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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, NOYEMBER10,1877.
No. 45-
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Ten cents per Hae, and no advertisement for less
than 26 cents.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Fabx-eii for the recovery of stock.
Tell your neighbor of lt when you hear of the loss
ef his stock.
FOB  SALE.
F
OS SAL'S—Berkshire Pigs and Muscova Ducks
JACOB EAGER, Williams Center. Ohio.   43 It
"T710R SALE—Pure bred Partridge Cochins and
I* Bronze Turkeys at S3 00 per pair. WILL D.
LATSHAW, Oaktow n, Knox county, Ind.        45-St
FOR HALE—Some flne White Leghorn chicks,
either single birds, pain or ln trios.   Address
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"•""""•IOR BALE—A flne lot of pigs, the get of Adonis
_I_ 1149, and Colonel Humfrey 1129, VoL II, A. B.
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YEARS IN HELL, by Luther Benson.   1
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price, J1.25. Address J. H. V. SMITH, No. 8 Bates
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sown, mostly of the FulU variety. Plenty of
apples in market at 40 to 60 cents per bushel.
Quite a number of farmers -will not have
enough for their own use. ■ Corn fair, old 40,
new 60 cents per bushel. Cholera hogs plenty.
If W. D. Starkey had given hia neighbors receipt or address, he would have conferred
a favor on a great many that are losing stock
by this disease. W. L. A.
Johhbon Co., Nov. 3.—Farmers have commenced cribbing their com. It is not as good
as thought to be. Wheat looks fine, but the
early sown has the fly in it; more sown than
oommon for this oounty. Hogs are still dying
in this oounty, but not so bad as they did some
time back. Johnson county is one among the
beet in the Btate, and we raise a great amount
of corn and hogs, and wont be satisfied with
less than five cents for our hogs.
J. Y. DlMABI-E.
Union Co., Oct. 27.—Cribbing corn is the
order of the day. There is not an average
crop. Wheat looks fine. Early sown has
some fly. Never waa there as much clover
seed sown in this county before, nor of such a
fine quality. Hog cholera is bad. This is a
sheep growing county. It H. J.
Anoran.—Nov. 5.—The farmer, of Union
county who have commenced oribblng their
corn say that it is falling far short of last
year. O. H. W.
Cass Co., Nov. 2.—Wheat is looking very
fine, especially the early sowing. The farmers are cribbing com very fast. There is
considerable of drilled corn which is yielding
a good average. On the farm of F. 8. Martin
two men and one boy husked 450 bushels of
oorn in three days and a half. On ten acres
of his land there is an average of 76 to 80
bushels per acra.   Who oan bsat that?
Bunker.
Another.—Nov. 2.—The Farmeb i_ a welcome visitor at our home. Oorn is a good
crop in thi. locality. Wheat looks well now.
The fly damaged some fields here. It is not
the fly that does the work, they lay an egg
from which a worm is hatched that does the
mischief to  the wheat.   Weather wet and
COld. C. H. E-TABE90K.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
State Brews.
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
55 cents. Beed wheat; all the best varieties, grown
especially for seed. Also turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, spinach, and all seeds for
the fall. Prickly Comfrey, the most wonderful forage plant, setts MOO per 100; 50 cents extra by mail.
Seed catalogue free. BEN30N, BURPEE A CO.,
223 Church street, Philadelphia, Pa. 88-ly
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opposite the Postoffice, in same building ln which
the Indiana Farmer ls published. Address, with
stamp for circulars, etc., KOERNER & GOODIER,
IndianapoUs, Ind. 42-tf
TO TRADE—A large quantity of choice selected
lands in Kansas for improved farms or city
property, or for sale on best ol terms at office of W.
F. MASON, 16>£ East Washington St., Indianapolis,
Ind.
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THE FARM.
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Postal Card Correspondence.
XNSIANA.
To Onr Postal Card Correspondents.
Flease 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.
