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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
WhiteWash for Outbuildings.

The following is from the proceedings
of the New York Farmers Club: The
Chairman said that in response to an in
quiry for the best whitewash for barns
and outbuildings he had received the fol-
lowing: Take a busllcl of well-burned
lime, white and unslackcd, twenty pounds
of Spanish whiting, seventeen pounds of
rock salt, and twelve pounds of brown
sugar. Stake the lime and sift out any
coarse Jumps and mix it into a good white
wash, with about forty gallons of water,
and then add the other ingredients and
stir the whole together thoroughly, and
put on two or three coats with common
brush. To make cream color add to the
above three pounds of yellow ochre; a
fawn color, four pounds lumber, one pound
Indian red, and one of lampblack; if
a gray or stone color is wanted add four
pounds of raw lumber and two of lamp
black. DIR. Smith said that he was of the
opinion that sugar was of no service in
the making of whitewash. 1t was nom
sensical to use it in such mixture, as it
would do no good and its use would be
simply waste of money. The rock salt
mentioned he supposed was coarse salt.
He could not say whether or not the latter
would improve the mixture. Mr.. Ely
said that he had found in his experience
that tallow was good ingredient for
whitewash, but DR.. Smith did not agree
with him, as he thought that tallow would
not mix we'll with lime.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
I" The RObbcrS'' in Real Life,

A modern Francis de Moor, sordid and
commonplace, but equally cruel, has APP
pearcd in Philadelphia. He is second
hand clothes-dcaler, whose father is
seventy five years of age. The old man
had about 5000, which the son succeeded
in getting hold OF, and soon the father
disappeared. The police got wind of the
affair, and made search about the prem
ises for the missing man. The son was
asked what he had in his cellar, and he
Immediately replied that he was keeping
his dogs there, but denied that his aged
father was imprisoned in the wretched
hole. This denial, however, did not sat
isfy the officers, and they concluded to
explore the cellar for themselves. The
door was unlocked, and the two officers of
the law went down into the zimmerman
darkness. They had provided themselves
with candle, fortunately, and struck a
light. The white-haired old man was
discovered lying upon rotten straw
mattress in one corner of the black hole,
in a terrible plight The atmosphere of
the damp abode was staggering and poi
sOnOus, there being no ventilation in any
nook or corner. Around him was pack
of savage dogs, while the dirt floor was
strewn with bones and halfeaten plucks
in an advanced stage of decom
position, and emitting horrify-
ing stencil. The unnatural son had
not word of apology to utter in ex.
tenuation of the cruel usage of his father,
but the latter complained bitterly. The
son was ordered to take his parent out of
the hog pit, which he did. Not satisfied
with the persecution he had already in
flicted the son took the old man over
across the street to an empty house which
he had rented and locked him up in it.
There was no bed in it for him to sleep
upon, no chair upon which to sit, no
light to dispel the nightly gloom, and no
companionship but the huge rats which
thrive in great communities among the
shamblcs and decs of the street. In this
miserable rookery the old man existed for
three days and nights, his son taking him
water and cold scraps of victuals once a
day with which to ward off starvation.
At last another son, the Charles de Moor
Of this horrid drama, appeared upon the
scene. He did not avenge his parents
sutferings, but, what was far more to the
purpose, removed his father to place of
comfort and safety, leaving his demon
like brother to enjoy his ill-gotten profits.
Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Sooy, the New Jersey defaulter, is
said to have looked upon Ralston's fate
from Sooy- side-al point of view.
The two Misses Thornton, daughters
of the British Minister, will make their
debut in society at Washington the coming
winter.
james Russell Lowell is getting
"pitched into" by the Eastern folks on
account of his poetic inclination to speak
of the degeneracy of the times.'
-Betsey Carr, of Claremont, N. H., is
deaf and dumb. With these wonderful
qualifications for making a man happy,
she has lived 104 years without marrying
or being given in marriage.
"A work which, if it can be success
fully carried out, will he a most interesting
feature of the Educational Bureau at the
Centennial, is an historical representation
of textbooks, of which DR.. L. p. Brockett,
of New York, has undertaken the prepare
ton.
"A Philadelphia man sent Bismarck a
cane made from piece of the original
timber in Independence Hall, recently,
and Bismarck has returned his heartfelt
thanks for the present, referring to cele
bration of the 18th of July he had with
certain Americans forty-three years ago.
In the rear part of Gen. Spinner's res
iaence at Mohawk, N. Y, is a room which
is described as the ex- Treasurer's special
pride. 1t contains his geological and con-
Geological collection. This is one of the
largest of the kind in the State, and was
made entirely by the General in the inter
walls of rest from his public duties.
-Robespierre's first case at the French
bar was in defending client charged
with impiety for having a lightning rod.
The great American people will hold
Robespierre's name in execration, for he
cleared his client, and gave the lightning
rod business an impetus which the aver
age farmer never ceases to lament.-Er-
change.
The Rev. w. H. H. Murray's new So
ciety has secured Music Hall, Boston, for
Sunday services for one year from Octo-
Der /. At the expiration Of the lease it is
expected that his new STE, 200 church on
a $4,000 corner lot will be completed.
From these figures one would judge that
as Rule his followers possessions are
Golden.
In February, 1878, Congress passed
an act awarding gold medals to ten citi-
zens of Westerly, r. l., for saving the
lives of thirty passengers from the
steamer Metis, which was wrecked on Long
Island Sound, Aug. 81, 1872. These
medals, appropriately inscribed, have been
received at the Treasury Department from
the Philadelphia mint, and will be pre-
sented to whom they were voted by the
President at day to be by HIM indicated.
The names of those who were voted the
medals are Jared S. Crandall, Albert
Crandall, John F. Larkin, Frank Larkin,
Byron Green, John D. Harvey, CORTLAND
Gavitt, Eugene Nash, Edwin Nash and
William NASH The intrinsic value of
each medal is $140.-Procidence (R. ~
Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
Gilt.Edged" Butter.

