Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-15
Items Of News.

H. Wa AHuICH u. 0OlACAoVii3EO VI ASA
nessee, has purchased the wash
Iington Union" newspaper from Thorn
as Ritchie-paying for the same
$4,000. Gen. Robert Armstrong
is to be associated with Mail Donel-
son.
Intolerance IN Swedei1.-The Rev
Fredric Olanus Nilsson, native Of
Sweden, was condemned to be ban
ished ard confscation of goods, on
account of his having seeded from
the Lutheran Church, and dfciated
as pastor of a Baptist congregation
in Gottenburg. Appeals In This be-
half from various bodies and from
different counties had made to the
king, but in vain.
Prussia contains a population of
16,235,013 inhabitants.
The wool growers of Vermont are
importing blooded merino sheep,
which are said to yield, each twelve
pounds of wool year.
There are, according to the New
York Sun, 5,225 places in the city
and county of New York VIII ere liq-
uor is sold, of which 1925 are IL
censed.
Two thousand five hundr led and
seventy-four medical m en- are practi-
sing at the present tim in London.
OF these, two thousand two hundred
and thirty-seven are engaged in gem
eral practice, one hundred and eighty
seven as pure surgeons; one hundred
and fifty as physicians, and fifty-two
as homeepathists.
A correspondent of t he New York
Observer, enumefates tyenty1one de-
nominations of christian rs in the new
State of Iowa, amount ng in the ag.
gregate to 1919 chur ch members,
of whom more than on@-third or 49,
095 are Methodists,
The winter of 1850 b appears to
have been quite mild in England and
Europe. On the 1st of Janu AIRY in
Paris, the budsof early trees had start
ed, and apricots were in bloom. In
England the weather was unco mmon-
ly mild, and the season early.
A New York correspondent Of the
Pittsburg Advocate says Il lat the
Church, South, against the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church North, for its
share of church property, are making
progress, and that the case will prob
ably be tried at the April term of
the Circuit Court.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the
25th says that on Saturday night,
twenty miles below Wheeling 3, the
steamers Lowell and S. T. Vinton
came into collision-the forme r boat
coming down, and the latter going
up. The night was intensely dark
and mis- ty, and the lights of neither
was discovered in time Ito che lex up
and prevent the collisi on. They
came together with a crash, and the
Lowell sank in few seconds. The
first engineer, five deck hands, and
three or four passengers y ere drown
ed. The Lowell was com manded by
Capt. Force, and was insured vi tn her
cargo, in part, in Pittsblrg.
On the 18th inst, there was a Sc
we're snow stormDin Boston, AMI the
highest tide for many years. Much |
anxiety was felt to hear from vessels |
due at that and other pa rts Of the [
East.
The Live rpool Times s%ys tn ht two
hundred and forty individ uals, prin-
cipally Poles who had fought il the
Hungarian war, are about to sail from
Consta ntinople for the United States
to enjoy here the liberty denied them
in E,lrone About tbrae hundred
Hungarians still remain with Kos
suth, determined not to leave their
chief, over whom2 strict qua I'd is
kept. I
The, Secretary Of the interior has
recently re-affirmed the decision that
and warrants are not assig enable.
Three cent pieces, as provided for
~ the Post Office Law, are being
ioined at the United States Mint IN
Philadelphia.
Cassius NJ. Clay is the emancipa-
ion candidate for Govern pr of Ken
ucky.
The militia of Massachusetts NUM-
'er l1O,050, or one in ten Of the
The population of Albany is So
tr.r I II l.