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EXCHANGE DEPABTMENTJi
: ■"': PEBSONALS.,'; \ *'•'■' "
Persons in any part, of the state aeeklng the ad
dress or attention of parUesJn other portjona of the
state or country should' make' inquiry in thia de-
parbnent
,   Lost,; Strayed or Stoleta.    *-
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Fabmeb for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor Df it when you hear of th e loss
Of his stock. ' -I-' * '   .
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement fcr less
than 25 cents. :  '   ■ ■ -: '	
fOB  BALE.
T710R SALE-Fine Cfhester White Pta,n0earh
JD .■ Satisfaction guaranteed. C. O. D., If tatties
wish.^L-Bennett, aunman, Ripley Co., Iud.    <l-«
TT'OK'SAIiE-^Cotswoid Sheep, Berkfhlre Swine
E   White Holland Turkeys, Aylesbury Ducks and
Partridge Cochin Chicks.   Addn
■lay, Llzton, Hendricks Co., lnd>
Jacob Kenne
40tf
FOR SALE—Light Brahmas. Williams, Platted
and Felch Strains, high bred and early hatched
two for 83, three for $4, or 6 at $1.25 each for 6 week-
Any dissatisfied may return the chicks and get
their money. T. a Clough, Paw-Paw Grove lee
Ccllltaols.   .'■ { ■■.•; '    -   - 41-iw
FOR SALE—Pure Poland China and Berkshire
' Pigs. - Stock for sale at reasonable prices and
satisfaction guaranteed. Some very flne_pigs ready
for shipment Address, FRANK Mc*tEEV.KR An
tioch, Huntington county; Ind. («3t)
FOR SALE—Only MO each for pure Berk! hires
'either sex, large-enough to breed, (and from S
Meredith's registered stock;) A great bargain and
cheap, sound and healthy and,warranted to give
satisfaction. "t-alu,'A-. C. HARVEY,
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DODGE EXCELSIOR
PEESS.
HAY
FOR S*AL"B-tSBort--horii*^lwill seU (privately)
at a low figure, my entire "Hazel Bluff Herd,"
—now numbering 29 females and 9 males. All in
good breeding condition. Herd consists ofthe Rose of
Sharon, Blue Bonnet, Louan, Nannie Williams and
other good, well bred families. The herd may be
examined at aoy time. Catalogueron application.
CLAUDE MATTHEWS, Clintonr Vermillion Co.,
Ind. 45-lw
MONET LOANS.
TO LOAN—4500,000—in sums of $1,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
in the State. Time, three to five years. Interest ten
per- cent., pay able s«ml amuM***.? &S tlie ead 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 cultivation, kind of house and bam and value. Address W. A. Brads-haw, State Savings Bank, No. 56 N.
Pennsylvania st, Indianapolis. . 34-tf
WANTED.
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ANTED—A reader of the Fabmeb wishes to
. .    obtain copies of "The Hog," by H. W. Ellsworth and Charles Loring, by Dr. T. A. Bland.   Any
ene having these books for sale will please send address and price to this office.
88-tf INDIANA FARMER.
ANNOUNCEMENT-
LESSONS IN PHONOGRAPHY Given by Mail.
Any person with an ordinary common school
education can report with fifty lessons. Salary of
reporters 810 per day. For terms, etc., call at
College, or address, with stamp, C. E. Joslin, Indianapolis Business College. 42-8w
STOCK NOTES.
Messrs. S. Meredith & Son, Cambridge
City, Ind., have sold at private sale their
entire flock of Shropshire sheep, to Lea-,
lie Combs, jr., of Lexington, Ky.
Peter Fox, Esq., of Louisville, Ky.,
has bought a lot of fine Southdown sheep
for his stock farm in Tennessee.
The English are boasting of their purchases of our exported carcass beef. They
declare it fine in quality, and cheap.
The world is our market now.
Mule colts, just weaned, are reported
to be sold in Boone county, Mo., at $25
and $30 per head.
Thos. McClintock, of Millersburg, Ky.,
has lately sold twenty head of fine
mules at $145 per head.
