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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06


Pasha in check, and had the lines ON the
heights of the River Osma as q second no
sitiOn. The Turks were as foolish
in not following up their success
as the Russians were in making
the attack. The latter fell back after
their repulse, and I found them TRANQUILITY
awaiting events thirty-six hours after the
battle. Had Osman Pasha come out Of
his intrenchments and followed up the
Russians, he might have turned their re-
pulse into utter rout, which might have
endangered the pont0on bridges at Sistova.
But, Is it was, the Russian line of COM
municati0ns has never been in danger for
moment. They have merely suffered q
disastrous check in an unnecessary OF.
fensive movement; that is the simple re-
suit Of the Plevna affair.-Cor. dug. q
London Tisn6s.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

In secluded country places. were there
are no carriages passing, and where
houses are half mile apart, fire. crackers
are not particularly open to objection;
but in compactly- built towns ana villages
they are dangerous in the extreme. Al:
most all horses have terror Of them, and
it il not to be wondered at, for il there IL
an invention of Satan. it IL Chinese fire.
crackers.
The Chinaman had better stick to his
washing and his rice stewing, and braid
his pig-tail once q week Oftener, than to
be manufacturing such iniquities. and
we most devOutly wish that every China
man engaged thusly could be condemned
to have q pcrpctually blazing and snap
ping bunch of crackers tied to the pig tail
aforesaid, until he could be brought to
abandon the ncfariOus business.
Fire.crackeTs laid the beautiful City OF
Portland in ashes; the same cause has de-
strOyed villages in every part OF the cOun-
try, and to-day there languish on beds OF
pain many human beings whose useful
ness and vigOr have been ruined Tor life
through accidents caused by flre-crackcrs
and torpedocs.
Let us have general law to suppress
the whole thing. We need it; and though
the boys may grumble, they will learn 10
submit.
And we venture to say that with burnt
fingers, and blackcncd eyes, and clothes
riddlcd with burnt holes, entirely done
away with ON the Fourth, they will be
just as jolly and patriotic, and be able
to fill themselves quite as full of lemon
ade and green peasc Is under the present
system.
"The Glorious Fourth" should not pass
by aforementioned. We arc willing the
Horriblcs should parade in old hoop
skirts and coffee bags. We are willing
the drums should beat, and the bands
play, and tho pcrspiring professions
march through the principal Streets"
we will not murmur at having our virtu-
Gus slumbcrs disturbed at the unholy
hour of midnight by the ringing of bells
and firingmf guns and footing Of fish
horns. LIT picnics flourish, let ambitious
lovers of their country and of bOmbast
crate. let lamb and green pcasc grace tho
table, let every adoring man take out his
sweetheart to ride in her best white dress,
let the spirit of rs be invoked from every
town and hamlet, let Washington be
spoken of and Lafayette alluded to; but,
in the name Of safety to the public, let
fire-crackers be banisl,cd from the land.
Kate Thorn, in N. Y. Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
An Incident in IN English Postonce.

A TALL, gray-haired gentleman, SO runs
the story, lately went into one of the
branch Post0fliccs in = western region.
He asked some question relative TO the
registering of letter of one of the girls
in attendance, and was answered in q
manner which he considered exceedingly
sharp and rude. He repeated the ques-
ton, however, not being quite sure that
he was not mistaken in his supposition,
and he repeated it very mildly. She an
swered him more rudely than before. He
then made some rem0nstrance, and asked
her if she thought that was proper way
to answer IN inquiry in public Office. She
said she thought that she had been quite
civil enough for him. He asked her, with
an ominously increasing mildness Of man.
ner, If she would favor him with her
name. She emphatically declined to do
20. He then said he thought he would
tell her his name, which, however, she
declined to hear, saying that his name was
no concern of hers. He calmly replied
that be thought Il was, for his name was
John Manners, and he was the P0stmas-
ter-General. Curtain. ESominsr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

