The Grange advance., 1876-07-19

MIR. Morrill's acceptance of the
Treasury secretaryship created a va.
cancy in the Senate which has been Of
fered to and accepted by Mr.. Blaine.
No applications have yet made
for the post leadership at Little Big
Horn. Those w}.o want tradersllips
would prefer to go there in a big
horn.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean would
make pun on its own funeral, should
the world be so fortunate as to lose it.
It says Clusters LAST charge was clear
case of Sioux-icide.,
A Massachusetts farmer prophet
says August, like July, will be warm
that September will be like August un-
til the 10th. after WHICH the. weather
will be decidedly cool, but politics will
be red hot.
The Hartford base ball club has
beaten the crack(ed) Chicago club,
and Chicago has got so mad that she
threatens to burn again in order to get
satisfaction out Of Hartford's s insur.
ance companies.
Sitting Bull bellies his name. He
don't sit around much but prances up
and down the Yellowstone country,
and has so far surprised those who
have attempted to take him by the
horns Big and Little Big:
The old world heartily recognized
our centennial anniversary, excepting
old England, and she sat and looked
on with folded arms and maintained
respectful quiet. By the time another
hundred years rolls round she will be
ready to shake hands.
The North Adams shoe manufacturer
denies that he has abandoned Chinese
labor. On the contrary he finds the
Mongolians as profitable as he expected,
and declines to change even in view
of the destitution existing among the
American laborers in that town.
Last week, while New York stats.
ticians were spreading broadcast over
the land the statement that that city
during the past year had spent an as
tonishing number of millions. in char:
ity, an old man was found in wretched
tenement house starved to death and
four young children but just alive.
The Chicago suicide who first took
cup of cold poison, then stabbed and
shot himself in the body, after which
he cut his throat and swung himself
off a butter tub to strangle his last
breath, was determined to endure the
horrors Of five kinds of death, al
though he had but one death to die.
The joker who some years ago offer
eda life annuity to the collector of
100000 old postage stamps, has been
brought to time by the. young girl in
New York who has been frequently
mentioned in the newspapers as being
after the prize. The old curmudgeon
was as good as his word and the girl
is correspondingly happy.
The total contributions thus far re
ceived for the printers monument to
Horace Greeley amounts to So, ,233.76.
1t was proposed to make the monu-
ment of type metal, but as that would
not stand the weather bronze bust
has been decided upon and will be
ready September lst. The heavy stone
work has been completed.
There is very general demand that
the government shall not now pause
to discuss the peace policy, in dealing
with the hostile Sioux, but go on with
out a days delay and give them final
punishment. Let the punishment be
such that no fears need ever again be
entertained that these Sswards Of the
nation will leave their reservation to
forage from the public domain.
Gen. Rosser writes as follows to the
Minneapolis Tribune: II knew Gen.
Custer we'll have known him intima-
tely from boyhood, and, being ON op-
posite sides during. the late war, we
often met and measured strength on
the fields of Virginia, and I can truly
say now that neversemet~ a~more en-
terprising, gallant, or dangerous an
enemy during those four years of terri