THURSDAyTmAYIi, 1855. A terrible tornado passed over Jeffer 011 and Cook counties, Illinois, on Wed nesday of last week, and caused immense damage. A bouse about a mile from tbe Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad, containing nine persons, was taken completely up by tbe wind and scattered in different directions. Four of tbe persons were instantly killed, and tbe others are not likely to recover. See account in another column. Accident. The " Eastonian" says a serious accident happened to Mr. P. D. Weirback, in tbe employ of Messrs. Seitz & Bro., at Kellcrsville, Monroe County, on Thursday evening last. The brake attached to the wagon, gave way as be was going down a bill, tbe wagon run ning on the horses they became unman ageable and ran way, throwing him from the scat (be wagon running over him, breaking both bis legs. As far as we have yet learned he is doing as well as cau be expected. COURT PROCEEDINGS. The May term of the several Courts of this County commenced on Monday last, t 2 o'clock, before the Hon. Thomas S. Bell, President : and Abraham Lev ering, and Andrew Storm, associates. The commission of Judge Bell, appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. James M. Porter, was read. Col. John Huston was selected as fore man of tbe Grand Jury. Tbe cases on the civil list having all been continued, the Orct case tried was Commonwealth vs. Thos. Cbristman. Indictment for arson. Tbe offence con sisted in burning a barn, the property of George D. Vau Buskirk, of Iloss township. The testimony was of such a vague and in definite character that the Jury, under the advice of the Court, rendered a verdict of acquital, without leaving the box. Davis and Schoonover for Commonwealth, Dreher and Dimmick for defendant. Commonwealth vs. Clark Horn As f ault and battery on the person of Joseph M. Robeson. Verdict not guilty. Defend ut to pay tbe costs of prosecution. ! Commonwealth vs. Patrick Cogan,! Thomas Herndon, John Kelsoe, Patrick Brady, Philip Cogan, John Cogan, John Ivain, James Rogers, James McCormick and John Garner. Indictment for the murder of Patrick Brown, in March last, an tbe Borough of Stroudtburg. The trial of this ca3e, was commenced yesterday, and will not, in all probability, be brought Xo a close before Saturday. This is one of tho most important caseE ever tried in this County, and we can in form our readers, that a case of like im port, was never known, where ten men were arraigned, at the same time, for murder. We will, next week, endeavor to lay before our patrons a full report of this trial. The Grand Jury found the following l)ills of Indictment : Commonwealth vs. William Campbell, Indictment for the murder of Michael Sullivan. Commonwealth vs. Johnson. Indictment for obtaining goods under false pretences. Commonwealth vs. Richard Couuell. Indictment for riot. came vs. same. Indictment for rint.. To County Treasurers. By the 74tb section of the annual ap propriation bill, all County Treasurers, and other officers having charge of mo neys belonging to tho Commonwealth, are required on the first Monday of June nest, and at the close of each month there after, to pay over to the State Treasurer, or to deposit at Euch places as the said officer may dbsignate,4thc entire amount of collections of tho proceeding month; and they are also required to make out and transmit to the State Treasurer, a statement showing tho aggregate of the amount of money so received and paid, and the amount paid each day. Destructive Fire at Wilkesbarre. Wilccsbarrc, May 20. An extensive fire commenced here this morning about o'clock, at the rear of W. Loomis' aad dlcry OHtuUisbmcnt. This was destroyed S "rMS St0resof Mr. Morgan, Offices of G B &Tf LLMbe Law unices ot (x. B. Nicholson and Mr Bed- or, the hotel of S. H. Putorbaugb an(l the dwelling bouses of Lord Buttler, Dr Boyd and others on the east side of the Public Square. There is morc or lcss insurance on all tbe properties destroved oxcept that of Dr. Boyd. The oiWm of the fire is unknown. It is Hlalod that thero arc between 3 -0,00 nnd 400 houses vacant in N. York n acco,uuJ of the high rents. Virginia Election. The election for members of Congress, Governor and other btate onicers toot place in Virginia on Thursday of last week. The election was fiercely contest ed. Mr. Wise, the Uemocratic candidate for Governor, is elected, by about 8,000 majority. Messrs. Bocock, Millson, Cas kie, Goodc, Powell & Smith, Democrats, arc elected to