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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-02-06

T A young man objected to the
girl that his rich uncle wished
him to marry. "You mustn't be
SO particular" said the exasper-
ated uncle. 81 tell you she's
well enough" $50 she is, UNI
cle,D responded the nephew, 'and
you know you've always taught
me to leave well enough alone"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
Fever Notes.

The Evansville Courier sends a pos-
tai to the Memphis Acalahehe which
reads: "Please discontinue our ex-
change for the season."
The ashes OF cedar wood are ssid to
be as good disinfectant aud deodor-
izer as lime OF copperas. Therefore
house and hotel keepers should haYe
ashes from cook-stoyes carefully pre-
served and emptied into odorous vaults
and sinks.
A special dispatch of Sunday from
Memphis says that qnietness ruled
throughout this Sunday as much so as
during any day of the epidemic Of
1878. A email squad of citizens could
be seen here and there discussing the
situation and guessing at the prospects.
Several of Gods holy temples kept
open doors during the usual bours Of
devotional services, but the attendance
was generally very slim. At one church
on Georgia street the minister was the
only one who responded to the bells
announcement OF the hour for public
worship. There is msnifestly no I'M
easy feeling, as nearly every one feels
confident that the plague has been
checked, and will not increase beyond
its present limit OF the daily number
OF new cases.
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| Bsecher said LAST Sunday that this
country from Its earliest days has held
that part of its mission Is to develop
and rehabilita,e humanity without any
distinction of race or creed. recog-
niza the right tast hotel keepers pos
sess of excluding or refusing admission
20 their houses of unworthy persons,
That, however, Is very different thing
to this, which is an exclusion of race,
on account of race, which in this coun-
try no circumstances could tolerate.
Ii is contrary to ats genius, TO its pur-
poses aud its aims. Suppose this were
done to the Irish, the English, or the
Germsni Try TO imagine what the
consequences would be. Or suppose
that the South were To say that they
would not entertain New EDglanders,
on the plea that "IS nks were mean, ;"
and there are plenty of mean Yankees,
why how could we resist it on any con-
sistent principle If We don't tolerate
Jewsl No, on the common universal
ground of our national policy the course
of Mr.. COTbin must be condemned. Mr..
Corbin ought to be able to manage de-
tails without prosecuting race. He
who cannot mansge men cannot man
age 4 hotel. l must say that my inter
course with Jews has been of the pleas.
ATTEST character. | met several Jewish
families at the the Twin Mountain
House, in the White Mountains, and
they were IN every way pleasant and
desirable companions. l never saw
anything in their conduct that was in
any way Objectionable.
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CIrenier.

in accordance with section . OF an
act entitled "An act granting a land
certificate of six hundred and forty
acres to each INDECENT veteran, who
was engaged IN the struggle for Texas
Independence prior to ard at the bs,-
tie of San Jacinto, entitled under the
act approved July IS, 1876" the uu-
designed have been appointed a board
to examine and pass upon the claims
of veterans. We therefore notify all
veterans entitled 10 the benefits of .aid
act that we are organized ana prepared
TO act on all claims that may be filed
under the above Tecited act with the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office. As will be seen by the title of
the set, ITS bent Its inure TO those only
who participated In the struggle for
Texas Independence previous to the
tWenty-second Of April, 1896. Appli-
cants are requested 90 prove Dy their
own afli tav,t, Sustained by two
witnesses, before the county judge Of
their respective counties, attested by
the county clerk, that they are physi-
cslly unable tn make living, and are
nCt POI sessed Of more than $500 worth
of property, their sffidavits- TO be filed
with Hon. W. c Walsh, Commissioner
of the Genera! Land Office, when they
will be acted on bv this board.
F. w. JOHNSON,
EDWIN WALLER,
JOHN NJ WADE.
Board of Veterans.
Texas plpsrs please CODY.
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A SPLENDID BUILDING The spler-
did structure just finished by Mrs.
KIRBY, for the accommodation of pu
pills aud teachers constituting the pros
porous aud most popular Alta Vista
Institute, ,tIscts the attention OF
every visitor Of the capital. Every
modern improvement and every srchI-
tectursl incident and appliance cnndu
GIVE to health and comfort has been de-
vised for the building. Mrs. Kirby is
probably the best known, and deemed
the most accomplished and skillful
teacher OF young ladies. who has de-
voted her life to the task in Texas
Long ago she conducted q famous
school not far from Hempstead and
for five yesrs past she has been en-
gagged in her accustomed tasks in Aus
tin. Now she has built at the cost OF
ten or twelve thousand dollars the hes,
Ventiitt d ana most wisely ordered and
arranged apartments and school rooms
and galleries ever constructed for such
purposes in the State. Read her az
Vertisement.
