Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-11-06
Condensed News.

Philadelphia last week.
Mics Lizzie Camp has become
associate editor Of the Gaines
vile, Ark, Democratic Press.
OYer 1900 bales of cotton
were burned on a cotton plat
form near Richmond, Va, last
week.
The Iiessian fly i.as greatly
damaged the growing wheat in
Southern Indianaand Southwest
ern Ohio.
The Confederate monument
at tIacon. Ga, was unveiled on
.[he 29th in the presence Of 25,-
900 people.
Hon. Zach Chandler,th the prem
inent Michigan politician, was
found dead in his bed in a Chi
cago hotel last Saturday.
The New McKendree Church
will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000. About $4,000 more
than the one just burned.
All the stores Of Memphis are
again thrown open. Refugees
are returning; the streets pre-
sent busy appearance, and ey-
erything booming.
The Murfreesboro Free Press
is the name Of a newspaper star
ted at Murireesboro Saturday
Geo. L. Henderson and Reese Is
Henderson are editors and pre-
/ prietors.
The horse st. Julian made the
fastest trot on record at San
Francisco. He trotted mile in
2,l23 without a skip or break.
Last week Wisconsin Judge
was shot down in bis doorway,
and the next day his assassin was
walking the streets unmolested.
The North has no outrages to
speak of.
Official reports show that in
the limits OF The city of Memphis
there were, in 1873, up to Oct.
Doth, LILO deaths from yellow
fever; 1902 to same date last
year, and 400 this year.
Leather having advanced q
to 70 per cent, the manufactu-
rers Of boots and shoes in New
York have resolved to advance
their prices in proportion to the
increased cost Of the raw mate
rial.
John j. Bailey, who married
a daughter Of the late Governor
Ford Of Illinois, and who was fol
a number Of years chief librarian
at the public school library il
| st. Louis, has been arrested TO
pocket picking.
Miss Matte Garlett, Of Pitts
burg, a variety actress, has fall
en- heir to $4,000 by the dealt
of an uncle. Her husband, whC
is in Jail for debt is delighted
Matte keeps him locked up
however, until she gets tht
money.
At last an oasis has been dis
covered in the desert Of man.
inhumanity TO man. DE-. TodC
Of Richmond, Ky, has had will
cd to him $4,000 by a man VIII,
recently died in France and VIII,
was befriended by Todd twenty
three years ago. Bread return
ing after many days.
The Georgia Legislature at it
late session passed a new interes
law, which provides that no per
son or corporation, directly o
indirectly, shall loan money il
that State for n greater interes
than 8 per cent. 1t also fixeC
the legal rate Of interest, if no
otherwise provided for by con
tract, at Z per cent. per annum.
Bob. Boswell, col, was hang
ed at Iiillsboro, n. C., last Fri
day, who murdered his wife anC
two children and burned thei
bodies in his cabin. Bob didn'
jump off into glory, as is usua
in such cases, but was "gwine t.
be boss O help when he go
there.
EX-Gov. Hubbard, Of Texas
estimates that the population of
} that State under the new census
wall reach three millions, and en-
} title the State, under the pres
ent ratio Of representation, t,
, twenty-five memberstoCongrcss
which exceeds that Of any Stat
at present, except New Yorl
and Pennsylvania.
Joe Howard, a negro, playct
the banjo for pennies in the sa
looms, stores and streets Of JET
: fersonville, Ind. He was fire
quently permitted to perform il
the millinery establishment of
Miss Martin, a young white wo
man. His music won her, anC
one day they were united il
) marriage by the Rev. Mr.. Miller
a negro. Miller and Howard ARK
in Jail awaiting trial, such we'd
lock being a crime in Indiana.
The town of CORTLAND, Ala.