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Notes by the Way.
KENYON. April, BOT,

KENYON, APRIL Both, 1875.
This little village is really beginning
to start ahead; why it has not done so
before has been a mystery to many Wis
itors. So fine a wheat growing coun-
try as the beautiful prairie around Ken
yon is; with the Zumoro winding
through the groves on either bank and
then in the broad full light of the sun,
as it runs through the natural meadows
that these prairies represent, it is beau
tiful indeed.
The informer thinks he knows the
reasons for such tardy growth, they are
these: first, no railroad, Though now a
fair prospect Of having one); second,
Kenyon has always been ruled By few,
who from selfish and pecuniary m motives,
would with their superior wealth and
experienced crush out any attempt by
men of small means to start in the Diff
ferent branches Of trade, which are so
necessary to the prosperity of small
village. Since the first visit of YOUR
narrator, (now some two years SINCE,
things have changed and the difference
is apparent. As the writer of these
lines drives out into the village from
Faribault, the first thing that attracts
his attention is the preparation for the
building OF a Protestant Episcopa
Church, which, from what we saw of
the large piles of lumber, stone, &C.,
and learned from the gentlemanly builder
would be an ornament to larger town
The money necessary to build the
church was raised with the exception
Of $500 which the Bishop gave them
by a few liberal minded men who are
anxious to build up church society,
and they seem to be the only denomi-
nation who are likely to erect a
church at Kenyon, the others having
failed to accomplish this object. The
building committee is headed by Mr..
Benz. Bulls, whose father, Mr.. Steph-
en- Bulls, kindly gave the lot on which
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The Pion<er-Pv<ss devotes
half a column of its precious space
to us, in its Friday edition in which
it gives very fair specimen of its
reasoning and logic since the arrival
of Bill King in camp. Stripped of
its verbiage and placed in sylogistic
form, this is the length, breadth and
height of its tremendous thunder
ings:
The GRANGE ADVANCE fayors
the handling of wheat after the
Southern manner Of dealing. "Zhe
small planter was and is the Slave of
the country store-keeper; the large
planter was and is the slave of the
city factor" (That is the Pisnee,.
say for it, men who have lived there
say the p. p. les.) Therefore
"Zhis peculiar agricultural journal
tells the farmers in effect, that they
need not sell their produce and pay
their store debts, if the market
price of their wheat, or whatever
they have to sell does not suit
Them"
We submit that this is worse rea-
soning than the old example of false
logic, often quoted, which runs as
follows:
No cat has two tails;
Every cat has one tail more than no cat,
Therefore, Every cat has three tails
Now if this reasoning were ap-
piled to the Pi-P/ess, the conclusion
might be found to be true in fact,
Notwithstanding the defective logic
by which it was reached. It is very
evident that the great "Consoli-
dated" has a Extraordinarily Free
Trade Observation-Disclosures
gentlemanly-tail; a Wheelockian-of
6ce-holding abusive-demigogical-ad-
ministration-tail, and a Bluff-Aleck-
Ramsey-politic -cool-calculating-vote
place-buying- Notwithstanding Bill
King-bullying -brow-beating-s subsidy
Pacific Mai[lobbying-tail; which lat
teris the Largest tail of all. And some
times one tail wags and sometimes
the other, expcept when one of the
tails wags the whole concern.
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An amusing incident has come to
light, musty with age, of the march
of the British through Old Cam
bridge, Mass, to Concord. Pass
ing a field where an old man was
sowing seed, one of the red-coats,
IN jest, said to him, @You may SOW,
but we shall reap" ~Well, perhaps
you may" replied the old man, for
I'm soxin' hemp"
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The Fowler s ejf.Bjnder.

