St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 February 1894 — Page 7

REAL BUR AL BEADING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Value of Corn Fodder as Determined by | Experiment—Winter Exercise for Dive Stock—How to Feed Straw—Stabling; Cows in Wet Weather. Corn Fodder. 1. All parts of the corn plant contain \alnable food materials, the dry matter containing nearly the same ) composition, says the Philadelphia Press. 2. The corn stubble and husks (ontain nearly CO per cent, of the total digestable matter produced by the plant, and the blades only 11' per cent. 3. Corn husks or shucks contain 72 per cent, of digestible matter. 4. Corn stubble or butts contain ' 64.5 per cent, of dige-tible matter. 5. Corn blades or leaves contain 64.2 per cent, of digestible matter. 6. Top corn fodder contains 55 per cent, of digestible matter. 7. There is more digestible mat ter contained in the corn lodder irom one acre than in the ears. 8. The earn fodder from one acre > yields as much digestible matter as j two tons of timothy hay. 11.I 1 . There is enough digestible matter produced by the corn lodder i grown in the Southern States to win- i ter all the stock in those Stales, if it were properly preserved and prepared in a palatable form. 10. By cutting and crushing the corn stalks cattle will cat and utilize nearly all of them. 11. Corn fodder furnishes a focd neh in digestible carbohydrates. 12. Corn fodder, when ted alone, I will nearly maintain cattle, but should be supplemented with some food rich in nitrogen when feeding for the pro- ' duction of growth, flesh, or milk. Winter Exercise for Live Stork. On disputed questions men are apt to take views that arc extreme. Amid the din of the battle of controversy there is danger that the truth will be obscured for the sake of momentary victoiy. It is to be feared that so it has been with this question. I Some have contended that all cattle need exercise, and daily, in winter. Others have claimed that they do not need any exercise, and yet others, including the writer, have said that the question is yet undecided, since • instances are on record wherein beefbreeding stocks and dairy cattle have been kept tied in the stall the whole of the winter for years n succession, and without any apparent harm having come to them in consequence. ' On the other hand, it has been affirmed, but apparently without sustaining evidence, that since keeping ( animals tie 1 thus is unnatural, it must inevitably lead to an undermining of the constitution and stamina of the stock. In considering this question we should bear in mind that the improvement made in the various breeds of live stock during recent! centuries has been made possible by i subjecting them to artificial conditions, and that the highest attainment in utility, for the time being at least, has been attained when the divergence from these conditions has been greatest.—Excharge. How to Feed Straw Profitably. There are seme farmers who keep stock of such poor quality that they cannot afford to feed it grain. Tneir only way 7 of wintering stock is to provide coarse fodder, like straw and cornstalks, of which enough will be i eaten to sustain life without much chance of adding to growth or flesh. There is no profit in this, for unless there is some gain by increased weight the maintenance ration will cost more than the increased value of : animals in the spring. There seems to 1 e more reason in the objection of those who have the best stock that they cannot afford to feed it much straw. They surely cannot if corn be the chief grain fed. for both corn and I straw are largely carbonaceous. Some grain or other feed that contains more nitrogenous nu'rition will make -t/aw feeding more । rofltable. With a large feeding of bran or wheat middlings considerable straw will be j eaten. So, too. it will when linseed »r cotton-seed meal is fed. Sheep I that are fed b ai s and bean straw will eat the straw of other grains in j co siderable quantities to vary their ( ration, which has not enough carbo- I hydrates. Cribbing in the Field. It saves a good deal of labor in husking corn to throw the ears in a ; box as they are husked. Some will fall outside when fast husking is at- । tempted, but it is easier to pick up the scattering.than to leave all on the ground. There is a furthA saving in the fact that these boxes at night may be piled one on another to the height of four, or five, or six tiers, and a couple of wide boards laid lengthwise of the crib will protect them irom ruin or smoke. Those who grow sweet corn for seed often provide boxes to hold their entire crop, and leave the corn thus cribbed in the field until it is dried out enough to market. With slatted boxec built up one row wide corn will dry cut tery fast. The boxes need not be very expensive. Strbles Under Straw Stacks. Provided the stack is held up by strong wooden supports, a stable under the stack makes one of the best, cheapest and warmest winter shelters for any kind of stock, says an exchange. It should be built so that animals cannot eat away the stack where it has no supports, as they will often do when forced to get their living from a stack. In olden times stacks of hay were often left to be eaten away by young stock, with the

