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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AUGUST 25,1877.
No. 34.
EXCHANGE DEPAETMENT.
FOB  SALE.
-fTIOR SALE—SEED WHEAT—French seed chaff
JJ Mediterranean; also, a new variety originated
by myself. Red chaff Amber, berry early and proline, weevil and rust proof, price S3.60 per sack of
120 lbs., or J30.O", 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 giaded 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 	
*T*"-IOR SALE—100,010 Apple Trees from two to five
Jj years old; first-class stock; leading and new
varieties. Also good stock of Pear, Chery, etc, etc
Small Fruits a specialty. Ornamental Trees, etc. in
abundance. Fine Stock. Good chance for agents
to get their stock cheap for fall delivery. Shipping
facilities good East, West, North or South. Freight-
low. Those wishing to buy at wholesale or retail,
should not fail to call and see or correspond with
D. A. FISHER. Proprietor "Home Nurseries," Denver, Miami eounty, Indiana. 34-4t
"IjlOR SALE—Pore Clawson Seed Wheat, third
I*> year here, (seed from John Johnson, N. Y.0
red chaff, smooth, stiff straw, long htaded, white
wheat, best milling wheat, Si 75 at my nursery, or
J2.00 per bushel in new bags on cars, free; also,
Meredith, Barker and Job Rogers strains of Berkshire pigs at $10 each, and perfectly healthy; boxed
on cars; cash with order goods warranted to reach
customers. A. U HARVEY, L-fayette Indiana.
 82-8t	
-fjIOR SALE—Thirteen Imported Clydesdale stal-
P lions: Beveral just imported, weighing from
18 JO to 2240 lbs. Two y*. blood stallions weighs 1700
and 1800 lbs. Shepherd Pups irom Watty j_ Meg,
Centennial first prize winners, imported direct from
Scotland. For further particulars apply to WM.
MEIKLE, Pendleton, Ind.   Formerly Indiana, Pa.
31-8t.
-|""-*.OR BALK—A good, nearly new family carriage,
JD for one or two horses; also, a Eure-a, jump-
seat carriage, ln good condition. Both are bargains.
Call on or address G. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market
street, Indianapolis. 3rtf
EOR SALE—1000 BUSHELS FULTZ WHEAT FOR
sale for seed, delivered on tbe cars in sacks
at 52.00 per bushel.   Address   ,
JNO. W.SNOKE,
33 2t    • ■     Warren Center, St Joseph county, Ind.
~_"***jOB SALE—FULTZ *EED WHEAT, cleaned
__J ready to sow at 81.60 per bushel. Backs 25
cents each. J. T. WILLIAMSON A SON,    ;
83 2t .' Thorntown, Ind.
EOR SALE—Fultz or Tyner Wheat, In quantities
to suit, yield excellent, weighing 64 pounds
per bushel.   Price $1.5'J per bushel, delivered on
cars.   Address    VALENTINE WOOD,Peru, Ind.
; : ■ ■ -  ■-•   81-at    -■/■-
"Trior. BALE—1000 bushels Fultz j?heat for seed.
Jj Will deliver on cars for Ki.60 per bushel. Orders to be accompanied by cash. J aSPER DAVIDSON, Hazleton, Gibson county, Ind. 32-4t
"TJIOR SALE—A nearly new Childs Bros. Organ.
JD popular style, seven stops, excellent tone, for
sale at greatly reduced rate. Address Ind. Farmer
Agency, No. 8 Bates Block, Indianapolis. 26tf
**[""*10R SALE.—100,000 peach trees including most
JJ of the new varieties send for price list. H.M.
SIMPSON, -up'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 a bargain. Call on or
address G. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market Btreet, Indianapolis. 27 tf
EOR SALE—A new Childs Brothers' Organ, style
30, new and in good condition.    For sale at a
discount from regular price.
