Yol. XI
INDIANAPOLIS, DtDIANA, SEPTEMBER 2,1876.
No. 35.
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EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
SELECTION OF BAMS AND EWES.
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PERSONALS.
Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or arte:(lion of parties in other portions of the
state or country i.hould make inquiry in this department. '
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the FiBMiR for the recovery of *-tock.
Tell your neighbor of it when you hear of the loss
of his stock.
Ten cents per lice, and no advertisement tox*fc-s
than 25 cents. ■
FOR  SAL.E.
F
CIOR SATE—Forty colonies of Italian Bees.   Ad
n   dres3 Dr. A. Morgan, James Switch, Ind.      In
F
VOR SALE.—A few choice Berk»hire pies from 3
:*l     to I months  old.   A.  C. SHORTRIDGE.  In
dianapolis, Ind.
FOR SA EE— Poland-f hina and English Berkshire
pigs, all warranted pure bred.   Address J. B.
Gilbert, Lewlyville, Henry county, Ind.        33- lw
FOR SALE—rultz Seed Wheat, by E. R. Kenny,
Lafayette, Indiana.    Price 81.50 per  bushel.
Also a whito bearded wheat very good, same price.
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*T7I0R SALE—SOO acres farm lands, very cheap,250
1*1 acres in cora and meadow, etc., the balance
well fet blue grass pasture land, well watered in
every part, and good, dry, rolling land; some parts
a little broken A splendid body of Fine Timber
(Over 1.600 fine oak and poplar trees alone being
counted on it). This timber alone if marketed
would moro than pay for the whole tract. Location—On the I. j& St. L. Railroad near two other
Railroads and midway between the four great
cities of the west, with good railroad facilities to
each—in Putnam connty, Ind., the finest grass and
stock county in the State. The advantages of such
a location over the far west must be clear to all.
This property was recently appraised ot $50 per acre,
but to secure a speedy sa'e, it is now offered at from
822 to $25 per acre, less than half its appraised value.
For particular? address Col. <J. C. JIATSON,
xt-4\v Greencastle, Ind.
MONEY LOANS.
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TO LOAN—$£00,000—In sums of $1,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
in the State. ' Time, three 'o five years. Interest ten
per cent., payable semiannually at the end of every
six months. Commission five per cent. Money
furnished inflve (JfilSJlfter examination of proper-
-*rau*jBr£-BjiSi house antaisement is made. In
dressW.A. Bradshaw, No.ie-^o'- ** *>»na^j»t'iw
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"\*fT*ANTED—To  buy.flty to  seventy-Eve good
VV   Cotswold or Leicester ewes.   Address, Lutler
Johnson "Woodbank, Marion county, Ind.      *"4-4t
*TT7"ANTED—Excursionists to the Great Neosho
VV Valley, Kansas, August 16th and Sept. 6th.
For rates and special information, address J. D.
King, Mo., Kan. & Texas R'y, Land and Excursion
agt., Crawfordsville, Ind. ' 29-7w
STOCK NOTES.
A very fine show  of Hereford cattle
are to be at the Illinois State Pair.
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W. M. Miller, of -Claremont, Canada,
has lately imported some fine Cotswolds.
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Mr. Levi Goff is now the owner of the
celebrated 14th Duke of Thorndale, sold
by Mr. Bedford two weeks ago.
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Messes. L. & E.Dillon, of Normal, 111.,
have just arrived in this country from
France with seven Norman stallions and
one mare. They are said to be very fine
animals indeed.
• Mr. W. Lingmaster, of .Keokuk, Iowa,
has just imported six Clydesdale stallions
from Scotland, tJe most of them being
prize takers.
Arrangements are being mado for a
quite extensive sale of Short-horns, and
possibly of other valuable stock, at the
Centennial Show Yard, during the exhibition of cattle, about the first of October.
