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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1876-02-25

THIS month has five Tuesdays.
LENT will begin on the LIST Of March.
SPRING Sales are rapidly taking place.
:;ioDDY wasn't known a hundred years
ago.
A NEW name for tight boots-a corr
Glib.
THE base ball players are tossing to tl(
front again.
Now i. the time to pin them back
windy days.
A MELODY peculiar to miikmcn-watel
Oh the brain.
WEN Il heard but little Of the Polar
Wave this winter.
IIE Muq has good health is a rich mar
and docs not know it.
THERE will be an eclipse Of the sun oi
the 25th of next month.
JOB work and sale bills are coming il
quite lively. Keep doing 50.
BABIES are described rs coupons attach
Ell to the bonds Of matrmony.
TIE communications from Rocky Ridge
will be given :pacc next week.
TIE wheat crop is looking well 1t las
been growing nearly all water.
ST.. Patrick Day, it is said, ill deer
,,,;,,, 4, La, ia. Ii,p a Cf,rintr liptS
THE duration Of sunlight has increased
one hour since The shortest day.
If this fine weather continues, people
will soon commence making garden.
THE Martins have. advertised to do q
cash business from :his date hcnceforward
Our town il is thought will rapidly i'm
prove next spring and summer. We hop'
SO.
WE have communication from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, which will appear in oul
next.
NEXT Monday the election for Common
Councilmen take place i'll the City OF Fred
crick
WE do not take much stock in goosl
bone representations. 1t is coal dealers
yarn.
THE Episcopal Church and Central
Bank of Frederick have been temporarily
repaired
WE are to have no fruit this year. Sc
the prophets say. We hope they may be
mistaken.
THE oldest inhabitant gives it up. lie
can't rccollcct such weather since the days
of boyhood.
IT is expected that the water will be let
into the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal by
the 1st of March.
A FLAG was hoistcd on chimney rock
few days ago by some vcnturesomc and
patriotic individuals.
THE Church of God christians of Crea-
gerstown and vicinity are having lively
time in making conversions.
The warm sun of Sunday last brought
out the entire corner brigade, and well did
they improve leach shining hour"
Mr.. George G, Landers, Of St Louis
Mo-, will please accept our thanks for late
number of St. Louis Globc-Democrat.
WE regret to hear that MI Ira Hotter
ley, an excellent citizen and farmer, resid-
ing near FranklinyiIle, is seriously i'll.
The Messrs Martin are agents for the
celebrated Remington sewing machine,
and have some on hand now ready for
sale.
SIX new recruits of the infantry branch
Of tho service made their appearance last
week. III time Of peace prepare for war
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
Cameron's Great African Walk.

This gallant young officer travelled on
foot a distance of 5000 miles, with very
short intervals of rest on the tramp, for
two years and eight months, exposed to
all the vicissitudes of climate, through for
ests, marshes and jungles, enduring hard
ships of all sorts; and yet his courage
never gave way. Lieut.. Cameron kept
his eyes we'll about him, and the Observa-
tions which he made, both astronomical
and in relation to the physical character
of the country, are of extraordinary value.
The registered observations he has brought
home, and which are now being computed
at the Greenwich Observatory, promise to
be of the most important character. They
are astonishingly numerous, elaborate and
accurate; and have every expectation
that the result of their computation will
be that we shall find laid down a defined
line from one ocean to the other across
twenty degrees of longitude, which will
serve as q basis, q fixed mathematical ba-
sis, for all future geographical discoveries
in equatorial Africa. The observations
with which he has furnished us and which
are now being computation latitude,
longitude and elevation-number nearly
5000. Naval officers and surveyors will
understand the extraordinary minuteness
and assiduity with which he did his work
when I state that, in order to determine
the longitude of some particular positions,
he took as many as 1870 or 40 lunar OBJ
servations in one spot.-Sir Henry Raac-
knsOn.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
CENTENNIALITIES.

The terra Gotta goods in Denmark's
exhibit call forth great praise.
The art collection in the Woman's
Pavilion continues to attract great atten-
ton.
The Argentine Republic makes an in
teresting display of minerals and various
articles manufactured.
The Mercantile Library of Philadel-
phia has thrown open its rooms free Of
charge for visitors to the Centennial.
The Liverpool Courier says there are
indications that the Centennial is begin
ming to attract passengers from England.
Visitors are reminded of Green
lands icy mountains when viewing the
contributions Of fur clothing made by that
country.
Horticultural and Agricultural halls
are now connected by an elevated railway,
which contributes largely to the comfort
of visitors.
"A knowledge of the Oriental language
is rapidly becoming test of respectable,
ty at the Centennial. It is said three words
OF Japanese are sufficient.
Much confusion arises in consequence
OF having the various buildings numbered
instead OF having the names Of the various
States and countries upon them.
The catalogues issued at the COM
mencement of the Exhibition are now
found to be very imperfect in many re-
spects, owing to the additions made in sew
eral departments.
The Castellani collection Of Greek and
Roman antiques in the Memorial Hall &C.
cupy several rooms. It is remarkably
rich in Greek bronzes, engraved gems,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
Must Pay His Taxes.

