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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
Short WEIGHTS.

The American grocer has opened =
vigorous warfare upon the system of
| swindling known as short weights, and
which consists of putting less into =
package than the marks on the outside
represent.
The uninitiated public have but little
idea OF the extent to which this is done.
Every thing that is put in packages is
| cut short--so short, in the case of oys.
ters, that one packer in New York con-
tesses that it is quite common to put
SIX, five and even four ounces for q
pound. All canned goods are put up
in the same way, and the public get but
about half quantity of goods they bar
gain and pay for, and take the balance
in water.
This affects the people-the con-
sumers; but there is another class of
goods where it affects the retailers, who
have much more power of correcting it.
This is in the case Of packages that
have to be broken and retailed from, as
in raisins, pork, &c. The Grocer has
found number of retailers who have
quit selling layer raisins altogether, be-
cause they found the packages so short
of what they are represented to contain
that it is impossible to avoid loss in
handling them.
1t is useless to attempt any list Of
the articles that are thus packed short;
it would be about co-equal with list of
packed articles. The evil is one of
fearful magnitude, and has continued
to grow until endurance can endure no
longer.
The Grocer recommends as a remedy
that retailers and consumers weigh or
measure everything they buy, and that
national law be enacted compelling the
packer to put his name upon all packa-
ges packed by him, forbid short weights
under heavy penalties, and make every
packer responsible for his goods. This
would undoubtedly remedy the difficult
ty, provided such a law were enforced,
but there is reason to fear that it might
fail at that point.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
GERMANY WANTS SATISFACTION,
Disposed to be COnciliatory, but
Public Opinions Demands She
Should Avcnse the Spanish Insult
to Her Flag.


PARIS, Jan. 16.-A circular letter
was received from Berlin a few DAYS
ago which states that Germany,
although wishing to respect the feelings
of the Spanish government, considers
she is obliged to satisfy public opinion
and avenge the insult to her flag. She
is disposed to adopt the same concilia-
tory policy towards the new govern
ment which was maintained toward
President Serrano, and therefore she
claims from the good will of Spain the
satisfaction due the German flag.
LONDON, Jan. l6.-The Daily Nevs
publishes dispatch from Hendaye,
stating that the German man-of-war
Nautilus landed one hundred men at
Zerouz, on the Spanish coast, who oc-
cupied the place after short resistance
by the Carlists.
BERLIN, Jan. lG.-Germany will soon
have fifty guns on the northern coast of
Spain.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
Good Advice.

Senator Gordon of Georgia, to nu-
merous kilograms from prominent men
of Louisiana, replied yesterday as fol-
lows:
81 congratulate you on the forbear-
ance of the people. Still forbear every
wrong, and if arrests and handouts are
resorted to, still forbear, and your
rights will be indicated by the Amer
lean people. You cannot better SUBJ
serve the interests Of Louisiana, and Of
the South generally, and of liberty,
than by continued forbearance, even
unto death.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19

Tuvcnty.Seven Unsafe Ones.-Loss bv
Escaping Reservoirs Last Yoa.
$1,39s,OOO.
BosroN, Jan. l6.-The report of the
reservoir committee, of Massachusetts,,
shows that twenty-seven unsafe reser.
yoirs and dams are existing in the
State, and that the loss by breaking
away of these structures last year foots
up to Isl ,25O, 900 in Hampshire county,
and $49, 900 in Hamden. The Boston
& Albany Railroad lost 100000.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
The Arctic Wave.

The extreme cold weather continues
throughout the West. The thermom-
eter at Omaha Wednesday ranged from
~ to IA below; Cheyenne, % to 2l be-
low; Denver, IL to II below; Fit. Lar
annie, IS below; Virginia City, Mon
tana, "A below; q inches of snow on
the Laramie plains.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19

"A vessel ashore on Carshore Point,
Ireland, is the ship City of London,
from San Francisco for Liverpool, not
the steamship City of London, from
Liverpool for New York, as heretofore
reported.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19

Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Il. R.
New York, Jan. l5.-The stock ex-
change has placed the first mortgage
consolidated seven per cent. bonds Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway company on the regular list,
and they will be called as Chicago. Mil.
waukeo & St. Paul consolidated first
mortgage bonds.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19