The following are the names of the
judges on neat cattle at the Centennial:—
T. C. Jones, Delaware, Ohio; William
Birnie, Springfield, Mass.; John Haven,
Fort Washington, N. Y.; Warren Perci-
val, Vassalboro', Me.; Colin Cameron,
Lancaster, Pa.; Henry C. Meredith, Cambridge City, Ind.; Ashbel Smith, M. D.,
Houston, Texas.
E. K. Moody, of Eminence, Ky., passed
through this city on Monday with a carload of stock for exhibition at the Illinois
State Fair which begins on the 4th of
September. After which he will attend
the Indiana State and other fairs. His
stock consists of Cotswold sheep (some of
which Mr. Moody haa jU3f. imported from
England), and Chester White hogs. Mr.
Moody has taken^ over $3,000 in premiums on his hogs in the past three years,
one brood sow alone, 4 years old, has carried off over $1,100 in premiums. His
-stock is first-class in every respect, as the
\ numerous premiums awarded abundantly
steatifies.
In the last meeting of the Inworth
Fanners' Club, England, an interesting
discussion took place on the best selection of rams and ewes for breeding purposes. We subjoin a condensed report.
Mr. Peto stated that it had been his
custom f<_ r years to get ewes direct from
Hampshire, and Cotswold tups direct
from the Cotswold H Its. He always endeavored to select them from the best
stock that was produced; and had always been perfectly satisfied with the re-
eult. He was persuaded that the Lincoln
or Cotswold cress was the most profitable
one fortho30 living in his particular part
of the country. Tho Down shrep produced a deal of mutton, and could be fattened quickly, and there would be a
quantity of lean in the mutton itself,
while in the Lincoln the meat is nearly
all fat. Consequently the cross with the
Lincoln and Cotswold produced such
stuff as would benefit the farmer and the
commurity at large. As to the feeding
of sheep, he quite agreed that lambs
should be fed early, and that a small
quantity of oil cake should be used to
keep them in a growing state. _ It was
wonderfully against the grazier if he allowed his lambs to lose their lamb fat.
H. Stanley said, he had himself kept
both a black-faced and a half-bred flock,
and as he had always been careful in keeping an account of the results of the produce of the two flocks, he could say that
during the three years he had kept them,
he found that the produce of the black-
faced flock was considerably more prolific than that of the half-bred flock. The
former were a hardier sheep than the
latter. There was no doubt that the
pure-bred sheep took more time to mature than the half-bred,but when they
did get fat, he thoughtthey exceeded half-
bred sheep in price. With regard to the
black-faced ewe lamb?, there was no doubt
that they were at least 10s. a head of
the half bred ewe Jambs in the month of
August. He found that the buyers of
black-faced  were   «"*™«y ■» thre«t0
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froAf torraer than the latter.
j Mr. Mansfield thought a cross between a
Southdown and a Lincoln, or a Hamp
shire Down and a Leicester, was as good
as any. Then, again, there was another
cross, viz, an Oxford Don and Shropshire
both of which, he maintained, would produce good sheep }>fa similar character.
He thought it was desirable to employ
some pure breed. But if a farmer was
unable to do that, the best thing he
could do was to save the best ewes oufc-of
his own fleck. He had known flecks
produced in that way which paid the
farmer a satisfactory remuneration. He
thought the cheapest way of producing a
good flock was to buy the best Jambs
they could about the first of August, and
keep them in the same way that fat sheep
are fed. With regard to the production of
cheap meat, the great stumbling-block to
that was undoubtedly the amount of disease that had been ravaging the different
parts of the country. If some means
could be devised for eradicating the disease, it would be a capital thing for the
farmer as well as for everybody e'se.
