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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-01
A Successful Irvine Binder,

A Successful Irvine Binder.
We spent Tuesday afternoon in ;
wheat field of Mr.. A. W. Etter, abou
twelve miles from this city and a mile
west of Etter station on the railroad
whittier we went with others to witness
the operation of a combined harvester
and binder manufactured by Mr.. N. G.
Thompson, of Rockford, Illinois. Thi.
is an entirely new machine throughout,
embracing several mechanical princi pies
not used in other harvesters and binders,
and is, we believe, pre-eminently sue.
cess. 1t binds with Irvine, tying hard,
square knot which cannot be drawn or
slipped; IS very simple in its construc-
ton, not likely to get out of order, and
does its work regularly and unfailingly.
It is not possible for us to describe it in
detail in a newspaper article, but we
endeavor to convey an idea Of it and its
manner of working.
First, we will speak of the harvester
as that deserves especial attention al
most rs much as the binder, in thet it
possesses q number Of new and ln5ri-
torious features. 1t cuts 4 swath five
feet six inches broad, cutting clean and
gathering every thing. This machine
is hung in chains, which may be length
ened or shortened by winding up on
IN iron windlass to'shorten or unwind
ing to lengthen. By this process the
machine is raised or lowered to suit the
height and condition of the grain. This
operation Is performed with two small
iron hand-spikes, one end of which is
inserted in oritices in the windlass alter.
nateiy, and it can be done by one man.
When the proper height is attained the
Wlndlass is secured in it's position by a
key The reel is, also, different from
any other we ever saw, and is suscepti-
BILE of being raised or lowered, or thrown
forward or backward. Indeed, it may
be readily made to assume any position
in which it can become desirable to car
ry it, and will work with unfailing reg
ularity in either.
For these reasons ind because the
reaper will operate ut any required in
clination, so that the points Of the sickle
guards may DC carried close to the
ground, il necessary, to run under and
pick mp fallen grain, We believe that
this rcaDer NAV be efficiently usc,l j.,
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We nave Ia this cA'1ce a stall

I'VE nave Ia this cAiGe a stalk
of corn raised by Mr.. r. Brown,
from seed sent him from the East.
1t is called the s'Giant Yellow Dent"
grows from IL to IS feet high and
IS very prolific. Mr.. Brown last
year obtained full peck OF sl7elled
corn from 90 stalks, and says that
it ripened as early as the ordinary
white dent corn. This year he is
growing I !! acres, and we will keep
our readers posted as to results.
from present appearances, 1t seems
that'its INTRODUCTION will be iuvalua-
'Bldtq farmers iii.tliis >lSeali,y.
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Mitchell !" Vi .!'v %u,iall.v.;i Init.
pendent gets off the following clever
slap at our boas tf'a: contemporary se Al,
the street.. ,Atc mislxrbb5l,Hse added Mat
800 will b$ ill the :tSPpS sqpiirseddsto
set uk:this .tcnovmouss Job and, shat. AT
least ,si bRalfGRsA;s; rc qaas ,iqr ,eraa';lllss
'usg}liat Y. s5issS ,...'s !
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Mn. DENNE rT:-You are probably
AWARE that boarded at your house last
winter, and was to pay my board in fur.
I have now got as .tw as St. Louis, ard
if that amt .tt~ enough, I will go fur
Their. Ever yours,
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-finnos ARID Organ :lEg'eIil an, laro
+ the city, az reasonable ra..ts. ~ (. ".
R ohes;s. Leave. orders wi.F:nin or 1T cs;>
lf'icc. e. ., 1870. @sy!
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For Sale.

NV hoase ana two lots, corner East
ave. and Itk street. +. 4. Poole.
M. C. Russell, of the Like City
Leader and Beo. passed through town
on Monday, OF their way to Duluth.
Farmers do not buy your :Oils, be-
Eere you soc 'atr Oils and get our prices.
M0ESlN g. FUNK.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-01

