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FOB  aAZtaC.
FOB HALE OK TBAUB—A No. 1
5 years old.  For particulars
Jptmra, Noblesville, Ind
I have one more Bo
N. Barker, sired b;
takef_X>.       	
inng Jack,
A. If.
bave one more Boar Pig out of sow bought of I.
 ■ !r, sired by Tippecanoe, for which I will
jL a. BAQLBJY, Indianapolis.    ■
k 00,000 acres best farming lands ln Wisconsin for
ti sale. Send for price and descriptive list B. A.
TAYLOR, Dobbston, Oconto Co., Wisconsin.
FOR SALE—Jersey Bull "Sir Boderick" Na
17S2; 3 rei— ola; sure breeder and from a good
butter ttanily.vPrice 1150.00. A. L. 4 W. C. DAVW,
Dublin, Ind.    . .■    	
FOB SALE—The Farm.Begister and Acoount-
Book. Complete method of keeping farm ao-
counts. Price. $1.00 each. Address INDIANA FAB-
M_B CO., Indianapolis.	
1>0_ MALE—The largest stock of salt, calcined
Jj plaster, land platter and cement. The only
honse that keeps these goods always on hand, at
lowest prices. ANDREW WALLACE. Indianapolis.
IjMJ— BA__-I have a fine lot of Poland-China
JJ pigs now ready to ship, of undoubted purity,
representing the Black Tom of Bess tut—lies, tt
reasonable prices. WILL T. EVANS, Romney, _p-
jecanoe Co- Ini,
FOB, SALE—FABM ENGINES—Two good sec-
(pd-hand portable engine*: also new engines,
sepMifcrs, etc-, of all sizes. ■ Address ROBINSON
& CO., iYsvprletO— Robinson Machine Works, Blch-
mond, Ind, ■
T7,01^AI_:—A choice loi of Poland-Chin* pigs,
JD now ready to ship; stred by my fine yonng
Perfection boar.and from as good sows as there are
In the State. Also a fiist-class show sow; none
better.   F. M. PITZER. Kokomo, Ind.
WARI1D.
Liberal In
ito^offered.^ Call
•\Xr_NT_D-Good,
. W    ducen-entsandi
or address INDTJSTRIAJ	
and 24 Hnbbard's Block, Indians polls. Bules -and
By-laws sent free npon applicatlcn.
reliable agents,
lgoodterril
or address INDUSTRUL LIFE .ASSOCIATION, 21
MISC__.I__N__ TJS.
CO. BURGESS, Dentist         
t  Jen's Exchange Block,N. Penn. St
Office ln room 4, Va
7-tf.
TO LOAN—Money to loan on improved farms.
J. H. HARD-BECK, 36 East Market St.. Indianapolis.  tf
MONEY TO LOAN—Sums of 1300jto $3,000 on
Improved farms.   BU,
VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind.
^Improved farms. ^ BUDDELL,"WALCOTT-*
WANTED—To trade new and second
farm and sprlr.g wagons, buggies i
"gea for a pair of good work horses or mules.
H. BHOV-B, 174 E. Market street Indianapolis.
riai
G.
hand
buggies or car-
LOST OB STOLEN—One dark brown horse;
large, raw boned, heavy black mane; abont
eight years old. One dark bay mare, light, squarely
built; very hard to catch; troublesome to handle;
, about nine years old. One light bay mare, very
solid, round bodied, trots very quick and short;
about fourteen years old. They are all harness
jiomwJ bare no very distinguishing marks abont
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out— Meridian St., *
DECIDED BABGAINS
breedln;
to reduce om choice
stock of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Es-
te and Poland China pigs of all
sex, Chester
ages.  Also s — ,
new breeder's manual,'elegantly*
     — a pigs
ages.  Also sheep, cattle, and fancy poultry; finest,
"   •      -  - -    ...    flingtrated and
giving fnll description ofthe different breeds. Price
25 cents. Seed 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 forage plant, setts $4.00 per 100; 50 cents extra by mall.
Seed catalogue free. BENSON, BURPEE & CO.,
223 Church street, Philadelphia, Fa. gg-ly
to such an extent tbat the old form is
changed, the ears being erect and the body
shortened, but the inevitable red, or sandy
color, ia carried along irom generation to
generation.
The true Duroc, aa now bred by those
who are aiming to keep the breed perfect
anB establish them as thoroughbred,
should be long and quite deep bodied, not
round but broad on the back and holding
tbe width well out to the hips and hams.
