, 1864-06-21
THE CROPS.


Illinois.
FROM STEPHENSON COUNTY.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Trlb1ne,1
Fns1poRr, ILL.,. Monday. Juno %, 1854.
4 fine rain took place bere On Saturday
morning. There we're showers all about US.
The wheat crop promises tTo-thiras, the
hay crop one half Barley and corn are good.
The crops generally on the prairies are fair
to good; in the timber, medium.
80. FROM 10 pAv1Ess COUNTY.
Especial Dispatch to the chicnso Trlbune.1
INDEPENDENT OFFICE,
WARREN, Monday, June 70, 1864.
There has been no rain here for the last
six weeks. Vegetation is suffering. Wheat
is not very good. Oats, middling but short
and thin. Rye, the same. No grass on the
np1antls; middling good in sloughs. Corn
on dry land is very abort and has poor com
plexton; on damp GROUND, Is very good.
It looks so1ne like rain to-day.
1LL1So1s CENTRAL RAILROAD.
THE following are yesterdays special dis
patches from points named along the Chicago
brar ch Of the Illinois Central railroad, ns far
south as Champaign couuty:l
b1ArTEsoE, WILL Co., Monday, g. H.
Heavy rain fall on Sunday morning.
lLo1UhEY f44-l1 w., NuuuAJy p. H.
Heavy min ial1, just the thing that was want.
cd.
KANKAKEE, KASRAEEE Co., Monday, a. NJ
The heavy rain fall within the past twen
ty-lour hours has cone much good.
LoDA, FORD Co., Monday a. m.-Wo had a
good rain yesterday.
PAXTON, Monduy, p. m.-Bless the Lord,
rain at last Everything looks well
URBANA, CHAMPAIGN Co., Monday, a. H.
Ne Ind a heavy rain- 1t has been OF meal
cnlable benefit to crops.
CENTAA11A, Monday, noo,.-We have had
no rain.
WEsorA, MARSHALL Co., al miles eonth Of
Lesalle, On the Illinois Central main line, J
Monday June oo.-Wc have had no rain tal1
to do any good. It is very dry.
WOODSTOCK, Monday a, m.-{50 miles from
Chlcago)-1t rained Sunday for about fifteen
or twenty minutes, and slight shower last
hight.
PALATINE, Monday a. m.-(Thirty- one
miles from Chicago. eHad good shower
Saturday night towards morning, and it
raincd very little yesterday. Rain enough
fell on Saturday night to give the ground d
good wetling.
CHICAGO AND RoCK ISLAND RAILROAD.
There WAS rain on the Rock Island Rail-
road all the WAy from Chicago to Bureau. q
distance of LII miles. West OF Bureau, the
lines IRE down, and we are unable to say how
much farther west the rain extended.
WIsconAin.
Especial Dispatch 10 the Chicago Tribunal
MADISON, Wis, Monday, Jnne -, 1864.
There were heavy showers In this vicinity
yesterday; in some localities an inch Of rain
has fallen, wettipg the ground several inches.
Very little fell in the city; south and south
west Of here It YVES heavy last night and to-
day.
1t will make the winter wheat crop fair,
and Will help spring wheat, oats and barley,
Int it is too late to bring them up. There
will not be near IN average crop.
Nine cattle were struck by lightning near
here yesterday.
t6peeial Dispatch to the Chicago Trfbune.l
LACROSSE, Wis. Monday, June 70.
Yesterday fine showers took place here on
Sunday, with northwest wind.
The country mall carriers both sides Of the
Mississippi river report the same yesterday.
Telegraph communication between hero
and st. Paul is interrupted to day By Sun
days storm. There were showers on Satur-
day, Sunday and to-day between here and
Milwaukee. The crops suffered severely last
week. Sundays showers were inestimably
valuable. The weather to-day is hotter than
desirable. VIII report soon scout Mime
eota.
[NoTE,-The following dispatches are to II a.
NJ. Monday.-Eps. TR1B.1
GREEN Bar, June 30.-Not drop for three
*tkccks.
NEEsAu u--None-looks like a thunder
storm.
OsuKosu-Narry drop.
FOND DU 1AC-Noue.
M1SkEsorA JUNcr1oN-Had very slight
ehoweF here yesterday. Ralned all about us.
On Lacrosse road 1t rafned from Horizon to
Hartford, and from three miles west of here
10 poducah. Looks showery to-dty.
JusEAU-Few drops Of min yesterday
PraJed all day yesterday for rain, and the in
oicntfons are We will have q thunder storm
this afternoon
FogT A1K1Nsox-Had slight shower
.etterday-not much 1a1n ten.
JASEsv1LLE--Abour q pint Of rain yester-
Cay.
EHARos-None.
From Town.
FROM BUCHANAN COUNTY.
lSpeclaI Dispatch to the Chicago Tribunal
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa, Monday, June 20. 1851
There arc fair prospects, for crops In this
vicinity. Splendid Tains have visited US for
tie last two days. Wheat Ia not materially
hiit cted. Corn is looking finely.
FROM MADISON.