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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07

do oOrazon, temerosa de que su amargo anto
turbe ell incierto suono de la autora de sus dias.
Aquel modesto santuario de la virtud de
Ia robreza sc halla invadido por ell fatldico sopo
de la muerte
Todo respira tristeza, orfandad
De pronto Ia enforma lanza un penoso sus-
piro entreabre los oios.
Su apagada vista gira en- un momento por
todos los ambitos del reducido aposento como ST
buscara algo.
Dolores, hija MIA murrnura con trabaio
despues dc una cofta pausa, jaun no ha venido
tn herlnano9
No, mama, contesta la interpolaIa con
cariao, aun no ha venido, poro no puede tardar.
La enferma exhala un suspiro de resigna-
cion guarda silencio
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07

pectaculog Seguramente por nc c0lalC,q.
Sc, por no avergonzarse, por no yer d..
truidas con Las elocuentes lagrimas 4
aquellas desgraciadas las razones en- on
Sc fundaban para disolyer esta santa ip,J
titucion."
Los que tuvieron valor para condsI
mar una institution toda amor Y carl
dad, que es respetada hasta entire n
pueblos mas enemigos de la religot
cristiana, no podian cOnmOUerSe Snt.
aquella escena, por conmovedora Qp.
fuese.
Su ohjeto es borrar del pueblo me
jieano toda idea de Dios, toda ide
de carload, toda idea de amor, DC
que asf y solo asf pueden sosteners
las orgfas revolucionarias en- tod
parties: asi sc sostuyo la del SO e
Francia, as1 Sc sostuvo la del feden
lismo en- Espana, y SEQ asf podr& So
tenerse Ia de MGjico.
Pero prosigamoS la description q:
hace ei peri6dico de la despedida
las Hermauas de la Carload:
"En el hospital de San Andres ha ST.
mas dolorosa aGn Ia deapcdida de las He
,nanaa: los epfermos lloraban grand.
gritos, las llamaban para abra2arl D.
Ultima vez y iuraban abandonar el hosp
tai para II & mo1ir 1nejor en I'M mulads
que seguir ALI cnando las Hermanas ios
& faltar
Yo 10 quise segu;r prcsenciapdo aoa.
espoctaculo, nos dcoia on joven pgav
cante de medieira, por que Sc me opr
mia el corazon: tuve que salrme pa
fuera, y quise llorar tambien."
Estas tiernas despcdidas, prueba
10 que los 'euislaaores referidos debh
saber va ha<ta la saciedad, y es q
con la expulsion de las HermaGs
elias nadia perdian, por que en- tod
parties del globo, menos en- M9jn
pueden ojorcer su santa y e!evada n.
sion.- -Quien pierde son los pobres me
jicanos enfermes, los indigentes, l
nInos desamparados, quien pierde
ell mismo Mejico que Sc We privadob
los con uelos de la inefable Carids
No terminaremos este reduCido
tlcuo sin transcribir fntegro el juic
que el expresado peri6dico cree q
formaran de Mejico en- e. extranior
en- vista del inaudito suceso que aca
de tener lugar en- aquella desdicha
reptblica:
':Permitaseme ahora una ref sxion 10
iuicio Sc Va a formar de Meiico en-
extraniero7 SQu6 sc va q decir de que
espectaculo que ninguna nacion civil
da ha ofrecido, Sc yea en- Mejico9 Esn
facil quese equivoque U'ao que 90 cieat
Y estos senores iherales que tanto Sc ba
Ian de Ia infaibilidad del Papa quior
que Sc les craa la suya: en- verdad que
pretension decir: MSico hace este pOr9
ass 10 juSga c0Rre~iesate, n 50 las adciG
dc Europa no han hccjso 70, 8stsHgo dgv
porque todaUtG eStlls atyGsddGs.
ST sc nos contesta que Ia ley es ley
debe acatarso, responder6mos: cuando
ley es mala Sc deroga, 10 cual no quits
en- Ia mas mlnima parte ell concepto
de Mejico tengan tornado las naci@
civiiizadas."
Desgraciadamente no Sc equivo
el colega: eljuicio que formen las
mas naciones, aunque no sean CIV
zadas, sera terrible, poro no la
maran del pueblo mejicano que
tiene la culpa de que una minoria o.
da y atea, como son todas las mil
rlas federales, Sc haya apoderado
IA situacion, imponlendo al pals to
genero de impiedades.
V,deC
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07

