Yol. XII.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA OCTOBER 13,1877.
No. 41.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per Use, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Fabmx- for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of it when yon hear of the loss
of his stock.
FOB   SAI_JB.
EOR SALE-MI apple trees, 4 to 5 feet high, at
t8 per G; 10,000 do.. 5 to 7 fe-. t high, at f IS per
(ft y_ million first-class yearling Osage Hedge
plants at 81.25 per M; 1 year Concord grape vines,
No. 1, at 85 per C; Wilson strawberry plants at60 cts.
per C. Plums, cherries, etc., at equally low rutes as
above. Allot the above guaranteed to be flrst-class
snd in quantities to suit purchasers. Discount to
the trade. TKADQH A SON, Remington, Ind. 40 3t
F
OR 8ALE-16ih DUKE OF ATHOL, red, calved
.      February 1st, 18.6; got by Faiiholme, Dnke of
Athol 18244,out cf Red Blossom 2d, by Dnncan's
Alrdrie 5615. Bull Culves two to three months old,
with good pedigrees and good individual merit;
the get of Star Duke 2d 24U03, and Oakland Duke
21153. Also three Leicester Buck Lambs, two 2 year
olds, and two yearlings at 812 each, delivered at
railroad. J. T. V\ 1LL1AMSON A SON, Thorntown,
Ind. 412t
FOR SALE—It cotts no more to raise the bett
than the poorest,—then plant the Taylor Proline Blackberry; always bears, and ot the best quality, and very prolific. Sent by mall or express at
the rates of 10 for 81.00; 100 for 88 00; 600 for 835.00;
U00 for j.63.00, on receipt of money. JACOB TAYLOR, Spiceland, Ind. 41-4t
"TTIOR SALE OR TRADE—A large two-story frame
_E house, new, of 10 rooms; 4 marole mantles
well built; well, cellar, cistern and stable all ln
good order, with twoad]oluinglots;_aidlots33xlj3,
fn Indianapolis. O. (i. UaBBKKT, Columbus, ind.
_94t    '
FOR SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage,
for one or two horses; also, a Eurexa, jump-
seat carriage, in good condition. Both are bargains.
Call on or address ti. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market
street, Indianapolis. 3_U
FOR SALE—I have four thoroughbred Shorthorn bulls of good pedigrees and good individual merit; also a fine lot o( Polapd-uhlna pigs,
of both sexes, for sale at reasonable prices. Address
GEO. W. THOMAS, Homer, Ruth Uo., Ind.      iO-Bt
EOR SALE—My Breeding Boar Adonis 1149,
Vol. II, A. B. Record. Farrowed, April 15,1876;
ls well formed, neatly marked and a splendid
breeder, Address W. L. MALLOW, NewHoillnd.O.
39-lSt
"TTIOR SALE.-1EXA9 LAND WARRANTS—
J_ Choice farming lands for 25 cents an acre.
Ai ply to D. Edwards, at office of J. c. Fullenwl-
der, Room No. 2, Iron Block, Indianapolis.    41-4t
FOR SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage,
for one or two horses, at a bargain. Call on or
address O. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market street, IndianapoUs. | 27 if
j,,OR SALE-One fine Short-Horn Bull, 2 Short-
JD Horn Cows, with young Calves, and 1 Cow
soon to calve; all very low. J. BT* ITEBFIBLD, care
Indiana Fermer.       41-1t
E
EOR SALE-BRONZE TURKEYS—I have fifteen
young Bronze Gobblers which I will sell at
18.00 each if taken soon.   WM. FRY, Indianapolis.
S9-3t
EOR SALE—White Leghom Chicks.   Pure-bred,
and will be sold cheap lf .applied for soon
Address J. B. JAQUES, Farmer Office, Indianapolis.
40-St
FOR SALE—A t-w pairs of Dark Brahma chicks
at 83 per pair; to close out surplus stock.   H.
C. GREEN, Indianapolis, Ind. 40 4t
*W_-KT3*0.
"TTTANTED—Young Men and Women to prepare
T V for Copyists, Book-Keepers and Telegraph
Operators at the Bryant j& Stanton Business College
and Telegraph Institute, 44 South Meridian street.
Pemtmber the place, as an in'erior school is advertised under our college name. Address E. 8IM-
MONS A CO., proprietor, Indianapolis, Ind.    39-13t
"TTrANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
VV     Stock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.  Address J. W.
