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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-14
Report or the Commissioner OF Pen.
slOns.

Hon. j. A. Bentley, Commissioner Of
Pensions, has completed his annual re.
port to the Secretary of the Interior,
showing the operations of the Pension
Service during the fiscal year ended
June 80, and making sundry recon-
mendations for the future. A Wash.
ington dispatch gives the following
synopsis:
The number of new claims of all classes
filed during the year was 67,5O9. Of these,
1882 were original claims for invalid PEN
siOns, being more than double the number OF
the same class filed in either of the four years
from 1871 to 1874; 1920 were for the War of
1872 service, under the act of March 9, 1878.
About one-eighth of these claims were in be-
half Of survivors, the remainder were widows
claims; 43, ia claims were settled, at an aver
age cost to the Government of $1O.15 per
case. The average cost in 1877 was sl2. 81, and
in 1876 $17.11.
The saving through the increased efficiency
OF the Office, including the reduction in the
salary appropriation of $33, $50 in 1877 over
1876, was t1S3 o5O, and in 1878 over 1876, in
Guiding the reduction in the salary fund of
81, 500, was s3iO,172. The number of cases
settled in 1871 was 2214 per cent. greater than
in 1876, and in 1878, 50 per cent. greater than
in 1876. At the beginning of the year the
number of agencies for paying pensions
was, Dy Order OF the PRESIDENT, reduced from
ffty-efght to eighteen, saving in salaries for
the year $4,000. The aggregate saving in
the bureau for the year in reduced payment
for salaries of all descriptions. and reduction
in the number of agencies, was $4S2, liz; add
ing $lSO,O5O for 1877, the aggregate saving for
the two years in these items alone has been
$685., 22.
On the 3Oth Of June, 1878, there were 223,-
@S pensioners on the rolls, reduction of
2,645 during the year. 1t is expected that the
number Of pensioners will considerably in
crease during the current year, on account of
the 1912 pensioners. Exclusive of the fees of
Examining Surgeons, aad the fees and sala-
ries Of Pension Agents, the amount paid for
this amount, $240, sol was retained from the
pensioners and paid to Claim Agents for their
fopa
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Flight OF Spiders.

rHE Rev. H. C. McCook, of Phila-
delphia, describing the ballooning hab-
it, or flight of spiders, says the spider
seeks high position, as the top of a
fence-post, as the point of ascent. The
abdomen is elevated to as nearly a
right angle with the thorax as may be;
a pencil of threads issues from the
spinnerets, the face being meanwhile
turned to various points until it looks
in the direction of the wind. The legs
are then stretched upward, thus rails
ing the body aloft. and the insect grad
ually assumes position as If resist
ing some force from above. Sudden
ly the right claws are unloosed, the
spider mounts with a sharp bound and
floats off, generally with the back
downward, but sometimes with the po-
sition reversed. At first the abdomen
seems to be in advance, but generally
the body is turned so that the head is
in front. The pencil of threads is
caught by the feet, and floats out in
front. Upon these threads the spider
will climb upward as though to ad-
just the center of gravity. Meanwhile
q pencil of threads floats out behind,
leaving the spider to ride in the angle
of the two. or sometimes three pencils.
The feet seem to be united by delicate
filaments, which serve to increase the
buoyancy of the balloon. The insect
is carried forward by the wind, riding
for long distances in open space, and
often Oh up on ascending currents.
Its anchorage appears at times to be
within its own volition, by drawing in
with the claws the forward pencil and
gathering it in q white roll within the
mandibles; but most frequently the
progress of the insect is stopped by
some elevated object, or by the subsi-
dence of the breeze.
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Billingsisms.

PRIDE and vanity are often con-
founded, but there is much difference
in them. Pride may be pure and hon
est, vanity never can be.
It requires more bravery to forgive
an insult than to avenge it.
Reading is good thing, but observa-
ton and reflection are better.
There is no man so poor as the man
who breads poverty the most.
There are scores of people who
would think less of breaking most of
the Ten Commandments than they
would one of the fashionable ceremo-
MES of life.
The vices will grow and bear fruit
without any hoeing, but the virtues
have got to be cultivated, and even then
are too apt to have q big pod and
dreadfully small bean.
Revenge is sweet only when it spends
itself in forgiveness. -.
1t is hard work for the average clti-
zen to catch pound trout ana guess
within eightounces of his actual welgnt.
The great mass of MANKIND waste
more time than they use, ana then rant
about the shortness and uncertainty of
life. If virtue would only attend to her
business half as close as the devil does
to his she could beat him every time;
virtue holds the good cards, but she
expects to win without playing thcm,-
Josh Billings, in N. 7. Weekly.
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How Third-Class Mail Matter Nav Ra
Registered.

