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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15

Garfield's salary grab is next
on docket. The consolation is
that he will never grab the
Presidents salary.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15

A Disguised negro, returned
from Kansas, says that "if Kan
sas should be rooted in it would
be the biggest niger poor-house
in the world"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15

James b. Weaver, the Green
hack candidate for Presidential
dressed the people at Huntsville
last. Tuesday. Judging from
his appointments published in
Tho Huntsville Adrocate, he in
tcnds giving Alabama a thor
.anrh canvass. If he only sue
,ceds in capturing Ahat State he
win be elected Gna horn).
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15

Gen. Grant says that Gen.
Hancock's personal, official and
military record is good, but the
record of the party that put him
in nomination is bad.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15

If the BABY is to have health, it must
have sound and refreshing sleep. DIR. Bulls
Baby Syrup insures this Price IS cents
bottle.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15
Fresh Garden Seed !

Bzg- DIR. w. C.. BRIGHT, who has
his Office with us, will be our prescriptiOnist,
and all prescriptions will be filed with
care and dispatch. We respectfully solicit
a liberal share of public patronage.
jan29, '30-tf ". A. GILL, JR., 4 co.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15

The Democrats met in mass
meetings at Memphis, jackson
and GAINESVILLE, last Saturday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
Wonders Of the Telegraph.

The Photograph does not require the
route to be kept open. The line of
communication cannot be cut, for the
simple reason that the signaling takes
place over the heads of the enemy and
the stations required are few and far
between. A ten-inch mirror, and this
is the diameter of the ordinary field hell
ograph, is capable of rejecting the suns
rays in the form of bright spot, or,
flare, to distance of fifty miles, the
signal at this interval being recognizable
without the aid of a glass. That is to
say, two trained sappers, each provided
with mirror, can readily speak to one
sanother, supposing the sun is shining,
with an interval of fifty miles between
them, providing their stations are suffi-
GENTLY high and no rising ground in
tervenes to stop the rays. The adjust
ment of the military Photograph is a
very simple matter. An army leaves
it's base where Photograph station is
located, and after travelling some miles
desires to communicate with the stay
at-homes. A hill in the locality is
chosen and sapper ascends with his
Photograph, which is simply stand
bearing a mirror swung like the ordi-
nary toilet looking-glass, except that
besides swinging horizontally it is also
pivoted so as to move vertically as well.
Behind the mirror, in the very center,
a little of the quicksilver has been re-
moved, so that the sapper can 60 be-
hind his instrument and look through a
tiny hole in it towards the station he
desires to signal. Having sighted the
station by adjusting the mirror, he next
proceeds to set up in front of the hell
ograph rod, and upon this rod is a
movable stud. This stud is manipula-
ted like the foresight of rifle. and the
sapper, again standing behind his in
strument, directs the adjustment of this
stud until the hole in the mirror, the
stud and the distant station are in line.
The heliograph is then ready to work,
and in order to flash signals SO that they
may be seen at distance the sapper
has only TO take care that his mirror re-
fleets the sunshine on the stud just in
front of him. He may then be quite
sure that his distant brothers can see
them too.-London Telegraph.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
Robert Raikes---How Sunday Schoels
Were Founded One Hundred
Years Ago.

Not quite century has passed since
the editor of the Gloucester eng.
Journal started the first little Sunday
school for the instruction of the children
of the poor of his native town, and to-
day in Saxon lands over five million
children will gather in schools that owe
their existence directly to him, the
father and founder of the present sys-
tenn. The history of the Sunday-school
movement may be said to begin with
the successful establishment, ty Raikes
father, of the Gloucester Journal. one of
the oldest and long one of the most in
fluential of provincial newspapers; for
it was on this paper that Raikes, who
had served his time in his fathers print
ing office, acquired his interest in public
affairs and his habit of concerning him.
self In matters relating to the welf-being
OF the community in which he lived.
The morals of Gloucester appear at that
point to have been in anything but a
satisfactory condition. The abuses of
its prison attracted the special attention
of Howard, and it is clear that the fail
ure of the stern systems of repression
then in use-the cruelties Of prison life,
the frequent whipping of malefactors
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
FER uonng Readers.
BLUE VYOLETS.