Hkhdkicks Co., Nov. 2.—Potatoes nearly all
dug. Farmers have commenced gathering
corn. Wheat never looked better at this time
of the year. Times are getting better. Some
sickness. A. B.OorFMiN.
, Dkcatue Co., Oct., 29.—The weather has
been flne. Wheat looks fine. Corn not as
good as expected. Potatoes plenty. Pasture
good yet. Cattle scarce and high. Hogs
scarce; Borne cholera. Grangers on the lookout. T.<G. P.
Vioo Co. Oct., 31.—The crops look well
here; wheat never better at this season of the
year. Corn tolerably good. Potatoes very
good, selling from 30 to 40 cents per bushel.
Fat cattle selling at 3 to 3i cents gross. Hogf
from 4J to 6, gross. Apples $1 per bushel from
the wagons. ,    J. 8. Shumabd. .
Babtholomew Co., Oct. 31.—Corn husk*'
has  b_jgun  in  this  section; corn, med'
yield.   The wheat is fall of fly; especial' '
early sown.   It has been a fine season (
tening hogs, though there are quite a n*
of cholera hogs in tbe county.   We ha
▼ere hail storrjjf last week, breaking /
windows and beating young plants a.'
into the ground. '
Boojie Co., Oct. 29.—We think '"
Card Department quite an advan-
paper, as it is the means of findi,
our neighboring oountieearedoi,'
, of advancing agriculture.   By f«
know how much grain, prod
8 there is ln the country, and V
\ would be.   Wheat looks wr
TENNESSEE.
Shilbt Co., Oct. 22.—Health good. Crops
fair. Average cotton crop, fair in weight at
picking, considerably in market and coming
in every day, prices, 10 to 15 cents per pound.
Business good and getting better. River very
low, but still considerable boating. Weather
rainy; turning cooler; no frost yet, but people
look lor it the first of November this season.
Corn 50 cents per bushel; eggs 25 cents per
dozen. Garden market good and well supplied. H. D. Mabtin.
ARKANSAS.
Pope Co., Nov. 2.—Leaving Memphis October 30th and arriving at Little Bock on the
31st; we spent the day very pleasantly examining this south-western city, here called city
of roses, and an appropriate name too, for I
find it a flourishing little city of 20,000 inhabitants, nicely located on the south bank of the
Arkansas river. Here I met Mr. G. W.
Johnstone, General Field Agent for the L.
B. F. S. Railway, and in company with
him came to this place to visit the first
county fair of Pope county. Good exhibition,
fine products. Governor Miller of this State
was in attendance. H. D. Mabtin.
KANSAS.
Liavbhwobth Co., Oct 29.—Our village is
small and in need of a few business men, especially do we need an elevator. The crops
have been fair. Wheat yielded from 18 to 20
bushels, it would have been more, but forthe
wet weather in the spring. Com is an average
crop, selling at 26 cents per bushel. Oats are
an average crop. Potatoes yielded less than
usual and are selling at from 45 to 60 cents
per bushel. Laud selling at from $10, to $15
per acre. There has bsen a large amount of
fall wheat sown with bright prospects for the
future. Labor can be had fjr those who will
work. There are a few grangers Btiil alive
here yet. _     J. W. Kkiohtht.
Qaails are ripe.
Lafayette has a rifl» team.
LaPorte has religious spoon festivals.
Bichmond clamors for more policemen.
Thirty-one doctors reside in Logansport.
Clinton county wants a new court house.
Greensburg is howling for a street railway.
.Randolph county is now without a licensed
saloon.
Winchester puts on airs over a cat that eats
cranberries.
Hog cholera prevails to an alarming extent
in parts of Park county. ,
Henry Lattourette, of Cass oounty has com
on hand which was grown in 1856.
The county poor houses are beginning to
fill up.   Hard times and cold weather.
A. M. Hoff.taat, of Madison, was robbed of
$1,700 on the streets of Cincinnati, on the 30th
ult.
Hon.D.W. Vorheee is accumulating much
wealth by telling what he knows about Jefferson.
