davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
PITH AND POINT,

How briskly the Fire burns in the
Crate. Yes, the Editor las received Il
fresh lot of Poetry. -'Hj,uJ, Tribuu,
Primer.
-" Money is active" Fogg read in
his newspaper. "That's so," he said;
cts active enough to keep out of my
reach. ''-B"@to0 Transcript.
The rule now is for every lady to
have her are indicated on her hat-brm
Every inch of width indicates three
years. a tcn-inch brim means that the
lady is 30 years old; IA twenty-nch brim
shows that she is 80, and so on. 1t is a
charming cOnccit.-PhiInielphM NcU.y.
Here we have Lady. She was ut
party last Night, and the Paper spoke
of her as the Amiable and Accomplished
Wife of our Respected Fellow Citizen.
Our Respected Fellow Citizen is now IA
Full as Tick, and his Amable Wife is
Wolloping him with the Rolling Pin.
The Lady appears to be More Accom-
plished than Amiable.
At a cattle show held in one of our
country towns, a pumpkin who had for
some time been disturbing the company
with some loud remarks at last broke
forth, "Prize cattle, indeed. Call
these ere prize cattle? Why, you mayn't
think it, my father raised the biggest
calf of any man round our parts
"Oh!" exclaimed by -stander, eve
have no doubt of that "-RDchrSt,,'
Democrat.
A little nine-year-old girl, who has
not yet learned the meaning of treble
and bass, overheard, the other evening,
her parents discussing the subject of q
piano piece for four hands. 81 don't
see how two people can play on one
piano at the same time" said She. "Oh,
yes, they CAM" replied her mother
''think for a moment, my dear" $50
they can. mamma answered the little
one, after short reflection. "One on
the boong -boong side and one on the
ting-a-ling side. ''-Boston Courier.
"A few days ago little Oil City girl
was taken sick, and her parents called u
doctor whom she did not like care
you sick, Gracie?" asked the M. D., a
he bent over his little patient The lit
tie lady looked at him moment in the
utmost disdain, and then, in tone Of
the deepest sarcasm, replied, as she
turned her face from him, "Well, |
should think you ought to know. Do
you suppose | am lying here in bed and
taking your horrid old medicine for the
fun of it?" The doctor wilted.-OH City
Derrick
A too inquiSitive passenger was
asking a conductor how he managed to
build house and buy fast horse ont
of his $50 month. The answer was
one of the frankest. "You see," said
this noble man, ''sometimes we get a
way passenger who pays quarter or a
half-dollar for his fare. Well, We flip
the money up--heads for the conductor,
tails for the company" "But," per-
sisted this investigator after truth,
''sometimes it must turn up tails. What
do you do then?" "Oh,' replied the
conductor, with an ineffable contempt,
"then we flip it up again" SO that pas
senger went home and sold out his rail-
road shares.-N. Y. Graphic.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
A Valet Who Knew His Business.

