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Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-10-21

To our correspondents query, we would
reply that we believe such rumor to have been
baseless, as we have interviewed one Of the
owners of the Waxworks upon the subject, who
declares to an utter ignorance Of such propo-
sition. The query, however, may prove to be
an opportune suggestion, and one on which our
imaginative Premier, who places so much stress
upon the necessity Of symboliralion, may be
glad to avail himself. All tina, would be ne
cessary to give to the figures their necessary
standing, would be a Royal Proclamation de-
claratory Of their recognition as proxies, to act
in place OF the distinguished persons to be
represented; and few attendants could be
placed in convenient proximity with the dunn
mics, so as to make them bob their heads, when
necessary, or lift them up when required, to
stand during any part Of the ceremony.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

Under the above caption the Aber-i
deem Examiner har the following time
" article and the moral we want to
point. by reproducing it is: Farmers
be wise, and make your preparations
for sowing large increase of area in
oats and wheat this fall.
On the 7th inst, the steamers Bata-
via and st. Laureant took out 81, $780,
900 in specie from the port of New
York, to meet balances against our
merchants in Europe. On the same
day the receipts atour Custom Houses
for duties on imports footed up the
enormous total of 1868, 734. We are
importing at the present time vastly
more than we are sending out, and if
it was not for the cotton shipments the
great commercia' revulsion which is
inevitable in the near future, would
not be upon the country. The re-
ports from Continental Europe indi-
cate unusually good crops; this means
light grain exports from America, and
a balance of trade in the year 1882 80
badly against us. We are not alarm
lists, but if 1873 is to have its counter
part in the coming year, we want our
people to "brace up" and be ready to
meet the storm. If the clouds blow
over we will be all the better off for
preparations, and if the tempest
strikes it will find us with our defen-
sive armor on. The South, with her
peculiar industries and surroundings
cannot be badly affected by any com
mercial revulsion # she exercises ordi-
nary prudence.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
SwiudIing Farmers.

The reports of farmers being
swindled by travelling sharpers are
less numerous than they were few
years ago Farmers are not as anx-
ious as they were of becoming
agents for the sale of useless inn
plements or to purchase patent
rights. They are more careful about
signing orders for lightning-rods
and advancing money for goods to
be delivered in the future. In brief,
they are becoming more intelligent
in all business matters. Cases of
.swindling are occasionally reported,
but when they are it is evident that
the sharpers have been obliged to
resort to some new dodge in
order to insure success. A new
swindle, according to local reports,
has been perpetrated in several
places in Iowa during the past
month. 1t requires two persons to
manage it successfully. They
watch the papers for notices of es-
trays. One goes to look at horse
or cow, and soon decides that it is
not the one he has lost. During
his visit he carefully notices the
size, color and peculir marks on the
animal, and forms pretty accurate
opinion in regard to its weight and
age. He reports all these matters
to his partner who, in a few
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

General w. B. Bate has been nomi-
mated for Governor of Tennessee by the
Democrats, and 50-3 agreed upon as
the basis of settlement of the State
debt between the high and low tax
wings Of the party.
Senator Anthony has been reelected
United States Senator from Rhode
Island. He first took his seat in that
body in 1859, and has served continu-
ously since.
The resignation of the Rev. Samuel
Longfellow, a brother of the deceased
poet, as pastor of the Unitarian Church,
at Germantown has been accepted. AT
the request of his brothers family, Rev.
Mr.. Longfellow will devote years
time in writing biography of Henry
w. Longfellow.
Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, mother of the
late Bayard Taylor, has presented to a
leading dry goods house in Philadelphia
a handsome skein of silk, reeled and
spun with her own hands, in the S3rd
year of her age.
ssIn gratitude for his kindness and
urbanity," an inmate of an English
workhouse, aged rs, recently be-
queathed his body to the attending ply
sician. The bequest was not accepted.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, is to
deliver the address at the Daniel Web
ster centennial celebration, at Hanover,
n. H., on the 2Sth of this month.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
Lee COnnfx

