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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

The Territorial Grange will meet at Sler-
idan, Wednesday, June 7th, and it is highly
important that all the Oranges be represent
ed. This time has been selected as it was
believed it would best suit the convenience
of the farmers generally. tits just between
seedtime and irrigating, a season when there
is less work to do than any other, unless it
is winter, and that season is not considered
suitable, as it would render the attendance
of ladies very uncertain. Then the first of
June is about the beginning of the business
season OF the year, a proper time for the
consideration of business arrangements.
Since but little has been done in this direc-
ton by the Territorial Grange, it is fair to
presume that important measures will be
considered. Let every Grange take this
matter into consideration at once, and see to
it that their representatives are on hand.
The Masters should attend if possible. If
it is impossible for any of them to do so,
they should notify their Oranges in time,
that they may send some other member to
represent their interests. We would also
urge upon the sisters the Importance of their
presence. Their influence for good cannot
be over estimated. Let all members who
can, attend, and lend their influence to per-
petuate the principles of harmony and broth
erly love throughout our whole order, that
its mission of elevating the farmers life may
not be in vain.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

WOMEN IN THE GRANGE RooM.-The ben
efits resulting from the union and equality
of sexes in the grange room are incalculable.
1t is the tendency Of ignorance in every
sphere of life to underyalue the influence
of woman, and perhaps no one class of peo-
pie are more open to censure on this account
than farmers. They seem to think that the
influence of their wives and daughters should
not extend beyond the kitchen and dairy.
But the grangers lift woman to an equality
in all the practical affairs of life and BUSH
ness, give her a personal interest in the
homestead and farm, and thus perform for
her far more than has ever been effected by
the female suffrage societies in the world.
Besides, the presence Of woman in the grange
room imparts to it a refinement and grace
that would otherwise be wanting United
States Economist.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

as we are to have Senators and congressman
anxious to favor trainers, it is important
that they should go the right way to work.
Such petty legislation as appointing one
commissioner at a small salary to do work
sufficient for a dozen or fifty men von't
gain aught, except ridicule and con-
tempt. IfSenators want to really do one
act which will give unbounded satisfaction,
let them take the cheap postage bill as it
passed Congress and adoptt without de-
lay. Nobody but the stockholders of ex-
press companies could find fault with such
an act as that.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

STATUS OF THE GRANGE.-The last report
of the National Grange of Patrons of Hus-
bandry, shows that the order contains a tri-
file over "a, 1000 Oranges with a membership
estimated at $780, 00. Of these about 7OO,-
900 are women. The minimum age is Is,
but a proposition has recently been made to
establish a subordinate degree of the order
the Cadets of Husbandry-so as to letin
young men down to the age of IA. In the
south and west the Grange is practically
identical with the agricultural population.
In the east, where the agriculturists feel less
powerfully the need of union and co-opera-
ton, the order is not so strong numerically.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04
THE FARMERS DAUGHTER.
BY ANNIE L. JACK.

She lives within q quiet home
No model of the graces,
Unknown to cultures higher walks,
Or fashions gildy places;
A thoughtful girl, so sweet, SO wise
With earnest face and loving eyes
The farmers gentle daughter.
From morn till eve the little maid
Is busy at herlabor-
She sweeps and dusts the old farm house
And helps q poorer neighbor;
No gossip will she listen to
Ca merit rare, / own to you)
So lives the farmers daughter.
On baking days her tiny fingers
Are busy at the making,
No bread more light and sweet than hers
Wa ever made by baking;
She churns the butter golden, sweet,
And keeps the dairy white and neat
TIL farmers useful daughter.
Fer garden is an Eden fair,
A bloom with pinks and roses,
She knows the name Of every flower
And makes some gorgeous posies;
Grows peas, and radishes, and crcss,
And corn, and squash, and herbs to press
The farmers happy daughter.
Long may she bravely smile on us,
Our darling household fairy,
The queen of garden, house and lot,
And princes of the dairy;
To teach us by her pleasant way
To love the things of every day
God bless the Farmers Daughter.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

California State Grange States that the
Order has sayed millions to her people, and
that the future will show still greater re-
suits for their good, and reports a steady
progress in every department of Agricultur-
nj productions, with great improvements in
the Manner of farming.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04
OF H~USBANDRY.

