Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — Page 7

PACTS AND FIGURES.

—During the lastjyear 1,350 new buildings have been fcjlilt in Chicago, at a total cost of about $12,694,200. —The earnings of the St. Joseph bridge, Mo., for the month of October footed up a little over $t3,000. —There are drawn from the waters around Newfoundland nearly 100,000 codfish every year. —We have imported from Canada during the last four years a yearly average of 4,500,00 b bushels of barley. —The old iron mine of Salisbury, Conn., which has been worked over 150 years, recently declared a dividend of 115 per cent. —Careful estimates put the yield of the precious metals this year in ttah at $10,000,000. This is against $5,000,000 last year. —According to the new military survey of the Russian Empire, the monarchy extends over 400,000 geographical square miles. —The manufacture of watches in this country employs a capital of nearly $5,000,000, the number of watches made annually being about 200,000. —The largest cargo of oats ever loaded j on any vessel in the port of Chicago ' was shipped on the propeller Davidson, ' consisting of 111,000 bushels. —Oregon is growing in wealth. During the last four years the increase has been four fold.’ With a population of only 100,000, the exports exceed $10,000,000 in value. —ln the Royal Mint at London great care is taken es the “ sweepings” of the various rooms and offices. Last year the ! amount of gold rescued from these sweepings realized more than $11,476. —Boston ought to have money to lend pretty soon. The dividends due in the month of November and payable in Boston foot up $3,059,342, of which $924,145 is in gold. This is comfortable. — Chicago Inter-Ocean.

—At Chicago, during the month of October, 18,380 car-loads and 122 canalboat loads of grain were inspected into store, aggregating 7,691,999 bushels, and 7,787,509 bushels were inspected out of store; grand total of bushels grain inspected during the month, 15,479,488. —The Assessors’ returns, as made to the Auditor of the State, showed there were 1,000,604 hogs in lowa this year. As these hogs will average, at the present prices, at least sl2 each, here is the nice sum of $42,007,248 coming into lowa this winter for this one product alone. —The Louisville Courier-Journal estimates the aggregate of the tobacco crop in the United States thi§ year at 105,000 hogsheads and 65,000 cases, as compared with 265,000 hogsheads and 140,000 cases in 1873 and 272,000 hogsheads and 145,000 cases in 1872. Addihg in the stock left over, the total supply this year is 260,860 hogsheads as compared with 370,423 in 1873 and 373,803 in 1872. Calculating that the requ:’rements will be the same as in previous years, the supply left in the markets October, 1875, will be only 2,000 hogsheads, as compared with 135,000 this year and 115,000 in 1873.

Politics and the grange.

We are not a political organization. We do not propose to become such. In the declaration of principles as adopted at the last session of the National Grange, at St. Louis, and reaffirmed at the last session of the Ohio State Grange, we emphatically and squarely settle that question. so that there cannot possibly be any doubt on that point, when it says: “We emphatically and sincerely assert the oft-repeated truth, taught in our organic law, that theTSrange, National, State or subordinate, is not a political or party organization” No Grange, if true to its obligation, can discuss political or religious questions, nor nominate candidates, nor even discuss their merits in its meetings; yet the principles we teach underlie all politics, all statesmanship, and if properly carried out will tend to purify the whole political atmosphere of our country, for we seek “the greatest good to the greatest number.” But we must always bear in mind that no one, by becoming a Grange member, gives up that inalienable right and duty which belongs to every American citizen, to take a proper interest in the politics of his country. On the contrary, it is right for every member to do all in his power, legitimately, to influence for good the action of any political party to which lie belongs, Jt is bis duty to do all he can, in his own party, to put down bribery, corruption and trickery; to see that none but honest, competent and faithful men, who will unflinchingly stand by our industrial interests, are nominated for all positions of trust, and to have carried out the principles which always characterize every Grange member, that the office should* “seek the man and not the man the office.” We acknowledge the broad principle that difference of opinion is no crime, and hold that progress toward truth is made by differences of opinion, while the fault lies in the bitterness of .the controversy. We should be awake to the dangers that threaten us. Many designing men, desirous to grind some ax of their own, will take an immense interest in the Patrons and their welfare just before an annual election, to secure their suffrages. Those secured, and they are done with you until another one comes around, and then they are at their old tricks again. We should scan, scrupulously, every step taken and every measure advocated by Such warm friends of the farmer; and more especially these latter ones. “As flies and bugs are attracted by a bright light at night, so are these hungry 'officeseekers swarming around and into the Grange.” 0 These politicians, should they succeed in getting in as members, will either frustrate the adoption ysf efficient measures within the Grange, or mislead to wrong and injurious steps. They will not hesitate to Commit the Grange to ridiculous notions and foolish tenets; and, by ihe thousand and one tricks known to their craft, attempt to hamper legislation in the interests of the farmer. — IS. J. West , in an Address before the Patrons of Husbandry M Blanchester, Ohio.

