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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
California Story.

A correspondent of the Visa
liza (Cal.) Delta furnishes this
queer paragraph: A boilin 6
spring has been discovered be-
tween the Polvadero and Los
Gatos creeks. An ingenious in
dividual has applied for the wa
ter right and constructed a
clothes-wringer, to be run by a
water-wheel at one side of the
spring, where it boils over into
another of clear cold water, in
which the proprietor has placed
a sack of indigo. The ranchers
of the settlement resort to the
spring to do their washing. The
clothes are thrown into the wa
ter, which has a whirling motion,
and are drawn out of sight. In
about five minutes they come to
tbs surface, float to the wringer,
and are run through to the other
spring, where they are rinsed by
passing through another wringer.
In less than thirty minutes the
washing is done and the rancher
is on his way home rejoicing.
Ills happy wife meets him at the
door, hangs the clothes out to
drv,which takes but short time,
and the washing is done.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
Mail D1reotOry.
Fayetteville Post-oGice.

Railrosd-leaves every day except Sum
aavat s:45A.M.; arrives at $40 Pm. Supplies
the following Offices: Kelso, Lincoln, Flynt-
willie. Oregon, Georges Store, Flora, Hunts
station. Salem, Winchester and Decherd.
Shelbyvilles estage-arrives Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday at IL A. NJ; leaves same
davs at2P.M. Supplies Mulberry, Lynch
lurg. bonneville, County Line, Shelbyville.
huntsville stage-leavcs Monday and
Thursday at A. NJ; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at 5P.N. Supplies Goshen, Hazle
Green. Meridianvilie and Huntsville.
Shelbyvilie hack-lcaves Mondays and
THURSDAYS at 8 A. NJ; arrives Tuesday and
Friday at 5 Pm. Supplies Norris Creek,
Chestnut Ridge, Hawthorne and Shelbyville.
Pulaski horse--arrives every Saturday at
ll;sOAn; leaves same day a. 1880. Supplies
Cvruston, Millville, Pisgah, Bradshaw and
Pulaski.
blanche horse--leaves every Tuesday and
Friday at ) a. NJ; arrives "Wednesday and
Saturday at 4 N. Supplies Camargo, Mo-
limo. Geld Water, Blanche.
Rooms Hill horse-GrriveS every Satur-
dav NJ u NJ; leaves same day Mt l Pm.
petersburg horse--ieaves Saturday at A
~. arrives at 5PN same day. Supplies
Ecnf,ow station and Petersburg.
Money Orders can be oil tan d at this Of
Gre unon post offices in all parts eff the u
n;,cd States. Alist q Money Order offices
,,,sv he seen.Sa application. Rates Of CON-
,,,;ss;on for Money o ders are as follows:
MOI exceeding $lS.-....-.....-. 10 cents
over Is and not exceeding $3o...l5 do
"a, 70 do do 40 . 20 do
a. 40 do do 80. =. 20 do
70 w. n DOETHAT, 2. NJ.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
"More Saving at the
Spile."
process.

A correspondent at Nashville
writes us that the Solons at the
Capital have cut down the sala-
ries about the State House to the
amount of $6,400- the Cover
nor's 81, 900; the Private Secre-
tary $500; the Superintendent
of the Prison $500; of Public
Schools, $1,000; of Agricultural
and of Mining 81, 900; of Supt.
Capitol 5000 and Secretary Of
State 81, 200.
To balance accounts, they have
a couple of committees that will
cost the State about $4,000.
They send a Sergeant at Arms
to summons witnesses at 81 a
day and 81 for every twenty-five
miles he travels upon free passes
we suppose.) A trip to sum-
mon witnesses from Memphis
costs about $50, just the price of
a state room on a fine steamer
from New York to Liverpool,
and the witnesses get the same.
All this investigation business
is a humbug. Three committees
of previous legislatures did the
same thing and did not find tar
on anybody's heels. If there
was any tar there, the present
Legislature won't find it. They
are not smart enough to find
anything if each heel they were
looking at had a cake on it as
big as the hollow of a negro's
foot. And all of this comes
from sending men to represent
the people who are not fit for
their places. That's the English
of it. When the people learn
better themselves they viii be in
a much better fix than they are
now.-Galyatin Examiner.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
@gaelee Raeieg
HEAVEN.


