Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1880 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1880.

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OUR FARH BUDGET.

Select Matter for the Farmer and Ills Famllj. Vermin In Poultry House Wkr Our Honey Comes From Novel Sheap Protestor Origin of the Merino SheffwEtc. Whero Our Honey Comes From. Providence (R. I.) Journal, September 25. The new crop of honey is coming to market in small quantities. The white dover comb honey is very fine in quality, and the quantity is expected tj be larger than last year, when go! pure honey was scarce and high. The best honey in the world is the .Swiss honey, considerable quantitie of which are shipped to this country and sold in all markets. Of course, only the. extracted honey comes from Switzerland. It is worth about $1.25 a quart, or $5 a gallon. The best American honey comes from California. This is the great honey-producing country on this continent. From the vicinity "of the White Mountains, so called because they are white witk clover blossoms, comes the best collected in the rotate. Vast stretches of upland and mountain, slope and summit are covered with a luxuriant growth of white clover that at a distance appears like an expanse of snow. Those who have visited this clover belt and honey region say that the hum of bees throughout these fields is continuous day in and day out, and that the bees seem to regard the clover-Iields as their f articular province, and resent intrusion, lowever that may be, white clover honey is the best, and the best of it as well ns the largest quantity comes from California. In the far West States some attention has been given to bees, and some buckwheat and half-wild honey produced. Virginia is noted for its wild honey. Some of the inhabitants make it a business to collect it, and the finding of it requires some knowledge of bee movements. A bee is caught, and at the proper time of the day liberated. It returns to its swarm, and rm it Hies in a "bee line," its home can be foil by taking the point and with the aid of a compass following in the same direction, up hill and down, until the swarm is found. The tree is ft-lied and the honey taken. Eight or ten pails of honey are often obtained from a single hollow tree. A small part of Virginia wild honey is collected. Nearer home the great honey region is in Western New York, and from this part of the country the honey now in the market comes. Vermont and New Hampshire, in fact all States, fend more or less hon)to market. Honey consumers prefer honey in the comb, for in the comb it must be pure, while out of it, it n be any kind of inferior syrup, gl u cone, or some other product that will not sell under its own name. If consumers were sure of the pure article oat of the comb, extracted honey would sell more readily. It sells very well now, but the buyer doea not know whether it is honey or something else. All honey, however, should be extracted before it is eaten, for in spite of care some of the comb or wax will be eaten with the honey, and beeswax disturbs the dipestive machinery. Honeycomb bears the same relation to honey that husk bears to corn, shell to nut, rind to fruit, and is no more fit as an article of food than any of them. A machine has been invented to extract honey. The comb is taken from the hive, placed in the machine, which is rapidly revolved, and the honey thrown out by the centrifugal process. The comb is returned to the hive to be filled again, nnd the bees are saved the trouble of building another comb or cellular case. A single swarm of bees have often manufactured $25 worth of honey in a season. Bees can be kept anywhere on the roof, over the porch, in any place where there is room for a hive. It is said by some, and denied by others, that bees extract honey from decaying matter, street garbage and the like. At least, bees arc seen at work where refuse abounds, and from apiearances, Samson's riddle is as true as it ever was, which is saying very little. Last year the best honey was worth 24a25c; the price now, for job lots is 20a21c. The price is likely to be higher, owing to the high price of butter, which is 10al2c above last year's prices. As butter advances honey is in greater demand as a substitute, and prices are affected. The shipment of honey abroad is very large. One firm in New York last year shipped eighty tons at one shipment. It is said that dentists reap a better rop in those districts where honey is largely used. Termin in Poultry Houses. A French poultry keeper writes thus to the Journal d Agriculture: I must ask icrmission to complete and rectify briefly a good article written by Dr. Felix Schneider in the Journal d' Agriculture. August 14, in which he says: "The best way to free young birds from vermin is to prevent their appearance." This is perfect, and could not be better put, and is- a piece of adviee that should be well circulated; but he adds that the simplest and most economical way to destroy vermin which is so disastrous amongst the poultry is