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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
The Future of Africa.

Signs are not wanting that
the Ozark Continent" will not
remain "dark" much longer, ,and
commercial enterprise viii prob
ably do as much to develope
Africa in the next ten years as
the labors Of the missionaries
have accomplished during the
present century. England will
not be alone in the race for SUI
premacy. The Portuguese
first in the feld-are becoming
alive to the necessity for maxi
ing an effort to retain their po-
sition; Italy and Belgium are
organizing expeditions; some
time ago the United States
Commodore Schufeldt visited
the Congo to arrange with ma
tive chiefs for permission to
hoist the American flag at cer-
tam points favorable for trading
stations. Meantime France is
not idle in the North, but has
several grand schemes-"Les-
sepian" schemes, they might be
termed-for opening up the in
terror by flooding the Sahara,
or constructing some 1000
miles of railway. Both ideas
are probably too Utopian to be
realized for long enough; but
all these signs point to the rap
id development of Africa. The
unjust Zulu war, itself, will ac-
complish one good end-that of
turning the attention Of scient-
lists, engineers and Traders to a
comparatively new field, and
thus in a measure second the |
great work of Mungo Park, |
Bruce, Livingstone, Stanley, |
Cameron, Pinto. and host of |
other pioneers not so we'll known
TO fame.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
Natural History-the Editor

'What ferocious-looking ami
NAL is this?"
"That is the editor"
"Indeedl Are they very dan
gerous?"
Sometimes. When cornered
up they have been known to be
quite combatiye, and again they
have been known to go through
a convenient back window.
Generally they are mild and pas
siye."
@Whcn are they most danger
ous?"
"When intluded upon by a
book-agent who wants a forty
line local for a seventy-fiye cent
book, or by poet with verses
about gentle spring"
"Are editors cross to each
other?'
"only when separated by sew
eral blocks of buildings"
"Do they often have fearful
combats with each other?"
Occasionally when they go
out in opposite directions, and
come upon each other by acci-
dent
care editors ever cowhided?"
Sometimes the small ones are,
but the big ones are very rarely
molested."
"Do editors eat"
'"1'hey do. 1t was formerly
supposed that they ate at long
intervals and upon rare occasions,
but it is now a well authentica-
ted fact that they can eat a great
deal when they can get it,
"What kind Of food do they
most like?"
"They are not very particular.
While they won't refuse quail
on toast, fried crab or roast tur-.
key about Christmas time, they
have been known to make a
repast off dish Of cold turnipsI
and a consumptiye herring"
''Can they eat concert ticketsw p
eve believe not. Some peo-
pie have gained this continuous
from false teachings
in early life, but no authentica-
ted instance of such a thing is
on record"
'sDo editors go free into the
"They do when they give dol
lar-and-a-half locals for a TWEEN
ty-five cent ticket. "
care all editors bald, ike this
one?" Is 'ii |
"No; only the married ones are
bald. But let us pass on, the ed
itor doesn't like to be stared at. "
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
Mail Directory.
Fayetteville Post-Onice.

Railroad-leayes every day except Sum-
day at s:45 AM; arrives at 800 Pm. Supplies
tho following Offices: Kelso, Lincoln, Flynt-
willie, Oregon, Georges Store, Flora, Hunts
Station. Salem, Winchester and Decherd.
Shelbyvilie stage-arriyes Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday at IL A. NJ; leaves same
days at I'm. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch
burg, Bonneville, County Line, Shelbyville.
huntsville stage-ieaves Monday and
Thursday at 8 A. NJ; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at 5PM. Supplies Goshen, Hazle
Sreen, Meridianville. and Huntsville.
Sheibyville hack-lcaves Mondays and
Thursdays at s A. NJ: arrives Tuesday and
Friday at Pan. Supplies Norris Creek,
Chestnut Ridge, Hawthorne and Shelbyyille.
Pulaski housewives every Saturday at
ll:3OAu; leaves same day a. 1880. Supplies
Cyrnston, Millyille, Pisgah, bradshaw and
Pulaski.
Blanche horse-leaves every Tuesday and
Friday at A. A.; arrives Wednesday and
Saturday at 3ffM. Supplies Camargo, Mo-
line, Cold Water, Blanche.
Boons Hill horse--arrivcs every Satur-
day at Il 81; leaves same day at NJ.
Petersburg horse--ieayes Saturday at A
n; arrives at rM same day. Supplies
Renfrow Station and Petersburg.
Money Orders can be obtain,d at this Of
fec upon post Offices in all parts ef the u
nited States. A list Of Money Order offices
may be seen on application. Rates Of COM
mission Cor Money o. iders are as follows.
Not exceeding $i5.. ....... 10 cents
Over Is add not exceeding $30...-l5 do
do 30 do do 40 20 do
do 40 do do so :. 20 do
" y pouTHAT r NJ.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
A Marriage on three Days
ACQUAINTANCE.

