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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12


his anxious keeper, perhaps enlight
ened as to the scene in the theafer.
You are certainly ill., 81
eco to bed,'' replied Rossi; 81 am
putting out my light and in lower
tone he added to his antagonist, ssThis
Is the only way out of it; blow out the
:: NV hat are we to fight with pistols
''Not quite; we will each smoke a
cigarette, and that will serve to guide
our aim"
GAN right
ana SO the famous duel was fought,
in which Rossi had the good luck to
wound his adversary SLIGHTLY. Rossi
is man who sleeps as little as human
nature can bear. He smokes con.
stantly, and always horrid TUSCANY
cigars, which, as he says shear some
thing OF his country to his lips He
has only one old! servant he has ever
been able to retain, his irritable tenn.
per and capracious orders putting all
others out of temper. This faithful
Sanco Panza only succeeds by assur.
ing his master that the hundred or
ders given in as many minutes are all
executed, and Rossi, having forgotten
all save the last, is satisfied. Like
most geniuses, he fancies he has a
greater than his own, and never fails
to affirm that, had he to begin life
anew, he would be tenor, and there
fore disposed to entertain his visitors
with any amount of bad music, think
ing to give them a better entertain.
ment than by recting any of his won.
derful parts.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
RETRENCHING.

A Washington correspondent says,
sit is well known fact in Washing
ton circles that President Grant is in
financial embarrassment on account OF
unfortunate real estate transactions.
Recently he sold the great bulk. OF his
real estate in Washington. His last
act has been to order the sale Of his
Long Branch and St. Louis property.
He does this, his friends say, because
he is resolved to clear off all his in
debtedness, and this is the only way
possible for him to do so. 1t shows
that he is much more heavily involv-
ed than has been generally supposed. - ;"
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
A Duel in the Dark.

The first time that Napoleon III.
saw Rossi on the stage he sent DR..
Conneau off with orders to bring the
''mighty tragedian'' to him at once, land
said to him:
s.Monsieur. am not easily affected,
but own that in the last scene you
singularly moved me. You must have
made Desdemona suffer horribly when
you buried your nails in her throat;
her cries of agony were too natural. :"
''Sire,' replied Rossi, the artists
who act with me are accustomed to
sacrafice everything to their roles. 1t
is possible that Ibear d little heavily
on Desdemona' S throat, but no one who
has played her part has dared to tell
me So
Rossi is in the plenitude of force and
talent, and singularly enough for an
Italian attributes his remarkable pres
ervation to his cold, morning bath,
which no severity of season ever inter-
feres with. Perhaps the very sober
life he leads has as much to do with it
as the cold bath. If his proposed WIS.,
it to America comes to pass, | doubt
if he be prevailed upon to take one
single drink at the inevitable bar. At
Cassale during a farewell representa-
ton, the court society chatted so loud
ly as to interfere with the representa-
ton. Rossi, who was playing Hamlet,
came to full stop in the middle of a
sentence, and turning toward a front
box from which the greatest noise pro-
ceeded, he bowed, and said, very tran
gully:
II shall hush as long as you do not
hush.'
The public applauded, the interrupt
ton ceased, and the play went on, but
afterward Rossi was met at the door
by one of the young gentlemen, who
felt called upon to ask satisfaction.
Rossi made a long face, for he was ex-
pected on the morrow at Milan. So he
explained to his bloodthirsty adversary,
and begged that, in order to get
through with their little affair as soon
as possible they should go to his (Ros-
i's) rooms at the hotel and quietly
shoot at one another there.
The proposition having been acceded
to, they went to Rossi's rooms, and
had just placed themselves at either
end of the salon in order to exchange
three shots, when the inn-keeper,
over-anxious as to his guests health
and hours, knocked at the door (which
he found locked), and asked, in an
anxious voice, if monsieur was i'll, as
his light burned so unusually late.
sNo," replied Rossi, IL am going to
bed thanks good night - T'. !.
s:You are deceiving me-" persisted
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
TIMELY TOPICS.
Investigations, investigators and in.
vestigated are about ssplayed OUT

Nevada had total of $50 inches of
snow, last winter, and still folks out
there can't help throwing mud at our
mild winters and light snow.falls.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties.