The Merchant and the Granger.

Among, the many false impressions ■which have obtained currency concerning the Grangers none arelnore erroneous than that they are making war against the merchants as a class. The Grangers are opposed to extortion, and wherevet they find it, whether among wheat : bcyers or wool-buyers, commission merchants or sewing-machine agents or any other class of traders, they 'will get out of their grasp just as quickly as possible, To those who are doing a fair and honorable 'business we can safely say and we be-,

\ieve the whole Order will back us in the assertion, vou have nothing to fear from the Grangers. The farmer don’t want to keep store. He don’t know how to keep one. It is a trade in itgelf, a legitimate, useful and honorable Trade, and the farmer don’t want to stop his plow to measure ribbons. It don’t suit him. He feels out of place handling silks and satins. He would rather see the I streams of wheat coming from the threshing-machine than shelves full of dry goods. Shut the farmer up in a store and he can scarcely breathe. He wants to get out and fill his lungs with the pure air of heaven, and while the merchant is content with fair profits the Grangers will be only too willing to allow him to conduct the business which he has Jearned and understands, while the farmer does the same. As a general rule we have been opposed to the establishment of Grange stores, but there are circumstances where they are justifiable. Whenever merchants attempt to overreach or take undue advantage of the straightened circumstances of the farmers we hold it to be their right and duty to free themselves from the oppressor. We believe there are but few places where extortion is practiced by our country merchants. There is 100 much com--1 petition for this, and in most cases goods , are sold as low as they can be sold and , give a living profit to the merchant. There is one thing which, if it could be brought about, would result in great good to both classes, and that is for onehalf the merchants to sell out to the other half and turn farmers or manufacturers. There are altogether too many merchants. Were the number reduced by one-half, the remainder, by 1 doubling their trade, could afford to cut down their percentage of profit and still make more money. Still there is no room for a warfare between ♦he merchants as a class and the Grangers, and there should be none. Their interests are mutual, and the best of feeling should exist between them. It is not only bad taste, but extremely bad policy, for the merchant to look sour at a man because he is a Granger, and to feel that he is an enemy and wants to take away his business. All the Granger wants is fair, square, honorable, up and down dealings, and he will attend to his own business and allow you to do the same. There is one class of merchants which the farmer must learn to avoid before he is safe. It is that class which has no sympathy with, nor interest in, our institutions, or in us, except to enrich themselves upon us. As well might the farmer place his head in the lion’s mouth and expect to live as to allow one of these soulless traders to get him and his farm within his control and hope And here comes in another of the grand and glorious Grange commandments : “ Pay as thou goest as much as in thee lieth; this do and thou shalt live.” This is the only safe policy for the farmer and works no injustice to the merchant. We repeat, there is no war between the merchant and the Granger.— Pacific Rural Press. —Jenny June got a hat that turned up on one side and her husband criticised it so severely that she wore her old bonnet when she went to see “ The Sphinx,” and lo! it was the only one there. Everybody had on a new hat and every one had it turned up high on the sides. Said her husband: “ Good heavens! have all the women gone crazy?” “Yes,” replied she, meekly, “ and why can’t I go crazy too?” “My dear,” said he, “you may; it would be ridiculous to he the only sensible woman in the world.” So hereafter she is going to wear her gray fell turned up on one side, in peace.

Indisputable Evidence.

