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VOL. XV.
ETOIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1880.
NO. 38.
FOBSAUB.
[-lORSALE-Flne American Merino bucks.  I. N.
.     P01.CH. Bloomington, Ind.
F
OR  Sale-Winter   Oats.    FRED   B.   HEARS,
Washington, Daviess county, Ind.
FOR SALE—Spanish Merino sheep from registered fiocfcs. WM. HYDE TURNER, care 18 West
Maryland street.
FOR SALE-Chotce high grade bull calves, ready
for nse; flne milkers   lso.   Address O. W. ALLEN, Dana, Ind. 	
FOR SALE-Three nice Berkshire male pigs,'™r
months old at reasonable price. Address INDIANA FARMER CO.
FOR SALE-Pure Taylor Prolific BlMkberry rooU
for fall or spring planting.   Address JACOB
TAYLOR, Spiceland, Ind.   	
FOR SALE—Winter Oata at (1 per bushel;  bags,
SBc.itra.   Addr«s J.  D.  S. SMIlH, Owens-
ville, Gibson connty, Ind.
l|iue j^taclt.
FOR SALE—Farms—In various parts of Indiana,
by* M.   ARBCCKLE,  Agent, 53 East Market
. street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
EOR   SALE—Short-horns—Young   bulls,   bull
calves and heifers, with good pedigrees.   E. S.
FRA ZEE, Glenwood. Rush county, Ind. »
FOR SALE-Srholarship complete course In Indianapolis Business Commercial College. Address
J. H. V. 8MITII, Indianapolis, Indiana.
FOR SALE—Fine farm of 100 acres, near Acton,
and 12 miles of this city on a pike, fj.r $'.,000. M.
ARBUCKLE,58 East Market street. Iudlanapolls.
FURSALE—3-5-8—Hoed Grain Drills cheap for
cash, or on short time. INDIANA EX-
I'HASOE, 18 Mid 20 West Maryland street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
FOR SALE-50,000 Peach and Wild Goose Plum
trees. Also a Hue lot ol Irish Junipers, Balsam,
Fir and Hemlock. H. M. SIMPSON «fc CO., Vincennes, Indiana.
FOR SALE—Improved  farm. 76 acres, 4 miles of
city, near   Brightwood.   At a  bargain  aud on
easy terms.   cnAS. E.  COFFIN, 34 North Dela-
. ware street, Indianapolis.
FOR SALE—The largest stock of Fruit and Orna-
namental Trees. Shrubs, Vines, etc.. In the
West. H. M. SIMPSON A CO., Proprietors of Knox
Nurseries, Vincennes, Indiana. eow
FOR SALE—The Danville Nursery win sell apple
ofthe best sorts and from medium to large size
for }7 per 100, and other things In proportion. Will
commence digging about October I.
FOR SALE—l.'UO.OOO Strawberry, Raspberry. Currant, Gooseberry and Blackberry plants. Send
us a list of what you want and we will give special
prices.   H. M. SIMPSON A CO., Vincennes, Ind.
FOR SALE—The Indianapolis Nursery will offer
special Inducements to parties buying to a,
piy their neighborhood, or to plant. Address T, .
BARNUM, 134 North Pennsylvania Btreet,Indianapolis, Ind.
FOR SAY/E-Sheep—400 ewes, 200 ewe lambs; 1
Southdown buck 2 years old; took lst premium
at Tndfana State fair'1879. Prices low. Address J.
F. MICK, No. 669 North Alabama street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
F
OR SALE—Fifty stands of bees, all in good ron-
     ditlon, at auction, Wednesday, September 22 at
9 o'clock a. m., at my residence four tquarts northwest of the Atlas Works in the city of IndianapoUs.
MRS.C. E HAMLIN.
FOR SALE—A farm of 1S5 acres. 5 miles south of
Vincennes, 2 houses, I barn, orchard, never falling well, good springs which run out on pure gravel,
the ouly gravel bank within miles, rich soil, suitable
for stock or grain. Address WM. I. SEARS, Vincennes, Ind.
FOR RALE—Two young Jersey bulls and two bull
calves ol the very best butter family in the
State. Dams make from 12 to 14 lbs. of butter in 7
days, also 4 young graded Jersey cows. Would trade
some ol the above stock for a good work horse. T. J.
JOHNSON, Greencastle, Ind.