result of wasting a good deal of the hay and towards spring having an overturned stack, killing calv s and sheep imprisoned under it. There is little of this kind of wastefulness among farmers now. The wonder is that such management could ever have been so common as it undoubti edly was. The Jessica Grape. The Jessica is a variety or grape which originated in Canada, it is early, with small bunch and berry, and of good flavor. Like the Delaware. it has the fault of setting too many bunches, and if allowed to overbear it is not as good nor so early as it should be. Nearly all kinds of grapes need thinning, which is easily I done by pinching off one or two of ■ the blossom buds on each shoot just.! as soon as they become visible. Two 1 bunches are enough on any shoot, 1 and some of the latter varieties are more sure to ripen if the bunches on a shoot are reduced to one. What One Man Realized. My hens yielded me a profit of $2.93 ahead, besides the eggs, etc, we used in our family, and th.it would carry it up to over $3 per head, writes a bright man to the Massachusetts Ploughman. My sales were at common market prices. I don’t keep any fancy stock, no thoroughbreds mine are mixed breeds. This is only one of the things on a small farm that makes small farms pay. I don’t know of any o e who lias been able to come up to those figures, with sales at ordinary market prices, on mixed hens. Farm Notes. Money spent for good trees is well ' invested if they are cared for after setting. Ie best of all fru ts are grown, | there is little danger of overstocking I the market. Ie we.l done, either root grafting or budding will give long-lived trees. In order to keep up a supply of j ! small fruit, plant several varieties which ripen at different times. Rye is good for a young orchard and if it is near the poultry yard will furnish excellent winter pasture for fowls. It is th ' comforta' locow which fills the pad with milk and the milk with butter fat. Remember this to your profit. Careful packing and handling, clean, stout packings and a near-by market arc the three desirable things for profitable fruit growing. Iris generally admitted that for stock cooked food is the be^t, but the labor and fuel required for the purpose adds too much to the cost of the fqpd. Throw dish water around fruit trees, currants, gooseberries, etc. Coffee grounds are said to be valmible when put around shrubbery and dowering plants. When buying sheep it Is just as well to get those which are prolific, so long as they have other desirable qualities in addition. The Sbropshires, Dorsets, and others are of this class. Wheat bran is an indispensable feed for butter cows. Even on the best pasture a daily food of bran will pay well. It has recently been ascertained that the heaviest bran is not tetter butter producing food than 1 that wh ch is lighter. It should not weigh more than eighteen or twenty . pounds to the bushel. Pumpkins ought to be promptly rel instated in the position they held in i the estimation of the old-time farmer. They furnish an excellent addii tion to the food of swine and milch cows, and can be grown at very little cost. Tut in a field of them with the corn, if you think it will not pay i to grow them alone. A toor farm need not necessarily j remain so. A good farmer will make his farm a savings bank, it may icquirc several years to bring it to a high degree of fertility, and the farmer may be compelled to live in a frugal manner, but in a few years the farm will b > more valuable and the farmer wealthy. Beginning at the botto n .and gradually improving is a sure road to success. One of the best modes of educating the boy to the importance of pure-bred stock is to buy him a few pure-bred fowls and allow him the proceeds. It will not be long before he will Tamilian.e himself with the “points”, and begin to advertise his birds and eggs for sale. lie will then : be disposed to study the points and ■ characteristics of animals, and take a great interest in all classes of ' stock. It is the Mind That Sees. How do we see? Did you ever chance to think? I have asked quite a number of people lately, and they reply: “With our eyes, of course, how else?” or words to that effect. Did you ever realize how much of our vision is mental? We see nothing properly and definitely until the mind lends its perception. We may be gazing at afpicture, yet be unable to see anything but a confused mass of color—- ; because the mind is seeing faces of scenes a thousand miles away, perhaps. Call the mental vision back and the figures on the canvas take ' their proper places, at once we sec i the picture. Or shut your eyes. I Can you not see the face of those vou 1 love or hate as clearly as you evei saw them with the physical meansol ’ sight? Dow many times [one glances at his watch, yet, when asked the time as he replaces it in his pocket, is unable to tell simply because he looked cnly with the eyes and not with the mind also. —Boston Advertiser When a man helps his wife with her work, she has to drop what she if doing to wait on him.

