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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Father Chiniquy will represent the
Synod OF Eastern Australia in the PAN
Presbyterian Council at Philadelphia.
Dean Hamilton, who contributed
$3.50, 900 towards the improvement of
Salisbury Cathedral, recently died at
the age of eighty-seven.
The Rev. A. P. Happier, D. d., of
Canton, missionary of the American
Presbyterian Board, has been chosen
President of the Chinese Religious
Tract Society. to succeed the late Bish-
op Russell.
An English curate, who had been
in Holy Orders for thirty years, recent
ly applied for admission to a work
house in Devonshire as a pauper. and
the Board of Guardians granted the
application.
The Royal University, which is to
succeed Queens University, Ireland,
will be governed by a Senate of thirty
six members, of whom eighteen will be
Roman Catholics. nine Episcopalians,
six Presbyterians and three representa-
tives of the minor bodies. The Presby-
terians ask for a larger representation.
The church in which Richard
Mather, the grandfather of the cele-
brated Cotton Mather, began his min
istry is still in existence and in use in
Liverpool. In its yard are the graves
of the early inhabitants of the city, and
on its walls are mural tablets to COM
memorate the virtues of the inferred.
The number of Catholics in Scot
land is estimated to be 300, 430, the
number in the Diocese of Glasgow
alone being 199,73S. There are SO
missions in Glasgow, 121 priests, 116
departments of mission schools, seven
middle-class schools, three Industrial
schools, two reformatory schools, two
| orphanage schools, and one seminary,
while the churches and chapels number
70.
| The Austrian Government has de-
cided, upon appeal of the Rev. Edwin
A. Adams, missionary of the American
Board in Bohemia, that he has the right
to hold religious worship in his dwell
ing in the presence of invited guests,
after due notice to the civil authorities
and payment for the services of a
policeman. School children attached
to any of the recognized State religions
are not permitted to be present.
1t is proposed to build, in certain
districts on the Western frontier of
Kansas, churches made of sods. A few
such already exist. The walls are of
sods, the roofs are covered with sods,
and the floors are of earth. A church
can be built, in size about 26x36, for an
outlay in money of only $40, and this
has already been done in at least one in
stance. A wall of sods, if properly
built and protected, will last 100 years.
For the first time in sixteen years
the American Missionary Association is
free of debt. During the past year it
paid off an Indebtedness of $37, 3S9.
Among the colored people of the South
an important work has been accom-
plished by this Association. 1t has at
present in the Southern States eight
chartered institutions, twelve High
Schools, and twenty-four common
schools, with total of 1853 teachers and
1907 pupils, in all of which Christian
knowledge and character are feature
of the instruction. In addition there
are about 5000 Sunday-school scholars
under its charge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

blood in his veins, he made q will be-
queathing almost his entire fortune tc
the United States, to be devoted to
paying a part of the debt created by a
war that achieved the abolition of
slavery. To the knowledge of his
friends, he had not a relative in the
world. He had been a misery old
bachelor; he had never referred to
father, or mother, or kin, except to two
nephews who were nephews only "by
courtesy" But when the will came up
for probate woman appeared who
claimed that the old man had married
her twenty years before. had starved,
maltreated and finally driven her from
his home. In support of her claims
marriage certificate was produced, wit
nesses swore that they had known the
two when living together as husband
ana wife, eminent counsel were secured
who seemed convinced of the absolute
justice of her cause, and her story was
SO plausible that it was likely to carry
any jury. Yesterday this woman de-
clared that she had never, to her knowl-
edge, seen the man she claimed to be
her husband, and that the certificate,
testimony and claim to the estate was
an entire fabrication that was con-
ceived by DIR. Park between the death
OF the old miser and the day of his
burial.
The main facts Of her confession have
come out in the testimony, and are gen.
orally familiar to the public. 1t viii be
remembered that the first blow to tho
conspiracy was in the discovery that
after the date of the alleged marriage
certificate certain minute alterations in
the plate from which it was printed had
been made by the engraver. These
alterations appeared in this certificate.
In opposition to this seemingly damning
disclosure, two other certificates were
produced in court, dated in the same
year as that of the certificate on which
the woman claim was based. In these
certificates these same alterations ap-
peared. Then the executor of the will,
in behalf of the United States, secured
the services of detectives and experts
who, with extraordinary perseverance
and skill, proved, with almost absolute
certainty, that the certificate was in the
disguised handwriting of notorious
fOrger, and that the witnesses to the
alleged marriage were perjurers. Then
these witnesses came into court and
confessed that the detectives and the
experts were right. One of them de-
clared that he made the confession be-
cause he was on the threshold of the
grave. He was dying man as he gave
his testimony in the courtroom. He died
in eight days after.
1t appears that the woman who yes
terday made this confession was an adj
ventures who happened to have the
same name as the millionaire, Lewis.
She had been the patient of DR.. Park.
Selling on the coincidence, he rapidly
matured his plan to get possession Of
one-half of the old mans property
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18
From Washington.

