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

the plumber of negroes taken from
] Africa during the hast ten years, to
Cuba, IS sixty-six thons;tnd, and to
Brazil $4,000:
! A water spout occurred near
Browns Furnace, ID Washington
county, Va, on Wednesday, WHICH
descended into q small creek, close
by, causing it to overflow, and sweep
ing OF two buildings.
CURIOUS BETTING. "A bet vas re-
Gently made, saysia correspondent Of
! the Courier DIES Etats Unis, at Paris,
originating in the occurrence Of con
tinued rain on the St SBithnis day,
by the terms of which bet, each par
ty was To-Day during the period Of
the forty Ensuing days, a Thousand
francs per day, one party in case it
did rain AID the other in case it did
not rain. The rainy advocate had,
up to the last accounts, carried all
before him having received 1000
francs for the three first days.
r The Boston Courier says that the
ihotel keepers Of Boston intend 10
raise the price oil board, to compen-
safe them for the loss of their liquor
business.
Tng CoLuMBus TwtNs.- We
saw yesterday at the Carolina ITO
tel, says WlImin gton paper of the
18th June, two fine looking negro
children, who are quite a match
for the Slamese TWINS, whose ex-
hibition created so mucn attention
some years ago. They are con
nectsd br the vertel rae, and present
one Of the most extraordinary
freaks Of nature on record. We
learn that the proprietors will car
Try them TO The North Tor exhibition,
commencing at Petersburg, Va,
! A writer in the Alexandria 20.
iC) Gazette says: In couyersation
/ with lady Of one Of our commodores
who lIas lately been stationed at Pen
saeola, where the officers and men
were much exposed to the tropical
tsun, she told me that they adopteda
very simple mode Of protection by
wearing high crowned hats, in the
inside Of which they Hlaeed quanti-
/ ty Of raw wet cotton, Ehich complete
y warded of the III ense heat
Somebody has BEEN getting eI-
ltremely extravagant. according to
the Newark Sentinel. That paper
informs US that a New Jersey work
man. recently made the richest and
imost costly piece Of bijouterie ever
produced in the country. tits a gold
watch case Of elaborate workmanship
Sparkling =. over with diamonds
1t is a hu'tiug ease, made for a citi-
zen Of New York, .aad besAics the IS
tbriiliants scattered over both sides, is
ornamented With 'lorget-me-not"
flower ON one side, and dove upon
the other, both Of them heavily Jew
elled, and swelling the whole number
of diamonds which sparkle upon tho
case to eigdty-s'T.
The editor of the Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Commercial Journal was recently
presented with large Lnndlc Of
rye stalks, which we're taken from
Il field belonging to Joseph Kim,
farmer in that vicinity. Several
OF these stalks were eight feet sew.
en- inches in length. This rye is
very full in the heads, and therefore
owes Its strength mol TO any incln.-
alton to run altogether INTO straw,
but to the quality Of the seed and
the 10 ode Of cultivation. The crop
from the field, it is sd ID, will be very
large.
The IIiglistoun, N j Gazette
states, that Stacy llornei-, an old
resident, lately embarked Tor Cali
tornia, W it'll his wife, twenty-five
children and grandchildren, and
ten young friends. They will set,
tie on farm Of 1900 acres, abou,
twenty four miles from San Fran
cisco, in The San jose valley This
is quite family colony.
In Batavia, N. Y. is being cxhib-
tied young German girl, named
Mary Ann Heinrich. She is aged
only seven years, weighs one hun
dred and twenty-five pounds, and
sports an enormous pair 81 wins
kers and moustachc.
The fees Of Judge Geo. II. camr-
bell, of Calyerss CO., California
formerly reporter Oh the Boston