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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA OCTOBER 27,1877.
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EXCHANGE IiEPAETMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
FOB  SA-_.
FOK SALE—It costs no more to raise the best
than the pcorest,—then plant the Taylor Proline Ilaekberry; always bears, and of the best quality, and very prolific. Sent by mall or express at
the rate9 of 10 for $1.00; 100 for J800; 600 for J35.0O;
1C00 for (160.00, on receipt of money. JACOB TAYLOR, Spiceland, Ind. 41-4t
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EOR SALE—Four pure-bred, healthy Berkshire
boars, large encugh for service, choice, only
110, Each boxed on cars; warranted to please you.
Also a choice Poland-China; selected for my own
nse, only S15. Please write to A. C. HARVEY, Lafayette, Ind. «-lt
'I7.0R SALE—My Breeding Boar Adonis 1119,
JJ 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.
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EOR    SALE.—TEXAS    LAND    WARRANTS—
Choice farming lands for 25 cents an acre.
Apply to "_>. Edwards, at office of J. C. Follenwl-
der, Room No. 2, Iron Block, IndianapoUs.    il-it
*tj10R SALE—Five extra large fat steers, for the
_JQ Christmas Market. See oeseription in Farmer
ol Oct. 20U_. Address ELIJAH (JLORE, Alamo,
Montgomery Co., Ind. 42-3,6,7
OR SALE—My Eerkihire Bosr, one year old;
.-    sired by an excellent Imported hog.  A
once if you want a bargain, to J.       ' ***
Martinsville, 111.	
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COMo-fcCI-,
12 2t
•TT-.OR SALE OR TRADE—A few goats, male Or
_E female; or will trade for Chester White or Poland China hogs, or Oottwold sheep. Write J. A.
ECKHART, Butler, DeKalb county, ind. 43 lt
TT.OR SALE—A flne Jersey bull four years old,
r     reSttered. warranted to be an excellent
bTeeder.   Addres B. T. WELLS, Vallonla, Jackson
county, Ind.
43 2t
EOR SALE—Partridge Cochins from the test stock
in Indiana.   Price from 83 to Si5.   Send for
circular.   JOHN M. SPANN, Indianapolis.
42-3t
THE FARM.
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Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIANA.
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OR SALE—A few pairs of extra Berkshire pigs,
»■ old enough for service; took first prize at Carroll Co. Fair. JAMES HASLET, Camden, Ind. 42-3t
FOR SALE—A It-w pairs of Dark Brahma chicks
at S3 per pair, to close out tnrplus stock.   H.
O. GREEN, Indianapolis, Ind. 104t
EOR SALE—Berkshire Pigs and Mnscova Ducks
JACOB RAQER, Williams Center. Ohio.   43-lt
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for Copyists, Book-Keepers and Telegraph
Operators at tho Bryant & Stratton Business College
and Telegraph Institute. 44 South Meridian street.
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YV ing, -nd take offices on the lines'. Salary S60
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weeks. Address, with stamp for circulars, INDIANAPOLIS TELEGRAPH INSTlTOTE, Bates Block,
opposite Postoffice. 42tf
"tTT*ANTED—Agents to Bell Navin's Explanatory
VY    Stock Doctor, the New Illustrated History
of Indiana, and fine family Bibles.   Address J. W.
Lanktree & Co., 47 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
10-ly(lS9)
TITANTED—To buy -walnut lumber In large or
VV     small quantities.   TUCKER jSi DORSEY, 15
Bates Block, Indianapolis, Ind. 42-ly
"TTTANTED—Farms of all sizes to trade for city
VY    property.   Will take encumbrance.   A, M.
ALEXANDER, 48 Vance block, Indianapolis, Ind.
20-52t
tTT*ANTED—Farms for cash or trade.   Address
YV    M.ABBUCKLE, Real Estate Agent, 74 East
Market St.	
3713t
 MISCEIAANEOTTB.	
