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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AUGUST 18,1877.
No. 33.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Loot, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per Use, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
* No better-medium could be selected than thia department of the Farmer for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of it when you hear of the loss
of bis stock.
FOR RALE.
E
OR SALE—SEED WHEAT—French seed chaff
     Mediterranean; also, a new variety originated
by myself. Red chaff Amber, beny early and prolific, weevil and rust proof, price J3.50 per sack of
ISO lbs., or **30.0*) for 20 bus. At the above prices I
will furnish sacks and deliver at depot My wheat
is strictly clean, no chess, cockle, or rye, and will
be graded ready for sowing. My crops will make a
heavy yield. These wheats have made good yields
the last four years. All orders must be accompanied
with the money, and will be booked in rotation.
Order at once and save time. Good reference can
be given. Address JAMES HASLET, Camden, Ind.
.        . .       ..   838t
"TTIOR BALE—Pore Clawson Seed Wheat, third
fl year here, (seed from John Johnson, N. Y.,1
red chaff, smooth, stiff straw, long headed, white
wheat, best milling wheat, Jl 73 at my nursery, or
t2.00 per bushel in new bags on cars, free; also,
Meredith, Barker and Job Rogers strains of Berkshire pigs at flO each, and perfectly healthy; boxed
on cars; cash with order; goods warranted to reach
customers. A. (J. HARVEY, Lafayette Indiana.
32-3t
FOR SALE— 9 Light Brahmas, 12 W. F.-B. Spanish, 6 Pekin Ducks, 4 ii. B. R. G. Bantams, all
this of my this season's breeders, i hey are ftrst-
clasB; will sell all to one address very low, or each
lot at a reasonable price. Also Spanish and Brahma
Cockerels for sale cheap, if ordered sot-n. JOHN
BENNETT, Sunman, Ind., (on I, 0. A L. Bit.) 27tf35
EOR SALE—Thirteen Imported- Clydesdale stallions; several just imported, weighing from
18J0 to 2240 lbs. Two % blood stallions weighs 1700
and 1800 lbs. 8hepherd Pup3 from Watty A Meg,
Centennial tat prl_e winners, Imported direct froin
Scotland. For further partioulars apply to WM.
MEIKLE, Pendleton, Ind.   Formerly Indiana, Pa.
31-8t.
TTIOR SALE.—I have for sale a few bushels of seed
t> wheat of Seneca variety. It is smooth red
chaff, stiff strawed, white wheat and very prolific.
Price, 82,00 per bushel. Orders promptly filled while
it lasts.   Address J. Talor, Spiceland, Ind.       31-3t.
THE FARM.
Postal Card Correspondence.
To Onr Postal Card Correspondents.
Please send your favors for this department
not later than Monday morning of each week,
on Saturday if possible, to insure their appearance in the paper promptly.—Eds.
UTS-ANA.
TTIOR SALE—Pure Fultz for seed at 12.00 per bu.:
JtJ    for lots under 10 bus., 10 bus. and over, 51.75
perbu.; carefully run throngh the fan; ready for
towing; sacks to be returned; sample sent free.
32 2t JAMES RILEY, Thorntown, Ind.
EOR SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage,
for one or two horses; also, a Kure-a, jump-
seat carriage, In good condition. Both are bargains.
Call on or address G. H. 8HOVEB, 174 Bast Market
street, Indianapolis. Silt
FOR SALE—1000 BUSHELS FULTZ WHEAT FOR
sale for seed, delivered on the cars In sacks
at 13.00 per bushel.  Address
JNO. W.SNOKE,
38 2t Warren Center, St Joseph county, Ind.
FOB SALE—FULTZ SEED  WHEAT, cleaned
ready to sow at $1.50 per bushel.   Sacks 25
cento each. J. T. WILLIAMSON A SON,
83 2t Thorntown, Ind.
EOR SALE—Fultz or Tyner Wheat, in quantities
to suit, yield excellent, weighing 61 pounds
per bushel.   Price $1.50 per bushel, delivered on
cars.   Address    VALENTINE WOOD, Peru, Ind.