Sanford Green, a well-known cattle
dealer in Chicago, was run over by the cars
in the stock yards in that city and instantly
killed. t..ss -f-.,- %~~t 10
It has been ascertained that Dona-
hue, the bankrupt proprietor of the Boston
Pilot, was . precious knave and swindler.
Thousands Of dollars which had been entrust-
ed to his care by Irish benevolent socities
and individuals, was put into his business
and lost. Much suffering must result from it.
1t is understood the owners of the
steamer Baltimore, the British emigrant ship
which was lost in the South Pacific, have de-
cided to suitably acknowledge the humane
and generous conduct of the captain of the
American whaler Young Phoenix, who res
cued and treated with great kindness the sur
viving passengers and crew.
A distressing accident from explod-
ing gas occurred in one of the main sewers
of st. Paul, last week. Two men who went
down to measure the sewer climbed up a
''man hole' to make entries in their field
books, when an explosion Of gas occurred,
burning all the hair and beard from the men
and fearfully disfguring their faces, They
had to make their way over four hundred feet
in the dark, foul sewer to the place of en-
trance, when they were drawn up and taken
home.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

A party of hunters near Augusta,
KY, recently discovered cave in Il
hillside, where they found the skele-
ton ola man over eight feet high. near
which lay a sword roughly made Of
of copper, a helmet also made Of cop
per, and stone ak. The bones and
implements were taken to hotel
where large numbers Of people flocked
to see them.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

Pharmacists are making stir about
the common adulteration of essential
oils. Oil of terpentine is hard to find
in Il pure state. Oil of almonds and
wax are also badly adulterated, but
/: is the gentle caster oil that interests
the rising generation, it's mildness be-
ing destroyed by copious additions Of
lard and crOtOn oil.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
CHINESE CHEAP LABOR.

In consequence Of the rapidly in
creating i'll feeling against the Chinese
in San Francisco, the Chinese companv
has sent the following dispatch: :
To Ming Wah hospital, Hong Kong:
Chinese immigration must stop Excite
ment increases every day against our people.
! Il (SignedI2@s / l. Wua YuNa CO.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

The sscode of honor was satisfied q
few days since by two representatives
of Virginia's first families. A beauti-
full woman was the cause, and to-day
two promising young men sleep be-
meath the sod as the result.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

Why does not Queen Victoria take
the title of Empress Of India, if she
wants it? The time was when a Queen
took whatever she wanted, if it cost
the lives of a hundred thousand men.
And what is the use of being an EN-
press if one can't be Queen?
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

The Boston school directors have
prohibited corporal punishment in the
girls grammar school. It has been
supposed ssout west" that Boston girls
were so ex ceedingly proper in deport.
ment that no cause for punishment
could arise.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

1t must be that England's seamen
;.re losing the skill accredited to them
when it was acknowledged that Brit
tania ruled the wave. From the re-
port of the last year it would seem as
though one half the shipmasters find
it beyond their power to keep out of
the way of the other half, as wrecks
caused by collisions are the most FIRE.
Quent of all the casualties we hear of
from that direction.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

San Francisco has inaugurated pro-
ceedings on the Chinese problem, and
there is much excitement there. Tel
egrams have been sent from leading
Cinnamon to the mother country that
all immigration must stop for the
present, as there is danger of the lives
of those already there.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

Miss Susan Anthony says she admired
knee breeches when last in fashion, but
she asserts that the effeminate men of
to-day would not look we'll in them.
How does she know?
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

The Supreme Court of Iowa has de.
cided that the State university cannot
be sued, as it is not corporation and
exists only by the will of the legisla-
ture,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

The fight at Matamoras, the other
day, was the bloodiest in the whole
history of modern Mexican warfare,
the list of casualties being nearly as
long as that Of an ordinary St. Paul
saloon row.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

1t is to be hoped that the European
visitors so our Centennial will not turn
to us and say they have made us what
we are, gratuitously. For have we
not given them tobacco, corn, the sum
flower, potatoes, tomatoes, cotton, Pc
troleum, and a hundred other things,
not to mention the delicious jalap,
soothing red pepper or palate-tickling
Quinine.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

The New York Graphic says Ameri-
can women have the most beautiful
feet to be found on the globe, and re-
fers to lady who wears number one
shoe and number thirteen slipper. 1t
is we'll enough for those whose feet
will not 60 into number one shoe to
remember that all models OF. beautiful
women which have been sculptured by
the great masters are given feet in no
way stinted as to length or breadth. 80
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

