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Year: 1874

SUDDENLY hILLED.-August An
defson Blsudett, a young man Of about %
years Of age was suddenly killed on Thurs
day afternoon. He had been for the past
three years in the employ of Andrew Dan-
ielson and had been engaged in hauling
stone and lime from the kiln and quarry
OF Mr.. Danielson, on Soren Bluff: He
had hauled loads of stone and lime down
the hill where he was killed, hundreds of
times without the thought Of danger, but
on Thursday as he was going down the
hill with heavy load Of stone the staple
that held the end of the chain used for
locking the wheel was pulled out and the
wagon run forward on to the horses, Civ
ing them sudden start down the hill.
they being both frightened and unable to
hold the load. The driver kept his place
until he was thrown over oy the stone slid
ing out from under him, then the forward
wheels Of the dray struck suddenly into
little ditch that crossed the road, and lie
was thrown from the wagon and under the
wheel, the wheel passing diagonally across
one arm and his chest and neck, breaking
his arm, smashing in his breast and break
ing his neck, killing him almost instantly,


while his legs and body were caught BY
other parts Of the dray and he:wassro!led


almost into ball, and terribly smashed


and mangled. The neck yoke broke and


the wagon tongue having broke of. tne
piece left run into the ground suddenly
stopping the dray and precipitating the
horses suddenly over the embankmeut.
fortunately the horses landed in pile Of
loose sand One horse was found with his
head buried in the sand and large stone
on top Of it just under the front Of the
dray: The horses though badly bruised
are not permanently. injured. Mr.. Blau-
deet was q young man Of good habits and
we'll liked BY his associate es. He was,
member me Of the Swedish Benevolent Society
Who attended his funeral on satur day
/ morning in . body.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Charlie wants everybody to
come to her opening Of new goods and see
what art and taste can do and have dohe in
blending all the elements Of beauty and
loveliness in the different fine fabrics
which she will display to the admiration Of
her many customers.
Year: 1874

On Thursday Of last week Mr.. John
Heath met with very serious accident.
While working on the threshing machine Of
D. L. Billingsly at the farm now occupied
by Mr.. Fisher in the town of Featherstone.
he started to get on the horse power and
slipping, his foot caught in the crown
wheel and was carried around uutil it was
drawn in between this wheel and the pin-
ion bringing the horse power and all the
machinery to sudden stop. The foot was
badly mashed and the shin bone protruded
through the flesh just above the ankle
joint. A physician was called and ampu-
tation performed, taking off the foot about
an inch above the ankle joint. Mr.. Heath
is now at Mr.. Billingsly's and is doing we'll.
1t is terrible calamity coming upon him
just in the prime of life, when his large
family need his best endeavors.


ON Frida , last, Walter Fish, boy
about fifteen years old, and the only son of
Mrs. Eliza Fish, widow lady living in
West Red Wing, was out in company with
two other boys to one whom he had loaned
his shot gun. The three boys were walk
on the railroad track, Walter and the other
boy being behind the one that carried the gun.
The boy with the gun drew up and fred off
one Of the barrels; the reaction carried
the gun out Of hands, which, falling on the
track with the muzzle back sent q charge
Of pigeon shot into Walter Fish's shoulder
tearing through the cape and body of q
heavy overcoat and through the under
coat, completely riddling them, making a
very nasty flesh wound, the shot travelling
up over the shoulder lodging in the back
and compelling the surgeon to cut five nasty
gashes to extricate them. "For guns are
mighty dangerous things in the hands Of
small boys you know" This is the second
time this venturesome youth has been shot
within the past year. The other time it
was in his hand with pistol.
Year: 1874