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Wool Growers Convention.
sheep is relieved ofthis accumulatim of
dirt, and the rains cleanse the skin.If, as
is usual herein the valley, a dippifg fcr
scab is given tsrice a year, the she<f> are
keptin^a very* healthy condition.(The
scab there i"l much more aggraVat'i and
difficult to eradicate than with.us. jThe
frosts aud freezings do not destroy itfrom
t< e ranges. At the time of diu'pinsAhey
fir;d the skin thickened Jike^ toloise
shell, and it is necessary t^dcotibehand
and break it up, so that tlifelmoaii reach
the dise.ise to effect a cure! Ii will crack
open on ihe back and r.etk, producing
fearful distress and -death. T is is the
only disease of sheep here, aid it has to
be watch- d and treated. 'Sfry.'are fixed
to dip them by the whotctjah, by driving
them through a trough/ f a warm s'.lu-
tion of tobacco and sulBV'r. VTen ihous-
and have been dippdf iu on? da*! with
ease, so   well  and peiftc*;   ate thei^   ar-
AUCIENT
KUINS  IN  SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS.
rangemciits for trcati
—R. M. Bell, in Rural
Horse Mai gemjent.
3 stinted
heep with scab.
Vorld. \
Editors Indiana Farmer:—There will
be a meeting of tho Wool Growers Association of Johnson and adjoining counties at the mayor's office in Franklin, on
the first Saturday in September at 2
o'clock p. m. A full attendance is requested as business of importance will be
transacted. S. W. Dungan will be present and give us some very important information, he having just returned from
a visit to the Associations of like character in the celebrated wool-growing districts of Kentucky.
Daniel Brewer, Prcs't.
A. D. Whiteside, Sec'y.
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Why California Shears Sheep Twice a
Year.
It is not because the fibre grows so long
nor the eagerness to get the profits ofthe
flock. The sheep, however, will grow
more wool in this practice than in one
clipping, as practiced by us of the eastern
btates. Tlie mildness of the climate allows of these two shearings without any
seeming cruelty td the animals. The climate and feed (when in abundance here)
will produce heavier fleeces than in a
colder climate. But the health of^the
sheep is the given reason for shearing in
the spring and then again in the fall. The
fall clip is often very short, and were not
the health of the sheep of prime importance, there would be no profit in taking
off the fleece, as it varies in length from
one-fourth of an inch to an inch only
Only four to five months intervenes between the clips, yet if allowed to remain
it will cause itching, from the dirt and
sand that collects in the fleece during the
dry summer. The rains soften this dirt
into a pulp, and it combines with the
wool into a crust, like felt, so that when
the warm weather of February comes, it
produces an irritation and fever that
loosens the wool and distresses the sheep,
and there is a loss of fleece and condition
too. If any scab exists, these circumstances combine to aggravate the disease
to fatal results    ~   "'  *" "    '      "
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Horses should not fe stinted in Jhcir
feed. Work horses ■ ould be put < Ut to
pasture at night, bt , they should.nave
their usual allowanct -f'otherfced.'-rhey
have some lost flesh t >:nake up. S tape
off the eggs of the bot jfy from their .fore
legs and shoulders wi i a sharp kni p, or
wash them off with *a*m water >Very
evening. Three hoi n' re**t .is.no^.too
much at noon while Bowing, "tj'he.lost
time may be made u   "*- *
night,   Thia   arrange)
one for the  driver a:
often,   and don't   fo
cornmeal   stirred in
taught to eat a little
be  handled  freely,
and the   gentlest
at morning -and
ent  is'not: bad
ell. Giro v.ater
t the  hand'Yd- of
t. Colts *ni y be
al'or bran, a- <bto
arefuf "at'te,i.ioi-,
[>ssible,   treatment
EDrTw*! Indiana Farmer :—During a
recatr nip through southern Illinois, I
visited the remains of an old fort, from
which tho modern town near by, derives
its name. This old "stone fort" is evidently the work of human hands, but of
such ancient origin that all knowledge of
whese they were, or for what purpose it
was erected has been lost. It is said that
the Indians who occupied the country at
its fiist settlement by the white man,
could tell nothing about it, except that it
had always been there, as far back as
their traditions reached. It is situajed in
Saline county, some two miles from the
Cairo and Vincennes railroad, on a high,
narrow lidge, which forms one of the
banks of the Little Saline river. The
northern slope of this is as steep as can
well be ascended with wagons, and the
southeastern side of the ridge at this
place, is a solid face of volcanic rock, descending almost perpendicular for, at
least, two hucdred feet, into the ravine
through which the river flows.
