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Year: 1879

On the vote on the Indian transfer question,


yesterday, the Senatorial side of the committee
was two to one against, while the House side
was three to two in favor Of transfer. By the
rules and usages of joint committees, the de-
feat of Mr.. Scales motion classes the report
that Senator Saunders will make as ma ajority
report. Senator Saunders, during the debate
Year: 1879

MEXICO, April 4, 1879.


EDITOR LEDGER The reference
to that peculiar pound party, which
appeared in your last issue, with no
intention Of doing harm or injustice
to any, nevertheless, is calculated to
leave the impression upon the public
that the grand and devoted church,
which / have tried to serve the last
two years, had been guilty of Ii tie
petty meanness to myself and family.
want to say here that have never
served a more liberal-hearted and
selfsacrificing people If the pro-
ceeds took the direction indicated it
was done by my full and free consent,
and with the most perfect understand
ing between myself and the church
and in keeping with plan which l
have ever fol!owed-that any and all
things which come to me because of
my relation to the public as = preach
er, ought properly to be accredited
10 the peoplc l serve.


Yours, Very Truly,


ii. b. SEELEY.
Year: 1879

This firm have bought an entire
stock of groceries and added the same
to heirsplendid stock of queensware.


They have been singularly fortu-
nate in obtaining two new stocks OF
goods at very low rates and are deter
mined to sell cheap as any other house
in the city.


They invite the patronage of the
public in the full confidence that they
are able to give entire satisfaction.


They are prepared to exchange
goods for all kinds of country pro-
duce.


Jno. I. Brooks and Joseph Spence
will be on hand at all times and do
their best to accommodate their
friends.
Year: 1879

'SThe aid which the hand can rem
der the mind is noticeable at every
step in the processes in education. 1t
10 apparent in familiarizing the little
child with the forms Of bis letters
both in reading and writing: in the
diagrams which are so helpful to The
teacher of arithmetic and Of gram.'
mar; in the map drawing, without
which geography is studied to but
little purpose in the outlined forms
of natural objects. Drawing is a
language of universal use, and re-
markably concise-a few lines rap
idly sketched being of more value than
paragraphs of verbal description"
Year: 1879

Last Sunday eve., just before the
wind and rain storm come up, spark
from the switch engine blew into o
freight car and caught fire in the saw
dust on the bottom. Ifa darkey had
not been prompt to put out the iire
the whole switch full Of cars would
have burned, and the Martin House
nd sl.o have Ego ne up. "
Year: 1879

During the list few days several
of our citizens have had their over
and dress coats stolen. j. ID. Tucker
had his new Sunday-go-to-meeting
suit stolen from his house. B. F.
Dobyn's new spring overcoat has also
taken Ito departure, and is now worn
nv some pilgrim who will never enter
m by the straight and narrow way
hut viii have to climb over the wall;
only to give up his clothes.
Year: 1879

We see in the Sedalia Bazoo, under
the head line Of ''Hell of q Heintz,"
that this gentleman who, as many OF
our business men will remember, can
vassed Mexico some time since for
Appleton & Co, is a dead-beat and
a rascal. He was also mixed up in q
scrape with some girl in Sedalia.
Some of his actions in Mexico were
not without suspicion, and if he had
not left Mexico when he did he would
have gotten into trouble.
Year: 1879

II you are an old man and have
sons growing up, and at the same
time trying your best to keep young
man down, even kicking him in the
face, pause and consider that you
have sons who will shortly be on the
mercy of the world.
Year: 1879

The man who can make his own
fire, black his own boots, carry his
own wood, hoe his own garden, pay
his own debts, and live without wine
and tobacco, need ask no favor of
him who rides in a coach and four.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2i.-The usual diver
sity of theories exists to the cause of the
present break in stocks, but the weight of
opinion attributes it to the uncertain state of
feeling prevalent in banking and other busi-
ness circles, occasioned by the approaching
election on the question TO adopt
the new constitution. The proposed
document meets with no favor
IN financial circles, and the general opinion
there seems to b. that its adoption will cause
grave business depression. Another theory
accepted by many attributes the panic to a
combination, the object of which is to affect
public opinion on the election. The Work
ingmen have adopted a new constitution as a
party measure, and are urging iG strongly,
and it is probable that 1t will meet with con-
siderable favor in some portions of the State
among the farmers. but business classes are
arraying themselves against 1t with even
greater yIgor.
Year: 1879

