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AUCTION SALES.

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nnsIG 81 Baltimore: also, fine set HsToe,s are
f1r their children III BiRCa aoBEy 'arnSs'
THoS; L, WAGGAMAN,
Real Estate Aueticneer, 5Is 7th street.
vkhLLTTABLE NARROWED PROPERTY ON :
SS IdB8IIET: BETwEEN IsrH AND ISrH SrS
On MONDAY, july aad' atsp.m ,I4Is IA
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iy20 sad. rios e wAeG.n.s. Aust.
I. CoLDwELL, Real Estate AuctioDeer.
TKK 8E sBS sALE OF 4 pEs5RARLE
s SE sTRE SsEr HHEWTMEkS ira AND I,fH
By virtue of deed Of truSt dated Juae so.b -
a ~ sa s'o,d1ly rsooTded in Liber No. SIS ii
irict of Columbia AID at the request Of the nar,v -
enrea thereby, we will sell: az public auction in
CLOCK M t2 e fdI h .cr iSS 20
"stS situated IN ne CITY e Washington nie tici
known end sG as ct n rsnse r q
eisn,een tls,, IN SQUARE numbered one hundred aud
5lIn Davidson subdivision Of said square front
g ni's nine tos Feet eleven III inc hes north ~
'te oy De pth OF ore hundred and thirteen tII3'
alley - " '' '''' i'''
:. Terms One fourth in cash; and tie balance in g.
IL and Is months, with iuierest al 6 me- cen, ner
am UNI s,cured by deed Of trust on The property
'o'd' or AL cash. at option of the purch.ser Adj.
posit 81 h0 required at the time III le and All con-
Yeysncng At purchasers cost. II terms Of "a . are
not oomphsd with in seven days, the Trustees re
serve ths right resell the properly at the rick and
cost 81 the nefaultlrg purchs after five DAYS adj
verti. eint Mt. ~
bRAINARD II. WARMER
JU-eoScs MARTIN NJ. ROHRER, irusiees'
ID A DARNETIJE RI E-,a,o .--,I------
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FNTIRE SUMMER STOCK
- DRY GOODS AT COST
1hyard- long Towel 10 cents, worthG
Best Lawns 10 and Il cents
Nalcoes, Al, 8, 81 cents.
" nite Skirt, made Of Fruit Cotton. IS cents
Parasols sacrificed Mosquito Net 50 cents piece.
AL Summer Dress Goods aust be sold.
Grenadines sacrificed.
summer Silks slaughtered.
Llama Lace Sc eaues, half cost.
Hslbriggan Hose . cents; Iron Frames 26cents
su'tiER Linens, and Embroidery to match.
Percales, Victoria Lawns. Striped Organizes.
Large size White Spread rs, worth 81.
MONEY WANTED, and GOODS CHEAP.
T. N. NAUDAIN,
H3-u SO9 Market SPACE.
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REACTIFUL LAWNS,
~ NAVY BLlE, SEAL BROWN, DARK
GREEN, AND BLACK WITH HAND
o SOME BORDER.
ALsO, 200 PIECES OF LAWNS, WHITE
GbOJNDNITH BLACK, BROWN,BLUE,
LAVENDER FIGURES
CARTER's, sO5 Market Space.
Beautiful Lace stripe bite Goods very ne quality
only Is. Also, Striped Victoria Lawns only Is.
BACK Grenadines, in striped, plaid, figured and
fancy mech, IS, ~, IS, 81, 81, 50.
AL Of our Dress Goods ~ cost
Al OF our lie ParasOls with fancy handles ct cost
fure Wool Black Cashmere, very vide, g.. Also,
Blsck CAshmeree. very wide, 50.
BLACK AIpacas, double width, yery fine, Is.
sack silks very cheap, rs, 81, 81, 8 Is, els.
ctripeI sumner Slksyery cheap.
L0usisle Cambric, Is. Towels, s. Pure Linen
TABLE Danask In remnants Of IN, 2, II, n, yards
iengt he, only 81 Children 8 Bordered Hsnikerchefs,
pure Haen. s. Linens and Cassimeres for Boy
cheap. CARTER'S, 7O7 Market Space.
Excellent Calico, ~, WORMS je2ltr
UsPEEoKDESTED hss. Q. @. wHLIs.
BARGAINS Agent for
~ the One Price MMI. HEMORBsFD
SAI GOODS no USE RsLiAShS5s PAT
yue Opened, al the nev
WI. bIkD WHL1B, Summer Patterns,
0yE 101A 7th street. ! lOl 7th I'll uorfhvesf
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NE fUU STUDY -fUTK INTERHST YOU WILL
Buy YOUR DRY GOODS AT
BRODHEAD'S,
1908 = street be. 18th and 18th stS
Fruit OF the Loom Cotton: only CSC.
Good Black Alpaca Skirt Braid, SC. piece.
tlark Best BIZ Yard poCI Cotton, Sc spool
A Good D. bone Corset, in boxes, only 29c.
Everything else egually cheap, aud Gil First class
AL who v Ant BARGAINS should go to
BkODHEADS, 1908 F. Street,
Jy1u Between l2th and 18th streets.
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TRUsTEES' SALE OF A NEW TWO-STORY
L FRAME HOUSE WITH LOT 40 FEET
WIDE. RUNNING BACK TO AN ALLEY,
ONSEYENTH STREET, NEAR ii STREET

