St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 August 1893 — Page 7

RS T s S A TR B RSB OS ST S HOME AND THE FARIL| . A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Successive Fertilization of Corn Produces | Large Yields—A Difference in Fa\rmers—-! Management of Orchards—Salt for Cattle i —General Farin Notes. | Salt for Cattle. ! One of the little things learned by | modern dairymen is the need of a coustant supply of salt for cows giving mi k. The old practice of go nyg ' but once a we:k and s attering sait along the roadside to be licked up by ! bellowing, crowding cattle, is known | tolec a bad one. Cows need a daily salt ration, at least they need a sup- | ply of it convenient of access every day. Milk is a highiy comyplex pro-: duct and soda is a necessary constitu- | ent of it. ‘'Phe soda of milk is ob-! tained by decomposing chloride of! soditum, which ‘scommon salt. With-' cut this soda, the miik wouid not le a flu'd. Throw a little acid into the ! milk, wh'eh will neutrali ¢ the soda | and the milk soon clabbers. The | casein of milk about which so much ! is said is insoluble in water, but the’l presence of an alkalilike sodacnables | the casein to be hold in solution. As! cows giving milk every day need fresh | sup;lies of swda for milk making, | they certainly need constant access to its csource, salt. Experiments at! pne of our Western stations have | taught that cows with daily access to salt give 10 to 14 per cent. more milk | than the same cows fed salt at| lengthy intervals. It pays tosee that the salt box is never emutyr. —Orange Judd Farmer. } Management of Orcharas. { Intelligent orchardists are generally ) ynited in the opinion that young or-! chards, for several years, should be ; aore or less subjected to mellow culti- | vation. 1t may be that the soi will | require a fe.tilizer if poor, which it qmay receive for some annual crop, as ‘corn or potatoes. As bearing commences, the soil may be sceded to: grass, il strong or rich. The subse- | quent treatment may be making into a sheep pasture, with an annual top- x dressing (in autumn) with barn ma- | nure; or before fully in bearing, or ‘while young, with an annual crop ofi buckwheat to be turned in, provided | “that the scattering of the sced is! -avoided. as this would be making | these scattered plants troublesome ! weeds another year. The amount of | fertilizing to be given to the soil may | be seen by the length of the shoots! -of the thriftness of the trees. In| some localities superphosphate is! greatly beneficial; in others it is of | no value. Frequently plowing under a clover crop, or spreading broadcast | _-a dressing of nitrate of soda, may be found useful. Soils vary, but care -and attention should not vary, con- | tinuing according to the obvious de- | - wfi%?gspf the bearing irees.— Country f ~ “Gentleman. : : A Difference in Farmers. 1 Irecollect in the rich, fertile soil : «of the upper Sacramento Valiey, in | California, where Gen. John A. Bid- | well, late Prohibitton candidate for | President, has his great farm, that he showed e several thousand acres | that was annually plowed s)hme four! or five inches deep by gang plows, | where his returns average some eigh- ! teen bushels of wheat per acre, while | adjoining his farmm on exactly the same soil a bright, intellicent woman was farming, plowing with single steel plows eight inches deep. letting the land lie failow, and then crossplowing at the same depth; her yvield was above thi.ty bushels per acre, on account of smaller fields cultivated well and more thoroughness in preparation. All this is brought to m:nd by a small portion of an old worn-o.t pasture here, about an acre and a half in extent that, having been heavily dressed with commercial fertilizers, has for years past fturnished more feed than it was po:silile for two cows tc consume; the grass ‘has always been ahead of them, while without this liberal annual application of fertilizers ten acres in adioining fields-ha: not furnished as good pasturage for two cows —Correspond--ent Hartford Courant. ! How Many Teeth. The lamb when about a month old Ppes esses eight, temporary incisor teeth—u-ually termed the ¢“milk teeth.” 