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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
Tho London Human.Hair Market.

For one prime natural product the
emissaries OF fashion must go to Mincing
Lane. Judging from the quantities in
which it is imported this article must be
in considerable demand. The "lot'' with
which we are more Immediately concerned
is lying in Cross Lane, and weighs some
5000 poi1nds-a tolerably large consign-
ment Of an article which is-well-not
necessary, perhaps, but apparently finds
customers enough. 1t is human hair. The
great bulk of it comes from China, is
black as coal and coarse as cocoa nut
fiber, but of magnificent length. Many a
Chinese head has been shorn to produce
these tons or material, to be sold in lots of
two cases (of about 400 pounds each), and
expected to realize about half crown a
pound in this wholesale transaction
Skilled experts are weighing and feeling
the long tresses, but soon leave them to in
vestigate the various shades and qualities
Of one bale of choice European, worth
ten or eleven times as much as the Chi
nese. Whence comes this? From Ger
many mainly-from Russia and from
France sometimes. Here lies heap of
samples culled from this valuable bale,
with the weights of each color care.
fully attached. With what variety and
IICuuCSS VI HUGS blO" LuCSC lOuS, uuc
silk tresses; ranging from the deepest
brown, through every shade of ruddy
auburn and sunny chestnut, to the purest
gold and fairest flaxen. What a
monument of self-abnegation is here what
picture of selfsacrifce! for when woman
parts with her hair she performs an act far
more trying than when she parts with her
Jewels. That maiden must be poor in
deed who parts with her crowning charm
for few shillings. Legends to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, how can she get
more than pltiful sum, when choice
bale, after passing through the hands of
the shearer, the local merchant, and the
importer, and paying cost of transport,
will fetch no more than seven-and-twenty
shillings per pound? The blond madchen
whose superb trcsses I hold in my hand
did not, l apprehend, get much for them !;
perhaps few lorins; little enough, &C.
cording to our estimate of money, but yet
sufficient to keep the wolf from her
mothers door for a little space. But this
silken crown, which brought its original
owner so little, must pass through many
hands before it adorns the still handsome
head of Lady Barepoles, who is not quite
the woman she was when Barepoles be-
came the captive of her bow and spear in
her first season-but is yet leader of
FASHIONABLE the Year Round.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

"A wonderful story is told of the es-
cape from drowning of an old negro
woman at Indianola, Tex, during the
late cyclone and food. This ancient col
ored dame, who weighed full 200 pounds,
was the lucky possessor of a well-flled
feather bed; when the water invaded her
premises she launched the bed, placed
herself in the middle of it and was floated
to place of safety.
Henry w. Grelee, professional diver
of Lowell, Mass, while going under a
aume few days since in twelve feet of
water was forced by swift current under
projecting timber and the pipe through
which he received cir became twisted so
that his supply was cut off, He gave the
alarm, but it was impossible to draw him
out; and before another diver could rem
der aid he was dead.
james Burns was an astonished boy
when something came whizzing down
from the sky upon the grass near his
fathers cidermill, and more so when it
turned out to be a live two and three
quarters pounds black bass. Landlord
Plumb cooked it and lots of the village
people pronounced it very good. The
theory is that fish-hawk captured the
game in the Stockbridge (Mass.) brook,
three miles away.
"A nan in Williamsburgh, Pa, the
other day was engaged in carrying hod
at new brick building in course Of erec-
ton on one of the streets of that city
when he accidentally fell from the scat
folding to the ground, distance of twen-
ty-five feet. He had just unloaded hod
full of brick and had the. hod turned over
and was in the act Of sitting down on it
when it tipped over, causing him to turn
a complete somersault In his descent
he struck board fence, breaking it to the
ground. Strange to say he was not in.
jured. Large drops of perspiration were
observed standing out on his forehead as
he arose from the ground. He was evil
IDENTIFY more scared than hurt, as he fin
ished the balance of the days labor. The
fence was complete wreck.
The other day at Remington, Ohio,
Carrie Dawson, employed in paper-mill,
while standing near a revolving shaft was
caught by her hair and the scalp torn
from her head, stripping the skin from
the back of her neck to the eyebrows.
Considerable time elapsed before medical
aid reached her, and it was not deemed
advisable to attempt to restore the lifeless
scalp to its former place. Next day q
physician commenced the restoration of
the skin to the wounded girls head by
taking small pieces of scalp from the head
of her sister, who gave herself freely for
her injured sisters relief, while another
lady offered skin from her own shoulder
to supply what was needed for the fore.
head. Supplies sufficient to start a growth
of membrane were taken from each OF
these ladies, and while Miss Dawson's
condition was dangerous her physician
entertained considerable hope Of her re-
covery and of the success of his effort to
cover her head with new skin.
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The Pembroke, N. H., Horror.
CONCORD, N. H., Oct. {

CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 8.
The terrible outrage at Pembroke, re-
ported late last evening, has aroused in.
tense excitement all over the State, and
hundreds are thronging the trains in their
eager curiosity to visit the scene. The
discoveries of to-day have, however, been
few. Miss Josie Longmaid, eighteen years
old, daughter of James T. Longmaid, who
resides mile and a half from the, Penn
broke Academy, left home for the acade-
my at eight O'Clock yesterday morning.
The road is lonely one, and in that dis.
lance there are but six houses. She was
seen to pass the house of Mr.. Amos Hoyt,
fourth of mile from her home, but
after that was not seen alive, nor did she
reach the academy She was not missed
till evening, for her younger brother sup.
posed that she had remained at home. Her
father at once aroused the neighbors and q
systematic search was begun on both sides
of the road. Shortly after eight O'Clock
Mr.. Cope, one of the party, came upon her
headless body in dense underground o.
birch, about three rods from the road, 8
mile from home. The father was the
third or fourth man to see it, and as his
eyes fell upon the sickenlng sight he ex.
claimed: "Oh, my God!' and threw him.
self beside the bloody corpse, alternately
kneeling beside it and embracing it. The
ground and leaves fer quite space were
completely saturated with blood, as was
the butt ofthe tree. The clothing of the
girl was torn into shreds and her under
clothing torn and saturated with blood
Her dress and chemise were stripped tc
her breast, and three bones of the right hand
were broken, as if the hand had been struck
when vainly attempting to ward off blow
The head was cut off clearly, as if cut by
a large, sharp knife. The spinal column
was severed between the first and second
vertebre. It was the unanimous opin
ion of the physicians that decapita
ton was performed or begun before the
girl was dead, because of the evidence Of
her having bled freely. The body was
otherwise horribly mutilated. Two rings
one of plain gold and one rubber, and q
gold-enameled breast-pin and earrings
were not to be found on the body. Tht
body was taken home, placed in thu
same position as when found, the RICH,
leg doubled under the left, the right arm
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

| Hans Christian Andersen wasn't
worth much money, but all children loved
him.
DIR. H. T. Helmbold has been again
sent to an asylum for the insane; this time
at Bloomingdale, N. Y.
MIR. Lands has not heard the last of
that Vineland shooting affair yet. Mr..
Carruth, the victim, is said to be failing
rapidly.
That grave of Guibord's, in Montreal,
they say, was lined with nitro glycerine
cans, and in about 100 years or so the pub
lie may expect to see this item going the
rounds: "a party of 'resurrectionists,'
digging around a grave in Canada re-
Gently, were noticed by gentleman OBJ
serving them at a distance to quit work
suddenly, shoulder their shovels and start
for the moon"
John Hay will devote most of his
time to the management of his father IN
laws business in Cleveland. Eligible IA
Tiers in-law, wishing similar services per-
formed with expedition and dispatch, may
apply at once to the nearest literary bu-
reau or newspaper office. America is
crowded with young men who part their
hair in the middle and would like to
marry some rich mans daughter and
ducats.
The New York Graphic has been led,
by the study of American history, up to a
point where 1t is surprised at no achieve
ment attributed to Chicago people, and
says: "There is no need of being surprised,
as the World seems to have been, at the
feat of Mr. C. H. Taylor, of Chicago, who
lately went up and down Mont Blanc in
the unprecedented time of eighteen hours.
Chicagoans are easily Injured to such ex-
ploits, those hardy mountaineers often
climbing the most precipltous precipices
OF the neighboring ranges very early in
life. Boys Of nine and ten years pursue
the eagle to his nest and chase the prairie
hen to its mountain Businesses, hazardins
their lives for their eggs, which are the
sole food of a large portion of the inhabit-
ants The chief wonder is that it took
Mr.. Taylor so long to take a flake from
the snowy crown of the monarch of the
mountains
MIR. Benjamin Moran, United States
Minister to Lisbon, is visiting in London.
He was passenger on the Boyne, which
was wrecked on the rocks off Brest in
August. Through the lack of discipline
on board all the passengers barely es-
capped death. They were floating about
in boats without tillers and badly leaking,
and were rescued by some English wreck
ers who happened to be in that locality
looking for an English steamer which had
previously gone down in the same place.
A Norwegian bark approached them, but
coolly sailed away without offering relief.
vessel struck the rocks, broke open the
stores and appropriated the liquors, and
robbed the passengers trunks Of money,
jewelry and everything OF value. Mr..
Moran says that his losses were more than
81, $50, and that if the company does not
reimburse him he shall have recourse to
law.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
The Cause of Half.WOrk.