St. Elmo, 111., July 8,1874. R. V. Pierce, M. D , Buffalo, N. Y.: f wish to add my testimony to the wonderful curative properties of your Alt. Ext., or Golden Medical Discovery. I have taken great interest in this medicine since I first used it. I was badly afflicted with dyspep-ia, liver deranged and an almost perfect prostration of the nervi us System. 80 rapid and complete did the Discovery effect a peifect cure that it seemed more like magic and a perfect wonder to myself, and since that time we have never been without a bottle of the Discovery and Purgative Pellets in the house. They are a solid, sound family physician in the house, and ready at all tiryys’to fly to the relief of sickness—without charge. We have never had a doctor in the house since we first began the use of your Pellets and Discovery. I have recommended the use of these medicines An several severe and complicated cases arising from, as I thought, au impure state of the blood, and in no one case have they failed to more than accomplish all they are claimed to do. I will only mention one as remarkable (though I could give you dozei.s): Henry Koster, furniture dealer, of this place, who was one-of the most pitiful objects ever seen, bis face swollen out of shape, scales and eruptions without end, extending to his body, which was completely covered with, blotches and scales. Nothing that he took seemed to affect it a particle. I finally induced him to try a few bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery, with daily use of the Pellets, assuring him it would surely cure him. He commenced its use some six weeks since, taking two Pellets each night for a week, then one each night, and the Discovery as directed. The result is, to-day his skin is perfectly smooth and the scaly eruptions are gone. He his taken some seven or eight bottles in all, and considers himself cured. This case had baffled the skill of our best physicians. Messrs. Dunsford & Co., druggists, of this place, are selling largely of your medicines and the demand steadily increases, and they give perfect satisfaction in eyery case.

W. H. CHAMPLIN,

Respectfully,

Let Us Consider.— Since the introduction of distilled spirits in the sixteenth century they have been habitually prescribed as remedies. We know that alcohol, in all its forms, is pernicious to health. Knowing■ these things and that, under the system of treatment which includes their use, the mortality among the sick is and ever has been enormous, is it not worth while to try-the effect of a remedy which combines in their high-est-excellence the qualities of a Tonic, an Alterative and a Regulator; contains no mineral bane or murderous alkaloid or alcoholic poison; does its curative office without pain and with uniform certainty? Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Betters fulfills all these conditions, and is now effecting the most extraordinary cures incases where every “specific” of the has ignoininously failed. Consider, in view'of these facts, whether any sick person is justified by reason and common sense in declining to test the virtues of this undefiled and irresistible remedy. 11

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The Prettiest Woman in (few York,Mis* K ,we I known in our fashionable society for her distingue appearance and beautiful complexion, was once a sallow, rough-skinned girl, chagrined at her red, freckled face. She pitched into Hagan’s Magnolia Balm, and to now as pretty in complexion as she is charming in manners. Tills article overcomes freckles, tan, sallowness, moth-patches, ring-marks, etc., and makes one look ten years younger than they are. Magnolia Balm for a transparent complexion, and Lyon's Kathairon to make the hair plentiful, luxuriant, soft and delicate, have no rivals. The Kathairon prevent* the hair from turning gray, eradicates dandruff,'and is the best and cheapest dressing in the world. Damned by Faint Praise.— Jas. Beckman, clergyman, of New York, was recently badly kicked by a horse, and was speedily cured by ÜBlng the celebrated Mexican Mustang Liniment. When the proprietor asked him for a certificate he replied that he “considered it a remarkable article, but it wouldn't answer for him to indorse a remedy in print." Here’s consistency. But we didn't kick him. as the horse did. The world knows that for Rheumatism. Bruises, Swellings, Spavin, Scratches, Inflammation, Lameness, or any flesh, bone or muscle ailment upon man or animal, there Is nothinglike the Mustang'Liniment. It costs but 50 cts. and SI.OO per bottle, and should be in every family. It is wrapped In a fine steel-plats labei. and signed “G. W. Westbrook, Chemist." Tonic and Recuperant Plantation Bitters.—The constantly-increasing patronage which it receives has, it is true, excited the petty envy of certain splenetic advertisers of pinchbeck panaceas, who hope lo make a market for their own stagnant, watery wares by decrying all spirituous medicinal preparations. But the public can stomach neither their arguments nor their potations,and consequently reject these vary weak imitations of the enemy as entirely too thin. Vegetable Pulmonary Balaam t Most apS roved, reliable and well-known remedy for Coughs, olds and Consumption. Get the Genuine. Price $1 • mall 50c. Cutler Bros. Sc Co., Boston. Send your name and address to Ur. C. It. Blackall, 61 Washington street, Chicago, and receive Ids Bulletin and new books free.

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egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted the refrom'without the use of AlcohoL The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters!” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are- the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. lliey are a gfentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s V rxEQAß ßitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritions, Laxative*Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative. and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. __ Bilious. Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters. as they will speedily remove the darkcolored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. by purifying all its fluidswith Vinegar Bitters. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pam in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsias One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. . 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