Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-02-17


boasts of trans lating into all Ian
guages, annually, 100000 copies Of
the scriptures.
Jacob Vanmer r, Esq, Of Iiar.ly CO..
Va, sold few days'Igo, twenty head
of cattle to Daniel r. Mcneil, E9q,
at the enormous price Of $97 per
head,
A CARGO OF LADIES FOR CALI
AoRNIA. -The French ship Son>o-
matte arrived at Valparaiso, recent
" with cargo of 200 ladies', for
California, The young ladies qulte
enlivened The streets OF that city
for few days; and one or two soft
hearted esty-anqdrcs tried hard to in
duce some OF them 10 remain, bul j
was no 90. The ladies' sand lIial
having come so far, they were de-
terIGined to see Tie eli phant.
LIABILITY OF HOTEL KEEPERs.-lt
is decided in Massachusetts that the
liability of a. hotel keeper continues
as long as his boarder is not resi-
dent, but retains the character Of II
traveller that there could be 10 le
gal presumption that every traveller
who puts up at a hotel has il knowl-
e10e of IFS narticular customs and
usages Also, that hotel keepers,
are liable for the safety Of the goods
and money of their guests, and their
liability is restricted to go particular
amount of either goods or money
4 Gen. Samuel Houston has been
rec lccled to the Senrle by the Tex
as Legislature.
/ Mn. NVALkER. Hon. Robert J.
" alker, is in Washington and rap
dly dccIin lng in Iiealth His di>ea,e
IS an afi fction Of the thigh bout
lie j. e naciaied, hasinI changed
Fv cry muf h during Tie last fortnight,
I India tnbber horse->hoes are now
nlapIlirc urcd at the North.
/ The lumber of convicis in tie
prisons o the Sta lie of New York arc
4 as follows
Il At Bing Sing, 500
H At. Auburn, 759
In clinton county. l55
Total, >1T83
THIS IS an increase of sixty-nine
above the returns of last year. Tie
number If female convicts isabout
eighty.
Ay Dung man in Boston has brought
suit agailI st the proprietor Of gam
bling horI se in that city to recover
$4,000, " hich lie lost, at various
times, in play mt his establishment.
i The tai ors of Paris do business Of
ISlG,0OO,0pO.
! The Ur4tarians of st. Lotis havo
erected a pew church III that city, at
a cost of $4,000.
1t has t4ken twenty clerks nearly
three yearS to ''cdppile an index OF
the claims of indiyiduals against the
United ST; ties. The wo rk is nearly
done, aud all but six oi the clerks
have been fischarg ed
/ 1t costs S35,O90,000 to paw tie
salaries of American Ia wyers; So
000,600 q p paid out annually to
Iteep.our Or lminals; and Sl0,000,G0
to keep thu dogs among US alive;
while only EG,G00,000 are spent an
nually to leep tie sixte en- thousand
preachers i the Quilted States.
! The New York Court of Common
Pleas has finally decided that tho
sum of ten thousand ddlIars is the
valuation of a wife, who W rs harbored
and detainfd from her husband, al
/ though witfl her own consent
! Editor Ial courtesies are as pun
gent and as noticeable as they are
rare. One Iof Our upstate conlem-
poIaries has the following -sRyrop
used 10 say, the only true. disinrr-
rested affection heA ever knew II
this worl,l y as that Of j d,,o IA
this one of his literary ne,eblors
mas annexed what is below: I'Wc
KNOW Of one instance Of a snarlins
cur that bellies tile above assertio,
That cruelty.
a native If Africa. called .UncIo
Wore resides in W iIniing,op (
c., eighty three years. of age--lor
fory-fye years slave. His time
J is Chi, fly o. cupied in reading tl,e
Holy Scriptures in Arabic. . He
writes with rema,Labla 80.