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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

been under consideration in the body
where it originated for several days,
and had been much discussed in the
Richmond newspapers, so that Mr..
Davis was bound to know that it was
before Congress. By existing law his
salary was payable alone in Confederate
paper, and such was the distinct under
standing when his second election oc-
CURED. His remarkable physiognomy
stood visibly impressed upon every
Confederate note, so that the payment
of his salary in anything but Confeder-
ate paper was fatally % discredit the
only currency we had. Mr.. Davis had
a clearinghouse supple! him, and fur
niture, fuel, and provisions for six
horses, at the Governments expense.
The members of Congress were content
to receive, as the recompense of their
Legislature labors, Confederate money,
though it was now worth only ten cents
on the dollar The Confederate soldiers
would have been glad to get their own
wretched pay in paper currency, but
could not even get that. The poor fell
lows were, most of them, in rags and
barefoot. When this Legislative mon
strun horrend,tm reached the House /
rose in my place and said that 1 would
move a test vote; 1 wished to know how
many men there were slavish and cor
rupt enough to vote for so infa-
nous a measure, and / moved to
out it ON the table, calling for the ayes
and nays. To the honor of the body be
it spoken, only seven persons had the
unblushing audacity to vote yea. Some
of these, 1 learn, are now complaining
most vehemently because the Congress
of the United States recently increased
the Presidents salary from S25, 900 to
$4,000, though every man of sense
knows that $50, 900 will hardly go as far
as SO, 900 would have done in the pur-
chase of the necessaries of life, in the
days of our earlier Presidents. / have
not stated hundredth part of the enor-
mites the enactment of which / was
daily compelled to witness in Richmond.
l hope never to be compelled to detail
all witnessed there"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
Grange Progress.

The following is from the Buffalo
Express There can be but little doubt
that the ''grange" system will spread to
the East. 1t is to be hoped that its
managers will get rid of the fummery
in the way of rituals, grips, passwords,
etc., with which it is now incumbered.
Then, if they would make each school
district the basis of grange, they will
be much more likely to meet with per-
manent success than if they try to build
up large, magnificent associations,
having their centers in cities and vii
lagos. The school-house would furnish
a convenient place of meeting to begin
with afterward they could replace it
by small, pleasant, nicely furnished
building if they desired. A social
meeting once a week, with business
meetings as often as might be necessary,
would tend to give the rural population
a better opportunity for Improvement
and enjoyment than they have ever had
before in this or any other country.
That the tendencies are all in that direc-
ton is plain to every one who surveys
the whole field of our national life ard
observes the thousand and one efforts
made by the working classes to improve
their condition, not only pecuniarily and
politically, but socially and intellec-
tually
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

Max Adeler is responsible for the fol-
lowing:
eve are glad to learn that the En-
peror of China has issued decree de-
claring that if the chief officer of his
household andes dishes so carelessly
as to break them, he shall be killed.
We say we are glad of this, because we
hope to have the same regulation put
into effect in this country. If it is,
about 1000 hired girls will be executed
every week, and we may reasonably
hope that the destruction of crockely
will be checked. We have stopped it
temporarily in our house by having q
tea-set made of wrought-iron and paint
ed white. When new hired girl comes
she drops the coffee-pot upon the floor.
Finding, with amazement, that it does
not break, she thumps it with a fiat
iron and drops bricks on it, and goes
out and borrows sledge-hammer and
whacks it; and then, perceiving that it
is as good as ever, she sits down in front
of that coffee-pot and bursts into tears
Then she gives warning, loads up will
sugar, beef and butter, for her sick
aunt, embezzles three or four hem
stitched handkerchiefs, and any odd
pillow-cases that are lying around, and
starts for the nearest intelligence office.
We wouldn't take million dollars for
that tea-set."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
Inc IOnOWlnS Is tne NUMBER OF oranges Or
ganized in the United States up to this dates
Trees and Rainfall.