Mr. J. N. Huston, of Connersville, this
State, has bought of W. W. Adams, of
Lexington, Ky., a fine gray mare, six
years old, by Dixie; a brown eaddlehorae,
by Diamond Denmark, and a bay filly by
Shelby Chief, all good stock.
About the 10th of this month Mr. E.
Crane, of Lincoln, 111., intends starting to
Texas with seventy head of Short-horns
out of his large herd. He intends to
test that country for growing fine stock.
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There is nothing but the ravages of
dogs which keeps baok the sheep husbandry interest in all the great grazing
districts of the West. The interest would
scon become a vast and profitable one if
this obstacle was c it of the way. We
have confidence that the existing agitation of this question will lead soon to a
brighter day for this interest.
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No State in the Union haa in the past
two or three years proceeded more rapidly in the improvement of stock than this.
There never was eo much inquiry for
f thoroughbred cattle, swine and sheep as
inow, and this inquiry promises well for
,the future of our State.
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THE i DODGE EXCELSIOR HAY PRESS.
[Awarded premiums at all the late State Fairs.]  .
Berkshire'1 Marks.—-The National
Swine Breeders' Convention at' their late
meeting settled upon thefollowing markings for thoroughbred Berkshires: Black,
with white on feet, face, and tip of tail,
and. occasional splashes on the arm. A
small spot of white on other parts ofthe
body does not indicate art * imparity of
blood, but is to be discouraged, to the
end that uniformity of color may be attained by breeders, .;       Y
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Sale of Southdowns.—The late sale of
Lord Walsingha'm's Southdown sheep at
Philadelphia was the best sale ever made
in this country, as will be seen below:
16 ewes, W. N. Offutt, Georgetown, Ky $1,000
1 2-shear ram, J. D. Wing N.Y  105
1           do-      T.S.Cooper, Coopersburg  55
I          do       J.C Thorntown, Avonta  c5
1          do       John Yerks  63
I          do       Wm. G. Scott,. Maryland  51
I          do       Geo. Grant Kansas   60
1          ilo       T. 8. Cooper  60
I shearling ram, J. D. Wing _  155
D. Harrington, Ohio  100
J. Bunyan, N.Y  10o
J. Billings, Vt -  113
W. A. Burpee, Phila...  TO
J D. Pancoast, N. J „ 10
J. R. Shaffer, O.  55
Thos. WoodDoeRun _. 60
B. Hulse, Allentown, N. J  120
T. S. Cooper.....  85
Total for 88 head'...*;...-...--a; - ..$2,394
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THE FATTEHING PROCESS.
Pigs' Teeth. ,■
Pigs often have long sharp teetK when
farrowed. Some litters are free from the
disagreeable and unnatu.al!r hooks. An
experienced breeder,c^nj. tell ai once if
the young pigs have unnatural teeth, as
the pigs will squeal and-hurt one another with their tusks and the sow will be
restless, aa they hurt her when trying to
suck. As sodh as. noticed, the pigs
should be taken away in a basket, out of
hearing of the sow; then take small pincers and pinch the long sharp teeth close
up to the jaw. Put the pigs back and
all will be well.
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Many valuable pigs are lost to the owner by his not knowing what ails them.
If the sow is pierced she will spring up,
tramp the p^igs to death, or starve them.
Breeders will do well to watch this matter, as cases of this kind are not "scarce
as hen's teeth." J. Bennett.
. Sunman, Ind.