WE cheerfhlly invite members of our Order to
contribute to this department. Short, pointed arti-
cies for the good of the Order, news of its progress,
cooperative business plans, educational interests,
etc. , especially solicited.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

ult. 1t was very gratifying to US all TO mt
a perfect agreement in the convention as &c
the proposed plan of business agencies. The
Executive Committee of the State Grange
Of Louisiana met in New Orleans, by special
request. You will receive soon, if you have
not. the proceedings of that meeting, from
which you will see they are equally agreed
upon the necessity Of a uniform system in
our business agencies, and heartily concur in
the plan proposed. New Orleans being q
GREAT commercial center. it was suggested
that it would be necessary to have a pur-
chasing agency and a selling agency distinct
from each other, and a separate agency TOT
each of the great commercial staples. This
n~ecessity was felt by the Committee in view
| of the adoption of their agencies by all the
States, but having entered into covenants
with MIR. Wetmore as the sole agent for
Louisiana, they could not appoint others
until the expiration of their contract with
him.
The Louisiana committee concurred with
the St. Louis convention as to the expectancy
of another Convention of the Executive
Committees of all the States, and suggested
Philadelphia as the place and the 10th OF
July, 1876, as the time for holding the next
convention. The $50, 100000 saved to the
farmers last year by our business agencies,
and the experience Of the imperfection of our
present system, gives assurance OF vastly
larger success, with that unity which will,
doubtless be established by a meeting OF the
Executive Committees Ofthe States.
l had a very interesting correspondence
with Col. Smedley, now the National
Grange Lecturer, when master, OF the State
Grange of Iowa, before our State Grange
had an existence. / have met him every
year since at the session of our National
Grange. He is truly a representative man
of our Order ofthe farmers of the Northwest
la rge-hearted, liberal, free from sectional
prejudices or %jealousies, speaking the same
sentiments North andSouth, East and West.
He will be making a tour of u State in
very busy season with the farmers, but
trust they will give II day to him.
and not only welcome him, but warrant
him in giving assurance to our brothers and
ALL good people of the great Northwest who
may be tired battling with the rigors OF
their winters and the ravages of the grass.
hoppers, of a cordial welcome to our more
genial climate.
/ also send you for publication proclama-
ton for the ratification OF Nos. l, 5, 4, s, 6,
Z, 10, Is and IA ofthe amendments proposed
at the last session of the National Grange.
Nos. 2, s, 8 and II are in doubt, n No. IL
has been rejected. One more vote will Sc
cure the ratification of No. 2. The balance
may be defeated by the action of the seven
State Oranges to be heard from, five Of which
will not meet before neXt December. AS
many of the members may not have pre-
served the printed copies furnished them, it
would be well to publish them with the
proclamation. F%raternally yours,
.JOuN TT. .JONES
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

TERRITORIAL GRANGE OF MONTANA.
MAsTER-BRIGHAM REED, Bozeman,
Gallatin County,
OvERsEER-G. W. BATTERTON, Deer
Lodge City, Deer Lodge County.
LECTURER-A. MYERS, Helena, Lewis and
Clark County.
STEWARD. G. LANGDON, Nevada City,
Madison County.
ASSISTANT STEWARD-J. UNDERWOOD,
Boulder, Jefferson County.
CHAPLAIN-G. III. OLDHAM, Beaver Creek,
rs sensps1n oGHn 4. MOOD, Bozeman, Gal
latin County.
~SrcRErARy-J. d. McCAMMON, Bozeman,
Gallatin County.
GATE KEEPER-W. M. WALLACE, New
Chicago, Deer Lodge County.
CEREs-MRS. G. w. BAT'rERTON, Deer
Lodge City, Deer Lodge County.
PoMONA-MRS. JNO. CULVER, RAIDERS
burg, Jefferson County.
FLoRA-MRS. A. w. SWITZER, Virginia
City, Madison County.
LADY ASSISTANT STEwAND-MRS. J. G..
LANGDON, Nevada City, Madison Co.
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BOHEMIAN, March %, 1876.

