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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Two AffectiOnate Rivals.

There were several men clustered
around the stove in the back room OF o
Galveston saloon. and somehow or other
the subject of newspapers came up for
discussion. One man said that editors
were more jealous of each other than
any other class; that they never had a
good word for each other, etc.
A long-haired youth, with q solemn
look, spoke up, and heaving a sigh, said
that he had had some experience with
editors, and he found them the reverse
of Jealous of each other, that Texas
editor was always willing to deny HIM
self comforts for the benefit of broth
err editor.
"Where did that happen?'
cit happened in a Western Texas
town where ! lived" sighed the young
man.
II had dashed off little poem Of
ten or fifteen cantos about Beautiful
Spring. There were two rival papers
in the place the Bugle and the from
bone. I had heard that the editors were
deadly enemies, aud sighed to shed
each Others gore, and was afraid if
let the Trombone publish my poem first
there would be a deadly encounter.
finally resolved to have it appear stimuli.
taneously in both papers. When
called on the editor of the Trombone he
said that the editor of the Bugle had q
large family, and that he would prefer
it to appear in the Bugle, as personally
he loved the editor of the Bng'e.
went then TO the Bugle man, and he said
the editor of the Trombone was his
warmest personal friend, and he would
be clad il 1 would let him have the
poem, as it would be putting bread in
his mouth and clothes on his back. SO.
owing to the love those editors had Tor
each other, 1 couldn't get my poem into
either of their papers. and it hasn't
been published yet. I never saw men
so anxious 10 help each other out OF dis.
tress.'' and once more the long-haired
poet sighed like bellows.
There was a pause. and an old coon
with frost-bitten nose drawled out:
Yer never tried them same editors
with a cash advertisement, did yer?'
The poet answered in the negative,
whereat the audience significantly
nodded their heads and winked At each
other. II alvest0n Ne,cs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
The East.

On the 22d the Egyptian obelisk was placed
on its pedestal in Central Park, New York.
Secretaries Golf aud Evarts, the Central
Park Commissioners and many represents
tives OF the Masonic fraternity were among
those who were pre- sent on the occasion. The
ceremonies were witnesse by 10000 persons.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was recently
createi in Philadelphia by the uncovering Of
a pile Of sixty collins BY men digging trench
near the Almshouse The collins contained
the remains of the victims OF the cholera of
1913.
FEW days ago a boy employed at the
Preston Colliery at Pottsvills, Pa, threw q
can OF lubricatine-oil into a stove around
which several miners were grouped, eating
dinner. An explos on followed, and John
Davis and George Howells were fatally, and
Henry Jones AMI Edward Egan severely,
burned.
ROELOFF Won Barren, German, who has
been living on charity in New Haven, Conn.,,
has lately fallen heir to an estate amounting
in value to over $25. co., 900. Owing to fatal
ARRAY with half-brother. he. dare not return
to Germany.
FEW days ago bill was introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature to declare forfeited
the telegraph property aiming at consolida-
ton in defiance of the provisions OF the State
Constitution.
TIE New Jersey Legislature on the 18th
elected General William j. Sewell (Rep.)
United States Senator. He received . ma
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Why Thermometers Vary.

