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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

The heaviest rain storm of the season
visited us on Saturday. The water fairly
poured down part of the day, and with the
winA, succeeded in getting up a goood speci-
men Of an equinoxtial storm.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

Some of the members Of Congress .ho
pocketed the $1,000 back pay bonus are
goin. to the Vienna Exposition with their
families, being too conscientious to spend
the money ut home.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

W. are pleased to learn that Gen. Bur
nets hurts are fast mending, and that ne
viii soon be around again.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

Athley Falls. Conn, is a place of which
little is known. but which is asserting its
claim to distinction by having a cat weigh
ing Is 3 4 pounds. The yowl of this ami
NAL enlivens all South Western Massa
cuhsetts, as well as 1.-The pig-iron corner
If Connecuticut."
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

Some of our American citizens of Afri
can decent INDUCED themselves a little toe
freely with ''Tangle foot" on Saturday last
They Should quit lhat.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03
Early potatoes are plenty at Dardanelle,
Ark, at SO SO a barrel.

A bill incorporating the Pike County
Savings Bank has passed both houses OF
the Pennsylvania Legislature.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

The alarm of fire on Thursday evening,
was caused by fire communicating through a
defective fue to the woodwork OF the build.
ing belonging to Esquire Edinger, on Mon.
roe street, and occupied 10y Mr.. VIM. Rim
ker. The damage from water proved rather
more serious than that from fire, but with
out the water there would have been nc
house to talk about. The ''Pocono" was
promptly on hand, and had water on the
the bailding, through 600 feet of hose il
an incredibly short time-as soon as it was
possible to lay the hose-showing that il
her the borough possesses a perfect gem.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

The spotted fever has broken out
amoug the Sioux Indians around Fort
Sully.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

We learn that a number of our young
ladies and gentlemen, contemplate getting M
a histroionic exhibition soon, the proceeds OF
which are to be devoted to the purchase
of a library for the Penix Fire Co. This is
a move in the right direction, and VIC
hope it will be pushed to consumation. We
have talent here in that line worthy of pat
ronage, and it would take but few exhibit
tions, atFording a vast amount of recreation
u our citizens, to get up a very respectable
library.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

The steamer will be out for practice on
Saturday afternoon. Our side walks now
are tolerably clean of, store boxes, barrels
crates. and such, hut we presume by that
time there will be enough left for kindling.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

We have heard rumors of a scrimmage,
which grew out of a settlement of financial
matters, ut Sand Hill in this county, in which
some knocking down. kicking, and pistol
shooting was freely INDUCED in. We have
5he names OF the parties and particulars, out
of which a first class item might be made,
bat we foEbeqr doing so Tor the present. a
Jaw suit it is said viii grow out Of the mat
ter. N,ighbors should not indulge in such
past times, as besides present danger, there
is generally a gallows at the end Of the line
marked by a pistol shot, and We don't want
anything more of that kind in this county.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03
Spring is here in earnest.

They had fine sleighing at Canadensis on
the 90th day Of March.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-04-03

a beverage.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
Facts vs.. SeRtimentalism.

We quote from the Nation facts and
statistics, tending to snow that our hu.
manitarian citizens who c'amor SO pa
,he,ically for imprisonment for life as
q substitute for hanging are not we'll
posted I'VE have before us med.
ical report made in 1868, on the Au
burn State Prison. which has for fifty
years been one Of: the glories of Now
York Betwe s.; nd 1868, 2l4
persons were committed to that prison
under life sentences. OF these, 81
died from natural causes; 8 went mad;
two committed suicide; l escaped,
and 10 were transferred to other pris-
ons-leaving l59 to be accounted for
Well, CT these 159, 26 remained in the
prison at the date Of the report, and
134 had been pardoned. Perhaps,
however, they were pardoned after
long years Of suffering and were dis
charged when age or confinement had
made them harmless ? Nothing Of
the kind. Their average period Of
servi'ude was 6 years and 6 months.
In other words. when man is sent to
Jail for life in this State, he has over
sixty.three chances in one hundred of
liberation in seven years. This expo.
rience is very much that Of all the
States. In Massachusetts,, so per
cent. Of the life prisoners are pardoned;
in Pennsylvania. 49, per cent. of the
whole number imprisoned for all peri
DDS; in Ohio, 40 per cent of the life
prisoners; in Wisconsin, 33 per cent.
In short, we rep ca: that imprisonment
for life is, to all intents and purposes,
an unknown punishment in this coun.
try, and the machinery for inflicting it
does not yet exist"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
A WORD MORE.