FROM CH1cAGo.-Judge H. J. Beck
with of Chicago writes as follows:
CHICAGO, June %, 1874.
Morse Manufacturing Company, New York:
GENTLEMEN: I am willing to vouch
for .Jour statements as to the fine quail
ity of your improved s'Phalon Select
Perfumes and the "Paphian Boquet
Toilet Soap These goods have used
and carefully compared. Morse's late
invention, ''LUxURENE," will make the
hair grow thick and long.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19

"A remarkable character has died
suddenly in Paris, Sophie, the cook to
whom the late DR.. Vernon was indebt.
cd for his reputation as the first dinner
giver in Paris for something like half a
century. Sophie generally used to
come in after dinner and tie compli.
mented, and, in her humble way, be-
came acquainted with almost every man
and woman Of note in Paris
from NJ lie. Mars and NJ lie. Rachel, Tag.
lioni and the Ellslers, down to modern
stars-from Talma to Refnier; the late
Emperor, while plain citizen Louis Ma
Poleon Bonaparte, partook of the good
things elaborated by this woman Of
genius,
The steamship Alice, from Cardiff
for Constantirople has been lost at sea,
and twenty persons drowned.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19

John Flynn, tried for the murder
of Thos. Close at Doutyville, Northum-
berland county, Pa, has been convict
ed of murder in the second degree.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
King AlfOnzo,s Spain.

MADRID, Jan. licking Alfonzo gave
a dinner last evening to the members
Of his cabinet and the diplomatic corps.
A decree is published reducing pun.
ishment in eases Of violation of ordinary
criminal laws.
Gen. Primo Rivera will accompany
the King on visit the army Of the
north.
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DURING THE RECESS

which followed, Mrs. Beccher hurried
over to shake hands with Mrs. Tilton
who smiled and entered into an ANNA
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THE PERORATION.

In concluding, counsel said, ''As you
love your home; as you love your fam
lily and your children; as you regard
the sacredness of your home; as you
reverence virtue and respect the sane
tity of the family altar, call upon you
in the name of all that has been viola.
ted call upon you in the name of
Christianity; by the teachings Of the
Saviour on the Mount; by the law
Numbered from Mount Sinai; by every
consideration that is near and dear to
us on earth-I call upon you to brand
the seducer as his crime deserves. Let
it be written on every door throughout
the land, Death and destruction to the
seducer;" and when you have rendered
that verdict, you will receive the
prayers and blessings Of every virtuous
mother, Of every virtuous daughter in
the land, and peaceful conscience will
follow you through life; will be with
you in the last solemn scenes on earth,
to console you when, at last, you stand
with your life record before the ever
living God" [Applause.]
DURING THE RECESS
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-12

A correspondent at Odd Fellows Hall,
who fails to give us his real name,
ought to remember our rules better.
'sNever write on both sides Of your pa
per, and send your real name" We
avail ourselves however of a few items
from his letter; Corn and Gotten crops
are better than they have been for ten
years in that vicinity. One more good
rain will bring il down to 81 per barrel.
The farmers talk of sowing another
large crop OF wheat this fall. Sensible.
Ii farmers Will raise more grain and
stock and less cotton, get out of debt,
buy nothing more on a credit and keep
out of lawsuits, they will be much bet
ter of. A boy ID or Il years old, rob
bed Bill Halls cash drawer Of dollar
bill and a few nickcls on the 4th. He
was seen and pursued by Mr.. Hall, and
the money recovered. The boy was
permitted to leave. Or. j. b. Marshall
is fast improving his place, and the citi-
zens are all hoping he will soon get him
partner and locate permanently. The
most amusing incident OF the week is
the building of a spring house on dry
land by well-to-dO citizen.
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r. II. Wilkinson.

The subject of the subjoined sketch
deserves more than a passing notice.
We chronicle the death, on the 9Th of the
present month, of Mr.. Frank II Wilkin-
son, who was born in Chesterfield Co.,
Va, in 1904, moved with his parents
to Smith Co, Tenn, in 1908, thence to
Giles in 1909, and settled on the Patter-
son place opposite Col. Roses present
residence, since which time he had been
citizen of this community. Brought
up a mechanic, Mr.. Wilkinson magni-
fed his calling and identified himself
with that honorable class his life long.
We learn from an intimate friend OF
Mr.. W. that at the age of 81 his father
called him to him and said "My son do
you see that" pointing to the earth
''there is your hope, that your resource.
| To-day you become your own man,
Life is before you. DO for yourself" NJ
| Wilkinson told this friend that such a
| feeling of loneliness came over him at
this announcement as he had never felt
before. All alone in the world, the pa
ternal props withdrawn, he saw before
him the stern reality of an utried fu-
ture. The battle oflife was now to begin.
Supported alone by integrity of pur-
pose, by a will to work and a strong
right arm, he went forth with a fathers
blessing upon him, and achieved a sue
cess and earned name, which is to-day
the pride of his friends, and the richest
heritage of his surviving children. But
better than all this, at the close of a toll
some life, his Father abOEe-that Father
above of us all, looked down upon His
creature, smiled his sins away, beck
oned him to His bosom, where he rests
forever more.
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LYNNVILLE.

