VOI_. XIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 2, 1878.
NO. 44.
FOR SAJ-K.
F0R SALE—A good two-seat, second hand carriage,
glass doors, for #75. Call and see lt. O. H. SHOVER,
174 East Market St., city.
OB SALE-I'artridge Cochins at |2toS3 pr. pair,
according to quality.   W. D. LATSHAW, Oak.
town, Knox county, Ind
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FOK SALE-Pekin Drakes, Jl 50 each.   Can spare
a few pairs at «3 50 per pair.   JOSEPH Is. BREN-
TON, Petersburg, Pike connty, Ind
FOR SALE—Thoroughbred registered Jersey bull,
14 months old; a superior  animal.   Price $40.
WM. C. SMOCK, Indianapolis.	
FOR SALE—The Farm Register and Account
Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price *1 each. Address INDIANA FARMER
COMPANY, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE VERY CHEAP—100 head of pure Poland-China Pigs, bred from flrst-class.premlum
stock. Also two fine yearling boars. Send for prices,
A. JOHNSON, Clifton, Ohio. •
FOR SALE—Three Short-horn Bulls, one two-year-
old and one yearling. "Young Marys," red with
some white. One vearling red ofthe CoL Sanders' imp.
DR. JAS. P. FORSYTH, Franklin, Johnson Co., Ind.
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OR SALE—Ten Black Bess SowPigs, three and a
  ^half to five months old. The dam of five of these
pigs Is a niece to-ShepUerd A Alexander's fumous old
Black Bess. Price reasonable. Address WH-LIAM'
BAKER, North Madison, Ind.      	
FOR SAI.E—I have a few head of Jersey Red pigs
now ready to ship, of undoubted purity, of both
»ex, at reasonable prices. HARRIS SHEPPARD,
Spencer, Owen Co., Ind.
FOR SALE—1.50 Bertshires from my imported herd.
Pigs weighing 40 to 100 pounds, $10; young sows.
$15 to $25. They are as fine as the finest pedigreed
stoefc.   WM. It. FALL, Lebanon, Boone Co., Ind.
FOR SALE—An improved farm in Pulaski county
of 200 acres for «2,000on ten years time, at 6 per
cent interest. Also 160 acres one mile from Kokomo;
wilHmprove at $40 per acre on same terms. T. A.
GOODWIN, 29 Thorpe Block. Indianapolis, Ind.
WA?fTE»-
W ANTED—It known that Mrs. Itobrer's great
Oregon cure for Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
Asthma, Dyspepsia, etc., is fast gaining a reputation
unequaled by any other lung medicine in use. It is
vouched for by many well-known citizens of this city
and State, who have tried it satisfactorily. For sale
by druggists. Prepared by MRS. E. BOURER & CO.,
347 and 349 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.	
WANTEI>—To exchange spring mattresses and
lounges for country produce.   No. 45 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis.	
\tf ANTED— Wood, potatoes, apples,  butter and
TT   other farm produce in exchange for dentistry.
C. C. BURGESS, No. 4 Veen's Exchange Block, city.
.LOANS.
SIX PER CENT—Loans made on long time on real
estate security at 6 per cent int. Special arrangements for those wishing loans in from. 6 to 12 months
at lower rates. E. A. WJIITCOMB & CO., State Agts.
Office 72 E. Market St. A. W. PBATHER, Att'y.,
Indianapolis, Ind. ■•
.STRA V_KI> OR STOr._E_V.
STRAYED OK STOLEN, on 27th Oct., a brown or
brindle muley cow. Information of, or return
of cow to 5?4 Pleasant St., Indianapolis, will be rewarded,    J. M. EADS.
MISCE-IO-AN-BOITS.
c.
C. BURGESS, Dentist.  Offlce In room 4 Va-
jen's Exchange Block, N. Pennsylvania St.
TO LOAN-Money to loan   on  improved farms.
J. H. HARDEBECK, 36 East Market street, Indianapolis.
I have some good farms for sale, and desire calls and
correspondence from parties in quest of them.   G.
