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Year: 1874

Editors Grange Advance:


wish to make an explanation
through the columns of your paper in
regard to letter written by me, reply.
ing to q letter written by Daniel Jack
man, and published in your issue of
January 10Th. 1t was in regard to per-
sons joining Oranges nearest where they
live, etc., and it has come to my notice
after making a good deal of inquiry,
that l have done the party referred to
In my letter an injustice, for which
am more than willing to make correc-
tion, for do not wish to do any man a
wrong.


1t seems the party referred to by me
did not know that he was violating the
Jaws Of the Grange by going into Min
nesota and joining Grange, while his
application was in our Grange; but did
1t because he knew some Of the mem.
bers Of our Grange would reject him on
account Of some personal matters,
which, OF course, they had no right to
do; therefore, wish to retract all that
l said in that letter in regard to his be.
ing rogue, for it is far from me to cast
reflections on an innocent man, and for
Aught know an honest one,


Yours fraternally,


G. H. NERO.
August IL, 1874.
Year: 1874

The HARSEss.-Oil and repair the
harness. Unbuckle all the parts and
wash clean with soft water, soap and a
brush. A little turpentine or benzine
will take off any gummy substance
which the soap fails to remove. Then
warm the leather, and, as soon as dry
on the surface, apply the oil with a
paint brush or swab. Neatsfoot oil
is the best. Hang up the harness in a
warm place to dry, bu. do not let it
burn.
Year: 1874

The Herald says: The great mis-
take made in watering plants, even by
some gardeners who ought to know bet-
ter, is that they only moisten the sur
face to the depth of two or three inches;
this is often worse than no water at all,
since, if it has any effect, it induces a
superficial root-growth, which is de-
stroyed if the regular watering be
omitted; for such watering will be
evaporated in single days hot sun,
such as we have had before and since
the 4th of July. On the other hand
plants which we watered ten days ago
by saturating a circle about the plants
to the depth of a foot have shown no
signs of willing, but have made con.
tinued growth.
Year: 1874

AN EXPERIMENT IN 'CIvu RIGHTS. The
new school trustees appointed by the District
Of Columbia Commissioners have already
taken radical action upon assuming the
duties Of their Office. Their first step has
been to attempt complete reorganization of
the school system Of the District, thus making
compulsory the mingling of the children of
the white and black races. Serious trouble
seems to confront them at the beginning of
this experiment. The old trustees will en-
deavor to obtain an injunction on the ground
that their appointment is illegal. If, how
ever, they should remain in Office, they will
probably persevere in the policy which they
yesterday inaugurated, and thus afford to
Congressmen and the country practical test
OF the wisdom or folly of the Civil Rights
bill
Year: 1874

THE WILLIAMS PIcNIcs Fifteen thousand
little children out of the city streets have been
made happy for at least day each this sum-
mer by the Williams picnics; and none can
say how much longer nor how many days in
each little life have been made the brighter
for the remembrance of that pleasure, and
perhaps even by the discovery that there is
something else in the world beside the city
streets and courts and alleys 1t is beauti-
full and most laudable charity to which Mr..
Williams has given his summer labon, and
we are sorry to hear that these treats for the
little ones are likely to be discontinued for the
season, though it is great deal to have had
them carried on till we are so near the end of
the warm weather. We trust the charitable
will rally once more to so good cause so
clearly designated. II costs just thirty-eight
cents to take one child on one Of these pic
MICS, and people may indulge their leisure
with the thought of sending any fxed number
of little fellows out on trip. As IL only costs
bree dollars and eighty cents TO send ont ten.
Year: 1874

The PRIZE RrNa.-Unless the authorities or
the territory which has been made the rem
devious OF the men who comprise what is
called the prize ring are more alert than usual.
there will to-day occur one of those revolving
exhibitions OF human brutishness which are
apt to make men converts to the Darwinian
theory at least so far as relates to the Develop
ment of bulldogs
Year: 1874

VI


only intended to protect the Governor from


the necessity of hearing the testimony him.


self-a task which, in the event of number


of charges being made against different officers


at the same time, would seriously embarrass


the business of the government. Directly the


Governor entertains the charges the legal
point of their suficiency is established.