the followlowing: "Every day, from the first heat of sun:mer till toward autumn, you must syringe the pigeon house from top to bottom and on the four sides with the cheap liquid called water. To do this take a bucket of water, and with a cup or even your own hand, throw the water in every direction, and principally in the nests, without thinking of the sitters, who will become accustomed to these showers, and who will very shortly not disturb themselves on this account. This liquid penetrates in every corner, visits the smallest cracks, and falls on the eggs and on the young c nes and spreads over everything its'good influences." I do not at all agree with his views, ana I think that all those who put it into practice will be of ray opinion. Firstly, for u liquid to penetrate in the cracks or holes (which ought to be filled up) there must be a certain force. The hand is not sufficient you want at least a syringe of strong pressure, so that the smallest crack will be thoroughly wetted. This continual dampness is bad for pigeons. Dr. Felix Schneider says vennin like dry places; but if birds go with pleasure to. water, it is for their toilet, which completed 1hey fly and dry themselves, which the poor sitters can not do, being entirely occupied by their nests and maternal duties. So dampness, which would be bad for vermin would also be bd for the birds. ' It is preferable to make ouca&ional wettings, and xo make them with water railed either with petroleum or mineral essences, or pbtenix acid. Those eyringings tbould be made in the morning, so as not to disturb the birds, but. at the same time, to act vijrorously and well on the vermin It is essential that everyplace should be thoroughly wetted, for if a single space is furgotttn it serves as a nest for the vermin, and all your work must be done over .again; but what you must avoid is to drench a setting hen. Again, the fear of water might spoil a setting or cause the egjr to be broken. On the other hand, tlie water thrown every day in the nest would rot the bottom of it, and this time it would be the entire setting that would be compromised. The fact of the nest being wetted rvery day would be deplorable, and they would soon become a heap of rotten straw. It is certain the nests merit the attention of the poultryfancier to keep them clean. Avoid vermin, but don't disturb the tranquillity of the hatching you maj, carefully remove the young ones and clean . the ncsta with, a hard brush and. -sul-phated water,. Dry the nest well with a - nonge( and replace the young -ones on- a

: , 1 ' '?.' f fresh bed; Continue these cleanings every four day until they leave the rest. All the foregoing relates exclusively to pijreon houses, bat for a poultry house the following is a practical method: fc'yringt vigorously, and use plenty of insect powder, but have no setting hens in this house. I can assure you that setting hens do not accustom themselves easily' t a noise. For them I have had to choose siecial lonely place and well aired, With the proposed daily syringing there is one other cause of fear in the cold water touching on an egg daring the process of incubation, or on the young ones. Mr. Schneider will acknowledge that cold water thrown on an egg would stop incubation. In winter we do not touch eggs undergoing the process of incubation with cold hands, for fear of doing harm to the sitting. A partial chill would produce a diseased or deformed chick. As to the voung ones the dampness caused by the daily syringing would make them ill. I acknowledge the great efficacy of water, but 1 take the liberty to question the mode of application. I so appreciate the value of water that all the poultry utensils are washed in running water feeding-troughs, buckets, perches, and even nest-boxes. The stormy weather we have lately experienced has unfortunately favored the increase of vermin, and in many poultry-yards the birds are very much inconvenienced by it. I have been shown hens that would not eat, and yet were not ill; having examined them, I saw that they were eaten by the vermin. Birds seek out the smallest hollow containing dust, that they may powder themselves in. It is, therefore, essential to procure (especially for hens) a dust-hole (undercover), and to fill it with a mixture of earth, cinders, and a small quantity of Mower sulphur. They will easily rind it out and appreciate it, and even light to to get to this dust bath. The insects having been removed from the fowls, they must not be again allowed in the fowl-house or nest-ltoxe. This is the time for well-syringing the fowl-house with water mixed with turpentine or petroleum, and then limewhite throughout. One of the best things for preventing vermin is anv kind of cinder. I use it in nestboxes and on the ground of the fowl-houses, and I extract from it valuable manure. If I have no cinders I nse lime. I leave to others more comment on the subject to define the value of this manure. I have over 100 poultry houses, and not one has vermin, and consequently my birds are not annoyed by them. The