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EXECUTORS SALE.

Notice is hereby given that !, executor Of Martin
Bach, late Of the city of Red Wing in the county of
Goodhue, State OF Minnesota, deceased, WILL Sat-
urday, the thirteenth day Of june A. D. 1874 at ten
of the Court House, in the city Of Red Wing in said
county, proceed to sell at public auction to the h9h
est bidder for cash, the following real estate belong
ing to the estate of said deceased, situate in said
county Of Goodhue, to-wit One-haf of land off
from the side Of the tree, and one-haf acre Of
land heretofore BY Phelps Graham decided to Samuef
Cornelius, Jr., described as follows Commenciuc nj
the northeast corner Of said 2 tract, running
thence south nine degrees and thirty minutes west
six 6) chains and thirty 34) links theace north
eight and nine one hundredths links to point ::
thence north nine ( degrees and thirty (3O1 minutes
east. six chains and thirty (34 links thence
south eightyone degrees and ten minutes east sew
and nine hundredths links to the place
of beginning, containing one-half acre. Also begin
marked, and running thence north eighty degrees
west. six chains and thirty-tour links to stake
thence north nine degrees east, six chains and
thirty-four links thence south eightyQpe (Sl) de-
grees east, six chains and thirty -four links thence.
south nine degrees west, six chains and thrty-four
links to the place of beginning. all in township one
hundred and thirteen C13b range fifteen (l5lwesf
excepting two and a-half acres decided BY PhelnC2
Graham to Samuel Cornelius, described A follov..
Beginning at stake situate eighty-four links from
and bearing north one degree and Ave minutes ve.t
running thence south eighty-one, degrees and fen
minutes, east three chalns and ninety-Nour and om.
half links; thence south nine degrees and thirty min
utes vest six chains aud thirty.four links theme.
north eighty-one degrees and ten minutes west thr.
chains and sesenty1our and oae-half links thenee
north nine degrees and thirty minutes east six cha;n
ana thlrty -four links to the place of beginning. 81
Dated this 2Oth. day Of May, A %. .l874 ~
i 4w20 JOHN RRiEDRICHs. Exec-t.r
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

The people Of Esdaile, Wis, will have a
good old-style 4th of July celebration.
Pleasant grounds have been selected and
are partly prepared. A special Artillery
Company has been formed, Benz Coonradt
Capt., that will commence the exercises by
their 81 guns at sunrise. At 10 o'clock a.
NJ, the parade Of the Most Ancient Knights
Of the Legion Of Endsandtagsites, Captain
Der Won Waxumforthboy 1916 o'clock a.
M. 13 guns by Artillery Co., and forming
Of the procession, corner of Main and Mill
streets, near company's Office. At II o'clock
a. NJ. the procession will march to the
grounds where the following order of ex-
ercises will be followed, with Hon. H. L.
Bevans as President of the day: 1st,
song I'd, prayer; Sd, song 4th, reading
Declaration Of Independence; 5th, song
and guns by Artillery Company; 9Th, ora
tion, Prof. Cady, of River Falls.
During the exercises dinner will be
served basket style. After the regular in
tellectual exercises there will be matched
game Of Base Ball, followed by an out door
dance in the grove. All intoxicating
liquors are to be kept from the grounds,
and the Marshal. John Duse, with his as
sistant, s. H. Rice, will take pains to make
all comfortable. A good time is expect,
ed.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

A kind word spoken to a husband
will 60 further than broomstick or a
Aatiron, says a woman of experience.
And the rule works as we'll the other
way, says man who has tried it.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

Chinck bugs are devastating the crops
Of Southern Wis. i; We expect everything
to disappear beneath their ravages.
Give us grasshoppers, they don't smell
so bad.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

There arc about 20 horses training
at Oshkosh for the various races
throughout the State. Among them is
Badger Girl, who has a record of
2:254.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

A Fort Atkinson miller has invented
. naiddlsays machine which is in sue
cessful operation. We think he is be-
hind the times, or he would have con-
suited the Grangers, He perhaps
don't know that such machines are un.
popular with them. He don't take the
ADVANCE. s. SIS SIS
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

