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Vol. XI.
INDLOAPOLIS, MDIANA, AUGUST 19th, 1876.
No. 33.
EXCHANGE DEPAETMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons in any part of the stare seeking the address er attention-of parties in other portions of the
state »or country should make inquiry in this de-
ipartenent.
Lost, Strayed ot Stolen.
No better needium could be selected than this department of the Fabmer for the recovery of stock.
Tell yonr neighbor of it when you hear of the loss
■of his stock.
A two or three line notice will cost you only 25c
each insertion. ■'....
FOR  SALE.
FOR SALE.—Ten Short-horn cows end heifers;
no bolls.   Recorded stock.  J. A JOHNSON,
poolsrille, Warren county, Ind; . '   24-10t
-COS SALE.—A few choice Berkf hire pigs from 3
C to 4 months old. A. C. SHORTRIDGE. Indianapolis, Ind. 28*tf
**""""*IOR SALE—Fultz Seed Wheat for sale. For par-
E ticulars address Geo. DeLong, Binfllon, Wells
connty; Ind. ■■'-.. 32-2wks
FOR SALE—Poland-China and English Berkshire
pigs, all warranted pure bred.  Address J. B.
Gilbert, Lewis-rille, Henry county, Ind.        33-4w
FOR SALE—Fultz Seed Wheat, by E. R. Kenny,
Lafayette, Indiana.    Price 81.50 per bushel.
Also a white bearded wheat very good, fame price.
**3-4t
FOR SALE—Fowls, all "best breeds at lowest
prices, warranted pure bred. Fend stamp for
illustrated circular and price litt. Dr. C. Lewis,
Marlboro, Stark county, O. 33 2w
FOR SALE—A few pure Berkshires; either sex.;
ready to breed this fall: stock from S. Meredith A Son,nnd pigs from their boar -'Coming Star,"
as good stock as is in Indiana; healthy and cheap •
only S10, each, to suit the times. A. C. Harvey, Lafayette, Ind.; 32-2jrks
TflOR SALE—Seed wheat—two hundred oushela
Jj of pare Fultz wheat for seed free of cheat,
cockle or smut, at $1.40 per bushel, sacks furnished
at 35 cents apiece, delivered at Orleans depot.
Money sent by Post Office order to A. V. Poindexter,
Oilcans, 'Orange connty, Ind. AU orders will receive immediate attention, 33-2w
WAKTED.
TIT ANTED—Excursionists to the Great Neosho
W -Valley, Kansas, August 16ttl and Sept. 6th.
For rates -and special Information, address J. D.
King, Mo., Kan. <si Texas R'v, Land and Excursion
agt., Crawfordsville, Ind/     - 29-Tw
STOCK NOTES.
D. E. Stevenson; Esq. of Sunman, Ind.,
has just received the young bull, Baltic,
from J. C.Jenkins, of Kentucky.
9. H. Airman & Son's herd of Short
horns is doing fine   this   season.   They
. have a large increase of fine calves, all db
ing well. /.    .    ..,'."!,; ",-.•
,   - ■ ^    .-. ■—
From two to, three hundred head per
week of beef cattle are now sent to Liverpool from Chicago "to fill* orders. They
are shipped both live and dressed.
- ■   ■ ♦ ♦  , ■
T. W. W. Sunman made some purchases at the late sales in Kentucky. The
young 9 months bull Daisy Duke 3d has
arrived at* Spades, Ind.* He is in splen
did condition.
Wm. Smith & Son,' for? Ravenswood
Farm, Detroit, Mich, sent our agent, S. T.
Langdonof Vincennes, the premium Suffolk male pig. He 'is a very beautiful
pig. He is named and registered "Indiana Farmer." His aire is imported
"Turk," a winner of more prizes than any
Pig in America. The dam is "Sultana."
This is comparatively a new breed fox
Indiana, but they are very pretty, and
we hope they may prove satisfactory and
Profitable.
Making good Hogs.—It is useless to attempt to make the best of hogs, if they
have been neglected when pigs. _ Farmers
should bear in mind that the early care
°f the pigs make the good hogs.. A very
great waste is occasioned by the careless
treatment of pigs. Hundreds of pounds
of pork are lost by this oversight, and frequently the breed is denounced and condemned on account of, this kind of carelessness.   To make good hogs we must
eep the pigs growing and in good conation. :
T. . ■*•-*•   *        ■'■-.
t,J, ereis a strange and fatal disease
S^ong the hogs of Nicholas county, Ky.
