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Ah. Wwrs he to, brt, at tho pto ; Ha bnata tfce ban for Tort, And wkusne'er tne tart gbl ho Hea ini ww him shirk. And be ' n laugh, too, till hleeyea Bun Vtr with mirthful ten. Asa sin:,- full aw; aa aH-tino M laapuod imat jean. Good atoning, fritndt; 'Ha twflv 'dock; Time tor a haM-houT'.rBrt.'' Jtttd farmer J aha took H Ma laatla - And Ma It wlrt a asst. ' A harder tusk it la," ho sett, Tlra following vptknvatvct Or merdiag teases, far, fox aw is kclttkj aureatf yeua "T vk ma war I ferl 10 remsg, I'im tony (ritmdi, xcar.'t a. Bui ttr nk it b m oed mW leoH, Wha'a kepi mm up so well ; .... . For vomen su h is sre scares Is this p.wr Valeof tear; She's siren rae lore and bopeandetreogOi Far toon than forty rears. And then raw boys hare afi doao watt, As fr as they ham gear-. And tr at thing Tarsia an old ana's btiod, And hlp brat op and on. My girls SMoaorar ceased a pang. Or rsisnd ap anxiea foa; Then srouder not that I (ad. young ' And bale at seroai'y years. . " Wkr dent my ed roys do my work And feints ati esd rettt Ah! iriend-ajsaat wouldn' t do 3sr soe; I Kb mr own way best. They tare their inty; I has nice, .And, tiU the en i armors, Iaanvt to smell Dtr soil, aiy fronds," tick! thoaasael aranty years.

AiaVM. SOJI O, ant nli me la gllid haCa, Whera wraith a sl.ialag eaceOH ro3s. And golden nnhght wr fa!', Uvea taan too wealth of ha awn sou Tjl The Xtefrnrar pr:h dladcra, Ardcoaiithisf MtlihbyTrami'RnJ inraues; At last ho fa!as ja clbar ti m lis aJl HistaUh ho nt owns. The peasant in hat lastly ttJt, K? wealth, nor time ntry e'er control, Though 'y the gWy thro ig for rot, rUth greater xrothh-s '.JjUrjsl. - - A fcnae'el garb any Udn :t thiol, ' ' A jeel eharm th cani'-wt eyfr, . i -a Btr; sealth of soul In bole re let la decked is Bearen'a cam waoii'y Deal gcnUy with Oil wsnii ring hoy That brings a taaaaage loyour d"Cr; Or, if atria the opht crowd, Heaskaapeaay ."rem jour store. v Seal ax nay, for thohirmb'e mien 1 hat a )metto ea 'oaks the srwck of ata Aaoften. th ghwakuovittot,.. , . Mry h da aro.- al seal wiUBr.

-A.BteTaublicaii Paper Devoted to tlie Adanvcement of the Looal Interests of Monroe Oountv.

Estnblished A. D., 18.

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 18S1. New Series.--VOL. XV.--NO. 20.

TRAGEDY TV THE FOSEST.

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The family d Ciifirmrst irere sitting si brMkfiist, wher: Greahtm, the digtiict altornej, drove up to the door. "Coma -with trie to the forest," he aid to Mr. Mcniaant, in Mome excitemeni. . . ' Therj bits been terrible murder oammitted there, sad I want jour ad-TiOot"-Mt. MurimaiA iraeT a retired sawyer, whtlMd been particnlarlw oelebratedin eriminikl eases and who -mailt big summers at 1he est ate he owned, called Ctiffhuret, a Cewm 'a from Baktoo. "Willi Dgly," hi said. "I confess I still, tak an isteest in all difficolt

When we were seated safe in the oax-

riage, Mr. Greaham said: - " I wa not more explicit before the ladies, because the accused is one they knovIisa Stray. 8ho has killed her father." ImpoBsible," cried Mr. Motrdarmt, in aoacoeiitof hcr and incredalitr. "So 1 said, when I first heard of it Bat the garoof is rmansweiahle. Bheis soAiinlkrkkiniaiL' ' I don't believt? a word of it," retorted the other. "We know her slightly, yet wall enough to main mo soro that fiacre is some mistake about it. No. it can't be." His (ompajjioc shook his head. "I fear jwi ace too sangmne Bat you will sef.aad jndg yenrself. There is to be wlnqotnt at the Locks.'' arliocks, a the name implied, were oo-the ciursL - There had always been a small Battlement there, bnt since the rsilrond had been built, a depot; followed by a pcstafli.ee, the hamlet had grown oojjsiilerably. Close by wv a gap in the Sooth mountain, which led to what was eaQed tlie forest, a-wild stretch of woodland, fcAtwflfoto ten miles wjde,-rua-sing between nearly parallel hills, and extendi jg far some ithirtr miles from northeast to soothwteat. The name was well ddserved, for firneptiilg a few smaU hoii3ea,t ttred ere and there, the whole district was oovered withxtsoagisal prjwth of otik and chestnut, with hare an 1 there grim hemlof ka and pines. The settlers were principally of Gorman dnsrB) tlaair aacgstora 'harin coxae frocUe Palatinate a cenfairyandahalf before, .keotained, in arentarkabhyi dtxeettheinHneiersaadcintof fatheTSBHd.'IlkeiT hooses were generally1 of stode,' frequeiitly .with oyrhacging stoiiesj aBd ot'ten, with atose staueg boiltRaii& . i.In fafa-ii the wQdw parte of tlrS forest, high up on a spar of the sandgtono lolls, liTed, or had fcred, oidTit hebn 3tray; a nsorac, a miser, the erne! es t of credfcorsyyt. wits said, and a tyrant iahis fnaaily and all nnder him. He vnisiipjMsed, "hSweveiv to be the richest sum in' the county ; and it was bis only chSd who was . now aocosed of bisjnjiraBr. ' "It seems," acid, the District Attorneyftliathis d.iUghter has been clandegtroi'jy meeting a young man; and that her latfier hearhig oi h-feHinto a ragw and'threatened to turn her out of doom. There was nothing- against the, low, nnless it was hiipostety. I& father, Caonid Wolcott, wasonoa aanember of CorBSsfcgthetjoinmg;dajlilut, aaha humamf a rigiBK young lawyer. The girl hadnrxA aaetblinat the boose of an old Bohool-mate. Bhs was at Mrs. Colling-, wood's boarding school, as perhaps yott knoV. 8KF" oMBtrV.r was, be apouns to hare wished his only ofaOisO oetmaaghtijplikealady. What passed in the interview betwjeeii. father and daqgLhapr is noi folly kaon. The ser. Taqt girl orerheard angry weeds, but oouid not diiiingiiish their porport ; she was sura that jutt bdora tHis altereation was cer, the father threatened to disinherjt the daughter. Shortly after, the the ol d man kfe the boose to walk to the

