Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-28


Eve have had no drought 20 affect the crops in
the least. All the cereals have matured finely and
yielded large crops, and with all the cscuents.
Our wheat crop will reach about l76,000 bushels !;
corr ebout $4,000 10 10000 bushels potatoes, the
yield is very large and of choice quality estimated
al. 400, 900 bushels. There will also be large
yield OF cranberries. Turnips, rutabagas, and
pumpkins have yielded the largest crop 10 the
acre, generally, have ever seen grow in any part
OF the continent. Our turnip and rutabaga crop
cannot fall short of 100000 bushels but these are
| mostly fed 10 our cattle during The winter / am
President of the Agricultural Society of this Ter
rtory, and think my sources OF information such
as can be relied upon at least substantially So"
| A DELICATE SEARoH-The st. Louis Herald
states case of ayoung lady of the most undonbted
responsibility, who entered shoe store in that
city, and asked TO be shown some gaiter boots
| a number were shown 10 her which she examined
and tried on. While the attention Of the store
keeper was occupied with another customer sew
eral pairs Of CATERS disappeared. The lady con-
Guiding not TO purchase, he was compelled TO ac-
cuse her Of secreting his shoes; she denied it,
and he insisted, and proceeded to search, and
found several pairs suspended by hooks which
were attached TO the ladys garters. He took from
their hooks those belonging to him, and left there
several others, which had no doubt been taken
from stores. She was allowed to depart.
THE PEE DEE BRIDGE of the Manchester rail-
road is expected TO be finished by The middle OF
October. The novel and difficult manner of its
construction has excited intense interest," it being
the first one Of the kind constructed in this
country. The mode of securing the piers, al
though difficult, is the only effectual method OF
making permanent bridge over swampy and in
| secure ground. s.
TELEGRAPHIc EXPERIMENTS have recently been
made at Portsmouth, England, to ascertain how
far water would conduct the electric current from
one point Of wire to another An electric wire
was submerged on their respective sides ofthe
water and terminating in plate constructed for
the purposey and several messages were accu-
| rately conveyed across the entire width of the
midam, with accuracy and instantaneous ra-
pidy.
"The apparatus employed in the experiments is
not pretended TO be here explained in even a cur
| sorry manner; this is, Of course, the exclusive
secret of the inventor. But there is no doubt Of
the fact, taat communications were actually sent
distance of five hundred feet through the water
without the aid OF wires or other conductors, and
that there appeared every possibility that this
could be done as easily with regard TO the British
channel as with the mdam"
| FAcTs-Of every 70 inhabitants of the United
States one dies every year.
OF the free inhabitants of the United States
17.7O0.000 and few more are natives 1900, 0OO
and few more were born in others countries.
OF the youth of the United States, 1900, 600
were at school on the 1st Of June, 1850; that is,
there was one youth under instruction for every
five free inhabitants.
In the United States, there is one church for
every 646 of the population.
These figures are according to the census OF
1850
THE BLACK SwAN-The Boston Times an
nounces that "Miss E. T. Greenfield" will give a
concert in that city the 4th of October, for the
benefit ola Baptist church Itfurther says: "Miss
Greenfield has just returned from Europe, where
she sung with great success before the nobility
and most fashionable audiences. Her testmo-
| mails from Buckingham Palace attest that her
singing was not only pleasing TO her majesty. bur
created Juroro Of excitement in nusieal circles ~
PATRIoTIc FLOWER GRL.-A young lady at a
fancy ball in New Orleans, in the character of a
flower girl collected ten dollars, and in a spirit OF
patriotism she donated il, through the editors of
the Piroynne, 10 aid the construction ofthe Wash.
ingtnn National Monument That young lady
must be beautiful amiabe, and happy; and were
we single, we would solicit the honor of her-re-
| fusal
A HORRIBLE MuRoER was committed in Phila-
delphia on Monday night Two Frenchmen, late
ly arrived, took lodgings at a small hotel in Dock
street, and retired together at ten o'clock. One
paid his bill and left on Tuesday morning, and in
the afternoon his companion was found in the
room they Jointly occupied, with his brains blown
out and his pockets riAed.
SANDY McSwrsH, alias the Angel Gabriel,
turned up in Philadelphia on Tuesday, and COM
mrnced sounding his. trumpet solo in Independ.
ence Square; but Mayor Conrad thought his
music would be softened somewhat by passing
through the thick walls Of the lookup, and put the
experiment to the test.
MAINE ELEcrIoN--A dispatch from Bangor states
that full returns from the sixth congressional dis
trict show that Fuller (dem) is reelected by a
small majority.
lns- The San Francisco Commercial says that
in case ofdefeat in California, DR. Gwin would go
down to the I" Isles of the Sea" and manage TO be
elected senator Of Hawaii.
Mr.. Z. PERCY HOWE, well known editor, died
in Galveston, Texas, on the 9Th instant. He was
| a native Of Massachusetts.
THE Hon JOHN M. BORIS had his wallet, con-
tanning SSH, stolen from his pocket on Monday
night while purchasing ticket at the New York
Theatre. Officer Allison had been watching the
thief and caught him in the act, recovering the
money.
| IL The State Of Connecticut is out of debt, and
has money loaned out at interest. The school
fund is valued at s2076,Ooo, and other productive
property ofthe State is estimated at $500 ,oo0 the
greater part of which is invested in bank stocks.