Vol. XI,
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAEOH 4th, 1876.
No. 9,
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
FOR SALE.
F
IRUIT FARM FOR 8 ALE-800 flne hearing trees.
L. NICHOLSON, Salem, Washington Co., Ind.
FOR SALE—Eggs from the very best Light Brahmas at J2.60 per doz.  Geo. Vestal, Camfcnage
City, Ind. g-9y
EOR SALE.—Two flne Jersey Cows and a calf
Also some first-class Rouen Ducks.   J-^u1-
TKRFELD. 9 n
TTIOR SALE-A few pairs of Light Brahmas and
JD Black and White Cochins. Eggs for hatching.
T. E. ELLIS, Plainfleld, Indiana. 7-4t
FOR SALE-Comcord Vines, best Quality; cheap
for Cash.    Samples 10 cents.    LEE * °ON,
Minonk, Woodford County, Illinois. 4-tf
•"rtrANTED.—A few choice Brown Leghorns. No
W fancy prices paid. Address O. HA.S-
BROUCK, Jr„ Modena. Ulster County N. Y.      91L
171 OR SALE.—Six young Poland-China Sows that
_C have been bred to a fine Poland-China Boar.
Address T. McKEEVER, Antioch, Huntington Co.,
Indiana. S-18*-
-|710R SALE. — EGG3. — Chlce Light Brahmas.
_D Felch and Bennett strains. One trio of young
fowls for sale. Address W. L. ALYEA, Sunman,
Ridley County. Indiana.         9-3t.
TTiOR SALE—FOWLS and EGGS—All bred from
JD    first-class stock.    Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks
and Peafowls.    Send for circular and price-list.
B-16 LTS. GOODWIN, Waterloo, Ind.
T710R SALE.—No. 1 Hedge plants on cars at $2 per
JD    1,000.   Club and Grange orders filled at reduced rates.   Order soon. S.M.GORDON,
9-3t.                         Hebron, Porter County, Ind.
FOR SALE—BERKSHIRES—I have several choice
Berkshire pigs for sale at reasonable prices
there and five months old. W. A. Maze, Sharpsville,
Tipton county, Ind. t-tf
TT'OR SALE-Seed Sweet Potatoes, on reasonable
JD terms, or furnished to responsible parties to
sprout on shares of one-half; (Yellow Nansemmd
Tarlety.)   H. A. Wooley, Galveston, Cass Co.. Ind.
"IT^OR SALE—A thoroughbred Jersey Bull. In his
JL" prime, weighs a thous ind lbs; color white and
bronze. Price $200. R. R. Mason, New Lebanon,
Sullivan Co.. Ind.  8-*w
TTIOR SALE — "STAR OF THE WEST," the best
JD Strawberry—100 acres in Small Fruits—Colossal
Asparagus Seed—Millions of Trees and Plants at
POMONA NURSERY. Send for Circular. WM.
PARRY, Cinnamlnson, New Jersey. 5-7
TT'OR SALE or EXCHANGE—Choice Fruit Trees,
JQ all kinds; and finest Seed Wheat, for Poland-
Chinas and Alderneys—two or three each. Satisfaction guaranteed, (Harvey's Nursery). A. C. Harvey, Cafayette, Tnd. 8-2w
TTIOR SALE—Choice Jersey Cattle—two splendid
JD Bulls, solid color; eight cows, Imported and
their descendants; selected for butter qualities; all
registered, A. I. C. C. For catalogues and prices ap-
ply to Thomas S. Kennedy, Louisville. Ky.    8 4w
XTIOR SALE.—A valuable French Norman Stallion,
JD    the property of the Adams Township Joint
Btoek Company, of Hamilton County Indiana.   Liberal terms, and a general guarantee will begiven.
Address. R. G. KERCHEVAL,
6-4t Boxley, Hamilton County, Ind,
FOR SALE—200 Farms—Splendid Soil and good
Buildings; can suit any one; no better country;
cheap transportation to Philadelphia, New York, or
Baltimore; all in Delaware and Maryland; finest
Boil in the world for fruit. Geo. W. Ingraham, Real
Estate Agent, Middletown, New Castle Co.. Delaware.