teEHGtsdI tlO as5!V lON AistsSts''-
ofciales puerto-riquenos que en- e.
existen sino tambien ell restablecl
miento de la academia de cadetes We
rihcado & POGO de haberse suprlmldo,
segun Sc We en- la Gaceta del 80 de
diciembre iiltimo A mayor abunda-
miento, IN hJo de uno de los comu-
nicantes. sieado teniente de Mllicias,
pid;6 Ell pase al Ej6rcito sin tene'
cumplido su tempo = por Real Ofden
de 20 de octubre de 1868, Sc le con
cedi6, y hoy es teniente del battalion
de Puerto Rico, 4o de Inca; pof
ditino, desnienten en6rgicamente
que ell partido genuinamente espanoi
Sc compooga solo dc penlnsulares, CO.
mo asegur6 el libelista.
D. Manuel Garcia de Quevedo, de
Anasco, da una mirada retrospective
q aquel pueblo, recordando la esca-
sez de fondos en- que estahan aque-
las cajas municipaIes y as atenclo-
nes que babla descubierto cuando el 2
de febrero, hace ahora IN aTlo, vino a
esta isla por segunda vez Ell general
SAM; manifesto que el hacha demo
fedora de- federalismo, lejos de fabri'
car una obra p1blica naeva, habia
eehado abaio la hermosa arboleda que
circundaba aquella plaza, gastandose
grandes sumas en- una mala composi
cion que nunca lleg6 concluirse; que
mlentras las haclendas y las estancias
carecian de jornaleros essaban llenas
de ellos las pulperlas y ventorrlllos, y
que los caminos, puentes y calzadas
yacian en- un absolute abandono Gra
cias al buen acierto cue tuvo s. E. en-
escoger por caIde al Sr. d. Pc
dro Vidal estan .saIdados todos los
compromises del Ayuntamiento, al
dia sus empleados y con IN sobrante
en- GAIA de nueve a diez mil pesos,
con cuyos fondos Sc proyecia cons
truir una huena casa de rey dc mann
posterfa a cuyo efecto Sc ha impetra-
do la autorizacion del Gobierno Las
fncas tienen cuantos brazos necesi
tan para las faenas de la zafra y los
jorn leros y libertos, que va no Sc
ven por las tabernas, han ganalo mu
cho en- moralidad bienestar. Sc han
compuesto muchos caminos y puen
tes, habiGndose hecho uno nuevo de
piedra q la saIida del pueblo, y no Sc
Ievanta mano de las obfas de utilidad
p1blica aprovechando asi el tempo
seco del a11o Por 10 cuai nuestro cor
responsal tributa grandas elogios 4
aquel mu 1icipio su d'gno prssi
dente, 10 nlSmo que 4 la dlgna Auto
ridad Superior que los nonbr6
Fechada ell 80 de enero en- Aqua
dilla..reoibmos una larga carta de nues-
tro amigo y antique comnanero ell leal
insular j. Manuel Gonzalez y Care a,
secretario de aquel ayuntamiento, en-
la cual hace & grandes rasgos una re
sena de los actos dal general Sanz en-
sas dos 6pocas de mando, resela que
no reproducimos porqae Sc retiere
mas que a los asuntos pecuIiares de
aqnella localidad q la marcha general
del gobierno reparador de S f., asun
to que va hemos tratado nos0tros di
ferentes veces y en- varios ndmeros
del BoLETIN, por 10 que nos creemos
de insertar ell texto de
este interesante remtido de profunda
adhesion Ia personalidad del Gober-
nador General.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07
DELIRIOS REvoLUCI0NARIOs.

M&jico acaba de dar una prueba de
que los principles revolucionarios,
proclamados por sus partidarios como
producto de la razon humana, son ell
deli'io de esa razon que Sc invoca
para sostenerlos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07

No vontento FL Tempo con Hams
nos calumniadores por su cuenta
hace taalbien por Ia de su amigo
ciudadano Mario Braschi prete
diendo que de regreso aquel de y
nezuela, hemos puesto frases en-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07

Retroeeaamos como una hora.