pkk where, fas intended to take .the

Miss Stray followed. Within twenty

rainatea,,aflawiMa, going hoane.eamj

on her in the gap, standing over the

dtead bofly of terfalber. Her agitstioh

on aconir detectea was. be saTs. con

clusive jexjileaQa of ber guili BnithiB

ia only opinion The dsQaniag facts an the quarrel ; an i1lIiKBnt inotiTe for the deed ; brood or, the Bnetn etdT of ber right hkha and fle finding of an orients! dogger, which she hsd lomr used for apapea aa, Biathioket etoeo by, as If teothere'wltnfcshe heard the forgeinanootning. Tls dagger was still wet with the eriaaaoa stavm, by-and-by whan fonwl." . " Whrif "foegiiha daughter say t" "Oh! she denies it of course, fiaya aha had jnti fcseo-etwl tbo body, and) that she wsa horrified at the sight, horror shieb 41ie fotgeman mistook for proof of gajlt The dagger, ahe declares, mlleonr rtms bjr attTing she bad stopped to see her ft4lk a as reaBy dead, and so stain ad the linen." "Weh Ibeasreher." "'Chat's because yon know ber and pity her. Who else could bare done the deed! Wio had anr motto ? BeaBr. hi urs tox. old a man, too expertenend a wyer, to .'et (entimeotal nw tires doud your iodgiaeot. The best that can be aid of her is tliai she did it in a fit of

aoddon pasaiofc they nay her tern

high; she was goaded to u,

.Another Beatrice Cenei." 11 (3od forbid." said the other. "Bnt eonMt, well say no more antil we hare sea for ourselves." P two ffnitlemoa INI vwited the

scene of the murder. There were no signs of a straggle, snail as both expected to find. But Mr. Greaham snid : "The stroke was too quick and sure for that, I suppose. The old man full and died like an ox, stunned by a sinsle blow." "I am act so sure of that," replied Mr. Mordannt. "See, here is where his shoe were firmly planted in the soil ; tho deep tnderitation 13 uiimistalutUle; it looks to me as if there was-' some little resistance at least. But there is jio sign of any other foot-eteps." "No. Perhaps the assailant stoo J on this rock hero, By-the-by, ihe moss seems to lie slightly abraidedT" "I douTt see it I rut her flunk the

assAuaht wore ahoas that would not make .indeqtwa : a womau's shoe, in fact," "Bnt what is this?" cried Mr. Mordannt. He Htuppi'd as he spoke, and phiked up. a'oont two yfurds f i-om where the body had iain, a curiously shaped button, with a smr U fr igment of green cloth atush3d to it The button lay just at theedge-of the thicket, conocalcd by the orerhangin ; laurels. " Here is something that ni ay give a cine. It looks as if thebutx had bt en tons off in a struggle." "Pshaw!" said the district attorney. "A mere coincide'; ce. The button has been there for yerirs, probably. Don't yoa see it is quite an like any you ever saw before?" "Nevertheless, ijtote down where we found it." T The place next visited was the house of the murdered mlio. The corpse was lying on the bed, out with the clothes stQl on, awaiting the Qoroner s jury. A cob stable kept wat.th to prevent any interference until the inquest should 'have met Ha was as gj rrulouti as Dogberry himself. 'Til take bt 'daw ' that I will." ha

aid, " that gal's sweetheart put her np to it The thing stands to nittur'. But they do say she :iaa a temper of her own. There'swhtire the dagger went in," he nddedliftiig the sheet "A single blow seems to have' been suflaeieiit," remarkiid the District Attorney. . : . . 'It was a much stronger cue, in my pinion, " said Sir. Mordannt after a panse, "than girl's hand could have lealt Ha," he. added pause, " what does this mean?" 'What?" asked Mr. Greaham, -while he eonstable, having replaced the sheet, tfolfcedtop window. "Don't yon see? The blow was a fc-himded one. Now, Miss Stray, as I ainpen to know, fe notlitft-haiideo." " This. eally drxia Ic-ak like snmething, A last," said the other, reflecting. For even he could see that the cut, instead of going from right to Mt, which rould have beenihe ease if the blow had 'ieen dealt in the usual way, went from '. ft to right as if a left-handed person aad struck it Bjt Mr. Gresham's incredulity reurned after a moment " Don't let us be too quick," he said. "It is not impossible for right-handed erson to have struck such a blow ; ucj in a score of imes it might -appfti; perhaps oftener. -Besides you ;an't explain away the danger ; that lamning'fact remains." "Jt wiD all explain itself in good iaa," answered Mr. Mordannt "I ad faith from the first in the girl's innocence. Now 1 am sure of it At

isesent T am going back to the Locks, x , i.ra i . I - i

wnere wwsxyawj bdoui nere is juruwru

1. am looking, yon see, tor a lert-nanaea

a, who had some interest in tms

inarder." Ulr. Gresham shragged bis shoulder.!, bnt quietly fallowed his friend. The inn at the Locks was crowded. Everybody from a eircuit of twenty tailes around, had been attracted thither 'y the report of the tragedy. " Tlte real criminal," Mr. Mordannt srguefi, will most probtbly be there ; for he will be anjjouB to hear the Coroners verdict; I wonder if his manner will betrav him to me," But amid all the throng he saw no one who showed 'the least sign of guilt The beer-mug? etroulated freely, and the room was filled with tobacco smoke. A dozen voices at once discussed wheiher the lover had been an accessory, for the opinion was universal that the daughter was guilty. Nov not quite univerotal, for one man, a hill fanner from the forest, ventured to dissent "for where is the money?" he Baid. "I paid him $35o the evening before ; some money I had borrowed from him last year. He was I sawaf raid to keep it in the house over night ; he feared robbers ; be told me he would take it to the bank the first thing the next morning. Now there is no money found on him." "The- girl robbed him after killing him," said a harsh voice, in answer. "No doubt of it" Mr. Mordaxnit looked around quickly. The man spoke in German, with a Bavarian accent. As if to emphasize his words he plunged his beer mug down ou the table with a vigor that made the pipes lying there rattle. More than this, the button which Mordannt had found was the button belonging to the uniform of the railway employes of Bavaria, as he happened to know. Me. Mordannt turned to his next neighbor. " Who that fellow?" he asked. "Well, I hardly know. A newcomer here; just from Germany; lives off in the forest by himself. They say he's been wog np to the servant girl at old Stray's, however; she's believed to have saved money. She has probably told nim that her mistress robbed the old man; he seems so positive about it" But this solution was for from being rthat of Mr. Mordannt On the contrary,

