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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-05

thereupon tossed the article to her with q
lofty stare and stiff bow, and coolly put
ting it on her head, the lady entered her
carriage and rode away. The young peo-
pie bad their fun, and thought no more of
it, though some of them, noticing a
certain superior dignity in the owner of
the questionable bonnet, went SO far as
to wonder who "that woman" was.
Next day the same wedding party, on
their way to Niagara Falls, stopped at
Black Rock to pay their respects to Gen.
Porter, United States Secretary of War,
and were invited to dine with him at his
house. When Mrs. Porter, the lady of the
mansion, came forward to welcome them
they stood aghast. "That woman"
whose bonnet they had made game of was
the wife of one of President Adams Cab
met Ministers.
Fancy how Mrs. Porter's splendid hos
pitality heaped Goals of fire on their heads
and especially on the head of the young
man who played auctioncer at the Batavia
hotel.
But their rudeness would have been
none the less inexcusable if they had
shown it to an inferior instead of su-
perior, and mortified another worse than
they did themselves.-W Waterman.
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troops from Louisiana and South Carolina was
defeated by a vote of 8 to 4. It was decided q
the Cabinet meeting, on the Esd, to invite
Messrs. Chamberlain and Hampton to come to
Washington and confer with the President, and
later in the day such nm invitation was written
and dispatched.
John u. Lee, the hero of the Mountain
Meadows massacre in 1857, was executed on the
23d at the place where that horrible crime was
perpetrated. Previous to his execution, he made
what he claimed to be full and true history of
the butchery. just before he was shot, Lee de-
clared that he had done nothing wrong design
edly, in the affair; that he did all in his power
to save the emigrants, and that his conscience
was clear before God and man. His death was
instantaneous, five guns being fired, and the bull
let's lodging in the region of the heart.
The thirty fourth University boat race
was rowed on the Thames ON the Oath, and re-
suited in a dead heat.
A Pera correspondent, on the 25th, tel
egraphcd that the Montenegrin delegates had
intimated their intention of quitting Constanti
nople, the Porte refusing to yield to their de-
mands.
On the 25th, it was reported at Washing
ton that Senator Gordon, before the completion
of the count by the Electoral Commission, went,
with John Y. Brown, of Kentucky, to Messn.
Foster and Matthews, of Ohio, and demanded q
written pledge that the Hampton and Nichols
Governments should be recognized, whatever the
result of the count might be. Itwas alleged and
also denied that such pledge was given.
Gen. Grant and wife arrived at Cincin-
natl, on the 25th, from Washington.
His Holiness. the Pope, is i'll again.
He is constantly subject to fainting its and, ON
the Goth, it was thought that he would not re-
cover, although his immediate demise was not
expected.
On the Goth, Gov. Nichols issued a
proclamation, setting forth his claims to be con-
sidercd the legal Governor of the State of
Louisiana. Gov. Packard also issued procla-
nation claiming to be the Governor de tacto and
dc juv.
According to Washington Associated
Press dispatch of the Goth, the President had
stated that he had given no assurance Of imme-
diate action in respect to the withdrawal Of
troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.
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pharmacy--an increase of seven over 1874.
Of these schools, sixty-five are regular,
and have 500 instructors and 1913 stu
dents; four are Eclectic, and have thirty
six instructors and 398 students; eleven
are Homeopathic, and have 1856 instruct
ors and 664 students; twelve are dental,
and have 1876 instructors and 400 students /;
and fourteen are pharmaceutical, and have
fifty-six instructors and 922 students.
THE Railtoay Age makes the startling
statement that, during the year 1876, thir-
~ railroads, operating 3,846 miles of rail-
way, and having $217 ,848, 900 of securi-
ties, were sold under foreclosure. Fifty
six other roads, operating 10, 1888 miles,
and having stock and bonds of the nom-
inal value of $694, O61 600. were ordered
into charge of receivers, or subjected to
proceedings for foreclosure on default
made prior to 1876, or default during that
year. And even these enormous figures
arc supposed to fall below the truth. A
thousand million dollars lost in financial
disaster to railways in single year!
