Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-08-01

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The tobacco crop is light this
year.
Cicinnaii is to have balloon
race Soon.
Queen Victoria hasreigned forty
one years.
Corn is over waist high on the
Alabasna plains.
British Parliament docs not
dissolve this year.
The Deadwood banks will not
take gold coin for greenbacks.
An indianapolis corn-stal6 late
" grew ten inches in twelve hours.
Wheat is but As cents bushel
at WaIla Walla, Washington Ter.
A dispatch from Madlid SAYS il
is iumored that the Spanish King
.contamp efes abdicating.
Mrs. Miller, OF Augusta, Geor-
gia expects to harvest thirty thou.
sand watermelons this season.
Ga last Friday night, in Knox
vile, Jim Bruce assaSsinated John
Walker, col. Cause, Jealousy.
Mexicans from Las Vacas, Mex
leo. fired fifty shots into the town
Of San Felipe. Texas, last Friday.
Mrs. A, B. Coutts, OF Si,'ing-
field, Tennessee, committed suicide
Thursday by cutting Der throat
with a razor.
Ia Benoi', Canada, a woman
has given birth to twins Joined
as Chang and Eng were. They
are living.
TIE tide Of tramps will now
turn towards Tennessee. Here
they marry handsome widows with
immense fortunes.
RoNE, July % The Uuiia
Jathollca says it is absolutely false
that the Pope's health has suif r
ed on account Of the heat.
Chattanooga Times had a libel
suit last week for $3.50 in which
iud sment was rendered against
I them for % cents and costs.
A Key West paper says that
over $4,000 was paid for sponges
in che day last week, being the
greatest days work for many
years.
1t is claimed as curious fact
that while scores Of people are
Frustrated by heat in every oiheI
State, not a case of sunstroke has
been reported in Vermont this
summer.
MEMPHIS July 27-Informalior
has been received here that the
bale OF cotton entered by the Mem
plis Cotton Exchange has been
awarded Tie first premium at the
Paris Exposition.
Few cases of destruction of life
or property by lightning ever oc-
cur in a large city. A New York
paper attributes this immunity &c
The protection afforded to build
lpgs by telegraph wires and iron
buildings.
CANToN, n. Y, July 2G The
execution of Peter Bresnehan, ful
tie murder of Michael Daulthiel
in April last, took place in the jai
yard to-day. Bresnehan locked
haggard. having had no sleep fpl
the past thirty six hours.
The Roanes, the Chattanooga
Base Ball Nine, which won the
State Championship at that plac,
on the Fourth. was defeated By
the Knoxville Reds, OF Knoxville
by score Of 6 to 5. Ga The
same day at Decatur. Alabama
he Decatur and CORTLAND clubs
played a game for a prize Of 5000
which resulted 10 favor Of the Tor
mer By score OF 9 to G.
A young man of Capron, Iii
nois, brought his earthly pilgrim
age to a tragical end on the 23rC
uIt. lie rented a hall and In
termed the people by posters of his
intended lecture justifyipg sclf-de
struction, he to close the entertain
ment in that manner. He acted
as door keeper charging 81 admis-
sion, admitting no children. Wher
the hall was full he locked the
door, and going to the stage, deliV
cred his lecture which was a mas
ter piece of infdel reasoning. A
the conclusion he stepped back Z
few PAGES drew a derripger from
bis hip pocket and shot himself ii
the forehead, before a couple of
men who had hid on the stage t.
prevent The suicide could reach
him. He left request that the
funds thus raised be used in de
fraying his brrying expenses, anC
If any surplus remained, it was t.
be invested in the works of Oar
win, Tyndall and Huxley anC
presented TO the town hall in biz
name.
Ia The tenacity Of the dog il
wondarful TnoisIafnras and City