he attributed the accusation of the man

; On oxmiing her trunks a roll of ! notes, was discovered, which the farmre . from the forest, who was bronght to the ' Innse for the purpose, identified rb part

of the money he had paid to the old awn. " Sse, hero is my mark," ho said, showing a peculiar cross on each note. " I a'.witys put that on every bill." When this was made known to the servant, the bravado which she had shown nt fhst gave away, and she confessed alL The murder hod beets sugfifosted by the Bavarian, who was in the kit -hen when tho farmer came to pay off his loan. "Tho miserly wretch lias lived long enongb," he argued; " his- death won't harm anybody; this money will ronke us T?.h. He'e sure, yon say, to go to the bank wilh it to-morrow. We will throw the suspicion on his daughter." It was taen.in discussing this part, of the tragedy, tot .io girl spoke of the dagger .of her anistre'8s ' " That is just the thing," cried the Bavarian. "Get it for me to-morrow. I will hide in the edge of the woods, watching till I see the old man get out; ihen I will steal down to the back door and get the dagger from yon. Jje.ive the rest to mo." AU this happsned Beve-ral years ago. The Bavaiinn was arrested, triad, condemned and hunsr. The cirl. by turn

ing state's evidence, saved her life. It was not, it was discovered, tho first serious crime of tho inurdurAr. He had fled from Bavaria to avoi.l arrfst for a homicide committed there. He had never worn his old uniform, except on the day of Mr. Stray's death, and he put it on thinking it a disgii'so. " Bnt 'twas the devil who sugg-istad it," ho saul, wrdhfully; "had I not worn it 1 never would Lave been found ont Yes, the old man held oa tight and cried for help ; it was some time before I could nialto a pure stroke; .and I was going to

make but one. Miss Stray lived in the strictest reinsion for more than two yeirs after the tmgauy, and then was married to her lovi'T in the quietest way, only the Mordaunts being present Her husband is now one of the lendiag numbers of the bar at Berkton, whsre they rt side, fur she never went, back to the house in the forest Thfl old edifice is failing to decay, and it is said to be h muted, strang-3 noises- being heard at night it, wniiings, groans, prayers for mercy, so tho excited imaginations of the neighbors fancied. It was only tho other day that one of Mr. Mordaunt's daughters was dining at Mrs. EUicott's. " Let us go out ou the piazza and look at the sunset," said the hostess as tlwy rose from the table. " Ye, darling yon may come too," this to her lhtlj girl who was cl'nginij to her -dre--a "Do you. know tho people who have been abroad tell me that the view from hi re down the valley is not uulike that from Kesole." " I have seen that view," answered the other. "All this, one wants is the white villus scattered over the slopes. The scenery is quite as fine." " Ah," sighed Mrs. Mlicott after n long gaze, how thankful I ought t j be, I never thought to bo so happy. Under God, I owe, my dear, in a great degree to your father, fie i was that lifted me from out of that a- fal, awful gulf." She suddenly covered her eyei rith both hands, and almddere l. And that was the only time nhe was ever heard to allude to the tragedy in the forest Peternon't Magazine

FAUX NOTES.

A Most Remarkable Life. - A correspondent at Hcnesdale, Pa., sends to the Philadelphia Times the remarkable history of George Avery, whose career is equal to that of Hugo's hero, Jean Vatican. In 1870 Avery, then about twenty-one yews of age, was charged with tho murder of John Hayes, of Pike County,, Pa. He was arrested and an officer detailed to bring him to Milford. Evidence of the mnrdcir was reported to be so conclusive that ho could not possibly escape hanging. On their way to Milford the officer imbibed freely of liquor and finally got " blind drunk." Avery secured the keys which unlocked his handcuff and shackles, and look them off, pnttingthora in the bottom of ti e wagon, He took the reins from the stupidly drunken officer's hands and drove to the nearest hotel, where he arrivud with the officer in charge at a late hour. He put the drunken man in bed, roused him the next morning, got him in the wagon, drove on to Milford, the county fait ol Pike County, when after he Lad put the officer in bed at a hotel he went np to the jail and delivered himself up to the keeper. He was con fined there tiU September 1870, when he was tried for murder and to the great surprise of every one acquitted. Immediately after he was discharged by the court he was arret. ted, charged with burglary, convicted and sent to State's Prison for a year and a half. He served bin term, reading law during his confinement When he left the Eastern Penitentiary he returned home, opened a law office, arrested several oitizenii who had testified against him when he was on trial for burglary, charging them with perjury, and failing to make ont his case was sentenced to pay the costs. He had no money, so he went to to prison again, where he remained till his friends could scrape np enough money to get him ont VTien finally he became a free man he returned to his old home nt Bowlauds. from that time forward burglaries were numerous in that section bnt never ajuld evidence sufflcieat to convict Avery be obtained. After a while the young man wont to Oil City, Pa,, and hung ont Ins shingle as a lawyer. Olionts' were plenty and fees large. Avf ry was reaping a golden harvest whf n he was convicted of forgery and

I sent to the Western Peni tentiary, at Alle-

t a desire to screen himself. As if by a j gheny City, for four years and eleven flash, the whole tragedy from this mo- months. While there he fell in love

. . i ... i .

ment became clear.

