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■and, and rapidly increasing from day to day, presents
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where one of the most efficient and valuable advertis
ing raedimnsin the land. It will circulate in every
countv in the Slate, and will doubtless come under the
eyeao'i a hundred thousand persons. All Interested
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Official 'irgan of the Patrons of Husbandry.
ATLANTA GEORGIA, JANUARY 13, 1877
For Stale lrlnt>r.
Mr. James P. Harrison is a candidate for the
office of State Printer.
Tlie best evidences given for tlie prompt and
faithful performance of the duties of the officji
with rigid observance of economy in the execu
tion of the Public Printing.
Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee of the
State Grange has been in session in
the city this week The Committee
has male ample arrangements for the
building up of languishing Granges,
and collecting all available material for
a healthy and active organization. Also
authorized our State Agent, Mr. Ket
ner, to confer with manufacturers of
commercial fertilizers for lowest figures,
both cash ant. cotton option. The
place atid time of next meeting of the
Stßte Grange being left tfrith the Exec
utive Committee, that Committee will
receive anr proposition ffom cities de
siring the same, as to accommodations,
etc. The Committee congratualatc the
Order on the potent change for the
better with planters, to-wit,: that a
large majority of supplies have been
raised at home, which has! been ac
complished by the organization. And
we assure the Patron* of Husbandry
in Georgia, that if the same policy
should be enlarged ar.d faithfully ad
hered to, that Georgia .will soon be,
agriculturally, the ‘“Empire State” of
the South.
(■eorglat Societies*
Georgia has seventy-eight county
and district societies devoted to the
promotion of agriculture, horticulture
and pomology. Besides these it ba-t
the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
one of the rnos f efficient and thorough
organized organizations of the kind in
the Unit and States; in existence for
thirty vears ; having a membership of
five thousand and a library of 3.500
volumes. The total number of v*l.
times iu these societies is 5,401 Sev
enty-five of these societies have been
organized since the war, and one during
the war, the “Longstreet Agricultural
Society,” in Coweta eouuty, in 1863.
Clayton county has three, and Jack
son county has three.
Sixty counties ir. the State have one
or more societies.
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Dot! 11l of the Kail road King.
Commodore Vanderbilt, the great
railroad king of tbo United States,
died at his residence in New York, on
the 4th inst. Th' l present market
value of his fortune, mostly in stocks
and bonds of the New York Cential
and Hudson River Railroads, is eight,-
five million dollars His son, Wil
liam, inherits the Irulk of this vast es
tate, a though the bequests to relativt s
and friends amount to several millions
of dollar-. ...
-commodore Vanderbilt, was (lie
founder of tbe Vanderbilt University,
at Nashville, Tennessee, to build and
furnish which he gave one million dol
lars.
Let every Grange in the State be
revived. Let the sap of life flaw freely
through every branch of our noble or
ganization. Action—action! ii what
we need. Let us be up and doing,
and build up our great and wise cause
higher and stronger. Let us reuiem
ber how much we have already been
benefited as Patrons, and then resolve
to increase our welfare to a still great
er extent.
Make a p int to attend your Grange
meeting regularly and promptly, and
study beforehand what you will do or
say to make the meeting interesting.
And remember, it is what you do for
yourselves at, home, not what the Na
otinal o irState Grange does for you
(bat ia of use toyou.
Tlie National Grange.
Hou. D Wyatt Aikin, of South
Carolina, commenting on the recent
session of the National Grange at
Chicago, in the Charleston News and
Courier', calls the session a “smi-har
monious” one, and not productive of
the anticipated amount of practical
good. He says :
"No steps were taken so improve the social
or moral advantages of the Order, nor lo draw
together the cords of fraternity that bind to
gether the members of this Order throughout
(lie Union; and perhaps this was well ; for
these points seem to be understood and fully
appreciated bv the Order, and will serve ever
to make it attractive to the intelligent farmer."
He thinks, however, that much good
must result from the discussion that
took place in tbe business department
of the Order, believing that when once
tbe minds of the American farmers are
fixed upon a possible plan to develop
this branch of the O der, there will be
no lack of applicants for membership
in every State in the Union.
International co-operation received
a full share of the discussion, and thus
remains in statu quo.
The National Grange ordered sever
al thousand copies ot the rituai of the
Order to be published in the German
language.
Slock Raising.
