The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-22

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ftigaai6n. 1t pnsposced to contain the BODY
of q woman. In fact, besides hers were
the bodies of three children. His con.
tract gave him pay for four biirials, on
presentation Of certificates of the cemetery
authorities, who were interested with him
in this shorthand process.
The Hon. Elias H. Roberts, member
OF Congress and editor Of the Utica(N. w
Ga1d, in recent letter from London, de-
mons, says: "Critics tell how American
Congressman sit with their heels on chairs
| and desks, and the criticism is sometimes
just. Tonight one might have seen men,
beers sitting with their feet on the backs of
benches before them, while other members
reclined at full length on the rear fronts;
| and Lord Henry Lennox, in debate with
Lord of the Admiralty, from whom he
was separated only by table eight feet
wide, often placed his feet on that table,
and thus, in the face of his opponent, TAX
ing them down only to rise to speak, and
thrusting them upon the table again when
he sat down. On the whole, both the
British and American Legislators may i'm
prove their manners with advantage"
Industrial.
"A machine has been patented for dig
ging clans.
Portland, Oregon, has commenced
rolling railroad iron.
AT the Industrial School in Vienna
girls are taught type-setting.
A young woman at Chaleurs, ILL.,, has
hired out as farm hand to pillow, SOW
and reap, at fifteen dollars per month.
| West Auburn, Me-, boasts of a me-
chanic who has worked thirty-one years
without losing single day.
Three new cotton factories are under
way in Columbus, Ga, and will be built
before 1875. Columbus now manufac-
lures 1000 bales of cotton per anntlm.
The new mills will more than double that
| amount.
The citizens of Springfield, VT, have
recently formed a cooperative company,
with a capital of about $4,000, for the
manufacture of doll babies The head is
made of various kinds of wood, and the
face is stamped with a powerful steel die.
The new company will start with one hun
bred hands,
In Boston they are urging the matter
of instruction in sewing in the public
schools The Chairman Of the Committee
| on Industrial Schools has presented the
School Committee report upon the ques-
ton, which has attracted great public in
terest.
| The Caribou silver mine and works,
situated in Boulder County, Nevada, has
been sold to the Nederland Mining Com
pany, of Holland, for $3,OOO,O0O. The net
profits of the mine for several months past
have averaged $1,000 per day. Experts
from Holland and England reported from
$4,000, 900 to $4,OOOOOO worth of ore in
sight, and that the mine was worth &c.
Speaking of the cotton crop this sea
son, Southern papers say that the money
paid for it in its raw state will not fall
short of $3.50, 100000. OF this sum about
$50, 100000 will have gone to spectators
and first purchasers leaving 1895, 0O0, 900
to the producers.
Personal and Literary.
The late James Brooks was the
pioneer of Washington correspondents.
Mark Twain modestly denies that he
is the man alluded to in the line, "Mark
the perfect man." @i-
Josh Billings is going abroad. He
will endeavor to Introduce his celebrated
system of photography in Europe.
Gilbert Haven, one of the new Metho-
dist Bishops, assumes the sounding title
of Bishop of Atlanta
Lord Lyons, English Ambassador in
Paris, recently gave dinner party in
honor of the American Minister and wife
The widow of the late Marquis de
Chasseloup Laubat is an American lady,
having been Miss Pillie, of New Orleans
Minister Jay anticipates being over
whelmed with his countrymen during the
progress of the Vienna Exposition.
Colonel N. H. Ward, of Norfolk, Va,
now in the service of the Khedive, will
represent Egypt in the Vienna EXPOSE
ton. 3D..
The Rev. Olympia Brown, pastor of
the Universalist Society of Bridgeport,
Corn, was married at Providence, II. L.,
to Mr. John Henry Willis, grocer, of the
former city.
Henry Ossian Flipper Phebus Phe-
bus! what namel has been appointed to
a Cadetship at West Point from Georgia
He is an American citizen of African de-
scent.
The late Senator Dixon, of Connect
cut left over a million dollars, divided
equally between four children, two sons
and two daughters, except two hundred
shares of Enfield bridge stock given to
his sister.
"A story is current that Charles A.
Dana intends to leave the New York Sun,
after the present year, and reside perma-
nently abroad. w. o. Bartlett, who has
long been Dana's assistant, is spoken of
as his successor.
-Erastus Corning, of Albany, N. Y,
who some days ago married a daughter of
Judge Amasa J. Parker, has arranged to
spend $50, 900 in a honeymoon trip, and
is able to, seeing his income is put down
at 100000 year.
| The London Atheneuns announces
that Mr.. Duffield and Mr.. Watts, two
Spanish scholars, we'll qualified for their
on a translation Of don Quixote,"
that will for the first time
give English readers an adequate no.
ton of the text of Ceramics great work.
A first installment of the translation will
appear in the course of the present year.
-"Donald Mckay" of Modoc fame,
who has figured so prominently in the dis
patches relating to the recent fights, in
stead of being mysterious Scotchman
who had wandered into that far off coun-
try in search of the rugged life of his ma
tive Highlands, is only a young half
breed scout. Being friendly to the whites,
and having q number Of Warm Spring
Indians ready to do his bidding, the Gov
ernment has given him temporary CON-
mission with the title of Captain.
Religious and Educational.
"A quarter of a century having elapsed
since DR.. E. II. Chaplin assumed the pas.
forage of the Fourth Universalist Society
of New York City, the event was appro-
priately honored in the church on the
anniversary Sunday, recently, and DIR.
Chaplin was presented with SIC, 900. =
! The competition between the Ameri-
can Tract Society of New York and West.