Lord Stratford's feeling of loyalty
was as profound as that of sincere be-
lever in divine right must always be.
Every member of the royal family was
to him an object of unbounded defer
ence, When the Duke of Cambridge
was about to become his guest for a few
days at the Embassy he went in his
dressing-gown and slippers, at an early
hour in the morning, to see that the
rooms prepared for his Royal Highness
were in perfect order Finding the
Dukes valet arranging the trunks and
portmanteaus which had arrived, the
Ambassador began to give him direc-
tons how they should be placed. The
man left off working and stared at Lord
Stratford. Il will tell you what it is"
he said at last. II know how his
Royal Highness likes to have his things
arranged better than you do. So you
just shut up--and be off. will you, old
feller?" Lord Stratford left the room
in a towering passion, and calling one
of the attaches, ordered him to go and
tell that man who it was that he had
vent,,red to address such language to.
The attache soon returned with spark
ling eyes. "Well, what did you say
to him." asked the Ambassador. Il
said to him, my Lord, that the person
to whom he had ventured to address
such language was her Majesty's repre-
sentative in Turkey All. quite
right And what was his answerp'
- He answered, my Lord, that he had
never said you warn't.'' 1t was sim
gular feature in Lord Stratford's some-
what hasty disposition that his anger
would suddenly be appeased by any
thing which seemed to him ludicrous.
1t was so in this case, and he enjoyed
hearty laugh with the attache.-Temple
Bar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Washington University, at St.
Louis, has 1885 students and eighty
professors.
The total of the gifts of the late
Miss Sarah Gage, of Boston. to the
Universalist Church, it is said, will con-
siderably exceed 100000.
The new building for Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, Conn, erected by be.
quest of the late Charles II. Northam,
is to be called "Northam Towers
During the past year, the Con-
gregational churches of the Hampden
(Mass.) Conference have contributed
upward of 500, 900 to benevolent oh.
jects. ~
Plymouth Church, BROOKLYN. has
an annual income of $4,000. And vet
Mr.. Beecher says all beggars go there.
Evidently, all who 90 there are not beg
CARS.
Seventeen female missionaries have
been sent by the Church of England
Missionary Society to India to labor
among the Hindoo women. Four of
these have been there before.
The new University library build
ing of Washington and Lee University
is rapidly approaching completion. 1t
will be finished and ready for occupa-
ton before the June commencement.
The Friends of New York CITY re-
port an increase of 1919 members above
all losses during the past year This
unusual gain is ascribed to the influence
OF revival meetings, which are now per-
mitted to be held
M. Gambetta is said to be passion
ately fond of teaching, and the various
problems connected with public instruc-
ton he has thought out. He believes
emphatically i'll the higher education for
girls. He thinks that physiology should
be taught in the primary schools. and he
Is bringing out work upon this subject
which is to be sold for twenty cents.
Among the speakers at the late an
nual Conference of the Dakota Indian
congregational Churches was a chief
named Gray Cloud. He was sentenced
to be hanged for his part in the out
break of 1862, but was pardoned by
President Lincoln, and is now one of
the most active Christian ministers in
that region. These churches have
membership of 800, with ten pastors
Their contributions average nearly
dollar month from each individual.
An English lady--Mrs. Arabella
King, of Kcntish Town recently de-
ceased, has bequeathed to the church
wardens of st. Georges in the East,
$500, the interest of which is to be de-
voted to the purchase of coats and
cloaks for the benefit of poor old people
attending the parish church. The same
tcstator leaves Goo, the dividends
from which are to be applied to provide
"a dinner of roast beef and plum pud-
ding every Christmas day for children
attending the parish church." A stipu-
lation is that such dinner is not to in
clude any alcoholic drink.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
NLVIIth Congress.

TUESDAY, January l0,-In the Senate Mr..
Dawes, from the Committee on Indian At
fairs, reported bill to ratify the agreement
made by the Grow Indians of Montana for the
sale of part of their reservation. Mr.. Bayard.
from the Finance Committee, reported with
tho recommendation that it pass, the Morrill,
Tariff Commission bill, and also, with an ad-
verse report, the Garland Commission bill.
Mr.. Bayard said h fnv Iel "nmoving the
tariff question from the arena Of sectional
1eeiln@ by selecting civilians Tor Commission
erH, MI Beck opposed the Mp.ri | bill as a
scheme OF monopoiiSts to Srrurr delay. In
the House the oath was administered t. Ben,
Jalnln Wood, Of New York ); e,iu,.S ,ay
18Th instant was assigned for memorial scry
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
w est and South.