31-st
FOR BALE—1000 bushels Fultz wheat for seed.
Will deliver on cars for $1.60 per bushel. Orders to be accompanied by cash. JASPER DAVIDSON, Hazleton; Gibson county, Ind. 32-4t
FOR SALE—A nearly new Childs Bros. Organ,
popular style, seven stops, excellent tone, for
sale at greatly reduced rate. Address Ind. Farmer
Agency, No. 8 Bates Block, Indianapolis.        26tf
FOR BALE.—100,000 peach trees Including most
of the new varieties send for price list. H. M.
SIMPSON, Sup't of Knox Nurseries, Vincennes,
Ind., Lock Box 1432. 31-4t
FOR SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage,
for one or two horses, at abargain. Call on or
address G. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market street, Indianapolis. 27tf
FOR SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style
30, new and in good condition.   For sale at a
discount from regular price.
4tf Indiana Farmer Co.
TTIOR SALE—Farms ln Indiana and Illinois. A.
JD M. ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indianapolis, Ind. 20-&-tl(10)
FOR SALE—150 bushels of clean Fultz seed wheat
for sale by A. HADLEY.   Address Clayton,
Ind. 32 St
F
ULTZ WHEAT FOR SALE—Circular free.
HENRY COMSTOCK, Liberty Mills, Ind. 2132
F
ULTZ WHEAT FOR SALS-Address ABRAM
EASTES, Danville, Ind. 3lit
WAKl'-D,
TTTANTED—Purchasers for all of my new and
W    second-hand Carriages, Buggies and Wagons
at prices to suit the times.  G. H. SHOVER, 172 and
174 East Market street, Indianapolis. 30-4t
WANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   Address J. W.
Lanktree A Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
10-ly(189)
MISCELLANEOUS-
SURE POP ON BURGLARS—Agents wanted to
canvass for a Burglar Alarm just patented;
surest and cheapest one ever invented; neat and
small; silver plated; ornamental and useful; can be
Placed on any door or window, and we defy a burglar to open without the inmates hearing the shot
Agent's sample (caps and all complete, ready for
hse,) with illustrated circular, sent postpaid on receipt of 5Q cents. County rights for sale. Address
BUBGLARALAHMCO.,
. It 16 Bates Block, Indianapolis.
TAKE NOTICE—The undersigned has a lot of
flee Poland-China Pigs that he wishes to exchange for a span of mules, the mules to be sound
*nd in good condition.  Correspondence solicited.
Address L. A. GABLE, Middletown; Butler Co., O.
Sl-4t
UN FOR YOUNG FOLKS.  All are pleased with
"Pop the Question Cards."   Takes as a joke
Bartholombw Co., Ang. 10th.—Wheat is
better throngh this section than it has been for
many years. Oats also good, not many sown.
Grass very heavy. We have a good prospect
for corn considering the wet weather. Fruit
scarce. Hogs are plenty and generally healthy.
Farmers are beginning to plow for wheat.
M. Glick.
Kosciusko Co., Ang. 6th.—Harvest is over
and the crops are good. Wheat, the best for
some years and stacked in good condition.
Corn on low land is not very good, owing to
wet weather. Ploughing is going on brisk.
Wheat is yielding well, the berry is plump and
a good color. Potatoes look well, no bugs.
Pastures good; cattle look well. No hog cholera here.   Wheat $1,20 per bushel.
W. I.
Vigo Co., August 10th.—Wheat threshing is
all the go at present. Wheat good. The
yield from ten to twenty bushels per acre.
Com looks well and potatoes never better.
Grangers are lively and begin to think about
a pic-nic. I want to give yon a big yield of
wheat that William Meglone raised on his
farm, viz.: 213 bushels from eight and half
bushels of seed.   Beat that if yon can.
