The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-17
wAsHINGToR.
2he Republicans tn Make strbbor
Fight to Garry Indiana.

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Fight to Garry Indiana.
sPecisl to the Sentinel:
WAsHIN6ToE, May l4.-While il is geBeF-
ally conceded that the Democrats will carry
Indiana and especially that VIII Eagiis@
will defeat Peelle and some ether good Dem
| ocrats win get more votes than Hell
man this fall, The Republicans at the Ma
tional Capital are arranging to do 81 m
heavy work in Indiana this summer and
autumn. The best speakers will take
the stump there. Campaign doe
uments on the tariff, Chinese, banking and
currency, and every other hobby of the
party will be thrown. around everywhere
Then there will be an abupd-
anee of the best kind
of argument sent to indiana
crispy Greenbsckers AS soon as Congress
adjourns the Congressional and National
Committees of the Republican party will be
together in their work, ard all the
old Dorsey tricks will be taken
up by new men since that
valuable campaigner has been
disabled and di>fgured. lie will be other
wise engaged in The early part of the cam
paign but will no doGb. be enabled to help
the boys our" by the latter part Of Angus. or
September. The Republicans will attempt
to throw the Democrats off their guard
by conceding everything, but the
last stone is to be turned to carry Indiana
more for the purpose of carrying Congress.
men through than Anything else. Hen e.
the Congressional Committee will do most of
the detail work, such as docr ments, stump
ing, etc, but the National Committee will
DO the Dorsey act with the SOAP"
Congressional Work.
Considering that this is political C6n-
gress," q great deal of work has already been
accomplished the present session. About
Eve months have been consumed, and prob
ably two more months will yet be
occupied, although several Senators
and members have predicted that
an adjournment will be made by July
! ]. Several very important measures have
been disposed of, chief of them being tie
Chinese aud tariff bills. There is little
prospect of any trouble arising
over the appropriation bills, but
the bank extension and contested
election cases will afford plenty amusement
A lively time is anticipated durng the last
week of Congress. The furry of the close
and clearing up of perishable business gen
orally affords good opportunities for slip
ping through jobs. There are many of
them afoot, and in their eagerness to get in
their work on these schemes the zest some
of the statesmen Will exhibit will likely
cause a seriesof sensations. The campai gn
work 10 be conducted in the different States
from Washington will keep many Senator's
and members here some time. and Washin.
ton yromises to be unusually lively all sum-
mer
Report OF the Condition of Winter whear,
Rye, Cotton, etc.
WASHINGTON, May 12-The May report of
the condition of wheat by the Statistican
Department of Agriculture makes the
average for the entire breadth 100; standard
undiminished vitality and medium growth,
average condition, April, 102-higher than
reported for many years. In April last year
il was Sc. Only the States north of the
| Atlantic Coast and those at the head OF the
Ohio Valley-Texas and those of the Pacific
Coast-fail. to reach 100, while the extraordi-
nary viger of the crop IN other sec.ious fuily
compensates for taeir local deficiencies,
which amount to per cent il Connec cticat
10 in New York, 6 in PenDsylvania, y in
Texas, 5 in West Virginia . in Kentucky
8 in Ohio, in California, and II in
/, Oregon. The Bureau Of Agriculture Of Illinois
telegrsphs To this Department the condition
of winter wheat Il per cent. above he
average in the Northern District ; aoove in
| the Central and in the Southern. This De
partment makes the average by Counties
104; corrected Average, 100. Rye also is in
good condition, the geaeral average being
| Sc. 1t was 100 on the lst IF April, 1882, and
81 April. 1891. Three-fourtEs of the winter
barley was grown in California and New
| York, in which the average condiiicn Ie-
spectively was SO and 20; general ave rage.
S5. Cotton returns represent 81 per cent. Of
the proposed area planted the 1st of May,
against 50 per cent IN average years. Plant
ing is more advanced than usual from Vir-
ginia to Florida and more backward in
all other States, especially Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee, in con
sequence of the overflow. The proportion
planted in Mississippi is % per cent. instead
of So in The average year; I'll in Louisiana
instead of SO; 76 in Arkansas instead OF 50,
and IL in Tennessee instead so per cent.
The deficiency the 1st of May approximated
q half million acres with planting still in
progress. The proportion of spring plo~iDg
done up to May 1, in comparison with aver
age year, was greater the present season
npon the Atlantic Coast, south of New En-
gland in the Ohio Valley and Missouri Val
ley. 1t is less than usual in the Eastern
States, in the Western States, in the Lower
Mississippi Valley and on the Pacific Coast.
The condition of moving fields is repre-
sented By ninety-two slight deficiencies,
being reported in the Ohio Valley and North
Atlantic States
LengfelIow.