FOR SALE—Thoroughbred Jersey hnll,13 months
fawn, black nose, tongue, and switch. Golden
yellow hide. His color will please the mo t fastidious breeder, of butter stock. Butter records of ancestry lemart able. Price, $28 on cars. For particulars write GEO. W. KIMBLE. Greencastle, Ind.
FOR SALE—A farm of 146 acres lying one-halt
mile north of Bloomington on Indianapolis
road; 90 acres ol the land cleared, balance in timber.
There is a good brick dwelling house on the farm, a
frood barn and a splendid apple orchard. The land
s watered by springs of pure water, and ls well calculated for a grain or stock farm. For further particulars apply on the premises or address MA RY A.
ROBERTSON, Bloomington, Indiana, P. O. box 452
FOR SALE—A very choice farm containing 160
acres, permanent spring water, excellent soil,
in high state ol cultivation, with house, cellar, two
barns, double cribs, with carriage and wagon shei-s,
and all necessary outbuildings. It belongs to beirs
and can be bought at a bargain. Situated near Pendleton, Madison county, Ind. For further particulars, call on, or address A. C WOOD, Greensboro,
Henry county, Ind., or CHARLES HAINES, Pendleton, Madison countr, Ind.
Cold rains will reduce flesh and wash out
much of the yolk, thereby greatly lessening the weight of fleece.
 m   	
The stock dealers in and abont Ashland,
Mo., favor the establishment of monthly or
weekly county stock sales.
C. F. Darnell, last week sold several
Cotswold sheep out of his late importations.
They went to good breeders Ih and out of
this State.
Our coming State fair will be tho center
of attraction for every kind of thoroughbred stock. The flne stock exhibit promises to eclipse tbat of any previous State
fair.
P. A. Byars, Simpsonville, Ky., reports
to the Farmers' Home Journal the following sales of sheep: To Dyer & Pratt, of
Kokomo, Ind., 50 Cotswold ewes, 12 rams
and 10 Southdown--.
own the animal in common. From this
point of view the "can't-afford It" plea disappears; for if necessary, a pool; ot$5 each
can  be  formed.   In just  thatj way
A farmer in Iowa estimates that the
profit of raising one two-year-old Shorthorn steer for market is equal to that on
18 scrubsteors, which have to be kept three
years or more before they are saleable.
mm,
Colorado and New Mexico have grown
within two or three years to be formidable
rivals of the old sheep States, but the
drouth has so greatly crippled the leading
shepherds of that region that they cannot
recover their lost ground within one or two
seasons.
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Calves ought to be nourished exclusively on milk—undiluted—till three
months old; replacing each quart of milk
reduced per week by linseed cake, about
one ounce at the commencement. Never
dilute the milk; give it pure; and when the
calf desires to drink water allow it to do so.
Capt. H. C. Meredith, Cambridge City,
has lately sold thoroughbred Cotswolds for
breeding purposes to several of the well-
known breeders of this stock in this State.
Several of the sales are of imported stock,
and nil from the imported flock. The prices
realized were good,sho wing the growing interest in the Cotswold sheep.
Allen & Sons, Smith's Grove, Ky., sold
at public sale the following Cotswolds:
Fourteen one,two and three-year-old rams,
which averaged $19 28 per head, also 52 one,
two and three-year-old ewes, which averaged $9 72, and 19 ewe and ram lambs,
which averaged $8 50. Besides these were
sold 60 common ewes at from $2 25 t« $2 50
per head. 	
The Cab Company of Paris has 13,000
horses, and since seven years has been experimenting under the direction ofthe eminent chemists, Messrs. Grandeau and Le-
clerc, how to economically nourish them
without detriment to their health and
working powers. The problem has been satisfactorily solved, by partly substituting
maize,beansand oil-cake,for oats.and which
has resulted in a saving of over one million
francs per annum. ,->
HCUC EI_I_ASfEOU-«.
BOARDING—By the week, day or meal. MRS. J.
A. MILl_s, 793 North Tennessee Btreet, Indianapolis, Indiana.
IF  you want to  buy a farm at  low cost and upon
very easy terms, apply to THOS. C. DAY, Room
24 Thorpe Block, Indianapolis, Ind.
©OK WATCHES. 4 oz. silver cases for 118. Every
CpOsJ watch Jeweled and warranted two years.
