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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-06
Old.FashiOned COurting..

Good old-fashioned counting il played
out.
When you and l we're boys we looked
around and found gall that waZ come
ly, and went to meeting reglar Sundays,
and could churn and make good hash,
and darn a stocking so that yu couldn't
tell WHARF the hole used to be, and if she
had good common sense, and could make
q caliko frock look hobby when she cum
out with it, and no fellow had spoken
for her, we went to work diligently Sun
day nights, and now and then week days,
hanging around her kindly, and saying
our best things to her, and behaving our
sells more politely and modest than
ever, and finally popt the question
square, and were referred to the old
folks, and they lookt the ground over,
and sed Yes" and we got married, and
her weddin porshun waz q feather-bed,
flu tables and chairs, some painted
crockery, q two-year-old heifer, and .
half barrel ov apple-sass, and we could
show two hundred and seventy-five dol
lars cash, got by keeping skool winters,
and wurkin on q farm summers, and be-
gun life as happy az a nuly elected con-
stable.
But now days the yung man falls in
luv with fashionable yung ladys' real
estate, and the fashionable yung lady
swears eternal constancy to the yung
mans mummy at interest, and both ov
them brag good deal on each others
pedigree, and the parents on both sides
strike hands, and when the weddin Gums
off all hands git tight on shampane, and
the job IL did.
Sum difference in the operashun, and
too often terrible difference in the re-
sults.-J0sh Billings.
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Pure Water for Mich Cows.

ALTHOUGH water added to milk may be
obnoxious, proprletors of mich cows
cannot expect that the udders will be
extended with the delicious liquid unless
the animals can have access to q gener-
GUS supply of clear water. During the
sultry days of summer pure water for
cows is as important as grass. When
COW is thirsty she must be supplied with
water or the process of concocting milk
will be more or less arrested. Hence
the quantity of milk will continue to
diminish. Soon after a cow has filled
herself with feed of any sort there will
be . demand for water. But If the ami
NAL cannot obtain supply the partially
masticated feed in the rumen will soon
begin to heat and ferment, causing de-
rangement of the entire system:
1t is bad policy to require mich COWS
to drink at ponds of standing water,
which is q prevailing practice in many
sections of country. When animals are
allowed to 60 into the water and to
stand in it, unless there is running
stream, the water will soon be fouled
and unfit to drink. In such instances it
will cost only triae to dig q shallow
well, provide large trough and draw q
generous supply every day either with q
cheap pump or bucket. A pail of water
is as refreshing to thirsty cow or horse
as goblet of ice-water to thirsty
laborer.-New York Herald.
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Raise Your Own Grass Seed.

By adopting the injudicious practice
of purchasing grass-seed and clover-seed
the country has become one vast bed of
weeds. If farmers would raise their
own seed and take pains to have it clean,
their best field need not be overrun with
such an extensive variety of weeds.
Most of the grass-seed used is raised to
sell. 1t is sold by the producers for a
very small price compared with what
farmers pay for it, and the producers
perhaps cannot 60 through their seed
fields and pull out the weeds before
harvesting. Some of them doubtless
have no inclination to do it as long as
pound of weed-seed sells for as much as
much as a pound of grass-seed. At any
rate none of them do it, and weeds and
grass are cut and threshed together.
When once the seed is mixed there is no
practicable way TO separate it, and, what
is worse yet, thele is no way in which
the farmer with the means at his COM
mand can detect pure from foul seed.
Weight, measure and eyesight alike are
useless. There are no trademarks which
amount to anything used upon grass
seed, no mans reputation suffers from
selling mustard-seed as erd's-grass, and
no mans credit is helped by raising only
a pure seed. A powerful microscope
might aid in detecting authorizations, but
tbs the farmer has not got and the
dealer does not !care to have. So the
man who has land to seed down takes
what is set before him." lives through
the year in the hope that it will prove
all right, and is made cross and ugly by
at last that he has paid ten
cents a pound for weed-seed which it
will cost him dollar a pound to get rid
rid of. We confess that we can see but
one sure way out of this difficulty, and
that is for our farmers to raise their own
grass-seed. 1t will cost more, of course,
than they could buy it for, but when
they get it it won't be weed-seed-N. Y.
Herald.
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The Grassh0pper Army.