The effect of trees on the rainfall of a
country is no longer question. A
peach tree gives off eighteen pounds, or
about two ga..ons, of moisture every
twelve hours. The evaporation from
the earth through trees is immense; the
roots often draw from springs them
selves, and throw off through their
branches great volumes of humid air.
Especially is this true in Nebraska,
where, at the depth of twenty feet, white
sand is struck, and this sand is so full
of water that, in many places, subter-
raneous streams have been formed,
which have been frequently found when
boring shafts or wells.
The great currents of air which leave
the Pacific coast humid and warm empty
in SHOWS on the Rocky Mountains, and,
leaving the mountains dry, they sweep
over the vast plains, finding no moisture
to take up until they pass over the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi, when, having be-
come again charged, they empty in Hi
nOis and Wisconsin. In Wyoming Ter
ritory, the dearth is almost complete
but in Nebraska the heavily-timbered
heads of her streams give some humid
ity, and the clouds empty in frequent
showers along the Loups, Niobrara,
Plates, Elkhorn, and Missouri. Those
who have watched the effect of forests
on rainfalls say that. by commencing at
the edge of the dry belt, the forests, and
consequent rainfalls, may gradually be
extended across the whole of the dry
belt. So we might commence, say 200
miles west of Omaha, and, by gradually
planting trees westward, increase the
humidity of the atmosphere, until the
required moisture for rain is reached all
over the PLAINS.
In Germany the Elbe lost Is per cent
of Its flow In consequence of cutting
away the trees along its banks, exposing
the waters to the hot sun and conse-
quent increased evaporation. The island
of Santa Cruz, In the West Indies,
which twenty years ago was garden of
fertility, is now desert-the result of
cutting away the forests. The theory
is this: The dry currents of air are re-
tarded by forests and elevated until a
point of condensation is reached. Radi-
alton is also prevented, the air cooled,
and the clouds passing over forests are
rendered more easily condensed. Elec-
tricity is also great agent, the trees
being negatively charged, and drawing
with great power the positively-charged
clouds.
/ advance these theories with no hest
tating doubts, for they are no longer
experiments, but facts, demonstrated by
positive experience and knowledge of
the laws that govern the atmosphere.
Cor. CHICAGO Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

"RENT WILL EAT OUT Your LIFE
This is startling injunction, but it is
one that interests those who are con-
stantly paying rents. Rent is vampire
that sucks and drains the life from en-
ergy and hope. 1t is treadmin whose
ceaseless turn wears out life in poverty,
depriving it of half its joys, recreations
and pleasures. House-rent is nothing
else than compound interest on capital,
insurance, taxes, and the wear and tear
of other mems investments. "The ten
ant must foot the whole bill, no trees
grow for his benefit, no abatement of
taxes in his favor, and no rebate of in
terest or insurance ever reaches his
purse. The result is our poor, but we'll
doing mechanic, afer working ten years,
finds himself no nearer a home of his
own than when he started in life, and
all because he could not get chance to
live cheaply from the start.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

CUNNING LITTLE ToADs.-It is certain
that Shakespeare's idea of the toad was
inaccurate in two respects. The toad is
not "ugly and venomous," and does not
wear "a precious jewel in its head. "
The Rev. J. G. Wood, that excellent
naturalist and charming writer, assures
us that his children had a trough full
of tame toads, each of which answers to
its own particular name and comes when
called. The children, he says, carry
them round the garden, and hold them
up to any insect they may chance to
fancy, to enable them to swallow it,
which they do by lightning flash of
their glutinous tongues. Nay, more
their tender care for their unlovely pets
is SO great that they battle and kiss them
daily, he declares, just as they them
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
The SiOux.Pawnee Fight.

