Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Good Water la Important In Growing Stock—Talk Gently to Horses— Don’t Neglect the Vegetable Garden —Formula for Bordeaux Mixture. Plenty of Good Water. In the growing and feeding of stock for market, the supplying of all the fresh, pure water that the animals can drink is an important item. Not only Is it necessary for the stock to have all the water they want, says N. J. S.. in the Nebraska Farmer, but they should have it when they want it, and in addition, it must be pure and fresh. To compel animals of any kind to drink impure water is to greatly Increase the risks of disease, and the maintaining of good health is always an important Item in the feeding of stock economically. When it can be arranged, water from good running streams, and especially if these are fed,, by good living springs, all the better. Still, there is always risk of disease being carried from one farm to another. The better plan, whenever It, can be done, is to have a good well, with tanks arranged in the different pastures, where the stock can help themselves. With a little care the water can be kept pure and fresh, and with good tanks there can always be a full supply. No other way of watering will entirely answer. To only supply water at stated times is to compel the animals atrtimes to positively suffer for it, and this cannot but be a detriment. So far as is possible, there should be a supply kept where they can help themselves, and then* if it is pure and fresh, it will be a help in keeping the stock thrifty.

Talk Gently to Horses. Accustom your horse to a low, calm tone of voice, and use it if anything breaks, or they become frightened, and they will always be manageable. The horse that listens for loud commands Is carried away by panic. On buying a new horse get him into your habits as soon as it is possible to do so. Look to the Vegetable Garden. Do not neglect your vegetable garden. No other portion of the farm is a better-paying investment. Keep some of your luxuries for the home table. A crop of slioats will clean up the edible odds and ends of the farm to better advantage than anything else." Give them a chance. Bordeaux Mixture. The Cornell formula for Bordeaux mixture is: Copper sulphate, 6 pounds; quicklime, 4 pounds; water 40 to 50 gallons. Place the copper sulphate in a bag of coarse cloth and in. at least four gallons of water, using an earthen or wooden vessel. Shake the lime In like quantity of water, then add to the dissolved copper sulphate. Add the balance of the water. It is ready for immediate use, but will keep indefinitely. For peach foliage add an extra pound of lime. For carnation and cabbages it will adhere better If about a pound of hard soap be dissolved and added to the mixture.. The Bordeaux mixture is for use against rot, mold, mildew and all other forms of fungous disease.

Spoiling Butter After It Is Made. Dairy writers frequently caution against placing butter where it will absorb the odors or flavors from decaying vegetables. The worst thing about this is the need Qf it. Butter will absorb odors, not only from stale vegetables, but from sound ones, and they impart to the butter a flavor that destroys or overpowers the true butter flavor. A case is in mind just now. The writer was supplying butter to the former owner of this farm, and one day planned what was Intended for a pleasant surprise, so, before the cover was nailed down, some nice apples with a delicious aroma were placed in the package, separated from the butter by a cloth circle and a layer of salt. The surprise was on the other side. Word came back that the butter was flue in looks, grain and everything but flavor, that was not agreeable. Now, some butter has an unpleasant flavor that never was near a rosy apple, and there was a possibility that the cause should be sought elsewhere, but in due time came a later report saying that the butter was excellent after the surface layer had been removed. This suggests another point: Customers should have a suitable place to keep butter after they get it. If the surface is all the time exposed to the odors of vegetables and kitchen flavors unclassified, the best of butter wll soon get off flavor, and the maker will be under suspicion of furnishing butter that will uot keep.

Feeding Pigs Regularly. A pig’s digestion Is much more easily ruined than Is often thought. The ravenous appetite of a hungry pig leads to the notion that It can be trusted to eat without regard to time. But nothing Is surer than that a pig with food always before It will grow poor. Its digestive apparatus never has time to rest, and soon falls to work. There should be regular times for feeding, and these should be far enough apart to allow the pig to become hungry. A little less grain than will bo eaten should be given If the pig Is fattened. The balance can. be made up with clover pasture-ln summer and beet roots In winter. Breeding or store animals need very little grain, but can be fed all tliey will eat of roots and grass, though not even with these giving food to be trodden under foot and wasted. Sacking Meat. The smoked hams, shoulders, Jowls and sides should now be taken down aud placed in oiled paper sacks, and then hung up In a dark, cool room. If

the cellar is dry and cool, that will answer; but if it is damp and not properly ventilated, it will cause the meat to mold. A darkened room hr the house will suit admirably. Another good way is to pack the meat in whole oafs or in coarse bran. Some pack in ashes, %ut the ashes, unless very dry, are sure to give the meat a very unpleasant taste. Ashes are also usually very dirty. Whatever plan is adopted, it should be done at once, as the fly will soon blow the exposed meat, and do a great amount of damage in a short time. Examine each piece of meat as it is taken down, to see if there are any skippers. At the hock is the place to look. The paper sacks can be bad for 2 cents each from any large furnishing store, and if taken eare of, will last several years:

Belays in Transplanting:. It often happens when plants have been received that it is during a wet spell when it is impossible to get them transplanted. It would be better of course if the transplanting had been done before the rain, but if the plants or trees are heeled in and exposed to -the rain a new set of roots will form in three or four days, and the transplanting can then be done with scarcely any check. The only difficulty will' probably be too great haste to get at the work after the storm ceases. The soil should not be worked while it is sticky. Wait until the soil will crumble when it is stirred. This will keep the soil moist and will also admit air to the roots, which is quite as necessary as is moisture t<( growth. If heavy rains come after transplanting, the surface soil should-be stirred to-break the crust that will form on it.

Phosphates Exhaust the Soil, The only way in which I can see that superphosphate ctp “exhaust” the soil is by making the plants more thrifty, and more numerous, especially making winter wheat better, and hence the plants send out more roots and farther into the soil, thereby absorbing more of its natural fertility. And that is just what we want, provided we make the proper returns. Profit in Sheep. Look more to the mutton side than that of the fleece, as there is four times the profit iu mutton, sa3 - s the National Stockman. A sheep may be fed for one-seventh of the food that an ox requires, and will make a growth of nearly three-quarters of a pound a day for the 2SO days of its life. And for the next GOO will put on a half-pound per day. Don’t give up your sheep whatever you.do. Nettle Hairs of Parsnips. The nettle hairs of parsnips are irritating to animals, producing an annoying! and painful skin eruption. If parsnip tops are fed to stock, care should be taken that they are still fresh and unwilted. I _The Bean Weevil. Prof. Lintner says the bean weevil may be destroyed by placing the beans in a barrel or close room and setting a saucer of bi-sulphide of carbou on them, then shutting out all air. The gas from the bi-sulphide, being heavy, will descend and permeate the whole mass, killing all insect life. Sweet-Scented Mock Oranges. If about to obtain a mock orange for your garden, do not forget that all varieties are not sweet-scented; at least, not greatly so. The name of the oldfashioned, sweet-scented oue Is Philadelphus coronarius.

Notes. Fotato beetles will leave potatoes to attack egg plants. They seem to have greater partiality for egg plants than for anything else, though they will also feast on tomato plants if potatoes are uot up and growing. There may be overproduction in every grade of farm stock excepting draft horses, and these buyers are eagerly hunting; there is a top price for those weighing 1,800 or more; for the cities must have them, and have them now. If the tomatoes, early corn, beans and melons have been touched by frost, though not killed, take no chances, but replant without delay. Some of the plants may grow, but they will be backward. The later plants will overtake them. The best varieties of plums are very profitable, and fruit-growers are of the unanimous opinion that the curculiQ is a thing now not much to be dreaded; where plums are planted in large quantities its ravages are hardly felt It is the Isolated tree which suffers. Winter wheat is one of the hardiest of crops, and unless attacked by insects seldom fails to produce fairly well. For that reason wheat will receive attention on many farms and can be relied upon as being sure to return something in the shape of straw and grain.

Use a crowbar In setting up the Lima bean poles, and stick them down deep enough to protect them against the winds. Much carelessness Is sometimes noticed in the placing of the poles, and when a few of them fall down they cause the entire garden to appeur unsightly. Never get the idea that any old hack will do for a brood mare; she should be an animal of intelligence and a good specimen physically. Then If the same rule Is observed In selecting the sire, and the ancestors of both tire well looked to, you may pxpect a colt which will pay for the raising, but not otherwise. Currant and gooseberry bushes are often Injured by the borer. Ths egg is laid about June 1. When hatched, the young borer works Its way Into the cane and remains until the following spring, eating out the pith and causing death of cane. As soon as the leaves start the affected parts are easily discovered and Bhould be cut otat and burned at once.

