VOL  XXI.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MARCH 27,1886.
NO. 13
ghc farm.
Postal Card Correspondence.
IXDIAHA.
Putnam Oo., March 20 — Season   opened
finely; every one in good spirits.     O.P.
•   Morgan Co., March 20 —Wheat doing
nicely; farmers sowing eats and getting
ready for work. Mrs. H. A. S.
Gibson Co., March 20 —Wheat has improved the last week, under the influence
of warm sunshine; a splendid week for
farm work. E. J.
Ruse Co., March 20 —The warm weather
during the week has started the grass;
most of the wheat looking fine; roads
pretty good. E. K.
Randolph Co., March 22.—Our equinoctial storm came but did no damage;
barometer very low on the 20th, 29.35;
lowest I ever saw it here. W. J. D.
Warrick O-, March 20.—From appearance now spring has come at last and
come to stay; sowing oats and making
garden is the order of the day now.
J. P. W.
Gresne Co., March 20.—Weather has
been very warm for March; the wheat is
needing rain badly; only 0 47 of rain and
melted snow so far this month.
W. B S.
Clark Co., March 22 —A very fine week
for farm work; oats sowing has progressed
rapidly; fruit trees pushing their buds
fast; weather very dry and very warm for
the seasen. G. P.
Crawford Co., March 20.—The week
has been unusually fine for sowing oats,
and farmers have improved it well; wheat
has been recovering fast from the effects
of the recent freezes. J. M. J.
Washington Co , March 20.—Weather
unusually warm for March; some oats
sowed; farmers are all very busy with
spring work; but little rain this month;
some have planted garden seeds.
J. S. H.
Jefferson Co , March 20 —The warm
weather is bringing out the wheat; early
gardens made and oats sown; farmers
have a fine opportunity to get a start;
special interest taken here in small fruits.
F. L M.
Henry Co , March 20— On the 19th the
temperature reached 74°; this temperature
has been passed only one time in March
during 32 years; it was 77° March 31, 1875;
considerable maple molasses made; grass
growing finely. W. D.
Vermillion Co., March 19.—The voioe
of the turtle is heard in the land; a week
of fine warm spring weather has brought
out the frogs and started the farmer to
sowing oats; wheat looks excellent; some
maple sirup is being made. T. R.
LaPorte Co , March 18 —Some big snow
drifts in sight, but we are having lovely
days now, but horrid bad roads wherever
the soil is rich, sandy roads good, as the
"bottom" is all thawed out ef the sandy
ground, and it is drying up nicely; wheat
in most fields is all right; plenty of corn
and hay yet, and stock generally doing
well; farmers are stirring around lively
and fixing to plow and repair fences; the
"Indiana   Farmer"  reaches   me   every
Saturday evening, and is an excellent
paper and is making many friends ln this
end of the State, and is an honor to Its
editors and writers.     Mas. B. A. Davis.
Switzerland Co., March 20.—Wheat is
recovering under the genial heat and begins to appear strong and green; large
areas of land are planted in onions; pastures reviving; hay arrives in moderate
shipments and is in good demand; rain is
badly needed; country roads in excellent
condition; wild flowers beginning to
bloom; snowdrops and crocuses bloom
freely. C G. B.
omo.
Clinton Co., March 19.—Have had a
nice winter; wheat protected by snow a
part of the time; early sowed looks well,
late badly frozen out; clover badly frozen;
stock looking well; feed plenty; farm
hands f 15 to f 18; some farmers sowing oals;
some plowing »>d for oorn; ground breaks
n'cely. J. G. H.
Q5eiwral flcxus.
j§>tatje IJeivTs.
Germany has eight schools of forestry.
Tomperance people carried the local
election in West Virginia.
The fiftieth anniversary of Victoria's accession to the throne occurs next June.
Columbus, Neb., ls overflowed by the
Loup river, and many people have been
driven out of their homes.
A six-year old child of Joseph Taylor, in
Clay county, Tennessee, accidentally killed
her father while handling a pistol in his
presence.
A number of persons were entombed by
the collapse of a quarry at Baxes, in the
south of Prance, Tuesday the 16th. Three
bodies have been recovered.
There is only one linen mill in operation
in the United States, and it Is making only
the coarsest kinds of crash toweling. It
has been losing money for many years.
Atlanta has sold f 116,000 in bonds bearing four per cent interest at par. This
does not indicate that the city is to be
fenced in because the liquor traffic is
fenced out.
During the year 1886 the number of Germans who emigrated to the United States
was 84.680; to Canada, 692; to Brazil, 1,000;
to the Argentine Republican, 726; to Chili,
682; to Africa, 294.
Near Clinton, O., Mr. and Mrs. Yochen,
In attempting to drive across the track of
the Akron and Columbus road, was struck
by a passenger train. Mrs. Yochen was
Instantly killed, and her husband so badly injured that he will die.
Leading importers and breeders of Sussex cattle have petitioned the Illinois State
Board of Agricnlture that Sussex stock be
admitted to competition, on foot, at the
next American Fat Stock Show, to beheld
at Chicago on Nov. 8 and 9 next.
