Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — Page 7

RURAL TOPICS.

Some Practical Suggestions for '' Our Agricultural Readers. - Information of Ynlne to the Farmer, Stock-Breeder, Housewife* and Kitchen-Maid. 1 £ ! AGRICULTURE. : -rifl , • .. Combinin'! Dairying and Gardening Some dairymen who 6ell milk in cities do a good business by combining with it some market gardening. The two commodities are carried from house to house, and with some experience the driver can load up so as |to dispose of both nearly at the same time. The cows alko make a large supply of manure for the garden. Fodder 1 ables. In North Germany a feeding table is generally used instead of a crib in cow stalls. This feeding table usually runs down the center of the cow- house, and is built of brick and covered with a coating' of cement. Mangers and racks are entirely dispensed with, and the fodder can be given to a double row of animals at the same time. 'jjhey stand on either side of the table, which is of such breadth that each beast can only reach as far as its middle. The edge of the table is slightly raised, and in front of each cow is a twofeet high boarding pierced with a triangular aperture, which permits the animal to feed. In order to let the animal drink, water is allowed to flow in the channels along each side of the table from a cementcovered reservoir at one end, while the superfluous water drains off at the other end. The fodder table is much lower than the crib, a decided advantage. From the use of racks the horns of young animals grow back. It is easier to clean the fodder table than the rack, and by the former device much scattering and waste of fodder is avoided. Half Three Acres and a Cow, A correspondent writing to St. James’ Gazelle from Cheshire sends the following account of wbat may be done with half three acres ana a cow: In the near vicinity of a thriving manufacturing town in Scotland, with a population of about eighteen thousand inhabitants, many of whom have small gardens, there lives a worthy couple and their six children, who have not bo much land as “three acres,” but only about the one-half of this quantity and no more. They have got the “cow,” however, and a pig or two, and they raise a good deal of market produce, such as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, lettuce, cabbage, etc., in their season. Husband and wife, and the children as they grow up, work upon that bit of ground industriously; they are never idle; they till the land, manure it, plant it, and keep it in perfection. Not a foot of it is incumbered with weeds or is allowed to lie waste. From early morning till evening some or other are bravely engaged on it at the proper season, and in consequence the soil is lovingly grateful to them for it, and repays them well, as it always generously does, for the care and attention bestowed upon it. It may be mentioned that the srqall but well-built dwelling-house which stands on the comer of the land and also the cowhouse, etc., have beenr bought and paid for out of their savings, and now all that they have to pay for their snug little place is an annual ground rent of £4 or so. Of cqurse, had there been a score or two of such families as this living near this small town vegetables and fruits would have been cheapened; but there is ample room in the outskirts of all our large cities and towns for thousands of families to make a comfortable apd pleasant living if they have the mind and determination to try it. Meantime, we must go now to Franoe and Belgium for much of the vegetables we use, and for the aged and inferior eggs pow produced at our breakfast tables,4