W. ALEXANDER, 38 East Market St.  '
MONEY TO LOAN—SumsofS300to $3,000 on improved    farms.     RUDDELL,   WALCOTT   A
VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind.
tyivt yjptatk.
see any change for the better until I
went to the drug store and got some fish
oil and poured it all along their backs in
sufficient quantity to grease them all over
from head to foot. One application ofthe
fish oil was all I gave them. In a few days
I could see they were getting better; their
appetites became good, and the scales
and dead lice began to fall off and the
hair started to grow again, and now they
have a fine growth of young hair
and are in pretty good flesh and entirely
free from mange and lice. I don't know
whether the sulphur or copperas had any
effect for better or worse, or whether they
would have got well without any doctoring, but until I have proof to the contrary I shall always believe it was the
fish oil that effected a cure. I. Hyde.
. Gibson Co.
N. Mallow, of Franklin, Ind., has recently purchased the bull Sultan, eight
months old, of Messrs.   Ezra Swain &
Son, Noblesville.   Price $150.
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In the list of premiums awarded at
the State Fair, in the Farmer of the
12th ult., we have it best sow under
six months, Kyger & Cowan, Oxford,
Ind.   It should be Oxford, Ohio.
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Fine Stock Sale.—We note the sale
by J. P. Luse & Sons, Round Grove Stock
Farm, Montmorency, Ind., ofthe thoroughbred bull "Von Tromp," to Alexander Wilson, Esq., of Lafayette; also the
thoroughbred Jersey cow "Dairy Too-
dles," to Prof.Hassey, of Purdue University.
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Accompanying the offer of a Poland
China pig for our premium list by Lloyd
Mugg, of Center, Howard county, was a
photograph of "Bess Mark," one of hi»
premium sows. If the pig on our premium list comes as near perfection as
this picture, the agent who gets Mr.
Mugg's prize will have something to be
proud of.
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What Ails the Pigs.—Will some of
the many readers of the Fabmer please
tell me what ails my pigs, and oblige a
reader? My pigs begin to fail to come
• up to eat, and when they do come up
only take two or three bites. They go
around, but look sick; ears hang down;
tail down; no life in them hardly. They
have forty acres of wood pasture to run
over. They dwindle away for some four
or five weeks and get so weak they can't
get up, and then die. A Reader.
October 4.
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Mange in Pigs.
I see an article in the Farmer of the
19th inst., on the treatment of pigs with
the mange. I will tell how I cured the
mange and killed hundreds of lice at the
same time. I have two shoats about 9
months old that were objects of pity. If
any one had offered me a dollar for them
both I would have taken it; the mange
and lice had worked on them so long and
sp fast that there was very little left of
them but skin and bone; the former
could hardly be seen for scabs and sores
caused, I suppose, by rubbing and scratching. I fed them sulphur about once a
day in sour milk, and occasionally gave
them a dose of copperas, but I could not
A State Veterinarian.
One of the arguments presented to the
Illinois State Board of Agriculture, to
persuade them to* ask the Legislature to
provide.for'appointing a State Veterinarian, is thus stated by Dr. Paareri, in his
article on the subject:
But it is not only „tne hog cholera that
needs attention. There are numerous,
other diseases, including those among;
horses, cattle, and sheep, that need tlior-;
ough investigation and watching.- 'The
desirability of preventing the spread of
disease amongst domestic animals, must
suggest itself to everybody. Though, on
others pertaining to agriculture, the intelligence of our farmers is proverbial, it
is certainly not much to their credit to
find them entrusting the lives of their
valuable stock- in the hands'of* farriers,
cow leeches and-other pretenders, who
generally manage to kilr-more animals
than they cure. When the country shall
be a little better supplied with qualified
veterinarians, the farmers, even those
amongst them that are bred and born
with cramped views and narrow minds,
will learn the importance of veterinary
science, as applied to pathology, and will
cease to employ quacks. The public shall
know that where there is none but the
ignorant pretender to be had, We should
be discarded, and along "with him all his
rubbish of secret remedies and quack
nostrums. A proper^value must be put
upon the principles or sound science and
correct investigation. The practical man
waits for results, while the well-balanced
mind, thoroughly trained in the process
of events, their nature and bearings, acts
by anticipation and induction.
