Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1874 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY AUGUST 4, 1S74.

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THE GRASSHOPPER PLAQUE.

THE EXTENT OF RAVAGES. THE REPORTS OF DEVASTATION EXAGGERATED THE CROP OF JSO COUSTY ENTIRELY DE3TR0TED THE METIIOD OF FEEDIXO. A special correspondent of the New York Tribune writing from St. Jamee, Watonwan, Minn., on the 20th instant, Rives a careful resume of the extent and character of the insect ravages ia that State: "The cows have long horns a great way off, ' is a homely New England proverb, as' true on the Minnesota frontier as on a Yankee farm. "The wheat crop of Minnesota has teen destroyed by grasshoppers" was the doleful atory that I heard in Washington, to justify the prayer oi Gov. Dav'ta for aid from the United States government to aave the people of this stricken region from starvation. "Ilaif the State is overrun," said the Chicago and Milwaukee wheat-traders, but whether they believed it or were attempting to 'bull" the market I did not ascertain. "One-twelfth of the wheat crop is gone," says the St. Paul Press, desiring to remove misapprehension and to correct exaggerated reports. The actual fact is that in no one of the dozen counties invaded by locusts has the crop been entirely destroyed. In some townships two-thirds of a crop of wheat, rtax and corn will be gathered, in others half, in some enough for bread and seed ; while upon a few farms everything is absolutely destroyed. But the whole crop of this region is not one-twentieth of that in the Suae, and the present promise is that Minnesota' will have as much wheat to sell this year as she did last, when the surplus crop, after saving enough to feed her own people nd for seed, was about 000,000 bushels. The region of the State visited by the grasshoppers this year comprises about a dozen counties in "the sout western corner of Minnesota, lying almost entirely west of the Minnesota and Blue Earth Rivers, and penetrated by the St. Paul A Sioux City and Winona A St. Peter Railroads. It is a RICH, KOI.LINC PRAIRIE, traversed by frequent streams and dotted here and there with beautiful clear water lakes, but Is entirely destitute of timber ex cept ia the river bottoms and on the borders of the lakes. Four vears aco there was no settlers here except a few hardy pioneers who pushed out from the frontier the year before and preempted land under the provisions ot our homestead laws, and even they were so widely scattered that from the little hills on which they generally built they were rarely able to see the shantv of their nearest neichbors. Even the land held bv actual settlers is probably not one-fourth vet broken up. Such is the character of the country in Minnesota which the locusts have this year invaded m country. which despite the length and severity of its win ters will eventually yield the rIiu to none in the production of wheat and rtax, and is sure,jyithin a few years, to be converted into Valuable farms. But like other new countries, Southwestern Minnesota has met with great calamities. Two years ago crops were full of promise, when a terrilhc hail storm passed over these counties and destroyed them in an hour. Enough erain was 83ved for bread and seed, but very few of the farmers had much to sell. Many of them mortgaged their places and began again. Last year the locusts came down upon the Sclds and stripped many of them clean, and laid the eggs from which this year's pests have been batched. Those who still saved enough for bread and seed, or whose means were not exhausted, prepared their ground for another crop, and by the strictest economy lived through tho winter; others were dependent upon charitj for food and seed, and many who could not get wb?at borrowed flaxseed from the Mankato " Oil Company. St. James is a village not luite tour years old. just bait way between St. Paul and Sioux City, and at the point where the two divisions of the St. 1'anlA Sioux City Railroad come together. It is about 'J) miles south of the northern limit ot the grasshopper invasion, and is the best point in this section from which to OBSERVE THEIR RAVAGES and study their habits. I arrived here on Saturday, and in the afternoon drove out uon the prairio about eight or ten miles in a southeasterly direction from the railroad. I passed through in that distance about a dozen farms, all of which bad been attacked by the locusts. The first field I visited contained about 130 acres of wheat. The crop on this field had been partially destroyed last year, and the locusts then deposited some of their eggs upon it. The grain came up i his year very thick and thrifty, and although the young locusts stripped ofl nearly all of the tender leaves from the stalks, they did not attack the heads of the wheat until the berry was well formed. Then they came in a cloud and covered the field, and in a few days had entirely destroyed it. Looking over the field from the road it appeared as though a l'ght crop of grain might be gathered from it; but on walking into the lot and