Congress. Hotelier, Amer ican, is probably elected over Faulkner, Dem., in tbe Eighth District. Virginia has always gone Democratic tbe Opposition failing to turn the scale even in tho Harrison campaign which swept over the country like a tornado. At the last Governor's election, iu 1851, when 127,713 votes were polled, the Dem ocratic majority in the State was 7,141, and at the Presidential election in the succcding year, when tbe aggregate vote reached 129,545, tbe democratic majority went up to 15, 281. At tbe latter elec tion the Whig vote was 3254 less than at the Governor's election, while tbe Dem ocratic vote was 4,930 more. Sale of Stocks. Tbe following sale of Stocks, belonging to the estnte of Jacob Butz, deceased, of Easton, we copy from the "Eastonian." The sale came off on Wednesday of last week : Eleven shares of Easton Bank stock, at 880 per share, to Mrs. P. Keipcr. Eight shares of tho Farmers' & Me chanics' Bank, at 851, to F. W. Noble and Jos. Horn. Two shares Easton Gas, (old,) at S73, 50, to Mr. John A. Innes. One share Easton Gas, (new,) at $72,- iO, to Mr. iMnc. Six shares Easton Water Co., at 87, 30 to John A. Innes. Six shares of Easton Water do., at 0, 50 to Jos. Horn. Two shares of the Belmont & Easton Turnpike Co., at 62 A Cts., to Jacob S. Butz. Hon. John C. Spencer, of New-York, formerly Secretary of War, and after wards Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under John Tyler, died on tho 18th inst., at Albany, of consumption, aged G8 years. Railroad Matters. We learn that the Warran Railroad, which connects with the Central Road near New Hampton, will be opened about the 1st of September. A perfect line of communication will then be bad with tbe coal-fields of Pennsylva nia, and the Central Road will become the most important highway of the State. The work of laying a double track on this Road is being vigorously prosecuted, and it is expected it will be completed as far as Somerville, a distance of 23 miles from Elizabetbport, by the first of August. Tbe Bclvidere Del ware Railroad com pany have commenced laying their track from Easton to Belvidcre. The Road, it is thought, will be open to the latter place by the 1st of August. The Main Line Offered for Sale. Governor Pollock announces that "by authority of an act of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, approved May 8, 1855, there will be exposed to public sale, at the Merchants' Exchange, in the city of Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the 24th day f T..l toon i 1 Tl -r .1 Ul tfUlJ., XOOU, HI irj O UIOCK, 1. iU., the whole Main Line of Public Works be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg, con sisting of the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad, the Allegheny Portage railroad, including the new road to avoid the in clined planes, the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania canal, from Columbia to the Junction, the Juniata Division of tbe Pennsylvania canal, from the Junction to the eastern terminus of the Allegheny Portage railroad, and the Western Di vision of tbe Pennsylvania canal, from the Western terminus of the Allegheny Portage railroad to Pittsburg, and includ ing also tbe bridge over tbe Susquehan na at Duncan's Island, together with all the surplus water-power of said canals, and all the reservoirs, machinery, loco motives, cars, trucks, stationary engines, work-shops, water-stations, toll-houses, offices, stock and materials, whatsoever and wheresoever thereunto belonging." From California. --More Gold. The steamship "George Law" has ar rived at New York, from Aspinwal. Her California dates are to the lat. She brought 1,324,000 in gold. The Legis lature was still in session. The Walker Expcdidition for Central America was a bout to sail. Gold had been discovered at Santa Island, San Diego County. Murders and lynching were as abundant as ever. The intelligence from the mines was favorable. Trade was more active at San Francisco, and large exports of flour and grain had been made for Aus tralia. A cargo of California wheat had been purchased at 75 cents per bushel for New York. Pennsylvania. At a recent election in Chambersburg, Pa., one vote elected tbe three town Auditors. It was not gen orally known that they were to be voted for. One single individual, familiar with tho charter of the borough, voted for those officers. 