HEAVEN.
Beyond these chilly winds and gloomy skies
Beyond deaths cloudy portal
There is land where beauty never dies,
And love becomes immortal
A land whose light is never dimmed by
shade,
Whose fields are ever vernal;
Who're nothing beautiful can ever fade,
But blooms for aye eternal.
We may not know how sweet its balmy air
How bright and fair its flowers;
We may not hear the songs that echo there,
Through these enchanted bowers.
The city's shining towers we may not see,
With our dim earthly vision;
For death, the silent warder, keeps the key
That opes the gates elysian.
But sometimes, when a-down the western
sky
The fiery sunset lIng"rs,
It's golden gates swing inward noiselessly
Unlocked by silent fingers.
And while they stand moment half ajar,
CLEANS from the inner glory
Stream brightly through the azure vault
slar,
And half reveal the story.
Oh. land unknown, oh land of love divine!
Father. al wise, eternal,
Guide, guide these wandering way-worn
feet of mine
Into those pastures vernal.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
Cornersvllle's BonanZ;

L,wi burg Gazette.
Cornersvillc has been on tip.
toe with excitement over the
finding Of buried treasures. We
give below a short account of
the affair as we heard it from a
reliable citizen of that city
According TO a general rumol
Rev. Mr.. Sanders, of Ala, the
sleeping preacher" of "X 4 Y
Z" reputation, who was in Cor
nersville about two years ago,
and while in one ofhis'.seanccs,'
told one Of his relatives that in
a certain yard in Cornersyillc e
considerable amount of money
was buried-rmor says several
thousand e. Last week, as Mr..
u. f. Acuff was preparing to
have a chimney built, a gentle
man conycrsant with the above
mentioned "revelaticn" pro-
nounced the spot OH which the
chimney was to be built as that
in which the money was said to
lie buried, and suggested that as
an experiment the excavation
be made to the depth mem
toned by the preacher. Mr..
Pillow, to whom the premises
belong, agreed, and the work
was done. Strange to say,about
thirty pieces Of silver, Spanish
coin, were found. The excite
ment became intense and the
ground was thoroughly torn up
in the search for the treasure,
but no more of it had been
found at last accounts. Some
of the pieces, it is claimed, were
found from % to 4 feet under
the surla ce. One Of the coins,
brought to Lcwisburg by Mr..
Campbell, bore date 773. and
one found by Mr.. HayRcs bore
date Of S15-the first mentioned
being los years old! Some of
these coins have been carefully
examined and no sign of crasure
or change of date could be de-
tcctcd. We give this account
as related by eye witnesses and
gentlemen Of undoubied intcg-
rity. When and by what means
the money was deposited there,
its past history and many other
points connected Herewith are
wrapped in profound mystery.
Various are the conjectures bat
no satisfactory explanation can
be given. Perhaps some of De
Soto's iIl-fa,cd followers passed
that way. "Well, it is a little 7
curious"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
Sleight- Of Band.

A correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial tells the fol-
lowing story of Robert Heller's
skill in sleight-of-hand tricks:
Lager beer was the leading
beverage in the Cincinnati Sketch
Club. One day there were gath
cred some seventy gentlemen
artists, ministers, doctors, poets,
musicians, men of letters, in fact,
all professions were represented
Heller announced the
fact that he would make disap-
pear full glass of lager, not by
the usual method-that was, that
he would make disappear this
glass and the beer, and that it
would be found in the rear pock-
ct of some one Of those present,
and he would be unaware of its
presence. A momentl It was
not-in Heller's hands, and where
had it gone? Every eye was in
tent on Heller, and crowding
closely around the performer.
Samuel n. Pike, who was Ian
guidly leaning against the man
smoking, and quite un-
concerned, some twenty feet a.
way, put his hand in his coat
pocket (as we all did, not know
ing but that each was the victim)
and withdrew it hurriedly drip
ping with beer. The veritable
glass half full of the frothing
fluid was in his pocket"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

Two boys came from SPRING
field, Mass. to Newly ork, in 1865,
on an excursion got up by two
of the churches to see the Great
Eastern. One Of the boys went
through OH a half-farc ticket,
saying that he was under 10
years of age, though he was re-
ally over it. He now lives in
Hartford, Conn, and has just
written to the churches that he
is willing to pay the difference
in the fare with interest. His
conscience has been troubling
him.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
The Man Who Had
Dyspepsia.

