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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-25
The Senate Standing Committees.
The new standing committees in the
United States Senate are composed a:
fO11ovo.

The new standing committees in the
United States Senate are composed as
follows:
Logan, Aleorn, Mitchell, Wadleigh, Cameron
(Wisl Mcmillan, SALISBURY, Me1rimon;
Morton, Hamlin, Howe, Frelinghuysen, Conkling,
McCreery, Bogy, johnson CTcnn.).
, Nnanss : Sherman, Chairman; Morrill, lvt}H
opriaiions~Torrili lMe.l Chairman;
Window, West Sargent, Allison, Dorsey, Eaton,
" cs ' ch.i i.; Spencer,
Gordon, Dennis Mcdonald.
Observation-Disclosures Chairman; Booth,
Bruce, Withers, Wallace.
Observation-Disclosures Chairman; Rob-
erts, Harvey, Davis, Gordon:
Ps.H Spencer, Clayton, Wsdieish, Ransom, Burn
side, Randolph, Cockerill
=, Na1Gt Afairs.aCragin, Chairman; Anthony,
Morrill, (Me), Sargent, Conover, Norwood,
Judiciary-Edmunds, Chairman; Conkling,
Frelinghuvsen, Whyte, Howe. Thurman, Steven
Postoe!ess end Rost Roads-Hamlin, Chairman !;
dock: Salisbury, johnson (Tenn y Maxey:
Hsrvsys boasxe!I FsdSoef, Boo'h' Kelly %e
DG PS;sats '1 Ta.s 1 csasn.-rnu!man Chairman
Indian 11airs. Allison, Chairman; oglesby,
Aqsril! tMe( ingalls,; CLAYTON, Bogy, McGreery
Revolutionary Cldinss-Stevenson, Chairman
Johnston (va.l Goldthwaite, Morrill, vt),
Ctaims-wright, Chairman; Mitchell, Wad-
caRPe.ton, cockerili, Jones SFla2: o,
Dsrssp
Eaton.
Patents-Ferry (Conn.), Chairman; Window,
Dawes, Johnston (va.), Herman.
Public Buildings and Grounds-Morrill (Vt.),
Chairman; Cameron (Pa), Paddock, Cooper,
Whyte.
Territories Hitchcock, Chairman Cragin, Pat.
terson, christiancy, Sharon, Cooper, Ma1ey.
Raikroads-West, Chairman; Hitchcock, Cra-
gin, Howe, Hamilton, Mitchell, Sargent, Dawes,
Vines and KiningLsargent, Chairman; Ham.
lin, Alcorn, Harvey, Sharon, Goldthwaite, Ran.
lewiston Of the Laps of the United States
Boutwell,, Chairman; Alcorn, Christiancy, Caper.
Education and Laoor-Patterson, Chairman
Ingalls,, Morton, Ferry Comm, Burnside, Bruce,
cirW Sers;ce and Retrenehnent = Clayton,
Chairman; Wright, oglesby' Sherman Patterson
70 audit and Control Contingent Erpenses O,
tie Stnote-Jones New, Chairman; Dawes,
Prtntsng-Anthony, Chairman; Howe, sauls.
bury.
Labrary-Howe, Chairman; Edmunds, Ran.
som.
Rules-Ferry Mich, Chairman; Hamlin, Mer.
rimon.
Engrosssd BaAs-Bayard, Chairman; withers,
Anthony.
Enrolled Bile Conoyer, Chairman; Kelly,
Robertson.
Transportation Routes to the ssaooard-win-
dom, Chairman; Sherman, Conkling, West. Con.
| over, Mitchell, Norwood, Davis, Johnston (Va).
Or Levees q the Mississippi Musr-Alcorn,
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Love In q Shower Bath.