The Journal of Chemistry in discussing the question from a scientific standpoint, says that poor animals consist of
about two-thirds water while fat ones only one-half, in the total weight, and com
pares poor animals to -bog meadows,-
adds, that when the fattening process begins, water commences to disappear, and
fat or suet takes its place.; and the increase in bulk during the process is largely of adipose matter. It is a curious circumstance that, during fattening, the
proteids, or nitrogenous compounds, in- j
crease only about seven' per cent., andj
the bone material, or inorganic substance,
only one and a half per cent. *
The cost to a farmer of fattening an ox
is mach greater at the close of the process
than at the commencement; that is, increase in bulk or dry weight at that period is much more costly. If it costs three
cents a pound for bulk for the first month
after a poor animal is put in the fattening stall, it will cost five cents the last
month. If, then, a farmer consults his
money interests, he will not carry the increase in fat beyond a certain point, provided he can turn his partially fattened
animals to fair advantage. Farmers
have, perhaps, learned this fact from experience and observation, and hence
comparatively lean beef abounds in our
markets. While this is of advantage to
the farmer, it is very disadvantageous to
consumers of the beef, for the flesh of a
fat animal in every case is much richer
in fixed, nourishing material than that of
the lean, and it is never good economy to
purchase lean beef. It is better to purchase the poorest parts of a fat animal
than the best of a. lean one. The best
piece of a fat ox (the loin), contains from
twenty-one to twenty-eight per cent,
more fixed material than the corresponding piece in a lean one, and curiously
enough the worst piece in the lean animal (the neck), is the richest in nourishing material. The flesh of the neck improves very little in fattening, hence,
economy considered, it is the best portion to purchase, as its value is in a
measure a fixed one.
CotswtM ewe lamb, J. C Peed, $11.00.
Cotswrldbuck, I year, M. C Enswlnger, $22.00.
Cotswold buck, 1 year, M. D. Beeson. $24 00.
■  Cotewold buck lamb. J. L. Peed, $16.00.
Cotewold back lamb, J. 8. Garvin,   Cambridge
City, $15.00.
S Cotswold ewes, 1 year, Wm. Bain, Metamora,
$153.00.
Cotswold ewe, Wm. Baine, Metamora, $51.00.    '
Cotswold ewe, E. II. Peed, $11.00.
..    , . .i     w.W. Thrasher, $11.00.
.' 0Southdown lewes. Garretson A ,Bro., Huntlng-
Iilr*%I id.,$60.10..
"     *<-   "u— **-ves, Lindley   Milee, Dublin, Ind..
t. f
>h ewe lambs, Lindley Mills, $S0 00.
,«.,..... 4n buck, 1 year, John Morris, Cambi idge
Cny, $10.00.
Shropshire buck lamb, M. C. Enswlnger, $9.00.
8outh<"own   buck   lamb,    cross-bred,   Lindley
Miles, $10.00.
l-grade cows, averaged $45.00.
To Control Virion* Horses.
Says a writer in a Swiss paper:—A
horse, no matter how vicious and obsti-*
nate he may be when attempts are made
to shoe him, can be rendered quiet and
manageable by making him inspire dur-
tog the operation a few grams of the
ethereal oil of parsley dropped on a
handkerchief. A large number of -trials
of this substance have been made with
the most troublesome and violent animals, and in every case with perfect success.
Sheep Pulling their Wool.
The New York Evening Post has the
following sensible item.
Sheep will nibble and pull their own
wool when their skin is irritated by lice,
ticks or some disease, such as scab. The
irritation may also be caused by too high
feeding, or a too warm pen. A teaspoonful of sulphur with an ei-ual quantity of
cream of tartar and salt given once a day
for a week, may tend to allay the irritation. If the sheep will not take it readily
it should be placed upon the root of the
tongue with a spoon, and the mouth held
up until it is Swallowed.
HOGS.
Poland^china sow pig, Wm. H. Smith, $20.00.
'•      J. L. Peed, $12.00.
"        •' " •   M. C. Enswlnger, Danville,
I Ind., $16.00.
Poland china sow pig. M. C. Enswlnger, $17.00.
Poland-china sow pig. Wm. H. Smith, $14.00.
Poland-china sow, J. L.'Peed, $17.00.
Poland-china sow, J. L. Peed, $16 00.
Poland-china sow,  Felix Rummel,  Cambridge
City, $17.00
Berkshire sow pig, John   R. Peed,   Newcastle,
Ind., $20.00.
Berkshire Sow pig, A. P. Bell, Brownsville, Ind.,
$12.00.
Berkfhlre boar; 1 year, J. R. Peed, 815.00.
Berkshire boar, J. C. Peed,Newcastle, Ind., $9.00.
Berkshire boar, W. T. Marquis, 1*9.00.
Btrkshire boar, C. M. Strayer, $7.00.
Berkshire boar, Leroy Beeson, Hilton Ind., J10.00.