When ordering state name of express office. Watches
sent C. O. D. with privlledge of examining before advancing any money. N. A. STEVENS, Jeweller,
Brandon, Wisconsin.
WAJITED.
\\r ANTED—Iowa,   Kansas and Nebraska lands.
YY    Address G. M. BALLARD, Indianapolis, Ind
M
ONEY to loan on Improved Farms at 7 per cent.
Interest.  M. E. VINTON, Indianapolis, Ind.
MONEY to loan on farms at 7 per cent. Interest.
My terms are lair and liberal. THOS. C. DAY,
87 BhSt Market street, Iudlanapolls, Ind.
An Ohio and Mississippi train, recently made the run from Mitchell to Seymour, forty miles, in forty-four minutes,
according to a local paper.
. The fair of the National Fair Association, organized under charter from Congress in 1878, will be held in the city of
Washington, D. C, Oct. 5 to 16. The
association oflers $25,000 in prizes, and
competition ia open to the world. A
eopy of their premium list has been received from Edward C. Dean, secretary.
Mb. Edison says that he has completely solved the problem of electric
lighting. In the October number of
the North American Review he will
state the advantages of electricity over
gas, and explain how the new light is to
be introduced. The October number of
the Review will be looked for with great
interest.
Milking qualities in swine are as surely
transmissible to progeny as in cattle. Thus
it is as true of swine as of cattle that this
trait may be greatly improved by retaining
only good milkers for breeders, as well as
by feeding them when young with a view
to their development as milk-producers,
rather than as fat-producers. For this reason spring and early summer litters are
usually thebest from which to select young
brood sows.	
C. C. Shaw, of Licking county, Ohio, has
the following to say touching the weight of
Short-horn calves, calved the present season: "I have three Short-horn calves, one
calved April 5 and Weighed August 9,
weight 380 pounds. Another Juno 19,
weight August 9,191; both heifer calves.
A bull, calved July 3, weighed August 9,
209 pouuds. The first calf was, when
weighed, 126 days old; second, 51, third, 37
days. If any one can beat them I would
like to hear from them.
IMPEOVIHO THE STOCK CHEAPLY.
Many farmers suppose that because they
cannot buy a herd or a flock that therefore
they must be content with growing scrub
stock. On this subject the Live Stock
Journal iterates what wo have frequently
urged, in the following: It doesu't require
a section of land, nor a big bank account,
to mate a beginning. You need not go to
England, nor even to a sister State, to get
the "blocd" which is sure to "tell." Oood,
reliable breeders of Short-horns, Herefords,
Holsteins, Jerseys, etc., are scattered all
through the States, and will supply, at reasonable cost, a young bull or a lew cows,
or whatever may be desired. A pure-
blooded bull calf can be bought all the way
from $50 upwards, and bred to native cows,
will give half-blooded animals which,
when grown, will sell readily at high
figures, when the "scrubs" are not wanted
at any price. If any farmer says he hasn't
|50 to spare, let him join his neighbor, and
the
breeders of Madison, Clintou, iind other
counties in Ohio, in early day's, formed
their associations for importing Shirt horns
from England, and the great results accomplished point the way for the common
farmers of to-day.
TROTTING HORSE BREEDERS.
Proposed New Classification of
Horses at Fairs—National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders.
