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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03
No Dogs Allowed In the Cars.

1t happened the other day on the Le-
high Valley Railroad. The train had just
left Easton and the conductor was making
his first round, when he Observed-a small
white dog with bushy tail and bright
black eyes sitting costly on the seat be-
side a young lady so handsome that it
made his heart roll over like a lop-sided
pumpkin. But duty was duty, and he
remarked in his most deprecatory man
ner:
I'm very sorry, madam. but it's
against the rules to have dogs in the pas
senger cars"
"Oh, my! is that SOL" and she turned
up two lovely brown eyes at him beseech-
ingly. What in the world will do?
can't throw him away. He is Christ
mas present from my aunt"
"By no means, Miss. Well put him
in baggage-car, and he'll be as happy as
a robin in spring"
What! put my nice white dog in a
nasty, stuffy, dusty baggage-car?"
I'm awfully sorry, Miss, do assure
you, but the rules of this company are as
infexible as the laws of the Modes and
them other fellows, you know. He shall
have my overcoat to lie on, and the brake
man shall give him grub and water every
time he opens his mouth"
just think it's awful mean, so do,
and know somebody will steal it, So they
WILL" and she showed half-notion to
cry that nearly broke the conductors
heart; but he was firm and sang out to
the brakeman, who was playing solo on
the stove:
Here, Andy, take this dog over into
The baggage.car and tell 'em to take just
the best kind of care of him."
The young lady pouted, hut the brake
man reached over and picked the canine
up as tenderly as though it was a two
weeks old baby, but as he did 50 a
strange expression came over his face.
like wave of cramp collie, and he said
hastily to the conductor:
Here, you just hold him a minute till
l put this poker away" and he trotted
out at the car door and held on to the
brake wheel, shaking like a. man with
ague.
The conductor no sooner had his hands
on the dog than he looked around for a
hole TO fall through.
" Who-wh-why, this is worsted dog"
p" Yes, sir" said the little miss, de-
murely. Didn't you know that ~
!" No, I'm most awful sorry to say
didn't know that" and he laid the Christ.
mas dog down in the owners lap and
walked out on the platform, where he
stood half an hour in the cold, try ing to
think of hymn tune to suit the worst
sold man on the Lehigh Valley road
Boston Transcripts. - 7-1 +
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

An Omaha school-boy asked his seat
mate to rise, and, as he did so, he placed
q sharpened slate pencil under him. The
boy sat down upon it but got up again
rather suddenly, as the pencil had pierced
MS leg to the depth of two inches. The
wounded boy had to be taken home in a
buggy, and has been sick ever since.
The Meriden Conn., Repu6lscun tells
q queer story about the ice on a pond at
Rocky Hill having been covered, the 9TH
er day, with large, reddish worms, so
thick as to be crushed at every stem. and
that four days later q black and smaller
variety Joined them, the grass on the edge
OF the pond also being full of these squirm-
7ers. m+ss --..s,-
"A somewhat singular and ludicrous
incident took place in the village of Bal
timore early this week. During trial of
several persons before Esquire Ginder, for
selling liquor, knocking the Marshal
down. keeping disorderly houses, etc., an
old citizen got up and proposed compro-
mise, and the trial was turned into regu-
lar experience meeting. After general
handshaking, the long-meter Doxology
was sung and the congregation dispersed.
Cincinnati Gazette.
AT one of the stations on the Harlem
Railroad day or two ago very large
man failed to secure ticket before en-
terlng the cars. Refusing to pay the ad-
ditional charge levied Ivy the company, or
to leave the train, the conductor, aided by
two brakemen, undertook to assist him
to the door. The passenger offered no
resistance, but the two, with their COM
bined efforts were unable to move him.
He finally told the conductor that he had
earned his money, and handed over five
cents, which was the amount asked.
in the midst of funeral services at
Pottsville, Pa, the other day, the floor
sank several feet and seemed about to
give away. Immediately there was a
general stampede of the persons assem-
bled, and scene, not of respectful de-
pertinent toward the dead, but of indis-
criminate rushing and scrambllng to
save the living. Beyond few slight
bruises incurred in the pushing at the
door, no one was hurt. The coffin was
opened at the grave, when it was found
that the corpse had partly turned around.
"A man in Nashville, Tenn, IS about
to sue young man who, while visiting
one Of the bellies of that city, hitched his
horse to one of plaintiffs trees. This tree
was gnawed in two by the impatient horse,
and thereafter said animal was constantly
hitched to plaintiffs front fence until it
was literally "chawed up" necessitating
a new fence, erected after defendants
marriage. And now, that the Edgetield
man has got his girl, plaintiff thinks it
nothing more than fair that he be required
to pay damages to the amount above de-
scribed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03
Centennial Tree Planting.

