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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30
Mrs. Senator jones' Diamonds.

Senator Jones, of Nevada, having re-
plenished his depleted exchequer by a
fortunate rise in Sierra Nevada stock,
comes back with his beautiful young
wife and maiden sister to occupy his
half of the Butler Block, on Capitol
Hill. He left here five months ago for
his home at Gold Hill, "dead broke"
in vulgar parlance, or "busted," rs
the miners term it. Foreseeing the
rise in mining stocks, he invested all
he could raise or borrow in Sierra Ne
vada, and reaped a rich return. Still
he had not enough to fill the measure
of his opportunity. His wife had y
splendid diamond necklace, for which
he had paid in opulent days the sum of
$35,OOO, and which she, being a retir-
ing little body, not given to display,
had never worn but once.
"My DEAR" said he to her one day,
eff you will let me invest your dia-
monds in Sierra Nevada you shall have
the proceeds for pin-money."
GAS you please" said the dutiful
little woman. "You know l never
wear them.''
Senator Jones is not the man to go
hawking his wife's jewels about the
streets, so he offered them to the first
Jew he met, and received $4,000 for
them, which he invested on margin in
her name, and to-day she is worth
$11O, 900 in registered bonds. He paid
his debts, Cancelled the mortgage on
his 800, 900 worth of furniture, which
Butler held as collateral for three years.
rent, and in less than half a year re-
turns with several millions to spare.
And that is the way they do things
"out West.' The Jones family will
give several grand entertainments dur
ing the winter, la San Francisco
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Times.
-Groat tr1tha and GREAT men are
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"A few evenings ago, a young man
named Adams started from Columbia
to this city on horseback. He thought
that it would be more pleasant to ride
on the railroad track, and striking the
track just out of Columbia spurred his
horse into q gallop. Adams says that
he thought his familiarity with the
track would keep him. out of danger,
but all at once the horse came to q
bridge which was without flooring.
Adams was thrown over the horses
head as the poor. animals legs went
through When he recovered con-
seriousness he found himself hanging
head down under the bridge, one foot
being fast in the stirrup. He was so
bruised that he could not lift himself,
and there he remained in the greatest
agony. There was whistle and q
roar, and he knew that train was
coming. As the wheels crashed over
the bridge he felt shock. The cow
catcher had thrown the horse of, but
the saddle was wedged in between stills.
He hung until sunrise and was then
rescued, almost dead. Houston (Te1. }
IetCQfOn1. ~
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He Meant Well, But Got Flogging.

AN elderly, good man in the First
Ward, prominent citizen, had an ex-
perience Friday night which showed
the kindness of his heart, though he
did get a beating for it. The affair has
two sides-serious and humorous. It
was about nine o'clock when Mr.. Citi-
zen was disturbed by a racket at his
front fence. He went out and found a
horse plunging against the fence, while
in the cutter was an uptown citizen too
drunk to direct the horse Alright. Our
First WarGer kindly concluded to take
the rig and the man to the latter's
home, and SO jumped into the cutter
and drove for uptown, taking Second
street. just above Fillmore street he
stopped alta grocery to see if he couldn't
get somebody else to render the drunk
en- man the service, as he didn't like
the idea of footing it away back to his
home SO late at night. While he was
arranging with q young man to per-
form the service, the drunken fellow
gathered the reins up and drove Off
and as he did so, another rig. with q
young man and his sister in the cutter,
drove up to the place. The young man
jumped out and went into the grocery.
The First Warder and his young man
stepped out of the door, and the latter
went up to the cutter to step into it.
He suddenly turned to his elderly friend
with, "What are you giving me? 1t's
a woman in this cutter!'' g woman?'
was the response, "I'll show you what
kind of woman it is-it's Blank: he's
got upon the seat, and wrapped him
self up. ! say, here, getting sober,
ehP'' and he took hold of the party on
the seat to give him shake. lmmedi-
ately woman screamed, IS Let me be!
Brother, brother, come here!' The
brother was opening the door when he
heard the scream, and he dashed at the
First Warder and gave him . most
severe beating, knocking him right and
left and-down, never waiting for an
explanation till after he was through.
And then. he didn't, for he, bounded
into the cutter and drove of. While
the matter was pretty serious for the
victim, it had such a ]udicrous side to
it that he himself couldn't help laugh
ing when he was in the store washing
the blood off his face and clothing
Davenport llosOa) Gazette.
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Speaking Mutes.

