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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
SOUTH CAROLINA,
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The announcement is made exclusive.
ly in the Dramatic Neus that Mr.. James
Gordon Benefits engagement with Miss
May is off. At his request Miss May will
keep the presents he has at various times
given her.
-Ex- Postmaster-Gen. Jewell has a
young daughter who is allowed 81 500 a
year for pin money. And does she spend
it all on her precious self? No. She
disburses the lions share of it in keeping
up Dorcas Society.-Chicago Journal.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, a noted lit
erateur of the old Knickerbocker Magn-
zine days, recently reported dead, is still
living at the age of seventy, in the State
Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg, and his
insanity is less obtlusive than for many
years. 1t Is now twenty-siX years since
his retirement from the world.-Pitts-
betrgh Commercial.
The way in which Gov. Chamberlain
drifted into South Carolina is described
by correspondent of the Boston Journal
as follows: IAN old college friend of
Chamberlain was drowned in Charleston
harbor. He went there to settle his af-
fairs. That visit ended in his leasing an
ooeiAN''ASN pAdutdIlOu III
upon the untried life of planter. He
was soon elected member of the conven-
ton which framed the present Constitu.
ton of the State''
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe conducted the
Thanksgiving services at the Unitarian
Church IN Newport, R. l. Her text was
taken from the story of the Pharisee who
thanked God that he was not as other men
were. In her view. neither as nation
nor as individuals can Americans properly
thank God after this fashion. We should,
rather, in view of His great gifts and
mercies, feel ourselves overcome with
penitence, like the publican, and cry,
"God be merciful to America, sinner"
"A Montreal advocate, at the request
of Mrs. Worms, who Is still residing in
that city, has drawn up a petition to
President Grant praying for the release Of
her husband, the celebrated DR.. Worms,
who was convicted ut Philadelphia of
forgery, and sentenced by Judge Cadwal-
lader to two years and ten months i'm
prisonment. The reasons urged for the
Presidents clemency are that the prisoner
served as Captain in the army during
the civil war, and was for a long time a
faithful servant of the cause of the Union :;
that he was engaged in numerous battles,
and that he holds many testimonials testi.
flying to his good character while in the
service.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
How to Repel Surprise Party.

An afflicted correspondent writes to the
Tribune to ask how she and her husband
can manage to repel the pirates who a,
this season Of the year organize expedi-
tions to prey upon their hapless neigh
bors, and call their forays "surprise par
ties" 1t is not easy to advise her. Some
people have found it efectual to keep a
bulldog of satisfactory ferocity; grease
on thesfront steps is good; some stubborn
cases have yielded to the application of
powerful electric battery to the bell-wire,
and fermentation of few pals Of waite,
is not without its effect. A smallpox
placard will sometimes work cure where
other remedies have been exhibited vainly
A gentleman on West Adams street has in
vented heroic method of treatment which
was tried last Thursday in the presence of
large surprise party, and proved success
full beyond the fondest expectations of the
infamous inventor. He unhitched the
bell-wire from the pull, which he riveted
on the inside of the post; then he got
chlsel and screw-driver and removed all
the, fastenings of the door post, SO that
while it looked like q solid doorway,
with a securely fastened bell handle In it,
it was in reality nothing but thin veneer
of molding with bell pull in it, ready to
yield to the touch of an infants hand.
These arrangements completed, he and
his wife turned down the gas and watched
at the blinds till their unsuspecting victims
entered the ambush-the front yard, that
is. The forlorn hope was headed by a
iovial old man whose boast it is that he
is as young in heart as his grandchildren.
He weighs about 265 pounds. This de-
voted man marshaled his forces and ad.
vanced nimbly up the steps. Immemo-
rial custom has prescribed as an absolute
rule that when house is attacked by
surprise party, the pirate at the head of
the besiegers shall pull the bell as vehe-
mently as if the residence were that of
doctor and the stormer the prospective
father of first baby. Accordingly the
old gentleman gave the bell fearful
tug, throwing himself back 50 as
to get the luxury of full pur-
chase. To his surprise he seemed to
pull the whole front out of the house,
and with wild whoop of establishment
and terror he accompanied by the door
post) threw a back somersau1t down the
steps into the midst of the festal party. He
fell on the hireling musician: the hireling
musician fell on his fiddle; the door post
knocked couple of guests over the bal
cony railing into the rose bushes, and the
whole party knocked each other downlike
row of bricks or a card house, amid
perfect pandemoniurn of shrieks, smash
ing of dishes and bottles, and the like.
The surprise party made good their re-
treat, carrying their wounded with them
without molestation BY TIE triumphant
garrison.-cAseogo 2rtosl'se.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
BabylOnian Antiquities.

