Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — Page 3

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Topics of Interest Relating to Farm and Household Management Information for the Plowman, Stock* man, Poulterer, Nurseryman, ' and Housewife. THE FARM. Wattage in MJressing rork. Every farmer before killing hogs or other animals should have them weighed, so that it may be known how great is the loss in -killing and dressing. In selling by live weight buyers require farmers to deduct a larger percentage for wastage than is gen--erally experienced. In well-fattened, com-pactly-built porkers the waste is often not more than twenty per cent, of the whole, and sometimes less even than this. Clean Water /or Hog*. One renson hogs are more liable to disease is because usually no pains are taken to provide them with plenty of clean water. The swill tub with its dishwater and other slop is no substitute for pure water so far as health is concerned. In winter, especially, there is little advantage in giving sloppy food. The hog will thrive better if given its meal only slightly moistened and left to drink what clean water it chooses from another dish. farming from I xperle.nee. The farmer’s work is necessarily experimental. While some general principles are always applicable it is impossible to provide for details without knowledge of attending circumstances. No positive rules can be made to fit all cases, and therefore each must be decided on its merits as it arises. To do this requires excellent judgment, and it is not unnatural that an old and successful farmer should regard with some distrust the knowledge which has been derived only from books.

2he Farm Workshop. Have you a workshop on the farm? If not, why not? Many jobs can be done on the farm in less time than it would take to order them of some person, perhaps miles away, and then wait ror them, or perhaps make another journey nfter them. Every farmer is not handy with tools, but he may soon become so by their handling, at least to Buch a degree as to perform jobs snfliciently well to compass the end. Nowadays any repair about the farm may bo had already shaped and only needing fitting. If you - are distant from where such things may be bought, when in the woods look out for crooks that will make a plow handle, or timber that will split into plow beams, harrow frames, wagon tongues, cross pieces for a hay rigging, a log for a roller, or any other material needed. The broken implement will serve as a pattern to hew or otherwise work by. When found, prepare roughly and pile in a loft, where the wood may become thoroughly seasoned against a time of want. Many a job may be nicely done in the workshop in inclement weather, -especially in winter. Provide a few necessary tools and a stove to keep the shop warm. At odd times make duplicates of articles or parts to implements likely to break. Many minor implements are now more cheaply bought new than repaired or tnade on the farm. Handles to any of the implements, rakes, etc., are among the number, and when they may be bought ready shaped, they are cheaper than to hew them down from timber. It takes little labor to fit these properly to their places. In the workshop broken harness may be mended by means of rivets or stitching. Many implements of use or convenience in i the family may easily be made. Here the children will make play in learning to become handy with tools. The hired men will also take kindly to this work, since it is sure to keep them out of the storm. With a good stock of timber poles may be prepared for making sheds; lumber may be fitted for pig-pens; posts may be prepared by boring or hewing; rails may be sharpened; mangers may be fitted, feedboxes prepared, stanchions made ready for fitting together, and tool 3 and implements may be sharpened. These are a few of the uses to which the workshop may be put and the ingenuity of the master and man exercised. If they prevent a visit to the village grocery for drink and card-playing when time drags heavily, the small economies will carry joy to the household, honor to the head of the family, and money into the purse against a rainy day.—Chicago Tribune.

THE STOCK RANCH. Hoic to Feed Bogs. Construct your troughs for-feeding hogs, says the Live Stock Register, of Kansas City, so that each hog cannot appropriate more than a foot to himself. Have divisions by means of small fenced yards so arranged that at least three sizes of pigs can slip under and be divided into three grades and each have a trough to eat from. Now, by pouring swill into the troughs for the small pigs Ihpy will crowd into their pen first and be out of the way of the older ones, safe, eating. Then take the second grade, and they will all be on an equality and out of the way of the still larger ones. In this manner a feeder can regulate the feed and grade his hogs in eating, and manage a large number and havo each get a proper share of food, and not get hurt. Do not undertake to roiso your hogs on grass alone. They need at least one ear of corn per day to give them heart and to neutralize the acid arising from eating the grass. A full supply of ashes and salt should he kept in reach all the # time. Charcoal is a great neutralizer of acids. Burnt cobs are good. Bemember that clover is full es acid, and a sour stomach soon lends to disease. “An once of preventive is worth a pound of cure” in this case.

