Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-07-31

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TsE amoast Of graiD shipped East
from W ash Igtop siOt October, 1856,
foots mp tkus :--Con 2el. 400 bushels
Wheat, $4,000; Oats, 1900; Barley,
2,460; tor which the Asss estimates
that 500, 293 were dis.ribu,edin that Vi
entity.
THE number of students ct Cornell
College during the Academic year just
closed, is as follows Seniors, 2; Ju-
niors, 3; eophomores, l2; Freshmen,
IL; Preparatory, leo ms'es, and III
females; Primary, 70; total, s73.
The Rsv. O. NJ. SPENCER, Of India
napol;s has made known bis acceptance
of the Probes orship Of Languages in
the State Univer ty, and will arrive in
town the present week. He has rented
a house At the east end OF College st +,
aud will soon be d0mestcated in his
new home, for, We trust, . permanent
and happy residence.-lo~a Oty Re-
porter.
HENRY McGuIar of this city Was &C.
vereIy injured on Monday morning last,
(23d,) BY the explosion Of blast near
Clark's mill; his fac being badly
wounded, one eye entirely put out and
he other seriously endangered, and per-
foratcd with fragments Of the rock It,
sclt.-Ibid.
How THE WHEAT CRor Hobbs Our.
A farmer OF this vicinity, Who has Just
threshed 6ne fiell of wheat, informs u
that he expected it to yield IL bushels
to the scr instead of which h. realized
Is. Another expected Is and got 90.
A third, who raised crop Of Fall
wheat, sold the whole lot for 100 BUSH
els. but upon measurement it turned ont
l25. 1t appears that the grain is larger
aud heav er than usual, aud the yield is
generally betteer than expected. II is
is truly happy disappcinted.-M"sca-
tine Journal.
SuEEP.-Six thousand sheep arrived
here on Friday, from Kalamazoo, Mich
igan, over the Michigan Central Rail
road, and left on Saturday for Iowa, ola
the Chicago, Quincy 4 burlington Rail
road Chicago journal.
We hote such information as the fore.
going with pleasure; it shows that love
IS becoming sheep raising State, q
very desirable position that it should
be the constant and unremi,ting en-
deavor Of her citizens to place her in.
Iowa can raise wool enough not only
for home use, but some to spare. Let
The importation of sheep be encouraged
till Iowa shall become an exporter of
wool and Of wooden fabrics.-DubuQue
Herald.
Monstrous Petr'fied Trees in California
Czpt. ]. E. Stevens, Who conducted q
silver prospecting expedition fromMa'ys-
vile to the Black Rock country, . short
time before the Washoe Indian out
break, informs the Ma-ysv:lIe Democrat
CT an extra ordinary discovery which the
expedition made Of q petri6ed tree
Says that journal:
The tree is lying in a desolate region,
about sixty miles north ot Black Rock,
and near what is called II gh Rock Can
on. 1t lay across sever Il small guIchrs
and was patty buried in the soil. Its
length, so far as measured. the top be-
sng deep under ground, was 666 feet,and
and general opinion IF the company,
look ng at it. was that it was from 40 to
Gu feet in diameter. Enormous tree
Capt. Stevens thinks it is Of the same
species As the trees OF Mariposa.
Fragments of other trees of the same
kind, but smaller, are vi,itle here and
there-stumps and butts Of tn rty feet
in lengtl'-aII petr,fed. And it is more
than probable that little excavation
would discover vast primevsl fores,
there buried. This tree lies exactly
where it fell centuries age, far there are
tie up-turned roots, 10 just the position
they would most naturally be, and the
prone trunk bears no evidence Of having
been d s'urbed. 1t seems st,arge that
the remains Of great forest should thus
be fouod in country, now wholly des-
ti,ute Of any sort of living growth what
ever, except sage, brush, and grease
wood, for hundred miles around.
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