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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
Last Years Imports and Exports.
WASHINGTON, Aug. IA,

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA.
The detailed statement of imports and
exports for the year ended June 30, 1875,
has just been issued by the Board of Sta
tistics. Compared with the preceding fis-
cal year marked falling of in the aggre-
gates of our foreign and domestic trade is
shown. The total value of imports for the
year was $3.50, 906,253, a falling off of
nearly $4,000, 900 compared with the pre-
ported ;$167, $780, GA was non-dutiable,
leaving 1886, 1875 600 to pay 1856, 479, 131
collected from customs last year. The de-
crease in gold coin imported was $5,773,-
313, and in silver coin $2,205, 916. Dur
ing the year the excess of gold coin ex-
ported, compared with 1874, was $30, 542,-
S27, and silver coin 1868, 252, which shows
loss in coin for the last fiscal year ofover
500 100000.
IMPORTS.
The following table will show the values
of the leading articles imported during the
last fiscal year, compared with the CORE
SDOndinr wear 1874:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
How TrufIles Did 1t.

I returned to Ashville after an absence
of three years and found my friend Truf-
files grown fat and jOvial, with face the
very mirror of peace and self satisfaction.
Trutfles was the village baker, and he
was not like this when I went away.
"Truffles," said l, chow is it? You
have improved"
"Improved! Howe"
"Why, in every way. What have you
been doing"'
Just then little girl came in with a
tattered shawl, and barefooted, to whom
Truffles gave loaf of bread.
ooh, dear Mr.. Truffles," the child said,
with trimming eyes, as she took the loaf
of bread, "mamma is getting better, and
she says she owes so much to you. She
blesses you, indeed she does.'
"That's one of the things I've been
doing" he said, after the child had gone.
"You are giving the suffering family
bread?" queried.
Eyes"
"Have you any more cases like that ~
eyes, three or four of them. l give
them loaf a day, enough to feed them
"And you take no pay?''
Not from them.''
'Ah! From the town?'
"NO; here,' said Irutf1es, laying his
hand on his breast. "I'll tell YOU" he
added, smiling: {" One day, over year
ago, a poor woman came to me and
asked for loaf of bread, for which she
could not pay-she wanted it for her poor
suffering children. At first l hesitated,
but finally 1 gave it to her, and as her
blessings rang in my ears after she had
gone felt my heart grow warm: Times
were hard, and there was good deal OF
suffering, and found myself wishing,
by and by, that could afford to give
away more bread. At length an idea
struck me. I'd stop drinking and give
that amount away in bread, adding one
or two loaves on my own account. 1 did
it, and it's been a blessing to me. My
heart has grown bigger, and I've grown
better every way. Ny sleep is sound and
sweet and my dreams are pleasant. And
that's what you see, 1suppose.'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
EXPORTS.

The total value Of commodities, the
growth, product and manufacture Of the
United States, exported during the year
was $643, 0S1 ABB, against $693, O39, 054 in
1874, decline for the last year of 49,
957,621. The Chief of the Bureau Of
Statistics says the value of domestic mer-
chandise exported to Canada in rail
road cars, not included in the above fig
ures, is about $14,OO0,0O0, which would
make the actual falling off in domestic
exports for the year. compared with the
preceding, about S36,000,Oo0.
The annexed table will show the value
of the principal articles Of American
growth and manufacture exported for
The year ending June 30, 1875, compared
with the year ending june 30, 1874:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

The value given for domestic exports,
except coin and bullion, is currency. The
value given for imports is gold.
The value of foreign commodities ex-
ported from the United States during the
year was So, 3374 10, against $23,7S0, 1888
the previous year. The value of foreign
merchandise remaining in the warehouses
of the United States on June 30, 1915,
was $50, 1905 21, against $59,699,O63 in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

WHAT becomes of the children in win
ter? 1t has just occurred TO the New York
philanthropists that summer excursions
are not enough, and that some extra pro.
vision ought to be made for the wants OF
the littls ones IN winter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