MIR. Henry Seller was q rich German
bachelor who lived in q nice house of
his own in Brooklyn, and whose only &C.
cupation consisted, du.ing the day, in
reading the newspapers, and in the even
ing playing "binocle" at his club with
his intimate friends, KLAUS, the druggist,
and Wolff, the real estate agent. The
only other intimate of Mr.. Sellers house
was his housekeeper, Barbara, maid of
forty-seven, who, in an evil hour, one
Sunday, went to little temporary theater
somewhere on Blank avenue, where the
admission was only ten cents, and where
she witnessed the performance of the
grand tragedy of 1.-THE knight of Urden.
burg; or, The Horrors of Castle Drachen.
fels." So deep was the impression which
this exit aordinary play made upon her
that she hencefOrth went almost everv
night to the same diminutive and inex.
pensive temple of Thepsis. What pleased
her still more was she picked up charm
ing male acquaintance at this establish
ment-one MIR. Theobald Arnim-who
said he could not sufficiently admire
such noble characters as Charles Moor.
in "The Robbers" William Tell" etc'
One night, upon leaving the theater.
Miss Barbara was delighted because Mr..
Arnim offered to escort her home. he
was only ty-five, quite good-lookine
and such q conversationalist! Barbara
had never seen such sweet young man.
And how he quoted poetry! Schiller.
Goethe, Shakespeare he had at his fineers'
ends, and when the two arrived at mr..
Sellers door Miss Barbara could moi
help confessing that she entertained the
most ardent admiration for him.
A glance at her masters win.
dow told her that Mr.. Seller was still At
his club and SO she invited MI. Amin Is
step in and have piece Of cold fowl and
glass Of wine with her. Her escort
readily accepted the invitation and the
two sat down in the kitchen, where
Arnim quoted poetry while Barbara set
Q good cold meal and q bottle Of MI.
Sellers best Burgundy before him. They
parted when 1t was shout time for Bar.
bara's master to return. The acuuaint-
ance Of The housekeeper and her beau
soon ripened into IN intimacy and finally
9 formal engagement. Thencsforth Nj.
tha0bald Arnim Of course lived In
clover. The best Of Mr.. Sellers viandsI
and wines wsrs placed at his disposal
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hanged pass the night or two previous IT,
their taking off in profound sleep. The
last night On earth especially is apt to be
passed in dreamless, peaceful slumber.
MIR. Hugo Dyer, of Nacogdoches,
Tex, a painter by trade, committed
suicide in the following manner: "He
took on Feb. 10 two ounces lauda.
mum; Feb. 30 two ounces laudanum
and three ounces chloroform; Feb. 81,
two ounces chloroform and one-half
ounce morphine; Feb. %, four ounces
ch.oroform; Feb. %, two ounces chloro-
form and one ounce chloral, and died on
the 25th instant at eleven p. m. The local
paper remarks very truly that "this will
surprise the Oldest medical men OF the
SnaW
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-25

About two miles north of Water.
vale, In Pompey, says the Syracuse IN.
W Courier, reside two people, Mr.. David
Williams and his wife. They are each
ninety-two years old, there being only
sixteen days difference in their ages.
They have been married seventy-two
years, and have lived in Pompey eighty
one years, having come through the
wilderness by marked trees. Their
eldest son, seventy years old, and born
in Pompey, takes care of his aged parents,
upon the old homestead, as they peace
fully and cheerfully pass down the
deciivity of life.
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The National Platform of the indie.
pendent Labor RefOrmers,
The platform adopted by the National
Convention recently IN session at Cleve-
land, Ohio, is as follows:

The platform adopted by the National
Convention recently IN session at Cleve-
land, Ohio, is as follows:
Our Government IL founded solely upon the
consent Of the people, and its powers are subject
TO their control. The evils we now live under
have resulted from the acts of unfaithful repre-.
sentatives, who have set the interests of party
above those Of the people. These evils are chief
displayed In our monetary system and the
SYSTEM ssns mon.rchieai in is piinei
Pies and subversive Of republican gov
eminent; and - experience demonstrates that
litical PARTIES 1t becomes our imperative duty to
organize new party, to the end that we may re.
non and which overaews e The 1an9
and place the control Of the resources and finance
q. 1fths country in the hand: Of the people. We,
declare its principles to be as follows:
l. II IL the duty Of the Government to establish
monetary system based on the faith and re.
OF this Government and adapted to the industrial
and commercial needs Of the country TO This
end the notes Of ali National and State banks
money issued by the Government directly to the
people. n payment OF the Government obliga-
tons. without the Intervention Of any system 81
| teLder In payment of all debts, public and pri
vate, duties on imports included, except that
p0fM;on oi interest ana principal Of the present
creating It made payable In metallic money; this
money to be interchangeable at the option OF the
noloers with registered Government bonds bearing
VI interest NOT exceeding S.6s per cent. pei
2 This system Of finance will, by stimulating
our industries and commerce, soon make the
unitsa states the depository of the preciou.
). The adoption OF this system, by furnishing
snMcient money At low interest, will solve the
enable railroads and the carrvin0 tredo ~ roliovc
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9. We insist upon and demand severe retrench.
ment and economy In all branches Of the public
affairs.
10. Rivers and harbors, being under the juris-
proved when necessary to the commerce Of the
people.
II. Through the monetary system herein pro-
Gems of this country . firm and lasting bond Of
union by giving common interest In the common
Government, and bringing peace and prosperity
to each and all its Inhabitants.
II. As all special privileges, immunities and
powers conferred on corporations Of any kind OF
nature are granted at the expense of the people
these privileges and powers must be held subor
the subversion and control Of the power granting
them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-25
Industrial.