When he orders the taking of testimony it is
only for the purpose of ascertaining whether
the charges can be established by proof, or
whether it can be shown that they are false.


He then says in fact to the Mayor: IF you
are guilty of the offences here alleged you
will be removed if you can disprove them
you will not be removed. He does not say =
If these charges are proven will then in
quire whether the acts alleged against you are
a direct violation of some particular law
which will warrant your removal from Office
for when he entertains the charges he de-
cides that the acts alleged are such as demand
the removal of the Mayor, and the only point
that remains to decide is whether or not those
acts have been committed. In this view OF
the case the inconsequential character of the
Mayors reply to the charges can at once be
seen.


We believe it to be the duty of Governor
Dix to order the testimony to be taken in all
the charges made against Mayor Havemeyer.
AS we have shown, the Governor is the last
protector now left to the citizens Of New York.
The Mayor refuses to investigate charges of
official misconduct against the heads Of de-
partments, and protects them in violations of
law and acts Of questionable honesty. The
Grand Jury and the Courts do their duty by
indicting and convicting some of the unfaith-
full officers, and Mayor Hsvemeyer nulliies
the action of the Courts and restores the
offenders to Office. It is not alone
in the case of the single Indictment
on which Gardner and Charlick have
already been tried that this defiance of
law and this disregard Of the duties of his
Office have been shown by Mayor Havemeyer.
Other indictments are pending against the
same persons, yet he has appointed one of
mission. The Commissioners of Charities
and Correction have been guilty OF gross
irregularities have violated law again and
again in the purchase of supplies, and altered
bills in order to evade the law, thus showing
a knowledge of the character of their acts
have allowed the city to be charged exorbitant
prices for dry goods, -four and other articles
have brought upon themselves grave sus-
picions by extravaganza and misrepresenta-
tons The Mayor has not only justified their
acts, but has resorted to a fictitious investiga-.
hon and a false statement in regard to pre-
sended report of the Commissioners of Ac-
counts for the purpose Of screening them from
ustice. The action of the Mayor in coercing
he Commissioners of Accounts into falsif-
,ation of the debt statement of December 81
IS one of the most reprehensible of the many
reprehensible acts he has committed. If the
last protection of the people against such acts
as these should fail we may as well conclude
that the laws are farce, and that our public
officers can defy them at their will
Year: 1874

Grant, like every great man in political life,
is evidently Sin the hands of his friends,
and if this be the case some valuable third
term indications may be obtained from the con-
sideration of who his friends are. His friends,
politically, so far as they have had chance to
make their aspirations felt, are for the spoils,
pure and simple-or rather, corrupt and
double; and it can scarcely be the Presidents
misfortune, but distinctly is his fault if the
characters of the men who are the keepers of
his political conscience are not such as to re-
assure the country against the allegation that
the promptings Of an inordinate greed and
ambition are more needed than considerations
of respect for constitutional usages Place
men and jobbers care only to have that man
in power whose ear they have already secured,
and patriotic precedents do not stand in their
way.


But General Grant has friends of another
order friends in higher political atmos-
phere, and with more legitimate objects of
intellectual activity; and the details of his
relations with men of this stamp may cast as
much light on his projects as do the recog-
nized instincts of the cringing dependents who
''crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, that
thrift may follow fawning." Is Senator
Fenton one of Grants sfriends" in
the new project, and is the continuance of his
friendship contingent upon the disposition to
be made Of the New York Custom House? All
that is said in reference to the important
points that these queries may touch tends to
sustain the allegations of our Long Branch
correspondent to the effect that the Senator
and the President will come to terms mutually
satisfactory to the aspirant for third term
and the aspirant for renewal of the political
control that the possession of the federal pa
tronage in thus State can give.


