American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-09-03
ITEMS or NEWS, &c.

The wool cropof Harrison Co., O..
is estimated, tat four hundred thousand
pounds, will sell for one, hundred aud
seventy,two. Thousand dollars!, Alarge
growth for q. County Of hus four hun.
drsd square miles.
/ An editor in Penn. has been. arrested
for libel in, circulating report that a
pestilential disease called Psora, (vul.
carly the itch. was rapidly carrying
Of the inhahitants of York, Pa,
A writer in tho New York says,
Charles Mann, a mechanic of Troy, has
inventeda machine which can draw half
q, dozen ploughs at q time and travel
over rough and billy ground at the rate
of four miles an hour.
1t costs our government $4,000
yearly to carry the mail matter frank
ed blythe Mormon congressional dele.
gate. gaa.af -r.tu -.-..,.
Swamp fever has broken out amoHg
both whites and blacks in the lowlands
of the Mississippi, occasioned by the
receding of the water. as a,s .u1
4 company has been formed in
Alabama, with capital Of $25, 900,
for the production of native wine.
Douglas 4 Sherwood, the great
crinoline manufacturers in this city,
gave their 780 girls a holiday excursion
and pic mic, paying all the bills and
the girls wages for the day besides,
1t was the handsomest thing, but the
business is profitable and expanding,
and justifies it. .g.-. t-s..r ,r.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
! have decided that crib. biting by horses
is evidence of their unsoundness. s
A Michigan lady, possessing pro-
perty to the amount of $40, 600, married
worthless fellow last fall. and has
this summer given him half her little
fortune to 60 away. .... ......
They have in Boston, n magnificent
dog Of the St. Bernard breed, from
Lucerne; although but fourteen months
old, he measured six feet from tip of
nose to tip of tail; his sire had saved
seventeen lives; he draws children, and
is docile as kitten, except when on
watch a. night, when he becomes furious
at the sound of intruders; his owner
has refused FIVE hundred dollars for
him. .-. ....m. ...... .. t..' /
a boy at work clearing land near
old Fort Recovery, in Mercer county,
Ohio, found under the roots of beech
tree,an iron box containing 800 Spanish
doubloons, $4,000. As he was at
work on another mans land, he left
$4,000 with his father, and ran away
with the balance. ...'"' o'.".....
Cranberries Frost Bitten. frost
yesterday morning was very destruc.
tive to the cranberry crop in this vicini.
ty. Mr.. Fisher, of Dedham, lost one
hundred barrels valued at SIS per bar
rel. A sample picked by him shows
eleven out Of fourteen fros. bitten, on
an average.-Boston Traveller, Aug. IS.
GrassAoppers Chewing Tobacco.
! The grasshoppers in Missouri and some
parts of Virginia are eating up the
tobacco crop. Well, they always were
n disgusting thing, but now they are re-
pulsive. Next year. we suppose, they
will take to smoking! '..'. :
-Four hundred gallons of Intoxicating
| liquors Of various kinds, were seized at
Portland, Maine, on Thursday.
Hog Cholera an Arkansas.--A letter
from Old River Lake, Arkansas, sa VS.
the hogs are dying by hundreds of the
! cholers. ...... .....
No Rain for Ninety Days.-The
! farmers Of Glover Hill, Chesterfield,
Va, dcplore the lack of rain in that
section, whore not shower, of two
hours duration, has fallen for ninety
days. Within radius Of five miles of
Clover Hill, every cornfeld is complete
~ burnt up, many having been scorch.
ed by the raging sun Of June, when
scarcely one-third of growth. 10 some
ten or twelve farmers in the locality,
the crop has consequently proved IL
dead loss. --Petersdury Espress.
| The New York Daily News says -
"a friend informs us that he yester-
day purchased some beautifully red
and apparently ripe peaches from n
fruit ssIler opposite the post office, and
that on peeling them he found them
perfectly green under the skin, the
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