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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-24

Relative to apprshsndsd distress among
the working class In the thickly populsted
towns in the northeast OF England, 1t u ~
tImatsd 10000 persons in the district re-
f.rred 10 hsvs been thrown out Of Work
durips the three years past There are
thoussads Of empty housss N Darlington
stockton and Newport are also ss'icua'y
affected. The climax Of distress haa osen
reaehsd aa Niddlsborou3A.
In cepssqusnes Of the resolution stI.v.a .a
II hy The Gootoh iron 1astoss - = s0sso
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-24


Theodore Valerie, the French painter and
engraver, is dead.
E. r. D. Julio, . well-known New Or
leans architect, died st Kingston, Ga, on
the 10th inst.
Right Reverend Charles Barring D. D.,
late bishop Of Durham, England, 10 dead.
Austin Blrchard, uncle Of President
Hayes, An old and honored citizen OF Wind.
ham county, w., died at Fayetteville, that
state, ON the 18th inst
Capt G. w. Grsy,a well known steamboat
man, who WAS seriously hurt BY falling
through trestlework near Port Perry, Pa,
on the 18th inst, died at his home In
McKe port on the 14th.
The wife Of Hon. James r. Doolittle
died at her home in Racine, Wis, ON the
18th instant, aged s. years.
Arthur X Cresswsll, one OF the most
prominent organists in the world, died ut
his residence ct Grovehead Park, Chicago,
ON the 18th instant, Of congestion Of the
brain.
WIN. II. williams, manager Of the Bullock
Printing Press company, died at New York
on the 10th instant.
Rev. VIM. Patton, D. D., who arrived
from Europe on the 9Th, died suddenly at
New Haven, Conn.,, ON the night Of the 9th
instant, of congestion Of the lungs, aged 81.
He was an author Of considerable repute.
William A. Patton, president Of Harvard
university, Warrington. 10 his son.
Vlre, water a.a s.ssHA
The State Deaf and Dumb institute at
Delsvan, Wis, was destroyed BY FIRE on the
the 10th inst. The inmates al escaped with
their effects. The loss TO the state will foot
up to nearly 100000. No insurance.
The glove factory Of John Hale 4 Co.,
Gloversville, N. r., burned on the 18th.
Loss $40 900; insurance 1900.
The shaft houses Of the Caribou, Idaho
and Monitor mines, at Caribou, Col, were
burned ON the 14th instant. together with
several dwsllings. Loss 10000
Rindskopi's distillsTy at Milwaukee, Wis.
was totally dsstroysd BY hrs on the 18Th
instant Ios 9l5.ooo
Advicss from Jacmel, Haya, state that
the IRE thsss destroyed the principal stores
| n the business csntre. Loss estimated at
100000. Daring the recent smsuts Go
nsiyes was almost annihilatsd BY Ere, only
the warehouse at the ssaside escaped.
Waites' telling mill, at FRANKLIN. Aass, /,
has burnsd. Loss 40 100; insurance eS2,0o0.
The tug Ontario burned y the waters
edge at Lsmbsou, Canada, On The 18th Inst
Total loss; 10 insurance.
The oatmeal mill Of Kissr ! Pisrson. q
Otsauva, lowe, burned o. the l2th inst
), Len sisAoo; issagsd tss eiAeo@
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-09-24
An Explosfon of OIL.

An explosion occurred on the 18th inst,
at the Quaker City Oil Works, Cooperville,
Pa, whereby George Emery, son of the
proprietor, was killed and Andrew Emery,
anotherson and James Stranger, machinist,
were 80 badly injured that their lives are
despaired of. The works had just been
erected and were started up for the first
time In refining of oil by a new process.
The main still was blown to atoms and burn.
ing oil scattered in every direction.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01