The main portion of the Babylonian
antiquities, just received at the British
Museum, as the result of the last expedi.
ton Of Mr.. George Smith, was found near
Hillah, a town about three miles north
from the site of Babylon. They are chiefly
contract tables, mortgage loans, promis-
sorry notes, records of the sale of lands.
shares and other commodities, represent.
ing, in fact, all the various commercial
transactions of Babylonian firm, who
may be approximately described as
Messrs. GaLi g. Sons, bankers and fnan.
cial agents. Many of the tablets repre-
sent the renewal of loans and mortgages,
so that the documents referring to the first
and the last OF continuing transactions
bear the dates of several reigns. The
dates thus extend from the fall of the As.
syrian Empire to the reign of Darius
Hystaspes, including dates in the reigns of
Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar,
Evil Merodach, Cambyses, and the elder
and the younger Cyrus. The dates of the
tablets, therefore, furnish very important
chronological land marks, and they are,
in many respects, subversive of the recent
chronology. The rate of interest current
in Babylon on loans was generally ten per
cent, and much light is thrown on the
social life of the Babylonians from the
circumstance that witnesses of deeds are
always described by their trade or profess
sion. One of the tablets is dated in the
reign of Belshazzar as King, being the
first time his name has been found in CON
nection with the royal dignity, previous
inscriptions having had reference to the
time when he was described as the son of
Nabonidus. There are large number. of
mathematical tablets, giving calculations
OF considerable intricacy. One curious
and beautiful tablet presents calendar
for the entire Babylonian year-or would
if fragment had not been lost-and for
every day in the year, distinguishing the
days as lucky or unlucky, whether for
feasting, fasting, marriage or the building
of houses. The calendar further indicates
in what respect the several days affect or
influence person and property, health and
fortune. Among the antiquities are some
early Babylonian bricks and fragments of
statuary of King hitherto unknown in
the city Of Zergul, called at this day by
the slightly varied form of Zerghul.
There are also specimens Of pottery, and
two small bronze statuettes of gods, with
Inscriptions. The whole series Of tablets
may be said to be, all things considered,
in fair condition as to their Integrity
London Cor: Musctsster Guast1Sdn. 7,lE
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, ON the 18th, Mr.. Bogy
presented the memorial of himself and Senators
Stevenson and Mcdonald. embracing the report
OF the Democratic Committee on the Lou lana
election, which was ordered printed. The reso-
lu ion directing the Alto ney General to inform
n" Sena as 20 the number OF United States
Mar on election day agreed to
as as. % the necessity OF their employment the OBJ
1ect thereof, thet, duties; etc The res'lu ion
conside, able length. The join resolution
proposing an amendment to the Constitu.
ton SO g to have the Electoral vote coun ed BY
the supreme Court was IN th con -idered. and
amendments We're agreed to alkiDg the MI assure
appl'cabl. to The present polite ! con est in caee
IT be ratified by thr. four hs OF the STATUS ETC..
not later than he 10 h Of next February for the
count, and providing that no Justice Of the 81.
preme Cou shall be ,igible to the Presidency
Of the United States tor -four years Of er he shall
have ceased o be such in tice. A bill was iotro-
dueed and referred providing for the SO of the
the question t the joint ru.rs. The Speaker hav.
ing again decided III they W. re 10 full rec and
TSs 9 S 81 s bob
utilize he pI oduct of he gold and silver mines
was Iaken up, The previous gu stion seconded,
tn. 1s,h ard one on the 18th. The Pos,oiice
tss2, ses, :5) and The For inca ion {$a5ooH) bills
we're ports d. The Speaker appointed Messrs
C.xN r., Rice (ohio), Waddell, MacDougall
TO W. atever fraud. had been practfced In the
cleo Ion 10 New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
Philad lphis.
SEVERAL petitions of religious and
temperance organizations throughout the country
were present ed and referred in the Senate on the
18th, asking for the prohibition, in the District Of
Columbia and the Territories, Of the manufacture
and sale Of alcoholic liquors q beverage. Mr.
tee on Privileges and Elections, in place Of Mr..
Mitchell, excused. Mr.. Edmunds' joint resolu-
tion for an amendment 10 the Consti:
Triton tpt r,I 20 - TO refer the counting Of
was further discussed and finally rejected :
yeas IA, nays 81. -. In he House, the bill to
utilize the products Of the gold and silver mines
that silver dollars Of the weight Of 412h grains
shsll be coined and shall be egal.tender for all
oeote pubic and rrivate: except when pa. M mt
IS 10 o~ and Thu the S
make the arlington q Missouri River Railroad
Company IN Nebraska q branch Of the Union
Fse nc hailroad was taken up and recommit ed.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the resolu-
ton to print extra copies Of the Presidents mes.
cage and accompanying documents in regard to
the election in Louisiana was taken mp, and .
lengthy debate followed on An amendment offered
the memorial Of Messrs Bogy. s evens, and
Mcdonald embracing the report Of the Demo-
ocrattc COMMITTEES which wit. eseed the count In
.'' in
Ssyard and .'lated chiefly to the que ton Of in
timidatton, after which the amendment was agreed
Pr ut 1850 cop e.. A joint re- oiut,on to print
10000 copies of the came message and documents
was aleo passed. A message was received
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

