The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-01-02

An application was made TO Judge Farwell
of the Circuit Court at Chicago, on Dec. 10,
for an injunction restraining Rev. chas. l..
Cheney, lately appointed Itinerant Bishop for
the West by the Reformed Episcopal Church.
from further exercising power as minister
of the Episcopal Church. The application is
made on behalf Of several members of DR..
Cheney'- church. who have oppo-edhis course
for some time past.
The Iowa State Grange Of the Patrons OF
Husbandry met at Dc- Moines, Dee.
Grand Master Smcdley, in his opening all
dress. reviewed the growth Of the order in
the State. showing that the number Of subor-
dinate oranges had increased during the last
year from rs to l.S5e, with AN aggregate
membership of 100000. He warned members
that the success Of the order depended upon
the observance Of their rules prohibiting the
Introduction OF politics into the order. Col.
smcdcy was reelected Grandchildren.
The third annual injecting of the Illinois
State Grange OF Patrons Of uSbandry, COM
posed of masters of subordinate oranges.
met at Bloomington on Dee. .. Between tx
and seven hundred delegates were present
out Of eight hundred. The state Master,
VIM. Golden. delivered the annual address, in
the course OF which lac deprecated making
political organization Of the order. He
favored the establishment Of purchasing
agencies TO protect farmers from the eNactions
OF middlemcn. and also the establishment Of
manufactures and other business enterprises
in the interest of the farmers. lie reiterated
former declaration that the order were only
opposed to the ahuses Of the railroad system.
and not the system itself, and favored the inn
provement of the mouth OF the Mississippi by
the Government Beyond appointing vari-
Gus committees no other business was trans
acted
Theo. A. Wick. dcfaulting treasurer Of
Clarke county. o., has been sentenced 10 one
year at hard labor in the penitentiary. and to
pay costs Of trial and q fine Of sixty thousand
I six hundred dollars.
1 Andrew J. Perfect. the Chicago wife muir
dcrcr, sentenced to be hung on Dec. L.. has
been respitcd for one week. II j. understood
I that he made u full confession of his guilt.
Donald Mckay. deputy in the Office Of the
Clerk of the Chicago Criminal Court. has
been sentenced 10 three years i'm the peniien-
I llhTN LOT ISSUING lTduuuttnl NATURALIZATION ph-
pers.
/ The Illinois State Grange. in session at
1 Bloomington, Dee. II, adopted long series
Of resolutions presented by the committee,
setting forth that the objects Of the order are
for the social, intellectual and moral elevation
of the people; expressing fratcrnal feeling
for farmers clubs aud similar organizations,
the objects Of which are mainly identical with
those Of the order; fayoring a system Of free
banking; condemning the increased salary;
requesting the Legislature not to mcddIc with
the present State temperance law; dcclar-
ing that Congress had power TO, aud should
control Interstate commerce and transporta-
ton, and commencing its action thus far in
this regard; asking for modification or re-
peal of the tax ON foreign bottoms; favoring
Improvement Of rivers and canals by the gem
cral Government as "A means of chcapening
transportation: also, favoring the building Of
additional railroads, with proper restrictions,
and as last resort the building Of freight
railroads by the Government solely for The
benefit of the people; declaring The inherent
right Of the people TO control corporations.
and opposing any repeal, or essential modi-
| fication Of the State railroad law.
The Iowa State Grange during rs recent