Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-11-14
Condensed News

for the present his plan Of I
visit to India.
Gen. Tom Thumb has donnet
his stage-paint, and will go OIL
the show path again.
George Washington is man
afacturing split-bottom chair.
lin Virginia. It's the Other
George, though
James Schenck Of San Fran
cisco, on becoming the father
of triplets, publishes frantic
appeal for pecuniary aid.
The famous race horse, Harry
Bassett, died a few days ago. His
owner lately refused fifteen thou
sand dollars for him.
iowa, Nrbraska and Kansas ad
vices indicate the prairie fires art
still raging in those States, de
stroying grain, bridges, barns.
fences and property.
A communion service was cele-
braied in Bridgeport, Conn, with
brandy instead of wine, the drug
sist having made blunder in fill.
ing the order for sherry
Two brothers, named Wood,
were rival candidates for Congress
Oh the Democratic and Republican
tickets in the Troy, N. Y, district
Mr.. Wood was confident of bis
election.
The crime for which John Pos
toah, a hqlf.breed Creek Indlan
has been sentenced to death in
Arkansas, was that Of numbering
a whole family because he was re
/ fused chew CT tobacco.
When a farmer in Hamilton
county, N Y, found that his wife
had eloped with peddler, be
went over and hired a band, bought
a new suit Of clothes anil gave a
dance, which cost him $50.
The steamer City of New York.
from Sidney by way of Honolulu
to San Francisco, brings reports
that Eve missionaries in New Zaa
land were murdered and eaten by
natives. Eighty Of the tribe were
slain in retaliation
A swarm of bees took possession
of the chimney of Middlefield
Conn, Methodist church during
the summer, and when a fire WAS
kindled in the stove on a recent
Sunday the floor Of the church lit
orally flowed with honey.
Five men robbed a stage
coach near Fort Laramie about
two weeks ago. Two Of them
have been shot dead by pursu-
ers, two of them have been
hanged by lynchersy and the
survivor has fed the Territory
Two women in Scottsyille, Ind
were addicted 10 talking scanda
lously about their neighbors -
There were thirty to forty exceed
ingly cowardIy and brutal men iu
the same place. The men took
the women from their home a.
ight, barred their shoulders, anC
whipped them with hickory rods
until the blood run. Oae Of tie
women was over 70 yeus old.
At the funeral Of a Cincin-
natl man, who had been barely
able 10 earn the necessities of
life for his family, there was
band Of music, twenty carriages
pail bearers wearing many yards
Iof Grape, a profusion Of flowers
and a heavily plated caskct. A
rusty sign of washing and
ironing was conspicuous OF
tho side of the dead man:
house.
,. Two little boys, named Jobr
and DJd,on Mitchell. aged firteer
and eleven years, arrived in Gin
cinnati Saturday morning iron
Memphis. They had lost father
mother and sister in thai ill-latt {
city during the fever epidemic
rhe father was John H. Mitchell
brother Of Maggie Mitchell, th'
actress The little fellows ale Oh
their way to Baltimore, sent b.
the Odd Fellows Of Memphis, Il
Join their distinguished aunt.
A Young woman in Atlanta
; Ga.y bought irem an elderl.
woman her son, for the purpos
, of making n husband of him
The young man was 20 year
old; the mother, however, sol
! him for muslin dress and
few yards OF calico. The trad
was made Oh Sunday, and th
man vas to be delivered thrc
J miles from the purchasers hous
on Tuesday following; and, e.
though that Tuesday was a ba
. day. the purchaser walked j
the rafn to- get possessions