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Truths From Beecher.

There are mothers that pray for their
children's conversion, and tread down
under foot heedlessly the very things
that would make them good. Praying
and cuffing don't 90 well together !;
praying and an irritable temper, prsy-
ing and an ascerb cOuntenance are in-
cougruities. Children may be 30
brought up that righteousness may be
the most unpleasant thing in their
minds. They may be brought up with
positive dread of Sunday. The house
hold should be made happy to children.
When / find q child that hates his home
there are no terms strong enough to
express what feel. On the other hand,
if child is brought up happily the
chances are nine hundred and ninety
nine to a thousand that he will not
make shipwreck in after life. The
law for the household should be the
law for the school, but in too many In
stances the law of selection is not fol-
lowed in the choice of schoolmaster.
A man tries TO be farmer and fails ;
tries to be q mechanic and fails; tries
to be lawyer and fails; tries to be
minister and Is not even good enough
for that; but one thing he can be--he
can be schoolmssterl And so you will
find throughout the country schoolmas-
tiers are selected because they are cheap.
You can get him for 80 month and
found Shame on the parsmOny thai
would take cent from the pay OF tie
men or the women employed as teach
ers. IL there is any profession which
should be made the object OF lifework
it Is that; If there ia any profession that
should be n ade absolutely independent
of all care as TO the means OF living il
is that. / do not undervalue my own
profession, but / do think that the
scnoolmsster stands nearer to God than
the minister can. For myself, hated
the school. hated IL in my mind,
hated 1t in my body, hated it in my
affections. had no religious nature, so
I could not hate il in that. hated
school, and ytt there came q summer
in old Liickfeld when n spite OF tears
and protestatIons ] was sent ont OF the
house and 10 school, and ! found q
school marin, comely, though with very
pale face, and young not over eigh-
teen years Old--who met me At the
door and patted me on the head and
played with my curly hair used to
have very beautiful curls-it was long
time ago), and sat me down by her
feet and mAde me happy. She was
taken sick aud died, but while she
taught was the only pleasant time /
ever had in school. There Is no econ-
omy 50 penurious, no wrong 50 intoler-
able as that which cuts down the pay Of
the Teacher, and simply because
they with whom they f1zEe to do are
only children. only cAiidrenl Whose
clildreng Your chifdfen. my children,
Gods children, the sweetest blossoms
IN the garden Of the world. for whom
angels msy be proud 70 do service. II
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sui resc4t as % the copauct OF the in
sh0re d.hcriss ~ one fishing Acct and
their tre1tme,t hy local authorizes
snd population aud consuls.
Gen. Bradford, al Shanghai, has re-
sisas6
BosroS, M4ss., August ) = Mayor
Prince presided 81 meeting to- day to
consider the qlcstl0n raised BIZ the
Omaha decision II habess corpus case
~ the Pouca IsdIans. The manner in
which the aboriginal race had heen
treated vas stIo, . : denounced. Rec
oln'ions were adopted that the right
If the Indians should be finally de-
termiued by the Supreme Court, aud Il
committee was appointed to collect
four thousand dollars for that purpose.
A kissingen dispatch denies, on good
authority, that any arrangement has
been concluded for the settlement Of
the religious questions ST issue between
Germany and the Vatican, and adds
that Bismarck will not yield sny essen
tisl point in the Faik laws TO secure
the mOduS cigeRai.
LONDON, August 5.-The Standards
Berlin correspondent points out q sen
teuce IN a letter rom the Crown Prince
to the Pope, written during the re.
gency of the former while the Emperor
was recovering from the effects of an
attempted assassination, which says
that the alteration of Prussisn laws 10
accord with the statutes of the Romish
Church would be inconsistent with
loyalty to his ancestors and his duty 10
his country, which sentence. the cor
respondent says, csnnot be explained
away.
BELGRADE, August 5.-The Porte
repudiates the concessions of the COM
mis- .ioner relative to the SeTvian from
er and superseded him.
1t is said from Constsutinople that a
difficulty has arisen about the Monte
negnn frontier. The English, Austrian
and Turkish commissioners have agreed
upon the boundary, to which the Rus
sian and Montenegrin commissioners
have refused to give their assent.