Postmastar palr,or ~ r,.:.
-ooo,tI,- ;....1 y, SnicaSSO' n"s
o".iy iSSuou circular giving In
AOrmatlOn OF general interest regarding
the postage and REGISTRATION ~ th;r,
class mali n,o++o. M
90 =, f',i. 0A' Aho regulations
",o 10 AoAo"s'
No package Of such matter can he reco,ved
until a nroner examinatio,, -. 49,, w .SselvS S
entitled to transmiesion es .mch ,~a ~ "
Great care must be exercisel To nrevcnf The
registration and admission into the mails nf
matter that Ia unavailable and also In nro-
vent the admission ut thirJi-cIass rates of maj.
ter upon which postage IA nronerIv charge.
able ut first class rates unfer axist;nv
laws and regulations. Postmsster. sh"mii
require pack ages to Inc mt mn sec,,ro,r ~. -.
to safely bear TRANSFORMATION. Int mt - sucS
a manner as to prevent an craminotion 81
their co'atents, either at the mailing Office or
at the office Of delivery. Mater n7farad for
registrstio I'm violation of thcse raon;ro,,,.nts
will be treated a now provided Sy law and
tn; postal regulations. Roth no:tare anJ
Iegistrs Zee must he Tmi,v %r"noiT ";t;e ,o aau
aye STAMPS affixed 70 the nacIor,o "''l pp,;s
tered packages Of third-ci.ss ma,,or III 20
far IS practicable. he treated in tho r,.;ia a.
same as reeistered letter. " '''o ''''''' 'lo
The name and ADDE'S of tho so,ao, ,,.
b Endorsed. either m writino NJ n nr"t ,,,'..'
each PACKAGE of third msttar "aroJ ~.
registrstion. and there nv ha oddod ~ ~; ~.
brief Jescrintion. in writ;ny w e., III. tuH
number and names If tho srt;.,ps ;., ~ .Lo
No additional written matt:r aroo,,. .i.o CT
dress, is permitted NV law r.s,ups. ~, y. az
turn NAV also be Dy;,.ted bnt tn 49, such 70
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Prof. King Makes . Balloon Voyage
During q Gale.

PROF. SAMUEL A. KING, the aero
maui, made his two hundred and elev-
enth ascension on Saturday from Scran-
ton. The balloon used for the occa-
sion was the mammoth King Carni-
va" which requires $4,000 feet of gas
for imitation. The story of
the voyage can best be told in the
words of the aeronaut himself:
when I escaped the steeple." he
narrated last night, II turned to sa-
lutte the crowd, but was travelling so
fast that guess they failed to see me.
1t was blowing perfect gale. Seven
minutes after the start was on q level
with the lower cloud strata, or 1000
feet above the earth. Down below l
could see nothing butwoods and noun
tains. l was then rushing through the
air at terrible rate. had never ex-
perienced anything like it before since
my Boston ascension several years AGO.
when l made thirty miles in twenty
five minutes. In nine minutes from
the start get into the second strata
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1t was reported at Constantinople,
on the Goth. that 10000 Russians had Just en-.
tered Roumelia ny way of Bourgas.
The Begun of Bhopal has placed her
army at the dispossl of England.
Intelligence, received at Washington
on the goth, from military officers on the Rio
Grande, represent affairs on the border as
being more peaceable. The assertion was
made that there was larger number Of incur
sons into Mexico by Indians than by Next
cans into Texas.
4 London dispatch of the 3Oth ult.
Gays that at Cabinet council held on the pre-
ceding day it was decided to require from all
concerned strict apd literal obedience of the
conditions Of the Berlin Treaty.
The indications were, on the 3Oth
ult., that the difficulties between Turkey and
Greece would soon como to head. The
Porte was willing to make slight rcctificA-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-14
National Thanksgiving.
President Hayes has issued the fol.

