Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-08-26

ling extracts Of letter dated Tooni-
boro, Wilkinson CO., Aug. 8
i On Tuesday last, a negro man,
belonging to a Mr.. KieI, reSidihg in
this county, violated Che PERSONS and
afterwards murdered his mis- tress and
her sister, Miss Mason, vi fist they
were washing at a spring bear the
house.
lie then stole a horse and attempt
ed 10 escape, but was so elokeIy pur-
sue d that he had to leave the horse
and take the river swamp.
Several citizens Of the county
turned out TO search for dhe intlr-
derer, and succeeded III ar,esEing him
at II o'clock, on Tuesday might
They then tied BIN TO s talk E and
burned him to death.
There is a/famale now rosiding in
Clarke county, Georgia, WHIP is one
hundred and thirty-three years Of
age. She is quite active, lively and
cheerful, eonverses fluenf1y, reads
well without the use Of glass cs. She
says she does not feel the effect Of
her age, except as regards her hear
ing; she is slightly deaf This, too,
His partlv theresuIt of accident. She
has now living within one mile of her
residence, grand ehHlren TO he sixth
generation--.44guSfe paper
The Geographical centre OF the
United States at the present time,.i is
in the Indian Territory, 100 miles
west of Missouri. The pre4ent CEN
ire of our representative population,
which is constantly moving westward,
is ascortained, by actual calculation,
to be just about the city Of CJlum
bus, Ohio.
Yesterday, just after n oon- two
Irishmen named Daniel I4enntSscy
and Miles MeFadden were drowned
in most iffgular manner, near the
Fitchburg Railroad wharf, III CfIrIcs-
town. McFadden had bben en-
| ployed by Hennessey to work on
board the schooner Alert till II
o clock, for half dollar, a4d a dis
7
pute arase between them as ID the
arrival of that hour. They cfindhed
and in their struggles for the mas
teiy, both together fell d yerbpard
Into the water, where inste;l ID of try
ing to save themselves, they cohtin-
ued to pummel each other d ntil both
sank to rise no more. Their lifhless
bodies were soon after recdvereIl by
persons on shore, who had in vain
seasonably attempted toIresfue them,
as their efforts were chtirF ly disre-
garded by the excited comb tants--
Boston Transcript
GREAT SPEED.-We noti9c in tie
foreign news, brought by the Canada.
that locomotive on the Sd nth E,ds
tern Railway, England, wi ich had
just been completed, attaineIl speed
Of serenfg-Hree miles ali hot pr, with 4
load Of Al tons, upon failing Bra
dent Of / in 2Gf. This il traFel
Hing at rate, which nett her pTu
dence nor necessity can justify.
A friend ofours on the I IA Of IJu-
I y, dined in company with four lbdy
sisters, whose ages amounted to tlIIce
hundred and twenty-six ye; Is, aver
aging 81 years aud SIX m hnths
The three oldest rode in u carri4@e
to the house Of the. yotihgh st, and
remained until The middle Of the az
ternoon, and returned to their re-
spective homes. They hayk all re-
sided III Baltimore oy cr fifty yea rs.
Baltimore Pataok
TALL TmGER.-A White @ak Was
recently cut by a Mr.. John Murphy,
of Exeter, Michigan, as We lei rn from
the Monroe Commercial, whiFh me rs
ured seven feet in diameter; out Dc
which he.realized 1929 Hogshdad
slaves culled for market, amounting
to S34 OF, and eight cords pf wood,
to, Sl0-in alt S14 OIL
PROGRESS OF TExAs.--AI CORES
pondcnt Of the New York Jour- lal
of Commerce, writing from Tex hs,
says that the Trinity river is to be
the great thoroughfare of trade and
travel for some thirty or forty. cot IN
ties Of the State, in which sixty
thousand people settled list year,
and into which one hundred thou
sand emigrants are expected I'D enter
in 1852. lie adds that he Had Just
met Major Howe and lady y with q
large company of Scotch q Ids and
Iasses," en- route to their G lony of
Kent, on the upper Brazos. They
are reported to be the adyande party