Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-07-15
Condensed News.

ing at HAVANA. /
There are several cases Of |
scarlet fever in Nashville.
Texas expects its tax on COM
mercial travellers to yield 500
600 a year.
Sixty-one whites and forty
four negroes died in Nashville
during the month OF June.
The population of Shelbyville
is 1919; Gallatin, 1884; Pulaski,
about 1000; Columbia, 1000.
Col. e. b. G.. Cash killed Col.
VIM. M. Shannon, near Charles
ton, S. C.,July 9th, in a duel.
The last Steel rail was laid on
the Nashville & Chattanooga r.
r., Saturday, near 1ullahoma.
A sailor from Rio, died at the
hospital at New Orleans Satur-
day, with the symptoms of yell
low fever.
Scottsboro, Ala, has a popula-
ton, 702; Athens, 1 600; Deca-
tur, 1,071; Florence, 1,345;
Huntsville, 5,310. Hw
During 1878,1879 and the first
six months of 1SS0,thcre were Ii
deaths from suicides in the Vi
entity of Nashville. 2
! A family in Smith county are
peculiarly afflicted. Two are
confined to their bed with con-
sumption and two are totally
blind. .rov
A family consisting of father
and mother and two children
were struck by lightning near
Lafayette, Ga, and instantly
killed. y .3.ol
George Allen Price, COL, was
hanged in the .jail-yard in Gin
cinnati, Friday, for the marder
Of Willie Blaek. The murder was
committed April Both, 1879.
Ed8 500 E0 sHlT.Elgiil rf 81
The princely rarche of Capt.
r. King, of Nucces County,
Texas, is incloscd by a wire
fence 175 miles in length, in
closing 253, 900 acres Of grazing
land.
The total population of the
city of Nashville and the cOun-
ty of Davidson is 1898, an in
crease of hob in ten years.
Counting the suburbs the popu-
Ilation proper of the city is 55,-
796. D. 3
Southern Indiana and Ohio
promise an increase of 20 per
cent. in the yield of wheat this
year over last. 1t is now pre-
dicted that the harvest Of 1880
in the West will be the largest
ever known.
The city council of Charlotte,
&C, have raised the whisky
tax in that city to $500, and in
cluded druggists under The Or
dinance. The bar-keepers are
indignant, and say that the
movement will give the large
dealers u monopoly. There are
at present twcnty-thrce bar
rooms in the city. yIF
The census of Chattanooga is
estimated at 1890. In 1870
the city contained only 6,093
inhabitants, having Increased 11S
per cent. in the last decade, IA
larger increase than any other
city south Of the Ohio. The
county now contains 23,000souls,
an increase Of 50 per cent. since
1879. ot
The United States has enter
ed suit in the United States Cir
cult Court against the Nashville,
Chattanooga 81 st. Louis Rail-
road Company, Oh coupons to
recover $l53,60O interest as
shown by coupons from Janua-
ry l, 1861, to january l, 1866,
both inclusive in mortgage
bonds issued by the Nashville
81 Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany.
A young man from North Car
olina shot his penitent sister at
Danville, Virginia, ito wipe out
the disgrace she had brought
upon her family" He did not
turn the pistol homeward to wipe
ont the disgrace he had brought
upon himself. He was arrested.
An able lawyer will probably be
able to convince the convention
+al intelligent jury that he was
insane. a3 su r9U
In Titusvillc, Pa, a few days
ago, Mrs. Joseph Bushnell died
from the effect of kissing the
dead body of her father, ten
days before while attending his
funeral in Pittsburg. Her ia
ther died oferysipelas, and at the
time mentioned she had sore on
her lips, through which her blood
was poisoned. Her little daugh-
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