The <sBlack Swan" alias Miss Eliza
beth Taylor Greenfield, whose death
was recently announced, was sort of
female tsBlind Tom without the blind
ness. She sang without training, and
was liberated from slavery on account
Of her peculiar talent, after which she
sung before the crowned heads of Eu-
rope and dead-heads of America for
several years, with good financial sue
cess-tO her manager.
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News From the National CAPITAL,

NC"o CIOM tu0 NdG1Oudl V6p1C81.
The President has nominated Chas.
Mcmillan, of New York, to be consul general
at Rome.
Official notice has been given to the
establishment Of army headquarters at
Washington.
The Senate has rejected the nominal
ton of Richard H. Dana to be minister to
England. The vote stood about II to IS.
! Quartermaster general Meigs is
charged with crooked proposition to the
proprietor Of patent vernim exterminator
A half million dollars in silver coin
has been received at the U. S. Treasury to
carry out the silver resumption act, and more
is ordered.
Before Clymer's committee, on the
9Th, Secretary Chandler gave the man Bell,
who claimed such intamacy with the Pres
ident and the Babcock case, a character any
thing but white.
The House committee on military af-
fairs has adopted General Banning's report
for the reduction of the army. The report
was not signed by the Republican members
OF the committee.
The detective Bell was pretty thor
oughly shown up before the Clymer commit
tee on the 9Th and 9Th, as dead beat and
rascal f.; butwhat induced so many respectable
men to countenance him is still debatable
question.
Gen. Henderson, in his testimony
before the whisky trials committee, said that
attorney general Pierrepont told him that the
information the President had of the ey-
idence in the Babcock case came from men,
Der of the St. Louis grand jury.
The committee on foreign affairs
having intimated that no further testimony
was needed in the Emma Mine investigation,
Gen. Schenclz demanded most full research,
and renewed his assertion that he was inno-
cent of fraud, and that the mine is now i'm
mensely valuable
In the river and harbor bill reported
in the House of Congress on the Sd inst,
Minnesota comes in for 5000, 900, as follows
For the improvement ofthe upper Mississippi,
$4,000; Minnesota river, $4,000; Duluth,
SIG, 900; St. Anthony Falls, $125, 900; Missis-
sippi, above the falls, $50, 600; Red River OF
the North, $4,000. '''"' ''14 ~~7,'e-7~'
In his testimony before Clymer's
committee, Oh the Sd, Gen. Custer was asked
why he had not before given information con-
corning the abuses so well known by him on
the frontier. He replied by reading an order
from Secretary Belknap, dated March, 1873,
which forbade communicating with Congress-
men regarding military affairs, and directed
all communications of such character to be
sent through the general Of the army and
secretary of war for inspection and approval.
| Miscellaneous News Items.
The post trader at Fort Concho, Tex:
as, paid 1890 for his appointment. ....ss.,.s.
Tie heaviest rain-storm ever known
in Alabama occQrr ! in that state the first Of
i - on 80 ,ss,,, s4epr ssgS 81
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12

Personal, Impersonal and Political.
New Orleans was the theatre of con.
siderable bloodshed at the recent political
meeting there.
Parliament has at last passed the
royal titles bill and Victoria is almost certain
of being an Empress.
1t now turns out that the lawyer
VIM. Barrett dishonesty obtained all of the
property of Miss Halpine, miles O'Reilly IS
daughter, and squandered it with his own.
Rev. Robert Davidson, of the Pres
byterian church, is dead. For twenty-five
years he has been member Of the board of
foreign missions, and for ten years director
of Princeton College,
A Chicago wheat operator, having
made bad move in a gambling oper-
alton, has absconded with the little money he
had in the bank, leaving his fellow gamblers
many thousands short.
An investigation has been made in
the st. Louis post Office respecting political
assessments among clerks and other employ
ees. 1t was ascertained that it has been the
custom Of the clerks to make voluntary con-
tributions to campaign funds, which was en-
tirely optional to the contributor
The elections in Rhode Island result
ed in the choice Of the Republican candidate
for secretary of state, but there was no choice
of governor and lieutenent governor. Prov
idence, which last year gave a majority OF
! ,428 against Lippett this year gives major
ity Of about $40 for him, and his election by
the legislature ia assured
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
CENTENNIAL TREE PLANTING.
Cleveland CO., Leader.