FOR SALE—Choice Chester White and Berkshire
Swine of all ages at very reasonable prices for
the superior quality of stock. Also fancy poultry,
turkeys, geese, ducks, eggs for hatching, pigeons,
ferrets, and thoroughbred dogs. Circulars free. Illustrated descriptive catalogue 10 cents. Write at
once to W. ATLEE BURPEE, No. 1332 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.  8-tf
■friOR SALE.—I will sell, at very low price, a No. 1
JD Jack, five years old next foaling time. Sired
by Castlllion; 1st dam, Black Sampson; 2d dam, Pioneer, 3d dam, Black Warrior. This Jack is near 15
hands high, large bone, good length of body, carries
himself up well, good action. Has made one season
and proven a success. For further particulars call
upon or address M. W. ROBERTS,
Brook's Station, Ky., on the L. & N. railroad, thirty
minutes ride from Louisville. 	
T7IARM FOR SALE—110 acres, adjoining Shideler
JD Station, on the Muncie & Ft. Wayne railroad;
110 acres cleared, 30 acres timber, all fenced; two
orchards: spring water all the year; frame house of
six rooms, porch and milk-house; barn 32x40 feet;
hay and stock scales with house over them; other
buildings convenient Price 860 per acre, one-half
down, balance in three equal payments. JOHN 8.
SHIDELER. Shideler Station, Delaware Co., Ind. 4-?
FARM FOR SALE.—Containing 52 acres, in Morgan county, Indiana, on the gravel road, half
a mile east of Martinsville, good two story frame
house, several out buildings, 20 acres of woodland
pasture,balance under cultivation; apple and peach
orchard; several good springs, with plenty of never
failing water for stock; splendid view of Martinsville from the verandah. A dairy, in good running
order, can be bought with the farm. Address MARY
MAINS Martinsvllls, Indiana, or J.M. ST. JOHN,
Franklin, Indiana. 7.4t
WANTED.
WANTED—All lovers of Grapes to send 50 cents
• and learn to prevent the rot   L. NICHOLSON, Salem, Washington county, Indiana.       7-zt
"XTrA.NTED—Young men wishing to attend the
W best Business College In the West to send
Stamp for circulars to the Indianapolis Business
College, Bates Block. Graduates assisted in getting
situations. 4-tf
TUT ANTED—Farms and Country Town Prop-
W erty (anywhere In the States) for City Property and Western and Southern lands. We have extra facilities for making exchanges. Send full description. WADSWORTH A ELDER,
•1-7             16J4 East Washington St, Indianapolis.
BUY your wife a Success Washing machine, and
save health, clothing and soap. It squeezes,
pounds, rubs and rinses clothing without damage to
clothing and buttons. Manufactured and sold by
ENGLISH & OVER, 240 to va South Pennsylvania
Street, Indianapolis, Indianapolis. 5-8
Southdown and French Merino Cross.
STOCK NOTES.
The Christmas sales from the stock
farm of Queen Victoria, amounted to the
sum of $15,935.
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James Hiley recently butchered his
Berkshire sow "Beauty," once illustrated
in the Indiana Farmer. She weighed
695 pounds gross, and 555 pounds net.
This shows that the Berkshire is' far from
being a light weight animal, when well
bred and fatted.
Holstein Stock.—There is a growing
inquiry about this breed of cattle, in the
West, and indeed the country generally.
Winthrop W. Chenery, Esq., of Boston,
imported some of this stock in 1861, and
we understand has been breeding it since,
and has kept it pure.
Levi D. Brown, of Otterbein, Benton
county, has purchased the fine Berkshire,
Hoosier Boy, of I. N. Barker, of Thorntown, a very choice pair of five month's
pigs and some Partridge Cochins. Also a
fine six months old sow, of Wm. H. Fall, of
Thorntown.   The stock are all doing well.
W. C.Williams, of Spiceland, this State,
has sold some fine Poland-China pigs to
parties in various sections of the country!.
One pair went to Alabama, three to Kentucky, four to Ohio, three to Iowa, and
quite a number to different parts of this
State.
Geo. S. Wren & Sons, of Sugar Grove
farm, Hendricks county, this. State, have
bought of James H. Clay, the young bull
calf Dick Cambia, out of Maggie May, by
Burnsides 46l8,by Dick Taylor 2d, 16637,
bought at the sale of Wm. C. Vanmeter,
of Kentucky.   He is a very fine and
promising young animal.
