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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
A Hundred Years Ago.

One hundred and ten years ago there
was not a single white man in what is
now Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, or Hi
nois. Then, what is now the most
fourishing part of the United States,
was as little known as the country in
the heart of Africa itself. 1t was not
till 1766 that Boone left his home in
North Carolina to become the first set
tier in Kentucky. And the first piO-
neers of Ohio did not settle till twenty
years later still. A hundred years ago
Canada belonged to France, and WASH
ington was modest Virginia Colonel,
and the United States the most loyal
part of the British empire, and scarcely
speck on the political horizon indi-
Gated the struggle that in score OF
years was to lay the foundation of the
greatest republic in the world.
A hundred years ago there were but
four small newspapers in America
steam engines had not been imagined,
and locomotives, and steamboats,, and
railroads, and telegraphs, and postal
cards and friction matches, and revoly-
ers, and percussion caps, and breech-
loading guns, and stoves and furnaces,
and gas for dwellings, and India rub
Der shoes, and Spaulding's glue. and
sewing machines, and anthracite coal,
and photographs, and chrome paint
ings, and kerosene oil, and the safety
lamp, and the compound blow-pipe,
ard free schools, and spring mattresses,
and wood engraving, and Brussels car
pet, and lever watches, and greenbacks,
and cotton and wooden factories, in any
thing like the present meaning of these
terms, were utterly unknown.
A hundred years ago the spinning
wheel was in almost every family, and
clothing was spun and woven and made
up in the household, and the printing
press was cumbrous machine worked
by hand and nail, or a brick, or q
knife, or pair of shears or scissors or
a razor, or woven pair of stockings,
or an ak, or hoe, or shovel, or lock or
key, or plate OF glass of any size was
not made in what is now the United
States. Even in 1870 there were only
seventy-fve postofices In the country,
and the whole extent of our post routes
was less than /, 300 miles, Cheap post
age was unheard of, and had any one
suggested the transmission of messages
with lightning speed he would have been
thought utterly insane. The microscope,
on one hand, and the telescope on the
other, were in their infancy as instru-
ments of science; and geology and
chemistry were almost unknown. In
word, it is true that to the century
passed have been allotted more i'm
provements, in their bearing OF the
comfort and happiness of mankind,
than to any other which has elapsed
since the creation of the world.
With all these wonderful improve
ments within the century, who would
allow such narrow and contracted views
as to object to suitable Centennial
celebration of the marvellous progress of
the age ?-BaltinaOre AmericQn.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Anti.MOnODOly.

The accounts published in the news
papers of the meetings of the Oranges,
Farmers Clubs and Associations, indi-
cate an activity among the Anti-Monop-
olists of the country, not unlike that
displayed in former times, of Republi-
can and Democratic meetings, on the
eve of an important election. This
looks very much as though the Anti
Monopoists would be the most thor
oughly organiged party which has ever
entered the political field, when the
time for action arrives.
There is no question of their power
to sweep the Northwest, and probably
the whole country. if their organization
shall prove as perfect as it appears to
be, and should their nominations prove
acceptable to those in favor of reform,
outside their organizations, the old po-
litical parties will be buried past all
possibility of a resurrection.
The probabilities are that the next
election will result in more sweeping
change of office holders than has ever
been witnessed in this country, as but
comparatively few in Office have kept
their bends entirely clean of the cor
rupting influences which have in some
shape grown up and pervaded all the
departments of general, State and mu-
nicipal governments, and which the
people are fully aroused to the impor-
lance of eradicating and branch.
1t is we'll understood that the very life
of the Government, as well as the ma
terial interests of the people demand
that this shall be done. Men, fresh
from the people and of the people, must
replace political leeches who have fed
and grown CO.. rrupt upon public Office.
Extravaganza and wastefulness must
be stopped. Monopolies of every de-
scription abolished, a general reduction
of salaries to fair and equitable stand.
ard inaugurated, and honesty and ca.
pacity alone made the test of mans
fitness to hold Office.
This is the line of policy the Anti
Monopolists propose to inaugurate anG
carry out, and to which all the people
(save the politicians say amen.-Ke
aOdnee On. Independent.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To extract ink from cotton, silk and
wooden goods. saturate the spots with
spirits of turpentine, and let it remain
several hours then rub it between the
hands, II viii crumble away, without
injuring either the color or texture of
the article.
To clean cane seats, turn up the chair
bottom and with hot water and sponge
wash the cane work so that it may be
thoroughly soaked. Should it be dirty
use little soap. Let it dry in the air,
and it will be as tight and firm as when
new, provided the cane is not broken.
Stove luster, when mixed with tur-
pentine and applied in the usual man.
ner, is blacker, more glossy, and more
durable than when mixed with any 9TH
er liquid. The turpentine prevents
rust, and when put on an old rusty
stove viii make it look as well as new.
NEVER put particle of soap near
your silver, if you would have it retain
its Original luster. When it wants pol.
ish, take a piece of soft leather and
whiting and rub hard. The proprietor
In one of the oldest silver establish.
ments IN Philadelphia says that
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Patrons Song.
Gathering, gathering,

Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
From DER the broad prairie.
Adown the steep mountain,
They come from their eyrie,
To meet at the fountain.
Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
What means the loud tramping,
Disturbing our slumber?
Are they only encamping
In myriad number?
Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
In the great uprising
Portends there no evil .?
To wait their devisng,
Would that be uncivil?
Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
Gathering, gathering,
The farmers are gathering all over the land.
Gather up to the frolt,
Sun-burnt sons of the soil.
For on you falls the brunt
Of the Nations turmoil.
Gathering, gathering,
Tie farmers are gathering al over the land.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
FARM AND HOME.
A FARMERS SONG

We envy not the princely man,
In city or in town,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vines
Runs up the hill or down;
We care not for his marble halls,
Nor yet his heaps of gold,
We would not own his sordid heart
For all his wealth thrice told.
We are the favored ones of earth,
We breathe pure air each morn,
We sov-we reap the golden grain
We gather in the corn;
We toil-we live on what we earn,
And more than this we do
We hear of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them, too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,
Yet drags a weary life,
He never knows peaceful hour
His atmosphere is strife.
The merchant thumbs his yardstick DER,
Grows ragged at his toll
He's not the man God meant him for
Why don't you till the soil?
The doctor plods through storm and cold,
Plods at his parents viii,
When dead and gone he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer bless his nobl soul y
He grasps the mighty earth,
And stamps ii on our daily sheet,
To cheer the farmers hearth.
We sing the honor Of the plow,
And honor to the press
Two noble instruments of toll,
With each power to bless.
The bone-the nerve of this fast age
True wealth OF human kind
One tills the ever generous earth,
The other tills the mind.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Designs of the Monopolists.

The following is an extract from a
letter received by one of our citizens
from a well-known and prominent gen.
tleman of New York. 1t is important
as showing the intensity of feeling
caused by the doings of the monop-
oiists
"The monopolists of the East seem
madly bent upon rushing upon their
own destruction. The events of the last
few days in Congress and elsewhere are
full of significance to the thoughtful
student.
els Wall street mad, that this ruin
shall come? The people have lost hope
in the Government and their patinece is
exhausted. The speech of Sherman in
the Senate is the voice of Wall street
and the majority in the Senate. This
body has its plan for years, no matter
what the House of Representatives may
do. Nothing but that madness which
is born of avarice can be so blind as not
to see the irreconcilable determination
of the West land in this the South will
join) to find prompt solution. The
West can at any time start the cry of
secession. When this is done it will
differ widely from the former attempt of
the South to break the bonds which
held them.
1.-The South attempted this and
moved to force that it might perpetrate
direct and disgraceful system of wrong.
If the West moves to obtain its freedom
from the tyranny of monopoly for the
sole benefit of one class in our section,
it is because of the oppression of the
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Officers Of State Oranges.

