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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-22
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SWindling Farmers.

The reports of farmers being swindled by
travelling sharpers are less numerous than
they were a few years ago. Farmers are not
as anxious as they were of becoming agents
for the sale of useless implements or to pur-
chase patent rights. They are more careful
about signing orders for lghtning-rods and adj
vancing money for goods to be delivered in the
future. In brief, they are becoming more in
telligent in all business matters. Cases of
swindling are occasionally reported, but when
they are 1T is evident that the sharpers have
been obliged to resort to some new dodge in
order to insure success. new swinde, ac-
cording to local reports, has been perpetrated
in several places in Iowa during the past
month. 1t requires two persons to manage it
successfully, They watch the papers for no
tees of estrays. One goes to look at q horse
or COW, and soon decides that it is not
the one he has lost. During his visit he care
fully notices the size, color and peculiar
marks On the animal, and forms pretty ac-
curate opinion in regard to its weight and age.
He reports all these matters to his partner"
who, in few days, pays visit to the farm
where the animal was taken up. He is able to
give SO full and accurate description of the
"lost' animal that the person in whose pos
session it is has no reluctance in Offering to
give it up. The pretended owner, however,
finds it inconvenient to take it home, and Of
fers to sell it at a low price. The farmer &C
cepts the proposition to sell, and pays over
the money. In the course of few days the
rightful owner comes along and claims the
animal. and produces evidence that it is his.
The residence of the seller can not be ascer-
tanned, and, of course, the buyer is out the
money he has paid.-Chicago Times.
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DiscOuraging the Truth.

He had stub of pencil in one h and
and sheet of paper in the other, and
he walked up to citizen who was
absut to 60 aboard ferry boat, and
said
II have document here for you to
sign
but I never sign any petitions, - was
the speedy reply.
"This is no petition. This is an agree
ment to the effect that none whose
names are signed below will either
swear while fishing or lie about the size
or number of the fish afterwards. Please
write your name on the blue line
there"
"But 1 never 90 fshing.'
swell, you can't tell when you may.
Besides, | want the influence of your
name"
II guess won't sign"
'Let me hope that you will. Are
you not willing to eschew profanity
for an hour or two once OF twice a
year?''
81 never swear, anyhow
''But perhaps you lie! If so / only
ask you to tell the truth in just this one
instance.n
'.rm in hurry to catch this boat"
'Never mind the boat. Isn't your
soul of more consequence than a ferry
boat. Please sign right there"
Il won't do it,
"You won't, Ell? You refuse to bind
yourself not to rip and cuss and jaw and
howl because you don't get a bite. You
refuse to enter into an agreement not to
come home and lie like trooper and
lose your soul for the sake of making
somebody believe you caught bass
weighing six pounds! That's the kind
of DetrOiter you are, is it?''
ave good mind to spoil your
nose," growled the passenger.
''Of course you have. Just because
want to bind you not to lie and swear
you want my hearts blood. If had
asked you to agree not to cheat and
steal and burn buildings you'd have
wanted to cut my throat. Go on, sir!
Take your old ferry boat and 60 to
Windsor with it!'
..Ill see you again.
'That's it-more threats. But you
have tackled the wrong man, sir! I'll
have an eye on you for the next ten
years, and the first time know of your
going out to fish I'll follow you. Yes.
Sir; I'll be on your track, and if you
utter one profane word or tell one single
lie I'll put you behind the cross-bars of
the cooler. Go hence, marked mani
Detr0I Free Press.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

