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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-18
A WIDOWS DOUBLE TITLE.

In 1869 Charles N. Connolly died In this city pos
sessed OF a large amount OF real and personal prop
erty BY mis- Will, his estate, after paying his debts
and sundry special bequests, was TO be divided bc-
tween his widow and children, one-sxth part TO zach.
Washing ton A. Connolly to be ono OF tho sharers,
and during his lifetime considerable portion OF the
estate divided but some Of his share still remains
undstrouted. Washington A.. Connolly Is since dead,
leaving all his property TO his widow. Not
only his property so disposed OF by
WILL but nearly II not quito all OF Il had
been transferred her by deed during his lifetime,
being said TO have reached about $3.50 000
Two creditors OF Washington A Connolly, Leslie
Chase and another claiming about So, 000 have COM
menccd suit IN winch they mako defendants both the
executors Of Washington A. Connolly aud Charles u.
Connolly The OBJECT OF tho suit IS To enforce tho
claim Of plaintiffs against the interests of Washington
A. Connolly. 10 compel an accounting Notwithstanding
tho conveyance TO wife, and, incidentally, set
that conveyance aside. Tho case involves tho i'm.
portant question OF law whether tho creditors OF
Washington A. Connolly can have any standing in
court against the executors OF Charles N. Connolly,
aud comes up before Chief Justice Daily In the Court
Of Common Pleas, TO day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
To Consumptives.

Consumption, that scourge Of hu'
manity, is the great dread Of the hu
man family, in all civilized countries.
feel confident that I am in poses
SION Of the only sure, infalllble Rene
dy- now known to the profession-fol
the positive and speedy cure Of that
dread disease, and its unwelcome con.
comitants, viz. Catarrh, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Nervous Debility. &c., 10.
Twenty.eight years experience, as .
busy practioner, in the best Consump.
ton Hospitals Of the Old and New
World, has taught me the value Of the
Medicine in the cure Of ill Throat and
Lung Complaints.
Those suffering with consumption Of
any Of the above maladies, BY address
ing me, giving symtoms, they shall be
put in possession Of this great boon,
without charge, and shall haSe the ben
EFT Of my experience in thodsands Of
eases successfully treated. Full di-
rections for preparations and use, and
Ill necessary advice add Instructions
for successful treatment At your own
home, will be received BY you BY re-
turn mail, free OF charge: BY address.
ing,
Dr.. JOHN 8 BURNETT.
167 JEFFERsoN STREET.
ID. Ky
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

It is estimated that in CONSEQUENCE
Of the dfouth fully one-half or two
thirds Of the sheep in California have
perished Of starvation. Or. Swain, Of
'Watsouville, recently started out to
lead bis flock Of 5000 sheep to better
pasturage, and tho carcasses of over
$500 Of them now mark the route ta-
ken. while one man lost every sheep
be had, over IL ,o00, in : sand storm
in the Sfh joaquin valley and went
home psnniless. The few good pas.
tarss' 10 the porntains are already
occdpisd BY Aocks, guarded BY men
heavily armed and determined 70 pro
te6t. tksii: :nocks sgaisst all eoners,
and sons Desperate aafays do 16arsd
before ths sunmsf b ovsf. W
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
An Intelligent Watch.

Mark Twain has been examining a
curious watch at jewelers. in New
Haven, Conn, which he describes a.
follows:
IL have examined the wonderful
watch made by NJ. Matile, and it comes
nearer to being = human being than
any of mechanism ever saw before.
It knows considerable more than the
average voter. 1t knows the move
ments Of the moon and tells the day Of
the week, and month, and will do this
perpetually; it tells the hour Of the
day, the minute. aud the second, aud
splits the seconds into fifths and marks
the divisions by stop hands, having
Two stop hands, it can take care Of
two race horses that start one after the
other; it is a repeater, wherein the
soter is suggested again; musically
chimes the hour, and quarter, the half,
the three quarter hour, and also the
minutes that have passed Of an un-
completed quarter hour-so that
blind man can tell the time Of day by
it to the exact minute.
''Such is this extraordinary watch.
It ciphers to admiration; I should
think one could add another wheel and
make it read aud write still another
and make it talk !; and l think one
might take out several of the wheels
that are already in it, and it would
still be more Intelligent citizen than
some that help to govern the country
On the whole, I think it is entitled to
vote-that is. ii its sex is the right
kind"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The Burlington, N. j., Horticultur-
al Society offered = premium for the
most pro6tably cultivated crop of rasp.
bulries, the net profits to exceed 500
per acre. It was awarded to William
Parry for ten acres Of Brandywine.
which yielded, in 1876. 23,5OO quarts
Of fruit (82l bushcD, which sold on
an average Of l64 cents per quart at
wholesale; and being over o2 bushels
per acre for the ten acres, yielded q
net profit Of $3.50 per acre. The gross
sales were $4,33S. Tne expenses for
commission, picking, manure. cultiva.
tion and crates we're 81, ,438 or 1924
per scre. In addition to these sales OF
fruit, he sold over 1O0, 900 plants from
the same field in Spring. aud large
quantity in Autumn. the amount Of
the sales Of which he does not state.
So much for knowing how and under.
standing his trade. and not trusting to
mere luck.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The statistics Of the signal bureau
Of the rain fall during the month Of
April, in fftesa OF twenty sections Of
The countsy. show enorm.us excess Of
rain TALL over The usual amount IN
that month, save In two Or three 10.
salities, principally on the Pacific
In the South Atlantic States the fall
was 8 inches, . very large exceag, the
average for several Jears being 2.35
inches. AZ and near Charleston the
rainfall vas 10 inohes' In Minnesota
the rainfall i put down normal, las
inches. The osly deficiencies II Tie
Northern States were in New Eagland,
tho Ohio valley andtb Lower lAks
1txioa-CPGPrsss;
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
Wheat Crop In California.
The farmers of CaiiEorni. have

