St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 September 1891 — Page 7

Home and the farm, A DEPARTMENT MAD UP FOR OUR RURAL ; RIENDS. About Being Practical—A Cart for Driving Posts—Some Dive Stock Don’ts— How to Make a Cheap Milk Tester—Pointers Concerning Poultry—House hold and Kitchen. Farms and Farmers. IT &N Y farmers a bs/I have a great deal Jr W/ jy! to say about ad±®X vice being pracZi- . coZ. Call their

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the general average of farmers are among the most practical men in the world. On the contrary, wo believe, measured by good business standards, that no calling furnishes marc unpractical men than farming. Practical means doing things in the best manner and according to the best profit. To be “practical” calls for the putting in practice of sound theories and the use of the most intelligent methods. Is the practice of our Western farmers in wasting the fertility of the soil or in the breeding of their farm animals ! really and squarely practical? Take the dainy farmers of any State in ] the North. Can we believe that the ; majority of them are governed by sound I practical ideas concerning cows when the average yield of milk per cow is only 3,000 pounds a year? If a man is really practical will he not set to work in dead earnest to milk and feed a practical cow? Can men be called practical who have kept a herd of twenty or forty cows for years and yet have never taken pains to know by a simple test which cows were not paying their keep? Would a practical manufacturer allow himself to remain in very expensive ignorance for years concerning some machine, and never show energy sufficient to test it to see if it is not running him in debt? Think of a dairy farmer who pretends to do business for profit; who sneers at the agricultural papers because they are not practical, going along year after year with half the cows in his heard absolutely not paying for the food they eat at market prices. Men who talk so much about other men being practical should first establish clear, well defined standards of what is practical. The fact is, what is practical with one man may not be with another. Every man gives to himself or to others, according to the size of his measure. Intelligent men put into practice intelligent methods, and they make money by them. Such methods would not be practical for men who don’t understand their business well enough to execute them. But the fault is not in the methods but in the men. The method may be highly practical but the farmer unabie, either for lack of means or comprehension, to put in practice. A good definition of the word practical is | that which conduces to profit. If a ' course of action proves unprofitable I through any fault of ours, then it is not ' practical. Except it may be once in a ■ great while, we learn from it our own ’ deficiences. It is well to remember that! It is never “practical” to measure modern | agriculture by obsolete ideas. The farms of to-day carry more or less I machinery. As a rule it is rather poorly | cared for. A good farmer who has a good idea about machinery carries with him constantly a strong advantage over his more eareless neighbor. One of the most frequent difficulties in the working of power machinery is the accumulation of dirt and gum in the bearings and journals,, caused by the use of fat oils, fcr lubrication and infrequent cleaning.

The American Engineer gives the following directions for cleaning which are worth remembering: “For each 1,000 parts by weight of water, take about ten or fifteen parts by weight of caustic soda or 100 parts ordinary soda. Let the solution boil and enter the parts to be cleansed; either boil them in this lye or let them steep in it for ^ome time. All the dirt and resin is completely dissolved thereby, and it remains only to rinse and dry the parts. The action of the lye is such that it enters into combination with the oil and forms soap, which is readily soluble in water. In order to prevent the hardening of the lubricant on the machinery parts, it is only necessary to add about one-third kerosene. An occasional lubrication with kerosene alone is to be recommended.”— lnter-Ocean. A Driving Cart. Those who have used a wagon to drive posts in and have found it inconvenient should carefully examine the post driving cart which is shown. Take a common low wheel cart and remove the sides and ends and and on the floor that is left, build a stout chest on which yon can ; stand and drive posts, which are held ’ i erect by two steel arms that are firmly secured to the side of the cart. These 1 arms are constructed as shown in A. ! Hinge a door to the rear end of the chest,

as yon will desire to carry your ax, space, sledge, wire, stretcher and hammer with •you. On the side of the chest nail a small box of two compartments, one for nails and two for staples. On the side of ; the cart can be carried a few boards and posts. Os course this only for repairing, I and if a man repairs twice a year it will not take long and but few posts and boards Will have to be taken along. But if the fence is old and wants much repairing load your wagon with posts and boards and string them out where wanted, letting your man follow with the cart. Then the team can be taken to the house and put to work. By so doing a man and a team is gained, for with this cart one man can do as much and de it as well as two men with a team with a load of material.—3l. LaF. Raney, in Farm and Home. < *