There are at least two dairymen and but
ter-makers in the neighborhood Of Phila
delphia who always sell their butter at
one dollar a pound, and cannot supply all
who desire to be their customers. One Of
these attributes his success to three points,
good food for his COWS, uniform tempera-
ture of tifty-eight degrees in the milk
room, and neatness, cleanliness and dainty
nicely at every step from the moment the
milk is obtained until the dollar is paid
for the pound Of butter. He feeds his
COWS often, and not much at time, on
white clover and early-mown meadow
hay, which he cuts fine, moistens and
mixes with corn meal and wheaton shorts.
Pastures and meadows arc kept quite free
from weeds. The milk-room is kept at a
temperature of itty-eight degrees by flowing
spring water. GAS good butter can be made
without water as with, but the milk and
cream must he kept at all times little
below sixty degrees" The other import
ant point-cleanliness- secures by
keeping the milk-housc free from all I'M
pleasant surroundings, allowing no milk
to sour upon the floor of the room or to
decompose in the creviccs of the milk
pans, churns or other utensils. Tie above
is descriptive of the care with which the
cOstliest Philadelphia butter is made, but
the ordinary article sold in our markets at
half the price is not much inferior in
quality, thanks to the tidy housewives in
Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Coun-
ies.-Phsladelphaa Ledger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

