vol. m
INDIANAPOUS, INDIANA, OCTOBER 20,1877.
No. 42.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Fabmek for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of it when you hear of the loss
of his stock. *
FOR  BAI_K.
*T***(OB 8ALE-50) apple trees, 4 to 5 feet high, at
Jj J8 pert*; 10,000 do., 5 to 7 feet high, at 515 per
C; 21_ million flrst-class yearllrg Osage Hedge
plants at $1.25 per if; 1 year Concord grape vines,
No. 1, at 85 per <*; Wilson strawberry plants at 60 cts.
per C. Plums, cherries, etc., at equally low rates as
abote. All ot the above guaranteed to be first-class
and ln quantities to suit purchasers. Discount to
the traae. TKAUGH jfe KON, Remington, Ind. 40 3t
TJ-tOR SALE-16th DUKE OF ATHOL, red, calved
JD Fe-Wu-ry 1st, 18' 6; got by FairhUme, Dnke of
Athol 18214, out cf Bed Blosiom 2d, by Duncan's
Airdrie £615. Bull Calves two to three months old,
with good pedigrees and good individual merit;
the get of Star Duke 2d 24903, and Oakland Duke
24153. Also three Leicester Buck Lambs, two 2 year
olds, and two yearlings at 812 etch, delivered at
railroad. J. T. WILLIAMSON A £ON, Thorntown,
Ind. 41-2t
TjfiOR SALE—It coEts no more to raise the best
JD than the pcorett,—then plant the Taylor Proline Blackberry; always bears, and ol the best quality, and very prolific. Sent by mall or express at
the rates of 10 lor 81.00; 100 for ("8 00; 500 for 835.00;
10OO for 860.00, on receipt of money. JACOB TAYLOR, Spiceland, Ind. 41-4t
EOR SALE OR TRADE—A large two-story frame
house, new, of 10 rooms; 4 marble mantles
well built; well, cellar, cistern and stable all In
good order, with two adjolnlr. g lots; said lots 35x1.3,
l Indianapolis.   G. Q. UABBEKT, Columbus, Ind.
Sj9-4t
EOB SALE—A good, nearly new family carriage,
for one or two horses; also, a Eureka, jump-
seat carriage, In good condition. Both aie bargains.
Call on or address G. H. 8HOVEK, 174 East Market
street, Indianapolis. 33tf
EOR SALE—I have four thoroughbred Shorthorn bulls of good pedigrees and gocd individual merit; also a fine let of Poland-China pigs,
of both sexes, for sale at reasonable prices. Address
GEO. W. THOMAS, Homer, Rush Co., Ind.     10-St
'CTOR SALE—My Breeding Boar Adonis 1149,
JD Vol. II, A. B. Record. Farrowed, April 15,1876;
is well formed, neatly marked and a splendid
breeder. Address W. L. MALLOW, New Holland, O.
 89-13t	
EOB SALE.—TEXAS LAND WARRANTS—
Choice farming lands for 25 cents an acre.
Apply to D. Edwards, at office of J. C. Fullenwi-
der, Boom No. 1, Iron Block, Indianapolis.    41-4t
TT.OR SALE—A Rood, nearly new ramlly carriage,
_______}    for one or two horses, at a bargain.   Callonor
address G. H. SHOVER, 174 East Market street, Indianapolis. 27tf
TTIOR SALE—Five extra large fat steers, for the
- JD    Christmas Market. See description In Farmer
of Oct. 20th.   Address ELIJAH CLOBE, Alamo,
Montgomery Co., Ind, 42-3,6,7
EOR SALE—My Berkshire Boar,, one year old;
sired by an excellent imported hog.  Apply at
once if you want a bargain, to J. C. COMSTOCK,
Martinsville, IB. 42- 2t
"TT.ORSALE—Partridge Cochins from the best slock
Jj ' in Indiana. Price from 83 to SS5. Send for
Circular.   JOHN M. SPANN, Indianapolis.       42-3t
FOB SALE—A few pairs of extra Terkshlre pigs,
old enough fcr service; took first prize at Carroll Co. Fair. JAMES HASLET, Camden, Ind. 42-3t
TTIOR SALE—A lew pairs of Dark Brahma chicks
__L_ at 83 per pair; to close out surplus stock. H.
<J. GREEN, Indianapolis, Ind. 40-4t
WAH-CSB,
TTTANTED—Young Men and Women to prepare
YV - for Copyists, Book-Keepers and Telegraph
Operators at the Bryant jS; Stratton Business College
and Telegraph Institute. 44 South Meridian street.