'The after dentition is con.Biderably affected by the nature of the feed.ng. When the sheep are a poot keep, the center p.ir of incisors a.e ‘.shed’” at about 1 year eld and | -are rerlaced by two large and perma- ! ; nent teeth. i Wt "avout 2 years old a sec nd par of large teeth are required; at S years ¢id a third raire and: at 4 ye.rs a fourth pair. "The anim:l is then termed full-mouthed. When the sheep are liberally fed the first pai: permanent teeth are ccquired at about ten months oid, the sccond at -geighteen, the third at twenty-seven, the fourth at about thiee years. Sheep are more uvsefut in an orchard than swine and more comely. They «devour the fallen fruit more thoroughly and do not disturb the roots of the trees. Os course, the tree trunks must be protected frim the'r teeth. This is done by a sheep-dung wash, ¢r by a shield of wire netting | around each tree. Scarce pors w.ll make high-priced mutton next fall and winter. Stick to sheep, wool tariff or no woo! tariff —Farm Journal. ; I'ertilization of Corn. | The successive fertilization of corn ‘has been found useful in producing the largest yields and full ears. 'The large numbers of flowers borne by ‘ this plant on the floral stem, which is commonly called the cob, .amountinz to 400 or 500, each or -which produces a grain, makes a

S 2S S NN N RSP PO ' .-——-——_-'———_-__“'_-'————-—.a—_ large quantity of available plant food at the season when the Sced is forming, indispensable for the filling out of the ear, and this complete filling is of the greatest importance to the yield of grain. On this account it has been thougbt desirable that ' the fertilize: sbould be applied at | successive stages ol the growth ini stead of all at once when the seed is . planted. There are, undoubtedly, ‘stages of growth when the plants need additional fool, unless the soil |is 89 well supplied that the crop can take care of itself through the whole - growing seasca. These are when the - tasse s begin to appear, again when the silks are sally shown and the third when they are fading and the grain is forming. At this time the greatest draught is made on the - plant, and then at the last cultivation, when the crop is laid by, 100 - pounds of fertilizer . will help to fill oul the ears to the tips and to pro- | duce large grainz This makes the large yields so often heard of but so seldom made. One large full ear on each stalk will count up to 100 bushels to the acre, and this is the yield eve'y farmer should try for to the utmost ot his power. Ducks, The people of China are very fond of ducks, They collect a great number of cgzs and put them in boxes of warm sand, and cover them uv snuy on the kitchen hearth. The little children of the house watch day after day for the young ducklings to come popping through the shelis. DBy and Ly there will be such a crackling. and out will pop the litt'e birds; and. soon jumping out of the box, they will be making a great noise for something l to eat. A little Chinese Loy will be | ready to feced them. ke hasab gfal | of boiled rice, and they run after him | and ‘‘juack. quack?” for their dinver. | When they get a little bigeer they ace carried to a large boat, built on | purpose, wheresa flock of 300 or 100 ducks all live. Each flock has its own bird that guides themn about, just as though she were the mother of the lot. Many of these duck-boats float about on the river, and, of course, there are more ducks than you could count; but when the cifferent m isters ' blow their whistles every duck rushes back to its own Loat, and somehow - they never make a mistaike. i Lice Upon Sheep. i All kinds of parasites may be dej'%mye(l by treating the sheep with the kerosene emulsion. This may be { poured aleng the back of the sheep {b_\' parting the wool and . guiding it | down thessides by the hand m“l all { parts of the animal are reiched’ If i this be done carefully no more need !f be applied than will saturate the ' fleee and cover the skin, and waste i will be prevented. Some shepher.is tfdothc same by using buttermilk, ' which has the same result of c¢ ver- | ing the insect with a film of th> ad,hesive milk that suflocates the in- - seels. As insects breathe through ‘openings in their sides called spir|;\cie v which are very small, an oily or adhesive fluid will close these - opanings and stop the " breathine. ' lither oil or buttermilk will do this. | While sheep will thrive on almost anv kind of grass that grows on high, ' rolling land, they prefer short, sweet ' herbaze. like blue grass, and will do - best on it. | i Farm Notos, | TaE person who was never Known to make or sell anything but a fine quality of butter has no trouble in disposing of all he can make. Tinr Awmerican Creamery predicts | that