VOL. XIII.
IKDIANAPOI_IS, IXDJA^A, OCTOBER 5, 1878.
NO. 40.
FOR SALE.
FOR SA-LE-Jersjy Bull "Sir Roderick" >o. 1732;
three yeara old; sure breeder and from a good butter family. Price fWO. A. L. «fc W. C. DAVIS, Dublin, Ind.
FOR SALK—The Farm Register and Account
Book. Complete method of keeping farm accounts. Price n each. Address INDIANA FARMER
COMPANY, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—I have a flne lot of Poland-China pigs
now ready to ship, of undoubted purity, representing the Black Tom of Bess families, at reasonable
prices. WILI.. T. EVANS, Homney, Tippecanoe
county! Indiana.
WANTED.
~XtTANTED—Any one wanting a good farm wagon,
„>V. buggy or carriage, new or second-hand, to call
on G. H. SHOVER, 174 E. Market street, Indianapolis.   Repairing of all kinds promptly attended to.
~X\TANTED— We want to arrange with some
Vt farmer for hay during fall and winter who has
» machine to do his own baleing. D. F. SWAIN &
CO., 147 and 149 North Delaware street, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
"YTT" ANTED—100 breeders of short horns to give one
TT good reason why a calf carefully raised on a
farmin Indiana is not Just aa good as one raised in
Kentucky, when the Immediate ancestors of both
were of Kentucky's best breeding—or go to Corn-
stock's sale on the 17th inst.
WANTED—Three hundred young men and women to learn telegraphing, and take offices on
the lines. Salary, $65 to ?S0 per month. Can be
learned in ten to twelve weeks. Very little education required. For particulars, address, with stamp,
INDIaANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INSTITUTE, Indianapolis, Ind.
MISCEL-LAHTEOUS.
c.
C. BURGESS, Dentist.   Office in toora 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.
MONEY TO LOAN—Sums of&XX) to $3,000 on improved    farms.     RUDDELL,   WALCOTT   &
VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind.
YOUNG MEN wishing a successful start in life
should attend the old reliable Indianapolis Business College, established in 1858. We refer to Mr.
Herbert Conner, assistant bookkeeper Indiana Farmer, son of one of the proprietors, and graduate of
this college. Address, with stamp, for full descriptive circulars, KOERNER & GOODIER, Indianapo-
lis, Ind.	
STOLEN.
STOLEN—From my farm, on September 3, a bay
horse, 12 years old, about 15>_; hands high; mane
and tail trimmed short; bar shoes on fore feet; (gets
lame without them); sore under Jaw, caused by distemper; coughs some when driving. A liberal reward
will he paid for any information that will lead to his
reco\ery AddresfMRS. MARY E. BOONE, Lebanon, Ind
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Messrs. Jonathan Baugh & Son, Farmers' Institute, took the first premium on
their aged cow, Iowa, and second premium on their two-year-old heifer, Jessie;
also second preminm on bull, Young
Breastplate, at the Ohio State Fair, at
Columbus.
very; heavy, the fall wheat has;
to be cut withreapinghooks, being 'so heavy aud badly laid
the reapers would not cut it.
I noticed a fine field of fall
oats nearly ripe, and a field ofj
fall beans. The farm buildings
are commodious and very conveniently arranged; they are
all constructed of brick. The
stock are principally Shorthorns, being 1-50 in number,
also a few Alderneys. I was,
shown a young bull, eighteen
months old, which is hired for
the season, at 200 guineas,!
from Mr. Booth, of Warlabj
The horses kept at the royal
farm are heavy daught. I was
shown two fine stallions, three
years old, one of them a fine]
Clydesdale. At present there
are about 100 swine, principally Berkshire of the pure strain.
I noticed a noble animal 16
months old, a prize taker. They
also keep a large number of
the Prince Albert Windsor!
swine, which for early feeding
are superior to any other. ■ Thej
are an improved Suffolk. The'
royal dairy is an elegant room,
37 feet long by 23 feet wide I
The windows are of stained
glass. There are streams of gold
water flowing under the panes '
Everything about the dairy is
kept strictly clean by the dairy-i
maid. On making inquiries
here I found they used the old
barrel churn, as that was the
churn used when the Prince
Consort was living. The Que 3D
does not want any change.