Retroeedamos como una hora.
La noehe estaba oscurisima; no SO dist
guian los obietos dos pasos de distancia.
SoPlaba IN yiento glacialfsimo una rns'.
da pero moIesta lluvia arreciaba por instantcs
Acababan de dar las once de la nochs
todas Jas campanas de Madrid.
Un hombre embozado en- una anchs q.
1nadri ena calado de aqua hasta Ia n6dus
los huesos andaba precipitadamente por e
acera de la Gale de Leganitos.
lba profundamente abstraido, con Is car.
inclinada sobre el pecho.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-07
% FOLLErIlI.
Los CUENTOS DIX Nj lBUGLA.
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CUENTos QUE TIENEN DE ToDo
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Continuation. ]


Juan era un buen hijo, como veis, de los
pocos que existen en- este siglo de peryersidad
de corruption.
Sed sienpre como q, hijos mios, imitadle,
tened tambien flo constantemente como 81 en-
vuestra imagination Ell cuarto mandamiento del
Decalogo: "Honrar padre y madre.0
La imperterrita narradora guard6 siIencio
un momento brevlsimo, despues de dichas las dl-
timas paabras con serena maiestad.
XIV.
La niorada del buen Juan permanacia ailen-
ciosa, ldgubre.
sEl akento de la muerte infcionaba va cen
sus terribes emsnaciones el hogar de Ia yirtud,
della mas honrada de Las pobrezas.
Penetraremos en- la salita de aquella nodes
IA casa en- la cual, sobre una mesa de psno dorra
ma palidos destellos un quinque de limpio
luciente metal
Ssntados ante ella estaban un homb,e de
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

then be frozen up. But the improve
ment Of the mouth of the Missis.
sippi will constitute New Orleans
an important seaport. All the pro-
duce of the Mississippi valley from
the latitude of St. Louis will natu-
rally seek that outlet. Railroads
already connect ST. Louis with Iowa,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and produce from these States can
be sent thither by rail and shipped
thence by water.
The improvement Of the mouth
Of the Mississippi, then, will consti-
tute New Orleans a rival of New
York, and St. Louis and Cairo rivals
of Chicago, and the railroads run
ming north and south will become
competing lines with those running
east and west. Again, the Wiscon-
sin canal will strike lake Michigan
at Green Bay, and make the city
now there rival of Chicago and
Milwaukee for the trade of west
Wisconsin and Minnesota. To this
rivalry of cities we may look conf
IDENTIFY for alienation of our trouble.
The sharp competition of the bust.
ness men of these respective cities
will necessarily react upon the rail.
road companies, and they will be
thus compelled to compete with
each other.
This consideration leads us to re-
gard the acts Of the congressional
committee with favor, and to give
Mr.. Window credit for having hit
upon one method of solving the
cheap transportation problem; and
we repeat now what we said last
year: Let us not forget to assert
our right to control the management,
of the railroads by legislation, but
let us, meanwhile, do all in our pow
er to render every possible water
route 20 the ocean available, even
though it may frozen over part o1
the year.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
The Over-Production Fallacv,

1t IS favorite argument of those
theorists who oppose currency re-
form, to attribute the general stagna-
ton of business to over-produc-
tion;" and it is surprisingly strange
that intelligent people should for a
moment entertain such an idea.
What is over-production? Is it not
the production Of an excess beyond
what is required by mankind for its
comfortable existence? Most cer-
tainly it is; and it is a condition to
which no community ever has attain
ed, nor probably will attain. 1t is a
condition utterly incompatible with
want and poverty, and when it is
reached the millennium will have ar
rived.
TO talk of over-production when
and where large proportion of the
people are destitute of the actual
necessaries of life, seems to US so
obviously foolish that we are surpris-
ed to hear the argument used.
What is it that is produced in ex-
cess? Certainly not articles of food,
for many suffer for want of food.
Still more certainly it is not articles
of clothing, for many more have
hardly sufficient clothing to hide
their nakedness, let alone to protect
them from the inclemency of the
weather. Articles of furniture are
still more inadequately supplied, for
a vast majority of families have not
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
Financial and Commercial.

