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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-03
From Washington.

Hon. WILLIAM S. KING, of Minneso-
ia, appeared before the Donnclly Springer
Investigating Committee on the oath, and
testified that he did not write the anonymous
letter to MIR. Springer.
The President has nominated James
y. Putnam, of New York, to be Minister to
Belgium vice William c. Goodloc, resigned.
HANLAN won the boat-race with Riley
on the Potomac at Washington ,on the Goth,
without much effort, being two and one-half
minutes ahead of his adversary.
The full text of the Bayard bill passed
By the Senate on the 18th, and entitled ga
bill to define the terms Of Office Of Chief
Supervisors of F. ections, is as follows:
- BE Il enacted, etc.. That the term Of Office of
Chief supervisor of Election, provided for in
Section =, 02S of the Revised Statutes, shall be
two years. Such term shalt begin on the first
day OF May in each even numbered year. The
terms OF those now in Office shall expire ON the
first day of May, 1880, and their successors shall
be appointed from among the qualified electors
OF the proper Judicial Districts BY the Presi-
dent of the United States. by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate. The Prcsi.
dent may appoint such officers during the
recess OF the Senate, who may bold and cxer-
Senate; and it shall bc the duty of the Presi-
dent to send in such nominations within thirty
days after the next ensuing session OF the
Senate: pr0ridsd, that no person now holding
or who has held the Office of Chief Supervisor
of Elections shall be rcappointcd.
MINISTER CHRIsrIANcY's application
Tor divorce and Mrs. Christiancy's answer
thereto were given to the public on the 9th.
He specifically charges his young wife with
having been unfaithful to her marriage vows,
while she alleges that her health has been in
f.,un -
part. she denies the charges preferred in
his bill.
The following gentlemen were APP
pointed by the National House of Represen-
tatives on the 9th as members of the Board
of Managers of Nationa! Soldiers Homes:
General John NJ. Palmer (Ill.), General Will
lam B. franklin Comm, General Charles W.
Roberts (Maine), General Martin Mcmahon
IN. ~, General Love Qnd.) and Major Full
ton (Wis.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-03


A Santa Cruz dispatch says:
A local train on the South Pacific Coast Rail-
road, which ran to-day between here and the
zig Trees with passengers to the Independent
hitic picnic at that place, met with O terrible
accident ut $3.50. Three open cars, with high
ratings outside and ends, with seats, and load
ed with about one hundred and twenty
I'VE I'VE persons left that place for this; city.
gine. one Elliott being engineer. On the
why down all went well TIL No. tunnel was
passed, said tunnel being located just above
and overlooking tho powder works. As the
cars passed through the tunnel the speed of
the engine was increased It being down grade.
just as the curve in the road was reached, the
first car jumped the track to the left and the
second to the right, the third car remaining on
the track. People OH the first two cars
bank in confused mass, cars passing over
those who were across the track. Those ON
the third car were uninjurcd, merely being
knocked on their feet. Those not hurt imne-
diatcly set TO work to assist the wounded and
look after the dying und dead. Word was
Immediately sent to this place and
petition for assistance, which was prompt
~ rendered. gloom OF sadness Is to-
night cast over our city. Every hotel is
being turned Into q hospital to receive the
wounded, which will number upward OF forty.
ers will die before morning. number of
San Francisco people were on the train at tho
time of the accident. Some of the dead have
not been Identified. Physicians arc heroically
working to relieve the suffcrings of the
wounded, assisted by the Sisters of Charity, no
service being held at the churches ON account
of the disaster.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-03
San FRANCISCO, May "A.