The custom Of planting trees TO- COM
memorate any unusual event is of very
ancient origin. 1t was the custom of the
ancient Romans to plant trees in COM
memoration Of great victories; in En-.
gland on the birth of children. In col
leges to plant class trees'' has been for
centuries . universal custom. The great
centennial year Of this nation, 1875, will
be thus commemorated by thousands all
over the land. The children, grandchil.
dren and great grandchildren may view,
as years roll on Visiting the old hearth
stonel the centennial trees planted by
their fathers. The ceremony Of planting
the tree Tor tree for each child in the fam.
ily) will generally be about as follows:
The Centennial Committee recommend
the following
The family, relatives and neighbors being
invited, the party assemble on the ground
where the trees are to be planted.
l. The father digs the hole and prepares
the ground, or superintends the work. Each
tree should have attached to the top a small
United States flag, and be laid by the hole,
ready to raise.
q The party arrange themselves in circle
and sing Hail Columbia"
g. Reading selections from the "Declara-
ton of Independence" and "Washington's
Farewell ADDRESS,
4. Planting the tree.
5. The party join hands around the tree
and sing The Star Spangled Banner"
6. Short address ON planting memorial
trees; also on Revolutionary topics; the part
taken by ancestors of the family in the Rev.
olutionary struggle, or on national topics
generally.
Z. Sing the Doxology, "Praise God from
Whom All Blessings Flow"
8. Refreshments served on the lawn; Rev.
olutionary refreshments, such as doughnuts
and cider, pumPkin-pie. ETC., or modern re-
freshments.
Of course, lawn games can be played,
and the services can be altered and ar
ranged to suit circumstances.
The trees selected are mostly trees that
will live q century, although any fine,
long Lived, handsome, ornamental tree
will answer. The following are all
beautiful and appropriate for the occa-
sion:
Cut-leaved weeping birch, weeping
mountain ash, American tulip tree, new
American weeping willow, Kilmarnock
weeping willow, Norway maple, Euro
pean mountain ash, gold .barked Ameri-
can ash, European horse chestnut, Nor
way spruce, Scotch and Austrian pine.-
A Fdknest0ek, in Toledo BLADE.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

DURING the recent heavy floods that
laid under water an area of land in
Somersetshire, England, twenty miles
across, the rats were driven from their
haunts IN vast numbers. Some of them
found refuge in the trees, and others took
possession of deserted houses. One in
stance is recorded where laborer had &C
casion to visit his cottage to rescue some
property left behind. He moored his
boat to the chamber window, and was
about to enter, when he found the room
filled with swarm Of rats, which were SO
ravenous with hunger that they were like
Q pack of wolves. Their savage demon.
STATIONS compelled the man to beat
hasty retreat to save himself from being
eaten alive.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03
Holiday Presents in Paris.