Every word that falls from the lips Of
mothers and sisters especially should be
pure and concise and simple; not pearls
such as fall from the lips of princess,
but sweet, good words that little children
can gather without fear of soil or after
shame or blame or any regrets to pain
through all their life,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

Fishing in the Tennessee River is
pretty good Just now. The other day a
fisherman hauled up his wife, who had
been missing for two weeks, and he saved
the 5000 reward he had offered for her re
cQyery,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

THE Maine Farmer suggests that farm
ers, by building on adjoining corners of
their farms, mi ght organize little farm
ers' villages" which would give them the
advantage Of society and make their chill
dren much more contented with farm life,
and, as critic observes, greatly improve
the facilities for neighborly quarrels.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

THE Troy Times is assured by the chief
signal officer that, Notwithstanding the
periodical excessive rainfall, the aggre-
gate rainfall in the United States is not
Increasing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
THE EAST.


LoCKES print-works at Passaic, n. j., sus-
pended on the 10Th, throwing 800 persons out
of work.
THE American rifle team met with hearty
reception on its arrival ut New York on the
LIST.
JAMES II. Noe, sr, leading member of a
brush manufacturing firm in New York city,
while inspecting his store on the morning OF
the ed, encountered a burglar, whom he at
tempted TO arrest, but was himself so badly
beaten with an iron bar as to render his re-
covcry doubtful. He was bound and robbed
by the burglar, who threatened to return and
killhim if any cutlery was made before the
rohbcr had time to make good his escape.
\ FEW days ago, at Reading, Pa, a Mrs.
Bessinger was ordered by her husband, who
had introduced another woman into the
house, to leave the premises and take her
two little girls with her, while he would
retain their boy. Next day she went to the
canal with the children and, after filling a
basket with stones, in which operation
the children assisted, she bound the
basket securely to her body and, tax
ing the three children in her arms, lcaped
into the canal and all were drowned. It was
Win uilllcult tuat the pOliCe subsequently
protected the husband fro M assault by his
Indignant neighbors, and on the occasion Of
the funeral, which occurred on the 2lst, and
was attended by over 1000 people. shots
were fired at him, when he was hurriedly
placed in carriage and driven off under
guard Of the police.
GOLD closed in New York, on the Esd, at
1l31&. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, $l.33@l34; No. , Milwaukee, s1.4O
(dl42; No. . Northwestern, s1.35@l.36;
Barley. s1.3o@l.S5; Oats, Western Mixed,
63d6415c; Corn, Western Mixed, 79@S3c
Pork, Mess, s2l25; Dressed Hogs, 1O5sc;
Lard, 1910. Flour, good to choice, $500
@66o; White Winter Extra, $665@7.5 so
The cattle market was firm; l24c to 1Sc
for good to extra. Hogs, S1s@S19c. Sheep
4l4@614c.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 3d. cattle
brought: Best, s650@7OO; medium, $500
600; common, s4.5o(05OO. Hogs sold
Workers, $7.T5(0s.2O; Philadelphia, sS.4O@
$50. Sheep brought s4.25@5.5O according
to ouality
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
Can Birds Converse?

Dr. Charles c. Abbott cites the follow
ing occurrence to show that birds possess
some mode of conveying ideas to one an
other: In the spring Of 1872 pair of
cat-birds were noticed carrying material
for nest to patch of blackberry briers
hard by. To test their ingenuity DR.. Alb.
bolt took long, narrow strip of muslin,
too long for one bird conveniently to
carry, and placed it on the ground in such
position as to be seen by the birds when
searching for material. In few moments
one of the catbirds spied the strip and
endeavored to carry it off; but its length
and weight, however he took hold of it
and he tried many times-impeded his
flight, and after worrying long time over
it the bird flew off for assistance. In few
moments he returned with his mate, and
then standing near the strip they appeared
to hold consultation. The chirping,
twittering, murmuring, and occasional
calculations were all unmistakable. In
few moments these all ceased, and the
work commenced. Each took hold of the
muslin strip at about the same distance in
each case from the ends, and, taking flight
simultaneously, bore it away. Soon there
was much jabbering at the nest; the birds
could not agree how to use the strip, and 1t
was finally abandoned; but so, too, was the
nest, and the birds left the neighborhood.
THE Interior New Yorker, published at
st. townsville, tells the following: "A
merchant in this village speaks very much
of advertising. He lost his wallet on the
same day he visited Albany, and adver-
tised It in the city paper. But one short
day passed, and the wallet with all its con.
tents was returned to him-by his wife
who found it in his old pants pocket"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