ON SEVENTH STREET, NEAR Ii STREET
NORTHEAST.
BY virtue Of deed Of trust to us, dated Janu- -
airy 9th, ls77, recorded in Liber 500, folio 49, inn
et seq ,of the land records of the District of.XA
Columbia, we WILL on THURSDAY, July %, 1877 ,
AZ - 30 O'Clock M, the premises. offer for sale
at public auction the north 40 feet front on 9TH
street east OF Lot 20 by the full depth Of said lot in
Terms: One-third cash Of which $50 must be paid
al the time OF saie bal IN and u months, with
the properly. Gonveyancing and recording at pur.
chasers cost III the terms OF sale not com Piled
with in six days, shall resell the risk and cost
OF the defaultng purchaser, after five days adver
Using in The Evening Star.
WILLIAM Y. HOFFMAN,
1921 street NV,
ARTHUR A. BIRNEY, trustees
321 AZ street,
jyl6 dts BOWMAN 4 GREEN, Aucts
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
To ~onsumptives.

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Twenty eight years experience, as q
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Lung Complaints.
Those suffering with consumption o.
any Of the above maladies, BY address
ing me, giving SYMPTOMS, they shall b
put in possession Of this great boon
without charge, and shall have the ben
eft Of my experience in thousands o
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all necessary advice and instruction
for successful treatment at your owl
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
Adjusting the Balance.

The Scientific American points out,
giving figures which are seemingly
careful. that in the event of q channel
being open into the great basin Of the
Sahara Desert certain disastrous re
suits will follow. The surface to b.
foaded is on an average eighty fee,
below the surface Of the ocean, and
its extent is near four mi lion square
miles. figuring on the basis Of one
hundred aud fifty millions for the en-
tire ocean surface the general level vii
be lowered something like two feet
So much lor the Immediate result. bu,
farther than this it is evident that il
a sea which has practically no i..6pw o
fresh water the loss from evaporatio,
must be made good from the matt
ocean. This loss, according to the au
thority quoted, would amount to abou
two quadrillion cubic feet annually
and the supply channel from the ocea'
world have to discharge about fv'
hundred and twenty Eve times AZ mucl
water as is carried BY the Rhine 1t j
estimated that in little more than
century the entire basin would be Gil.
ed with salt, which would be but
poor substitute for the sand which no,
tempera the climats Of Southern Eu
rope. Such possibility should b
we'll considered before it IL too late {
retreat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

L. more cosmopolitan than usual,
containing lin story, essay and travel)
sketches Of life in France, Spain. Tur-
key, Syria, Russia, Great Britain and
America. Among the so-called "time-
ly" papers may be mentioned q de-
scriptive criticism of the statue Of
Liberty Enlightening the World" by
Charles deKay, with sketch and por-
trait Of the sculptor Bartholdi, and en-
craving Of the statue and of other
works by the same hand; also "Dam-
ascus by diligence" by an ex-consul.
including discussion Of the future #
Syria under Moslem rule ; "How it
was Done in great Brittian," the mar.
rative Of British civil service reform,
by Edward D. Graves, one of the civil
service examiners under President
Grant; IA State Ball in Constantine
pie )" "Village Santinary Work." the
third Of Col. Warnings papers Of
practical suggestions, this month
about sewage, ventilation, earth closets,
etc, There is also a profasely illus
trated paper on "Croten Water" By
W H Rideing, with some exciting
incidents of chair breadth escapes
from drowning in the aqueduct,-pro-
bably the completest descriptive Of the
great aqueduct ever written.
Other papers are "Benjamin Disra.
ell" by e. s. Nadal; "The Tradition
al Music OF the Spanish Pyreuees," by
Nena Sturgis "Pond Lifs," by Mrs
Herrick, "a study from the micros.
cope); "The Immortality Of the Soul p
an attempt at Socratic dialogue, by
Edward Haysop." and an illustrated
paper on Horses. DR.. Hollands
"Nicholas Mirturn" is continued, and
Nicholas's plans for dealing with dead.
beats are put into practice. Mrs
Burnett, the author of THAT Lass o
Lowrie's" (Which is receiving so much
praise from the critics,) has . shor,
story Of Franco American life in Par
is. The poetry of the number is con
tributed by Mrs. Thaxter.
DR.. Hollands discusses in hi.
-"Top,cs Of the Time," "The Future o.
New York." "Houses and Things,
and "Ths changes in Preaching" aud
says = high tribute to the late Ed
ward Seymour of the Scribner firm
Home end Society" has q humor
GUS talk about "Glassware and Glass
houses" IA Makeshift Bedstead'
and ''Camp Stoves" for summer tour
lists, and a supplemental note Of
''Cisterns," s:The Worlds Work" i
short but parctical.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
A Torpedo that Travels 275 Niles IN
Hour.