Eemtmber the place, as an inferior school is advertised under our college name. Addresa E. -SIMMONS j_t CO., proprietor, Indianapolis, Ind.   39-13t
WANTED—300 Young Men to learn Telegraphing, and take cilices on the lines. Salary 860
to 875 per month can be earned In ten to twelve
months: Address, with stamp lor circulars, INDIANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INaTlTDTE, Bates Block,
opposite Postoffice. 42tf ■
TTTANTED—Agents to sell Navin's Explanatory
VV    Stock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and flne family Bibles.  Address J. W.
Lanktree A Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
10-ly(189)	
Ckf\rj FARMER'S WANTED to send for de-
tJ\J I  scriptive and price circular of Poland-
Ihina pigs and Fancy Poultry, which will be sold
low by HENRY COMSTOCK, Liberty Mills, Ind.
_9-4t
WANTED—Farmers to call and examine ship-
sail cloth lor wagon-covers, pulleys and
ropes, snd water proof horse covers. OHAHLES
THATCHER, 78 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis,     lt
TTTANTED—Farms for caih or good Kansas or
VV    Texas Lands and cash.   Address
M. ARBOCKLE, Keal Estate Agent, 74 E. Market St
3713t
TTTANTED—To start a Hygienic Colony Fanning,
W    in Indiana.    Address L. H. KERSEY, 94
W. Washington street. Indianapolis. 41-2t
TTTANTED—To buy walnut lumber in large or
VV    small quantities.   TUCKER A DORSEY, 15
Bates Block, Indianapolis, Ind. 42-ly
TTTANTED—Farms of all sizes to trade for city
VV    property.   Will take encumbrance.   A, M.
ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indianapolis, Ind.
20-52t   .
MISCELLANEOUS.
DECIDED BARGAINS 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; finest,
new breeder's manual, elegantly illustrated and
giving full description of the different breeds. Price
25 cents. Seed Wheat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall. Prickly Comrrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts *4.00 per lt-o; 50 cents extra by mall.
Seed catalogue free. BENSON, BURPEE A CO.,
223 Church street, Philadelphia, Pa. S8-ly
YOUNG MAN I Bo yon want a lucrative situation in business? If to, attend the old reliable Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block,
opposite the postoffice, ln same building ln which
the Indiana Farmer ls published. Address, with
stamp for circulars, etc., J-OERNEB A GOODIER,
Indianapolis,, Iud. 42-tf
MONEY to loan, in sums of 9500 to 85000, on improved farms. Money in Bank No delay.
- KUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, U% N. Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 20-tf-(10)
*BXTI'LETI3M .
WAB DEPABTMENT—SIONll SERVICE TJ. S. -AK3T**.
October Wh, 1877,1 a. tn.
Isdio-tions.—For western Gulf States, Tennessee
and Ohio Valley, warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather, followed at Western Stations by rain
areas, variable winds, mostly from Southeast, falling barometer.
THE FARM.
Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIANA.
To Onr Postal Card Correspondents.
Please send yonr 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.
Hamilton Co., Oct., 9.—The acreage sown
in wheat here is said to be donble that of last
year. Thos, R. Cook.
Spenc-b Co., Oct. 4.—Health is poor in this
connty.. Crops good. Weather cool and dry.
Grangers are plenty but weak.
A. M. Bayliss.
Fuinam Co., Oct. 15.—There is a large acreage of wheat sown in this county and early
sown is locking fine. Corn a good crop and
mostly all cut. Hogs are doing fine, no cholera in this part of the county. Cattle demand
a gocd price at this time. Potatoes a good
crop. Fruit very scarce and prices very high.
The Fabmeb is liked by all who take it.
B. F. B_u_j_-B.
Wayne Co., Sept. 29.—Not having seen anything from this part of the State lately, I will
give you a few lines. Wheat looking well, but
needing rain badly. Ctom not over two-thirds
crop. Potatoes plenty and selling at from 25
to 35 cents per bushel. Mr. Williams has a
pumpkin vine, of the mammoth variety, that
bore two- pumpkins whose aggregate weight
is one hundred and fifty seven pounds, the
largest weighing ninety-seven pounds. Who
can beat it ? And your humble servant has a
potato weighing one pound and thirteen
ounces. Avon.
