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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
Domesticated Quail.

Several summers ago Mr.. S. s. G1b-
BILE, of Mount Joy, this county, found
the nest of a quail, containing fifteen
eggs. Determined to make an attempt
to domesticate these birds, he took
them home and placed them under q
hen. He made his first mistake at the
very outset by putting them under a
Brahma to incubate. The size of the
eggs and of the hen was of course al
together disproportionate. Still she
was fortunate enough to break none of
them, and in due time family of tif-
teen of these attractive and lively birds
made their appearance. A grassy plot
was selected for nursery, and a pen
sixteen feet square wss made. This
was made perfectly tight at the ground
and for some height abo7e it, render.
ing escape impossible, at least until
they acquired the use of their wings.
But the mistake of selecting a heavy
hen to bring up these birds soon be-
came manifest. One after another of
the pretty things had its life tramped
out by the heavy feet of its foster moth
er, until only four of them remained.
These grew until they attained the full
stature of adult Bob Whites. They
were released, and ran with the chick
ems, flying here and there, but never
leaving the premises for greater dis
lance than the chickens themselves.
One day the house cat, who was
something of an epicure, thought she
would try quail; SO she appropriated
one of them, leaving the once numerous
family reduced to three. These re-
manned around the house, associating
with the chickens on the most fraternal
terms, carrying the intimacy SO far as
to roost close by them in an old apple
tree near the house. Unfortunately,
however, the cold weather of winter
brought covey of wild birds to the
barn, and these, coming into friendly
relations with the trio of tame ones, had
such seductive power upon them that,
when the strangers went away in the
spring, they carried with them two out
of the three remaining birds. This left
but a single one on the premises. This
one continued to eat with the hens in
the barnyard and roost with them in
the trees until June, when, no doubt,
the promptings of nature so wrought
upon the companionless bird that it was
impelled to leave the hospitable home
where nearly year of its life was
spent, and seek the companionship of
its kind in the fields. So ended the ex-
periment.-Lancaster (Pa.) NeU Era.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
WIT AND WIsDON.

"A hard thing to beat-A boarding
house carpet.
The days are growing longer, but
they don't show that way on q note.
The man who invented buckwheats
ought 10 have mitch in the temple Of
fame.
The gout is q brake which q wise
Providence puts on mans legs when
he is living too fast.
The world is full of compensations.
The more prices 60 up the more we
have to come down for everything.
"A latter-day thinker remarks that
the descent of men from apes is indi-
Gated by their conduct, rather than by
the shape of their bones.
-"They have women trsmps out in
Iowa." and soon they'll be mon0poliz-
ing that business and poor man will be
obliged tn work for living.-M Csty
Derrick.
-Home-a private shelter to cover
two loving hearts, the cornerstone of
which is the virtue of woman, and from
whose doors all blessings of life are to
be traced.
1t looks real easy and home-like to
see the baby at the table invariably eat
its bread with spoon, while it picks up
molasses with its fingers. Danielson-
ville Sentinel.
-"Oh! Mister" said an ole lady
after bicycle had passed her, "jast
now I seed a wagon wheel runnin'
away with a man. You kin believe it
or not. Wouldn't If l hadn't seed it
myself"
When Boston man comes home
at half-past one o'clock a. m. and
smashes the furniture, they say he is in
an iconoclastic mood. Out here the
same person would be described IS
"bilin. "-ChicGqo Tribune.
"A man gets into trouble by Marry
ing two wives. If he marries only one,
he may have trouble; and some men
have come to sore tribulation by simply
promising to marry one. Trouble any
how.-Hartford Sunday Journal.
1t may be possible that a man,
aroused from sleep at night by fire
alarm bells, can, unhurt, run down
stairs and put on his trousers at the
same time, but years of disastrous ex-
pertinent have failed to produce the in
dividual.-B0stOn Post.
1--WE men of the Bourse," said a
Paris stock broker to his friend, "are
much illuminated. have now been at
the Bourse for more than ten years,
and / never knew but two rascals who
amounted to anything" "And who is
the Other?' asked the friend.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13

The portraits Of Buchanan and john
SON will complete the portraits Of Presi-
dents at the White House. Mr.. +. F.
Andrews has orders to paint them. Tbs
former will be an enlarged copy Of .
miniature Mr.. Buchanan's niece, Mrs.
Harriet Lane johnson, has Of him. A
photograph only Of Andrew Johns6h
can be found to aid the artist in making
aPortrait 81 him in oil.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
A Free Press-SOme Of Its Advantages
.-,. Tersely Stated.

