Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-25

limits within which some OF ltD excessive.
ly prudent friends have 80 long sought to
restrain and regulate it. We can only, of
course, conjecture what will be tho pro-
duction of iron in 1881. But if We may
judge of the unexampled prosperity of the
railway interests, and Of all the advanced
forms Of iron manufacture, the production
this year may be quite Is much q surprise
in pig iron as in cotton.
Meantime 1t is beginning to be apparent
that the American grain crop this year
would be far average one, and that the
demand for it from the Old World will be
sufficiently large and vigorous to give
ample employment to the export trade:
while at the same time there are undeni-
able evidences Of crop failures and def.
ciencies in various countries of Europe
and Asia. Here, then, We have the three
great leading conditions by which to judge
Of the prospects for the continuance of
which has placed us SO advantageOusly in
the international exchanges of the civil
lied world. We shall have all the cotton,
the grain and tho provisions tho Old
World may want, and we shall probably
be able to supply all our own wants in the
way of raw iron and steel. so that We shall
not need to call upon England, Belgium or
Germany to aid us in that respect.
Tho Harvests Of the World.
The volume of reports on the harvest of
the different countries throughout the
world, brought out by NJ. Estienne annu-
ally, is now being issued.
The reports of the wheat crop in France
are this year from over larger area and
Indicate better crop than last year.
This ~ ylou &c not co nvnod in 1000
but it is fairly good. The maize crop is
very ordinary. Oats and rye are fair.
On the whole the crops are not up to
those of last year, but wheat is not much
below the average. None of tho crops
will be very bad, but none will be very
good.
The crops in Great Britain are described
as follows Wheat is ten per cent. below
the average, and likely to realize only ten
million quarters. Barley is ten per cent.
above the average and oats are twenty per
cent. below the average. The year is one
in which farmers are not likely to recoup
themselves for losses during the past five
years.
In Austria and Hungary the crops are
good all round. Wheat and barley are
both above the average. Rye is very much,
and oats are slightly under the average.
The reports from Italy agrec that the
crops are of medium quality, and much
below the abundance of those of 1880.
In the Turkish provinces on the Danube
the wheat harvest will be medium. Rye is
good and abundant. Barley is good as re-
CARDS quantity, but bad in quality. Oats
are very much above the average.
All the reports from Russia agree that
the barley is the best crop of the year,
doubling that of 1880 in quantity, but not
SO plnmp and wcishty. Rye is abund-
ant.
Wheat is good throughout Germany.
Winter ard spring sowings arc in marked
contrast, the forming yielding good, and
the latter very defective crops. Oats arc
very good. Barley is thin. None of the
crops are of the average. In the Prussian
states the crops are fair.
The Swiss wheat crop is very poor in
quantity, owing to drought, but in quail
ity it is very fine. Oats and barley are
good in quantity and quality, but thore is
q small area sowE of the latter. Belgian
wheat is far below the average. Barley is
good. Rye and oats are fair. All crops
in Spain are bad. All cereals in Holland
are in good condition. All reports from
the United States agree that the yield will
be under the average.
iI9 persons Burned In a Barn.
Some years ago Russian letters reported
that III persons had been burned in a
barn. Naturally, the story was received
with incrcdullty, but the st. Petersburg
G0los declares that it is only too true. Ac-
cording to this journal, 119 women and
girls employed on a large turnip farm in
the district of Putinol, in the government
of KOursk (Southern Russia), were much
dissatisfied with the bread supplied by the
farm steward, alleging that it was unfit
for food, and threatening to leave off work.
After their dinner they all withdrew to a
barn to rest during the hottest period of
the afternoon. The steward locked them
in and went away but four farm laborers
came and set fire to the barn.
The fire spread rapidly through the
building. which was like tinder, and soon
the whole barn was in flames. The shrieks
of the unfortunate prisoners soon brought
some people to the spot. They could not
help because the doors opened inward,
and already the mass of frantic women SO
.jammed the doors from within as to make
any effort to open them fruitless. Five
women were taken out alive, but so burned
that they died Immediately.
All the remaining ia perished on tha
spot. Ono of the incendiaries went off and
drowned himself straight away the other
three are in prison.