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Vol. xni.
nroiANATOIJS^ipiAKA, JULY 13,187a
No. 28.
FOB  IALB.
I have one more Boar Pig out of sow bought of I.
N. Barker, sired by Tippecanoe, for which I win
take $8X0.   E- G. BAGLKY, Indianapolis.	
300 000 acres best farming lands In Wisconsin for
sale. Send for price and descriptive list. 8. A.
TAYLOR, Dobbston, Oconto Ca. Wisconsin.
~I_IOB SALS—A Mason _ Hamlin organ,
_E    for_churchor garlor, at ja great bargain.
Address J. McLENE, 139 North Perm,
apolis.  "
suitable
bar
St., Ini
Lian-
FOK SALE—Jersey
1732; 3   	
       32; 3 ye
butter family,
Dublin, Ind.
Bull "Sir Roderick."  Na
ears old; sure breeder and from a good
Price 1150.00.   A.L. &W. C DAVIS,
EOR SALE—The Farm Begister and Account-
Book. Complete method ol keeping farm accounts. Price, tl.00 each. AddrasI-DIANA FARMEB CO., Indianapolis.
•triOE SALE—Three black Poland China boar pigs;
■P farrowed March 19th, 1S78, with pedigree.
They are very flne, acd I guarantee satisfaction.
Addrtss FRED. KOCH, Terre Haute, Ind.
TJtOB SALE—The largeit stock of salt, calcined
Jj plaster, land plaster and cement. The only
house that keeps these goods always on hand, at
lowest prloes. ANDREW WALLACE, Indianapolis.
EOB SALK OB TRADE-50 of my flrst-class
_Breeding stock of Light Brahmas, Buff Coch
ins, White Leghorns and Pekln Ducks, from Jl to to
each, to make room for young stock. Will trade
for a good, first-class milch cow, or good sow and
pigs. A. 8EIFERT, Stratford Poultry Yards, Indianapolis, Ind.
FOB SALK OK TRADE—A Dederick's Perpetual Hay Press, capable of baling, with horse
or steam power, 10 to 12 tons of hay per day. The
Press is as good as new. The owners time being
fully occupied with other business, favorable terms
WiU be made. Address INDIANA FABMEB, In-
dl anapolis. Ind.
WAXIIO,
WANTED—I have some very fine Bnff Cochin
chickens, wcrth, per trio, $15, I will exchange for beet. One trio for a swarm ln good
condition.   R. 8. DOBBEY, Indianapolis.	
•VITANTED- Good, reliable agents. Liberal In-
VV dnceir ents and good territory offered. Call
or address INDUSTRIAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, 21
and 21 Hubbard's Block, Indianapolis. Bules and
By-laws sent free upon application.	
ESUCA-IONAI..
YOUNG MAN, If you desire attending a college
where you procure value received In instruction for your money, attend the Tebbe H_ota
COaOIIEKCIAL COIiEOB AND INST1TUTB OF PEHJtAN-
_up, which offers superior facilities for preparing
young men and women for business pursuits. The
finest accountants, most accomplished penmen and
best practical book-keepers In the land are to be
found in the above college.
Foi terms address,     R. GABVIN, Principal,
-  Terre Haute, Ind.
_HSC___.A^~0-S-
• _yV4__5£-_____. At_T_iB!~_©ncangetnew
machines, etc.; also tents and" wagon "covers" on
hand and made to order. Grain sacks, etc. Call
on or address CHAS, THATCHER, 61S, UliiiO- St.,
Indianapolis, Ind.	
CC. BUBGESS, Dentist.   Office In room 4, Va*
s   Jen's Exchange Block.N. Perm. St.
7-tf.
TO LOAN—Money to loan on Improved farms.
J. H. HABDEBECK, 36 East Market St, Indi-J
anapolis. tf
T\/f-ONEY TO LOAN-8ums of J300 to S3.000 on
JvJL Improved farms. E^*>'%,"', ■"""i
VINTON, IndlanapoUs, Ind.
BUDDELL, WALCOTT &
_T\. KEAT BARGAINS in Spring Wagons of all
\_~T kinds, manufactured by C. R, Schellert. For
sSe at wholesale and retail. Prices to suit the
hard times. Call at 291 and 296 Mass, Ave., Indianapolis.   J. CAYLOB, Agent,
-■piECa-ED BARGAINS
_aU to reduce oui choice
 breeding stock of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Essex, Chester White and Poland China pigs of all
ages. Also sheep, cattle, and fancy poultry; finest,
new breeder's manual, elegantly illustrated and
giving full description of the different breeds. Price
25 centa. Beed Wheat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower. lettuce, radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall. Prickly Comfrey, the most wonderful for-
' b W.00 per 100; 50 cents extra by mall.