Listen! No; you can not hear them:
Never do they make q sound.
All the 70 tnou and sweet blue flowers
Starting up from out the ground
Scattered are they up tho hillside,
Hidden i'm the woodland hooks,
Sprinkled over sunny meadows,
Nestled close ny sparkling brooks.
Where. wonder, have they sprung fromf
DO they live in wo Ids below
Have they slept the livelong winter
Underneath the soft white snow?
~ -. .ft1 ir
All, il only they had voices, -.
What strange stories they might tell
OF the land where winsome fairies
With the flowers love TO dwell!
Oh. you dainty wee blue flowers!
Brightest roses June may bring.
But they can not match your sweetness,
Gentle messengers of spring.
-Hdrpsr's Young People.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
Drinking Ice Water.

There is no more doubt that drinking
ice-water arrests digestion than there
is that a refrigerator would arrest per-
spiration. 1t drives from the stomach
its natural heat. suspends the flow OF
gastric juice and shocks and weakens
the delicate organs with which it comes
in contact. An able writer on human
diseases says habitual ice-water drink
ers are usually very fabby about the
region of the stomach. They complain
that their food lies heavy on that
patient organ. They taste their din
ner for hours after it is bolted. They
cultivate the use of stimulants to aid
digestion. If they are intelligent,
they read upon food and what the phys
iologist has to say about it-how long
it takes cabbage, and pork, and beef,
and potatoes and other meats and escu-
Tents, to go through the process of as
similation. They roar at new bread,
hot cakes and fried meat, imagining
these to have been the cause of their
maladies. But the icewater goes down
all the same, and finally friends are
called in to take farewell look at one
whom mysterious Providence has
called to q cline where, as far as is
known, ice-water is not used. The
number of immortal beings who go
hence, to return no more, on account
of an injudicious use of ice-water, can
hardly be Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17