The poultry house is a
long building, with a walk
(or hall) the whole length
on one side; the other is divided into
rooms of 12 and 14 feet square. Each
room has a door opening into the yard,
which is enclosed by a high wire fence,
so that every breed of fowls is kept entirely separate from each other. At a
short distance is the royal kennel, where
every variety of dogs is kept; both foreign and native. The building and
" iureHrfi-__^-r(bJ'lfie,hen_i»-j';'*ri,M'
royal gardens contain in area 30 acres,
and are enclosed with a brick wall 12
feet high. There are ranges of glass
housesabout 1,000 feet in all, where pears,
grapes, nectarines, peaches, and other
fruits are grown, as well as vegetables of
all kinds for the castle. This is said to
be the most complete vegetable garden
in the world.
Holstein Heifer, "Minnie Winkle," age 3 years and I(J months, weight 1,320 pounds.
•i——- -. , __
Imported and owned by Geo. E. Brown, Elgin, 111.
NEWS OP THE WEEK.
*><- "5»rds i
The Irish Farmer's Gazette looks for
an era of renewed prosperity among British Short Horn breeders. We quote the
following paragraph: "The closing of
the Australian ports against English
stock has been one ofthe principal causes
of the late depression in the value of
Short Horns and Herefords, but now that
. these ports are again opened, combined
with the triumphant and satisfactory settlement of the Eastern question, and the
safety of the Cattle Diseases Bill, a great
impetus will inevitably be given to the
sale of purely-bred stock in Great Britain
and Ireland. Stock of that description,
for breeding purposes, has for some time
past brought enormous prices in the Australian colonies, the high range of value
being due to the scarcity of pure-bred
stock in the colonies.
STATE NEWS.
Swine at the Paris Exposition.
Mr: Samuel Dysart, special commissioner from our government, from Illinois, to report upon live-stock at the
Paris exposition, writes as follows concerning thcshow of swine:
"The exhibition of swine was not
equal to that of one of our Western State
fairs, in quality of animals exhibited.
True, there was a great number of wbat
mijght be termed breeds, represented by
what would be considered very inferior
specimens in our country. AVe have all
the principal English breeds in as great
a degree of perfection as I have seen
them here. France is not what might
be termed a pork-producing nation, and
but little attention has been given to the
improvement "of swine until quite recently. The different English breeds
have  been largely imported and  bred
gure in many places, but they have
een more generally crossed with the
native breeds, greatly to the general improvement in the quantity and quality of
the meat produced.
"The grand prize of honor was won by
a Suffolk, owned by G. M. Sexton, Ipswich, England. The prize of S200, by
the agricultural society of France, was
awarded to a Frenchman named Porsin,
on the Middlesex breed. There was a
splendid show of Berkshires, but the
juries seemed to favor the white h6g
where they competed with those of dark
color, and the small breeds over the
large animals.*
New Cattle Disease.
Mr. Beuben A. Hart, of this county
(Vanderburg), reports a mysterious disease among the cattle by which he has
lost several head, among them a very
valuable blooded bull worth $300. The
disease manifests itself very suddenly,
and completely prostrates the animals at
once. The milk suddenly fails from a
full flow to nothing in about six hours,
the cattle droop and die in from seven
hours to three days, and as yet no remedy has been discovered. Mr. Hart has
tried several remedies without avail, and
at last, to ascertain the nature of the disease, he made a post mortem examination of the bull in which the disease was
very marked. When turned out in the
morning the animal seemed as well as
usual, but when Mr. Hart went to drive
him home he found him lying down and
disinclined to move, flis urine was
bloody and scanty, his bowels ceased to
move, and when opened the stomach
proved to be full of dry, hard food, and
the membranous lining tender and fragile as paper. The liver and lights were
badly congested and spotted; the melt
seemed rotted and jelly-like. The absence of all moisture from the stomach is
a marked feature. Between 25 and 30
cattle are reported to have died from the
disease, and any one who can prescribe a
remedy will be a great benefactor to farm
ers and
bane.
cattle raisers.—Evansville Tri*
Live Stock at the Queen's Farm.
Mr. Wm. Kennie, of Toronto, has a
letter in the Mail of that city, giving an
account of his visit this summer at the
Queen's Farm, at Winsor, England,
from which we clip the following extract: •
There are SOO acres in the.farm, only
about 200 acres under crop, the balance
hay and pasture. This farm is kept in a
high state of cultivation.   The crops are
.
American Association of Breeders of
Short-Horns.
Secretary's Office, \
Greenc-STLe, Ind., Sept. 23,1878. J
Dear Sib:—The American Association of Breeders of Short-horns, will hold
its Seventh Annual Convention in the
city of Nashville, Tenn., beginning
October, 30th, 1878. The election of
officers of the association for the
ensuing two years will be held at this
meeting. You are very cordially invited
to attend. The Agricultural Commissioners' room has been secured for the
sittings of the convention, and the Maxwell House will keep members at reduced
rates. The committee of arrangement
has also secured a reduction of fare over
the Louisville and Nashville railroad to
all attending tbe convention.