The beautiful idea of getting some
thing for nothing is nowhere more
readily traceable than in a newspaper
Office.
So much has been spoken, written
and sung about ''free press" that peo-
pie have come to accept the term in a
sense altogether too literal.
If man has scheme of any kind
terminating, he just steps into the edi-
torial room and details it, with the re-
mark, "Pm not quite ready to adver-
tise yet, but few words will help me
along" He gets the few words, and
never gets ready to advertise.
Two tickets admitting lady and gent
to the &c. r. x. M. Us grand ball''
are expected to produce q six-line To-
cal and a quarter of a column descrip-
ton of the ladies' toilets after the ball
is over.
Church fairs and the like are worse
than balls. They never leave tickets,
but demand more space, because lit
a matter of news, and q help to the
cause"
Should boy saw off his finger, ''Dr.
G.. y. Plaster dressed the wound with
great skill, )" would be a graceful way Of
stating it. and. besides, it is "unpro-
fessional' to advertise.
The patent rat-trap man brings in
one of his combinations of wire and
moldy cheese bait, sticks it under the ed
itor's nose and explains how they catch
'em every time the spring works. ''lts
something of interest to the commune
ty, and if you put in a piece save me o
dozen papers," which he quietly walks
off with, as though he had bestowed al ia
vor in allowing editorial eyes to gaze on
such marvel of intricacy.
An invitation ito come down and
write up our establishment Is great
deal more common than q two-square
ssad'' from the same firm. Newspapers
must be filed up with something or oth7
er, you know. :
The lawyer, with strong prejudices
against advertising, is fond OF seeing
his cases reported in full in the news
>apers, with an occasional reference TO
rvs exceedingly able manner of conduct
ing the same. 1t is cheaper than adver-
Using.
In fact everybody, from q to lizard,
who has an ak to grind, asks the news
paper to turn the crank, and forgets to
even say thank you, but will kindly take
free copy of the paper as part pay for
furnishing news.
The press being '.free,"- all hands
seem bound to get aboard and ride it to
death. That is why newspapers are 80
rich that they can afford to pay double
price for white paper, and never ask
Congress to aid them by removing the
duty on wood pulp. -NesO Haven, Reg
lister.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
swan Bibber's ROck'' ON the Kanawha
and its Thrilling Story.

Just below Kanawha Falls, in West
Virginia, writes correspondent, is an
overhanging rock of immense size jut-
ting cut about one hundred feet over
the seething whirlpool and about the
same height above. This was once the
scene of remarkable adventure. The
Indians were in hot pursuit of Van
Bibber, q settler and man of distinction
in those early times. He was hard
pressed, and all access to the river be-
low and above being cut of, he was
driven to this jutting rock, which
proved to be the jumping-off place for
him. He stood on the rock, in full view
of the enemy above and below, who
yelled like demons at the certainty of
his speedy capture. He stood up boldly,
and with his rifle kept them at bay. As
he stood there he looked across the
river, saw his friends--his wife with her
babe in her arms--all helpless to render
assistance. They stood as if petritied
with terror and amazement. She cried
at the top of her voice: Leap into
the river and meet metz Laying her
babe on the grass, she seized the oars
and sprang into the skiff alone. As she
neared the middle of the river her hus-
band saw the Indians coming in full
force and yelling like demons.
"Wife, wife," he screamed, "Tm
coming; drop down a little lower"
With this he sprang from his crag and
descended like an arrow into the water,
feet foremost. The wife rested on her
oars moment to see him rise to the
surface. the little canoe floating like
cork, bobbing about on the boiling
flood. 1t was an awful moment; It
seemed an age to her. Would he ever
riseP Her earnest gaze seemed to pen
citrate the depths of the water, and she
darted her boat further down the
stream. He rose near her; in q mo-
ment the canoe was alongside of him,
and she helped him to scramble into it
amid shower of arrows and shot that
the baff1ed Indians poured into them.
The daring wife did not speak word;
her husband was more dead than alive.
and all depended on her strength being
maintained till they could reach the
bank. This they did just where she
had started, right where the babe was
still living, growing ana laughing. The
men pulled the skiff high up on the
land. and the wife slowly arose and
helped to lift Van Bibber TO his feet.
He could not walk, but she laid him
down by his babe, and then seasing
herself, she wept wildly, just as any
other woman would have done under
the circumstances. That babe is now
/. . grandfather, and that rock is called
!" Van Bibber's Rock to this day
Louisville COssTjpr-.IoMrs0l.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
The East.