A man at Mt. Vernon is feeding 3,800 geese,
2,800 turkeys and 1,400 ducks for the market.
Crawfordsville has seven complete gravel
roads, and is building another one nine miles
long.
A South Bend boy is a dead victim to the
Bhlnny club. It made him a shlnny-lng light
as it were. -
Spiceland has supplied the Bichmond mar--
kets with twelve hundred bushels of apples
this season.
New wheat never looked batter at this season ofthe year than it does now.—Crawfordsville Journal.
Erhart Rsubleln, of Mishawaka, in a fit of
despondency, shot himself through the heart,
Saturday last.
Evans, Diy &0o., of Greenwood, have during the season packed 1,250,000 cans of corn
and tomatoes.
A Vincennes dry goods firm sold a $1,000
shawl to a lady from an adjoining county last
week.   Hardtlmee?
CharlesBaiz.r, of Connersville, pulled his
gun out of the wagon by the muzzle. The funeral was well attended.
Vanderburg county sent twenty-four recruits to the Jeffersonville conservatory at the
last term of circuit court.
Mrs. Jas. Murphy, of Glenwood, aged 94
years, is engaged in the infantile occupation
of cutting a new set of teeth.
A Delphi hunting party has just returned
from a three weeks hunt in Michigan, bringing forty deer as a proof of their prowess.
Samuel Campbell, a very old man, fell from,
his bam loft, at North Vernon, Jennings Co.,
October 31st, and broke his neck. He died instantly.
A number of respectable citterns of Kokomo, Howard oounty, have been indicted and
will be tried for betting on the Presidential
election.
John Mullen, engineer in the Clement
Starch Works, at Madison, was probably fatally scalded by the bursting of a steam pipe
on the 3lst ult.
The largest crop of wheat ever sown in
Parke county, was put in this fall. It looks
well, and promises to be a regular bonanza.—
Rockville Tribune.
Henry Whipple, of Madison, brought his
left hand in contact with the business part of
a busy buzz saw October 30th. lie mourns
the loss of a lot of good fingers.
The motion for a new trial in the case of
Micheal Galoonay who killed Lannon at Kokomo, has been overruled and Micheal will
•paai through the platform Jan. 3.0.
A man named Geiger, of Noblesville is in
trouble from a too intimate knowledge of penmanship. Unfortunately his specimens contained the names of responsible men and
were written on paper that could be negotiated
Wabash county farmers have been extensively taken in by fruit tree swindlers. Its the
same old gouge, signing a paper that turns
out to be other than  what it is represented
over two-thirds of the legal business of last
week was the hearing of divorce cases. A
beatific state of matrimonial felicity truly.
The Laporte Herald warns the farmers
against entering into any contract with traveling agents for a patent cutter bar for reapers.
The heads are so arranged that the contract
can be cat off and a note of hand is manufacture-..
A yonng fellow stopped in the city last week
enroute from Indianapolis to his home over in
Ohio, who lost $600 on the races at the former
place, and $4,500 daring the season. He had
but twenty-five dollars left.—Richmond Palladium.
The well-knownsteamflouringmillatRoss-
ville, owned by Oobler, Landes & Co., was entirely consumed by fire Wednesday night,
Oct., 31. The loss is estimated at from eight
to ten thousand dollars, and there was no insurance.
On Monday, Oct. 29th, a young man named
Bunnell, living near Crawfordsville, was shot
at twice while chopping in the woods, by
some person concealed in the brush. He was
slightly wounded both times. He is an important witness in a criminal case, and it ia
thought that is the reason for the attempted
assassination.
tf.
e vandal a few nights since invaded the
1 of Jas. Griswold, of Madison county,
down forty-seven young apple trees
.Tied numberless pear, peach and plum
,'onley sold five Berkshire hogs to
\y-hart, on Wednesday  last.   They
I nths old and weighed in the aggre-
\:ounds, or 308 pounds each.—Laid.