During the week ending yesterday
gold in New York ranged from ll4H
to lis, closing at ll424. Money was
reported easy at from 2118 to 4 per cent,
and all kinds Of good securities were
steady and in good demand. Govern
ment bonds were held firmly at high
rates, new SIS being quoted at 1880
l1716, closing at the latter figure, and
currency 6's at l24A@l254. Other
descriptions had all experienced simi-
lar slight advance. In Red Wing mon
ey is seeking investment as loans on
real estate security at IL per cent, and
a great deal is being taken.
Flour is reported quiet and dull in
New York market and a slight decline
is noted in quotations.: in Milwaukee
the market is reported dull and heavy;
in Chicago decline is noted, and in
St. Louis the tendency is downward.
In this city we have no change to note,
and continue last weeks quotations,
$6@6.50 per bbl.
Wheaton, last Wednesday slight
improvement was reported in the New
York market incident to an increased
inquiry for expectation. This was con-
tinued until Friday, when the demand
fell off and on Monday de cline was
noted, Minnesota No. being quoted
at $l.32. In Milwaukee No. l was
quoted at $l.l5A on last Wednesday ;;
on Friday it advanced to $l.l64, and
fell off to $l.l5 on Saturday and
$l.l3A on Monday. In Chicago the
market was active and prices well sus-
tanned until Saturday when a decline
of &c. per bushel took place, and on
Monday, with fair demand, further
decline of 1a@2c. was noted. In Red
Wing the market is steady at $1.00
per bushel for No. and 90c. for No.
2. Since Saturday, however, the ten
dency to decline has been apparent and
some lots of hardly full grade have
sold below these figures. The receipts
have been fair for the season, but not
to exceed $4,000 on any one day.
Barley is arriving freely and prices
have declined to 80@85c. for No. l;
some lots of prime sold at 9Oc. per
bushel.
Corn is SOC. per bushel for good quail
ity, with fair receipts.
Oats are firm at 35@4Oc. There is a
good demand for home consumption.
Potatoes are selling at 35@40c. whole
sale and retail.
Butter is scarce and sells at 25c. for
a good article. The retail price is 3Oc.
per ID.
Eggs are 22c. per dozen for small lots
and retail at Csc.
Pork.-Dressed pork sells readily at
7@8c. per lb.
Beef cattle 21@@3c. per h., live
weight.
Hides, green, 5000. per h., and
dry 1870.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
Death Of Vice President Wilson

The Saint Paul Dispatch of Mon
day brought us the intelligence that
Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice President,
died in Washington, on the morning
of that day. Mr.. Wilson had been
in ill-health for several months, but
was reported to be improving, and, a
few moments before his death declar.
ed that he felt much better than he
had for some time and would 20
out riding that day. He then took
dose Of medicine and, lying down,
expired almost Immediately. After
a post mortem examination, the
doctors decided that apoplexy was
the cause of his death. MI. Wilson
was born in Pennington, N. H.,
Feb. 10th, 1872, and, in early life,
followed the business Of shoe-mak-
ing. He commenced public life as
a Wing in 184o, and for the past IS
years has been prominently before
the public, having served as U. S.
Senator from Massachusetts, from
1855 till 1872, when he was elected
to the Vice Presidency. He was a
man of extensive information, indom.
table energy, and strict integrity,
and had hosts of friends amongs,
men of all parties, though free to ex.
press his opinions and prompt tc
defend them.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
The Projected Water Routes

The Rochester Post has at length
placed itself fairly ON record, as fa-
voring legislation to restrain railroad
extortion. We are glad of this. We
are far from being one of those shall
low pretenders, who, while advocat-
ing reforms themselves, are jealous
Of everybody who sides with them
and abusive of all who oppose them.
We are truly glad to have the Post,
Minneapolis Tribune, Pioneer-Press
and all other papers coming to the
aid of the people, and advocating
a measure of such vast importance
to western farmers. We wish them
God-speed in the good work, and
shall not complain if they are pre-
ferred above ourself, although we
commenced the work years ago, and
have withstood the heat and bur-
then of the day.
We are sorry, however, to see
that the Post reflects severely and.
we think, somewhat unjustly on the
congressional transportation CON-
mittee of which Hon. VIM. Window
is chairman. True, we thought con-
cerning that subject last year about
as it does now, but we have studied
the matter more thoroughly since
and are satisfied that we were wrong.
Neither will the Wisconsin and
Fox river canal, nor the improve
ment of the mouth of the Mississippi,
afford US water transportation in
winter, when it is most needed, for
the simple reason that they will
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
NO.. =.
AUCTION.
Horses and Farming
00lS!
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. etc,

