Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-12-11
Items from the South.

IN OIJIl OStfOllIld.
Tramps are flocking into Flor
ida for their winter quarters.
Texas would make thirty-fiv,
states the size of Massachusetts
A new town in Lauderdal,
county, Tennessee, is named Pill
jerk.
A South Carolina man cut %,
600 shingles from one cypress
tree.
Chestnuts sell at twenty-fiv,
cents a bushel in southern Vir,
ginia.
The wool clip of Texas this
year is estimated at 100000
pounds.
Over fifty new firms have com
menced business in Atlanta, Ga.
this year. .sr Ie
A Memphis gun store was rob-
bed of $1,000 worth of pistols
last week.
The third crop of figs for 1875
is nearly ripe in Oglethorpe coun-
ty, Georgia.
Some of the Arkansas papers
advocate spelling the name of the
State Arkansaw.
Alexander II. Stephens is a
consistent member of the Pres
byteiian church.
A cotton gin with It's bales
of cotton was burned near Dali
las, Texas, recently.
A woolen mill at New Braun
fels, Texas, yielded a net profit
Of $01, 900 last year.
A colored man in Tennessee
goes to the penitentiary for three
years for stealing fifty cents.
The expensesIofi the city gov
ernment of Galveston, Texas, for
October, amounted to $9,446.08.
There was an increase of for
ty in the number of post offices
in North Carolina during Octo-
Der.
A we'll in Robson county,
North Carolina, over 100 years
old, never failed in water till this
year.
The Groesbeck New Era says
that one-fourth Of the cotton gins
in Texas are destroyed by fire
every year.
Texas papers are complaining
of an invasion of tramps from the
North since the beginning of
cold weather up there.
1t will cost at least $15O,OOO
toIfurnish the manned Confeder-
ate soldiers Of Georgia with ar
tificial limbs as contemplated by
an act of the last legislature.
James Rice, confined in Jail
in Ashland, Ala, for giving his
step-daughter medicine. to pro-
duce abortion, hung himself in
his cell a few days ago.
The CincinnatiTimes says that
during the past six months five
colonies have gone from Cincin-
natl to settle in Tennessee and
Alabama.
Carrolton, Georgia, charges a
license of $500 for the privilege,
of selling liquor iii that town by
the quart or less, and $1,000 for
selling it in amounts more than
a quart. .,an 7s5 aya
In Washington county, Miss,
a colored man was elected Cir
cult Clerk over two white men.
He was voted for by a good
many white people on account
of superior fitness aad reliability.
One of the most remarkable
results of the late election in
Virginia was that in which an
old politician who Had been fire.
quently elected to the legislature,
was defeated by a former slave.
A contract has been compile
ted for the erection of water
works at Knoxville, and the Dis
patch thinks that gas works will
follow.
The Circuit Court of Rock
bridge county, Virginia, granted
a decree last. week for the sale
of the Rockbridge alnm springs.
citizens of Mercer, Pa,
lately concluded to have some
fun by "playing horse" They
seized a buggy aud one of them
got into the shafts as horse
and the other took his seat in
thr buggy as driver. OFF they
started down bill at a break
neck rate, and as they passed a
house the wouid-be-horse fright
ened at an old lady shaking out
a table cloth, just as a real
horse would, and threw out the
driver, breaking both his arms.
The joke now is that the driver
l,oe o,,ad fEaf x.rr,,,lI- -l,o zho,.oo for