Vy die as quickly as   if they had   the
and i' tlley are teken with a coug1-*
in£ ?v UP tneir backs, poke their nose
p.? the ground and fall over dead.
«mers cannot find a remedy for the
it 1» e'-n0T account for it. Some think
twaiVlnsectthat crawls into their heads
tbr°ugh the ears.
Tin       " * **»  * ***
hpnit? 8*edof sunflowers  is  the most
in ";fty feed that can be given to horses
^eerLn.lrandsPrin?; half a pint a day
i sleeV m hea"h  and spirits, with
tothf.* Cp0al?' and m°re animated than any
ksomp Aled-' II 'Prevents '-heaves" and
j     ° other diseases.—Maryland Farmer.
HOQ CHOLERA.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—Permit me
through the columns of your valuable
paper, to correct a gross misconception
that is fast spreading among farmers upon the above disease. It is pretty generally supposed that the disease is taking a
change, and developing if self into many
new forms; or perhaps into a new and
mysterious disease which is stubbornly
incurable. This mistake has grown out
of the feet that the old slow. maturing
hog of the country had been partially
free from constitutional disease, which
was to a great extent so; but the present
breeds being large, fast maturing breeds,
importations from the European countries, must be expected to inherit the diseases incident to their ancestors in their
native clime, to a greater, or less degree.
Indeed it might be expected that either
the severity or frequency of such disease
would be more or less aggravated by the
changeable temperature ofthe climate in
this country. I think I can prove that
the old cholera is the same, and that the
supposed new disease is another one altogether.
, Let us review the common diseases of
tbe hog in Europe, which must be the
same in America. The diseases are apoplexy, epilepsy, lockjaw, heart disease, paralysis, sniffles, strangles, diarrhoea, colic, influenza ofthe bowels, pleurisy, pleuro-pneumonia and cholera, together with several skin diseases.   In my
opinion, considering the symptoms as I
learn them from the farmers with whom
I have been conversant, and by all I can
learn through the Farmer, this new type
or types, (for there are many ofthe suppesed new diseases,) are nothing more or
less than symptoms of pleurisy, pneumonia, and pleuro-pneumonia, the latter being a   combination   of both the former.
There'is another symptom of disease
often brought to my observation by men,
which they call the "thumps." It is the
same in the hog that it is in the horse,
and as regards both, is.a spasm of the diaphragm, a name given to the tough,
strong membrane that divides the thorax
(chest) from the abdomen (belly), and is
the chief organ of breathing, as assistant
ofthe lungs.-; In most cases of thumps,
the chief cause is.over-exertion, over-feeding or cooling down too quick; driving
too fast, or being allowed to take sudden
cold, or a change of the weather are fruitful causes of each of those supposed new
forms of cholera. • -
Allow me to say to the farmers that all
of these diseases ofthe hog are underthe
control ofthe proper remedies, if administered in due time, and also that the
cholera is the easiest cured disease of the
hog.
■* For the last twenty-three years of my
residence in this State, this destructive
disease :bas swept millions of dollars
worth of hogs away from the farmers, in
spite of the thousand and one cures gotten up by men possessing no more knowledge of the physiology or of the diseases
of the hog, than they do Of astronomy.
Nor do they know the effect of one of the
medicines they so injudiciously use, nor
'do'they know the difference between
cholera and either of those diseases I
have mentioned above. Elsewhere in
the Farmer I have advertised this remedy, and given references.
Jno. N: Navin, V. S.
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SHORT-HORN SALES.
Dnchess of Goodness, by imp. Duke of
Airdrie, $1,825; A. L. Nicolls, Kansas.
Sth Duchess Louan, red, 1873, by 14th
Duke of Thorndale. dam Louan 24th, by
Duke of Airdrie, $1,000; A. L. Nicolls,
IC*insfl£
Louan 24th, red, 1863, by Duke of Airdrie, dam Louan 2d, by Gold Dust 907,
$410; Nat. Berry, Lexington, Ky.
Louan Duchess 12th, red, 1876, by 14th
Duke of Thornedale, dam Louan 24th,
$310; Wm. Taylor, Paris, Ky.