There is time enough to do many things,
if the person is seriously concentrated in
his work and does not squander his mind
and his time by half-work. Nothing is
so bad as that. There are many persons
who think they are working when in
truth they are only dawdling over their
work with half-attention. There is time
enough thrown away every day to enable
any one of earnest mind to do more than
many a man does In his whole day. All
depends on love of the work on which one
is engaged, and in concentration of ones
faculties. 1t is in my opinion better to be
utterly idle, and lie fallow to influences,
than to muddle away hours in half
work Besides, change of labor is rest,
and to an active mind more rest than lazi-
ness. have always found in music a
more complete refreshment of my mind
after hard days work in my studio
than ever sleep could give. The faculties
and powers of interest are thrown in a
different direction, and while one series
works the other reposes. After an entire
change Of occupation one returns with
fresh zest and vigor to the work he has
left; whereas, if the thoughts are con-
stantly treading the same path they soon,
as it were, wear rut in the mind, out of
which they cannot extricate themselves,
and this begets in the end mannerism and
self.repetition. Still more, the various
arts are but different exercises of co-rela-
tive powers. They each in turn refresh
and enlarge the imaginative and motive
powers, and extend their sphere. Each,
as it were, is echoed and reflected in the
other. The barmonies of color and forms
and words are closely related to each
other, and but different expressions of
merely the same thing. Asculptor's work
will be cold if he is not sensitive to color
and music, and painters work will be
loose and vague unless his mind has been
trained to the absoluteness of form and
outline; neither can compose we'll his
lines and forms unless he possess that in
nate sense Of balance and harmonious ar
rangement and meditation which is de-
veloped Ivy music.-Blackaoood Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions of the Congregational
Church met in Chicago on the 5th. The
attendance was large, representatives being
present from all the States in the Union and
from Canada.
MANY horses in Cincinnati, Chicago, St.
Louis, and other Western localities were
suffering from symptoms of the epizootic on
the It'll, and the disease seemed to be spread
ing.
SERIOUS disturbances occurred at Friar's
Point, Miss, on the 9Th and 9Th. It seems
that at q Conservative convention on the
night of the I'd Senator Alcorn severely criti-
cised the official conduct of Brown (colored),
Sheriff of the county, and the next day
Brown used severe language in reply, when
Alcorn threatened to shoot him. Brown then
summoned number of negroes, who pre-
pared to come to his assistance. On the 5th
all the women and children were sent from
Friar's Point and the place was attacked by
force of 500 negroes, who were repulsed by
white forces under Gen. Chalmers. In the
skirmish eight negroes and one white man
were wounded.
D. o. MILLS has been elected President OF
the Bank Of California under the new organ
ization.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America was in session in Cincinnati on the
9Th and 7th. Very Rev. Patrick Byrne, of
New Jersey, was chosen President, and
James w. OBrien, of New York city, Score.
tary, for the ensuing year.
A COLUMBUS, Ohio, dispatch of the 18th
says the hog disease was playing sad havoc
in that section. Six thousand hogs had al.
ready died in Franklin County so far this
month.
PRESIDENT GRANT and party returned Ia
Denver on the 7th from Southern Colorado.
FRIAR's POINT special dispatches of the 7th
state that Gen. Chalmers was driving the col.
ored forces under Pease (colored) and was de.
termined to capture him if possible. In the
skirmishes which took place on the 5th q
white man was fatally wounded and three
negroes were killed and one wounded, prob
ably fatally. Senator Alcorn on the 7th sent
telegram to Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont stating
that there was no question of politics in these
disturbances; the whites were to a man fol
defense, and the negroes who had been mis-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

