The Grange advance., 1874-07-08
FAITH, HOPE,


1AOA AM 1CU W.
belle, died yesterday from the use Of
arsenic to beautify her complexion.
Later reports from the grasshopper regions
are most discouraging, being to the effect
that scarcely any Of the crops will be
saved and that much distress must ensue
among the people who, for the second
year, have thei, harvesting ,p.ematurely
done by the great plague.
THURSDAY, July 2.-P. F. Wintermute,
for the killing Of Gen. AcCook at Yank-
ton, was yesterday sentenced by Justice
Shannon Of Dakota TO ten years imprison.
ment in the Iowa peni,entiary at Fort
Patterson. His counsel, however, propose
to appeal for new trial to the Supreme
Court Of the Territory. THE prize fight
between Red Handed Mike and Jim Taylor
Of Chicago, which was expected 10 cone
off near Green Bay, WIS.,, yesterday, did
not take place. Mike failed to appear,
and it is said had himself arrested as an
excuse for not appearing. The Chicago
and Rock Island Railroad Company has
conformed its Iowa rates for freight and
passengers to the stste> law. The Super
intendent announces that this is an exper.
iment. If the legal rates will pay they
will be continued, otherwise the company
will establish higher rates and apply to
the courts for projection. The suit in
which the bondholde:s o; the G. and n |.
W. railroad seek to have the State OF Wis
consin enjoined from enforcing it's law
regulating railway transportation, is on
trial in the United States Circuit Court at
Madison, and decision Is expected next
week. The leading railway lines be-
tween the East and West yesterday agreed
to reduce through rates fo- both passen-
gers and freight aeout fifty per cent.
The Eastern banks being many of them
disposed 10 surrender surplus circulation
tor which they have no present use, the
Comptroller can supply currency for west.
ern banks being established without
issuing his call for the withdrawal of
circulation from the East SO far 600
employees, mostly women, have been dis
missed from the several departments at
Washington, this week. Mr.. Hale of
Maine, having yesterday withdrawn his
acceptance of the Office OF Postmaster
General, on account Of i'll. health, ex.Post.
master General Cresswell will remain in
charge of the department ior few days
longer, until the vacancy can be filed
The thirty Thousand MINOR pos.masters,
under the new law, are hereafter to be
paid quarterly, according to the business
Of each quarter. 1t being reported that
the Carlists have assassinated large num-
Der Of prisoners taken at Muro, when Mar.
shall Concha was killed, the Spanish ma
tional troops threaten retaliation. The
subcommittee of the committee Of thirty
of the French Assembly, have prepared q
constitutional bill for continuing the title
President of the republic, for the creation
Of a second chamber, for the organic ation
of purely personal septennst, which is
to terminate with the expiration Q! Presi
dent NacMahon's seven~year term, or
soeoer in case Of his resignation or death
No provision is made for q successor to
tho President, and it is thought that the
object Of the omission is to leave N op.
portunity for the restoration OF the mon
archy. which may be possible when the
sePtennat ceases .. Emperor Willism has
presented Hon. George Bancroft, the re-
tiriug American Minister, with his life
size portrait, painted to order. The Oaci.
al Gazette Of Prussia also highly compli.
ments Mr.. Bancroft. The Social cotton
mills at Woousocket, r. l., running co..
600 spindles and 1000 looms and employ
ng 100 hands, was burned yesterday.
LOSS over 800. 900 insured in the East
tor $eao,ooo. The suit of Jay Gould
against Lord Gordon has resulted in q
judgment by default against Gordon for
$4o'soo. Henry Grinnell, Of New York.
VINO htted out the Grinnell expedition to
search for Sir John Franklin, died Tues.
day, aged 75....At East Orange, n. T.,
Tuesday, man named Ames died Of by
drophobis, but his family do not know
that he Wa ever bitten: scrasched, or in
any way injured by q dog. The Red
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