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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
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ATLANTA, GA,, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1874.
No. 41
ELECTION RETURNS.
Felton’s Majority in the Seventh, 82.
Hon. Henry R. Harris* vote in the 14th
district was 9,230.
non. M. A. Candler’s majority in the
5th district was C, 177. The total vote in
the district is 19,723; Candler, 1,250
Mills, 6,274.
Hon. Julian Hartridge is elected in the
lit district by some 4,000 majority, if il
legal votes are thrown out; but admitting
them, his majority is 3,457. Hartridge
received 8,431; Bryant, 4,012; Wimber
ly, 962.
Thefollowing are tlie official returns in
the 7th district:
Felton Dabney
Bartow 1,782 340
Paulding 322 I
Murray) 160
Catoosa 102
Cobb 1,152
Dado 4
Gordon 566
Whitfield 407
Chattooga 218
Floyd 1,199 1,
Polk 690
Walker 170
YOUNG AGAIN.
Houston County.
CONSOLIDATED RETURNS. . .
Tntnl I I’m growing old, but what of that!
Precincts. Mills. Candler. lot&L | .p,® Iri w r
891
579
579
Perry
Fort valley
Powers ville
Buabyvllle
York
Houston Factory..
Haynsville
...515
..171
..111
.. 18
.. 00
376
403
82
79
76
63
45
Henderson
84
Aggregate 917
Candler’s majority, 301.
1,218
DeKalb County.
Candler
The winter snows are in my hair,
And like an antiquated cat
I love my fire and easy chair.
971 To sit and think, and read the news
1871 Through pebbles twain that bridge my
861 nose,
45 I A matted stool beneath my shoes,
861 To coax the dull blood to my toes.
2,1351 I’m growing old, but what of that!
Each fading sense, each twinge of pain,
But tell me with familiar chat
I’m coming to my youth again.
Majority 919
MILTON COUNTY.
(Special to The Constitution.)
Alpharetta, November 4.
The vote polled in this county yester
day was 545; of this number, 531 were
for Candler, and 14 for Mills, making
Candler’s majority 516. This is a small
vote. This report is official.
O. P. Skelton.
Sixth District.
BISMARCK’S ENEMY.
Some Interesting Facts About the
Von Arnims.
Total 6,772 7,152
Unofficial accounts give Felton’s ma
jority in Cherokee county at 448, and in
Haralson county at 14.
Much illegal voting is reported in coun
ties bordering on Alabama, by negroes
imported from Alabama, and of such
magnitude, if proven, to change the re
sults very materially.
The following special telegram from
P.ome would seem to indicate Felton’s
election by 82 majofity:
Rome, November 4
I have received copies of the sworn re
turns of all'thc counties except Haralson.
Felton’s majority is 67, with Haralson to
hear from. M. A. N.
LATER.
At 10 o’elock the official return of
Chattooga was received by the secretary
of state: Felton, 664; Dabney, 216; ma
jority for Felton, 448. Total majority
for Felton, 82.
The Vote of the Seventh District.
[Special Telegraph to the Constitution.]
Cartersville, November 5.—Polk
county official gives Felton 815 majority,
Paulding county, unofficial, gives Dab
ney 275 majority.
Cherokee county, unofficial, gives
Dabney 34-1 majority. B.
Dalton, November 5.—Tho official
vote of Murray county gives Dabney a
majority of 402. R-
Acworth, Novembers.—Tho official
vptoof Cherokee ^county gives Felton
448 majority. B.
Seventh District.
THE VOTE OF HARALSON COUNTY.
(Special to The Constltptlon.)
Newnan, November 4
J Felton’s majority in Haralson county
is 14 votes. This is authentic.
♦ T. M. Acton,
It looks as if it might yet require the
count of the official vote in the secreta
ry’s office before a reliable decision as to
who i9 elected.
First District.
CLINCH COUNTY.
(Special to The Constitution.)
Homebville, November 4
Below I* give you the result of theelec-
tion in this county on yesterday: Julian
Hartridge, 850; John E. Bryant, 34; ma
jority for Hartridge, 316. All quiet.
