Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-09-26
Condensed News.

: nominee for Congress in the Sec
ond District.
Old Mrs Farmer, aged eighty
and her daughter were murdered
in Clinton county, Georgia.
The Gypsy Queen, who died
in the South last winter was bu-
ried at Dayton, Ohio, Sunday.
Montgomery, Birmingham and
} Athens, Alabama, and Pulaski,
Tennessee. have quarantined a.
) gainst Decatur.
Mary McHugh, a very respec-
table young Irish girl Of Indianap.
[olis, was brutally murdered last
Friday night by Louis Gnetig.
The Ohio State fair in CIeve.
land was kept open on Sunday
for the benefit of the fever suffer
ers. Preachers denounced it.
Joseph Geiger attempted 20
murder his wife at Kenton, Ohio,
and then cut his own throat from
which he died.
The heroes are not all fighting
Indians. A Chicago man has just
married a widow with twenty
children.
A Mexican named Miguel killed
an American in a quarrel in Vic
toria county, Texas.
In the Auburn, N. Y, Penlten-
tiary there are forty two lawyers,
twenty seven preachers and thir.
teen doctors.
The standing army OK that tur-
bulent republic, Venezuela, South
America, is $500 men. Greater
than that of the United States.
John Speers was executed at
Waco, Texas, Friday, for the
murder of Parson Piedger, whom
be shot to see kick.
George Duncan, colored, ia Jail
for an attempted rape near Prince
ton, Kentucky, was taken out by
mob and lynched.
James Setmault, a horse thief,
made an attack on his iailer at
Gonzales, Texas. and was shot
dead.
During eight years of employ
ment by a Chicago firm of j-wel-
ers, T. w. Marchesi stole SIS, 900
worth of diamonds to give to his
many fair friends.
A Cincinnati mau of DO had
sweetheart Of l6. and, because she
persistently associated with per
sons of her own age, followed her
to party and killed her.
A Buddhist priest, at Foocbow,
China, burned one of his fingers
off by holding it in the flame Of a
candle. lie expects to be rewar
ded by eternal felicity.
The township Of Ortali, Italy, |
has sunk twelve to fifteen feet be
low the ordinary level, and the in
habitants have deserted the top. |
pling houses.
George Soutbers, a boy of Knox
county, Tennessee, was found dead
near the railroad ar Caswell's Sta |
ton. He had been stabbed and |
beaten to death by unknown par
ties.
Deputy collector j. NJ. Davis
was fired upon by some unknown
person at Tracy City last We'd |
nesday. Jas. Spears, walking
by his side,was severely wound
ed in the thigh by rifle ball.
Mary Dooley, a Boston servant
girl Of IA, has by industry, steal
ing, pawning her various employ
ers' clothing and jewelry, been a.
bic to deposit $500 in a savings
bank.
The report that gold exists in
large quantities in New Guinea
accounts for the readiness with
which the British Government
has decided to annex all that is
land which is not occupied by the
Dutch.
Key WEsf, Fla, Sept. 19.-The
United States brig Alex. Nichols,
from Cienfugas, has been wrecked
on the Florida coast. The cook,
first mate and one seaman were
drowned, and her sugar cargo all
lost.
Peter Staub, OF Knoxville, own.
err Of the Opera House, anG large
owner OF real estate made an as
signment last week, in conse.
qnence Of whi.h the Bank of
Knoxville is closed. Liabilities
$1,000. Available assets $4,000.
Last Saturday night, Daniel
negro OF Athens, Ala
bama, was called to summary
account By Judge Lynch lie
confessed, stating that he commit
ted the murder for money, and
got $ll. The victim was white
tramp.
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