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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16
OLD BACHELORS,

They are wanderers and ramblers-never At
home, =
And every one knows that the bachelor den
Is room set apart for these singular men
4 nook in the clouds of come Ave feet BY four,
Though sometimes by chance it may be rather
With sky-light or no light, ghosts, COLLINS and
gloom,
TIL sc crcatu. es say they not valued at all,
Except when the herd gives bachelors ball.
Then. dressed in their best
In their gold broidered vest,
1t Is known as a fact
That they act with much tact;
And they lisp "low dye dor
And they coo and they WOO,
And they smile for awhile,
Their fair guests to besuile;
Condescending ana bending,
For fear Of offending.
Though inert, And they spy
They exert, With their eye,
To he pert. And they sign,
And to nirt, As they fly.
And they whisk and they whz,
And are brisk at the quiz.
Fer they meet, Advancing,
To be sweet. And ganclng,
And are fleet And dancing,
ION thri: feet, And prancirg.
Siding and gliding with mute pace,
Pirouettipg and setting with infinite grace.
And jumping. And racing,
And humping. And chasing,
Aud stamping. And pacing,
4 i'd humping, And iacing.
They are fitterng and gli,tering. gallant and
VA wing ali morning, and loungng all day.
Bnt when he grows old,
And his sunshine is past,
Threc-score years being told
Brings repentance at last
He then becomes an old man;
His warmcst friend. the frying pan;
Hes idSety, fretinl and weary In fine,
Loves nothing but self. and his dinner and
wine.
He rates and he pratcs,
And reads the debates;
4cspi>ed by the men and the women he hates.
Then pressing, And porting
And doing, And snoring,
And cosiug. And boring,
And EOSing, And roaring,
Whenever he falls in with u rabblc,
His delight is tovapor and gable:
Hes gruffy, And musty,
And puffy, And fusty,
He sits in his slippers with back to the door,
Near freezing. And grumhling
And Wheeling, And mumbilng,
Ana teasing. ana StumUiln1,
And sneeZing, And tumbling,
H. curses the carpet or nails in the floor.
ont falling. Oft waking,
OFT bawling. Oft aching,
And spraA ling, And quaking,
And crawling, And shaking,
His hand is unsteady, his stomach is sore.
He's railing, Cnchcery,
Md failing, And dreary,
And ailing Aud weary,
And groaning and moaning,
His seltishness owning,
Grieving and heaving,
Though naught in his leaving
But pelf and ll-health
Himself and his wealth.
ii" sends for doctor, to cure or TO kill.
Nh gives him advice, and ofense. and pill,
Who drops him advice about making his will.
~ trettul antiquity cannot be mends d,
The miserable lite of a bachelors ended,
Nobody misses him. nobody sighs
-NoGtiy arieres rhen the bachelor dies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

flow to Paste Labels on Tin.-Use
uncalendered paper for the labels. First
Process-Put the tin over unslacke
lime, and allow to stand for twenty-four
hours. Second Process-Pass a sponge
saturated with muriatic acid over the tin
then use in both cases ordinary tragacanth
paste-Pha,7nacist
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

bottle. Not long aflerward we got hold
Of the above recipe for making precisely
the same thing-at cost of ten cents, in
stead IF fifty .-~Rural NcU Yorker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

In buying dress goods, avoid the flimsy
limitations now so much in vogue, giving
the preference to good delaine, Bingham,
or even calico. ,. .-f @...f5....-.1
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

EXCELLENT ADv1CE.-The School Journal
says: For rapid, thorough instruction we
commend our young friends to the School
of Individual Instruction, Evanston, Ill.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

Four MILLION acres of Kansas lands are
under cultivation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

PRUss1NG's White Wine Vinegar, purest
and cheapest, warranted to preserve pickles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

NA1N A ~ lGuarahteed to do double the work
S'oSHSSo f common scrapers. Townships
SCR pa II Can take them on trial. Price $15.
Send for Manual of Road Making
--HN-- Ia Dtching free. Address Chicago
Du7CHE X Scraper & Ditcher Co., Chicago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

THERE are s,1ss nuns in Rome.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16

