Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-19
General Intelligence.

A recent traveller in Switzerland says 1T farms
and farming IN that country. that n" god term
csd land c,in a. hal there for less than $1,000 10
81 900 per mere. nni the quantity al snci land ~
| one per cent of the entire territory. NJ man
owns more than ten To fifteen s'ii such ground
In that ctnnfry Investments arr male tor securi-
~ rather than nraIt. nnl tw1 an half per cent
il usually sati ,iati,irt.
The hears arr very irnuhcsnnie in Roanoke
county Va. this season aud have c'rmmitfed great
depredaions the corn for which the farmers
have turned out cunning for them. Seven or eight
have been killed within three weeks.
Private adviccs from Buenos Ayes announce
tbnt the steamer Gen. Pinto-. OF the best of
the Buenos Aprean vessels. bad deserted and
gone over to the side OF Gen urquiza. her marines
having mutnied and shot the captain.
The Independent stn,cs TINT the leading silk
and fancy dry goods auction houses in Now forl;
hammered off, last year on six months credit
the enormous amount in value of S3,0O0,oO0 Of
foreign merchandise, consisting mostly ol silks,
ribbons and printed goods.
The St. Louis Democrat censure the citizens for
their apathy in the matter of erecting n suitable
monument to the memory Of Benton--an euter-
prise in which some steps were taken shortly af-
ter his death, since when nothing has been done.
The editor of the New Orleans Bulletin acknow-
lodges the receipt of pumpkin raised in Texas,
which weighed one hundred and sixty pounds and
measured seven feet in circumference.
The late George Brown of Baltimore, among
other requests left $50 600 to the house of refuge
and S25 900 to the First Presbyterian Church in
Baltimore, and $50, 900 to Princeton College New
Jersey.
1t may be intercsing+o note that during the
siege OF Scbastopol, extending over n period Of
eleven months that the enormous quantity oi2,
800 lbs. or ,236 tons Of gunpowdcr was ex-
ded by the English alone: 3,016 tons of SHIT and
shell were fired from 476 pieces of ordnance. OF
which only II bsrst, 2G0 rendered unscrviceabe.
Last Sunday Mr. Trcshaw, late rabbi Of tho
Jewish Synagogue in Quebec was, with his whole
family, consisting Of his wife and seven children.
baptized in the Methodist church in tina, city.
Quite II number of Protestant clergvmen without
distinction of src united in the performance Of
the administration Of the sacrament.
Four boys have been arrnignri lcfurc The supe-
rior court IT Boston indictment charging
them with setting on fire the House Of Industry
ON Duer Island of which they were NANTES One
of the boys pleaded not guilty, and the others
guilty.
Arrangements lave been made with The Grand
Trunk Railway Company Ion excursions from
Chicago and back mt the rate # SIS. Tickets
will be issued to cXcnrsl'n~ts from Chicago, St.
Louis, Cincinnati, Phialcph Baltimore, and
other cities.
Smcthurst, the alleged poisoner, will probably
he purdoned. Some Of the English papers dcs
cribo him an injured unoceht-a victim Of che
mical laundering, and addresses to the throne for
mercy have been presented
Prentice says there some men whe will walk
up to n cannon's mouth. and some women who
walk up to IL lover, without shrinking