Blocks of wood intended for veneers
may be steamed in solution Of boraz
and ammonia. They will then become
soft and easy to cut and, beside, will re.
tain their fexibility for long time.
The manufacture of calcined granite
as substitute for clay in the manufac.
ture of earthenware articles, the material
being found capable of standing strong
fire and to be unaffected by transitions Of
heat and cold, is becoming an important
industry in England.
Sheldon s. Slason, of Rutland, who
have the contract for supplying 1000
headstones for the National Soldiers
cemeteries, use the sand-b blast to cut the
names instead of the slower operation OF
chiseling. By this means name can be
cut in four minutes, and 500 stones day
are turned out.
j. V. Davis describes the prepare
ton of pressed yeast, in late number Of
Chemisches Central6latt He says ordi-
nary beer yeast is stirred up with cold
water, in which small quantity of car.
Donate of ammonia has been dissolved.
It is then allowed to settle, drained,
washed and pressed into cakes, to which
is added little starch and ground malt.
Some kinds of yeast settle with difficulty.
In such cases ice cold water in large
quantities may be employed, or little
alum may be added to the first water,
but It must be completely removed by
washing.
Avery common mistake with writer's
on scientific and mechanical topics for
popular perusal Is the indulgence in tech
Dical terms and algebraic formulas to an
unnecessary extent. Such writings often
fall far short Of comprehension By the
readers to whom they are addressed. Il
does not need that The scientific writer
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-25
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

"A Mrs. Evans, of Seymour. Conn.
recently cut the thrUats Of her two chill.
dren, aged three and six years, and then
cut her own throat.
"A young man named Zimmerman,
living near Martinsburg, Pa, died very
suddenly the other day from the effects
Of eating a frozen apple.
Two boys, thinking to have novel
Haven and we're carried out to sea, but
were rescued before harm was done.
"A man in Elk County, Pa, has just
foot in it. It was tree which had been
split open by the wind and it swung
back, the split closed ON him and the
man lost q leg.
Reuben Reifsnyder, Of Reading, Pa,
while slaug htering hog, met with
painful accident. He had stuck the hog
with a knife, and in turning it over the
animal caught sr. RS left thumb in his
mouth and bit it off at the first joint.
Not long ago Hayes & Wells bank
ng-house in Fonda, N. Y, was burned.
Subsequently the charred remains of .
clerk who slept in the building were dis
covered, with the trinkets and jewelry he
usually wore on his person gone.
During a recent cold spell the
Thames River, at Norwich, Conn was
said to be frozen solid to the bottom. A
horse recently died while trotting on the
ice, and its owner, having cut q hole
eight feet deep, found no water, and the
horse was buried in the ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond, of Cornish,
N. H., quarreled at q ballroom supper.
table. The only way to prevent Mr.. Ray.
mond's marrying the other girl forthwith
would he the interval required by society
for Grape and wailing. So Mrs. Raymond
put bullet into herself, and her hus-
band will wait year anyway.
"A widow relates in the Hartford
Courant how twenty years since she mar
ried widower, and after years happy
union he died and, just as he was breath
ing his last, raised his arms as if to EN-
brace some object and exclaimed: "My
darling! my wife! Mary, I come" That
she says, was blow at her heart.
1t was quite late at night, and ,
party of friends were standing in from
Of the house of Pittsburgh Alderman
when drunken woman, yelled, stag
gered along. One of the party clamore,
for her arrest, and his companions agree,
to it. She was dragged up to the Alder
mans house and surrounded by her booz
accusers. Her veil was removed, and 10
the culprit was the wife of one of til
party.
"A shocking accident occurred q
Mount Pleasant mine, in Scranton, Pa
lately, by which two boys named Henr
Welsh and John Owens were crushed t
death in a coal screen. Both lads wer
employed in the screen-room, separatin
slate from coal. Welsh was in the act c
stepping across the screen when hi
foot was caught in the ponderous ma
chine, which was revolving slowly. Hi
cries brought to his aid his companion
Owens, boy some fifteen years of age
who bravely, and in the face of fearfu
fate, sought to extricate him. In the Ell
fort his arm was caught in the screel
, and before the machinery could b
brought to standstil both boys wer
crushed into a shapeless mass, thei
heads and arms severed from their bodie
and altogether presenting shockin
r spectacle.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-25
Foreign Gossip.