WRNSON. BUBPEE & CO.,
S8-1J
age plant, setts 1
Seed catalogue tree.   B—tiov/..*., -,
233 Church street, Philadelphia, Pa.
OUR -ABIS LETTER.
Tbe Paris Exhibit!on—The Cattle Show
—Its Management and Its Participants,
[From Cut Regular Correspondent.}
' 12 Boulevard du Temple, \
Paris, June IB, 1878. j
The ahow of live stock opened yesterday on the Esplanade of the Invalides,
and to be closed this day week, is one of
the novelties connected with the exhibi-
bition, and is well worth a visit. It is,
however, attended with inevitable draw
backs. Expense and risk prevent the
despatch of animals from considerable
distances, and the peasant farming prevailing in certain countries does not conduce to enterprise in stock raising. Hence
this cattle show, though a section of the
universal exhibition, is not universal, nor
even European, but is French, English
Belgian, with a sprinkling of Dutch, Italian, Swiss, Danish and Portugese. France
has 356 exhibitors; England ,145; Belgium,
39; Holland, 12; Italy 12; Switzerland, 9;
Denmark, 2 and Portugal, 1. _ England is
represented by nearly all its eminent
breeders, and amplf justifies its reputation. Indeed its superiority would nave
been all the more manifest, had the international competition extended over a
wider area, and much of the beat French
stock is the result of crossing with English
breeds:
THE CATTLE
are placed in about 40 lofty and spacious
sheds, with plenty of air and light, but
covered in, so that the visitors walking
through them are sheltered from the sun
and rain. The sheep, pigs and poultry
are penned at each extremity, where
lines of trees afford protection, and in the
center is a broad belt of flower beds.
•There is not the slightest crowding, and
Ull discomfort, both for the public and
[for the stock, has been avoided,
journey and the heat are,
nevertheless,   telling   on
some of the pigs, whose
owners are prudently inviting offers from Paris
butchers.   Of Dutch oxen
there are many large and
well shaped animate, and
30 of miscellaneous northern    breeds,   a   Danish
Count carrying oS several
prizes.   The Swiss cattle
number 50, and are admirable specimens.' Their
bells hung up beside them
call up reminiscences of
pleasant mountain music.
Seven individual breeders
and two societies—those
of the canton of Schwytz
and of the Simmentha—
furnish the entire collection.   Italian and Portugese  cattle   are   scantily 'represented.
Turning to the cattle bred in France,
attention is first attracted by a choice
assortment   of  Normans,    various   in
form and color, but robust, quiet, and
producing good milk as well as good beef.
The Flemish is also a well filled class of
cattle, of imposing size, with good heads,
ana level backs, but with narrowing flanks
and  chests.   The Charolaise, however,
are by far the handsomest of the French
breeds, with their white and silky coats,
fine heads, and cylindrical bodies, though
they are not good milkers.   The Gascon
and Charolaise, Garonnaise, Bazadaise,
Pyrenees, Breton and other native breeds
are  likewise  seen to advantage.   The I
French Durhams, however, take the lead
in the point of numbers, forming an im- i
posing   collection;   while  the   crosses
between Durham and various French and
other breeds seem, in many cases, highly
successful.
The great attraction in the
SHEEP DEPARTMENT
is the collection of Merinos, which, being
unshorn, are seen to great advantage.
The Merino introduced by the government from Spain, toward the end of the
Franc¥,*an_lias givenagreatstun__-_to
the laying down of pastures.   Its fleece,
form and capacity for  fattening have
undergone much modification during the
last 15 years, to meet the lower price of
wool and the higher price of  mutton.
The Rambouillet flock, the property of
the State, serves aa a nursery for French
and foreign breeders, the race having
been unmixed.   Twelve fine aheep from
this flock figure in the show, but do not
compete, for the Government,  aa  the
organizers of the show, could scarcely |
award  itself prizes.    French  breeders
exhibit ;about 250 Merinos, mostly from
the south and southeast.   The prize for
the best show falls to M. J. Cottop, of the
Cote d'Or.   M. Lefevre Poisson, of the
Loinet, is also one of the most successful
exhibitors.   In the foreign section there
is likewise a Merino class, but it has only
a dozen entries, all from Italy, except one
or two from Hungary.    Had Germany
taken part in the exhibition generally,
specimens would, doubtless, have been
sent from some of the German states.
