Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — Page 2

SONG OF THE SUMMER TIME. Sing me a song of the summer time, ' Of the fire in the sorrel and ruby clover. Where the garrulous bobolinks lilt and *<a»inHV i Over and over. ilng me a song of the strawberry bent, j , Of the black cap hiding the heap of ■tones, Of the milkweed drowsy with sultry scent Where the bee drones. Sing me a song of the spring head still. Of the dcwy fern in the solitude. Of the hermit thrush and the vrhippoor- •— - Haunting the wood. Sing me a song of the gleaming scythe, j Of the scented hay in the buried wain. Of the mowers whistling bright and blythc In the sunny rain. . Sing me a song of the quince and the - = ■ | Of the apricot by the orchard wall. Where bends my love Armitagc, —— Gathering the fruit of the windfall. Shag me a song of the rustling, slow Sway of the wheat as the winds croon. Of the golden disk and the dreaming' glow Of the harvest moon. —Scribner's.

TARANTULA GULCH.

Honest John Cooler, of Walnut Creek, Yavapai County, told me a story of how Bb Jones discovered Tarantula gulch. It ia so startling that it may seem Improbable, but Honest John stands behind it and two six-shooters hang on to him. Address him at Walnut Creek for terms. “Me and Eb Jones was pards way back in ’7G. Eb wjisn’t much on coze, but he had more grit and git up and git than any pard I ever had. More’n that, he had twice the heft of him In lock. His luck was simply tremendous. We was prospectin’ together on a purty fair - layont-On-Xhe. upper Llassa vnmpa, when the grub petered out. We elected Bb to make a forage on the next station and he humped himself accordin'. “The afternoon was so hot you cud . fry beans on the bare sile in the shade and when he reached the crik the sight of the water overcome him. He shed his butes and pants and lay where the water cud tickle along his spinal column, and he was dreaming of his childhood days when he saw them pants going over the bank with two kyotes tied to ’em. He gets up smart and puts on his butes and made after them kyotes cussln’ flit to make it rain. The kyotes was onto him and put on steam, and If the durned critters had only come to some understandin' on them pants he never cud have overhauled ’em, but each of ’em had a leg of pants in his Jaw and they cudn’t swap opinions without letting out the pants. “Just as Eb was concluding to make camp for a new outfit them kyotes come to a tree and each on ’em took other side of it; consequently the pants held ’em till Eb got on deck. “If the critters had had sense enongh to pull back or to let go they might have got away, but they both wanted all the pants on their side. Then they got the idea that the tree was in the game for the pot, and they slewed •round and tried to pull up the tree and take it along with ’em But the tree held on. “Eb come up aud shook in his boots to see the fun and the kyotes was so set on getting the tree that they didn’t take no notice of him, and he laffed and laffed so that he had to let his belt out “Eb he figgers up about what he’ll do, and takin’ a piece of rope out of his pocket he took their tails, which was stiff as crowbars with rage, an’ tied ’em fast together. “When they realized what was up them kyotes give A yowl so sharp It cut a limb off the tree, and they started off so sudden that the punts fell outen their jaws aud tlieir backs went up so high that they had to roll over to straighten ’em. Then they tried to go off In different directions, but they was Jlned for keeps. Then they swung round the tree and compared notes. They must have Towed that the game was purty rich. Eb was squatting on the ground just where he’d joined the critters, lafliu’ fit to bust, when fill to onst he was swung up off the ground and carried along on 2:40 time. It nearly choked him at first and he didn’t know what to make of it Then he realized that them kyotes had turned back together and was riding him on their tails. Eh had got a grip without thinking Just as they struck him. Barrln’ some rough ground, he got along fine. “It was kinder dark when they started and purty black when they got there. Bb got there first. The kyotes was so scalrt that they didn't keep a good lookout, aud when they come to an Indian tank they didn't see it until they wen right on top of it: then they turned sadden in different directions and Kb •lid off and rolled down about twenty feet before he stopped. When be •topped he stopped all over. . “He sat up when he cud and laffed So much that lie had to loosen his beit again and take off his butes. it was the most a mooning tiling he'd struck •luce the circus come to ITosoolL "Then he flggered he'd better be gittln’ somewhar mighty quick. It was ao dark he cudn’t have seen daylight Without a candle, au’ he wandered •boat promlskus. “About midnight he hadn't got no bearings and concluded to camp soy the Bight Just as he'd done this he bod • snort like a frog with the nightman. Bb thought it was Injuns. Tbs enjy Weapon he had was a jackknife la his back pocket, but he was dead game. Be rolled himself to the edge of the bank and peered down, but cudnt aee ■matin’. Then the bank bust and Bb lighted on top of somethin' soft “It was mud! He’d got back to the Indian tank. Ho was riled enough to

