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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26

Iwould respectfully call the at
tention of the people of Bradford
and vicinity to my new patterns and
fine work, consisting of Monuments
Headstones, Tablets, etc. 1 can
truly say l have the largest and
finest stock of finished Tablets, both
large and small, nicely carved, also,
the finest monuments, both Marble
and Granite that can be found for
sale in this vicinity without any
doubt. My work will speak for
itself. Please call and see. All
of which ! will offer lower than the
lowest. Thanks for the patronage
of the past, solicit continuance of
the same. Ii. M. GRIFFIN.
Shop LIST door North of engine
house. Sale room in Lows brick
store, Main street, Bradford, Vt.
41tf
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26


At Washington our author goes
on to say, ~ saw the White House,
the official residence of the Presi.
dent of America" The house In q
low two story one, white in color,
situated in the centre OF o small
farm close to the town. President
Evart, tho present occupant, has sat
for nearly eight years In the Pres.
ident's chair, and during the length
ened term of Office has been the
means Of doing much for the wei.
fare of the United States"
Concerning New York we are
told that it is "a pretty but not a
clean town." "a half mile from
the Castle Gardens you come to
the Telegraph Oflice.' 1.-THE City
is Il very chastc and complete build
ing, saw some really fine private
carriages with handsome high spir-
tied horses, driven by a colored
man which to my idea set off to adj.
van tage the whole turnout" Brib.
cry and corruption prevail every.
where. zone Tweed, commonly
called Bos Tweed, who was once
Mayor of New York, during his
term of office appropriated some six
millions of dollars Of the public
funds" "He was lodged in Jail,
but escaped recently, and has not
been scent or heard from SINCE"
"The climate OF New York is vari.
able, and You will find the ground
covered with snow in the middle of
April"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26
old practice of having wide cracks

old practice Of having wide cracks
in the siding Of o barn no as to
areate and cure q NOW Of hay was
oil wrong. The hay contiguous to
these cracks was sure to be dam
aged. TO refer to our mothers
mode of curing herbs again, they
put their dried herbs in paper bags
and tied them up tight 80 that the
aroma might be preserved in full
strength. We should adopt the
same principle in preserving our
hay, keep it from tho air so that it
may come out in the winter 10
fragrant as green tea comes out
from its lead. lined, alright chest.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26

In Paris where fantastic shoot
ing is very much in vogue, he il
known as lie diable Americain.'
He has time and again at fifteer
PAGES put one hundred shots con.
secutively into a space of on ordi.
nary playing-card. On q recent
date, as showing his ability for long
range firing with the pistol, be
struck two caps out of three shots
at distance of sixty feet. As the
ordinary musket cap is about one.
eighth of an inch across, the mere
seeing of the mark was somewhat
of a feat, but to see and hit as well
was something entirely beyond the
common. Yet it was done at time
previously agreed upon before .
large number of marksmen, incIu-
ding many members of the New
York and Zettler Rife Clubs. With
a Stevens twelve-inch barrel pistol,
distance one hundred and twenty.
five feet, Mr.. Lord picked off q
couple of three-quarter inch bullets,
using right and left hand i'm turn.
Three consecutive three quarter
inch bullets fell at forty-five feet
before shots from a large-sized
Smith & Wesson revolver, Russian
model, heavy trigger pull. !
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26

Many attempts have been made
TO bring together Mr.. Lord aud Re-
corder Hackett, and the club men
have backed these famous pistol
shots on several occasions, but the
Judge is somewhat wary.-[N. Y
World.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26

Necessity may be the mother finven-
ton, but laziness is certainly the father
OF it.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26
NHOD"H
NE W GOODS!

Having just received the second 10
| Of Dress Goods II makes
mn assortment the best in this ricini.
tn. NeO Cashmere Deberges,
WOrsted Dress Goods, Black
Bunting. .JacOnets,
Grass Cloths, FOu-
lard CambI'ics, Dress
Linens, CretOns, a good
variety of ClOakings, Shawls,
Velvet Trimmings, Ruffles,
White Marsailes, shetland
Shawls, a good line Of Ladies'
Skirts, the best 80 cent Corset
in torn. A great vdriety Of HO-
siery and Gloves from 8 cents up.
ParasOls, Toilet Quilts, Ia
BILE Linen, Towels and Nap
kins, Russia Diaper. My as
sortment Of w. L. Goods !!
md Groceries is complete, hare the
best Teas for the money Of any one.
II you are IN ,oant Of goods of any
description, this Is the place to find
hem. Come and see.
WIN. B. STEVENS.
May 2Sth, 10. i
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
The PansieS.