To-day, about fifty Pawnee, with
about $50 horses, came into town from
the southwest and camped. From their
appearance it was evident they had been
severely handled. Upon the 6 o'clock
freight about 100 more arrived, with a
box-car of wounded ones with them.
They report a severe engagement with
the Sioux, upon the divide southwest of
Plum Greek, about forty miles, in which
they lost large number, all their buffa-
10 meat, a large number of squaws and
papooses, saddles, and other things.
They relate that they (the Sioux came
upon their defenseless camp of women
and children and plassacred all of them,
and then sought them out, and they
being poorly armed, and the Sioux well
armed, they fought at great disadvan-
tage, and their losses were consequently
great. The accounts are so confused and
contradictory that it is impossible to get
true and reliable statement, and then
we all know that their ideas of truth
1t is alleged the Sioux are allowed SUI
perior arms, and the Pawnees, on ac-
count of their peaceable character, are
not. One of two things ought to be
done by the Government with these
Pawnees, viz. /: either keep them rigidly
on their reservation, and give them
plenty of food, or, when they are per-
mitted to go upon the buffalo hunting
grounds, where the chances are they
will meet the hostile Sioux, give them
good arms and plenty of ammunition to
meet their foes on an equal footing.
This is simple justice. / am afraid they
will soon get it through their thick
skulls that it don't pay very large
dividend to be peaceable and quiet
Kearney Junction, Cor. Omaha Herald.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

selves are treated by their nurse. Upon
one occasion one of the children, who
had received an orange, was seen with
her own especial toad seated on her
hand, partaking with his mistress of
the orange in alternate sucks or bites.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Officers of the State Oranges, and their
Postofiice Address-Number of Oranges
Organized.

Officers of the State Oranges, and their
Postoffice Address-Number of Oranges
Organized.
Master-Alonzo Gordon, Rock Falls.
Secretary-O. E. Tanning. Gait.
MINNESOTA.
Master-George 1. Parsons, Winona.
Secretary-William Pat, st Paul.
IOWA.
Master-A. b. Smedley Cresco.
Secretary-Gen. William Duane Wilson, Des
Moines.
WISCONSIN.
Master-Col. John Cochrane. Waupon.
Secretary. Brainerd Oshkosh.
INDIANA.
Master-John Weir, Terre Haute.
Secrvtary-T. Reene, Valparaiso.
KANSAS.
Master-T. G. Y. Boiling, Jacksonville.
Secretary-George w. Sturgeon, Jackson
vile.
NEBRASKA.
Master-William b. Porter.
Secretary-William McCaig, Elmwood
TENNESSEE.
Master-William MAXWELL Maxville.
Secretary7J. 2. McMurray, Trenton.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Master-W. s. Battle, Tarboro.
Secretary-C. w. Lawrence, Fayetteville.
ARKANSAS.
Master-John 7. JONES' Helena
Secretary-John S. Williams, Devall's Bluff
MISSISSIPPI.
Master-Gen A. j. Vaughn, Early Grove.
Secretary-W. l.. Williams.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Master-Thomas Taylor. Columbia
Secretary-Col. d. Wyatt. Coksbury.
VERMONT.
Master-E. p. Cotton, Irasburg.
Secretary e. l.. Hovey, st. Johnsbury.
OHIO.
Masters. H. Ellis, Springsboro.
Secretary-D. N. Stewart Xenia
MICHIGAN.
Masters. f. Brown. Schoolcraft.
Secretary-A. NJ. Coffee, Knob Nosier.
GEORGIA.
Master-Col. l. j. Smith. Oconee.
Secretary-E. Taylor, Colapachee.
CALIFORNIA.
MASTER. W. A. Wright, Turlock
Secretary-W. H. Baxter, Turlock.
NUMBER OF ORANGES.
Tho f,,l1nxvipor 10 ba oba, &
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
To CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the name OF the author not necessarily for
publication, but asan evidence of good faith the
part Of the Wite only side of the paper
Be particularly careful in giving names and oates 10
have the letters and figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

These are only few of the many ex-
amples that we can give, but these will
suffice. The purchases by the State
grange have saved the farmers, by COM
putation and comparison of the price at
the implement stores, $3.50, 200. Farm
ers, reflect upon the above at your
leisure.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

A LAZY Essex street man being re-
quested to stone some raisins, told his
wife to try coaxing first.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

WHY is the letter G like generous
fairy? Because it converts ash into
cash.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
Facts in Relation to Patrons of Hus-
bandry i'm Iowa.