GAN THANCA1OOs may "a
The President of the Santa Cruz Narrow
Gauge says tho wrecked train was q regular
passenger train, hat cars being put on for the
temporary accommodation of picnic people.
The engineer says be had the lever reversed,
had whistlcd down brakes, and was going
about twenty miles per hour down grade when
the accident occurred. He hesftated to give
there might have been some obstruction
on the track. Some other parties assert
that tho train was going 1t
There 10 theory among some Of the railroad
employees that number Of passengers climb
Ing upon the racks placed on the fiat cars
lifted the opposite wheels from the track.
When the cars went over they struck against
the embAnkmout, dragged some distance, and
meeting reverse curve jumped over the rails
jumped or fell OF on the hank side, and rolled
down under the wheels,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-03
A PACIFIC COAST HORROR.

Two Open Railroad Cars Loaded with
1'sealekers Leave the Tr0ck--Thlrteen
1'ersons Killed and Many Injured.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, May g.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

AT the Dusseldorf exhibition which
opens on the 9th proximo, member of
the Rhenish and Westphalian Steno-
graphic Society will exhibit German
postcard, which is somewhat larger
than an English postcard, containing
Voss's translation of the first three books
of Homers "Odyessey," snd part of a
very long debate which recently took
place in the German Imperial Parlia-
ment. The number of words in the ex-
tract of the Odyssey is 1900, while
in the Parliamentary debate, the num-
Der is $4,000. The whole of the $4,000
words have been written in the G1hles-
berg system of shorthand, and with the
naked eye. The quantity of matter
contained in this German shorthand
manuscript, would be equal to what is
contained in about nine pages of the
Times.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

say, INCREASINGLY, if it were possible
that Congress should pass an Act abolish
ing the local codes for Louisiana and
Texas, which I do not believe, and it
should fall to my lot to supply their
places with something Of my own, / do
not see how could do better than fol-
low the laws in force here prior to the
rebellion, excepting wherein they shall
relate to slavery. Power may destroy
the forms, but not the principles, of JUS
tice; these will live in spite of the sword"
General Hancock Is - man of handsome
presence and most agreeable manners.
He is perfectly STRAIGHT; a blonde, with
a rich skin and blue eyes, and light hair,
now turning gray; and his address is both
courtly and simple.
Gen. Hancock, while citizen of Penn.
sylvania, is in mostall respects Of fellow
ship and association, New Yorker.
He is on excellent terms with the lead
ing volunteer officers Of the New York
Militia, and .o-operates with them in
their parades, shooting matches, etc.
He is favored guest at the houses Of
some of the best people in New York,
but makes no pretensions to wealth OF
style. The regard of his men for him
is boundless. While he would, perhaps
draw as many votes in New York as any
Democrat, he would poll an immense
vote in Pennsylvania, for he is not re
pugnant to the good sense Of the Repub
lican soldisry, having never stepped ou
of the course of conviction to recomment
him to either party. As to the imputa
tion that he hanged Mrs. Surratt, it vii
have no effect except among the mos
ignorant and unreasonable. When tn
Commander-in-C Chief Of the Military an.
Navy forces had been assassinated b.
parties living within the military line
of the United States, it would scaroel
have been gallant example for Geners
Hancock to have pulled off his sword i
Difference to such objects, instead Of Cal
rying out tie orders of the Tribunal in
posed on him by his oath and by Pres
dent johnson. Weekly.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03
The Pend,eton Independent is abo

THE Pend,eton Independent is about
to change its name 1t is soon to be
called the Pendleton Tribune AT the
same time it will cease to be independ-
ent, and come out Republican. Many
will watch with interest this new de-
parture on the part of this hitherto
brilliant journal. If it will be as con
sistent Republican as it has been an
Indepsnaent, we may expect to find it
advocating Gen. Weaver for the Presi-
dency. 1t will certainly be amusing to
find it taking a decided stand on any
questiSh, local or national. We are
glad, however, to see it assume an indi
viduality and make an attempt to be
something If, with it's old name it will
cast aside it's wishy -washy, namby- pam
by, milk-andwater policy of having nc
opinion that would offend anybody, ii
may live to good and noble purpose and
add it's mite to the advancement of the
county which supports it.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03
Is rnE GE1mATE CHaNGlxG.