Profit in Horse Raising. In solving the very important problem to the farmer of raising that for which he •will find ready sale, the many advantages afforded by a little attention to the raising of a serviceable class of horses should not be forgotten. There are few farmers who could not, at a really trifling outlay and with comparatively little trouble, raise a couple of good colts for sale every year. In this matter, as in all other operations of duct raised must be desirable; the farmer who raises scrubs, and the farmer who raises weeds, are on the same Tooting. Unquestionably, the hind of horses most easily raised on the farm is the product of a cross between the draught-breeds and our common native mares. As a rule, each animals are tractable and in such general demand as to be readily sold, when three years old, for $l5O to S2OO. Indeed, the farmer, whose resources are limited and who wishes to dispose of them earlier, can still do so at very remunerative figures. To those farmers who are ambitions to raise a still higher grade of animal, the coach horse offers unusual attractions, while necessarily calling for more Bkill in the selection of the parents, and greater care in the raising of the product. The demand for well-trained, well-matched horses for the equipages of the wealthy is practically unlimited and likely to be so for a great many years to come. The difficulty of securing a well-matched learn of

coach horses is not appreciated save by those who have ai tempted to do so. A couple of years ago the writer was informed by a gentleman who had a commission from no less than three parties, to secure for each of them a team such as we have indicated; that in the course of nine months he had only been able to fulfill one of his commissions, and would think himself verv fortunate if, after albthe traveling he had done and the inquiries he had instituted* he should be able to fill the other two within the year. The team he had secured cost their purchaser $3,000. Of course, ns we have already indicated, raising of snch horses as this requires exceptional qualifications in the breeder, but the arising of good serviceable horses, suoh as referred to in the former part of this article, is available to every farmer owning eighty or more acres of land.

THE DAIRY. Cream Halting. This has not been discussed much in these columns, because there were so many different opinions about it. The approved way, however, at last favors what is called the Swedish ipethod, the cold, deep setting. It is as follows: Try it. While the milk is yet warm from the cow put it into deep pans and sot it into a cold place, with the temperature as low, at least, as 45 degrees, lower, if possible, even to 35 degrees. This suddenly chills and contracts the milk, and the lighter croarn naturally rises to the surface. By this means all the cream is got out of the milk. It should be left in the cold place from twelve to twentyfour hours. For raising Cream in an ordi. nary country home nothing can possibly be found so good as the old-fashioned spring house fc with a stream of ice-cold water, running through it. When this cannot be had, liberal drafts should be made on the ice house, which is found upon every well-regulated farm.— Exchange.

Food for Young Calves. Some interesting results of experiments in feeding calves are recorded in a report of the Munster (England) Agriculture and Dairy School, just issued. The foods tried were ns follows, the quantities named being given daily: (1.) Eight quarts of skimmed milk. (2.) Ten quarts of separated milk. (3.) A mixture prepared by pouring eight quarts of boiling water on one quart of linseed menl, covered up for twenty-four hours, and then boiled With more water, enough of which was added to provide eight quarts for each calf. (4.) A feeding meal sold at twenty-one shillings per 100 weight, mixed with water—quantity not stated. Two calves were put on each kind of food, and, after they were a month old, each had a little hay. The experiment lasted from the 20th of May till the 27th of August. The average daily increase in live weight in the different lots was 1.6 pounds for No. 1, 1.77 pounds for No. 2, 1.65 pounds for No. 3, and 1.65 pounds for No. 4. The cost per pound of increase was respectively, in the same order of lots, 2.9 pgnce, 3 pence, 1.55 pence, and 2.16 pence. The mixture of bean meal and linseed meal, therefore, gave the best increase at the least cost per pound. Another experiment was that of testing the quality of butter produced from a given quantity of milk after extracting the cream with the Danish separator, as compared with the quantities obtained after skimming milk which had been allowed to stand for various periods. The averages of forty-three trials showed that, from a quantity of milk yielding 100 pounds of butter with the use of the separator, skimming after twentyfour hours yielded fifty-nine pounds, after thirty-six hours sixty-six pounds, after forty-two hours seventy-three pounds, and after fifty-four honrs seventy-six pounds. These trials, extending from January to July, were made at various temperatures. Only in a few instances was the percentage in favor of the separator less that 18 per cent.-when the proper speed was maintained. ,

