The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-11-26
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same grave.
During the absence of Albert Clarke,
editor of the St. Albans wv Messenger,
the other day, somebody got inserted an
abomination pretending to lie poem
and which was soon found to be an acros-
tic, asserting by the initial letters of its
lines that Albert Clarke is an ass. The
paper had tremendous sale, the edition
being exhausted in half an hour, and
the affair is the joke of the season at st.
Albans.
-Meiggs, the railway king of Chill,
once had a peculiar surprise party. A
Bangor washerwoman who went to Cali
tornia some years ago had $4,000 or
$1,000 deposited in Meiggs' Frisco Cali
fOrnia hank before he "busted up."
After he went to South America this
woman heard of his success in specula-
ton, shipped to Chill and one day turned
up in Mr.. Meiggs' office. The result of
the interview was that he not only paid
her the principal and interest of her &C
count. but also paid the entire expenses
of her trip from Maine to his presence
and return.
Industrial.
Mrs. J. F. Hannah of Moberly, Mo-,
has made and sold from five COWS during
the last year 1,O45 pounds of butter, be-
sides furnishing a family of eight per-
sons, including hired help.
AT fair in Texas Messrs. Sauer &
Go. offered a premium for the best loaf of
bread to be made from their flour; but
no ladies were willing to try to make
bread of Sauer -four.
speaking of the profits of cattle
grazing, an Indiana journal tells of a
man in Lafayette who has just sold, f or
81, 100, a herd of Texas cattle that he
gave SEC, 900 for last fall.
There are about 200 acres planted
in cabbage near New Albany, Ind, on
which there are 2,2OO,OOO yearly grown
occupying the labor of 400 hands. These
cabbages are shipped South.
Keeping stall in Faneuil Hall Mar
ket, at Boston, must be profitable bust
ness, judging from the fact that $11 ,OOO
bonus was lately paid for a single stall
the lease of which had twenty-five
II onths to run.
Though the potato crop through the
valley of the Connecticut is unusually
heavy, prices have advanced recently
and the farmers expect to obtain as good
terms as they did last year, before the
season is over.
"A movement is on foot in England,
backed by ample funds, for the purpose
of securing to farm laborers an interest
in the land. 1t has become extremely
popular, and is supported by capitalists
and influential landlords.
"A California farmer received by mail
three years ago about spoonful of oats
which he planted; and the next year he
planted the product of it. This year he
repeated the process and has just har.
vested from an acre and half of land
200 bushels Of oats.
City Missionary Hawley, of Hartford
Conn.,, reports that the number of applica.
tiOns for aid is much larger than ut the
same time last year, and among the ap.
plicants are many sober, industrious
mechanics, who would be glad to work if
they could find anything to do.
Six establishments in New Orleans
with an aggregate capital of 81, 500, OOO
are engaged in the manufacture OF oil
and oil cake from cotton seed, the yield
being 100, 1000 tons per annum. The oil is
used as sweet oil, and, mixed with per
fumes, is sold as hair oil, etc., while the
cake is fed largely to cows, it giving tho
milk a rich, creamy look and flavor.
| The Springfield & New Londor
Railroad will be begun as soon as tn,
necessary papers can be drawn ant
| signed-probabIy in about four weeks
The road will be built this winter be
cause help can be hired cheaper nov
than next spring. Men are already ap
plying for job to the managers of til,
road, some offering to work all winte
for 81 day.-Springfeld (Nass.) Repud
lican.