Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-07-01

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coming fall.
The Columbus Sentinel of the
18th instant, states that the st. Ma
rvs Bank bills are now selling at six
ty cents on the dollar. No change
in the market value for two weeks.
Land Warrants are quoted in New
York as follows: 1G0 acres, 127 to
1880; SO acres, 81 to $50; 20 acres,
50 to S33 so.
| A LADY FRIGHTENED TO DEATH-
The Buckingham (Va-) Register
states that Mrs. Diettick, wife of Mr..
Jacob Dietrich. residing near Mt.
Crawford in that county was frighten-
led to death few weeks since. Her
little daughter, Tor sport threw tree
frog upon her lap, which commenced
Jumping up towards her face and so
frightened her that she died in two
or three days.
The army worm has appeared in
myriads in some counties of Mary
land, destroying wheat, corn, grass,
and every eatable thing that comes
in their way. On many farms the
crops are entirely destroyed.
!
j The Was hington Telegraph of
Saturday, says, no material change
has occurred in the condition of Sir.
Clay, but he is evidently growing
more feeble from day to day. lie
is now in lower condition than he
has ever been; and, though we may
err, we feel deep conviction that
his life viii number but a few days
more.
/ Bayard Taylor, in his last letter
from the upper Nile, mentions
large tribe of Arabs there who, he
says, recognize the rights of wo-
men" more thoroughly than any
other S; wage people in the world.
When a woman among them is mar
ried, Che says,l her father reserves
Iene-fourth of her life thencelorth for
! her own use, and the husband IS
obliged to respect this reservation.
Every fourth day she is released from
the marriage vow, and if she loves
some one else better than her hus-
band, he can. dwell in her tent that
day, obliging the husband himself to
retire. Their hospitality IS such,
moreover, that if a stranger visits
one Of their settlements they furnish
him, for four days, with a house and
wife. No reproach whatever attaches
to the woman, on account of this
temporary connection.
The Auburn Advertiser chronicles
the marriage Of Asaph Morse, Of
Morayia, in Cayuga co., aIrevolution-
airy soldier, aged 81, to Cynthia
Whitaker, of Loke, in the same
Ecounty, aged 81, relic Of the same
period.
! Co nocIiqut, as appears by the
message of the Governor, recently
transmitted to the Legislature, is hot
only free from debt, but has sur
plus in her ire sury Of S39,130-
James Robb, Esq, ofNew Orleans,
has recently subscribed $4,000 to
the stock of the New Orleans and
Jackson Railroad
The absolute debt Of Mississippi
lis 1907, contingent debt 5O0,-
600. Interest on the former $780,
1000.
CEors.-A correspondent Of the
Mobile Tribune, speaking ofthe crops
in Sumpter county, Ala, says: "Corn
generally will be rather low, but the
stalk is of fair stoutness and looks
very healthy and promising, and Is
now beginning to tassel. Cotton is
of fair size also, and may be said to
equal the promise Of any season for
many years past. As yet no dis
ease or disaster Of consequence has
ovegtaken it since the frosts of the
spring, which really did no serious
injury, though producing some trout
lie and Inconvenience"
ROTARY BooT HEEIs.-One Of the
editors of the Springfield Republican
commenced the wearing Of pair of
boots with rotary heels some weeks
since, and he is "much pleased with
their opera ion." He describes this
invention q s heel to all appear
ances solid, but having its last. layer
detached at the edges and united at
the centre by mechanical fixture
which allows the layer to rotate in