HOOllE’S KUKAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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ROCHESTER, JUNE 25, 1853. 
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vor to act in accordance with this suggestion ? 
Ruralizing in Southern New York. 
Rural readers, you have abundant cause for 
thankfulness, that during all these hot summer 
days you are not pent up among the heated walls 
and cheerless pavemepts of a crowded, dusty city, 
but can snuff the pure air of heaven as it passes 
hill and dale, perfumed with the cdor of the 
flowers of a thousand hills, and lave your fevered 
brow and weary frame in the pure and limpid 
water of some tiny lake, babbling brook, or deep 
flowing river. All these are rural delights, the 
enjoyment of which you may well be envied, for 
they are the sure sources of health, virtue and 
happiness. 
Early last week we hied us out into the country, 
with “Express” speed— stopping to enjoy tie 
beauties of Clifton Springs, and the luxurious 
hospitality of our friend Parke, and then hastening 
on through the length of Yates county, one of the 
finest and richest in all this Empire State, dotted 
with villages whereof Penn Yan is chief, and in¬ 
terspersed with well cultivated farms, the superior 
of which is hard to be found. YVe enjoyed the 
beautiful landscape around Seneca Lake, and the 
hill-bound valley on the route from the head of 
the Lake to the enterprising village of Elmira. 
Of villages we desire not now to speak. Ours 
has been a ramble in the country,— viewing the 
rich valleys of the Chemung, Tioga, Susquehanna 
and the Chenango rivers,— enjoying the refresh¬ 
ing breeze from those bright, green hills, and 
communing with Nature in her lovely and majestic 
moods. The hills and valleys of Old Steuben, 
though not among the richest in the world, are 
cultivated by the hands of skillful farmers, whose 
toil is rewarded by bountiful crops, and who en¬ 
joy as many of the rural joys and blessings as 
many who feel themselves more highly favored. 
We have before had occasion to remark of the 
valleys of the Tioga and Chemung, as well as of 
the Susquehanna, and the beautiful country round 
about Athens, Penn., where the waters of the 
Susquehanua and Chemung, uniting, pass the 
villages of Sheshequin and Towanda, and pursue 
their steady way into the classic valley of Wyo¬ 
ming below. The North Branch Canal is nearly 
completed, opening a direct communication from 
Athens, which is four miles from the New York 
and Erie Railroad, to Philadelphia, and to the in- 
exhaustahle supplies of Anthracite coal, with 
which the Wyoming valley abounds. A private 
company are now constructing a Canal from 
Athens to Elmira, connecting the North Branch 
with the Chemung Canal at the latter place.— 
This Canal will be in readiness as early as the 
other Canal is completed, thus opening a commu¬ 
nication to the rich coal fields of Penn., so that 
coal can be loaded directly from the mines and 
unloaded on the New York State Canals without 
breaking bulk. Hardly any section can be more 
benefited than Rochester and Western New York. 
Every year shows improvement in that portion 
of Southern New York along and contiguous to 
the New York and Erie R. R. The completion 
of the Buffalo and New York City Road, connect¬ 
ing with the Erie at Hornellsville, has added more 
to the passenger business than any other branch, 
the trains coming from Buffalo conveying more 
passengers than any other train on the Road, not 
excepting the Cincinnati Express. The number 
of passengers on all the trains fall far short of 
those conveyed over the Central Road, and the 
effort to run trains from Buffalo or Dunkirk to 
New York without change of cars, and as one 
continuous train, has the effect to keep the whole 
line of the Road in uncertainty and confusion, 
causing vexatious delays. This must continue to 
be so until they have a double track the entire 
length of the Read. 
The building of tire Elmira and Williamsport 
Road is going on briskly. The distance is some 
seventy-five miles, aud will connect the New 
York and Erie with the main central lines in the 
interior of Pa. It wjll prove an important auxili¬ 
ary to the trade and business of Elmira, already 
becoming an important point in the Southern 
part of the State. Other and important improve¬ 
ments are projected, the most important of which 
is the Syracuse and Binghampton Road, which 
the contractors are pushing forward with much 
energy. The whole farming country keeps pace 
with the towns in improvement aud business. 
Increased facilities for sending to market, have 
stimulated production until what has heretofore 
been considered a poor part of the State, bids fair 
to rival the most favored in the amount and value 
of its productions. 
