Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-04-22
Items of News.

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\ A large fire occurred at Piducah
on the Sd inst, when forty buildings
were burnt. Loss estimated at
100000.
4 DR., Pretty appears to.have found
a very simple means Of arresting7
the hiccup. 1t is sufficient to
squeeze the wrist, preferably that
Aof the right hand, with a piece Of
string, or with the foreiingcr and
thumb Of the other hand.
The receipts of the New York
\ and Erie Railroad for the month Of
March wereS251,I70 61-of which,
i S94,420 % were from passengers,
4 and Sl56, 749 G6werefromfreight.
r The Rev. Joshua Soule, senior,
Bishop Of the Methodist Episcopal
4 Church, has been formally re-
quested to pay a visit TO California.
E The request comes from the Nils.
sionary Society Of the Church
South.
We note from Paris by the two
: last arrivals, mysterious hints in all
: the English letters, of some move
: ment about to proceed from the
: President. Its generally supposed
to be the proclamation of the En-
f pire.
Arkansas is said to be the only
State in the United States where
J the mineral called lapis lazuli is
found. 1t is worth four times its
: weight in gold.
: The statute against using profane
e language, has been rev wed al Mem
phis.
! Boston was visited with violent
snow storm on the 9Th, which Tell
TO the depth of foot The trains
on all the railroads have been de
: tanned, aud 10 boats have arrived
!. from New York. To the eastward
! the storm was very severe.
a We noticed, says tile New Or
> leans Delta Of the 9Th, few d lays
, since, sales made by one commls-
!; sion house of about 100000 worth
4 Of provisions. which We stated to
: lie probably the largest sales ever
= MADE here by one party, in a sin
5 sic day. The same house sbId
e Yesterday 100000 pounds bull,
e pork, 100 barrels Of lard, and
: some 10000 bushels OF wheat, the
: aggi egaie.vaIuc OF which was pear
4 ~ one hundred and thirty Ihoq sand
: dollars.
Butter was selling in the L on is
: vile market on Saturday, @ 35
aud 10 cents per pound.
S A Temperance paper, entitled
i the "Neal Dow Gazette" has just
r been started in New York by tie
D W omen.
: Nearly allthe mills, factories, and
found:les. along tie Ohio river,
were compelled to SUSPEND opera
tons on account Of the high water.
: Bacon, Newton, G4ssendi, Ca
lileo, Boyle, Locke, DesdarIes, Leib-
InitZ, Hume and Gibboh lived and
died "0ld Bachelors :" Pope;
Thompson, and Gold smith, also
were in the same "u Unfortunate"
class Of men.
A RErRAcTIoN.-The st. Louis Re
) publican of Monday last makes a
correction as follows:
The little daughter Of Dir. Charles
: II. Pond was not bitten by a mad
) dog. The accident hapH ened to an
other child further, the dog was
not mad
To have made the corfectio on com
plete, the reporter should have added,
further, that it wasn't dpg, and still
further, no child vas bitten.
The State of Virginia is in debt
about nineteen millions Of dollars, Of
which eleven millions bed r interest.
The Chancellor Of the Elk chequer re-
Gently proclaimed the Treasury
: empty, aud that immqdiat e provision
must be made by way pf loan, to
preserve the credit of the State.
Enormous taxes have to be raised
such, indeed, as the people of Vir-
ginia have never known before.
Green peas have made their APP
pearanee in the Charleston market.
The Courier says
/ Notwithstanding the u unusual Sc
verify and 1onor con+ipuohoo of orr