question of health isniost important; it is at the starting point of breeding and rearing with cleanliness you prevent disease and vermin. It is admitted that cleanliness helps to develop the birds. Careful agriculturists sec to this in their stables, cow-house, piggeries, etc. This cure and cleanliness (and here I quite agree with Dr. Schneider) ought to extend to the poultry and pigeon-houses. Origin of the Merino Sheep. As the ancient Greeks had no cotton nor silk, and very little linen," and as sheep's wool was the principal texture from which their clothes were made, they took peculiar care to cultivate with especial care such breeds of sheep as produced very fine wool. Such breeds were those of the Greek city of Tarentum, situated on the Tarentine Gulf. In order to improve the tine quality of the wool still more, the sheep were covered with clothes in cold weather, &s it was found by experience that exposure to cold made the wool coarser. Thus clothing these sheep from generation to generation resulted in a very delicate breed with exceedingly fine wool, according to the law established by Darwin in regard to selection and adaptation to exterior conditions. This product of Greek industry was transmitted by them to the Romans, whose great agricultural author. ColunelU, statoo that his uncle in Spain crossed the fine Tarentine sheep with rams imported from Africa, and obtained a stronger breed, combining the whiteness of fleece of the father with the fineness of the fleece of the mother, and having obtained such results the race was perjetuated. The absence of other finer textures made the Spanish sheep so valuable that in the beginning of our era they were sold i Home for 1,000 in gold a head, an enormous price for those times,when money had much more value than now. When the barbarians invaded Italy these sheep were all exterminated, while the greater portions of the Ilomati possessions

were jam wane, jjui in ine less accessible mountains of Spain the Moors preserved the breed, and it is to them that modern Spain owes the merino sheep, which are the direct descendants of, this cross breed of the Greek and African ancestors referred to. It is a valuable inheritance, too, which that country owes to the combined Greek. Roman, and Moorish civilization, and of which our California wool-growers also earn the advantage, by the prosperity of this breed of sheep, which was there a few years PiS For "ext Yrnr. As this is the time of year when farmers are determining what hogs to fatten, it is also the time for deciding upon what they will do for pigs the coming year. As is often the case, a farmer will iatten and kill of all the sows that have had pigs that season, and dependujKjn guilts for breeders tl: following year. Uut it is never good policy to kill a sow that has proved herself "a good breeder and Buckler, and rely upon one whose qualities in these respects are yet to be developed. Besides, the pigs of a sow which has already proved herself a good breeder and milker are always, as a general thing, stronger, start off much better, and are sure to keep the lead in the race of fattening. The worth of a good now in bacon is a small matter in comparison with the two litters of pigs she will have the following year. The farmer should always endeavor to raise his own stock, whether they be horses, cows, sheep or hogs; and if he has good comfortable quarters for his sows they should be bred early in November, so as to farrow in March. But if his sows are allowed to run in the fields or wood lot and take chances, it is better not to breed them until January. If they farrow in March they can have another litter in August or early in September; but if they have their tirst litter the last of April or the first of May, they can not lie expected to have another brood before cold weather sets in. A sow will have pigs in four months, lacking six davs. from the time she is bred, and the farmer should make preparations for the occasion accordingly. She should be put in a separ ate apartment at least a week before farrow ing, so as to accustom her to her new quar ters, supplying her in the meantime with cut straw for bedding. After farrowing, she should not be disturbed for a day or two, even to give her food or drink, for when she wants either ehe will let you know. After beginning to feed her in crease her allowance gradually for the first five or six days, and then give her as muc.i rich food as she will eat. The pigs will soon learn to eat with her, and should also have all thev will eat. In this way the pigs can be made to weigh from 150 to 200 iounds by the time they are eicht months old. This is the most . profitable way to make pork. No time for cholera; no time for idle capital; no time or "tad luck" of .any kind. Novel Sherp Protector. Some genius who lias read about the losses of heep by the ravages of dogs and wolves, hai concluded to put astop to the "slaughter of tLe innocents" by providing them with a coat of mail. He ham invented a forked shield, and with an eye to business, hastecured a patent for it. The following is a description of the "strange device:" The invention consists of two collars for the neck of the sheep, which are provided with sharp-pointed projections, and are coupled together by two or more links. To the unner side of the rear collar ia attached a I chain, strap, oc strip of metal or other ma-