A RAPID penman can write thirty words
iu minute. To do this he must draw his
quill through the space of q rOd-sixteen
feet and half. In forty minutes his pen
travels furlong, and in five hours and a
third, mile. We make on an average six.
teen curves or turns of the pen in writing
each word. Writing thirty words min
ute, we must make $50 curves to each min
ute; in an hour, 2S,S0O: in a day of only
five hours, $4,000, and in year of 800
days, 43, zoe. 900. The man who makes
1 ,0OO, 900 strokes with pen in month is
not at all remarkable. Many men, news
paper men, for instance, make 4, OOO, coo.
Here we have, in the aggregate, a mark
800 miles long, to be traced on paper by
each writer in q year. In making each
letter of the ordinary alphabet, we must
make from three to seven strokes of the
pen-On an average, three and half to
four. How much better. therefore, would
it be to dispense with the present unwield.
~ and tedious form of writing, and adopt
the Photographic system. in which lines
and curves represent consonants and dots
novels; and by which skilled writer
can write as hi h as 200 words minute.
-Erchan0e,
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CONDENSED TELeGRAPHic NEWS.

There was labor riot at Berlin on the
21st. laborers attacking number from Posen who
were working on a tramway at lower wages
than the Berlincrs would accept. The soldiers
were called out and several persons were badly
wounded.
Alta Cabinet meeting in Washington, on
the 2lst it was decided to maintain the staff, g,t,
in Louisiana until a Commission shall examine
and report upon the condition of affairs in that
State. 1t was also decided to call an extra ses-
sion of Congress- to meet on the 4th of June.
On the 2lst, delegation of the promi
nent colored men of the country called upon the
President to thank him for the appointment Of
Fred Douglass as Marshal of the District Of
Columbia.
A New eanstclecram of the 2lst saws
that State Senator Dcmas (colored), who had been
acting with the Nichols Legislature, had taken
his scat with the Packard Legislature, complet-
ing, it was claimed, a quorum in both houses.
Both Legislatures had extended their extra ses-
sions until March 80.
On the 21st. d man entered the Indiana
National Bank. atIndianapolis, carrying asmall
box in his hand. He placed this on the floor,
got upon it, and deliberately reached over the
counter to the money-table and took several piles
of money, amounting to S25, 600. The thief es-
capped with the money.
Considerable excitement was created in
New York City, On the 2lst, by theannouncenent
that ex-Mayor Hall had mysteriously disap-
peared, not having been seen since the 18th.
A Berlin dispatch of the 22d says the in.
dustrialcri in Germany was growing worse, and
restitution was increasing with significant rapid
ity.
According to Washington dispatch OF
the ed, the Cabinet bad already selected the per
Sons to compose the Louisiana Commission, and
their acceptance had been asked by telegraph.
Private advices received in Vienna on the
23d, describe affairs in Constantinople a. extreme
ly CRITICAL The Ulemas had threatened to close all
the mosques.
The Pope has lost the use of his legs, and
has to be carried about in q chair. His general
health was fair, on the Esd. He had caused a
circular to be issued to the Bishops, counselino
patience and abstinence from provocation durine
the expected period Of increased persecution.
Al the meeting of the CAbinetin Washing.
ton, On The 29d, The pscp xitioa 70 withdraw IL
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The Grasshopper Question to be In.
vestigatcd.
WASHINGTON, March n,

WASHINGTON, March II.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day commits.
stoned the following persons as members of tho
Locust Commission: Prof. 8. V. Riley, of St
Louis, known for his labors in economic ento-
mology; Prof. A. 8. Packard, Jr., of Salem,
Mass, editor Of the american Naturalist,
who is to be Secretary Of the Com
mission, and Prof. Cyrus Thomas, of
Carbondale, ILL.,, State Entomologist. The
Commission will have its quarters here at WASH
ington, with Western office in st Louis. Prof.
Riley proposes to take the area east of the mount
aims and south of the fortieth parallel with Brit
ish America. Prof. Thomas will take the c6un-
try north of the fortieth parallel to the British
American line, excepting Montana. Prof.
Packard's field will more particularly cover
Montana Territory, Idaho, and Utah. The two
principal objects of the Commission are, first,
to ascertain what agency can be brought
to bear in facilitating the destruction of the eggs
of the insects; second, to discover where the
locusts breed. 1t is known that Montana is one
of the fields in which they breed largely; but in
all probability the largest breeding ground is in
British America. That country being difficuls
to explore, it is likely that the Commission viii
try to secure the cooperation of the British Gov
arnr,pnt
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Anecdotes OF Misers.