THE Ohio and Maryland cases, in
volving the constitutionality of the Federal
Election law, were decided by the United
States Supreme Court on the Sth. State
Judges Of Election, having interfered with
National Supervisors and Marslals, were
sentenced by Federal Courts to fine
and Imprisonment. The Supreme Court
affirmed the regularity of the proceedings
and the constitutionality of the law under
which they were had. Justices Clifford and
Field dissented, holding that it is not compe-
tent for Congress to punish a State officer for
the manner in which lie performs the duties
imposed on him by the laws of the State, and
that the Federal Election law is clearly un-
constitutional.
The message of President Hayes,
which was sent 20 the Senate on the Sth, rela-
tive to the Interoceanic Canal is as follows:
Transmit herewith the report of the Secre-
tary of state and accompanying papers, In re-
ate on the 18th of February last, requesting
..cOpies of all correspondence between this
Government and any foreign Government
across the isthm"s between North sn America
and South America, together with the copies
Of any project of treaties respecting the same
proposed or submitted since that date to any
foreign Power or its diplomatic representa-
tives."
In further compliance with the resolution Of
the Senate, deem it proper to state briefly
my opinion as to the policy of the United
States with respect to the construction of an
Intcroceanic Canal by any route across the
American isthmus. The policy of this cOun-
try is a canal under American control. The
United States cannot consent to surrender
this control to any European Power, or to any
combination OF European Powers. If the ex-
listing treaties between the United States and
other Nations, or il the rights of sovereignty
or property OF other Nations, stand in tho way
Of this poltcy-a contingency which is not ap
Observation-Disclosures steps should be taken by
just and liberal negotiations to promote and
establish the American policy on this sub
ject consistently with the rights of nations to
be affected by it. The capital invested by
corporations or citizens of other countries In
such an enterprise must, IN u great degree,
look for protection to one Or more of the
great Powers of the world. No European
Power can intervene for such protection
without adopting measures on this Continent
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18
A Singular Case.

One of the most romantic stories out
side the regions of fiction will engage
the attention of the London Probate
Court early next session. The circum-
stances of the case, stated in brief
form, appear to be these: Some time
ago young gentleman, in accordance
with the provisions OF will in his
favor, inherited an annual income of
E25, 900 and a large estate situated in
by no means unimportant county in
England.
1t was distinctly stipulated that the
f25, 900 should be the amount payable
during his celibacy, and that from the
day Of his marriage, if he contracted
marriage, the sum should be doubled
that is to say, it should be increased to
ESQ, 900 year. Naturally the fortunate
heir had a decided desire to obtain the
full amount to which he was entitled by
wedlock, although he entertained the
strongest objections to compromising
his freedom by marriage.
The ingenious youth fully and anx-
iously considered the situation, and at
last determined upon the course which
he would pursue. Proceeding to the
Haymarket on particular evening, he
met young female whose acquaintance
he had only made short time previ-
ously, and whose position was far re-
moved in a downward direction from
him. To this woman he made over
lures of marriage, promising her an
annuity of $4,000 in consideration of
her considering the marriage-tie dis
solved a week after the performance OF
the ceremony.
The offer seems to have been rejected,
and an alternative advanced. The
woman, it appears, signified her willing
ness to consent to an arrangement by
which the estate of her sutton was con-
ferred absolutely upon her for six
months, at the end of which period it
would revert to the assignee, and she
would then be entitled to her annual
allowance of $4,000.
Finding that she would not recede
from this proposal, the youthful mill
ionaire reluctantly agreed to it, and in
the course of time the marriage cere-
mony was performed.
At the end of the succeeding week
the tickle youth, as determined upon.
left his spouse and betook himself to
his estate, and there he developed an
illness from which he never recovered.
His illness having occurred within the
six months after his marriage, his
whole estate has passed to his wife, and
his relatives have had resort to the ma
chinery of the law to avert the absolute
succession. The case, understand, is
likely to come before the Probate divi-
sion of the Divorce Court early next
season, and a cause celebre, equal to
the famous Tichborne trial in point of
public interest, may be expected. LON
don Letter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

The trouble and annoyance caused
by the circulation of clipped, mutilated
and defaced coin is likely to be soon
remedied by such deteriorated pieces
finding their way to the melting pot, as
they are now refused at all the Govern
ment Offices, either in the way of pay
ment for articles required, as dues to
the United States, or for redemption as
superabundance of q circulating me-
dunn. For a while it was supposed
that coins with holes in them had been
merely worn as charms during the war,
when metallic currency was very scarce,
and when again put into circulation
were taken BY storekeepers, but the
fact that many of the mutiIated curren-
cy bear dates subsequent to the reissue
of coin as a medium of exchange, gives
evidence that pieces have been cut out
in fraudulent manner to depreciate
the intrinsic value.-C Chicago Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

