Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-02
Condensed News.

at me welding 81 p burlington
(lowal woman of sixty with a
young man of twenty-five.
John Silk OF Boston assaulted
a lame man, supposing that there
would be no resistance; but he
received probably fatal blow
on the head from the criipple's
crntch.
An old man in Virginia City,
Nevada, having iegaincd The
power of speech after five years
iof paralysis, docs little else but
swear. 1t is said that he is ma
king up Tor lost tina.
The Lanesboro, Mimi, ,Jomn-
al says: minnesota climate has
changed in the last few years.
If it keeps en- at the same rate
for the next ten years we can
raise orangts, bananas, bulldc-
zers and returning boards up
here"
Kentucky notes itas remark
able coincidpnce that while Os-
car Turner, Of Fayettc county,
goes to The enitcntiary two
wars for house breaking. Os-
car Turner, Of Ballard county,
gets two years in Congress.
The women Of Virginia have
organized an association for pay
ing off the Safe debt. The So
ciety has only been organized
eight months, and the treasurer
has already collected $1.9S, and
spent $l.65 for stationery and
railroad fare.
Six years ago there was but
one Christian church in Japan.
Now there are thirty-six. Ev-
cry Christian effort was frowned
upon then by the government.
To-day one hundred young men
are studying fer the ministry in
the schools of the American
board.
John Peterson, an old bache-
lor Of Nicholas county, KY,
wrote a will, handed it TO his sis
ter, and went and hanged HIM
self. He had been kicked on
the Lead by a mule, and as he
hung himself in the stable, it is
thought that he wanted to get e.
ven by making the animal feel
bad.
Rcd hair is a positive disad-
vantage to women who work for
a living, at least in Boston. Jcn-
ME Collins, who conducts Bof-
fins Bowcr-a Boston institu-
ton for helping women who are
out of wOrk-savs that house
keepers almost invariably de-
cline TO employ red-haircd wo-
men.
More than thrcc-lourths OF the
members of Congress are law
yers. Perhaps this accounts for
The bad speaking. Scarcely any
lawyers succeed in The House
OF Commons. Er>kinc even was
Il failure there. They speak in
Parliament a. though address,
ing juries and The House won't
stand it.
a ranchman named Stevens
bad a grudge against the rival
firm OF Kelchum q Mitchell, in
Nebraska, and succeeded in con-
ivincing mob That they were
horse thieves. and had murdered
a depuly-shcriff. The mob hang
ed the accused men, whose inno-
crnce was aitcrward made clear.
Then the mob hargrd Stevens.
Two spiritual mediums went
from Boston 10 Portsmouth, y.
H., and designated, while pro-
ie>sCdly controlled by he spirit
of Capt. Kidd, the spot where
large amount Of treasure was bu-i
rlcd. As this was in accordance
with an old tradition, the villa
gers were greatly excited. Dig
ging was kept up night and day
for a week, but nothing found.
The temperance men of Evans
vile, Indiana, compelled the en-
forcement of the Sunday law a.
gainst the liquor sellers. The
same law applies TO nearly all
business, and the liquor sellers
have retaliated by closing the
drug stores, barber shops, and
cigar stands on Sundays, and by
prosecuting the publishers of a
Sunday paper.
An English bridegroom resi-
ding at Plymouth had very
eventiul honeymoon. He quar-
relied with and thrashed his
wife the second hour after mar
riage, thrashed her again at
night, after clubbing the we'd
ding guests Of the house, and on
the second day sold his clothes,
excepting his trousers, for rum,
and wound up in Jail on the
third day.
During the little thunder
shower of Monday afternoon, a
lady of this city took refuge on
a feather-bed placed on the floor,
and stuck there until all danger |