The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-18

rains all around us, we, in this immediate
vicinity, have suffered for nearly four
weeks from drought. Our gardens are
nearly dried up.-Natiue Virginian.
The corn crop in this county, notwith-
standing SO much of it was planted unusu-
ally late-some of it after the middle of
June-is looking thrifty and promising.
The area in acres, we think, planted is
fully equal if not greater than that Of last
year. Should the season be o good one,
there will be an abundance Of that valuable
and indispensable crop-enough to make
up the deficiency in the wheat CROP
Shenandoah Herald.
Our wheat harvest is over, and we are
pleased to learn from farmers in every sec
ton of our county that the crop, both as to
quantity and quality, is one Of the best
raised in the county for many years.
Stanton indicator.
Rain is much needed. The wheat and
rye harvest is over in this county, and
the yield is said to be good, The growing
corn is doing very well.-WVhcriHe Dis
patch.
A Richmond (Va.) dispatch of July 9TH
says: "Mark Grayson; pedestrian, lett
here to-day to walk to Omaha, making sixty
Democratic speeches on the way. The trip
is to consume forty-seven days. lie car
ries flag marked Democracy" The Omaha
Republican remembers this Grayson as
gentleman who "played a short engage
ment in this city year and half ago
played himself out, stole watch from his
mistress, pawned her trunk for his board
bill, and skedaddled. Of course he will
make Democratic speeches if he makes
speeches at all; but we advise him to give
Omaha wide berth in his wanderings, as
the officers here are on the lookout for
him.
The wheat crop around Fredericksburg
will turn out better than anywhere else we
have heard of. Hayden & Ellis make about
twenty-five bushels Gambler whca) to the
acre at the Fair Grounds, and sixteen per
acre at Chatham and Hoomes & Dicken-
son make about sixteen per acre Mt Mrs.
Fitzgcrald's old place. - Fredericksburg
Ne,rS.
1t is stated that Mr.. Sumner has already
received two letters from colored citizens of
N1dsSdCuuStllS W lis fiS"o otA
colored senator's, to his heightened senate
rial term, and asking if he will not prove
his sincerity by retiring from the contest
and advocating them as his successors.
There will be another concession Of prices
for dispatches over the Atlantic cable after
the lst of September. The rate will then
be $3.50 in gold for ten words between
any part of Great Britain and New England
and New York.
We have the dreadful fact from Dr.. Har-
ris, the registrar of the Board of Health,
that $50 deaths have occurred as direct
effect of heat, in the Metropolitan district,
during the last three days.-Ne,o York.
Times.
At the annual sale of Kentucky horses
at Woodburn, ffty-four head Of yearllngs
brought $21 ,9l2-an average Of more than
S405 each.
G, C. Taylor, of Baltimore, and Senator
Bayard, of Delaware, sailed from New
York on Wednesday in the steamer China
for Europe.
The mere catalogue Of scientific serial
periodicals published in Europe in the pre-
sent century is l,4O0, filling g printed
pages.
A Canadian Frenchman has been exhibit
ing himself in Northern Vermont who is
eight feet high and weighs four hundred
and ten pounds.
Farmers in Northern New York are said
to be selling their wool freely at thirty-tlve
and thirty-seven cents.
A young woman in q western town, 1t Is
said, has been fined 80 for kissing young
man against his will.
One-ffth of the population Of that part
of Algeria visited by cholera have been
carried off by the epidemic.
The figs are beginning to ripen. Soon
there will be an abundance OF this delicious
fruit in all parts of Southern Louisiana.
Twenty-Five new churches will be COM
menced or completed this year at Chicago
at a cost of over one million Of dollars.
They have street railroad in Warsaw
Ind, though the town has but 5000 lnhao'
itants.
Garibaldi Is suffering 80 severely from
rheumatic attack that he is compelled to e
on crutches.
All the magistrates elect in Shelby
county, Ala, are negroes, and not one O.
them can read or write.
New counterfeit ffty-cent currency haI
made its appearance-said to be well exc
cuted.
Tomatoes are rotting by the million upoI
the vines in Florida for the want of ship
meIt.
Among the new converts to Grant an'
Colfax is Martin F. Conway, Of Kansas
| formerly Of Richmond.