There will be rattling among the dry bones
if the Custom House should be handed over
as material guarantee in the trade with
Fenton for his support of the third term; and
if it is handed over it will certainly be very
safe to say that it is q counter in no small
game-that it can be the price for services no
less splendid than those that point to a per-
manent establishment of the one man power.
But shall Conkling be let down without con-
sideration for his feelings? Has be from q
fast friend become foe Conkling is s'hon-
est, Iago!" "Honest, my Lord?" Has he
not Presidential aspirations-and can man
with such aspirations be slaughtered too ruth
lessly?
Year: 1874

THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT has suspended
the publication of an influential newspaper
for the reason that it printed some sharp
criticisms on the financial condition of the
Porte government The prosecutor will
plead, perhaps, the old English argument
The greater the truth the greater the libel
Year: 1874

blow before he breathed his last Whether
Burke is guilty of wilfui murder or not, this
case. which exempli6es SO fully the dangerous
tendency of the trade unions, ought to be q
timely warming to the working classes againss
the folly of cultivating such spirit OF intol-
Grant hostility as has here been developed
Year: 1874

Of the age of ''poor little Charley can never,
perhaps, be fully ascertained. The
vagaries of the Philadelphia police
ore such that the number cannot be
small One of the remarkable "clews'' which
they discovered and unsuccessfully followed
was traced to q ludicrous termination by one
of our correspondents. Another "clew'' is
now exciting attention in Bennington, VT.
This possesses many elements of probability;
and yet the explanation offered appears
very lucid and truthful. To-day may
develop it into another illusion; but the
eagerness with which the shadowy thread was
seized upon shows at least hopeful improve
bear any fruit at this late hour, it will, in
deed, be a marvel and wonder


The BLACK HILLS EXPLORATION. Despite
the depreciatory predictions of the class of
parasites who fatten upon the government
maintenance of the Indian braves in idleness,
Colonel Clusters expedition has caused no
bloodshed and has awakened no hostility in
the regions traversed in his march to the
Black Hills. His energetic movement may,
perhaps, inspire o little awe in the savages
who chance to cross his path, and the reports
which we now receive of rich discoveries Of
gold and silver among the mountains by his
soldiers show that it has already been sue
cessful in attaining its principal object


WHsKEY IN NEeRo Politics. The New
Orleans Picayne gives an amusing descrip-
ton Of one of the sessions of the recent
Republican State Convention of Louisiana;
which we reprint elsewhere. The politi-
cal measures enacted by this body
seem to have oil resulted from the
crazy inspiration of the whiskey that was
drunk during the recesses in the business
routine. The "free fight which took place
more resembled FIJI war dance than anything
else in the ludicrous attempts of the partici-
pants to dodge pistol balls and bowie knives.
One thing, however, is very certain in regard
to the Convention. In moments of excite
ment the honorable but sable delegates ap-
piled choice epithets one to another, and in
these polite designations it is possible that
they all spoke the solemn and Interchangeable
truth.
Year: 1874

Out OF Town for tho Summer.


Mrs. Grundy, or her appointed representa-
tive, watches with jealous eye the shutters
and hall doors of her children at this particu-
lar period Of the year. Woe to the slave OF
fashion that is caught peeping out at the
stages on the avenue or presumes to prone
made Broadway in the month of August. Her
punishment would be swift and unrelenting.
Now that every one is, or should be, out Of
town, it is matter of interest to know where
they are what they are doing and how they
like it. There has been quite a revolution at
the watering places within the last few years.
The lofty pretensions of hotel proprietors are
considerably lowered, and extortion is not as
rife as during the halcyon summers immedi-
ately succeeding the national unpleasantness.
Bankruptcy is an excellent cure for the OK
orbitant charges at summer hotels, and it
has been applied SO frequently to mine host
and his victims that a compromise in the way
OF reasonable rates has generally been
adopted. The scattering of the birds Of
fashion has been complete this summer.
Europe claims a larger number than ever
before, and the well ll-plumaged bellies of New
York may be found at all the German spas,
where the cry of 'taites le jeu'' no longer lures
tourists to their ruin, or airing themselves
among the lakes and glaciers of Switzerland,
or wandering through galleries and venerable
ruins in sunny Italy. Saratoga, Newport and
the Branch can boast of faces that couple of
months hence will grace the boxes of the
Academy, and in little odd nooks in tho
mountains or quiet country farms some Of
Mrs. Grundy's numerous family are safely
ensconced. The revolution in the watering
places has also affected the former tireless
round of fashionable dissipation that took
away from summer trip any sanitary ten
denotes it might naturally possess, and people
have learned to enjoy themselves more sem
sibly and nationally. A stroll on the beach or
moonlight drive on the lake shore is found
to be more attractive than q ball or hop
every night in the close parlors of monster
hotel That the change is liked by the fair
patronesses of the summer resorts is evident
from the general lack of attendance at those
absurd follies of TerpGchore which belong
properly to the winter season, and the result
will be shown when they return next month
with natures rouge on their cheeks and fresh,
healthful blood coursing through their veins.
Year: 1874