The most terrible invention for war
fare that has ever been devised-if We
may trust tho reports of our English
contemporaries has recently been
submitted To the Admiralty by a
clergyman, the Rev. G. NJ. Ramus
Tie Whitehead fish torpedo has al
ready proved Its capability Of travelling
beneath the sur face Of the sea at the
rate Of 20 miles per hour but the
rocket float" as the new machine is
called, Weighs so tons, ard is propel-
led on the surface at the rate Of 275
miles per hour for a distance Of four
miles. The apparatus is timber or
iron vessel, the bottom Of which is a
series Of inclined planes. In the head
IS the explosive, aud enough gun cot
t can be carried to blow up the
largest iroaclad in existence, while the
rocket, by the combustion of which
the crank is impelled, is laid along the
deck The vessel is said to be easily
guided by rudder Of very thin shee,
metal.
II the coming British experiments
substantiate the foregoing, it would
seem that armor- plated ships have bad
their day, and that naval vessel Of the
future should he Of cork.-1ocienti6c
American.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

One day, just after King Solomon
had written a column Of solid sonpar-
ell wise and moral proverbs, he to"k
his eldest son by the elbow led hin,
down the back stairs of the palace,
through tie backyard. past the wood
shed, out into the alley. backed him
up behind Ahitophel's woodpile, Look
ed warily around to see that no one
was listening, and whispered into the
young mans ear. "My son, a little
Office in a spreaa-eaglc life insurance
company is better than a car'load Of
preferred stock in the Op'ir mines :
And then the monarch threw his head
on one side. drew in his chin, shut
one eye, and gaz'id at his offspring in
silence. Three years afterward, when
the Great Hebraic Consolidated Storm
JOrdcn Life Assurance Company
Of which the intelligent young prince
was President, went into bankruptcy
the young man was able to let his
father, who was little short at the
time, have 275 600 shckles for ninety
days on his simple note Of hand
Burlington Hawkeye.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

The Black Sea, which is about n
become the ,heater Of Some importa Mt
naval operations, is seven hundred
miles long, with an extreme width Of
over three hundred and eighty miles,
being thrce.f"urths longer than Lake
superior and about twice as vide. Its
depth is from four to iorty fathoms
near the shore, bnt in the middle no
soundings have been reached at 16O
fathoms. The greatest depth Of Lake
Superior is two hundred fathoms. The
Black Sea, acc. riding to geographer>
receives one-third Of all the running
water Of Europe, and yet notwithstand.
ing this large and constant supply Of
fresh water, it If only about one
seventh less salt than the ocean. The
sea is tideless, has but one outlet, and
thore is no perceptible current toward.
the Mcditerranean. It is subject Z
frequent storms, but is said 70 BE- re
markably free from rocks and shoals
Navigation i therefore safer than o.
some Of our lakes. ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
st. Nicholas for June.