The Trustees of the LIE Moyne fur
mace at Washington, Pa, have refused to Gre
mate the bodies of suicides. Two cases Of re-
fusal on this account have already occurred.
A FEW days ago the Citizens Bank Of
Paris, KY, was robbed of $4,000 in cash and
bonds.
DIV the Sd the st. Louis bricklayers
struck for an increase in wages. They were
being paid q per day, and demanded $3.50.
The General Conference of the Arr.
can NJ. Z. Church opened its seventeenth
quadrennial session in st. Louis on the Sd.
Bishop D. A. Payne, Of Ohio, was selected to
preside over the conference, and Rev. B. w.
Arnett, of Columbus, Ohio, was reelected
Secretary.
THERE were received on the Sd re-
ports of further Indian outrages in New Mex
leo. Thirteen herde-s had been killed In the
Mogulan Mountains. and one hundred thou
sand head of sheep had been stampeded. A
courier who reached Silver City on the "a
brought particulars Of . desperate battle be-
tween ranchmen and savages in the noun.
tsins, in which several casualties occurred on
both sides.
On the Sd Mrs. Martha Jones, 4
Christiansburg tVa.) colored woman, while
insane, set IRE to her cabin, and she and her
i've children persisted in the flames
A SALT LAKE dispatch of the Sd saya
that six daughters Of Brigham Young had re.
Gently been accommodated from the Nor.
mon Church for charging their fathers
executors and others Of the saints with de-
frauding them Of 100, 900, causing the inn.
prisonment Of SAID executors and jeoparliz.
ing the liberty Of John Taylor, President Of
the Church. .t-
THERE was an explosion Of gas in q
coal mine near Lykens, Pa, on the 4th which
resulted'if the killing OF three men and the
wounding of several others.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13

A POULTRY dealer in Stauntop, Va,
recently bought forty ducks from .
farmer who lived forty miles from that
city, and when they were delivered he
turned them loose, in his yard over
night, and the next morning every one
of them was gone. He supposed that
they had been stolen, but few days
afterward received 8 lSAter from the
farmer stating that Al the ducks had
returned 70 The 4drm. from which they
bad been taken. - ~ 5
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
The Suffering In Ireland-A Rapacious
Landlord.


James Redpath, in a letter from
Mayo, Ireland, tells this story:
"Walter M. Bourke is the largest landlord
proprietor in Clare, and his tenants are the
poorest people in it. He borrowed E1OO from
the Board Of Works to give employment to
his tenants. He employed those tenants who
had not paid their rent, and agreed to pay
them six shillings per week, but he kept it for
rent due"
Speaking of the people, the writer says:
found them, in the west, sad and desper-
ate. The people are care-wOrn and broken
hearted. Old men and boys, old women and
girls, young men and maidens-lll are grave
or haggard, and every household is as If the
plague of the 1rst-bOrn had smitten it that
day. The famine has tanned their restless spr-
it's, and they crowd around q bit of peat fire
without uttering a word. Often they do not
look second time at u stranger who comes
into their cabin"
Father Corbitt assured Mr.. Redpath that the
political agitation put 81 600 into the ten
ants pockets, by preventing unjust additions
to the rack-rent, and It gave them whole
ewamps of peat. The priest also said that
Sir Robert BlOss has an annual rental Of 410.-
600. He gave E3O to the relief fund, the only
one of twenty great landlords who gave any
thing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13
Mayor KallOch, Of San Francisco, to
BE Impeached.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 4th