This wall of rock shows unmistakably
the marks of having been at somo time
melted, until it ran like lava.   Inclosing .
„ i    ,   ,» don Gardener s Chromcle,
a space of one, or one and a half acres, ""'*-'
with this perpendicular wall for the front,
this statement that the crop grown on
this ranch is worth nearly half a million
of dollars.    What say our Tiastern far
mers to this ? Yt t we have some as largo
Ranches, and some that are larger still, yet
noi:e superior in cultivation or yield, we
give this statement in answer to the inquires to which we allude, and shall
speak of others also hereafter.
We should state here that the "Aguas
Frias Rancho" contains something over
25,000acres in all, including the wheat
lands named and in pasturage, woodland,
garden, etc.
On this flinch there are upwards of 10,
000 sheep, 400 head of cattle and 200
horses, audit is one ofthe finest, bestman-
aged, most productive and valuable tracts
on this coast.—California Farmer.
should   b(
this season.
given
young stock at
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Eoom For»Mo*\Shec-p;t.
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Last year wep.wt-^J**',''^
mUlionB-'of'TTroilans^**!^,
Potatoes —Few, if any of the early potatoes will derive much benefit by.being
left in the ground after this date, except
such as are still growing, in which ca»:e
they shculd remain until the skins are
set. The practice of allowing early seed
potatoes to lie on the ground exposed to
a scorching sun, after being dug, is a very
bad one, as they dry much too rapidly,
and either shrivel or become so hard and
woody as to be quite unfit ft r seed purposes. An open, airy shed Is much the
best place, as there they escape the cooking process they undergo out-of-docrs,
and the drying is altogether more gradual and natural. By lifting early and storing in this way, disease is frequently
Inclosing  avoided and a valuable crop saved.—Ion-
NEWS   OF   THE   WEEK.
State Hews,
The remains of Speaker Kerr were interred
at New Albany on Friday of last week.
There were forty-four deaths in thia city,
last week.
The outlook for an excellent State Pair is
good.
A great deal of sickness is reported through
the State, principally malarial fevers.
distillery pays a tax of
as was afro. irj?rW
and eleven millions t.^ _
we have now, we shaA ^ijj'Swroduce'the
wool wo use; and yet'tiMwfijf no country
on earth where sheep could be ra*'sed so
profitably as iu the Utited States.- Put
we are coming every year nearer to supplying our own markets with the wool
they demand. In 1875 the wool clip of
the country was nearly 200,000,000 pounds,
while in 1800 it was only 65,000,000.—F«,
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Worms In Animals.
The Scientific Farmer says: The simplest remedy fcr worms in cattle, sheep
and hegs is turpentine .mixed with a littlo feed, or given in linseed oil or gruel;
two ounces for a cow or ox, and one-
fourth or less forsmaller animals, according to size. Clatcr gives the following to
adult bovines: Linseed oil, one pint;
turpentine two ounces; infusion of quassia, one half pint. The symptoms of the
worms being present are: General weakness and inaction, falling of of flesh, capricious appetite and appearing "hidebound."
Fine Berkshires
is the remains of a vast stone wall, now
in ruins, built of the same kind of volcanic rock, and supposed to have been
originally ten feet wide at the base, and
at least fifteen feet high.