. J. S. Sweat.
Second Congressional District.
Smith Wbitely
BUTTS COUNTY,
[Special to The Constitution.]
About 800 votes were polled, all for
Blount At one precinct, three negroes
voted for Mills, but these were of course
thrown out, as Butts is not in this dis
trict.
Putnam’s Vote.
[8pcclal to the Atlanta Constitution.]
Eatonton, Ga., November 4.—Hear
from old .Putnam again. Her head is | Seventy-Seven Democratic Majority
level and serene. “Glory enough for
one day.” Yesterday we achieved a
glorious victory for our gallant standard
bearer, Hon. J. H. Blount. In Eaton
ton the vote was 484 for Blount and 97
for Gove. All the town negroes acted
wisely and voted of their own free will
and accord for Blount The aggregate
[i?y Telegraph to The Constitution.']
Washington, November 7.—Tliedem-
vote of the various precincts of the I ocratic majority in the Louse is now 77,
county i895 for Blount and two for Gove, with 17 representatives still to be chosen,
which, you sec, makes Blount’s majority I The states to elect senators now jeopard-
in the oounty 400.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
[Special to The Constitution.]
Total number of votes polled, 82; A.
H. Stephens received 82.
II J. Lang.
Baker* 541
Brooks* 1,983
Lowndes* 815
Mitchell* 755
Quitman* 383
Randolph* 791
Terrell* 8,5
Thomas* 1,514
Calhoun
Olay 119
Colquitt 1°9
Decatur
Dougherty
Early....> 150
Miller 243
Worm..: 710
Total 8,119
Smith’s majority
♦Official. .
Fifth District.
Candler.
Crawford* 512
Clayton* 568
DeKalb*..., 1,11 ‘
Fayette* ■
Fulton* ->820
Henry* •$*
Houston*
Milton* - 531
Total 12,450
Candler's majority
•Official
Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., November 4
Editors Constitution:—! hand you our
vote: Candler, 900; Mills, 6ia Major
ity, 447. Yours, Geo. Y Nolan.
401
612
698
553
219
953
562
1,531
310
283
1,200
7,363
757
Mills.
213
322
198
258
929
517
91
14
790
804
723
588
6,165
...6,285
Renews, revives the meanest things—
| That life is bora when grasses turn,
That out of winter leaps the spring.
And such a spring! Rejoice, oh me!
That age and mildew pass away,
That a brief cycle 6ets me free
To launch into unfading day.
The snow shall shade from out my hair,
Dim eyes a»d weakness flee with pain,
Heart’s ease the wrinkled brow repair,
And all my youth come back again.
Night flames his wings and turns to day,
’Mid joy and bells the heart is bom;
Though all things seem to pass away,
To all shall come another mom.
Him we call Death, with kindly hand,
Plants all the daisies of the plain,
j And when o’er me he waves his wand,
I shall renew my youth again.
Notice to Subscribers.
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issues, is notice that the time is out and
paper stopped.
OUR VICTORY.
in the House.
The Senate Now in Jeopardy.
Yours truly,
Z. I.F.
Eighth District.
Hall County.
ize the senate. The radical majority in
the senate is pulled down to 8, and prob
ably to 6.
New York, November 4—Tilden’s
majority for governor is about 44,000.
Thanksgiving and Prayer for Louis
iana.
[By Telegraph to the Constitution]
New Orleans, Nov. 7.—The com
mittee of seventy adopted the following
resolution:
That this committee invite the people
of Louisiana to meet at their respective
places of worship Thursday, November
Gainesville, Ga., November 4
Editors Constitution:—Upon consolida
ting tho returns of the different precincts^
in Hall county, the full vote stands:
McMillan, 692; O’Noal, 117; McMillan’s 19th, to return tlianks to Almighty God
majority, 515. The election passed off for their deliverance from political bon
very quietly. The vote was very light | dage.
for tho county, a little over one-third
voting.
M. P. C.
Semmes’ History of Marshal Hester.
The Vote of Forsyth County.
[N. Y. Tribune’s Mobile Letter.]
During the first day of the examinn.