1 licv were of course elected, and he selected them. The borough was sur- prised. V The Place to Live in rCalifornia flour is selli Per bbl.; in Philadelphia flour sells at S13. Wheat in San Francisco is 1,25, and m Philadelphia 2,60 to 2,70. As wages, too, arc much higher in California than on thin side of ihn TTninn U m,,. be very hard to live In F ranc?co. A Terrific Whirlwind in Illinois. Chicago, May 24, 1855. Accounts reached this city last night of a most ter rible hurricane and whirlwind in tho town of Jefferssn, Cook county and other pla ces north and west of here. On Tuesday afternoon a revolving fun nel shaped cloud passed swiftly along near tho ground, about sixteen miles north of here, carrying up largo sticks of wood, stones, &q'. It described a semi-circle to wards the southeast, twisting off large trees and whisking them out of sight in stantcr. The whirlwind then broke in two and disappeared, but almost imme diately formed again, and passed direct ly back, north and west with redoubled violence It struck a heavy frame bouse one mile from the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad, tearing the roof instantly off, and almost immediately afterwards tak ing the whole house up the spout with all its contents. Nine persons in the house were drawn up and burled down in dif ferent places. Four of them were instant ly killed, and others mutilated beyond any prospect of recovery. The whirlwind then passed over a post and rail feuce. lcavinsr not the slightest vestige of it. It next took a barn, and threw it upon the horses and cattle itcon- . 1 1 ll - 1 rPl, ?ni taincu, crusuing lueiu ui ouu. o.uu um bers of the house and barn were burled down to the ground with such violence as fo hnrv them almost out of sight ! The ' - j house belonged to Mr. Page, whose wife, son and two grand children were killed. Additional intelligence from tho locality more than confirms the above, ivecounts are given of persons being carried up one hundred feet in the air, and then hurled down with great violence. A number of eye witnesses have testified to tbe ravages of the tempest and described it as most terific. The same afternoon, a severe hail storm occurred in this city, after which the sky presented a very singular appear ancc to the northward, and the weather changed from the most oppressive beat to tbe most chilling atmosphere. , . ... i o o .i ... i .. Counterfeiting no Crime. Judge Metcalf made a decision at Beiie- fontainc. a short time since, which will attract much attention. A man was in dieted for uttering and forging a note for two dollars on the State Bank of Connec ticut, at Hartford. A writ of habeas cor pus was sued out, and after full argument and consideration the prisoner was dis charged, on the ground that the law of tbe State not only forbids the circulation, passing, or transfer of bills of foreign banks, of a less denomination than ten dollars, but in its section it declares, 'all such unlawful paper shall be held in this State to be worthless, and all contracts iu relation thereto, null and void, and any disbursements, or payments, or exchange tor other property or value, or attempted to be made therewith, of no effect what ever.' The act charged was no crime within the statute of forgery, because no harm or advantage to any one results, f .i .1 l Ml v j n i m i wuemer ine diii De iruc or laise. ine genuine is declared by tbe statute, worth less and void; it has no legal existence in the State, and cannot be the subject of forgery, for there can be no counterfeit without a real thing. Philadelphia Sun. Quite a number of members of Congress left for Europe in the Atlantio yesterday, intending to proceed direct to Constanti nople and go thence to Sevastopol' on a tour of recreative observation. Wo pre sume they will not care to make very mi- nute-reconnoisances between tbe works of the combattants unless the white flagshould be seen floating from the ramparts of the hostile lines. Iho tour is a characteris tic exemplification of American curiosity and enterprise. The gentlemen who pro pose to extend their travels thus far are Messrs. Wasburne of 111., Grow of Pa., Morgan, Prindle, and Flagler of this State. If they don't get shot or otherwise perish from Crimean exposures it is their purpose to return in season for the public duties which await their presence at Washing ton in December. Neio York Tribune. Mr. Jones, having spent an evening o ver his bowl, went home a little "how come you so." He was fortunate enough to God his better-half asleep. He went to bed, and after a moment's consideration, he thought