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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

@ The legislature just G.
lccted in this State will stand po-
litically as follows: Democrats,
IS; Republicans, II; Grecnback-
ers,5. Democratic majority, OIL
joint ballot, over all opposition,
56.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

REM, MTssIssIPPf, }
Dec oStb. 1873

Dec 18th, 1873. )
y. O. Wattace, ESD EAH
SlR-Sevcral months have pass
led since my last deter was writ
ten for the OBSERVER, and ma
ny changes have 5akcn place
Since it was written. thousand,
OF oul people haze been called
from time TO eternity. Wher
they were least thinking Of it,
death came and claimed them
as its victims We have seer
enough within the last few
months to bring to our mind.
4he solemn thought, "Be We also
ready, forin such an hour as you
think not, the Son Of man com.
eth" We should ever be on
the watch and ready, for W,
know not the hour that we may
be called.
Business is rather dull now,
Farmers are cautious about COM
ing 10 town, owing probably to
its being about pay day, and
they are fearful that their cred
itors will call on them topay off
their notes and accounts, and as
timesarc hard and money scarce,
they can't comply. The cry is
''hartl times" but what's The use
of grumbIing? Since the de-
cree was uttered, ON the sweat
of thy brow thou shalt eat thy
bread, there has not been / bu-
siness or profession free from
care, annoyance, vexation and
disappointment; and yet moth
ing is more common than to
hear men and women grumbling
over the necessity WHICH COM
pels them 10 work. The spirit
which broods over fancied evils
breeds real ones. 1t is u positive
fact that no daily avocation is
free ffDm disagrecablcs. No hui
man being can free himself from
them--lhe idler least Of all. Try
it, some Of you, and see. The
seoncc we make up our minds
10 swceten our lives with content
the better and happier we will
be. | always did wonder at a
man deliberately setting down
to count his crosses when he had
a mouth 10 whistle, as if howl
ing over fancied or real troubles
ever added peace to the home
hearth or money in the pocket.
1t is not drawing the line too
strong to say that all the real
bencfitsconferred uponthc world
~ mankind were wrought ont
of the workers of the world,
while the gool accomplished by
the dreamer remains undiscov-
cred, as it probably ever will,
until an instrument is invented
that will reveal the difference be-
tween an emotion and an intcn-
ton. Doubtless some of your
readers will think this sounds
like sermon. Speaking Of ser
mons reminds me of some of
The stock they work up into
preachers nowadays. There
appears to be Il vast number
"cal!. d. who cannot be called
crack marksmcn. They don't
fill The bill. Peradvenlure the
Lord should send an angel hunt
ING helrabouts for ten righteous
men, fear he would look a good
while before he would find the
cloth to suit them. ! reverence
unaffected picty, and if there is
one calling above all others that
| bow down 10, ii is that which
wins men and women from vice
and immortality, and places them
fairly on the road 10 heaven.
But yon must admit thai prac-
teal workers Of that stamp are
ve;y scarce. r. w. II.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

~ Archbishop Purcell and
his brother, of Cincinnati, under
took to be S savings bank, and
of course failed. The poor peo-
ple now clamor for their money.
They want bread, and are sent
empty away
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02
g. q. MAMsNN
Near the northeast corner Square,
FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE.

FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE.
Is now prepared to manufactureeg1
4 Harness, Saddles, Brides, 81
and Martingales in the best style.
and Of the very best material. Collars
Hames, and Whips always on hand
Repairing done with neatness and dlsPa ,s,.
Cheap for Cash OR BARTER oNLT JaH-l-i--
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

and that your children positively will
not be received unless you make, before
that time, satisfactory arrangements for
all buttons now due. Very Respt,
dec l9--2w II. S. BRADSHAW.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

nY The Legislature meets
next Monday.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02
Harper's Bazaar.
1879.
ILLUSTRATED.


Tho dress according to IIarper's Bazaar will be
the aim and ambition OF the wO men OF America
Boston Transcript.
As faithful chronicle of fashion and a news
paper of domestic aud sJci1l character it ranks
without rival brooklyn Eagle.
This paper has acquired wide popula rity for
the freSide enjoyment it afTorlS and has become
an established authority with the ladies.-N. Y.
Evening Post
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

The volumes Of the Bazaar begin with the first
Number OF January OF each year. hen no ritme is
mentioned il viii he unsIcr-ood hat the sub>cri-
her wishes TO commence wish the Number next
after the receipt of his order.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02
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BUSINESS CHANCE.

