Middletown transcript., 1868-02-08
I,sn,s OF Neyx..

Her wheat crop for 1867 footed up to over
twenty million bushels, and as it realized
| fully So so in gold per bushel, it follows
that she is to-day $50 900, 900 better off
| for it. Add to that the value of 4, ,000,-
600 gallons Of vine and brandy, and an
almost incaleulable fruit crop, and you
have some idea of the money realized by
the farmers of California last year. 1t is
estimated that this year 900, 900 acres
will be planted in wheat alone. Give the
average of thirty bushels per acre-the
estimate is a low one for California-and
we shall have 30,000,000 bushels of
wheat. This places California in the front
rank of wheat producing States. Her
corn crop is Of small account, and the bar
ley and oat crops will, perhaps, be less than
in 1867, but the aggregate will be enor-
nous and must materially affect the grain
market.
The Kansas papers state that several
cases of poisoning have occurred in that
State from parties eating buckwheat -four,
in which the seeds of the 'jimpson weed
had been mixed and ground. The symp-
| toms are intense thirst, followed by CRYING
and laughing fits, in which the pupil of the
eye becomes greatly dilated, and finally de-
lirium sets in. No one has yet died with
it, but several persons have been affected,
and in one case whole family of four was
thus poisoned.
In 1864 a bill was passed by Radical
Congress authorizing what was called the
"loyal citizens" of the rebcllious States'
to form State governments. In the Senate
an attempt was made to require those
States to adopt negro suffrage. 1t was de-
feated, with only five votes in the afirma-
tive. Now negro suffrage is the corner
stone of the Radical party, and ten States
ruled by the sword, in order that it may
be forced upon white men in the North.
The captain and two sailors of the
schooner Moses Waring, which foundered
on the 18th ult., were picked up at sea by
the bark Minnie Gordon and landed at Gil
bralter. They had been seven days with
out food and were obliged to resort to the
flesh of the mate who had died from ox-
haustion, When they were picked up
they were in the last stage of starvation,
but are now rapidly recovering.
A Mr. Bingham, formerly postmaster at
Abbevlle, South Carolina, but who had
been made Deputy Collector for informa-
ton lodged by him which led th the seizure
of over eighty distillefies- in Abbeyille,
Hart and Ebert districts, was shot recent
ly through the shoulder by some parsen
who is said to have been hired by the dis
tillers for this purpose. 1 -. ~
The Gardiner (Maine) Journal says the
! millmcn, and everybody else almost, are
wishing for rain, for the drought il very
great. The lumber mills are running
half the time on turns, and the paper mills
arc running only about half time Many
of the wells and cisterns are also dry.
In st. Louis father was so utterly
destitute as to be obliged to carry his own
dead child, uncoflined, to the cemetery;
but being unprovided with burial certifi-
cate was compelled to carry the body back
; to the city, and thence again to the place
c of burial
DR. A G Moore, of Baltimore, was
i shot by Mrs. Edward A. Pollard, on the
d 2Sth. Mrs. p called on the Dr. an intimate
: friend of her husband, at the Maltby
y House, to learn Of his whereabouts, when
8 difficulty arose, resulting in the shooting.
A very severe gale passed over England
on Saturday last. 1t did considerable dam
age to property, both in london and Liv-
erpool. Many persons were struck and
c seriously injured by falling timbers, and
: several were killed outright. ~
is Two hundred carriage makers in Port
n land, Maine, struck work last week be-
: cause the employers reduced the rate of
&c wages twenty percent. The latter prefer
C to suspend operations rather than carry
, them ON at the old rate. F7
n A New York restaurant keeper is max
e ing arrangements to serve his customers
I, with horsetesh. He proposes to give them
,e plain sirloin, ribs, f!let steak, mince and
is hash, besides soup, which is to be compos-
: ed of tha-lcgs of the animal
= The mineral and mari lands in Greene
II and Madison, Va. have attracted North
ern purchaser, who desires to buy 100,
l. 900 acres in the mineral region. and settle
'e German colony there.
ID The latest advices from Panama repre-
e. sent that the revolution in Peru has been
De successful. The Dictator was compelled
e, to take refuge on board the United Statcs
O. steamer Wyack, which soon afterwards
ic conveyed him to Chill.
e. During the suspension of navigation Q
i'll line of stages is being run from Eastol
ds Talbot county to Greensboro The com,
Id plction of the Maryland and Delaware roac
/. will avoid any necessity for this year
rs from now
ne Eighteen prisoners escaped from Jail a
3 ST. Joseph, Missouri, on Saturday last
During the melee the brother of the Sher
n if was killed and one of the prisoners Sc
It. vcrely wounded. =
Is, Late dispatches received at London from
.e, Athens report that another battle has TAX
d. en- place between the Turks and the Gre
lat tans, in which the latter were successful
lc- The first Alaska paper was published b,
at the expedition sent by the Western Uniol
ul- Telegraph Company, and was called tn
a. Esqianaur. H.t n