The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-14

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the editor Of the Union, the oniv Other
daily In that city. The Bovles family |
may be said, therefore, to All . yery con. |
siderable space in the journalism Of that |
Massachusetts, town.
Connecticut has lost remarkable
clergyman in Rev. Daniel Williams, who
had preached for upwards of half cen.
tury without regular salary, but for the
sake of doing good, and from love of the
cause, and who delivered between two and
three thousand funeral sermons. IEE
Rev. DR.. Guinsbure, the celebrated
Hebrew theologian and scholar. died after
long illness, at his residence in Boston.
not long since, aged sixty-one. He grad
uated from the University of Prague. in
Bohemia, of which city he was a native,
and came to America twenty-five years
ago.
The story that Harriet Fenimore
Cooper, daughter of Fenimore Coop
er, the novelist, Is writing history
of the Oneida Indians is entirely true,
with two exceptions. No such history is
being written, and there is no such person
as Harriet Fenimore Cooper, and there
never was.
Grace Greenwood says that 1.-THE fact
Is there is too many of us women. And
there seems no relief for coming genera
tons, except through the heroic remedy
of quietly putting all female infants out of
the way. Nothing could he SO good for
US except long and glorious succession
| of Herods."
A London dispatch says George
Augustus Sala is recovering from an "ery-
thematous affection which has yielded to
the local application of the styptic colloid
and the use of faradisation" That must
have been very serious matter to George,
and he should feel very thankful for his
miraculous escape from, death.
"A. T. Stewart, the New York million
aire, just before his departure for Europe,
recently, made his will. Prior to making
this will it was thought advisable to pre-
pare schedule of his real and personal
estate, with its valuation. Upon the
completion of the schedule, much to the
| surprise of Mr. Stewart, and to the greater
surprise of his friends, it was found that
he was worth one hundred millions of
dollars.
| Speaking of the London Times, Mr..
Henry WattersOn, of the Louisville Cou7-
ser-J0urnGt, says: II have been reading
this stately compound Of poppy -cock
every morning now for three weeks, hav-
ing plenty of time to wade through the
whole of it, and must say that of all the
illustrations of CANNON and presumption
furnished by the fogyism of England, it
is the most transparent and absurd
Rev. Benjamin Labaree, son of
the late President Labaree, of Middle
bury College, and for several years mis-
sionary in Persia, said, in a speech at the
recent alumni dinner at Middlebury, that
the Shah far exceeded in wisdom and
ability any account of him which had yet
been published in this country, and that
none of the European editors or CORE
spondents had done full justice to His
Highness.
| Industrial.
| Oregon has the heaviest hay CROP,
this year, that was ever grown in the
State.
vermont farmers are buying largely
OF Western corn to make up for the de-
ficiency of the hay crop.
The fruit crop in Southern Illinois is
so small this year that the Illinois Central
has not run special train, rs is usual.
I'm many parts of Michigan the apples
have nearly all fallen from the trees in
consequence of the drouth. A small crop
OF this king of the fruits is predicted.
The Cleveland tunnel, extending one
mile and quarter under Lake Erie, Is
nearly completed. It is estimated that it
will furnish a water supply of 10000, 900
gallons every twenty -four hours.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
Mackinaw to Marquette, via. Sault Ste
Marie, distance of 800 miles. From Old
Mackinaw submarine cable $4,000 feet
long is to be laid.
Montana is, by reason of her isolated
with other Territories and the fact that
she maintains prosperity, and is constant.
ly increasing in permanent population
and sober industries, points to extraordin-
airy natural resources.
| -Leeches, for medical uses, are largely
found in ponds between Tangier and
Rbat, Morocco. They are in color either
green or black, the latter selling at six
dollars, and the former at five dollars, per
thousand; they are forwarded to the mar
ket in boxes OF wet sand, containing five
thousand each.
"A man at Holyoke, Mass, is making
an attempt to utilize the refuse pulp Of
the paper mills. He buys the pulp at the
writing.paper mills in its wet state, packed
in barrels, and has it spread out and
dried, so as to be used again in the
of wrapping paper.
| Iron screw steamers, with compound
engines, can carry more freight than
wooden side.wheelers of the same ton
mage, at precisely half the cost 1t costs
the China ships of the Pacific Mail &c.,.
600 to make the round trip to Shanghai
and back. British screw steamers, carry
ing more freight and passengers, make
the same trip at cost Of 81, 900.
The demand for black walnut timber
steadily increases. 1t must not however,
be supposed that all black walnut is
equally valuable. That from Michigan
first then that of Indiana and Ohio bears
the highest relative prices in the market
Walnut from Tennessee is not marketable
at present, it being too hard to work, and
it is probable that all Southern timber
would have the same defect.
MIR. Emmett Dewsmore, of England,
has invented writing machine. It is
about the size of small sewing machine,
has key board with three rows of keys,
each marked with letter or number,
| WHICH connect lngenlOuSly WIFI OupllCdCe
letters and figures in metal. These i'm
press themselves, when properly manipu-
lated on wooden cylinder, around which
is rolled the paper to be written upon.
By its use it is claimed that an expert can
print sentence or an article from 30 to
100 per cent. faster than it can be possibly
written with pen.
i During the year 1872 there were in
operation in the United States 812 paper
| mills, owned by 705 firms, and of an esti-
mated value of over $35, 900. In ad-
dition to this actual value of mill proper
ty, there is to be added the usual working
capital, twenty-five and half per cent
of the value Of the mills, thus making
throughout the country about $4s, 500, 600
The mills employ IL, 40 male and 7,7O0
female hands, besides 922 children, or a
total Of 22O42 1abOrers. whose wages