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The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
Officers OF the state Grange.


GEN. A. J. VAUGHAN, Early Grove, Mar
shall county, Master.
A. H. BARELY, Crawford Lowndes coun-
ty, Overseer.
MAJ. E. G. WALL jackson, Kinds county,
Lecturer.
DR.. d. L. PHArEs Woodville, Wilkinson
county, Steward.
H. 0. DIXON, jackson, Kinds county, Asst
Steward.
r. D, POWELL, Columbus, Lowndes county,
Chaplain.
JAMES Poole Early Grove, Marshall coun-
ty, Treasurer.
w. L. WILLIAMS, Rienzi, Alcorn county,
Secretary.
w. H. BOONE, Rienzi, Alcorn county, Gate
Keeper.
Mrs. M1TrIE WALKER, Bonneville, Prem
tiss county, Ceres.
Mrs. ANN $. Cook, jackson, Kinds coun-
4, ty, Pomona.
MISS GEoRGIE DEAN, Marshall county,
Flora.
Mrs. I. J. ABBY, Claiborne, county, Lady
Assistant Steward
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
ROBERT A. DEAN, Tyro, Tate county.
WIN. HESTER, Terry, Kinds county.
u. i, PHAREs, Woodville, Wilkinson co.
john G. MACARTHUR Meridian, Lauder
dale county
A. J. VAUGHAN, Early Grove, Marshall COZ
w. L. WILLIAMS Rienzi, Alcorn county.
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special Deputies of State Grange


OFFICE SECRETARY STATE GRANGE ?
RTENZI, MISS, Oct. 10, 1873.
The following is list of Special Deputies
appointed up to date Those desiring tc
organize new Oranges can apply to their
County Deputy and in case there is none,
apply to the nearest Deputy:
r. J. Ably Port Gibson, for Claiborne
and Adams counties.
I, K. Cannon, Verona, for Itawamba and
Ice counties.
j.. L. Bramlett Bonneville for Prentiss
county.
E. 4. Hudnall, Monticello for Lawrence,
Covington, Hancock, Marion and Jones
counties.
NJ West, Houston, for Chickasaw county.
]. NJ Grafton, Brookhaven, for Lincoln
and Jefferson counties.
j. Mallet, Osyka, for Pike and Amite
counties.
A. r. Bowdrie Senatobia, for De Soto
county.
A. j. Liddell, Carrollton, for Carroll and
Lehore counties
G. Afford, Line Creek, for Oktibbeha
county.
W. W. Harvey, Gainesville, for Tisho-
mingo county.
IS. B. Woodruff, Louisville, for Winston
county.
j. Fl. Allen, Banner, for Calhoun county.
John G. Macarthur, Meridian, Kemper
county.
j. \. Parker, Westville, for Simpson
county.
B. s. Rushing, Walnut Grove, Tor Leake
county.
p. l.. Dallas, Rio, 70. Neshoba county
II. O. Dixon, jackson, for Kinds county.
r. J. Lawrence Shubuta, for Clarke and
Wayne counties
H. L. Holland Guntown, for Tippah and
Union counties
K. A. Dean, Tyro, for Tate and Pamela
counties.
II. Q. Dear, Enterprise, for Lauderdalc
county.
A. S. Baugh, Pollkville for Smith county
Joseph L. MCGEE, Durant, for Attala
county.
T. S. White, Stems Creek, for Rankin
county.
w. r. Robertson, Forest for Scott county.
o. II. Wixon, Oakridge, for Warren,
Washington and Issaquena counties.
II. ID. Palmer Winona, for Montgomery
and Choctaw counties.
v. II. Fugate Benton, for Yazoo county.
George w. BynGm, Parmitchie, for Al
corn county.
j. II. Sharpe, Columbus for Lowndes
Monroe and C0lfax counties.
w. j. Rea, Hazelhurst, for Copiah co.
G. w. Gill, Oxford, for Lafayette and
Marshall counties.
The above Deputies have been appointed
by the Worthy Master of the State Grange,
to serve until the next annual meeting of
the State Grange,
No Grange can be established nearer than
ten miles of another Grange, except by the
consent of that Grange; and no Deputy
will be allowed to delegate his authority to
any one.
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patrons Of Yusbandrp,
Official Journal Patrons Of HuSbandry, Mi.
National Grange of the Patrons Of
Husbanalry.