In all the valleys along the line of the Erie 
Road grain is grown to a great extent, and we 
noticed the wheat as looking very fine and prom¬ 
ising, and the corn and other spring grains as 
much more advanced than with us. Much atten¬ 
tion is given to the diary, more especially to mak¬ 
ing butter, in which the farmers of Broome, Tioga 
and Chemung are little if any behind those of 
Westchester or Orange counties. Of their butter 
making we have ample notes for future use. 
The lumber interest of this section is immense. 
Thousands of loads find their way to New York 
by -the Railroad, and a much larger amount goes 
down, the Susquehanna in the shape of rafts and 
arks, while from Corning, Elmira, and the smaller 
villages iff that section, lumber goes down Seneca 
Lake, and finds a market along the Erie Canal and 
at Albany and Troy. The immense resources of 
Southern New Y'ork have been but scantily de¬ 
veloper], but that little is sufficient to insure for 
it, at no distant day, a rank equal to that of any 
other part of the State. t 
The Weather, Crops, &c. 
During the past week the weather has been un¬ 
usually warm,—the thermometer marking over 
90° in the shade on several days—and generally 
favorable for the growing crops. The wheat crop 
is being more or less injured by insects iu this 
and other States, and may fall far short of former 
anticipations. An intelligent correspondent, writ¬ 
ing from Wayne county, June 20th, speaks of the 
weevil in that section, and adds :—“ I fear this in¬ 
sect is doing much more damage this than in any 
former season. The wheat crop looks very prom¬ 
ising, but when you see the weevil as I have seen 
it, you will be ready to drop 50 per cent from your 
expecations.” 
We give a few paragraphs relative to the crops 
in other and distant sections : 
Indiana and Ohio. —The Indiana State Senti¬ 
nel says : “ Wherever we have traveled in Indiana 
and Ohio, the prospect for the wheat crop is not 
favorable. It is everywhere more or less injured 
by the Hessian fly. The Mediterranean wheat 
has escaped with less injury. In some places we 
have seen whole fields that will not yield the 
seed. There is very little old wheat in the coun¬ 
try, and the new will fall far below an average 
crop.” 
Virginia. —The Richmond Enquirer, of the 
17th, says: “Judging from the tone of our ex¬ 
changes the prospect for the forthcoming wheat 
crop is less favorable than it was a few weeks ago. 
This is owing chiefly to the appearance of the fly 
and joint worm in various places, by which exlen- 
sive injury is said to have been committed. In 
some of the Southern States the cotton and other 
crops have suffered from drouth.” 
Connecticut. —The crops in this region are usu- 
usually forward and promising. Corn never look¬ 
ed better. Many farmers are busy getting in their 
hay, even thus early iu the season. Laborers are 
in great demand. Many of the apple trees iu this 
county aud, indeed, more or less throughout the 
State,* are suffering from the ravages of the worm. 
—New Haven Journal. 
Maine. —The Portland Advertiser, cf the 18th, 
says: “ The crops in this State are now generally 
in a very flourishing condition, and afford bright 
hopes of plenty.” 
In this vicinity the canker-worm is committing 
great ravages on the apple tree. Trees which a 
few weeks since were covered with blossoms, are 
now blasted, and have the appearance of having 
been paitially burnt.— Boston Traveler. 
We have made diligent inquiries as to what are 
the prospects of the wheat crop in our vicinity, 
and find that while there are some fields, and even 
some considerable sections which are injured by 
the fly, the majority of the crop is very superior 
and large.— Wheeling Gazette. 
The grass and grain crops never looked finer in 
this State, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and 
doubtless all over New England, than at the pres¬ 
ent time.— Boston Journal, June 16. 
The Southern papers very generally complain 
of the backwardness of the cotton crops, owing to 
the unfavorable weather and drouth. 
The farmers in the vicinity of Louisville com¬ 
menced cutting their wheat on Friday, the 10th 
inst. The grain is large and full, and of the finest 
quality. 
An Exhibition of Flowers, Strawberries, Cher¬ 
ries, <kc., is open in Corinthian Hall, this (Tues¬ 
day) P. M., under the auspices of the Genesee 
Valley Horticultural Society. The display is very 
creditable,—but as this number of our paper was 
nearly ready for press before the exhibition opened 
we are unable to particularize. By the way, why 
did not the proper officer furnish a notice of the 
time of holding this show, for publication in the 
Rural ? We wish to ascertain, and so do other 
members of the Society. 