SUMMIT IS REACHED.

GOTHAM EDITOR CLIMBS TO THE TOP OF MOUNt MENDACITY. A System of Jugglery with Figures That Free Traders Practice—ln venf tions Used to Deceive Casual Read-' ers-Know-It-All Writers Caught. Godkin in a Corner. The editor of the New York Evening Post Is never so-unfortunate as when he writes upon the tariff question. Mr. Godkln’s recent silence in this direction had almost led us to believe that he was beginning to comprehend the vastness of bis ignorance upon this subject. As a juggler and falsifier of figures Mr. Godkln’s ability is so well known that it hardly needs fresh confirmation, but

JUGGLING WITH FIGURES.

it is well to point out that his most recent effort to uphold the existing “tariff reform” measure was entirely devoid of the slightest semblance of fact or veracity. This Baron Munchausen of the “Tariff Reform” party says; “That under the McKinley tariff the importations of woolen goods were greater than under the present tariff. If a schedule of exportations of woolens were made up for thg corresponding periods, they would probably sliOw a contrary result—that is larger exportations now than then.” Mr. Godkin was too lazy to add together each month’s figures of our imports aud exports, but he published an imaginary half year’s imports simply by cutting in half the returns of our imports for the year ending June 30, 1592, comparing them with our imports of woolens during the six months ending Feb. 28, 1895, which latter were given at $17,353,292. Mr. Godkin conveniently forgets to tell his readers that his tariff reform rates on woolen manufactures did not take effect till Jan. 1, 1895, aud that during three months only, ending March 31, 1595, our imports of ail woolen goods reached SIG,260,500 as follows: Treasury Department values of Gorman tariff imports of woolen manufactured goods for three months, January, February and March, 1595: Carpets and carpeting $473,537 Clothing, ready made, etc.... 315,852 Cloths i... 7,400,040 Dress goods, women’s and ehildren’.s 0,793,128 Knit fabrics. 205,935 SbnwlA 69,927 Yarns 505,978 All other 496,097

Total $16,200,500 Godkin figures, six months to February 28, 1895 $17,363,292 The foregoing statistics that we give in detail are taken from the monthly reports of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, the totals for each month—January, February, and March—being added together. Godkin was too lazy to do this, blit forced a balance for half of a year that is not yet ended. Whether among his other Imaginary talents he deems himself to have been gifted by the Almighty with a foreknowledge of our trade in foreign woolen goods, or whether he has received advance information from his

REACHES THE SUMMIT.

English friends as to the extent of their exports during the coaling months, we are unable to say, but people will be inclined rather to rely upon the statistics of the Treasury Department than upon any divvy of an'idiagiunry “year’s Importation by two” that Editor Godkin is pleased to juggle. As the present tariff on woolen manufactured goods took effect only on January 1 last, therefore a proper comourlsou of its workings with the McKinley tariff can only be instituted by showing the vftlue of our Imports of foreign woolen goods during the earlier months of the McKinley tariff, Immediately subsequent to its passage, taking the same number of months directly after the passage of the Gorman tariff. These Imports we give from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1800, Immediately after the enactment of the McKinley tariff, adding thereto a line showing the value of the Imports during the first three months of the Gorman tariff, and

also appending the Godkin divvy computed from our imports of a year that has not yet ended, divided by two; Treasury Department values of McKinley tariff imports of woolen manufactured goods for three months, October, November and December, 1890: Carpets and carpeting $330,032 Clothing, ready made i 395,650 Cloths 2,248,746 Dress goods 3,708,702 Knit fabrics 127,743 Shawls 127,878 Yarns -. 159,881 All other 1,023/703 Total $8,122,335 Gorman tariff, three months’ imports, Jan. 1 to March 31, 1895 $16,2G0,500 Godkin figures, six months to Feb. 28, 1595 .$17,383,292 A comparison of the figures of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department shows that our imports of foreign woolen goods under the first three months’ operation of the Gorman tariff reached $16,260,500, as against imports worth only $8,132,335 during the first three months’ operation of the McKinley ( tariff. Under tariff reform, in three months, we have bought double the quantity of woolen goods from Editor Godkin’s foreign friends, who, no doubt, will appreciate the effort made on their behalf in the Evening Post and recognized the master juggler’s eraftiwork in his very successful efforts to reaeh the summit of Mount Mendacity.