it would be policy to turn over,! lest Ins breath should betray him ; when Mrs. Jones opened her eyes, and in the mildest manner in the world, said: "Jones you needn't turn over you're drunk clear through." Oi At Paw Paw, Michigan, a cow exhibi ted symptom? which led to the belief that she had been bitten by a massassaga, (a small species of rattlesnake) and in order the more readily to doctor her she was put into a barn which was occupied for stabling three horses. The next inornin" on entering the barn, the cow was found dead, and the horses had all become blind and stiff. They were removed to the open air, ana aiter being moved around ai bled, recovered their sight. It is supposed me impure auu poisoneu atmosphere gen erated by the cow must have occasioned tins state ot things. The horses have since quite recovered. Hard Times in Arkansas. The Ar kansas river having nearly dried up, the Little llock (Arkansas) Gazette gays : "lucre is not, in Little llock, a barrel of flour, a bushel of meal, or a pound of cof fee or sugar for sale. Flour would go off rapiuiy here at bio a barrel, and corn meal at ?2 a bushel; sugar and coffee would sell for any price. There is the greatest scarcity of every article of pro visions or family groceries. We don't know what our people will do." The Skaneatlcs Democrat records the achievement of a wonderful hen belonging w i'ii. iiituciu, oi uiac village, wiucu lays an egg at nino iii the morning, one at noon, and a third at three o'clock, P. M. "Sam's" Biography. Distinguished men, like Greely and Barnum, have beeen giving to tbe world biographical sketches of their lives. This is all very well, but there is another and more important personage, whose history has never been written, but whoso life is full of interesting events. We allude to "Sam." Rev. Mr. Brooke, of Washing ton, has given a brief outlino of his life, which we give bqlow : "I said I did not know who "Sam" is, but I believe I can give a part of bis his tory. He, liketbe Pope, is a 'historical character.' He was born in the Garden of Eden, and when the world was deluged safely rode out the storm with Noah in the Ark. He was busy at the Tower of Babel; be wandered with the children of Isreal in the desert; he was in tho train of Miriam, when she sang her inspired song. He blew the loudest ram's horn trumpet when tho walls of Jericho fell; he clothed John the Baptist, and was with him on the banks of the river; be held the chains of Paul when be appeared before Felix. "He had a hard time between tbe Popes and tbe Inauisition, but it was him who led tbe voung Luther to tbe dust-colored Bible in the old monastery. Ho was with the Pilgrim Fathers of old Plymouth memory, when they crossed the ocean; he laid the corner stone of the Protestant church in the colonies, and it was he who stirred up the old and young, rich and poor, the high and low in the oppressed colonies, that. even the mountain boys knew 'Sam' was about. "He introduced Patrick Henry to the House of Burgesses, when he, with his heart overflowing with patriotism, and his voice clothed with the power of thunder, gave utterance to those immortal words 'Give rac liberty or give me death 1"' The Mormon Immigration. The Vallev of tho Salt lake is being rapidly peopled with Mormon immigrants from all quarters of the habitable globe, and the work of propagating the princi ples of this singular sect is nowsystemati cally carried on by ciders and missioua rics iu almost every civilized and as well as semi-savage countrv. J hesc men la bor with a zeal untiring, a devotion that knows no limits, suffering hunger and i CO thirst, privation insult and contempt, for the advancement ot tbe faith they preach and profess. The great object sought to be attained by the Mormons is the estab lishment of a mighty theocracy, in the val ley of the Salt Lake, where they may en joy, without fears of molestation, the free exercise of their religious and social opin ions, lo this end the most strenuous ef- i i -i ions navo oeen maue to promote immi gration to Utah. Not only from the Uni ted States and Europe, but even from the remote Asia and Africa, In every sea port of any consequence in this country and in Europe, Emigration Agents are located to give .information to the inqui ring, and to aid those who desire to go to Utah, and arrange for safe aud speedy transportation to that distant country. All along the line of travel, too, other a gents are in waiting with the necessary supplies for