Josh Billings says that good doc
tor is a gentleman to whom we pay
three dollars visit for advising us to
eat less and exercise more.
He had lost his knife, and they
asked him the usual question: ''Do you
know where you lost it?' Eyes, yes"
he replied, .:of course do. I'm mere
~ hunting in these other places for it to
kill time"
"A visitor, on calling at friends
house during the session of the Legis-
lature, was questioned thus by a little
boy. "Where is your ax?' "What
do you mean, little boy?' asked the
visitor Il heard pa say the reason
you came to town was. you had an ak
to grind.'
Your Honor and gentlemen of the
jury, | acknowledge the reference of
counsel of the other side to my gray
hair. My hair is gray and it will con
tinue to be gray as long as live. The
hair of that gentleman is black and will
continue to be black as long as he dyes.'
N. Y. independent.
"A new sub-order of odd-toed I'M
gulates, or hoofed quadrupeds, named
Condylarthra, has been proposed and ex-
tended by Prof. Cope to include early
tertiary mammals constituting two
families, the Phenacondontide and
Menisco theriidn. THE Critic. This
news greatly relieves us. We have long
suspected that this would have to be
done, and are much pleased to have our
suspicious confirmed in the above man.
ner.-Harrard Lampoon.
"A lady of uncertain age looks I'M
utterable on Chestnut street at a gentle
man, who thereupon ventures to offer
her his umbrella. "How dare you
speak to me, sir?' she demands, in APP
parent anger. II beg you not to be
offended. | could not resist Offering a
simple courtesy" he replies, adding, as
her anger shippers away: You look SO
exactly like my mother Somehow
she scuds along alone, with a look that
would have taken the glazing off a
stone ar.-Iudianaoplis Journal.
The crescent shape of the first
quarter of the moon hung like an cleo
trio lamp in the western sky, casting a
subdued, cool light upon the path they
had chosen. They walked with a slow
and measured step, and said little. The
scene was rapture-inspiring. At last
she, looking up into his face with a sort
of scared to death like a. young fawn
look, said: "Albert, how many walks
like this we've taken-' eyes, Rosa
lind, we have taken great many walks
like this, and and and 40 Albert,
now DON'T "Well, l won't, seeing
it's you.' Another case of swapping at
the bait too soOn.--ChicagO Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-22
Sunlight and Fragrance.

Attention has recently been called to
the marvellous fragrance of the flowers
and fruits that grow in Siberia and the
more northern portions of the various
countries in Europe. The few fruits
that grow there are also very highly fla
vored. The like is also true of the
flowers and fruits of the upperpeninsula
of Michigan. The finest strawberries
found on this continent are raised on the
southern shore of Lake Superior. They
are of very large size and have a very
high flavor, and are so fragrant as to
render them. desirable for the aroma
they throw off. Observation shows that
continued sunlight produces aroma and
high flavor the same as high tenn
perature produces the quality of
sweetness. In high latitude the
days during summer are very
long, and it is at this season that the
flowers blossom and the fruits ripen.
The addition of two or three hours of
sunshine has a wonderful effect in pro-
ducing flavor and fragrance. The guam
tity Of essential oil that can be extracted
from flowers grown in Sweden is much
larger than can be obtained from the
same kind of flowers raised in the south
Of Europe. u Flowers raised in houses
are less fragrant than those raised out
of doors, as they get less light. 1t is
believed in England that the electric
light may be made useful not only in
increasing the growth of plants, but in
adding to the fragrance and flavor of
fruits subjected to its influence. Ex-
periments already made show that
lowers grown in houses lighted by
slectricity during the night are much
more fragrant than those which grow
out of doors. - Chicago Times. ..., en-.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

