Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-09-16


liza, in the ship VIM. rockingham.
Chills and fever are very Preya-
lent in st. Louis at present; more so,
It issaid, than for many years past.
A negro belonging toJames Brooks
in Chambers county, Alabama, re-
Gently hung himself because lie was
set TO work digging a ditch, kind
OF work he did not IKE.
The people Of Carroll county,
Mississippi, decided, By majority
of AGO, to raise 100000 Jy taxa
ton, TO aid III the building Of the
Mississippi Central Railroad.
CLEANED OUr.-The Cincinnati
Commercial gives the following
case Of the consequences Of induls-
ing in the vice-of gambling:
To afford a small specimen OF
the extent in which gaubliug is
carried Oh in this city, we would :.
state that young gentleman from
the East, WHO about year ago
last spring, possessed fifteen thou-
sand dollars in cash and stock Of
valuable goods returned home last
Mnnday ithout a cent, and TWEEN
ly-tige hundred dollars in debt.
Others should be warned 10y so dis
astrous an example.
A MOTHER STEAMBoAT ACCIDENT. =
The steamer Reindeer, running from
New York to Albany, burst. her boil
er at Bristol landing, on the Hudson
river about week ago, killing ten
pers4AS, aad ScaldiuSI thirty very
badly, and many others partially.
Ar. Thomas Aschcom, living near
CentrsyiIle, Md, lost d female Slave
by death q few days ago, aged 81
years, who had been the mother Of
twedty-four children
-Four inches Of ground on Main
street, Buffalo, N. Y, Was sold last
week at 500 per inch.
A CASE OF Fro RarN.-The
Daily Wisconsin,, of Milwaukee,
says that alter a very heavy than-
der storm, which happened at night,
DUR ns the last weeS in July, the
roads and paths at an early hour
OF the morning, were proluselv
sire wn with small frogs Of about J
inch es in length. The same paper
state Is the prevailing opinion in those
part 5 TO be that II was case of
fro grain"
L ast summer little girl living
near one Of the provincial towns iii
England, drank some water out Of
ditch, and swallowed some kind Of a
reptile. Since then the poor Child
has periodically experienced incredi-
bic pain in her chest, from the III
creaYing bulk and nioyements of the
reptile, which at times ascends her
Throat in quest of food, causing IN
tense agony. On these occasions,
warm milk and water is poured down
her throat. and when the reptile has
imhi bed the nourishment, it desccnds
to it ; place of lodgment, just above
the diaphragm.
T Eo hundred and ninety-seven
child ren, VI der two yes rs of aye, died
during the week before last, in New
Yor < city. Ninety-seven of them
died Of cholera infantum.
a tunnel is being constructed in
Hun gary, ZEN miles long.
A bill passed both houses of Con-
gresF, for the relief of Margaret L.
Wor tn, dow of Gen. Worth, with,
no Pmendf hent, allowing her $50 a
mon tn for five years.
K ossuth was living in great privacy
in L pndon, at the last accounts, and
attra cting no public observation CT
whatever lie is said to
express great horror Of, and aversion
to, the Derby government, who he
fancies would if possible betray him
to the Austrian government.
A suit was lately commenced in
the Z. S. Court against a person for
using letter stamp a second time.
The person chose to pay the penalty,
$50, and have the suit discontinued.
The amount of bullion deposited
at the g. S. Mint, Philadelphia, was
about S., 100000.
1t is estimated that the hay crop
Of the United States this year, is
one-third below an average.
An old bachelor at Bermuda lately
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