Last week q case came before a
Michigan Justice, wherein was mingled
reality and superstition. Two neigh
bors, residing near the Grand Trunk
Junction, had lived together peaceably,
till one day one of them became con-
vinced that the others cat was destroy
ing his chickens. Shortly afterward he
caught the feline for the purpose of
testing whether it would eat chicken
meat, and was seen by his neighbours
wife in so doing, and she concluded
that he caught the cat to kill it. This
aggressive action aroused considerable
feeling and enmity. Subsequently the
woman saw the cat jump into a window
of the house and Immediately a super
stition that it is an ominous sign to
have cat return which is supposed to
be dead, flashed upon her mind. Under
great terror she fell to the floor in
swoon. Her husband, upon his return
home, sought the justice and COM
menced suit against the neighbor. Or
dinarily such case would not be en-
tertained, but a warrant was issued.
The complainant and defendant came
before his Honor, and after hearing,
the defendant was discharged,
Year: 1874

To MAKE PAsTE.-Paste that will
keep unchanged in warm weather may
be made in the following manner Put
a teaspoonful of powdered alum in two
quarts of water, and let it boil. Mix q
pint of flour smoothly into pint OF
cold water, and stir it into the boiling
alum water continuing the boiling and
stirring until the -four is cooked, and
the whole is clear, like starch. Add to
this about half a teaspoonful of essen.
tial oil of cloves or cinnamon, strain
through wire gauze or perforated tin
strainer, and bottle in wide mouthed
jars, which should be corked to keep
out dust.
Year: 1874

A LIVE LANTERN the West In
dies, and some other hot countries,
there are distant relations of our glow
worms and fre-fies that carry much
larger sparks. These insects give so
much light that they are caught by the
natives, and sometimes dozen at a
time are put into gourd pierced with
many holes, each too small for the in
sect to escape through. The opening
by which they are put into the gourd is
then stopped up, and the live lantern is
ready to be carried about on dark
nights, as you sometimes carry a glass
one. A very convenient lantern the in
sects make, for the flame never burns
anything, and never goes out.
Year: 1874

A married gentleman from Toledo
walked into the ballroom at Putin
Bay the other night in full dress, after
sitting for some minutes on his wife's
powder-box, carelessly left on a chair.
The effect was striking.
Year: 1874

REMARKABLE ADVENTURE OF JERSEY CITY JOURNALIST. An ex-editor of Jersey City paper arrived at the Delavan house last evening and tells the following story: As he approached the Grand Central depot, New York, yesterday morning to take the 10.3o express, he noticed two very pretty and elegantly dressed young ladies, who came up, treated him as an old acquaint- ance, and he, thinking it was case of mis- taken identity, thought he would carry the thing through and have some fun. They informed him that they had procured sec tion in the drawing-room car and invited him to take seat therein. He did so, and enjoyed very pleasant ride of two hours. On the arrival of the train at Poughkeepsie both the ladies put their arms around his neck and kissed him good-by. He stepped into the dining-room and ate some lunch and returned to the train, when to his dis may and alarm, he found he was minus his pocket book, containing two ten cent stamps and five cent piece. e.-Al6any Ar- gue.
Year: 1874

