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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-19
MODE OF ORGANIZATIoN.

MODE OF ORGANIZATION.
l. A strong, thorough, COM
pace, worldwide organization.
a Lodge, Zone or more), for each
town, a Grand Lodge for each
State, a Right Worthy Grand
Lodge for the world.
2. A lifelong pledge not tc
make, buy, sell, use, furnish, OF
cause to be furnished to Others
any spilituous or malt liquors
wine, or cider; and in all honor
able ways to discountenance
their use in the community.
3. The education of the young.
thus preventing the evil of in
temperance; the reformation of
the dissipated, thus rescuing the
erring. 1t sustains its weak
members, and seeks out those
who go astray.
4. Weekly meetings for re-
ceiying new members, and fol-
mutual counsel and encourage
ment. The Lodge room is our
temperance home, where is seen
the entire family circle around
one common altar, fully deter
mined to reclaim the fallen and
to save others from falling.
5. The employment of music,
oratory and literature as q means
of giving interest to our meet
ings. Also, especially seeking
to give members of both sexes
facility in the transaction of par
liamentary business, thus fitting
them for the responsibilities of
life.
g. Prominence given to the
social and moral elements. De
.pendence OH God for success
constantly acknowledged. III
z. Perfect equality of the sex
es in the labors and honors of
the society. Entire absence of
caste and sectarianism.
s. The recognition of the bal
lot as a mighty engine of power
in securing the triumph of the
temperance reform. Temperance
preeminently a political as well
as a moral question.
3. Union with and sympathy
for all individuals and organiza-
tons engaged in the work of
temperance reform.
10. 1t is not a beneficiary In
stitution, its object being to do
good rather than receive pecum-
larry benefit. Hence, while It's
entrance fees and quarterly dues
are moderate, tits self-sustaining.
III. 1t has membership occu-
pying every continent and most
important islands of the globe,
and its policy is broad.
II. Though in some respects
private, Good Templarism is not
a secret society. Its aims, plans,
principles. and operations are
well known; its members desire
the utmost publicity, except in
matters where prudence, manli-
ness, kindness and safety require
privacy.
Ii. The ceremonies of the Or
der are such as to give dignity,
impressiveness and permanency
to the obligation. They are APP
propriate in conception, sensible
in purport, elevating in tenden-
cy, and moral in influence.
IA. While seeking to promote
activity among its members in
all temperance work, it directly
contributes to the advancement
of order and good citizenship,
and strives for the social, physi-
cal, intellectual and moral saliva
ton of the people.
10. 1t is essentially a missiona-
~ organization, employing COM
petent lecturers, publishing tenn
perance literature, and forming
temperance libraries.
16. In short, it is an organiza-
ton having those elements which
eminently qualify it to cope sue.
cessfully with the evil of intern
perance in all its phases. All it
needs to make it practically sue.
ceSSful Is the active canDerafion
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-19
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by
THE GOOD TEMPLARS
o F.
MULBERRY.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD
TEMPLARs.
Origin and Growth.
MULBERRY.

origin ana GROWTH.
A multitude Of organizations
have tried at various times to IL
mite all the virtues of society as
a barrier against the sphere Of
the evils of intemperance. Many
of these after a short period of
success, have failed through some
defect in their organization.
Still mankind felt the need of a
stronger power to cope with the
traffic; and in 1851 the order of
Good Templars sprung up in
central New York. Proiiting
by the errors. of the past, and
clystaIizing the best features of
former ! organizations, it WAS well
coined for its systematic effort
and thorough discipline and
thousands fell into It's ranks. 1T
held its membership of fifty
THOUSAND during the war, and af-
ter its close people rapidly gath
cred round this nucleus. In
1867 its membership was nearly
a quarter of a million and a year
later it was full half a million.
Since that time it has spread
over Great Britain, the Isles of
the Pacific and the continent of
Europe, and its pioneer flag is
constantly being planted in fresh
fields. Its advantages are cor
daily commended to those who
have regard for the social, phys
ical, moral, or spiritual welfare
of mankind.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-19