CLOS1NG OUT.-Slmmons, Olson &
Bush announce their determination to sell
out their large stock Of goods at greatly
reduced prices in order to close out their
entire business. Mr.. Simmons commenced
business in Red Wing over eighteen years
ago, and Messrs. Olson and Bush about
eleven years ago. These gentlemen all
commenced business in this city bare hand
ed, and by constant application have built
up neat fortunes and have decided to re.
tire from trade. They have the largest
store and by fourteen to fifteen thousand
dollars the largest stock of goods in the
CITY, The store and goods belong to them
and every cent paid for. The goods were
all bought for cash and bought by men who
from long experience understood how and
what to buy, and when they say that they
propose to throw their immense stock of
general merchandise into the market to
close out. it means uery lov price. to all pur-
eha'eTs. The goods being all their own,
they can do with them as they please,
and they propose to get rid Of them. Ev-
cry body is invited to call and examine a
complete line Of samples with prices at
tached and satisfy themselves.


Hetiednger, Howell & Co., whom we
mentioned last week as fitting up the store
lately occupied by Richter Bros, are now
moving In, and arranging their fine stock
in way that shows they understand their
business. This firm comes here with the
intention Of building up a trade and remain
ing with US and for this purpose they pro-
pose to sell'good goods and to sell them at
living prices. Their stand being the third
store from the corner of Main and Bush
street, is good one, and they will expect
everybody to call and see them at least $:
and like all your other live merchants, they
will have something more to say about their
business in the next issue Of the GRANGE
ADVANCE.
Year: 1874

A boy medium is giving spiritualistic
scances in Boston, and his powers Of
supernaturalism or trickery are great.
He uses the usual cabinet, which hides
his movements from the audience. Put
into it with a rope in his lap, in one
minute he is so intricately tied that five
minutes is consumed by the committee
in untying him. A coat is sewed upon
him so tight around that the circumfer-
ence is less than that of his head !;
but in twinkling it is off without a
stitch having been broken. Waxed cords
are tied so firmly around his wrists that
they cut into the flesh, and his hands
thus fastened behind him are bound to
staple. Then his head is tied to
another staple, and his feet to another.
Thus hampered, he is shut up with a
knife in his pocket. Upon reopening
the door the cords are found cut from
the staples, leaving intact those which
encircle his wrists. Other of his per-
formances are equally hard to explain.
His name is De Witt, and his mother
controls the exhibition, which is highly
remunerative.
Year: 1874

The fair ladies who reyel in seal skin
jackets know very little of the animals
who had prior right to their possessions.
Seals we found everywhere except in the
tropics. They swim with wonderful
swiftness, pursuing their fnny prey.
and besides fish crustacea, and mol
luscs, they often surprise sea fowl and
have been known to devour seaweed.
Their young are born on uninhabited
islands, barren rocks, and in caverns,
and are at first covered with short
wool, in which dress they do not enter
the water, but the mother seals, who
are very affectionate and attentive, be-
stow immense pains in getting them
down to the sea and teaching them to
swim, for they do not take readily to
the water. Without these little animals,
the wandering tribes of Esquimaux
could not exist. Of their skins they
make warm clothing, covering for their
boats, and lining for their couches
from their blubber they extract oil for
food, for light, for warmth and cooking;
from their bones they make harpoons,
fish hooks, and other useful articles
from their entrails they form water
proof cloth, and substitute for glass
to light their summer dwellings. There



perseverance and endurance in pursuit
of their prey. They are assisted by
dogs of wonderful sagacity, working the
ground over like pointers till they catch
the scent of the seal holes through the
snow. If an Esquimaux gets between
seal and its hole it is Immediately trans
fixed by the harpoon with stunning
blow.
Year: 1874

A MERRY wife of Jeffersonville, Ind,
formed lay figure by stufing suit of
her husbands clothes and propped it at
a portico door, so as to give the appear
ance Of a burglar effecting an entrance.
The good man coming home late, dis
covered the figure, and to prove to a
burglarious world that he did not care a
fig for the life of cracksman, he fred
six shots into the effgy and then val
isntly waded into the bunch of rags
with knife
Year: 1874