chaw torri. bet It wan ao use kicking, so he atraggied up and got onto country reck again as qulqk as he cud, and candadcd he’d have no more amoosements «Osunop,” Honest John called for another drink just tbev aad I ventured to ask him bow Eh got back his pants, but he choked me off rather roughly “Whole Halifax is telling this story—you me ntl Didn't yon ever hear of dog’s pants? Then what's the matter with kyetes having pants, and only cm atvrees two of ’em? This yarn ain’t about pants anvhow: it’s about Eb Jones discovering Tarantula gulch, and that's where I’m aheading Them other things Is ex try?” Then John continued: “When Eb woke up next morning he tbongbt he was petrified He was so heavy be cuda’t lift hisself. The clay had bh onto him. “After a while he got a boost to himself and railed over; then he drew hisself up a hank for more’n two hours until he was kinder perpendikler, Dggcring to faQ hack and break hisself up! *Tt was a risky thing to throw hisself down, as he end us lief as not break his beck as well as the mud, but he was desprate and hadn’t no time to lose. P’raps if he’d thought rael hard on the snbjec' he ajlght’ve started a crack somewhere—probly in his head. “He swung hisself a little so’s to fall eves—and then let go! “He kinder rattled Inside as he touched the bottom, and was hopeful of gettia’ out; more so as he felt thar wus some seams opened long the front. He WTBBtied hard to open up, and after s while the sweat kinder moistens the day long his back and he wus able to step out like a clam from its shell. “After he'd shook hisself some, ho closed up the mud casing so that it looked, for ail creation, like a petrified human. It vrns so nat;. rally shaped that Bb felt as he onghter give it a decent plantin' for fete own sake. So he scraped oat a hole and puts it into.it, and he tekeo a smooth rock for a tomb--atome aad-wrft-OB It as foilers..gee whiz, as the Sawyers say: Wf&fa this shell of clay Dwelt Bbineser Jones! But Jones is gone away To kiader rest bis bones. “Several years after some tenderfoot uncovered that corpse and wanted to lost St ©Ter the country as a petrified Hassyampan, but when Eb knew on it be stopped their foolin'. It looked so like hisself, eves to the creases in his pants, that It seemed that they wus try in' to tote himself. He got it away from ’em, and sold it east for SSOO. “After he’d got out of his shell he kinder rested. The sun wus hot an’, he wondered what in Halifax kept his bead so cool He put his hand up and took a jump of about twenty feet, for his hair wns gone—every timber of it—an’ If a bold yet! The domed mud had friz to It an’ h had come out without bis knowing. He was some troubled about losing his hair, but it wasn't his style to ay over burnt beans, and then be figgz&ed tbat he'd save somethin’ on baircimla'an' other things. When he’d gotpver beta’ bald he took a survey of the location, an’ found that he was in a narrow gulch about half a mile long an 1 ; more or less broad. What struck Jdtt most wus some beautiful croppins, the pnrliest fee ever seen, an’ he ealkerlated to sample ’em before he struck the river an’ got hearings for somewhere*. Jest as be got movin' he hearn a whirr an’ a spat like ns if a mountain lyin wiw around, an’ he dumb up a boulder an’ waited fer the lyin. “It was a lyin, sure enough, about the size of a beifer or rayther larger. It whs hJgger'n a elephant, Eb says, but Eb whs down below Wickeberg a spell, an’ it spiled his morals. “The lyin he crouched just below the rock, with bis eyes fixed on Eh tryin’ to ebontse bim.” . ■ “Hypnotize him, you menu.” “Yes. that’s IL Well, the hipotomlsin’ didn't work worth a cent, so he stood up an’ swung bis tail till he’d got a good ready on, an' then be pulled the trigger. Eb saw him com in and stuck his toes Into the rock an’ hung head down till the cyclone passed. The lyin he swished his tail agen swishcr Ilian ever, an’ it struck age® a rock, an’ he got mad at the rock an’ tried to claw it to pieces, but It wasn't pullin' stakes for no lyin! “Then be flggered to take a flier at Eb agen, who was siltin' up laffln’ at the trick he’d played him, but he dove down agea pnrty suddiut when the cyclone come back. “This racket continued half an hour or less—Eb says six hours—an’ his toes 1 was about glvln' out, when he got a new deal.

