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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23
GRAIN AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Amount of Wheat and Other Grains in Sight
and i'm Store

CHICAGO, June 22.-The following figures,
taken from the official statement of the Board of
Trade. show the amount of grain in sight in the
United States and Canada Saturday, June 20
preceding week.
Wheat. II 1873 026 bushels. an increase of 310,-
956: corn, SOS. 85l, an increase of 1874l0 oats,
g. l11759 an increase of 678. 257; rye, 22l. 033 a
decreas of 1882; barley, 132, S9l, decrease of
5498
The amount of grain in store in Chicago on
the date named was:
Wheat. IA, S74, 727 bu; corn, $40 034 blu; oats,
400, 98S bu; rye, 40, 592 bu; barley $50 bu.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23
Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, June 22.-Asde from deliveries in
execution of previous purchases, which continue of
very good proportion. the market has been dull and
the demand light and unimportant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23

NEW YORK. June 22.oCotton steady; mddlins
up!ands, lO3sc; middlng Orleans 1012c; futures
closed barely steady; June, 10.1 Ice; July, 10.21o
August, 10000; September. 10.1Oc; October
.. DC; November, 8. S1c December, 9.S2c: January
$500; February, 1O.0Tc; March TO- lie; April
1O23c. The Post. its cotton review says: Flu
ture deliveries at the first call declined 100 1100c
and subsequently, 7-1OOO5-100c but at the third call
only 100 bales of September found buyer, at
10.12c, and 200 bales of Decein ber at 9.S4c and
at the second round only 9.SSc bid for December
The following bids were refused: 1021c for June
1O22c for July, 1O32c for August 992c for Octo
Der, 9.S2c for November: 992c for January. 10000
for February, and To-. Sc for March. Prices were
consequently at the third call 7-1OO@4 1OOc lower
than Sal urday closing. Futures closed weak, and
6.lO004l00c lower than on Saturday. Sales, Co.
900 bales"
NEW ORLEANS, June 22.-Cotton dull and easy;
prices unchanged: net receipts, ID bales; gross
cepts 81 bales exports to the continent 4S1 bales
sales, 100 bales: stocl on hand. 81, 936 bales.
MEMPHIS. June 22.-Cotton dull but steady;
middling. 10l4c; receipts, 81 bales; Shipments
81 bales; stock hand, Il, 1877 bales sales so
bales.
ST. LOUIS. June 22.-Cotton nominaly lower; mid
ding 104c sales. reported: receipts none; ship
ments 200 bales; stock ON hand D. 100 bales.
GALVESTON, June 22.-Cotton easy and I'M
changed; net and gross receipts, IL bales; exports
coastwise, LA bales; sales 143 bales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23
LIVE sToCK.
Light Demand for Poor Grades-Choice Ship
pers Wanted sc Good Prices.

CATTLE-Receipts, $50; shipments, so. The
local supply was light. mostly of butcher grades;
quality not good, and demand light on that class.
while choice shipping grades, if here. would sell
above quotations. We quote:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23

Good to choice shipping steers 2015 65
Fair TO medium shipping steers. 4.60d5o0
Common shipping steers ......----.-.. 4.200450
Stockers ........-..-....... 3.500400
Good to choice and heifers. ..-...- 3.T5045O
Fair to medium cows and heifers 8. 2003 so
Common and heifers. ....-..-.. 2.OO02.9O
Bulls common to good 2.50a3.50
Veals common to good --..-......4 .0016.OO
Mixers common to good -2O.OO045.00
HoGs-Receipts, 700; shipments. $50. Quality
fair Market opened active, but closed weak at
quotations. All sold We quote:
Select light 100415
select ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .0004.05
Common 20 fair light 3.7003.90
Heavy roughs Observation-Disclosures. 3.0OD3.5O
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts, 100; shipments.
none. But few here; quality only fair. Market
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
THE COST OF COLD WINDS.