THE LAUNDRY. To Remove Scorching. White goods, rub well with linen rags dipped in chlorine water. Colored cottons, redye, if possible, or in woolens, raise a fresh surface. Silks, no remedy. To Wash Silk Handkerchiefs. In answer to a querry as to the best way to wash silk handkerchiefs, I will give my own rule: Soak the handkerchief in cold salt water for tan minutes or more, wash out in same water, and iron immediately. Mine, done in this way, look very well.— Cor. Boston Transcript. Washing Slade Kasy. The “Ladies’ Society,” Bray ton, Tenn., some time ago sent to Home and Farm directions for washing clothes according to the method they were using. It was at once published in these columns, and it lifted an almost intolerable burden from a hundred households. It is no figure of speech to say we have received hundreds of letters from tired women all oyer the land expressing their gratitude to the Ladies’ Society for that communication. But it is something more than rest that is brought by these simple directions for washing; it is cleanliness as well, and that cleanliness, which we are told, is next to godliness, must begin with clean homes and clean clothes. By following these directions, which we reprint below, in a few weeks’ time it will be seen that the clothes have been through a new bleaching process. Here is the article to which we refer: • , “For one bar of soap use three tnblespoonfuls of coal-oil, such as you use in the lamp. For a family of five or six put 'enough water in the boiler to boil the clothes, add two tablespoonsfnls of coaloil and two-thirds of a bar of soap, or its equivalent in soft soap; lev it come to a boil; wet your cleanest clothes in cold water or warmed enough for comfort. If wrist-bands are very dirty, a little semp ipay be rubbed on them; put them in the boiling water and boil fifteen or twenty minutes. While they are boiling wet the next boilerful, and if very dirty add another spoonful of oil and more soap. The last boiler will not need any more oil or soap. It takes as much soap as the ordinary way, but it is all put in the boiler. After boiling sudß rinse as usual. Two things remember—have plenty of soap in boiling water, and have it boiling when the clothes are put in. If you fail the first time, try, try, again; you wjll be sure to like it. We have washed this wav nearly a year—long'enough to test it—and our elothoa lank nice and white, and we say let those rub who want to. Please try and report.” _ THE HOUSEHOLD. ■ »■ ~__ • Stepping and On*ting a Room . There is much difference of opinion among household authorities as to the proper method of sweeping and garnishing room. Whether windows shall be opened nt closed during the cleansing process is one of the mooted questions; A simple and satisfactory way is to cover all the articles of furniture with cotton cloths or sheets kept for the purpose. Whatever may be lifted conveniently should be taken out of the room to facilitate matters. With a long-handled feather duster remove all the dust from walls and pictures, having left a window open from the top so that the dust dislodged by the duster may pass out. If there be a carpet on the floor, sweep it carefully with a straw broom that has been dampened, bo' which will shod no crops of

water. In this way the minimum of dust will be set free in the air. In corners where the broom will not reach use .a damp whisk brash, kept for the purpose. Put all the dust and §tuff in a bucket or coal scuttle, that it may be burned as soon aa possible. After the room is swept throw open all the windows, and when the dpst remaining hail settled, carefully remove the covers from the furniture and shake them out of the windows. Then cover the articles in the next room to be swept. If the floors are polished, all the rugs should be removed before the walls are dusted, and the floor should be swept with*a hair broom* and then wiped with a damp, not wet, cloth. For dusting use a soft cloth, slightly damp, so that it will collect instead of disperse “misplaced matter." Flirting dust from one object to another may be dusting,but it is not cleansing. A fine bristle brush should be employed to remove dust from carved wood. Window sashes are too often neglected by the average domestic; they should be carefully dusJkod, and a linen cloth should be employed to rub off the glass, which colleots dust as readily as any piece of furniture. In a room where there are draperies these should be dusted before as well as after the sweeping, and they should then be carefully pinned, not tied up some distance from the floor. For lac® curtains a rather stiff hair brush will be found admirable for dislodging any dust that may have collected. It is an unwise practice to sweep all the room in order at a time, and thus avoid the confusion that must otherwise be entailed by weekly thorough sweeping.— New York Commercial Advertiser. Suggestions for Housekeepers. On, of lavender will drive away flies. Chained wood should bo washed with cold tea. If paper has been laid under the carpet all dust may be easily removed with it. Mobtab and paint may be removed from window glass with hot, sharp vinegar. Copperas mixed with the whitewash put upon the cellar walls will keep vermin away. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off with soda water. Drain pipes and all places that are sour or impure may be cleansed with lime water or carbolic acid. Strong brine may be used te advantage in washing bedsteads. Hot alum water is also good for this purpose. The warmth of floors is greatly increased by having carpet lining of layers of paper under the carpet. Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where ants congregate will drive them away. The same remedy is also good for mice. If gilt frames, when new, are covered with a coat of white varnish, all specks can then be washed off with water without harm. If a bedstead creaks at each movement of the sleeper, remove the slats and wrap the end of each in old newspaper. This will prove a complete silencer. If the wall about the stove has been smoked by the stove, cover the black patches with gum-shellac, and they will not strike through either paint or kalsomine. Carpets should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong Bide first, and then on the right side; after which spots may be removed by the use of ox-gall or ammonia and water. t Furniture needs cleaning as much as other woodwork. It may be washed with warm soapsuds quickly, wiped dry, and then rubbed with an oily cloth. To polish it rub with rotten stone and sweet oil. Clean off the oil and polish with chamois skin. When hard-finished walls have been kalsomined, the soiled coats Bhonld be washed or scraped off before a new one is put on. This is the most disagreeable part of the process. The furniture should be covered, as the lime makes spots that are removed with difficulty, especially upon black walnut.

