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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-29
Commercial.

Business continues very quiet as a general
thing, as the receipts OF commodities most in
demand are slim. few lots OF dressed beef
are offering, and meet with ready sale at SIC
for sides OF good qualities of light COWS and
heiters, and exc for hind quarters. Dressed
hogs are little of, with small receipts. At
the outside 8Hc is offered. Poultry, if good
and fresh, is firm. Turkeys sold to-day at IL
@l2c in lots for good to choice; chickens at
12Hc; ducks (tamel at 12Xc.
In grain there is no marked change; bust
ness is dull for all descriptions. Corn sells to
dealers sparingly at 36@a6 Kc for bulk lots on
track, and at 37z@35c to consumers, free on
board cars. Oats are in fair demand at SEQ
s2Hc, buying price; little is selling and quo.
tations are somewhat nominal.
In mill stuff very little is doing, and 70 rmer
quotations for both bran and ground feed rule
the market to day. Purchasers are buying
the very best of Iowa iced at $l9, free on
board cars.
The demand for shipping grades Of butter is
considerably improved, and receipts are a
trifle larger, though still small, as compared
with the usual supply. Good firkins, suitable
for hotel and boarding house use, are saleable
at 1S@2Oc; common store. packed firkins at
log 16c; choice grades are still wanted at %
@25c.
The receipts of Eggs are quite large, and the
demand appears to be increasing; at all events
brisk sales are making at l3X@l4c, and these
figures are believed to be the lowest (as well as
| the highest) at which wholesale sales have
been made the last two or three days.
CHICAGO, March 24.-Wheat unsettled and
lower at $l.oe% cash, 81 OK for April and
Sl.o7N for May. Corn strong and shade
higher at 46xc cash and 40 &c for May. Oats
frmer at S4X@5ec for May. Barley firm at
! $40 for April.
MILWAUKEE,, March 24.-Wheat steady at
$1.n4 for No. hard; e1.o4 for No. 2; 91xc
for No. 8; $l.04k seller April AID s1.0sx sell
Ter May; receipts $4,000 bushels; shipments
1000. Corn firm at 47c for No. 2. Oats steady
at 32Xc for No. 2. Rye finn at 72c for No. /.
Barley unsettled at 7ec Tor No. 2.
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MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

The scarlet fever is raging in Freeborn
county.
IT is estimated that $4,000, 900 feet #
logs were cut the past winter in the Rum
river pinerics.
FULL advantage of the recent fall of
snow was taken by the lumbermen to
haul their cut of logs to the streams.
The bondsmen Of TIT defaulting trea.
surer Hassenstab of Carver county. have
settled with the county, paying therefor
the sum OF 81. 900. go:
OK the night of the 18th inst, two
farmers named Bracken and Lark,n who
had visited Princeton that dav, ane be-
tween whom unfriendly feelings existed.
started to go home together. when short.
~ afterwards Bracken was found in a half
frozen condition and terribly beaten
about the head, face and body-hayinr
apparently been nearly kicked to death
Larkin has been arrested and sent to Jail
in default of 81 900 bail.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the U. S. Treasury
says there is no truth in the report that the
owner of silver mine has made propositions
to furnish the treasury with sixty millions
worth of gold and silver within eighteen
months.
The House committee on appropria.
tons, the Goth, voted by to to refuse to
grant an additional appropriation of half a
million dollars to tbs government board
charged with preparing articles tor the several
departments for exhibition at the centennial.
The foreign relations committee of the
Senate, the 2lst, reported back the nomination
of Richard H. Dana, Jr., to be minister to Eng
land, with a recommendation that it be not
confirmed. It was placed on the calendar
with the adverse report, for future considera-
ton.
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New York Republicans.

