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Year: 1874

AMONG those clerical gentlemen who fav-
ored Chicago, on Sunday, with their views
of the salvation question, was a reverend
speaker who gave an account of his effort
to convert the Italians. He did not favor
his hearers with any statistics as to the
number Of Italian souls that have been
converted but he did state how much
money had been expended. Not only this
but he gave the further important infol-
nation that the effort to convert the 1tal-
ians is now in straitened condition for
lack Of money, and that it must have
more, or the work must stop.


It is curious feature Of the compost
ton Of sects, that they will give more for
one proselyte than they will for a convert
of any other kind. A Protestant will ex-
pend more money and effort to convert one
Catholic, or Jew, to Professionalism, than ne
would to convert ten common sinners In
the same direction. Chicago, for instance,
is choke-full of commonplace sinners,
who mur''er, rob, deal three card monte,
run keno-dens, manipulate people par'ies:
and commit develtries of all kinds and
yet there is very little organized effort
made to convert them. Almost any Or
thodox church in this city would con-
tribute $500 to convert some Catholic or
gangrinder in Rome, while it would be
verY 10th to advance 10 cents to convert q
sinner of home manufacture and residence.
We have here one Of the most iniquitous
cities on the continent. It as much worse
Year: 1874

P1oNEER.-Of late, whenever we see any,
thing in the Pioneer in accord with the
spirit Of the real political revolution now
going forward, we hail it with pleasure as
An evidence that the scholar is doing credit
TO its teacher. Elsewhere will be found
an article taken from that paper of the 18th
inst. which is as sound good doctrine as the
original text repeatedly promulgated
through the GRANGE ADVANCE. Every
body on..the streets proclaims that the Pio-
neer is spy in our camp; that it is play
ing "good Indian " only to secure our con-
fdence, and throw us off our guard, to be-
tray us at the moment We shall most need
it's assistance. But We answer if bad wo-
man wants to reform let her reform, and
don't discourage her first efforts with un-
necessary suspicious. "Suficient for the
day is the evil Tor good) thereof.''
Year: 1874

The Minneapolis Tribune has discovered
that the GRANGE ADVANCE is Donnelly
organ. The Waseca News long since
proved it to be Democratic. Gentlemen, if
you would follow the excellent example of
the Pioneer and come out Of the dirty parti-
san slough through which you have been
wallowing, wash the filth from your bodies,
embrace the doctrine promulgated and ad-
voeated by the GRANGE ADVANCE, editorial
duties would be honorable, digniied and
truthful, with no necessity for striving to
exc out precocious living by duplicity
and Misrepresentation.
Year: 1874

The editor of the Waseca News is still in
q feverish, nervous state Of mind, caused
by few trifing paragraphs which appeared
in the GRANGE ADVANCE. One was, that
the editor when a legislator last winter in
sisted upon his constituents not only pay
ing their delinquent taxes with all the
incidental charges, but an additional
IL per cent. As a trusted representative Of
the interest Of the people he had right to
manifest his sympathy for the poor and
necessitous in his own way and should not
censare us for publishing an act Of which
he has proudly boasted.
Year: 1874

TnE editor Of the Waseca News is so
splenetic and soured in temper that he can
not even enjoy joke. When speaking of
tax matters he said the common people
paid their taxes" For this little freak Of
Aatulency the GRANGE ADVANCE poked fun
at him, modified with little ridicule. In
stead Of laughing at the matter the editor
goes off g on his ear" and has been berat-
ing us and explaining to the people for the
last three weeks. Herewith we give him
glory and renown are somewhere in the
future for that genius.
Year: 1874

RA1LRoAps.-The tax which the differ
ent railroads will pay into the State treasu-
ry this year will in the aggregate amount
to about $1so,000. Railroads are, after all,
an mixed evil. Firmness, tempered
with justice on the part of the people, will
soon force satisfactory settlement Of this
vexed question, and the sooner it is set
tied the better for all concerned. A rail-
road worked on fair business principles is
a blessing to community, but if it mas
power to control and tx the market rates
Of produce, the blessing is converted into
curse.
Year: 1874

MEMoRAHDUM.-T The President has no
disposition to let Senator Ives carry off tie
credit Of the Memorandum on the currency
question. The President says he wrote it
himself, in the evening, after hard days
work to show mel. bers Of Congress who
were persistently questioning him upon the
subject. We may be in error, but cannot
help thinking it is the most sensible thing
he has done during his administration.
Year: 1874