Professor Shelton, of the Kansas Ag-
ricultural College, puts the question of
sheltering stock in an exceedingly point
ed manner. He has lately been feeding
ten steers in an experi mental way. He
found that, for the period of ten davs
ending December 26th, the average gain
per head was uhirty-one. and one-tenth
pounds. The weather was warm and
sunny The steers were fed in. An -us-
battened board shed. During the sue
ceeding' ten days, when the cold was
intense almost the whole time, the same
steers, fed on tlies same rations and in
the same shed. gained but six and six.
tenths pounds per head. A5out a year
ago the Professor fed lot of pigs for
three weeks OF the coldest weather. in
open ynds, and found them to consume
more than three times the amount of
1ood to pound of increase than the
same number of pigs in the warm base.
ment of the barn. He has COW kent
IN bleak kansas barn" which sbrinks
an her milk from one-foHrth to one. half
alter twenty-four hours of very severe
weather. From all this the conclusion
Is what we have SD often taught in these
columns, though not so forcibly as the
professor teaches bv his careful experi-
ments. that YOU cannot burn feed as f1el
tosupport the body sfan animal andat the
same time lave the animal stow it away
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
SANITARY VALUE OF FOLIAGE.

Professor Goret, of the University ol
Geneva, points out that the functions Vi
trees in streets are not limited to acting
as screens for sun-shunning wayfarers-
they temper the heat and serve as pro-
lection against dust -the evaporation
from their leaves tends to keep the sur
rounding air cool and mo st, and, as one
of the best means of refreshing the air
of sick-room is to place in it the plants
and branches, and sprinkle them with
water, like effect is produced by trees.
Sunlight is necessary to health; but
trees, if not too thickly planted. do not
intercept sunlight-the continual vibra-
ton of their leaves and swaying of their
branches admitting the light every in
slant and in sufficient measure, serving
moreover, to protect the eyes from the
MONDAY glare. SO far from trees imped-
ing the circulation of the air, they help
to purify IT; the evaporation of their
leaves determines a current from above.
and the fresh air thus brought down as
slsts in driving away the heated and
dust.impregnated gases, of the streets.
Another useful property of foliage is
that, while in hot, dry wheather il
moistens tue surrounding atmosphere.
thus rendering it fitterto breathe. this
effect which is due to evaporation.
ceases in wet weather.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
TESTING DAIRY COWS,

I B a good idea is suggested by cores
pondent of the Country Gentleman, who
advocates the testing of the butter-p1o-
ducing powers of common COWS as well
as the Jerseys and Guernseys. Owners
and Breeders of Jerseys and Guernsevs
in different parts of the country The
says, from time to time. tess the butter
producing powers Of their herd. This
has Of late come to be attended with
considerable blowing of horns, aud
stripped of its disguise is, believe, un-
derstood to be an advertisement. OF
course, when the animal subjected to the
test performs handsomely at the pail
the result is of value TO the other breed.
ers. II test is valuable to any particu-
lar breed, it is of value to another breed.
If test is of value for the purpose of
showing farmers how that breed is suu-
erior to the common stock of the coun-
try, then the same test should be ap-
piled to common cows.
Il would like to see farmers who must
and will continue to breed from common
stock, make periodical tests of all the
cows in their dairies. An animal. even
If she is scrub, that will produce ten
pounds of butter per week is of more
value for breeding purposes than
one that will only produce five pounds,
because the chances are many that her
calf will inherit .he qualities of its dam.
She is also of much more value in the
dairy. 1t would be most excellent
tning for farmer to know how many
cows he is keeping that are unable to
produce five pounds of,better per week.
The farmer can make test that will be
approximately correct at much less cost
than that OF a public test. 1t would not
have to be sworn to, or to be advertised
and would satisfy the farmer himself,
who ls the only one concerned. By ali
means let us have tests of our com.non
cows, as well as tests ofJerseys or Guern-
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07

give him exalted virtue or freedom from
annoyance. Mr., Braem, the Danish consul
| in New York, who was also trustee OF
| Trinity church parish and a prominent mem.
ber of the Union and other fashionable clubs
took dislike to Mr.. Belmont. This dislike
was founded, it is said, on jealousy, because
August was more successful than Mr.. Braem
in an affair that would not tend to make
| Mrs. Belmont think any more of August il
she knew about it. Mr.. Braem began writ
ing anonymous letters to members of the
Belmont family, it is said, keeping them in
formed of Mr.. BelmOnts proceedings. For
three years August bore this and then he
tried to hnd the author of the unpleasant
eplStleS. The letters were in wOman's
handwriting. Detectives visited every fe-
male cOpyist in this and other cities, and at
last the one who wrote the letters was found.
She was shown great numbers of men and
was asked if they had hired her TO write the
letters, but she shook her head. At last Mr..
Braem was pointed out to her and she said /:
That is the man.
August Belmant demanded that Mr..
Braem resign from Trinity church parish,
and he resigned. The officers of the Union
Club showed him letter of resignation from
the club, and he signed that. 1t is said that
If he doesn't resign from the clubs he will
be expelled.
The woman is a sister of a prominent
owned by her family years ago. Mr.. Braem's
friends. say that he was out of his head
when he wrote the letters, and that he
doesn't remember anything about them
AuguSts friends say that this explanation
is too atteuuated. What Mrs. Belmont
thinks about il isn't known, as the affair has
been hushed up, and the newspapers have
treated it much more tenderly than they
would if somebody less influential had been
involved.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
MARRIAGE HIAxIMS.