Editor Patron: Feeling confident
that you and your readers are anx-
iously watching and aiting to
seessr hear something from Bro.
A. kEieIlar, as he is now on lis
grand S9ies of lectures, | will give
you brief sketch.
He has promptly filed all of his
appointments up to June IL, then
bid him farewell, leaving him in
the care of Bro. A. F. league and
many other warm friends, who are
more than willing to administer to
his wants. | met with Bro. KelIar
al Caldwell and was with him all
the time save his appointment at
Burton [ am informed that his
bearers at Burton were about FIVE
hundred, aud that they bad hog
killing time. | can say, from per-
sonaf knowledge, that his other APP
pointments were well attended, and
he had the best of attention and
his services We're highly appreci-
ated. His appointments were all
public, and he, of course, did not
call for recruits; but, judging from
the countenances and private ex
presslons Of bis hearers, they we're
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
FROM TEXAS,
HOPKINS Comfy.

Editor Patron: My attention was
attracted by an article in your issue
of May 18th, from the California
Patron, beaded Grange Life Insur-
ance. The writer seems to be ig-
norant of the fact that there is now
already organized and at work in
the Grange the very best Insurance
institutions that now cxists-that
Is, cooperation. Co operation, in
my opinion, as an insurance insti-
tuition, can not be beat Bro Rose
could show him up on that point.
By investing ten dollars in a CO
operation store, doing all of his
trading there, and leaving his divi-
dend and interest there he will at
the end of a short life have placed
To him a greater sum than he would
get through life insurance compa-
MES, and get his goods as cheap as
elsewhere. | will not make a call
cuIation here for want of space.
But take a stock of $40 at 8 per cent.
per annum, and profit of 10 per
cent. on the goods, turn them over
two or three times a year-whicb
you will do, or more-trade two or
three hundred dollars, which is
reasonable enough for a man of
family, and give him his pro rata
OF the accumulative fund, and if
YOU bavn't made the calculation
beiore you will be surprised. Now
what we want is to do away with
all unnecessary things and give
our whole support to that that is
necessary. You can do more in
this than any one | know OF,
therefore l write to you a short ar
ticIe on this subject, and an article
from you on this subject would do
great good.
| hope that THE PATRON OF
HUsBANDRY will be adopted as the
official organ of our State Grange
at its next meeting
Fraternally, b. r. GRAY.
Rely Springs, June Il.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
ChickaSaW County.

Editor Patron. The following
resolutions were passed by Houston
Grange, 27I, at regular meeting
held June sd, 1852:
Resolved, That we do heartily
endorse the Congressional record of
Hon. H. L. Muldrow, in whom we
recognize a faithful representative
of the interests of the agriculturists
OF the country as well as the inte-
rests of other classes.
Resolved, That a copy of this
resolution be sent to The PATRON
OF HUsBANDRY for publication.
M. GRIFFIN, Master.
]. F. THOMPSON, Secretary.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
Agricultural Economics.

The profit of the future is to come
in avoidance of wastes of the farm.
AS the country grows older, land
dearer and immigration heavier,
competition wakes fiercer in all ae-
ricultural production. A ruinous
share of the hay is lost first in cut
ting when ripened to woodiness or
dried to hardened stems, then in
giving it out to sustain life and ami.
NAL heat rather than for fat and
flesh. Corn is also thrown away by
insufficient or injudicious feeding.
There is enormous loss in keeping
a poor cow that yields 900 gallons
of milk per annum instead of one
that produces 700 at about the same
cost. One may bring tho owner
in debt while the other affords a
handsome profit on expense of
keep. A cow that gives milk only
from April to November and runs
dry when forage is costly, and milk
is dear should have few months
extra feeding, and go to the butcher
as soon as possible. That a cow is
dry for more than six weeks is the
fault of the owner in not procuring
"the survival of the fttest," and
again 'perhaps in not supplyin
ample and succulent food at all
seasons, while the milk habit of the
young cow is forming. The loss in
milk and meat by irregular feeding
and a change from fresh pastures
to a straw stack and coarse hay
during an inclement season, is an
irreparable waste which is projec-
ted into the succeeding summer with
out regard to the abundance of its
pasturage.
The losses from negligence or
want of skill, in the preparation
for market, the manipulation or
manufacture from raw material is
enormous. Milk of the same quality,
of the same cost, makes butter at
fifteen cents and half dollar per
pound. Mixed fruits sell in market
at half the value of assorted samples
neatly put up. The pig products
of famous Massachusetts farm are
disposed of in New York city at
twenty three cents per pound,
while similar goods from the aver
age farm command but fifteen cents.
Skill, taste, neatness and a we'll
earned reputation for reliable ex-
cellence get the highest rewards
give better dividends on the capital
and labor represented in the pro-
duct which they are expended.
There is solid money in these I'M
tangable valuables. But the waste
that may be avoided are numerous
in every department of agricultural
practice, and cannot be limited at
in a paragraph. They are illustrated
in the differing costs and selling
prices of adjoining farms in every
neighborhood of the land-N r.
Tribune.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