Jno. w. Mitchell, clerk for 7. f.
Lindsay 81 Co, was absent last week
buying wheat at Spring Hill. His pUr-
chases amounted to about one thousand
bushels, d. b. Garrett (BOone) was
here last week buying wheat purchased
one car load of r. j. Gordon at 81 20
per bushel. Revs. WellbOrn Mooney
and w. G. Hensly closed a prOtracted
meeting last Thursday night at Corners
vile. There were seventeen CONVEX
siOns, all of whom were baptized and
admitted to membership. They are now
carrying on a prOtracted meeting in
this place. No conversions as vet.
They are trying hard to have a revival,
which is much needed. Rev. Wellborn
Mooney goes to TaylOr's Chaple to-day
to dedicate that church. Rev. f. j. "
ler's meeting az Old Lynnville is still
in progress, he is carrying it on alone,
his expected assistance not having ar
rived. The Complexities closed their
meeting on Tuesday last, had twenty
one additions to the church. Messrs.
Adams 81 Mems, wheat buyers here,
have retired from the market and re-
turned home. Col. A. II. Higdon, re-
ported i'll OF tluX two weeks ago, having
relapsed, is still confined to his room,
but is better at this writing. Mr.. john
before last at DR.. kenedy's, is better
and is thought will recover from the
injury. John B. Nicely, the old black
smith from Cornersville is attending
the quarterly meeting here. He is no
preacher, but an eXhorte-, and puts up
an excellent prayer. There is consider
able sickness in and around Old Lynn
vile, principally cholera mOrbus and
tluX. w. 3. Gordon, son of Buch
Gordon, has returned home after an alb
sence of two months at BlOunt Springs.
Since my last writing we have had a
good shower OF rain which will add
much TO the corn crop. Too much rain
for cotton, it has stalk enough but does
not seem to have the fruit. However
if the fall is dry tolerable crops of cot
ton will be made. L. f. Lindsay & Co.
purchased a small lot ofwhaat of j. W.
Dickerson at 81 20 per bushel, the high
est price paid here this season. Bill
Lewis paid us Il short visit last week,
arriving on the : and leaving on the
II O'Clock A. NJ. train. The regular
term of our court here adjourned Sat
urday a week ago. There was a call
session last Saturday. Att'ys BradeD
and SmithsOn were in attendance as
cOunsellOrs. CIvIs.
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LEATHERWOOD.

The crops are very fine, the wheat
magnificent yield. The crops being
cultivated our people are devOting
themselves to improvements mental
and physical We have Just finished
ceiling our new church and can now
boast of as neat house of worship as
any in the county. Prof. Andrew
johnson of COrnersyille is teaching a
large class in vocal music in our new
church. Capt. Hollis school is very
large, he having matriculated about So
student since he opened school here in
March, he has been teaching right along
through the summer months with ener-
gy and with his usual success. Capt.
Holt has taught school in Giles for a
quarter OF a century and he always
teaches through the summer months for
the benefit of the SONS of our farmers
who have to hold the pillow and drive
the teams through the spring and fall
months. We had a very interesting
meeting OF the Grange on Saturday.
Miss \. a. Dickey read an essay at
said meeting N farming and the gen
eral objects of the order; a production
that would do credit to Killebrew or
Griffith. The Good Templars had an
meeting at the church on
Saturday night, with an excellent lee
ture by Rev. Adolphus Eel.
Aug. 9, 1875. LEATHERwOOD.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-12

