The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-06-11

Harris, which yields Z, 900 lemons snnu.
ally. 1t was supposed that Florida vas
not adapted to the growth of lemons: but
that fiction has been exploded. TIE
lemon grated on the sour orange makea
superb fruit.
Our advices from Ill parts OF the
country are that the farmers of Nebraska
nave put IN an immense area of wheat
ana good supply of other small grain
s1ls spring, but have universally neglect
g % Keep up the average proportion of
The manufacturers of fancy carriages
and other luxurious vehicles throughout
the country report dull and depressed
market, and many Of the leading dealers
and manufactures In the East and West
have large stock that they win be com.
PEELED to carry until the country revives
from last falls panic.
Says the New York Heald =" A New
England newspaper informs US that the
recent inquiries into the condition of the
cotton mills In some parts of Massachu.
sets show wonderful prosperity. Divi.
dends of 40 per cent are declared. stock
multiplied ten times in value, and the
stock of bank doing their business has
quadrupled in ten years. And vet with
ell this prosperity we have disasters like
this OF Williamsburg, arising simply
from the avarice and cupidity of these
owners, who revel in purple and fine
linen"
The late Manchester IN. ny print
works had remarkable career of good
luck until struck by Jay Cookies panic.
The corporation made its first account in
1S47, and had been almost the only one
that competed successfully with foreign
manufacturers of the class of goods it pro.
duced-woclen and cotton prints of the
class called delaines. Between 1847 and
1868 the net earnings were $6,O73 8I9,
while 24 per cent, amounting to g, $685.
OO0, was paid out in dividends to stock.
holders, though the entire works have
once been burned and one.half of one
mill has been destroyed twice during that
period. An original stakeholder who
sold his stock in 1866 would have re-
ceived back his first investment and zoe
per cent. thereon. The works have cost
%, $50, 700; there are about twenty acres
of flooring in them, and they are capable
of employing 5000 hands. They are in
sured for 81, $50 600.
"A very considerable business is now
carried ON in the conversion of the va.
rious refuse matters discarded by tanners
and curriers', and known as paste round.
ings, shoulder splits and skivings," into
heels and soles for all kinds of boots and
shoes. These seemingly worthless ma
ferials are cleaned, damped, cut by dies,
pasted into molds, compressed in q pow
erfnl press and dried, and the refuse of
this business is, in its turn, passed over
to the manufacturer of what is known as
leather. board. This smooth, hard,
leather. hued fabric il largely used in the
heels, inner soles, and for the inner stiff.
ening of heels and box.toes, some twenty
mills being engaged in its manufacture,
turning out from one to i've tons daily.
About one.third of leather with varying
proportions of canvas, old rope, straw
and other "hard stock'' is used in its COM
position. It is manufactured like straw
board, which is itself extensively and sim.
ilarly used, especially in cheap slippers
and children's shoes.
Religious and Educational.
Yale Theological Seminary pradu.
ated twenty. -four ministers this year, and
Union thirty -four, one of them q colored
man.
Seventeen missionaries belonging to
the Presbyterian WOmen's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society are laboring in foreign
lands.
"A national gathering of Dunkards
was recently held at Girsrd, Ill. Over
5000 persons were in attendance.
The number of additions to the Re-
formed Church in the United States since
the opening Of the year amounts to
of the twelve Roman Catholic Bish.
ops of Germany four are now in prison
for disobedience of the ecclesiastical
laws.
About fifty families and nearly the
entire Sunday school of Rev. Mr.. Sabine's
church, New York, have accompanied
him into the Reformed Episcopal Church.
Tax. payers in Atlanta, Ga, wish to
abolish their two high-schools, on the
ground that the expense is considerably
higher than the education afforded
:, Inc W0tcnmGn ana HeTect0r remarks:
No matter how many kind things q
church may say of its retiring pastor;
but don't print them unless he Is particu-
larly weak, and may need some lifting"
The French Academy of Inscriptions
mas couple OF army officers in Palestine
who have made map of Galilee. An
other party is at work investigating Tyre,
mainly with reference to the time of the
0luseues'
the Js'etsh World records the com
plete dissolution Vt the Jewish congrega-.
lion in the city Of Rome. and says that the
eynagogues are seldom vicited, while there
y an entlre apa1ny as 10 schools ana
cnulcn organlzatlon. .."'"
The Rev. Nsryan Shesh adri pro-
poses to establish q model Christian viii
lage in India, to be called Bethel, and
which will have well.ventilated houses,
church, manse, industrial schools, etc.
1t will cost about $50, 600. .,I .g
The Con0rsontsoanl O,.nrtsrl. for nr;l