Smyrna times., 1857-09-02

A PICTURE OF ILLINOIS FARMIyG The
great granarles OF Egypt hardly bear comparl-
son with the enormous productions of the West
we read OF single county in Illinois produce
ing over million of bushels of grain: and we
new read from one ia the State, who is acouaint.
ed with what he writes and with facts unon
which to base his reasoning, that he estimates
the wheat crop Of Illinois this year at 35 600.
OOO bushels and the corn crop at 300 coo OOO
and. says the writer, am persuaded the con.
cluslons are correct, as almost any one who
should see these extensive fields would he of
like opinion.
" Ascending a gentle knoll which to your
view seems rising for long distance, we stop
ana look around US; what busy scene The
clatter of The reaper on every side strikes the
ear. Look around and count-twelye. fifteen
reapers-each + ur horses attached. recurring
at least eight hands to gather what each laws
IN numberless sheaves. Ride to the next knoll
the work is here d little farther advanced
and two or more farmers have Joined their for
ces and are gathering the bounttul harvest into
rlcks--they never make stacks here-but long
ana broad rlcks-the size of which dare not
put IN hgures. Another half mile and you are
upon the unbroken prairie; but have all the
cattIe OF the township been gathered into this
one neld or rather pasture! Count them-
"l'nout SURFING from the spot, | count two
huhured cattle, and some thirty horses; cross
that gentle undulaton, and Il similar scene is
repeated, and again. | am sure could have
coun' ed not less than a thousand cattle in that
one ride"
UT- The COngregationaliSt notices news
paper winch gave account of the conierrihg
OF the degree OF Doctor of Divinity upon a GER
Ia ClerUVman nv an pnSt,.rn o,IIoro - Il
same paper, in another Blumn, published a
letter from this same clergyman, of ljftv.one
lines, containing nne gross errors in spelling
and more than twenty, equally gross IN punc
tuatIOn!
tT The Book Concern of the Methodist
Episcopal Church al New York. is condnc,od
on very large scale. The assets, as reported,
are $64S, 244, A; liabilities, SI73232 70.
net capital, @410,O9l n. The a0grrpaIe
profits for the year just past were $:}3 l47 is
while the net profits were $l5 SCI "A. heinz
50 per cent, on the net capital, aud q per cent,
Oh the entire assets.
The TELEGRAPH LINES OF THE Wop,n
lhe number OF miles Of telegraph lines which
nave been constructed since the discovery ot
Professor Morse, amounts TO about 7SUOO q;
which one half is in the United States. and the
other in Europe, all of winch vii! probabIy he
connected by the laying of the great cable
across the Atlantic.
Ire HARVEST IN EUROPE AND THE HEAT.-
Europe seems to have been visited with one Of
our oId-tashloned tropical summers, with the
thermometer well on to IA hundred. The effect
there has been to hasten the harvest a connie
OF weeks earlier than usual, aud to produce
fine crops.
" Labache, the celebrated basso, who had
attempted TO teach Queen Victoria to sing, fire.
queniIy lamented, that, from three slight eau.
see, he bad been unable TO make her anvtbino
81 vocalist; hrSt. she had no voice; next, she
mad no ear; and lastly she had no application
" A subscription has been opened a, Pari,
'or statute to Jenner, the dlscOverer of vac
c'nat'on. NJ Paul the SCULPTOR has been com
To execute the sIalue, which will be- |
lnaugurated in June, next year.
U3- A gen,lenan who has very strong de.
sire TO be lunny man, sat down upon hooped
sK'rt the other day. With II desperation eoual
10 any emergency, he whstled, = Tm sitting on
the style, Mary
" Authorltive information now states the |
'htIre estate, real and personal, of the late DIR |
Burdell as worth @4O.00O. OF this S33 OOn |
was real estate, and $1,000 personal property.
u The heat is stated to be excessive in all |
parts OF Spain; in fact, the summer is r.pre-
ented as the hotIe"t IN the memory Of man.
WHTrE TEETH, Perfumed Breatk and Bean.
liul Complexion, can be acquired by usnu the
BALM or A THOUSAND FLOItERS~ Ivh,,
auy or gentleman would remain under the curse of a
~ S"s eeloie breath, when by using the Balm of
houSahd Flowers - as denirtce wouId moi onIv
ehu'r IL sweet, but leave the teeth as white ms nI;
as'erf Many persons dO NOT knew their breath * !
ad' ana The subject delicate Their friends ,.II
ever mention it, Beware of couuirrleits No ,',ra
ne Doltle IS signed, FErRlDGE X Co, N. Y,
For sale by all Druggists "