- ..-', i . , . terial, which passes along the back of the sheep and branches off toward the thighs of the bind legs, and is attached to a shield on each hind lag, which shields conform to the parts of thejiind legs above the knee, the shields being perforated and furnished with outward projecting points. It hanbaen observed that dogs often attack sheep at the joints covered by the shields, hence the employment of them in combination with rbe collars. The projections or points on the collars and shields operate to lacerate the mouth of the dog in case it should attack the sheep, the point of attack, as a rule, being the the parts covered by the col

lars and shields. The illustrations of sheen incased in this style of armor go to show that the numerous collar-straps, metal sheets, and projecting toints weigh about twenty pounds. The various parts of the combination projectors are so arranged as to wear of!" the wool from the back, sides, and legs of sheep in a very effective manner. It will be a very easy job to shear sheep that wear one of these patent protectors. Apparently it will be very diffi cult for sheep to lie down that have iron braces running over them in all directions. When they come in contact the striking of the projecting points will be likely to "make the hair fly." In lacerating the flesh and tearin out eyes they will lc far ahead of thorn, bushes or the larbs on wire fence. This coat of mail will, of course, be quite expensive, and lambs in different stages of their growth will require as many changes as boys do pantaloons, in order to have anything like a respectable fit. As sheep loaded down and hampered' to this ponderous collection of metal in different forms can not run when pursued by their enemies, they will probably be trained to stand in solid phalanx and await the attacks or dogs and wolves. It is gratifying to know that the recent "sheep boom" has done so much to encourage inventive ingenuity. Cure for the Epirooty. An old veterinary surgeon sends the New York Times the following "simple and safe cure lor the epizooty: 'Take one pound gum asafetida, mix it with one gallon boil ing water; stir the mixture constantly until toe asafetida is dissolved; let the mixture cool, strain, and give one-half pint every three hours. This will relieve the horse within twelve hours, and give him a good appetite." ' Farm Note. Salb aba Preservative or Tim der. Fourteen years ago a Mr. Sterling, of Monroe, Mich., placed two gate-posts of white oak in front of his residence. When they were set he bored into the top of each with an inch-and-a-half augur a hole three inches deep, filled it with common salt, tightly plugged it and coppered the posts. Having occasion recently to change the location of the posts he found them as sound from top to bottom as the day they were planted. Facts Anon Timothy. Timothy in ripening its seed requires the same ingredients as those of wheat principally phosphoric acid and nitroeen. Iteing remarkable for the abundance of seed it produces, that fact alone will explain why it is considered more exhausting to the soil than most any other crop. Indeed, it is held by many that when a crop of timothy is allowed to perfect its seed before cutting, the soil is exhausted of its fertility in about the same ratio that it is replenished by a crop of clover. If this be so, it affords a conclusive reason why it should be cut before the seed has had time to form. Wh K A T-G RO W I X ( FxPKRIMKXTS. FortV years ago Messrs. Laws aad Gilbert, two of the most scientific farmers of Lngland, commenced a series of experiments in growing wheat. They selected several plots of ground of equal size, on some of which thev tried different fci tllhttTS, Willie Oil Others, the land having been already brought up to the highest state of fertility, no fertilizers were applied, but on all of them wheat was made to foiKw wheat, season after season, for forty years. In that time there has been a decrease in the yield of just ten bushels per acre, or one-fourth of a bushel per acre a year. Taking this as a standard case, farmers who follow wheat with wheat without giving the land the needed rest, or feeding it with manure or green crops turned under, may look for a decrease, less, of course, some years than others, but an average of onefourth of a bushel per acre o year! This is a practical outcome from these celebrated experiments, for which the farmers of the whole world may thank Messrs. Laws and Gilbert. Toxk Dcst Axn Wood Ashes. A farmer of Indiana gives the following as the result of an experiment made with bone dust and wood ashes on a portion of his wheat: "On one plot of land," says the writer, "I applied tWO pounds of dry, unleached