St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 September 1891 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. A Convenient Home—How Fertility is Wasted—How to Build a Horse Stall and Manger—The Poultry Yard—Hints on Horticultural, Household, Etc. Agricultural Education.

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presses truths worthy the attention of all would-be instructors, especially those paid to educate “in agriculture and me-, chanie arts:” “The farmer must be made by thor- * ongh farm work. I believe I might be able to give you a fair account of a beanplant and of the manner and condition of its growth, but if I were to try to raise a crop of beans your club would probably laugh consumedly at the result. Nevertheless, I beliefe that you practical people would be all the better for the scientific knowledge which does not enable me to grow beans. It would keep you from attempting hopeless experiments, and would enable you to take advantage ot the ianumorable hints which Dame Nature gives to people who live in direct contact with things. And this leads me to the general principle which I think applies to all technanieal teaching of school-boys and school-girls, and that is that they should be led from the observation of the commonest tacts to general scientific truths. “If I were called upon to frame a course of elementary instruction preparatory to agriculture, I am not sure that I should attempt chemistry, or

botany, or physiology, or geology, as such. It is a method fraught with danger of spending too much time and attention on abstractions and theories, ©n words and notions, instead of things. The history of a bean, of a grain of wheat, of a turnip, of a sheep, of a pig, or of a cow, properly treated —with the introduction of the elements of chemistry, physiology and so on as they come in—would give all the elementary science which is needed for the comprehension of the processes of agriculture in a form easily assimilated by the youthful mind, which loathes anything in the shape of long words and abstract notions; ."nd* small blame to it.” A Convenient -fomo. This is what I consider a model of convenience for a farmer’s residence, and One can make it as beautiful as the Kneans at hand will admit The dimensions can suit the builder. In this plan the room marked A is 22x24 feet, and is jlf "fUMK IT yJttflTTVi G k A e j y ,1] conservatory, 11, II porches, I bathroom, K closet. There could be a small closet under the front staircase, and if a conservatory is not wanted that space can be used for a porch. The pantry has doors to open into the dining-room with drawers underneath to put all table linen in. The second floor has four large chambers. C, C. C, C. H, 11, IL n are closets, E hall, S store room. B balcony. A large closet could be made at the end ■of hall where dotted line is.— Mrs. B”. & Churchill in Farm and Home. How Fertility Is Wasted. When I see the water in ravines discolored from the drainage from the corrals which border them, 1 believe somebody is paying dearly for his improvidence and laziness. There may have been some excuse for first settlers locating their feeding yards ih sheltered places along the streams, but this practice ought to have been abandoned by farmers long ago. Os course such yards are cleared of manure free of expense to the owners, but this incurs a great loss which many do not count. The corrals should be removed from the rapines and placed on high ground. In this way all drainage from them will be of direct benefit to the land. If such places are necessarily bleak, shelter should be erected. If unable to build barns and substantial 1 statfles, put up walls and temporary i ' shelters. Keep your stock confined to * the yards and stables as much as possi- i c blc, and bed them well with straw or > 1 refuse from the hay stacks. Permit no prairie hay to remain in the field because useless for feeding. Haul it into the yard to increase the size and value of the manure heap. My experience as a farmer tells mo that manure made and kept under shelter is worth double that made in the open yard, exposed to drenching rains, which takes away its most valuable elements.— T. B. in Farm and Home. LIVE STOCK. High Breed, But Worthless. \ The country is full of horses with ; pedigrees, well bred and deeply bred in j trotting lines that for all practical uses I for which the horse was intended are j worthless; and it is this class of animals that causes the uneasiness in regard to > prices which manifests itself every little while. And so long as breeders generally centinue this line of breeding the good ones will never deprecate in value, but steadily grow higher. It is an admitted fact that no one knows how to breed a great trotter every time, and it is the truth of this great fact that causes proper selection to stand out more prominenty and demand more attention; the failures to accomplish the object sought to be attained will be numerous enough with all the attention, study and thought thaX one can possibly give to the subject.— Wallace's Monthly.