A TEXAS Judge is credited with the
following neat decision: "The fact is,
Jones, the jail is an old, rickety affair, as
cold as an iron wedge. You applied to
this Court for release on bail, giving it as
your opinion that you would freeze to
death there. The weather has not mod
Grated, and to keep you from freezing I
will direct the Sheriff to hang you at four
O'Clock this afternoon
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

THERE IS the guile Of the serpent and
the sweetness Of the dove in these kind
words to youth from the Cincinnati Times:
We desire to mention to noisy little
boys that right in the center of the hind
hoofs of every live mule there Is little
lump Of gold which can be very easily dug
out with pen-knife." -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
Phenomena Of the Heavens.

Under the title Astronomical Predic-
tons" Prof. Daniel Kirkwood contrib
utes to the Tribune tabulated list ot.the
several phenomena to be observed in the
heavens during the next twenty-five years.
From this list, which includes eclipses,
with solar and lunar occultations, transits,
comets and star-showers, we select the fol-
lowing phenomena as likely to attract
general attention in this country: On the
23d of August, 1877, a total eclipse of the
moon will occur, partly visible in the
United States. The great astronomical
event of the transit of Venus will occur on
the 9th of December, 1882, and will be
visible in the United States. A maximum
of sun-spots may be looked for in the year
1888, and also the return of the comet of
1912, whose period was estimated at sew
enty years and eight months. A consid-
cradle display Of meteors may be expected
on the Goth of April, 1884, and total
eclipse of the moon will occur on the 4th
of October. In February, 1886, Win
necke's comet will return. The only op-
portunity of witnessing total eclipse of
the sun on this continent during the Gen.
fury will occur in Colorado on the 29th
of July, 1878 That part of the stream of
November meteors which produced the
showers of 1887 and 1920 may be ex-
pected to return between 1885 and 1888.
A display of meteors derived from Biela's
comet may be expected about Nov. "a,
1892. On the night of Dec. 81, 1893, the
moon will be totally eclipsed. The max
imum display of Leonids or November
meteors may he expected on the morning
of the 18th OF that month, 1899; and on
May ~, 1900, total eclipse of the sun
will be visible in Virginia. In addition
to these phenomena of special interest are
the numerous returns of the smaller CON-
cts, the transits Of Mercury, and several
stellar OSCILLATIONS. A review of the list
will prove of special significance from the
fact that the astronomer now classes the
meteor among the manageable of the
heavenly bodies, and boldly. announces
the periods at which the coming of these
"celestial rovers" may be expected
Appletons' Journal.
COLUMBUS was a mild. sweet-disposi
toned, but exceedingly thoughtful boy, as
remember him at school. When we
boys were out playing he would sit and
weep for hours over the incompleteness of
the maps of the period. He felt as though
something was wanting. He wasn't salts
fed with three-quarters Of the globe, such
as was employed in the schools at that
time. He pined for the other quarter. I
recollect his borrowing quarter of me on
two or three occasions. He used to tell us
we were a continent out somewhere, and
that when he got big enough he meant to
run away from home, 60 on the canal and
discover it; but we only laughed at him,
little thinking that he would yet give his
name to the State capital of Ohio. l lost
all traces of Christopher until years after
ward, when the telegraph brought the an
nouncement of his having discovered
America, which, up to that time, had sue
cessfully eluded the most persistent efforts
of our best discoveries Neus.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

THAT is an old story, but good one,
about the army officer who laughed at
timio wo.Ecu L~fore his marriage, and
subsequently took off his boots in the hall
when he came home late at night, having
married "a timid woman himself.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