Stock raising is an employment that
should be much more generally follow
ed by our people than it is. It is a
mine of wealth which but few of our
farmers have, as yet, explored. In
tbe States North and West, of us this
feature of domestic productiveness is
patronized by the most intelligent and
enterprising classes of the rural popn
lation, with great success and large
profits. There is nothing in the world
to prevent Georgia from rivaling any
of her sister States in this matter —will
and application aloDe are necessary —
all other requisites nature has furnish
ed abundantly, and as the Southern
Farmer pertinently says, it is the stock
farms that grow rich, and thereby en
rich their owners. It is tbe cotton
plantations and planters, and the ex
clusively grain farms and their tillers,
that are alike becoming worn out an I
impoverished—the former of their
uatural productiveness and the latter
both physically and financially. Now
is the best season of all the year for a
change Stoik will prosper 1 on less i j
the South than in those Spates where
t hey have to feed for seven mouths of
the year; and this gr at advantage will
more than (■•mpensate for laU of ex -
perience in the Southern grower. But
no stock will pay on the starvation
principle. It has often been tried, an 1
tailed in every case. It is liberal feed
ing the bretdsthat pay ; and these pay
in every cate, and in proportion to the
excellence of the breed and the liber
al.ty in feeding. By feeding so as to
keep the stock iu a thriving condition
from birth, winter and summer, it will
not be difficult to make a two year old
steer weigh as much as one at tlree
when fed in the ordinary way, or a pig
at nine months as heavy as a bog is
usually at eighteen months The same
mle will hold good in all classes of
domestic animals. Raise stock.
Sugar and ttlce.
The reciprocity treaty uoncluded a
few months ago between the United
State* and the Sandwich Islands, for
the special benefit of New England
sugar and rice planters, and Ca'ifornia
merchants, is, it is said, beginning to
exhibit its beneficial effects on the
islands already. New sugar and rice
plantations are being brought into cul
tivation, and the planting interest,
which before the treaty, was in a con
dition of decay, has been restored to
new hte. It is estimated that the next
sugar crop will be twenty.five per cent,
greater than the last, and that the rice
crop will show a still larger increase.
It has been the habit to send the sngar
crop chiefly to the Australian colonies,
on account of the low duties that pre
vailed there ; but since, under the re
ciprocity treaty, Sandwich Islands su
gar is admitted into the United States
without 4uty, the whole crop will here
after come to Sin Francisco. Indeed,
t wo-thirds of the next crop has already
been engaged by the San Francisco
refiners. There will be no fall in the
price of sugar, even in San Francisc*,
for the present, on account of this free
admission of the isiands’ products; all
the advantages will go to the refiners
of that city.
The price of rice has fallen, howev
er, in that market. San Francisco will
reap nearly all the benefits of the new
eaty, on this eidi. its erportz of
tr
lumber, hardware and flour, have nearly
trebled in tbe last month, and arrange
ments are being made by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company to put on a
direct line of steamers between San
Francisco and Honolulu.
Cotton Crop and movement.
The Financial Chronicle of January
6t.b, in its review of the cotton crop
and its movement, says :
To bring the crop this year down to 4 250 -
000 bales (calling the year’s overland 300,000
bales, and the Southern consumption 145,000
same as last year), the port receipts for the
balance of the year will he 1,204,000 bales
against 1,851,000 bales last year, or a falling
off of 647,000 bales. Such a decrease in the
future movement looks large, and this fact has
during past weeks made large estimates popu
lar. But, if we examine tlie figures for pre
vious years, we find a case where the conditions
were very similar. For example, on January
1, 1875, the port receipts reached 2,106 675
bales, against 1,858,349 hales for the previous
year, or an increase of 248,326; and yet the
total port receipts only reached 3407,169
bales, agaiast| 3,804 290 bales, showing that,
the movement subsequent lo January 1 must
have bee i 555 447 bales less than in tlie same
months of 1874. . 1
The rapid falling ofi at some’points in the
rece'p's this week must not be taken as' an
indication of the exhaustion of the crop in
those districts. That the crop has come for
ward more rapidly than ever before, would ap
pearto be beyond doubt, hat, at tlie same time,
it is not true that there is no cotton left. The
weather lias been unusually severe and wintry
over almost the entire South, and in some
sections it haR been impossible to move cotton.
Under such circumstances it is no surprise that
the receipts should show a severe c 'eck, es
pecially during the holiday season,, when they
are always comparatively small.