“Jest as the erfttor was goin' to make another spring a tarantula about two feet high come out to sun hisself, an’ tfee lyin'* toil enngbt him right in the Jaw before fee end put up his hands.” “A tarantula two feet high?" “Well, It’s jes’ as easy to call it six, en* I remember seein’ one six feet high.” “For tfee Lord's sake! When?" “On a shelf. But to eontiner. “The tarantula was so mad he didn’t speak, but fee laid hisself out to get even. and he bit on to that tail so’s he conlda't fee shook off. and p’raps he cudn’t let go bis grip nohow. “Now, the lyin had been Jumpin’ so freqarat ©rer Eb’s rock that,it had become second lmter to him, and be cudn’t keep from doin’ it if he tried, so he jes’ con tin ae red to spying hackards and forards witfeoet thinkin’. while the tarantula bit and bit till the pison begun to work and the lyin begun to swell. “Eb fee Jes’ got off his i«*rch and laid oa tfee ground, kickin’ np his heels and •booths’, tin fee eadn’t do so no more. “Au' tfee lyin kep’ a swellin' an’ a ■wellin' till It was as big as a house, and finefly tt awoß a© much that It got light •Beach to float off in the air clear outer sight, with tfee tarantula still haugin’ “John.” 1 observed, “that ‘lyin’ was n

.. "It was that, my friend! If it hadn’t been for the lyln the yarn wudn’t have been interestin’, wud it?” “Well, about Tarantula gulch; have you come to it vet?” “I’m right there! “When Eb got so’s he cud walk straight he looked at them eropptn’s and found them so good that he put back to camp without stoppiu’ for any amoosements, and we made a location there that was the corner stone of Tarantula gulch. And I’ve told you now T how Eb Jones come to discover It. “Some other time I may tell you-njore about it, but jes’ now I’m tired.” “I believe you arc,” said I —Los Angeles Id.

Driftwood Jones of Astoria.

“Driftwood Jones, Astoria,” a chubby, bald-headed little man wrote on the register of a down town hotel yesterday.” ' ' “Never heard of me, 1 reckon?” he asked, as the clerk filled in the number of his room. “Oh, yes; often, sir,” declared the experienced liar behind the desk.. “You are as well known by reputation, sir, as Flotsom Brown of Eureka.” “Is that so? Well, may be you’ve heard how I got the name Driftwood?” “No, can't say that I ever did. Been floating around a good deal, I suppose.” “No, I’m not much of a floater. This is the first time I've been outside of Astoria in twenty-eight years. Well, sir, I picked up that sobriket by accident. I was running a barber shop in Astoria and,,some smart fellows thought they would play a practical ~oke on me, so they advoriisofLln. the naner that I wanted 400 men with boats. Well, it was just before the fishing season, when boats and men are plentiful and the river is running ’bout full with melted snow. About a thousand Finns, Danes,. Swedes, Greeks, Italians and Norwegians—all fishermen—fought to get iuto ray shop. I knew it wouldn’t do any good to tell them it was a joke, -for they wouldn’t see the point, anil mob me, so I got all down on the wharf back of my simp, climbed up a pile of lumber and addressed them. I reminded them of the fact they were lying idle and wanted work, and told them I would provide them with employment that would be mutually profitable. “‘Now, gentlemen,’ said I, ‘I want you to pick up driftwood on the river. You take your boats, catch all the wood you can ton' up to the beach. There yon can cut it up and I’ll sell it to the steamers and divide the profits even up with you.’ "I toid them to consider it, and blame me if about 300 of them didn’t go to work catching driftwood and giving me half. I made SSOO out of it and ever since they have called me'Driftwood Jones up there.”—San Francisco Post.

