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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
Not Lynched.
BALTIMORE. March TX

BALTIMORE, March IS.
SPECIAL from Westminster, Md, tonight,
says: A few weeks ago news reached West
minister and was reported in the various pa
pers Of the death by violence of Mr.. Frank
Wright, son of Isaac Wright of this city. Mr.,
Wright left Washington for Colorado in May,
1880, and until the middle Of August wrote
regularly twice a month to his family here
Since that time nothing has been heard of him
until the sad news of his death at the hands of
. so-called Vigilance Committee was com.
municated to the family by Rev. DR.. David
Wilson, formerly pastor OF the Methodist
Protestant Church here, but now a chaplain in
the United States army and stationed in Colo
RADIO. DR.. Wilson stated that young Wright
had purchased two mules AMI started to the
mining district. that the mules proved to be
stolen, and the owners, forming themselves
into Vigilance Committee, had followed him,
and. Notwithstanding that Mr.. Wright assured
them he did not know they were stolen when
he purchased them, hal hung both him and his
servant to a tree and left them. The only
thing that gave ray of hope to the family
WAS the fact that letter had been received
from the postmaster at Hancock, Col, in jan
u,ry, stating that Frank Wright was there on
the 18th of November, which was after the
supposed lynching; that he had sold part Of
his mining claim to a man who had accom-
panied him to Alpine, paid him the money and
left him. and that was the last time he was seen
alive by any of his friends. The hope that he
might have been alive at that time, and that
some unknown and un eoresecn combination of
circum stances had prevented his writing, took
definite form in the following telegram re-
ceived this morning:
''SILvEa CT N. NJ, March IA, 1881.
4" To Isaac Wright:
"Read to my horror an account of my death
in New York Herald. Arrived here after per-
tlous adventure. FRANK"
When the last letter was written, in Au.
gust, Mr.. Wright walked ten miles to mail it,
not waiting for convenient opportunity, as
he did not wish to keep his family in sus-
pense The family and friends are now await
ing with great anxiety a letter, which they
hopefully expect in a few days, and which we
trust may satisfactorily explain all things.
Active measures have been taken toward Sc
curing Government detectives to find out the
facts, and, IL possible, punish the actors in the
crime: hut until something further is hearl
from Mr.. Wright, action in the case will be
suspended"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
A Draft With q Story.

The Third National Bank of this citv
received q draft yesterday through the
mail which has quite an interesting
history. Nearly Jear ago parties
called at the bank TO inquire about q
draft which had been mailed from Sill
yer City. New Mexico, with instructions
for its disposition. The draft was for
$500 on parties in New York, and was
TO the order of the Third National
Bank, but the money was to be paid
over to the St. Louis parties making the
inquiries. The bank having failed to
receive the draft, however, It was only
after much correspondence and the for
warding of duplicate draft from New
Mexico that the bank finally paid the
money. taking the proper precautions
to secure itself. Yesterday the missing
draft was received from Chihuahua.
Mexico with q letter of explanation
from the United States Consul at that
point. He states that the draft had
been handed to him by Colonel Louis
Terrozas, who found it among the ef-
fects of the Victoria band of Indians.
when be captured the band and killed
Victoria some noaths ago.-&. Louis
Republican.
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Clicked to Death.