T. K. Bailey.
Warrick Co., Aug. 8th.—It has been raining
almost daily for the last three weeks, the worst
weather for haying that conld be; a great deal
of it badly damaged, and some will not be cut
at all. Corn on low land almost a failure, on
high and rolling land very good where it was
well tended. Wheat very good, making from
18 to 20 bushels per acre. Oats good, bnt very
little sown. Potatoes look fine, but some bugs,
bnt easily hushed by paris green.
S. J. W.
Floyd Co., August 10th.—Farmers in this
neighborhood have commenced plowing for
wheat, bnt they are obliged to stop the plow for
a while, on account of dry weather. Corn
will not yield more than half of an average
crop, especially on the high lands. On low
lands there will be about an average yield. It
is reported that the hog cholera is raging to an
alarming extent in the neighborhood of Byrn-
ville, Harrison County, and Georgetown, Ind.
L. D. Engleman.
Newton Co., August 10th.—No frnit here.
Oats pretty good, fiom twenty to forty-five
bushels per acre, average about tbirty-five;
worth twenty-five cents. Corn will be a fair
crop, if we have rain enough. It and the
pastures need rain. Gra»s was good. Hogs
four cents. No cholera. Cows and heifers
$2 25 cwt. Lots of horses, but no buyers.
Plenty of farms for sale around here, but no
one to buy, for nobody has any money. We
want that resumption business stopped.
B. F. McOlatchey.
Centreville, Wayne Co., Ang. 11.—We
are having fine weathei at present. It is cool
and pleasant, but most too dry for corn.
Late potatoes will be scarce on account of dry
weather. Hogs and cattle are plenty here,
bnt some farmers begin to think there is more
money in cattle than hogs. No peaches here
and not many apples. Farmers are not doing
much toward sowing wheat, for the ground, is
too hard to plow. The Indiana Farmer is a
welcome visitor through wet and dry.
Charles F. Robbins.
Putnam Co., Aug. 6th.—I submit for the
consideration of your readers a statement of
Mr. McClure's wheat. Eight acres of clay
loam that has been continuously in wheat for
four years; 2£ acres manured, drilled in the
last days of August and first of September.
Previous crop 15 bushels per acre. The ground
was harrowed and rolled five time*!. Cut the
crop when fully ripe. Result: 100 sacks of
wheat, 125 pounds of wheat to the sack, or 26
bushels to the acre. The kind of wheat used
was the Fultz; thus far the Fultz is the wheat.
While we would advise no one to cast away
old favorites, yet we would say to all, try the
Fnltz side by side with other kinds and report
the result to the Faemeb. W.
Dal ley's StocU Food Steamer and
Evaporator.
We print on this page a small cut
of one ofthe best stock food steamers
and evaporators that has ever been
offered to the public. Many of the
best stock men of the country have
tried lt, and their testimony is uniform
in its favor. Mr.Romain Dalley, of
Quincy, Mich., the manufacturer, will
have these steamers and evaporators
at onr coming State Fair for exhibition. As to the value of them to stock
men, we quote the following statements from practical and experienced
gentlemen regarding steamed food:
Prof. Mapes says he has proved that nineteen pounds of cooked com are equal to fifty
pounds of raw for hog feed. C. M. Clay, of Kentucky, showed that one bushel of dry corn
made five pounds ten ounces of pork; one bushel boiled corn made fourteen pounds seven
ounces, and onebu9hel boiled meal made from sixteen to eighteen pounds. In 1870, Messrs.
S. M. & D. Wells reported to the American Agriculturist their experiment in steaming
food for cows, in which the gain in milk, aside from the saving of feed, was 15 per cent.
Saving of feed was secured principally through the consumption of all the coarse and
unprofitable food raised on the farm, most of which wonld otherwise have been lost. Mr.
Geo. A. Moore, of Buffalo. N. Y., says:' "I experimented with sixty-four cows. 8teameda
quantity of musty hay. They wonld eat it entirely up, and seemed better satisfied with it
than with the sweetest unsteamed hay. Steamed hay does not constipate the animal—the
hair looks better. Steamed food increased the milk one-third, and the cows do better. I
think cutting and steaming insures a gain to the feeder of at least thirty-three per cent."