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Messrs. Ayers & McClintock, of Mil-
lersburg, Ky., have sold to Ccl. Eobert
Holloway, Alexis, 111., their fine imported
Oxford bull, "Oxford Beau" 2nd (32012).
He is thought to be one of the best Bates
bulls on the Continent. They still have
the 17th Duke of Airdrie, and their Bose
of Sharon bulls, »re superb animals. Their
herd is doing fine.
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H. C. Willett, of Greenfield, Ind., has
sold some very fine Poland-China pigs.
One boar to J. Willson, Cincinnati, Ohio,
$100 ;^one sow pig to A. J. Bea, Leesburg,
Ind., $25; one sow pig to S. Y. Langdon,
Vincennes, Ind., $25; one boar pig to
James Spangler, Jeffersonville, Ind., $20;
one "boar pig to P. Davis, Jamestown
Ind., $20. Sold in all, up to the present
time, thirty-eight head, at an average of
$27 per head.
Messrs. Virgin & Brown, of Fairbury,
111., last week sold to James Baker and
Oliver Ferguson, of Milton, Wayne county, this State, a dark grey three-year-old
imported Norman horse, for $2,500 cash.
This is said to be one of the finest Norman horses in this country. They have
also lately sold 'five other French horses,
two to parties in Illinois, one in Iowa, and
one in Missouri.
An intelligent farmer of Iowa writes
"As my breed of sheep, I would take a
medium between a wool-producer and an
English mutton sheep, and after considerable reflection and_ comparison of breeds,
would produce this with a cross of the
Southdown and thebest French Merino.
This would be the right combination for
both mutton" and wool. They are medium-sized sheep, and I think are exactly
adapted to Western feeding. I fancy they
will prove very hardy, more so than the
Cotswold or Leicester cross. They will
bear prosperity and some adversity.   I
; hope they will be tested more thoroughly
than they have yet been.   The specimens
^1 have seen give the greatest encourage-
_ment for thia cross."
DESCENDANTS OF THE GRIZZLED
BULL OF JACOB'S HEBD.
Maysville, Ky., Feb. 23rd.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I am
pleased to see, by the Indiana Farmer
of Feb. 18th, that a reader in the State of
Maine has made an effort to disprove
statements made by me in your papers of
March 13th, and July 24th, 1875, by testing the merits of the "Ring-streaked" or
Holsteins as butter makers, against the
descendents of the "Grizzled B^ll of
Jacob's Herd," for butter making or richness of cream. Any of your Patrons
who will refer to those articles will notice
the classification, and appreciate the difference in the merit of each, in their
sphere, shown so beautifully in the table
of comparison furnished by our friends
at "Togus Farm." It would be interesting to have a similar list made with "the
speckled" Ayrshires or Rouens of the
importation of 1817, and the Grizzled. I
have no fear that this result would be
other than establishing perfection in the
Grizzled as the butter makers of the
world.
I mustsayin conclusion that "Guenon's
Treaties on the Cow" is coming into use
with your readers. During this month it
has been my pleasure to'receive at "the
Farm," citizens of your State, Hon. John
Sutherland in the interests of Purdue
University, and Messrs. Garretson &
Hoover of Henry Co., who were familiar
with"Guenon,"and made their selections
of stock like old hands at the business.
And I believe that "Guenon" and the
Indiana Farmer, carefully read and ap>
plied, will pay better than any other investment of the same amount of money
expended by your readers.
Jno. B. Poyntz.
THE USE OF PLASTER.
NOT HEREDITARY.v
Editors Indiana Farmer :—Allow me,
through y^iur valuable paper, to answer
a private letter addressed to me, from
Homer, Cass Co., inquiring whether an
abscess on the lower jaw of a fine bull is
hereditary in his stock or not. As well
might it be fearedthatif bis leg happened
to be broken, or one of his horns broken,
or that a dog had snapped his tail off,
that his progeny would be likely to be
born with broken legs, one horn, or with
stubby tails. Of course if his progeny
receive hurts by scratching over rails, on
the upper board of plank fences, etc.,
they may happen with like accidents.
Hereditary taints are the result of malformation, such as certain forms of the
pasterns of horses, which are likely to
produce ringbones, and of the hocks,
produce- curbs, blood and bone spavins,
and certain kinds of eyes produce blindness. In conclusion, hurts are mechanical and not constitutional; therefore not
hereditary. John N. Navin, V. S.