A SINGULAR and fatal accident occurred at
Jackson last Saturday. Mr.. william Bailey,
Chancery Clerk Of Madison County, in com.
pany with Mr.. Thomas Wharton, Jr., Of Jack
son. was eating dinner at Miller's restaurant
on Pearl street. During the meal, while en-.
Eaged in friendly and sociable conversation,
aliusion was made to the strange and sad fato
that befell the late Hon. Walker Brooke, of
Vicksburg, who was choked to death by eating
an oyster. Mr.. Wharton said something fur.
ther, which distracted Mr.. Bailey's atten-
ton and caused him to laugh, and q
few seconds later It was noticed that the lat.
ter gentleman appeared ve.y sick and was
gaspins for breath. Mr.. Wharton, aud others
Immediately attempted to relieve him by cur.
ryfnR him to the door and slapping him on the
back. but without avail Physicians were sent
tor, but before they arrived Mr.. Bailey was
dead and it was beyond the power Of medical
skill to revive him. He had inadvertently
swallowed piece Of beef, which became
lodged In his throat and choked him to DEATH
-Vicksbuvg (31tss.) Herald.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A single business house of Green's
boro. N. c.. has bought $780, 900 rabbit
skins this season.
The fruit canneries of California
are turning out q stock worth 81, OOO.-
600 o year, and the business is largely
increasing.
"A German chemist has established
the valuable fact that wood impreg-
mated with paraiine oil is preserved for
many years from rot, even under cir
cumstances most favorable to decay.
1t is said there are 1922, 900 cattle
killed in the United States annually, the
meats from which amount to 4. O88, 3OO,-
600 pounds, and their total value when
killed for food is $6O8, 100000
About 600 inventors have sent
models or plans of improved stock cars.
in compliance with the offer of the
American Humane Association of
prize for the best. The judges find
themselves overwhelmed with the work
of examining. 80
The California Railroad Commits
sioners have fixed the railroad freights
in the State at reduced but varying
schedule. averaging twenty-five per
cent. The railroads must furnish trans
portation for second aud third class pas
sengers at sixty per cent. of first class
fares. .ltl
Special Agent Jenney. of the Ma
tional Census Office. has prepared
blank for the collection of statistics OF
fires and losses Ivy fires that have oc-
CURED in the United States during the
years 1879 and 1880. The compi alton
will, when the returns are complete, be
classified by States, and will show the
loss on each kind of property burned.
About 50, 600 of these blanks win be dis
tributed throughout the country.
The railway mail service of the
United States embraces sixty-nine lines
of railway post-office, some of them
longer than necessary to reach across a
whole European Kingdom. Including
steamboat routes, the annual service
foots up 1Q2, 166,001 miles, on which
mails are constantly being received, dis
tributed and delivered. with saving in
time over the old methods, upon each
letter or package bundled, of from
twelve to twenty Jour hours, and in one
year the emplo, es in the railway mail
oOA WV uISNAlOulCU SsOOCs ROO O<V s1CIlCAS
and pieces of mail matter.
The value of the grape and wine
product of California for 1880 is esti-
mated at So 500 900. The State fur
nished over 100000 gallons Of wine,
100000 gallons of brandy, 100000
worth of raisins, and grapes for preserv-
ing and table use to the value of $780,
600 or $4,000 more. The new brandy
is worth at wholesale Sl.15 gallon.
The new vineyards that have been
planted cover 5000 to 10000 acres. In
Sonoma County alone 1000 acres were
planted in vines last year. In Napa
County the wine product has increased
from 207, go gallons in 1870 to 2, 46O,-
600 last year. Land fit for wine grow
ing may be had for $5 to 1925 an acre,
according to location aud soil.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
Camels in the West,

We are informed that the Frenchman
who owns the herd of camels ranging
on the eastward in the valley bordering
the Carson River will utilize his .ships
of the desert" this summer in CARRYING
goods from the terminus of the Carson
& Colorado Railroad far out in the
wilderness. The camels now number
about forty. all but two or three of
which are natives of Nevada. In our
deserts these animals find grasses and
bitter and prickly shrubs and plants
suited to their taste, and probably the
same or varieties of the same plants
that grow in other regions of the earth.
1t is less trouble and costs much less TO
grow camels in Nevada than to rear cat
tie in the Atlantic States VIRGINIA
City (Nev. Enterprise.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
Table D'HOte Abroad.