THE DAIRY. Tho Hulton Milk Tester. > xi new milk testing machine has oeen invented be Prof. J. R. Hutton, formerly chemist at the Storis, Conn., Experiment Station. It is not patented, is extremely ■ simple and can be constructed by any r one who has a little mechanical genius. । We have seen it work and know that it । will do all that is claimed for it. It costs but a dollar or two to make it and

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attention to something in an agricultural journal I which, may be, | you think is of I real value, and ’ often they will turn up their noses at it and sa y “It isn’t practical.” I n conscience of so much use being made of this word one would naturk ally think that

I The method requires a pipette to measure the milk, graduated tubes to measure the fat, amyl alcohol, concentrated sulphuric acid, and a machine to whirl the tubes. One form of cheap and simple is shown in the cut. This consists of two parts, the whirler T for holding the tubes, and the wheel A to drive it. The whirler has one or more cross-pieces, twelve inches long, centered on the upper end of the upright shaft O. The tubes are hold in blocks, which are I fastened to the ends of the cross-pieces by strap-hinges. The blocks are three I and one-half inches long, made from 2x4 | inch scantlings, with three holes, one , inch in diameter, and three inches deep, bored in the end of ear Tho operation of tes ng is a?s follows: (1) Add amyl alcohol .o a tube of a depth of nearly one-fourth inch. (2) Add one pipette measure of milk, after stirring it thoroughly to get a fair sample. To fill the pipette, suck up until the milk enters the mouth, press the tongue over the hole, and deliver the contents into the tube blowing out the last drop. Add- sufficient concentrated o Lk (J A’ srk ■ mj I I )l J sulphuric acid to dissolve all the casein. This usually reqifires enough to fill the tube up to the lowest mark, but since both the size of the tubes anil strength of the acid varies, the correct amount is best learned by observation. /After adding the acid hold a small cork firmly in the mouth of the tube, quickly invert, then shake vigorously until the curd is 1 dissolved, and the contents become a hot brown solution. Then nearly mi the I with weak acid, made from equal parts |of water and strong acid. Place tho i tubes in the whirler, and turn rapidly i for about half a minute, or until all the | | fat appears in the neck of the tubes as a I I clear yellow oil. Read tho per cent, of ‘ i fat in each by taking the reading oppo- I - site the bottom of the fat from that next । above the curved line at the top. Empty ’ the tubes while hot, and rinse with clean I’water. I Cream is tested in a simiir way, using a I a smaller sample. Add two pipette I measures of water to one of the cream, I and take one of the mixture for the test. Multiply the reading by three for the per cent of fat in the sample. Abetter way is to use a smaller pipette for cream, delivering 4.5 grams. The time required to make a test is about two minutes, and ’ I?he cost varies from one-half to one-fitth

lof a cent according to the cost of the chemicals. One-half pound of alcohol and five pounds of acid are sufficient tor 100 tests. — Farm and Home. LIVE STOCK. Branding Cattle. The Clarendon (Tex.) News gives the science of branding in the following ex-1 position: The object of branding is to | produce another and different crop of i hair where the irons touch, which may ' be clearly distinguished from the other ! hair about it. This is effectually done by burning the outer cuticle of the skin. To burn deep does not improve the brand in the least. Tho iron should be heated to a dark cherry red and quickly applied. When the burn is almost instantaneous, giving but an instantaneous sting, when the pain ceases, as has been a thousand times proven be the actual cautery to the human subject. 11 a half heated iron is held to the skin a long time it cooks through the skin and makes an ugly sorej which subsequently gives the animal great pain. It is true that there is a good deal of this sort of inhuman branding done. It is inhuman and injurious to tho hide of the animal for purposcs of leather. It is also true that a burn on the outer cuticle will ultimately show through the entire thickness of the ' skin, owing to the changes that take place in the skin in consequence of

