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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
To Abate a Nuisance.

The peripatetic f-uit-venders
and peddlers Of brooms and
glassware have become an I'M
mitigated nuisance that should
be put down by the strong arm
of the law. If it is not possible
or advisable utterly to sweep
them from the face Of the earth,
still life can be rendered endura-
bic to the peace-loving popula-
tion that wishes to lead a life
uncheered by glaz-pud-in, black
berIreeez, burrooms, mellipz and
similar deIicaeies Of the season,
by adopting a simple precaution
devised by the great Psychologist,
Claude Bernard, during the siege
Of Paris. In order to transport
cattle at night so that the enemy
would not be aroused by their
believing and bleating, DIR. Ber-
nard simply practiced upon the
animals section of the nerve by
which they are enabled to emit
their usual cries. The operation
was instantaneous and easily
performed, and painless, and did
not injure the animals, SO that
there were produced in few mo-
ments lambs that couldn't say
their b-a-a baas, COWS that would
not low even when they beheld
their tender offspring rent
from them and dragged in the
direction of restaurants inscribed
with the fatal sign "Veal Pot
Pie" pigs that would not squeal
even when confined under a gate
and bulls that would not below
under any provocation of rivals
or red shawIs. 1t would be as
simple and easy as slaudable proc
ess to chloroform the applicant
for q street peddler' license and
practice upon his section of the
vocal nerve, while the effect when,
upon beginning his nefarious
business about 6 a. m. in a street
inhabited by journalists who had
retired to rest at 3, he discovered
that he could not wake the most
slumbering echo even
though he burst a blood vessel
in trying to compass a howl,
would be irrcsistibly comic and
satisfactory. Or if this practice
should be regarded as compara-
lively cruel, it would be well TO
issue no licenses except to grad
yates of deaf and dumb asylums.
The present pcddlers could trans
form their names to Finerti,
FIanigama, Orolikevlch and the
like, and 60 to Europe and aecu-
mu!ate yast fortunes as Italian
opera-singcrs, OF find lucrative
occupation in blasting soeks fer
the Darien canal with their mest
sweet voices,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
Court Scene.

Counscl-"How large shoult
you say this pan, of which yol
speak, wasp
Witncss-"A four-quart par
l should say"
"What do you mean by a four.
quart pan?'
GA pan that holds foul
quarts.
Swine or beer measured"
"Wine, no; beer, | guess it'e
beer, | won't be certain"
"But you think it's beer.
What is the shape OF a four
quart pan?"
Ground"
"Like a ball?"
"No; like alike a barrel" :"
Ground like a barrel. Yes.
Well, is four-quart pan tall OF
short ?"
''It doesn't make any differ
encc."
eff a pan was four inches a.
cross the bottom and twelve
iuches tall?"
at wouldn't be a pan at all.
It would be a pail"
"Then a pan can be pail?'
"Why, no."
"But you just said SO. Was
there hole in this pan?"
eyes, a little one"
"In the bottom or top?"
"Of course there wasn't any
hole in the top?"
"Then how could any thing
be poured into the pan?,'
"Oh, | forgot. The top is all
hole"
"And the bottom?"
as all PAN"
"That will do. You sec,
gentlemen of the jury, the wit
ness has no idea of a four-quart
pan at ALL" and the jury having
been awakened by the Sheriff,
nod off again in acquiescence.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
A Noted Pigeon Roost.

The celebrated roost in Scott
county, Indiana, is this year, as
it has been for the last seventy
five years, the roost of millions
of pigeons. They fly away in
the morning to their feeding
in the woods and fields of In
diana and Kentucky, many of
them going to so great dis
tance that they do not return till
midnight, The timber on thou-
sands of acres covered by this
roost is broken down badly, large
limbs being snapped off like
reeds by the accumulated weight
of the birds on them. Through
out the entire night there is heard
the cracking and crashing of
limbs, the hum and furry and
drumming Of wings, the explo-
sion Of firearms and the confu-
sion and bedlamic thrashing
sounds caused by people beating
the birds from the trees with long
poles. Thousands of pigeons
are killed nightly, but all of this
slaughter seems to make no di-
intuition in the vast fiocks that
congregate at this roost. This
roost is historic ground. In 1912
it was the scene of a massacre,
during a raid made by a band
of Pottowattamie Indi ans.
There was a settlement in the
vicinity with a total population
of thirty persons. Only six of
the number escaped, all the rest
being massacred and scalped.
The sayages were pursued, but
escaped across the Muscatine
river, and the pursuers having
no boats conld not follow them.
This was the last incursion of
Indians made into Southwestern
Indiana. In the local history of
the State this savage slaughter
has ever since been designated
the Pigeon Roost Massacre.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
Church Directory.