examining the heads of the wheat I found that there was no grain there. When the locusts attacked this lield they came in snch great numbers that from three to five, and in some cases six or seven, alighted on each stalk. If there were any green leaves left they ate those first and then attacked the head. The lower grains of the heads, which are the largest and . are the best of the wheat, they generally devoured husk and all. As they worked up and .their hunger, became satisfied they eemed to penetrate the husk and takeout the berry, very rarely leavinpr a single grain of wheat in the head. This field, the owner assured me. had the "hoppers" let it alone, would have yielded more than an average crop. I don't think there is left a l)uhel of wheat to the acre. The owner will not cut it at all. On the same farm t here had been planted a few acres of corn and potatoes. Of the former the locusts had destroyed about one-hair, and from the lat ter they had eaten a portion of the leaves, wnich had, however, since they left, begun to grow again, so that a partial crop will be secured. Garden vegetables of every: kind were utterly destroyed. The next farm I visited was about two miles further from St. James, contained several hundred acres, and was very well sulxlued when we consider that it has been broken up only three or four years. On this farm I saw the rirst field of wheat that had been COMPLETELY DESTROYED. Hero the locusts had settled last year, and beside eating up a good portion of the grain, had deposited their eggs from which this year's crop of pests batched out. This season they lean on this field early, and so thoroughly was the destruction that, standing 10 rods from the field, I was unable to' discover anything to indicate that wheat or any other grain had been planted on it. On driving into the field and looking carefully among the grass and weeds, I found the ground covered with a fine stubble eight or ten inches high, but on the whole piece I did no; find a single head of grain or a single stulk of wbeut that had not been cut ofl and killed. Ninety per cent, ot the crops ace destroyed in this region. On this same farm the grasshoppers, after finishing the wheat attacked the corn. It stood at the time about 12 or 18 inches high, and some of the locusts cnt it off near the roots, while others devoured the leaves. From 10 -H to 3 per cent of the crop was left in isolated hiJU standing here and there, the fields looking very much like those I have seen in New England that had been nipped bv a June frost. The district I visited Saturday U, I am told, the worst damaged of any in tlM' coaity,, I should think, that, taken al

trie-! her nr.t liiitr-ent. of thu crop of

vrvkinri will W saved. The locut-ts If ft nearly two we-t-ks ago, and during tho whole j afternoon I bowhoro saw them In greater nnmliora lhan mav be seen any hot day in a New Yoik Stale or New England hay lield. STORM DESTRUCTION. DAMAGES ON THE LISE OF THE CINCINNATI TriKVTT.L.E RAILROAD TRAINS WRECKED AND DITCHED SCENES PURINO THE SIGHT vn tjvkm LOST EXTENT OF THE DAMAÖ ES. The Louisville Courier-Journal of the 2Sth Inst, gives the following particulars of the recent storm between that city and Cincin nati: The terrible disasters by storm given in our telegraphic columns this morning were not, happily, paralleled in this section, but the rainfall of Sunday night was very . . . -TT . 1 1 neavy tnrougnou central " , ularly along the line oi tne "tusviiieA, Cincinnati railroad. Three accidents occurred on that road yesterday morning, and while there was no loss of life, yet the escape of the passengers in two, at least, ot these accidents was little abort of miraculous. The rains swelled the small streams all along the line of the road suddenly and to an un expected hight. The passenger train No. 1 which left here at it ociock onoaay dirbi reached Sparta station, TO miles from Louisville, without any delay or trouble. Near Sparta is a small creek called Lost urancn, but tho heavy rain naa swonen it so grcauy that it was a miniature torrent, rushing madly toward the river. The bridge had bee washed away, and being a small one, it has not been found necessary to have a watchman stationed at that point. As the train approached its speed was slackened somewhat, bat as the engine reached the broken pier, it suddenly DASHED INTO THE WATER. The train was made up of an express and baggage car, one passenger coach and a Pull man "sleeper," in the order named. The engine dragged the express car after it, and the passenger coach was wrenched loose and fell a little short of the others; the sleeping ear lemained on the track, being stopped by the passenger coach. The engine and ex press car plunged into 110 feetof water.carrying the engineer and fireman with them, no one belne in the express car at the time. How these two men managed to get out of their prison, the water, and to the shore, tbey can not themselves tell, but manage they did. and were only slightly injured. The engineer, Al. Harding, was hurt about the ler and ankle, and the fireman was not worse hurt. The passenger coach fell near the shore, and only in about five feet of water. It fell perpendicularly, and the pas sengers, about fifteen in number, were thrown violently into tne water at me ooitora of the car. The lamps, ot course, were extinguished, and the thrilling scene, what with the darkness and the danger, can be imagined i But the passengers also m ana zed all to es cape to clamber out of tho car windows and to the shore, with only two persons at alliniured, and tbey not seriously. A Mr. Johnson, of Louisville, sprained his ankle, and Mr. Zies injured his hip, but not badly The passengers were all brought back to the city by the noon train, and forwarded to Cincinnati by the O. A M. railroad and the mail boats. 