The STATE UNIVERSITY will shortly send
out circular protesting to consult farmers
about course of lectures to be given next
winter on agriculture. The farmers had
much better reclaim the lands donated by
Congress for an Agricultural College and
Experimental Farm than trife with these
classical schoolmasters What supreme
burlesque, to talk Of teaching farming in
winter lecture-room! The design Congress
had in view was excellent, and if the
scheme had been carried out in good faith
farmers would ere this have had an agri-
cultural school of their own, similar to
those which have proved so highly bene >
fetal in other states and countries. But in
this, as in all other public matters, the
farmer was the subject of plunder. Some
gentlemen engaged to represent this agri-
cultural business, resigned in disgust, un-
willing to lend tl-eir names to support the
farce. From the sale Of lands this fund
has been accumulating for years, and now
the very class Of people to whom the land
grant was given for school and farm must
receive it as q favor if their boys are
permitted to listen to a few winter dis
courses On matters and things in general.
Bah! When will sham and cant and false
pretences come to an end?


As a classical school, the University may
be good enough and can be made an hdhor
to the state, but to do so it must rise SUPER
ior to clap'trap. Let the University en-
joy its own revenues and give back the
agricultural land:grant for farmers school
organized on true agricultural basis.
Year: 1874

No COMMUNISM or Red Republicanism
in Ireland. When Rochfort landed at
Queenstown on his return from New York,
June 10th, it was as much as the police
could do to keep the mob from lynching
him. Roshtort's idea Of glory is to be shot
fehind barricade.
Year: 1874

PHILADELPHIA will get no money out Of
this Congress for the Centennial. The
Oranges have frightened Congress, and for
a moment, till after the fall elections are
ever lavish expenditures will stop.
Year: 1874

THE attempt to organize on Sat
urday evening for a celebration of
the 18th of July, proved abortive.
Mayor Cooper was on hand, but
found so few present as to dis
courage even him from attempting
to make arrangements. We would
now propose something in the way
Of picnic in some grove near at
hand, for the amusement of the
children; something like we used
to have before money-making was
the object in celebrating the nation
al birthday.
Year: 1874

ATTEMPTED TuEFT.-About three
weeks ago young man came to the
livery stable of Priestley & Bohan,
in this city, with a horse, and hired
a buggy to go TO Platteville, as he
said. Not returning for several
days, the livery men became con-
vinced that the fellow did not in
tend to return the property, and
telegraphed to various points, des-
cribing the man and property, and
ordering his arrest if found. Last
Friday they received word from the
Sheriff of Crawford county that
their man was there trying to sell
the whole rig. He was arrested
and brought to this city, and on
Monday examined before Mayor
Cooper. He gave his name as b.
Hanlin, and claimed Elk Grove as
his residence. He plead guilty to
the charge of larceny, and was COM
mitted to the county Jail to await
the sitting Of the Circuit Court in
October He said he wanted to sell
the rig to raise little money, as he
was going up north to start in
some kind of business. The horse
was his own, but was mortgaged to
some one in Darlington for $50.
Priestley q Bohan attached the ami
mai for the use of their buggy and
harness, and expenses but after
paying the mortgage will hardly
come out even. The thief claims
this to be his first venture in the
business, which is evidently true,
for the slip-shod manner in which
he managed the transaction proves
him to be unskilled in the profes-
sion, Having pleaded guilty, the
County Judge, we understand, has
the right to pass Sentence on tht
prisoner, and he may at once b,
sent to Waupun and commence
serving out his time. From one tc
four years is the term prescribed
by statute for his crime.
Year: 1874

Sd and most positive, fear that
Congress will reduce the tariff on
the metal, and the foreign article
thus come into competition with
the home product. The latter cause
will be removed with the adjourn
ment of Congress, and while we
sympathize with the miners WHO are
inconvenienced, we trust they will
pay heed to the lesson they have re-
ceived on free trade.