cicatrix on the surface. Leather is tougher, firmer, and more durable where brands have .been applied than where they have. not. The only drawback is, that it will not finish smoothly over the brands. In other words, the more a side of leather has been properly branded the better it is for wear. t M hen to Breed. It is going the rounds in our exchanges that a sow should be bred as often as she will breed, to attain the best success, saying that a sow will couple in three to five days after farrowing, and that she should be bred at this time, reasoning that if allowed to run too long without I being bred she will, by laying on too I much fat, injure her breeding qualities. We don’t know by whom this doctrine was started, but certainly by seme one short in that commodity known as experience. Aso w bred at this time cannot suckle her pigs more than six weeks, and it is very doubtful if she should for this length of time without detriment to herself and coming litter. Any one knows that an average farmer cannot succeed well with pigs weaned at six weeks old. Men of experience also know that a sow must have a period of rest between litters. or else she will soon fail. A sow

may bring two or three litters of paying numbers bred in this way, but afterwards, unless rested, she is liable to become an utter failure. —Jf. in Stockman. A Few Don’ts. Don’t breed that old broken-down mare. It won’t pay, but will be an injury to the breeding industry. Don’t expect an old worn-out horse to do as much work as a young ana sound animal. Don’t use heavy harness. Light ones properly made of good leather are stronger and last longer, while bein o easier on the horse. Don’t overload the team. It is better to make two trips than to strain the horses or get them in tho habit of balking. Don’t feed corn or corn meal to the horses during tho hot weather. Corn is too heating. Don’t spare tho oats. Tho well-fed horse stands up under constant work when the underfed falters. Don’t imagine that when you water your horses three times a day you have done all that nature demands. Don’t let tho horses eattoo much green grass. A little while in the pastures after a day’s work will do. them good, but too much green food will work injury and cause tho horses to sweat easily at work. Don’t run down your neighbor’s horses. Praise them when you can, and when you can not, say nothing. Don’t think beca use your neighbor has bought a stallion that he has been necessarily cheated and has bought a failure. Give tho Horse a c-Hntieo to show t>y His progeny what he is. Don’t let the stallion stand idle in th barn. Make him work, for it will adu to his potency and help pay for his food. Don’t forget that a box stall is much better than a narrow one for the horses, especially when they have worked hard all day. You like a wide bed, so does a horse. — National Stockman. THE POULTRY-YARD. Yon Can’t Do It. You can’t keep chickens in health without grit.You can’t make eggs from feed that produces fat. You cant make a hen sit until she ' wants to. You can’t keep fowls thrifty without I green food of some kind. You can’t make profit with a crowded j yard. You can’t succeed without hard work. | You can’t build up a trade without I capital. • You can’t keep fowls in good condition that are literally covered with lice. You can’t put brains into an incubator and bvpoder. You can’t have a good growth by inbceeding. You can’t get any satisfaction out of a lazy hen. You can’t make a living out of one branch of poultry alone. Y’ou can’t be a successful fancier unjtil you have become well versed in poultry culture. You can’t afford a big expense in this business; the less help you have the better. You can’t speculate on the markets. Prices change with the whirlwind. You can’t become practical by books alone; you must combine experience with them. Kemeily lor Chicken Lice. A reader asks for a remedy lor lice on ' little chicks. I’owdcr belli Hens and j chicks thoroughly with either Persian insect powder (Bubach) or carbolic acid i powder; use for the purpose one of the I little bellows that is sold with tho powI der. Hot lime whitewashing three times I | a year of all poultry houses and appliances, while the dusting-boxes, nest-ing-places, etc., are well sprinkled with i hot lime water in which has been dissolved carbolic acid, a wine glassful to the gallon, will effectually destroy and keep the places free from these pests. A dust bath in which has been mixed some sulphur will also prove beneficial. THE HOUSEHOLD. Laundry Work. One of the most troublesome things, especially for the woman who boards, if to find a laundress who will do her work properly. Fine undergarments do not require to be rubbed heavW . They are best rubbed through the hands, rather than on the board. It is exceedingly difficult to get the ordinary laundress to understand bow to wash such garments. The unskilled hand may tear holes in the sheer lawn and ruin the garment in the | first washing. Above all things the । laundress should be cautioned against I the use of starch in all garments except ; a petticoat. Some laundresses have a fatal fancy for the use of starch in all kinds of underwear. Never allow a laundress to wring garments by hand. The wringer does the work with less j wear and tear than any hand-wringing. Where silk underwear is worn, it should be washed quickly and rapidly, with some kind of white soap, in warm water, thoroughly rinsed, wrung as dry as possible, and pressed out before it is thoroughly dry. Flannels should I I be washed in exactly the same way, except that care should be taken to keep the water at the same temperature as the room.— Good Hoi^ekccptng. THE APIARY. JReew Hiving Themselves. Whoever has kept bees has counted as chief among the difficulties in the business that of making them take to their new homes naturally. After most persistent efforts and often pain from bee stings the swarm will often fly away to some hollow tree and be lost. A New York man is said to have invented aselfhiver. When the swarm leaves the hive it is arranged so that it must pass through perforated zinc cages, with holes large enough to pass the workers but not the queen or drones. The cage is connected with a passage to an empty hive near the one from which the swarm issues, and into which the queen bee soon makes her way, accompanied by a few workers who never leave Her. When the swarm finds it has no queen it returns and makes its way readily into tho now hive, and the job is done, while the first knowledge the bee keeper has of the swarm is seeing it at work in its new home. The self-hiver can be easily attached to different hives in succession as they are found to be on the eve of swarming. — Practical Farmer. Pickled Barberries. — Soak nice large bunqhes of barberries in salt and water for a few’ hours. Remove from the water and pour scalding vinegar over them. Spice the vinegar if you prefer. These are ornamental for salad garnishing. They may be kept for some time in the brine, and then freshened when used.