STOCK-BREEDING. The Heifer’s First Calf. Unless especially valuable for breeding from its pedigree, the first calf of a heifer had better be sold to the butcher. It will not have the vigor and hardiness of progeny from the same animal when mature. It will also.'generally be smaller. But with pedigreed stock or that valuable from other causes, this rule will not apply. Fattening Hogs. It does not pay to grow hogs, keeping them with half enough to eat until a year or more old and then fattening them. The feed from the first should be liberal, and while growing the difference between that and fattening must be made by variety rather than by quantity. Give a growing Eig all it will eat of something that is ulky rather than nutritious. A clover field, or a run in the orchard, does this, and herein is the great advantage of these methods of feeding. With the milk from a few cows, and a little meal, pigs will-be nearly fat enough to kill at any time, and a few weeks on corn will fit them for the butcher. ihe Angora Goat. Commissioner Colman, of the United States Department of Agriculture, in answer to S. Simmons, Esq., of St. Louis, in regard to Angora goats, writes: “In reply to your inquiries relative to the Angola goat, you are informed that the species has been successfully acclimated in many of the States, a cool, dry, mountainous region being well adapted to them. They were first introduced into South Carolina in 1848, into Georgia in 1854, and subsequently spread to the west and southwest. At present the two largest ranches in the country are in Texas—one, that of Joseph P. Devine, near San Antonio, in . Bexar County; the other that of Arnold Brothers, in Nueces Canyon, Uvaide County—and they have from 25,000 to fi,ooo head each. There is little doubt that the mohair industry will, in the near future, be li very important one in our mountainous districts. The mistake generally made has been to utilize the breed only for crossing with our native stock. This has proven to be a bad method, as the valuable peculiarities of the mohair deteriorate with the smallest admixture of other blood; and repeated trialp have proved that we must limit ourselves to ■preserving the species mils entire purity. There is no great difficulty in raising the pure breed where the nature of the ground and the climate conditions are suitable. Its native country extends from the Black Sea on the north to the plains of Mesopotamia on the south, the Caspian Sea on the east and Mediterranean on the west. But its -peculiar domain is.between thirty-nine degrees twenty minutesand forty degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, and between thirty-three degrees twenty minutes and thirty-five degrees east longitude, where it is prized as an eating, milking, cheese and butter-making and clothes-making animal. The flesh is finely developed, and considered wholesome and nutritious; but in this country the chief value will be in its hair, which, when from pure blood, is of dazzling white, curled in locks eight or nine inches long, and as fine as silk. In too moist an atmosphere they are subject to maladies, but are not afFeoted in a dry’one. Except immediately after shearing, they are as tolerant of both heat and cold as our native goats. .. .

The pure breed could probably be obtained from the Texas ranches, or you could import them through the New York houses. At Angpra they can be bought at from $4 to $6 each, but in this country they are much dearer, and saloß have been reported as high as SIOO or over SI,OOO each for exceptionally fine animals. While I fotjl that this industry is destined to be an, important one, I should net advise you to, invest in it, without first thoroughly informing yourself as to its details, and what difficulties you would be. likely to encounter, which you could do by conference with the owners of the ranches in Texas. FLORICULTURE. Tiote’s. “How is it that my violets only give me an occasional bloom or two; they were put into a frame in October?” In replying to this question I usually ask another, viz.: “Were your plants bristling with buds when they were put into your frame?” If not, the frame will have no effect as regards making them produce blooms. The protection of the frame assists the development of the buds with which the'plants should be furnished previous to their being transferred to their winter quarters. It is essential that young plants should be grown every year, and therefore runners must be taken about the middle of April, when there is usually plenty to be had with a root or two attached to them. Care should, however, be taken to have runners and not divisions of the old plant. The runners should be pricked out about a foot apart in a partially-shaded border which has been well worked, and dressed with manure from an old hot-bed, in which a considerable quantity of leaves has been used. They will be found to quickly establish themselves, and will in a short time grow into fine plants. All that is required through the summer is to keep them clean by giving them a frequent hoeing, and to go through them two or three times and cut off new runners, which they will throw out rather freely. If these attentions are annually given them, the result will be a prodigious harvest of blooms for eight months of the year.— Vick’s Magazine. A New method with Pansies. Last season I tried growing pansies in a new manner, at least, it was new to me. We sowed a large quantity of seed quite early, but the drought came on before the plants had attained much size, and all through the summer they jnst managed to live, and that was all; indeed, they would have died long before fall came with the long-deferred rains, had we not watered them daily. But the water we applied did not seem to produce the same results that follow the application of moisture in a natural manner, and the young plants stood still. But when it began to get cooler, and an occasional rain came, the plants began to grow. I wondered what effect pinching back would have on them. They were inclined to make a growth of one or two branches only when they got started. So I went to work and pinched off the ends of all of them. This induced other branches to start, and these were pinched off when they had grown a few inches. In this way I had some compact little plants rather than thp usual slender, sprawly specimens. I think this treatment would be of benefit to the pansy under any circumstances, and I shall practice the pinching system the coming season. It is a characteristic of this most charming flower to send out but few branches, and these are so slender, as a general thing, that they are easily broken. If the plant will adapt itself to pinching, as I think it will, during its summer growth, I do not see why we may not have bushy, compact plants, with mpre flowers from them than we usually get from plants allowed to grow to suit themselves, because there will be more branches to produce flowers on.— Vick’s Magazine.