RGP DIR. Pemberson,s StiIlingia Is pre-
paTed by A. +. MERRELL X Co. Phila.. Pa.
Sold IN alI Druggists i'm 81 90 bottles or sent by
express. Agents wanted to canvass everywhere
Semi for Book-'Curious Story''-free to all
mcnts.
dee. Ply
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-19
Something Entirely New

Our notion department will be complete, la
dies fancy hid gloves all sizes nj Soc; ladies'
trimmed and unframed hats, misses, sailor
hats, ladies, misses and children 5. custom
made shoes Of ali kinds and every pair
warranted. Genuemen's spring and sum
mer piece goods; gents and boys boots and
shoes, gentlemen's and boys ready made
clothing, genilemen's and boys hats of all
kinds and all prices and general .ass0rt-
ment OF
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-19

.Inh Printinr neal and cheap, at the
WV '"6 OBSERVER Office.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-19

BI We also deal in PReDucE of all
kinds and pay the highest market price in
Cash or Goods.
R4 We keep the most varied stock TO
be found anywhere and invite all TO exam
inc our goods and prices. We guarantee
satisfaction j. l. BRYANT & co.
oct31o
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

On the up. trip of the steamer Danube
there were several lively young ladies
aboard who indulgcd in little play
fulness which proved very serious
affair.
While the steamer was ut wood
yard the girls went ashore and then
noticed a wagon to which was attached
a yoke of oxen who were quietly lying
down and chewing tho cud of sweet
and better fancies. In spirit of mis-
chief they mounted the wagon and one
of them picked up the drivers whip
and applied the lash to the animals.
They, thereupon, ran away and the
young ladies were thrown from the
wagon. Miss Joyce, daughter of Mr..
NJ. w. Joyce, of New Orleans, was Sc
riously if not fatally injured. Both
wheels of the wagon passed over her
body. Miss Carrie Brewer, of Dallas,
had her arm broken in two places,
while tho other three were slightly
bruised. Miss Joyce and her mother
were transferred from tho Danube to
tho Yazoo Valley, and taken back to
New Orleans. Miss Brewers arm was
reset here by DR.. Clay, and was taken
out on the train yesterday.
DR.. Jackson, of montgomery, gave all
necessary attention to the unfortunate
young ladies.-SHreveport Times.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

is no longer ground for hope to stand
upon, and now,
GIVE RAISE THE BANNER or REPU-
DIATION!
eve call upon the people to rally to
the standard, and resolve, as freemcn
should, that they will not pay one
dollar of the taxes assessed by the
legislature now in session, and that
they repudiate, seoO and forever, every
obligation incurred by that corrupt
and irresponsible body of individuals.
Those men are without authority to
impose taxes, and the people arc under
no legal or moral obligation to pay
them. To be robbed, and not resist it,
is cowardice. To pay tribute to such
scoundrels is Il sin against GoD!"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
BONDHOLDERS' PRESSURE.
r Madison Journal