Cuming, Ga., November 4 I tion great interest was excited by the mu-
Editors Constitution-. Tho election pass- recognition of Admiral Raphael
1 Semmes, who is a member of the Mobile
■P® ... . . . bar, and Mr. Hester, the United States
this county stands: McMillan, 417; detective, who was the complainant.
O’Neal, 122; McMillan’s majority, 295. Hester, it turns out, was for a short time
Tho vote was small. Fanners are very | during the war one of the crew of the
. . .... - - Sumter, then commanded by Admiral
busy sowing a* lieat and gathering crops. Semmes. The story as told by the ad
it is my impression that O’Neal polled ra j ra i i s as follows: The Sumter having
about his strength. There has been a been on a cruise and burned out her boil-
post office muddle here for some time, ers put into Gibraltar, the admiral hop-
which has weakened the party. I guess ing either to get them repaired or re
they will find out in time who are the placed. Finding that there were no
men of influence in this county. The shops there, it was impossible to get any
men who have always acted with the work done, and in the meantime three
party find it hard to educate their friends federal vessels arrived and blockaded
to subnut to tho leadership of new-born the Sumter. After consulting with Mr.
republicans, who, they believe, are 8uch Mason, who was then the Confederate
for a purpose. Observer. agent in London, Semmes determined to
dismiss his crew except half a dozen men
who were to be left in charge of the
vessel and return to the confederate
states. He placed midshipman Arm.
MORE REJOICING.
Torchlight Procession and Bonfire strong, of Georgia, in command, and
in Barnesville. | Hester, who had joined the Sumterafter
her arrival at Gibraltar, he made mas-
„ _ , T „ , 0 „, .tar’smate. Not long after he left, the
Barnesville, Ga., Nov. 6, 18,4 admiral learned from his officers that
Editors Constitution: Please allow space Hester had killed a man on the Sumter,
in your highly estimated paper, forme to j When he got the particulars, it appeared
J ° . .. | that pistol shots were heard during the
try to relate the scenes of last night. I nigj^ and when the others on board
When the five p. m., tra:u arrived yester- went to ascertain the cause they found
day afternoon, and the news that Can- ] that one of the crew had been murdered
dler was elected by an -overwhelming J Ms berth, ^ that Hester was the
- only man who could have committed the
majority, the whole town was in an I d ee( ], The question at once arose as to
uproar, and every democrat resolved to the jurisdiction of the British civil au-
give his mite towards having a torch-1 thonties in the case, and it was decided
light procession and bonfire. | ^“^e^being a regularly com-
At seven o’clock we heard a
drum and the command, “fall in ranks;” I had been accorded, the British author!
then every man in town, with torch in ties could take no cognizance of the
hand, obeyed the command. I cas ?- Hester therefore escaped. Three
_ ’ - . , .. . , , or four years ago he called on the admi-
Therewere about three hundred in the ra]> in Mobile, for some W
procession. We marched up and down which was granted.
every street in town until orders were Mr Hester says that the man whom he
given to march to the residence of CoL ^} mter bad proposed
5, , , . , | to deliver that vessel over to the com-
HunU He was called and responded I mander G f the federal ship that vSs
in a very appropriate speech of the past blockading her, and that it was in pro-
and future of the democrats. Then I tecting the property of the confederate
three cheers for Milton A. Candler and J le billed
_ . _ . . . , , , | nun. He says further that the matter
J. A. Hunt echoed and re-echoed. | investigated by the British authori
ties, and he was exonerated from all
Marietta.—MajorJ. W. Roberts has blame. He then returned ;to Richmond
been elected president of the Roswell and reported to Mr. Mallorv, who com-
Manufacturing Company. Mr. Joshua plimenU d him for what he tad done and
York, who formerly lived in Marietta, offered him the command of a water-bat-
shot and killed himself at Fairbum on tery on the James river. This he de-
Saturday. The Young Men’s Literary dined, and after a visit to his family as-
Society is composed of fine talent and is sumed command of a blockade-runner
flourishing. Mr. Augustine Fletcher with which-he remained to the clo«e of
has just been appointed postmaster, vice the’war.
