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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
THE FARMERS CONGRESS.
Yesterdays Proceedings of the Association
Officers Elected.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 6.-The Farmers
Congress to-day agreed to a constitution and
bylaws stating tina the object of the organi-
cation will be to advance the agricultural in
terests of the country, composed of the same
number of members as the national Congress.
One member from each State agricultural
college, all heads of bureaus of agriculture
of each State and the United States
to be ex oficio members. 1t
prescribes that officers, at the time of meet
ing, have power to do all that may advance
the objects of the organization. The Gov
errors are requested to appoint delegates
each year by April l.
The committee on resolutions reported a
series, which were AIKEN up seriatim IL
adopted, demanding that the COMMISSIONS
of Agriculture be given a place in the cabinet.
the appointment of a committee from each
State 20 present resolutionsto the legislature,
asking the Bureau OF Statistics to urge farm
efs and mechanics to take steps to be repre-
sented in the words exposition at New Or
leans, and arranging for the salary of a sec
rotary; urging farmers to raise a variety of
crops; favoring bhe annual exposition in this
city, the appointment of commissioners of
agriculture, education, transportation, ex-
Fermentation, and the general good of
farmers; empowering the present congress
to ask the passage of a law bv the national
Congress Incorporating the Farmers Con-
gress, with the usual powers.
Much Of the session was devoted to debate
on the resolutions. Col. Robert Beverly, of
ing year; one vice-president IRON each
State; J. .. Nall, of Kentucky, secretary; J.
ID. Guthrie, of Kentucky, treasurer. The
congress will adjourn tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

Burlington Vt.) Free Press.
The women, bless their little hearts"
said Mr.. Drew, of the Van Ness House, wip-
ing his intellectual brow with a silk hand
kerchief presented to him by the American
Missionary Society for furnishing the best
subject for tracts. The women can be Just
as sharp on a trade as the men. One winter
l went to Richford to by q horse. 1 found
it all right, but all the time | was making a
trade with the man that owned it his wife
kept raising an awful fuss about selling it
at the figure l offered. If the horse was sold,
she said, how would the poor children get to
school, she would like to know; they
wouldn't have the horse to carry them, and
it wGs too far to walk. Finally, however,
we made a trade, and 1 hitched the horse
into a sleigh to drive home I jumped into
the sleigh, but the horse wouldn't start. l
touched him with the whip, and he fixed a
sad, inquiring gaze upon me. touched him
again, with the same result. Then | hit him
a little harder, and what do you think he
did2 He jumped just thirty feet into the
air. l thought l was going up in a balloon.
And when he struck the ground he started
up a regular Maud S. gait. The fact was,
you see, that horse had never been hitched
single before in his life. and there was that
woman taking OH so about selling him be-
cause the children would have to walk to
SCHOOL, Oh, she was a sharp one"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

Jonathan Beard, of Edwardsville, Ind, is
one of the most successful fruit-growers any
where to be found. Among other things he
writes to the Cannelton Enquirer and Re-
porter, he says:
Last year 1 produced from one bed of two
acres of Strawberries $3.50 gallons of berries,
which sold in Chicago for So, 120. The entire
cost of production, picking, marketing and
packages was a little more than $500. netting
me about 81, 800, or $3.50 per acre. This land,
twenty-five years ago, before strawberries
were grown here, was valued at about ten
dollars per acre; now we can scarcely over
estimate its value"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
A orRCus-R1DER,s BOX STALLS.
Jim RobinsOn's Unconscious Speculation in
suisse Choice Lumber.

9Itn AbODiHbOn = UNCONSCIOUS SPECULATION IN
a,its Choice Lumber.
New York Sun.
1.-THE funniest thing / ever heard of in the
way of a wood speculation" said Charley
Stow, the famous circus agent, twas one that
happened once to Jim Robinson-and I'm
sure / don't know what reminds me of it
now, without it is the color of this dark beer
that the waiter persists in bringing to me, al
though / order the light every time. Jim,
when with q circus down in the West Indies
somewhere, reached a little port, whence he
was to take passage on a vessel for Marseilles,
France. He had four horses with him, valu-
able trained animals, that he had to take along
- at his own expense; but the vessel had no
stalls aboard and no lumber. and there wasn't
a board yard or a carpenter shop, or even a
piece OF purchasable scantling, SO far as he
or anybody else could find, in that town.
When things looked blacklist a local mer-
chant, who had taken q liking to Robinson
and heard of the trouble he was in, sought
him out and said: i have a little lumber on
hand, and will see to four box stalls being
built on board for you at no higher cost
han the simple value of the lumber and the
work of construction
when the stalls were built Robinson was
much pleased, although he could not see any
particular necessity ror making them of such
very large and thick timbers ard boards.
But when he went to pay the bill and heard
that the actual cost of the lumber and work
amounted to $500, he was astounded. He
was too much of a gentleman to kick or COM
plain, and he paid the bill, but went away
feeling that an advantage had been taken OF
him. Just as the vessel reached Marseilles,
her steward approached Robinson and said to
him:
"'Sare, I would like to buy of you re four
box stalls Eat you have on board
What will You give for them?' Robinson
asked indifferently, wondering what the
deuce ANYBODY wanted to buy second hand
stalls for in a country where lumber must
~ will give three thousand francs,' said
the Frenchman.
Robinson looked at him in amazement.
but promptly coming to the conclusion that
anybody who would offer 5000 for four old
box-stalls must be a ~lunatic, and that he
didn't want to rob a crazy man, replied:
Well, I'll think about it and let you know
later and walked off. He went up town to
see about stabling, and when he got back to
the vessel was met by a man who said to
aim:
~ understand that you have four horse
stalls on board therep
"tYes.'
"'Do you want to sell them?'
mo objections
III will give you 1900 francs for them
Jim fairly jumped with establishment, but
blinking that he had struck another maniac,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
A WALLPAPER CoRNET.
An Indiana Boys Imitation of Levy and the
Music He Discusses.