The Illinois Milk Condensing Company
has contracted with the farmers near
Elgin for 300,000 quarts of milk daily, for
the ensuing six months, beginning on
April 1. The price ls two and one-half
cents per quart for April and September,
two and one-fourth cents for May and
August, and two cents for June and July,
or nine cents per gallon for six months.
A family of nine at Lyons are ill with
trichinosis.
A number of cases of smallpox are reported at Jeffersonville.
Clark county farmers have commenced
sowing oats and planting potatoes.
The New Albany woolen and cotton
mills have 650 people on the pay-rolls.
The State health board has been notified
that a case of glanders has developed at
Madison.
Martin Edlin, of Anderson, has died
from injuries by being gored by a bull
two weeks ago.
Edward Carlisle, of Shelbyville, was
fonnd dead in bed. He was a sufferer
from asthma, and strangled.
A three year-old son of Jacob Johnson,
living near Osgood, was kicked, last week,
by a colt, sustaining a broken jaw and a
fractured arm.
Horse thieves are operating about Pa-
troit, Switzerland Co. They are bold and
successful. A vigilance committee has
been organized.
About 40 acres of woodland caught fire
near Otisco, Clark county, and was burned.
The loss is very heavy, and will foot up to
several thousand dollars.
Charles Mann, president of tbe Iowa
State University, at Iowa City, sent a
large number of fossils to the State
Museum, which were received by Mr.
Thompson yesterday.
Delos Pedan, living three miles northwest of Salem, while riding in a carriage,
put out his foot, which was accidentally
caught in the spokes of the wheel, and his
left leg was wrenched off at the knee-joint.
On the llth, theresldenceof H. S. Blatchley, of Bainbridge, was completely destroyed by fire, his loss embraced some
valuable agricultural books and every
number of the Indiana Farmer which
he kept on file.
rying the matter further than either duty
or good taste demands to lay aside the
Nation's business for a whole day when a
member's death is announced, and for another whole day to honor his memory with
panegyric oratory. No patriotic member
of either House of Congress would wish
to have his demise stop public business or
desire a junketing expedition to celebrate
it.
Death has been busy in the 49th Congress, having taken already two republican and two democratic members from
the lower House, and from the Senate,one
republican Senator and a democratic Vice-
president The sudden death of ex-Governor Halin of Louisiana, a prominent republican congressmen from that State,was
ascribed to the bursting of a blood vessel
from violent coughing In his private
parlor at Willard's Hotel, he was found
outstretched on the floor, lifeless, attired
in his night robe, and covered with blood.
Among other changes proposed in Congress Is one substituting the 14th of April
for inauguration day in place cf the 4th
of March. It is held that the latter day,
which was selected by the continental
Congress for the installation of the new
government, now causes public inconvenience by curtailing and limiting the
second session «f every Congress. The
first president was Inaugurated on the 13th
of April and it is proposed that the 100th
anniversary of the inauguration of George
Washington be commemorated by the inauguration of his successor in 1889 upon
the same day, and that this shall be the
day hereafter for the beginning of successive administrations.
The President continues to dine Congress in sections. Last evening 41 Senators were invited. They were seated at
table In the alternate order of democrat
and republican. The State parlors were
brilliantly lighted, but there were no
flowers, no music, and no women.
Washington Letter.
From onr regular correspondent:
The custom of junketing funeral excursions whenever a Senator or Representative happens to die is one against which
public sentiment has long manifested
Itself. Yet the junketing goes on. It is
estimated that the expense of transporting
the remains of Senator Miller to California
by special train and sending with ft a Congressional committee, which will return
in the same, will be 820,000. The expense
of the funeral train and committee that
have gone with the deceased. Representative Hahn to New Orleans, will cost at
least half that amount. One member of
Congress has had the courage to declare
himself against this senseless way of
spending the people's money. It was Mr.
Gates, a one armed democrat from Alabama. He offered a resolution to amend
the House rules so as to prohibit the appointment of funeral committees to accompany the dead bodies of members beyond the limits of Washington City. If
it should be adopted, then the proposed
plan < f confining the delivery of eulogies
over deceased members to special Sunday
sessions would be next in order.   It is car-
THE WOOL MARKET.
Justice, Bateraan .v.- Co.'s wool circular
of recent date says:
There is no new features to report in the
wool market, and trade continues dull.
The Increased Interest on the part of buyers noticed about the first of the month
did not develop as it promised to do, and
tbe demand has been extremely light.
Salrs could be made by concession in price,
but with a few exceptions, holders prefer
to wait until the wool is wanted, feeling
confident that manufacturers will be
forced to buy if their mills continue to
run.
The uncertainty as to the probable action
of the mill operatives in regaid to hours
of labor and rates of wages, undoubtedly
acts as a check upon many manufacturers
who prefer to await the settlement of these
questions before buying, except for immediate requirements. Many mills are
now idle, owing to the demands of the
operatives for higher wages. Low wools
are the grades most sought for and show
the least decline from the highest point
reached. Fine fleeces are dull. ' Territorial wools are in light supply, and in
moderate request.
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The Kansas Ciiy Inter State fair will be
held Sept. 13 to 18. Ed. H. Webster, secretary, Kansas City.