We put in a strong plea for the pam
sy. With little imagination you can
see them looking up at you with hu-
man face. They can stand almost any
treatment or temperature, and are ma
tives of Siberia. They have several
pet names" Forget-me-not," "Call
Me to You," "Thought," "Jump Up
and Kiss Me-" and various others. They
prefer a shady place, cool and moist.
Never raise the beds to plant them in.
The shady side of a house is good
place. They are called "Step- Moth
ers," from an imaginary popularity.
Turn flower over, and you will see
five flags and five seats or chairs. The
biggest flag, the mother, occupies two
seats; the next two, her own daughters,
each one scat; and the last two,
her step-daughters, and nearly al
ways clad in dark color, have
to sit upon one chair only. Pan
sizes pay largely by their modest de-
pertinent and smiling faces from April
until November, And if cold frame
be provided for them they will bloom
all winter. They are brilliant in va
riety and profuse in quantity of flowers.
While they live under hard treatment,
they produce finer and larger flowers
by good care. The variety of one
plain color is called "selfs," or selfish.
They are not SO beautiful as those in
which small colors are combined. The
most prevalent kinds are the plain
purple and violet of many shades. But
there are pure white, and pure yellow,
as we'll as stained, blotched, variegated,
copper-colored. etc. They always in
crease in size and beauty in the fall, as
the weather grows cooler.-loa0a State
Re0iSter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10

beneath. If the point of the stake
strikes the hard surface of wood in
stead of sinking easily into the morass,
the soil is cleared away and square
foot of the stump exposed. The prac-
ticed eye of the single man can tell
at once whether the log is useful, the
requisites for use being straight grain
throughout, with no knots, soundness
and no decay. If q sound, good log,
it is then uncovered, sawed through,
and raised.
When the log was completely raised,
our guide resumed his work, splitting
the sawed sections up into shingles.
Taking a seat on one of the dryest of
the fallen logs, he took large .'chunk"
upright between his knees. He used a
broad knife-blade, with long wooden
handle, which he placed on the log,
driving it into the wood with heavy
hardwood mallet such as is used by
sculptors and stone-carvers. At a lit
tie distance from him shaggy-looking
fellow with q red shirt and patched
trousers, was sitting at shingle-horse,
shaving the split slabs of wood smooth
and tapering. Beside him lay pile
of clean, crisp-looking shavings, emit
ting that odor peculiar to well-seasoned
cypress. The horse used is the ordi-
nary cooper's horse, and needs no spe-
cial description. From this point the
shingles are carried to the roadside, to
be handy for transportation.-Hosoard
Pyle, in Harper's Magazine for July.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
THE WHIP-POOR. WILL.

WHEN apple-branches, flushed with bloom.
LoSd june warm evenings with perfume,
anu palmer grows each perfect day,
Anu nelas are sweet with new -mO~n hay.
linen, minstrel lone. hear thy note,
Up from the pasture thickets fioat-
Mhip-pOor-will!
ihine arc the hours to love eudeared.
And summoned by thy accents weird,
MnAt wild regrets what tender pain
Recalls my youthful dreams again,
As floating down the shadOwy years,
That old refrain fond memory hears
Whip-pOOr-will!
The garish day inspires thee not:
But hid in some deep-shaded Rrot,
Thou like u sad recluse dCst wait
The silver hours inviOlate.
When every karsher sound is flown.
Aud groves and glens are thine alone.
Whip poOr-will!
Then, when the rapt, voluptuous night
Pants IN the young mOOns tender light,
ANA woods and cliffs. and shimmering streams
Are splendid in her argent beams
How thrills the lovers heart to hear
lily loud staccato. iQuid-clear.
Whip-poor-will!
Whence comes thy iterated phrase,
That to the wondering ear conveys
half-human sounds vet cheats the sense
With vagueness of intelligence,
And. like wandering voice of air,
Haunts the dim fields We know not where,
.Whip-poor- will1
II. S. Cornrel in Scrsbner FOR July.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
Summer Round Hats.

