The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-24
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two families in Stewart County whose
lives were saved by gentleman obey
ing presentiment he could not resist
He had foreboding that storm would
visit that section, and that his house
would be in its path. He told others of
it, but they only laughed at him, saving
he was frightened from reading and hear
ing the accounts Of the late cyclone. He
gave credence to the thong ht, which
would not go down at the bidding, and
dug hole near the house. He had no
sooner finished it than the storm did
come, and barely had he and his family
sought refuge therein than the tornado
tore his house to pieces. All in the hole
in the ground escaped.
Some time ago Swede came to this
city direct from his native country, but,
from the fact that he knew nothing of
our language and could not make him
self understood, his efforts to secure
work were unsuccessful. Finally, as
last resort, he went to Fort Leavenworth
and enlisted in the regular army. One
day, shortly after the arrival of the In
dian prisoners here, he strolled around to
the guard-house in which they were con-
lined, and, overhearing some of the con-
versation going on between the Chey~
ennes, was struck with the similarity be-
tween their language and his cwn. He
entered the cell and began to talk with
several, and found that he could, by
talking to them in his mother ton que,
make them understand. This fact com
ing to the ears of Gen. Pope, that gen.
tleman has sent on to Washington,
recommending that the Swcde he sent to
St. Augustine, Fla, where the Indians
are at present confined, to act as inter-
prcter-LeavenaoorM (Kan) Times.
Rudolph Bourman, a young Swiss,
arrived in this city last Thursday night,
1876 days from New Jersey, having
walked the entire distance. Bourma1
left New Jersey on the 18th Of January,
| without a cent in his pocket, determined
to reach San Francisco without cost to
himself. He walked from the starting
point to Philadelphia, thence to Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, st. Louis, and thence
! along the line of the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific Railroads until he arrived
here. He obtained food by asking for it
from men in the section houses along the
line OF the railroad, and almost every
place he stopped at he was kindly
| treated, and was furnished with some
thing to cat and a place to sleep. lie
says that the Chinese laborers on the line
of the Central Pacific were more hospita-
| bic than the whites on the Union Pacific.
On one occasion, while crossing the
alkali desert, he was stopped by six In
dams, who searched him for valuables,
but finding that he did not have anything
on his person left him to perform his
| journey alone. Bourman, who is COM
positor, came here in search of employ
ment.-Son Francisco CaM.
"A singular illustration of the paraliz-
ing effect of the imagination under some
circumstances was recently afforded at
Allentown, Pa: A bright boy of eleven
years was engaged in watching some
cattle in a field, and killed time by
swinging with rope from the branch of
a tree. His brother, also small boy,
was near him. All at once the boy with
the rope dropped with his entire weight
upon the rope, but with his knees al
most touching the ground. The brother,
very much alarmed, at once ran for as.
sistance, but before aid came the swing
ing boy was dead. The rope was cut,
when the loop fell from the victims neck,
indicating the fact that there had been
no knot, and that the looping was but an
accident. The boy, imagining himself
beyond ill self-preservation, had become
so frightened as not to stand upon his
feet, as he might have done, but had
fallen forward, and so stranglcd. A more
striking Illustration of the remarkable
influence over eason sometimes obtained
by the imagination could scarcely be
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