The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18


port heavy yields.
Throughout the state there will be a
heavy harvest of blackberries.
The Scottsburg fair is to be held from
Aug. IS to 81. inclusive. this year.
The price of wheat has fallen cents
in the Chicago markets in two days.
The Tippecanoe Battle ground camp
meeting will begin Thursday. Aug. ?.
The receipts of the Floyd county straw
berry crop this year amounted to $4,000.
Hay harvest began Saturday. The
crop is good and the yield will be heavy.
A. D. Eldridge Of Seymour shipped a
carload of eggs by express to New York
Saturday.
The condition of the melon crop in
Bartholomew equity is said to be very
promising.
The average wheat yield in the neigh
borhood of Franklin will be about twenty
one bushels to the acre.
Gen." Jennings, of COmmOnweal noto-
riety, has returned to his farm near
Southport. Era.
Potatoes are being shipped to Chicago
from New Albany by express at cost
of 80 barrel for thu shipment.
The Floyd county fair has. after care
full consideration by the board Of direct
Ors. been declared off for this year.
Ephriam MCGEE of Washington town
SNIP brown county, reports the JNTeSn-
ing from a field Of five acres ia bushels.
The melon and nutmeg plants are do
ing better now, but the crop will be light
and late in this neighborhOod.-Seym
Democrat
New wheat is beginning to come into
market very steadily, Notwithstanding
the low price that is offered by the deal
ers.-Seymour Democrat
Some Elkhart mothers who had sons
- l. -.
ity of rations and forthwith sent pie by
express. Goshen parents are doing the
same thing.
r. w. Wilson threshed his wheat crop
Monday, and he had thirty-two bushels
to the acre. Last season the same acre
age made ten bushels less to the acre
Franklin Star.
Tuesday night carried 100 barrels of
where they sold for $3.50 per barrel
New Albany Ledger.
Wheat threshing has commenced in
earnest, in this section. and despite re-
ports of damage by late frosts, the yield
is far better than expected, and it is
above the erage.-FTanklin Star.
Frank Barrow of Hope has already
bought $4,000 bushels of new wheat, for
which he paid and is now paying 30 cents
per bushel. He is buying for Law
rcrceburg milling concern.-Franklin
Star.
County Auditor George Pence is quite
a farmer. He has a large crop of beans,
twenty-five acres in Brown county, and
four acres in East Columbus. near his
home. He expects to harvest a big crop
this fall.-Columbus Times.
The wheat yield. by comparison with
last years crop, is showing a decrease
SO far of from Is To 20 per cent B.
l., 6
wheat. and this year from the same
ground he received 1,500.-COlumbus Re
publican.
Ernest Alden of Terre Haute lost a
pocketbook containing $l51 at the Shades
Sunday. 1t was found by Miss May
Myers of Charlottesville. who returned
it and generously refused the offer Of
S25 reward which the grateful Alden
urged upon her.
Another big bicycle meet is to be given
in this city at an early date. An amuse-
mcnt company has been organized by
several New Albany wheelmen, and they
propose to give a tournament that will
eclipse all previous efforts in this direc-
tion.-New Albany Ledger.
While blowing in his field the other
day William White, prominent farmer
of upper Vermillion county, struck
stone which proved TO be splendid
specimen of the stone hammer and ak
combined, supposed to have been used
by the aborigines.-Covington Friend.
VIII Bartlemay of Goshen is lieuter-
ant of the Goshen company. He was Wis
iting here when orders TO his company
were received, so one of his military
friends brought his uniform down on the
train, and Bartlemay made a lightning
change in the car.-South Bend Tribune.
A civil service examination will be held
at the federal building in New Albany,
Aug. II, for examination of applicants
for clerks and carriers. Application will
not be received later than July %. Per-
sons wanting blanks will apply to w w.
Bates secretary of the board.-New Al
bany Ledger
\ couple of smooth sharkers have been
working the town on the old picture game.
You pay them SO cents down and agree
TO buy frame paying from S2.4O to $40
for it according TO style selected, as soon
as the work is delivered. Result. 50 cents
gone. We have heard of several parties
that were swindled.-Greenfield Tribune.
At a meeting of the James Price post,
in Upton. on Tuesday night, the grand
army passed a resolution commencing
the course of Governor Matthews in
sending the state militia TO Hammond to
protect life and property. and rendered
his excellency the services of the post
to aid in quelling any riot or insurrec-
ton that may arise.
The oliver pillow works has just finished
a plOw which will be sent to Queen Vic
toria for the great fair soon to be held
at BaImoral castle, her Scotch home, I'M
der the patronage of the Princess Beat
trice Several months were required to
construct and paint ii and il is one of
the finest pieces of workmanship of that
kind ever produced.-GOshen News.
Wheat threshing has commenced in
earnest in this section and despite re-
ports of damage by late frosts the yield
is far better than expected and is above
the average. Twenty bushels per acre
is very common, with many fields going
as high as forty bushels per acre The
corn crop never gave promise of a better
yield than at present.-COlumbus Dis
patch.
Marshal Padgett and Eli Berry were
arrested at Shoals by a United States
marshal on the charge of passing coun-
terfeit money. The alleged offense was
committed on July T. Marshal Padgett
was sent to the penitentiary from Wash
ingtOn for robbery. Berry is also a
prison bird, having served a term for
numbering a colored man in the north
ern part of the state.
A. b. Smith of near Garfield has a field
of wheat of new variety which promises
an abundant yield. The heads have a
velvety covering which ii is said protects
them from all insects, the usual enemy Of
wheat. The heads contain from eighty
five to ninty-six grains, are large and
plump and it is estimated that his field
will yield thirty bushels to the acre
Charlottesville Journal.
The income tax law is not likely to
affect any great number of our citizens,