Berkshire boar, Henry Jamison, E. Germantown,
Ind., $10.00.
Berkshire boar, Mark Beeson, Milton, Ind., $12.00.
Berkshire sow pig, J. C. Peed, Newcastle, $16.10.
•T " " $7.10.
" "      C. M, Etrayer, Cambridge City,
$15.00.
: Berkshire sowpig, C. W. Roth,$14.00.
Poland-china  boar, Elijah Hurst. Milton, Ind.
$15.00.
Poland-china boar, A. P. Stanton, Dublin, Ind.,
$17.00.
Poland-china boar, M. Gallagher, Munde, Ind.,
$2000.
Poland-china boar, Mark Beeson, $18.00.
Poland-china boar, L. P. Woods, Greensboro, Ind.,
$1200.
Poland-china,  boar, W. II. Coffin,  Richmond
$25.00.
Poland-china sow pig, Mr. Gallagher, $27.00.
The Dodge Excelsior is   a   great
and radical  improvement  over  all
these old style presses.   It is built on
an entirely new principle, is  nearly
all  iron,   and mounted  on  strong
>§ wheels like a threshing machine.
M    In  this  respect it has advantages
over any other press, as it can be used
JS^ in the barn or open field, and moved
stack, or from field to
greatest facility.   The
hauled to the hay, in-
hauling the hay to the press,
* '4 AS saving tne labor and expense of haul-
Awjy mg loose hay.   It is a rotary press,
-t-YWWl and therefore economizes allthepow-
Vr^*kra\V er applied, to it,  while free  from all
'*v\j\w|l   the jars, strains  and  noises of other
>v,«^ pre8aes. ■        '
The cut  shows  pretty clearly the
p-=v^l- j.Jress at work, and the operation of
*"^k"^-:*&1 the Automatic Feed. I
^3^=-^^,=-    The hay is thrown loosely on  the
gSS?--Cr-k^Si feed table, or troughs, in front of the
 =5 press; whence iron teeth carry it right
-/-•j***; into the open mouth of the machine.
*" In its passage over the slotted troughs,
the hay is
COMPLETELY CLEANED FROM DUST,
and when it reaches the mouth of the
press it is seized by the revolving cones
in the head piece anddrawn in from the
feed-table in two continuous streams, and
built up into a bale 26 inches diameter.
The diameter of the bale is never increased, but the bale grows longer as
layer after layer is built up. In this
stage of the work, the density ofthe bale
is partly regulated by previously tightening up the friction clutch.
PATENT COMPRESS'SCREW.
After the bale is built such length as
desired, the action of the Compress
Screw is brought into play by 'simply
shifting one cog-wheel. The power of
this Screw is enormous, but the press is
built immensely strong, and hence, in a
few seconds the bale is easily compressed
endwise, and shortened about from one-
forth to one-fifth ita length, without increasing ita diameter in the slightest degree.
CAPACITY OF PRESS PER DAY.
Where the quantity of'hay baled per
day is of no particular object, one man
alone can operate the Press.
When the press is placed alongside the
loose hay, only two men are needed to
attended the Press, in supplyinghay to the
feed table and in wiring the bales when
made. Of course, when the press is fed
faster, and more power applied, to turn
out ten tons a day, more help will be required to remove the bales as rapidly as
made.
For further information address W. J.
Hanna & Co., 34 and 36 South Canal St.,
Chicago.
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LETTER FROM KANSAS.
The Western Locust.
most perpendicularly to the ground.
This gives them very much the appearance of snow flakes. It is rather a singular sight to see—the air almost thick
with insects, darting past at the rate of
20 to 30 miles'an hour, and yet observe
individual hoppers suddenly stop in their
fight and fall straight to the earth. One
Hot acquainted with their habits, would
readily imagine they had suddenly died
on the wing, or in some other way had
lost the power of flight. But he may
soon see they have only come down for
a little rest and a bite to eat. They alight
down without seeming to care where or
on what, but they soon seek for vegetation, either rising and flying, or crawling
to it, if they did not alight on it.' During
the day they incline to keep near the
surface of the ground, but at night they
generally crawl upon any object, as plants,
shrubs, posts, cornstalks, etc.,
WHERE THEY ARE ABUNDANT,
such things will be found literally covered with them in the morning. They
seem to dislike smoke exceedingly, and
when a fire is built, nearly all the locusts
reached by the smoke generally take
| flight and fly away in search of pure air.