in a short time it will be possible to send to the grocer,for,solidified ' milk, the same as now for condensed. Ir the tops of clover are cut off the roots will increase in bulk much more than if the tops had not been removed. It is an immutable botanical law that if the parts of a plant above the ground is severely pruned it will develop root growth. i Tgag whey, wiien used as food for swine, is. of itself, not very valuable, because the most nutritious portions of the milk have leen removed from it, buat if bran and middlings are use( ro thicken the whey the mess is one of the best that can be used. { A BRlsik rubbing down when the t horses come in at night from a hard day's work will 2id them in performing more labor the unext day. When the perspiration dries up the skin the pores become closed, and the health of the animal is endangered. The skin should be kept clean. Careful grooming is as important as food and water. | It is a good thing to know how to renovate land after it has become run | down. But far better to know how | to conserve the tertility and so avoid the stiow and laborious metheds of rcnovation. The saving ¢f manure, turning under green crovs and rotation are the means to this very desirable end. CoMMERCIAL fertilizers are excellent in their place, but it is not well to depend upon thuin wholly for keepine up the land. They are more valuable fur the garden than elsewhere, but even there should only be used asareinforcement for the animal and green manures. Save and apply these tirst, then supplement them by buying. ? How Are the Mighty Fallen! | Baroness Helene Reden, aged 79 years,was sent to the Vienna workhouse as a vagrant recently, upon | her averment that her relations would | not support her. She is the widow | of a millionaire and mother of the . Privy Counc llor, Baron Reden. Does 'it not seem as if some member of the ari~-tocracy would have come forwara ' to furnish a suitable home for this poor old lady, if only for the sake of caste. Upon the conduct of her im'mediate relations there is no com- ' ment to be made.

- — ?’“v‘:il"f‘( AT THE TAIL OFA PL@W% How the Emperor of China E ~ Agriculture. i ,;E In order to emphasize the efi; ance of the cultivation of the soil and | te encourage his subjects to follow | agricultural pursuits the Emperor of | China sometimes performs certain | rites at the “Emperor's Field,” and | goes threugh the form of plowing and | other work of the husbandma#n. One | day recently, says the N. A. U. Cable, | the Emperor set out at daybreak from | his place” with a numerous and mag- | nificent train of courtiers and others. | Before breakfast the Emveror arrived at the shrines of the deity presiding | over agriculture, and his Majesty | stopped to offer up his thanksgiving | and sacrifices. After changing his | dress the morning repast was served, | at the end of which the Emperor pro- | ceeded to the field, at the four corners | o which were erected four pavilions | whe.e the seeds ot wheat and other | cerea’'s were placed. In the center were numbers of mags.ificent attired | courtiers, each holding aloft a many. colored fiag, while on the side of the | Passage were scores of aged and white- | haired farmers, cach having in his| hand some azricultural implement. . Placing his left hand on the plowand { holding the whip in his right han ks b the Emperor legan the ceremony of [ theo casion. " By p ear anrement the oflicers did their allotted share, soma | wiclding the agricultural implements, | while others scattered seedsout of the | baskets as if sowing, while the Emperor Lusied himself with the plow, which was hitched to a richly caparisoned bullock, draped in yellow and Ile(lhy two of the Emperor's bhody- { guards. On the Emyperor finishing | his round at the plow the tH:ee | Princes were ordered to go through | the performiance. and after them nine { high courtiers had their turn, after - which the performance closed. Haytng recegved the greeting of the otticers, (t#io Emperor returned to his palace.