Chicago Times.
Arias from I'll Trovatore'' and "Boccac-
cio," rendered with the precision and per.
fectness of a cornet on a simple piece of
wall paper rolled in the shape of a cornu-
rcopia, are not often heard, yet yesterday after
noon at the fremont House two dozen men
stood amazed and enchaned listening to such
music. The performer was a boy about four
teen years old. His instrument was a home,
or rather self, made affair. 1t consisted only
of a square of wallpaper rolled in a circum-
scribed circle at one end and branching out
toward the opposite end until the circumfer-
ence of that terminus was about six or eight
times greater than the mouth piece. The boy
stood at a door with the crude instrument
held to his mouth with his left hand,
while with his right he beat a species Of
base on the panel of the portal. He had
the peculiar power of SO sounding the
panel that it gave forth chords almost ex-
aetly initiative of a bass VOL, which cbimed
in with the wall paper music %rythmically
and musically. The wallpaper cornet itself
was as good a counterfeit Of a brass and silver
instrument as anything not brass or silver
could be. 1t was really quite a wonderful
performance, and the youth showed that he
a possessed a musicsl talent high above the
usual order. When he had finished his rem
ditions he dotted his cap and went around
among the crowd OF men whom he had at
tracted by his novel melange. A shower of
coins indicated the mems appreciation of the
performance, and the boy left the hotel with
a couple of dollars. He has been in Chicago
four days, and he says his namei is Irving Rit-
ter, and he resides in North Manchester, Ind.
He came to Chicago without money and only
his musical novelty TO earn his bread. He
went about the streets the first day of his ar
rival here, playing his wallpaper instrument,
and was gathering in a multitude of nickels,
when a Observation-Disclosures peddler dis
covered him. That worthy, who to attract
attention to his wares, goes about the streets
covered with a thousand different styles and
colors of buttons sewed to his coat, vest,
pants, and hat in fantastic shapes, thought
he saw in the boy a better card than his
manifold buttons. He therefore entered
into partnership with him, and now the boy
plays his paper instrument or the streets
while the button-fastene vender disposes of
his patent to the crowd which the prodigy
attracts. The boy is a musical prodigy, and
it is likely that he will be engaged by some
Snowman or other before long. As to how
he makes his novel music, the youth is reti-
cent, but he shows that he has nothing in
his mouth, and that the music is made by
the paper alone. He discovered that the pa
per folded in a certain way made music of a
comets volume and fineness, and he prac-
ticed on it until he has now arrived at very
near perfection. 'c u. rs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
Conveyance to Crown Hill.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal;
May l be granted space to ask whether
there is a city in the United States which
presents, in one respect, the ridiculous spec
tacle that our city does, viz; a cemetery two
or three miles from the city and no public
conveyance therefor There is crying need
for a street-car or Herdic line to Crown Hill.
You can scarcely mention the place, but you
are met by the remark, II am SO anxious to
go to Crown Hill. but 1 have no way of get
ting there" The earriage-owners, whose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
Curious Effect on Actors of Much Repeti-
ton.
New York Graphic.

1t Is not here argued in Mr.. Joseph Jeffer.
sons case that the constant repetition of a
few parts, year after year, has caused the
exhaustion resulting in paralysis of his
speech; but certain facts are suggested of the
theory that this incessant wear of mind in a
single channel is injurious. An actress
whose name for many years has been associ-
ated with a certain part can now play it but
a few times without experiencing great loss
of her former power. During the perform
ance of a play which ran over two years in
London, one of the company became insane,
once committed suicide and a third fell seri-
ously and permanently i'll. A lecturer in
this country who has read a humorous char
acter sketch probably several thousand
times, complains that now his mind is cloud
ed and his organs of speech fail IN the char
acteriZatiou
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
A New Use of Pretty Shop Girls
wv York Letter in Boston Herald. , .. .