PARIS, August In France states
that one part of the fetes at Nancy,
Sunday, the third instant, on the oc-
casion of the uuveihng of the statue
of Theirs, was promenade by the
gymnastic societies, the members of
which came from Metz ard St'ssburg,
aud included persons studying for the
German army. Ia France hore' that
no harm will come of such demOnstrs
ton.
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Ben Hill said few days ago that he
was glad of the extra session, because
1t hid clearly defined the issues be-
tween the two parties. He regarded
this fight as precisely OF the same char
acter as that of 1916, for the right of
self-government. The Republicans
first timidly, but now boldly, decided
in favor of policy of wIping out State
lines. 1t was to be hard struggle,
but he believed the Democrats would
win. He believed that confder ty.
He had met a good many men in New
York who thought as he did. Sanford
E. Church especially tn ought that the
Democrats must go before tn epeople up
on the issues OF the extra session. Even
Thurlow Weed shook his head at the
centraliZing tendencies OF the Repub-
lican party. lie c.iticising Sherman's
speeches in Maine, he said Sherman
was q cold flGancier, and that he was
too narrow for anything like sta'esman-
ship. He said that Sherman's oXpla-
nation of the causes that led to the war
was very erroneous one, as naturally
they would he from Ben Hills stand
ueint. When in New York city Hill
hs long talk with the TAmmany peo-
pie, and from them he learned all the
particulars of the present political stu
a'ipn in New York. Tammany swears
at present that it will not support either
Tilden or Robinson, but Hill thinks in
the end that there will be some sort Of
a satisfactory compromise.
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II is now estimated that the wheat
crop Of Indiana for this year will lie
from 40 000, 600 to 80, 600, 900 blshels,
and Will bring in'o the State and add
to its invested wealth from $50, 600, =
600 to $40, 900, 900. No such sum has
eyer been added to the wealth of a
State with as little risk or as great
profit upon the capital and labor in
vested. 1t is not an unusual or excep-
tionaI thing for the product to be
equal to one-hslf the value of the soil
that produced il. Thousands of acres
of land in the State have, in two years,
produced wheat equal IN value TO the
land producing it. The product Of
corn has been very little behind that of
wheat in point of profit. This, of
course, IS not a common or even an
average result, taking one year with
another. The past three have been
favored years with the farmers, and
the farmer who has not done well
during that period may reasonably
conclude that there is something
wrong in his case demanding inYesti-
cation. We make reference here to
Indebtedness and embarrassment from
that cause, under which thousands of
farmers are laboring in common with
all other classes. Such Indebtedness
in nine cases out of ten is the result of
some other cause than following their
agricultural pursuit. Considering,
therefore, the profit of the business as
it is pursued by the average Western
farmer, what may it be made when by
diligent research and experience, it is
brought to that degree Of perfection
which has been attained in England
ami some of the New Eugland States
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srAR ING no nEATM,

Thousands Of men and women are
starving themselves TO death. They
dare not eat or drink this or that, fear
Ing It will increase their flesh. Life
depends upon continuous self-denisl.
Dcly safe and reliable remedy for
pie condita1a Is Allan's Anti
B wholly vegetable and per-
fectly harmless. Its use insures re-
dnction OF from two to Eve pounds per
week. Sold by druggists.
BuFEALo. N. Y, June IS, 1873.
10 The Psop'rs Of Adams AntkFa:
Confidence The following report is
from the lady who used AlIan's Anti
Fat: - Il CHE Anti-Faf) had the de-
aired effect, reducing the fat from two
% i've pounds week, until had lost
tUentY-ilv pounds. hope never to
regain what / have lost" Yours, ETC.,
pewELI. & PLnfProN,
Wholesale Druggists.
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ARK EES tSR TELEGKAPH.
GALVESTON MAREETH

GALVESTON, August O. Cotton - Re
Eeipts 452 bales; exports, coastwise, go.
bales; sales bales; stock on hand
1862 bales; market weak; middling l02sc;
low middling l03sc; good ordinary l0c.
The receipts are all new cotton.
Wheat 95c@$l.0j; oats 44c; corn &C.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL. August .. --Noon--Cotton
easier; middling uplands 6ssd; mid
ding Orleans 67-1Gd; sales 1000 bales,
including 1000 for speculation and ex-
port; receipts 1850, all American. Flu
lures I'D cheaper
KANSAS CITY MARKETS.