Horse Stall and Manger. A horse, says Reuben Moore, in the Practical Farmer, should stand on a level floor, with his head down on his hay and feed when eating. Length of manger should be the entire width of stall, about four feet and a half, and two feet in width, which is sufficient to hold a ration of hay, and afford room for the feed box in one corner. The bottom of manger should be fifteen inches from the stall floor, its height to top of manger from floor three feet, four inches. hr 1 • h ( jll si s L , An opc ling (E) twenty inches wide and of height of stall Is sufficient for the horse to put his head in manger to eat. Board up on each side of this so he cannot shove hay out of manger upder his feet. A represents stall, four feet six inches wide; B, manger, of same length, two feet wide; C, feed box, in right bottom corner of manger; D, space under manger, fifteen inches high; E. space in front of horse, twenty inches wide, entire height of stall, for horse to put his head in manger to eat; F, ring to tie horse to; G, slide door through which to put hay and grain in manger; 11, room in froptof manger to store the temporary supply of hay and grain. I have used this kind and proportion of stall for years, and can recommend it, All styles of mangers, or ra<ks compelling the horse to pull out the hay, involve more or less stirring up of dust and arc objectionable on that account Knlsing Fine Horses. Raising good horses for the farm or the road is a business which will be likely to pay the careful and persevering breeder. But the raising of horses for the track is one of the most unprofitable lines of business in which a farmer can engage, lie has neither the capital, the facilities, nor the experience and skill requisite for its successful

XROF. HUXLEY, while disavowing, in a letter to a society of English farmers, the possession of any practical knowll edge on his part of the details of crop production, points out that ■y certain general 1 principles pertain to all technical training, first of which is that “practice must be learned by practice,” Elucidating this axiom, he ex-

management. It is true that there have been 3 a very few fast horses bred on ordinary farms, but the instances are extremely rare, and even in those cases tho breeders have usually sold the animals before their value was discovered, or else they have paid so much for training and caring for them that but very little profit was left. We would not discourage our farmers from trying to raise good serviceable horses. There is a good field here for careful and intelligent men, But we believe that the ordinary farmer has a good deal better chance of being struck by lightning than he lias of raising a Sunol or a Maud S. — American Dairyman. THE DAIRY. Feed for a Purpose. The last lecture delivered by tho late F. D. Curtis, of Kirby Homestead, was at the dairy meeting at Cuba, N. Y. The subject was “Foods.” In this he said: If you feed a cow on straw sho will bo nothing but vitalized straw, if a calf is fed only whey, a whey calf will be the result, and as whey at its best (sweet) has but little value, the milk sugar and what butter fat—which is of not much TtlSwed tb escape, or which MMtiTff not prevent, in the whey, being all there is of it the calf will be a poor affair. If a pig is fed only cornmeal, a cornmeal pig, all fat, with neither blood, muscle nor bone, will be the result. Study the nature of foods, feed for a purpose and know beforehand what that purpose is.