GAINESVILLE claims the best Grange
Hall in the State, both for size and
convenience. Since its completion the
house has been warmed twice, aud mu-
sic, dancing, and a general good time
has been the order of the evening.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

Court week in Crawford County was
Well represented by Changers they all
express themselves to man, in favor
of the Potter law and it's enforcement
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

BEING careful to I'll the lungs well
with air before attempting to speak, dill
igently followed it up, is said to be
cure for stammering.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

Says the Independent, A. Willard, Of
Boston, is now in Elkhorn making ar
rangemcnts with the farmers of the
county to hold wool fair and festival
on the fair grounds within few weeks.
It is thought that it will result in bene-
fting the wool growing interest.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

IT is said to have been made misde
meanor in California for one person t.
ask another to drink at public bar.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17
wisconsin Department.
MISCELLANY AND NEWS.
BY e. b. Carter.

Elkhorn boasts of its pretty school
teachers the men take wonderful in,
terest in education.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

Miss CATHERINE BEEcHER has been
Offering prizes to girls in her school who
would make the best bread. She is a
oenefactress to the race and much more
30 to the girls. The Ledger says:
Miss Beecher did public service,
besides promoting the welfare of her
pupils, in Offering these rewards. The
young woman who can make the best
bread can excel in many other depart
ments Of housekeeping; aud the re-
wards always open to such, as soon as
they are found out, are good husband
and . pleasant home.
Place in the reading-room Of !.
Young Mems Christian Association /
directory Of all the girls who know how
to make good bread, and We will guar
antee that no better thumbed volume
will be found il the library.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

The amount of opium imported into
this country during the past year, is
said to have been of the enormous VAL
ue at wholesale of nine hundred and
sixteen thousand one hundred and forty
two dollars. This is a large increase
over any previous year. If We keep on
at this rate we shall not only out-strip
the world in whisky drinking, but shall
excel even China in opium eating. Opt
um is said to be only little worse in
its influence on health and morals than
alcohol, which is encouraging consider
ing how many have been annually done
for by alcohol.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

We take pleasure in announcing to
the sporting public that Darien has
opened up track, and is now ready to
meet the trotting world. We don't
know but Bonner may be induced to
patronize it as it is run under the aus
pices Of the church, consequently a
moral affair.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

THE GRANGE ADVANCE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE II: 1874.
WHILE opium eating is increasing in
America, tobacco using is decreasing in
England.
DIVORCE is said to be almost in,possi-
BILE in Russia. What sad state of
barbarism.
IT is said to have been made misdt
meanor in California for one person t.
ask another to drink at public bar.
BEING careful to fill the lungs we'll
with air before attempting to speak, dill
igently followed it up, is said to be a
cure for stammering.
AND now the channel is to b. tnu-
neled and Great Britain and France to
be made to shake hands under the sea.
Wonders will never cease.
FISH culture is one Of the live ques.
tions Of the day. Several States, in.
cluding our own, have lately appointed
Commissioners to encourage and ad-
vance this branch Of industry.
The Kansas Agricultural College
has ten telegraphic instruments, and
twenty-five cases of type, and these
have proved to be the most popular in
dustrial accomplishments Of the institu-
tion with the students.-Er.
THE public analyst of Sheffield, Eng
land, recently submitted five samples of
purposely adulterated tea to a tea faster
Of great experience, with a request for
his opinion as to their purity. He
passed two of the samples as pure.
SILENCE or laugh when an offer Of
marriage is made is taken for consent,
according to the latest authority on
Mohammedan laws. IF girl means
no, she must say so or she is engaged
whether she will or no.
A NEW process by which water is to
be transformed to vapor without the
application or development of heat pro-
ducing more powerful agent than steam
is, in the opinion of many scientific men,
to revolutionizc the machinery of the
world.
Telegraphing and printing are two
very interesting branches Of Agricul-
ture, and why should they not be popu-
lar? Students in most Agricultural
Colleges are generally taught anything
but the mysteries of their own noble
calling. 1t is the way We have of 10.
ing things In this free country.
The recent rains have caused gen
eral looking up in vegetation. Late
sown wheat will not be as heavy as it
would had these rains been a little ear
lier, yet the prospects are that we shall
have good average crop throughout
the State.
To the other features of the Ameri-
can Centennial Exhibition is to be add
ed the exhibition Of collection illus.
trating the mineraloey, the metal, Try,
and the economical geoloan he
United States, and comdI 4s
been appointed to take this SUB in
charge.
THE Forestry Commission to be ap-
pointed by Congress arc u report what
measures are necessary for the protec-
ton Of the forests, not only with refer
ence to the supply Of timber, but also
TO the proper distribution of the rain
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

