Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Kentucky Corn Crop-a Marvel. [ARTICLE]

Kentucky Corn Crop-a Marvel.

The Assessors in Kentucky, and the Secretary of the Hoard of Agriculture, report a corn crop of three hundred and eighty millions of bushels! We have been considering how much they raised to an acre, and find they must have had three kindred bushels to an acre. We knew that Kentucky had a great deal of good land, but h.,id no idea of such surprising fertility. We should be obliged to our neighbors for some samples and examples. Will they give us the product of some one county, and of some farms here and there. Perhaps they can tell us where this crop was marketed? This is a matter of some importance, for we perceive that they estimate the value of this crop at at one hundred and thirty millions of dollars! (gs” The Southern medical students left the Philadelphia College in a body the other ■day, and Went to Richmond, arid were received in that place with extravagant demon- j strutions of joy. They were marched up to ■the Governor’s house, and with a disregard , of their comfort strangely at variance with : the received idea of Southern hospitality, ■they were made to listen to a speech of Gov. Wise! Such refreshment after a railroad ride must have struck them unpleasantly in the stomach. Prot. Gibson ol the Richmond Medical College made a speech too, and we suppose everybody else spoke. There was plenty of “talk” whatever might have been ths> quantity ol “cider.” is a very uncommon thing for a Christian to become a convert of Judaism. A'recerrticase ol this kind is reported in New York. A Lady by the name of Silbermnn, who had’been brought tip in the principles ol the Presbyterian church, was last Saturday admitted a member of the, Jewish church on Twelfth street. She embraced the doctrines of Judaism some months since, hut the Rabbi wj uld not for a long time give his consent ko receive her into the Synagogue as a member. Finally, titter long entreaty, the Ark was opened, the confession pronouncpdj the obligation taken, the Ark closed, ain't) the woman declared a member of the chqrch of Moses. Sk.meiitUis (X. Y.) l)emo< rat. gives thd first, chapter in “a story of real life,” by saying that Miss Harriet K. Smith, daugh- , t"*r of 11 {race Smith, of Spaffbrd, Onondaga Co., wid start soon for Washington Territ,,rv. awjtv in the north-west, beyond the Rocky Mountains, to marry a man. she litis never seen—Mr. David Spalding. Jr., son of David Spalding, of Spaffbrd. Tire friends of the pajrties are intimates, and a correspondence between them has continued lor two yearjs, and has resulted in a marriage c intract-* —and the young gentleman being engaged.tin a profitable business which he cannot conveniently leave, has remitted funds to the lady, with a request for her to join 11 i 111 ft lie re. Shelbyville Banner says that a nian named Ilouck of that county, went Last a year or two ago, and after a prolonged absence was taken sick in New York. He remained there too sick to come home for several ninths, and during all the time he was gone never wrote or otherwise informed his wife |>f his whereabouts. Believing he had abandoned her, she got a divorce. A short time after the granting of the divorce, the truanlt husband came borne to find himself no husband, and his wife sole owner of Iris fine f?rm. So much for treating a wife negligently. We say it served him right. Arctic expedition,to sacrifice, most probably, more valuable lives, and, finally, to! result in no possible good, is projected in floston.iand, from appearances, will most probjably start in the spring. It is estimated that the cost will be about $30,000, most of dhich has been subscribed. Dr. Ilayes r th{ surgeon of the Katie expedition, is to haveithc"command'. . - • • - [American naval officer gives it as .his opinion that there are ships engaged in the slave-trade whose captains can stow three hundred blacks on board, and still show a rnan-of war officer “all round the decks,” produce apparently irreproachable papers, and so thoroughly convince the visitor of the lawfulness of his movements as to receive generally ijver a bdttle of champagne—an apology for having his privacy intruded upon. False PfuiTEscEs.-The Democracy of the South are pretending to dissolve the Union, and the Detnocracy of the North are pretending to save; it. There is no more danger of ,jts dissolution, than there is occasion for saving it. The bogus Democracy lives, moves and”has its being by false pretences. As a chameleon feeds on air, so does the Democracy feed 09 falsehood. __ (j^j-Geo.'Sawyer, of Albion, Mich., died as supposed, in a spasm, sometime last spring. His friends .wishing to remove his •body a few days since, disinterred him and found him lying on his face,his hands on his hair, wTth handfuls torn out, and his grave clothciitorn to pieces. The inference is plain but age is a machine for picking geese, which, it is said, will pick forty per hour, and at the same time Separate the long feathers from the short cjnes as they pass through the machine. * (Pjf-A WitaeTing paper soys that, as (iov. Wise neglected to appoint a Thanksgiving day, the people should observe the day that he goes out ■of office ns n. day of giving thank**-' * ’ '