The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-08-24
NEW s ITEMS

DIscovERY or MINERAL SpnIsos. We learn
from the Register that two mineral sprinps
have been discovered 10 Wake county one
on the lands Of Gov. MANLY. within two
miles Of Raleigh. and the other on the lands
o. James Parrish. twelve miles from Raleigh.
on The Fayetteville road. The water or Mr..
Parrish spring Is strongly impregnated with
IRON. sulphur. &C.. and is Represented a.
very strong. The water Of both springs will
be analysed. Wo,,,,,., r..
INCREASE oF WFALH N GEoRoIa.-The Al.
lania lniclligencer learns IRON Comptfoller
fhweatt that the digests 81 one hundred anil
Twelve counties. returned to his Office. show
an increase Of the taxable property Of the
state Tor the past year Of fifty millions Of
dollars IN the counties for which returns have
been received.
InE JuDoEs on THE SUPREME CoURr. Chief
Justice fancy, Of the United States Supreme
Court, Is 10 the SD year Of his age. His
eight associates IN the court. with one sin
gle exception, are all three score years and
ten. aud some d them considerably exceed
hat number.
IhE fIRcISiA SPRrSos.-There are 500
visitors at the Greenbriar White SULPHUR.
zoo az the Montgomery White, 500 al the
oid Sweet. 500 AZ the ROckbrldge Alum,
zoo a. The Red Sweet. 200 at the Salt, 500
at The Orkney. aud $50 at the Rawley.
Twenty leading Democratic papers Of Mis-.
sissippi advocate the re.opening Of the slave
trade. and Mr.. Buehanan's Collector AZ yieks.
burg openly and Extensively urges il asa
party measure.
A Gar WORN HayISo.-There 4 4 younv
woman employed in the Harmony Mill, Co.
hoes, who. during period Of years that she
has been employed 10 that establishment. has
saved from her regular wages, and from earn.
lngs BY doing ornamental needle.work. over
twenty live hundred dollars. Yet. she has
found time 70 study aud master French. as
well as the higher branches Of English. She
= about twenty .tWo years Of age, really good
looking and siyaeious companion.
PolsosOus PAPrR IIASoIsos. Joor.
sal OF Health for August SAYS: From one
SQUARE loot Of the paper taken from a room
which was papered with one OF the tufted or
nouck green papers. thirty grains Of the pow.
der was serapcd OF and sent TO a chemist,
and The amount Of solid arsenic in Il was
eleven grains. more than one third. These
green paper hangings are more poisonous "a
The ar Of the room when they are not glazed.
but yelyety, and have the figure standing
out from the paper"
GREAr DssraUcTios or PIaEwoop "A few
dayssince sO0. 900 cords Of wood. piled along
side the Little Miami lOhiol Railroad, were
DESTROYED by fire, and the rails were %
warped by the heat that trains we're DELAYED
ior several hours. A Few days previous 10
thlswholesale burning so, 600 cords Of wood,
belonging to the same company, we're do.
''royed - the same way.
Last week 4 little girl, aged ten. was
placed 10 the New York State Lunstic asy.
Ium. The child was very intelligent one,
md lts close application 10 study threw il
INTO hts. and resulted 10 destroying lis mind.
RETURs Or A FAsLY 90 sLavss.--A party
d negroes recently freed by a planter or
Bayou Sara. La, arrived last evening on the
Jesse y. Bell. en- route 70 their old home, 10
which they are voluntarily returning.
Mgnpha Esgmrsr, tn int.