An association of trotting horse breeders
bas been formed in New York, and explains through their president their purposes to managers ot fairs as follows:
As a representative of the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, I take
the liberty of asking your co-operation  in
disseminating  intelligence  that   will   be
more definite and specific as to the different
breeds of horses, and the  special purposes
for which they are bred.   At your  annual
exhibitions, with  scarcely  an exception,
you have classes for "thoroughbreds," and
classes for "draft horses," embracing all
ages and sexes.   These two classifications
are definite and easily comprehended, but
between these extremes  you  have  other
breeding    classes,   such   as ' "roadsters,"
"horses of all work," "Quick draft,"  etc.,
that fail to describe the particular type of
horse intended.   Exhibitors are confused,
and judges oftentimes exclude 'meritorious
animals because, in their judgment, they
are not in the right class.- Th6se indefinite
classes, midway between the running horse
on the one hand, and the heavy draft horse
on the other, embrace the most useful and
rehlly the most valuable animals  that  we
have.   A large share of them have  some
measure of trotting blood, and th claim tti
have it.   The most attenuated shadow of a
trotting inheritance is niagnifl^> into-geri-
uine trotting blood,  in  the nX*(tf**tr~tlJo
owner, and ho not  only  deceives himself
but leads his neighbors Iuto" unprofitable
lines of breeding.   To  remedy  this  evil,
which prevails all overthe land, and to save
men from making dupes of themselves  or
being duped by others, the National Association of Trotting Horae Breeders has assumed, the control of the  registration of
trotting pedigrees, and adopted a set ot requirements for the admission of animals to
registration as standard bred trotters.   The
practical workings of this standard  of admission will result in establishing a breed
of trotting horses.   To this most desirable
end, the various agricultural associations
can contribute very effectively.   It is  too
late to accomplish anything  this  year,  as
your classifications are already made  up,
but it is a favorable time to begin to consider the question with a view to action in
the future.   If you will provide a class for
standard bred trotters, embracing all ages
and sexes, in the room of some one of your
classes designated as "roadsters," "horses
of all work," or "quick draft," you  will
simplify your premium  lists and  at  the
same time impress  upon  the  public  the
great importance of breeding for a purpose.
It is not necessary to  elaborate. this  idea
further, as your judgment canaot fail to accept it as a movement in the direction of
progress.   For any additional, information
please address Mr. L. D. Packer, Sec'y, 111
Broadway, New York,
practice is ruinous alike to cows and calves.
Any cow of good milking qualities will
give'more milk than the calf can take for
two months at least. The cow's bag is liable to be ruined, and she is injured as a
milker; after the calf takes the milk-her
bag, being sucked out frequently, is not allowed to distend, and she receives another
injury, which, if a heifer, is ruinous to her
milking qualities. The cow and calf become so attached to each other that weaning becomes very difficult and sometimes
impossible. The calf at weaning time frequently receives a backset from which he
never recovers.
Sheep and  Wool Convention.
Ccmtnissioner Le Due, of the Department
of Agriculture,"has called a meeting of all
those who are interested in auy way in the
sheep and wool industry ofthe country, to
be held in Philadelphia, under the auspices
of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, on "Wednesday, September 20,1880 at
11 o'clockja. m.iin the main Centennial building.
The ol ject is to bring together all those
engaged in sheep brooding, wool growing,
and wool manufacturing.   He announces
that the following subjects will be considered: "Advancement of thegeneral interests
of the wool grower," "prompt and systematic distribution by the Department of Agriculture of all information, concerning the
supply of flock products aud the demand for
them," relative advantages of our Bheep
breeding states and the breeds best adapted
to them," "methods of shearing and* packing sheep  and  of packing  and  growing
wool for the market,"  "benefits  resulting
from the introduction of pure blood into
our native flocks," "management of sheep
in summer and winter," "grades ot wool
which this country must produce in order
to supply the demands of the looms, and
ho.w to best produce them." ' .
■••  ■ -    i  _m *■ y\' —' *
Kidd'b Combination-Sale of Short-
,.. ~._...y:^.^^:,:m>inBy.:.y?^:V.;-.. »■
The attendance the second"day was fully
as large as the first day. Most of the cattle sold were not first-class nor in good sale
condition. Seventy-eight Short-horns aggregated H150; average, $53 20. The highest price was for a Young Mary cow, three
years old, sold at $180, and her six months
old cow calf at $130;'a four-year-old Gwynne
fetched $145, and* a four-year-old Australia,
$125.—Ky. Live Stock Record.
being too small. You need have no fear of
cutting a tumor until you reach below its
base.
Cut it Off.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a young horse that has a kind of
warty sore on his Up at the corner of his
mouth; has been there three months; was
named a surface wart by a local doctor, but
does not get any better by his treatment,
nor with ours. Did have something tbat
appeared like it on one let'ock, but it has
fone away, but another has come between
nee and fetlock -joint. The place on his
lip covers a space of some three inches
Equare, has become ir.flamed the last few
days, and smells badly. Horse in medium
flesh, eats and drinks well, does not appear
as bad as it looks; think it must be a little
in his blood; have Deen working him some;
no galls appear from harness.       0. J. B.
