The Grange advance., 1874-02-04


runs over $500,O00. The fire is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
Ten millions is all the Philadelphians ask
of the Government in order to enable them
to get up first class centennial in 1876.
Now centennial is undoubtedly great,
grand and glorious thing to have, but the
price-ah mo thank you, we'll take no
centennial in ours.
We publish two letters this week on fenc-
ing, one by farmer who pays consider
able attention to stock'and the other rails.
ing wheat. Starting from different stand
points they both come to the same con-
clusion, that cattle should be restrained
from running at large.
While the Legislature is discussing
change in the tax laws, why not amend 50
as to save the tens of thousands Of dollars
annually paid for advertising all the land
in the State, when it is absolutely certain
that the advertising will do no good =
Why not wait until a time of year when
people can pay their taxes and then only
advertise the real delinquents Let all
taxes not paid by the 18th of June of each
year be advertised, if necessary, but let
no more money be thrown away.
DR.. LiVinr9tnno ho nrooto,t q
this or any other age, is dead He died
martyr to the cause to which he has devot-
ed the best years Of his life with a zeal
that hesitated at no danger, difficulty. or
sacrifice. After wading for hours in water
above their waists, and under a broiling
sun, himself and ten Of his companions sud-
denly died. The first reports of his death
were not. credited, but official dispatches
from Zanzibar have been received, giving
the details of the sad event. His remains
will be brought to England.
MIR. Warren Smith of Mobiles County.
Mlnn., in letter to the Worthington Ad-
uancc says: 81 have travelled in MANY
climes, have ascended the snow clad sides
of Mount Hood to the altitude Of twelve
thousand feet above the level of the sea-
and yet never, in my opinion, reached a
point so near Heaven as Mobiles County,"
This reminds Us of q remark made by fell
low passenger on the Sioux City and St.
Paul road, while going through that county
as nc sat by the window looking out over
the bo"ndless prairies that lie up there
without even shrub to obstruct the vision
he said TINT it came the nearest like look
ing ont into eternity Of anything he had ev
er been able to conceive Mr.. Smith srrms
to think they are not only in eternity up
there, but that they are also near neigh
BORIS to the angels.
Sir St. George Gore, an English noble
man, has jus, gone TO the glades Of Florida
to do II little business in the way Of fishing
and hunting In order to shoot ducks and
catch gudgeons successfully, Mr.. Gore fin.ls
1t necessary to take with him six servants,
four horses, twenty one dogs and abou, six
thousand pounds OF baggage. How this tel-
low came to risk himself out go far from a
base Of supplies without one or. two resi-
ments of soldiers, and from fifty to one
hundred personal attendants to wash his
face, comb his hair, rescue him from
drowning upon proper occasions. and ap-
ply the pocket handkerchief to his nose
when necessary is perfectly amazing His
income is only a quarter of a million per
annuu at present, and it is to be hoped the
British Government will see the necess;tv
Of increasing his salary at once and throw
ing in a little back pay for dog g-money:.
William Warner. one of the o,dost
residents of Scott county, died at his resi-,
dence in the town Of Jordan on Thursday
last at the advanced age Of seventy six
years. Mr.. Warner settled in Scott county
in 1866. He has lived on the very same
site from that time to the day of his death,
having built the present residence ON the
same ground occupied by the original log