At the New York Republican State
Convention the 2lst. \. B. Cornell, An
drew ID. White, Theo. NJ. Pomcroy and
James NJ. Matthews were appointed dele
gates at large to the national convention.
and E. A. Merritt, H. D. Garnett, Geo.
b. Sloan and Alfred G. Judson alternates.
The delegates named by list were: l..
3. Prince, Geo. VIM. Curtis, A. A. Low.
Stewart L. Woodford, VIM. Orion. Benia.
min X. Phelps, Dewitt G. Wheeler,
Thomas Murphy, Marshall o. Roberts,
Clarence A. Seward, E. D. Morgan, Geo.
0pdyke, VIM: II. Robinson, j. ". Hust.
ed, 5. Sanford, VIM. B. Woodin, W. L
Sessions.
The platform was adopted without OBJ
position. except the fifth and sixth reso
lutions, in which the name of Roscoe
Conkllng is presented as the choice Of
New York for Presidential candidate, and
guarantees beyond question the thirty
five electoral votes Of the State for him
IN case OF his nomination. 10 this Mr..
George W. Curtis offered a substitute,
leaving the delegates without instruction.
Mr.. Curtis made strong speech in sup
port of his substitute, but after long
and sharp debate it was rejected by yeas
ll3, nays 25O. The original resolution
was then adopted with dissenting voices.
The other resolutions declare for recon-
citation; preservation of results of the
war; grateful recognition of services of
| soldiers; retrenchment and reform; pun.
lshment Of dishonest officials; sound cur.
rency and preservation Of the national
credit; non-sectarian public schools; de.
nounces the Democratic party as being
the same in character and spirit as when
it sympathized with treason; invites the
independent voter to unite with them,
and praises Grant for protecting the ma
tional treasury and Furnishing public Of
fenders
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English and American slang.


A review in Scribner Cor April of Miss
Alcott's last book contains the following
in regard to ''s'ang:''
'"Miss Alcott has been so especially
condemned in England on this score, that
1t almost becomes necessary that her
fellow-countrymen should make her cause
matter for international protest. For
much Of the criticism is based on that
extraordinary theory of our British
cousins, that it is they alone who are en-
titled, as Parson Hug says, to make
filters Of English One would think
that child a hundred years old might
be entitled to some voice in arranging
his own vocabulary; but the theory
seems still to prevail in some
quarters, that all new Americanisms.
however indispensable are slang,
and all new Anglicisms. however,
uncouth are classic. A good
anecdote has lately crossed the ocean, of
an American girl who was playing croquet
in England last summer. What hor-
lid scratch ! said she Indignantly, when
her mallet once failed Of its duty and she
missed her shot. oh, my dear = said an
English cousin, you should not use such
slang expressions what should have
said! asked the American. You might
have said,' replied the English maiden,
after canvassing her vocabulary for
perfectly uncxceptionable phrasc-'you
might have said, "What beastly
Huke l'''"
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An execution quite out of the nsn., ~.

$3.50
der of legal destruction in this country is an
nounced TO take place at Salt Lake City on the
I'D OF June murderer is to be shot instead
OF hanged, the laws Of tll- Territory permitting
him the CHASTITY choice between these meth
DDS o:makinv his exit. -
"A historic pageant is proposed for the
opening ofthe centennial, to include scenes
and characters illustrating the discovery and
settlement OF the continent, colonial life. the
revolutionary war, the overland migration to
the Pacific, the late civil war and reconcilia-
ton at the two sections.
The decision of the Supreme Court that
the emisrant head monev laws of New York
are unconstitutional substantially abolishes the
New York board OF emigration, and will leave
the new comers who land at New York with
out protection unless the State concludes to
pay the expenses Of the commissioners.
It is reported from helena, Mt, that a
paper has been circulated and extensively
signed by the business men Of the place. pro.
testing against the people Of the territory vot.
ing aid to the Northern Pacific railway, claim
ing that such tax would be ruinous to the in
terests of the Territory, and calling on the
newspapers to oppose the subsidy.
The members of the Irish rifle associa.
ton have unanimously voted to accept the in.
vitation of the national rifle association of
America to compete for the championship of
the world. They have also agreed to chal-
lenge the Americans through the amateur
rifle clubs Of New York to shoot return
match at Cresdmore. in September, after the
centennial, match on the same terms a. the
Dallymount match.
A Cheyenne telegram, 2lst says, James
Allen arrived here from the Black Hills yes.
terday for supplies. He returns in lew DAYS.
He brings with him several hundred dollars
worth OF gold dust. He reports business in
the Black Hills lively. Over one hundred
teams have left here during the last three
days, loaded with passengers and freight.
The city is full OF men Quitting. A large
amount of transportation is awaiting passen-
gers. who arrive on every train.
The U. S. supreme court has decided
that the present county OF Laramie, in Wv.
oming territory is responsible tor the payment
OF the entire debt contracted by it previous to
the segregation from it OF two other counties.
This case has excited much interest, from the
reason that it is understood to involve the
same question that is now in controversy be-
tween the States Of Virginia and West Virginia
as to the liability Of the former as now consti-
tuted for the debts incurred by the old State
when it composed the whole of the territory
that was subsequently divided between them
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Snow Gentlemen Of the jury W
Come to the Jackass.s,