Editor Of The Grange Adrance:
In your issue of April 18th We
noticed an article from one of your
readers (Mr. E. H. Bousted, rela
tive to- the merits and dement's of
the Marsh Harvester and Elwood
Harvester and an inquiry therein
regarding self-binder, which he
says he has been informed there is
in Lake City, saying he would like
to hear from it. In reply
to that question, will say that we
have a sTRAw-BAND sELF-BINDER,
We gave it a trial last year in the
harvest field, about one mile or SO
from our place Of business. The
binding and delivering of the bun
dies was a perfect success. Our on
ly trouble lay in our arrangement
for COMPRISING the bundle previous
to being bound. 1t would work af-
ter fashion of its own, but not sat-
isfactorily to us; the time of trial was
too late in the season to arrange for
another trial last year. We now con-
slider that difficulty overcome, how
ever, in the new style binder which
we have here and can show to any
of your readers The new binder
will be tested the coming season,
commencing in the Southern har-
vest field, which comes on much
earlier than in Minnesota, and work
along up with the harvest expecting
by the time that Minnesota is
reached that it will be about per-
feet.
Your readers must bear in mind
that this binder makes straw band,
and must not confuse it with a cord
or wire binder. Each bundle fur
nlshes its own band, which is formed
by series Of loops, and being COM
pleted is part of the bundle and will
stand three times the amount of
handling as a bundle bound in the
ordinary way. One stroke of the
knife, or the severing of any Of the
loops frees the whole and leaves it
in as good condition for threshing as
hand bound bundle, and shells less
than hand work. This binder is to
be attached to the Marsh Harvester,
the right to manufacture having been
sold to the Marsh Harvester Manu-
featuring Company. 1t can be at.
tached to Harvester made six
years ago as we'll as those made
this year. We extend a general in
vitation to the country at large to
call and examine the Fowler Straw
band Self-binder.
RICHARDSON BROS.
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PART II-CO-OPERATION.

Incorporation in general business. II
-Co-operative Insurance. III-Co-opera-
tive Banking.
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APPENDIX,

Forms for: Certificates of Membership
Petition of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
Deputies-Annual Report of Deputies on
DEMONSTRATING Card-Withdrawal Card
-Demit Card-Certifcate of Election-Cer-
tifoate to be used at Representative Elec-
ton. Constitution Of Pomona Oranges:
Forms for: Petition for membership-Cer-
tifcate of Observation-Disclosures OF Organiza-
tion-Petition for Charter. Bylaws of
Changers Bank in California: Constitution
and Bylaws of Co~Opertivc Council. Ar
ticles of Association Farmers Mutual Fire
insurance Company. Certificate of 1nsur-
ancc.
Deputies and Masters are earnestly
requested to call the attention of their
respective Oranges to this book, to the
end, that by it's general use each officer
and each member Of our Order may
better understand his right and duties,
and the Order everywhere may thereby
be strengthened and built up, and ena-
bled to perform its whole work and at
tain unto perfect success.
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= I'm PREss:)
Manual Of Jurisprdds1oe and Co.
Operation Of Tho
Patrons of Husbattdry.

State Grange,
Published by GEO, VIM. JONES,
Office Of Patrons Helper, Des Moins, Ia.
200 pages, bound in cloth.
By mail, postage prepaid, $l.2spr copy.
ny express or freight, in pack
ages OF i've or more, $1.Oo pr. copy
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
The Origin Of the Order. It's Objects: to
Educate, Elevate and Siren CITIZEN the Farm
ers as q class.
PART HJURISPRUDENCE
THE Grange. II-Grange Room.
I11-Quali6cations of candidates. "
Rights and duties of Members. V-Ballot-
ing for Candidates. VI-Rights AMI du-
ties of Members. VII-Qualifi cations and
Duties Of Deputies. Naturalization
and duties of Masters. IX-Qualifcations
and Duties of Secretaries. X-Charges.
XI-Trials. XII-Appeals. XIII-With-
drawals and DENTS. INSTRUMENTATION.
XV-The Degrees Of the Order symbolized.
XVI-P0mons Oranges.
PART U-COOPERATION.
Incorporation in general business. II
-Co-operative Insurance. III-Co-opera-
tive Banking.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-14

