The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-15

ing.-Lanc sster Eurnaer.
In Georgia, National Lecturer Smed-
ley has made appointments to lecture on
June l. Calhoun, Gordon County; 2.
Rome, Floyd County; ;. Social Circle;
Georgia Railroad, Rutland Grange, Bibb
County; 9, Albany. Dougherty County
8, Waynesboro, Burke County; 8,
Thompson, McDuffie County; 10 near
Augusta. \ number OF oranges met in
GAINESVILLE lew days ago to organize a
co operative grange association. The
Middle Georgia Pomona Grange was or
ganized at Griffin, My 4, Hargett
Grange, Harris County, is in prosper
Gus condition.
In Indiana, Harrodsburg and Buena
Vista oranges, in Monroe county, Pop
corn, Emmett, and Guthrie oranges in
Lawrence county ard Bethel Grange in
Green county, have established a coop
trative store at Harrodsburg, and are
doiny a fine business. The grangers in
Jefferson county are not doing much it
is thought that good lecturer visiting
them might succeed in infusing some
rev life into them. Bath grange is
thinking Of building hall. Mount Car
mels new hall, model Of excellence,
cost S2,7O3 Turtle Creek reports won
dertul progress. Whitcomb's new hail
will be 4Ox22 feet. Springfield is bui d.
ing a hall. A new grange has been or
ganized in NJ nroe county.
IN Missouri the grange at Spring Hill
and seven other oranges were addressed
by the Master of the State Grange a
short time ago after the meeting har-
vest least was held, the dinner table be-
ing one hundred and eighteen feet long.
Spring Hill Grange has started paper
edited by members and read in the grange
for the good of the order. The grange
a. New Garden. r y county, is in very
prosperous condition, numbering about
two hundred members and new members
constantly coming in; the members buy
all their groceries and most of their dry
goods at St. Louis; they have no store
house yet, but intend to build one the
coming autumn Luster is principally
composed OF Germans, who are waiting
for the ritual printed in that language.
The lecturers in the following counties
report the oranges visited by them to be
in generally good condition: Pike,
Usage, Knox, Polk, Cass, and Charlton.
The Nordway county grange, at Marys-
Vile is ready tor business. The patrons
at Lincoln are talking Of building hail,
with store underneath.
The New York World, in reviewing
the foreign mission of Bro J. ". A.
Wright, the special commissioner of the
National Grange says that it has from
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ton that the benefit to be derived from
such :. mission US that which Brother
Wright has undertaken and discharged
with such singleness Of aim and thought
devotion, must in large measure he in
direct and not easily appreciable by the
mass of observers. The conditions OF
the agricultural communities in the two
countries differ SO widely that the grange
is not an absolute necessity in Europe.
or, if it were, could hardly be organized
by the class whose members would de-
rive and benefit from it, or if it could
would be inevitably misrepresented and
unjustly suspected Nor is The World
altogether certain that direct trade
however fascinating a picture may b.
drawn of Its possible extent and probable
) advantages, really offers such immense
benefits not attainable through other
methods. At the same time there Is nc
earthly objection to trying to obtain them
aud trying hard.
4 gentleman who returned at once
from Europe with his family instead Of
staying there several years AS proposed
was asked the cause of this change ol
programme. Coloring to the very roots
OF his hair he exclaimed ITO live now
, in Europe is intolerabe to an American
citizen of any self respect. Every Amer
, lean is there deemed scoundrel unit
he demonstrates his claim to be other
wise considered" This is true. 1t is
, comfort to know that other nations have
gone through such floods of corruption
as We see around us without entire de
structon. For instances, two hundre,
years ago similar epidemic of lyin:
; and stealing swept over France; an,
! there was \ most extravagant parade .
: ill-got.en gain. But the government
was strong enough and brave enough I.
stay the tide Louis Blame SAYS tina
strong edicts were passed to punisi
:, fraud. The preamble to one says: SIS
: pectcd fortunes are to be controlled
= their origin to be sought for and ,iiseov
cred. Every one who has touched til
public property. from the proud accom-
: plices OF Fouquet. to the lowest tax
II collector. must furnish sworn state
/ ment Of his property. OF the inherisanc
II he has received. and OF the sums give
e by him in marriage to his children.
!. This inauguration OF good Order a,
n rested a general bankruptcy. A hun
: ,lred and ten millions, restored BY tn
$ farmers OF the revenue. re-entered til
q treasury; spectators who had enriche
q themselves by the public distress, tnos
:, who mad purchasedthe oc,rois at traud
. ulent price. false creditors, were sacri
II feed to state they We're devourin g.
/ Patrons Helper.
EFFECT OF C.sLD ON MuK.-The 81
u fecis OF low temperature on milk hav
J been carefully examined BY NJ. Eus
Q TiSserand. who recently communicate
8 ms observations 10 the Academic de-