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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

The work of recovering the bodies
from the swarthead, Eng, cclliery is still pro-
crossing. The number of fatalities lis now put
down at l3O The entire district isstill greatly
excited, and it will be some days yet before
the number OF dead can be exactly ascertalned,
a fall OF portion of the root having occurred
which obstructs the work of the explorers.
A New York despatch says the cor
responding Secretary Of the Sunday School
Union and the Tract Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Published card to-day
in relation to the remarks made in the Boston
preachers meeting, Monday morning by Bish-
op Gilbert Haven. The Secretary says
the representatives of the Sunday
School Union and Of the Tract Society present
at the preachers meeting had nothing whatev-
er to do with the invitation to the Bishop
or the sentiments he advanced, and only voted
to welcome him. The societies are devoted
entirely to the christian work for
which they were organized and have not as
such the slightest interest in the platform or
candidates Of political parties.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
Babc0ck Court Martial.

The Babcock court Of inquiry met in Chica-
90 on the 10th inst, when Gen. Hancock i'm
mediately arose and read the following:
"a sense Of duty to the laws If the military
service and to the accused implies me
to ask your concurrence in q
postponement of this Inquiry for the present
We are all bound to believe in the entire in
nocence of Col. Babcock, and this presumption
cannot be repealed without clear evidence. 1t
is due to him to suppose that this court
of inquiry was asked in good faith for reasons
given. What were those reasons In the
course of the legal trials at ST.. Louis Colonel
Babcock was alleged to be guilty Of a high
criminal offense. He asked for hearing in
the same court. but was informed that he
could not have it, because the evidence was
closed. Those circumstances led him to de-
mand court of inquiry as the only means OF
vindication that was left. Since then
he has been formally indicted and he is now
sure Of getting that full and fair
trial before, an impartial jury which
the laws OF the country guarantee
to all its citizens. The supposed necessity for
converting militar court for determination of
PTS guilt or Innocence no longer exists. It is
believed our action as military
tribunal cannot GUST the jurisdiction of the
court while the indictment is pending. The
PRESIDENT has said through the attorney Gen.
erai, that such was not the intention. Then
the trial at st. Louis and this inquiry must 20
on at the same time unlessw we await the result
of the inquiry there.
The difficulties are very formidable. The
accused must be present at the trial of the in
dlctment. Shall we proceed and hear the
cause behind his back or shall we vex him
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
Escape of Boss Tweed.

VIM. NJ. Tweed escaped from the ward.
en- of Ludlow strret JILL, on Saturday, the
9Th, while making customary visit to
the house of Tweed's son.in.law, Mr.,
Douglas, ON Madison avenue, where
Tweed's wife resided. Tweed asked per.
mission to 60 up stairs to see his wife,
which was granted. Tweed staid1 up
about fifteen minutes when he (Dunham)
becoming uneasy at his prolonged alb.
seuce, sent Tweed's son after him. He
soon returned and said, Father is not
there" The warden then rushed to the
front door and looked up and down the
street, but saw no, person resembling
Tweed. Tweed had taken his hat with
him, but had left his overcoat in ,a the
hall. - ,~,. F., So .
Hagan,. the assistant jailor, said he
saw Tweed 80 up three or four steps OF
the stairs, but is not certain that he went
up the full fight. The house was
searched from top to bottom, but no trace
of the fugitive was found. Tweed's : son
was in a very excited condition when he
learned of his fathers escape. He pulled
his hair and exclaimed he was ruined, as
did also IMr. Douglass, the son.in.law'
Warden Dundam admits having taken
Tweed Quito drivers three or four
times while he was in his custody, as
Tweed was complaining of terrible head.
aches. The bonds given by the sheriff
for the proper performance of his duties
are for $4,000, and those Of Warden
Durham $4,000. &C.,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

IT appears that there arc four thou
sand more male than female idiots proper
in the United States. This shows how
the women are ground down in this
country. With their weaker minds they
are not even allowed their full proper
ton of representation in our insane
asylrms. With little more exertion on
the part of the most radical of the suffra.
gists, it is possible this discrepancy will
be removed.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
Foundation for a Romance.