Cleveland (O) Leader.
The whole process of tree planting
is one whose difficulties easily disap-
pear in the face of a little en-
terprise and determination. Few
American citizens are so poor that
they have not ground enough to grow
a tree or shrub. Town and village
corporations have also opportunities
which the centennial spirit should de-
velop. Let there be then a general
awakening this spring on the subject
of tree culture so that when the ex-
position and all other ephemeral fea-
lures of centennial rejoicing shall
have passed into history the country
will have left in groves and shaded
streets one permanent and gratifying
result of the nations great anniver-'
sary.
Recently an Indiana schoolmistress
attempted to whip big boy after
school when he threw his arms about
her and kissed her and got off without
a licking. Another boy in another town
read this item and thought he'd try
the same thing. He threw his arms
about the schoolma am and kissed her
and then he became aware of an earth
quake. She floored him and treshed
him awfully. This schoolma' am had
a grown up beau of her own; that was
the difference.
To Mend Chinaware. Take a very
thick solution of gum arabic and stir
into lit plaster of Paris until the mix
ture is of proper consistency. Apply
it with a brush to the fractured edges
of the chinaware and stick them to-
gether. In few days it will be i'm
possible to break the article in the
same place. The whiteness of the &C.
ment renders it doubly valuable. -
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Miscellaneous News Items.

INSTANTANEOUS NEWS ICemS.
The post trader at Fort Concho, Tex.
as, paid s13, 900 for his appointment. .,s.,,.,s,
Tie heaviest rain-storm ever known
in Alabama occQrr ! in that state the first Of
the month. III 81 IA
g Paris has fixed on. the Champs de
Mars as the site for the proposed universal ex-
position in 1878. s,a q 2FFs&E~T EfT8
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The Grange Advance
II. ID. YOUNG, RD1roR AND FRoP'R.
REDWING. MINNESOTA
TIMELY TOPICS.
Investigations, investigators and in
vestigated are about *splayed out
Nevada had total of $50 inches Of
snow, last winter, and still folks Out
there can't help throwing mud at ou1
mild winters and light snow-falls.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has de
cided that the State university cannot
be sued, as it is not a corporation and
exists only by the will of the legisla
ture.
Miss Susan Anthony says she admired
knee breaches when last in fashion, but
she asserts that the effeminate men OF
to-day would not look we'll in them
How does she know?
The fight at Matamoras, the other
day, was the bloodiest in the whole
history Of modern Mexican warfare,
the list of casualties being nearly as
long as that of an ordinary St. Paul
saloon row.
The ''code of honor was satisfied a
few days since by two representatives
of Virginia's first families. A beauti-
full woman was the cause, and to-day
two promising young men sleep be-
meath the sod as the result.
The Boston school directors have
prohibited corporal punishment in the
girls grammar school. It has been
supposed <sout west" that Boston girls
were so ex ceedingly proper in deport.
ment that no cause for punishment
could arise.
Why does not Queen Victoria take
the title Of Empress Of India, if she
wants it? The time was when Queen
took whatever she wanted, if it cost
the lives of hundred thousand men.
And what is the use of being an EN-
press if one can't be Queen?
~@-@-=
San Francisco has inaugurated pro-
ceedings on the Chinese problem, and
there is much excitement there. TEL
egrams have been sent from leading
Cinnamon to the mother country that
all immigration must stop for the
present, as there is danger of the lives
of those already there.
1t is to be hoped that the European
visitors so our Centennial will not turn
to us and say they have made us what
we are, gratuitously. For have we
not given them tobacco, corn, the sun
flower, potatoes, tomatoes, cotton, Pc.
troleum, and hundred other things,
not to mention the delicious jalap,
soothing red pepper or palate-tickling
quinine.
A party of hunters near Augusta,
KY, recently discovered cave in
hillside, where they found the skele-
ton ola man over eight feet high. near
which lay a sword roughly made of
of copper, a helmet also made Of cop
per, and a stone ak. The bones and
implements were taken to Il hotel
where large numbers of people focked
to see them.
Pharmacists are making a stir about
the common adulteration of essential
oils. Oil of terpentine is hard to find
in 4 pure state. Oil of almonds and
wax are also badly adulterated, but
/: is the gentle caster oil that interests
the rising generation, it's mildness be-
ing destroyed by copious additions Of
lard and croton oil.
1t must be that England's seamen
are losing the skill accredited to them
when it was acknowledged that Brit
tunia ruled the wave. From the re-
port of the last year it would seem as
though one half the shipmasters find
it beyond their power to keep out of
the way of the other half, as wrecks
l. ~: l. l.. g.
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Ayers
SarSaparill2

