Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-09-12
Condensed News.

condensed News.
State Fair begun last Tuesday
in Nashville.
Orvill Grant, brother 10 the ex-
president, has been sent to the la.
natic asylum.
Minnesota State Republican
Convention met in St. Paul, on
Wednesday, 4th.
Gen. Joseph E Johnson has
been nominated for Congress III
The Richmond, Virginia, district
John Richmond, a horse thief
and murderer, was hanged to a
bridge by vigilants near Chetopa,
Kansas.
Three men were killed and sew
eral wounded by the explosion of
the steamer Reliance, near St. Ma
rvs, Georgia.
San Francisco has determined
to erect a hospital to which ali
Chinese lepers are to be removed
until an opportunity is found to
ship them back to China.
A company of wreckers are now
at work on the hull of the old
frigaie Cumberland, sunk near
Newport News Point, Virginia.
by the Merrimac in the early part
Of the Var.
A cargo of cats was recently
shipped over the Canada Southern
Railway for the West. They are
to be turned loose on the hordes
OF rats which are destroying the
crops in many sections.
George Howell, a negro con
vlc;ed Of the murder of Joseph
Martin, of Green county, in De-
cenber last, was hanged at Green
vile, Tennessee, last Thursday
Two women fired at each other
in Harris, Georgia, in very much
the style of a prearranged duel
They met by appointment. ex.
changed shots, but had no seconds, !
and neither was hit.
The decision of Commissioner
Raum which requires that where
liquor, thinly disguised, is sold
lnder the name Of patent nedi-
Zines, liquor license must be OBJ
aimed, will put stop to bad
practice.
SANDUSKY, Ohio, Sept. 5-Wm.
Taylor, a negro, was arrested on
he charge of outraging and muir
lering white girl named Alice
)Donnel. He was taken from
he sheriff and hung to lamp
post. No one questions bis guilt.
Henry j. Heath, IAN Englishman,
= years old committed suicide in
New York city Sept. 8, by cutting
lis throat with razor, and then
jumping from his room in the
econd story of dwelling to the
round and throwing himself in
well.
A sick tramp with yellow com.
'lexlon excited an intense public I
interest in his case at Battle Creek, Il
lichigan. Two physicians deci- t
ed that he had the yellow fever {
nd only after a general medical /
onsultation did they set him down {
$ jaundiced man. /
The first daath In the Odd Eel S
9ws Relief Society of Tennessee f
as recently occurred at Mur(rees 1
orc, in this State, and DR.. j. R. t
larwell, the Secretary, has for
7arded to the family Of John Nc
'.rmett, ST., the deceased mem
er. the amount due at his death. C
Three devout looking women P
nd solemn faced man were es y
orted from a funeral in one of the 8
ew York churches last week by Z
he police. They were professions.
pickpockets, and had already
ned their pockets with the porte q
9nries and jswelry Of their un- Fl
Ispecting neighbors.
WASHINGTON, Ohio, Sept. 5.-A
RS. Cassidy, who lives between
ashington and Bladensburg, has
ven birth to five children, three
rls and two boys, and every one
them remarkably well. They
e all very small, but are perfect b
their organism and may live.
be mother is out Of danger and b.
lie to receive the congratulations
her friends.