gus. and: similar vegetables; but not by
trying one thing for a year or two, then
another, thereby running the risk of hav-
ing short or small crop in the seasons of
the highest prices.
Whenever a change in the products of a
farm really appears to be advisable, it
would be well for the owner to look over
the prices for the principal articles for the
previous ten years or more, and see if the
average will not insure continuance of
the same. OF course we do not take into
consideration any deterioration in the fer
tility of the soil or crops cultivated; for a
man who permits this in one case is pretty
certain to fail in whatever he may under
take; hence it is scarcely worth while to
offer him advice. A farmer who will per-
NIT the average yield per acre of wheat to
fall from thirty to ten bushels in dozen
years, would probably neglect to feed or
milk his COWS, should he attempt to estab-
lish a dairy; consequently a change from
wheat to butter and cheese could scarcely
be considered advisable. We are not dis
posed to argue against farmers making
radical changes in systems of culture, or
in the character of the products of their
farm, for the thoughtful, intelligent farmer
often does it greatly to his advantage. But
the constant vacillation from one extreme
to another, varying the kind of products
in vain attempt to keep even with mar
kets, has ruined ten farmers where one has
been benetitted.-N. Y. Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

a young lady was engaged to be married
For some reason or other the marriage
did not come off, and the girl was placed
in Benedictine nunnery at Oporto. Soon
after came the abolition of converts; but,
while the monasteries were absolutely
dissolved, and the monks scattered, the
nuns who were already inmates of relig-
ious houses were suffered there to remain
The young lady, accordingly, on the sup
preston occurring, did not leave the Ben
edictine Convent. 1t is to be presumed,
however, that the rules of this particular
establishment were somewhat relaxed, for
the young gentleman who had been en-
gagged to this nun was observed to take hi
constant stand before the barred window
of his former mistress cell, while she
would become visible behind the grating.
Here the romance have imagined would
perhaps rather lack incident, and, except
in masters hand, might grow monot-
onous, for this hopeless courtship lasted
no fewer than four-and. thirty years, till
bowed and middle-aged man paced the
pavement and looked up to gray haired
mistress. 1t only ended with the death of
the lady, few years ago. Many persons
have assured me that they have often been
eye-witnesses of what l have described,
and found that the fact was quite notori-
Gus in Oporto. 1t will, of course, be I'M
derstood that the stagnating life I have
described, with its narrow circle of inter-
ests and its little meannesscs of household
detail, is confined to the halfcducated,
inhabitants of small country
towns. The higher native society Of Lis
bon, with its courtly Influences. and that
of Oporto-which holds the same relative
position to Lisbon that Edinburgh did to
London be]6re. the days of steam-can
with that of any capital of
Europe. The men are high bred, courteous
and Intelligent, and the ladies have
charm OF manner and talents for society
which all foreigners admit.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
Cure for a FelOn.

We warn our readers against paying
attention to any newspaper paragraphs in
reference to health and disease; unless the
name of the writer is attached. There is
scientific cure for felon always safe,
always etficacious, believed instantaneous
and always: Get physician to plunge
his lancet down to the bone. A natural
felon is born THETA physiological ftlon
is a boil between the bone and sincw, or
"fascia," as the doctors love to talk.
When boil is under The skin only it is
painful enough until it breaks" that is
until the skin divides or bursts and lets
out the yellow matter; but when it is re-
mcmbercd that the sinew is as much
tougher than the skin as beef hide is
tougher than paper, it is easy to see that
the pain Of a boil under the sinew is more
terrible than one under the skin, and that
it must take longer to make its way
through the tascia than through the skin ;
hence, instead Of passing many sleepess
nights and agonizing days in waiting for
the matter to be absorbed or make its way
through the tough tendon, the educated
surgeon advises the use of the lancet as
above, for the cure is just as certain, and
the relief from the agonizing pain is just
as instantaneous, as in the case of the ex-
traction of an aching TOOTH The cause
of felon is usually a bruise of the finger
heavy enough to reach down to the bone
and to inflame it.-Halps Journal Of Health.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
THE OLD FARMGATE.