ANOvELTY for round hats is the intro
duction of the white India muslin scarf
to be wound around the neck, or else
to be drawn over the face when veil
is needed. This is the sheerest cream
white muslin, and is very effective on
the Scotch turbans that are lately i'm
ported. A black English straw turban
has the closely-rolled brim covered
with gay Scotch plaid velvet, while two
full rosettes of myrtle green satin are
on the left of the crown. The India
muslin scarf is then twined around the
crown. and hangs down behind consid-
erably over yard in length.
The Fayal straw round hats for out
of-tOwn use arc very daintily trimmed
with shirred foulard inside the brim,
and q grenadine scarf around the
crown; field-hower clusters are under
the brim on the left side and behind.
But this straw is very frail, and in its
place the rough-and-ready or the
Mackinaw straws are preferred, with
stiff brims, and in creamy yellow,
brown or black. Very stylish black
rough straw hats have the straight
stiff brim lined with black satin, on
which three rows Of gold braid are
laid near the edge. Around the crown
is wide satin scarf; q red and black
wing is stuck in the left side. Others,
of rough yellow straw, shade the fore
head. and are short behind without
being turned up. These are trimmed
with rosettes of raveled satin in two
alternate colors, such as cream and
red, or yellow with bottle green; the
rosettes are around the crown, and
there is q large Alsatian bow on top
made of black velvet, or of satin-striped
dark green ribbon. Sometimes white
muslin scarf trims such hats, and still
others have wide silk scarfs in stripes
of blue with old gold, or red with
green. Regular flats of rough straw
have alternate plaitings of black and of
white Breton lace around the crown,
and partly covering the brim. Poppy
buds, green wheat, oats or bluettes
with long stems, tied in q bunch, are
then set on the back to lean forward
on the crown. This is very pretty ON
black straws with the brim lined with
buff foulard laid in plaits from the edge
toward the middle. Shirred hats Of
ecru batiste are made to match suits,
and are trimmed with scarf of Alge-
rienne silk in bright Oriental hues.
The most dressy round hat for the gay
toilette to be worn at Saratoga and
Newport remains the Leghorn fiat,
with the brim pinched in to make two
Or three curves, and the spaces filed in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
Speculation.

Since the creation, it is estimated that q,
OOo, GOO, OOO, OOO,O 900 have lived on the earth.
This sum divided by q, 1854, 900, the number
OF square miles, gives 81, So ,Os6 to square
rod, and to square foot. Suppose square
rod be divided into IL graves, each grave
would contain 100 persons. But this is specu.
lation, and of no benefit to the LOCO, OOr, OjO
people that now exist, SOC, OOO, 600 OF whom
are invalds, 80, OC0, 900 dying each year. What
they most want are the facts concerning DIR.
Pierce's Family Medicines. For years his
Golden Medical Discovery has been the stand
ard remedy for the cure Of all scrofulous,
throat and lung diseases. While for over q
quarter of q century DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy has been unrivaled as positive cure fol
catarrh. The testimony of thousands Of Ia.
dies has been published, certifying that DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription positively cures
the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to WON.
Common Sense Medical Adviser, an illus.
trated work of over 800 pages, price (post-
paid), $1.5O. Over 100, 600 copies sold. AID.
dress the author, R. v. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo
N "
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
"ANTI-FAT."

SHE dreaded to be stout
If she should grow less slender,
She fancied it would end her
Mortal life: she d feel 30 vexed
She, d quit this world for the next
Without n murmur.
And. as the days did pass,
With that poor lass
This firm conviction grew but firmer;
81. in mood quite apprehensive,
That maiden pensive
Began n diet of chalk,
Obesity to balk.
Much vinegar she drank
That she might still be lank;
Slate-pencils. too. she chewed
With more than manly fortitude;
Then came the frequent pickle;
Then came Death with his sicklei
And now that maiden fair repcses
Under the roses!
-Kansas City Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
Extraordinary Efforts to Capture q
Gang Of Bandits.