AI0Slucut hayes mas issued the 1Ol.
lowing proclamation:
The recurrence at that season at which It ID
the habit OF our people to make devout and
ence upon Divine favor for all the good gifts
OF life and happiness, and Of public peace and
prosperity, exhibits In the record OF the wear
abundant reasons for our gratitude and
Thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, product
i've mines, ample crops of the staples of trade
the resources thus furnished to our reviving
industry and expanding commerce fastening
the day when discOrds and dtstresses, through
the length aud breadth o: the land, will, un-
der the continued favor of Providence, have
gwen way to confidence, and energy and as
Peace with all Nations has remained un-
broken; domestic tranquility has prevailed,
and the institutions Of liberty and Justice.
which the wisdom and justice of our fore
fathers established remain the glory and de-
tense of their children.
The general prevalence of the blessings of
health throughout our wide land has made
more conspicuous the sufferings and
which the dark shadow of the pestilence has
cast upon q portion of our people. This
heavy affection, even, the Divine Ruler has
tempered to the suffering communities with
flowed to their relief, and the whole Nation
may rejoice in the unity Of spirit in our peo-
pie by which they cheerfully share anot6er's
burdens.
Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes,
President of the United States, do appoint
Thursday, the 18th dsy Of November next, as
day OF National Thanksgiving and Prayer,
and earnestly recommend that, withdrawing
themselves from secular cares and labOrs, the
people meet together on that day in their re-
spective places OF worship, there to give
thanks and praise to Almighty God for His
mercies, and to devoutly beseech their contin-
uance
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City of Warrington this SOth day of
October. in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundre and Q .venty-eigh and of the In
depend nce of the United States the one hum
dred and third.
fSeall R. B. HAYES.
By the President:
WILLIAM NJ EvARrs. Secretary of State.
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All the World Represented ut Paris.

You may gain an idea of the crowds
in attendance on the Exhibition when I
send you the report of strangers arriv-
ing during the past week. In all there
were $4,000. England sent APP; Bel
GUM, 5000. You will be surprised to
hear, considering the relations between
the two countries, that there are 2, 1O5
Germans. Italy, this being the holiday
season for the Italians, sent 1872. The
United States were fifth on the list,
sending 1,O77--more than Spain, who
contributed 1867, or Switzerland, with
her 1,O37, or Austria, who sent 1888, or
Holland, of which Nation there were
GAG. Russia contributes largely to the
cosmopolitan world of Paris, but the
war has made Russia poor, and she
sends only SIP. As an illustration of
the minuteness with which such things
are noted in this much-governed coun-
try, will give you the remainder of
the list:-Luxemburg, 242; Poland, 224;
Sweden and Norway, 1873; Denmark,
1872; Portugal, 1853; Roumania (now
ranking as Nation), ISL; Algeria,
100; Brazil, 1902; the French Colonies,
IS; Greece, 81; Turkey, s.; Egypt, 81;
the Indies, 81; Canada, 20; Mexico. 81;
Peru, ~; Japan, Ii; Venezuela, II;
China, 10; Colombia, 9; Chill, 6; Mo-
rocco, 5; Australia, 4; Paraguay, 3;
Costa RIGA, 2; Persia, 2; San Salvador,
2; Tunis, 2; Bolivia, L; Ecuador, l;
Honduras, 1; Nicaragua, 1; Uruguay. 1.
Wonderful and various is this cos
mopolitan crowd in Paris. The boule-
wards are dress parade of the Nation
alities. Here are forty-three Nations
sending tribute to Paris, for each
one Of this more than $4,000 Is a
bearer of tribute. When people ask,
"Does the Exhibition pay?' the an
swer is found in this recapitulation.
How much money does each one of
these tribute bearers bring? They
come for silks and wine, for bronzes
and paintings, for the hundred thou
sand articles that Paris supplies.
wonder, for instance, how much our
LOTT Americans bring? There are ba-
Ears to visit, theaters to see, cafes, balls,
milliners. suppose it is safe to say that
this LOT will leave two or three mill
ions of francs in Paris. When you
take.th as the contribution of one Ma
ton, the weekly contribution one, when
you consider that all Nations are SWELL
ing the stream, you may have some
idea of the money Paris will earn
through the Exposition. The mere
show, as it appears in a ledger ac-
count, will be loss. France will
have to pay several millions Ct francs
out of the Treasury to meet the ex-
penses; the other Nations will have
their own expenses, for which there
can be only an indirect return. But
when all is over France will be richer
by millions and millions in mere mon.
ey because of this Exposition, and
richer in what money cannot buy-a
reawakened self-esteem and the re-
spect of mankind.-Paris Cor. N. Y.
Herald.
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ment was successful, consciousness re-
turned, but, upon the person being re-
placed in bed, all the somnolencv re-
CURED. The trial was repeated, and
after a suspension of ten minutes, head
downward, the effects of the chloroform
were entirely dissipated. So simple q
remedy is one which may be of invalua-
BILE assistance to medical men, and NAV
be the means of saving many lives
Galigsa,srs Messenger.
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COunteracting Anesthetics.