The old farm gate hangs, sagsing down,
On rusty hinges, bent and trown;
Ats latch is gone, and, here and there,
1t shows rude traces Of repair.
That old farm gate has seen, each year,
The blossoms bloom and disappear;
The bright green leaves Of spring unfold,
And turn to autumn's red and gold.
The children have upon it chung,
And in and out, with rapture swung,
When their young hearts were good and pure
When hope was fair and faith was sure,
Beside that gate, have lovers true
Told the old story, always new;
Have made their vows; have dreamed of bliss
And sealed each promise with a kiss.
The old farm gate has opened wide
10 welcome home the new-made BRIDE
When lllacs blOomed, and locusts fair
with their sweet fragrance filled the air.
That gate, with rusty weight and chain
Has closed upon the solemn train
mat bore her lifelcss form away,
Upon dreary autumn day.
The lichcns gray and moses green
pom It's rotten posts are seen;
Initials, carved with youthful skill,
Long years ago, are on it STILL
Yet dear to ma above all things,
by reason ct the thoughts it brings,
Is mat OLD gate, now sagging down,
Oh rusty hinges, bent and brown.
Eugene J. Hail.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

But John was not looking a: her now
He was crouched in the most remote par
of the hogshead, trying, by various gest
ures, to drive away huge mastiff which
threatened to make his whereabouts
| known.
The sun had gone down, and Johns
hungry horse had quietly walked of
home, and still the two girls chatted
away.
"Well, Bruno, what have you got in
there? I'm sure you've been whining and
paving there for half an hour, at least u
And Hctty came forward and pattcd the
dogs hairy back with her hands.
"Why, Kitty, there is some dreadful ami.
NAL in here. What pair of eyes has! Are
there any wildcats in the woods? Thank
my nerves, if uncle and Charley are away,
that horrid creature is. In my opinion,
here is where your geese have gone to.
III warrant the ground in there is strewn
with bones. You and Bruno keep watch
while / run to the house for gum
Hetty had ratified all this off in breath
less fashion, and before Kitty had time to
look at the "dreadful ANIMAL" only the
great, luminous eyes of which could be
seen, her cousin was on her way to the
house.
What was John to do now? Stay where
he was and be shot by the courageous lit
tie Hetty, or crawl from his lair like a
Hottentot from his hut, and right before
kitty's eyes, toos The faithful dog began
to wag his tail and whine with renewed
animation, and John thought the gun must
be coming surely. Life was sweeter to
him now, since hearing what Kitty had
said of himself, than ever before, and,
creeping to the opening, he began the get
ting out process.
Kitty, who was pcering anxiously in,
saw that 1.-the creature was moving-tha
it was coming toward her-and giving a
spasmodic little scream she sank help
lessly to the ground, and covered her face
with her apron.
Kitty's distress made John for the mo-
ment forget that he was the most bashful
man alive, and surely the arms which
Kitty felt cncircling her waist were not
those of wild beast. Knowing this, it
did not need great amount of courage to
enable her to uncover her face and see that
the great eyes which had so frightened her
belong ed to John Patterson.
1t was strange that neither she nor ohm,
during the half hour they tarried together
under the apple-tree, thought of Hetty or
the gun she had gone to bring. Perhaps
neither would have remembered Hetty's
boosted nerve" in connection with the
use of that weapon again had not that
young lady herself two years later re-
minded a certain happy bridegroom and
his equally happy bride of the incident,
and informed them that she knew all the
time that John was in the hogshead, as
she saw him put himself there, and that
her part of the conversation under the
apple-trce was INDUCED in solely with a
view to encourage the bashful lover to
propose.
Mrs. John Patterson scolded her cousin
bride. maid for her duplicity, but for all
that it was plain to be seen she was not
angry, especially since Hetty had that
very day acknowl lodged that she was proud
to class her Cousins handsome husband
among her friends.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

MR.. BASS, the great English ale manu-.
facturer, pays the Midland Railway e171,-
600 year for freight, owns one success
full weekly newspaper called the Railaoay
Service gazette, and has just started an
other, the Commercial Traveller. 1t is said
that there are over 10000 commercial
travellers always on the move in the
United Kingdom.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