Breakfast on the Continent always
means only bread and coffee; to the Ia
boring people it means a bowl of broth
and q bit of bread, or bread alone. The
American, however, will find himself
served with butter, and eggs or meat,
unless he has previously ordered q
"p!ain breakfast" when he will receive
the usual bread and coffee. The noted
table d'hote is perhaps the least suscep-
tible of change. 1t usually is served at
six o'clock, an hour when the davis
work is over, and the meal can be taken
at leisure. 1t is the social meal of the
day, and all the guests of the hotel are
expected to meet at the table. 1t re-
quires never less than an hour, Utener
two, and unless your company is enter
tanning. it is long and dreary process.
Perhaps you have been told that there
will be ten or fifteen courses, and if un-
initiated you have your mind made up
that for once YOU will have your. usual
"square NEAL" but when the waiter,
with neck-tie and shirt front of immac-
ulate wilderness, brings you = small
piece Of bread and dish of slightly
colored water called soup. you proceed
with quiet resignation with the belief
that you will have tho dinner presently;
but your curiosity is only the more
aroused when the plates are changed,
and after long dreary waiting you re.
ceive very small bit of fish; then the
table is cleared again. and you are
served with q bit OF chicken; like a true
American you have dispatched your
bread long enough since. and you take
chicken and "play it alone;'' but you
conclude it is "passing strange" when
you learn that buttered chestnuts and
nothing else, or bit of cheese alone,
will be served for course, and % you
continue for an hour or two in patient
expectation of the meal that never
comes. My Yankee friend put it exact
ly right when he said: There is a
mouthful to eat. and then square acre
of silence" shall always respect the
American. who, the other day, when he
had borne patiently until the meal was
half over, Numbered ont to the waiter:
GOOD gracious! Life is too short to be
wasted 10 this manner, sir! For heavens
sake, bring me something to eat."-
Foreign Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.
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West and South.

A BILL was recently introduced in the ILL.,
nois Legislature providing that treating a
person to intoxicating liquor shall be made a
penal offense.
IHE Governor OF Tennessee sent mes
sage to the Legislature on the 18th urging
the passage OF law to settle the State debt
with new bonds bearing three per cent. in.
Aerest.
GENERAL A. j. EDGERToN, of Kasson. has
been appointed United States Senator BY the
Governor Of Minnesota, to ill the vacancy
caused BY the appointment of Mr.. Window
to the Cabinet.
The testimony for the defense in the Kali
loch trial in San Francisco closed on the
18th. kalloch stated in his testimony that he
went to the Chronicle Office to secure the sur-
preston OF De Young's pamphlet rejecting
on bis father; that De Young first drew his
pistol, and that he (Kalloch) fred in sel:-
defense.
A son Of the late Dr.. John Haskins Girls
com, OF New York. will, in April begin
forty-two days fast in Chicago. It is in
tended to be scientific test of human endur-
ance, and will be supervised by several med
ical gentlemen.
AT New Bremen, Ohio, the other day some
mischievous lads blew a school-house into
fragments With two kegs of powder.
The Legislature of West Virginia has .d-
tourned to the second Wednesday Of January,
1882.
OFFICER TYRRELI, of the Secret Service.
has recently discovered evidences of land
frauds in Southeast Missouri, involving about
o,OOO,OOo acres. On the 18th several well.
known parties were arrested in Cleveland and
Pittsburgh on the charge OF conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States by means Of false an.
davits t. land titles.
FRANK WRIGHT. the young Maryland law
yer who was reported to have been lynched
BY Colorado vigilants for horse ste alinR, sent
. telegram from Silver City, N. NJ, on the
18th, announcing his safety after perilods
adventures.
On the 18th Brevet Msjor-General Emory
Upton, OF the regular army, committed sui
eide BY shooting himself in bed at Preside
Cal. Grief at the loss OF bis wife is supposed
70 have been the inducing cause Of the act.
A letter left by him for IN officer expresses
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31

The Fish Commissionergofa lfaine
have labeled with light, indeattuetible
metal tags several hundred salmon.
which they have turned loose in the
Penobscot. Each fish is duly numbered
and recorded, and each will be so num-
bered for some years to come: The
Commissioners now ask q, whoever
catches any labeled salmon In any wa
ters of the State to forward them the
fish, for which they will pay extra price,
or else to forward them the label and
whatever they know about the Hsh that
wore it-where it was caught its size.
number. etc., to thenk a9h &sY. win
keep the record, and from many re-
turns will increase largely their infor-
nation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
"A Beesars, Charity.