A You've man named Frost, living at
the village of Chrystal, in Michigan, be-
came enamored of a Mrs. Harney a
short time ago, and the other night shot
the husband, who claimed the privilege
of going home from party with his
own wife, inaicting q serious wound.
A man does not know any more whose
consent he must gain before he pays
these little attentions to his partner
which were once SO common. Husbands
should be careful about these things.
They don't know how CALLING their
display Of affection may be to other par
ties.
Year: 1874

On Saturday last there was a match game of base ball on the Green between the ''Nameless" of Litchfield and the Gunnery nine. The game went on quite evenly for the first two innings; but in the third the Nameless took start of five. blanked their opponents, and from that time averaged some nine runs in each inning, winning the game on total score of 5S to 19.

 The fielding on the part of the Gunnery nine was very good, as thelr record of fly catches indicates. Chapin, their short stop, p,did admirably, ,mufing but one of the many balls that came to him. Rowe made one specially fine catch in the left field. Woodruff and Rowe were the heaviest and most successful batters of that nine; but the batting of the majority was light, to which fact is to be attributed their bad defeat. The Gunnery ground is one that offers a high premium on heavy batting; and the heavier muscle of the visiting club gave them the full advantage of this peculiarity. The play of the Nameless was very good, but most of the work was done by the infield, and the only long fly . taken is to be credited to Judd in centre field. At the bat Cypher. Catlin, Mower, Hale. Richards, Webster and Judd, did admirably. Webster drove the ball far up Brinsmade Avenue. beyond the Church place, Cypher struck a foul over the church; in fact there was as much heavy pounding done by the Nameless as we ever saw in game where the fielding of the opposingclub was anything like sharp. The pitching of Richards was very effec- tive and the catching of Cypher excellent Another game between thesc hines is ex- pected soon. We give the full score be- low:
Year: 1874

\ MISUNDERSTANDING. Smiths
wife, who is an economical body, had
sent costly silk dress to n French
dyer. The dyer himself brought the
garment home, and, Unluckily as it hap
pened, met the husband Of the lady at
the door.


''Is madame within asked the
Frenchman.


The husband, who was of Jealous
disposition, replied:


And suppose she is; what do you
want of herr


Il am dyeing for her, sir" said the
Frenchman with unnecessary emphasis


"YOu dying for my wife! get out of
this, you scoundreI!' and he had just
raised his foot TO kick the honest dyer
into the street, when the lady made her
appearance and set the matter right
Year: 1874

NOVELTIES IN MARINE ARCHITECT
URE.-Even in marine architecture,
things are being brought down, as the
saying i, to fine point Vessels are
now being built for a specific purpose,
or like the Great Eastern drift into
some particular business that no others
can do as well. Thus the iron brig
Novelty" of Boston, lately lost at
Cardenas, was built expressly for carry
ing molasses in bulk, and the saving eff
fected thereby amounted to $1,000 per
voyage; six trips per season being her
average. The even distribution of her
freight added much to the steadiness of
the hull in heavy weather, but the mo
lasseS corroded the iron; and this seems
was the most immediate cause of the
destruction of the vessel. \ similar
vessel, we are informed. Is 70 be built by
the same parties-wood, however, being
substitute for iron.
Year: 1874

The legislative committee on banks

 nave agreed on bill regulating Savings

 banks. It provides that there shall be a

 Board of nine directors chosen annually;

 that persons not corporators may be cho-

 sen directors; that no agent shall accept

 any gift from parties to whom they grant

 loans; that not more than three directors

 snail be also directors of any bank of dis

 count; that no cashier of such bank

 shall be president, or treasurer, of a say

 ings bank; and that the treasurer shall

 give $lO, 900 official bond on which m

 director shall be received as surety. Saw ings banks may invest in national securi- ties or par state bonds; in certain town. city and bank stocks, in loans on real es- tate, &c. Only seven per cent. interest can De taken on such loans. Deposits snail only draw interest from the quarter day succeeding deposit; and savings banks are forbidden to deposit over s1O.OOO in any discount bank, except they are paid not less than four per cent. on such de- posits.

