Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-05-11
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN, THURSDAY MAY II, 1854.

/ - A'hS tiA tAAAS
was for that | brought you here
see, you are not a foot from tn
precipice, another ins stant the dee,
would have been done!''
/ The demon had abandoned him
his eyes were void of expression;
white foam covered his parched lips
the fearful crisis had passed.
+ ] conducted him home. Some
days of rest, bleeding and dieting
entirely cured him, and, what is the
most singular circumstance of all
we never referred to the occurrence.
The prince was persuaded that, on
that day his destiny would have been
decideds and he never spoke on the
subject without the greatest emotion.
DISTURBING MEErING.-The
Romndy .(Ya.) Argus OF Thursday
last gives the following particulars
of case which excited much inter
est IN the Hampslnrei county court,
al its session last we ek:
A very respectable gentleman by
the name of Fleak, Of some sixty
year $ of age, had a daughter,
young woman grown, in the habit
Of attending night meetings, much
against bis wishes.ef On one occa-
sion Of this kind, while she was in
the meeting, the old gentleman re-
pairing to the place, and calling at
the door, commanded his daughter
TO come out and accompany him
hom e. The preacher who was to
hold forth on the occasion, was SO
enraged at this seeming nnpudenee
of MIR. f., that he sprang to tlie door,
whe ereupon rencol,ter took place
in which the old gentlema n was
much injured, being felltd to the
and dragged some twenty
ieet by the hair Of his head Mr.
L. was arrested for disturb bg pub
lie worship, and the court imposed
a fine and sentenced the old gentle
man TO short Imprisonment IN the
county jail. Ills counsel made a
motion tat this court for a Febear-
ing, but said motion was ydrru!ed.
I TREAsoN.-A paragraph is tunning
the rounds Of the paper, stating, that
"no citizen Of the United States had
ever yet been convicted Of tred SON u
This is a mistake. Three m en were
of High Treason in the
Circuit Court of the United States,
sitting at Philadelphia, in the year
1900 0or 1901. They were sehtenced
to be hung, and late in the evening
of t be day previous to that aHpointdd ID
for Their executions, they we're par
doned by President Adams.
Pennsylvania Enquirer.
DIsPoTIC DESPATCH. The working
of the Egyptian Government is sim
plicity itself A short time ago the
Pasha wished a road to be construct
ed from one Of his palaces to a sta
ton on the railr oad. The requisite
orders we're issued to the Governor
of the district through which it was
to pass, the laborers we're ordered out
and in six weeks, the road, thir-
ty miles long, forty feet wide, and
sight feet high, was complete, and
the Pasha's treasury not sous the
poorer. This circumstance was mar,
rated by Mr. Stephenson,the engineer,
at public dinner in Montreal.
Confidence in sub-soil ploughing
will be increased by an occurreneein
Sussex county, Virginia, where Mr.
j. Seward plouglfed up an antiquated
piece of pottery in the form of a jug,
containing about $500 in gold and
silver coin. One piece bore date of
1907, and another had on i Jose
phus l., the only words legible.
Nearly every piece had been clipped.
Mr.. Seward was SO elated that he
shouted long and loud, bringing his
friends from the house, who ran to
him in the belief that he had been
bitten by snake.
Eighty hens, belonging to Captain
Thomas A. Norton, of Yarmouth,
Mass, have laid, during the year
past, six hundred and thirty-seven
dozen eggs. AT the average price
of eggs, that would be about one dol
lar anda qua rter Tor each hem
The Claf aflettessille (Va.) Advo,
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