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Year: 1874

In another column of this issue will
be found the proceedings Of the COM
mittee on celebration. consisting of the
executive committee Of the Goodhue
County Council and one delegate from
each subordinate Grange. A deter
mination was manifested to make this
the grandest celebration that has ever
taken place in Goodhue County. We
sincerely hope that every Grange in
the County will take the matter in hand;
and work as though the success Of the
movement depended upon it alone.
But if any Grange should fai! to take
any action as a Grange, this will be
no reason why the members or any of
them, should not make arrangements to
be on hand. This will afford an excel.
lent opportunity for the Patrons of
Goodhue County to get acquainted with
each other, and interchange ideas.
Now, brethren. let us see to it that we
we make thisa grand success 50 that this
may only be the first Of regular annual
gatherings of the Patrons Of this Coun.
ty upon the day we celebrate.


While this celebration will be under
the auspices Of the P. Of H., yet all are
invited to attend. Let none stay away
under the impression that this is exclu-
sively a Grange celebration. Let the
mechanics, and the workingmea and
women Of every trade and calling join
with the farmers in making this glori.
Gus occasion in old Goodhue. Let all,
irrespective Of calling or profession,
whose interests are SC closely identified
with the agricultural interests Of the
county, turn out with their wives and
children and help make this day long
to be remembered. Let US all mingle
together and forget every difference in
condition and station in life. Come
one and all.
Year: 1874

THE GRANGE ADVANCE is furnished in
clubs Of ten for $3.50 per year, and will
be furnished for the next 80 days to single
subscribers for three months, and to clubs
Of ten or more for four months at so cents
each on trial. We want FIVE thousand new
subscribers in the next thirty days, and
can have them if every one Of our friends
will 90 to work in earnest.
Year: 1874

A young lady in California, about
month ago, secretly married the chap she
liked, and then went right along attending
to business as if nothing had happened.


But the other day the happy couple con-
cluded to publish their marriage in the
newspaper. and the old man read it. Show
ing the notice to his daughter, he sternly
demanded, "What does this mean is it q
Year: 1874

Hearing that his pastor intended to
preach on the recognition Of friends in
heaven. a parishioner suggested that he
should preach on recognition of friends on
earth, beCaus he had been sitting in his
pew for twenty years without being recog-
nized by the occupant Of the next pew.
Year: 1874

The good work of making the Indians leave town during the uight time has been commenced in earnest. The matter was plac- ed Tn the hands of Frank Towns end, City Marshall, and a fund raised by a number of our liberal business men to pay him for the extra labor required to perform that duty. The amount subscrib- ed was small, but we hope our citizens will increase it when they see the great good that must re- suit from the move. Mir. Towns end has commenced the work in an energetic and thorough man ner. He has given the Indians to understand that they must all leave town at or before sum- down and not return until after sunrise next morning, and he en. forces the rule.

 We hope he will keep up his lick, as it is a great relief to be able to walk the streets without being obliged to push through or walk around great crowds of Indians, and besides, we are saved from a great amount of thieving and exhibitions of drunken Indians; for when they are allowed to remain in town in the night time, bad men will con- vey them liquor, in spite of law and police.
Year: 1874

better interest than that given to render attractive the place we call home. If we look at it mere ly from 8 business point, there is !, nothing that enhances the valie of property so fast as the li.ttle embellishments, sc easily and cheaply made that any nian not sn invalid or & droue can have around him. But the moral and social influence of attractive homes is priceless. It goes with us through life wherever we may wander. The boy or the girl reared in a home where in addi- tion to the cultivation of the moral aud social virtues, that hone was surrounded by the beautiful productions of nature, can never forget it. The wander ing foot-sore traveller, on the rug ged mountains or in the burning desert, thinks of the home of his childhood.

 In every cline the magnet of his soul.

 Touched hy remembrance trembles to that

 pole"

 And he remembers everything, just as he last saw it. And if that was happy home, wh ere indus try and taste had seconded nature in surrounding it with the beau tiful, how his heart longs to look upon it again. In memory he sees the trees that his father planted, under whose grateful shade he used to play in !"child- hoods sunny bours." He sees inc rOse-bushes, the lilacs and the morning glOries and the countless other flowers that his mother and sister trained, he almost seems to breathe once more their grateful perfume as he gazes upon their transcendent beauty.