The farmers Of California have Civ
en- up all hopes Of a crop Of cereals
this year. The fashion of the weather
appears to be set for the spring. viz,
small showers, followed by northers
that dry it all up in a day or two.
California wheat Is fast deteriorating,
on account Of robbing the soil year az
ter year without return. It courts the
fate Of the once celebrated Gsnesee
Valley production. The soil needs q
years rest. Landholders are alarmed
They will be compelled to supply irri-
CATION or nobody vii! buy land. Com.
paratively, irrigated lands are looking
up. Railway companies' lands have
always invited settlers by earnest de-
sire to sell and by easy term Of sale.
They arc now planning irrigation
wherever practical. The lately re-
claimed swamp islands, some 100, 900
acres, have advanced in value. The
exhuberant crops now growing are iu
bright contrast with the great valley
fields nearly dried up. All fruit trees
suffer. 1t will reduce all fruit crops
fully one half. Alfalfa is a species Of
grass that in ordinary seasons gives
four cuttings. It stands dry weather
better than other grasses. but famine
drouth Kills it. Gophers and ground
army worms AMI grasshop-
pcrs, finding little else that is green,
soon destroy it. "No Wild pasture"
starves all sheep and horned cattle.
Pigs fare little better. Even bees per.
lsL because of the wild chaprel that,
in seasons of sufficient rain, affords
them almost perennial pasture, dies
out or refuses to flower so fully or 50
long in q famine drouth. Vineyards
also sugar from one. half to two. thirds
Of usual crop Of grapes and of wine,
now counting many millions Of gallons
yearly. 1t is a lesson full Of instruc-
ton to thoughtful minds.-[Bal:imore
Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

"When Ulysses sailed past the isle
Of the Sirens, who had the power Of
charming by their songs all who list
ened to them, he heard the sorcerous
music on the shore, and to prevent
himself and his crew from landing, he
filed their cars with wax, aud bound
himself to the mast with kDotted
thongs Thus, according to the SUBJ
tie Grecian story, he passed safely the
fatal stand But when Orpheus, in
search of the goldeh Fleece, went BY
this island, he-being, as you remem.
Der, a great musician-set up better
music than that of the Sirens, enchan.
ted his crew with melody superior to
the alluring song Of the sea-nymphs,
aud so, without needing to fill the
Argonauts' ears with wax, or to biud
himself to the mast with knotted
thongs. he passed the sorcerous shore
not only safely, but with disdain.
THE ancients, it is clear from this
lcgeud. understood tho distinction be-
tween morality and religion. He who,
sailing, past the island of temptation,
has enlightened selffshncss enough not
to land, although he rather wants to
(seDsation); he who, the' efore, binds
himself to the mast with knotted
thongi, and fills the ears of the crew
with wax he who does this without
hearing better, is the man of mere
moral,ty.~ Heaven forbid that I should
underratc the value of this form Of
cold pru lcnce, for wax is not useless
In giddy ears, and Aristotle says youth
is perpetual intox,cation. Face to
face with Sirens, songs are good,
though songs are better.
Only he who has heard q better
music than that of the Sirens, and who
is affectionately glad to prefer the
higher to the lower good, is. or 10 the
nature Of things can be, at peace.
Morality is Ulysses bound to the mast.
Religion is Orpheus listening to bet.
ter melody, and passing will disdain
the sorcerous shore.-CRev. jos. Cook.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
Y9qqqY9qYqqq.