During the recent cold snap many
statements of extraordinarily low tenn
perature were made, and the great diff
ferences between such reports from
local stations not far from each other
have called forth much criticism and
ridicule from those who have not
closely studied the laws and conditions
governing the subject. A few observa-
tions bearing upon the question may
perhaps be of interest to some OF your
readers.
During q wind-storm the air is con-
stantly intermixed and its temperature
thus equalized. In consequence the
thermometric records in areas over
which it passes show close c0rrre-
spondence. But if the weather is calm
as was notably the case during the cold
spell lust passed-the air as it becomes
colder settles in valleys and low points
forcing the warmer air to higher levels.
The result of this stratitication is shown
by observations taken in the morning
before the direct action Of the sun has
had its effect in restoring uniformity of
temperature.
AS an illustration of the truth of this
theory, ON the morning of january LIST
of the current year, within radius of
four miles of Sandy Spring, sMontgom-
cry County, Md, embracing mOder-
ately-rolling country with probably not
more than one to two hundred fest as
the extreme variation Of level there
was difference of thirty degrees Fab
renheit. the range being from five de-
grees above to twenty-five degrees be-
low zero, according to the elevation OF
the stations. NY two Thermometers,
hanging side by side, showed sixteen
degrees at 1880 q. M, while hall q mile
distant on somewhat lower ground
TWENTY-FIVE degrees was reached on u
thermometer which ordinarily agrees
with them. l Immediately removed
one of the two to q point ole hundred
Yards distant from tho house sxnd at a
level about twenty-five feet lower.
where in ten minutes it fell to twenty
four degrees.
Another singular phenomenon OBJ
servable under such atmospheric cOndi-
lions ID the sspid changes 81 stempera-
ture at q given point, as shown by frc-
quent or continuous observations OF the
mercurial column. On the. m0raing
above mentioned l watched several
fluctuations; of at least two degrees in
the space of ten or fifteen minutes,
which could not have been due tofadi-
alton from my body or other artificial
heat. This is accounted Tor by a,grad-
nal movement Of the strata of ali BY the
action of gravitation or q gentle lateral
pressure, of force insufficient to inter-
mingle them ID
AS q small contributions 10 sthesstore
of observed Facts" hope the foro-
going may find place in your columns.
Cor. Washington Star.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Bears Numerous in Virginia.

WE mentioned some days since in this paper
the killing of large black bear on Stony
Fork in this county. Since that time Ebert
Miller, of Black Lick, shot and killed two br,l-
ins on Walkers Mountain, in this county. One
of them was very large animal, and it required
q quantity of lead to dispatch him. Miller's
dogs "treed the varmint" and he shot him
with buckshot, dislodgng his bearship from
his perch. He came down the tree and Slapped
the dogs right and left, and was about tomake
and put himself out Of the way in double-ouick
time. He watched his chance then and put in
q dead shot with his navy six-shooter. We
learn that the tracks of as many as ten bears
snow on Walkers Mountain, and, to use the
expression of one Of the mountaineers who
saw the footprints. "sOme Of them showed
themselves. WutheUNe lYd.l Enterprtse.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Death Of q Pioneer Heroine.

The announcement of the death Of
Mrs. Jane H. Long, at her home near
Richmond, Fort Bend County, on the
30th of December, 1880, says the Gal
weston Ne,us, recalls some reminis-
cences of her life that are as full of ro-
nance as most tales of fiction. She
had been for sixty years the widow of
Colonel James Long, a pioneer of the
days when Texas was part of Mexico,
struggling for independence of Spain.
A meeting of the citizens of Natchez,
Miss, was held iii January, 1919, and q
company of volunteers raised to assist
the patriots in Texas in their efforts to
throw off the Spanish yoke. The COM
mand was given to DR.. James Long, of
Tennessee, who had been q surgeon in
the army of General jackson at and be-
fore the battle of New Orleans. This
little force of IS men did not reach
Nacogdoches until early in the follow
ing November, when the number
swelled to some 800. On his arrival at
Nacogdoches, Colonel Long united with
the patriots there in establishing pro-
visional Government, and declared Tex
as a free and independent Republic.
They established q printing press and
issued q paper, perhaps the first ever
issued in Texas, though one was
issued about the same time on
Galveston Island by the Nina expedi-
ton, an enterprise similar to that under
the command of Long. David Long, a
brother of the commander, was sent on
an expedition among the friendly In
dams on the Trinity. Major Smith,
who had come by way of Galveston
from New Orleans, also proceeded to
the Trinity, and Captain johnson, with
the site of the old town of Washington.
Colonel Long, the commander, came to
Galveston to secure the cooperation of
Lafitte and his followers. who then had
possession of the island, but LATTE
tried to dissuade him on account of the
desperate character of the enterprise,
and declined TO join in an expedition
toward the Rio Grande. Before autumn
the Spanish forces had driven the whole
of Longs parties beyond the Sabine.
In 1921 Long, with the famous hero
Milan, and small body of men. re-
turned to tho island just as Lafitte and
his followers were taking their final de-
parture under the persuasive influence
of an American pan-of-war, sent to
break up their piratical rendezvous.
Shortly after the departure Of Lafitte
and his followers, Colonel Long, with
his force, sailed down the coast to the
mouth of the San Antonio River, and
then marched for La Bahia (Goliad)
where they took possession without OPP
position, though in short time
they were captured by q force of 500
Mexicans, who were also at war with
Spain. The Americans were detained
as prisoners, and their commander sent
to the City of Mexico. He never re-
turned, and it was a long time before
his fate became known. 1t appears
that he was liberated at the instance Of
the American Minister, and in a few
DAYS assassinatsd. Colonel Long had
left his young wife, the lady whose de-
cease is now announced, at Point Boil
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Too Cold for the Fish.

