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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-11-30
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Diamonds.

"Please tell me how much that tray
of diamonds is WORTH" l asked clerk
at Tiffany's the other day, pointing to a
tray about eighteen inches long and twelve
wide, on which were rings, crosses,
necklaces, brooches, etc., of "purest ray
"Well, about $500, 900, madame"
the celebrated diamonds Tiffany had on
have been removed on account of the
proprietor's fear of robbery: They are
beautiful beyond compare. Two set as
ear-drops are as large as a good-sized
marble each. An ornament for the hair is
shaped like peacock's tail when spread.
The brilliants in this ornament are each
There are pearls and emeralds mixed with
dred thousand dollars! Just think of it
for precious wares, covering eighteen
inches of blue velvet. The poor clerk
who was guarding the tray looked nerv-
ous.' He was watching everybody stand
but finger rested on the glass he grew
me think of woman at Long Branch one
suMMeI WHO caIrleu $0U,VUUWOrM OI ula.
monds in pocket under her skirt, and
her hand fast on the skirt over the pocket.
She kept saying: "Dear me; I look
queer with holding all the timc to my
dress so; but I've got SO many diamonds.
and I must take care of them" She
slept, and walked, and ate with those
precious stones concealed; but she went
to battle in the ocean, left them in her
room, and in one-half hour they were
stolen. Some of them have been recov.
cred, after great expense and trouble.-N
Y. Letter to st. Louis Republican.
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THE EAST.

A BILL to accord to women the same
privileges as men was defeated in the lower
house of the Vermont Legislature on the
18th.
The Methodist Missionary Committee, in
its annual Convention in New York on the
18th, decided upon s5OO,UOO as the limit to
be spent on mission work the coming year.
New York dispatches state that it is esti-
mated that there is an aggregate of $780,
600 held in the poolboxes ia that city,
wagered on the result of the Presidential
election, 81 ,250 600 of which amount is in
the establishment of John Morrissey.
THE Vermont House of Representatives
on the 18th finally passed bill for filling
the vacancy in the Electoral College-129 to
10. The act is specially designed to meet
the case of H. N. Sollace, said to be ineligi-
BILE.
GOLD closed in New York on the Goth at
1924. The following were the closing quo
tations reproduce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat New, s1.29@1.3O; No. 2 Milwaukee
New, $1.S1@l32; Oats, Western and
State, 33@52c. Corn, Western Mixed,
$4,000; Pork, Mess, $17.05; Lard, lie;
Flour good to choice, $5.55@5.6O; White
Wheat Extra, $5.65@6.75. Cattle, s1<@1Os4c
for good to extra. Sheep, 4@51<c. Hogs,
5%@6c.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 2Oth, cattle
brought: Best, $5.0O@5.25; medium, $3.50
CATS; common, $4.Oo@425. Hogs sold
Workers, $54O@5.6O; Philadelphia, IS. 75@
600. Sheep brought $4OO@5.25, according
to quality.
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A Wonderful Surgical Experiment.

English surgical and physiological stu
dents will find in the G0zetts des tHopi-
teaur interesting details Of an operation
of gastrotomy, attended SO far with sue
cessful results, which has been performed
at the Hospital de la Pitie, by DR.. Yer
neuil. The patient, a lad of seventeen,
had inadvertently swallowed quantity of
the solution of caustic potass. This &C.