Yet, while we look for some revival in the
marketing movement at the points referred to,
we must expect, of course, a large decrease
each week front last year. For if there is any
reliance to he placed upon onrcorrespondent’s
opinions with regard to the yield in their re
spective dißcri is, tlie expectation still held by
many of a lour and a half million crop this
year must be given up. In fact, there would
seem to be no good grounds for putting the
total estimate higher than 4,300,000 bales as a
maximum, with all the probabilities in favor
of a smaller total.
To flic General tssiiii lily—Greetin';.
Gentlemen : We most cordially ex
tend to you an invitation to visit the
Franklin Steam Printing House, Nos
27 and 20 Smith Broad Street You
wiP find a genuine old G’orgia wel.
come when you come, and we will en
deavor to make you “feel at fyome/'
and induce you to A larg *
list of exchanges ns aTwApi at your
service, including all of our county
papers; you will find warm and com
fortable rooms, writing desks, etc., a*
youf disposal, a,d ovary ft,
spending a leisure’ hoar profitably and
agreeably.
We will also take great pleasure in
showing yon through our extensive
publishing, printing and binding de
pad ments, and machinery hall; a sight
well worthy of your notice, and which
no similar establishment, south of
Louisville can equal in extent an 1 com
pleteness of outfit.
As Georgians you will take pride in
examining a homo establishment, man
aged and operated by Georgians, which
is, in every respect, equ il to the best
of similar Northern establishments,
and whose work is acknowledge as rial
ling, if not excelling, the premium pro
ductions of Eastern cities. As con
servators of the prosperity of our dear
old State, and as promoters of its
industrial inter ists, you will take de
light in noticing the high standard of
excellence which has been achieved in
Georgia in the grand Art of Brining,
‘•the art preservative of all ads,” and
whose result you can here study in all
its wonderful detail.
The numerous presses, constantly in
operation, the mailing machines, the
hook making and binding departments,
the third floor entirely devoted to
newspaper and job work tvpe setting,
the editorial and exchange rooms, are
all obj jets of special lu.erest, and will
repay you for visiting them
Individually, and collectively, we
leiterate our nordial invitation to you.
You will always fmd “the latch string
on the outside” and a hearty greeting
within, during your stay in the Capital,
or at any other time, when you may
honor us with a visit.
Very respectfully and truly yours,
Geouoia Grange Publishing Cos.
The Georgia Grange conies out printed
from the press of Jar. P. Harrison & Cos., of
the Franklin Printing House, Atlanta. The
house is really and truly a Georgia enterprise,
and as such should and will command the
support of the intelligent farmers of Georgia.—
Savannah Morning News
—
The attention of Patrons, farmers
and merchants, is directed to the ad
vertisement of Messrs. Pendletons A
Lampkin, in another column. Their
extensive business will enable them to
supply any thing in their line. Call
and see the n, or send yonr orders. The
firm is reliable, and well known through
out the State.
For thu Georgia Grange.]
Commissioner of Agriculture—Report
No. 34.
We have received Report No. 34,
from the State Agricultural Depart
ment of Georgia, which furnished to
thefarmersmuch useful and valuablein
foruiation, and strange to say, there is
much opposition to this Bureau, which
I am glad to say did not originate with
the farmers, but from a few commercial
men that were acting as agents for
large manufacturers of fertilizers. Tbe
trouble was the Agricultural Depart
ment was making a most rigid inspec
tion of all fertilizers brought into the
State for sale, in order to detect spuri
ous and worthless fertilizers, so as to
save the farmers from frauds and im
position, which greatly interfered with
the commissions of agents, hence their
opposition to this Agricultural Depart
ment, and pronouncing it a useless ex
pense to,, the people and ought to be
abolished. It would be better for tlie
farmers throughout the State, was
there a large appropriation made *o
sustain this Department, in order that
the able Commissioner at its hea 1 could
make it more useful and serviceable
to the agricultural interest of Georgia.