A REMARKABLE circumstance in connection
with the recent cold snap was the effect on the
fish along the coast, large schools being driven
in shore and in shallow water. Strange as 1t
may seem, 1t IL asserted that the fish, par
ticularly bass and trout, were observed to
throw themselves bodily out of the water ON
land. An old negro caught thirty-one very
fine large bass in this way at Raccoon Key,
near Warsaw. On st. GATHERINGS net thrown
In the water was almost instantly filled by fine
large 1sh, and fishermen found some difdculty
In hauling the nets in. Others were observed
to kill them in the water with oars. This
rivers near the coast. Savannah (Ga.) News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
From Washington.

THE President on the 22d directed the fol-
lowing officers to be retired: Brigadier-Gen-
eral w. NJ. Dunn. Judge Advocate General;
General Stewart Vanvliet, ASST stant-Q Quarter
master-General; Lieutenant-Co.onel Samuel
Woods, Deputy Paymaster-General, and Ma
jor Joseph II. Eaton, Paymaster.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has in
formed the Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Appropriations that it will take $780,
100000 20 pay all claims under tine Arrear-
ages-of-Pcnsions act of 1879.
The President on the Gath renominated Ed
ward c. Billings, Of Louisiana, to be United
States Judge for the Fifth Circuit, in place of
Judge Woods, appointed to the Supreme
Bench.
ACCORDING to the Census Bureau, s., $751;
800 worth OF four, four and-a-half and five
percent. bonds are owned in Chicago. New
York owns S176, IA, $50 Philadelphia $780,
$3.50, Boston s19,95s, $50, San Francisco
$l0,312, $50, Washington sl1,OS4 $50, while
Allegheny, Pa, with a population of only
7S.6Sl, owns s4o, 225, $50.
THERE were $4,000 more immigrants ar
rived in the United States during the six
months ended December 81, 1881, than in the
same period the previous year.
THE President on the 26th nominated STAN
ley Matthews to be Justice of the Supreme
Court, rice Justice Swayne, resigned.
The special Ponca Commission reported to
the President on the Goth that the removal of
the Indians from Dakota aud Nebraska was
without sufficient cause; that the Gov
eminent had covenanted to protect
their persons and property, and that
those who have returned to Dakota are
entirely self-sustaining, and desire teacher
and minister. They recommended that one
hundred and sixty acres of land be given
each person, and that the recipients be sub
ject to the civil and criminal laws Of the
Territory in which the lands are selected.
They also urged that <25, 900 be appropriated
for agricultural implements, stock and seed,
and that suitable persons be employed by
the Government to instruct the Poncas in
religious, educational and industrial develop
ment.
PROF. REILLY. Chief of the chronological
Commission, predicts great swarm OF To-
Gusts this summer, particularly in the South
ern States and the southern portion of ILL
nois He says that the farmers of those sec
tions may expect to suffer much damage from
their depredations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03

TIE Boston Globe thinks that . Drum
Major ought to make successful COM
mercial traveller.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03