4tf  Indiana Fabm-b Ca
EOR SALE—My rich Berkshire beeeding boar,
cheap, or will exchange him for a pair of
flrst-class Cotswold lamos.   Address
34-tf W. A. KEL9EY, Fort Wayne, Ind.
EOR SALE. VERY LOW—4 head Short-horn Cattle.   A big chance for a farmer to start a herd
cheap.  J. BU1TERF1ELD, Indianapolis, Ind. 84 2t
EOR SALE—Farms ln Indiana and Illinois.   A.
M. ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indlan-
apolis, Ind.        _O-52ti-(10*
FOR SALE—150 bushels of clean Fultz seed wheat
for sale by A. HADLEY.   Address Clayton,
Ind. 32«
F
IULTZ WHEAT FOB SALE—Circular free.
HENRY COMSTOCK, Liberty Mills, Ind. 2t32
E
IULTZ WHEAT FOR SALS-Address ABEAM
BASTES, Danville, In* ' «4t
WAM T_5_».
"TTTANTED—A set of double harness, new or not
W ln use over six months, for a pair of Poland
China pigs, not akin, and good pedigree, or a. teio
of White China geese for one pig. Address JOSEPH
BAYLOR, Coesse, Indiana. «■"
TTTANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
VV Btock 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)	
-TTTANTED—To sell 8 last year cocks, D. Brahmas,
W     I- Brahmas and Buff Cochin; will sell for
$2.50 each, to make room for my young stock.   E.
G. BAGLEY, Indianpolis. 34-lt
"TTTANTED—Unimproved prairie farm lands in
W    exchange for New York (suburb) lots.   Address, W. H. HALSEY, Box 2245, N. Y. 34-lt
MlSCE-LXANEOtTS.
STOLEN—From the farm of Enoch Pettlcore, four
and a half (454) miles east of Indianapolis, between the Michigan and Brookville road, a black
brood mare about fifteen hands high, small white
spot on forehead; snip on nose; one hind foot white;
gear marks on shoulders, sides and rump; stiff in
her shoulders; shows the white ln her eyes a great
deal; is twelve years old; is perfectly gentle; works
welt in any kind of harness. The finder, oa returning animal, will be liberally rewarded.        34-lt
SURE POP ON BURGLARS-AKents wanted to
canvass for a Burglar Alarm lust patented;
surest and cheopest one ever Invented; neat ana
•mall; sliver plated; ornamental and useful; can be
Placed on any door or window, and we defy a burglar to open without the Inmates hearing the snot.
Agent's samples (cap and all complete, ready for
*-"*-e,) with illustrated circular, sent postpaid on receipt of 50 cents.   County rights for sale.   Address
BURGLAR ALARM CO.,
34 lt 16 Bates Block, Indianapolis.
TAKE NOTICE—The undersigned has a lot of
flne Poland-China Pigs that he wishes to exchange for a span of mules, the mules to be sound
and ln good condition.   Correspondence solicited.
Address L. A. GABLE, Middletown, Butler Co., O.
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F
IUN FOR YOUNG FOLKS. All are pleased with
-»-■ "Pop the Question Cards." Takes as a Joke
or in earnest, they Buit exactly. Get samples and
have your ownfun. Sample free for 10c. Address
BECK, printer, Box 1102, Vincennes, Ind        Sl-4t
MONEY to loan, In sums of 5500 to 85000, on improved  farms.   Money in Bank   No delay.
RUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, 44>_ N. PennsyL
( vania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. -0-tf-(10)
OR TRADE—Berkshire pigs for Cotswold ewe.
R. H. WHITE, Billingsville, Ind. 32-4t
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WAR DEP-BTMENT—SXQNA- SEBVICE V. fl. ARMY.
Division of telegrams and reports for the benefit
of commerce and agriculture.
Meteorological record, Aug. 21st, 1877,7 a. m.
Observations taken at the same moment of time
at all stations.
Explanation.—Lowering barometer and rising
thermometer indicate rain. Rising barometer and
falling thermometer, indicate fair or clearing
weather.
