Vol. XI.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 9,1876.
No. 36.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
PERSONALS.
Persons in any part of tie state seeking the address or attention of parties in other portions of the
state or country should mate inquiry in this department.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Farmer for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of it -when you hear of the loss
of his stock.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
FOR  SAIsE.
FOR SALE.—A few choice Berkshire pigs from 3
to 4 months old.   A.  C. SHORTRIDGE.  Indianapolis, Ind. 28-tf
TriOR SALE—Poland-China and English Berkshire
JD pigs, all warranted pure bred. Address J. B.
Gilbert, Lewisville, Henry county, Ind.       S3-4w
FOR SALE— Kultz Seed Wheat, by E. R. Kenny,
Lafayette, Indiana.    Price $1.50 per bushel.
Also a white bearded wheal very good, same price.
33-lt
T"*"IOR SALE—800 acres farm lands, very cheap,250
JD acres in corn and meadow, etc., the balance
well set 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 flne oak and poplar trees alone being
counted on it). This timber alone if marketed
would more than pay for the whole tract. Location—On the I. A 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 county, Ind., the finest grass and
stock county in the State. The advantages of such
8, location over the far west must be clear to all.
This property was recently appraised at $50 per acre,
but to secure a speedy sale, it Is now offered at from
$22 to $25 per acre, less than half its appraised value.
For particulars address Col. C. C. 1IATSON,
34-iw Greencastle, Ind.
MONEY LOANS.
TO LOAN—«500,000—In sums of $1,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
in the State. Time, three i o five years. Interest ten
per cent., payable semi-annually at the end of every*
six months. Commission five per cent. Money
furnished in five days after examination of property, and abstract and appraisement is made. In
writing give number of acres cleared and in culti-
-vation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, No. 16 Bates Block, Indianapolis. _ 34-tf
WASTED,""
"VYTANTED—To buy fifty to seventy-five good
VV   Cotswold or Leicester ewes.   Address, Luther
Johnson Woodbani, Marion county, Ind.      34-4t
MISCEZ.X.ANEOTTS.
FOR RENT—320 acres—one of the best farms in
Cherokee Co., Iowa, for stock or grain; will
rent to good parties for 3 or 5 years. Must go on
this fall. Good house, sheds, wells, living water,
close to good market, etc.   Address,
A. W. McCREADY,
S6-lw Mason City, Iowa.
STOCK NOTES.
Premium stock from the district and
county fairs will be at the Indiana State
Fair.
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Mb. Parks, of Waukegan 111., has lately
bought in England, fifty ewes and one
buck, all Cotswolds.
It was estimated that the sale of breeding stock, and orders for the same at the
last State Fair, amounted to about
$50,000.
Mr. T. S. Cooper, of Coopersburg, Pa.,
has lately bought the entire herd of Berkshires belonging to Russell Swanwick, of
the Eoyal Agricultural College Farm,
Cirencester, England.
Wm. E. Dillon of Illinois, will exhibit
SO head of Norman horses at the Indiana
State Fair. Several of them are of recent
importation.
There are 171 stock breeders who have
entered stock for exhibition at the Centennial. The following shows the proportion of these:
Horses, number of exhibitors :...   49
Cattle, steerB and breeds not specified, 20
Ayrshire -    7
Jersey (and Alderney) 23
Devon •• -   7
Guernsey,    2
Short-horn,.    7
Hereford _ •   6
Dutch    1
Total cattle  73
Sheep,  33
Swine  16
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Kapid improvement is going on in thi3
State in all kind of stock. Farmers are
everywhere introducing the best stock
they can buy, and crossing it with their
common breeds. The swine and sheep
interest in this respect is not a whit behind that of cattle and horses. The hard
times of course prevents a more rapid
movement in this line, but surely and
steadily it is going on in every section of
Indiana. Everywhere it is realized that
it costs no more to grow and fatten good
grade stock than it does the common-
breeds, and that it brings much more
' when in condition for the market. These
jifacts well understood, will secure a continuance of this improvement.
THE SHEEP vs. DOG QUESTION.
Time, "Old Father Grimes."
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
Or chase the buck and ewe;
Let dogs eat sheep while farmers sleep,
"For God has made them so."
Let dogs come forth to fill the earth:
Let sheep in plenty grow,
To make the meat for dogs to eat,
"For God has made them so."
