Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-09-02
Items Of News.

A little daughter of Mr.. Lewis, !;
Defiance, Ohio, died few DAYS ago
from the effects of poison, by eating
eQlored candy,
It is estimated that 5000 persons
in New York had The small pox du-
ring the last year. 5S6 deaths the
result.
A dog with a we oden leg was seen
lately IN st. Charles street, New Or
leans, getting along quite eomlorta-
ply.
The mail, going East, was robbed
four miles beyond Columbus, Ohio,
on the National Road, on the morn
ing Of the 4th. The only thing ta-
ken was a few paporS.
DEsTRUcTIyE HAIL STORM
We learn from the " incle>ter Ym-
sinlan, that, op the 9Th ull., Sc
we're hail storm swept down the
valley Of the OpeqVOn, Frustrating
the growing corn aud rendering in
some cases, almost hopeless The
flattering expectations Of the farmer.
Conglomeralions Of hail, weighing
hpar n Mound. Werp lfouud i'm T,tacas.
and much OF the frozen matter lay
iIntlawed ill next lnorning,
The widow of &c n. Zachary Thy
lor died at East Pascagoula, Miss,
on Saturday, 18th alt.
Capt. Williamson, late postmaster
. at Lawn, Illinois, has been convicted
Of robbing the mail.
Since the annexation of California
It'd the United States, ninety-seven
millions seven hundred and sixty-six
thousand nine hundred and ninety
two dollars in value, Of gold bullion,
have been received at the port Of
New York.
The National WDmen's Rights
Convention meets in Syracuse, N,
81, Sept. Sth, 9th, and 10th, as APP
pears BY the call of the Central
Committee.
A note from a gentleman at Long
Iacoming, Allegheny county, Mary
land states that there has been no
rain in that region, of any account,
for months, and in consequence the
streams are very low, and sickness
(mostly typhus fever prevails to an
alarming degree.
CAUTIoN.-The Bank Note Detect
or, advises the refusal of all notes, of
the following plate Of the Ohio State
Stock Bank-l0's; centre vighette,
female seated on horn of plenty,
holding the faces and scales in her.
left hand, and the wand Of Mercury
in her right-coat Of arms of Ohio
safe, steamship and sail vessels on
left-a bridge, with railroad cars on
it, and steamboat in the distance
on each end, margin and eagle, Amer
lean shield, figure 49, and ten
There was grand railroad meet
ing at Wooster, Ohio, recently
$4,000 persons were present.
There is a boy in Massachusetts,,
who has become by repeated mar
riages in his family, his own grand
father.
We see it stated that three of the
largest churches in Boston had closed
for one month, owing to the absence
of their congregations from the city |
The Martlnsburg Republican states /,
that Thomas L. Harrison, aged II |
years !, was sworn in on Tuesday last,
as Deputy Sheriff Of Berkely Co.,
Virginia.
PoTATo RoT IN IEELAYD.-The FOL
owing extract of a letter from Ire
and, bearing date July 30th, and
by Il mercantile house in
Boston, would seem to indicate d
more extensive prevalence of the po-
-ato disease, than has hitherto been
to exist. The accounts are
Ill discouraging in respect to the
crop:
at must not be uninteresting toI
you to learn that since Tuesday, the
10th inst, the potato crop Of Ireland
has become seriously affected with
he remarkable disease Of the pre-
'ions seven years. The progress Of
t during the last ten days has been
7ery great, and while the result can
lot yet be stated, there can be no
Ioubt that large portion of the
rop will be lost"