A SCHOOL of deaf children is in it
self curious and affecting sight. The
noises-for noise is not absent-are not
toned down by any sense of necessary
precaution. Harsh little cries take the
place of the pretty whisperings of
childhood, and the excess of meaning
in their looks is sadly contrasted with
the want of meaning in those broken
sounds which come from their little
throats, like the cries of fedglings
anxious and discordant. Our first ex-
perience, however, of the school re-
ferred to, was of q crowd of hands
held out to be shaken, and IS How do
you do?" of monotonous, but sufficient
ly distinct utterance, one of the first
requirements, evidently, of the little
mutes, upon whom education only
confers the gift of speech. Their voice
is not q sweet or liquid voice. It is
muffled and monotonous, and betrays
at once q stiffness of the unaccustomed
muscles, difficulty of movement and
thickness of tone; but it is not dis
cordant, nor loud, nor harsh. After
this universal greeting, the children
returned to their seats and their
studies, and the smallest and newest of
all the pupils-those who were still at
the beginning of their education
were brought up, to show the first
stage of the process. Naturally, this
first stage-the manner in which these
little Imprisoned intelligences are
made aware that they possess a latent
faculty BY which they can commune
cate with those around them-is the
most curious stage of all. 1t is begun
by play. The teacher places an India
rubber ball on. her hand, which the
little pupil has to set in motion by
blowing at it with all the force of his
little lungs; or she produces . blad-
der, attached to . tube, which he
has in the same way to puff out with
his breath. The ball rolls along;
he perceives that this breath Of
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CONGRESS-.

TUESDAY, Jan. 14.-In the Senate,
q resolution was agreed to directing the Hecre.
tary of the Interior to inquire and report what
railroad company. individual or individuals an
building railr0ad across the public domain ir
Arizona, and BY what authority the road q beina
was taken up. and an amendment was sereed 10
-. In the House, in Committee Of the Whole
the bill for the payment Of pensions to the sur.
vivors of the Mexican and other warn was con.
appointments to fill vacancies IL Cd omittees a.
follows: Judiciary, FOrney (Ala); District Of Go.
lumbla. TOwnahend oily; Foreign Afairs, Ack.
len Ua.); Militia. Young UA.)
WEDNESDAY, Jan. ia resolution
was agreed to. in the Senate. instructing the
COMMITTEES ON Indian Affaim to inquire into the
circumstances which led 10 the recent escase Of
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Text Of the New Pension Law.
The Pension bill which passed the
National House of Representatives on
the last night of the previous session,
and the Senate. on the 10th, is as fol-


lows: .a. - H..
An act to provide that all pensions on account Of
death or wounds received or disease contracted
in the service of the United States during the
late War of the Rebellion, which have been
granted, or which shall hereafter be granted,
shall commence from the date of death or dis
charge from the service of the United States, and
for the payment of arrears, pensions and other
purposes. .t--
De it enacted, ETC., That all pensions which have
been granted under the general law regulating
pensions. or may hereafter be granted in conse-
quence of death from causes which originated in
the United States service during the continuance
Of the late War Of the Rebellion, or in consequence
Of wounds, injuries, or disease received
or contracted in said service during
said Waf of the Rebellion, shall commence from
son on whose account the claim has been, or may
hereafter be, granted or from the termination Of
the right Of the party having prior title to such
tervening time for which arrears Of pension arc
hereby granted shall be the same per month for
which the pension was originally granted.
hereby authorized and directed to adopt such rules
and regulations for the payment of arrears of PEN
sions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause
to be paid to such pensioners, or, If pensioners
shall have died, to the person or persons entitled
to the same all such arrears of pension as the PEN
sioncr may be, would have been, entitled to un-
der this act.
SEC 3. That Sec. Att of the Revised Statutes,
which provides that no claim for pension not
prosecuted to successful issue within five years
from the date Of the filing Of the same shall be ad
mitted without recorded evidence from the
War or Navy Department of the injury or disease
which resulted in disability or death Of the person
on whose account the claim is made; Pr0rided,
hnt any IN q
claimant may present through the Pension Office to
General of the Navy, evidence that the disease or
injury which resulted in disability or death of the
person on whose account the claim is made origin
atcd in the service and in the line of duty, and if
such evidence is deemed satisfactory by the Off
GERS to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause
the record of the fact so proved to be made and a
copy of the same transmitted to the Commissioner
Of Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution of the
claim shall thereby be removed, and the same Is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. No Claim Agent or other person shall be
entitled to receive any compensation for services
in making application for arrears Of pension.
Sec. 5. That all acts parts Of acts, so far a.
they may conflict with the provisions of this act, be
and the same are hereby repealed.
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Self.Made Literary Men.