P,esbyterian. Fayetteviie-no regular
services; Sunday school at8AM.
Methohist-services every Sabbath at
i0:3O and at night; Rev A SOwell, pastor;
Sunday school at 3 O'Clock.
Cumberland Presbyterian-seryices ev-
cry Sabbath 1890 and at night; Rev w G
Templeton, pastor; Sunday school O'Clock
Union Church, Pleasant Plains-services
1st Sabbath each month at ii and night by
the Methodists, Rev w Lowey and E l.
Carpenter End and 4th Sabbath each month
At III by the Associate Reformed Presbyterl-
ans, Rev j b Muse, pastor. Methodist Sun
day school at
AR Presbyterian, New Hope services LIST
and 3rd Sabbaths at II; Bethel, End and
4lh Sabbaths at ll-Rev A S Sloan, pastor.
Methodist, Mulberry-seryices Bird Sun
day in each month at ii O'Clock and every
Sunday night; Rev T II Hinson, pastor; Sun
day School at 8.
Baptist, Mulberry-seryices lst Sabbath
in each month at IL Rev Wm Huf, Iastor
Cumberland Presby terrain, Mulberry
services last Sabbath in each month at ii
and night; Rev w G Templeton, pastor.
United Presbyterian, Lincoln-servieeS
every Sabbath at ll:l5 NJ; Rev David
Siran pastor; Sunday school at 10
Methodist, Shady Grove, (Shelton's
creek)--scrvices lst Sabbath in each month
at Ii o'clock; Rev j. Parks, preacher IN
charge.
Liberty Grove-services End Sabbath at
IAN; RevT l. Darnel, preacher in charge
Cumberland Presbyterian, Oak Grove
near Flyntville)-seryices 4th Sabbath IA
each month at III o'clock; Rev w Suth-
erlend. supply.
Methodist, Oak Hill-services 4th Sab
hath each month at 10 a. IN; IL Darnell
preacher ia charge.
cumberland Presbyterian, Oak Hill, Rev
J b Tigert, pastor.
Prospect Wells hill, Saturday before 2d
Sunday, each month, Rev b T King, pastor.
Hester's Creek, Saturday before 4th Sun
day, each month, Rev B L King pastor.
Methodist, Flyntyille--services 4th Sab
bath at 1890 A. Al; Mt. Hcrmon, Flintville
circuit services lst Sabbath at 1870 AN
Macedonia, FImtville circuit. services Srd
Sabbath at 1890 M-iiev w II Anthony,
preacher in charge.
Missionary Baptist, Norris Creek, Duck
eye)-services 4th Saturday and Sunday in
each month; Rev J G Woods, pastor.
Union, Isl Sunday; Providence, End; Lib
ery Grove, 3rd; Oak Hill, 4th; Rev L l.
Darnell, preacher in charge.
Shiloh, Methodist, near Millville-preach-
ing on 2nd Sunday in each month at p.
A., and on Saturday at ii A. NJ, before the
End and 4th Sunday, Rev Nj Cherry, pastor
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
Where a Forged Note Proved
Good.

The wiry old president of a
New England commercial bank
is known among the younger f.
nancial fry of his town as "Old
Nails'-possibly from his incis-
i've decisions and driving way
of doing business. Some time
ago a business man of the place,
and a brother in good standing
of the church, bad a note dis
counted at this old worthy's
bank. When it came due, the
president, at the solicitation Of
of the makers friends, though
against his own judgment, ex-
tended it. When the final time
Iof payment came, the note was
discovered to be forgery, to the
scandal of the church and the as
tonishment of the town, but not
that of the astute bank president.
The brethren, however, rallied
around the ering one, the note
was paid, and the matter sup
posed to be hushed up. Some
time after, however, the bank re-
ceiyed Il letter from another fl
nancial institution, asking their
opinion as to Mr.. Ms note.
"Old Nails" said he would an
swer the letter which he did as
follows:
"President-Bank..
"DEAa SIR-In regard to Mrs note,
we would say: .lf it is a forgery, it will be
paid by the First-Church of Bushytown.
If it is genuine, it is not worth cent. Re-
spectfully yours,
NATHANIEL NAILS, President"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
Boiling Down.

