Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27

CHcCho oiSucu ny Hill uuIluS Tile pre-
vious month.
Sec. ,. He shall report to the Ma
tional Grange at each annual session a
statement of all receipts of deposits
made by him and of all drafts OF
checks signed by him since his last
annual report.
At. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
Lecturer to visit, for the good of the
Order, such portions of the United
States as the Executives Committee
may direct, for which services he shall
receive compensation.
Art. 9. 1t shall be the duty of the
Executive Committee to exercise a
general supervision of the affairs OF
the Order during the recess of the
National Grange to instruct the Sec
rotary in regard to printing and dis
bursements, and to place i'll his hands
a contingent fund to decide ali ques-
tions and appeals referred to them by
the officers and members of State
Oranges, and to lay before Ii e National
Grange at each session a report of al
such questions and appeals and their
decision thereon.
Art. 10. Sec. !. Such com pensation
for time and service shall be given the
Master, Lecturer, Treasurer and Ex-
ecutive Committee, as the National
Grange may, from time to time, deter
mine
Sec. 2. Whenever General Deputies
are appointed by the Master of the
National Grange, said Deputies shall
receive such compensation for time
and services as may be determined by
the Executive Committee : ProUided,
In no case shall pay from the National
Grange be given General Deputies iii
any States after the formation of its
State Grange.
Art. IL. Sec. 1. The financial exist
ence of Subordinate Oranges shall
date from the first day of January,
| first day of April, first day of July,
| and first day of October subsequent to
the day of their organization, from
| which date their first quarter shall
| commence.
Sec. 2. State Oranges shall date
their financial existence three months
after the first day Of January, first OF
April, first of July, and first of Octo-
Der Immediately following their or
ganization.
Art. IL. Each State Grange shall be
| entitled to send one representative.
who shall be a Master Thereof, or his
| proxy, to all meetings of the National
| Grange. He shall receive mileage al
| the rate of five cents per mile bOtl
ways, computed by the nearest prac-
ticabie route, to be paid as.follows: The
Master and Secretary of the National
Grange shall give such representative
an order for the amount on the Treas
urer of the State Grange which he
represents, and this order shall be
receivable by the National Grange i'll
payment of State dues.
Art. IL. Special meetings of the
National Grange shall be called by the
Master upon the application of the
Masters .of ten State Oranges, one
months notice of such meeting being
| given to each member of the National
Gronge. No alteration or amendment
to the Bylaws or Ritual shall be made
at any SIP ecial meeting.
| Art. IA. These Bylaws may tie al
tered or amended at any annual meet
ing of the National Grange by two
thirds vote of the members present. .
Our Special Corresponds nee.
News from the Nest-The PestiIence
| in Memphis-It Follows the Mis-.
| sissiPPi-Great UneasiMeSs Sum.
mer TOurs-CrOps in mississippi
| Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama
| Atlanta Rivals Memphis The
Columbia of To-day.
| On THE WING, June 90, 1873.
| Dear Journal
There has been an excess of rain,
| and agricultural products are not as
promising as they usually are at this
season added to which there is ex-
ceeding scarcity OF money, which will
probably continue till the new crops
come to market,
The pestilence, a fatal species OF
cholera, is certainly prevailing in
Memphis, though the city physicians
| disagree somewhat as to whether it is
Asiatic or Mississippi cholera ; GER
tainly, Asiatic or American, it is very
apt to prove fatal in five hours, unless
taken in time and ii reaction produced
| before collapse. 1t is noticed that the
! disease follows the great river, as its
antitype III Europe followed the Wan
| dering Jew, and that people that are
very careful in their diet and temper
ate in their habits are almost certain
to escape it. There were twelve deaths
from it the day before we left. and
smallpox was also prevailing among
| the negroes and lower classes. There
was a deep anxiety felt, even by the
| coolest, and those who could were
! sending their families from the city.
Close examination shows that
vegetables and fruit, especially
green cabbage and raspberries,
are coated with very minute insects,
which, when eaten, no doubt, are
potent i'll creating cholera. The new
ly organized City Board of Health are
| instituting strict sanitary regulations
and intend to publish regular mortu-
airy statistics.
Corn crops in Mississippi are su-
perb and will probably turn out from
so to as bushels to the acre. Cotton,
of course, is in the grass-there having
been rain every day for a week. In
West Tennessee we found it inferior,
but in Alabama both cotton and corn
were clean, though not so well grown
as in Mississippi. On The red lands
about TuscumbIa, Alabama, corn is
splendid. The wheat crop in Georgia
has turned out fine; everywhere one
sees the yellow fields dotted with heavy
golden shocks.
What grand growing city Atlanta
is 1t really threatens to rival Mem
phis, with its vast machine shops, enur-
mons business houses, and constantly
extending boundaries. It's First Church
is n model of architectural elegance.
Columbia, South Carolina, looks like
a newly built city. Where the great
confagration ragged now stand hand
some dwellings, and Main street, once
Il scene of desolate ruin, is restored 10
far more than its pristine magnif cence.
Five-story brick fronts line por=
tions of its wide thoroughfare and
the show windows astonish by their
magniticence. There are two splendid
new hotels on Main street, and the
completed State HOnse fronts this
grand approval. But there IS an air
of about the State House.
Those superb marble walls appear
singularly incongrsous in contrast with
the plain roof, which has once been
entirely blown off; and the entire all
Sence of n cupOla or tower.