"A man named George Martin, who
keeps Q tavern on WashingtOn street,
Sherhrooke, recently drove 70 : farm he
owns In the vicinity, taking with him .
buttle Of whisky, and son aged under
ok yeas. Aftsr treating his hands, he
left the child In the barn, with the no
mains Of the whisky-supposef to have
been about . pint. On his return the
whisky bottle was empty, and the poor
boy lay stupidity drunk and insensible
upon the harm floor. In splits of every.
thing that could be done, and without ono
interval Ot consciousness, The poor child
died In . little over twenty. four hours,
with al the distinctive symptoms Of alco-
Aolic poisoning. -4essrsss RSsass.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

IT Is difficult for the people Of the East
to realize the immenRity Of our redwood
trees, and We do not wonder ct their in.
credulity, though their enormous size 10 .
fact nevertheless. A few years ago Muir.
ply d Bros. cut down ard sawed into
lumber ct their mill tree that measured
SIS feet In length and ten feet In diameter
clear Of bark. This tree made BY actual
measurement $1,000 feet Of dressed lum-
Der and 1900 feet Of rough, which sold
ct the mill at usual prices for e1,O00.
Other trees In this county measure much
larger in diameter, but few make moro
lumber than this one.-6spsma (Csl.)
Democrat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
An Unsophisticated Traveller.

l see Americans everywhere who still
smell of salt water, and who are yet try
ing to appear as though they had been
abroad every year of their lives. For
there is nothing an American is SO much
afraid of as of seeming green. For my
part rather like 10 be q greenhorn. I've
made up my mind to it. tell everybody
In the omnibus that I'm an American and
not used to this sort of thing, and then
every man and woman in the bus is 80
delighted to find one of those poor be-
nighted Americans willing to confess his
ignorance, that am straightway over
whelmed with all sorts of information. /
get up alongside the driver and say:
You don't often get Yankee up here
that don't know anything about London,
do your" Then coachee swings his whip
and nudges me-hc always nudges before
he speaks-and begins to tell me that the
Duke o. Well'nton lives here on the left,
and the Msrq's o. Westminster lives
there. One of the drivers told me that
he " s'posed Gen. Grant 'ud go back very
much hawner'd since 'eed dined with the
Lawd Mayor" / told him did not
doubt it.
The pronunciation Of the better classes
here is rather better in some regards than
our own-the v0wels are fuller and
broader. But / am astonished at some
words. The plural "days'' is almost if
mot quite identical with the Latin dies"
in the ordinary pronunciation. OF course
the illiterate cockney ID quite rs amusing
to an American Is the unlcttered Ameri.
can is to the English traveller. It took
me some time to find out that 60nsersf0wse
meant "Somerset House," and when
driver pointed out what he called "the
assy erection" I had to guess from the
looks of the building that it was die
House Of Correction.
/ try to keep away from Americans. /
am in . very good hotel, but one Of the
most old fashioned Of English hotels.
!" The Golden Cross used to be starting
place for the post-coaches, say in Pick
wick's time, but it is now . rather uppish
" family hotel, /" retaining, however, many
old ways. am, after weeks experience,
beginning to learn how to manage things.
l am never 80 well pleased as when sue
coed in making some mistake sufficiently
ridiculous to bring smile to the face Of
an attache of the place. They look so
deadly solemn-these English folks about
hotcls-that / am driven to desperation
with desire to sec them laugh-just to
Geo If they Edsoard Eagleston's Lon
don Letter to Brooklyn Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
Books VI. Work.

