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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-04

Orenburg and Siberian lines, and small
contingent which Finland Is required to
furnish, making altogether IN army of
1,600, 900 men.
Russia is we'll supplied with horsrs, the
number being computed in 1871 at 49,.
eco, 600, or 296 to every 1000 of the popu.
lation, whereas Austria has only ninety
nine, Germany ninety-two, and France
eighty. The infantry Is to use the Ber-
dan rifle, but is only partially supplied
with it, the remainder Of the troops hav.
ing old muskcts altered into breech.load.
ers. The artillery is supplied with four
to nine FOUNDER breech. loading steel and
bronze cannon. The army budget has
increased from so, O0O, 900 rublcs In 1882
to 179, OOO, 600 rubles in 1875, or about thir-
ty.five per cent. of the entire expenses of
the Empire, and the amount appropriated
for the navy in the latter year was q, O0O,.
OOO rubles.
The Russian navy is in two principal
divisions, the fleet of the Baltic and that
of the Black Seas; and there are smaller
fleets in the Caspian, Aral, Siberian and
White Sea waters. The total comprises
1O8 men .of-war, lat officers and ,217
seamen. The iron clad fleet of war COM
prises the powerful turret-ship Peter the
Great, eight frigates, three corvettes,
fourteen turret monitors and three floating
batteries. The entire feet now consists Of
225 steam vessels. with 521 guns, and .
total tonnage Of 172, sol. AS to the direc.
ton which the Russian military move
ments will take, the following statement is
probably nearly correct: The main
strength of this vast military force will
be concentrated at two points. The first
army is already gathering about Kichiney,
in the vicinity of the Pruth, which divides
Bessarabia from Roumania. Across the
river her forces will sweep down through
Roumania into Bulgaria, threatening Con.
stantinOple on the left. To meet this
force the Turks are about concentrating
eco, 900 men in Bulgaria. They are also
Strengthening Widdin and other Danubian
fortresses and reinforcing the fleet on that
river. The second army will have Tiflis
as its base, on the trans Caucasian side,
and operate in Armenia, which is friendly
to Russia, Trebizond and silva, threaten
ing Constantinople on the right. A pow
erful army is already concentrated at
Tifis, with no corresponding Turkish
army to meet it. so that the principal
fighting, if war should be declared, would
be in European Turkey."-Boston Jour-
nal.
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scope are extensions of his eye. The res.
opator. the manometric cell and the cleo
tric sounder are additional ears. The
electric3telegraph enables him to be and to
act in thousand places at once. Indeed
all that science and art have done to make
man master of the conditions and forces
of Nature may he considered SO many
extensions of his organic endOwmentS.
Yet, much as has been accomplished in
this direction, much as the civilized man
excels the savage in scope and reach of
faculty and force, the scientific develop
ment of human capabilities has but lust
begun. As DR.. Draper happily expresses
it, we have in what has been done merely
an earnest of what the future has in store.
In the direction of taste and smell, the
Universe is almost entirely une1plored.
Properly disciplined and aided by me-
chanical and other means of increasing
their range and acuteness, these sapscs
may prove as efficient in the exploration
of Nature, as serviceable for the mental
and material advancement of humanity,
as either sight or hearing. Already We
have an intimation of what discipline
may do for the sense of touch in the ex-
quisite t&ctile sensibility of some blind
people, in the extreme sensitiveness of
and even greater promise is held out by
taste and smell rs exhibited in the chem
lists ability to distinguish thereby many
sapid odorous substances, in quantity too
small to be otherwise detected. Still more
strikingly are the possibilities of these
senses manifested in certain nervous states
produced by drugs or disease, especially
that condition of exalted sensibility
known rs hyperRsthesia. And it is quite
possible that, as the microscope, acting
externally, increases the natural acuteness
of vision, so the range and acuteness Of
the senses excited by contact may be cor
respOndingly increased by substances act
ing interiorly through the nervous system.
1t is true that such exaltations of sense
perception arc apt to be attended with
mental disturbances more or less disqual-
flying the subject for logical thinking;
but we cannot pronounce it impossible
for chemistry to discover or produce COM
pounds capable of bringing about the one
state unattended by the other; in other
words. capable of heightcning in any de-
sired degree the acutencss of any sense
without deranging at the same time the
proper balance of the purely mental fac
scope In the hands of an unframed savage
is quite as puzzling in its action, as con-
fusing in its results, as the direct testi-
mony of our senses is under hypcr.esthe-
STA. And it seems not less reasonable to
suppose that the mind may learn to adjust
itself to the new conditions of perception
as readily in the one case as in the other.
In either event-the discovery of other
means of exalted sense, or the education
of the mind to act normally under such
new conditions-an enormous extension
of human faculty must result; and the
coming man may find therein the means
of surprising us as signally as We do the
most british of barbarians in our power
of penetrating the secrets of nature, and
turning them to our MISUNDERSTANDING
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The Military Strength Of Russia.