Locomotine Explosion. —A locomotive explo¬ 
ded on the New York & Erie Railroad near Sus- 
quehana station on the 16 iost.—killing several 
persons and severely wounding others. The en¬ 
gine was engaged in pushing a heavy freight 
train up the grade, and had run almost half a mile 
when the dome of the boiler exploded. The per¬ 
sons killed aud wounded were laborers on the 
double track, with their wives, who had been al¬ 
lowed by the engineer to ride on the engine, in 
violation of the express regulations of the road. 
Blackwood’s Magazine, for June, contains a 
choice variety of original articles, among them a 
poem from Bayard Taylor. New York: L. 
Scott & Co. Dewey, agent. 
6(riries{)0i()cleii)ce. 
Notes from the Capital. 
Albany, June 20, 1853. 
Eds. Rural :—The past week has been one of 
unusual activity aud interest in the three Houses 
of the Legislature. (I presume that all know 
that the Bobby is called the third house.) 
First in order and importance is tlie passage of 
the Resolutions to amend the Constitution, for 
the purpose of bringing tbe public works to a 
speedy completion. The Conference Committee, 
referred to in my last, agreed upon a plan which 
is supposed to combine the advantages of both of 
the previous propositions, without auy of the ob- 
jectional features of either. This conclusion 
seems to be warranted by the fact, that the Reso¬ 
lutions reported by the Committee were, with the 
exception of a single vote, (that of Mr. Jones, 
Senator from Orange Co.,) unanimously adopted 
by both Houses. The present condition of Canal 
matters, may he understood by the readers of the 
Rural from the following items : 
1. The Constitution adopted in 1846 prohibits 
the Legislature from borrowing money, (except in 
cases of invasion, and the like,) to exceed, in the 
aggregate, the sum of $1,000,000. 
2. The same instrument sets apart the surplus 
revenues of the Canals as an especial fimd for en¬ 
larging the Erie Canal, and completing the lateral 
Canals. 
3. The increasing demands of commerce seem 
to require a more speedy completion of these 
great improvements, than could be effected by the 
gradual application of these surplus revenues. 
4. In 1851, a law was passed supposed to meet 
these exigencies by anticipating the fund set apart 
by the Constitution, and thus by a loan based on 
said fund, to complete the Canals without violat¬ 
ing the provisions of said Constitution. 
5. After $1,500,000 had been borrowed by vir¬ 
tue of tbe law, and the the contracts for finishing 
the entire enlargement had been made, the law 
was declared to he unconstitutional by the highest 
judicial tribunal of the State, which at once 
stopped all proceedings, and rendered the whole 
contracts null and void. 
6. The present Legislature, at an Extra Session, 
called by the Governor almost expressly to con¬ 
sider this great and important public measure, 
have unanimously recommended, by the adoption 
of these resolutions, that the Constitution should 
be amended so as not only to enable, but actually 
to compel the Legislature to borrow enough to pay 
the $1,500,000 received into the Treasury under 
the law of 1851, and a sum not to exceed $2,500,- 
000 per annum for four years after the amendment 
takes effect, which is presumed to be sufficient to 
accomplish the desired object. 
7. Before these Resolutions can become opera¬ 
tive they must be re-passed by the next Legisla¬ 
ture, and the proposed amendment must be voted 
on by the people at the next general election of 
1854. 
In this statement, I have endeavored to present 
tbe naked facts, uncolored by party prejudices or 
predilections. Should the amendment prevail, the 
work will undoubtedly be prosecuted with all 
prudent dispatch, and it is to be hoped that the 
Canals of this great State, xrhich add so much to 
jts wealth aud influence, will cease to he political 
hobbies for any and all designing demagogues, 
whatever be their party or their pretensions. 
The law for suppressing the traffic of intoxicat¬ 
ing drinks, has passed the Senate, aud is now 
pending iu the Assembly. It contains a clause 
submitting it to the people for approval, and it is 
among the probabilities that it will pass into a law. 
The Catholic bill has been farther discussed and 
amended, but its fate is yet uncertain. 
The case of impeachment is absorbing much in¬ 
terest. Warm words are used on both sides. A 
resolution has been introduced, having in view 
the impeachment of other members of the Canal 
Board, but judging from the way political huck¬ 
sters play around such questions generally, it is 
not to be presumed that any one will be im¬ 
peached, even if there be plausible grounds for so 
doing. O, that the People, the Sovereigns of our 
Republic, would decree that there shall be hon¬ 
esty — oven inpolitics. 