days before the driver of q mail-coach near
that place was killed by the savages. They
also killed three miners at Chloride Gulch,
and burned four persons, women and chill
dren, near San Marcial. Four other persons
were saved from similar fate By the timely
arrival of some soldiers.
The first grain elevator on the South At
lantic coast was opened for business at Port
Royal, s. c., few days ago.
IT was announced on the 9th that Prof. o.
C. Hill, Principal of the Normal School at
Oregon, NO., had been selected as Private
Secretary to the Presidcnt-elect. He was a
member of the college faculty at Hiram,
Ohio, when Mr.. Garfield was President of the
institution.
DURING recent ow-storm three persons
lost their lives near the Monte Cristo mine in
Plumas County, California.
A FEW days ago the Illinois House of Rep
resentatives adopted resolution urging Con-
gress to pension the soldiers of the Florida.
Black Hawk and Mexican wars, except those
the rebellion.
IT is announced that the unwilling of the
Cowpens monument will take place at Spar
tanburg, 8. c., ON the 18th Of May, and that
the President Cabinet and Governors of
States have been invited to participate.
The bodies of Mrs. Jacobs and colorcd
girl, both recently buried were taken from
their grave in q cemetery near Alexandria,
Va, few nights ago, by party Of body
snatchcrs. Two negroes were arrested on
suspicion.
FIVE of the Tulare settlers in California,
who resisted a United States Marshal and
provoked the slaughter OF several men, have
been sentenced to eight months imprison-
ment and fine Of 9 30 each.
THEODORE VArRIM, a Frenchman, living
on farm near Assumption, ILL.,. recently de-
lfberately shot his wife dead, and made what
would probably prove fatal attempt on his
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-28
Deceptive Mining Schemes.

Mayor Richmond, of Pueblo, Colo,
tells the Philadelphia Times that many
of the stock companies are operated
without honor or decency, being merely
schemes to beguile unsuspecting people
in the East. He gives the following ac-
count of how the trick is usually played:
ga company will be formed represent
ing q cash capital of perhaps 100000,
for the purpose of opening new mines
and of carrying on the business of min
ing generally. A claim is bought and
opened. Suppose the mine shows up
or sights for 100000, the capital
stockP The company then proceeds to
put the mine on the Eastern market at
q capital of $1,000, 900, or possibly, if
the company is unusually sharp, at
S5,0O0,0O0 This is done by going to a
few prominent capitalists and saying:
'Here, we will let you in on the ground
floor of this company if you will take
some stock and help US along with your
influence The capitalists buy the stock
and lend their names, and in a short
time the entire stock is taken by Eastern
investors, who are deceived by seeing
the prominent capitalists as heavy stock
holders. When the stock has all been
taken the money is divided between
those on the ground floor and opera
tons go on as in all well-regulated COM
panies. The concern never pays div
idend in the world, and the second
class of stockholders never see cent of
their money.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-28
A Valuable Invention.

Mr.. Fleuss has recently given at Ports
mouth, before officers of the Admiralty,
an exhibition of his new diving dress and
apparatus for enabling persons to live
and work in noxious gases A diving
dress and helmet are only used by Mr..
Fleuss for the sake of warmth, and per-
sonal comfort when below the water,
neither being in any way, necessary. to
enable him to breathe. He carries be-
low with him the raw material of life, in
the shape of supply of concentrated
oxygen contained in a small reservoir
or tank which he slings over his shoulder
like q knapsack. At every respiration
he draws from his stock by means of a
tube and mouthpiece; the exhausted
gas, after being strained through a
sponge saturated with caustic soda, re-
turns to replenish the tank, the impure
alone being permitted to es-
cape. In this way the diver can remain
under water three or four hours, and
can penetrate into situations which are
impossible to the ordinary diver,
who is compelled to drag q
heightened pipe at every step,
and is always liable to the dam
ger of getting entangled with
the means which supply him with sir.
Mr.. Fleuss descended into the steam
basin, which he traversei from end to
end without experiencing any difficulty,
either as regards locomotion or breath
ing. On the following day he demon
strated his ability to work in smoke and
poisonous gases. The test on this occa-
sion was a remarkably severe one. A
fire was kindled in an clubhouse with all
kinds of dock-yard refuse, the smoke
given off being one of the densest and
most pungent description. Mr.. Fleuss
carried the same magazine with him as
before, but divested himself of his div
ing-dress, the only protection being q
pair of goggles which covered his eyes
and fitted tightly upon his nostrils. Thus
armed and provided he entered the
smoke, in which he was willing to re-
main an hour or more, but at the end of
half an hour he was desired to come out,
as it was considered If he could remain
in the midst of such fumes for that
length of time, longer time was super
fiuous. On emerging Mr.. Fleuss was
apparently as fresh as when he began.
London Letter.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-28
Feed Dairy Cows Literally.