1t has been estimated that there are
600, 900 miles OF barbed-wire fences in
use.
The aggregate value of the proper
ty of colored people throughout Ten
nessee is set down at Sc, 478,951 being
an increase of $671, 179 over the preced-
ing year.
From statistics recently published, it
appears that 358 railway accidents oc-
Cured in Belgium in 1880. OF these
131 were due to collisions and 112 from
trains running off the rails at or near
stations. 1 ...zza "a.
They make something -besides Of
fice-holders in Washington, the manu-
featuring establishments of the city
having capital of 1881, 226, employ
ing Ills persons, while their products
are valued at 81, Gal, 1S5.
The city of Newark, N. j., contains
1929 factories, with 20, 232 workmen.
The capital invested is $23, 1919, 115, and
the sales foot up 500, 1884, 525. AS a
manufacturing city Newark ranks tenth
in its factories, working people and
sales, and eleventh in capital.
BY a recent bulletin of the Census
Office the statistics of live stock in each
of the States and Territories show that
there were on the farms in the United
States, June l, 1880, 10, 357, 9S1 horses,
1872, 932 mules, 993,97O oxen, 12.443,-
593 mich COWS, 2,4SS, $50 other CATTLE
35, 191, loo sheep and 47,6S3,951 swine.
Boston has exported during the past
season IS, O93 bushels of apples, against
$40, 800 the previous season. The ex-
ports from New York were 1888 bar
rels, against 500, 200 barrels the pre-
vious season. The total exports from
New York, Boston and Portland this
season amounted to 147,379 barrels,
against 1,159,2SO year ago.
Evidently the poultry interest in
this country needs to be promoted, at
least as far as the protection of eggs is
concerned. During the last three
months we imported 1896, 246 dozen
eggs, valued at $465,554. 1t would
seem as though hens enough ought to
be kept, and a0eU kept, to supply all the
eggs we want, at all seasons.-N. Y.
Examiner.
According to an official return late
ly published, 4,O44 persons were
drowned within the limits of Great Brit
ain during 1880. This large number
does not include deaths from shipwreck.
There were 3, 274 males and no females,
and 1,Ol9 of the whole number were
children under p; All were suicides,
1928 bathing accidents and u were MUIR
ders.--C Chicago NeUs.
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From Washington.

IT is announced that Guiteau has selected
as his spiritual guide Rev. W. w. Hicks, a
Presbyterian minister of Washington, who
will make daily calls at the Jail.
THE report of the Department of Agri-
culture for June, issued on the 10th, an
nounced decrease of twelve per cent. in
the area of spring wheat Corn planting
in half the States was not completed by
June |, but large increase in acreage was
reported. There were brilliant prospects for
oats, with an increase of seven per cent in
area.
THE Attorney General on the 18th ordered
the release of Brockway, one of the alleged
counterfcitcrs of United States bonds, in con-
sideration of his having furnished valuable
information to the Government.
THE President on the 14th nominated Daniel
II. Pinney, of Illinois, to be Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arizona.
TIE verdict of dismissal rendered by the
court martial in the Flpper case has been
confirmed by the President.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-22
VOraciOus SWamps.

The "Tamarack Swamps," near
Sharpsville, Pa, were supposed to be
an innocent sort of bog until the New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad
Company undertook to lay solid road
bed across them. At first few thou
sand cubic yards of earth were dumped
upon the surface by the contractor with
careless generosity, as much as if to say:
"That will satisfy your appetite, my
soft friend" But when the earth i'm
mediately disappeared and left no trace
behind coarser diet was substituted.
The company purchased from furnace
the accumulated cinders of ten years,
and since January about 5, 900 carloads
of this substantial provender have been
dropped into the swamp's voracious
NAV without visibly decreasing its
are evidences of repletion, but in, the
morning the murky water presents an
unruffied face and asks for more.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-22
STARyATION,,.

The Inhabitants OF Pat&1ck County, Va, In
. Starving Conditions TSfrible Story Of
Suffering and MANUFACTURING 60 Eat
q for My Starving Wifs ana Childrenl's-
Raw Corn Greedily SEaeen by Hungry
Men. Women and Children.
A courier arrived here to-day in great dis
tress from Patrick County. situated in one of
the most remote districts of the State. He
gives terrible account soft the suferings Of
the people there, and reports no less than
1000 men, women and children actually starv-
ing, some already dead, and others dying for
want OF food. This sickening state of affairs
was brought about by the total failure of the
crops in that county last summer, and, while
the people have been sorely pressed for many
months, it is only within the last two months
that their meager supplies have been abso-
lutely exhausted and themselves brought to
starvation. Patrick County is situated in one
of the most mountainous and inaccessible
regions of the State. The courier came to the
city to-day, presenting an appearance of
suffering and want that told his sad story be-
fore he opened his mouth. He begged that the
people of the city 60 to work at once to send
1.-THE starving families meal and -four. They
did not ask for money. The suffering there
has been terrible, A wellto-do farmer Thurs
day offered 500 cash for a barrel Of -four, and
could not buy 1t for twice that amount. Fri
day the first wagon-loa of sheiled corn went
to the county from! this vicinity. TIE people
along the roads heard of its coming, and as
soon as it entered the county men, women and
children crouched around it and fought raw
enously for every grain of corn they could
get, which they ate greedily, without waiting
to cook it. Attempts are being made to at
once organize relief committees, with the aim
Of getting meal and -four to the starving hun
dreds in the county," >t' i&a' ,"E ft3sr q
} / Additional particulars state that in many in
stances women bearing infants in their arms
have walked fifteen miles over the rugged
mountain roads and through the wild defles
searching for something to eat. Whole fami-
lies have left their homesteads and are getting
out Of the county in their efforts to reach
some section of the country in which they can
get corn or flour. In some instances families
have kept alive by boiling weeds and actrl-
ally eating leaves from the trees. Some
Of the sturdy mountaineers, ~ who had
an idea that the starvation district was
limited to an area Of about twelve miles, have
walked twenty miles. only to be met on all
sides by the piteous appeals for bread" Any
thing to eat for my starving W ife and chill
dren!' Men who hive been through battles
and stood all sorts of hardships have been
seen on the crossroads weeping as they real
lied the terrible situation in which their fami-
lies have been placed. Remote as the district
is, reports are coming in giving sickening de-
tails of the condition of affairs. The appeals
come: We don't want any money, but send
us meal and tiour."-DdnUale, Va, U,lle 1O)
Special to Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-22
"A JERSEY mother was much distressed

