Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-10-19

Business fol the week, $4,000 bales
Breadstuffs-The advancing ten
lency is continued. Prices of all
descriptions show Improvement.
Provisions generally--No change.
Londop--The money market firm. !
Consols closed at 954.
An aged correspondent residing at
Lexington, writes the Paris Citizen
rs follows: sIf my recollection is
right it was in the year 1854, just
one hundred years ago, that a great
drought prevailed, similar to the
present. The people anticipated
famine,l aud reserved the grain for
bread, instead of making liquor from
it, The people of that day were of
a different race from the present. 1t
is about sixty-nine years since the
'memorat6le- Whiskey insurrection."
Kansas, as at present organized,
is a long, and comparatively mar
row strip Of land. II ext ends on
the Western borders OF Missouri
about two hundred miles. But il
extends west 10 the mountains at
least "a thousand miles 1t has an
area of 126.23S square miles, or
S0,SSl, 100 acres Of land. II would
make three States of the size Of
Ohio, and twelve States Of the size
Of Massachusetts,; Nebraska is in its
shape similar to Kansas, being long
and narrow. II has 343,43S square
miles, or 2I0,l60,2S3 acres of
land. This would make seven
States of The size of Ohio, or thirty
five OF the size Of Massachusetts.
LIFE IN New YoRK.--Eighteen
thousand people in the city of New
York live under ground--that is to
say, in cellars, vaults and holes So
Rev. Mr.. Cuyler asserts, and his in
formation is said to be derived from
actual investigation. He tells of
one neglected quarter--a single lodg-
ing-room or denim which one hum
bred outcasts of both sexes herd to-
gether,, indiscriminatelv, every night.
That may be called life In New York
underground.
CURIos,TIEs OF BIBLE LIrERA-
rURE.--It is a curious fact, that
there are about five hundred verses
in Matthew's Gospel that are also
in Mark $, more than three hundred
verses in Luke that are alsoin Mark,
and about one hundred and twenty
that are also in Matthew Nearly
one-half' OF the Gospel by Matthew
is to be found in Mark, and more
than one-ihird Of the Gospel by
Luke is to be 70 hnd il Mark or
A man returned to Salem. Mas
sacliusetts, on the 10Th ult, after an
ABSENCE Of forty two years. lie
eft wife, aud child one year old,
md ON his return found himself the
grandfather of twelve children,
some Of whom are married. The
wife remained twenty years (as she
!, widow, then married
lgaiD, and now resides IN Salem.
Dir. Schiff, to whom the French
Academy ofScience referred the sub
ect Of Spiritual Rappings for inves-
igalion, has reported that they are
wing TO the partial dislocation OF
he tendons and joints and. their re-
urnlfo their natural position again.
lie describes the process as the
mapping Of the peroneus longns
yer the external malicious. We
ope our renders understand j! ;
owl $
The Mormons continue to make
reat progress in Europe. All over 4
'ngland they are making converts,
cd the London Times think their 7
stigious services ought not to be a
rejected by the laws. The British y
my IN Turkey contains several v
raBches Of the church. At Ham, n
lrg' the authorities have prohibited it
'eir meetings.. The Mormon emf W
alton Of next year to the United O.
tates will be large. Ia