1t has become the fashion fol
American humorists to describe
at great length, the singular oc-
currences in the household of Mr.
Squigglefts, or the remarkable
adventures of Mr.. Popp-coodle's
black-and-tan terrier, and these
reports of odd phases of Amer
lean life have greatly impressed
the English editors. But as
their space is limited, and as they
rightly conclude that foreign rea-
ders can take no possible interest
in local or family affairs, English
journalists "boil down" Ameri-
can comic stories-reduce them
to their simplest form and treat
them as recitals of fact. Thus a
two-column story about Mr..
Pickanickle's trouble with his
neighbors' chickens, and his f.
nal victory by an expedient more
ingenious than humane, comes
out in an English paper in some
thing like this form:
REMARKABLE ExPEDIENT.
A resident Of Danbury, u. S.,
whose premises had been tres
passed upon by his neighbors'
fowls, after essaying in vain a
of methods to protect
his garden from them, devised
the remarkable expedient of
strewing the garden with kernels
of corn, each containing a fish
hook attached to a line made fast
to a gigantic sky-rocket. When
Il number of fowls had gorged
this bait, the rocket was dis
charged and 1876 chickens car
ried off with it. This was no doubt
effective, but its barbarity is suf-
ficient to inspire wonder that the
authorities should have permitted
it in a Christian land.
There are two reflections in
spifed by this item, the first of
which is that it takes a nitro-gly-
cerine blast and a process of sub
cutaneous injection to get a joke
into an Englishman's head; and
The second is that an American
joke when reduced to its lowest
terms is not such a very side
splitting affair after all.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

n. T. Garter, County Judge.
A. S. Fnlton, Clerk Chanccry Court.
VIC. Morgan, do Circuit do
p. d. Boycc. do County do
r. T. Holland, Sheriff.
O. ". Counts, w. A. Cunningham. Dep
-Sheriits.
Henry Henderson, Trustee.
u. B. Thompson. {egisssr.
j. II. G. Daf, County Surveyor.
r.. J. lRives Sup't Of Public Seheols.
J. n. Morgan, Coroner.
n o. Wallace. Hanger
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18
Sad Effect Of Sudden JOY.

Paris paper: A telegraph
clerks wife had for some time
been in falling health. She
went, By advice of physicians,
to spend the summer in a farm
house in NormandyS where
boarders were taken. She wrote
to her husband almost daily,
and gave favorable bulletins of
her health. Recently he rcceiv-
cd a letter bearing the postmark
of the village where she was
staying. 1t mourned the wife's
death. The poor husband swoon-
ed away, fell into an arm chair
and was completely stunned by
the bow. This stupefaction
lasted three or four hours. He
was aroused from it by his door
bell. He opened tle door. His
wife the very picture Of health,
stood before him. His surprise
and JOY were too sudden-too
great. lie muttered i,lcolierent
phrases, hystcr;cally laughed
aud sobbed alternately. lie was
insane. His physicians fear his
death will speedily follow.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

