The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-08-06

estimate the forthcoming peach crop in
Now Jersey at one quarter of an average
but it is thought the quality will be
quito good, unless the drough should
continue. The trade will commence
next week. A great difference is no.
ticed In the condition Of the orchards,
according as they were protected or OK.
posed during the winter Many arc
nearly fruitless, whilo others promise
very we'll Some of the fruit is drying
up on the trees for want of rain.
All through New England the COM
plant is want of rain, rain, rain In
Georgia and other contiguous states il il
very severe. The Philadelphia Ledger
says
The vegetable crops throughout lower
and West Jersey are suffering very much
from the want of rain. The hot sun PEN
etrating the sandy soil renders the heat
so intense that the potato and other veg
etables are nearly roasted. Unless CO.
pious showers are soon experienced far
mers say that not only the early but fall
crops will be absolutely ruined.
Tho Hudson River is very low Bos.
ton Courier.
THE DRoUTH-Therc is a very gen.
eral aud serious complaint Of the drouth.
The effect is loudly complained Of by
both farmers and manufacturers. The
Lowell Meas says the fremont Com.
pany has stopped two hundred looms, in
consequence of the want of water, and
that unless a rise in the river takes place,
all the mills will stop portion of the
works during the coming month
- Jonathan Downing, writing from
Canton, to his uncle in America said
guess that there can be but two kinds Of
government in the nature of things
bamboo, as in China, aud bamboozle as
in the old country; but we in the Unit
ed States use 'em both, and ours is the
grandest government in the universe
bamboo for the niger, and bainboozls
for ourselves"
- n friend, telling how hot it was in
New Orleans, SAID, A vessel loaded with
pig lead lay at the levee discharging her
cargo a niger would got pig on his
back and before he could get ashore the
lead would melt and run all over him so
that he'd have to be dug out with a cold
chisel.'
WlTTICisMs.-An eastern editor says
that man in New York got himself in
to trouble by marrying two wives.
A western editor replies by assuring
his contemporary that a good many men
in that section have done the same by
marrying one.
A northern editor reports that quito
number of his acquaintance found
trouble enough by promising to marry,
without going any further.
| A southern editor says that friend
of his was bothered enough when simply
found in company with another mans
wife.
WELL DONE, LANCASTER A Ere
mont Club, including between two and
three hundred voters, has been formed
in Lancaster, New Hampshire. The
Coos boys are wide awake for the "
Pathfinder" We shall hear a good
report from the region, next Novcm>
| Der.
| TERRIBLE GALE ON THE COAST OF
Observation-Disclosures. 30th-.Let.
ters from Capt. Henry Cook, master of
schooner Louisa, of Provincetown, state
that severe hurricane was experinced
at Green Island on the first of July in
which his vessel ard the brig Samuel
Cook, Tileston, of Provincetown, went
ashore and were lost, together with
many other vessels whose names are
not given. Twenty-nine vessels, out
of a feet of thirty, went ashore and
were lost, and at the date of the letter
there were three hundred and fifty
four wrecked seamen on the island,
shelterd in tents.
At dog Island three vessels were
t,and the crews all persisted. There
was insurance for eight thousand dol
lars at the Atlantic Mutual office in
Provincetown on the Samuel Cook and
Louisa.-Probably vessel will be sent
to the assistance of the shipwrecked
mariners.
The gale was the most severe ever
eXperinced by the oldest inhabitant.