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The Grange advance., 1874-07-15
A Dealer in "Rabbits. -

A writer on Paris ragpickers: "a
little old man in blouse and felt hat at
one of the tables is pointed out to me
by the policeman as one who, in addi-
ton to ragpicking, deals in question.
able rabbits. He is known as the Pere
Jacques, and Is regarded as person of
some importance in the rag fraternity.
I approach Pere Jacques and engage
him in conversation. He has become
expansive oves his wine, and makes in.
discreet revelations touching the rab>
bit business. Twenty years ago he
skinned and dressed his rabbits, and
people bought them without asking any
questions. That was the bon temps,
and if it had continued he would be to.
day maa of independent fortune.
But tie journals and inquisitive peo.
pie got to talking so much about cats
in connection with rabbits that q long
season of dullness followed as q con-
sequence. The newspapers went
80 far as to figure up how
many rabbits were brought into
Paris each year, and how many were
~~>sS~eAASA: oAA sAOy AAoAS Wv tuot
twice as many were consumed as were
brought in. He felt for time as if
the business was ruined, for thereafter
the rabbit purchasers demanded the
head of the rabbit as guarantee OF
the genuineness of the animal. But
he was equal to the emergency: He
gave an extension to his commerce by
making an arrangement with all the
cooks on his rag beat to buy their rab-
bit skins on condition that their heads
should be delivered with them. There
after he was enabled to furnish to scep.
tical buyers the rabbit head with the
dressed cat, and everybody was satis-
fed. He sold the animals to the small
out'of.the-waY restaurants as a rule
where they were made into gibelottes. :.
The cat entire yielded him one franc,
and they to whom he sold the flesh
usually got abo1t two and one half,
francs out Of the animal when turned,
into gibelotes. The business was fair,
but there wa" more competition, espec.
tally since the commune, under which
some people had learned to eat the cat
with pleasure, knowing him to be cal" "
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Suit for Damages by a Stockholder
OF the Late Northern Llne.--Other
Suits Promised.

A St. Louis telegram of Saturday
reads: A suit which will attract the
attention of all steamboat men, aud es.
pecially of those of the upper Missis.
sippi river, was filed in the United
States Circuit Court to-day by r. G.
Gray of Pittsburgh. The petition re-
cites that little over a year ago, what
were known as the Keokuk Packet
Company, Northern Line Packet Com.
pany, and Northwestern Union Com
pany, consolidated for mutual benefit
under the name Of the Keokuk North
ern line, and the stockholders of said
consolidation agreed not to dis.
pose Of their stock with.
out first offering it to the company.
Soon after the death Of John S. Nc.
Cune, the President and largest stock
holder of the company, his stock,
amounting to over 1900 shares, was
transferred to VIM. F. Davidson, an.
other stockholder and formerly head
of the Northwestern Company, by
Napoleon Mulliken and Samuel S. Hal.
liday, administrators of McCune's es.
tate, in alleged violation of the
agreement referred to. This threw
the control Of the company into the
hands of Davidson, and, as the plain.
tif alleges, damaged his interest in
the company 100000, and Gray asks
for that amount and costs. Similar
suits will probably be entered by other
stockholders.
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
. OF THE
GRANGK ADVANCE PRINTING CO.

