The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-12

extenuating circumstances, demurred to
the sentence because capital punishment
had been abolished in France for nolitical
offenses, and he had killed his wife and
child Tor no other reason but because thew
were Legitimists.
President Roberts. of Liberia. saws
that the trade and mercantile marine If
that Republic are increasing at a rate
scarcely credible. An English COMPANY
proposes to lay cable from Cane Paimas.
Liberia, to st. Vincent, Cape de Verde
Islands, thence to Lisbon, and from Lis
bon to New York.
| An old man of seventy. four WAS re-.
Gently arrested by the Paris police as a
vagabond; he had sought NIGHTS lodp.
ing in an empty omnibus at the stables Of
the company. On being taken to the
station he turned out to be a nephew of
Danton, the notorious tribune of the
Great Revolution.
Mr.. A. d. Piper, of Boston, who has
been exploring the Amazon River and
the Purus, branch of the Amazon, re-
ports that the Indians of the region are
peaceable and cultivate little farms.
Cacao grows wild and in great album.
dance. Arrangements have been made
for a settlement on the Aquiry, in Bolivia.
In work on the phosphate deposits
OF Russia, Alexis Yermoloff remarks :
We do not think that we exaggerate when
we say that Central Russia reposes on
phosphate of lime, with which she is able
to pave half of Europe. The area of this
deposit, between the Dnieper and Volga
Rivers alone, is estimated at fifty millions
of acres.
Two of the edible dogs of China are
now on exhibition at the Geological Gar
dens in Paris. If it be found easy to &C.
climatize them, 1t Is proposed to intro.
duce this new article of food. The dogs
in question are small and hairless and
enormously fat. They are fed solely on
vegetable food, regimen which imparts
rare delicacy to their flesh.
"A very ingenious system of bank
ROBBERY has been discovered at Copen-
hagen. One of the tellers of the Ma.
tional Bank of that CITY who was sneciai.
~ charged with the counting and check.
ing of the old notes which we're to be de-
stroyed, managed by a clever manipula-
ton to tear out piece of each note in
such manner that out of the fragments
OF about ten notes he made a whole one
by cumming the pieces together. These
notes he placed between the others, alb
stractlng genuine note for the false one
substituted. The fraud was discovered
by accident, and the teller was arrested.
Industrial.
"A new alpaca mill is about to be
built in Northampton, Mass.
NORTH Carolina claims that she has
lnexhaustible stores of iron ore.
Nearly all the cotton mills of New
England are running on full time.
- The town of Boothbay, in Maine, re-
Gently exempted from taxation for ten
years bone company which has decided
to establish works there.
"A New Haven woman has invented a
compartment pot, in which corned beef,
fresh Goldfish, potatoes and plum pudding
can all be boiled at the same time.
Mr.: Hanson Ordway, of West New.
bury, Mass, raised one hundred and
eishtyeight barrels of onions last season
on seven-eighths of an acre, which he
sold in Newburyport for $1,000.
Screws of all ordinary sizes are now
made in England by rolling bars of heated
iron between two peculiarly grooved
plates. Two boys with one machine are
are able to make Twenty-Five cwt. of fish
bolts for railways, by this process, in
nine hours.
| we are soon to have a new fabric
which will probably rival cotton cloth az
an industry. 1t is chicken down, thus fal
prepared by hand, but waiting for the
machinery, which is sure to be invented
1t is estimated that the feathers of an or
dinary-sized pullet are worth, for this
purpose, in the Paris markets, abou
twenty cents. A pound and a half Of
down is required for square yard of ma
terlal.-Ece'y Saturday.
| Samuel w. Porter, Master Mechanic
at the Springfield Armory, has Just re
ceived the diploma and medal awarded
him by the Vienna Exposition for excel
lency in his department. The medal il
silver, half an inch thick and three inches
across, inscribed on one side with Mr.
Porter's name and the date of award, anG
on the reverse two figures, one represent
ing agriculture and the other art. Mr.
Porter is one Of the five residents Of
the United States thus honored.
1t is gratifying to learn that the saw
ings banks in New York are receiving
largely. increased deposits from persons
OF small means. This looks as if the hare
times had spent their force, and, although
there is doubtless good deal of destitu
ton, these evidences of frugality anG
thrift among the laboring classes are Ger
tainly encouraging. 1t will be we'll if tn.
experiences of this winter are turned tC
account in greater economy and provi
dence among those classes who are il
especial need of them.
MiScallaun0us