cosS. 1t IL the sincere desire Of the
country press, with which the
Galveston News very lonily classi'
iies The HERALD, that tho "metrOp
oils OF the Southwest another airy
classification " the News, should
become the market for our grain.
Tho products of Texas fields should
find u market or shipping port,
within its own State but the laws
OF trade are cXacting, and Calves
ton cannot hope 10 compete success
fully with st. Louis and Now Or
leans, except by offering better
market, and II cheaper and moro
convenient shipping point. The
comparatively higher freight on
wheat to Galveston, than to st.
Louis, has operated very injuriously
to the interest of the former, and
until that disadvantage is removed,
the bulk of the wheat Of Northern
Texas must continue to flow to.
wards st. Louis.
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the name Of Collins, who lived In the
southwest part of the county, was Inst
week charged with attempting 10 COM
nit n rape on his own daughter, and
fled to avoid arrest. Such mOnstr0us
degradation seems Incredible"
Longview New Era: "Our city elec-
tion passed of very quietly and re-
suited in the election OF the following
gentlemen: ID. $. Jennings, Mayor;
w. G. carroll, Chief of Police and As
SCISSOR and Collector Il. l.. Wheeley, J.
w. Boring, w. G.. N0rlhcntt, {. IL.
Rice and d. ID. Durham are the Alder
men,"
San Antonio Herald. "The Frontier
Telegraph line is completed from TT.
Clark to Uvalde, about sixty-hve miles
from here. II in thought by those
having charge of II that ii will reach
San Antonio in about six weeks. The
stretch completed was over such rocky
ground that almost every hole for the
posts Lad to be blasted out"
San Antonio Express: "Notwith-
standing the dry weather, many, in
fact all the farmers in this vicinity,
who planted early, will make fair
crops OF corn, and in several instances
we have inspected fields with fine corn,
fully developed, that the owners say
was made without rain! The winter
moisture being sufficient to carry the
crop through"
Hillsboro Expositor: "NIr. and Mrs.
VALDEZ, who live about four miles
northwest of this place, are the happy
parents of fourteen children, mostly
boys and girls. They never lost
child, and all their children live at
home. Two of his little girls, twins,
about seven years old, are given the
very pretty and appropriate names of
Tennessee and Alabama"
Austin Statesman: "a genial, good
woman of many virtues has sued THE
DALLAS HERALD for fifty-iive thousand
dollars for saying she was "colored."
THE HERALD doesn't mean that her
blood is impure, but that the blessed
Fannie takes too mTch coloring matter
under her belt, which has redeemed
her otherwise Caucasian physiognomy.
Fannie isn't bloated-bondholder
but fat, fair and less than forty. We
say this for fear she may send Sheriff
after the Statesman"
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THE newspapers II few wseks ago
recorded the attempt at the robbery
Of the express train between St.
Louis and Indianapolis, in which
the engineer was shot dead on his
engine. Another attempt Of Il SINH
lar nature was made n few days ago
says the Inter- Ocean,, on the Toledo,
Wabash and Western road, near
Catlin, Illinois. The miscrcants, on
this occasion, opened the switch in
order to ditch tac express train
which was expected. Fortunately,
how ever, an engine and tender, for
some reason, was running ahead Of
the express train, and fell into the
trap set for moro profitable game.
The engineer was killed and the.
fireman dreadfully scalded, but the
passenger train was saved, and with
it perhaps score of lives.
In view of such marvellous wick
odness, is it not strange that there
should be people who favor tGt :. 10
ltion Of capital punishment.
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ANDREW JOHNsoN's successor has
has not yet been selected by Gov
ernor Porter, but already tho press
of Tennessee is bringing forward
their favoritcs. The Memphis Ap,
peal, without indicating any per-
sonal preference, contends that the
senator ought to be selected from
the West. 1t mentions with words
of commendation, Ex-Governor
Isham G.. Harris, Judge Archibald
Wright, Judge j. w. Brown, all of
Memphis.
If an outsider might be allowed
to express preference on this sub
ject, we should certainly cast our
vote for the first name on the above
list. There would be no expert.
ment in his selection. The people
of Tennessee and the entire South,
know and honor him for his ardent
patriotism and incorruptiblo integ-
rity.
The names of Ex-Governor Brown,
General Bate and General Quarles
are also mentioned in this Gonnec-
tion,
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OUR RIO enANDE FRONTIER

