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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

He shaved it in three different direc-
lions. He went back at it three times
after he was through and shaved some
neglected spots. He laved and stroked
and dried and perfumed and pow
dered that mans face until the
clock said it was thirty-nine minutes
after five, and felt the premonitory
symptoms of commissions and nervous
insanity creeping over my quivering
limbs.
cursed the BARRIERS Whistles;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads ON bristles.
He passed over the mans hair until
felt that time had given place to
eternity. He rubbed it and busted it;
he parted it four times before he got it
to suit him. He combedit and brushed
it down SO slick, that an early fly, try
ing to climb to the crown of the mans
head, slid off and broke his neck. At
four minutes of train time, the man
who was now wide awake, made an
effort to rise and get out of the chair,
and my heart swelled with hope. The
barber pushed him back.
Shadow of eternity, he began to wax
the patients mustache.
It lacked two and one-half minutes to
train time when the chair was empty.
l shrieked at the patient barber in pro-
fame accents and told him had to be
at the depot at that time.
swell, what do you want done?''
this terrible man asked me.
"Shave!' howled, with some varia-
tons not in the text.
"Oh, well,'' he said, quietly, 'climb
into the chair
"You won't make me miss that
tramp yelled, in fever of nervous
anxiety.
He shook his head. "You can walk
down there in minute" he said
1t was wonderful, the degree of con-
fidence felt in that mans latent abili-
ties, after 1 had just seen him take for
ty-four long, solid, dragging minutes to
shave a man with less beard than q
nun. $50 ahead" said, with forced
calmness.
He tucked towel around my neck in
one time and two motions.
"Swosh!' there was an avalanche of
lather from my right ear to the middle
of my chin, extending laterally from the
neck into the eye, nostrils. and one cor
ner of my mouth. "Slosh!' a corre-
spending freshet inundated the other
side of my face and closed the left eye
and lay on the other corner of my
mouth like the foam from a Buffalo
schooner.
felt the BARRIERS left hand grasp my
hair. "Swoop!' one side of my face
was shaved, down to the chin.
"Swoop!' the other cheek was clean.
Scrawtch; scrawtchr' my chin was
smooth. "kake, raker' my hair was
combed.
Fifteen cents; there's your train
now, sir. Next!' said the barber.
Icaught the train and had thirty-two
seconds to spare.-R. j. Burdette, in
Burlington Hasck-Eye.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

A terrible explosion occurred in an
ammunition nsnufactory in Paris, on the 18th,
which DESTROYED the factory and numerous I'd.
joining buildings, and caused the loss of sew
eral lives.
The thirteenth annual Convention
of the National Temperance Society was held
In Chicago, on the 14th. Rev. w. w. Everts,
Of Chicago, made the welcoming address.
The annual report of the Corresponding Sec
Rotary stated that the liquor problem was be-
coming more and more . question Of prac-
tical politics. The receipts for the YEAR, rs re-
ported BY the Treasurer. we're: From publ
cations, e46, S9S.62; from donations, o., 1872 IS.
The expenses for the same period were $751;
O70.20.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30


Under the pressure of Hungary, the
opposition Of the Porte and the influence of
England, Austria has abandoned her intention
to occupy Bosnia.
The Russians are said to be throw
ing up intrenchments at San Stcfano, and
arming them with Krupp guns.
Gen. Todleben has notified the Porte
that unless the Turkish Commissioners in
duce the insurgents to disperse, he will adopt
severe repressive measures.
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th says the
Pap-Sclavist party was once more gaining the
ascendency in St. Petersburg, and that their
success meant war with Great Britain.
The Servian corps of observation,
hitherto consisting of $1,000 men, has been
increased to $4,000 in consequence of the con-
ccntration of Turkish troops on the frontier.
A St. Petersburg telegram of the
18th says Count Schouvaloff, having succeed
cd in converting the Car to his pacific views,
would return at once to London. 1t was be-
lieved that the European Congress would
meet within fortnight If no more complica-
tions arose.
Gen. TOdleben sent q note to the
Porte, on the 18th, demanding: First, the
immediate evacuation of Shumla, Varna and
BatOum; second, the removal of the Turkish
camp at Maslak, and, third, permission to oc-
cupy Byukdere. A Constantinople dispatch
of that date says the Turks will fight rather
than yield to these demands.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 18th an
nounces the resignation of the Servian Min
istrv.
The Russian military authorities have
forbidden the Bessarabian Deputies in the
ROumanian Parliament to attend any more
sittings.
1t was reported from Vienna, on the
18th, that the Mussulman insurgents had
taken and were holding three of.the Balkan
Passes.
The Indian Government has given
orders for the immediate construction of coas,
defenses. Madras, Bombay and Rangoon are
amorg the points selected for Strengthening.
A London dispatch of the 10Th says
that, in proportion as the news from St. Pc
ters5urg becomes pacific, that from Constan
tinOple becomes warlike. The Turks wert
hard at work strengthening their lines and
ringing up guns.
A London telegram of the goth says
the British Government had instructed Lore
Lotus, British Ambassador at st. Petersburg
to request a categorical explanation from thu
Russian Foreign Office concerning the reported
armament Of Russian privateers in the United
States, and also to explain the mission of thu
Cimbria.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