The West Point passenger train, yes.
terday evening, brought in beautiful
girl, four or five years of age. who knew
nothing about her destination She was
placed under the charge of a lady at
Montgomery, Ala, by man. He came
on board and asked if there was any one
going to Augusta. Upon lady respond
ing that she was, he asked her if she
would take charge of little girl to Au-
gusta, and then put her under the charge
Of the conductor of the train there. She
said she would, if he would see the con-
ductor about it. The man was stran.
ger to the lady, and left the train with.
out giving her any money to pay the
child's fare or supply her with food.
The child had a slip of paper upon
which was written, "Place Emma Doug
lass in charge of the conductor of the
sleeping car to Augusta, and tell him to
put her under the care of the conductor
on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta
railroad to Pine House, where she will
be met by Mrs. Lucy R. Strother.'' Con-
ductOr James W.: Bell, upon his arrival
here, took the child home with him, until
he could find out more about her.
It is somewhat singular that child of
her tender years should be put on a
train, without money, to travel long
distance. 1t is true that no conductor
would put her off the train, or see her
suffer for want Of food, but it is some
thing unusual to ship the little cherub
Alone
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
PERSONAL MATTERS.

John A. Smith, ex.member OF Congress
from Ohio, has been appointed Commissioner
Of Indian affairs, vice Rev. E. P. Smith.
J. W. Truman, editor of the Pittston,
Pa, Comet, has been sentenced to pay fine
Of $50 and seven months Imprisonment in the
county Jail for libel upon J. B. Henry.
Gen. Babcock left Washington for CHI.
cago on the 7th to appear before the court of
inquiry appointed to investigate the charges
made against him of connection with the whis-
ky frauds.
Louis Rindskopf, who had been in Jail
a week for refusing to answer as to whether he
had paid money to J. Conklin, revenue agent,
in consideration of his failing to report whisky
frauds, purged himself of the contempt on
the 10th by answering the question. His ex-
animation lasted two hours. The nature OF
his testimony is withheld.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
Sending Sixteen Messages ON a Sinelc
WIRE at the Same Time.

fE"A16 ~ Su0 same 11mes
From the Journal of the Telegraph.)
During the past"two weeks, Mr.. Elisha"
Cray, Of Chicago, Ill.,, has been. exhibit.
ing his Electro Harmonic apparatus in
the Western Union building, in this city.
More than year since we published an
article descriptive Of this curious dis
covery, so far as it had been developed at
that time. Since then Mr.. Gray has de:
voted the greater part Of his time to the
perfection of the apparatus, and has al
ready succeededia producing some very
remarkable results. Mr.. Gray's earlier
experiments disclosed tho fact
that composite tones were as
easily y traDsmitted~>s~o over ., q 49, wire
as single notes, and from this dis
covery he developed system of multiple
transmission, founded on this principle.
The apparatus was tested experimentally
on wire between Boston and New York,
on last Saturday with very satisfactory
results. Four separate communications
were simultaneously. transmitted from
Boston and copied from four saunders by
like number of receiving operators in
New York. In the main the signals were
perfectly received on all the instruments,
the only apparent defect being tendency
to shorten them somewhat, a difficulty
which can doubtless be overcome by q
suitable modification of the transmitting
apparatus.
The principle of the apparatus is very
simple one. The depression Of each key
sets self-vibrating electrotome in opera.
ton, which is adjusted or tuned to vibrate
at certain rate, differing from that of
any Of the others, when under the intlu.
ence of the electromagnetic controlled by
its corresponding key. These several
sets o. electrical vibrations are transmit
ted through the circuit without interfer.
ring with each other. in the same manner
that almost any number Of different sets
of sound waves may pass through the air
without mingling. At the receiving sta.
tons. each instrument is so adjusted as
to respond to its own special sets of waves
or vibrations without regard to others.
By breaking and closing the circuit upon
the transmitting electrotome, so as to
form telegraphic signals; these are trans.
mitted and taken up by the correspond
ing receiving apparatus.
It is not easy to fix limit to the num-
Der Of different communications that may
5e carried on over the same wire stimuli.
taneously, either in the same or opposite
directions. The marked success which
attended the operation of the principle
through two hundred and forty miles of
line, on Saturday,, seems to promise re-.
suits in the future Of the greatest value.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
THE NEWS RECORD,
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