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times writes: "There is side to
this New Year season which is more ex-
pensive and far less agreeable. The habit
of giving etyen,ses. or New Years gifts,
has now become SO common that very few
can escape from it. We have to give and
give throughout the month of December,
and this constant giving makes sensible
drain upon feeble purses. For all who
have rendered you any sort Of service dur
ing the year, even though that service was
paid for at the time and a pour-h0ire given
also, etrennes in the shape of money are
expected and demanded with the utmost
confidence. In many cases these de-
mapds sound very like menaces, and you
are in a manner dared to refuse the obole
asked of you; and it would need mora
courage than can muster to resist some
of these impositions. The poorly paid
tactuers, or postmen, are the first to come,
and if you refuse them you will be apt to
get your letters late and to lose a few dur
ing the coming year. But in this case one
gives cheerfully, although they now make
= double demand, one postman asking
an annual gratuity for bringing
your letters, another for bringing
your pamphlets and papers. Then
come the telegraph employees and your
concierge, to whom you are obliged to give
literally. But this year the custom has
been extended to = point beyond which
my good nature could 60. All the en-
ployes Of my turnishers have come to ask
etrennes. Ny wine merchant, for example,
sends me few dozens of Bordeaux, and
on paying his bill I follow the custom by
rivin0 the porter a ponr-A0irs for his
trouble, although he should be paid by his
employer. Thie year this class of people
decided to ask for New Year gifts in adj
dition, and in my case, at least, they were
promptly refused. All this seems very
pretty business, but the annoyance 1t gives
Is something incalculable. You are called
out every few moments by quarrel be.
tween. your servant and some individual
who insists upon his right to enter your
house and demand his etrennes. The Gus
tom, bad one when not carried to excess,
is here pushed to such an extreme that it
has become fragrant abuse; but the ques-
ton il, how can 1t be stopped? The only
way that can see is for business men to
pay their employees better in order to keep
them from begging, but they seem to pre-
fer allowing their men to get their salaries
out Of others if possible. Some idea OF
the system may be gained from the fact
that none of the cafes pay their walters,
the latter getting good wages out OF the
public. In some Of the boulevard cafes
the walters have put premium upon their
places, man with some money finding It
to his benefit to pay = certain bonus tor .
place upon the boulevards where the pour
toires are more generously bestowed. =
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

"A young man who found several eli
gible houses with baskets hung out on
New Years Day took fearful revenge.
He had visiting card neatly engraved
with a coronet and I'M. c. Comte de
Milleheurs, Paris, and whenever he came
to basket he would inclose his card and
the Counts IN an envelope, drop it in, and
pass serenely on. He had his revenge,
for whenever he meets one of the girls Of
those families she says to him: "Oh, Mr..
hopkins, ma and all of us were so sorry
that you didn't call on New Years Day"
But the Count and called and found q
basket out, and so We just left our cards."
ooh, Mr.. hopkins, you know, surely,
that we have to put out basket because
there are SO many people call that we don't
care to see; but you are different. We
are always at home to you; you should
have come right in. And has the Count
left town. Oh, yes; he only spent
New Years Day here; he's gone to the
plains to shoot buffalo. Pm sorry he
didn't see you, because I told him
wanted him to see one of our real Chicago
bellies; but it was my stupidity" Then
she goes off with the iron in her SOUL
Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

A I1srowEL1rE makes the following
sounding prophecy: 1T has been re-
vealed BY the spirit of the Lord to the
church of God in Listowel that at mid
night on the LIST day of March, 1876, shall
appear the sign of the Son of Man in the
heavens, and on the LIST day of April, at
twenty minutes past four, morning, the
to raise the dead and change the livingp'
-Neso York Tribune. e- e
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

One Of our upper ten," says q Lon.
don letter, went through that clean court,
the Bankruptcy Court, the other day. His
house was bought by his ex-butler, who,
when in his employ, had saved money
with which he opshed restaurant, and had
accumulated sufficient to step into his
masters shoes, -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

THE strike has broken out in q new
place, fifty of the convicts on Blackwell's
island having lately struck because the
weather was too cold for outdoor work.
No compromise was secured, however,
nor were the demands of the strikers &C
coded to. A keeper shot ono Of the nifty
who attacked him and the rest returned to
work. a.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03
Travelled Dogs.