The very nearest approach TO domes.
tic happiness on earth is in the cultiva.
ticn on both sides of absolute unselfsh-
ness. ...... .
Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with a past mistake.
Never meet without a loving well
come.
Never forget the happy hours of early
love. 20
Never let the sun 20 down upon any
anger or grievance.
Neglect the whole world besides rath-
er than one another.
Never talk at one another, either
alone or in company.
Never speak loud to one another
unless the house is on fire. .r.
Let eech one strive to yield the often
est TO the wishes of the other.
Never sigh over what might have been,
but make the best of what is.
Never make a remark at the expense
of each other; it is meanness.
Never part for day without loving
words to think of during absence.
Never find fault unless it il perfectly
certain that a fault has been commit
ted, and always speak lovingly.
Never let any fault you have commit
ted go by until you have frankly con
fessed it and asked forgiveness.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
THE BRIGAND SCHEME,
Hamphat of Hamphat Brothers Ex-
plains That it Doesn't Work.

"Are you a dramatic editor?" asked
smooth. faced young man, attired in /;
plug hat, bright green bobtail friez,
coat, and tight checked pants, and fur
ther adorned by red scarf, yellow uppe
shoes, and four-pOund watch-chain, a
he walked into the Office, with a three
ply frown corrugating his brow. "Ar,
you the man that prints them guys ontC
the profession?'
ave occasionally print interesting in
cidents relating to prominent artists,
replied the d. c. blandIy.
wasn't this the paper that printed
that story abont Giannini, the opera
singer, being captured by brigands in
Spain?" ..- .....
Il think l remember the instance "
replied the critic.
"And after they had cleaned out the
tenor and his troupe, Giannini began to
sing something, whereupon the chief of
the robbers recognized the tenor from
having heard him sing at Madrid, ana
was so much affected that he embraced
him, returned the plunder, and escorted
him safe through the country. That
was the story, eh?"
ayes, I think such were the facts, ,
said the journalist, swapping his watch.
"Well, it is all guff-a regular blk"
exclaimed the professional angriy.
"What do you meanW growlcd the
writer, reaching for the big shears.
"Why, just this: "R pbbers amt got
no more appreciation for talent than
managers have. TEey don't go a cent
on art, them fellows DON'T" and the ar.
tist gloomily lit one of the critics cigar
cites.
Don't. eh?" said the star scalper.
"No, sir, they dOu't; and I'll prove it,.
NV stage name is Hampbat-you've
heard of The Hamphat Brothers
the great songand-dance team, haven't
your"
The dramatic editor admitted that he
hadn't. ... ....I ....- -4r.-. .
"Well. sir, my partner, the world re-
nowned Teddy Hamphat, was up doing
the northern circuit last week, and the
stage he was in was stopped by read
agents near Ukiah. Ted lad read that
blamed Gianuini item, so he took the
boss highwayman aside into the bushes
and sung him couple Of fyerses Of Dat
Yaller Gal Dressed In Green" ,.-s-.
"And how did it work."
"Work, sir, why the gang shot him
full of holes and chucked him into a
ditch. Pm agoing up On TIE $50 train
10 fetch the body home" --
'That's sa,l-very," said the critic with
beaming smile.
"Ani it's all your fault. I'd advise
you fellows to let up deceiving the pub
lie that way. 1t amt the square shake
by Gerned sight. We're going to give
the widow benefit, and | think you
oughter give it star notice as a stand
off" .... -'.'.
The critic promised to attend to it. SC
the gentleman from the Bella Union alb
stractedly collared the balance of the
cigarettes and drifted out. San Francis
CO Post.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
BEST FEED ON EARTH"

