The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents,

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.
"A slide of logs recently occurred at
Ridgeway, Pa, and two of the lumber.
men were killed.
AT Rutledge, Ca, lately, N. NJ. Wood
poisoned three of his children and then
shot himself His wife had deserted him,
David Matthews, q skilled mechanic
of Dayton, Ohio, had his leg recently
torn off by paper machinery, at Miamis-
burg, Ohio.
The boiler in the gristmill of Reat &
Co., Louisville, KY, recently exploded,
killing the engineer and dangerously
wounding his assistant. The boiler was
forced through the end of the building
into the middle of the street, and the
structure was subsequently burned to the
ground.
"A fire was started recently by an un-
known man under the second story stairs
in public school house No. 10, in Roches-
ter, N. Y. The flames were discov.
cred in time to permit of their suppress.
sion before any damage was done. Three
hundred children in the upper rooms
would have been cut off from escape, ex-
cept by the windows, if the flames had
progressed far.
"A man and wife in Penobscot. Me-.
died suddenly after eating a dinner of
vegetables boiled in a kettle The pan
which covered the kettle had been used
in mixing meal and arsenic for crows.
and had not been so thoroughly cleansed
but that a deadly quantity of the poison
was dislodged by the steam.
Religious and Educational.
Bishop Whipple, at a late missionary
meeting, made good point when he said:
=" If a man has grasped Christ with one
hand, he will be sure to extend the other
to his fellow-man."
The revival columns of the Central
Adoocate of st. Louis and the Northeastern
Adu0c0te IF Chicago show numerous and
powerful revivals in various parts of the
West and Northwest.
Rev. Mr.. McFadden, the seeding
Episcopalian of Littleton, COL, has peace.
ably given up possession of his church,
and has gone to work in earnest to build
up new one on the Bishop Cummins
platform.
The Roman Catholic churches of Bos.
ton, under the direction of the Paulist
Fathers, have made combined attack on
rum-drinking, rum-selling and other vices,
with the hope of rescuing the young from
the temptations that beset them.
The Catholic Telegraph says as it is
more than probable that the Company of
Jesus will be robbed by the Mexican Lib
erals and expelled from the country, they
are making provision for settlement in
Texas. Father Artola, the Provincial of
Mexico, has already chosen sites for three
colleges.
The Eastern argus of Maine thinks
that it would be we'll to let the Reform
School be for the detention and training
of only those larger and more vicious boys
who could not be well managed outside
OF such an institution, while all the others
should be apprenticed to good men, farm
ers and mechanics, in the rural districts
as soon as may be after committal.
On the subject of short or long pas
torates, Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage says that
there are many ministers who go away
from their settlements before they ought,
but there are quite as many who do not
go soon enough. He has heard many
ministers boast of being thirty years in
one pastorate, though all the world knew
they had been twenty-nine years too long.
The Massachusetts, State Board of
Education reports that the plan of having
Superintendent of Schools has every
where proved successful, and urges that
it should be more generally adopted. The
report gives the number of children in the
State between five and fifteen years of age
as 2S7, 600; average attendance in public
schools, 2O2, 1892, or 1907 per cent. of the
whole. There are 5,305 public schools in
the State; 1923 male teachers, with an
average salary of $9s.65 per month; Z, 421
female teachers, with an average salary OF
1874. IA per month; 2,516 pupils under five
years of age attend the public schools OF
the State, and 23,9O5 pupils are over the
age of fifteen years. There are 1914 high
schools in the State, II incorporated acad
emies, with an average number of 1873
pupils, and 4O2 unincorporated academies
and private schools, with an average OF
IA, 428 scholars.