The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-02-19

Of the producers on January Is, in the States
Of nlinois, iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wiscon-'
sin. The percentage Of barley on hand at the
date na,lsd in the i've States, which produced
in 1873 some 500, 900 bushels, is placed at
80 $40 per cent. Tho rate Of consumption,
by which IL meant both shipments
and home consumption, is the highest in
Kansas and the lowest in Wisconsin, being
respectively Is and 66 per cent. The percent
age Of rye ON hand averages 26 6-1O per cent,
or triie less than 1,14s, 600 bushels. The
consumption Is the heaviest in Kansas, being
eighty per cent, and the lightest in Wisconsin,
being seventy per cent. Returns relative to
the condition Of the growing grain indicate
slightly increased prospects for February l, As
compared with the indications on January Is.
A Columbus .(Ohio) dispatch of the sth
says the success of the women's Temperance
movements at other points had caused the
disciples of temperance in that city to organ
ize, and arrangements were being made for
grand attack at that point. Dio Lewis had
been called on, and would be there to start the
movement.
Jefferson Davis has sailed from New Orleans
to Liverpool, his physician having recon-
mended q sea voyage ~.
Both houses of the Illinois Legislature have
passed the bill permitting suit against rail-
road to be brought in any county through
which the road runs, and thereby relieving the
public from the necessity imposed by the old
law of going to the courts in the county where
the central Offices are situated.
A communication from the members of the
Boston Grange was presented ON the 9th to
committee of the National Grange appointed to
consider the important question whether the
membership of the Grange entitled it to recog-
milton. The memorial recites that its men,
beers were the only persons in Boston who
took any interest in the movement or did
anything to assist National Deputy Abbott in
his work in Massachusetts. They plead that
the Grange was organized by Mr.. Abbott, as
the representative of the National Grange,
and was accepted by the State Grange, and
plead that they are ''interested' in agricul-
ture in way to bring them fully within the
scope of the organization.
Speaking of the praying temperance move
ment the Chicago Evening Journal of recent
date says: 1.-THE praying women of Ohio
are carrying the strongholds Of King Alcohol
without much opposition. Occasionally, how
ever, they find an obstinate subject, but they
keep on praying, singing and exhorting inside
or in front of his place until, in spite Of
himself, the trafficker in firewater is finally
forced to strike his colors and surrender at
discretion. There is something heroic
in the fearless zeal of these women,
and the prospect is that this will soon
become one of the most powerful and effective
temperance movements ever inaugurated in
this country"
The resolution to remove the headquarters
of the National Grange to st. Louis has been
referred to special committee of five, to re-
port at the eighth session of the National
Grange. The following is the committee:
Messrs. Parsons, Of Minnesota; Warden, of
Florida; Hamilton, of Alabama; Cotton, of
Vermont, and Allen, of Missouri.
The committee to investigate the condition
of the homesteaders in Northwestern Iowa
have recently returned to Des Moines. In the
counties of Lyon, Sioux, O'Brien and Osceola
there is great restitution, and, unless relief be
speedily granted, there will be much suffering
and many must leave their claims.
The bill to remove the capital of Colorado
from Denver to Pueblo has been defeated in
the Territorial Council.