Prettyman deposed.—Journal. I take it for granted that neither the
Jonesboro’.—Mr. Allen Jones, an old post-master general nor the attorney "en-
[Berlin Correspondence New York Herald.]
I have saidj.Lh.at Prince Bismarck is le
gally in the right. He had a dispute
with Count Arnim—a duel for life and
death perhaps—so when his pistol missed
fire, he knocked down the Count with
the but end of it Well, politics is a
rough game, and those who lose the
stakes must expect to get hurt The
fight between Amim and Bismarck was
a fair fight up to a certain point. It
ceased to be a fair fight when Prince
Bismarck took to legal quibbles and
countenanced charges against his adver
sary’s character. It became a cruel and
discreditabBpersecution when the chan
cellor insulted his adversary’s wife and
son. YestdWay the poor lady had a
domiciliary visit from the police; both
she and her son are watched.
THE COUNTESS ARNIM.
is one of the most beautiijil women in
Europe—fair, tall and stately, with the
gracious manners of a lady most noble,
most lovely, though in a plight so pitiful.
She cannot believe that her husband has
ever done anything wrong, and would
share his prison if in mercy allowed to
suffer with him. Mercy now denied, I
could not look upon her anguish unmov
ed, though she bore it so bravely. I bad
last seen her as queen of the revels in
the gayest capital of the world, and now,
as she spoke to me and tried to smile, I
saw that she was wringing her shapely
hands till the pure, wifely blood was
like to start beneath her rings. “Alas,
we know not who are our friends!” The
home of the Arnims, in the Pariser
Platz, is very sad and dark without its
master.”
Thejprisoner’s son is a handsome lad
in the twenties, a lieutenant of dragoons,
who has taken off his uniform. Duti
fully devoted to an imprisoned father,
and very anxious just now, not discour
aged, but keeping a stiff upper lip; help
ful in a thousand ways, or desiring to be
so, and thinking, poor boy, that business
should be much done in cabs, has been
constantly running about hither and
thither for the last three weeks; finally
writing to the newspapers a manly and
proper letter denying that his father was
n any way connected with a catch-penny
pamphlet or its concoctor. A hard case,
my Prince Chancellor, which deals un
kindly with ladies and young lads.
RISE AND FALL OF COUNT ARNIM.
Forty years ago there was a small boy
without a penny or a pocket handker
chief. He was of good, or rather “good-
ish,” family, his name being Arnim, and
there are Arnims rich and poor—some
very poor, some not to be mentioned here.
This boy’s kinsman, Count Henry Amim,
a minister, educated him; gave him also,
it maybe supposed, the name of “Henry,”
a burlesque of his own. The hoy was a
bright boy, full of wit and spirits, and
grew up to be the most brilliant man in
Prussia. Very early he got it into his
head that he would be a diplomatist, and
though his guardian smiled somewhat
away when this notion was mentioned to
him, he helped the boy upwards. Put
him astride a diplomatic foolscap and
left him there. Left him nothing else.
But the. hoy prospered in away, and hav
ing done what he could without money—
which was not much contrived to make
a rich marriage, and then another rich
and noble marriage, finding good wives
twice over. Then the truth of the old
iroverb asserted itself, “Win at love,
ose at play.”
A ROMANCE OF DIPLOMACY.
Scrubby little girl standing in the mar
ket-place of Berlin more than half a cen
tury ago—Jewish little girl, with a desire
for garlic every day at twelve o’clock, or
perhaps before; girl, dark-eyed, full
lipped, lithe of iimb, and with a voice
which belonged centuries since to
some sweet singer of Is-
raeL She had no name—no
name known to biographical dictionaries.
Perhaps her name was Happiness. So
she stood in the market place of Berlin,
when Berlin was but au awkward sort
of struggling village, half a century
ago. This scrubby little girl, all keen,
sharp life and loveliness, and as she stood
there selling what she had to sell, came
by—his sword upon his hip—a prince
and a soldier. It was his royal highness
Augustus, cousin of Frederick Wil
liam IIL, father of the present emperor,
king of Germany, and son of Augustus
Ferdinand, brother of Frederick the
Great, considered the richest man in
Prussia—before the stock jobbing era.