We believe the dairyman should study
how he may produce all the food neces-
sary for his cows upon his farm, and
that he should make all the provision
that an intelligent foresight can do; but
he should never suffer his herd to go
with deficient food, even for one week.
for this he cannot afford to do. And
that we may encourage him to be lib
eral, even when his pasture is short,
and he has no extra green food for them,
let US compare the cost OF nutriment in
some by-product. such as bran, cotton
seed meal, lmseed meal, corn meal, etc,
some one of which the dairyman may
always find near at hand, with pasture
grass. Pasture grass has about eighty
per cent. of water, and the nutriment
in one hundred pounds of it is supposed
to be worth twenty-one cents. The
nutriment of nineteen pounds of fine
bran is just equal to one hundred
pounds of pasture grass; ten pounds OF
cotton-seed meal; twelve pounds of
linseed meal, or nineteen pounds of
corn meal is equal to one hundred
pounds of pasture grass is q ration for
an ordinary-sized cow per day. II the
pasture, then, is short one-third, one
half or in, any other proportion, it is
easy to make up this deficiency by feed
ing some one or several of these foods.
which are so easily handled. 1t is sell
dom that more than one-third would
have to be fed to make full ra-
ton on short pasture Let US suppose the
dsiryman to be feeding seven pounds of
fine bran; this at 80 per ton, would cost
2.8per day, or about 19 cents per week.
Now, the extra milk per week produced
by this bran would much more than pay
the cost. If he should feed, instead of
bran, four pounds of lnseed meal, it
would cost him about twenty eight
cents per week; or If three and one
third pounds of cottonseed meal, it
would cost twenty-five cents per week;
or six and one-third pounds of corn
meal it would cost from twenty to thir-
ty-five cents per cow per week. If he
has the command of all these, let him
make up a ration nearly as follows:
Four pounds bran, one-half pound lin
seed meal and one and one-half pounds
corn meal to each COW per day, which
will. in most cases, cost only twenty
cents per week, and will keep a gener-
Gus flow of milk till the fall rains renew
the pasture, and then the extra food can
be discontinued. We have known
many who have used an extra ration
similar to this during short pasture, and
never found one who reported it un-
profitable. THE ration may be varied
to suit all circumstances. Corn meal
will be found cheap in some localities;
but it is always best to mix some bran
with it; and in most parts of all our
broad dairy belt bran will be found the
cheapest extra food to make up for
short pasture.-National Livestock
journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-28
THE DAIRY.

If corn grown for soiling Is left un-
I'll 1t becomes hard and yellow before 1t
Ii fed to the cows, the milk product
will fall off considerably. Fodder for
soiling should be young and fresh and
not past the Towering. It Is in its best
state when the ears are beginning to
form. When it is hard and dry it
should be cut and cured.
"A cement floor is not the best for q
dairy, as it absorbs the drippings of
milk and becomes foul in q short time.
A good floor Is of matched plank, with
tight joints and painted, so that it will
absorb no moisture. What ever drip
pings fall from the churn may be washed
off such q floor without leaving any
traces. Brick is quite as absorbent as
cement. A hagstone floor, with close
joints set in cement, is the best of all.
The Maine Farmer says: "a CLASH
fcation of the different breeds of cattle
may be made in q general way as fol-
lows: III butter dairying is the object,
Jerseys and Short Horns; il it be cheese,
Ayrshires. Short Horns snd Holsteins;
If beef. Hereford, Short Horns, polled
Angus, Holsteins and Devons; IL work
ing oxen, Herefords, Short Horns, Dew
ons, Holsteins and polled Angus. There
are families of excellent mixers ip all
the breeds we have named, but we have
classified them according to their repu-
tation.
The real value in cow or any 9TH
er animal is in proportion to the profit
derived from its product. A cow that
will produce 200 pounds of butter year
may be actually worth fifty dollars. One
that will produce 800 pounds in the
year would be well worth twice this
sum. because the extra product costs
nothing in feed or care, and at the same
rate cow that will produce 400 pounds
cannot be worth more than $3.50, and
in addition to this certain sum on &C
count of the value of her calves. A
thousand dollars is more than any COW
can reasonably be worth, excepting SC
far as the owner may derive pleasure
from the possession, and value this al
about $500. Two hundred dollars is
perhaps, the extreme limit to the actual
value of any GOV as butter producer,
For her bull calves to be used for breed
ing some still further additional value
might be set upon the COW.