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WEEKLY COURIER
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C. DOANE, Publisher.
JASPER.
INDIANA
" fl jlns Ol' IXTKIIKST.
rrrionnl unit Xlli-rary.
Wllkie Collins has been turning his
novel " Armadale" Into a play.
MlV?f. Bishop, the paper canoe voy
jjrcr,11aS arrived at St. Alary V, Fla.
"0. 0. Stcaluy edit? n column of Items
in the Louisville Courier- Journal . What's
iuaname?"
'f Wo of llachel's sisters are living In
Paris thu one a maker of perfumes, and
the other an actress of no striking abilities.
London," 'The Devil," and "Ori
vutal Religion" are the subjects upon
which M. I). Conway Is to lecture next
Mil.
Texas Jack" advertises In the Lon
don Field, olfrring his services a9 guide to
jorelgn gentlemen visiting tho Atneriean
plains.
Poker" John, a sportive Piute, has
denned his brethren out of all their Gov
ernment supplies, and 1ms a corner on
ilankets, pantaloons, coats, and food.
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
H-Iiwcnn is 111111 11 uuuivuii 111 r nuico
Prussian war of 170-71, which Is more
e..jccially devoted to the evenLs in which
Iiis division look an active part.
A granite bowlder from the Hear--irgo
Mountain is to be erected over tlje
grave of Admiral Wilson, in Blount Au
burn Cemetery, -which will be emblemati
cally fashioned to commemorate the ship
and peak lie rendered famous.
.Judge Clinton, of Buffalo, X. Y., has
lately come Into possession of a pair of
niver vases which were presented to Gov-
T.l,r!. ilt..i 1 . . .
morieui umiioii, uy me mcrcuanis
ofXewYorkln ls20, In testimony of his
services In building tho Erie Canal.
Baroness Burdette-Coutts, the emi
nent English philanthropist, has taken
top to lorin a society for the prevention
of cruelty to humming-birds, asserting
that thousands are annually slaughtered
imply to gratify woman's vanity as dis
played upon bonnet.
Mr. and .Mrs. David Williams, settled
full of youth, health and hone. In tho wil
derness south of Syracuse, N. Y., eighty
one years ago. They nre still living hi the
town of Pouipoy, enjoying health and
comfort in the old homestead with their
fon, who Is past seventy.
The ltev. Mr. Warren, a Baptist pas
tor at Burnt Hills, Saratoga County, X.
Y., was exposed several weeks ago as tho
husband of three living and undivorced
wives. He resigned at the request of his
congregation, and wanted to preach a fare
well sermon, but they would not hear it.
The llrst appcaranco of Adelaide Bis
tort on the stage was when she was only
two months old, she being carried on hi a
basket as a Ney-Year's gift. At the age
of four Mie began to appear in child parts ;
but not until after she was sixteen did she
have tho advantage of anv Intelligent clas
sical training. Before she had discovered
that her real genius lay in tragedy she
had acquired considerable reputation in
comedy, but her fame was then confined
to Italy.
.Science unit Iiilii(i-y.
A type-composing machine is used to
"?et up" the new edition of the u Kncy-
.lopeuia uritanriica."
A busy season is anticipated in fitting
"ut sperm whaler in Xew Kngland this
pring, stimulated by the small stock of
oil on hand and the high price which it
commands.
There arc in the rnitcd States ISO firms
and corporations engaged in the manufac
ture of silks, with an aggregate capital of
:W.0O0,0O0, and a force of 10.(551 opera
ttvw. New York has 01 of these estab
lishments ; New .Teisey. 30; Connecticut
and Mas.-aehusett, 12.
Ilie copper industry promises to be
prosperous tills year. The price is remu
wrativc, nud the stock on hand no greater
than last year, when it was 10,000,000
pounds. All that is not needed at homo
un bo exported to Kump, which recolv--l
most ot the 0,UO0,000 pounds exported
iat year.
The Xewburyport men do a largo
business in catching frogs for the Boston
aiarket, and they nave several thousand
uow being fatted. They get fifty cents a
duzen for them, nndthe demand is always
greater than the supplv. Over 3,000,000
rugs were sold in the Boston market last
ason, and the demand is constantly in
ivjLslng. The science of medicine and surgery,
according to European notions, is making
ome progress hi .Inpan. We learn that
jnthc hospital of llakodadl there arc
wenty young men regularly entered as
Undents of medicine, dallv lectures are
Wen, and "bedside and other clinical
tnonstrations," the curriculum being
similar to that of most medical schools,
in illustrated medical journal, hi the
Japanese language, is also published every
two months.'