BOHEMIAN, March %, 1876.
TO Patrons:
I am in receipt of a number Of Patrons Pocket
Companions, ,, which / can furnish to Patrons, pre-
paid by mail, for f~orty-six cents.
j. ID. McCAMON,
Secretary Territorial Grange.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

A. b. SMEDLEY, Lecturer of the National
says: When I see a man of reason intelli
gence attend his Grange for years and lis
tenlng to the most interesting discussions on
fruit-culture and tree-planting, and then Wis
It his place and not find as much as a cur
rem bush, and not a tree to break the cold
winter wind, feel as though l wanted n
import from South America a small earth
quake to stir him out of the old rut and
make him adopt a more advanced method"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-04

PRACTICAL AND SENsIBLE.-The Vermont
State Grange, at its annual session for 1875,
adopted the following:
Resolued, That the State Grange earnestly
recommends to the subordinate CT. nges in
the State to use their influence to settle all
differences that may arise among their menu
bers, by the selection of three or more dis
interested member of the grange, whose de
clsion in the matter shall be final between
the parties.
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COMMITTEE.

BRIGHAM REED, Bozeman, Gallatin Co.
q. w. WAKEFIELD, ::
DAVID BURT, New Chicago, Deer Lodge
County.
r. B. MILLS, Boulder Valley, Jefferson, Go.
A. w. SWITZER, Virginia City, Madison
County.
w. M. WALLACE, New Chicago, Deer
Lodge County.
A. T. BURNS, Helena, Lewis and Clark Co.
DISTRICT DEPUTIES.
LIST District-DAvID BURT.
I'd DISTRICT. JONES. .
3D. District-P. b. MILLS.
4th District-A. w. SwITzER.
9Th DISTRICT. O. HOPPING.
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Y.
NATIONAL

NATIONAL GRANGE.
MAsTER-JOHN T. JONES, Arkansas.
SECRETARY-O. III. KELLY, Louisville, Ky.
TREAsURER-F. M. MCDOWELL. n. Y.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

IT Is STRANGE, but nevertheless true,
that, while the people of the North became
instantly aroused to the enormity of ex-
Confederate power in the House when the
amnesty debate revived the horrible men,
ories Of Andersonville, they remain appar-
emily calm and ignorant of the worse
atrocities now being committed in Missis-
sippi and Louisiana. The facts show that
the Ku-Klux and White League depreda-
tons in those and other Southern States
equaled, if they did not exceed, the un-
civilized brutality and criminality of the
treatment of Union prisoners by therCon-
federate authorities, but they failed to
attract widespread attention, except in the
localities wherein the victims resided. 1t
is possible, however, that the impeach-
ment Of Governors Ames and kellogg will
serve to open the public eye to the untor-
tunate results which have followed so fast
upon the apathy of the North regarding
the Southern question. These acts speak
palmer than words the determination of
the revolutionary Southern Democracy to
seize, overthrow and hold the governments
of their States, no matter at what risk.
Yet, in the face of this determination, the
doughfaces In the House listen approvingly
to the gush Of such men as Lamar, and at
the same time Republican Senate hest
tates to give Governor Pinchback the seat
in that body to which he was legally
elected. These are facts which show the
certain, though gradual, encroachment of
Confederate power, and, correspondingly.
the waning vigor of Republican strength.
National Republican., 1876-02-28
The 22d IN CHARLESTON, S. C.

Waslington's birthday was the occasion
for the assembling at Charleston, S. c., of
the broken down aristocracy from divers
the cradle Of secession, ostensibly to
honor the natal day Of the great American,
but in reality to brood over their lost for
tunes and heap abuse upon the loyal North.
Wade Hampton was to have been the orator
Of the occasion, but by some mishap the
man whom "Southerners most love to
honor" was sway ofT in Mississippi, and
could not put in an appearance. Perhaps
he was looking over the political fields in
that State, with view to carrying out the
Gordon. Lamar policy in South Carolina
this fall, or he may have only gone there
to shed tear upon the graves of the hun
Greds Of slaves whom he buried from his
cotton plantations prior to the war. At all
events, an orator for the Charleston cele-
bration had to be improvised, and one
Major 7. G. Barker, turbulent malcon-
tent, harangued the crowd. After dwell
ing with great JUNCTION upon the valor and
prowess of the old Hampton legion, and of
Southern soldiers generally, the gifted
orator thus expressed himself in regard to
colonial times;
at cannot be denied that in so far as the
tyrRnnies Of the English Crown were the pro-
ducing causes which provoked the great re-
bellion of the Colonies in l716, we, at this day,
are too far removed from the apprehensions
and irritations of that time to be able to esti-
mate the achievement of American Ipdepep
dence as highly as did those who had felt the
pressure Of those irritations and apprehen-
sions, and who realized in the establishment
Of the nationality of the United States a sure
agis for the protection of the substantial lib
critics Of the pnnn1-. In reviewing. therefore,
the memories Of Washington and his time, ws
eARnpt Nc expected 70 rejoice because OF al
National Republican., 1876-02-28