tho journey, and under tbe auspices of Mormonism the great land voyage across the plains is now almost as safe as a journey from rew-xork to A! bany. The faithful of the fold of Latter Day baints whose poverty prevent their under dertaking the journey, are forward at the expense of the "Perpetual Emigration lund. Wealthy men among the sec support this fund by their contributions and those who are sent out at its expense mortgage a certain portion of the proceed of their labor after arriving in the happy valley to repay the cost thus the fund l made perpetual. The season for emigra ting is between November and April: this season the Liverpool agency havo sent off over 3.600 immigrants, of whom above 1,100 were sent at the expense of'the fund Heretofore these immigrants have usually entered this country through Southern ports, avoiding New-iork altogether: bu it would seem that the aversion is wearing off. Yesterday the packet ship S. Curl ing brought to New-York 570 of these immigrants, and the ship William Stetson is on the way hither with 293 more. We believo there arc still other vessels now due hcrcladen with Mormons. Neio- York Tribune, May 23. Robber Shot Dead. Buffalo, May 2G. Last night, about 12 o clock, two robberies of a bold descrip tion were committed at Fort Eric, Cana da, and the residents of the place being aroused, pursued one of the robbers hotly to the river, where he seized a small boat and made over to Swan Island, and when they landed, tho robber named Townscnd. the leader of a desperate band of mur derers, snapped a pistol twice at the fore most of his pursuers, John Magood, but lortunatciy without eitcct. Magood, who was armed with a rifle, then shot Town send through the head, killing him in stantly. Thr Indians in Kansas, St.. Louis, May 2G. We have intelli gence from Wolf Iliver Kansas, to the 17th inst. Plenty of snow is reported on the mountains in that locality. The Si oux tribes of Indians were moving in lare numbers towards Fort Laramie, talking of war. Col. Cook left Leavenworth on tho 15th, with a detachment of infantry and somo cavalry for Fort Laramie. Several thousand warriors were at Ash Hollow. Famine in Georgia. Accounts from the northern part of Georgia reprosent that many people in that section are with out corn or the means to procure any. Ti : i r.i ,i - j-uuiu ia uuue ior aaie, anu mere is ser ious danger ot famine. Horses r and mules are turned out into the wilda to wait for grass or starve, bo that no plough ing can bo done, and planting must be done with the hoc. Unless relief be ex tended, the poorest classes of that flection must perish. Hew School Law. A supplement to tbe Common School was enacted by tho late Legislature. In dependent shool districts are coutinued until June 1st, 1856. Courts of Common Pleas are authorized to continue existing independent districts permanently ; if de sired, to determine the rights of property. Ten days notice of the application and time and place of hearing, in such cases, must be given to the bchool Directors of the district. When independent districts are continued, the assessors are to desig nate the taxables therein, for the informa tion of tax collectors and county commis- T1 T C lUA a1aI sioners. provision is maue ior iuc suc tion of new directors in districts where none has taken nlacc, and the old direc tors are continued until the expiration of the term. If twenty taxables petition for tbe formation of a new independent dis trict, tho. Court of Quarter Sessions must appoint commissioners to view and make rnnnrt. as in the case of new townships, the cost in such cases to be paid by tbe new district, if it be erected, or, if not, by tho petitioners. Courts of Quarter Sessions are to determine tbe right of property, aud to decree tbe payment of money in the nature of a judgment. County Com missioners are to cause seperate assess ments for school tax in new districts, and send to the Superintendent of Common Schools a list ot tbe taxables therein.