If the wart is elevated, cut it off smooth,
then have a flat piece of iron heated up to
a white heat, and cauterize, or burn until
the roots are destroyed. You must cast
the horse.
duce well. We have some hammock on
nearly every farm. Some oftheseimproved
lands can be bought very cheap $2 50 to $5
per acre. We also have thousands af acres
of timber lands for turpentine and saw mills
at from 40 cents to $1. R. S. S.
WASIICrOTON TEBBITOBY.
Parminoton, Aug. 23.—We had a very
wet, cold, late spring, moreso than ever was
known on this coast. Everything looks
extra well, but is so very late. Harvesting
just commencing; half tbe grain perfectly
green yet. No corn for table use yet.
Very dry at this time. J. N. B.
Spokane Falls, Aug. 24.—This season
has been very dry and the crops will average about three-fourths of usual amount
yet so little grain is sown in comparison to
area of agricultural land that a true idea
ofthe country's capacity cannot be formed.
Fruit is abundant where trees are. Stock
is very fat and more is coining in the country. Land is increasing in value and the
North PScific railroad will soon be completed to this point. Labor rates from $20
$60 per month. S. H.
Cheapest and Best Jileat.' '
The cheapest meat for the farmer is mnt-
toD. It may safely be said to cost nothing,
as the fleece from a sheep of good breed
will amply pay for its keeping. Then, for
additional profit, there is a lamb or two,
the pelt of the animal if killed at home, the
excellent manure from its drbppings and
the riddance of the pasture from weeds, to
which sheep are destructive! foes. With
the exception of poultry, mutikf _ is also the
most convenient meat for tha. farmer. A
sheep is easily killed and dre-*$ed by a single hand in an hour, and in jthe warmest
weather it can be readily disposed of before
it spoils. Science and experience both
declare it the healthiest kind of meat,—Live
Stock Journal.
Raising Calves.
I am, says an Irish farmer, a strong advocate of hand-raised calve*). Indeed, I
believe it tobe the only proper way to raise
a calf. To be sure, it is not nature's way,
but we have made some advancement. . In
the native state cows give milk enough some
to raise four or five calves per year, and
other breeds do not give enough for one.
I raise all my calves, even thoroughbreds,
by hand, and principally on skim milk, and
I think that when one year old they, will
compare favorably with calves that have
run with the cow. As a result of such raising I sell one-half my milk nad the cream
from the other half. The pilncipal argument in favor of letting calves suck is that
it saves labor. I admit that when the cows
and calves are turned out together, allowing the calf to' take what he wants when he
ehooses, there is a saving oif labor; but this
English Disease of 1840.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I bad a cow take sick when the calf
was one month old. She appeared all right
in the morning; in tlie evening she was
very weak and could hardly walk; refused
to eat anything; hair looked all right but
her urine was very red; she was a heavy
milker, and in 30 hours was entirely dr>;
she died after being sick three days. Have
another cow losing flesh very fast; her
mouth appears sore inside, appears feverish and red inside; holds her tongue out
part of the time; eyes look red aod weak;
eats but little and is costive; calf two weeks
old. J.M.V.
Your cow died of red murrain. Your
other cow has symptoms of the English
disease of 1840, and subsequent years.'
Give her physic Castoroil, one pint every
12 hours until bowels respond; burn two
ounces of alum; grind it arid mix it with
one handful of salt and a double handful
of meal, and rub the tongue twice or three
times per day.
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Kidd's Sale of Sheep.
This was thought to have been the best
sheep sale of the season. Sixty-seven
Southdowns aggregated $ 1,101 50; average,
$16 42. Highest price Southdown ram, $52 50.
Five Cotswold rams aggregated $286; average $57 70. Highest price ram, $81.
Thirty-nine Cotswold ewes aggregated $468;
average $12.—Live Stock Record.
^cftrinarjT*
This department ls edited by Dr. John N. Navin,
Veterinary Surgeon, anthor ol Navin's Explanatory
Stock Doctor.
Knles to be observed by those expecting correct
answers:
1. State the rate of pnlse.
2. The breathing. .
3. The standing attltnde.
.rfmci
igh\
5. If cough^ nd secretion from nose, whether
glands between'the Jaws can be felt, and how near
the bone.
6. II breathing ls rapid, accompanied by rattle or
rnshlng. sound, no time must be lost In blistering
throat, and using tincture of aconite root and tincture of belladonna 20 drops on tongue alternately
'every two hours, for time Is too short for an answer.