: Conrad N. .Jourdan, Cashier Of the
Third National Bank, New York, was before the
Senate Sab Committee On Privileges and Elec-
lions, - The 1stA. IN answer 10 subpoena to tes-
tify to bic knowlsdge Of ths sums Of money hav-
ing been cent from New York to Oregon since the
questions O he subject 8 TO produce tn books
and papers called for until be had con.ulted his
lawysc; be had coneolted only with the President
received. but be refused to state Whist advice had
been given him when he consulted them relative
to the subpoena calling for statement Of the &C.
+ Pelton. Jourdan was then placed 10 custody
Of the Sergcantat-Arms. and, subsequently,. being
recalled, stated that dispatch telling him be
him. 6u. was brought to the Third National
Bank, and given him to read; he declined 70 cay
who the dispatch was sent TO and who brought
counsel; no did mot tell Ellis he received .
dispatch telling him he (witresel need mot
come to Washington, but told Ellis he had
q he TSrd National Ssnt New Yo
that he knew Of tho subpena to Jourdan calling
for certain books and papers he spoke 70 Jourdsn.
him he need not come to Washington; witness
learned Of Jourdan's being in contempt through
the newspaper, and went to him and asked him
stating he would come to Washington immediate
"; witness said Jourdsn was Republican. but
Tilden "bull dozed'' the Republicanism out Of
Abram 8. Hewitt, Chairman of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee, testified before the
Senate Committee ON Privileges and Elections on
the l9;h: he said he had charge Of the national
campaign and organisation of the Democratic
party in the different States. and directed how
money In the handle Of the Treasurer Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee should be spent, Col. Pelton
having nothing to do with It; witness never
made any attemp: to raise fands. beyond asking
ing to do 90, to contribute; knew nothing
whatever about telegrams which Potion
sent to Oregon; never sent cipher telegram dur
ing the whole campaign; did, however. send
three or four regular Kilograms 10 Oregon during
the contest, in one of which, dated Nov. Is.
1876, he, after receiving legal decision to that
effect from Judge Hoadley. Of Cincinnati, told
der the Federal Government was eligible, as
ElectOr, and that the canvaseing Officer should 81
decide: he had never used the cipher, but had
seen Col Pelton use 1t; had never seen any Of the
cipher kilograms sent to or received from Oregon
at Democratic headquarters in New York; witness
stated that Col. Pel!on lived in the same house
with Samuel J. Tiden and ate at the same table
with him.
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THE OLD CRAVE.

IT'S an old, old grave; the SHOWS andDains
OF hundred years have left their stains
On the broken elab, which some kind hand
Has pieced with an iron bolt and band,
Long eince-for the headstonc leans awry,
Like wheat. sheaf when the wind sweeps by.
TIL an old, old grave; the once trim mound
Is level now with the sl0ping ground;
From the tangled grass the but.ercup
With Q startled, wild fawn air looks up,
Aud the coarse leaved burd0cks make their home
Where the mowers cSthe has ceased to come.
IT'S an old, old grave.-how came here?
II don't know. 1t is many year
Since went from home, and yet to-day
It seems I've been but an hOnr awayl
How odd that I'm standing here alone
With the Past go blotted out and gonel
know the place-as boy have played
With my mates beneath that walnut's shade:
It was smaller then mol declare
Twas . chestnut-tree that once sto0d there!
How all 10 changed In the spot knew
How thick are the graves that once were fewl
How the moss has spread, how the wall says
down.
raw it built! Why, think the town
Is nearer now than II used to be
When was boy. What's this see,
As scrape the lichen from the stone!
What name do read? Good God, my owni
--AtlGatic NOnthty.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

ONLY one person in ten in Rhode ISL
and is engaged in agriculture; fifty-six out
Of every hundred are engaged in manu-
tn Grand Orient of France reports
4O1 lodges in its jurisdiction. The total
number of Free MasOns in the country b
set ct 500, 900.
DURING the past year the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children has provided homes for 228 chill
dren at an outlay of $6,817.18.
TIE exports Of manufactured cotton
from New York to Europe was, last year,
a, 456 packages, against Il ,O07 in 1875,
and IN average Of shout IL, 900 packages
before that.
CONNECTICUT gets most Of revenues its
from the savings banks-half million
dOllars-and from the mutual life insur.
ance companies tz00, 900, while from all
other sources there Is but $850, 900.
THE largest establishment In the world
for Matching salmon eggs is that Of the
United States Government on the
1cClOud River, Shasta County. Cal. II
h under the superintendence Of Livings-
ION Stone, who distributes IN average Of
1000, OOO young salmon each year to the
Fish Commissioner of the various States
having rivers suitable for their increase.
FROM the annual report Of the Board
of Education Of Chicago, Il appears that
the number of pupils enrolled In the pub
lie schools during last year was b, 1873,
being 9,0O7 more than the enrollment of
The preceding year. For The accommo-
dalton Of this army Of infantry, the city
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has increased in severity, the wants of the

