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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

The star-route mail contract swim
die is receiving an overhauling at
the hands of President Garfield and
Postmaster-Gencral James. On %
routes the pay was increased from
s7o7,ll9 to *2,sO2,2l4, the most of
which went into the hands of the
ring who manipulated the contracts.
The swindling contractors appear to
have been supported by men of in
fiuence in Washington, some of
whom no doubt shared in the spoils.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Thomas w. Cunningham and J. A.
Chandler, of San Francisco, engaged
in shooting affray on the 22d inst,
in which the former was killed and
the latter wounded. Chandler is
said to be nephew of the late Sen.
stor Chandler.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

4 London dispatch of the 22d
says the prospect increases daily of
a failure of crops, owing to the fact
that no rain had fallen for several
weeks. and recent heavy frosts. Ad.
vices from Russia were also very un.
favorable, and the indications were
that the European grain deficit would
he larger this year than heretofore.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

1850 S3s~O Ee,fst = - ASaSsse eOVOAs-
This being / Asasoa Of hoodi, our
own Minnesota M shown deter.
minltion noA % te ostaoae BY larger
and uless psatAhlioaa rissra Re.
|pesea Eom vatioAe points o.. the
|riix,sagree in rspro ltNstng The Hood
[ak the greatest knavA Sinee the Get.
[aement of the Miiasseta valley.
Not having space for lengthy details,
we can only give . few issms from
the very full dispatches to the Pho.
neer Press:
At Montevidco, the water Reached
its highest limits early on Monday
morning. Several small buillin9s
were swept away. The iron bridge
across the Minnesota was swept d
mile down the river and badly dam.
aged. The bridge ACROSS the Mime.
sofa between Watson and Lac qui
Psrle has disappeared; aiso one Of
the Chippewa river bridges. The
railroad bridge was tipped over and
roads badly washed. Damages to
roasd and bridges estimated at &c.,.
900, and to private property one-half
to two-thirds that amount.
At last accounts Granite Falls was
situated on an island, fully onc-thirl
of the water running back of the
town through what is known as the
old river bed. Great fears were en-.
tertained of the safety of the bridge
across the river, which Was in immi-
nent danger. Many families living
in the upper part Of town were com.
PEELED to move out.
A later dispatch states that the
bridge and mills are all safe. The
bridges on the Yellow Medicine are
all gone, and also the dxm at Sor.
liens mill.
Minnesota Falls, two miles below,
suffered terribly. The dam and
bridge were both carried away, and
the town was completely inundated,
the inhabitants being obliged to flee
to the higher ground back of town.
As they could not get to Granite,
they must have been without shelter
for time.
Near New Ulm considerable dam
age was done to the trestle work of
the Winona d st. Peter railroad,
which WAS caused by the torrent
pouring in from the Cottonwood.
A mill was swept away near Fort
Ridgely, and another on the Cotton
wood near I.eavenworth. A house
and barn was also swept away by
the Cottonwood at Springfield, aud
several other buildings flooded.
At St. Peter considerable damage
was occasioncd by the high water.
Mr.. Engesser, brewer, claims = loss
of $4,000. The water got into the
Tribune press room and stopped the
presses.
Mankato was much excited over
the flood, and considerable damage
had resulted from it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

The students of Carleton college
at Mortified, have secured a large
rock, weighing some five tons, and
will have it faced and placed on the
college grounds, and the names of
the students of the class of 'sl cut
upon the same as memorial.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Mexican physicians cure small pox
by treating the patient to cold drinks
Of cream tartar and water. The
cream tartar is first dissolved in boil
ing water. It cures in three days
and leaves no marks or scars.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Strengthening in this State should
never be commenced before the 25th
of May, and the lst of June would
he better, and for these reasons:
Sheep, when sheared 90 early ~
many farmers are in the habit Of do
ing, suffer severely from the cold
nights, and from the transforms that
usually occurs during the first and
middle part of May, neither: should
they be sheared until the ewes have
their lambs and not then until their
young are two or three weeks old.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