Gbeene Co , Oct. 8.—Weather very fine for
the time of year. Seeding all done. More
wheat sown this fall than usual. Corn crop
very good. The Greene County Agricultural
Society held its eighth annual fair Oct. lst to
Sth. The weather was very favorable and the
fair wa3 a success. We had a good show of
stock of all kinds, and also of grain and vegetables. ' I exhibited my Poland China pig received as a premium for obtaining subscriptions for the Indiana Fabmeb, given by M. C.
Stanley, Bloomingdale, Ind. She received
first premium in her class and also sweepstakes oyer all. W. A. Habbin.
Pleasantville, Ind.
Cabbom, Co.. Oct. 12.—The weather haa
been showery for some days past, rain enough
has fallen to keep the wheat growing rapidly.
Wheat never looked better atthis time of the
year; a large acreage has been sowed. The
frosts for the last ten days are helping to dry
up the corn, which by the way will be a good
crop. Potatoes are so plenty that they don't
taste good. Apples scarce. Hogs are plenty
and healthy. Cattle are in good* condition.
Good steers are in demand at fair prices.
Prices of produce are: Wheat, $1,20 per bu.;
oats, 18 cents; com, 33; flax seed, $1,00; clover
seed, $4,25 to $4,50; potatoes, 25; apples, $1,00.
This'county with her prtsent crop and prices
will make some money in spite of "Sherman-
ism" and high taxes. James Haslet.
D_lawAbe Co., Oct. 15.—We are having
very fine weather at thia writing, but are needing rain very badly. A large acreage of wheat
sown in this county and most all in good condition. A large quantity of bone dnst haa
been used by our farikers, drilling in with their
wheat. Corn is abcut an average crop; the
last three weeks has been of great value in
ripening the latecorn, and a great amount of
it was of that kind as the spring was backward. Oats good, but not many raised, as
good seed was scarce. Hay in abundance. Apples are very scarce; potatoes were a good crop
turning out better than expected, but not
many planted. Some of our farmers are
loosing a few hogs by cholera, mostly in the
southern part of the county. The grangers
have completed alarge new hall at this place,
which they intend to occupy in part as a store.
Wheat is selling at $1,00 to $1,10. Old com is
scarce and 50 cents is wanted; oats sell at 25
cents; potatoes 25 cents. Stock hogs,4i to 41.
Fat cattle (young) 31 per pound.
M. Dbake.
MISSOURI.
Clabk Co., Oct. 11.—Our com crop in this
part of the State is a good one.   We had a
good wheat yield, and much more sown again
than last year.   Growing wheat looks fine.
CO. Eaton.
MINNESOTA.
McLecd Co., Oct., 10.—Our wheat crop"
threshed out equally up to our expectations,
previously written you. Yield 25 to 30 busH-
els; Corn will make a fair crop here. Potatoes quite plenty. Stock is in a very healthy
condition. A very large wheat crop will be
sown for next season.    '       S. T. Acs-tin.
IOWA
Cedab Co,, Oct. 12.—This section of Iowa is
more and more abounding in fine stock of
nearly all kinds. Our farmers have found that
feeding poor Btock is no better than burning
up grain or having it destroyed by flood. We
have good crops in this part ofthe State of all
kinds nearly. Fruit is not in abundance,
however.   Stock is healthy. D. W. A.
P-U>
y^-M&MM
^*m?tiffin
VA/*//
/T^
^s^%_
^=yyy^'-^r-r-^.
i_?*S=i^r'-j**'-*=i\r_.-w——-~-o*"v.- :=sy^=rt ._ _
Somb Down Back, Ami ley End.  The property of lion. John Wentwcrtb, Chicago.
IIOjINOIS.
Effingham Co., Oct. 13.—The growing
wheat looks better than I ever saw it at this
season of the year. A very large acreage is
sown here. The com crop will not be large,
but better than many supposed two months
ago. Sidney Eoss.
Richland Co., Oct. 13.—Oar growing wheat
is looking fine, the wheat is covering the
ground on the early sown fields. Com well
matured, and only a fair crop. Stock generally doing well. F. O.
Wayne Co., Oct. 10.—We have quite alarge
number of stock hogs in this section, and will
have a good deal of surplus corn to feed.
Wheat made a fair crop here, and a good deal
is sowd, and looks fair.      Davm Allison. <j
OHIO. .