will do as accurate and much more rapid work than any of the testers put on the market and sold for §l2 to §2O. The principle of the method is this —A definite amount of milk is treated with \ amyl alcohol and sulphuric acid, and than subjected to rapid centrifugal motion to force tho . fat into the neck of the tube, where the per cent, of fat is measured from the graduations.

THE SUNday SCHOOL, i eEmouß ^^^— A Scholarly Exposition r.r . Thoughts WohS WessonHalf an HoJ., I, f ? Keflection—Timo Woll Sp ont . * Scri P turM ChristG^Tshephera. found in John Uh uig^’ Sept * 20 - ma W ba It is “the i sheep herd? Long enough they have sought pasturage at tho will of hirelings en - ,0 to see them come, called by this lesson, to the shepherd himself! May ?h I? y Catch v * s '°n and voice | after the plaintive song of the South land, as: “De Massa oh de sheepfold, Dat guards de sheepfold bln. Goes down froo de gloomerln’ meadow Where de long night rain begin;' Goes down froo de glimmerin’ rainpaf ”h*re de sleet fa’s piercin’ thin, rtn- > down de bars ob de sheepfold, niii > to*’’ ‘Come in, come in,’ Gallin sot', ‘Come in, come In.’” Bhb lessox says. Introducing an extraorit. Unto you. Jesus Is he Jews nt Jerusalem. gate Sheepfold. First noted enclosure. Cllmbb means simply to go up, dysis is from this same rom the verb to deceive, i the verb, to plunder. Better, a shepherd, i. e., t of a shepherd. The word shepherd is associated with the verb, to feed. To him. Greek, to this one. Porter or gateman. Same root as door, above in v. 1. ■ Calleth, the word implies a loud or sonorous call. It. is the same as the word voice In the line above. His own. Greek, all his own. Before them. A strong word, in front of them. Know his voice. Better, his call, the same word used twice in the verse before (‘'voice,” “calleth”). A stranger. One who is other, such the simple significance of the Greek. Not the voice. Again call would graphically convey the sense; same word as in vs. 3 and 4 above. i Parable. Rather, proverb, a saying. Literally, by-word, from a comp >und of by and the way. This is not tho word parabola, usually rendered parable. Spake unto. Or talked, as If so accustomed to । address them. Then. Better, therefore. See Variations. Door of tho sheep. In the sense of for the sheep, 1. e., belonging to them. All that ever. Ever, is omitted in the Revision and Bible Union. But some such distributive seems to be Implied in the Greek osol, all, as many as Before me. Omitted in Tischendorf. It is, after all, not needed. Hear. In the sense of heed, but the same word used throughout t his narrative. Tho sheep tiro picturesquely sketched as feeding on without listening to tho false call. Even so. Better, and. Tho Revision follows the Greek here in connecting this directly with the verse before: “Mine know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father.” Triple knowledge Ilk the triple unity of John, 17:21, which ,ee. Lay down. Same word translated giveth in v. 11, but why not rendered by the same word In the English? Not of the fold. He was speaking to the Jews. Bring. Or conduct. Margin, lead, 1. e., with shepherd care and guidance. And one shepherd. Better with and omitted. See Variations. This may simply refer to tho breaking down of the “wall of partition” between Jews and Gentiles, Eph. 2:14. the lesson teaches. n .?’” r thof ’'{.'u,” -H? Rotter stllli they his call. \<>u Huv u t.ri»a it yourselLWrrbaps. at the farm. Your voice rang ouj^Blte lustily and you