Litchfield enquirer., 1860-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE DROUGHT IN kAssAs.-The unprec edent- ed drought has afflicted the territory for upwards of fourteen months. Vegetation in ksnsas csn stand great deal of dry weather, but as early as July (the thermometer up to l2O degrees in the sun,) the ground was parched, the corn suffering badly, the wheat, which was ripe, yielding next to nothing oats almost total failure and the best wells were failing, and some entirely dry.
 August brought no rain, except q few scsnty showers, and no hope. The ground had become 30 dry that it cracked in large Assures even on were dying, in some districts, for want of water
 No dcws fell during the month. Potatoes were dying and buckwheat, the last hope of many far mers, promised no return.
 September came and all kinds of crops were past redemption. Cornfields were harvested, but the meager return was o(teE only cod with ker- nels from quarter of an inch to an inch apart. On the Waukarnsa there were thousand acres of corn that did not produce even a pound of fodder. Many families were living on scanty allowance of corn bread and water. In the five towns of Topeka, Monmouth, Soldier, Mission Creek, and Tecunseh in Shawnee county 2,954 acres of wheat were sown, which yielded only 435 bushels. or an average of about one serenh of c 6,lshelt to Me acre. In the same towns there were were planted s,3ls bushels of Indian corn, which yielded 5,le7 bushels.
 A story has been started that cave has been discovered in Florida, bearing an inscription in the Latin language, certifying that it was visited by Europeans in the eleventh century. Who will certify that the inscription was not put, where it was pretehded to be found, in the nine teenth century? The Danes have long claimed that their ancestors visited this continent before Columbus lived; and Cardinal Wiseman says there are manuscripts in the vatican at Rome which say that this country was known to Cath olic missionaries in the tenth century Bring cut those documents, General Garibaldi, as soon as the Pope quits Rome.
 A horrible discovery has been made within a short time at the church of the village of Buo- logne, between Paris and St. Cloud, which is now under repair. Underne ath the altar of the Virgin there has been found the body of q young1 girl of fourteen, who disappeared three yegs ago, and of whom her parents, inhabitants o1.ne place, have never since had any neW The neighborhood is in a state of great e,cltement on the subject. The girl is describsr as having been very beautiful. She had bsn to her first confession shortly before her 1aappearance
 The Times says the Mes>a Keeney of Man. chester and E. Colt of tIs city, have purchased the large steam mill 2 ehe late Pacific Co.,, on the Green at Manckster, with portion of the machinery. for S9sOOO. They are erecting new knit goods the Norfolk Knitting Company, with fhe eIachines invented by young Kilbourn of No,Sk. They widen or narrow knit in the slea,S S,and make an undershirt of very superior dssflptlon, as all can testify who saw their goods Ythe State Fair of '55. e TIE END.-Whether we laugh or cry, creep 8 r hop. tremble or rage, hope or fear, believe or oubt, we shall all meet in the grave. But there d one thing that will profit us-a clear pros e ect there is one thing which will endure L ustice and one thing which medtates for us c .ove. U The Milwaukie Sentinel says there are now t bout one thousand orphans in that city, render Q d % by the lady Elsin calamity. h