IT is announced that the bursted Freed
mans Bank at Washington will pay ~
per cent. of its liabilities in a few months.
ACCoRpING to the National Statistical Blu
rcau immigration into the United States shows
a decrease of Sc, 900 for the year ending June
so, 1875, as compared with the previous year.
News was received at Washington on the
Goth of the death at Callao, Peru, OF Rear-Ad-
miral Collins, commanding the South Pacific
fleet. He died OF erysipelas, after an illness
of three days, and was buried with military
honors in the Protestant cemetery at Belle
Uota, near Callao.
THE examination of Theodore w. BroWn,
under arrest for being concerned IN the
larceny of the $4,000 package from the
United States Treasury, was postponed on the
2lst to the 30th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02

The cry in Herzegovina" Pass that
Turkey this way, please" 2. ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

The London Chemical Journal COM
mends Prof. Bischofs arrangement for
removing organic and ether impurities
from drinking water-this arrangement
consisting, essentially, in filtering the
water through spongy iron and pounded
limestone. The iron is placed in the
upper chamber of an earthenware filter,
and powdered limestone is arranged IN
y separate layer below. The iron Is
procured in powdery, spongy state,
by the reduction of an ore without fu-
sion, after the extraction of the sulphur
and copper by heat. 1t removes all
albuminoid and nitrogenized compounds
and also all bad concentrations from
the water, and a trace of iron taken up
by the water is separated by its subse-
quent passage through the limestone.
This method is found to be not only re-
markably effective. but the cost is also
so inconsiderable as to give it the prefer
ence over all other modes-one charge
of the material, costing only twenty
five cents, being sufficient for the filter
ing of ten gallons per day for period
of two hundred days.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

At a reunion of the pioneers of Cuya-
hoga county, Ohio, various bits Of an
tiauity were exhibited, and among
them ga woman's corset made In I16s,
and marked "Ruth Hanchett. II
would be easy to write sweet little
piece of poetry about that garment, and
the pretty form which it once eneir-
cled; but on the other hand, Ruth
might have been dumpy and ugly,
with that peculiar sallOwness OF CON-
plexion which tight lacing. produces
As the corset is said to be extremely
ord-fashioned, it was probably piece
of armor which Ruth didn't find over
comfortable; and we are sorry for her.
There was also a red cloak, century
old, exhibited, formerly owned by
Mary French; and about this we have
no .misgivings. We have no doubt OF
the prettiness of the little Red-riding
hood of Cuyahog&. A girl named Mary
with red cloak couldn't have been
otherwise than charming. The very
bear Killed by a pioneer, whose skull
was also exhibited, would have gone OIL
If he had met her, without touching or
tasting her. Exchange. -
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
Importation OF Insects.


New Zealand has appealed to England
for an importation of bumble-bees. 1t
seems that red-clOver grown in that
country fails to produce seed, be-
canse there are no insects native to the
island that act as fertilizers in carrying
the pollen from flower to flower. The
honey in the nectory of the red clover
cannot be reached by the probOscis of
many insects, but the bumble-bee is able
to dip down and drain the lowest de-
posit, hence its services as marriage
priest to this particular flower are in
great request. Ii was suggested by the
gentleman applying to the London EntO-
mological Society for a supply of these
needful insects, that they might be Sc
cured when i'm a dormant state and con-
veyed to New Zealand in that condition
packed in ice. Inquiry has also been
made by another resident of New Zea-
land as to the possibility of importing a
lot of Chrysopds. As vet no indigenous
A Aphrides, or plant-lice, have been OBJ
served on the island, but imported
species are making good deal of de-
vastation. The Larvae of the Chrysopds,
OF lace wing flies, feed on plant-lice,
DESTROYING immense numbers, therefore
they are the valued friends of the
gardener, who often cherishes them as
one does a cat for the determination of
mice.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
u.e af RAILROAD Accidents.