The head should be small compared with
the body, with the cheek broad and full.
The neck should be short and thick, and
the face slightly curved, with the nose
rather longer than in the English breeds,
the ear rather large and lopped over the
eye. They are not fine lined nor yet coarse,
but medium; the legs medium in length
and size, but set well under the body and
well apart, and not cut up high in the
flank or above the knee. The hams should
be broad and full well down to the hock.
There should be a good coat of hair of medium fineness, inclining to bristles at the
top ofthe' shoulders, the tail being hairy
and not small; the hair, usually straight,
but in some cases a little wavy.
The color should be red, varying from
dark gloesy cherry red, and even brownish
hairs, to light yellowish red, with occasionally a small fleck of black on the belly
and legs. The darker shades of red are
preferred by "most breeders. And this is
the type of color most desirable. In dispo
sition they are remarkably mild and gentle, and so docile that they are readily confined by low fences. They are kind and
careful mothers and wonderfully prolific.
They have a remarkable ability to digest
food and to make growth. Thia is owing
to their hardy constitutions and perfection in the proportions of their bodies,
and the strong blood which haa made its
mark so notably for more than halt a century. It is a common thing for Duroc
pigs at six months of age to weigh 800 lbs.,
and at eight and ten months to tarn the
scales at 400 to 500 pounds. Hogs a year
and a half old have weighed from 700 to
800 pounds. Pigs four weeks old will
weigh from 20 to 30 p< unds and- measure
over two feet in length and from six to 8
_he-___QS!L^the shoulders. For rapid
roes are not excelled, rnenncatr-r-St*-
coarse grained, but fine and tender. Their
powers of assimilating food are so great
tbat they readily eat coarse food, more
dainty breeds would not touch, and will
even fatten on grass alone, and in winter
will eat with avidity clover, hay and roots
that other hogs will refuse. They are not
subject to mange or liable to get sunburnt.
—Sural New Yorker.
INDIANAPOLIS, INJANA, AUGUST 10,1878.
No. 32.
tothe international monetary congress to begin in Palis, Ang. 10th.
The miners of the Tuscarawas Ooal
Company, at Ubrichsville, Ohio, have struck
against a reduction of their wages from 70 to
60 cents per ton.
There were 67 failures in New York city in
July, with aggregate liabilities $5,738,171,
an increase over the month of June In
the number of failures and the amount of liabilities.
An elevator, owned by Nicholson & Co., at
Henry, Illinois, was struck by lightning on
the lst inst., and burned to the ground, together with its contents, over 30,000 bushels of
grain. The warehouse waa worth 130,000,
and the grain about $15,000.
At Lanaconing, Md., on the 2nd inst., Mary
Pritchard was killed,  Hubert Dick probably
severely
CHILD   BBO'S.   OBGA-.—Style   ...
panels are veneered with the finest burl veneer,
J. W. Ellis, Hillsboro, Fountain county,
bought a male pig, Poland China, of Geo.
Kyger, Oxford, Ohio, last week. It is a February pig and weighs 225 pounds; is splen.
didly marked in all points. He paid a good
round sum for him. He will go at the head
of his herd.
Bev. Samuel Frazee has just added to
his herd a very fine two month's old heifer, that will prove a valuable acquisition
to his already fine list of animals. A
double Young Mary, being out of I. N.
Harris' celebrated cow Lenoir, by Muscatoon, 7057, and sired by E. Man, 2639*}.
Lenoir will be bred to Mr. Frazee's fine
Bates Bull, Earl of Glcster,3541, American
Short-horn Record. This is the bull that
killed his owner, an old gentleman, in
Henry county last year, but in Mr. Frazee's hands he has proven very tractable.
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Duroc Swine.
Large va. Small Hogs.
Bed and sandy hogs, called Duroc, have
been bred in parts of New York, for more
than fifty years. They have crossed and
recrossed upon other breeds during all
these years, and their progeny have always retained characteristics of the original sire first brought into the country
about the year 1823. Mr. Isaac Frink
purchased him of Mr." Kelsey, ofthe town
of Florida, Montgomery county, N. Y.,
who claimed to have imported a pair, the
immediate ancestors of Mr. Frink'a pig,
from England. Mr. Kelsey waa the owner
of the celebrated horse Duroc, and Mr.
Frink named the descendants of his pig
Duroc, in honor of the horse by that name.