d. w. ADAMS Waukon, Iowa, Worthy
Master
THos. TAYLOR, Columbia, South Carolina,
Overseer.
7. a. THOMPSON, Plainvicw, Wabash co.,
Minnesota, Lecturer.
Gen. a. j. VAUGHAN, Early Grove, Mar
shall &C., Mississippi, Steward.
g. w. THOMPSON New Brunswick, New
Jersey, Asst. Steward.
REV. A. B. GRosH, Washington, District Of
Columbia, Chaplain.
+, M. MCDOWELL, Corning, New York,
Treasurer
O., H. KELLY, Washington, District of Co
lumbia, Secretary.
O.. DINwIDDIE Orchard Grove, Lake CO.,
Indiana, Gate Keeper.
Mrs. ADAMS, Waul1on, Iowa, Ceres.
Mrs. Q. II. KELLEY, Washington, District
of Columbia, Pomona.
Mrs. }. 9, ABBOTT, Gainesville Butler co.,
Iowa, Flora.
Miss Q. A. HALL, Washington District Of
Columbia, Lady Asst. Steward
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
VIM. SAUNDERS, Washington, ID. G.
d. WYATT AIKEN, Cokesbury, Abbeville
CO., South Carolina.
Il. Il. SHANKLAND, Dubuque, Iowa.
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BANKRUPT RAILROADS.
THEIR INCOME INSUFFICIENT TO PAY THE
INTEREST ON THE FUNDED DEBT.

The following exhibit shows what
special legislation has done to enrich
a lot of swndlers, and also what it has
done to saddle mountains Of debt on
the people, besides robbing the public
domain of nearly two hundred millions
of acres of land.
In proof OF this it may be stated
that while for great number of years
the policy prevailed of making grants
of land to aid in the construction of
works of public improvement yet never
before were lands given by Congress
directly to any private corporation,
but always to the State in which the
contemplated improvement was To-
Gated. These States were Illinois,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Loui-
siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Mich
igan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kan
sas, and the total quantity of land
granted to them was 35, 815, 149 acres.
But this was too slow, and as soon
us ble mugs WolO PAoPViiy ViS"h-
lied by getting a sufficient number of
the railway directors into Congress, a
different policy was introduced, and
the various Pacific Railroads were d.
rectly endowed by Congress, and in the
short space of two years not less than
159, $50, 966 acres were given away, or
nearly five times as many as in the
twenty years preceding, to the twelve
States named. Besides this enormous
of land, an immense empire
in itself, millions upon millions of
money have been taken from the pub
lie treasury, and lavishly thrown into
the capacious nav of these corpora
lions. The total amount distributed
Is S64, 623,512 in United States six
per cent. currency bonds, on which
.he Government has already paid for
interest s14, 447,254, exclusive of the
sums repaid by the railroads in the
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GRANGE ITEMS.

There are eight Oranges in opera
ton in Kansas.
Eighty-fve Oranges have been Or
ganized in California.
Vermont leads in New England
States in number Of Oranges, having
twenty-six.
The Changers of Vermont have
made arrangements by which, for the
first time, they obtain their groceries
from Boston at wholesale rates.
1t is asserted that the Farmers As
ISOLATION Of Champaign county, ILL.,,
recently sent to Chicago nineteen car
loads Of corn, on which they saved
$500 by attending to the business
themselves.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Mar
shall county, ILL.,, declare by resolu-
ton that no man without good moral
character, or who is entangled with
political, job or ring alliance, need eX-
pect their vote or countenance.
If it be asked what the Patrons of
Husbandry have already accomplished,
let it be told to their credit that the
progress of their movement has led to
a reduction Of the passenger tariff Of
The Illinois railroads from five to three
cents a mile.
The Changers, or Patrons of Hus-
Dandry, have adopted as a rule of their
order, never to go to law, and to have
Ill disputes settled by arbitration. The
Ease comes on without delay, and each
nan telling his story, a jury of picked
leighbors and mutual friends decide
what is right. 3"
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STATE GRANGE OF MISSISSIPPI
SEcRETARY's OFFICE,
RIENZL Miss. Snnt- % 1879