The bright lexicon of youth, in
which the word fail is not printed, does
not seem to be in extensive use nova
days. The other edition, however, in
which all the disagre sd words g. and :,
"burst," "played OUT and "gone
where the woodbine twineth, is having
an extensive sale.-NesC York Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

The Procurator of the Russian
Church has reported to the Emperor
that at the end of 1875 it had 38,6O2
churches, including cathedrals; 1880
chapels and oratories; 9S,SS7 arch
priests, priests, deacons and precent-
ors; and 81, SOC, 900 members, of whom
q, OOO, 900 were women and ~ 500, 900
men. The income of the church for the
year was II, 278, Ill rubles, of the NOM
inal value of 90. 1876. 1926.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

The stories about Representative
Leonard having met with foul play at
Havana are not credited at the State
Department. The Department is salts
fed that he died of yellow fever, for
the Consul General at Havana has
written that this is the case and that he
was during his illness tenderly nursed
bv members of the Consul's family
N. ?. Eue,sisg Post,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30
A Buffalo clergyman. the Rev. D.

IA Buffalo clergyman, the Rev. u.
r. Frazer, of the First Presbyterian
Church, being disturbed on recent
Sunday morning by the exit of three
young men who marched out with
squeakiDg boots just after he had an
nounced his text, said: THAT strikes
me as the coolest piece of impertinence
l have experienced in some time,"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30
The Wheeling (Va.) Standard

The Wheeling (Va.) Standard
says: 1--WE earnestly recommend every
man who is languishing for q job to re-
support Of your family; sell what you
cannot use; be frugal, enterprising and
industrious, and all the panics that the
world has ever seen mag come and 20,
for they will not affect you in the
least"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30
A TABLE of distances around the
world may not be uninteresting, and SO
1 append it:

The above includes the direct line
around the world. There are any num-
Der of detours that can be made if the
traveller has the time, money, patience
and endurance to make them.-Cor.
London Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

A recent earthquake at Qua, in Vene-
zuela, caused the loss of 600 lives, beside the
destruction of q great quantity Of property.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30
The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill to admit women to the practice of law.

The Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton is to be held at Columbus, on the 26th of
June.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

Spencer +. Baird, Assistant Secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institute, has been elected
Secretary in place Of Prof Henry, deceased.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

A call has been issued for q Demo-
cratic State Convention to meet at Pueblo,
Col, on the 18th of July.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

The Ohio and New York Legislatures
have adjourned, the former until January
next and the latter sine die.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

CURRENT PAkAGRAPHS.
Prince Milan, of Servia, has par
doned the Topola conspirators.
Okubo, the Japanese Minister of the
Interior, was recently assassinated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
recently decided that, when an insured person
is in such a state of mental incapacity as to be
unconscious of the consequence of hts acts,
suicide by him falls without the provisions
against self-slaughter in his policy, and does
not absolve the insurance company from liza
biity.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30

Now, mysen believe that The mind, carried
mp to its intuitonal state, d exalted to higher
plane and higher sphere. / believe that the
best action OF any faculty Is that which Is under
very high excitement. T."
Here I dropped the crank. Some of
the people Kissed. A boy inthe gallery
Whiskled on his ffn1ars The narsos,
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
Large Sale or Real Estate.