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Keep the Animals Warm.
The first blast of wind from the North
is a reminder that animals, however
tough and hardy, need shelter in winter.
It will take less food to keep farm stock
over winter in warm stables than when
exposed to severe cold. Of course, good
wood, stone, or brick barns and stables
are expensive, and there are many farmers, especially in the recently settled districts, who have not the means to build
such structures, but there is no one too
poor to furnish some kind of shelter for
their animals. If a man cannot afford
to build what he desires, let him do the
next best thing, and build something
that will furnish shelter, even if it is
nothing better than a shed with sod for
walls, and a roof of brush and corn-stalks,
All attempts at elegance or extra convenience may be left out of the question
where a man's purse is light; still, it is
economy to keep all farm stock sheltered
from cold, wind and storms in winter,
even if the owner does not possess enough
of the humane feelings to care for their
comfort. i
More than one-half of all the diseases
and parasites which infest farm stock are
the direct result of neglecting to furnish
them with proper food or shelter during
cold, stormy weather. Cattle of all kinds,
when forced to remain in muddy, wet
yards, during cold weather, are liable to
various diseases of the feet. All kinds of
farm stock are liable to take cold when
exposed to storms, and from this comes
a weakened constitution, which invites
various kinds of diseases and parasitic insects. Weakened vitality or vigor in either
plants or animals opens the way to hundreds of parasites which are resisted by
the healthy individual, and the farmer
should keep his animals in a condition
which enable them to ward off the attacks of such enemies. He has only to
think of his own comforts, such as nutritious food and warm clothing, and consider how the reverse of these conditions
would affect him, to understand how it
is with his animals.
It is unnecessary to go into details in
regard to the building of sheds, stables,
or other kinds of structures for sheltering
stock in winter, as every man knows best
what materials are at hand or within
reach suitable for such purposes, but the
fact should be apparent to all breeders of
animals that in all cool climates some
kind of protection is required. Out on
the plains and prairies of the West and
South-west it is often asserted that sheep
need no protection in winter, and it is
even claimed by some that they do better
without it than with it; but the frequent
heavy losses by cold, starvation, and disease plainly show that all this, talk of
mildness of climate is an error. Sheep
and other farm stock may live through
the winter without artificial shelter or
more feed than can be obtained on the
range in these favorable localities, but
they would certainly do better with added comforts every winter, and occasionally heavy losses might be avoided by
making the necessary provision to-protect and feed them when severe storms
prevail.—New York Weekly Sun.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
Flans for -Practical Work in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Mechanics.
SPECIAIs report by president white.
To the Board of Trustees of Purdue University: .
Gentlemen—It is now a little more
than two years since I submitted a plan
for the reorganization of this institution.
This plan, unanimously approved by the
Board, provided (1) for courses of instruction in those branches of learning "related to agriculture and mechanic arts,"
and in those essential to "the liberal and
practical education of the industrial
classes," as required by the law of Congress; and (2) for practical instruction
and training in agriculture and mechanics. I was not then prepared to determine the details of tlie second part of
the plan, and I asked for time to make
myself more fully acquainted with the
experience of older institutions. It
seemed important to avoid the wasting
of money in fruitless experiments. It
was then hoped that we would be prepared to complete the reorganization as
early as the' opening of the next college
year, but it has been necessary to take a
second year to mature plans which promise satisfactory results.
It affords me great satisfaction to be
able to add that experience has given us
increasing confidence in the wisdom and
success of the plan adopted. The departments of-the University, now in operation, are not only meeting the requirements,of the organic law, but the
increased attendance shows that they are
meeting the demands of the industrial
classes. What we are now doing is
clearly in the right direction. What is
needed is the completion of the system
by adding
PRACTICAL TRAINING IX AGRICULTURE,
HORTICULTURE, AND MECHANICS.
