The Grange advance., 1874-02-18

Georgia Grsngers have organized
fa company for the shipment Of cotton
to Liverpool without the intervention
of brokers.
The spiritualists ot; New Haven have
planned out a cooperative community
in which all property is to held in COM
mon but the difficulty is that their ae-
gregate wealth is insufficient to buy a
farm. They are waiting for somebody
to endow the enterprise.
Another agricultural college that
don't pay. The trustees of the Mary-
land agricultural concern want an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 pr annum, a
flock Of sheep and herd OF cattle. and
English farm laborecs to do the work
for the students, who are educated free.
"A proposed amendment to the
New Jersey constitution is that proper
ty OF no kind shall be exempt from tax
alton, except that Of the State. coun-
ties and municipalities, and burying
grounds not held by stock companies.
"A resolution has been ordered
printed in the Iowa Legislature to the
effect that the General Assembly should
not adjourn until laws have been
passed regulating the rates of treiy ht
and passenger fare on railroads, and
otherwise affecting railroad interests.
-ParSOn Newman. who is now IN h;s
travels at the public expense. has upon
his card the words, - Rev. DR.. New
man, Chaplain Of the U. S. Senate. and
special friend Of President Grant"
This card he carries about him in all
his official meandering 1t constitutes
his credentials
-Bessemer steel rails are now manu-
featured by eight establishments in the
United States, producing 10000 tons
annually which will soon be increased
to 200, 900 tons.
Out Of fifty coal shafts in CLAW
County, Ind only few are being 3D.
Grated, and all the smelling furnaces
Give in number) are idle.
There is likely to be serious trouble
in Vienna with the unemployed work
men. Thirty Thousand of them have
asked the government to do somcthi ING
for their relief The Emperor finds a
problem that will not prove easy Of
solution.
Stalks Of wheat measuring three
feet high. nicely headed out and almost
ready for harvest, have been exhibited
in San Bcrnardino, Cal.
so extensive Roman Catholic re.
vival is under way at Holyoke, Mass,
that several additional confessionuls have
been opened, and confessions are heard
through h the entire day.
-Adulterations of milk in Illinois
arc likely to fare very badly if the re.
vised criminal code is adopted. One Of
its provisions is that whoever adulterates
any milk with water, chalk, or othe,
substance, or sells such milk, shall be
confined in the county Jail not exceed
ing one year or fined not exceeding $500
Charles Stewart, of Kalamazoo
| Mich, has brought suit to test the legal.
ity Of taxation for the support of public
schools in which languages other than
English are taught.
The last anti-liquor bill in the
Kansas Legislature has been killed
One Of its amendments provided that
no fermented liquors should be manu-.
factured Or imported into the State uu
der penalty of not less than $4,000
nor more than $50, 900, or imprison.
ment in the penitentiary at hard labo,
OF not less than twenty years nor more
than fifty years or both and that no one
should touch any spirituous: vinous, o,
termented liquors under the same pen
atty.
The methods Of doing business with
thirty thousand horrible, murderin!
Teton Sioux, who seems to require ;
whole herd Of beef for each one of then
during every year. is vividly illustrated
in story which comes from the Mill
River Agency. When the new agen
arrived there he inquired for the appur
tenances of the agency, such as horses
and agricultural implements. He coult
neither find them nor any one who hat
ever heard of them. Finally trappe
came in who was supposed to have tenn
Porary charge of the agency. Upo'
being questioned he replied, What d
you suppose | know about yer imple
ments: l never seen none, and [ ain
no affidavit man. All our affidavit me