The Duroc pigs were popular and spread
into Washington and adjacent counties,
where they are still bred. They are undoubtedly descended from the same original stock as the Jersey Beds, now bred in
the State of New Jersey, and hogs called
Eed Berkshires in some parts of New England. They were probably an offshoot or
family of old-fashioned Berkshires. This
opinion was expressed in the National
Swine-breeders' Convention, and no one
has yet controverted it. The old type of
Berkshires often showed pigs of a reddish
cast, and at the present time this characteristic breaks out in the form of plum color, sometimes with a hue quite red. It is
remarkable that one pig should have so
strongly stamped hia color and characteristics on his progeny that at this late day
all of his scions exhibit more or less marks
I of the original type, gome of them bave
^been crossed upon the modern Berkshires
A correspondent of the Kansas Farmer
argues in favor of large breeds aa follows:
"I assert that a man can have just as
good breakfast bacon ont of the Berkshire
or Poland China as he can from any
smaller breed. If you wish to butcher
your hogs at home and market the bacon,
kill at seven or eight months old, and I
will guarantee as much good breakfast
bacon as any one can get out of a smaller
breed.
While the Essex, his favorite, ia a good
feeder, and lays on fat very rapidly, as a
matter of course, the sides will not measure so large, but they will be fatter and
thicker, and I claim I have the nicest
meat when cured—a streak of lean and
a streak of fat all the way through the
sides.
I have always made my meat for home
use, out of spring hogs butchered at
about seven or eight months old, and
have never had a groceryman find fault
with any bacon that I have sold, which
I had left over; and my experience leads
me to think that the farmer in the great
corn valleys of Kansas, makes a grand
m'stake when he adopts a smaller kind
ofhORS for profit. Farmers do not want
to kill their hogs, but feed to sell on foot,
for profit, and a good, smooth lot of hogs
that will weigh 300 to 408 pounds, will
sell with any that fall below that average.
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Angus or Aberdeen Cattle.
Is it possible, nay, doea it not look
probable that, judging from the results of
the Paris exhibition, the Short-horn,
hitherto regarded as the royal breed, the
unapproachable breed, may not have to
acknowledge the equal merit, at least of
the Angus, a breed, which only yesterday
had the advantages of a herd-book f
From the excellence some of the animals of the breed have' attained, under
the patronage of that eminent breeder,
Mr. M'Combie, it would seem that time,
and the continuation of the Bame care
were alone required to give the world, in
considerable numbers, animals of great
quality of the now almost unknown
breed.
We suggest to the breeders of America,
m view of the success attained by the
Angus cattle, at the great Paris Exhibition, to consider whether they may not
be profitably imported, and be of advantage to American agriculture.
We find the following in a report of
the live stock department ofthe Exhibi-
tionin the North British Agriculturist:—
"This is, indeed, a proud week for Tilly-
four and the polled Angus, or Aberdeen
breed of cattle, Mr. M'Combie having
been adjudged the £100 prize for best
group of cattle, bred by exhibitor, and
reared out of France; and the £100 for
the best lot of beef-making animals, bred
by  exhibitor, reared  and fed  in any
country; besides over £100 in ordin:
class prize money, and several gold
silver medals.   That is, no doubt, a gr
honor to Scotland's 'cattle king," and
gratification to breeders of black polli
cattle generally; but it is not all that hfcs
to be recorded to the credit ofthe 'blacfc
[ skins.'   Mr. M'Combie's successful group
numbered^&tm^^____\__Q_i__^B\^ql
^«XrS£&thecontest,bu^n
£^WifcMersr--__e_aI^^
ance which black cattle have made at tf
exhibition may be imagined from thefai
that of the fifteen Bhown, twelve were the
best of all the foreign breeds, and thej
remaining three included the first and
second prize cows, and the second prize
aged bull. While there is thus a good
representation of polled cattle in every
class, there is nothing approaching 'a
weed,' which can hardly be said of any
other breed of cattle. Every black polled
animal haa a ticket of some kind."—Sci
entific Farmer.
51, with Grand Orchestral Swell and1 High Top; *-"
lumns richly carved.  See premium offer on 4th page.
our food
• unquestionable fact
products contain a greater or less propor-
ition of salt in their structure,
the animal economy requires an additional quantity ia equally true.   Farm ani-|
inals, when kept on grass, or green, suc-
Lculefat feed; naturally take more salt
f than when kept on dry fodder; at least
has . been  my observation.—Cor.
■men.. >  ..--;.,;.
»»_r iaaxfjeiim
A. man by the name of Tout was at work
with a threshing machine on the farm of
Findley Ferguson, south of Dublin, on the lst
inst, when the cylinder caught and destroyed
his right arm, leaving one inch of the bone at
the shoulder.