No friend ofthe University claims
tbat what we have done in these departments, is satisfactory. The farm
has too little practical relation to the University, and, so far, it has been too little
used as an educational appliance or aa a
means' of experiment,
can begin with a small stock of materials, and the necessary tools and fixtures
can be paid from the State appropriation
for apparatus and fixtures. The principal outlay to be provided for, is the salary
of the instructor. A correspondence on
this subject has resulted in the belief that
a competent instructor can be employed
at a salary not exceeding $500 for the
first year. We would reconimend the
employment of a young man who has
taken a thorough course in mechanical
engineering, and who,is also a practical
mechanic.
PRACTICAL WORK IN HORTICULTURE.
The class instruction in horticulture
can be given by the professor of botany
or the professor of agriculture, but more
important than theoretical instruction
is actual training in landscape gardening
and in cultivation and care of plants. To
secure this result, I would recommend
the employment of a practical horticultur-
ist- to take charge of the campus, nursery, gardens, and orchard, and give students who may work in the same, needed
instruction and training. This will involve little, if any, more expense than
th4 present arrangement. We do not
propose to enter upon the cultivation
of * trees, fruits, or flowers for the
market, but a small income
may '.'easily be obtained by the sale
of surplus products. The nursery now
contains several hundred choice evergreens which will not be needed on the
University grounds. In a recent visit to
the Massachusetts Agricultural College, I
learned that the horticultural department
more'than pays all its expenses—a result
due, in part, to the great demand in New
England for choice plants.
■Mrs Peirce's generous donation of one.
thousand dollars for a conservatory will
put up and equip a green-house adequate
tor present use. The building can be so
planned as to permit the addition of a
handsome conservatory for choice plants.
■[   '."THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.
Ttte. University has, from the first, announced special courses of instruction in
agrif|ulture, but until recently, there has
beeiElio demand for such instruction. The
present demand happily comes when we
,.Tlie-pracUeaL..work.accomplished^ m*ar«I^K*pared.to organize, the School of
horticulture is, perhaps, a little more sat- Agriculture, both for instruction and ex
isfactory. Something in landscape gardening has been done in the laying out
ofthe University grounds/ and in adorning them with trees, shrubs, hedges, etc.
These grounds are under the almost constant observation of the students, and
their horticultural taste and knowledge
are thereby cultivated. In the absence
of a practical horticulturist to take charge
of this department, we have been obliged
to abandon all attempts in the direction
of cultivating plants and small fruits.
The nursery of evergreens, the once-
abandoned orchard, and the hedges and
young trees all need the attention and
care of a skilful hand and a trained eye.
The School of Industrial Art is a most
promising beginning in the mechanical
arts. The courses of instruction in industrial drawing, designing, and mechanical
engineering, and the projected course in
architecture, are most important elements in mechanical training, but, so
iar, we have done nothing in practical
mechanics. The machinery put into the
mechanic's shop remains unused, and no
instruction in the use of tools and in mechanical processes has been attempted.
It may be proper, in this connection, to
call attention to the fact that the act of
Congress endowing this institution,
places the mechanic arts on the same
footing as agriculture. This fact is generally overlooked, and the University is
frequently referred to as the "State-Agricultural College." But agriculture is
only one ofthe important industrial interests which Purdue is designed to promote. Massachusetts divided her fund,
using a part to endow the State Agricultural College, near Amherst, and giving
the other part to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to promote the me-
chanicarts. PurdueUniversity coversthe
ground of both of these institutions, and
its courses of study must include branches
related to the mechanic arts, as well as
to agriculture.'    ■
It must be oonceded that all we have
done in agriculture, horticulture, and
mechanics comes farshortof what should
be done, and, if nothing more were proposed, the managers of the institution
would be justly subject to criticism and
censure. But, as before indicated, practical and efficient work in these directions was a part of the original plan of
reorganization, and, from the first, it has
been our purpose to make these departments worthy of the great industries
whic they are designed to promote.