 Oh, there is nothing that adds to the beauty and value of a. homestead so much as planting trees, shrubbery and flowers, and nothing that yields so large an interest on the amount invested. It requires but little time or la bor to plant tree or rose-bush, yet how it adds to the beauty of a door yard. Persons of cultivation and refinement, when travelling through a strange country, can judge ofthe character of the ,peo- pie inhabiting a house they are passing by the condition of their door yard. If they see trees, shrubbery and flowers in profu- sion and nicely tended, it is safe to conclude that peace reigns there. It is safe to conclude that culture, refinement and gentle sensibility and taste have home there. This rule may be said to be jnfaliible in old settled countries. But ifs not fair to apply the rule ta its opposite bearing, to the in- habitants of homes in newly. settled country, before they have had time to make the embellish- ments of which we have been speaking.

 But we must say that the set tiers in new countries are too slow about making such improvements. We know many families, even here in Arizona, who have occu- pied the same house for from five to ten years, who have never planted tree, shrub or flower, and whose door yards and sur roundings are as barren and un- inviting as the desert. But there are notable exceptions. The,e are those who do all in their pow CT to make their homes beautiful and attractive. Even in very small door yards in town, we sometimes pass houses where the lady is cultivating flowers and training vines, etc, etc., and doing all she can to make her home beautiful. But the ladies are not properly seconded by the men in this matter, ana never have been. n sH evidence
Year: 1874

The Pope, it is said, bas absolutely refused
to permit the Brazilian Bishops who hive
come in conflict with the civil power to re.
sign their secs. WHO would hive thought
The old man Ind 80 much blood in him ?
Year: 1874

SPECIAL MEETING OF THe BOARD OF EDUCATION.


A special meeting of the Board of Education
was held, last evening, President Shortlidge in
the chair and quorum of members being pres
ent


The President stated that the object of call
ing the Board together was to make provision
for the payment of the teachers salaries which
were now due


A motion of H. NJ. jenkins was adopted in
structing the proper officers of the Board to ne
gotiate note of $4,000 for the payment OF
teachers.


The officers were further instructed to draw
upon the City Treasurer, for 1000, which in ad-
dition to the note negotiated, and the sum OF
5000 now in the City Treasury, would be about
sufficient to make full payment of salaries due
teachers up to the close of the year


The Board then adjourned.
Year: 1874

REDDY AUaUsT.-Special officer Heritage ar
rested Reddy August in Philadelphia, yesterday
and brought him to this city where he is await
for the arrest of Reddy, but he had managed in
some way to evade arrest, and Mr.. Heritage is
entitled to praihe for his capture.
Year: 1874

We are exceedingly sorry to see that
President Grant has sent special message
to Congress, urging Congressional aid for
the proposed Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia. It may be Ill very nice in
theory to have big time over the one
hundredth anniversary of the national
birth day, to meet in the city Of William
Penn. and old Independence Hall, for the
purpose of elf-glori6cation, and spreading
the eagle on thick, but let those who par
ticipate in this great luxury foot the bills,
and them only. OF what possible benefit
or advantage could such On occasion be to
the laboring classes OF the country? How
ever great, grand, glorious, and successful
the enterprise may be, they cannot possi-
bly, attend it. More especially would this
be the case in the West and South, where
not one out of 10000 could attend, and
those only Of the wealthier classes.


If our friends in the East desire to spread
themselves upon this occasion, we have no
possible objection, but that they should call
upon us to help them foot the bills, is
piece Of presumptuous efrontery, and
shameless audacity. If Congress has any
thing to give away, for heavens sake let it
be given to the poor settlers on the from
tier, who. in addition to the privations and
hardships incident TO life in new country,
have been overtaken by special reverses
and misfor,unes. until thousands have been
brought face to face with famine and starva
tion.


