The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents ana Accidents.

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woman who was divorced and re.
sumed her maiden name in Belfast.
Maine, in the forenoon, the other dav'
was married again before SHUTDOWN.
A Chicago horse, having caught his
foot between . railroad track and the
planking at the crossing few DAYS ago.
pulled his hoof oil, aud it became neces-
sary to kill him. ss..,e..
Patrick Fitzgerald, EMPLOYED bv a
firm Of grain-dealers in Lowell, Mass.
won $40 and q barrel of flour the other
day by carrying it on his back from the
birmingham depot to the store on Main
street, distance of more than mile
without resting. H.
Boston boasts an eleven.year-old
miss, weighing sixty pounds, who, at
her birth, weighed less than one pound
and half, and whose nurse in washing
and dressing her used to lay her in the
palm of her hand, while her head would
60 into small-sized teacup.
The oldest accident of the season is
reported from New York. As DR.. w. H.
Gilmore and DR.. Guelet were walking
along the street, arm in arm, the other
evening, Gilmore holding an umbrella by
the frame in his left hand, they slipped
and fell. DR.. Gilmore fell in a sitting
posture, and bis head was thrown vio-
lently forward, striking the point of one
of the ribs of the umbrella, which
pierced through the under eyelid of the
left eye and frail bone socket of the
skull, touching the brain. He died that
night.
The cigar-dealers in Binghamton, N.
Y, have lately suffered loss by the dep
relations of q man with an umbrella,
His plan was to enter the store and ask
for q cigar, meanwhile hanging his UNI.
brella by its hooked handle on the show
case. When the clerk handed him box
of cigars to select from he took one and
handed over one, two or five dollar bill.
When the clerk turned about to make
change the customer dropped number
of cigars into his umbrella, took the
change and walked out, carelessly draw
ing the umbrella tips together and STEP
ping off as dignified az an acting corpo-
raj. The man was caught in the act
after his movements had been watched
for some weeks.s
"A clerk in the employ of one of the
leading merchants Of North Brookfield,
Mass, has been detected in embezzling
money. He confessed the crime, but not
until a constable had been summoned
for his arrest, when he drew from his
pocketa handbook containing deposits
on Broadway Bank, Boston, to the
amount of $1,000. He gave such evi-
dcnce of true repentance that his en-
ployers were generous enough to grant
him full pardon.
"A horrible case of goring by a bull
took place lately at the stables of John
Pondir, the owner of farm and country
seat in the Ramapo Valley, near Mawah
Station. on the line of the Erie Railway:
Here MIR. Pondir keeps some very fine
blOOded stock, among which was the i'm.
ported bull "Duke Of Oakland," a thor
oughbred Attorney of great value.
Michael, the herdsman, found the bull
had slipped his halter, which he imme-
diately attempted to replace, but the bull
caught him on his horns, goring him in a
horrible manner and throwing him partly
beneath the manger. Two men near by
heard the noise, and on going to the barn
found the bull exhibiting the greatest
paroxysms of rage. They procured
pitchforks and tried to rescue their un-
fortunate cOmrade, but, finally, were com.
PEELED to shoot the bull, which they
killed at the second shot. On reaching
the unfortunate man they found hig
literally torn open, so that his entrails
protruded, and he only survived few
hours.
Religious and Educational.
The Baptist Centennial Committee
for Illinois are engaged in an effort to
raise 81 600, 900 as an educational memo.
rial fund.
I'm India there is one Christian
preacher to about a million heathens. In
some OF our Christian villages there are
hall dozen preachers to few hundred
souls.
The Delaware tribe of Indians, mum.
bering about 1000 persons, has Baptist
Church of 23O members, with fine house
of worship and large Sunday school.
The chief of the tribe is a Baptist min
lister.
The Queen of the Madagascar ISL
ands has issued proclamation, dated
Oct. 2, 1874, ordering the liberation of all
slaves imported into her Kingdom since
the date of her treaty of 1865 with Great
Britain for the suppression of the slave
traffic
The Universalis.s in this country are
adopting methods in many places for
producing a religious revival. The
Christian Leader, Of Utica, N. Y, pro
poses means of the old Methodist fash.
ion, and thinks that q crop of Method
ism and Universalism would be the most
striking religious success ever invented.
Several of the most influential men,
bers of the orthodox Jewish congrega-
lions of Montreal have seeded and an
nounced their intention of establishing
a reformed synagogue. The ritual to be
adopted is that In use in the two reform
synagogues in London. This is the first
departure from strict orthodoxy attempt
ed by the Jews of the Dominion, and it
bids fair to be successful.
The American Methodist Episcopal
Missionary Society IN the past year sent
cut thirty.elght new missionaries, and
has now $40 in the field. Its native
helpers amount to more than an hundred
pastors, 800 preachers and
and nearly 500 teachers and
Bible readers. In twenty one different
languages have missionary labors been
performed, and preaching in near 800
cities, towns and islands in different
parts OF the globe.
The Observer gives the world the fol-
lowing piece Of news about the Rev. DR..
Adams, now President of the Union
Theological Seminary in New York city:
DR.. Adams is in the habit of having one
of the senior class at breakfast with him
each morning Afterward they retire to
The doctors study, and from that they
go to the church next door; the youthful
candidate takes the pulpit and the
teacher the pew, and the young man
breaches sermon. DR.. Adams hears
md notes the points important to be
criticised, matter and manner, voice,
ones, gestures, attitudes and faces; sins
If omission and commission; and then
md there, alone and freely, points them
out, requires him to try again to correct
he fault on the spot, to get out of the
bad habit he is getting into, and if one
lesson fails he must come again and
never give. over until the practice is
broken up utterly and q better one
formed in its place." -.
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