An appalling cyclone came
down on the town Of Grinnel, Iowa,
at $50 O'Clock on Saturday night
last, in which both college build
ings were destroyed and the north
half of the town laid in ruins. The
loss was fearful, the accounts in
Mondays dailies stating that forty
one persons had been killed and FIVE
or six at least MORALLY injured. The
loss by the destruction of property
is stated at 5000, 900. At Malcolm,
nine miles east of Grinnel, a similar
disaster befell the town. eight per,
sons being reported killed and a
large number injured more or less
dangerously, the track of the lorna
do is reported as extending from
five miles north west of Grinnell
and twenty miles southeast. 1t is
believed that more than a hundred
lives were destroyed in the storm s
track and 150 to 160 persons in
jnred, besides an immense destruc-
ton of property.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
Chickasaw County.

Editor Patron: That the agricul-
turai interests may be properly rep
resented in our next Congress it is
time the farmers should make
known their wants. We should
inform candidates for Congress
what special measures we desire
advocated in our National councils,
and turn out in full force at the
primaries, county and district con
ventIons, and vote only for such
men as publicly pledge their earn
est support to our measures.
suggest that a good way to be-
gin the important work is for each
County Grange 10 this State at
their next regular meeting adopt
resolutions showing what we want,
and have the same published in
your valuable paper.
L do not know your views on this
subject but ] believe that such reso-
lutioUs should embrace the follow,
ing matters of legislation: The SUI
pervlsion of charges by railroad
companies for freight and passage;
closing of the National banks at
the expiration of their charters and
the Government issuing green
backs in lieu of the notes called in;
taxing of United States bonds as
other property; abolishing high
protective tariff, and entirely re-
Ileving from import duty all iron
cotton-tles, and al! iron and steel
imported to be made into agricul-
tural implements; stopping ali
grants of the public domain as sub
sldy to railroads and asking grants
of public lands in aid of orr public
schools, and agricultural and me-
chanical colleges, etc.
The quarterly meeting of our
County Grange will be held on
the first Friday (the 7th) of July.
Ii 1t suits your views on the SUBJ
ject / wish you would consult with
some of our leading lights and sug-
gest, through THE PATRON, a suit
able form for and the proper meas
ures to be embraced in such resoIu-
tiOns, and do so at the earliest day.
As to parties, / suggest that we
stand by the white mans party
the party that has done most for
the State and Nation.
| recommend that the Changers
be advised to remain in the party
Of their choice and turn out in
force and control the action of such
party. We have the power to
control any party.
FraternalIy, A. PATRON.
Houston, June Il.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

A Chicago Times Washington
special says: Guiteau passes most
of his time in reading the Bible
No arrangements for the execution
have yet been made, and the final
programme will not be completed
until shortly before the execution.
The gallows is permanent struc-
ture, and always in position, SO far
as mere. hanging is concerned.
Nothing remains to be done except
to adjust the ropes. A new rope is
TO be used and it will be shrunk
some time next week. Thousands
of applications to witness the exe-
cntion have been made, but only a
few persons, probably not to ex-
coed 100, will be admitted to the
place of execution.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

ready TO cry out from the great
deep of their heart, and say sstfieh
and brethren, what shall We do to
saved2" It WAS a common thing to
see the tears triekiing down the
check of his hearers, yet be talked
Grangerism, and convinced the un-
informed Patron of Husbandry yea,
and might add, the better inform
cd, that the aims and purposes OF
the Grange went far beyond their
expectations.
We shall expect, after Bro. Kellar
has returned home, that many will
be found earnestly and anxiously
knocking at our gates for admis-
sion.
Permit me to say TO you, Bro.
Worthingten, that you need not
fear exaggerating when you speak
in praise of this noble man.
Feeling confident that others will
wish to say something of Bro.
KelIar | will close.
Fraternally, J. w. RATLIff.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
Newton county.