KANSAS CITY, August 5.-Wheat No. .,
spot, S91ac bid; No. s, spot, cars sold
at S5l14c.
Corn-fed Texas steers $325@3.75;
grass wintered 81. 35@3.00.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS. August 5.-Flour quiet and
unchanged; XX fall $3.S5n4 Is; XXX
fall red $4.00@4.50; family "a 1904. so;
choice TO fancy $4.85@5.50. Wheat
higher; No 9 red fall 9915@9924c
Corn quiet at 31@4c Oats easy al 81 Sc.
cash. Whisky steady at $1.05. Pork
better at SIS. 8715@S.90. Dry salt meats
higher; clear ribs S4.35. Bacon higher;
clear ribs S4.95. Lard nominal.
CHICAGO MARKETS.
CHICAGO, August 5.-Wheat unsettled
but generally higher; No. Chicago
spring 94@941ac cash; No. . do. 1870
s67sc; No. 3 do. 751a@76c.
NEW ORLEANS MARKETS
Nav ORLEANS. August ). - Cotton
weak and nominal; sales 300 bales
good ordinary 97sc; low middliDg 104c;
middiing 1880; receipts. net 80 bales,
gross 233 bales; stock on hand $3.50 bales.
Sight &c premium. Sterling, bank
4.S5; consOls 39@40.
Flour quiet and weak; superfine IS. 25
@3.50; Xxx. $4.25; xxx S4.50@5. 90;
higher grades $5.25@5.75. Corn
in good demand at full prices;
choice mixed 46c; yellow 48c;
white, dull and lower, at Csc. Oats
firmer at 35@37c. Pork quiet and steady,
$3.50. Lard quiet; tierce 61z@67sc;
key 71s@73sc. Dry salt meats steady
with fair demand; shoulders. loose. 35sc;
packed 334c. Bacon quiet at $3.50,
475@ So S715. Hams in good demand;
choice sugar-cured, canvassed, 9@llc,
as in size. Whisky dull; Western rec
tilted $1.05@1.10. Coffee quiet; quoted,
cargoes of ordinary TO prime at 111s@
loo; jobbing 114@l6c. Sugar scarce and
firm; common to good common 6@64c;
fair to fully fair 61s@7c; prime 10 choice
7I@71Sc; yellow clarified 73s@75sc.
Molasses dull and nominal; fermenting
24(@30c; common 2S@30c; fair 28@30c;
prime to choice 3203hc. Rice quiet;
ordinary to choice Louisiana 61l@71ac
Wheat lower; No red winter, 10 ar
rive, S1.04@1.05
quOtably higher.
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Hyrit. by far the greatest anatomist Ct
the age, used to Say that he could dis
tinguish in the darkest roUm. by one
stroke of the scalpsl, the brain Of the
Inebriate from that OF person who lIv-
ed sober. Now and then he conld con-
graduate his class upon the posses sion
OF drunkard's brain admirably fitted,
from its hardness and more complete
preservation, for the purpose of demon
strating. When the snat)mist wishes
10 preserve a human brain for any
ieagth Of time, be effects that object
10y keeping that organ ID vessel OF
alcohol. Fem soft, pulpy substance,
it then becomes comparatively hard ;
but the iDebnabc. anticipating the
anstOmisi. begins the induratipg pro-
cess before dezth--begins it while the
brain rcmsins the eonsecrAted temple
Of the soul-while its delictts and Cos
samer-like tissues still throb with the
pulse OF heaven born life. Strange in
fstustion, thus 10 desecrate the god
likei Terrible snchantment, that dries
up ell the fountains OF generous feel
inga, petrifes all the tender humanities
aud sweet charities Of life, leaving only
brain Of lead and heart Of stone.
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Wr4rtfsp onsnnvAr1ors !

WF&THsn OBSERVATIONS - Every
body confesses an interest in daily Oh.
servations affecting tie weather care
fully made by an excellent gentleman
of this city. HIS ltt.st statement is as
follows: The highest range Of ther-
mometer for the month of July last
was 090 lowest range so , average
for month SO 32o. Rainfall o so
inches. The average heat for the
months of June and July last has
been greater than in any year since
1860, when it was about the same.
The rainfall from January / to August
/, 1860, was 10. 30 inches; from Janu
airy l to August l, 1879, 10 30 inches.