Illinois Master. Alonzo Colder, Rock
Falls Secretary, o. E. Tanning, Gait.
Observation-Disclosures, George L. Parsons,
Winona Secretary. VIM. Paist, St. Paul.
Observation-Disclosures. Col. John Cochrane.
waupun Secretary, H. E. Haxley.
Indidnd-Master, John Weir, Terre Haute
Secretary, T. Keene, Valp araiso.
Kansas Master, T. G. V. Boiling: Secre-
tary, George w. Spurgeon, Jacksonville.
Nebrdskd.-Master. VIM. b. Porter, Platts-
mouth; Secretary, William McCaig, Elm
wood.
Observation-Disclosures, Gen. A. j. Vaughn,
Early Grove; Secretary, W. l.. Williams,
Rienzi.
South Carolina-Master, Thomas Taylor,
Columbia; Secretary, Col. d. Wyatt, Akin,
Cokesbury.
Termont.-Master, E. P. Cotton, Irasburg
Secretary. E. l.. Hovy. st. Johnsbury.
Ohio.-Master, S. H. Ellis, Springboro
Secretary, ID. NJ. Stewart, Xenia.
Michigan.-Master, s. F. Brown, School.
craft Secretary, J. L: Cobb, Schoolcraft.
MissOuri-Master. T. r. Allen, Attention
ston county.
Georgia Master, Col. T. j. Smith, Oconee
Secretary. Z. Taylor, Colaparchu.
Tennessee.-Master, William Maxwell
Maxville Secretary, J. P. McMurray, Tren
ton.
North CdrOhnd.-Master, w. >. Battle
Tarboro i; Secretary, G. w. Lawrence, Fayette
vile.
Arkdnsds.-Master, John T. Jones, Helena
Secretary, John s. Williams, Duvalrs Bluff.
Cahforrid.-Master, J. NJ. Hamilton
Guenoc; Secretary. w. H. Baxter, Maps
City.
Oregon Master, Daniel Clark, Salem; Sec
Rotary J. H. Smith, Harrisburg.
observation-disclosures, ID. B. Mauger
Douglasville Secretary, r. H. Thomas, Me
chanicsburg.
West Virginid.-Master, B. NJ. Kitchen
Shanghai Secretary, ]. W. Curtis, Martins
burg.
Ne,c York. Master, George d. Hinckley
Fredonia Secretary, George Sprague, Lock
port.
Dakota.-Master, E. D. Crew, Lodi; Secre
| tary, o. f. Stevens, Je ferson.
Teras.-Master, j. B. Johnson, Fairfield
Secretary, H. H. Parker. Salado.
AldbdnG.-Master, w. III. Chambers, DE-
wichee Secretary, E. NJ. Law, Tuskegee.
| Florida-Master, B. T. Wardlaw, Madison
Secretary. w. A. Crimson. Live Oak.
Kentucay.-Master, w. ID. Davie, Beverly
Secretary, J. Eugene Barnes. Georgetown.
Massachusetts, Master, T. L. Alhs, Con
way; Secretary, Benz. Davis, Ware.
Aeu Jersey.-Master, Edward Howard
Hammonton; Secretary, r. w. Pratt, New
| field
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
The Manufacturing Spirit.

The Missouri Changers have done
several things that we ought to thank
them for one of them, not to mention
others, is the active and resolute interest
in local manufacture they have awaken
ed. We referred to this matter some
time ago but the interest of the Grang-
ers is steadily increasing. There are
meetings in various parts of the State
to organize stock companies, with shares
sof $50 each, for manufacturing agricul-
tural implements and other similar ar
ticles which 60 not call for the highest
kind of skilled labor, This is as good
beginning as could be made, and the
Changers deserve credit for what they
are doing. Few persons have an ade-
quate conception of the immense sums
of money sent out of Missouri every
year for agricultural machinery and i'm
plements-reapers, mowers, threshers,
plows, cultivators, cradles and handles.
These articles are so high as to con-
sumo large portion of the farmers
profit. Indeed, there are experienced
farmers who assert that farming cannot
be successfully prosecuted with what is
called agricultural machinery; it costs
SO much because it Is manufactured
abroad; the carriage adds very largely
to the price which the farmer is made
to pay for it. Farming implements do
not call for very high order of skill
in their manufacture they can be made
as cheaply and as good in Missouri as
elsewhere, and if made at home, they
can also be repaired at home, a very
important advantage. We need more
manufacturers in our State, to save the
money now annually paid out to sup
port the industries of other States, and
the Changers will do both themselves
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09