Acorrespondent of the Poultry Yard
declares, with his experience of twenty
years he must say there is no feed on
this earth that is SO good for young
chickens, old chick ems, or old fowls, as
sour milk. Even old, sour buttermilk
for Old fowls is the best of food. abut all
OF this must have some meal and iuGg-
ment added TO it. No gapes, no cholera
among chickens that are fed on sour
milk and kept free from lice. His feed
is fresh ground cornmeal, oatmeal, and
shorts wet with clabbered milk, some
cracked corn and whole wheat fed ac-
cording to the age o. chickens. Raising
chickens is something ike making
cheese. There is time and a place for
every step from the egg to the full. grown
chicken. Experience, with the RIGHT
KIND OF perseverance,, will raise chickens
and take good care of old fowls. Sour
milk, thickened with shorts and meal.
fed every morning, and some kind OF
whole grain at night, is his best food for
eggs. II is our impression thatthe fresh
ground cornmeal, the oatmeal and shorts,
the cracked corn and whole wheat con-
Altufe o pretty good variety of food.
even with the sour milk left out. and for
very small chicks we would so leave it.
For Older fowls old milk is first class.
New milk won't hurt them.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
ORCHARD CULTURE.

} These. thoughts are CLEANED from "a
report of a recent meeting of New Eng.
land horticulturists at Boston. To pre-.
scribe one rule for all orchards is like
one medicine for all diseases. II rs alb.
solutely necessary for each grower 10
search out the nature and needs of his
trees if he desires the best results to
reward his labor. Experience teaches
that forty feet apart is desirable dis-
tanee for apple trees Care in gathering
and barreling fruit for storing and keep
ing is of utmost importance. The best
top dressing for the apple, is wood ashes
and bone. Stable manure seems to
promote growth rather than fruit bear
ing; but bone and ashes applied together
seem to develop fruit buds and fruit,
and to keep the trees not in a very lux.
uriant, but healthy growth. 1t is fully
as important to keep our apple trees
well trimmed in as it is our grape vines.
Were young man. beginning life as a
farmer, think the first thing I ,shorid
attempt would be the cultivation of an
apple orchard. Prairie Farmer.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
RURAL TOPICS.
Notes, News and thoughts Connected
with Farm and Household i
Management.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Land that is not thoroughly drained
will not pasture sheep without inducing
the appearance of foot-rot. = n -
Bedding for sheep not only promotes
health but assists in preventing dirt in
the wool. Cleanliness is as indispensable
to sheep as to other stock.
Better feed your hay, straw and corn
than sell it. BY that means you kill
two birds with one stone"-you feed
.rnnr band as well as your stock.
= In order 10 secure the fastest walking
horses they must be tested, and the bes,
retained for breeding, as careful selec
tions viii result in the establishment of
a breed OF fast walking horses if persisted
in.
A Wisconsin farmer claims TO have
discovered a specific remedy for the raw
ages Of the potato bug. He plants one
or two flax seeds in every hill of potatoes
and says by so doing the bugs never
trouble the crop.
Fodder that is properly saved, AMI fed
in combination With clover hay and
grain, is Of equal value with timothy
hay by weight, says Professor SaEbo-n
hut such fodder is very different from
that which is exposed to frost and tlsach-
ing rains.
Now that the cold weather. is approach
ing, orwith us, il ought 10 be remem-
bered that a covering of felt nicely put
on pipes prevents the water from freez-
ing in them and all the train of evil con-
sequences which frozen. water pipes
entail, unless the cold is unusually severe
or the spell unusually protracted.
Crotched fruit trees OF any kind can be
kept from splitting down bytwisting
together one twig from each of the main
branches. Those thus twisted will in
five years grow into solid branch which
cannot be broken. Tyigs which grow
from the lower part ofthe branches are
preferable. If there are no such twigs
on the branches, water spout" or
sucker" should be allowed to grow; or
one may be started by nicely insC rtIng a
scion into a slit between the bark and
the wood, securely waxing it. Twigs
from the size OF lead pencil to half an
inch in diameter can be used for this |
purpose.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
IN THREE STATES AT ONCE.
The Curious Esit of o-Man's Land near
Newark. Delaware.