French agriculturists have crossed the
Merino with several other breeds, and
the cross with the Dishley, or New Leicester seems the moat successful of thtse
experiments.   In
POULTRY,
natives and foreigners compete together,
without reference to the native aoil of
the exhibite. Moat of the foreign poultry
is English, but it fights a losing battle.
Though most of the breeders fighting
prominently in English Bhows, enter the
lists in this section also, only a few crumbs
in the way of prizes fall to them. The
French poultry are, in general, finer and
of higher style.
The show does not attract many visitors,
the exhibition and the Salon presenting
superior attraction to most foreigners,
especially as  the  weather  is showery
SOUTH BIND CHILLED PLOW, manufactured by St, Joseph Beaper and Machine Co..
South Bend, Ind.
Prickly Comfrey for Cattle.    e
A correspondent of the London Field
lately wrote to that journal, implying that
prickly comfrey as a forage plant for cattle
was a complete failure, as his cattle would
not eat at all, if they could get anything
else. In the next issue of the same paper,
however, he writes that their taste in the
matter had apparently changed:—Singularly enough, without any apparent cause,
they have since then eaten it most greedily—in fact will leave their mash to get it.;
I am unable to account for this, unless it is
that a particular stage of the growth ofthe'
plant, t. e., when just flowering, the cattle
fancy it. I feel bound, in justice to those
who are anxious to introduce it as a food
for cattle, to state what I now find to be
the case. Horses and pigs also eat freely.'
The Crops as Seen from Car Windows.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer: ';
The route of travel waa over the I. C.
<_ L. railroad to Lafayette and thence ;to
St. Ann, Els., over the G. L. & C. road( a
age double that amount. Vegetables of
almost all kinds and delicious in flavor,
and of very large size, are easily grown.
Fruits in great variety and of perfection
in growth are found at every home. At
the present time great preparation is
being made to reap the extensive harvest
throughout the north-we&t. The season
in this valley has been less favorable to
the maturing of grain than for several
years that have just passed, as the dry
season ofthe year commenced too soon
and for this reason late spring wheat, or
wheat sown in or after March, will suffer
for want of rain.
HABVESlT-a
here would be a novel sight for Indianians. The wheat is cut with "headers"
and seldom stacked, but threshed the
same day as cut and hauled to market or
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Stale news.
Vevay sustained a $10,000 loss by fire on the
3rd inst.
Bartholomtw oounty bas nine energetic
temperance societies.
Petersburg people manage to exist by the
aid of seven saloons,
Julia Span-, of Muncie, goes to China in the
fall as a missionary,
A dangerous counterfeit ten dollar bill,
on the Man tie National back, is in circulation.
Middletown, Henry connty, has organized
a gory band, of heroes. They call themselves
a militia company.
Harvey Hart-well had his arm shot off while
firing a cannon at the celebration at Old Vernon on the Fourth.
Two attempts were made to rob graves at
Lawrenceburg last week, but the robbers were
frightened off by watchers.
Berj. Runyan, living ten miles north-east of
Marion, waa killed by lightning on the 3rd
inst., while sitting in his house.
The managers of the Boone connty fair report that the prospects for a ancceeafoll exhibition this fall are quite flattering.
Samuel Beeves, a Knox coanty farmer,
was Bunstrock in the streets at Vincennes,
on the 4th instant, and died the next day.
; The -stone cutters on the Wabash court
house struck laat week, because sheds
were not erected to shelter them from the
sun.
.   Wm. Houghton, a member of the Society of
Friends, and for sixty years a school teacher
I in Eastern
rions illness of another, child of Mr. Phillips
of Needmore, was caused by overdoses of chloral and belladonna administered by Dr. King, a
young physician of the neighborhood. Great
injustice was done Dr. King in this publication, and the Local Item now says: "Our article concerning this, published two weeks
ago, was gathered from rumor, circulated, we
suppose, by partita deeirons of injuring Dr.
King, and in justice to truth and the Doctor,
we will remark that he is a gentleman,
and, we are informed, was educated in one
of the best medical colleges in the United
States."
