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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
Rev. Mr.. Hayden's Tribute to His Wife.

l have thought it better to make very
little allusion to my own personal ex-
perience in this matter of circumstan-
tial evidence, but should be making
too great a sacrifice to my sense of pro-
priety if l did not speak. Ispeak most
warmly and tenderly of one incident of
that experience. Ihave children whose
welfare and honor are very dear to my
heart, and a wife whom l regard with
not only tender but worshiping af-
lection. That wife knows me thorough
ly. She knows not only what is best in
me, but all that is weak and human.
She knows that 1 am innocent. When
other hearts have quailed, hers has not.
When the storm broke heaviest she
only stood by me the closer. There was
nothing that she would not suffer for me,
and nothing that she would not do for me,
except to perjure herself to save; with
all her love, she would not have done
that. She loved me with all her heart,
but she feared God more.
This wife, so true, SO brave, so un-
wearied in her devotion, represents to
me the devoted wives of other men
who, in their innocence, have been &C
cused of crime. These children of
mine represent to me the children of
those innocent victims of the law and
it's errors; and when see what it would
be to me to look from the scaffOld upon
the agony of such wife and children
as mine, and to have to think. at that
last dreadful moment. of the Inherit
ance of disgrace that was leaving to
them-alas! the only inheritance-I can
realize something Of the refined torture
to which such unfortunate men are sub
jected, and something of what the
hearts are into which both the sense of
wrong and the disgrace have sunk. each &c
innocence of the dead husband and
father may be discovered. no empty
parade of honors to his memory can re-
call the agony of his last hours, nor the
darkened years that have passed over
his household. Recent Letter by
Mr.. HARDEN ON Circssxnstasstial Evi-
f7e,ace.n
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
A Railroad Running Away.

Three or four years ago the growth
OF this city had extended over all the
limited space there was for it between
the high hills that rise on every side.
There was pressing demand for build
ing sites. A company of spectators
purchased large tract of land on the
summit of one of the mountains north
west of the city, and built a railroad
from the bottom to the top of the hill,
on the plan of the gravity railroads in
the coal regions. The road was quar-
ter of mile long, and the incline was
forty-five degrees. 1t was expected
that the road would make the building
sites at the summit SO easy of access
that they could be sold at very high
figure. A number of lots were sold,
and the road was patronized largely by
pleasure parties. But two years ago
the scheme proved q failure, and the
gravity road has since been idle. A
large sum of money was sunk in it and
the land.
Last week representatives of q coal
company in Schuylkill County purchased
the road and its machinery for the pur-
pose of removing them to that county.
On Tuesday the work of removal began.
The rails, formerly the tracks of the
road. were fastened together at the ends
when laid, forming an uDbroken line.
The method of taking up the rails was
to unspike them from the ties, then at
tach horses to the end of one line of
rails at the foot of the hill and discon-
meet the rails as they were drawn down
at averv two or three rail lengths. A
few lengths of rails near the bottom
were removed, and then the horses
started the whole of the remaining line,
nearly quarter of mile in length.
The ties were covered with snow and
ice. The line of rails moved slowly at
first, but suddenly they began to in
crease in speed until the whole quarter
of q mile of rails was gliding down the
steep and slippery hill at the rate of
forty-five miles an hour. The rail at
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
The Unremitting foil OF HanOverian
Peasants.