TO fHE WoRKIxG CLAsa,-We are now prepared to
inrnf all classes with constant employment at
home, the whole of the time or for their spare mo-
Of feither SEX easily earn from SO cents to SIS Der
evening. and a proportional sum BY detoting their
whole time to the business. Boys and Girls earn
nearly a. much a. men. That all who see this no.
tice may address, and test the business
make this unparalleled offer; To such as are not
wellsatis6ed will send dollar to pay for the
trouble Of writing Full particulars, samples worth
severaldollars to commence work on, and copy Of
Home and Firesde, and ofthe largest and bestlllus-
trated Publications, all sent free BY mail. Reader
Il you want permanent, profitable work, address,
GEORGE SFINsoS Co.. Portland. Faine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
IMPORTANT CAUTION.

Nona are genuine unless the signature OF J. HAY.
DOCK, agent for the United States surround each
box Vt Pills, and Ointment. A handsome reward will
may lead to the detection Of any party or parties
counterfeiting the medicines or vending the same,
knowing them to be spurious.
sssSold at the manufactory Of Professor HoLLo.
WAY h Co., New York, and BY all respectable drug
gists and dealers in medicine throughout the civil
sed World in boxes 1t 25 CENTS 81 cents and $1 each
II There is considerable saving BY taking the
lager sizes.
IN s.-Directions for the guidance Of patients in
every disorder are affixed to each box.
Office 112 Liberty Street, Nep York.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The Des Moines (Iowa) State Reg.
lister of the 18th inst. says: Hon.
II. O. Pratt, ex-Congressman Of the
Fourth District Of Iowa, and the mos,
eloquent man in the State when he is
once stirred out of his chronic inac-
tivity, is going to leave politics and
the Law and 60 into the ministry
He will preach first sermon next Sun.
day At Charles City, his home. Then
he goes to gil temporarily the Metho.
dist pulpit At Osage. In the fall he
will join the Upper Iowa Methods,
Conference. This is As great an &C.
QUESTION as the cause Of Christianity
could gain in this State All who
know Mr.. Pratt, and Ill who app .cci,
ate his E.asterly ability will wish him
good fortune, and be confident that be
will winin his new held additional re-
nown and be 4 factor Of great public
good His own personal ambition n-gen.
orally the most quickening Of al things
in the development Of . man's powers
never could stir Mr.. Pratt to the use
Of allthe latent power there is in him. .
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

We have talked with farmers from
all parts Of the country, and nearly ev-
Try one we have spoken to about them
report about the same thing, i. g that
the hoppcrs hatch out and disappear,
no one knows how or where they 20
to. They are not large enough to get
great way, but still they seem to
disappear almost entirely r Manklto
Record.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

A remarkable example Of rap;dity
in deep boring has recently been fur.
nished by the first bore hole put down
BY . company formed to search for
coal 10 Switzerland. "A dept Of four.
teen hundred and twenty two feet was
reached in two months, including the
reboriug Of the upper six hundred
and forty feet from three aud one eight
inches to seven inches in diameter.
The work was done, including sll de
lays, At rate Of one thousand feet
per month, the highest speed being
nearly seventy seven feet in twenty.
four hours. The results obtained were
oeeative, the section showing about
twelve hundred feet Of Permian strata
resting upon old crystalline rocks but
the trial j. only the fifst of SERIES
Scientific American.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
How Long We Might Live.

Professor Faraday adopts Flourin'l
physiological theory that the natural
age Of man is one hundred years. The
duration Of life he believes to pe
measured by the tiue Of growth
When once the bones and epiyphyses
are united the body grows no more
and il is At twenty years that thi.
union i effected in man. In the cam.
el it tskes place At eight horse at five
in the lion At four in the dog At two;
in the rabbit At one. The natural te .
mination Of life is Eve removes from
these several points. Man, being
twenty years in growing, lives Eve
times twenty years, that is. ono hun
drcd; the camel is eight years in
growing, and lives Eve times eight
years, that is to say, forty years; the
horse is iye years in growing, and he
lives twenty-five years; and so with
other animals. The man who does
not die Of sickness lives everywhere
from eighty to one hundred years.
Providence has given to man = centu-
~ Of life, bat he does not attain it be.
cause be inherits disease, eats un-
wholesome food, gives license to pas
sions, and permits vcxations to disturb
his healthy equipoise. He does not
die he kills himself. The learned
professor also divides life into two
equal halves; growth and decline, and
these halves into infancy, youth, vir-
ility and age. Infancy extends to the
twentieth year; youth to the 6fiieth,
because it is during this period that
The tissues become 6rm virility from
fifty to seventy five, during which the
organism remains complete, and at
seventy five old age commences, to
last longer or shorter time, as the
liminution of reserved forces is hast.
sned or retarded.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The ST. Paul papers give reports
from all portions Of the State where
there are grasshoppers aud, every
where, they are fighting the pests with
considerable success. Meeker, swift,
Kandiyohi, Pope, stearns, Stevens
and D uglass Counties seem to have
them in the largest numbers and doing
the greatest damage. Coal Tar is used
in all cases where it can be obtained
and the general belief is that the crops
will be saved. The Southwestern
Counties have comparatively few hop
pers and crops are very promising
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

