The Grange advance., 1874-07-22

SDNESDAY, JULY ~,
pie an unconditional cession. The re-
ported Carlist cruelties of Spain in wanton-
ly destroying property ,seizing hostages and
shooting prisoners, is string other Euro
pean people to disposition in favor of
active interference to put an end to the
Carlist rebellion. The California gran
gers have arranged to ship this seasons
crop O. wheat on their own account selling
afoat or on arrival at Eropean market
as shall seem best. Stevens and Swift
counties were overrun by grasshoppers
yesterday. The pests came from the north
and northwest and decended in such num-
bers as no fairly cover the ground.
MONDAY, July 20.-The rowing contest
between the college crews Of Columbia,
Wesleyan, eHarvard, Williams, Cornell,
Dartmouth, Trinity, Princeton and Yale
colleges, came off on Saratoga Lake Satur-
day morning and ended in victory for
the Columbia crew, time l6:42 IA; the
Wesleyan being second and about two
lengths behind-time, 1850; distance three
miles. The Yale crew which had won
the lead in the first mile, but soon lost it,
claims to have been jockeyed by the Har-
ward crew and abandoned the race ut the
mile and half point At meeting of
citizens at Chicago Saturday night to con-
slider by what means the re-occurrence of
great fires in that city can be avoided, the
propositions which met with most favor
We're to prohibit the erection or preserva-
ton of wooden buildings anywhere within
the city limits and to separate different
portions of the city, one from another, by
very wide streets.-Saturday's reports
from the West and Southwest bring ac-
counts of Sioux attack upon the mining
camp of Seminole, Wyoming, in which
some of the miners were killed and. at last
accounts, al! were in danger, having been
closely pressed for two days by four times
their number Of Indians. Also OF fight
between Snakes and Utes and Arrapahoes,
at the head Of Powder river, in which the
Arrapahoes suffered a heavy loss; of an at
tack upon the Ponca agency in Nebraska
by small party Of Sioux, which was re-
pulsed without loss to the Poncas; cf
bridge gang and railway section hands be-
ing driven into Rawlins, Nebraska, by the
Indians; of a fight with Indians thirty
miles west of Fort Sill, in which Col. Car
penter, U. S. A., was badly wounded and
six Of his men were killed; and Of des-
perate fight between company of volun-
teer rangers and a party Of raiding Indians
in Jacho county, Texas, in which at last
accounts the rangers were surrounded and
in danger of capture or determination.
In the vicinity Of Swan Lake in Nicollet
county Saturday, the grasshoppers came
down like heavy snow fall, the air be-
ing full Of them. Their course seemed to
be eastward. In that vicinity they have
much damaged the oat crop and have
thickly deposited their eggs.-A man
named Nathan 1saacson is under arrest at
Chicago, charged with having purposely
set fire to the building which caused
the great fire Of last Tuesday night
The appeal in the case of Wintermute.
convicted Of the murder of McCook, is to
be heard by the Supreme Court of Dakota
in January next. In the meantime Win
termute must lay injail, the Court having
refused to: admit him to bail.-Near
Delhi, ILL.,, few days ago, occurred most
horrible accident. Mrs. Fred Capman of
that place went out blackberrying, accom-
panied by her two year old boy. While
she was busy the boy wandered off little
way and upon the track of the Jacksonville
railway, just before an express came along.
The engineer tried to check the train and
the fireman ran out upon the cowcatcher
to push the child off the track, but in vain,
and the whole train ran over him cutting
his body in two. The mother. from the
moment she saw her child's mangled re-
mains became raving maniac.-sena-
tor Chandler and thirty y-eight others, mem.
bers OF the Republican Congressional Com
mittee have issued an address to the. peo-
pie, in which, after reviving the past and
chasing all opponents OF the Republican
party as Democrats, it calls upon the peo-
pie to elect Republicans to Congress, who
only will the address argues, provide for
the equal civil rights intended by the four
teenth amendment, reform the currency
and solve the problem Of cheap transpor-
fafion --Hon w Hicka nc A1oxo.