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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

exception must be made in favor of sew
eral objects of q more massive and strik.
ing character. Among these must be
mentioned . double-handled goblet, with
half dozen smaller ones without handles,
all somewhat battered, and without chas-
ing of any sort; three masks, one life
like cast of the face of man of middle
age, handsome, rather stern looking, and
with straight features and short but
perfect head. This was the gem of the
collection. The other two masks were
grotesques, having prominent eyes and
lips, pulled. out cheeks, and smooth chins,
like the comic masks of the theater, ex.
cept that the mouths were closed. Then,
in silver, was large vase or jug, long and
slender, with handle and lip, and Of the
same shape and about the same size as that
which Hebe is represented to be holding
in the we'll known bas-rcliC at Rome; and
also calf's head, about half the size of
life, and with hollow golden horns at
tached. Both articles, which were the
only silver ones exhibited, were much
"Among the smaller specimens were two
heavy signet rings, beautifully engraved
with figures Of men hunting stays, anum.
Der OF feminine trinkets, and little squares
and oblongs, pierced with holes as il to
string on necklace, and having, as in the
case Of the rings, devices cut in deeply, q
small wand with q knob of rock crystal at
one end supposed to be royal scepter),
and sword blade, concluded the list Of
what was most noteworthy. Such was the
impression produced on an ordinary sight
seer who had nopretensions to antiquarian
lore. An attendant stated that only two
boxes out of twenty were unpacked, but
that they contained the most perfect and
interesting of the excavated treasures" -
London Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

THERE has been trouble in the San
Francisco mint at the discovery that the
double eagles made from the new dies are
thicker than the old ones, though of the
same weight, twenty of the new coins
being 68.N inches high, or S.64 more
than the others. The merchants com.
planned of the inequality, and, after $780,.
600 had been issued, the coinage was
stopped. The same difference was found
at the Philadelphia mint, but it is now
ascertained that the new thickness Is the
correct one, and the coinage has been re-
sumed.
The Brooklyn bridge between New
York and Brooklyn now has its footpath
completed, and it 10 expected that the
whole structure will be finished during
the present year. It will be {, 900 feet long,
the central span being 1,595 feet long and
1875 feet high. It will be eighty five feet
In width, including promenade thirteen
feet wide, two railroad tracks, and four
wagon or street.car tracks. The ap-
proaches on the Brooklyn side from the
and on the New York side, 1889 feet.
The entire cost will be SIC, OOO, 600.
lr appears that, taking the mean death
rate of the whole population of England
at 100, the relative dea.h-rate of civil en-
gineers is IS; of wheelwrights, 90; silk
manufacturers, 80; carpenters and joiners,
81; sawyers, 95; musical instrument
makers, paper manufacturers and brass
workers, 90; blacksmiths and gunsmiths,
81; tanners and curriers', shoemakers and
workers in iron and steel, %; and bakers,
90. Machinists and wooden workers die
at the mean rate for all, 100. Manufact-
urers in iron, copper, tin and lead exceed
the mean mortality by 1; watchmakers,
ION; shipbuilders, 1O6; coacAmakers and
rope. makers, 1O7; workers in cotton,
fax and silk, 1O9. Carvers and gilders
exceed the mean death-rate by IL; miners,
printers and manufacturers of cotton and
fax. by Is. Among glass manufacturers
the death-rate rises to 119, and among
plumbers to 12V; tool, file and saw max
ers, 121. In ceppersmiths and needle
makers, the rate rises to 1923; in manu-
featuring chemists and dye and color
manufactures, to 124.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Our correspondent with the Mediter-
ranean fleet writes under date Athens,
Feb 20:
"a portion of the celebrated Mycene
treasures which have been discovered by
Or. Schliemann was yesterday exhibited
at the Athenian Bank, and large number
Of the officers of the feet availed them
selves of the opportunity afforded them
to inspect them. After the high ex.
pectations, however, thst had been
raised, the general feeling was oneo dis
appointment.
a. The richness of the appearance Of 30
much gold did not compensate for the
absence of solidity which characterized
most Ct the disinterred antiquities. Thin
sheets of plain gold, though dignified with
the name of breastplates, and ribands or
fillets stamped with circular devices and
Of . thickness varying from that of . naval
officers stripe to foreign notepsper, had
the look Of tinsel, and were not unlike
the insignia of Masonic society. The
mysterious buttons were likewise plain
circular discs Of gold leaf, about m inch
in diameter, forming the covering APP
parently Of more substantial wood or
bone.
"But, though the bulk of what was
shown was Of this flimsy description, ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12
Tho Worlds Population.