- In any county where a majority of the school districts shall apply to have the salary of their local Superintendent in creased, the State Superintendent shall call a convention of the directors of the whole county to decide thereon. The Penn sylvania School Journal is designated asthe official organ of tho State Superin tendent, to contain current decisions, cir culars, explanations, &c. One copy of it is to be sent to each board of School Di rectors in the State. All boroughs and townships now connected in the assess ment of county rates and levies are here after to be separate. Tbe school tax is limited to subjects certified by county com missioners. School directors and treas urers are exempted from serving as tax collectors. The State appropriation to the respective school districts to be paid for less than four months' schooling in districts where bona fide efforts have been made to comply with the provisions of tbe law requiring the schools to be kept open four months in the year, but have failed, from want of teachers, or timely knowl edge of the late law, or other causes, which may be just and aud satisfactory to the Superintendent. Prentice's Last. Two or three papers in the interior of Kentuoky are occasion ally attacking us, and a friendly corres pondent asks why we do not "castigate them." 1 he truth is, they are altogeth er too small. A woman once handed her cryitfg baby to her husband, requesting him to make it hush. It continued to cry till she got out of patience, and then she called out to her husband, "I do wish you would spank that baby." "Yes," said he He fumbled about for some time, and at length she angrily exclaimed "Amt you a going to spank the baby? "I would," he replied, "but indeed wife, I cant find any juace big enough to cpank" Loins villc Journal." Beauties of Slavery. Cincinnati, May 21, 1855. Elijah Williams, a rich planter of Barnesville, bouth Carolina, arrived in this City to-day with eight negroes, one of whom was his wife, six his children, and the other bis wife's mother. The object of bis visit here was to manumit the whole and settle them in this State. Just, how ever, as he stepped from the steamboat into a carriage he fell dead. The negroes having been brought here free under our State laws, had previously willed the estate to the negroes. are of course Mr. Williams whole of bis Cholera is said to have already broken out at Cincinnati, and tho papers of that city are calling on the local authorities to make early preparations for it bv clean- ing the streets, and removing every cause ot unwholesomeness. The State Fair in September will come off at Harrisburg, the people there hav ing contributed the nineteen hundred dol lars required to secure it. Hard Times. The receipts of Grisi's 17 concerts in Boston, amounted to S45, 000. A mocking bird was sold in Phil adelpbia last Tuesday for 47, and a poo die dog for 825. Quite a severe snow storm ia reported to have visited Well's River Yt., on the 2l3t. Mail Matter. On the 11th inst.. a horned frog in a small box, was received in New York from Texas, through the ,v.;i rpi. i i . -i mail. o-uc uiuuiuiu uuu ueen ten nays on the route, and was alive and kickin when the box was opened. Is it 1 rue. It has been rumored hero for three or four days that -Mr. Jno. Emery who left Upper Mount Bethel for Uixon, Illinois, about tho 1st of Aoril. had been robbed and mnrdered on the road. We could not trace the report to any very reliable source, and feel inclined to doubt its truth. Mr. E. was nuito a wealthy man, having taken with him over S20.000 principally in drafts. Argus. Gentlemen of the medical profession in some parts of the country, are now faniil- y called "Snipes," from the unconscion able length of their bills, fig-Thc assessor of Huntingdon town ship, Loraine oounty Ohio, states that during the past winter 3,000 sheep, 250 cattle, and 9 horses, died from starvation. Ono hundred and ten thousand herrings were taKen on the Viroinia side of t ic L'otomao, at ouo haul, on Thursday. Crop Prospects. Tho question, 'What ia the prospect for our next crop!' is on almost every man's oucue. On that acoount every authent ic report of the state of the weather, ap pearance of tbe growing grain, or extent of land planted, becomes unusually inter esting this season. From all that wo can gather Irom ex changes and a mass of private correspon dence, we arc led to indulge in pleasing anticipations, all prosent apppcarances indicating a good wheat harvest and a- bundance of fruit. Uf other grains iar- mers have planted 'one acre more' almost universally. We shall need it all. The crops of England and Western Europe were very largo at the last harvest, nev ertheless they did not suffice to meet tbe increasing scale of consumption in face ot diminished or rather absence of all stocks, together with tbo withholding of the.