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A Remarkable Book.

In 1865 P T. Barnum wrote his Autobiog-
raphy for Burr & Co., the celebrated publish
ers in Hartford, Conn.,, for which they paid
him $4,000. It made a book of 800 pages,
was profusely illustrated, gave a particular
account of Barnum's eventful life in all parts
of the world, and included his celebrated lect-
ure on "The Art of Money Getting" Hor-
ace Greeley pronounced the book "worth a
hundred dollar greenback to many begin
ner in life" The publishers sold 30, 600 copies
of the book by subscription, at three dollars
and a half copy. In 1871, when Mr. Barnum
started his great travelling shows, he bought
back the copyright and stereotype plates of
his book for $4,000, added an Appendix
bringing the account of his life up to that
date, printed an (Ation of 100000 copies,
sent them with his travelling shows, and sold
the whole of them at cost, one dollar each
He has added an Appendix each year, which
has now increased the volume to thousand
pages. 1t averages a sale of 1OO, 600 copies
each year. They are neatly bound in muslin,
gilt, and sold in all his travelling shows. AS
his patrons emerge from his great show tents
with his books under their arms, they look as
if coming from a circulating library! No
book in this country ever had such an enor-
nous sale, or so abounds in curious incidents
of real life and valuable experiences.-Buf:
f,r1o COnyjey
American citizen., 1875-04-24

DIR. j. Walkers California VIM
egar BitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma.
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
mia, the medicinal properties of which,
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERs7" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient ro-
covers his health. They are the great
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a perfect Renovator and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing tho remarkable
qualities of VrNEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as Tonic.
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DR.. WALKER's
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Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative. Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter -Irritant, Sudor1hc, Alicia
tive. and Anti Bilious.
r. H. MCDONALD & CO.,
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and cor. Of Washington and Charlton Sts. N.
Sold by all Druggists a md Dealers.
American citizen., 1875-04-24

"A little boy being asked at school,
'What is the chief end of MANI" an
swered: "The end what's got the head
on"
American citizen., 1875-04-24

HH AGENTS WANTED EVERYWnERE.-.The
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don't waste time-send for Circular to ROBERT
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American citizen., 1875-04-24

The exports of cotton-seed oil in
1871 were 20 054 gallons; value, $50, 5,54S.
In 1872, 11s,509 gallons, valued at $G7,-
SO In 1878, 3Gl ,097 gallons, valued at
S1S7,291. In 1874, 81 ,572 gallons, valued
at sig, ,S9o. The exports are chiefly to
Great Britain, countries in the south OF
Europe using this oil only when the olive
crop is short. The price in 1874 varied
from forty to sixty-seven and one-half
cents per gallon, according to quality
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-18
VOL. II.
-Bristow and Tilden would not
sound bad for President and Vice
President of these United States.

In speaking of the Indictment
found against VIM. S. King Of Min
neapolis, by the Grand Jury at
Washington the Minneapolis T|ib-
~ne has the following:
The action of the jury is of such
doubtful legality that it is possible
that the indictment will not hold wa
ter. If it does, and the case is or
dered for trial, Col. King will be
thus afforded an opportunity of
clearing himself in advance of the
meeting of Congress.
Which is a very mild and pretty
way of saying that Bill Kings law
yers will do their utmost to pick
some technical flaw in the bill of in
dictment, but if they fail to get their
client off in that way, then the great
and good man will stand his trial
because he cannot help himself with
out he commits suicide. Canada
would not save him now, a requisi-
tion would reach him even there.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-18

There are two wide awake papers
published at Fort Worth. The Demo-
crat edited by B. B. Paddock, is live
ly paper, fully up with the times and
interests of the country. Mr.Paddock is
Sabbath School Superintendent in the
Presbyterian Church S. S., and men,
Der of that denomination. The town
has three Christian societies, the Bap-
lists have brick church; the Metho-
dists and Presbyterians intend building
next season. A Mr.. Killpatric is pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church.
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of any section he has seen. There
fore he would recommend to the
farmers of old Goodhue, to stick.
Be contented with your homes, i'm
prove your farms, build new houses
and barns, repair old ones, plant
trees and otherwise beautify your
premises, and success will be yours
in an eminent degree.
Very Truly,
J. r. MARSTON.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-18
- - -
Times and Things at Trenton.
BY A TRENTONITE.
May 18th, 1875.