Other matters are transpiring of more than or- 
dinars interest, such as the commencement exerci¬ 
ses of the higher institutions of learning, the trial 
of Hendrickson for the alleged murder of his wife, 
and the preparations for the anniversary of Inde¬ 
pendence,—but my time aud space are exhausted. 
More anon. *Owe * 
Letter from Yates County. 
Peyn Yan, June, 1853. 
Friend Moore :— In my last from Indiana I 
expected you would hear from me again in Ohio, 
but I passed through the State with such haste it 
was impossible for me to learn any thing very 
definite and interesting in regard to the crops, 
and agricultural matters. But from the general 
appearance of growing grain, I should think the 
yield of all kinds of produce would be great,— 
Wheat I noticed, looked remarkably well in the 
northern and central sections. Grass, the great¬ 
est product of Ohio, presented a luxuriant growth, 
and will be a heavy yield, the season being wet, 
and better adapted to its rapid growth than grain. 
I passed through Oberlin, at which place is lo¬ 
cated the “ Oberlin College,” a flourishing insti¬ 
tution, and noted for its long and permanently 
established influences in the education of its mem¬ 
bers. There are now over six hundred students, 
receiving their last Collegiate instructions at this 
institution. This is a fine town too, for the loca¬ 
tion of such au institution. It contains about 
two thousand inhabitants. 
Brown, of the “ Ohio Farmer,” is laboring for 
the good of the agricultural community of the 
State very zealously, and the missions of his pa¬ 
per, I should judge, result in the fulfillment of 
itsdesign. Notwithstanding the “Farmer,” there 
are many copies of the Rural New-Yorker ta¬ 
ken in the State, and there is room for many more. 
When I reached Western New York I was 
somewhat surprised to see the rapid advances 
crops, and vegetation of all kinds, had made. I 
have passed through many localities of this, and 
adjoining counties, and I invariably find the 
wheat crop, iu growth and geueral appearance, to 
look remarkably fine — seldem bcrtcr. Spring 
grain of all kinds are coming on very rapidly in¬ 
deed. Wheat is now in blow, and will be in ad¬ 
vance of the usual season of harvesting, if no im¬ 
pediment attend it. 
The agriculturist’s hopes cannot be otherwise 
than exalted, and gladdened from the cherished 
remembrance of the great Giver, for His continu¬ 
ed bounties, in the bestowel of abundant success 
for the toil of his hands. Respectfully, 
C. W. Hobart. 
If. 
Extra Session.—Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, June 13.— Senate. —The Maine Law 
bill, after considerable sparring, was referred to a 
Committee to report complete. Nothing else of 
importance accomplished. 
Assembly. —The Canal business was made the 
order of tbe day for Tuesday. Some talk and 
progress in various matters, but nothing finally 
perfected. 
Tuesday, June 14.— Senate. —The Maine Law, 
with the clause submitting it to the people, was 
passed by a vote of 17 to 13. Bills were passed 
to allow the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. to con¬ 
struct a road in this State; to incorporate the 
Pacific Railroad Co.; to continue the Staten Is¬ 
land Co. Favorable reports were made upon 
several less important bills. 
Assembly. —The Canal Compromise was adopt¬ 
ed without opposition. The vetoed Banking Ba¬ 
sis bill was tried again and lost—Ayes 37; Nays 
55. The Senate bill to extend Banking Basis 
was taken up, but not voted upon. The Niagara 
Ship CaDal bill passed—68 to 28, but the vote 
was reconsidered, and the bill is yet open. 
Wednesday, June 15.— Senate. — The Canal 
Compromise passed 29 to 1. Various other mat¬ 
ters were debated. 
Assembly. —A debate on the impeachment case 
occupied the most of the day. Thirteen bills of a 
local character were passed however. 
Thursday, June 16.— Senate. —There was a long 
and rather personal debate, upon au application 
by Mr. Taber, to have his name recorded iu favor 
of the Canal Resolutions. The Catholic Church 
Property bill was also discussed iu Committee, 
and so amended that no corporation can be made 
under the Act, unless two-thirds of the Corpora¬ 
tion be neither bishops, priests, nor ecclesiastics. 
The bill was subsequently laid over, until Mr. 
