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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07

insensate, or tantalized into weak and ig-
noble discomfort, the sails of their little
boats are set toward the Isles OF
Disaster.
10 dress, to appear we'll, to have others
subservient to their whims, to have their
faults hidden and their vanity fed, to be
rendered utterly helpless for every stern
emergency Of life, what course of training
could be more cruel or pernicious? Yet
thousands and thousands of children are
going straight on in this way to misery
and ruin while their wealthy and idiotic
parents fold their hands and talk about
giving the children every ADVANTAGE
Oh fools and blind, that forever drop
the substance and chase the shadow,
fancying that what looks we'll and seems
easy will fit human soul for the sublime
heroism that is the One Price for noble
victory! Oh fools and blind that see not
the storm in the distance, but spread silken
sails of ease and pleasure and turn human
souls adrift on life's wild sea, with neither
chart nor compass, nor skill nor strength
for the swift coming tempest.
But why cry unto these besotted Syb-
arites? We are told, "Though thou
shouldst bray fool in mortar with Il
pestle, yet will his foolishness not depart
from him. and the last form of this
folly is to lift up wall about migrate
full children that having had every adj
vantage, yet turned out so badly. ''-Agnes
Leonard Hill, in Interior.
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A Treasure in q Well.

In the neighborhood of the village of
Nikolsk discovery has been made which
is likely to demoralize the industrious
peasantry of the district. The eternal
dream of peasant idlers has come true for
once, and rich treasure has been found
near the very spot where the public of
Nikolsk had always looked for it. 1t
seems that not far from this township there
is valley which runs into a gorge called
Zaporogue, and in the gorge there is a
deep we'll of the same name. Now tradi-
ton has it that the we'll Zaparogue was
once made use of by brigands, who not
only drew water from it, but used it as
their common purse and exchequer. Into
this receptacle were cast coins, old Russian
and older Greek, the silver ornaments of
the peasants, and the plate of the village
churches. 1t is much easier, however, to
hide treasures than to find them, and the
honor that should prevail among brigands
usually breaks down when the time comes
for the company to dissolve. 1t generally
falls out that the treasurer, for Instance,
has stored the booty in place known
only to himself, and then some perfidious
comrade Stays the treasurer, and his goods
perish with him, the secret of his bank
having been known only to himself alone.
Something Of this kind may have happened
in the Zaparogue plundering company
for although the house has long
been extinct, its wealth lay as
cunningly hidden as that of the late
Sultan seems to be. The tradition of the
mysterious store was handed down from
sire to son, and the father of the present
proprietor began some diggings, or, as it
seems now more fashionable to say,
commenced some excavations in the
neighborhood of the we'll. Nothing was
found, and the research after these en-
dowments were dropped until last year.
The steward of the property then hit upon
the thought of trenching in lateral di-
rection, like the treasure seekers in Poe's
"Gold Bug 1--WE call it Gold Beetle in
England), who dug not at the foot of the
pirates tree, but at a distance of thirty
yards in bee line. The Russian inves-
tigator was as successful as Poe's hero.
He found a great shining vessel full of
ancient spoils. To fill his pockets and
those of his assistants was his first idea,
and then he sent to the village for sacks
The steward tried to bride his assistants
to silence, but apparently he did not
bride them highly enough. They claim
by Russian law, as it stands, light to a
third of the treasure trove-in this case
| about $4,000 roubles. Their suit has
been dismissed by the local courts, but
they have appealed to higher tribunal
and very likely all the wealth of the
brigands of the Zaparogue will mel,
peacefully into the pockets of members OF
the Russian bar.-LOndon Neacs.
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Public Libraries In Eur0pe.

In giving the statistics with regard to
the public libraries in France, the Jour
nal DIES Debats states that, apart from the
million and half of volumes in Paris,
there are no less than four and half mill.
ions in the different libraries of other
parts of France. The principal libraries
in the Provinces are: Bordeaux, 14O, 600;
Rouen, III, 1000; Troyes and AK, 1000
each, Besancon and Marseilles, $4,000
ees re eisnee,s l. Msns $685.
Havre, $4,000. There are s15 towns Of
France in possession of q library contain
ing from ten to twenty thousand volumes,
and more than twice as many with libra
ries of three, four and five thousand vol
umes. New libraries are being formed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07
A Wonderful Dog.