"A Jersey mother was much distressed
one afternoon last week by the mys-
FERROUS disappearance of her two young
est sons. When the father returned in
the evening careful search was insti-
tuted, and the absentees were discov-
cred lying concealed beneath the wood
shed. They were thoroughly armed;
each carrying two table forks, a carv-
ing knife, and a soup spoon. 1t took \
hickory rod well laid on to extract from
them the hideous confession that they
were en- route for the West to avenge
the death Of Jesse James. -Br0oklyn
Edqle.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches
XLVIIth Congress.

MONDAY, June 12.-In the Senate . bill
was passed to divide Iowa into two Judi
cial Districts. Mr.. Pendleton presented a
petition from 10000 citizens of Cincinnati and
Covington, asking the passage of the Civil
Service Reform bill. When the Japanese In
demnity bill came up, an amendment by Mr..
Morrill, was adopted to pay back in coin the
exact amount received, S7S5, 900. After debate
the bill went over. In the House Mr.. Butter
worth reported back the Army Appropriation
bill with the Senate amendments, and recon-
mended Inconvenience in the clause making
retirement from the army compulsory at the
age Of sixty-four years, but the clause was
agreed to by 101 to Is. Mr.. Townsend re-
ported bill to create Board of Commission
ers Of Interstate Commerce. Mr.. Humphrey
reported bill for a uniform system of bank
ruptcy.
TUESDAY, June 13.-In the Senate Mr.. ALI
son reported, with amen lments, the House
bill for the extension of National-Bank char
ters. In Committee of the Whole the Japanese
Indemnity bill was taken up. Mr.. Morrill's
amendment, to destroy the bonds in which
the fund was invested, was adopted and it
was resolved not to pay Japan the accumulat-
ed interest. The bill was then passed by
ayes, 35; noes, ID. In the House a resolution
was passed giving authority to the Secretary
of War to place at Washington's headquarters
at Newburgh, n Y, a memorial column cost
ing $4,000, and also appropriating $15, 600 to-
ward the expense of centennial celebration,
next year, of the declaration of peace. Con-
sideration of the Legislative Appropriation
bill was then resumed, and amendments were
offered making it unlawful to pay or demand
any political assessment, and that extra
clerks in the Pension office should be men
who had served in the Union army, but both
were ruled out.
WEDNESDAY, June 14.-In the Senate Mr.
Miller reported the bill for the construction
of the Illinois Il Mississippi Canal. The
House Bonded-Spirits bill was taken up, and
Mr.. Bayard urged the necessity of prolongng
the bonded period from three to five years.
and said the recent proposition in the
House to reduce the tax to fifty cents per
gallon had produced paralysis in the trade
No action was taken. In the House the Leg
islative, Executive and judicial Appropria-
ton bill was passed by-ayes, 125; noes, A.
Mr.. O'Neil reported the Invalid Pension APP
preparation bill, covering 800, 100000.
THURSDAY, June 15.-IN the Senate Mr.
Maxey urged the passage of the joint reso-
luton to Inappropriate $4,000 to pay debts
due Southern mail contractors at the outbreak
of the war. Mr.. Morgan submitted a resolu-
ton for Il special committee to investigate
the cause of and remedy for labor strikes.
The Bonded Spirits bill was then taken up.
Mr. Mcmillan moved the indefinite postpone
ment of the bill and it's amendments, which
was agreed to by-ayes, 33; noes, 20. In the
House the day was passed in debate upon the
River and Harbor Appropriation bill.
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Columbus, Ohio, on the morning Of the,l5th,

