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What the Grange Has Done.
R. D. Barber, of Darwin Grange, Fayette
County, Ind., thus sums up the benefits of the
order to the farmers in that locality during the
past year :
There is a better feeling among the members
socially, and all seem to see the necessity of
getting out of debt. The community generally
are in better condition financially than they
have been for years. There is also a disposition
on the part of merchants to force collections,
which will result in benefit to the membership,
for they now see that the sooner we get to the
cash system the better for us. Our Grange has
saved several hundred dollars during the year
on what we bought. Part of the members sold
their hogs last year in one lot and made 90
cents on the hundred more than those who sold
to the gentlemen that rode through the country
cursing the Grange.
The Grange Movement, as it is termed, has in
a comparatively short time brought about the
most extensive and beneficial reforms known in
the history of the world. It has struck a death
blow at the credit system ; it has brought the
farmers and manufacturers, bankers, dealers,
mechanics and artists face to face ; driven off
the unwary and annoying speculator ; has en
couraged widespread social, christianizing and
familiar interchange among farmers, the neglect
of which had well-nigh lapsed into a degree of
indifference bordering on stoicism. The great
compact awakens in the social circle pleasant
and kindly voices and throws over all the halo of
lasting virtue*— Southern Agent.
Patrons, Plant Trees and Vines.
Let each Grange require every member to plant
out one or more fruit trees or grape vines (which
duty might be held as a debt against the member
until the proper season occurs). If the custom
is permanently fixed, that there shall be as many
fruit trees set out as there are meetings of the
Grange, it will convert even the fence-corners
into places of profit, and supply an immense
amount of fruit to the country without feeling
it pecuniarily or otherwise. On old fields where
scarcely anything else will grow, peaches and
grapes, plums and cherries may be made to yield
in profusion. By all means, the fence-corners
around the farm should be devoted to this pur
pose. At present, they are usually given up to
briers ami bushes, and form uncouth borders to
our farms.
Grange Exchange, or sale days, are what the
Patrons in some of the States are now proposing;
that is, they propose to establish regular mar
ket days at stated places, for the sale of stock,
grain, and produce generally. It is a good idea,
and is already successful in many localities.
A new game has been started in the moun
tains called Granger seven-up.” Three per
sons play for a can of oysters; the first man
out gets the oysters, the last the can, and the
‘•middle-man” don't get anything.
The Patrons of Goodhue Co., Maine., have
organized a manufacturing association with a
capial of SIOO,OOO, in SSO shares.
It is held that a Grange cannot surrender its
charter so long as nine men and four women,
members thereof, vote against so doing.
The Farmers' Fire Insurance Co., of Minne
sota, which practically is under the direction of
the Grange, reports most favorably upon the
business done in 1874.
The growth of the Patrons throughout the
South is remarkable. In Alabama there are
now reported to be 641 Granges, with 32,000
members ; in Florida, 108 Granges, with 5,500
members; in Arkansas, 521 Granges, with 21,-
000 members ; while in other Slates there are
also numerous lodges with large membership.
The Grangers of Haywood county, Tenn ,
are about to establish a manufacturing estab
lishment at Brownsville.
The Grangers north of Duck river in Maury
county, Tenn., are raising a joint stock company
for erecting a mill and manufacturing establish
ment at or near Carter’s Creek Station ; and
with such men as Majors Rogers, Cheairs, Gib
son, Southall, Jones, ami others, success is
doubly assured as soon as they go to work.
G. 11. Slaughter, D. P. Safford, Charley War
field, ami others, are getting up a joint stock
mill, to be located at St. Bethlehem. Montgomery
c ounty, Tenn., a thriving place.
We are glad to know that in many other coun
ties they are waking up to the importance of
building up mills and factories on the co-opera
tive plan.— Kura! Sun.
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A LOVER’S THOUGHT.
BY J. E. CHENEY.
Love each minute, sweet, for life is such
A little space;
Keep closely at my side where I can see
Your dear, dear face ;
And let your feet keep step along the way
Which mine must trace.
It is a toilsome path, but love can make
It seem so bright;
And with your hand in mine I can abide
The deepest night.
And since He guides us both, I know the way
Will all be right.
For th* Rural Southerner and Plantation.
Mr Editor:
In the August number of your excellent
journal, where “ Women and children” were
called “ to the rescue,” I notice that the Editor
of the Health Department has shirked his duty
as one belonging to the fraternity to whom I so
earnestly appealed for information in my arti
cle of Tight Shoes and Hign Heels, by stating
that while at “ fault in my physiology, I am cer
tainly correct in my factsleaving me thus,
without making the desired corrections. I made
no physilogical assertions: but in the form of
questions, appealed to the learned expound
ers of that science for facts, of physiological ef
fects, as produced or called into existence by
painful causes.