.arney was killed at Lagro, Ind., on
g of the lst inst. He was trying
reight train which was in motion;
[fell under the wheels and was hor-
Ited.
\, the four-year-old son of David
llssionerof Howard county, waa
'.hot and killed by a young man
ny, who, while out hunting shot
\se.
ustrian has been giving Frank-
lity to study anatomy.   They
display.   The fool killer is
k, but he should find time
visit
of the published proceed-
1 Circuit Court shows that
GENERAL NEWS.
-They have a "ladies' " lager-beer parlor in
Boston.
Rubber overshoes for horses is a recent invention.
Com is selling in Hyde county, N. 0., for $1
per bushel.
" turnpike Sailor" is the Pennsylvania name
for the tramp.
New York city registers 40,000 voters less
than last year.
Last j ear Eagland. imported over $10,800,-
000 worth of eggs. .
Nebraska expects to realize $30,000,000 from
her crops this year.
This year there have been 250,000 pistols
innde at Norwich, Conn.
There are fourteen ex-Governors in the Senate and eight in the H ouse.
A Bridgeport, 111., man has moved forty-
three times in the past year.
The experiment of propagating shad in the
great lakes has been entirely successful.
The estimated cost of the unfinished court
house of New York is put at $13,000,000.
The specie in the Bank of France has decreased 14,100,000 francs the past month.
The public deb. was reduced during the
month of October over four millions of dollars.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and North
Carolina have all cut and housed fine tobioco
crops.
Tne state fairs this year have been uniformly successful, which is a sign of improving
times.
Ths Memphis Cotton Exchange has remitted $1,005 to the Feraandenayellow-fever sufferers.
. The first post-offlM inthe American colonies was established in 1710, by act of parliament.
A Reading, Pa., hardware manufactory recently shipped aa invoice of hardware to England.
A New York belle recently waltzed into
matrimonial harness with a trousseau costing
$50,000.
The Baldwin Works, of Philadelphia, have
offered to build locomotives for Australia at
$5,000 less than they can be purchased in England.
Woman suffrage in Colorado had considerable strength, receiving furty par cent, of the
votes cast.
A collector of stamps and relics in New
York paid $1,600 for one rare old postage stamp
the other day.
New York grain merchants think we will
have 100,000,000 bushels of wheat to sell to
Europe this fall.
The estimated yield of metals in California
and Oregon for the year is, gold $33,000,000,
silver $27,000,000.
A planing mill, to be the largest in New
York State, and to cost $100,000, is to be erected at Niagara Falls.
The Senate in executive session confirmed
William G. Leduc, of Minnesota, as Commissioner of Agriculture.
Swallowing a cent has killed a daughter of
J. Forbes, of Pine Meadow, Conn. She could
not stand a specie basis.
The Roman Catholic congregation at Rome
has pronounced against the canonization of
Christopher Columbus.
Chicago has one naturalized Chinaman who
is now enjoying all the rights and privileges
of American citizenship.
A St. Louis artesian well has reached the
depth of 3,800 feet. She is bound to have
water if she has to go to China for it.
A commission is to be appointed in Michigan to investigate the cattle plague known as
"Texas ticks" and devise means for its suppression.
There are five preachers in the Kentucky
penitentiary and only one editor. This would
imply that editors are fire times better than
preachers.
In New York and Boston dime concerts and
lectures are well patronized. The audiences
are made up of respectable, intelligen t people,
who thoroughly appreciate the entertainments.
Gen. N. B. Forrest, the famous rebel cavalry officer, died at Memphis last Monday, after
a long and painful sickness. His name is im-
p3rishably associated with the Fort Pillow
massacre.
A patent has been obtained for the preparation of maize leaf, as a substitute for tobacco.
It is said to be of anti-nervous effect, and to be
a very pleasant tonic to the system. It is sweet
and pungent.
An Arctic expedition will be started from
New York early next year, for the purpose of
recovering relics of the Franklin expedition
and obtaining the reward offered by the British government.
