Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-07-17
Condensed News.

The Cincinnati Enquirer calls
Zach Chandler a liar Of the first
magnitude.
Mrs. Joseph Nickel, Of Pitts
burg, on Saturday gave birth TO
! tripIcts, two boys and one girl.
! That once powerful tribe of
Seminole Indians have dwindled
away'to about 400 persons, loca-
ted in South Florida,
i The cotton-worm is getting in
its work already in Mississippi,
and the planters in some LOCALE
ties are becoming alarmed.
In a Mobile Baptist Church an
old negro woman was lately bap-
tized. She was,to the best of her
belief, 113 years old.
"A bed-bug was caught in a
COMMUNICATING house yester-
day with the legend s'Gi.A w.
17T6" cut ON its back.
In political circles at Spring
field, Ohio, it is reported that a
negro viii be selected as candi-
date for Representative by the
Republican party.
The accounts from the crops
in Indiana are most favorable.
Not only are they larger than
was anticipated, but are of a
much finer quality e i)e 30.
OnWednesday there were nine
sun-strokes in St.Louis. On the
leyee a thermometer marked 80
degrees in the shade. Friday it
indicated 1G2 in the shade In.
Fayetteville.
One of the Jasper brothers,
attempting double somersaultI
in Sells circus at ChiIlicothe,
Ohio, was SO badly hurt as to be
unable to accompany the show
when they went off.
James Gordon Benefits Arc
tic exploring steamer, Jeanette.
sailed ON the 9th of July from
San Francisco. In common with
thescivilized world we wish them
God-speed and safe return.
The Howard Association of
Memphis is in a thorough work.
ing condition, and if the worst
comes to the worst, the members
will exhibit the same degree of |
heroism shown by them last year. |
Mrs. Mike Kelley Of Ander-
son, Ind, being tired Of support |
ing four children, and a lazy lhus-
band, took a,dose of Paris green,
but not quite enough to kill her,
SO she now has a doctors bill adj
ded to her expense account. |
A man in Georgia is saving
all the Confederate money that
he can get; he intends bequeath-
ing it to his posterity with the
injunction that they keep it until
it is worth dollar for dollar. We
fear it will be in that family
when the last scion is laid in the
dust.
John Williams and Winter
Payne, two negroes, were hung
in Warrenton, Virginia, July II.
They were given an early morn
ing start for glory. Williams
for the murder of Mr.. Howard
Hcltzelaw, and Payne for killing
a negro fellow-falmhand, named |
James Adams. 7s |
Frank Davidson, a Missouri
murderer, was taken twenty
miles by railroad tobe hanged, |
in order to reach ga favorablet
spot for such a spectacle, situa- I
ted in a valley, surrounded by t
bold hills, affording a view of
the gallows for 5000 persons"
Miss Shattuck, after lying
helplessly abed for four years, at
West Galway, n. Y, prayed
earnestly for a miraculous cure,
and instantly got up and walked.
But her recovery is not complete,
and the members Of church
meet at her house every evening
to pray for another miracle,
The last Missouri legislature
passed a law making it a felony
for an officer Of a bank to accept
in the institution If he
knows it to be in a falling con-
dition, and imposing the same
punishment as that for stealing II
Under this statute sew
eral st. Louis bankers are to be :
tried. hgiiEf .dz s4orI
The Washington Star says
that Senator Conkling gave a ,
dinner at Woanley'ssto a num-
Der of republican-leaders, and, ]
no response to his ques-
ion as to the one who should be
the choice after Grant, rose and 3
said he would bring forward
William Window, of Minnesota, {
IS a Northwestern man. Billy
Window should Immediately dye l.
ais horse a dark color.
About the biggest days work !
ever done in the way of rail-
was accomplished by J
he ST.. Louis, Iron Mountain
md Southern road on Saturday, I
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