Free Trade Results.

A very extensive view of the commercial and financial record*of English trade is given in the London Economist It appeal’s that the imports of foreign countries retained for English consumption would have shown an increase of 9.95 per cent in 1894 as compared with 1893, with the exports of English goods 3.35 per cent larger than in 1893, if allowance were made for the decline in prices last year. As a matter of fact, however, the actual values showed an increase of 0.9 per cent in imports and a decrease of 0.9 per cent in exports. 1 In 1894 these was an enlargement of the foreign trade of the United Kingdom, but at prices that Indicate stagnation. The smaller margin of profit derived from trade in 1894 showed that the average prices of that year’s imports were 7.91 per cent lower than in 1893, while the average prices of exports were 4.27 per cent lower. As the Economist says, “It meant not only more and more work for no more or even less nioney; but when prices were persistently slipping away, the value of stocks deteriorates, and losses accrue.” It would' seem, however, that there has been at least a little silver lining to this dark cloud, and that the English manufacturers did not transact such a bad business as appears upon the Burface. Owing to the lower prices, the English imports cost $150,000,000 less than they would have cost had the prices of 1893 been maintained, whereas, the loss in their exports reached only $48,000,000. In textile industries there was a gain of $46,350,000 through the lower value of raw materials imported, as against a loss of $25,000,000 in.the lower prices of yarns and fabrics sold to other countries, making their gain in this respect over $21,000,000 at the expense of the producers of the raw material and the purchasers of their manufactured goods.

Germany Feels Aggressive. So long a 3 the discriminating duty against German beet sugar imposed by the recent tariff law is maintained, Germany seems determined to interpose obstacles in the way of the importation of American products. First was the prohibition against cattle; next came restrictions on canned goods; then a commission to ascertain if American cotton could not be supplanted- by other kinds of German manufactures, and now the State Department has been notified, through its consular representative at Bremen, of a proposed change in the German customs tariff, by which the duty on cotton seed oil will be increased 250 per cent, over present rates. Among the many additions to existing duties this seems to be the most Important, and it is said to meet the wishes not only of the protectionist oil manufacturers of Germany, but of the Agrarians as well The present duty on American cotton seed oil is four marks (one dolfar), and it is to be raised to ten marks. If, however, the imported cotton seed oil is to be used for soap, it may be offici ally drugged until unlit for food, whefl it is to bo admitted at the rate of eigh-ty-five cents.—Baltimore Journal of Commerce.

Southern Coal Interests. Of the 83,100,088 tons of coal produced In the Appalachian or Atlantic seaboard coal field in 1892, practically 23,000,000 tons—to be exact, 22,008,583 tons, <n- 27% per .cent.—were from Southern mines. The value of this coal at the mines was $20,083,543. Its production gave employment to 37,837 persons an average of 240 days In the year. With the exception of farming, coal mining probably gives employment to more persons in the chief coal producing States of the South—Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama—than any other industry, and anything that interferes with the prosperity of this industry causes widespread disaster In these States, not only to the miners and those Interested, but especially to merchants, farmer, aud railroads which depend so largely for their prosperity upon coal mining. There must be no free coal.

A Tale of the Wind.

There’s a tidal wave a'comlng, Grover C., Grover C., It’s In the air a’humming, Woe for thee; Don’t you hear the voters yell? Listen to the tale they tell, That your party’s going to G rover O. ■ l .

PRAY ON A MOUNTAIN

BIG EPWORTH LEAGUE SE RVICE ABOVE THE CLOUDS. ~ —————— International Convention at Chattanooga—Sacrament Is Administered to 10,000 People—Greet the Rising Bnn with Praise from Old Lookout. s Life of Methodism Discussed. The second international convention of the Epworth League convened at Chattanooga in the big tent, capable of aeeom-

PRESIDENT PATTEN.