The immense services rendered by
chloroform, ether, etc., in the allevia-
ton of pain have been somewhat depre-
ciated by the danger to life incurred in
their use, and the numerous fatal cases
recorded as the result of their admins
tration. Many efforts have been made
TO find q rapid and certain antidote,
but without success, until very simple
remedy was discovered by the late cele-
brated surgeon, DIR. Nelaton. His son,
while quite lad, was in the habit of
amusing himself by catching mice and
Harvesting them to toy carriages like
horses. In attaching them to the min
iature vehicles they frequently bit him,
and he induced his father to give him
some chloroform to enable him to per-
form his operations without the incon-
venience of being bitten. On one oc-
casion, having administered the an@s-
thetic, he raised the little animal by
the tail in q perpendicular direction,
when it Immediately turned and tried
to bite him. He mentioned the subject
to his father, who, upon reflection, con-
sidered that the explanation was due to
the fact that the brain, while the being
is asleep is almost destitute of blood,
but that on the position of suspension
with the head downward having been
attained, the circulating fluid rushes to
the head and awakens the animal.
Not long after he had an opportunit
of testing his theory. Two eminent
surgeons had to perform an operation
at Saint-Germain Laye, and requested
the assistance of DIR. Nelaton. He
happened to miss the train, and when
he arrived by the subsequent one, the
proceedings had already commenced.
The patient was under the influence of
chloroform. and the medical men feared
from the symptoms that a fatal result
might ensqe: Pr. Nelaton at once ad-
vised that the head of the patient should
be hung over the side of the bed, and
the feet raised in the air. The expert.
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Total. ............ slls,ee6 1874 ell, oes ,3l6

