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boots and shoes and all articles kept hrs-els- country
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Al the above property will be sod together separately
ns shall hes suit purchasers ANY person purchasing the
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DESTROYS For terms and further parcular inquire Of the
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GREAT MEDICAL DEroT, Providence, r. |.
For sale Everywhere. ls-i5
HAIR NINEi HAIR vINEi HAIR VINEi
Natures Remedy!

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The market Tor ne human scalp. Unlike an other
hair rusfnnuNes, n contains 90 sugar lead
Aiic sulphur nitrate silver, ans thing
that will injure the head
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CURING COsrlyENEss, JAuNDICR. DYSPEPSIA,
INDIGESTION, DYsENrERY, FOUL STOMACH AND
BREATH, ERYstrELAs, HEADACHE, PILES, RIfrr-
MATfsM, ERurTfONs. SKIN DISEASES, BILIOUS
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PURIFYING THE BLOOD.

Aethe most congenia pugaiiyo yet perfected Their effects
abundanuy show how much they excel al other RMS 1h,y
safe and pleasant 90 take, but powerful to cure They
out The foul humos Of the blood they stimulate the
slugisl Or disorioo' onnn into action and they imran
health and tone 10 tho whole bns They not only The
every day complaints VI everybody but formidable and
dangerous diseases Most sknhi physicians most eminent
cerrynen and best citizens send Of cu
performed. and OF great benefits they have derived from
thcso rs They the acsi and best physc Tor children
because mild o. well as onctun Being sugarcoac, they
easy Co take and being purely vegetable. they are cn-
tnly harmless.
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81 ur1ui iir Eliy one II tae -aIlifr and far
fftrfsf IrsriIiHufs viii whom have htd Hdoal ufaf
coui-e. CHARLES MASON. teu'r ~ Patents"
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unst b. settled on OF before October lst, lSIi.
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ITVN MID HLAU,l
restore the hair 10 IT, normal color When caused from pre-
nnr decay, stop and prevent the hair frun falling out,
stop mat unpleasant itching That + the prelude Of The hairs
deAylng, cure dnndun and all diseases q The scalp, A.
ladies hair dressing cannot be- e1celed Below give
few press ana Individual certificates;
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
SENATOR BRUCE.
A Few Incidents i'm the Life Of MisSis.
sippi's New COlOred Senator.

A correspondent of the St. Louis
Globe. writing from Brunswick, Mo-,
gives the following interesting particu-
lars Of the life Of Mr.. B K. Bruce, re-
Gently elected United States Senator
from Mississippi.
"Our colored citizens are very iubi-
liant over the election of B. K. Bruce as
United States Senator from Mississippi.
Bruce formerly slave, and was owned
by Mr.. Pellis Perkinson, who resided
in this county for number Of years.
He brought large family of negroes
here with him. [ think Bruce has five
brothers in the county. Two of them,
James and Sandy Bruce, are very re-
liable men and good citizens. Branch
K. Bruce, when slave, hired his time,
as did several of his brothers, and were
considered smart and reliable. Since
the war B. K. Bruce was employed as
a porter on the steamer Columbia for
several years, and until she sunk in
sight of this place. He went to school
at Oberlin, Ohio, and finally worked
his way to Mississippi; appointed Sher-
if by Governor Alcorn, and served two
terms with honor Previous to this he
was Sergeant-at-Arms Of the House of
Representatives of Mississippi. His
many friends, colored and white, are
pleased to hear Of his good luck"
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
4 ~ iEEA
A1tOrt10ns In the Elevator Business.