Let dogs a score surround each door—
The lank, the lean, the low—
Or track at night the lambkin's Sight,
"For God has made them so."
Let flop-eared hounds range pasture grounds
To scent the buck and ewe;
Let curs yelp round as well as hound,
•'For God has made them so."
Let every man keep, if he can,
A dozen dogs in tow;
And let their greed on mutton feed,
"For God has made them so."
Let man eat hogs—feed sheep to dogs-
Raise mutton here below
To feed the dogs, while man eats hogs,
"For God has made them so."
—Selected.
AMERICAN BEEF IN THE ENGLISH
MARKET.
We have several times alluded te-'^e
great market opened to us abroad, in tne
construction of the refrigerator ocean
steamers, in which our beef is shipped by
the carcass, and plated sweet and fresh
in English markets. It is a welcome
promise to our breeders and grazers.
The English people themselves are well
awakened on the importance of the matter, as witness the following from a contributor to the London Agricultural Gazette of a late date.   The writer says:
"The success of the system is established, and the_trade being consolidated, we
may anticipate receiving importations
that will have a sensible effect upon our
meat supplies, and consequent reduction in the present exhorbitant high
prices of all descriptions of meat.   The
quality of the meat of the grass-fed Amer-
luairuuituckh is ueeuriueu^s equal to tne
finest Aberdeen beef; and when_ its ripe
condition from long suspension in a dry
atmosphere at a uniform temperature of
38° becomes known, we may anticipate a
rivalry between the purveyors _ of the
clubs and the hard working artisans, in
the race to obtain the American beef.
The important question for the English
feeder to consider is, how is the obtrusive
competitor to be met on the retail butcher's stall? Alas! the day is gone when the
British farmer boasted of the high quality of his meat. The injudicious use of
substances rich in non-nitrogenous elements has injured the character, and deteriorated the quality of his beef and his
mutton. A complaint arises from every
house-holder that meat at the present
time is too fat, that nature's proportion
of lean and fat is disturbed greatly to the
disadvantage of the consumer. The production of an enormous fat beast or sheep
is no indication of the intellect or skill of
the exhibitor. Give to a well-bred animal an abundance of substances rich in
non-nitrogenous or fat forming elements,
an«l fat, and fat only, is produced. Let
the physiological truth be admitted, that
flesh is formed only from the nitrogen
existing in all vegetables, and the sensible feeder anxious to produce well-proportioned meat will use with judgment,
and not indiscriminately, the refuse ofthe
expressed oily seeds. The American
feeders probably .never could have invaded the English meat market at a more
opportune period. The shambles are not
only- sparsely covered, and the quality of
the meat exhibited is generally speaking
unpopular, and ill adapted to cope with
the grass-fed meat that they are prepared to offer." *
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT BREEDING.
BY JAMES LAW.
1. A perfect development aad sound,
vigoroiis health, constitutionally, especially in the generative organs, are conditions of fertility.
2. In the maintenance and improvement of a breed, the truth that "like produces like," that the reproductive germ
will stamp upon the animal developed
fromthe characters of the parent organism, is the backbone of success.
3 We can in a great degree, at will,
produce variations and improvements in
breeds; by abundant feeding, a mild and
salubrious climate, a rich and healthy
soil, moderate use, education, stimulation or selection of desirable qualities; by
disease or rejection of undesirable characters and properties; by soliciting the
weight of imagination in our favor; by
allowing thebreedinganimals to mix only
with those of the stamp desired; by crossing less improved breeds systematically
with males of better race, and by crossing animals faulty or deficient in some
particular point with others in which this
point is developed in excess.
4. The herding of pregnant high class
animals with low bred ones, and the resulting attachments between the two
races are to be especially avoided, as occasionally affecting the progeny injuriously; strong impressions from a new or
unusual condition of surrounding objects
are to be equally guarded against.
5. If a valuable female is allowed to
breed to an inferior male, she cannot be
relied upon to produce pure bred for several succeeding pregnancies. Through a
strong and retained impression, through
the absorption into the system of living
particles (germinal matter) from the
foetus, or through some influence during
pregnancy on the ova, then being most
actively developed, the gocd or bad features ofthe first sire are perpetuated in the
progeny of succeeding ones.