To THE thousands of our readers who
have for the past few years, and es-
pecially few months, heard and read of
the grasshopper, the mighty spoiler of
the husbandman's labors, but who have
never seen or heard described the appear
ance and nature of the pestiferous insect,
it may be that picture of the creature
and its doings would not be uninterest-
ing. When the grasshoppers originally
appeared in the Northwestern States
to any damaging degree, a number of
years since, they first attracted attention
by their numbers, appearing as they did
before the astonished farmer in countless
millions, not as the innocent and HARM
less creatures which had hoped before
his sickle in the grass ever since he was
boy, but as dangerous, ravenous and
devouring army of innumerable pigmy
enemies. They came in swarms, darken-
ing the heavens as far as the eye could
reach, aud alighting upon the green field
like black shroud, and only leaving it
when nothing verdant remained out of
their myriad stomachs. They were not
near as large as were the domestic grass
hoppers, neither green in color, but
brownish-colored insect, of half the size.
They hoped with all the power of the
old green specimens, but when it came to
using their wings the "old inhabitant"
grasshoppers were nowhere. The in
vaders (early named the "raiders''
were very eagles in miniature, and would
on a still day soar from ruined corn
field directly toward the sun and away
from human vision. People not expe-
rienced in the devastating propensities OF
these pests can scarcely believe that SO
small an insect, and one hitherto looked
upon so lightly as powerless inhabitant
of the farm, can do the harm which has
been ascribed to them. But they can do
mighty things on account of their num-
bers. It can hardly be credited that they
come in sun-darkening clouds and cover
the meadows, fields and roads to the
depth of from one to five inches of wrig-
Cling and hungry life, but they do. 1t can
hardly be believed that they light upon
the fences and gnaw away at the boards
and posts with such assiduity that they
leave them looking haggled and SCARED,
but they do. 1t can hardly lie understood
that they will stop team by driving
like a hail-storm in the horses faces, that
they crush by hundreds under the feet
which step among them, and even stop
trains with their grease when
run over on up-grades, but it is true.
Any farmer in the infested region who is
experienced in their ravages will affirm
these apparently extreme statements to
he only tame facts in the presence of the
actual " raiders''-the Egyptian plague of
Minnesota and the terror of the husband
men of the whole Chicago
Journal
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Why Wet Lands Should Be Drained.

FREE access of atmospheric air to
every part of the soil is Of the utmost
importance. The air assists the various
processes of decomposition by which
dead animal and vegetable matter is
made to yield products of the highest
value as elements of the food of plants.
If the soil is full of water Of course the
air cannot get into the soil to perform
this Office. Hence drains, by drawing
off the water from beneath, give the air
free admission to the soil, and each
shower of rain, by displacing the air al
ready present, and then falling through
the soil and running away in the drains,
renews the supply Of fresh air. In this
way drains are Of the greatest benefit.
Drains actually diminish the loss of
plant food by washing away. Stagnant
water is injurious to the roots OF plants.
They will not grow in it. Draining re-
moves this, and hence the plants send
down their roots deeper. Consequently
their capacity of absorbing nourishment
is greatly increased. 1t is this increased
depth of the roots in well-drained soil
which renders the crops growing on them
less liable to suffer from drouth than
those on imperfectly drained land.
Although rain washing the surface and
running of by open channels may and
does dissolve and wash away consider
able quantity of nutritive matter, the
water which sinks into the land carries
these nutritive substances deeper down
into the soil and deposits them in the
lower portions where the roots of the
plants are to be found and where these
roots can seize and absorb these soluble
matters. Draining causes the rain to
sink through considerable thickness Of
soil before it runs of, and hence it causes
less loss of nutritive matter than is oc-
casioned by rain washing soil as it does
in undrained lands, carrying off to the
streams and rivers much Of the valuable
.. nutritive matter that abounds ON the
surface,-N. r. Herald.
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I WATER-PRooF CEMENT.-Soak plaster
of Paris in concentrated solution of
alum, then dry it and bake in an oven
at such q heat as is used to change
gypsum or alabaster into plaster of Paris;
then grind to powder and use with water
like plaster. 1t is white, but may of
course be colOred.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-06
AUGUST LILIES.
/" Holding a lily in his hand
For Deaths annunciatiOn. "