lt'would seem that the great railroad
and moneyed corporations have used ev-
cry means within their reach and power
as engines of extortion and oppression.
Here is what the Industrial Age says
about the elevator business at Milwau-
kee:
The only elevator not within the con-
trol OF the St. Paul Go. is that known
as the old Sweet Warehouse, or elevator.
This elevator Was bought Of L. j. Hig-
by, by a prominent business man Of
Milwaukee, for $4,000. One-third of
it was sold to prominent St. Paul Co
official, at cost. At the end Of the
first year, the St. Paul Co. gentleman
had, for his share of the profits, his
$4,000 back and $4,000 over. The
elevator cleared $27, 900 more than it's
cost the first year the present owners
had it. Of this $lO2 900, there was
$4,000 too much wrung from the far
mers In transporting their wheat to the
seaboard markets. Is it any wonder
the owners of these elevators hate to
give up so good thing? But is it not
wonder that Legislators, who have no
interest in the extortionate exac-
tions that roll up such colossal profits,
will desert or betray their constituents,
and perpetuate them?
We make the foregoing special allu-
sion to the old Sweet Elevator from no
spirit Of ill-will towards either Of sit
proprietors. On the contrary it would
afford the writer most sincere pleasure
to render one Of them any legitimate
kindness in his power. But having
been assured, from what we consider a
responsible source-a grain dealer
that the facts are as stated, "e deem it
our duty to make special mention of
them for the information Of the Legisla-
ture and the public.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

'THE earnings Of the St. Paul Com
pany for the year 1873, were $4,000, 900
in excess of those for the year 1872.
Its earnings for the month Of January,
1874, were in excess of those for the
corresponding month of 1873, to the ex-
tent Of $322,685. If the increase of
the earnings, as indicated by last month,
shall continue throughout the year in
the same ratio, and the percentage of
increase will no doubt be greater after
the winter months hs-the company will
have earned for the year 1874, over what
1t a earned during the year 1873, 81 $40,
z2O, and in round numbers, 81, 600, 900
more rel tor 1874 than for the year 1872"
-Malaooukee Sentinel
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

And with all this prosperity the gen.
try who manage the road through their
attorneys and servants, are grumbling and
whining through Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota, to get their property taxed
below the average property Of the state.
They probably want a few hundred
thousands extra to build better cottages
at Long Branch, on the Hudson, or at
Newport, or in Florida-or to make more
extended trips to Europe and purchase
more elaborate and expensive dresses
and gew-gaws in Paris. The company
will probably carry their point, or we
shall be most hopefully disappointed.
Nearly all Of this immense sum comes
out of the labor of the farmers; and
they will not only have to pay it, but to
keep on paying till they are made suAi-
GENTLY sensible Of what ails them to COM
pei them to put their hands on the bull
headed and corrupt Legislators, and make
them do their duty. When will that
good time come? Not while the farm
'ers and other industrial interests allow
the railroad managers, lobbyists and at
torneys to place in public positions men
subservient to their purposes.-zedustri;-
al Age.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
OMNIBUS.

"A country paper exclaims: "Lives
there man with soul so dead, who nev-
er to himself has said, I'll pay before I
60 to bed, the debt I owe the printer" !"
Yes, there are some who know full we'll.
who never such a tale could tell, but
they, I fear, will go to-well, the
place where there's no winter"
Here is the form of notice served
upon the liquor dealers of Washington :
Sir: You will please take notice
that on tomorrow at 4 o'clock p. m. a
number of ladies with myself will appear
at your restaurant to hold prayers for
the purpose of reforming you and your
family, and inducing you to quit the
business in which you are engaged, and
also to check the curse of dram-drink.
ing by the frequenters of your house.
MRS. E. CAFFERY,
For herself and sisters.
The Iowa Legislature has appro-
priated $4,000 for the relief of the des-
titute farmers in Northwestern Iowa.
Mr.. J. R. Pentz, of Rice County.
recently lost two head of cattle from
eating barley straw. The boards pene-
trated the membrane of the throat and
caused inflammation.
-" What is a more exhilarating
sight" asks an enthusiastic editor up
North, "than to see round dozen of
handsome girls sliding down hill on an
ox-sled I" +" A bakers dozen of 'em,"
replies his his %cotemporary over the way.
~. We find the following item in an
Illinois paper: " Mr.. who has
been il retirement for a few weeks af.s
ter u marrying and burying three sisters,
came up smilingly to the altar again
yesterday, having begun on q new fami-.
~
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
From the Charleston News and Courier.
A TAX-RIDDEN STATE.
An Appeal from South Carolina.