threw all the persuasflm possible Into your t ines, but tho sheep au« horses grazed right on unmlnd1 ful of your summons. Then the good farmer himself lifted his vole?, and at tbo first cry every head was up and presently the animals were all about you, rubbing their necks against you. The secret, this: they knew the call of the master. And so . does the world. lam tho door of the sheep. There is a door for the sheep—let them know it, a door | especially fitted and fashioned for them. s Have they been trying other ways? It has been a vain, troublous and tiresome effort. Philosophy is not a door; neither is culture. I I‘rlde falls to find entrance, self-trust is deceitful, work-righteousness discovers no entering place. But to the meek and lowly a door opens wide right in front of them, and over it is written. “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I ; will give you rest.” Weary, worried sheep, there is a door expiessly for you, aud it is this moment wide open. Enter. Go in and out. In the original it is, go in and go out, and it is well to mark the emphasis. It is Dr. A. J. Gordon, is it not, who notes here the freedom that belongs to the people of God, freedom of exit as well as of entrance, freedom to labor as well as to rest? For what Is our fold but a tarrying place where we may gather strength for each day’s duties in the service of souis? This is our liberty of the sheepfold, a liberty, indeed, of the Spirit, since it goes about to do the Spirit’s work. Learn, in Christ’s name, to go out as well as to go in. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. For this, O Lord, thou art come; thou art already come; thou art already here. Then I have not far to go for salvation. The wide space betwixt sin and holiness, betwixt weakness and strength, betwixt ignorance and wisdom has keen crossed by thee. Mine is but a step. Nay, child, “it is only that you look and live.” lam come, sweet words. Then let me just rest in thee, blessed Shepherd and the work is done. No, not fully, “still there’s more to follow.” For It is not life only, but abundant life that I am to have, life that overflows so that there is enough for me and for my neighbor too: yes, twelve baskets full aftet I have had sufficient. Is it for this thatfthOU comcst to me, my Master? Then let<& bo satisfied with nothing less. Come, Lc^p^esus, even so, coma! I^ay down my life tor the sheep. We shd|^ the strength of our enlistment in any ■ ent<yprise by what we invest in it. Hero । is one who invests, lays down, his life. We I pro' our devotion to our friends by what ■ we cast into the scale of friendship. Here | is one who places his life at the disposal of those who are his. Surely the shepherd loves the sheep. There can be no doubt of that. The only question ; Do the sheep love the shepherd? or, rather. Are they so near to him as to learn his love? “Oh, dearly, dearly has he loved, And we must love him, too; And trust in his redeeming blood. And try his works to do.” Next Lesson.—Quarterly Review. Missions or Temperance. Temperance Lesson: Drov. 4: 13-19. Tol<l Ina Few Words. The husk of Indian corn is being used for the manufactuie of paper. Woodsville, N. 11.. expects to send out §1.000,000 of whetstones during the Present year. A swordfish that weighed 880 pounds, was caught last week by George Wakefield, keeper of the Cape Porpoise (Me.) light. It is said that there are more salmon in the Merrimac River now then there have been at any time for the last forty years