SEcRETARY's OFFICE,
RIENzI, Miss. Sept. % 1873
A quarterly report has been received at
this office, with the dues, amounting to
SO 3d. It does not specify the name or
number Of Grange. 1t is signed by r. AL
ford Secretary. Brother Afford will please
write me, and give name and number of
Grange, post.ofice and county, and / can
send him receipt for same.
W. L. WILLIAMS
Secretary State Grange.
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31

was 81 ,055, 1853. In 1872 the receipts
were So, SOL ,628, the expenses 50, 1885,
1879, and the interest on the bonded
debt 81 300, 1862, while the surplus of
receipts over expenditures was only
1865, 4S9, or nearly 100000 less
than was required for interest on its
debt of $21, 1922, 702, leaving less than
nothing to provide sinking fund, or
to pay penny as dividend on its &c.
1872, 800 Of its stock.
THE DENVER PACIFIC.
( The receipts of this company for
1872 were 1855, 0S8, and the expenses
amounted to 1913, 052. The interest
on its funded debt of $3.50, 076 re-
quired $151, IA, while it only had Il
surplus of $142,036 to pay it, or
$4,000 less than was necessary.
THE SIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC.
This is the worst specimen of all,
and exhibits itself as totally and ire
trievably bankrupt. Its receipts from
all sources in 1872 figure up a total of
S162, 405, allo which, except $40, 343,
has been eaten mp by the operating cx-
penses, while it should have paid
1921 ,71S as interest on II funded debt
Of So, 1913 Its stock subscription
amounts to 81, AIS, 500, of which only
S1,791, 400 has been paid in, and it
cannot be wondered at that stockhold.
ers refuse to contribute any more
money to such bankrupt concern.
These few will suffice. The figures
are all authentic, having been taken
from documents on file in the office of
the Secretary of the Interior, at Wash
ington. They show that notwithstand-
ing the unparalleled liberality of Con
gress, and, probably, just in conse-
quence of it, these several railroads, all
of whom have so largely contributed
to increase speculation, and nourish the
insane railroad mania that has cor
rupted the country, are to-day on the
verge Of bankruptcy, being not only
unable to pay their just debts, but
have not even the means to pay the in
terest on them. This explains the
causes why so many banks and bank
BIS, whose close intimacy with these
has for years been a standing
,heme in the world of finance, had to
before the first breeze that
hook their mushroom growth.
RAILROADS.
Our readers attention is called to the
lbove( article, clipped from that "wide
wake" paper, THE Scythe, of New
York. 1t effectually shows up the
lorrid rottenness of the whole West
I'm railroad system. Is it any wonder
hat banks and bankers who speculate
n these wildcat schemes collapse
lnder the first pressure of the money
market? We hope to be able, when
We can obtain the facts and figures, to
how up some Of the corruptions and
Encouragement of other railroads.
We will be thankful for any assistance
/ this matter from correspondents and
theirs, who, from their position, can
Irnish us with facts.
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For the Farmers Vindicator.1
THE SITUATION.
w. u. W ILLIAMS,
Secretary State Grange.

Mr.. EDITOR: An event has happened Of
no small magnitude. 1t has Cancelled the
| figures of many an ardent and hopeful cal
culation. The system of American COM
merce is sick with a financial dengue. And
the symptoms are prognostic of other evils
First came the failure Of Jay Cooke &
Co. Then suspension after suspension fol-
lowed, until the leading banks of all the
commercial cities were involved in the same
necessity. Now we have the reign of a new
currency, called certified checks" / call
it new currency, because it is proper to do
SO. 1t is the representative of commercial
value, and this is all that currency can be,
neither more, neither less. This "new
issue suffers discount of from to 81 v
cent. To one outside of the ring it looks
suspicious, and like many other evils that
we know of it creates the necessities upon
which it feeds.
A factor has $4,000 in bank. In one day
the bank converts 1t into certified checks.
This deposit, if the factor is compelled to
use it, at 5 PER cent. discount, only realizes
The factor $lb,000 Here is clear loss of
$1,000. Who NOses the thousand dollars on
the one hand, and who gains it on the other /?
Does the banks speculate on the factors de-
posits, or a third party, the broker? We
can not say, perhaps neither, and perhaps
both. 1t is unfortunate for our banking
system that the door is wide enough to ad-
NIT suspicion. If the banks are parties to
the shave suspension may be more profit
able to them than resumption. Be this as
it may, the question must recur, what can
be said of a system of banking that is legally |
from any consideration of prll-
dence, so-called, to hide. away for thirty |
days the currency of the nation, and put on
the market its own currency in the form of
certified checks, to the injury of all the
productive values of the country. If the
Of these values are ca necessi-
tate, so inseparable, why are the mediums
IF their exchange, over which the banks are
placed, so lily protected by the laws of the
We arrange, by wholesome laws,
he other carriers of values and make them
for damages. Why except
banks or even the government itself when
his greatest of all TRANSPORTATION lines of
he nroductive wines If the country are
,llowed to be used to their wholesale dam
,oe? What would we think of the govern
mont cbarterinp a railroad with tho nrivi-
ere TO legally damage the values of nro-
lncA9 The primary consideration in their
construction is that these values bv their
,audling will he enhanced Yet money is
mi tho reprcsentative med;um of these
,a1ues and as sucb should have ovarv safo.
.r.rd which who,osonoo lave oo,,d thew
round II If that which represents tbe
.alue of farmer,' toll the mechanics labor
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THE KANSAS PACIFIC.

