Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-29
Items Of News.

|. Bounty Land tVOraifs. The fol-
lowing section of law was stuck into
the appropriation bill whidh pa sed
Congress on the Sd ult., al d would
not have attracted the pull lie atten-
tian, perhaps, but for its separate
| publication in the National Intelligen-
Ger. 1t Should be carefully read by
those interested:
THAT no land bounty 70 military
services granted by the act Of 81 i
Septe mber, 1850, entitled IAN a ct
granting bounty land to eertain @i-
ficers and soldiers who have e b
gagged in the military service Of be
United States, OF by virtue of al y
other act of Congress heretofofe
passed granting lane DO pnties tyr
military services, shall be satisf4d
out of any public md not heretP b
fore brought into ma rket, and now
subject to entry a private sale IN
der existing law"
Within the last twe nty1 five Years
the emigration from England, Ire
land and Scotland has exc eeled 3
ll25,000.
The first trial by a jury in. Bavaria
took place at Munich on March 9th.
When the jury came in, instead Of a
verdict, the foreman said that one OF
the jurors had declared that he was
hard of hearing, and had not under
t stood a word of the whole trial. A
new trial was ordered.
+ A young lady died at B istol, Eng
land, lately, from the compression Of
| the stomach and yisccra | y tight la
cling. She was perfectly free from
disease, and there was no other visi-
bic cause of death.
I OF the three hundred steeraee pas
sengers who arrived at Now York il
the packet ship Devon Shire, from
/ London, on Sunday, sixty -seven wer,
/ named Sullivan.
!, The births lii Boston id 1850 wlr,
about 5000, or about 1900 more
! than the deaths.
Mr.. Chauncey Jerome, of New
! Havan, Conn, has actually made /;
time piece, WHICH he will warran
10 keep good reckoning, and wh.icl
he sells for sixty cents at wholesale
! and one dollar atretail. iEhe work,
), are all made Of brass. He makes
upwards Of eight hundIled a day
of these articles
The Virginia block fol the Wash
ineton Monument is of granite, four
feet By two in size, and bears the
following inscription, s surrounded
by an ornamented wreath:
Virginia, v no gave W ashing>
(, ton to America, gives this granite
for his monument
The South Carolina papers Of
late date, give accounts O great de-
structlon done to property by great
frcshet in the Pedee rive r.
The Massachusetts Hoq use Of Rep
resentalves, on Monday, by very
large vote passed aresol4 e offering
$4,000 to any one who will discoy-
cr remedy for the potat oe rot. the
discovery to be tested by a practice
Of five years.
Laayers in the United .SfQtes.-
LWingston's Jaw Magazine states
that the number of lawy ers 10 the
United States is'twenty-ons H0usmd
nine handred and serenity mne, and
the annual cost of litigation at near
y thirty three millions of dollars.
A law has passcdthe 4 legislature
Of New York, directing d State tax
Of 0,0OO=to be levied and col
lecte d this year for the Support Of
free public schools in that State.
on the 18th of Febrh harry last
Tie balance in the Treasury o.
Georgia was S2O4, 217 ST., and the
state deLt only SI,S29,G75 RI
This is most satisfactory when we
cons der that Georgia has, in 4. few I
years past, built, aad no| has inI
successful operation S63 miles of
railrd lad.
A humber Of The English papers
exprd SIS alarm at the rapid increase
OF thd mercantile marihd of the
Unite d States, and particularly Of
ocean steamers. The London
Naul1ca Standard says;
"Whosoever commands the sea.
commands the trade of tn world,
commands the trade of