Kokomo, Howard Co., Aug. 13.
To tlie Editors Indiana Farmer:
■ Wheat is about all threshed. About fifteen
to twenty bushels per acre; good quality.
Flax will average about ten bushels per acre
and worth $1.00. Corn about half crop. Farmers are commencing to plow for wheat. ■ Flax
straw is coming in at the rate of fifty to one
hundred loads per day. Worth $5.00 to $6.00
per ton. Will the Farmer correspondence
please inform ns throngh its columns what
dealers are paying for flax straw through the
State. H. Murphy.
KANSAS,
Chase Co., Aug. 8th.—The wheat and other
grain crops are only moderate. Corn will be
good. G. J.
Cowley Co., Aug 8th.—Corn will make a big
crop. The wheat crop is a poor one, abont
eight bushels only per acre. Hogs plenty and
free from disease. . C E. L.
Melvern, Kan., Osage Co., Aug. 6.—Wheat
struck with the rust and is not very plump.
Oats never better; also barley, and I never saw
any better prospect for corn in my life, and
this county is well supplied with corn as the
grasshoppers ate up the wheat last fall, and
this spring the ground was all planted to
corn and oats. Potatoes plenty. Same apples
and peaches. Corn 25 cents, wheat $1.00,
oats 20 cents, rye 50 cents, barley 60 cents,
fat hogs $3.50, cows $20.00 to $30.00. Haying
has commenced and is very good. Threshing
machines running nearly every day. I receive
the Farmer regular. Jno. W. M.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
CATTLE FOR SHOWING.
•Will you, or some of your readers, please
tell me what that "whistish" mixture is that
breeders use to "rub on their cattle's horns"
when they go to shows? Also how to prepare
the same? B. F. McOlatchey.
Morocco, Ind.
OHIO.
Logan Co., Aug. 10th.—The wheat is threshing out fully up to the; expected yield, and the
berry is good. In regard to our other crops
we have little or nothing to complain of.
E.G.
Morgan Co., Aug. 9th.—Our wheat crop is
fully an average and the berry most excellent.
Oats heaviest for several years, and corn also
promises to be a heavy crop.
Dan'l. Goldson.
Darke Co., Ohio, Aug. llth.—Wheat generally good, worth $1.20. Oats good and
worth 25 cents. Hay fine, potatoes plenty,
corn not so good. It was injured by the early
rains.   Apple crop rather Blim. 8. S.
ILLINOIS.
Iroquois, Co., August 10.—We have fair
crops this year, and also a larger number of
hogs than usual.   No diseases among them.
R. S. D.
Putnam Co., August 10th.—Late rains have
secured us a fine corn crop and potatoes will
be fine also. Wheat is yielding very fine and
oata also.   Our apple crop will ba light.
C. M.
Lee Co., August llth.—Wehavea "redemption crop" this* year—redemption from previous losses and short crops. Wheat and oats
splendid, much above the aversgacrop. Corn
will also make a big cjj p. Indeed all crops
are fine, except the apple, which is below an
average. J. D. McVeigh.
MICHIGAN.
Kalamazoo Co:, August 9th.—Onr wheat
crop here will fall a little below the average
crop this year. The other grain yields are
above the average. Com will make a heavy
crop. The apple and peach crop mnch below
the average. " Jno. Oastello.
Lapeer Co., August llth.—We have the
largest and best wheat crop ever harvested in
this section. It will run from twenty-five to
forty bushels per acre. Barley and oats also
are above an average crop. Corn and the
other crops fine also.   Peach crop large.
L. D. Johnson.
blue grass on corn land.
I want to sow some blue grass on land now
in com. I intend to cut the corn up. Now I
want to know the best way to get it in grass
for pasture, the quantity of seed per acre and
the time to sow it. Will some one answer.
" B.J.W.
SENECA WHEAT.
Franklin, Johnson Co., Aug 11.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I would like to know throngh your paper if
any one you know of has the Seneca variety
of seed wheat for sale, and if so, what it can
be bought at. I. B. DeMaree,
Let those who have this wheat for sale
answer in our For Sale column, first page.—
[Eds.
the clothes wire swindle.