This road runs from Kansas City,
Missouri, to Denver, Colorado, dis
lance of 63S miles, and from Lawrence
to Leavenworth, Kansas, "a miles.
Its receipts in 1871 were s3,312,517,
and operating expenses S2,302, 5S9,
leaving as gain the sum of 81 ,OO9, 1927,
while the interest on its bonded debt
alone, not to speak of the floating debt,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22

ing elects are to be furnished, copper
stem and scag band will be added, and a
number of patent life preservers placed in
the cabin. The apparatus for detaching
the boat from the balloon is of the most
perfect Character The great aim of the
Graphic Company and the builders has
been to secure a boat which would live
in any sea, and which would at the same
drance to the balloon. In this they have
finished, with all her spars and sails, will
only weigh seven hundred pounds.
S Should it by any unforeseen chance be
necessary for the voyagers to take to the
life-boat in mid-ocean, is it possible for so
small a vessel to reach land? This ques-
ton can be easily answered by refer
ence to the exploit of the Red, White and
Blue This daring little craft, which is
just three and half feet longer than the
balloon boat, sailed from New York for
Paris ON the 9th of July, 1866, and arrived
in London, England, on the 10th of Au-
gust, making the passage in the short
space Of thirty-eight days. The crew con-
sisted Of two men, Captain John M. Hud-
son and Frank Fitch, both of whom were
old and experienced navigators. During
the voyage a succession of head winds
and strong gales were encountered at all
times. However, the little ship behaved
admirably, and though from stress of
weather she was no less than four times
thrown on her beam ends with masts in
the waves, each time she righted, and,
throwing the water from her decks, again
sped in safety on her way.-Graphsc.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22

Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of all human
ailments. Its symptoms are almost infinite in
their variety, and the forlorn and Respondent VIC
tins of the disease often fancy themselves the
prey in turn of every known maady. This is
due, in part, to the close sympathy which exists
between the stomach and the brain, and in part,
Also 10 the fact that any disturbance of the diges
tive functions necessarily disorders the liver, the
bowels and the nervous system, and affects, to
some extent, the quality of the blood. A medl-
cine that ike H0stetters Bitters, not only tones
the stomach but at the time controls the liver,
produces a regular habit of body, braces the
nerves purifes the fluids and " ministers to mind
diseased, is therefore the true and only specific
for chronic Indigestion Such is the operation of
this famous vegetable restorative. 1t not only
cures dyspepsia but also all concomitants and con-
sequences. Moreover, it is invaluable as a pre-
ventive of indigestion. No one who chooses to
take half wineglassful of this agreeable appe-
tizer and stomachic habitually three times day
will ever be troubled with oppression after eating,
nausea, sour quotations, any other indications
of a want of vigor in the digestive and assinlila
ting organs. The debility and languor superin-
duced by hot weather are Immediately and perma-
nently relieved by the Bitters, and persons who
are consttutionaly inclined to look upon life " as
through glass, darkly,' will be apt to lake
brighter and more hopeful view of the situation
under the genial influence of this wholesome me-
dicinal stimulant
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22
Treasurer Spinner ON the Mutilati0n of
United States Notes.

GEN. SPINNER has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Cashier Of New
England bank:
TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Aug. T. { +
SIR: Your letter of the LIST inst. was re-
ceived yesterday by the Adams Express
Company. There came inclosed, as there
in stated, two United States legal tender
notes, one of the denomination of $500
and the other 800. Both these notes are
entirely new, having never even been
folded, and are perfectly clear being with
out spot or speck. For some bad pur-
pose, probably a fraudulent one, with a
view to the raising of other United States
notes of smaller denominations to the
stature Of these more than one-tenth Of
each has been scissorod out with clean
cut. Under the old regulations of the
Treasury Department, which existed for
more than ten years, these two notes could
have been redeemed for only nine-tenths
of their face value. Sixty dollars would,
under the old rules, have been deducted
for mutilations. These rules, unfortun-
ately for the Government, have been late
ly modified, so that this penalty cannot
be enforced. Under this more than gen
erous modification, you claim to have re-
turned to you United States notes of like
denominations, under Government con-
tract at the expense of the United
States. The charge to the Government
by the Express Company for their trans
portation both ways would be $1.2O. For
the dog-days, consider this request de-
cidedly cool. First, you or your client
wilifully mutilate clean, new notes, and
then you ask the Government not only to
replace them with other new, unmutilated
notes, to be in their turn, for aught I
know, mutilated and returned with a like
request for other new notes, but to pay the
expense and run the risk Of transporta-
ton both ways. This, to my mind, is
piling it ON pretty steep. You not only
burn with hot iron, but ask the burned
one to pay for heating the poker. If you
will turn to the fifty-eighth section Of the
National Banking law, you will find that
if any person had treated any two of
your bank notes in the way these two
United States notes have been treated,
you could recover by action, in any court
having jurisdiction, $50 for each of the
mutilations. Now, what is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander. Ought
not the perpetrators Of these mutilatiOns
be made to respond in like manner? I'm
der the circumstances, it has been con-
cluded that the notes shall be retained at
any rate until the pieces that were cut out
Of them shall be returned to this office,
and until the apparent fraudulent or ma
licious mutilation shall have been salts
factorily explained to the Department.
Very respectfully yours,
+. E. SPINNER,
s.ses~ 4E1@ Treasurer of United States.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22