Mr. Mordannt rose, and leaving the room, sought the District Attorney. "I want' two senish warrant-," he aaid. " One for the trunk? of the ferv ant sirl at Stray's, and another for tb bonse or cabin of a Bavarian, living, I am told at tho three mile cross-roads in the forest Three or four officers, also, as we may have to make arrests." " Tide is rather unusual, as you will know, but we'll stretch a point to please you," said Mr. Gresham. "I'm afraid your seal, for onco, however, has outran your judgment" " Trust me for that," replied Mr. Mordannt "My intuitions in these matters have never misled me." Accordingly, he found, on searching the Bavarian'a house, just what he had expected ; the green uniform of a flagstation gourd in Bavaria, with one button missing. The button had evidently been violently wrenched ont The bit of c'oth attached to the button which Mr. Mnrdauat had picked up, exactly fitted torrent "So fax, so good," said Mr, Morduont " Sow to tie a-emnt gaTd,"

with the keeper's daughter, and she pro

posed to assist him to escape, but he refused to leave prison till his time was ont At the end of the term he returned again to Lnckawaxen; soon after professed religion, swindled a neighbor ont of a $100 and was induced by the neighbor, who enforced his arguments with a shot-gun, to refund the money. He then went to Luzerne County, where he got into difficulty and went to tho Eastern Penitentiary again for a short term. Upon being released the last time he went to tho mining regions of the West, where he opened a law office and speculated in stocks. He " atruok it rich ' and cleared over half a million dollars, gave up his stock speculation forever, sent for his fiancee, the prison-keeper's fair daughter, who went West, and they have just been married. Avery is only about thirty-two years of age and writes to friends at Honesdale that he is new an honest, upright man, and that the next time he comes East it will be as a United States Senator from one of the Western States.

Tits Irari Farmer says grass and clover can be suooessfally sown with buokwheat Labob should he the application of a prinoiple, and not merely to follow a blind preoep-ant Tub New York papers denounce the practice of spreading rianure on lawns or public parks as endangering health. Wht do not our courts change the oath to jurors so as to agree with the general praatioe? "Wo will find a verdict iu favor of tho smiu'test lawyer." Foil six months of tho year the cattle and horses must depend upon hay as their principal uupply of food and it is all important that it be saved in the best condition possible. Tub days of routine farming are or ought to be past The farmer who will succeed now, must not only know how to do things correctly, but he most know why he does things thus and so. Wn have a variety of able professors in our schools, colleges, and universities, but what they all look now is a professor of common sense. Will not some rich man endow such a professorship? Gbass in a cornfield is the same as a weed. Too many stall s in a hill diminish growth the same as a weed. It comes very near the truth to say that a weed ia only a plant out of place. Bennett. Is too are fattening hogs soak the corn, for it is hard and dry, and iwine cau't eat much of it It would pay to construct a box on purpose to soak corn in. Pigs, calves and horses all do better on soaked corn.- Bennett. That man or woman who gratuitously feeds a tramp is wor than the tramps themselves. This is the process by which they are enwiragod and sup

ported. There is a demand for double the workmen which eon anywhere be found. Iowa titato Register. Tbh farm is the place to grow healthy Inds and lassies. Tho excitement of a city life blights when young. It is the country that infuses new life and energy to the city, which continually receives recruits from the tost blood of the country. Mx&k. turns sour in thunder storms because during their continuance ozone is generated in the atmosphere. Ozone is oxygen in a state of great intensity, and oxygen is the great acidifler throughout nature. .The excess of oxygen in the air imparts acidity to the milk by the formation of laotio acid, Prarle Farmer. A Nebraska dairyman give" tho following advice : "Peed sound food and give clean water to your stock ; be perfectly clean in all the operations of producing butter ; market it while fresh,

and don't wait for a rise, and I wily

guarantee me vaiue am rise to an average of seventy-five cents per pound, and oleomargarine factories will slip out of existence, andbothmakers and consumers of butter will be saliisfieri" To mini lice on cattle, a correspondent of the country recommends a mixture of one bushel ot dry sand and five pounds of sulphur will clear fifty head.. Get them into a huddle, if you have a large lot, then go an the windward side, and throw it or sprinkle, as best you can, to get it on. On 3 good sprinkling will kill and clean out every one. Sulphur, coal oil and lard will clean fowls of lice and scaly legs. Hub it on the feet and legs, and run youi greasy hands through the feathers. The young lady goes to school or college, and if luckily she has a teacher who understands domestic economy, she will learn that albumen dissolves in warm water, bet hardens in boiling water. But when she comes to assume the great duties of life, though she has learned that the albumen of meat is the most nutritions part, yet she will herself or permit her domestics to put her meat for dinner in oold water and bring it slowly to boil, thus dissolving her albumen and losing it. Here is where a professor of common sense is needed. Importance of Bebediso Sheet.However much by judicious manage ment we may enable a flock to produce wool under the most favorable circumstances, it is perfectly dear that the natural character of the breed will be a very important agency; management will go far tofarar the growth of wool, but it 6ertainly cannot do all we need. Hnce the importance of securing sheep which are of a suitable breed, and from which we may lie sure to obtain wool of the desired qiuJity and weight The value ol! a long -continued and careful breeding is shown as forcibly in the wool as in the general form of the body, These flocks which, for several successsive generation , have maintained one steady and uniform character of wool, offor tiie best source from which to breed when it if) desired to improve the wool of any flock. The buyers shoidd not look for rams suitable for this purpose without duly considering the previous history of t'ae flock from whioh they may be selected. Many a sheep possesses the external qalifications desired so far as the eye is able to judge but unless the flock from which it has been obtained has been carefully fed, the buyer will probably be disappointed. The value of good wool is a strong inducement for making its growth as abundant and is good as the local circumstances of a form will allow. Fabmino; in Oamfornia. A correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune, who has recently been journeying from California to Los Angeles, writes as follows : " Lookicg from the car across thegreat agricultural section, the range of tho eye is bounded only by the distant mcuntains, while a broad expanse of waving grain, covering many thousand square miles of level land, lies between. Nowhere else is farming prosecuted on such an extensive and scientific scale, and the quantity of wheat and barley produced eaoh year is something enormous. To the Bastern tourist, the lack of foiicws, road:i, and homes is surprising. For mileii and miles on each side of the road nothing but wheat-fields are seen, and the play of light and color upon the standing grain exceeds in bnauty the bes ; tints of the most famous artists. On every ranch is seen farming machinery of whose vaine the Eastern farmer is scarcely yet aware. Gang-plows for preparing the ground, centrifugal sowers for scattering tho seed, combined plows and sowers, giant headers for cutting, and costly separators for threshing, combined headers, threshers and socking wagonti there are the implements which have made larj-e farming possible ou the San Joaquin, and whioh have furnished wonderful reei: Ito for the amount of capital employed "

ShMiIno MiiiK and ExHAusTma Land.