Mr. Editors:—Please inform me the post-
offices of Sabastion Stonebraker, and Almon
and Joseph Fry, of Henry county. I see their
names in your paper that have bjen swindled
with these wire rascals, as well as we in this
part.. I wish to correspond with them. We
are forming a company against the fraud.
Levi S. Hadley.
Moorsville, Ind.
adventists.
Kokomo, Ind., Ang. 13.—Crops generally
good. Tons of flax straw are Btacked near
here. The pay was $5 to $7. A copious rain
yesterday will ripen a good crop of corn-
The farmers turned out en masse to the grove
meeting ofthe Seventh Day Adventists Sunday. There were more than 600 teams on the
grounds at one time and abont 5,000 people
strolling about or crowding up to hear the
speaking. These people hold similar meetings in sixteen different States this season, and
from their earnestness and enterprise they
surely will arouse the religious world with
their doctrines. They are running nine steam
presses constantly prinling their tracts, pamphlets, books, &c, with headquarters at Battle
Creek, Mich. They are strict temperance people, abstaining from tobacco, tea, coffee and
drag doctoring. They agree with Moody,
Spurgeon, Hall and multitudes of sober thinkers that we are fast nearing the close of
earths' history, and they use large charts ofthe
prophecies of Dan. 2, 7 aud 8, and Pro. 13 and
14. Elder Waggoner, of Michigan, spoke yesterday on the Sabbath question, from Gen. 2:
3, and Mark 2:27. He says the moral law enforces the seventh day or Saturday, not Sunday, the first day. Many thousand dollars
worth of books, tracts, &c, were sold.
C. Caldwell.
binders.
Has any one tried a self binder on any harvester, and if so, how are they liked and what
kind or whose make, if any obj actions to
them, what are the objections? As I believe
the day not far distant when they will be in
general nse, I want all the information I can
get with regard to them. S. I. W.
Newburg, Ind.
F  .
<>rIn earnest, they suit exactly. Get samples and
have your ownfun. Sample free for 10c. Address
BECK, printer, Box 1102, Vincennes, Ind        Sl-lt.
TEXAS LAND WARRANTS—Of 640 acres each,
.for sale at 25 cents per acre, locatable on any
Public lands in the State of Texas. Maps of Texas
SVJ,,?111 Information free. Address N. K.WARWICK, Agent, 1S8 Vine St., Cincinnati, O.      19tf(3)
MONEY to loan, in sums of 8500 to 85000, on *_-.-
Kr.„nJ?5Ted  fttnns-   Money in Bank   No delay.
,.J}"¥LL> WALCOTT & VINTON, 44>_ N. Pennsyi.
, _____■ Street, Indianapolis, Ind.    . 20 tf-(I0)
I Ti10^ TRADE—Berkshire pigs for Cotswold ewe.
I-*-     B. H. WH-TIS, Blllingsvjlle, Ind. S2-4t
-WISCONSIN.
Dane Co., Aug. llth.—We have in this part
of Wisconsin the heaviest wheat and other
grain harvests we have ever had. The yield
will be immense. Com is now also doing
well. M. A. Culb-rtson.
Jefferson Co., Aug. 9th.—Wheat will turn
18 to 25 bushels per acre. All the other grain
crops equally as good, and com is doing fine
under the late hot weather. Geo.W.
MISSOURI.
Franklin Co., August 9fh.—Oar wheat is
yielding clean from tbe machine, twenty to
twenty-five bushels per acre. We have an exceedingly heavy fruit crop this year. Stock
remain very healthy. Com will be a good
crop also. Sam'l. Gardner.
All who have wheat to sell should look
at Bennett & Moore's advertisement in lst
column on fifth page of this paper.    *
cribbing horesk.
2b the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I wish to enquire if any of your numerous
readers has had any experience in filing the
teeth of cribbing or wind sucking horses, and
if so, what effect it had upon their teeth,
whether injurious or not, and if it cured them
of the disagreeable habit of cribbing. A description of the method will be thankfully received by D. 0. Hopkins.
