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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
Making It Lively.

They had terrible time at the West
End the other day. A colored lady
left pitcher standing on her doorstep
and bee got into it. Pretty soon along
came q neighbours dog and he saw the
bee, and his head went down into the
pitcher after the insect. But after he
got in there the dog didn't find things
just as he had expected. In the first
place. 1t suddenly grew dark, and in
the next place he didn't get the bee.
He concluded to draw out, but found,
that owing to the form of the pitcher,
he couldn't so easily do it. He backed
away with all his might, but the pitcher
chung to him. And then the bee began
to get in his work on the dog, and the
circus began in earnest. The dog
howled fearfully and began to plunge
wildly about, and then started on mad
run down the street. Just as it started,
the colored lady saw the animal and she
set of in an anxious frame of mind to
recover her pitcher. The dog being
completely blindfolded by the pitcher
could not guide itself, but got under the
feet OF . stout man, and both took q
roll in the gutter, and the shouts of the
man, who did not attempt to disguise
his annoyance, were as loud as the yells
OF the dog. The pitcher didn't
break, and the animal was on
its feet and away again before the
colored lady could come up, and soon
tangled herself all up with a police
mans legs. and mate a terrible fuss.
BY this time q crowd had collected, and
as the dog took to turning SUMNER
saults and jumping instead of rum
ming, the colored lady was enabled to
get to the scene. The policeman at
tempted to yank the pitcher from the
dogs head. but it stuck, and the effort
merely resulted in nearly yanking the
dogs head of. Then he proposed to re-
lieve the bowling animal by breaking
the pitcher, but the owner of the crock
cry, who was making terrible fuss,
strenuously objected, and then the po-
liceman contrived to thrust his hand in
beside the dogs head to try and push
the animals head out, and he must
have got hold of the bee, for he sud-
denly yanked his hand out. waved it
wildly in the air, and spoke blasphemy
as he danced about. After he got
Gained down little, he cursed the
owner of the pitcher. and drawing his
locust, hit the crockery a blow that
shattered it into a thousand fragments.
The dog being then released, dew away
like the wind; the colored lady. after
an excited Grafton was induced to 90
home rather than be taken to the sta
ton house, the crowd dispersed and
the officer was left on the corner suck
ing his thumb and mnttering to himself
something that may have been prayer.
-BOst0n Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
A Snake story from India.

"A uSTu VI WIN GIG udutS WssS AOoMtuS
through the country once, and after
stay ing some while at q salt spring be-
gan to pass on. One, however. a very
large animal, stayed little behind,
being, in fact, the last to leave the
spring. As he was fastening to join
the others. snake (who had been
watching in an adjacent tree), threw
its body out as the elephant passed by,
and keeping hold of the trunk of the
tree with its extremity, caught hold OF
the elephants hind leg. The monster
stopped and turned round to see what
was the matter; and by this the snake
got better hold, and wound itself
round the elephants body. Then COM
menced the tug of war. The elephant
saw what was the matter and began to
pull. But it could not disconnect the
snake from the tree. Neither gave
way, and the pulling continued with
fearful vigor, until a creaking was
heard. Suddenly the great tree around
which the snake had fixed its hold was
seen to sway, and gradually its lateral
roots began to appear above the earth,
the trunk to totter, and finally the top
most branches crashed to the ground.
But the most marvellous part was that
the trunk, having wide-spreading
branches which rested on the ground,
was raised a great distance from the
earth. The snake. which still main
tanned its hold both on it and the ele-
plant, was hoisted up with the trunk
and took the elephant with it. Next
day party of villagers out for fire-
wood, when q short distance from the
tree, saw the novel sight of an elephant
suspended (apparently) in mid air.
Upon closer inspection they found .
snake was the connection with the tree,
and one man got through the branches
on to the trunk, cut through the snake,
which Immediately fell to the ground
with the elephant and was crushed in
the fall.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
Our Oldest Inhabitants.

