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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07
NEW YORK METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, Oct. Observation-Disclosures q
copper-Is steady; sales were made OF new
sheeting at soc. 1ngot Lake-Is steady; sales
were made at 2sZ@23s<c. Pig Iron-1s firm I;
sales were made of Scotch at 29934c; American
is dun and dropping; sales were made at 200
SIC. Russia sheet-The market is quoted at
i215alS1<c gold. Nails-Are quiet; sales were
made OF cut at So 1898 rs; clinch at 81 1895 u.s.
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07
NEW YORK DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. Oct. 6.-Dry goods-The weather
was unpropitious and business was light in all
departments. Cotton goods fairly steady with
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07

$50 to $4,000 Hss ben !nsssssd ann q
paid 800 per cent l,rofit. "How TO do it, book
Bankers, Wall street, n. Y.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07

unchanged prices: cotton hanne.s in good de-
nand and nrm: cheviots less active; prints
quiet; ginghams Ia active demand: dress goods
ana a.. ieis skirts In steady request; wool na1nels
fairly a tive and in light supply.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07
NEW foIsk U0r1Ok MAaKEr.

nav roRK, Oct. 6.--CoTto1-s5ste. were made
OF mlddhne upland a. iSz@Is5s- Futures
closed strong; sles were made ~ Follows: 9eller
October IL $50; seller November ~ Ia r. setlsr
december, lSc; seller January. - l-I5Zls' s-SSe.
seller February, Is s-s2al3 lee; selier March,
Is DE seller April, Is ll.l6Qls,<c. seller
NAY ~ 10 20; seller June, i4t4ll S-lSc seller
SSnnly' IL o-losh n-SSc; seller August, IA 7-lea
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07
REVIEW OF THE HOME MARKET.

In all the states.....
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
Interesting Import and Export Stats.
tics.

WAsH1NeroN, April IS.
The report for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1874, has just been published. 1t
shows that during that year the value of
goods and merchandise imported into the
United States from foreign countries, and
upon which duty was paid, amounted to
$415, 748, SOB. The amount of duty paid
to the United States on that valuation was
$3.50, 1885, 905, or about 30 per cent. of the
entire valuation of the goods imported.
During the same period the value OF goods
and merchandise imported, and upon
which, being on " the free list no direct
duty was imposed, amounted to $3.50, Ill.,
O6l. These values are, however, SUBJ
jcct to what is known as discriminate
ing duty" and yielded to the
United States in the shape of revenue
$133 $50. Discriminating duty is a
duty of 10 per cent. charged upon goods
imported from countries other than those
in which the goods were grown or manu-
featured, and goods imported in vessels
owned in countries which discriminate
against American vessels. The total value
of goods imported for the year was $685.
S61 ,248. The total value of our exports
for the year, reduced to gold value, was
$652 ,913, 445-showing balance in favor
OF the United States OF $57 ,O02, 1877. Ut
specie and bullion we imported $29, Asa,
9O6 and exported $66 $3.50, 4O5, the balance
against us being $3S, 175 400. Compared
with the year 1878 the value of our
exports for 1874 show an increase of $43,-
906, 491 and our imports a decrease of
SIS, 767 1852.
The following table will show the total
value and duty of foreign merchandise en-
tered into consumption in the United
States from 1867 to 1874 inclusive:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
The History Of the Fan.