2d Duchess Louan, red, 1870, by 14th
Duke of Airdrie, dam Louan 42d by Duke
of Airdrie, $728; Wm. Taylor, Paris, Ky.
2d Duchess Louan, red, 1870; by 14th
Duke of Airdrie, $720; *Wm. Taylor, Paris, Ky.
10th Duchess Louan, red and white,
1875, by 10th Duke of Gooduoss, $500; A.
L. Nicolls, Ottawa, Kas. .
The following were by 14th Duke of
Thornedale:
6th Duchess Louan, rich roan, four
ye are old, $570; to same as above.
llth Duchess Louan, red, yearling, $625;
to James Scott, Paris, Ky.
9th Duchess of Louan, roan, two years
old, $500; to Thomas Gaff, Paris, Ky.
36th Duchess of Goodness, red, three
years old, $1,200; A. L. Nicolls, Kansas.
35th Duchess of Goodness,- red, three
years old, $1,000; Avery &. Murphy, Detroit, Mich..
45th Duchess of Goodness, red,yearling,
$550; N. P. Berry, Lexington, Ky.
31st Duchess of Goodness, red, three
years old, $500; A.   L.   Nicolls,   Kansas.
OTHER FEMALES.   ■ \
Duchess Phyllis, red, four years old,
$705; George Bean,-Winchester, Ky.
2d Duchess Phyllis, red, three years
old, $760; Capt. E. A. Treacy, Winchester, Ky.
3d Duchess Phyllis, red, yearling, by
Joe Airdrie (10,288), $605; E. P. Gamble,
Millersburg, Ky.
Belle Mapleton, red, nine years old, by
Airdrie (643), $815; to N. P. Berry, jr.,
Kentucky. .'
Nellie Ply 3d, red, yearling, by 14th
Duke of Thornedale, $410; Abner Strawn,
Ottawa, 111. -     '      .
This makes the total sales of females,
forty-eight head, $37,640, averaging a few
cents over $784 each.
BULLS.
14th Duke of Thornedale 8,031, (28,459),
red, 1868, by 10th Duke of Thornedale 826
(28,458), out of 10th Duchess of Thornedale by 2d Grand Duke 243 (12,961), $17,-
900; Wm, C: Van Meter, Winchester, Ky.
Started at $10,000 by purchaser; bid lively against him by G. J. Haggardy, of Ohio.
Imperial Bates 3,782, red, 1874, by 14th
Duke of Thornedale, out of Lady Bates
6th by 4th Duke of Geneva; $3,300; A. L.
Nicolls, Ottawa, Kas.
29th Duke of Goodness 5,028, red, 1875,
by 4th Duke of Geneva 1,750, out of 20th
Duchess of Goodness by 14th Duke of
Thornedale, $1,200; David Se'son, London, Ohio. .
21st Duke of Goodness, red, 1874, by
llth Duke of Geneva 11,732, dam same as
above.   Sick; withdrawn.
Thornbell, red, 1875, by 14thDuke, dam
Airdrie Belle, $450; Silas Corbin, Paris,
Ky.
The total number of bulls sold was 21,
for $25,205, averaging $1,200 25.
GRAND TOTAL,
Sixty-nine head, for $62,845, averaging
$910 80. Exactly who purchased the
grand old 14th Duke of Thornedale seems
to be unknown, as Mr. Van Meter, the ostensible purchaser, is regarded as a purchaser for other parties.
8tock Sales.
SHORT-HORN   SALE  OF T. J. ME-
GIBBEN'S HERD.
The great sale of Mr. Bedford, at Paris,
Ky., took place last week, and the attendance was large, but the hard times had a
visible influence on bidding and prices,
The following, is a list of the principal
sales made, the prices paid, and the purchasers;
FEMALES.
Lady Bates 6th, roan, 1872, by 4th Duke
of Geneva (30,958), dam by Imp. Duke of
Airdrie (12,780), $6,000; A. L. Niccolls,
Ottawa, Ks.
20th Duchess of Goodness, red, 1870, by
14th Duke of Thornedale, out o f the 4th
Duchess of Goodness by Imp. Duke of
Airdrie (12,730), $2,100; A. L. Niccolls,
Ottawa, Ks.