Logan Co., Oct. 12.—Our growing wheat
unusually large in acreage, is looking very
fine in this section. Fair prices now, and anticipation of such in the future, stimulated
the sowing of a large acreage. Stock generally in fine condition and healthy. Corn crop
fair. M. E. Calvebt.
Dabke Co., Oct. 4.—Health here has not
been so gocd; there are a great many cases of
fever and ague. The weather has been very
dry for three weeks which is not so good
on wheat, which is up and looks well considering the weather. There was considerable
wheat sown here this fall. The farmers are
done seeding and the boys are busy gathering
hickory nuts. Wheat in some cases turned
out well, in others but 13 or 14 bushels per
acre. Oats and barley were good. Corn will
be about an average crop. Apples about half
a crop. Peaches none. Success to the Fabmeb. W. W.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
Patching Boots.
M. N. W., asks for a recipe for a preparation
for patching gum boots. Dr. Chase gives the following cement for mending leather boots and
shoes. Perhaps it will answer for gum boots.
Raw Gutta Percha, India rubber, 1 oz.; resin
size of hen's egg; bisulphuret of carbon, 1 lb.
Dissolve the gutta percha in the bisulphuret
add the resin and when all is dissolved, bottle
for use. The leather must be clean, and-
scraped a little to make it adhere. It holds a
patch upon fine leather very satisfactorily.
Remedy for Unnis and Scalds.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Having seen various remedies for burns arid
scalds in your, valuable paper, I thought 1
wonld send one. It is Bicarbonate of sod*,
moistened and applied immediately. ■'
W. 0. Wiltse. •
We see this remedy strongly recommended
by medical men. It is undoubtedly the best
known antidote for the ailments mentioned,
and should be kept in every house for emergencies.
Wind Clall.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Will you or some one of the many readers
of the Fabmeb tell me what will cure a wind
gall on a horse's leg, and oblige J. H.
Owen county.
"Stonehenge" in his valuable book on The
Horse gives the following recipe for a liniment
to be used for wind galls, etc.: "Strong mercurial ointment, 2 ounces; Camphor, t ounce;
Oil of Rosemary, 2 drachms; Oil of Turpentine, 1 ounce. Mix and apply till cure is effected."     .
Sowing Land Plaster.
To IM Ediiors Indiana Farmer:
Please answer the following: lst. The time
to eow plaster on wheat. 2d. The amount per
acre. 3d. The kind of soil most benefited,
and what the benefits are to a wheat crop. 4th.
Where can it be obtained? A Reader.
Answeb.—lst. Sow in the morning or after
a rain, as soon as the sprouts come in sight,
though some prefer to wait till they are some
six inches high. 2d. About one hundred
pounds to the acre. 3d. Plaster will improve
crops on any soil. Of course the advantage
will be most easily seen on poor soils. The
ratio of benefit varies from 10 to 50 per cent,
according to soil, etc. 4th. It can be obtained
most cheaply at Grand Rapids, Mich,, where
it is largely manufactured.
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
State H«-i,
There are 20,000 Masons in Indiana.
The Kankakee is reported fall of ducks.
The hog cholera has broken oat in Porter
county.
Richmond, Indiana, has its first colored policeman.
The crop of tramps will be unusually heavy
this fall.
The hog cholera is producing sad havoc in
Posey county.
The capacity of Indianapolis elevators is
750,000 bushels.
Hog cholera is still on the rampage.—Pike
County Democrat.
The receipts of the Ligonier, Noble county,
fair were about $1,200 this year.
Work is in progress on the new railroad between Bedford and New Albany.
The Ohio Falls Car Company paid out $11,-
000 during the past month for labor.
Benton county has $1,000,000 worth of produce to sell, including corn, beef and pork.
* More than  one hundred sheep were killed
by dogs in a single night over in Ripley county.1
Moses Fowler will feed 1,600 head of cattle
on his Benton county lands the coming winter.
There seems to be an abundance of wild
game in the woods of Noble connty, especially lurkej s.
At Warsaw the other day death relieved a
man who had been having a chill every day
for three years.
John Baker, a Rush county gentleman, has
been sent over the load for three years for
hypothecating cattle.
Two saloons in Edinburgh took in within a
fraction of $1,200 during fair week. Of course
times are hard down there.
John Hill, of Monroeville, while intoxicated, lay down on the railroad track at that
place and woke up in eternity.
The occupants of the State House having
moved to more favored quarters.the old ruins
are given over to bats and owls.
One family in this city named Ishmael**, one
hundred and thirty-eight in number, live off
the charity of the Township Trustees.
