Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-11-21
Condensed News.

The Smith family has beer
heard from. Betsy Smith CT Ken
uebunk, Maine, has read her Bible
through forty-one times.
Thos. J. Hendricks, of the old
firm Of 1876, TiIden & Hendricks
s now said to be the Democratic,
man for President.
The death OF Jefferson Davis,
/ jun, leaves the Elk President of
the Southern Confederacy without
a relative bearing the name of
Davis.
Competing railways have cut
rates until one can go from Gin
cinnati to New York and Phil
adelphia for one dollar. Good
for the traveller but death to the
roads.
John Sullivan, of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, had one side OF his
face badly burned and one eye Sc.
riously hurt by the explosion CT
powder in a pipe that joker han
ded him 20 smoke.
"Ole minute in tie Penilentia-
ry' was the punishment fixed BY
a Dallas, Texas, jvHy for the
tramp wh,, having been discharg.
e ] weak and hungry from Abe hos
pital, stole citizens breakfast.
The Rev. James IIodgson, al
ventist, of Petersburg, Va, thus
advises his congregation Get
your ASCENSION robe S ready by the
5th day Of next Janu,ry. for that
day will see the end Of The world"
Two workmen in a shoe factory
in Stoughtcn, Mass habitually
drank Of The alcohol used by them
in their work, aud hen a poison
Gus liquid was substituted, they
did nor knoa che difference, but
took drIugbls that killed them.
Ten dollars is what it cost a
gray haired man at Bulfro for
kissing blooming young woman
of twenty. lie says thit she Of
Sered the kisses in the first place
for twenty cents, but in bis greed
he thought to get theB irr nuth-
Ing.
Edward Ward whipped his wife
50 ouirageously IN Carlevoix, Mich /,
that his neighbors tarred aud
teathere0 him; but the wife re
moved the tar and feathers from
him, bound up his wounds, and
accompanied him in his migration
from tue county Just like fool
womln.
Messrs. Moore, Warren and
Terry began grading on the
railroad at Petersburg last Mon
day, coming in this direction.
They have fifteen hands al
work, and the gap between them
and contractor Frierson's force
is only about two and n half
miles.-Learisburg Gazette.
A gill only fourteen years old
has been arrested in Chicago fol
arson; another girl OF the same
age has recently been convicted
If committing two burglaries in
n, W York, and a boy five years
old is under bonds as a pickpOck-
ct. OIe en- not well dispute tie
precocity OF the rising generation.
A girl in s. JOS PHI, Mo, went
to drug sore to buy arsenic with
which to Kill herself. The clerk
happened to know that she had
qnSrreied with her lOv,r r, and
he gu ssed her purp s.. lie gav'
her corn starch instead of Arsenic,
and hurried out to tell her lover
The lover repented having grivved
the girl, went to her house, found
her |, ing ON u sofa wal irg IN vain
to die OF a dose of corn starch,
and mlde Up with hr.
wait year. sI'dAunie Johns,
Of Franklin county, Lad to the
young MN who pSopos' 4 marri-
aye, ard then | Ii have money E
70 Ugh for us both TO live on.
Then she mar ried Is weak-miad- |
ed old mln n.med Apologize, and I
within Month, as charged, gave
him a d ,se Of strychniue; but the
poison did not kill, and the lover
wi hav- to wait year for Anuie,
without ev getting the money.
Ii is not always those who dane,
who have to pay the fiddler, So
SIN Franci-eo finds to her cost IL
regard to the July Anti Chinese
riots Of 1917 A large numter
of suits have been brought against
the city for damages sustained ard
goods destroyed at that time. Ia
several eases judgments have been
obtained by customers for losses
in linen by the burning of Chi
nese lauDdries. Some of these
bills recovered would indicate that
the ordinary Californian either
sporled large expanse Of linen
OF that be very seldom sent il to
wash. Ole judgment was foI
$50, while another footed up
SI6I.75 Riots at best are a very |
expensive amusement, the cost Of
which very generally falls upon