The ownership of dog was the subject
of litigation in Clarksville, KY, and there
was large attendance Of interested
c"untrymen at the trial. Great things
we're expected of the opposing lawyers,
Hurd and Dougall, who had been hired at
a great cost to come from Louisville.
Hurd was prompt, but Dougall was
delayed, and the Justice, being stickler
for punctua'ity, decided that
the case must go on. All
the evidence had been taken when
Dougall entered: "I'm afraid I'll have
to lose my fee,' he whispered to Hurd,
who responded, ''Oh, no; I'll give you the
points of the evidence in two minutes,
and you can sum up just as we'll as
though you had been here from the
start" Thereupon Hurd told him that
the trouble was about trade
of dog for jackass, and pretended to
give him the particulars. The audience
was impatient during the whispering, and
was deeply attentive to the eratory when
it began. Dougall glowingly described
the qualities of the dog, told affecting
stories of his sagacity, and wrought his
hearers up to high pitch Of enthusiasm.
Then he paused, wiped his heated brow,
and said, solemnly. "Now, gentleman of
the Jury We come to the jackass." "Eh!"
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THE, NEWS RECORD,
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

. The self confessed whisky thieves OF
Chicago was swelled by one, Monday, the
2oth. B. II. Miller pleading guilty to- two
counts in the indictment against him. The
case ofRush & Pahlman, -ho will stand trial,
will come up "Wednesday.
The trial of Jacob Nunnemacher for de
frauding the revenue, in the ooncealment and
removal Of spirits, ETC., is in progress at Mil
waukee. Nunnenacher is an old and wealthy
citizen, the towner Of the Opera House and
several other large blocks in that city.
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A Pygmy Graveyard i'm Tennessee.
Woodbury. (Tenn.) Press.l

An ancient graveyard of vast proper
tons has been found in Coffee county. It
is similar to those found in White county
and other places in Tennessee, but is
vastly more extensive, and shows that
the race of pygmies who once inhabited
this country were very numerous. The
same peculiarities of position observed in
the White county graves are found in
these. The writer of the letter says -
*'Some considerable excitement and curl.
osity took place few days since near
Hillsboro, Coffee county, on James
Browns farm. A man was pioughing in
a field which has been cultivated many
years, ploughing up mans skull and
other bones. After making further ex.
animation they found that there were
about six acres in the graveyard. They
were buried in sitting or standing posi-
ton. Their bones show that they were
= dwarf race Of people, about three
feet high. 1t is estimated that there were
about $4,000 to 100000 buried there.
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said the Justice. SNOW the orator r..
peated, with impressive emphasis, I'VE
come to the jackass. "You are the first
jaekass We heard of in this case, > and On
outburst Of laughter informed Douoaii
how badly he had been sold. On The
way to Louisville he said to Hurd: II
shall make m earnest effort not to kin vo,,
if you will promise never to mention this
case;;" but Hurd said he would risk h;s
life rather than not tell.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-29
POLlTICAI..

The name of VIM. B. Beach, lawyer Of
Providence, has been placed on the Rhode
Island Democratic ticket tor governor, in the
place of Gen! Cooke, who declined the nomi.
nation.
The Tennessee State Democratic exec,
utive committee met the 23d and called two
conventions, one May slst, to appoint delegate
to the general convention, and the other Au.
gust 9th, to nominate for Governor and the
electoral ticket.
The House committee of ways and
means have commenced the consideration OF
Morrson's tariff bill, and it is said there is less
disposition to disagree about perfecting the
bill than was anticipated. Morrison is said to
be sanguine that the bill when perfected by
the committee will pass the House.
A memorial signed by the officers and
members Of the Massachusetts, Legislature ire
spective OF party, and by leading members OF
the bar of Boston, asking the U. S. Senate to
confirm the nomination of Hon. r. H. Dana,
Jr., as minister to England, has been forward
ed to Senators Boutwell, and Dawes.
Secretary Bristow was before the Con-
gressional committee the Goth, in relation ia
the charge of his having lobbied an unjust
mule claim to payment. The Secretary pre-
scented documentary evidence showing that
when the claim was presented and granted he
had no connection with the government, and
that all he had to do with it was to argue it be-
fore the court of claims for which he received
fee Of 10 per cent, an amount which he had
been told was below the usual fees in sucl,
cases.
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GENERAL MATTERS.