THE DINING-ROOM. The Matter of Food. A French physician, regardless of the most cherished Scotch traditions, pronounces oat-meal unfit for human beings to eat. So far from being wholesome it is, he says, the most indigestible of food and a dyspepsia breeder, and, ns proof of liis statement, declares that the Scotch are the most dyspeptic race of people on earth. Those persons who have concealed a distaste for this universal breakfast di*h, either through a timid dislike of running cohuter to popular opinion or from a wish to avoid the inevitable flood of argument sure--to overwhelm the objector—such persons will hail this French pronunciamento. with delight. With the new-found courage of their convictions they will point to Carlyle, who lived for ■ eighty years mainly on a diet of oatmeal mnsb, if one may judge by the “Lives and Letters” of himself and “Jane,” hut whose life was one long-drawn-out misery from a disordered stomach. Others who regplate their fare according to fashion, and who have eaten oatmeal dutifully and faithfully, serene in the belief that it was healthful because food-reformers have said so, will be sadly unsettled. Individuals not embraced in these two classes have not needed the opinion of any physician to enable them to decide upon the merits of any article of food and will proceed to “take their nourishment” as usual, undisturbed by outside disputes. If they find oatmeal palatable they will eat it; if, like Emerson, they like pie for breakfast, they will boldly partake of it, unmoved by the horror of surrounding dyspeptics. If the glass of milk or sticky graham “gem, ” recommended as “just what they need,” is found to disturb the eternal economy, they will avoid them, hut if lobster salad at midnight is discovered to be toothsome and sleep-pro-ducing, they will attack it without fear. Nothing is so true as the old saying that one man's meat is another’s poison. In the mntter of food each one must be a law unto himself in a great measure. The refusal to accept a dish merely because others find it good, and the exerciee of a little independence and common sense in such directions would many times save unpleasant consequences. The main object of the good cook and purveyor for himself and others should he to select the best materials for such food as he doesjjrepare, and to prepare it after the best methods be~ean learn OTdsvtßer The good housekeeper is continually on the alert-to improveupon the methods long in vogue, for the 1 science of cooking is one which is never completely learned. —lndianapolis Journal. THE KITCHEN. Pillow Shams. Take eight linen hemstitched handkerchiefs; join them with tine rick-rack insertion, trim the edge with a deep edge of rick-rack tiimming, and if desired there may be braided or embroidered a monogram. Short Cookie *. Bub half a pound of lard or dripping into a pound office flou|, add six ounces of brown sugar, one Cgg and a table spoonful of lemon juice. Mix with a cup of warm milk into which a teaspoon ful of saleratus has been stirred.