During the months when teamwork
is possible the peasants in E. rise
between four and five, and, after a
breakfast of coffee, sausage and bread,
90 at once to the fields. At half-past
nine or ten the whole family sit down
in the field and eat black bread, washed
down with a kind of coarse brandy
called schnapps. Then work goes on
until twelve, when, if the day is hot,
they return home and rest for an hour
or two. making their MONDAY meal of
bread and the remains of the coffee
prepared in the morning and kept warm
on the embers, or, if wood is scarce, by
wrapping the cofee-pot in the bed
clothes! After their return to work,
an afternoon meal of bread and schnapps
is eaten at half-past three, and an
evening meal of bread, coffee and
warm soup when they stop work at
seven or eight. Constant toll OF this
sort leaves but little time for reading
or self-improvement, and only six pa
pers are taken in E., not more than
twelve or fourteen persons in all read
ing them. These weeklies and few
story-books, loaned out by the pastor,
are the only reading material Of vii
lage of five hundred and ninety-one
souls. The bread eaten by the peas
ants is made of coarse, black flour,
baked once or at most twice month,
and eaten without butter. On Sunday
morning a little beef or mutton is some
times eaten by few families, but 9th
erwise no animal food is taken except
in the form of sausage-meat. Children
do not work in the fields until about
ten wears of age, nor is much work
done by them for five or six years later,
as from six to fifteen or sixteen years
of age they are compelled to attend
school. In summer, from June "a to
September 20, there is no afternoon
session of the school, and the children
then help in the harvest. The toll OF q
peasant being SO constant is also done
slowly and poorly. A wood-sawer, for
instance, holds and works his saw with
only one hand, and draws q breath be-
tween each stroke. A compulsory
school law in the Province of Hanover
forces the peasants to study ten years
of their lives, and during this time. q
little reading, writing aud arithmetic
is acquired; but beyond this and q
slight knowledge of high German they
do not advance. Cleanliness is not
peasant virtue in this region, and per-
haps had better say nothing on the
subject, further than that the pig is at all
times a welcome member of the highest
village society, and generally goes into
the house by the front door.--Pop1lar
Science Monthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
Fashion Notes.

Piece satin seems to be preferred in
stead of ribbons for bonnet ties.
Yellowish shades of color will be
popular in laces, millinery goods, dress
fabrics and wraps for spring.
Pearl embroideries and passemen-
teries are much employed on toilets of
white satin and delicately-tinted gauze.
Heliotrope, a peculiar shade resem-
bling lilac, represents a new color in
silk and wooden goods for spring wear.
Black chip for hats and bonnets is
much used in Paris, and chips in all
colors promise to be favorite material
here.
Many new dress buttons present con-
cave surfaces. Cut steel and inlaid
tortoise shell are among the materials
used.
A novelty in crepe lisse is that known
as snowflake" 1t is dotted at regular
intervals with small black or white solid
spots.
Casaquins embroidered with beads so
that the silk material of the garment
scarcely appears represent one of the
fancies in favor in Europe. They are
made with brilliant sapphire, emerald
or ruby Tinted beads.
Some of the articles OF linen under
wear offered in the shops Of Paris are
trimmed with valenciennes lace, and
are so exquisitely fine and soft in text
ure that when crumpled in the hand
they occupy scarcely more space than a
pocket handkerchief.
The newest muffs are fanciful, not to
say fantastic, combinations of velvet or
silk, and satin, lace flowers and stuffed
birds. For instance, muff of shirred
satin has ruff1es of embroidered lace at
the ends. and on one side the head of a
lophophore within a nest of lace, while
a bunch of rosebuds peeps out from the
inside of the muff.
The choicest of toilets are those hav-
ing upon the tablier brilliant humming-
birds, butterflies and other designs
painted in water-colors. One dress of
this sort is described as made of white
satin, the train covered with lace on
which are small bouquets of tea roses.
On the front of the skirt are shower
of petals, which appear to fall from a
bouquet painted in water colors on the
left side. Two tufts of flowers orna-
ment the lower part of the skirt.
Among simple spring walking suits
are fine dark-colored flannels in the
latest shades of blue, green and other
cOlOrs, with finish of many rows of
very narrow white or black braid. The
waist is belted, the overskfrt has an
apron front and full drapery at the
back, and the lower skirt is kilt pleat-
ed Walking jackets for spring differ
from previous styles principally in hav-
ing longer skirts. a new model is
double-breasted and slightly cut away
at the front below the waist, forming
a long, narrow opening. What are
called blanket cloths, in mixed hues
with fine lines of color running through
them, are made up in this style. and
show the tailor's finish. Fancy silk
and wool sacques will be trimmed with
fur for early spring, after which fringes
and feather trimming will probably be
popular.-N. Y. Evening Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