Without going into the exact lljruroa to show the amount of fertilizing material

I oarried off from the land, it will be snOi-

MAsr students burn midnight oil, hut . dent to remark !n a general way that, do very little midnight toil. ' while high j-iioe is obtained i ullu$

the milk for what is carried away, a low sum is paid for the enriching substances supplied in tire purchased food, and in any special fertilizers added. In other words, the cows oonvert low-priced material into that wliioh sells at a much higher rate, while a large portion is still retained in the shape of manure from the animals to be applied to the laud. A much larger portion of the produce of the land is retained in aelling milk, than in raising and selling grain. Hn.rris gives the following figures by way of illustrating these advantages: Five hundred pounds 'of cheese contains twenty-five

pounds' of nitrogen and twenty pounds

of iniiieral matter. A cow, to produee it, would e it six tons of hay or its equivalent iu grass, which would coatain two hundred and forty pounds of nitrogon

and eight hundred and ten pounds of

mineral matter, a very small portion of which goes off in the cheese, and the rest remains to enrich the land ; while a crop of wheat reBfoves five or six times as much. Grain-growing i'armors keep up the fertility of their land, and dairymen can do so much mora easily. Rural jVewi Yorker. FEBTTMzrso. Tillage, La a general sense, denotes such preparation of soil, by mechanical means and fertilization, and suoh general treatment as will insure an improved fertile condition, even after the removal of the crops. This is very much aided by a judicious rotation of

crops requiring a less expenditure of

fertilizing material; bnt there has never yet been discovered any means that

would entirely do away with the use of some sort of application to the soil that

is continually cropped. Alesonreea for fertility ore many and various, including accumulations of tho various kinds of manufactured articles that 'are found in the markets. It is a great convenience that chemical science has poin ted out the manner of combining tho sample elements of fertility to be most serviceable to the farmer m tho use that he may desire to nuke of the same ns a supplementary manure; but a question of great importance to all farmers is : whether it is desirable to enter very extensively into the use of this doss of fertilisers. It is supposed that the mineral elements applied are the same that ecti-it to some extent in tho soil in fact are a part of tho soil, and may, by gradual accumulations, exist to excess, and iu cuoh a state of affairs maximum crops might be expected ; but is this always the case ? May not a farm be really mineral sick, so to speak, or, in other words, become by constant application of this forcing kind of manure, as to be partially insensible to its direof effects? It is said that an individual by a gradual and constant use of arsenic, trill produce such a state of the system as will enable the taking of a dose without fear of any harm, as would at first produce instant death. So too continual tiiof stimulants by an individual, in time, renders such individual wholly insensible to any stimulating effect, except when taken in large quantities ; but there is food that is natural to the human system, and although the use is continued, if It be in a judicious manner, the body continues healthy aufl life prolonged. So it seems to be with the soil ; a continued use of stimulating or peculiarly forcing commercial f ertilissars, while good for a f ew crops, will, in a little time, lose their efficiency. This will undoubtedly explain why, in some casec, farmers who have been accustomed to use a particular brand of fertilizer because it at first gave such excellent satisfaction, will abando-i it for another, because the results are not so good as formerly, when the eanse is not so much u difference in the quality, as it is a continued use, and in that case another brand of different combinations will give, epparentlyi now energy to the soiL That all euch fertilizers serve an excellent purpose, and are excellent helps to the farmer, can not be denied ; but the part 6i wise policy would forbid the too ei.tonsive use of thesitmo. It was the saying of a wise farmer who, in answer to 'he inquiry of the three principal thingii necessary in in farming, replied: manure, manure, MASOBB. An Ancient Aqueduct lleopened. Alter a breach .of 1,600 years the aqueduct built by tho Emperor Augustus to supply Bologna with water has been restored to use. Nineteen hundred years ago the imperial engineers tapped the Setta near its junction with the Bono, about eleven miles from Bologna, and bronght its water to the oty through tut underground passage. They followed the course of the Bono, tunneling the hills, sinking their work beneath the beds of the precipitous torrenns whioh rush from tho mouutoins into the river, and bringing the wuters to the gates of the city, where they were divided, one portion going to supply the- public baths, and the other probably destined for the fountains of streets and public squares. Tho work oi tunneling Mid the masonry were so thoroughly well done that both stonework and brickwork are still as solid us the rook itself, the only considerable breaks being where the turbulent Bono hadt washed away with its clayey banks several portions of the aqueduct, or where the headlong torrents which rush down into its stream had excavated their own beds and carried away the artificial substructure. The restoration of this important work is due chiefly to Count Ckizzadini, who caused an accurate survey of the aqueduct to be mode about twenty years ago, and in 1861 published the results of the investigation in an elaborate memoir. Since then the work of restoration has been going on with a thoroughness and skill calculated to make the new work as enduring as Che old. The aqueduct was originally made of brick and stone cemented with lime aud volcanic sand, and the unbroken portions remained an hard as granite.

He Was for the Han.

A transcript of the evidence

in a

"woman case" which vas appealed to

the Supreme Court of Indiana from a county near by contain)! the following paragraphs. It seems 'iia woman was giving her testimony, ai d the clerk thus records it: Question "Was the defendant present at the time ?" Answer 1 ' No." Hero the witness began to sob aud cry bitterly. Question "Did you aoe him about that time?" Answer "No." Hero the witness threw herself down on the floor, yelled, bellowed and walloped herself around until she had to bo carried out of the room. When the Judges read this transcript it is said one of them remarked: "If that clerk wants to see a woman wallop herself around and raise the ceiling off the house he ought to catch a sight of my wife when shia is in one ol her tantrums. Gentlemen, I'm not fit to pas., on this case. I'm for the man, upaaddowu, iu spite oi thedovU," inter Oeem,