Mr.. JAMES T. FIELDS writes an inter-
esting letter describing Bayard Taylor
first appearance in Boston. Itreminds
of how many there are distinguished in
American literature who have obtained
this position without the aid of q col
lege education. Bayard Taylor was a
poor printers boy, and he became the
most versatile of our authors, with a
reputation in both continents, and a
position of the highest rank. both in
public estimation and in that of his
associates. When he came to Boston,
thirty-four years ago, after emerging
from obscurity into favor through his
own efforts, the two men who were the
most active in taking him by the hand
were Mr.. James T. Field, himself then
only recently a booksellers apprentice,
and Mr.. Edwin P. Whipple, who was
superintendent of Boston newsroom.
Many other examples, both earlier and
later, will doubtless occur to your
readers. The whole array of eminent
women who have done SO much for our
National reputation would, of course,
be included in the list. Maria Brooks
C"Maria del Occidente''), who was so
praised by Southey, and whose reputa-
ton is lately revived in Harper's Maga-
zjse by Z. B. Gustafson-Maria Brooks
was the wife of Boston tailor. From
her, down to Mrs. Stowe and her later
sisters, the list is strong one. Take,
too, the younger writer's of Boston to-
day. Mr.. William d. Howells, like
Bayard Taylor, began life in a printing
office, and never had the advantages of
q university. Mr.. r. B. Aldric6 got
his education only in the schools and
in trade, except what he obtained by
self-culture, and Mr.. &. p. Lathrop is
not a college educated man. Mr.. F..
H. Underwood, the protector and one
of the first editors Of the Atlantic
Monthly, and q very scholarly man,
both in taste and achievement, ought
to be added to this list of those who
were not dependent upon college
education. Hartford C0urast.
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. THE POTTER INVESTIGATION.
The proceedings before the com
m i<too Xvoro voouu al ~, thu Nth -------

The proceedings before the COM
mittce were resumed on the 14th:,
]. Henri Birch, Presidential Elector- Large of
Louisiana, testified that he signed the second set
of certificates having been informed that the first
set were informal; knew nothing personally of the
forgery of signatures.
Mr.. Kelly was recalled, and testified, after much
pressure, that the name of JeriOn was forged, but
he was not 50 sure as to the name Of Leviesee He
said JeffriOn's name was forged by D. p. Blanch-
ard, clerk in Gov. Kcllogg's Office. None but
witness and Blanchard were present at the time.
been approached by Maddox, who introduced him
to George w. Carter, who said he came in the inter-
est of the committee. In conversation, the latter
had told witness, az an inducement for him to tes-
tfy, that NO questions should be asked. him which
would injure him or his friends. Carter
said the object of the committee was to make po-
litiCal capital for Tilden, against Thurman, and
snSesstea Ne was cartwright go to California 90
mileage. Blanchard who committed the bX tpS
noted above, was, the witness said, dead. on
being asked to write the name Of Jeffrion, the
witness declined. At the request Of Gen. Butler
letters to friends and another for business Being
asked why he used two signatures, witness replied
that it suited him to have different signaturel.
Mr.. Potter, the Chairman, stated that he had
else, to speak to the witness Kelly, in regard to
his evidence or otherwise. Adjourned until the
10th.
The Chairman was absent when the
committee convened on the morning Of the 18th,
being detained in New York on account of illness
in his family. Mr.. Morrison took the chair, and
mentioned that st. Martin was present, and could
be called If the committee desired. At the sug-
geston of Mr.. Cox, it was decided to wait and hear
what Mr. Shelabarger had to say before calling St.
Martin. Some discussion took place about placing
the latter's affidavit on record. Without taking
action, the committee adjourned.
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An Irishmah tells OF q fight In
which there was only one whole nose
left in the whole crowd, "and that be-
longed to the tea-kettle."
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The Rev. Robert Collyer says that
the story of the Yorkshire Post, about
his meeting with an old fellow-laborer
in England and leaving rich host to
90 home to dinner with him, is only q
piece of Imagination.
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was mistaken one, and believed that its in
Justice would soon be made manifest

A Washington dispatch Of the 18th
says the yellow-fever experts were in session
in that city, preparing their report. The
medical members were unanimous in the
opinion that the fever was imported into New
Orleans from Cuba through the very lax
quarantine of that city, and the members
av National Quarantine act There was
at che present time, cay the experts, notwith.
standing the unprecedented severity Of the
season, very severe case Of yellow fever at
New Orleans, which directly controverted the
accepted theory that the disease is destroyed
by temperature of 80 deg. Fair.
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Sc Times inaudible and noiseless
FOOT is sh0d in a boot made on the
last Of the year -Bostos Transcript.
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THE MARKETS.