The Maryland line is about two miles
south of Newark, and the tracks of the
Baltimore & Ohio extension run across
the sharp angle of Pennsylvania, which
extends down between Delaware and
Maryland, at the point where it is five
feet wide. After the first train stopped
over the Maryland line most of the per-
sons on board alighted and picked their
way 250 feet through the mud and water
to the point in the woods where the
three States meet. The spot is indicated
first by long stone just above the sur
face which marks Mason and Dixon's
line. Beside it is planted triangular
stone. with tie initials of Delaware,
Maryland and Pennsylvania cut on the
various sides. On the west side is the
following inscriptions: Erected by IL.
G. S. Key, Md; J. P. Eyre, Pa; G. r.
Riddle. Del, Commissioners. 1S49"
Some of the visitors mounted the stone
in order to say that tLey sat in three
States at one time, Others placed their
thumbs on the apex of the stone in order
to say that they had their thumbs in The
three States at one time, while others
still stood in the narrow strip of Penn
sylvania 3ld extended one hand into
Maryland and the other into Delaware
The stone is about three feet high and
the three sides each about fourteen
inches wide. 1t is called a prismatic
stone. Baltimore Sun.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
PACKING BUTTER.

The secretary of the British Dairy
Farmers association says he does not
know of a better method Of packing but
ter than that adop:e ed by the consignors
of Brittany butter. Tons are sent to
England weekly in rough pine boxes,
holding Two dozen pounds each. The
butter is made up into two-pound rolls,
and is wrapped in muslin, with an out
side covering of clean, white paper. The
boxes measure IA inches leng, 1Ot wide
by 69 inches deep, and as the Jumps of
butter are made of uniform length and
diameter, twelve of them can be easily
but closely, packed on end in each box.
This butter arrives in London beautifully
fresH, perfectly clean, unbrnised and un
injured IN any way. Try7y
The secretary further suggests that
boxes may be made to hold one or two
dozen half-pound rolls on end in the
manner described. 1t is not necessary
to wrap each roll of butter in muslin il it
properly made into rolls of equal siz }
and form. The muslin used is called
null muslin.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
EVERLASTING FENCE.

A correspondent gives the Western
Rural his method of making everlasting
fence posts. He says he discovered
many years ago that wood can be made
to last longer than iron in the ground
but thought the process so simple and
inexpensive that it was not worth while
to make any stir about it. He would as
soon bavc poplar or ash as any kind OF
timber for posts. He has taken out bass
wood posts, after having been set seven
years, tnat were as sound when taken up
as when put in the ground Time and
weather seemed to have no effect upon
them. The posts can be prepared for
less than two cents. Take boiled linseed
oil and stir in pulyerized charcoal to the
consistency of paint. Put coat of this
over the timber, and there is not man
that will live long enough to see it rot.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
TALLULAH MADISON PARsH LA. SATURDAY FEBRUARY T. 1886

ards ever enjoy mere physical existence
after reformation with the same eager
zest they knew in more convivial days.
Why, when used to go over to Chase's
and get in four or five drink l owned ali
that side of the street. On ter drinks |
had quite a comfortable balance of
ready money in bank. At the twenty
stage of my drinks owned the whole
city of Toledo. Haven't been iyerv
wealthy lately from that point of view.
Il want to add to this my conviction
that rum is disease, not a vice. De-
troit Free Press.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07

the feelings of Mrs. Langtry for Mrs. Corn
wallis-West.
Both ladies are beautiful, and both were
admired by that cOnnOisseur of beauty, the
Prince of Wales. The ladies represent diff
ferent types of feminine excellence of form
and feature. s.. .... s....~f|H r..t-.
Mrs. COrnwallis-West is the young wife
of retired officer of the Grenadier Guards,
cousin of Minister Sackville-West She
is little above the medium height and car
rles her figure with native grace. She is of
a nervous temperament, and darts flashes of
pleasantly from her bewitching eyes, fol
lowed by quickness of movement which
intensifes her mastery over the masculine
sex.
She is not slender and willowy. Her
frame is rather large, and although there is
nothing masculine about her she would be
termed Handsome" the quality of beauty
by which men are described.
The beauty came to this country last Win
ter and visited the West family in Washing
ton.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07

worthy sinner everybody knows that
don't implOre the Throne of Grace to
purify your heart and make You a new
man; but just tell the Lord you have
taken that contract off his hands, and
intend TO try to build up a little heaven
on earth, and | tell you that when you
come to JON in the singing you will see
as you never saw before, the sublimity
of the sentiment in that beautiful melody
Nearer my God to theew Western
PlOWman.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07

in the form of muscle and fat. Tie fact is
thatour farmers throw away one-half
their feed in furnishing animal heat that
they might Just as well save by paying a
small lumber bill and expending mod
crate amount oflabor.