DECIDED BARGAINS to reduce our choice
breeding stock of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Es-
Bex, Chester White and Poland China pigs of all
ages. Also sheep, cattle, and fancy poultry; finest,
new breeder's manual, elegantly illustrated and
§ tying full description of the different breeds. Price
5 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 Comfrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts S4.00 per ICO; 50 cents extra by mall.
Seed catalogue free. BENSON, BURPEE A CO.,
223 Chnrch sweet, Philadelphia, Pa. 88-ly
YOUNG MAN! Do you want a lucrative 8ltua--|
tion ln business? If so, attend the old reli- '
able Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block,
opposite the rostoffice, ln same baildlng In which
the Indiana Farmer Is published. Address, with
stamp for circulars, etc., KOERNER A GOODIER,
Indianapolis, Ind. 42-tf
FOR TRADE—I will trade White Oil Corn, Berkshire sow, L. or D. Brahmas, Sebright Bantams, Toulouse Geese or Pekin Ducks, for Jersey
hogs, Alderney calf, or offers. J. C. COMSTOCK,
Martinsville, 111. «■"
TO TRADE—A large quantity of choice selected
lands In Kansas for improved farms or city
property, or for sals on best ot terms at office of W.
F. MASON, 16>_ East Washington St., Indianapolis,
Ind. 43-6t
MONEY to loan, In sums of $500 to J5O0O, on Improved farms. Money in Bank No delay.
RUDDELL, WALCOTT A VINTON, 44U N. Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 20-tf-(10)
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.
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Mobtqomsbi Co., Oct. 16.—Crops are generally good. Wheat lcoks splendid. Hogs in
good health. Potatoes plenty and turn out
well. We, in this part of the country are getting along well. G. T. Hoffman.
Hekdricks Co., Oct. 20.—It has rained almost continually for the past three days. Corn
is about an average crop. We have a good
potato crop. Some of our farmers have been
looting a few hogs hy cholera. Com scarce at
43 cents; potatoes, 25 cents; cattle 41 and 5
cents. A. B. Copfman.
Hekey Co., Oct. 17.—Wheat is looking very
well here this fall. Ccrn is a fair crop and is
dry enough to crib. Potatoes are a fair crop.
Sweet potatoes scarce. Fruit almost an entire
failure, Fine weather for doing np fall work.
J. & S. Zirkle, of this county, made about 4,-
600 gallons of Sorghum molasses this season.
A.Y.
WashikotonCo., Oct. 19.—We have had but
very little frost yet. Corn all ripened up nicely. Wheat not quite all sown here yet. Early
sown wheat is full of fly; some are pasturing
it with sheep. There will be more wh. at sow n
here this fall than has been for several yeara.
Nearly everybody is dulling their wheat using bone dust, phosphate of lime, ashes or
salt as a fertilizer. W. A. Abmstboko.
Miami Co., Oct. 19.—Wheat is all sown and
threshing all done. The farmers are busy
thrashing clover seed, which is a good crop.
Clover seed ia worth |4,60 per bushel. The
growing wheat looks promising. We have
had a good deal of rain the past few days. Potatoes, a good crop, but not all dug yet; price
very low. The statement of the Miami County Sentinel tbat George P. Koontzhad a pen of
6 white Poland China pigs at the oounty fair is
a mistake. He had some very flne Poland
China pigs at the fair, but not of the white
variety. If there is such a breed it is not
known in thia part ofthe country. The_clothes
wire swindlers have been through this neighborhood and swindled a couple of our farmers
to the tune of a hundred and four dollars
apiece. I don't think they were readers of the
Fabmbb; if they had been they wculd not
have been taken in. Success to the Fabmeb.