'The engine is probably a total wreck. The express car was also badly wrecked, and the baggage and express mat ter will begreatlv damaged by water, if not ruined. The passenger coacn was badly damaged, but not wrecked. THE SECOND ACCIDENT. Previous to this accident a freight train met with a similar wreck at Bank Lick Bridge No. f, between Bank Lick and Independence Station, and about 13 miles from Newport. The freight train, which left here Sunday night about 7 o'clock, on its way to Cincinnati, was composed of 17 freight cars and one caboose car. Bank Lick stream, generally very small, had been safely crossed by the Cin cinnati passenger train, coming toward Louisville, but from that time until the ar rival of the freight train, about ten minutes before 3 o'clock the water had increased to such an extent as to overflow the banks. and hide all traces of the bridge. The engine or tne freight train had already crossed. when suddenly the bridge gave away, and it and the whole train of cars, beside; the tank of the engine.went down into the water. Everything was pitch dark, and the men on the train succeeded in getting into safe positions by catching hold of limbs of trees and climbing these as the cars were dashed down the stream. All of the cars were badly damag ed, and with their freight will prove a large loss. Three men had stolen a ride on the train, and one of them came ont of the ac cident with a portion ot one ear cut off, and all his clothes except a piece of his shirt torn from his back. All the men were con siderably bruised, except one, but were able to walk. The one in onostion. a brake man named Learmoth, had his left leg hurt The train was well loaded, and consisted of two cars ot pig-iron, three cars ot lumber. two of tanbark, one of whisky and nine of wheat, beside the caboose car. The trucks of the cars can be saved and perhaps used. out tne body or tne cars will probably be a total loss. The freight was generally for Cincinnati. Tho men on the train hardly know themselves how they managed to ex tricate themselves from the wreck as it fell and as the cars swept down the stream. THE THIRD ACCIDENT. . Passenger train No. 2, from Cincinnati to Louisville, consisting of the same number oi cars as train No. 1, had passed in safety the bridge which gave way under the freight train, and had proceeded to Glenooe, when it ran into a land-slide near that station, and was thrown from the track. Fortunately. in this case also, no one was hurt beyond a lew Druises. i;ut little damage of any sort was caused by tho accident, and it is doubt less fortunate that the train was thus stopped. else it might have been precipitated further on into one or tne suddenly swollen streams, This accident happened between the two points where the other trains were wrecked, and occurred a little after 1 o'clock President Wilder and Superintendent McLeod went up to the scene of the wreck yes t?rday, and a dispatch received from the latter last night stated tbat Bank Lick, bridge No. 7, a halt mile east of Bank Lick bridge G, where the accident to the freight train naa occurred, was also washed away. wbiie all other bridges were safe. Of course trains on the road will not be run for several days, as it will take that time to repair the bridges. The total loss by these accidents is very heavy, and will foot up from twentyfive to thirty thousand dollars. The presideut and superintendent will return to-day. when more definite information as to the loss can be obtained. home niznts since, while a candidate was making a stump speech in Louisville, he re fleeted very severely on the conduct of the police officers in making arrusts for alleged drunkenness, the prisoners afterward dying in tbe station bouse from tho effects ot sunstroke. Tho officers were in the crowd at the time, and hustled the speaker from his stand and took him to the station, where he ob tained bail. Next morning he was brought before the City Court, but lio charge being prefe-red against him, he was released. To day the mayor suspended two . officers for one month, referring to tho arrest of Nouts, the candidate named, as an outrage upon the rights or citizens, and a reproach to the po iivo loice. -

HOME ANI FARM. Tho sales of fine blooded cattle exceod in