Cured in February, and in spite OF the
most skillful treatment, the construction at
the upper orifice of the esophagus became
50. complete that death from hamilton
must inevitably have ensued without an
operation, which was accordingly per-
formed on the 26th Of July. i -
The results will be seen from the medi-
cal bulletin of the 10th September, which
states that the patient is in good health,
remains up all day, and even helps the
hospital assistants in their, work; he has
almost as much strength and energy as he
had before the accident. His diet is COM
posed of soups, fine.chopped meat,
mashed vegetables and drink, which are
injected through large elastic tube in
serted in the incision made in the stom-
ach. Under this treatment he gained up
ward of ten pounds in weight between
the 18th of August and the 14th of Sep
tember. "a ~ q e
4 At the moment OF the injection Of food
q fow OF ssliva in the mouth is produced,
in the election of which motion curious
ly resembling the action of chewing is re-
marked = he can distinguish between
warm and cold Substances, but otherwise
all are indifferent to him. It is stated
this is the first time the operation has been
successfully performed; the last time it
was attempted, but unsuccessfully, was in
1S49, by M. Sedillot, Professor of the
Faculty of Medicine of Strssburg.-Paris
Cor London Standard. .s.g..,
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The nationality Of the parents Of these
Adventures Of an IndiaH Diamond.

The following jewel story is told in a
recent number of Chdnsbegs' Journal: :
During the Indian mutiny, and after
the destruction OF some of the rich pal
aces and temples, the soldiers picked up
valuable articles, useless to themselves,
and which they frequently threw away
again, as troublesome to carry; or gladly
sold to any one who would give them
few rupees in exchange. Among these
acquisitions was a large, very roughly-cut
diamond, which had been one Of the eyes
of gorgeously painted idol, enshrined in
one of the temples that had been de.
stroyed. A soldier picked il out of its
socket, and as 1T was rough, dull look
ing stone, he thought very little Of it, and
was Just going to throw It away, when an
officer who stood by offered him two or
three rupees for it. He also put but. small
store by his purchase of the lusterless
stone; and It was, only from, its position
as tle eye Of an idol that Aef judged it
might possibly be of greater value than
seemed likely from Its outward appear
ance Some time atterward he showed it
to, q native jeweler, who offered to buy it
from him at q consid erable increase on
the price he had given for it; but he was
going to England, and thought itwiser to
take the stone with him, and have it
properly cut ny q frst-ciass 1apidary.
This was done and avery fine stone re-
suited, which the jeweler, at the: most
moderate calculation, valued at e5OO.
The officer had it set in q ring, and
wore it for several years quite safely; but
one fiav. CHANGING to be in London. he
went into shop to buy aspair of gloves,
and looking at the ring on his little finger
he observed that the setting was. empty.
the sdia9pnd gone. Re eIaniAed his
glove, his pockets, the hoor Of the shop;
no trace of the stone was to be seen. and
so he gave it up as lost However, he
mentioned the matter at his club, and
told, the club master to post up aFnotice
offering ten pounds reward to any one
who should find the diamond. A day or
two sfterw8rd the stone was brought to
him. 1t had been found by one of the
housemaids in darkish passage that led
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which is not a large one by any
means. Michael O'Hara and his family
of seven occupied the rear part Of the SEC
ond floor, and the remainder of the frame
was inhabited by William Wallace and
his wife and John Shay and wife. All of
the heads of these families are laboring
men. Every person in the house except
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace had retired to bed
when the terrible visitant arrived. This
couple but an instant before had been
seated on the precise spot on the second
floor where the bolt descended. Adjoin-
ing this building on the north is the one
story frame dwelling of James Cover,
occupied by John Mungavin, his wife and
children. A fragment of iron weighing
fully half ton descended into this house
within few feet from Mungavin's couch
and imbedded itself in the ground be-
meath. Mungavin received slight
scratch, but was not at all severely hurt.
None of his family were injured. Other
buildings suffered small amounts of dam
age which are not worth mentioning in
detail.
One of the workmen named Patrick
O'Connors, was fatally injured, and died
early on the morning after the accident.
Michael O'Leary was seriously injured
and would probably die, and three other
wOrkmen were also wounded.
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Big Spiders.