N-~@ Centennia Exposition Of
Presidcnts-MOst magnin.
~ ~ cent and salable picture ever offered
AEPDdd Gopy
uu80uA@ ing Co., 324 W. Madison-st., Chicago.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

cotton worm in a single week; that in 1871
S3O,OOO,O0O worth of grain was ruined by the
chinch-bug; and that in 1873, 1874 and 1875
the Rocky mountain gfasshopper destroyed
food to the amount of $50,OOO,OOO.
The Portuguese government has asked
the cortes for the sum of thirty-three thou
sand dollars, in order to render the Portu,
| guese display at the centennial exhibition as
attractive and complete as possible. This
sum is intended for two sections in particu-
| lar, the agricultural and Industrial
The construction of a steamboat 70
exhibition at the centennial has been begun
at the centennial works, New York. 1t will
be fifty feet long and ten feet wide, with iron
frame sheathed with wood. 1t will cost about
twenty thousand dollars, and is expected to
be model of beauty, symmetry and speed
The grand jury cannot find any indict.
ment against Secretary Belknap in the alb
sence OF Marsh, the principal witness. Tie
assistant district attorney states that the
evidence presented thus far to the grand
jury is insufficient to warrant it In beginning
an Indictment, and it is more than probable
that until Marsh can be brought back to tes-
tIfy it will be impossible TO punish Belknap
through the medium of criminal prosecu-
ton.
Daniel Drew, who, in his days of pros
perity, was the lion of Wall street Cbesides
being alternately a1bull and a bear), has failed
at last, and gone into bankruptcy. Daniel
was worth his millions at one time, being a
formidable rival of Vanderbilt and Jay Gould
in stock speculatiOns. OF late years he has
met with great many financial reverses,
and now in his old age (he is between seventy
and eighty he is much worse off than when
he started out in his career of speculation. |
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

The mildness of the winter in the city
of New York has left the distributors of coal
for the poor with 1000 bushels of surplus
fuel on hand.
New York city thinks of solving the
problem of an increased water supply by
utilizing the salt water of East and North
rivers for extinguishing fires, thus cOnfining
the use of Creton to drinking and cooking
purposes. The question of salt caking in
the pipes and hose, and the means of remov-
ing such incrustations have been considered,
and the plan pronounced feasible, but the
enormous cost of duplicating the present
network of pipes, aPpals taxpayers.
The report of the New York Prison
association, just published, shows that in
every hundred convicts, there was found
forty-six who have been grossly neglected
while children, forty orphaned or abandoned
in childhood, eighteen who-were confessed
members of criminal families, twenty-five
were of pauper stock, fOrty-three who were
of inebriate families, chiefly children of
drunkards, twenty three who belonged to
families in which insanity, epilepsy, and dis
abling disorders of the nervous system ex-
listed, thirty-nine who confessed to being
habitual drunkards, while seventy-siX were
habitual criminals. Every convict belongs
to two or more of these classihcations. Many
of the habituai criminals are babitual drunk
ards and most of them were neglected or
abandoned in childhood.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
FOREIGN.

A letter from Mazatlan, Mexico, says
the revolutionsts gathering in that neigh
borhOod are securing arms, horses and re-
crults.
The recent hurricane in Germany in
flicted so much damage to the telegraph that
hereafter all new lines will be laid under
ground.
Gen. Saigo, chief commissioner of ia
pan, with suite, has arrived in San Francisco,
bringing large quantity of exhibits for the
centennial.
The Bavarian government has put a
sudden stop to duelling by denying Christian
burial to persons killed in this manner, hold
ing them in the eyes of the law the same as
suicides.
The yacht Octavia, captured by a
Spanish gunboat, had cargo of 243 boxes of
powder, As boxes of cartridges, II boxes of
shells, 100 rifles, $50 carbines and two pieces
of artillery.
The last discovered grievance of the
Christians in Turkey is a strange one. Hith-
erto they have paid a small poll tax and been
exempt from military service. BY virtue of
the sultan's proclamation promising perfect
equality with the Mussulmans they now claim
admission into the ranks, and are clamorous
for the very burden to escape which two
thirds of the French and German conscripts
would readily pay good round sum.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