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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02

@ The Georgia Legislature
is wrangling over dog law.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02
EATs YOU PAID Your TUITION?
JANUARY LIST, 1879,

4 not, you are requested to do so at once.
Il Remember that the next term begins
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
The "ReveIry in IudIn. y

NEW 1Ofk w ora: AS to the
poem of RerelTy in India, the same thing
may be said. For though we have ascer-
tanned that MIR. Alfred Domett did not write
1t, we have not yet ascertained who did write
1t. MIR. Domett, the Warning" of Robert
Brownlng's poem has been credited with the
authorship OF this song for years, In part
upon the authority of his first cousin, Mr..
William Young, the well known translator
OF Beranger, formerly editor of the Albion
IN this city, and for some years past resi-
dent of Paris, but more particularly upon the
authority OF another relative who bears
his name and who now resides IN New
York. Mr.. Coates, the compiler of the Fire
side Cycl0p9diG Of Poetry. having attributed
the poem to a certain bartholomew Dowl-
inR," of the E. |. Z. s., we conceive it to be
only due to the care and Judgment shown by
him in his compilation to award a mark
to contestants who followed HIM, but
through an Interesting correspondence on the
subject with Mr.. Coates we learned that he
had no positive information either as to the
authorship OF the song or Bowling identity.
Mr. Rosslter johnson was of like mind with
Mr.. Coates, but up n 10 more definite and
decisive grounds, nor could Prof. Longfellow,
to whom Americans are indebted for the first
publication of Alfred DoInett's noble Christ
mas Hymn, years ago, in the WGiC, throw
any hnal light upon the question. lnYeshga-
tons are now making at our request IN Lon
don which promise something more satisfac-
tory In an affirmative sense. In negative
sense the question is settled by the following
extracts from a charming letter written by
Mr.. Alfred Domett to the editor of the
World, confirming one written by him TO Mr..
Rossiter Johnson at about the same time.
The letter from which we cite touches other
matters, and particularly the English poets
relations with and his exalted opinion of Prof.
Longfellow, In a manner altogether tempting
and delightful, but these passages we do not
feel ourselves at liberty to reproduce. Z"
may now repeat to yourself" Mr.. Domett
says, ''that was not the author of the poem,
ReVelry ia India, and Furthermore, though
that perhaps is not important that never
was IN India in my HE. In 1872 or 1873
wrote to the Chicago Times disav0wing the
authorship of the same poem, which some
writer in that paper had attributed to me.
OF the true origin and history OF it am as
ignorant as any one on your side OF the water
can be- The Chicago Times protested to have
taken it from DIR. Doran's Table Traits, who,
believe, says he found itin the Iade AHgtaise
of N. de Warrenne, French officer IN the
British army OF India. / have not Dr.. Do.
rams book by me, but l think he throws no !.
more light on the subject than what ] kESe
just stated
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
The Convention or New England Free
LOVers-DIsgusting Destinations
The MOrmOns OutdOne.

New York Herald: 'The convention OF
the New England Free-Love league was one
of those occurrences which law could not
prevent, and which was SO illustrative OF the
spirit that impels human beings to nameless
vices that its prevention would have deprived
the public of a needed lessen. For centuries
the law has set for the sexual relation certain
bounds which, while not entirely meeting
the requirements of religion and morality,
have nevertheless prevented the oeoase-
ment of millions of men aud women who
were not already mere animals, and has,
by compelling self-control and respect
for the possibilities of humanity, caused
rare virtues to blossom where previously
brutalizing vices had been in full possession.
But it is popularity of the rage for self
qualification of any sort, aad among men OF
no matter how fine intellect, that it stulti6es
reason, honor and self-respect, by the exer-
else of q variety of sentimentality that Is
poor counterfeit of the noble passion for free
dom. Liberty and license, If not lntercon-
vertlble verbally. are made theoretically one
and the same thing, and the Boston conven-
ton sends out to the world mass OF high
sounding verbiage the real meaning OF which
is discernibe by and disgustingsto the weak
est intellect that is associated with a pure
heart. Inebriety, theft, murder and all
other developments of the baser seihshness
have been defended and excused In just the
same manner, though generally by lndIvIdu-
ais instead of collective bodies; but the Dos
ton effort, ike all of these, presents the sckep-
ing spectacle of human beings wilfully debas.
ing themselves intellectually for purposes OF
animal qualification, until the moral heritage
| of centuries with it's hard-earned and price,
less accommodations, is blown away by wordy
gust that Stimulates purifying breeze. Were
| a man 70 tear from ancestral walls the rare
old paintings, drag from old chests the title
| deeds and patents of nobility that had come
down to HIM, and toss all these into fire
over which to warm his fingers for a brief
| moment. no plea that warmth is the normal
condition of the fingers would excuse hin
even to himself It is only in words tina
men can sentlmentaize to their own destrue
| ti0n ~
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01