number any previous year by a largo diner- . . . a Aft enee. i uw is a gou omen ior ine counr. The diapositioa to improve one's personal appearance in dress, style and manners is often rebuked as reprehensible pride It is a irreat mistake. There mav be vanity ana contempt in some young and foolish people, nut they should not oe cmiiounuca. wnu a wortfcy aspiration to gentility. Whisky is good for something. If a person is bitten by a rattlesnake, temperance prin ciples should be instantly suspended, and the whisky poured down freely. It will save life. But then, people should not bunt tbesnake and g.-t bitten for the sake of the remedy. Young men and women should remember that those who fail to acquire general information on the subjects of history and geogbefore thev are twenty years old. are not llkelvever to know much in thoso direc tion!. The time to lay the foundations of general reading ia while you are In the 44 teens." . Mrs. Laura Lyman says: There is no one j who may not be made the object of sneers and scoffs, just as there is no one who at some time may not be bitten by a gnat or a mosquito. Wounds afilicted by tnese annoying insects are never dangerous, and if totally disregarded are soon forgotten. Our immunity from their sting lies in escaping from tne disagreeable localities whicii ireca and foster them. Learning and labor ought to go together. When the time comes that a thorough cdution is not considered a prohibition against manual labor, then the last objection to learning will be removed. Every man is made better by a certain amount of actual physical labor during some portion of his life. There is no denying that. There is one mora prescription for potato bugs: A gentleman residing in Bi ecksville,o., reports a very successful treatment of potato buss, wirb a decoction of mandrake root tea. The roots are boilod in water, ana the decoction sprinkled on the potato vines, tne same as directed for the solution or l ans green. If possible, we want to get clear of this l'aris green, for it is dangerous to handle and have atout. Try the above, and try white hellebore. Some s9nsiblo body writes for Moore's Bural: I am decidedly ot the opinion tbat the good old-fashioned straw bed, which can every three months be changed lor freak straw, and the tick be washed, is the sv.ect est and healthiest of beds. I f. in the wintrv season, tno porousness oi tue straw pen makes it a little uncomfortable, spread over it a comforter or two woolen blankets, which should be washed as often as every two weeks. With this arrangement, if you wash all the Jml coverings as often an once in two or three weeks, yoa will have a delightful health v neu. Wild Flowers Tamed. The llural New Yorker has a good suggestion on this head : Every garden of any pretense to beauty should have its little nooks and corners for small, wild and exotic plants. These spots should not be models of neatness in the way of handsomely laid walks or clean, well-cul tivated beds, but a rough, wild character may be aimed at Instead. Old stumps, stone pilixl hero and there, over which ivies, money-wort, myrtle, and our American creeper may bo encouraged to ramble in all their native freedom. Much might be added to the above, some cniidren not far awav from this set out in little bed one the shadv side ot the house last spring, blue violets and a variety of wild things, and it is aston ishing how thev have thriven. They have become the prettiest ornament about the house. Hoo Cholera Poked again. Now is ths time to look out for tbe health of the hogs. Captain aLd Mrs. Sam. Steele, of Cove Hill Grange, in Franklin ; ; county, Ky., furnish the Frankfort Yeoman the following, which they believe to be an infallible cure for hog cholera, as it has been successfully tried on Captain Steele's farm and on that af Henry Offct, Esq., in Shelby county, from whom Mrs. Steele obtained it : Take nnr quantity of poke root from a half bushel to a barrel or more, according to the size of the drove: boil it until It can be mashed to tbe consistency of paste; then mix with it enough corn to make the hogs eat it treelv, and it w read v for use. Thus prepared, feed tbe mixture to all your hog, both the sick and the well; it will cure the cholera. At all events, such is tbe experience ot the parties named; and as peke root is readily found on every farm, it is well worth the experiment by every farmer whose hogs may be afilicted with that terriblo disease. Ashes and salt, and lime and salt, are also said to br good for the same disease. Salt ix Sickkess. Dr. Seudder says ; " I am satisfied that I have seen patients die from deprivation of common salt daring a protracted illness. It is a common impres sion that the food for the sick should not be seasoned, and whatever slop may be given it is almost innocent of this essential of life. In the milk diet that I recommend in sick ness, common salt is used freely, tbe milk being boned aud given hot. And if the patient can not take the usual quantity in Iiis food, I have it given in his driuk. This matter is so important tbat it can not be repeated too often, or dwelt upon too long. Tbe most marked example ot tbis want of common salt 1 have ever noticed