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, 1876-08-09
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tet, boB Der icrbiiAe General Sl6erno'
Jeff idQli0 all 8opularltdt p%erlirrt.
0ie @,rii@te I'M Yc5u9 onf poIt'lIhc
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9riinoet.
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@mgulopob burN Die Sarfln nit Del
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pei4smeIoet, bob @ur9ulopoB BON Ger
Serbeu. uno ni1t BON Den 3mtcn on0t
aiinoet puroe, Sic G~rlttren perloren
1900 Monu in Dem Sample bel @urgu-
5ouob. YCtItdrtun9cn, >uelNe pOn Sl6u
noirII oobln ab9elanot mnyoen, tomen
All lpdi an, UNI 1000 DRAMA oulcluen
Wuroen 9etDoleI.
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rem an, nm Serbicn Su retten.
Sn 8u9ruo bcrrjNt Gin all9cmein0
gSanif, uno Die ouswdrtI9cn Gonlnlr
briusen ,brs GiIeficn in Si@erheIt.
Seltrcid hat Den @rutclt Der Nfort
in 8eyu9 ouf Die Sperrung oss 9olen:
non &lef o50ewielcn.
General 9elhjanin 1T aus Soit@N1
pertrieben Ssmun Yai6a morlhlr
ouf Ghupino. unn meldcm Orte nus i'm
Der g8es nod Scl9roo pfcn ittbt
@u6oreN, 8. Nu9. Sn Der Sc
putirten. &nmmcr icste Der Yremicr-:nl
niiter Die @teaun9 oes neuen gabinctt
5ur ausmdrtiSen Bolitlf, ouseinanosr
@r lo9te, nos es Die lrengIte 9leutralita
bsobo4ten piyOe; isop@ su9lei4 fir b
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Girsinia @toats<0a3eFre
ta9l,a tersusseaeteu BON
9pbn y. pein'
Go. 8 3mGtite Strebe.
ii A M I'D, ga.
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Gfentli6e GiNerbeit ior9en, mo }org-
fdlti9 Die @iren5sn bes 2anae8 belpa6cn
ipiiroe.
9onbon, s. @us. 0ic ~paa MlaG
@a5'tts's" SerIiner Depei@e bat SOL
Senocs Sic vg}ationol 3eitung" io9t,
ba @crbien Die 9oHnun9 auf cine En-
fol9rei6e 6JrtflDrun9 0es 2rieges cuff
9e9ebcr, tat c3 Die DldOts ge5tteu Den
6rie0en ali uermltteln.
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Geigiea.

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1enbeimotb" gu @ntwerpen, 8cl9len, fur
beren 9ou iolppbl in England, ol8 in
Mmerifa betrd@tlide Sublcriptionm ets
Dobtn muroen, 1T jest oolenost uno er=
Dfinet.
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nfuffs tsIegr. pepel1en.
Geuti9lann.

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helm miro an y. bieleS Monots in
8opreutb eintrehen, un Dem @a9rer'
sseIte ~hci5upobncn. Gr miro am abcn=
be oes 14tcn nod Serlln surtidtebren,
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Green's maarsnlager
unoTabrif Yru 6aarArbeiten,
(e!abiirt 1861

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e1tal eQe, ipa. wel6e 20 siare @itenpen st.
NtM NhAyl s ~. YGEN.
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IrfIe ber MMsei9en:

srSs.re Nnseisen msr er tfiser tsre6net.
Mh. pber peutaer 8cittr ptltcn einsh S9aart.
aue gn,eiaen itnb I'M @eraus at tabltn.
Dix 3ettuua pi,b IN Nia n,Dae GHs Unit
etaene poi nrn 3rGessn fit Is GsntS per
gGrd'e auaaeiraaen.
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g Poten|tiA ac5ac4eu 1T. Die 6oblflc
dt'Jltruu9 Oiirlle in @lublid auf OFFICES
SpiHm oV blltrildlcn NaNMcr woD(
oopPeit 2InjaB ncgusn, auI bic ST.
Iu1ulig Der IbE |9e9cnabtr cInse9augcncu
SetpltbtuAatu p|ln;umt,|.n.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13

