Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-09-30
Items Of News.
CHARLESTON, Sent. 9.

Full 100000 quarts of milk pure
and adalterated, are consun ed in
New York CITY daily, for which
S., 900 is paid. This would ain Mount
to Sl,S25, 600 a year.
The Missouri Clay Monu ment
Association, has resolved to erect a
monument in ST. Louis, at a c ost Of
81, 900.
The Pittsburg Post speaks Of the
following strange racing match,
which was to come off at Lawrence
vile, Pa: One man is to run SO
yards, with man weighing l6O
pounds on his back, in the same
time another man will run 100
yards uneneumbered.
Thirty thousand persons we're at
Saratoga Springs, n. Y, this season.
Missouri SENAToR.-The Lou
isville Courier says that Col. Benton
lis althoritatiyely announced as a
candidate for the Senate of the U.
States in 1854, and sooner, if Sen
ator Geyer can be forced TO resign
| by instructions from the Legislature
Andrew Stuart, formerly jour
neyman printer in Piltsburg, has
been nominated for Congress by the
democrats of the Columbiana Dis
trict, in Ohio. He is now editor Of
the Steubenville Union.
/ The building for the tletropoli-
tan Hotel, just completed in New
York city, cost S950,OOo. The
furniture is equally fine. The 10 PIX
Eyeglasses alone cost $4,000. TIE
carpets, curtains, aud linen cost
$4,000. a
/ The members OF the Baptist
Church in Massachusetts number
2l,4l4.
There are 1866 Presbyterian
Ministers in the United States.
The yalue of the tobacco
raised this year in Ohio is computed
at 81 100000.
III the town Of Wetherfield, Conn,
it is the custom to Toll the are Of
every person who dies. Last week,
the bell, one of the largest in the
State, was tolled one hundred times
at the death of a Mrs. Ayrault.-
Mrs. A. had never exhibited marks
of unusual age.
The further circulation Of Amer
lean newspapers in Cuba has been
prohibited.
4 man with a pair Of wooden
legs is announced for Congres SIS in
Illinois. He makes the best stump
speeches Of any in them dissihgs.
A New York paper preten'ls to
have received some private ihfor-
NATION from Yucatan, stating that
a movement is on foot IN that State
to apply to the United States for
protection and annexation. Some
OF the leading men of the country,
it is said, are engaged in the move
ment.
Armistead R. Thomas, for several
years door-keeper of the Alabama
Senate, died at Tuscaloosa on the
18th August.
An advance Of half a cent has
been made in the price of iron.
Hon. Edwin. II. Ewing, of Nash
vile, who has been absent for the last
eighteen months, making the tour Of
Europe, returned home last week in
good health.
An inventor in Macon, Ga, has
taken measures TO secure q patent
for an improved fan bedstead. A
fan is hung on a vibrating rod, pass
ing through arms attached ) to the
bed-posts, which by appropriate gear
ing ofcords and pulley, is attached to
the Stats on which the bed is placed,
and on which a persons weight sets
the machinery in motion, to keep
the fan vibrating all night.
A damsel in Ayrshire, n. T.. hav-
ing two lovers, lately, and not know
ing which to prefer, settled the mat
ter by marrying ole, and Immediate
ly clipping with the other.
The Journal Iof Commerce Gays
that New York city is much an
noyed with a food of counterfeit gold
dollars. |
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