6 The trustees Of the charity of Peter
'Lathom once = beggar. of Mawdsley,
near Preston. have, just met. 1t was
reported that the property, which
originally cost . few hundreds. was now
worth about E570,OOO. One block had
been recently sold for E87, 900, the fabu-
lons advance il value being owing tothe
discovery Of coal on the land. Lathom
left the land for the benefit of the
thirteen townships through which he
had begged to keep and apprentice
four lads, to further education and
other philanthropic uses. London Rost.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31

"A country surgeon is not bound to
the exercise of that high degree Of art
and skill possessed by eminent surgeons
living in large cities aud making q
specially of the practice of surgery, but
only to that reasonable degree Of learn
ing, art and skill ordinarily possessed by
others Of his profession, having regard
t0the advanced state of the science
Massachusetts, Supreme Court.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
Foreign Intelligence.

| TIE Czarowitz ascended the throne of Rus
sia on the 14th, assuming the title of Alex,
| ander ILL.,, and issued q manifesto to his
| subjects. Russakoff, one of the assassins OF
the late Emperor, was student at the min.
Ing academy. The physicians summoned tc
| the wounded Car found his legs held to hia
body only by the flesh, his right hand greatly
lacerated, and his marriage ring broken ia
pieces and driven into the flesh. Twenty
persons were more or less injured by the ex.
plosion, several of whom had died. General
Melikoff announced on the 18th that only one
| assassin had been captured, though many
arrests had been made. N.
The body of the murdered Car was en-
balmed on the 18th, and, clad in the uniform
OF hts regiment, was removed to the chanel
OF the palace. A dispatch of that date SAYS
the Princess Dolgorouski, the morganat:c
wife Of the Car, had quilted st. Petersburg
for all time. Roussakof had begun to make
important revelations, and his trial had been
postponed. Triumphant Nihilistic proclama-
lions were being strewn about the streets of
St Petersburg. Many fresh arrests had
been made among students. The place
where the glass bombs were obtained had
been discovered.
A BERLIN dispatch Of the 18th says France
would, at the International Monetary Confer
ence, propose the unlimited coinage of gold
and silver, in the proportion OIL to 1sk, the
acceptance Of the white metal to begin the
same day in all countries conseuting.
OK the 18th r. J. Sheridan, one Of the
traversers lately acquitted, was again arrest
ed at his residence In County Sligo, ireland.
under the provisions Of the Coercion act
IT ID aunou need that the Consuls-General
Of Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Austria have
been sent to Chicago to Investigate the I" pork
scare"
A BERLIN telegram Of the 18th says Count
Herbert Bismarck, Secretary OF Prince Bis
marck, the German Premier, had eloped from
Berlin with the Princess Elizabeth, of Caro-.
lath- Beuthon.
TIE Emperor William received q deleea-
ton from the Reichstag on the 18th, and. ia
the course of his remarks, said that lep;sla.
tive bodies should place bounds to ali de-
structive tendencies in time, though Divine
intervention alone could protect the lives Of
monarchs.
THE recent pigeon-shooting match in Lon
don resulted in victory for Dr. Carver, tho,
American. who won the championship cup
and $3.50 in. money, defeating Scott by q
score Of 70 to IA Scott It once chalIeneSd
Carver to . second match for . cup and 81, 900
. side. sFxfk k4ss ILL g9n
TIE British House Of Commons has voted
$500 goo towards the expenses Of the Afghan
wax 4. sssT @ss&Esk.
TIE recent exciting events in Russia IRE
said to have driven the press OF thst country
into the unsquivocal advocacy Of Costitu-
ton for the Empire. 80. I. .. . .,.
II was stated on the 10Th that the imro:ta-
ton OF hogs or hog products from the United |
States had been prohibited, By the Austrian
Government o. kf3tisf al
/. Ar st. Petersburg on the 10th . detach- |
ment OF sappers was cot to work 10 discover . |
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31

Figaro represents little boy ask
ing. Papa, what, then, is it that dis
tinguishes civilization from barbarismp''
oh. it is quite simple" replies the
parent; :" civilization kills it's enemy at
5000 meters with cannon ball, and
barbarism chops off his head with
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
Cities Of Over Ten Thousand Inhabit.
antA.