The Noble Virginia Bourbons. At the recent Virginia Bourbon State Convention, some of t'ae orators referred to the Bourbon party as " the noble Virginia Democracy." Virginia has sometimes been referred to by Southern orators as the " Mother of Presidents ; " henceforth she will be known as the scornful enemy of repudiation. And we need scarcely remark that she obtains this proud title through the noble leadership of tho noble Democratic party. To lie sure, this noble party has controlled the State finances of Virginia for fifty years, during' which rather-protracted period it has not paid any part of the principal of the State debt, and precious little of the interest thereon. Of course, tho noble Democratic party of Virginia has had no objection to the payment of the State debt during this protracted period, but it has been waiting, as it were, for tho creditors of the jjtote to say emphatically that they prefer 50 cents or 25 cents to 100 cents on the dollar of their claims. The creditors have been slow in coming forward with propositions of this nature, and they have delayed so long that the " noble party " bos become impatient 80 to speak, and is now taking the aggressive. Says the noble party: "The maintenance of the public credit of Virginia is tUi essential means to her prosperity." What a splendid sentiment 1 The crop of Presidents in Virginia hat been scant of late years, and the noble party suggests, in effect, to the " Mother of Presldentb" that she make a superhuman effort in the direction of increasing the production of Presidents. The noble party proceeds : We condemn repudiation in every shape and form as a blot upon tho honor of Virginia." What could he grander than that ? He who hesitates is a dastard and hii who doubts is damned ! We looked for this emphatic epigram in the platform of the noble party. It is not there in to many words, but it is implied. There is nothing mean about the noble party. There is to be no element of compulsion in ita debt-paying scheme, ft will not force the creditors of tho State to tuke the money due them wheth-' er they will or uo. Far from it Witness this tender and considerate language of the noble party: "We will make every effort to secure a settlement of the publio debt, with the consent of her creditors, which is consistent with her honor and dictated by justice and sound publie policy." Observe, the noble party does not approach the creditors of tho " Mother of Presidents " in a menacing attitude, with e. handful of gold eagles, aud er.y in a loud and imperious tone : " Hero, take your money, principal and interest" The noble party is lull of -"honnah, snh; " it is unbued with a keen sense of " justice ; " it ia mindful of the high claims of "publio policy." Henoe the noble party refrains lroui indulging in tho harsh word "payment" and substitutes th more gentle, more euphonious word "settlement" How does the noble party know that the creditors of Virginia want tho full face of their legal demands? And, if not, why should the noble party insist upon full payment? It does not insist upon full payment It scorns repudiation, but it is tenderly conscious of the rights of creditors, ana it approaches them in the honorable spirit of compromise. Says the noble party: "It is eminently desirable and proper that the several classes of the debt now existing should bo unified, so that equality, which is equity, may control iu the annual payment of the interest and the ultimate redemption of the principal" There is alittb sJip here, for "ecpWity" is not necesserily " equity." For example, the creditor who loaned the State of Virginia money at 8 per cent interest would not be bound in equity to accept 1 per cent interest because another creditor had loaned the State money at the latter rate. Doubtless the ardent desire of the noble party for the " uuific'ition" of the different classes of the debt led to the enunciation of this rather-queer ethical proposition. Indeed, this ap tears from a later passage in the platforxa, which pledges tho noble party to "use all lawful and constitutional means in its power to secure a settlement on the basis of a 3-per-oent bond." .It may be observed in passing that the "Mother of Presidents-" has not been in the habit of borrowing money at 3 per cent, and as a matter of fact the debt of the estimable old lady bears a much higher rate of interest A proposition to settle a debt bearing 7 or 8 per cent interest overdue for fifteen or twenty years, at 3 per cent interest may look on the surface like a sort of repudiation, bnt we know that the noble party does- not so understand it for it says, emphatically : " We condemn repudiation in every shape and form as a blot, upon the honor of Virginia, a blow at her permanent welfare, and ax. obstacle to her progress in wealth, influence and power. " Who has the hardihood to assert that the noble party -would slap the " Mother of Presidents " in the face, so to spsak ? Who believes for a moment that the noble party would inflict a "blot" upon the honor of the old lady, or strike a foul "blow" at her welfare, or interpose an " obstaole " to her "progress in wealth, influence and power?" Palsied be the tongue that shall dare to give utterance to' the impious slander I The concluding plank of the platform

of tne noble party is, as iiok Hwiveuet would say, 'a staggerer." Says the noble party: "The Conservative-Dem-ooi-atio party pledges itself, as part of its policy, not to increase the present rate of taxation." iSconomy is a splendid thing in a political party; it is just what might be expected of a noble political partv like the one whose high

character we are celebrating. But, as a matter of fact, "the present rate of taxation " in Virginia does not provide $1 for the payment of the old lady mother's debts, principal or interest Exactly what good it will do for tho noble party to "secure a settlement of the publio debt of Virginia with the consent of her creditors " ii. not apparent, in connection with the solnmn assurance of the noble party to the ohi lady's subjects that it will not dra-vSl from tltcm to be devoted to the paym ent of the existing debt It is satisfactory, however, to know that the noble Democratic party of patriots of Virginia " condemns repudiation with tho utmost scorn;" fiat it wants to "unify" the debt of the " Mother of Presidents : " that it wants the consent of her creditors to ssoh unifloation : that it wants a "settlement of the debt,'' if it don't want to pay it ; and, finally, that it wants to secure a settlement on tho basis of a 8-per-eent bond, if it don't want to raise it cent by taxation to pay the rot0 of interest to be agreed upon,

We wish it to be distinctly understool that the platform of the noble party is not a joke. Its proposition to pay the debt of Virginia without rft iing aay money to do it with is not a joke. Virginians never joke, Chicago Tribum.

INIMiKi itrt,

Uifc nas been Sstuok in auMa$aViei ship, Jefferson county. u-H.. New Albant has tiro rival .? ashoet - boards and a legal fighl on head.-' I'HHtte ate gVof.t maliySFeoJitfeit gold pie3ea'in circtdafifn JudieiP' ftPolis, t ' VfeetJ H). t "ft '. Out of twenty of tiielaignT'oi4fei0of. the state, miy&mifcMzma&vmm' tMfoftaiodbX , r " David Haductv & formes near fitain field, lost thirty-five sheep at the tumit.y of dotrs on Sunday night' - " .."..

Wmmi Am. wnfflra s1tal HaHLitH&al?'

