Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-02-05
Condensed News.

The New Jersey Republican
Convention viii be held May 9th.
Charley Taing, a Ch.naman,
was hanged at Colusa, California,
last Friday. q s.
Gen. Grants visit to Cuba has
been celebrated by an earthquake
in that Island.
Strawberries from Charleston,
S. G., were sold in Philadelphia
last week at 81 per quart.
Daniel Rybolt committed sui
eide by hanging himself Friday
night in Greenburg, Ind.
A monument is to be erected
in Georgia to the memory of the
late Rev. Lovick Pierce. I
The Rev. A. Jackson Thomas,
of, St. Louis, has been convicted
| Of dealing incounterfeiting coin.
The most gratifying reports are
received from California in re-
gard to crop prospects this year.
q Thomas B. Hopper was. SEN
fenced to be hung March 10Th,
i'll Springfield, Mo. ,Satmdayilast.
An unknown man, evidently a
school teacher, committed suicide
in Cincinnati last Friday by tax
ing arsenic.ii n2al i''i. :
The Grand Lodge of Tennes-
see, Knights. Of. Pythias, Will
meet IN annual session in Nash
vile next Tuesday, the 10th. ~
Two men were fined $50 each
in. Atlanta, Ga, for enticing,
without license, negroes to go
TO Mississippi. So ., rafa.
John w. Morris jumped from
2 fourth story window ofia hotel
in w arsaw, Ind, last Saturday,
killing himself instantly.
Rev. j. NJ. Towner committed
suicide at Fairbault, Mimi, last
Thursday byoshooting. He left
a wife and six children. nt
Hall and Smith, the negro
murderors of Maj. Pugh in Muir
freesboro,coneluded preparations
for their aerial flight by being
immersed last week. si's
James Redd was indicted by
the Davidson county grand jury
last Thursday for committing a
rape upon his step-daughter, a
little girl only six years old.
Mike Donovan, of Chicago,
and George Rookie, of New 7 ork,
have. signed articles to fight in the
prize ring May 18th for the mid
die weight championship of A.
merica and 81, 900 a side,
Mr.. John Bassman, of Giles
county, was killed few days
since by his horse running away
and dragging him a half mile by.
a trace chain which had become
wrapped around his foot.
VIM. Smaller was indicted in.
Cincinnati Saturday for the MUIR
der of Harry Baldwin committed
on the night of March 10th, 1879.
The murder has been shrouded
in mystery up to the present time.
a young girl, at Sandy Hill,
n. Y, ran into the Office of a
staid old lawyer, kissed him and
said that she accepted his offer
Of marriage, though he hadn't
made any. He had gone crazy.
Two miles of railroad have
been built on the ice, crossing
the St. Lawrence River at Mon
treal. The ties and stringers are.
laid fiat and then water is pump
ed between them to freeze, thus
making a solid bed. 9fl
A telephone line from Omaha
to St. Louis, four hundred miles,
has been put up and successfully
operated. The conversation held
between the two points could be.
distinctly heard and understood.
This is the longest line ever es-
tablished.
A meeting of the colored peo-
pie has been held atDallas, Texas,
to discourage the exodus move
ment to Kansas. A call was. is
sued for a State Convention on
the 10th and 18th of February for
the purpose of establishing a col
ony for colored people in North
Texas.
The correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer at Bellfountain,
Ohio, found the other day in that
town number of car loads of
dead hogs, en- route to Yorktown,
Indiana, the smell from which
was beyond endurance. They
had died of cholera, and were on
their way to be rendered into
lard.
The Culleoka correspondent of |
the Columbia Herald heard a !
good cotton grower say, chat
the roots of cotton stalks are as
green as they were in August.
Will we have to plant, or can
we make a crop from the same
old stalk? We would like for
somebody to answer this, for if |