Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-13
N lSCEa.l.ANY.
EASTERN.

y half ~ large as that OF last year.
Tho reported failure Of Silas L. Drew Il
Co., Boston dry goods dealers, with liabili>
ties OF q quarter Of million, creates some>
thing Of . sensation in the business circles
OF that city. One New York firm is said
to suffer to the amount Of thirty live thous.
and dollars.
The 81. Johnsbury tVtl Caledonian
says, in that neighborhood grain has been
mostly gathered into barns Oats are well
filed and heavy, though the straw is much
lighter than last year. Wheat, also, is ex-
celent, and more, probably, has been rais>
ed this season than IN any recent wear
Corn, where it was MOI affected by the dry
weather ssmc weeks since, rs il was on
cayey soil, il large and well advanced e.
ward maturity In many fields it is remark
ably fine. Potatoes will also he abundant,
lnlcss the rot acizc1 them
WESTERN
Illinois ia Jus. now full Of shows and cir.
cGses
Doctul accounts of the ravages OF the
grasshoppers come from Colorado, Utah
Dskota and New Mexico
\ farmer in Minnesota killed himself with
musket, shooting half his head oil, bc>
cause his craps had boen ruined by heavy
rains. II was the third year that the poor
mans hopes had been bhghted, aud he
gave Up the life struggle in despair.
One of the principal hop raising regions
OF the United States is Sank county. WIS.
where over thrcc.quartcrs Of million Of
dollars were paid out for hops last year -
Twice that sum will DO real,7 d from the
crops Of this year. which is better and larger
than tina, Of the last.
4 gunsmith in ST. Louis, having hsd his
store twice robbed, set a trap gun inside
which would be fired by any one attempt>
in; TO opel the door A young man who
was intoxicated tried TO open the door in
mistake for that Of ms boarding house.
when the gun went of and he was shot
dead
SOUTHERN.
The yellow fever is steadily abatin. a.
lndiaaoia. Lsvaccs and Corpus Christi,
Texas. Up e tie Eth there had been one
hundred and fourteen deaths at the last
named place, small town at that.
The Baton Rouge -idrocate gravely in
forms correspondent that the report of
cotton worms eating the turkeys that are
turned into the fields to eat them is fXbr.
cation.
The Montgomery (Ala) Sentinel says
that in that State, very generally, the ar
rangenent between farmers and freedmen
has been for the freedmen 20 receive Q Ger.
tain portion Of the crop. 1t is estimated
that the portion Of corn produced IN Ala
hams this year and falling to the freedmen
a. their portion, will amount TO q greater
number of bushels than the entire corn rop
OF Alabama Of any previous year.
The iazoo Miss Banner says: 1--WE
have favorable accounts from all parts of
the untry in regard to the worms. No
serious apprehensions are at present enter
tained."
The Jackson Miss Clarion says: 1--WE
are gratitied to learn from our exchanges
that the army worm has made but little
progress In the cotton crops of ths State
during the past ten days"
The Ashley county (Ark.) Times says the
Amy worm will utterly destroy the cotton
crop in that section.
Tho West Point (Miss.) Sunny South
says the worm has done great damage TO
the cotton in that vicinity.
The Monroe (LA) Inteliigeacer Of the
2lst has the following John Valentine,
who was employed in Mr.. Gsrrettson's bar
room, in this place. as bartender, has lust
heard Of the death Of an uncle, who died in
Ireland lately. and left John sole legatee to
handsome estate valued at e., 200 900 in
United States Treasury notes John left
Immediately for across the waters to take
charge Of the property"
The Nashville Grzeiic gives the follow
lns AS specimen Of Tennessee farming
"Mr. ". l.. Ewing, OF this county, IN the
year 1860, cultivated about twenty acres of
low ground on his farm, which yielded ON
an average sixteen and half barrels Of
corn (eighty>two and a half bushels) per
acre. lie calculates that he will realize
from the came piece Of land this season an
average Of nineteen barrels, or ninety>tive
bushels per acre. In this connection we
would remark that the crop up the river is
better than for many years"