Old SPeckleback, was of eqdal celebrity;
she was by Old Celer, one of the Janus
blood, which, wherever it touches, will
show speed. Kentuckians have often been
laughed at about their Whip stock, but
no state in the Union can boast of better
Kentucky gained her great renown in
every place where horse-breedcrs went,
as being the nursery for breeding and
rearing thoroughbred horses, and the
Whip stock ranked highest. whether for
the saddle, single or double harness In
my humble opinion, for beauty, dociiity,
and usefulness for every purpose, the
Whip stock were unrivaled. l could
mention many more of the get of this
famous horse, but it is unnecessary, for 1
think that l have shown clearly enough
that, to breed the thoroughbred, stations
or mares must not be used that do rot
possess speed, and that in the highest de-
gree, for speed and action are the two
most essential and indispensable qualities
wanted in the racehorse.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

Fourteen bodies have been recovered
from the ruins of the alms-house fire at Nor
wich, Conn.
Postmaster General Jewell states that
the revenue of his department has been
greater for the past few months than ever
before.
The democratic state convention of
New York will be held in Utica on the 26th
of April. Gov. Tilden's friends wanted it
held in Albany few weeks earlier
An elopement in high life in England
is the exciting topic among the staid John
Bulls. A fast Young marquis and lords
wife are the parties involved in the runaway
escapade.
Recent census returns gives these fig
ures: New York, 100000; Philadelphia,
100000; Brooklyn, 5O7 600; St Louis, ,45O 900; F.;
Chicago, 10000; Boston, SAC, 900; San Fran
cisco, 25O,000.
The house committee ON the Pacific
railroad has agreed 10 report and recommend
the passage of a bill to compel reduction by
the Union Pacific railroad company of the
present charges of fifty cents per passenger,
or ten dollars per car load for transportation
over the Omaha bridge.
Prof c. V. Riley asserts that in 1874
the southern states lost $2o,0O000O by the
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

FROM TnfBUCToO TO PARIs.-M. Du-
poncbel, of Paris, essays to rival Nj. dc
Lesseps. He proposes to build grand
trunk railroad through Central Africa
According to his scheme in the Explora-
teur, he will get up a powerful interna-
tional company, similar 10 that OF the
Suez canal company, with capital to
commence with Of L., 1000 or l5,0OO,-
900 fir. (say S3,0O0,0O0). He calculates
that at present African trade is carried
on with the interior by means Of 10000
camel caravans, representing in the poor
est possible way the commercial needs OF
the people. and that a railroad 20 st.
Louis by way Of Timbuctoo, Algiers and
Msrsulle. would connect the desert Of
Sahara with Paris in 1l6 hours, and bring
into France at least 100000 tons Of
valuable freight annually. NJ. Paul
Soleillet also says the first part of the
road is to be from Tnpoli to Lake
Tschad, thence TO Benin, thence TO Cape
Vert, Senegal and Timbuctoo, and or
through Morocco, etc The estimated
cost is about $4,000 a mile, including
all apparatus for working, rolling stock,
etc. Like the Church of the Middle
Ages" says the scientist, industry
should now be grand moral power, OPP
posing the rude barbarisms Of war and
brute force"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

The Ohio democratic state convention
will be held at Cincinnati, May 18th.
The state conservative committee OF
Virginia has changed the day of holding the
state convention to May 3Ist.
Thirty -one Augusta cotton dealers
have made estimates of the cotton crop, which
average 4,OO6,96O bales.
Dr. w. F. Southern, a well-known
dentist of Memphis, died OH the 18th instant
I of hemorrhage.
! 1t is reported, on the authority of
/ Vice-President Bond, that trains on the Texas
Pacific railroad will by the 1st of June be
running to Fort Worth.
Josiah Turner, editor of the Raleigh
n. c., Sentinel, and w. II. II. Hamerton,
secretary of state, have been arrested on
the charge of conspiracy and libel.
Cincinnati has voted in favor of issuing
ST, 100000 in bonds in addition to $4,000, 900
already issued to construct the Cincinnati
Southern railway.
Gen. Gideon Pillows property was
sold at bankrupt sale in Memphis, and pur-
chased by gentlemen who promptly pre-
sented it to Mrs. Pillow.
The last rail on the Scioto Valley rail
road, between Columbus, Ohio, and Circle
vile, was laid last week, thus completing one
link of this important enterprise.
On Thursday, 10th inst, the United
States marshal made levy on all the prop
erty belonging to the Vicksburg and Nash
Vile railroad, at OkolOna, Miss, including
the iron laid down on the road.
II is stated that since the opening of
the cotton mills at Wesson, Miss, the town
has doubled it's population. Twenty five
hundred bales of cotton and 225,0 900 pounds
of wool have been purchased by the factory
this season.
Throughout Louisiana at present re-
markable curiosity is visible. Onmany orange
trees are to be seen fruit of last years growth,
which is most deliciously sweet; partly grown
green oranges, from blossoms of early winter,
and fresh blooms, which have now appeared
at the proper period.
The firm of Woods, Yeatman & Co.,
owners of the Cumberland iron works, and
Stewart & Co.. of Tennessee, have suspended. |
Liabilities, about $25O,0OO. 1t is supposed
their assets will probably cover their labili-
Nashville, and other principal creditors are
in Cincinnati, Louisville and st. Louis.
The southern freight railroad rates have |
been still further reduced, in consequence of |
the continued conflict between the Virginia |
and Tennessee Air Line of railroad and the |
coast line of steamers. First. second and |
third-class freight to Atlanta, twenty five |
cents per hundred pounds; fourth and fifth
class, twenty cents. The rates to Selma and
have been reduced to twenty
cents per hundred pounds for first, second
and third-class, and twenty five cents for
fourth and fifth-classes. These three places
are to be made the distributing points for
freight destined to Mobile, New Orleans,
Eufaula, etc, and all intermediate points,
and the rates will therefore be reduced to a
ratio for all those places.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
The Owl that Thought He Could Sing.