The Grceneville (Tenn.) correspOn-
dent Of the Chicago Times charges that
the letter purporting to have been writ
ten by ex-President johnson during the
cholera epidemic there, and which
breathed very devout and religious
spirit, is a forged document. The Times
correspondent Gays:
The deduction to be drawn from this
paper, that Mr.. johnson was in some
degree religious man, is absolutely alb
surd, and would be resented by Mr..
johnson were he living. He was no
torously an unbeliever in the Christian
doctrine and methods, and quite the
reverse OF what was thus attempted 20
be stablished. He never went to
church, and when, after his death, the
! services of the village clergyman, Pro-
tastant Episcopal minister, were tender
| ed to the family, they were declined, l
am well informed, because it was under
stood such services would not be desired
| by Mr.. johnson could lie have power to
chose in the matter"
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70 ''C6n such things be and over
come us like summer dream - How
like an arrow piercing to the heart is
the recollection of cur neglect of the
Confederate graves in our cemetery
For few years our citizens made an
annual floral Offering to their memory,
and promised themselves and each
other never to forget the sacrifice made
by these dead heroes. But how has it
been? The answer is given in most
graphic manner by our esteemed cor
respondent, EsTELLE VEHsE, elsewhere
in this paper. Who can read it with
eyes undimmed by tears? In a private
note to us she says: "Will you give
your influence to the gathering together
the ashes of the Confederate dead into
one plat of our cem' terry? Please do.
Y on remember that almost in the center
of the cemetery there is a circular lot
with but one grave upon it. How
suitable this would be! And indeed it
would speak well for our community to
do this. We could render it, at little
cost a beautiful spOt-IR MeBtOFidna, to
the past with its slain heroes; and for
sorrow that is inevitable, consolation
Of duty done would come TO us that
would be suhlimep' We can but echo
her sentiments, and appeal with her to
our people in this behalf. Who will
start first in the matter? Cannot our
ladies take the matter in hand and de-
wise some plan by which the necessary
means can be raised? Let us try.
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Can "a few Years thus Bring
FOrgetfulneSS?

Mr.. EDToR:- My pen has lain IN
used for long time, nor would I take
it up now, were it not for letter writ
ten in tremulous hand that reached
me from one of the gulf States recently.
you wrote me, dear Madam,
q quote her letter. that you visited my
poor dying boy in the hospital before
and after his death, that tender hands
ministered unto him, and that lie was
lald away in a public cemetery near
the town. And l appreciated the kind
ness, and your letter that conveyed to
my suffering spirit. such soothing
words. l often read it, keeping it IA
my bible,) through blinded tears. I
read il no more, l am blind. Blinded
by the tears l have shed for my dead.
He was the last. l soon shall join
them in the Great Beyond" Tell me
something of his grave, ms baby boy"
What? Shall I write to this blind,
widowed, childless, weeping woman,
upon the verge of the grave, that the
son, her last born and only remaining
child, that she gave like the Spartan
mother to her country, lies Wondering
in pauper soil, in a sunken grave over
grown with briars and weeds, That
we have never given the bodies OF the
Few COnfedeTates "A plat Of ground in
our cemetery who lie there u sacrifice
to their country's service! No perish
the hand that could agonize her re
naming hours with this bitter knOwl-
edge. Better, a thousand times better,
that she should believe me neglcctful,
cruel to her dying request, than give
her the truth, which would pierce her
sensitive sOrrowing soul, like the seven
daggers that rent Caesars mantle!
Have we not been greatly remiss in
our duty? Is it too late to remedy this
neglect, to show respect to their dust
and the cause they represented. They
are few in number, that lie there, and
the cost would be light to gather
them together. Can a few years bring
fOrgetfulness of the aged patriots, and
heroic youths who rushed to battle and
death with the cry, ''This is my own
my native land - All! let the mem
DRY of the quarrel and the differences
that severed our Nation be forgotten
toreUer; and while we clasp hands
united. let US remember our dead heroes,
and show respect to their ashes.
$50 l bcseech you, by all things that win
Space for q nObler or a softer thought,
All good that comes unsought,
By that which makes your very sorrOws
fair,
By all sweet influences in the air.
BY the chief beauty which is 'throned on
And for the promises to the pure in heart"
That we do unto those, as we would
be done by. EsTEELE VEHsE.
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Piles Cured.