Know all men by these presents: We,
the undersigned, do hereby associate our
selves together and become incorporated,
and do hereby adopt the following articles
OF incorporation pursuant to the statute in
such case provided, to-wit:
First. The name of this corporation shall
be the Grange Advance Printing Company,
The general nature of its business shall be
the printing and publishing and selling of
newspapers, and newspaper to be known
as the GRANGE ADVANCE, and job printing,
and the establishing and carrying on of q
Grange publishing house, and a genera
printing and publishing business, and
book-binding, and blank book manufac-
turing, and the selling thereof, and the
principal place Of transacting its business
shall be At Red Wing, Minnesota.
Second. The time Of commencement of
said corporation shall be the eighteenth
(18th) day Of June, 1874 and the period Of
continuance thereof shall be twenty years
from and after said date. II ::
80. Third: The amount of capital stock of
said corporation shal1'be twenty-five thou
sand dollars, to be paid in in such sums
and at such times and in such manner as
may be provided by the bylaws Of said
Fourth. The highest amount of indebt-
edness or liability to which said corpora
ton shall at any time be subject shall be
w, ,O00) two thousand dollars. ..-s
Fifth. The names and places of resi-
dsnce Of the persons forming this corpora
zion are: B.. B. Herbert, residing At Red
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J. l.. Merriam Of st. Paul to Supply
Pork, Flour and Corn for the Sioux
Reservations.
A Washington Dispatch of Saturday
says: The Secretary of the Interior,
Commissions of Indian Affairs, and
Board of Indian Commissioners, act
ing coniointlY. have to-day made the
following ava rds for contracts tor In
dian supplies during the fiscal year to
end June 80, 1875:
Contract for bacon for the Sioux ma.
ton, to be delivered at Sioux City, is
awarded to J. E. Dodge, of that city,
at 1O15 cents per pound.
J. L. Merriam, of st. Paul, was
awarded the contract of pork for the
Sioux nation, at $19 95 per barrel, also
deliverable at Sioux City.
Armour, Plsnkinton s. Co., Chicago,
contract for bacon for Kiowas and
Wichitas, deliverable at Kansas City,
at II cents per pound.
The following awards were made for
supplying flour for the Sioux nation,
deliverable at Sioux City:l to J. L
Merriam at $2.S3 per one hundred
weight; for the Sioux of Red CLOUD
Agency, deliverable at Cheyenne,
Colorado, to J. s. Martin, at 81. so per
hundred weight.
Corn for Sioux on the Missouri river,
deliverable at Sioux City, to be fur.
nished by J. L. Merriam, at 79 cents
per bushel.
| Contract for wheat for Yankton
Agency at IS cents per bushel, and for
the Santee Agency at IS cents, are
awarded to N. w. Wells. of Nebraska.
The contract for supplying s215 mil.
lions pounds OF beef for all the sioux
in Dakota was awarded to J. K. Fore
man, Nebraska, at 81. 80 per cwt.; con.
tract price last year. $273.
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Minnesota Freight Tariffs.
From the Chicago Tribune 11th.1 !

l1SVu lAo N4ACoSO 4ElOuue 44t0.I
Mr.. o. E. Britt, General Freight
Agent of the Milwaukee s. St, Paul
Railway, and Mr.. G. G. Wheeler, Gen
eral Freight Agent of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway, have returned
from St. Paul, where they went to con.
suit with the Minnesota Railroad Com.
missioners regarding the freight tariffs
that are to go into effect oa the let
prox. These schedules of rates pre-.
pared by the Commissioners are to be
received in court as prima facie evi
dence of what are reasonable maximum
rates, aad charges in excess thereof
are to be deemed extortionate. The
Milwaukee & St. Paul operate three
lines in Minnesota-from Minneapolis
southwest through Faribault and Aus
tin to McGregor, 1a.; from La Crescent
through Winona to St. Paul. and from
Prescott westward to Carver. The
Northwestern operate the Winona &
st. Peter Railroad, running west from
Winona across the State into Dakota.
The managers of these lines we're anx-
ious to ascertain on what basis the
commissioners intend to frame equit-
able tariffs. Two members Of the
Board are farmers, and the other mem.
Der is also entirely without experience
in operating railroads. They had,
however, secured the assistance of Mr..
A. J. Mead, who for some years past
was in charge Of the freight depart
ment of the Winona. and st. Peter
Railroad. When asked upon what
principle they had proceeded, the com,
missioners are unable to reply.
Their main object was to reduce
rates. Assuming that q certain rate
from one station to given point
seemed to be about the fair thing, they
merely graduate the intermediate rates.
This pro rata plan will operate injuri.
ously to certain localities. For in.
stance, tho Sioux City and st. Paul
crosses the Winona and St. Peter road
at Kasota, and the Milwaukee and
st. Paul crosses it at Owatonna.
The distance to both these junction
points being shorter from Minneapolis
than from Winona, and the former be:
ing nearer the lumber supply, the rates
on the st. Paul roads are much lower
TO these junction points than are the
rates from Winona, which viii enable
tae former roads to carry freight to To-
cal stations beyond the junction 20
much cheaper thsn the Winona road
ca, that the citizens Of Winona will
oe forced out Of the lumber business.
there are many equally unjust results
likely TO- follow. the Coalmisoioaers
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15
THE LOCUST PLAQUE,
Governor Davis Appeals to the War
Department for an Issue OF Rations
for the Destitute-.The Chief Clerk
Thinks they Cannot be Issued.