He fell quite suddenly in love with the
scrubby little girl, educated her, married
ALL ABOUT IT.
Some_Questions^Answered.
What was Done Yesterday.
The last week before the Distribution
is now here. The subscribers of no daily
paper in America have been offered such
advantages, simply for promptly paying
their subscription, and saving us some
expenses of agents. We can safely as
sert, (and the declarations of the press
and people sustain us), that Tbb Con-
ltitution is now a better paper than
everinitshistory. It has been enlarged and
improved in many respects, and we shall
continue to improve it. And yet we of
fer our subscribers five thousand dollars
in presents, which will be delivered im
mediately on the award, (as was done
before,) and, which will be delivered as
they are, without change, diminution,
and caling or anything of that sort.
The distribution will take place in pub
lic, either at James’ Hall or DeGive’s
Opera House. Any of our subscribers here
or at a distance are invited to be present
or send a committee to act as supervisors
or assistant commissioners. The pro
prietors of The Constitution will have
nothing to do with it, or have .any inter
est in it, any manner.
Surely every one of our subscribers
will assist us in making a complete suc
cess of the distribution. It is the last
The most gratifying and encouraging
letters are coining in, and in the above
remarks we have answered some ques
tions asked. Every letter mailed by
Saturday night next will be in time.
Our subscription entries yesterday were
very large, coming from various states.
One
FROM SELMA, ALABAMA
says, “ my subscription is not quite out,
but I renew at once.”
A CLUB FROM.DECATBR
includes a young'lady, who would not
object to getting the magnificent piano,
TWO MORE LADIES
are included in another club from the
same quarter yesterday.
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
sends us a daily as the forerunner of more
in a few days.
SANDEBSVILLE GEORGIA
sends a daily in addition to a large mum-
her of subscriptions a few days before.
NEW,ORLEANS,
sends us a daily. Thus they are
coming from all sections of the
state and also from other states. Let
subscriptions pour in this week. All
will be promptly attended to, if there
are five hundred daily. Remember that
Monday next is the 16th.
Editors Constitution: Please allow me :
through your valuable paper, to state to the
many friends of the A. M. E. Church, that a
grand affair will be had at the A. M. E.
church in Eatonton, Ga., on the 15th of this
month, at which time we hope to realize the
handsome sum of $500 for the church. Rev,
W. D. Johnson, A. M., of Atlanta: Rev. J,
M. Cargill, of Athens; Rev. Isaac Hamilton
of Greensboro; Rev. A. Davis, of Rome,
will be with us. We also hope all our dear
friends of Eatonton, and the county at large,
both white and colored, will be with us.
S. B. Jones, Pastor.
A Pet of n Wife.
citizen, died of dropsy on the first.
Jonesboro’ claims to be the best cotton
market in middle Georgia, all things con
sidered. A large amount of property
was sold on Tuesday.—Nevs.
eral has any idea of the character of the
man who is representing both their de
partments in Alabama, and who has
usurped almost the entire control of one
of the counties of this state
her (morganatically), begot two daugh
ters and one son, and left her all he
could leave of a great fortune. He also
gave her the name of Prillwitz (Baroness
Prillwitz), and one of her daughters be
came Count Amim’s first wife, thereby
bringing him into connection with the
Prussian royal family.
THE ARNIM FORTUNE.
The dowel of Fraulein Prillwitz was
considerable. It included the house
now tenanted by the English Embassy,
and the house in the Pariser Platz
(No. 4), at present occupied by Count
Harry Amim, the ex-Embassador at
Paris. Value at least 30,000f. yearly,
There must have been money, too, though
the lands probably went to the boy, Herr
von Prillwitz, commonly accounted a
very rich man when te grew up. The
Countess Amim died young, and it was
said that some other property returned
to her mothers family. Then Harry Ar
nim, by this time going upward in di
plomacy, married Countess Amim-Bort-
zenburg, who also brought him a great
fortune, so that he was made a Count by
roval patent But, says rumor, and we
have no concern with what rumor says
on this subject, uniting stories of the
English turf with its own suppositions,
mostly baseless, “When power wants to
ruin a man it is so smooth a course to
say that black is white. ’*
A Grand Church Meeting
“Small size”—this is the echo of most
men’s wishes. They want some one to
pet, to fondle, to protect, they say; and
this is true when they feel good natured.