\ strong and determined effort will, un-
donbIetlIy. be made to secure large ap-
preparation for the centennial splurge, and
in fact we shall not be surprised if it is OBJ
tanned, especially since the President has
favored it with d special message. True,
the national debt during the fall and win
ter has been increasing at the rate Of from
four 10 nine millions per month until the
last month. True, Mr.. Dawes, Chairman
of the Finance Committee in the House of
Representatives, has shown that the ex-
penscs Of the national government have
been increasing at an alarming rate.
True, our greenbacks, the notes Of the gov
ernment, are worth six per cent. less than
they were some months ago, yet these are
arguments that cannot be supposed to have
any effect upon Simon Cameron, and the
class of politicians who are clamoring for
this appropriation.


We appeal to those in the East, who are
not under the control Of the magnates and
tyrants of Congress, we appeal to every
western and southern member to oppose
| this abominable attempt to pay the bills OF
one portion of the country out of the pock.
| cts Of another portion. We warn them that
| the people will not look upon this matter
with more favor than they did upon the
! Credit Mobilier frauds and the Back Pay
Steal. Death to the Congressman who
comes back to his constituency with the
| smell of the Centennial fraud upon his gar.
| ments.
Year: 1874

Imitation of the CURRENCY is the lat
est name for counterfeiting. We might
here say that as yet there is no bill before
Congress, providing for this particular
mode OF imitation.


There have been about 5000 new post
Offices established within the last four years,
and this only furnished at the ratio Of one
out Of about 10000 who wanted to 90 into
the post office business.
Year: 1874

"You meet remarkably modest and
timid looking young lady to-day, and
you notice that her hat has a meek and
shrinking indentation in the crown. 1t
locks as il it wanted to shun the wicked
world and hang itself up in nunnery:
Tomorrow you meet the same lady, and
what a change! She appears as daring
as Joan of Arc, and as independent as
the President of womans congress.
And her whole appearance is thusaltered
by pinniug up the front of that hat.
Next day she appears like a brigand
The brim is Aattened out, and her eyes
CLEAN furiously from underneath, as If
watching an opportunity to order you to
stand and deliver. You see her again,
and the rim is turned up behind, while
it is very fat in front, giving her an ap-
pearance of Solon Shingle trying to
find customer for that bar'l of apple
sass. Again, and it is pitched on the
extreme back of the head, reminding
you Of Toodles in his cups, when he is
assuring the sailor man that when his
father heard of the sailor mans death
he went broken-hearted to his grave
and died there With all these advan-
tages it is no wonder that the reigning
hat is popular. 1t is comfortable to the
head-so they say-and it is an orna-
ment or a disguise as required. 1t is
demure, jaunty, meek, saucy, bold, sly,
obstinate, conciliating, tender-whatever
you please-everything by turns and
nothing long. 1t is the hat Of the period,
cunning and deceitful, but above all
things desperately wicked"
Year: 1874

The coachmen in Bordeaux, France,
have for some time past been in the
habit of giving horses in their charge
chlorals so as to make them easier to
ride or drive. The drug acted like a
charm, for horses which had previously
been so spirited as to give much trouble
to their drivers became as quiet as lambs
after few days of this treatment. This
great change naturally attracted the at.
tention OF the owners of the animals. and
they sent for veterinary surgeon to
ascertain the cause of this sudden gen.
tleness. That functionary noticed GER
tain tendency to sleep in the animals,
but scarcely knew to what to refer this
unusual condition, when in one OF his
visits he chanced to find bottle half full
of chloral. When he questioned the de-
linquent coachman as to the use he
made of the drug the latter, after much
hesitation, owned that, following the ad :
vice of brother whip. he gave his horses
dose of chloral every morning to make
them go quietly, and further, that many
of the fraternity in Bordeaux followed
the same plan.
Year: 1874

The fog was so thick in Troy early the
other morning that the Times solemnly
AYERS that one could not distinguish a
policeman from hitching post across
the street. if he didn't know that hitch
ing posts never move.
Year: 1874

One evening when a circus performance
in one of the Southern States was about
to close, the clown stepped forward, and
in q solem tone addressed the vast as
sem6lage present, among which were
hundreds of protesting Christians of the
different denominations, Methodist, Bap--
tist, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian, in
the following style =