In report on public health by DR..
9 A. Cameron, Of London, attention is
called to a novel source Of atmospheric
contamination. In loose soils air is
universally present, and it contains a
larger proportion of impure matter than
air above ground. This underground
air is liable to be drawn into houses, on
account of their comparatively high
temperature, and to ascend through
them with all its impurities, like the cur
rent up a chimney.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

AND now the channel is to b. TIM
neled and Great Britain and France to
be made to shake hands under the sea.
Wonders will never cease.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

DIVORCE is said to be almost in,possi-
bic in Russia. What sad state of
barbarism.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

ScRUT1NIzING MoT1vEs.-We com.
mend the following story told of Bergh,
who is celebrated for his kindness to
dumb brutes, to those persons who are
just at present very nervous about
having the motives of their pet candi-
dates for Office too closely scrutin-
lied:
General D-says that several years
ago, at the time when Mr.. Bergh first
originated the Society for the Proven.
tion of Cruelty to Animals, on waking
up one morning his ears tingled with
the piteous cries of an unfortunate cat,
which, in climbing a tree in the gener
ais yard in pursuit of some birds in a
nest, had become permanently entangled
in branch about thirty feet from the
ground. The general put on his hat
and went to Mr.. Bergh's Office. Find.
ing that gentleman in, he stated the
case. Mr.. Bergh touched a bell, and
ordered the attendant at one: to proceed
with long ladder and relieve the cat.
"Stop moment, Mr.. Bergh," said
the general. "Is the cat entitled to
any consideration? She went up che
tree after the little BIRDS"
my dear Sir" replied the great
zoophlist, "tet as not scrutinize too
closely the motives Of that cat"
MoRAL.-You should not scrutinize
the motives Of persons in trouble or in
want of an Office.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

WHILE opium eating is increasing in
America, tobacco using is decreasing in
England.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

The organization Of Oranges still
goes on. One organized last week at
Gays Mills Two more are ready, one
a: Scott and the other at Wauzekee, as
soon as the Deputy can get around, all
of Crawford County.
AS certain portions of the West are
badly afflicted with grasshoppers, and
said grasshoppers are suffering badly for
the want Of something green, would it
not be we'll to turn over to their tender
mercy some of the verdant politicians
who are striving so hard to ingratiate
themselves into the favor Of the
Oranges.
The old settlers Of Walworth County
hold their next annual meeting at the
village of Geneva, on the grounds Of
the Geneva Lake Seminary, kindly
furnished by the proprie:ors for the
purpose. The timesof meeting is given
on Wednesday, June 10. All old SET
tiers and families and friends are cordi-
ally invited.
The night Of June 9th gave US a
heavy fall of rain in the vicinity Of
Darien, carrying off mill dams, bridges
and fences on the low lands. If it will
only drown the chinck bugs we don't
care, but if it fails to. remove these lit.
tie pests we Of course, will call it a
useless expenditure Of water.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

FISH culture is one Of the live ques.
tions Of the day. Several States, in.
cluding our own, have lately appointed
Commissioners to encourage and ad-
vance this branch Of industry
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

To the other features of the Ameri-
can Centennial Exhibition is to be add
ed the exhibition Of a collection illus.
trating the mineralogy, the metal Try,
and the economical geoloa he
United States, and comm ls
been appointed to take this SUB Fin
charge.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

The Forestry Commission to be ap-
pointed by Congress arc u report what
measures are necessary for the protec-
ton of the forests, not only with refer
ence to the supply Of timber, but also
to the proper distribution of the rain
fall, and the avoidance on the one hand
of excessive freshets, and on the other
of extreme low stages Of water.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