The following are a few of the
many advantages which the oranges are
reaping through their cooperative move
ment
At first they encountered the hostility
not only of all the retail merchants in
their several towns, but also that of the
wholesale merchant and the manufac-
turer. But this hostility has to great
extent been overcome, as the grangers
make 1T point to deal with home mer-
chants and home manufacturers to as
great an extent as possible. Some of
the manufacturers say that their agen-
cies cost them from $25, ZOO to 100000
per annum, and that they would be
glad to deal with the consumers direct,
either through the State grange or each
separate subordinate grange. There is
an old adage that figures won't lie,"
and the following are some of the figures
which the grangers have been offered,
and at which they are at present max
ing purchases.
SEWING MACHINES.
One manufacturer offers his machines
as follows
No. 5, regular price $50, is offered Oranges
ior: go. $50
No. 6. regular price s55, is offered Oranges
for. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ....... 80
No. Z, regular price 500, is offered Oranges
Tor. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Sc
No. 8, regular price s65, is offered Oranges
Tor. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
Another manufacturer offers the fol-
lowing prices:
Price Sos, is offered Oranges for $50 90
Price $40, is offered Oranges for. ........ 400
Price $40, is offered Oranges for . 43 so
Price $50, is offered Oranges for .... 40 50
Price s95, is offered Oranges for. ...... 800
Corresponding reductions are made
in higher-priced machines.
ORGANS.
A certain organ mandatory offers to
furnish instruments to oranges at the
following rates:
No. 20, Grange price 1885, retail price. ... $175
No. 9, Grange price S155, retail price ..... 2l0
No. 40, Grange price Sl6s, retail price ..... DDS
No. ., Grange price $40, retail price ...... $50
Grange church organ, Grange price $500, retail
pi'Sc.. 4UO
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28

MOWERS.
An Agricultural Works" at st.
Louis offers to furnish certain style of
mower at the following rates
Four-foot cut, price Sll0 with per cent. off SS5
Four-and-a-haf-foot cut, price $40, with per
CORN-SHELLERS.
An Illinois mandatory sends the
following price-lst, with inducements
e.,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-28
PLOwS.
An Iowa firm sends the following
lief of, @loxro

prlce-llst of plOws
No. l, stirring, plain, sl4 with per cent.
OFF,. Northumberland 81 20
No. 2, stirring, half-steel land-plate, SIC with
per cent. of. ........................ IL 50
No. 8, stirring, full-steel hand-plate, SIC; with
per cent. on. :. H. &C
No. A, stubbe, full-steel land-plate, $40; with
per cent. of. ....................... 1920
No. s. sod, full-steel land-plate, $40; with per
cent. of. Observation-Disclosures. -. 1s. 90
No. 8, grub full-steel land-plate, S24 with
per cent. of. .................... 10 20
All of the above plows thoroughly hardened
and made of the best refined steel The price
of No. grub-plow includes cutter and fasten-
ing. A discount of 20 per cent the above to
Grange.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-07

The New York Stakeholder in review
ing the business prospects says: I'VE
shall not build as many miles of railroad
this year as last and in 1872 we built 200
miles less than 1871. Nor shall we build
in the cities, except in those ravaged by
fire, as many fine houses as in 1872. Other
expenses will be to some extent reduced
Merchandise, it is already seen, will no
be as profitable as last year, though in the
aggregate it paid but poor profits in 1872
For these and various other reasons, more
labor will be turned to immediate produc.
tive industries than for several years past,
with the result that at the end of the year
we shall be financially stronger, without
so much borrowing from Europe, but in a
healthier method, namely, through accu-
mutations of domestic capital. So that
the stringency in money affairs. so severe
ly felt in March and April, and indeed pre-
vailing with more or less rigor for six
months preceding, will be found to work
to the general advantage, accelerating
progress and making affairs lively in 1874. "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-07