A Washington telegram yesterday
announces the receipt Of the following
dispatch ct tho War Department:
ST. PAUL, M1NN., July 8. 1874.
.secrotary Of War, Washington:
A terrible calamity has befallen the
people of several counties in the south
western part of this State. The To-
Gusts have devonred every kind of
crop, and left the country for miles
perfectly bare. They did the same
thing last year in the came area. Mapv
;thousands are now suffering for food.
lam using every public and private
source that can lawfully command to
send immediate supplies of food. This
State is. entitled to two years
at $3.50. I respectfully, ~ re>
quest that the subsistence department
be ordered to turn over to me in lieu
of these arms . quantity equivalent lin
value in rations, or such parts Of = ia.
<ion - I may require. should not
make this request but for the gravest
Ieas ns, and to prevent imminent star
'vation. ';r =
have used every resource which
the State has given: I earnestly hope
that obstacles Of form will not be a.
lowed to interfere. Please advise me
10y telegraph.
s7 q Signed, 9. K. DAVIS, Governor.
: II 10 added that Chief Clerk Crosby
forwarded tho telegram to Secretary
<Belknap at New London, with this
endorsement: ''Th6re appears to be
no authority of }sw for diverting an
appropriation from it, proper source,
even = 1ese of ofamslgsncy."
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schedules; but, as the penalties for vi.
olation of the law are so extreme, and
the demand for q non.discriminatiug.
equal.milesge tariff is so urgent, per.
haps all parties will give the plan q
trial and test it's presumed efficacy for
the ills so bitterly complained of.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15
STATE lTEas.


STATE lTE1s.
OLD hay is worth more than new at
-Alexandris.
A BOAT club is to be organized at
Fergus Falls.
WHEAT 10 rusting badly in some
portions of the State.
CANNON FALLS talks about An agri-
cultural fair this fall.
THERE is no fair to be held in Saint
Louis county this year.
THE Alexandra postoface he's been
made a money order Office.
JAMES ELLISON, of Owatonna, is
smissing, and is wanted at that city.
FRESH peaches are to be had at
Rochester. Dubuque furnishes them.
CREMATION, a. applied to potato
bugs, is popular in Dodge county.
GRAssHoPPERs have certainly solved
7the cheap transportation question.
THERE is more fun in shooting dogs
than in anything else that can be inn
-agined.
A BOY by the name of Messer was
Killed at Dodge Centre by a sky
rocket on the Fourth.
A KEROSENE lamp exploded in the
house Of A. J. Cannon, of Sauk Centre,
last week and burned up the premises.
ACCORDING to law Canadian steam
>oers cannot carry wheat from Duluth to
Sarina the same as American vessels.
Two young men got capsized in a
boat in the canal at Duluth the other
day, and one of them. narrowly es-
capped being drowned.
A CANNON, criminally overloaded
with powder and gravel, exploded on
the Fourth at Hastings, and instantly
killed boy, by name L. j. Hall.
OAKwooD, Wabasha county, doesn't
want q narrow gauge railroad bad
enough to vote bonds for it. Walton
thought Oakwood, but Oakwouldn't.
BECAUSE Daniel Champion wouldn't
go out of store at Rochester, James
Tiernay hit him over the head with q
beer mallet. Champion has engaged
q lawyer to champion him.
THE editor of the Dodge county Re-
:;,ublican didn't read his poem at the
Fourth celebration at Kasson, on "ac-
count of the heat" one of the coolest
reasons We know of.
A CONCRETE house, or rather q por.
tion of it, belonging to B. G. Brown of
Mcleod county, fell one day last week
on calm, clear day. Fortunately the
family were assembled IN the part that
did not fall.
A BARN, granary, two reapers, two
aorses, wagon, . threshing machine
and fourteen hens, belonging to Geo.
"A. Frey of Hillsdale, Winona county,
were destroyed by lightning and fire
this week.
A YOUNG fellow by the name of
AVSu0iA az ASVN0V0SVA A0o AUA4O"4Y CO.
capped death by the use of tobacco. He
threw away lighted cigar stump,
which fell in an open powder keg, and
fer while the young man was in dan
ger of departing in several directions.
A aREENY at Reeds Landing met
two nice men who had a funny kind of
a knife, which the greenv asked to see.
he looked at it and opened it number
of times. Nothing hard about that,
you know. Then the two men bet him
$50 he couldn't open it again. Greeny
deposited his pocket book, which con.
tanned $102, with one of the nice men,
and took the knife again. He tried a
long while, but the blade being solder
ed in of course he couldn't open it.
When he gave up the stake holder had
disappeared. They had two knives
both alike, only the blade of one could
'be opened aud the other couldn't.
THE LOCUST PLAQUE.
, 1874-01-24
NOTES AND OPINION.