On the 22d inst, one car of a pas.
senger train on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad jumped the track
and was precipitated down an en-
bankmcnt $50 feet, killing eight pas
SeNOc6.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

The big rise in the Minnesota has
brought the Mississippi at St. Faul
up nearly two feet higher than the
freshet of last June. West st. Paul
was flooded, and many families were
forced to leave their dwellings.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

The present number of the Ga.
zErrE closes its first years publica.
ton since it changed ownership.
Quite large number Of subscribers
now owe us for one year, and re.
mittances are in order.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Il IL . curious fact that the things
we don't have always seem to be the
most desirable. The figs on the 9TH
er side Of the hedge, way the Spanish,
are far sweeter than any on this side.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Glory gone! Hopes blasted! 1t
now transpires that Minnesota's ten
thousand-dollar beauty, frankie
Scott, did not pass muster with Adam
Forepaugh after al. 1t was a Phil
adelphia soul-smasher that scooped
in the ducats and not the Rice coun-
ty beauty. Frankic's feet were too
large is said to be the reason of her
rejection. Really, between the re-
pudiation of the old railroad bonds
and frankie SCOTS feet We are liable
to loose all the glory gained in hav-
ing two cabinet oficers.-Mankas0
Free Pres.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Republican Senators favor an exec.
"tive session to dispose of some Of
the accumulated business, but pro-
pose to renew the contest for the
election of officers Immediately there
,ffop
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

New nihilist plots continue to be
nnearthcd in st. Petersburg. The
latest one duplicates the Grand Duke
Constantine and several palace off,
Gals
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

It il quite wonderful ROW many
things there are in this world which
You do not want it you can only
make yourself think 90.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Peter Cooper proposes to contrib
ute half million dollars rather than
have the worlds fair project aban-
tlonci.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

James 1. Fields, the well-known
publisher aud poet, died ut Boston
on the Path inst.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

The government has issued two
weeks army rations to the victims of
the Dakota foods.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

1t is estimated that about three
millions of bushels of wheat remains
TO be marketed in the State.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Sixty thousand Scandiuasia,s
have contracted for passage to tkis
country.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28

Something like . famine in the
coarser grades of paper seems to have
come upon the country. Last fall
straw wrapping-paper sold in this
market at about >l.90 per hundred
in car lots; it is now selling at $500,
with an upward tendency. Building
paper has advanced in sixty days
sevehty-five cents per hundred, and
in Chicago the advance has been fif.
ty cents per hundred in the past week.
This is serious matter to the build
ing interest in the Northwest, where
paper is so universally used in the
walls of dwellings,. The causes of the
advance are several in number. The
notwithstanding demand accom-
panying the revival in business and
building boom in the Northwest has
outrun the facilities for production.
The straw supply in the vicinity of
the mills has been deficient in guam
tity and inferior in quality for two
years past. Finally Beloit, Wiscon-
sin, which Is the chief centre for
manufacturing the coarse papers in
the West, has been struck this spring
by the flood disasters and q pretty
general shutdown has taken place
owing to injuries to dams and with
which it will require weeks to repair.
One lesson of tlliss singular state of
things is that the new Northwest
which is large consumer should,
with its abundsnt supply of the best
straw, which now goes to waste, and
its abundance of cheap water-power,
manufacture its own building and
wrapping-paper and thus be exempt
from the vicissitudes that effect their
production in less favored localities.
Minneapolis and half dozen other
points can probably start this indus.
try during the next twelve months,
,-Mnneapo!;s Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28
ked,vuod Gazette
THURSDAY, April rs, isa,.

The ice moved ont q LstS Pspia
Oh Monday last.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
Curious Oriental Dress.