i
There are very few of the ola resi-
dents of the southern counties who do
not hold that the climate has greatly |
changed during the past decade. The |
annual rainfall was SO light and uncer-
tain less than decade ago, that few |
persons would have ventured to sow
grain on anything but irrigable ground,
and expect to reap. But the annual
rainfall now reaches II inches and up
wards, when it was formerly 7s-inches
and less. aaagrain fields stretch over the
undulating mesa lands in all directions
as far as the eye can reach. It is an
everyday saying in Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties now, that grain
viii grow anywhere there without irri-
cation, and better cereal crops cannot
be seen within the broad and fertile val
leys of Sacramento and San Joaquin.
when forest-trees graw thriftily on hill
tops and wheat natures on their fanks
without irrigation, where previously the
ground squirrel would have Jared hard
for fodder, it is no wonder the people
say the ''climate is changing" This
change in the climate, or whatever it
may be, has driven many of the bands of
mustangs from the plains, and converted
their old domain into vineyards and or
chards, and the sheep-ranges, also, have
been encroached upon in remarkable de-
grees by the farmer and fruit-grower,
who threaten to compel the fiocks to
seek new fields and pastures.
No law was ever passed in this State
which has done greater benefit to the
southern counties then the ':ne-fence"
law. The thrift and success of the vari.
GUS settlements recently organized is due
largely to it. Some of these settlements
could scarcely have been established
and certainly would not have been at
tanned the degree of success which they
have reached, had it not been for the
"no-fence" law. 1t would have cost the
settlers more for fencing than they hac
had to pay for the land, and possibly a.
much some of them paid for land ane
tree stock combined. Even then tn
danger from rowing bands of horses
herds of horned cattle and focks Q
sheep would have remained. A fence
at best weak when hungry cattle are o.
one side and plenty of good passur
growinn on the other. At the new sci
} Elements, such as Riverside, Arlingto
and Pasadena, fences are nowhere to b
seen. For the sake of relieving the mt
notony of the landscape and establish
: ing boundary lines, hedges of variou
D kinds of Towering plants and shrubber
y have been cultivated Here the silve,
e leafed cypress is artistically trained
/ there the hedge is formed of varied s.
e lection of rose-bushes; another hs
u planted row of geraniums, whicl
l. when in full bloom-and that is in tn
o section nearly all the year round-pr
It sent gorgeous appearance; another hi
d adopted the Usage orange; another su
e rounds his plantation with pepper tree
another with locust; another with Lon
hardy poplar, and till another with e
ergreen eucalyptus, all of which increa
. es the beauty and adds to the harmon
of the prospect. IS. f. Bulletin
4 At last the new bridge across Il
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

The Chinese plank in the Republican
National platform reminds usvery much
of the Division plank in the platform of
the Pendleton Democracy, and it's OBJ
ject is evidently the same-namely, to
catch votes
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

in many years, an entirely new House of
Representatives will bc elected, and
there will be many new faces in Wash
ington upon the conyening Of the 44th
Congress. Many of the members Of the
present Congress have already been nom-
mated by their constituents for re-elec-
tion. H. q.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

ALL the members Of the investigating
committee who were candidates for re-
election, were returned by handsome
majorities. Galloway was the only
Democratic Representative elected in his
county.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

DoN'T.-Now don't 60 asking your post
master for every man living within ten miles
of you for mail. When they all do that, the
P. NJ. is liable to be stricken with lock jaw
or faint nom exhaustion. Give him q
chance
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

FoURTH.-Pendleton and Walla Walla
have splendid programmes for the celebration
on Monday the 5th. Weston has again dis
played too much modesty in the matter.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

Thos. Donolon and Thos Cowen, in
dicted for selling liquor to Indians at
Spokane Falls, were sentenced, each to
six months iii the U. S. Penitentiary at
McNeal's island.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

REvoLvERs, dynamite and poison having
failed the Nihilists in their raids on the Gar,
Pinafore is to be tr anslated into "Roosian," !"
and they will try that on him.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

The Arab who invented alcohol died
something like 900 years ago, but his
spirit still lives.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

At last the new bridge across the
Touchet is completed-Daytoa Ners.
Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03
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Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03

Use Oriental Hair Tonic for preserv
ing the hair.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-22
A Cure for Beer Drinking.