The true miser loves to look at his
gold, in which he finds more beauty than
elsewhere exists in the universe; conse-
quently, when Sir William Smith, a
wealthy English miser, was at seventy
years of age, deprived of his sight. he felt
it to be terrible affection. He was per-
suaded by Taylor, the celebrated oculist.
to be couchcd; who was, by agreement, to
have sixty guineas if he restored his pa
tient to any degree of sight. Taylor sue
ceeded in his operation, and Sir William
was enabled to read and write without
the aid Of spectacles during the rest of
his life. But no sooner was his sight re-
stored than the Baronet began to regret
that his agreement had been for so large
a sum; he felt no joy as others would
have felt, but grieved and sighed over the
loss of his sixty guineas. His thoughts
were now how to cheat the oculist; he
pretended that he had only glimmering.
and could see nothing distinctly; for
which reason the bandage on his eyes
was continued month longer than the
usual time. Taylor was deceived by these
misrepresentation, and agreed to COM
pound the bargain, and accept twenty
guineas instead of sixty. Yet Sir Will
lam was an old bachelor, and had no one
to care or provide for. At the time
Taylor attended him, he had large es-
tate, an immense sum of money in
stocks, and $3O, 900 in the house.
When the Governmental desired to borrow
alarge sum of money from the immensely
wealthy miser, Foscue, he refused the
loan on the plea of poverty. Fearing,
however, that some of his neighbers,
among whom he was very unpopular,
would report his immense wealth to the
Government, he applied his ingenuity to
discover some efectual way Of hiding his
gold, should they institute . search TO as
certain the truth or falsehood of his plea.
With great care and secrecy he dug a
deep cave in his cellar; to this receptacle
for his treasure he descended by ladder,
and to the trap. door he attached spring
lock, 80 that, on shutting, it would fasten
of itself. BY and by the miser disap-
pcared: inquiries were made; the house
searched; woods explored, and the ponds
were dragged, but no Foscue could they
find; and gossips began to conclude that
the miser had fled with his gold to some
part where, by living inoognito, he could
be free from the hands of the Govern
ment. Some time passed on; the house
in which he had lived was sold, and work
men were busily engaged in its repair.
In the progress of their work they met
with the door of the secret cave, with the
key in the lock outside. They drew back
the door, and descended with light.
The first object upon which the lamp re-
flected was the CHASTITY body of Foscue,
the miser, and scattered about him were
heavy bags of gold and ponderous chests
of untold treasure; a candlestick lay be-
side him dn the floor. The wOrshiper of
mammon had gone into his cave to pay
his devoirs to his golden god, and became
. sacrifice TO his devotion.-N. y. Mer-
cantile yowrn0l.
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A sPENDrHRrFT, who had wasted near.
ly all his patrimony, seeing an acquaint.
ancc in . coat not of the newest cut, told
him he thought it had been his great
grandfather's coat. 80 it was," said
the gentleman and have also my great
grandfather's land, which il more than
you can say"
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The Questionable Bonnet.

The grace of "good manners" includes
both self-respect and social respect; and
it is duty as-well as an accomplishment.
Fun-making at a fellow beings expense
is violation of the Golden Rule, which
many even well-meaning and we'll taught
people thoughtlessly commit, apparently
forgetting that it is really q part Of Chris
tian character to be generously considerate
of others feelings.
One day, about fifty years ago, when
John Quincy Adams was President of the
United States, ar excellent and cultivated
lady. journeying in her carriage, stopped
at hotel in Batavia, Western New York.
She was plainly dressed, and one not
knowing her, or unacquainted. with her
accomplishment and rare social graces,
might have JUDI her to be quite an or
binary sort Of person.
In those times, as now, the kind of
critics who estimate people entirely &C.
cording to the clothes they have ON. were
sufficiently numerous. and it appears that
several of them were stopping that day at
the same hotel.