Counterfeit IS on the Merchants Ma
t|onal Bank of tiew Bedford, Mass, have ap-
peared in Philadelphia, and several arrests of
parties passing it have been made.
A fire at Jackson, La, the night of
the 22d, destroyed the greater por-
ton Of the business part of the town. Loss
$4,000 to $4,000 with only $1,000 insur-
ance.
The New York Herald says that the
Moody and Sankey meetings at the Hippo
drome are largely increasing the number Of
religious maniacs, new cases being reported
every day.
A Helena, Mt, telegram of the 2lst
says Gen. John Gibbon and the military had
reached that place en- route for the Yellowstone
country, to bring the Indians of that section
into subsection.
The Davenport & St. Paul railroad. sold
the 2sd to satisfy the mortgage of the German
bondholders, was purchased by r. H. Myer
or the bondholders The sale was for halt a
million dollars.
The directors Of the St. Paul railway.
at meeting held the a2d, directed the pay
ment of dividend on preferred stock on and
after March oath, irstead of April 10th, as
previously announced.
The sewing machine monopoly is be.
]ieved to have received its fatal wound in the
refusal Of Congress to extend the patent for
''the four motion feed" owned by the Wheel
er & Wilson and Wilcox & Gibbs companies.
| 1t is thought at Fort Berthold that
Sitting Bull and his 1900 warriors will fly he.
lore the advancing troops to the Wind Rive,
mountains, where they can defend themselves
against large forces as long as the, game and
grass holds out.
New York rivals Boston in furnishing
lawyer named Barrett, who has fled to Eu
rope and is accused of forgery and embezzle,
ment to an unknown amount. The Living
stone estate, for which Barrett was trustee
loses about $4,000.
The U. S. Supreme Court has decided
: the law of New York, known as the passenger
law: regulating the conditions for the landin,
and care OF immigrants in transitu, unconsti
, tutional, such regulations devolving upon til.
general government.
/ Propositions for general amnesty 70,
all acts committed during the reign of the
commune were introduced in both chamber.
Of the French assembly the 2lst. The PROPOSE
ton was voted urgent amid much ex
element.
Milwaukee, Chicago and points East
and West were visited by severe storm O
snow and sleet Friday the oath
At Milwaukee snow fell to the
) depth: of . foot. The telegraph wires be
tween that city and Chicago were Frustrated BY
the weight Of snow.
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Mark TTSHain,s References

Mark Twain made up his mind that he
must marry, and that no one else but that
particular girl could be Mrs. Twain. He
set about that courtship in his usual slow,
deliberate, drawing fashion, because
Mark TWAIN, in the conception and exc.
cution OF every piece Of business, rates
far above the mere literary adventure. He
is man Of inscrutable depth. He goes
for his game in the most extraordinary
fashion. He drops on it and makes his
points as he does his stories in manner
and from q direction least expected BY
the locker on.
Well there was father-in.law to be
won as we'll as the girl, and the father
in.law had to be carried first, like the
outer parallel in defence. The father
inlaw was immersed in business. He
hadn't much time to think OF family
matters, but at last it occurred to him
that Marx had become very frequent
about the house and that his objective
point seemed to be the: daughter.
SO he called Mark aside one day and
said: Mark Twain, you seem to be
paying attention to my daughter. Now,
we all like you pretty well, You know,
and we are Of course all acquainted with
your reputation as literary man. Still
in other respects you are stranger to
us, and some references as to your char
acter and standing are desirable.''
"That's very reasonable said Mark,
very natural and paternal. It's just
what should do were I in your position.
Iguess l can give you some names that
will satisfy you. Now, there's Mr.. Good
man Of the Territorial Enterprise. And
there's Mr.. Frederick McCrellish Of the
Alta California. You write to them.
guess they'll give me good character. I
guess they will lie for me. I've done
the same for them whenever a requisition
has been made upon me-
But Mark married the girl notwith.
standing.
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The richest prehistoric discovery of
this continent have been opened at Spoon.
vile, Mich. In o mound declared to be
two thousand years old, were found hui
man skulls, pottery, copper utensils, need.
les, hatchets, etc.
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Escaping Convicts Sho. at Saltwater.

