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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-11
Fearful Fan from q Balloon.


A FRIGHTFUL and probably unprecedented
balloon accident occurred last evening at Caur-
bevoie, near Paris. A large crowd had assem-
bled to witness the novel and perilOus ascent
of a gymnast called Auguste Navarro, who.
with inexplicable fo0lhardiness, had volun-
teered to perform number Of athletic feats
on q trapeze suspended from q Montgolfier
balloon named the "Vidauvillaise." Reject
ing the advice of bystanders, Navarro refused
to allow himself to be tied to the trapeze.
There was no car attached to the balloon. At
about five o'clock the "Vidauvillaise" was
let loose from its m0orings and rose majestic
ally in the air. Navarro hanging on to the
trapeze, appeared quite confident, and repeat
eddy saluted the spectators. When. however,
the balloon had reached height OF COO yards,
the crowd was Mortified to see him suddenly
let 30 the bar and fall. The tragic descent was
watched in breathless excitement. Atlast the
body reached the ground, striking with such
force that 1t made hole in the earth two feet
deep, rebOunding four yards. It was crushed
and mangled almost beyond recognition.
Meanwhile the balloon, freed from its human
ballast, shot up with lightning speed, and soon
disappeared from sight. Late I'm the evening
II burst and fell at Menilmontante, much to
the conservation Of the inhabitants Of that
busy Partisan quarter.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

DIR. Sauftleben claims the following
prescription as an antidote for carbolic
acid: Dilute sulphuric acid, 10 grammes;
muc. of gum arabic, 200 grammes; SIM
pie sirup, 80 grammes; mix. Give
tablespoonful every hour.
Where number of bridges were
required to cross small but tortuous
stream in Cass County, Iowa, the Chi
cage, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Company, which is now replacing its
bridges, concluded it would be cheaper
to change the course of the stream, and
this is being done.
"A railroad is projected to connect
Antioch and Lagrangeville, CAL, dis
lance of 1865 miles. 1t is to be a single
track road on the James patent. The
cost of construction per mile is esti-
mated at 81, 200; entire cost, $198, 900;
equipment, $4,000; estimated earn
ings for six months, S46O,O0O working
expenses, 100000. The road will be
built in the interest of the farmers of
the great plains, and if successful will
revolutioniza thor" Ly p,ovlulug cheap
and certain outlet to the sea.
The phenomenon of the perfora-
ton of rocks by sand carried on the
wind has been observed in the Valley
of the Rhone in France. A very vio-
lent wind often prevails in the neigh
borhood of Uzes. and drives large guam
titles of sand against a band of quartz
Ose pebbles contained in q tertiary
soil. The pebbles contain cavities
which might be believed to have been
made by human hands, but which are
really produced by the often renewed
friction of the sandy particles against
their surface.
Ocean soundings made with what
is known as Sir William Thompson's
steel wire show that along the entire
coast of California, depth of 1900
fathoms or more is reached as near as
within a distance of from twenty to
seventy miles westward from the shores,
the greater part of this sudden fall &C.
curing the last ten to fifty miles. At
one hundred miles west from San
Francisco the bottom is found to be
over $500 fathoms deep. The bed of
the ocean continues of a uniform depth,
greater than 1900 fathoms, until the
Sandwich Islands are reached, the
greatest depth being 5000 fathoms, at
distance of about four hundred miles
east of Honolulu, which great depth is
maintained until within ninety miles of
Honolulu; at fifty miles from that place
the depth is 1900 fathoms.
The following preparation, it il
claimed, will render wood incombusti-
BILE and impermeable: Sulphate of zinc.
IS pounds; alum, A pounds; oxide of
manganese, % pounds; sulphuric acid
OF 60 deg, % pounds; water, IS pounds.
All the solid ingredients are put into q
boiler containing the water at As deg.
G. Q13 deg. Fly, and as soon as they
are dissolved the sulphuric acid is
poured in gradually until the mass is
completely saturated. The pieces of
wood are kept about five centimeters
Q.97 in. } apart, and after three hours
boiling they are dried in the open air.
The natural appearance of the wood is
not changed. To whatever heat it is
subjected it resists combustion, the sur
face being simply covered with thin
charred coating, which is easily rubbed
off
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Frisco's Birthday Party.

