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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
Minor Notes.


Mrs. Hannah Samuels. wife of William Sam
uels, o. Liberty, died very suddenly on Monday
night OF heart disease.
Joseph Underwood, landlord of the German
Hotel mt Washington, died suddenly yesterday
morning OF heart disease.
The spiritualists OF Michigan City are max
ing eparaiions for celebrating the thirty fifth
anniversary Of their society on Saturday.
Rev Samuel R. Wilson. of Madison, has ac-
cepted ii call to the Green Ridge avenue Church,
Scranton, Pa. Mrs. Wilson's health is rapidly
improving.
The Indiana State Holiness Association will
hold its annual convention in the Centenary NJ
L. Church, New Albany, May 2. This association
is wholly undenominationaI in character.
James ". Watt of Terre Haute, a deputy un-
der ex-Sherif Stepp, has been indicted by the
grand jury for embezzement He is said TO
have been short in his accounts TO the amount Of
$1,000
Judge James Davis, of South Bend, died on
Tuesday, aged seventy years. He was born in
UnioutOwn, Pa. and In his early manhood came
West. locating at st. Louis, where he remained
a few years. subsequently taking up his resi-
dence at South Bend.
The authorities of Mitchell report that all dam
ger of smallpox is past The panic has caused
severe loss in business but the revival has al
ready set IN. Every precaution to rid the town
of the disease has been taken, and further
trouble is anticipated.
Jefferson Ullery has been arrested ana is on
trial this week In the Circuit Court, at Green
field, on tine charge of blowing in saloons Mt
four times and no clew could he obtained the
perpetrators. There is much interest manifested
in The case.
John Mostellar who formerly resided near
Greensburg, was buried on Tuesday. On Thurs
day of last week he went to his stable TO look af
ter two horses, when he was kicked in the right
breast with great violence by one OF the animals.
Some of his ribs were broken, and from the inju-
res he died.
On Monday night, in Butler township, Miami
county, Solomon Fesley met his death under
horrible circumstances. He lived alone in IA log
honse. The house took fire, and in eudeavoring
to save some money from IA trunk in the loft of
the house the old man was burned TO death in
presence OF his neighbors.
John johnson and Benjamin Harris, OF Union
CITY, were neghbOrs. johnson became jealous
of Harris, and on Saturday shot him, wOuuding
him in three places in the left side, arm aud
shoulder. Harriss wounds are said TO be fatal.
surgeon was sent for from Indianapolis, but
he could do him no good. Harris is still alive,
but it is said he will die. Johnson has been re-
leased on bail, in the sum Of $4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
Early Days of Chickenhood.


A grass plot is desirable for chickens, yet
some people are so situated that it is not de-
slrable to have them run everywhere on
their grounds. the grass plot may be near
to or adjoining fiower-beds, etc., and the
brood must be restrained. Do not despair
OF raising a few chickens. Provide a light
box with q bottom to answer the purpose of
a coop. This will afford shelter for the hen
and her brood at night and during storm
weather. Then make an Enclosure of light
stats or wire, say 6x10 feet, as grass-run
for the young broods. The box and the
fence may be easily removed to afford "pas
lures new"
Where only few choice birds are being
cultivated, the box-coop we have described,
with its ample run attached, will answer
good purpose, provided it be placed upon
the lawn or grass-patch and moved about
from week to week to any fresh spot. In
this way the young brood may be kept in
fine health and thrift, with an allowance two
or three times a week of cooked mush and
cabbage, or lettuce chopped fine, as an addi-
tional supply of animal and green food.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
Care of Orchards.