The defeat of Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, is lamented by all true patriots
throughout the country. 1t was defeat
of the cause of the toiling masses, and was
brought about by the money of the ma
tional banks and rail road companies The
Harrisburg (Penn.) Patriot makes the
following comments on Senator Thur
mans defeat:
But what contributed more than any,
thing else to the defeat of the able and dis
tinguished senator from Ohio is little con
sidered. Senator Thurman had the cour-
aoe to grapple with the Pacific railroad
monopoly in behalf of the people. While
charging enormous rates for freights and
passengers and sharing enormous profits
the monopoly evaded by every artifce its
obligations to the people whose money
constructed its road. Senator Thurman
prepared the bill to bring the monopoly
to book and compel it to provide a sink
ing fund for the liquidation of its obliga-
tons to the government. By his energy
and perseverance through session after
session of congress the bill at last became
law, and the law has been sustained by
decision of the supreme court of the
| United States.
In estimating the causes of Senator
| Thurman's defeat this great service to the
country should not be neglected. Had he
been less faithful to the public cause he
would not have brought down upon him
self the hostility of the powerful Pacific
railroad monopoly. In order to revenge
themselves for the future of the presence
in the senate of a statesman who has COM
PEELED them to make settlement with the
people, the managers of the monopoly
poured their money into Ohio to corrupt
the elections. Their success is shown in
the immense increase of the republican
vote in the cities of the State by which
the democratic majority in the Legislature
was overthrown. Had Senator Thurman
proved himself Indifferent or careless in
regard to the public interests he would not
have been molested by the power of the
monopoly. In the return of Sherman or
Garfield it has nothing to fear. The de-
feat of Senator Thurman is intended as a
warning to other senators and representa-
tees who may be disposed to initiate his
courageous example, for the Pacific rail
road monopolists have not yet abandoned
the hope of evading their obligations tc
the government and people. In the de-
feat of the Ohio senator one serious obsta
Gle to their success has been removed
Before and since the Ohio election the
New York organ of Jay Gould has poured
upon his head every epithet of abuse tina
hatred and malignity could suggest Blu
the real motive of this personal rancor i
studiously concealed under pretence o
hostility to the financial views of Senate
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
WHAT IS YOUR GRANGE DO
TNCTP

Your Grange is well organized force
of from fifty to one hundred and fifty
sturday Patrons of Husbandry. Let US
hear what you are doing. Surely you can
not be letting so much power, that may
be used for good, run to waste; you would
not go and bury the talents of all those
good brothers and sisters who have en-
listed in the farmers cause and who each
have work to do? Are harvest feasts
and election of officers the only events
worthy of being noted and reported? And
must the principal theme on these occa-
sions be the description of ones feelings,
Immediately after hearty celebration of
the harvest feast? Is not much attention
given to the feeding propensities, too an
imal? Why not strike the higher keys
that will ''develop higher manhood and
higher womanhood," in accordance with
the expressed Declaration of Purposes of
the Patrons of Husbandry?
A hundred, or even fifty, of the best
men and women from among the active
working farmers, trained as they are in
the Grange to act together make a splen
did working force, fully capable of
achievements worthy of the high aims of
the Order. Doubtless most of the Grang
ers in the State are at this time making
arrangements to be well represented at
the approaching meeting of the State
Grange; to contribute their part to make
the Patrons Mutual Aid Society a strong
and we'll established institution; to aid the
State Store if it needs it, and are laying
out work for themselves for the coming
year the execution of which will give the
members increased self-respect and a
higher standing as compared with other
classes. Though we enumerate it last,
perhaps the first thing these active
Oranges do, in view of the necessity of
keeping up full pitch of enthusiasm and
earnestness, is to secure the constant aid
of the Dirie0 Rural, by seeing that every
member has it and all others within their
Jurisdiction who ought to be members,
to keep up a steady glow Of interest
within and bring in recruits from without.
The influence of example is powerful
and if those who are doing these things
will not hide their light but make known
what they are doing, their good works
will be initiated by others and the con-
tagious spirit of emulation will seize the
whole and lift them into higher and bet
ter region of thought, action and results.
If there are some who are stronger in
spirit, higher in purpose and have wider
range of sympathies than others their ev-
eryday lives should be made an lifting,
oul-strengthening influence for the en-
couragement of those who are weaker
Dirigo Rural.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01

Scarcely have the commercial and in
dustrial interests of the country begun to
lift themselve from the depression of years
until this upward movement is followed
by rage of speculation which threatens
to outdo that which preceded the terrible
crash of 1873. In the New York stock
market in the course of one week of the
present month two million shares of rail
road stocks were sold at a nominal worth
of So 100000 while not one fourth of
these shares have brought dollar of div
idends. This speculative 'boom" has risen
to such an extent that according to an es-
innate of the New \ ork Times the value
of the capital stock of twenty six railroads
has increased since the 9TH of October
SI3S,54o,ooo. Erie shares have risen in
this time from I25 to Al, an increase in
nominal value of the shares to the amount
of S5I, $4,000. North Pacific (preferred)
has gone up from I79 to 524, or $500
900. The bonds of eleven railroads, some
of them second mortgages, have increased
in the same time in price $S,6IS,ooo. In
few cases this rise is due to a moderate
increase in actual value in consequence of
the renewed activity in business, but the
greatest portion of this paper has no real
value being the issue of bankrupt and ir-
responsible companies. The advance in
price due chiefly to a sudden revival of the
rage for speculation. This rise of nearly
$I5o,ooo,ooo in railroad paper shows the
enormous extent which the bubble has
been blown in few days. The great de-
mand in Europe for wheat and other pro-
ducts of this country and the conseq uent
general activity in business have given the
railroad full employment and there has
been a large increase of receipts for
freights and passengers. At the same time
the enormous emigration to the west and
the purchase of railroad lands by actual
settlers have given to some of the railroad
companies of that region greater Sc
curity. But there is nothing in the actual
increase of business that justifes the wild
rage for speculation that is witnessed in
the stock market of New York and Phil
adelphia. The ''bulls, have things their
own way now, but the reaction cannot be
long postponed, when the "bears" will
have their turn.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
A BAD YEAR FOR WAEAT.