New Zealand. only two miles away, are
unusually intelligent, well developed
physically and and quite poetical in their
ideas. Many birds with long tongues,
enabling them to suck honey from flow
ers with deep cups, have died out since
the advent of bees, introduced by white
people-the bees lie concealed in the
flowers and sting. the birds. The ma
tives say they are being crowded out by
civilization in like manner.
There were also in these times gigan-
tic sloths. ant-eaters and armadillos.
Fancy sloth eighteen feet long, with
thigh bone three. times as thick as an
elephants, and with forefeet yard
long and the toes armed with strong,
curved claws. 1t has been shown as
far as may be, that this huge creature
sat upon its launches and stiff tail, and
grasped the limb of a tree with its pow
erful arms and either tore it up by the
roots. or wrenched off the branches and
fed upon the twigs and leaves. There
were armadillos more than nine feet
long (the utmost length of modern
armadillo is about three feet and the
modern animal has an advantage over
its giant predecessor in having jointed
bands in its shell so that it can roll it
self up). Other animals were the woolly
rhinOceros, Irish elk, with wide branch
ing horns, ten feet from tip to tip, deer.
a horse, (yOu see we are coming near
to man, only few thousand years) the
urus, or wild bull, which lasted till after
man came and down to the twelfth
century, and the European bison, or
auochs, which played with the masto-
dOns and mammoths, and still lives;
though there is only one place where it
can be found, and that is in the province
of Lithuania in Europe, where it is pre-
served by protective laws. In this
country the Rocky Mountain sheep,
sometimes called big horn from it's inn
mense horns, is now rarely seen and
then only in the widest and most mac
cessible spots.
The bones of man have also been found
in some cave deposits of the post-pliO-
Gene, but at what time he made his ap-
pearance is still matter of conjecture.
In Asia, also, sometimes called " the
cradle of the human race" great
many bones of extinct animals have been
found, also fossil ferns, corals, etc. 1t
is very singular how in all parts of the
world nature has, as it were, many du-
plicate leaves, giving a clue to many
mysteries; now, for instance, in this
part of Michigan carboniferous lime
stone crops out, and sometimes we find
fragments containing crinoidal stems
(stems of stone lilies), and in many 9TH
er portions of the globe this same lime
stone is found with it's peculiar fossils.
OF course, wherever it is found it shows
that the rocks belonged to the same age
in the history of the earth; that is, were
formed during the same epoch.-Mrs.
s. Fl. Ballard, Grand Rapids, Mich, in
N. Y. Graphic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Rev. Mortimer T. JefFries, Of
WestsC Chester, Pa, has been elected 10
the American Church at Dresden. Ger
many.
The boys of the Boston public
schools are instructed in military drill,
and annually have street parade, with
. review by the Mayor.
"A. Methodist Ecumenical Council IS
in prospect for August, 1881, in the city
of London, the United States to be rep
resented by,200 delegates.
Mr.. Moody has become so deeply
interested in the work of educating the
Indian women of Indian Territory that
he has offered 10 provide for the free edu-
cation of ten or twelve of them at the
new seminary at Northfeld, Mass.
"A girl was subject to ostracism in
the high school at Fitchburg, Mass be-
cause she would not dress for class day
in the uniform costume worn by the
rest. The school committee will pro-
vide penalties for such cruelties here
after.
When the eloquent Bishop Simp-
son. of the Methodist church, first en-
tered the ministry he was, from his
bashfulness, almost unable to speak;
but he sought to forget himself, to be
simple. and to impress the truth upon
his hearers. He is now in his SEVENTEEN
year.
The Rev. James White, President
of the Seventh Day Adventists, has re-
signed on account of age.i He congrat-
ulates the Church on its progress, but
incidentally remarks that he has worn
himself out for only twelve dollars a
week in money, though he expects a
greater reward hereafter.
New York City has twenty-six
Presbyterian enthusiastically the
number it had thirty years ago, when
the population was half million souls.
The Interior tells us that there are nine
fewer Presbyterian churches in Chicago
than there were ten years ago. while
Cincinnati is in a worse condition than
it was thirty years ago.
The numerous teachers and preach
ers sent out by Father Taylor to South
America have held conference at Val
paraiso, and organized $ The South
American Evangelical Association.
These missionaries and teachers receive
only their outfit and passage money on
leaving this country, and are expected
to maintain themselves in the field, Mr..
Taylor says all the men are classical,
and nearly all theological graduates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
Family Hotels.

The fondness of Americans for living
at hotels has often been commented on
by Europeans, particularly by English
men, who rarely stay at a hotel except
when travelling and who almost never
make it home. While our national
habit as it has been called, has been
greatly exaggerated, there is no doubt
that we are more addicted than any Old
World people to hotel life, owing to
various conditions which do not exist
abroad. Our hotel life is better ordered
than it used to be. Within two or three
years new kind of hotel, known as the
private family hotel, has sprung up in
this city. and has proved so popular that
it is certain to multiply. Hotels of this
stamp are new to the country and as un-
like our great teeming caravansaries as
they wei can be and retain the same
name. They receive no transient people;
their rooms are divided into suites, usual
ly rented by the year, and often furnished
bv the occupant. There is regular
restaurant, at which the patrons take
their meals leach family, or set. at
small table, always reserved), paying a
fixed price, generally fourteen dollars a
week for each person. The suites for
one or two commonly consist of q par
Tor, or sitting-room. bed-chamber and
bathroom; but they are larger, of
course, when intended for family.
Most of the patrons are married couples
who have no children, or whose chill
dren have grown up or are away at
school, though some families with small
children like these hotels as well as
private houses, and say they have the
same advantages. There are at present
six or seven family hotels here, all in or
near Fifth Avenue, and they are so
much approved that they are continually
full, except, of course. in summer, when
their renters are out of town. They
seem destined to become q favorite
mode of living. They are not cheap;
nothing good or desirable ever is cheap,
but they are not very dear, as these
things go. They are rather less ex-
.pensive than the great hotels would be,
and have far more comfort for anybody
who cares for quiet. Persons that have
tried housekeeping year after year have
adopted the family hotel and prefer the
change. There are so many difficulties
in the way of home-making in this city,
notwithstanding that they are materi-
ally less than they have been, that the
new sort of hotel may be regarded as
one of the repeated essays toward inn
provement. The chief trouble here is
The cost of living. especially of rent.
Persons who have liberal incomes or
earnings are relieved from any number
of household cares. But those depend
enton ordinary salaries have of necessity
a constant struggle.-N. 2. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
1t is said that a good Colorado po-