Editor Patron The Grange cause
is still safe and strong in Newton
county. Active work will coon be
commenced, in fact it has already
commenced. Evergreen Grange,
5o3. at Decatur is to have a pic mic
on Friday, June e. Speakers are
invited, and among them are young
men, farmers sons, who are able to
ioterest any assembly on anv sub
Ject they may undertake. We also
expect Worthy Master j. B. Bailey
OF the County Grange He is an
able expounder of our principles
and has the confidence of all. His
most bitter enemies accord to him
honesty and sincerity to the toiling
millions.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
rye number of Germ

A large number of German emil
grants are settling in Texas.
Florida shipped 100000 oran-
ges during the season ending June I :.
Farmyard manure from well fed
cattle three years old is worth an
average of 50 80 per ton.
Montreal, Canada, lost a million
dollars by fire June Is. Texarkana,
Ark, lost $4,000 the day before.
Heavy storms impeded railway
travel and interrupted Geographic
communication through Southern
Indiana and Ohio on the 18th.
During last month the State
Treasurer of Texas received from
the sale of land SOS, gao, of which
seS,48S was first payments, repre-
senting sales of..about 10000 acres
Of school lands.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

j. S. Clarkson, editor of the Des-
Moines, Iowa, Register, writes an
appeal to the public for aid for the suf-
ferers from the terrible cyclone which
passed through Iowa on Saturday
night. We make the following extract
which shows the immense destruction
of life and property and the sufferings
of the people:
After two days and nights spent in
traversing the track of the tornado that
swept over this State with such fearful
havoc last Saturday night, and having
reports from scores of the reporters of
the Register and the Associated Press
sent to all parts of it, 1 find the condi-
ton of the stricken people so piteous
and so needful of distant and generous
help that | send this appeal to the peo-
pie of the United States in their behalf.
The tornado made the swath of destruc-
ton through settled portion of Iowa,
some $50 miles in length and averages
half mile in width, extending from
point south of Ames, in the center of
the State, and swept in the shape of
crescent to South English, in Keokuk
county, in the southeastern portion of
the State. We have the names now
of sixty-nine dead and 500 wounded;
half of the latter are grievously hurt
and probably fifth of them fatally.
Over 800 families have had their homes
totally destroyed, and there are at least
1900 homeless and in want. The loss
in property will exceed 50 900, 900, and
may reach 100000 In the town
of Grinnell alone over 100000 in
property was destroyed, on none of
which was there was cent of insu-
rance, as in the case of fires. IL will
take at least $500, 900 to put the peo-
pie there beyond need and distress; it
will take 800, 900 at once to put the
wounded people in condition to be
cared for; it will take 81 900, 900 at the
lowest to keep the sufferers from want
and help them to put the humblest of
roofs over their heads.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
DAYS, pays ! visit to the farm where

days, pays 4 visit to the farm where
the animal was tsken up. He is
able to give so full and accurate a
description of the s1ost' animal
that the person in whose possession
it is has no reluctance in offering to
give it up. The pretended owner,
however, finds it inconvenient to
take it home, and offers to sell it at
a low price. The farmer accepts
the proposition to sell, and pays
over the money. In the course of
few days the rightful owner
comes along and claims the animal,
and produces evidence that it is his.
The residence of the seller can not
be ascertained, and, of course, the
buyer is out the money he has paid.
- CHICAGO Times.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
The Hessian fly has DESTROYED tn,