During their visitation here, some ono
fired a straw stack about a mile from the
city. The smoke was driven immediately
into and through it, and, though it was
near sundown the whole army seemed
to be under marching orders, and up they
went, and for near an hour the air was
a seething, whirling, roaring mass of angry or disgusted locusts.
FOR LAYING THEIR EGOS,
they prefer a smooth, rather well settled
piece of ground with little or no vegeta- •
tion on it. When the female is ready to
deposit her eggs she bores a hole about
the size of a lead pencil from one half to
an inch deep, and in this layB her eggs.
The number left In each varies from five
to fifty or more. They are generally
stuck together with a glutinous secretion.
These perforations-or nests will often be
so thick that they will average one to the
square inch.
The most of the above facts I have observed for myself during tho locust
scourge of this season, and I only hope
that so good an opportunity to study
these insects may not occur again for
many years. L. J. Tempijn,
Hutchinson, Kansas.
NEWS   OF  THE  WEEK.
State News.
S. MEREDITH & SON'S STOCK SALE.
The stock sale of this well-known firm
of breeders, of Cambridge City, this State,
took place on the 27th ult. The attendance was fair. With the exceptioin of
the pigs, the stock sold well, but none at
extravagant prices for the quality. Many
ofthe sheep sold were imported from
England. The following was the result
of tne sale: •
SHORT-HORNS. .';" ,
Bull calf, Seraphina Duke, to C. B.Jackson, Centerville, Ind., 185.00.
Heifer, Jane Bourbon, to A. P. Stanton, Dublin,
Ind., $90.00.
Cow, Lady Bourbon 3rd, to W. W. Thrasher,
Groves, Ind., $2*5.00.
Heifer, Careful Mary, to Jas. Marlatt, Milton,
Ind., $45.00.
Cow, Fanny, to Homers Broaddus, Connersville,
Ind, $100.00.
HORSES.
Z English stallion, Young Captain, to John Lackey, Cambridge City, Ind., $1010 90.
Bay filly, by Comet, to Wm. H. Smith, "Wayne CO.,
Ind., $160.00.
Grey hortc, 1 year, by Comet, to Oliver Ferguson,
Milton, Ind., $*>6.00.
Chestnut colt, by Young Captain, to A. P. Bell,
Brownsville, Ind., $84.00.
SHEEP.
Cotswold ewe. W. W. Thrasher, Groves, Ird.,
$37.00.
Cotswold ewe, W. W. Thrasher, Groves, Ind.,
$37 00.
Cotswold ewe lamb, E. Wooters, BilllngsvlUe,
Ind.,$25.(J0.
Cotswold ewe lamb, J. C. Peed, $14.00.
"General Purpose" Horiei.
Editors Indiana Farmer:—I will give
a few thoughts ih regard to the general
purpose, or the horse for all work, and
may, in conclusion, give my opinion of
what it takes to constitute a sweep-stake
horse in a show ring.
I will give it as my opinion that the
horse for all work is a myth and cannot
be realized. The idea of combining the
different qualities in a horse necessary
to make him a saddle, draft, road, and
light-harness horse, is the most absurd of
all absurdities. It is a conceded fact
with a majority of horsemen, that if a
horse is a perfect draft horse, he falls
very short of being a saddle horse. We
do not wish to encourage the breeding
and raising of the blooded draft stock, to
a greater extent than we do of other distinct breeds of horses, for there is room,
good sales and plenty of calls for all. We
are opposed to the general practice of
trying to breed the different classes all
into one horse, for it certainly has and is
proving to be, beyond a doubt, a failure.
But notwithstanding these so-called general purpose horses have had the preference as a sweepstake horse at our county fairs for the past few years. I have
seen on several occasions this fall a coldblooded scrub, called a general purpose
horse, which could not have been sold
under the hammer for more than four
hundred dollars, walk off with a sweepstake prize when there was iu the show
ring and competing for the same prize
imported draft stallions whieh had been
purchased at a cost of- from eighteen to
twenty-five hundred dollars. When
asked why the decision was thus given,
the answer was, "he is a geneaal purpose horse, and fit for all work," when in
reality there is no such a class of horses.
