The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-26

evening prayer meeting. Thus four i'm
portant things are secured on the Sabbath
the elaborate sermon, bible study, mis-
sion work and the prayer meeting.
The Congrega tionalists Of the West
propose founding large university to
meet the wants Of the country beyond
the Missouri. A conference has deter.
mined ON Colorado Springs, Col, as
the location. The new university will be
literally under the shadow Of Pixies
Peak, and In close vicinity to q remark
able conveyance of upheaved strata of
different formations, which will give it
the best field for the study of physical
sciences ON this continent. A consider
able endowment fund has already been
subscribed.
speaking of "the synagogue" the
Jesoish Aessenger remarks that "it can
not be denied that, with all the at
tempts which have of late been success
fully made to improve our public wor-
ship, it is far from what it should be. It
is yet too worldly; the worshipers are not
sufficiently impressed with the feeling
that should animate them; they think
that it is their house, for they subscribe
tor its support, and are unawed by the
solemn reflection that it is Gods house,
In which they are tenants while they live
here, and in which they are privileged to
pray for life hereafter"
Industrial.
The average hop yield in Oregon is
placed at 5000 pounds per acre.
Copper is now made successfully in
Pennsylvania, and from ores found within
the State.
He is eighty nine, he has Just cut
three new teeth, he chops wood habitu.
ally, and he lives in Belfast, Me.
Utah is importing much fine stock
and sheep from Eastern marts. There are
in the Territory now some 100000 head
of sheep.
The peg factory in Bethel, Me-, re.
Gently received an order for 5000 barrels
OF six bushels each, or $4,000 bushels OF
shoe pegs.
Carpenter, painters, plasterers and
other workmen are Frightening up things
generally at Virginia City, and q lively
business season is anticipated.
in one train, recently, on the Milwau.
kee q Northern Railway were seven cars
loaded with eggs. Each car had 100 bar.
rels, and each barrel sixty dozen, or 20
eggs, making total of 5O4, 600 eggs on
the train.
"A New York dispatch says: Dissat.
isfactiOn exists among the workmen con.
nected with the Erie Railway on account
of the irregularity with which they have
been paid, and strikes at various places
along the line are reported"
The annual statement of the stats.
tics of Lowell manufacturers show that
the number of spindles at present in op.
Grafton in that city is 67S, 521, looms
Is, 180. These figures show handsome
gain during the past year.
The journeymen shoemakers belong.
ing to the Crispin Society of Chicago
were recently on strike. The on ly point
at issue between them and the employers
was that the Crispins refuse to promise
not to strike in body whenever the en-
ployes of any one house strike.
There are in and about Spring Lake,
Mich, 10000 peach trees, which promise
to yield, this year, SOC, OOO baskets. There
are also half million grape vines, that
last year bore zoe, 1000 pounds of grapes,
besides 600 gallons of wine. The small
fruit-grOwers last year cleared about $2OO
per acre from their crops.
"A man in Woodbury., N. Y, raised
and marketed from five-eighths of an &C e
on his farm, egg-plants which sold for
$499 Is; radishes which sold for SIS
making total Of $577.15, cash in hand
Besides this his family was supplied and
some given away. There we're 1899 hills
Of the egg-plants, three and a.half by four
feet apart.
Some 100 women engaged in an UNI
brella and parasol establishment In
New York recently asked for an advance
of Is per cent, but it was refused by the
employers. They offer an advance of 1O
per cent The earnings of the women en-
gagged average $500 per week during thu
winter. There are about 1000 females
employed in this branch of trade, who are
distributed in about q dozen factories
The parasol manufacturing trade is usu
ally brisk during the months of March,
April and May, and during that time al
ways tends to increase considerably the
earnings of the operatives, while the UNI
brella manufacture is principally confined
to the fall season.