Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-05-12
Items OF News,
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There arr 81 500 white adults in 'e
Virginia wIs 0 cannot read. la'
Mai. F. / !. Hammond, as elect c,
ed Probate Judge in Madison coan
ty, May on Monday lost D
A hog d early three years old, y
anil weighing 1909 pounds, il ~ be at
sent TO The New York Worlds II
PAR. f,on Burlington county, New e
york. r
The wh eat crop through the E
whole valley of Virginia is SAID 4"
We very promising.
Tie Virginia I.cgisl iur adjrur"- f
ed on the lIltbEinst., having passed :,
at both lis 6 ssi,ns over l,l0o G
bills. t
Bishop S onl +, Of the II. F.. G.
South, was at Panama lately, In c
sreal, impr ID health, on his way y
Ito Calforni b.
il STATE ed that no Re than 400
packages hav g arrived ht New York,
ifor the Worlds Fair, from foreign {
ports I
/ On the 18th inst, the citizens Q!
Pensacola voted unani mously to an
thorize the cityto subscf lbe S2o0,o6o
lin the stock of the Mo htgomery and
Pensacola road
A few drops Of kreosote on brown !
, paper. put id the holesf Of rats, it Is
said, Will drive them away.
i The grand jury of Tazewqll conn
Ity. Va. has presented the late Leg
Q islature Of that State as nuisance
A new Socialist Hotel is one Of the
: things talke q of in New York II IS
designed to accommodate enc thou
a sand persons.
n Recently the owner Of family Of
thirty slaves in Virginia, offered to
n sell them into freedom at a very low
rate. Several persons were written
h to-smong Others, Mrs. Sigourney
and Mrs. Stowe. The former prompt
re IL enclosed $50. The latter sent
sympathy and sentiment, having
as nlentv Of these articles on hand; but
sbo sent no dimes, much IS she has
e; made by Uncle Toms Cabin.
10 At Hanntbal, Missouri. dram sellers
be are required to pay five hppdrea a0'-
" lars license for every six months.
~ A Roman Catholic College il about
r. he estahlIs!1ed at Galveston, Ia las,
Ire of sufficient dimensions and eniow-
nents, to make It an institution Of
er' the higAes4 order.
ar A war'of races between The Indians
- and the whites is threatened in 0aja-
> On. Mexico, on account of some pro
ng ,eedines Of the Governor Of the
'th State. which had greatly exasperated
the indians.
fine Miss ca olino E. Putnam, Of Sa
20 lem. Mass has opened a barber shoE
If IN that cjt -anothet brick in th'
his Bloomer Temple.
o ,r fisheries are c4rfid d on IN >acra
ny m mi, ri,et, California. quite exicn
40! ,i,ely. Fatir hundred b Az. vsln"'
'hu ~ $4,000. nets aln"i at S80,0Oo
l !, and semes at S6,0DO, az used II
lie HON. The G,ihhe season lasts from
ieu The l It OF February |" the Isl Q
august, and dur; ls that prrI"d eacI
ihu hoat ayeral1es $50 per dav. a."
The each haulids Of The seinc per da
~ ~. 500.
an Gen. Duff Greene has institute
lily n suit against the East Ten nessee an
Georgia Railroad Company, for dam
,,o. ages, and laid the amount 10 the SUI
mt sum of SS8B,000
lar Go it, Duff. Who's afraid?
~ :; ESocH E. CAMP, lawyer, recent
Ju deceased. nd vino year ago ha
law 1 the harliho pd in Tripler Hall, to d.
l. fend the practice OF drinking rum,
!. | Oh his death bed, said, Il have prob;
.h;S bly, live to do some eva, but sm d
ia sirous Of liz ing to do some good, an
49,, if God will ONLY restore me TO health
-" the balance Of my days shal Il be sper
md in that Object, and especially so as
:nu promote the cause Of Temperance.
as Ca the 18th inst, ITO chickens,
7 the Cochin China, Shanghai, and oil
err rare breeds, sold at auction, at Ne
ne Orleans, for S1,47I,55. Two Hon
fes Kong geese sold for $40, and tw
ion white Bremen geese for So.