The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28

RED WING, MIMI. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1877.
and know Of what calibre he is.
Here is his latest effort in the hum
orous line:

mere IS MS latest effort IN the hum
orous line:
W. owe special apology to the editor
o. The Grange Advance, who in his usu-
al editorial correspondence last week, over
the signature "A woman," objected to our
bing,-incomplete, we have admitted !
it.-ot the dresses worn at the Sheldon par
ty. We saw him there but not thinking she
would care to have her dress described,
which she procured for himself soor after
she came to live in Red Wing we omitted
mention of him and her attire. We tender
him, her or it. our humble apology and
though writing now from recollection will
mention what, in our minds eye as it were.
We can again behold. Thus it should have
stood in Our list:
II. II. Y-g, ga Wonan.") Black Rep.
coat, lately turned, rather gauzy, loose fit
ting, full of pockets, said to have cost tailor,
(or M. M.Laren:-Taylor Il M'Laren) 5000 in
1875, vest biased. much pulled down, green
backs, narrow Strait collar Congress style,
1876, trousers. "independent" all-wool out
side party-colored lining, very large
pockets, fashionable boots tipped with
black grow-grain corns, narrow souls, |
bareskin uppers, artificial plumes of print
paper very conspicuous.
We have been asked what all this
means. We suppose it is a joke,
but really don't know. Probably
the editor of the Republican intends
sending around a man to explain
and tell where the laugh comes is
if he can find one capable of doing
| so.
The vote of Cronin, the demo-
crat whom Gov. Grover, of Oregon,
commissioned as an elector in place
of Watts, was rejected by the entire
fifteen members of the presidential
commission! Not even the fercest
partizan democrat cared to claim
that this fraud should be successful.
Upon the question of accepting
Watts vote, however, the commits
sion stood 8 to J. The democratic
members all voting against it. Now,
if the Governors act in commission
ing Cronin was not legal, it follows
that the majority of the electors of
that State had the right to fill the
vacancy caused by Mr.. Watts ine-
ligibility; and having this right it
follows that they were empowered to
appoint Mr.: Watts, who, by resign
ing his place as postmaster, had rid
himself ofthe cause of his ineligibili.
ty. The fact that he was elected
by the people of the State is not de.
MED, and nobody was wronged by
his appointment; hence, counting
. his vote was neither fraud nor out
rage. Again, as we understand the
matter, the commission did not &c
= behind the returns nor behind the
: properly authenticated certificate ir
y this Oregon case.
= -Boston's claim to be the birth
o place of the author of Mothe
it Goose's melodies is about to bt
overthrown. An enterprising arch
n eologist has exhumed bronze tab
IS lets from the Pompeiian excavation
e containing these identical melodies
ir engraved thereon in the arrowhead
"a language of the ancient Persians
r and, from a note appended, tn
information is gained that they wer
l. composed by Mrs. Nimrod, wife Q
e the mighty hunter, who used to re
d cite them to her youngsters Will
l. her husband was away on his shoot
S ing expeditions. ....
/ English writers on American
politics always deserve attention
II for the reason that they are uninf1u
e enced by the partizanism which
:, too apt to affect our own judgment:
IS and an article in Blackwood fo
IT February merits careful and after
! ~ two roo (1;rcr 7Ao /1o ,,>4 c-,.e,> ,,,:.