Frisco is a beautiful setter puppy.
with silky black hair, and great brown
ewes that can look fierce or loving. ac-
cording to his mood at the time.
Did you ever hear of . dog having .
p&rtyp
never did before, but as ! was pres
emit at this one, you may rely on every
word say as absolute truth.
We may differ in regard to whether
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The last piece of fashion-writers'
slang is to call q gown "restful. "
-Millers make poor party men. They
are generally boilers. Toronto Grip.
There is nothing like self-poise,
confidence. Johnny says he doesn't
like his arithmetic. The answers in the
book are all wrong. every one of them.
-Bostow Transcript.
Somebody in New Milford has found
an umbrella, and announces that the
owner can have it by calling, which
shows quite conclusively what sort of an
umbrella it is.-DGnOury Nescs.
The latest fashion in ceramics gives
us triangular cups and saucers. By
practice q man can get 50 that he will
be able to drink from one and send the
liquid down the inside instead of the
outside of his throat, and it is better to
do the practicing in private, with an old
shirt on.--Boston Post.
Nothing is SO admirable as logic. A
German traveller hurried out of the car,
tired and dusty, and seating himself at
a restaurant table cried out, "Waiter,
bring me beefsteakr' The waiter re-
piled that he would be charmed to do
so, but that it took twenty minutes to
cook steak, while the train only waited
ten minutes. The kindly and sweet
tempered traveller retorted, "Well,
then, bring me half . beefsteak."
There is Galveston merchant who
does not keep his stock up, consequent
ly it often happens he does not have
articles that are called for. When he
hasn't got the article he invariably
says: II havn't got any in the store,
but 1 expect two carloads in next week. :"
Gilhooly strayed in yesterday. and, just
as an experiment, asked: "Have YOU
got any skate straps?" The merchant
unused awhile, and then said, as usual:
"Havn't got any in the store right now,
but expect two carloads in next week,
sure" N. B.-Galveston ice is raised
in Boston, and costs about four cents a
pound to bring it Galveston
NeUs.
They were sitting together in the
horse car. II do hate people that are
forever talking about their neighbors,.'
said the woman with the peaked hat.
$50 do l." conceded her companion in
the cashmere shawl. "There's Mis-
Green" continued Peaked Hat, econ
tinually a carryin' things back and
forth. Think she'd better look to
home. Goodness knows she and her
hush and live regular cat-and-dog life. !"
"Y.,s, indeed" said Cashmere, "and
her daughter Sarah isn't half cared for.
1 was tellin' Mis- Jones only yesterday
that the way Mis- Green neglected that
girl was a cryin' shame. Oh! by the
way, did you hear that story about
Tilda Smith,. "No: what is it?'' ex-
claimed Peaked Hat, turning half
around in her seat in her eagerness, her
eyes sparkling in anticipation of the
coming treat. But gentle reader, never
mind what it was. Neither you nor ]
care anything about it. We hate tat
thing just as bad as Peaked Hat and
Cashmere did.-B0ston transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-11
Foreign Intelligence.

THERE was a brief earthquake shock at
Newcastle, Ont, on the evening of the 31st
ult
A TELEGRAM from Teheran, Persia, Of the
3lst ult. says the Kurds besieging Ooromiah
had been driven back with great loss, and
had evacuated the district
A PARIS telegram of the LIST says fifteen
hundred merchants of Marseilles, France,
had entered protest against the enforce
ment of the religious DEGREES.
SIR THOMAS BoUCHE, the engineer Of the
bridge across the Tay in Scotland, which fell
some months ago, died on the LIST
PARNELL, the leader Of the Irish Land
League, visited Limerick on the LIST, attend
ed by an escort of $1,000 persons.
THE Earl of Bessborough, q leading land
owner in Ireland, has joined the Land
League.
EMIL PoLLEsKr, the German author, died
at Berlin on the LIST.
ON the LIST Denmark was visited by hurri-
cane accompanied by binding snow-storm.
All the railroads were blockaded.
DURING the last week in October 16l vessels
were lost on the British coast.
On the LIST an aeronaut named August Ma
varre made q balloon ascension near Paris
on q trapeze-bar, and when about loo
feet high lost his hold and fell headlong
to the earth. The body struck the ground
with such force as to make q hole two feet
deep and rebouEded four yards 1t was
crushed into an unacceptable mass
The native Governor Of Whydasso, on the
west coat of Africa, died not long ago, and
orders have been issued to make the event
memorable by the massacre of large num-
Der of the natives. It is stated that his sue
cessor will behead 200 captured chiefs.
The harvest and the fishery having failed
in the lower portion of Quebec, the sufferers
have appealed to the Government for aid.
INDICTMENTS have be en- lodged. ct Dublin
against Parnell, Dillon, Biggar, Timothy
Sullivan, Sexton, Eager, Brennan, Malachy,
O'Sullivan, Boyton, Gordon, Harris, Nally,
Welch and Shendan. The trial viii take
place before jury 10 Dublin about Christ
mas The counts Of the indictments charge
conspiracy, preventing the payment Of rent,
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A Refractory Bear.