The royal household of England con-
sists OF families enough to give one
apiece to every nation on the globe. And
YET English taxpayers support them all
in idleness, and rather seem to like it.
All the European powers hasten to
recognize Alphonso and accredit Ambas-
sailors to his court. Even such a dim
shadow as Spanish Republic is a skel-
eton at their feast, and they would re-
joice over the burying of the French one,
too. Perfectly natural.
China newspapers inform us that the
late Emperor died of smallpox 1t was
at one lime thought that he was recover
ing, and arrangements had been made
for q grand festival in honor of the God
dess Of Small pox, when quatityof pa
per offerings were to be burnt in front of
the palace. As the disease appeared on
the very day of the transit of Venus, the
Chinese attribute it to that event.
"A Chinese General, after reaping
many laurels by his defense of the Mo-
hammedans in Yunan, was struck with
the beauty of Celestial belle while
passing through Shanghai. She was the
attianced of a nobleman. but the warrior
made it all right with the old folks and
the police by liberal distribution of
presents, and then eloped with the
daughter. He has since written to the
nobleman and offered to give good sum
to get rid of his new wife.
Much attention is called both in En-
gland and in India to the approaching
marriage of London belle to o Hindoo
of high rank. The gentleman is Mutu
Coomsra Swamy (Swamy meaning
"GodD, an eminent member of Her
Majesty's Council in Ceylon and the
author of some Oriental books of great
value. The lady is Miss Lily Beebe,
who is described as distinguished in her
circle as an artist, and more beautiful
than any picture she ever painted. No
case of inlermarriage between Hindoo
and person of the English race seems
TO have ever been known before. Old
residents of India say that it is absolute
ly unprecedented, and that if Sir Mutu
was to take his bride to any part of India
both of them would be treated by the
whites as pariahs.
The correspondent of London
newspaper gives the folio wing account
of the habits of King Alphonso, of Spain.
He says: He rises at seven in the
morning, and it is not always easy to
prevent him from taking a walk with his
aids-de-camp in the town. Every after
noon, after the midday meal, he has
taken his Generals out, and it is pitiful
to see poor old Gen. Laserna hurrying
along to keep up with the youthful
ardor of his sovereign. Much as the
Spanish officers detest the rising at
break of day, still less do they care for
the sharp riding which they incur when
ever King Alphonso orders his escort
out for long ride. The young King is
always very DESTROYS to know as much
as possible about the movements of the
army, and he is very curious as regards
everything concerning the Carlists."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-25
General News Summary