SO far as we can learn there is no
good reason to fear that the demand
heretofore existing for zinc will not
continue. The Missouri ore will not
long be forced to come to La Sale
to be manufactured, for furnaces
will be built nearer its place of pro-
duction, and it will be drawn out of
competition with the ores of this re-
gion. Thus the three causes named
will be removed ; but another will re-
main that has heretofore existed, !. C..
that though dry-bone at SIS to $40
| per ton pays good profit to the
manufacturer, blackjack pays bet
ter, and will take the preference so
long as the supply is sufficient to
keep furnaces running at present
prices.
Year: 1874

THE M. e. Church excursion TO
Dubuque yesterday was grand
success. Five passenger coaches
were crowded, which assures a
handsome profit to the Church and
a commendable benevolence on the
part of the people. What the profits
are is as yet unannounced, but they
cannot be much less than S6O000
Besides netting this large sum to
the Church, the excursion was one
of pleasure well worth its cost to
those who attended.
Year: 1874

THOSE Republicans who fancy that
now, since their party is ruined, they
can run race of greater corruption
and plunder than ever in the next ses-
sion of Congress, had better abandon
their project. Ifthe party has nothing
left to lose, there are among its leaders
men who have hitherto sacrificed more
of their own self-respect than they will
ever do again. Jobbery will not be in
favor hereafter, and rascals who under
take to practice it will meet with a
speedy trial and prompt punishment
Ne1r York Sun.
Year: 1874

The latest and most ineligible ae-
count of the deplorable affair at Som
erviIle represents that the riot was
started by boisterous negro politician
swapping his pistol twice in the face of
the Mayor, who promptly shot him
down in self-defence. The conduct of
young Burton, refusing to be disarmed
IN the presence of an armed negro
mob thirsting for his blood, can hardly
be condemned in the light of this
mornings dispatches. An intelligent
judgment of the whole affair cannot
be formed until fuller particulars are
received.
Year: 1874

A GENTLEMAN well posted IN North
Carolina politics informs us that the
negro who is the sole representative of
Radicalism and Civil Rights on the
Congressional delegation elected last
week IN North Carolina, went to Wash
ington a few months ago with such
modest aspirations that he wanted
only $500 clerkship IN a
postal service. For this small
favor he buttonholed in vain
his Cong Iessman, who treated the
darky IN search of his civil rights with
such coolness savouring Of contempt,
that the latter left in high dudgeon,
vowIng ne would go back home and
beat him for the Congressional nomi-
nation, which he did, and has been
elected to the seat from which he can
dispense postal clel kships to other as
pIring darkies.
Year: 1874

Huntsville TENN Sentinel, Aug.1.


The home Of Mr.. Arch Oglesby was the
scene OF another destructive fire on Sunday
evening. Il appears that there was a sick
child in the house and the candle had been
set or the wall plate in an upper room
WHERE il was supposed TO be in a safe place.
Nearly all the members Of the fsmily were
attending meeting at the Green Grove
Meeting house at the time, and Mr.. Ogles-
by was the only man at home. When the
fire was discovered il had obtained a good
hold and was more than Mr.. Oglesby could
Subdue, though he labOred hard. He had
barely time TO rescue the children, but was
severely hurt in getting out Of the burning
premises. With the exception of two
straw beds. his household plumber was de-
stroyed not even a particle Of clothing be
ing saved. Every building in his yard eN-
cent the meat house was licked up by the
devouring element. Many of the people
residing in the neighbOrhoOd on seeing the
fre rushed to the spot, but We're unable TO
render any assistance.


WE called to see Gen. Whitthorne last
Tuesday evening. and found him cOnva-
lescent, but still quite feeble and far from
well. He has had a very severe spell OF
sickness, and cannot safely enter the Con-
grcSsiOnal canvass for some time. de eN-
presses great regret that he is not able TO
meet his constituents at the appointed
times and places, but hopes 10 he well
enough To do so ere long. When be does
meet them. we feel sure he will give a good
and satisfactory account of his stewardship.
Columbia Herald aud Mail, dug. Z.
Year: 1874

to bear all the burdens of the war
which they assumed-Of the abolition,
OF slavery which we at one time guar
well as of the debt we contracted ours
selves to suppress the rebellion? Can
there be any genuine reconstruction
that makes it the object of the South
ern leaders to aim to destroy by repu-
diation the Union they failed to de-
strOy 10y secession?