a. o&sAA = AsAASA'SO WA0ResoSA "a VIC 4GA
says:
At meeting of the Board of Supervisors
last evening the Judiciary Committee which
the utterances and addresses of Mayor Kali
ioch, and to report what, If any, incendiary
language he has publicly used, and to report
the proper action to be taken by the Board in
the premises, filed a long report reviewing the
history OF the labor agitation and the part
encouraged the lawless and discontinued ele-
ment, advised them to parade the streets,
and endeavOred to keep them in such dis
position and temperament rs to commit
an outbreak whenever it should suit
MS purposes; that he has impeached the hon.
esty of the whole community accused various
branches Of the City Government of, cOrrup-
ton and derelictiOn of duty, and, under the
pretense Of cOunseling the mob against viO-
lence, insidiOusy advised them to be in readi-
ness for bloodshed and the overthrow of the
autnorlties. They expressed the opinion that
kalloch Is INSCRIPTIONS and unprincipled and
devoid of integrity and fidelity to the public
interests, and that the time has arrived for
the Board to express its condemnation of his
acts, and recommend that prompt action be
cpality by judicial inquiry into kallOch's
case.
The motion to adopt the report was put by
Mayor Kalloch, who announced that it was
carried.
A resolution was then adopted authorizing
the committee to- cause judicial proceedings
to be instituted against the Mayor for his re-
moval from office, and empowering it to en-
speedy termination.
Throughout the reading of the report and
the resolution Kalloch appeared cool and UNI
nifty OF his position as presiding officer of the
Board.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13

Is THERE A CENTRAL SuN?--Madler
announced his belief that Alcyone, the
chief star of the Pleiades 1.-THE Seven
Sisters), was the central star of the
universe, which led men to think that
the stellar system, like the solar sys-
tenn, revolves round center. The
only evidence Nader had for this opin-
ion was the DRIFT of the stars of the
constellation Taurus in one direction.
This has since been proved to be no
evidence. us similar drifts have bt ea
observed in other directions. Mr..
Proctor comes forward with his opinion
that the whole theory is myth, and not
supported by any astronomical fact.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13

: The silk manufactures Of Paterson,
N. j., number eighty. and give employ,
mept to 5000 persons.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13

On the 4th Mrs. Kennon, . boarding.
house keeper of Lawrence, Mass, was locked
up for cruelty treating . twenty-year old
pauper in her employ. The latter had been
kept in . coal cellar for months, and beaten
with outrageous severity almost daily. When
discovered by the police her clothing hung In
tatters, and her body was literally covered
with bruises. She had slept on . bundle of
filthy rags, and had been made to scrub and
do other work while the inmates of the house
were asleep, retiring to her dismal prison in
the morning, and remaining there all day.
On the 4th MIS-. George Woodruff, of
Penn Yam, N. Y, who had become insane be-
cause her husband could not pay his debts,
jumped into the cistern with her two children.
Mrs. Woodruff was rescued, but the children
were drowned.
The bill taxing foreign bank capital.
lately passed by the New York Legislature.
was vetoed by Governor Cornell ON the 4th.
The New Hampshire Democratic
State Convention met at Concord on the 5th
and selected delegates to Cincinnati, who
are reported to favor the nomination Of Til
den.
The severest fires ever experienced
in the Pennsylvania oil regions pre- vailed in
the vicinity of Bradford on the 9th. The
confagration originated in an oil well which
was being torpedoed overlooking and catching
fire. The machinery of go wells, consisting of
engines, engine-houses, boilers, tanks, belt
houses and derricks, was destroyed. Each
tank contained about $50 gallons Of oil. and
most of them were full at the time. Rev
City was entirely destroyed, and two women
and five children were burned to death. It is
estimated that about 81, 500, OO worth Of
property was entirely destroyed, and thou
sands of men are thrown out Of employment
and rendered homeless.
The wholesale clothing house of
Written, Burdett & Young, Boston, and ad-
joining merchants, were damaged to the ex-
tent of nearly 100000 by fire and water on
the morning of the 9Th.
The Western Iron Association, met
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, and, after .
full discussion of the question of the exist
ing dizziness in the iron trade, unanimously
agreed to reduce the card rates from three
and two-tenths to two and q half cents per
pound.
The New Jersey State Republican
Convention met in Trenton ON the 9th and
chose delegates to the Chicago Convention
favorable to the nomination of Blaine.
The New Hampshire Republicans
selected Blaine delegates to the National Con-
vention at their State Convention in Concord
on the 9th.
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e officers ultimately quelled the disturb

