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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
The Standard Of MOhammed.

A Madras Mussulman paper, the Supsh-
al Un1bar, gives its readers the following
information respecting the "Prophet's
Standard" which, it states, "was en-
shrined among other relics of the founder
of Islam in COnstantinOple, and has been
dispatched to the scene of war, in order
that the valOr of the Turkish troops may
be stimulated through their religious feel
ings; - ar, ,
has published in his book on Turkey CO.
pious details regarding this standard,
which is called SUM ak i. Shureef by the
Turks, who ascribe a mysterious efficacy
to it, holding it in the highest veneration.
Non Mussulmans are forbidden to gaze
on it on pain of death. and it was this
threat which deferred Mr.. Thornton from
casting his eyes on it when the standard
was being paraded in the streets of Con-
stantinople, after it had witnessed re-
pulse of the Russians by the Turks, during
the Crimean war.
"When the Turkish army marches to
war with the Sultan himself, or his Vizier,
at the head, the standard is displayed. and
on catching glimpse of it every Moslem
recites his prayers, while lending hand
in carrying it. A splendid silk tent is
erected, in front of which the standard is
raised, guarded by forty chiefs of the EN-
pire and four bodies of infantry.
"AnOther writer, describing the stand
! silk, the topmOst of which is green, those
below being composed of clo.h embroid-
cred with gold. Its entire length, is twelve
feet, and from it is suspended the figure
of human hand, which clasps a copy of
the Koran, transcribed by the Caliph Os-
man. In times of peace the banner. of
the Prophe: is kept in chamber appro-
priated to the purpose, along with the
clothes, teeth, the venerable locks, the
stirrups and the bow of the Prophet. -
Pail HAL Gazette.
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opium, alcohol or chloral, the effect soon
be coming weaker, the dose has been in
creased, and, in some cases related by the
physician OF the private naaison de sante
at Berlin, in the Kiln. Wochenschrift,
reached the amount of from twelve to
sixteen grains per diem. The symptoms
seemed to be very much like those of
opium eating. One lady took to morphia
injections, after she had become acquaint-
ed with their effect, in an attack of
gladstone collie during the French
war, when the anxiety about her male rel
atoms in the field weighed too heavily en-
her mind to stand the mental stress. Aft.
er she had practiced the soothing opera
ton four years her face showed a grayish
leaden hue; the pupils became the size of
a pins head. Violent shiverings after the
type of tertian fever, hyper@sthesia and
neuralgia, dislike for meat diet, great
weakness, inability to pursue any contin.
uei occupation, existed, with unimpaired
intellect and memory in the we'll
and clever patient. She was cured in the
space of four weeks by gradual depriva.
ton of the drug. If patients subject to
this kind of disease become aware of
their state they are apt to change it into al.
coholism. The wife of medical man
who saw in a book on materia medica
that alcohol was considered an antidote
for morphia, became confirmed drunk.
ard. The author observed four similar
cases. In two other eases the patients
committed suicide, and two died from ma.
rasmus. These last four had refused
medical treatment. The task of the
physician seems to be always very diff
cult one, as it is impossible to wean these
patients from their habit unless they are
treated like prisoners, searched before
admission to the hospital or sick room
put under the guard of attendants mac
cessible to bribery, and cut off from ali
communication with the outer world be-
fore the critical time has passed. The
most highly educated and otherwise re-
spectacle will tell any amount of lies and
perjure themselves to procure the accus'
toned poison. Like dipsomania and
opium eating, the morphia disease de
grades the moral character. Lam
eof
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
POstOfIlce CurlOsitles.