THE G.A.R. VINDICATED

Addreas of General J. M. Tuttle, Com* mander of the Department of lowa, On the Occasion es a Reception at Des Moines, on the 23d of April. Comrades : I thank you for your kind welcome and hearty congratulations upon mjr being placed again in command of the lowa , battalion*, when it seems to be necessary for the Grand Army of the Republic to defend , itself and resent the foul insinuationa and charges of thoee who luve always been our enemies, both during the war ana sinoe its close. This defense seems to be necessary from the fact that yonng men are coming upon the stage of action who are not acquainted personally, and many older men have apparently forgotten the spirit that actuated the volunteers and their high character as men of veracity, integrity, and patriotism, and who are now our leahing men in all the walks of life. When these men volunteered they knew not what pay they were to receive, they asked no questions about It, they did not care apparently whether they were paid or not. Nothing of a mercenary character entered their minds. The slave-holders had rebelled and they hastened to fill up the ranks to put them down. They aooepted their small compensation without a murmur. They performed their duty like honest men, and deserve the treatment that should be awarded to honeßt men now. After the war had been going on for a year or two we heard that there were men in the North showing a disposition to discourage ub and sympathize with our enemies, called us hirelings and mercenaries, and did everything they could to discourage enlistments to fill up our decimated ranks. They held public meetings, and declared the war a failure, and resolved that the South never could be conquered, and that oar armies should be withdrawn. We paid no attention to this fire in the rear, we did not appreciate their strength nor attach as much importance to their movements as it deserved, as we have found out since. We knew that we were right, that we were fighting in a just cauoe, and pushing our bayonets int j the heart of the monster rebellion, and did not stop to hear or care what was being said at our backs. We fought the enemy with zeal, courage, and integrity. We conquered them after many of us had lost our liveß, and many others had been crippled for life, or lost their health beyond recovery, and when we returned home we received the praises of all. The enemy in arms had surrendered, and their sympathizers deemed it prudent to remain Bilent. None had the temerity then to say anything to our discredit. Years passed and we found many of our comrades worthy, honest men and brave soldiers, whose health had been ruined by hard marches and exposure, both in the field and in the prison pens of the South, totally disabled from earning a living, but who found it impossible to produce the evidenoe, either on account of the death of their officers or comrades who had knowledge of the commencement of their disabilities, to prove to the Pension Department that they had been disabled in the service. The Grand Army of the Republic, knowing their deserts, took up their cause and asked Congress to pass ; a general bill allowing all soldiers now disabled and unable to earn a living, regardless of how or when such disability hod been incurred, that would secure them the money that honestly belonged to them. Congress passed a bill substantially in compliance with our request, with great unanimity, for which those who voted for it have our sincere thanks. The President vetoed the bill, and in giving bis reasons for doing so stated that our army had been well paid, and he thought that enough had been done for them in the way of pensions. And in concluding his reasons for vetoing the bill stated that to allow it to pass “would increase perjury and encourage dishonesty.' In other words, that we are all liars and perjurers, as well as mendicants, and are not to be trusted nor "believed when we would give evidence in favor of our. disabled comrades. His principal organ in the West defended the veto and repeated all the vile names and insinuations against us, calling us names that it would not do to repeat to a polite audience, and said: "The action of the President in veoting this infamous bill would suppress that unmitigated nuisance, the Grand Army of the Republic.* That editor was never more mistaken in his life. The Grand Army of the Republic can no more be suppressed now than when they met the armed rebels in the field. I think if the President and that editor had been at Dubuque this week they would have concluded that our suppression was not yet accomplished. They would have seen thousands of honest, earnest, and intelligent men who had all risked their lives to save their country, and all, regardless of party ties, condemning their actions and words in language not to be misunderstood. They were the representatives of 50,000 voters in the State of Iowa; were old soldiers with good records, determined to vindicate and have justice done to their old comrades, where needing assistance. All w4re indignant at the veto message and the approving article in the Chicago newspaper. There are men in all political parties seeking office and asking the suffrages of their fellow citizens. They have pronounced the soldier question a chestnut, that the old soldiers have had enough, that they ask too much, that it is time for them to take a back seat in the conduct of affairs. We don’t think so. We propose to organize more thoroughly than ever. We intend to recruit as fast as possible all the old soldiers of lowa and ask them to join our organization and stand with us in defense of our honor and integrity, and woe be to the aspiring politician, regardless of party, who can not convinee us that he is the soldiers’true friend. We are told, and It is true, that some soldier Congressmen voted for the bill and afterward voted to sustain the veto. Some soldiers never had their hearts in our cause, and it is not surprising that a.few of them have gotten to Congress. Thank God, none of oar lowa Congressmen made such a record. There never was a good cause hut had its traitors, and our cause is not an exception. Party politics in our organization, as you all are well aware, is strictly prohibited, but I do not regard our rules to prohibit us from defending ourselves when attacked as an organization and our comrades traduoed and vilified and their character for veracity and integrity questioned by ae highest officer in our land. I think this is no more of a political speech than one I made to the lowa boys when standing in line of battle at Shiloh, and the enemy rapidly approaching In their front. Riding along the lines I urged them to “Stand your ground, take good aim, and fire low, and remember the record of lowa soldiers at Wilson’s Creek and Fort Donelson." That was a short speech, aqd might now be considered political, but it had the effect at the time, perhaps, of giving the boys confidence, and may have had something to do with causing them to make their position to be called by the rebels “the hornet’s nest." In Andersonville Prison in August, 1804, were confined 33,000 Union soldiers, suffering all the pangs of torment, sick and starving, anxious to see their homes and their familios, suffering which at this day seems incredible. Bufferings and punishments as great or greater as almost any savage nation on earth would infiiot. Dying at the rate of ten per cent, each month, thousands of them nnable to rise to their feet. In this fearful emergency agents of the rebel government approached them with liberty and plenty to eat if they would take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, and a money bounty if they ■ would enlist in their armies. Out of ail that number they found but seventy men who would thus forswear their cause and desert their flag, and rather than do so they stayed and died at the rate of over a hundred each day—and those whose lives were saved are yet physical wrecks almost to a man, and entirely unable, in oonseS nence of being in a rebel prison, of proving lat they got their disabilities in the service. Were they mercenaries, hirelings, dishonest men, and not to be trusted ? I think not. I would rather trust them on oath than the President, or editor before mentioned. Men possessing the integrity that they showed there are worthy to be trusted anywhere and under all ciroumataaces. Dr. Frisbie speaks of higher powers. I ask no higher Dower than tobe in commaad -of-aH-Ahe-soWiera -ot-lowa. - I_.caxe_. not what regiments they served in; they are all lowa sotdieas now. Our State made a glorious record during the war. The troops of no State in the Union made a better one. They were conspicuous in all the great battles of the West, and we that went from the then young State of lowa are proud of the record that not a poor regiment went from the State. Many of these soldiers have left the State, and* many others come in their places, and we are now all a band of brothers together, and an honor conferred on any man by them is as high as any civil office in the gift of the people, and it is our mission now to show the people that we are not a nuisance, not a set o( dead-beats and eoffeecoolers. . “My dear children,” said Deacon Bacrag, addressing the scholars, “can yon tell me why you come to Sunday-Bchool?” “’Cause our pas would wallop ns if we didn’t, ” promptly responded a small scholar. A man with a wheelbarrow on the side* walk is not very popular, but he generally oarries everything before him.

TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.

Three Mexican Town,* Almost Obliterated by Earthquakes and Volcanoes. One llundred and Seventy People In* Killed mid a Large Number Wounded. [Guayiuas (Mexico) dispatch.) The town of Bahispe, in the district of Montezuma, in Bonora, was destroyed by the recent earthquake, and 150 lives were lost. Twenty persons were killed at Oputo by the falling of buildings. Many people Were injured at Granadafi andGusabar, which towns were almost completely destroyed. IHermosillo (Mexico) dispatch.] The earthquake caused terrible damage in Monteznma. It destroyed several villages, but those in the northeastern part suffered most terribly. Oputo had all its houses destroyed, and nine persons were killed. Bahispe was utterly destroyed, and 150 people were killed. The houses were leveled to the ground. A new volcano appeared, and its eruption destroyed all the timber and pastures of adjoiuing valleys and mountains. [City of Mexico dispatch.] The Government has just received its first information regarding the disastrous earthquake on the 3d inst. at the town of Bahispe, in the district of Montezuma, Sonora, by which 150 persons lost their lives. < The earthquake occurred at 3.30 p. m. At the same time volcanic eruptions began in the neighboring mountains, lighting up the summits for a long distance. The prediction is made here by local scientists that Mexico is about to undergo a general seismic convulsion, and recent records of earthquakes show that there is widespread volcanic activity from one end of Mexico to the other. I_J__ 1 _ J __ [Tucson (Arizona) dispatch.] A party has just returned from the Santa Catalina Mountains and report that the canyons are full of water, brought to the surface by the earthquake. This is a great boon for this region, as there are thousands of acres of good farming land at the base of these mountains which only need water to make them valuable. Another good effect of the earthquake is the opening of two large gold veins which were discovered in the Santa Catalina Moontains at a point where the whole side of a mountain slid down. Several prospecting parties left to-day to locate claims. From one to two slight shocks of earthquake have been felt here for several days. They are too slight to cause alarm. There is no doubt that nearly every high mountain in Southern Arizona has to a greater or less extent had its topography changed, but so far as can be learned here there is no active volcano among them. [Nogales (Arizona) dispatch.] Later accounts received here tend to show that the report of a volcano having broken out in the Whetstone Mountains is tree. Men who arrived from Sonora say that there is strong evidence of a volcanic eruption at a point about forty miles southeast of Magdalena, and it is confidently said that one peak is throwing out large volumes of smoke, accompanied by streams of lava. Smoke and lire can be distinctly seen from several points along the line of the Sonora Railroad. As far as can be ascertained, the volcano is In the Sierra Azul range. From the appearance of the country and the heavy earthquakes that have occurred it is believed that other volcanoes will break forth in a few days. ILaredo (Texas) dispatch.] Passengers arriving on the Monterey train report that great fires are raging on the summit of the mountains in many places on both sides of the road. Whether these fires have any connection with the recent earthquake disturbances in Arizona and New Mexico is yet to be determined, as the tops of these mountains are almost inaccessible.