ST. LOUIS, March 24.-Mr. Brown, manager
of the Western Union telegraph Office, instead
of appearing before the grand jury this morn
Ing with the dispatches called for by the SUBJ
poena duces tecum served upon him Saturday,
went directly before the criminal court with
his attorneys, Messrs. Allen & Lodge, the latter
of whom stated at length the reasons why Mr..
Brown could not produce the dispatches de-
manded. The court then asked Mr.. Brown
what he would do in case one or more of the
parties concerned consented to have their tel
esrams produced, and stated that he had
received letter from Governor Phelps saying
he was willing any telegraph Office should
present to the grand jury any dispatches
he had sent to either Neidlet or Wake
field. Nh. Brown replied that under
the rule of the telegraph company Governor
Phelps or any other sender of kilograms could
obtain his dispatches, on personal application
or by a request, written over his own sigma
ture. Judge Laughlin then continued the case
until Friday, when he will hear the argu-
ment on both sides. In conversation the
Judge said he understood and appreciated the
importance of the case, reco nlzed the wide
attention 1t would attract, and If the telegraph
company desired to make it a test case he
would not commit Mr.. Brown to jail, but If it
became necessary in the progress of the case to
lnfiict punishment on him it would be
merely nominal.


The petition of Mr.. Brown, manager of the
Western Union telegraph Office, to vacate the
order authorizing the subpoena, duces tecum,
and to recall the subpoena presented in the
criminal court to-day, sets forth as the reasons
why he should not, and can not produce the
dispatches demanded that he is simply SER
want of the company, and has no authority
from the company to deliver the dispatches,
but on the contrary, has been Instructed by
his superior officers not to produce or testify
as to the possession by the company of such
kilograms as are referred to in the subpoena;
that il is not certainly known that such tel
egrams as are demanded are in possession
of the company. The subpoena is rather
search warrant, and the process inquisitorial,
not judicial; that the telegraph company is
protected from such interference with its mes
sages by the public policy which lies at the
bottom of the fourth amendment to the fed
eral constitution, and of section IL, article
first, of the bill of rights of the State of Mis-
souri,. 1t also claims that the petitioner would
render himself liable to criminal and civil
prosecution under the laws OF this state
should he obey the subpoena, and refers to
Judge Cooley's article in the American
Law Register of February last, in regard to
this subject, and disclaims any object, purpose
or motive on the part of the petitioner in pre-
senting the petition other than to perform his
duty to his employer, his country and his
State.
Year: 1879

kELLEY's ISLAND, O., March 24.-The sieam-
er Golden Eagle, in trying to work her way
through the ice, got stuck and sprung a leak
about a mile from here, and Is sinking direct
ly In the steamboat passage between here and
Sandus1y, in about "a feet of water. The
passengers and baggage were safely landed
here, and the mail boat is after the crew.
Year: 1879

been obtained in regard to the fugitive. This
is the second Jail delivery at this
place within the past five months,
and unless the county commits
sioners make an order at their next regular
session for the erection of a new Jail building,
prisoners will have to be confined in the jalls
of our sister counties.
Year: 1879

The only chance which the farmers and
workingmen of the country have to secure
those reforms in public affairs, especially
in the currency, which their interests SO
imperatiyely demand, is for them to unite
and take control of the Democratic organ
ization, and make it, what it should be, a
Greenback party. This can be done. But
new party is impracticable, and would
have but one result: the restoration to
power of the Republican party, which is
thoroughly identified with the Money
Power, and the election of Grant to the
Presidency in 1880. If the farmers and
workingman willanot unite and drive the
professional politicians and office-seekers
from their controlling position in the Dem
ocratic party, there will be no hope for
the protection of their interests, no possibil


ity of reform in the public service. Thous-
ands of Democrats in every State who are
opposed to "ring" rule, would stand back
and permit the Democratic party to be
beaten before they would vote for lawyer
politicians for the offices, and they would
be right. But they must strike for their
interests in time. United and timely ac-
ton is all that is necessary for them to Sc
cure complete control of the Democratic
party. In the hands of good, honest rep
resentative men of the farmer and work
ing classes, the Democratic party would
sweep every section of the Union, and
under such auspices an era of unexampled
prosperity would dawn upon the country
Year: 1879