A simple but valuable nddltion to the
utronomlcal sextant has been devised by
' iiptaln J. E, Davis, of the llydrogruphf
1 Department f the British AdmlraUy.
the application of a micrometer-wheel
jö the fuigent-sere wand movable Indica
nts to the arc, a merles of observations can
' made of a heavenly body without the
weessity of reading the angle at the time.
removing the eye from the telescope.
"IC UlicroiiHtir rin lw tlimwn mit. nf iri.nr
a Pleasure, and the sextant used without
it.
Sclmul mill Church.
1R.00Q persons as'embled
In and
Un(l AffrifllltiiRit Unit lollnrrtnn t.nn.
'to hear anil sou Messrs. Moody and
l!(,llj,'tous dirturbanees have broken
m Buenos Avrcs. Thu Archbishop'
Riaco has been sncked, imd the Iioueo of
ie Jesuits burned.
-Tho English reviser.'' of thb authorized
Jjnlonoftho Now Testament lmvecom
ti in t,,cIr Mcond revision to tho end of
Uieth chapter of St. .lohn.
tiÄ1? U'thoilodiät Church added last
int J Peonages to its number qunl
tonei nX cvcr" dnv of ?. 11 la
' clergymen's homes, valued at
'100,1 1 0.
'l'lic uverago pay of male teachers In
! Co,om,J i $02 per month. Female teach-
. 'm.t
for school purposes during the year 1S7-I
Forty-four students of ononf Huwtiii.r
nvaiiKuiiuti uiviiiiiy Kcuoois ui tiie United
Htntes, and thirty-eight in another, have
recently sunt word to the American Cnl
Uirian Association tlnttfioy will gratefully
accept and read the works of Channing.
TlnJF3 rr,,M, contained 1,073 monks
and 8,011 nuns. In the diocese of Cologne
tho numbers Increased between lfvO and
H2. fro'2" to 3,131; in Breslau, from
227 to 1, ISS ; hi Posen, from 10 to 337, and
hi Kulm, from 8 to 101.
-A telegram to the London Time from
St. Petersburg, says that forty-live par-
v ...ii..i .u..ti... - i .. . . .
ieiii;a ui mv iMKiiuprie oi oieuictz, J'oiaiui,
conralnlng SO.000 InhablL-ints, with the
whole of their clergy, have joined the
Greek Orthodox Church. The public re
ception was piesidcd over by the Aich
bishop of Warsaw. j
The ceremony of canonizing Maria '
Christina of Savoy, the mother of Klug
i iuiicia ii. ui maples, win oe completed
within two months. The expenses of the
canonisation are borno entirely Iiy tlie
new saint's sister, tho Empress Marianne
of A ustria. The Canllnal Archbishop of
Naples is conducting thu sacred ceremo
nial. One hundred graduates and GOO under
graduates have been sent out from the
Maine Statu Normal School at Castlne
during the seven years of Its existence.
All of these have found work In the
schools of the Sink'. Evcrv pupil in this
Normal school is required to conduct the
recitation of his class from time to time,,
to give practice in teaching. j
At a meeting of f Indents of the Uni
versity at Madison, is., on the IStli,
Messrs. J. W. 1 liner, II. M. Kemington,
B. B. Dudgeon, S. S. Richie, and .Miss L.
S. Clark wero elected to write and deliver
orations at some future day, tho one hav
ing the best oration to roprecent the Uni
versity in next year's hiter-collegintc con
tcrt tor that State. The homo contest
will take placo next fall.
Napi aixl MUlinju,
In a quarrel between two men in Nel
son County, Ivy., a few days since, Sam.
unnn cut Aienm lcpiere witti a knife,
when l.eplero took up a spade and split
Halm's lutad open, killing him instantly.
William Donahue, an employee at
Johnson's camp on the Chlppewa'Hiver,
Mich., was instantly killed a few days
slnoo by a falling tree, which crushed in
his skull. Deceased resided at Burnt
iinpids, Out.