Fashion’s Commands.

It makes hut little difference whether the weather is hot or cold, whether the times are hard or easy, fashion drives roughshod along the great highway of life, and she has a great pro. cession following at her heels. The young and the old are there, and the lords of creation are as anxious to hear her mandate as the weaker sex. It is amusing to hear men laugh at women for following so closely the latest styles, when in reality a new way of tying si neclcscarf will give them as much concern as the “hang” of a skirt does the dainty little lady who wants tb look just right. We are alike; we all want to look our best and be up to date. It is a duty we owe to ourselves and our friends that we make as pleasing an appearance as possible, and we all make a desperate effort to do it, although we may not acknowledge it even to ourselves. “My tailor” and “my dressmaker” could tell tales if they chose about the vanity of the world.—Philadelphia Times.

His Patronage Unnecessary.

Prince Maximilian of Bavaria, the father of the Empress of Austria, was once traveling in the same carriage with a company promoter, who told him that his daughter was a leader of society in Vienna. “If you like,” he said, condescendingly, “I will give you a line to her, and you will meet all the best people in Vienna at her house.” “Thank you,” the prince replied, modestly, “but I am going to stay with a married daughter, and am not likely to see many people beyond Just her intimate friends.” “Perhaps I know your daughter?” said the man, interrogatively. “Perhaps,” replied the prince. “Well, what is the name of her husband?” pursued the other, unabashed; “I suppose lie has a name?” “Yes; his name is the Emperor Francis Joseph.” The financial gentleman had no more to say.

To Clean Copper and Brass.

Copper lea kettles and other house hold articles having polished Surfaces, should not be allowed to get rusty, as rust will destroy the metal. Iy the surface be rubbed but a little every day, the labor of keeping them bright will be very light. In case a rust Is formed on the surface, apply a solution of oxalic acid, which, well rubbed over tarnished «oppcr or brass will soon remove the tarnish, rendering the metal bright. The add must be washed off with water, and the surface rubbed with whiting nud soft leather. A mixture of muriatic add and alum dissolved In water, imparts a golden color to brass articles th*t arc steeped In It a few seconds. To give a liner polish, go over the surface of the tuetal with rotten stone, and sweet oil, then rub off with a piece of cotton or flannel, and pollsL with a leather. A London restaurant Is said to uh an electHcally-heated plate to keep one's food warm. There Is no danger of receiving a shock from touching the plate. /

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME, The Proper Time to Prepare the Ground for Seed—Several Good Va-rieties--Cows Pay Well for Their Keep—How to Break Mules. ' V Fall Plowing. To prepare the ground ftff thg.,seed, it should be deeply plowed mioutuiim and cross-plowed, as the land"cannot be. plowed in the spring- without exposing a large surface to the strong drying effects of the spring winds, and thus occasioning the loss from the soil by evaporation of a quantity of water proportional to the Increase of surface exposed. By the reciprocal action of the atmosphere and the soil, says the New York Tribune, the latter keeps up its store of available nutritive matters. The silicates soluble” with difficulty slowly yield alkalies, lime and magnesia in soluble forms; the sulphides are slowly converted into sulphates, and generally the- minerals of the soil are disintegrated and mixed under influence of the oxygen, the water, the carbolic acid and the nitric acid of theair. Again, the atmospheric nitre-: gen is assimilable by the soil in the; shape of ammonia, nitrates and the amide-like matters of humus. The rate of disintegration, as well as that r of nitrification, depends in part upon the chemical and physical character of the soil, and partly upon the temperature and meteorological conditions. Moreover, the soil lying in rough winter furrows has been subjected to the action of frost: ft is in its upper layers so broken up aud divided in all directions by the powerful expansion of the water when converted into ice as to he reduced to the condition of the greatest possible fineness recognized and so much desired by the farmers under the term mellowness. It lias consequently attained that degrctT of pulverization and porosity which, with an adequate degree of. moisture, affords a solid standing ground for the young plant, while at the same time enough air for the development of the germ can penetrate the surface soil, and in the upper layers nutritive material for the young plant dissolved by the moisture of winter is always present. It is, therefore, in accordance with reason not to plow the land at all in the sprihg, but to put in the seed without further preparation than a previous harrowing. The vigorous development of plants depends far less Upon the weight and size of the seed than upon the depth to which it is covered with earth, and j npon the stores of nourishment which it finds in its first period of life.