A boy named Willie Dean is lest or
has been abducted and Eve hundred
dollars is offered for his recovery.
His parents live in Chicago. The boy
IN Eve and half years Of age; has
light hair, hazel eyes aud q fair com
plexiou.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The old settlers Of Blue Earth coun.
ty hold5their annual reunion on the
9Th of June, in Mankato. Hon. NJ.
J. Severance will be orator. Twenty
years residence in the county is the
requisite Of membership in the asso-
6iAiion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

TIE Gotten crop Of Georgia, the
heaviest ever raised, v,s worth only
go, ,000, 900, while :he butter Of New
York (bsing only one Of the many
products Of that State) 10 worth 500,
000, 900 per year. And the product
Of all the mines in California, gold,
silver. lead. quicksilvsr. ETC., ETC.. is
worth only 90, 100000 per year.
Can there b . more thorough illastra-
taoa Of the importance Of The dairy?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

A Wisconsin man. recently perform
ed a surgical operation upon his
COW. lie cut open her stomach. took
out two or three pals full of undigcst.
ed food and sewed up the rather un-
natural aperture. The COW is as we'll
as could be expected-she il dead.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

In Oregon a man who buys liquor
for himself or any other person, is re-
quired to take out an annual license
costing not less than Eve dollars
Saloon keepers are not allosed to sell
except to persons holding license and
the names Of al such are to be pub
lished every six months. There j.
something wholesome about that meth
a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

A strong feeling in favor Of annex.
alton to the United States is said to
have grown up recently among the
property holding class in the North
ern States of Mexico. The develop
ment Of such a feeling would be a not
unnatural result Of the lawless condi
tion Of the country. Obviously there
can be no progress in that region un-
til government is established combin-
ing the power and the disposition to
protect property. The protection is
the primary object and the 6rst duty
of all organized governments. The
fact that it has Leen performed in
Mexico proves the necessity for some
change, and the people naturally look
for the recognizing force to come
from this side Of the boundary.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

Oce method which farmers in
North western Iowo are adopting to
outwit the grasshoppers, is to engage
largely in the dairy business. They
are buying and renting oil the cows
they can find: and as the hoppers nev.
er touch the wild grass, in this wsy
they can be always sure Of one source
Of revenue.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The records of the Comptroller o.
Currency show that some twenty Na
tional banks in Pennsylvania, aud City
two in New York are in process 0l
closing business, the reason teing Civ.
en- in most cases that they cannot
stand the ouerous taxation imposed
upon them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

A violest storm passed over Marion,
1nd., On Sunday last. Houses were
.nrooted. trees uptootsd, and fences
destroyed. A brick chunch. nine
miles north Of Marion, vss demolished.
and at the tine il VAS filed With peo.
pie attending divine ssrvicias. The
Tcof : vas upliitsd, and tho wallis fell 10.
B!tJine tie 'ianktss: The sssas that
followed was terrible. Ouae younk uaah
We killed, and ten or fifteen persons
ssr;ocsly ipjassd,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

The American consul at Berlin
writes that American leather is fast
finding a sale in Germany, and that it
will be benefit to the trade in the
United States to Be Represented at the
Leather Exhibition of September.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

DEpENDENcy.-The race of man
kind would perish. did they cease to
aid each other. From the time the
mother binds the child's head till TIE
moment that some kind assistant wipes
the death damp from the brow Of the
dying, we cannot exist without mutu-
al help. All, therefore, that need aid.
have right to ask it Of their fellow.
mortals. No one who has the power
Of granting it can refuse it without
guilt.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-31

An ounce Of alum put into the last
water used in rinsing children's dresses,
it is said, will render them almost nm.
infamable. They will take FIRE very
slowly, if at all, aud not burn with =
fame. Mothers who live in houses
where open fires are kept, will do vel
to try the experiment, not on the child
rem, but on the dresses