The Kansas Agricultural College
has ten telegraphic instruments, and
twenty-five cases Of type, and these
have proved to be the most popular in
dustrial accompaniments Of the institu-
tion with the students.-Er.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

cTHE recent rains have caused gen.
eral looking up in vegetation. Late
sown wheat will not be as heavy as it
would had these rains been little ear
lier, yet the prospects are that we shall
have good average crop throughout
the State.
The Grange advance., 1874-06-17

THE public analyst Of Sheffield, Eng
land, recently submitted five samples Of
purposely adulterated tea to faster
of great experience, with request for
his opinion as to their purity. He
passed two Of the samples as pure.
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Dissolution.
The Arm of Batty & Tremble is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, Alex. Tremble retir-
ing.
.a. y. T.. BATTY,
ALEX. TREMDLE.
Alpena, March %, 1874. l39w4
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A Financial Middle.

If the Controller Of the Currency
is right in the view which he takes
of the financial bill which has just
been passed by Congress that meas
ure will disappoint the whole coun.
try. The inhationists advocated il
and urged its passage in the firm
belief that it would expand and in
crease the circulating medium ;
and the friends of hard money and
of national faith opposed it for the
same reason. According to the
Controller, however, it will not have
that effect; on the contrary it will
largely increase the amount of cash
reserve to be held by the banks.
The figures which he gives show
that il the bill had been in force in
September last the amount of re-
serves then held by the national
banks would have been too small
by NEARLY s36,000,000 and even in
December, when the reserves had
increased to $40, 100000 and were
more than s45.000,000 in excess of
what would have been required un-
der the act just passed.
This is not of course what the
inhationists intended; and as the
opponents Of imitation were net by
any means prepared for contrac-
ton, they will be disappointed quite
as much as they would have been
had the bill proved as expansive as
its promoters intended.
Another feature of the bill is
likely to make it operate badly.
This is the requirement that one
fourth of the coin received by each
national banking association as in
terest. on its bonds deposited as Sc
curity for it's circulation shall be
kept as a part Of its reserve. The
natural result will be to shorten the
supply of gold and increase the
price. This result, though not un-
expected by the opponents of infa-
ton, will not on that account be
any more acceptable; while the in
fationists, who hoped to expand
without raising the price of gold,
will naturally be disguised when
they find that they have raised it
but have not expanded. If Mr..
Knox is right the muddle is as COM
plete. one as ever legislative
body found itself in.-Free Press.
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shortcomings in school some TWEEN
ty or more years ago. l would
most gladly hail the day when this
species of Discipline could be ban
ished from our schools and house,
holds, for it must go from both at
once, but to assume that II can be
done now, is to assume that par
ents and teachers are perfection
personified. 1t is to assume that
this great number of children,
scooped up from all conditions,
and of all ages,and from yari-
Gus nationalities and kind
reds, can be deferred from the
wrong and attracted to the right
by moral suasion alone and with
out punishment, and it to assume
also that teachers can be found to
do it. In an overwhelming major
ity of cases it can be done without
doubt, but to dream that children
who have been taught, or allowed
or adicted to lie, to cheat, to steal,
to swear and to fight from infancy
up, can be governed andsled along
tremendously in the crowd of 9TH
er children 10y moral suasion alone,
and by the agents now obtainable,
is to dream of miracles. Allow me
again to earnestly invite your at
tention to the condition and
working of the schools and we
trust that in your visits you will
unhesitatingly give your advise and
express your opinions on all mat
tiers pertaining to the interests OF
our public schools.
Very respectfully submitted,
F. S. Dewey,
r,-t,s Supt. Public Schools
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Wednesday, Apvib22, 1874.
currency Question.