Hammond's extensive flouring mill at Fob-
toria, Ohio, was almost totally wrecked on the
lst inst., by the explosion of the boiler.
Henry Wilson, the fireman, and Johnny
Brown, a lad 15 years of age, were instantly
killed.   Loss, $20,000.
The Mormons have been holding a council,
and it is believed that they will soon sucumb
to the popular clamor and give up polygamy.
If they will only do thia they can continue to
preach as long as they please, because all the
fun in their religion will then be destroyed.
New Orleans is built upon a forest of cypress trees. For GOO feet down this is the
foundation! Rows upon rows of the stamps
of the cypress are found growing over each
other, superimposed, eacrf of which layers it
is calculated has required a thousand yeais to
form.
A Chinese company sent Chin Ti Chong to
San Francisco as an agent, selecting him because he had b Jen in America long enough to
learn the business ways of the country. He
has proven his knowledge on that subject by
absconding with $5,000 of ths concern's
money.
Tha centre of population of the United
States ls said to have traveled westward, keeping curiously near the thirty-ninth parallel of
latitude, never getting more than twenty
miles south of it. In eighty years it has traveled only 400 miles, and is still found nearly
fifty miles eastward of Cincinnati,
A revolutionary relic in the shape of a blacksmith's anvil is now owned by Wm. Maudlin,
of Keowee oounty, South Carolina. It was the
property of his great-grandfather, and was in
u.e daring the revolutionary war in manufacturing swords to arm the gallant men who
followed the gallant General Marion.
A tunnel is talked about between Spain
and Africa under the Straits of Gibraltar. It
would be about fifteen miles in length. This
with the tunnel between Dover and Calais,
which is now seriously contemplated, would
give an uninterrupted railroad route from England to Tiingier ot about twelve hundred
milee in length.
North Texas Fair.
Dallas, Texas, Oct. 29,1877.
Editors Indiana Farmer :
Through the courtesy of Mr. G. M.
Swink, President of the Northern Texas
Fair Association, your correspondent was
presented with a "complimentary" to its
second annual exposition, commencing on
the 22nd and to have continued to the 27 th-
Owing to the rains and bad state of the
road, and track it will continue during
ring this week.
The grounds are situated 1} miles east
of Dallas, on the Texas and Pacific E. K.,
affording commodious and cheap transit
for passengers, twenty cents paying for tbe
round trip. Hacks, omnibuses, carriages
and road wagon, are to be found all along
the line ready and willing as their placards
show to take you to the fair at prices ranging from "two to six bits." All persons
over thirteen years are charged fifty cents
at the gate. Exhibitors and those who
have stands, or business of any kind, in
side must come down with the "four bits"
every time they go in. Great dissatisfaction was expressed by those attending such
shows at the scalping process of the board
of managers. There are some eighty acres
nicely enclosed with a pine plank fence
with stalls for showing stock, wells of water, one pump running by wind power,
filling a large tank for general use. The
ground is low and level; and is what is
termed here "black-waxy" land. There is
but one tree on the premises. In the
midst of the grounds is a track one mile in
circuit for running purposes; inside of this
is the trotting track forty feet wide and
separated from the other by posts and railing; the large circular plot of ground in-
Bide the tracks is sown to millet, the nearest they can come to tame grass in this
terns. Two entries of harness and saddlery
make an extra good show from, the toy
saddle of dwarf proportion, to the California and Mexican saddle of giant size and
gaudy appendages. Harness with gold
mounting down to the raw hide trace. Saddle-trees from a far, to thoseof home make,
as hewn from the fork of the native elm
tree, which always command the highest
price. The "cow boy," who lives in his
saddle, don't want shoddy work. A side
saddle offered to the lady" showing the
most grace in riding, is splendid in appearance with buckskin top, ornamentally
stitched with blue silk thread and otherwise caparisoned, to the value of one hundred dollars.
