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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
A Good Paper for Nothing

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other paper. We have made
such arrangements as enable MS
to offer the OBSERVER and
Southern Industries both one
year for taco dollars, cash in adj
vance. Subscriptions may be-
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

This is the choicest premium
ever given to newspaper sub
understanding of real and
practical value. The ladies will
be delighted with it. If your
neighbor don't take the OBsER-
YER tell him of this offer. They
all want the paper and book.
You get the old OBSERVER and
a capital, practical, useful book
of $50 pages, for the price of the
former.
Now is your opportunity.
This unprecedented offer will
expire in a few weeks.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
nza11 D1reotory'
ravetteville POst-oniee.

~Ra;lroad-leayes every day except Sun
AZ, ,r s.45 AN: arrives at $40 Pm. Supplies
tbs following Offices: Kelso, Lincoln, tlynt-
iii. Oregon, Georges Store, Flora, Hunts
ctst;on Salem. Winchester and Decherd.
cheibvyille stage-arrives Monday, We'd
rasdav and Friday at IL A. H.; leaves same
5sys a DIP. n. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch
h,,rg Rooueville, County Line, Shelbyvilie.
ps,,ntsviIlo stasc--leayes Monday and
,,,,,,rsSsv at A. ~: arrives Tuesday and
F,idav at P. NJ Supplies Goshen, hazie
Green. Meridianville and hantsViiie.
Sheibyville Laek-leayes Mondays anG
THURSDAYS at A. NJ; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at 5 P. N. Sippies Norris Oreeki
chestnut Ridge. Hawthorne ana SheipyFliie
pulaski horse--aTriyes every saturday a.
71.3oAx. leaves same day a. 1890. Supphe'
evanston, Millyille, Pisgsh, Bradshaw anC
planche horse-leaves every Friday a
~ arrives Saturday at P. N. o9p
,,iies Camargo, Molino Cold Water, Biancne
Rooms Hill horse-aIrivos every Satur
aay At ~ n; leaves same day at l N.
petarsburr horse--ieayes Saturday at 3
=. arrives At 5 M-same day. Supplies
Penfrow Station and Petersburg.
Money Orders can be ohta ned at tins oil
mon most Offices in all parts ef the U
a;tad St,tes. A list Of Monty Order oihce
,asS he seen on application. Rates OF com
mission for Money Orders are as follows;
Tot exceeding Sl5@.. .-..........,..t ~ cent
oyer1 Is and not exceeding SS0- 10 do
ao "a do 40 20 do
10 a., do do go .25 do
w. r. DOUTHAT, ?. M.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
The Railroad.

We are informed that the
amount of subscription necessary
to build the Duck River Valley
Railroad to Petersburg has not
vet been made, but enough has
been done to make the matter
certain if our people will only
continue the subscription to the
extent of a few thousand dollars
more, so as to enable the Company
to place the work under contract
aud ready for the running Of the
cars to the above mentioned point.
This is a matter of the utmost
Importance to the people of the
county, 1t will not only enable
the Company to sustain itself
and meet its obligations, thereby
saving the stock which the coun-
! ty hss already invested in the
road but it insures It's completion
to Fayetteville. No sensible man
can fail to see the great ihn-
iportance Of this matter Tbe a.
mount now required ought to be
subscribed in day; it is too small
and trivial to be allowed even fol
a day to present barrier in the
way Of completion
LIT everybody be up and doing
the road can and should be bull
( by the first of January next. /
will save thousands upon thou
sands of dollars to our people ev'
cry year after its completion
Let no more time be lost. Time j
money Leaoisburg Gazette.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
VEN AWAY
A Book to Every Subscriber!
The Home Guide.

A Book by 500 Ladies'
Is the title Of a volume of 160
pages, bound in cloth, contain
ing about 1000 practical re-
ceipts AID hints, on Cookery,
Household, Toilet, Sick Room,
etc. 1t contains more informa-
ton than the $1.50 and 50 cook
books, besides possessing the
important advantage of being
Practical Experiences Of Prac-
teal "Home" Keepers.
These select, original and
practical contributions from so
many ladies, have never before
appeared in book form. Good
judges have predicted its sale
to be hundreds of thousands.
Ten thousand copies were order
ed before one copy came from
the bindery. We have exclusive
control of the book in this local.
ity, and it can be obtained only
through this Office.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
'IRolaeR RaelRg,
/ WONDER.