Madison journal.
Tho press of New Orleans seems to
be pretty we'll under the influence of
the bondholdcrs, if lottcr writer's for
the country papers make correct re-
ports, and we have no right to doubt
them. A correspondent OF the Column
bia Herald, and delegate, we pre-
sumo, writes that it is little known in
the country what tremendous pressure
has been brought to bear upon the well
known repudiating section of the Con-
vcntion. Every paper III tho city, the
Bee and item excepted, is opposed to
them, and the Times and Picayune do
not scruplc to belittle them, especially
the former He seems to think those
who arc opposed to paying the bonds
that were conceived in iniquity and
issued in fraud, have stood up very
we'll, considering that there are SO
many forces and clements at work
against them. The Democrat, that
first started the fight, is now on the
other side, which fact leaves the "rc-
pudiators" without any possibility Of
gaining the public ear, and of laying
before the country their views of the
subject, except through the columns of
the Bee and the Item, and their circu-
lation in this section is very limited,
and We suppose the same is true all
over North Louisiana.
The course of the Item is manly and
Just, for it believes in paying every
dollar that the State justly owes and
reputliating all the bonds fraudulently
put upon the market. The Item states
that money is being used amongst the
colored delegates of the Convention and
others. If so, we will have another
ssairing of dirty linen" in Now Orleans
after awhile, and the parties thereto
will not be confined altogether to the
Republicans. The bribc receipts, to-
gcther with tho names of the prorni-
ncnt manipulators, will come to tho
front and tell all who were bribed and
voted in favor of paying the fraudu-
lently issued bonds, and who got paid
for turning an unexpected somersault.
We believe in Reputation to the ex-
tent of ignoring the fraudulently crc-
atcd debt, and then reducing the rate
of interest on all legitimate bonds
found after the closest examination. 1t
is bosh to say that the funding scheme
cannot now be ut all questioned, it
having boon recognized by tho Mich
oils Government and the Supreme
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
", $. H. T.. RAILROAD.

We find in the Railroad Gazette, of
tho 9th ult., the following in reference
to tho meeting of the bondholdccs of
tho Vicksburg, Shreveport Il Texas
railroad, held Mt Macon, Gcorgia;
At the recent meeting of the bond
holders in Macon, Ga, a committee
was appointed to repro sent the bond
holders at the coming sale Of the road,
and to buy the property if thought
necessary to protect their Interests. In
tho event of q purchase Of the road for
the bondholdcrs, the general feeling
was in favor of its Immediate extern
sion from Monroe to Shreveport.
This, We understand, is q correct
statement OF what TRANSFERRED at the
Macon con ference. Tho Committee APP
pointed Mt that meeting is composed of
the following named gentlemen: Gen.
II. II. Jackson, l.. L. Grant, President
VIM. NJ. Wadley, President OF the
Georgia Central railroad, Edward
Hopes, of Philadelphia, and II. u.
Plant, President of the Southern En-
press Company. We do not under
stand that the bondholders, as is init
mated by the Gazette, purpose going
further in bidding in tho road than the
amount of of their debt, principal and
interest, which is about 81 800, 900.
We are not advised when the sale of
the road will take place. Tho parties
in interest, we learn, have filed their
statements with Judge Wood, who has
the execution OF the decree of the U. S.
Supreme Court in charge, and Judge
Wood has not, rs yet, fixed upon day
for the sale.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

capital, instead of being invested in
devoted to such Legitimate uses as the
vitalization of our industries and the
building up Of real values.
Our delegates must not come home
and say that they could not furnish the
relief expected of them; that they
placed themselves under bondage to
the bondholders and found it easier to
betray their constituents than to re-
fuse to do the bidding of their new
administers!
Out upon the virtue which puts its
hands to the pillow and then, looking
back, effects Il compromise with fraud.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

Court. The desperate condition of
Louisiana requires desperate remedy,
and besides, the platform of the DEM
ocratic party declared that none of the
fraudulent bonds would or should ever
be paid. Instead of INDUCING in so
much "wind work" let the Convention
pick out the proper debt, make pro:
vision for its payment, and push ahead
with the neglected business. There
has been entirely too much time wasted
and fustian used on the debt question.
1t has been discussed In all its bear
ings and the people want little deci-
sive action on the part of the delegates.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
WHAT 1T MEANS.
[Couslatta CitiZen.1