tonal currency, and makes silver coins Of one
dollar legal tender in sums of fifty dollars, ard
lesser coins In sums Of twenty-five dollars.
The Senate was not in session on the
LIST. In the House, the bill to amend the laws
concerning commerce and navigation and the
regulation of steam vessels was debated at con-
siderable length. resolution was adopted di-
recttng the Committee on Military Affairs to in
Vest1gAte charges Of corrupt and base practices
alleged to have been committed by Horace Boyn-
ton. clerk of such committee, while an officer of
the Internal Revenue Bureau in Texas.
Mr.. MORTON introduced bill in the
Senate on the Sd to amend the act to enfoyce the
right Of citizens to vote in the several States,
the object of the amendment being to bring the
Enforcement act within the late decision of the
Supreme Court. A bill was passed endatory
Of the Bankrupt law by providing that no volun-
tary assignment by debtor Of all his property,
made in good faith for the benefit of creditors,
and valid acc 1rdng to the law Of the State where
made, ehall of itself, in the event of his being
subsequently adiudicated bankrupt, be a bar to
the discharge Of such debtor. The motion to
reconsider the vote by which the bill reducing
the Presidents salary was passed was lost-yeas
q, nays 81. Announcement was made that the
articles. Several bills were introduced and re-
ferred in the House. The articles ofimpeachment
against ex-Secretary Belknap were adopted, and
Mesers. Lord. Knott, Lynde, Mcmahon. Jenks.
Lapham and Hoar were appointed as managers of
the prosecution on the part Of the Houee, Mr..
Lord standing a. chairman of the Board of Man
ayers. Bills were passed-authorizing the sale of
the Pawnee reservation in Nebraska; amending
the Pension law for the war Of 1872.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13

In Norwich the churches were deserted,
and thousands were excitedly helping to
save property. At the foot Of Shetucket-
street Hill the water was two feet deep.
and on the wharves themselves, ordinari.
lv eight feet or more above the water, men
were navigating in boats and ON RATS. The
Baltic dam gave way at about noon, and
soon the stream began to rise rapidly, and
on its foaming bosom came down bales of
cotton, whisky barrels, buzz-saw and
tables and all sorts of furniture. The
water was thirteen inches higher than in
the great flood of 1857, and five inches
higher than in 1907, when there was a
destructive freshet at Baltimore. A boat
was capsized and four lives lost at Yer
sailles. Mrs. Coleman, who had become
a mother but three days before, jumped
from window and was drowned with
her babe. At Taftville George Blackman
was caught while in a boat, with the
debris, and borne helplessly over the
dam, standing erect.
Details continue to be received of losses
by Saturdays storm. Dams continued
breaking yesterday and to-day. Losses
in the neighborhood of Clinton, Mass
aggregate $35O,00 and about Norwich,
Conn.,, to-day, five men were drowned by
the washing away of dam embankment
which they were strengthening. The
aggregate loss in New England is enorm
GUS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
The Machinery Of War.

Writing from Berlin, correspondent
Of the London Times says: "H all we
hear about new invention is correct,
wars are likely to be reduced to even yet
more of a matter of scientific calculation
than they are at present. According to
reliable information, NJ. Lie Boulanger, a
Belgian major Of artillery, has succeeded
IN constructing an instrument indicating
the distance between two armies by the
mere report Of the discharge. The mo-
ment the enemy fires shot the action of
the report upon the telemeter-thls is the
name of the machlne-marks the distance
to fraction. The instrument is entirely
self acting, easily kept in order, and re-
uuires no particular experience or intri-
cate calculations to use in Alright The
experiments to which 1t has been SUBJ
jected in the artillery grounds OF this and
some other countries are stated to have
been complete success as regards cannon.
Whether the machine marks with tho
same accuracy the report Of one or many
rifles, and whether the small specimens
for infantry and cavalry use are as relia-
ble as the larger ones attached to the
guns, is not quite SO certain. While the
artillery trial may be regarded as at an
end, experiments in the rifle grounds are
still going ON, and, it is said, with fair
prospect of producing satisfactory re-
suit. Should the latter expectation he
realized, war will be q very different
thing from what it has been, seeing that
the last campaign only one shot in ten
hit; but then if the invention is confined
to the artillery, its effect must he trcmend-
Gus, considering the present deadly
efficiency Of firearms. One of its princi-
pal advantages, it is supposed, will be to
enable the gunners Of a coast battery to
determine the position OF hostile ship
calculation hitherto fraught with special
difficulty. The adoption Of The tc.c!netcr
by the German artillery on land and S.. a
may be regarded as certaln, .'7
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
A French Servant.

