Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-06-24
Condensed News.

+ A pastor at Austin, Texas,
preached on "a Tight Squeeze;
OF, the Round Dance"
a Nashville bar-keeper, Joe
Leahy, killed himself with laud-
anum Saturday night last. ~.
A man thrust his arm into a
hollow log to catch a rabbit, at
Americas, Ga, and was fatally
bitten by a rattlcspake.
Jacob Vogus,of Kokomo, Ind,
was shot and killed by his son
James last Thursday. Jeems
was arrested and placedin prison.
James Curie, the man who
murdered an inoffenslye actor in
Texas, has been acquitted, and
Indignation is expressed all oyei
the state. ,Zci gJEH ~
q HaTf Of the town of Starks-
vile, Miss, was burned last Fri
day, Including the courthouse
and Odd Fellows hall. Loss
100000; insurance $4,000.
A gold mine has been dis
covered in the southern part of
Lebanon, on the place Of w. T.
Bailiff. AT present gold is in
dictated there in paying quanti-
ties. 4at sa
No fears are entertained al
Memphis of the return of the
yellow fever this year, on ac-
count Of the sanitary condi-
ton of the city. About TWEEN
ty-fve miles of sewerage have
been laid.
Mrs. E. /. Davis, wife of j
Davis, of Crockett county, Tenn.
committed suicide by cutting
her throat with a razor, last
week. She has been suffering
from consumption a year or two
and preferred death rather thar
suffer with the terrible disease
Geo. A. Petway, who muir.
| dered a man named Farris, il
! Nashville. Attempted suicide
while confined in his cell las
!. Thursday, by cutting his throat
with a razor. The wound ex'
i tended almost from ear to ear
it was soon sewed up and pro-
nounced not fatal.
Of'Little Wolf" an Indian, a
ged 119 years and 3 months
died near Superior City, MINI.
a short time since. He was ;
lad of 16 when the Declaration
of independence was promul
gated. But one remarkabl,
fact he never saw Father Wash
ington nor visited Washington
4 DC. pa r. 9il.i haie
A man who firmly believe
that a second flood will come off
next November to cover tn,
+, whole face Of the earth is build
!. ing an ark at Helena, Texas
The craft viii hold fifty persons
with food for forty days and for
! ty nights, and he will take pas
sengers at $500 each. Every
\ other vessel, he explains, will b.
/, wrecked. e.,t- Xii
! Indiana has a magnificen
school fund, larger, we believe
4 than anyaother State in the On
ion. 1t comprises $l1, 900, 900 il
J. school property and 49, Oo,0OC
4 lin the State treasury, a total of
4 20, 900, 900, or $40 to)every child
4 in the public schools. Tennessee
ought to pay her school teach
ers such liberal wages as woulC
secure the very best teaching
talent to be had for money. He
4 future law makers attend schoo
4 only about three years on an ay.
erage, and the people cannot af
ford to allow this time to be lost
| by hiring cheap and imcompe-
tent teachers. In fact no State
can afford to hire cheap and in
competent teachers.
Mr.. Nv. Mcknight, of Brad
shaw, tells that a few days ago
some persons at Hamilton's Mill,
on Elk river, saw floating on the
mill pond not far from the dam
a box They got boat and
rowed out to it and found that
Iitlcontained a pretty little child
Ialive and well, and dressed very
well with a small bundle of nice
clothing by its side. The box
was closed up, but had holes
borded In the top to admit the
ain. gDAphysician in the vicinity
took charge of the little fellow
whose first embarkation on the
voyage of life came so near be-
ling fatal. At the last accounts
the little Moses was doing well.
l-Pulaski Herald.
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