Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-12-16
Items Of News.

n census recently taken, showed
| the number Of children over four
years ofage in Cincinnati to be ST.
I9l6: of this number S546 are at.
tendhnts at Sunday Schools. 81
Tn ELAsD. Under theIact Of Par
lame nt for the sale of encountered
estate les in Ireland, az pr perties
have been sold, which have been pur-
chased by 1885 persons, only ten
having got more than $4,000 acres
These new. proprietors are already, it
is said, cultivating the land them
selves, by laborers TAX ten from the
poor house. The business of Ireland
generally is said to be improving, and
the poorer classes better off than for
"a long time.
1t is stated in the London prints
that during the prevalence of the
cholera in the Polish town Of Koyal,
the worst cases were quickly cured
by giving the patient copious drafts
Iof cold spring water.
CEH. CAss AND THE CABINET
The Detroit Tribune learns from
some OF the most intimate friends OF
Gen. CAss. in that city, that he sta
tied t hat he would not, under any
fcircu instances, CONSENT to accept
any position in the new cabinet.
| A few miles from Boston, a curious
sight was. seen lately, being a drove
of turkeys, not driven, but led OF
coaxed by a man with a basket Of
corn. He occasionally threw out a
handful, and the turkeys marched az
ter, not rejecting on the many hun
cry aFpetites they were destined to
satisfy on Thanksgiving day. There
were $50 in the drove, and they
came in that novel manner all the
way from the northern part of Yer
mont, where live turkies are worth
from eight to ten cents per pound.
The "Opal" is the title of work
emanating from the State Lunatic
Asylum at Utica, New York. It is
the Joint production Of the inmates,
and affords satisfactory proof how, on
certain points, insane people can
think with propriety, and write with
elegance. Co1current with the issue
of this work, is the publicationof the
.:Amdrican Joufnalof Insanity, which
! enters into details connected with the
general management and statistics of
lunatic asylums in this country and
in Eur rope.
1t appears from statementin the
New York Tribune, made by Peter
Riggs, ESD, of Trenton, that Mr..
Webster had determined to leave
President Tyler's cabinet on the res
ignation Of the other members, but
at the earnest solicitation of John
] Quind y Adams he consented to re-
main in it until alter the negotiation
of the Ashburton. treaty.
There are now In the Female Med
ical College at Philadelphia thirty
students, among them two ladies
preparing for the missionary work
among the heather. One of these
young women is d Baptist. the other
Presbyterian or CpngregationaTst I.
WHlsKEY FOR SHAKE BITEs.--Three
small lads, one of them colored, pear
Lynchb burg, Va, a few days since
chased a rabbit in to hollow log and
/ thrust their hands in, by turns, tdgetI
1t out. Each one received d scra Itch,
as they supposed aud gave up the
chase. BY the tine they got home
their hands were greatly swalled, and
| it is clear that they were poisoned.
The physicians perfectly lrenched
the boys with whiskey, and they came
off as sound as a dollar On OPEN
ling the log a large copper head snake
Twas found.
\ The Wash ngtoH correspondent
iIof the Baltimore american, esti-
mates that The money contributed
at the late ELECTION, will carry the
Washington National Monument To
the height Of two hundred and fif-
ty feet. The election contributions
are estimated at one hundred thoas-
and dollars.
California ddntains one hundred .
lhousand sqnar miles. This would I
give eight Sta ties as large as New
York, fifty as large as New Jersey,
and filtg-seve4 as large Massaclu-
sets.
Foreigners priv ing in the States
Of Russia are compelled to make a
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