19th Duchess of Goodness, red, 1870,
by 14th Duke of Thornedale, dam 2nd
Duchess of Goodness by Imp. Duke of
Airdrie, out of condition.   Withdrawn.
47th Duchess of Goodness, red, 1875,
by llthj Duke of Geneva, dam by 14th
Duke of Thornedale, $9,000: A. L. Niccolls, Ottawa, Ks.
ROSE OF SHARONS.
Airdrie Belle, red, 1869, by Airdrie
Duke 648, dam Easterday by Pearl 1,071,
$2,750; J. W. Embry, Richmond, Ky.
Airdrie Belle 3d, red roan, 1874, by 14th
Duke of Airdrie 648, dam Airdrie Belle,
by Airdrie Duke 648, $4,050; J. W. Embry, Richmond, Ky. ^       •
Oneida Belle, red, 1874; by 2d Duke of
Oneida 9,926, dam Airdrie Belle by Airdrie Duke, $2,000; to same as above.
GOODNESSES AND LOUANS.
25th Duchess of Geodness, roan, 1871,
by 14th Duke of Thornedale, dam  id
The third sale of the series of Shorthorns at Paris, Ky., took place on the
llth inst. This sale embraced animals
from the herds of B. J. Clay &Son, B. F,
Bedford, and Hall & Taylor. The total
sales for the day were twenty-three bulls,
for $3,726, averaging $162; fifty-eight
cows and heifers, for. $28,725, averaging
$495 25. Grand total, eighty ono head
for $32,450, averaging $400 61.
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State Fair and Exposition.—in  res
ponse to inquiries   on   the subject, we
publish rule tenth, of the State Board of
Agriculture,   regarding liquors   on the
State Fair grounds.   It is as follows:
"The sale of all intoxicants, including
malt and vinous liquors, shall be absolutely prohibited on the Fair Grounds
during the State Fair and Exposition."
' The enforcement of this rule by the
general superintendent, Capt. J. L Hanna,
Will prohibit the entrance of all the liquor
wagons at the gate. There is every as-
surrance that it will be strictly enforced
and the grounds will be free from this
nuisance.
Near Cynthiana, Ky, August 9,1876.
cows and heifers.
Lily ofthe Valley, $1,000, toT. J. Bar-
bee, Paris, Ky.
Red Daisy of Fairview 10th,  $700, to
Downer <fe Cattle, Marsh all town, Iowa.
23d Duchess of Goodness, $900, W. H.
Murphy, Newtown, Ky.
Oneidas Duchess of Goodness, $430, to
Jos. Scott, Paris, Ky.
Grand Duchess of Goodness, $425, to W.
T. Hearn, Lexington, Ky.
Lady Louise, $400, to E. P. Gamble, Millersburg, Ky.
Louise Duchess, $350, to same.
Red Daisy of. Fairview 6th, $1,275, to
same.
Red Daisy of Fairview 3d. $725, to Jos,
Scott.
Duchess Daisy  2d,   $400,   to   Henry
Thompson, Millersburg, Ky.
Cambridge Rose Sth, $450, to Nicolls &
Son.Bloomington, Ills.
8th Duchess of Springwood, $1,000, toW.
E. Sirams, Paris, Ky.
Imp. Wallflower Queen, $660,toW.T.
Hearner.
Lou an Duchess of Fairview, $950, to R.
P. Scoby, Thompson, Ky.
Rcse Gwynne, $550, to Garrott<fe Blair.
Rose Gwynne 2d, $460, Nicolls <fe Son.
Rose Gwynne, $280, to Jos. Scott.
3d Tube Rose of Fairview, $375, Avery
& Murphy, Detroit, Mich.
Victoria of Glen   Flora,  $510; W. T.
Hearner..'
Victoria of Fairview, $490,  Downer &
Cattle.
:   4th Victoria of Glen Flora, $305, R. M.
Harris, Stoner Point, Ky.
Blue Belle, $310, Jos. Scott, Paris, Ky.
Blue Belle 2d, $250, to same.
2d Lady Gwynne, $280, F. J. Barbee.
3d Lady Gwynne, $200, to AShropsher,
Leesburg, Ky.
Belle of Muirkirk, $175, to M. A. M'Clin-
tock, Paris, Ky.
