The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-19
GRAPE CuLTuRE-The culture Of the grape for
the manufacture of wine is attracting general at.

the manufacture OF wine ID Attfoctink IA&i ~
tention In the United States.
Enormous quantities of the fruit might be ship
ped by the coast steamers from Savannah ana
Charleston, and sold In this market at reInunera
ting prices, In the same manner that peas peaches
and other fruits and vegetables now are KiPen-
ing much earlier than Northern fruit, the South
ern grape would have the precedence in this mar
ket Peaches, grown on the otherwise unproduc'
tive pine barrens of South Carolina, are already
sold here. at large profit Part of the proceeds
warded to this port netted 81 800, after deducting
al expenses. The Southern Cultivator mentions
the case of DR.. w. Q. Anderson, who has an ex-
permental vineyard of one quarter of an acre in
Mhkes county, Ga, set with only l40 cuttings Of
the Catawba grape, which produced last season
the third year after planting-the same number of
gallons OF wine. The proper number of vines for
An acre on the plan here adopted (seven foot rows
ana cuttings 3! feet apart in the rowsJ Is 1000;
ana the eultivator employed in the experiment
mere noticed, pledges himself to produce $500 gal
Ions of good wine from an acre of vines the fifth
year after planting
Estimating this wine at 81 per gallon, the low.
est possible figure, and allowing only one half the
production calculated upon, the profit afforded is
81 $50, which is result not attained in the rao,,
lar routine OF cotton and corn planting The
southern Cuitiyator concurs in the opinion ex-
pressed oy an experienced friend, who predicts
tnat ultimately the now unfruitful hillsides of
Georgia will produce a wine equal if not supe
rior, to the best Hungarian brands The Georgia
wines WILL in quality be equal to the famous Muir.
sher, kuster, Carlowetzer, Tokay and many others
as yet unknown in America"
A letter from Q Kentucky wine grower assert.
that wine can be made in that State as cheaplv "a
IN Germany or France, and which, at only fifteen
cents per gallon, will pay better than any of our
staple productions.
The following paragraphs relate to the same sub.
ject:
A correspondent OF the Country Gentleman, Z"
from Naples, Ontario county, n. ", gives a case
OF an acre of ground planted with Isabella grapes,
"hc IN 1898. yielded by actual sales to the value
oil $ouU. during the season of 1854 the product
was ten tons of fruit, which, at cents per pound.
would amount to Sl200. The cost of tending and
picking he estimates at not more than 500 which
would leave clean profit of $500 on one acre of
land.
The Ohio Farmer of late date, SAYS:
Chas. Carpenter, of Keiley's Island one of the
most successful eultivators OF grapes in this coun-
try from single acre Of his own growing, ex-
pressed eOO gallons of juice making 700 gallons
wine. Besides this, he sold @l0G worth of grapes.
and his family aud Is hands ate all they chose du-
ring tbs season. This single acre yielded at least
SI2UU, and 1t was the poorest season they ever
have had al the Island for grapes.
late Ohio paper states, on tie authority Of B1r.
koDert Buchanan, that 900 600 cuttings and 300
0OO stocks are annually sold 10 Ohio.
SINGULAR AFFAIR.-A correspondent of the
Shelby. Ky, News writing from Clay Village, Shel
by county, under date of the 7th inst, relates the
following very singular affair;
A dead child was found concealed under one Of
our mercantile houses supposed to have beer
there some two months and no knowledge of /,
had come to light until revealed to q man in :
dream, O who states that intimation of the fac
had ever been made to him in any way, nor by any
oae. But, sir, through this marvellous revelation
was this unfortunate discovery made
The coroner was sent for; jury summoned TO-
eether the dead body placed before them After
being swsrn, they proceeded to investigate the
case:
Mr.. Harrison Stratton sworn-States that on
Sunday night he dreamed that he saw the most
beautiful babe he ever saw in his life lying dead
under the kitchen floor of Mr.. Sloan ; and tha,
this babe was white, with beautiful suit of thick
black hair on its head. How it came there he could
not say. He also gave an account of the awful
looking people who were standing around to wit
ness the sight; they were of every color and shape
some had heads as large as bushels. He dreamed
the next night to the same effect but on the third
night, while in sweet sleep, he saw persons &c
and get the child from under the kitchen of Mr
Sloan, and put 1t under the of the store OF
Sloan & Neal. The next evening after he came
down, looked under, and saw something in blank
et and thought he saw its arm pretruding from
under its covering
He at once went to Mr. Guthrie, told him his
dreams and what he saw, and wished him to 20
with him and look. Mr.. Guthrie, himself and 9TH
ers went and looked. They saw q blanket, took
it out and found child wrapped in it. 1t proved,
to the best of judgment, to be white female child
with suit of black hair, but mu ch disfgured. From
the condition of the child it evidently had been put
to death by violence. Its face and head was much
bruised and manged.
The coroner used every effort to find out who
had committed SO vile an act but no trace or cir.
cumstance could be gotten hold of, by which it
could be found out only through the man who
dreamed He states he saw in his dream who was
the mother, but refuses to give any revelation on
the subject. The verdict OF the jury was THAT
it female white child, born at maturity alive,
and murdered by unknown hands.'
RAILROAD ACCIDENT AND ESCAPE.-A letter to
the Philadelphia Ledger. from Charles W. Carri-
gan, Esq, dated Lancaster, March 18th, Friday
last gives the following particulars of accident
on that railroad:
Fifteen minutes past o'clock this morning wit.
messed one of the most fearful accidents and most
providential escapes in the history of railroad
travel When the train that left Philadelphia last
night for the West was passing Lands Ware
house." one of the rails broke throwing from the
track with destructive force, three passenger and