Tho candidates for Mayor of Philadelphia
(clcction Feb ~ arc: William 8. stokloy, Re-
publican inoumbont james =. Dadlo, Damo1
orat; and William z. Ltttleton, Independent.
The Mayor now elected, uldor tho now ConHtitu-
ton, will servo throo years. 6toAloY anl Didt!le
wore tho rival candidates in October, 1871, when
the returns footed up; stol1loy, 0o.020 Diddle,
61,540. III tho Republican primaries Of last
Wednesday, $1,000 .yotcs arc returned for
Stokley, without SO much as q scattering vote
against him and In ao.uo wards tho so-csllcd
vote for stokloy is creator than was polod for
Grant under all tho Incentives Of Presidential
election.
Tho City OF Middletown opena tho Con-
necticut campaign by giving 2l2 majority for q
Democratic hlayor, tho tirst Of that aripo elected
in fourteen yours.
Gov, Dagloy having summoned the Alicl,l-
gau Legislature to convene OIL TuoHday, March
8, apacla elections will bo held, on Feb. 20, to
illl vacancies, viz: three In tho Senate and two
IN tho House. It III tito expectation that tho
Legislature will submit tl,o revised Constitution
iu April.
-TIlo colorod mon, who aro majority In tho
Mlsstsslppi Legislature, sacm determined to
, 1874-01-24

President Orton, Of tho Western Union Telo-
post-Oltlce Committee arguing against the
postal telegraph scheme with his usual ygor,
Mr. Hubbard'a bill he objects to as being uncon-
stitutional and inpolitio. It would violate the
contrnct between tho Government and the COM
panies. aud would mako the Government boar b
part Of tho expense OF the new telegraph,
wiilc all the profits won't to private parties.
President Orton proves, by ofticial ngures that
tolegraphy is cheaper In tlliH country than in
Europe, and is managed without cost to the
Government, which hns not been tho case when
1t has been assumed by foreign Governments.
, 1874-01-24

Consumers Of coal hnve an interest In the
news from the anthracite coal-regions, which
announces tho close OF tue strike and the ond Of
the warfaro between the miners mud tho operators
in the schuy1xill district. At their meeting
day before yesterday, the miners withdrew from
the demanl for an advance. An equa.ly-con-
cilistory spirit WIS shown by the conference OF
operators which mot last night, on tho suu.moua
Of President Gowen. Thoy consented to forego
any reduction In tho miners wages. Work will
DO resumed at once on tho unchanged basis o1
1878. The signs Of trouble in tho Wyoming dis
trict have disappeared.
, 1874-01-24