There is one small yet very impor-
tant service which the newspaper press
Of the whole country can and ought to
render to the plundered and oppressed
people of this PROSTATE State. It is to
enlighten the public everywhere as to
the real issue in the approaching con-
test in South Carolina. 1t is high
time that it should be known of all
men that this is going to be no battle Of
democrat against Republican, or of
Conservative against Radical. It is
simply the desperate struggle of brave
and impoverished people to save the
remnant OF their property from gang
of remorseless robbers. A few figures
from the published accounts of the
State government, tell the whole story
in a nutshell:
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

There probably never has been a
.,me u IN the history the country when
sne people were watching the acts of
oongressmen with as close scrutiny as
AZ me present and it will fare badly
WIN any Congressman who recklessly
stands mas IN ln the way Of the enactment Of
measures which are demanded. Detroit
u Press. "
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
From New York Times {Republicsn.)

The Legislature of South Carolina is
apparently gang of thieves, intent only
upon plundering the people whom it is
supposed to serve. Long practice has
made the Legislature Of the State per-
fected system of brigandage. Ignorant
negroes, transplanted from the cotton
fields to the halls of the Capital, where
they have been drilled by unscrupulous
white adventures, have naturally made
"a mockery of government, and bank.
rupted the State 1t is not surprising
that such Legislators. representing con,
stituencies debased by long period of
vassalage, and under such tutleage
should have displayed an ingenuity in
fraud which has no parallel in history.
1t is among the least of the deplorable
consequences OF negro supremacy in
South Carolina that the credit of the
State has been utterly destroyed. The
State debt has been increased over $1O,-
100000 since the close Of the war, aud
nothing has been secured in public im-
provements for this prodigal waste of
the public revenues. The bonds of the
State are worthless, and matters have
now become so desperate that the rob-
bers who rule it are forced to depend
for their stealings upon the pittance of
taxation which can still be wrung from
an impoverished people. Public morals
have been so debased that any hope for
purl6cation from within the State can
be entertained
The New York Herald is after the
professional charity mongers with very
sharp stick indeed Not long since, Mr.
Bennett donated $4,000 for the benefit
of the poor Of the city, and directed that
his splendid bounty should be expended
in furnishing food to the hungry at the
various station houses and soup kitchens.
His directions were criticised by several
charity experts as tending to demoralize
and pauperize the poor, and promoting
the growth of mendicancy. But if the
Heralds statements in reply are true, in
regard to the management of the leading
public charitable institutions, there is
more danger Of promoting the growth of
official mendicancy by the endowment Of
public charities, than of increasing the
number Of private beggars. The Chill
dren's Aid Society, which is run by Mr..
Z. l.. Brace, one Of the critics of the
soup kitchen system, paid last year s75,-
600 for salaries. The Five Points
House Of Industry in 1872 expended
$4,000 for salaries and $4,000 for
charity, Of which the princely sum Of
S3l8 was expended on outdoor poor.
The House of Refuge makes better
showing. In 1873 it expended on the
poor SCI 900, and paid for salaries $685.
237: These figures are astonishing, and
it will be remarkable if their expose does
not lead to radical reform in the busi-
ness Of dispensing charity, which is in
danger of becoming an engine for the
distribution of fat sinecures to few
heartless cormorants, selfleagued to
thrive upon one of the holiest instincts
OF human nature-Press.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
Total. $3.50, ,248 O4 $2,257, ,646 60

Total...".$260,248 O4 1925, GAG 60
We repeat that these are the official
figures. The contrast is between the
items OF expenditure of the honest
State government of 1866 and the
same items under the ring rule of 1873
Will not honest journals everywhere,
without regard to politics, give us their
powerful aid in unmasking the ruthless
freebooters who threaten absolute ruin
to South Carolina Give the country.
the figures?
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04
Josh Billings on :. Dlspelplshe.'' l,il