East, and can be compared only to clos
ing the door againgt life's resources !;
thus killing the goose thatlays the gold
en- egg. Already the signs are cropping
out. This movement is not one to be
awed into subsection by recourse to
arms, for no arms will be taken by those
in the East who alone can bear them.
Many may, indeed, buy the arms, but
many to-day in such an issue will not
buy the men to bear them.
"Such movement once set In mo-
ton will be found such q positive de-
mand that, like an over-oharged fountain,
it will shun old barriers and find new
channels to the sea.
"The greet food now rising in the
West, spurnS the mean sel6shness of
the East, and rising in its might, will
find, ere another year has passed, more
profitable channel for its tide of gold
and grain. Then the starving seaboard
may look in vain for the evidence of its
great commerce. Poh poh sneeringly
cries the monopolists yet, just as sure
ly as time rolls on, and the sun rises and
sets, just so surely this is the next great
seIult--the outgrowth of causes it re.
quires no prophet to disclose. Western
men who represent power no longer to
be despised, say, We mean business
at once. We only wait with bated
breeth to see the determination of the
Government at Washington, and we
have the men at work already who viii
carry this into execution. while your
miserable Government is quibbling ovel
straws.' Yet, in face of all this, mad
ness rules the hour. Nero fiddles while
the match is being lighted. The glory
of the nation is departing.-New Haver
| Union,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Officers of National orange.

Mdster-Dudley W. Adams, Waukon, Iowa.
Ouerseer-T Thomas Taylor, Columbia, s. G.
LectTer-T A. Thompson, Plainview, Wa
basha county, Mimi.
Stescdrd-A. j. Vaughn, Early Grove,
Marshall county, Miss.
Assistant Stetodrd-G. W. Thompson, New
Brunswick, N. j.
Chaplain-Rev. A. b. Grosh, Washington,
d. C.
Tredsurer-F. II. Mcdowell, Corning, N. Y.
Secretary %. H. Kelley. Washington. ID. c.
Gate Keeper-O. Dinwiddie, Orchard Grove,
Lake county, Ind.
Ceres-Mrs. ID. w. Adams, Waukon, Iowa.
Pomond-Mrs. o. H. Belley, Washington
DC.
Flora-Mrs. J. G. Abbott, GAINESVILLE. But
Ter county, Ia.
Lady Assistant Ste,card-Miss G.. A. Hall
Washington, d. G.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Barbarians.

Prior to the time of Peter the Great,
the Russians were, LII general, barbar-
Gus, igneranS, mean, and much addict
ed to inebriation. Not only the COM
mon people, but many of the mobiles,
lived in continual state of idleness and
intoxication; and while the court of
Moscow was tho most splendid of any
upon the globe, the streets OF that city
we're filed with objects of misery and
barbarity.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.

SUCCESSFUL cattle breeders in Europe
give molasses constantly to fatten cattle
and mich cows. A large German far
mer gives a pint day, mixed with oil
cake tohis cows, largely increasing their
milk.
The bad farmer, despite of good
soil and home markets, will become
bankrupt and wretched, while the in
dustrious and intelligent shall triumph
over every difficulty and find himself in
the enjoyment of peace, pros perity and
happiness.
WHENEVER good land is in fair state
of fertility and has been manfred occa-
sionally, clover sod plowed In fan and
exposed to the cold of winter, or plowed
Immediately after a crop of hay is taken
OFF, or, still better, If the crop of grass
is plowed under about the time it is in
bloom and left lie until seeding time,
will always yield the best crop of wheat.
DRIED BLOOD AS FERTILIzER.-The
process of granulating the blood of
hogs, to be used as fertilizer, is be-
coming business of considerable inn
portance IN connection with the pork
packing establishments of the West It
IS cooked and dried to black powder,
and is In fine grains. The blood of a
hog is worth for this purpose about
three cents before it is prepared. One
establishment in Wisconsin, which uses
up 5000 swine per day, receives for the
blood alone $50.
DEPTH AND DISTANCE OF DRAINS
Mr.. John Johnson, the father of under
draining IN this country, answers a cor
respondent In the Tribune, that he
placed the drains In his stiff soils
twenty-five to thirty-eight feet apart /;
and two and one-half feet is deep
enough for economy and use; that thus
deep tillage and manuripg has brought
him an average of forty-two bushels per
acre over sixty-four acres that by this
means the average of the wheat crop
car be made as high here as in the En-
gland, with keeping plenty of stock and
making plenty of manure. He summer.
fallows.
COVERING Birdie BIrs.-A friend to
horses write as follows to the Farmers
Union Take a strip of muslin two
inches wide, dip it In melted beeswax
and when sufficiently cool lay it on the
bit and wrap it over SO as to cover the
bit. One thickness of the muslin OF
the bit is sufficient. If there is joint
In the middle of it, the saturated mus
lin must bein two pieces, leaving the join
free. Beeswax is such good non-con
ductor that, with the above dressing
bits will not require warming in tn,
coolest weather. A thread wound a
each end wrappinewill better secur,
it from coming off. The above dress
ing will remain on, not only through tn
winter, but for a year or more If nc
taken off Intentionally.
SHEEP RAISING PRoFITABLE.-In a re
cent report of the Department of Agri
culture, A. c. Miller, of Calhoun county
Mich, gives table showing the e1
penses, returns and profits in keepin
ITO sheep, 20 ewes, 20 rams and 2
lambs:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Bylaws Of the National Grange.

