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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13

Amount Of collections OF
taxes undistributed. $50 46
Upon examining and counting the
funds in the County Treasury, the
foregoing amount was found to be
in the hands of the County Treasur-
er in money and in kind as follows;
Deposits in Bank and cash on
hand 1921 76
County Rev. orders red. 1856. 1S
Town orders redeemed 261 "a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13

CHINESE immigration to the Uni.
ted States in the last twenty-five
years has not exceeded 100000.
Lamp wick dipped in hot vinegar
before using, is said to prevent often
sive smell from lamps.
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STRAYED.

- E0s
A dark poney, nine years old with
two shoes on the forward feet and a
leather halter tied around the neck,
strayed from Redwood Falls, on
Thursday the Goth of Feb, 1879.
She had with her a dark brown colt.
Any person informing Arch'd. Stew
art, Redwood Falls, or GAZETTE Of
fee, where to find them will be suit
ably rewarded.
ARcH'D. STEWART.
Feb. 26th, 1879.
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1s Wood taken o. account st'
this Office.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13
Encouragement to Timber Culture.

Congress passed what is known as
the Timber Culture act, which is in
tended to encourage the growth Of
timber upon prairies. It provides
that any head Of family ormember
who has arrived at the age Of twenty
one years, who shall plant, protect,
or keep in q healthy, growing con-
dition for eight years, ten acres of
timber trees thereon, not being more
than four feet apart each way, On
any quarter section of any Of the
public lands of the United States, or
five acres on any legal subdivision Of
eighty acres, or two and one half
sacres,~or one~eighth part of any frac-
|fiOnal subdivision of land less than
forty acres, shall be entitled to a
patent for the whole, Of a quarter
section, or of such legal subdivision
LIZ eighty or forty acres, or fractional
subdivision Of less than forty acres,
as the case may be, at the expiration
of said eightyears, on making proof
Of such fact BY not less than two
credible witnesses; provided that not
more than one quarter of any section
shall be thus granted, and that nc
person shall make more that one EN-
try under the provisions Of this not,
unless fractional Esubdivisi0ns'of less
| than forty acres afe entered which
IN the AgGfega e shall not sxfced
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13

Auditors Office. Redwood Falls MINI.
March 4th 1879.
The undersigned board of Audit of
Redwood County Minnesota, met on the
above date, and upon examination of the
books and accounts in the Auditors Of
fee, amounts were found due the several
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$500 PER YEAR
THE GAZETTE.
CASH ADvERTIsING RATES.
All transient advertisements must be paid

All transient advertisements must be paid
for in advance. r.e.715f
Legal Notices, Is cts, per square for the first
insertion and 37l1 cts per square for each sub
sequent insertion. All legal Notices must be
upon the responsibility Of the Attorney order
ing them published No af1davit Of publica-
ton will be given until the publication fees
are paid.
Local Notices inserted at 10 cents per line.
Business cards of 1--WE line or less $780,
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NOTICE.

All those indebted to me are re-
quested to call and settle. / must
make collections. 9
/ From this date I will do strictly
CASH business as / think it will be
advantageous to both my customers
and myself.
w. "A. Sw1sHER.
Redwood Falls, Jan. End, 1879.
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THE
CHICAGO &H.-HESTkRA
RAILW AY Isl
-)Is Thee
Oldest.
Best Constructed,
Most Progressive,
Best Equipped,