A curious little volume has Just ap-
peared, giving the history of fans among
all nations and at all periods. The author,
N. Blondel, who has been able to examine
many rare collections, states that it first
came from the East, where it is always &C.
companied by fiy-flap and parasol.
The former is made of tail of the Tribe
tian buffalo, white as snow, and of which
the extremity is tuft of hair in the form
of a plume. Fans of feathers, recently in
fashion, date from the seventh century.
They were first used in China, where the
Emperor Kao Tsong, having heard the
cry of a pheasant, supposed to be an
suspicious sign, ordered fan to be made
shaped like the tail of that bird Accord
ing to the author of the "Etudes Asiat-
iques," that article had more than one
singular use; on it the rich deposited the
aims which they gave to the poor; the
great received on it the delicacies offered
to them; it was lowered before superiors
as mark of Difference; the mobiles carried
it to court and it served to cool them from
the heat of the day, and to amuse them
while waiting in the ante chamber; it was
the instrument of punishment of the
school master, and at the same time was
given as reward. A fan placed on a
plate of a particular form announced to
the criminal Of noble family his sentence,
and it was at the moment in which he
held out his hands to receive the fatal
present that the exccutioner was to accom-
plish his work.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

Amos Eddy, a wellto-do farmer in
Walden, VT, with wife and four chill
dren, cut his throat from.e ear to ear with a
pocket knife several days ago. He had
been buying butter and lost heavily.
Mr.. Lewis E. Mahon, of New Preston,
Conn, was taken with severe bleeding
at the nose the other day. The bleeding
was almost constant for twenty
hours, and few minutes after it stopped
the man died.
"A young man named Frank Sherman,
of New London, Conn.,, has just died
from the effects of a slight wound from a
shoe knife which he was using few
weeks ago, his blood having evidently
been poisoned by the knife.
An unwelcome visitor, in the shape of
a skunk, has for some time lived in the
cold-air box of furnace in house near
Boston, and the family have fed it, as
they do not wish it to die there, and hope
it will vacate, while they are very careful
not to irritate it.
AT Albany, N. Y, recently, a girl
named Ida Harden, aged fourteen years,
dressed herself, whistling and singing
meanwhile, and on completing her toilet
she took a -barreled revolver and
fired two shots into her body. She died
from the effects the same afternoon.
"A strange case of desertion occurred
in Meriden, Conn.,, the other night, when
young woman who had been married
several years and had two children dis
appeared with one of them while her hus-
band was eating supper, leaving a note
saying that it would be useless to follow
her, and has not been found SINCE
"A Waldoboro (NIe.) young man went
to take young lady sleigh-riding, some
time ago, and she kept him waiting three
hours while she got ready. During the
ride they had quite an animated talk about
it, ending in his ordering her to get out of
the sleigh, which she did, and walked
home, distance of three miles.
An agent of the Portland (Me.) Gas
Company called at house, the other day,
and asked to be shown the gas meter. The
people in the house had read of the East
Boston murder, and, as the man was go
ing down stairs, he suddenly looked
around and saw two women following him
with pokers. He adjourned the examina-
ton.
A Fairfield (Me.) lumberman, who
has done business with ex-Gov. Coburn
for more than twenty-fi years, says that
in the purchase of $500, 900 worth of logs
during that period no written contract was
ever made, and the Governors memory
was so good that, years afterward, he
would give all the details of each pur-
chase and the date of every payment.
Micah W. Hodgdon, well-known
dry goods commission merchant, has left
Boston after committing one Of the mean
est swindles on record. He had been in
trusted with $4,000 United States bonds
by his mother in-law, to deposit in the
safety deposit vaults, and had regularly
paid over to her the proceeds of the
coupons, and was intrusted with the key
to the box in which they were kept. It
has now been discovered that he has sold
the bonds within the past few months and
appropriated the money.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Mary Sellers and Mrs. Barbara
Babb, Of Milton, Mass, are probably the
oldest twins in New England, being
eighty five years of age.
Mr.. Hepworth Dixon is engaged upon
a new work on America, growing out of
the observations of his recent visit here
A prominent topic in the book will be the
gradual decadence of half breeds.
Alexander H. Rice and E. D. Kins-
ley, of Boston, were SO moved by hearing
Dean Stanley preach Christmas sermon
in Westminster Abbey that they bought
out the whole stock in trade of q pork pie
shop and gave it to q crowd of hungry
men.
The New York Tribune recently cele-
brated its thirty -fifth anniversary by TAX
ing possession of its new building, print
description of the building, giving the fig
ures Of its circulation, claiming the aver
age to be over $4,000 daily.
The vexed question of the authorship
of the "Saxe Holm Stories" has at last
been settled. 1t is said that SAKE Holm is
lady, accomplished, unmarried and on
the sunny side of "forty year." Her
name is quaint and Quaker -like-Ruth
LlllS-iIU utI lOIllc LII Sludll Village Ill
Central New York.
Gen. Spinner's father was German
who began life by studying for the priest
hood, entering monastery and-desert-
ing it all for the love of fair-haired
Madcben, whom he married, and, to escape
persecution, fled with her to free Amer
lea. And in New York was born their
eldest-Francis E. Spinner, the present
United States Treasurer.
Sir Charles Lyell has left / fortune of
about $4,000. To the London Geo.
graphical Society he willed $4,000, the
annual interest of this sum to be applied
to the encouragement of geology or allied
sciences. The money, it is provided, is to
be appropriated partly for travelling ex-
penses or memoirs or papers, and without
reference to the sex or nationality of the
authors.
Gen. Burnside Is said to be a strik-
ing contrast to his predecessor, Senator
Sprague, who gave one the idea of not
very-precocious boy. There is sort of
full-dress- parade air about the General,
who spoils his otherwise faultless and
rather exquisite dress by wearing a snuff
colored vest buttoned up to the throat
closely. His very striking face is much
the best in full view, and his almost bald
head looms up like "a promontory of
white chalk, bleak and bare. -Philadelphsa
Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
Women as Artists.