6. All breeds show a tendency to "breed
back," or to produce offspring bearing the
marks of their less improved and comparatively valueless ancestors; hence, individuals of this kind must be rejected
from the best breeds if we would maintain
their excellence.
7. Certain races and individuals have
their characters more fixed, and will
transmit and perpetuate them in greater
proportion than others with which they
may be crossed. If their qualities are desirable, they prove highly valuable in
raising other stock of greater excellence;
if undesirable they will depreciate the
value of stock crossed for many generations. That fixity of type, however, is
above all, a characteristic of those which
have been carefully selected and bred up
to a certain standard for many generations, so that in our best, longest established and most esteemed breeds we have
a most valuable legacy left us by the
successful ofthe past with which we mav
mould our inferior races almost at will.
8. While breeding continuously from
the nearest relations tends to aweakened
constitution, and the aggravation of any
taint in the blood to Bterility; these may
be avoided by infusing at intervals fresh
blood of the same family which has been
bred apart from this branch of it for several generations. Moreover, the highest
excellence is sometimes attained only by
breeding very close for a time.
9. Diseased or mutilated animals are
generally to be discarded from breeding.
Mutilations resulting from disease existing during pregnancy, and disease with a
constitutional morbid taint are, above all,
to be dreaded as transmissible.
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THE AMERICAN HERD BOOK.
The pr.Hwhers of this book announce
the comirg"' volume by circular, from
which we quote as follows:
Pedigrees for the next volume (16) of
this work, will be received until Nov. 15.
Cows, however, can be received one
month later. All calves dropped since
the issue of last volume should be sent
forward immediately for entry, to avoid
the delay in issuing the volume caused by
the pedigrees all coming in at once.
It is intended to close the entries for
bulls on Nov. 15. Those arriving after
that date may have to go in the supplement, which should be avoided.
We call particular attention to the following important points on which information is desired, in addition to the usual
requirements. Publishing this information has been very generally endorsed by
the breeders. Be particular about incorporating all these points fully into your
pedigrees:      %
1. Dam's Record.—Do not fail to state
the volume and page where the first dam
is recorded, if you can possibly find it; it
is of immense value, and saves much
trouble and correspondence. If the dam
is not recorded, give volume and page of
granddam's record. If the granddam is
not on record, state volume and page of
great granddam's record. If the great
granddam ia not recorded, give volume
and page of the nearest female ancestor's
record which you know or can find.
2. Histoby.—Give full account of all
hands each animal which you send for
record has passed through, with dates of
the transfers, so far as you can possibly
ascertain them, thus:
Bred by D. S. Pratt, Brattleboro, Vt.,
bought of him Oct. 1871, by C. F. Wadsworth, Geneseo, Livingstan Co., N. Y., of
him Sept. 1872, by R. Gibson, Ilderton,
Middlesex Co., Canada, and ofbimAug.
1875, by J. R. Craig, Burnamthorpe, Ont.
You will readily see the importance of
stating this,* so that the animal can be
clearly f^aced, and to aid in detecting any
There is one thing in the wide universe which is really valuable, aud that
is—character. By Ihis I mean confidence in the bosoms of those who know
you, that you have the power, the capacity and the disposition to confer happiness on others. This, of course will include a power over yourself, so that_ you
can govern and restrain your own wishes
and thus take care of yourself; and it will
imply that you have the power and disposition to exercise that power to do
good to others. It is that that makes the
character of the Divine Being so perfect,
so exalted and so worthy of homage and
admiration. A good heart, benevolent
feelings, and a balanced mind lie at the
foundation of character. Other things
may be deemed fortuitous; they may
come and go; but character is that which
lives and abides, and is admired long after the possessor has left the earth, the
theatre on which it was displayed.—John
Todd.
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Formulas for Feeding.
Prof. Roberts, of Cornell   University,
has proposed the following ration   for a
cow of large size (1,200 pounds):
Meadow hay .25 pounds per day.
Corn and meal  7      " "
Wheat bran  2*^   " "
Total 34M  " "
FEEDING IN ENGLAND.
The London Agricultural Gazette gives
the following ration for a fattening steer:
Com meal 6 pounds per day.
Oilcake 4     " "
Hay 6      " "
Roots*(chopped or pulled) 56      " "
Chopped straw ad libitum	
Total 72
A GERMAN FORMULA.