Our summer boarders have begun to ar rive. Ex-President Woolsey and family are at Mrs. Payne's, and others arc in town. We need first-class boarding house. The Hotel de Goldfish has no boarders, and do not expect any......eur new chapel is near ly completed at last. It has been in pro gress for two years, and when they get the mortar on it will be very fair building ...... Nearly all the able bodied and public spir- tied men in this part of the town turned out on Saturday last to grade the park, and made it lock much better The Profes-

 sor has turned his attention from the vain and transitory things of life toward the sky. He is looking Tor the comet with the aid of his powerful glass. He thought the other night he had found it, but Wig on looking at it, said it was the moon and so he continues looking. We wish hlm suc- cess......All the people of the town are rais- ing tobacco this year, because there is go- ing to be but little raised, and it will bring good price. Very logical reasoning that

 The plants are starting finely and promise a fine crop......The pulpit in misplace is now filled by young man from New Haven by the name of Bidwell. He is a general ia vorite among the younger portion as we'll as the elders. It cost one hundred and fifty dollars to get the last minister away, and people are very cautious about investing in any more ministerial stock. x.Y.z.
Year: 1874

Influence of the Solar iSpots.-It is a

 common error among many semi-scientifc

 persons to ascribe rainy season, if it hap pens in one of the eleven year periods that

 the sun possesses maximum of, to thls

 cause. They do not, consider that dimi-

 hutton of the solar radiance would not re-

 suit in an increased evaporation and conse- quent rain, but in cool summer and se- were winter, and especially that such a cause would have general effect and be felt over the whole earth while their con- clusions are only drawn from the observa- ton of confined locality. On our earth,

 considered as whole, all kinds of weather are continually prevailing at the same time.

 It IS evident therefore that conclusions drawn in regard to the influence of the so- lar spots on the weather, must be founded on observations made simultaneously over the whole earth, and we are happy to an nounce that this has just been accomplished by Dr. Hopper of the Physical Observatory of St. Petersburg, who, with immense la bor, has collected mass of observations made in all regions of the world He has classified the different meteorological sta tions in zones, tropical, sub-tropical, warm temperate, cold temperate, and frigid. De- scribing curve according to the mean temperature of each zone, he fnns that there is a striking agreement among them,

 and tbat there are indeed eleven year peri ods of maximum and minimum among them; but the most remarkable is the fact that under the tropics the maximum heat occurs about year before the maximum of sun spots, and north of the tropics, about two or three years after the minimum of spots. Further, that even as in the case of the solar spots the period of time between the minimum and succeeding maximum of spots is shorter than the period between the maximum and succeeding minimum. so the temperature follows corresponding change. Further, it appears that the spots do not act like an eclipse, hiding the radi- ating part of the solar body, and so dimin- lshlng it's head, but that often the remain ing luminous portion of the solar disk fully. and often more than fully, make up for the apparently diminished light caused by a number of spots. The most interesting of his conclusions, is that in the year 1875 there is reason to expect oery cold season.
Year: 1874

A CoLoRADA EDITOR INTERVIEWS A CHI NAMAN.-We asked him if he didn't wan some advertising done. He stopped work long enough to say that he charged dollal a dozen without ironing. We explained that it wasn't washing we wanted, but ad vertising' We told him how much hi! business would be increased, how he'd bt richer than the king of the Sandwich Is- lands if he'd only advertise. This seemed to be clear to him, and his face brightenet up as he said: Business belly slow; no body got no money We carefully took out paper at that. We carefully explained to him all about fifteen cents line-one of these things clear across here every time the paper was printed. The people, we told him, would read this and then come te him for washing. He took deep interest in the whole story and paid marked atten. tion to our few remarks.

 You see, MT. Honglee, we said, think. ing he was getting along first-rate in Eng. fish, this is paper-this here Quitting a finger on iD. When people read they rush off frantically and buy of everybody whose name they see in the paper Do you understand?' He said he dld, and wanted to know how many pieces we had-wheth- CT they were big or little. We felt discour. aged. We had worked hard for half an hour already, and he all the time thinking that we were talking about washing! With an imprecation on the whole race we went over the whole story again, even going SC far as to figure out to him how many pa pers we printed and how many we expect ed to print. He was all attention as before but when we stopped for breath he spirited water on batch of clothes through hil teeth, and then said, as coolly as a mummy that if we brought the clothes on Monday he would have them done Wednesday.