At Kalamazoo, Jlich., one morning
recently, Mrs. Wheeler left her house on
Ransom Street to go to a neighbor's for a
bar f soup. While absent the clothes of
her little girl caught tiro from tlie stove,
mid the child was fatally burned.
Mary McGlain, a girl aged 10 years,
living hi Ann Arbor, Mich., while play
ing with some matchoi the other day, ac
cidentally tired her clothing, and, in her
fright, rushed down-stairs, thereby fan
ning the Maines until they were beyond
control. She was terribly burned, and
died in great sullering.
A man. somewhat intoxicated, lay
down the other evening in a bowling
saloon in Ellis Couiity,"Texa, stretched
Jds body across an alley and went to sleep.
A bystander amused himself by bowling
heavy balls at his prostrate figure. Three
struck him one on the feet, another on a
hip, and the third on tho head. On try lug
to wake the sleeper shortly afterwards it
was found that he was dead.
A farmer named John Williamson,
who resided near Iveokuk, Iowa, under
took, in company with his son and Ids
two grandchildren, named Frank and
Maggie Maxwell, aged respectively IS and
17 years, to cros bugar Creek on a two
horse wagon. The stream was very much
swollen, and floating ice was running
thick and fust. When about half way
across tho horses, wagon and occupants
were swept rapidly down stream by the
current. The son managed to swim
ashore and escape, but Mr. Williamson
and his grandchildren were all drowned.
Foreign IVolrs.
A French writer ascribes the prevail
ing vine disease iu that country to the
scarcity of small birds.
A veritable Cyclops Is reported to be
in London. Ills only eye is in the middle
of his forehead. His name is Piper Wil
son , aged 22, and lie came lrom Australia.
The recent report of an attempt to as
sassinate King Alfonso is contradicted as
utterly without foundation. The person
who started it Is known, and has been ar
rested in Spain.
Tlie accumulation of specie in the
Bank of France has reached the enormous
shim of 1,300,000,000 francs, or near $270,
000.000. In Kent, England, the British gentle
man is in distress for want of foxes to
hunt. His game is the victim of the steel
traps and strychnine of the small farmers.
A man in a Paris hospital was lately
transformed into a goat, screaming for
grass and butting with his head, by means
ol transfusion of blood from one of those
animals.
It was stated the other day in the Brit
ish Parliament by Sir II. James that the
amounts to no less than 210,000,000, of
whicn the greater part almost Ml
Is held !
iu England. ,
Tho Installation of the Prince of Wales
as Grand Master of the Freemasons will
take place at the Albert Hall on Wednes
day, April 2S. It is expected that about
7,000 orS,000 Masons will be present at the
ceremony.
The Court Journal asserts that the
arctic regions, especially Iceland and
Northern Norway, will be the fashionable
resort during the coming summer. It is
expected the Prince of Wales will venture
across tho charmed circle of ico and snow.
Tho London Athenaeum states that
.Mr. George Smith has discovered among
the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum
the legend of tho building of thu Tower
of Babel. The discover' is quite as Im
portant as that of tho tablet relating to
tho Deluge, made known last year by
the same gentleman.
Panama Bay hnS been, unusually,
phosphorescent during the past month.
At night, It Is said by local newspapers,
every wave as It breaks on shore and on
reefs looks llko a wreath ot bluish lire.
The stardlko light thus given out an
nounces the presence of myriads of the
which tho sea
OiliU unit i:iid.
From thu Detroit Free I'reta.
A Vlrglnlii photographer can take
photographs in the night. Ho took ISO
roui a brother artist, and was then taken
to jail.
Some of the colored folksof Cleveland
thought civil rights meant free rides on
the street cars, and they had to be stood
on their heads and argued with.
Speaking of strikes-it looks as if the
painters were about to haven brush, don't
It? N. Y, Commercial Advertiser. Yes,
that's putty good.
The season has now arrived when tho
husband who 'finds buttons nil hl sMn
should make known his purpose to go to
the Black Hills. It will act like a charm.
Tho Ilrst American steamer that ever
made a voyage on the Nile is reported as
having recently started for the ilrst cata
ract. It is a small yacht owned by some
American tourists.
If you want to know what the free
American people think of the last Con
gress juctf tand around the. DetroitTost
ofliee and hear the mild remarks of the
man who pays six cents to send a two cent
package.