The sands of the steppes of Central
Asia are the abiding place of many
species of loathsome and poisonous
creeping things" Mr.. Schuyler speaks
of a phalange (Solpuga araneoides), one
Of the long legged spiders known popu-
larly as the Harvestman, or the Grand
father Gray beard, which has long hair,
and, when walking, seems as large as
ones two fists" This formidable beast is
given to biting when irritated, and with
its jaws makes four. little holes in the
flesh. The bite is poisonous, though not
deadly. Its victim feels at first no more
discomfort than from the sting Of gnat;
but, after time, the pain spreads over
the whole body, and IS accompanied with
fever and great exhaustion. A. Chinese
officer states, in his travels in Turkistan,
that the body Of the largest Solpugas is
the size of butternut; and that of the
smaller ones, of walnut. Spiders of
such dimensions, with their big, hairy
bodies lifted up on long, stout legs, must
be as frightful an adversary as one would
be likely to encounter in any experience
amid the haunts of wild animals.
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A Court Incident.

A very singular affair in the history of
our Common Pleas Court occurred yester
day. On Monday judge Watson adj
journed the court until yesterday after
noon at three O'Clock. 1t was expected
that at that hour Judge Finefrock would
be here to open the session, but that after
noon Prosecuting Attorney Lee received
advices from Judge Finefrock, who had
gone to Fremont, to the effect that he had
been taken ill suddenly at his residence,
mile and a half from the city, and could
not come here to open court that day.
This caused quite flutter among the at
torneys. The case of The State rs. John
Martin, Jr., of Kelly's Island, who is un-
der Indictment for assaulting William Nc
Gettigan, of that island, with intent to
kill him, had been set for trial that day,
and the witnesses were all in the court.
room awaiting the coming of Judge Fine
frock. If he-or Judge Watson failed to
be- here and the court were not opened
that day, the Common Pleas Court of
Erie County; according to the provisions
Of the law, would stand adjourned for
the present term. and all the Grim
inal cases set for trial would of
course be continued to the next term.
This was a pretty state OF atfairs,
and as matter OF course the legal
fraternity were considerably exercised
over it, kilograms were sent to Judge
Watson, who was holding court at Ere
mont, asking him to come here as quickly
as possible and open and adjourn court.
According to law this could be done any
time before twelve O'Clock last night. I'M
mediately on receipt of information in re-
lation to the situation, Judge Watson left
Fremont on the cars, but could come no
further by rail than Clyde. At the latter
place he hired a team of good horses and
driver, and as it was then very late, he
made the man drive the horses as rapidly
as they could 60, in order to reach here
before midnight. He arrived at the
Courthouse at twenty minutes to twelve
O'Clock, and hurrying into the courtroom,
where the Sheriff and prosecuting attor-
ney were waiting for him, he opened and
adjourned court as the law directs, and
thus averted forced sine die adjourn
ment. 1t was a pretty close call, but the
Judge was equal to the emergency, and
got here on time. The court was ad-
journed until Monday morning at seven
O'Clock. Judge Watson left here for
Clyde in his carriage shorty after twelve
O'Clock last night. He will proceed from
Clyde to Fremont and hold court there
to-day.-Sandusky (0sio) Register.
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to the billiard room. The reward was
gladly paid and the diamond taken to the
ieweler, to be once more firmly replaced
in the ring.
Again some years passed. The officer
had been back to India, and was on fur
Tough in this country, and had gone to
Scotland to shoot with friends who had
taken moor in the Highlands. One hot
August day he had been out for several
hours tramping over miles and miles of
close heather, grouse shooting. He was
still walking, when covey Of birds rose
little way of. He raised his gun to take
aim, when his eye CHANGED to fall on his
ring, and he saw that the setting was once
more empty. Stopping to look at it, the
birds got away; and he laid down the gun
On the heather beside him, and carefully
examined the place where he stood with
a very feeble hope of finding the glitter
ing stone. Nothing was to be seen of it;
and when he recollected the many miles
he had traversed that day, and the nature
of the ground he had been on, he aban-
doned all idea of ever again recovering
his diamond. He stopped for his gun,
and the thought flashed into his
mind: "I'll turn out the charge-the
thing is Just possible!" He did so; drew
the wad, and then shook out the contents
of the barrel, shot, powder and-the
diamond! 1t had slipped unnoticed into
the muzzle when he was loading; and but
for the lucky chance that had caused HIM
to remark the absence from the ring, it
| would have been fired away the next mo-
| ment. Possibly it might have hit bird,
gone back in the same bag, and caused as
much amazement to the cook, or to the
individual who found it between his
teeth, as did the diamond in the Eastern
tale to the fisherman and his family who
| discovered it in the entrails of the fish.