W ~ ~ - A<Aes
A child ran laughing on the beach,
The sun shope warm and bright
Upon her waving golden hair,
Her tiny form SO slight.
81 wonder why the worlds so fair,
So full Of sun and song,
/ wonder why big folks don't laugh
And play the whole day long"
A maid was walking on the strand,
She gazed far out at sea,
Where, DER the sunlit waters rode
A bark SO gallantly.
"Ah, love is coming Ger the waves,
Is coming soon to me,
Iwonder how, in this sweet world,
Oid folks such shadows see.n
A woman stood upon the shore,
Her eyes, with weeping, red,
Looked sadly on the cruel sea
That ne'er gives up its dead.
Il wonder why the world was made
So dark and full Of care,
No wonder that life's burden seems
Too great for one to bear"
Near by the windows ledge there sat
A granddame old and gray
The window looking out TO sea
Where ships at anchor lay.
% wonder when my eyes shall see
Lies ship at anchor lie
Within Gods harbOr peacefully
For all eternity"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The Mobile Gala J Register
says: "Any person knowing OF the
whereabouts of the children Of
Gen. Earl Van Dorm will do an
act of kindness by communica-
ting with Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
Courtland, Lawrence county, Ala,
1t may be the means of greatly
beneGting the children" :"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

not the lioness grappled and
drawn him back, rending his
shoulder with her sharp claws,
and causing the blood to stream
over his rich dress.
He was fighting against
most desperate odds, knew it,
backed into the corner, and
called for his irons. One. red-
hot at the end, was handed to
him, but at the first stroke the
lioness sent it whirling, and her
sharp teeth almost met for a
moment his thigh.
"Hand me something sharp
with which | can brain the
brutel'
Every thing upon whichhands
could be laid was thrust to him,
but he failed to reach them, and
the danger was becoming more
and more imminent. The blood
had been Tapped up clean-all
were mad with desire, the tiger
and the leopards crouching up
on him. Then the majesty Of
command asserted itself.
"Come, Samson"
/ The old lion came forward at
the words, seemed to compre-
hend that something was wrong,
thrust himself between his mas
ter and his raging mate, and,
when she turned upon him, sent
her rolling with a blow OF his
great paw.
The lion-tamer might have
escaped, but, bleeding, wound
ed as he was, he would not re-
treat, and turned his attention
to separating the now tangled
mass of fighting animals. Pick
ing up one leopard after anoth-
er he threw them into a further
corner of the cage, dragging the
tiger, with the lioness clinging
to it and tearing its glossy hide,
thither, tore open its paws by
main strength, hurled it back
and shut the partition, turned,
reeled to the door, fell upon it
and was dragged through to
safety, even with the lioness rat
Ting behind him as it was clos
ing.
A few steps taken, and the
lion-tamer fell fainting by the
side of his already insensible
wife, who lay with her affrighted
child hugged closely to her
scarcely-beating heart.
Then the silence that had
been as death was broken by
the most tumultuous shouts,
and breath was drawn again,
and half fainting women and
fear-palsied men felt as if a
mountain had been lifted from
their hearts.
Lame, torn and weak, the Ii
on-tamer entered the cage the
next day before the most un-
precedented crowd, it having
been advertised that he would
do SO in his bloody clothes, but
never again could he be tempt
ed to take the child or pail OF
| blood behind the bars.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The item, the other day, stating
that the pronunciation Of "Scburz'
is "shirts,7 and that consequently
the clerks in the Interior Depart
ment are "undershirts," has called
out the following from a cores
pondent: 'If the clerks in the
Interior Department are under
shirts, the purity of the civil
service requires that they should
be- changed ohener than once in
four years"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