Packing Hutter. A New York subscriber asks bow to pack butter so it will keep till winter. Very much depends on the quality of the butter when packed, how free from buttermilk, etc. Well-made butter packed solid in new, sweet jars or tubs and kept : at a cool, even temperature should keep I , till winter. If a person has not cold | . storage, a cool spring may be substi- i tuted. We have known butter kept in . this way till winter. If the jars are not filled quite full and brine is put over the butter it will be better. We have recently seen it suggested that it would pay those who cannot avail themselves of cold storage to pack butter from the churn, while in small grains, ir strong , brine and in the winter time take it out, i churn in buttermilk and work as though ; fresh churned. EThis may be a good plan, yet we be- ! lieve as with all other farm products it ; Days nine times out of ten to sell butter when ready for the market—when fresh made.— Farm, Field and Stockman. THE POULTRY YARD. Duck Keeping. I shall endeavor to make it clear that > ducks, when properly managed, are a source of profit, and even when kept in ' very confined places. With only an 1 available space of from eight to ten square yards, a pen of ducks can be kept with less trouble, cleaner and healthier than a pen of fowls. There are very many who start keep- ■ ing ducks that soon give them up , through some fault in the system of j management, and having failed to keep ( them in a satisfactory manner, they con- ] demn tliem and say they are dirty crea- . tures, big eaters, cannot be kept healthy j in confined places, are unprofitable, 1 , etc., all of which is wholly without foun- I dation. j ( As regards cleanliness, there is not ' any creature that takes more time and < care in cleaning itself. The duck will 1 . preen and dress its feathers by tho hour ! , together; therefore, if it has the means j it will keep itself clean. They will live , and thrive upon coarser and less costly I • food than fowls, and yield a greater weight of eggs. Scraps, potato parings . and other waste from the food supply of ' most houses is usually thrown into the ( j dustbin; this cooked and mixed with , I middlings (the dressings from wheaten , I flour) will generally be found to bo sufli- | dent food for a pen of ducks. Still they i should have some corn each day. | When keeping Aylesbury, Pekin, or ' > common farmyard ducks. I have always i । had more than eighty eggs from each during ihe season, averaging in weight two and one quarter ounces. Some! j people object to the flavor of the eggs, which depends very much upon where ’ the ducks arc kept and the kind of food supplied to them. The eggs simnliod with clean water, sweet and whe ome 1 food, and kept on a smooth hard floor which is kept clean, are entirely differ- : ent from those from ducks that seek for food in muddy ponds and foul ditches. Though my own ducks aro kept in ’ rather close confinement, I have never < lost one, old or young through disease; :

and consequently their state of healt । has never been a cause of anxiety but » pleasure to contemplate. — W. Vale w* Feathered World. Where the Eggs Come From. Now York city consumes between 2,000,00 P and 3,000,000 eggs daily. A produce dealer who handles more eggs than any other concern in the country, according to Colman’s Hural World, says that if the whole surface of the State of New York were covered with hens they could not lay enough eggs to supply New York city. Os course N :w York State yields many eggs, but the larger cities of the interior, like Albany, Troy and Syracuse, use most of the eggs the Now York farmers produce. The same is the case with thong Island. The local residents consume the home supply. Now Jersey does not produce as many eggs as its citzens consume at homo. Half a dozen Western States supply the bulk of all the eggs which are consumed in New York city. Indiana sends the largest number. Next in the list are Ohio, Michigan and lowa. It is estimated that Indiana is the largest egg-producing State in the country. Illinois hens produce many eggs, but they nearly all go to the Chicago market. Heretofore Canada has shipped into the United States hundreds of carloads of eggs. For the last three or four years Canada has annually shipped about §2,000,000 worth of eggs to this market. The present duty of foreign eggs promises a practical prohibition against imports. Previous to the change in the tariff considerable Importations of eggs were made from Europe, commencing three or four ’ years ago. These eggs were gathered principally in Southern Germany and Italy, and preserved. The dealers say that pickled eggs, while not good for poaching or boiling, because the shells are brittle, yet are useful for many other purposes. —Farm, Field and Stockman. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Contrivance for Gathering Apple*. Take a ten foot polo; attach a wire ring with loop for breaking off the apples, and a bag for catching the apples. The wire ring should be largo enough to