Indications.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valley,
and Lake region, stationary or lower pressure,
partly cloudy weather, and warmer, southeast ro
southwest winds, followed by cooler northerly
winds, and rain over portion of Upper Lake region.
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THE FARM.
Postal Card Correspondence.
To Onr Postal Card Correspondents.
Please sendyonr 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.
Vigo Co., Ang. 20th—The picnic held on
the 18th inst., near Plymouth Church, near
the Clay county line, was a success. Good
music, instrumental and vocal; good speaking; good order, and plenty to eat; every one
coming with baskets well filled. Bro. H. D.
Scott, of Terre Haute, addressed the people
present with quite a lengthy speech which
proved to members of the order, and some
that are not, that the grange is not dead as
some have it. The series of picnics now being held in this county are proving a success
in every instance. E. E. Wtths.
Darlington, Montgomeby Co., Aug. 18.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Not seeing anything from this part of the
county. Sugar Creek township, I feel like trying to assist in representing the same. Corn
is good on high or bottom ground, but on
level and poorly drained lands is very poor,
but we will have more corn than last year, as
the acreage is much larger. Wheat is very
good and abont half threshed, yielding from
fifteen to thirty bushels per acre and mnch
better in quality than we have had for several
years. Oata very good. Grass very good and
all harvested. Potatoes never batter. Apples about half a crop. Hogs not very plenty
and some cholera. A great many spring pigs
have died. I see an inquiry made throngh
the Fabmeb regarding the Fultz wheat and
would just say it can be obtained in this
locality. I wish to ascertain which is the best
way to fallow ground for wheat; to sow rye
and plow under in Jane, or bow clover next
spring, the ground being in corn this year.
It. Harpeb.
INDIANA.
POSTAI. CARD POETRY.
Geokgetown, August llth, 1877.
Kind Editor, the times are hard;
But by this old grease lamp
I'll write upon a postal-card,
And save a three-cent stamp
Our barns are full of hay and oats,
Our granaties full of wheat;
Our Brahma hens and Berkshire shoats
Are fat, and hard to beat
Our sun-brown lads. In cottonade.
Have melons, red and sweet;
And every evening In the shade,
•  We have a farmer's treat.
Tbe girls have got a pretty sight,
Hid on the parlor shelf:
It's a pile of fruit for Sunday night,—
" You know how it ls yourself."
Jerry Mason.
Whitley Co., Aug. 13th.—Harvesticg all
done. Wheat good and promises a good
yield; oats good; flax good; corn fair; potatoes
good. Hay all up and well saved and farmers
in general feel happy. J. Sayleb .
But_kevil_e, Jennings Co, Aug., 17.—
Have just thrashed my first crop of Fultz
wheat. Yield twenty-eight and a half bushels to the acre, besides what was lost in harvesting and threshing. Plowing is progressing. Fruit very scarce. No hog cholera here
now, though we hear of it in the distance.
Very truly, H. B. Weeks.
Gibson Co., Aug. 12.—Your paper is read
with much interest in our part of the country,
and is thought to be very advantageous to the
farmer. Wheat principally all in the barn.
Corn looking very well. Potatoes fine,
worth from thirty-five to forty cents per
bushel. Farmers are making preparations for
the coming wheat crop. J. E. Gudgel.
Noba, Marion Co., Aug. 17.
To the Editors Indiana Fanner:
If any of the readers of- the Fabmeb, who
live near Indianapolis have Plymouth Rock
chicks for sale, I would like for them to advertise in the Fabmeb. If we have plenty of
rain within a few days we will also have
plenty of com and potatoes. The prospect for
cabbage is fine, but at twenty-five cents a barrel, I think we will use it for cow teed.
Fbank Williamson.