"1 like to hear a man indulge in a
hearty laugh," says tlie Bev. Collver. So
do we, in ca;o It's somo other man who
suddenly site down on the slcL.v.illf.
wiien it Isn't "some other
despise hearty laughter.
man " we
1 he Knierprise, at (Javc Spring, Geor
gia, asserts that that that placelias the
most coiuteous deputy sheriff in America,
nut you ought to see the Detroit ollicer
wno eames extra watch keys,a corkscrew,
spare lead pencils, a penknife, always has
a uuii.u iu ii'uu, gives away touacco and
goes security on notes.
Justice Potter hud a walk of nearly
two miles the other evening to perform a
marriage ceremony, and when he had
finished it the groom crowded a dollar bill
Into his hand and said : " Never mind any
thing back. She's a bang-up girl, got a
house and lot, and 1 haint going to look at
two shillings at such a time as this J"
At the City-hall Market yesterday a
pale-faced, solemn man took off his hat,
smoothed back his hair and said : "My
friends, we know not how soon we may
fall by the wayside. We stand here to
daynext week may sleep witRtho dead.
I feel that l have only a few davs more to
stay, and I wL-h some of 3'ou would lend
me fif teen cents so that I can get a dish of
baked beans." The crowd at once moved
away.
A boy about twelve years old knock
ed at door of a house on Second Street Yes
terday, and when the lady appeared, said :
" There'll be a boy round here pretty
soon to clean your walk, but don't give
him the job. His name's Jim ; he's cross
eyed, and blows up cats with powder
snaps. I'll be here with my partner pret
ty soon. We go to Sunday-school, never
sass our mothers, and we'er going to give
half the money to tlie grasshopper-sufferers."
The job was saved for him.
Survey or Costa lUca.
Several years ago, Prof. Gabb accepted
an invitation from the Government of
Costa Bica to take charge of an investiga
tion into the resources of that countrv. I
He has since been actively engaged in the
prosecution of the work in the regions
bordering on tho Atlantic slope. His last
report announces the completion of the
geological and ethnological survey of thu
district of Talamanca. Prof. Gabb has.
with fourassisiants. besides Indian labor
ers, carefully examined a tract of about
J.0OO square miles, extending from the
borders of civilization on the north to the
Doundaries ot Panama on the south, and
lrom the Atlnntlcto the crest of the Cor
dilleras, and has mapped its entire extent
with more accuracy than has marked the
delineation of any other equal area of Costa
Bica, not excepting the most populous,
ilir i port of this district gives a body
of mi -i .vorthy statistics regarding an ag
ricultural country sulllciently large, fer
tile and hraltlifnl, to support tho entire
population of Costa Biea; and vet this
region is inhabited by only 1,220 'Indians
and twelve foreigners, of whom but one
Is white. It is watered by a river naviga
ble the year round, and reaching to within
30 miles of the most remote portion of tlie
country. In addition to the statistics of
tho. survey proper, Prof. Gabb has gath
ered information regarding the mineral re
sources of the region, anillts animal and
vegetable life. Immense collections have
been forwarded by him to the Smithsonian
Institution, for identification. Among
these are 100 specimens of monkeys, with
individuals of other mammals, birds, etc.,
In proportion. The exhaustive inquiries
into tho ethnology of the country have
resulted in rich collections, likewise sent
to Washington. Numerous vocabularies,
with several dialects, have been obtained
that promise much to the philologist.
The Man Win? Saw tlioFlood.
The Popular Science Monthly says the
indications are that the primeval man of
Europe and his descendants were of short
stature. The popular notion that the
present generation is physically weaker
and smaller than the primitive or ancient,
is not only utterly unfounded, but there Is
abundant nvldtnrt tlmttlinriviri la trim.