The present population Of the world ia
somewhere between fourteen and fifteen
hundred millions, the latest and, perhaps,
most trustworthy estimate, that of Drs.
Behur and Wagner, placing it about mid.
way between the limits we have men,
toned. The impossibility of estimating
the number more closely will be apparent
when it is remembered that only in COM
paratively small part of the world have
careful censuses, or, indeed, censuses of
any kind. ever been made. A systematic
enumeration of the inhabitants of India,
. year ago, discovered that the population
under. estimated by upward of 81, 0OO, 900,
or as many, nearly, as the population Of
England, Scotland and Wales. The cen.
sus returns of Europe are tolerably COM
plete, the leading States standing In the
following order in point of numbers:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Matthew Dorm. the monster-h headed
boy, is dead. He was fifteen years of age,
aud was certainly . curiosity, If mot
mcnstrosity, % far as his Uranium was
concerned. It Is said that his head was
nearly four feet in circumference, and
weighed quite eighty pounds He was Of
Irish parentage. When six weeks old his
head began growing much more rapidly
than his body, and continued to grow mp
to within . few weeks Of his death, which
occurred early This week. He was never
able to sit up, but could move his head
from right to left while lying on his pill.
low. During the Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia he was taken there by spec
ulative persons, but the undertaking did
not prove successful there or in Albany.
where he was subsequently exhibited for
few days. His body, at the time Of his
death, weighed about onc-half as much -
his head.-zsvy IN. ~ Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

A Berlin special to the London Poet of
tho Sd announces that Bismarck had rendered
his resignation Of the Chancellosship of tho
Empire The Emperor had declined 10 accept
II, bat bad given hims years leavsof absence.
At meeting Of the Cabinet, held on
the ID, the Secretary Of War was directed to pre-
parean order removing the troops from the State
Houee, At Columbia, g. C. At the request
of Gov. Chamberlain, the execution of the order
was extended until the Last of the week. Gov.
Hampton expressed himself gratifed and Gov.
Chamberlain said il was practically settling the
Gubesnatorial question. In letter 10 the Pres
ident, the Latter entered solemn protest against
the removal of thu trooua
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are over 10000 short-hosns in
the United States recorded IN The Ameri.
can herd hook.
The total number Of Icslaooess who
have emigrated 10 the ueW cO3oay In
North America amounts 70 about 100
men, women and children.
TEE New York City Nissjon \ doing
great work among the humhlee classes.
The society employs thirty subsidiaries,
who have, with volunteer, made over
10000 visits during the pat yesv.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12
The Sea.Serpent and the Savants.