These are grave questions. To the
minds of some of our readers they may
no doubt be novel, and it may be said
that we take a gloomy or fantastic
view of the situation in the South
But there certainly in all evil in the
SOuh that we have not reached. We
are rapidly drifting upon chaos, disor-
der, war of races, reputation. We
have made our brothers of Yesterday
our enemies, and not only our enemies
but we surrender to their mercy credit
of the nation and the happiness of the
four million of Slaves we emancipated.
More than all, we have given them no
motive for reconstruction but, OH the
contrary, we have left them every
temptation to war upon the Union


These are living questions. It's not
for US to decide them but we do not
see how there can be- reconstruction
until they are decided. Would it not
be the wisest craftsmanship, therefore,
10 call tngether a national convention
to consider the war, its causes, conse-
quences and results. and how best the
Union can adjust itself to the new and
strange conditions it has left to US -
Let as hare q national cOnUeHtiOR of
peace and reconstruction.
Year: 1874

We have before lis very curiN
ous editorial of the Salem REGIS
TER which alledges as the reason
that the Marion PATRIOT 81 HER
AID supports Gov. McMullin is
that the Governor has a claim of
S4O9 against the Editors, which
he agreed to cancel if they would
support him for Congress. 1t also
says that Gov. McMullin told the
editcr of the REGISTER that he had
a deed of trust on the office of the
PATRIOT & HERALD, and that he
could shut it up at any moment.


These allegations arc personal
andit is neither our duty nor pur-
pose to deal with them farther than
to use them as a news item, but
Year: 1874

THE rapid disintcgration Of the
radical party in the South is indi-
Gated in many WAYS. The attempt
TO pass the Civil Rights Ei!l is like
the dying hiss of the adder, and
the call for convention of the
party in the reconstructed States
TO meet at Atlanta is intended TO
'sow the South afresh with dragon s
teeth. In New Orleans and in
Richmond and Knoxville they have
gone to gnawing each other like
hostile alligators, and we are war
ranied in the belief that their de-
struction is foretold by their mad
ness. The expectoratihg Houk
says "Wm. Rule and Jesse Martin
are black~hearted scoundrels." >
Again 81 want TO show you how
mean Bill Rule Is"


Alas then it comes to this that
the editor OF the CHRONICLE has
been hugging to his bosom a vase
Of flowers in which this little adder
lay coiled. Like Cleopatra he
knew the reptile was thdre, but,
unlike tie Egyptian Queen he did
not think it would thrust IFS veni-
nous teeth into his flesh. All this
is both very good and very curious
and we deduct this moral /; that
adders are but serpents at last and
the best thing the sons of Eve, edi>
tors of course included, can do is
to put their heels upon them
wherever found.
Year: 1874

Senator Thurman ON Beecher.


Senator Thurman is noted for
his solidity and penetration. Be
ing asked what he thought of the
Beecher case, he gave the following
answer, which is the best we have
seen.


why, to tell you the truth" he re-
piled, II am in the condition of the
associate judge, who, charging the ju-
ry in larceny case, said there was a
mOnstrous improbable possibility of
innocence, aud the jury must give the
prisoner the benefit of the doubt"
Year: 1874

When electricity finds several paths
to the ground. it will prefer the best,
it is trIe; but some portion Will also
pass alongt the poorer conductors. II,
therefore. any metallic substances lie
within the area supposed to be pro-
tected, they are in danger of being
struck. This is especially true where
the lightning has chance to jump
to the gas and water pipes of a build
ing. 1t is good plan to connect
these pipes with the lightning rod !;
if the rod is struck, the electricity
will then have an excellent path into
the ground and will be rapidly diffused
over the vast underground network of
pipes The danger to the inmates of
the hJusa of being struck from these
pipes is less than that of receiving a
shock from the powerful induced cur
rents, liable to be developed in them
if unconnected, during a thunder
storm.
Year: 1874

1t was supposed to have been es-
tab!ished by Charles and Gay Lussac
that a lightning rod protec'ci an area
whose radius was double tie hight Ot
the rod extending above the building,
but the rule is no longer reliable by
reason of the extensive use of metals
in the shape of pipes, etc., in the
construction of the building of oar
day.
Year: 1874

Finally, in the way of general ad-
vice, we would say: Connect all your
lightning rods together, and also 10
your iron tank, and water. gas, or
other pipes, not by separate connec-
tions, but so that there is some cor .
nection between ell, which connection
should be as high up as possible. If
you have a metal roof, connect all
rods with it. If the roof is not of
metal. then connect your rods togeth-
er by means of a good sized conduc.
tor running along the ridge Of the roof
Bear in mind that, to carry off the
heaviest lightning fash known, a
copper rod one inch in diameter is
not considered too large; and though
of course such flashes are of very rare
occurrence, they may coTe. Hence
the great value of uniting your differ
ent rods high up.
Year: 1874

The more rods on a building the
better, especially if all are connect
ed with each other near the uoper
ends.


