The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

fill his belly with the east winds"
Miss Lucy Osborne, of New Milford,
Conn, who had her scalp torn from her
head some months ago, has had over 100
pieces of skin grated on her head, these
being taken from her own body. Unfor-
tunately, but few of these pieces have
retained their vitality, and her head is
in bad condition.
An Upton man drove to Westboro,
Mass, recently to deliver apples, and at
tempted to 60 into one of the stores, and
was informed that the stores were not
open on Sunday. With establishment he
exclaimed: "Why, is to-day Sunday?
and my wife is to home washing, and she
won't know anything about it until get
home and tell her!"
Thomas Hingely, of Trenton, N. j.,
full of wrath at neighbor with whom
he had been in trouble, started out with
pistol to simultaneously settle the
neighbor and the trouble. He succeeded
perfectly, though in a different manner
from his original purpose. Falling on
the ice bis pistol was discharged, shoot
ing him in the head, and he was found
lying on the street dead.
"A man, somewhat intoxicated, lay
down the other evening in q bowling sa-
loon in Ellis County, Tex, stretched his
eody across an alley and went to sleep.
A bystander amused himself by bowling
heavy balls at his PROSTATE figure. Three
struck him, one on the feet, another on a
hip, and the third on the head. On try
ing to wake the sleeper shortly afterward
it was found that he was dead.
The people of Highgate, VT, we're
very much excited the other day about q
load of nitro.g lycerine that was detained
in town on its way from North Adams,
Mass, to Canada. Though the article
was perfectly CONCEALED and no more
liable to explode than the Missisquoi Riv.
or, the teamstcr was compelled to remove
it into the fields for safety, and it is said
that one man went three miles out of the
village to sleep, though with singular
presence of mind he left his wife and
child exposed to the danger.
Willard G. Jones, an old pew-owne1
in the Congregational Church at Rindge,
N. H., declined to surrender his pew as
others did when the church was recently
repaired, and the committee rented it to
an able bodied3 brother, who stationed
himself at the head of the pew and re.
fused admittance to the former owner
After that there was race every Sunday
morning to see who would get the pew
one of the parties taking possession q.
early as three o'clock, until the old owner
ana his family were removed by an office
few Sundays since, and Mr.. Jones ha!
brought suit against the church com
mittce.
"A Bloomfield (Conn.) farmer tells ,
story which seems to indicate reasonin,
power and a bit of heroic element in
common rat. Two rats, an old gray
matron of the corn.crib and her offspring
had been caught together in common
box.trap. Through a crack the pail
could be seen together within, loving
enough, till the farm dog was brought tt
the mouth of the trap and allowed t.
sniff them. AS soon as the mother ra
smclled the dog she seemed immediatei,
to divine their fate, and giving terrible
| squeal she grabbed the little rat by tn,
neck and bit him sharply, causing almos
instant death. The trap was opened al
| instant after, and the old rat, who ha,
thus killed her offspring rather than hav,
it murdered by the dog, quietly sub
mitted to her fate.
Religious and Educational,
There were ], 800 Baptists, white an,
| colored, in Texas in 1847, but now tn
aggregate of white and colored is said
be $4,000.
There is complaint that the in
struction given in teachers institutes i
not specific enOugh-that too many sub
jects are treated which do not directl
| offer to the teachers daily work.
The Philadelphia Conference is tn
largest contributor to the Methods
mission funds, its total for 1874 bcin
$55, OF. This great result is due to thol
oughness of organization and careful
training of the people.
"A Baptist paper is of opinion tina
the Baptist Church in the United State
stands just now in need of three things
A wise exercise of discipline, more pei
sonal enthusiasm and greater unlol
and connection of effort.
Presbyterian union in the Dominion
of Canada is jcopardized by the indispo
sition of the Legislature to pass the nee
essary enabling act. A meeting has beer
held in St. Paul's Church, Montreal, t.
protest against this course.
There is now a respectable evangel
ical church in Nazareth, and severa
villages in the vicinity have evangelical
schools. The number of native Protest
ants in Galilee is from 500 to 600, anC
there are as many children IN schools.
The statistics of thirty three out Of
the thirty-seven conferences of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South show ar
increase for the year of 35,276. The gen
eral minutes, soon to be published, will
probably show the total membership OF
this church to lie 100000.
The Archbishops of York and Can.
terbury and all the English Bishops but
two congratulate the clergy and laity on
the prosperity of the church, and strong
ly admonish the former against ritual
istic practices which tend to isolate the
clergy from the people.
"A writer in the Methodist is of opin.
ion that the denomination shave out
grown mainly both the use and the ne.
cessity of the Office of Presiding Elders
except in sparse and newly-settled parts
of the country" He thinks that the
number should be increased, each Elder
be assigned to church of his own and
given the chair of six or eight churches,
and their appointments remaining with
the Bishops.
The Toledo Blade says that "the
study of any foreign language in the
primary schools does detrimentally affect
the English student, who must necessa
rily neglect the elementary branches to
follow its pursuit. We firmly believe
and can further testify from personal
observation that no advantage has been
gained, either by the study of the
modern or classical languages, until the
pupil has been well grounded in the rudi
ments of English"
Personal and Literary.
-Sartoris has an income of $4,000.
Mrs. Blaine and Gail Hamilton are
sisters. s4
England is on grand wild-gsosc
chase for more of Shakespeare's books.
Bret Harte is fat and lazy and don't
care flip whether he writes anything OF
not. ...... s