tended Its various lines ana branches TO
such proportions and by its extreme lib
crafty has acquired the COVETED PoPU
LARITY that makes it really what it
claims to be, the
Leading Railway s West ( North West
Embracing under one Management
2,l58 MILES OF ROAD
and forming the following Trunk Lines:
"cHIcAGo, COUNCIL BLUFFS CALI
FoRNIA LINE" ..s
sscH1cAGo, SIOUX CITY s YANKroN
LINE"
"cnrcAGo, CLINTON, DUBUQUE $
La CROSS LINE,
"CHIcAGo, FREEpoRr & DUBUQUE
LINE"
sscHIcAGo, LA CROSS, wINoNA &
MINNESOTA LINE"
"cHIcAGo, ST. PAUL s. MINNEApo-
LIS LINE"
.scHICAGo, MILWAUKEE, LAKE sU-
PERIoR LINE"
'cH1cAGo, GREEN BAY s LAKE ST.
PERIOR LINE"
The advantages of these Lines are
j l.. If the passenger is going to or from
any point in the entire West and North
West, lie can buy his tickets via some
one of these Company's lines and. be sure
of reaching his destination by it or its
connections. :
/ The greater part of its lines are laid
with Steel Rails, the road bed is perfect.
No road has better or smoother track.
3. 1t is the short line between all inn
portant points.
It's trains are all equipped with the
WESTINGHOUSE Air Breaks, Miller's Plat
form and Couplers and the latest i'm
1 prOvements for comfort, safety and con-
vience. IS n
/ 5. Its the only Road in the West
running the celebrated Pullman Hotel
Cars between Chicago and Council
Bluffs.
6. 1t is the only Road running the
i Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars either
way between
"cH1cAGo AND ST. PAUL"
stCHICAGO AND GREEN BAY"
sscHIcAGo AND ,FREEPoRT,'
4 CHICAGO AND LA CROSS"
Il ~ 4
CHICAGO AND wINoNA,"
tsCHICAGo AND DUBUQUE,
s' stCHICAGO AND MCGREGOR,"
"CHIcAGO AND z
I. It is the only road passing along
4 the shores of Lake Michigan between
i CHICAGO and MILwAUKEE.
i 5. The only Road running Four Elk
press Trains q day via its lines between
Chicago and points in Minnesota.
i 8. No road offers equal facilities in
number Of through trains, equipped
with Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars.
10. II runs Two Express Trains Daily
i each way on Hits lines and four trains
leach way between Chicago and Milwau-
tkee. Y. i,
a1.a t. makes connections with all
lines crossing at intermediate points.
The popularity Of these lines is steadi-
Ely increasing and passengers should con-
4 suit their interest by purchasing tickets
via this line. s IS ..s5
For Information. Folders, Maps. &C..
not obtainah1e at Home Ticket Office,
/ address any agent Of the Company or.
{ issy MARVIN HueHETT,
Gen1 Man'g. Chicago, III.
sIW. ID, STRNKErI, 4 IS ]
Gen'l Pass. Ag't Chicago, III. T,
l 5ssksssst tsys3Ss
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MORTGAGE SALE.

w. T. BURR, Mortgage
ATTORNEY of MortglGec.
Dated March 5th 1879.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-28
NUMBER 49.

cratic vote of the previous year was
306; and this fraud gave the electoral
vote of the State to the Democrats,
whose whole majority was only $50.
Would anybody pretend to put against
such systematic and wholesale electoral
swindling at one point, the cases of
farmers and proprietors in other States
who may have threatened to dismiss
their hands if they did not vote as they
were toldp
1t is both to facilitate and to conceal
this enormous wrong that the cry of
State rights and of soldiers at the polls
has been raised. What invasion of
State rights is allegedp The super
vision of national elections in the States
by National agents. If that be dan
ger to Just local right, it is in pursu-
ance of a law whose constitutionality
has not been questioned by the courts.
The cry of military interference is raised
to confuse the real question, which is
usurpation by forcible and fraudulent
suppression of the colored vote. 1t is
. dismal prolongation of the politics of
the war, which is to be regretted on
every account, but which cannot be
avoided by shutting our eyes. The in!
slant that any Southern white party in
sists that the legal colored vote shall be
protected, or that it shall be reduced by
any equable qualification, the National
question arising from it will vanish.
But so long as the Southern whites
forcibly and fraudulently suppress the
colored vote, lest by an honorable and
legal reduction they should lose in the
basis of representation, it will be neces-
sarily q National question. - Harper's
Weeklu.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-28
Eight Years Dying-.-The Effects Of
Drinking Concentrated Lye.