If it did not seem like the simple repi-
tition of facts already established, we
might quote more largely than we do the
estimates that reach us by every succeed
ing mail of the deficiency in European
crops as compared with the probable sup
ply. An annual volume published at Mar
seilles, France, containing reports on the
production of that and other countries,
has now appeared for 1879 1t is large
quarto of over 900 pages, and fully agrees
with previous authorities as regards the
short yield of wheat in France. With re-
ference to wheat elsewhere, the following
are among the conclusions reached:
In Italy the harvest is decidedly bad; in
Switzerland there is considerable def
cit; while Spain, Belgium and Germany
are scarcely better off. The favorable an
ticipations of Russia and Turkey have had
to be largely discounted as the season ad-
vanced, and at best they will have only
half their usual quantity of grain available
for export Hungary which last year grew
three million quintails of wheat in excess
other requirements for home consumption,
will this year have none to spare; and in
Algeria the crops..are so deficient that i'm
portation will be the order of the day.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
THE SOUTHWESTERN CO-OPE
RATIVE ASSOCIATION.

We cannot too strongly urge upon far
mers and Patrons to at least give this As
sociation a trial. Our letters from Patrons
in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana and
this State, who have entrusted their busi-
ness with it, strongly endorse the manage
ment of its affairs. This Association, with
its headquarters at New Orleans, was or
gauized on the plan recommended by the
National Grunge; its officers are leading
members of the Order we'll known
throughout the Southwest, and the stock
holders, who are farmers and Patrons,
have entrusted their business with it for
years with the most satisfactory results.
The following is an extract from letter
ing Patron in Arkansas-Bro. Samuel n
Barnes, Secretary of Bright Star Grange,
Miller county:
Editor Patron. l am proud to see THE
PATRON gaining such influence as it is
among the toiling classes, and thank you
for calling the attention of members of the
Order to the Southwestern Cooperative
Association at New Orleans. Friends,
Patrons, you need have no fears of being
swindled by sending your produce to and
purchasing your supplies from that house.
We have tried it two years, and know
yphstit will do and what we can save by
dealing there. In 1873, we saved from
20 to 81 per cent; in 1879, we saved in the
purchase of our supplies IS per cent; this
summer, in the purchase of A gross of
glass fruit jars, we saved 81 on the dozen.
This season we expect to buy on a much
larger scale. Let US build up our house.
Our Grange, Bright Star, 623, is gain
ing ground. More or less applications
every meeting. Fraternally,
SAM'L n. BARNES, Sec'y.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
COLUMBUS MISSISSIPPI, NOVEMBER I, 1870

The cheering tone of the Grange press
in all parts Of the country is exceedingly
gratifying and encouraging, and indicates
that the farmers are becoming aroused,
and are determined to make their organi-
zation a complete and glorious success.
The country will be surprised at the num-
Der of dormant Oranges revived during
the year and now actively at work,
when the Secretary makes his report
at the approaching annual meeting
of the National Grange If the Order in
other States were in as healthy condi-
ton as it is in Mississippi, it would soon
recover lost ground. We think there will
now be decided improvement in all the
States-an improvement so marked, in
deed, that its most inveterate foes will be
forced to acknowledge that the Grange is
not failure.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
From the Atlanta Constitution.
COTTON FACTORIES IN GEOR.
GTA

The communication which we recently
published from Mr.. D. !. Sloan, of Nor
cross, in regard to the cotton factory at
Westminster, S. c., has attracted consid-
cradle attention not only at the South but
all through the North, and many persons
have visited the mill whose testimony in
duces us to believe that the people of the
South now have it in their power to take
long step forward in the direction of that
prosperity which must spring from diver
sified industry. Among those who have
recently visited the South Carolina facto-
ry is Capt G. F. Al<ers, of La Grange, and
in an article printed in the Reporter of
that place he confirms every statement Of
the correspondent of the Constitution
The machinery of the mill is simple and
cheap, and by setting it up in the neigh
| borhoods throughout the cotton belt, the
value of the staple can be increased fully
100 per cent, particularly when we take
into consideration the amount of money
saved on bagging, ties, packing, weighing
storing, shipping, etc. The factory now
in operation at Westminster, of which we
shall speak more at length in another ar
ticle, spins the cotton direct from the seed
bv means of machine know as the Glenn.
ent Attachment, and is run by seven wo
men and boy. Its capacity is between
four and five hundred pounds of seed cot
ton per day, and the yarns manufactured
sell in New York at an average of I6.
cents The cotton is taken from the cir
and brush and comes out in roll, and New
| York dealers say that threads made by thi
process class a great deal higher thar
threads made from compressed cotton
Not particle of lint is left on the seed, a
in the ordinary gins. We are inclined t.
believe that this method of preparing th'
staple for market solves the problem TO
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01

