The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-23
miscellaneous.

Four OF the Black Hills gold hunters arrived
at Fort Laramie on the 18th inst. They walk
ed from Harney's Peak to Laramie in seven
days. The men report mining prospects still
more tempting than any former reports, and
bring q sample of gold dust mixed with grass
roots to show that the precious metal is found
Eat the very roots Of tue grass" 1t this is not
an advertising dodge it is good news.
The railroads are carrying Black Hills pas
sengers to Cheyenne at reduced fare.
The New York Tribune fund to the grasshop-
per sufferers of Nebraska ane Kansas has reach
ed the sum OF $4,000.
A'grand reunion of the volunteers OF the
war is to be held in Chicago, under the auspic-
es of the Grand Army of the Republic, on the
18th, 18TH and l4tn Of May. Preparations are
in progress to max it reunion on the grand
est scale.
Two thousand colored laborers called on the
President, at the White House, on the mig hit OF
the 18th, to make complaint about the pay
ment of certain contract moneys. The Presi-
dent declined to see them, apd they retired in
an trderly manner TO hold mass meeting.
Efforts are now being made to extinguish the
title of the Indians to the Black Hills country,
and until this is accomplished, the President
says, every effort will be made to protect them
in their exclusive right thereto.
Eeastern bound Heights from Chicago to New
York have been reduced at the rate Of 10 and
Is per cent, according to class
The Erie Canal Board has made reduction
in treights of 33h Per cent on grain and so per
cent on merchandise.
1t is asserted that the title of the Indians
to the Black Hills country was never ratified by
the senate, and will not hold good.
A negro at Cairo, ILL.,, explains the cold
weather ingen!ously. He remembers that
there was shock of earthquake at Cairo
last fall, about the time of the comet, and he
says: swell, de fact is dat comet struck dis
yarth and caused dat earthquake, and it but
ted SO hard dat it done sent dis here yarth
about tree or four hundred miles furder north,
and dat's de cause of de present cold weather"
At Belvidere, ILL.,, recently, girl named
Helen Otis, only nine or ten years old, was
found hanging, dead, and the coroner's YER
dict was death by suicide, but now a new in
vestgation is demanded with expectation OF
showing that the child was murdered.
Hay is worth S25 to $50 ton at Rockford,
III. The long and severe winter, with snow
blocked roads, has caused the scarcity.
The German citizens of New York city held
mass meeting at Cooper Institute to protest
against the exclusion of their language from
the public schools of the city. This was on
| 18th inst, und on the same day the Catholics
made demand for a portion OF the public
moneys tor the support Of their parochial
schools.
! An attempt has been made by the Wall-st.,
gamblers to get up another gold corner, and
large amounts bf gold has been locked up, but
receipts from California and Europe promise
to be greater than the sharks can handle, and
| the evil be averted.
| The entire tribe of Sheebit Indians were bap-
tised in The Mormon church recently.
A bard OF Indians, said to be the most
troublesome tribe in the southwest, surren.
dered at Fort Sill lately.
Advices from California report the wheat
crop as unusually promising. Copious rains
would ensure the largest harvest ever known
in the State.