Good Varieties of Wheat. The best wheat at the Ohio Experiment Station is the variety known as Mealy. It lias given the highest average for the last tive years, and at present is one of the most promising varieties. Geneva'is another productive variety, but in former years it has seemed to be more susceptible to smut that most of the other varieties; this sort and three others were not threshed in ISOI, but were burned in the field because of the large percentage of smut found in them. The Itudy wheat has premised well the last five years, but It lias'given the lowest yield of all the Borts- in the comparative test for the past drouthy season. For good, strong ground, the Valley, Velvet Chaff, Nigger and Mealy are perhaps the best, and the Poole, Democrat, Hicks and White Chaff Fultz are better adapted j to lighter and thinner soils. Butter Pays All the Time. If we want to make our farms self- | sustaining, we must keep more cows ■ and less steers and other Stock, as the cows pay for their keep and leave a fair profit, while it costs as much to raise two steers as we can get for three if we sell to the butchers. Therefore, says B. F. Willey, in the Rural World, I should advise farmers to keep cows, , make butter and feed the milk to pigs. ! Butter always brings a fair price, with ! the least change in price, during ail !of the panic times we have had. Butter Is the'only farm product chat has uot been down to ruinous prices. Therefore, let us keep all of the good cows ; that we can get fodder for. This can be grown right at home on the farm in tlie form of grain crops, ensilage, with all of the grain, such as wheat, barley, and oats, that it is possible to raise. Then our farms will be self-sustaining. In Regard to Brcukiuc Mules. When a mule gets to be three years old he is then at the proper age to be 1 broken; but be should not be worked hard until four years old. When you take him iu hand to break him, says the Maryland Farmer, do not be rough with him; be sure to fasten him so that he does not get away, for if he tince breaks loose he does not forget it, and it renders him more difficult to manage. Mules should always be broken to a wagon with a horse or mule that has a swift walk; they may be broken to walk swift or slow, at pleasure, by accustoming them to either gait at first. Tie foil ale n ule is considered pro-” ferable to the male, being more tractable. and some say of a greater endurance. How Old May Cows Be Kept? It is not often that average cows are kept more that to their ninth or tenth year. But this is by no means the limit for keeping animals which have proven especially valuable for milk or breeding. Such cows generally receive better treatment, and If properly cared for will breed and give milk to an age twice as great as Is Recorded. A. case Is Instanced in Ductless Alice, calved Ang. 23, 1861, and which produced seventeen calves, the last when 22 years aid. Helen *Evlc was calved Nov. 26,

18GS, and produced sixteen calvesrifio J last when 19 years old. The difficulty in keeping cows much longer than their thirteenth or fourteenth year is In getting food In winter easily masticated and digested. Ensilage supplies this need, and those who have extra valuable cows may profitably keep them several years longer if they will provide ensilage for them in winter. Old cows are not worth much for beef, and with animals that are not valuable for milk it may be as well to kill them when- hut little past their prime. But we think there Ts a profit in keeping the best milkers to breeding as long as they will. The heifer calves produced after the cow beconies old have less tendency to fatten and a greater milking capacity than those they bore while themselves young and in full vigor.—Exchange. The Cream Trade. The next time you go to town see the ice cream JHan and the summer board-1 ing house keeper, says the National ( Stockman, and see if yon eannot make a deal on the cream question. A man with a separator, a good cream trade and young pigs to which to feed his 1 skim milk, is in an enviable position. I Some one has said that a farmer ought never to market anything unless he had two profits In it. For instance, he. raises hay, and has a profit in growing the liny, then let him feed the hay, and make a profit on the animal to which the hay is fed. Then, when he sells the animal so? meat, he has two I profits, one in the hay and one in the meat Now, when a man feeds I milk, he has three profits, one in the cow feed that be raises, one in the milk j that he gets from the cow, and one in the meat made from the milk that he j feeds to his pigs. And, while this is just as applicable to the. butter trade as to the sltim milk trade, yet it is a • point that should not escape observa-i tion in considering the cream question. Mending Milk Cans. Milk cans often get very hard usage on carts and railway platforms, and it is no small part of the hardships of the owners to keep them in order. Bits of dough have been used at times to stop leaks discovered when it was too late j to have a colder application to the bad place, and cases have been known where soap has been used for such a purpose. But one is prone to ask if there are not other and more cleanly and durable means available for stopping leakv and coating over the rust spots which will appear on milk cans. Beeswax would coyer the injured parts and would not injure the milk. But soldering is such an easily learned accomplishment that every dairyman •might be able to hell) himself in that way. ./ Nine Ways to Made Hc.is Lay. Warm and dry house for them t(. roost in. ~ Alongside each pen a shelter shed foi bad_weajthfiJk ' Corn should only be given on cold evenings; All grain should be buried to induce exercise. Mashes of ground grain with meat scraps for morning meal. A liberal supply of green food. Fresh water daily, or twice a day in warm weather. A constant supply of sharp grit and broken shells. Perfect cleanliness.