The problem to be solved is a difficult
one, but the following plans are submitted with the belief that they will prove
efficient:
THE SCHOOL OF MECHANICS.
It is recommended that a school for
practical training in mechanics be organized on what is known as the "Russian
System," and that a competent instructor
be employed. The chief aim of this system is to teach mechanical processes and
use of tools—to teach the arts which underlie all important trades, and which
are required by skilled artisans. Trades
are not taught, and no articles are manufactured for sale in market. The system has been intelligently tested by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with most satisfactory results, and it has
been introduced into several other technical schools in this country. It requires
a comparatively small outlay for tools,
fixtures, and materials, and the students
receive no compensation for time spent
in the shop.' Its introduction here will
be attended  with small expense.   We
periment. The demand for systematic
instruction may be small for several
yeare, to come, but the wide field of experiment will furnish full employment
for the professor in charge of the school.
The first step in the organization of the
school is the selection of a competent
man to take charge of it. This will require time and care, for the men in the
country qualified to fill such a position,
are few in number. I repeat the remark
made in my inaugural address, that a
superficial empiric in such a position
would do more harm than good. What
is needed is a first-class scientific man—
one not only competent to teach the science of agriculture, but also competent
to conduct a series of observations and
experiments in a scientific manner.
The next step is to provide the professor of agriculture with necessary facilities
for conducting experiments; and this involves the whole question of the management of the farm. In the light of the
experience of other institutions, I put the
plan suggested in my inaugural address,
into the form of a recommendation, believing that it is. the best possible solution to the problem before us. Set apart
from five to ten acres of the farm for
such agricultural experiments as can be
made on a small scale, and make this an
agricultural laboratory, under the charge
of the professor. The experience of the
agricultural schools of Europe shows that
such a laboratory can be made to cover
most of the important questions in agriculture, with a small expenditure of
money—a very important consideration.
Let the rest of the land owned by the
University, about 150 acres, be conducted
as a model farm—as an illustration of scientific and business farming. To this end,
the farm should be made to pay not only
its running expenses, but all ordinary
improvements. There will necessarily be
some demand on the farm for experiments which can best be conducted on a
large scale, including experiments in the
feeding of stock, the rotation of crops,
etc.,—experiments requiring great care
but little expense. We have an illustration of this fact in the recent experiment
relating to the quantity of seed wheat to
be sown to the acre. This experiment
promises valuable results, but its value
would be increased by analyses ofthe soil
in the different sections to determine
their comparative fertility (a very important fact); by determining the comparative height of the stalk by measurement; by comparing the .weight of the
straw, etc. These and-other inquiries
repeated with the experiment for several
years, with a careful record of the results, will throw much light upon the
practical question involved—at least as
far as our soil and climate are concerned.
These experiments should be made under
the supervision of the professor of agriculture, and they should be repeated on
different soils and in different parts of the
state.
There will also be a demand on the
farm for practice for those students in
agriculture who are not familiar with
the details of farming. Nearly all the
applications for admission to the School
of Agriculture have been made by young
men who have not been brought up on a
farm. The Japanese youth, who made
the first application for admission to this
school, did not enter, because I could not
promise him practice on the farm, and I
have been obliged to give a similar answer to all applicants—a necessity under
the present system.
I have said enough to show that there
must be a close connection between1 the
School of Agriculture and the model
farm. If divorced, the success of the
school will be greatly lessened, and the
value of the farm, as one of the appliances of the University, will be nearly,
if not quite, destroyed.
PLAN RECOMMENDED.
How can this necessary connection be
made? I have given this important
question long and careful consideration,
and, as a result, the following plan is
recommended: Let the management of
the farm be entrusted to a committee of
the Board of Trustees, and let the professor of agriculture submit to this committee, from time to time, the experiments he wishes to be made on the farm.
If the committee approves, let it order
the experiments made under the supervision of the professor of agriculture, all
extra expense involved to be charged to
the experiment fund. When students
wish and require practice on the farm,
let application be made to the same committee, and such practice be provided
under its orders.
