The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-07-27
Domestic News.

THE CRoPs.-Our farmers are busily enga-
red ntheir harvest. and far as we can learn, the
winter crops very good, throughout the county.
Wheat has rarely ever been better. The corn crop
- also unusua y promising. But Oats are light and
50 Is the grass. farmer, near Warwick informs us
that he shall cur this season only about 80 loads OF
hsv from the same grounds which yielded him 240
last year. Cattle from the west. should not be
brought into Orange County next fall. We have not
the means OF suhsstlng them through the winter
Let them be wlntered al home, and they will find
good market with us next spring.-Goshen Dem.
The CRoPs From information derived from per
cons residing IN different sections of the county, as
well as from personal observation, believe the
crops nave seldom worn a more promising appear.
anee al this of the year. than they do at the
present time. There will be a fair crop of grass IN
everv portion ot the county, and in places Il
wll be very heavy. II is estimated that there viii
De uohole the quantity cut In the county that mere
was last year Winter and spring wheat boih look
very promising the latter perhaps never appeared
peter. Unless something happens between this ana
harvest, there Will be large yield. Corn, thousn
backward, wears good color, and promises well -
The recent warm weather. has been just the thing 1t
required, and II has grown finely, and we think there
Will be more than average crop. Potatoes look
finely, and unless the ground should get too dry,
there will be great abundance Oats look rather
slim, but rs this is pretty sure crop, II Ia expected
there will be plenty of them-Mdyrihs (Chdu.)
Sent
MAKING BUTTER WITH LIGHTNING We learn
rom the Belfast, Me. Journal, that Sunday
week violent shower of hail accompanied with
lightning, occurred In Freedom and its immediate
vicinity. Large quantities of window glass were
broken In Freedom and Knox. In UNITY a house
occupied and owned by Mr. Benz. Douglass,
etrack by the lightning and verv much shattered.
Mr., douglass, who was in the house Al the mo
s1Ant, was struck the side by the fluid, which
descended his legs and left him through foot,
and through the boot upon his other foot bUh boots
being torn of his feet. Although severely injured,
Mr. ID VIII recover. His wife and four children
were near him at the time, but escaped injury
The lightning then entered the churn. in which the
family preserved their cream, and made butter ot
me cream IN i as etectualy as an hours churnlns
woule have done. If the mesmerc Influence rs
purely electricity, some lately asserts that ne
has proved, perhaps this may serve as > mint TO
some OF our mesmersts 10 make ther,selyes useful
IN the dairy.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT On Monday afternoon
a sall boat with two prem in her. was capsized by
ssudden gust OF wind ia Boston Harbor and be-
fore assistance could be rendered. the men sank and
Prsneo nelr names were George n. Dana son
81 George Dana, ESQ.,, OF this city, and James d
SHthn, who keeps a fancy store OPPOSITE the Post
Ohee They were both members of the New Eng
land Guards. LIN
NAvAL'---The U. 8. schooner Phoenix, Lieutenant
COMMANDING Sinclair, and the u : schooner ON.
ga hy.e; Lieutenant John F. Bspham, both bound
t0r me west Indies, dropped down the anchorage
ON me naval Hospital at Norfolk on Monday last
CHARLEY FREEMAN. Freeman, the American ei-
Inl, was admitted into the Repeal Association at
me last Dublin meeting, amid thuuders of annlause
he Is g broth OF a bow" and was raised on the 81
Joseph river, in Michigan. We recoilect seeing
nun some yeSn since, before he got his growth and
nen ou' nttie over seven feet high Chica go Dem
NEwsrArERs.-A contemporary saws" Tho
newspaper may be destroyed at night; it NAV light
a segsr, or 1t may curl Iady's hair: but the
thousnts mat are IN lis columns may Influence ten
Iunousan9 Tor good, and produce effects which vo.
fumes OF essays, sermons narratives could never
produce, and especially where they could never
reach, TO this another Journal, edited by bache.
The very thought of ones lucubra,ions neeiling
Gown a. night among the ringlets of sweet girl.
keeping watch over her midnight slumbers, as well
as curing her har, is enough to infuse poetry into
sheet fragrant with sentiment,