Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-07-29
Items Of News.

! II YANKEE CUNNING.-The New Ha-
/ ven Register says that the new LID;
our Law Of Massachusetts, provides
THAT the .Hdrshal Of the city Of Bos-
! ton, and bis deputies, shall serve the
fprecepts of the Court when issued
against violators of the law. AS
soon as the Legislature adjourned,
the City Council took legal advice,
and abolished the office Of IHarstaI! so
that there are now no officers in that
city to serve a process for an in
iringement Of the law.
/ The crops in Louisiana, Texas,
/ Arkansas, and Mississippi are report
ed to be very promising. In Ala
lbama the prospect is not so good
I Altogether, Southern planters, it is
Isaid, never had more reason to con-
Igratulate themselves upon the pros
tpect Of general and abundant yield,
i The Union State Convention which
met at Montgomery, Ala, on Tues
/ day last, declined to nominate a
third candidate for the Presidency,
and recommend Union men to pursue
any course they might think proper.
! A queer sort Of nuptial match
came off recently in Lowudes coup7
lty, Miss. One Hopkins, aged So
years, married a Miss Mathews, aged
about %. Both parties are, so aft
aicted with the rheumatism that
neither had walked a step in twenty
years, and the bride is unable to dress
or undress herself The reason as-
signed by MI, H. for marrying Miss
IM. is, "that some two years ago be
married a woman that ran off with a
stage driver, and he wanted a wife he
was certain could not get off"
i OkONIH OF w lSCOAoLN. 1Hlc
thrifty young g State was first known
| Gas Territory to the United States
: census in Is 10, when it had 10000
inhabitants; in 1850 they had swellcd
to 100000 "a ten fold increase in
ten years. Now they do not fail
short of 100000. and are increasing
at the rate Of at least $4,000 per an
mum. No other State in the Union
has grown with equal rapidity.
A rare and melancholy instance OF
maternal affection recently occurred
in Montreal, Canada. A Mrs. Iudlay
fell from chamber window, and was
instantly killed. She was holding a
child in her arms at the time, which,
had she dropped might have been the
means of saving her own life; but,
disregarding her own safety, she man.
aged to push the child inside, while
she fell out and was killed..
}, A farmer in Massachusetts,, some
twenty-five miles from Boston, sold
the milk Of seven common good
COWS at the depot, near his residence,
for city market, at nine cents per
gallsn in summer, and ateleven cents
per gallon in winter, beside small
portion consumed at home, and made
into butter. The proceeds were
1925, or SAG 43 to each COW.
i Two aldermen of Cincinnati, Ohio,
recently had a quarrel in the coun-
ell chamber, and one called the 9th
er liar. The response was anink-
stand well filled with sable fluid
] Damaged-o ne aldermanic face, one
white vest, and any quantity Of Dig
nifty.
/ A few days since, at Carrollton,
Ky, little son of Mr. John Hogan,
Jagged eight years, was pursued by an
infatuated hog, caught as he was en-
deavoring to jump over a log, and
mutilated ia the most shocking man
ner.
Among tn 9 cOnvicts lately taken
from the Jail Of st. Louis, was Francis
Schield, German, who has been SEN
fenced to one hundred and four years
hard labor in the penitentiary at
Jefferson City. 2
A new Journal with peculiar re-,
commentators, Is about to be estab-I
lished in Circleyille, Ohio. The ed
itor in his prospectus says: "Our
terms are two dollaFsa year. Gen
tlemen who pay in advance will re-
ceiye a FIRST rate obituary notice in
case of DEATH" /
SERIOUS DIEFIcULTY.-A difficulty
occurred few days ago between two
of our citizen@Dr j. III. Decherd
and DR.. Estill, in which DR.. D. drew
a pistol and fired at Estill, woundine