Isabella Peabody, $400, to W. H. Richardson, Lexington, Ky.
-   Imp. Gerty, $275, Jos. Lucas, Leesburg,
Ky.
Gerty 2d, $325, to Jos. Scott.
Red Daisy of Fairview llth, $310, to S.
L. Patterson, Paris,-Ky.
Ceres of Fairview 2d, $150,  to H. C.
Hutchcraft, Paris, Ky.
Ceres of Fairview, $160, to R. M. Harris,
Stoner Point, Ky.
Young Ceres 3d, $150, tb J. W. Allison,
Centerville, Ky. ■■<
• Ceres ofFrirview 3d. $130, S.L. Patterson.
Imp. Eleanor 4th, $260, Downer & Cattle.
Eleanor 5th, $105, G. Hill, Centerville,
Ky.
White Rose, $145, John Allison.
Kitty Clover 6t.b, $450, R. P. Scoby.
Uvular, $285, A. H. Davenport, Lexington, Ky.
Annie W*shington 3d, $705,E. P. Gamble.
Dollie Dixion, $190, Downer & Cattle.
Dollie Varden 2d, $140, to same.
Dollie Varden, $145, H. Corbin, Paris,
Ky.
Imp. Wild Eyes of Horton Park, $1,700,
Canada West Live Stock Association.
Imp. Azalia, $1,000, to same.
Mazurka Belle 2d, $750,  J.  C.  Smith,
Newtown, Ky.
Mazurka of Elmwood $955, to A, J. Alexander. ■  . ,.  ■
Rosamond- Duchess. 3d, $850, Canada
West Live Stock Association.
Victoria of Elmwood, $500, W. H. Murphy.      .
Emma Brock  4th, $120, R. Gay, Versailles, Ky.
Graceful 4th, $220, to R. DeSha, Cynthiana, Ky.
Airdrie Belle 2ci, $262, to R. P. Scoby.
Bonnie Burnside, $450, to same.
" Boston  Belle  7th,  $210, C. R. Kem-
brough, Cynthiana, Ky.
:   Jennie Dean, $170, to James Hill.
. 1 Mistle 4th, $170, t > Henry Corbin.
- BULLS.
concerning the breeding  and  purity of
your stock.
Applications for entry should be signed
by, or acompanied by the certificate of
the breeder of animal, if such breeder is
living.
An entry fee of $1.00 for each animal
rocorded will be required.
The immediate descendants of animals
recorded in Vol. I., may be recorded in
Vol. II. ,
The immediate descendants of animals
not recorded in Vol. I., may be recorded,
provided their sires and dams are admissible, and are also recorded in Vol. II.
Animals imported from England, may
be admitted to record upon satisfactory
proof of purity of breeding and the fact of
importation as claimed.'
Unsound or unworthy individual animals should not be presented for registry.
Such will not be admitted under any circumstances where facts provirjg their inferiority are made known to the Executive Committee.
The use of duplicate names should so
far as possible be avoided.
The names of all animals in each pedigree, that are known to be dead, should
be marked thus:—X.
The breeder of animal is the party
owning the dam at the time of service,
and dictating the cross.
' The Association having in its possession a vast amount of information, is enabled to assist parties in tracing and perfecting pedigrees. This service will be
rendered gratuitously to patrons of the
Record.
In Volume I. may be found pedigrees
of the more prominent families of Berkshires. Tbe information contained in
this work will be found serviceable to
parties in preparing pedigrees for Vol. II.
For further information, additional entry blanks, transfer blanks, or Volume I.
of the Record, address, Secretary American Berkshire Association, Springfield,
Illinois.
NEWS   OF   THE   WEEK.
HOW TO RAISE GOOD CALVES.
Live Stock in Ohio. '
According to the statistical returns', to
the Auditor of State by the assessors, the
following shows the live stock in Ohio, as
compared with last year*.
Hogs	
Cattle	
Sheer*	
Horses	
Mules, etc...
This shows a considerable falling off in
cattle, and a very large falling orfin sheep.
*
1876.
1875.
Number.
Number.
	
. 1,801,250
1,778,399
 1,449,705
1,509,260
 3,851,528
4,100,288
  737,487
738,839
    26 988
26,321
' 3d Proud Duke, $445,
&Co.
to- Guthrie.-Hall
Bloom's Prince, $100, Ddwner & Cattle.