A gentleman writes as follows to the
Philadelphia Times: Among the passen-
gers lost on the steamer St. Clair on Lake
Superior was man named Stewart, of Du-
luth. He had small English spaniel,
which swan ashore. The dog was we'll
known at Duluth and along the Northern
Pacific Railroad, and was remarkable for
his intelligence and sagacity. His owner
was employed by the Northern Pacific
Road to measure timber delivered by con-
tractors. The dog would take the end of
of the tape-line and 60 to the end of a
log, sixty or seventy feet long, and hold it
at the end while his master would hold it at
the other, and do this all day, or until all
the timber was measured. His master
would send him to the postoffice, simply
saying to him: $50 up-get letters;' the
dog would 60 to the postotfice and go
around to one of the clerks, look at him,
wag his tail, and was so well known the
clerk would give him the letters, which
he would carry back to his master, and in
the same way would carry letters which
his master had written to the Office to be
mailed. His scent was very acute. Com
ing home from the woods one day, Stew
art was met on the road by company of
young people, who had been on picnic
about half mile away. One of the young
ladies had left her parasol on the ground.
Stewart called his dog, and pointing to the
path, said: "Go, find and bring here"
The dog was gone about fifteen or twenty
minutes, and returned with the paraso1.
A pile of lumber, put in Stewards charge,
was being stolen. Stewart called his dog,
took him to the pile, and said: "Watch it
and see who takes it, Two or three days
afterward the dog came to him in the
morning, and, by signs familiar to his
master, told him to follow him. Stewart
took policeman with him, and told the
dog to 60 on, and he led them about a
quarter of a mile to a shanty occupied by
a Swede, on the bank of the lake. They
looked under the shanty and saw large
pile of boards. The Swede was arrested,
taken before the Justice, and Stewart told
the Justice what the dog had done. The
Justice at once convicted the sSwede of
the larceny. A great many other doings
of the dog are known to the people of Du-
luth, and it is to be hoped that he will fall
into good hands.
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Our First I" China.BOy."

Never shall we forget the first China
man who we employed as a house-servant
The excellent and trusted Bridget who had
lived with us so long was to be married.
She remained beyond her time that we
might fill her place, but each aspirant to
the culinary domain seemed worse than
the preceding, and finally we asked our
Chinese laundry man if he could send us
"a China boy" as they are called. Biddie
protected.
"Och! l can't bear to think of yes
having Chinaman! They will stale all
there is in the house, and yes won't know
where it goes.'
But we made due allowance for Biddie's
prejudices, engaged "a boy" and he
came at the time appointed.
A neat, rather handsome fellow, he was,
and as he disappeared into his room,
bundle in hand, we were conscious of a
great drawing of the spirit toward him. In
five minutes he emerged, clad in the
daintiest of white blouses and aprons, his
pigtail girded around his head as mean.
ing business, ard with the quictest step
and micn he sought us out in the parlor,
and came and stood before u.s." his head
slightly bowed, his hands folded, perfect
ly silent, awaiting orders. There was a
submissiveuess in his attitude, his expires
sion, his whole aspect, which suggested
the Old Testament and the "Arabiau
Nights in turn. Our heart leaped up,
as Wordsworth to rainbow. Here was
a new regime, indeed How prom Using
How delightful!
He went to work in way which showed
perfect acquaintance with his duties, and
we mentally planned to teach him twas
he not heather p, to make much of him,
and to keep him long time. 1t was nice
to have such a distingue-looking creature
around, and how deity he waited on door
and table! About the middle of the after
noon, another Chinaman appeared on the
scene, and the two had much cackle to-
gether. No. showed No. his kitchen
laundry and closet; and we concluded that
he was pleased with his conveniences. and
was receiving congratulations thereupon
BY five O'Clock he again "came and stood
before u.s.
my fliend heap-good boy; he stay you
I catch UNI place, San Francisco"
And China-boy No. l summarily de-
parted, leaving behind him quite an in
ferior substitute. And with him went, as
we learned that evening, all the cracked
wheat which we CHANGED to have in the
four-closet. -" CalJornia Housekeepers
and Chinese Servants," in Scri6ner's.
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A Strange Story.