A NEGRO at Wallace, Tenn. told his
wife he must kill somebody before he
went to bed. She begged him not to
select her, and he obligingly said that
he would go down to a ball in the vii
lage for q victim. He loaded a pistol,
went to the ball, and shot Young
negro girl whom he did not even know;
but he failed of his object after all, for
she was only slightly wounded.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

BLOWER Brown made himself IA
NOUS in the last walk at Agricultural
Hall, London, by covering $50 miles in
the six days, with some time to spare.
This beat the previous record-Wes-
toms $50. Nevertheless, until the last
day the attendance was meager. thus
indicating that walking matches are
losing their former hold on the affec-
tions of the British public.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

AN Austrian Jew. named Julius
Blum, has been raised to the rank of
Pasta and Assistant Secretary of the
State by the Khedive of Egypt. It is
said that no other Israelite since the
time of Joseph of old has reached such
eminence in the land Of the Pharaohs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

Two YOUNG WOMEN of Bungalore,
India, have been admitted as probation
ers into the post-office in that place.
They are the first women who have
been able to get Government employ
meut in Asia,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

Robert Collyer, in late lecture.
declared that a woman "who is not lit
for poor mans wife, as rule. is not
it to be any mans wife, especially in q
land like ours, where no man knows
how soon he may be poor"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

"A Vermont man invented an cleo
trio door-bell, aad the first man who
tried to ring it found he couldn't let 60
of the knob and was getting his legs
tied into q sailor-knot, when the in
ventor came out to ask why he didn't
ring the house down. Able counsel will
contest the damage suit.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

1t is said that Mary Anderson,
while acting Juliet in Boston. took a
wad of chewing gum out of her mouth
in the garden scene, put it carefully on
the railing of the balcony, and picked
It up again after her last "good night"
To Romeo.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

DIR. Halsey, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Norristown,
Pa. has rendered his resignation after
sixty years arluous labor In the minis
LiY.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18
The South Carolina State Democratic

The South Carolina State Democratic
Convention for the selection of delegates to
the National Convention will meet at Colum-
bia on the LIST of June.
AT the recent municipal election in
Sacramento, CAL, the Republican candidates,
except Chief of Police, were elected by ma
jorities ranging from 800 to 500. The Work.
ingmen and Democrats elected the Chief of
Police.
On the 18th the Trade and Labor
Union Of Chicago received communication
from st. Louis, inviting its members to join
the workingmen of the latter city in big
strike In April.
DENIS kEARNEY was arrested at San
Francisco on the 18th, on charges of misde-
meanor based on remarks made by him in an
incendiary speech delivered the night pre-
viOus.
On the morning of the 18th Lehman
Il Co.'s fax mills at Frankfort, Ind, were de-
stroyed by the explosion of the steam boilers.
Ten men were killed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

Bates wants to know what good
this Monroe doctoring is going to do the
Government in case Of sickness.-M D.
Rc0vvse.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

-Leap-year il slways popular with
The ladioA
Dodge City times., 1880-09-11

THERE are two ways, says the Chemist
and Druqgist-the mechanical and the
photographed. For the first. take n
sheet of strong white paper, and with
an atomizer pass over it spray OF very
diluted mucilage, so as to obtain a very
thin and slightly-sticking film, which
will make the ferns adhere of which it
is desired to make the picture. The
ferns and leaves must have been first
pressed in a book, and, after arranging
them to suit your taste, cause them to
lie as closely to the paper as possible;
fill an atomizer with very diluted India
ink, and blow a spray over the ferns,
more or less in proportion as you want
darker or lighter shade. 1t is well to
do this with intermissions, letting it dry
little, so as to avoid excess OF moist
ure and possibility of running the
liquid into drops. When nearly dry,
but still little moist, remove the
ferns, which may be used over again
several times. For the Photographic
method. cover a sheet of paper with a
weak solution of salt in water and
some white of an egg, well beaten;
after it is dry, take it into dark room,
and with tuft of cotton pass over it a
solution of nitrate of silver (tifty grains
to an ounce of water); dry it in the
dark. and the coat of chloride Of silver
formed on its surface will receive the
impression. Then arrange your ferns
between two plates OF glass. and cut
the paper to the same size as the glass
plates; place it under them and expose
to the sun, in the same way as a photog-
rapher prints portrait. Watch it un-
til dark enough and before removing
the paper from the glass take it into a
dark room. Here place the picture in
solution of hyposulphate of soda,
which will dissolve the chloride of silver,
but leave the decomposed material
(tinely-divided black silver) which
forms the black background, while the
shadow of the leaves will be white.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-11
SHADoW-LAND.