The following sales OF lands belonging
TO Mr.. Pere Wilmer, In Queen Anne's
county were made by trustees at Center
vile tuesday last: The Driver farm,
$50 acres, to Joseph Il. Elliott for sli Is
per acre; Marlborough" 100 acres to G..
II. Erdmap, for s24 SO per acre; "Wake-
field" 800 acres, to VIM. McKenny for
S2s IA per aers"saiiy acre Wv W1oI lotto +; !, I.
sion Of Lansdowne, 800 acres, to Mis-.
Isabella Wilmer for Sl3 IS per acre
"Lansdowne," the home farm, 200 acres
to John Daily, of Caroline county, for
s45 Il per acre; wood lot " j. w. Perry,
for sl06 &C; Wakefield lot to J. II. Harris
for s2S6 30, and the Churchtown lots to
W. b. Shawn for $500. The sales of the
real estate aggregat ID the handsome sum
of S32 1913 81. Afterwards 172 bushels OF
wheat seeded on the farms cultivated by
Mr.. Wilmer, were sold to II. s. Mansha
for So 30 aud 81 10 per bushel, aggregat-
ing S6lI.
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
EFFICIENCY OF AMERICANS AT
THE EXPOSITION.
LONDON, :

LONLoN, NOV. 10, 1879.
The Herald correspondent N Paris
I, legraphs that the American exhibitors
in the machinery and agricultural sec
tons of the Paris Exposition yesterday
evening presented Superinte Pick
ering with handsome testimonial ser:
vice, A hattering address, eulogizin ng
Mr.. Pickering for the efficient manner in
which he had discharged the duties of
his office, aud for the uniform politeness
and impartiality which characterized his
dealings with the exhibitors, was deliv-
cred by the chairman of the delegation,
and Mr.. Pickering expressed his thanks
in an appropriate speech.
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
Hunting In Luxurious Style.

A ear arrived at Bismarck, ID. T., a
few days ago that is worth noticing. II
halls from Worcester, Mass, and is the
hunting palace car of Jerome Marble
He is a wealthy gentleman, who has
mania for outdoor sports. For four
years he has taken in the Northern Pa
citic country. His car this year was Oh
exhibition at the Centennial, and is con-
sidered a rare piece of workmanship
The fittings of the interior are his own.
Nh. Marbles family accompany him,
with few invited guests. The car is
house in itself. 1t has fine drawing
roop, twenty-four feet long, which in
turn is used for dining room and sleep
ing apartments. On the floor is a velvet
carpet, with several easy chairs and rock
els, and an upright piano. The ladies
amuse themselves as in any well regula-
ted mansion. There is a neat kitchen,
with all the improved machinery of that
important apartment. There is an armo-
ry and coat-room. The outside door has
door-bell, and strangers are expected
to see it when they call. Under the car
is large coal and ice box. The rear
platform is fenced in for kitchen, buck
cts and game. There is also a common
car for dogs, boats and other necessary
articles not proper in an elegantly ap-
pointed residence. The proprietor has
a contract with the railroad company
that requires any train to couple on his
cars when he signals for the same. The
party has been out since September q
Ducks, chickens, geese and antelope have
been their principal conquest Chicago
Tribune.
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
New Men I'm the Next Congress

OF the las democrats elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress 53 are new men,
OF the 133 republicans elected "a are ne W
men. This excludes men who have
served in previous Congresses, such as
General Hawley in Connecticut. The
eight greenbackers are all new men, and
the Fory-sixth Congress will have there
fore ll5 new members out of total of
293. Twenty-one of the 50 new demo-
Gratis are from Northern States.
1t follows that the greater part of the
Forty-sixth Congress will be composed of
experienced members. Some States, like
Mississippi and West Virginia, have re-
elected the whole of their present dele
cations; others, like Massachusetts,, South
Carolina, Texas and Louisiana, have
changed but one or two. New York will
send Is inexperienced legislators, Penn
sylvania 10, Ohio $, Missouri and
Illinois I.
A State which keeps one delegation in
Congress for number of years inevita-
bly, gains largely in influence in the ma
tional council. even if its representatives
are not conspicuously able men, and a
political party which keeps its men in
CouSicoo ioi terul Vi years can make
itself felt, even if 1t is in the minority in
the House. 1t takes new member al
most all the whole of his term to learn
the ways of the House, and it is scarcely
ever before his second term that he is
able to make his influence felt over the
body, though there have been some nota-
Bile exceptions TO this rule, for conspicu.
GUS ability tells in the House even
against its traditions and rules.
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
FOURTH EDITION
The Electric Light-Edisonss
Apparatus All Ready.

A correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post writes as follows ain
conversation with an eminent scientific
gentleman, who Is an intimate personal
friend of the inventor Edison, learned
number Of interesting facts bearing on
the future Of the much-discussed electric
light. My informant, who has just re-
turned from visit TO Menlo Park, assured
me that the light was entirely ready for
Introduction into general use, and that
the company was simply waiting tor the
European patents, which the English So
licitors have just telegraphed them will
not be ready under twenty days. The
apparatus Is standing complete in Edi-
sons workshop, and am assured gives a
soft, beautiful light of the same strength
as gas. The question Of relative ex-
pense Is, Of course, somewhat specula-
tive one, but the highest estimate makes
the cost one-half that of gas. In answer
to my inquiry how this rsvolution would
affect gas stocks, my informant thought
that, while gas must ultimately go out of
use, the enormous existing plant of gas
and the great interest involved would for
a long time contest the claims of the
new light to popular favor. lie thought
the gas plant could not be used to any
considerable extent in distributing the
electric light, but that this work must be
done de move, as it would cost as much
TO adapt the gas pipes and jets 10 electri-
city as TO supply new apparatus. Edit
sons jet, he says, is very neat, and the
contrivances very simple. Even at the
same cost, or greater, the electric light
will be preferable. In its use there will
be less expensive plant, and there will
be an absence of heat and danger, while
the running expense will be insigniii-
cant. The attempt to anticipate his light
by a rival company does not rufile him
in the least as he is confident of the su-
periority OF his invention, and, more
over, the two companies will occupy
rather different fields"
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15

A strange case comes from Asbury
Park, N. j. There arrived at that
place on Tuesday wealthy young law
yer of Baltimore, named Charles b.
Smith. On Wednesday Smith died.
Conscious of approaching dissolution he
willed, first Of all, his body to Dr. Le-
Moyne, Of Washington, in this State, for
cremation. His next bequest was out of
the ordinary run-that Of $4,000 to a
young lady of South Amboy, to whom he
was betrothed, the condition being that
she must not marry until two years shall
have expired. This disposed of, the dy-
ing man directed his private secretary to
express $1,000 to Vassar College, $500
to Hampton College and $1,000 to the
city of Baltimore for its poor.
To cap these proceedings it transpires
that young Smith was the same person
who killed Walter Fauquer, of Virginia
( in duel, and fled to England, eight
! months ago. He returned to this coun
! try on the 18Th of last month, broker
down by consumption.
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
THIRD EDITION
PERSONAL.

Mr.. 8. N. Pike, widow Of the late Gin
ciunati opera house builder, now lives In
Paris, and her diamonds attract consld-
cradle attention.
The New Yorkers have had an oppor-
tunity to hear Nine. Eltelka Gester in
LA Somnambula," and they pronounce
her divine.
Congressman Morrison, of Illinois,
threatens to enter the arena agains Hon.
Samuel j. Randall for the Speakership of
the next House.
On Sunday the venerable I.r. Tying,
Sr., teing too feeble to stand, preach d
from a seat on tue platform OF his church
in New York.
Miss Matte Marshall, of Madison,
Ind, shoulders her gun and .'goes a
hunting" like man; but masculine wo-
men are not uncommon.
Miss Agnes Scott and Mr.. Burchard
A. Hayes, eldest son Vf the President,
were admitted at the same time, r. cent
ly, TO practise law In Ohio.
General Logan is said TO be turning
himself about and watching all The
avenues that can lead from Illinois TO
the United States Senate.
The Rev. DIR. Mallalieu expresses the
anomalous sentiment that "tbe better a
nicer the naughtier.
SO certain were they of Ex-Governor
Cur in's election TO Congress in Wash
ington circles that slate had be, n
formed with ths War Governors nams
for Speaker.
United States Commissioner Daven-
poit, OF New York. is to be prosecuted
BY Tammany for intimidation of mater.
allied citizens ON election day. Counsel
has been engaged.
"Whiskey Skin" Kalloch now presidss
over the Metropolitan Temple in San
Francisco. One of bis congregation has
recently attached the church organ for
debt Of 81 600. -
VI lie. Sarah Bernhardt is writer as
well as an actor and sculptor. She has
Teen writing hook describing her voy-
age in balloon; 1t is called "Un Voyage
dal les Airs"
Governor Hartranft has become
member of large manufacture ng firm Ia
Philadelphia, and rs soon as he leaves
his Off icial position VIII take charge of
tie buslne IS as principal manager.
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
FIFTH EDITION.
Alarming Spread Of Mormon
lam I'm the Far West.