Our readers will remember the men
ton in last Friday mornings issue of
the death of the nine years-old daughter
of Henry Haldeman and wife, at their
residence on Acequia street. The cause
of the death was q very unusual one,
and the incidents relative thereto were
very strange When about fourteen
moaths old, little Annie, for that was
the child's name, while in the kitchen
got hold of can of condensed I've and
drank portion of the contents. Of
course, the consequence was that the
child suffered intensely, and came very
near dying at the time. After recover
ing from the first effects of the lye it
was discovered that the child's throat
was scalded, and that it was unable to
swallow any food of a solid nature.
Despite the efforts of skilled physicians,
and the constant attention of her loving
parents, little Annie's throat never did
heal up. But the child lived and grew
to be plump and fat, though bereft of
dren. The child's pain and suffering
seemed to detract the mind from the
frivolous and the gay, and turn the
As years rolled on, however, such nour-
lSumcHt dS Aunlo w oS CopoUlo VI taAiuS
proved not sufficient to meet natures
demands and sustain her growing body,
and presently it was observed that her
condition was rapidly becoming more
serious, and a physician was summoned
to take charge of her case. But no good
was ever accomplished, the injury re-
ceived was incurable, and it was settled
that the child gradually approached the
end of existence. Finally, death came,
though Annie had attained the age of
nine years, during nearly eight of which
she had lived exclusively off of soups,
Cruel, and liquid-like food. At the
time of her death. the child was in ap-
pearance as a skeleton, but retained
her powers of mind and conversed
nationally to the end.-San Aatonio
(TeE. Express.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-28

ing his threat against the freedom of
suffrage, stands = Democratic Congress
man! Mr.. Singleton is Democratic
law-msker, but he coolly advises the
local Democratic leaders of Yazoo
County to defy all law, to crush out by
mob violence freedom of speech and
political action in q county of his dis
trict! All this is monstrous, infamous!
But there is only one Democratic paper
in Mississippi possessing honor and
moral courage enough to protest against
the infamous proceeding. That paper
is the Vicksburg Herald. 1t has taken
manly course, but it has also paid the
penalty. At "called meeting" of the
Democratic citizens of Yazoo County a
resolution was adopted wherein the
Herald vas denounced as an "ene-
my to the community" 1t is claimed
by Northern Democrats that the Oko-
Iona States does not represent Southern
sentiment. DIR. McKown, of Arcola,
ILL.,, with whom the Tribune lately had
some controversy on the subject of the
patriotism and political virtue of the
Southern wing of the Democratic party,
treated with well-simulated scorn the
claim that the Okolona States repre-
sents anybody. But the Yazoo mob
followed the teaching of the Okolona
States newspaper, and the citizens of
Yazoo County in public meeting assem-
bled have repudiated the teaching of
the Vicksburg Herald. And, as the
mob was inspired by the Chairman of
the Democratic State Committee, it may
be presumed that the Reputation of the
Herald was inspired by the same au-
thority.
1t may be fairly charged that the
Democratic leadership of the country,
North as well as South, sympathizes
with the acts of the Yazoo Democratic
mob. They propose to carry the Presi-
dental election by bulidozing and
fraud at the South and by wholesale
bribery and ballot-box stuffing at the
North. They have opened their pre-
iminary campaign in Ohio on this
den has engaged to purchase the cleo
ton of General Ewing. 1t would seem
that d great political party, for the
second time in the history of the coun-
try. deliberately proposes to buy and
force its way to supreme power-to buy
and ballot -box-stuff its way at the
North, and force and shoot its way at
the South! We call the attention of the
people of the country to this startling
fact. What will free government be
worth when its control shall have been
secured by such meansP We ask the
question in all seriousness.
How long is the fourteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution likely to stand
as bar against the payment of Rebel
pensions, Rebel claims and the Rebel
debt after the Demo- Confed alliance
shall have obtained power to reorganize
the Supreme CourtP Is it likely to be
less scrupulous about accomplishing its
purposes through the Supreme Court
saiR the Il is salSua sas Of
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-28
Indians as Stage.Driyers.