II 4 J admit a largo apple. The loop should be three inches long, and one inch wide. This picker can be used where you cannot reach with your hand.— Practical Farmer. The Tea t’atch. In hot weather the pea vines turn yellow. This cheeks growth, checks the j filling of the pods, and soon the whole plant is down. All this is caused by in- : sufficient covering of the roots. Hoe up 1 on each side the row. Keep the plants 1 off the ground (if of the low bush sorts), 1 | and new flovwrs, new pods and new life I will Respond. The pea plant is extremely * susceptible to heat, drouth and neglect. > and if well nursed, will keep on till you 1 get tired of peas. When that time comes, 1 can the rest. The late crop Is the best 1 for this purpose. The "ook boo** t mi Hu w U<MMmuiur«l Hint*. 5 There is now a purple-leaved variety t of the common catalpa. , Too much manure on blackberries will r induce too much wood. i । Le Delarme Is one of the finest grapes I for quality, out is not so profitable as . I some others. Gardening Illustrated advises paraffine J oil as a fruit tree cleanser, especially I trees infested with insects. > ' It Is claimed that with proper cultivation and an equal acreage Twxas would 1 i exceed California in the production of ■ • superior fruits. i ! The sulphite of iron has proven in [ some cases to be a fair tonic for planU . ! with weak flower stems. Weak solutions । I should bo given at first. When red rust appears upon raspber- ■ ries or blackberries the canes should at ■ once bo carefully cut away and burned. ; Would you have an extraordinary development of fine foliage in cannas, eala- i diums, castor-oil beans, eulalias, reeds, ailanthus, pawlonia. etc? Then rely on ! an abundance of manure in the soil and ! j abundant summer watering. Thecondi- ! j tions provided and it is very easy to j ' make a grand success with this class of . plants. Try it. THE HOUSEHOLD. took After lour Sleep. Insomnia is rightfully regarded as one of the marks of an overwrought or ; worried nervous system, and, conversely we may take it that sound sleep, lasting j for a reasonable period—say from six to i ■ nine hours in the case of adults—is a [ fair test of nervous competence. Varii ous accidental causes may temporarily interfere with sleep in the healthy; but still the rule holds good, and a normal brain reveals its condition by obedience ■to this daily rythmic variation. Custom can do much to contract one’s natural term of sleep, a fact of which w e are constantly reminded in those days of j high pressure; but the process is too j artificial to be employed. Laborious ' days, with scanty intervals of rest, | go far to secure all the needful con- ' ditions of insomnia. In alloting hours I : of sleep, it is impossible to adopt any maxim or uniform custom, i I The due allowance varies with the indi- ! | vidual. Age, constitution, sex, fatigue, i 1 exercise, each *as its share of influence’ I j Toung persons and hard workers naturally need and should have more sleep I I than those who neither grow nor labor. ' M omen have by common consent been i assigned a longer period of rest than ; men, and this arrangement, in the event j of their doing hard work, is i i strict ac- i cordance with their general physical ! construction and recurrent infirmities. Absoluse rule there ts none, and it is of i little moment to fix an exact average ■ allowance, provided the recurrence of ; sleep be regular and its amount sufli- j cient for the needs of a given person. So 1 that fatigue does not result in such nerve prostration and irritability as render healthy rest impossible.— London Lancet. Hints for the Housewife. Pieces of licorice laid around where 1 ants run is recommended. Meringues should be put on puddings i after they are slightly cool, as, if the pudding be hot, the egg will liquefy. In cooking vegetables, always remember that boiling water evaporates rapidly on the approach of a storm or when it is raining.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL; THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. Interesting', and Instructive and Whore It May Be found—A ••mod and Concise Review at' the i, .. Christ and the Blind Man. hra^l« le ^° n ,w Sunda y sept- may ho founiin John 9: 1-11 an d 35: 28. ■ INTRODUCTORY. . 1 P°°^°f Siloam is still to bo seen to1 J’ i\ stan d’ng witness to tho events ot “ lstor y- In our Lord's time, as intiLnii > Josephus, ihe waters were abuu- ,' sweet > and it was a place of large , ,T tanco as connected with the temple 4 M° ro the water was procured which the priests poured forth at the feast of tabernatles. The word Siloam itself moans senior emitted, having r terence to theoutlet ot the waters, the pouring forth. The suggestion of the derivation hero may well give us pause. Is it an intimation of the fountain for sin and uncleanness? Know