A sweepstake horse eligible to a prfte
should be the most perfect horse in his
class. Howard Frazee.
Buffalo Corners, Hamilton Co., Ind.
To the Editors of Indiana Farmer:
Some time since I sent you a few notes
in regard to recent visitation of locusts
to this part of the country. I will now
give you a few facta of interest in connection with their history and habits. The
native home of these insects is on the
dry, hot plains, west of the Bocky mountains. Here they live on the scanty
herbage and propagate from year to year.
They seem to be endowed with an instinct for travel. When they have reached
their maturity they generally take to
flight, by anything except the course of
the wind. When the time has come for
them to travel, on a bright, warm day,
after the sun has risen to a considerable
night—say 8 to 9 o'clock—a sudden impulse seems to seize vast numbers of them
over a considerable space and they rise
up in
COUNTLESS   NUMBERS
and sail away. They fly with nearly the
rapidity of a bee. When rising they keep
their heads steadily to the wind, especially if it be strong. But when they
have got well up in the air they face
about and go with the current, and the
course of their flight is entirely governed by the prevailing wind. Just how
high they ascend I cannot say, but certainly to a great hight. They have passed
over here this season so high that they
appeared as a fine glistening mist up near
or among the clouds. I had no glass to
examine whether they were so high that
they could not be seen by the naked eye,
but a gentleman, who once visited Colorado, says he stood on a mountain 12,000
feet high, and saw them passing over as
they could be discovered by an ordinary
field glass, from that position.
WHEN THEY WANT TO ALIGHT
they turn their heads to the wind and
regulate their flight so that they drop al-
As a measure of economy the school board
of Winchester Is considering a proposition to
do a way with the office of superintendent of
schools and have the duties devolve upon the
principal of the high school.
Hog cholera has been playing havoc among
the drovers in Delaware county. Over one
thousand have been lost by nine farmers,
whose names are given in the Muncie News.
A. J. Newsom, of Green county, Is engaged
in harvesting a crop of 80,000 bushels of corn.
Hugh Bell a young boy living near Wa-
karusa, was fatally injured Thursday, by the
discharge of his gun while out hunting.
Wednesday night a large barn belonging to
Crawford Griffith, and situated four miles
north of Kokomo, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $2,600.
James Wilson, the celebrated horseman
and trainer, of Rush county, sold his stock
last week, realizing abont $10,000 from the
sale. Forty head of horses and sixty head of
cattle were disposed of.
Last Monday week, Winnie Albright, of
Pierceton, Kosciusko county, aged three years,
fell into a pail of boiling water, scalding her-
seli so terribly that death ensued the. same
night at 10 o'clock. Her sufferings were terrible, and so affected her mother that her life
is despaired of.
The Rochester Sentinel says that John Fonts
left his home in Richmond township, Fulton
county, about a month ago, forthe purpose of
going to Plymouth to procure a job of work
for the winter, since which time nothing is
known of him.
A Clay county coal operator last week
shipped a train of eighteen cars of block coal
to Madison, Wisconsin.
There were twenty-eight deaths in this city
for the week ending November 4th.
Ninety thousand bushels of potatoes have
been shipped from this city to Eastern markets in the last sixt-p days.
Mr. John R. Connell, living near Attica, recently hucked 121 bushels and fifty-seven
pounds of corn in nine hours and twenty
minutes.
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General Hews.
At Gibson, 111., on the 31st. ult., a Mr. Simpson and three of four horses in h is team were
instantly killed by lightning.
Deaths from yellow tertr atBavannab.Oa.,
continue at the rate of from three to sii per
day.
Four hundred lodges of Indians under Bitting Bull, have surrendered U> Gen. Miles.
Turkey and Servia have agre«d  ojion an
armistice for a cessation of the war tor t»rnrn\ i
weeks, durirjg which time a peace will prob- '
ably be conclud- d.