If any one is still subject to the recur
rent alarm that the men of science are
beginning to assume AN authority similar
to that they have overthrown and to be
the Popes of the future with power to
explode the world chemically if they are
not obeyed), he will do we'll to observe
the Difference with which the formidable
savants have gradually yielded to the ac-
cumulated testimonies of sailors with re-
gard to the sea-serpent, although the ex-
istence of such monsters was quite unpro-
vided for in their geological theories.
remember, more than twenty years ago,
when Prof. Agassiz was taking his class
On scientific excursion along the Coast
of Nahant, he paused on q rock, and in
his own graphic way gave q summary of
the narratives of the sea-serpent said to
have been seen near there. One of our
class INDUCED in some ridicule of the
monster, but Agassiz checked him, and
said that it was matter which must not
be dismissed without further investiga-
ton. The important mass of testimony
which has accumulated on the subject
has been carefully reviewed in the March
number of that excellent old periodical,
the Gentlemen's Magazine, by Prof. Rich
ard A. Proctor, in a paper, entitled
Strange Sea Creatures" After sitting
the evidence cautiously, Prof. Proctor ar
rivea at the conclusion that at least one
large marine animal exists which has not
as yet been classified among the known
species of the present era; that this ami
NAL has q serpentine neck, and a head
small as compared with its body; that it
is an air breather, probably warm blood
ed, and certainly carniverous that its pro-
pelsive power being great, and apparently
Independent of its undulations, it pre-
sumably has concealed paddles. Those
circumstances correspond with the belief
that it is the enaliosaurian, or modern rep
resentative of the long plesiosGurus
of the MesOzaic era, member of that
strange family whose figure resembles a SER
pent drawn through the body of = sea- turtle.
That it is so much larger than any fossil
remains of the same family which have
been found, may be accounted for by the
fact that IL one or two of them should
survive at all, it naturally would be
through their gigantic size and strength.
Mr.. Proctor thinks the accounts of huge
cuttle-fish exaggerated, but believes in
the gigantic tad pele-20O feet in length
seen in the Malacca Straits by officers of
the NestOr, and at first mistaken for q
shoal. DR.. Andrew Wilson, who cap
tured the ribbon-fish, sixty feet long, also
believes that there is some sea-monster
which mariners occasionally see. Prof.
Gosse holds the same view. Prof. Owen,
thirty years ago, suggested that the mon
ster might be the sea elephant PA0cG pro-
boscjdeo), which is sometimes thirty feet
long; but he has had nothing to say of
the evidences and descriptions adduced
since then, and the notable silence Of the
BIOLOGISTS generally must be regarded as
their consent to the main fact-that gigan-
tic monsters exist, though as yet "un-
movable. IN. D. COnsooy, ~ Ctncin-
mats Commercial.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

~ HAD to stand up all the way home
in the street car" said q Chicago wife 10
her husband, - she came into the house
tho other day. "You didr' said he,
well, that's . shamc.' "Oh, didn't
care-I enjoyed it," declared she, as she
pulled Oh glove; 80 ever since You gave
me these handsome bracelets I like to
stand up and hang to strap, the gold 81.
igreo work shows of 20 beautifully"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Something u going to happen-theres
=. c.a T.. Is The north psr y orsss
Bsrrington, Nass., tie other Day, some
that part Of the country.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The Melvina Mine, near Sunshine,
COL, ID reported - sold for t250, 900 to
parties from Milwaukee.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Col. Mitchell, an American officer of
the Egyptian staff, is a prisoner in AbYs.inia.
Miss Alta NJ. Hulett, the WELL known
Chicago woman lawyer, died at San Diego, Cal,
on the 18th.
The internal revenue receipts for March
We're 80 $50 297 against e, 29S, asa for the same
period last year.
The President has announced that he
shall remain in Washington during the most of
the coming summer.
The Indiana State Board of Agricul.
ture has decided to hold the next State Fair at
Indianapolis, Sept. 70.
At fire at Rhinecliff, Dutchess County,
n. y, a few nights ago, Mrs. Burns and four
children persisted in the flames.
Fully one-half of the business portion
of the town of Monroeville, Ohio, was burned ON
the night of the LIST. Loss, a75, 600.
The Russian Government has directed
that hereafter all locomotives and rolling stock
purchased by Russian railways must be manu-
featured in the country.
The public debt statement, published
April I'd. shows a total debt of e. 20, So, as;
cash in Treasury, $3.50. l5S, l48; debt. less cash
in Treasury. s2.O74, GA, l27; decrease during
March l4.lO7.Ol6.
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued the forty fourth call for the redemption of
$40 bonds. The call is for $40. 900 900. and the
interest and principal will be due and payable
on the 9th of June.
Mr. Sankey is reported as saying, in a
recent interview. that Mr.. Moody will close his
revival work in Boston about the first of May,
and that no definite plans had been made or
thought of regarding future operations.
1t is believed that nine vessels belong
ing to the Long Island fishing feet, which left
for the fishing hanks last November, and have
been long overdue. were lost during recent gales
and that the crews, numbering ninety-6ve men,
persisted.
\ Concord (N. H. dispatch of the I'd
says a complete count of the vote cast at the re-
cent election showed that the proposed amend
ment TO the Constitution abOlishing the religious
test FIR office holders had been adopted by a
small majority.
A large mass Of snow was detached from
the summit Of hill near Halifax, N. s., during
a recent Storm and buried two houses, contain
ing thirty-five persons. situated at its base. At
last accounts one man and five children had been
taken ont dead.
Regulations have been issued by the
United States Treasury Department which per-
NIT the shipment Of silver directly to parties
making deposits. The United States pays the
transportation expenses. Deposits must be not
less than $1,000 nor more than $4,000.
In the contested election case of Pache-
ca rs. Wiggnton. in the Fourth California Dis
trict. the Supreme Court of that State has over
ruled Wigginton's demurrer to Pachecos (Rep.)
application for a writ of mandamus command
ing the Secretary of State to issue certificate to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

