The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-02-01
NEWS ITEMS, &c.

= THE WESTERN Hoe CRoP.-According to a
summary of the Louisville Commercial Review,
based on the actual observation of messengers who
have visited nearly every packang point at the
West, the hog crop will show an increase In num-
bers over season of 1857 and SO of %, 100, de-
crease in average weight of Is 37lOO lbs per hog,
or ll5 40 hogs of 200 lbs each, making net de-
crease of hogs from last season OF S6,9S9.
HILLsBoRo' MILITARY ACADEMY.-Acc
to previous advertisement, the duties of this lnstl-
tuition commenced on the 18th inst. The number
of Cadets entered is thirty-two, fifteen OF whom
are from South Cardinal ......-.. 49,. ....
L1cENsED.-The Supreme Court, on Monday
last, granted license to Mr. Jno, Wilkinson, OF
Salisbury, to practice law in the County Courts OF
this State. - - ..---.-.s.r1
THE LARGEST CorroN CRop IN GEoRGIA.-
The Macon Telegraph says: "Col. Bond, of this
city, has made this year twenty-one hundred and
seventy bales of cotton, which would, at present
prices, bring him over one hundred thousand dol
lars"
VIRGINIA AND EAST TENNESSEE RoAD.-We
learn from the Knoxville Wing that the receipts
on this road, for the six months ending December
81, 1858, amounted to 1896 051: 8 The receipts
for the same months, in 1857, were s23S,6S9.-
Increase SLOT 1862; being increase at the rate of
sirty:fce and u hoIt' per cent.
d. K: McRAE, Eso.-We were Eonored by a
visit from this gentleman yesterday afternoon, and
were pleased to learn from his lips that he
was not going to Knoxville, but that he did in
tend to come to Newbern. -Ne1r6ern ProgreSs
A SAD AccIDENr-Mrs Celia Hammons, wife
of Samuel Hammons, of Yadkin county, who had
been afflicted for long time and was very feeble,
being left alone for short time by the family, it
is supposed got up from her bed and went to the
fire to warm, and feilin the fire and was burned to
death before any OF, the family game in. She had
got out of the fire and was lying on the floor but
was literally burnt up her flesh in many parts
plctely charred 49,. ........
SUFFERING IN MICHIGAN.-The people of Gra-
tiot county, Mich, are represented as being in
very destitute condition, and an appeal has been
made to the Legislature for aid. There are about
600 families in the county, and of these not more
than onequarter, it is believed, have the means of
subsistence until the next harvest. An almost total
failure OF the crops is assigned the of the
existing want ''a-..
y PITIFUL SCENE IN N. Y.-The wife of poor
sailor who is at sea- being unable to paw her rent,
Was, on Saturday night, together with her little
girl years of age turned into the street Delirous
with hunger and despair she disposed Of her childs
shawl for few cents, bought some lalldanum and
after giving SOME to the child, swallowed the re-
mainder. Fortunately the poison failed to accom-
plish its expected work The hapless woman and
her child were found by policeman, wandering
through the streets, and kindly taken care of and
removed to the Amshouse
THE MORTALITY in New York, last year, reached
the very large amount Of 24 49, deaths, which, in
a population of 70o;000, is one death in every 20
of:the population Among the deaths are nearly
fifteen Thousand children. . ..,,a -.
FEMALE LABoR.-In some Of the Western
States, German women are employed as laborcrs in
the field, doing all the work OF agricultural labor
ers, except ploughing, and receiving the compensa-
ton of thi1ty-seven and half cents day, out of
which they find their own board, clothing and
lodging. They are worked in gangs of ten or
twelve in the field, white man experimenting
each gang, just as an overseer does gang of
negroes. Yet it is in these quarters that we hear
the loudest outc1ies about the inhumanty Of
Southern servitude in general, and of compelling
black women to work in the fields, in particular
No Southern slave, male or female, is worked as
hard, and with as little compensation as German
women sometimes are in the Western States