The police and military of Oran, Al
geria, undertook a campaign against
bandits last month. They were led by
all the civil and military officers of the
town, and its entire population took q
holiday to witness their labors. Going
to one of the suburbs, they carefully
surrounded q ravine wherein is the
outlet of large sewer into which the
smaller drains of the town debouch.
Some gardeners, working in the ra-
vine, had heard the sounds of voices
escaping from this sewer, and had in
formed the town authorities that it
was the lurking-pla of robbers who
have for months been making sue
cessful raids on the strong boxes of
the good people of Oran. When the
ravine had been inclosed, and it had
been made certain that the malefact-
ors were hemmed in, Sergeant and
two zouaves were sent to the mouth
OF the sunken sewer to summon them to
surrender.
Surrender yourselvesr' the Ser
geant cried. Surrender yourselves!"
q deep voice replied from within the
dark cavern. Making up his mind
that the robbers were determined to
fight, the Sergeant cried to Police
Inspector in the Iear, Pass me my
revolver" His words were repeated
in the cavern, and the voice by which
they we're reuttered was evidently that
of fearless, resolute person. At the
same time there was 8 mockery in
the tone and in the repetition of his
language that angered the valiant
Sergeant, who said, wrathfully: i" You
impudent sons of guns (coqui'ss. }
The epithets were hurled back at the
Sergeant and his two supporters, who,
with much astonishment, heard them
selves called, "You impudent sons of
guns"
Puzzled by this extraordinary con-
duct, the Sergeant, not knowing what
else to do to conceal the fact that he
and his subordinates had been called
bad names by the fellows in the drain,
went to his superiors and told them he
believed the bandits wanted to parley
with their besiegers. Then the special
representative of the Republic OF
France, M. Vialo. and the Mayor OF
Oran, and the Chief of Police, and the
Mayor in command of The military,
went to the mouth of the sewer. Each
in turn spoke to the robbers, and all
received satisfactory answers, couched,
strangely enough, in the terms they had
themselves used. Night fell before the
parleying was done, and the robbers
gave no indication of an intention to
issue from their retreat and surrender
themselves. The police and military
blockaded them all night. and about
four thousand townspeople watched the
siege with interest. In the morning il
was determined to risk q combat with
the thieves. The police, armed to the
teeth, therefore, boldly entered the
cavern. They searched its smalles,
nook and innermost recess, and found
not even the shadow of q robber
The acoustic properties of the sewer
were tested, and number of face.
tious echoes were found to have mas.
queraded as talkative brigands and i'm
pudent respondents to the summonses
Of justice.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
Mixed Butter.

The butter received by dealers in our
large cities from country grocers, and
made up of the various lots brought in
by their several customers, pretty much
all of which finally finds its way into
what is technically called 'grease but
teri by the trade, is much Of it, when
sold by the farmers wife, really good
butter. The difficulty is, the country
dealer, either from want of know1-
edge or from inattention, mixes the
good and the bad Unfortunately to-
gether in packing. Thus, one bad or
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
How the Buddhist Priesthood Is Re.
cruited in China. 80 4,

The ranks of the Buddhist priest
hood in China are generally recruited
by children, purchased either from
their parents or from kidnapers. It
is only in times of great distress that
the poorer Chinese will sell even their
daughters, still less the valued son on
whom may possibly devolve the para
mount duty. of conducting the ances-
trail worship; kidnapping, however, is
by no means an uncommon crime,
albeit the punishment on detection is
speedy and ignominious death. Oc-
casionally parents dedicate child to
Buddha perhaps in fulfillment of q
VOW, and the victim is there and then
formally made over to the church by
deeds signed, sealed and delivered.
From this step there is no withdrawal.
The child's head is completely shaved;
he is made to live on q vegetable diet
and to forego the use of wines. He is
taught to chant the Buddhist liturgies,
without understanding a word of them,
and, after required novitiate, proves
his constancy to the faith by standing
unmoved while several pastiles burn
down into the scalp, leaving the inerad-
icable scars which testify to the fact
that he has put away forever the things
of this world and has been regularly
ordained as q priest. He has now
cleft his home" in good earnest, and
all that remains to him in this world is
life of celibacy and dull routine.
Criminals fleeing from justice not un-
frequently seek refuge in a religious
life, submitting to the branding of
their heads and the subsequent discom-
forts of cloister existence rather than
fall into the merciless meshes of the
Chinese law. Sometimes, too, unsuc-
cessful mandarins throw themselves
into monastery and take the VOWS,
driven to such y step by dread of the
imperial frown. It is said that the
foolish officer who, during the war of
1841-42, laid at the foot of the throne
his discovery of the secret of foreign
steamers, and forthwith produced a
vessel with two huge paddle-wheels
turned by coolies inside, is even now
languishing in one of the numerous
monasteries on the celebrated Lofou
Hill, in the province of Kuangtung,
whittier he retired after the failure, of
his scheme, covered with ignominy and
shame. CornhiN MagGzine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
That Barrel.