In one of u millinery establishments a
number of remarkably pretty young girls are
kept in an ante-room, ostehsibly employed
to sew. They represent a wide variety in
complexion and types OF. feature. When a
custom er wavers in deciding between bon
nets the willy clerk calls in one of these girls
and says: Here is ahead and face quite
like yours, and L can show you the effect
this hat would have IN you." OF course, on
b~eauty's top, the piece of millinery is be-
witching, and gratifed vanity quickly COM
pletes the sale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

names are legion. OF course do not feel the
absence of a street-ear line, but the numbers
Of people who are met every Sunday walk
ing home from the cemetery testify that a
line of public conveyances to the silent city
would be, joyfully, we'll patronized. Let
some enterprising hack or omnibusowner
announce that he will convey people to
Crown Hill from a given point, at a stated
hour, on certain days of the week, and see
what the result will be. PROTEST,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
ST.. MARY'S ACADEMY,
East MARYLAND Street.

In the elegant ami spacious buildings attached
to st. Mary's Church, the Sisters of St Francis,
so favOrably known for their successful efforts
for the Christian education of youth, are pre-
pared to receive bOarders The location and
arrangement of the building insure every com
fort and convenience. Pupils Uemale only from
6 to IL years, will be accepted. Those above
this age viii he transferred to Oldennurg. Frank
lin county, Ind, where the principal academy,
conducted by the Sisters of this order, Ia To-
Gated. Term of tuition are very moderate. For
further particulars address
sister SUPERIOR,
St. Mary's Academy, East Maryland ST.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
A Dependent View of Maud s.

We moved on toward the clubhouse,
where we met a groom leading Maud s. She
is looking badly. Her left fore leg, which
was blistered, is swollen, and her whole APP
pearance indicates hat she is feeling the eff
fects of the many trial heats Mr.. Vanderbilt
gave her to his WIN. Horsemen are di-
vided in opinion as to whether she will ever
be able to equal her time. In my opinion,
Maud S. is a trotter of tine past.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

gage train was packed by the
roadside in the old field, and my
opinion is that there was nothing bearing the
semblapce of an apple-tree within a half
mile of the place. Small scruoby pine
bushes were plentiful. Everybody ought to
know that if General Grant had come within
the confederate lines he would have lost his
life, or if Lee had gone within the federal
lines he would have met with the same fate.
But the war is over and peace reigns, let US
bless Cod
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
Helping the Arthur Boom.

Boston Herald Ind.) .
President Arthur could not have asked for
a better opportunity to prove himself more
of a statesman than Mr.. Blaine than is af-
forded by the chance to contrast his views,
as set forth in his message, with the crazy
scheme of whisky revenue distribution adj
vanced in Mr.. Blaine's letter. If the ex-
Secretary were a self-sacrifcing style of mare
it might be urged that he was helping on the
Arthur boom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

While pumpkins cannot be recommended
as fat-producing material, they possess ex-
cellent milk-producing qualities, and, being
~cheaply raised, may be counted as valuable
food for milch cows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

CANTON, O., Dec. 6.-Anthony Laymiller, a
country school-teacher, has been arrested
upon the affidavit of Mrs. u. Oglethorp,
charging him with ~brutally maltrea:ing her
eleven-year-old daughter Mary, who is one
of his pupils. The little girl, it is said, was
guilty of some slight %offense, for which the
teacher proposed to make the child sit among
the boys. She rebelled against the punish
ment, whereupon Laymiller, assisted by one
of the male pupils, threw the girl to the
floor, bound her hands together, and then
suspended her from a coat nook so that her
toes barely touched the floor She was kept
in this painful position from 8 A. NJ. till 800
P. NJ, when her mother, who had been in
formed of the proceedings, came to the res
cue of the suffering girl. When lifted down
the child was so weak she could hardly stand.
her limbs refusing to serve her. Heavy red
wells were swollen Upon her arms and she
was physically exhausted. She is suffering
terribly at present from the strain upon her
nerves. The case is beyond the jurisdiction
OF the Humane Society, SO that Laymiller
can only be held on the charge OF assaultand
battery. 30
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
Ladies' Love to Read It.

NEW YORK.-Mr. Frank TOusey, publisher of
the Arm Chair, the great family story and Rkerch
paper, which ID sold by every newsdealer in
America, says: eft affords me pleasure To recon-
we have many reports of Es good effects.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

NEVER spend your money before ron have ir.
This will save yOn from many difficulties aud
some temptations, But il yOn have u cold, spend
twenty-five cents for a bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough
Eyrup.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
Steamship News.

