The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-10-05
NEW q IrEMs

The number II patients in the North Car
olina State Lunatc Asylum. is between ITO
and 1870.
The corn crop in HYDE County alone tsays
the Washington Times !, estimsled TO De
worth over milliUn OF dollars. Hyde boasts
the finest corn raising land 10 the country.
aud which can be bought only at very high
Agures.
We understand personal difficulty occur.
red at Murphy. Cherokee county, on Satur-
day the 10th inst, between Col. ". q. How
ell and constable named Williams, during
which the latter was shot through the breast
BY son Of Col. Howell. Williams was
thought 10 be fatally wounded. Young How
ell had not, at the date Of the letter conveying
Us the information, been arrested. Regi,ter:
The Memphis Appeal has been con
vrrted into a quatter.soSereignty Douglas
paper; and its neighbor, the " Avalanche"
j. Calling Il terrible with former extracts from
its own columns 10 denunciation Of the llli-
aus aposiate. We may mrniion thst the
appeal is the only paper in Tennessee
which advocates the Douglas hsresy.
Msasaippian.
II is a shiftless trick TO let cattle fodder
Themselves at the stack; they pull out and
trample more than they rat. They eat TIL
the edge Of appetite Is gone, and then dam
iiIy pick the choice parts; the residue, be-
ing coarse and refuse. they will no, touch il
afterwards.
The Hon. Sberrsrd Clemens, Of Virgins.
will probably die yet from the effects u his
duel with o. Jennings Wise, Esq. The
Rappahannock Southeraer reports him as 10
very critical condition.
Tie total receipts Al The National Agri.
cultural Far. held ia Chicago. we're $4,000.
The receipts At the National Fair held at
Richmond. in October last. were S.. 464.5O.
IL RuckbriIge County Va. man was bit
len On his right hand nv copper head snake.
and died IN precisely twenty -four hours after.
sard.--not Of the bite, but quart II whisky
vhirh was administered TO him. says The
Post.
Eighteen liycs we're lost. at Albion. N. ".
on Thursday last. by the giving way sud.
denly Of the canal bridge. on which was
large crowd Of visitors on their way TO the
county fair At Orleans. A large number
also received severe injuries.
The question of tie future annexation 81
West Florida 10 Alabama Is exciting cansid.
cradle interest amvng the citizens Of both
States. Daring the approaching election IN
Florida il will Iarm one " the PRINCIPAL mat.
tiers % consideration.
Tie fate d Thur.ton has possibly o,rrta.
Ken two more eaperimeaters 10 aerial natiga.
ton. Messrs. la Monatain aud liaddntk,
who made an ascent on the 22i inst, from
watertowa, N. n, 10 la Mountains nam.
moth balloon. have MT since been hears, from.
Mr.. lIaddoek has been Tor sore time con.
nested with the wateriawn Journal.
The States says there are fifty gambling
hslis ia the city of Washington, between the
Capitol and the Presidents house on the
Avenue.
The Virginia Annual Conferences Of The
Methodist Episcopal Church, SDuth. Will
hold IL ssssiun Ia Lyn hburg % the 10th o.
November next. Bishop John Early will
preside.
Samuel D. Paul, editor of the Petersburg
Press, and Col. Thos' ". Ghude. independ.
ent candidate Coz Congress in the eteIsbuig
district, Va. went 10 Washington on Thurs.
day 20 fight duel, Paul being the challeng-
ing party, bot the authorities IN Washington
having bern tsiegraphed were on hand and
arrested Paul on his arrival aud placed him
under bonds Of $4,000 not 10 shoot any one.
ImPnoyEp sEEp PLasrKn.--A patent has
been issued 20 Levi l.. Lancaster. of Rocky
Mount. N. O., from The U. $. Patent Office,
for Improvement in seed planters.
A statement was made az a late Conyen.
zion of the Congregational clergymen Of
New Hampshire that not ono pastor 10 the
whole concession used tobacco.