Patrons Of Husbandry

The Illinois Ktale Grange met ut Champaign on tho 14th of December, ueai'ly overy countv in the State being rcpicHented. The addrena of (rund Maater Goliior repreeented ilio order to be iu a healUiy oondltion, and etoadUy growing iu mcmbership. The State Purcliasing Ageut gave a gloomy account of the Grange Purchawing Agencien, and thought they wöuld peyer be a aucceue unleBii some plau for thejr operations was deviaod different from the noplan which now existed. The salarie of officera for the next year wcro fixed as follow : To tho Mabter, $400 ; Lecturer, $2.50 per day and actual traveling expenses ; Treasnrer, $300 ; Secrctary, $500 and actual office expenses. INDIANA. The Indiana State Orango met at Indianapolia on Tuesday, the 14th iust. Delcgates were present from all except flve countien. Uenry Jame, Grand Master, ia Wm ddress Htated that the oondition of the order exceeded the most sanguine expectations. It was out of debt, and L30,000 in the tronsiiry. During the year the State Agency in that city had handed over f300, 000 worth of goods, at an expenso of 1}4 per cent. Eighteon counties had orgauized Pomona granges, but they did not give general satisfaction, owing to the fact thït all fourth degree membein were not admitted during tho session. Master James advocated tho consideration of manufactures, which wero fast becoming an important factor to the succes of the Grauger. Tho l'ollowingomcerswereelected for the ensuing year : Master, Honry James, Ovorster, Archibaid JoIiuhod, Crawfordsvillo Lecturer, B. F. Hand, Peudlcton ; Chaplain, Pau'ine Paddock, Union County ; Steward, J. S. Phillips, Lebanon; Treasurer, J. F. Oliphant, Lawrenco County ; Secretary, C. C. Post, Starke County. IOWA. The State Grange of Iowa met at Dos Moines on Tnesday, December 14. Thero wore over 100 delegatea prosent. The oflicers report the Order in the Statoa as being in a pros.ürou condition. A nurober of proposod amendmenta to the couBtitution, runde by the National Grange, were considered and promptly ratiüed. Tho meeting was very harmonious. Tho following oflicers were elected : Master, O. II. P. liuchanan, of Henry County; Overseer, S. H. Bouham, Clark Couuty; Lecturer, Julia A. Oarrettson, Henry County; Steward, Jonathan Thatcher. Van Buren Couuty; Assistant Steward, David Pickens, Freeniont County; Chaplain, John Williams, Iowa Couuty; Treasurer, M. L. Deviu, Polk County; Secretar}', W. L. Carpeuter, Blackhawk County; Gatekeeper, D. N. Magruder, Pottowottamiè County; Ceres, Mrs. Spencer Day, Marshall County; Pomona, Mre. O. H. P. Buchanau, Honry County; Flora, Mrs. A. B. Smedley, Howard County, Socond Assistant Steward, Mrs. Jonathan Thatcher, Van Buren Cotinty. MICHIGAN. Over 200 delégate met iu convention in Representativo Hall at Lansing, on tho 14th inat., represonting all tho granges in the State. The session waa held with closed doors, none being admitted except membera of the order, and was presided over by Hon. J. J. Woodmau, Paw Paw, former Speaker of the Heuse of Kepresentatives and now Grand Master of the Grangers. Hon. .1. Webster Cbilda, of Washteuaw; B1OBO9 W. Field, of Detroit, aud B. K. Trowbridge, of Chandler, were also in attendance. The financial standing of the State Grange, by the Treaaurer'a repoi t, is as followa : Ileceipts, S,537.04; paymenta, the same. Of the $1,157.73 raised for the grasshopper sufferers, $307.50 was sent to Nebraska, and the remainder to John G. Otis, Stato Agent of Kansas. There are 611 Granges in the State, and the uumber of raembers, Sept. 30, 1875, was 34,275. MASSACHUSETTS. At the animal meeting of the Massachusetta State Grange in Springfield, last week, reaolutions were paesed denouncing the exemption from taxation of $30,000,000 of property in the State belonging to churches and ao-called eharitable inatitutiona, tho evasión of taxation by those who mako large deposita iu savingfi banks, and the wrong of a taxation of money leut on mortgaged property, and that property alno. The resolutiona declare emphatically for equal taxation for all and exemption for none. MIKNESOTA. The annual convention of the State Grange of Minnesota waa held at Minneapolis, laat weeK. The Secretary atated in bis report that, during tho year, over 1,200 had joined the grange by initiatiou and demite. The State is now thoroughly organizad, there having been formed a total of 546 sub-granges, having a membarship of 1.800. The Treaaurer reportad a balance on hand. Three hundred delegatea were in attendance. The following resolution was adopted ■. Jlemlved, ïhat tho farmers of the Northwest should so arrauge their afluirá hb to market their wheat before navigation closes in the f all, or after it opens in the spring. KANSAS. The anuual convontion of the Patrona of Huabandry of Kansas was held at Topeka, last week. The meeting waa well attended, and the utmost harmony and good feeling provailed. Therepctsof the oflicera ahow the order to be in a flourishing condition, with a balance in the trcaanry. There lias been a ateady growth of membersliip during the year. MISSOURI. The Missouri Patrona met in State Convention, in Kansas City, Dec. 14. The meeting was large and enthusiastic. Grand Mnster Allen, in hia address, alluded to the financial question, and expressed sympathy for the soft money party. KENTUCKY. The Patrons of Kentucky have just held their annual convention at Louisville. Tho reporta of the ofticera show the order to bo in a llourishing eondition in the State. CONBITION OP TUE OKDEK AT LABOE. At the recent meeting of the Minnesota State Grange, at Minnespolis, an excellent address waa deüvered by Worthy Lectnrer Thompson, of the National Grange. He bas visited during the paat three yeara twenty.five States, addreaaed over 300 gatherings and brings tho most enoouraging reporte from all aections. Immense amounts of capital are now invoated by different State oreanizations in agencies, one State alone having a caah capital of $1,000,000 in tho business. The amount that haa been saved to the farmera throughout all the grangea since the order camo into existence ia fully $35,000,000. NATIONAL OKANOE BÜILDiNO. Tho Patrona have set on foot a movement lookiug to tho erection of a building in Lonisvüle, Ky., by the order throughout the Unitod States, to be used as tho headquarters of the National Grange. At the recent National Convention of the body, held in that city, tho ubject of erecting such a building was discusaed but no oliicial action taken. A step was, however, suggested wlüeh was as unthoughted as it wa simple and promise to be effective. Mr. Kfily, the Secrotary of tho National Grange, proposes that oach member of the order contribute 10 cents toward the erection of an edifice. There aro over 700,000 Patrona in the United States, and the revenue thus arisiug would araount to over $70,000. A ORAND NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT AT THE CENTENNIAL. It is announced that the I'atrons oí Huhbandry are to hokl a Grand Encanipment near Philadelphia to attend the Centennial Expositiou next year. Hixty acres of land have been leased, and au immense building is to be erected, in wbich rooms and accommodations are to be provided at a cost of not more than $2 a head each day. Tuis is done to avoid the extravagance and impositions of hotels and boarding houses. The Peunsylvania Railroad Company has eonsented to Iay a doublé track to the exhibition grounds, to be used exclusively by the Grangers. The rem will not be more thau twenty minutes. ïho new building is to be lighted with gas and nupplied with hot and cold water. Shares of f50 each are to be isaued to the amount of f200,000, no member being permitted to take more thau one share. This sum is thought to be auflicient to cover the eost of the enterprise. A majority of the stock has already been taken up.