JUDGE WHITE, on the 18th, resumed the
consideration of the contempt case against
the Florida State Board of Canvassers, when
the Democratic counsel suddenly withdrew
all proceedings, announcing that they took
this course to bring the matter in q new
form before the Supreme Court.
The Democrats Of Jacksonville, Ind, on
the evening Of the 18th, ratified the claimed
election of Tilden ard Hendricks by firing q
salute Of 2o4 gums, that being the number Of
Electoral votes claimed by them.
News reached Cheyenne, on the 14th, of a
terrible massacre perpetrated in the Big
Horn country. 1t seems that party of
twenty six miners started for the Big Horn
country, and none had been seen alive since.
MIR. John sheron, who is perfectly reliable,
says that several weeks ago q company of
white men were attacked by a band of
Sioux, supposed BY the trail , have been a
very large band, and it is believed on the
first volley the miners a d to the brush.
which the Indians fred and then killed their
victims. The bodies of eighteen or twenty
men have been identified.
THE Colorado Legislature, on the 10Th,
elected h nry NJ. Teller (Rep) United States
Senator for the full term of six years, begin
ming on the 4th of next March. The Demo.
Gratis voted for Hugh Butler.
THE Republicans Of Chicago, on the 18th,
fired lS5 guns, one for each Electoral vote
claimed for Hayes and Wheeler.
A VERY dangerous counterfeit halt. dollar
has bee" detected in Chicago. 1t has been
taken at nearly all the banks in the city,
The coin Is heavily plated with silver, aud
its composition is supposed to be block. tin
and glass m xed and it is deficient in weight.
but not 50 much 50 as to create any suspicion.
All the coins which had been found up to a
recent date are stamped 1875.
In The mandamus case against the Florida
Board Of anvassers, answer was made BY
defendants, on the l6 b, which, sitter arpu-
m Mt, the Supreme Court declared to be In.
sufficient. The Board were given until the
18th to amend 1t.
In Chicago, on the 18th. spring wheat No.
Q, closed at $l.1S@1.181 cash. Cash cord
losed at 44Nc for No. 2. Cash oats No. sold
at SS@sSkc; January options sold at
s31<c; Barley, No. 2. 65@65kc; Rye,
No. Z zoe. Cash mess pork New
closed At t16.50; Lard, $1,000 @ 1880.
Good TO choice beeyes brought $40
@5OO; medium grades. $500. 90; butchers'
stock $25O@H25; stock cstttji sts., S460
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
Happy New Year.

Splendid holiday novelties, New Years
stories, New Years presents, New Years
pictures, New Years music, New Years
cabinet gems, New Years chromos, New
Years poetry, New Years chrome book
marks, New Years household, New Years
fashions, New Years etiquette, New Years
greetings, and other holiday novelties, with
rare literary gem. and full-size patterns, in
Demorest's Monthly Magazine, Is certs, post
free, yearly s., with splendid Premium.
Do not fail to see the Janu AIRY number, with
three beautiful cabinet and artistic oil
chromos, worth several times the cost of the
magazine. Address w. JENNINGS DEMO-
REST, II E. 14th St., N. Y.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
Mime. DeIllOreStaS

grand opening Of patterns Of the novel and
beautiful winter styles in polonaises,
basques, cloaks, overskirts, ETC., 5 Rue de
Tracy, Paris; 80 Queen Victoria Street, Lon
cics everywhere. Centennial Award for Pat
terms over all competitors See Winter cat
alogue and splendid Christm Is and New
Years numbers Of Uenorsst's Monthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
A Universal Remedy.