The following ration for a cow in milk
is from an Experiment Station in Germany, as reported by Prof. Atwater to
the Connecticut State board of Agriculture:
Barley straw 10 pounds per day
Esparsetta hay 12      " "
Wheat char**,... 5      " "
Beets 20     '*        "
Bran 2     " "
by him.
3. Produce.—Be careful to append to
the pedigree of each female a full list
of all her calves, so far as you can ascertain them, in the shape given in the
blank form accompaning this. This is
very important in showing the cow's record as a breeder.
4. Mortuary.—Please give date of
death of all your animals which have
died since last volume was issued. We
do not charge for publishing it, and you
will see its value readily as a guard
against errors. Do not fail to state the
date of death of any old animals you send
for record, if you ascertain it.
5. We record all pedigrees in full, if
written so, except where several of the
same name, 6wner and family come together. Then they are partially abbreviated and referred to the first one of such
family on the same page.
6. These points are all incorporated
in the blank form accompaning this, to
which we call your special attention.
Total..
Curing balky Horses.
A "Reader" sends the Canada Farmer his process for curing a balky horse.
He says: "The animal had grown old in
his viciousness, and was one of those
case-hardened stagers that turn their
heads round and look you steadly in the
eye while the fit is on. I have tried
whipping, petting; the earwash, gravel in
the mouth, backing, poking, in short
everything without effect,_until at length,
on one occasion, becoming thoroughly
enraged (for the horse had come to a
dead stop in the middle of a river we
were crossing), I sprang out, hitched a
logging chain around his neck, and proceeded to draw him out by means of another horse. For upwards of ten minutes he stood his ground, and it really
seemed as if the head alone was to come
without the body, but finally the body
followed like a lamb. From that day to
this no further attempt at balking has
been made. Once, indeed, about a week
after the occurrence just mentioned, he
acted like one desirous of renewing an
old habit, but a mere rattle of the cnain
cured him.
Heaves in Horses.
In heaves the'great point is to correct
any faults in feeding, watering and working. Keep the patient in a cool, clean,
well-aired stable; feed sound oate or
ground feed morning and noon, without
any hay or straw, but at night a few
pounds of well-cured timothy, or better,
straw may be given after the grain; do
not put to work for at least an hour after
any meal, and let exercise be gentle for
the first half hour; never over-drive; if
there is any tendency to costiveness give
daily two or three ounces of Glauber
salts, more or less, as may be necessary
to keep them easy. Without such careful management all other measures will
prove unavailing, and this care alone
may be sufficient to check the disease in
its early stages. A run at grass on a natural pasture, destitute of clover, will often
have a similar effect. Finally, the following powder may be given daily for a
month or even more. Powdered digitalis, three drachms; powdered gentian,
four ounces; powdered coriander seeds,
four ounces;_ arseniate of soda, two
drachms. Mix, divide into thirty powders, give one daily in the food.—New
York Tribune.
cles for exhibition going to and return
free under usual restrictions.
Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago—Will sell
half-fare tickets during the State Fair
week at all stations on the line, good to
Oct. 3rd. Will carry freight at the usual
reduction, and extend the time for return
to Oct. 20th.
Toledo, Wabash & Western—Well sell
half-fare excursion tickets, during the
time of the State Fair, good till Oct. 3rd.
Will charge full rates on freights for exhibition, going to and return free, under
the usual restrictions.
Ft. Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati—Will
sell round trip tickets from Ft. Wayne,
Bluffton, Mountpelier and Hartford, to
Indianapolis, via. C. C. C. <fe I. Road, at
2 cts. per mile for distance traveled.
Cincinnati, Wabash <fc Michigan—Will
sell round trip tickets during the whole
of the exhibition from all stations on the
road.
Vandalia, and Indianapolis & St. Louis
—Will sell round-trip tickets from all
stations on their respective lines, in Indiana, at one fare, good for thirty days.
Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette—
Will sell round-trip tickets at all stations
on the road for one and one-fifth fare, one
way.
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis—
Will sell excursion tickets from all stations in Indiana, at 2 cents per mile.
Will charge full rates on articles and animals going to the exhibition, and will return free, ou certificate from Secretary of
State Board of Agriculture.
Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis
Will sell round-trip tickets same as last
year, will charge full rates on freights
going to the exhibition, and return
free, on certificate from the Secretary.
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & In-
^urmg^e-M*jfflS -^.Wm^iM^S.
all principal stations west of and including Union, Ind., at 2 cts. per mile, good
to Oct. 19th. We charge full rates on
freights for exhibition, going to and return free under restrictions.
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago—
Will sell round-trip tickets Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays, from all stations
to her junctions with Indianapolis roads,
at one fare, good for six days. Ticket**
must be stamped by the proper officers
at the State Fair Grounds.
Ohio & Mississippi—Will sell round-
trip tickets from all stations on road, to
North Vernon, Seymour, Mitchell and
Vincennes gobd till used.
Ft. Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw—Will
sell excursion tickets at 2 cents per mile,
from all principal stations on the line
good till two days after the close of the
exhibition.
Detroit & Eel River—Will sell excursion tickets from all stations on the line
to all stations connecting with Indianapolis. Will charge full rates on freights
going to exhibition, and will return free.
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The best exhibition of the resources and
industries of the country ever seen in the
West was made by the Indiana State Fair
and Exposition of 1874, and that may be
excelled the present season by an effort
on the part of the citizens.
NEW8  OF  THE   WEEK.
State News.
A row in a bar-room at St. Paul, on Saturday, resulted in the death of one Thies.
Three men were arrested at Kensselaer, Jasper county, on Saturday, for attempting the
robbery of a Chicago bank.
Henry C. Meredith, of Cambridge, has been
appointed one of the judges of cattle at the
Centennial Exhibition.
John H. Dixon, of Highland township,
Green county, recently disposed of seventy
standing walnut trees for $2,900.
A son of Mr. Redder, a German living near
Newburg, Warrick county, -was killed last
Tuesday, while breaking a mule.
A boiler in the J., M. & I R. R. shops at
Jeffersonville, blew up on Monday last, killing the fireman.
The barn ol Wm. Martin, two miles north
of Middlebury, Elkhart county, was struck by
lightning last Tuesday, and destroyed. Loss
$8,000; insurance $1,600.
On Wednesday of last week, Mr. H. Gordon,  of Warren township, Clinton county,
was crushed to death by a log which rolled '
from a wagon on him.
An old lady by the name of Redman was
shot and fatally injured by her son-in-law,
Frank Browning, at Bloomington, and he in
turn was shot by his brother-in-law. A result of former diffloulties.
A company has proposed to build the Indianapolis belt railway, and establish stockyards if the city will loan the company its
credit for $500,000, taking a first mortgage on
the road and the lands as its security.
Rev. J. J. Talbott, the great temperance orator, editor of the Advance Guard of this city,
and nntil recently Grand Worthy Chief Templar of Indiana, died at South Bend on the 2nd
inst., of inflammation of the brain. His remains passed through this city on Monday
morning last, en route to New Albany his
old home, for burial. He was the most brilliant orator of the temperance cause in the
West, ■ and had arrangements for a series of
lectures in England the coming winter.
RAILROAD RATES  DURING THE
STATE FAIR AND EXPOSITION.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis—
Will sell excursion tickets from all points
on the road, good to the close of the Exposition. Will charge full ratio on animals and articles for exhibition going to,
and will return free, under special restrictions.
Indianapolis & Vincennes—Will convey passengers and freights at same rates
as the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis
Railway.
Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western
—Will sell excursion tickets at all stations
east of Danville, 111., including Danville
at 4 cents per mile one way, during the
State State Fair week, good for four days
—Will charge full rates on stock or arti-
Mr. M. L. Sullivan, of Burr Oak, the great
niinois farmer, who owns and cultivates 40,000
acres of land in one solid body, in Ford and
Livingston counties, has determined to sell off
about half of it. Twenty thousand acres of it
is now covered with corn. The farm is eighty
miles square. He says: " I have come to the
conclusion that I monopolize more territory
than one man ought to, especially at my time
of life, and have determined to diminish my
cares and give every one who wants a farm of
moderate size a chance."
ine v;euienrfS-*rwaa^sTi*5ixDri oauiratty last
by 68.S73 paying persons.
One Walker, a prize-fighter, was killed a
few days ago in a fight near Philadelphia.