Most of us would bo amazed If not shucked
at a true and fife-Sized portrait of the real
Kve, " Mother of all the living." We
often hear, Indeed, ol giants' bones hero
and there dug up, but intelligent examin
ation invariably proves them to have be
longed to tho mammoth or some other an
imal. A singular blunder of the kind
shows the real value of such reputed dis
coveries. Years ago, a skeleton wns due
from the calcareous shale nt Oeningen,
which tho veteran savant Scheuchzer con
lldently christened " Homo diluvil testis"
the man who saw the Hood. Casts of It
were made for various museum?, and, In
full faith In the legitimacy of the name,
one Deacon Mullcr was moved to write
some pious nud edifying lines about it.
lrn fortunately, tho llrst competent study
ol tho skeleton proved it to bo that not
of an ancient sinner, but of a large sala
mander, closely resembling the giant sala
mander of, Japan. Yet, to this day, every
casually unearthed "petrifaction, found ho
matter where, or in what relations, is to
many a memorial of the Noacltian delug.
Thus, theories which Science has long ago
refuted and dismissed from Airthcr consid
eration, arc persistently held fast and rc-afllnncd.
oceanic animalcules with
aboundi at this season. '
THE BLACK HILLS.
Iiiterealint; (Vr Irani ften. NhrrMiiit
to tiru. MirniinM "All that UtUr 1m
nut olil."
LleutenantrGcneral Sheridan lias writ
ten thofollowlng highly Interesting letter
concerning the Black Hills country. It
sets forth what has been done, and what
the uovenihient proposes todoin the mat
ter, and Immediately concerns nil who
contemplate going Into that countrv for
gold :
JlKADqiMIlTKKS 4UMTAUY UIVISIO.N 01'
question, What do you know of tho Black
nuis ( i respectfully submit the following
remarks: My first knowledge of thu
Black Hills was derived from an interview
with the lato Father DeSmet, the noted
Catholic missionary, whom I met many
years ago on the Columbia River, in Ore
gon, from whom I heard the Indian ro
mance of mountains of gold in tho Black
Hills, and his explanation of that extraor
dinary and delusive story to Indians,
frontiersmen and explorers.
TIIK 1II.ACK HILLS COL'XTKV
is much more extensive than that partic
ular locality brought to the notice o the
public by recent explorations of General
Custer, and gets the name from the black,
scrubby character of the timber which
grows on the sides and tops of the moun
tains and hills, it comprises the whole of
the country bounded on the east by longi
tude 102 degrees, on the south hv tlm
Sweetwater and Laramie Hivers, on the
west by the Big Horn and Wind Rivers.and
on the north by the Yellowstone River.
This is really tho country of the Black
Hills, but embraced in itare several locali
ties called Black Hills; for Instance, thu
Black Hills of Larnmie, Black Hills of
Powder River, and Black Hills of Chey
enne Hiver, thelattcr being the locality in
which General Custer made hisrecoiinois
sance lat summer, and about which there
is so muchspeculatlon at the present time,
and within bounds of which, It is suppos- ,
ed by a large number of neonle. Is to be
found gold.
I'ATIIKU in: smet's mountain- of gold
sto i
was that while living with the Sioux In
dians, he was shown by them somo nug
gets of gold which they Informed him had
been obtained at different points iu tho
Black Hüls, supposed to he from the beds
of the Big Horn, Kosebud and Powder
Rivers, and from branches ot the Tongue
Blver, and on his representing that such
yellow metal was of great value, they told
him they knew where there was a moun
tain of it. Subsequent Investigation, how
ever, proved that the Indian mouiiUdn of
gold was nothing more than a fonnaUon
of yellow mica, such as may be found hi a
number of places in the above described
country. 1 had scarcely given the story
thought after this until about three vears
ago, when I happened to be in New "i'ork,
and it was there brought to mr recollec
tion by prominent gentlemen, who asked
me whero Father Do Smet was to be
found, and insisted that some one should
bo sen tat once to get from him tlie secret
of the gold mountain, which would pay
the national debt, etc. After 1 had In
formed him that It was
AX OLD AND KXI'LODKI) STOUV,
his ardor cooled, and excitement about
the mountain of gold again subsided. It
so happened, however, that tho Black
Hill country was embraced in my military
command, and two years ago it became
apparent to me that a military post in the
Black Hills of the Cheyenne would soon
become necessary for the proper protec
tion of settlements in Nebraska from raids
ol Sioux warriors, -who always, before
they commenced depredating on the fron
tier, secured a safe place for their families
and villages in the locality mentioned.
Believing these Indians would never make
war on our settlement as long as we could
threaten their families and villages in this
remote locality, abounding in game and
all that go to make Indian life comfort
able, and with this purely military object
in view, the order was given for
THE Cl'STK IlKCOXXOISSANCK.