—Pall Mall Gazette. ! A Brokem Law. (ive the bov his freedom as far as’ possible during the long summer | days. Let him fish, boat, canoe, | | swim, and tramp through the woods | on exploring trips to his heart's Con-% | tent: go with him. if possible, and | | encourage healthfu. ~xercise and ob- | { servation as much as possible, but: don't teach him to acquire, unlawful | { and inhuman tricks Upon nearly: every one of furred or feathered | things seen during June and July de. pends a family of helpless lives wiiich | may be doomed to the miseries of slow starvation by one thoughtiess shot, ! says Outing. The boy with a firearm | sees a bird and says: *“Watch me | i plug him,” and if the aim prove true! | the boy thinks he hasdone something | clever, ‘and most likely his fond | father tells him that he has so done. | i In reality he has broken a law. and: , probably sounded the doom of half & dozen wretched fledglings hidden in | ianest-near by, Mcen wili cheerTUlly | | wive up a handful of dollars for the ' privilage of drinking 1n the wondrous ! ; melody from the trained throatof a' 3 Patti and go into raptures over the ; { sweetness and the elevating inflaence | of pertect music; yet the same men g will Dblithely murder a poor little i feathered Patti, and still forever life t { and song such as no Patti ever as- | ! pirel to—in fine, destroy what the| | concentrated brains and skill of the whole world cannot replace. And for! | what puipose? Simply to p:ove that an eye cian glance along a bit of iron 0 steel truly enough to in:ure the planting o! a nugget of lead w th n| the limit of a poor, uns:uspecting | creature's body—to kill a ULeautiiul, happy bird. Let the feathered Patti| live in peace. ‘ | Se e S e B e i f Why He Didn’t Swear OfY., ' After a night's debauch and with- | out sleep a reporter for one of the local evening pape s wrote 2 three-| column description of a certain event. | { He fell asieep repeatedly while pm-fj | ducing the matter, all o it having ! | bien sent by wire from an uptown | sporting resort. 1n the afternoon he | + was called down to the office.. On | { the way he purchased a paper zmd: | read the story of the event he was| | assigned to report. He d d not recog»! | nize a line as his. He Teported—- | his super.or, counfidently e.\'pecbir'ng ' dismissal, believing that someone else { had been sent to do the work he had ! i neglected. Imagine his{eelings when | | the managing editor complimented | ) him highlv oa the work. From the,‘ time he had completed his story to the | 1 monient of receiving the summons to | appear at the office he had had an“ I hour’s sleep. In that time his entire | mental composition had undergone a | change, and every word of what he; had written had been completely ef-| faced from his memory.—New York Advertiser. Church Money. ! It is said that the people of New Zealand look down upon coppercoins| and will never use them if they cin| help It. An English clergyman who! had one day taken the place of an-i other preacher in Auckland cays that! | in the eollection of something over! | eight pounds there were 256 three-| | penny pieces and onlv four coppers. | It is so well understood that these | smaller silver coins will he used inf | church collections, that the th=ee-| ! penny pie es have received a name. ; One day a youne lady wanted some | small change from a Chinaman, who | was the family groer, and he drew ' out a handful of coppers. | ¢‘Oh, no, I don’t want that!” she | said. | ©Ah, Iree what missey wants,” E said he. ‘*‘Churchy money!l’ And | he handed over a quantity ot threel penny pieces. | MEX have various ways of deceiving | their wives. A lawyer always tells‘ his wife that he is going somewhere to take depositions,

L %gflfl%wn a Detestable Cllmate | but Great Natural Wealth. | | The recentsuggestion of ex-Senator } | Ingalls in legard to Ceporting 10, 000,000 negroes from this country to Liberia calls to mind the early foun- ! dation of that scttlement, the Black } %{nfif , as it has been called, and f it peculiatities. Lying on the west ‘«;‘ Africa the place early at- | a{._‘:itghe attention of henevolent White men in this country, who thouzht they saw in a colony there a solutionn of the negro question. There, they thought, might be sent ‘negroes who had been freed from | Sshvery and in the country of their | F;'ftsors they misht live in freedom ' and peace. As cariy as 1773 a circu--lar was sent throughout America re}%ng contributions for such a colony, but it was not until 1815 ];;%fiith’irtv-eight, negroes were actunfi;rsam from here. A society was ‘established for this work and called the Anierican Colonization Society ‘which labored ass dususly in the prosecutiontof its designs. In 1220 eighty-eight other coloerd immigrants ‘sep out under the society’s auspices with 820,000 and in a ship belongiug tolbe so iety. These people seitled i Liberia and Jehudi Ashmum, replEfiting the society, a“ted as their M- Differences, however, arose 'f' ween Ashmum and the colonists ARI in £s2s the latter secnred a con{ste!c‘rame measure otself-government, thouzh with the society rested the }ult}mate decision in all important matters. 