Cynical women say they want some one
they can tyrannize over, but I am not.in-
clined to take cynical view of the sub
ject I believe very few men willfully
tyrannize over their wives and children,
but the tyranny is there, nevertheless,
and intellectual men, such as the world
admire, are most prone to exercise it
They are so wrapt in their own plans,
theories and speculations they do not
even discover the fact that their own
households are famishing for the bread of
love, and fainting for the gushing springs
of sympathy. They are so accustomed
to adulation abroad that the simple
home affection seems tame
and spiritless; as the purest water of the
deepest well is tasteless to one accustom
ed to the sparkling and burning, but
poisonous, draughts of intoxication. In
our zeal to vindicate the “lord’s of cre
ation” from the charge of willful tyran
ny we are leaving our two bachelors and
their imaginary wives too long engaged.
Small size is a man’s fancy, not the
dictate of his physiological knowledge.
It is an almost universal fancy. The
larger, rougher, more burly the man, the
more sure he is to prefer a small-sized
woman. “I am determined to have
w ife whom I can pick up in my arms and
carry over all the rough places,” said a
young farmer, whose softest tone was
like a clap of thunder. As he spoke he
snatched the largest and heaviest girl of
his acquaintance and lifted her over the
brook. His words are echoed in the se
lection made by most large-sized and
stentorian-voiced men. Tlieir ideal is
something the reverse of themselves, and
thus fragile figures and low tones are to
the a the perfection of feminine attract-
tion.
My solution of the problem lies in the
supposition that it is an uneducated action
of philoprogenitiveness, shown in the de
sire for some small creature to pet, to
fondle, to caress. Those who have watch
ed the wo Id for fifty years know how of
ten is enacted the sad tragedy which may
be named the “Bride of a Year.” Those
young men who are not specially desir
ous of enacting the part of the bereaved
husband of a buried wife, the helpless
father of a puny babe, will be wise
enough to let their philoprogt-nitiveness
wait until healthy, happy,full-sized wives
give them that 'blessing of the Lord, a
good supply of healthy, happy little folks
to pet.—Phrenotogirnt Journal.
The Grangers.
Where the grangers’ money goes and
what is done with it, seems to trouble a
good many who are not grangers.
Grangers in Wisconsin have on hand
$550,000 towards a state agricultural im
plement society. There is a movement
on foot in Tennessee to establish a simi
lar enterprise.
The Patrons of Missouri have a tri
weekly grange packet line, composed of
the Savannah and Collussus, plying be
tween St. Louis and Galena, in the inter
ests of the farmers, in opposition to an
old wealthy line.
The dress reform association of this
grangers have had a meeting at Kalama
zoo, Mich., and adopted resolutions
against the extravagance and follies of
the present day, selecting officers and
appointing a time to meet again.
The national grange has the sum of
$71,000 invested in United States bonds,
which is held as a reserve fund in case of
great distress among the members of tho
order. There was drawn from this fund
in the spring about $3,000 for Louisiana’s
overflowed districts and equally as large-
a sum was donated to the farmers of the-
west-, whose crops were destroyed by the-
grasshoppers.
In declining a nomination for congress,,
which had been tendered to him, the
master of the Wisconsin state grange
says: “It may not be improper for me
say tl>at I consider the future of the
‘Patrons of Husbandry’ to be full of
promise for good unless the power of this
order is broken by the introduction of
demoralizing politics. Perhaps no more
subtle method could be devised than that
of establishing a precedent which wouldT~
hereafter direct attention to the position
of master of a grange as a stepping stone
to official political position.”
The grange elevator at Indianola.