The Lynchburg Wa) Nens repeats the
following extraordinary story:
''Some of our contemporaries seem dis
posed to question the truth of our state
ment that negro man who was killed by
lightning few days ago in Campbell
County, had the letters "GOD" on his
body. DR.. Thomas E. Norman, whose
Postoffice address is Mount Zion, Camp
bell County, has furnished the Richmond
Christian Advocate an account of the cir
cumstances, from which we extract the
following:
"On the evening of the 9th inst, Perry
Jones and George Brown, colored men,
VIGOROUSLY the most profane, wicked per-
sons in the whole community, with three
other colored persons, took refuge, during
tn rain, accompanied by much lightning,
and thunder, in tobacco barn on the land
of Mr.. George Greasy. From their sew
eral positions, one would have thought
that two Of the others were in m IRE, and
the third in as much danger as Jones and
Brown were. They, as their custom
was, were engaged in cursing ard swear
ing. Suddenly the lightning descended
upon them, and while the other three were
comparatively uninjured, Jones was
killed and Brown was stricken down
senseless and almost lifeless for time. He
revived after few minutes, and soon
seemed to have regained all his strength :;
but was dumb and bereft of his mind for
several hours. The lightning had set fire to
his clothing, and was burned onhis chest,
and left side and arm before the fire was
extinguished. In his efforts to free him.
self from those who were restraining him,
the skin was rubbed from the burned flesh
and presented the following characters
GOD, very close representation, to say
the least of them, of the capital letters
used in printing the name of Deity, while
around and between them the skin was
unremoved and apparently not burned.
of an equilateral triangle, which, as you
are doubtless aware, was in ancient days
the symbol of Deity. This man, then,
appears to have been branded with the
name of his Creator in the symbolic Ian
guage, it may be of his forefathers 5000
years ago, and in the printed language of
the nation to which he belongs"
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist
hardly seems willing to accept this yarn in
all its native purity, and, after reprinting
it, comments as follows:
Highly imaginative and morbidly-
devotional persons frequently see signs
and characters which they deem super
natural, and yet are of the simplest and
most meaningless origin. We remember
not many years ago, that good physician
died, and his body was placed in a metal
lie coffin. Upon the glass plate there APP
peared the sign of the cross in some white
material. This was heralded about as a
miracle; but, upon closer inspection, it
was found that dripping wax from can
die had formed fantastic shape upon the
plate, which the highly wrought religious
senses OF woman easily converted into
the emblem of our redemption"
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FOREIGN INTELLlGENCR.

