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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE.
closure Sale

Default has been made in the condi-
tons of a certain mortgage deed bear
ing date the ninth day Of May A. D.
one thousand eight hundred and seven.
ty four, executed and delivered by Elias
Kuhns, Samuel Kuhns, Abraham
Kuhns and Henry Kuhns, of Goodhue
county, Minnesota, mortga gors, to
Quinton Bunch, of said county, mort
gagee, and recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds, of the county of
Goodhue, in the State of Minnesota, on
the 9th day of May, A. D. 1874, at
three o'clock and thirty minutes in the
afternoon of said day in book twenty
five of mortgage deeds on page two hun.
dred and twenty six.
The premises described in and COW
cred by said mortgage are situate in the
county of Goodhue ard State of Min
nesota, and are known and described
as follows to-wit: the north east
quarter of the north west quarter
of section number seventeen az in
township number one hundred and
thirteen (ll3) north of range number
fifteen (l5) west, also the south east
quarter of the south west quarter of
section number eight (S) and lot num-
Der ten (l0) of said section number
eight (S) in said township number one
hundred and thirteen (ll3) north of
range number fifteen (l5) west, ex-
cepting therefrom a strip of land one
hundred feet in width, being fifty feet
in width on each side of the center line
of the Saint Paul and Chicago railway
the same now being known as the Mil:
waukee and Saint Paul railway, as the
same is located and constructed across
said lot number ten QO).
There is claimed to be due and there
is due upon said mortgage and the debt
secured thereby, at the date of this no.
tice to-wit: January twenty-fourth, A.
D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,
the sum of two hundred and sixty five
dollars and eighty cents ($265. 80-100)
together with an attorneys or solic-
itor's fee of thirty dollars stipulated and
agreed to be paid in case of foreclosure
thereof. No action or proceeding at
law or otherwise has been instituted to
recover the amount, or any part thereof,
so as aforesaid due upon said mortgage
debt.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby civ.
en- that under and by virtue of the pow.
er of sale in said mortgage contained
and recorded Herewith and pursuant to
the statute in such case made and pro-
vided, said mortgage will be foreclosed
by the sale of the above described mort
gagged premises at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, and that such
sale will be made by the sheriff of said
county, on Saturday the tenth day of
March, A. D. eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, at ten o'clock in the FORE
noon Of said day, at the front door of the
Court House in the city of Red Wing,
in the county of Goodhue, and State of
Minnesota, and the proceeds of said sale
will be applied to pay said sum and in
terest due on said mortgage, the costs
and expense Of said sale and the attor-
ney's fee of thirty dollars as specified in
said mortgage.
Dated January Oath, A. D. 1876.
QUINTON BUNCH,
B. B. HERBERT Mortgagee.
Attv FIR Mortroroa 1Hu-
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
IVES & HASlER'S
Insurance Agency,
NE Cor. 81 &; Bush sts,
SECOND STORY,

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-O-O--
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less than have been asked during the last
two or three years.
Our rule is to write risk for what it is
worth, and having no assessments to pay to
the Nationsl Board we can insure your
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paying large yearly dues, for having rates
made for them. Our companies have each
a large net surplus over all liabilities, and
during the past years have steadily made
money, their percentage of loss being in ev-
cry instance far less than that of the most
popular Board Companies. We invite tho
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to any fair minded man that their policies
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Call at our office and see if we can't.
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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
Corporation.

TRENTON, Feb. 90, 1877.
Cooperation will make neighbor-
hood wealthy, contented and harmoni-
Gus, and that is what we have started
in Trenton; but I notice considerable
testing about it. There is one thing
certain; who ever understands what
Cooperation means will never say any
thing to injure it, unless he is wealthy
person, and it will be very strange even
J if the wealthy battle against it long.
, am surprised that there are so few
who realize what great power lies in
| Cooperation.
, We have opened store on the Coop
: erative plan, and intend to run it ex-
clusively for cash; consequently, we
have been forced to start small. Had
it been a joint stock company, no doubt
we could have raised by this time from
ten to twenty five thousand dollars, but
as we chose a safer plan, we must be
contented by going slow at first. For
the benefit Of those who would like to
know our plan l will give an outline of
it.
Our shares are $25 each, and every
shareholder has a ri ht to vote and
hold Office. One person may have more
than che share but the only benefit he
! will derive will be the 10 per cent. on
his money. But by being share hold
er a person will receive dividend every
three months on what goods he may
have bought from the store. The divi-
dends come from this source, after pay
ing for the goods and the per cent. for
selling. The gain is then divided
among the stockholders according to
the amount Of goods they may have
purchased
For instance, A owns one share and
purchases goods to the amount Of one
hundred dollars, and B owns four shares
and purchases goods to the amount of
so dollars, As dividend will be double
as large as BIS, for it matters not how
much capital a person has in, it is the
consumption that changes the value of
the dividends. Consequently many
will not take more than one share, and
the shares being small, it is no wonder
that capital is lacking at first.
| But when the farmers see the utility
of the Association, they will readily
join. Some think that it, will burst as
many before have done. This cannot
be. I never have heard of an Associa-
ton of tais kind, started in this country,
but what succeeded, and it is a we'll
known fact that the Rochdale society of
England is the strongest society of this
kind on the globe. It is worth millions.
We have adopted the same plan, but if
this generation does not reap the bene
fit, the rising one will be thankful that
we have laid the corner stone for their
prosperity. FRIENDLY FARMER.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
CORRESPONDENCE.