M. H. Moon.
Boon- Co., Oct. 10.—My visit to Wbitelick
Grange was very pleasant, at least to me, but
one ofthe brethren that acts as your agent was
on hand taking notes for the Fabmeb, hence
I will not report, as requested by you. I had
not been in this neighborhood, four miles
southwest of Whitestown, for ten years. The
improvement in better houses, roads, farms
and the work of the underdraln is almost beyond my comprehension. Ground that was
formerly, covered with water the entire year,
is now covered with a heavy crop of com. In
traveling but a mile or two on the main road
to Indianapolis, I met five wagons loaded with
potatoes, and one with apples, all going to
your city to market, and I was assured that it
was no unusual thing to see 20 or 30 loads of
Irish potatoes leave the neighborhood for
Indianapolis in one day! and that this rate
would likely continue through the potato dig-
ing season. Drainage ond well directed industry has worked wonders for this neighborhood.  ^ A. FtJBKAS.
MISSOURI.
St. Chab_ks Co., Oct. 19.—Wheat is looking
excellent, the early sown covering the ground.
Good acreage sown. The Full z wheat did best
here this season.   Corn a fair crop.
F. Hoaoland.
MINNESOTA.
Mkekib Co., Oct. 17.—This State will have
a large surplus of wheat to sell this season,
and thus far it has been moving pretty freely.
Many of our farmers realized their former
heavy yields this season, and if prices keep
good it will stimulate a large* acreage of spring
wheat again.   Corn _b fair and forage plenty.
Walton.
IOWA
Cedar Co, Oct. 17.—Stock did well here
this season, and will enter winter in fine condition. We have an abundance of forage in
this State. The wheat threshes out as well as
written you before. Hogs doing well, and will
probably be marketed early in the season if
prices remain good. - J.
TEXAS.
Austin, Oct. 18.—We have had tremendous
rains during the pat t few days. Our State
Fair was to have commenced on the 16th inst.,
but on account of the rains it has been postponed until November 13th. Crops are first
rate, only apples, they are scarce at five cents
each. Weather very warm. Business lively.
Wm. Pakker.
ILLINOIS.
Fencing Against Stock.
W. A. A., Fredericksburg, Washington
county, enquires in regard to the stock law of
this State. He wants to know whose stock he
has to fence against, his own or his neighbors'?
It depends upon whether or not the Connty
Commit tioners in his com. fr/ ht ve ordered tl at
domestic animals may run at large in the
township in which he resides. If not, then
the act approved March 12, 1877, *» ill inform
him. This act reads: "If any domestic animal
break into an enclosure or, wander upon the
lands of another, the person injured thereby
shall recover the amount of damage done;
Providj-d, That in townships where, by order of the Board of County^Oommissioners,
said domestic animals are permitted to run at
large, it shall appear that the fence, through
which the animal broke, was lawful; bnt where
_uch animal ia not permitted to grt ze upon the
uninclosel commons, it shall not be necessary
to allege or prove the existence of a lawful
fence in order to recover for the damages
done!"
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Champaign Co., Oct. 20.—The late rains bave
put the grass to growing finely again, and if
the weather remains good, there will be fair
blue-grass grazing yet for a while. Corn is a
fair crop.   Wheat looks well in this section.
E. M.
Edgab Co., Oct. 18.—The growing wheat
looks fine. I tried the sowing of salt on wheat
•early last spring, and that I sowed salt on
stood up better than any of my other fields.
It undoubtedly makes the straw stiffer. The
wheat also yields well. I think different soils
require different quantities.        A. Stkono.
Shelby Co., Oct. 20.—Stock grazing is still
good here. Wheat looking fine and larger
amount than last year is sown. Corn fair crop
only.        B. D.
OHIO.
Miami Co., Oct. 19.—Fullz wheat grown tide
by side with two or three other varieties this
pastseasoD, stood up the best and yielded
more than any of them. If it does as well
next season I shall sow no other kind next
year. Corn is a good crop. Oar stock are in
fine condition for the coming winter.
A. G. Deitz.
Butler Co., Oct. 20.—Several weeks ago the
Fabmeb spoke ofthe value of the Fultz wheat,
on account of its flinty character as protection
against damages in rainy weather in harvest.
Lately I tested this by placing several varieties of wheat in water. When the other varieties had swollen and become soft the Fultz
wa? still preserved and good. I am satisfied it
is valuable on that account.