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We are SO urgent in our appeals to
leading Patrons to raise clubs of subscri=
bers for THR PATRON, because we can
get no advertising patronage. Any polit-
ical or.agricultural paper in the country
with a circulation half as large as that of
THE PATRON in the Southwestern States
would have no trouble in procuring a
most profitable advertising patronage
from the manufacturers of farm nipple.
ments and machinery etc.. But the man
ufacturers are opposed to the Grange and
are determined to destroy it, THESE facts
should be an incentive to every true Pa
tron to work for this paper. Every club
increases its capacity for effective service
in the cause of the Grange viii not every
friend of the paper make an earnest effort
to raise club of at least ten.
Year: 1879

We send large number of this issue of
THE PATRON to leading Patrons in Flori-
da, and hope they will all raise clubs for
it at once. We promise them paper that
will not only interest them, but will be of
great service in their efforts to build up the
Grange. We would be glad to have them
send us the Grange news of their rrespec,
Year: 1879

The action of the Master and Executive
Committee of the Florida State Grange in
adopting THE PATRON as their Official
Journal is exceedingly gratifying and en-
couraging to us. The PATRON has many
friends in Florida, and this action of their
State Grange officials will doubtless stim-
u1ate them to renewed efforts in its behalf
We hope to be of great service to the
working members of the Order in that
State.
Year: 1879

Worthy Overseer Rose, of the Texas
State Grange, writes us from Bell county,
under date of the 27th ult.: ee sal
9t''I have just returned from Lampasas
county; found the Order on my travels in
a prosperous condition. l am led to be-
lieve Il at there is very little vitality where
there are no steps being taken in business


II assisted in the organization of a Co.
operative Association at Pleasant Hill
Grange inpWilliamson county. They are
reading THE PATRON over there. All
Patrons are alive that do SO. The Order
everywhel need it. .s1uE-l l.fLt5% aiiI


''After starting in cooperative business
there are two great difficulties to over
come: I. To convince all Patrons that it
is to their interest to patronize their own
house; 2. To convince the local stores that
it is to their interest to transact all their
business through their State Association.
1t seems to be very difficult thing or to
require very strong will to prevent our
selves from being drummed out of our
business, acting upon the idea that every
transaction was the last, and we must save
the per cent on that purchase" t1ta1 .'-'A
Year: 1879

sbled theieby to realize greater profits, to
enlarge their business, and to pay their
Operatives higher wages The revival of
business in any other way is speculative
and hopeful merely. not real and present.
An increased demand may spring up after
i the growing crops are sold to meet the
increased supply ofsfabrics with which
the, channels of trade are being filled. The
rigorous economy praeticed by consumers
now, may be necessary reeuperation to
enable them to take and pay for large
share of articles of consumption hereafter.
But until increased production is fairly
met by increased consumption, which will
be evidenced by activity in the retail trade,
it can not be said that prosperity is re-
storedz7r"the good times come f,;u T
u We hope to see Farmers Alliance
club organized in every election beat in
Mississippi before the opening Of the. ap-
preaching campaign. The farmers in
New York are highly pleased with their
Alliance in that State. They are gradu-
ally but surely taking controlling posi-
ton in the Empire State. -r,. --..s,
T A farmer in the U. S Senate from Miss
issippi would have a wonderful influence
in restoring confdence-in-the Order all
over the country When the intelligent


thinking farmers, make such display OF
their power and capacity to control their


political affairs, the great mass of farmers


will quickly abandon the lawyer ooliti
clans, and go to the support of their own


representative men. The farmers of Miss.