Among the nominations confirmed by the
Senate on the 9th were those of Hon. God
love s. Orth as Minister to Austria and
Horace G. Maynard as Minister to Turkey.
The aggregate sum in the twelve general
appropriation bills passed during the late ses-
sion of Congress is about SITE, 0O0, 900, apart
from other bills containing appropriations.
A Washington Associated Press dispatch of
the 10th says the departments have issued
circulars announcing the abolition of the
civil-service reform rules governing their re-
spective departments wherever operative, and
announcing return to the former method of
the appointment of employees. All the sub
boards of the civil-service reform through
out the country are abolished by these orders.
The following changes in department CON-
manders are announced from Washington:
Gen. Augur goes to New Orleans, to succeed
Gen. Emory; Gen. Ord to San Antonio, Tex,
to succeed Gen. Augur; Gen. Crook to the
Department of the Platte, to succeed Gen.
Ord; Gen. Kautz takes command in Arizona.
These changes indicate the retirement of Gen.
Emory.
1t was reported from Washington on the
18th that the President had issued an order
to the heads of the several departments in.
struciing those officers to recognize the pres
ent Government of Arkansas as being valid
and in unobstructed operation.
By the recent act of Congress the rate o
postage on mail matter Of the third class-in
which is included transient newspapers and
magazines, handbills and circulars, and mer
chandise-is doubled, being now one cent pei
ounce or fraction thereof, which must be fully
prepaid to insure transportation in the mails
Gen. Sheridan left Washington on the 18th
for New Orleans, ria Chicago and Leavcnworth
Kansas.
About 2,0OO colored laborers, together with
few whites, marched in procession to the
Executive Mansion in Washington on the
evening of the 18th, for the purpose, it i:
said, of making complaint that certain money
appropriated by Congress for the use of the
District Government had been paid to con
tractors instead of to the laborers employed
by them. The President sent word to tn.
crowd that he desired to be excused from re
ceiving them, and they withdrew.
The Secretary of State, on the 18th, com
between the United States and Spanish Gov
ernments relative to the claim for indemnit.
for the execution at Santiago de Cuba o
Americans who were on board the Virginius
This correspondence shows that the British
claim was originally $500 for eacl
white and $500 for each col
ored man, being a total of e7,7OO, which
was finally reduced to 800. The origina
claim of the United States was $4,000 for eacl
of the crew slain, regardless Of color, and
larger sum for each officer killed. The CLAIM
was strenuously pressed until Spain agreed t
pay $4,000 in gold, Internationally, tn
money to be distributed by the United State
without any accountability to Spain for sum
not claimed by individuals, as was stipulate,
in the case OF Great Britain
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A RHODE Isl.AND cow tore woman's
mouth clear around to her ear, and her
husband at once ran away. He said it
was useless to think Of contending with
a woman who was all mouth.
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Ir you were O. Brien, of San Francisco,
YOU could lend your brother-in-law
q, OOO, 600 and then have as much left to
keep visions of the poor house away.
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Personal and Literary.

In all probability no one has rem
dered more signal service to the country
than Gen. A. J. Meyer.
Gail Hamilton is said to be the ugli-
est, wittiest and most entertaining woman
in existence.
-Parepa- Rosa has a monument which
cost So, 400, and her husband didn't ask
anyone to contribute.
Comptroller Green, Of New York, is
man of sayings. Here is specimen:
spise vulgarity, by gosh"
Bruce, the colored Mississippi Sen
ator, is of swarthy complexion, not very
dark. His hair, though curly, is not
kinky. He looks very much in face and
figure like King Kalakaua.
John Bright is described as still
fine-looking. His thick, snow-white hair,
brushed back from his forehead and face,
and flowing in heavy, vigorous locks, has
added q sort Of grandeur to his counte-
nance.
The New York Nail says: "Mr. Ben
nett, like Alexander, sighs for new
worlds to conquer and is going to start
a daily on American principles in Lon
don. We don't know q larger opening
for money than is offered by such an en-
terprise." The word opening almost de-
serves to be printed in italics.
-Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
has filed petition in bankruptcy. The
schedule of his liabilities fools up $685.
451 so. in which are included State taxes
in his hands, while bis assets consist
only OF some real estate in which his in
terest is doubtful and 81, 200 worth of
personal property, most of which is
mortgaged.
Miss Ingelow, it is stated, is native
of Boston, in England, and passed her
early life amid the quiet surroundings
and avocations of the English girl She
is now about forty-five years of age, and
lives with her widowed mother in q re-
tired part of London, in quiet street."
as she has said, where all the houses
are with window-boxes full of flow
ers."
The Springfield Republican says that
Mrs. George Trask, wife Of the late I" an
ti-tobacco apostle, announces that" bust
| ness will be continued ut the old stand"
She has published the tract to Spurgeon
which was unfinished at Trask's death,
and anybody who wants it or any of the
other tracts can get it or them by ad-
dressing the Trask Tract Depository,
Springfield, Mass"
The following story of the affection
Daniel Webster had for his dumb ami
mails is related by his daughter-in.law,
Mrs. Fletcher Webster: When Daniel
Webster was upon his death.b bed, and
just before he fell asleep to wake no
more here, he directed that all his cattle
should be driven past the window where
he could once more see them; and as one
by one passed along before his eyes he
called each by its own pet name. He
loved them, and they had been his spe-
cial care.
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On Cayuga Lake, in the State of New
York, during the past winter, the expan-
sion of the immense body of ice up
heaved the rocks and soil Of the shores
to an additional height Of several feet.
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Il MARCH came in like whole menagerie
of Hons. Unless the lamb and lion story
IL lynn story he win 60 out like mill
Ion sheep.