The older settlers tell us there has been
T"7g«  quantities of  this wall carried off
"".•i  ■'^ynuldlng purposes, and there  aro b*A\\
VesoM^^'y^W^^1* haVe been thr°Wn
IT a<y.  ■ ;VyV' r°/(<£(' "owri inTtr tlio   r»Vi*no Mow, by
.V:ttoM*for**tlie eako'of hearing the crash
andleverberations. Ending within the
enclosure, there is an apparently natural
stai vay, which leads from the top down
the Imost perpendicular rock, into the
ravie below.
T is stairway is very steep, and in some
plac ii narrow, barely room for one person ko pass at a time, especially at one
point seme eight or ten feet from the top,
•naking it very easy for those within to
prevent the approach of an enemy.
Within the space enclosed are two wells,
walled up, but now nearly filled with de-
brifW various kinds. One of these has
beer\dug out afresh, a few years ago, for
the purpese of searching for tools, or any-
thirgthat might give information as to
its use; but nothing of consequence was
found, though it was ascertained that the
well had originally been thirty or forty
feet deep.
The enclosure  is   nearly filled with
trees of various kinds, from the size of a
walking stick up to one and a half feet
in diameter, and the rocks are generally
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Antidote for Poisons.
Messrs. John Smell's Sons, Edmonton,
Canada, have received a consignment of
Berkshires from Hebor Humfrey, of
Shrivenham, England, including the famous boar, Sir Dorchester Cardiff, winner
of a silver cup as sweepstakes, and five
first prizes at leading shows in England,
including the Royal Agricultural Society's
Meeting at Cardiff,, 1872, and. the Bath
and West of England Society's Show at
Dorchester, the same year. Also a young
boar, Lord Swinborough, by Duke of
Swinton; also two choice sows, Duchess of
Swinton and Lady Hillside, both of which
were in farrow when they came out, and
have produced fine litters since-r-the
former having been served by Competition, a son of Hightown and,Ulster, the
latter by Lineal Baronet, a son of Sir
Dorchester Cardiff, and Sweet Seventeen's
Sister by Longrangc—Canadi Farmer.
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Pood for Weaning Pigs.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: The pig, when young, needs
very nitrogenous and phosplfatic food to
expand his frame and musciilar system.
This he gets, almost in perfection, in
skimmed milk, but when that is lacking,
the nearest approach to it ii scalded oil-
meal. This, like milk, holds its nutriment almost in a soluble condition, and
is extremely rich in phosphate of lime
and in muscle-forming food. Small pigs
need very little fattening food. Corn
meal is very objectionable, if fed alone,
but, if mixed with bran, will do very well;
yet nothing, except milk, will equal the
effect of a pint of oil-meal to a pig. Oil-
meal and bran—two quarts "of bran to a
pint of oil-meal—will cause young pigs to
expand with great rapidity.  .
Messrs. Frederick Tapt & Co., whose
advertisement is found in this paper, are
among our most enterprising and prompt
produce commission merchants. Their
facilities for transacting bu?in ess are large;
this fact combined with practical knowledge of their line of trade, makes their
By this fall clipping, the I t^aSK^ ^
covered with lichens,
north east end, where the artificial wall
joins the perpendicular face of the natural wall, there aro prints of human feet
in the solid rock, some naked, others evidently moccasined, just as distinctly
marked as though made in the mud from
yesterday's rain. At the bottom of the
ravine are similar foot-prints, 'only much
larger.
In walking around this ancient fortress,
one can but think of the warriors that
may have trod this same spot, centuries
ago; of the midnight orgies over captured
enemies; of the council fires and battle
songs that may have rolled into the forest
stillness around; of the tempest of battle ; of the dreadful hour when savage
cunning msiy have overcome even this
almost impregnable retreat, or tho wasted
forms of tho beleaguered hosts, shut
within these walls, until famine and disease had done their work, leaving this
monument of their skill, and labor,voice-
less and silent forever.
Delos Wood.
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A CALIFORNIA WHEAT CEOP.
