Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-03-04
Items Of News.

QUEEN CAsE.-THe Nashville
correspondent Of the Columbia Her
aid, under daie of the 18Th 1Ilt,,
gives the following item;
Our citizens were qnite aston
ished at finding in their doors a
public Notice" which PLACES the
President of the Female. academy
here in quite an unen'iable position.
The author OF the card is tie wife
OF one Of our music teachers, who
charges the Rev. gentleman with
having abused the confidence 81
her husband, and threatens unless
he complies with certain conditions
to "cow hide him on til e street. =
Truly philadelphia lc + apreacher
to be in.
Eggs are reported to be very
scarce in New York, selling at 4 and
5 cents each, and in SO me eases as
high as 6 cents.
Norel Use Of a Jnl-The County
jail at Harrisonburg, Va, has been
purchased by the Odl Fellows and
Sons Of Temperance, of that place,
who intend to convert ID into a Hall,
in which to hold their usual meet
iings.
A Profitable Penite1itiaY The
profits Of the Penitentiafy of Louis
lana, during the year 1851 was Sl2I+
$3.50 CT, of which sum four thousand
dollars are to be paid into the STATE
Tregury, agreeably to t he terms d
the lease, leaving the ba lance Of pro-
ftsSto the lessees of IS, 1919 81, upon
a business, as appears upon their
books, of more than S215, 000.
A trial about the property in a
calf, lately took place at Burlington,
Iowa. The difficulty hay in the co ior
of the calf's tail; the witnesses OF
/ the plaintiff swore the tail was white,
I those Of the defendant, that it was
black. The Court was occupied two
days with the case; the jury staid out
till midnight and could not agree.
and new trial is to be had; the costs
already amount to $500.
A bill has passed the Alabama
Legislature for the erection Of a State
lunatic asylum. ItappropriatesSl0
600 and five per cent on all the rev.
enues of the State, except trasj
funds, for that purpose.
ONO FREE SOIL CONVENTION
The mus Free Soil Convention q
Ohio recently assembled at Colam-
bus. The State Journal says ''only
about tw enty-fve of the masses o.
the people of the State assembled
1t was cold and liteless affair, and
showed that faction il most dilapi-
dated condition"
/ A disastrous food occurred at Bur,
IIlington, Vt, on the l1th inst, at
North Village, in consequence Of the
breaking away of thee great dam above
the railroad. The business portion
Of the village is in ruins. So sudden
was the flood that the people had on
lily time to turn out of their houses.
/ Ne10 Method Of Amputafag Limbs
= Some operations have been per-
formed lately at vienna, by means
of platina wire heated red hot, which
has been found to sever the flesh with
as much ease and CELEBRITY as knife
lone great. adv vantage offered by this
method, is the very slight effhsion Of
blood caused by the wire as a diyid-
ing instrument.
| HaJihlal Drunkards.-A bill Is
before the Louisiana Legislature
that proposes to place the habituaI
druhkards in the same position, in re-
gard to the management of tIleil
property and their family affairs, as
that which the law assigns to lu ma
ties and minors.
| Several notorious thieves follow
after kossuth, anu extract money
/ ut of the pocket Of those who as
semble TO hear him.
| The city Of Boston has expended
Iiu ten years S1,092,S75 IS for
! sfreet-paving.
| Four Massachusetts free negroes
lw ere sold into perpetual slavery at
G alyeston, Texas, few weeks ago,
having been convicted of au attempt
To abduct a slave.
The Emperor of Austriauhas or
dered the expulsion from PestIl of
The English Protestant missionaries.