Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-14

MONDAY EVENING. ..........MAY 10.
Crop PrOspects for 1897.
The New York Commercial publishes up
ward oftwo columns Of reports on croI
prospects, comprising one hundred and ter
accounts from different localities, North and
South. oil Of which, with but four or fv,
exceptions, unite in representing the pros
psct ~ being most encouraging for both
cereals and fruits. In lllinois, Indiana,
kansss, Tennessee. and especially Missouri,
very large yield Of wheat is anticipated
The farmers Of these and other States de-
voted large arss 10 THE esssal lass ss>
tunn. Owing 70 backward spsiag. Ices
ground than usuai viii b. Devoted . tebss>
60 10 Ksatueky. while tobacco growsss 10
Connecticut and Massachusetts, are srsdu>
ally turning their attention TO other pro.
ducts. The reports from the Southern
States are encouraging. Considerable more
territory appears to have been devoted to
seed las, fall than is generally supposed
A Chattanooga paper asserts that there will
ne more wheat harvested in Eastern Ten
nessce than during any previous year.
Prospects were never better in Virginia.
The same is true Of Georgia. Though there
rs suffering now the prospect Is that the
Southern people will have abundance OF
food as soon as the harvest 10 gathered.
Fruit is reported fatally frost bitten in
some sections Of Illinois.
The 81. Louis Republican Of the 9Th inst
states that the frost in St. Louis on MONDAY
night last was very severe. Teaches en-
trely destroyed. and ounces and apples
badly nipped; tomato plants, peas aud 9TH
er vegetables wilted down and s,rawber, lei
destroyed 10 some places.
The wheat crop in West Virginia ia good
bat failure Of fruit 10 anticipated.
Although the wssshss has been very colo
for the season and the frost severe in thia
region also, We have ascertained by sxami
nation that nesther iaeipiens peaches Or any
other kind Of fruit Il injured up to this date
and the prospect IL excellent for . COED
fruit crop u III varieties in the nsiehbos,
hood Of this city. Tho reason Why III,
ftui. buds hsss have not been injured b.
the frost IL bscauss the speiae hes bsss
Uniformly eeld and The buds have senss-
quently matussd very slowly, enabling them
70 beoons acelioated gradually to the cold
in which case they will stand an unusual
amount Of frost without injury. KeokvA
Osnsfitweios.
The 0eA 0lver Netsle nens.
II there are any part Of the British pos,
sessions to the north Of us which seem
likely to become disintegrated and TO drop
into our ownership. they arc British Col.
umbia, and the region now known - the
"Rcd River Settlement" The people Of tn,
latter region have the most reason to pray
for annexation. Their trade and communi
cations oil sccka channel by way Of Min
neso,a, and the people are well-nigh isola
tel from their loyal follow colonists.
The worst feature Of their condition how
evcr, is the fact that they have not even the
advantages Of coonists. for they are ruled
by trading company from whose injustice
there ,spraciically no appeal. The Nor
~es'sr, the organ of these people, v in a
late ISSUE that the feeling against con,in-
"encc OF tAis state Of affairs il becoming go
strong that the propricty OF assuming
",iuatior Sovereignty" is openly discussed.
Ii doubtless expresses the common senti
ment when IL says;
That fur trading monopoly can have
any interest IN common with farming,
grazing aud mining community is felt TO be
Impossible, il isA government which will
sell you saltpe're. writs or writing paper,
will furnish you as part Of their business,
with liquor or marriage licenses, pemmican
Law, justice, painkellcr, powder, peanuts,
or IN fact anything that is in their line Of
trade. They AIM 10 BE- an independent mo.
ncpoly. aud nc 'orningly, may interpret and
execute their own laws. grow, grind, and
bake ,ncir brcadst ffs. aud carry their own
freight, aud In fact are practically not de>
rcndcn, on tho people for anything"
Tho nnequslled wheat region which OK.
tends from 81. Paul to the Red River set
Element will before many years be tho home
vi a vast prosperous and homogeneous
population, all II whom will virtually be
long to the United States. although they
may possibly be separated for time hv
imaginary political lines, to their and our
INJURY