The Captain of Nahant boat has a
fine curly dog, which never misses making
a trip with his master if he can help it.
He likes the hustle and little excitement
of getting under way and going on shore
again as we'll as old sailors love the sea.
He is quite sociable and well acquainted
with the regular passengers. They know
his peculiarities and he knows some of
theirs. If he does not regularly "beg."
he is still sharp enoug Oh to chang
around'' those who are rather literally
disposed. He generally gets his penny
or tive-cent piece, and then off he bounds
to the refreshment table and lays it out in
cake as orderly as boy. He would
scorn to eat it off the floor like dog
which had never been taught good man.
ners. He hunts up his master and puts
the cake in his hand, and then stands by
and decorously eats 1t, piece by piece, as
it is broken off for him. Another smart
Yankee dog has taste for visiting. He
goes down to the depot and steps aboard
the train, without the customary little
ceremony at the ticket office, and when it
reaches the right town bounds off and
pays a visit to some family friend of his
master. He never makes mistake about
the town or the train, and is such fine,
intelligent fellow he always meets with a
welcome. He usually spends two or three
days on his trips, and no doubt picks up
considerable dog lore in his travels. do
not know whether the mightier dogs show
him any attention on his return, but he is
on good terms with them all.-Presby-
terrain.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

WHEN a widow presses your hand and
tells YOU how she has made four dozen
clothes pins last her twelve years, and she
droops her eyes and says paper of pins
lasts three years, and she looks up and
smiles rosy smile, how on earth Is a
Teller to break away and leave that house
and convince himself that she loves him
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

How THE joys Of his daily. round of
duties pail upon the Imagination Of that
man who finds that he has left his keys
and pocket-book at home, and that his
desk has to be unlocked, if ct all, with a
hammer and chisel.-St. Louis globe
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

REINFORCEMENT for debt will soon be
abolished in Florida. Landlords are pur-
chasing boots with soles three inches
thick, and il any debtor expects to make
gain be win BE- sadly disappointed,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

"Ir doesn't take me long to make up
my mind, can toll your said . conceited
fop. cts always 80 where the stock OF
material to mails up Is small" quietly re-
marked young lady. q. 74t.g. 3
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

BosToN's commercial statistics for 1876
show arrivals of 1855 steamers, Sc ships,
285 barks, 413 briggs, 1,M0 schooners and
1 sloop from foreign ports, against 1917
steamers, SO ships, 1906 barks, 41O briggs,
1861 schooners during 1874-a total OF
2,15O vessels, against 2,548 in 1874. The
foreign clearances were 1880, against g.
sol in 1874.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Alabama House Of Representatives
on the 10Th adopted memorial to the United
States Senate to inquire into the right Of
George E. Spencer to . seat in that body.
The memorial had previously been adopted
by the Senate.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has de-
cided that the Sunday Liquor law enacted at
the last session of the Legislature is consti-
tutional.
On the night of the 10Th q mob attacked
the Office of the Ne,os and Press, of Cimar-
ron, New Mexico, and threw the press, type
and other fixtures into the river. The trouble
resulted from local political feeling.
EIGHT persons, members Of : prominent
boarding-hous in Columbus, Ohio, were
taken suddenly and seriously i'll on the 9oth,
caused by eating diseased pork. Other per-
sons in the city had been affected in SIM
liar manner. and from like cause.
THE Illinois Farmers Association closed
its annual session at Bloomington on the
Goth. Resolutions were adopted demanding
the withdrawal Of the National Bank circu-
lation and the issue Of greenback currency
directfrom the Treasury, to be legal tender
for all debts, public and private, except the
principal and interest on the public debtcon-
tracted to be paid in gold, and interchange
able for registered bonds bearing rate Of In
terest, to be paid In gold or legal-tenders, at
the option Of the holders, not exceeding
per cent, said bonds being redeemable at the
pleasure OF the Government In from ten to
fifty years: and declaring that the Transports
tign Of the country should be under the di.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

A GENTLEMAN called into our Office
Tuesday evening and left pair Of gloves
on our table. The gloves are not worth
anything to us, and not worth much to
anybody; but if the owner will call for
them to-day he can have them, otherwise
we shall throw them into the waste
basket.-Syracuse Standard. Of course,
after such an exposure, the owner is
ashamed to call, and that shrewd editor
will have warmer digits during the rest
of the winter.-Utica Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

Mr.. GEORGE WANa died recently il
New Orleans from hydroph obia, the result
Of the bite a few weeks before Of 4 pet dog.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