Near Dixon, ILL.,, man named Wathill
having bargained with his sons that they
should clear piece Of timber land, quarreled
with them on the 9th, as to whether the
agreement required removal of the stumps and
roots, and in fit of rage pulled out his pocket
knife and stabbed his oldest son 70 the heart.
He was arrested and is held for trial for MUIR
der.
Frank Ulrech, merchant in gooi
standing at Pottsville Pa, has been arrested
on suspicion of being connected with the
Molly Mcguire murders ct Chas. O'Donnell,
and McAllister and sister, at that place on the
night Of the 9th. 1t is said the murders
grew out of previous shooting affair, of
which tue O'Donnells were in possession of
damaging evidence.
Cincinnati solid men are shaken by the
disappearance of Charles E. Cist, a middle
aged, respectable and much-trusted lawyer,
who he's pncketed some $4,000 Of money en-
trusted to him by different clients. He has
handled millions OF dollars and bore such a
good reputation that his clients did not i'm
agine it to tie requisite they should know
what he was doing with their money.
On the 7th inst. an old feud between
J. F. Harden and William II. Phelps of Car
thage, No., was ended by Harden going into
the District Court room, the court being in
session, and opening fire On Phelps, VINO was
unarmed and begged for his lite. Before the
sheriff and bystanders could sieze and dlsarm
Harden, he had fired three balls into Phelps
body, each of which inflicted a mortal wound
In November, 1871, Maria Louise Riley
mysteriously disappeared while returning
from Salem county, Indiana, to her home in
Albion, Mich. Her husband, Major Selall
Riley secured divorce and married another
woman in 1874, soon after which he was arrest
ed OIL suspicion OF having murdered his frs
wife, but was discharged. Her relatives still
offered reward of 81, 900 for discovery of he1
fate.
In the crooked whisky trial Of Burbach
and Reynolds at Milwaukee on the 9Th, ex.
gauger w. H. Roddis, who had turned States
evidence, testified he did so on the promise Of
U. s. District Attorney McKenny that the
criminal prosecutions pending against him
should be discontinued. He also testified that
he had wilfully made false afidavits, TOR which
partleS naO pa1d MN So,UOU, OUT dld not 1ur-
nish the names Of the parties paying the
money.
The latest telegraphic dispatches from
Mahoney City and Gilbert state that there
is much excitement in those places in conse-
quence of three murders committed at 8
o'clock this morning by masked men. They
entered the house of Chas. O'Donnell, and
Selling and binding him, carried him
back Of the house, where he was
shot dead. A man named McAllistel
was also taken from his house and shot, and 8
sister OF McAllister's was also murdered. The
1nurderers are supposed to be Molly Maguires
but no reason is given by the people in the
neighborhood for the bloody deeds.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
Pluck and patience are . strong firm in
transacting the daily business Of life. =
Never Saw Anyahfnx Like 1T.

, The rush. for the beautiful and useful
goods which are being slaughtered at the
great closing out sale. .of D. D. Merrill
Allen & Co. at St. Paul, is perfectly as
tonishing. We advise our patrons to 60 or
send and get some of them quick. Xmas
is coming.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

The application for space at the Gen.
tennial Exposition are so numerous that
the Commissioners must decline all furth.
er petitions for ground or even shelf
room. There is three times as much ma
chinery entered as the allotted space will
contain. This looks like ''big'' exhibi-
ton, indeed.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

HENRY WILSON was believer in spirit.
uallsm, and it is said received a spirit
warning of his approaching death, from
the spirit Of his departed wife.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

. CONGRESS has already commenced it's
tussle with the leeches. Over two hum
dred million of dollars was asked for in
the first two days of the session. The
Centennial commissioners want only
million and half.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

TH1RTY'N1NE per cent of the population
of Michigan are married people, and of
the remainder there are over 10000 more
males than females. If so disposed the
surplus women of Massachusetts, could
materially reduce this discrepancy.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