| Old Judge Gustavius Swan,of
columbus, Ohio, was .charae-
teri Of his day. lie was not a
member of the church, yet he
WAS a constant attendant on the
ministrafions Of the venerable
DIR. Hoge, the distinguished pas
tor Of the Presbyterian Church,
and if he could not be called a
pillar he certainly might, with
his distinguished English proto-
type, claim to be buttress of
the church, supporting it from
without. The Judge was a con-
stant and diligent student of the
Bible and had a decided pen
chant for theological controver-
sy, and it must be confessed
seemed to take a special pleasure
in puzzling the clergy, who fire.
qrRntly called upon him, with
his knotty questions. One day
a missionary called on him for u
contribution. "Now," said the
judge, "1'll tell you what I'll do;
| will ask you simple question
in scripture, and if you will an
swer it correctly, / viii give you
TWENTY-FIVE dollars: if not MOTH
ing" The clergyman brighten
ed up at once and agreed to the
proposition, being quite sure of
his twenty-five dollars.
"Well, now," said the Judge,
"can you tell me why God drove
Adam and Eve out of Paradise?"
Certainly" said the clergy
man, "that is a very simple ques-
ton; it was because they ate the
forbidden fruit contrary to the
command of God"
'There," said the Judge, ''It is
as supposed; | have asked that
question Of a hundred different
clergymen and never got the
correct answer. / see you are
no wiser than the rest. You
ought to give me twenty-five
dollars for being so ignorant of
one of the most important facts
in connection with the fall of
man. But | will send you away
with my simple blessing and the
true answer to the question. If
you will look into your Bible
which you seem to have read so
carefully, you will see it written:
And the Lord said Behold the
man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil; and now,
lest he pat his hand and take al
so Of the tree of life and lice
forerer:, therefore the Lord sent
him forth from the garden of
Eden to till the ground from
which he was taken Think"
added the judge, with a sly twin
lle in his eye, "what a great
mercy it was thus to drive them
)ut, for suppose they had by
some chance got hold of the tree
If life, and thus the race had
,een perpetuated forever on this
.arth. Why, by this time, We
yould have been piled mountains
ligh upon each other, and what
IN awful struggle there would
AVE been for life and happiness"
The clergyman departed, wiser
f not happier man.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

them all, that their appreciation
of a soldiers gallantIy and inge-
muity, though at the same time a
foe, has been proved in the keep
ing SO long time a relic of those
terrible days never, never 20 come
again. Will you thank General
Hill, even at this late day, for
his generous treatment of a pris-
loner SO often attempting escape;
his kindness being universally
commended by the many prison
ers from Johnson's Island now
living here. BE pleased to con-
vey to them all my gratefulness
of their kindness. Y ours, 900
"W. p"
The following is the New Or
leans Democrats allusion to the
matter,and the publication above
referred to, in its issue Of the
same date as Captain Pierce's S
letter:
IAN INTERESTING RELIC.
"Captain VIM. Pierce, of the
Continental Guards, has just re-
ceired from Toledo, Ohio,a a mus
ket of peculiar make, to which
is connected a bit of history wei
worth keeping on record.
Ellis brother, Lieutenant, G.
Ii. Pierce, of the Seventh Louis
lana regiment, and as gallant an
officer as ever drew sword, was
in the winter of 1866 a prison
er OH Johnson's Island, General
Hill being at the time the Feder-
al commander of the fort.
Lieutenant Pierce, who, it
seems, did not like his compulso-
ry quarters, had several times
attempted to escape, but each
time without success. He at
last struck upon a plan. Pick
ing up all the tinware he could
obtain, and working in secret, he
manufactured a musket, (taking
five months to do it), and when
this work was,accomplished, hav-
ing secured q Yankee overcoat
and cap, he fell in one evening
with the guard, and marched
with them ont Of camp. But he
had forgotten one thing. AS
fortune would have it, the officer
of the guard was ynx-eyed, and
noticing that one Of his detail
had no cartridgc-box, repliman-
ded him, and Immediately order
ed an inspection of arms. This,
of course, led to the capture of
the tin gun and the reincarcera-
ton of the prisoner where he be-
longed by the rules of war. The
gun was handed over to Gen.
Hill, who was commanding the
post, and after much correspon-
dence, through the Agency of
Col. l.. r. Hoagland, Acting Adj
iutant General Of the State of
Ohio, General He'll and General
Charles l.. Young, Quartermas-
ter-General of Ohio, returned to-
Pierce.
sin closing his letter of advice,
Gen. Young says to Capt. Pierce:
al am glad TO be able to serve
you in this way, for my soldiers
heart always goes out in kindly !
sympathy toward those who
faced rs so often asvaliant men. |
l honor a soldier the world over,
and can mourn his taking off in
fullest and tenderest accord with
loving and kindred friends
1--WE understand that tits Cap
tain Pierce's intention to present
the relic to the Army of North
erh Virginia. hl wv Jbh
1t adds but little to the inter-
est to note that the paper from
which is the above, the Demo-
GRATIS edited byMaj, E,A, Burke,
OF Electoral fame. in connection
with the counting Of the Presi-
dental vote of 1876, himself a
gallant soldier of the war.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