DR.. Duncan of Chicago,w writes
the following letter to the Inter
Ocean of that city: Knowing
your deep interest in anything
that benefits humanity, | send
you a fact. A man to whom /
gave medicine to help him break
off his tobacco habit came in to-
day and said, "What was that
medicine you gave me? 1t has
taken away all my appetite for
beer and whisky. / have no
more haEkering after beer than
/ have for milk, and not so much
for whiskey or alcohol, it is
simply disgusting to me-"
/ have known this man for o.
yer twenty-five years (in fact he
was formerly my school teacher,
but not what he once was
through this weakness), and /
have no occasion to doubt his
word. The remedy is a home-
pathic preparation from nicis v.
sacch alb (glob. 80. 3 dec. zjj).
/ hasten to tell you of this fact,
for it is something | have been
seeking for years for thc benefit
of the temperance cause. With
it we may control the ante-natal,
involuntary hankering for H.
iquors, especially beer, that is SO
annoying to temperance moth
ers. Under such circumstan-
-ces it is a disease, and should
be, and is amendablc to treat
ment.
/ have given this fact to the
temperance women, and hope II
will be widespread.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-22
Why the Watch Stopped.

A fond parent in Brooklyn,
whose daughter was approaching
her eighteenth birthday, ascer-
tanned that a handsome watch
was what she wanted for a pres
ent. He had a friend in Maiden
Lane who selected watch with
great care, and the birthday pres
ent was received with many ex-
pressions of delight. One night
soon afterward the young lady
forgot to wind up the watch, and
in the morning the hands and
wheels were motionless. She
was frightened and took it for
granted that she had used the
watch carelessly and that some
thing was broken inside. She
did not like to say anything to
her father about it, but going to
a Fulton street jeweler the next
day, asked him to look at the
watch and sec what was the mat
ter with it. The jeweler took it,
put a magnifying glass before
his eye, opened the case, touched
the wheels with a pick, and re-
marked that it needed cleaning,
as it was very dirty. On inquir-
ing the cost of such an operation
she was told it would be $3.50.
The young lady was amazed, for
she had had the watch only three
days and was reluctant to be-
lieve that it required SO extensive
a renovation.
She passed on to the best
known jewelers. store i'll Brook
lyn, and handing her watch to
the man at the counter preferred
the same request as before. lie
went through the same process
of inspection, and said the hair
spring was broken and the watch
needed cleaning. Inquiring the
cost again she was told it would
! be 81. She said she would see
her father about it, and at night
when he came home she told him
of her days doings, and said his
!. friend must have cheated him.
/ Her father took the watch to
New York in the morning, and
in the course Of the day stepped
into his friends store, and asked
him to look at the watch and see
why it had stopped. His friend,
after looking at it a moment took
up key and winding it up,
handed it back with the remark
ssNo watch will run unless it is
kept wound up" Moral to the
Brooklyn watchmakers: 'Learn
your trade"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-22
A Political Romance.

The story of Mrs. Brown, who
is plaintiff in a suit against the
estate of the defunct manager
ola defunct operatic troupe, is a
singular one. She was the wife
Of Jason B. Brown, a dashing
Democratic politician of Indiana,
whose influence Senator Morton
desired to secure in the cavass
of 1872. Brown rejected the
offer Of $1,000 and the Sec
retaryship of Wyoming Terrific
ry; but his wife, who wanted the
money and desired Republican
success, undertook the task Of
bringing him to apostacy. She
succeeded, and Brown renounced
his Democratic views, went into
the canvass during the campaign,
and made from one to two speech
es every day until the election
was over. His wife accompani-
cd him on ever occasion, fearing
that'he would weaken. She had
her seat onthe platform when
Brown was speaking, aud never
left shim for an hour alta time
during the entire summer and
fall of the campaign.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-22
Founder of the Knights of
Pythias.