has increased in severity, the wants of the
troops have increased.
Many of them were born In the south
Of Europe or in Arabia, and had hitherto
been used to sunny climates, where little
or no snow is ever seen. For them to be
taken tota district covered with snow.
where the cold is as intense q in the
south of Russia, only imperfectly clad
and quite unprotected from the weather,
would have been bad enough had even
their raticns been nourishing and good.
This they are not, and thus in the Turk
ish lines in the Balkans vast amount of
suffering and distress is being felt, and
men are falling victims to disease for
wan t of the very necessaries of life.
A feeble attempt was made by the
Turkish Government to provide them
with kind of greatcoat made of the
raw canvas from which tents are con-
structed; but even this has not been done
in all cases, and many of the men have
nothing but blue calico jackets and pam
falcons to keep out the intense cold which
is experienced in the Balkan Mountains.
Cor. London Tele0r0ph.
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

ASA1Asa residing ct vicksbug, Renvills
County, writing under date Of Feb. /, and
sending package Of lively young grass.
hopPers with his letter, says there had been
ct that date four warm days, and, With the
exception OF occasional snow drifts, the
ground was then bare. There were quite
number OF those little hoppers, fully half an
Inch long, crawling about and impatiently
waiting Tor the farmers to put in their seed.
He says these young hoppers refuse to freeze
to death, nor do the unmatched eggs seem to
have been seriously injured by the cold. He
10 well nigh dismayed, evidently, at seeing
the ground covered with crawling grasshop-
pers In midwinter, and concludes by doubt.
Ing any human agency for their destruc.
ton.
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THE nulaber of paseengers landed

TIE number Of passengers landed at
Castle Garden during 1876 was u, O85.
OF these 6O, sos were aliens. 1857 were
born in the United States, and IL, $40 had
previously landed at New York or other
ports in the United States. OF the whole
number of aliens who arrived, 81 COS were
from Germany, 1884 ireland, 0l47
England, 2,2l0 Scotland, 5,636 Russia,
2,6f8 Italy, 3,698 Sweden, AHA Nor
way, 1918 Denmark, 2,168 France,
1,210 Austria, 2,721 Bohemia, 406 Hunga-
~, 1892 Switzerland, $50 Holland, 202
Belgium, Isl Wales, IS Luxemburg, 465
West Indies, $50 Spain, 1876 South Amer
lea, 1O6 Central America, 154 Canada, 20
Australia, 81 Africa, 100 China, So East
Indies, 81 Greece, 43 Mexico, 81 Nova
Scotia, 81 Portugal. "a Turkey, and 36
from various countries.
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Suherings and Bravery Of Turkish
Soldiers.

No ONE who saw the Turkish soldiers
during the campaign just finished IN
Servia could have failed to note two
things-their devotion to duty and their
want of the very necessaries of life
Other troops would have grumbled at be-
ing compelled day after day to lie idle
while their General wasted chance after
chance and victory after victory; other
soldiers would have complained when
ordered to attack, in inadequate numbers,
almost improbable positions, when their
own sense told them that their efforts were
useless; other men would have said that .
hard biscuit . day was too little to cam
paign upon, and certainly Englishmen
who have urged the necessity Of having
clothes calculated to enable them to with
stand the rigoss of . winter.
Yet the Turkish soldier bore all his
hardships without . murmur. When he
found his commander would not move
he lay down and smoked TIL the Pasha
to attack the Alexinatx batteries in
front, unsupported by artillery and un-
sheltered from the enemy's shot and
shell, he shouted "Allahy' and went
forward cheerfully to be killed; when he
had NO meat rations for forty -nine days
he did the best he could to exc out his
biscuit with toasted maize: and when
the rain came On, and he had neither
tent nor greatcoat, he made little hut
Of oak branches and encamped in the
mud, although shivering with cold and
wet. and rapidly succumbing to fever.
When the season advanced and winter
came on his suherings daily increased.
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months imprisonmentln. the Albany N. ~

