Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-09
CONDENSED News.
Gen. Grant is IN Ireland.

a St. Louis woman died in
commissions on learning that her
lover was a counterfeiter.
A man at Leominstcr, Mass,
has been killed By inhaling the
sulphur from friction matches to
cure an attack of diphtheria.
In Detroit woman sixty-two
years ofage was stamped to death
by her son. He did this in the
presence Of his own little daugh-
ter.
Opposing lawyers fought with
inkstands in court at Lebanon,
Indiana, the other day, spatter-
ing the walls and the presiding
Judge as well as themselves.
Mrs. J. d, Mcintrye, of Pen
der county, n. G., aged twenty
four, has just presented her lord
with a son, his twenty-foulth
child. He is eighty, and she is
his fourth wife.
A Boston physician tore up the
prescription that he had written
for a boy with diphtheria because
the mother had no money to pay
for it, and within d few hours the
boy died for lack Of medicine.
A Chicago paper publishes
weekly all marriage licenses,
with the ages Of both the male
and female applicants. This is
not looked upon with favor by
the parties principally interested.
The church in Pomfrct, VT,
has lost its most active member
Henry Babcock. Convicted Of
setting fire to his mill, to dc
fraud an insurance company, he
has gone TO prison for six years.
The marriage of a San Fran
cisco widower TO his step-daugh-
ter so displeascd his nei9hbors
that they stuck tac and feathers
on his door as a hint OF what
they would do if he did not move
away. He moved,
Boston sends the story of {
terrible Christmas Exc tragedy
the murder Of a young wife by
her aged husband, who compile.
ted his bloody work by suicide
Jealousy was, Of course, the mo-
tive Of the crime.
A poor law officer at Green
wich, n. Y, lately decided thai
a wooden leg furnished to an in.
mate Of WOrkhouse was 'furni.
ture" and not Il surgical appli.
ance, and therefore could not b(
paid for ont Of the poor fund.
The most elaborate recent we'd
ding in Nashville was that Of a
negro couple, j. G. Napier ans
Nettie Langston. The bride wore
an imported dress of cream-col.
ored silk and fnc lace, and many
Of the guests were attired with
equal cost and generally in good
taste.
During the war General But.
Ter gave an old d-choppcl
permission to cut wood in Tho
swamps near New Orleans. The
old man is not only still hack
ing away under cover Of that
permit, which he says he never
has revoked, but sells the right
to cut to others.
This story is told by a South
ern paper. 4 pond of water Oh
the Deshler place, in Meth Al
ALBANIA, embracing ten acres, sud-
denly disappeared early one
morning recently with loud
rumbling sound. \ large hole,
down which the water poured, is
all thatremains to mark the spot.
John G. Clark left property
worth about thee millions when
he died, in Texas, thirteen years
ago. He made no will, and was
not known to have a relative.
The State took possession of
the vast estate, aud until this
year no claimants appeared; but
now several real or pretended
heirs have commenced legal pro-
ccedings.
The jury Of the Church in
Chicago that convicted Mrs. j.
Anderson Of renting ground for
a beer garden recommended her
TO mercy. This was well. In
times when minisirants some
times perform through The week
in beer gardens and on Sundays
in church choirs, beer and for
bear may well be the motto for
the sin of an erring sister like
Mrs. j. Anderson.
The other night a number of
young men at Owens Grove,
near Mason City, Iowa, under
took to charivaIi Mr.. Henry
Dunbar, who had recently been
married. They blew out his
bedroom window, but failed to
bring him out. On the follow
ing night they returned, deter
mined to succeed. Dunbar was
prepared, and fired into t h e
crowd, wounding six of them.
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