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A Remarkable Tree.—A Tennessee paper gives ai account of a remarkable tree, which is growing ir WS||”“— county, in that State. It it a peach uj well filled with fruit, almost every peach on which is | double, triple, and in some instances quadruple.closely joined together; There are a few scattering ones on | it, but the larger portion are double and triple. This is the first year it has borne fruit.Primelal Coincidence.—As olio among other singular coincidences, there is at the present time a man named •‘Cain Abel,” keeping “Adam and Eve” tureru it Eden, Vt.Russian Sugar.—The manufacture of beet stigai. goes on to such an extent in the Southern and central provinces of the Kussiau empire, that instead of 100,-000 boxes white sugar annually shipped from HavanaSt. Petersburg alone, 40,000 boxes now supply thedemand.A Hint to C'/ergy/nin.—Public speakers should avoiddrinking cold water while engaged in discussion. The excited condition of the organs of speech will not allow of the sudden cold which water produces, without bringing on hoarseness, and finally the fashionable disease called bronchitis.The catalogue of the officers and students of the U-nivcrsity of Virginia, shows that seat of learning ii fine condition. The number of students is 247.In the United States there are 24 State Temperance Societies.Arrangements have been made to convey the mail from New York to New Orleans in 9 days.A patent coflee pet has been invented by a Mr. Pal* mer, of London, in which coffee is better made with cold than with hot water.Texas has at least ] 30,000,000 acres of land nuloca-ted, and among them, some of the finest in the world.A subscriber wishes to know which expression i the most proper, the ‘ houses burned upor * burned down!' Tlmtdepends, we take it, upon whether the fire originated in the cellar or the garret.A Merman.—Some fishermen of Havre have lately caught, in the roadstead of that place, a fish with a head bearing a great resemblance to an ape, two arms terminating in fin-shaped paws or hands, breasts strongly marked, and the lower parts of the body like an ordinary fish. It measures five feet and a half in length, and frequently rears the upper part of the body out of water. It issairt that it will be sent to the Garden of Plants.Heavy Failure.—The Vicksburg Sentinel announces the failure of the house of Bennett, Perridnys, Co. of that city, of upwatds of a million of dollars.— The affair caused great excitement.CHARLESTON, June 22.By the schr. Empire, Capt. Soimiwics, we received St. Augustine papers to the )6th inst. together with the following intelligence from the office of the Herald* HERALD OFFICE, June 20,1S39- *Information has reached us that a number of Indians have gone in at Fort King, and among them, the party who murdered Brockenberiy, near Picolata, a short time since.They admitted the murder, and alleged that they ignorant ef the tieaty entered into with Gen.Macomb.Since then, however, the treaty has received another bloody seal. Two men were killed at a place called Fort Cross. The sixty days allowed for the Indians to go South have not expired It is said a number are going South, but it is suspected it is for the purpose of holding the ''/rreen corn dance.” whi.-l. inkai: n|«.«holding (lie 'green corn dance,” which takes place about the fiist week in July.The Whiskey “Blue Law.”Pixet Woods—Loprahaw, June 17,1839. Dear Uncle 'Siah:—I have jest bin a reedin of your apisile to the Temperance folks round about Milledge,yon know how I was a comin on with the partitions you give me when you was down here. My wife,AM hpfin Rtmrpil anil th. ____... T, .thank God, has been snared, and throngh marcy I’m able to eat my daily allowances of bred, meet, pees and collards, liopin these lew lines may find you in the same slate of health. I’m preachin up your doctrines every where I go, a try in to git subscribers to your partitions, but I’ve only got lt;wo sense you was bare a month ago. Old Miss Woodcock and her darter Nancy sined it by makin of their marks. Yon willsay this is bad luck, and soil is, faith; bnt I’ve been a n-sin ofyoor arguments exactly—I axed um last Sunday if there was a rattlesnake quiled up in a little bryar natch on the side of the path, if they'd not all go round it to keep from gitten bit, and they all said ‘'yes, be-ease if they did’nt it woitld bito nin—then I told urn, they must go round n grog shop, for it was as bad as a rattlesnake. They all giggled and langlied, and told me I was a fool, and axed me if a grog-shop would bite? This sorter slump’d me, I tell you, and I was afraid they’d axe me whose bizness was it if a feller poked out bis big toe to a snake's mouth and got it bit, bnt bis own, and solhem’d! and haw’d! and went along with my speech as well as I could, and told nm that the row I was in was imty grasrey, and I’d clean ont as wall as I conld, and then get to werk in the next; and they all sqnall’d ont and ax’d me if the next iwe was’nt to mako um quit cbawin Tobackert—
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Macon Georgia Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Tue, Jun 25, 1839
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