Lanktree jSiCo., 47 Thorpe Block, IndianapoUs, Ind.
10-ly(189) 	
AA*7 FARMER'S WANTED to send for de-
tjVJ I  script!ve and price circular of Poland-
Ihlna pigs and Fancy Poultry, which will be sold
low by HENRY COM-TOCK, Liberty Mills, Ind.
S9-4t
"TXT*ANTED— To trade a stock of agricultural im-
\ V    plemeote, houses and lots for a email farm.
Call at 94 W. Washington street 41-lt
-TTTA-ITED—To start a Hygienic Colony Farming,
YV    in Indiana.    Address L. H. KERSEY, 94
W. Washington street. Indianapolis. 41-2t
"TTTANTED—Farms of all sizes to trade for city
W    property.   Will take encumbrance.   A, M.
ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, InOianapolis, Ind.
 20-52t
WANTED—Indiana Farms.   Send descriptive
Blanks.   M. ARBUCKLE, Agent, 74 E. Market street 8713t
MISCELLANEOUS-
DECIDED BARGAIN3 to reduce our choice
breeding stock of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Essex, Chester White and Poland China pigs of all
ages.  Also sheep, cattle, and fancy poultry; n_est.
new breeder's manual, elegantly illustrated ani
giving full description ofthe different breeds. Price
25 cents. Beed Wheat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall. Prickly Comfrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts 14 00 per U0; 50 cents extra by mall.
Seed catalogue free. BENSON. BURPEE A CO.,
228 Church street, Philadelphia, Pa. 88-ly
MONEY to loan, in sums of 1500 to 85000, on improved farms. Money in Bank No delay.
RUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, 44K N. Pennsylvania Street Indianapolis, Ind. 20-tf-(10)
_3T_TX.LBTI3>3 .
"WAR D_t*PABTMIHT— SIQH » _ SKRVICK V. 8. A*RS_T. '
October 9fA, 1877,1 a. m.
Dsdicatioks.—For western Gull States, Tennessee
and Ohio Valley, warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather, light variable winds mostly from South;
stationary and lower pressure.
 .    _9>    .	
Wonders of Nature.—'The polypus,
like the fabled hydra, receives new life
from the knife lifted to destroy it. The
fly spider lays an egg aa long as itself.
There are 4011 muscles in the caterpillar.
Hook discovered 14,000 mirrors in
the eye of the drone; and to effect
the respiration §f a carp, 13,300 arteries,
vessels, veins, bones, etc., are necessary,
The\body of every spider contains four lit
. tie masses pierced with a multitude of
imperceptible holes, each hole permitting
the passage of a single thread, all the
threads, to the amount of a 1000 to each
mass, join together when they come out,
and make the single thread with which
the spider Bpins ita web; so that what we
call the spider's tkread consists of more
than 4C0O united.—Christian Freeman.
THE FARM.
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Postal Card Correspondence.
nroiANA.
To Onr Postal Card Correspondents.
Please Bend 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.
Stetjb-h Co., Oct. 1.—We have fine weather
at this writing and have not had any frost to
do harm yet. Corn is a good crop and nearly
all cut. Wheat nearly all sown and looks
well. Hogs are plenty and worth $4,25 per
hundred. 8. W.
Clay Co., Oct. 3.—We are having some very
fine weather at this time. Farmers almost
through sowing wheat; the prospect for corn
is very good; potatoes will not be an average
crop. Fruit of all kinds very scarce; no
peaches. A. J. M.
Obabgb Co., Oct. 1.—A large acreage of
wheat sown in this vicinity and it looks well.
Com good. Oats and hay in abundance.
Fruit very scarce. Potatoes good. Some hog
cholera; hogs scarce. Cattle enough for home
consumption.   Horses plenty and no demand:
J.B.
Hkhdeicks Co., Oct. 4.—Growing wheat
looks fine, more than an average crop sown
Hog cholera is very bad here. Stock in good
demand and selling at fair prices. Fruit an
entire failure in the northern part of the
county.   Considerable of sickness.