nR. j. A. CLOPTON, of Huntsville, Ala,
- may be consulted for a few days at the
Alamo House, Pulaski. He treats with mi
vcrsal success PILES. FISTULA. STRICT
URES, diseases of the KIDNEYS. BLAD-
DER, ULCERS, TUMOkS Of all kinds and
sizes. Special attention given to diseases pc
cUliar TO females. lie removed 3 pOlyi US
from the uterus measuring eight inches after
removal. He removed a tumoT from the
armpit. OF axllla, for Mrs. Fields Of Shelby
vile, weighing something ovGT ten pounds.
DR.. C. has the pleasure ofreierring to the mos {
respectable men of Columbia, Nashville.
Memphis and every other city south Piles
cured 10y simple application. No bsrberous
chain nor knife used in curing Piles. His
charges are very moderate. Call early, as
his stay viii be short. aUgl0-tf
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-12

Peterson's Magazine the Lady's Nationally
already on our table for September, and is an
unusually fine number, even of this popular
periodical. The principal engraving is
beautiful steel plate, The Lit tie Ma -auders,
after picture by BougereaB, the great French
artist. The doubles size, colored, steel fash
ion-plate gives the early fall styles, all very
elegant: and Is beautiful even as q picture
Frank Lee Benedict begins,a spirited novelet
which Is capitally illustrated The powerful
and absorbing serial, 'sThe Lady Bose" Mrs
Ann ). Stephens. deepens in interest THE
FIRST Quarrel is another story ofrare pathOs
and beauty. The price of "Peterson's" is
only two dollars year. pastage PFC mid;
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Elementary Geology of Ten

Prof Jas NJ. Stafford State GeOlogist
and Prof. of Geology &c, in Wander
bilt University, J. B. Killebrew, COM
missioner of Agriculture, statistics and
mines, and Prof f. II. Brady, late
Prof. of Geology in East Tennessee
University, and U. 5. Asst. Geglogist,
have in course of preparation Il School
book setting forth the geological, min
eral, surface and climatic features of
Tennessee, with illustrations of fossils,
the relative position of the strata and
how the coal and other minerals occur
in their native beds. The authors aim
has been to supply a work simple in
language, entertaining in style, suited
alike to the Young scholar and the
general reader. The book is the result
OF practical observations and study, and
is the combined work, of the gentlemen
named.
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StFAVed.

CTRAYED from my premises about the 26th
y of July last, one light bay mare male nine
OF ten years old, about fourteen hands high,
with JoleTably long main and tan, bare footed
and tender, with brand OF two imperfect
was raised by sr. PitaFd near Pulaski, and
suppose has s'rAyedi in that direction. ANY
one knowing OF such a mule will please in
form E 7. Haywood, Comersville, Tenn.
aug.l2-lt.
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In Chancery at Pulaski.
JULY RULES, 1875.


John D. Lewis, VS.. James II. Lester and
others.
N tbs cause itappearing to the satisfaction
L of the Clerk d Master, from the affidavit
to the Bill, that the Defendants, J . L. Lester.
Albert \ , Lester, J. L. Coleman and his wife
Catherine Coleman, James a. Ralston and
wife, Comslia RalstOn, L. L. Harrison, Lulu
c. Harrison, and Lindsey Harrison are non
residents OF the State or Tennessee so that
tho ordinary process of this court cannot be
served on them. On motion it Is therefore
ordered that publication be made for four
weeks in succession in the Pulaski Citizer
a newspaper published in tie town of Pu-
laski. IL said State, requiring the said De
PENDANTS to be and appear on the first day Of
the next term Of The Chaucery Court to be
held for the county Of Giles, at the Court
House IN Pulaski, on the 1st Monday in Sep
TENDER next, and answer Compliments Bill
or the same will be taken for confessed as to
them, and set for hearing ex-parte.
j. B. STACY, c. dS NJ.
Jones. Son 81 Ewing, Att'ys. jaly22-4t.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-12

Mr.. William Wynne, of this county,
while seining for fish last Wednesday,
was bitten on the hand by a mOccasin.
He was feeling for "a fish, and got hold
of the snake, and on Withdrawing his
hand, the reptile bit him. Mr.. Wynne
tried the following remedy with perfect
success First, corded the arm above the
bite; second, applied an onion poultice
third, sent to town and got gallon OF
good whisky and got drunk. No further
dang -HatskiRSrilie Dispatch.
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Rnnts and SHOES.

I am now controlling lin this mar
ket.) the product of two of the best
Factories in the United States. Every
pair is fully warranted. If they burst,
or do not give good service, you may
return them and get another pair tree
of charge. l can save you from 90
cents to 81 on every pair you buy.
iuIvI5tf. j. Il. c. Brown.