'a-coutributio+ for this department
are respectfully soltited, and those who aid
us in this manner I'll have our thanks. We
a have only to a' 't''' to avoid personals
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11
April characteristics.


April, at its best, is the tenderest of ten
der salads. Its type is the first spear of
grass. The senses-sight, hearing, smell
are as hungry for its delicate and almost
spiritual tokens, as the cattle are for the
first bite of its fields. How it touches one
and makes him both glad and sad The
voices of the arriving birds, the migrating
fowls, the clouds Of pigeons sweeping across
the sky or filling the woods, the elfin horn
of the first honey-bee venturing abroad in
tho middle of the day, the clear piping of
the little frogs in the marshes at sundown,
the campfire in the sugar-bush, the smoke
seen afar rising over the trees, the tingc of
green that comes so suddenly on the sunny
knolls and slopes, the full translucent
streams, the waxing and warming sum-
how these things and others like them are
noted by the eager eye and ear April is
my natal month, and | am born again into
new delights and new surprises at each re-
turn of it. It's name has an indescribable
charm to ME. Its two syllables are like the
calls of the first birds-like that of the
Phebe-bird, or of the meadow lark Its
very SHOWS are fertilizing, and are called
the poor mans manure.
Then its odOrs | am thrilled by its fresh
and indescribable odors-the perfume of
the bursting sod, of the quickened roots
and roOtlets, of the mold under the leaves,
of the fresh burrows. No other month has
odors like it. The west wind the other day
came fraught with perfume that was to
the sense of smell what wild and delicate
strain of music is to the ear. 1t was almost
transcendental. | walked across the hill
with my nose in the air taking it in. 1t
lasted for two days. | imagine it came
from the willows of distant swamp, whose
catkins were affording the bees their first
| pollen,-or did it come from much farther
from beyond the horizon, the accumula
ted breath of innumerable farms and bud
ding forests? The main characteristic o
these April odors is their uncloying fresh
ness. They are not sweet, they are oftenel
bitter, they are penetrating and lyrical.
know well the oders of May and June, oil
the world of meadows and orchards burst
ing into bloom, but they are not so inefa
the sense as the incense of April.
X
One characteristic April feature, and
one that delights me very much, is the
perfect emerald of the spring runs while
the fields are yet brown and sere,-strip
and patches of the most vivid velvet greer
on the slopes and in the valleys. How tn,
eye grazes there and is filed and refreshed
had forgotten what a marked featur,
this was until l recently rode in an opcr
wagon for three days through a mountain
Gus, pastoral country, remarkable for it
fine springs. Those delicious green patche
are yet in my eye. The fountains howct
with May. Where no springs occurred
there were hints and suggestions of spring
about the fields and by the roadside in tn
freshened grass-sometimes overhowing
space in the form of an actual fountain
in such places, but sent its influence
John Burroughs, IN ,ScriJner for April
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11
Infallible Cures.