ashes to the acre, sowed it in wheat, and the result was only six bushels to the acre. Adjoining this tract I drilled in 200 paunds of bone dust to the acre on three acres, nnd jjot twenty bushels to the acre, being an increase of fourteen bushels per acre over the tract sown with wood ashes." The following year I stubbled that part up upon which I had sown the 000 pounds of ashes to the acre, and put it in wheat again, usirg 200 pounds of bone dust to the acre, and the result was forty bushels of wheat to the acre, being double that produced froai the bone alone. This experiment satisfied me that neither ashes nor bone alone would give 83 satisfactory results us if the two were combined the one with ashes alone yielding hut six bushels, tht one with bone alone twenty bushels, but the acre on which the two were combined yielding forty bushels, thus showing what experiments on a small scale will do for the farm." The November Itattle. Philadelphia Times, October 15, 130.1 Xo candidate ever appeared before the American teo,)le for their Chief Magistracy whose record was more blameless as soldier or patriot than is General Hancock's, and the purity of his public and private life speaks trumpct-tongucd in his behalf In the tempest of partisan debauchery that now shames the country. His name will arouse a degree of enthusiasm on the part of the Democrats, that is not now expected bv the Republicans, who are already rejoicing over their assumed victory in .November. The South will cast 13S electoral votes for Hancock on the 2d of November. New York can be carried for Hancock against all the power and appliances of the Republicans. New York and New Jersey would add forty-four electoral votes to the 138 of the South, leaving but three more to win to give Hancock the 1SÖ requisite to an election. To earn the votes necessary to be added to New York and New Jersey the Democrats can make a hopeful battle in New Hampshire. Maine, Connecticut, Indiana. Colorado, Nevada and California, and they will give active employment te the Republicans to hold their own in Illinois, lseonsin and Pennsylvania, t Aaotlier Republican Manufnrtarer for , Hancock. . Special to the New York World.l Harrisbuku, Pa., Oct. 17. Colonel Henry McCormick. one of the most extensive iron manufacturers in the State, has announced himself for Hancock and Lnglish. He says: "If tlie Presidential election has any bear ing upon the tariff question, I infinitely prefer Hancock, born and bred in the valley of the Schuylkill, amid mines and furnaces, in a community where all parties are a unit on the tariff, to Garfield, a member of that Free-trade Club, the Cobden." Colonel McCormick has been accustomed to vote the Republican ticket at Presidential elections. He is connected with works here which employ about 1,000 bands. Jt occurs to the Ehnira Advertiser man that there mav be truth in the' old saw that when a man makes lve to a widow he be gins where the other fellow left off.

THE BALLAD OF INDIANA.'

The Empire's cash, the Fraud's array, Indiana! Quite turned your head the other day, Indiana! Uut you. In npite of all they say. The people's causa will not betray, Indiana! You soon will vote the other way, Indiana! The Garfield crowd are feeling fine, Indiana! Your act has set them up like wine, i I uiliana! But you will yet fall Into line To vote agaiuiit Three twenty-nine, Iudiana! October's not November's ign. Indiana! Now hasten to redeem yonr fame. Indiana! Nor let them slur your honored name, Indiana! By counting you as easy game. For bribe ana cheuta and deeds of shame, Indiana! Wipe off that ugly blot of blame, Indiana! New York stands forth that all may see, Indiana! A State determined to be free, Indiana! And calls on yon to aid her plea For honor and for liberty. Indiana! For Hancock and for victory, Indiana! EXPRESSIONS. 'Here is a sketch," said the poet, Unto the editor gray, "That I tossed me off in an idle hour To pass the time away." "Here is a clnb," was the answer. In a bland and smiling way, "With which I frequently toss me off Six poets in a day." liiston Globe. There is not much danger when it rains "cats and dogs," but when it Spitz dogs look out. The New naven Register is awful glad that out doors has so much room on the ground floor. "Alcohol will clean silver." Yes, alcohol well stuck to will clean all the silver you have out of your pocket "Do we eat too much?" asked the Detroit Free Press, and out of five dozen boarding house keepers sixty answered in the affirm ative. . "I am surprised," said a politician to a heavy property owner, "that you don't run for some ofiice." "Well, you see, somebody has to do the tax-paying." The acme of laziness has been reached by the man who always kept one eye closed because be could see well enough with the other, and besides it was too much trouble to keep them both open. When an Indian doctor has lost five pa tients the survivors of the tribe send him after them to see what has boeome of them. After all, the Indians would lose some advantages by civilisation. A