A PROFESSOR has arisen in St. Louis
who denounces Tice, and calls his theory
of planetary equinoxes ''illogical, un-
scientific, and untenable.'' But Mr..
Tice continues to predict the weather
with surprising accuracy at the old
stand.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

The whereabouts Of Boss Tweed is be-
coming as much of a mystery as that of
little Charley Ross. IF the truth were
known, people would be greatly astonish.
ed at the difficulty Tweed has in trying
not to step on the detectives who are
standing like cemented wall between
him and renewed captivity.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

The EDglishmtn who some weeks ago
offered a bet of $4,000 that the rotund-
ity of tho earth could not be proved, has
sued the stakeholder for damages for sur
rendering the money to the man who
easily proved the fact. The complaint
AYERS that the defendant knew that he was
betting on a certainty.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

A PARIS letter says that Minister
Washburn and his brother from Mime.
sofa are about to make the tour of Eevpt
and Turkey, to be absent three months.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

IN Tennessee it is said there are two
dogs to one man. Poverty always seeks
strange bed-fellows. A poor man with
out a dog should be helped without
question.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

ALL women in this part of the country
who happen to have been wives of the
late sewing machine Singer will do we'll
to come forward now and s'prove prop.
erty.''
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

SrA1N will put two new armies in the
field against the Carlists, and generals
have already been chosen for the COM
mand. We may expect to hear next
summer at least twice a week, that the
war is ended.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

IT was not Minnesota editor who re-
marked, with much meekness, that "Astor
was the richest man in America, except
one, whose name modesty forbids US to
MENTION Minnesota editors give their
surplus wealth to the door.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

ST.. PAUL has its heather Chinee
'muchee washee man, and visions ofruin
by Celestial cheap labor already appear
on many u wash board in this CITY.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

BEARS have not got into winter QUAR-.
tiers, so they say. This freak of the gen.
tie beast indicates warm winter. and
corn planting in April.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

"No eetin appplsin, school ours, reads
a sign on the blackboard of a school
house in enlightened old Massachusetts,,
where education is supposed to sit on the
top rail and make faces at ignorance,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

GEN. FOREST, who will be remembered
by many veterans of Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota, has joined the Pre.by
terrain church at Memphis.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
GENERAL MATTERS.

China has appointed ministers for the
United States, Peru and Japan.
A Madrid, Spain, telegram of the 7th,
says the weather is very cold in the north and
some soldiers have been frozen to death.
The execution OF an imperial decree re-
forming and recognizing the tribunals Of Tur-
key has been officially announced.
The German Savings Bank of New
York suspended on the It'll. The bank had
1880 depositors. Liabilities about $3.50, 900.
The guard gates of the Sault Ste.
Marie canal have been closed for the winter,
and the work Of repair will be commenced i'm
mediately.
The question of the 100000 race at.San
Francisco, is again being revived, but as some
of the horses to contest are still suffering from
epizoot, it is not certain when twill come of
At Homestead, Iowa, fifty miles west of
Davenport, on the 2sth ult., farmer who
caught the wrong man in his wife's bed room,
killed the intrader by blow. with an axe,
which smashed in his skull.
The Kentucky State grange, p. Of H.,
has adopted resolutions favoring government
aid to the Southern Pacific railroad, and also
against attaching to the Order the colored Or
ganization known as the Council of Laborers.
It is said that Ed. Peters & Co., the
oldest and most extensive lumber commission
firm in Boston, has suspended. Large losses
by shrlnkage in property and business de-
preston are the causes assigned. A meeting
of creditors is soon to be held.
It is reported that the steamer Los
Angeles, which was feared to be los*, arrived at
Victoria yesterday in tow Of the British
gunboat Kokcet. Her engine was broke
down 90 miles south of Columbia River, and
she was eighty days under sail. She lost one
seaman in gale.
1t is reported that the agricultural re-
ports for November and December say that the
November returns indicate that the corn crop
of 1875 was one of the largest ever grown
in this country, probably equalling the
very large crops of 1870 and 1872.
1t is at least a fourth greater than the crop of
\>869 Every section of the Union reports
-. - increase.
$potato crop of the United States is
. ~otl, in production and quality. The
-: ~;stricts reported is one-fourth
,;,.z.:!a. ~ar: ln<the rainy sections
'~'' -. %, suffered in yield
tZ1E;~ from excessive
I and western Mis-
/exceeds that of last
v@'' average
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

