The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-13 00:00:00

UNITED STATES CROPS.

The Department of Agriculture in the United
States reports that the general prospect is not an un-
favourable one, although considerable damage was
dorie to the cotton crop from rust, the worms, and
bad August weather. The figures do not indicate a
decrease in the yield of cotton, and favourable
weather will insure a great increase. The return on
the wheat product relates to the condition of the
crop when harvested, but at the date of the reports
the grain had not been threshed out to any great ex-
tent, so that an estimate of the aggregate wheat pro-
duction of the year cannot be made before the
October returns are issued. The quality of the grain
which has been threshed is generally excellent,
and, in many instances, it has compensated for
deficient quantity. With some drawbacks the rye,
oats, and barley crops were harvested in good con-
dition. A diminution has- been noticed in the rye
crop and also in the barley. The Middle and
Westein States indicate a decline of 5 to 10 per
cent. on buckwheat, and New England 15 to 20 per
cent. In some localities the drought has blighted
the crop. The potato crop in the West has been
materially injured by the drought in many sections,
and destructive insects in others.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCT. 10.
The Queen walked out in the morning, accompanied by
Princess Louise.

In the afternoon her Majesty drove out with Princess
Beatrice, attended by the Marchioness of Ely.
Prince Arthur, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Elphinstone,
left Balmoral for the Ranger's House at Blackheath.
The Lord Chancellor has also left the Castle.

THE DANGER OF LONG DRESSES.—Mr. W. Payne,
the City coroner, held an inquest at Guy's Hospital re-
specting the death of William Sedgwick, aged 56 years.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a
corn sampler. Last Saturday night he was proceeding
downstairs, when a female ran down before him. De-
ceased trod on her dress, which was very long, and he was
thrown into the passage. He was picked up bleeding
profusely, and conveyed to the hospital, where he expired
on the following day from a fracture of the skull. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
SMALL TYPE.—At the opening of the new wings
of the Printers Pension Almshouses and Orphan Asylum
Lord Stanhope said In pursuance of their occupation,
compositors were at times obliged to put together very
small type by gaslight, and their eyes suffered seriously in
consequence. He knew that this very small type was
drawn upon foi the sake of compendiousness of form and
compression of space, but when it was injurious to the
eyes of both the compositors and the public he thought it
ought to be avoided as much as possible. He could
not, for instance, ever understand why railway guides
and other books to be read during a railway trip should
be printed in small type. He had great respect for a well-
educated man or woman, and he set the highest impor-
ance upon education ; notwithstanding all that, he would
rather remain in a state of ignorance all his lifetime than
endanger his eye-sight by reading such small type as that
to which he alluded.
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