of sound. In the chemical telephone there is
likewise a CYLINDER and diaphragm; but
with these its resemblance to the
great photograph ceases. On the
cylinder of the chemical telephone
rests a metal arm attached to diaphragm,
and the passage of electric waves through
such cylinder causes the vibration of the
diaphragm. The scientific principle involved
in the electro photograph discovery Is diau1et-
ricalIy opposite to the main principle in cleo
tro-magnetism, and yet it performs in most
cases exactly the same functions as electro
magnetism. In all contrivances hitherto
used for producing a mechanical movement
at q long distance, the agency employed has
been electro-maguetism. Take for illustra-
ton the ordinary Morse telegraph. This, as
every schoolboy knows, consists in the rough
of a sott.piece of iron around which Is coiied
a continuous fine wire, through which wire
| is passed, so to speak, current of electricity.
| This current magnetizes the piece OF soft
| iron, which thereupon ls enabled to attract a
| second piece of iron or immature. Here,
| then, we have a mechanical movement, pro-
| duced by energy transmitted from distance.
| By means of the discovery OF the principles
/ of the electro photograph, Mr.. Edison has
made it possible to produce mechanical
movements at distance without the employ
| nent of electro magnetism. In other words,
| had the inventor of the telegraph never lived,
| and had eectro-magpetism never been dis
covered, we might to-day accomplish the
same results by means of the electro 'moto'
| graph"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
THE BLACK CASE.

The supreme court at Jackson, yesterday,
in the chancery case of Il. ]. Black, dis
missed the bill of complainant on the ground
that the suit was prematurely brought. The
merits of the case were not considered by the
court. The last general assembly of the
State enacted a law limiting the fees of coun-
ty court clerks, trustees, aud various other
officers, to two thousand dollars per annum.
Mr. Il. J. Black, clerk and master of the chan
Gerry court of Shelby county, made a test case,
which resulted as above stated. The dis
missal of the bill on the ground that the
sut had been prematurely brought,
leaves the matter just as if
tae contest had never been made.
When the county trustee makes demand
upon the chancery clerk for the amount of
revenue over and above the two thousand
dollars salary from fees and emoluments of
office, and the demand is refused by the clerk,
then the contest involving the constitution
atty of the act can be made, and will not
be considered prematurely brought by the
supreme court. The case will then be hsard
on lis merits, and will be decided by the
oour-. The decision of yesterday amounted
to nothing, the case going off on mere
technical point of law.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR wOnRN.

The trustees of Harvard have, in order to
avail themselves of Miss Marion Hovey's
offer of an endowment, reported in favor of
admitting women to the medical school I'M
der the following conditions: That after
the completion OF new building, women be
admitted to the medical school as an expert
ment for period of ten years; that they be
not less than twenty-five years of age; that
the requisites for admission and the course
of study be the same AS for men; that the
examination for men and women shall be
identical; that nothing shall be countenanced
which will in any way lower the standard of
the school or affect the execution OF the plans
laid out for its development; that the courses
of lectures in which students take no active
part be open to both men and women; that
for personal instruction in laboratories and
for recitatons the two sexes be separated,
and that complete separation be made OF
such subjects as obstetrics, the diseases OF
women, certain portions of anatomy and ply
siology. and the like. The EXPENSE of the
experiment for trial of ten years was rough
ly estimated by the majority to be about
sixty thousand dollars. Another triumph
for the sex whose cause is steadily gaining in
every part of the world.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
Tho VeneraoIe Lucretia Mott,

''Gath, in the Cincinnati Enquirer: Not
long ago the cemmedlan, Joseph Jefferson,
and his daughter and some theatrical people
went out OF Philadelphia to call on the VEN
cradle Lucretia Mott who resides on the
York turnpike, and is eighty-six years old
She is now widow, and her son-in-law, Ed
ward Davis, who resides near her, Is sixty
three years old. This is the last strong old
Quaker lady. She was born in 1898, IN
Washington's first administration, on the
Island of Nantucket, and is a relative of DIR.
Benjamin Franklin through bis mother.
Her maiden name was Lucretla Coffin. Nam
tucket produced oil and candles which were
sent to Boston and exchanged for dry goods,
etc. Ia 1904 the family removed to Boston,
and the children were brought up Quakers.
Lucretia Mott has never changed the old cos
tune, although she is by no means orthodox.
In 1910 she went to the Geological gardens
In London, and gentleman called her atten-
ton to the rich plumage of the tropical birds,
saying: Madam, they should not be dressed
in drab." Immortal beings" replied the
handsome Quakeress, ''do not depend on
feathers. There is enough variety In the
human face and mind without such plumage.
| see no more reason why women should i'm
ltate birds than men. l think that more
monotonous than Quakers are these paid
preachers in England with their black clothes
and white cravats." Lucretia Mott was sent
to boarding school near Poughkeepsie, and
became an assistant there. Her family, now
being rich, had removed to Philadelphia, and
at eighteen she. married James Mott, of New
York, who became her fathers partner.
They were ruined In the war of 1912, and
the young wife set out again to teach school.
Her intellect developed by discipline and
trials, she believed In human virtue, rejected
the idea of human depravity, and became a
Quaker preacher. By 1887 she had discarded
the idea that authority is truth, believing
that within US is the truth, which is better
authority. She Joined at once with William
Lloyd Garrison In the anti-sIavery crusade,
and boldly went into the slave States to
speak. She carried her gospel to Great
Britain, embraced the temperance re-
form, and also advocated women 8 rights, or
ganizlng convention for that purpose in
l843. She nursed and personally brought up
all her six children. Her husband, who had
long been the chief manager of toe "U nder-
ground Railroad" died at the age of eighty,
in 1858. That pair lived together fifty seven
years. Through Mrs. Mott and her son-in-
law have come to perfection many of the best
intellectual publications in this country. The
Nation periodical, as l have understood, was
an original conception of Mr.. Jaws. Mrs.
Mott has spent nearly all her later days in
but without luxury. Her beautiful
estate is close to the nearly dismantled prop
erty of Pierce Butler, who took to his gloomy
heritage the beautiful bride, Fanny Kemble.
There she wrote many of her poems and
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
EdIson,s Last wonder.

