The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15


Jewett, receiver of the Erie railroad company,
Judge Donahue has granted an order empow-
er1ng the receiver to pay taxes and charges
thereon, and to work a coal-mine referred to
IN MS petition, to perform any lawful con-
tracts, and to sell the securities referred to
therein wherein his judgment to the interest of
all parties will be prompted thereby.
1t is reported that the Jerome Park races
and the departure OF the International rifle
team have taken a large number OF stock e:,-
change people away from the street and the
markets are all dull.
At the annual convention held at New York
in America, (Swedenborgians) the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President. Rev. Chauncey Silas OF New York
Vice President, Hon. T. A. Plantz of Ohio;
Secretaries, w. H. Hinckley and F. A. Dusen !;
Treasurer, N. Hobart; Executive Committee
Oh Ecclesiastical Afairs--Rev E. P. Walton OF
Georgia, VIM. p. Hayden of Maine, E. c.
Mitchell of Minnesota P. Stuart of Missou,i,
E. S. Gosulce of Canada; and Messrs. C. NJ
Prentiss of Washington, R. NJ. Pulls fer of Mas
sachusetts, S. w. Denney of Detroit, S.
Durham Of New York, NJ S. Williams of
Ohio, William Roberts OF Philadelphia, John
Doughty Of San Francisco, and John Pitcairn
OF Pittsburg.
New York advices say the failure is report
ed ofthe Metropolitan Collar Company, o. P.
Dorman, president. The concern was one of
the largest manufactures of linen and other
collars in the country, doing a business of
about two million dollars ayear.
The failure is also announced of Messrs.
Petite & Mann, South street, in the iron trade.
The depreciation of prices for one or two years
is supposed to be the cause.
Messrs. Strange & Holland Bros, in the
wool trade Of this market, have suspended
payment.
There is large failure in the tea trade re-
ported from London, supposed to be 4 firm
doing OF late pretty rash business in ship
ping, and pushing their teas Oh this market
through auction rooms.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on the
Sth inst, to increase the freight and passen-
ger rates on the Erie, Pa, Central and New
York Central railroads.
1t is reported that the mllers of St. Louis
have joined in petition to the president and
directors of the Merchants Exchange to
have wheat stricken from the list Of ar
ticles sold at the call board on
change. They assert that this
kind OF speculation produces illegitimate fuc-
tuations, which are ruinous to the manutac
turers OF flour, and will ultimately destroy the
trade, and that the tendencies of SUCH spe cula-
ton are demoralizing and disreputable, &c.
In the United States District Court at GAL
weston, Tex, in the case against theproprie-
tors of the Galveston Neavs, the attorney for de-
PENDANTS presented motion to quash the in
G. jtment for the following grounds:
First, the court has no jurisdiction in such
matter of contempt and such procedure on
the part of the court was contrary to
all law and practice Of the United States.
Second, That while the proprietors of the
Nes0s claimed the right and privilege to dis
cuss all questions before the court in which
the public were interested, yet in the article
referred to o.. law and higher law no discrepect
was intended to the court, as intimated in tn,
order OF arrest, nor waosany attempt made to
influence the case then pending in the court, or
to bring it into disrepute. During the proceed
ings, Judge Eallenger, counsel for Richard.
son, Blot 4 Co., expressed his desire to state
the legal points involved, bnt Judge Merrill
decided not to hear them, stating that he
would take the papers under advisement until
tomorrow morning. The qu' stion in his mind
first to be settled was, if the answer was sufi-
cient to show cause why an attachment for
contempt should not be issued. If it was, fur
Their proceedings would be unnecessary.
Another Atlantic cable has been complet-
Negotiations with the Indians for the possess
sion OF the Black Hills will be resumed in case
gold is found there.
BY recent decision of the Supreme Court,
funds belonging to Benevolent Societies have
been declared subject to taxation. In obedi-
ence TO this decision the board of equalization
Of this city has sent citations to each society
in the limit of Cincinnati, to show cause why
they should not he taxed on their money,
credits, etc. The Masons, Odd Fellows,
knights of Pythias, Red Men, and all other
secret societies, heretofore exempted on the
ground of charity and their seeming pubic
benefit, have been included in thesummons.
In the United States supreme Court at Wash
ington, June 9th, in the case of the Erie
railroad company, plaintiff in error, VS. the
Commonwealth OF Per nsylvania in error, to
The Supreme Court Of the Commonwealth
Pennsylvania, Justice Hunt delivered the
opinion of the Court, in substance as follows:
The question in this case is that of the right
and Intention of the State of Pennsylvania to
impose a tax on the gross receipts Of the Erie
Railway Company. In day, 1868,
the Legi,latu of that State
passed an act, by the 9Th
section of which there was imposed tax OF
three-fourths of one per cent upon the gross
receipts of every railway company and canal
and transportation company, liable to