Prof. Kedzie, of the Michigan Agricultural College in a late lecture on this subject sums up in the following manner:
1st. ' Plaster acts best in dry soils and
in moderately dry seasons.
2nd,- It is inactive, or at least fails to
give the best results in soils deficient in
vegetable mold.
3d. It tends to dissipate the vegetable
matter in soils by promoting oxidation.
4th.. _ Plaster benefits plants by directly
supplying sulphur and lime, and by indirectly supplying potash and magnesia.
6th. It fixes or converts the volatile
carbonate of ammonia into the non-volatile sulphate of ammonia. Its office in
preventing the waste of carbonate of ammonia in the stable and in fermenting
manure is much more important than in
fixing the ammonia of the atmosphere.
6th. It increases the development of
leaves and stalks without a corresponding
increase of seed. The most careful experiments assert that it is of no benefit
to cereal crops.
7th. It is markedly beneficial to clover
and all leguminous crops.
8th. As plaster is of sparing solubility
in water, a comparatively small dressing is as beneficial as a very large one.
A hundred weight is as good as far as the
crop is concerned to which it is applied.
9th. Since plaster is rapidly washed
out of the soil by the heavy rains of fall
and spring, it is best to apply the plaster
to the crop we wish to benefit in the
quantity which the crop requires, and at
the time it is found to do most good, viz.:
in early spring growth.
10th. There is great diversity of views
among farmers in regard to the influence
of plaster on Indian corn. Although
born ranks second or third as a market
crop, yet for use upon the farm it stands
first in importance among our grains.
All doubt in regard to the influence of so
important a manurial substance on a
leading crop should be solved by accurate, careful, and repeated experiments
by farmers in all-parts of the State.     ,
HEWS   OF   THE  WEEK.
State News.
STOCK SALES.
Henry Comstock, of Liberty Mills, has
sold one sow pig to W. M. Armstrong,
Logansport, Ind., one to Joseph Cook,
Columbia City, Ind., one to Martin H.
Moon, Denver, Ind., one pair pigs to
Ream & Berger, Denver, Ind., one to
John N. Eeed, Olaypool, Ind., two to W.
A. Shipley, Claypool, three pigs to John
Popham, Claypool, one male pig to G. W.
Lehmer, Corunna, Ind., one male pig to
John Stout, Marion, Ind., one male pig
to N. G. Miller, Pawpaw, Ind., one male
pig to George F. Miller, Peru, Ind., one
male pig to Karber & Turner, ft. Wayne,
one sow pig to D. S. H. Pearson, Marion,
Ind., one male pig to Mr. Gilbert, Wabash,
Ind., one pair pigs to George P. Wilson,
Eusselville, Ind., sow, to Mr. Freeman, Kokomo, Ind. Besides a host of turkeys
and chickens.
Liniment for Bruises on Horses.—The
inner bark of white oak bark boiled down
in an iron kettle (never use a brass one)
until it is as black as ink; while boiling
drop in a piece of alum, about the size of
a hen's egg. This liniment is to be applied with a sponge, and is good for any
sore or bruise; in fact, it is a safe thing
to keep in one's barn ready to use when
occasion requires.
[Benefits of Co-operation.
The Short-horn sales of Mrs. E. Byram,
of Abington, 111., will take place at the
stock yards at Galesburg, 111., on Tuesday, April 11th. Ninety head are to be
sold, comprising representatives of nearly
all the fashionable familes, and some imported cows.
On Wednesday, April 5th, the great
Short-horn sale of S. W. Jacobs, of West
Liberty, Iowa, takes place. One hundred
and twenty-five head will be sold, mainly
females, and representing the mostpopu-
lar and fashionable families. These two
sales will afford rare opportunities for
obtaining some of the finest Short-horns
in this country. For particulars read
both advertisements in this issue of the
Farmer.    •
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Breeding fr.-m Young Sows.
The Practical Farmer says :
This practice should be utterly condemned. If continued in the same family for a few generations of- swine, they
will be found to dwindle down from 300
to- 400 pound hogs to animals that will
weigh only 200 or 300 pounds. It is much
better to keep the sows three or four
years, and even much longer. Sows have
been kept some fifteen years to advantage.