A. B. Con-KAXt.
Shiibt • Co, Oct. 9.—In this part of the
county there is a large acreage of corn, a good
yield and it is out of the way of frost. More
wheat sown than usual. It has been rather
dry for it, hut fine for corn, np to yesterday,
when we had a good rain. Apples scarce; they
fell eff badly. Hay was a good crop. Potatoes plenty. Some hog cholera. TheFabmkb
is well liked for its information on all farm
interests, and its decided moral tone.
M. S.
Obano- Co., Oct. 2 — On» the 16th of April
18771 broke a piece of ground 99 feet long and
33 feet wide and planted one ear of corn on
the same, drilled tbree feet apart one way and
two feet the other; covered with a hoe; manured on the hill from the poultry yard; ploughed twice with a single shovel and hoed three
times. The product?: 36 bundles of blades,
22 bundles of tops and 8 bushels of corn.
Who can beat it? Joshua Beinee.
Jay Co., Oct. 1.—Wheat in this part of the
county about all threshed; yield from 15 to 20
bushels per acre; no Fnltz wheat here. Wheat
all sown aud looks well. Farmers put their
ground in good order before they sowed their
wheat expecting to get a good crop by doing so.
Corn a pretty fair crop through this part of the
county.' Farmers have commenced feeding
their hogs. A fine lot of hogs to be fed here
and no cholera to amount to anything as yet.
The Fabmek is a welcome visitor.
M. L. Williams.
Miami Co., Oct. 1.—I saw in the Miami
Oounty Sentinel a notice of Geo. P. Koontz
having a pen of six very fine Poland China
pigs as white as the driven snow. I would be
pleased to be informed by the Farmer whether
there are any white Poland China hogs or
not? If there are I have never Been any nor
heard of them. [We presume Chester Whites
were intended.—Eds ] Wheat selling at $1,20;
corn, 35 cents; flax, $1,10; potatoes, 15 to 20
cents; apples, 75 to a $1, per bu., and very
scarce; hogs, $1,75 per cwt. No hog cholera
in this immediate neighborhood. Health
rather poor at present, but better than it was
a few weeks ago. B. H. Rank.
Tiftoh Co., Oct. 6.—There are heavy frosts
here. Com drying up nijely. Wheat looks
well, but needs rain badly. Early sown not
suffering as bad as the late sown. Our farmers need to arouse to the importance of early sowing. There was a large fire at Frank-
ton, Madison county, on the 3d inst. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. No insurance on property. I find the farmers are
losing considerable hogs here with cholera.
Some farmers claim that hogtrthat are not subjected to the ring in the nose, have no cholera, Has anyone investigated this matter? If
not, it deserves consideration and investigation. B. W. 3. Yandam_st.
We have no faith in the ring in the nose
theory for hog cholera, but facts show. Let
us hear from those who have had experience
in the matter.—Eds.
KANSAS.
Habvky Co., Oct.—We are about done sowing a large crop of wheat in this section of
Kansas. Our com is ripening fine and the
crop will be good. Wheat here is only 85 to
90 cents per bushel.   Plenty of potatoes, but
little fruit.          ■*-• I..
MINNESOTA.
McLbod Co., Oct. 3.—Our wheat went 25 to
35 bushels per acre. Com is a fair crop with
us also. Good stock is increasing in quantity
in this county, thia climate be very healthy for
all kinds. Though our winters are cold, they
are dry and healthy therefore for man and
beast. 'A. E. Cohvkb.
MICHIGAN.
Beahcii Co., Oct. 4.—A large acreage of
wheat sown here this fall, and it is doing well.
Our com crop ia maturing in good order. We
have an abundant potato crop. Stock is doing well and are generally quite healthy.
W. R. O.
OHIO.
Hbsbt Co ,Oct. 5.—The crop of wheat sown
here is much laigtr than for several previous
yeare, and though it has been dry it looks
quite well. Our com crop will be below an
average one. The swine diseases prevail here
to some extent.   Grazirg is still fair.
S S. OfjJSG-B.
Dark- Co., Oct. 5.—Large wheat crop sown,
and looks well. Pastures still good. Stock
generally healthy. Corn a fair crop. Fruit a
light crop. O. D. Chabi.es.
H-LINOIS.
Stkbliko Co., Oct. 4.—This section of country abounds with good stock, and our stock of
all kinds including swine, are free from disease. Stock men know how to handle them.
Our cropB were fair, and every one appears to
he on the top grade. S. F. Aveey.