Johnson Co., August 14.—Fine rain here
yesterday. Corn damaged some on account
of dry weather, but will have a very good
crop if the frost don't over-take it. Wheat in
this part ofthe county is very poor, not averaging over seven bushels per acre and a very
inferior article. The midge ate it up. Some
hog cholera, but not so bad as it was last year.
Plenty of good pure water, salt and ashes,
and good shade, is the best medicine that I
know for hog cholera. J. Y. D.
White Co., Aug. 20th.—We have had a favorable season for farm work in this locality,
and the farmers have worked hard, and are
now reaping their reward, being in possession
of good crops of com, oats, wheat, and vegetables in abundance. Hay very heavy and
put up in good order. Frnit crop light. Stock
of all kinds look fine. Corn 45c; wheat $1,25;
oats 20c; potatoes 26c. per bushel. All that is
necessary to complete our prosperity is the
circulation of the Indiana Fabmeb among us.
Bobt. Irwin.
KANSAS,
Riley Co., Aug. 15.—:Wheat is very poor
here, greatly below the average. Corn will be
a very large crop. Some good spring wheat
but not much sown.'   Oats heavy.
Geo. W. L.
OHIO.
Knox Co., Aug. 17.—The wheat crop is
above an average here, and the same is true of
other grain crops. Corn will not be so good
as usual.   Potatoes plenty.   Stock healthy.   ;
S. C. SCOTT.
MINNESOTA.
Dodge Co., Aug. 16.—Wheat will yield
above the average crop in this part of the
State. Corn is backward. Oats and barley
very heavy this year. R. E. Allen.
Meekeb Co. Aug. 17.—Wheat will be a large
crop in this State. The yield here is about 20
bushels per acre.   Other grain also fine.
D. W. H.
IOWA
Carroll Co., Aug. 17.—The wheat yield in
Iowa is above the average this season, and the
same is true of barley and oats. Wheat here
is thrashing out folly up to expectation. Corn
is late, but looks well. Oliver Beaton.
Butler Co., Aug. 16.—Our wheat is turning
out on an average of fully 20 bushels to the
acre in this part of the State. Com fine.
Plenty of good healthy hogs. --    D. F. O.
ILLINOIS.
Mohtoomery Co., Aug. 18.—Our wheat is
large, threshing out an average of about'25
bushels per acre and it weighs heavy. Rye
and oats are also both heavy crops. The corn
is coining on fine now.. We have a little hog
cholera here. W. H. H.
Shelby Co., Aug. 17.—Wheat averages from
the machine over 20 bushels per acre here.
Corn will be a light crop.   Other crops fair.
A. C. Hanley.
Edgab Co., Aug. 20.—Some fields of wheat
here threshed out forty bushels per acre general average large. The other grain crops are
good, and com is coming out well. - •
E. D. Collins.
TooTMn.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer .•'"-.
Will you, or some reader of your paper
please tell me how to fatten a horse?
My horse is five years old has worked
hard, and is "thin." I wish to fit him
for the market. What shall I feed him,
how much and how often?
Nora, Ind. J. Williamson.
The $2,00 Washing' Machine, in daily
iise at the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum.
Send stamp for circular. Sample Machines $1,00 to agents. Israel Hoao-
LAND, Indianapolis, Ind. . 34 ti
If the horse is in health and not being
driven or worked too hard, we can see no
reason why he should not fatten on oats
and timothy. Some horses are so thin
skinned and sensitive to flies as to keep
themselves poor by stamping and kicking. If this is the case with your horse,
try darkening the stable while the-flies
are so numerous.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
S. D., Monroe county, enquires where he
can obtain strawberry plants. Almost any of
the nurserymen who advertise in the Fabmeb
can furnish the leading varieties.
-f-pbeat Wanted.
Washington Co., lad., Aug. 14.
Tb Vie Editors Indiana Farmer:.
I see in your paper several reports of large
crops of wheat and I wonld like to know what
kinds of wheat they have where the yield is
so large. Will some granger who has the
Clawson wheat and expects to sell at the market Jrice, please advertise the same inthe
columns of the Fabmeb. He might get a little more for his trouble. We would like to try
the Fultz also. Just had a fine rain? Corn is
coming ont better than expected. -
i Wm. A. Abmbtono.