Swine are several years in coming to maturity. It is a fact well known, at least
to every Irishman from the "ould country," that pigs from old sows will grow
into hogs some 30 or 40 pounds heavier
than those from young ones. While
shoats are growing, the sows should not
be allowed to breed until the live weight
will exceed 150 pounds gross weight.
Eureka Sap Sponts.
Stowe, Vt., March 20,1875.
I can truly; say that your spouts will pay for
themselves in one season. They will run
nearly double the sap that any other spout in
use will. This I know to be a fact, for I
have taken pains to prove it.
Yours truly, D. C. Watts.
Mb. Post, Dear Sir: The Eureka Sap Sponts
I bought last season proved themselves a decided success, as I got nearly double the sap
from them that I did from other kinds I had
in use. N. W. Church, Fletcher, Vt. .
See advertisement on 7th page. 6-tf
Regular store business is too intricate,
and the temptation ».s work for oneself,
instead of for the company, is often too
great for the agent. He either abandons
the business and starts for himself, or
does worse and ruin follows. There are,
however, a few cases where there has
been a continued success.
In the fall of 1866, a co-operative store
was started in Natick, Massachusetts,
which has proven a great success. It
started with a capital of $2,000—200
shares at $10 each—with the idea of
doing a strictly legitimate business, and
this rule has never been departed from.
It now has 600 shares of stock, held by-
635 different persons. As an evidence of
its success, it is but necessary to state
that a share of the first stock at $10 has
drawn, in eight years, simple interest at
6 per cent., $4.80 a stock dividend of $10,
a cash dividend of $10, another of $5,
another of $10, and is now worth a
premium of $3.75; making in all $43.50
from $10 in eight years, besides saving a
large per centage on all goods purchased.
Stockholders are allowed a discount of 5
per cent, on their purchases. The sales
for 1873 amounted to $104,276, and for
1874 to $123,110. The net profits for
1874 were as follows: First quarter,
$1,156.45; second quarter, $207.59 ; third
quarter, $238 22; fourth quarter, $1,129.-
60; in all, $2,731.85; and this, when the
profits on many articles were as small as
could be and make change.
But even here the success is admitted
to be due to the faithful honesty of a Mr.
Flagg, who bas served the association from
its inception to the present time. Cooperation in the hands of good men is a
great gain. Those who live in country districts may often profit by it, provided all
the conditions are favorable.—Thomas
Meehan, in Philadelphia Weekly Press.
The Y. M. C. A. of Brookville have a
membership of nearly 40.
Female highwaymen are said to occupy the
road between Troy and fell City.
Lea Perry, of Taylorsville, is the owner of a
cow that has five legs.   She is valued at $500.
It is reported that indications of coal have
been discovered in the southern portion of
Cass county.
A very destructive fire occurred at Brazil
Sunday night, supposed to be the work of an
incendiary, loss $10,000.
' Three-card monte men fleeced a passenger
on the T. W. and W. road on Saturday, and
jumped from the train at Delphi.
The most important case occupying the attention of the Perry Circuit Court last week
involved the sum of forty-five cents.
A young man named Shafer, while out
hunting on Saturday near Muncie was killed
by an accidental discharge of his sun.
Martin Shilor, a farmer near Emerald Station, while cutting timber, was struck on the
head by a falling limb, which killed him instantly.
T. F. Weir, a lawyer of Wabash, was found
dead in his bed Friday morning last. He was
alone in the house at the time, and the cause
of his death is unknown.
A convict in the Northern Penitentiary has
just drawn a piano raffled off at a fair given
by the Sisters of Charity ' at Plymouth. He
purchased the ticket before his arrest and incarceration. I
A young man named N. Yoeman, while
hunting .ducks -last week, at Goose Pond,
three miles north of Marco, accidentally discharged his gun, blowing his arm about half
off, just above the elbow.
A young man named T. Jackman, living at
Newark, Indiana, was found hanging to a tree
Sunday evening. He was subject to fits of
ineaoity, and it is supposed he hung himself
while suffering.in this way.
William Gilldoffan engineer on the Indianapolis and St. Louis rail road, in attempting
to mount a moving train on Friday at Terre
Haute slipped, and his left foot going under
the engine wheel was cut off.
' Great excitement prevails atMilford, owing
to crooked whisky. Deputy Prosecutor' Den
nis will no doubt get an indictment against
the five druggists and two saloons for selling
the crooked stuff. Over forty witnesses will
be examined, and a strong fight is anticipated.