JUST as the last rays of the setting
sun were gliding the church spires
and whitewashing the back kitchens of
Detroit the other afternoon, man and
q barrel were discovered at a stairway
on Monroe avenue. He was q small
man and it was big barrel, and pc
destrians who saw him looking up the
stairs and back at the barrel inferred
to the third story. But howP
I'D rig tackle and pulley in that
third story window" said the first
man who halted. "That's your easiest
way, and there's no danger of acct
dent"
He leaned against the lamp-post to
calculate on the length of rope and the
lifting power required, and along came
a second man. who took in the situation
at q glance, and said:
"Go and get some scantlings four
teen feet long, and lay 'em on the stairs.
Then two men can roll that barrel up
there as slick as grease"
The little man looked around in a
helpless sort of . way, and third man
came clustering up, and called out:
"Want to get that barrel up stairs,
ehP Well, now, fasten your pulley at
the head of the stairs, and ten men
down here can snake the barrel up in
no time. Where's your tacklee'
By this time the crowd had increased
to twenty, and was pretty evenly di-
vided between y dead lift through one
of the front windows and pulley at
the top of the. stairs; but the man
who suggested the skids had q very
loud voice, and was determined to car
~ his point. Taking off his coat, he
said:
81 know what I'm talking. about,
and say that can skid that barrel
up there alone. You just wait min
ute."
He crossed the street to an unfinished
building and returned with . couple of
2x4 scantlings and laid them on the
stairs, and the crowd now numbered
fifty.
"You want this barrel on the third
floor, do your" he asked of the little
man. E
"Yes-but-but -"
=" But whatP''
"Why, was waiting for my wife
to get the clothes-horse out of the up
per hall. She's all ready now, and I'll
take it up"
And the little man shouldered the
barrel and trotted briskly up stairs be-
tween the skids. It was emptyl-De-
tyoit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
Making Shingles In the Dismal Swamp.

As WE plunged deeper into the swamp
the trees increased in size. Here and
there black pool of water lay glcam-
ing sullenly, hiding, as it we're, among
thick growth of rank ferns and ven
omous-looking flowers. Vine-covered
expresses rose high aloft, the inevitable
streamers of gray moss hanging mo-
tionlessly pendent. The noise Of the
shingle-cutters sounded ever more
clearly, like the rapping of gigantic
woodpeckcr-" tap, tap, tap; tap, tap,
tap''-as they chopped out the shingles,
the sound of the voices of the invisible
workmen and an occasional burst of
laughter echoing mysteriously in the
gloomy and otherwise unbroken soli-
tude; and so we came upon the single
center.
The workmen had just excavated a
log, the butt or root part within few
inches of the surface of the ground, the
stem at the farther end some two OF
three feet below. At about twenty feet
distance from the butt q young man
was busy saving through the log. His
cheeks were hollow, his features angu.
lar, general cadaverous look betoken-
ing chills and fever. The saw had q
handle only at one end, like the instru.
ment used for cutting ice. The sharp
end struck deeply into the ground al
every movement, but was not dulled,
because of the entire freedom from grit
of the soil, composed as it is of decayed
bark and vegetation.
We watched with interest, taking q
sketch in the mean time, until the log
was sawed through. 1t now made a
section about twenty feet long, and
comparatively easy to handle. The
gang. composed of half q dozen hands,
now set to work to raise it from its
resting place, with long levers of stout
saplings, the process accompanied with
many grunts and oaths. It was q pic.
turesque sight--the men in their red
and blue shirts straining and tugpino
at the giant log that lay in its long crave
like cavity. At length it starts at one
end with sucking noise as it leaves it,
oozy bed, is gradually raised to the
surface, and is finally rolled bodily out
of its excavation to the fresh air, where
it lies like some newly disinterred an
tediluvian monster, huge, black and
Shiny.
"a purity good log" says one of thu
men, as he draws the sleeve of his rec
shirt across his sweat-beaded brow.
When the log is thus finally raised i
is sawed into sections each about two
feet in length; these are then spill
down TO the requisite thickness fol
shingles. . The logs are first discovered
by means of . sharp iron stake, which
u thrust into the ground wherever {
slight mound-like elevation betokens
| the probable presence Of q log or log