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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

The Live Oak Times says:-Good crops Of grain
have been made this year, and the harvest will be
plentiful.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

The wheat crop now being harvested in South
ern Ohio, says the Toledo Blade, is the finest cut
for many years. It is free from all the ills wheat
Is heir to.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

correspondent writes:-The crops are looking
very well in Orange county, where the corn Is from
twelve 10 eighteen inches nigh. Wheat Is being
harvested all along the road from Charlottesville.
anu the prospects are much better than expected
three weeks ago.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
LOuisiane.

LOUISIANA expects this season to have the largest
sugar crop since the memorable harvest OF 1850.
The Rayville Beacon Of June IA ys:-Corn
crops In the neighborhood Of Rayvtlle are higher
than mans head while sitting on q large morse,
and LOOK like they have Just commenced growing.
we never saw finer fields OF corn In our lifetime
than some we have recently looked upon within .
mile OF this place. No such thing as thought OF
famine in this country though from US the outside
world may hear Of WARS and rumors oil wars"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
CALIFORNIA;.

The hay crop In the vicinity OF Santa Cruz, Cal,
win De only about onehalf the yield Of last year,
and hay s worth from SIS to $40 per ton.
Last year California produced 20, 4500 900 bushels
of wheat This year the crop will iully equal that
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
ndinnesota.

The wet weather Is reported to have much in
jured wheat in the country between Hastings and
Red Wing, MINI.
The crop prospects along the entire line OF the
Northern Pacific road in MINI scotia are very natter
ing indeed. Wheat ana corn are both looking as
well as they could possibly under the crcum-
immense.
Never in the history OF Minnesota has the prospect
looked 80 flattering for all kinds OF small grain.
The whea., oats and barley give promise or an
abundant harvest. Potatoes also look WELL and
there is prospect that the crop will not be seri
Onsly troubled by the potato bug. An enemy has
appeared which Is rapidly destroying this pest.
The corn crop looks bad the cool weather and fire.
Quent rains Affecting 1t seriously.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
Delaware.

The peach cropin Delaware promises this year to
exceed any former season. In some localities the
production will not be equal to that Of last Sum-
mer while In others IL Is SAID there was never
known such promise Of plenty.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

The wheat harvest has commenced in southern
Kansas.
Serious apprehensIons, says the Fulton Press
are entertained that the chinch bugs will cut the
crops short unless the rains should be frequent
They are preying upon the wheat, oats and corn,
and some fields OF the former have been mate
rally injured.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
Oregon.

In Oregon all the crops are doing well, and
much larger yield is expected than was ever har
vested in that State.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

Ohio.

In all parts OF Nebraska the crops are repre-
sented as being in fine condition.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
Michig q n !.
letter from Paw Paw gives very dscouragng
account OF the crona. Il SAYS

letter from Paw Paw gives very discouraging
account OF the crops. II says:-
The farmers here say that the crops never have
failed since the country was settled, but the pres
ent season Is very discouragfng The peaches were
all killed by the hard Winter. that Is certain The
strawberries promised well, but this long.contin-
ued drought has literally crlsped the vines IS II the
fire had run over them, and the supply has sud
denly been cut on. One man here, VINO makes
strawberries specially, says his crop viii be TWO
hundred bushels short OF last year.. The wheat,
which Is always Winter wheat, has lived through
the winter, but was fully half killed by the cold
Spring after the snow went on. The corn was not
planted as early usual by month, and there has
not been drop OF rain since It was planted. What
has come up looks very sickiy, indeed-it looks Ike
'sma corn, and yellow corn and half crop" The
potatoes might live through the drought, but
there's their deadly enemy, the potato bug. This
may be an exaggerated picture, but It IL exactly
as II looks to me from what hear farmers say to
each other.
Frost in the vicinity OF Kalamazoo, Mich, last
week, injured corn In the lowands.
A Lansing, Mich.,. correspondent says wheat is
looking well, bat the Spring crops poorly. The
late season and dry weather have not been propi-
tiOus.
Dundee. Mich. and the complaint 10 general OF the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

For over five weeks the section OF country along
the Hudson River has been without rain, except
slight shower several days ago. For many days
the heat has been intense the mercury in the ther
mometer ranging among the nineties. For three
or four nights past no dew has fallen, and the
country is suffering terribly. The hay crop on up
lands Is entirely destroy ed but that on I0wands
safe yet for week, II rain comes within that
the meadows and sowing fodder corn, fearing they
will have nothing for their stock II the drought
tnues. Oats on rocky, dry lands are completely
gone. Rocky and gravelly land has turned as red
us q I0x.
Potato bugs have arrived In Niagara county.
The editor OF the LOckpOrt Journal was presented
with twenty Of the pesky Things.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
Mississippi.