The Medical Ne,cs tells of colored
man who fell distance Of 258 feet in a
mine. Two of his companions were
killed, but he survived and got quite we'll.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

THE latest example of cooperative in
dustry was recently shown at Monticello,
Tenn, where the whole able-bodied popu-
lation turned out to clear up their GENE.
tory ~ 81 A$ &: "~ ~ F E r.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

THE GREAT FAvoR1TE!-The popular CnIu
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the highest place in the long line of rene
dies for Chills and Fever. 1t is not only
Anti-Pcriodic but is Anti-Panic, for it cur
tails the heavy expense of doctors visits,
where friendly visits are all itemized in the
account current. A penny saved is a penny
health and comfort Try Wilhoft's Tonic as
a certainty and you will never regret it.
WHEELoCK, F1NLAY & Co., Proprietors, New
Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

A MINSTREL manager advertiscs for a
tenor singer "who knows how to work
up laugh when the end man is getting
off joke"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23

THE church at Bethlehem Heights, N.
H., occupies the highest point of ground
of any church edifice in the United States.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-07-11
nAI.IAs COUNTY.

District Judge-H. Barksdale, Dallas'
Criminal Court Judge-Silas Hare, Sher-
man. 60, n,iios
District Attorney-Ed. q. Bower, Dallhs;
District and ex-Oifcio County Clerk-
Alexander HARDWOOD. p,...o NJ
Deputy Clerks-R. ID. Rawlins, Pierre
Brown, William A. HARDWOOD.
Sherlff-James +. Barkley.
Tax Clerk-Adolphe King. ,r,...
Deputy Sheriffs-J. NJ. Chapman, Thomns
a. Floyd, Thomas p. Scott, Beverly scout
John Bowen. -
Surveyor-Roberr NJ. COOK.
Observation-Disclosures ". Cole.
Cattle and Hide Inspector-Thomas John-
JUSTICES or TIKI PLACE..
Precinct No. IN. NJ. Buriord presiding
Precinct No. 2-willlam A. George, Lam
caster. . - .,,, rto
Precinct No. 4-Thomas L. Frank, Breck'
slnridge. 49,. s,.,,o,.,
O0ysTABLRS.
Precinct No. Ia. H.Hardin
Precinct No. IN. NJ. Fondren.
Precinct No. 3-R. +. Barker.
Precinct No. Al. y, Eloyd.
Precinct No. 81. A. Fisher
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-07-11
MlsGELLAREauS
DIR. G. IlLANE'S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS.
ION Tug cuHE pF
LIVER COMPLAINT,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
symploms ON Dlseased LIyer.

eyWplplIlapl u blas'hsl LlVef'
DAM in the right side, under rhe
i edge Of Ihe ribs, increase on pres
mrgi sometimes che pain Is IN Ihe
len sideI che patient 10 rarely able
% he ON tho leil side sometimes
the pain u lelt under tho shoulder
blade. and il frequently extends %
the top OF tho shoulder, aud Is some,
dimes mistaken Tor q rheumatism in
the arm, The stomach Is affected
with loss OF appetite and sickness
the bowels In general arc oostlye,
sometimes alternative with lass the
head Is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with a dull, heavy sensation
IN the back part There ID generally
q considerable los Of memory, ac-
compauicd with a painful sensation
Of having leit mdonc something
which ought TO have been done. A
slight day couGh ID sometime, an At.
tcndmt The patient complains of
weMlncw and dchillDyi he Il easily
startled, bio lcetme cold or burning.
md he complains OF q prickly sensl-
uonot thc thiuI bis spirits are lows
aHd although he iimdsGcd that excr.
csc would be beneficial to him, yet
be can scarcely summon up lordlude
enough to uy IT, In fact, he d..
trusts every remedy Several Of the
above symptoms attend the disease,
but cascs have occurred where few
Of tbem existed, yct examination Of
thc body, after death, hm shown the
lrr0 TO have been extensively de-
rlnrcl.