The party found gold by washing near
Harney's Peak, on the eastern slope of
tho Black Ulis. Tlie Black Hills of the
Cheyenne, as described by General Custer,
are situated between the north and south
forks of that rl7er, one of which Is known
as Belle Fourohe, the other as South Fork,
and although I have tho utmost confidence
In the- statement ot General Custer and
General Forsythe of my stall", that gold
was found near Harney's Peak. I mav
safely say there has not been any fair te.t
yet made to determine Its existance in
any large quantities. There is not a Ter
ritory iu the West where gold does not
exist, but In many of them the quality Is
limited to the coior. which Is much as
has yet been obtained near Harney's Peak,
Geological specimens brought back by
tne uuster expedition are notiavoraoie in
dications of the existence of gold in great
quantity. But it may be the case. But
as the trcHty of '00, duly ratified, virtually
deeds this portion of tho Black Hills to
the Sioux Indians, there Is no alternative
but to
KKKP OUT TltKSrASSKUS.
But to go back to the Father De Smet
information. There is not much doubt of
the correctness of this statement that gold
exists in largo quantities hi Black Hills,
but nnich further west than thu Black
Hills of the Cheyenne. I have nuggets
from Big Horn and Tongue Bivers, and
many specimens lrom near Ft. ijtam
baugh, in the Upper Wind Blver country,
where mining has failed for want of wa
ter for alluvial washing, and from hostili
ties of the Indians ; and I have good
reason to believe, in fact, It is quite cer
tain, tliat gold exists in the Owl Creek
Mountains, Iu Lower Wind Hiver, and In
the head waters of Powder Hiver anil the
.Rosebud, all thu localities being under gen
eral meaning, in the Black Hills, nnd out
side of the Sherman, Augur nnd Terry
treaty of 1SG9, except so far as tho privi
lege to hunt game. It has been my inten
tion to communicate much Information,
this coming summer, to thu Government
on the above country1, and as the Indians
have no absolute right to sell, there muy
bu but little dilllculty In
KXTIKOUISIUNO THKIll HUNTING l'JUVI
. ' I.KOKS.
I purpose, if you do not object, to open
up tho Yellowstone River by sending
General Gcorgu A. Forsythu and Colonel
Grant, of my stafl', up tho Yellowstone
to tho mouth of Big Horn, hs soon as tho
icu breaks, which will give the lowest tldc-
Tim Missoum, CmCAOO, March 23. Gen
eral Shennan, Headquarters of the Army,
Si, Louis, Mo. General : inrenrv tovutir
wafer, having already secured a steam
boat to make this exploration. If Geu
cuernl Forsyfhe is successful, I will send
General Custer with a command from
bort Lincoln across tlie mouth of Powder
River, thence upon the south bank of tho
U'llowstone, crossing Powder Jtiver,
'longueltiver. Rosebud, and on to tho
mouth of Big Horn. This country Is as
yet entirely unexplored, and the expe
(lit on may develop a very valuable auri
ferlous section and make the Father Do
Smet story to somo extant inn.. Mnt. t
am of the belief that tlie mountain of mica
nas not cnanged to gold. I will a
an expedition down Wind River,
the Owl Creek Mountain, froi
Statu baugh via Fort Brown
nas not cnanged to gold. I w n n bmuI
er, through
lrom Fort
vn tn tlm
mouth of Big Horn, and u-tll tiring
It back through the parks about the
head-waters of Powder JUver, visited by
Captain Mills nud his command last sum
mer. These parks are, for beauty, fully
equal to those described so graphically by
General Custer as existing in the Black
Hills of tho Cheyenne. I may also say,
from my own knowledge, that the val
leys or Big and Little Popongle, Little
Wind Blver and Main Wind Jtiver can
scarcely bu excelled in beauty and fertility,
whlio the student of nature will find there
the mostextraordlnary upheavals of earth
crust probably to be found on this conti-1
neiit. I am of the opinion that this coun
try is gold-hearing, but of Its abundance
there can only be a conjecture.
At present I feel quite confident of our
ability to prevent intended trespasses on
thu rights of the Indians, and cavalry and
Infantry in tlie Department ot Dakota are
being moved nt tho present time to tho
most available points, to carry out my
directions of September of last year.