Forty'seven failures were reported
IN New York City during October, the agere-
gate liabilities amounting to S3,2l3,512. This
is an increase of seventeen in number over
the previous month, but the gross liabilities
are 81, 100000 less. Compared with October
OF last year, there is decrease in number d
twenty-three, and in the total liabilities of
100000
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s.. Angler Chace said to friend
who called on him in the Massachusetts,
State Prison, recently, that he had ex-
pected the Stickney exposure, and add
ed: II was strongly urged on my trial
to make full statement, but I remem-
bered saying of Daniel Webster's,
which was that he never sh0veled off
his walks until it had done snowing.'
Gentlemen, it has not done snQwing,"
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Here is rather q curious remedy,
but in many cases q very certain one.
for the cure of indigestion. It is SIM
ply the cultivation Of a habit of chew
ing, while out of doors, different kinds
of green leaves and swallowing the
juice. One can always Gull leaf from
a hedge or bush as one passes. Almost
all are good that are not nauseous, such
as the ivy, or poisonous, as the laurel
leaf. One of the latter, however, is a
capital thing where there is slight irri-
tation of the stomach. The chewing
Of leaves cures dyspepsia, principally,
l believe, by increasing the now Of the
salivary juice, and partly by the tonic
and stimulating action of the leaf
chewed. The leaves that occur to n
at present, as most likely to be bene-
fetal, are those of the pine-trees, spruce
or Scotch fir, blackthorn, currant and
rose-bushes, mint, the petals of manv
flowers, the stalks of mountain-daisies.
the white portion of rushes, the bark of
many young trees, and the tender parts
of the stalks of green wheat, oats, or
almost any of the larger grasses; but
your own taste must, in a great meas
ure. guide you, if you elect to make
trial of my remedy. tshould say, how.
ever, that the chewing is better to take
place before or between meals than i'm,
nmediately s e. e1: Gassers Family Moe,
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The harvest moon is so called,
quantity says Ferguson, the Scotch as
tronomer, because d" the farmers of the
old country gratefully ascribe the early
rising of the full moon at this time of
the year to the goodness of God. not
doubling that He has ordered it so on
purpose to give them an immediate
supply of moonlight after sunset for
their greater convenience in reaping
the fruits of the earth"
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-Averdict of S3,119.74 has just been
recorded against a Philadelphia Notary
Public who certified forged mortgage,
the jury holding that he was negligent
n not ascertaining if the man who ac-
knowledged the instrument was bona
tide.
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The report closes with brief sum-
mary of the present condition OF affairs
on the Mexican border, with recon.
mendations for the better protection OF
life and property in Texas.
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poor req man IN the last ten years,
viz, the construction of various rail-
ways, the development of the mineral
wealth in Central Colorado and the San
Juan country. in Southern Colorado;
also that of the mines in Utah, Monta-
M, the Black Hills, New Mexico and
other points, which development has
thrown into circulation, by the process
of labor and the purchase of machin-
cry, supplies and transportation. mill
ions upon millions of dollars, to say
nothing OF the millions taken out of
the earth by manual labor and the aid
of machinery.
Then, again, let us take view OF the cattle
interests. Ten years ago our grazing grounds
were in Texas, now they are from the southern
boundary Of Dakota to the Gulf OF Mexico,
and may safely say that parts OF wyoming
and Montana furnish range af1ordlng Is
good. II not better, grazing than In Texas,
better stock. The number Of cattle now
north Of Texas and west of the Missouri River
is perhaps fully or nearly equal to that In
Texas, and only ten years ago there was scarce-
~ = head.
Let us now look at the agricultural devel-
opments Northern Texas has been filled
up BY thousands Of hardy emigrants from the
south and North. Kansas has had an en-
igration hitherto unparalleled-the emtgra-
ton being almost by the hundred thousand
er year. Nebraska has also come in for
large share q emigration, while Colorado:
Utah aud Wyoming are not far behind
in acquiring population. Central aud North
ern Texas, Middle and Western Kansas,
and Nebraska ard Utah, are all teem-
ing with agricultural prosperity. This
population. numbering probably 2tcl.OOO
men engaged in miuing. grazing
and agricultural pursuits, pays taxes,
builds farm-hOuses and constructs fences,
Flows up the ground, erects school houses
and POUNDS villages. towns. etc. and the mill.
/ ions Obtlined by the sweat Of their brow ad
81 much more to the trade, commerce and
prosperity Of the world; and all this comes
from the development of . country which only
/ ten years ago was the land Of the Indian, the
buffalo and the elk. "' !..S
Arizona citizen., 1878-02-08
ALIBERAL A LEGISLATURE.
The Generous Treatment Two Pa cific Railroads Received in Arizona.

WAsHISGreS, January 2l.-The at tention of lhe House Committee on the Pacific Railways has been called with in the last two or three days to truly act which seems to have been procured to be passed through the Legislature of Arizona by that cheerful person, MT. c. P. Huntington, with an eye 10 making everything lovely for those interesting financial Siamese twins, the Central Pacific ana the Southern Pacific railway com psnies. The act in question contains eighteen sections, and was passed Feb ruary :, 1877. As the statutes of Ari Zona have not vel been done into verse by Mir. Bret Harte, nor popularized by the eloquence of Senator Conkling, the number of persons familiar with il has been limited. But il is good read
 ing nevertheless, as may be inferred from 6 single section (sectiOn III,
 which provides that il shall be unlaw- ful for the Southern Pacific Railway Company to "charge more than len cents per mIle for each passenger or more than fifteen cents per mile for each ton by weight or measurement transported on its roads," it being also provided that the corporation shall |" ID no case be required to receive less than twenty-five cents for any one lot of freight" transported for any distance whatever By another section the con- pany is virtually exempted from all taxation whatever" for a period Of four years. That the Southern, which is also to all intents and purposes the Central Pacific Railway, may not be suspected of playing the old game of the Indian, the turkey and the white man with the simple citizens of Ari- zona, it is only fair 10 add that In re- turn for the concession 10 il of prsc- tical monopoly of the right Of way and Of an enormous tariff through Arizona the company most generously agrees that it will keep an attorney within the territory, upon whom process of law may be served" just as if he was the president of the corporation There is no mention anywhere of Congress in all this act, but surely the committee of the House cannot fail to fall down and worship the msgnanimous corpo. ration which has taken so little and
 given so much 10 these wild men of the far southwest. Since European sailors first traded beads for cocoannts there has been no such liberal dealing on the part of truly cIviliz d men with
 comparatively savage population.