The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-08-08
THE aRANaERs.

A Minnesota Granger has 5000
acres Of beans.
New Jersey has seventy eight
oranges, with Il membership OF
5000. A,.s' -.elSiA -5s}.-
The secretary of the Ohio State
Grange, D. NJ. Stewart, reports
about ninety new organizations
each month. s.- ....-f.t 5s...
Since the organization of Waco
Grange, Kansas, the justice of the
peace and constable in that neigh
borhootl have had nothing to do.
A county in Pennsylvania which
Jan. /, 1874, had but one Grange
with less than 100 members, now
reports 40 Oranges, with a mem
bership Of 1000.
A new game called "Granger
seven-upo is announced. Three
persons play for Il can OF oysters.
The first man out gets the oysters,
the last the can aud the ':niddle.
man" don't get anything.
The Department Of Agriculture
estimates the saying to the Patrons
in the West in the purchase of sup
plies which has accrued from the
establishment of the grange at be-
tween $4,000, 600 and sS,OOO,OOO.
The National Grange has con-
tributed over $1,000, to the suffer
ers by the overflow, and the State
and subordinate Oranges over SILL
600 for the same purpose. A no.
ble charity for so young an organi-
ZatiOn as the Patrons OF u uusbandry.
In 1878 oranges in Iowa there
are no less than $4,000 women, each
Of whom is entrusted with a vote.
The women are thus being RAPIDLY
prepared for the ballot by instruct
ing in parliamentary practice, de.
bate and general business.
The Muscatine County Council,
Iowa, at II recent meeting, passed
resolutions expressing their appro.
bation of the determination of Gov.
Carpenter to enforce the railroad
law of tn: State. They express a
sincere wish that no technicalities
will render the law imperative for
another year, and allow the present
extortiors to be kei>t M.
The lecturer, treasurer, and chap.
lain Of the Arkansas State Grange,
Oh one or two occasions, were not
present at the meeting of the State
Grange, and :llat body declared
their places vacant, aud elected
other brothers who would be- at
their posts OF duty. The Arkan-
sas Grange is sound. If officers
will not do their duty, they should
give place to others who will.
Mr.. John Duncan, il, a Fourth Of
July address to the grangers OF,
Boy'd's Station, KY. said: ''Ihavc
spoken of the Grange us i seat OF
learning, and it is. And MOI cover
one Of the beauties of it is that it
will make any member a teacher
who will only take the trouble to
find out something worth telling
something that will help along the
path OF progress what Washington
designated the most healthfuf, the
most useufl and the most noble EN-.
ployment Of man."
The number Of subordinate gran
ges in the different States Of the
Union on the 1st day of June, as
shown by the official records of the
National Grange, was: Alabama,
G04; Arkansas, 42l; California,
200; Connecticut, 8; Della 1are.
1G; Florida, 54; Georgia, G4O; Ill
inois, 1,4S1 Indiana, 1865; Iowa.
1891; Kansas, 1883; Kentucky,
1,10l !; Louisiana, 1928; Maine, 81
Maryland, 1Ol /; Massachusetts. So;
Michigan, 400; Minnesota, 532;
Mississippi, 592; Missouri, 1929;
Nebraska, 5S7; New Hampshire,
81; New jersey, IS; New York,
216; North Carolina, 399; Ohio
947 :; Oregon, 1854; Pennsylvania,
2SI ): South Carolina. 293 (; Tonnes
see, 933; Texas, 400; Vermont,
12O; West Virginia, So; Virginia,
26O; Ontario, Is; Wisconsin, 497 ;
Colorado, 81; Dakota, %; District
Of Columbia, l, Idaho, Z; Montana,
10; Washington, 80; Canada, 9;
making in the aggregate 1o,492
subordinate oranges OH the '1st day
OF June. Oranges are being or
ganized at theayerage rate of twen-.
ty tive per day, which, up to the
present, woAld swell the number to
10000. These oranges, ON an aver
age, number tifty voters, and it II.
quires NO tigulin to show that to-
day there are ia tue United States
1.O0D, 900 vote rs who ;,r'. Patrons Of