Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-09
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New York STATE Extract ola letter from Lam
ringburg, 18th In this vicinity the crops are iter
ally parched and the soil for many inches beneath
the surface is baked with extreme heat. Corn, po-
tatoes, grass and: oats have languished beyond 9
chance of recovery. Market produce is at hgn
figure 1t rained on Saturday about twenty minutes.
VIRGINIA. The drought which we have been suf-
fering under for the past six eight weeks still con-
tnues. In almost every of this county, the corn and
potatoes, and vegetation generally, are literally dry
ing up. Many of:our far ners will not make barrei
of corn to the acre in fact, some will not make
peck to the acre. An abundant rain would be most
gratefully received at this time.
-, lF.r4.a Faigfar Neaos, of 27th.
KENTUCKY Extract of letter from Versailles,
Goth The farmers will not raise corn enough to
fatten their hogs. Although the oat crop was tne
the hay ind hemp and wheat crops fair, yet these
do not supply the place of corn for many purposes
Wheat corn, meal, flour and bacon are all on the
advance, and foretethe limit in the future
ILLINOIS We had fine rain on Monday night
that will make great Improvement in our eXpecta-
ton of the corn crop, which was in perishing con-
dition on account of the drought There are many
fields of that ruined past redemption, and
will not pay the gathering. The rain has improved
our streets and roads very much-havlng laid the
dust that was too intolerable to bear. =
Princeton Clarion, eth.
SOUTH CARoL1NA-RAIN THERE. The heaviest rain
since 1889 was Friday night last, when there was
fall of 123 inches in three hours, completely delug
ing the neighborhood. 1t did not extend more than
fifteen miles up the country, hence fears of,
freshet. It was a sea shore rain, and not general.
Georgetown Times, Of 26M.
New HAMPSHIRE: Not more than half a crop Of
Indian will be harvested in this region potatoes
short, but not rotted usual; apples in the low
part of the county scarce, but in the west
part the crop will be very large; wheat rye and
oats safe and abundant.
Exeter Neaes Letter Of 29tA.
Texas. A letter dated Springfield, 9Th inst says:
The crop will be very good but the cotton will
be very light owning to the long drought with us
We have had no rain for five or six weeks. The
wheat crop averages from twenty to thirty bushels
per acre; while millet produces from three to i've
tons per
MIDDLE TENNESSEE. In most parts of Middle Ten
nessee, long continued drought has almost entirely
ruined the prospects of the planters. In some
few portions of our section of the State average
yield will be made, but these exceptions are rare.
NashUiIie Union, 18Th.
HARD TINES. The streams dry; immense
quantities of wood and lumber burned by the
tensive confagrations, which everywhere fill the
heavens by day, with dense smoke, and glare like a
thousand watch fires about through the dark and
smoky mists of night The steamboats, have lost
their trips because of the obscurity of the lake. The
destruction has been immense. Messrs. Hammonds
& Co., of Crownpoint, have lost gang, and also
English mill, large quantities of sawed lumber, sew
eral dwellings, and tract of pine timber OF great
value. Mr. Hendee of Moriah, some time since, had
his mills dwelling and other property destroy
ed. The fires are now doing immense damage in
the Black Brook and Saranac sections; and, while
we write, a terrific volume of smoke is rolling
our village from the adjacen fields and mountains,
threatening Ito destroy everything IN its way The
inhabitants in almost every town have been obliged
to Eight fire. to prevent the consumption of houses,
barns and other property:
Eyiza6etAtoaon Post, 10Th.
FIRE IN THE WGoDs. Fires have been raging in
almost every direction in the woods, and we hear
that in parts of the county, fences have been
destroyed fields run over, and buildings seriously
jeopardized. The atmosphere is so filled with smoke
lrxrfY and
dying and unless there be rain shortly the potatoe
crop, the last hope left will be entire failure
Corn, Wheat, Hay, Or. has gone by the board long
ago. NdtOne Gazette.
FIRE IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. We cannot OBJ
tain water, nor enough of nything else, wherewth
to wet whistles. Moat Mountain is on fire, old
hiarsarges skirts have caught, and the woods are
burning all around for scores of miles. Vegeta-
ton has stopped growing; apples are dropping from
the trees and the various kinds of berries have fair
ly dried up on the bushes Corn is well nigh done
for and the farmers thus early cutting the stalks
for fodder as the pastures also done brown Po-
tatoes literally small and few in hill In Fran
coma Mountains the state of things is observa
bic. The Profile Mountain was on fire last Friday
to such extent to endanger both the "Old
Mans wig" and the excellent Profile House.
Extract Of a Letter, COnaoGy, N. Fl.
DAMAGE THE LUMBER TRADE. Letter from O.
rono (Me.) dated 29th says: The river is lower
than at any time within the last ten years 1t is
low as to be fordable IN many places. The saws, or
most OF them, In operation go up and down slowly.
The mills at Upper Saltwater, the west side, have
been hung up for want of water, some ten days, as
also those of Pushaw village.
The PENoBscoT. The Penobscot River is said to
be lower than it has been since 1874 1t is now for
dable at many places. The at Oldtown
most of them in operation, but go slowly.
NAVIGATION INTERRUPTED. The water In the Con-
necticut river SO low that navigation is impeded
The Pennsylvania canals in many sections I'M
navigable for loaded boats, and the Susquehannah
division is said to be mot much better than dry
ditch. =" The Cincinnati Commercial says that men
are making $40 day in gathering boulders from
the Ohio river. The bar yielding this treasure was
formerly covered with sand but was barred by the
foods of the last winter
"PATENT QUAckERY." What is the reason that