The Yalobusha Times says:-If this showery
weather continues we have no doubt but many
patches OF cotton will have to be abandoned. The
corn prospect is probably better Most OF the corn
fields received one good working before the rains
set In, and in consequence that crop is ahead Of
the grass, "Rain, rain, rain ~ is the cry in Cnicka
saw county.
The Brandon Republican, speaking OF the grass,
remarks The sun does not shine long enough to
kill 1t after 1t is cut up and the next shower starts
1t TO growing again. Corn, where 1t has been
worked and Kept clean, looks splendid; but a
drought OF ten days just now would ruin II. With
out drought the cotton crop Is everastingly
ruined.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28
Es AND EARS.

A RTIFICIAL HUMAN ByEs-T. J. DAVIS, IN
"A ventor and only maker Of the improved Assiaosl
correct Imitation OF nature IN the world III East FE
teenth sWeet between THIRD and Fourth aveaucA
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-28

The wheat harvest has commenced in earnest
around Acton, and the hum OF the reapers can be
heard in nearly every wheat field throughout the
surrounding country and the prospect is that the
yield will be large.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28
ONLY se,ooo,ooo,

In another column, correspondent makes th'
bold accusation, and fortifes it by a reference Il
the records, that the Board of Revision has actu
ally assessed the value of the property of oul
citizens nine millions OF dollars higher. than il
was assessed by sworn officers. On this sun
they have levied a tax tnat is about two per cent
higher than the tax of last year, and seven pei
cent. higher than tho tax levied by the Democrats
when they had majority in the City Conncil in
1871.
If the assessment by the Board of Revision is
$4,000 00e higher than the county assessment, il
is direct invitItion for the county to come for
ward and raise their assessment to the same
amount
And what would this do! Just look at it. A
levy of one per ceat. By the county on this sum
would take from the city in addition to the
present county levy $4,000. This is the way the
city has been dong, while the county keeps lis
assessment at a cash valuation, as required by
law. The same law requires the city to assess at
a cash valuation. But the Board Of Revision
nbandOns the law, although it is printed on every
City tax bill.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28
U.AR sRaSws

IAs terma Of ha3Gollo log banned Unitsd
Sutes Senators expifb on u al. q March, ls1B
EUgcno CepserIf, 1fnoeFae 0all rnia VIM D.
klngha9, Nepuolcau Coah epicut; Tho lz
:, Bayard Der 1crat, Dclawape AbIjah GIlb h,
Rep pblican, Florida DanlolD. Pratt, Republican
Indiana; Hannibal Hamlln, Republican, Maine
Charles Sumner, Republican, Massachusetts,
VIM. 4. Hamilton, DemOcnt, Maryland; Zacha-
rah Chandler, Republican, Michigan Alex.
Ramsey Republican, MipneSota; Adelbert Ames,
Republican, Mississippi Carl SohurE, Republican,
Missouri Thomas w. Upton, Republican, Ne
braska; VIM. NJ. Stewart Republican, Nevada
John 7. Stockton, Democrat New Jersey Rem
ben E. FentOn, Republican, New York AIlen
G. Thurman, Democrat. Ohio; John Scott, Re
publican, Pennsylvania VIM. Spngue, Repabli-
eau, Tennessee; Joseph W. Flanagan, RepublL
can, Vermont; Arthur L. Boremau, Republican,
West Virginia Matthew II. Carpenter, Republi
can, Wisconsin. tt....s
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28
Political News.