In the event of an outbreak of hostilities
in Europe, which must be reckODcd
among the possibilities of the near future,
everything relating to the military strength
and material resources of the combatants
becomes a matter of great interest. The
immense population Of Russia-ranging,
according to different estimates, from g.
O00, 900 to "a Zoo, 600, gives her a tre-
mendOus advantage in recruiting for her
army. Germany has but Al. OO0, 900; Aus
tria and France each $4,000, 600, and
Great Britain 81, O00, 900. The Russians
are hardy people also, and have been for
some years past under 50 rigorous disci-
pline that they may be regarded as q ma
ton of soldiers. Russia has learned the
necessity of intelligence and good disci-
pline in an army, and has spared no pains
to educate her officers of every grade, and
to give her soldiers the best of training.
Every Russian over twenty one years Of
age is liable to military duty, though
there are some local exceptions to these
provisions, and some classes of the popu-
lation are exempt. Tho term of service
in European Russia is fifteen years; six
years under the flag and nine in the re-
serve. In Asia the term is only ten years,
of which seven are passed in active duty.
From 1853 to 1874 an annual draft of
100000 men was made, leaving q reserve
force of about 1900, 600. The first en-
rolment under the new law, call.
ing for 10000 men, took place
in the autumn of 1784; the sec.
ond, calling for $50, 1000, in the autumn
of 1876; and the contingent for this
year is 10000. Last year the strength of
the army was announced officially as fol-
lows: Regular army on the peace footing,
457 ,S72; on the war footing, sos, $40; ar.
my of the first reserve on the peace foot
ing, 1870, 74O; on the war footing, 227 1923;
army of second reserve on the peace foot
ing, 2O7 ,812; on the war footing, 276, 684
This would give as the total Of the Rus.
sian army proper. on the war footing,
1,213, 257 men. But in addition to these
there are in military service 200 Co.'S
sacks Of the Don, 200, 900 Cossscks of the
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In the Detroit Police COurt-A Rem.
iniscence.