A swARrHY Italian led bear along
Newark Street, Hoboken, yesterday
morning. The bear was growing and
evidently 10th to travel. The Italian
rugged at the end of stout rope at
tached to a ring in the bears nose.
When the bear pulled back the Italian
tugged harder and tapped the animal
on the head with long pole. Oc-
casionally the Italian tried petting the
bear by stroking him gently and
patting him. But the bear con-
tinued to growl and pull back until
they reached Grove Street. There the
bear stopped short, as if determined
to 20 no further. The Italian rugged
and coaxed in vain. The bear cavort-
ed, shook up the dust, reared his head
high in the air, protruded his lip and
reared. The Italian then got him into
an open space and hit him sharp rap
with the pole. This brought matters to
a crisis, and in minute man and bear
had clinched and were Waiting
around, to the mingled CONSERVATION
and delight of crowd of spectators.
Some thought it was q real fight.
Others said it was part of q perform
ance, and that the Italian would soon
pass around his hat. But it was per-
Torrance that the Italian took no
pleasure in, for the bear Rugged him
hard, jerked him around until he fell,
and then rolled on top of him. The
Italian fought for his life and yelled for
help.
A young butcher named Speer, who
psl/c Svn hhn oil Tn hrr
then took hand in the fight. He
seized the Italians pole and dealt the
bear hard thwack on the neck.
Thereupon the bear let the italian up,
and the Italian managed to drag the
animal to telegraph pole, where he
tied him, and sat down to rest. He
spoke English imperfectly, but he man
aged to make the spectators understand
that the bear did not belong to him.
He said he had hired the bear from a
man in New York who owns several
bears, and let's them out by the day.
He had tried to follow the mans in
structions in the management of the
animal, but found he could not get
along as well as he expected. He be-
lieved the bear knew he was going
away A1VM uOu4Os duu uAu AVV WAoA W
go.
While the bear was tied to the tele.
graph pole the crowd around him grew
In numbers. Policemen Murray and
Dooley of the Hoboken force passed in
citizens clothes. Murray offered to
shoot the bear, but the Italian vehe-
mently protested that he did not want
the animal shot. He said he would pay
any one who would 60 to New York
and bring the owner Of the bear over to
help hmm out of his difficulty. Finally
. passing teamster was kind enough to
volunteer to inform the bears proprie-
tor of the situation of affairs. Afterthe
expiration of two hours and q half the
owner of the bear arrived on the ground.
He scolded the man and talked volubly
to the bear. Finally he told the man to
take the bear home. The Italian APP
preached the animal with trepidatioa,
but did as he was bid, and, to the sur
prise of the spectators, the bear walked
off with the utmost docility. Although
somewhat fatigued by his struggle, the
Italian suffered only . few scratches
~ Z. Sun.
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The well-known sawdust swindle
having been stopped 50 far as the mails
aud express companies are concerned,
several of the holder operators have
made successful personal tours in the
Southwest. Protesting to be . buyer
of produce or stock, the swindler con-
ducts the business in the ordinary fash
ion up to the point when the stuff is
ready for shipment. Then the amount
agreed ON is counted out in good mon
ey. Picking up one of the bills. he
says: ''Oh, that's q counterfeit. Let
me give you another" The farmer ex-
amines the note, and Of course can find
no difference between it and the others.
A conversation on the subject ensues.
The swindler contidentially confesses
that he has box full of the wonder
full couutsrfeits, and finally offers, with
seeming reluctance, to pay his indebt-
edness with them, giving ton dollars
for one. His only proviso is that the
box shall not be opened until after his
departure with the produce, and then
nothing but sawdust is found. The
farmer usually keeps silence for the
sake OF his own reputation.
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West and South.

