Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-12
Gonaense0 Stems.

Accounts from Delaware represent the
peach crop as a failure. On new ground in
Maryland, Eastern Shore, there will De a good
crop.
The New Haven Courier says the potato
vines III that State are being eaten by worms,
SO AS to destroy the prospect OF a crop. Com
plants are made by farmers oil Long Island
of a similar worm. In New York worms are
destroying the trees; none but the ailanthus
escapes them. f. ~,
The Worcester Spy estimates the product
OF one pear 4ree in that town, since 1850, at
$3.50. The sales were counted the three last
years, $2l, $29, $25, and about $40 worth,
ut selling rates, used ard given away each
year.
The Coles County Gil. Ledger says farm
ers have been obliged to pay 50 so to % so
a day for harvest hands.
Wheat is represented good in Indiana. La
porte county will have a surplus, as it is stat
ed, of 100, 900 bushels.
Grasshoppers are devastating things in
Chester County, Pa. They are very destruc-
rive upon all lands affected by drouth.
Frazer River was first known in 1893, and
reported to the British government by Alex.
Mckenzie. In 1872, Mr.. Simon Fraser,
Spelled with an s. al attache Of the Fl. B.
Company, traced the river down for about
600 miles to its mouth, in the Gulf Of Geor-
gia. From him it takes its name.
There is a man in the House of Correction
in New Bedford as a prisoner who is eighty
six years of age. There is also d woman in
like condition who has lived out the allotted
years of life-three score aud ten. Offence
selling liquors contrary to law.
The Ice Cream Saloons in New Yerk are
being " chewed up" by the city papers. 1t
is said that the amount of liceHtiousness carri-
ed on between their gilded walls would, if
published, horrify the whole community, and
pull the wool from the eyes of many devoted
husbands, in high life, who dream not of the
criminality with which their names are con-
nected by the intrigues there carried ON.
Two very pretty girls of very bad character
were arrested at Munster the other day, and
among their effects were found the cards OF
several members of Congress. The girls say
they received them at Washington last winter,
and speak in the highest possible terms of the
gentlemen whose names are on the cards.
their concentrations should be specially pub
lished to the constituents of the members con-
cerned.
Alme Poupland, the celebrated naturalist,
traveller, and co-laborer with Humboldt, died
near Montevideo in May last, at the advanc-
ed age Of IS years.
The Cincinnati Gazette says the grapes
crop in that vicinity is an entire failure.
Barnum, it is asserted, is engaged to give
a series of lectures the ensuing winter in Lon
don, on " Humbug, Money-getting and Money
losing" three subjects he has perhaps studied
more intently than any man living, and likely
to become highly popular.
The last government sales in California did
not return enough to pay the necessary expen-
ses, and it is supposed the sales next Februa-
ry will not be any better. All through the
interior, the value Of real estate is merely
nominal since the rush to New Caledonia, and
even at San Francisco sales are making at so
per cent. decline on the value of two or months
since.
DR.. Howard, Of Bradford, Vt, is finally
confined in jail. His name is among the most
Infamous of living criminals, and his recent ar
rest was upon four indictments. two for man.
slaughter and abortion, one for an assault with
intent to kill, and the fourth for som other
outrage not specified. His bail was fixed at
ST, 900, which he could not procure, and he
will probably sprOut in Jail and vegetate in
State Prison.
The amount annually expended in the con-
struction of railroads in this country since 1850,
has largely exceeded the whole expenditures
of Government, end the railroad receipts for
the same years have surpassed the Govern
ment receipts.
The whole amount Of money for charitable
purposes given away during his lifetime by the
late Amos Lawrence, of Mass, is said to be
six hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars,
a fact which rests on the most positive evidence.
A musical festival GU a monster scale, such
being a biennial custom in Switzerland, is now
about to come off at Zurich. Ten thousand
musicians, vocal and instrumental, are this
time to swell the choral anthem and deepen
the rich diapason. A banquet where IL, 900
SwltZers and their guests are to traternise I'M
der the canopy of the Helvetic sky is part of
the announced performance.
The population of Leavenworth, Kansas, ac-
cording to a recent census, is 5000. 1t con-
tains 1850 buildings, 400 of which have been
put up this season.
The challenge to a duel between Tom Mar
shall and Tom Porter, of Kentucky, has been
announced. The challenge came of, but the
fight didn't come on.
Notwithstanding all the impertinent stories
to the contrary, John Dean, (the former
coachman, is living quite happily with his
wife, over in Williamsburgh.
When you go 80 drown yourself, alw avs
put off your clothes; they may fit your wife's
second husband.