There is no indignation more terri
BILE than that of an elderly man in q
horse-car offered seat by sympathiz-
ing lady, when he snorts, Kup your
seat, nom; they hain't stronger man
in this earn mer'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

Father (who is always trying to
teach his son how to act while at the
tablet" Well, John, you see that when
have finished eating I always leave
the table" John" Yes, sir; and that
is all you do leave"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
PROM WASHINGTON.


The Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia has refused to enJoin the Post
master-General from Withholding lottery let
tiers. ChiefJustice Carter dissented. An
appeal on behalf of the complainant was
taken to the United States Supreme Court.
On the Path the Democratic National
Executive Committee met in Washington
and issued call for the National Convention
to meet in Cincinnati ON the 22d of June.
On the 25th the Postmaster General
issued an order denying the privileges of
the registered mail and money-order sys-
TEN to B. H. Martin & Co., No. 123 Clark
street, Chicago, alleged to be engaged in OBJ
tanning money under false and fraudulent
pretenses.
UNDER date of February IS General
Sherman writes to the Secretary of War,
commencing the opinion by the President in
the Boynton-Sherman controversy, that the
civil courts afforded Mr.. Boynton every facii-
ity for Fighting his grievances, and reiterates
in effect the offensive remarks complained Of
by the latter. In . communication to the
Secretary Of War, dated February %, Mr..
Boynton says "his attempted proceeding,
recognized by both Judge Advocate General
and General Sherman himself - legal, was
for the military onense Of conduct unbe-
coming An officer and . gentleman
m offense not known to the civil
courts. By the Presidents decision
no military officer will hereafter
injure his army standing, 1t least during the
term Of this Administration, by denouncjng
any citizen through the public press in Ian
guage Of the foulest abuse, even though he
repeat this language to the President in official
FORM" Mr.. Boynton then enters his protest
against the Presidents decision, and ex-
presses the opinion that 1.-THE high sense Of
honor which always actuates the great body
of the army officers renders it certain that
the Presidents indulgence win be rarely, II
ever, needed by any officer below it, Gen.
eral."
IT was estimated by Treasury officials
on the 26th that the entire receipts Of the
Government from customs, internal revenue
and other sources for the year ending June
50 would be about $50, 1000 900, and that the
total expenditures for the same time, includ-
ing the sinking fund and interest ON the pub
lie debt. would amount to about S271 900, 900
leaving profit to the Government Of about
e25,000,000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

Pat: "WeI, Dan, and have We
heard the news have We heard that
Rory the miller's deadp". Dan: "ROry
the miller is it that's dead nowp ia
bers, but We don't say 80, and he was
a young man, too" Pat: ''Faith, an
that threw for ye, Dan; he was such q
young man, now, that expected to see
him at my own funeral instead of me
going to his"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

"A barber is always open to convic-
ton. Tell him his razor is dull, and
he win hone up.-BOston Transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

.sDoEs yes kape nothin' but dry
goods herep' EYES, ma'am." Thin
where will he after goin' for a water
ed silkP''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
TINE EAST.

HAYwARD's stables 1t Newport, r.
l., were burned . few days ago. and John
Shay, stableman, was burned TO death while
trying to get the horses out Of the burning
building.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04