BEE CULTURE, Fruit-Fating bit Bees. i_ And now an alleged “oldest and most experienced beekeeper” of California claims, and is reported to have shown conclusively, that bees “have the power of cutting through substances vastly more resistant than the skins of grapeß, peaches, etc., and that only those ignorant of natural history can maintain to the contrary.” The fact that bees cut through even the skin of the grape is not proved; but, if so, it is generally accepted that bees do not attack sound fruit, but only those picked by birds or burst from engorgement. Nevertheless the advice to beekeepers to raise flowers on which the bees may feed is good. There is no reason why a man owning not a rod of land should keep a hundred swarm of bees to forage on his neighbors and sting frolicsome children.— Chicago Tribune. How to Arrange an Apiary. ' J. W. Margrove, of Hiawatha, Kan., in the American Bee Journal, tells how he arranged his apiary, as follows: “I would like to describe the arrangement of my apiary last season. It may be old, but it was new to me. I laid it out in the form of a hollow square, placing the hives five feet apart from center to center, all facing outw-ajd; then I could do my work in the apiary and be all the time behind the hive, and not in front of the next row. I never like to insult a colony of bees by standing in its doorway, for two reasons: First, I think it very impolite to do so, and second, the bees often have a very sharp way of resisting such impertinence. If I had more hives than would fill the entire square I would form a second square inside of the first, only reversing the entrances, having them face inward. Then I could pass around the entire apiary and be in the rear of each hive. I paid particular attention during the season, and could detecno difference in those facing north from those facing to the east, or, indeed, any of the others; all did about equally well where the internal conditions were the same. I think that the plan is a good one, especially where one is limited for room, as a great many colonies could be kept in a very small space.”

DAIRYING. The Cost of Hi tic. If farming were done more on a commercial basis fewer mistakes and failures would result. If a majority of farmers calculated closely the cost of keeping milch cows, including the labor, they would find that a large proportion of their herd does not pay expenses, and that what profit is made is on a few animals. More in the dairy than any other branch of farming profits would be greater if the business done were smaller. Keeping Twelve Cows on Ten Acres. One of the most successful dairymen iu this country, Mr. Hiram Smith, of Sheboygan Falls. Wis., keeps 100 cows on 200 acres of land, feeding them from the products of the farm. He purchases extra food, but it is paid for by feeding the skim milk to pigs and selling the poTk. He soils his cows as well as pasturing them, and keeps them in warm quarters, thns inckicing the flow of milk for eleven months from each cow. Aiming, as he does, to keep the largest number on the smallest space with profit, he gives the Prairie Farmer his method by which ten acres may be made to support twelve cows. If the land is in good cultivation he suggests that the ten acres be divided into five two-acre lots, one of which should be fenced off for permanent buildings, yards.

and pasture. Tyro acres should be devoted, one-half to German millet (seed with clover) and half to winter rye, for early soiling from the 25th of May until the 20th of J une. When the crop of rye is removed sow to millet, and seed down to clover with a little timothy seed added. These two acres to remain in meadow and for soiling two fears, so that in ihe second year, the land will become, filled with clover roots, which makei an excellent fertilizer for the large sweet fodder-corn, two acres of which will produce, if the work is properly done, sixty-two tons of green feed. The green feed should be run through a feedcutter, whether green or dry. The two acres of corn, with four acres of meadow cut twice, and two acres of millet and rye, will be sufficient fodder for twelve Jersey grade cows. This alludes to .the green food they will eat, with probably a surplus for winter. As green food alone is not a sufficient ration, there should be given each cow daily four pounds of wheat middlings in summer, and four pounds of bran with four pounds of cornmeai in winter, provided one-half the cows come into milk from October to January, the coming in of the other half being distributed through the balance of the year. Though winter is the season when prices are unusually highest, food under the soiling system is, of course, more available in summer. Regarding the manure, it should be taken daily from the stables, in the winter season, and spread upon the land designed for corn, while during the summer it should be composted and spread upon the meadows after the second cutting. In arranging the ten acres two acres are allowed for buildings and permanent pasture, two for German millet and winter rye, two for clover meadow (which should be two crops in one vear), two for fodder com, and the remaining two, also, to be in clover meadow. The estimated weight of the green stuff grown will provide 58 pounds of green food daily to each cow for 365 days, but it will be necessary to purchase 13J tons of ground grain, which would require ten acres for its production. It will be noticed that although the method arranged for growing enough green food on ten acres for twelve cows may be put in practice, yet the fact that the grain must be purchased compels the use of twenty acres for twelve cows. But admitting such to be a fact, it is not every farmer who makes twenty acres support twelve cows. The writer of the above, by keeping 100 cows on the product of 200 acres, has solved the problem of supporting a cow on two acres, which has often been discussed, and the plan recommended, coming from one who has been so successful, is worthy of consideration.