"A little boy, On being threatened with
q whipping, hung-his head.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

In the contested election case of Pache-
co rs. Wigginton. in the Fourth California Dis
trict. the Supreme Court of that State has over
ruled wigginton's demurrer to Pacheco's (Rep.)
application for a writ of mandamus command
ing the Secretary of State to issue certificate to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The Indiana State Board of Agricul.
ture has decided to hold the next State Fair at
Indianapolis, Sept. 10.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The Russian Government has directed
that hereafter. all locomotives and rolling stock
purchased by Russian railways must be manu-
featured in the country.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Fully one-half of the business portion
of the town of MonrUeville, Ohio, was burned on
the night Of the lst. IInes, a75, 600.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The public debt statement, published
April I'd. shows total debt of -. 2O4, $50, as;
cash in Treasury, $50, l5s l4s; debt, less cash
in Treasury. S2.O74, GA, 1877; decrease during
March, 5l4 l07. DIG.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The President has announced that he
shall remain in Washington during the most of
the coming summer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Regulations have been issued by the
United States Treasury Department which per-
nit the shipment of silver directly to parties
making deposits. The United States pays the
transportation expenses. Deposits must be not
les, than $1,000 nor more than $4,000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

\ Concord On. H. dispatch Of the I'd
says complete count of the vote cast at the re-
cent election showed that the proposed amend
ment TO the Constitution abolishing the religious
test FIR office holders had been adopted by a
small majority.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

1t is believed that nine vessels belong
ing to the Long Island fishing feet, which left
for the fishing hanks last November and have
been long overdue, were lost during recent gales
and that the crews, numbering ninety-ive men,
p.-rished,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

At fire at Rhinccliff, Dutchess County,
~ y. a few nights ago, Mrs. Burns and four
children persisted in the flames.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Mr.. Sankey is reported as saying, in a
recent interview. that Mr.. Moody will close his
revival work in Boston about the first of May,
and that no definite plans had been made or
thought of regarding future operations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

A large mass Of snow was detached from
the summit of a hill near Halifax, N. s., during
a recent storm. and buried two houses, contain
ing thirty-five persons, situated at its base. At
last accounts one man and five children had been
taken ont dead.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued the forty-fourth call for the redemption of
500 bonds. The call is for SlO. O0O. OOO and the
iutcres, and principal will be due and payable
IN the 9th of June
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

The internal revenue receipts for March
We're IS. $50 297 against q, 29S asa for the same
period last year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

But, though the bulk of what was
shown was Of this flimsy description, ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12

Miss Alta NJ. Hulett, the well-known
Chicago woman lawyer, died at San Diego. Cal,
on the 18th.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-05
STUCK FOR DRINKS.