The Baltimore Gazette, speaking OF
the painters should be recruited from
among women as well as from among
men is natural and right. Reasoning
merely from natural laws, a woman should
have all the delicacy of touch, all the ar
tistic sense of beauty Of color and har-
mony of effect, and especially the subtitle
sentiment, requisite to make an artist. In
certain branches of art she might not be
able to command success. But art has an
infinite variety. 1t is as wide as nature
itself, as varied as man and mans life;
as high and vague and imaginative as the
unseen world and all the airy creations OF
fancy. All women, because they study
art, may not be Rosa Bonheurs or Angelica
Kaufmans. They may not even reach
the level Of Miss Hosmer, and may be
compelled to forsake the Congressinnally
flower strcwn paths Of the Winnie Rcams.
They will undergo process of sitting as
men do who make art profession. They
must have the same qualities, love of art
for arts sake, a vivid perception of the
salient points of beauty, deft hand, a
true eye, and, above all, perseverance. The
poet may he born, not made; but the artist
has to I've born and made too. All that we
have said is, it will be seen, no discour.
agement to a woman artist. Who has
of beauty and fitness respond more quick
ly to culiivationy Who can be educated
to love and appreciate art and ar.
tistic arrangement, and the great
loneliness of nature, from the per-
lection Of flower and the wavy
beauty of field of wind-ripplcd wheat to
the gathering storm of summers day?
Her impressions are quick and vivid.
Why should she not, then, be painter:
She has insight; why cannot she put the
insight into tangible form, with technical
skill, proper color, light, shade. pcrspect.
i've, correct drawing? And still if she
cannot do this the time is not thrown away
for the woman who has studied art.
We do not speak of painting as an elegant
amusement, a delightful occupation OF
spare hours, a source of qualification in pre-
serving memorable places, persons and
many of the smaller pleasures Of memory
which ordinarily fade away and are lost
to us. We might very well do this, but it
is not the intention with which we started
out. That was the pursuit OF art us a pro-
tession by women artists. In doing so we
have dismissed from contemplation all
who have no special talent Such per-
sons had better abandon art at once.
Its ranks are crowded enough. There is
room for more, but not at the bottom.
Half way up the pressure is relieved, and
at the top of the ladder there is no COM
plant of want of elbow-room. Therefore
it is of those who have at least some lpti-
tude for art we spoke when we said that
its study was not time wasted, even to
those who cannot hope to attain the high.
est station.''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
The DeatE.Rate.