Monto. meby Co , Oct. 5.—We have finished
sowing the largest wheat crop ever put in
here, and it is looking very fine for this season of the year. Our corn crop will be vt r/
light in nearly all this section of the State.
The other crops were fair. D. W.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
What la ItT
Maplk Gbovb, Mich., Sept. 29, '77.
To ths Editors Indiana irUrmer:
Wheat sown among corn about Sept. lst,
failed to grow. On examination, not a grain
could be found, having been entirely eaten
up excepting an occasional very small pert of
kernel.   What destroys it 1   Please explain.
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Sprouting Potatoes, '
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Will you or some of your many readers Be
so kind aa to tell me how to keep and sprout
potato seed? I have gathered some of the
balls and wish to grow them next fpring.
Jerome, Ind. J. Mehbekhal-.
Will some reader who has had experience,
please answer.—Eds.
The Sheep *Lavr.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I see in your last issue an account of the
sheep law which I don't understand. When
sheep are killed by dogs in this county, they
are appraised and the owners of the sheep are
paid by the township trustee, out of the dog
tax. The article on the sheep law says approved June 15th, 1852. Is not that an old
law ? If not, why is it paid out of the township funds and not by the owner of the dog?
B. F. Sstdxb.
Liberty, Union county, Ind.
A later law teems to give the owner of the
sheep that are killed the option of collecting
for his losses of the Township Tiustee if hehas
funds on hand; but in making application of
the Trustee he takes oath that he will not prosecute the owner of the dog under the law of
1852; the old law, however, was not abolished. /
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
State Itwi.
Madison county is to have five new iron
bridges.
Fort Wayne is considered the best show town
in the State.
Jasper county is without a tingle lincensed
liquor saloon.
Fort Wayne brewers sold 885 barrels of beer
in September.
The new opera house at Goshen when completed will cost $24,000.
Five hundred and eight pupils attend the
city schools of Frank fort.
The Rome City woolen mills sold over $100,-
000 worth of goods in August.
Lafayette dealers are barreling and shipping
hundreds of barrels of potatoes.
A colored baby carried off the first prize at
a Greensburg baby show last week.        .
Three thousand head of cattle will be fed at
the Knox Starch Works at Vincennes.
All applications to the Benton county
board for liquor selling license were defeated.
Some potato patches in Montgomery county have turned out 200 and 300 bushels to the
acre.
Eighteen applications for divorce will be
heard at the next term of the Clinton Circuit
Court.
Bartholomew county has a larger and better corn crop this year than ever before
raised.
A well-to-do Crawford oounty farmer, and
married, eloped with a seventeen year old girl
the other day.
Ed^ Sinclair, of Hartford City, fooled away
his best arm the other day by trying to stop
a flax brake with it.
A larger acreage of wheat will be put out in
this county this fall than for many years.—
Corydon Republican.
All tbe machine shops and foundries in
Muncie are running—something not done before for several years.
The Board of Directors have decided to rebuild the Soldiers' Orphans' Home recently
burned at Knightstown.
Wm. Hancock, of Decatur county, has got
himself into trouble by evincing a to great
partiality for a neighbors mutton.
John RobinBon, a Marshall county sinner,
went hunting last Sunday and was killed by
the accidental discharge of his gun.
The Cor. don Democrat sajs there has not
been less than $20,000 worth of fertilizers
brought to Harrison county this year.
Benton county has 264,960 acres of land, 4,-
960 acres of which is fair to good, the balance,
260,000 acres cannot be excelled in the State.
The Rochester Sentinel says quite a number
of families have lately moved from Fulton
eounty to Arkansas, and there are yet more
to go.
Thieves have become so numerous in this
section as to necessitate cattle dealers to watch
their herds day and night.—Fowler (Benton
Co.) Era.
The game laws are still in force and we warn
sportsmen that quails cannot be killed with
impunity.—Exchange. No, but a shot gun
will fetch them.
Moses Fowler has sold to W. H. Monroe, of
Boston, 800 fat cattle, to be delivered at Fowler on the 6th inst., for $48,0C0. The average
weight was 1,400 pounds.
The grasshoppers are doing some damage to
the wheat in Brown township. In many instances farmers are sowing their wheat over.
—Hancock Co. Democrat.
A saw mill boiler exploded on the 4th inst.,
ten miles east of Kokomo, tearing the mill to
pieces. Three persons were fatally injured.