! GOVERNOR FOSTER was installed for his sec
ond term at Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th
COLONEL F. A. JONES, editor of the HeraAl,
at Macon, Mo-, died in Wabash passenger
coach near Fort Wayne recently.
GENERAL TERRY, in his recent report for
the Department of Dakota admitted that
the Indian outlook in Northern Montana was
untavorable. The buffaloes are rapidly dimin.
| ishing, the savages raid on the herds of cat
tie, and the ranchmen are organizing forces
for protection.
BRAVE BEAR, the Sioux chief, was recently
sentenced to be hanged at Yankton, D. T.. on
the 9Th of March, for the murder of Joseph
johnson.
AT Atlanta, Ga, few days ago, the Ex-
position building was sold for $500, 900. and
will be metamorphosed into a cotton factory
u. II. STRUBLE., of Louisa County. was
elected Speaker of the Iowa Legislature at its
organization on the 10th. Colonel f. c.
Hayne, of Appanoose County, was made
Clerk of the House, and L. D. jackson. of But
Ter. was elected Secretary of the Senate.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, on the 10th, in the
Republican Senatorial caucus. Governor Gear
retired from the contest, and the name of John
II. INdSSoH Wis W James +, Wilson
was nominated for the long term and j. w
McDill for the kirkwood vacancy
Iowa now has 1926 miles of railway in op-
Grafton, and 900 miles in process of construc-
ton, according to recent official returns
JOHN W. TORY, young man, was admit
ted to the city hospital at San Antonio, Texas,
as pauper, but when he died recently funds
tothe amount of $4,000 were found among his
effects.
A RESOLUTION to place statue of the late
President Garfield in the House of Represent
atives at Washington was adopted BY the
Ohio Senate recently.
RECENT dispatches are to the effect that the
Flathead Indians defying the authority of
thef Chef, had driven the Northern Pacific
surveyors from their reservation, aud were
gathering at point thirty-five miles west of
Missoula to take measures against the advent
or the locomotive The survevorS would Ia
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19

forced to leave unless military protection
should be afforded
RESOLUTIONS in favor of organizing the
State of Dakota from the southern half of the
Territory were passed at meeting of cit
liens at Deadwooi a few days ago. COM
mittee of fifty was appointed to proceed to
Washington in the interest of the movement.
NEAR Knife Falls, Mimi, few nights ago
the house Of Joseph Posey was destroyed by
fire, and Posey and two of his children little
girls, aged seven and thirteen years. were
burned to death His wife and other children
were absent and escaped.
SENATOR MILLER (coloredD introduced q
resolution in the South Carolina Legislature
recently for an inquiry into the cause of the
new exodus, but it was voted down.
In car on the Pan Handle Road recently
George W. Bonhart, of Pittsburgh, was robbed
OF $1,000, the money being cut out Of his inner
Iest pocket while he was asleep.
AT joint session of the Iowa Legislature
at Des Moines on the 18th Governor B. r.
Sherman and Lieutenant Governor o. H. Man.
ming were inaugurated.
DEs MONIES is announced as the place for
holding the next Iowa State Fair.
The West Virginia Legislature convened on
the 18th.
AN organization of the Wisconsin Legisla
ture was effected on the 18th by the election
of George B. Burrows as President pro tenn. of
the Senate, and F. S. ellison as Speaker of the
House. On the following day Governor Rusk
submitted his first annual message.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
LATER.