 This bill is the work, we believe, of the recent special bank commission, and en- bodies most of the changes they consider necessary in our present system. Our acquaintance with this question IS so slight that we venture any criticism of this plan with diffidence. Still some of the proposed changes strike us as plainly ill-advised. In the first place We do not see why the great saving in sal ary effected by the joining of the offices of treasurer of savings bank and cash fer of a national bank should be forbid den. Were the treasurer also loan1ng agent, We can see that his desire as cash fer to keep large deposit in the national bank might possibly conflict with his duty as loaning agent of the savings bank, but there can be no such clashing of interests in the other case Nor can we believe it in the interest of savings banks to for bid their deposit of more than SIC, 900 in any one national bank except upon pay ment of at least four per cent. interest on such deposits. Such law would, in this place, for instance, compel the treasurer of our savings society to deposit in banks at an inconvenient distance from or to attempt the safe keeping of his own funds in ways involving con- siderable risk where now there IS none.
Year: 1874

Ghe question of the taxation of church property is becoming prominent in State and National legislation. There was a lively debate on the subject in the legis- lature, last week; and Congress, in pass ing the District of Columbia tax bill sub jected religious corporations in the Dis trict to their proportion of the tax. h. deed, there was no answering the state ment that the improvements to property, for which the tax was needed to pay, ben efitted the churches equally with private property, and, if our recollection is cor rect, it is estimated that one fifteenth of the entire real estate within the District belongs to religious societies.

 The Catholic is the denomination that will feel the taxation of their church prop erty most severely. By shrewd purchase or gift they have obtained possession of large amounts of valuable real estate in our large cities. This property is exempt from all that taxation for local improve ments which has borne so heavily on all other city property, and yet its value is largely increased by the very improve ments towards which they contribute nothing. The only way in which these exorbitant aggregations of church prop erty can be checked seems to be by as- sessing them at fair value, and taxing it like private property. The superstition that made the robber baron of the feudaI ages found monasteries and endow churches out of his plumber is still at work among us. and no doubt the Drew Theological Seminary is expected by its founder to outweigh many wicked deal ing of his in stocks, at the final day of judgment. Readers of Blackstone will re- member how consistently the parliament of old England fought this source of ec- clesiastical wealth by mortmain acts, and by other shrewd dev1ces. Nevertheless the Reformation found large proportion of the soil i'll possession of the monk, and the church of England still owns vastly more real estate than it is good for them or for the public, that they should hold. A few of the United States have copied some of the English mortmain acts into their statute books, but in most there IS no check whatever upon the greed of church that has accumulated such masses of property in every European country. Even Protestant churches are shown by the last census to be increasing the value of their property much more rapidly than in the number of their membership. Still, the popular form of church government that prevails under Professionalism is a great security against the dangerous spe- cies of covetousness that prevails in the Romish priesthood who themselves own the church property that in other denom- nations is owned by the people.

 The danger of too large accumulations of property in the hands of the church is not so apparent now as it may be hun dred years hence. A small percentage of yearly acquisition, never taxed, and never squandered, will show enormous results at the end of centuries which are but as years in the life of a church; and the check of taxation is one which public opinion is fast coming to believe necessa-

 " against this form of corporate aggran- l dlzement.
Year: 1874

UBT.

 Subscribers who are in arrears must make up arrearges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions and subscribers who are in advance may deduct the amount their subscrip tions are in advance.