There is an admirable association of wis
dom and amusement in the following
fable, which we extract from a volume
by Mrs. Prosser:
What can bring the people into the
groves to hear those nightingales sing?"
said an owlet to his mother.
The owl didn't know, and she didn't
care-she was busy watching bat.
81 am sure / have as fine a voice as
any nightingale, and far stronger"
"Stronger, certainly y my son" said the
owl. with a blink, for the bat had es-
capped.
E'I shall go into the grove tonight,
and give them a song" said the owlet.
The owl opened her round eyes very
wide, but said nothing.
Accordingly, when night came, and
the hour for the sweet trilling of the
singing birds drew near, he flew heavily
along, and placed himself in conspicu-
GUS part of the grove, that he might be
seen and heard to a proper advantage.
Now the nightingales did not by any
means admire the prospects either of his
company or his cooperation in their con-
cert so those who were bent on singing
sought another grove, while those who
were content to be quiet for the night
kept snugly at roOst.
Where can the nightingales be ?'
said the people who came to hear them.
Upon this the owlet set up hOOt so
loud and so long that it nearly frightened
them into fits.
"That creature has terrified them,
and scared them all away" said one. 81
will soon dispatch him. Where's my
gun ?"
But the disconnected Owlet took the
got back to his mother.
"Your feathers are ruffied, ray son.
Have you been singing ?'
The owlet reluctantly related his dis
grace and narrow escape.
"It is just what expected, and | am
Glad you are safe back"
"Then why did you suffer me to go p
answered the Owlet, Indignantly.
Because was sure it was point on
which nothing but experience could con-
vince you. / don't understand music,
and cannot tell why people should take
the trouble to go and hear nightingales
sing. and at the same time shoot owls for
hooting, but / know it to be fact.
There is much difference between our
voices, which can myself discern every
time l hoot. Ours may be superior, for
ANYTHING / know but as the prejudice
of the public mind is strong on the
other side, shouldn't think of disput-
ing the point; and probably, now you
have experienced the effect of your per
formance on their ears. you will be sat
isfied, with me, to leave them alone i'll
their mistake"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
How Daniel Drew Once Duped VAN
derbilt.

When in the height of his prosperity,
the wealth of Mr.. Drew was estimated
by some persons at S., 900, 900, and by
others at S15,000,000. One incident in
his career may be recalled here, as it was
the turning point in the financial history
of the recognized Erie railroad company.
In 1866, when Daniel Drew was treasurer
of the Erie, the stock sold as high as 50.
The company needed money, and Mr..
Drew lent it So. 500, 900 and received
collateral security $4,000 shares of I'M
issued stock and So, 100000 of bonds con-
vertible into stock. Being possessed of
the facilities-questionab though they
were-to guard against "corner," he
began to sell the stock short" at the
prevailing high prices. The people who
bought the stock were Commodore Van
berbilt and his adherents. When the
contracts matured, and the Vanderbilt
bulls" thought that they would have
a very successful '' corner" Drew con-
verted his bonds into stock, and threw
upon the market $4,000 shares of stock
which he had in his hands. The price
dropped from 80 to 40 amid the most
furious excitement. Inquiry was made,
and the above facts were developed, the
matter resulting in the famous Wander
bilt litigation, which drove Drew and his
associates over to New Jersey, where
they remained until the case was set
tied. Mr.. Drew, however, has been
proved to be vulnerable. He was cor
nered" in Harlem railroad stock and in
Michigan Southern railroad, lost in
Prairie du Chen, and suffered severely
in Northwestern and other lines of spec
ulation.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
AN ANGEL VfsITAST...
BY H. W. LoNGFELLow.