The lishtful spring weather since
our last issue enables us to almost for
get the severe winter We Rave endured,
and makes US begin to feel our old admi-
ration for q Minnesota climate. Dur
ing a portion of last winter enthusi.
asm on that subject was not rapturous
in this vicinity.
We have been somewhat at a loss
to account for the injustice done our
State in the reports Of our storms,
and indeed of the whole winter. We
are unwilling to accept the motives a
railroad company of Iowa and Nebras-
ka, (said to have actually condensed
the sensation items on the subject, and
published them for gratuitcus distri
bution), as governing all who have
joined ia the clamot against climate
to whose healing properties citizens Of
every part Of the continent are indebt
ed for years of health. Facts and fig
ures carefully prepared and published
seem to make little or no impression.
Providence. of course, has been &C.
credited and interpreted, even by those
who have very little knowledge Of
1.-THE great frst cause" in way that
would be amusing if it were not for
its irreverence.
We are prepared to take with large
discount the tidings Of the disasters
wrought by tho late storm in Kansas
and Nebraska; but, stripped of all its
exaggerations, the fact remains clear ::
that the storm that passed over those
States in the middle of April, soas of
greater scverity, more destructive to
property, and mere fatal to human
life than the Minnesota storm in mid
,cinter. With the record of the whole
winter now before US, Minnesota will
compare favorably with any State
Moth of the line of the Ohio river.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
Farmers SWindled.

1t is astonishing how many farmers
are the victims of all sorts of swindlers.
They can be induced to buy fruit trees
Of agents whom they never saw before,
and pay two prices, with the probabil.
ity that the fruit will be small and
tasteless /; they will listen with open
mouths to . smooth-tongued fellow
describing a worthless invention, or
patent right, and they will almost sign
their names in blank, by which they
get swindled out Of hundreds Of dol
lars. In fact, there is no miserable
game in which farmers cannot be in.
duced to engage. But it is to be said
that these victims do not read, and
that they despise agricultural papers.
An authority asserts that there are
many thousands of farmers in Illinois
who never see paper, and this is true
Of many farmers even in all the States.
A few years ago hundreds Of farmers
were induced to sign what turned out
to be notes Of hand, with the induce
ment that they were to become agents
Of some wonderfully profitable ma
chine. The only remedy is for farm
ers to become informed, and to do 80
they must take some paper which is
devoted 10 their interests, and read i,
every week. The time SO spent will
save them more money than all theil
labor can bring.-Ercsange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
Resources OF Japan.

One of the most remarkable facts of
the times is the advancement of Japan
in the scale Of civilization and enlight-
enment. Our own Ignorance of the
country is scarcely less remarkable.
A writer in Harper says: "It is i'm.
possible to over-state the universal ig-
norance on the subject Of Japan,
The singular political aud social con-
stitution of . vigorous and intelligent
nation, numbering thirty millions of
inhabitants, is regarded with an indif-
ference which is BESTOWED upon no
other people of ancient or modern
times.' Everthing pertaining to the
country and people is interesting and
important. A contributor to Biac H.
'eood writes, from personal knowledge
of its mineral wealth, as follows:
'In minerals, the county is very rich.
The precious and usual metals are found
there in large quantities, as we'll as coal,
and a few mines are already worked on an
important scale. Rock crystal is abundant,
pearls and corals are found along the coast,
hut no diamonds, nor indeed any other
stones Of value, have vet been found. We
all know how able the japanese are in met
al working, in cutlery and gold and copper.
We have but a general idea of the match
less finish and subtle delicacy of the hand
ling which their completed work reveals.
With the skill which they have SO long
possessed, and with the capacity Of imita-
ton Cet it he remembered that they built
their first steamboat and its engine from a
description in Dutch book, it may be ex.
pected that they will soon produce all the
hardware with which VIC now supply them
III manufactures generally there has, not SC
far, been much development. In the sta.
pie products of Japan, in lacquer, porce.
lain, and silk Grape, no change can be pos.
bly, wished for; they are so perfect tha,
foreigners have not learned to equal them
Indeed, the secret of good lacquer, and o.
weaving silk with the same pattern on botl
sides has never ben discovered outside Jx.
PAN"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
THE GAZETTE.
WV. B. HEERiorr. J. s. REAL.
HERRlOT1 B. BEAL,
Editors and Publi ishcrs.
THE INDIAN QUESTION.
itOrs and Publishers.