We are frequently inquired of relative
to our "large grain fields," and when we
report them by letters to friends abroad,
they seem to doubt that our California
gram growers can manage grain fields as
large as we tell them—they think a few
hundred or a thousand acres, a monster
farm—save  in   a  few  of the Western
Grain  States   on   "prairie   land," and
when we speak of some of our farms of
from 5,000 to 20,000 acres, they hesitate
to believe until they have visited our
"Golden Land"—and then they say "the
half has not been told them."
We have just received the following
Statement of the crop from the "Aguas
Frias Rancho," in Butte county, containing this year full 13,000 acres of wheat;
it is a very extensive ranch and is owned
by the Hon. O. C. Pratt.
The 13,000 acres this year in wheat
will certainly average over 30 Bushels to
the acre, thus giving a yield of near 400,-
000 bushels. The grain is heavy and of
a superior quality, equal to any ever
grown in the State.   It will be seen by
If a person swallows any poison whatever, or has fallen into convulsion from
having overltaded the stomach, an in-
stantareous and very efficient remedy is
a heaping teaspoonful of common salt,
and as much ground mustard, stirred
rapidly in a teacup of water, warm, or
cold an I swallowed instantly. It :s
scarceVy do-«i\\)e£u*ce it be'i.ina to come
up, biinging with it the remaining contents of the_stomach; and, lest there be
any rexunarffor" a poisoji^howero^mal
let the white of an egg, and sweet c~
butter, or lard—several spcor.sful—be
swallowed immediately after vomiting;
because these very common articles nullify a larger number of virulent poisons
than any medicines in the shops.
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Cabbage Worms.   *
I notice the remarks under the head of
"Cabbage Worms," in the Ploughman of
the 12th inst. Last season I had a large
number c fcabbages in my garden, and at
the usual time the cabbage worm made
its appearance. To drive and keep them
off I sprinkled homoeopathic doses of fine
salt upon the tender leaves of the plant
before or about the time the head began
to form. The worms soon left the cabbage patch, and the vegetable grew to
perfection. Believing, as I do, that the
salt proved an unpalatable seasoning for
the worms, I suggest it to "A Subscriber,"
as it was to mo for trial.—J. II. M., in
Massachusetts Ploughman.
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Asleep for Ten Days.
The Terre Haute
ovei $G,C00 per day.
Wm. Warner of Laporte county, received
fatal injuries a few day3 ago by falling upon
the tines of apitchfork.
Mr. Congill, of Posey county, threshed
l,00"2i bushels of wheat in less than ten hours.
The farmers along the Wabash in Vigo
county are making preperations to build
levees to protect their lands.
A son of Elijah Hall, of Martinsville, while
tearing down an old bridge, was struck by a
falling timber and instantly killed.
The Terre Haute Nail Works employ about
250 men regularly and make from 10,000 to
11,000 kegs of nails per mqrith.
It has been quite a season for marrying at
the Warrick (Jountv Poor Farm, as three or
four couple have been married within the
past week.
John West, of Carroll county, attempted to
make his dog get off the porch at his house
the other day and it bit him, mangling him
until his recovery is doubtful.
Officer Vandeveer, of Terre Haute, has succeeded in ferreting out and arresting the incendiary who burned the station-house in
Newman, Illinois, last June, one Bob Norris.
Peter Terrell, of Johnson county, near
Franklin, was killed last Saturday by the fall
of a limb of a tree under which he was sitting.
His skull waa terribly crushed.
Reports are to the effect that the Warrick
county tobacco-crop this year will equal three
times Vhat of last year, notwithstanding the
recent heavy rains.
£^4: stc*ffll sejje/ator ajf work joii tlie farm of
Barney NWrrfc>«»,^*-***i***fc^
fire to two barnes, destroying tho buildings? SOt*
tons of hay, a large amount of wheat, one,
horse and eight hogs.   It is a total loss to Sir,'
New, there being no insurance.