Earl of Cambridge 3d, to Nicolls A Son:
Proud Duke 2d, $1,930, Wm. Murphy.
Proud Duke of Fairview 2d, $205, to J.
H. Beck, Scott county, Ky.
Earl  of Fairview,  $125,  to Winslow
Bros., Illinois.
;  Duke Wiley, $250, to E. Brooks, Ohio.
Highland Chief $80, to W. Armstedt,
Paris, Ky.
Lord Gwinne, $S5, J. L. Logan, Ohio.
2d Duke ofthe Valley, $115, Jno. Fair,
Ky..
Louan Duke of Fairview,$240Jcs. Scott,
Ky. -
Baron Gwynne 2d, $190, Gay Bros. Ky.
Gambier.lSO, John Logan, Ohio.   .
Landseer, $110, J. Dunaway, Illinois.
Baron Gwynne, $80, S. E. Pierce, Ky.
Beau Peabody, $35,:Wm. Paints, Ky.
Master Wiley, $70, R. F. Park, Ky.
Daisy Duke 3d,  $360, T. W. W. Sunman, Ind.     • • r :
Earl of Cambridge, $800, A. R. Shelley,
Illinois. ,      T. S.   ;
American Berkshire Record Vol. II.
Attention is invited to_ the following
suggestions and instructions, governing
applications for entry in Vol. II.', American Berkshire Record.:
Send all information in your possession,
I notice that most ofthe owners of purebred stock think, or act- as if it was" necessary to devote new milk to calves that
they propose to make fine animals. Is it
really necessary to feed so expensively
because the animal is pure-bred? Is there
no way to fully develop a calf without
giving food so valuable as to be worth,
during the season, about as much as the
calf, blood and all—«ay $80? What does
the Journal say? N. R.
Reply.—There is no necessity, after
the first two weeks, of feeding new milk
to calves. Skim milk contains all the elements of new milk except the oil, and
this can be replaced easily with other
food not so expensive. The phosphate
of lime for the bones, the cssein, or muscle-forming matter, the milk sugar or
whey, and all the mineral constituents,
remain after skimming for butter. These
elements are all in a soluble and digestible condition, and calves will expand
their frame andmuscular system as much
on refuse milk as upon whole milk—and
sometimes even more, where they are
good eaters and get all they want, for the
muscle-forming and bone-building elements are in greater proportion. Skimmed milk is more constipating after losing its oil, and we make up for this by
giving a small amount of oil-meal, which,
m ii large measure makes up for the loss
ofthe cream, and prevents constipation.
If the calf should incline to scour, stir in
a handful or two of canel or cheap flour,
or give a tablespoonful of powdered charcoal in the milk. Short-horns or their
grades may be grown to 1,000 lbs. during
the first year; upon this food. Ground
oats and pea-meal are. also excellent to
mix with the refuse milk, A little corn-
meal may be used if well cooked, butoth-
erwiseit will cause the calves to scour
badly. Corn-meal, when fed largely, is
too starchy, and does not contain the
muscle acd frame-building elements in
sufficient proportion. It is the model
fattening food, but is not appropriate-> to
be fed largely to young animals in a rapidly growing state.- lt yields more fat
than and Ayrshires tbat weighed 700 to
8O01bs4fat bone and muscle. We have
grown grade Jerseys twenty months without any new milk after the first ten days.
We prefer skimmed milk in raising heifers for the dairy, as they grow up more
muscular, and less inclined to lay on- fat,
which often interferes with the development of the milk secretions.—National
Live Stock Journal.
State Mews.
There were thirty-two deaths in this city
last week.
Over 16,000 crates of huckleberries were
shipped from Walkeiton last week.
A national reunion of the veteran soldiers
will be held in this city on September 20th.
G. W. Dietz, of New Albany, who walked
to the Centennial, is to return home the same
way.
Switzerland county has over $25,000 invested in the bee business, producing 60,000 lbs,
of honey annually, valued at $12,000.
A camp-meeting will be held in Owen
county, about midway between Lancaster and
Vandalia, beginning on the 24th inst.
The Jeffersonville car works will shortly be
sold, and soon alter will be put in operation
again by a new company.
The new court house of this "county will
cost when completed $1,200,000; $900,000
having thus far been expended oa it.
