Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-01-16
Condensed News.

Marriage IN COuIn OarOHaia
means business. There is no d.
vorce there's
A Battle Creek, Michigan, fac.
tory is making up an order of
fifty thousand hoes.
A man of ninety-two years
has inst married a woman Of
twenty=tour at. Greenyillc, Ga.
Tampa (Florida) has water
melons and tomatoes in the mar
ket, and Jacksonville has ice
half an inch thick on the beach.
Gov. Marks viii not be IN
Quoted into office until after the
18th instant, at which time Gov.
Porter's term expires.
BY natural increase, and not
by superior yield, Florida has
produced 100000 barrels more
oranges this season than She did
Hast.
4. cofored congregation in Al
ALBANIA; becoming tired of their
MINISTRY toek..a novel plan 20
sSetvsisl of-hfnE.- They burned
Al, <,l,,,,,.t,
! i-4hldsuelrtepDf Gov Hampton
is expected TO cs'ate quite aisen-
sation in Washington after the
first Of the year. She is said to
be very beautiful. &.
A Nevada man drove twenty
eight miles to attend a funeral,
but reached the house to find the
dccease alive and recovering.
lie therefore brings2slit for $50
damages.
= Cattle and hogs are dying at
- feareisrst& inJowa, the former
from, smut in the, eolp-stalks and
the latte. from scholera. Hun
dfeds Of farmers have lost every
hog theytposscssed. =
4 Snowman in Sheffield, Mass,
stuck his finger into a box OF
rattIemakes to.stif tkem up, and
was bitten. Hes swallowed q
quart Risky and two ounces
Of morphine and rec9yered. =. !.
: Azman was-fiterallycookedin
a steam bath in San Francisco,
into which he. went without the
knowledge of the attendants.
He turned the steam on ignorant
| ly and was first sllffocated and
then boiled. ss- 49, >
A tramp a few days ago beg
ged a piece Of bread at the house
Of prominent citizen Of Erie.
When the proprietor came to
the door he recognized a former
oil prince, whose business capi-
tai recently was 100000.
At midnight, in his, downy-
bed, John Turk, Of Iowa. was
dreaming of how he had locked
his two daughters in a room up
stairs. At the same hour they
lowered themselves to the ground,
sloped with their lovers, and were
next heard Of in Chicago.
Alfred Ballard, a negro, was
converted in jackson, Tennes-
see. lie conceived that his mis-
sion was to reform gamblers,
and he became insane on the
subject. Dashing into a faro
room, he shouted, .'Death to all
gamblers." and shot the dealer
dead.
The following is an advertise
mcnt in a Richmond newspaper:
A CARD-As my former hus-
band. VIM. j Scanlon, has been
circulating reports that / am
dead, ! take this method of pro-
nouncing the report false, and to
let my friends know that | am
well and hearty.
HELEN SCANLoN.
The new Arkansas, Legisla-
turc will be SO largely Demo
cratic that it might as well be
unanimous. The 4St:nate will
% Democrats, / Green
back man and l Republican,
the last a colored man who holds
oyrr:a In the House OF Eepre7
stntatiyes there viii, be 81 Dem,
ocfats,a5 Greenbackers and Z
Republicans. ~ !, =
A decisionwhichi is1ofbcoH-.
siderable importance to land
lords and tenants-hasJust beens
make III New Y DIRK city,. 1t ,is'
heidi that when "a person awIfo
has hired house fails to obtains
possession because of the-refusan
of the old tcnant-to, move, the
landlord is notdegally bound 10
refund the rentetllat Smay have
been advanced.
An. attack by wolves in the
streets Of an American village
is an unusual occurrence, bur it
was the experience Of Mr.. Miner
Of Joselyn, Minnesota. Five
Of these animals sprang at his
horse and tried to get into his
wagon, but his dog coming up