Josh Billings on " Dlspepshe." -.
DEAR BARKER : I hev been prak-
tikal dispept;k for twenty-seven years
and fore months, and it would have
been mummy in my pocket if had been
born without emmy stummuck
I hav prayed upward ov one thousand
times to be on the inside like an ostrich
or colporter.
[ hav seen travelling colporters who
could eat as much as goose.
l have seen a goose eat till they could
not stand up emmy more, and then set
down and eat sum, and then lay down
and eat sum, and then roll over and eat
sum more
I hav tried living on filtered water,
and going barefoot for the dispepshe,
and that did not hit the spot.
hav soked at water cure establish
ments until I waz so timber that I
couldn't git myself back agin inside ov
mi Baldwin apparel.
l bought saddle.hoss once, who was
got up expressly to kure the dispepshy-
he wuz warranted TO kure the disease in
80 days or kill the horse.
He was warranted to trot harder than
a trip-hammer, pull wusser on the bits.
stumble safer down hill, than emmy other
hoss on the futtstool.
[ rode that hoss until I waz all over
a jelly, and then sold him, bride and
all, for sixty-eight dollars, and got sued
by the purchaser, and had to pay him
80 dollars and sum cents damage, be-
the hoss had the Nimshys," disseaze
| knu nothing about.
l kontracted for eleven kords ov hick-
ory wood, kross grained and as phull ov
wrinkles as an old cows horn, and sawed
away three months on it, and the pile
seemed to gro bigger every day.
finally gave away the saw, and what
wood there waz left, to save mi life, and
sat dewn discouraged, square victim
to the everlasting dispepshe.
| hav lived at the seaside, and gam
boiled in the saline food, until waz az
we'll picked az number one salt mack
eral.
[ hav dwelt at Saratoga, and taken
the water like mill, and still had the
dispepshe.
hav walked 2 miles before break.
fast, and then EFT a slice ov dri toast
and hatf the yelk ov a pullet's eg, and
felt all the time az weak az kitten that
had just cum out ov fit.
[ hav laid down more than 2 thou.
sand times, and rolled over once min.
nit all mite long, and got up in the
morning like a korpse, and thae didn',
nothing seem to all me emmy WHARF in
partiklar
hav red whole library's on the STUN
muk and liver, and, when got thru
l knu a CRATE deal less what waz the
matter Nv me than when begun.
| hav drank whiskee with roots in i,
enutf to carry off emmy bridge or saw
mill in the country.
hav worked on farm for mi vittles
and board, and dieted on fride pork anc
ri bred until [ wuz az thin az the ser
mon ov a Z day Baptist preacher
hav dun all these things, and 1(
thousand other things jest az ridikulus
and hav got the old dispepshe yet
jest az natral and az thick az the pim
pies on 4-year old goose.
If you get good hold ov the dispep
she once you kant never looze it en-
tirely; it will cum around once in
while, like ghost, and if it don't scare
you so mutch as it did once, and make
you think you are going to die to-mor
row, it will make you feel just az sorry
Yours, JOSH BILLINGS.
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

The Winona Republican says est.
Paul continues to buy her mutton chops
in Winona. Mr.. Andrew Hamilton
sold a. drove Of six hundred fine fat sheep
last week TO : St. Paul butcher. The
price, though private, was above the
market on account Of the choice charac-
ter Of the flock. .
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

The National Crop Reporter pub
fishes estimates in relation to the per-
centage of the hay and Irish potato
crops of 1873 in producers hands
February LIST, in the States of Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio and
Wisconsin. The following is an ab-
stract Of the main features presented !:
The States named produced last year
over nine millions tons of hay, of which
they had on hand February LIST a little
over 80 per cent. or about four and a
half million tons. Illinois returns the
llghtest percentage, tritle less than As,
and Wisconsin the heaviest, nearly So
per cent. OF Irish potatoes the States
above named produced in 1873 some
233 million bushels. The amount on
hand now approaches 10 millions bush
els, or about IL per cent. The rela.
tive proportion on hand in the several
States varies considerably, running as
low as % per cent. in Minnesota, and
reaching 553 per cent. in Kansas.
The average prices Of wheat and pota-
toes in some of the States, relatively
considered, are somewhat anomalous.
!! In Illinois, potatoes average five cents
bushel higher than wheat; in Iowa,
seven cents higher; and in Kansas,
ten cents higher. The prospects for
fruit in Southern Illinois and South.
western Missouri are Aattering Vino
'sa Republican, *ss. ..s'5
The Grange advance., 1874-03-04