Were it not for these precautious on tho
part ot the Government there might be a
repetition of the California Gold Beach
and Gold Lake humbugs, with still greater
sufferings, as many of the persons now
citAZv to no to Tim ulack hills
never think of how they are to exist after
they gut there, or how they could return
In casu of failure. If they wlU wait for
further information from the Government,
which how seems to be desirous of making
concessions to meet these new Interests,
there will le no one more willing than
myself to aid in ascertaining their value.
So far as the troops are concerned, I will
promise vigilance in the present emer
gency and a conscientious performance of
my duty. Should tho points from which
the miners start be so remotu as to mako
it Impossible for our scanty force to watch
them, we cm occupy the two or three
gaps in the Black Hills.and effectually ex
clude the trespassers.
Very respectfully,
Signed. P. H. Siikuidan,
Lieutenant-General Commanding.
Tho Vanilla B can in Mexico.
Thu vanilla bean grows on a vine which,
although growing from the root, is a para
site, as it will grow even cut from the root,
for it takes Its substance from the tree
around which it clings by means of Its
thousands of flue tendrils. Llko all para
sites, there aru trees which are particularly
adapted to Its support. They iure planted
about ten feet apart, in rows, at the foot of
small trees which are left In clearing the
lands. They begin to bear the third vear.
and in favorable years give from $100 to
$1,000 per acre. No cultivation is needed
but to cut down the grass nnd weeds; no
plowing or spading being necessary. The
bean is often gathered in September and
October, but as It Is not yt t ripe, the vanil
la is of interior quality, and sells for a low
price; but ir left till the end of November
or December it conies to perfection. It is
then gathered carefully and si read out in
the sun on mats, if the weather be favor
able, but if otherwise it is placed in ovens,
which processes cnange tne color lrom a
pale green to a deep rich brownish or pur
ple, and at the same time develop the oil
which, on pressure. exudes lrom the bean.
They are then packed in blankets while
warm, and nut Into lariro tin ism to irn
through a sweating process, again put in .
the sun and again in the blanket, until 1
they attain the proper color. They are
then placed in a dry room upon shelves
made of some open material, so that the air
can circulate around and under them. This
evaporates all the watery part. Four
years ago the value here was $00 to $70
per 1.000 beans : now they are worth
from $130 to$lS0 per 1,000, such has been
the Increase in the consumption, without
a proportionate increase In the cultiva
tion. The people will work only nbout
one hundred days In tho year, which pro
vides them with all they need, and as they
will do no more there is very little in
crease in tho production of any thing.
When the beans arc assorted they are tied
up neatly In bunches of fifty beans each,
ami packed in cases of tin holding from
2,000 to 3,000. These tin cnes aru lined
with tinfoil and a ticket put on the lid giv
ing the quality, size, and quantity. Somo
live or six or these tin cases are put into
a neatly made cedar chest, which is some
times lined with zinc and hermetically
sealed so as to prevent moisture from get
to the vanilla in transporting, which
would ruin It. These cedar cases are then
sewed in mats, and thee are covered with
n coarse bagging to avoid tho dangers of
transportation on mules, in this manner
nil the Mexican vanilla goes to places of
sale in Europe ami tho Pnlted States,
where it is worth from $0 to $20 per
pound, the thousand btans weighing from
nine to ten pounds. Formerly France was
the great market for vanilla, but tho enter
prise of some of our American merchants
has diverted the trade to New York, wldch
Is now the srreat depot of vanilla, and par
tics from Kitrope come to New York to
huy. Report of Department of Agricul
ture, The idea that somo connection exists
between the weather on the earth and tho
spots on the sun is supported bv the nu
merous series of meteorological "observa
tions which have been collated by Mr.
Charles Meldrum,ofthe Island of .Mauri
tius, with special reference to the subject.
These observations show that there Is a
terrestrial rainlall periodicity correspond
ing with tho periodicity of. solar spots.
Thero is.an Increase of rain when the spots
occupy tho largest area on tin sun's sur
face; and, conversely, when thu sun-spot
area Is thesmallest, there Is a decrease of
rain. Whether changes of temperature
upon tho earth also correspond with tho
fluctuations of the aim-spots is yet to bo
determined.
Last year 71,000 emigrants from
United States landed at Livcriwol.
tho