/ There came to the dinner-ta
BILE at the Lawrence House, tht
other day, two strangers, one {
lean and hungry-looking Gus
toner, the other a decent-ap-
pearing young fellow. As they
reached the table the older man
clutched frantically at the bill
of fare, and remarked as follows;
"Let's see what they got,
You know [ can, t eat anything.
Been nearly dead for weeks
with the dyspepsia. All! 'oys-
ter soup-guess that won't hurt
me- To waiter: "Bring some
oyster soup, and let's see, boiled
white fish; yes, I'll have some o
that"
The soup and hsh were rapid
ly eaten.
"Now, let's see what else
they've got; you know l can't
eat everything. 'Roast turkey
that ought not to hurt me.
I'll have some o. that. Roast
beef'-yes,PlI have some o that.
Chicken potpie'-yes, that's ca
silly digested; I'll have some.
Let's see, / can't eat everything.
Eli take bit of the boiled ham,
some maccaroni, and-ah! some
chicken liycrs and vegetables"
The waiter had taken the or
der, and the man with weak
stomach reached this way for
crackers, that way for butter,
here took piece Of bread, there
a pickle and stalk of celery,
and, frequently remarking that
he couldn't eat everything, stay
ed his stomach until his dinner
was brought. lie looked it O.
yer, sent the waiter back for
some roast veal and another on
ion, remarking that his stomach
was weak, he had. been suffer-
ing terribly from dyspepsia, and
couldn't eat everything, but at
last got to work and cleared the
dishes.
The matter Of dessert trou-
bIed him some because his stom-
ach was SO weak, but he finally
called for some mince pie, plum
pudding, and ice-cream, with a
cup of coffee. They were
brought and devoured, and then
ne called the waiter and made
Ter a communication to the ef-
ect that he had been sick with
dyspepsia, that his stomach was
weak, he couldn'te eat everything,
md would she bring him a bowl
IF milk?
The milk was brought, he
;rumbIed some bread therein,
md, as his younger companion
lad departed, the man with the
weak stomach remarked to the
gentleman across the table from
lin that it was darned rough to
lave to come down to bread and
milk, but he had been sick, he
couldn't eat everything, and
le had TO be careful.
And now the landlord is anx-
Gus for that man 10 come around /,
when he is well. He needn't
:ome but once.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
1o11r1ty Omoors.

~ p. Carter, County Judge.
Fulton. G ERIK Chancery Court.
Nv ~ q. Morgan, do Circuit do
:, n porce. do County do
:, ~ lIoilaad. Sheriff.
- ~ " ~ Counts. W. A. Millard, w. A. Gun
bingham. Depusy-Sherlis.
renry Henderson, Trustee
a Il. Thompson, Register.
II. C. Dat, County Surveyor.
r. r. ]. Rives. Sup't Of Public Schools
J. j. Morgan, Coroner
Il b. Wallace. Ranger
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
Two Tilted Umbrellas
Did It.
A Sudden Meeting at a Corner
Results in q Romantic
Wedding.

n SuUucH MCcOAuB a. "a OohhCA
Results in Romantic
Wedding.
IN umbrella figures in re-
cent Boston romance whi C h
might be termed "One winter. 7"
As the story is told by a Hub
correspondent of Detroit paper,
on the afternoon of the 10th of
last month, which was a stormy
day, two people, with umbrellas
tilted forward, met in the driving
storm. One was a hale and
hearty gentleman Of about fifty
years and the other was a little,
slight woman, perhaps a year or
two younger. He was coming
around the corner from Wash
ington street side; she was going
around the same corner from
Winter street. Both were in a
hurry. Natural consequence, a
sudden collision Of umbrellas,
the shock of which caused the
little woman's feet to slip upon
the treacherous walk. The gen.
tleman picked her up, thereby
getting a good look at her face,
when, exchanging a few astonish-
ed EXPLANATIONS, the pair recog-
nized in each other long-lost
friends, walk e ID off together.
Thirty years ago she was fac
tory girl in Lowell and he was a
medical student a Harvard.
Both were poor in pocket, but
rich in love and hope; he work.
ed hard at study, and she work
ed hard to raise the money to
help him on through his course.
When the California fever broke
out in 1849 he resolved to try a
quicker route to fortune, and
started for the golden shore,
back letter of farewell
to this young girl. The upshot
of the separation was that letters
became less and less regular, and
at last there was silence. The
years passed on; he grew rich
and influential, completed his stu
dies and became a noted physi-
clan of one of the largest Calf
fornia cities; he married and had
two children. Two years ago
wife and children were carried
off by fever. A year to a day
before the meeting in the snow
storm he dreamed that his youth
ful love was living in distress, !
and the dream made such an i'm
preston upon him that be sent
East and made enquiries, which
resulted in his coming on himself
to search for her.. But six
had been spent unsuc-
eessfully, and he had just dis
paired of ever finding her, when
the two bumped umbrellas at the
corner Of Washington and Win
ter streets. And she = poor
soul!--had married late in life,
and now was widow, with twor
children, who were too young to
work much, and whom she was
trying, with her old devotion, to-
/ 4
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
Getting Ridof Their Debts
Philadelphia Record.