After breakfast got Superintendent
Parker to tell me about his stage line.
1t runs from Vinita, Indian Territory,
to Las Vegas, New Mexico, about 900
miles, and passes through some of the
most dangerous Indian country in the
world. It has 108 drivers, thirty of
whom are native Indians. The line
carries the United States mail daily,
and what passengers it can get, although
Mr.. Parker is as yet the only white man
who has been over the entire route.
"Can you trust your Indian driv-
ers?'' asked.
go, yes,'' said he. Everybody
said at first that couldn't do anything
with them, but had to do something,
for the redskins had habit of killing
off the white drivers in some localities.
got some of them broke in at last,
however, and they do very well. They
like the salary, for it enables them to
put on style above their brethren, and
1 tell you they do like to dress. 1t
catches the squaws, and the young men
like that as well as you fellows down
east. One day an Indian driver ran of
after a buffalo, and was gone two or
three DAYS. I sent men to hunt him up,
but he came back before they found
him, with q dead buffalo and Uncle
Sans mail as unconcernedly as if
nothing had happened. I discharged
him, and it taught the others lesson.
You ought to see them hunt paths at
night. If they can get a glimpse of
single star they can find their way the
darkest night that ever blew. Some of
them are great astronomers. They
have an idea that there was once
great flood which covered the whole
earth. Everybody was drowned but
seven chiefs who were strong enough
to climb to the top of the highest mount
ain in: the country. They would have
been destroyed also had they not prayed
to the Great Spirit so fervently that
their snpplications were answered.
They lived to great age and replen-
ished the earth. When they died they
each became brilliant star in the
heavens. These Indians know the
principal stars by the names of departed
chiefs. This belief is prevalent among
nearly all the savage Indians in the
southern part of the Indian territory"
Are any of your Indians desperate
saw the Custer massacre. They prob
ably took part in it, but they claim that
they were near by herding ponies.
They describe the whole bloody affair,
but will not tell who killed the whites.
Custer has many friends, and they are
afraid of them"
"Have any of your Indians ever seen
the cars ?'
"Yes. seven chiefs went up to Vinita
one day and got them to look at
locomotive. 1t suddenly whistled and
blew off steam, and you ought to have
seen those seven Indians wilt. They
fell down on their knees = consterna-
ton and began to pray to the Great
Spirit. l guess they thought the en-
gine was the Great Spirit. but / don't
know as to that."-LGs Vegas, N. N.
Cor. Buffalo Courier.
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A Democratic Indiscretion.