issippi should take the lead in this move
| ment t:.-f.- i: .a-fy-rr
Year: 1879

REPRESENTATION ACCORDING TO PopULA-
TIoN.-The Wilmington Republican is advo-
eating representation according to popula.
ton, whereby New Castle county, having a
larger population than both Kent and
Sussex, would have larger representation
in the Legislature than both combined.
The increase in population giving this pre-
ponderance has been mainly in the city of
Wilmington, and the effect would be to
give that city the control of the legislation
of the State. The Dela,carean takes up the
question, differing with the Republican, and
says:


While we should be perfectly willing to
see that city, if its interest requires it, have
some increase in her representation, we
hope never TO see the legislation of the
State controlled or largely shaped by that
or any other city. In the hands of repre-
sentatives from the conservative rural sec
ton of the State, the interest of all will be,
as they have been, protected; and we
should deprecate the folly and madness
which should induce such a radical change
in our organic law as would permit the
legislation of the State to be directed by a
single city. We have a most kindly feel
ing for our largest city, and are proud of
her prosperity; but we have an equal re-
gard for the other portions of the State, and
shall not willingly consent to see their in
terest subordinated to that of Wilmington.
Year: 1879

REsUMPTIoN.-A year ago class of poll
ticians were loud in their declamations
against resumption of specie payments and
prophssied all kinds of evils as the result.
They were however defeated in every effort
to repeal it, and the law has been in effect
for some months. The New York Tribune
thus summarizes its beneficial results:


ga year ago, specie resumption was a
great bug-bear, which most people dreaded
Many who knew that resumption was a
duty and a necessity were not the less
weighed down with fear, and wished that
the cup might pass from them. Solemn
warnings filled the air. Things were going
to sell for a trife. The monster resump.
ton, was going to grind up the peoples
bones, and drink their life blood. For pitt
less money-lenders it was to be q day of
bliss. The rich were to be made richer;
the poor were to be made poorer; and
labor was to be crushed and starved.


"The day of doom came six months ago,
and we are yet alive. Not one of the
frightful things foretold has come to pass.
Less property has been forced to sale than
in any previous half year for a long time.
Prices are higher, on the whole, than they
were a year ago. Money has not grown
more scarce, but for every safe and honest
use more plentiful. More men and women
are at work for living wages than at anv
time from 1872 to 1879. The rattle of mills
is heard, and the blaze of furnace.fres is
seen in all parts of the land, where in July
last all was still and dark. The number of
failures and the losses by failures have
diminished greatly. New farms by the
thousand prove that toll brings fair pay to
farmers new mines, new shops and mills,
new railroads and new houses, in all parts
of the land, give work to multitudes, and
bear witness that life and hope have come
back to industry and trade. In short, the
weary years of sinking prices, PROSTATE in
dustry and stagnant trade are past, and the
country has plainly entered upon a new
era of steady recovery and sure return to
prosperity.


"No man will suffer himself to be
cheated twice by the same lying guide-post.
The people of this land have too much
sense not to profit by the practical lesson
in finance which events have taught them.
Many who have been deceived by predic.
tions of the harm to come from resump-
ton, have turned their backs upon false
guides, and have set their face toward the
truth. They have seen the dangers of re-
sumption vanish like ghosts, as we get near
them. Every word Of hope, spoken in be-
half of public faith and honest money, they
have seen verified. The old teaching of
conscience and common-sense--tha honesty
is the best policy-has been brought home
to the mind by the experience of the past
year.
Year: 1879

A Washington dispatch conveys the news
that the grave of Brigham Young, who left
somewhere about seventeen widows, seems
utterly neglected. 1t is possible that the
privilege of being one-seventeenth of a
widow is even less precious in the eyes of
the Mormon female than that of being
one.seventeenth Of a wife
Year: 1879




Every good farmer knows that to in
sure satisfactory crops his land must be
cultivated in the best manner, and If it
is so cultivated few weeds will be found
upon it. Sometimes, even upon WELL
managed farms, field here and there,
owing to adverse weather, shortness Of
hands, or rush of work generally, may
be neglected for few days and the weeds
may get start; but this happens rarely,
and an observing man can always judge
of the character of farmer by glancing
his eye over his premises. II the weeds
are not TO be regularly and Systematically
destroyed, the idea of conducting agricul-
tural operations profitably may as well
be abandoned, for the one Is incompati-
BILE with the other.