The cause of the explosion is unknown.
Some enterprising fellow went to South
Bend and threatened to start a Limberger
cheese factory. The citizens subscribed a sum
of money to induce him to move on. He
moved.
Wm, Mahan, of Bunker Hill, was struck
on the head with a billiard cue in the hands of
Jos. Mola*)h during a saloon row, and fatally
injured, dying in a few hours. Molash was
arrested.
Frankton, Madison connty, was visited by a
disastrous conflagration on the 3d inst. The
probable lots is $60,000, with little or no insurance. It is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary.
Some boys were playing around an air shaft
of McClands old mines near Knightsville, j
when a ten year old son of Hugh Rainey fell
in. John Steele, his uncle, seeing him fall,
went down to get him and both were suifocat-
ed by foul air.
A Perry county man has four daughters-
Mary, Ellen, Susie and Charity—whose net
weight is in excess of 900 pounds. But the
greatest of these is Charity—weight 235.—
Rockport Democrat.
John Williams, horse trainer formerly of
Johnson county, but for the past three years
a citizen of California, was fined $100, in San
Francisco a few days ago for "Jockeying" on
the race course.—Franklin JeSersonian.
In this vicinity the hog cholera, this fall is
said to be more general and fatal than ever
before known here. Neither remedies or
cures seem to avail much in staying the work
of the destroyer.—Wabash Plain Dealer.
H. M. Rockwell, of Cloverdale, has etherial-
ized into space and the creditors that knew
him once will know him no more forever. He
is mourned in the. aggregate to the amount of
$11,000, partially secured.—Crawfordsville
Star.
The Bee Line train ran into a team driven
by a son of Mr. Hershberger, aged thirteen,
living four miles north of Pendleton, Madison
county. The boy and one of the horses were
killed, and the wagon was literally demolished.
Miss Ellen Conner, living four miles west
of this place, was bitten by a rattlesnake on
the 5th inst. The wound was in the foot. The
patient was treated successfully with the almost common antidote—whiBky.—Winamao
Democrat.
Some Evansville boys spread a thin layer of
sulphur on the ground, lighted it and covered
it with dust, and then induced some barefooted children to walk over it. The children were badly burned, and the little villains
who perpetrated the outrage will be brought
to justice.
Just at this time Harrison county and adjoining counties are being overrun with Equir-
rels. They are daily crossing the Ohio from
Kentucky, and seem to be extending themselves across the country in a northward direction. There was a similar but greater migration in 1833. _
GENERAL NEWS.
Washington Territory wants to become a
State.
Louisville is to have a new $50,000 work
house.
The total savings bank deposits of New England amount to $756,000,000.
Over a million gallons of petroleum oil are
daily exported from New York.
The United States annually ships over 100,-
000 boxes of clothes pins to England.
A Superior City saloon keeper has named
his resort "Nowhere," so that when men go
home late at night and their wives want to   _^
know where they have been,  they can safely I new.
'tellthe truth. !
The Britannia ware workers of Meriden
Connecticut, are on a strike for an advance in
wages of 25 cents a day.
In one shipment of cattle from Taylor,
Texas, there were 80,000 head. They were in
a fine, healthy condition.
The coroner of St. Louis is kept continually
busy, jjuicidee and deaths by accidents being of
almost hourly occurrence.
The President has issued a proclamation
placing all the unsold public lands in the State
of Arkansas on the market.
The failure of J. B. Stevenson A Co., grain
and commission merchants, Montreal, is announced.   Liabilitie», $390,000.
There are 172 Ytung Men's Christian Associations in Pennsylvania, being 76 more than
in any other State in the Union.
It is sickening to read in the telegraph that
three quarters of a million of people have died
from the effects of famine in India.
A fire occurred at a farm-house in St. Grs-
goire, Canada, by which five children were
burned to death and three suffocated.
An incendiary fire at Nanticoke a mining
town near Wilkesbarre, Pa., burned fourteen
building.   Loss, $25,000; mostly insured.
There are but two Catholics in the Senate of
the United States since the death of Senator
Bogy.   Those two are Keman and Spencer,
In France insurance can be had against
damage by frost. This sort of indemnity ben-
tfits wine growers who insure their grape
vines.