A Journal reporter experienced the
pleasure, this morning, of walk through
the "Old Curiosity Shop" attachment to
the Chicago POstOffice, known in the par
lance of the employees of the institution as
the dead Department" Through the
courtesy of the Superintendent OF Mails,
and the kindness of Mr.. F. 8. Blaine, who
has charge of the institution, the reporter
was admitted into the room, nOtwithstand-
ing the warning pasted up over the main
entrance, "NO admittance except to
sworn agents." And then the scribe saw
a sight. In niches ranged one above the
other lay the condemned goods. Some
were there because there was not suffi-
cient postage upon them; others were
there because they had none at all; and
others because there was total innocence
of any address upon them. The first
thing shown to the visitor was package
containing an Irish poplin dress, fairly
covered with stamps, bat the foolish
sender, in his absence of mind, had for.
gotten to address it. In the niche farthest
away from the one that contained the
dress was leather spectacle case, taken
out of letter.box where 1t had been
dropped. In another hole were five bags
of wheat intended for samples. In an
other q gun-lock and two combination
Yale locks.
But by far the most dangerous article
in the collection was box OF. gun caps,
which were promptly dropped utt Of the
mail when their contents were discovered.
Mr.. Blaine informed the reporter that the
great wonder was, that when the man who
Cancelled the stamp hit with the steel can
crler that IL did not explode.
There is package of cake, and another
of brown sugar, both addressed 10 girls In
Rockford seminary.
A box of jewelry lies there awaiting an
owner, no address having been affixed to
it. Right beside it lays box, also with
out any address, which contains an ele-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
Scenes ON Russian Railroads.

North or South there is scarcely any
difference between the aspect of Rus
sian station. For hundreds of versts YOU
have been jolting through a flat or sli ght-
ly undulating series of enormous snow.
clad plain. Stunted birch, fir and larch
are all the fora you perceive. You never
set eyes upon q tOwn-One, mean, with
smoke curling from the chimncys, with
women peeping from the easements,
with children playing on the doorsteps,
with dogs or poultry at the street ends.
For strategic reasons the railway has
been made to run as straight as an arrow
from Tartar's bow from one great point
to another of military vantage. They
say that when the Car Nicholas
was deferentially consulted as to
the direction which the st. Peters
burg and Moscow Railway should
follow, his Majesty simply took pencil
and ruler and struck a straight line on
the map from the new to the old metropo-
lis of his empire; and the consequence
of this infiexib'e militarism as applied to
civil engineering is that the majority of
Russian towns are two or three miles dis
tant from the railway stations which bear
their names.
The platform and its appurtenanccs arc
|
Round about you are gathered few
sheds and wooden cabins, together with
vast piles of roughly hewn logs for fuel.
That is all, save the signal boxes, which
look either like gibbets with packing
cases instead of corpses suspended from
them, or packing-cases without gibbets.
Women are often employed in signal
ing, and wretchedly unwomanly they ap-
pear, bundled up in hoods and gaberdines
of sheepskin reaching no lower than the
knee, with their legs swathed and muffled
to almost elphantine proportions in can
vas bandages, cross-gartered with strings
of untanned leather. These, with heavy
clogs Of wood, complete the costume Of
the anomalous creature, who mechanical
ly waves tattered black or ragged yell
low flag as the train passes, and makes US
wonder whether Mother Eve could ever
have realized the possibility Of her daugh-
tiers being put to such base uses as these.
|-Cdessa Cor. London Telegraph.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
The Green Three.Cent stamp, and
What will Succeed 1t.