HE new State officers are taking
hold of their duties efficiently. Gov.
Davis in his message called attention to
the fact that the Southern Minnesota
road was in arrears for between two and
three thousand dollars for taxes on their
gross earnings in 1867 and 1870. At
torney General Wilson promptly laid
the matter before Judg &c Nelson and
asked that the Receiver be REQUIRED to
pay over the amount. Mr.. Horn an.
peared on behalf of the Trustees and
Mr.. Geo. L. Otis on behalf Of the Re-
ceiver to oppose the motion. In this
they were unsuccessful as the Attorney
General secured the case for the State,
and on Yesterday Judge Nelson ordered
tne Receiver to pay over the amount.
1t has long been matter of notoriety
that the State has repeatedly suffered
loss owing to the ,inattention of the At
torney General and it is a pleasure to
notice that the new official is beginning
another tact. The Dispatch speaks
from personal knowledge in saying that
the duties Of the Attorney General Of
Minnesota have been grossly neglected
for ton years past. ST. Paul Dispatch.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-03-26

Juns y. gsnis and n,mily, ~ pop.
mar espsstrfanAast Il - NoesAsra
Diyision, from Qee4pwa = Mobssiy,
q ths 81 LouiA Kaasag Cty M
NeEshsra Railrua - 60 10 1GAsos
(insesad of Mobsriy. - ~ staiseyss-
tsrdayD e rsst1A Ths es@paay
tAsasAs = bstAsr = lass him luiawsy
AkAS alsilson, - 49, Is rslust-
[ently oeaasnle1 - 1sass Otaamwa. u
y pfobsbls that ths Arraagsnsas
||'Nll ~ eisse -, = lsast "
hops not tbf ~ sagrst ezses1 isgly 10
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- - III p dn1lss wjD n.
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s1syK
49, lme q now approaching when
3. ~ pI's.9e poultry oealere prepare
ss ~ Hne trade Dy seting the hens
ns. III. ~ = proved tne oest mothers.
that .pring chickens from two q three
h Moh.ns ~, called Droilers PAY The
s ncss prom, bringing seventy-fve
0en Ts, - ono dollar each, 4
5as. Price, OF course, is the result OF
a- uenc.ens supply, which 10 turn Is
r -.Sn snas g is extremely dlhcult to
a 49, s csslx cnicks. " requires, how
~. ~ ~. At.ie more care 20 raise eariy
s ..s. y. Jay snlcks. Commence taxing
90 - i.s ~ enicKs months before they
U - ~ taking care OF the
tnsn rs 49, eariy ~ the winter, giving
: - ~. "a n q eoniorsaple Quarters for
=. 49, 41 ~ feel an Inclination TO
~ sWEx2 Ssas 49, 49,. Kept warm. IS s.,
ala Nv. ~ ~ Snicks gre z day. O Two we
opshn.009o0sd coop, on 2 bed q straw
- 49, .sy 4. q ~ season ls wet Or On the
49, asy. 1nls coop should Pc
3 ;.Ss aay 20 2 fresn spot or the
"a .asi ~ Il " : rencweisol mate
. IN ~. .ks:a.1 49,,
ear -ssS ~ .snouid Do keP. ln TINS
- ~ T. gig nen, ior ls0 y elgnt
60 rsls Okg 4 ~ y very stormys
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-03-26

A Sioux City lady informed The
editor Of the Jossndi rthat ~ had
bcsa to the post Office bookstore and
sscarsd q preserved ssst for Lft$le
Nells performance. 4 awes
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-03-26

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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-03-26

The CouaIER Once has 1 hne stoct
Of Horoscopes and Jack-otypea and
II you waatA good job. cheap-fx MP
yosr progtamrne and call At the CoUR.
tsR Once.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-03-26

-. Hurst, OF Coxydon, hasE Gkt I
cd 10 this city. and iJune "A! Vents,
Geal. agent OF ~ o. Isssisk- G. 3 N.
Railroad has removed to 1GNhae1x.
We thus loss one good citife6 6dt
gain aneGher. M