A number of men are collecting at Louisville to go to the Black Hills. The indications are that a large crowd will soon be ready
to leave.
Late Wednesday night February 24th, a
fire in Lemars, Iowa, destroyed a large building occupied by four families; a woman and
there children were buried in the ruins, and
when found were burned to a cinder. The
husband is now a raving maniac.
A heavy thunder and wind storm passed
Hammond 111., at 4 o'clock Sunday evening,
blowing down one house and moving several
from their foundations.
A house was also blown over at Laplace,
ten miles west of Hammond. No lives were
lost, but there were several narrow escapes.
A terrible wind storm struck the northern
part of St. Charles Missouri, Sunday afternoon,
demolishing, or badly injuring twenty or
more buildings, including the court house,
and county jail. Three persons were killed
and about twenty injured. The damage is
estimated at about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
The steamer Mary Belle, the largest boat on
tbe Mississippi, was burned to the waters edge
Sunday afternoon. The boat was taking on x
cotton at the time, and between 5,000 and
6,000 bales of cotton, many thousand Backs of
seed and sundries, and the baggage of all the
passengers, numbering 200, were a total loss.
While the Harlan Brothers and Violette,
wife of one of them, were going through their
trapeze performance at the Park Theater,
Brooklyn, last Thursday evening, the brothers fell to the stage, a distance of fifteen feet,
and one of them was probably fatally injured.
Burnett & Musgrove's store, at Eldorado,
111., was entered by burglars one night last
week, the safe blown open, and $1,500 carried
| away. A regularly organized gang of safe-
breakers is operating in that vicinity, as the
above is the fourth safe blown ' open within
the past week.
Dennis Mulcahy, who'lives two miles east
of Bloomington, 111., was struck by an engine
Sunday nignt, while walking on the Indianapolis track. One hand was horribly smashed
and a fearful gash cut in his head, besides
which he received internal injuries. Two
years ago Mulcahy's brother was smashed to
pieces by a train within a rod of the same spot.
Whisky did it in both cases.
A tornado at Princeton 8unday night blew
down, and badly damaged over fifty houses,
one or two of which were burned.
The heaviest of the terrifflc blast was proceeded by a hail storm, some of the hail being
as large as a hen's-egg. Eight persons were
badly injured; two it is thought fatally. One
woman lost her eyesight. Several persons
were taken out uninjured. It is impossible
to tell where the streets were, every thing being prostrate and spread over the ground.
Jeffersonville News: Last night a thief was
discovered in the church at Sellersburg with
the carpet already rolled np, and ready to
start off with his booty. The thief was promptly arrested, but while some of the parties
had gone back to the church to see just how
matters stood, the man broke and run. A
young man named Sellers, left in charge,
pursued and a half a dozen or more shots
were exchanged between the two, one passing
through the fugitive's thigh, when he was
recaptured.
An old man named Plummer. was swindled
out of $932 all he had, on last Friday at the
Union depot, Indianapolis, by a man who
gave his name as Clark, pretending to be a son
of a banker at Rushville. Clark became terribly agitated as the train left the depot, and
said he had forgotten to get a check for $11,-
000 cashed, and requested Plummer to loan
him his money and take the check in exchange, until he got to Kushville, when he
would make it all right. Clark then went to
the back end of the car and jumped off, and
Plummer followed him, but as yet has not
recovered his money.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Thirsty Male.
The Pioche (Nev.) Record, after recounting the journey of a contractor with
a drove of mules from Belmont to Hiko,
where no water was to be had for two
days, thus describes the extraordinary
effect of the scent of the water at Logan
Springs on the animals: '
"The whole body began to move forward at a good pace, increasing it as the
smell of the water grew stronger, until
the_whole herd was in a keen run. The
spring was reached, but the water had to
be dipped up with buckets, and it became
necessary to knock down a number of
mules with clubs in order to allow the
men to get to the spring. One mule,
crazed with thirst, got away with thirteen
buckets of water, and had to be clubbed
away in order to allow some other possessor of a pair of long ears a chance.
He went out and took a roll, came back,
and wanted more. The bucket held four
gallons, and he would get away with one
at a gulp."
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Nine jurors in a panel of twelve will
be permitted to return a verdict, according to the new constitution of Texas.