New York, Dec. 6.-Arrived: Scythia,
from Liverpool; Poland, from London,
France, from Havre.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

Two thicknesses of newspapers make a good
lining for apple-barrels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07

DYSPEPSIA, BiliOusness, Nervousness and mis-
erahleness all cured with Hop BitUers.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-23
PERSONALS

1t is reported that the practice of DIR.
Anna Van Daenming, lady DENTS. in
Vienna, is worth S12, 900 year.
Queen Victoria is large real estate
owner in New York. An advance in
rents by her agents has changed the
tenants in large block on Broadway
near Eighteenth street.
The first degree ever conferred upon
lady by the Philadelphia Dental Col
lege has been received by Miss Jessie T.
Detchon of Philadelphia, sister sf the
actress, Miss Adelaide Detchan.
A Chicago lady once sent Mr.. Long
fellow 200 of her visiting cards, asking
him to put his autograph upon them, as
she was to give reception to her
friends, and desired to present them
with some memento of the event.
The remission Of fifteen per cent on
be half yearly rents on mis- Mentmore
estates was Lord Rosebery's Christmas
gift to his tenants. Every cottager in
the villages on his estates asso received
six hundred weight Of coal and joint
of beef.
A Newfoundland dog seized lady's
satchel in depot in Bangor, Me-,
day or two ago, and ran with it up
street and down. pursued by score of
men and boys. Fleet Of foot, he dis
tanced them all, and at last brought it
back and laid it uninjured at the lady's
feet.
The German emperor's brother was
buried on Tuesday amid the mourning
of Berlin, and the German emperor's
SON celebrated his silver wedding on
the following Thursday amid the re-
joicing of Berlin. This is the way Of
the world, or, to be sLilIshorter, such Is
life.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-23
ELEcrIxG A PRESIDENT ~ 1859.

We have been asked to prepare and
print table showing how the electoral
votes OF the several States would be
divided between the two parties if the
States should go in 1884 as they have
gore this fall.
With pleasure. for what it is worth.
1t is well enough TO recall the fact that
an enumeration Of tie sort, published
by The Sun just after the elections Of
1878, indicated a Republican majority
of ; 1 in the electoral vote of 1880, and
that the actual result varied little from
this estimate, Garheld's majority in the
Electoral Colleges being SO.
In the following table we have guild
ed for the most part BY the vote cast
this fall for State officers wherever State
tickets were run, and in other cases by
the vote on Congressmen. There are a
few exceptions to this rule. New Jer-
sey elected a Democratic Legislature,
but majority of Republican Congress-
men we have put New Jersey on the
Democratic side. But we have given
to the Republicans COlorado an9 Kan
sas, although a Democratic Governor
was elected in each, and Virginia, which
is of uncertain political value on &C
count of Malone.
1t will be observed that the new ap
portionment of Representatives has
carried the total electoral vote from 36s
to 40l, aud the majority needed for "a
election from the historic lS5 t. 2Jl
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-23
NO PRaor REauIRcp.
A FARMER,

Branch CovIngton was tried yes
terday and acquitted of having
slandered A. G. Chaplin, a prominent
Austin lawyer. Chaplin enjoys the
reputation Of being tricky, hence the
jury did not hesitate to acquit Cow
inRton, who had merely stated that
lawyer Chaplin was scoundrel.
Quite an amusing incident occurred
during the trial. Que Of the witnesses,
who was being cross.examlned by
Chaplin, himself, was asked II he
heard Coyington say that he, lawyer
Chaplin, was O scoundrel.
"I did hear him say to q crowd oi
ten or fifteen persons that you were
a scoundrel, and he offered to prove
it."
"Nhat did you say ?"
IT said, and all the rest of US said,
that he need not prove it, as we al
knew he was telling the truth when
he said you were scoundrel."-
Siiftiags.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-23
Total.............. ..2s

No doubt our Democratic friends will
find solid nuggets of encouragement in
this table. La order that they may not
become unduly excited over the pros
pect which the figures bold ont. it is
proper to remind them that the mex
President of the Uaited Ststes will not
be elected until 1884.
This reminder Is not unnecessary
Some vf our esteemed contemporaries
seem to be lAboring under the impress
sion that q Democratic President wa,
elected last week. They differ in Opin
ion only as to who was elected.--N. I
Sun.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-23

Durability Ia better than show"
Durability of health is worth more
than the wealth of Vanderbilt. Kid
ney- Wort is mans co-laborer in main
tanning health. With healthy liver,
bowels and kidneys, men and women
will always be in good health. If the
bowels are torpid, if piles torment, il
the back is full of pain. get package
of Kidney Wort and be cured without
more suffering.