I am not willing to permit Dr. Wilson whom,
I know capable of investigating the subject, or
any other physician, to throw oft' so lightly
questions of so serious and grave import to the
welfare of my race. If I was in error, he must
correct me in an article, that in the correction,
it cannot be otherwise than beneficial to my sex;
and when that is done, I shall have accomplished
the sole object in view in the production of my
article. He farther states that, “To make the
argument effective, the writer should be able
not only to give the science, but the facts,” etc.
As he admits that 1 have given the facts, I solicit
from him the logical deductions of the science,
in consideration of the fact that ladies have not
been permitted to explore the physiological laby
rinths that he, as a physician, has been initiated
into the mysteries of; and from which knowl
edge no individual reasons have excluded us,
but educational customs, which must plead for
our ignorance.
The day has come, however, when women de
sire to become enlightened, at least in so much
as regards their own individual welfares; and
to who* shall they go, if not to those who stand
as benefactors to their sex? Then, as an hum
ble supplicant, I stand as her representative—
while I also plead my own individual right—at
the door of Knowledge and knock, begging Dr.
Wilson, or whomsoever may possess the key, to
open unto us and teach us ; not in an alarm call
of “ Women and children to the rescue,” who,
I am sorry to state, are. as a mass, as ignorant
in physiology as myself, but for himself and
others, who are professional physiologists, to
come to the “Rescue.”
Most respectfully,
MRS. B. 11. HARPER.
Atlanta, 1874.
Intkllbctual Culturb.—A cultivated mind
may be said to have infinite stores of innocent
gratification. Everything may be made inter
esting to it, by becoming a subject of thought
or inquiry. Books, regarded merely as a grati
fication, are worth more than all the luxuries on
earth. A taste for literature secures cheerful
occupation for the unemployed and languid
hours of life; and how many persons in these
hours, fir want of innocent resources, are now
compelled to coarse pleasure ? How many
young men can be found in this town who, un
accustomed to find a companion in a book, and
strangers to intellectual activity, are almost
driven, in the long dull evenings of winter, to
haunts of intemperance and bad society?
Yikld a Littli.—lt is better to yield a little
than to quarrel a great deal. The habit of
standing up, as people call it, for their (little)
rights is one of the most disagreeable and un
dignified in the world. Life is too short for the
perpetual bickerings which attend such a disposi
tion ; and unless a very momentous affair indeed,
where other people’s claims and interests are
involved, it is a question if it is not wiser, hap
pier and more prudent to yield somewhat of
precious rights than squabble to maintain them.
True wisdom is first pure, then peaceable and
gentle.
ATLANTA MARKET.
CORRECTED TO MARCH 8, 1875.
GRAIN.
Corn—new white $ 105
“ mixed 105
Wheat—white 1 35al 45
amber 1 30al 40
red 1 20al 25
Oats—white S 3
black 90
mixed 80
Peas 1 40
Corn meal ..... 1 05
Grits, per bbl ' 6 50a7 00
FLOUR.
Superfine $ 5 50
“ Extra 6 00&6 25
Family 6 25a6 50
“ Extra 6 75a7 00
Fancy 7 25a7 50
Buckwheat Flour, per bbl $lO 00
HAY.
Timothy $ 160
Tennessee 1 25al 35
Clover 1 25
PROVISIONS.
Bacon —clear sides.
C. R. sides 12X
Shoulders 9.%
Sugar-cured hams, new 14?4a15
“ “ “ old 12%a13
Bulk—clear sides 11X
C.R. sides UM
Shoulders 8
Hams.... 12
Bacon hams 13 al4
Lard—tierces 15a16
Kegs and cans 16a17
Buckets 17
Mackerel—No. 3, per bbl 11 00
No. 3, per kit 1 25
No. 2, per one-half bbl 6 00
No. 2, per kit 1 50
No. 1, per <‘ne-half bbl 7 25
No. 1, per kit 1 75
GROCERIES.
Coffee—Rio, per lb 22Xa24
Laguira 26
O. G. Java 38
Sugar—A, per lb 11M
Extra C 11
Yellow’s 10 aIOM
N. O. fair to choice BXall
Molasses—per bbl 45
Syrups—New York 50 a75
New Orleans 70 a75
Candles—per lb 17X
Cheese—per lb 15 alB
Soaps—P. M. Soap 350
SALT. 9
Liverpool, per sack $1 75
Virginia 2 00
Rock, per lb
Table, per dozen 1 50
SUNDRIES.
Iron ties 6a7X
Bagging—Gunny HX
21b 12X
2} B ' lbs 13
Standard 13X
Borneo 18X
Feathers 50a70
W 00l 35a50
Yarns $l2O
Nails—for 10s and 20s $lO 00
Seed Potatoes—Early Rose 4 00
Goodrich 4 00
Pink Eye 4 25
Esculents—Onions 4 00a4 50
Irish Potatoes—Goodrich 4 00
Pink Eye 4 25
Russetts, west’n 3 40a3 50
Sweet Potatoes 50eal 00
Apples, per bbl 3 00a5 00
Dried Apples, per lb, coumtry.. 5
“ •* “ northern..