From facts collected by medical men in
all parts of the world it appears that a sud-
den and heavy increase of the death-rats
among adults marked the winter of 1915.
In the Southern States Of this Union and
in Northern Europe the same disclosures
are made by the records Of vital statistics.
They all agree in the main parts of their
reports, and declare that unprecedented
changes from the normal state Of the
weather occurred during the past cold
months. The weather was cold and moist.
That combination produced pulmonary
disease and pneumonia. At the same
time it made this class Of ailments ex-
tremely difficult to cure. Diphtheria was
also prevalent in an unusual degree. In
some sections it amounted to an epidemic,
and scores of people were carried off by it
in q short time. DR.. Harris, Registrar
of Vital Statistics in New York, reports
that in that city the total percentage of
deaths will be from IL to Is per cent. ad-
ditional, and in special classes of diseases
most fatal the ratio has been doubled. In
reference to diphtheria the reports from
Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Liverpool,
Dublin, Vienna and Hamburg show that
the ravages have been widespread and
fatal. Paris has q lower per cent. of
deaths from this malady. This is ac-
counted for by the excellent sanitary reg
ulations in force in the French capital, and
the rigid manner in which they are car
ried out by especial officers appointed for
that purpose. The physicians say that
persons in the constant habit of taking
strong liquors are in great danger from
diphtheria. In these persons the mucous
membrane of the throat is weakened to
q fatal extent, and, as q matter of
course, cannot resist the double as.
sault of cold atmosphere and that
heavily laden with moisture. In this sec
ton the weather was unusually trying upon
people from the LIST Of January to the 1st
Of April. One storm followed another in
rapid succession, and in most places the
transition was so sudden as to produce
consequences of a very unpleasant If not
fatal character. No attention to clothing
could prevent the action of the damp,
rasping air upon the throat and lungs, ana
hence the increase in this family OF COM
plants. Among those who were CON-
PEELED to live in damp houses and go half
clad the ratio of mortality was of necessity
greater. The winter Of 1886 was
marked with heavy mortality rates, but
not so heavy as those Of 1S74-75, which
are now being presented to the world in
the snaps Of regularly. collected vital
statistics. -Pi ttsbu1yH Commercial,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
A Haunted Mine.

The Little Emma mine, about six miles
southeast from Helena, is one of the most
promising silver-bearing lodes in this
vicinity. There is a shaft sunk on the
lode to depth of 1875 feet, and several
tunnels have been run along the lode.
Twelve men have been working (night and
day shifts) for some time past. Recently
a new man was employed. He was an en-
tertaining talker, and possessed an mex
haustible supply of ghost and fairy tales,
with which he helped to while the long
winter evenings away. A pump had been
in use for some time, as there was water at
the bottom of the shaft, and for the pur-
pose of hosting the water horse was
kept going on his endless round, a little
distance from the mouth of the shaft One
night beam or something got loose,
struck the horse ON the head and killed
him. Next night, while the miners were
at work in the breast of the tunnel, some
seventy feet from the shaft, an unearthly
voice was heard at the shaft. The miners
listened for some time. The weird tone
penetrated all the tunnels, and went echo.
ing in wild, ghostly monotone into their
deepest and darkest recesses. With fear
in their hearts, and crow-bars and picks
in their hands, the miners started for the
shaft, where they arrived in safety, and
were hailed by the man at the top, who
wanted to know what that uncarthly yell
ing meant. The miners were now thor.
oughly aroused. There was a ghost
in some of the tunnels, certain,
but as they had only an hour or
so to work lit was three o'clock in
the morning) they concluded to go back to
the breast of the tunnel, but using the pre-
caution to detail couple of men to keep
sharp lookout through the gloom of the
drift. At intervals the sound would be re-
peated; now loud and piercing-again
soft and low; dying away with sort of
mournful vail through the tunnels. Their
| labors done, the men were rejoiced to find
themselves on the surface, with broad day
light around them. 1t was great relief
to be free from the gloom and ghostly
sounds of the shaft and tunnels. The next
day and night the sounds were repeated,
and the majority of the miners were salts
fled that the mine was haunted. Some OF
them proposed to quit and come to Helena,
as they could discover no legitimate cause
for the disturbances. At last, after a week
which appeared an age to some of tho
men-one Of the miners claimed that he
had discovered the ghost. 1t appears that
the shaft was few feet deeper than the floor
of the tunnel, and, when the wafer raised,
the bucket, which was attached to the
rope BY an iron hook, kept drifting from
one side of the shaft to the other, and the
iron hook, sliding and rasping on the iron
bail Of the tub, made the ghostly noises
heard by the miners. The majority &C
cepted this explanation as satisfactory
But some of the men still think that
ghosts and hobgoblins hold nightly revels
in the tunnels of the Emma mine
Helena Independent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
A Genuine Surprise Party.