Subjects for discussion, or short essays,
on matters of interest to the Association,
are solicited.
The directors are requested to meet at
the Maxwell House on the even ing before
the opening session.
Very respectfully,
S. F. Lockridge, Sec'y.
If there is no agent for the Farmer
in your locality, send us postal card for
full and complete agent's outfit. You
can make big wages with light work.
A Richmond dispatch states that thirty
thousand people attended divine services at
the Indiana yearly meeting of the Orthodox
4.-?2Se*y-Of Friend* in that city on Sundy th>
SStK ult. Several prominent English ministers were present.
.   A term ofthe United States court will be
held at Kvansville, beginning October 9th.
A band of robbers went through the stdre
of Gladden & Lashbrook, at Lpxington, on
the night of the 26 inst., and carried off a
large amount of goods.  J
William Jewell, a farmer living about 4
miles east of Shelburn, while engaged in
cleaning out his well, was overcome by
dimps and was taken out dead.
The removal of the county seat of Clark
Co., from Charlestown to Jeffersonville has
at last been accomplished by the commissioners.
An incendiary fire on the night of the 24th
inst., destroyed a barn on the farm of
Charles Brooks, north pf Muncie. Two
horses, two mules, a wagon and the year's
crops were burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance.
John Boyd, a respectable citizen of Clark
county, twenty miles below Madison, was
brutally murdered in his bed by unknown
masked men Sunday night. No cause
known, and no arrests so far as learned-
On the25th inst., an altercation took place
at Frankfort between two boys, thirteen
and fourteen years of age, in whieh "William
Steele stabbed Pulsy CorneUson nine times
in the abdomen and back. Steele has been
bound over to await the results of Corneli-
son's injuries.
Trinity Episcopal church, one of tlie finest
in Ft. Wayne, was struck by lightning on
the 20th inst., and took fire. It burned off
the roof, completely ruining the organ and
altar, and badly damaging tlie cushions and
carpets by water.   Loss $9,000.
A filmier living near Broad Ripple, in this
county, got drunk in this city and started
home in a buggy soon after dark. He
was stopped near the exposition grounds
by foot.pads, who unhitched his horse and
rode away on it after having relieved him
of $180 in money.
A boy named Paddy Raper, living at Cataract, Owen county, commenced bleeding
at the nose on the 24 inst., and before noon
next day died from loss of blood.
Mr. John Flack, a young farmer, was
badly injured on the 28th inst., by being
crushed while driving into a warehouse in
Attica. He was sitting on a high spring
seat, on a grain wagon, and was caught between the ceiling and the seat, and before
the horses could be stopped was seriously
crushed about the back and hips.
Mr. llenry J. Bowser, of Allen county,
narrowly escaped death while on his way
to his home from Ft. Wayne, on the 27th
inst. A large ash tree was blown down and
fell across his team, killing one and badly
injuring the other. The tree fell within 3
feet of Mr. Bowser.
Trouble is brewing at Sullivan on
account of the admittance of colored children tothe public schools.
The Crawfordsville Journal says: Chickens and canary birds, as well as hogs, are
Scotland, last week. The cattle were
flipped by steamer from New York. The
(tittle of Central Indiana are coming int6
avoir abroad. " ■      . .
$A< -StoiT-trpf wind destroyed $10,000 worth
of property ,^t Waynetown on the 25th inst.
4Wffime storm
LjbanoB, Boon
GENERAL NEWS.
nel, reports that three cases of gunpowder,
for blasting the tunnel, exploded on tho 20th
inst.* Ten men wero instantly killed and
several torribly injured.
A claim for §200,000 against tho Indianapolis, Bloomington it Western railroad company, was sold in New York last weok for
#13.
Tho total valuation of property in Vermont is $87,002,500.
There aro 31,000 pupils enrolled in tho
St Louis schools, an increase of 3,000 since
last year.
Queen Victoria travels in a carriage wliich
cost ,$30,000.
Georgo Harris, employed in tho woolen
mills at Freeman, IJ1., was adjusting some
of the machinery, when his hands wero'
caught between the heavy rollers, and before ho could extricate them both arms
were completely torn off to the shoulders.
Fifty thousand tons of scranton coal wero
sold at aucton last week by tho Dolawaro,
Lackawanna and Western railroad company
at tho following prices per ton: Grate,
?3,5o@3,57^; egg, $3,65@3,70; stove, -54,07®
4,50; chestnut,?3,52)_.