A few Democratic newspapers and
speakers, after much rumination, have
ventured to comment on the latest de-
velopmeat of "the Mississippi plan"
But it is evident from the tone of their
observations that these tardy and re-
luctant critics do not comprehend the
enormity of the offense which they af-
feet to condemn. They are not SO much
moved by the moral aspect of Missis-
sippi bulldozing, as by its unfortunate
political influence. Originally, "the
Mississippi plan" contemplated the sup
preston of the colored vote by violent
and, if necessary, even bloody means.
When it was found that there were
white men voting with and leading the
free blacks, it became obligatory to in
clude these in the general prescription.
1t was thought q very unnatural thing
that white men should consort with ne
groes to the extent of voting the same
ticket which they did, and Of instruct
ing them in the new duties of citizen
ship. 1t was only right that the ne
groes should be prevented from voting
in their ignorance-an ignorance which
was evinced by their voting the Repub-
lican ticket; but it was necessary for the
safety OF society that their Volunteer
leaders should be terrorized and sup
pressed. These latter were dangerous
agents engaged in sowing the seeds of
death and disease. They were treated
as the Abolitionists of ante-war times
were treated, and for the same reason.
Their presence threatened the safety of
the State.
While this process of elimination was
going on in the South; the Democratic
leaders of public opinion in the North
met the charge of bulldozing in vari-
GUS different ways. At first they de-
MED that there was any such violence
employed to coerce the black or white
Republicans as had been alleged. The
whole subject was treated with
ridicule. The slightest reference to
the outrages of Southern bulldozers
was met with sarcasms relating to ''the
bloody shirt as an emblem of the al
legged imaginary terrors of the Demo-
cratic plan of campaign. When con-
fronted with facts which even the local
Democratic authorities could not keep
out of sight, North and South agreed
that there were brutal and dangerous
negroes, who had only suffered a just
punishment for their crimes. To be
sure, they had been irregularly executed.
but the popular feeling could not be re-
strained. 1t was we'll known that the
men who had been killed or driven out
of the country were the leaders of a SER
vile insurrection; they were organizing
a conspiracy which had for its object
the plunder and extirpation of the
whites, who had taken time by the fore
lock and had anticipated their would-be
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-28
Thrilling Experience OF a Family In Q
Forest Fire.

Between eight and nine o'clock one
evening last week Robert c. Uffner. his
wife and a daughter twelve years of
age left Frackville for Shenandoah in
an ordinary farm wagon drawn by two
horses. After driving q short distance,
Mr.. Ufner on looking ahead half
mile or SO saw that the woods were on
fire on both sides of the road, but as
the timber was small and the under
growth light he thought he would be
able to get through without much diff
Guilty. When he entered the burning
district the wind seemed to increase and
the fire moved with such amazing ra-
pidity he could hardly keep pace with
it. After driving through the fire
three or four hundred yards the smoke
became so dense that the travellers were
almost suffocated, and q few seconds
later were compelled to lie down on
the bed of the wagon to prevent being
smothered. The smoke so blinded Mr..
Uffner that he could hardly see the
road, and consequently he allowed the
horses to 60 along pretty much as they
pleased. A half mile was travelled in
this way, when the smoke suddenly
cleared away, and the flames on either
side of the road increased in strength
so rapidly that they almost roasted
the now thoroughly frightened
travellers. Seeing that if they
did not escape very soon the
entire party would be burned to death.
Mr.. Uffner tried to urge the horses to a
gallop, but the poor animals were so
frightened that they hardly moved, and
at last came to a standstill. and began
backing off the road. Fearing that the
wagon would be pushed into the fire,
Mr.. Uffner jumped out, and, taking the
horses by the bits, managed to quiet
them until he found a good, stout stick.
Then ordering his wife to take the reins,
he proceeded to belabor the horses
until they struck gallop and dashed
along the road into the very heart of
the fire. Uffner succeeded in Chamber
ing into the wagon as the horses ran,
and, taking the lines from his wife,
urged them on at the top of his voice.
mountain road for several hundred
yards, with the flames roaring on both
sides and myriads of sparks falling in
and about the wagon. Mrs. Uffner's
dress caught fire, and her husband
dropped the reins to assist her in ex-
tingulshing it, when she tainted in his
arms. While he was endeavoring 20
bring his wife back to consciousness
the horses were tearing along at break
neck speed, and the wagon swerved,
jolted and swung around in anything
but comfortable manner. Mrs. Uffner
became conscious in few seconds,
however, and just then her husband
saw cloud of black smoke enveloping
the road and knew that they had
reached the outskirts of the fire, and
were safe. The travellers were all
slightly burned. Some idea of the ter
rible heat they passed through may be
had when it is stated that the paint on
the wagon was burned entirely of, and
the horses hair was scorched in hum
dreds of places by the clouds of sparks
that fell on them.-PottsviHe (Pa.)
Miner.