| TERRIBLE accident occurred to the Chica-
go express train which left Albany n. Y, az
2:40 p. m. on the 18th. Near Spuyten Duvyil
Junction with the Harlem main line, the Tar
rytown special train ran into it and telescope
the last two Wagner palace cars, which took
| fire and caused a loss of twelve lives. Among
those who were killed was Senator Wagner,
| the eminent palace car proprietor.
A DISASTROUS fire in Galveston, Texas, on
the 18th destroyed about dozen large bust
ness edifceS on the Strand. The loss will not
| fall far short of S200O,000.
IN the jai-yard at St. Louis Thaddeus Ba-
Der and William Ward suffered execution on
the 18th French Canadian, named Antoine
Moreau, was hanged at Rimouski, Ont. At
Wentworth, N. c., a crowd of five thousand
persons witnessed the execution of Eldridre
Scales, Matilda Carter and Joe Hay, all col
ored
IN the Starroute cases on the 18th counsel
for the conspiratorS objected to the evidence
which the Government proposed to submit,
and claimed that the existence of a conspiracy
had not been proven. An unsuccessful effort
was made to reduce the amount of bail re-
qulrcd in some of the cases.
In the Dead Letter Office at Washington a
few days ago draft for $4,000 turned I'D.
Nearly year ago it was sent across the At
lantic, INSTRUCTED to Belfast, England, when
Belfast Ireland, was its destination.
The Secretary of the Treasury has made an
other call-the 107th--for S3OOOO,OOO IN ex-
tended bonds, on which interest will cease on
the 18th of March.
The Canadian Parliament was formally
opened at Toronto on the 18th by the Lieu
tenant-GovernOr, in the absence of the Gov
ernor-General, the Marquis of Lorne
AssoCIATE-JUsTICE HOMER E. ROYCE has
been appointed Chef-Justice of the Vermont
Supreme Court
Mr.. GLADSTONE has again RENTED ten per
cent. of the rentals of his Hawarden estate.
THE South Carolina State Legislature have
been appraised that within the past six weeks
All exodus of 5000 negroes occurred from one
county.
The Apaches are at their old work of muir
der in the nejghborhood of Sonora, n NJ. The
State troops md citizens of the Territory are
chasing the red SKINS who are believed to
mum Der POO, under the leadership of Mana.
THERE were 203 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended on
the l3th-the largest number in any one week
for over year.
AN alarming rise in the Cumberland River
on the 18th flooded the lower portion of Nash
vile and swept away vast quantities of logs.
Upon the opening of the Guiteau trial on
the 18th Mr. Davidge resumed his argument
on the evidence offered. When he came to
speak of the assassin's divorced wife, Mrs.
Scovile cried out that she is liar On the
question of sanity, Davidge declared the
prisoner responsible enough to be hanged.
He occupied the entire day with his remarks,
at the conclusion Of which the court ad-
journed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
The East.

WILLIAM BURKE, alias Billy the Kid" the
famous bank robhcr, who was arrested recent
" for being connected with the robbery of Mr.
Eells. OF Cleveland, of $4,000 i'll bonds, and
who, after his release in Cleveland, was taken
to Albany, Y. Y, on requistiun to answer
charge of robbing the Manufacturers Bank of
Cohoes OF $4,000, escaped from Jail a few days
ago
CHIEFJCsTICE JOHN PIERPONr. Of tn. Su
preme Court of Vermont. died at Vergenncs
recently, aged seventy-six years.
THE death of Rev. DR.. John Cotton Smith, a
distinguished Episcopal minister of New York
City, was announced a few days ago.
IN Brooklyn recently the sugar-house of
Theodore A. l1avemeyer was swept away by
fire. The loss is estimated at 81 100000.
\ SENSATION was caused by Rev. Henry
Ward Beechcr in Plymouth Church on the Sth
by his taking open and emphatic grounds
against the doctrine of eternal punishment.
The use Of the revised version of the New
Testament for other than marginal purposes
is discouraged by Bishop DOane, of the Prot
cstant Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y.
IT is announced that the Pennsylvania Re
publican State Convention will be held May TO-
continued on the 18TH The ballot for Speak
er gave Alvord IS votes, and Patterson IS. with
81 necessary to choice.
THE Standardization Steel Company of
Pittsburgh failed few days ago. Liabili-
ties, Sl,6O,000; assets, S1.0OO,OOO
RESOLUTIONS were adopted in the New
Jersey Senate few days ago in reference to
the late President Garfield and calling for the
just and righteous punishment of the as
sassn, whom the resolutions declare sane
man.
THE Lincoln National Bank of New York
of which ex-Postmaster General James is
President, opened for business on the 18th.
The Independent Republican State Commit
tee of Pennsylvania, numbering 2OOdelecatcs,
met on the 18th and decided to hold a State
Convention May "A at Philadelphia.
The recently-suspended Pacific Nationa,
Bank of Boston has adjusted its troubles, and
the institution is announced as being ready
for business apain
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
How the Old Love Triumphed.

