The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-23

"A discovery of considerable economic
value has lately been made in Newfound.
land, in the shape of hone stone. which,
IN texture and quality, rivals the far.
famed oil-stone Of Turkey for Sharpening
extent. '
"A picture entitled "Marino Faliero,' ~
oy Eugene Delacroix, which he tried in
vain to sell for LOCO francs on its finish,
was SOLD ten years after for $4,000 francs
Aiter passing through two hands, it was
ultimately bought for $4,000 francs, or
eighty times the price originally asked.
An old man at Ivry, France, recently
died Of joy. He had been very poor ali
his life, when he was suddenly Informed
that he had fallen heir to large fortune,
The old man was greatly agitated by the
news, and was fastening to the MAYORS
office to sign some necessary PAPERS.
when he fell dead in the street.
English naval officers are. when on
foreign stations, in the habit of perform.
ing marriage ceremonies, there being no
Consul or Chaplain in the neighborhood,
on board their vessels. The law officers
of the Crown have just decided that such
marriages are not valid, and, in conse.
quence, the Commissioners OF the Admi
rally have directed that no commanding
officer shall in future solemnize a mar:
rage.
The Jerusalem pilgrimage, under the
protection of the Archbishop of Paris,
will leave Marseilles about the middle oil
this month, and on the way to Jerusalem
they will visit Alexandria and the 18th.
mus. From Jerumsalem excursions will
be made to Bethlehem, Jerico, the Jordan
the Dead Sea, Mount Carmel, and other
places. The party will be absent about
two months and half, and will return
home by Smyrna and Athens.
The foundation stone of new col.
lege was recently laid by Lord de Tabley
at Knutsford, ten miles from Manchester,
England. it's to be great school for
the northern counties, and is to be on a
scale rivaliug Elton and Harrow. 1t is
designed to accommodate five hundred
boys. The style of the building is the
middle pointed gothic. The grounds are
forty acres in extent. The cost is esti-
mated at $4,000 and the building is to
be completed by January, 1875.
There is now at The Hague q CON-
position of princely rank, who, like Peter
the Great, has journeyed westward to
Holland to learn a useful handicraft for
the benefit of his country. The august
parsonage in question is Prince Macao, a
daimoi of the first grade of Japan. His
conduct is not strictly volun-
tary, he having been sent to Europe by
his sovereign; but he appears to have
made the act of sacrifice his own by the
zeal he exhibits, spending
several hours day at work in the print.
ing office.
BY Article $50 of the French Penal
Code, a criminal prosecution will not lie
when child has stolen or embezzled the
property of the parent. Last June dia-
monds and other jewels, worth 100000
francs, were taken from the shop of NJ.
Spineili, a jeweler in the Palace Royal,
Paris, by his son Hector and his nephew,
Robert Loiseau. The sum of 1850 francs
in bills was stolen by'the young men at
the same time. The son, Hector, could
not be prosecuted, but Robert Loiseau, his
cousin, has recently been tried in the
Court of Assizes. He made full comics.
sion of his guilt. The distinguished advo.
cate, NJ. Lachaud, conducted the defense,
and the jury seeing the manifest injustice
of the law which would allow.one of the
culprits to escape, though equally guilty
while extending no such exemption to the
other, brought in verdict of acquittal.
Industrial.
Jacksonville, Fla, shipped 81 zoo, 900
feet of lumber in 1870, and A, $4,000 in
1878.
One Wisconsin cheese factory lately
shipped nineteen tons of cheese to Liver
pool.
The salt shipments from Bay City
Mich, this season amount to about 475,
GOO barrels.
Another vein of iron ore, twelve fee
thick, and close to the surface, has beer
found in Emporium, Pa.
Rock Island Oily glass-blowers blow
to some purpose. They make from SCI
to $25 per day of eight hours.
The Sacramento (Cal) Beet Sugar
Factory this year will make 5000 barrels
Of sugar, valued at over 100000.
A ninety foot shaft at Benton, Wis, il
now yielding 1900 pounds Of lead minera
per day. Some of the chunks taken GU
weigh 800 pounds.
Over 100000 pounds of grapes hav'
been shipped from Vineland, N. j., thi
seasoL. One firm has sold over 2OO,OO|
three-pound boxes.
Adam Bremen, of Doniphan, Kansas
will manufacture 10000 gallons of crap,
wine this season, which he can sell q
home for 81 and $3.50 per gallon.
The Hemlock Extract Works at Far
we'll, Mich, have closed. The business
of the season is said to have been very
profitable, the demand exceeding the sup
ply.
Port Byron, N. Y, is manufacture,
paper -four barrels. They are cylindrical
in shape, claimed to be stronger thar
wood, but have wooden heads. 1t is pro
posed to substitute paper for the heads il
The Bay City (Mich.) Chronicle say
the salt shipments over the Flint s. Per
Marquette road, this season to date, ar,
about $4,000 barrels, and the entire ship
ments from the valley by rail and lax
about 475, 900 barrels.
The Indians of Bad River, Wis.,, ar
not such a bad lot after all. This yea
eAOy AoSC Id1SCu S,VVV UuSllCAS VI OSbeS
1000 of corn, 5000 of potatoes, 1900 O
rutabagas, and 800 tons of hay. And the,
have gathered 1000 bushels of cranberrie
and two tons of wild rice.
The Fayetteville IN. c. Eagle says
"Harnett County has in operation twenty
turpentine stills, and each still can pre-
pare for market $4,000 worth Of nava
stores in one year. This, in all, would
show business of half million for tn,
laborers and capitalists of that county"
Among the many triumphs of scienc'
and art exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition
is an invention of DR.. Marini for petrify
ing corpses, which seems to have proved
very successful. There was shown by thu
inventor large plateau of hard and pol
ished metal, the top slab of which wa!
composed of human remains, all petrifieG
together in a solid block. The surface Of
the block had been planed and polished
so as to look exactly like marble. By
merely seeing the strange product Of mod
ern science it was impossible to imagine
of what it was composed. It was mis-
taken for an ordinary slab of marble.
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