“ Peaches, unpeeled 4 a5"
“ “ peeled 18 a2O
Honey, strained, per lb 20
Tallow per lb 8 a 9
POULTRY.
Chickens—dressed, per lb 12c
Turkeys—dressed, per lb 15c
Turkeys 75al 25
Chickens 15a 20
FRESH MEATS.
Beef—Loin 15c
Roast and Steaks... x 15
Pork, nominal 12
Mutton 12X&15
SUNDRIES.
Cheese—State dairy 15 a!8
Factory 17 aI7X
Onions—Silver Skin, very choice 4 75a5 00
Red 4 75a5 00
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter 20 a25
Eggs 18 a2O
Feathers 50 a7O
Wool, washed 32 aSO
unwashed 25
GRASS SEEDS.
Clover $8 00
Timothy 4 50
Orchard grass 3 00a3 50
Blue grass 2 25
Herd Grass 2 50
Hungarian millet 2 00
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Cattle—Tennesec 3X»BX
Country 2Xu4X
Sheep—Tennesee 1
Country 2 a-3
Shoats 5 a6
FINANCE.
Buying. | Selling.
Gold 112 X 1 14
Silver 1 03 1 05
Exchange on New York par. X prem.
Loans lalX
JUNK MARKET.
Rags... .buying prices 2 &2X
Waste paper—buying prices x
PAPER.
Book 14 a!8
Manilla m a!2
News, best rag llXalX
Wrapping bx
RAILROAD_SCHEDULE.
Atlanta <fc Richmond Air-Line Railroad.
Leave Atlanta 8 45 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta 7 30 p.m
Georgia Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta J W a,m
Arrive at Atlanta 5 45 p.m
NIGHT PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta 40 40 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta. 6 20 a.m
Atlanta and West Point Railroad.
PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta 40 30 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta ° 45 p.m
ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Atlanta 45 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta 4 30 p.m
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta ® 40 a.m
Arrive at Atlanta do p.m
NIGHT PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta. 40 15 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta " P ,m
Central Rairoad —Atlanta Division.
DAY PASSENGER.
Arrive at Atlanta 2 00 P ,ni
NIGHT PASSENGER.
Arrive at Atlanta 5 00 a.m
USEFUL TABLES.
PLANTS UPON AN ACRE OF GROUND.
Distances apart. No -
6 inches by six inches
quo.. 7,260
3 “ 3
5 .. 5
• :: U :::::::::
10 “ 10 “ 435
QUANTITY OF SEED USUALLY SOWN UPON ONE ACRE-
About
Dwarf beans, in drills 1 to 1J bush.
Pole beans, in hills 8 to 12 qts.
Early peas, in drills 4 2 hush.
Marrowfat peas, in drills 4
Corn, in hills 9* 3,
Beet, in drills 4 4° & lbs.
Carrot, iu drills 2to 3 “
Cucumber, in drills 1 to 2
Onion, in drills 4to 6 “
Parsnip, in drills 4to 5 “
Radish, iu drills 6 to 8 “
Spinach, in drills 8 to 10 “
Squash .2 “
Salsify, iu drills 6to 8 “
Sweet corn, (for soiling) 2 to 3 bush.
Turnip H )S -
Chinese sugarcane... .' 10 to 12 qts.
Broom corn, in hills 10 to 12 qts.
White clover, alone 12 to 15 lbs.
Blue grass, alone, (for lawn) 56 “
Rye grass, alone 2 bush.
Orchard grass 2to 3 “
Mixed lawn grass .4 “
Red-top grass, alone, (for lawn) 4 “
BUSINESS) LAW.
1. Ignorance of the law excuseth no one.
2. It is fraud to conceal a fraud.
3. The law compels no one to do impossibili-
ties.
4. An agreement without consideration is void.
5. Signatures made with lead pencil are good
in law.
6. A receipt for money paid is not legally con-
clusive.
7. The acts of one partner bind all the others.
8. Contracts made on Sunday cannot be en-
forced.
9. A contract made with a minor is void.
10. A contract made with a lunatic is void.
11. Contracts for advertisements in Sunday
newspapers are invalid.
12. Principals are responsible for the acts of
agents.
13. Agents are responsible to their principals
for errors.
14. Each individual in partnership is responsi-
ble for the whole amount of the firm.
15. A note given by a minor is void.
16. Notes bear interest only when so stated.
17. It is not legally necessary to say on a note
“ for value received.”
18. A note drawn on Sunday is void.
19. If a note be lost or stolen, it does not re-
lease the maker ; he must pay it.
20. An indorser of a note is exempt from liabil-
ity if not served with notice of its dishon
or within 24 hours of its non-payment.
7he Southern Publishing Co. want agents for
Bingley s Natural History—lo4o pages and 1070
illustrations.