Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-02-03
Items of News.

1t appears from the recent report
on the subject of marriages made to
, the Legislature of Massachusetts,
| that l,966 parties were United IN
J holy wedlock in that Stat last year.
, The oldest person MARI ed during
the year was man of u to a wo-
man under thirty Eight females Of
f fourteen md about forty Of fifteen,
have becom me wives The Youngest
/ couple we re each sixteen years old.
In Boston, one male Of nineteen
married q female of twenty eeight;
) and in Wa rcester, a lad of eyenteen
M rried a woman of irty-eight-
One man Of thirty-eight married for
the fifth time, and as high as the
sixth marriage is found on the re-
cord.
SHARP PRAcTIcE. The New Ha-
We Register says that young law
; yer of N. Y. has been Sc tenced to
twenty years Imprisonment at
Weathersfeld, for forging pension
certificates in Connecticut.
It is said that raw eggs and milk
t are sure remedy for any kind of
t poison TAX en- into the stomach. This
= is information that may do deal of
! good if remembered, and can not pos
siHly be productive of any harm.
/ Paste it into your scrap-b6ok.
! There is Bible in Cincinnati,
printed in the year 1879, thir teen
yehrs before the discovery of Ar eri
ca Tn ugh it has been rebound sew
raj tim les, the paper and print are
. still firm and clear, and it bida fair
to last fout centuries longer. There
is > still older copy at Worcester,
9 Mass printed in l447.
N1r Conklin Rogers, of Hunting
! to4, L. l., killed, a few days ago, two
: spfing pigs, one weighing $50 lbs,
: anp the other $50 lbs. They had
e been in his possession l49 days, and
: in that time gained at the rate Of 8
y Pc nds Is or per day, which is some
thing to boast of.
r The editor of the Mobile (Ala.)
= Advertiser cautions all strangers who
visit that city to be very careful with
; whom and where they walk after their
jarTlval- Murders and robberies are
it nhsually plentiful in all the subur r
IS ban OF partially tenanted portions Of
!, that place
IS We should hardly like to be an
e, editor in til o country whose sovereign
! rules the t'Queen of the Antilles.
. The laws Of Spain require that the
" conductor pf paper must be at least
IL twenty-five years Of age, and that he
J. md st also write only what pleases the
e efsons wi o administer said laws.
Messrs. Briley 4 Co., Of Philadel-
phia, have lately received a diamo nd
r. which is b lieved to be, without ex-
ceHtion, the largest on the American
: con tinent, north of Brazil. In out
line and size it may be compared to
q mans good sized thumb nail. 1t
. has been i cry carefully cut in Hol-
e lanH 4, and is now of a beautiful shape,
! and OF dazzling brilliancy. 1t is
said to be worth five thousand dollars.
1 tits stat ed in late London paper
h that where the proposed teri minus oil
d all, the railroads that come i INTO that
i city is to be, an acre of grou nd, (in-
n GLIDING buildings has brought the
: emo mouS amount of eight hundred
$ thousand pounds sterling, or nearly
!, S4,pO0,dO0|
. 4 sheet, or web of white paper,
I was made in Stirling, Scotland, 5000
> yards Cor hearty mile and three
. quat ters) I'M length. 1t was fifty-fodr
inches in Width, and weighed four
hundred pounds 1t was made, drid ID
$ and finished in three hours, and yet
the p1anuac tur ers charged but $50
$ for it,
AN inquqSt was recently held in
Rochester, n. T., on the body Of a
man named Nc Laughlin, found 10 an
: unfinished building. The verdict Of
1 the jury was, Hdied from the effects
: of intemperdnee e, exposure, and wan It
] of food" Mclaughlin was taken
;. home by SOME Of his friends, placed
ina rough board coffin, and as they
: we're placing b cloth wet with ghiskey
over his face, to keep him from spot
ting, as they stated, he walked up,
opened his eyes, crawled out of his
narrow resting place, and his first IN
quiry was foF whiskeyl
There ia u b;lI before tho ~ Tar