Monroe Edmunds, man in the prime
of life, had been picked out of q dry
goods box limpsy drunk, and as he stood
on the mark he said:
Powerful cold night, wasn't it Judge !
I thought at O.e time Id have to get up
and spread my tobacco-box over me to
keep from freezing to death.''
- Is this your first time here:'' asked
the Court.
Eyes, sir, it air. Is there thermom.
eter here by which can see how cold it
is?''
"Never mind the thermometer; your
case is at zero, and that is enough for
you to take care Of"
1.-THE reason asked about the Their.
mometer, :" continued Mr.. Edmunds, twas
to see how it averaged with an experience
of mine in Nebraska. 1t was in the win.
ter of 1859, and L"
Never mind any yarns" interrupted
his Honor; "what is your pleay''
Yarns! Why, I'm going to tell the
truth-the solid truth! was camped out
on Cross eyed River, and all of sudden
it came on colder than ten thousand
matches. I didn't"
~ shall enter plea of guilty and send
you up if you don't want trial. said the
Court.
IL do want trial, of course. want to
know whether I'm innocent or guilty, just
as bad as you do. As was saying, the
weather whipped around as quick as
lightning, and my dog Tiber, who was
ROme.ing around, came into camp a
frozen corpse. set to work -"
II shall send you up for thirty days
call the next"
1.-THE dog was as rigid as iron," said
the prisoner, speaking louder, Z" and when
l picked him up his ears broke off as IT be
were glass duck. wiped the tears
"You can wipe your eyes on your coat
tails if you want to, but follow Bijah or
I'll double your sentence!'
"I'll follow Bijah, of course, but as I
was saying, that poor dog was as solid as
stone horse block. laid-him-beside
-the-the-"
The door closed and the rest of the story
was lost to the audience.-DetrciI Free
Press.
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letters were being tempered With; that he
!seA ssse and ', ssssa .sss ess
ss S..s psssd sS 81 s :.s { . net
pat 3 had that suspicion which amounted too
belief thai ~ letters haa been opened A sab
matte to u se II
6e alleged election frauds IN New. York city.
nllls were ntrodueed and refereed psoviding
public safety demands an increase. shall consist
Of thirty sea-going vessels Of war, to be dis
s.rioatsd among Re several squadron and aivis.
IL military os
service, rhall have any troops o. armed men q or
near the place where any general or special cleo.
ton ton is held In any STATE. either on The day q
thereto. under . penalty Of $4,000 Ane and i'm
prisonmeat for term Of mot less than Ave years.
ether sstss for % ACTON n 10 Ss arsss
hopper plague. was presented. Enlogies were
pronounced and the customary resolutions were
adopted in respect to the memory Of the late
Senator Csperton
Tue resolution relative to Mr.. Cronin's
appointment "a Preeidential Elector In Oregon
was taken mp in the Senate, on the ed, and
agreed to without division. It provides that the
question shall BE- referred to the Committee ON
Privileges and Elections, with instructions to 10.
Qutre into the eligibility Of J. w. Warts ION the
Republican Electoral ticket and into the facts A.
sCuuiuX tuC dppOlutmcut OI S4lO ElcCt0f 40Q ORE.
tended Electors; and report the same to the Senate
A Conference Committee was appointed ON the
bill to provide for the sale Of certain Cherokee
scrip lands in Kansas. Adjourned to the
House directing the Appropriation Committee to
report in the Deficiency bill provision to pay tho
widow Of the latc Speaker Kerr sum equal to the
pay and mileage Of the Speaker from the time Or
his ath until the end 0t the present Congress.
Messrs Knott. Sparks, Tucker, Marsh, BurChSrd
eli. }, Scelye and Monroe were announced by the
Speaker as the committee to ascertain and report
a. to the priv ileges, powers and duties Of tho
House in counting the votes for President and
Vice President; and on counting tho Electoral
votes, Messrs. Payne. Mnnton, Hewitt, Springer,
McCrary, HOar and willard
SENATE not in session on the ed.
In the House. Mr.. Monroe resigned from the
Committee on the Rights, PRIVILEGES and Duties
Of the House In regard to the counting Of the
Electoral vote. A resolution was adopted, re-
que.ting Of the President copies Of all the orders
made by him. or under his direction, and Of the
orders and correspondence Of the War Depart.
mt mt. relating to the limitations inside by the
re-ident Of the appropriations for the improve
ment Of rivers and harbOrs. and to specify how
the *s.oOc.C COO out Of the $sCOOOUO appropriated
BY the last Congress have been expended and
Also to state under what law such Limitation was
made. AdjOurn.d to the 9Th.
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a. to the fairness Of the election in different
pariehes, some Of them corroborating The evidence
Of former witnesses that colOred men had been
prosecuted and abused for having voted the Demo-
tally sheet Of Poll Of the Eleventh Ward Of his
parish saw the election officers tien II 1t the poll
ing place, and they all signed It willingly and
other insinidstion, to witness certain NOW
ledge;. witness read the vote for Presi-
deltial Electors showing Demccratic ma
y Of 0 SC ae.dss s the II. lspo e. :
turning Board to the Secretary Of State nor by
the Assistant Supervisor in his consolidated
statement to the Returning Board the tsily-'hssst
the vote was not included in his consolidated
etatement Of the Assistant Supervisor: A.
w. Kempton was Republican Commissions Of
presence. Witness said the protest he (Kempton)
made was an absolute falseho0d to his (wtt-
messy certain knowledge.
John Culpepper (coloredh of Ouachita
Parish. testified before the Senate Committee, on
the ed, that he voted 1t Cuba at the late election
the Democrats said they were going TO carry the
neS.s ns *.
ticket they would have 70 take the consequences;
went to the polls with lot Of Republican tickets
and met come i,iends Who . ssid they wonlant Be
bu, Democratic ones there; voted the Demo. ratio
ticket and left; met some white men driving lot
OF negroes. like sheep, to the polls; was afraid
not TO vUte the Democsatic ticket, but took .
pencil and scratched o. many names % possible;
witness father was killed in his (witneeeO pres.
Henry u. McCauley, . lieutenant in the United
States Army. testified to there having been in
timidation at Nour0e.
A.. N. c. Hearsey, Republican, Of New
Orleans, was befo the House Committee ON the
3ad. and testified that there was NO Intimidation
before the elect on, but there was after the vot.
Pull No. 2 In the Eleventh Ward; The Democratic
Commissioners would NOT allow him to quit the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-04