The famine in Persia has assumed
frightful proportions. The people are said
to be parting with everything portable to
procure food and shelter, and many, despair
ing Of outside aid, have sought surcease of
suffering by committing suicide.
VERA the female Nihilist
who in 1873 attempted the assassination of
the Project Of St. Petersburg, and who was
acquitted by jury, to the amazement of the
authorities, has been re-arrested.
The President on the 9th ult. sent
to the Senate the nomination of P. B. e.
Pinchback to be Naval Officer at New Or
leans.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9th
ult says the Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs was unanimous in favor of the con-
hrmatton Of ex-Congressman Trowbridge rs
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
DURING the first seven months of the
present fiscal year 10000 900 postal cards
were disposed Of.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the suspension of the order Of No
vember 8, 1879, prohibiting the importation
Of neat cattle from the Dominion Of Canada
OVER two hundred emigrants passed
through Omaha, Neb., on the 9th ult.. On
route to the East, from California. Among
them were forty Cinnamon bound for New
York City.
A JUDGE OF election in Cumberland
County, ILL.,, was recently sentenced, in the
United States District Court 1t Springfield. to
i've months imprisonment and to pay fine
Of $500, for violating the United States Elec-
ton law. His ofense was the substitution of
ballots.
TIE Postmaster General has suspend
ed his order prohibiting the payment Of mon
~ orders to the lottery agents, who have ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court Of the United
States, until the case Is decided by that tri-
bunal.
In the United States Senate ON the
9th ult, on motion Of Mr.. Voorhees,, the bill
admitting free OF duty clothing and other
charitable contributions from abroad for the
relief Of colored emigrants in Kansas was
taken up and passed. Mr.. Edmund's motion
to reconsider the vote BY which the Five-per-
cent. bill was indefinitely postponed was
taken up, and, after debate, the motion to
reconsider was itself postponed until the sec-
ond Monday in December next The House,
IN Committee Of the Whole, finished the de-
taiied consideration Of the proposed new
IN committee, to the House, when Mr.. Black
burn gave notice that he would ask final action
upon them on the ID. Both houses adjourn
ed to the LIST.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-27
TIE LOGAN CONSPIRACY.
Meeting of Antl-Third Termers
Called at Chicago.
chicago special Cincinnati Commercial

Chicago special Cincinnati Commercial
The feeling over the bull-dozing
convention at Springfield last week
will not down at Logan's bidding, and
his smile is powerless to calm the
troubled political waters here. The
ninety-two delegates having been
called on to explain the why and
wherefore of their exclusion from the
convention will mset their constitu-
ents in Central music hall Wednesday
evening, and although the anti Grant
wing Of the party has no hired orators
to occupy the time, they have some
very good men of hard common sense,
who will make the occasion memora-
Bile, and there is not the slightest
doubt that the meeting will be largely
attended, and that the real sentiments
of the people of Cook county will find
u%tterance.
Hon. 9. B. Farwell's pungent card
is a surprise to many people, who have
always seen him turn in with a will to
work for any candidate that was nom
mated, no matter if personally dis
tasteful to him. 1t is regarded as a
substantial declaration that his pow
erful arm will not be stretched out to
help in the contamination Of the con
splracy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-27
COMMERCIAL.
PUBLIC LEDGER OFFICE,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May q, 1886.

MEMPHIs. Tenn, May q, 1891
Very little mercantile paper is offer
ed in the market, and no activity is
observed in financial lines. Money is
in good supply and for acceptable en-
dorsement loans and discounts are
made at the steady rate Of 8 per cent
open market rates ruling from 6 to 10
er cent.
Exchange is quiet and steady, east
ern cotton bills being taken at ! to /
discount without and with grace, while
checks in NewYork sell at / premium.
Rates on New Orleans off buying and
par selling.
The secretary of the national treas
ury announces that he will buy 4 and
Al per cent bonds in addition to other
classes, using the surplus revenue of
the country as it comes in to the treas
ury for hat purpose. He adds 4 and
AIS to the list because dissatisfied with
the prices asked for other classes. The
so and 81 bonds closed &c lower last
evening, while 4 and 44s we're steady,
the huctuation of Others doubtless
being influenced by the secretary's
letter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-27