AAOOOHAAOLD EOhNlIURE, etc.
To be sold without reserve on the farm Of
Daniel Sanders in the town of Hay Creek.
on MONDAY. the TWENTY-NINTH dav
of NOVEMBER, at 10 o'clock, .. n. the
following described property:
2 Span of Horses, quantity of Hay.
2 setts Of Harness.
z Colts, one two year old, and one three.
Wagons. Minnesota seeder, almost new
l Case Threshin Machine,
Woods Reaper.
l Werner Harvester, almost new.
l Meadow Lark Mower.
l Sulky Horse Rake.
Harrows, one Corn Rake.
Plows, Corn Cultivator.
l pair Bobsleds.
l Corn and Cob Mill.
! Tanning Mill, large Kettle.
Two hundred Yak posts and a quantity Of
Lumber.
One good Breaking Plow.
Household Furniture, consisting Of Ta-
bIes, Chairs, Bureau, Stoves. Bedsteads, &o..
&c. All sums under ten dollars, cash six
months time given on all sums above ten
dollars at lO per cent. interest.
DANIEL SANDERS.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

Joseph Davis, of Rock Elm, Pierce
county, Wis.,, was drowned at Lake
City last week. He left a wife and
four children in destitute circumstances
Notwithstanding the rainy season
during harvest, the wheat crop of this
State is now found to have sustained
triding injury.
The Hutchinson Enterprise says
that Mr.. Henry Stocking Of that county
raised 45l bushels of wheat on eleven
acres,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

If railroad companies have a
right to charge what they please for
carrying freight, and if it is not law
full to restrain them in such acts bv
legislation, is it just, or right, or
proper to speak of their excessive
charges as "robberies" and to de-
nounce them as robbers, "conspir-
ators," etc7 Will the Pioneer-Press
please answer this question? We
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

RED WING MIMI, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER a. 1875

enough for their comfort. So, too,
with fuel, the lack of it occasions a
vast amount of suffering, illness and
death.
In what, then, does the excess of
production exists? Not in articles
OF luxury, surely, for these are not
sufficiently abundant for more than
meagre minority to possess them.
For the life of US we cannot find
single fact to sustain this argument of
over-production, so far as it relates
to any of the necessities or comforts
of life, and are forced to the conclu
sion that those who use it will have
to limit it to liquors, tobacco,
and other deleterious stimulants, of
which it may be said that any guam
tity is an excess. But it will be con-
ceded that it would be palpably un-
fair to found the argument on such
beggarly premise.
The truth is, then, that there is no
over-production, nor can there be
any so long as the supply is made
quate to afford every individual
member of society enough for his
comfortable maintenance; and the
argument is obviously false and ab-
surd. The trouble is, and always
has been, that mans incidence has
interfered with his providence, and
he has been satisfied with under-pro-
duction-with producing less than
his wants demand. AS society is
organized, the indolent are enabled
to prey upon the industrious, and
those who suffer want most severely
are those whose labor produces what
the drones enjoy in excess. The
latter are shrewd enough to appreci-
ate this, and their efforts are con-
sistently directed to compelling the
laboring classes to pay them tribute.
No more powerful contrivance to
effect this result can be designed
than an artful currency system; and
no currency system was ever devised
that was better calculated to draw
from the labo1ing classes their en-
tire earnings, than that which is now
in vogue in this country. 1t exacts
tribute by a double process, and
makes the laborer dependant upon
and the slave of the capitalist. The
man who sustains it is an enemy to
his kind, whether he does so vicious
ly or ignorantly, for he contributes
to elevate the possessors of wealth
into power and authority, and de-
grade the people generally into
"mere hewers of wood and drawers
of water," into mere servents of a
monied oligarchy.
Let the people not be misled by
such flimsy fallacies as this plea of
over-production, but let them de-
mand Of their government, which
they sustain by their blood and
their treasure, that it shall provide
them with an honest, cheap and
abundant currency, so that they may
at least be relieved from that op-
pressive tribute which |ls drawn from
them in the form of interest.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

Special notices in editorial columns. Is
cents per line, for first insertion, and after
wards, in special notice column, at Sc.
per line.