DOLE STRIKES BACK.' ANOTHET CHAPTER IN THE I L WAIIAN CASE. Specifications Demanded by Minis Willis Are Furnished Without Hesl lion—Our Representative Charged wEh Withholding Information and I’lay In, Boaster’s Part. ; Taiki Very Plainly. Advices received fn m Honolulu steamer Alameda give the full text ' o President Dole’s letter to Minis! | Willis in reply to the latter’s requj t : for .specifications and statements ma] o ;in a previous ktler from Dole in 0 . 1 gard to the attitude of the Unit I States Government. Dole’s letter is ve - v lengthy. He says; “In complian with your request for certain t pacific a _ tions concerning my letter of Dec. :7. I reply thereto as follows: You aquire as to the moaning c f the wo -J ’attitude’as used in my letter. I ret [ v that word was used by me in its orc 1. narily accepted sense, meaning bei r . ing, posture, as indicating p irpose >f Jhose referred to. Ycu further «y, "‘Will you p< int cut whee a*. when and how a re prcse n t -1 i j f the United States assumed any-itffT^w toward supporters of the ProviA'WLi Government other than one essentialy and designedly expressive of peaci?’ In reply I would say that the attltule of a person is to be ascertained only by inferences drawn from 1 n ovn words and acts of such person and conditions and circumstances under which they take place.” President Dole then cites the with- , drawal of the treaty of annexation from I the Senate by President Cleveland I without any notice to the Hawaiian I representative: the appointment of Blount ai d his visit as a secret emissary of the United States and the refusal of Secretary Gresham to explain to the Hawaiian lepresentative the ' object of Blount s mi sion or even that lie had been commissioned. He also critici ed Blount’s actions while in the country and the report which be subsequently made to President Cleveland. Piesident Dole next refers to Gresham s letter to President C leveland la-t October, and says: “You have intimated that the foregc Ing letter, being a domestic transaction, is not a subject of diplomatic cirrespondence. I must submit, however, that a communication frt m the chief of the Department of State to the President, in which he charges this Government and its officers with coaspiracy, weakness, timidity and fraud, and recommends it; subversion, which letter is officially furnished to and published by the public press, without any information concerning the same being afforded to this Government, is not a domestic transaction, and is pre-emi-nently a proper subject for in juicy on the part of this Government as to the intention, of your Government ccncernin r the subject matter, _— "On Nov. 14 Mr. Thurstmi, the Hawaiian Minister at Washington, calle 1 upon the Secretary of State and inquired if the above letter was authentic. and wa- assured by Mr. Gresham that it wa-. Mr. Thurston then said: ‘I wish, thou, to further ask whether it is the intenti. nos the United States Government to carry out t! e policy therein indicated by force, or. in other words, whether, if the Provisional Government decline to accede to the request of the United States Government to vacate in fact r of the Queen, United States troo] s will be used to enforce the request.’ Do we need to state that Mr. Thurston received no satisfactory reply to this question?” i’resident Dole then recalls the arrival of the United States dispatch boat Corwin at Honolulu last December with, private copies of the President’s Hawaiian message to Congress for Mr. Willis, and f ays: “l'p to the time of the arrival of the Corwin the United States naval officers In port were in the habit of coming ashore in citizen’s dress, the crews received their usual liberty on shore, and no unusual warlike preparations were visible on board. Immediately on the arrival of the Corwin the liberty of the crews was stopped and so was that of mest of the officers. Those who came on shore were in service uniform. Rifles were stacked. Cartridge belts wore filled with ball cartridges and knapsacks packed for immediate use were conspicuous on the decks of the ships and were seen there by visiting citizens, who in reply to an inquiry as to the meaning of such preparations were informed by the officers that they were ready to land at a momeit's notice. When asked if the landing would be to protect or fight us the r^ply. of the officers of the PhiladelpU^was that no one on boa 1 knew w h&mrupi-s would be received.’’ GREAT OUTPUT OF GdA' Over 5150,000.000 Worth of the Tellow Metal Mined in 1893. ; Returns received at the Treasury Department indicate that the gold output for 1893 will reach the almost unprecedented amount of 837,000,010, an increase over 1892 of $4,000,000. In Colorado the output has increased from $3,000,000, in 1892, to $5,000,< 00 in 1893, while the gains in other gold-producing sections are unusually large. The Australian production will carry the production of the world, it is thought to $150,000,000, which is a gain of $12,000,000 for the year. With one or two exceptions this is the largest output ever known. The gold fields of South Africa seem to be rapidly taking the place of the California and Australian fields as the b nanza finds of the pres* i ent decade. Report । from the Witwetersrandt region alone show a total product for । 1893 of 1,479,476 ounces of oie, yielding ft product of refined gold of a vah e in excess of $25,000,0 X). The production in this region is increasing at an astonishing rate and South Africa bids fair during the present year to push her way to the head of the list of gold-pro-ducing countries. The figures for 1892 put Australia at the head of the list with a production of $35,870,800, the United States second at $33,000,000 Russia third at $24,806,200. and Africa fourth at $23,706,600. The full returns from South Africa for 1893 will probably show a production in . excess of

$30,000,000, which will force her into third p ac?, and if the increase oontinues she will pass Russia during 1894, StJ’U i U be boaten b y United 1 aggregate production only ° f a la! '° e increase in this vvuii Uiy» production of silver, according to the reports leceived at the mint, has fallen off during the last year and e ^ ed “VMOOO in coining x alue for 18.13. As the coining value is now more than twice the market value the actual mercantile value of the silver mined will drop below $90,000,000, the smallest figure for many’ years. MURDERER STONE HANGED. Slayer of the Wratten Family Pays th< Penalty of His Revolting' Crime. E> S* ono , commonly known as i. v 9F e "n 8 executed at midnight tn the Indiana State prison south by

Warden J. B. Fatten. The crime of which James E. Stone, or “Bud” Stone, as he was familiarly known,waI convicted wa s A committed neat ^■kho village of Glendale, nine miles ea t of Wash I n ton.