A little while ago a young gentleman
and lady decided to unite their fates in
Hymen's rosy chains, and the intention
was duly carried out few weeks ago. In
discussing their prospects just before the
wedding occurred the young couple con-
cluded that they could not go to house.
keeping Immediately, but must board for
a year or so. There are few things which
young wife resigns with more reluctance
than the hope Of succeeding to neat,
cozy home of her own, but this young
lady did so and made up her mind to be
as happy as possible in boarding house.
But just before the wedding the groom
heard of an opportunity to purchase a
charming little house, just such as his
prospective wife pictured their home
should be, and newly furnished precisely
according to her taste. A bargain was
offered in the whole affair and the groom
closed instanter upon it, but resolved to
keep the transaction Secretion a sur
prise to his wife.
This he did effectually. After the we'd
ding the happy pair started upon the usual
trip and in due time returned to the city.
The husband suggested to his wife that
before going to the hotel at which they
proposed to board they go up into the city
to call upon a certain friend of theirs.
She assented, the hickman was directed
to drive to their house and they were
shortly deposited at the door of neat
dwelling on - street. The door bell
was rung, the servant appeared and ush-
cred them into q neatly furnished parlor;
a bright fir~ was burning in the polished
CRATE, and everything was exceedingly
cosy and homelike. The wife sat down
and the husband said he would step back
into another room to look for the gentle
man of the house. He returned, shortly,
alone, and the lady of the house also was
not forthcoming. The young wife ex-
pressed surprise and wondered what could
be keeping the hostess so long.
The time for the denouement had come
and the young husband tenderly informed
the bride that she was the sole mistress of
the house and all it contained.
Tableau-Tears, kisses, etc., ad li6itum.
Toledo Blade.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29

Things are pretty well matched in this
world, so far as taking comfort goes, and
we begin to believe that, high and low, all
have their tribulations. Fishes are hooked,
worms are trodden on, birds are fired at
Worry is everywhere. Poor mems wives
worry because the bread won't rise, or the
stove won't draw, or the clothes-line
breaks, or the milk burns, or the pane of
glass is mended with putty, or they can't
afford to hire help. Rich mems wives
worry because the preserve dish isn't Of
finds out how pretty dress is trimmed be-
fore the party happens, or because some
grandee's wife overlooks them, or because
their help sauces 'em, breaks up tea-sets,
spoils dinners, gets. drunk, and cuts up
sheets into underclothes. Causes vary,
but worry. averages the same. The scale
of miles is different on different maps, but
places remain just so far apart, and so do
humanity and COMBINATIONS Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29

This is the way the Montpelier Argus
and Patriot feels over its delinquent-sub-
scribers' list: Have you ever seen citi.
zen of African descent recumbent in the
repose of death, with copper coins lying
on his eyes, and then seen some puissant
mean white slyly side up and steal those
cents. Such thief would be q despica-
BILE libel on humanity, but even he would
not be more Objectionable in our view
than person who will deliberately steal
reading matter for himself and family by
taking a paper and not paying for it."