The Democratic State ConvsatiOn met a
WilkesbEre on Wednesday. Hon. James r
Ludlow, Of Phlladelphia, was nominated for JudgS
OF Supreme Court, and F. NJ. Hutchinson, OF Ale
cheney, for State Treasurer. Resolutions wert
adopted similar to those Of the late Democratic
Convention of Ohio ..I
The Republican State Convention OF Mssissip-
pi met at Jackson on Wednesday, q majority OF
the delegates being coored. General AdeIbeTt
Ames vas nominated for Governor on the fra
ballot, he receiving l87 to 20 for H. @ Powers the
present incumbent.
1t Is reported that the Young Democracy" Of
Boston wall present sx-Mayor Eastou to the Dem
ocratic State Convention Of Massachusetts, 90 Q
candidate for Governor.
The Prohibition State Executive COMMITTEES Of
New York. and committee appointed by the
Sons OF Temperance, after consultation with other
radical prohibitionists have decided to call
State Convention, to meet in Syracuse, on Sep
tember 18th, 10 nominate q State ticket.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28
For the GLzEr1E


Mr.. johnson II have been q voter in this city
now for almost forty years, and notwithstanding
have sometimes been set down as a violent part.
iEan, think can say truthfully, that in most in
stances in all that time, as far city or mu-
nicpai elections are concerned, thai have fall
ed TO adhere strictly to party usuages, bat have
made 1t my business to select what / have con-
ceiVed to be the very best men FOR the city's in-
tersst, from both parties. This being my record
in the past you may well suppose l vas very
much gratihed on reading the proceedings Of q
meeting held IN the Fifth ward on Monday even
ing last. feel encouraged because think 1
see in it determination ON fhs part Of the voters
to arrest or at leas. to put a check on the reck-
less outlay of the peoples money, that has been
carried on for some yearp past in this city Il is
always q hopeful sign of the times when men of
standing, property holders make up their minds
to lay aside party politics, far to go for good
substantial men We have known 1t 70 be the
case sometimes that the very best men have been
shelved by their own party merely because they
could not be made To- DO tbs bidding of their
leaders / have in my minds eye, at this time,
one in the old Third ward (noW OF the 7th) who
because he could not be prevailed on = DO ali
their bidding was very quietly laid aside to give
place to q more plant tool. ~
It is evident that the people are tired q the
present rule, and If full and free EXPRESSION can
Be had from the enlightened voters OF TINS city,
there is not any doubt bat very greatly desired
result will be reached. I know Of uOthlng that
will couduce to reform 80 mach e. the movement !
lboVs spoken Of. Mr.. Pnssy Is good man, safe 4
nan, therefore let every one that has the eity's
gellfare at heart cone oPt aud aud vote for bin.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28

Not CONCEDED. We do not concede as assum.
ed by the Gazette, "that Mr.. Vincent has no sucn
skill rs an accOustant as would make him suitable
for book keeper for a irm, much less a Treasu
rer for manufacturing Company" Republican
The Republican has abandoned its defense Of
the Council tor e1pendiug $4,000 or $4,000 in
the purchase Of hospital buildings, that, according
to its own admission, are mot demanded" and
not necessary" and turned its attention to itl
candidate for city Treasurer. Bnt it makes almost
as lame sn effort to bolster up the qualifications
of this gentleman for the Office a, it did to excuse
the Council. The whole truth lies IN the fact that
the circumstances are against the Republican, and
1t finds it up hill business, left alone as it has
been, TO do all the work Of the Ring.
It will be observed that the Republican REPLIES
to the Gazette alone, as though it were the only
peper that informed the people Of the utter want
of qualifications in Mr. Vincent to discharge in q
sklllful manner the duties of City Treasurer We
did make such charge in reply 10 the Repu5Lj-
can. 1t was our bounden duty to do 90 as q jour
nAlists having the welfare and ssEety OF our nierh
hors, friends and subscribers in view And we
did 1t aside from any partizan bias. We candidly
sly that we detest the practice of putting iucom-
petent men in certain class of Offices and this is
oae of that class.
But the Gdsefte is not the only paper that has
made the assertion. In fact we believe the Repu5.
bean quoted tho wOpis Of ereditlng them to
the Gazette. This ruse will not serve the ReDnJ-
iicGn 1t is ashamed Of its course, and shrugs its
shoulders over the doses which IFS party has made
1t swallow The misfortune would be light, how
ever, if the matter ended here. Bat it does not.
The nominations by the seven hundred negro vo-
ters may possibly be forced down fhs peoples
thrOats by the votes ofthese same ..Degroes And
then may como the misfortunes We dread The
vary idea of running city hospital at cost Of
$1,000 to $4,000 when the city treasury is empty
is an absuFdity great as that Of elsCtiag man to
the Treasurership who is acknowledged to be un-
equal to the proper performance of The duties of
the Office. t.....
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28
Whore do they Ret tne RIght :?

