Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-04-29
Items Of New S.

to authorize the corporation to take
S25, 1000 stock in the Nashville,
Franklin and Columbia Railroad
Company.
1t is said the North Carolina fish
cries are not paying expenses
The Virginia House of Delegates
has passed d bill to enrol the militia
and abolish musters.
Eighteen steamboats, have been
lost on the western rivers since the
/ first Of JANUARY,
The citizens Of Lawrence county
have subscribed $4,000 to the
Southern Railroad Company.
1t is a source of unmixed satisfac-
ton to us, says the franklin Review,
to be able to announce the gratifying
fact, that the voters Of Franklin, on
! Saturday last, by the very decided
majority Of 124 to IA, ratified the
subscription of So, 900, which the
. Mayor and Aldermen had subscribed
upon condition of their approval, in
the Nashville, Columbia aud Frank
lin Railroad.
/ John McIntire has been convicted,
in Philadelphia, Of whipping his wife,
and ordered to be imprisoned one
year.
The Virginia Monument to WASH
ington, which was estimated to cost
100000 has already co st SS1, SCI.
! 1t is now estimated that the entire
cost will be Sl43,5S3 81.
PUBLIC PRINTINg.-It is stated that
the Joint committee of the two
Hou5 es of Congress, has give the
Senate printing to the Washington
Republic, and the House printing to
the Union newspaper.
Two men in n. York, on the
10th, while engaged on the steeple
7 Of a church, got into d fight, When
one Of them knoc ked the other oil,
: who, falling seventy feet, bit upon
some rocks, and was mortally IN
I jured.
Merchandise Sold in Alabama III,
1850. Mobile (oputy-0yer SIX
millions and half dollars.
) Montgomery Coitniy.-Oyer one
million and hall dollars.
Fl Barbour Coun;y.-O eerfve hun
dred and thirty thousai ID dollars.
Dallas Couniy+0ycr five hen
dred and five thousand dollars
! Tuscaloosa County Over four
/. hundred and fifty thouY and dollars.
i Madison Couniy.-Over three
| hundred and eighty thousand dol,
j lars. :,
Kossuth and suite left New Or
leans on the LIST inst, on the mail
Iboat for Mobile Before leaving tho
TSt. Louis Hotel he received many
ladies and gentlemen who were anx-
ious to catch las il glimpse Of him.
No parade accompa MED his depart
IRE; he went away'eYen more quiet
, fly than he came.
LARGE FREIGHT.-The steamer
D. IT, Niles recently l4ndedFai Gin
cinnati from New Orleans, with
I2,0S5 tons Of sugar.
\ here are 1873 German papers
published in the United States, the
oldeB st of which, published in PENN
sylvania, has been established sixty
tire years.
There were 2,5,l patients in
the Emigrant Hospital and refuge
on Wards Isladd, MY, suffering
with ship feser, on the 9th Of
January. The number was re-
duced TO 2,044 by the middle Of
february. 1t is stated that only
nine per cent. Of those attacked
with this disease recover, even with
the most skilIul practice.
The Chicago Journal says: "The
sleigh bells have been merrily ring
ing in the streets to-day y, and this IS
the sixth of April"
Late advices from Texas state
that the overflow of the rivers was
subsiding. As compensation for
the loss, fields which were over
flowed had been enriched by the
deposit of about foot Of new soiI.I
The great destruction of property
recently by fire, at Chillicothe, in
Ohio, and Paducah in Kentucky
the first amounting to 100000,
the second to 500. 0OO-is tn he at