The Indian question has been dis
eussed-pro and CONN all phases
and in all quarters, during the past
two or three years. The "Peace Pol.
icy, Of the Administration met with
the inevitable party hostility, and as
there were many "sore heads" in the
Republican party, aand the "Policy"
had a religious aspect, it has been the
especial victim Of personal spite and
cheap wit; and has not received the
cooperative endorsement which any
we'll digtsted measure on an important
and perplexing public question de-
served. But the public mind was
gradually becoming convinced that the
rlau Of the Administration, if fairly
tried, would be a successful solution Of
the Indian difficulty, aud with the ex.
ccptional difference Of opiuion as to
whether the War Department or the
Department Of the Interior should
have the management, the general
feeling was that the 'beginning of the
end" had come.
The late treacherous murder Of Gen.
Candy and thu Peace Commissioners,
and the fighting Of the Goth ult.,
marked as it was by all the character
i,tic b'rbarity Of Iudisn warfare, re-
sultiug in loss Of forty, killed and
wounded Including three or four val
liable officers-has apparently b:o't
the country at large almost to the poin,
Of clamoring for determination.
The Peace Policy, as understood by
those who originated and have sus-
tanned it, necessarily contemplated
emergencies like the present. 1t
meant conciliation if possible; war if
necessary. The feeling undoubtedly
is. that in dealing with the Modocs,
previous to and at the time of General
Csrty's murder, the peace side was
too closely adhered to-punishmeut
was deserved-and if the Govern.
ment had dealt promptly and vigorous.
ly, instead of parleying, valuable lives
might have been spared, and whole.
some lesson impressed on the minds Of
10th the hostile and the friendly Indi-
ans. The Government has declared its
determination not to abandon the
Peace Policy and it need not But
the war is now on us,-an Indian war,
with its inhuman and sickening de.
tails. The Modocs and their allies de-
serve the utmost that civilized gov.
crnment can mete out to offenders
Many other tribes, though not friend
", merit different treatment. The
Government will know the facts IN
regard to the barbaritics, and what
tribes are engaged in the general up
rising which is reported, better than
the public, and we believe that wise
counsel will direct to line Of action
between the gushing tenderness Of the
peace advocates and the inhumanity
of those who clamor for the extermi-
nation of the whole race.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

"Give me-" says Rev. Robert Tay-
lor, "the money that has been spent in
drink, and I will purchase every foot
of land upon the globe I will clothe
every man, woman and child in an at
tire ofwhich kings and queens would
be ploud !; I will build a school house
on every hill side and in every valley
over the whole earth ]; college in ev-
cry State, aud gil it with able prsfes-
sors I will crown every hill with 4
place Of worship consecrated to the
PRONUNCIATION Of the gospel Of peace
and will support in every pulpit IN
able teacher Of Righteousness"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