1t is said that good Colorado po-
tato-bug destroyer can be made with
mandrake root dried for week or more
in the shade. Put one quarter bushel
in barrel, fill with water and let it
stand for two days, stirring now and
then; strain the liquid through a cloth
into a garden sprinkler; sprinkle to-
ward sunset only those plants on which
the young brood hatch and before they
scatter to adjacent plants.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17

The water power Of Geuesee Falls,
N. T., Is to be utilized for mechanical
purposes In Rochester. The plan Is the
same proposed at Niagara, whence the
power was to be conveyed to Buffalo BY
pipes, in the form Of condensed air;
but 1t was found that, owing TO the dis.
lance, the cost would reach o., 0OO, 600,
and so Rochester was chosen for Len
expensive test. The water II made 10
fall at intervals into perpendicular
pipes, In the bottom Of which is weight
condenses n quantity Of air. The ex-
pectation 10 that steam power will Do
entirely dispensed with In that CITY, az
e.pt on railroads, and that electricity
will DO SO chesply generated - 70 de.
place gas. 80 m
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

Mrs. Brassey tells Of a very strict
monastery on Mount Athos; con the
summit there is the strictest monastery
in the world. Not a female animal Of
any kind is allowed within miles, so that
the monks have 10 do without milk or
fresh eggs even, and travellers are not
allowed TO carry even dead hens on
their saddles for provision. A few years
ago two English ladies landed here from
a yacht. As most Of the men here wear
petticoats and the women trousers, and
the monks have not much experience in
such matters, they did not discover the
sacrilege that had been committed for
some time; and then you may imagine
their horror and disgust, and the pen
ances they had TO perform, poor thingsl''
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

I'm cases of suspended animation, or
asphyxia, life should not be too soon
given up. Discussing premature burials,
IN a recent communication TO the French
Academy, Prof. Fort states that he was
enabled 10 restore 10 life a child three
years old by practicing artificial respir-
alton ON II four hours, commencing
three hours and q half after apparent
death. In another case which came uf-
der his observation n physician restored
q nearly drowned person after four
hours Of artificial respiration. This per
son had been in the water ten minutes,
and the physician arrived one hour after
asphyXia.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

IT T. said 10 De unwhoiesome. IA all months
that have MOI an X in their name, 10 eat an
oyster. However, Il q einincntiy proper and
always ~seAsohable 70 usc Hamburg Drops
the great Liver and Blood PudfeE M. ia
cob Hess N%0rmanvlle, Kan writes; Daring
the last year was scarcely able 10 walk along.
suffered with serious arrangement Of the
Liver and tried many different preparations
without benefit Ny neighbor, Mr.. Adams,
told mo Of Hamburg Drops l bought q bottle
and afterlts continued use Ibecame better dali
lH and regained my former health. shall
always speak Agood Word for Hamburg Drops.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17
The New HeaI

or The Worlds Dispensary Medical AssocIa.
tiOn, OF Buffalo, OF which DIR. h. V. Pierce Is
President. consisting OF a figure OF Hseula-
Plus, the Father Of Medicine, surrounding
the globe, htly kymbOlzes the worldwide
reputation gained by the Family Medicines OF
DIR Pierce nov manufactured by tins incor-
porated company and sold in all p rts Of the
world. With = mammoth estahlishm ent, the
Worlds Dispensary aud Invslids' llOtal In
Buffalo, and a eorrcspondingly large branch
establishment In London, THIS Associ tion
make medicines for the whole world mot
only that but they personally examine and
treat with special medicines thousands Of
cases. Among the most celebrated OF the
proprietary or family medicines are DR..
Piefce's Golden Medical Discovery the great
blood pur fer and DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets Qittle plus and DIR. P,erce's
Compound Extract OF Smart Weed-for bow
Ell affections, colds aud painful attacks, as
collie, neuralgia aud rheumatism, = Favorite
Prescription furnishes relief from female
weaknesses aud kindred affections. Allsold
By druggists.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