Hops, Ind.
 . .	
ADDRSSS wanted.
Wayne Co., Ind., Aug. 11.
7b tint Editors Indiana Farmer:
H. H. Anderson speaks very highly of the
Fultz and Clawson wheat and I want to know
what his address is so I can write him and
get a sample ofhis wheat and prices for seed.
Please let me know in your next number.
Christopher Morris.
We have not the address of Mr. A. at hand.
If he has the kinds of wheat mentioned for
sale! we can assure him plenty of customer s
if he will put a little notice ofthe fact giving
price, etc., in our exchange column on the first
page.—Eds. 	
j CANNING CORN.
To the Ediiors Indiana Ihrmer:
I read in the columns of your valuable pap er
of May 26th, a receipt for making toilet soap.
I tried it and found it to be splendid.
Can you or some ofthe many readers ofthe
Farmer tell me how to can roasting ears so
that they will keep.
To all who may be afflicted with catarrh, I
recommend a trial of Sanford's Radical Care.
S. SiEainjNT.
There is no secret about canning corn.
Boil the corn and cut it off from the cob as for
the table, pour it into the cans hot and seal
carefully. There are other and cheaper ways
of preserving green com, but we know of none
so good as canning.—[Eds.
■     FARMERS   LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Benton County, Ind., Aug. 13th.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have been appointed by the patrons of this
county to confer with certain persons in regard to the law passed by the last Legislature,
enabling farmers to form mutual fire insurance companies.
- We are organizing a fire insurance company
in this, Benton county, but there is a difference of opinion as to the meaning of the late
act. Some think we must necessarily have
$50,000 in premium notes to begin with, as
provided by the old law. Others think that
ten persons may organize with a less amount
under the late law. In what particular point
does the late law differ from the old? Does the
late law enable us to organize with less than
fifty thousand dollars capital? Please give us
your views and oblige the P. of H., of Benton
county. Respectfully,
M. V. Bowman,
Atkinson, Benton Co., Ind.
The law referred to, which was approved
March 14,1877, provides that sny number of
citizens, not less than ten of any county, may
form an association forthe purpose of insuring
their property against losses by fire, under
such rules and regulations as they may adopt.
There is no mention of any amount of
premium notes, or paid up capital.- The law
leaves each association free to make its own
rules and regulations, but requires only that
the articles of association be recorded in the
office of the Oounty Recorder. The law in
full was published in this paper, in March
last.
NEWS  OF  THE  WEEK.
State New*.
A Mr. Heissinger, residing fourteen miles
east of Union City had an arm torn off by a
thrasher.   His recovery is doubtful.
J. J. Fox, a farmer living near Peru, lost
nearly 900 bushels of wheat last week by a
spark from the engine employed in threshing
it. ■
Walter Low, a Shelby county young man
was in love. The yonng lady failed to respond. Walter took cold poison and is no
more. t
The value of the railroads of Indiona, main
track and side track, and rolling stock, as as*-
»essed by the State Board of Eqnilization, is
$39,513,944.
Com oh the Wea is very high and doing remarkably well. Many large stacks of hay
grace the fields, and the wheat—a good crop-
is already in the dry.
The Rushville comet band took the first
premium at the temperance picnic at Connersville Thursday, which was one hundred doV
lars in money.
Jacob Rass, six miles north of Union City,
had his entire crop of wheat destroyed by fire,
caused by his little son setting fire to the stack. '
Lobs, $300
Seven hundred dollars worth of watches
were stolen from the jewelry store of J. Trash,
at Terre Haute, Monday. One hundred dollars reward is offered.
A lad named Charles Weichet, of Logansport, fell into a tub of hot water, Saturday, and
was so severely scalded as to result in his
death soon after.
A new attraction at the Rassellvilla Fair, in
Pntnam connty, will be a singing contest for a
prize of $30. Six quartetts will compete, each
singing three or more pieces.