months imprisonmentln.t the Albany N. ~
Penitentiary.
RaAR-ADNmAL CHARLES II. DAVIS, Super
1ntendentof the Naval Observatory, died In
Washington ON the morning Of the 18th, Of
heart disease.
81. W. WILLIAMS. one Of the Judges Of the
Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, died few
days ago at Pittsburgh, of disease Of the
heart.
A BERLIN special TO the London Post Of
the 10th says peace had been substantially
concluded between Turkey and servia.
Ar half-past eleven O'Clock, ON the night
Of the 10th, at East st. Louis, . fire broke
out among the frame buildings ON Bloody
Island, about block north of the great
bridge, and at twelve O'Clock reached and
set on fire the eastern approaches to that
structure. The damages to the bridge alone
reached 100000. Beside this over 100
houses were burned and $50 families rem.
dered houseless. At last accounts, received
on the morning Of the 2Oth, the IRE was dy.
ing out for lack of material to feed upon.
On the evening of the 10th, the Demo-
cratic members of Congress met In caucus.
Resolutions were offered, but not voted on,
denouncing the action of the Electoral Com
mission in the Louisiana case. A resolu-
tion was adopted to take a recess until the
count Of the Oregon vote in the joint meet
ing Of the two houses.
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Burning . Hornets Nest.

EVERY country boy has burnt one, and
every city COY would like to burn one.
A hornets nest is quite pretty piece
of architecture to look at, if one does not
get too familiar with it. 1t is smooth,
and of subdued gray color on the out
side, and it is hotter than cayenne pep
per, and livelier than a county horse
trot, inside.
The boy who has found one, snugly
tucked up under the lee of group of
bushes, runs and tells the other boys
about it, and the search for birch bark
and pitch now begins.
Matches are purloined from the spare
chamber, for mother will not allow her
boy to rlay with matches, and he dare
not get them where she will be likely to
see him.
The boys tie their combustibles to the
end of pole, set them on fire, and the
boldest juvenile applies the incendiary
torch.
The other boys stand by with we'll
opened mouths, and caps set back ON
their foreheads, abiding the result.
Silence reigns.
Suddenly out from that round gray
mass rush about thousand infuriated
hornets, and with roars of angry defiance
they pitch upon those boys. Is there
anything like it? You would think not
by the bowls and shrieks which rise as
the youngsters go flying away in search
of shelter, mother and sympathy.
And for q week afterward swelled noses
and lips, and sore heads and stiff fingers
abound among these boys, but not one OF
them could be found to own that he was
sorry he meddled with the hornets. They
Ill hat vnt tim q
but at the same time they will tell you it
was such fun!
Boys are not the only people who burn
hornets nests.
We are all of us doing q little in the
same line of business. Whenever we
assail an old creed, or dogma. or venture
to contradict an accepted opinion, We are
burning hornets nest.
Whenever we suggest to Mrs. A. that
Mrs. BIS children are the best behaved we
have ever seen, we had better look out for
stings.
If we attempt tn settle difficulties be-
tween man and his wife, we soon find We
are burning a very lively hornets nest.
The world is full of hornets. There are
the purse-proud hornets, who sting all the
children of poverty; and the high. bred
hornets, who think blue blood essential to
salvation; and the hornets of the press,
who sting everyone who cannot bribe their
praise and the hornets in high places, and
in low places, who sting promiscuously
and continually.
And like the boys, though we know we'll
enough we shall be wounded, we 60 on
daily meddling with the affairs of others,
criticising their conduct, judging them by
our own standard, censuring and condemn
ing what we cannot understand, and stir
ring up strife in the community burning
hornets nests, and then lainenting over the
stings.-Kats Thorn, tn N. 2. Weekly.
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eraee attendance. The last school census
showed the population Of the city to be
4O7, 661.
Cleans, which in 1868, according to the
revenue returns, were reported onlyt the
extent of 19o, 28S, 1855, have now become .
Staple necessity, almost touching the two
biliionite figure, the exact number being
1905, al, 1871 The following is an official
table of production from 1858 to 1876:
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There are 40, 600 600 people in the coun-
try, men, women and children. OF these
it is estimated 5000, 900 are men, of
whom, probably, 2,000, 900 are regular
smokers. According to this every man
smokes 1 900 cigars . year.-N. =. Sun.
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"A remarkable waterproof has been in
evnted in Paris. It is of silk, and may be
folded almost as small as pOckct-hand-
kerchief. When unfolded, it offers an in
genious series of pockets of different
shaDes. made to hold the fan and other es-
sentials of feminine toilets. The hood can
he raised over the head by means Of ,
hood from resting ON the hat and mussing
the flowers or other ornaments.
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THE snow along the line Of the New
York Central furnished employment 70
5000 people.
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Artificial Diamonds.