7. Parties desiring answers by mall most enclose a
stamp.
It Went too Long.
Editor Indiana Farmer:
A heifer two years old has a long formation coming on left side of face for a year;
extends from below the eye to above the
nostril; no discharge. Should it be cut
out and treated with external application?
B.
You allowed the case to rest too long.
You hi-d better have it cut out. External
treatment will scarcely avail.
Orogginess.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Is there any such thing as a horse being
"knucked?" I have a mare that when
standing throws one of her pastern joints
forward, as though it was out of place; is all
right when walking; does not lame her at
all; has been so for about two months; is
all right otherwise; age, eight years.
A Reader.
Your mare has a disease called groggi-
ness, sometimes knuckling, and cocked
pastern. No cure except what rest will accomplish; it never lames a horse.
Tumor.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I have a large sow tbat had one teat to
beal when weaning her pigs, and I did not
see her for sometime, so did not attend to
her. It has been sometime, and her teat
is near the back part of the
belly, hangs down; is about as large ss
a child's head, some four to six inches
across. ( C. M. C.
No principal blood vessel is carried up
by a tumor, none except those which give
life to the skin; they never bleed much
•WDIANA.
Gibson Co, Sept. 10.—We have had a
good rain, which was much needed. A
large wheat crop will be sown this fall.
Great many not done breaking yet on account of tne dry weather. Corn tolerably
good crop. J. L. W.
Huntington Co., September 9.—Our
weather has been very hot. Have had
some nice rains. Corn crop imprared.
Prospect for crops fair; acreage larger than'
last year. Farmers busy sowing and getting ready to sow wheat. Ground in good
order. H. H.
Daviess Co, September 10.—Weather
nice. Had a good rain last week. Farmers mostly done plowing for wheat. Fruit
scarce in places. Stock hogs scarce and
pretty good pi ice. The weevil is getting
into wheat that was threshed early.
J. M. S.
Sprinqfikld, Sept. 10.—Fine rains lately; plowing for wheat mostly done. This
year's crop is not so good as last year's, averaging about 10 or 12 bushels per acre.
Corn was injured some by drouth, but will
be an average crop. Stock hogs generally
healthy. 1 can beat Mr. Johnson's peaches
in size. I weighed four that weighed 25K
ounces, the largest of which weighed 734
ounces.   I do not know the variety.
D. S. S.
Hakrison Co., Sept. 8.—Wheat threshed
averages 18 bushels to the acre. Oats very
good. Corn good. Early potatoes good
and a fair prospect for late potatoes. Large
acreage of wheat being sown and getting
the ground in good order. Bone meal extensively used as a fertilizer. Apples and
peaches plenty. Pastures good. We have
some very fine Poland China bogs here.
Hogs scarce and no cholera. Heavy mast,
white oak. J. A. T.
TE_sr>»_S.SF.F_.
Davidson Co., Sept. 7.—Wheat averaged
12 bushels per acre. Corn light in places
on account of dry weather; early corn did
well. Last year frnit failed badly, this year
good crop. W. W. D.
KEl'TBCKT.
Metcalf Co., Sept. 8.—Corn an average
crop. Wheat not quite as good as last
year; oats and grass were light; pastures
very good at present. Fruit very plentiful. Stock in good condition and selling at
tair prices.   Hogs a little scarce.
W. J. W.
MISSOURI.
Dade Co., Sept. 10.—Corn crops are good
here. We had a good average crop of
wheat this year, and fruit in abundance.
Hogs are worth Z__ to 4c, and no hog cholera. Plenty of land here for sale at from
$3 to $10 per acre, and plenty of good water
and splendid health. I. B.
XEBBAJtBA.
Otoe Co., Sept. 7.—Wheat in this part of
the country greatly iijuied by tbe high
winds in the spring, what there is will go
from 8 to 20 bushels per acre. Corn greatly
injured by the long continued dry weather.
Have not had a good rain since last fall till
within the last week, we have been having
tome terrible rains. Oats an average crop.
Fruit crop fair. Price of land irom *7 to $20
per acre.   Cattle high.   Hogs worth $4 55.
A. L.
FI-ORIDA.
Co.,  September
Hamilton Co., September 9.—In this
county we have some farms that can not be
excelled in the State for cotton, corn, potatoes and sugar cane, or vegetables. Ol our
lands, a great deal are flat woods, but pro-
STATE   NEWS.