The assertion has strange, at first,
indeed, almost a harsh and brutal sound,
and vet il Is unquestionably true, that,
so far IA the general welfare, the COM
mon good of mankind il concerned, few
lives are so profitably expended as those
of the unfortunate victims of railroad
accidents This, it is true, may not be
saving much; for il is a melancholy
fact that there are few things of which
either nature or man is, as a rule, more
lavish than human life; provided always
tha; the methods used in eXtinguishing
it are customary and not unduly obtru-
siye on the sight and nerves. As a
necessary consequence of this wasteful-
ness, it follows also that the results
which flow from the extinguishment of
the individual life are, as a rule, pitiably
small. ANY person curious to satisfy
himself as to the truth of either or both
of these propositions, can do so easily
enough by visiting those frequent
haunts in which poverty and typhoid
lurk in company: or yet more easily by
careful study of the weekly bills OF
mortality as they are issued by the autho-
rites OF any great city. Indeed, COM
pared with the massive battalions daily
sacrificed in the perpetual conflict which
mankind seems forever doomed TO wage
against intempeTance bad sewerage, and
worse ventilation, the victims of regular
warfare by sea and land count as bat
single spies. The worst of it is, too,
that if the blood of the martyrs is in
these cases at all the seed of the church,
it is seed terribly slow of termination.
Each step in the slow progress Is hui
man Golgotha. II is far otherwise with
the victims of railroad disasters; they,
at least, do not lose their lives without
great and immediate ecompensating bene-
fits to mankind. After each new rail-
road ''horror,'' as it is called, the whole
world travels with an appreciably in
creased degree of safety. The causes
which led to it are anXiously inyesti-
gated by ingenious men, new appliances
are invented, new precautions are i'm
posed, greater and more watchful care
is inculcated. And hence il has resulted
that each year, and in obvious cOnse-
quence of each fresh catastrophe, travel
by rail has become safer and safer, until
il has been said, and with no inconsider-
able degree of truth too, that the very
safest place into which a man can put
himself Is the inside of a first-class rail-
road carriage on a train in full motion.
The study of railroad horrors is, there
fore, the furthest possible from being a
useless one, and a record of them is
hardly less instructive than interesting.
If carried too far il is apt, as matter for
light reading TO become somewhat mono
tonous; though, about railroad accidents
as about everything else, there is none
rhe less an almost endless variety Even
in the forms of sudden death on the rail
nature seems to take Il grim delight in
an infinitude of surprises.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01

Mrs. Livermore, in her lecture, says /:
Woman for ages past has only been al
lowed to suffer, and has not been able
TO come up and prove what she was able
TO do. Up TO the 18th century, and
even in the 10Th century, she has been
called by what was considered good
authority IA natural invalid" Colleges
are opening for her for joint education
with the young men, and institutions
devoted to her sole use. She is finding
her way into many kinds of employ
ment. The generally accepted theory
of woman's life was that God has made
her because man needed her, and it was
this feeling that needed TO be rooted
out. She would not depreciate mar
riage, but she did not want girls to
think that wifehood and motherhood
were their only ends in life. To simply
train women for domestics would be a
great mistake, for such training would
not result in producing good domestics
even. As rule, l05 boys were born to
every 100 girls, but when the sexes ar
rive at manageable age the propor-
tion is reversed, and the difference
largely increased. War and dissipation
cuts off the men. Up TO 100 years ago
more than $4,000 million men had per-
ished on the battle field. In 1867 the
marriages in the United States were but
40 out of each 100 marriageable women.
and the disproportiOn is now much
greater. In Massachusetts to-day there
are 10000 marriageaDie women who re-
main single. The bugbear of being an
"old maid" or the evil effect of the
present system of educating girls led
many of them to accept offers of mar
riage which they ought TO reject. In
olden times the "superfluous women"
were content because they knew no
better, but this was not their feeling
now. The tendency of the time is more
and more toward single women, and
they can be happy and self-supporting
without marriage. The day which sees
women as careful to choose virtuous
husbands as men have been in the past
to select virtuous wives will mark the
greatest social revolution of the age. in
regard to the question what to do with
the superfiuous women, she said that in
some of the Western States the men
greatly exceeded the women in num-
bers, and judicious immigration might
be advisable. but to cease demanding
that woman should only be trained for
marriage was the only proper proceed
iny
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
The Imperial Violet.