HOUSEKEEPING. How to Get Rid of the Scents of the Kitchen. Last Sunday I chanced to go to church in a country village. Although it was a well-to-do village, and the church was a large building, the odors made one fully aware that the halcyon days of fresh air and out-of-door sweetness were gone, and in their place had come the ciisp, delicious air of late fall, which, alas, means to so many people only the shutting and barring of every crack and crevice pf their houses. In consequence, it is not necessary when they go abroad to say to their neighbors and friends, “We had buckwheat cakes for breakfast,” or “Yesterday I fried a batch of doughnuts,” for the shut-up house had enabled them to impart in other ways this bit of neighborly Sunday morning gossip. “But,” says that dear, comfortable, motherly-looking lady, whose delicate doughnuts and crullers and fried hasty pudding have been for years the envy of all her friends, “our house is so small the smell of the frying-pan will go all over it. I shut the clothes-press door tight, but there are cracks around it and it is so near the kitchen!” Says some one else: “We sleep in the chamber over the kitchen in the winter, because the pipe of the cook stove goes through it, and the smell of the frying goes Up through the pipe hole and it will stay in the woolens. Some way it is never out all the winter, except when I have time ,to hang the things out, and that is not often.” These were the first shut-in days, and as they were not quite wonted to the odors that clung about their heavy woolen garments, the seasons went on around the little circle gathered about the register after service was over, until they came to a quiet, timid little woman, to whom the first speaker said: “You can’t have made fried cakes yesterday, for there are no traces of them about you.” “Indeed I did, and a big crock full, for the boys ure hungry in these days, and like to take them to school with their dinner, and I did not mean to have to make any more until Saturday comes again.” An astonished little “How do you keep the odor out?” rippled around the circle; to which she replied, “My kitchen, as you all know, is very small, like my house, and* I could not open a window without it blowing on to both me and the stove, and they would not come down from the top, so the next time I wefit to town I bought at the hardware store four barrel springs. They cost only a few cents each. The first rainy day when John was at home I got him to put them in, making three sets of holes so I could lower the windows little or much, as might be necessary. It took but a little while, and now my windows come down from the top very easily, and as they are opposite I can always have a good draught which carries a great deal out of doors, for if you have ever noticed the smoke mostly goes up to the ceiling. As the hair is worse than woolbn to hold odors, I always wear a cambric sweeping-cap when I am working anything that has an odor. I keep one hanging near the stove to be convenient, and as they are make of white cambric? with a bit of lace sewn on the edge and starched very stiff, they are very tidy looking. Then, as to floors; before I begin I run upstairs and open the window in the room over the kitchen, shutting the door very tight. Then I shut all the doors of the kitcuen very tight, too. “The instant that the last cake or bit of pudding is done, I set the kettle or fryingpan immediately out of doors to cool, and throw open all the doors and a window. In two or three minutes 4he odors are out, and the fresh air with which the room is filled will warm very quickly. Breathing fresh air myself, I can tell if the smell has gone anywhere else, and if so I open a window or door. Going upstairs, if I find any odor in the room over the kitchen I know it must have penetrated the closet, and so open the door, leaving the window open in the room for a half-hour longer, but take good care to close the door from the room into the hall as I come out. Coming down I close the windows again, and no one would know what I had been cooking. In frying potatoes I am always careful to drop the windows in the kitchen from the top. as there are few odors more disagreeable than that of stale fried potatoes. ” —Philadelphia Press.