[COuShatt:a Citizen.
We arc told that the recommitment
of the opposing reports on the public
debt means compromise. Some say
that tho principal will be left untouch-
cd, but that the representatives of the
bondholders are willing to agree to q
material reduction in the matter of in
terest in order to quiet the clamor Of
the country for relief. Others declare
that both principal and interest will be
reduced. Those who favor the minori-
ty report insist, however, that the re-
commitment is equivalent to the defeat
of the majority report, and that it is
altogether in favor of the cause cham
pioned by Mcssrs. Semmcs, Caffrey and
others. This we should be sorry to see
proved. It would imply a criminal dis
regard by many delegates of the wishes
and instructions of their constituents,
and determination to saddle upon the
taxpayers of the State what, on a thou
sand occasions, they have publicly de-
nounced as a fraud.
To thus provide for the continuation
of the same old chronic aillnent would
be an infamous breach of trust. It
would not only furnish the testimony
of Louisiana witnesses against the
truth Of our repeated stories of complaint
ALL AZ eASoO A1ouJ SSoASJ Os~e "oNA~
bind the burden still closer and more
hienously to the shoulders of our peo-
pie. Under the rule of Radicalism,
outrage and robbery were not uneN-
pected; but those who have it in their
power to be free, and instead of achiev-
ing that result, rivet more closely the
letters of fraud and usurpation, are, to
say the least Of it, recreant to their du-
ty, to themselves, and to posterity. 1t
will not do simply to reduce tho inter-
est; some concession must be made as
to the principal as well; for, however
tolerant public opinion may be as to
political mistakes, it will scarcely give
its approval to the perpctuation of an
oppressive fraud.
a heavy public debt, even when
honestly incurred, is Il public curse,
and with the various classes of public
debts which our people have to con-
tend against, there is but little chance
to meet the demands of private credit
ors. Hence private credit suffers and
our industries become impaired. Get
the curse of bonds out of the way, and
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

At the present term Of our District
Court there happened some queer
pranks among some of tho Jurors, wit
nesscs and prisoners. After dark, on
the evening of the 5th inst, Miles
Joiner, colored, one OF the jurors ON II
most important murder case then on
trial, after having sat on the jury and
listened to all the witnesses in the case
save one, took to his heels while out
in the court yard on a recess, without
any apparent cause therefor, breaking
up and turning to nought all proceed
ings in the trial, and nccessitating the
drawing of a new jury. A short while
previous, Jack Hayes, an important
witness in the same case, made him.
self conspicuously absent when called,
and his whereabouts, if they be ON
this mundane sphere, have not been
discovered. Eloi Prejean was put upon
trial on the 18th inst, on q charge of
rape, and after having gone through
about half his trial, took advantage of
a recess of the court and sailed for safer
shores. He Went off half tried, and
was probably in too much of hurry
to wait for tho other half TesnniNio,e
Meri0ional.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
A BRITTLE THREAD.
owe.

We have lost the thread of our argu-
Ment. Some small urchin, II truant
who did not care whether school kept,
or not, has captured this thread, no
doubt for n kite string. Some writer
has said-not ipsisinaes ve''du, exactly
plans out the transactions of tho days
work, carries on a thread that will
guide him through tho labyrinth of
the most busy life. This busy thread
Is lost. 1t is of no particular value
that we know of, except that it is lost
akin to health, or blessings, which
have no value until they arc gone.
Bright-plumaged birds, lost opportuni-
ties, and all the ships sent to sea.
Knitting, the other day, we dropped
stitch 1t was n careless piece Of
work. The thread was ON our little
finger, and the thread is lost. Who
ever finds this lost thread will be we'll
rewarded by returning it to this Office.
We give description which we find
In the Ouachita Telegraph of septem-
Der 2sth, 1865, nearly eleven years ago ::
"Now, Taxpayers! What think you
of such corruption-of such a legisla-
ture? Are you disposed to pay such
appropriations out of your hard earn
ings-to take tho clothes from the
backs of your wives and children, and
the bread from their mouths, in ordc,
to sustain n political faction, to pampe,
carpet-baggers, or to support the wild
owed wenches whose husbands hay,
justly suffered death for their ow,
damnable deeds? If you are, what, i,
Heavens name, has become of you
manhood =?
"We have hesitated, in the hope sucl
y course might be avoided but Their,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