A man down in Georgia blew out what
brains he had because he was not invited
10 dance. What pity it is that more
OF his kind do not take revenge in the
same way.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

THR whisky business is quite lively
now. Not whisky straight, but whisky
crooked. 1t is altogether too lively for
the peace of mind of the disstillers and
gauxers.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15

THE first report of death by freezing
this winter, comes from Nebraska City,
where young man, the son of an Aus
TRAN nobleman, persisted by the road
side.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
ss' - 2
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE Indiana commissioner-shir is to re-
main in the Smith family. John @.
Smith, Of Ohio, has received the apnoint-
ment.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-15
A BAD Case In Olmsted County.
Rochester Record and JJnion.1

Ard now the village of Byron has its
sensation, and a very bad one it is. The
facts arc as follows: Mr.. Harmon NJ. We'd.
der, with his wife and boy, the latter
about twelve years of age, and cripple,
have resided in Byron for some tina.
Also fellow named Stephen Sherman,
we'll known in this city, and man Of not,
to say the least, SURPRISING charms of
body or mind. Mrs. Vedder, for some
reason, became enamored of Sherman.
In fact, fell deeply in love with
him, and, as the evidence
showed, allowed Sherman privileges
that do not accord with orthodox teach
ings. Friday last Mrs. Vedder told her
husband she was coming to Rochester for
some purpose, and took the eastern train,
and Sherman, by a singular coincidence.
took the same train. But they didn't stop
in Rochester. They continued on until
they reached Winona, and then Sherman
was met by an officer who took charge of
him, and he was brought back to this
city. The charge against him was adul-
terry. Monday morning Sherman was
called on to confront the charge and JUS
tice George. The evidence against him was
given by the boy, who told a very dis
gushing and terrible story, and on his
evidence Sherman was held in bail in the
sum of $500 for trial, and in default was
sent to Jail. During the examination
Mrs. Vedder never WINGED nor blushed
until her son was upon the stand, and
then she broke down entirely, crying like
a child. She is a very good looking
woman, about 30 years Of age, and what
she sees in Sherman is query. She
sticks to him, however, and told him in
the Jail that she would get bail for him,
or that certain other parties would 20 to
the penitentiary with him.
National Educational Association.
When the National Educational Asso.
citation was in session last August at
Minneapolis, Mimi, Prof. H. A. Newell
of Baltimore extended cordial invita-
ton to the Association to hold it's next
session in this city. 1t is understood
that the officers in charge Of the selection
of the place Of meeting are undecided
whether Baltimore or Reading, Pa. is the
more available place for the purpose. No
doubt the prosperous city of Reading can
afford ample accommodations for the pur.
pose, but so can Baltimore, with the add.
ton of fish, oysters, and other phospho.
rous additions to the brain, which are
needed by even the best educational NH.
losophers. We would be glad to have
the nations educators among US at their
next session.
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1875-05-01
Measures pas

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qnofre notre Conpaguie Lo-
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Life 1nsnrance
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Qni vons donne tout CO one II suret6
hi pernetf1 Ii vons bonner.
PAS AUGMENTATION DE
PRIMES,
PAS DE RETRAlT D'AGENCES.
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VIM. Henderson,, 6~cr1taire.
WIN. q. Robins. D.rectenr d'ageuces.
L"cin. McAdam. Grefirr.
CONSElL DE DIRECTION.
Z. j. Hart. Jns. /. Day.
Chas Chutfe,
John !. Adams, j. B. Cnuors.
= A. Tyler. Geo. A. Fo~dick,
Henry Ahrsham. T. II, Fnirchjid.
John Henderson,, w r. Harper,
a. Thompson. W. B Schmidt,
8. r. Newman, David Wallace.
Alex. Marks, b. T. WxI,he.
Emory CIapp, hi vn.e,
~. I.a'Fnde, B. F. E-hleman,
E.. B. Briggs. J. w. Stone.
= F.; Delaney. Agent general
pour IL Lonisia"e.
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Bureau :-Donaldsonvills.