The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-06-04

Pittsburgh Is supplying British
America, Nova Scotia and the Canadas
with manufactured iron; 346, 900 tons of
ore we're reduced in that city in 1878.
1t Is stated that the Connecticut to- |
bacco crop is almost wholly unsold, and |
market gardening and trawnerry. raising |
may yet supersede tobacco culture there.
One year ago last February there
had been thirty.two Oranges of the Pat
rons of Husbandry organized in Indiana.
On the 18th of April Rose Hill Grange
was organized as No. 1880.
N. T., 1t 10 reported, which employ 800
suspension of work or q great reduction
in the hours of labor in few weeks.
The ruling prices for all the ordinary
ket have not been such for q couple of
months past as to have very reassuring
effect on the nerves or pockets of planters.
"A New York fruit grower says:
" Down-easters are looking to Michigan as
their future main source of supply for
apples. Western New York apples are
good enough but there is not enough of
them"
The deplorable accident on Mill
River, Mass, threw out of employment
1900 or 5000 people. Around the reser-
voir destroyed was clustered half dozen
of thrifty manufacturing towns, q perfect
beehive of New England industries.
The N ooh~so%to Aru1nvoS ucnnso
ton having become convinced from the
result of their investigations that smelt
during the spawning season arc not
healthy food, since they then are full of
parasites, have procured the passage of q
law to prevent taking them at that time.
I'm the vicinity of Pittsburgh there are
seventy-four glass-bouses, most of them
being situated on the south side; AZ
per cent. of the glass manufactured
in the United States is made in Pitts
burgh, the south side contributing about
80 per cent. of this amount. The
most of the window works are yet idle.
The blowers are still on strike against
reduction.
| Personal and Literary.
Fowler, the phrenologist, recently
purchased large tract of land at San
Diego.
Marx Twain's new house in Hartford,
to be finished in July, will cost him $780,
600.
-McVicker, the successful actor and
manager, was the first newsbOy who ever
sold papers in st. Louis.
Burnside has a first-rate name with
which to inaugurate the cremation move
ment.
Stanley has been recognized by one
| of LivingstOne's attendants, and the au.
thenticity of his " discovery" is settled.
Laura Fair is said to make model
housekeeper, and her husband is one of
the happiest men in California.
| The Detroit Free Press claims for that
city the distinction of being the only city
in the country where Nilsson doesn't own
corner lot.
Mr.. Bancroft, our representative in
Berlin, is said to speak German better
than English. His secretaries speak only
pigeon English.
Sarah Alexander Young lis about to
follow Ann Eliza in her efforts for the
overthrow of Mormonism, and soon the
bell will Ego ringing for Sairey."
The Congregationalist says the dying
request of the late Judge Evans, who,
while living was a noted Spiritualist, was
to be buried from Christian church by q
Christian minister.
Pauline Lucca says the chief good
fortune she has had in this country con.
sists IN getting an excellent husband for a
very poor one, which compensates, no
doubt, for great deal of ill-luck.
Gen. N. B. Forrest, having abandoned
his railroad presidency, has gone into
partnership with the former city Treas
uler of Memphis in the business of haul.
ing firewood into that city. Each part
ner will drive a "spike team" of three
mules each, and they mean to "bear" the
market on wood.
| - Mary Clemmer Ames writes
Charles sumner lived and died . moral
hero to women. Such men appeal to the
element of worship which lives ever in
the unperverted woman. Few approached
sufficiently near to discover any human
blemish which might mar the grand pro-
portions of their god. To their eyes he
fulfilled in person the ideal of greatness,
intellectual and moral"
"A correspondent notices that James
Gordon Bennett is bachelor who will
soon be forty; that Whitelaw Reid is a
solitary bachelor about forty that Manton
Marble is solitary widower of forty; that
Hurlbut, also of the World, is bachelor
under fifty; that Bundy, of the Mail, is a
bachelor over forty, and that Congdon, of
the Tribune, is a widower over fifty.
"A Wyoming paper thought it shrewd
dodge to announce that its charges for
marriage notices would be "just what the
ecstacy of the bridegroom might prompt"
This worked splendidly with those who
paid cash at the time, but when they came
to settle whose notices had been inserted
on credit the amounts ran discOuragingly
below the regular rates, and, as about
nine-tenths were on credit, that paper has
changed its tactics.
| Foreign Gossip.
The Car intimates that he arrested
young Nick because he was playing old
Nick generally.
"A Paris shopkeeper displays this
sign: "The man with the fork! The
one that he swallowed was purchased
herev'
| There is no abatement of the famine
in Anatolia, Turkey. Reports from all
sections of that country are of the most
doleful character, many persons having
starved to death.
The season has set in with unusual
heat all over Europe. In Paris and Lon
don the weather at the end of April was
hotter than it usually is in July. There
had been a case of cholera reported in
Paris, but the rate of mortality was not
unusually high.
There were some good fashions in the
old times. When Louis XI. wanted to
borrow book from the medical faculty
| of Doria in 1A71 ho vras renniro6 tn do.