It is r.ow being conducted under a mast
stinted appropriation, considering its
importance and value to the' agri
cultural interest of Georgia, and
rather than discontinue it, we would
prefer seeing it enlarged and made per
manent
In this number (34) comparisons ar
made of the crops for the last five years,
showing the actual condition of the
farming interest of Georgia, and what,
progress is being made; and it also
showed from correspondents all over
the State, the -esults of labor as em
ployed under the different systems of
hireing for money wages or a part of
the crop given, and it shows, from 88
er cent, of the correspondence, that
wages paid is most profitable We
trust, that this report will fall into the
hands of every reading and reflecting
farmer m Georgia, so as they can learn
what is for their best interest. I have
considered from the first, since the
•mancipation f slavery, that the most
Atrieate questi >n we bad to deal with
was the labor question, a~d it will al
ways eontinne to be so. Where lie
grois are numerous they can easily be
hired for jfioney wages, but where
scarce and few, and where few, they
are generally the roost intelligent, they
can dictate their own terms, as the
competition is with the employers and
not among the laborers, and where
such is the case, the share system has
to be adopted. But I am astonished
to *i*e in this report. “ that 60 per cent,
of the correspondents report one hall
the crop given for labor alone, and the
landlord furnishing the land, toolsjj
stock, and feeding the stock.” That is
simply ruinous, and no farmer can
thrive at it Laborers a few years ago,
with us, contended for the half, and
generally it was submitted to by the
landlords. I stood out against it, te;lmg
them that before I would submit to it,
as I had fine lands, good stock, and
fine farming implements, I would hire
hands and break up my land and let it
grow up in grass and make hav from
it as my crop. My hands yielded to
*iy former rates, which was one-third
of all the crops made, except cotton,
of which I gave them half; but I plant
hut little cotton and those hand* h tve
bean living three years with me, per
fectly contented, and have made more
and are hotter off than hands getting
the half; and even on my terms there
is no profit in farming, merely a living,
sol can’t understand how those givug
a half can stall 1 it.
Old men like mvsfif. have to do the
best we can, lut were Ia young man
again, I would always hire hands for
money wages, and give them iny per
sonal superintendence, and work them
on the rule of labor’s worth for money’s
worth, and gi largely into stock-raising,
particularly sheep. Sheep should be
my profits, for there is more moaey in
sheep than any thing else.
Another encouraging item in the ag
ricultural report is, “ a geueral dispo
sition to more diversified farming,” and
also “to stock-raising.” That was the
theme I first and strongly advocated
and recommended to the fanners just
after the war, in my numerous articles
written for the agricultural journals,
to plant less cotton and raise our own
food supplies and stock, and make our
farms self-sustaining, and our atate in
dependent of the West for its bread
and meat; but nothing written or said
then could control the mania for cotton
raising, the whole South was given tq
it, until it ruined the Couutry. We
trust now, as that great error has
fully satisfied our farmers of its ruin
ous policy, they will nevei fail l ack to
such a system again, for test assured,
there can never be success in farming
unless crops are diversified, and farms
made eutiiely self sustaining.
I am glad to see that our Commis
sioner of Agriculture entertains the
same opinions in his report, ami iu con
clusion, I must say_ that in my opinion,
too uraeli cotton is yet planted. If
three millions of bales could be made
the maximum crop, and every farmer
raised his own food supplies, and raised
all the stock needed for his own U3@, no
country could show a more prosperous
and independent class of farmers than
the South. We have every elementfor
success, if we would only utilize it
properly. Let us live at home, and live
within our means, audail will be right.
Jno. 11. Dent.
Cave Spring, G;t., Dec. 28, 1876.
lnaii-ural Address ol Gov. A. II- Col
quitt, Hellvored before tlie General
Assembly of Georgia, January 12,
1 577.
Gent>eme/i of the Senate and Iliuxe o) Eepresen
tatives:
In accordance with the Constitution and
laws of the Slate, I appear before you to take
the oath of office as G ivernor of Georgia for the
next four years No edict of an autocrat con
venes us in this hall to-d iy ; no coercion
whether it comes from a master, or the exigen
cies of faction, or the peril of the State—has
forced ns to assemble for this ceremony. But,
self marshalled, we are here to witness the
peaceful change of public administration; the
dutiful and dignified surrender of power by
one public servant, and the assumption of offi
cial responsibility by another.
The custom of my predecessors, as well as
my deep sense of gratitude to the people, de
mand Iront me a few words expressive of that
gratitude, and indicating, in general terms, the
policy which the times seem to demand.
The unprecedented mij ,rity which called me
here, overwhelms me with thankfulness. Lan
guage failsme in the attempt to give it ade
quate expression. It shall be my effort to prove
the depth of my gratitude by a complete devo
tion to the public interests committed to me,
and by an unremitting care that neither the
honor nor the wellare ol this beloved Common
wealth shall suffer by the confidence you have
reposed in me as the servant of the State. Tlie
Executive Government o; a free, meat and
prosperous Commonwealth I lie Georgia, with
its million and a quarter of intelligent inhab
itants, affords for the exercise u. patriotic
statesmanship, a sphere of honorable public
service as exalted and comprehensive as the
ambition of any man could desire.