On the 2Gth of May, just as the steamer
Contra Costa was about to start from the land
ing at Point San Quentin, Cal, a wagon was
driven down from the prison with what seemed
to be box of wagon spokes. This was soon
trundled on board, and set on deck end up.
when one of the deck hands heard voice say,
"Turn the box over on its side-turn it on
the side" The man surmised that the order
came from the captain, but that fuctionary
upon being questioned said that it didn't.
Again came the sepulchral and mysterious
words "For Heavens sake turn the box
over-turn it over.' voice from the tomb
is impressive, but voice from box ofwagon
spokes is narrowing. The captain thought the
thing worth looking into, and when he looked
into 1t he found, in this box only four feet long
and two feet deep and vide, two conyicts who
had secreted themselves for the purpose of
escape. As the position of the box brought
one of the convicts head downward with his
companions weight on top of him, it may be
readily imagined that both came out bathed in
Precipitation and nearly stfied. Very glad
the gentlemen were to get out and go back to
their cid quarters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-07
NOT A POSSIBLE THING.

We occasionally hear the suggestion that
some candidate for the gubernatorial NOM
ination, not yet mentioned, will make his
appearance at the Bangor convention and
that Kent and Stone will retire in his favor.
Coming from the friends of those gentle
men, as it invariably does, it is declar;,-
ton which is tantamount to confession
that they have no faith in the success of
either Kent or Stone. Men who have
confidence that their favorite candidate
will prevail never listen to plans like that
Only those who feel their case is hopeless
entertain the thought of swapping" can
didates at convention. Delegates will be
elected to vote for Dinglcy, Kent or Stone.
These are the only names which have
been canvassed among the people in con-
nection with the nomination. If Kent
and Stone retire they cannot transfer their
supporters to any other man by any as
signment they may attempt to make. We
do not think they will undertake it, because
they are men of too much honor to make
merchandise of their friends. But whether
they attempt it or not they will not control
the votes of the delegates, who will feel
that when their leader has abandoned the
field they have full liberty to enlist under
the banner of any candidate whom they
may select.
Now we are divulging nothing new
when we state rs an existing fact that the
very strongholds Of Kent and Stone are for
Dingley as their second choice Here in
Augusta, where Mr.. Stone has warm
friends, they make no secret of saying that
when Mr.. Stone retires their next choice
is Dingley. Old York, the home of Mr..
Stone, we are well assured from reliable
sources of information in that county, will
be nearly unanimous for Dingley if Stone
retires. Penobscot will support Dingley
heartily when Judge Kent withdraws.
ANA SO from all parts OF the State are as
sorances given that no bargaining can
transfer the following OF Kent and Stone
TO any new candidate, but in the event
that they withdraw the delegates which
supported them will mainly sustain Nelson
Dingley, Jr., as their next choice.
Those who have examined most care
fully the subject Of new candidate
have received no encouragement to labor
in that direction. They find that public
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-07

opinion has already settled the matter, the
friends of Kent and Stone both declaring
that Dingley and no other must be their
second choice. Practically the PROPOSE
ton TO substitute new man for Kent and
Stone is the signal for entire surrender.
If there were any doubts of Mr.. Dingley's
nomination this brushes them away at
once. No decided or hopeful opposition to
him can exsist under such circumstances.
The opposition is weak, divided, irresolutc,
searching for new leader just on the eve
of battle, while the supporters of Mr..
Dngley have their colors nailed to the
mast and are moving steadily forward in
unbroken line. We imagine the scheme
of putting a new candidate in the field at
this late day will never prove 4 reality,
and that the contest for the nomination
will be decently and satisfactorily closed
between the three gentlemen now proml-
nent rs candidates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-07

There arrived in Louisville, few days ago,
on foot all the way from Mississippi, vener-
able sick negro, who had trudged all the
weary distance thither to obtain hospital treat
ment, and was accompanied by small brown
dog. When told, says the Courier Journal,
that he must give up his dog before he could
go to the City Hospital, the poor old man took
the dog in his arms, and, with the tears run
ming down his face, replied that the dog was
the best friend he had in the world and that
he would rather die from want in the streets
with his dog Tim, than live in comfort with
out him. This exhibition Of affection was ir-
resistible, and Esquire Pat Joyce, the com.
missioner, gave him permit to enter the
hospital, and to carry his dog with him; at
the same time giving him money to buy a
muzzle, in order that the dog might enjoy the
limits of the hospital grounds.