Mr. Clem Studebaker, President of the
Studebaker Manufactui ing Company, of South
Bend, arrived home a few days since from a
fourteen months' visit in Europe. He was
given a grand welcome home by the largo
number of employes ol tho large establishment.
For ten days two factory girls, named
Deverrel, of Cohoes, N. Y., have been lying in a lethargic state in their room in a
Cataract street boarding-house. On the
9th inst. they retired to bed as usual, but
had complained all day of a singular sensation of drowsiness. Next morning they
did not appear, and their landlady went
into their room. They were both asleep.
The landlady could not arouse them, and
until Sunday, the 13th, neither of them
gave any evidence of awakening. On
that day the elder of the girls awoke and
dressed herself. Soon afterward she fell
asleep, and with her sister has remained
asleep ever since. The case has attracted the attention of medical men, who are
watching its result with great interest.
The girls are to all appearance in a natural and healthy sleep. Food is forced
into their stomachs by artificial means.
The sleepers are sixteen and twenty years
of age.
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Woman's Wonnded Affections.
Washington Irving wrote: "As the
dove will clap its wings to its sides and
cover and conceal the arrow that is preying on its vitals, so it is the nature of
woman to hide from the world the pangs
of wounded affection. With her the desire of the heart has failed. The great
charm of existence is at an end. She
neglects all the cheerful exercises that
gladden the spirits, quicken the pulse
and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins. Her rest is
broken; the sweet refreshment of sleep is
poisoned by melancholy dreams; 'dry
sorrow drinks her blood,' until her feeble
frame sinks under the last external assailant. Look for her after a little while and
you find friendship weeping over her untimely grave wondering that one who
had but lately glowed with all the radiance
of health and beauty should now be
brought down to 'darkness and the worm.'
You will be told of some wintry chill,
some slight indisposition that laid her
low; but no one knows the mental malady that previously sapped her strength
and made her so easy a prey to the
spoiler."
General **s*cws.
The Government will soon push the remaining whiskey cases to a conclusion.
Forest tires have been raging in Pennsylvania, doing great damage.
The grasshoppers are reported to be very
thick in the vicinity of Oniaha, Neb., and
doing a great deal of damage to vegetables and
late corn.
To meet the increased demand for prints
the great Sprague Print Works of Providence,
Rhode Island, wuich have been idle some
time, are to be put in operation at once.
Within the past month eighteen men and
six illicit distilleries have been captured by the
Government authorities in Newton county,
Arkansas.
The news of a week ago to the effect that the
Government forces had had a great battle with
the Indians is unconfirmed. The Indians
seem to have made some efforts to keep out of
the way.
The number of paid admissions to the Centennial Exhibition on Saturday last were 95,-
873; total number of visitors including those
on the free list, 101,514. .The price of admission was twenty-live cents. The total number of visitors last week was 243,218 persons,
being by far the best week financially.
The display made in behalf of our Common
school system at the Centennial, has attracted
the attention of Europeans. Some French
gentlemen are investigating the system, procuring our text books with a view to a full understanding of its workings.
Preminm No. 18.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I received
that plow, called "Patron's Empire," manufactured at Richmond, Ind., donated to
the agent of the Indiana Farmer as a
premium drawing the above number, by
S. Beard and A. Tyner, State Grange
agents, 133 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Before I saw the plow, I
hesitated some about getting it, iLM had
two steel plows, and one of Oliver's
chilled iron plows on hand, and thought
I did not need it. But alter giving it a
thorough trial, I can cheerfully recommend the same kind of a plow to my
brother farmers as the best plow I havo
yet tried.
My hired man, W. Hill, who hiid considerable experience as a ploughman,-
says it,is the best plow he ever worked
with. The donors will please accept my
thanks for the premium plow. Hope they
may supply many farmers with the same
kind this fall. I also thank the subscribers to the Farmer who helped me to get
this prize and hope they may all hand
their names to me early for renewal next
year. Ika T. Gregg.
Greenwood, Johnson Co., Ind.
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