VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY,   FEB. 26,1887.
NO 9
(Seucral JjLcius.
There are grave fears of a big flood at
Memphis.
A boy of sixteen ln Audubon, (a., has
died of using tobacco too heavily.
Tbe steamship Hreat Eastern waa ho Id
at auction at Liverpool for $'30,000.
King William of Holland, last Friday,
celebrated the seventieth anniversary of
his birth.
The savings bank depositors of the city
of Naw York number 669,-183, or about
half the population.
A majority of the members of the Michigan Butte legislature are graduatesot the
. University of Michigan.
There are over -lOOealoons in C*airo,Egypt,
where a few years ago not one was open.
Most of them are owned by Englishmen.
Men supposed to be agents of the Kngllsh government are buying hones ln
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Inillana and
Kentucky.
The President haa appointed Lieutenant
Oreely, thearcllo explorer, Chief ofthe
Signal Service Bureau, with the rank of
brigadier-general.        * • — ■
At the session of the city c juncll of St,
Louis, on the 19tb the bill fixing eight
hours as a legal day's labor for laborers em-
p'oyed by the city was passed.
The government of Mexico lias contracted with a firm In Hartford. Conn,, for
a steamship line between Van Diego, Cal.,
and Htn Jose de Guatemala for twenty
years.
William T. Brlgham, a lawyer of Boston,
was atrested for the embezzlement of $17,-
000 from the estate of two old ladles, of
whioh   he was trustee.   He had  invested
-   the money ln a southern enterprise.
A can of benzine exploded ln Edward
Hottner'a store, Detroit, and the fluid, igniting, burned the owner and his three
children so badly that the children died;
and the father is not expected to live.
The legislature of Alabama has pasted a
bill making gambling a felony—the first
off.Bi.'- to be punished by not less than
six months' imprisonment ln the penitentiary, and the second offence six years.
"At Rutland,Vt, James C. Barrett.a lead
log lawyer, was Impaled on a splintered
board in a toboggan slide, and died lu ex-
« crublatlng agony. Mr*. Charles P. Harris
had her thigh torn open by the same, and
her Injuries may prove fatal.
The Farmers' alliance movement bas
made rapid strides lu Champaign county,
Illinois, within tbe last few weeks, and
local societies are uow operating in abcut
halt the townships of tbo county. The
local alliances in somo^rses are attempting to market the produce and purchase
In bulk the supplies of their members.
Railroading under the sea is the latest.
The Drat train passed through the Severn
tunnel one morning about two weeks ego.
The tunnel Is 4 miles and 624 yards long.
Tne passengers took out their watches
when the locomotive went In on the Monmouthshire side, and when the train
emerged on the Gloucestershire just el.ht
minutes and forty.nine seconds had
passed.
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CBEAMEBY HOUSES.
We give below the elevation and ground
plans for creameries,  which  have  been
found both oouvlent nnd economical.   Mr.
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plains Itself, and the dimensions are as
follows:
Main creamery building 20 x 40 ft.; ice
bouse 20 x ao ft.; boiler room l(i x 18 ft. ;
divided as follows, and for use as described :
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Chas. P. Wlllard .S: Co., of Chicago, say i celvlng room 9 x 20 ft ; floor 6l/2 it, above
that this outfit, well equipped, te produce | sills Drains run to outside of building
1,200 pounds  ot butter per day,  can  be j Can be used  for receiving and  straining
made for less than two thousand dollars, l cream, washing cans,
The ground plan  here given  fully ex-1    Cream room 12 x 20
etc.
ft.; used as a cream
tempering room; floor elevated three feet
above sills, slanting floor draining Into
drain In churn room.
Churn room 9 x 20 ft. -, has floors on a
level with sills, slanting toward cream
room, with drain at the junction with elevated floor of cream room.
Butter room 10 x 10 ft.; slanting floor;
drain connects with main drain ln churn
room.
Cold room, No. 1, 10 x 10 ft.; can be used
as storage for salt, tubs or butter.
Cold storage room No. 2, for storing butter, is 101 10 ft,; is built in Icehouse,
and is covered with galvanlzad Iron, and
surrounded with Ice.
To enlarge IU capacity add to the width
of main building. The raised floors are
constructed for convenience in handling
cream. Cream taken into receiving room,
strained and carried into vats, through
conductor pipes; also from vats to churns,
through conductor pipe, saving all lifting
of cream in cans, ronderltig 11 possible for
one man to do one-half more work than
in a creamery without raised lloors. An
offlce can be taken off, of wash-room, If
desired.
THE DAIRY BUEIHKBb.
A correspondent of tho Breeders GV/.jtte
says: The dairy business of Illinois is
gradually but assuredly extending south*
ward, and In a few years there will be a
Urge number of creameries and cheese
factories ln the southern counties of this
State. I'ntll a few yearn ago It was erroneously supposed that thero was a "dairy
belt" ln the United States, outside of
which butter and cheese of a fine quality
could not be produced. That belt extended through a portion of the New Kngland States, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Northern Indiana, Southern Michigan,- Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin, Sauthern Minnesota, Northern
Iowa, Central and Northern Nebraska,
portions of California and Oregon. North
of that line the advocates of the dairy belt
said it was too cold.the winters too long,to
ever become a dairy section; while south
of lt the weather was too warm to admit
of making gocd butter. P.at sh far north
aa Winnipeg croameries are In successful
operation, and as far south as Mlsa-
iMlppi,and they find these sections neither
too cold nor too hot tor the dairy business.
I am firmly convinced that wherever good
water can be found and good grass, such
as clover, timothy, or orchard grass, etc ,
grows, and corn and oata can be raised,
the dairy business can be made profitable,
and with the railway facilities we now
have it Is not necessary to grow corn, as
the meal can be shipped in from the corn-
growing States, as bran is now shipped
from the wheat-growing States.
The foundations for our new Union
Depot have been laid bread and deep, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather.
The superstructure will go forward rapidly aB soon as -spring opens.
Thk Mormons are a spunky set and declare they will continue their polygamous
practices notwithstanding the recent law
that Congress has enacted against it. Tbey
may find ont that Uncle Sam Is too many
tor them.