IN reading an article by Wcll:knOWn
writer, the other day, VIC were particu-
larly attracted by this sentence: The
woman who has always an uneasy feeling
when she takes up book in the day time,
thinking, Now, I ought 20 be mending
the stockings, or polishing the silver, or
arranging the china-clOset,' will never in
her life be able to read with comfort. A
book always has for her its associations
with wasted time"
That this is melancholy and unaltera-
lie fact 10 too certain, and we could easily
select an audience Of estimablc women to
whom We should like to preach sermon
from this text. But, like a great many
better sermons, ours would have no
weight, for the women to whom it should
be addressed, and who need to listen to it,
would be the last to waste . moment in
glsncing over these lines, or tosuppose that
We could teach them anything about the
proper uses of their days and hours.
''It is all very well to talk about" says
one of this sis-ternity whom we know
we'll. You may say that we all have
beater. ! know that it takes every moment
cou ldn't read without wasting my time
u1C0OAuuys va VOOA0CS 1AhV OOON00
continues our friend, with the airOf con-
scious martyr; 81 should enjoy sitting
down to read, but when would the sweep
ing and busting get done, should like to
known" and she whisks her buster into
the corner of the sofa as she speaks.
Now, the difficulty is that this exem-
plary housewife does not care to read, has
no appetite for books, and would be
wrctchcd il she was condemned to daily
course of reading, even of the /" lightest"
sort. She delrdes herself, however, with
the idea that she is prevented by her
crowding and indispensable occupations
from any literary feasts, and that she is
actually hungering for them, when she is
really following out her own inclinations
most eagerly.
To the born reader, the woman to whom
books are necessity Of being, who would
peruse the stalest Newspaper rather than
not read at ALTO such an one NO stress
of occupations, no amount of sewing or
Homework will quite crowd out the taste
which is part of herself. II wonder how
you get time to read" said one to speci-
men OF this class. "You might wonder
more if did not get time to read" was
the answer. and it told the whole story.
The difference is, after all, not in the
lives or the training, but in the people.
To ono woman book is friend, wOOing
her to closer acquaintanceship; to another
it is only tires0me prctext Of amuse.
ment, gladly relinquished for more con-
genial employment.
Note the diversities in the manner Of
reading, tOO-thc intent, absorbed forget
fulness of one rcader-the rcstlcssness, The
Straving gaze. the casilv.divcrtcd attention
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

Ono of his professional friends COM
ing late TO Barney Williams funeral,
found the church 90 crowded he couldn't
get in. With true, generous, Irish SELF
fOrgetfulness he turned 10 his neighbor,
exclaiming: "Ahl if Barney were only
hero tho day. how delighted he'd be
full ouei''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
The Accident to tho Railroad Bridge
ut Omaha.

During the storm this morning, shortly
before daylight, two spans ON the east
end of the >UhiOn Pacific bridge went
down with . loud crash, and, when the
accident became generally reported around
the city, between seven and eight O'Clock,
the people could hardly believe it until
they had gone and viewed the ruin. The
span that had rested on the Iowa approach
lay on the cmbankment on the south
side like q rail fence that had
blown fiat over. The other span had
fallen in the river and could not be
seen. The two columns that had sup
ported the spans still stand firm and unin-
1ured. The spans are not connected where
they rest on the columns, 30 that if they
fall, as they did in this case, they can
each 60 down separately. The rails on
the bridge are fastened together very
firmly, and when the inside span went It
took with it the south line Of rail without
swapping it, but twisting it downward 30
that one end IL In the water. The north
rails were twisted into q semi.circle, and
were separated at the coupling. The cas-.
ing around one Of the columns supporting
the third span is broken in two places.
probably by the falling of the ilon-work
against it.
The storm sprang up about three o'clock,
wind, rain, and hail coming down from
the northwest ia great violence, accom-
panied by terrific thunder and lightning.
At about half past three O'Clock The acci-
dent occurred. A majority Of the people
seem 10 be Of opinion that the cyclone or
whirlwind came sweeping down along the
river, ana struck the bridge with full
force. lifting the two spans from the
columns and letting them fall Is shove
described. 1t Is . fact that at about
this particular time the wind very
suddenly changed from the north
west to the northeast thus blow.
ing In southwest rly direction, and It
was very likely this change that created
the cyclone. Tho twisted appearance Of
the ifOnwork Of the span that lies on the
bank snppAFte tAe theory Of whirlYi0d.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