Correspondence Iowa Homestead.
never mulch but give the whole surface
thorough culture, and the trees will stand
more drought than all the mulching you can
give them. Keep the ground cultivated until
August, then cease all cultivation and let the
weeds and foxtail grass have chance. If
there is no foxtail grass seed in the
ground, sow some. 1t will check
the growth Of the trees and ripen
up the wood for winter the best of
anything have ever tried or seen tried Go
through this process of cultivation every
season as long as you wish your orchard to
have good crops of good and large-sized
fruits; cultivate level surface unless the
plot is very level; in that case it will answer
as is recommended by many to turn the soil
to the trees and have a dead furrow in the
middle of the rows, but unless the ground
is wet and very level land such ground is
not tit for an orchard) would prefer level
culture, by turning the soil to and from the
trees alternately. If crop of any kind must
be raised in an orchard, corn is the best, and
it needs just the cultivation the trees do, but
it exhausts the ground and / would much
prefer to give the whole of the ground to the
trees until Aug l, and then let the weeds
and grass grow as above stated. Prune as
little as possible to keep the trees in proper
shape and to admit air. Prune in February
for wood and in June for fruit.
The very worst crop for an orchard is sod
OF any kind, and the next IS small grain, Tor
the very good reason that in the fore part of
the season it takes the moisture afrom the
soil Just when the trees need it most, and
when the crop is taken off the tree gets the
benefit of the soil and makes a late growth,
and fail to ripen up the wood, and are in q
poor condition to withstand the rigors of a
hard winter. Plant varieties known 70 sue
coed in your immediate neghborhood. If
you do not know consult your neighbor who
does, or, better still, go to your nearest reli-
able nurseryman, giving him the location
and kind of soil, and ii he understands his
business he can and will select for you bet
| ter than any one can not knowing the soil
and location. High clay soil has proved the
best location for an orchard in this section;
low, marshy, or bottom lands are to be
avoided
Wind breaks of any kind are OF doubtful
utility. Some of our best orchards are on
high and bleak northern exposure and the
trees appear more healthy and bear better
than in more sheltered localities.
In conclusion, | would say select the best
location, high and dry, that you have, plant
the kind best suited to the soil and location,
cultivate well, prune sparingy; better not
enough than too much; never remove a limb
unless you know just what you are doing il
| for watch borers and insects keep stock OF
all kinds out except hogs, and they should
| be excluded until the trees are quite large,
and always keep in your mind that eternal
vigilance is the price of fruit" and you will
most likely succeed.
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Treatment of Sandy Land.


chicago Times.
Most farmers give the same treatment to
sandy land in preparing it for a crop that
they do to land chiefly composed of clay.
They pillow it every season, and as the pillow
runs easily they allow it to enter almost 10
the beam. The harrow is then used the same
way it is when there are hard Jumps of clay
to break up. These farmers would -
difficult to give a reason for using az ~"
sandy land as often as they do. PROBABLY
the continual blowing of sandy soil is due to
habit. There is in reality no occasion for
blowing very sandy land unless necessity
exists for covering up grass and weeds. 1t is
better to destroy then, by burning if it is
possible to do so. The soil is in
better condition for a seed bed be-
fore it is plowed than it is afterward.
1t would be better to render it more
compact than to stir it and make =
lighter. If the seed is sown on the surface
after it has been burned over it may be COW
cred sufficiently by the use of a harrow or
roller. farmer in the vicinity of this city
who has been very successful i'll raising rye
on sandy land, states that he rarely uses a
plow in the preparation of the soil. When
same land, he burns off the stubble in the
fall and applies fertilizers on the surface.
The seed is sown and scratched in with a
harrow. A heavy roller is then passed over
the land. In seeding sandy land to grass and
clover. he scatters the seed on the surface
and drives sheep over it. They force the
seed into the soil and render the latter more
COMPACT. He finds it advantageous to scat
ter fine clay on the surface of sandy land
and to allow the rain to wash into the inter-
sticeS of the sand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
OUR WAR SHIPS.
Recommendations of the Naval Board-Th'
Ships of the Future.