Baron Palm used to roam the streets
of Chicago. He was s0ft-faced, pomp.
Gus sort Of fellow, and sperted bad xe
on bis right lapel.-Chicago Journal.
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A NUMBER of private bills were passed
In Oh. s.r... an ~. ,oh M. ....,., .ec.....,
IN .ne oe".'c y. 'no a"sn' Ano ''s'"e> oi samuel
ADAMS ana SOhu winthrop were formally pre-
scented by Messrs. Boutwell, and Dawes. COM
munieation WAS received from tine Sec,ct.rv of
state. tranemittinr iist Of names Of nersons not
citizens Of the iInIfed sfsfes vho h.6 consnisr
oces and were poid salaries daring the iscsi wear
endinv Lime n fS:S The rssolntfon ,eist;v. ~
II. Cronin. q snnointment a. m Eiector in Oreocn
was iurther eonsidered "A resoIntion wss
adopted in the House.isi e a-for an adjourn
sh :. Tsan sae - 20 ~ Saa snen Irom !ne
bill was passed. The Adsms and Wfnthrop
statues were received.
In the Senate. nm the 00th tho votoo IN
~ 800
august last. oy wnlcn the Dali was passed estab-
l.ehing the Territory Of Pembfna was rec0neid-
cred. and the name Of the new Territorv was
chanped To Huron and the nm Ma nS.sed The
Pension NATURALIZATION bin Wa nsssed. with
an amendment The reeoluttoa authorixinr m
inyertiQetion A. TO the appointment Of n. Cfnnin
as Presidential Elector II OREGON Wa further de.
bated. :. IA reeolution M adooted in the Honse
recitinr that M. =. O'Connor Power III p had
heen denntized m presenf Ia Ire nSnnia ~ IN, The
limited Sfsfcs The comvrsfnistions of H Ir;,h M
Zion On the ccntensrv an Hmericsn indenendencs
snd refsrrinS ~ suSiect ~ nis missIon h. tSss
Commitfee az Foreirn xffsirs The jndicssrv Com I'M.
mitfee msde = renort thaf Ssnncress la ~ y;cht
and nover "a rnsnsI "a nroinction ~ tsie.xx,s
Tor he nurnoes 81 condncfine an investi1stion
NJ. Hind asIinv /. miroritv ersners re"nfrs~v '
description Of such teieerams to Be- eiven Alter
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-04

The poet Whittier lives with the ut.
most simplicity, and expects to survive =
hundred years.
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TIC persUHW properly OF the SCHOOL IL
valued at $13,9S4, and the real estate at SIS.
NO-a total Of $50, 2S4. The Board recon.
mend an appropriation Of 10000.
An insurance man, surveying the city o.
Minneapolis, made the remark the other day
hat il . fire ever commenced at one end of
he city there would be nothing but the
.rairie left.
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TINE RA2T.

CHANCELLOR H. W. GREEN, q distin-
guished New Jersey jurist, died at Trenton
on the Goth. He was seventy-two years old.
On the Goth, while six miles off the High
lands, near New York, the steam-tug Jacob
&. Hcafie exploded her boilers. The Cap
tain and two of his men were instantly
killed. The engineer and fireman were
blown into the air, but their lives were
saved.
THE Pennsylvania Democratic State Com.
mittee held consultation with prominent
members of the party in that State, at Har-
risburg, on the I'D, and then issued an ad-
dress to the people of Pennsylvania, in
which they recite their views rs to the rights
and duties of Congress in the present
political crisis. They declare their belief
that "Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas
A. Hendricks were, on the 7th day
OF November last, elected President
and vice-President Of the United States"
and call upon the members of both Houses
of Congress to adopt such lawful means as
may lead to the official declaration of such
result.
Coz, the well-known forger, who, in 1874,
was sentenced to the Massachusetts, State
Prison for eight years, committed suicide,
on the I'D, by takirg muriatic acid ana Paris.
green.
GOLD closed in New York on the ed At
lO71. The following were the closing quo.
tStions for produce: No. Chicago Spring
Wheat (Newh t1.3S1f ais No. 2 Milwaukee
New, $1.4Ok. Oats, Western and
State, 3S1f@5Oc. Corn, Western Mixed,
5sn@59c; Pork, Mess, SITES. Lard, $l0.S0;
Flour good to choice, e5.O@5.75; White
Wheat Extra, e5.sO@7.O0. Cattle, 9@l1c
for good to extra. Sheep, 3><@lOc. Hogs
s4.OO@8.s7k.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the q, cattle
brought: Best, $5.l2@5.5O; medium, a &c
GOO; common, eAOO@45O. Hogs sold
Workers, $5.12@575; Philadelphia, s6.OO@
G.25 sheep brought &2.0O@5Oo. according
to quality.
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SOUTH CAROLINA,