quent addresses of welcome were delivered by Mayor George Ochs, representing the city of Chattanooga, and Rev. J. P. McFerrin, representing the Methodism of that city. Fraternal responses were given by Bishop Hendricks of Kansas City, representing the M. E. Church South of that city; Bishop Merrill of Chicago, for the M. E. Church, and Rev. Dr. John Potts of Canada, for the Canadian delegates. Following these speeches the conference was formally turned over to Dr. Steele, chairman of the general committee. Sacrament to 10,0 O People. A.t night Bishop I. W. Joyce presided and Bishop Galloway delivered the conference sermon. A feature never before

seen in a meeting of this size occurred in the administration of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to fully 10,000 people. At 2 o’clock Friday morning 3,000 to 5.000 of the delegates ■ made a pilgrimage to the top of Lookout Mountain for the purpose of holding a sunrise prayer

meeting above the clouds, on the east brow of the mountain directly in front of Lookout Inn. When the sun appeared above the neighboring ranges its rays fell upon the faces of more than 2,500 delegates, who had congregated in front of Lookout’ Inn to begin the day with prayer. The services were led by Rev. George R. Stewart, who is associated with Sam Jones, the evangelist Following the prayer service there was a wonderful experience meeting and several of the delegates were so enthused by the fervor of the occasion that they shouted vigorously.

The topic of the day was “Methodism, Its Life and Mode of Expression.” The conference assembled at 9:30 o’clock, with

SEC’Y E. A. SCHELL.

E. Ray, of Macon, Ga. Rev. W. E. McClernan, of Berwyn, 111., delivered an address along this line, emphasizing the idea of what to read, under the head of “Educational Opportunities.” Biggest in the South. It is declared to have been the largest convention ever held in the South. It was certainly one of the most remarkable in its character as well as in the numbers in attendance. Nearly 12,000 delegates were present. And they came from every part of the country—North and South, East and West. It was an intersectional, international convention of the Methodist

young people’s organizations known as the Epworth Leagues. Whatever be thought of its religious aspects, it was a convention which strikingly signalizes the wonder-5 ful change which has come over our country since that “batetie in the clouds” on ]

Lookout Mountain thirty-two years ago. As has been well said, sectional and sectarian linos are best obliterated by the feet of those who cross them. The Epworth League is an organization, started only a few years ago, for the natural development of the religious, educational and social life of young people, and already over a million members. Tho convention at Chattanooga was for Methodists North and South'alike. From this warm-hearted and enthusiastic mingling of so many representatives from all parts of the country, North and Sqptb, as well as East and West, there is reason to expect a very considerable development of the finest sentiment of patriotic fellowship.

Told in a Few Lines.

The reform wave has reached Saratoga. Gambling and other sports will, it is said, be abolished this year. “The Official Hailway List” for 1895, with its complete roster of American railroad officials, has just been issued. A new trial of the Hullet will case at Duluth was denied and the common law wife of the millionaire will get the fortune. A posse had an encounter in the woods with the Hainy Lake bank robbers. The latter finally escaped across the Canada border. The grand jury of Charleston, S. C., has refused to indict in six of the cases laid before it for violations of the dispensary law. -i-rt Gov. Brown of Maryland has been left $250,000 by James Carroll, a cousin by marriage, who recently died at Atlantic City, N. J. After n fight of-eighteen months the customs 'officers at Callao, Peru, hare admitted .cases containing Bibles shipped jthere by the American Bible Society. The ecclesiastical party in Peril opposed the admission of the books, claiming that they were of immoral tendency. ,

modating ten thousand. The huge tent was crowded at the opening service, and an inspiring song lead by a chorus o f 1,000 Voices started the great convention. The opening remarks Were made by J. A. Patten, representing the Chattanooga . committee. E 1 o •

BISHOP MERRILL.

Judge Estes, o f Memphis, presiding. The great choir led a short service of song, after which the morning topics were taken up in tenminute speeches by the delegates. “Life iu the Local Church D u - ties” was the first subject, by Rev. W.

BISHOP FITZGERALD

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Oar neighbor*—Wedding* and Deaths—Crime*. Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Booster Happenings The apple crop, near MadiSon will be Very large. All the toll-roads In Wayne County have been made free. Citas. Fee, aged 14, was drowned in a small lake near Kokomo. : - Jacob Akbekson, a fanner near Greenfield, was found dead in ted. Accohotno to the last enumeration, Montgomery county contains 8,504 voters. Jay Hubbard, aged 17, fell from a smoke stack at Brazil, and was fatally hurt. -

Yasderruro Couxty wants to enlarge by taking Ohio Township from Warrick County. Tite old jail at Petersburg is to be remodeled and rented out for residence property. J. F. Stanley was killed by a Panhandle passenger train near Anderson.. He was blind.” Only a few fields of wheat will be cut in Hamilton County.GCrop will not average three bushels to the acre. . ■ ‘ GoTi.F.m Free fell 50 feet from a high tree near Wabash alighting on his bead and killing him instantly. Leading lumber men say that hard woods in Indiana are about all gone except oak, and that is very scarce. Ninely-sevex taxpaying farmers of St. Joseph county have formally protested against the building of a new court house. ' Colfax residents are tired of living in a city, and a petition will be circulated for the purpose of disorganizing the corporation.