lam In the Far West.
| Special 10 the Balt. Gazette.
wAsHISoToS, Nov. sl4.-"It strikes
me-" to-day remarked " prominent ju
dlciai gentleman from Utah, ''that the
press Of the country Is having q bard
time to open its eyes to the alarming
features of Mormonism In the West
Just now the .a'nts are carry ing on very
extended schemes for the spread of the
church"
"what new cause for alarm Is there
now over the double barrelled system of
marriage"
"wby, In the way the saints are work
ing by political means to spread the cur
sed thing through the adjoining territor-
lee. One of the cardinal planks In the
Mormon platform Is to place all new
comers on gecd lands, where they may
find productive farms, be contented and
also be able to pay regular tithes to the
church. 1t is plain, therefore, that colon
ization must set In. This is going on now
with frightful rspidity and tbretens the
political control OF most of the territor-
les within the next 10 or II years. There
are already Mormon settlements in very
many localitit in the state Of Nevada,
also settlements In the territories of Ida
no. Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and
New Mexico. In the latter place their
strength up to u is tine is not considera-
BILE, but II is felt in Nevada In the election
Of local officers and is exercising a de-
ci' ed Infiu, nee in most OF the ierritor-
ies."
GLOW do they go TO worK?"
every insiCiously, of course. They
cad into new fields with tbs steaIthy
stride of an Indian and you hardly know
they are in the region till they have you
by the throat. Take Idaho, for instance.
They first co.onize and secure The control
of one county by elrcting all the local
officers. The county of Oneida, having
several hundred yot, rs, controls the cleo
ton of delegate TO Congress and will
invariably send man prepared to let
q one, If no to prot, ct openly the cursed
system. 1t Is the Mormon policy to 20
on in this way, suhjugat' ng one county
after another in Idaho, until that terri
tory, like Utah, is brought completely
under the church rule. The next step
will be To turn Idaho mo n state"
"ls this policy general out hat way 2"
"Certainly. In less than two years this
church has colouized and now controls
one entire county in Arizona. There are
more than 900 residents there to-day of
the Mormon faith and most of them
voters. This settl' men' is stepping to the
front in the politics of the territory and
has even commenced to agitare the aues-
ton of removing the capital to their
midst. Let them put up man liks Tom
Fitch, for instance, for delegate to WASH
ington and that trcksler, who Is
thoroughly in sympathy with Nor
monsm, can draw a sight draft ON South
ern Utah for all the votes he needs from
that surplus Mormon stock"
The daily gazette., 1878-11-15
Personal.

Definitions Of coolness Stepping up
to bank President and asking, who's
your janitor"
Governor Hampton is able to sleep
without the use of anodynes and is slow
ly recovering.
Miss Rye, the English philanthropist,
is said to be badly in debt. If Miss Rye
loves company she should visit this coun-
try at once.
Mr.. Emery Speer, of the Ninth Georgia
District, will be the youngest member OF
the Forty-sixth Congress.
AT the burial of Richard Realf in San
Francisco last week, a pretty little CIR
ofseven planted bunch of daisies on his
grave in Difference to the request in his
last poem, "Plant Daisies at my Feet"
Ex-senator Pomeroy, of uusavory re.
puraiion, has long INDUCED the hope oi
being again sent to represent Kansas In
the Senate aud now comes to the crue
report that Senator ingalls, is likely to be
reelected