The reigning mania for blue glass recalls
some of the numerous "infallible cures
that have from time to time attracted
public attention. TO name them all would
be an impossibility, but among those which
occur at the moment are sun baths,
mesmerism, movement cure, grape cure,
apple cure, electricity, Turkish baths, mud
baths, oakum packs, water cure, criticism,
and now blue glass. Mud baths and the
oakum cure have not yet been introduced
in this country, but are very popular in
Germany. The patient is immersed in
mud up to his neck, or in case of expert
menting with oalum, is tightly packed in
dessicated old rope. Another cure for all
the ills that flesh is heir to has Just been
discovered in France, and is termed
metallotherapy. 1t is related that one
girl, whose right side was wholly paralyzed
so that needles thrust into her flesh did
not disturb her serenity, held n gold
cylinder in her hand while blndfolded,
and in fifteen minutes was perfectly cured.
Another paralyzed patient was cured by
copper cylinder. An old lady with a
paralyzed jaw was enabled to wag it again
after holding a lump of iron under her
| tongue and II bandage of iron plates on her
head. Providence, r. l., however, may lay
Sl'llH W lIlC CuduI pIOH HedleT. ne Jour
nal of that city tells of the presence of "a
person there, through whom divine in
tluences are tranmitted which not only
instantaneously relieves pain, but takes
away the appetite for tobacco. The editor
relates how one woman wished to be cured
of catarrh; another of deafness; others
wished the taste for tobacco taken away
from themselves or their friends. Snuff
rested on the conscience and filled the ali
passages of one woman. Several of the
patients were some hundreds of mile!
distant, one thousand, "all ee same," as
Chinaman would say. Neither space mol
extremity baffled tho healer, who hlandlJ
announced in each instance that divine in
9uence was sent and the request granted
In view of the various spiritual and natura
methods of cure, there Is no special in
ducement for young men to learn the un
dertakers' business just now unless the.
can count on war or pestilence.-N. y
Express.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11
AGood Word for a Muoh-abused Man,

Few men have been more abused recently
than Chamberlain, the wanted-to-be Cover
nor of South Carolina. But Mr.. Redfield,
the well-known correspondent, who has de-
nounced the Southern carpet-baggers in un-
measured terms, pays the following excep-
tional tribute to him: Chamberlain is
conspicuously the one South Carolina Re-
publican who has never used politics to
make money. His Republcanism is from
conviction. and he has done all that mortal
man could do to make it respectable in
that State. He has wasted his law prac-
tice, endangered his life, and fooled away
all his money trying to be Governor, not
because he wanted to be, or because the
place was at all desirable, but he got into
the harness, and from the view of things
there was no way but to pull through.
His instincts as a reformer are so earnest,
and his desire to make the Republican name
respectable in South Corolina so strong,
that he went before the Legislature and
urged them to reduce his own salary to
$4,000, beginning in the work of re-
trenchment. He pleaded for economy
and reform with tears in his eyes, and for
the selection of decent and competent men
for judges. But talk of this sort to the
South Carolina Legislature is about as effec-
IlNS dS llIS vi w aus . IL W d
drove Of mules. He has been serving as
Governor the past four months without pay
and without prospect of pay. His treasury
is empty. Tens of thousands of dollars
have rolled into Hampton's Golfers, because
the tax-paying portion of the community
recognize him, while Chamberlain's treasury
has received but 5000. He is man of de-
cided ability and culture-a graduate OF
Yale-and was pronounced by the late
Reverdy johnson to be one of the best
lawyers in America. He has an interesting
family. and the relief they will feel should
his claims to the Governorship be decided
| adversely cannot be measured in words
For months his devoted wife has lived in
daily and nightly dread that the hand oi
an assassin would take her husband. What
satisfaction is such life to cultivated
quiet, domestic man. natural scholar and
student, having little in common with South
Carolina politics and pistols? He has only
sought to maintain his position through
the most devoted loyalty to the principle.
of civil liberty to all men,"
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11

ITEMS ABOUT Boss TwEED.-ln letter to
Mr.. Charles OConor VIM. NJ. Tweed, the
famous "BOss' of New York city, sur.
renders at discretion and offers to give up
all the property that remains to him, and
to make such disclosures as may be re-
quired. He has fought as long as he could,
he says, to shield others, as well as himself,
and that whilst personally he was willing
to have made restitution and reparation
long ago he was prevented from so doing
by their counsels and his ENHANCEMENT
with their interests. He pleads that he is
now old, broken in health and spirits, and
is willing to mako any sacrifice to escape
an Imprisonment that is wearing out his
life. He reminds Mr.. O'Conor that as the
avowed objects he had in view are the vim
dication of principle and the publication
of the public service, he is prepared to
respond in any manner that will promote
these ends, but he appeals to him to keep
from publicity any revelations that may be
made to him affecting others. The end of
it all is that Tweed's release has been
Professionally agreed upon, and he looks
forward for his future to the realization OF
certain plans in connection with railroad
work in Spain.
The New York Tribune says among the
documents of Tweed now in the hands Of
Harper & Brothers for future publication i;
said TO be the evidence that $250,000 was
divided among FIVE republican Legislators
to secure the passage of the city charter
The suppression of this evidence, it is un
derstood, will depend upon the alacrity
with which those who received it repay i
to the State. Those thus implicated arr
said to have been moving heaven and eartl
to break off the compromise, at least SO fal
as any exposure of themselves is concerned
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11