"My friends. we have taken about six
hundred dollars here to-day-more mon
ey, | venture to say, than any minister
of Gospel in this county will receive for
a whole years service. A large porto
of this money was given by church mem
bers large portion of this audience is
made up of members Of the church. And
yet, when your preacher asks you for
money to aid in supporting the Gospel,
you say your are to o poor to give any.
thing. Yet you come here and pay dol.
lars to hear me talk nonsense. l am u
fool because | am paid for it; make my
living by it. You profess to be wise. and
yet you support me in my folly. But
perhaps you say you did not come to sec
the circus, but the animals. All! now,
this is all an excuse. If you come SIM
ply to see the animnls, why did you not
look at them and leave? Why did you
stay TO hear my nonsense? Now is not
this pretty place for Christians to be
in? Yon ought to blush in such a place
as this -


An earnest discourse was preached
soon afterwards, in the neighborhood. A
stirring appeal was made in favor Of the
cause Of missions. The collection
amounted 10 four dollars and thirty-eght
cents. Only think of it; six hundr, d.
dollars for circus, and foar dollars to
preach the Gospel in all the world The
Christian.
Year: 1874

True BAPrIsM.--At meeting Of the
Philadelphia Conference Of Baptist Minis
tiers, series of resolutions were adopted.
Among them was the following: We un-
waveringly affirm as ever Of old that tho
immersion of the believer in water, in tho
name of the Father. Son and Holy Ghost,
alone is baptism. That baptism is essen
tial to membership in the Scriptual Church
and to proper participation 10 the Lords
Supper, and we have no right even by i'm
plication, to invite or in any way cncour-
age any person to come to the table who
have not this ScripturaI qualification.
Year: 1874

That such action should be taken
by any class of men in the nineteenth
century in the light Of all the noble
teachings of deep, broad, Christ-like
charity. held and taught by all these
organizations, is only another lesson of
the depths of folly to which narrow
bigotry will lead men. 1t seems from
the following that this same body Of
concentrated wise heads are about to
do as all great reformers Of the present
age are expected to set themselves about
doing, namely:


FORM A POLITICAL PARTY.


SYRACUSE, June 4.-Indianapolis
is selected as the place, and the third
Wednesday in August, as the time of
holding the National Convention to
adopt a political platform for the
American Anti-Secret Society party.


Now, this is a splendid opportunity
for all bigots, for all men who consider
that in themselves are concentrated all
wisdom and goodness: for all who
think that they are able to stand alone
without brotherly aid or sympathy, all
that miserable class of mortals who,
priding themselves on their own
righteousness, think all who differ
from them, worthy only Of eternal hell
fire. Let all such be on hand at Indi-
annapolis next August.
Year: 1874

CASTLE Rock, JUNE 18th, 1874.
Dear Editors Of the Grange Advance:


l will now with the greatest Of pleasure
write another letter to your nice paper. l
noticed in your last issue that you gave us
broad hint that you wished US to write
less about ourselves. Well will try now
and not use the big and the little u. We
are having a refreshing rain, which is a
blessing at this time Of the year. Our
crops look we'll considering the dryness Of
the weather. There is good Sabbath
School here, and expect there will be
great many more scholars by and by.


I noticed in your last paper that there
were not as many letters in from the
young people as usual. Now that will new
er do. always think when the editor is
so kind as to give us column that we
should certainly try to fill it. If the young
folks cease to write letters the paper will
lose its brightest attraction, cat least to
me- must now close. will write soon
again. Truly yours,


KATIE S. CLAGUE.


BAY CITY, June 4th, 1874.
DEAR EDITOR AS it is a rainy day I
thought would write again. We are farm
ing 120 acres Of land We bought 80 acres
of land last fall, Of which we sold 40 acres
and are farming the remaining 40. We
have sown 50 acres Of wheat, so acres of
rye, 81 acres Of oats and acres of buck
wheat. We planted 2255 acres of corn. We
do not raise as much grain as the Minnesota
farmers, because we live on Sand Prairie.
Our crops look very favorable. Our rye will
soon head out. A little more rain would do
no hurt and much good. We have 66 head
of live stock, including horses, cows, calves,
sheep and hogs. hope the young readers
of the GRANGE ADVANCE will not get dis
couraged writing letters.


