Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-05-27
Items Of News.
PHILADEEPHIA. May Is.

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minister of Cincinnati, was, sentenced
to-day to two months Imprisonment
in the penitentiary, on the charge of
swindling--to which he plead guilty. |
A gentleman Of Galena (Illinois)
who recently came across the plains,
states that a large number of emf
grants who had started for California
overland, were returning in conse-
quenee of the bad state of the roads !
There is now in the county Jail at
Troy, N. Y, a negro by the name Of
Woodin, who has two white women
with him, each claiming to be his
lawfully-wedded wife. One of them
is Of Scotch descent, and calls herself
Margaret Converse, alias Woodin; the
other is Irish, and calls herself Mar
garet English. The latter has had
/ two children by him.
| Several cases of slip fever and
cholera appeared on the steamboat
| Indiana, on her recent passage from
New Orleans to Cincinnati. The
sickness occurred among the emf
graut deck passengers, and was
very fatal.
The. Nashville Gazette says:
F"The army worm, we regret to say,
has made its appearance on seye-
raj farms in this (Dayidson) county.
| The taxable property of Shelby
CO unity, including Memphis, has in
creased since 1916 from $685.
900 10 SI2,50O,0O0 for the present
/ year.
The Illinois Democratic State
| Convention adopted the compro-
mise as finallty b a unanimous
vote. This is from a free State
and has meaning.
There are 10000 tons ofrailroad
! iron lying at New Orleans, await
ing transportation TO different local
tiles in the upper country.
, Ignorallce in Tpyima.-The Val
ley of Virginia, in round numbers,
: has 1000 persons over 81 years
: Of age, who cam ot read nor write
The Piedmont District has Ia, 600;
; the Tidewater 10000; and Trans
; Allegheny $4,000. Rockingham,
| Lee and Russell contained the
| greatest number Of persons Of the
age referred to, who Cannot read
| nor write.
The voters of Knoxville, by a
vote Of two to one, decided, Oh the
, 18th of April, 10 subscribe $4,000
in the East Tennessee and Virgin
ia Railroad, upon certain specified
conditions.
; There are twelve hundred law
yers in New York city, five huns
} bred Of whom, it is said, have a
paying practice, and The balance a
practice ofneyer paying.
At Waukegan, Mich, on the Goth
ult., Miss Warren, who considered
her fair fame injured by the tongue
of Mr.. Dewey, stepped into his store
and threw two ounces of vitiol into
his face, destroying one eye and
probably both.
| Our city (says the New York Tri-
bun e) IS fearfully deluged with crime;
and, worst Ct all, is mainly Juvenile
crime. Four-fiiths Of the complaints
brought before this grand jury for
the higher grades Of felony were
against minors! TWo-thirds of all
the complaints were against persons
between the ages of IA and 81
New FEATURE IN TRADE.-A canal
boat arrived from Dayton yesterday.
having among her cargo 70 turtles
and 2 bushels of frogs. They were
readily sold at the eating-houses-
the turtles for 10 cts. per ponnd, and
the frogs for 10 cts each.- Gna.n-
aat Gagette.
During the recent flood, good
sized Touring mill was seen floating
down the Ohio river, which was cap
tured and 'hauled to at P6meroy. /
1t contained all the necessary fix
lures for grinding, including hopper,
two run of stones, and other fixtures.
The commerce passing thro ugh the
Gulf of Mexico, amounts to over /
S200,000,O00 per annum.
DIR. Hayne, the bigamist, while
on his way to the kentucky peniten- {
tiary, offered to bet $4,000, that he {
could marry again in three hours. if.