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Ind., the night of Sept. 18, 1893, and was the peculiarly atrocious an I bloody murder ot Mrs. Elizabeth Wratten. her sen Denscn Wratten, tn I his wife and three children. All were killed instantly with the exception of the little girl Ethel, who lived for several days. Arming himself wth a corn knife, he went to the home of his victims at a late I oar the night of the crime. Stone knocked on the door and was~answer, d by the younger Mrs. Wratten. He struck her a blow on the head with a corn knife thatiendered her lifeless. Jumping over the form of the prostrate woman lie killed the children as he came to them, and going to the bed upon which Denson Wratten lay sick, with typhoid fever, he dealt him a b ow that ended his life. The elder Mrs. Wratten slept in an adjoining room, and finding her door locked ho kicked in the window and,

entering the room, finished his bloody work. Stone confessed the crime to his wife, and a she, being unable to keep the awful / secret, when sum- > moned befoie theX! grand jury told all she know. The as-

sassin entered ami 'Abeth whatteh plea of guilty, and within three hours' time had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. A short time ago ho added another horror to his crime by stating to his aged father who visited him in prison that he had smothered the little girl Ethel with an apron nt a neighbor’s house, where she had I e in removed in a dying condition, while the folks were at uin; e •, as he feared if she n covere i her evidence might convict him. The murder was undoubtedly planned foi robbery, but, I ecoming fright nod at j the enormity of the criiro, the murScier fibd. leaving over *6OO untouched in a bureau d awer. His father is a respected farmer, ard up to the time o the murder Bud Stone had le d a quiet, uneventful life. TO FOLLOW VAILLANT. The Anarchist Who Hurled the Bomb nt the Barcelona Theater. The next dynamic •to follow Vaillant to the scaffold, if he lives, will

probably lie Jose Sahador Franch. the ma n wh < threw the bomb nt the I’arcelon Theater. Like A'aillant. Franch has deplo ■ rab'e antecedents, s Though belonging \to a respectable ^family at Castelseras, he ran away when only 14 tc

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Barcelona, where JOSE SALVADOR FKAN«.n, ■ ... he joined the anarchists, and ha- lived from hand to mouth ever since. His wife Antonia was obliged to go out choring, and. according to her own account, she lived in fear of her husband poisoning her le-t she should divulge anarchist secrets. French was a great friend of I'alias, who threw the bomb at Marshal Campos, and was the prime mover in a grand conspiracy for a general rising at Barcelona, where the anarchists were to burn the houses of the upper classes, loot shop*, and assassinate indiscriminately. The anarchists were a "raid to carry out the project, so Franch consoled himself by throwing the bymb in the Liceo Theater,whence he leaped in the confusion. He remained in hiding in various places till .-i>e__Boljce pounced upon him in Saragossa, u lußrth- t rDHf kill himself. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS. Annual Convention of the National Association in Washington. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association b gan in Washington with a large attendance of delegates representing all parts cf tht country. The session was dqvoted t( the presentation of reports. The report of the Executive Committee recommended that the special effort of the association be concentrated on the campaign in Kansas and New York, the two States where there is to bo a* test vote this year. Mrs. Lillie D. i Blake, the member of the Executive Committee from New York, spoke of' the work there, and predicted successor woman suffrage in the coming constitutional convention in New York. ! Mrs. Laura M. Johns, c f Kansas, said that the work for the enfranchisement of women had progressed faither in han-as than in New York. Ihe night session of the convention was very largely attended, and those seated on the platform included District Commissioner Hoss, Senator Teller, of Colorado, and Representatives 1 ence and Bell, of the same State. Ihe 1 residents address was then delivered by Miss Anthony. It was a- - interesting, and critical review or the cause of woman suffrage, with frequent caustic allusions to the ac- I non of the courts in their decisions I V ie la "’ s P assed by the States • for the enfranchisement of women. 1