-. Black Sea supplies. In this country our supply of grain has never been so low as it is now. Our stock of meat-producing animals has also beer: so drawn upon that we are consuming tho; next year's supply in advance. In this City beef cattle have been SIS' and 15 per cwt. net for weeks. Sheep average about 85 a head and hogs a lit tle under 6 cents a pound, live weight. Nothing but good crops of grain, grass and roots can materially reduce the price of breadstuff and meat, which at present rates are almost beyond the reach of City laborers. There is still time in all tbe Northern States to plant corn. Then come beans, pumpkins, rutabagas, buckwheat, corn for fodder and turnips. Let no one who has the means neglect to grow some of these to sell. K Y. Tribune. JJj3 So much for the prospect Xortbr and West. In the South, however, tbo crops are not so promising. The Daily Dispatch of llichmoniT, Va.r May 19, says there are alarming fore bodings of famine on account of tbe se vere drouth now prevailing in the Southv In several of the other States couth they havo had copious rains in sections of tbe country, while others remain too dry for any kind of vegetation to go forward. At St. Louis there has been a scvero drouth, but the papers of the 17th speak of heavy rains and most encouraging prospects. In North Alabama the drouth has been very severe, and some of the wise negro drivers have been pulling down tbo tele graph wires under the bcKef that tfiey were the' sole cause of the drouth. In Texas the drouth prevails to a great er extent than any other State in the U nion. It cannot be said that telegraph wires produce the drouth there. Delaware is very dry. We hope our great rain of Sunday reached there. The Rice crop, it is stated in some of tho Southern papers, is not doing well. Some attribute it to an overflow of the rice lands last fall with salt water at a time when, tbe earth was very d?yr and that it absorbed a3d retained so-mucb of the saline matter that it now affects the young plants. This is very probable, for a slight degree of salt in the water of tho river when it is let on the field is enough to destroy the crop. The Tobacco CRor. The Raleigh (N. C.) Standard speaks discouiagingly of the tobacco planter's prospects. There is a great lack of plants, and those that have been planted out are not growing on account of the dry weather. A London paper states the consump tion of tobacco in England at over one pound for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom, and that the con sumption is on the increase. In Den mark the consumption is given at seven ty ounces per head. A short crop will affect these tobacco eaters. The Iowa Election, for a Commission er of Public Improvements, a Register of Lands, and for one other State officer, is officially reported to have resulted in the election of the candidates of the Repub lican party by the following majorities: Majority for McKay, 47157; majority for Lockwood, 3922; majority for Hart, 441 1 . In the fifth judicial district, heretofore strongly Democratic, the Republican can didate forjudge was elected. The pro hibitory liquor law is adopted by 2010 majority. Gov. Rceder has left Washington, it is saiu on his return to Kansas, but without any special support from "the Federal Government, or any promi-e of the sol icited aid to subject the mischief-making Missourians to law and order. It is sup possed that he intends to face all hazards in tho discharge of his duties. Freaks among the Peach Blossoms. Dr. White, the postmaster at Union Star, Ky., in a letter to tbe Louisville Courier, notices a singular fact: In that section throughout every peach orchard thero has been a greater bloom than for many years past, and upon examining the blossoms a singular phenomenon is obser vable. In some orchards, for every blos som examined, there has been found in side tho cups from one to as many as sev en well formed peaches, and a large ma jority of the blossoms have three or four m them. This has never been observed in that part of Kentucky before. A bright young chap down east has re pressed the opinion that sooner than mar ry a woman ot ntty, he would take two at five and twenty. An editor out West says that he felt called upon to publish Father Walworth's sermon on the "Location of Hell," as it was a question in which nearly all his readers were deeply interested. A late number of the Brookvillo A meriean announced tho destruction of the editor's hat, whereupon the Connersvillo Times impudently wonders if there wore any lives lost '
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