Olives Stzineb.
Habdin Co., Oct. 18.—The valuable reports
of the Clawson and Fultz wheat awaken more
than usual interest for seed, and more than
usual is lown. The growing wheat is looking
well.   Our corn crop is a fair one.      H. M.
QUERY AND ANSWER.
week
To Baltimore.
To the Ediiors Indiana Farmer:
Will you please state what a ticket from Indianapolis to Washington City, D. C, would
cost, over the Baltimore & Ohio E. R. and oblige. A Reader.
A first class ticket from this city to Baltimore costs $18,59. A first class limited ticket as it is called is sold for $16,25
The nidge—Apples.
'77.
Tilden .Ladles" Seminary
ia again in successful operation with ten
permanent teachers in the several departments. Pupils admitted at any time, and
charged only from the day of entering.
Winter session opens January 7th, 1878.
$75. pays for board, (with furnished room,
*and wood, lights, and washing), and instruction in the full English course for
one third of a year. Languages and ornamental branches, a reasonable additional
charge. Correspondence is respectfully
solicited with
Hieam Orcutt, A. M. Principal,
West Lebanon, N. H. tf
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Call on or send to W. A. & I. N. Pattison,
wholesale and retail druggists, No, 100
East Washington St., Indianapolis,'lor
pure drugs, medicines paints, brushes or
anything kept in a well regulated drug
store, then you will be waited on promptly and pleasantly. lti
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Watnetown, Ihd., Oct. 16, '77.
Mb. Bennett, Sunman, Ind.
g*.    The L. B. chicks came through safe; the
s| nicest I have seen in this part of the State.
"<b W. G. Gboves.
KENTUCKY.
Botjkbon Co., Oct. 17.—Stock have done
finely this season, and are very healthy generally. Grazing still fair ln this region. Corn
is a fair crop, and wheat was unusually good.
Growing wheat is looking well.        J. B. L.
Fayette Co., Oct. 19.—I tried the experiment
of sowing salt on a field of wheat last spring,
about two bushels per acre. Wheat on that
field had previously fallen badly, but this year
the straw was stiff, and in good condition to
harvest. Salt undoubtedly is good on some
lands to stiffen the straw, and the wheat also
yielded well. S. T. Jameson.
Michigan.
Lenawee Co., Oct. 17.—The wheat acreage
will be large here for the next crop. As before written, the yield was very large in most
instance with us, and quality excellent. Stock
hogs doing fine, and corn crop good.   W. C.
Jackson Co., Oct. 19.—The Clawson and
Fultz wheat both have their warm friends in
Michigan, but what the Faemeb says about
the Fultz is true, it bas stiffer straw, stands up
better, and will not damage so soon by wet
weather. The flour from it is not quite so
white, but the millers now make good flour
from it. The yield of both were good in this
State. 8.
Fredericks, Oct., 19,
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
■ Iwill ask a few questions. You, or some
of your readers will please answer. What
is the midge that works on wheat, how
does it work and when ? It is something
that we have not been bothered with, or if
we have it we do not know it by that
name. It would be very interesting to me
for some one that knows, to write a chapter
every week or so on apples, to be published in the Faemer, giving the name of
the apples, when they get ripe, the color
and size. A. B.
Washington County.
The Midge is a small fly, with short proboscis and long legs', resembling the gnat,
sometimes called the sand fly. The name
is also often applied to one of the species
of small flies that infest wheat, the American wheat insect, Cecidomyia Tritici.
This latter is a very small orange colored
gnat, with long, slender, pale yellow legs,
and two transparent wings. Its eyes are
black and antennas long and blackish. They
appear in spring and summer according to
Harris. The same writer says the far-
famed Hessian fly, and the wheat fly. of
Europe and this country, ate small gnats
or midges and belong to the family called
Cecidomyiadre, or gall-gnats.
If any reader will send some of the flies
that are now infesting the growing wheat,
we will describe and name them in a future number.
State News.