James A. Hamilton, son of General a\lex-
ander Hamilton, of Revolutionary famo,
who was killed in a duel with aVaron Burr,
died on the 25th inst., at his country seat
near Now York in tho 91st year of his age.
A man named Van Emlen was crushed to
death under a threshing machine at Kim-
mundy, Illinois, on the 27 inst.
The oldest woman in tho world is claimed
to be Mary Benton, of Elton, England, who
is in her one hundred and forty-eighth year,
and is as smart and busy as ever.
Sirs. Mackey, of Nevada, has become the'
happy owner of some of the most gorgeous
jewelry in the Paris exposition. She has
bought a pai-ure of diamonds and sapphires
costing $170,000; likewise a diamond nock-
Twelve buildings were destroyed by tho
East St. Louis fire oh the 27th inst.   The
origin of the fire is not known.   The loss is laco valued at **$25.000.■'.'--   ' ,
estimated at f 150,000; insurance not ascer-      An -Aj*»-'rican *f">m Ohio during the first
tainedyet     * "•-*'       \8eason hag raised oa a farm eighteen miles
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b7
dying in many, parts of the county 'with
cholera.
Captain J. B. Homan, of Danville, sold a
cargo of fat cattle to Mr. Swan, of Glasgow,
Davidson's Academy of Music, at Rochester, which has been two years in building,
at a cost of $30,000, and said to be the finest
structure of the kind in Northern Indiana,
was open to the public last week.
The eleven year old daughter of Louis
Brown, of Lafayette, went into a field
where the men were using a harrow, and
while resting the horses she got onto one
of them. It took fright and threw her to
the ground. The heavy harrow passed over
her body and literally tore the flesh in great
pieces from the bones. Eleven deep gashes
were made, exposing her lungs and entrails.
She cannot recover.
The streets and stores of Shelbyville were
covered with honey bees one day last week.
Several shops were compelled to close up
on account of them. They appeared like an
immense swarm on every street.
Ezra Guard, for murdering his wife at
Hardentown, Dearborn county, several
months ago, was sentenced on the 28th
inst., to the penitentiary for life.
Early on the morning ofthe 28th inst.,
the tank in Charles Riker's fertilizing house,
two miles south of Franklin, exploded,
badly damaging the building, and scalding
George Harrison, one of the workmen,
about the head and shoulders. He will
probably recover.
On the night ofthe 27th inst., an attempt
was made to burglarize the dry goods store
ofW. N. Evans, at Noblesville, by two
white men and a negro. The authorities
anticipated the robbery, but failed to capture the thieves, although much wild shooting was done. Two suspected persons were
arrested to-day.
The school fund of Indiana foots up the
snug sum of $8,965,000—the largest of any
State in the Union.
Charley Willard, a brakeman on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad, fell from
the train at Patoka, on the 28th inst., and
the entire train passed over him, taking off
both legs and one arm; he died soon after.
Arrangements are now being made for a
new town hall at Carlisle.
Surviving members ofthe One Hundred
and Twenty-fourth regiment will hold their
reunion at Winchester, October 24th and
25th.
There was a serious accident at thc Delphi races on the 24th inst. There were 8
horses on the track. The horses were in a
bunch, just finishing the first half mile,
and near the judges' stand, when one ofthe
horses stumbled and fell, and three others
with their riders, fell over him. A man
named Lyons, who owned and was riding
one of the hbrses, had a leg broken, and
anotherparty named Matthews was badly
bruised up.
The house of Mrs.  Eads, a   widow lady
living   near  Brookville,   was  entered by
tramps a few days since, and robbed of$104.
Five cars of John Robinson's train were
wrecked, south of Vincennes, on Sunday.
Five men were badly injured.
Tlio gate money at tho Boone eounty fair
amounted to $1,261.75, and the total receipts
were $1,949.90.
!5wSr"<Tr^k"&ur_rig VES l*aSfTw^w^-e_aiha.Te
been the largest ever known, amounting to
more than 5,000,000 bushels. During the
same period nearly 70,000 barrels of flour
and over 1,300,000 bushels of corn were
shipped from the same port.
The national banks in Boston pay an annual local tax of $885,000, one ninth of the
entire city assessment. Besides this they
pay $705,000 a year taxes to the general government. Their aggregate capital is $52,-
000,000, and on this day they pay a total tax
of $1,560,000.
It is proposed at Washington to organize
a society to urge upon Congress the enlistment of 100,000 men for military and agricultural purposes on government reservations.
The treasure coach of the Cheyenne and
Black Hills line, which left Deadwood on
the 26th, was robbed by road agents of $25,-
000 to $30,000.
There is a project on foot for laying a new
Atlantic telegraphic cable. A number of
French and American financiers are said to
be interested in the scheme.