The visit to New York of
Justus H. Rathbone, the founder
of The order of the Knights Of
Pythias and Senior Past Su-
lpreme Chancellor Of the order,
has awakened much interest a.
mong the officers and members
of that section. Dir. Rathbone
has not yet reached the prime
Of life, being just 80. He was
born at Deerfoot, N. Y; is tall
but not too stout, and likely to
live to a good old age. lie tells
many stories about his tours in
the West, where the lodges he
visited looked for a patriarch,
and hardly believed the young
man before them was the found
er Of the order. Concerning the
founding of the order, Mr.. Rath-
bone says that when he was 10
he was teaching school in Mich
igan. The boys were anxious
to get up a sort of dramatic en-
tertainment, but lacked ladies toI
take the female parts. To over
come this they wrote to a dra-
matte agency in New York to-
send them plays with as few fe-
male characters as possible. One
of those sent happened to be-
damon and Pythias," and while
reading it over young Rathbone
thought he saw good chance
for a secret brotherly organiza-
ton. He Immediately wrote the
ritual, which he carried in his
pocket some years. During 1864
he was stationed in Washington
as a military attache to the War
He gathered a few
clerks Of the different depart
ments together on the evening
Of Feb. Is, and after duly bind
ing them to secrecy read the rit-
ual of the Knights Of Pythias,
which pleased them so much that
they Immediately began to found
a lodge. Then came jealousies
and contentious, which threaten
ed at times to sap the growth of
the lodge. Mr.. Rathbone fought
against odds, and finally succeed
I'd in overcoming his opponents.
Now the order numbers 10000
and has 81 grand
besides a supreme lodge.
The initials of the order are "F.
9. B."-meaning "Friendship,
Charity. BeneyOlence.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-22
Webster's Reply to Hayne.


Mr.. James Watson Webb, the
former editor of the old New
York Courier and Inquirer gives
the following reminiscence of
Webster's reply to Hayne in q
letter to the New York Times:
| have just read with much
pleasure your notice Of the late
Joseph Gales, SO long the veter-
an of the press, and of his ac-
complished and estimable widow,
recently deceased. You mention
the fact that Mr.. Gales reported
Mr.. Webster's great speech in
reply to Hayne, in relation to
which the following incident,
stated to me by Mr.. Webster
and confirmed by Mr.. Gales,
may be of interest:
II had no idea," said MIR.
Webster, "of the great impor-
tance which would be attached
by the public to my reply to Mr..
Iiayne, and | was not in the
habit, up to that period, of max
ing full notes as at present.
Consequently, when my friends,
with great manimity, demanded
the publication Of the speech, /
was quite unable to crafty them.
/ had observed, however, that
during the delivery of the speech
my friend Gales had taken notes
of it, and / applied to him to
know if he could aid me. He
expressed his regrets that ! had
not made the application sooner,
and added that he did take full
notes of the speech, but it was
in shorthand, and unfortunately
he could not decipher his own
shorthand after an interval of
a few days. OF course ] was
annoyed and felt that the speech
was lost, just when the public,
by their appreciation Of it, had
made me appreciate it. Mr..
Gales perceived my annoyance,
and said: 1T has frequently oc-
Cured that when / could not
decipher my shorthand notes,
Mrs. Gales could. Give me
your brief notes and I'll place
them with my full shorthand
notes in the hands Of Mrs. Gales,
and see what she can do for US.
| replied that / would accompa-
nv him to Mrs. Gales, place my
notes in her hands and ask hel
as a favor to do what she could
for rs. The result is my pub
lished speech in reply to Mr.
IIayne, which | had not estima-
ted very highly, but which | now
consider one of my best efforts
It's preservation is due solely to
Mrs. Gales"