A twelve-year-old son of Emanuel Crip-
penger, of Union township, Elkhart
county, fell from a hay mow, on the 3rd
inst, a distance of sixteen feet, being killed
instantly.
Charles Baird, a youth of 15 years, was
drowned at Terre Haute last Sunday. A boy
has bten drowned there for the last three consecutive Sundays.
A printer, named James Quarn, waa killed
by the Cairo and Yincennes freight, on the 1th
inst, by getting hia foot caught in a tog
while intoxicated.
At 1 homtown, on the 31st ult., Tom Casey, 1 fatally ir jured, and   Abram Lynch
aged 16, while carelessly handling a revolver, I bruised by the breaking of a swing,
accidentally -shot himself.   The ball entered |   ~   "  •   ■  -1-"
his abdomen.   He will die.
The red-ribbon club of Evansville offers to
erect a large music-hall, which they will allow to be used as an exposition ball every
year, if the citizens will give them five thousand dollars. They already have ten thousand
dollars secured.
Joseph Isenhour, of Randolph county, one
night last week concluded to mow away a
load of hay after dark. A lantern was procured,
and Iwhile tossing it around carelessly the
hay^ was ignited, and now he is ready to receive bids for the construction of a new barn.
No insurance,
E. G. Bathbone, chief of the Western secret
service bureau, reports that the notorious
counterfeiter, Pete McCartney, is more closely
watched in Michigan City than he could be in
any government prison.
A seven-year-old son of _. P.. Valentine, a
i farmer   raiding   near   Middletown, while
carelessly  handling  the  rope  that works   ed by a
the   pulleys   of  a  hay-rake, had his right  coal-oil.   Twenty-four
hand drawn into the machine, and three fin-  fourteen of them occupied. .L6s»ei5.ir>___iit.a.,
$40,000*
It has been decided that the $10,000 prize
offered by the Wisconsin Legislature for
a steam wagon,   and for which there
are
ei
Salt Necessary to Animals.
The true value of salt for feeding o
animals is neither as well understood n< r
appreciated as it should be by a lar; i
class of farmers, and the best mode   f
feeding is too frequently ignored, evi
when its importance is fully admitte
That it is actually required by anima
is shown by the amount of salt contain
in the blood of the human species,
being fully one-half of one percent, ai
57} per cent, ofthe ashes of blood.   L
vestigation has proven that where ss
is supplied with tne food, this proportio!
is invariable, and where not suppliec
other parts of the system must suppl;
the deficiency, to their injury.   What'
true of the human species is  equa
true  of our farm stock' and  anim:
wbich suffer   the same   troubles wi
deprived of salt.   When the equilibrr
of any part is disturbed, the whole
tem is weakened, and the  animal
comes liable to disease, and the ays
succumbs when attacked.'
Salt is a great aid in digestion, lid
the natural instinct of animals pronftts
them to its use, aa is evinced by tEir
resorting to salt licks and other natA-al
sources, previous to and during the efcy
settlement of our country, and by wat
may be still witnessed at tiie presentfey
on the pampas of South America kd
other wilds, where herds of horses ltd
other cattle travel miles to obtain f
natural sources a much needed bu
It is an undoubted fact that when
mala have unrestrained access to ssfi at
all times, many of the diseases to vftch
they are liable are warded off andgre-
vented by keeping the system re]
We find that when salt is regularly »en
them only good results follow, as Evidenced in their exemption from di
Where free access is had to aalt.jtock
will only take what is needful, but Here
the supply ia inconstant,  a surffe is
often taken which frequently ojfiites
injuriously.
The invariable presence of salt uipian
titiea in tissues of the body show, son-
clusively the important influencewiich
it exerts in the production of flejBi_-i_
fat in animals.   Salt assists digeajio; by
increasing the flow of saliva, aidipgilso
further by promoting thirst, and jitoa-
stant flow of fluids to assist in d_&VirW
much ofthe food which otherwis&iglt
be  only imperfectly  digested. Hbtua!
experiments, carefully conducteKhavt
demonstrated that where two' hofewere1
fattened, one fed salt in its food, Ed the was ay°nnSlady,
other with salt excluded, the onefd salt    At a special election in Washingt\town
food fattened very much fasterfind in fhip, Grant connty, last week, the ]Loaed
several weeks less time.   It exefded in Ppropriation of $14,000 to the Toledo
weighty by a considerable propoJbn the Umis Narrow-guage railroad was defe
[it is an | majority of two votes.