Senor Zamacona, the Mexican minister,
says the purpose of the Mexican government in sending 5.000 troops to the border
was to suppress raiding, and aid the United
States troops in putting down lawlessness.
Mrs. Samuel Salmore, wife of a prosperous farmer near Clinton, Ky., died on tho
26th inst., from an overdose of Chloroform,
administered to facilitate the extraction ofa
tooth.
Five hundred and ninety-nine Mormons
arrived at New York last week. They are
for the most part Danes.
The principal demand at present for the
new silver dollars comes from the south,
where they aro used for the payment of tho
negro'cotton pickers, who prefer them to
greenbacks. But tho demand is less than
the supply, and tho daily shipments of four
tons do not exhaust the daily coinage.
Buenos Ayres is floundering in a sea of
debt and paper money, and proposes to further increase the flood by issuing eighty
millions more of paper dollars to any person'
corporation or government, that will give
her three millions in gold. Eighty millions
of paper for three millions in coin is dirt
cheap.
The average yield of corn in Iowra this
year will be sixty bushels to the acre, or
250,000,000 bushels, as against 194,000,000
last year. This will give an income at 15
cents per bushel of $37,500,000. It is doubtful if any other State in the Union will exceed the corn crop of Iowa this year.
President White, of Cornell university,
just returned from Europe, says the financial depression in Germany is almost unbearable, and that there are no signs of a
better outlook.
Near Salem, Oregon, recently, a team
hitched to a self-binding machine, ran off,
taking its way through a standing field of
wheat containing about 100 acres. Strango
to say the machine kept together, and bound
every bundle that came to it with lightning
rapidity. AVhen the team had stopped, it
had nicely bound 150 bundles, but the
swathe was crookeder than -a cork-screw.
A dispatch from Rivolo, Switzerland, at
the southern mouth ofthe St. Gothard tun-
*.
33«£^-OTlii|[jtfn^
cane" groWnin bur Southern (States, havin&h'-*-*
attained a heighth of thirteen feet.   Fino
samples of syrup havo already been manufactured therefrom.
Nearly one million dollars has been
awardod to American claimants for damages
arising from the rebellion in Cuba.
According to tho official figures from
Washington the national banks havo suffered a loss of $50,000,000 during tho past two
years. The loss results mostly in the depreciation of bonds.
For tbe Indiana Farmer.
Our llailroad Commerce.
The traffic which passes over our railroads furnishes the true index to the activity of business throughout tho country.
At a time like the present, when we are
looking and hoping for a revival of business and a return of prosperity, we naturally look to the railroads leading from
the great fields of production, to the principal markets of these products, to indicate the advance or decline of business.
At the request of the Secretary of tho
Treasury, the Bureau of Statistics has ,
prepared an elaborate report covering
nearly the whole field of our internal
commerce. From tliis report we condense the following facts. From 1873 to
to the present time, freights over the following roads have increased at the ratio
indicated, to-wit:
Southern Michigan and Lake Shore  (i'-j percent.
New York Central /.... 4 " "
l'ittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago 16 " "
l'ennsylvania It. Jt 41$ " "
Baltimore* Ohio Kl>_ " -
Union 1-aclnc 47 " *'
Chicago* Northwestern 24 *' "
Chicago & llock Inland 'm " "
This indicates ah average increase of
business at tbe rate of 24 per cent, since
the crisis of 187S.   In what docs this increase of traffic consist? is an important
factor in the problem of returning prosperity.   It  may Indicate   an   immense
consumption of foreign goods, purchased
on credit, whicii would entail a ruinous
burden of debt on the country.   To settle
this question we turn to the report -before
us, and learn that the amount of grain
received within the past twelve months,
at the ports of Montreal, Portland,  Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and New Orleans, exceeds that received
in 1872, by 70 per cent., and 1875 was the
year of heaviest grain received, previous
to this.   The actual value of the freights
passing over our railroads can only be
estimated—having no means of obtaining
the accurate figures.   It is affirmed, however, that the commerce over the Pennsylvania railroad   and   tbe   New  York
Central and tbeir western connections,
exceeds in value the entire foreign commerce of the United States, imports ami
exports   combined; and   that the   commerce of all our railroads will represent
an aggregate value equa. to sixteen times
tliat of our foreign commerce.   At   no
time in our history has tlie internal commerce of  our   country   increased  more
rapidly than within tlie past year.
1 H. T. 15.
Complimentaries Keceivcd.
Wc acknowledge tbe receipt of complimentary tickets to the Ht. l/>uin Kxposition and Fair. '.. O. Kabb, H<«:'y.