we, then, that tho blood of Jesus Christ is onr enduring Siloam. “Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?” WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. As Jesus. More accurately, as he. I. e., JesuA The account follows close upon tho nnuW'"-—' when Jesus p-G^mtroversy with tho Jews tn j,.—.. —Passed by. In TischonUort the irufl® by Os the preceding chapter Is out, tho chapter ending with the worus/Went out of the temple. The form used here is ,the present participle^ passing by.' Ho saw. To observe with attention. Master Hebrew, RabbL Who did sin? On6_pf the mooted questions of the day. Pee the book of Job. That he was born blind. Tho Jewish opinion was that every Infirmity has a moral cause. Sinned. Christ reproves such sweeping judgments. Made manifest. Openly dethired and proven. He introduces anew philosophy of affliction. See expository notes. I must work. Tlschendorf. Wo must work the works of him that sent us. As if associating the disciples with him: perhaps also those to whom he spoke. The night ! cometh. More expressive tn tho more literal I Bible Union: “Night is coming.” No 'man. The Bible Union Is again to bo preferred here: None. Soo Variations. , As long as. Or simply when. (Otan.) ' The light of the world. Or a light. The definite article is omitted. Greek: When ' In the world I am. a light am I of the ' world. Christ’s earthly sojourn a time of

special privileges. On the ground. A single adverb tn tho s Greek: groundward. With the clay, j ■ Christ's use of means. Go wash. Christ’s use of human cxer- ' tion. In the p»»ol. Greek, into. By tho ' ; Greek Idiom Illustrating the action neces- < | sary In bathing by tho very preposition. । Ihe word jmm»l is from the verb t > dive or 1 swim, suggesting some d?pth. Tho coin- < j ment ot Smith's Bible IMctionary. undirthe ( caption “Siloam,” reads very strangely here: “The laird sent the blind man to wash; not In. as our version has it. tint at ; j (els), tho pool of Siloam: for t was tlm clay from his eyes that was to be washed : oft.” Tills Is exejests backwards, I. e.. from I one's preconceptions. * ; That h 1 was blind. Tlschendorf. That he was a beggar. Sat and liogged. AeI cording to the cu»t< m of the times. Some said. Literally, others said. Tho same expression as follows. Seo V arlatlon*. But he said. Putting an end to all dispute The account Is graphic. They said. Here as In tho verso before Imperfect tense, of frequentative use. Kept saying, or went to saying. How? Tho Greek form 1» fuller. How then? They are utterly at a loss. A man. Greek, the nian. He had doubt•?ss heard of him before. ,ThjjJbUAr-ul-t y could not have but ^W*el of hint——| Tv ~,^4 j rec .ived/slght. Two words 1 __ 1 ■ reek —t l “ v .d-* died. I saw again. A tesfTHlwTty of simple otHsilonco and Its results. Cast him out. 1. e., from tbs synag igtio. Excommunicato 1 Thus put under a s 'dal j as well as an ecclesiastical ban.——When jhe had found him. Participle, having I found film. The Implication Is that Jesus i went to seek him.— Son of God. Tischendorf. Son of man. 3 hey would be under- ' stood alike. Who Is fie? Intnaiuced by a kaL And who Is he? V Illi the -v. sc of then or therefore, as in Bible Union. (Varlnti ns That I might believe. Greek, may. Implying closer contingency. laird, I believe. Greek: I believe, Lord. do reverence. WHAT THE I.EsSOS SATS. And us Jo us pass-rl by lie saw. Tho world has been fi r a long time passing by the need at tho wayside. When Jesus passes by he see’, and now the p<s r have the gospel preached unto them and for the’ । bmken-h arted there is healing and a i friend. Ah me, how long that blind man lay there by the wayside without any one seeing hltnl Centuries ,t neglect. Plato i saw hint. Yes to kill him. No man blind i from his birth in Plato’s republic. Lok i about yott to-day In our Christian com- ■ monwealths. What say the aims houses, • the hospitals, the blind asylums? This-— and as Jesus passed by he saw. O, it was a happy day in the history of a needy I world when Jesus of Nazareth passed by.