JU>T NOW the Georgians are busying
themselves about their next Governor.
Governor Smith, it is generally conceded,
will be sent TO the United States Senate to
succeed Norwood. Herschel V. Johnson
is the fire-eaters' candidate, and has ex-
pressed a willingness to take the field, \.
Ii. Colquit, late potential gubernatorial
candidate, has been laid on the shell, be-
cause Of the failure, under suspicious Cir
Cumsiances, of the Southern Life Insur-
ance Company, Of which he and Gordon
were prominent officers. John H. James,
an Atlanta capitalist, is also in the field,
and hopes to be safely taken over the course
by the use Of his money. Hardeman,
GartreU, James r. Randall, of the Con.ti-
futjoHaEist, W. I. Wofford and Ben Hill
are likewise casting longing glances in
that direction. Meanwhile the Georgia
Republicans should be on the alert, and be
ready to give their votes solidly for eX-
Governor James johnson or some other
good man for that position.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

IH ANOTHER COLUMN We print call for
preliminary meetings to select delegates
from this District TO the national conEen-
tlcn Of coloreL citizens, which is TO be
held at Nashville on the 9TH of April next.
Ii is 10 be hoped that these preliminary
meetings will be well attended, and that
delegations to the general District conven-
ton will be selected from among the best
classes of cur colOred citizens. The Nash.
vile convention will naturally attract con-
siderable attention, and the selection of its
members should be intc.ligently made. Its
action cannot fail to have more or less di-
rec: effect upon the Cincinnati convention,
AID indirectly upon the impending ma
tional campaign. Let omr cOlorcd friends
see TO it that they are creditabiy repre-
scented by men who will fully appreciate
the dignity and importance OF the occa-
sion.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

THE Washington Tribune having failed
as 4 cooperative enterprise, and also as the
organ of disreputable Democratic black
mailers, has now passed into respectable
hands, and will be issued under the pat.
rorage of the Sunday Herald. Messrs.
Burritt, Kalbfus and Talcott, the new pro-
prietors, are well and favorably known in
the city and District as gentlemen who
have filled various positions in the profes-
sioa Of journalism in an acceptable man
ner That they Will print sterling Dem
ocratic journal in the future is assured by
the fact that the Tribune will hereafter be
is1Ied from the S"nday Herald Office, with
the prospect, as we learn, that it may even
tualjy take position as the regular daily
issue Of that sheet.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

SPEAKING of the re- election of Judge J.
W. G. Smith, to be judge of the Hastings
Court of Sraunton, the Valley VirginiaD
slys:
'.Tlis is Judge Smiths second term, ana
the fact that there was no opposition to his
reelection is evidence that the duties of the
position have been discharged TO the satisfac-
iior OF one of the shlest bars in the Common
wealth -
National Republican., 1876-02-28

THE report of the minority of the COM
mite of the Mississippi Legislature on the
question of the impeachment Of Gov. Ames
will be found in another column and will
repay perusal. Ii furnishes a succinct de-
fensc Of Gov. AmeS course, and at the same
time shows the shameless manner in which
his political enemies have succeeded in
placing him before the country in the false
attitude of having violated the laws.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

We received, about week ago, postal
card on which was written the inquiry:
% Why don't you give us the news? The
New York papers are filed with informa-
ton about stormy times and ruptures in
the Cabinet. Are you afraid to print
such matter in your columns: If so,
you compel us to go away from home to
" get the news" We submit that this in.
quiry is now sufficiently answered, and we
merely refer to it now as an illustration of
the unreliability of the news which is sent
"home" by imaginative correspondents.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