A French servant likes his master to
make some appeal to his good feeling and
intelligence, and he is generally ready TO
answer such an appeal with lively and
willing obedience; but a naughty master
will not get very much out of him. The
tone generally adopted toward servants in
Burgundy is that of intelligent but not
jocular familiarity; and the best way to
be we'll served is to show thatyou thor
oughly understand what has to be done,
while you appreciate all proofs of skill,
and respect industry and endurance.
When there is neglect, clear and detailed
criticism is the best thing, for the people
are generally intelligent, though ignorant
They are sensitive to praise, which ought
to be given freely from time to time when
it is merited. With kind and considerate
treatment, they become so strongly at
tached that it is impossible to dismiss
them, and then they only leave you to be
married. We know an instance of an old
servant who was dismissed for some rea-
son, Tut quietly reappeared in the house
on the following day as if nothing had
happened, saying that it was no use send
ing her away, for she would not go, and
she would work without wages rather than
be turned out. In most of the houses we
visit, we always see the same domestic,
whom we know by name, and always
greet by name, with hearty bonjoslr,
which is cordially returned. One of our
neighbors had a gardener, who fell into
weak health and at last died. When
dying he expressed wish to be remem-
bered to his friends, whom he mentioned.
l was one of the persons mentioned,
and was deeply touched on receiving the
message OF Kindness from the dead, by the
thought that in so solemn moment he
had felt confidence in my sense of our
human brotherhood, and had believed that
his farewell would be valued by me; and
it was and is. This little incident shows
the relation between classes; it shows how
little the domestic thinks himself excluded
from sympathy by his servitude. Yet he
is uniformly respectful, though in an
easy and informal way. His manners
express something of this kind, if it is
possible to translate such subtle ex-
preston as that of manners into words
They seem to say, II will not forget the
distinction between us and will serve you
heartily so long as you treat me kindly,
but am not in the least afraid of YOU"
|-Hamerton's Notes Of Rural Life in
TTnOce
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
Anecdotes of Lord LyttOn.

Lord Lytton asked me to come home
with him to the Queens Hotel at Hast
ings, where he was staying, and dine. He
was without any umbrella, the rain fell in
torrents, and l covered him as we'll as !
could with mine. l found he occupied
apartments on the ground floor at the hotel.
They seemed in sad state Of confusion.
The floor was strewn with litter OF
books and papers, and copiously sprinkled
with Turkish tobacco, an odor of which
pervaded the air. The table was laid with
covers for three, but only myself and the
host sat down. He ate, / observed, but
sparingly, and drank nothing but water
with dash of sherry in it. In the even
ing, as was taking my departure, came
upon the German waiter who had attended
at table, and limited that the rooms might
be kept in little better order. "Bless
you, sir" said the kellner, 1.-THE place has
not been swept or busted for fortnight;
that gent is outrageous like if book or
paper is touched The manager wants to
get him away; but has taken the rooms for
a month, and won't go; and he Is such a
good pay that our governor don't like to
disoblige him." "Waiter," l said, stern
ly, "do you know who that ERE gent,
as you call him, is?'' Viz, sir-no sir, y
replied the waiter in breath, puzzled by
the solemnity of my tone. "That is Lord
Lytton," said, the greatest man in all
England. If you see much of him, and
note down carefully what he does and
what he says, you may become second
Boswell" "Lor', SIR" said the waiter
"you don't say so! Our manager thinks
this gent is cracked he goes out in ali the
weathers without any greatcoat, and won't
even take an umbrella; then he never ex.
amines his bills, but scribbles off check
on any scrap of paper that comes to hand.
1t was only the day before yesterday that
a poor woman came with one of them bits
of paper. Shesaid the outlandish- looking
gent who lived in our house had given il
to her, and she did not know what to dc
with it. He had come into her cabin to
light his pipe, while her husband, poor
fisherman who was drowned in the las,
gale, lay there dead. He wrote it on the
back of an old letter, and said he hoped il
would do her good. You can't think OF
the poor creatures surprise when l
brought her back ten sovereigns which
the manager gave me when he saw the
paper. Surely, sir, the gent cannot be
all right here, ":and the waiter significantly
touched his forehead Belqrauia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13