ACCORDING to Vienna kilograms of the
23d, the Sublime Porte had signified it's
readiness to treat with servia upon the basis
of war indemnity and guarantees against
breaches of the peace for the future. The
Servians had been able to maintain their po-
sition at Alexinatz against the united and
repeated attacks of the several Turkish d.
visions. The war party in Servia had at last
succeeded in overcoming Prince Milan's pa
cific tendencies, and it was stated the war
would henceforth be prosecuted with great
vigor. .s
ACCORDING to late advices from Cape
Coast Castle, the King of Dahomey had
placed the Europeans at Whydat in con-
finement and threatened their massacre.
VIENNA kilograms of the 25th say that
Prince Milan had on the night preceding
made definite propositions Of peace and had
asked the mediation of the foreign powers.
Gen. TchcrnayeR had telegraphed that the
operations in the vicinity of Alexinatz had
resulted in utter defeat to the Turks, they
having lost 5000 in killed, wounded and
prisoners. The Servians lost among. others
thirty-one Russian officers killed. Austrian
territory had been violated by Turkish
force which crossed the frontier and carried
away large quantity Of provisions and
killed one man and wounded another. Aus
TRAN troops had arrived at the frontier, and
it was thought hostilities impended unless
the act were disavowed by Turkey and prop
er reparation were made
BELGKADE special to the London
Standard of the eth, says the Porte had de-
clined to listen to the peace propositions Of
servia until after the surrender of Aexinatz.
It had also demanded that Prince Milan
should address his demands directly to the
Turkish Government instead OF through the
medium of the foreign Powers. r.
A LONDON dispatch Of the 2eth says
schuyler's report to the American Legation
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at Constantinople fully confirmed the pre-
vious reports of Bulgarian atrocities. Much
OF the slaughter had been done by the Turk
ish regulars. Mr.. Schuyler declares that
sixty-five villages had been burned and
$1,000 men, women and children killed.
A BELGRADE special of the 2Sth says that
Gen. Tchernayeff's reports of his victories
at Alexinatz were generally discredited. The
Turks claimed to have achieved victory.
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A CURIOUS state of affairs exists in some
of the counties in West Virginia. In Web
ster County, for instance, there are zoe, 900
acres Of land, but 1900, 900 acres are on
the tax duplicate, and taxes are actually
paid on that amount mo mt one individual pay
double do the entire acreage Of the county.
New York for speculative purposes, unfit
the acreage has been multiplied nearly
eight times its actual amount. As the
lands are nominally appraised, and are
titles pay the taxes without grumbling. I:
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General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT GRANT issued the following
proclamation on the 21st:
It's with extreme pain that the President an
ncunces to the people of the United States the
death dealt OF the peaker of the House Of
OF Indiana. A man OF great intel ectuai
endowments. large culture, great probity
and earnsstness in his devotion to
the position of power and usefulness to which he
had been recently called. The body over which
he hal been selected to preside MT being in SEES
sc to render its tribute of affection and respect
To the memory of the dec ased, the Preside, in
vites the people of the United States to solemn
recognition Of the public and private worth and
the services OF pure and eminent character.
U. s. GRANT.
WASHINGTON dispatch of the oath says
the Secretary of the Treasury had concluded
the contract for the sale of $500, OOO, 900
four-and- a-half per cent bonds to be issued
under the funding acts of 1870 and 1871, and
due in 1891. The combination unites
the three parties who have been competing
for the loan. The amount taken by each
firm is $40, 10000 at par and interest, less
one-half per cent. commission, out of which
all expenses are to be betrayed, including
the pr paration and delivery of the bonds.
Toe combination embraces London, Phila-
delphia and New York parties.
THE Postmaster General has recently de-
cided that the term "printed NATTER" as
used in the act approved July II, 1876, does
not include blank books, blanks, charts,
etc. This class of matter, is, therefore, liza.
BILE to the old rate of postage of one cent
for each ounce or fraction thereof.
On the Goth, Judge Tarbell, of Mississip-
pi was tender d the Office of Deputy First
Comptroller Of the Treasury, rice Col. Will
lam Hemphll Jones, of Delaware, whose
resignation had been called for by the Presi-
dent.
THE tenth annual meeting of the Army of
the Tennessee will be held in Washington on
the 18th aud 10Th of October. The Statue of
Gen. Mcpherson will be then unveiled. Sem
ator Logan, who succeeded Gen. Mcpherson
in command on the day of his death, will
deliver the Grafton.
DIRECTOR L1NDERMAN, of the Mint, re-
ports that all the minis are now running on
subsidiary silver coins to their full capacity,
and that the monthly coinage of silver will
be about s2,5OO,OOO.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 2Sth says
twenty-cight employees of the Pension Office
had been notified that their designations
would be accepted, and that one months
pay from Sept. 10 would be granted.
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AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 2sth, cattle
brought: Best, $5.O0@52O; medium, $3.50
@4.75; common, s4oo@4.25. Hogs sold
Workers, $625@6 IS; Philadelphia, s6.5O@
665. Sheep brought $4.O0@5.0o, according
to uuality
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ALL silks have advanced in price "hor-
ribly," as the ladies say. The firm of A.
T. Stewart & Co. make 81 ,O0O, 600 by the
rise
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-03-01
Baggage Checked Through.
6hoaa1 md Enat EaaiallLt Linz.