The black garments which have given
o distinctive name (Siah) to the race
(the people of Kahristan) apparently
differs in various tribes. Those on the
Kabul side wear entire goat-skins with
the hair on. The Bushgalls, main
tribe dwelling southwest of Chitral,
wear tunics with half sleeves, of black
woven goats hair, reaching nearly to
the knee, gathered in at the waist with
a leathern belt, from which hangs a
dagger, and with a broad, red edging
along the bottom. Where the Kafirs
abut on their African neighbors they
are found to be gradually adopting cot
ton clothing. The women, however,
adhere to the traditional garb, which
consists, in their case, of sack-like gar
ments of black, woven goats hair, with
long, loose sleeves reaching to the ankles,
and gathered in loosely at the waist
with q colored cotton scarf bound tight
ly over the shoulders. The men shave
the whole of their head, except a cir
cular patch about three inches in di-
ameter. whence the hair is allowed to
grow long and hang down behind,
often to the waist. The Bushgau wom-
en- wear a curious head-dress, consisting
of a sort of black cap with lappets
and two horns about foot long, made
OF wood, wrapped around with thick
cloth and fixed to the cap. Asomewhat
similar fashion prevailed in our island
in the reign of the Plantagenets, and,
strange to say, the Chinese pilgrims,
Sung Yum and Hwen Thsang, noted a
like peculiarity in vogue in Turkestan
in the sixth and seventh centuries of
our era--Logdon Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

The New York Tribune of late date
gives the paragraph quoted below as
the utterance of Hon. Frank HuId, in
an interview. We should suppose that
tiff anything could-would put q
blush of shame upon the cheeks of the
editors Of those Democratic" papers
which, last year, were hunting Presi-
dent Garfield as ifhe were q wild beast I
And it would, If their political hides
were not as thick as that of rhinocer-
os! We qoute: 81 stumped my State
against him last year." Mr.. Hurd con-
tinued, ''but never once said '329' or
Credit Mobilier. James A. Garfield
may have been misled and deceived
in the matter, but from my knowledge
of the man 1 feel that he was never
guilty of a dishonest or an ungenerous
impulse. .''-Sprinfield Republic.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
A Ceiling for a Vanderbilt Bedroom.

Jules Lefebvre is one of the more
practical of the French artists, his stu
dio being literally an atelier, work.
ing-room and not a show-place. He
lives over in the old artistic quarter,
now replaced in the affections of many
of the great French painters by the
newer charms and abounding splendors
of the wide avenues around the Pare
Monceau. 1t is something of climb to
mount to the vast, airy, well lighted
room, Which is now occupied by a Wis
ion of exceeding beauty-the ceiling or
dered by Mr.. Vanderbilt for Mrs. Van
derblt's bed-chamber. 1t reads like q
tale of the IS Arabian Nights "a sleep
ing apartment with such dream of
vague poetic loveliness enshrined over
head to greet the owners gaze at the
moment of his or her awakening. For
the exquisitely ideal talent of Jules Le-
febvre has never produced anything
more charming. 1t is the dream of q
poet who has sunk to sleep under the
stars of June with an invocation to
the Goddess OF Night upon his lips. The
design represents the dawn, but with q
graceful originality the painter has
chosen to represent, not the arrival of
Aurora, but the departure of the night.
IeIsOuluou UJ buo DtduLcOuS Il ueD0,
the sister of Apollo, Night, with the
crescent moon upon her brow, is drawn
by two lovely nymphs, representing the
Morning Hours. in q silvery car that
rolls over the dispensing mists. Tn g
nude and graceful goddess has Just
launched shaft of moonbeams against
a rosy Cupid, who, hoveringin in mfd-air,
shelters his laughing face with one
dimpled arm. Behind the goddess the
parting clouds show the blue skies of
morning. This group occupies the
upper half Of the canvas, while beneath
is seen reposing on the rose-fushed
mists, a second and exquisite group rep
resenting Sleep. A beautiful slumbering
nymph, her fair form draped in a trans
parent robe of palest lilac, floats upborne
on her airy couch, while one winged elf
nestles fast asleep at her side, and an
other, with outspread butterfly wings.
bends over to awaken her with q kiss.
At the lower right hand corner of the
composition the rising vapors give a
glimpse of the sun Just showing his rim
above q tranquil sea. This is the only
vestige of prosaic reality in the picture.
All the rest belongs not to earth, but to
Dreamland-to the vague and divine
realm of the Ideal. In looking at such
work as this, executed for the home OF
an American millionaire, one feels as
though one were transported back to
the days when Guido Reni painted cell
ings and Michael Angelo executed fres-
Goes at the bidding of patrons as gener-
Gus as is the great railroad king.-Pdris
Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
business ana Pleasure.