to lombard Mix's new dog with boots.
soap-cups, and every loose object he could
lay his hands on. He hit the animal at
last with a plaster bust of Daniel Webster,
and induced the dog to retreatto the stable
and think about home in silence.
It seemed almost ridiculous to resume
those sheep again, but he determined to
give the almanac man one more chance,
and SO as they began to Jump the fence he
began to count, and after seeing the eighty
second sheep safely over he was gliding
gently in the land of dreams when Mrs.
Butterwick rolled out of bed and fell on
the floor with such violence that she
walked the twins and started them crying,
while Butterwick's mother-in-law came
downstairs four steps at time to ask il
they felt that earthquake.
The situation was too awful for words
Butterwick regarded it for minute with
speeches. indignation, and then Selling
pillow he went over to the sofa in the
back sitting-room and lay down on the
lounge.
He fell asleep in ten minutes without
the assistance of the almanac, but hi
dreamed ali night that he was being but.
ted around the equator by Cotswold ram
and he woke in the morning with ter.
rifle headache and conviction that sheer
are good enough for wool and chops, bu
not worth cent az a narcotic.-Philadel
ptiG Bulletin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
How English Women Dress.

The ugliest thing we have seen in Lon
don is her womankind. This is owing in
great measure to the untasteful dress.
Tame has not exaggerated one whit in
deriding the English woman's dress. 1t
is almost a caricature. The elementary
principles of taste seem unknown. The
leading idea is to get as much Cost as pos
sible in costume, and as little beauty.
We saw one lady who wore a seal-skin
jacket, trimmed with silver fox fur, twen-
ty inches wide, plated on in heavy box
plaits. The hideous effect may be mag.
ined. But she had paid $500 for her
trimming, and was happy. Don't leave
this out, Mr.. Editor, the women will un-
derstand it, if the men don't.) They trim
their dresses deliberately round the middle
of the body, and tuck them up at the sides
with mathematical precision. They look
like market women with their panniers.
There is not line of grace in the square
sturdy figures. The abundance of color
is another prominent feature in English
women's apparel. Not the lily, the lily
of the field, but Solomon in his glory is
their ideal. Blue, green, purple and red
flash along the street, often all combined
in one costume. They dress more out
rageously in travelling than any people in
the world. One lad "a genuine lady in
our coach-wore a scarlet petticoat, a gray
overdress, blue hat and brown feather!
At the theater among the haut noblesse,
who sat in the stalls, we saw an old lady
dressed in low crimson satin, pink rose
in her gray hair, diamonds on her with.
cred neck and blue cloak half off her
shoulders. Now and then one sees a
Young girl extraordinarily pretty and
fresh, but of the old ladies not one have l
seen to compare with those beautiful old
women of America, who wear their years
like so many added charms, whose silver
hair shines like a glory around gentle
faces that years and sorrow perhaps have
refined and spiritualized to a beauty be-
yond the rose and rounded outlines of
youth. The best dressed people we have
seen are the actresses aud the shop girls.
The latter wear that very pretty and be-
coming dress, plain black silk with a
long train, and black velvet jacket
London Cor. Memphis Avalanche.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
First Steamboat on the Hudson.

The steamboat itself is romance of the
Hudson. Its birth was on the waters,
where the rude conceptions of Evans and
Fitch on the Schuylkill and Delaware
were perfected by Fulton and his success
sors. How strange is the story of its adj
vent, growth and achievements! Living
men remember when the idea of steam
navigation. was ridiculed. They remem-
Der, too, that when the Clermout went
from New York to Albany without the
use of sails, against wind and tide, in
thirty-two hours, ridicuie was changed
into amazement. That voyage did more.
1t spread terror over the surface of the
river, and created wide alarm along its
borders. The steamboat was an awful
revelation to the fishermen, the farmers
and the villagers. 1t came upon them
unheralded. 1t seemed like a wierd craft
from Pluto's realm-a TRANSPORTATION of
Charon's boat into living fiend from the
internal regions. Its huge black pipe
vomiting fire and smoke, the hoarse
breathing of its engine, and the great
splash Of its uncovered paddle-wheels
filled the imagination with all the dark
pictures of COLLINS that romancers have
invented since the foundation of the
world. Some thought it was an unheard-
of monster of the sea ravaging the fresh
water; others regarded it as a herald of
the final conflagration at the day Of doom.
Managers of river craft who saw it at
night believed that the great red dragon
of the Apocalypse was loose upon the
waters. Some prayed for deliverance;
some fled in terror to the shore and hid in
the recesses of the rocks, and some
crouched in mortal dread beneath their
decks and abandoned their vessels and
themselves to the mercy of the winds and
waves or the jaws Of the demon. The
Clermont was the author of some of the
most wonderful romances of the Hudson,
and for years she was the victim and en-
nifty of the fishermen, who believed that
her noise and agitation Of the waters
would drive the shad and sturgeon from
the river.-B. J. Lossing, IN Ha,per's for
Apr2.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13