On the tenth day of August, 1860, the
heaviest shower ever known at Austin
fell, viz, l-2 inches in about four
hours. Rea, oaing from analogy we
NAV expect heavy rains the present
month.
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NIsSr NovaoRop FAIR.-The great
market Of The eastern world has been
held e this junction of the Volga and
Olga FiseFs. in Russia, every summer
Tor hundreda Of years. Here the ma
lions Of Europe aud hsla meet with
their products for trade. Cossack.
Chinese, Tux and Persian meet the
German and the Greek with every
variety Of merchandise that mankind
emplnys. from sApphires 10 grindslones,
tee, opium, fur. foad. tools aud fAbrics,
and last. hut not least, medicines. ].
q. Aver 4 Co.'S celebrated remedies
nom AmeEica were displayed in an elc-
CANT hSz AZ. whore the doctor himself
might snlaetlmes be seen. They are
known and taken on steppes Of Asia a.
well e. the prairies Of The WesE. and
are Al eifectnal antidote for the diseases
that prevail in the Yaoalts Of the Norih
a. well as the huts and cabins Of the
Western consinent. = Liealia lfIliaei,)
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AUSTIN, August 4, 1879.
Editors Democratic statesman:

Editors Democratic statesman:
The Daily State Gdzstte of August
contains an editorial notice of an in
terview between Governor Roberts and
myself in regard to the Communication
of the sentence of Mrs. Crummels, con-
victed of theft in Mstagorda county
and sent to the penitentisry for two
years. This notice is chsracteriz d
rather by its zeal to put the Governors
action in the matter in an odious and
untrue light, than by any desire to as
sist the poor woman whose liberty is
in question, The editor of the Gazette
places the Governor in an entirely un-
just light, and leaves the public to
suppose that the Executive treated me
in discourteous and abrupt manner,
and was very ''obstreperous and testy."
This is complete fiction, emansting
from the Gazette's highly wrought fac
ulty for imagining every possible evil
of GoVtraor Roberts. The Governor
was count. ous and kind in the inter,
view mentioned, as he has always
been to me, and to others in my pres
ence. True, he firmly refused to par
don Mr.. Crummels, but based his re-
fusal on the laws of the country. He
SAID that II the unfortunate woman
conducted herself properly in the pen
itentisry, then the laws as well as his
own feeling and policy in such
case entitled her to executive clemency
and she would be pardoned, but that
having been regularly and legally tried
and convicted, she must endure the
penalty, until her own conduct should
hereafter bring her within the clemency
and composition whose exercise are
vested in the Governor. Further than
this Governor Roberts did not go. The
statements in the Gazette that / pre-
sumed to give the Executive Scrip
tural and moral lecture in behalf Of
the prisoner are entirely without foun-
dalton. No such thing occurred, and
the attempt made by the editor to in
sinuate that Governor Roberts used
language and uttered sentiments shock
ing TO the religious feelings OF the
community Is piece OF gratuitous
aud imaginary SANDER on the Govern
or, which l feel it to be my duty to re-
pei. | have made these explanations
in Justice to Governor Roberts, whose
motives and language have been mis-
represented by the Gasetts, and IN JUS
lice to myself. / have nothing but
pleasant and agreeable Tecollections Of
the interview, except the regret that
the application for pardon was not
granted. w. p. FISHER.
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GEoRaE SEALY Of G alvcston, agent for
j. s. Kennedy aud Samuel Sloan bought
Thursday for the first mortgage bond
holders the International and Great
Northern Road for 81, 600, 900 in gold.
Now, it is said that the International
will be extended at once TO San Anto-
Mo and we are curious to see what the
business men and prOperty-holders Of
Austin will do about it. Will they
stand still till what they have is value
less and until 1t will be impossible for
them to move. The present receiver
will continue until the court decides
otherwise
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.wo interments reported
sexton for July, 90 died in
the remaining 3 being
I'm distance for burial. OF
died of consumption, Of
diseases, l of whooping
OF convulsions, 3 of lnfamma-
OF the brain, of congestion of
30 stomach, of old age, of puer-
peral fever, of E.arasmus, of pneu-
monia, of poisoning by cyanide of
potash, Of cancer OF the stomach, /
Of Continued lever, Of diphtheris, 1
Of intestinal hemorrhage, was still
horn and the cause of death in was
not known. The oldest, perhaps, well
known in this community by the name
Of Old Aunt Jenny Davis, is reported
To have been lis years old.