There was recently an inn
promptu wedding in Dubuque
The bride was 60 to a month
although she only confessed the
soft impeachment of AZ. The
bride was arrayed in a faded al
paca dress, without Ornamental
ton. Around her neck s h c
wore white linen pocket-hand-
kerhcief, and on her head an a.
ged straw bonnet, with Il white
frill in front. On her nose she
wore a pair of brassbpund spec
tacles, through which she peer
ed curiously, first at the Squire
and then at the bridegroom,
while the ceremony was going
on. After the man of law had
pronounced the happy pair man
and wife in his most impressive
manner, he addressed the bride
and congratulated her upon the
event. The old lady replied
that she. believed she could get
along with her man. She said
she was not a novice in the
marriage misunderstanding had
two husbands before this one.
She had talked this matter over
with him, and had given him to
understand that if he didn't be-
have himself she would throw
him over the fence. She said
she had only known her hus-
band three days, but had mar
ried him on the recommendation
of her cousin. If the husband
did not prove a good kind one,
she would go for her cousin, and
the cousin would, in turn, make
things lively for the husband.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
4IGlhoiGe goetgu

The Memphis Belle at Quarantine
The Memphis belle stood on the deck
And begged them not TO leave 'er-
Her face was of saffron hue,
Her eyes were full Of fever.
'Put out your tongrev' the doctor cried
The harsh, unfeeling fellow;
That tongue, alas! was coated Ger
a most undoubted yelIowl t
40 doctor tell me now in truth,
What doth tins taify mean?
And will you sacrifice my youth
TO death in quarantine?
80, let me hy," she weeping cried,
ALREADY I'm belated!'
"Nou cannot co. the wretch replied,
"TiiI, you've been fumigatedr'
A shrek, a soothing, bubbling roar,
A splash on larboard side,
She Topped, she sank, 10 rise no more,
Beneath the murky tide. iis
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
Coast Waves.

Next to the action of rain anC
rivers comes the gnawing effect
of coast waves. Il he waves
thunder against the cliff, which
mocks its seemingly impotent
rage by dashing. it backward il
a cloud OF foam and spray, but
it returns again and again to the
charge until persistency wins the
day. The east coast Of En-
gland, which has for centuries
been fast yielding to the attacks
of the German Ocean, furnishes
Sir G. Lyell with the majority
of his illustrations in the inter-
esting chapters upon the actions
of tides and currents. That en-
inent geologists tells us how
towns and villages, marked by
names in old maps, now lie faith
oms deep beneath the waves. In
one case, which came under his
notice, houses had within the
memory of living men stood up
on cliff fifty feet high, but
in less than half a century hous-
es and cliff were all engulfed,
and seawater deep enough to
float a frigate occupied their site.
AS many as twelve churches, leach
further landWard than. the last,
have been built in one parish,
aud all have been swallowed up
by the sea. Church-yards have
consequently been destroyed, in
many places the corpses and
skeletons having been washed
out oftheir graves and foated a
way by the tide. Sir G. Lyell
himself saw human remains pro-
truding from the cliff at Recul-
vers, in Kent, in 1851. And he
humorously alludeso to a scene
depicted by BeWick, which, he
says, numerous points on that
coast might have suggested; the
graveyard of a ruined abbey un-
dermined and almost isolated by
the sea, with a broken tombstone
in the foreground serving as a
perch for the , colmorants and
bearing the inscription, "To per-
-petuate the memory ;one
whose very name was oblitera-
ted, and whose monument was
to fall in the waves. And he
aptly, though somewhat sai'cas-
tically, suggests that such, a
tombstone would have been a fit
tribute to the memory Of "some
philosopher" who had taught''the
permanency of existing conti-
nents," the "era of repose,v OF
the ''impotence of modern caus-
eS'farsfFs ~ ssssq ha4
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
ONLY ME.