P. T. Barnum is SAID to have
remembered one hundred and
twenty-four editors in his will.
We'd like our giraffe now, before
Barnum dies.-Free Press We
don't expect to get anything more
than the guus, but we're not proud.
|-NeaU York Commercial. Any
man who would spell moose
"g n u.s." ought to be hanged, and
he'll get it, too.--Jersey CITY
Journal.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
When little Thomas stoops

When little Thomas stoops to
toy with berries, jam and jelly
cake, no art can soolhe the chas-
tened boy--no nostrums ease his
stomach-ache. And if the grip
ing paine defy the medicines pre-
scribed to foil, his pareats will do
we'll to try the liquid limpid castor
oil
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

A man was looking earnestly in
the bunghoIe of a whisky tarrel
as if in search OF something he
couldn't fiud. "What are you do
ing?" askei a bystander. "WhJ
pm seeking my reputation in the
place l lost il" was the mourotul
reply.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The country editor who is SO
wrapped up in his own self I'M
portance as not to see any mer-
it in a cotemporary, is like the
hide bound candidate for office
who imagines every man his
enemy who does not say he is
for him. They are both enti-
tied to our sympathy for their
denseignorance.--Rheo Springs
NeaUS.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

Worth thinks every dress ought
to have some expression" The
greatest sexpre>sion" about
Worth's dresses, is made by the
husband when he sees the bill.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The original jaw bone with
which Samson routed the PhIlis-
tines is clai ned TO be among the
the relics of a Prussian church
This dissolves the theory Of some
people that it is wagging away In
Congress.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

A Chicago chap advertises for
several steady girls TO help on
pantaloons. An envious scribe
says that a fellow who can't help
on bis own pantaloons ought to
be ashamed TO want girls to do'it'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

"What river is Venice on?"-
Jenet.-Venison is not river.
miss; it's a confectiom and ore
which, once sampled, will haunch
you with a perpetual desire tor
more Yonkers Gazette.
Janet, dear, do not believe the
young buck; he is making game
of your questions Boston Com
mercidE BuIIetOn.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The editor OF the Elmira Ga
z ette is not selfish. Lie remarks
with unction, "Thcre'sa a land that
ia fairer than this" quite as if be
were going there himself.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

Every Stage that goes to the
Black Hills takes some woman
out to her husband, and the re-
suit is there are now two wo-
men to every man in that dis
tressed country.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

There is a maidstone in Iowa
that has performed hmndreds Of
marvellous cures, but it is like
the millx-sickness--always IN
the next county-so that no 'oae
in Iowa has ever seen It.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27
County omoers.

n P. Carter, County Judge.
Fulton. Clerk Chancery Court.
Tbeo Harris, DO Circuit DO
- n r. Isayce. do County do
". A. Millard, Sheriff: = = ,,su.,a
~ = Morgan. J as. Stiles, r. 7. Holland
- Deputy-Sheriiis-
,,sa,v Henderson, Trustee.
II n Thompson, Resis.er
n. G. Duif, Ceunty Surveyor.
.c q + R;res sup't Of Public Schools.
". n. Dean, Coroner.
x q Wallace, Ranger.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

To the American boy there is an
awful, majestic difference in the
weight between the but end Of a
fish-pole and hoe handle.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

81 am acquainted with your
brothers in-law, sir" said guile
less would be-Teporter to ME,
Greeley, "Then you know a coup
lie of mighty mean men. Good
morning" responded the philos
opher.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The bitterness of poverty is be-
ginning to be felt in the country
as it never was before. A man
actually confessed in market the
other morning that be was about
to buy another dog.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

A barefoot Syracuse girl
kicked burglar out OF the
house, and an observing mule
went behind the barn and wept.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

A mother whose crying infant
made the sermon of her pastor al
most inaudible was going from
the hall when the clergyman
spoke up, saying: "My good wo
man. don't go away. The baby
doesn't disturb me-" sit isn't
for that I leave, sir" was her re-
ply, "it's you disturbs the baby!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

The lightning-rod swindlers
have begun to operate. Spare
the rod-but kin the agent.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

AT Two Dollars for one year, tnva.
Statly IN odcdnoe, Two Dollars and
Fifty Ces1tss payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out of the county
to he paid for tn adcdncc.
az Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-27

A cradle in a Connecticut fam
lly is over two hundred years old
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
Buffalo Strategy.