It was noon, and tho guests were al
ready dining, and having little time to
make an elegant toilet. even il soc had
been 50 disposed, the lady placed her bon.
net on the parlor table and went in to dla-
ner. When she returned she found the
parlor occupied by q merry wedding par
ty, who he'd seized upon her bonnet, and,
in all the abandon of frolicsOme mirth,
were making game of it. One young
beau of the party poised it on the point OF
his cane, and played mock auctioneer.
What do I hear, ladies-how much ;
how much for this rare and beautiful
cnlotts "a princesas. only month from
Paris, and positively the newest mode !;
fifty francs; give me seventy 1--WE, seventy
five; going, and who takes it at seventy
five; going, going, and of course the
bidding ON the part OF the rest was quite
lively enough to carry out the farce.
The lady stood minute, waiting, with
good-natured smile. Presently. she said
quietly to The young man: "I'll take the
bonnet OF your hands II you cannot ret .
satisfactory o6se for It," The auctiooser
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Cerebral LocalixatiOn.

The question as to how far the BRAN
exercises an influence on the motions Of
animals has been engaging scientific men
for years. DR.. Broca was among the
first who investigated the subject; he
proved that when man was deprived of
the faculty OF speech by a stroke of apo
plexy, there invariably existed lesion at
the very same spot in the brain, viz, in
the anterior region, and on the posterior
side of the third frontal circumvoluti0n
to the left. Hence the conclusion that
this was the seat of the faculty of speech
in man, and thus one was led to conceive
q special place for every intellectual &C.
ton. Fritz, Hitzig, Ferrier, Carville and
Duret, the most prominent among those
who have treated the question, operate Is
follows: They take of part Of the skull
of dog, then apply electric wires to diff
ferent parts of the brain thus laid bare,
and watch the motions produced. Certain
points cause none, so that it is not the
whole brain that acts on the muscular sys-
tenn, but only special points. Ferrier
operated on monkeys in the presence Of
the London Royal Society. According ~
he touched various parts of the cerebrum,
the ape would shake his fist at the public,
raise or stretch leg, or cut faces. 1t WIS
shown that in the monkey the center OF
motion of the tongue answered exactly TO
that to which the faculty of speech per-
tains in man. From all this it follows
that the surgeon may now know precisely
the point of the skull at which to apply
the trepan. Thus, not long ago, . man
was brought into the Hospital 1t. An
tome. He had received blow ON the
left temple, and. on coming to himself
again, could only speak with difficulty,
and then he would call fork an um-
brelIa, lamp hat, and so on. Moreover,
his right arm was half paralyzed. The
surgeon at once knew what he had to do;
he applied the trepan to the proper spot,
and hit upon . piece Of bone th4t com.
pressed the brain. This splinter was re.
moved, and the patient at once recovered
the use of his right arm. A few days
later his tongue was freed from oil i'm.
pediment, and he left the hospital per-
fcctly cured.-Galignani' Aesaengsr.
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Inhuman Fun.

y
Harrison and Michael Lattnear, brakemen
on the Troy & Boston Railroad, and
Michael Gilman entered the saloon OF
Thomas Harlon, at Hoosic and North
Second streets, Troy. and all drank freely.
While in the saloon, Harrison pulled
from his pocket what appeared to be
small tobacco box, and, laying it on the
floor, began rolling q barrel over it,
Damon Houghtailing inquired what Har-
rison was trying to do, and Harrison said
that it was trick to tlatten the box, and
that it could not be done even by pound
ing It with a hammer. HOughtailing ex-
pressed the opinion that he could hammer
the thing fiat, and Harrison gave it to him,
telling him to go in the street and try it on
the sidewalk. A hammer was procured,
and, little dreaming of the terrible nature
of the Internal thing he held in his hand,
the man placed it on a stone and struck
it. The next moment he was Frustrated,
covered with blood, suffering from no less
than nine CHASTITY wounds on the face and
head. His left eye was blown out, the
thumb and index finger were torn off, the
palm of his hand was shattered, his skull
and the bones of his face were laid bare.
The box was torpedo about the
size of an old fashioned tobacco box.
