davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
Chickens at Ten Cents q Shot.

"A week or so ago three Marquette
sports were down to the Dutch settle
ment on deer hunt, which was to last
several days. They put up with " Lou.
is" an agricultural resident of that 10.
cality, who occasionally entertains the
sportive Nimrod, and as the allotted time
tor the chase had drawn to a close with
out that degree of success thew had
hoped for (they had not in three days'
hard tiamping seen solitary DEER, they
proposed to Louis, as they sat by the
fire in the evening, that in the morning
before they started for home he should
put some of his chickens at distance of
thirty rods and allow them to shoot at
them for a compensation. "Yah, dat
lsh all right" said Louis; "you elf me
ten cents efery shoot, and ven YOU kill
him he ish yours!" This arrangement
completed, the sports retired with antic-
ipations of fun in the morning. So. af.
ter breakfast, they settled their bill, had
their team brought up and hitched to the
fence, and all arrangements made to
start right off as soon as they had
cleaned the Dutchman out of all his
chickens at ten cents apiece. While the
sports were fixing up "rest' Louis
took fine rooster under his arm and
started for stump about thirty rods dis
tant. After tying him securely he re.
turned, and putting board across the
ram barrel commenced to make change.
Young Preston laid his improved Rem
ngton in the notch and blazed away, but
the majestic chanticleer didn't even turn
his head or wink his eyebrow. Evident
~ Preston had missed. A smile of pity
Tor the inexperience of their com.
rade beamed on the faces of the others
as Lattimer adjusted his piece and fired.
" Beats all" he remarked after pause,
as the rooster gave no sign of being hit.
Satterlee, Jr., laughed long and loud as
he threw himself upon the plank and
peered through the globes of his fancy
Henry. "Watch i'm now"-bang! They
watched him, and evidently he was
watching them and wondering what in
thunder they were trying to do. The
next two rounds were fred without
much comment by the sports and his
nibs never fluttered. Then they got
some hot water and cleaned their guns
and fired at target. 1t was easy enough
to hit that target, but when it came
to that rooster "they wasn't there"
Finally Lattimer hit upon happy idea
His gun was double-barreled-on rifled
and the other for. shot. and as he quietly
slipped in sixteen buckshot and leveled
over the plank smile of sardonic sweet
ness Illuminated his features. The re-
port was terrific and the head of the
rooster dropped down beside the stump,
but he himself stood up there yet in ali
the pristine majesty of former days. 1t
was sight to see! Silently and without
= word those three. young men entered
heir cutter AID drove away. Louis had
killed the rooster the night before and
FrOze him harder than the language
hose young men INDUCED in on their
way to Acknowledgements (Mich.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
Anecdote Of Dr.. Bethune.

On one occasion, when the doctor was
resident in Philadelphia, he went for q
few days of rest to trout stream he had
heard of in the interior of the State. Ar
irving, an entire stranger, at house kept
by . man who had been accustomed to
entertain those who came there to fish,
he was cOldly received. The man told
him frankly he had attended . protracted
meeting during the winter, that he hoped
the Lord had forgiven his sins, and that
he had joined the Methodist Church. and
meant to give up going with the kind of
men who came up there to fish. The
doctors humOr Overcame his scruples SO
far as to gain admittance for the night.
and the next morning succeeded still
further, prevailing upon the man to 20
out with him and show him the best
places of the stream. They spent most
of the day together, and, on returning to
the house in the afternoon, the man
slapped him ON the shoulder, saying:
doc, like you"
Why do you like me, my friends"
swell, Doc, I'll tell you. We've been
out Almost all day, we haven't caught
much, you fell in and got wet, and I
haven't heard you swear once" 80.
After supper, as the doctor was smok-
ing his pipe in front of the heu e. his
host came out and, with some hesisancy,
said: u @-'@ -. :. : - =
." Doc, since I jined the church I've
had prayers every night; we are going to
have them now, and maybe you wouldn't
object to come in" :r.,.-..l 20.
Certainly not, my FRIEND" and he
went in to listen to the reading of a pas-
sage in broken way and to join heartily
in good old Methodist hymn. During
the singing the man watched him closely
and at the end said, anxiously: "Maybe
you wouldn't mind leading us in prayers''
The doctor knelt and offered one of those
full and hearty, yet simple, supplica-
tions which are SO well remembered by
all who knew. him. He was. hardly
seated in front of the house before the
man reappeared, saying:
Doc, kinder suspicion yOu."
What do you suspicion me of? Moth
ing bad, l hope"
"No, nothing bad, and maybe I'm
wrong, but I kind O. think you are a
minister"
What makes you think I'm minis
teri"
swell, I'll tell you: I haven't hearn
you swear since you came; then the
way you jined us in the hymn; then the
way you prayed made me think you were
a minister"
The doctor laughed heartily as he &C.
knowledged that he was indeed minis
ter. While ever willing to be known for
what he was, he never paraded his call
ing, but stood simply upon his dignity
and worth as Christian gentleman, ask
ing no favors for himself but such as he
accorded generously to others-Natsonal
BUDtist
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
General News Summary.
Washineton NeNs.