GENEBAL   NEWS.
to haul away.   In many cases wheat cut
ih the morning is threshed and hauled
to the mill, and made into flour before
night,
road officered and operated by efficient Many immigrants are continually ar-
. . Indiana,  died at Raysville last
piled in sacks in the field till convenient I week.
at seventy and seven-five
at Princeton, and buy-
they can handle at that
and courteous gentlemen.   Th^o. i^^-_y_% /^ *^ land that is desirable in
previ6ua~nignt,' wriich' was _eaviearat|^^^
Lebanon and Thorntown.   No rain west
of Fowler, in Benton county. Oats, which
ia very promising, wa3 blown down in
some fields.   Com looks promising on all
high grounds, but ia weedy and backward
in the low, level prairies. However, with
feyorable weather the remainder of the
season, a good crop will yet be realized.
Wheat fields are everywhere populous
of shocks which ought to be now in the
barn or atack.   Farmers have loat heavily foT two seasons, by not housing or
stacking immediately after harvest, and
they cannot be too vigilant thia year in
saving every grain of the grand crop,
which Providence haa so  bounteously
given them. -'A few fields along the C. L.
& C. were yet uncut.   Hay will yield a
large crop, and fruit, though not abund
ant, will supply home demand.   Indeed,
everything, except  corn  in  low fields,
looks hopeful for the fanner.   The hot
weather of the past week has given a
wonderful impetus to the corn crop, and
weeds, too, where they have not been annihilated by  the  invading   cultivator.
Allusion has been made to the hay crop;
but one field was harvested on the entire
road.   It cannot be too often urged upon
every farmer  to cut hay when in the i
blossom.   The rule ia to leave it until the'
wheat and oata are harvested and the
corn laid' by, but rather than wait until
this date it had better be cut before wheat
harvest.   Too early ratner than too late,
should be the rule. G.
>g*«
ila be ea-
still exists ia an outlet for the.
which a profitable market couli
tablished. One narrow guage road extends from Walla Walla to Columbia
river, and a general system of similar
roads is in contemplation but yet quite
uncertain. Business of almost all kinds
seems good and hard times and bankruptcies are not known here.
\ THE INDIANS
who are now engaged in an outbreak in
north-eastern Oregon, and those in Wash*
ington Territory, who fought last year
and have since been friendly, but now
show signs of committing depredations
again, ate creating great excitement and
uneasiness among the settlers. Fifteen
white men are thus far known to have
been killed and their bodies brutally mutilated. Rumors of continual outrages
come in daily. A drove of 15,000 head of
cattle, en route for Cheyenne, were captured and four herders killed recently.
Many settlers are leaving their homes
and all they have in the world, glad to
escape with their lives only.
Yours, *, S. Heath.
Washington Territory.
  s    *»    »
land Plaster.
Wheat is selling
cento per bnshel,
ers are getting all
prices.
A'young doctor named. Low was drowned
while bathing in Blue river, at Freeport, in
. Shelby county, on the 3rd inst. He leaves no
imgve^lwt^+rj^fa^
-«.    fr,m   +K_ «.oin    KtT 1 **
rain by
He was the founder of that paper, and for many years its editor in chief. •**■* '
' Bids were open on the 6th inst., at Blnffton,
for the grading and tieing, between Blnffton
and Warren, of the Delphos, Blnffton and
Frankfort narrow gauge railroad.
Mr. Courtlahd Whitsitt, of Madison, will
establish two receiving houses, one at Indianapolis and the other at Cincinnati, for the disposal of his immense crop of peachee.
The musicians' stage broke down on the picnio grounds at North Vernon, on the Fourth,
and broke the leg of a small boy, son of
Harmon Fogy, besides injuring several
others.
Miss Mary T. Davis, of Tippecanoe connty,
has just been awarded $60,000, by. decree
of the courts, in a contested will case.
Stand back, young men 1   She is already en-
Interesting
AWAY OUT WEST. .
Washington
Letter from
Territory.
Walla Walla, June 17th.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Doubtless most of your readers know
that the Walla Walla Valley is situated
in Washington Territory, in the north-
ThVattendanta are chiefly French country west portion ofthe United Statea, and is
people.   The shepherds of various nation- noted for its fertility of aoil and geniality
alities aeem on excellent terms, and it is
amusing to witness their attempts to converse, or rather to gesticulate, with each
other. PSJ"3-
. ■— *•***»■ ■—
Attention is invited to the advertisement
in another column, of the public sale of
Short-horns, from the herd of Thomas
Nelson, of Parke Co., to be held at the
Russellville fair grounds, Aug. 23d. This
sale will be an important one, and should
claim the attendance of all stock men
in central and western Indiana, at least
i ■ » ■
A. G. Smith of Putnam county, reports
the gain of a high grade Short-hom in 13
months and 20 days, to be 820 lbs. Good
stock and the right kind of a stock farm,
pays. Said farm is for sale.