James Stone is a Louisville (Kv.)
man, lob years of age. who has had
eleven wives.
Tucson, Arizona, has two centenar-
ians, Mexicans, born in Sonora
Bascual Cruz, 40 years old, and Jesus
Ooiedo, 100 years old.
Mrs. Margaret Dodson. of Houston
County, Tex, glories in the fact that
she has fifty-one great-grand-children
living.
The Sixth Ward of Saginaw City,
Mich, claims French woman ITO
years of age, who planted, cultivated,
and dug two acres of potatoes last sea-
son.
Mrs. Sarah Moseley, of Madison,
Ind, is enjoying a visit from her son,
whom she has not seen in forty-seven
years. Mrs. Moseley is Ill wears old.
Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, KY,
recently, whose united ages were 1890
years, or an average of S65 years. The
Oldest was Sc, and the youngest 80.
"Pm not at all tired" said Mrs Alio,
OF Tylersburg, Pa, as she sat down in
her sons house, after a walk of seven
and half miles-and she is in her 10Th
year.
Mrs. Hannah Cox. of Helderness, N.
H., has just celebrated her l04th birth
day. She goes all about the house
without assistance, and reads without
glasses.
Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of Hart County,
Georgia, tells stories of the Revolution
airy War. She is 1O7 years of age and
still in splendid health, retaining all
her faculties.
When the grandmother of N. b.
Doak, of Stockton, CAL, was a century
old she made him a pair of woollen
socks. She died recently at Wythe
County, Va, aged 1O3 years.
Mrs. Eaglin, Kentucky lady of Car
roll County, was always a great lover
of the circus. She is SO years of age,
but recently walked two miles to attend
one.
Mrs. Mary Walker, of Phillipsburg,
N. j., claims to be 1O7 years of age,
and says it is all owing to her remain
ing an old maid. Family cares, she
says, are the ruin of the health of
thousands.
Marsac, the old French trader, died in
Bay City, Mich, recently, aged 100 years.
He was an old stager, knew the trails
of the Northwest when they ran
through an almost unbroken wilder
ness, and fought on the staff of General
Lewis Cass.
Half century ago Elder William L.
Benedict, of Warwick, N. Y, Graded
and bound field of grain. On the
same farm he performed the same work
during the present harvest. He after
ward drove fifteen miles to fulfill an
appointment to preach. He is over 80
years of age.
Kentucky has a number of honored
citizens who have lived nearly q GEN.
fury. Louisville presents seven men
who are over 80 years of age. They
are: DR.. G. c. Graham, 96; H. H.
Wilkes, "a; Asa Emerson. 81; Thomas
L. Butler, 90; William Givens, 81; John
P. Young, 81. 1t also has twenty-five
that are 80 and over, and seventy-seven
that are 20 and over.
A census enumerator of San Diego
found an old blind man who claims to
be one of the men who helped build
the "Old Mission los years ago. He
believes he is 12O wears of age. At the
rancheria below the Court House was
found an old Indian woman who claims
to be also 120 years of aye. Her flesh
and skin are so withered that she re-
sembles rather an animated Egyptian
mummy than human being.-M y
Sun,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
A Narrow Escape.

Mrs. OLIVIA THOMPSON, of Birming-
ham, Eng, went to o railroad station
to see her son off. After wishing him
good bye on "the departure platform"
says the London Times, she was in the
act of crossing to the opposite side Of
the station when she saw the train from
Birmingham within few yards of her.
In her terrified efforts to get out of the
way she stumbled and fell in "the four
foot way" while the son tainted in the
arms of spectator. The engineer shut
off steam and brought the train to a
stand-still as soon as possible, but not
until four carriages had passed over the
place where the woman lay. The spec
tators were much relieved to hear her
call out from beneath the train, "All
right, John; I'm all right" and she
soon after got out between the wheels
without having sustained any injury.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
The Earthquake at Manila.