A negro woman by the name of
Sophie Scott got into row with an
old negro man named William Pier
man last week, and in the row Sophie
struck William on the head with a
heavy picket, cracking his skull and
knocking him scnseless for several
minutes. In the preliminary trial be-
fore the parish court Scott sworc the
woman killed him dead and he "never
drew another BREATH" Sophie gave
bond to appear at district court.
Wednesday an old colored man
passed tho Chornicle Office with a
relic OF war times, an old spinning
wheel. We expressed surprise ut see
ing it, and asked the old man if he
couldn't buy thread and cloth cheaper
than he could make it at home. He
replied: "No, sar; becasc when amt
got no money can't git 'cm at all. p
Cbltac Chronicle.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
LOUISIANA IN THE U. S. SENATE.

In discussing in the U. S. Senate the
repeal of the jurors test oath law,
(Senator Conkling on tho floor,) the
following reliable information was
given
Mr.. President, the honorable Sena-
tor from Iowa (Mr. Kirkwood) brings
to my notice kindred instance, one
between which and this from Alabama
there is striking resemblance, the case
of tho State of Louisiana, in which, I
understand from his hasty statement,
a statute clothes the Governor with the
power at his option, when he chooses,
and where he chooses, to appoint for
parish-Wfich means q cOunty-agcntS
OF his, ] care not what they are called,
to make up the body Of mon and the
selection from which the jurors arc to
be drawn.
Mr.. KiyEwoot1-Thc Senator will al
low me moment to state that.
Mr.. Conkling-I wish you would
state it.
1fr. Ki,k,oootz-By tho law of Louis
men, five in each parish, called police
jurors. It~so happened, Of course, that
in Republican parishes Il portion at
least of those police jurors were Repub-
licans. At the first session of the leg
islature after the advent of Governor
Nichols to Office law was passed au-
| thOrizing him to add to the number OF
police jurors in any parish in which he
chose to do so five additional police
jurors of his own selection; the result
of which was that in parishes where
there was majority of Republican po-
lice jurors the additional five were
added, giving to our Democratic
friends the control of the body.
Mr.. ConA1i,ag-This dispensing clause
gives permission to any judge, who
boxes fOl juries when those boxes have
been filled by the most licontious excr-
else of the power described by the
Honorable Senator from Iowa; and
| thus, upon the option of any judge,
questions of the last moment, questions
involving tho national right, questions
involving the national right with for
eign nations, rs questions submitted to
Il jury very often do, all questions in
volving rights OF citizenship, tho rights
of citizens of all races and all colors,
arc to be submitted to jury picked
and culled under State authority and
under the inspiration of sectional, OF
partisan, and of other local prejudice;
and that is ono of tho ornaments OF
this bill
And this in the Senate of the United
States Where was Senator Jonas, or
Senator Kellogg, when the thrilling
statement of Senator Kirkwood's,
and approved by tho New York Sem
ator, was made that the police jurors
of the several parishes of this State
make up tho venirc? There is not q
negro in Kansas who could not instruct
either the Senator from New York, or
the Senator from Iowa on this point.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

The supply of figs now ripening is
abundant. That delicious fruit cannot
be cxcelled in any country. 1t is strange
that some process for drying this great
luxury for future use has not been dis
covered here. Dried figs are brought
from the islands of the Mediterranean
and sold here whilst hundreds Of bush
els of this fruit rot in this State every
Sentinel.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04

Tho Irish potato crop of this parish
was unusually good the present season,
the yield being much larger than ever
known before, and the quality of the
tuberous esculent very superior. The
potatoes brought good cash price in
st. Louis and Chicago. Another crop,
for fall digging, might be put in with
the first rain but we suppose that the
potato ground has been generally
planted in corn.-1Ladiso,l Journal.