:" Holding lily in his hand
For Deaths annunciation."
What time the white day lilies lift their faces
Serencly splendid to the August sun.
And Grim n-etrcaked pctnnias overrun
With lavish color all the gardcn-spaces;
When pnrrling grapes upon the tIellis cluster.
And bloemy, plum. drop ripely from their
And peaches turn to globes ofhoneycd gold,
And pears grow sleek with mellow gloss and
luster;
When translucent haze the sunehine follows
And wells the fcrvent sky in dreamy light.
Involves in mist the luminous mountain
And fills with tn, violet shade the mountain hol.
When the still nights their dewy sweets surren-
When stars recede. and ON her throne serene
he full moon sits a solitary queen.
And floods the land and sea with silver eplen-
Then comes again. in shadowy completeness.
4 face that faded once when lilies came;
A face the whitest lilies could not shame
For lack of any lovely grace or sweetness.
Nine years ago. in silent desolation.
watched the fading Of that perfect face
~, Unit, i,l,l,, knew nis presence in the place
The August sun had set in all it's glory.
And when the pomp Of clouds had trailed
away.
And gold and flame were melted into gray,
l read the ending OF loves sweetest story.
The bamv night came dewy-soft and Silly,
With light winds trembling over beds Of bloom:
Above the silence and the scented gloom
felt the waving Of the mystic lily
And oh! l saw. ~ one sees in q vision
Where. - bound. ono may neither CRY nor
stir,
Its drear; .-adowy stealing over her,
And darkening lips and eyes with slow precision.
Nine years ago. But still the memory thrills me:
All the wild sorrow and the yearning pain
Come back to wiring my quickened soul again,
And the same sense Of desolation fills me,
Whenever through the summer darkness sigh
ing
Some wandering wind has brought me sud-
denly
The scent of lilies. as it came to me
That night in August when my love lay dying
-Scribner's for August
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4 General Ds.aal.

On the 22d several of the deacons Of
Plymouth Church, with Mr.. Sherman,
Mr.. Ross and Gen Tracy, met at Mr..
Beecher's residence. and, after council
lasting about three hours, drew mp the
following statement Of Mr.. Beecher's for
publication:
/ do not propose ct this time . de-.
tailed examination of the remarkable
statement of Theodore Tlton, made be-
fofe the Committee " Investigation, and
which appeared in print July q, 1874. !
recognize the many reasons which make
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TH1 modern goluen rule 10 unto
others - they would d. yvu
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Seventy-One Years of Are.
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

CHARLEsTowN, Mass, March 19, 1859.
Mr.. II. 4. STEVENS:
aration" (VEGETINE) in my family for several years,
and think that for Scrofuar Cankcrous HumOrs or
Rheumatic afections it cannot he excecd; and as Q
blood purifier and spring medicine It is the best thing
have ever used and l have used almost everything
can chccrfully recommend 1t to any In need Of such
medicine. Yours respectfully,
MRS. A. A. DfNSMORE,
Tpv,sa I1c<ron
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Firm Of 8. NJ Pettingi1l Co., 10 State St., Boston.

