The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-11-15
News Items.

ILL.,. engaged in the cultivation of sweet
potatoes. publish an account Of their
profits during the past season. They
planted twelve acres OF potatoes the ex
penses of which, delivered in market
were $l87 So The total amount Of
sales were 81 200, leaving $2012 so Tor
net profits This gives an average prof
of $l67 80 per acre.
The Union states that it will require
| 500, 500 acres oil the public lands to
satisfy the 1896 land warrants issued
last month The total number Of war.
rants issued is 48, 1853.
Sales of corn in the field are reported
to have been made in Montgomery coun'
ty, Illinois, at from five TO seven dollars
per acre. This would not amount TO
more than ten or twelve cents bushel
Hardly worth raising at that price.
Col. E. D. Taylor, of Chicago, lately
sold lot Of ground adjoining the Ire
mont House, forty feet front, for the sum
Of $43, 600, or at the rate of 81 200 per
front foot,
A lot of over two hundred heavy hogs
were sold lately in Indianapolis at 81
cents nett.
The annual value OF poultry in the
United States is estimated at twenty mill
lions of dollars. The city Of New York
expends yearly million and half Of
dollars in the purchase OF eggs alone.
The town of Buchanan, in UpShur
county, Virginia, was almost wholly de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday week. The
court house, Jail, and Cooper's tavern,
all the stores but two or three, and nearly
all of TIE private dwellings are in ashes.
The Administration, it is said levied
on the Clerks in the Department the sum
of IS each, to be used in the Maryland
election canvass.
Look out for counterfeit half dollars.
They are in circulation in New York,
and may get into this vicinity very soon.
A company has been organized in
Poughkeepsie, New York, with a capital
of $40, 200, for the establishment of a
file factory. Two machines are in ope.
ration in that city, which is the first sue
cessIul attempt 10 manufacture files by
any other than the slow and tedious hand
labor.
The Indianapolis Republican nOmi-
mates Hon. Caleb B. Smith, OF Cincin
natl, as su table candidate for the Pres
idency.
About one thousand cases of yellow
fever have occurred in Natchez, Miss,
during the season. and there have been
over one hundred deaths.
The total value Of imports Of foreign
goods at the port Of Boston, during the
last week, was 1891 4GG; of which there
was of dry goods $338,779,
Gen. Cass is estimated to be worth
| POjOOOJOOO.
On the north shore of Lake Superior
Oct. 25th, the snow was 3 feet deep and
on the south shore Q feet.
The losses on the Western Lakes caus.
ed by storms during the month Of Octo,
ber is estimated at ~ 100000
The census returns of the State of Ilh.
nois, though not yet full, indicate a pop,
ulalon of one million three hundred thou
sand. The population Of 1850, was only
eight hundred and fifty thousand.
Bringham Young has now seventy wives
If one wife makes a man happy, what is
the state of Bringham's mind by this
time ? lie must feel like he was in mo,
asscs hogshead.
EX-Presidcnt Van Buren, is represented
as yielding to the weight of years, and it
is stated that his recent European tour did
not result so satisfactorily as his friends
could have desired.
RECEIPTs.-Thc Treasurer of the Amer
lean Bible Society received during the
month of September, the sum of $25, 1873
in aid of the objects of the Society.