White OH Corn.    .
Mabion Co., Ind., Aug. 16.
3b tlie Editors Indiana Farmer:
Will you or one of the many patrons ofthe
Fabmeb, please give throngh the columns of
the Fabmeb, the pedigree, or history, of the
White Oil corn; from whence and by whom
first introduced, and you will much oblige
Lewis Y. Newhoose.
Winter Oats, Etc.
Gibson Co., Aug. 13.
Gents, will you please give me Elwin Hen
ery, of Green county, Tenn., post office address.   I wish to get some of his winter oats
and one of his best kinds of early wheat,
j F. A. Knowle.
- We did not preserve his letter and cannot
give'j}he address. If he hai oats and seed
wheat for sale, he will do well to put a notice
of the same in our For Sale column, on first
page.—Eds.
Address Wanted.
Salem, Ind , Aug. 20th.
To the Ediiors Indiana Farmer:
I see iu a recent number of your paper, a
letter from Edwin Henry, Green Co., Tenn,
(no post office) In regard to winter grazing
oats; as he does not give any post office, I can
not reach him. Da you know of any such
oats and where they can be obtained ? Also
what would be the price? Wm. Batt.
Mr. Henry will please respond through the
Farmer.—Eds.
HEWS   OP  THE  WEEK.
State Hew-.
Flstnla.
Geo. F. Myer, of Vigo connty, has a colt
that has b9en troubled with fistula for six
months and wishes to learn of a reliable remedy. From the discussion of the subject, both
by Dr. Navin and Prof. Law, and the mode of
treatment they recommend, we should infer
that only those well acquainted with the
structure of the horse should be entrusted
with the cure of this disease. The free use of
the knife seems indlspensible to a permanent
cure and an ignorant or unpractised hand can
not safely be trusted in such cases.—Eds.
Sorghum.
Shelby Co., Ind., Aug. 13.
lb the Ediiors Indiana Farmer:
As the time is close at hand, can not some
of those old experienced sorghum molasses
manufacturers give us their views on their
methods of making molasses; what they clear
with, what they make their strainers of, and
all the various methods used in its mannfactnre of that now to the economical farmer,
valuable adjunct of his table? Also their
methods of rising the cane and the kinds
grown, kinds of machinery used and in fact
all that pertains to the manufacture of
sorghum Byrnp, is a subj ect well worthy of discussion.       . Subscbibeb.
Wbat Alls tbe Cow T—Tbe Mystery Explained.
In answer to, What ails the Cow? we can
say that we have a cow in the same condition
as those of Mr. W. W. S. and Mr. Kingsbury,
bnt one evening last week the mystery was
solved. My wife turned out the calf to the cow
and here came three of my half Berkshires,
all sucking the cow at the same time. We
have since found that they suck another cow,
we have two more that would not stand for
them. If any one knows how to prevent it,
except by keeping them awav, or muzzling
them, I would like to know the way. Harvesting all done; we had the best of weather
and a good crop. A good deal of wheat is
thrashed and turned out well, I raised the
Fultz and California White, and like both
very much.   Com needs rain badly.
Chb. Schinnee.
We do not think our cow wonld submit to
being sucked by pigs. At any rate she is giving her full quota of milk now.       J. G. K.
Baker's Cod Liver Oil and Lime is
admitted by physicians the finest preparation of the kind in the market—palatable, efficacious. Jno. 0. Biker & Co.,
Philadelphia.   S.ld by all druggists.   40
Threshing machine engines are exploding
all over the State.
John Fox was drowned, Monday, while attempting to ford the river at Shoals.
It will require 100 school teachers to run the
Montgomery county schools this year.
The bed-bottom sharpers are said to have
victimized Allen county farmers out of about
$11,000.