BY about the middle of next May the
public will have seen the last of the
present three-cent stamp and begin to get
accustomed to something red or possibly
new tint. The best and fastest color
known, the green three, has proved q
placer for stamp washers, who take off
the oily cancellation without acid or
alkali, and set the stamp afloat again.
So far the Department has found no way
out of the difficulty, and the long series of
experiments Just completed has resulted
in nothing more than the assurance that
the green is the poorest of stamp cOlors.
At the time it was adopted no other nation
used it for its unit of letter postage, and
with its disuse the common stamps the
world over will run to reds and browns.
With the change of color, May 1, there
lion head of Washington will be retained,
but it will be relieved by an open space of
white, and the scroll-work will have a
different pattern. Altogether the new
stamp will bear some resemblance to q
stamp of sixteen years ago, which most
people have forgotten. The white back
ground is adopted in the hope that any
attempt to wash the stamp will leave this
part irretrievably soiled.
Some other general changes in the
stamps are likely to follow the making of
a contract May 1, and new head is
likely to be introduced in the shape of a
medallion of Liberty, one step towards
bringing more similarity between the de-
signs of coins and stamps. There is some
intention of putting this design on the
five-cent stamp, used for the most part
for foreign postage.
Conference and correspondence with
other postal authorities show that loss
from the reuse of stamps is much more
frequent here than abroad. 1t is scarcely
known in England, and there the stamps
offer the additional temptation of being
easy TO counterfeit. The practice has re.
Gently begun in India, and the frugal
folk is giving the Anglo Indian office Sc
rious loss by its skill in dealing with can
celed stamps IN. 7. World.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-One OF the SpraSucS Tell OCWn on q
mill pond, and Jared the whole State of
Rhode Island, the other day. Light man,
too.
The New York papers say the lung
disease that caused the death of young
John Morrissey was the excessive smoking
of cigarettes.
1T is reported that the voice of Mr..
Sankey, the evangelist, has again been
seriously overstrained by use at the pro-
longed revival services in Chicago.
Tweed says his enemies can't crow
bar his mouth open to get any informa-
ton from him that he wants to conceal,
but a porter house steak always finds its
gates ajar.
DIR. Slade swears that when he gets
out of the Workhouse he will overthrow
the British Government, if he has to sum-
mon assistance from every spirit in the
eternal world.
BY no Crook have the troops yet been
times when it was thought he was trapped
away.-Chicago Journal.
MIR. Darwin's last book seems to be
an able book, but the Norwich Bulletin
does not think the author satisfactorily
explains the connecting link between a
bay horse and a bay window.
john Bull has cOmplacency enough
on ordinary occasions, but as an extraor-
binary, here's the London Examiner say
ing that the vast majority of English
newspaper articles are, from the literary
point of view, as bad as bad can be.
-Winslow, the forger, has moved on,
and the places which knew him now
know him no more. He acquiesces in the
Extradition treaty, and has made per
sonal application of it by extraditing
himself out of harms way.
The last newspaper that Com. Van
derbilt read contained report of the
Bennett-May fracas, which he perused
with great interest, and he remarked upon
the assault, "What pity it is young
man should place himself in such posi-
tion." He added that when he was young
and living over in Staten Island, there
was constant fighting going on among the
fellows about him: but he made cove.
nant with himself never to provoke a
quarrel or enter on one unless he was
struck, and then he would defend him.
self.
HC w luON dA NOlt lOIU lACI
ers in West Thirtieth street Methodist
meeting house last evening that she once
walked mile in twelve minutes. 81
was" she said, Gin q small country
place on the Hudson River Railroad. ]
had an appointment to preach to one OF
the cities on the line of the road. went
into the station and told the agent that
wanted & ticket for the city. The agent
told me that the passenger train did not
stop at his station again that day. l told
him that I must go, as was to preach in
the city that evening. The agent said
We'll, Madame, the train doesn't stor
here, but it will stop at the next station, .
mile from here. The train will be there
in fifteen minutes. If you can make &
mile in fifteen minutes you will be all
right told the agent that, God helping
me, l would try. I started down Tho
track. 1t was hot summers day, anG
the sun was scorching hot, but had al
umbrella to shelter me from the burning
rays. l walked so fast that almost faint
ed, but drink from a spring revived me
and l pressed on. l reached the station
three minutes before the train came. %
~ r Sum-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE Tennessee Legislature on the 9th,
elected ex-Gov. Isham G. Harris United
States Senator to succeed Senator Cooper,
whose term expires on the 4th Of March
ext.
The Wisconsin Legislature met and organ
lied on the 10th, both branches electing Re.
publican officers.
THE Democrats of the Illinois Legislature
on the 18th nominated Gen. John NJ. Palm
er as their candidate for United States
Senator.
On the 18th, breakup of the ice in the
Ohio at Cincinnati occurred, which destroyed
boats and other property valued at s25O,UOO
Several persons known to have been on
board some of the destroyed steamers were
missing. Great damage was also caused at
Pittsburgh and other points on the Ohio,
Allegheny and Mississippi Rivers.
In Chicago, on Jan. IS, spring wheat No.
2, closed at s1.29@13O cash. Cash corn
closed at 44sc for No. 2. Cash oats No.
sold at 353s@35ac; February options sold at
a'9lc; Barley, No. 2, 5996Oc; Rye,
No. ,, &c. Cash mess pork New
closed at SIPS; Lard, s1O.S9 q 1890.
Good to choice beeves brought 1910
@56o; medium grades, s4OO@4. 40; butchers
stock s2.S093.5O; stock cattle, etc., $500
@3.75. Hogs brought s6O3a6.9O for good
10 choice. Sheep sold at s3.OO(a525 for good
to choice.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
How q Minnesota Hunter Shot Seven
Deer out of Ono Drove.