Taber should be well enough to be present. The 
General Life Assurance act was passed. 
Assembly. —Several hills were reported, and the 
special order—the Impeachment case—pretty ex¬ 
tensively debated. 
Friday, June 17,— Senate. —A debate on the 
catholic bill occupied the greater part of the 
morning. In the afternoon the same was con¬ 
tinued and the bill amended and ordered to a 
third reading by a vote of 16 to 8. Adjourned to 
Monday noon. 
Assembly. —The Impediment question was de¬ 
bated somewhat in the House and laid over to 
Monday, to which time the Assembly adjourned. 
Monday, June 20,— Se?iate. —No quorum. Adj. 
Assembly. —Ten present and nothing accom¬ 
plished. 
-fTofiees. 
Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians.— By 
Rev. Thos. Laurie, surviving associate in that 
Mission. With Portrait, Map of the Country, 
Illustrations, etc. Boston : Gould & Lincoln. 
1853. 
This volume supplies a want long felt, for a full 
and suitable record of the eminent worth, devoted 
life, and arduous labors of this celebrated Mission¬ 
ary physician. His labors in Persia, are every¬ 
where known, and his memoir must meet with a 
ready sale among his many admirers. Those who 
have not heard of him will read to venerate his 
worth. Sold by Sage Buo., Rochester. 
Memorials of the English Martyrs. By Rev. 
C. B. Taylor, M. A. New York : Harper 
Brothers. 1853. 
The localities hallowed by the blood of mar¬ 
tyred saints— Wicltffe, Latimer, Ridley, Cran- 
mer, and many others—have been visited by the 
author of this volume, aud be Las interwoven, 
with sketches of their present condition, the me¬ 
mories which they recall, making a very readable 
book of some 400 pages. It is well illustrated 
also. Sold by Sage & Bro., Rochester. 
Arthur’s Home Magazine, for J uly, commences 
a new volume of this excellent periodical. Each 
number contains Eighty Octavo pages, and to the 
reading matter which these contain are now ad¬ 
ded, the additional attractions of fine steel plates 
and many wood engravings. This is a good and 
cheap family Magazine. Price $2 a year—four 
copies $5. Address T. S. Arthur & Co, Phia- 
belphia. Dewey, Agt., Rochester. 
Arthur’s Home Gazette, published as above 
at $2 a year, is a very superior Literary and 
Family Newspaper. 
The North British Review, for May, should 
have been noticed before, but it may not now he 
too late to say that it commences the nineteenth 
volume of that able quarterly. New York : L- 
Scott & Co., $3 per annum. Dewey, agent. 
•ffetos ^Febifies. 
-Ripe peaches were among the luxuries at 
New Orleans on the 6th inst. 
-Cavazzi did not return to Montreal to 
finish his lectures as he announced. 
-The Elmira Republican goes in for a Con¬ 
vention of Editors in Western New York. 
Astern New York. 
-Patrick Fitzgerald was executed or Friday- 
last, in New York, for the murder of his wife. 
-A fire occurred in Cincinnati on the 10th 
which destroyed about $50,000 worth of property. 
-Foreigneis arrived at New York during a 
portion of last week at the rate of about 3,000 a 
day. 
-They are successful y trying the experi¬ 
ment of running steam hai b es on the Schuylkill 
Canal. 
-The epauletts worn by Prince Albert, 
when in full costume are worth five hundred 
pounds. 
-Ninety 7 free colored persons, from Tennes¬ 
see arrived at Savannah last week, to embark for 
Liberia. 
-Under the late decree of the Mexican 
Government, twenty-six newspapers have been 
suspended. 
-The owners are confident that the Erics¬ 
son will be in readiness for sea the last of Sep¬ 
tember next. 
-T. H. Hyatt, Esq., editor of the Rochester 
Daily Advertiser, has been appointed Consul to 
Amoy, China. 
-Counterfeits on the Hudson River Bank 
of New York, are said to be in circulation and 
good imitations. 
-A new bank has been organized at Au¬ 
burn, under the naineof the “ Auburn City bank.” 
Capital $200,000. 
-The peuny subscriptions in England to 
be placed in the hands of Mrs. Stowe, already 
amount to $6,000. 
-For three hours in the middle of the 9th 
day of June the mercury 7 , iu Hartford, Conn., in¬ 
dicated 89 LA degrees. 