A number of representatives of colored
men, in Washington, fren several, of the
Southern States, have recently issued an ad-
dress, signed by Frederick Douglass, John NJ.
Langston, A. M. Giabs ARK. J, Philip Joseph
(Ala.) and Geo. W. Price IN. Co., as commit
tee, in which they appeal to Congress
to take action in their behalf by "enact-
ing and providing for the enforcement
of appropriate laws for the better protec-
ton Of persons, property and political rights"
in the South. The address claims that
wretched state of affairs in the South will
grow out of the neglect of Congress to pass
such laws before the adjournment of the
present session.
The Senate, in executive session on the Sd,
rejected the Canadian reciprocity treaty,
without division.
A Washington dispatch Of the Sth states
that William 9. King had been found by
messenger of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House, near Compton, Canada, and sub
penaed to appear before the Committee of
Ways and Means and testify as to his con-
nection with the Pacific Mail subsidy bust
ness.
J. L. Routt, of Illinois, Second Assistan
Postmaster General, has been appointed and
confirmed as Governor OF Colorado, vite E. NJ.
McCook, resigned.
President Grant has signed the act to amend
the Customs and Internal Revenue laws, and
for other purposes, known as the Little Tariff
bill.
A Washington Associated Press dispatch Of
the 9TH says Atty.-Ge Williams had been be-
fore the Select Committee on Alabama AZ
fairs and had been interrogated as to his
sending troops into that State last fall, and it
appeared that he had had no correspondence
with the Governor of the State on the subject,
but acted on Information from other sources
The following is the message of President
Grant on Arkansas affairs:
To the Senate of the United States:
Herewith have the honor to send, in accord
ance with the resolution of the Senate of the Sd
inst. all information in my possession not here
toore furnished relating to affairs in the State of
Arkansas. will venture to express the opinion
TIA, al the testimony sn shows that in the cleo;
Governor Of that State; that he has been unlaw-
fully deprived of the possession of his office since
that time; that in 1874 the Constitution of the
State was by violence, intimidation and revolu-
tionary proceedings overthrown and new
Constitution adopted and a new State
n ntr; ssaeshed These proceed
more all the rights of minorities in all States
Also, what is there to prevent each of the States
recently readmitted to Federal relations on GER
tain conditions from changing their Constitutions
and rioating their pledges if this action in Ar
kansas is acquiesced in! I respectfully submit
Of State Government if not of the National Gov
eminent ALSO should be recognized by Congress.
earnestly ask that Congress will take definite
action in this matter, to relieve the Executive
from acting upon questions which should be de-
cided by the Legislative branch of the Govern
ment. T. s. GRANT
Executive Mansion Feb q 1879
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18

6eyernor of said State. under the Constitution Of
1852 Tor the period Of four years ending jim Jsnps
arys 1877, and said Consultation nas9 hayi&k
beck Illegally overturned Of abrogateds md bsS1R
still force, is the lawfuk Governor Of laid State
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18

he forbade her touching it. Soon she
was cured. We know healthy people who
feel the twinges of pain in u shoulder by
sitting near one. They are handsome, but
unhealthy for all that"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
Foreign Intelligence.