Columbus, Ohio, on the morning Of thei5th,
aged sixty-seven years. ~
TWO New York pugtlists, named Maiousy
and Wheeden engaged ii brutal prize light,
n West Virginia On the morning Of the 18TH
Forty rouilds we're foughE, but twas DECLARED
to be "draw, ''owing, as alleged, 10 the fact
that . mob of Maloney's friends overawed
Weeden. Maloney was badly punished.
AT Red Wing, MINI, few days ago John
Nelson, dry-goods merchant, took his wife
and child and lady guest fishing On the Mis-
sissippi. In returning home the boat was up-
set, and Mrs. Nelson and Miss Bradley were
drowned. IL l. .i-ta5asaus,l Dts1TgGFga
A FEW evenings ago,a fierce hail-storm
swept over Kentucky, and distillery at
Frankfort was set on fire by lightning and
totally destroyed, causing loss OF SIS, 900.
Two colored employees were fatally injured by
falling walls. -
The Democrats Of Arkansas met in State
Convention at Little Rock on the 18th and
Nominated Judge JamesIE. Berry for Gov
ernor by reclamation. /, The platform adopted
favors educating the masses by means of free
public schools; favors immigration, and rec
ommends to the Legislature to adopt all prac-
tical means to bring labor and capital to the
State; and reaffirms and approves the Nation
al Democratic platform OF $780, A resolution
was also adopted thanking the Federal Gov
eminent for its generous and timely aid to
the sufferers in the Mississippi Valley by the
late overflow =, u
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The Sergeant at the Union Depot

The Sergeant at the Union Depot
at St. Louis was about to offer his serv-
ices to blind boy, the other day, when
the lad said he was doing very well and
would accept nothing in the shape Of
charity. He had beaten his way to
St. Louis from New York, and proposed
to "beat' his way to San Francisco,
where he thought he would find rela-
tives. The spectacle of blind boy
crossing continent on the dead-head
plan in search of relatives he knew little
about struck the officer as a great novel
ty, and for that reason he took great in
terest in the lads travels The boy
said there were few conductors when
they found he was blind who would in
sist upon his paying his fare, yet he had
been put off of trains several times at
crossroads and out of the way places
where he had had desperate time of it.
-COurier-.Jcurpdl.
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The Rev. David Mossom is 6,

The Rev. David Mossom is said to
have been the first native American who
was ordained in the Church of England.
He was the clergyman who married
General Washington, near St. Peters
Church, New Kent County, at the
White House, Virginia. The church
was built in 1908, at cost of LAG, 900
pounds Of tobacco Daniel Parke Gus
tbs, whose widow became the wife of
Washington, was q vestryman in St.
Peters.
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The census office has issued bu

The census office has issued bull
letin showing that by the census of 1880
the number of persons in the United
States was so, 1855, 1853; the area in square
miles, 2,9OO,17O; the number of fami-
lies. 9,945,916; the number of dwell
ings, S,955,812; the number of persons
to square mile, 1929; the number of
families to square mile, 3. 43; the num-
Der of dwellings to a square mile, SOP;
acres, to a person. 37.O1; acres to fam
lily, 1862; persons to dwelling, $50;
and persons to a family, 5.O4. The area
in land is surface only. and, exclusive
of the Indian Territory and tracts of
un organized territory, aggregating Co.
$50 square miles. Chicago Tribune.