1t was on leaving France for Elba
that he said, Il shall return with the
yiolets,' and this little sentence
mere fdcoR dc Pdrler, as it would seem
was sufficient Tor his friends and SYM
pathizers. Violet ribbons and violet
rings were worn publicly by the Bona
partists as a party distinction, while
Napoleon himself was spoken of and
toasted as CopOndl or Papa ld Tiolette
"Aimez-cous Ia uiolette ~ was the ques-
ton by which a sympathizer might be
known. a simple reply in the affirma-
tive Indicated that the responder was
ignorant OF the schemes for the restora-
ton, while the answer, ''Eh bien! elle
reuieadrd da priRtenDs, was the sign of
a confederate. A favorite picture repre-
sented small group of violets so ar
ranged that in their outlines the profiles
of Napoleon, Marie Louise, and the
King of Rome could be traced by the
initiated, or the profile of Napoleon
alone was exhibited, with the motto,
IN rerieRdrd du PriRteBlps." Byron, in
his poem, ''Napoleon's Farewell to
France" has the following allusion to
the violet:
Farewell TO thee France, hut when liberty rallies
Once more in thy regions, remember me then;
The violet still grows in the depth of thy Valleys
Though withered, thy tears viii unfold il again -
Such being the significance attached
to this little flower, We may imagine
how it increased in favor when Napo-
leon, having escaped from Elba. entered
the Tuileries on the 20th of March, ISIS,
when the yiolets had indeed returned,
and were worn on all sides by his re-
joicing friends. Naturally enough, the
violet thenceforth continued the Napo-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
Debt.

There is no worse demoralizer of char
acter. The sad records of defaulting,
embezzling and dishonest failures
which, we meet with so constantly in
the daily press, are often, indeed most
frequently, the results of the edemOraliza-
ton of debt, and consequent desperate
efforts at extrication. The little debt,
which at first was small as grain of
mustard seed, like the rolling SNOWFALL,
has gathered weight and multiplied
itself a thousand-fold. And still it
grows, and like the fabulous hydra
which Hercules was sent to kill, you no
sooner strike of one head than two
shoot up in its place. The struggle is
severe, but i'm the end decisive; either
confession is made OF a hopeless bank
ruptcy which might and should have
been avoided, or integrity is sacrificed
to the temptation of the moment. Debt
ruins as many households and destroys
as many fine characters as rum; it is
the devils mortgage on the soul, and he
is ALWAYS ready 10 fOreclOse.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
Roman Kitchen Utensils.

The museum at Geneva, Switzerland,
has recently obtained for its cabinets a
set of Roman kitchen utensils, found i'm
a field near Martigny, which were pro-
badly buried by their owners on ac-
count of some sudden alarm. These
consist of thirty articles, mostly in
bronze, and some of them elaborately
worked, reminding one of the beautiful
shape and ornamentatiOn of Pompeian
vessels. The shovel and pothanger do
not differ much from modern utensils of
the same sort, and there is an earthen
mould shaped like shell, several plates
in various sizes, a saucepan with the
bottom worn away, a large boiler, q
funnel, two ladies, a stewpan, and vases
or ewers with two handles, one of which
bears a representation of two gladiators,
and was apparently awarded as prize.
There are also two silver ornaments,
evidently of later. date, and believed by
DIR. Gosse, the curator, TO have been used
in Christian worship. He attributes
the articles to the third century.