1t is curiou: that persons who deliverately set out to colonize shculd choose a place the climate of which | 18 80 thoroughly disagreeable as that | of Liteiria. Half the vear Lheavy ’ rains prevail which are heralded and followed b¥ violent tornadoes. Dur- | ing this period a cold and unhealthy | wind frequent'y blows which destroys ‘ Ithnti()rl. proves fatal to many ani- | mdls and often makes victims of hulmzjm beings. All about the coast and | Fi¥ers are dense growths of mango | itrees. The leaves and branches of | [ahese fall and decay and form a mass | rof vegetahle matter, which, under | the hot rays of the sun during the %df’ season, pulrify, breeding disease and pestilence. Everyone has to go through a process of acelimation, and | Shis, especially to white people, is | apt to prove fatal. During the p:h‘t,: 12 year; four consuls from this coun- | try have died. there, the list being Willilam D. McCoy, of Indianapoiis, | whose decease occurred only a few weeks ago. ‘ . It the climate of Liberia is detes‘table the country makes up for it, | LiF possible, by an extriordiniry pro- | Lductiveness and richnes. If the gound be merely seratched with a stick and :eed dropped into the fur- | ‘roWw o ciop will spring up. }‘u}m‘ trges are abundantly found which | cyenrly yleld a rich growth of nuts | aad oil. Ivory in huge masses isi 5&» RO lie about in the ioterior as do | ' rucks in othercountries. Frait of all | . sorts, sugar and coffee and cotton f grow eyerywhere ina wild state. As| 4as minerals go, gold, silver, and | iren are found in very large quanti-| ties and so near the surface as to ' mike mining for them attended with | - but the :lightest labor. Few of ' these marvelous resources have been cuitivated until recent vears, but| lately greater interest has Lbeen man- . ifested in Liberia as its re ources be- ; come better kuown. | LiQeria’s inhabitants form two dis- | tipet classes—the natives aand the) . colunizers f om this country and the | West Indies. The former are x'wiu.} pased of many tribes having various defirees of civilization. The Veys, | . who live inland two davs’ journe., . are conside:ed the most advanced of . theie peoples. About thirty-tive years | ' ago they invented an alphabet furi their own languages and in other re- 1 - spects they have shown wuch intulli-i genee. The- Kroos, another inland - trive, are astrong and muscular race, ' but not especially intelligent. The " greatest ambition of a Krooman is to - have a large number of wive: As _ he caunot marry without purchasing | a wite he frequently goes to sea where . he works as a sailor until he has i earned enough to buy a spouse. Ile . makes the purchase and -returns to his nthg_\fe villaze where he lives, quietly enoligh. wntil-he feels that he must have another wife, when he ; goes back to the sea and repeats his | formgr operations. When the Kroo- - man grows old he retires from active t J is supported by the comL bineaabor of his wives, who esteem “work JEhis behalf not ounly a duty but. augonor. | TrE®Yernment of Liberia is modcied o that of the United S:ates and is vested in a President and two bodies, called the Senate and House of Representatives. lln tho lower housa-there are thirteen inembo>rs. in the upper eight. The President must be at least 35 years old and have property worth s°,ooo. The constitution of the republic asserts that all persons are ejually free by birth to enjoy and defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: that all power of government is inherent in the people and that slavery shall never exist in the State nor be countenanced by its citizens. In 1847 Liberia made a declaration of independence and a constitution was adopted and a President, Josecph Jenkins KRoberts, was chosen, who served four terms. llnllS7l a popular risirg took place in Liberia and for a time the government was entrusted to a com nittee. At first great numbers of negroes immigrated tc Liberia, up to January, 1867, the number being 1:,130. The United States Government had aiso sent 5,¢22 captured =lave-. Nince 1867, however, there has been a great, fall'ng off in the number which Li- } beria has managedl to attract. A MAN wodald ratherbe wicked than ridiculous.