Accounts in detail are at hand of the
earthquake that took place at Mlnila
on the 18th of July. Although the
town was almost entirely destroyed,
the loss of life happily was small. But
ten persons are known to have been
killed, and there were Twenty-Five
wounded The shocks continued for
about minute and quarter only; but
in that time were wrought the most
tremendous disasters. The Palace, Ca
thedral, Admiral's house and every
building of note in the place were over
whelmed in the twinkling of an eye.
Nearly all the inhabitants were made
homeless and great suffering ensued.
The next day the volcano called Tai
burst into eruption. and this, although
near Manila, treasured the people, who
thought the outlet thus created would
prevent q recurrence of the shocks of
earthquake. Captain Talbot, of the
British steamer Esmeralds, has given .
remarkable description of the catastro-
phe, his ship having been near enough
to Manila t. render the crew eye-wit-
nesses of its destruction. The Esmer-
aida had cleared and was on the point
of leaving the roalstead when the
calamity occurred. What was deserted
from the vessels deck is thus in part
set forth:
"The Cathedral spire and several other
conspicuous buildings we're seen to
topple and fall in one inglorious pile
with q terrific crash. clouds of dust COW
ering the whole town in q few seconds
afterward, and obscuring the view of
everything. This shock was distinctly
Ielt in the bay, where the Esmeralda
was lying. The water bubbled and
boiled up noisily all around her, the
vessel tossed ~ If in heavy gale, and
was bumped heavily as if the bed of the
river was also concerned in the general
state of excited upheaval. The wreck
of ship which had been sunk near the
beach was thrown right up OFT OF the
water bodily and one of her iron masts
was seen to give way. She had been
sunk for some time. and the raising of
of the vessel had been given up a. an
impossibility. The condition of all the
shipping in the river was something
frightfu1, and all those who were in the
midst of it will pray earnestly tn It thew
may never have to 60 through the like
again. The sensation both on board
ship and on shore was . fierce. tre-
mendous strain on the nerves; the
shocks came with remarkable unpleas-
antness, and the feeling they engen-
dered, beside the movement of the
ground, more particularly on shore,
was that of being suddenly connected
with agalvanic battery strongly charged.
Their frequency was as great as their
unpleasantness."
The shocks of this earthquake were
far more severe as we'll as more pro-
tracted than those of the last similar
visitation in 1868; and had they ended,
as did the earthquake of 1858, with the
dreaded rotary motion. it is asserted
that not one house would have been
left standing in Manila after the
shocks.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
hAT1R n,

4 COLLISION occurred on the night of
the 10th between several Newark IN. J.) Re-
publican clubs and some citizens of Harrison.
During the fight fire arms were used and four
members Of the clubs were badly injured.
NEARLY full returns from the Ver-
mont election indicate a Republican major
ity of about e, 900.
UP to the morning of the 18th about
thirty corpses had been recovered from the
Seaman Colliery. 1t was believed that the
dead would number between $50 aud 100.
Over 400 horses and mules were in the pit
and had undoubtedly persisted.
A SEATTLE wv. T.) dispatch of the
10th says: "Captain Smith, Of the steamer
Josephine, just arrived from Skagit, reports
that while ascending that river Tuesday last,
when opposite Mount Baker, he obser we'd the
mountain in q state of violent eruption,
flames streaming up from the summit and
lar re volumes of smoke asce nding."
UP to the 10th no additional reports
were received from the Arkansas election.
There was no doubt that the Democratic
State ticket hal received a majority OF from
1910 to 50, UC0, and it was believed that the
Fishback Constitutional amendment repudi-
ating certain State bonds had been defeated
by from lo,O0) to $1,000 votes
DR.. BUCHANAN, the Philadelphia
physician of bogus diploma notoriety, was ar
rested at the village of st. Clair, Mich, on the
American side, on the 9th, aud taken to Phil
adelphia on the following day.
A ROME telegram of the 10th says
stream of lava was is suing from Mount Vesu-
vius, near the new railway to the crater, and
some imprudent visitors had been injured.
The following Congressional nomi-
nations were made on the 10th: First Kan
sas District, c. q. Burns, Democrat, in place
Of TOmlinson, declined; Second Kansas, L.
F. Green, Democrat and Greenpack; Third
Kentucky, NJ. T. Flipper, Republican; Sixth
Wisconsin, John E. Thomas, Greenback.
The Republicans of the twenty
fourth New York District have nominated
Joseph Mason for Congress
The yield of wheat in Illinois, Iowa,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin aud
Dakota Is reported at 147, 73l. go bushels in
1880. against 126. 466, 600 bushels in 1879 The
yield OF winter wheat in Illinois is stated by
the State Board of Agriculture to exceed 3d.
000. 900 bushels, being the largest crop ever
produced In the State.
The steamer Frisia, which left Ham,
burg on the 10th, brings $3,OOO OJO gold
bullion to the United States. The total
shipped during the week ending on the 18th
amounted to about 100000.
A WAUKEsHA (Wis.) lumber mer-
chant named Silas Richardson blew out the
gas, instead Of turning It of, as he retired In
. Madison hotel few nights ago. and was
suflOcated to death.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16

WHEN = man brings guest home to
dinner, says contemporary, the best
of women will contrive to make that
man feel so utterly miserable, so blight
ed, SO downcast, that he will most cor
daily wish that he had never been
born. All that he will long for will be
an opportunity to flee into Tarshish, or
anywhere, to get rid of the responsible.
ity that is sitting down stairs in the
person of the other man who is waiting
for this dinner to which he never ought
to have been asked-at least not until
the matter had been all talked over be-
forehand and sufficiently stupendous
preparations made for regaling him
with the fat and the sweet Of the land.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16