Sullivan is to have gas works,
vThe Masons are about to build a new hall at
Carlisle.
i Wells county is being "done" by patent
lay-fork swindlers.
Edinburg is agitating the building of a rail-
read from that point to Bloomfield.
Iu the month of July there ware received
anc\forwarded at this point 59,061 loaded
freijht cars.
A new paper ia soon to be started in Mitchell, a the interest ofthe colored people in that
part of the State.
The Harrison County Agricultural Society is
in a prosperous condition—out of debt and
$600 in the treasury.
Tha first term of Court, under the new law
providing for a United States Court at Fort
Wayne, will convene on Sept. 15th.
Eighteen saloons   famish  Crawfordsville
with the material for irrigation.   The greater
part of them are  doing business without a license.
A great many of the apples in  Harrison
j    are    dropping    off,     and    some
are entertained that the atop will be
•jort
bam belonging  to Robert Jennings, a
er living ten miles south of this city, was
fire by tramps, on the lst inst., and to-
destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
receipts and disbursements of the State
for the month of July was as follows :\Receipts, $67,781.08;  ditbursements,
$145.0*92.
The Sectors of the Cincinnati, Rockport
and Soth-weetern road met in this city
last weel*or the extension ofthe road northward, »ndV0yi*ded ways and means.
Wm. Smlh, a young man living nearSpar-
tansborg, hibig _ig___ ^ cutoff at the ankle
byareaperoVt*ie2nd insU He was in front
ot the reaper,^hting bumble-bees, when it
came npon hir
Ayonng
Mount Vemon, *, caught in the tumbling
machine, on  the 2nd
several conpetitors, shall not be awarded at
present.
It is stated that the Northern Pacific company will give its entire land grant of 6,000,000
acres, between the Missouri and Yellowstone,
for the building of the main line that dis- -
tance, 2G0 miles.
Reports from alarge number of town In Northern Iowa, shew a loss of wheat of from 20 to
30 per cent. Most of the reports say the average
yield will be about fourteen or fifteen bushels
per acre.
Last Saturday night a band of so-called
regulators, in Robertson county, Ky,, thirty
in number, visited the house of John Dayton,
a respectable fanner, and killed him, and also
burned the house of the town marshal at Mt
Olivet
A recent fire at Enterprise, Miss., was cans-
man trying to destroy bed-bugs wiih
houses were burned,
gers torn off.
jmedWaddel, residing near
) torn off, and hia body
o the narrow-guage
kCity and  Sullivan.
ron have been con-
,will   be running
\fore the fall season
one fed without salt in ita "food"
51s*
shaft of  a
inst.  His clothes
terribly mangled.
Work is p:
railroad between
Ten thousand tons
tracted  for.    The
over this part of the road'
is over.
ft is suggested that as qu\ a nmnber of ^
pioneers of this State have\sed ___e ^ oI
100 years, it would be extrlly inter«ting
that as many as possible \the ^^^
nans should assemble atth\0jd settlers'
convention, to be held in conneU wlth the
Btate Fair. v
Six persons were fined $19.65 eiv, at c,.
lumbus, for an aggravated case ^'disturb
ing a religious meeting.   One of \, ^-3
Judge W. F. Pidgeon, of Yincennes, shot a
tramp who was robbing hia orchard, the load      ^
of bird-shot entering the tramp's MSlSJMaJ'a^S'jmoff-^l.l;
<-c™»r, m^tog a painful but not dangerous
wound. The Judge should be censured for not
using heavier ordinance.
Miss Nellie Keeler, the daughter of Ezra
and Maria Keeler, who reside at Kokomo, is
three years and four months old, and weighs
only fourteen pounds and two ounces. Sheis
bright and attractive, talks quite plain for one
ofher&ge, andean ubo her limbs with as
much dexterity as ordinary mortals.
The coroner's jury, impaneled to ir quire in.
to the cause of the death of William Ayree
as reported in this column last week, find that
Gardner Ayres, son of the deceased, shot and
killed his fether, and that Mary Ayres, wife of
the deceased, and his son Charlee, were accessories.   They are all under arrest.
While MarxWasmer waa at Wm.Schnei.
der's saloon, at St. Wendel, Posey connty, on
the 3rd inst, trying to hire some laborers, he
got into trouble, quarreling with Mr. Schneider. The latter, assisted by his sons, beat Mr.
