Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-10-07
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September 9th, 1880.

this quiet community. Every
man, woman and child old G.
nough to take notice, and who
has been fortunate, or unfoitu-
nate, enough to <Sraise the spon-
duIix' is off for the seat of at
traction, to see the 'sbeasties"
and other things. The excite
ment is simply remarkable, and
goes to demonstrate the fact that
a wonderful amount of energy
and power are latent in our pee
pie If properly developed.
Your correspondent is pot a
bile, owing to business, to attend
the show, but can assure your
readers that he attended, ON Sat-
sday last, in the 10Th district an
exhibition, to him, much more in
teresting than to-day's menage-
Iic could possibly be. We refer
to the Union pic mic and exami-
nation held atlIenderson's school
house, on that date, by the sew
eral schools of said district viz :
Ihcs. w. Towry's Pat. j. Green
and Mrs. Lucy Fullerton's, the
Camargo school (late Prof.Leon-
ard) was not represented. We,
owing TO the unfavorable morn
ing, were not able to reach the
grounds with our wagon load of
school children, consisting ofsey-
eral from "Old Mister" Green's
school, at Molino, and a few of
the "orphans" at Camargo, until
about IL o'clock. The Molino
string band, an excellent set Of
amateurs, had proceeded us and
given notice Of our coming. We
were received by the committee
Of arrangements-Or de-range-
ments-with due ceremony, and
after hunting around awhile we
found a scat for our schools, who
were all girls, save two, after
asking a squad of boys to vacate
a back seat out of hearing of the
stand. At this juncture, Pat. j.
Green's scholars were being eX-
amined by their teacher, as far as
we were able to hear, both teach
er and pupils acquitted them
selves very creditably, in fact, we
think his pupils have been train
ed very diligently and success
fully. The same criticism will
apply to each of the other
schools, and we have no hesita-
ton in making the assertion that
it would be difficult to find in or
out of Lincoln county, an ADLER OF
better-looking corps Of teachers
than the 10Th district can boast
of. The music from Molino was
!. urceremoniously snubbed, in
fact, the manager assured the
management that "they hadn't
been sent for!p' This was pref
ty cool, after riding eight or ten
miles through the damp atmos-
phere to the detriment of costly
instruments and volunteering to
do duty gratis. But then, you
know, our good old common
wealth is the "Yolunteer State. y
But as an offset to our mishap,
the dinner, and we furnished our
share, was bountiful and deli
cious, and very highly relished
by the large and hungry crowd.
The congregation was orderly
throughout. Music was furnish
ed by a class of novices in vocal
music under the able direction OF
Prof.Williams. Speaking by T.
j. Riyes, Sup't, and Joe Carrigan
ESQ. were the features of the af-
ter-dinner exercises. The learn
ed Sup't gave some practicable
advice and useful suggestions to
teachers ndpeople, but his prop
osition which he familiarly dub
bedhis pet,asking for the levy of
a $5per capita school tax upon all
the non-property- citizens
of Tenn, without regard to race,
previous condition or seryitude,
was SO novel and original, that we
could notresist the inference that
the good man had been reading
"AppIeton's New Series; "or still
worse, perhaps, imbibed a "drap"
or two of Flint's apple-tonian-
wild-feline-mixture. Why, Mr..
Editor,in all soberness, could you
expect q people who are unable
to meet the very light poll-tax
lnow levied, to pay such weigh
ty one as that would be? Be
sides, such an onerous tax would
be placed directly upon the la
Dor of the country, for you adj
4 dress labor when you tax the la
borer. And it is no apology to
say that the tax is for his special
benefit, for such a tax in all ages
of the world has been odious
lin the extreme, and all know
that would have to be levied up
on rich and poor alike under our
constitution. Again, such a tax
OH poor men contravencs the We
Try idea and essence of the public
school system. That system is
based upon the idea of a public
charity, if we may use the phra-