E
Recommendations of the Naval Board-The
Ships of the Future.
WASHINGTON, March 28.--It9 is said the
Naval advisory board will report in favor Of
equipping the League Island yard with
plant and machinery necessary for the con-
struction of iron and steel ships. Naval
officers believe that the action Of Congress in
authorizing the construction of the new
steel cruisers is forecast of the future
policy of this government touching its navy;
that the war ships OF the future will be of
steel or iron and that this government will
soon appreciate the Importance of being able
to build its own ships.
A prominent official of the Navy Depart
ment remarked to-day: Now that the
vexed question of monitors is out
of the way, we may confidently
expect to have a navy. The great mistake of
this government was in undertaking to have
its ships built by contract instead of at its
own yards. When wooden frigates were in
vogue ours were in every respect the finest
in the world. We have the most skillful and
intelligent artisans, and our frigates were the
admiration OF all nations in every part of
the world; but wooden ships are now out of
date and we have fallen behind in the con-
struction of iron vessels. Sooner or later,
however, Congress will realize the importance
of equipping some of our yards for iron and
steel ship building and l have no hesitancy
in asserting that it will soon be found that
we can excel other nations in this character
of ships, as we always have done with our
wooden vessels ..-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
Illegal Fees for Pension Attorneys.
Washington Special.

'Seems to me- Colonel Dudley, that Colo
mel Sam Mckee, of Louisville, makes a
rather good defense of his connection with
the Easten pension case, which led to his
debarment. What do you think about it?''
~ read his card published in the Courier
Journal. 1t is good enough defense in its
way, but it is just the kind OF defense they
all make. The government has nothing 10
DO with the why's and wherefores which
prompt an attorney to charge an illegal fee.
All the government can do is to find out il
an illegal fee has been charged and then take
action. BY Colonel McKee's own admission,
he charged Easten an illegal fee, and the only
thing the government could do was to disbar
him from practicing in the department where
the offense was committed"
This opinion evidently sett les the Mckee
case,
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Ground to Pieces on the Track.

Special to The Indianapolis JournnA
CovINGToN, March 2S,-Danel T. Hedges,
an old and well-known citizen of our town,
met with q frightful death this morning az
the depot. A loaded coal train from String
tons, and it is supposed the old man, who
was very deaf and nearly blind, thought the
first section was all the train ard started
across the track, when he was caught by the
second section and ground to a shapeless
mass. The remains were gathered together,
inclosed in a casket and taken to the Meth
odist church, of which had been sexton for
most of the time during the last twenty
years. Burial services held this afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
A Rare Ability in This World.

Philadelphia Record.
Critics who speak very slghtingly of the
abilities and Judgment of the late Postmas-
ter-general, Mr. Howe, nevertheless declare
that he was a faithful friend and an honest
man. A man whose sincerity and honesty
admit of such euIogium has sort of ability
very rare in this world and OF great use in
the next world. We had rather take Mr..
Howes chances than that of some gentlemen
who have made better speeches than he and
lived less reput table lives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
Cost of the New Police system.

The metropolitan police commissioners werO
again in consultation yesterday morning, the
question under consideration being the cost to
the city of maintaining the new force. No
definite conclusions were reached, however,
and the commissioners continued to act III
formally. 1t was estimated that The cost woul0
he less than under the present system, and they
were quite certain it would not be in excess.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
A Denial from Mr. KelIo.g

WASHINGTON, March 28.-Ex-Senator Kel-
logg said to a reporter OF the Associated
Press, tonight, that in few days he ex-
pected to be able to make statement which
would be complete denial of the alega-
tons regarding him set forth in the Price
affidavit. He would show from the records
in the Postoffice Department that he had
never Endorsed an application for expedition
of service on any mail route, except for
one steamboat route on Red river in 1876
or 1877. He would also show what was
the arrangement made by the prosecution
with Price, who, he said, had been promised
immunity for his services in this matter
Mr. kellogg said, furthermore that the pro-
ceeding against him was not begun with the
consent of the Encouragement. Mr. Mer-
rick and Mr.. Ker had taken advantage of the
absence of Mr.. Brewster from the city to go
before the grand jury, and counsel for the
prosecution had admitted that this step was
rendered necessary by the testimony OF Gen
eral Brady. He added that if an indictment
was ever found against him, he should ask to
have the case tried Immediately after the
conclusion of the pending cases.
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jeremiah Wampler died on Monday at his
residence in Bainbrdge at the age os 1o2
years, nine months and twenty-five days.
He was born at fayetteville, Wythe county,
Va, in $780, and was married to Miss Re-
becca Hall, of Wytheville, Va. Sept a. 1921,
after which he emigrated to Bedford, Ind,
where his wife died, leaving him to care for
seven children. He subsequently removed
from Bedford to Gosport, Owen county,
where in short time no married Miss Eliza
beth Morehead. From Gosport he came to
Bainbrdge, Putnam county, where he re-
manned working at his trade until a few
days of his death. He was a veteran of the
war of 1912 in Captain Lewis Halls company
of Virginia militia. Notwithstanding his
age, he could read and write without the use
of glasses.
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St. Louis Indictments.