vEGETINE extends its influence into every mart Of
the human organism. commencing with its fOunda-
powers, creating healthy formation and publication
Of the blood driving out disease, and leaving Nature
to nerfOrm its allotted task.
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To pick up anew the sorrows of the
last ten years, the stings and pains I had
daily schooled myself to bury and for
give, makes this imperative duty, as
called forth by the malicious statement
of my husband, the saddest act of my
life. Besides, my thought of following
the Master contradicts this act of my
pen, and sense of the pervesion of my
life faith almost compels me to stand
aside until God himself delivers; yet see
in this wantOn act an urgent call and
privilege, from which shrink not. To
reply in detail to the twenty-five articles
of arraignment I shall not attempt at
present, yet if called upon to testify to
each and all of them shall not hesitate to
do SO. Suffice it for my purpose now that l
reply to one or more of the most glaring
charges.
1. Touching the feigned sorrow Of my
husbands compulsory revelations l sol
emily avow that long before the Wood
hull publication / knew him by insinua-
ton and direct statement to have repeat
ed to my very near relatives and friends
the substance of these accusations which
shock the moral sense of the entire COM
munity this day. Many times when hear
ing that certain persons had spoken i'll of
him he has sent me to chide them for SO
doing, and then and there I learned he
had been before me with his calumnies
against myself, 80 that was speechless.
2. The reiterati0n in his statement that
he had persistently striven to hide these
so-called facts is utterly false, a. his
hatred to Mr.. Beecher has existed these
many years, and the determination to
ruin Mr.. Beecher has been the one aim Of
his life. Again, the perady with which
the hottest love wife ever offered has
been recklessly discovered in this pabli-
cation reaches well nigh to sacrilege,
and added to this the endeavor, like the
early scandal of Mrs. Woodruff, to
make my own words condemn me, has
no parallel; most conspicnously my let
ter quoting the reading Of Griffith
GannSn Had Mr.. Tlton read the pure
character Of Catherine he would have
seen that / lifted myself beside il q
near - any human may affect an ideal
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w please eay Y0u saw eA0 AdvoFesoe2eDt
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to me I was a party not a little con-
cerned. l then showed him card l had
made for publication. He respected the
motive, but still advised silence on my
part. yielded thus far as to not appear
in the public prints, but, counseling with
myself and no other, it occurred to me
that among the brethren of my own
communion I might be heard. Not
knowing of any church committee,
asked the privilege of such an interview
in the parlors of those who had always
been our mutual friends. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ovingtcn then learned for the first time
that the committee would meet that
night, and advised me to see these gen.
tlemen as perhaps the COOLEST persons I
could select. This I accordingly did.
There alone pleaded the cause of my
husband and my children, the result be-
ing that their hearts were moved in sym
pathy for my family, feeling their pas
tor had shared for years and for which
he was now suffering. On going home /
found my husband reading in bed.
told him where had been and that did
not conceal anything from him, as his
habit was from me. He asked who the
gentlemen were. He said no more, rose,
dressed himself, and babe me good-by
forever.
8. The midnight following l was awak-
ened by my husband standing by my bed
side. In very tender, kind voice he
said he wished to see me.
rose instantly, followed him to his
room and, sitting ON the bedside, he
drew me into his lap. "He was proud
of me, loved me so that nothing ever
gave him such real peace and satisfac-
ton as to hear me well spoken Of"
At that meeting, from member of
the committee, he had learned that he
had been mistaken as to my motive in
seeing the committee, and had FASTENED
to assure me that he had been thoroughly
wretched since his rash treatment of me
the night before, etc. Then and there we
cOvenanted sacredly our hearts and lives,
I most utterly renewing the trust in the
one human heart loved. The next day
how happy we were. Theodore wrote q
statement to present to the committee
when they should call upon him, to all
Of which heartily acceded. This docu-
ment, God knows, was . true history of
this affair, completely indicating my
honor and the honor Of my pastor. In
the afternoon he left me to show It to his
friends. He returned home early in the
evening, passing the happiest hours l
there was NO rest for him away from me.
So in grateful love to the dear Father
slept. Oil that the end had then come;
| / would mot then have received the cruel
blow (which made . woman mad out
right"
J The next n,ornins hs called upon Mr..
, 1874-05-30
NEW YORK.

Am AppcAl from LUNtsinnu.-Tho 1dct.
men Vote to Suspend the Police .Doln-
miSsioncrs-..Comptr Green's
Enctntca-.ChieR Justice Davis and
the Tweed Case.
NEW YonH, k1ay 20.-MAyor Wi1tZ, Of New Or
leanH. taa addressed another urgent appeal for
MD to Mayor Havemoyer, in which Ao says !
Will Now York como to tho rescue Of our dos
titut,e, rnined. famishing people 4 deadly ,i
famino IN Louisiana would DO . national aiH, :;
grace which tho wealth md philanthropy a. Of
America must prevent at all hazarda." Comment
Ing on this dispatch, tho New York TIMES nays !:
Ii Mayor Wilta desires aid from TINS c1sy 10
should addresa tho Chamber Of Commerce, or
anybody hut Hayemeyer.' That indivialial mas
sunk SO low In public estimation that noboay ls
willing to trust him In anything"
THE POLICE CouMlBaIoHEI6.
The Board OF Aldermen, by a deoisive Voto'
having roauestet the Mayor to Guspotiu ana r.
move tho Police Commissioners tor taaltcasai'co
in tho ADMINISTRATION OF two OF tho most iH-
Variant departments Of their Office, the 1tion'!o
states that tho Police CommHsionofa conipia-
gently assert that tho assault upon thcna III the
msront Guilds ptav, inRBinucEl ~ the Mayor IL
thair sworn ally. Tho Herald saya OF this police
business "1'he Mayor Is not likely to hoel the
voice Of the CITY ~ oxprossod through the Com
mon, Council. Ills personal interests ara too
much identified with dumping and election IT.
rogulariteA to render It probable thatha mill ray
INV attention to the Alt0rmen,
c0MrrNoLlEA nREEH.
Commissioner WalaH. III published letter thia
, 1874-05-30