BY POST AND WIRES COMES THIS BATCH OF INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Throughout the State Fires. Accltlouts. Crimes. Suicides. Ktc. —The Salvation Army has decamped from Valparaiso. —Katie Lacey attempted suicide at Muncie by drinking a bottle of camphor. | —Mrs. Harriet Burt, of South Bend, ' an old resident of the county is dead, after a long illness. M. C. Culver, of Muncie, had a horse 1 and buggy stolen from a hitching rack 1 near the public square. —A Crawfordsville fire-engine horse 1 was badly burned by a tire that started in tho engine-house barns. —A free kindergarten for children under six years has been opened by charitable women of New Albany. —A snake fifteen feet long and as big around as a stove pipe is almost scaring the life out of people near Bluffton. —J. 11. Leed and George Phillips wore driving across tho Lake Erie track near Lafayette, and wore killed by a train. —An explosion at the Huntington lime kiln blew Jacob Bowvis’s shin off and otherwise injured him. He will recover. —Frederick Green died suddenly on his farm near New Albany. Ho was one of the best-known farmers in the township. —Frederick Reitmeyer, aged 19, while painting a tin roof, at Lafayette, fell tc the ground, breaking his neck, causing instant death. ' —Edwin A. Davis, Crawfordsville, had §llO in money, §l,lOO in certificates and ^BOO in notes stolen from his pants pocket the other night. —S* phen Bassett, of Scott County, is suing his son-in-law, William Shearer, j for §I,BOO, which was given to tho young ' man’s wife before she died. —The Hamlin oil well, just drilled in at Portland, is good for 200 barrels a ( day. The Standard Oil Company is lay- 1 i ing its pipes to the Jay County field. —Madison County farmers have de- ‘ cided to do away with tho old toll system j of grinding wheat, and will hereafter 1 pay five cents a bushel to tho miller. —Juror John R. Mcßride, of Jefferson- * ville, after retiring in the hotel, arose in his sleep and walked out of a secondstory window, lie was not seriously injured. —Alexander Porter, 93 years old, died : at his residence, three miles southwest oi ' Greensburg. He was, perhaps, the old- ■ est man in the county, and one of the pioneers. —Fire destroyed tho north sheds of the basket factory at Peru. They were filled with baskets awaiting shipment, j The loss will reach §1,200; no insurance. It was the work of tramps. —Bedford citizens are excited over the appearance of a detective in that place, i who is making a search for the body of a. Swe<i., sni.i to Have been murdered there in March, and his body hid in a —Frank Linn, a fireman, butwhoxvas making an extra run on the Monon as a brakeman, was struck on the head by a I bridge, near Gosport, knocked insensible and lay on the top of the car for some , time before being discovered. —At his home, four miles west of Co--1 lumbus, Dudley Johns, a prosperous farmer, aged 40 years, dropped dead from I I heart disease. About two years ago his ; father, John Johns, while on his way to Columbus, fell dead in his Wagon. —The Montgomery County Board of ■ Education has adopted a new rule in regard to the purchasing of appliances | for the school-room. Before it is possi- • : blc for any article to be sold the agent ' must meet tne Board and have favorable ' action taken by it. —Charles 11. Copeland, a young teacher ' 1 in the county schools at Martinsville, has been employed by the United States Fish ■ Commissioner to seine the rivers and creeks in that vicinity and ascertain the I number of species of fish found and । classify them. Mr. Copeland seined White River and caught twenty different ’ species. —Young Bros., of LaPorte, have an 1 eighty-dollar bill of Revolutionary times. ! On one side of the bill is the following: “Eighty dollars. The bearer is entitled to receive eighty Spanish milled dollars, or an equal sum of gold or silver, accoraing to a resolution of Congress of the 14th of January, 1779. Levi Bud.” The reverse side of the bill has a picture of a tobacco leaf, and the words “eighty dollars” across the top. At the bottom i is “Printed by Hall & Sellers, 1779.” —A singular death occurred at La [ Porto. diaries Andrew, a Swede, was I found in an out-building in a supposed i intoxicated condition. Having no home ' । he was taken to the jail to sober up. j During the night he asked for water, | and appeared all right, but next morn- ; ing he was found dead in his cell. An i investigation by the Coroner showed that : he had died from a cut by a piece ol glass which had pierced his lungs. He had fallen on the glass while setting a pane for a business house during the day previous. He never complained of bis injury or informed any one, and what was taken for intoxication was exhaustior from interna] hemorrhage. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have ' already been shipped to Northern points. —As the west-bound fast train on the Wabash thundered through Burrow’s Station, a lad about twelve years of age jumped off the train. He was instantly killed. There was nothing on his person by which to identify him. He is thought । to have hailed from Royal Center, Cass i County.