ST. LOUIS, March 2S.--Among the indict-
ments returned by the Federal grand jury,
this afternoon, was one against j. A. Black
man, postal clerk the Missouri Pacific
railroad, for Withholding sample package
OF merchandise sent through the mails, and
one against Berthold Falkenheimer, postal
clerk. for taking letters from the Louisville
mail in the Ohio & Mississippi postal car;
also, one against c. Woodward, recently ar
rested at Nashville for gliding new nckels
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Indiana Patents.

To V. NJ. Backus, of indianapolis, for a We
hice spring.
J. &. Deeds, of Terre Haute, for lamp or
torch.
A H. Dickey, of Connersvlle for two
wheeled vehicle.
James Dushane of South Bend, for q bolt
for chilled mold boards; also, for an electric
arc lamp.
Henry Farmer of Richmond, for check
rover card; also, for check-row seeder.
Thomas Harding, of Lafayette, for car
coupling.
DIV. Marmon, of indianapolis, for roller
mill.
J. J. Moore. of Thorntown, for folding
convey chute for straw-stackers.
f. D. Moses, of indianapolis, for an ap-
paratus for the manufacture of illuminating
or heating gas.
George Potts, of Indianapolis, for tile
machine.
n. 7. Remv, of Milton, for twine-tension
and take-up device for grain binders
John L. Rider, of Brownsville, Tor a seed
ing machine
George w. Rude, jr., and S. B. and H. G.
Swope, Of Liberty, for walking grain-drilI.
John r. Rude and II. e. Swope, of Liberty,
for grain drill.
s. E. Shute and j. G. Albright Of Rich
mond, for stove-pipe fastening.
George W. Williamson, of New Ross, for a
straw-stacking machine.
TO Kentucky inventors as follows:
j. L. Starks OF Sharon Grove, for q rotary
engine.
S. J. Wilson, of Maysville, for a car
coupling.
J. E. Cummins, of Arlington, for grain
cleaner
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29

PITTsBuRG March 2S.-The Western Nail
Association met here to-day, and reaffirmed
The $40 card rate. Trade was reported bet
ter, and owing to an improved demand it
was decided to continue the factories in oper-
alton for five weeks, instead of closing down
for two weeks or April 7, as previously
agreed on
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Feeling for Senator Kellogg.

nshihgton Special.
There is general regret over the indictment
of ex-senator Kellogg, which arises from
doubts as to the nature of the evidence upon
which it IS based. While the testimony of
ceeds passing through his hands to Kellogg
appears to be fully corroborated, there are
many who look upon the transaction as a
way of raising money by Brady from Price,
the contractor, for political expenses in the
Louisiana campaign. This is an explanation
which the friends of Kellogg are disposed to
give to the suspicious transactions testified
to in his case. They admit that the explana-
ton is of itself quite embarrassing, but in
sist that it is not an uncommon method of
obtaining funds for political campaigns.
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Steans shin News.

BALTIMORE, March 2S.-Arrived: Herman
from Bremen.
NEW Y DIRK, March 28.-Arrived: Circassa,
from Liverpool; Amerique, from Havre;
Grecian Monarch, from London.
LONDON, March 2S.-Arrved; America,
from Baltimore; Oder Anchoria Polynesian,
from New York; Indiana, from Philadel-
mia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
Cahle Nores.