The official Russian report admits that
the Russian loss at Plcvna was between 8, 600
and 10000. OF 900 persons attached to the
Red Cross ambulanccs, forty were killed
while collecting the wounded.
A London dispatch of the 22d says Great
Britain was making arrangements for the
Intervention of the Great Powers in the in.
tercst Of peace.
Advices from Prussian headquarters up
to the morning of the 23d represent the bat.
tic Of Schipka as still progressing. The
Russians had successfully rcpulscd ten deter.
mined assaults upon the Notifications at the
Pass. The Turks had attacked Tirnova, but
were easily repulscd. They had also attacked
the Russian lines at Sclvi.
Constantinoplc dispatches of the 23d
announce the defeat Of the Russians, with
great loss, at Eski-Djuma.
An instruction has b-Okcn out in Crete.
Two engagements have been fought, in
which thirty-six Turks and seventeen Christ
ians were killed.
a London dispatch Of the 24th says
Greece was rapidly arming, with the intention
of taking advantage Of Turkeys rcverscs,
and recover the Provinces of Thcssaly and
Epirus.
An Erzcroum telegram of the 25th says
he Turks had captured the Heights of Kiz-
iltepe and repulsed three Russian attempts
to retake them. The Russian loss was 200
killed and wounded. Gen. TchOutchowas-
sof, the commander of the Russian Cavalry,
was killed. The Turkish loss was stated at
1900. Russian kilograms concerning the
same battle, claim that the advantage was
with the Russians.
A London dispatch Of the 9th says the
losses of the Russians. since they crossed the
Danube, from sickness and the casualties OF
war, had reached the enormous aggregate Of
10000.
Dispatches Of the 9th state that the
Russians still held Schipka Pass, and had
not yielded an inch of their original position.
1t was stated that the hills around the Pass
were covered with Turkish dead, and that
the. Turkish losses in the eight days fight.
ing had already exceeded the Russian loss.
cs at Plevna.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
"A clergyman At Elizabeth, /

"A clergyman at Elizabeth, N. L., was
recently asked to escort young lady to
New York. He consented gladly, took
up IN srmful Of packages, pots Iot pre-
serves. etc., that lay beside her, placed
them In the car, and some time after the
train had starred, discovered that they
didn't belong tohis companion. At jersey
City he was arrested on . telegram from
Elizabeth, bat he succeeded in explaining
maffera
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
A Characteristic Letter by Artcmus
Ward, Heretofore unpublished.

THE Elmira IN. w. Gazette says: We
have been permitted to publish letter
written by Mr.. Brown (Artemus Ward) To
a young friend of his-a little girl, then
of the age of eight, and now the wife Of u
prominent merchant in q ncighbOrirg
city. The letter never before has APP
peayed in print, and the original is in pos
session of . gentleman of This city. We
vOuch for its genuincnces. twill ut once
strike the reader Is being cmincntly char
actcristic-" true to life:''
''SAL1M, Mass, June IL, 1854.
"MY DEAR AMEIIA-I cannot tell you
how much miss you.
!" 1t seems as though had lost all my
relatives, including my grandmother and
the cooking stove.
"Why didn't put you in bottle and
bring you down here with met But I
am always forgetting something. The
other day went off and forgot my Aunt
sarah, and she's good deal bigger than
you arc. Mr.. Ramsey is also very for
getful man. He frequently goes of and
forgcts his washerwOman. Mr.. Ramsey
is very fine-loOking man. lie reminds
me Of Mr.. Green, the Maiden murderer.
When Mr.. Ramsey goes 10 tho Pcnitcn-
tiary, which will be very soon, VIC must
send him doughnuts, magazines and other
literary documents. Mr.. Ramsey can read
print very we'll.
II like you very much. should like
you just as we'll If you were twelve years
older. l am very singular about some
things.
"Ysu spoke to me about boy who is
my rival. should feel very sorry 10 kill
that boy, but he may, drive me 10 it. I
am in hopes that he will take himself into
q premature tOmb-that he may choke
himself with large slice of pudding
but if he docs neither shall feel forced
to load him with chains and read all my
lectures to him. That will finish him.
His boots may remain, but the rest of him
will have persisted miscrably long ere
have got through!
You must be . good little girl and
always mind your mother. Never let
your excellent mother feel sorry that she
is acquainted with you! II it hadn't been
for her you might have been drowned in
q sOup-platc long ago. And If you hadn't
ever had any mother you might now be
in Turkey, with the other Turkeys. In
fact, my dear Amelia, 90 conduct your.
self that even on dark and rainy days the
bright sun may shine wherever y0S arc
and that the stars (Which are next to the
sun in brightncss) may never flash 90
brilliantly bat that you can always look
steadily and hopefully toward thcml
Faithfully your friend.
Nothing like the English language.
For instance, they arc drafting men in
India to bury the draught horses which
have died from the drOuth. .Desroit Free
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