A little figure elided through the hall!
''Is that you, Pet ?'-the words came
tendeIly;
A sob--suppressed 20 let The answer fall
''ii isn't Pet, mamma; It's only me"
The quivering baby Iips.-ihey had not
meant s
30 utter any word that could plant a
sting, &
But 10 that mothers heart strange pane
went;
she heard, and stood like convicted
thing.
One instant and happy little face.
Thrilled ,Ecath unwonted kisses rained
above;
And from that moment, only me had place
And part with pet in tender mother love
.<t.t -tEf ffEf- tJ
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09

Icure his spoil. When the bull
of it was in his pockets a
scratching at the window alarm
ed him, and he turned quickly.
1t was only a cat. But by
his sudden movement he upset
the casket, which fell to the
floor with crash. The woman
was awakened, and sprang up
with an exclamation of fright.
Selling the maulstick, which
lleaned against an easel within
Freach, Grebilot struck her over
the head. The blow staggered
her, but she reached and clutch
led him by the left. elbow. He
hit her again, and the stick
broke. She fell forward against
him, deluging him With blood.
| Mad with fright at his own
crime, the wretch snatched up
the scraper from the table and
lcut her throat. She struggled
in her death agony, and he bur-
led the weapon in her breast.
Once she was qnite dead he
in a measure recovered his self
possession. He gathered his
plumber together, and by the
way OF the roof and the passage
made his way out of the house.
At the trial of Coisal, the
absence Of the box and the
money which he had received
that very day in payment Tor
some pictures was commented
on. The casket contained only
letters and papers. 1t and the
money, the prosecution contend
ed, the accused had secured and
secreted after the murder they
claimed that he was guilty of.
Of course he denied this, de-
scribed the box, and requested
that search be made for it.
The search was made, but the
casket was not found.
Nine years after the condem-
nation of Consal the woman
Mohlberg, whose husband had
meanwhile died, and who now
lived with Grebilot, was arrest
ed for receiving stolen goods.
Among her possessions was a
peculiar box of dark wood.
From a brass plate inside the
lid a name had been partially
erased. At the Bureau of Po-
lice, a detective, who had been
employed in the Consal case
nearly a decade before, saw it.
1t tailed with the description
of the long-sought-for casket.
A very little examination con-
vinced him that it was the same.
The woman was interrogated,
and said that the box had been
a present from Grebilot. After
of search, that worthy
was apprehended in Marseilles.
Under pressure he acknowledge
ed his guilt.
Eugene Consal was released
at once. But he is broken,
prematurely old man, with his
old life behind him, and the
faint of years of convict life
his future. In pitt
ful appeal tothe authorities, for
an indemnification of his unjust
imprisonment he says: /
s"I ask no consideration for
The nine years of torture | spent
for a judicial mistake. All the
gold in the world would not eff
face that horror from my MEM
ory. But l beg and implore
to take me somewhere
away from here, where ] may
partially regain a career which
can never restore
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09

A little girl said to her sisters
who wanted to take some cake
which her mother had le e't on the
table. "No, Mary, don't take
any, for though mother didn't
count them, perhal S God did,
and there would be trouble, you
know"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
a weII-dressed woman drew

A well-dressed woman drew
a crowd together in a Cincin-
natl street by striking a man A.
cross the face several limes with
"a whip, and then finishing the
punishment with her fists. She
coolIy explained that he was
her runaway husband, whom
she had laboriously traced for
the sole purpose of whipping
him.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09

A Keokuk paper is response
bic for the following: Two Ia
dies of this city were recently
discussing a party. Ore lady
who had been there gave glow
ing accounts of the various cos
tumes worn. Yes" rejoined
the other, II auppose the, elite oil
the city were there?' eva
it?' replied the narrator. "Who
had it on?"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
TERNTS.