WILLIAM THOMPSON, Of Dou-
glas county, has had five wives,
and has just married tha sixth.
1t is, however, due to the un-
fortunate man 10 state that he
has been totally blind for many
years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

Jerusha Jones, out in Connec-
ticut, was Tilted by her lover,
but she didn't sue for a breach
Of promise; she just met him OH
the highway one gentle after
noon and lammed him over the
head with a club. And that
WAS Il real scene in Jcrusha- Ian.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

In the "Journal of Asiatic So
ciety of Bengal" is an account
of a very remarkable snowfall in
Cashmere, which began October,
1877, and continued up to May,
1873, the general depth of the
snow being estimated from thir-
ty to forty feet.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

A package in a basket was
left on a door step of a cautious
Newport woman, who, having
10 desire to adopt a foundling,
took the basket to the police
station, and there found that it
contained twenty pound tur-
KEY.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

The price of printing paper
continues to advance. 1t is now
33s per cent. higher than it
was two months ago. Book and
city newspaper publishers in the
East are ordering their supplies
romEurope. Country printers
have to submit to the growing
burden.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

The Widow Chon, OF Rapid
Creek, No., received an offer Of
marriage from a wealthy but old
and ugly man. She wrote back
to him that within a week she
would choose between becoming
his wife and another disposition
of herself that she had in view.
A little later he heard that she
had attempted to commit sui
eide.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

| The Government has at Wash
ington the largest printing office
in the world. lis annual cost
is nearly $1,OO0,0O0. Since il
was established in 1860 the
treasury has paid out on its ac-
count $28,000,000, an average
of over 81, 100000 a year. 1t
has never been inventoried.
For one thing the Office has on
hand over 100000 pounds of
type.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

An Arizona judge killed an
editor last week; the editors
partner then killed the judge
and was himself wayIaid and
murdered the same night. Nice
country to live in, that Arizona.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

At Perry, Ga, a negro charg-
ed with burglary, who confessed
that he belonged to a gang that
operated in several counties, was
taken out OF Jail and hung.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

A lady of experience observes
that a good way to pick out a
husband is to see how patiently
he waits for dinner when it is
behind time. Her husband re-
marks that a good way TO pick
out awife is TO see whether the
woman has dinner ready in time.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

An autograph letter of Martha
Washington to her sister, dated
1862, was sold for fiffy-one dol
lars in Boston the other day.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

rer Two Dollars for one year, sn0a-
r,0btg IN ddeonce, Two Dollars amd
fstfty Gents If payment be deferred three
months. All papers going out Of the county
he paid for IN adcasacc.
na- Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-18

Only u thousand women in
Boston want to vote at the COM
ing election.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-07
sheep.

. Careful writers ON the subject have
noticed the general Immunity. from dis
ease fou.d in fiocks of American sheep,
and this is matter of much importance,
giving TO the United States special ad-
vantages as sheep breeding and mutton
producing country. Many ofthe diseases
of sheep which are described as compare
lively common in Europe are unknown in
the United States; and this remark ap-
plies particularly to those which have
proved destructive abroad. Very many
formidable maladies described by
European writers are wholly unknown
here, and others seldom met with, or if
met with occur in localities where they
are not recognized. Ne have some foot
rot and scab it is true, with more or less
colds, catarrh and grub in the head, but
in general our flocks are very healthy.
Indeed, the late Hon. H. s. Randall, one of
our best informed writers on this subject,
expressed an opinion some years ago that
all the diseases of sheep in this, country
with which he was acquainted-and he
had sent circulars for information upon
this subject to all parts of the United
Siates-did not cut off per cent annually
of wellfed and really.managed grown
sheep. One of our greatest drawbacks IN
sheep husbandry is the presence of so
many useless, vicious dogs; and their raw
ages are so alarming in many States as to
raise a practical prohibition against sheep
keeping. In the vicinity of towns and
villages, where dogs abound, sheep are
scarce; and but for this all New England
might be one vast sheepfold.