The buffalo COW seems to have little
maternal instinct; differing, in this respect
greatly from the domestic COW. When
frightened, buffalo COW will abandon
her calf, and, running away, leave it te
be protected by The bulls, who, to theii
honor, seldom forsake their charge. An
army surgeon ence saw an admirable IL
lustration of this paternal care.
One evening, as he was returning from a
days hunt, his attention was attracted by
the curious behavior of SIX or eight buff
faloes. Approaching them, he saw that
they were all bulls. They stood in close
circle, with their heads outwafds Al
some twelve or fifteen PAGES distant sat
in a concentric circle, dozen large gray
wolves, licking their chops, as if i'm
patiently waiting for supper.
In few minutes thelcifcle OF bulls broke
up, but keeping in compact body, walk
ed off towards the main herd, halfa mile
off To his amazement, the doctor saw
in the center of the guardian bulls little
feeble calf, newly born and hardly able to
walk. After going hundred PAGES, the
calf lay down, and the bulls formed a
protecting circle about it. The wolves,
who had followed on each side. sat down
and licked their chops.
The doctor did not wait to see the end,
it being late and the fort distant; but he
had no doubt the bulls brought the calf,
abandoned by its mother, safely to the
herd.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
DEATH in ars TAvoRITE ROBE.

The mortuary statistics Uf the whole civil
lied world show that about O1e-htth OF all
mankind die of consumption alone, ana tbs
number of deaths due to consumption bears q
greater ratio to the whole number than that
of any other three diseases together. More
over invests ation proves that this ratio il
steadily increasing. Its increasing prevalence
has led to the popular belief that consumption
is incllratle. Every year hundreds of these
sufferers seek, in the sunny retreats of Florida
or the dry atmosphere Of Colorado for health
and find only grave The influence o. the
atmosphere the only remedial agent that
either Florida or Colorado can afford the f0ns
sumptive-is at best only palliative. The cure
of consumption depends upon two essential
conditions: LIST, the arrest Of the abnormal
breaking down of the tissues, which prevents
emaciation and ID the restoration OF healthy
nutrition, in order to stop the formation OF
tuberculous matter. Fulfill these conditions,
and consumption is as durable as fever. %
fulfill these conditions the required remedy
must increase the appetite, favor the assimila-
ton of food, and enrich the blood, thus retard-
inc the development of tubercles. 10 accom-
plish this ificre powerful Alternative than DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has never
been discovered. At the same tiinei it soothes
the irritation of the nervous system produced
by violent coughing, which in its turn so often
leads to more serious results. The use of Eek
nectorantsa in consumption is absolutely sui
cidal. For while removing the tutercles al
ready formed, they produce yet more serious
results by infaming and destroying the souns
and healthy tissues. Consumption requires
remedy that will soothe while it relieves;
harsh medicines, but add fuel to the flame that
already threatens to consume the system. 1ne
Golden Medical Discovery fulfills these condi-
tions, and has been pronounced the best RENE
dy yet discovered to allay and arrestconsump-
tiQu
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
He Didn't Know the Reason.


Sothefn invited a party of gentlemen
to dine with him. The hour had arrived,
and, with one exception, so had the
guests. "We may as well begin" said
Sothern, sis sure to come, and he
would rather we did not wait for him y
upon which the company sat down, and
were just finishing soup when the card OF
the missing guest was handed to Sothern.
A sudden inspiration Of fun led him to
propose that before the gentleman came
in they should all get under the table.
Without an objection and trusting to
SotlIern's wit for some comical deB0ue1nent
the unsuspecting fellows hurriedly crept
under the table and awaited results,
totally ignorant of the fact that their
wicked host had not followed their
example, but had quietly continued his
soup The belated guest came in to
apologize for his hardness.
"Don't mention it. said Sothern;" it
.isn't of the slightest consequence; we are
only at soup; sit down and be helped"
The gentleman did so, but with puzzled
look at the empty chairs about the table.
"Oh,' said Sothern, "you miss the
other gentlemen. They are all here, but,
for some extraordinary reason they all
got under the table, What they are doing
is more than I know 1t is easier to i'm
agine than to describe the variety of ex-
preston upon the faces of the deluded
victims as one by one they came crawling
sheepishly out from under the table.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
rFrom the Presbyterian Weekly
uraatp.anf cf &payfsn I'm Horse