In the way of evergreens there was a fine
showing, and nice collections of pot plants
from home gardens, but not the bloom
there should be at this season in this sunny
land. Not more than a half dozen fruit
trees are shown and they are poor specimens. In the horticultural show one
party had twenty five varieties of vegetables for table use, among which were
garlics, ochre, prickly cucumber, roasting
ears, melons, raddish, lettuce, egg-plant,
celery, green beans, peanuts, onions, turnips, etc. Irish potatoes are "small and
few in a hill;" early varieties are all that
can be grown successfully. Bartlet pears
were the only fruit that looked any way
enticing. Tbey were large and beautiful
specimens, grown in Dallas. Wheat both
white and red is shown in good quality.
One sack of corn in the ear is very large,
also the cob. I remarked to a friend the
cob was too large. An old Texan standing by said, "big cob heap, of corn."
Seeds of all* kinds grown here were
shown by seedsmen of Houston. Cotton,
of all grades, was on exhibition, judges
pronouncing it as fine as can be grown
any where.
In the fine stock show the Short horns
are from Kentucky; Herefords, from Illinois. Some good ones of each class
were brought to show ahd for sale.
Jacks from Kentucky with voices and ears
to match. Berkshire hogs were shown in
good numbers; some as fine as can be found
in the older States. Poland Chinas, the
great hog ofthe West, are in the back
ground. As this will not be a pork packing State for some time to come, a Bmaller
ho,» Buits them best. Two native steers
shown for beat fatted beef, one weighing
fourteen hundred pounds, would make
Christmas dinner in any country. The
show of machinery could not be excelled
at any northern fair. The competition in
the manufacturing of farming machinery
is so great that all the companies are
making great efforts to occupy thia field;
fourteen different wagons are represented
here. Among them is the Studebaker, o'f
our own State; as good as the best. Oliver
chilled plows, engines from Sinker, Davis
& Co., Hoosier drills from Dublin, all familiar names through Texas, make one
feel like meeting a friend wherever they
meet them.
Horse racing, running and trotting is
the feature of the fair, in fact it would be
better to call it the races, aa that is the
talk; every afternoon is put in in that way.
The grand stand ia filled with anxious
spectators from 1 o'clock till sun down,
betting by buying pools at public auction,
and money put up on the spur of the moment during the wild excitement of the
race; church members and high officials
lay aside their titles and stations in life
till the races are over. The running hor-
Bes are ridden by Bmall boys with jockey
caps, heavy boots and sharp steel spurs
One little darkey seeming to be but ten
or eleven yeara old was proud of his position and usually won the race.
Governor Hubbard made a speech on
Friday to the largest gathering that has
been on the ground. _ He is very pipular
with the people, (and I should say with himself too). He gave good advice and some
statistics in favor of Texaa, advised "Home
education and home manufacturing;" Baid
they must breed out the "long horns" and
substitute the Short horns, encouraged
emigration, deplored the fact that Texas
did not even have a "horned frog" to rep-
res^nt her in the great Centennial at Philadelphia, although Bhe raised 30,000! She
raised more bales of cotton last year than
any other State in the Uaion 1 "She is
destined to be the great State ofthe Union.
Blood will tell and Texas is no exception
to the rule. Young man study her resources and profit thereby."
Had it not been for the rains which
made the weeds and grass almost impassable the fair would have been a grana success, as it was it made a respectable showing for the second effort of a new country.
Improvements are needed and no doubt
will be made in the future, when it will be
country.   It is now in seed presenting the | looked upon as the great exponent of the
appearance of a large smart weed patch
Floral Hall is of octagonal shape with
four wings well arranged and cheaply constructed. Quite a large collection here of
the various articles of ornamental and
useful gooda. Dry goods by one of the
principal merchants of Dallas are displayed to good advantage. Clothing, boots
and shoes, sewing machines of various pat-
products and progress of north Texas.    All
good citizens should work to that end.
T. E. E.
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will be sent to new subscribers from this
date to December 31,1878, for one year's
subscription. Readers will please tell
their neighbors and friends of this liberal >
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