May 18th, 1875.
Editor Of The Grange Adva,sce:
RESPECTED S1R:-We are getting.
more rain than We really need. The
ground is almost too wet for plowing,
still, those who are plowing for corn are
rushing it over. A few have begun to,
plant but if the weather does not change
it will certainly rot. I learn that
good many are going to endeavor to get
the premium that the Grange has
offered for the best acre of corn. Ow-
ing to the scarcity of feed and grass
this spring but little butter is being
made in this vicinity. Cattle and
horses will not be allowed to run on this
prairie as heretofore and the owners of
such should bear this in mind as it will
save trouble. The Nellie Sheldon is
getting repaired. l did not learn what
was out of order; the ferry flats will
soon be running. David Lyons is still
in bad condition. DR.. Hoyt, of Hud-
son, and physicians from Red Wing will
attend to him. Pigeons are very nu-
merous and some wheat6elds are being
pretty we'll routed. The champion cro-
quet club of this place claims to be the
best. Base ball has died out or its men,
bers have gone to the Black Hills, Man.
itoba or somewhere else.
Eugene Bachelor offers his place for
sale. 1t is a five acre lot containing
dwelling house, barn and blacksmith
shop. This is all the land that the
Bachelors own in this town, and soon
they will be forgotten. Nearly all the
southeast part of the town belonged to
them and they were once as influential
as any one, but they are now nearly ex-
tinct. Mr.. David Young, of New York.
formerly of Red Wing, passed through
this burgh this week. Mr.. Young owns.
land here, and one of the
best mill sites that lays in this locality,
and it is the wish of many that he or
some other man of means would build a
mill; -four mill is needed greatly on
this side.
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Minnesota Ahead.

A gentleman who is we'll known
in this part of the Country,
who has made two or more visits to
the southwark and spent some con-
siderable time in trying to find a
better place to live in than Mime
sofa, after looking the ground all
over and investing elsewhere and
getting sick of his investment, has
come to the conclusion that there
is no State ahead of Minnesota.
The much talked of country en-
braced in Nebraska, Kansas, Colo-
RADIO and Texas, he claims is
subject to drouths, which render
crops uncertain, is visited by hot
winds that destroy vegetation and
are for the time being almost unen-
durable, besides seeming to be the
natural home for the locust or grass
hopper. The climate in all this
region he finds to be subject to fire.
quent and sudden changes.
In speaking of Tennessee he said
he met parties coming from there
who had been attracted thither two
or three years since by the glowing
accounts of mildness of climate,
richness of soil, cheapness Of land,
and hadlost everything, INCLUDING that
most valuable of all possessions,
good health. They had been shak-
en- by ague and burned by fevers
and were used up generally. They
said that in the valleys the soil was
rich but there was where sickness
most prevailed.
Another Minnesotian just re-
turned from California, reports that
he found logs and msts part OF the
time and the rest of the time dust,
that the country is overrun with
people and that it is no place for
man who has not plenty of money,
the poorest place in the world for
man who has all his fortune to make:
wages as compared with the cost OF
living, being much lower there than
here.
Both of these gentlemen after
weighing all the advantages and dis
advantages presented by the States
named, claim that Minnesota is far
ahead of any all or either Of them,
and we more than half believe that
they are right.
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NO. 80.

heads of the innocent as we'll as those
whom they thought to be guilty and
were willing to crush either friends or
relatives. The writer knows nothing
of the events above alluded to, but gets
his information from good authority and
would suggest to the ladies, of whom in
general he is great admirer, that the
traits most to be admired in women are
by no means hatred, malice, vitupera-
ton, envy, &C., and are also not recon-
mended in any creed.
Having occasion to mail letter the
writer was thrown into contact with the
loquacious deputy P. NJ, who showered
the English language down upon him in
a most prodigal manner, the writer felt
as if bombarded and was glad to quit
the field.
Noticeable among the frequenters of
the post Office is one of Kenyon's Select
men, who, in spite of his honest phiz
and modest demeanor, has if report
says true, lost nothing by services rem
dendered this district
The writer is informed that the last
issue of the ADVANCE was very greedi-
ly sought after by all, regardless of ma
tionalities, who, being prepared for the
notes were on qui vive to see what they
contained. But enough for this week,
more anon from
PAsSRR RY:
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Goodhue County Discounts
California and Twenty-Five
other States and Territories.