A man is known by the company he
keeps out Of.
Found A McKinnon PEN Enquire at
this office.
Adam never dared to use the silly slang
'1Some other Eve"
The highest price in cash paid for scrap
iron at Bennett Bros Foundry. so
Two qualities essential to a successful life
cheek and gush.
For policies of insurance with the Ohio
Farmers Ius. Co., apply to R. n. Goodwin.
Why is rosebud like q promissory
notee Because it natures by falling dew.
The place to find full line of the finest
qualities of violin and guitar strings and
trimmings is at Houghtons Drug and Book
Store.
1t is a mean hotel clerk who will wear an
electric light on his shirt front and pass 1t on
for q diamond, to the humiliation Of his
rivals.
"A larger assortment of spectacles and
eve glasses than ever has Just been received
at Houghton's. Fitting difficult cases
speciality.
"A coasting vessel was tossing about In
a heavy storm, when one Of the sailors
hanging on q rope thoughtfully observed to
q companion similarly employed: "Think OF
the poor devils caught at picnic in such
weather as this"
-Lost-A very small black puppy, Of water
spaniel breed. Information leading to his
recovery will be literally rewarded. Call al
this Office or on A. w. Scranton, one mile
north Of the village.
AN intelligent lady asked g sculptor who
was about completing the figure of lamb
~Did you cut out that animal y" "Oh, no,
said the artist, sthe lamb has been there al
the time. only took the marble from
around him-that's all"
-Lost-Eiiher in wellington, or beteer
Wellington and Penfeld, small specie
purse, containing between thirty and forty
dollars, mostly bills, some silver. The find
er win be rewarded by leaving the same al
this office.
A Maine paper prints laconic cores
pondence between two personal friends
One wrote to the other: 'sDo me the favor
to lend me dollar, to get my cow out Of
the pound" The other wrote back: 81
would, but I paid my last dollar to the boys
to take the cow to the pound"
-Houghton has full assortment of violini
of different grades, from $S to $40 in price
violins trimmed, box and bow, for from =
to s25. These instruments are guaranteed
to be as represented, and the better grades
are warranted to be satisfactory in tone. IL
fact, we defy any one to sell violins o
superior make, finish and tone for less money
Parties purchasing and not finding them
satisfactory Will be allowed to exchange unit
suited.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
A Poor Old Man and His Valuable
Pictures.