Snow fel at Angola, Steuben county,
befoie last.
Burglars are driving a paying business in
Valparaiso.
Pikt county is bragging about her big crop
of potatoes.
The Baptists of Laporte are building a $50,-
000 ciurch,
Hancock county regaled herself with a corn
fair Saturday last.
There is ta'ik of Kosciusko county building
a ne? court house.
A Clinton county woman has 3,000 bushels
of apples this year.
A yomen 104 years old is an inmate of a
Lafayette hospital. '
ixty children have died from diphtheria
th$_ fall in Cass county.
here is agocd dealofhay stealinggoingon
and ahimt Williameport.
artholomew county has four papers pub-
ed within her borders,
crse thieves are operating quite extensive-
m the western part of the State.
A perfectly white squirrel was killed by a
St. Joseph county sportsman last week.
W. A.JFordyce, of Waveland, has ethereal-
iied into/space, and his creditors mourn.
3amu«l Bridge, of Madison county, had 23
head of sheep killed by dogs one night last
week.
New < orn 13 coming into market in small
quantities. The quality is good.—Winchester
Herald.)
The country press now has its columns full
of profase thanks for big potatoes, pumpkins
and things.
A m<Jb was feared at Greensburgh the other
day wtien a negro baby carried off the prize at
a baby show.
Wesley Wolfe, of Morristown, Shelby connty, committed suicide on the 18th inst, by
taking laudanum.
Judgments amounting to over $100,C00
have been taken at the present term of the
Owen oounty court.
Farmers complain that crickets and other
insects are injuring the growing wheat in Randolph county very badly.
The Winchester Herald mentions the marriage of a couple whose ages were respectively
seventy-four and sixty-four years.
The cholera is playing havoc with the hogs
in the vicinity of New Salisbury. Scores of
them die almost daily.—Corydon Republican.
An Indianapolis stock dealer has made arrangements for the purchase, transportation
and -ale of 20,000 head of Texas cattle this
winter.
Charles Silas Horton committed suicide at
Logansport, Tuesday, by hanging himself in
Joseph Dagnes's barn. It is thought he was
insane.
Farmers near Cynthiana are through with
wheat-sowing. It is thought a greater area has
been sown this year than ever before in that
section.
The chronic grumbler is still croaking. And
this right in face of the largest paw-paw crop
Madison county ever harvested.—Anderson
Herald.
Fort Wayne is considerably excited over
the discovery that hogs which had died of
cholera are sold as fresh pork in the markets
of that city.
Growing wheat never looked better at this
season of the year than it does now. The recent rains brought it out wonderfully.—Crawfordsville Journal.
A. D. Elliott, of Mulberry, Clinton connty,
lost a barn which, together with its contents,
was valued at $2,000 by fire, on Monday the
15th inst.   No insurance.
Petty thieving is becoming a burden to the
good people of Harrison county. Complaints
of depredations on smoke-houses, granaries,
etc., come from all directions.
A tramp named" Richard Brown in attempting to board a freight train at Vandalia, on the
13th inst., slipped and fell under' the wheels.
They reduced him to powder.
A boy named John Essenmacher, of Richmond, was shot in the abdomen, Saturday
evening, by a companion named Miner, who
was carelessly handling a revolver.
Mike Galooney, who murdered Thos. Lan-
non, a Kokomo policeman, in August last,
has been found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to be hanged.
The lowest estimate of the cost of running
the Marion county $2,000,000 court house, outside of the court?, is $19,000 per annum. This
includes gas, coal, water and janitors' pay.
Farmers along White river report hogs unusually scarce. Hog cholera has been eo des"
tmctive of late that farmers are afraid to engage in the business very extensively.—Owen
Co. Journal.
Robert Hamilton, a married man, of Milton township, Allen county, is in jail on a
charge of outraging the person of Catherine
Amelia Wasthe, a fifteen.year-old daughter of
a neighbor.
John Thomas, of Dubois county, tried to
stop a buzz saw by catching it with both
hands, but it was a miserable failure and if
John ever catches anything again he will doit
with his teeth.