During theyear just closed the United States
sold 105,000,000 yards of cotton goods abroad,
ten times more than was exported the year
before.
John Flora, of Noadway county. Mo., squandered the top of his head in an effort to find
out if his gun was loaded by blowing in the
muzzle.
The total coinage at the United States mints
during September waa $7,056,200, of which
$4,492,200 was double eagles and $1,677,000
trade dollars.
The champion fat man of North Carolina is
0"-pt James F. Jones. He is six feet one inch
and kicki the beam at six hundred and forty-
seven pounds.
Mis. JeunettC Smith has recovered $6,000
from the city of Detroit for damages sustained
in falling through a hole in the side walk,'
whereby she lost a leg.
A Maryland farmer put his pipe in his pocket after a Bmoke the other day, and soon found
himself afire all over, receiving bums which
caused his death next day.
This appears to be an "off" year with presidents of savings banks. They are "off" to
Europe with most cf the cash ofthe institutions.—Norristown Herald.
Boston'pays $1,211,797 annually in salaries
to the teachers of its public schools. It has
50,819 pupils, and the average per cent, of attendance is asserted to be 92.8.
The State central committees ofthe Greenback and United Labor parties of Pennsylvania have agreed to unite for the purpose of
conducting the present State campaign.
French will be the popular language for
bachelors and widowers fo/ a season. Madame
Thiers has a fortune of $3,200,000 and no children.   References required of applicants.
George White, of Danville, 111., gave his
child an old revolver to phvy with not supposing it to be loaded. The child snapped it and
plngged the old man in the thigh causing a fatal wound.
William H. Vanderbilt, president ofthe
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, has
issued a general order to the officers and employes notifying them of an advance of 6
per cent, in their wages.
A Pittsburg Sunday school had a hundred
dollars in the Allegheny savings bank that
failed two or three days ngo. Ought to have
bought Bibles for the heathens, or fed starving
missionaries, or at least had a festival.
The American consul to Liverpool writes to
Washington that agood trade can be established by the export of American poultry to
England, not alone on account of price, but in
the superiority of over the English stock.
A Cincinnati German took his will to the
probate court for safe keeping. It was marked "deadly poison." He said he put that on
it to keep his wife from opening it. Any other
woman would have been in it in a jiffy to see
what kind of poison it was.
The National Association of Wool Manufacturers, in annual convention at Boston, expressed the opinion generally that it was impossible at present for our manufacturers to
contend in the markets of the world with the
cheap labor and low rates of interest of
Europe.
In 1840 Mr. Alvin Adams, the founder of the
express company bearing his name, who recently died in, Watertown, Mass., was not
worth a dollar. The week before he died the
express which he established carried in one day
$27,000,000, and at the present time that express company employs nearly 15,000 persons. In 1840 Mr. Adams, with one man and
a boy, did all the work.
The Tipton County Fair.
Correspondence ofthe Indiana Farmer.
The Tipton county fair was a success,
financially, this fall. It was held at Tipton, Sept. llth to 14th, four days. There
waa a very fine display of all kinds of
stock. Below I give a list of awards in
the swine department:
EKP.KS1IIBKS-31 BUTE-IS.
Boar 3 years and over, lst premium, W. A. Mate,
Sharp.ville, Ind.
Boar 1 year and under 2,1st, W. A. Mca-. 2d, H.
Tyner, Normanda, Ind.
Boar 6 months and uc der 1 year, let and ?d, W.
A. Maze.
Boat under 6 months, let, F. M. Haiflt, 2d,H,
Tyner.
Bow 3 years and over, 1st, W. A. Maze.
Sow 1 year and under 2, lst, W. A. Maze.
Sow 6 months and nnder 1 year, lst, H. Tyner; 2d,
J. Parri_h.
Sow and 6 sucking p'gs. 1st, W. A. Haze.
Five shoals 111 ter, 1st, W. A. Maze.
rOLAKB-CHMiS—32 ENTRIES. *
Boar 1 year and nnder a, 1st,
""   "     i,Ne
       . _., R. Stewart; 2d, D.
Wilkins, New Lancaster, Ind.
Boar under 6 month?, I st, D. Wilkins; 2d, L. Mugg,
Center, Howard county, Iud.
Sow 2 years and over, lst, L. Mugg; 2d, Jo. Turner,
Sharpsvillo, Ind.