A number of the recent large fires at Laporte have been traced to incendiaries, and it is believed that an effort is being made to burn the city. David S. Watson and Henry Borgman, two life convicts in the Prison Month, have become insane. They will probably be removed to (lie insane asylum. Mrs. David Goss, of Plano, Morgan county, hung herself, by tying two towels together and suspending herself from the casing above the door of her house. Ex-Auditor James C. Lavelle, of DavKTss county, serving eight years in the prison south for attempting to burn tho court house at Washington, is dying of dropsy. The Monon railroad has paid Geo. E. Miller, of Frankfort, $12,500, the amount of judgment secured by him for injuries sustained in a wreck near Indianapolis in 1890. A horse driven by Mrs. MaryHoehn, of Sellerburg, took fright while Mrs. Hoehn was on her way homeJrom Jeffersonville and ran away, thrdifing her out and probably fatally injuring her.

Ait Elwood servant girl, who is a somnambulist, got up in her sleep at 2 o’clock and prepared breakfast. Wasn’t awakened until her mistress went down stairs to see why she was ringing the breakfast bell. Frederick Smith, an employe of Barnes’ saw-mill at Knightstown, was, fatally hurt recently. While operating a cut-off saw a sliver in some manner struck him with such force as to break his skull and penetrate his head about two inches. John Newman, a mere boy, entered Miss Emma Sheppler’s home at Raleigh, and playfully snapped an old revolver. It exploded and the bullet crushed into her brain killing her almost instantly. The families of the boy and girl are almost wild over the affair. The Lane Bridge Company, of Chicago, will at once roniove from that city to Wabash, having made a deal with the Wabash Board of Trade. Wabash business men offered to take stock if the works were removed to Wabash. The offer was accepted and a new company organized. Tiie Governor lias appointed the following trustees of Purdue University, as authorized by the last General Assembly: Six year term, Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; Charles B. Stuart, Lafayette; William A. Banks, Laporte. Four year term, Charles Downing, Greenfield; James M. Barrett, Fort Wayne; Jacob 11. Van Natta, Battleground. Two year term, David E. Beem. Spencer; Sylvester Johnson. Irvington; William 11. O. Brien, Lawrenceburg. Indiana possesses shale and sandstone deposits of untold value according to Stategeologist Blatchley, who has just return ed from a thorough inspection of the ledges in the western part of the State. Sandstone of the highest quality is found in Parke, Fountain and Warren counties, he says, and the r/iale beds are near Veedersburg, Attica and Cayuga. At the latter place a factory lias been started that is turning out 35,000 pressed brick a day. By merely combining the shales any desired color is obtained. At Cayuga is another factory that turns out 30,000 brick a day. Mr. Blatchley left Assistant Hopkins tocomplete .the prospecting, but he has learned enough, he claims, to convince him that the deposits are among the state’s greatest resources.

The Governor has pardoned Peter ,1. Clark, one of the men who participated in the opera house riot at Latayette in January, 1893. Theriot was the result of religious excitement growing out of a lecture by George P. Bndolph, an ex-Catbouc priest. Clark was charged with assault and 1 latter) - with intent to kill, and was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for four years. Two other participants were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. They were pardoned sometime ago. The persons who partitioned for the pardon of Clark say he was misguid .l; that he had previously been a good citizen of Lafayette, and that he has a wife and four children dependent on him. Many of the citizens of Ts ppecanoe County signed the petition. Jons Sphixciek, a well-known resident of Connersville, while fishing, near' Alpine, became overheated and fell dead. Heart trouble contriputed toward his demise. lie was about forty years old and leaves a family. Wesley Gross, of Henryville, sleeps with his artillery in closs proximity, because of a letter, accompanied with & bundle of switches, threatening him with violence if he does not cease paying his addresses to a lady in that vicinity. Mr. Gross is an old soldier, and he has retaliated with a warning that the first White-Cap crowd molesting him will bo warmly welcomed to hospitable graves