Warren Goddard killed George Vanfossen at
a picnic at Mansfield, Parke county, a few
days since. A reward is offered for the capture of the murderer.
A Mr. Talmadge, of Rockville, Parke county,
was killed on Saturday last by his horse running away and precipitating horse, carriage
and himself over a high embankment. A
friend with him was also badly injured.
Wm. MtQuilkin, one of the old residents of
Terre Haute, died Saturday, of heart disease,
aged sixty-five years. He had been a resident
of Terre Haute for sixty-three years.
, The brakesmen on the O. & M. railroad
struck for back pay and against a reduction of
wages a few days ago, and stopped all freight
'trains.
A woman is victimizing the citizens of Van-
derburg county by collecting from them money for the benefit of the county orphan asylum, of which she pretends to be an agent.
The stables and car-house of the street railway company of this city were destroved on
Saturday night last. Some eighteen cars and
about twenty mules were burned. It waa the
work of an incendiary, Loss $10,000; fully
covered by insurance,
James O'Dowd and a man by the name of
French, both of Howard county, got into an
altei cation on Saturday night last, which resulted in the laiter's being fatally wounded
with an axe, by OL'Dowd.
General "Yews.  «
The new cotton crop of Alabama has commenced moving to market.
The Short-horn cattle sales of Mess. War-
field, Burgess, and Combs, of Lexington, Ky.,
last week, amounted to $154,000.
The army in the Indian country took up
its line of march in pursuit of the Indians on
the 15th.
The Centennial has taken in nearly as much
cash in the time it has been open as the Vienna Exhibition during its entire duration.
The building and contents of the Centennial
Exposition foot up in actual value one hundred and four millions of dollars.
The committee of Congress has been investigating the whisky frauds, has postponed
further investigation until next winter.
The village of Harvard, McHenry county,
111., whicb, with a population of 2,000, has
no Protestant minister, has eight liquor saloons. The neighboring village of Marengo,
with a population of 1,<300, has five Protestant
ministers, and no saloons.
IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURAL
PAPERS.
.,. Gold in North Carolina.—The British
energy that is plantingand mining in Vir-
gina and some other Southern States, is
exploring Chatham county, N. ft, for copper, silver and gold ores, and has an agent
there who says there is more gold in North
Coralina than in: California; that tho
mines are deeper and richer at the great
depth; that five or six miles area in Montgomery county would pay tho national
debt, and the mines will pay $25 per ton.
As the a*jjent is drilling the State and examining it carefully, we may expect an
increased product of the precious metals
there soon, and new courage among the
people immediately.—North American.
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Indolence is a distressing state; we
must be doing something to be happy.
Action is no less necessary than thought to
the instinctive tendencies of the human
frame.
There are, in this our day, a great
many organizations and associations
claiming to have one common end. I
do not say that all may be needed; there
is surely work for all; but over all societies and all organizations having for their
object the good of the farmer, the agricultural papers should have and keep a
careful supervision and seek to give tone
and direction to public sentiment. Farmers' clubs, towns, county and State agricultural societies, Patrons of Husbandry,
boards of agriculture, agricultural colleges, etc., may all be needed, but none
of them can live without the aid of the
press, and not one of them can stand for
any length of time except upon its. own
merits; so let each labor on in its own appropriate sphere, doing' good to all as
they have opportunity, but harming
none. Right here let me call your attention to the beautiful exhortation of Abraham to Lot: 'Let there be no strife, I
pray thee, between my herdmen and thy
nerdmen, for we are brethren.' We often
see tnore attention given to the rivalling
of kindred organizations than to fighting
the common enemy. The true policy
would be to labor in conjunction with all
who are seeking a common object.—D.
H. Thing, in Boston Cultivator.
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The Texas Pacific—On the 16th of
July the first train on the main line ofthe
Texas & Pacific Railroad reached Fort
Worth, and it is expected tocompletethe
road to San Diego with in the next three
weeks, work being pushed forward at the
rate of two miles a day. The gap in the
Transcontinental divison between Texar-
kanaand Paris, 91 miles, will be complete
this month, making, before September^
1st, finished and in running order, 446
miles of this great Tanscontineutal highway, and opening up to settlement and'
cultivation a large and fertile section.
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