Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-07-27
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The GREAT New York Cry MENAGERIE, as
will be- seen by the notice in our advertising col
umns, is to be in Montpelier on Friday the 4th
of August. 1t will be, we judge from what we
hear from abroad, spectacle combining nov-
city and variety which will make it well worth
witnessing.
Mr. Jacob Mansfield, merchant, of Windsor,
VT. left the Quincy House in Boston, whittier
he had gone Oh bushes on the 9TH instant, and
has not since been heard of. As he left his car
pet bag in Boston, it is feared he was murdered
somewhere in that vicinity.
The WEATuER. The weather through most
Of last week was everywhere very unusually hot.
In the cities the mercury stood in some Of them,
at 100 degrees, and in others even so high as
l03 degrees In Montpelier, as far as we could
decide by comparing different thermometers in
different localities, the general heat was but "a
people shoold be extremely careful. No man
can s,fcly work hard with the thermometer at
blood.heat or % degrees.
CALlroRNA.--Thc really most important news
from California is the account, by the lust arri-
walls, Of the vast increase of her agricultural
productions this year over last. The wheat crop
this year, it is stated is more than enough for
home consumption.
The Cno1ERA.-rhe accounts received since
our last do not show any increase of the disease,
but III many places an abatement.
THE Crops Our exchanges furnish the fol
lowing paragraphs concerning those fruitful top
les of remark, the weather and the crops:
The Tallahassee Foridian says A most
boun,iful crop is to reward the farmers of Flori-
dia in the coming harvest MOI for years has
the corn crop been 81 promising as now. In adj
dition TO this great deal more has been planted
the present season than usual AS TO The cotton
crop, it is altogether TOO early in the season to
speculate about product so liable To drawbacks
We may safely remark, however, TINT lfhere is
not too much rain or tao much sun if there is no
caterpillar kind no storm, and late frost, the
LARGEST crop of cotton ever housed in Florida
may be counted on-probably.
In Maryland the wheat crop just harvested is
thought 10 be much larger than for many years
previous
Accounts from South Carolina and Georgia are
of most cheering character. In Georgia especi-
ally the corn crop is doing unusually well
The editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel has re-
Gently taken tour through eight or ten counties
of Wisconsin and reports as follows on the pros
poets of the crops If theIe should be no draw
back in the way of unfavorable weather, the
crops of wheat barley, oats, rye corn and pota
toes, will exceed the most sanguine expectations
of those who have not had the like advantage o
passing through the country. The crops now
without exception, lock well, and the only com
plant which we heard in ten days tour, was
an occasional one in reference to the spring wheat
it being SO heavy that it would probably lodge If
the field Wi consin will send forward vas
surplus as the result of the harvest of 1854
Judging from the appearance of the winter Nhea
in many portions of the State, we think that thf
harvest must be well advanced by the 10Th OF
July" ......
Complaints of the ravag s of the wee,il il
wheat come from various parts OF OHIO; in some
counties not half an ave age crop will be harvest
ed. Indeed, many farmers have turned thei
cattle into the wheat fields.
The hay crop in New Jersey will be very
short one, owing to the devastation made on TIT
grass by the myrlads Of grasshoppers whicl
abound to an unusual extent. l..s1.-.
Many farmers in various parts OF the Unto
speak favorable of the use of guano. ...
of tho crops in Cannda the Toronto Colonis
of the 9th inst, says The cutting of hay
now going On throughout the country, and it
genera ly good crop The what crop also vii
be good There seems 10 be an unusually larg
quantity of ground under preparation for a
wheat this season, in the neghborhood of this c
IT,, and we are Informed that il has seldom bee
in better orde The fruit crop will be UNUSUAL
abundant A great deal of what in the vicni
of bradford was injured by the severe frost i
March and April The spring crops. inc udin
potatoes look remarkably we'll"
TELEGRAPH TO THE PACIFIC The Unite
States Senate has passed the bill making graz
of public lands in aid telegraph to lht 7;
cifc fhe projected line is estlmYted To cost OF
ly 50, O00, 900, or 81 900 mile for 1000 mile
The cost of leegraphing will be $40 for t.
words, and seveniy-tiye cents for each addition
word. Government despatch S to be sent free
the amount of 5000 words per month Al ov
that to be paid for at such rates as ongress shi
decide. ] he bill has yet TO pass the houre
The Worce ter Spy announces hat Mr. Pan
has overcome the diliicuty arising from electric
explosions, and that he has peri cted his lnve
ton for producing light h at, and motive pow
from the decomposition OF water
EXPLOSION. The powder mill at,Spencer Mas
blew M at noon, on the oh instant, and IN
named " illiam Bixbee was killed. Ills DO
was blown some thirty rods and horribly mutt
ted. and at the line the afternoon tram car
along, one Of his arms had not been found.
was married man, but Mas not living with
family at the time Of the accident. 5.
A quicksilver mine has been discovered
Walasburg, Oregon.
"Young America" paper to be devoted
the interests of Senator Douglas and his Nebr
ka BILL has Just been started in Chicago