Truly Yours,


HENRY MAILER.
Year: 1874

THE GREELEY TRIBUNE, of Colorado Territory, like the New York city papers, has lately been deyoting some heavy work to the dog question. It is of the candid opinion that 800 dogs might do the canine business of Greeley we'll enough, and hints that less number could do it. It might be little onerous in hot weather, but we think, the year round, 200O of the brutes could transact all the dog business necessary to be done in Tucson. If the number here were reduced to 20O0, it would probably impose upon the children the eating o1 some more food, but they would hardly complain. Too many dogs make worthless ones out of many that otherwise would be of some use, hence we are in favor of sweeping reduction la the number of dogs in Tucson-say down to 2O00. For human population of35OO, we think that number fair allowance of dogs. ..--..-...
Year: 1874

ANOTHER DEATH SENTENCE. In the
case OF Filomena Gotta who was indicted
with Estrada for the murder of Kruse, in
Sacramento, the jury returned verdict
Of guilty, and appended thereto the SEN
tence Of death. This, it is to be remem-
bered, is the sixth murder trial in the
State within four months, in which like
verdict and sentence has been returned
by jury. If the new law, leaving it
with the jury to decide the penalty as
we'll as the degree Of crime was intended
as a humanitarian measure, which would
have the effect of abolishing capital pun
ishment, land the published debates in
the Legislature seemed to indicate such
TO be the case,) it has sadly failed in that
respect, as in nearly every trial had since
the law went into effect, convictions have
followed, ard in a majority of cases of
conviction, the penalty Of death has been
set by the jury. The law certainly fur
theirs the ends Of justice, and murdeTers
can no longer hopo to escape the full
need of their crimes.


Perhaps the knowledge of the fact, in
the mind of a juryman, that he is not
compelled to condemn the accused to
death, or set him free altogether, has its
weight in enabling him to analyze and sift
the testimony given upon trial, more
calmly and disnassiOnatelv than under
the former law. There is something in
knowing that the life of fellow being
is in measure in bis hands, that inno-
cent men have been hanged upon testi-
mony deemed incontrovertible, yet whose
innocence was afterwards clearly estab-
lishe0, that untitled many men from jury
duty when death was the only penalty
that could follow conviction. The minds
of men who are selected to serve rs jur-
ors are not prone to condemn too readily
and when condemnation involved the life
of the prisoner, the benefit of every doubt
was given in his favor, and tho slightest
discrepancies of testimony were tortured
until they evoked doubts of the gravest
nature. With a choice of punishment
! before them juries have less difficulty in
reaching verdict of guilty, and wher
that conclusion is once reached, it seem!
easy to arrive at another er-that he who
in cold blood takes the life of a fellow


being, must forfeit his own.
Year: 1874

SCARED To DEATH.-A man named
jacobson was arrested in San Francisco
for the larceny of cigars from firm in
whose employ he had been. jacobson
had large balance in his favor at one Of
the banks which he agreed to transfer to
thos1 he had been robbing, and settle in
that way. When they reached the bank
the officers Of that institution refused to
make the transfer until the bank book of
jacobson was produced. and that was in
another county. He was put into an ex-
p'css wagon to be taken to the city pris-
on for safe keeping until the bank book
was brought, and on the way TO prison
expired in the wagon, doubtless from
fight at the detection of his crime and
its probable consequences.
Year: 1874

SUICIDE OF Young GIRL.-Mary
Lyons, a girl of fifteen, living three miles
from Auburn, committed suicide one day
of last week, by taking strychnine. Her
mother had encouraged the attentions OF
young man whom Mary liked and they
were engaged to be married. All at once
the mother changed her mind, forbid the
young man the house and her daughter
to speak to him again. 1t so worked on
the girls mind that she took poison
By those acquainted with all the facts,
the course pursued by the mother is Sc
verely censured.
Year: 1874

ONE can form some idea of Tie terri
flying qualities of shower in Mime
sofa when it is stated that fully forty
persons were killed by lightning in that
State during the week ending July 4th.
A ombardment with thunderbolts from
Heavens artillery in Minnesota is 100
fold more destructive of life and property
than a Pacific coast earthquake.
Year: 1874

THE Chinese companies of San Fran
cisco, which are supposed to exercise q
control and government Of the heather
population of California more effective
than the authority OF duly constituted
law, are now collecting all the known
thieves, cutthroats and vagrants among
their countrymen and shipping them
back to China. Several hundred have
already departed under the action Of thi;
enforced emigration scheme.