This arrangement for the management
of the model farm will relieve the Faculty of all responsibility for the results.
I have no desire to assume any such responsibility, and I shall be glad to have
this duty entrusted to a committee of the
Board, composed of experienced and successful farmers. The President of the
University will, by virtue of his office, be
the dean of the School of Agriculture, as
he is of all other schools and departments,
and all applications for experiments and
practice will be made with his approval.
It is my opinion that this arrangement
will avoid the complications which have
so seriously crippled several other schools
of agriculture. The vital condition is
that the farm be at all times under the
immediate control of the Board of Trustees. It is impossible to determine beforehand how much land will be needed
for experimental purposes; where it
should be situated; what assistance the
farm must render, etc. These and many
other important questions can be wisely
settled only after consultation with the |
professor to be selected and appointed,
and to enter upon his duties not earlier
than March 1, 1879,      ;_:   __
WAYS AND MEANS.
I now come to the important question
of ways and means. It has already been
stated that the expense of equipping the
Mechanics Shop can be paid from the
state appropriation, to be received November 1st. So much practical work in
horticulture as may be an improvement
of the grounds, can be paid from the
state appropriation for this purpose. All
the experiments in agriculture that can
wisely be undertaken next year, can be
paid from the appropriation for this purpose.
This leaves the salaries of the professor
of agriculture and of the instructor in
mechanics to be provided for. If the
recommendation, made to the Board of
Trustees in June last, be adopted, the
salary of the farm superintendent, now
paid out of the endowment fund, will be
available after March lst, for nearly one-
half of the sum required.
APPROPRIATIONS.
It is my belief that the Board can confidently look to the next General Assembly for specific appropriations for these
practical purposes. It will require but a
small additional appropriation to put all
of these departments into successful
operation. If the appropriation fails, the
Board can make such modifications of
the system as may seem necessary.
When Purdue University was organized,
its endowment fund was invested in
United States bonds, nearly all bearing
six per cent, interest, payable in gold.
This interest, with the premium on gold,
yielded an income of about §22,000.
When the present organization was matured, I depended on an income of about
$20,000—a small one for a scientific and
technical institution. The premium on
gold has nearly disappeared, and the
University has been obliged to exchange
its bonds for those bearing only five per
cent, interest, and to buy these at a premium. As a result, its income from the
endowment fund has been reduced to
about $15,000 a year. This great change
in its resources renders it impossible to
meet reasonable demands, without the
aid of the State, and it is believed that
needed assistance will not be withheld.
Gentlemen of the Board:—Ihe recommendations, above stated, are the result
of earnest and careful consideration, and
it is believed that they will commend
themselves to intelligent men, identified
with the three great industrial interests
involved. I earnestly hope that they
may receive the unanimous approval of
the Board of Trustees, to whose favorable
consideration they are most respectfully
submitted. E. E. White,
President of Purdue University.
Oct. 22,1878.
The recommendations submitted by
President White were considered separately by the Board of Trustees and
unanimously approved, and it was voted
to open the schools March 1st, 1879, if the
General Assembly make the necessary
appropriation.
GENERAL NEWS.
A rich sugar refiner of San Francisco,
has bought 20,000 acres of land in the
Hawaiian Islands for the cultivation of
sugar-cane. He will irrigate the dry
lands, drain the swamps, build railways,
and spare no money to make the thing
a suecess. The same man, when the reciprocity treaty making island sugar free
of duty appeared safe of confirmation,
slipped over and corralled all the sugar
for three years ahead.
Thirty states will elect congressmen on
the fifth.
The total number of yellow fever deaths
is more than twelve thousand.
The rice crop of Louisiana is pronounced
to be the largest ever harvested.
The epizootic has broken out in the vicinity of Newark, N. J.
— The famine in China   will cause a largo
shipment of wheat from this country.
A large number of counterfeit trado dollars
aro in circulation in New York.
Statistics show that tho United States
form the healthiest region of tlie globe.
