Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-28
NEWS ITEMS.

we learn EllaL a large nQIn9eT OF persons are
in attendance al the Union Agricultural fair, at
Petersburg, Va
The dry weatherof thepreSent season, rs well
rs that OF 1854, has proved particularly disas-
trors to the potato erops Our seasons at best
qulres climate more moist and of lower tenn
perature, Ike that Of Great Britain, or the nor
thern portion of the United States TO grow the
potato IN perfection.
To guaTd agaiust the effects of trouth, con-
temporary makes tho following suggestion:
To guard against the effects Of drouth, and TO
insure good crop of potatoes in seasons Ike
the present, every large planter and gardner
would do well TO plant a few acres in the fall
and cover the ground with straw, in situations
where this material IS convenient. 1t win re
quire some labor TO cost half q dozen acres in
this way, but no more profitable disposition can
be made OF the straw; and every farmer should
return 10 the land in some manner Ill that is
made upon the farm.
The Alexander Gazette Of Saturday says: The
Hon Henry Winter Davis. of Baltimore, deliv-
cred the most powerful, eloquent, and brilliant
speech at the Lyceum Hall, on Thursday night,
that has been heard in Alexandra for short no.
ticc.
The Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church
have had before them the inquiry whether the
bread at the communion table must be cut or
broken! After several days Of prayfnl conside-
ration and the most solemn debate, it was deci-
ded that it was heterodox to break the bread,
and that il must hereafter be cut by the minis
/ ter into small pieces.
! farmer in Southern Alabama advises per-
/ sons smoking hams, to throw upon the fire oc-
] casionally handful OF china berries, which he
! says, viii be an effectual preventive against
! skippers. 1t is worth trying anyhow.
| The Paris, Tenn, Sentinel estimates the dam
age in that country, to the tobacco CROP at $780,,
900. 1t iseven greater in the bordering coun-
ties in Kentucky.
/ 1t is stated that since the first of last month
/ there have been as many as fifteen thousand
foreigners admitted to the privileges of citizen
ship in the Superior and Common Pleas Courts
I of New York and the pressure is now so great
that it is calculated the number will be swelled
to some twenty thousand by the twenty-tifth
instant, which is the last day on which an alien
can complete his title to vote
At the recent meeting of the Herts Agricul-
Association Sir E. B. Lytton stated that within
the last three years, independently of the SUN
expended en- ordinary manures, the farmers of
Great Britain had laid out five million sterling
! in the purchase of gtlano, and that within the
same period million of fresh acres had been
| brought into cultivation.
The footings at the Boston custom house for
the quarter ending on the thirteenth of Scptem-
DER, snow That the total value OF the imports of
foreign goods was 81, 741 ,220, an increase of
sl,l9s,G93 upon the entries in the colrcspon-
/ ding quarter last year.
! The McDoSoUGH EsTATE.-The New Orleans
Crescent states that the two commissioners OH
the part of the city of Baltimore have obtained n
Judgment against the McDonough estate and
the two cities New Orleans and Baltimore, for
ten thousand dollars. The city of New Orleans
has appealed from the decision, but the city of
Baltimore not having appealed an execution has
been issued which. it is presumed, will be paid
by the sale Of some of the real estate, provided
there is no cash on hand
/ ToM MARSHAL N KESrrckY.-Hon Thomas
F. Marshal, who is now a resident Of Chicago,
and has declared for Fremont was in Lexington
on the 14th, and made political speech to a
very large gathering of the people Of. kentucky.
He reviewed the foundations progress, and pre-
sent condition of slavery; and eulogized the
course of the great statesman, Henry Clay, pray
ing to be forgiven for every unkind word he had
uttered towards him. He announced, in consc-
quence ofhis removal to Illinois, he would not
be entitled TO vote at the next Presidential cleo
tion--but if he was SO entitled, and residing IN
Kentucky, he would vote for: Fillmore" If emit
tied to a vote in Illinois, where Fillmore has no
chance, he would vote for Fremont.