"A fattened tube of iron, properly
arranged. has been invented in Germany
to take the place of the ordinary wooden
railway sleepers and is attracting maos
attention
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16

LADY CRoPPER, one of the beautiful
ladies of London, was Miss Minnie
Thornburg, of San Francisco. She is
about twenty-three years of age, is tall,
stately. slender and blonde.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16

DOLLARS, it is often remarked, do not
grow on every bush. II they grew on
every other bush it would satisfv the
most of us.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16

SOME young ladies in Troy IN. ~
gave Tanner picnic" recently. The
guests were RECALLED with water and
Watermel0ns.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
THE tronhle about tak;no a medic

The trouble about taking medicine
warranted to cure all diseases is that it
may not know exactly what is wanted
of it. and in that case it will 90 fooling
around in the system trying to cure
you of some disease you have not got.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.

A RECENT examination of schedules
of Tn ted States bonds, for the purpose of
ascertaiuing in what quantities the bonds
are held, shows that in the four per cent.
registered bond list there are the names Of
@,14l persons, of whom 1888 hold bonds for
$50 and less in amount. Among this num-
Der are the names of 66S1 women.
The announcement was made from
Washington on the 7th that General Nelson
A. Miles, the famous Indian fighter, would be
appointed Signal Officer, to succeed the late
General Myer
GENERAL GRANT has notified General
Beale, ex-Minister to Austria, that he will be
in Washington about October l, and will be
his (Beale's) guest. His visit will relate to
private matters.
ACCORDING to a Washington tele-
gram of the It'll arrangements had been
made to send boat fifty miles down the
Potomac to stop expected infected vessels
from Cuba at that point. The authorities
did not intend to allow the vessels, If infect
ed, to approach nearer Washington.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9Th
says the Board of Army Officers who recently
assembled in Washington to revise the United
States army regulations had completed their
work. There was nothing in the report Of
the Board that enlarged the powers of the
General of the Army or curtailed the juris-
diction of the Secretary of War;
PRESIDENT HAYES has committed the
sentence of death, recently passed by Mr..
Maynard, late United States Minister to Con-
stantnople, on an American citizen found
guilty of murder in Egypt, to imprisonment
Tor life
JUSTICE SwAYNE, of the United States
Supreme Court, will, it is stated, be retired
after the session of the October term of the
court
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04

' Itisreported that Prei lent eleet Gsfeld 10
tends giving Ju;go Tourgee lucrative position
for the powerful assistance be sfforded him aud
the whole republican patty by his Fools E;.
rand" and bis speeches duriog the late political
campaign. The President elec:, it is under
stood, not enly says he is in favor Of civil s,r
Woe reform, like MIR. Hayes, but unlike hin,
really Intends to do what be can toSard raising
the standard of the personal character of the
men 10 that service. Ifthis b., 80, befcrs car
rying out the intention to which VIC refer, lie
should Institute Inquiries into the c,us:s that
compelled the judges English law partner. in
North Carolina, to fee tho country to escape
the peDitertiary for acting the part ct bis CATS
paw. It used to DO said 10 the Judges cic1it.
that an honest man is the n;b!est work Of
Gad, bat Judge liza self made map.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPH NEWS
Fire,

PORTSMOUTH. N f., Dec. 4.-Shorily AIer
o'co,k tits unrong i:e brcks out in the
9Th s,o1y Of tie kearsage Eills and ia less ttsa
az hcu: The mammoth brick stluNure was 10
ruins. be fire. is reported to have ciusht from
a piece Of vase, in tho bands of an enpItyce,
ignitiug at gas JET. The fro department fail
log 10 check The ire. the Mayor teegrsphed to
NeHburyport for IS istarca. A. the preset
moment the Free will Baptist church opposite
the nil. aud in dangerous proximity to frame
dwelling, is 90 6ic /. is reported that man
ramad Greenwood, ao empIyee, IVES burned to
death 10 tire nil, while several were bsd'y
ecorchcd scd cannot recover. II the present
o1rtu.ion it is impossible to ascertain the loss on
the fsc.oIy, tu. it is fully issur:d.
L,t:r-1ho Mill was valued at $500 0C0. aud
$50 employees are thrown out of employment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04