Remedy for Grape Rot. French horticulturists report success in keeping grapes free from rot or mold by means of the vapor of alcohol, says the Rural New Yorker. The fruit is placed in a brick room, cemented inside and closed as nearly air-tight as possible, by a common wooden door. The grapes were laid on wood shavings, and an open bottle containing alcohol placed near them. Grapes fresh from the vine were placed in tills room on Oct. 31. and were kept in good condition until Dec. 24. One thing is sure, this process i.s simple aud easy, and anyone who has an air-tight, cool place eau test it. Dwarf Lima Beans. Wo had such success with lima beans last season that we mean to grow still more of them this year. Henderson’s bush lima is good for early use. and very prolific. The tail-growing kinds produce larger beans, blit some of the beaus are so late 1 maturing that the frost gets a considerable percentage of the crop. This year we expect to try extra early seed, saved for several years from the earliest-ripened beans, and in this way hope to secure the entire yield before frost.—Fx. • i Paving Squash frem Insects. Professor Smith says: “One way to save the squash from its insect enemies is to have the ground on which the squash is planted manured evenly and in such condition that the vine cay send out suckers; have it well cultl vttted. One of our vines treated In that way yielded twenty marketable squash < os and six thnt wore fed to the cows, the best crop ever grown ou that ground ” Fnmciinc mid Talmai?Sweet, In the Eastern and Middle States, with spraying, both these apples do well, aud are fairly profitable. Talman Sweet, while not of high quality, Is a superb keeper, and there are pleuty in the New York market during February and sometimes March- Unless put in cold storage, the Fnmouse disappears in ipecember. Kind Treatment Tor Stock. Nervousness and viciousness are engendered in the 111-treated cow, and are transmitted to her offspring. The more docile the cdtv, the more are her energies likely to be devoted to the dairyman's Interests. We cannot be too watchful over Irresponsible help, who hesitate not to beat, hurvy or frighten the cows.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