-Several of the leaders in the late revolt at 
Vera Cruze have been publicly shot, among them 
Gonzales and Centeris. 
-Every Cuban slave-holder pays a tax of 
one dollar per month for every slave he owns.— 
This is the Queen’s tax. 
-Uuusual sickness prevails at Alexandria 
D. C., including, as is reported, several decided 
cases of Asiatic Cholera. 
-10,000 copies of Fanny Fern’s Book have 
already been sold, and 2,000 more ordered. A 
slight sign that it takes well. 
-It is thought by French physicians that 
Louis Napoleon canuot survive much longer thau 
a year. He is in very ill health. 
-There are about 1,900 men employed on 
the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, Avhich 
force is to be doubled in a short time. 
-Mr. Wilson, the Mayor of Montreal, has 
been arrested and held to bail at the instance of 
the late Mr. Peter Gillespie’s friends. 
-Another wife has been murdered in New 
York, and the brutal husband, James Sally, who 
committed the act, has been arrested. 
-Accounts from Arkansas represent the ex¬ 
citement at Camden, in consequence of the recent 
reported gold discoveries, as very great 
-Barnum (the Barnum) lost his temper, 
threatened to lick an Editor, and as a consequence, 
gets into the Newspaper Police Reports. 
-A young man has been fined $10 and cost 
in Cincinnati, for refusing to work at a fire. The 
case is to be carried to a higher tribunal. 
-Mrs. Stowe presented the Black Swan 
with a splended dress of moire antique, trimmed 
with bugles, which she wore at a concert. 
_The new stamped envelopes and postage 
stams are finished, and have been inspected and 
approved by the Post Office Department. 
_The law of Indiana, with reference to free 
persous of color, is so severe, that it has caused 
large numbers of blacks to leave the State. 
_The “ Friends of Freedom” will celebrate 
the Fourth of July at Medina. Hale and Gid- 
dings are expected to he present and speak. 
_The first railway in Asia was opened at 
Bombay amid a vast concourse of people, and un¬ 
precedented rejoicings, on the 16th of April. 
_The Episcopal Convention of Rhode Is¬ 
land adjourned on the 16th, without electing a 
Bishop. The Clerical House could not agree." 
_Gov. Sey r mour has granted a respite to 
Bieler, who was to have been hung at Buffalo on 
Friday, 24th inst., until the 5th day of August. 
_A Russian Imperial Ukase obliges all 
young men to enter the army at the age of 18, 
those only excepted who are noble by descent. 
-Homer Ramsdell, Esq., of Newburgh, has 
been elected President of the New York & Erie 
Railroad, in place of Benj. Loder, Lsq., resigned. 
-The celebrated temperance orator John B. 
Gough, has been engaged to deliver a course of 
lectures in England, during the month of August 
next. 
-The whole number of vessels that have 
been sent at various periods to look after Sir 
John Franklin, the missing navigator, is about 
thirty. 
-Daily Evening Watch-Tower is the title 
of a new paper published in Adrian, Michigan, 
from the power-press of R. W. Ingals. It is 
Democratic in politics, and exhibits considerable 
enterprise. 
-Five dollar counterfeit hills of the Ilion 
Bank, Herkimer, are in circulation. It is supposed 
that there is a good deal of this spurious paper iu 
circulation. 
-On the 13th, a train was run from this 
city to Lockport in one hour and eleven minutes, 
running time, equal to a mile in one minute and 
thirteen seconds. 
-A California correspondent of the Salem 
Gazette says that the potato rot has made its ap¬ 
pearance in Sonoma Valley, and done considera¬ 
ble injury to the crops. 
-A correspondent of the Littleton Reporter 
saw the other day Mr. Jonathan Kimball of Lis¬ 
bon, aged 87, holding a breaking up plow, Avhile 
his son aged 67, droA 7 e the team. 
-A train composed of 70 loaded cars, con¬ 
taining each ten thousand feet of lumber, drawn 
by one engine, passed o\ r er the N. Y. & Erie R. 
R. last week, making regular time. 
-The Springfield Republican says they 
have had a direct importation of seventy-three 
Scotch girls, at Holyoke, all of whom are employ¬ 
ed as operatives in the mills at that place. 
-Rev. Mr. Magoon, of the Baptist Church, 
has been invited to deliver the annual oration be¬ 
fore the Literary Societies of Brown University, 
at the Commencement in September next. 
Sasasaasaa 
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