The coal-miners in the Lehigh Valley and
employers have agreed upon wages, and the
former have resumed work.
Brigham Young having failed to comply
with the order of the court in paying $3,000
alimony to Ann Eliza, execution has issued
against his property to satisfy the judgment.
The office of the Pennsylvania railroad company at Princeton, N. J., was robbed in July
of $100,000 worth of tickets. Failing to dispose of them, they sought to negotiate there-
turn ofthe tickets when they were arrested.
One hundred and twenty-four clerks were
discharged from the War Department on the
2nd inst.
Ex-Qovemor Seymour, of New York, who
was last week nominated for Governor by the
Democratic State Convention, declined it on
account of very poor health.
Yellow fever has set in at Savannah, Georgia. On the 2nd there were seven deaths from
it, and six deaths on the 3rd, and twenty-one
new cases reported.
The M. E. Church North and South, which
separated their connection in 1810, have recently effected a union, hurrying their former
differences. The slavery question was the
bone of contention which caused a separation,
C. B. Wilkinson, ex-Collector of Internal
Revenue, of Jefferson City, Mo., has been sentenced, on plea of guilty of embezzlement, to
imprisonment for six months and to pay $8,000
to the Government, and the costs in the case.
A band of horse thieves, twelve or fifteen in
number, have just been captured near Buffalo
Station, KansaB. In resisting arrest one was
killed and several wounded.
White county, Illinois, is the scene of what
is there known as the horse plague. The animal is seized with violent purging and expires
in a few hours after. A farmer named Mc-
Clain lost nine head last week by the disease.
The Indians have so far been able to keep
out of the way of the Government troops,
The probability is that the war has terminated
for the season.
Weather Report for August
We are indebted to Sergeant Wappenhaus, of our
Signal Station, for the following weather report:
Highest Barometer 50:199
Lowest
..29:715
Highest Temperature.
Lowest
Difference of Barometer.  0:484
  89°
 -.  48°
R,nge of Temperature 41°
Prevailing direction of wind, 8. E. Greatest Velocity of wind, 19. Total No. of miles, 3,173. No. of
fair days, 17; number of clear days, 8; number of
cloudy days, 6. Days on which rain or snow fell
15.   Total rainfall, 5.86.
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES.
Aug. 1871  76.0
"  1872  76.0
"  1873 75.0
"  1874  75.9
"  1875  70.3
"  1876  75.1
COMPARATIVE PRECIPITATION— RAIN OR SNOW.
Aug.   1871 3.69 inches.
1872 :  2.69      "
1873	
1874	
1875	
1876.....
  1.32
2.90
3.66
5.86
Parties desiring Trees, Plants, or Bulbs, are
referred to Ellwanger & Barry's advertisement
now appearing in our columns-. Their establishment is recognized as one of the largest
and most reliable in the United States.
The Blind Bee.
• Richmond (Ind.) Telegram.
From Madame Rumor we learned that Dr.
Culbertson, th oculist and aurist ofthe Indianapolis Eye and Ear Infirmary, had wrought
a most remarkable cure in the case of a young
lady named Minnie Gaynor, a ward of Mr.
Joseph Sparks, of this city, and, thinking, if
the facts were as we heard them, they were
worthy of notice, we called at Mr. Sparks' residence on North Ninth street, Wednesday afternoon, and had an interview with both the
young lady and family, who seemed about
equal in their gratitude and praise. The doctor's eminent skill as an operator is acknowledged by the profession as well as the public;
but the case of this young lady appears to have
called into requisition the qualities of the ex-
Eerienced physician as well as the oculist. She
ad been afflicted from infancy with congenital
defect in her constitution which settled in her
eyes, and after many years of suffering rendered her blind.   She consulted many experienced doctors, with no benefit; they pronounced her incurable, and it wa? decided to
send her to the blind asylum at Indiana-soli**.
Mr. Samson Boone, our worthy trustee, advised the friends to consult Dr. Culbertson,
who, on a thorough examination of the ca<jp, ]
pronounced her curable.   After a persistant '
and carefully conducted course of treatment.'«
with the kind and considerate co-operation of t
Mr. Sparks' family, she is now restored and
the disease eradicated from her syfU-ni.   Kbe.
sees distinctly, and her eyes arc bright and '
clear.
t