"Ihe bad example set by tlls
repudiating city of Memphis ha,
found an immediate imitator il
the city of Mobile. The Ala.
bama Legislature has passed and
the Governor approved the bill
repeating the charter of the city
of Mobile and creating the port
of Mobile. Three Commission
ers are appointed, with authori-
ty to compromise all debts and
demands, including past-due tax
es of every kind in favor of the
city. For the purpose of ar
ranging the debts due by Mobile
they are empowered to sell, on
the best terms they can obtain,
all the real and personal proper
ty which may come to their
hands. The Commissioners are
also charged with the duty of O.
pening communication with the
holders of the funded debt of
the city, with a view to its adj
justment and settlement. The
port of Mobile is to be governed
by eight Commissioners, to be e.
lected by the people. There is
to be a President of the Board.
Clerk and Tax Collector and
such police officers as may be
necessary. There will probably
be found ways and means for
bringing these rascally corpora
tions to grief through the action
of the Courts. Their creditors,
they will find in the long run,
are not left altogether without
resource. In the meantime, these
experiments in municipal outlaw
ry will be regarded with great
interest.
In most large towns and cities
in the North since the war, finan-
cial extravaganza has been prac-
ticed. And the worst feature of
this official extravaganza was
that a majority of the people
sustained it by their votes. Men
need but style themselves '.im-
provement men" and the special
''friends of the poor man." and
the funds and credit of these
towns and cities were unreserv-
edly placed in their hands, and
in most cases the trust was abus-
ed and the corporation plastered
over with debt. In the South
this sort of business was run to
still greater extremes. The white
people were disfranchised and |
hold under military surveillance
and fear, whilst the carpet-bag-
gers and the ignorant and delu-
ded negroes held full sway. I'm
der this condition of affairs the
debts OF the Southern
cities and States were accumula-
ted, and most Of these debts are
now held in the shape Of bonds
by men in the n orth, and for these
debts the people Of the South
have nothing to show. To meet
the interest on these bonds is
ruinous to the people, and in
equity they are perhaps not to
blame if they attempt to get rid
Of their debts by some easy
process.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
A Queer Duel
A Veteran Proves that the Bravest
are CowardS In the Dark.


are Cowards in the Dark.
1t was at dinner-party com
lposed Of some of the survivors
of Waterloo,a few of their young
relatives, and the scion of an Ex-
King, on a visit from his home
in America, and to whom our
friend owed his introduction to
the circle. Some question arose
about bravery, when the young
er members were electrified to
hear the venerable and heroic
Excelmans grayely and serious
| ly declare that "men were all
towards in the dark"
The General smiled at their
expressions of dissent, remarked
that it was very like youth, and
proceeded to tell the following
anecdote in support of his strange
declaration:
"Ihere was a young hot-head
in the Emperor's service, who,
burning for action, and his du-
ties for the time afforded no op-
portunity, at last resolved to fight
duel, and accordingly, choos-
ing to cOnstrue some remark or
other of an old and superior Off
Ger into an insult, challenged
him. The old soldier, waving
all considerations frank, agreed
to meet the young man, but on
the following unusual terms:
The time should be night, the
place a room, in opposite corners
Of which they were to stand; the
seconds, having placed their men,
were to Withdraw outside of the
room, taking the candle with
them; the word should be given
from without, when he who had |
the first fire should discharge his
weapon, and the seconds, bearing
the lights, should Immediately |
rush in.
"1'hese strange conditions
were accepted; the time arrived. |
and the seconds placed the par
les as agreed upon, Withdrawing
and leaving the men
n the dark. The word was Civ
n, the fire was heard, the door
vas reopened and there stood
he elder Of the two upright in
he corner, his adyersary's ball
having entered the wall so close
o his head that escape seemed
title else than miraculous. 1t
vas now the old soldiers turn to
ire. They were again left in
he dark, the word was again
civen from the outside, and, in
unanimously with the discharge,
he seconds rushed in, and found
he challenger PROSTATE upon
he floor, not having yet recover
d himself from his trick to a. {
old the ball, which, on exami- {
ion, must have killed him. The {
'oung man WAS covered with ]
onfusicn, and the seconds were {
overwhelmed with expressions of 4
heir scorn, when the veteran |
topped them: i
"'Not SO fast, my young f
said he; 'you will grow i
User. Where do you suppose l 1
Tas at the first fire? On my S
ands and knees in the corner; d
ut, ma fol- l was up quicker Q
han he. Pardieu, Messieurs, +
&c are all towards in the darkp" d
1t was afterward whispered to S
ur friend that the story was an J
ctual fact, and the elder Of the Il
arties was no other than the f
fsovo E-ooI,,,u,,1 l.,aco1P
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