The Grangors of Michigan. in convention at
Kalamazoo, havo adopted tho report Of the COM
mitteo on Transportation. It declares that rail.
roads are anonable to State regulation as much
az plank and gravoI-road companies. The Leg
islature has as much right to regulate thoir
charges us to fix turnpike tolls OF tho charges Of
millora for grinding grain. Accompanying this
assertion Of right is an appeal to the railroad
companies to remember that thoir interests arc
Identical with those OF tho farmer, n,,d not to
kill by o1orbitant rates the agricultural goose
that lays tho golden ogg.
, 1874-01-24

While Congress- Inns been dobating whothor to
initiate tho currency or not, tue Treasury has
been quietly adding at the rute OF about mill
ion 4 day to tho a1roatly swollen volume OF
grcenbacks In circulation. Twonty-Bovcn mill
ions Of tho ao.callcd logaI-tont1or rcsorros woro
all Tint hhd boon reissued by Secretary
Richardson up to tho beginning Of this week.
Since TINT time he l1as issued $4,000, 900 moro,
and, If 10 continues at tho same ratio, will OK
hauas the entire rosorve Of $44, 100000 by tie
end OF week after next.
, 1874-01-24

Ex-prcsidont Baoz, latoly Of San Domingo,
who has arrived in Now York, bays ho neod not
l,ayo left that delightful country it he had not
chosen to. There wore many OF his own frionds
and supporters in tho party that elected
him. and he could not boar 10 shed their
blood, although ho was amply able to
curb tho movement against him. On tho sub
joct of the Samana Bay lease he is not quite
clear. Dissatisfaction with his concesslonB to
the Company ho admits to have been tho cause
Of his overthrow, but ut tho same time he
atatoB tint tho Company'a intorests will not
suffer at the hands Of the now administration.
, 1874-01-24
"THE CENTENNIAL" )"

IN ,s+ Editor NJ The cdtcago Tribune:
,rh. rcao1nt;on as,o1 for and obtnined from
,''.. '.:,';..s. IT, 7,.o.;do,,t ~ .o r1,,;.o1
uongress, s1sns 'no ,.e o'uou1 ..'" ,,~a ~. Jill"
ments Of tho world to take part in tho 1ntel7a-
tional Expositlon OF 1876. waY necessary for
a,,,oroo t;c ycapons and not necossary to stamp
.4.p u W. ~ romorosa crootinc that Exnos;tion n
rnt ars 1 er that had already @ 5eou done
under the act, and by the presiuont'a proc'apaa-
tIon of July 4, 1873,
tu,. a;,,,ox,,+;, roo.,,s oro Imam. r. ia wall
.no a.f'ons's so'.soas .as H. t,ros;,ant
known among iorelga nat'ons saa1 'no fios'aen.
OF the :. United States canhot e1!ouu
such invitations except " nnthoratv e9feti
h'm ~ congress. N ny pfoclanatlon, tae
presldont, IN conformity with tug PROVISIONS OK
tho aos OF IoneIohs deorroa t.;oso altou.u t u.s.
hed an international Exposlt'on, u arts;
nnnu1actu1es; u aha nfganets o. ~ .ao sou art
Ct his Goyernmens, ana .no people :. OK tue
United States. coraiaily eonmoaaea II 10 ~
nations "no snouia w pioaao1 10 taIo phrs
theso'n. TINS psocasnat!o;n eataol1shea 70 TUG
eyes or tno wol'a i1s Hat!:onal.sy. :,s;y he naa no
authority to oste IN .nsl.a.;oh ana 10 1,'' aoy-
out tug anthotlty OF colefM1ss. M Vat.
A. tue opening OF tle No" 1orK E1posltaoo'
callao an mtetnat.onat o11. u aou2 an luv!ia- .i
lion %as % aeht t.a1ouga tuo lfeslaent OF tho
United states TO 1oreign fowers, 20 DO pfosohs
ut lts opening, anu tako 20, part tlorein.
ln consequence ol tnls invitation 80 exsGndea,
tue Ensllah government sent tho 6eco1d Far! M OF
tho Realm, IL TUG poFaon OF Tue Earl e Or E.lia-
nero, ast IN us sutto Lort1 GrosVenor. slr John
Acton. Capt. Egdorton, and tho hon OF the Earl
daughters al1u suite wore conveyed to Now YORK
In one OF England'B tlrsr.olass frigatcs. Tho
Earl upon his arrival in New York, dir.
covered that i waa not National
, 1874-01-24