Chicago Journal: "The latest achievement
of Mr.. Edison is the electro photograph. AL
though it is yet in its infancy, the scope of its
utility has already become far more expan-
sive than that of any of Mr.. Edison s
previous inventions. Probably its most strik-
ing feature Ia its paradoxical power of max
ing the human hand talk; for the hand re-
wolves little cylinder, and the instrument
speaks as it Is hidden, and when the hand
stops turning, the instrument ceases to speak.
At superficial glance, this principle would
seem to be the same as that Of the phono-
graph; but in point of fact there is no essen
tlal similarity between the two inventions:
they are used for entirely different purposes,
and are governed by separate and distinct
laws. The photograph records and preserves
the waves of sound; the electro-monograph-
or, as it is called when used In connection
with acoustics. the chemical telephone'-re-
cords nothing. In the photograph, the main
principle is the indentation of tin-foil on a
cylinder, by small needle attached to dia-
phragm, which Is set in motion by the waves
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01
For the Sunday Appeal
Ehev Wera Our Rrathera. too.

EDITORS APPEAL.-Within you have
COPY of few lines found lying at the base
of the soldiers monument on our Decoration
day. On it was laid a piece OF arbor vita
and white rose. So many of our citizens
having read and admired it, they, perhaps,
IS well as others, may like to have it sur
rounded by the magic influence of type, and
SO 1 sendit Respectfully,
HEREANDO, MISS, May 81, 1879.
Think YOU within this holy soil there blde
The dust of one brave man to US unknown;
Whose kindred dwell where laYeS Ohlo's tide,
or by, mayhap, the Severn, Lee or Rnone?
To deck his grave this flower at least is blown.
They mourn him lost; they know not that his clay
Lies here, the object Of our tender care
Tous brother ever, even as they
Who from our own homes went 10 DO ana DARE
Amid the battles crash and din and glare.
WouIu InSy tIIa SuTIneu III sIgHI,
That In our love no dir ring shades we'd show
To him who for and with US stood for right,
But Wh0-more favOTed-fell ere came the blow
Which laid his counuy's liberties 90 low.
Wen deck our martyrs sleeping-pla to-day,
And thus Instruct children that the force
or numbers, and OF ornaments, convey
No argument against righteous course;
We vote anG pray, this now is our resource.
Sweet be your Sleep dear friends you are not gone
Your souls set free from earthly prison bars;
Non OnlniS nl0riOr-we will follow on,
When we've escaped nfe's turmoils and It's Jars,
And meet where shines the cross above the stars
HERSANDO, MISS, May 2, 1879.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-01

One material error in the city school census
of 1879 is in the failure Of our census-taker
to comply with the provisions of section l,
chapter 6, of the act Of the Legislature APP
proved January %. 1879, which extends the
scholastic age from to 81 years instead of
from to 20, as provided by the act of in
corporation. This error, as computed by the
statistical tables. amounts to 1860 persons
who have been omitted. By taking 1888 as
the correct scholastic population of the city,
and by computing the whole population by
the rules furnished by the statistical tables,
we get an aggregate population for the city
for 1879 of only q, 1872. These figures point
present year alone, unless corrected, of about
$4,000 net, after estimating losses in the
collection of polls and other taxes. The CEN
sus return is salso Objectionable in failing to
give the name, age, and other descriptions of
the persons enrolled. The return should
give the name, age, cslor, and location as to
wards, of each person on the list, and this of
itself would furnish ready means fot the
detection of errors. The board of school
visitors should see that the corrections are
made and that we get the money due Us.