reported.
OF the women arrested. Rutland county
furnishes 20, Chittenden county y, Orleans
county &, Lamoille county 6, Franklin coun-
ty }, Bennington county 3, Caledonia county
., Addison and Windham counties l each /;
none reported from Orange Washington and
Windsor counties,
The average age of the persons arrested
was 30 years. The bell boy was II years old,
the bootblacks Is, the prostitutes arrested
averaged but Il years. The arrests for in
toxication. it will be noticed. exceeded one
third of the whole number being $40 LARGE
ny comes next, 1OG; selling liquor, iO.-a
number which is probably but a fraction of
the actual arrests for that olfense in year.
OF the State prison offences, for which ar
rests We're made, 20 per cent. were lar
ceny, IL burglary 10 arson, : adultery, !
forgery, 4 rape, bigamy, 3 murder. As the
population of our State is $40, 600, and rs the
tables doubtless include to some extent re-
peated arrests of the same person, probably
not far from one in each 400 of the popula-
ton got into Jail last year The summary by
counties shows the following figures Addi-
son, 90 Bennington, 1876 Caledonia, ~
Chittenden, 1SS; Essex, 6; Franklin, Ga +;
Grand Isle, 3 Lamoille, 4G; Orange. Il;
Orleans, 40 Rutland, 252 Washington, 90
Windham, % Windsor, ~.
These figures were taken from tables com
piled by the Secretary of the state, from the
annual returns of the sheriIs for use in the
preparation of the report on the prisons and
prison system of Vermont, which will be sub
mitted to the International Prison Congress,
which is to meet at Stockholm, Sweden, next
August
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26

The aim of the comedy is to contrast, in
some measure, aristocratic pretension with
homespun and unpublished worth and it is not
improbable that the character of Jonathan
was the first public embodiment of the famous
title of Brother Jonathan as applied to Yam
KEGS generally.
The play had its first public presentation
ON the boards Of the John Street Theatre.
New York, April 10, 1881, just after the inau-
guration of Washington and while the First
Congress WAS in session. 1t was received
with great favor by the brilliant gathering at
the young metropolis and had run very I'M
usual ut that period of several weeks.
The first American novel honored with re-
publication in England was also written by
Judge Tyler either in Guilford or Brattle-
boro. 1t WAS entitled The Algerine Cap
tive, or the Life and Adventures of DR. Up
dixie Underhill Six Years Il Prisoner among
the Algerines, and was published at Walpole,
n. H., by David Carlyle, Jr., in l797. Messrs.
G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster row, Lon
don, republished the work in 1902 and i'm
proved greatly on the American edition.
Among Judge Tyler's later publications
was The Yankee in London, purportng to
be a series of letters written by an American
abroad. The comments on English life and
manners We're recognized MS sensible and Just,
but it finally leaked out, to the intense aston
ishment of his readers that the author had
never been across the ocean, and so drew up
on his imagination and familiarity with Eng
lish people and customs for material for his
letters
The first postal stamp used ON the Western
continent originated it is claimed, in Brttle-
boro. Fred N. Palmer, postmaster, in lS45
had hand stamp made and put in use in the
office here, thus inaugurating n revolution in
the system of letter mailing
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26

was Of another country with which they de-
sired to have little to do. This has gradually
been wearing away, but It is only within
year that a Northern man could feel that such
sectional hostility had disappeared. The
business prospect in the South is at least as
favorable as in any part of The country The
price of cotton is low. but the cost of produc-
ing is also much lower There is work for
all to do, and every man who will work can
get food enough to eat, if not the best The
colored people are slowly making progress,
gaining in self-reliance and less inclined TO
those petty vices which We're the result of the
system of bondage. There exists generally
between the influential whites and the colored
people the best Of feeling. One encouraging
feature is that the colored citizen clmgs to his
citizenship in such States as Georgia, where Il
poll tax is n prerequisite for voting. As a
rule the negroes are much more prompt to Sc
cure themselves against Acknowledgement than
nrn the whites
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26

cinnah and vicinity, now represented by
Democrats, were carried in 1876 10y ballot box
stuffing, and the Democrat IN the Fourth Dis
trict had only 90 plurality. In the Fifth Dis
trict of Pennsylvania the two Republican can
didates had 5000 over the Democrat elected.
and in two other Districts the plurality of the
Democrats elected was 81 and GO respectively.
The above figures indicate that If the Re
publicans make iudicious nominations and
avoid discussions Mt Washington, it is within
their power TO control the next House The
record of the Democratic House on the fnan-
cial and tariff questions will not tend to com
mend that party to the industrial or business
interests Of the North while the illustration
which it has given the country Of the sort Of
honesty and reform" that may be expected
under Democratic management is not so
promising rs TO encourage q wider applica-
ton. BOSt0H JOUrHdL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-26

William Orion, president of the Western
Union telegraph company, died at his resi-
dence in New York city at half-past seven
Monday morning, of apoplexy Mr. Orion
was native of Western New York and began
life for himself as school teacher, and was
next n publisher at New York. When the in
ternal revenue system was organized he was
appointed one of the collectors at New York
city, and finally was made commissioner at
Washington, an Office which he held for sew
eral years. He was afterwards president of
the United States telegraph company, and
upon the consolidation of the United States
company with the Western Union he became
president of the latter company. Besides ut
tending to the business devolving upon him
as chief executive officer of his great telegraph
company, Mr. Orion took an active and intel
lgent interest in matters pertaining to the
business interests of New York city, as well
as of the country at large, and he will be
greatly missed in many other capacities than
that of president of the Western Union COM
pany. He had long overworked himself, and
the end came suddenly at last