Fifteen million brooms are annually manufactured in the United States. And yet men
will get married.
Mrs. Dickenson, of Moline, 111., has a mirror which came over in the Mayflower.
On Saturday a man named Sterling, in East
Whiteland, Pa., shet his wife and then himself.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad is to be changed from a broad to a
narrow gauge.
A severe storm from the northwest, hail
and snow, with high wind prevailed at Omaha all day last Sunday.
Steamboats continue to run regularly on
the Illinois river between Peoria and St.
Louis. Such a thing at this season has never
been known before.
The steamboat Rapids, from Pensas, for
New Orleans sank five miles below Ban ton
Exrage, about two o'clock Monday morning.
The boat is a total loss. The passengers and
crew were all saved.
Thousands of cattle in Morgan county, 111.,
which are now in fine condition, have been
fed no corn, hay, fodder, or straw during the
present winter, but have subsisted alone by
grazing on blue grass pastures.
The managers of the Eastern lines of railroad, running into Chicago, last week agreed
on a reduction of five cents on eastern bound
grain, and fourth-class freights, and ten cents
on flour. This reduction to go into effect on
March 1st.
On Monday _ afternoon an old gentleman
named Land, living near Bloomington, 111.,
while walking on the Indianapolis track, was
struck by a train and had one leg cut off. He
received internal injuries from which he died
in a few minutes.
It is reported at Champaign, 111., that the
Effingham bank, owned by H. G. Habing
failed for $35,000 last Saturday, the losses falling to the amount of $15,000 on depositors,
and the balance on Chicago, St. Louis, and
New York banks.
FINE PRINTING.
We invite the attention of Stock-breeders,
Poultry fanciers, Nurserymen, and all others
interested, to our unequalled facilities for proJ
ducing all classes of
■   BOOK AUD JOB PRINTING.
We have just obtained possession of one of
the most complete
JOB PRINTING OFFICES
in the city of Indianapolis, consisting of four
steam presses, several hundred styles of type,
and a large amount of other material necessary to the production of first-class printing.
We are, therefore, by these unusual facilities, prepared to do all kinds of Job Printing,
such as Letter, Note and Bill Heads, Hand
Bills, Shipping Tags, Business Cards, Envelopes, Circulars, Catalogues, Pamphlets, etc.,
in the very finest style, and at a lower price
than is commonly paid for this class of work.
STOCK CATALOGUES.
We can furnish this class of work, on fine
paper, illustrated with cuts, in a very superior manner. We solicit this class of work
with full confidence of our ability to render
entire satisfaction.
DISTRICT AND COUNTY FAIB WORK,
including Lists of Premiums, Posters, Tickets,
etc., will be contracted for and furnished in
the very best style, and at reasonable rates.
Address all orders to
KINGSBURY & CONNER,
Indianapolis, Ind.
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The Lady Grape, advertised in our columns
by Mr. Geo. W. Campbell, the well-known
vine-grower, of Delaware, Ohio, is said to be
a hardy native grape. lw
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Attention is directed to the advertisement
of Ellw»nger& Barry, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y.
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Cure of Love for Liquor.
At a festival at a reformatory institution, recently, a gentleman said, of tho
cure of the use of intoxicating drinks:
"I overcame the appetite by a recipe
given to me by old Dr. Hatfield,-ope of
those good old physicians who do iiot
have a percentage from a neighboring
druggist. The prescription is simply an
orange every morning a half hour before
breakfast. 'Take that," said the doctor,
'and you will neither want liquor nor
medicine.' I have done so regularly,
and find that liquor has become repulsive. The taste of the orange is in tlie
salvia of my tongue, and it would be as
well to mix water and oil as rum with my
taste."
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"A New Use for Corn."
Under this caption a New York ex
change announces, as a very important
discovery just made, tbat sugar and molasses can be produced from Indian corn,
and we are told tbat the Iowa farmers are
selling large qunntites of grain to the
numerous factories in that section. It is
well known that this process has been in
use for many years in Europe and during
a considerable period in the United
States. A combination of March, sulphuric acid and chalk, which are thn
materials used in the proceed, is not
likely to be swallowed with a high degree
of relish, however, and tlie product of the
"important dii-covery". referred too will
have to be disguised under fnlBR imrnei* U>%
secure an outlet in actual coiHUinplion.-
Louisville Journal.
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