COOKING. f eallop'd Votaloen. Cut up cold boiled potatoes until you bare about a quart. Put in a pan a generous cup of milk, one teaspoonful of flour, and one tablespoonful of butter. Set on the stove - and let it thicken, then put a layer of potatoes in a pudding dish, season with salt and pepper, and pour on a little of the gravy. Continue until all is used. Cover the lop with rolled cracker crumbs and bits of butter. Bake twonty minutes.

CLEVELAND SAYS NO.

Sensational Statement Published by a Leading Western Democratic Journal. The President Will Not Under Any Circumstances Accept a Second Term. 1 A special dispatch from Washington to the St. Louis Republican gives this rather startling information: President Cleveland neither -wishes nor wilt accept'a renomination. This will be startling information to the country, setting at rest the important question of a second term, now the subject of interested consideration in political circles everywhere. The correspondent of the Republican has the highest possible authority for the statement, however, and it can be depended upon as strictly and entirely true. It comes from the President himself, who made a declaration to this effect Wednesday to a prominent Democratic Senator from one of the Western States, who is on terms of especial intimacy at the White House. The President Spoke with so much deliberate earnestness and such studied emphasis that the Senator with whom he was talking is certain there la no reason to question his perfect and entire sincerity. His manner, no lobs than his words, indicated that the declaration was simply the decision of a firm resolution which had resulted from careful consideration of all phases of the matter. The President said he had not given any intimation of his feelings to the representatives of the press for the simple reason that he felt nothing he might say about not wishing or being willing to take a second term would be believed. “I hardly expect anvbedy to believe it,” he said, “except my wife, but it is so none the less." Continuing, he added: “Everything I do, every appointment I make, they think it is to secure re-election. On the contrary, I am counting the days that remain until my release from office, just as if I were a prisoner in confinement.” No man, he said, could endure the severe, strain of such labor, at once physical and mental, for a longer period", than four years without risk of permanent injury to hie health. For these reasons he could hot think of a continuance of his term beyond the four years ho has now half' completed. Nothing, he said to his Senatorial visitor, would persuade him to alter this resolution, which he had deliberately formed. He did not want a second term, and he did not believe there were any obligations of Eublic duty which could require hfan to forego is personal wishes. The Senator, who has repeated this significant conversation to his friends, says that while the President was not talking for the purpose of getting his views about re-election before the Eublic, there was no intimation that he desired is words to be regarded as confidential. The Senator has spoken freely of the interview to personal friends without any injunction of secrecy. and it is not unlikely this private discussion of the matter will eventually provoke some formal and public utterance by the President. The Senator is quite sure there was none of the coy strategy of the artful politician who thinks by this device to appear as being sought by rather than seeking the office in this disavowal of second-term ambition by President Cleveland. He is convinced that every word is meant for just what it implies, and that it will be wholly useless to plan the next campaign on the basis of a renomination of Cleveland. The President was specific and decided in saying ho could not be induced by any possible considerations to change his mind, that there was nothing in the way of argument which could bo brought to bear to alter a resolution determined alike by every consideration of personal comfort and happiness and by the most conscientious regard for what could fairly be asked of him as a patriotic servant of the people.

SWEPT BY STORMS.

Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kentucky Devastated by Terrific Winds. . Scores of Men, Women, and Children Instantly Killed by Flying Debris. In Missouri. 1 Nevada (Mo.) special.] A terrific cyclone swept over this (Vernon) county Thursday night, dealing death and destruction wherever it struck. Fences, houses, bams, aDd everything in the line of the storm, which was about half a mile wide, were picked up, rent into splinters, and cast down hundreds of yards away. These were tom up by the roots. Over thirty houses were destroyed, and about fifteen persons killed. Reliable news has only been received from Osage Township, and it is thought that the death-roH will be swelled to over seventy-five.

In Arkansas. (Clarksville (Ark.) special.! A terrible cyclone passed over this country from west to east, from two to three miles wide, Friday morning, doing fearful damage. Houses and fences were demolished as if they had been constructed of straw. Six persons were killed and a number of others more or less injured. The loss to farmers in buildings, fenoes, stocks, and growing crops is very heavy. All the farms are lying open, and many families will sufl'er if not aided at once.