There are $130,000 held on mortgages on
real estate in Greene county by insurance
companies.
Matthew Marker, a Noble county farmer,
secured a yield of forty-five bushels of wheat
to the acre.
In Clinton county there are thousands of
bushels of potatoes that can be bought for 25
cents a bushel.
The Clay county miners held another mass
meeting at Brazil, and struck for a 20 per cent,
advance.
It is estimated that there will be a surplus
of 300,000 bushels of wheat in Pike county.
It only commands $1 per bushel there.
So far as we can learn, Mart Davidson has
had the best yield of wheat, it averaging 37
bushels to the acre.—Western Indianian.
On Thursday of last week, Mr. John Helm,
of Grant county, had an arm torn off by get-
ing it caught in a threshing-machine.
S. S. Vernon, car repairer, was run over by
a car at Logansport, last week, terribly mangling his right leg and otherwise injuring him.
A young man named Shoemaker, attending
a camp meeting at Kokomo on Sunday last,
was attacked by a mad cow aud fatally gored.
A subscription is being made up to establish
a school of art at Indianapolis. Instruction
will be given in drawing, painting, engraving,
sculpture, etc.
A locomotive on the Bee line near Winchester struck a hand-car, tossing it and the occupant- in the air. One, named Davis, was seriously injured.
Cholera infantum is proving unsually to fatal among the little ones at Auburn this State.
One undertaker there famished seven coffins
in two days.
An insane woman at Hillersburg, on the
Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington railroad,
Friday, threw herself in front of train No. 10,
and was instantly killed.       '
E. C. Summer, of Fowler, sold to William
Monroe, of Albany, New York, 600 head of
beeves, weighing 1,450 pounds each, yielding
the snug sum of $43,500.
Two Huntington county youths attempted
to "smoke out" an old hen that had taken
refuge under Wm. Smith's barn. They succeeded.   Loss $400; no insurance.
J. W. McKee, a Delaw*_re county farmer, in
getting off a threshing machia e, which was in
motion, slipped, and his foot went into the
cylinder, mangling it in a fearful manner.
The hog production of this county is its
most important source of revenue. But the
fair management offers only $101 in premiums
on swine, while $630 is devoted to the racecourse.—Anderson Herald.
A report of a probable murder comes from
Marys ville, Clark couuty. Thursday evening
a man named David Chasteen shot and danger
ously wounded_Jacob Mermott. The former
is quite a young man and a farmer.
The late rains have added thousands of dollars to the farmers of Benton county. Let
the frosts keep off and many a'sore finger
will be made before the corn is all in the cribs.
—Fowler Era.
Mr. David Kunss, two miles north of town '
reports 114 bushels of wheat thia season from
four acres of ground, and he says heaped
measure to such an extent that one bushel, as
measured, would have weighed 70 pounds.—
Wabash Pleindealer.
Three Indianapolis youths, who went to
the Black Hills country last spring, have
written home for their old clerkships. They
are afoot and expect to get through by the
time fall trade opens up,
A little child, three years old, of Lemuel
Daisy, of Warsaw, while playing on a bed
rolled off and fell to the floor, striking its head
and instantly killing it. Its neck was broken
by the fall.
Farmers in Wayne county report a new disease among hogs similar to the bloody murrain cattle disease. One gentleman has eighteen hogs thus affected. Cholera is also reported in the southern part of that county.
Tom Coleman, a huckster living near Jeffersonville, heard a noise in his hen-roost the
other morning, and went on a tour of investigation with a navy revolver for company.
The revolver was discharged and Patsey Ma-
loy fell from the roost with a fine bird in each
hand and both legs broken by the shot. Amputation was necessary.   He may not recove
Horace Fletcher, who will be remembered
by our readers as the author of several very
interesting foreign letters lately published in
onr columns, caught a 40-lb. fish at Spencer
last week.   So says the Owen Co. Democrat.