morning, has resigned from tho Depart mont y,
Parks, constrained to do 80, ho aays, owing to to
tho moddosomo dlspoBition Of Comptroller
Groom, of whom ho writes that ut would ro-
donud to his credit II, wlllo paying strict attcn
ton to his own duties, which arc ardrons
enough to. take all his time md capacity, ho
wonld cease to intormoddlo with tho officers Of
otlor municipal departmentH and stop tho prao-
t'co OF coverly undermining tho Official cllarao-
sor aud capacity Of thoAo wto aro, equally with
himself, Responsible to public Judgment.
= THE EMIGRATION coalM1TTEE =.
.i3 auothor illustration Of tho diejonted con-
dillon Of tho local government. Two OF the
oom1mi4sslonera mn arc m Europo and the minority
Iol me Board, to mako their expouao felt by tho
majority, romatn away from tho meetings. th,ts
preventing Quorum aud bringing busiuess to .
TIE TWEED 0AsE AGAIN. ...
Iho s1promo Court, general term, rendered q
decision thls afternoon denying the motion for
q ,mandem1B to compel Ohof Justice Davis to
s'gn q eill OF exceptions tnkon on tue tria1 OF
Wllliam M. Twoed.
, 1874-05-30

Honbcas Corpus Hearing Postponed
Temporary injunction Granted.
Special Dispatch 70 I'he Chicago Tribune.
MILWAUKEE, May 20.-In tho habeas corpus
case to decide the Jurisdiction Of the Soldiers
Home and the State authoritles, respectively, as
to otfenses committed within tho Home, the ar
gumont before Chief-JuBtico Dixou, at Madison,
Is postponed until next Tuesday. ,...
In tho United States Circuit Court to-day,
temporary inlunotion way granted restraining
Ooonto County, hold by James h;
Wiuslow and Squire 4. Tyler. 1ho land
was coded by tho United States to Tho State Tor
tue purpose Of constructing military road from
Fort Howard to q point in Michigan, and by the
State deodod to tho plaintiffs. wt1o built the
road tho Btato Legislature in 1897, also exempt
iug said lands from taxation tll 1878. But, ia
lsGs, tic Legislature repealed tho Exemption
bll, and, under the ,enoaling oct, tho Board Of
superyisors assessed aud sold tho laud for taxes.
Tho constitutional right OF tho Legislature to
repeal tho cxompting act is tho question at
fHENp.
, 1874-05-30

.NOTE.PRTNTINa.

WARRINGTON, D. O., May ,2o.-Iho :Commltteo
on Banking and ourronoy to-day resumed CON
sidoration Of the note-prtnsing question. Soma:
tor Boutwell, being examined, said thoro should
never DO change OF plates 80 long aa tho notes
printed from them could not be- successfully
counterfelted. Asststant-6acretary Sawyer and
McCarteo were proaont to answer questions
propohnded relative to tho cont Of
printing. Counsel OF the Now York Bank Noto
Printing Company 'propounded sundry intorrog-
atiyes, especially regarding what they called
irreconoillable discrepancies u the cost OF print
ing certain kinds Of fractional currency as rated
In MoCartaoe schedule. This was answered on
bchalf Of the Printing Bureau, by tho statement
that somo OF tho 30 cont notes wero printed at
1cas price, by a secret proceaS, which wna ex-
planned to tho uommittce In secret session.
, 1874-05-30

oF0o7"s 080p"ee7s 10 TT" 07sFs"H0 1FsoH'sts
WARRINGTON, D. G., May 20.--Mr. Butler, of
Massachusetts, reported from the Judiciary
committee to-day plll 70 remit the claim OF
George Ohorpenniug to the Court Of Claims.
THE f.orn,tfaa In THAR rorort asv that thov
, uo oe".oo' ~ Nv" .otutSt ~ sn"' Wy
laYe had the memorial OF ChorpennlnR under
consideration, aud made tho fullest investiga-
~. r.. ..t.t,..,. ..5 III s,1...., 49,. T..
tlon' Ihe pe.nloneE ana ms counsel Mese I pe.
fore the Commlttoe and they profeasod entire
Willingness to abandon any part or the Claim
which might ammo nr to bo tainted with fraud,