1.-TWO FERGUS FALLS (Iinn.) men,
driving behind a team of mules, discov-
cred a glitter on the hoof of one of them,
examined it and found gold ring which
the mule had stepped on and secured with
the cork of his shoe. "-Romance set af1oat
by q DESIGNING Coroner
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as full Of life and health, albeit little
bruised, as she was before the storm, but
thankful with every thought to God for
her preservation.-CorpuS Christi (Ter)
Timer
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

WHEY you go to Chicago stop at the
Barnes House," corner Of Randolph and
Canal streets. The fare is excellent and cv-
crything in the house is new. Only $3.50 to
$500 per day for transient.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

llShcd IN the London Times OF the 9TH, reports
that the inhabitants of Arran Valley had in.
augurated a general rising against the Car.
lists, on account of the exactions of the sol.
diery, and that the latter had been compelled
to take refuge in the mountains.
BROWN, STEVENS & WILLIAMSON, heavy
sugar -retners, of Glasgow, Scotland, failed
for large amount on the 7th. 1t was stated
that several other establishments were in.
volved.
OWING to popular outcry the British Ad-
miralty, on the 18th, suspended the circular
of July 81, directing the surrender of fugi-
tive slaves found on British vessels.
THE Garden House, belonging to Henry
Alters Hankey, located near Westminster,
England, valued with its contents at over
s., SOC, 900, was totally destroyed by fire on
the night of the 18th.
THE Ecclesiastical Court has deposed the
Bishop of Berlin.
THE Sublime Porte had decreed, according
during five years from Jan. l, 1876, the inter-
est on and the redemption Of the public debt
will be paid one-half in cash and the other
half in 5 per cent. bonds.
A SPECIAL published in the London Morn
ina Standard of the 9th states that the Ser
Wan deputies had met on the day previous
and rejected the motion for war by vote OF
g. to 81.
Two CANADIAN propellers-the st. Audley
and the Bristol-were burned to the waters
edge at Hamilton, on Lake Ontario, on the
night of the It'll.
ACCORDING to Brussels dispatch of the
9th diplomatic relations between Venezuela
and Holland had been interrupted by the alb
rupt departure of the Minister of the former
power from the Hague because of failure to
agree in certain pending negotiations.
A LONDON telegram of the 9th says the
cholera had broken out in the province OF
Mysore, India.
DR.. FORBES, Lord Bishop of Brechin, in
Scotland, died on the 9th.
TEE Prince of Wales left London on his
Indian trip on the evening of the 18th.
A SPECIAL to the London Telegraph of the
18th states that Turkey and Servia had mu-
tually agreed to withdraw their troops from
the frontier.
A ROME (taly) dispatch of the 18th says
Cardinal McCloskey had ordered splendid
marble altar for the cathedral in New York,
at cost of $4,000.
THE Kaiserhof Hotel, in Berlin, the largest
in Germany, was burned on the 18th. Loss
81, 100000.
THE steamer Biscay, while on her voyage
from Cronstadt to Bremerhaven few days
since, stranded off Jutland. Eleven persons
were drowned.
A MONTREAL (Canada) dispatch of the 18th
says gentleman prominently connected
with the Guibord case had stated that no day
had been appointed for the burial of Gui.
bords remains, and that it was possible it
might be deferred for considerable time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

FIRST Grand Exposition of the Tradesmen's
Industrial Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa, opens
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When it isn't love that makes a human
commit suicide one is pretty safe to at.
tribute it to finances. i
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PARSONS PUReAr1vE PILLS will greatly
relieve, if not entirely cure, dyspepsia when
in some desperate cases, and have given
more relief than any other medicine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-21

PkUss1Na's White Wine Vinegar, prHes
and cheapest, warranted to preserve pickles.
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If you want to keep posted as to the value
of your insurance, subscribe for The HERALD,
published by Geo; J; Yeager, 9os La Sale
Send Is cents for sample copy.
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MANY valuable horses die from the effects
of collie. The best thing to do in a case Of
this kind is to pour bottle of Johnson's An
odyne L;ninaent into long-necked junk-bot-
then pour the whole down the horses throat.
In ten minutes the horse will begin to eat.