And even this Is more pointedly so
with the garden. Weeds and garden
crep are as antagODistic as life and
death. They cannot stand upon the
same platform. One must be master,
and 1t is for the owner to say which. If
garden is systematically worked-and
withot system no garden is worth having
the labor Of keeping down the weeds
is reduced one-haif. But let them once
get ahead, and they may be fought all
summer and prove victorious in the end.
Again, let no weeds 60 to seed; and do
not throw into the public highway such
as do, to be washed down upon the land
of your neighbors.


BONE DUST.


Many a poor fellow has worn out his
bones trying to work a piece of poor
ground but such bone application has
seldom resulted in large profits. Our
English friends have discovered that IL is
much better to use other peoples bones
IN these cases than their own, and the
bone trade Of England has assumed 81
gantic proportions. All the old battle
fields have been ransacked. and unless
report do them no injustice, many an old
fellow whose bones were supposed to rest
in some grassy daisy-flowered churchyard
would have to hunt some modern turnip
field to find all that remains of them.-
Foreign countries have not only to pay
tribute to England of their wealth du
ring life, but even their bones have tC
follow, in order to enrich the British
soil, as while living they worked to FL


British pockets. Australia sends al


enormous quantity of bones to England


1t has become such heavy trade tina


the article itself was found too light fo


profit. Science has been called in to EN-


able the ship-Owner TO take the SAM


weight in less bulk. The bones are frs


ground, then the dust mixed with SOM
substance which will give it just enougl


adhesiveness to make the particles sticl


together. Then the material put unde
heavy pressure in moulds about siz inch


es square, SO that it can be packed in tn


hold without any loss of space. One To-
Of this bone-cake measures only twenty


six cubic feet. OF course these bone
are all ofwild or domestic animals, bu
still ''silence is golden"
Year: 1879

proposition that about fifteen pas
sengers are equivalent to ton OF
freight, on the average Of one hun
dred and forty pounds to the pas
sengef, and taking the present
passenger rates between San Fran
cisco and New York, we find that
the charge on human freight is at
the rate of about $3.50 to the ton.
Admitting that more expensive
accommodations are provided for
passengers than for freight and
livestock, the disparity is still
monstrous. The passenger really
gives very little trouble. He re-
quires no handling whatever, get
ting on and off the cars without
any assistance. We select the
transco influential railway for our
example because of its convenience,
but the principle holds good with


every railway In the United States.


Their passenger rates, as compared


with their freight schedules, high
as the latter may be, are dispro-
portionately great. There is no
good reason why railways which
earn extravagant sums yearly
should not begin to appreciate this
disparity. There is nothing COM
munistic or leveling about it, and
it is reform that is certain to
come in time. The freight which
handles and takes care of itself
ought to have fair treatment.
Year: 1879

THE Chinese can evidently take
a hint quickly. The arrival Of
twelve hundred Celestials at Port
land in q bunch indicates that they
know that California is good
place for heavy ship-loads of Mon
golians to avoid. How many of
this multitude will quietly slip into
California, dozen or 80 in a squad,
would be an interesting thing to
know. No matter to what artifices
they may be compelled to resort to
divert attention from their move
ments, the Chinese are determined
to come here. We have not seen
In Oregon any signs of the agita-
tion which in California has made
our people of all parties practically
unit on the proposition that "the
Chinese must CO." At the rate in
which the moon-eyed leper is pour
ing into Portland now, however,
the question will shortly be very
live issue of Web-foot politics.
Year: 1879

WE give place in our local col
umns to a complaint that the
streets are not watered. This is
simply intolerable. The public
health and comfort are of the first
Importance. In fact, they over
shadow everything else. The City
Council should see to it that this
universal demand of our people is
complied with at once. Mayor
Toberman once before interposed
very acceptably in this matter, and
we trust that he will second time
take the bull by the horns and
start the sprinklers at once.