Comptroller Gen. Dunn and Secretary
Of State Hoyne appeared before the House Com
mittee, on the 18th. From the former the fact
was ELECTED that the Electoral voc was canvaesed
by the State Board Of Canvaseert, and was made
up and counted from the returns Of the county
canvassers, including the courties Of Edgeheld
AID Lsurene, which were excluded in the count
for members Of the Legislature. Haynes tesii-
mony was unimportant. The Senate Committee
held secret sessions hearing testimony in respect
to the intimidation Of negroes. The House Com
mittee lett in the evening for Charleston, to In
quire into negro intimidation n that and other
counties.
Both of the investigation committees
were taking testimony, at Columbia. on the 21st.
subcommittee had been semitic Charleston and
Beaufort Counties, to obtain tn, testimony of wit
nesses there.
The Congressional Sub Committee of
the House were at Charleston IN the ed, taking
testimony regarding intimidation in the coast
counties.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

In the South Carolina Democratic House,
on the 10th, seventy-nine Senators and Rep
resentatives being present, q ballot was
taken for United States Senator, which re-
suited in the choice of NJ. C. Butler, he re.
ceiving sixty-four out of the seventv-nine
votes cast. In the Supreme Court, United
States Attorney Corbin filed q return to the
rule for contempt. The Court also heard
the argument in the case Of the Tilden v*.
taking any action.
The South Carolina Senate, by strict
party vote, decided, ON the 2Oth, to adjourn
with the Republican House sine die on the
ed. The Tax and Appropriation bill passed
to second reading. The tax levy aggre
gates seventeen mills, exclusive of local
taxes, and calls for $3,0lO.OOO. In the Dem.
Ocratic House, . resolution was adopted re-
questing Gov. Hampton to issue his procla-
nation calling upon all faithful, law abiding
citizens to pay to the Governor, or some per-
son appointed by him to receive it, sum
equal to one.fourth OF the State and county
tax, to the end that the necessary expenses
of the Government may be paid.
According to special telegram, the Demo-
cratic House, on the 2lst, adopted resolu-
ton instructing and admonishing the tax
payers Of the State not to pay the taxes
levied BY the Republican House, nor obey
any act, resolutions or proclamations passed
By that body or issued "by the said traitor
D. H. Chamberlain, now attempting to
usurp the ONCE OF Governor of South Caro-
lima"
A meeting of Conservative taxpayers was
held at Charleston on the evening of the
same day, at which resolutions were adopted
recognizing Hampton and Simpson as law.
fully elected, and pledging them moral,
financial and material aid.
AColumbia dispatch of the 22d says the
Democratic House had adjourned sine de- This
action leaves two State Governments acting
upon their own responsibility. Chamberlain
made q large number Of nominations for
county oficisls, which were confirmed by the
Senate In executive session. Hampton had as
surances Of his friends, and was proceeding
also to organize county governments.
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FLORIDA.
The Senate Committee had before them

The Senate Committee had before them,
in secret session, ON the 10th, witnesses from
Monroe, Manatee and Jackson Counties. The
Secretary of State furnished the committee q
tabulated statement Of the vote for Presidential
Electors ON The face Of the returns. figuring
Including return No. 1 from Baker Coun-
y, which was, by the unanimous action Of the
Boa'd rejected. and other returns substituted,
i6s jackson County :. turns produced evidence &C.
that at Friendship Church precinct the voters
were compelled to pass their tickets through
window ioot above their heads, and Loot sight
that the Republican Supervisor was driven from
the room, and that votes were canvassed
two miles from polling places. The committee
County, whose evidence was about the same as
before the House Committee, and showed that the
County Commits toner's totally neglected to re-
precinct officers, or give any notice Of the cleo.
ton. A small vote was cast, mostly Democratic
There were many who refused to vote.
At the session of the Senate Committee,
ON the 2ist, according to Tallahassee special to
the New York TINS, further testimony was
taken concerning jackson County, to the effect
that at the CanpbelltOwn Precinct Democrats and
Republicans voted alternate hOur In the FORE
noon, aud the Republicans In the afternoon. When
the count was made at night all the Republican
votes were found on top to the number of seventy
was in proof that many more Republicans voted
In the forenoon than in the afternoon. At
Friendship Church it was sworn 10 that sixty
seven Republicans voted and bat forty. four Re-
publican votes were found In the box. There was
some testimony Of Democratic: repeating. A
per- on who was sent to Manatee County to get
Information ~ to the character Of the election
in that county for the Canvassing Board. testified
that he was turned back vt SumEterville under
threat that his life would be taken ii he went
further; that they had got large Democratic ma
iOrity, and would not have it Investigated. The
00uee Committee had left Tallahasse.