Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-10-07
Ihe North Carolina Standard saws

The population Of Paris is l,o00,-
1000, and it has 10000 beds in hos
pitfalls, but London whose population
! is 100000 % has only 5000 beds
! The CO ros CRop.-~5Ye lave
been kindly furnished by one Of the
largest Cotton Commission Houses,
says the N ew Orleans True Delta,
''withextracts from their correspop-
dence, WRIT en- by kfrge planters at
AIiIiken's Bend and Lake Providence,
and which gave very doleful &C.
count Of the prospects of the cotton
crop. One plahser states that a
short time since he expected to gath
er q bale and hIlf to the acre, and
now fears lie viii not obtain one-third
of. that quantity The destruction
/ is caused by the boil worm, which IS
as bad almost as the army worm,
seldom leaving a boll before it is de-
moiished. So mahy uniavorable &C
icounts as are now coming in cannot
fail to influence very considerably the
price of the great staple.
There is at presq mt residing in the
town Of Hollis, N. H., the relica of
the late Elder Locke, who has reach
ed the advanced age of one hundred
years and eight months. She is
quite active and has a good appetite,
&c. Her sight, however, has so far
gone chat She Cd Il see but little, If at
all.
A great earthquake was experi-
fenced al Santiago de Cuba, on the
goth Of August, It is said that all
the houses were ihjured by%ho Shock,
and the city blocked up by the Ell-
ing buildings.
The Speaker Of the British House
Of Commons never leaves lis seat for
more than five OF six minutes, there
being no provision for the supplying
Of his place during absence.
Hogs.-We learn from 1 gentle
man hugely Engaged in Tie beg
business, WHO has recently returned
from Springfield, in this State, tbat
; contracts we're making there for
hogs at 81 gross. This is about
equal to S5,37l nett Lg.lsgFe
J0mHQA
The OgdensJurgh O.. " Ncms
! SAYS that at the llte fire in That toga,
one very remarkable Eact occurred,
| creating a good deal Of alarm. ID
WIS the explosion, or 5urstih g, Of the
l aagging in front Of tile burning bull
dinJs. The flags were Of Potsdam
stod L, and the action Of the heat
cau4 ed them to explode, with noise
as l4ud as the report Of a musket,
thro wing the fragments as high as
tweil ty feet in the air
Two hundred and twenty Six ne
groes are preparing TO en- CRATE from
the port Of Norfolk, Va 70 Liberia.
During the list yrar, tn excess Of
the revenue of CaliIoruia dyer tie
expenditures was NJ party SR0S, 600.
Peaches were sell ng in mtrket, as
Wheeling, Va, on S: turday taorniug,
at 81 80 per bushelI
Wise, the -AtronaRt, Is about to
make an experimental voyage lrom
!, St Louis to Philadelphia 4 = New
York, with his mamHipth balloon,
| Hercules, with view to testing the
practicability of cr3stipg tie Allan
tic with it. Several gentletlen Of
/ Philadelphia ana n CIV York have
subscribed 81 600 10 wards the ez-
pertinent.
Iowa is increasing Fery rapidly IN.
! population. According to tie State
+ census just com pletcI, the popula-.
ton Of the State is 100000, slow
ing an increase Of 5p,pO0 since 1899.
Gen. G. 4. Henry, We learn, has
declined the appointH rent Of commits
sioner to California, rendered to him
by Mr.. Fillmore.
Hon. Humphrey Marshall, 81 hen-
lucky, left Washington on the 18th
ult., on his Mission to China
/ Kissing Binds Of Tie St0te ef lis
sour1.-The President of the Bank
of Missouri, during his hte trip to
the East, discovered in the posses
sion ofthe Bank Of America S21J,-
ono Of the Bonds Of the State, duly
executed by the Bank. They bad
been derosited there for sale as far
back as 1887 or 936; but tie sin