~ousOItuo 0ItU "0UIysIVS
other States and Territories.
BY A CORRESPONDENT WHO SPEAKS
FROM OBSERVATION AND EXPERT
ENCE.
FEArHERsToNE, May 9Th, SIS.
Mr.. EDITORIALS many people
in this vicinity are impressed with
the belief that other localities are
more conclusive of success in farm
ing, and particularly that in Califor-
MIA everything is lovely for the far
mer, l send you an extract from a
letter, dated April goth, 1875, from
J. F. Eastman, Esq, of Marysville,
Cal:
'"My farming operations will not
be very satisfactory this year. We
have not had twenty minutes of
rainfall on the ranch since you left;
of course, everything is very dry.
The wheat which was drowned out
we resolved; it came up well but
lack Of rain sealed its fate; where
the wheat lived the ground became
very hard on top, so the stalk of
grain could not stool out, and it
now stands one or two feet high a
single straw, and heading out. A
shower within a few days would
help it to fill, still I hardly think we
shall get the seed back. The sum-
mer fallow was SO nearly ruined that
we plowed a part of it over and put
it into barley, and that, with another
eighty acre field, will not head at all.
To sum up the failure, we may say
we haze 500 acres of wheat and 200
acres of barley, most of which will
be total loss, a little may do for
fodder. The only crops we feel
sure Of are our Alfalfa hay, and bar
ley on the bottom land, about IS
acres. have planted potatoes and
sundry kinds of vegetables for
ranch use. We commenced hay
ing last week. Expect at least
three crops Of Alfalfa, which, with
other new hay and about 80 tons
old hay will give us an abundance
for next winters USE"
The Alfalfa spoken of is a kind
of clover whose roots grow to great
depth, and consequently its growth
is not affected by the severe
drougths of California summer. I
was in California from Oct. 28 to
Jan. 28, and was several times at
this ranch. 1t contains about g.
900 acres, on which they raised 2o,-
900 bushels of grain in 1873 besides
numerous other products. 1t borders
onthe east bank of Feather river, and
was overaowed by the freshet in No.
vember last, and again by the
great freshet in January, which
caused much damage to the live
stock and growing crops. The
writer has been in twenty-five of the
States of this Union, and in several
of the Territories, and has observed
with care and interest, the facilities
and inducements for farming in the
several localities which he has visited,
and he is of the opinion, that, taking
into account the price of land, the
productiveness of the soil, the Ger
tainty of crop and its price, the
healthiness of the climate, the tone
of society, and all other things CON-
blned, Goodhue County, Minnesota,
and its immediate vicinity, offers the
greatest inducements to the farmer
4
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Notes by the Way.
KENYON, May 18th. 1877

Edat0r or 1he Gr0ng" I'D :~:1cl:
Having occasion to stay over night in
Kenyon once again, your informant
thought best to acquaint you with some
of the leading events of the past week.
Crops are in a good condition, some
say wheat never looked better in this vi
cinity than at present, Notwithstanding
the cold, damp weather, grass is begin
ming to start, and we notice signs of re-
turning vegetation in the trees.
Population has increased to the num-
Der of two. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Lewis
have been blessed with a little daughter.
I. R. B. ditto. The editor will see
that we are preparing for the next Gen.
sus. But to counteract the increase
there is prospect of losing Mr.. A.
Hilton, who is about starting for Cali
fornia. If Mr.. H. concludes to stay in
California, Kenyon will lose one of her
best and most respected citizens, and
the Baptist Church its most important
member. Perhaps the event of most
interest to the American portion Of the
Kenyonites was the laying the corner
stone of the new church. The Rev.
Geo. Du Bois officiating in place of the
Rt. Rev. H. B. Whipple whose health
would not permit his presence. Service
at the school house at $3.50 p. m., af-
ter which the congregation marched in
procession, lead by the minister, to the
grounds where the usual service was
held, the Church being named the
Church of the Ascension. A Bible,
testament and psalms, hymns, Church
papers, catalogues of the Protestant
Episcopal schools in Faribault, &C., be-
sides list of names of those who have
assisted in the building, were
placed for preservation in the corner
stone. On Tuesday the Church was
raised, the citizens all assisting, with
the exception of a few, who, differing in
religious views, felt that they could not
be present. 1t is quite complimentary
to the qualification and experience of
Mr.. Jones, the architect to say that the
frame was raised and put together with
out any mishap or blunder.
Alan Millie and Walter Wait who
have been tc Dakota Territory (that
land of billiards. and grasshoppers)
and secured homes have again returned
to their anxious wives. But few are
buying around here except Scandina-
vians, in fact the writer thinks Goodhue
County ought to be called Nova Nor
'0egia or New Norway. On every side
one sees the comfortable houses of opu-
lent Norwegian farmers making the
Americans feel like the Indian sitting
on the log which the white man gradu-
ally monopolized to the exclusion of
his "Lo' ship.
Kenyon school is again in running
order, the present teacher, Miss Ida
Wells, of Owatonna, seems to give gen.
eral satisfaction,and Kenyonites are by
no means an easy people to please.
Your informer understands that last
Winter it was "war to the knife over
the then incumbent who seemed to DOS
sess the faculty of raising pretty gen.
eral disturbance, especially among the
most amiable of mater .1amiliQs who
poured their phials down upon the
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A Trip to Texas.
RED WING, MAY, 1875.