FntToR OF PRESBYTERIAN WEEKLY: The en-
auiry is often made in our Agricultural and
Family Journals concerning remedy ior
SPAWN. -.
some time since, in treating horse for SPAWN
in the usual manner by blistering, finding that
the application produced so much soreness
and PAIN and apparently no good, determined
to investigate the matter IN order To ma a
remedy if possible, that would produce the de-
sired effect and in q more rational and hu-
name manner.
This result he finally succeeded in accom-
plishing and the "Kendalfs SPAWN Cure, as
it is called, is proving all that could reasonably
have been expected of it. have interested
| myself particularly in the matter IN order 70
get at the facts, and find that the remedy VIII
effectually remove SPAWN and Splint In from
| five TO six weeks time, causing no 4phsterlng
| or soreness, and leaving no callous or scar 70
| indicate where the difficulty existed.
This is truly an important discovery "
| medical science and the ease with which team
be applied and absence OF suffering 70 tne am ~
| nal treated, viii commend the remedy 10 TIE
attention of all. <. X. loWLE'
West Berkshire, Vt.
The following references are given for the
benefit of any desiring to learn more OF ken.
6all's SPAWN Cure"
HYDE Park, Vt
Charles 4. Currier, Special Agent Tor the
Massachusetts, Society for The prevention Oh
cruelty TO Animals, Boston, Mass.
Joseph Baker, Agent for the same Society
East Boston, Mass.
III. w. Petus Foreman Metropolitan Horse
Car Stable Boston Neck Mass.
L. r. Towle, Agricultural Editor st. Albans
| Messenger. Vest Berkshire, Vt.
Thomas O'Conner, Chief Engineer FIRE De
partment, New Orleans, La. 80
We are informed that the "Kendall's SPAWN
Cure isEnow sold by Moves Bros. d Cntier
| and also by Schmidt & Miller, St Paul, Mimi,
| and throughout the country by dealers. Cir
cuIars will be sent to all sending their address
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
How Much Can a Man Read.


The longest single poem, ] believe, ex-
tant. is the Italian poem, the "Adone,
of Marini, who lived in the time of our
James /. 1t contains $4,000. lines. Asfor
Spain,o one single author Of the seventeenth
century ,Lopes de Vega,wrote 1880 plays
his works altogether fill forty-seven
auarto volumes. Alonos Tostado, Sgn-
ish Bishop of the fifteenth century, wrote
nearly :fourty folios, having covered
with print nearly three times as many
leaves as he had lived days. To come ID
England: Our William Prynne wrote
200 different works.
Chalmers collected edition OF the Eng
lish poets only comes down to Cowper,
who died in 1900, and it fills twenty-one
volumes royal Svo., double columns small
tyne. The volumes average 700 pages.
This gives us a total of 14,100 pages, or
%. 400 columns. Now, it takes-l have
made the experimentation minutes to
read column with fair attention. Here
is good years work in reading over,
only once, a selection from the English
meets. The amount of reading which a
student can get through in given time
hardly admits of being measured by the
ell.
The rate of reading varies with the sub
iect, the rapid glance with which we skim
the columns of newspaper being at one
end of the scale and the slow sap which
Is required for page of, say, @Kant's
Critique of Pure Reason" being at the
other. Still, just to get something to go
upon, make q calculation in this way
Suppose man to be able to read eight
hours a day. No one can really sustain
reception or critical attention to written
matter for eight hours. But take eight
hours as the outside possibility. Thirty
pages Syo. is an average hours read, tax
mo one book with another.
This would make 240 per day, 1850
Ter week. and 1850 pages In the year.
Taking the average thickness OF an syo.
volume as 400 pages only, the quantity OF
reading which diligent student can get
over in d year IS no more than an amount
equal to about go volumes SEn. or
course this is merely mechanical coinpu-
tation, by which we c1nnot pretend to