On the 3lst ult. an anti Chinese riot occur
red in Denver, Col, rioters to the number of
over LOCO attacking the houses of Cinnamon,
tearing them down and killing one of the oc-
cupants and badly injuring three Others.
Thirty of the rioters were arrested on the LIST,
and the city was patroled by special police
men and deputy sheriffs. One hundred and
thirty-fve of the Chinese were in jail for pro-
lection.
On the I'd a riot occurred between whites
and blacks at Johnson's, 8. c., said to have
been caused by the attempt Of the negroes to
seize ballot-box. One of the latter was
killed and three wounded.
friend Ti in 4 tunnel near Gallatin, Tenn, on
the I'd. Brown killed two of his assailants,
when the others rallied and beat him nearly
to death, robbing him of $1,000.
THERE was smallpox scare in San Fran
cisco on the 3d. Thirty-six cases had been
discovered in the city, and taken to the pest
house. The Health Officer had been granted
extraordinary powers.
The town of Bayou Sara, La, about two
hundred miles above New Orleans, has been
DESTROYED by fire. Loss estimated at S3OO, 900.
A CLEVELAND (Ohio) woman recently put
a small boy under a heavy railway tie on the
lake shore, and left him to die. He was black
in the face when discovered. She was subse-
quently found to be an escaped lunatic.
DURING an election riot at Edgefeld, s. c.,
on the I'd one negro was killed and thirteen
wounded.
SEVERAL buildings belonging to the United
States arsenal at Benicia, Cal, were burned
on the night of the ID, involving loss Of
$780,
On the Sd the clothing of Carrie Miller,
daughter Of Peter Miller, of Steubenville,
Ohio, was ignited while she was standing be-
fore the fire. The poor girl ran screaming
into the street, and before assistance could
be rendered she was so badly burned that she
soon died.
On the Sd the Georgia Legislature con-
vened and organized by electing Colonel
James Boynton as President of the Senate
md A. o. Bacon as Speaker of the House.
SAMUEL HANwAY, the late Treasurer of
Marion County, Ind, has been declared by
experts to be short in his accounts s37, 969. a.
A demand has been made upon his bondsmen
for the return of the deficiency.
DURING an election riot at Lexington,
Miss, on the I'd j. w. Asheraft was killed
and two other persons dangerously wounded.
THE Chicago Times stated on the 4th that
the parties who engineered the late deal in
pork-Armour & Co., of Chicag0-had real
ICED profit of about 100000.
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Total Electoral Voice..
DEMOCRATIC.
Total Electoral Vote.


The Chicago Times of the 5th says the re-
turns SO far received indicated that in the
United States Senate there will be q tie, and
that the House will contain 147 Republicans,
al Democrats and Greenbackers, and that
three of the Greenbackers will affiliate with
the majority rather than the minority.
The Tribune of the 9th says the Republic
ans gain Senators in Connecticut Indiana,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania, and lose Senators in Mississippi and
Nevada.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-11

A RICH proprietor named Raimondo
Terrana has been carried of from near
Toppolo, Italy. The aggresaors were
sin mon on horseback disguised a.
Guards of Public Security. It II said
that q ransom of $1,000 lire has been
demanded for his release, with . threat
Of Killing himiH It Is not paid. This IL
not the first time that Terrana has been
captured, as some time ago he was seized
and mulcted Of 5000 lire.
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ELECTION RETURNS.

TIE election news received up to the morn
Ing of the 9th indicated that the Republicans
had secured 21O Electoral votes, thus insuring
the election of Garfield and Arthur as Presi-
dent and Vice-Presideut The States voted as
follows, the figures in the first column giving
the approximate pluralities and in the second
the number Of votes in the Electoral College:
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Messages From the Sea.