For Scrofula, and aN
scrofulous diseases .Ely-
sipclas, Rose or st. An
thony', Fire. Eruption
and Eruptiye diseases
of the skin. Ulcerations
of the Liver, Stomach,
Kidneys, Lungs. PIN
pies, Pustules. Boils,
BlotcheS. Tumors. Tot-
ter, Salt RheUm, Scald
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A Nxw S. CoUsrERrE1r.--A new

A Nxw S. CoUHTERTEIT.--An new
and dangerous counterfeit five dollar bill
on the Merchants National Bank Of
New Bedford, Mass, has made its ap-
pearance. TIE bill is we'll printed and
on good paper, and is calculated to de-
ceive inexperienced persons, although 3
careful comparison will show many
points OF difference between it and
the genuine. One point is the
figure OF Columbus, which has
not the symmetry of the
genuine, the right thigh, in particular.
looking like deformity. The note is as
good, if not better counterfeit, than the
celebrated aTraders" of Chicago. A
point that may be of Interest to persons
liable to be imposed on is that all the
| National Bank notes are now printed on
fibre paper, and the use of q pin will
demonstrate whether what looks like
fibre is genuine or imitation. This note
is said to be printed in Texas, and to be
the work of the notorious Pete Mozart.
| new
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-29
NEIGHBORH0OD NEWS.
BELLAIR K.


Mr. Z. G. MORSE, Esq, General
Agent Miller Bros Chemical Paint
Works, of Cleveland, Ohio, was stop
ping at the Globe House yesterday. He
Is the man, it will be remembered, that
once owned the first British flag that
was taken, by a company of boys called
the Black Boys, at Fort Bedford. The
flag was presented to the Fort by the
Duke OF Bedford, and when the Fort
was taken, Mr.. Stitnax clumb up the
staff and took the flag. 1t was preserved
by his wife until 1864, when Mr.. Morse
bought it for $50, and after the history
of the flag was hunted up, it became
very valuable, and the question arose,
who was the proper owners of
the flag. 1t seems that Mr.. Stifner
had been married before and his wife had
died, and the children of his first wife
claimed it, and so did the children of his
second wife, and there it stands. They
have been lswing about it for number
OF years, and as yet have not decided
who are the proper owners. The flag is
now in the administrator hand, Mr..
Moore, in Bedford, Bedford county,
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Morse, by the way,
gave the flag up by the administrator
giving him back his $50 and paying all
costs. The flag is nine feet long, six fee:
wide, is made of Brocade silk, with St.
Georges cross on the corner, and has
been well preserved up to this time, and
will no doubt be on exhibition at the
Centennial. 1t could not be bought at
any price.
Mr. FINLEY oAKEs stopped at the
Globe House yesterday. He is on his
way to New Castle, Indiana, where he
intends locating. Mr.. Cakes has been
preaching in Marion county, West Vir-
ginis, for over twenty years. The peo-
pie of Marion county will lose good
man.
HOTEL arrivals were plenty yesterday.
1t loretells the opening up Of business.
Mr.. NJ. KBAFr is putting in a new
front aud remodeling his store room on
Belmont street.
EGGS are plenty, but butter is very
scarce in this city and commands good
price.
Mr.. W DAUGHERTY otthis city receiv
ed yesterday from his sister, Mrs. Shep-
herd of South Barbara, beautiful speci-
men OF the crab kind, nicely put up in
box of salt by mail.
QUITE an exciting time yesterday
IN South Bellaire caused by the running
away Of two horse wagon. The throw
ing out of the driver and q broken wheel
was ali the damage done
The soapman's work was sll for. no
good as the rain last night washed 1t
from the glass. wish l had my %
cents back