Where doea the City Council get the right to
set up city hospital and run it an expense OF
$4,000 year? They have made no appropria-
tiOn for this purpose. Where Is the money to
come from viii they dare make another assess
ment after the election They cannot do THU.
Some OF the appropriations have already been
expended, and they have gone beyond their duty
in this hospital matter. The movement has been
hOsty in the extreme and unless a change is made
In the Council 1t will coat our people fully S1OO,
coo in less than year.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28

The DELAWARE GAZETTE. established 1854
is the largest and most AOurishing weekly n the
State. and has a larger circulation than any other
ON the Peninsular. Published every Friday morn
ing at g. q year. in advance.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28

THE DAILY GAZETTE is published every afternoon.
except Sunday at 416 Market street. and served By
carriers 10 subscribers ia all parts Of WiiminEtOp
and the surrounding tow q aud ViIisEea. lforlsiI
cents a week. payable weekly. Yearly sabsOEibars
IS in advance.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28

4 kAccEPTED.-We are authorized 10 state that
Mr. Samuel n. Pusey has accepted the nomination
for the City Council, rendered by the independent
voters of the Fifth Ward.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28

~ tN.s -17sss Hrat-ssaa.asra tasaasass--.
Asvi9g takoa GFeat Raias q RrpeaFa OarofpL.
laetlon. We GuagAAtaoia . snpDly thranghOnt tha
entfro season. FHNEFTES y .
GQgdes By mail will receive 'DromUs attsntion.9
heg.ep =. WAEfOH. sse s~BAADhBHa bAMma.ss.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28

The Supreme Court Of South CArolina yes~
terday decided the case Of Morton, Bills = %,
bondhOldsrs, against the Stale Of South CaFolina
The decision, which covers 100 pages oftegal,
cap, Is "adVerSe ~ The tax-payen."
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-28
CuF1Ous Case of fRevlvlRcatI0n-A Young
man Supposed Dead and Packed In lee
Brought 20 Life.

WEsTMINsTER, Nd, Aug. 26.-There was no
little excitment here to day Occasioned by the
following somewhat singular incipent: VIM. A
Matthias, young man % years old, who has
been engaged for the past six months in selling
sewing machines in the city and immediate
vicinity, died, as it was supposed, about three
o'clock Sunday evening with brain fever. He
vas placed in ice, and there remained forty hOurs
To-day the relatives and friend of the family
assembled together for the purpose Of paying
their last tribute Of respect TO the dead, when il
was noticed his skin had assumed quite naIur-
al appearance, and on further examination ii
was found that life vas not quile extinct. He is
now 10 the hands Of the physicians, and from
last accounts was doing well.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
THE IOWA VOTER.