ATBT S U % T T YT TT m et i i SEVEN LIVES ARE LOST. i ~ Disastrous Result of the Fleods in Pueblo l €olorado. | The other night Pueblo, Colo., was | overtaken by the greatest disaster in . the history of the city, resulting in the i loss of at least seven lives and the total destruction of an immense amouns of ‘ property. The sggregate loss is not | | far from $250,600. When the pecv’e I ¢! Pueblo retired to their beds a gentle rain had been falling, and the Arkansas River flowed through the cenl ter of the city with the water buta few inch2s above the ordinary high water mavk, but at 11 o'clock all were awakened by the discordant screeching of the great fire-alaxm ! whistle and the continuous tocting cf other whistles in all parts of the city. The Arkansas river flowed bank full. The water broke over the levee in two places, and the entire lower portion of the city was threatened with a flood. The city hall was flocded, and all the bazements in that blcek were filled. A break west ¢f the city resulted in flocding that portion of the city west of the Unicn Depot and Vietoria avenue. The lcss will be nearly %100,6C0. The water works were esmpletely shut down by the flocd, and in the midst of the excitement a fire broke out in a large saloon. but was put out with chemicals. Hundreds of poor people living in the tlats have fled from their homes to higher ground. The rise was so unexpected and so rapid that it was impossible for the gatlant rescuers todo more than tosave life, no opportunity being given to attempt to remove personal belongings. The carcasses of all kinds of domestie animals float by dezens in the water. It is known that an immigrant with his wife and five children weve camped l in a tent ¢n the Fountain bottoms, and that they were drowned by the rushing wall of water whieh tore down the bed of the brook, carrying everything be- | fore it. The corpses of two men were seen fleating down the Arkansas, but the river was so turbulent that it was I impossible to stop them. A number of | | persons are reported missing by their [ { relatives and friends, and it is altoi gether likely that when the waters ‘ | subside sufficiently to permit a carefal | ; search the bodies of many will be dis- | ; covered in the ruins of their homes. ' -, S e ! | ROOF WALK TO BE REOPENED. | i | Plans Perfected to Make the Top of tho; i Manufactures Building Safe. ! | _The promgerade on the roof of the | | Manufactures Building at the World's | ' Fair is soon to be thrown open to the | { public again. It has been determined | i that in putting in the fire escapes and | { other proteetions recommended by | 'the City Council the promenade l | has been made safe. The plan 11 adopted provides for broad : { and easy stairways at each corner of | { the building leading from the prome- | | nade over the slope of the roof to the | | second gallery inside. From here exit ‘ | to the ground is easy from a lzn'gc' { number of stairways and by fire es- | | capes outside. It is believed this will | [ remove all the objections to admitting | i the public to the roof premenade. | Another attraction in the manufact- ' ures building which will soon be ready | is the Yerkes telescope, which is being | erected in the center aisle near the north end. 1t is expected this will be ‘ in position within a week. . | Carrencies Condensed. [ EX-CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM VAN- | DEVER died of heart disease at \'-cu-, tura, Cal, ' | A DOzZEN buildings in the vicinity of | | Concord, N. H., were demolished by a f | windstorm. 5 i THE Bates miils at Lewiston, Me., ; { will be closed, and 1,500 men will be | | made idle. . : | CANADIAN speculators haye lost $5,- | j(‘nui,nuN) h_\' the recent decline in the | | values of stocks. % BUNCO men secured $3,600 from Rob- { ert Elliott, a rich farmer living near ! t Fayette City, Pa. i | ROBERT MORRISON, a stockman, was | ! fatally injured at Crawfordsville, Ind., | | by his horse falling on him. j | THE Pittsburg Wire Works at Brad- | ! dock, Pa., have been closed, and 500 { men are out of (-nlplm'n’lcnt. !