Hon. Claude Matthews announces in
the Fabmeb to-day, that he will sell a lot
of fine trotting horses, including Abdallah Clay, his celebrated stallion at Clin-
I ton, Ind., on the 7th day of August.   See
'^ie I his card and send to him for a catalogue.
of climate. The soil ia a_ exceedingly
black, sandy loam, being warm, moist
and easily pulverized. The surface of
the country is very rolling with'many
flat or level valleys along the water
courses. Timber is in smaU proportion
to the prairie lands, but is along the
streams and on the mountains in sufficient quantities to supply all demands
for lumber and firewood. West of the
Cascades the country is heavily timbered.
the prairie lands
are all covered with a heavy growth1 of
bunch grass whicb is as nutritious to
stock as Indiana timothy grass. In consideration of this fact and the favorable
climate there ia perhaps no country superior to thia for cattle, sheep and horses.
These roam in large bands over theprai-
riea and require but little attention,
either winter or summer.
Wheat is the principal production of
agriculture, yet corn can be raised, bnt
not ao profitably nor easily.   The wheat
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Farmers in the west, especially in Indiana and Ohio, find the soil of their land
failing.   Yields of farm cropa begin to fall
off, and it has become a serious question
with the owners how to restore the lost vitality of their lands.   Fertilizers must be
resorted to, and western farmers are, &i a
general thing, unacquainted with the numerous fertilizers offered them; they don't
know how  to manage them, or in what
way or why a certain result will be accomplished by their use. Most all of the fertilizers offered for sale are very expensive.
Oneof them, the Cayuga New York Land
Plaster, has been used a great many years
ih the tastern States, and it is cheap, and
in the East has a high reputation, but
here our farmers do not understand its use,
and I have thought best to ask if your cor-1
respondent, Prof. Brown, will not give us
the benefit of his experience and tell us
how and why land plaster is such a wonderful plapt and soil stimulant.   I understand Prof. Brown, when connected with
the agricultural department at Washing-
made a veryperfect analysis of the
The officials ofthe Indianapolis, Peru and
Chicago road estimate the crop of wheat in
Indiana as forty per cent, heavier than in any
former year since the road was opened for business.
Empty cars are being sent west in almost
unprecedented numbers. Freight officials
anticipate that within ten days new wheat
will begin to move eastward in immense
quantities. /
W. J. Abrams, who was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life, in 1868, for complicity
with Mrs. Clem in the murder of Jacob Young
and wife, was pardoned, on the 3rd inst., by
Gov. Williams.
A pair of horses, attached to a spring wag.
on, ran away near Shelbyville on the 3rd
inst., throwing out the occupants, killing
Abram Hansil almost instantly, and seriously
injuring Samuel Sandifur.
The small boy, with his inspiring firecracker, got in his perfect work in this city, on
the morning of the Fourth, by resolving a
$15,000 block into its original elements, and
rendering seven families homeless.
Oliver Woodruff was found on the railroad
track, four miles eaat of Morristown, on the
morning of the Fourth, gronnd to fragments. He was very dissipated in his
habits, and, no doubt, was drunk when
killed.
A. J. Russell, a promising young man Of
twenty, living at Olive Hill, Wayne county,
was assailed by Bud Tindall, who was fall of
bad whisky, on the evening of the Fourth,
and fatally cut with a razor. Tindall is now
in jail.
A yonng man named Mitchell, who is dying
In some places, oleomargarine fetches a higher ptice than pnre butter.
The aggregate of appropriations made by the
last Congress is $157,203,933.
At Paris, the Americans on the Fourth deposited wreaths on the tomb of Lafayette.
The belief is almost universal among army
officers that there will be a general Indian
war.
W. H. Vanderbilt now controls railroad and
telegraph companies having a capital of $233,-
070,479.
A cheese factory, at West Bend, Wisconsin, receives four thousand gallons of milk
every day.
Dr. Jamea C. Ayer, the celebrated patent
medicine proprietor, died laat week worth
$15,000,000.