A reckless. drunkon vagabond named Barney Flood
went Into liquor saloon at No. 154 Forsyth street
Saturday night and when tho bartender, Herman
Pfcish refused 10 give him any liquor without pay,
commenced to create . disturbance Pieish camo
from behind the bar TO eject him, when he suddenly
pulled large knife of his pocket and cut Pfelsch
in the wrist Judge ottoroourg yesterday committed
Flood In 81, 600 bail TO answer.
THIRSTY DEsPERADo.
Patrick Rooney, residing in Hudson street. near
Tenth has been on spree for a week past. Yes
terday morning, about ton O'Clock, while In par
TALLY dcme from the effects Of much slim
ulant he went into Henry Blankman's saloon, No 63
Eighth avenue, and quarrcllcd with the bartender,
Edward Saronsen. Saronson told him three times TO
leave the saloon, and on his positive refusal came
from behind the bar aud put him out. Rooney came
hack again In a few nutcs, and while Saronsen was
in the act Of eJecting him again no stabbed Saonscn
in the abdomen with large clasp knife. Rooney was
arrested by Occr Downing, OF tho Ninth precinct and
medical attendance was at once procured tor the
wounded man. Rooney, on being arraigncd before
Judge Morgan at Essex Market Court was committed
In 81 600 bail Tor examination. The barkeeper Is now
lying his residence, NO " Eighth avenue, In very
dangerous condition
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-05
FROM OUR REGULAR CORES PoNoENT.

WASHINGTON Nov. 4, 1871
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BUSINESS ARRANGE
MeNTs OF THE HOUSE.
Among tho i'm provement made by Speaker Randall
in tho business arrangements Of tho House is tho
moval OF the reception room from within tho closed
lobby to the room formerly used by the official re-
portcrs the outside OF the corridor. This does
away with the throng which used to choke
up the passagcway behind the Speakers desk.
The old reception room, famou for Its portraits oil
Speakers and its green silk upholstery, has been
signed the Committee on Coinage, OF which Mr..
Alexander H. Stephens chairman, and the adjoining
room, tho Speakers private room formerly, is as
signed TO the Official reporters Mr. Randall has
taken room down stairs, with which a boil wire
tabishes communication from the Speakers desk
overhead
MR. POTTER AND THE GUARDIANSHIP OF THE
PACIFIC RAILROADS COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Clarkson N Potter, chairman OF the House
Committee Pacific Railroads, won't to New York
yesterday It is understood, Tor tho purpose OF
sulting with friends as to the ACCESSIBILITY OF with
drawing his letter declining the cnairmanshp OF tho
committee. The opinion expressed here Is that
better selection could have been made, and that
many urgent exist for his retention
at the head Of the committee. Tho position occupied
by tho late Samuel Homer, when chairman Of tho
Banking and Currency Committee Is cited as an In
stance that any member OF the House assigned to an
important trust expected to discharge the duties
as judicial trust, without regard to personal inter-
cs,s. Mr. Hooper largely Interested IN national
bank stock, but did not refuse tho Banking and Cur
rcncy chairmanship that account, and Speaker
Blaine ruled that II was question solely OF In
divdua opinion whether member Interested In
banking associations should refrain from voting on
measures affecting this interest favorably uniavor.
ably. Mr.. Potter's qualifications commend him TO the
confidence oil the House, and the general desire Is
that he ROMAN in the position assigned him by the
Speaker.
ANTICIPATED EARLY ADJOURNMENT OF THE
HOUSE.
The Executive ordor closing the departments to
morrow out respect to the memory Of Senator Nor
ton and the that the Senate will not be session
II is thought will influence the House tomorrow "a
adjourn very after tho reading of tho journal.
There Will be motions made to adjourn until Wodncs-
day, and should there appear to be any decided vote
against the nbusterng tactics OF tho opponents OF
the Repeal bill will BIO prominently exercised