Cheap and Ff1st Z aeiglit Line.
This is also the great freight Line for all Ioints
in the southwest and n6rtharn cities Time as
quick and rates rs low - By any other route.
Goods forwarded III through cars without break of
bulk All claims promptly adjusted Through
bills of lading issued with rates guaranteed FROM
Bristol, eN1 York. Phi1hdelESllia md Baltimore,
by our agents, - bs sssEase.s5 M - 4 -
Boston Z gent w NJ Clark, ~ Washington So
N4sM York agelat+zG-s n EVANS, 3e5 Broadway st
Philadelphia agent-Iohn S. Wilson A s, fifth ST.
iaBaltimsre agent-1Ns NJ. lawson, 15g W. Baiti-
Be careful to have your goods marked tt iE-
gfnia and Harnesses CIR aime via Norfolk, IVA. -
For further irfarfpa lien apply to DEPOT gent at
Knoxyfsle aid Bristol, or address
9seff.i9at w. II. NJ. WORD, IS
General Passenger agent.
Feb. ., fs7e-ig. s. I-ynehhuigs va.
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VALUA BLE TANNER Y
FOR RI
- q Il Es
THR TANNERY PROPER.

consists o. large two story Brick Shop SO by 40
feet e0ntainiua four rooms, two Of which used
CON Shhn and 5addlar ShGpA IS Tanning Watts: A
Force LeaeheH wafer Pools ? Bates and Lines.
su1pIied with 4 good stream ~ water through
trunks from spring near NV also ona bark shed,
I'LL enclosed with high picket fence Two acres
ct land belonging 70 the property pn which lis To-
Gated n new Dwelling House of Fours rap1nas pARs~
tered and painted, and pliH other Dwelling House
Oh fwo rnnzns The IHnu6rv4s iM good rumn1sSE
orffnr with "a 3dKxa stock af bark 'z hand. #iifh
will BE- molh N tAH the yards also u good atocA of
Hides for sale.
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Sheriff sale "a Land .

Dee . ao A
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CHEAPNESS. aEL.EG AN L FARE
AND .SPLENn4D SCENERY

$500 - ~
iMoND, va s III. s.. a s.. d Is Is
Fare from BRISTOL, Tam TO PETERS,
BUn6, va. a3i5
BALTIMORE, dpeais and state room Oh
! steamer inclndesi3 $50 . l6 25
Fare from Bill IT 04zs n eEn., via Norfolk to-
PHILADELPHIA, via Baltimore kneala
and stats room on steamer includad9 80 . ~ IS
Fare from BIB rs roll Tenn, via Norfolk 10 tss
NEW YORK, via Old Dominion 8. s. Co.,
llnea Ii and state room ateninerf inclnd-
edl - ....-.... !. - .S..s-.s., Is % 90
Fafe from BRISTOL, Tenn.. Via Norfolk,
q ltamare, and thehce All Estilroad, via.
Philadelphia, TO NEW YORK, meals and
state roIila al sieaIiler illdlsidea 70 ~ 90
Fare from RISaDf.y. Tenn via Norfolk 10 =
4 BALTIMORE and retUin, tneals aud state
room On steamer cludeds 9. ~ ssal 90
Fare FROM BRISTOL, Tennis via Norfolk to
. NISW T0Eksand return fsleals and state
Z. room an steamer inelptlsd) .s.,.... % so
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19


Wesee that the Washington cores
pendent of the Burlington -Ha,pheye
thinks he has found something in the
post leadership business that can
serve to throw dirt upon us. We
know the facts in the case pretty well.
and we don't think he will. The only
truth there is among the correspond
ent's statements is that a brother of
ours was appointed 10 Q post trader
ship. We KNOW that No appointment
was ever got more honorably and
purely than that was, and if he was
not an experienced, honest and tit
man for the place, than some of the
best men in California, among whom
he had lived for many years, lied in
the recommendation they signed to
the Secretary of War for his appoints
ment. He was In the business four
years, and lost in it every dollar he
had in the world, having to begin life
again in private business at the bot
tom Of the ladder, but with con-
sciousness that he had at least MAIN
tanned his integrity and deserved the
credit of an honest man. 1t was
with reference to this matter that we
said at the outset that we had had q
good deal of correspondence with tho
late Secretary Of War, and he had
impressed US throughout as being
punctiliously careful to maintain off,
cial integrity and propriety. The
committee long ago had public notice
that it could have all the facts in this
case, but as they were creditable to
Gen. B., this wasn't the kind of a case
the committee waa after. As we are
not aware that honest merchandising
at military post is any less credit
able than honest merchandising any
where else, and as we know the APP
pointment was got with perfect pro-
priety as to methods, the only regret
we have that a brother of ours got
into it was that he didn't make money
out of the business. But as he couldn't
do that without consenting to be q
thief. he and we are content, with
what grace we may, to have the result
just what 1t was,