When Harrison saw the result of mis-
brutal and criminal sport he fled, but was
arrested. Gilman and Lattnear were also
arrested for completely in Harrison's bru.
tality. The latter stated that the torpedo
was one of those used for signal purposes
on the railroad. They are furnished with
clamps and are fastened to the track, and
when exploded by the wheels of an ap-
preaching engine give warning that all is
No. 80, ~
are furnished at the machine shop of the
Troy u Boston Road to the conductors,
and are by them dealt out to the brake
men. Harrison says he has frequently
carried one about in his pocket. He adj
mitted knowing that Houghtailing, in en-
deavoring to f1atten the torpedo, ran the
risk of death, and never warned him.
Neither did any cf the others, although
they, too, knew the internal nature of the
explosive. Their only plea was that they
wanted to see q little fun.-Akbany Aryus
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The declaration of farmer that he
could feed pig bucket of swill and then
put the pig into the bucket without half
filling it is substantiated. A bale of cot
ton, which, when dry, weighed AGO
pounds, was taken from Red River
wreck the other day, and found to have
gained 400 pounds without bursting
band.
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AN April FOOL.
On, silly Violet!

On, silly Violet!
To think that Spring was tapping at your latch;
Her fingers smell of flowers. Did you not know
it?
Her pretty voice is like the rain on thatch-
The tinkling rain, with never wind to blow
it.
Incautious Violet!
You sprang from out your bed in such a hurry,
Tied on your cap and laced your kirtle blue,
Opened the door, all bright with joyful furry,
And there stood naughty March, awaiting you!
Poor, foolish Violet!
Mischievous March, who loves to fool and tease,
To tickle flowers with hands all chilly fingered.
Nip them and pinch, and make them shrink and
And wish that they in the warm earth had lin
gered!
Misguided Violet!
The moment that he saw you standing there,
He seized and pulled and roughly dragged you
out,
Out of the door, into the frosty air,
And "Apal fool he cried, with laugh and
shout.
Dear little Violet!
The tears are standing in her blue, blue eyes.
Next time my pretty one must be more wary,
Keep fast her door, lie still, refuse to rise,
A.. .<ait the summons of the April fairy.
Susan Coolidge, in N. Y. Independent.
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Mr.. Francis w. Bird, of Massachu-
sets, who received from Charles Sum
ner's executors a lock of the Senator
hair as . memento of lifelong friend
ship, has had it set in gold locket, upon
the reverse side of which is miniature
likeness of Mr.. Sumner as he appeared
ust before his death.
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The Chicago Journal quietly observes:
"The little girls have commenced their
or lal season Of rope jumping, and the
prevailing style Of cofflns for children are
jhpee covered withawhite SATIN"
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An Amsterdam banker recently offered
Russia a loan of %, DOC, 900 roubles at eight per
cent. but the negotiation fell through because the
banker insisted on disarmament and an engage
nlent to raise other loan for five years.
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The fast-mai train from Scotland,
known as the FLYING Sco,chman,' ran off the
track at Morpeth. England. on the 9th. The
train was thoroughly wrecked. and five persons
killed and many wounded.
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\ resolution has passed the Massachu-
sets State Senate submitting to the people a
proposed amendment to the Constitution giving
10 women the right TO vote at all elections.
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The Pennsylvania Legislature has elect
ed ex-Secretary- Cameron to the United
States Senate. to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Simon Cameron his father. The
vote in joint convention stood: Cameron, 147;
Dill Dem. J. 80: scattering, 3.
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y London correspondent Of the Edin-
burgh S,'otsmGa says Mr.. Eugene Schuyler,
United States Consul-General at Constantinople
is in trouble with his Government in consequence
of his published communications in reference to
Turkish outr;lgeS.
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The armlstlce between the Porte and
Montenegro has been officially prolonged until
the first of April.
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According to late Washington tele-
gram. the roll of the House of Representatives Of
the Forthwith Congress. prepared by Clerk
Adams. shows 1873 Republicans and 1873 Demo-
Gratis. two cases in Louisiana being doubtful
Eight seats are contested by Republicans and
three by Democrats,
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The Special Committee of the Ohio
Legislature to investigate into the circumstances
attending the Ashtabula disaster submitted their
report on the 22d. They conclude that from 80
to 100 persons lost their lives; that the bridge
failed because of faulty construction, and that
such defects could have been discovered at any
time by careful inspection.
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Callaghan & Lynch, he avy stock brokers
in San Francisco. have failed, with liabilities
reaching 100000.