FOUND A MAN AT LAST. SENATOR WHITE FOR THE SUPREME BENCH. Justice Blatchford’s Successor Named by President Cleveland and Confirmed by the Senate Forthwith Without Opposition— Disaased Meat in Chicago. The New Justiciary. President € leveland nominated Senator White, of Louisiana, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and the nomination was at orce confirmed by the Senate. Senator White is nominated to fill the vacancy caused 1 of the late Justice Samuel F. Blatctferd, of New York. The drenlent nominated White after the Senate had refused to confirm Hornblower and Peckham. The selection of a Justice from Louisiana is a great surprise, though it was admitted immediately after Peckham’s nomination had been iejected that tha President considered himself entirely fro J to go outside of New York State in makin<r the appointment. Some surprise wa> manifested that the President went so far from New York. Eel ward Pouglass White will take his seat on the Supreme bench a s the youngest of the justices, and, with the exception of Justices Field and Harlan, ht will have entered at an earlier jeriod in life than any of the other justices, and will have the exceptionally long term of twenty-one years to serve before retirement. He wa, born iu the parish of La Fourche, La., and was 48 years of age last November. He was educated at Mount St. Mary s, near Emmitsburg. Md,, at the Jesuit College in New Orleans, and finally at Georgetown College. He entered the Confederate army, and after the war was admitted to the bar by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and practiced his prose sion during the troubled years following the reeonstru ’tio i period. In 1>74 ho began his political experience as a r-tate Senator. lap ing into the law again he I ecamo Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in l s 7'<. but again t irnin^ t > political pursuits he was elected to the United States Senate to succeed St nator Eustis, at present Ambassado, to France, taking his seat March -I, D9l. Py his a; p nntment he will leave a vacancy of full two years in his Senatorial term. STOCK YARD SCANDAL. Lumpy-Jarred Cattle Slaughtered end Sold for Food In Chicago. Chicago is eating disea ed beef. It is not a pleasant statement to make or ph a ant thing for Chicag ans to contemplate but it is the truth, at least so say the Chicago papers. Briefly t >ld, there is not a shadow of a question but that from 100 to 15 > diseased animals are spirited out of the yards each week without any inspection whatever by the officials appointed for that purpose: are either bought by the packets or slaughtered by them upon commission and put upon the public market. "With the exception possible of one or two of the larger packing establishments, the papers allege that all c f the packers and miner slaughtering houses a e more or less engaged in the nefarious trade. With pos ibly <nc or two exc? tions every lOmmi-su n firm doing busine-s at the Union htoek Yard’ is selling diseased «i ■. A 'aZ • l V s 1 Aoj > a tyvical case of nVMrv jaw. cattle to the speculators who make that their only bu iness. The Union Stock Yards Company folds its hands and closes its eyes, permitting the business to go on without interruption. Lumpy jaw or actinomycosis is a vegetable paiasitic disease, due to the introduction into the animal of the :avfurgus through an abrasion or wound of the mouth, tongue, cr cheeks, or gains entrance along a shedding tooth or’a diseased tooth. After the living plant thus gains an entrance it multiplies and grows somewhat similar to plants outside of the animal economy. As the filaments grow the tissues in which the implan'ation occurred give way to them —the result of mechanieal pressure—pus forming, and other septic baeter a will be found in connection with the ray-fungus; tumors and abscesses form of varying size, and finally rupture, discharge their contents, and a slowly healing sore remain-’. In many eases the bones of one jaw—either upper cr lower— beccme horn ycombed with this disease, constituting what was formerly censid- | I tawa. O-, was murdered. Queen Victoria is said to dread an open confl.'ct between the two houses of the British Parliament.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. &n Interesting Summary of the ?Jore Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings ami Deaths—Crimes, Casualties au<| General News Notes of the State. iloosier Happenings Elwood is to have a new office, that of city judge.. I HE Edinburg Cereal Mills Company has been incorporated. Mrs. I- rank Scott, well known in Southern Indiana, is dead at Jeffersonville. J HE Big Four Railroad station at LCose Hill, YA abash County, burned. Loss, SI,OOO. Patrick Mi Glode. aged SO. an old soldier of the Seminole war, died near Jeffersonville. A MAH. pouch was rifled of $6,030 in drafts wl ile left unguarded in the South Bend depot. While trying to stop a runaway horse at Evansville. Officer Voght was thrown out and fatally injured. Two Candidates for county, offices in \\ abash County have withdrawn their names on account of the fee and. salaiw law. There are 5.578 feeble-minded children in Indiana whose names appear on the record. The number of in ane is about one-half as great. The will of the late John Hili. I.aporte. whose estate is valued at SSOO, 000 will be contested on the grounds that he was of umound mind. Montgomery County' will is-ue $20,000 worth of bonds to get money to meet the county’s running expenses until spring taxes can be paid. J ames Chandler, an old veteran living near Petersburg, has become insane because his application for an. increase o: pension was rejected. At Michigan City children who are afflicted with whooping cough are taken to the gas works. It is said that by inhaling the fumes the cough is relieved. A young scholar to’.d his school teacher at Y’alparaiso. when the latter asked him if he didn’t want to be smart and lie president, that he wanted to be a big pugilist. Charles Crawford, one of the best known and wealthy farmers near Peru, in a fit of despondency, caused by ill health, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. A Plymouth man has proposed to one girl twelve times. He has now come to the conclusion not to try it again, as thirteen is an unlucky number. and she might accept. Joi; Timman of Roann, filed a SIO,OOO damage suit against the Wabash Railroad. claiming that a spark from a Y engine on the road was the cause ol his sawmill burning down. Philip Stevens, south o: Kokomo, is distracted over a fatal error. His baby was suffering with a cold and he got up to give it some squills. By mistake he got hold of the wrong bo:tie and gave it creosote. The baby died two hours later. The workmen whodug the grave for Walter Wiggins, at Hagerstown, made a ghastlv discovery. After having dug down about four feet they found a bai - rel which contained the bones, hair, and portions of the dress of some wo* man. which had evidenth* I con buried a number of years. Whose they were and how they came the re is shrouded in mystery. The annual election of the directors of the Commercial Club at Indianapolis developed the most spirited controversy in its history. A total of 480 totes was cast, the greatest numbef ever polled. Proxies were barredThe regular ticket, headed by Ell Lilly, was elected by totals ranging from 317 to ”5 : . A. P. Hendrickson led the independent ticket, receiving 205. while the votes for his associates ranged from 142 to 179. The result means the retention of Col. Lilly as I’resident and the indorsement of the President’s action in the disposition of the surplus of the f mds raised for the entertainment of the National G. A. R. Lightning-rod swindlershave been operating in the vicinity of New RosS and Darlington. Some time ago a man claiming to be from the Er^st called on the farmers and ottered to put a lightning rod on their houses for sls each. This low price was made in order to introduce this particular make of rod. Payment was not required until the rod was up. but they signed an agreement to pay. The rods were put in place, and then the farmers found that they had signed an agreement to pay 52: cents a foot for the rod. Among the farmers thus swindled were John C. Bowman, for $300: Henry Ragsel- for $125. and John Dean, for slls. Tha contracts for the lightning-rod company are signed: ”J. W. Reynolds. — W. R. Baston, agents.” The Democratic Editorial Associaof the State met at Indianapolis and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President. C. AV. Wellman. Sullivan Times: First Vice President. S. P. Boyd, YVashing‘on Democrat: Second Vice President. A. A. Sparks, Mount Vernon Democrat: Recording Secretary, F. D. Hainbaugh, Muncie Herald: Corresponding Secretary. J. AV. Keeney. Crawfordsville Star: Treasurer, AV. Bent AA'ilson. Lafayette Journal: Executive Committee, Louis Holtman. Brazil Democrat. A. S. Chapman. Madison Democrat: J. B. Stoll, South Bend Times: J. Rothrock, White County Democrat: Ben A. Eaton. «IndianauoUs sentinel. Delegates to the National Convention. J. E. McDonald, Ligonier Banner: E. A. Arnold. Greencastle Star-Press: D. A. Jennings. Salem Democrat: J. J. Gorrell, Pulaski Democrat: L. S. Ellingham, Winchester Democrat. George and Jordan Britton, two desperate characters, went into a saloon n’t Knightsville and provoked 1 homas Gulliver into a fight. They issaulted him, knocking him senseless vith a bar of iron. Eriends came to lis relief and a general tight ensued, n which many were more or less inured. A man named Evans was al^nost scalped by a kick from a hobnail ■ not. Deputy -Marsha': Barney Martin attempted to'arrest the Brittons when they assaulted him, beating him into insensibility. Martin is seriousiv wounded and will not recover. The ' Brittons escaped.