ALIVE IN HIS COFFIN.

A Supposed Corpse, Shipped on a Railroad, Found to Have Regained Consciousness, [Vincennes (Ind.) special.] Daring the session of the Lutheran Evangelical Synod at Booneville Philip Gyer, a wealthy citizen of Mount Auburn, 0., who was present as a delegate, arose to make a few remarks. He had scarcely risen from his seat when he was noticed to stagger, and the next second fell on the floor dead. A physician was called and pronounced his case apoplexy. The remains were hurriedly prepared for burial, and ordered shipped at once to the home of the deceased. Ten hours after the supposed death the remains arrived here by special train from Evansville. John Kuster, the baggagemaster, assisted by Clark Harvey, transferred the corpse from an Evansville and Terre Haute to an Ohio and Mississippi train. Harvey declares that he heard the dead man kick against the lid of the box three or four times. Mr. Kuster said: “I have handled more coffins than any man about this depot, and I flatter myself that I’m not superstitious. The sensation I experienced in lifting the coffin from one car to another was the same as lifting a crate having a live calf in it. The coffin seemed to beli alive. There was no dead weight about it. We only had a few minutes in which to transfer the remains, and it was suggested by some of the boys that the box be opened and an examination made of the corpse. To this a strenuous objection was entered by an unknown gentleman who accompanied the remains.” Depotmaster Mechlin telegraphed from here to Washington requesting that the coffin on arrival there be opened and an examination made of the body. There, as here, the man who had charge of the corpse again interposed. Word was sent from Washington to the Chief of Police at Cincinnati, and word was telegraphed that on the coffin being opened the man was lying on his face, his shroud was torn and there were other indications going to show that Gyer had come to life after having been placed in the coffin. Sohneke states that the electricity which is discharged during a thunderstorm is produced by the friction of water and ice, that is, that the ice is electrified by friction of water. Just before a thunder-storm water-clouds [cumuli) and ice-clouds ( rirro , cirrott tali) appear simultaneously in the sky. The friction of these particles of ice and water is a sufficient cause of the electricity which is generated. _ A novel advertising scheme was recently introduced by a merchant in Carthage, 111. A series of prodigious boot tracks were painted leading from each side of the public square to his worked to perfection, for everybody seemed curious enough to follow the tracks to their destination. “I walked the floor all night with the toothache,” said he; to which his unfeeling listener replied: “You didn’t expect to walk the ceiling with it, did you?"