Another visit to the jeweler, and the ring
resumed its place on the finger of its own.
| er, and three or four wears passed away.
The officer had again returned to India,
and was with his regiment, which was en-
camped near large station, portions of
some other regiments being close to them.
He was acting as adjutant to the General
| in command, and was writing at small
| table placed close to the door of his tent.
As his hand passed rapidly over the paper,
| the troublesome diamond once more
dropped from its setting, and fell on the
| table beside him. Being in hurry, he
merely uttered an angry exclamation,
pushed the stone close to the inkstand,
and went on with his writing. Presently
messenger came to say that the General
wished to see him Immediately He for
got all about the stone, threw on his uni
form, buckled on his sword, and started
at once for the quarters of the command
| ing officer. He was detained some little
| time; and when he returned to his own
tent, he looked directly for the diamond,
which he had meanwhile recollccted; but
it was gone! A thief had been there
during his absence, and seen and appro.
priated the stone; and he never saw nor
heard of it again, though he offered a
liberal reward for its restoration.
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eddy was, q necessity in the early days of our
work. But I think now this should be LEFT
entirely to the Masters Of the State Oranges.
whose duty and prerogative 1t is to settle
these questions. l have regarded it more in
the province and duty of the National Lee
and influence of the officers of the National
Grange and subordinate Oranges, to en-.
courage the brothers and sisters to renewed
activity, to point out and urge the necessity,
for such an organization as this, and to sug-
gest in a general way those practical
methods BY which the desired results may
In doing this have earnestly sought to
impress the Importance of the individual
responsibility of members in the work In
which we are engaged. This point seems to
me to be the key-t our success. When we
een ny Zee th on each ind
sister, rests responsibility that each does
his or her part in the work So essential to
the general good, success is insured. g
l have been everywhere received in the
kindcst and most fratcrnal spirit-a spirit
which left the regret that could only meet
a small portion of the urgent calls for my
services.
I had never before realized the importance
of this branch of our work. The very fact
of an officer of the National Grange visiting
our members seems to encourage and
strength en- the cause and incite to renewed
efforts. 1t is of the highest Importance that
tuted authorities and the Sub-Granges should
be made as close as possible. cannot re-
frain from expressing my obligations to the
Masters and officers of the State Oranges
VIII re it has been my lot to labor. They have
done everything in their power to make
a work (Which at best is laborious
one) as easy and pleasant as possible. From
officers of National and State Oranges have
received constant encouragement and SYM
pathy. And the interest and fraternal kind
ness manifested in every community where
l have been has strengthened my faith, and
more than ever taught me that it only needs
that we 10 an Order should be faithful to
the trust given to us to make this Order,
under the providence of God, what it is de-
signed to be, the instrument which is to ele-
vale, strengthen, and educate the producing
classes of our Ma ion.
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Mr.. ALEXANDER GRANT, living about five
miles northeast of NorthEcld, left his
clearinghouse the other morning to sink q
bowldcr on his farm, saying he would re-
turn shortly. AS he had not returned by
noon, Mrs. Grant, his sistcr-in-law, became
alarmed about him and started to ind out
what was the matter. Judge of herhorror
when she arrived at the rock and found that
it had fallen upon Mr.. G., and crushed him
as he was attempting to escape. He was
caught between the bowlder and the bank,
with one hand on the stone and the other
on the ground. A few seconds more and he
would have been safe.