Waiting for the train at the Northwest
ern Depot, the other day, the Sentinel re-
porter, having with his usual mOdesty
shrunk into corner, heard Capt. Bones,
a well-knOwn hunter, telling his story to
a small but interested audience, composed
chiefly of Tom st. George: did you
ever hear how Bill Shepard shot seven
deer out of one drove? 1t was still,
cloudy day, and there were two feet or
more of snow on the ground. There was
just an even dozen in the herd, and Bill
had got behind a big log within ten rods
of them. He had to make a hole through
the snow on the log to get sight. He got
all ready, picked out the biggest one, and
blazed away. 1t was a big buck, and
dropped to the shot. Well, you know If
a deer can't see or scent you he won't run,
and you can keep on shooting as long as
you like. So when Bill dropped the first
one, the rest just scattered and came right
back together again. He showed in
another cartridge, picked out the biggest
one again, and he tumbled, too. Bill put
a third cartridge down, picked out the
biggest one again, and he dropped to the
shot. By this time Bill was pretty well
excited. He had only four cartridges
left, but he kept as cool as possible,
picked out the biggest every time and
fetched him. When he had fired his last
shot he sat and watched 'em a long time,
but finally he had to- show himself, and
the balance of the deer left. 1t was just
about this time the rest of US came up and
inquired what all the shooting was about.
Bill was feeling awfully because he hadn't
any more cartridges, but he swOre he'd
got seven deer anyway. We went over to
see. The snow was nightly tramped
down, sure enough, but there was only
one deer-a big buck. There wasn't the
least trace of the other six, every one of
which Bill saw drop to the shot. Then
we went up and looked at the one he got,
and as sure as you're born he had seven
bullets in him. Bill had shot the same
one every shot. He would fall and then
jump up again, and, being the biggest
one, Bill picked him out every time. -
Milscaukee Sentinel.
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MISSISSIPPI.

Judge Geo. T. Swan, Clerk of the United
States Circuit and District Courts for the South
ern District Of Mississippi, was before the Senate
Committee in Washington, on the 18th, and testi-
fed that he saw no intimidation Of voters, but he
had been often appealed to by cOlored men about
and complained that they were not allowed to
vote; others complained that they were un-
able to register because they could not give
the exact geographical l,catson OF their place Of
residence in the election district in which they
lived; witness stated that one Of the frauds prac-
ticed upon ignorant voters at the late election by
the Democrats, was to give out Democratic tickets
with the hkeresses Of Hayes and Wheeler on
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25