the officers ultimately quelled the disturb
ance.
A SELECT committee has been APP
pointed by the British House Of Commons to
consider Mr.. Bradlaugh's refusal to take the
oath required of members of Parliament.
On the Sd the French Chamber Of
Deputies voted to sustain the anti-Jesuit
action of the Cabinet by 500 ayes to 1877 noes.
The British officers in the Turkish
army have been informed that their contracts
will be renewed provided they will submit
to forty-fve per cent. reduction in their
salaries.
ON the occasion of the presentation
Of the freedom Of the city of Dublin to Cap
tain Potter, Of the United States relief ship
Constellation, ON the 4th, the Lord Mayor Of
that city said that the horrors Of the famine
had not greatly diminished.
ACCORDING to q Berlin telegram Of
the 4th the Prince Of Montenegro had nott-
fed the Great Powers Of Europe that he did
not intend to waste any powder on the pre-
datory bands of Albanians resisting the prog
ress of his troops and the execution of the
treaty of Berlin. If there must be war he
intended to declare it against the Turks,
AN application has been received at
Lancashire, England, from the United States
for one hundred female weavers.
MORE than 1000 iron-workers in the
north of England are on strike against re.
duction of wages.
The Canton of Appenzell, Switzer-
land, has voted by large majority to restore
capital punishment for murder and incendi-
arism.
On the 4th q railway contractor was
murdered by a fellow passenger in compart-
ment of frst-class carriage Of the Marseilles
& Lyons (France) express train. The pur-
pose of the murder was robbery.
A RECENT explosion in q coal mine
near Nagasaki, in Japan, killed about fifty
persons.
ACCORDING to q London dispatch of
the 5th the expenses of conducting the Al
CHAN war to that date had exceeded the esti-
mates Of the Indian office by about SIS, OOO,-
OOo.
THE directors of the West of England
and South Wales Bank, which suspended in
1873, who were indicted on the charge of fall
styling accounts and conspiracy to defraud,
have been acquitted.
A MESSAGE was received in London
on the 5th from the King of Siam saying that
his journey abroad had been abandoned for
the present on account of ill-healtb.
ON the night of the 4th al Chatham,
Ont, the house of James Gage was destroyed
by fire. Four of Cages children end tho
daughter Of q neighbor named Wade persisted
in the flames.
GEORGE ELIOT. the well-known
writer, was married to q Mr.. Cross, in Lon
don on the 9Th.
A MADRID (Spain) dispatch of the
9Th reports the discovery Of an incipient rev.
olution in the central provinces of Cuba.
The Levant Herald of Constantinople
has been suspended and its editor imprisoned
for limiting that the Government had better
begin reforming before the English Cabinet
recognizes the necessity of executing the
'bag-and-baggsge' policy"
A BERLIN telegram of recent date
reiterates the announcement of the bank
ruptcy of the Tu,ksh Government. The
Porte had seized upon the pension-fund of
foreigners and that belonging to the post
folouro nh Offioo v,1ovos
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-13

A Main STREET dealer received .
fresh invoice Of mouse traps the other
day. and advcrtises "Grand arrival Of
spring goods = lMdrathon Intlependeng.