The death is announced Of Charles
Aston Collins, brother Of Wilkie
Collins, and son-in-law of the late
Charles Dickens. He was the author
of"A Cruise Upon Wheels" descrip-
tive Of France, and two novels, sThe
Bar Sinister" and eStrathcairn."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Rush City aud Pine City arc both
to have Newspapers of their own.
A Trout farm is to be established
this season at the head of Conway's
Creek, near Lake City.
Moorhead is preparing to go into
debt, but it is for school building
and to maintain school five months in
this year.
The damage to the Sauk Rapids
dam, by washing out par: of the
wing, is estimated by F. R. Dslano to
be some So, 500.
The St. Cloud Press says that Hon.
H. G. Wait ships about 200 barrels
daily of his Cold Spring -four to New
York.
A Brainerd dispatch says that the
steam mill of Tousley Il Cornell, situat-
cd at Frazee Station, was burned with
all its contents, on April 22ud. No
insurance.
H. Seymour, of Mount Pleasant,
has given the Lake City Leader a
sample of maple sugar made from sug.
ar trees Of his own planting. The
trees are four to nine inches in dame
ter, from five to six years old, and
number about 1900.
Winona is to have Sunday-law
revolution. It has been lnaugurated
by jour barbee, who complains of bis
bosses and their competitors for doing
business on Sunday, and the boss bar.
bers, in turn, threaten to make com.
plants against everybody else who vi
olates the Sunday law.
There is hen in Lake City that
has strange habit of laying two eggs
a day, and having one egg inside Of
the other. All that hens eggs are of
the same SOFT;
A new paper, called the Enquirer;
published at Eyota by A. DeLacy
Wood, has made its appearance. 1t
is six column sheet, and presents a
neat appearance.
A chap from up country wandered
into our office the other day, and
thrust his elbow into a galley Of type
which he converted into about the
most artistic pi We We have seen lately
= With the aid of pair o.
crutches and an express wagon h
was enabled to take the train for the
west. The man that does that little
trick again wants to bring his co fiji
with him.-Willmar Republican.
The Albert Lea Standard say.
Minneapolis men have been through
the western part Of Freeborn county,
buying up all the two aud three yeal
old steers they could find.
At Hawley, on Tuesday morning
it being quite slippery At the time
half breed boy, about fifteen years
old, went to the bank Of the Buffal,
river for the purpose of securing som,
drift.wood, and sli ,ped down into th'
river. A sister ran to his assistance
slipped, and also went into the river
| another sistei ran to the bank and at
tempted to save them, aud she, too
slipped, and ~as precipitated into th'
river J and still a.o:hef sister ran t,
the rescue, and, strange and sad =
the story is, this last one followed th
fate Of her sisters and brother, ahd al
were drowned. How true it is tha
the truth is sometimes stranger thai
fiction. This is = sad affair, aud on
that will be long remembered III Haa
ley.-Detroit Record.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

Journalism is indeed looking up in
japan. The Tycoon has started . dai-
ly paper, and announces that he will
behead every able bodied "Jap" who
does not subscribe at once. He hopes
to work up quite : list Of subscribers,
and make his paper apay from the
start" Native merchants who do not
advertise, will have their property con.
Rsiestea:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
Frightful Casualty.

An inclined plane railway, to carry
stone down hill, was put in operation
in tho western part Of Cincinnati for
the first time on the 29th ult. The
cable holding the car, which was cad.
ed With 20 perch Of stone. gave way
just at starting, and the car ran down
the hill over 600 feet of track, and
struck the bumper. The trucks set
tied down and the box and stone flew
in all directions, the greater part land
ing in the door yard of Robert Green,
where several little children were play
ing. Two Of them escaped unhurt.
Robert Harris, five years old, was hit
in the head and killed. Carl Roth,
six years old. received injuries in the
head which it is feared are fatal.
Robert Green, four years old, was in
jured in the head, but not dangerous.
ly. The fence of the yard in which
the children were playing was demol.
ished, and the window shutters and
weather boards of the house were shat
tered and broken. The loaded car
must have made = descent Of one hun.
dred and fifty feet-perhaps more as
the hill is quite steep. 1t appears
that this cable was attached to the cal
with lead soldering, after the manner
Of the Reading road, aud that it pul.
led out of its atthchment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Horse Wanted For Oxen

The undersigned de sire; to exchange 4 or 5
Oxen, in good working condition, and not
over s years old, for a good, we'll matched
end true pair of horses, from to 8 years
old, and weighing not less than 100 lbs.
Fer further particulars inquire of
JOHN MARTIN,
52-4t Swede Forest, Minn.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
NOTICE.

q. 8. Land Once,
Redwood Falls, Minn., April 81, 1873.
Complaint having been entered at this oa8ce By
Oscar a. Hawes against Joshua Goodwin for aban-
1872, spon the North East x Section 2, Township
III, Range - Wslt in Lyon County, Minnesota,
with view to the cancellation Of said entry: the
said psrtie: are hereby :ummoneato sppsss st this
~, to respond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged abandonment:
B.F. SxsFH, Register.
1856 VIZ. Il. Kelly, Recsiver.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