The door ropened to my heavenly guest,
And listened, for thought heard Gods voice
And, knowing whatsoer He sent was best
Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice.
Then, with SMILE that filed the house with light
any errand is not death but light !" he said
And ere answered, passing out of sight,
On his celestial embassy He sped.
Then fell upon the house sudden glosm
A shadow on whose features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room
Two angels issued, where but one went in.
All is of God If He but wave His hand
The miSts collect. the rain fails thick and loud
Till with smile of light on and land,
Lo! he looks back from the departing cloud.
Angels of life and death alike are His;
Without His leave they pass no threshold e'er
Who, then would wish or dare believing this,
Against Hi messengers to shut the door?
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

FATE oE THE TEXAS Pacific BILL
A Washington special of Wednesday to
the Chicago Times says: Tom Scott's
Southern Pacific scheme received its
ouietus for this session to-day in the
committee, at the hands of its friends.
As stated in these dispatches, there was
never a shadow of chance of its success
in the house, and the Scott men, after
having made a careful canvass of the
house, sought their friends on the com
mittee, and begged that the bill should
not be brought into the house. Mem
bers of the committee who were friendly
to the bill were getting equally as anx-
ious to have the question lie over un-
til after the presidential campaign. and
20 to-day, Mr.. Atkins, the author of the
bill, who was acting chairman of the COM
mittee in the absence of Mr.. Lamar, Of
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

A MAN ALMOST BURIED ALIvE.-An
incident, published in our local items
Yesterday, should not be suffered to pass
without further notice. A labOrer fell
in some form of fit, grew stiff and cold
and was supposed to be dead. He was
carried to the shop of an undertaken and
put Immediately into coffin and the
lid was screwed down, preparatory of re-
moving him to his residence. Before his
removal he recovered from his fit, kicked
the coffin to pieces and returned TO his
work. There would seem to have been,
in this case, a want of good Judgment,
of common sense, and of consideration
amounting to gross culpability. 1t must
be decidedly unpleasant to find ones
self enclosed in coffin, and to some per-
sons with some diseases, the shock from
this alone might be sufficient to cause
actual death. In this case, if the coffin
had been stronger and more perfectly
air tight the man would soon have died
from suffocation. So far as our report
shows there was no medical examination
of the case and no coroners inquest
upon the body. Such an occurrence
should be absolutely impossible in any
civilized community.-PrOUideace jour.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

A DETROIT lady was trading at a
Woodward avenue dry goods store the
other day, when she ran short of money
and asked the clerk to put the balance
ON the books. He cheerfully agreed,
and said he would send the bill to her
lnsband. "You'd better send it to me, y
she said, as she figured up the cost.
I've got peculiar husband. If that
kiltreads eleven dollars for sugar, coffee
aud Aea, he'll give me the money with
ont aword. If it reads for balance due
on drS goods, he'll see you in Texas be-
fore hepays it. Make it out for groce-
ries. i Is my duty as a good wife to
pandeILo his feelings"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

fefed a resolution that the bill and all
others of similar nature be laid upon the
table, not to be taken up unless on a
majority vote of the committee The
vote ON. this resolution was nine TO fohr,
Mr.. Atkins voting in the affirmative for
Mr.. Lamar. Tie four who voted against
this are supposed to be- Garfield, Of
Ohio; Luttrell, of California; Kass0n,
Of Iowa, and Blair, of New Hampshire.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31

IT takes a long time to finish a new
building in Toledo. A man up there
advertises: To clergymen-Ministers of
the gospel desiring a reliable type of eter-
nifty for illustrating their sermons will
please call at my new building, now in
course of completion. This is not rare
opportunity, but it is good one"