W. so terribly that he is not expected to liva
While the fight waa going on, a Mr. Lorenz
Bahl tried to part them, when one or more of
S.'s sons attacked Mr. B. with pop bottles and
beat him terribly.
A tramp applied for dinner at the residence
of David Wherry, near Marion, on the 4th
inst. Being refused, he set fire to' the barn
which was totally destroyed, together with
two horses and alarge amount of hay a
threshing-machine,   and   several   thousand
LU_^     - 7heat'   The l0fis * estimated at
$5,000, with no insurance.   The
arrested.
is about3 percent.
tramp was
Burley Clark was fatally stabbed by a tramp
near Rossville, Clinton county, on the lst inst.
Clark was passing a farmhouse, and hearing
screams, went into the house, and found a
tramp abusing the'inmates. On trying to
drive the man from the honse, he was furiously attacked with a knife. When the tramp
found that he had mortally wounded Claik,
he fled, but was overtaken, and is now in the
Frankfort jail.
GENERAL  NEWS.
The strikes In i-Trance are collapsing.
Philadelphia claims, too, to have become the
depot for an immense grain export.
The tramps are beginning to take possession ot the railroad trains fa New England.
The Postoffice authorities have decided that
bees can no longer be sent through the
mails.
The well-preserved remains of a mastodon
have been discovered and exhumed at Mt
Ararat, Pennsylvania.
Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever
at New Orleans, operations at the mint
there will not be commenced so soon aa expected. "'
A colored juryman, recently drawn Ir,
Hartford, Connecticut, is S8id to be thi
first one of his race to serve on the jury fa*
JZ^l °f I"t W6ek 18° Patents ™* taken
out by the payment of the final fee 0f $£
Sn:srieday.iPt *"" «"»««--
United States, has invited the foreign powers
The wool clip of 1878 -     .        ^ New
per cent, the three
North Middle States 3 per cent, and thePad":
fie States 9 per cent. All other States show an
increase.
All tbe postmasters of the country have
been ordered to send to Washington whatever
three-cent pieces they may receive, in order
that these coins may be withdrawn from
circulation.
The appropriation of $12,000, ordered by
Congress for the purchase of relics of General
Washington, has been expended, and the
articles have been placed in the patent cffl.ee
at Washington City.
A tramp, a few days ago, begged a piece of
bread at the house of a prominent citizen of
Erie. When the proprietor came to the
door he recognized a former oil prince,
whose business capital recently was $200,-
000.
During the last three weeks, although every
effort has been made by the Treasury to get
the new silver dollars into circulation,
it has only succeeded in putting out
$33,000 in excess of those whicb have returned.
The Detroit Free Press has published crop
reports trom. every counly in Michigan in
which wheat is raised to any extent. The entire yield is placed at 30,000,000 bushels, a
crop beyond all precedent in that State, and
placing Michigan among the foremost of the
wheat producing States ofthe Union.
Wednesday morniDg of last week an attempt was made to burn the grain stacks of B.
M. Hutchason, a farmer living near Charles-'
ton, 111. The fire waa tet in a trail of straw.
Laat year his barn and stacks were repeatedly
fired, and finally destroyed.
The land agent of the Union Pacific railroad
has issued an official circular letter, giving notice that tbe road will not accept as final the
recent decision of Secretary Schurz, as to the
right of citizens to settle on and remain in undisturbed possession of lands granted to the
Union Pacific Railroad Company by the Government. Any such settlers will be dealt with
as trespassers.
A terrible accident happened near Columbia, St. Clair county, 111., on the night of the
1st inst Mrs. Grueeaer, with her infant and
Mrs. Karger, retired for the night in a room
immediately nnder one in which a quantity
of wheat .was stored in bulk. They had not
been in bed many minutes before the joists
above gave way and fell upon the bed, instantly killing the occupants.
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A writer in one of our standard medical
journals says; I was cured of Dropsy in one
month by using Hokt's Remedy. All Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder and Vrinvf
Organs, are  cured by Hum's Bucxdx.
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Eeibold's Becker Honse.
First class hotels, like everything commendable, admit of comparisons.   Some
are so very superior in all that goes to
make up the comfort and enjoyment of
the traveling public as to merit special
praise. Such a houae as this is Louis Bjex-
bold's Beckeb House at Dayton.   The ,1
Fabmisb pronounces it one among the \
very best hotels in the west, considering    '
all things.   If any man knows hia place
and, knowing it, fills it better than Louis
Beibold, he haa not yet come under our
observation.
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