J. B. Ptfiley showed us a sample of apples,
tf the Golden Russet variety, which he had
put up a year ago. They were in good condition
and Bhowed that this is a good apple to put up
for winter.—Ladoga Journal.
A lively young alligator, two and a half feet
long, was caught in the Ohio river opposite
Evansville, one day last week. ThU is said to
be the first instance iu which one of these reptiles haa been foundso far North.
A barn belonging to Franklin Martin, near
Plymouth, was burned on the 13th inst. Three
hundred buBhels of wheat, 200 buthelsof oats,
25 tons of hay, 2 separators and many agricultural implements were lost. No insurance.
That part of the roof of the court house
which covered the court room, felldown upon
the assembled solons, at Brookville, Franklin
county, on the 13th inst. None were fatally
injured, althcugh many were more or less
bruised.
The Montgomery county commissioners are
attempting to abolish one of the growing industries of the connty, by offering a $100, reward for tbe arrest and conviction of every
horse thief, when the the ft is con-axitted in the
county.
Fifteen emigrant wagons passed westward
over the Wabaih biidge within an hour, on
the 12th inst. About the same number passed eastward. The star of hmpire seems undecided in its present movement.—Terre Haute
Express.
The cranberry crop that was supposed to be
eo large in this region, has nearly turned out a
failure. The patch owned by Peter Young
turned off a thousand bushels in 1872, and
this year, when the prospect was just as gcod,
he realized seven bushels.—Crown Point Register.
GENERAL NEWS.
Diphtheria is epidemic in Pittsburg.
The Cardinal Annibal Capolti is dead.
In her lifetime Palti has received $2,000,000
for singing.
It is .reported that the Hessian fly is destroying the growing wheat in Illinois.
The colored people of Louisville are meeticg
in churches, talking np emigration to Kansas.
A Texas farmer raises enough Chinese tea
to supply his own family and several neighbors.
The wheat crop of the present year is estimated at 325,000,000 bnshels, the largest ever
grown.
There are but three colored members of the
present House of Representatives, and one
Senator.
The steamer Kupton Hall of London has
been sunk at sea by collision, and twelve lives
were lost.
Mrs. Nancy Valentine, 114 years of age, died
at Bottle Run, Alleghany County, Md., the
other day.
Seven million seven hundred and ninty-
three thousand people voted at the recent
French election.
The colored people of St. Louis want the
city to establish free kindergartens especially
tor their children.
More Chinese are leaving California than are
coming in, and the Iruh and German population are rejoicing.
The repairs oh the locks of the government
canal at Keokuk are completed, and boats are
now passing through.
Tweed states that it cost him $600,000 to get
out of Ludlow-street jail and stay out for the
two years he was abroad.
The highest railroad bridge in the United
States is on the Cincinnati Southern line
across the Kentucky river.
A feature of the Howgate polar exploring
expedition will be the use of baloons for exploration and observation.
The new chaplain of the house of representatives is a Methodist clergyman, of Virginia,
having been a preacher for 50 years.
The New York Produce Exchange will bring
suit for damages by the Pittsburg riot last
July, directly against Allegheny county.
A man in Bloomington, 111., is building
corn-cribs so extensive that 70,000 feet of lum"
ber will be required in their construction.
The Russian Journal reports 50,434 Russian
troops killed and wounded thus far in the little unpleasantness now in progress over there.
Sugar and molasses, the first of the season,
are coming into New Orleans. They are the
same old style, but are still as fashionable as
ever.
The iron workers in the Clyde ship-building
yards have demanded an increase of wages.
The masters have resolved on a lock out which
will involve 2,000 men.
One steamer at New Haven, Conn., is ready
to sail for Constantinople with 2,150 tons of
ammunition, valued at $?,000,000. Another
steamer is ready to load. "        '     *'
Melican man should stop making fun ofthe
"heethen Chinee" for while the English language is spoken by 84,000,000, the Chinese language is f poken by 350,000,000.