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nneen ourgiaries commitfea in

Night Work and Long Hours. There is no disease so insidious nor when fully developed so difficult to cur, as that species of nervous degeneration or exhaustion produced by night work or long hours. It is easy to understand how such a state of prostration may bo induced. The brain and the nervowi system have been very. aptly oompsaxl to a galvanic battery in constant use to provide a supply of electric fluid for consumption within a given time. "As long," says a recent writer, "as supply and demand are evenly balanced, the functions which owe their regular and correct working to the fluid are carried on with precision ; but when, ly fitful and excessive demands carried for beyond the means of supply, the balance is not only lost, but the machine itself is overstrained and injured--disorder at first and disease afterward are the -e-sults. This illustrates pretty clearly the condition of a well-balanced brain and nervous system, supplying without an effort all the nervous force required in the operations of the mind and' body so long as its works are in proportion to its' powers, but if embarrassed by excessive demands feebly and fitfully endeavoring to carry ou these mental and physical operations over which it formerly presided without an effort" The symptoms of nervous prostration are exceedingly painful ; we can afford to pity even the mail of pleasure, who has by his own foolish conduct induced them, but much more so the brain-worker, who has boer. bur ning the midnight oil in the honest endeavor to support himself, and probably a wife and family, with respectability in life. He has made a mistake for which we can readily forgive him. In the pleasurable excitement of honest toil he has forgotten that the supply of work cannot be regulated by the de

mand or need for it, but by the power

to produce it. Jie nas been litmg ou his capital as well as the interest thereof, and when he finds he has no longer the strength to work as he used to do, and starvation itself probably staring him in the face if he cease to toil, why the very thought of coming collapse tends only to hasten tho catastrophe, and reason itself may tetter and fall before tho continued mental strain. Probably the first sign of faiiiag nervous energy is given by some of the large organs of the body; it may be functional derangement of the heart, with fluttering or pnlpitation, or intermittent pulse and shortness, of bronth in ascending stairs or walking quickly. The stomach may give timely warning, and a distaste of food or loss of appetite, with acidity, flatulence and irregularity of the bowels, may point to loss of vitality from waste iinrepaired. Or brain symptoms may point out to the patient that things are going wrong. He may not find himself able to work wilh his usual life and activity ; he may have fits of drowsiness or transient attacks of giddiness or pain or heaviness or loss of sleep itself. This latter would be a very serious symptom indeed, for in sleep not only are the muscular and nervous tissues restored and strengthened, but there is for the time being a cessation of waste itself ; and, if sleep be essential to the ordinary healthy man, it is much more so to him whose mental faculties have been overtasked. Long hours and night work lead to loss of sleep, tuid loss of sleep may lead to insanity aud death. Loss of memory, whether transient or general, is a sure sign that the brain has lost its power of healthy action, and needs rest and nutrition to restore it Irrita bility of temper and fit) of melancholy both point in the same direction, to an exhausted nervous system. No I may safely say that there are very many thousands of brain workers in these islands who are.sufferiug, sadly audit may be silently suffering, from the effects of excessive toil and over menial strain. To warn such that they are positively shortening their lives, and that they can not have even the faintest hope of reaching anything like an old age, is only to perform part of my duty as medical adviser. I should try to point out some remedy for the eviL To bid them cease to work would, in a great many cases, be equivalent to telling them tc cease to live. They must work or they cannot cat Well, out there is one t hing that all can do: they -can review, remodel and regulate their mode and system of liviug. CaseeVa Magazine. Surviving a Terrible Wound. In the battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, Corporal Robert E. Williams,, of tho Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, . was . shot through the body with a minje-, ball, which struck and fractured a rib. piercing through the liver. .The ball oarried into the body pieces of the blouse and fragments of the rib. He remained on tho field, exposed to great-

heat and a heavy thunder-storm, unattended, and but once refreshed with water by a passing Confederate, until the next evening, when the Union wounded were recovered under a flag of truoo. Capt Joseph Marohette and Corporal Daniel Davis removed Mr. Williams from the field, and found him in a terrible condition, with two large wounds over an inch in diameter, from (hich already crawled maggots, death being but a few hours distant in tho opinion of the surgeons and his friends. He was taken to a hospital at Alexandria, where' he remained in a precarious

condition for several months, afterwhioh

he was discharged arid returned to Cfttosauqua, remaining an invalid for n long time, the great trouble arising from the foreign matter carried into the body 'y the bullet Periodical sicknesses resulted for several years, -when, ooout five years since, on abscess formed on the abdomen, and Dr. Hornbeok removed from tho same a piece of the lib, since whioh time: his disability hits :aot returned, and he is now on;oying good health.- CatasaHqua (Pa.) Dispatvft, Neither One Sorthe Other. Thomas Salter was carefully reared by his wealthy parents at Montreal, bu t had not sufficient pride to keep a place a mong respectable people, nor honor enough to be trusted among thieves. He wen t into a scheme with some burglars to vob a jewelry store, and then betrayed his companions to justice. But iu testifying against them, though he caused bheir conviction, he lied so much that he was sent to prison for perjury, Thuit ho found himself a convi ct in the St Vincent de Paid Penitentiary with men who were his revengeful foes. One of these was Dan Everett, who deliberately resolved to throw away his own life in outar to kill the traitor. He stabbed Salter to death, and then, knowing that otherwise he would surely bo hanged, he co..u,ii tod sttioide Oil tho spot

Bend, aud not a burglar caught Winchester is the tenter ol an extensive ash -growing region, which Is to be utilized by titernw handle fti6tery."' , . .. .President Bbittib, of BeOXord uofcrw lege, has accepted : tho chair of : mat he mnticB in the college at Oskalocsa, Iotrar ? Monet enough has been- subseri eA,for a new First Presbyterian JfJhushe building at Crawfordsville, toBort,lJ,,01 , 000. .vi James M'iMiBB, a ycucg farmer'tiviag! ? near Buahville, was s'langled" to Ajat'ttJ 3 by a bit of wheat btuwA kTdgirig in KiS- - windpipe. " . '? '"Xi..,' Tkebs are now lhirtyl-one',' rj-J equipped military conqwiapies Indiana,', and two moreuaro aboyi to biryiajjoit j at Hicbmoud.......J PAjRxiMfrom Iow...rn3cuUir!l. Indiana buying yoiiiig stock ,gttM cheap, to shrp ffomVafcdfee.1 lth fire3 '5 surplus grain. '- ' '- ."' r'1 Tax Governor has ippolnted HohL H&ft? B. Taylor to the Judjipof tliwwett-.( ty-eighth circuit mede vacMiiij;; t ,j death of James B. Slack. . Joseph Bajtp, employed in bfts father's" saw.mill at Columbia City, "was5 caugWf ' in the belting and whirled aotadllie- . shaf t and instantly laUed - Nxab Hagerstown, Wayne count?, son of Daniel Pollard, fell jOff a jtoadt -1 wagon, and the wheel oasing over him '

ttore the whole scalp from his tkUi !' ; 1""

Does entered the Northern OMMtftryi T at New Albany; -the othiirajKas; - SisdO s killed six of' the fine duckisextop,. had recently placed ia the lake. ' Julius Pakmn, a 1ft 1 -of 8 yefcirsypt E siding with his parents on Kfarnbaatisr t -MonroeviUe, was JatsJly injured fagc. t,,, gate fulling on him, crushing hiq skruL The Adjutant General of Indian1 changing the caliber of all the 'Stntv4'. arms, so that but one kind of aninrwi.,, jj nition will be needed fox the Stta..

militia.