Ihoro could hardly be d botter illustration OF
tho portinaclors loyalty Of tho average Briton
than thet in noarly ovcry church in En-
gland yosterdny marriage ceremony waa
performed. It was tue day Of tho mup-
tia1s Of the Duko Of Edinburgh and Tho
Grand Duchess Marin of Russia, and WAS
made hymoneal holiday in every parish Of
England, whom loyal youth md maidons sought
to achioyo the flunkoyish blfas Of boing married
on the sano day and at the samc hour as tholr
royal maBtor.
, 1874-01-24

Tho Chicago produce markets wore Hteadler
yesterday. Moss pork was III fair demand, and
10000 por brl higher, closing at sl425@14.90
cash. mud s14.80@14.35 Bollor February. Lard
was active. and loo per 100 tbs higher, closing
ut $0.05@0.10 cash. md $0.10@0.l5 seller Fob
ruary. Meats wero III good demand and very
firm at 696o for shoulders, 613o for short ribs
794o for short oloar, aud 015@1011e for gwoot
pickod hama. Dressed hogs wero dull and easor,
closing at 48.1o@G.20 por 100 liz. Eighwinos
were more active, aud unchanged Mt o5,4o per
gallon. Flour WIS dul! aud unchanged. Wheat
waa 1eas active aud shade firner, closing ilrm
at el.2s15 cash. and s1.24h seller February.
Corn was issa so4ye and 10 loner, aloslng lrn
, 1874-01-24

Mrs. D. Guthrie is not one Of tho tin,id multi.
tnde Of wonlon who declaim against woman sur
frago only by their own tirosides. she has aY,-
pearod before the Judiciary Committee Of tho
House Mt Washington, and made a yirile argyll
ment against the proposal to allow the wom-
Oh OF tho District Of Columbia to vote. II
women voted, she said, society would b do
norelizad aud the State undermined, aud sEbmen
would be unfit to bo mothors, wiyes and citi.
zens. In conclusion, she thanked the Commit
tee for giving hor the l'oaring, which her oS1
aex Ut their rocent meeting in Washington hat
rafuga6 f1ar
, 1874-01-24

Quebec and Ontario held elections day before
yesterday to nominate candidates for tho Par1ia-
montary Canvass, and the results loayo little
doubt TINT Premier Mackenzie will havo a large
majority iu the next House. Or II members
voted for in Ontario. Is aro MinfsterialiBts, and
tho samo party Chin II Of the 24 that were
named in Quebec. So weak las the Pacific Rail.
road party become TINT it ia not believed Sit
John Macdonald eau curry his old district it
Kinggton City.
, 1874-01-24

Lord Chief-Jun!ico Coekburn. who made
spectacle of himself at Goueya. mud will also DO
remembered for bis arbitrary ordor to the Tiuh-
horne claimant to stop his appeals to tho public
tor aid, has juat sent h1r. Whalloy, II. P, to
prison. His offonBo was that he had written u
latter to tho newspapers defending the correct
which that Witl,oss had since c0ntradictod III D
confession. Mr.. Whalloy WAS fined l. thousand
dollars, which ho rafuacd to pay. aud WAS there
upon ordered into JUL until to should succumb.
The spectators are reported to havo been very
much excited over this Interpretation Of the low
Of FREQ spoool, as Lord Coohbnrn undorstandsit 1t.