Mrs. Frank Surry, of Morristown, attempted
to waft herself to the night's Plutonian shore,
the other day, by eating a box of matches. The
doctor with hia little stomach pump gently
wafted her back again.
Patrick McCarty, a Delphi man, filled up
with bad whisky, fixed himself for a nap on
the railroad. The usual result followed, and
his mutilated remains were unrecognizable,
except to the members of the stricken family,
who knew the shreds of bis clothing.
Persey Sutton, aged ten years, pointed a pistol at Johnny Weaver, aged eight years, at
Jeffersonville, on Tuesday, and pulled the
trigger. He thought it was not loaded, but
it was. The ball entered the cheek near the
eye.   He cannot recover.
Jos. Aikman, of Vermillion connty, was
taken from his house, at a late hour Saturday
night, by a party bf masked men and hung by
the neck to a limb of a tree until life was almost extinct. The object was to extort a confession from him that he had burned a neighbor's house. Failing in their purpose, they
liberated him.
On Saturday the wife of Mr. Charles Fin-
key, living five miles north of Fort Wayne,
was alone at her house, when two tramps
were discovered by her in the act of rifling
the bureau drawers, from which they took
$12 50 in money. She raised an alarm and
attempted to stop the men, when one of them
turned and shot her in the hsad, causing in-
Btant death. The villains then fled, but Sheriff Mun8on was in hot pursuit when last
heard from.
General News.
Grasshoppara are creating havoc in Berks
county, Pa.
Fatatoes are so plentiful in Kansas as to be
hardly worth marketing. ..■.■.-..,-...
One steamer recently brought forty thousand watermelons to Boston.
By a fire at Waco, Texas, Thursday, the loss
was $120,000; insurance $80,000.
Georgia's constitutional convention has decided not to abolish the death penalty.
The authorities have prohibited the meeting
of the congress of socialists at Berlin.
Charlestown was chosen as the future capital of West Virginia in the recent election.
The Pittsburg Telegraph estimates that the
gun dealers of that city lost $18,000 in goods
stolen by the mob.   .
Texas is receiving large numbers of emi
grants from certain localities in'Pennsylvania
and New York;
A Cleveland firm U abont to erect a rolling
mill .at Monmouth, 111., the people of that
place subscribing $40,000 to aid in the work.
There has been another steamship horror,
this tims off the cost of South America, above
Valparaiso, a hundred lives being lost.
Three Arabian sheep, the first of the kind
ever imparted to this country, landed last
week on their way to the Zoological Gardens
at Philadelphia.
While the average daily receipts at the permanent exhibition, at Philadelphia, have been
$375, the daily expenses are $450. Now they
are goiDg to try Sunday.
The flouring mill of Wetherald Bros., at
Beatrice, Neb., was totally destroyed by fire
at 2 o'clock a. m., Aug. 20. Loss, $10,000 to
$15,000; insured for $5,000.
One of the shad put into the head water*
of the Alleghany River by Seth Green, was
caught at Tiltonsville, Ohio, yesterday, by
Richard Hagerman.   It weighed two pounds.
Several thousand dollars worth of rare fishes
at the New York aquarium, died Sunday, and
an analysis of the water shows the presence of
white lead, which it is supposed was maliciously thrown into the tanks.
The land case Involving the title of the
State of Kansas to over 236,000 acres of land,
being the aggregate of the grant to the Btate
under the act of 1861, admitting Kansas into
the Union, has been decided by the Interior
Department in favor of the State of Kansas.
Quite a remarkable discovery has been made
near Austin, Texas. A bed of fine hydraulic
clay, like that found on the Thames, in England, has been discovered, and a movement
to have it worked will be mads immediately.
This is the material from which the celebrate!
Portland cement is manufactured.
Sewabd A Co., BloomiDgton, Ind., will send
free to any address, their illustrated circular,
with price list ofthe best and cheapest sorghum
mills and evaporaters in the market.   33-4U
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