Editor Of The Grange Advance:
Through your widely circulated paper
l wish to say few words to many
friends in and around Red Wing, who,
when l told them was going to see
Texas, wished me to give them an &C.
count of what l saw and of the country.
l hesitated so to do for some time, not
because I did not want all to know, but
because did not feel competent to
write for publication. Still, feeling a
desire to crafty the many inquiring
ones will try and give you my views.
While have located myself in Tex
as and feel satisfied with my location,
and the climate Of the country, others
might vary far from me in judgment,
therefore I would say to all who have
desire to change locations or climate,
60 and see for yourselves and be satis-
fed. I am, for one, we'll convinced that
Texas climate is preferable for people
we'll along in years who are breaking
down with hard labor and becoming
crippled with rheumatism and other d.
seases, and while I have bought farm
in N orthern Texas and intend m owing in
September, I don't wish it to be UNDER
stood that 90 feeling that / am bet
tering the soil of Goodhue, or the eli
mate, other than the winter months,
neither do think I can better the So
ciety. If should say that would be
saying that which would be false, for
while have had the pleasure of max
ing the acquaintance of many business
men in Fort Worth, Texas, and found
them open hearted and genial, still
shall look forward rather with sorrow
than otherwise to the day of departure
from all of my old and tried friends of
Red Wing, with whom for twenty years
I have met in social gatherings. I
know I shall often think of the past af-
ter I am gone, but declining years have
compelled me to seek a warmer climate.
Well, to speak of my trip to Texas,
l will be short, for I had quick trip
and a short stay; but while there,
was not only on the move over the
county, but l moved my tongue, in
making inquiries Of very many, and in
particular Of aged men from the North
ern States, asked them of the effect
of Texas life on their health, and also
Of the length Of time they had lived
there. They invariably told me they
had improved in health and their look
did not contradict them. The climate,
so far as could learn, (for I cannot
speak from my own experience, since
my stay was so short, is cool in Sum-
mer and SO mild in Winter that cattle
and horses live with what they pick on
the pralrles and they invariably do
we'll. They complain this year Of
hard winter and backward spring; yet
Mr.. Bennett, formerly from MINES ota,
told me he had put up some ice four
inches thick, and that was the only
freeze of any Importance, last winter.
Farmers, many Of them, told me they
plowed, all but three days in January,
in their shirt sleeves. In Dallas Coun-
ty found fine land, but it lay quite
low and fat, and the water is rather
poor, in fact SO poor that the people
have ague and do not look as healthy
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4 MA(:NIFIsENT OFFER.