Multiple lighting conductors are
because each one helps the others,
and if the discharge is too great for
one they will be able to cary it be-
tween them. but what is more inn
portant in this: The less the toUal
resistance Of the conductor to earth,
the more certain is it that no other,
undesirable line will offer an approxi>
mately good path to the earth, and
so get part of the flash. Thus sup
pose a single rod whose resistance is
|, and that series of bolts, hinges.
cutters, stove pipes, etc. offers another
line (passing perhaps through the
walls Of the house or the body o. its
occupant) whose resistance is 2.
Now, under these conditions, a flash
would be likely to divide itself, and
while Z would go safely down the rod.
passing along the other iine might
burn the house or kill the man, But
But if two rods were connected, the
resistance in this line would be but
half hence would take this road
and but l-5 tend to 60 by the other
Again. the lesss the resistance of any
line, the higher the opposite charge
developed in it by induction, and
hence the greater its attractive in
fluence, leading the discharge to pre-
fer it as path This bears upon the
important of connecting all accidental
lines of conductors. such as gas and
water pipes withthe lightning rods.
Insulated, these are opposition lines,
soliciting it to come into the house and
traverse them; connected, they help
the rod as we have seen 20 get and
keep the lightning outside.
Year: 1874

A lightning rod which is not proper
lv connected with the earth is quite
dangerous. The very common meth


cd of merely sticking the lower end
of the rod down into the dry earth
near the surface ground is bad. ard
cndangers the building, because dry
Year: 1874

While the news does not surprise us any,
We are, for all that, panied to learn, as We
do through The Rock ISLAND ARGUS,
that Captain Haverstick, of the Union.
was, one day last week, ,cowhided by an en-
ragged husband of lady who had been in
suited by the gallant captain a few even
ings before The hasty flight of Haver-
stick saved him from severe walloping at
the hands of the enraged husband, which
we are harpy to learn, for in his case there
is much to be overlooked and forgiven by
the people to whom his conduct is not un-
frequently a great annoyance as well as
his presence. The captain lost his cane
hat and spectacles in his fight, but saved
his pocket pistol. ''-Geneseo Republic
March 9Th.
Year: 1874

A BEAUTIFUL WoMAN.-The percep-
tive faculty of women is usually keener
than the same chronological organ in men.
Woman knows that beauty rather than
genius is worshipped by the sterner sex.
A man may talk with his lips of the latter
to his lady-love, but the keenness of the
woman knows that he is thinking of the
former in his heart. All women have an
innate desire to please their beaux. They
are fond of admiration, hence one of their
longings to be beautiful The grand secret
of female beauty is health-the secret of
health is the power to eat, digest and as
simulate proper quantity of wholesome
food Take VINEGAR BITTERs. 1t will
cleanse the stomach, tone the vital organs.
give perfect digestion, purify the blood,
clear up the complexion and produce a
state of mental and physical electricity
which gives symmetry of form, bright
eyes. white skin, glossy hair and genuine
type of female loveliness which no cosmet-
lc can compare with
Year: 1874

Rowdyism has been fearfully prevalent
here of late Scarcely night passes that
the most unearthly noises are not heard
about the streets and this is not all; in
some cases considerable damage is done.
The other night lot of roughs passed
along Centre street making a terrible din,
and the next morning their line of march
could be traced by broken pickets and
boards torn from the fences. This should
be stopped by some means, for it is any
thing but pleasant to have your property
destroyed in any way, but especially by q
pack of rowdies. Cambridge Chronicle.
Year: 1874

Elsewhere will be found an advertise
ment of the Iowa Railroad Land Co., that
is especially directed to those who would
secure great bargains in railroad lands.
The lands are the best in the State of
Iowa
Year: 1874

The call for canal meeting to be held
at Rock Island on the cath inst, was not
to be found in the columns of the last
number of the weekly Rock Island Uniom
The editor of that paper is opposed to the
canal scheme, but we did not think hi
would permit his prejudices to interfere
with his duty to the people of this section
of the country. He seems tooppose every
measure that is instituted to promote the
interests of the producers of the west, and
of course, sets his face against the cana
project. Let him go it Geneseo RrpaJh,
March 9Th.