 Money should be sent by post-office order, check or registered letter, if possible. If remit tances are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odical
Year: 1874

It is claimed that a bill passed just be- fore the close of Congress gives District of Columbia court power to bring editors before them from any part of the country for libel. If these reports are correct; and congressman undertake to enforce such a law, they will be very disagreeably disappointed with the results.
Year: 1874

The action of the President in appoint ing ex-GOv. Shepherd at the head of the committee to govern the District of Colum- bla IS one of those unaccountable per- fOrmances that every now and then dis gust his friends and delight his enemies. Gov. Shepherd was the responsible head of the old District government whose ex- travagznce and corruption were proved by the recent investigation and rebuked by the passage of the bill abolishing that government. We are aware that the mfl- itary man is apt to pride himself on con- tempt of the press, and disregard of public OpinOn; and we cannot account for the Presidents frequent nomination of off, feials in whom he knows the public have no confidence, except upon the supposi- ton that the District and other corrupt Washington rings have acquired an un- due influence over him, and that his hab- its as an army officer lead him to brave public opinion with a recklessness that would be otherwise unaccountable.
Year: 1874

E An Illinois paper Of last Decem-
ber. gives us some idea Of the weather
in that section:


ALL SORTS OF WEATHER.-This sec
ton is famous for the variety Of weather
it can furnish, but it is seldom that it
gives US such great extremes in 80 rapid
succession us since the present month
set in. The first two days were warm
enough for April. Then came wind
storm that had many of the Characters
tics Of the hurricane. This was follow
ed BY milder weather until Saturday
night, when q snow and sleet storm set
in. which lasted long enough to cover
the ground with snow and ice. This
was followed by a thunder shower at an
early hour on Monday morning. and
heavy rain. A freeze-up is in order next.
Year: 1874

Mans OWNERSHIP OF HrMsELF.-It
is an error to suppose man belongs to
himself exclusively. No man does. He
belongs to his wife, his children, or his
relations, or his creditors, or to society,
in some form or other. Il is for their
especial good and behalf that be lives
and works, and they kindly allow him
to retain certain per centage Of his
gains to administer to his own wants
and pleasures. He has his body and
that il all, and even for that he is an
swerabls to society. In short, society
is the master and man is the servant;
and that is entirely according as society
turns out good or bad master. whether
he turns out good or bad servant.
Year: 1874

cred by propositions two and three on the
ballot. No other amendment, it is admitted,
was in the slightest degree affected by striking
out the amendment to Section 4 of Article Ill.
But it is claimed that the provision struck
out is part of several amendments
voted on collectively by the Legislature,
and that according to the strict letter of the
Constitution the exact words ratified by the
people as amendments to Article LII. were not
those adopted by Yea and Nay vote in 1873.
The point will in time be decided by the
Court of Appeals. Meanwhile it might be
well for the Legislature which has just been
elected to pass over again the resolution pro-
posing the amendments to Article Ill. with
view TO the submission of the amendments TO
the people again second time. in case tho
Court of Appeals should decide that Article
ILL., is not already amended.


The question in regard to Article VII. is OF
less Importance. Neither one of the two Leg
islatures, nor the people, voted to retain the
Black River Canal as one of those never to be
sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of, but
in some way or other its name got
into the amendments alongside OF the
Erie, Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga
and Seneca A mere blunder like this, In the
face Of direct vote of the Legislature OF
1873 refusing to insert the name of the Black
River Canal, can hardly be permitted to
invalidate this portion of the amendments.
The whole question outlined here will doubt
less receive attention in the message of the
new Governor to the next Legislature.


OF the amendments which are thus still in
doubt the more important are those to Article
I'LL, which relate to the Legislature and its
organization. One of the provisions is that
no member of the Legislature shall receive
any civil appointment within the State,
or the United States Senate, from the Governor
and State Senate or Legislature, or any city
government during the time for which he
shall have been elected. The proposed
additions to this Article contained
also provisions doing away with
special legislation by prohibiting the passage
of private or local bills in certain cases. The
proposed amendments to Article VII.
allow the Legislature to dispose of the
Crooked Lake. Black River, Genesee Valley
and Chenango Canals, by emitting them from
the list of canals which the Constitution says
must forever remain the property of the
State, and under its management. Sections 13
and IA of the same Article, relating to the
Sinking Fund, were also amended.