crash in the kitchen is heard. The bead of the familv calls out to the cook: What have you broken now, you black idiot?" Matilda stops singing a hymn to answer: "'Taint the forf commandment, bress de Lord. "By George!" observed a Danbury young man who wa3 married last niontn, u tu thought nbout kindling coal tires, I'd never cot married in the fall. I'd waited till next spring and had a six months' honeymoon." Danbury News. Nineteen men out of twenty can pull a shotgun toward them bv the muzzle and go their way in good health, but the twentieth man alwavs happens tu be a citizen whose loss is deplored by the whole Community. Detroit rree 1'ress. An old Yorkshire woman described her happy circumstances thus: "I've a nice little cottage, a chest of drawers and a pianny. a lovely garden and some flowers in my window, and (waxing warm) my husband's dead, iiid the very sunshine of 'eav'n seems to fall on mc" That's my butcher," said an actor to a friend, at the same time pointing to a lean, cadaverous-looking man who was just pass ing. "Looks rretty bad, doesn t he? ' "Does look bad," was the reply. "Looks as if vou had dealt with hini a long time. doesn't he?" The subject was, immediately changed. A young man with an umbrella overtook an unprotected ladv acouaintance in a rain storm, and, extending his umbrella over her, requested the pleasure ot acting as her rainbow. "Oh! exclaimed the young lady. taking his arm, "you wish me to be your rain-dear. Iwo souls witn but a single umbrella, two forms that stepped as one. A few facts not so generally known as they shonld be: A watch fitted with a sec ond hand need not necessarily be a second hand watch. Doctors generally agree about bleeding their patients. Steam is a servant that sometimes blows up its own master, An ungrammatical Judge is ato pass an incorrect sentence. Poachers who get into preserves very often find themselves in piet ies. Any fool can make a woman talk, but its hard to make one listen. A thorn in the bush is worth two in the hand. Gath Visit Hancock. Enquirer Letter.! The General said he was not sure what house he was born in whether in the resi dence part of a school-house or in a farm house nor was he certain about how his family came to America. "My father," he said, "when be became above forty years old, went down to Philadelphia to sec if he could find the good Quaker woman who had been at pains to find him a home; but they were dead, and he had not the means to prosecute any family researches, tsj I have deiended on hearsay from others of my name who have had time and taste to look into such subjects. A Mr. Hancock, of Lewisburg, Pa., now dead, once told me that the original Hancocks settled in Virginia, about Kredricksburg, and went thence to the Middle Statesand New England. Mr. Potts, who once kept the Metropolitan Hotel at Washington, was a native of the same part of the country as myself in Pennsylvania, and he had a book öf wills and tastamcnts. in which I think it was shown that on the same ship with the early Potts family some Hancocks came directly to Pennsylvania." The General referred to various Revolutionary battle-fields in Pennsylvania that he had visited, such as Rranuywine, Paoli, Valley Forge, etc. His mustache is almost white, nd lies back on his rich, brown skin with pleasing effect. A bluish gray tint is extending through his soft, brown hair. His eyes have that Welsh blueness not often seen in this country, and he is at his easevery neighborly, and talks freely, without the least attempt at effect. Nobody sits in the room with him, and if he agrees tp receive any visitor, notwithstanding the doctor's permission, he has them notified that he is violating medical orders. Among the persons who went to see him to-day were four young negroes, whom I understood, without knowing any thing about it, to be the advance guard of a Hancock stump-speaking crowd which is to drum up votes in the State of New York in the negro districts. Mrs. Hancock has a good deal of company in her pleasant, home-like parlor. She is a lady of very sweet address.without any man-ner-smile or flourish, naturally a lady, and of a kind disposition. She said that her father's people were originally Quakers, from Delaware, she believed, The Hancock military home is about equivalent to a frame cottage at the seaside for summer. , The sculptor, Wilson McDonald, gase.nie some interesting mattei' about General Hancock. He is modeling the General's buf slightly larger than life, and has produced a remarkable likeness, not only correct as to Hancock's features, but conveying that

sometimes absent and dreamy look which