D. H. MITCHELL, of Leavenworth, Kan,
had $40 $50 to his credit in bank in that
city on the 28th of February. On that
day, to avoid paying tax on it, he drew the
money in the shape of US. legal.tender
notes from the bank, on his check, placed
the notes in an envelope, sealed it up, and
deposited it in the vault of the bank as a
special deposit, for safe.keeping. Three
days afterward he withdrew the package
and redeposited the notes as an ordinary
credit. The County Commissioners
heard of the transaction, and added SO, 900
to his assessment as penalty, and he is
taxed on the increased amount. He filed
bill in equity against the Commission
ers to restrain the collection of the tax,
alleging that, as his bank balance had
been converted into U. 8. notes which are
not taxable, and were held in that form on
the day his property was to be listed, he
could not be taxed on them. The Superior
Court of Kansas dismissed the bill, for
the reason that court of justice sitting
as a court of equity will not lend its aid
for the accomplishment of any such pur-
pose as escaping taxation. The case went
to the U. 8. Supreme Court, and that
tribunal affirms the decision of the court
below 1t says: "United States notes
are exempt from taxation by or under
State or municipal authority, but court
of equity will not knowingly use its ex-
traordinary powers to promote any such
scheme as the plaintiff devised to escape
his proportionate share of the burdens of
taxation. st. Louis Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
Deranged by the Bite of a Hog.

Nine weeks ago Peter Harris, living on
the Belair road, just back of the Baltimore
cemetery, and in the employ of Mr.. Ches-
ter, blacksmith, was bitten by wild hog,
which had been roaming about that por-
ton of the city, resisting all endeavors to
trap him. Mr.. Harris suffered severely
from the bite, and soon began to exhibit all
the symptoms of hydrophobia, Hefoamed
at the mouth like a mad dog, became hys-
terical, smashed chairs and looking
glasses, and wanted to hit his friends.
Measures were being taken to remove the
unfortunate man to quarters where the
lives of other people would not be endan-
gered, when suddenly, about ten days ago,
he mysteriously disappeared, and has not
been heard from since. The mcclure is,
that Mr.. Harris has died, or he would
have been heard from somewhere ere this,
as he was at the time of his departure a
raving maniac. He was attended by DR..
White, of Chase street, who states that
hogs, as we'll as dogs and wolves, are SUBJ
ject to hydrophobia, taking the disease
themselves without having been bitten.
Mr.. Harris was a married man, twenty
years of age, and worked on farm
Baltimore Netos,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
How He Screwed Him Up.

jim has been working in the country,
and, on coming to town, was RECALLING his
friends with his experience on the corner.
"You know de man what I went to work
wild? Well, you see he told me he would
do better by me den any of his neighbors
was doin' by der hans; he would give de
third of de crap, and l fine myself. Well,
you see, went to church and gifts quaint
ed wild de neighbors' hans. Oars Mr..
Washington, he is workin' on young Billy
Smiths place, and he's gettin' the fourth,
and find hisself; and dars Mr.. Linkum,
he's workin' on old man Jones' place, and
is gittin' de fifth, and is found bersides.
Well, yer see, when I gifts home, and was
aworkin' in the crap, l got to studyin',
and de more studied de more come to
de conclusion dat de third wasn't gwine
to do me. So I goes to the boss and says
IL says, you told me you was agwine
to do better by me dan any de neighbors
was by dere hans He says he's been
talkin' to 'em, and dat he was, and / says
dat Use been havin' some consti nation
with de neighbors' hans myself. Dat
Smiths hans was gettins de fourth, and
Jones' hans was gittin' de fifth and found,
and wasn't gwine to stand no third. Sc
he says we would resinge de old one, and
make new CONTRACT, and we bot come tQ
town fore Squire Robinson and made it;
here's de paper now, and OATS de way
screwed him up for the fourth. tell
you what's de fact, boys; you can't trust
one Of dem white folks" And jim
mounted his mule and rode of -Jacksca
(Miss.) Pilot.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06

