Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-12-09


on the proposition to take stock to
the amount of 100000 in the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and
the proposition was lost by a consid
cradle majority.
Letters by the Mialoa.-Over nine
ty-three millions of letters passed
through the Post-Oflices of the U.
States during the last fiscal year,
(from June 81 to June '52) The
revenue under the reduced rates of
postage has fallen off nearly mil
lion of dollars. Il
Human Iagenmty-In the fOrma-
ton of single locomotive steam en-
CINE there are no fewer than SAG
pieces to be put together, AND these
require to be as accurately adjusted
as the works of watch. Every
watch consists of at least 202 pieces,
employing probably 2l5 persons, dis
tributed among forty trades, to say
nothing of the tool-makers of these.
The Odd Fellows of the United
States spend more than half mil
lion year in aid of sick members,
widows and orphans, &c.
In the library of the British Mu-
scum there are 100000 volumes.
The rate of increase is 1000 year.
So in so years it will contain as
many volumes as the Alexandrian.
By the best cultivation, $500
water melons may be produced upon
one acre.
LARGE HoGs.-The Cynthian News
says that Mr.. Da vid Dills, an enter
Npnsing farmer of Harrison county,
H(Ky.) sent a lot Of 81 hogs TO Gin
|cinnati last week, which averaged
4l6 pounds!
Nelson's funeral, in 1909, cost
about seventy-fV e til usaud dollars;
William Pits, thirty thousand; Wei
/ Iington'S will probably cost as much
as both together.
c. A:sHamiIton, Esq, undertook
to e0tr-4idd Mr.. Shaw, editor Of the
Milwaukee Ncrs, last week, but
got numerically ~hlRPed for his
curiosity.
THE SFIRlr RAPPING MAMA
Mr.. Cisi, the editor Of the CmCin-
nati Adpertser says "On visit,
last week, to the Ohio Lunatic
/ Asylum at Columbus, | ioundtwen-
! ty persons there whose insanity was
clearly traceable to the same cause,
Esprit rappings) and yet We have
this wretcbed delusion in profitable
exercise in CINCINNATI"
II is stated that there are nlne VIC
tins OF spirit raPplngs IN the Utlch
Lunatic Asylum.
INDIANA u. IS SENAroR.-The
Govern or of Indiana has appoint
led Hon. Charles W. Datheart, u.
is. Senator, TO fill the vacancy oc-
0casioned by tile death Of tie Hon.
James WIitcomb--a most excellent
appointment.
In New York, voluntary con-
8tribution % $4,000 has been made
Tor Mr.. Lelmmon, being the sum at
which he valued his slaves, set free
by the de cision OF Judge Paine
boston Post
Hoes Owing 70 the warm
weather there was nothing done at
the pork house yesterday. Prices
remain firm, however, and the re-
ceipts continue large.
AtSpringfeld, Illinois, packers
have engaged from l5,OOO-to iS,
600 hogs, mainly at five dollars per
cwt. It's now very well ascertain
ed that the number will fail largely
SHORT Of last year
The St. Louis News, of Friday,
says that packers there bought some
1000 hogs at S. rs nett--Lou.
Courier, ID.
A Mississippi Pc ultry improyer,
brags of a hen that, from the first Of
January to the tenth of July laid los
eggs; he challenges South Carolina
to beat it. Mr.. j. II. Kalb,of Charles
ton, accepts the challenge. One
of his hens, from the first of January
to the tenth of September, Laid 1873
eggs, and Matched two breeds of chick
ems. This beats the Mississippi fowl
all hollow.
r. To EAfors.-A ID urneyman prin-
ter, nametl Joseph Stephens, Of