IRIS NOT improbable, in view of recent
facts. that the predictions OF the NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN about year ago, that the
White Lirers of Louisiana would ignore
and violste the Wheeler Compromise,
would prove to he mighty interesting
reading certain members of the minor
ity of the House. We refrain from saying
to Messrs Blaine and Foster 1--WE told
vaIr coi"
National Republican., 1876-02-28
DanRiu MAX

To the Editor Of The National Republican:
SIR: We read in the Scriptures that satan
transforms himself into angel OF light; that Is
while q liar and slanderer, he is likewise a
hypocrits. Under the guiss Of virtue he pursues
his hellish work. We know that Conway has
been trying to prove lately that there Is no per-
sOnal deVil. The cause ef this Is, hs usysg met
National Republican., 1876-02-28

IT SEEMS from information printed in
our news columns that the Big Bonanza
and Consolidated Virginia mines will soon
lie able to 'furn cut $1,000 600 per
month, forty per cent. of which, or ST.
uOO OC0, will be in gold.
National Republican., 1876-02-28

From the morning of the world, when the
provoking apple-tree yeXed the mind of the
first gentlcwoman, Eve, down to the practical
present, great questions have periodically
arisen to agitate the public mind. Passing
over those minor matters of material and in
tellectual philosophy which we're finally set at
rest by Galileo, Harvey, Sir Isaac Newton and
the Cock Lane Ghost, we come to the mooted
questions of later days--who killed Cock
Robin who struck Mr.. Patterson: where Is
Charley Ross who is "Jim" Bennett going to
marry: where will the Pope 60 when he leaves
Rome! and what was the original color of
Mise Kate Stanton's hair: These questions
have become matters of grave import, and es-
pecially the latter. From the time when that
blonde, Ixion, who stands at the wheel of the
"rag baby bark, burst into the rostrum
wrapped in eloquence and be auty ,and crowned
with the tawny splendor of her burning tresses,
the abashed brunettes have looked on and
wondered. Envy, with her hundred tongues,
whispered "L'Aurellene," which fashion tells
us is the name of the liquid gold in which the
once bewitching Cora Pearl bathed her dark
locks when she descended on Paris to renew
her empire in a golden mist. Miss. Stanton,
however. like the indomitable lady OF legend
ary fame who went down beneath the dark
waters crying "Scissors ~ will not be ranked
among the counterfeits who assume virtue
nature gave them not. Possessing a ready
and restless pen, she is as quick as Popss Be-
linda to draw her deadly bodkin to avenge even
word that impugns the integrity of
her golden locks. Her hair is not, she says,
rosy fiction, as &c. II. b. gently intimated
in the Sunday Herald, of her histrionic half
sisters, but worn from the cradle, and to the
grave will she bear it. The light in the eyes
of woman is lovely in all its moods, and our
cotemporary's brilliant contributor will
doubtless accept the correction and tenderly
kiss the hand which leads him on to-dye.
However, let US mix all this with admoni-
tion DUE" To those bewitching artistes OF
the stage or lecture-room who are in the early
blossom Of their youth we would commend
wise reticence and non-committal platform
on the subject of their hair. In Paris, :he
capital Of art, the brunettes are catching now
the brdrds of the Boulevards, and Manager
Ford, determined to be behind none in any
branch of art-brown, black or blue-is said
to have already instructed his Italian agent to
ship cargo of those sun-scarred beauties to
our shores. Our people are versatile and
tickle, and the hour may not be far distant
when the artists who have bleached their nut
brown tresses will gnssh their teeth at the
fickleness of Fashion.
National Republican., 1876-02-28
MONDAY MORNINe:::::::EEBRuARY s. Is:

SATURDAY in the House of Representa-
tivcs was formerly known as "bloviating
day" but here comes the Greensboro On.
c. NeU North State and characterizes it
as "Countryman' day" This is ard
National Republican., 1876-02-28
Nav Yuhlieatioul.

"Pocket Manual Rules Of Order for Delib-
erative Assemblies" By Major Henry NJ Rob
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cago, III. For sale by c. c. Pursell.