In 1886, Jean de Grouchy, aided by
forty inhabitants, took f%larleur from
the English, who had held that town for
twenty years, Jean herself perishlng on
the ramparts. Since that epoch, on
each anniversary of the recovery Of
Harbour, it has been usual for the
Grouchy family 10 distribute 400 loayes
Of bread. Two years ago the inhab-
itants, in a sudden fit OF patriotism,
erected q statue 10 the hero who fell
more than four centuries ago, thus show
ing that national gratitude may waken
up after a very long slumber. The
Marquis de Grouchy, accused OF having
caused the loss of the battle at Water
loo by obeying the distinct orders Of
Napoleon, was a member OF this family.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17
An actress recently sewed $3.50 in

An actress recently sewed $3.50 in
her corset. At Holly, Mich, she found
herself in need OF a new corset, and
cast the old one into the waste basket
Of her room. She had been away a
week, when she discovered her loss and
sent a messenger 10 Holly, who was
fortunate enough 10 find the corset on
the ash heap in the hotel yard, with the
treasure undiscovered. This is a very
pretty story Of the fooiishness of vast.
ing ones substance,
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

We are sure our readers win thank us for
calling their attention TO the very handsome
ing Co. Of ST. Louis. No., as 1t would be use
less for US to say any thing In favor OF their
GRAND CHARTER OAK COOKING STOVE.
Thu very name suggests the thought OF a well
cooked meal, followed by easy digestion,
vigorous health and q desire 70 have, and to
DO, plenty of REAL WORK, 10 say nothing OF
: happy and contented household. ASK your
stove Dealer to show youthe latest patterns.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

We are sure II pays to do your ''ierel
rest" at all times, as whatever is worth doing
1t all is worth doing we'll; as an illustration,
The makers OF the famous CHARTER OAK
STOVES have always aimed to buy the best
materials, employ the best wOrkmen, and
make the best Cook STOVE that could be
made, and the result IL, that the CHARTER
OAK has attained apopularity unprecedented
In The history Of StnYes.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

FoREIGSRRs henceforward viii have fewer
opportunities to become acquainted with
Russian literature, the Government having
forbidden the expectation OF Russian bouks
without official permission, which Is to be
granted only after a careful perusal OF the
works.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17
unhnnnh.n cnnnhenea.

Peek's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. IN referring
20 Warmers safe Remedies, has the follow
ing: III. Fl. Warner a Co, Rochester, N.
T., are the sole nropTietors; we have = perfect
faith in the efficiency Of their pr Preparations,
and an unbounded confidence In the truth OF
all that Is good, and said OF them
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

NOTHING Will please a girl so much as To,
information that a rival who Is trying 70 r6l
her Of her best fellow, has got a pimple com
ing on her n~ose.-FaEtoa Ti1ass.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

Mas. EIIls, OF Ithaca, n. Y, has one hun.
dred and sixty canary birds all ehirping away
IN the same room. She says she Is low
spirited and keep y them 10 ehirrnp her ex'
isteuce,
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

A scHooL-MARN, who was kissed In the
dark by mistake, explained her omission TO use
any light for nearly two weeks afterwards on
the ground OF hard times.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17
Several Good Things.

n you want good digestion,
II you want good health,
II you wan good baking,
If you want the best stove,
II you want the cheapest stove,
II you want a good square meal,
BUY a CHARTER OAK STOVE.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

Now treat your girl with GOODNESS and
she'll like You all the better, and vanilla ID
the safest flavor. -,Bostoa Post
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

KRoss yung ones should be treated with 4
slipper to-day, aud handy 10 the distance.
Baiiags.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-17

TBEY say Mrs. LangtrY can be more grace.
ful in Stumbling her toe than most women can
IN throwing a kiss.