Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-01-06
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were sent 10 Inc LuildViC asylum, Ia
wing mad, their insanity being super
induced by The rappiugs. One Of
these, Mrs. Mary Craft, a widow Of
thirty, believes herself troubled by
IfRs spit lit Of her deceased husband,
! who, sh4 says, died at ST. Louis by
poison. She has died twelve times,
AND mus It die six more; her body IS
Idle ntically the same us his, and she
suffers from the poison that destroy.
ed him. She has been much visited
by persons who profess to be medi-.
uus, and to have intercourse With the
spirit world.
/. a hate number of the Scientific
American states that the smoke in
the factories of tbeN large cities in
England and Scotland is now con-
sumed, it having been made penal
offence by act 81 Parliament fur any
fadtory to allow NE, smoke 10 escape.
/, Tie smokelis al burned BY simple
cohtriyance Of. furnaces. a govern
mentfcommittee first established that
] the burning of smoke was perfectly
pra ctieable,, and Parliament then en-
forced the fact by law, The factory
ID mill-oTners soon found out how
totfulff the conditions Of the law and.
th e.result is, that they save Il great
deal of fuel by the operations.
DECLINE IN Property IN New Or
LIE ANs.-AccordiBg to ,tbe returns of
tn assessors of New Orleans, there
ha 5 been & decline in the value Of
pr perty in the city Of three, millions
til rec hundred and iorty-twe dollars,
sithin the past year
MAMMOTH Ox.ZAn Ok, was lately
exhitated in Louisville, 49, hands
high. and weighing when iii prime or
der, 4, 100 BIS
4he territory constituting North
ern Oregon, north of. the Columbia
river, and south Of the 49th parallel
lofhtitude, embraces an area Of some
thirty-two thousand square miles,
suIlicient-for the formation of a state
aglarge as Qhio, Indiana, or Keu-
tufky. and capable Of sustiining.as Z
de use d population as either Of thpse i
States.
The New York Herald says-tlnt
more persolis have died with small
po8 among the free blacks Of ,Iamai-
e;i, within the past year or eighteen
months, than have died among tho
three millions of Slaves at the south
in ten years.
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives.the !
of an attempt made in
thu city a few nights sinees BY
parity of K6ntuekians TO recover some
of their runway negroes, who were
about starting on-the cars for CfeTe-
land. Tie kentaekians were knock !
Ed down by a gang Of Abolitionisis
md the slaves rescued and then run.
oiff
Col. John NJ. Tyler. of Pelham.
New Hampshire, raised the past sum
met from one potato Weighing 'ohe
sound and three quarters, tFs bush
is and three .pecks, three 80 them
seikhing two 9ntf~Q ,half pouhdsteach.
Fh4 seed potatoe WIS PAT into lsnlaH
'ie4ts, aud planted IN drill, about
en- Inches apart.
The Boston Journal says; "A gen
leIpan froal one of the largest but
cr making TOWNSHIP New Hampshire
old US yesterday that in bis town
here we're two or three tons, Of bit
or, which The owners were holding J.
IitH tie expectation Of getting Thirty
ents a pound !"
An Old man, aged seventy years,
amed Brodler, residing in Washing
on d. c., recently choled hirsself
0 death in his shop, which was deyo-
ed to the manufacture Of jeReiry.-.:, j
Ie was found dead, with a. G1itlful ..
or sitting by his side. IIe'wsls in
cry comfortable circumstances, and
o cause can BE- assigned for lis rash
isit to "that bourne whence no tray-
ilef returns"
LANp WARRANTS zThompsous
'daik Note reporter says; The I'M,
ression is freely given by members :.
t Congress that there will be moth
Is done with the public. lands this
EssioH. This belief strengthens the
iarket, and we quote;t
], Buying Selling
e0Iacre Warrants, STAT $3.50
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