posing that they were cultivating six
acres more than there really was. If the
yield came up to what the increased acre
age should produce, it did not matter so
much. But the probability is that they
were as far from the truth in the yield as
in the acreage. l once boughta tract of
salt marsh said to contain six acres. The
surveyor made less than four acres, much
to the disgust of the seller, and to the det-
riment of the reputation of persons who
had gained a local notoriety for big days
work done thereon. Traditional "big
days work. often owe their existence
more to some errors in calculation than to
the amount of work really done. There is
uncertainty enough attending the business
of farming, from unfavorable seasons,
and causes over which we have no con-
troll, without being subjected to loss in
those we can remedy. We suffer loss
from buying and paying for what we do
not get; by selling what we do not get
pay for, and in many other ways in which
the unknown quantity affects us unfavor-
ably. We should endeavor, where it is in
our power, to eliminate it from our bust
ness.-Cor. Country Gentleman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
The "Housskeeper,, OF our Health

~~~~~E~A0
The liver Is the great depurating or blood
cleansing organ of the system. Set the
great holsekeeper Of our health at work,
and the foul corrupticns which gender in the
blood and rot out, as it were, the machinery
Of life, are gradually expelled from the sys-
TEN. For this purpose DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, with small daily doses Of
DR.. Picrce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are
prominently the articles needed. They
cure every kind of humor from the worst
scrofula to the common pimple, blotch or
eruption. Great eating ulcers kindly heal
under their mighty curative influence. Viru-
lent blood poisons that lurk In the system
are by them robbed of their terrors, and by
their pcrsevering and somewhat protracted
use the most tainted system may be COM
pletely renovated and built up anew. En-
1arged glands, tumors and swellings dwindle
away and disappear under the influence of
their great resolvents. Sold by all dealers in
medicines.
''Claudc, child about three years old, was
greatly afflicted with sores on his legs and
feet, SO that he could not wear his shoes and
stockings. Had great deal of trouble with
him. Had tried many remedies Intellectually.
At last we tried the Golden Medical Discov-
cry, and in about three weeks he was entirely
cured, his sores were all healed, and health
much improved.
Respectfully yours, j. w. BOYER.
Vermillion, Edgar Co., ILL.,, Jan. q, 1875"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
The War on Cut Worms.

am fully persuaded that there is no
more sure way to ward off cut-worm in u-
ries than to enter into partnership with the
birds, in which it shall be the duty of the
party of the first part to pillow the land
early in the fall, so that bluebird, robin
and grakie may have cut-worm feast be-
fore leaving for more genial climes. Deep
narrowing will aid the party of the second
part, while repetition of the same as
early in the spring as the season will per-
nit, will insure thanksgiving repast of
the same nature. I feel very certain that
from this cause, and not freezing of the
larvae, has originated the unquestionable
fact that fall blowing is an advantage.
When unprotected larvae can survive a
temperature of thirty degrees, as proved
in the winter of 1874-75, we may be slow
to credit the freezing method of destruc-
ton. Our early spring birds are much
put to it to gain sufficient food for them
selves and brood, and with the opportu-
nifty will become chief abettors in cut
worm destruction. That the three birds
above named do merit loudest praise for
such valuable service, l have personal
proof.
The only method to supplement the
above measures when they are not ade-
quate to remove the N1il, with our field
crops, is digging out by hand and de-
stroying. This is by no means so tedious
a procedure as would be thought at first,
as by passing along the corn field early in
the morning the cut stalk will reveal the
whereabouts of the night marauder,
which, by digging around the stub, may
soon be found and crushed. As this plan
implies the loss of at least single stalk to
Larvae, it would be very we'll in planting
to practice the advice of the poet: 1.-TWO
for the blackbird, two for the crow Nhey
have earned them), two for the cut-worm
and four to grow" This advice will be
all the more pertinent if the corn is to be
planted after late plowed greensward; l
need hardly say late, as our wet springs
usually necessitate late spring blowing. If
our farmers will heed the above, and give
the good-by to all those quack remedies
which obtain annually an unmerited place
in our periodicals, such as salt, plaster,
etc. Though all fertilizers which promote
rapid growth are always to be commended
as aids in the work of insect destruction),
this cut-worm evil will soon assume less
mportance.-Pryf. Cook, IN Michigan
Fnr1ner
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
schenek,s Sea Weed Tonic.

In the atmosphere experienced here during the
summer months the lethargy produced by the heat
takes away the desire for wholesome food and fire.
quent preparations reduc, bodily energy, particu
larly those suffering from the effects of facilitating
diseases. In order to keep natural healthful actv
ity Of the system we must resort to artificial
means. For this purpose schenck's Sea Weed
Tonic is very e6ectual. A few doses will create
an appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated
body. For dyspepsia it 10 invaluable. Many emf
nent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia
can be permanently cured by the drugs which are