"BRoWN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" for
Coughs, Colds and Bronchial Affections,
stand first in public favor and confidence;
this result has been acquired by q test Of
many years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
Beautiful Patterns for Dolls,

IL, a. and Is inches in height. The set in.
cludes thirteen garmen's-polonaise. basque,
jacket, Waterproof, hood, chs mise, drawers,
overskirt, skirt, apron, petticoat, nigh,-d ess,
and wrapper, with illustrations and descrip-
tions. Price 10 cts. per set, post-free. Ad.
Sold at all Toy stores or at Nine. Demorests
agencies everywhere.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28

EVERYTHING about SANFoRD's RADICAL.
CURE FOR CATARRH invites confidence. Its
the prescription OF one of our ablcst physi-
clans, tits prepared by one Of The largest and
most reliable drug houses in the United
States, and is prescribed by physicians.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28

TEE HoMB C1RcLE.-This elegant weekly
is the best and cheapest illustrated literary
paper In the United States, brimful of good
sent free Of postage besides, an extra large,
elegant oil chrome, gratis, to every subscriber,
and free of postage. A large commission Is
given to agents. Sample copies free, on no
ceipt Of q stamp for return postage. For sale
by all newsdealers, at 6 cents per copy. Ad-
dress F. GLEASON, q Co., 7S8 Washington
street, Boston, Nass.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.

HENNEP1N COUNTY furnishes fifty per
cent. of the students of the State University,
and Ramsey County twelve per cent.
The North Star Wooden Mills, at Minneap.
oils, have been sold for s57, 900, to satisfy q
mortgage for Sc, 1000, held by Samuel Tyler.
father of one Of the proprietors. Tyler was
the purchaser. Gibson & Tyler, the owners,
have been thrown into bankruptcy. Their
liabilities are s65o,o0O, and their as eta
me ger.
JUST sixty days after the Minneapolis
Harvester Works were burned the new man.
ufactory was in operation.
On the evening of the 9th, a stagc-driver
named Al. Jay, who runs between Caledonia
and Brownsville, lost package of $4,000,
which was sent from Caledonia to the Bata-
Wan Bank of La Crosse, Wis. No trace of
the money had been found at last accounts
THE Board of Auditors of the State Treas.
ury met at the Office of the Treasurer on the
first day Of December and made a complete
and thorough examination of its condition.
They found the following state of affairs:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28

"HELP FOR HARD TIMEs."-Read the ad-
GEcrtiscp,ent elsewhere On this suoist You
Ennpn OF expend a smql sum tust NOW bettcr
than to get The help there o6srsd. "-EIsor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28

PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT.
-" Beautifulv' Charming!'' "Oh, how
lovely!" ''What are they WORTH" etc.
Such are the EXPLANATIONS of those who SEQ
the large, elegant new Chromos produced by
the European and American Chrome Publish.
ing 60. Every one will want them. 1t re-
quircs no talking to sell the pictures-thcy
speak for themselves. Canvassers, agents.
and ladies and gentlemen out of employment.
will find this the best opening ever offered to
make money. For full particulars send
stamp for confidential circular. Address T,
GLEASON & Co., 7sS Washington street.,
Boston, Mass.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28

Two gentlemen at ball at Browns
Flat, Cal, one evening recently, cut their
throats-one by showing the other how
throat without cutting it, the second by
explaining to third party the manner in
which number one had carved himself.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28
4 Primo Remedy for a Painful Dis

The pangs endured by the rheumatic are
attributed by scientific pathologis's to the
contact Of a certain abnormal acrd element
in the blood with the sensitive covering Of
the muscles and joints. Hostettcr's Stomach
Bitters, being superb blood depurent, is
admirably calculated to expel this impurity,
and by removing the cause to allay the pain
and fevcrish symptoms which it produces.
That it is most successful remedy for
rheumatism, neuralgia and govt, as well as
a reliable means Of countcracting those dis
eases, is fact amply evidencedb by voluntary
certificates emanating from those whom it
has cured, and att sted ty medical practi-
TONERS of high repute. 1t is likewise a
sovereign curative of dyspepsia, constipa-
ton, liver complaint, urinary troubles and
general debility, as well as tie most popu-
lar and successful antidote to malaria cXtant.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-12-28

DEMOCRATIC and Republican addresses
We're issued at Washington on the 18TH The
Democratic is a. follows.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-02-02
STATEMENT OF
UNsEATED POOR TAX,
Assessed for 1s74-75.
COMMISSIONERS oERrIFIcArE.