Two little boys, seven years of age, were recently arrested in New York, and the charge,
"drunk and disorderly," put opposite their
names on the station house slate.
The failure is announced of S. E. Thompson & Co., tobacco commission merchants.
Liabilities are estimated at $200,000 to $250,
000.   The creditors are mostly in the West.'
The President has ordered a pardon issued
to James White, of Cincinnati, under sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for complicity
in the election frauds in Cincinnati in 1876.
At Cambridgeport, Mass., on the 17th inst.,
bonds amounting to $20,000, and a large
amount of town and railroad bonds, were
stolen. A reward Is offered for their recovery-
It is Bald by prominent Englishmen that, by
a fair estimate, the famine in India will cost
the Indian Government $65,000,000 exclusive
of the loss of revenue and other indirect effects.
King Steven Bratnag has been buried and
mass said for the repose of his soul. He
reigned over Poland 300 years ago and. his remains were discovered at Cracow Cathedral,
lately.
The beauties of modern banking is exemplified in the failure of the Union Banking
Co., of Baltimore. It showed up $4,000 of assets, $12, of which ia in ca_h. Liabilities,
$58,0C0.
A tramp had such a fearful experience while
stealing a ride on the Union Pacific that his
hair turned white in a single night. Now he
will be round begging money enough to get a
bottle of hair dye.
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is the center of
a district of about two ji lies in which diphtheria is prevailing as an epidemic. There
have been thlrty-fcur deaths in a fortnight,
and twenty persons are now more or less dangerously ill.
A cit'zen of Cincinnati, instead of paying
his plumber his account of $300 for services
rendered, sued him for injury caused by the
careless and unskillful way in which the work
was done, and recovered damages to the
amount of $2,000.
The other day a mean man out in Western
Iowa went off into a quiet country place and
died so quick that his wife got his insurance
money before the company had time to fail.
The president says he never felt so swindled
and cut up since he has been in the business.—
Burlington Hawkeye.
Professor Bell, the discoverer and inventor
of the telephone, refuses to sella machine, but
rents them for $10 a year, and 3,500 have been
rented in tour months. It costs less than $1 to
make one, and it is believed that the expenses
can be even brought below this. Over 500 are
in use in New York city alone.
The other day a man rushed into the wholesale grocery house of H. E. Redfield, of St.
Louis, and asked the book-keeper to change a
ten dolls mote. At the same moment another man attracted the attention of the bookkeeper in an opposite direction, and the first
man dexterously abstracted $150 in cash and
$3,000 in drafts, checks, etc., and escaped.
Thomas Scolt, of Vermilion county, 111.,
went out of hia house one evening last week
to look for his eight-year-old daughter. He
saw what he thought iu the uncertain light
was a strange dog approaching him at some
distance, picked up a piece of timber, threw
it savagely, and broke three of his daughter's
ribs.   Her recovery is considered doubtful.
State Grange—Eligiblity to Membership.
Marion, Ind., Oct. 18, 77.
To the Editors Indiana Farmer:
Many inquiries are being received as
to who are eligible to be elected Delegates
to the State Grange. Please publish in
next number, the following answer to
such inquiries:
Masters, Past-masters, and their wives,
who are matrons, are eligible to such
election. The only change contemplated
in the law is to allow all fourth degree
members in good standing to vote at such
election.
The State Grange will meet at Mitchell,
Lawrence county, on Tuesday, the llth
of December next.    Henley James,
" M. S. G.
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Premium No. 45.
TJtica, Iud., Oct. 19,1877.
To the -Bitter* Indiana Farmer:
Premium No. 45, the trio of Bremen geese
came to hand a few. days ago, and when
they recovered from being cooped and
shipped they showed up nicely, so white,
and the largest I have ever seen. With
thanks to Mr. W. H. Anderson and the
friends giving mo their names for the Far- ]"$\-
Mer and with a wish for the continued
success of your valuable paper, I remain
Yours truly,
G. W. Swartz.
V.4.