In Kansas. [Prescott (Kansas) special.! A terrible cyclone swept this place Thursday evening. There were fifteen killed at different points throughout the county, and an incalculable amount of damage was done to all kinds of property. Prescott was literally wiped out of existence, hot a single building being left standing to mark the site of a once prosperous and thriving place. Reports are coming in. from all over the country of damage by the terrible storm. Hail fell all over the county, some stones measuring thirteen inches in circumference. The force of the storm was appalling, and wonderful freaks were performed bv the wind. It is reported that several persons were killed in Blue Mound and Mapleton. ..

In Kentucky. [Cincinnati special.] A tornado Bwept through a portion of Kentucky, south of Cincinnati, Friday morning'. At Paris, while a violent rainstorm, with thunder and lightning, was in progress, a continuous rumbling sound was heard, which proved to be a tornado, which passed in a few minutes, leaving a track 400 yards wide in which trees were leveled and houses unroofed. No loss of life is reported. The damage to property is heavy. ' In Texas. [Blossom Prairie (Texas) special. 1 A cyclone passed over this town Friday morning, doing much damage. No lives were lost. The storm moved north, passing through the town in about tour minutes. Nearly every business house in the village was moved from its foundation. Several dwellings were unroofed. Great damage was done to fences and orchards in the country. - Storm Damages at Other Foints. ... Windows were smashed jst Central ia. 111., by huge hailstones, the storm being followed a few hours later by a heavy fall of rain. A heavy snowstorm occurred Friday in Northwestern Wisconsin. Seven inches fell at Ean Claire, and at Ashland trains were blocked. A fierce gale piled the, snow into drifts. Snow and sleet storms are also reported from portions of Minnesota and Dakota, followed by cold will retard seed planting, already ten days or two weeks late. An ioe gorge alf Montreal caused a sudden rise of four feet in the St. Lawrence, doing considerable damage

LABOR SAINS AND DEMOCRATIC LOSSES.

The Wonderful Growth of the Foriner j»t the Expense of the Latter Since IMS4. The labor vote in the three great cities. New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, in 1884, was 1 per cent, of the total vote cast. Last fell in New York, and this spring in Chicago and Cincinnati, this vote was onethird of the whole. The Democratic vote in these three cities in 1884 was large enough to make New York Democratic, to render Ohio doubtful, and to reduce the Republican majority in Illinois to the lowest figures in a Presidential year in the historp of the party. The vote cast for Mayor Hewitt in New York City was too small ever to carry the State for the Democrats in a Presidential year, and this was equally true of the vote polled by Judgo Peckbam. the Democratic candidate for Court of Ap r peals. In Chicago this spring the Democratic vote disappeared entirely, and in Cincinnati it dropped to half its average total. The Republican vote in these cities at these elections fell not far below the average of an off year. We need draw no inferences for the future from these facts. We need simply state them. We are very far from confusing and confounding the socialist poll in Chicago with’ the honest labor protest against bad government in Cincinnati, or either with the vote for Henry George, compounded of many and diverse elements, part socialist, part Labor, and part the political flotsam of a great city. The Republican vote in Chicago, like the Democratic vote in New York for Mayor Hewitt, represented the united protest of men from both parties against the threats of socialism—with this difference, that in Chicago the Democratic vote disappeared and in New York the Republican vote made a strong fight on its own account and polled its fair proportion of its aggregate vote in 1884. But with these qualifications and limitations the following table (in which Hamilton County does duty for Cincinnati in 1884) tells its own remarkable story of the enormous growth of the Labor vote at the expense of the Democratic party: 1886-7. 18W! Bep. Dem. Lab. ltep. Dem. Lab. N. Y... 60.433 90,552 68,110 90,095 133,222 3,499 Cm.... 17,963 11,851 17,367 38,744 33,248 318 Chi;... 51.210 23,179 51,420 48,530 812 ■ 129,693 192,403 103,656 J 80.259 215,000 4,629 Making all allowances for fusion in Chicago, where a straight-out Democratic ticket would probably have polled 15,006 votes or so, it still remains true that the Labor vote has, grown twentyfold, and the Democratic vote has been cat in two in the middle. With the Democratic vote of these three cities at even 150,000, the North is Republican. With the city populations of the country casting a Labor vote this size, or half this size, there is not a single Northern State whose Electoral vote would be counted for a Democratic candidate. As we said before, these are notinferences, they are facts —facts of the first political magnitude. We have no desire to blink the fact that in all city elections this spiing, and in one State election, local and special causes played their share in changing the relative vote of the different parties. The Rhode Island election itself is proof how straight a blow can be hit at bad methods in politics when the eyes of voters are open. Cleveland, where a bad Republican city ticket was buried because forty-three per cent, of the Republican voters stayed away from the polls, and Republican business men voted for the Democratic candidate for Mayor, offers more proof of the same order. But neither of these instances changes the broad fact that the Labor vote has grown to amazing proportions in three years nt the expense of the Democratic party. The one great Republican city of the country—Philadelphia—is the only one in which no Labor vote was cast. In Milwaukee, where a fusion ticket was run by the Democrats and Republicans against a Labor candidate he pulled through only by the narrowest vote of his opponent, Whose heaviest veto was for the most part polled in the Democratic wards of the city. As it was, the city was carried by the Labor vote, and the election .was turned into a defeat for socia ism only by the outlying towns. With the exception of two or three Republican wards in Milwaukee and Dubuque, which was carried this week by the Knights of Labor, there is nowhere in the country a Republican city vote which has added to the Labor poll. The Labor vote comes from the Democratic party, and in its going it has taken half or all the voting strength of this party in the great cities of the country, and without these cities the Democratic party North is weak indeed. —Philadelphia Press.