AN UNRULY CoNGREGATIoN.-The Spring
field (Mass.l Republican makes the following
statement: "The Methodist church at
Ware, which by the last conference report
had 40 probationers and l65 full members,
is appreciating how much trouble a few
members can make, Some twelve or
fifteen, who adopt the 'sanctifcation' or
perfect holiness doctrines, have for three
years done much to vex the pastor and
people, the annoyance growing more on.
bearahle of late than ever before. These
people, said to be English, and of a rather
ignorant grade, profess to have reached a
point of holiness where they live without
sin, so that they do not need religious
teaching, will not recognize the authority
of the pastor, and attempt to take full
charge of the church and its affairs. This
faction run the evening meetings to suit
themselves, taking no notice of the pastor,
and making appointments for meetings in
direct opposition to him. At these special
meetings the remarks and prayers are said
to be anything but religious, such phrases
abounding as You're a liar That is moi
so,' etc. Five of these 'perfectionists,
being expelled from the church for non.at
tendance, hold meetings at Trinity Hall or
Sundays and two or three evenings of tht
week, with one Thomas Kennedy for
preacher, Their feeling has lately lee
them to send abusive and even obscene
letters and valentines to tho pastor, who
Of course, has the sympathy Of the bes
people in all the churches"
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11

The DEATH OF HERMIT.-On Friday last
Austin Sheldon, the Pike county PA her.
NIT, was found on top of one of the noun
tains dead, in ten-feet snow drift. He
had lived over forty years in cave in tile
rocks, near the entrance OF which his body
was found. Sheldon was nearly seventy.
two years old. He was discovered in his
cave thirty years ago by hunters. He said
he had been living there ten years, and had
not seen any human beings in that time.
About year ago brother and sister of
the hermit, from Connecticut, both wealthy,
went to his abode and endeavored in every
way to get him to return to his friends.
Il was of no avail. Sheldon had lost his
wife after brief married life, and disap-
peared on the day of the burial. He was
not heard of until last year. Sheldon lived
on game, fish, roots and berries. At the
time of his death his form was much bent
The clothing that hung in rags and tatters
from his person had been donned twenty
two years ago and never taken of. 1t was
held together by hickory withes. He never
washed. A thick gray beard that hung
almost to his waist, and hair OF the same
color hanging over hisshoulders, was matted
with burrs and twigs, and had not beer
touched with a comb. or brush for forty
five wears, Sheldon was an educated man
His family is among the leading ones o
Connecticut.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11
A good illustration of the equal power {

A good illustration of the equal power of
two votes is given in story of Jud ge Story,
which he was very fond of telling. One cold
and stormy day he felt it his duty, as usual,
to go to the polls. He ordered his carriage
for this purpose, but, just as he was getting
in, sudden thought struck him. Turning
to his colored driver, he said; "Have you
voted YETI" "No, Massa Story, was wait
ing to drive you frst." "Well," replied
the judge, "and who do you intend to vote
?" al shall vote for A." answered the
driver "Well," continued the judge,
laughing, " | should vote for B., so you may
put up the carriage again, and we will both
stay at home and pair off our votes" The
coachman was of equal importance at the
ballot box with the learned judge.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11

He made his wife a present of nice
diamond ring, and as they rode along in
the street-car he noticed that the hand
upon which the ring sat was kept bare.
aren't you afraid your hand will get
cold ?" asked he
"Cold ?'' exclaimed she; yon don't know
much about woman il you think her
hand could get cold with a ring on it like
thatm
And she adroitly smoothed down her
dress with the iewelcd hand in full view of
every passenger Chicago Euening Journal.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11

A writer in a German engineering journal
contrasts the behavior of different animals
towards steam machinery. That proven
bially stupid animal, the OK, stands COM
posedly on the rails without having any
idea of the danger that threatens him /;
dogs run among the wheels of a departing
railway train without suffering any injury
and birds seem to have peculiar delight
in the steam-engine. Iarks often build
their nests and rear their young under the
switches Of railway over which heavy
trains are constantly rolling, and swallows
make their homes in engine-houses. A
pair of swallows have reared their young
for years in mill where n noisy 300 horse.
power engine is working night and day,
and another pair have built a nest in the
paddle.hox of steamer which plies during
the season between Pesth and Semlin.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-11

termittent irritability, will add to our length
of days. Capt. Lahrbush, we believe, had
an excellent faculty for making friends as
those of his childhood passed away, he
found new ones for his manhood, and so on
from stage to stage to the last scene of all.
He liveth best who loveth best, and may
be, other things being equal, he liveth the
longest IN Y. Tribune