The currency bill has passed
both Houses of Congress, and is
now only awaiting the Presidents
signature. The bill is as follows;
1. That the maximum
amount of United States notes Is
hereby fixed at $500, 100000.
, SEC. .. That SAC, 000,00 in notes
for circulation, in addition to such
circulation now allowed by law,
shall be issued to National banking
associations now organized, and
which may be organized hereafter,
and such increased circulation shall
he distributed among the ditferen'
States as provided in section o
the act entitled "An act to provide
for the redemption of 3per centun
temporary loan certificates, and 10
an increase of National Banks, ap
proved July IL, 1870. Each Ma
tional banking association now or
.ganlzed shall keep and maintain a
part of its reserve required by Law
.one-fourth part of its coin receive'
Ivy it as interests on bond OF tn
United States deposits and tina
hereafter yonly one-fourth of tn
reserve now prescribed by law 70
National banking associations shall
consist Of balances due to an associ
alton available for the redemption
of its circulating notes, and upo
which balances no interest shal
be paid. -sf--. f4tts ,, --
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list so advertised, that at a time
certain, at his office in the city Of
Lansing, naming the day of the
month and the hour, not less than
thirty days from the date Of the
first insertion of such advertise
ment, the particular lands, giving
the descriptions thereof, will be re-
stored to market. " y
SIC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of
the Commissioner to cause the no.
tice of the restoration of such lands
to market to be publicly proclaim
ed from the front door of the Land
Office in Lansing, one hour before
the time of said restoration; and
in all eases where there are two or
more applicants for the same tract
of land present at the time Of its
restoration to market, the Commits
sioner shall immediately offer and
sell the said tract in the smalles
subdivisions of which the same il
susceptible, not less than forty acres
(unless the tract should be frac
tional section or fractional part o
section containing less numbe
of acres), to the highest bidder
Prorided, No bid for any such trac
, shall be received by the Commits
/ sioner unless the price offered shall
: be equal to the maximum price o
: such land as fixed by law.
SEC. 4. All entries or sales 0
: any lands such as are hereinbefor'
; referred to, or of lands now held ii
, trust by the State, which may here
after become the property of tn
, State by virtue of any of the pro
visions of such trust, if such en-
, tries or sales be permitted, or mad
: in violation of any of the provis
ions OF this act, shall be absolutei.
: void, and the certificate issue'
] thereon shall vest no title in tn
! person or corporation entering o
purchasing the same.
Sec. 5. All acts or parts of act
contravening any of the provision
of this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. This act shall take i'm
mediate effect. .-r
! Approved February IS, 1873.
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HOnesteads.

There are many of the settlers in
this and adjoining counties who are
lead to think that their homesteads
can be taken from them with but
very little trouble, should they give
the least opportunity. And in or
der to show them just what must
be done before such lands can be
returned to the State or negotiated
for by other parties, below We
give Act No. Il Of the Session Laws
of 1873:
SECTION 1. The people Of the
State of Michigan enact, That all
lands of this State, which have
been withdrawn from market for
any purpose, or withheld from sale
or presumption, in consequence of
errors in books, or in consequence
Of marking sales or reservations
upon maps, and all lands which
have reverted, or may hereafter re-
vert, TO the State by reason of a
failure in any manner to make pay
ment for the same, or by failure
to comply with the terms of any
State road. railroad, or other grant
or contract of this State, to or with
any person or corporation, or by
reason of a failure to comply with
the conditions of any license OF
homestead act, shall not be subject
to private entry or purchase, either
with cash or scrip, until public no
tice Of the restoration Of such lands
20 market shall have been given in
. the manner hereinafter prescribed.
r-v SEC 2. The Commissioner of
the State Land Office shall be re-
qnired to advertise for fopr success
sive weeks, in newspaper publish
ed in the county where such lands
are situate, il there Is one publish
ed therein, and il not, then in'some
ne~spaper published ia a county
nearest to that in which said lands
are located, and shall also forward 0
written or printed notice by letter
mailed and properly directed e
each settler and purchaser OF lands
held by him under any Of the laws
Of the state, and included in the
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superintendent Report.

At the last meeting of the School
Board, the Superintendent made
the following report:
Gentlemen In accordance with
the regulations of the Board, allow
me to present few observations in
connection with my statistical re-
port, and also to make suggestions
In reference to the condition and
wants Of our public school.
II will be remembered that last
August there was lat my most earn
est request) written examination
of all candidates for teachers GER
tificates. Fourteen candidates pre-
sented themselves, and all received
the same set ofquestions to answer.
The report Of that examination
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The statistical and regular quar-
terly report of the Superintendent
were presented, and on motion of
Mr.. Lockwood, the same were ac-
copied, ordered placed on file and
to be published.
The following is an extract from
the second quarterly statistical re-