The Belt Railroad and Stock yards of this
city will be completed and opened for the
transaction of business November 1st.
A large number of horses have died recently in the vicinity of Fowler, with a disease-
that has baffled the best of veterinary sur
geons.
Lockridge, Bridges & Co., of this county
sold last week forty car loads of 1600 lb cattle
at 51 cents per pound.—Green Castle (Putnam
Co.) Star.
The residence, bams and out houses of J.
O. Moore, of Howard county, was fired by a
tramp on the 12th inst., and all destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
Wm. Arnold, aged eight years, was run
over and instantly killed on the llth ins t., by
a freight train on the Pittsburg & Ft. Wayne
road, at Ft. Wayne.
The city of Elkhart has increased her man-
usacturing interests by the introduction of a
knitting factory, which gives employment to
40 women operatives.
The owner of Red Cloudhas finally decided
that the famoua horse will never recover from
the lameness with which he has been afflicted
for the past three years.
Dick PearsoD, of Montgomery county, deposited a lot of his best fingers in the maw of
the insatiate buzz saw the other day. He did
not know that it was loaded.
George Bosse came to grief in thia city the
other day for attempting to sell a piece of
paper. The objections urged by the authorities was that it looked too much like a $5.00
note.
By an explosion of the boiler in a heading
factory at Muncie, on the 10th inst., two men
were killed, several injured and the building
taking fire; $30,000 worth of property was destroyed.
The Fulton county board of education decided at a recent meeting that the right to vote
for teacher of a district school belongs to those
alone who have a child or ward to send to
school.
A Mrs. Dearinge, of this city, one day last
week discovered a small pimple on her face
which caused her death in twenty-four hours.
A fatal case of erysipelas having developed
from it.
Montgomery connty never had such a crop
of com as the present one. A large amount
of wheat has been sown in that county, and
report says it never looked better at this season
of the year.
Vint Nickey and Will Feathers two Randolph county friends went hunting the other
day. Nickey fired at a bird and the doctor has
been burrowing in his friend's face ever since
for bird shot.
Sixty persons left Grant county last week
seeking homes in Alabama. Next spring they
will be coming back and with a statistical turn
of mind will try to ascertain the number of
cross ties on the route.
An Elkhart township trustee tried to get a
resolution passed by the board of education,
prohibiting school teachers, of both sexes,
from sparking or being sparked in the county
daring the term of their schools.
The potatoes in many localities in Noble
county are rotting in the ground to such an
extent that fears are entertained that, despite
the fair promises of an abundant crop, they
will be scarce before spring. The peachblow
variety seems most affected.
GENERAL NEWS.
North Carolina is working eighty-one gold
mines.
The direct loss to California by the drought
is $:o,ooo,ooo.
It takes 150,000,000 postal cards annually to
do the business of the country.
One New York bank has just tsken out $2,-
250,000 of bank note circulation.
The Oilman forgeries in New York will, it
is thought, reach seven or eight thonsand dollars.
The Black Hills has its disadvantages. A
man was hung out there the other day for
lying.
The New York Herald says a poetical contractor has named his harbor dredge "Mud
Mauler."
The largest flouring mill in New York
state is to be erected at Niagara Falls, at a cost
of $100,000.
Treasurer Foster of the Grand Trunk R. R.
is the last one to get away. Amount of steal
ing unknown, but hea**,y.
Asiatic cholera is raging in Japan and China,
but the foreigners seem to be peculiarly exempt from the dread disease.
Licensed gambling houses have been established all over the city of Mexico, and are
causing much scandal and misery.
Newton Campbell, of Scott county, HI., has
buried six children within two weeks. Their
deaths were caused by scarlet fever.
Murden> are getting to be so common in
Towa that some of the papers are calling for
the restoration of the death penalty.
A memorial building was erected in Boston
not long sines to the memory ol Tom Paine.
It is now to be sold under an execution for
debt.
Moody and Sankey began their regular
winter's work last Sanday, and propose to
confine their efforts to the New England
States.
The fall apple crop is immense. Southern
Illinois will have enough to furnish the north-
sections where the crop was killed by the late
frosts last spring.
Danville, 111., whiskey must be powerful in
ita effects, as Patrick Carey, a bug juice mixer-
ologist was fined $15,00 fol killiDg a customer
with a dose of it.
The little State of Illinois alone pays $15,-
000,000 annually for chinch bugs. Or at least
so said State Entomologist Thomas at the last
Illinois State Fair.
