The Grange advance., 1874-01-21


law so as to place the salaries Of all officers,
except the President and Judges of the Su
preme Court, where they we're before the
passage Of the law. Now the wonder
grows why they ever passed the law.
We arc under obligations to Senator Hub
bard and Representative Jones for valua-
BILE public documents, viz: Reports of Rail-
road Commissioner, State Treasurer, In
spectors and Wardens of State Prison, Di-
rectors and Officers of the Institute for the
deaf dumb and blind, and journal Of the
House.
Queen Victoria has just conferred the
honor Of Knighthood upon the Honorable
William George Granville Venables Vernon
Harcourt, Esq, Q. c. NJ. P, Solicitor Cen
eral of England, and 80 the poor fellow will
have to support another title. Surely this
addition to his name will be the last, for
to add anything more would be a great
deal like adding little more on to eternity
In the time Of King George the Second
of England, there was q statute enacted
entitled: An act for regulating the fees
Of Attorneys, and for preventing the i'm
portation Of disease among horned CATTLE
We can see no possible connection between
these two evils which would make them
both the subject of one statute, unless the
disease they were trying to prevent was
the blackleg. We can see how lawyers
might be troubled with the same disease
The Farmers Union says that the inaug-
ural of Governor Davis sis rather tame,
and thin, and not at all up to the e1pecta.
tions Of his friends" We suppose it is ut
terly impossible for small circle to com
prehend larger one. A mans deformity
is never so conspicuous as when he speaks
Of others having it. If there is any one
word that the Union could use, which would
attract to itself general attention, with a
very broad smile on each beholders face,
il is the word "thin.''
The Goodhue County Republican says that
it is acquainted with Mr.. Stevens, the
editor of the Farmers Union This is stu
pidity. There is no such man. 1t should
have stated that it was acquainted with Mr..
Stevens who came so near beating its editor
for Secretary of State last fall. We pro-
test against the insinuation that as honor
able man as John H. Stevens is edits the
Union. In justice to him, let it be known
that: John H. Stevens has nothing to do
with the editing of that paper.
The Executive Committee of the Goodhue
County Council Patrons of Husbandry held
IN adjourned meeting at the office of THE
GRANGE ADVANCE, on Friday the 10Th inst.
They fixed the amount of bonds to be given
by the County Agents, the compensation to
be paid them, the duties to be performed,
and drew and signed articles of Incorpora-
tion Of the Council. The Agents, Messrs.
T. NJ. Lowater Of Red Wing and s. B. Bar
teau Of Zumbrota, have signed their &C.
ceptance, and another adjourned meeting Of
the Executive Committee is to be held 1T
the same place at ten o'clock on the 23d in
slant to receive the bonds Of and enter into
contract with the agents, and attend to 9TH
er important business.
The Board of County Commissioners Of
Olmsted County made ell the county papers
official. This is fair play. It is about
time that the practice Of men as soon as
they get into Office, trying to buy the sup
port OF some paper by showing it special
favors was busted. The man who cannot
hold his position without using the public
patronage for that purpose should be re
tired. And the newspaper that cannot live
by fair competition, without being fed at
the public loss, better die. More than this
the readers of one paper have just as much
right to be informed of all public and Of
fetal business as the readers Of any other
paper, and the trying to thrust a distaste-
full paper down the throsts Of the people
because it happens to advocate the princi-
pies of the dominant party is miserable,
contemplate, petty, demagoguery and ty-
ranny. -