somehow or other one railroad In
illinois has been allowed to do ~ i
p!eased about obeying the new Law
Of that State regulating freight char
res. Ever since the first of July, ths
date the law went irro effeca. the
aren't of this railroad has contracted
freight shipments with grain dealers
AID Others here for points eastward
without regard 20 the law. In fact
the company desired to have the
lles,ion AS to their right TO charge
what they pleased for freight gather
"A in another Sfate tested, but the
Illinois Commissioners seem 20 have
-hosen not TO test the question. The
lad We refer tolls the Peoria d rock
island. And now we see that a
yriter in the Inter Ocssca takes uf
ae question thus presented, and
makes sweeping argument on the
Joints involved. He contends tha.
congress alone hss the power TO reg
.late commerce among the several
states, and says:
Freight passing from Iowa 10
Chicago belongs 10 the Interstate
sonmerce Of the country. The rail
says over which il may bet-ansport-
81 may charge what they please for
tae service, regardless OF the law
Il Illinois. Freight from Chicago
- Iowa comes within the same
euie, a. does all other whose
transportation is not confined TO the
mits or Illinois. Freight may he
,'&rrieI from Council Bluff, or Dies
I1ines, Davenport or Burlington,
Y any other State save Illinois, to
hicago for nothing il the railway
mpanies so elect and the law OF
illinois he inpotent to interfere. Ii
he charge upon freight from Rock
stand to Chicago should be one dol.
AR per hundred pounds, still, freight
freight may be transported from
Davenport to the same destination
for half that rate without a breach Of
he law Of Illinois. The former be-
,ngs ~ the domestic commerce Of
illinois; the latter to the commerce
among the States. The State OF ILL
aois cannot afford to have any other
rale established, nor can any other
iaterior State. The delegation To
6 'ngress OF power to regulate com
nserce among the the States was one
IL the wlsest acts Of the trainers of
the constitution"
The Illinois Commissioners will
probably never care TO test the legal
.ty Of the charges Of the Peoria com
isany for freight from Davenport 10
'iiieago or Chicago 10 Davenport. 80
DiU3ipoyL Gdsetke.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14

"a rcstrain their monopoly VIII Oe
suffered TO extt among them.
RAT beeiSaes tins rich region m
endless range al valuable tsituminoas
coal spreads through Fcnnsyivsnia
Ohio. Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
M,chigan. aud reaches far down
through Western Virginia 10 the
mountains oi Northern Alabama.
| We can supply the world WIFE fuei.
| The canned and block Goals 81 the
Western states ARE already coming
into use. But as yet the vast ile'ns
af coal have scarcely been touched,
aud the kanaUha mines OF Western
Virginia alone are capable OF a limit
l,sss ;,-s,iuctton. With such re-cur-
cas- we may well wonder why there
should ever he d dearth oil coal.
Why is II that coal which can ee
nourh; at the mines for two dollars a
ton ar less is sold in New YORK for
seven: The cost is plainly irehie-l
In the transportation OF distance of
les than two hundred and sometimes
not more than one hundred miles.
A cheap freight railroad running
into The coal districts ui Pennsyiva-
MIA. Ohio. or West Virginia might
reduce The price OF fuel one-haif. 1t
l. rrproach 10 the energy OF our
people that when coal lies In unprece-
dented masses all over our wonderful
country We are content TO be ruled
by few great compAiies, and suffer
all the pains they may choose IN
their ayarice To infiict.
But the future o. the coal trade j.
still more suggestive. Soon the
mines Of Pennsylvania and The West
must supply the fuel of the world.
The mines OF England, yielding 49,
010, 900 tons year, already sho"
signs of exhaustion. Coal ha. dOub-
led in price in England within three
years. English iron manufacturers
are turning their attention to the
United States as the scene OF their
future successes. 1t Is rumored III
Philadelphia that a prominent Eng
lish firm engaged ia building steam
ers has resolved 10 remove with ali
its capital aud labor 10 the banks -
the Delaware. Ii Is not unlikely
that West Virginia and Pennsylvania
will soon supply the factories o.
Europe with fuel, that the great iron
works of the world will follow the
line OF coal from Pittsburg to the Ten.
nessee; and it seems more than ever
the duty of the national government
TO prevent this great trade from iaI.
ling into the hands Of mon0poll,ta.
1t Is the cost Of transportation aloit
that raises the price of fuel. a gov
ernmant railway penetrating ths
West from New York TO Chicagt.
seems to be The only means Of open
ing to the world the immense nlasses
Of coal that lie everywhere scattered
through the inaccessible country.
Our export OF fuel aud the growth oi
our iron factories depend upon thu
cheapness Of coal. 1t seems the duty
Of tho national government to pro
vide ut least economical Transports
ton; and the best mode Of tempting
the steamship builders from TIA
banks OF the Clyde to the Hudson OF
the Delaware would be to provid'
q sufficient communication between
the mines and the sen. Nor with n
government route would the grear
monopolies ever be able to prey npolt
the furnishing people. --Harp.r :
Weekfy.