Is as bright as the June sunshine,
aud full of June's breeziness and cheer.
The front ispiece is a fiue picture Of
IA June Morning." and at the close
Of the number Prof. Proctor shows
The Stars in june" while between
these two we find many Of the delight
fnl scenes with which every June day
is filled. There is dainty picture on
one page Of little girl in gown and
sun bonnet, dcmurely reading her for
tune from the daisy-lcaves; and on
another, barefoot boy is enjoying gay
summer frolics with frisky colt.
"The Green House With Gold Nails
so beautifully portrayed-is one Of
June's special treasures. "Wild Mice
begin their June-t;me travels along
their numberless little paths through
the fields; the nests in which some Of
our common birds spend this glorious
month are described by Prof. Brooks
aud the june s.Roses" bloom in Edgar
Fawcett's pretty verses.
But al these form only a part oI
the good things that the number con.
tains. The opening story OF Frank
is well-told !; the concluding chapter
Of the excellent serial "Pattik in's
House" has superb picture Of FIRE
the story of ssThe Mother in the de
sert" is delightfully."- told by Susan
Coolidge; aud the curious old tins
procession Of "The Child. Bishop oI
Salisbury" on ST. Nicholas Day is vel
set fourth in Mr. Egleston's article
and Mr.. Eytinge's picture. The in.
stallment Of Ellis Own Master is un-
usually long, and contains three beau
tiful pictures; and the story Of "Spray'
is illustrated with a remarkably life
like portrait Of the wise little black
and tan.
The Peterkins' Tea-Party" is {
most interesting and amusing occasion
'.Tommy's Cousins" is = very fann'
story, with even funnier pictures b
Church :Annetta Plum:rer's Diary
"a re markable jouroal-is revealc'
to us by Abby Morton Diaz; and Joe
Stacy's record of The Naughty Littl
Egyptian" is touching and comical.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

The Chinese possess the oldest news
paper in the world. "Court Announce
meuts" is its Chinese nam. bus it is
known as the P.kin Gazette. aud dates
back to the year 713 B. q. In the
Oldest book of Chinese poetry extant
mention is made Of an appointment
conferred on the author by the Chinese
government. aud its announcement in
the Pekin Gazette is referred to.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

If anyone thinks that sheep raising
is over done in this county. let them
ponder little over few facts; Last
year the United States paid to Europe
fitty million dollars for woolen goods
and eleven million dollars for wool.
Now when it is remembered that sheep
can be as pro6tably kept in any part
Of the United States as in Europe. and
that in order to meet the deficiency OF
last year and supply increasing de-.
mands, we shall need at least forty
millions more sheep, the probable pro.
fits Of sheep raising for years to come
become self.evident.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

Those who fear for the destruction
Of eur forest resulting from the de
mand for hemlock bark will take com
fort in the success Of attempss to OBJ
tain tannin from other sources. Il has
been estimated that one cord Of hem
lock bark produces one barre! Of good
tannin extract, worth go. Il ID now
found that one cord Of alder will pro
duce the same amount and enc ton ol
sweet fern gives Of the best tanniu
e22 worth. besides . value Of 81 sc
IN an inferior kind. There b said h
be considerable activity in Hancocl
County, Me. in the new industry ofex
tracting tannia from sweet fern.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
FuE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24
What Nr. Donnelly Thinks OF the
Duty Of the People at the Present
Time. &

We voted against the original bond
scheme and should do 80 again under
similar circumstances. But that il
not the question now. The people, by
an overwhelming majority, adopted
the scheme, and the bonds are out
standing How shall We get clear Of
them3 That is the question.
II We vote up the proposed settle
ment We reduce the debt one.half il
We vote it down tho whole sum still
stares us in the face. = = The
people of he State have not regarded
and do not regard the old bonds as "a
valid claim against the otate' for their
whole amount, but they do fee
that it is better to settle t!em and get
them out Of the way /; and hence they
voted, at cne time, to set aside the
500, 900 acres of land. worth S. Oh
per acre, or 81, 500, 900 in all, for the
payment Of the bonds.
And the whole question now may
be thus summed up: Legally, We owe
over seven millions Of dollars, principal
and interest, represented BY bonds
issued by the State. signed by the
State officers and bearing the State
seal. 1t is proposed by the holders
Of the bonds to cut them down more
than one-half and take new bonds
running thirty years and use the pro-
eeeds Of the SOC, ,OO0 acres Of land t
pay, in whole or in part, the principa
and interest of the new bonds.
If we vote no, what thenY We vii
still owe over seven millions Of debt
in few years it will be ten millions
The sentiment in favor in paying thu
bonds grows stronger every year th'
bondholders will not give up the fight
the lands may be squandered and
some subsequent Legislative may set
tie the question without referring i
to the people, on the warrant OF the
U. s. Supreme Court. that any suci
reference is illegal and void or th'
railroad corporations, which annual.
pay to the State large sums for taxes
may take those dishonored coupons
now amounting to s5,OOo,O0O, ant
tender them in payment Of their per.
centage on gross earnings.
Legally, We owe seven millions NOR
ally, VIC eve something Is is not bet
ter to compromise and use the 500
900 acres oil land. while VIC have them
before they are gobblcd by some COM
bination of railroad sharks?-[ Anti
| Mononolist.