‘ | THE heretofore thriving city of Pitts- | burg, Kan., contains 6,000 idle miners and has been ruined by the strike. | SHERIFF M. M. SMITH, of Cleveland County, Ark., claims to have been } robbed in Little Rock of $1,288 of State i funds. | i FRANK LAUGHLIN, who lives near { Van Wert, 0., shot and killed his wife l in a quarrel. He fled and has not been found. GRESHAM denies that he will be a Presidential candidate. Cleveland will probably ctevate- him to the Supreme ! bench. | MucH apprehension is felt over the attempt of the United States to remove l intruders from Indian lands near Fort i Gibson. ! THE Davis will case, invelving pos- | session of $10,000.000, has been set for trial at Butte, Mont. It will probably b:> rettled. A1 Friend, Neb., Michael Kesler, fired his son’s house in the hope of cremating his wife, who refused to sign mortgages. KARLOTTA, the female aeronaut, narrowly escaped drowning in Lake Erie, near Buffalo. Her parachute failed to ‘ work properly. BRAKEMAN ("HARLES ORTON, of the l Big Four, fell asleep while flacging a | passenger train and was killed at Craw- { fordsville, Ind. { JouN KRIDER, a wealthy farmer, was I thrown from his wagon at Elkhart, ! Ind., and died later in the day of the injuries he received. ‘ UNDER the new Minnesota law train- | men on the St. Paul road have been ar|l'cstml for running through a county i seat without stopping. CLAUS SPRECKLES has arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu. and declares that the provisional government of Hawaii cannot last long. THE total internal revenue collecl tions of the government the past fiscal year were $161,002,000, an increase of $7,145,000 over the previous year. HENRY CUSTER, of Bridgefiort. Conn., committed suicide by taking poison because a girl with whom he was infatuated was going away. THE resources of the thirty-one banks at San Francisco are given as $193,000,000, an increase of %2,000,000 over last year. The amount due depositors is $133,000,000. The banks are now beginning to make loans on grain and other crops.

SIA S S IR BT ve NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbors are Doing—Matters | of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Pere - sonal Pointers About Indianians. Brief Siate Ttems. MRs. MASON, 87, is dead at Dublin. THERE are ninety State banks in [ndiana. SCARLET FEVER scare at Vernon has abated. PoOsTOFFICEat Weaver, near Marion, was burglarized. THE production of oil in Jay County is 30,000 barrels a day. BLACKFORD COUNTY will build a new court house to cost $97,827. F. P. HILL caught a cat fish weighing 118 pounds near Seymour. NINETY-NINE liquor licenses were issued in Terre Haute last week. DARK HoLLow. Lawrence County, is the name of a new postoffice. CHARLES PAULEY, Indianapolis has purchased the Greenfield Tribune. CHILDREN playing with matches caused a £5,000 loss by fire in Peru. WASHINGTON BRUNEMER, a farmer near Franklin, was killed by lightning. WILLOW roots thirty-three feet desp were recently found ona farm in White County. ~ ' THE barn and three houses of Budd Tow were destroyed by fire at l Mitchell. : THE Fayette County wheat crop, itis estimated, will average but 18 bushels to the acre. CHARLIE SAMES, 18, was drowned while bathing in Sager’s lake, near Valparaiso. EAGLETOWN will hold its twenty- | third annual old settlers’ meeting, in | Old Grove, on Aug. 12. ‘ C. HEIMBERGER, New Albany, won | the prize for the best photographic i work at the World's Fair. | Coxvicr ROBERT BEASLEY, sent up i for two years from Bloomfield, escaped | from the Southern Prison. ; THE thresher of George ‘uller was destroyed by fire on the farm of Mr. '; Snyder, near Crawfordsville. | CHARLES DAVID, ex-mail line captain, ! and an old citizen of Madison, suddenly