The black plague now devas-
tating Russia is proving as dis
astrous to trade as fhe yellow
fever did in the Mississippi val
ley last fall, several Of the chief
commercial centers in eastern
Russia being among the now
quarautined towns on the Lower
Volga.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

Because his daughter married
against his will, Jesse Bostorff
of York Co., Pa, hung himself
in his garret. He hung himself
four times in two weeks. Twice
he broke down, once his wife
cut him down, but the last time
Jesse stayed up. lie was 90
years Of age.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

You may talk of your water
cures, your movement cures, and
your blue-glass cures, but there
is nothing like the sinecure, after
all.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
TERMS.

H4- Two Dollars for one year, tnra
r.a6ig IN Ggconce, TWO EsOiEars Rud
Ffny Gents If payment be deferred three
nonths. AL papers going out of the county
. be paid for tn ddcaRce.
ear Single copies, Five Cents each.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

HssS@ Advertisements inserted Al One Dol
lar per Square of Ten Lines or less for the
first insertion; Fifty Cents for each coAiiR-
nance. pey-Local and Special Notices,
Twenty Cents per line.
E&- Obituaries and calls on candidates
Fifty Cents per square.
EsS- The privilege of yearly advertisers
is strictly limited TO their own immediate
aud r. sular business; and the business of
an advertising firm is not considered as in
Guiding that of the individual members.
D@- Nc deviation from these terms under
any circumstance.
n6- Advertisemts not marked with the
aumber OF insertion when handed in, wal
be continued until ordered cut, and pay
ment cxacted.
R1- No advertisements inserted gratui-
ousl
AE- Advertisements Of an abusive ma
ture will not be inserted al any price.
p5s- Announcing Candidates County,
Five Dollars Congressional, Senatorial, or
Judicial, Ten Dollars-to be paid in adj
vance.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-21

VIZ had a pleasant cali yesterday from
Hon, T. T. Butler, lStA senator from JetIsr'
sou county, State lecturer Of the Grange
order, who was on his way to Tyler coun.
ty u deliver . speech To the GrangerS Of
that region to-day The ex-senator is still
Tor more money but wS thought We
discovered q slight abatement 10 his form.
sr volt money ideas. he goes in now
rather Tor the unlimited coinage Of silver.
We ventured TO remind him that the
GrangeB had vast crops to sell to Europe
this year, and that as things look the Uni.
ted States will be 4 creditor nation. It Is
estimated that England must buy Ny2O
million dollars worth Of food from rs
this year, and FrAneel Lee millions, and that
other European countries will swell this
enormous aggregate many millions more,
Az masters now stand, this food must be
paid for In gold-the money Of the world.
II the free coinage Of silver Is established
any balance In favor oil this country will
be pnIdIn silver rated at 70 per cent above
It's market value. Even under the Warner
silver bill us finally amended by the
House, giving the profits on the free coin
age of silver 10 the Government, silver
would he sent here from Europe TO pay
any balance Of trade in favor Of this coun-
try, because this county would bcthe only
one In which the cheapest metal could
bs at once turned into lawful money. At
present silver cannot be coined by the
holder at will in any civilized country.
The result would be that instead Of being
paid in gold, good the world over, the
United States would take It's pay for feed.
ing tho world In silver, Echeap metal, good
only In Asia, which the increased produc-
ton Of American mines may again drive
down in value, as II already has ouco.