MANY pastes have been devised for the
preparation of these beautiful stones.
None have been able in their products to
equal the natural diamond in hardness
and brilliancy; but, nevertheless, to an
u g act. ed. eye; the imitation is 50 per
making diamond paste is said to be one inc
that gives the most satisfactory result. 1t
is called Loysel's" paste:
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THE ELECTION INVESTIGATIONS.
MISSISSIPPI.

On the 10th, the Senate SUBJ Committee
investigating the late election in Mississippi ex-
amined d. C. Kearne, who testified that in Jeffer-
son County prominent Democrat told him that
the Democrats had duplicate keys to ballot boxes
and intended to take out Republican tickets and
ing-place he knows that $50 Republican tickets
were voted, but only ninety-one came out; wit
ness voted for Tilden and Hendricks and the
Democratic candidate for Congress.
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This produces paste which has great
brilliance and retroactive and dispersive
powers, and also specific gravity similar
to that of the Oriental diamond. It fuses
at q moderate heat, and acquires the
greatest brilliancy when remelted and
kept for two or three days in fused
state, in order to expel the supersbundant
alkali and perfect the refining. This
paste is used not only to produce facti-
tious diamonds, hut, beside, other facti-
tious gems. of which it forms the basis.
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LOUISIANA.

r Al
a. Nnanuier' oecfe'ny vi tne Anter.or'
was called by the House COMMITTEES on the Pow:
paper. relating to the resignation and notification
IouissRe Eiector: he aid he an nno.sS Rse1:t.r
Letter. 81 resionsti,n Ms SstsI Na ~. s~c.ss.S
Nov fs q, ~ Ala not Eno,v e. r;eS
.n tom tns e ~ OF n0t; oiq not know ~ was
tiNad h;w. AZ III th.t = ~ ~. 10 t ~
Drsctice Of he to .ce.n. r.;,rn.t,ons
Is 81 time past il rendered in that manner:
On the 18th. the Committee on the
pov.-. p-,v,,.o., "a nat. - ~ r..
Os' ss .1u Ouue. VI INC mouse e4-
.d w oa Hs,
sansr o1sfeE aim oEiSs 70 east tie vote
that he met Gov. Wells on the street. Nov. II or
% s.n sn ~. .na neey on tne eoo}ecs o. the
The witness to- III ~ slnssd ~
the oss Of lis once and tie 'n witness ased hi@
what once Gov Co..; PACKARD could offer that would
WIFI rsnsisd th.t =. dS n n.y. OF me- psoPe
hut III INV ~ misht l ns s sos
his course must enable him to retire to Sss rsD
. .s! IL, il Rspidss P:.ish ~ tS,s !:s zig
,,rnmiscs von5S NJ, sr.x., th,e H.. .s ~ .na
determined to make il tsii; witness urged wells
could do ANYTHING, because Anderson doubted
amount; witness asked how much Ander.
son wanted; ana Wells replied. nair million; the
ana sSa 'S dsm.~1 ;rS,.tnS S'c. .Ts..
they might n Veil drop matters: after ia
promul9ation Of the vote they met. ma Wit
nees expressed hia aetoniehment ma re0ret q
Wells couree Wells eaid. "What could I dot
You had NO money!" witness said he hoped
Wells had made himself cafe, and Wells replfed.
You bet, or words to that eject Ths witness,
On croxs-examinati0u. eaid he hired 4 room in
the City Hotel, in Which they met and named
several persons to whom he epoke On the subject
Of raising money: be hfmeeH propoeed 10
give tkO0. :.
Duncan p. Kenner was further exam.
ined before the House Committee On Powers.
Privileges, etc., on the 18th, ana said tAat b had
NO special interview with Gov. Nicho3ls On TIE
subject OF his interviews WITH Gov. Weljs. 81.
though be may have told Gov. Nichols ihat
secure IN honest coanf: Ct ono Of his inter-
views with Wells witness eaid to the latter: /.
am astoniehed at the gravity and solsnnity With
which You have listened to tbis story OF Elisa