good butcher qualities in demand at
~ to 4zc gross the latter for the best. In
ferior IL TO 2Lc calves $498 each; COWS
and calves Sl9935; hogs in light move
ment at 3 to AZ c gross; sheep 4@5c for
good and 81 50@2 per head for inferior.
Market scantily supplied.
WOOL-Tub-washed, 40945c per h,
unwashed, 2O@2Sc unwashed and bury
from 10 to 60c per cwt less.
SUGAR-Yellow clarified, 9@9Kc per
ib;offwhites, 9K@9Ac; crushed, g~ranulated
and pulverized, l0K@l0Ac; cut loaf, lie;
open Kettle yellow, S@9c.
COFFEE-Fairt to choice lax TO 18c
according TO quality.
HIDES-Dry flint, No. !, Is; No. q,
Ice dry salt do, 16c; green, Nc. 2, 12Kc;
do sailed, 7@8c; market unsettled; tallow,
b@6Hc; beeswax. Zoe.
LEATHER-Oak sole, 38@40c; hem
lock, 28@S2c; harness, $685. skirting,
S6@37c; French calf $4,000 per dozen;
domestic calf, $4,000 per dozen.
TOBACO0--Per ID 42K@60c.
SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 70 per a or dray
load; orders 81 IS sacks 81 3001 60 for
course and fine. Rock salt &c per pound.
BAGGING--A arket quiet; on orders,
flax, exc per yard; jute, 10X@11c; ties;
" zoos per bundle; Irvine, l2c per
pound
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-27
Attachment Notice.

No, A7O-Before ]. S. GALLOWAY. + p 60,
Shelby county, Tenn.-L. Hawthorn K Co.
vs.. Geo. @. Ware. w.
n this cause IN attachment having been
\ sued our under section 2I65 of the Code of
tennessee, and returned levied upon tbs
property of the defendant, and affidavit have
ing been made that defendant is indebted 10
inc plaintiff. in the sum of S2s4, due by
accommodation draft drawn on L. LaWhorn
q Go. and paid by them and not repaid,
and that the claim is Just, and that
me defendant "a a nonresident of the
state Of Tennessee; it is therefore ordered
that said defendant make his PERSONAL an
ptea1rance before me on the 2d day of June.
iSSO;. at IL o'clock M, at my office, No. *
Madison street, Memphis, Tenn, and defend
serlbed by law, or the same will be proceeded
with eX. parte; and that a copy of this nrder
pc published once a week for four weeks in
This the 18th day of May, 1850.
% ~ dN j.. 5. GALLOWAY. l. p
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-27
American Turner's 70 Visit Eu.
rope.

The combined Turner associations
Of Germany have extended an invita-
ton to the combined Turner associa-
tons of America to compete with them
in tho grand prize turning tournament
to be held at rankfort-on-the- Main
from July "A to July 20. This great
national festival is held annually at
Frankfort, but this year it is intended
to infuse an international spirit into
the agair. Consequently arrangements
are being made an the most extensive
scale to make the occasiou d Remora-
BILE one. A committee OF the CinciI.
nati TEFn- yerein Immediately took up
the invitation from their German
cousins, and after considerable CORE.
s~pondence with the Turner's Of various
cities have accepted the invitation and
arranged 2 programme. The H9mburg-
American packet Gqmpany's steamer
Sllesla has been chartered for the
trip across the Fatherland. The
committee who will control the ex.
quFsloR comes from Cincinnati. the
secretary being Mag BRrgheim and
the president Mr.. Ehgelke. Almost
every Turner association in the Unit.
ed states will be represented. A del.
egation Of six members and two sub
stit4tes Will be esqt by each society to
compete. Fbe games consist prinei.
pally in the field and gyimnasko sports.
There will be in all about five hun
dred in the excursion, the Silesia
taking no passengers but members Of
recognized societies. The steamer is
undergoing extensive alterations, as
there will be no steerage PASSENGERS.
The bulk of the excursionists will
leave Cincinnati on June 8, at 9 am.
via. the Atlantic & Great Western
and the Erie railways, while the
Silesia will depart on Sunday, June s,
al noon, under the command of Can't
Ludwig. Special rates have been