That thg works of God should le i made manifest. This affliction, grief, loss i of mine need not be regarded as a punish- ; ment for sin, though often 1 know my own unwisdom or wilfullness has brought it on. But this I may be sure of it—it may be : an ccession for the display of heaven’s ' goodness and grace. Possibly it is in healing, certainly In helping. There Is no i earthly ill which may not be made the gateway to heavenly blessing. Right there »t my point of weakness, the works of God | made manifest Well then, let us glory in I tribulation also. Only let them work out patience, experience, hore. What are these but the works of God made manifest? The night cometh, when no man can work. Even Christ, who might well be j Called the author of time, counted the nio- , inents, and well might I. What a lesson of ' economy in hours and minutes that life of Q^rist. He let no slightest portion cf the i Jays of his earth pilgrimage go to waste. ^Jie very seconds were precious. Rest .Imes were often turned to work times, and sight to day. Let me be very careful of «#hat the Author of my being holds so clioiee and valual le. Look at the lives being wasted all about. How it must startle ihe angels of God, how it must grieve the heart of Christ himself! Lord, “so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Came seeing. It is the movement of faith. Grace is something in motion. The blessed of God always come seeing: that is, as they come they see. Y’ou and 1 have often observed this in the inquiry room or the house of prayer. We have talked with tills anxious one. We have prayed. “Do you not see?” we say. “No, alas, he does not see. “Well, then, come without seeing.” And as he comes, 10, ho sees. And you see, too, for it is written in his face. There goes the blind man, guided only by faith, taking a step in tho dark. No, it is into the light, for behold ho tomes seeing. So come they all, tho happy train, who look to him. “This Is the generation of those that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob.” Lord, I believe. And he worshiped. Verily. How could it be otherwise? For belief is worship, and worship is belief. Perhaps this man has already before this prostrated himself. Doubtless he has often prayed his formal prayer, possibly more than formal. But now at last worship, worship In spirit and in truth, for with all his heart he believes. Oto have more such worship! Oto hear souls, it may be, just now touched with a deep sense of need, saying in simple heart-surrender, “Lord, I believe!” That is the kind of homage, within or without the visible church, that sets all the bells of heaven a-ringing and । Makes joy among the angels. j

THE WAY THINGS RUN J IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, OHIO. Things XVh’ch Have Lately Happened Within Its Borders—Some Pleasant and Some Sad Reading. Insurance Associations. Attorney General Watson has rendered , an official opinion which will attract much attention in insurance circles I throughout the country. The opinion is given in response to a request front in- , surance Commissioner Kinder, who had'; submitted the following question to the : Attorney General: “Information comes to me that certain fire insurance associations of this State, organized under the provisions of Section 3686, are and have teen receiving as members citizens of other States, and issuing certificates or policies covering policies located outside the State of Ohio. Advise me whether a tire associa-

tion organized under the laws of this State may lawfully include in its membership citizens ot other States, or issue policies or certificates covering property located beyond the limits of this State.” The Attorney General states that a mutual fire association organized under Section 3686 cannot lawfully include in its membership citizens of other States, nor can such associations lawfully issue certificates or policies covering property outside of Ohio. The Attorney General's opinion apI lies to associations and not to companies. ; I Minor State Items. , ' —Tiffin is overun with crooks and foot- ! pads. ’ —Oscar Shoemaker had a severe fall, at Leonardsburg, which broke his arm. i —The new Odd Fellows Hall, at Inde- , pendence was dedicated with imposing