The Hessian fly has destroyed the
watermelon vines at Tampa, Fla.
The Wool growers Association
of Texas adopted a resolution to
support no man for Congress who
does not advocate the protection of
that interest against importations.
The Eleventh Congressional Dis
trict of Texas is larger than Ala
bama and Mississippi, and will
some day raise more cotton than
those two States and more wheat
than Ohio and Missouri.
The Senate guiped down the
Tariff Com mission humb bug all in a
lump and with but slight gagging.
The country expects nothing from
the Commission, aud is in no dan
ger of disappointment.
An extraordinary incursion of
of prairie dogs threatened the corn
and oars with destruction in some
parts of Texas.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

A large number of ladies met in
Werlein Music hall, New Orleans, last
Saturday for the purpose of forming a
society for the propagation of silk cul-
ture. twenty-five members were
enrolled. When organized it is the
purpose of the organization to establish
branches throughout Louisiana; plant
plantations of white mulberry trees;
and establish model silk farm in one
of the surberbs of New Orleans. And
it is also proposed to erect in this city
all the works, mills, machines or estab-
lishments of any kind in the line of the
silk industry, whenever the same shall
become necessary, all to be conducted
under the patronage of the association.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
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BarriOS' Mission.

t1nClnllaIl COmineIclal.
WASHINGTON, June, Is Senator
Barrios, the foremost man in Gaute-
mala, Central America, is on his way
to Washington. 1t has been supposed
that he was coming on mission in
connection with the interminable dis
pute over the boundary between Mexi-
co and Guatemala.
To-day, however, your correspon-
dent was informed of a report current
for several days among Senators pos
sessing the confidence of the admins
tration, to the effect that Barrios comes
as the bearer of a proposition looking
to the commercial, and ultimately the
political annexation of Central Ameri-
ca at first, and then of Mexico, to the
United States. The gentlemen, enter
tanning the belief that this was the OBJ
ject of his mission, assert that the
State Department has promised Bar
rios the most careful hearing, and that
the President is personally favorable to
the project.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
"Many Subscribers generally writes

.'Many Subscribers" generally writes
on postal card giving old suggestions
that have been discarded. He is a
small-minded chap who reads the
papers at the beer saloons. He thinks
Many Subscriber" more binding than
his own name.
The gallows viii not seem awkward
to Guiteau after he gets the hang of
the thing. IN. o. Picayune.
When man is biting corn from the
cob he should fix his eyes on some far
away object, and not attempt to smile
and be agreeable with cob in his
mouth. s1z
The river and harhor bill now passed
the House, foots up SIT 100000, but
before it goes through the Senate
another million is likely to be added to
II
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
II enper County.

EdttOr Patron. We wish through
The PATRON to return our thanks
for some packages of cotton seed
sent Hopewell Grange, 335. Not
knowing the source from whence
they came, we hope the kind donor
will see that we, the members of
HoPewell Grange, highly appreci-
ate the kind favor Fraternallv,
JAMES MILLER, Sec'y.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
Land for Sale.

The undersigned offers for sale $40 acres
ofIand situated three miles west of Buffalo,
Leon county, Texas, rs acres OF winch IS
in good state of cultivation. under good
fence, most of the land in cultivation as
good bottom llnd. On the tract are three
good settlements with tenant houses, barns,
&c, attached. and splendid well OF last
ing water, pure freestone, on each settle
Inent: all three settlements in full view OF
each other; also never failing spring and
branch water to supply pasturage, and good
orchards of choice fruit on the farm. Also
one tract one mile south of the above OF I3
acres, IL acres in high state OF cultivation
with pure lasting spring water to supply:
This little tract is in 100 yards of school
house and 300 yards of good steam GIN
and mill.
Terms: For the 4so acre tract, $500;
one-half cash, balance in one and two
years; for the small tract, 5000 cash.
For further information apply to
7. p. PARKER " SONS,
Buffalo, Leon county, Texas.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24

According to the Yazoo Miss
Sentinel, many planters say they
would not part with the advantage
the overflow will be to their lands
for a nice little sum of money. The
sediment deposited by the flood will
do the soil more good than any fer
tilizer that could be applied. One
planter says the cotton lands will
now be worth from four to five dol
lars more per acre than formerly.