The Neir Orleans Times of the 4th
contains a description of the gur
boat Rio Bravo, purchased and fitted
out by the Navy Department, for
service on the Rio Grande.
She is provided with five twelve
FOUNDER howitzers and three Gatlin
guns, and a complement oftwo hun
dred men. AS auxilIiarios, she will
have threo steam Launches, with
thirty men, one twelve FOUNDER and
one Gatlin gun to each the whole
under the command Of Captain ID.
C. Kelis, United States Navy.
The Government at last seems in
earnest in lie efforts to protect Amer
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The capacities and growing impor-
tance of st. Louis as a live stock mar
ket are being duly recognized. Yes
terday the sales of cattle here footed
up more than three thousand head,
most of which were sold to shippers.
Notwithstanding the drawback to the
market caused by the inability of most
of the Eastern railroads to transport
freight because of water damages, ship
pers made liberal transactions and at
prices that compared favorably with, IL
they did not surpass, those of the Chi
cago market. Good to choice through
and wintered Texan cattle sold at $40
37l while extra through Texan pony
steers sold at 81 ga. The Chicago and
Alton railroad took out sixty loads.
and left fifty loads behind for want Of
cars. The Nandalia II. r., with COM
mendable enterprise, began operations
by taking out twenty-five loads, to 60
ria Chicago for the East. The stock
trains OF all the Eastern roads viii be
in full running order by Monday morn
ing. Their officers deserve great cred
it for their efforts to accommodate cat
tie shippers, the effects Of which were
seen In the extensive csttle sales yes
terday. The cattle trade Of st lsouis
is rapidly increasing, and Chicago may
well trsm bic In her dainty gaiters--
! I0lobe-D Democrat
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THE negroes last week held ia
National Editorial Convention" at
Cincinnati, the natural result OF
which was numerous resolves ;
amongst others that they would
have a colored press association ;
that they would publish a book to
be called the centennial Tribute
to tho Negro" and that they would
hold q National convention at Nash
vile next April. The Honorable
Mr.. Pinchback was there, of course,
and delivered harangue, in which
he said that if the Democrats in
Ohio sh Juld be successful at the
next election, the negroes of the
South would despair OF there being
any power in the North to stay the
murderous hands of the Democrats
1t is amusing to see these ex-bar.
bcrs and ex-cooks bloom into states
men, with their months filled with
great, high sounding words, the
true meaning Of which is as un.
known to them as the Greek par
ticles.
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The GalUeston NeUS argues that
unlcss it is found that n majority OF
the legal voters of the State have
cast their ballots for the Conven-
tion, the Governor has no right to
declare it carried by the votes OF
the people.
We think this proposition sue
cessfully controverted, by legal
correspondent of the NepS, IN its is
sue of the 9th. He says:
Permit me to indicate briefly the mis-
conception or the untenable view, as 1t
seems to me, that leads you to the con-
clusion you maintain. No one Will
controvert the proposition you an
nounce, as it is of the fundamen-
tai law, that question submit
ted to the voters must be determined
by majority vote. Thus far all
agree. But who are the voters? You
assume that those who are registered,
or have voted at former elections, are
the voters that returns ofl874 or reg
istration list furnish the information
as to who are and how many voters
we now have. contend that they on
ly show who may hare voted on Aug
ust 9, 1875, and that the only voters, as
far as this question Is concerned, are
the men who could and did vote, not
men who could and did not vote. "a
vote of the people" signifies, according
to the meaning of words, an expression
of opinion or preference by the ballot
of those invested with right ofsuffrage,
which about one of six of the States
inhabitants may exercise; but unless
citizen votes, how can he be
called a voter ia reference to any mat
ter submitted to the decision of voters?
The resolution providing for the vote
ON the convention question prescribes
that the "election shall be governed
and controlled by the laws now 10
force in regard to general elections"
The general law regulating elections
nowhere expressly or implicitly de-
mands a majority vote of all persons
who may or can vote, but on the con-
trary requires q majority OF the votes
actually cast, ]. e.. majority Of those
voting. There have been laws passed,
as in the instance of counties granting
subsidies, exacting q majority Of votes
OF these citizens specially registered in
order to carry the proposition, bet
In these laws the conditions Is ex-
pressly laid down. The general
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law, ns have stated, call
for II majority of the doiuW U0iejY at Il
given election, whose will, 30 express
cd, shall prevail, If not in dcrogation
OF the constitution. IL may he re-
piled to the men who stand aloof with
folded arms, and do not vote, that
their registration does not make them
voters, bur only puts them In the way
of being voters, II they.wish. They, ol
right, ought to have no voice in any
affair, unless they throw the influence
of their vote for or against it. 1t nee
cssarily follows that the 10000 who
you calculate voted on the 2d inst,
were the only DOterS upon that day and
that question, whom the law recog-
nlzes as voters, and majority of them
must decide.
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The Trustees Of the Louisville
Medical College, louisville, Ky,)
have, in accordance with the provis-
ions of their charter, established a
beneficiary System, whereby any
young man studying medicine and
being unable TO pay for his educa
tion, may receive Beneficiary
Scholarship, which relieves him Of
payment of the Professors fees. The
public will be pleased to learn that
this we'll known College has abol-
ished all fees for its diplomas: the
Faculty being thus wholly uninter-
ested pecuniarily in the result of all
examinations for graduation. For
particulars, address Dean of Louis
vile, Medical College, 163 Second
street, Louisville, KY, or the bust.
ness manager of THE HERALD.
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THE failure of Tennessee to meet