has been in surgical disease, especialy in open wounds. Without tt supply of salt tbe tongue would become! broad, pallid, puffv.S with a tenacious, pasty coat, the secretions arrested, the circulation feeble, the effusion at the point of injury serious, with an unpleasant watery pus, which at last becomes a mere sanies' or ichor. A few days of a f res allowance of salt would change all this, and the patient get along well." As to bees, thev will do well for those who 7 v like them. The Madison Courier tells of a very successful apiarian in JelTerson county : Mr. II. C. White ot this city has seventeen hives of lees and appear to understand the business thoroughly. Wo walked down home with him yesterday and saw him work them. Bare-handed ami bare-beaded, Mr. White opened several hives, lifted out the frames containing the honev, aud brushed off the bees by the dozen from the combs. Mr. W. then extracted the honey by means of the. usual machine, which, howcr, has two improvements of his own invention. The euro of bees is a very fascinating employ ment, mid we do not wonder that so much interest is taken in it. As to the yield of honey, Mr. White has taken .".(!." pounds from live hives since June 1, and has incressed his stock from tne same hives by four new hives, lie expects to obtain over 100 'pounds of honey from each hive during the season, it is bis opinion that more money can be made from a hive of bees in a year than from the best cow in tbe county. Now, that is a splendid showing. But it is not every one who can do that. The little "varmints'" will sting some people, and it'a no use to pother with them. . Sflphcr for Fowls. There is no remedy and assistant so easily and cheaply obtained, so harmless to the fowls, or so satisfactory in its results as sulpnur. It being in tho system oi animals to a small degree, thcro la

a greater affinity f ,r it than there otherwise would be. It caa 13 administered to the fowlä by having it i a small box, so tbat they ran help themselves, or by mixing it with their focl once a week, or ts oficn a? there are indications of vermin. Pene'rating, as it dnes, to every part of the system, all iarasites are quickly and surely destroyed. . Also, gapes are said to be prevented in t hickens. Fowls need it more than most animals, the'r feathers containiag between four and five ier cent, of sulphur. Their eggs also have a small quantity, which is noticed by the discoloring of ti silver spoon when it comes in contact with a boiled egg. Applied externally to the fowls when on the nest, to the nest itself, or mixed with tbe soil in the dusting box, it is equally efficacious in destroying vermin. To be used as a fumigator of buildings, it is necessary to remove tbe fowls, close the room or house, mix a little saltpeter with the sulphur in an iron vessel, and apply a match to the mixture. This should be done in the morning, and the doors and windows ojened in tbe afternoon for a thorough ventilation. Lard mixed with sulphur In proper proportions and applied as often as is necessary to tbe feathers on tbe neck and back of young and old turkeys, is a very good safeguard against the ravages of foxes. For our own

piolitandthecointortofthe fowls, let us then use sipnur or remedies of a like nature. Poultry World. Questions to thixk of. An Iowa farmer puts some pertinent hits in the New York Tribune: Chas. Jenkins, ot Mahoning county, Ohio, complains that it took two robust men to buy of him his two fat cows at less than four cents per pound, and also of the large numbar of grocery and provis. ion, dry goods, hardware, boot and shoe, boks and stationery, and drug stores they have at his place to be supported out of the labor of producers. He says that is what makes hard times. We are green in manv things out West, and therefore wish to Know of Mr. J. whether 1. He thinks he would have got abetter price for his beef cows if but one "robust butcher" had called to bnv them, and if so, how math ? 2. Whether he thinks if thev had none of those! bnsiness houses within fifty miles of his farm they could get the various kinds of goods they want cheaper than at present 3. If all those non-produ-cars were to go to farming and fattening cows for themselves, how much more would tbat enable Mr. Jenkins to get for any fat ciwsbe may have to sell in the future? 4 How much more would produce bring if all the non-prodocers in the country were to go tofaimintt? Whether a luultiplicitv of men in the same business has the tendency to increase the price of tbe articles they offer for sale in Mahoning county? It don't do so in Iowa, but competition compels quick sales and small profits. G. Whether after all it is not all buncombe for farmers to talk about supporting the people who live in towns, and whether it is not true that there is a mutual interest between the producers and consumers, the people in the country and those in towus. The one need to buy what the other has to sell, and the other wants to sell what he wishes to buy, and the law of supply and demand will always regulate the prices each must