scaP1nS Conv1cts Shot at saltwater.
Two convicts named Charles Miles and
Thomas Crane made daring and to them
serious attempt to escape from the peni-
Tertiary At Saltwater by scaling the
fence Wednesday afternoon. The IT.
tempt was discovered by guards Benia.
min Cayeu and Henry Price, who in the
line OF their duty promptly brought the
escaping convicts to bay by the use of
their firearms. both prisoners being
wounded and falling outside the enclo.
sure.' Thomas Crane received two shots.
one in the jaw, the other in his
right leg below the knee. The wound in
the leg necessitated the amputation Of
the limb. DIR. W. H. Pratt, prison physi.
clan, assisted by DR.. Millard, performing
the operation. The other prisoner.
Chiles Miles, was wounded in the bodv.
but the extent Of his injuries had not
been ascertained up to yesterday noon.
One of the prisoners had year still to
serve and the other ten months.
Miles is from Rice county, his offence
being horse stealing, and Crane from Da-
kota county. They we're at work in the
planning shop, and, as is customary, fire.
quently passed out and in the shop with
boards: During one of their trips they
concealed narrow ladder, about sixteen
feet long, under board and it carried out.
Arriving at the board fence on the north
side, they placed the ladder in position
and began to mount. Pierce and Cayeu,
the guards, discovering them, called out
twice to them to stop. but they paying no
attention the former fired two shots O
buck shot and the latter one, all three
taking effect With the result above stated.
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Mr.. BERGH, the humanitarian, is now
after the canal men of New York. He
proposes to compel them to double their
daft teams, at an expense Of 81. 100000.
This would tax the grain trade something
like $4,000 yearly.
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The appropriation for supplying postal
cards has nearly run out. 1t is to be
hoped Congress will not make another
appropriation for the same purpose. The
cards are nuisance and their use serves
to delay the reduction Of letter postage.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-29

The New York passenger law, under
which all emigrants landing in that city
are taxed for the support Of local bureau
from which very few receive the least ben.
eft, has been pronounced unconstitution.
al by the United States supreme court.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-29

EDWIN BoorH, the eminent tragcdian
has lately returned to New York, from a
tour through the South. He was greeted
with ovations everywhere, and met with
great financial success, as we'll,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-29

The French drank q thousand million,
1,000.000.000) gallons of wine, last. year.
The United States drank, in the same pe-
rod. something over hundred thousand
barrett of whisky on which no tax was
paid, and over million gallons was sailed
down to get mellow.
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TIE banking firm Of Sherman T. Grant
has been dissolved By mutual consent. A
half year S experience convinced the part.
ncrs that that was the only thing they
could mutually agree upon.
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The swimmer, Paul Boynton, is at Gin.
cinnati. lie meets with little encourage.
mcnt there, however; the people don't
care to to have anything to do with water.
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CALIFORNIA has revived the whipping
post by recent law, but for one class of
offenders only, and they the ones that
most deserve just that sort Of punish
mcnt--the wife beaters.
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A Witness Against the Guilty Sho
Dead.

ALBANY, March 22.-Conroy, one Of
the Utica masked burglars who had
turned States evidence, was shot dead
yesterday during parley between an
officer who had him in charge and partv
of men who claimed him, asserting thex
were officers, but who are supposed to
have belonged to the gang Of burglars.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-29

A UTAH murderer has been sentenced
to be shot, preferring that method to de.
capitation or hanging.
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TIE frisky attempt now being made in
the New York legislature to pass prshib-
tory liquor laws is novelty for the Gu.
ri"us to contemplate. 1t really savors
Of the comical when we consider how few
Of the legislators would ever have been
nominated or elected if they had not pre-.
ious]y put up the liquor for their free,
enlightened, independent, patriotic and
thirsty fellow citizens.