Success appears to have attended, to
q very encouraging degree, the use of the
electric light on board the French trans
Atlantic steamer Amerique, In order to
prevent her collision with other vessels.
In this case, the lantern is placed on the
bow, at height of twenty twofeet above
the forecastle, or forty. two feet above the
water, and the current is produced by
Gramme electric machine, revolving at
the rate of from nine hundred and fifty
to one thousand turns per minute, and
affording light equal to one hundred and
fifty carcel burners. An ingenious device
Of ' the officer Of the watch, and by this
he can extinguish the illumination or
renew it at will, without stopping the
machine. 1t is stated that experiment has
recently proved that the most effective use
of the light, rs q means of warning. is to
allow It to shine for ten seconds and then
cxtinguish it for the succeeding two
minutes.-N r. Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-25
GENERAL News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE United States Supreme Court de-
cided, on the 18th. that Immigrant railroads
arc not bound to transport troops ard prop.
crty of the United States free of charge, by
reason of the fact that they are only to allow
the Government free use of their tracks in
return for grants, and that they are each en-
titled to compensation for all such transpOr-
tation they have performed, excepting the
carrying of the mails, subject to o fair de.
duction for the use of their several roads.
HoN. WIN. A. WHEELER occupied his. seat
in Congress on the 18th for the first time
during the present session.
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ut coral necklace with q gold locket at

giant coral necklace with gold locket at
tached.
Every conceivable article is stored away
there, from a gold watch to q piece OF
limburger cheese. A piece of the latter
was thrown out only the other day.
During 1876, 81 600 articles were sent to
the Dead-Letter Office at Washington
from the Chicago Postofficc. -CAicago
Journal.
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Touched Her Heart,

Yesterday morning woman living on
Napoleon street was seen on the walk in
front of the gate hcaving the snow right
and left, and she had only got fairly
settled to work when boy lounged up
and remarked:
"I'll clear off the walk for ten cents. :"
~ guess I'm able to do it," she re-
pied.
{" But see how it looks" he continued.
/" Here you are, perfect lady in look and
action, highly educated, and yet you
grovel in the dust. as it were, to save the
pitiful sum of ten cents"
You grovel along and mind your own
business" she CURLY replied, still digging
away.
Its worth ten cents" he said, as he
leaned against the fence. " but I'm q fell
Ter with some sentiment in my bosom.
Now, we'll say flve cents, or just enough
to cover wear and tear q my bones. Give
me the shovel and you 60 in, get on your
seal-skin sacque and best jewelry, and
while I work you stand out here and boss
around, and talk as if you owned the big
gest half of North America, while had
nothing, and was in debt for that
She looked at him sharply, saw that he
was in earnest, and when she passed over
the snow shovel she put two nickels into
his hand. He looked after her as she
went IN, and then sadly unused:
"Oh! Flattery, thy surest victim is a
woman homely enough for scare crow!''
-DetrOH Free Press.
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LOUISIANA.

In the Democratic Legislature, on the 10th,
ballot was taken for Senator for the long
term, but no result was reached. On the
preceding day, ]. b. Eustice had been elect
ed United States Senator for the short term.
In the Republican Legislature ex-Gov. KEEL
logg was elected Uuited States Senator for
the long term. One ballot was taken for
shori-term Senator, in which Antoine re-
ceived fifteen votes, Pinchback twenty
one, and Lewis thirteen-all colored
In the Republican House. M.
Warmoth introduced q resolution in favor
of the appointment Of . joint committee Of
eight to confer with . like committee of the
Nichols Legislature, to advise and report
measures to secure peaceful settlement of
the political contest relative to the State
Government This resolution went over I'M.
der the rule. The condition OF affairs in
New Orleans continued unchanged, and
Gen. Augur stated that he anticipated
no further trouple. He had mott.
fed both Nichols and Packard that
he would only interfere to keep the
peace. An Injunction had been asked for by
Atry-Gen. Ogden (Nicholls) prohibiting
Alfred Shaw from acting Is Judge Of .he
Superior Court lately created by the Repub-
lican Legislature. Three Napoleon and two
Calling gums were taken from the otate
Arsenal by the Nichols Government, The
following dispatch was sent to Gen. Augur;
81. WAS DBPARfxExT, Jan. 10. 1871.
To Gen. G. C. Anger. New Orleans, La:
1t ia reported that the State. House in New Or
leans ~ surrounded by mob. II this 10 90, NO
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I'm glove fight between two Boston
pugilists, lately, one of them received such
. blow with the padded boxing glove that
he died from the effects of it.