CoUoHs-"Broaon's Bronchial ITochcs" arc
used with advantage to alleviate CoUaHs, SORE
THROAT, HoARsENEss and BRONCHIAL AFYEC.
TONS. For thirty years these Trochea have
been in use, with annually increasing favor
They are not new and untried, but, having been
tested by wide end constant use for nearly an en-
tire generation, they have attained we'll msrited
rank among the few staple remedies of the age.
IHE THRoAT.-"Bro,on Bronchial IToches
act directly on the organs Of the voice. They
have an extraordinary effect in sll disorders Of the
Throat and Laryn1, restoring healthy tone
when relaxed, either from cold or over e1ertion
of the voice, and produce clear and distinc
enunclation.. Speakers and singers find tn
Troches useful.
A CoUGH, COLD. OATARBH Oh SORE THROAT
requires Immediate attention. as neglec. Of
tentines results in soma inc1rable Lung Dis.
ease. '.BroDns Bronchial 4EocheS' will 81
most invariably give relief limitations are Of
fered for sale, many of which are injurious. The
genuine "Bro,ons Bronchial Ifo:hes" are sold
oTLyin boTss
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04

a LONG misunderstanding 10 tie return
OF our cotton good, and print manufacturers,
almoz! l. 500 co., (0) yards were produced in this
country in 1878 New England furnished near.
~ two thirds Of The amount Geographically
speaking, this production would DO sufi ,ient to
eocircle the earth at the equator nearly forty
times. The cotton shuttle of to-day Is thrown
at the rate of three times tocond, and, psrforce
tho inventive genius to the country, the poorest
woman who walks the street may appsar in q
dress of calico Of recent and tasteful de,ign.
which shsll not exceed fifty cents in the cost of
ell the material. Homer drew picture OF the
once only method Of ming when he portrsy.
ed the virtuous Penelope spinning for Ulysses.
This method is still prsc!iosd in the Orient To
spin ten skeins in twelve hours, or three miles
and fraction Of thread the spinner walks g..
020 feet. or abcu. FIVE miles. The girl who tends
a spinning machine of the latest type. attending
to GOO and 800 spiadles each of which spins S.
eco yards day, produces a thread which would
reach from Boston Wis Chicago to the Sierra
Nevada. and the arl does not walk at ALL
". Y. Mercantile Journal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04

Sumo Ct tho,e Southern newspapers that,
siacs the rrc,nt election, have developed 8
strong desire to BE- 10 Accord With "the ms ority
of the c,ua!ry," dcprsciate the material losses
.ths S,ush sustained ty the war. aud deprecate
the manifestation Of pride resulting from the
r3o3very of those losses. There never was a
country, the people of which wero rot entirely
ex;ermiaated, that suffered moro material l1ss
than the ScuIh. aud 50 far from there being
any exhibition Ct prid, at The eubseq 1ont i'm.
pavement, that improvement il ignored or in.
correctly denied by some. is diapsraged by
othsts. and, SO tsr as We have s:ep, kss only
been spoken CT. b. those who couosde it, 10 the
most moderate ard guarded terms. attritutiDg
It rather to Providence than to any merit Of
their OVID.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04

Ths constitution of the country says 10 person
shall be held to snsRer for en- Infamous crime
unless on preaeptment tr Indictment OF
grand jury. Noshing can 10 moro Infamous
than the deprivation Of qualified voters oil
The privilege Of suffrage, an5yet en- such
charge judges eff cltc!ioa 10 Virginia. the
State that had "a suerdnent made te
tho constitution providing thet the powers
hot delegated to tn, Unittd States shall bs
reserved to tho S:a!ca, sro snstched up by
deputy United States mals!als and tried By
United States commissioners whenever Other
business ia slack. Centrsiisn is net coniug; i!
il already here.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-04

Dr.. Eiwyn Andrsw, Of Shrewsbury, England
hss pointed out the advantages in certain sur.
gical and medical eases Of employing medicated
Ice. He thought the odd Has rendered more
effective ty being combined with the
active prit @ Piles CT drugs, ard by lrar zing vari
might be rendered highly antissptic, c.usLic or
slyptio. ln medical osse', especially Of the
throat, stomsch nrd hcmorrhages from internal
organs, ic, might DO thus pleasantly used to re
lisvs symptoms AID ct the same time convey
medicine as food to the stomach when the latter
would resist them 10 spy other way.