The Public Printer at Washington
is working his force to its full capacity
in order to finish al the documents
ordered BY tho 3Oth Of June. He ex.
poets to have 100, 600 volumes ready
BY the 18th Of that month, and will
notify Congressmen to that effect, %
that they can come and distribute theft
quota, if they see liz.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
NOTICE:

U. 8. Land Office,
Redwood Falls, Minn., April 26, 1873. :
Complaint having been entered ct this Office BY
James Ruddy against Patrick Convey for abandon
ing his Homestead Entry, No. 5S64, dated Dec %,
1870, npol the South half Of North East quarter
Section 20, Township lis, Range 50, In Renvills
County. Mimi,
with view to the cancellation Of said entry: the
said parties are hereby summoned TO- appear at this
ohlce ON the 11th day Of June 1878, at II o'clock
n. to respond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged abandonment.
B. r. SxIrH, Register.
1877 VIZ. II. KELLY, Receiver.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

TT 8. LAND OFFICE
u Redwood Falls, Mimi; April, 20, 1918.
To Cyrus Smith You are hereby notified that
on the 18th day of June A. D. 1878 at 12 o'clock H.
proof will be taken At this oHfcein support of Frank
Saffelmaeher to enter by premption the east X of
the north west and the north west 4 of the north
east X ofsection II Township III range 50, west. TO
which you ara adverse claimant and will b per
mitted to offer counter proof,
B. +. Snrrii, Register.
81 Wn. H. KEtLY, Receiver.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
NOTICE.

U. s. land Office,
Redwood Falls, Minn.; Feb. %, 1873.
Cor plant having been entered At this ONCE By
Ole Cold, against Thomas W. Taski, for abandoning
Homestead Entry, No. e46S, dated August %, 1871,
upon the South West quarter, Section 20, Township
ia, Range So In Yellow MedicneCounty, Ninnesota,
with view to the cancellation Of said entry the said
On the oh day of Nav, 1873, At u O'clock H. to re-
spsnd and furaish testimony coneerdng said alleged
sbandonment
B. +. SnIfn, Register.
170 WI. H. KELLY, keceivsr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08
MORTGAGE SALE;

DEFACLT has been made in the payment Of i've
claimed to be due at the date Of this notice,
certain mortgage, bearing date December fifteenth.
A. D. 1868, executed by james ". Harkncss, Of
Rice county Minnesota, to Erwin H. Bartholf, Of the
Register Of Deeds, % ard for the equity Of Red:
wood and state Of Minnesota, on the 22nd day Of
Nav. A. d. 1859. at one o'clock p. NJ, IN Book One
Of Mortgages, pages "a and IS. Which said
mortgage was thereafter, to wit: on the 18th day
said Erwin II. Bartholf to Rodney A. Mott, which
assignment was dnlv recorded in the office Regis
ter OF Deeds, i, and for the County of Redwood,
State of Minnesota on the Goth day Of March, A. D.,
1873, at 1O1< o'clock A. NJ, in Book Of Mortgages.
on page So and no proceedings at law have been
iustuted for the recovery of said sum, any part
thereof. Now. therefore, notice is hereby given,
that pursuant to po@et Of sale, in said Mortgage
contaned and Of the Statute in such case made and
said mortgage, to wit: Lots one, two, tree, four,
five and ak, Il, "a, S, g. in block eight, (s lot
four ~ in block a., lot nine 90 in block three
(s) lots four and ave a 81 in block four ~, lot
o., lot six S in block twelve i2!, lot four q in
block fourteen (l4, lot nine {a) Of block eighteen
S) and lot eleven (11) Of block twenty (O) Of the
Village Of Redwood Falls, Of the County o. Redwood
and State M.nnesots, according to recorded plat
ifs Office in the Village Of Redwood Fails in the
said County of Redwood, on tn TWENTY-FOCRTH
day OF May A. at ten O'Clock in the forenoon Of
said day, to satisfy the amount due on said mort
gage, together with thirty dollars collectors fees
foreclosure, and the further sum Of thirty six Is
100 dollars taxes said premises, paid BY the said
assignee for the years A. D. 1859, 1870 and 1871
and the costs Of this foreclosure.
RODNEY a. MOTT, As.ignee.
Faribault, MINI.