Tho Duko of Devonshire lately cleared
nearly ?100,0CK_by the salo of thirty Short
Horns.
Tho iron works of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, employing 5,000 men, aro now in full
operation.
A bakery of Albany, Now York, sends
4,000 cans of cakes to Bombay, India, tho
first of every month.
A party of thieves visited Paxton, 111., a
few nights since, and among other tilings
stolen %voro thirty-one watches.
The Superior Court of Cincinnati lias decided the last two million loan, for the Cincinnati Southern railroad, legal.
At Vienna tho export of Hungarian
wheat is at a stand still, in consequenso of
America underselling the Hungarian market.
More than 22,000 barrels of apples havo
been exported from Boston during the last
three weeks, "by steamship to Liverpool.
The 40,000 population of Memphis has
been reduced by the yellow fover to 2,500
whites and fi,000 blacks.
Twenty-fivo head of Hambletonian stock
were sold at Middletown, N. Y., last week,
for a total of §4,070. The highest price realized was fGOO.
In order to open up a market for hard
coal in Europe, a coal firm in Philadelphia
presents an American coal stove to each
large purchaser, and thus introduces the
stovo and coal at the same time.
A disease has broken out among tho milch-
cows in tho vicinity of Delavon, 111., and is
spreading with alarming rapidity, a considerable number having already died. As
yet, tho naturo and causo of tho disease Is
not known.
Tho Prussian minister of finance and a
syndicato'of Berlin bankers, on the 25th ult.,
signed the contract for a Prussian four per
cent, loan of sixty million marks.
The sum of?345 was realized for the uso
of four seats of Library Hall on tho occasion
of a performance for the benefit of tho poor
ofLouisvillo by tho Prentice Club of that
city.
Of the number of foreigners who havo
come to this country this year with tho intention of making it their homo, 02,022 por-.
sons havo no trado or method of making a
livelihood.
Admiral Paulding, senior flag officer on tho
retired list of tho navy, a son of tho captor
of Major Andre, and tho last surviving officer of tho battle of Lake Cliamplain, died at
Huntington, L. L, last week.
The elegant residence of Levi Allen, Esq.,
near Decatur, 111., was totally destroyed by
fire on tho 25th ult. Tho barn, containing
i four head of valuable horses, and food stuff,
[ was also consumed.   Loss, §15,000.
John O'Brien, a farmer living three miles
from Amboy, 111., while returning homo,
was assaulted by two tramps, who knocked
him off his wagon with a heavy stick, making a deep and dangerous wound in his
skull. Ho was robbed of a sum of money
and loft in an insensible condition.
Henry W. Tyler, a well-known desperado,
of Parkerslmrg, \V. Va., shot and killed his
wife on the 25th ult., and thon put a bullet
through his own head, dying in a few moments after. He is supposed to havo boen
under the influence of liquor at tho time.
During tho first nine months of this year
the Burlington and Missouri Itiver Railroad
Company sold, to actual settlers, 425,107
acres of land in Nebraska for ?2,191,093.
There yet remains unsold only aljout ono
million acres of the original grant in this
State.
The town of Frodonia, N. Y., has been
lighted with natural gas for fifty-two years.
The supply comes' from between two largo
coal measures. In Erie, Pennsylvania,
there are thirteen gas wells, which furnish
fuel for steam boilers, and the lighthouse at
Portland, on Lake Erie, has boen lighted
with it.    '
In England, more than 500 blast furnaces
and 3,000 puddling furnaces are idle, and
the list is increasing. The chief causo is
the developemcnt of tlie iron industry here.
A half a dozen years ago England was sending us a million tons of rails per year. Now
she sends less than one hundred thousand.
There are fifty-three cotton factorios in
operation in North Carolina, twenty-seven
of which have been built since the war.
Tlie great bridge over the MisHissippi
river, the pride and best of t lie people of St.
Louis, is advertised to bo sold, under mortgages, on the 20th ot Voveuilxir next. Tlie
sale is in the interest ofthe foreign bondholders, and the amount involved is fj^V/J/KMi,
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