FROM LAKE TO RIVER. A BIG BATCH OF INTER STINO INDIANA NEWS. Freah Intel Hgenc« from Every Part of the State—Nothing of Interest to Our Headers Left Out. —The cost of conducting a term of the Circuit Court of Morgan . County is §I,OOO. —James Moody was badly injured by falling slate in the Jumbo mine at Knightsville. —The peach crop in Montgoineiy . County has not been as large for years as it is now. —A copperhead snake has been captured in Montgomery county thirtythree inches long. I —Thomas May, a prosperous farmer , of Bartholomew County, was badly injured in a runaway. —A phaeton containing Mrs. Watts , was run into by a wagon at Knightstown. She was badly hurt. j —John D. W. Epricost, once a promi- । nent attorney at Princeton, has got in a i hole. He took poison in a saloon at FL I Branch. A —Fifty colored men at Jeffersonville contributed so „ ct.ranco ■ negro, wl(o promised them work, but had 1 none for them. | —M. T. Lewman, of Jeffersonville, has ’ secured contracts to build twenty school- | houses in Mexico, at an estimated total cost of §150,000. , —Aunt Polly Flick,J Jackson Township, Orange County, is 100 years old. Several more people in the ages of 80 and 90 live in the County, —Clarence B. Harrold, of Martinsville . has a collection of relics that includes j several pieces of stone from the Roman palace ot Julius Caesar. —Mrs. R. 11. Gaines, Vincennes, has been arrested charged with causing her I child’s death. Coroner decided the child died from too many whippings. —Daniel McClure, who arrived in Win- , amac on a search for his children, left i there twenty-three years ago, found them and died at the home of one. —Cattle are suffering from a strange , disease in Park County. The tongue of । the animal swells so that it cannot eat, ! and several animals are starving to death. —At the recent meeting of old settlers, at Martinsville, Mrs. Harriet Earnest, : being the oldest native-born xvoman in attendance, was presented with a pair of , eye-glasses. j —George W. Carr, near Jeffersonville, promises to ask no questions if the ■ genentleman who abducted thirteen . yellow-legged pullets from his hennery will return the fowls. —Mr. W. Zurbrung, of Goshen, a once wealthy man, has just been taken ; to the poor-house to remain the remainder of bis life. He lost his fortune by 1 going on the bonds of designing friends. —William Mitchell, a commercial ( traveler, while intoxicated, fell from a ( high side walk at North Vernon and was found dead in the gutter the next morning, half covered with mud and । water. —Dennis Depuv, a farmer living near j Mongo, Lagrange County, fell from a ( load of clover hay, and impaled himself upon a sharp stake, which penetrated > his body fourteen inches. He was fatally injured. —William Miller, while out coon hunting near Huntington, sampled Wesley r Cole’s peaches. Cole was guarding the orchard and filled Miller’s head with birdshot. Miller has filed suit against Cole for §5,000 damages. —Andrew Fix, a poor laborer, was in- ' stantly crushed to death beneath a claybank that fell on him while working in | the Kintz brick yard near Washington, j His head was literally mashed into a jelly. Fix was a single man and was his mother's only support. —Bees took possession of the house of Mrs. Charles Logan, of Hanover, while she was making, peach jelly. Mrs. । Logan, her two children and a colored ■ servant were severely stung before the . arrival of Mr. Logan, who vanquished I the insects, and swept up half a bushel of them after the battle was over. —Miss Josephine Fleming, thel7-year-old daughter ot the late State Treasurer, William Fleming, has entered the convent of the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary’s of the Woods, near Terre Haute. She enters upon a three years’ novitiate, after which she will take the permanent vows. Miss Fleming is one of the most popular young women of Fort Wayne, and this step, which was altogether a surprise to her friends, has created a sensation. She is the possessor of an independent fortune. । —The death of Rev. Dr. Soule near Chicago the other day calls to mind the fact that he wrote the words, “Go West, Young Man,” as the headline of an edij.torial in the Terre Haute Express, which j editorial, being copied and commented on by Horace Greeley, gave rise to the imp ession that the New York editor was the author of the expression. Mr. Soule was in conversation with Col. R. ; W. Thompson, since Secretary of the Navy under Hayes, when the Colonel suggested to the editor to urge young men of ambition and pluck to go West and gain fame and fortune. —Miss Ethel Tansel, a young girl of । Mitchellsville, was knocked down and । trampled upon by a horse until the flesh of her body was beaten to a pulp. One arm was broken and he’-skull fractured. —D. M. Oliver, of Alphoretta, Milton County, Georgia, would be glad to learn the address of either of the following comrades who served in Company B. of the One-hundred-and-forty fifth Indiana Regiment: Isaiah Giger, sergeant; Thomas McGuire, corporal; privates W. W. Giger and Thomas F. Day.