ceremonies. I - —Miss Lulu Bunn, of Mt. Vernon, was ’ struck by the family horse when it was rearing and sustained severe injuries ( ■ about the head. —Christian Roll, a young farmer re- I siding south of Canton, was thrown from I a carriage and had his skull fractured, causing paralysis. His recovery is doubtful. —At Zanesville, Miss Sarah Johnson, aged 63, d'cd from the effects of burns received from the explosion of a lighted lamp, which she dropped while walking across her room. — Profs. Allesway and Bulla, of the N' ongstewn Public Schools, have returned from Ellsworth Township, in the western part of Mahoning County, where they found nearly a thousand specimens of tine crystals imbedded in a large vein of blue clay -all noticeable for their purity A cabinet of the specimens will : be sent to the World's Fair. —llenry Harvey, Financial Secretary ■ T^A^nesville Typographical Union, has disappeared th® ’ nion s moncy^jnij ijq ;ruee of him can DO uiscovered. It is said that lie spent a considerable portion of the funds for a new outfit o! wearing apparel before his departure. The police are endeavoring to kwate him. — 11. \V. Thompson, of Sidney, has the oldest coin in Shelby County, or perhaps in the country. It ante-dates the Christian era. it was found in the Holy Land, and by numismatists its origin has been traced and recorded. It is known as the silver penny. On its obverse side is impressed the head of Minerva, and on the reverse is a chariot drawn by four horses. —The original proposition to convey to the State the lands upon which the State House is now located and a site for the Penitentiary has been discovered among some old papers stored in the ! State House. The document is dated January 13, 1813. The proposition was made by Lyne Starling, John Kerr, A. ! M. McLaughlin, and James Johnson. ! The parties were all residents of Franklin County with the exception of Kerr, who was a citizen of Ross County. —Charles E. Thorner, S. IL Ellis, and I R. 11. Warder, the Board of Control of the Ohio Experiment Station, met the Commissioners of Wayne County, at

, j Wooster, and formally accepted a prop- * osition for locating the farm in that [ ; County. The proposition provides for । the raising of §85,000 by taxation, to be J expended in buying not less than 40C acres ot land for the Station and for the : improvement of said land if the voters ’ shall vote in favor of tho proposition. > The farm shall be permanently located ! in the County. A special election will be held October 6. It is believed that the proposition will have an almost ■ unanimous vote. , —A terrible railroad accident, which caused the death of two persons, occurred ’ at Chardon. The north-bound express , on the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad, I while rounding the curve at what is known as Chamberlain’s Crossing, dashed > into a carriage containing Alanson Knox ■ and his daughter. The carriage was en- . : tirely demolished and the occupants hurled fifty feet into the air. Knox was ' i instantly killed and his daughter lived but a few minutes. It was indeed a ; sickening sight. Knox's head had been । I completely crushed from his shoulders, while his daughter’s chest was crushed, I and from her head, mouth, and ears oozed brains and blood. —James Cochran, an aged and promi- ; j nent citizen of Manchester, dropped I dead from heart disease while sitting in ' his chair reading. —Andrew Syabudes, a Hungarian, and an employe of the Mingo Junction i steel plant at Steubenville, was run over । by the midnight Cleveland and Pitts- ! : i burgh train, and so badly injured that : i he will die. His skull was crushed and ' i | right leg cut off. Uis family liye in j' i Mingo. He has been in this country a I | year. j ।

HERE'S ALL THE NEWS TO EE FOUND IN THE STATE OF OHIO. Cvlng a Detailed Account of the Numerous Crimes, Casualties, Fires, Suicides. Heaths, Etc., Etc. —Bert Merriman committed suicide at 1 Kenton. —The Tiffin police force has been en;irclv reconstructed. ■ —James Cromley, of Gallepolis, was found dead in an alley. A mystery. i —Fred Welsh, an old man living near • Millersburg, committed suicide by taking : oaris green. ■ —At Alliance, William Boss attempted 1:o kill David Pearson, who married his iivorced wife. —Lulu, the S-year-old daughter of Mr.