A FEW instances of messages from
the sea, reported from time to time to
have been found, like Poe's manuscript,
in a bottle, may perhaps be taken for
what they are worth. A girl picked up
in the sea near Barrow q securely corked
bottle conta; ming scrap of old news
paper, on which was indistinctly writ
ten: "Gone down off the coast of Ire
hands. Captain Yates" There was
no mention of date on which the ship
sank, but the writing appeared to have
been hurriedly done. On the shore of
the Bay of Luce bottle was reported
to have been found containing the fol-
lowing message, written in pencil on a
piece of paper, the writing being much
faded: 'On the 29th of April, 1876, the
ship Herclades was wrecked on the
extremity of Patagonia. Crew in the
hands of savages. Bring us assist
ance." During fearful winter storm,
it was conjectured from the large
quantity of wreckage floating about,
that many vessels had been lost at the
mouth of the lay in addition to those
reported at the time. Some particulars
reached the press-whether verified or
not the writer is unable to say-that q
letter inclosed in q bottle was cast
ashore on the Fifeshire coast giving a
clue to one of these ships. The letter,
blotted and otherwise damaged by sea-
water was written in bold Norwegian
characters, and was thus translated:
Schooner Bay, Tonsberg, 18th Deem
Der. eight morning. We are now in q
sinking condition, within sight of the
Bell Took, outside the River Tay. We
have had both boats smashed and car
ried away. and cannot therefore make
an attempt to come ashore. We have
experienced great hardships during the
heavy gales in the North Sea.
Greater part of rails, stanchions,
and bulwarks are away. We have
been laboring constantly at the pumps
tor three days, and the forecastle
and cabin are full of water. Every
thing is destroyed, and we have but
little to eat. We now put our trust in
a merciful God, and if it is our fate to die,
we hope to arrive at q heavenly throne.
The crew is otherwise all we'll, and
asked to be remembered to their dear
ones at home-(Signed) H. Mathison,
Captain of the schooner Bay" The
letter bore the address: ITO Tons
berg, Norway" The name of the Bay
was on the Norwegian shipping-lists,
and she would have q crew of seven or
eight hands, and is supposed to have
been bound, coal-laden. from the Tyne
to Norway. This sad message from
the sea was reported to the owners.
Considering what has resulted from
mariners experiments with bottles
afoat, and how often, after disasters at
sea, these have been the means of COM
munication between the living and dead,
too much cannot be said in condemns
ton of thoughtless persons who perpe-
trate hoaxes Of this Observation-Disclosures
bers' Journal
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Compiled from Latest DISPATCHES.
From Washington.

ETVIu w 8S0lu2COns
TIE public-debt statement for October
makes the following exhibit: Total debt lin
Guiding interest), $a1l20Ss9l4. Cash in
Treasury, $a0S, 545, 4S6. Debt, less amount in
Treasury, $l.90S, 49O, 42s. Decrease during
the month, $S,1O3,75A. Decrease since June
80. 1850, $sS,6Sl.S67.
A WAsHINaroN dispatch states that during
October more than three and q half million of
standard silver dollars were put into cir
culation. OF this amount secs 600 went into
Texas; $s,O67 500 were sent from the New
Orleans mint, and $l,S42, 500 from the mint
at Philadelphia.
On the 4th John Geary, an honorably.
discharged soldier, called at the White House
in Washington and demanded possession az
the Supreme Ruler Of the universe.
The East.
ULYSSES s. GRANT, JR., son Of ex-Presi-
dent Grant, and Miss Fannie J. Chaffee, only
daughter Of ex-senator Jerome B. Chafee, Of
Colorado were married in New York on the
evening of the LIST.
On the I'd stove factory at Quakertown,
Pa, was burned, the loss being $4,000.
A GRAVEL bank in Attleboro, Mass, caved
vickerv were instantly killed.
A MAN named John Dickinson. of Brook
Ign, N. T., recently lost his life through the
inhalation Of vapor in making the toy known
as ''serpents' eggs" Among the ingredients
of which the eggs are composed are mercury
and acids that are very poisonous. Mr..
Dickinson placed q retort, in which was a
quantity Of the compound. on q stove. He
was bending over it. when the retort sud-
denly cracked, releasing a quantity Of the
noxious vapOr, which was unavoidably in
hailed by him. He realized his danger and
quickly sent his wife and children from the
room. In less than half an hour afterward
he was seized with choking cough, and in
one Of the spasms he died.
A TERRIBLE street-car accident occurred
in New Brighton, L. l., few days ago. A
car filed with sixty passengers-men, women
and children-was hurled down q hill almost
as fast as an express train, and dashed into
heavy post. The car was completely demol
ished. Twenty-Five to thirty persons were
more or less injured, some Of them seriously
If not fatally. number of persons jumped
of the car after it started down the hill and
were slightly hurt.
COLONEL JOHN D. HESTER, of Philadelphia,
President of the Veteran Association OF
Soldiers of the War of 1912, fell down stairs
in an apoplectic fit on the 4th and shortly
after expired.
AT its recent session the Methodist Board
of Missions appropriated 1000 for mission
work in China.
Mrs. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE has employed a
BROOKLYN lawyer to bring suit for divorce
against Ex-Governor Sprague, her husband.
On the 4th two trains were wrecked by q
collision near Lynn, Mass, and one man was
killed and several others we're badly injured.
Three engines and large number of cars
were wrecked in a collision near Batavia, n.
Y, on the same day.