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—At Wabash, Pat McCoy, a laborer in the trenches of the water company, was fatally injured by the discharge of a heavy blast of Hercules powder. The charge had failed to ignite, and McCoy was instructed to wet it and ewab it out. Instead of obeying he began drilling it with an iron bar, and it suddenly let go. McCoy was almost blown out of the trench; his face, neck, and breast were horribly lacerated; his right arm wus shattered, and the fingers of both hands were torn off. His breast and neck are literally filled with fragments of limestone. The physicians say he cannot live. McCoy is a married man and resides at Pbrn. —Patents have been issued for Indianions as fellows: James W. Cole, GreSncastle, multiple snbsidary ground terminal for lightning rods: Joshna J. Collins, assignor to himself, J,, S. Collins, and W. D. S. Eogers, Knox, clothes wringer; Andrew J. and G. W. Forsythe, Kokomo, wirefence machine; Charles Gibson, Monnt Vernon, fence; Samuel M. Jackson. Logansport, machine for bundling wall paper; Jesse B. and O. B. Johnson, Indianapolis, baling press; Jacob V. I'owfett, Richmond, roller skate; Francis M. Fribbey, New Albany, combined table and cot; Peter Wahl, North Vernon, razor. —Some five weeks ago W. W. Costanc9r was put off of a Vandalia freight train by the conductor because he did not have a ticket. Costaneer claimed that he could not buy a ticket, because there was uo person in the ticket office, and the conductor refused the money he offered as fare to Darlington. Suit was brought at Darlington, and judgment for S2OO was obtained by default. It is understood that the railway company will appeal the case, while on the other side they declare that a locomotive will be chained to' the track if necessary to secure the judgment. —Prof. E. T. Cox, formerly State Geologist, and now of New York, furnishes some interesting information relative to the geological formation of Indiana, and the probable sources of natural gas. He does not accept the porous-rock theory. As oil and gas are both found in Trenton rock, which is not porous, he holds that it must exist in large cavities or systems of fissures, furnishing a much greater capacity for storage than the pores of any rock conld. It would follow from this, then, that to find gas in any large quantity one of these cavities must be tapped. —Mr. and Mrs. William Kissing, living a few miles from Elkhart, have begnn proceedings against some of their neighbors, whom they charge with endeavoring to blow up their house with dynamite. Some one exploded a dynamite bomb so close to the Kissing house that the building was badly wrecked, the window-panes shattered, Mr. and Mrs. Kissing thrown from their bed, and a young daughter frightened so that she was attacked by convulsions. —B. Wilson Smith, of Tippecanoe County; John W. Study, of Rush; John B. Cravens, of Jefferson, and Daniel McDonald, of Marshall, have been appointed by the Governor as honorary Commissioners from Indiana at the Centennial celebration of the settlement of the Northwestern Territory at Marietta. O. W. W. Woollen, of Indianapoliß, and R. M. Lockhart will serve as Commissioners to the exposition to be held at Colnmbns, 0., next year. —Elmer Betts, of Portland, while returning from church one night recently, began firing at a scare-crow in a fence corner. Three shots were fired, the last striking Willie Sassar, a companion of Betts, and killing him. Yonng Betts surrendered to the Sheriff. Coroner Kinsey and Prosecutor Adair held an inquest. After examining witnesses the Coroner was satisfied the shooting was accidental, and rendered a verdict to that effect. The State Board of Printing has declined to allow a requisition of the State Agricnltnral Board which includes the report of the Horticultural Society. The statute provides that the Horticultural Society shall have 500 copies printed. In this case the State Board of Agriculture's report contains 5,000 reports of the Horticultural Society, which does not comport with the lawn —’-The Secretary of State has received from the contractor for State printing the first installment of printed copies oil the laws passed by the Legislature. They will be sent out to the proper officers immediately. The book has but seventy-seven pages, including the eleven used for an. index. , —Mrs. Tbos. Bramlett, living near Little Flatrock, south of Rushville, was feeling badly, and went to Milroy to consult Dr. Biley. She was taken with spasms soon after h9r arrival, and died in a very short time. The case is a very peculiar one. —The 4-year-old daughter of Charles Hucklemeyer, of Fort Wayne, stnmbled and fell head foremost into a tab of hot water. She was rescued in an unconscious condition. She suffered the most intense agony, until death came to her relief. —Washington Township, Pike County, has voted $10,500 in aid of the Vincennes and Ohio Railroad. This township, after a lengthy litigation, has jnst paid the last of a like appropriation voted to the Evansville and Indinnapolis road. —A large force of men have been set at work in building the New Albany and Eastern Railroad westward from Watson. One of the bridges on this line, with its approaching trestles, will be 1,080 feet in length. —Mrs. Thomas Maloney, at Barr Oak, a few miles east of Elkhart.COffiffiltted suicide by throwing herself to frostof a pASsenger train daring a spell of temporary aberration. Her head and one arm were severed. ~~ —John Wildrich, while bending over a roll of carpet which he was catting, at Indianapolis, accidentally allowed the knife to gRp towards him, and it strnok him in the right eye, wrhich was entirely cat bat. —Bythe buxstiogjjfajointer in Ramba Brothers’ Heating Mill, at Anderson, William Ford, aged 20, was so horribly mangled that he died. Ed Markle, a fel-low-workman, was badly wounded. —There seems to be a general complaint on the part of farmers in Washington County againßt the law forbidding stock to ran at large.