On DIT, the English Channel tunnel
will be commenced next April,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

The Boston Globe thinks New England
has declined in power by putting inierlo,
men to the front Of affairs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

While man was tinkering at some
oil pipes near Parker, Pa, plug was
loosened out Of one of them, causing q
stream of petroleum to flow simultaneous
" upon him and fire near at hand,
whereby he was instantly enveloped in
flames. The man was thrown into q
stream of water before being seriously
injured, but not till after he was badly
scared.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-03

A BERLIN telegram of the 23d says Ger
man squadron consisting of three iron-clads
and one tender would visit Philadelphia next
July.
AN Austrian army of observation number
ing $1,000 has been ordered to the Dalmatian
frontier to await emergencies.
A MADRID dispatch of the 23d says the
Ministry had secured large majority in
the new Cortes. The minority numbered
seventy. 4s
TIE Russian Imperial Academy has elected
Prot. Newcomb, Of the Naval Observatory at
Washington, Prof. Gould, Of the Argentine
Republic, and Prof. Whitney, of New Haven,
as corresponding members.
News was received in New York on the ed
from Havana that force led by Henry
Reeves, 1850 strong, had invaded Sagua
County within the previous week, and de-
stroyed sugar estates, some Of which were
valued at $4,000, 900 each. Sagua ID Chica,
at the mouth of the river of that name, where
there were warehouses with l 900 hogsheada
Of Muscoyado sugar, had been burned, and
all the sugar consumed. The estate Cayves.
Pine, Of signor Nugsrica, was in the hands
of the rebels, and of course destroyed. II
was located on the south side Of the island
while Sagua County is on the north shore.
SPAIN has Instructed her diplomatic repre-.
sentatives to other governments to inform
the various courts that after the defeat Of the
Carlists, which IL shortly expected, she
hopes to be able to make short work Of the
Cuban insurgents. u@
A.PARIs dispatch Of the oath says another
conspiracy against the life Of Prince Milan
had been discovered At Belgrade, and that II
had extended 80 far % to menace an insur.
rection and perhaps revolu ton.
TEE cremation Of the corpse Of the late
Chevalier Rossi was publicly conducted In
the Monumental Cemetery ct Milan, Italy, on
the sd. s 's@
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-10
A STRANGE MAN.
Examination of the Papers ami Eff
fects of Wyatt.

The officers of the law yesterday took
charge of the camp of the man Wyatt,
who was shot and killed on Tuesday
morning, while attempting to steal a
horse belonging to John Patrick, the
particulars of which appeared in The
HERALD yesterday morning. The va.
rious articles in the camp were brought
to the city, and placed in the Sheritf's
office, where they attracted no little
attention. Aside from quantity of
coffee, sugar, flour, peas and other pro-
visions, there was found three pair of
saddle riders, three overcoats, box
containing one dozen spools of Clarks
thread, assorted colors, vast quantity
of manuscript. n dictionary, a copy
of Quackenbos' First Lessons in
Composition, and q large and
handsomely bound edition of poetcal
quotations, consisting of selections
from modern British and American
poets, edited by Sarah J. Hale. Neatly
inscribed on the fly leaf of the latter
work was traced in fair and legible
hand the following inscription: "Pre-
scented to A. NJ. Watts by Celestial e.
Ramsey, Austin, September 4, 1876, as
q token OF remembrance" Its we'll
thumbed pages and carefully marked
passages showed that it had been fire.
quently consulted. Among the nu-
merous quotations marked was the
following from Byron.
"Few men dare show their thoughts of worst
or best;
always sets apart
A corner for herself; and therefore Fiction
Is that which passes with least contradic-
tiOn."
Several quotations from Buffers
as well as passages from
Pope, Dryden, and the
other poets, showed an appreciation
and literary taste hardly to be expected
but from a cultivated and accomplished
mind.
The manuscript embraced several
thousand pages. the greater portion of
which was devoted to dramatic COM
positions. That the deceased was
nan Of some culture and literary taste
8 evident but what could have been
Ills motive In isolating himself from
us fellow.men, and what could have