One Result of the Change.

During Republican administration the Railway Mail Service reached the -highest point of efficiency ever known in this country, surpassing, in the chief elements that distinguished it, the transactions of any private business establishment. The Democrats proposed among other things to reform that department of the Government if given a chance. Last yenr they had all the chance they wanted. Nearly all the Republicans officials had been removed, and the service was entirely in their own hands; and they had had enough experience to be able to show what they could do as reformers. Here is the result: Errors in the Kailway Mail Service in 1886.... 2,120,147 Errors average for five years,llßl-5, in Railway Mail Service 058,68 That is a blooming record for reformers to make —more than twice as many errors during last year as were made on an average during the five years of Republican administration preceding. The missent mail matter, the letters that were destroyed in delivery, the letters that never were delivered, ail figure in the two million errors of last year. That is one pf the beautiful showings of a Democratic administration. —lowa State Register.

Democratic Nepotism.

In the days of President Grant, when he ventured to appoint two or three of his distant kinsmen to some petty offices, there was a great howl from the Democratic press as to nepotism. There would be an astonishing exhibit if the press would now show the extent to which nepotism is running under Cleveland and all the Democrats in high office. The reform President has appointed several of his own and his wife’s kinsmen to good offices. The Democratic Senators, taking the cue from the' White House, have indulged extravagantly in the same favoritism to their relatives. The appointment of E. L. Pugh, of Alabama; a son. of Senator Pugh, as clerk of the Interstate Railway Commission, is the seventeenth telative of that Democratic leader appointed to lucrative offices under Cleveland. NearTy all of the Democratic Senators have from six to a dozen of their kinsmen in office. Their interpretation of civil-service reform evidently is to get as many of your own kin into place as you can.— Exchange. It is not at all certain that New York will control the next national election. ExGov. Wise, of Virginia, declares that that State, as well as West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, can easily be. carried by Republicans, while Indiana is a most hopeful battle-field. The Republicans vrifi not need to carry all their eggs in one basket in 1888 by a good deal. ; ;