D.ffident of uiy ability, and distrusting my
own capacity lor this high and holy service,
whilst I solicit your counsels and co-operation,
1 shall reverently invoke the aid ol Divine
Providence to enable meiotulfill the solemn
obligal ons which 1 am now toauauuni.
Tue allusion to the large majority by which
I was elected —the largest ever before given in
Hie Slate on a similar occasion —has been been
made, not in any vain spirit ol personal tri
umpli, but to deduce from the magnitude of
that majority two important public lessons. It
exhibited the intense and universal interest
lelt by the masses of our people in this State,
in securing at *the hallo -b ix, the victory of
those who are contend ng for the liberty and
rights ot the ctizrn and the listitations’of the
Constitution. Never before in Georgia has
there been a more profound conception of the
true principles of Constitutional Government,
a m ire wide-spread sensibility to the dangers
threatening our free institutions, or a more ar
dent and eouscien lous sympathy with the
friends of the Constitutional Union. This no
ble devotion of our people to a true Republic
of liberty and law, has pervaded all sections of
the State and animated all classes of onr pop
u ation. It has given such an expression of
confidence in the legitimate methods of lawful
election, as leaves no doubt of our fi lenity to
our constitutional convictions and the constitu
tional modes of giving them utterance a id ef
fect.
In the grand popular majority of the recent
gubernatorial election, in to lie read the over
whelming interest that Georgians leel in the
groat issues now convulsing the country, and
their determined purpose to keep in alignment
with the patriotic millions of cmr Northern
friends who are seeking by the peaceful instru
mentality of lawful mifhage, to re establish
goo! government under the un liaputed suprem
acy ot the Federal Constitution.
1 but speak my own deep-felt sentiment,
and echo the public voice •! Georgia, when I
say that in ail the complications oi na ional
politics, now so replete with fevered in'erest,
we stand in immovable sympathy wth the
elected exponent of constitutional liberty, re
trenchment and reform. We will adhere to
him and his co laborers, with the fidelity due
to the champion of a righteous cause, in every
patriotic endeavor they may wake to secure the
honest and unmistakable will of a large major
ity of the American people, constitutionally
expressed at the polls.
I refer with especial pleasure to the second
lesson of out graiilying and unprecedented
maj irity In the Gubernatorial contest, repeated
no less decisively in the Presidential election
in our State.
As 'he benefit -of lord self-govi rnraent have
been experienced, and the baleful influence of
malicious interference has been withdrawn,
the colored p ople have recogniz’d that oui
own home-.olks are their true friends, and
acted with us politically. Large numbers vo
ted with us, and swelled th > Gubernatorial and
President a' maj irities beyond all precedent.
Tney have witnessed in all their material in
t rests the cflects of a good home government,
administered by people wedded with them to
the same soil, and whose interests are all
interwoven with their own. Of no right has
the humblest of them been deprived. The ad
vancement of the race in knowledge and in
civilization has been, and shall continue to be,
a special Irust and solemn duly. Hence, cor
dial relations, so natural and so necessary both
to them and to the whites, are being rap
idly and permanently established, and quiet
and peace and sympathy between the races per
vade the entire State.
The people of this entire country have but
to look, and they cannot fail to see how the
more powerful race, when left to its own sense
of right and policy, will treat the colored citi
zen ;and how, when thus free to act, the races
feel for each other a natural interest, pursue a
common course, and enjoy a reciprocal pros
perity. How wise were the fathers when they
rested the Constitution upon the solid pillars
of local self-goveenment in the States 1
Georgia, gentleman, is the home of all
Georgians, of every race, c dor and condition ;
her local government is the government of us
all; one future for weal or woe awaits us and
our families, and the nobler feeling of our
nature, as well as the hard common sense of
theself-interes 1 of all, demand the united polit
ical ac ion of all.
But to pass to other mat era o f domestic
policy wherein all Georgians have a common
and a vital interest. Not only were constitu
tional and political liberty talismanie words of
power in the late great contest, but retrench
ment and reform shone conspicuously on all
the banners that heralded the victory of the
friends of constitutional liberty at the polls.
The eyes of all Americans look with confi
dence to the great reformer just elected
President, to reform the National Administra
tion.