DR. J. B. PHILLIPS, Commissioner Of
Statistics, furnishes the following table,
showing the number of births in Minnesota
during 1875. 1t will he seen that some of
the smaller counties failed to report:
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dictment for numbering Haywood, the
cashier of the Northfeld Bank, and were
Immediately sentenced to imprisonment in
the State Penitentiary at hard labor for
life.
In Chicago, on the Goth, Spring wheat, No.
., closed at $1.1O1s@1. 1ON cash. Cash corn
closed at 45ac for No. .. Cash oats No. 2
sold at s2x@s2hc; December options
were sold at sS1Sc. Rye No. ., 62h@
Csc. Barley No. 2, 70@71c. Cash
mess pork closed al $15.87x@16.OO.
Lard, SO. 2O@1O.25. Good to choice
beeves brought s4.15@5. medium
grades, g. 5O@4. 10; butchers stock, $2.75
$3.50; stock cattle, ETC., $2.75@3. Is.
Hogs brought IS. 7O@5.95 for good to
choice. Sheep sold at 50. 50@4.5O for good
to choice.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

THE National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry assembled in National Conven-
ton at Chicago on the 18th. After secret
session, the Worthy, Master, John T: Jones.
business committees were appointed. Off,
cial reports were then received and re-
ferred. The Treasurer's report shows a
fourishing financial condition in the Order
The Secretary's report exhibits paying
membership of $4,000.
j. B. CHAFFEE and H. NJ. Teller (Repuoli-
eans) have been elected United States SEN
ators by the Colorado Legislature. They
received forty-nine votes to twenty-five for
w. A. H. Loveland and Thomas Macon (Dem-
ocrats.) i
By the recent boiler explosion in the
Union Rolling Mills, of Chicago, two work
men we're fatally, and few others slightly,
injured.
THE business portion of the town of Mag
nolia, W. Va, was destroyed on the night of
the 18th. Nineteen buildings, including the
railroad depot, telegraph and express offices,
and their contents, were burned.
A HAND-GRENADE was thrown into the sit
ting room of the residence of VIM. H. Price,
of Davenport, Iowa, on the night of the 10Th,
which exploded with considerable violence,
forcing out the wall of the house and de-
molishing the ceiling. It fortunately hap
pened that no lives were lost. 1t was
thought by some that the object Of the per-
petrator of the outrage was to kill Hon.
Hiram Price, member-elect Of Congress from
the Davenport District. as;. n wa.
ELMER WAsHBuRN, ex-Chief Of the United
States Secret-Service Bureau, with several
detectives, on the night Of the nth, effected
the capture Of Jack Hughes, alias J. Smith,
and Terrence Mullen, alias T. Durham, in a
saloon called the HUB" at 294 West Madi-
son street, Chicago, upon the charge of at
tempting. to rob the tomb Of Abraham Lin
coin, at Springfield, Ill, on the night of the
7th inst. The parties arrested had divulged
their designs to supposed friend who
proved to be detective and aided in their
capture. The object of the scheme was to
secure q ransom and the release of Ben
Boyd, in State Prison for counterfeiting.
Ar Sacramento, Cal, on the night of the
18th, during performance at Moore's Opera
House, which was situated over q livery stable,
the floor gave way, and the entire audience Of
about GOO persons, was prccipitated into
the stable below. The lights were extin.
guished by the conclusion, and scene Of
fearful confusion ensued. Eight persons
were killed outright, and about 100 others
were injured, many probably fatally. 3
UNITED STATES MARSHAL LEFrINawELL,
at st. Louis, received dispatch from Atty.
Gen. Taft on the 18th to the effect that Pres
dent Grant had signed the pardon Of
William Mckee, and authorizing the
Marshal to release the prisoner at once. The
Marshal Immediately repaired to the jail
where Mckee waS, confined, and liberated
h llH without delaya VIM. osAvery, ex-Chiei
Clerk az the Treasury Department. in prison
r. JefsTsond fity. Ne. Ass also been par.
d0ned 6ut ana released from confinement.
AT Faribault, MIMI, on. the 2oth, the
! Younger broth6rs pleaded guilty to an In