Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
TIE FARMERS MOVEMENT.
Gossip of the Oranges.

Gossip of the Oranges.
THERE are eight oranges in operation
In Kansas.
EIGHrY-F1vE oranges have been organ
lied in California.
VERMONT leads in New England States
In number of oranges, having rs.
THE oranges of Missouri are indebted
to the Paris Appeat for hearty cham
pionship of their interests.
THE grangers of Vermont have made
arrangements by which, for the first
time, they obtain their groceries from
Boston at wholesale rates.
THE farmers of Perry County, O.,
have grange store, and report its fiat
tering success. Over 10000 pounds of
wool were packed last week.
The Secretary of State of Iowa has
received for record the articles of incor-
poration of the Grain Growers Manu-
featuring Company of Cedar Rapids.
In nearly every county of Illinois the
nti-Monopolists have put candidates
in the field, and they are confident they
will have a large majority in the next
Legislature of the State
IT is asserted that the Farmers Asso-
citation of Champaign county, ILL.,, re-
Gently sent to Chicago nineteen carloads
of corn on which they saved $500 by
attending to the business themselves.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Mar
CHI ~ 1,x-,- lot
that no man without good moral char
acter, or who is entangled with political,
job or ring alliance, need expect 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
reduction of the passenger tariff of the
Illinois railroads from five to three
cents mile.
The Changers, or Patrons of Hus-
bandry, have adopted as a rule of their
order, never to go to law, and to have
all disputes settled by arbitration. The
case comes on without delay, and each
man telling his story. jury of picked
neighbors and mutual friends decide
what is right.
The plan of the Grange Insurance
Association of Mower county, Mimi, is
on the Tontine principle. Each men,
Der pays in $40 on joining, and the
money is deposited in bank. When a
member dies his family is paid 81 for
each member of his class, by check
upon the bank, and assessment may
then be made upon the remaining mem
bers, If desired, to make the fund good.
A WASHINGTON telegram says: The
Secretary of the National Grange here
declares that the charter of the grange
composed in Boston of grain merchants,
etc., has not been legally revoked, and
that they can go on as heretofore. He
says there is no power to revoke their
charter, except by the National Grange,
which does not meet until February in
this city, and besides, he claims that
these merchants, being interested in the
products of agriculture, are eligible as
Changers.
FARMERS who belong to the Catholic
church are prevented by their faith
from joining the faurOnS OF husDanufy.
Lest this fact should inspire some mis-
apprehension of their position, the
Catholic farmers of Olmsted county,
Mimi, held meeting few days since,
and adopted a series of resolutions on
the subject. These set forth the reason
why they have not become members of
the order, and express the warmest SYM
pathy with its objects and their appro-
baton of all its features except that of
secresy. Action was also taken which
contemplates the organization of an
open sodality having like purposes in
view.