generally employed for that purpose. The Sea
Weed Tonic, in its nature is totally different from
such drugs. It contains no corrosive minerals or
acids; in fact it assists the regular operations Of
nature and supplies her deficiencies. The Tonic in
its nature SO much resembles the gastric juice that
it is almost identical with that fluid. The gastric
juice is the natural solvent which, in a healthy
condition Of the body, causes the food to be d.
gested and when this juice 10 not excreted in suf
cient quantities Indigestion with all its distress
ing symptoms, follows. The Sea Weed Tonic per-
forms the duty Of ths gastric juice when the latter
is deficient Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic sold by
all Druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
The Wrong Woman.

JUDGE PITMAN is one of the Directors
of the public schools. Last fall the Board
advertised for a female teacher, with in
structions to applicants to call upon the
Judge. A day or two afterward Mrs. Pit
man advertised for cook, and on that
afternoon an irish girl called at the house
to obtain the place. The Judge was at
perch at the time, and when she entered
he mistook her for schoolmistress, and
said to her:
"Did you come about that placer
eyes, sir" she answered.
80, very we'll, then; take seat and
I'll run over few things in order to as
certain what your qualifications are.
Bound Africa"
"lf you please, sir, I don't know what
you mean"
II say bound Africa"
"Bou -bou-begorra, I don't know
what ye're referrin' to-
every strange" said the Judge. "Can
you tell me if 'amphibious' is an adverb
or q propositions What is an adverb"
Indeed, and you bother me entirely.
I never had anything to do with such
things at my last place."
=" Then it must have been a curious
sort of an institution said the Judge.
Probably you can tell me how to conju-
gate the verb to be- and just mention
also what you know about Herodotus."
"Ah, your Honor's jokin' wild me. Be
done wild your fun, now"
Ibid you ever hear of Herodotus?"
"Never once in the whole coorse of
my life. Do you make it with eggs?'
"This is the most extraordinary woman
ever encountered" murmured the
Judge. How she ever associated Hero
dotus with the idea of eggs is simply in
comprehensive. Well, can you name
the hemisphere in which China and
Japan are situated?'
"Don't bother me with your fun now.
can wash the China and the pans as well
as anybody, and that's enough now isn't
it,"
"Dumb! awful dumb! Don't know the
country from the crockery: III try her
once more. Name the limits of the
Tropic Of Capricorn, and tell me where
II have brother that's one, sir; that's
all know about it,"
"One? One what?"
didn't you ask me afther the miners,
sir. My brother, Teddy works wild 'em.'
"And this" said the Judge, "is the
kind of person to whom we are asked to
intrust the education of youth. Woman,
what do you know? What kind of a
school have you been teaching"
"None, sir. What should teach school
for?''
"Totally without experience, as I sup
posed," said the Judge.
"Mrs. Ferguson had governess teach
the children when was cookin' for her. -
Cooking! Amt you aschool-teacher
What do you mean by proposing to stop
cooking in order to teach school? Why,
it's preposterous.
"Begorra / came here to get the cooks
place, sir, and that's all of it,
"Oh, by George! I see now. You
amt a candidate for the grammar school
after all. You want to see Mrs. Pitman.
Maria, ccme down here a minute. There's
thick headed immigrant here wants to
cook for you"
And the Judge picked up his paper and
resumed tho editorial on "The Impend.
ing Crisis '-Maz Adeler, in N. Y.
WcekLU,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-06
Keeping Milk and Butter i'm Cellars.

Milk or butter may be kept in a cellar
the bottom of which has been grouted,
and with good results, if proper attention
be given to ventilation, drainage and tenn
perature. When the ground is not of a
character to afford natural drainage, drains
should be laid so as to carry off all accu-
mutations of water liable to occur at any
time at the bottom of the cellar, and this
should be done before grouting. By SO
doing, dampness from the floor is avoided,
as we'll as impurities from stagnant water
under the grout. If milk is to be kept in
the cellar for the purpose of getting the
cream and for butter making, means must
be taken to have the temperature of the
room as low as sixty degrees Fahrenheit.
Unless some one of the devices now in use
for reducing the milk to a low tempera-
ture be employed, such as the large pan
system, where flowing water is carried
under the milk, or where the ice system
and its notifications are adopted, there
should be good ventilation to carry off
stale air or nOxiOus gases, as milk alb
serbs taints that will prove injurious to the
butter.
We have seen excellent results from
milk cellars having grouted floors, the
walls being nicely plastered with water
lime cement and the floors made smooth
and level with the same, and presenting
the appearance Of an immense block Of
stone.
We should not advise butter and milk to
be kept in the same apartment. A butter
cellar should always be kept by itself. 1t
should be properly ventilated and used for
no other purpose than for keeping butter.
And so with the milk cellar; it cannot be
used for storing vegetables, or for the
meat and soap barrels, or for fish and
other family provisions. Milk and butter
are dainty aristocrats in their nature.
They are extremely fastidious about CON-
ing in contact with filth and anything hav-
ing an unsavory odor, as such contact
speedily demoralizes them; and when
they once become tainted, they 60 on from
bad to worse, apparently having no dispo-
sition or power for reformation. So the
dairyman should be careful and not intro
duce them to bad company.-Rural Ne,c
YORKER