In the Nineteenth Ward lives a good and
honest citizen who is blessed smong other
things, with a family of four bright girls.
About six years ago one of them was courted
by promising young man. the son of neigh
Dor. The young man was moderately suggest
i've in his attentions fOr about fou> years.
Then he went West, and the courtship was
carried on by the slow and unsatisfactory me
dunn OF the mails. The parents of the maid
en- began to think that the Young man who
went West was too slow and entirely indefi-
mite. SO a match was arranged between the
neglected lass and well-to-do merchant Of
Moosic. Under his courtship affairs pro-
gre:scd sWimmingly, and last Wednesday was
arranged for the wedding the trousseau was
purchased the arrangements all made, and
tie prospects OF happy time were de-
ightfully imminent. Moreover the MOosic
young man had secured home for his expect
ant bride, and had it nicely furnished. Mean
time, the lover in the West was appraised of
the condition of things here. and hurried to
Scranton. He saw the Young lady, and so
ardently did lie press his suit upon the basis
OF prior claim that he induced her to become
his bride, and they were wed at the house of q
ACidCNC vi tAC SIOOIIl ANcNJ udF Tie 4uOOSlC
young man came on to claim his bride, and
learned to his great chagIin that she was an
others. Justly indignant at this treatment,
he reproached the father. The father, Of
course, was cold comforter, but, pointing to
his three re naming daughters, who sat in the
room he said: There are three others of my
daughters; you can take your pick. This is
the best can do" The Moosic Young man
saw the force of his prospective father-in-law's
remark. and, taking him at his word, selected
the youngest of the three, and they were wed.
Scranton (Pa.) Republican.
The daughter of jefferson Davis is
a tall young woman, with an express
sion of great reserve, a pale face, and
dark hair and eyes.
A fortune awaits the man who in.
vents a church bell that will not sound
like funeral toll.--N Y Commercial
advertiser
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19

Coffee culture bids fair to become
one of the leading industries of Liberia.
The soil and climate are eminently well
adapted To it, and thousands of trees
are being planted, Will" ready market
is found for all the crop.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
GENERAL GRANT TO PRESIDENT ARTHUR

NEW YORK, December ~, 1854.
The President, Washington, d. c.:
DEAR SIR: At the request of General Fitz
John Porter have recently reviewed his trial
and the testimony furnished before the
Schoted court of inquiry held in 1879, giving
to the subject three full days of careful read
ing and consideration and much thought in
the intervening time. The reading Of the
whole of this record has thoroughly convinced
me that, Tor these nineteen years. have been
doing gallant and efficient soldier very great
injustice, in thought, and sometimes in speech.
1eel It incumbent upon me now to do what
ever lies in my power to remove from
him and from his family the stain upon
his good name. l feel this more incum-
bent upon me than should if had been
corps commander only, Or occupying any 9th
err command i'll the army than the one which
did, but as General l had it possibly in my
power to have obtained for him the hearing
which he only got at later day; and as Presi-
ed that hearing. In justification for my in
justice to G neral Porter, can only state that,
shortly after the war closed, his defense was
brought to my attention, but l read it in con-
ncction with sketch of the field where his
Otfcnses W re said to have been committed,
which now see since perfect maps have been
made by the Engineers Department Of the
VIII lie fl Id, were totally incorrect, AS showing
the position of the two armies. ] have read
it in connection with the statements
made on the other side against General
Porter, and am afraid possibly, with some
little prejudice in the case, although General
Porter w;is ii man whom personally knew and
Nkcu DcIofc; Out l got IN IMPRESSION, WIN
many others, that there was a half-hcartea sup
port of General Pope in his campaigns, and
that General Porter, while possibly not more
guilty than others happened to be placed in a
position where he could be made responsible
for his indifference, and that the punishment
was not a severe one for such an OfenSe. |
am now convinced he rendered faithful. eff
cicnt and intelligent service, and .the fact that
he was retained in command Of corps for
months after his Offenses were said to have
been committed is in his favor.
What would ask in General Porter's behalf
from you IS, that, if you can possibly give the
time. YOU give the subject the same study and
thought have given it, and then act rs your
Judgment may dictate. But, feeling you will
not have time for such investigation nOr it
would take several days timc,. I would ask
that thu whole matter bc laid before the At
torncy-Gcncral for his examination and Opn-
ion.
Hoping you will be able to do this much for
All officer who has suffered for nineteen wears
q punishment TINT never should be inflicted
upon amy but the most guilty, | am very truly
yours, L. S. GRANT.