The wages of 100,000 New York working
women only average three dollars and fifty'
cents a week.
The Congressional Kecord for the last session of Congress will make 4,000 pages of
printed matter.
The Consolidated Virginia, and the California mines of the Comstock lode, in Colorado,
have produced $100,000,000.
Dr. J. H. Vincent- will hold a Sunday-
school congress in Bome this summer. It will
be the first ever held in Europe.
The Shah of Persia only took with him to
Paris thirty-six boxes of gold coin, valued at
with a cargo of war r_ater__^aS&r>2,ww^-^:^#
000.
James Gilmore, an employe of the United
States Express Company, at Cincinnati, ia
missing, with some $15,000 in money-packages.
Taking one year with another, the consumption of wheat and wheat flour in
Great Britain is at the rate of 51 bushels per
head.
Bntter has struck the lowest figure in
Michigan known there in twenty years,
some parcels bringing only four cents per
pound.
The new army appropriation bill, so far
from resulting in any saving, will cause an increased expense, while materially crippling
the service.
A copy of the great Mentz bible, printed by
Gutenberg in 1455, being the first book ever
printed, was sold by auction, at Paris, last
week, for the sum of $10,000.
Ata pio-nio near Boss Grove, Penn., on the
Fourth, a storm came up, and a large tree fell
upon a party which had gathered nnder it for
shelter, instantly killing ten and wounding
fifteen.
The new criminal code of Virginia, which
has jnst gone into effect, establishes the
i whipping-post, and makes petit larceny pon-
| ishableinthatway.
Treasury authorities estimate that as much
as  two million dollars  of counterfeit  coin
in   circulation   in ' this   country,
above mentioned'Cayuga New York Land .._.•_       ., ...     _
Plaster, and his views upon this particular  with consumption, laid three days without
subject will be not only interesting but of j food or water in a barn near Evansville.   He
had been harvesting, and walked to Evansville,
where he was taken with paroxysms of cough*
J.K.
great value to farmers in general.
July 2.
a   am   a ■—•
The first car load of new No. 1 red winter wheat of this year's crop was received
by Pope and Davis to-day from southern
Illinois, and by them sold at
95 cents per bushel on the track. The
same parties also received the first car-load
last season, which brought $1,50 per bush-
The abovo figures show a wonderful
el.    _. .-
         _     _   _     ....._    difference in the value of this cereal atthe
attains a quality very superior to that opening ofthe two seasons.—OAtcapo Even-
raised in the Eaat and yields on an aver-1 ing Journal of Jnne 29.
ing that rendered him helpless.
Henry Krng, of Logansport, having suspicions that the grave of his daughter, who was
drowned lately, had been disturbed, made an
investigation, and his suspicions were confirmed. The body of hia daughter was gone.
The city offers a reward of $200 for the discovery of the offenders.
In the issue of June 22nd, we made a brief
statement, on the authority of the Cloverdale
Local Item, that the death of one, and these-
js  now
and  that   the   amonnt   is   constantly   increasing.
George Fessler, the defaulting treasurer of
Stark county, Ohio, has been brought back
from Canada, in charge of the officers, and accompanied by the principal attorney for the
county, who has in his possession $26,000 of
tlie stolen money.
The canning of meats, fruits and vegetables
has become an immense business. In Maine
over 5,000,000 cans of com are packed annually, the Bales of which amount to $1,150,000,
giving employment to 10,000 people daring
the packing season.
The oldest railroad clerk in the world has
just died: W. S. Found, of Birkenhead, Eng.
land, who boo_edthefirstp*assenger that traveled over the first railroad built in England.
Bo recent a thing is the railroad.
The exports from Hew York Bince the beginning of Ithe year have been $151,438,028.
This is 34,000,000 more than for the same
period last year, and $103,000,000 mora
than for the eame period in 1876, Meanwhile
imports lhave steadily decreased.
Three men entered a bank in Toronto, on
the Sth inst., and engaged the teller in conversation while a confederate slipped into the
vault, stole $10,000 in two dollar bills, $2,400
in ones, and $600 in silver. There is no clue
to the whereabouts ofthe thieves.
We call attention to the cat on this page
representing the Sonth Bend  Chilled Plow,
manufactured by the St. Joseph Keajier and i
Machine Co., of South Bend, Ind.   This Plow j
is rapidly gaining a foothold in this State, and
from the general satisfaction it is giving, have*.
so doubt that it possesses all the merits claimed for it.