\ very liberal couirart whirh wc have lI~t
COM i,irtrd wl'h the Weed Sewing Machine
Company. VIII -'r-.ir ii> Nc hope, tn place
TIA ~ cclchiitcd machines an MANY families
Throughout tine country. 80 Tine an oi,purtu-
nay - >ccuTc a iir>t-cli>> >rwiu" machine sci
dom "rrurs May w.. mot expect the irIrnd,
~ tI.- rJrrr 90 make au earnest. united rilur
tp cN1Cnd greatly II, circulation aud thus heip
To iucrra,r it> niiurncc. We WILL LIEERAL-
LY REw.gp Tu"sE wWo w0Ek Forts Erad,r
rln y"u not firm a club ~ your mcishborl~pd
and scc"rr tins sewing uar!In" premium.
4 FEW HOURS OF wELL.prErrTrD EFFORT WILL
"ErlIN IT Po.rmt,'cr, tn tia. smaller towns
AMI villages "sn, win Il huIc thought and
rii"i, easily send II, the requisite number Of
uarncs fla> the parsonage = sew'm. machine,
II not call upon 4 few ladies and gentlemen
ct The congregation. Tell Their: your plan
AMI ASK them {" help. In the congregation
81 names can with little difficulty bc secured
Send us the SGO and we viii forward for one
year thiS paper Ia each oi the 30 subscribers
which viii pay them the fuH rdiuc of lli, rr
subscriptions. dHd H 0ft,tioH, wc ,ctH make u
present. 10 any pG'SOh y0p may designate. Of Il
h'w UM si6y-fre dollar S6riHg y acbiac
How easily Il cIUp can te formed IN the
Masonic ur DAD Fellows ar Temperance So
cirIy ar ia the Grange l. there not depend
In- up' u your society some poor widow 10
whom sewing maclIiac would lr for wears
~ come blessing Pass the subscription
paper Thirty persons >uhSrrlb;m. for tins
journal at - tn each, will secure for them
selves, wlih"ut any extra dharge, the paper
for one year ami a most valuable present for
some needy iamIh. TRY 1T, FRIENDS DoS'r
WAIT! BEGIN THE w,RK ST ONCE. Send IT.
word that you have undertaken the formation
Of such club.
RcInrnihrr the machines are warranted tn
he perfectly "c~. tdtcSf tmpTortd, and az pc,feci
oJdtr.
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AN ADDRESS,
Delivered al tho Grange lin.
ner at Midway. July ~. 1873,
by Hon. +. ii. q. Taylor. Of
Carroll Parish.

MAcoNA GRANGE, July 3lst, 1875.
j" Hon F IL. g. Taylor, Floyd, La
Dear SIR d BROTHER:
by resolution Of
Macona Grange, we would be highly
pleased to have you forward us q
copy of your address delivered at
Midway July 2snd, 1873, with your
permission to publish the same.
Respectfully,
JAMES \. LEGGITr,
). w. FLEMING,
GEORGE WHITE,
Committee.
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FLOYD, LA, Aug. 4th, 1875.

Messrs. James a. Leggit,, J. w Fleming,
George White, Committee
GeHHemeH:
In compliance with your
request, | submit TO your disposal my
address delivered on the 22nd alt.
You will perceive that, in the copy
which / send you, much Of what was
spoken on the day Of the Barbecue
has been omlLted, as it was of local
charactc. and, in my opinion, made
the address too long for pui licatipn.
Trusting this will meet your approval,
l am, with assurances of kind c9n-
sideration for Macona Grange ai.d
yourselves individually,
Very Respectfully Yours,
+. ii. u. TAYLOR:
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$RoN the date no act "f any kIrd Will g
rccorded that :: haalrd into The Reror
der oiiice, unless tho Tee inr recording az
company the same. \ grclt many have
handed IN deeds witt, 'hr pro'ni~" Ia pay ~
day or two AMI IL has been year nr tuo AMI
II" pay vet. II j. trur il,ai he aindiiii Is
small bat one dollar each from 5tH' prnpi, J..
some u,"nry. II ra>"r iur any one tr
raise from one Ia five dollar rlan Er me to
do wiihnrt $500 uT more, and urrrS-iiy fur..,
me in this piau. :" from TIN, date i,u act " III
be recorded until The Rccutdrfs fee }, ar
RANGED.
March iJih. 1913
WILEY T. MtNGHAM.
n2l7tf Recorder kichi,Id Pa,t.h
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2SO acres land-7O acres ia good state of
with good comfortable hou-,'s--
will bc sold Cb1np for Cd.h or Two ilirI-
Crsli with mortgage retained ior baI,m'r -
There is also on the place Horses and f'rming
implements, anh two good ynk"> al oxen
For iurilI"' particulars, apply To !. J. OSirrn
on the placr,or 10 Wiley =. MaaGham, Ray
Vile. La. ~ 2Iuif,
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D, A. EyhhSY,
J. R. PRESTON,

Fancy Groceries, Wines and Liquors,
aud everything usually kept IN iirst class
Groccry, would respectfully inform hi friends
aud the public generally ila, he has ON hand
and will keep for sale all such ARTICLES a. are
usually kept ia a first class grocery, Al the
lowest cash prices. Call aud examine his
stock and you will go away satisfied.
March 2uli, lS7J.-6ms.