Iowa, is the largest building of the kind
in the country. The size of the main
building is 38 x 80 feet with a wheel-
house 30x22 feet, and the height to the
top of the elevator is 36 feet. It is di
vided into eight bins, each having a ca
pacity of 4,000 bushels, giving a total ca
pacity of 32,000 bushels. The plan is
different from that of. any elevator in the
state. The total cost of lots, building
and railroad will be about $5,000, the
stock for nearly all of which is now sub
scribed, and mostly paid in.—Rural
World.
To succeed, the subordinate grange
must keep up its meetings both winter
and summer. The business demands iu
The social enjoyments require it. No
one :s so deeply immersed in business
that he can not give a day or even two or
three days in a month, to social, physi
cal and business recreation. The subor
dinate grange is tlie fountain head of the
order. It is its life and support. Unless
this department is in good working or
der, unless its members are thoroughly-
drilled in their duties and privileges, har
mony can not prevail and all its unregu-*
latea struggles will be in vain—Farmer's
Vindicator.
There is one great law which cannot be
changed—it is the base and foundation o£<
all commercial transactions. It is this,
the supply and demand regulate prices on
all things, be they products of farm, fac
tory, or anything else. The only ad
vantage that can be gained is to correct
the evils, reduce the friction, and pro
mote the healthy action of this land,
and_ when you are doing this you are pro
tecting the members from imposition and.
make it profitable to be a patron. You
are also indirectly correcting social wrongs-
and political evils. In these times a man
get3 a premium for dishonest practices,
whereas the honest man lives poor all his
life. There must be some thorough com
mercial system established or there will
be a loss of opportunities for good as
well as of vital energy.—8. G. Dorr, in.
Munde{Ind.) Times.
It is easier to tear down than to build
up; to find fault with existing institu
tions, than to suggest better. Bo-called
reformers are too often only destruction-
ists. They pitch in and smash things,
and then leave the 'rubbish for some on©
else to clear up. There is danger that
the grangers may commit this error.
Became we see great wlongs that need
righting, we are iu danger of assuming
that everything is wrong, and going in
for a grand wreck of matter. Because
the railroads oppress us, it wont answer
to declare a general war of extermina
tion against the whole system. These
roads are a great good; we can’t get
along without them, anu it will not do to
attempt their suppression. *We must
only labor coolly and sensibly, to rid
them of their swindling elements. Because
our retail merchants sometime** charge too
high for goods, we must not conclude
that they are a nuisance, and work for
their destruction. We need the home
stores, and we should, while insisting on
our own rights, be ready to do them
justice. We shouldn’t wage a general
war on commission men. We need them,
but we should not use their services when
we can do as well or better without them.
In all our movements we should work to
reform present agencies, rather than
originate new ones. Because we see an
evil, we must not conclude that there is
nothing good in its neighborhood. It is
nonsense to throw away your whole crop
of wheat when it leaves the thresher,
because you detect chaff. Use the fan-
nmg-mill before you decide what to do
with your crop. Give present institu
tions a thorough investigation, and dis
card what is bad and retain the good.
New Jersey Granger.
—During the first year of their intro
duction into this country, 112,013,500
postal cards have been used. The man
ufactory at Springfield, Mass., where
they are made, has, during the entire pe
riod been running from eighteen to
twenty hours per day, with a force of
forty hands steadily at work preparing
the cards for shipment. Three thousand
pounds of paper are daily consumed at
the manufactory, and about 700,000 J -».~® ...j mu-
cards are turned out every working j streamers at the back, either of velvet or
day. ribbon of heavy quality.
Double-breasted cloth jackets, but in
the English style, with revers and wide
collar, are to be worn this wmter.
There is no indication that the fashion
of wearing sashes is on the decline. The
new French sashes are beautiful.
The new bonnet3 have very long
Fashion Notes.
Scarlet and black is a fashionable com
bination in bonnets.
Embroidered black silks are unusually
elegant this season. *
It has become quite the correct thin"
for ladies to wear silk stockings
The last Parisian rumor thraatenq tL e
ladies with a revival of the big bonnets
Of IMA ^
The fur of the Siberian lynx is going
to be fashionable the coining winter for.
muffs and boas
For full dress occasions the very low-
corsage is wem, finished with standing
lace or plaited tulle.
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