Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-09
NATURES N0BLEHEH.
THE NATIONAL CHANGERS ON THEIR
WAY HITLER.
Expected Arrival of the Advance Guard
To-Day-Ihe National Grange
Officers.


National Grange, John Tumble of Wash
ington, D. c., will arrive in this city this
morning, accompanied by n. Whitehead,
Lecturer OF that body. The large party of
delegates who are travelling west in COM
pany are not expected until next Tuesday
morning. The State Commissioners and
representative Sacramento citizens will
turn out to greet them, and all present and
past members of the State Grange are
asked to join in the welcome to the visit
ors.
The National Grange meeting is held
here By special invitation. The last Legs-
lature, it will be remembered. gave $4,000
to defray expenses of entertainment.
William Johnston, of this county, Past
Master of the State Grange, is Chairman of
the Board OF Commissioners having the
entertainment in charge. The Golden
Eagle Hotel will be headquarters for the
officers and members of the National
Grange. The daily sessions will be held
in the Assembly Chamber of the State
Capitol, opening at 10 A N next Wednes-
be taken around The State.
MANY PROMINENT MEN.
The visitors Will include many men of
prominence in their localities, and Califor-
mans, always hospitable. can at this time
do no more graceful act than to greet and
entertain properly these men who have de.
voted the best years of their lives to agTi-
cultural pursuits. 1t is expected that Col
onel J. II. Brigham, of Delta, O., Master of
the National Grange, will be here, as well
as James Draper, of Worcester Mass, Over
seer of the National Grange; Mortimer
Whitehead, of New Jersey, National Lect-
urer; ex Governor ROBBIE, of Maine. and
many others. Governor Robe and ffty
other members OF the National Grange
were reported by telegraph November 5'h
to be at the Sherman House, Chicago, on
their way TO attend the annual gathering.
The present officers of the National
Grange, besides those above named, are
Steward, Y X. CHARTERS, fredericksburg
Va; Assistant Steward, J. H Hale, South
Glastonbury, Conn Chaplain, A. j. Rose,
Saiado, Tex; Treasurer, f. NJ. Mcdowell,
Weyne, n. Y; Secretary, John Trimble,
Washington. D. c.; Gate keeper A. n.
Brown, Wyoming, Del; Ceres, Mrs. K. A.
Darden, Fayette, Miss; Pomona, Mrs. J. c.
Draper, Worcester, Mass; Flora, Mrs. NJ.
b. Luce, Lansing, Mich; Lady Assistant
Steward, Mrs. H. A. Sims, Topeka. Ks;
Executive Committee. N. Blanton.
Farmyille, Va; Leonard Rhone, Center
Hall Pa; ]. ]. Woodman, Paw Paw, Mich
NOT MERELY sIGHTsEERs.
In speaking of the coming gathering, the
Pacific Rural Press, which has issued
special Grange edition for the occasion,
says:
The delegates to this body are not COM
ing with the sword and drum. glittering
helmets and baldrics, gay uniforms and the
imposing pageantry of war. They wear no
emblems, fout no banners that stir the
of strife. They are not coming
merely as nomadic sightseers, to wine and
dine and have good time. They are COM
ing as the chosen representatives of an
order that has for its special aim the moral
and material advancement of the republic,
by taking under their fostering care the
greatest industry of the land. They come
with the aroma of the field and vineyard in
their garments The Patrons of Hus-
bandry are the advanced guard of that era
long herslded in prophecy and song when
swords shall be beaten into plowshares,
spears into pruning-hooks and nations
learn war no more. One of the most at
tractive features of this assemblage is its
non-sectional character. Our brothers are
coming from the granite hills of New Egg
land, the great wheat belts of the North,
the immense corn fields of the prairies of
the West, the rice, cotton and sugar lands
of the South; for. like mighty banyan
tree, this order has spread its boughs
the Union. Now an association
so widely spread and so closely knitted to-
gether by a common feeling, reciprocal
wants and interests cannot be otherwise
than one of the strongest bonds of national
unity"
THE GRANGE EXHIBIT.
While the National Grange is in session
the Sergeant-at-Arms' room, adjoining the
Assembly Chamber, will be well filled with
exhibits of California products, manufact-
ures, exotics, minerals and other rare SPEC
linens, in care of a. A. Krull, of Sacra-
mento, All farmers should contribute to
this display, and also invite others to ex-
hibit. Any having fruit or seeds of any
kind which they are willing to donate to
Eastern friends should not fail to send the
same to the Changers store, 1000 K street,
Sacramento.
Delegates from Oregon and Washington
Territory are expected at the Grange meet
ing. Next Thursday is announced as the
great public day, when the proceedings
will be of more interest to outsiders that at
any other time. Senator Stanford has
promised to be present then, as well as
Governor Waterman.