The Horn Of Plenty

The Whcat Yield of the fississippi Valley. - The Chicago Tribune makes an estímate of the wheat erop of tliis year in four of the Mississippi valley States, which compares superbly witíi ;he erop reporta of othcr years, as folows : 1375. 187fi. 1877 Buslutfi. BwthéU l'.uxhi'i. Minnesota 27,000,000 ir,,000,000 35,000,000 Iowiv 29,000,000 18,000,01)0 37,000,000 VicoiiBln 'iS,(KK),(HX 15,000,000 25,000,000 Kansas 12,000,000 12,000,000 20,000,000 Total 93,000,000 61,000,000 117,000,000 This indicates flrst, that these four States have 25,000,000 bushels more of wheat to sell thnn after the unprecedentod yield of 1875, and 50,000,000 bushels more than last year - not less than 14,000,000 barrels of flour; second, that Minnesota, which was tho seventeenth wheat-growing State in 1860, has grown to the second in 1877, and next year will stand at the head ; third, that, adding the nnusual yield of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois to this surplus, rnaking allowance for the small erop in California, this country is able to export at least $75,000,000 worth of flour more than last year. These estimates are based on the actual returns frorn some States and careful observations by cantious and tmstworthy men in others. This bonus of seventy-five millions of money will go a good ways towards reviving business during the coming fall, at least on trunk railroads and among the farmers. Ihc Central Wheat Belt.- The Cincinnati Commercial gives some figures of the wheat production in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky: The acreage sown was large, the yield heavy, and tlie time for harvesting propitious. Enough of the new erop has already appeared in the market to make known its quality with certainty. No one loeality seems to have been specially favored. The amounts received f rom all directions ore of a superior grade, and are accompanied by the same report of an enormous yield. The summer of 1874 saw a good erop harvested through Central and Southern Ohio, but the yield through the country gcnerally was hardly more than an average one. The erop just gathered is a gigantic one in all the wheat-growing regions, the memories of tb e oldest growers and buyers being taken to recall a better one, either as to quantity or quality. Tributary to tliis market are some heavy wheat producing nrens. Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky abound with wheat fields. The usual yield in these States is about as follows: BntheU. Ohio, average yield 17,500,000 Indiana, average yield 16,0O0,00U Kentucky, average yield 8,000,000 Good judges estímate this season's erop as below: Ohio 25,OUU,000 Indiana.., 22,000,000 Kentucky 13,000,000 Total for these three States m. 60,000,900 The above estímate is a moderate one. There are those, with good data from which to reckon, who make the total yield from the three States 10,000,000 bushels more. Taking the above estímate as the true one, and there are 25,000,000 bushels of wheat in the States named over and above what is needed for home consumption. Of course farmers will also realize from what is consumed in the towns and by the non-wheatgrowing class, a by-no-means small amount. The acreage sown and the yield in other States is quito as large as in the three named. Throughout the entire North and West an immense wheat erop of good quality lias been harvested. Corn, though it will be a month yet before the erop is harvested, is far enough aiong and sufficiently promising to make a good yield almost certa in. Early in the summer the erop was baokward, and some alarm feit, but the later rain and favorable weather have brought the staple erop of the central States up to a condition of, if anything, more than usual promise. From 3,000,000 to 50,00,000 bushels of eorn, grown between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi, are sold annually in foreign countries. This forms, howeyer, but a small fraction of the entire yield, the erop going largely into beef and pork, and to supply the Southern States. The yield in Ohio averages about 100,000,000 bushels a year, and in Indiana not far from the same amount. The erop is a staple and a pretty sure one, and this year likely to be an unusually good one. It is an important item among the farmer's resourees, and may be counted with the wheat erop as among the things bidding fair to give a much-needed impulse to the business of the country. Brief Crop Jiotes. - Nearly all of the Minnesota wheat tests sixty pounds per bushei .... Crops of every description in the South are the most promising of any since the war. The cotton crop wül be the largest ever raised. . . .Dakota Territory will export over 3,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. .. .The Connecticut vnlley tobáceo crop is looking very fair, and is expected to yicld an average crop of liue Havana eigars. . . .The recent rains have discouraged the Southern Kansas farmers. Their corn coop will be so large they expeet great difflculty in obt.iining sufficient lumber to build cribs. .... The Winnipeg Frec Press publishes crop reports from all over Manitoba, upon which it bases its belief that the province is fiually pat the necessity of looking to importation for any portion of its supply of cereals J. M. Metcalf , State Statistician for Minnesota, estimates the wheat crop of the State at nbout 31,000,000 bushcls, of which 23,000,000 bushels will be for export. The New York Senatorship. A correspondent