ems past thirty years of age, 10 widowers
and bachelors, deacons, ministers and
ministers widows, while of manageable
women and men under 80 years of age
there are but 25.
A LEAvENwoRTH photographer tells
how he procured a spirit picture. He
says he first took picture of Mr.. Harris
and painted his whiskers out. Then he
cut the face out of an old lady's photo
graph and pasted Harris in. He made a
negative from this, and then transparent
positive. He next held his head before a
sensitized plate in dark room, and the
spirit picture was made.
A CARGO Of rotten tea was recently sold
in New York for one-twelfth of cent a
pound. 1t was taken to malt house,
washed and dried, and will soon undergo
what is termed the doctoring process, the
most important part of which is the use
of poisonous chemicals to give it taste,
astringency and color! The fortunate
buyer expects to realize large fortune
out of the fraud.
THE Santa Barbara (Cal) grapevine
measures four feet four inches in circum-
ference, its branches being supported by
fifty-two trellises, having for a number of
years produced annually from five to six
tons, or from 10000 to $4,000 pounds of
grapes. 1t is estimated that during the
last sixty years its total yield approx
mates the enormous product Of half a
million pounds of grapes, which, at five
cents per pound, would amount to $685.
900.
A WORCESTER (Mass) paper says that
on a recent Saturday, a workman in one
of the shops in Milbury was attracted by
the painful and long continued believing
of a COW, and at length started out to as
certain the cause. He followed the sound
to a pasture, where he found cow which
had fallen, in attempting to get over a
wall, in such manner as not to be able
to get up, and huge brindle dog was en-
gagged in gnawing her living body. Not
daring to approach the ravenous beast
alone, the man went for help, and when
he returned the dog was gone. The COW
was horribly torn about the TANKS, and
both her eyes were dug out.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22
VINEGAR B1rrERs THE GREATEST YE,

"A few doses stir the life-current; slug.
gishness departs, pain vanishes, and after
continued use of the remedy the whole
body CLOVIS with a new energy and new
being. Purge the blood and every organ
will perform its function perfectly. The
stomach will be no longer tortured with
Dyspepsia; the lungs will be free from
Consumption, the liver active, the heart
healthy, the brain clear, the nerves braced,
and the mind elastic Use the "VINEGAR
BITTERs, and purge your blood. Whether
the disease be Fe0er, Consumption. Dys-
peps5o, A.fsct5on Of the Ld0er or Kidneys,
Dr0psy, CatGrrh, Rheumatism, G0ut, or
pains and aches Of any kind, attack it in
it's stronghold, the blood-the fountain of
life-and it will soon surrender and aban-
don the outposts. To do this you must
have the "VINEGAR BITTERs; there is no
complaint to which the human system is
liable, that will not yield to its influence,
and there are thousands which no other
remedial agent will remove.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22
Thirty Years Experience of an Odd
Nurse.

Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip-
ton of of the best Female Physicians and Nurses
in the United States and has been used for thirty
years with neverfaiing safety and success by mill
ions of mothers and children, from the feeble infant
of week old to the adult 1t corrects acidity of
the stomach relieves wind colic regulates the bow
els and gives rest health and comfort to mother and
child We believe it to be the Best and Surest Rene
dy in the World in all cases of DYSENTERY and
DIARRHQEA IN CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
Teething or from any other cause. Full directions
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the fac-simile OF CURTIS & PERKINS is on
the outside wrapper.
CorD By Arr. MEDrcTNE nEAvTRs