FAR from the world that we live in to-day
Shadow-land lies;
None know how far II Il, none know the way,
What are its boundaries no one can say,
Only surmise;
No one in life has set foot on that shore,
Formed from the wreck of the sad nerermore.
Memory governs this shadowy land,
Reigning suprcme:
Qfttimes there come at her word OF command
Forms we have known, from the far-distant
strand,
Faint as a dream;
Forms of those dear in the days which have
flown.
Forms of beloved ones in life's morning
known.
With them they bring long-lost scenes Of the
past
Back TO our view.
Pictures of friendships not destined 10 last,
Loves that grew weak meath adVersities
blast,
Painted anew;
Ridges and ripples in Times shifting sand,
Hidden till now in the far Shadow-land
-Tnsieys MGgdZinc.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-11


TO think me as trustworthy and capable
as mother did.
es, II you think 1t safe Tor her 10
drive so lar alone think you may trust
her to do the errand well. The mer-
chants and grOcers are old friends, and
viii. not take advantage OF the child
"weii. it's the only way LETT for us,
said father. with an anxious, dissatisfied
tone, and the great responsibility was
committed to my care.
1t is vain to try to give the thoughts
that surged through my young brain IN
that long ride to town, or how ANXIOUS
was on the return ride lest l had for
gotten something, or made some III
advised purchase But under all the
anxiety and excitement was dull pain.
remembering as did that tasaer was
not quite ready to trust me. This PAIN
didn't leave me until, safe at home, all
the purchases laid out and examined
he drew me to his knee. close by moth
ers sick-bed, and kissing me- said,
"Weii done, my brave girl! Hasn't she
done well, mother?
How much good that days work.
with the confidence gwen did me IN
after years, giving me all needed cour-
age when duties seemed too hard Tor
me, can never estimate; but the most
precious OF all was the thought OF my
mothers trust and fathers approoa-
ton.
Dodge City times., 1880-09-11
HOW TO MAKE CHILDREN RE.
LIABLE.

THOSE parents VINO most keeniy iccI
their responsibilities are in danger OF
watching their children too closely.
1t is surprising how early in a child's
life this surveillance becomes source
of annoyance and irritation, through
the first instructive emotion of self
respect, and how soon the little ones
learn to te sly and deceive. hoping in
that way to escape this watchfulness
if possible They conceal their child
ish sayings aud doings if they are led
to feel that they are suspected OF some-
thing wrong. If they are unable to
understand what it is, they at least
realize that their parents do not trust
their honor. They may not be quite
able to put their annoyances from this
cause into words; but let this idea creep
into a Young child's mind, and his per-
ceptions grow old fast. Nothing SO
soon develops the evil most feared as
this overwatchfulness.
Teach child while yet little that
father and mother are inclined to COM
nit some small matter to its care, and
without the least show of doubt or fear
that the little one will fail; and those
parents who perhaps have forgotten in
some degree the spirit of their own
baby days will scarcely be able to real
ize the happiness this trust has be-
slowed. The importance OF the trust
will. of course. be gauged by the age
of the child. Begin this teaching early.
Take care that the small pupi! is not
taxed beyond its capacity, but let it
distinctly understand that the parent
is in earnest, and fully believes that the
commission will not be neglected.
None can estimate how this event in a
child's life will be fixed in the young
mind-the first time it feels that Its
parents have turned to it with loving
confidence for the performance OF some
little duties, and that they have trusted
to its honor. Nothing SO clearly awak-
ems self-respect as the feeling OF re-
sponsibility which comes with the
knowledge that they are trusted; and
the care and faithfulness which even
the Youngest understands will be nee
essary to execute the work to the
parents satisfaction are good seed
sown, which in later years will bear good
fruit. and amply repay all the trouble it
may nave coSt " prepare eh0 SoAA A S
reception.
That such teaching is not the easiest
of all maternal duties every mother
knows full well, and all would much
rather do the work than be subject to
the tediousness and annoyance of drilling
o child. But this is the mothers mis-
sion. not wisely delegated to another.
First show child precisely how to do
certain things. Perhaps the lesson must
be often repeated before it is done
well; but after some trials begin by
leaving those little chores for it to
do alone when the mother is not
near. The more trivial the better
at first. For instance, say to the
little two-year-old: mamma must
90 out a few minutes, but she don't
like to leave the nursery in such dis
order. Will not my little man pick up
all the blocks and playthings he is not
using, and put them away just as
mamma likes to see them? And
Jennie also will, know, fold her doll 8
clothes inst "a have shown her. and
Dodge City times., 1880-09-11

THE Chinese are learning to chew
fine-cut tobacco. but they can never
spit with an American gentleman while
their eyes are so much on the bias