of the New York World writes from Albuny : It is plain that the main contest in this State this fall is to be over tho election for members of the State Seuate. It is the only thiug to which the Republicana aro directing their attention, so far as this State is concerned, It is announced that George William Curtís and ex-Senator Fenton are candidatos for the seat now occupied by Senator Conkling. The election does not take placo until Jauuary, 1879, but the State Senators elected this fall hold for two years, and take part in the election of United States Senator. This makes the selcction of the members of the upper branch of the Legislature of great iniportance to Senator Conkling, or whoever may be his rival for the Senatorship. The friends of Mr. Conkling are now busy canvassiug the districte and working for the nomination of men pledgeti tohis re-election. They are claiming a majority in the State Senate, but make no claim of carrying either the State ticket or the Assembly. The Democrats are likewise confldent that the nest Senate will be Democratie. The Drain on the Rnssian Population. A Moscow correspondent writcs of the war iu Eussia : Peasants are being called off to join tlie imperial arniy from all directions. Wherever ono goes families nre mourning, because either ïathér or brother Is under orders to start within, perchance, only a few hours. Families are broken up on all sides, and wives are selling the household furniture. The streets of Moscow are thronged in many places with household goods. The price of provisions is rising proportionately. Among the upper classes homes are in the same state of change. Those who have retired from the army or navy are in many cases reealled. All will, it is presumed, be summoned in the course of timo. While I write a general cali is being made for all to serve in the militia, and notices to this effect have been served on all those residing in No. 1 of the six divisions of Moscow. House to house yisitetiou ie aleo going on uve to the number of men, servante Stj liorses kept by every houBeholdét"1 large quota of which must be xañl with for the public service. Substitm! on tlie part of the former are not cepted. Funds are rolling in for the sick aiijl wounded on all sidcs, peasantg nt urging the acceptance of their mif A Singular and Fatal Accident. A row-boat containing five persont two men and three women, whiïe eró ing the Missouri river from Iowa to , braska, just below the Union p bridge, at Omaha, dnring a storm strack by lightning, George Stad aged 60, was instantly killed. Theèw' trie current atruck him on the W passing down one of bis armB, teaS bis clothes to threads, and went fhio the bottom of the boat, making a L through which the water rapidly tered. Almost at the same instaat Ju Heyer, overeóme with terror, raisedh self on her feet, frantieally threwontk arms, and, tumbling bacKward intoji, river, was drowned and swept frou view of her terror-stricken husbandfu ever. The remaiuing occupante of fo boat - Mr. Heyer, Mrs. Keinscheidt dj Mrs. Philip Wagner- were greatljfe. numbed by the lightning Bhocks, as terror-stricken, and were almostlü;-. lesa. The boat fortunately -was can to the shore by the current just ufe to save them from drowning, asittj nearly f uil of water. The psrtju) been over in Iowa gatheringwüdgra A Just Judge. This Corporation has a model Mij one who enf orees the law against all j. f endere impartially, and who sees Boman fatlier and goes one Iji ■vhile the historie parent passed jnj. ment upon his own offspring, Majoïj F. Linde, of Hot Springs, iavokes penalty of the law upon himisi morning, repairing to the eiecnfeii. fice, where a number of evü-doersiaj awaiting trial, he calmly opened ccuitj the usual form, and called the fint og on bis docket: "T. F. Linde, fot vioj. [ ing ordinance No. 10," and propomty I the query, "Guilty or not guilty?" sponding promptly, in the cliaradet j' the accused, "Guilty, your How, "The prisoner is fined $5 and cosfe," said Mr. Linde, as Judge, nnd eataj the record upon his book. Harágíi disposed of his own case, he paasedj to those of otlier offenders agaiist fe laws, to whom he meted justiceiudta according to their deserts. - JlotSpmji (Ark.) Cor. Chicago Tiinet. A Little Girl's Sad Dcath, "Mother, I saved the houw, bal shall die," said a 6-year-old girltoïs Theodore Markham as she entered k house at High Market, Lewis coiuitr, ; Y., one day last week. The chüd,iMi attempting to light a lamp to warm m milk for a baby, set fire to her clotbioi Her first thought was to run on!;! doors, fearing that the house wouU 'm burned and the baby be hurk. bui, ticing that shreds oï her clothing U fallen upon the floor, she carefullyatiaguished the flames. Then ahe nub a horse-trough in the yard and phigti into the water. Keturning to the in she waited patiently for her mstLe: return. She died an hour after t& t cident. He Left 11 is Card. A yonng man in Rochester went, m long ago, to cali upon some ladiw. E: sent in his card, was kindly receivedu; passed a pleasant evening. The at day one of the young ladies happend b piek up tüe card again, and ontlistai she found the following: " Onegam of bilbards, 15 cents; drinks, 20 cetï two games pool, 40 cents; drinks, i cents; three games French withJoe,Ê cents; drinks, 60 cents." Thecaidm retumed with a note telling the wq man that he had lost his memoraiiii book. The foreman of a jury in Texas, wtü lately granted a divorce to awmii married her the same day.