The New York World, an open suppor-
ter of the Money Power, and which ad-
mits into its columns the advertisements
of notorious swindlers whose influence
upon the family circle is evil and evil only,
is getting circulation by the thousands
among the farmers of the South. 1t is
probable that few of these farmers are
members of the Grange or ever thought OF
subscribing for and reading Grange
paper Will farmers never learn to sup
port their own papers and make them
strong and efficient, instead of contrlbu-
ting to building up the journals that are
conducted in the interest of those classes
that rob and oppress them?
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01

No organization of any class in this
country ever had greater obstacles to over
come than the Grange. At the very out
set it was met by the fiercest and most un-
scrupulous opposition of the merchants,
railway companies, and the middlemen of
all kinds and degree, who assailed it with
ridicule, with abuse, and with the grossest
Misrepresentation. The great majority of
the political newspapers, owned or con-
trolled by the merchants, lawyers and
professional politicians, were the ready
instruments to push the war upon the new
movement-a war in which falsehood and
treachery were employed with unprece-
dented zeal and audacity.
But the most fol mdable and dangerous
opposition came from certain classes that
had slipped into the organization who
were hostile to the principles and purposes
of the Order, and large numbers of plan
ters and editors of agricultural journals
who looked with jealousy upon a move
ment that.was bringing out new ideas and
calling new men to the front-men who,
under the old order of things, had been
kept in the background. The object of
the merchants and politicians who joined
the Order was, to speak the truth in plain
language, either to make it subserve their
interests or to destroy it. AS a rule, these
classes failed to realize any considerable
personal advantage, but the evil effects of
their connection with the Order was such
that it will take years of hard work by
the true members to eradicate them.
The agricultural journals and the lead
ing members of the old farmers clubs re-
garded the new movement with extreme
disfavor They had controlled the farmers
as a class in all agricultural matters, and
were not inclined to give way to new men
who had quietly submitted to their rule SO
long. These editors and these farmers
clubs that were made up mainly of veal
thy planters, merchants and lawyers, never
had any real sympathy with the toiling
masses.
But all these hostile classes combined
have not been strong enough to destroy
the Grange. That they dealt it some tell
ing blows here and there, and greatly re-
tarded its progress in some of the
States. is most true. But the organi-
zation has been kept intact, and the true
men who have been placed in the lead are
not only restoring confidence in the move
ment, but are rapidly regaining lost
ground. The simple facts that the revival
of dormant Oranges is of daily occur
renee and the circulation of the leading
Grange papers rapidly increasing, are suf-
fcient evidences that the Order is not only
a fixed institution in this country, but thai
its progress in numbers, strength and infiu-
ence was never so steady and healthful.
When we consider the obstacles tina
have been overcome and the powerful and
dangerous elements that had to be weedec
out the true friends of the Grange may
we'll take courage and engage in the worE
with renewed zeal
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01

1t would be interesting to.know which
is the strongest Grange in each of the
Southwestern States. We would be glad
to have the Secretaries Of full Oranges
send us statements of the number of their
members and of the cooperative enter
prises they are engaged in. In Tennessee,
Melrose Grange, Shelby county, probably
has the largest number of members, and
is, perhaps, one of the hest working Gran
ges in the country.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
Number 40.

the South. 1t enables the planters of each
neighborhood to add the industry of man.
ufacturing to the business of cotton-rais
ing, and at a profit that will more than JUS
tify the small investment to be made; and
within the course of the next year or two,
if we do not mistake the purpose and en-
terprise of our people, there will be atleast
one hundred of these factories in opera
ton in Georgia. Wherever there is grist
mill, planning mill or saw MILL a yarn fac
tory can be added without an increase of
power and very little increase of cost
We have gathered some facts and figures
in regaid to the Westminster mill which
we propose to present to the readers of
Tile Constitution as occasion may war
rant.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-01
The Patron of Husbandry.
w. H. wORTHINGTON, EDITOR.
COLUMBUS, MISS, NOV. l.; 1870.
The approaching annual meeting of the

The approaching annual meeting of the
National Grange at Canandaigua, New
81 1ork, will probably be well attended.
Worthy Master Darden of this State, will
be present, and Past Master A. J. Vaughn,
Steward of the National Grange, informs
BIS that he will also attend. We hope all
of the Southwestern States will be repre-
sented. We will present our readers with
full accounts of the proceedings at the ear
Test moment.