The stage coach drivers in the White
Mountains, despsiring Of managing their
leading horses with the whip, carry along
ct the proper time with salutary effect.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

Nothing like the English language.
For instance, they arc drafting men in
India to bury the draught horses which
have died from the dr0uth. .Deerojt Free
Pres.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

The plague having broken out in Rus
sian Poland, the German frontier has been
closed by q strong military guard.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

The famine in India has already cost
Ing an expenditure Of G5OO,OOO per month.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

CURRENT RARA0RAHEAS.
The Polish authorities have forbidden
the sale of arms to the inhabitants of War
saw.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

The Amy and Macy Journal says o.
man Pasha, the victor in the Battle Of Plev-
M, is no other than cx-Marshal Bazainc, of
France.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06

Charles A Minnie (colOrcd) has won the
West Point appointment in Congressman
Millcr's On. ~ District, his average being
ninety eight
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-08-30

at a time. He Is 3 most excellent l0dger
fellow, with none of them airs and graces
as these minxes OF girls give themselves ;
but then, Like master, like man., say |,
an1 I've always found it SC"
And your first floors, you tell me you
would be glad to relet, were you sure Of
another teuant?"
~ eS. maam."
"VeIy well then .as have no maid likely
to disturb you'll will take them for month
cert ain If | can have them on Wednesday
morning, and | will further pay you the
weeks rent yop will forfeit by giving the
present dodgers notice to quit summarily /;
but remember. only take them on this one
condition. II is now Monday night. and
must move In on Wednesday morning"
I'm manage il for you, ma'am, even II |
get summons for IT,"
~ ou shall be no loser in any case; |
will pay all expenses Aud she drew out
her purse TO deposit weeks rent in ad-
vance.
Never mind It, ma am, you look a lady
as one may trust, aud Ill see that you are
In the rooms on Wednesday morning. |
can easily put the blame on Mr.. Meredith,
II they become very unpleasant, by saying
he takes the rooms by the Year; they are
not 70 know whether he may not want the
first door this time"
Mutually satisfied with their bargain,
landlady and lodger parted for the night.
On the face of the later could be discerned
a compression OF the lips, which bespoke
a sudden resolve she was bent upon carry
ing out, even though Il failed IN the end to
prove successful.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-08-30
The Exact Truth.

Two young mason were building a brick
wall-the front wall of high house. One
of them in placing a brick, discovered that
IL was little thicker on one side than the
other.
His companion advised him to throw il
out. 1T will make your wall untrue. Ben"
he said.
POOH answered Ben; what differ
ence will such trihe as that make? You're
too particular
My mother" replied he, taught me
that truth is truth and ever SO little an
untruth is lie, and lie Is no trife."
oh" said Ben, that's all very well /;
but am not lying, and have no intention
of lying"
Very true, but you make your wall tell
work is like a lie in his character; it will
show itself sooner or later and bring harm,
il not ruin"
Ill risk it in this case" answered Ben !;
and he worked away, laying more bricks,
and carrying the wall up higher, till at the
close Of the day, when they quilted work
and went home.
The next morning they went TO resume
their work. when, behold, the lie had
wrought out the result of all liesi The
wall, getting a little slant from the untrue
brick. had got more and more untrue as il
got higher, and at last in the night had
toppled over. obliging the masons to do all
their work over again.
Just 90 with ever so little an untruth in
your character; 1t grows more and more
untrue il you permit ii to remain, till it
brings sorrow aud ruin. Tell, act, and
live the exact truth always. - Western
Christian Advocate