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—John J. Miller, an old and wealthy farmer lmnjFilSfcar Milford, in the northern part of Kosciusko County, is the victim of a confidence game whereby he is loser $2,300. The circumstances are almost identical with the case at Warren, and the game was no doubt worked by the same men who robbed old man Lewis. Two men called on Miller, and bargained for his farm. On the road lo Milford, accompanied by Miller, to complete the negotiations, they met the customary affable stranger, who induced them to bet a few dollars on a little trick with cards. Miller was easily dnped, and the rascals departed with bis money. The men were welldressed and of pleasing address. A reward of S3OO is offered fottheir appre-, hennion. —Joseph Batch, of Indianapolis, in the employ of A. Bresner, was killed at Lafayette. Batch had ascended a derrick, intending to tighten the bolts on the cable used on the steam hoisting apparatus at the sewer. Not understanding the apparatus, he did not notice that he was loosening one end of the bolts, tbns letting the derrick fall. The heavy timbers struck Batch on the head, cansing death soon after. Batch was to have been married soon, and his wedding-snit will be hisshrond. —The elevator at Cooley k Morrison’s furniture factory, in Connersville, dropped from the fifth-story of the bnilding to the basement, caused by the cable breaking. Three men were oni tat the time. Robert Hampson, aged 33, was instantly killed; William Bnrkns was fatally injured, and John McCormick was badly hurt, but will recover. —The residence of Chris Mills was burned, at Greentown, a small town on the narrow-guage, east of Kokomo. Mrs. Mills bad left her year-old babe asleep in the cradle, and went out to a neighbor’s. On returning she saw her bouse in flames, and only succeeded in securing the charred remains of her little child. —The State Board of Health has daily reports of the continued spread of measles. In some places the disease ia malignant and in others of a mild form. Dr. F. G. Thornton, of Knighlsville, Clay County, said he had thus far attended 311 cases. Randolph County has 282 cases, and Laporte 287. —ln a fight between officers and tramps, at South Bend, the police captured eleven of the vagrants, and a twelfth was shot through the heart by Officer John Metz in a straggle. The name of the tramp was given as “Baltimore Ed.” He was about 20 years old, and was believed to have been a tailor.

—Samuel Ogbom, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years for assault and battery with intent to kill, has been paroled by the Governor on the conditions of good behavior and abstinence from intoxicants. He was convicted in the Wayne Circuit Court two years ago last February. —The Baptist Church of Greensburg, that has been withont a pastor several months, has extended a call to Rev. Sanders, of Columbia City, who has preached at Greenburg several times recently. He is regarded as a very strong minister, and in all probability will accept the call. —The prospects that the Southwestern Railroad out of Terre Haute will be built brighten. At Terre Haute $23,000 has already been raised by private subscription to encourage the enterprise, and the soliciting committee have not as yet seen half of the friends of the enterprise. —Albert Magle, of Colombia City, who had been married only two weeks, committed suicide by banging, in his barn. Cause unknown, as he was living happily with his young wife, who discovered him first. -He was but 25 years of age and worth considerable money. —While Hon. R. P. ESinger, a prominent citizen of Peru, was engaged in taking down a bird-house on his premises, the rotten supports of the structure gave way, and the mass fell on Mr. Effinger, whose ankle was crushed into a shapeless mass, rendering amputation necessary. —Dr. F. B. Thomas, of Winamac, met with a severe and pninfnl accident. He was shooting rats at his residence with an old muzzle-loading rifle, when the breechpin blew out; striking him on the forehead, and inflicting injuries which may prove fatal. —Mr. Patrick Campbell, an aged and much-respected citizen of Shoals, while engaged in his usual vocation, and apparently in good health, suddenly dropped dead, withont apparent warning to himself or friends. He was about 60 years of age. —George Howard, en route from a dance near Harmony, sat down on the ties and fell into a dose. A freight, backing, struck him, fracturing his sknll and otherwise fearfully mangling him. He lived but a short time after being found. —Gas well No. 2, at Frankfort, is now down over 200 feet. The pipe has been driven through quicksand and drift so far, and the contractors do not expect to reach rock under 300 feet. Frankfort is enjoying a substantial boom already. — J. W. Middleton, of Jennings Township, Scott County, desiring to end his life, made a variation on the usual hackneyed methods of suicide and went out where wood-choppers were at work and Jet; a tree fall on him. —John Warnock, aged 93, a resident of Tippecanoe County, has been for a long time without food. He takes an occasional sip of water, but no food enters his mouth* His fasting is not from choice, but necessity. —The aunnal Union Snnday-school convention of Montgomery County will be held at Crawfordsville on May 25. married, attempted to board \ moving freight train on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway at Washington, fell under the wheels, and was almost instantly killed. —A movement is on foot at Crawfordsville for the erection of a soldiers’ fountain in the court-house yard. TbliTfountain Is to cost $1,600, and the most of this sum is to be raised by subscription. —A Fort Wayne' policeman was run over by the fast-line express on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and hoiribly mangled. _'■' ■, . \b= ■'