The Boston & Albany Railroad embark
ment served as a dam, and Webster's
Square was rapidly converted into q
reservoir. A few minutes past nine
one end of Curtis & Marbles large
brick shop gave way, falling into
the stream. BY this time the gain in Cur.
It's Pond dam had increased to twenty
feet; and soon after Arcade Building
tipped over, and was left standing on one
end. About quarter to ten the double
arch bridge on the Boston g. Albany Rail-
road, below Curtis & Marbles shop, gave
way, section of embankment seventy feet
long and twenty feet deep with it. An
outlet was made, and danger at New
Worcester was averted. After the second
break in the Boston & Albany Railroad,
mill of the Wicks Manufacturing Com
pany. at South Worcester, was DESTROYED.
The water then spread over a series of
meadows, and in the south part of this
city there was general inundation. The
water is rapidly subsiding, and no further
damage is feared.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13
Destructive Floods In New England.

BosroN, March 81.
The damage by the frcsl1et on Saturday
over New England must have been over
81 ,OOO, 600, and perhaps dozen lives
were lost. Miniature Mill River disasters
were seen on all sides. The city was COM
paratively unframed, choked sewers and
cess pools being the worst damaged. At
Clinton, Messy Pond, which furnishes q
broad plateau Of 100 acres, gave way and
was soon drained. Atannery was knocked
from ito foundations, four tenement houses
floated of, and 100 rods Of fence and
road were washed away. At Fullerville
the wooden mill buildings were swept
away and not = vestige left. The damage
IN the 6hetucke., Quinebang and Yontfe
Yailoys alone wa hundreds Of thousands.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-13

The following paper by Geo. May Pow
ell, chairman of the Forest Committee, was
recently read before the Farmers Club of
the American Institute, New York:
The damage done to our precious forest
Interests by fire is almost bewildering in
its magnitude. The growth of centuries is
swept to utter destruction by the fire.
fiend in few hours. Many lives are lost
and millions of dollars worth of actual
cash value in material for fuel, the me-
chanic arts, and land and naval architect
ure is, in the aggregate, annually annihi-
lated in our country by needless fires.
The tangible, material damage thus done,
vast as it is, dwarfs beside the compare
lively intangible ruin of colossal CONNER.
cial, manufacturing, agricultural. n.y.
gienic and other Interests dependent on
climatic influences conserved by the silva.
Prevention is not alone better than cure
in this case; it is the only alternative be-
tween ruin and the reverse.
The power Of many Of these fires is
really awful as it gathers from lines of
billowy flame miles in extent. The ground
and the air tremble and culver as it
raves and riots in its fury. Its heat like
that of the fires in London and Chicago,
appears to be an example of cumulative
intensity, as a falling body is of cumula-
tive velocity and momentum, so that its
blast is, if possible, even more consuming
than the flames themselves. Not only is
mature timber and growing trees de-
strOyed, but also the organic matter in the
very soil. The silicious matter in the
earth even is often literally vitritied, and
for many years made incapable to repair
damages.
1t is time for enforcing, as we'll as
enacting, laws for damages from forest
fires started by hunters gunwads and
camp fires; time to compel railway COM
panies to use mechanical appliances to
prevent sparks from their engines acting
as myriad incendiaries as they rush along
among the autumn lea yes; also to restrain
them from emptying cinders where they
will start fires to do more damage be-
tween sunset and sunrise than the value
Of their road, rolling stock, ETC., for
leagues. Those who start these fires,
whether by malice, or carelessness, OF
recklessness, should be made to pay
heavy penalties, whether they be individ-
uals or powerful corporations
If need be, let legal proceedings be
carried to the extreme. If Judges or
juries allow themselves to be tempered
with, let it be understood that these in
terests of the people are so precious, that
impeachment and wholesale and pro-
tracted imprisonment will be meted out
to offenders.