We, N. uudcrsiesed Com pissencrs Of Clear
field county, 10 the Commonwealth Of Pennsyivs-
mia, having met according to law, aud having ca
amined the several accounts md vouchers Of Da-
vid W. wise, Rsq.. Treasurer Of said county for
the year 1878. do certify, that we hni them as sc,
forth In the foregoing statement. The mount
due him from the county appears TO be one thou
sand four hundred and thirty -seve dollars aud
ten cents (Sl.4sII0). lie u Indebted to the road
fund 10 the sum Of Eve hundred and ninety dol,
lars and eleven cents $3.50 ~ and to the school
fund 10 the sum Of thirty dollars and forty mine
cents 5000. TIE amount due from unsested
lands for county purposes Ia thirty thousand
eight hundred and seventy ave dollars and sixty.
six cents t$39, $3.50. and for school purposes
sixty -ous thousand three hundred and eighty -ninc
dollars and forty nine cents $si $50 4e), and for
road purposes sixty thousand seven hundred aud
ninety three dollars and eighteen conts 500 7g3lsl
and for the use Of the poor t~el,e thousand three
hundred and forty dollsrs and thirty two.
oenu (Si2, ,3te.S7.) For statement In detail. sec
statements Of the road. school aud poor funds
hctc~ith submitisd. showing the amount of such
fund paid ihc respective District rteAsarsrs and
the amount Of funds yei in the hands of the
couay Treasurer.
Witness our hands at cicar6eid, this thirty -flry
day Of January, A. y. 1879.
CLARK BROWN.
si TIOS. A. Mc6BR.
HARRIS HOOVER,
Attest .NINI 4.-N commissonsrs.
O. h. GoopLASpnn, Clerk.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-02-02
THE TAYLAW REPEAL.

Nh. EDITOR IL notice by petitions
in circulation, that there is move
ment on foot to repeal or change the
mode of collecting our county and
State taxes This is wrong move,
and piece of false economy ! want
the taxpayers to give this matter a
practical thought or two before they
gopell-mell for repeal. have obtained
the main facts for my illustration from
the County Auditors report
1t viii be observed that the amount
of county and State taxes assessed for
1875 amounted, in round numbers, to
about s27 900, nearly one-balf Of which
the County Treasurer collected for t,oo
per cent, while the prompt taxpayers
saved five per cent, making in the
aggregate nearly $500, and the negli-
gent taxpayers, who want the Consta-
BILE or Collector to run after them for
his taxes, must pay him five per cent.
for his neglect, II will thus be seen
that the whole sum Of $4,000 only
cost about $40 to get into the Treas
ury, and the prompt taxpayers (who
are moro than onc-half) gain 5000, a
saving of more than $50 over and above
the whole cost of collecting. Under
the old law, it will cost the taxpayers
nearly $1,000 to get a similar amount
collected.
To illustrate again The sum as
sesscd is s27 900. The Collectors would
draw out Of this sum five per cent,
amounting to 1880, and the prompt
taxpayers would lose their 5000 and
would be compelled to pay the Collec-
tors for running after the delinquents.
In principle the present law is cor
rect and we have our taxes collected
for less than onc.half Of what il would
cost under the old system. Why
should any taxpayer wish TO have a
law changed which now brings s27,-
900 into the Treasury for $40, TO one
which will cost 1880 !? In other
words Is it not easier for an indi-
vidual to pay FIVE dollars and forty
cents tax, than thirteen dollars and
fifty cents3 That is the point in the
ease when brought home. Lincoln
always held that il was easier to pay
a small debt than a large one, and
there are thousands of ordinary people
who see the thing in the same light ;
but they are not those who go for
repeal.
| would like to hear from the other
side, In order 10 ascertain their reasons
for this new deal. Are they working
in the interest Of the tar Collectors, or
the taxpayers 2 EcoSoMrsr.
January Goth, 1875.