London dispatch of the I'd says private
dispatches from China state that the Empress,
overcome with grief at the death of her hus-
band, had committed suicide. A child three
years old had been proclaimed Emperor, with
the Empress Mother as Regent.
A Madrid dispatch of the Sd announces
that Gen. Moriones had succeeded in reliev-
ing Pampeluna. 1t was reported that the
Pope had written to Don Carlos advising him
to reconsider his determination to continue
the war, as the dignity of the church had
been indicated and the right of the clergy
recognized by King Alphonso. The Carlists
had been defeated in an engagement at
Oteiza and Gen. Agana, the Carlist leader,
made prisoner.
The Marquis Of Harrington was elected
leader of the Liberal party in the British Par
Lament on the Sd.
The Khedive has lately annexed the country
of Darfour to Egypt.
Madrid kilograms of the 9th say that Don
Carlos had issued counter proclamation to
that issued by King Alphonso. He does not
protest against the assumption of the mon
archy by his cousin, but says his protests
shall be uttered in irresistibly eloquent tones
iioA viz ihoutA vi Ills cannon. I'm the 7th
there was fighting between the two armies in
the vicinity of Estella, which resulted in the
repulse of eight Of the Carlist battalions.
On the evening of the Goth ult Next
can mob attacked q Protestant church in
Acapulco. During the melee one American
and four Mexicans were killed.
Tsae Tien, son of Prince Chen, has been
proclaimed Emperor of China.
The English Parliament reassembled on the
9TH. The session was opened by speech
from the throne
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
Miscellaneous.

"
hung himself in cemetery.
Dry goods clerks are paid the munifi-
cent sum of three dollars per week in
Savannah.
Good looking lasses and good lookin'
glasses are not very far apari-generally.
st. J"seph Mo Herald.
Salem, Mass, is making a practical
experiment of lighting her street lamps
by electricity. It works well.
Massachusetts is to have an asylum
for INDECENT persons who are nervous
without. reaching the point of actual in
sanity.
One fortunate thing in being king
is that kings never have to get up nights
and lug the potatoes in beside the coal
stove,
Boston men complain that the coast
ing boys in the Common /" catch pedes-
TRANS by the legs as tack-puller does a
tack"
= There is some probability of the re-
vival of crinoline in all its glory next
summer. The news ought 10 occasion
regret. a.
1t is singular that the man who hor-
rows paper is always the man to find
the most fault with its contents.-Rome
Sentinel
. "A gentleman in Cleveland now
jumps up and says that Benedict Arnold
was as true man to America ss George
Washington.
The school teachers in Ireland ask
an increase of wages, and the fact that
they venture to do this is hopeful sign
for that country.
-Toothsome.-A Washington dentist
advertises for "the front tooth of 4
young girl fourteen years of age. Will
pay literally and replace artificially."
6 "A Vermont lumberman recently had
the misfortune to have log roll upon
him and break in twain one of his legs;
yet he loaded his wood and drove home.
According to the Herald Of Haalka
marble top tables are to be avoided. It
says: They are cold, and rapidly alb
sorb the heat and vitality Of the body,
robbing It Of its life. We have heard Of
one invs'id whom the doctor could not
cure until One day he noticed she used
Z marble stand, and suspected il had
something to do with Lcr III health. So !!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18