Several home capitalists of South Bend
havo formed a company for the construction of a street railway.
\ Stephen Wolf, for years a hard drinker,
dropped dead at Fort Wayne, during an attack of the dtlirium tremens.
Phil. Ezeman's flouring-mill, at Rockport, Spencer county, was burned on the
llth.   The loss is total and heavy.
A saw-mill owned by James Bell & Son,
at Lincoln, was burned on the 10th. Loss
$3,000; no insurance.   Origin unknown.
John Penman, a miner, shot and killed
John Kaddy, at Brazil on the 9tb. The
shooting was the result ofa drunken quarrel.        ,
Wm. Green, of G reensburg, iell from a
freight train near St. Paul and was killed
on the 9th while returning from the Shelbyville fair.
Of 10 000 head of cabbage planted by Cal.
Darnell, near this city, for feed, s.-arcely a
I score are sound, so completely has the little
worm done its work.
Mrs. August Menzles' little daughter
strayed away trom its home in Fort Wayne,
and was found some hours afterward,
drowned in a cistern. ... ■ . -.... . ,
i Joseph fpmithmeyer, fell from the roof of
a school-house, War ltichtnondj on the 10th,
and received internal injuries,' from which
fatal results are feared.
Jennie Tague, Vevay, armed with a bowie
knife, created quite a scene on the streets
of Madison in her efforts to interview one
Jimmy Verdon, a recreant lover.
Mrs. George Allison, wife of a farmer,
dropped dead of heart disease at the family
residence, one and a half miles west of
Moscow, Rush county, on the 10th.
A vigilance committee has posted printed
notices in Jonesville, warning J. M. Weekly and George Hill to leave the county at
once, or sutler the penalty of hanging.
John Saidla, of Colfax, was shot by the
accidental discharge ot a revolver in the
hands of a man who is working on his
farm. The ii>jury, it is feared, will prove
fatal.
The residence of John Mash, of New Albany, was burglarized on tbe night of the
10th. The thieve3 found a box containing
$100 ia silver, which they safely secured
and tied.
The plow-handle factory of Taylor &
Griffith, at Huntington, was burned on the
llth. Loss estimated at about $12,000; insured for $5,000. It is not known how it
originated.
The contract for the grading of ths Attica, Covington and Southern railroad has
been let and work commenced, and as soon
as the grade is ready the construction train
will be started.
Frank Burdge, Butlersville, and a number of small boys were playing with a revolver, when it was discharged, the b-,11
striking him in the side and inflicting a
a serious wound.
A suit for fraud has been filed in the circuit court against the commissioners of
Grant county for letting tbe contract ofthe
new Court-house. There is thought to be
nothing in the case.
Berry Wilson, who lived near Centerville, .was killed at Washington, Wayne
county, by a pistol shot fired into a crowd
on the sidewalk who were watching a procession pass. It is not known who tired
the shot.
The rates on the I., P. and C. road to the
State fair will be $3 for the round trip from
all stations between and including Michigan City and Plymouth, and will be good
going from Siptembor 25th to October 4th
anu returning to October 4th. This is the
lowest rate that has yet been made.
Ephraim Burke's residence in New Castle, during the performance of the Inter-
Ocean show Saturday, was robbed of $33 in
money and a large amount of valuable
jewelry. Similai depredations are reportod
wherever this concern exhibits.
James Coon, night watchman at the
Hickory mills in Bedford, was shot at by
an incendiary, who was endeavoring to set
fire to the establishment. This is the second attempt that has been made to burn
the mill in the last two months.
Sam Cobb, a notorious rough of Owens-
burg, Green county, was lound in tbe
woods, about three miles from that place,
badly shot and unconscious. He hail lain
so long tbat his wounds were iiy-blown.
It is not known by whom it was done.
Work on the harbor at Miebigan City is
rapidly progessing. This movement will
help make that port one of the most important on the lakes, and nearly the entire
lumber shipments of the South will be
transferred to the railroads centering there.
Howard & Denig, State-house contractors, are paying all their employes in gold.
The men at the State-house biiilding numbering 200, were, on tbe 10!b, paid their
wages for the month of August, amounting to $7,000, in gold. An additional $5,000
of the same coin, just from the mini, has
been provided for the pay rolls at the
brickyard and the stone quarry.
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