A beautiful collection of paintings has
Just been sold at KasseL 1t was the
property of "Old Nahl," an eccentric
enthusiast of that by-gone class who in
their younger, and even older, days did
not dream of such things as electric
railways. In two miserable attic rooms
he watched to his last breath the
precious treasures come to him from a
long line of ancestors. He slept among
his pictures, and not wishing to build q
fire in winter (Which by the way he was
unable to afford had he wanted it). he
shivered day and night in his little gal
lery. complacently and proudly looking
at his Rubens, and rubbing his cold,
emaciated hands until they grew warm.
At times the cold would drive him down
from his lofty eyrie and into the warm
room of a friend, at whose stove he
could thaw his frozen limbs. Once the
King of Hanover came to Kassel and
sent Chamberlain to old Nahl for the
purpose of negotiating purchase of
some of the old mans favorites. After
many an obstinate refusal. he finally
yielded, driven to it by sheer want. The
pictures were taken down and forthwith
sent to the Kings apartments.
The next morning the poor old man,
Chamberlain, "by all that was holy, to
give him back his pictures; he had not
closed an eye the whole night, but
mournfully stared at the vacant places
on his walls. feeling as though he had
had sold his very children" There
was nothing for it but to cancel the bar
gain. The King proposed to him to
make him the custodian of his own gal
lery at Hanover, with liberal annual
pension, If he would agree to finally
cede his collection to the King at 8
good round sum to be fixed beforehand.
But. when told that he could not be
allowed to sleep among his pictures,
Nahl refused point blank, and lived
on as miserably, but as contentedly,
as before. Later on the Governor
of Resse- Nassau, President Won Noel
Ter, endeavored to tighten the eccentric
old fellows lot, and among other DELI
cate questions and proposals asked him
what he could do to please him. "Oh,
Mr.. President, joyfully exclaimed
Nahl, "you might, indeed, do me a
great favor by ordering that wretched
poplar tree to be cut down, which sad
ly interferes with my view of Wilhelms-
hohe. That has been a wish of mine
for many years" MIR. Won Moeller
shrugged his shoulders and left. When
Nah1 awoke the next morning and went
to his window the poplar tree had dis
appeared. The authentic favorites
were sold to the highest bidder for
several hundred thousand marks the
other day; the good, inoffensive old man
had died as he had ived-poor as q
church mouse.-Americdn Register
| (PdTiS).
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
Brooklyn. Her sickness was long and

Brooklyn. Her sickness was long and
painful.
8. A year ago the poets mother, aged
ninety-one years, died at the residence
of her son James, in st. Albans, VT.
John G. almost worshiped her.
4. Last fall Sophia M. SAKE, the poets
wife, died of syncope, in Brooklyn.
She was the daughter of Judge Sollace,
of Bridgeport, Vt. She was literally
worn out with family cares. Day after
day and night after night she had been
at the bedside of her sick children, nor
were her attentions confined to them.
Her husband had been suffering from a
painful disease tor years. His nervous
system was completely shattered. The
faithful wife gave him unremitting care,
and literally sacrificed her life in hel
devotion to her family.
8. Two months ago Harriet, a third
daughter, aged twenty-seven years,
died at her fathers Brooklyn residence.
She had been suffering from pulmon-
ary complaint for years, and had Just
returned from the South when she died.
6. Within fortnight Mrs. John T.
SAKE, the poets daughter-in-law, died
at her husbands residence in Albany.
She was daughter of ex-Judge James
5. Bosworth, of this city. She was q
favorite with the poet.
z. On June 80 the poets son, John
T. Sake. was found dead in his bed at his
home in Albany. He had been suffer-
ing from a pulmonary complaint for
years. The immediate cause of his
death was hemorrhage of the lungs.
He had evidently tried to call his
father, who slept in an adjoining room.
but death ensued before he could make
] himself heard.
| Such are the facts, as gathered from
the only living child, Charles G. SAKE,
of Albany. He says that his father is q
confirmed invalid. His mind, however,
is clear, and his powers of analysis are
perfect. His nervous system is shat
tered. The long train of family misfor.
tunes has left him in a reflective, mel.
ancholic state, and he rarely smiles
he reads newspapers and magazines,
but never puts pen to paper. Many
friends have written him letters of sym
pathy. Their kind words are appre
ciated, but the sad face of the pleasing
poet tells those about him that he j!
living in remembrances OF the past. 4
whole Nation will sympathize with hin
in his distress.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
Wheeling & Lake Erie.

A special despatch to the Cleveland
Herald, dated Norwalk, July 20, says: /:
The work of buying right of way for
the Wheeling & and Lake Erie Rail-
road, for the branch between this city
and Toledo is progressing rapidly un-
der the management of G. H. Gallupe
and G. W. Finn, and tits expected that
before long the company will be able to
begin the work of grading for that
part of the road. The exact route has
not yet been determined upon, but will
be settled in a few days.