THE failure of Tennessee to meet
the July interest on her bonds is
receiving, as it deserves, the scorn-
full criticisms of the press through
out the country, North and South.
When u State, through its Legisla-
ture, solcmnly pledges its faith and
honor to do ccrtain:thing, and, by
virtue Of the trust reposcd in these
promises, obtains money, and then
deliberately violates these pledges,
in tho eyes of all honorable men,
she has done q dishonorablc ct,and
has obtained money under false pre-
lenses. An act like this is not only
dishonoring TO the government OF
the State, but to certain extent
the stain attaches to every citizen
within her borders. Let the people
of Texas see to it that no such dis
honor is ever brought upon her fair
name.
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lean citizens on American soil, aud
il is said that Captain Kclls has CT.
doris to cooperate with tho army on
the lower Grnndc, aud IL promised
whatever further assistance and re.
endorsements he may require,
We trust these precautions may
have the dosircd effect. They GER
tuinly will save the lives and prop
crty of many Of our citizens, but
we have little faith that they will
do more than interrupt, for II time,
the operations of the Mexican brig
ands. AS soon MS Cortina regains
his liberty, which he has probably
done by this time, he will call
around him his faithful followers,
and recommcncc his old game OF
murder and robbery.
Along II boundary of hundreds of
miles, marked only by II lordabIe
river, everywhere abounding in
cattle on the one side and thieves
on the other, it will be next TO i'm
possible for tho army and navy
combined to afford protection TO our
citizens. As for tho gunboat and
steam launches, the limit OF their
operations will be Rio Grandc City,
only l30 miles above Brownsville,
leaving the limo of the river from
there to Eagle Pass, II distance of
two hundred and fifty miles, at the
mercy of the robbers.
1t is true there are troops, United
States cavalry, stationed at Ring
gold Barracks, Laredo and Eagle
Pass and Fort Clarke, but they sell
dom leave the precincts of their can
tonments, and arc quite useless, so
far rs frontier protection is concern.
ed. They spend good deal Of
money in the ncighborhood of their
stations, and do some good in that
way, but for other purposes, they
might as well be in Washington
city.
The only effectual way to put
stop to Cortinas operations is TO:
the United States TO extend our
boundary to the Sierra Madre.
Sooner or later this will become alb
soluLey y necessary.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-14

RETURNS from the Kentucky elcc-
tion, held on Monday, come in slow
-, but it seems, thus far, that the
Democratic maioritics are every
where larger than they were at the
last gubernatorial election, which
gave Leslie some $4,000 majority.
In Louisville McCreary's majority
is 2,7S9 in n total vote Of 1864.
His majority in tho whole State will
probably reach 10000.
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RECENTLY the financial editor OF
the New York Tribune, Cleveland
by name, was dreadfulIy hustled by
the members oflhc New York Stock
Exchange and called "spy"and other
approbrious epithcts, on account OF
the alleged connection Of the Tri-
bune with Jay Gould.
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is ilibgfai't fpmem thnfnUfa M
iht tYt M Ilr lmilG ~ ihHY Hut
Know llm IT, fputseniuii .r 0f ilt
ssfiiUn Wlli runrnp tpt tunEfmf most
Wiuirf HWrn uud fwphfinRi Ia vote unt
n dUllu tunny mhlia nrHufN uuil
Tom stulf4 suuihDu rHIllc llnIlrUnl
" Used win whatever subsidies wiz
secure n the mrliost completion. Did
nUt sHylur, luuaun nhd llhunlng
three Democrats alone, Out ~ nll tho
Onto delegation, yulp and work for
Srul's big srlicur In Congress last
winter? "Su grants uf lAnds or
mrncy" may rruJ well enough la ~
platform, hul 1t h. chnn, aud every
Sensible Democrat knows IT,. 1lpy
know that the Southern press has lie
u government subsidy Tor the
Texas Pacific, aud will continue the
demand until II II granted. Why lot
Jc dccenlly honest In these things?