Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — The Wheat Crop. [ARTICLE]

The Wheat Crop.

During the last few days we have had entire- '-.itlons with intelligent farmers, from different sections oi this country, inrchition tithe growing wheat crop; and the universal, opinion is that the prospect for a good erupts exceedingly gloomy. In all ioeuliti -s from which we b<*v .• any iuforumtior., the erop i•, reported either badly injured or entirely fro--zen out. We trust that the crop will turn out better than present appearance seem to indicate that it will—-if it does not, many farmers in this county will hereafter abandon uH idea of trying to raise winter wheat, and devote their lands to the cultivation of trio f certain crops. For three years in succession, winter wheat, in this region, to a. great extent, has failed.— Quincy Rep. Douglas is Arkansas.—The Democratic- \ Nutte Gunventi m of Arkansas, w ill be be.cl ' :,t Lilflo Rock, on the 2d day of April. The [first County Convention was held at M gm - ! lia on the 28’th u 1 1 ., for the purpose c. s“- ! iecting deleg:,ies to the State Convention, j and ainoi g tae Rosolu-tions v. e tinu tue 10lI 1 iw mg: •'Resolved. That we disown and repudiate the ft itori.i l and slavery doctrine «>! Sen: - i tor fhnigl. ! s,as 'Xi'ounded in his'late speech : I d ci V Unit ItIiPUBUCANIS.U IN WksTKRN Nf.W V'oKX.Never before have the Republicans el- ■ icfs so many supervisors m New York as at the iate town meetings. Chautauqua c uni . which elects nineteen and probably twenty Supervisors. m*t of twenty-live, is a specimen of the Republican tornado -.viiicb is sweeping over that. State. In the tow tot Fa tiauia the RepnblL ns had every vote! The I whole number ‘was six hundred and eightyi eight, and the Republican majority was six j hundred a d eighty-eight! The Indiana Divorce Law Unconstiu[xtoNAL. — Judge Wallace, of the Carroll 1 Comity Court, has decided the law of 185.9, amending' the divorce law of 1852, unconstitutional; on the ground that the amending act did not correctly set out the title of the original law. This is encouraging to those seeking divorces. Great Destruction of Nutmegs.—At the tire in New York city on Front street last Wednesday evening $25,000 worth of nutmegs were destroyed in the establish* | men? of Mr. Nottembobn.