i died at his home in that city. ' THE 15-yvear-old son of William Hornt aday, near Martinsville, was fatally { kicked in the head by a horse. l ANOTHER big gas well has been { drilled in at Frankton. Its output is over 10,000,600 cubie feet a day. | PRINCETOWN, the town that was al- | most entirely destroyed by fire, has ‘ now organized a fire department. | JAMES SHEET, aged 14, was fright- | fully mangled in attempting to board {a Cloverleaf train at Forest, near i Frankfort. ' HamiLTON J. FORD of Greensburg, died suddenly of heart failure while | sitting in a chair. He had been an in- { valid for the past twenty years. ‘ GEORGE SNlVELY,Columbus,has been granted a pension amounting to S6OO. | fle refuses to accept it as he is able- | hodied and says he can earn his own ; living. | JOHN A. PORTER, a switchman for { the lEvansville and Terre Haute road. i fell between a locomotive and a car at | Evansville and his head was severed | from his body. | ROBERT MORRISON, of near New | Ross, was fatally injured by the horse | he wasriding stumbling, throwing him ' off and falling on his head. His head | was crushed, and Le will not recover. i ANDY MANDEBACH was fatally shot . by a la¢ named Little while frog hunti ing near Washington. Little claims i he did not know his companion was in i range. Their ages are 17 and 11; re- | spectively. | MCCLELLAND STINNETT was hurt by | falling slate, in the Brier Hill mine, near Clay City. The slate cut through { his face into his mouth, cut his neck | badly, and put out one eye. His i chances for recovery are slim. | Miss GRACE REYNOLDS, daughter of . the janitor of the Methodist Churech of i Ohio Falls, a suburb of Jeffersonville, | was seriously burned by the chandelier iin the church falling on her. The oil ' saturated her clothing and ignited. { THE hardware and tinware store of ; George Dillman at. Waveland, was “ blown up by powder and burned. i The store took fire and almost instant- | Iy the powder exploded, blowing the { building in every direction and causing | damage to adjoining buildings. The ! fire did not extent beyond the ruined { building. The store of J. R. Canine . was damaged by the explosion and the glass in the stores across the street was . broken out. The cause of the fire is i unknown, as there was no person in the room at the time, which fact saved . the lives of several persons. The stock i ruined consisted of hardware, stoves, | tinware, queensware, and glassware. | INDIANA patents have been issued to - Peter Armantrout, assignor of one- | half to F. L. Schneider, of Hoover, \ pipe or nut wrench: Charies Bowman, . of Fort Wayne, saw mill feed mech- ~ anism: William H. Clark cf Star City, combined end gate and scoop board; ' Chauncey M. Contant of Crawfordsville, buggy body: John Dierdorf of In~dianapelis, piano stool: Oliver L. Durflinger of Shelbyville, focot guards for railways: John J. Kirkham, of Terre Haute, apparatus for manufacturing gas; Charles C. Martin and A. J. Schlaffer of West Franklin, animal | trap; Henry Nelson of Fort Wayvne, organ: Emil Sirois of Shelbyville, ap- | paratus for shoeing animals: Samuel D. Stephens of West Shoals, cable arch support: Noah S. Wood of Roach- ! dale. cabinet: Terre Haute Shovel and Tool Company of Terre Haute, diamondpointed spade. i Isaac WALL committed suicide, at Clark’s Hill, by throwing himself in { front of a passenger train on the : Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City rail- { way. He was a paralytic, and was to ! have been removed to the poorhouse. | Ax election took place in Seymour, ' to determine the question of building i four gravel roads to the township line. i This was the first election held under the Swope road law passed by the last Legislature. The vote was light, and the proposition was carried by 12 to 1. i This will give the eity six gravel roads, leading in different directions. The cost of the roads will be $40,000 .