R. S. Sturgeon's black stallion died a few
night sgo; He was a half brother to Red
Cloud and'Mr. Sturgeon had been offered $1.-
500 for him.—Franklin Jeffersonian.
Last Saturday, John Osborn climbed a tfee
about fifty feet to the forks, sawed off one of
the limbs, come down and took out nine feet
of honey comb.—Rockville Republican.
Wm. Mayo and Wm. Mobley, two Logansport youths, had an animated discussion last
Friday. Mobley rests within the body of the
jail and the doctors are excavating in Mayo's
shoulder for lead.
John L. Cavin, a Noble county farmer,
threshed 490 bushels of wheat from eleven
ares of ground—44 bushels and 32 pounds per
acre, machine measure, and by weight 49 bushels per acre.
Mr. John Miller and family, of Clay township, Lagrange county, were accidentally poisoned on Saturday by taking strychnine instead of quinine. The youngest child died
and the other members of the family are in a
critical condition.
A Terre Haute man caught a grasshopper,
Sunday evening, that had a little oiled pasteboard attached to one of his legs, on which
was written in red ink, "Topeka, Kansas, July
4th, 1877." Which shows that he hopped well.
■Truthful Exchange.
The contractors on the Switz City and Salli-
van division on the narrow guage road are
pushing things along with great energy. The
work of laying iron has begun, and it will not
be long until the cars will be running over it
full length.—Bedfjrd Banner.
The bam of Jacob Beeson, near Washington, Wayne connty, burned to the ground on
the morning of the 7th inst. Three hundred
bushels of wheat, 700 bushels of corn, 20 tons'
of hay and farming utensils of every description were lost in the flames.
Shelbyville Volunteer: The dry weather is
cutting the corn crop many thousand bushels
short every day it continues in this county.
We don't believe in "godsends," but a good
soaking rain would be of great benefit to our
people pecuniarily in crops.
Last Sunday Eddie LaPlante and Joseph
Stewart, were riding a race on the river road
about nine miles below Vincennes, when the
horse ridden by the latter stumbled and pitched Joseph off, rupturing.a blood vessel, which
caused his death in three hours.
Wheat is pouring into Sullivan at $1 per
bushel.
Barnum's receipts in this city were $12,000.
Hard times!
The flax mills at Knightstown nse 30,000
tons of flax straw weekly.
The Fultz wheat, just now, is coming in for
a very liberal supply of wheat.
            The next school term of the Institution for
$17,000 worth of cattle in one lot, not long Ithe ?JHnd' lDdi<H>apolis, will commence Bep-
_jnce tember the  19th.   Arrnncmonia  t,ann i r* '
Two valuable horses were fatally injured by
a collision at the Peru driving park Friday
last.
Charlie Sharp, a South Bend lad, was drowned Saturday while swimming in the river at
that place.
A Lawrence county farmer reports 1,000
bushels of wheat on 23 acres, and 20,000 bundles of oats on 40 acres.
The Belt road stock yards of this city are
using 50,000 test of lumber per day in the erection of their buildings.
Messrs. Fowler and Earl, of Lafayette, are
reported as having 26,003 acres of land in com
on their Benton connty estates.
Bridges & Lockridge, have 15,000 head of cat-
tember the 19th. Arrangements have been*"
made for the accommodation of an additional
number of pupils, and we respectfully suggest
to the friends of any uneducated blind child in
this county, that they make early application
to the Superintendent for its admission to the
Institution.
The Mississippi Emigration Society, of this
city had on Monday one hundred and fifty-four
names enrolled, principally heads of families,
and quite a number of farmers. Free transportation is expected over most of the Southern roads, as their officials have been giving
this movement considerable encouragement,
and the Northern roads are expected to give
reduced rates.
Bead the  several   advertisement--   of
Fultz and other varieties of-seed wheat, '
in the Farmer of this   week.    Farmers1
tie, the average weight of which is 1600 lbs. generally are taking the inatter in hand
each, woith to-day $125,000.—Greencastle | to secure the best seed wheat that can
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