Let us, gentlemen, look at home, and whilst
my own immediate predecessor and your indi
vidual predecessors, have not been unmindful
of their duty, let us remember that times have
changed, and values of all kinds have sunk
and are still sinking. We must further
retrench—we must reform yet more. It is our
imperative duty to lighten the public burdens*
Twenty years ago the taxable property in
Georgia was over five hundred millions of
dollars. To-day it is only two hundred and
fifty millions. Then the taxation was only a
half million—to-day it is a million and a
quarter. With less than half the property, we
have nearly three times the taxation. With
property thus depreciated, and continuing to
depreciate as it has done for the last two or
three years, it is clear that our revenues will
diminish in the same proportion, and our in
come will not meet cur obligations. These
obligati ms, genfiemen, are sacred. Ihe in
terest on our debt, now about eleven millions,
must and will be paid, and our credit at any
and every sacrifice must he maintained. The
current expenses of the State government must
be promptly met. Our charitable institutions
must be kept up. In this exigency, we are
driven to the alternatives—retrenchment or
increased taxation. The latter must be avoid
ed, if possible. I invite your earnest atten
tion to the former, and now engage that in all
methods which your experience and wisdom
rosy devise for saving the peolple from in
creased burdens, I will most cordially co-op
erate with you. Let us not wait for grand
occasions, or for instances of prodigious waste,
in which to begin our reforming economy. If
we cannot save large sums, let us see to it that
the smallest leaks, which are wasting the pub
lic treasure, if there he such, shall be stopped.
In such an industrial dearth and financial
pressure as we are now experiencing, a system
embracing small economies is not to be de
spised or neglected. R'gidly honest expendi
ture in the public administration, State policy
demands. But besides this, a moral effect will
be secured by it which will be of incalculable
benefit. While we give the whole financial
world the lullest guarantee of our solvency by
such a policy, we, at the same tune 1 place
before every household in the State an exam
ple worthy ofall imitation,
We rebuke, by this example, a wasteful and
oslentatious expenditure among our people,
which as surely wrecks the substance and
p osperiiy of the hem *, as it destroys t ie more
imposing structure called the public credit.
Tue counties aid municipalities of the State
will catch the inspiration, and we will again
see the day when official probity will be the
universal rule, and taxation never draw an
other dollar from the producer’s pocket to be
wasted or misappropriated.
Our work is before us, gentlemen, and a
grand achievement is within our grasp Tjiat
work is tlie restoration of tt vast heritage,
which a sad fortune lias Rorely wasted and
damaged. It is to evoke a thousand splendid
resources, now unutiliz-d. It is to maintain
the proudest and noblest traditions—an honor
unsullied—the status of as worthy and respect
able a constituency as exists,and its position hy
the side ol the most advanced of Common
wealths. This labor, vast as it is, exacts no
impossible thing at our hands. With the
blessings of Heaven, and the agencies of clear
heads and pure hearts, it may be accom
pl shed
Again solemnly invoking the Divine aid
upon our efforts to serve our beloved State, I
now take the oath of office.
Grand Master Buchanan, of lowa
State Grange in fits annual address,
at Dos Moines, stated that the mem
bership bad falvu from 60,000 to
about 30,000 within the last three
years, and that the dues of the State
to the National Grange for the last
year, amounting to 51,830.50, weru re
mitted by tbe latter body because
there was no money to pay them.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, of South
Carolina, has taiien charge of the ag
ricultural department of the Charles
ton News and Courier.
The State Grange of South Caroli
na will meet i Columbia on tbe first
Wednesday in February.
Industrial Items.
—The total shipments of petroleum
to foreign ports, from Philadelphia
alone, since January Ist, 1876,
amounted to 63,711 368 gallons, of
which 17,788,753 gallons were sent to
Bremen, 15,527,285 to Autwerp, 4,-
367,733 to Hamburg, 2,437,338 to Rot
terdam, and 2,922,053 to London,
—The New York elevated railway
now runs 184 trains daily.
—A statement of tbe produce trade
of Milwaukee, for the year 1876, gives
the following figures: Receipt of
wheat, including flour reduced to
bushels, 28,147,481 bushels; ship
ments, 30,006,797; total receipts of
grain, 32,884,255 bushels ; shipments,
32,899,320.
—Chicago made 25,000 tons of soap
last year.
—The Edgar Thompson steel works,
of Pittsburg are having a shear con
structed that will weigh 35 tons. It
is double acting; one end is to cut hot
steel ingots and the other to cut cold
steel rails.
—The exportation of American wall
paper has commenced.