FOLLOWING IL q list Of the cities OF the Unit
cd States with a population Of 10000 and up
ward, according to the census Of 1850. 80 far
az returns had been received up to March
with comparative table Of the census Of 1870.
The figures are the reported ofhcial ones and
the table, it is believed will be fond COM
plete. or very nearly 50. The star indicates
that the population 10 estimated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31

The famous IRON crown of the Lom-
bards, which was carried to Vienna by
the Austrians in 1859 and afterward
surrendered by them, is jealousy
guarded in the cathedral at Monza. Il
was almost falling to pieces from age,
but lately has been restored.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31
LATER.

On the 18th the tow-boat John Means ex.
ploded her boilers near Osceola, Ark, and
Immediately sank. Four Of her crew were
drowned and four injured. Her tow of Eve
barges foated on for fifty miles.
MRS. MARY ROGERS, of Terre Haute, Ind,
while delirious from an attack of the measles,
sprang into . well on the 18th and was
drowned.
On the 18th q collision between q switch
engine and freight train, at Parsons, Kan.
killed two men and wrecked two locomotives
and twenty cars.
THREE of the alleged Northampton (Mass)
Bank burglars we're released from custody on
the 18th, the Grand Jury having failed to in
dict Much indignation was expressed at the
result, and there were rumors that compro-
mise had been effected. 49, s.<7s .-
In an attempt to execute James Black, at
Marion, s. c., on the 18th, the rope broke
after he had been hostel thirteen feet into
the air. He was restored to consciousness
BY means Of whisky, and hanged as speedily
% new hemp could be procured.
ThE Illinois Senate has passed bill to
make the Illinois Central Railroad tax availa-
bic for the payment OF the ordinary expenses
OF the State Government.
The new Gear has authorized the announce
ment that he will first give his attention to
the internal development of the State, and
that his foreign policy will be entirely pacific.
FRANCE has yielded to the request of the
United States that pork shipped before the
passage of the decree shall be subject only to
inspection.
A RUSSIAN journal announced on the 18th
that the authorities were several months ago
advised that Nihil!sts from Chicago had re-
entered that country.
LATE advices from the frontier represent
the White River Utes as securing all the guns
and ammunition possible, and there were
grave fears Of an early outbreak. The troops
had completed substantial block house near
the agency.
In the United States Senate on the 18th.
the credentials of Mr.. Frye (Me.) were pre-
sented, andhe was sworn in. On motion of
Mr.. Anthony, Mr.. Pendleton's organization
resolution was indefinitely postponed-3s to
37-the ce-President casting the deciding
vote in the affirmative. Mr.. Anthony then
offered a resolution recognizing the Senate
Committees. on Republican basis which. ysa
oent casting the deciding VOTE Mr..
Davis (lll.) voted with the Democrats,
and Mr. Malone with the Republicans.
Mr. Salisbury expressed the o, iuion that in
the organization of the Senate the vice-Presi
dent was not clothed by the Constitution with
power to decide in question of this charac
ter, and that such action was an assumption
OF power not warranted by the Constitution.
Mr.. Logan said the Vice President merely
followed precedents, and quoted similar
case in 1879.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-31

Colonel A. w. Drayson writes the
London Daily Nescs from Halifax, Nova
Scotia. to announce that he has made
an astronomical discovery, the result of
ten years investigation. 1t is: THAT
the earth rotates annually once round a
second axis, which second axis is NOT
coincident with the axis of daily rota-
ton. This movement is due to the fact
that. owing to the preponderance of
land above the water in the northern
hemisphere, and owing to the mass Of
land IN Asia, Europe and Africa on one
side of the earth, the center of gravity
OF the earth is not coincident with the
center Of the earth, and, consequently.
Is notlocated in the plane of the equator.
The results of the discovery are most
important. as the changing positions of
stars from month to month can, by the
aid OF this discovery, be calculated. 40
that the endless observations of scores
of computers at various observatories be-
come no longer necessary"