Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-11-28
Condensed News.

In October Cincinnati SOLE
46, 0G0 barrels Of beer.
Eighteen preachers died will
yellow fever in Memphis.
The Democrats of Kentucky
will hold a state convention al
Louisville, May lst next.
Almost fourteen thousand
Americans visited Paris during
the Exposition.
Last week, fire at Atlantic
City, N. j., destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
This country manufactured
one hundred million shoes last
year.
1t is Yellow John who wor-
ries the people of California and
Yellow Jack down South.
Guatemala offers land free to
immigrants who viii cultivate
sarsaparilla plants and cocoa and
rubber trees.
Quite Il shock from an Garth
quake was felt in Cairo, Ill.,,
Leavensworth, Kan, and Little
Rock, Ark, on the 10Th.
St. Petersburg is, with a single
exception the unhealthiest city of
the world-Madras, Spain, being
that exception.
At a ball one mile south of
Gov. Williams home, near
Wheatland. Ind, John Harris
shot and killed Willard Parker.
Cause, old grudge and whisky.
One of the articles shipped
from India to China is sailed
rats, which are, Jas is well known,
highly appreciated i'll China a.
an article of food.
A row occurred at Mt. Ster-
ling, Kentucky, last week, in
which twenty or thirty shots
were fired, two men were in
stantly killed and three woun-
ded.
Rent collecting these hard times
seems TO be a perilous business in
Berlin A collector lately APP
piled for leave to carry a rvo'v, r,
alleging that he was in fear Of his
life.
A mob in Wilmington, Ohio,
could not get at the murderers
whom it wanted to hang. and so
vented its fury on the house in
which the murder had been COM
mitted, tearing it to pieces.
In England, in 1877, twelve
children not much over 10 COM
mitted suicide, nineteen people
were killed by lightning, and
ia by sunstroke-in a country
where foreigners imagine the
sun never shines.
A prisoner at Newark, O., sim
ulating insanity has made four eff
forts to hang himself aud one uu-
successful att, mpt at cremation.
AS he is q bad man it would be
we'll to supply him with every ia
cility to carry out his design.
On Saturday night, Michael
Rossiler, of New York, went
home drunk. His wife Jane
not having supper ready he
threY a lighted coal oil lamp at
her. Her clothes caught fire
and she received burns from
which she died on Sunday.
The matrimonial nuptials Of
Meliss, Underwood and Henry
Ayres. who reside at Vincennes.
Ind were interrupted and pre-
vented Saturday by rival named
P. Ii. Donavan, whom the young
lady had also promised to marry
Charley Rush was arrested at
Carey, Ohio, last Friday, for
breaking into the residence of
Herbert Hopkins, and outrag-
ing the person OF Mrs. Hopkins,
during her husbands absence.
Rush had been married about
two weeks. Lynching was
spoken OF.
John Sherman has BEEN drawing
u salary Of $4,000 per annum fol-
eighteen years and has econo-
mized so closely that his estate liz
now valued at 1000, 900 90; all
OF which shows that nothing pros
pers like economy unless it is
prosperity.
Early last Friday morning,
fire broke out in the Virginia
Penitentiary, at Richmond, and
and destroyed a large building,
which with its contents was
valued at $4,000. The in
mates were much excited, but
the prison guards, police and
citizen soldiers, preserved order
and prevented any prisoners
from escaping.
A Biblical curiosity in the Eng
lish section OF the Paris Exhibi
ton which attracts crowds is the
moiel of the Tabernacle as it res
ted during the wandering of the