Great truths and great men are
ALWAYS simple.
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On the morning of the 18th, Mrs.
Kate N. Cobb who. for many days previous,
had been on trial at Norwich, Conn.,, for the
murder OF her husband, and whom the iurv
on the previous night declared to be guilty,
was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the
Connecticut State Prison. She subsequently,
through her counsel, made . statement to the
public, in which fhe solemnly declared that
she was innocent of the crime for which she
was convicted. She did not question the hon.
esty Of the jury, but insisted that the verdict
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A. j. Bryant (colored), State sena-
Abram Thomas (colored), of the Bliss

@H0H UNI = HO1"esS (001O1c0J, Oh JIG OIISS
Plantation, Tensas Parish, testified, on the 18th,
that during the late election ne met q body of
armed whites, who chased him; that night the
same men came and took Charley Bethel, colored
man, ont ofhis house, shot him. and cut his throat:
away
Ross Stewart prominent colored politician Of
Tensas. member Of the Legislature testified
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Thomas w. Rocker Il Co., of Gla-
morganshire, in Wales, iron-masters, have
failed for large amount. They owe the
Bristol and West of England Bank, which
lately suspended, S3,OOO,OOO.
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The Republican caucus of the Hi
nois Legislature, on the evening of the 18th,
nominated Gen. John A. Logan for Uuited
States Senator. The vote on the first ballot
was: Logan, 50; Oglesby, 26.
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Martin Bergan. an alleged "Mollie
Mcguire" was hung at Pottsville, Pa, on the
10th, for murder committed eight years ago.
He exhibited great bravery on the scaffold.
Bergan is the nineteenth "Mollie" hanged.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CuRRur RARAaRAPus.

President Mcmahon has issued . de-
cree pardOning 1,S0O Communists.
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John p. Jones has been reelected
United States Senator by the Nevada Legis-
lature, the vote standing. Jones, 20; Hill
mouse (Dem), IA. The Colorado Legislature
mas elected N. P. Hill (Rep.) to the United
States Senate.
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BY the late snOw-stOrm, the Sheep
farmers of Scotland lost over 100, 900 head of
sheep.
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EbeuF. Stone has been elected Chair
man of the Massachusetts, Republican State
Central Committee.
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The North Wales Miners Union has
voted g to every member cmigrating to
America, and ETA to emigrants to Australia.
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A dispatch from Philipopolis, re-
ceived in London on the 18th, states that, on
the 18th, railway train fell into the River
Arda, in consequence of the breaking of
bridge, and that Russian General, several
other officers and 200 men were drowned.
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The New York Sun of the 10th said
that it was stated, upon authority so trust
worthy as to leave but little doubt of the cor
rectness of the report, that Mrs. A. T. Stewart
had told at least two persons that the remains
of her husband had been recovered. Fifty
thousand dollars is the amount said to have
been paid for the return of the body.
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The Eleventh Annual Convention of
the Woman Suffrage Association recently
met in Washington. Addresses were made,
papers read and a committee appointed to
wait upon the President and inform him that
there are 10000. 600 women in the United
States, ana rnat, having ignored them in his
late message, it would be wise for him to
make some mention of them in future mes
sagcs.
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Hon. Daniel Voorhees, was nomi-
mated for United States Senator by the Demo-
Gratis of the Indiana Legislature, on the 10th.
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The Supreme Court of the United
States has lately decided that polygamy is
crime against the laws of the United States,
and that the law prohibiting bigamy and
polygamy Is Constitutional. Cannon, the
Utah Delegate, hopes to get bill, it is stated
through the present Congress, providing that
the decision shall not be retroactive, and says
the practice will be abandoned,
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At the New York fire, on the night
of the 18th, fireman named Reilly was killed.
When his body was brought home next morn
ing, his wife gazed moment at it and then
dropped dead upon the floor
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The Secretary of the Treasury, on
the 18th, issued another call for the redemp-
ton of $50 bonds. The call is for $4,000,
N0-slO,OOO,OOOc coupon and $4,000, 900 regis
tered-interest to cease on the 18th of April.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-02
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Wisconsin watering place resorts are un-
commonly full of visitors this season.
The Berlin marshes are producing q fine
crop of cranherries. The berries are we'll ad-
vanced and in good condition.
1t is rumored that the railroad machine
shops and round house at Eau Claire are
about to be removed to Fall Greek.
William eraser, of Oakdale, Monroe
county, having completed term in States
prison for burglary. returned home and was
pronounced insane, and sent to the insane
asylum near Madison.
Bernard Peterson, Milwaukee boy Is
years old, was seriously injured the other
evening while climbing about the new En-
pire brewery by falling distance of fifty
feet. He cannot recover from his injuries.
The man Dennis Haggerty, on trial at
Manitowoc for assault upon his wife with a
razor few days since, has been released, his
wife refusing to appear against him. he
made another attempt upon her life, Thurs
day, by shooting, the ball just grazing her
cheek. He then put the muzzle of the pistol
in his mouth and fred, the ball passing out
through his neck, inficting mortal wound.
Friday morning Haggerty was alive, but
there was no prospect of his recovery. Mani
towoc county is thus ridden of one of its
worst characters.