The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-25
rope. but insists upon the porte proceeding Sc
riously with reform, and that his intolerable
rule must cease. ~ .,{~t's - E.t}

r1OuSly Win reform, and that his intOlerable
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>... miscellaneous.
Patrick Fitzgerald, real estate broker Of
Springfield, Mass, has failed fok$l6 50, 600, ri !;
The ''sea-serpent' is spending the summer
off Cape Cod, and the stories brought into Bos-
ton and Msrblehead by sailors who have late
ly seen it are marvellous" 49,: "a - 80. ;
The Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis rail-
road was sold at auction in Chicago on the 10th
Of August, under decree of Judge Drum
mond in the United States Circuit Court, on
foreclosure of mortgage. Hosterberg of Ger
many, who represents the German bond hold
ing interest, bid one million three hundred
and twenty thousand dollars nd took posses
sion of the road and its interests.
The national expenditures for the fiscal year
ending June 80 were less than for any year
sin e 1861. $50
A dispatch from Bismarck gives glowing re-
ports from the miners driven from the Black
Hills. They report gold in the gu1ches in large
quantities, and gold-bearing quartz extending
through the Hills. All the gold bearing lands
have been staked off and claimed. and the
miners have left to remain away until the
treaty with the Indians is completed. The
Bismarck party was attacked by Indians near
Bear Butte, but no lives were lost.
Prof Jenney, government explorer in the
Black Hills, is said to have found a nugget
weighing $50.
D. NJ. Key has been appointed by Gov Porter
of Tennessee, to succeed ex-President Johnson
in the United States Senate.
Further danger from the rise on the lower
Mississippi is EAST. After having stood for
three days exactly at the changer line" the
river has fallen one inch at Memy his
The trotting horse Grafton has ben pur-
chased by Robert Bonner tor $35,0O'. His
best time is 215x.
Gov. Allen has determined to withdraw
from the political ass in Ohio. His friends
the polls as candidate. His friends advise
the move on account of the health of the old
man.
Prof. Jenny, the government geologist in the
Black Hills, has himself washed out $3.50
worth of gold in ten hours labor, and says that
skillful and economical labor will yield fair
remuneration.
jeff. Davis has accepted an invitation to de
liver an address before tie Knox county agri
cultural society, in Illinois.
immigration to the United States, for the
year ending June 10Th, was $4,000 less than
the previous year.
The lower Mississippi flood is at an end. The
damage to cotton is estimated at 900 to %, 600
bales, and that to corn equally great.
The insurgent negroes in Georgia implicate
Prince Rivers-a Major General in the Confed-
crate army.
The American rifle team met with grand
reception on their arrival in New York, on the
21st
The population of Louisiana has increased
1913, il5 in the last five years.
The London Times says it is probable that
the present price of wheat will be maintained
as the English AMI European wheat is not only
below an average yield, but is poor in quail
ity.
The Indians of some of the Upper Missouri
agencies are reported to be already dissatisfied,
and will not send delegates to the Black Hills
council. AT Standing Rock, particularly, the
Indians have unanimously resolved not to dis
pose of their rights in the Hills nor to have
anything to do with the making of new
treaty.