.. L—gi” ■■ ■ ,i - —■■■■ A WEEK, AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. . ' i ■■ V.rtT.,.. . Vint Oar Neighbors Are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Man-tapes and Deaths Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Own People. ' His Wife in Flames. John Farr, a farmer residing four miles south 6f Sheredati, was awakened by his wife the other morning at S o’clock. He arose and went to a field to cut corn, leaving his wife lying on the bed. lie continued his work for a time, when, glancing toward the house, lie saw fire. He at once returned to the house and found ihe water closet in flames and his wife burned to deaih. When first discovered in the burning'building she was sitting on the floor with her feet straightout in front, her body and head leaning back against the seat behind her and her arms folded across her breast in an attitude of peaceful repose. Her position indicated that she must have been wholly insensible and suffered no agony from the torture of the flames. After Mr. Parr left the house she evidently went to the kictchen and lit the gas in the cook stove, as it was found burning later. It is thought’ possible that she may have accidentally fired herclothing at that time. The remains were burned beyond recognition. Minor State Items. Vermillion Ccunty now has six newspapers, ■;■■■ - V r; '7’-- • Laporto is to have a shirt factory in the hear furture. Michigan City’s new census gives a population of 13,979. -According to its city directory 'Wabash has 10,000 inhabitants. Hancock County will next year build a new Court-house at an expense of about $125,000. Frederick Royce, of Griffith., was killed by a Chicago & Erie freight train at Hurl but. . ■ - ' Eliza Smith, a colored servant girl a Alexandria, burned to death. Her clothing caught lire from a stove. FrA.nk Bennett, living near Ilclmer, who xvay terriijiy -bittrn by-tiogs vrhHe-gathcr-ing nuts, died of blood-poisoning, ’ A big gas. well has been struck eight miles north qf Farmland. It is said lobe the best well in Randolph County. Alexander James, a Connersville* letter carrier, was probaby fatally shot .by a coal thief whom lie tried to - capture/T A smart young man frightened a horse which two young boys were driving at Laporte. In the runaway the boys were seriously injured. The Chase memorial fund -has been completed. Trustee Atkinson lias received $2,165 in cash. A house in Wabash costjug $2,10) has been bought for Mrs. Chase. The demand for laborers at Alexandria by the new factoi just starting up is so far beyond the hmuydiatc supply that steps are being taken to bring several, car loads of men from Chicago and St. Louis. William Whilney, who claims his home to be at Washington C. 11., 0., was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Washington, for bigamy. One of his , wives in Daviess Cminty and the other at Washington C. H., O. Isaac Doddridge, aged! CS, years, who lives east of Milion, sold 2,600 bushels of wheat and hauled it to the mill himself. He lias »lso during lie summer built seventy-five rods of stone wall, laying every stone unassisted. - □ While out hunting, Samuel Cromwell, a farmer, liv'ng near Brazil, was attacked by a ferocious wildcat. Mr Cromwell succeeded in killing the animal, which measured three feet from the tip of the nose t.> file root of the tail. Mrs. Catherine Peters, a pioneer of Cass County, wife of Major A. B. Peters, died at her home in Logansport. Death was unexpected. Mrs. Peters fell dead from her doorstep presumably from an attack of apoplexy. She was 75 years old. A new electric road is to be constructed connecting Logansport with Rochester, Fulton county, and Burlington, Carroll County. The road will be about thirtylire miles long and will penetrate the best part of Fulton and Carroll Counties. Airs. William Van Buskirk, of Ewlood, , is one of the direct, heirs of the Edwards estate of $69,000,000 now in.course of settlement in- New York City. She is one of the direct descendants, and will receive about $850,000. Her family is poor, and » recently lost their home by fire.

Mrs. John Spencer was burned in the potter’s field at liiclunond. She, her husband and two children arrived from Ohio, c-nroute to Anderson, going overland. While starting afire, her clothing ignited, and she died from her injuries. Spencer lias disappeared, and the two children are in the llomc of the Friendless. There is the worst epidemic of hog cholera in the vicinity of North Salem ever known. ,Several farmers have lost from thirty to 250 animals. Andrew Fage, who lives just south of that place, has lost 250. Other farmers shipped their hogs before they were ready for market in order to avert complete loss. The disease seems to be extending to otlier neighborhoods and pigs are dying in every direction except to the north. The loss will foot up several thousand dollars and there is no abatement of the disease. People living in that vicinity will have to buy hogs for their winter meat from other neighborhoods. An attempt was jnade noar Cockran, Iml., to wreck the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern express. The engine struck a dynamite cartridge which had been fastened to the inner rati. Engineer Tom liigson and his fireman were badly sinned. The fireman was unfitted for work. Great damage was (lone to the engine. A steel rail was blown out of place and a hole blown in the road. Fortunately the cars did not leave the track. The motive of the attempt was evidently robbery. Several suspicious characters were seen by tho train men about the place, but no attempt at robbery was made by they thelves win a they saw that the train was skfe. Tho Trustees of the Iridiana State Soldiers’ Home, in session aPL«fayette, adopted rules for admission to the Home and appointed tiie following officers: Commandant, Capt. John P. MeGrew, of Indianapolis, late Commandant of tho South Dakota Soldiers’ Home; Adjutant, Capt. VV. F. Hovens, of Indianapolis, Assistant Adjutant General of the State. Benjamin Wilson, a rich fanner, living noar Peru, was appoached by card sharpers, one of whom showed a game of cards, and, after allowing Wilson to win on<fe, proposed that he go to the eity and get SIO,OOO to eontainue the game. Wilson dispersed the fellow s with his rCTO!TSr»