pay. A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. A SAD CASE OP N'EGLECTED AFFECTIOX A WAP.XIXQTO DESPONDIXO LOVERS, The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 30th inst., contains the following revised version of a painful tragedy: A dav or two following the announcement of the sad suicide of young Brent, at Paris, Ky.. we gave place to a paragraph headed, 4,lfe Died lor Her." It was founded on information that came from a gentleman whose sincerity and truthfulness i9 beyond all question, but who appears to have been misled. It intimated more strongly than the author, in the haste which necessarily accompanies much of the writing on a daily paper, intended, tbat the cause of the tragedy was a discountenance on the part of the youn.ar man's father of hin marrying, because of the absence ot wealth on the part of the young lady to whom he was bethrotbed. The true facts are now painfully before us, and, shrink as we may from any word that may reopen a single wmnd in the bereaved family, we must, in justice to ourselves as public journalists, and in justice to the living and the dead, lay them before our readers and the readers of the former statement. It is true, then, that Miss S. had dismissed young Brent on account of tho objection of Ms lather, but that the hitter's reason was BECAUSE SHE WAS POOE, or because he did not In every -way approve of hii son's choice, is an inference totally unfounded. Mr. Jas. C. Brent was an estimable young man in every way, but his pecuniary resources were slight, outside of his father's aid, and the latter, with many children, married and single,claiming his equal love and assistance (and all agree that lx)th were bountifully given according to his means, which were overrated by implication in the article to which this is h correction), counseled Jimmie, firmly but not harshly, against marriage at this time. In tbe wisdom of this decision all of the friends of the deceased and of his family and they number as many as does the community in which they live coincided. Kven t he noblo girl whose name has been so cruelly prominent in connection with the tragedy, had seen, the truth of tho reasoning, and so had conscientiously broken an engagement which promised present happiness to m-ither. On the nij;ht ot the hop she refused her lover's prayer for a renewal, or, more kindly, declined an immediate answer. With the gentleness of a rarely beautiful character, she bade him come to her at her home the following day, and luul his impatience agreed, no doubl all would have been well, for waiting nod hope would proKibly have been the solution of the problem. IJut W9 need not again repeat the sorrowful story the threat with which ho parted from her, " that never again' .should he see him alive," proved not to be, as she thought, the iole poetry of a loyal and impetuous lover. He rushed from the ball-room to ids home, and it is more than likely that the storm without, which drowned to the ears of the sleeping family the report of the fatal pistol, met with too much rapport the storm within his breast; suggesting as it would to an excitable nature despair, aDd throwing around his bitter hour a deadly glamour of romance. Mr. Brent, the father, borne downjnow by years and sorrow, is utterly prostrate, ire has been a kind and indulgent lather, a citizen above reproach, and has the resect and sympathy of all who know him. We deeply regret that any word of onrs should have added to a private woe which is past public realization, and which so far as we are concerned, shall here after be sacred from public intrusion. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Lake Shors lioad July, ill, it was decided not to declare any dividend, although the business for the past six mouths shows that the stockholders were entitled to a little over 3 per cent. No reference whatever was made to any proposal to lease the road to the New York Central and Hudson, and the report that action would bo taken to effect such lease turns out J to have been not only premature, but unbounded. Tne Stock Exchange were disappointed at the newa, which caused a farther depression oi prices.

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The aim of the entire faculty is scholarship regardless of number, ami none but those who mean study need apply lor admission. Attention is also called to the fact that the Bible is a text book, and the sublime morals of the christian faitb, free from sectarian dogmas, a part of the regular course of study. Students for the ministiy, tuition provided. Board In private families, 1 to f per week. Students can club at much lower rates. For catalogues addressO. A. Burgess, Pxesident. or C K. Ilollenbeck, Secretary. Indianapolis, lad. NOTICE OF VACATION. Notice is hereby jnven that tha undersigned have a petition pending before the Board of Commissioners of llarion comity, for the vacation of a certain street or road running through tbat part of the northeast quarter of teetion 4, township 13, lange 3 east, partitioned to Mary F. Cox and JouiFe F. 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