The Senate adjourned on the 9Th, i'm.
mediately after the reading of the journal, as I
mark Of respect to the memory of the late Sem
ator buckingham, q committee having been ap-
pointed to attend his funeral.
In the House, on the 5th, after an
exciting deatbe on the Civil Rights bill. Mr..
Itler concluding the discussion in . speech in
to strike cut Of the House bili iii ii reference to
schools schools was agreed to BY large majority. A
motion me; to snbstitute the Senate for the House
eqnal rights plank Of the Democratic platform Of
1 IS.z was offered az preamble 70 the bill, and
the fourth section Of the same platform, decIar-
ing that =" local elf-government and impartial
suffrage will guard the rights OF all citizens more
Sc ean The
amended, was then passed-yeas 162. nays 100.
The Senate amendments to the Consular and
IN nc asn Appr0psiataasn bill were concurred
Legislative Appropriation bill, others being nom
concurrcd in. Adjourned. -'~'' :.
In the Senate, on the 9Th. the bill to
regulate the counting Of Presidential votes and
the concurrent resolution TO amend the twenty
ttee 5OP. rue were reported from the Com
louisiana, asking action on his claim to admis-
sion Is Senator. The senate bill TO
organize l.e,...t the Territory Of okiahams5
consideration was postponed until the second
Monday In Decembef. "A conference commit
zee was appointed ON the Senate amendments to
CIVIL Rights bill passed By the House was re- r
Seiyed, read the second time and referred to the
judiciary Committee 4, -" 8 :. ~
In the House, on the 9th, bill was in
trodnced and referred for the trsnsmission OF cor
respondence BY telegraph. =. Mr.. Poland made 4
majority report from the Afkahsas Investigating
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
West and South.

"0oS anu 0UVb0s
Gen. Sheridan left New Orleans for Vicks-
burg on the evening of the I'd.
The Peoples Savings Institution of st.
Louis has suspended, the Cashier having alb
seconded with large amount of money be-
longing to the bank.
The National Grange of the Patrons Of
Husbandry met at Charleston, s. c., on the
Sd, Master Adams, Of Iowa, in the Chair. All
the officers and about sixty delegates were
present. In his address the Master conerstu-
lated the Order on the strength gained during
the past year, only a few States not having
organized, and they were about doing so.
The Treasurer's report was read and standing
committees were appointed. A public meet.
ing Of welcome was held at night, at which
speeches were delivered by prominent citizens
and delegates. $500 S@''S
Hon. Angus Cameron, Of La Crosse, was
elected United States Senator by the Wiscon-
sin Legislature on the Sd BY . coalition Of the
Democrats and boiling Republicans. The
final ballot was: Cameron, 66; Carpenter,
50; Hazelton, 8; Clark, /. Mr.. Cameron 10
said to be N Anti Monopoly Republican, and
q Milwaukee dispatch says he was nominated
by the Democratic caucus conditionally upon
his acceptance of platform which includes
hard money, tariff for revenue only, and the
supremacy Of the civil authority in time Of
peace. tAs 80
The Michigas Republican State Convention
to nouinats two Justices a the Supreme
Court and two Rsgeats Of the State Universi-
ty, has been called to meet At Jackson On the
Sd Of March. &
King Kalakaus and suite and The Unite4
States Minister at Hawaii, N. Fierce, sAilsd
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
The East.

&o0Ss
Harrisburg telegram of the I'd states that
in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
the evening before, during discussion in a
contested election case, tissue being joined
on parliamentary points, Mr.. Wolf, Republi-
can, came in contact with the Speak
er, who finally ordered Wolf un-
der arrest, when the Republican
members rushed to the defense of their COL
league and wrested him from the hands of
the Sergeant alarms. In the midst of the
commotion the Speaker adjourned the House.
During the melee pistols were drawn"
The Granite and Crescent mills at Fall
River, Mass, closed on the LIST, and the Mer
chants on the ID, owing tc dissatisfaction
about wages. The weavers resolved that
1000 of their number should 90 back to En-
gland at half fare, to be advanced to each.
The workmen expressed willingness to sub
init their differences to arbitration.
Senator and ex-Gov. William A. Bucking
ham, of Connecticut, died at his home, in Nor
wich, on the night of the 4th, aged seventy
years.
Samuel F. Hersey, of Maine, member of the
present Congress and member-elec of the
next, died on the 4th at Bangor, aged sixty
two years.
The jury in the libel suit of VIM. H. Kemble
against the New York Sun has failed to agree
A fire in the Shaker settlement at New
Lebanon, N. Y, on the 9th did extensive
damage. At one time the village was
threatened withdestruetion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
Congressional.