The Spanish government has paid the American minister $570,000 on the account of claims
for losses incurred by American citizens in
Cuba throngh the revolution.
The supreme court of the United States has
decided that a stipulation against suicide in an
insurance policy releases the company when
self destruction is committed.
An Indiana editor says: ' Coal oil, rubbed on
the neck and head will cure hog cholera." We
have tried it. Who can dispute testimony
like that?—Cin. Saturday Night.
Russell, Lewis & Co., of Portland, Maine,
have suspended, owing to heavy losses consequent upon the depression of the lumber
trade in South America. Liabilities are vtry
large.
ii- A considerable riot occurred tt Mcea.em
townshipTBubuque county, Iowa, bn election
nignt~between Irish ar.d German citizens.
Some 60 shots were interchanged, end a number wounded.
The tteamship England has been Beized by
the revenue authorities, on the charge of being connected with silk smuggling frauds.
The vessel is valued at st ven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars,
George Stephenson, the great engineer, is to
have his memory honored at Chestei field, England, by the erection of a great halJ, which
will cost $60,000. It is to be used for purposes
of higher education.
A little fellow eleven years of age while playing with his sister in Louisville, the other day,
ran -"gainst the corner of the steps and crushed in his breast bone, rupturing his heart and
killing him instantly.
The Danville, 111., News gives a rather scanty wardrobe to a bridegroom at his wedding.
It says: "the bridegroom was dressed in a
manly face and a happy smile," An airy costume for this latitude.
The Cuban loan, which the Spanish government guarantees by pledge of colonial customs, will be increased by five millions this
year and by twenty millions next year, to defray the expenses of the war in that island.
In denying*thatthe Rev. E. P. Hammond,
the Evangelist, has been stricken with brain
fever, the Hawkeye says that it appears that
the fever got after him and got him down, but
was unable to find anything to work on, and
let him up in disgust.
The coming season in Washington promises
to be one of the liveliest, if not the most brilliant, for many years. Furnished houses are
renting like post trader-shipp, and the boarding establishments in and around the city have
put on their gayest war-paint.
P. T. Barnum, an expert in the business,
says: "I have seen a good many people humbugged during my life, and have been humbugged myself, but I have notice.1 that more
persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too
much."
An explosion took place yesterday in a colliery at Pemberton, Lancashire, England. Of
over forty miners in the pit, only five, so far,
have been rescued. Three rescuers have been
suffocated. Forty persons perished by the explosion. Only two ofthe bodies have been
recovered.    	
The South Down buck, Audley End,
represented in the engraving on this page
was purchased for Hon. John Wentworth,
Chicago, in England in 1872. He is said
to be one of the best bucks ever raised in
that country and is sire or grandsire to all
the ewes in 3Ir. Wentworth's herd.
Getting Ready for Winter.
A writer in one of our exchanges
thoughtfully offers the following suggestion on the work of preparing fuel for winter. He says a good commodious wood-
house is one of the indispensib.es on every
farm, and if you, reader, have not one on
your place, by all means put one up soon,
and thus enable your wife to use dry wood,
thereby saving both of you a vpst amount
of trouble and bad temper, for we have
seen a farmer's wife lose her temper when
she had to use wet, soggy wood, when almost all other trials Jailed lo stir up her
combativeness.  ■
Winter is the time when the woodhouse
should be stored with wood enough to last
all the spring and summer month,?, all cut
into suitable lengths and made conveniently fine, and piled up neatly, ily having
the wood cut during winter, it will have
dried out by summer and and thus afford
pleasant summer wood, the opposite being
the case if being green or if only partially
seasoned wood is cut just when wanted all
through the year. Let all hands work at
the woodpile 'till it is full, for many hands
make light work. If you have a horse
power on the place, get a circular ran
and bench and rig up a machine on which
you can, in a few days, cut enough to keep
you splitting for a couple of weeks. The
knots and pieces hard to split can be piled
away until pig killing, to be used in heating the large kettles of water used for
scalding purposes.
_ ,—_,___..	
Ikdu—Better Ci-oiv.—All irnmediBte
apprehension of famine in Northern J*uli,i
next year has passed away, though hij-Ji
prices and some pressure on the poor will
remain until the spring crop in as-u/H.
Emigrants from the threatened tract* are
already returning home, and agriculture
is active everywhere.
K"_-***^» SS_fcMs*___.
SSiF5,.