ind Mrs. Charles D. Rottermann, of Day:on, who was burned so badly last week while building bonfires in the street, has since died. —While surreptitiously riding on a freight train on the Big Four Railway. »t Tiffin, Willie, the 7-year-old son of William Glass, a prominent plasterer lost his hold and fell beneath the wheels osing his right arm and both legs at the thigh. He cannot survive. —Win. 11. Sims, aged 67, for many years a respected citizen ot Canton, died suddenly from apoplexy. He was stepping into a grocery store when he was stricken, and within two hours afterward lie was dead. His wife, who is visiting

in Colorado, was telegraphed the sad news. —Probably the smallest coffin ever made in Cincinnati was that constructed by Hackman & Dodt, undertakers, for the corpse of the youngest child of Mrs. O. Springer. The infant was a freak of nature, being only eight inches long and weighing one pound at its birth, but perfectly develpped. It lived six days. —Carlton C. Lee, aged 24 years, the son of Jas. W. Lee, a well-known insurmce man of Cleveland, was accidentally killed at his father's residence, while handling a revolver. The weapon was .iischarged, the bullet, of 44-caliber, passng entirely through his head. The young man's brother was in the room at ;he time. —Quite a disastrous wreck occurred jn the Lake Shore road at. Milbury. I'wo freight trains collided. Engines No. 513 and 517 were badly damaged. Twelve hundred bushels of wheat were scattered along the track. One engineer was asleep at the time of the accident. He had had five hours’ sleep during the past week. —What will likely prove a fatal acciient occurred near Bowersville. Henry Sparks was entertaining his brother-in-law, ( aleb Ferguson, and the two were looking at a revolver in the hands of Ferguson when the weapon went off and the bullet entered Sparks left breast, lust above me umm, „ .___ iangerous wound, from which the victim will likely die. —The Board of Penitentiary Managers has paroled the following prisoners. John Richard, received from Athens County, June 2, 1890, nine years, attempted burglary. James Beckett, Lawrence County, June 7, 1890, two years, forgery. Austin Wolfe. Darke County, June 301890,tw0 years, larceny. Thomas Couman, Summit County, June 11, IS9O, jne year, manslaughter. —At Wapakoneta, while John McLaughlin, was walking on the railroad track, he was struck by a bacKing locomotive, and thrown under the wheels. Both his legs were cut off, and he was horribly mangled about the head. He lived but a few minutes. From his brother, who was with him but a short time before the accident, it was learned that they had been visiting an uncle at Port Jefferson and were on their way home to Newark. McLaughlin had been drinking freely, and was intoxicated at the time he met his death. —State Canal Commissioner Rownd has discovered a tract of land near Sidney, in Shelby County, which belongs to the State. The records show’ the land was purchased by the State jn 1846 for 5575. In 1853 the State sold the land and when the purchaser went to take posession he found a squatter occupying the land. He reported the matter to the Borrd of Public Works, and that body returned the money. Since then the squatter has been in peaceable possession. Suit will be instituted to recover the land. The tract contains , eighty acres and is valued at §4O per acre. —George A. Lemmon, President of the Zanesville Trades Council, is behind the bars, charged with shooting with intent to kill. At the Trades Council meeting, when President Lemmon entered the room he observed William F. Mair, the delegate from the Carpenters’ Union. He at once began to abuse Mair, calling him a scab, etc., and finally declared that he would not sit at a meeting at which Mair was present, and started to go down stairs, calling on Mair to come out. Mair and other members went to the head of the stairs, when Lemmon turned and shot at him with a revolver, the ball going wide of the mark. Lemmon was somewhat under the influence : of liquor. —About one week ago Mrs. Jacob Haverland, living south of Canton, ran a rusty nail through her foot. Lockjaw anti blood poisoning resulted, and the other morning she died. —Dan Yerger, of Harrison, a brakeman on the Big Four Road, while going north on a local freight,fell from the cars, the entire train passing over him. His right side was horribly crushed. He was taken to Brookville and his right leg and arm were amputated. He lies in. a critical condition.