In the Senate, on the I'd, memorial
was presented of james Brooks, of Arkansas,
claiming to DC the lawful Governor of that State,
and that the present Government of the State
was an usurpation maintained by armed force. .
A bill was introduced and referred to authorize
the construction of pontOon bridge across the
Mississippi River at or near Dubuque, Iowa.. .
After the transaction of some unimportant bnsi-
ness and an executive session the Senate adj
journed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-03

BREAKs ON THE BEssEMER STEAM
ER.-Two recent experiments have
been made in England in building
ships that will not be affected by the
motion of the waves. The Castalia,
which was simply the Polynesian
double canoe on a gigantic scale, has
proved failure The two twin hulls,
with their connecting deck, undoubt-
edly rolled less than an ordinary
steamer does, but they rolled and
pitched quite enough to produce in
the passengers addicted to sea sick
ness all the horrors of the disease.
The experiment of the swinging cabin
of the Bessemer, which is meant to
be so adjusted as to maintain its
equilibrium whatever may be the mo-
ton of the vessels huh, has approach
ed somewhat nearer to success; but
the inventor has had TO abandon the
idea of making the cabin maintain its
level automatically, and now intrusts
that duty to man who stands in the
centre of the cabin watching spirit
level, and managing with q single
lever complicated and powerful sys-
tenn of hydraulic brakes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-03
eag. The recent encyclical Iette

eas-Fhe recent encyclical letter
which Plus TX. hss addressed TO his
Bishops and Priests, ard their Catho-
lie congregations, is very lengthy
document prescribing the rules
which are to BIO adopted for the cele-
bration of the jubilee OF 1875. The
Jubilee was first instituted by Boni-
face VIII in 1900, and he decreed
that it should be celebrated only once
in century The interval was after
wards shortened to fifty years, then
to thirty-tbree, and finally, under
the bontifcate Of julius H., to TWEEN
ty-fve years. The encyclical letter
Just published reminds the faithful
that "the deplorable condition of
things" did not allow the Pope to
celebrate thejnbilee of 1850 and in
forms them that, thoughthese difficult
ties far from having been removed,
grow greater ever day, the Holy
Father is of opinion that, with such
an accumulation of evils, he would
not be justified in depriving his faith
full flock of so salutary a dispensation
any longer. The letter tells them
what course they must adopt in or
der to gain the full indulgences which
he intends to distribute with lavish
hand. The jubilee is to be celebrat-
ed, the Pope adds, with all the pomp
hese evil times permit ?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-03

SILENT MEN.-Washington never
made speech. La the zenith of mis-
fame be once attempted it, failed
and gave up confused and abashed.
In framing the Constitution Of the
United States, the labor was almost
wholly performed in the Committee
of the Whole, of which George Wash
ington was chairman but he made
two speeches during the convention
of very few words each. The con-
vention, however, acknowledged the
master spirit, and historians affirm
that, had it not been for his personal
popularity, aud the thirty words Of
bis first speech, pronouneing j. the
best that could be united upon, the
constitution would have b, en- reject
ed by the people. Thomas Jefferson
never made speech. He coudn't
do it. Napoleon. whose executive
ability ia almost without q parallel,
said that bis greatest difficulty was
10 finding men of deeds rather than
words. When asked how he main
tanned his influence over his superiors
ia age and experience. when COM
mander-in- chief of an army in Italy,
he said, by reserve. The greatness
OF man is not measured by the length
of his speeches or their number