Edwin Booth 4as arrived at Vienna.
An earthquake in the neighborhood of
Misholoz, Hungary, during performance in
a theater, caused panic, and many persons
were severely injured.
The rivers Heraud, Grau and Waag, in
Hungary are rising rapidly, and the railway
entertainments have been demolished A
number of villages are threatened.
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Obituary.

New YORK, March 2s.-Russell W. Robin
son, wholesale druggist, is dead aged seven
ty-two
MOBILE, March IS. Thomas H. Herndon,
member-elect to Congress from the First dis
trict, died to-day, aged fftyfve.
CINCINNATI, March 2S.-Gen. Thomas T.
Wildes, of Akron, o., died to-day from an
overdose of iaudanum taken to relieve pain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29

Dover. Del, March 27-The House has
PASSED the Senate bill imposing an extra fine
of So upon unlicensed statesmen from other
States, to go to the party making the arrest;
also providing fine and imprisonment of
officers who, after arresting statesmen, accept
bribes and release them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
The Davis wedding Tour.

ST. LOUIS March Ex-senator David Davis
and wife arrived here tonight. They have
aiken quarters at the Laclede Hotel. where
they will remain till Monday next. when
they will go TO the Senator'S homo at Bloom
tnrtOn III,
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adoption of repeating rifles for her infantry,
causes some comment here. Four battal
ions Of German troops at KonigSberg and
Stettin have already, as an experiment, been
armed with repeating rifles, but the results
SO far are discouragug.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29

whipped in that town yesterday, by Mrs.
Henry Marshall. wife of a well-known bust
ness man, for the publication of an article
which reflected upon herself, her husband
and mother Peers was badly marked about
the face and neck by the heavy rawhide
vigorously applied by the outraged lady.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29

LONDON, March 2S.-The Standards Vienna
correspondent says that before France opens
hostilities in Madagascar, she will issue cir
cular note to the powers explaining the mo-
tiyes of her action
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was destroyed by fire. Two twin boys, aged
fifteen months, children of David Faulknerss
who lived in two of the rooms, were Gre
mated. Loss on building and household
goods, 81, 600; fully insured
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STORIES OF STAR ROUTES.
Concluded from First Pare.

ferred against ]. B. Colegrove and John L.
French, Brady's chief clerks while the latter
was Second Assistant Postmaster-general. 1t
IS alleged that Coegrove underbid other con-
tractors for service on certain star routes,
and then, for consideration, threw up the
service, so that temporary contracts might be
awarded by French, at exorbitant figures, to
other persons. 1t is expected that present
ments will soon be returned by the grand
iurV
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Poisonous Oil Cake.

Special TO the IndianapOhs Journal.
PEKIN, March ga large number of
horses and cattle have been poisoned within
the past few days in this vicinity by linseed
oil cake shipped in from St. Louis. Several
horses have died and several more will die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
A Fine Hair-Dressing.

COCAINE dresses the hair perfectly, and is
also preparation unequaled for the eradication
OF dandruf
The superiority of BURNETT's FLAvoRINd Ex-
TRACTS consists in their purity and great
strength.
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lar Amonr Railwav Companies

PHILADELPHIA. March 2s.-The police are
Informed that 300 men, supposed to be act
u 2 under direction of the Philadelphia d
Reading railroad, are destroying the new
bridge of the Pennsylvania Railway Com
]mny at Second and Venango streets, to-
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Herbert W. Eaton, who shot at his brother
and his partner In business, and Samuel Kelly,
Jr, (the latter fatally, at Calais, Me- shot him
self yesterday on a train
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ELGIN, March 28-Kelly, Reid & Co.'S
brick Touring mill, valued at S25 1000, burned
to-day. 1t is probably total loss. Insur-
ance $1,000
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Twin Boys Burned to Death.

PIrrsBuRG, March 28.-This morning at
o clock frame house in Allegheny City,
owned and occupied by Edward Graham.
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A fresh outbreak of the striking miners at
Lingar. N. y, is feared, and the provincial
troops are under arms.
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BY Coney Islands sea-girt roar
A drowning man was cast ashore:
Each stiffend limb
Looked stark and GRIM
St. jacobs OIL gave life once more.