Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-11-25
Items Of News

bic In December. We hearalsp that
for one lot, which was offered at 81
go, So So was refused. We believe
"a great many farmers intend to Kill
their own hogs and.tu the product
into bacon, which, during the past
season, has commanded a remunera-
tive price in consequence Of the
small proportion applied to that pur-
pose.
at Bowling Green, we learn pack
ers are paying S4 net.
The Terre Haute Courier says that
81 net cannot be got there now. 1t
gives $3 SO to So 70 as the ruling
rates for good hogs.
The Evansville Journal says not a
single contract has been made there.
Buyers offer 81 delivered and ht-
tie more for very choice.
The telegraph reports a sale of
500. head at Cincinnati at 81 So
Lou Jour, tn,
CHARLESTON, Nov Is.
Mr.. Toombs, the Senator elect Of
Georgia, declared in his speech that
the Union party Of Georgia would
not send a delegate to either Nation
al Convention, but will wait the ac-
ton of both and support the one
that support the Union platform and
the compromise.
We are pleased to learn that the
number of students at the Medical
College is daily increasing. There
are now los students, and others are
daily expected. A number of inter-
esting surgical operations have al
ready been performed before the class
in, surgery-more, says a medical
friend who graduated at the Medical
College of Philadelphia, than he wit
messed in one whole winter at that In
stitution, The auspicies Of this new
institution are truly unprecedented.
-NaSkmUe Banner.
Cotton, Destroyed By fTost-A let
ter from Augusta, Ga, estimates that
the late frosts have destroyed from
100000 to 100000 bales of cotton
in that region Memphis Eagle.
A despatch from Washington says,
it is currently reported that Mr.. Web
Ster is soon to retire from the Cabi-
net, that Mr.. Crittenden, the present
Attorney General, is to take Mr..
Webster's place as Secretary of
State, and that Rufus CT oate is to
be Attorney General.
At the late term of the United
States District Court, held at Iowa
City, Isaac Sloan was convicted of
using Post office Stamps a second
time, and sentenced to pay fifty dol
lars, and three cents DANA ges.
This is the first instan ZEE Of the
kind under the new law.
Il The CorToN CRcP.-We sometime
since expressed, our belief that the
present crop would Notwithstanding
the -doleful accounts from all quar-
ters) be an average one. From late
we are now satisfied
that it will not only be an actrage
one, but beyondall doubt t he largest
ever grown in America. The "turn
out" in this county, and as fir as
We can hear in all other cd unties, is
beyond all calculation, and we now
estimate the crop at not less than
100000 balesl Mark the predic-
tion.-EOrenee (Ala-) Gazette.
Last year, it viii be remembered, |
The Pope, in an impulse Of gratitude
o MIR. Cass, the American Charge !
affairs, granted special permission
o the Americans in Rome to cele-
rate divine worship in the National !,
Chapel; but, in order to deprive all |
'ther Protestant congregations Of
ground Of complaint, the Papal cabi-
let has decided to withdraw the priv
lege. |,
A 1Life of james Knox Polk, late
President of the United States"
rom the pen of John s. Jenkins, of
New York, author of life Of Mr..
calhoun, and a history of the. war
nth Mexico, has been publis shed att
he North. 1t is said to be well
rritten and highly interesting. !,
A Temperance Society on the plan {
f the society of Sons Of Temper
nee in the United States, Is about /
eing established in Paris. It is the! s
rst that has ever been attempted, 1
nd in fact the French, though they s
ave heard of temperance societies,