R- Tive Dollars for one year, snid-
,-sdb9v an ddcdnce, Two Dollars and
FfGsy Gents If payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out Of the county
be paid for IN adoanee.
nsE- Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09
Oounty omco1-s-

n. p. Garter, County Judge.
A. S. Fulton. Clerk Chanccry Court.
w. q. Morgan. do Circuit do
7. p. Boyce, do County do
TT. HOLLAND. Sheriff.
G. ~. lsounis, w. A. Cunningham, Dep
Henry Henderson, Trustee.
B. y. Thompson, Register
]. II. c. Dpff, County Surveyor.
=. J. Rivas. Sup't OF Public Schools.
j. B. Morgan, Coroner.
y O. Wallace. Ranger
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09

Rev. II. b. Smith of Slough
ton, Mass, is 30 years of age
and his wife is 40. The differ
ence of their ages is not greater
than the difference in their tenn
peraments, and they have signed
and published an agreement to
separate.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09

When a gentleman at a BAN
quet was speaking Of a friend of
of his who had had the smallpox
twice, and had died of it, an
1rishman who was present In
.qnired whether the man died of
the first or of the second attack.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29
Criminal Epidemics.
| sbudder passed over the countr

sbudder passed over the country
fsw wears ago, when Freeman killed
his baby daughter, in obedience, as he
declared. to the express command OF
God. What added inconceivable hor-
ror 70 the crime was the fact that his
wife. who had been tender mother,
consented to the murder. and that it
was approved by sect of fanatics in
the town in which Freeman lived.
A common comment on the matter
has been that it was impossible for all
these people to be insane on such sub.
iect but the truth is that morbid affec-
lions of the mind are contagious, and
have frequently become epidemics to q
frightful degree.
In 1884, when the black death was
rayaging the world, band of frenzied
men. robed in black, covered with red
crosses, began their march through
Europe, scourging each other as they
went. until the blood streamed, and
singing maddening songs, both relig-
ious and licentious.
This moral epidemic spread just as
the plague had done. Thousands of
noble women and men, and multitudes
OF the pOOI, JOluCu VIC unsA OuAu'
Forty years later the dancing mania
became epidemic in Europe. which was
speedily overrun with hordes of deliri-
Gus men and women, whirling in frantic
dances, until they fell exhausted, and
often died. The most violent and cruel
punis..ments failed to check their fren-
lied waltz.
Epidemics of suicides have been COM
mon. In Naples, during the 10th CEN
fury, 1.-THE patients" says Lecky,
"thronged to the sea, aud chanting wild
HYMN, rushed with passion into the
waves" At another time, the women
of the city of Lyons, without cause,
drowned themselves by the hundreds,
and were checked only by law which
disgraced the body of a suicide.
Another strange delusion was that OF
a body of fanatics in Germany, who be-
lieved that God, to punish them, had
turned them into wolves. They ran
upon all fours, barked, and even tore
children.
The fanatics in Pocasset disturbed
their brains by dwelling upon vague
visions of heaven. Religion never
maddened any man who was content
with the plain daily work set before
him, to do justly, love mercy, and to
walk humbly with thy God. y Youths
C9mpanloa.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29
Linc0ln's HOmely Phrases,
In his letter declining an Invita-