10y AdWS VI tnC NotlOnol W. ouSCs
ARTICLE 1.
The 4th day of December, the birth
day of the Patrons of Husbandry, shall
be celebrated as the anniversary of the
Order.
Not less than the representation of
twenty States present at any meeting of
the National Grange shall constitute
quorum for the transaction of business.
ARTICLE III.
At an annual meeting of each State
Grange it may elect proxy to repre-
sent the State Grange in the National
Grange in case of the inability of the
master to attend, and such proxies shall
in all cases be Past Masters of their
State Oranges.
ARTICLE w.
Questions of administration and juris-
prudence arising in and between State
Oranges, and appeals from the action
and decision thereof, shall be referred
to the Master and Executive Committee
of the National Grange, whose decision
shall be respected and obeyed until
overruled by the action of the National
Grange.
ARTICLE v.
1t shall be the duty of the Master to
preside at meetings of the National
Grange; to see that all officers and
members of committees properly per-
form their respective duties to see that
the constitution, bylaws and resolu-
tons of the National Grange, and the
usages of the order are observed and
obeyed, and generally to perform all
duties pertaining to such Office.
ARTICLE vi.
It shall be the duty of the Secretary
to keep record of all proceedings Of
the National Grange, to keep just and
true account of all monies received and
deposited by him in the fiscal agency !;
to countersign all drafts drawn by the
Treasurer to conduct the correspond
ence of the National Grange and to
perform such other duties appertaining
to his Office as may be required by the
Master and Executive Committee.
1t shall be his duty, at least once each
week. to deposit with the fiscal agency
holding the funds of the National
Grange, all moneys that may have
come into his hands, and forward du-
plicate receipt therefor to the Treasurer,
and to make full report of ali transac-
tons to the National Grange at each
annual session.
It shall be his further duty to procure
a monthly report for the fiscal agency,
with whom the funds of the National
Grange are deposited, of all moneys
received and paid ont by them during
the month, and send copy of such re-
port to the Executive Committee and
Master of The National Grange.
He shall give bond in such sum and
with such security as may be approved
by the Executive Committee.
ARTICLE VII.
| SECTION l. 1t shall be the duty of the
Treasurer to issue all drafts upon the
fiscal currency of the order, said drafts
having been previously approved by the
Master and countersigned by the Score
tary of the National Grange.
SEC. 2. He shall report monthly to
the Master of the National Grange {
statement of all moneys deposited Il
his credit in the fiscal agency, and of al
drafts signed by him during the pre-
vious month.
| SEC. 3. He shall report to the Nation
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Spring BOnnets.

The spring bonnets or hats (there is
very little difference) are to be trimmed
entirely with flowers, fruit, lace and
ribbons. The straw shapes are very
much the same as the winter ones. The
face trimming will consist of wreath
of flowers going completely around the
hat and under the braid or curls at the
back of the head.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
To CORRESPONDENTS.

Ali communications for this paper should be ACCOM-
panied by the name Of the author not necessarily for
publication. but evidence Of good faith on the
part of the writer Write only of the paper
Be particu arly careful in giving and dates 70
have the letters and figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09

and the State good turn by persisting
in their present effort till all the farm
implements needed shall be made on
our own soil, of our own timber and
iron.-,St. LooSs Republican,