David StegiiBB. a well-known citLien

of Clay county, was tlxrbwn from, a buggy near Keehrville, Ilitnam runty, fuid eustaineda spinal injury, whhiwsaA&edjr ! 5 in his death. . ... ,iaw,

IIalph Isaacs, vdiile .bath

drowned in the Ohio river, at

rill,i TVirai. rvf.rmrrirrvfi wnri rrrwfe

deavoring to Save him oame aesr'&avijSt a similar fate. . : . 4 i j--w David Hadlet, of. Plainfleld, 3 dricks county, haft thirty-five fine sheep, vahiedatabout$0f, killedbiy abgsiuont'night He wi!l lode ail beoitaiie tlie degMi' tax money is all paid out , i The young girls and boys ol IVhj tt mond whose parente haye forWtne cte? livery of their mail A the poe toffioe l4rre -established a private postsfke at a n- . feciionary where they h,avj tnd capjfor; their notes. ' , Doos have' nearly depleted the frnw3, Bock of blooded sheep owniid by r.."' Seyden, near New Albany. Over threaW hundred sheep have been destroyed byj-ju dogs in Floyd county in the Inst ten months. It is said that Josiah Gwin, late ed- f iter of the New Albany Zeclger-Stnmi ttrrf, will soon begin the publication of a,. . new daily, to be called the Standard, ' the new proprietors of the Ledger having dropped that part of the jonht ' -name. A bm, burly negro, employed by a well-to-do Germaii farmer near Ingle- . . field, Vanderburgh, county, aaci liaud; -fell in love with hit employe: r"s daughter"1! ; and was discharged, bat tho ijatet'iajad.) ; , girl followed himjo Evwiamdeaod.mar-, ried him. " . "' " The wife of Motrin Epley, hying heJaT SouthBend, went into the field base-p. footed to gutber roasting ea-rsj and was,n bitten by a rattlesnake. Anbdiites and medical attendant proved "unavofliiig 9i and one hour after giving birth to a child Mrs. Epley died. ,tj:;-; Pbof. Grxnairr, of tho Inihaiia; UnK vernty, Bloouungton, while ascending the Matterhorn, "in S wit irhttid, with four other Ameneens, was Efcriick 00 -the : ' , head by a piece, of rook which becaimou" detached, and rendered iooasible. At,i Zermalt doctors amended him, ,aud jhe; will probably recover.' ", i & t BichmonChieX of' Poh'ce.1 FJem-. 1 ' ing has destroyed $500 worth of faro tutt i( t poker tools, captured in the recent raid' 1 on Stout's club-room. The law reured; that thoy should be burned, in the prea-, . ;, ence of the Mayor?, and he was fhorelcfe present, with several other gentleman,' 1 3 to witness the act. .' , ir: 3sf Gro. Hawkin i, of . SUdby county, was lately relieved from tlte Hoii!"for. the Insane on a thirty days' furlough- . If he showed no sign bl' :.-etmn5ngTi . , sanity at the expiration f his furlough " his release was to be mtde Ttueongi, .; tior-al; but the e ther mcniing he wtdj . wild and attempted to kill his mother, ' Arousr Hero, of St doiieph Oawniy-, ' had got through foedinjf a. tfntvjgmachine, and attempted to jiimo o) tof ' of it His heat' struck a beaai to'the bam, and he feB feet firs between tho cylinders. His' right' leg ws: tern-t-pi" pieces and jerked out olite ocfcesvrmiil it hung to the body by a thred, of , skin, The teeth tore his bowels open unffl hjH r entrails protruded, and his left legwmi'''' broken. Berg lived about an ho-a-rafte the accident - A CASRcf xaost mhuman traelty an animal occurred near Kolwpo, L. Banisey, who lives in that city, and wha runs a threshing -machine, was ' epfcttgrjl ' in tluvwhiog wheat He finished up the ' job in the afternoon arid hitched his -horses to the engine to move it totta,' . next job, when one of his horses btdked,. He then tied a fine aronod the S' animal's tonguo and set three etc fo&? 4 strong men to pull at it The beast. ij ;t -c-jurse, himg back, and the brutoVti s tlie other end of the Hue pulled the tongue out by tho roots. The inhamae owner was arrested and lined $1' and. juts. 1 H'Ton Evanaville Tribune eaya fOr- .( f ange county has a cave thai, for extent,.;, rivals Wyandotte and toe Mammoth. It is about three-quartere of mUtftroei' t ' the line and the aumeHbstnuce from Valeen. It has mot lieen explored more than ten infies into.tiw j interior, but ia bolioved to be twice, as htrge as the present exphiration has -' diacJoeod. In it is an abyss bo deep-i-.i that a stone thrown into it is. fe,

luuiuusi wt uuuuk, no L-ia. aoe oouna

ct its suiKing tne ooiiom revurjis. Mhe cave is very little noticed thepeoiile in the vicinity, who. Like those iwkr'

Mammoth oave. don't seem-to oonsbha

it anything uncommon,, leoause, tliey have become familiarized with it; but strangers visiting Valeen, aud hearingsit, frequently visit it, and speak glowingly of ite wonders. The entrance hi very narrow, but is not king, andtermiaates in a chamber of only modei-ate height, but leads to vast chambere and labyrinths tliat greatly interest the vie iter. When tlie E., JC'. E. roa is completed it is expeotetV to become a great resort" Mississrpw writes fewer tetters to ths inhabitant and fewer in gross than say State iu the Union. Colorado utaudu at the head in the numlor per eitiit-o.

: Mississippi's average is ox; Oolerado'a uitv-five ioi the entire pajHilation,