In his letter declining an invitation
to attend the Illinois Republican Con.
vention, in 1868, Lincoln made use OF
two or three striking figures. Review.
ing the military events Of the past year
which had been favorable to the cause
of the Union, he said: 1.-THE Father OF
waters again goes unvexed to the sea. u
And, referring to the fact that Southern
Unionists and ex-slaves had done some
thing to help on the good work, he
said: " On the spot, their part of the
history is dotted down in black and
white" which nightly tickled the pop
ular fancy. At the time, however,
criticism was provoked by this odd zig.
ure employed by the President: "Nor
must Uncle Sans web.feet be forgot
ten. AT all the watery margins they
have been present not only on the deep
sea. the broad bay, the rapid river, but
also up the narrow, muddy bayous, and
wherever the ground was little damp,
they have been and made their tracks,
Lincoln was amused by the discussion
in the newspapers to which the use of
the phrase "Uncle Sans web feet" gave
rise. He explained that the remarkable
feats performed by the gun.boats, in
making their way through the sloughs
and bayous, heretofore considered uu-
navigable, reminded him of the stealthy
passage of the waterfowl. The pleas
antry concerning light-draught steam
ers going where "the ground is little
damp" is familiar to everybody.
It will be long time before our peo-
pie will forget Lincoln's homely smile
of "eldersquirts charged with rose.
water" as applied to the conservative
programme for prosecuting the war.
This was used in a letter addressed to
Cuthbert Bullitt, of New Orleans, in
which letter he also said that the con.
servatives we're like complaining passen-
gers on a ship" The mutineers must
go untouched, lest one of these sacred
passengers should receive an accidental
wound" His imagination was power
fully stimulated by any reference to the
history of the republic. His address
at Gettysburg, now one of the great
historical speeches of the world, sug-
gests, rather than expresses, q crowd of
images. To Lincoln's mind, apparent
ly, American history was filled with
noble and pathetic figures. In some of
the loftier flights of his eloquence may
be found traces of strong poetic fancy
an Imagination fred by love of coun-
try, and inspired by the contemplation
of the stirring events that have marked
its history. No more striking example
of this can be found anywhere than in
the memorable words which closed his
first inaugural address:
"The mystic chords of memory,
from every battlefield and
patriot grave to every living heart and
Learth-stone, all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they
will be. by the better angels of our ma
.ure." - Noah Brooks in Midsummer
Holiday Seribner.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29
Black Silk Goods.

Ladies who wear black silk will be
interested in the result of an analysis
of French and American silks, lately
made by an expert
The best silks should contain but
about seventeen per cent of dye in
weight. and this is about the amount
which the table shows that the Ameri.
can silks contain.
When we come to the French silks,
it is found by the analysis that the
samples lost weight by the removal of
the dye from thirty three to fifty per
cent, when, if the silks had been good,
the loss should not have exceeded seven
teen per cent. Some samples were
much more stuffed than others, but
all had been adulterated.
The principal article used in weight
ing the silk is iron. It is repeatedly
inserted in solution of the nitrate of
iron until it acquires the desired weight
of that metal. Then it gets blue tint
from the prussiate of potash, followed
by several baths in gambler, and
treatment with acetate of iron.
At this stage the silk is luaberless,
but is made bright by q logwood bath
and the addition of large quantities of
soap. To make the silk soft and satin
like, a little oil and soda are added,
while, to make them stiff and rustling,
acid is edded.
The two cardinal defects in black silk
are the wearing shiny" and the crack
ing. The former comes from the
natural action of the soap and alkali,
which together develop sort of grease
under friction ; the cracking is simply
the inabilityof the little silk to carry its
great load of the other products of in
dustry that are spread upon it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29

We hear no more of the Astrakhan
plague which, with good reason, sent a
thrill of terror over Europe, and for a
time put an embargo on Russian com.
merce. The history of the progress of
the two visitations which the destroyer
made upon Europe was carefully writ
ten up, and it is known that even Ameri-
cane included it as one OF the possible
contingencies for this year. Whatever
the conditions may he for grand
march Of this disease, they are evidently
very unusual. The yellow fever which
was also feared, and which. it was pre-
dicted, would reach the lake cities,
makes no sign thus far, and We have
raason to hope for immunity and to
give thanks Interior.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29

100 NEAR HIS FIGURE On one occa-
sion, when General Butler was in COM
mand at New Orleans, q colonel up in
the Red River region made application
for furlough, which was refused him.
Soon after, the colonel left his COM
mand without permission, and went to
New Orleans, where he was arrested
and put in irons as deserter. Upon
an intimation that he wished to make
an explanation. Gen. Butler had him
brought to his head quarters.
well, SIR" said the general, stern.
ly, "what have you to say in explana-
ton of your conduct 2"
Well. general, there are two Jews
up yonder who have some cotton they
want to get through my lines. First
they offered me $500, which I refus-
ed. Then they offered me 1000, then
$1,000, then $25, 900, and at last they
offered 800. 900 and 1 tell you, gen.
eral, Mev ,Vere getting so near my figure,
1 thought I'd better leape !-Editor's
Dra1er in Harpsr's Magazine.