Bow 1 year and under 2, lst, D. Wilkins; 2d, Jo.
Turner.
Sow under 6 montha, lst. D. Wilkins; 2d, J. Turner.
Five ihoats, lst. J. Turner: 2d, K. Stewart
SWEEPSTAKES OS HOGS.
Bo r of any age, Berkshire boar Sandy Jim, W.
A. Maze.
Sow of any age, Folan* China sow Lily Dale, Jo.
Turner.
Pair of pi j». under 6 months, R. Stewart.
The Berkshire sow Bennetta, 6 months and under
1 year, ol H. T) ner's, that took l»t premlnm, was
the premium pig given to Tipton county agent, H.
Tyner, for the Farmer last spring, by W. A. Mczs.
I would give awards on other stock,
but could not get it. The society paid
all premiums in full, and had some money
left. W. A. M.
Correction.
Ib the Editors Indiana Fa: mer:
We see your paper has joined in circulating
the erroneous report that we lost a cow worth
$2,000, at the Ft. Wayne Fair. It is so far
wrong that we have neither lost a cow worth
that amount nor were we at the Ft. Wayne
Fair this season at all. Our herd was show
ing that week at Rushville. We secured one
of Mr. T. S. Cooper's prize rams at the recent
State Fair to put with our prize winning flock
of South Downs. We are quite proud of hav-
YJ ing taken both first and second prizes in the
South Down class at the State Fair in each
ring we showed in. Our South Downs are
very popular. Yours truly,
S. Meeeditii & Son.
The School Book Question.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
I think the interest of the people ought to
be looked after in regard to the school book
question. I noticed an article in a late number of the Fabmeb on the Bubject. I agree
with the writer who signs himself Morgan
County. It will cost our township over $1,000
to purchase new school books tl is fall and all
for the purpose of filling the pockets of some
book publisher. We need the money for other
purposes. I think' the trustees who vote for
any each thing, are humbugs and Bhould not
have theplace. Isaac Haverstick.
Turkish Atrocities.
Baltim,.m, Md,, Oct. 5th, 1877.
Jons Bekbett, Sunman, Ind.
Dear Sib:—The thirteen chicks arrived safe
and all in splendid condition.   They are nice
birds and give perfect satisfaction.   Accept
| my best thankB.   I shall not forget your kind-
I remain Yours truly«
Wm. B. Pktzold.
The following- from the London Timers
correspondent in the Skipka Pass confirms
what has already been written respecting
the fiendish operations of the Turkish
hordes of irregulars south of the Balkans:
'"The valor of the Turkish troops needs
no further eulogium, but there all praise
begins and ends. While these 5.C0O or
6,000 men ofthe Regular Army are losing
their lives on the hills, the smoke from all
the villages at the base is going up in a
great cloud, and the Circassians and fiashi-
Bazouks are plundering and murdering.
If I was not an eye witness of this I could
not possibly believe it. I am seated in a
plain just out of range of the shell from
the Russian batteries. In front of me are
the headquarters of Suleiman Pasha, protected from the fire of the Russians by an
old Roman tumulus, of which there are
hundreds in the Valley of the Tundja. Between this tumulus and the entrance to
the Pass stood yesterday morning one of
the most flourishing villages in Turkey,
with upwards of 7,000 or 8,000 inhabitants.
Now it is a vast heap of smoking ruins, and
strings of robbers are passing away in the
direction of Eski Saghra and Yeni Saghra,
with carts, horses, mules and donkeys laden with the household stuffs of all the inhabitants indiscriminately. I defy a parallel to be produced for such a state of affairs. An army of men of all races, totally
and completely unorganized, armed by a
Government supposed to be responsible, is
allowed to hang about the rear and flank
of the regular army operating in its own
country. These irregulars are distinctly
here to rob and murder, to devastate the
land, trample the crops, slaughter the
old, ravish the young, and defile the
churches in the most ostentatious and revolting manner. Their enormities render
them unfit to live, and they have sown a
seed of hatred among the people who, after all, though numbers maybe massacred,
must come to occupy the land, which will
bear bitter fruit to remote generations."
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10,000 a year.   It is estimated that this
number die yearly in the United States of
Consumption.   Allen's Lung Balsam will
at once allay the pain and irritated part*.
j stop the cough, and prevent what would
I be consumption. 40 2t
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