he has when self-communing.. The bust is understood to have been ordered by a number of gentlemen who perhaps design it fora Club House, or, some say for Gettysburg battle'field McDonald says that Hancock is one of the most accommodating and paLent sitters that he ever had; that the pressure on h is time is so great that he has frequently held a levee in the empty room at headquarters where the sculptor has been doing his work. The immense mail comes in the morning while the General is sitting for the sculptor. and two of his aids oen the letters and read their contents aloud. i)i course, long letters do not get much chance, unless they are esiecially interesting. Hancock, McDonald says, Itas a most wonderful memory, and in some cases, where a man has written twice at intervals of two or three weeks, notwithstanding the extent of the mail, the General will say that "he is the man who wrote at such a time, when I interlined the reply." A tremendous newspaper mail also conies, and these papers are ojened, examined, anything particular noted, and then the batch is riled away for future use. 1 asked McDonald how Hancock took the result of the elections in Ohio and Iudiana. "Thev made no more impression on him," he said, "than if they had been tremendous victories. Not a shadow came on his conntenance, and he made no more than the usual references to passing events. He regards the Democratic party as the stronger of the two in the country, and as going to win." Among the General's letters are already begging apjteals. One of these he answered favorably. A girl wrote to say that her brother, while tiring a salute for General Hancock, had been killed by the bursting of the gun, and she wanted as:stance to put a tombstone over him. The way ieneral Hancock's son happens to le living in Mississippi was his marrying the daughter of a New York broker, familiar with the growing and marketing of cotton, and he and the General put some money together and gave the son a plantation, on which he has done very well; though the dangerous weather last summer brought the whole family North. The loss of his elegant daughter has saddened General Hancock, and been a permanent blow to both hini and his wife. Hon. George W.Julian on Indiana. "How did the Indiana Democracy feel over their defeat last Tuesday?" a New York , Eevening Express reporter asked ex-Con-eressman George W. Julian, of that State, who is now in New. York to speak in that State, and in New Jersey and Connecticut "Very sick at heart," he replied, and continued, "The first depression was chilling; it was so unexpected and astounding." "How do they feel now?" "In good heart again, resolute and determined to win the State for Hancock, with a confidence that they will do it." "Why are they stronger now than they were last Tuesday?" "All side issues are removed. Landers was not a strong candidate for a time when the paying off of personal grudges would seriously interfere with party success. The Grecnbackers kad a score to settle with him, and they have pccured their revenge. And wc missed it by not supportini De La Matyr. We did nothing to win the Greenback vote, and it went against us. Thousands of men who voted for Porter will vote for Hancock." "What defeated the Democracy in Indiana?" "We were smothered with money. The State was sure two days before the election. Our poll .Ljwed it to be so beyond a doubt," ' I "Did the free trade and tariff scare help much toward effecting the defeat?" "No. It was not heard of in the canvass till a couple of days before the election." "liut hero it is generally believed that. next to vote buying, that scare was iotentiai in upsetting the State." "It is a niitake, and I am astonished that so much is being made of the tariff subject here at the Käst, Money was the chief cause of the defeat in Indiana. The tariff matter did but little harm. Fraudulent voting by imported negroes and rejeaters did us a measureof harm next to the bribery." "How do you regard the tariff issue now?" "It is no issue at all in this campaign. General Hancock's last letter has settled it just as enectivelyas he extinguished the Rebel claims .question a short time ago. Free trade is an ideal of men in both parties. Politically, it has been a dead issue forabcbt forty years. Why didn't the Republicans bring it up at the beginning, instead of at the end of the campaign, since they profesa that it is of paramount importance? Free trade is too big a question to be grappled with now. The tariff is always a matter of honest difference of opinion, but I can't see that there is any real difference between the Republicans and Democrats about it just now. Garfield himself, and many other Republicans, and strong papers of that part y as well, are free traders in theory, but have various ideas of protection in practice. Free trade is a thing of the future, beyond oar present debt and generation." "Then you think the Democracy will regain Indiana in November?" ."Certainly; Indiana is willing and ready to vote for Hancock. The Republican purchases can't be repeated. Resides the Republiccn manipulators can't put all their fuuds out in Indiana," How New Jersey Votes. ; Buffalo Courier, Oct. 15, ls0- i Counting on New Jersey for Garfield is even worse than counting chickens before they are hatched. This State stood by Douglas and by McC'lellan against Lincoln, by Seymour against Grant and by Tilden against Hayes. 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