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BY W. A: LEE &ND HUGH WIISOK ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1876. > YOLUMEXXIV.^NO, 18^11
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{Love's Ruse,
' Let me in!" cried Cupid, knocking
At .ny door one day.
To the sprite I aufwered, shortly :
"I've no time for play." ~ V\t
Bat the roguo with silvery laughter
8troye to move my heart, ' *'
Tempted me with merry daring
And love's canning art.
Still unmoved, the door I fastened
Gainst the coaxing sprite;
Theu he peeped within my wirdow, .
Beautiful and bright,
Promised me all things delightful,
Wealth and wondrons fame.
"Nr>," said I; " I deem your promise
Light, sir, as your name."
Slowly turned he from the window,
With & puzzled face.
" Fare thee well,".I oried, rejoicing ;
" Go, and leave uo trace."
But too soon I beard a sighing
, Just without my door :
"Let me in !ncried tearful Oupid ;
i w "-Open, I implore. " J h
" Lo! my pinions are so weary !
Give me r&i-t. I pray,
Only for one fleeting moment,
Ere I go aw?y."
Hlvery laughter bad not won me, .' \"
Coaxing I bad scorned,
Prr>miapH. all! thmiks to re&HOn.
. Gainst them I *zb warned.
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Bat when Cupid o?me in trouble,
He brought pity too; . '
Love and pity leagued together,
What could mortal do ?
' " Then I threw my door wide open :
With a mockiug shout,
In flew Cupid, and I never f j "r- ?
Now can torn him out. > ? .
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- The Horse Dealer's Story.
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Many years ago, before the era of
railroads, and when highwaymen abounded
along the great route from Oalais to
Paris, a noted drover, who had been to
Boulogne with a large drove of horses,
which he had sold for cash, was overtaken
by night on his return, near
Marquise. He remembered that a little
distance ahead was a quiet inn he had
never stopped at. and he deteix L.. \ to
spend the uighfc there.
Aa he rode tip to the house, the lax 3lord,
a respectable looking person, received
his horse and led him away to
the stable, wKile he invited the drover
to enter the public sitting-room.
Here he found two young men, one of
whom, from his resemblance to thelandlord,
he recognized as his son ; the
other, somewhat older, from his manners,
appeared also to belong to the
family, ?immediately after supper (during
which "the drover stated where he
had been and what good luck he, had
met with), the son mounted a horse,
and stating that he was going to Marquise
to stay all night, rode off. The
drover, having looked after the comfort
of his horse, soon after requested the
landlord to. show him to his room.
As the traveler slipped off his garments,
he felt for the leathern belt
about his waist, to see that it was secure.
Ttus.fientained his gold-, while his paper
money was in a large wallet, carried in
a pocket made for the purpose, in the
inside of his vest. Depositing these articles
beneath his pillow, he extinguished
the light and .throw himself upon the
bed, when, overeomo by weariness, he
soon fell asleep. yJ ^
How long he had been in this state of
forgetfulness he could not tell, when he
was aroused to wakefulness by the sound
of some person endeavoring to open the
window near the head of his bed. At
the same time he heard -suppressed
voioes without, as of several persoA in
whispered consultation.
" Startled by this suspicious appearance
of things, the drover reached toward
the chair on which he had thrown his
clothes, for his weapons; but, to his dismay,
he remembered that on his arrival,
when prepariug to wash off the dust of
% j#?ue?'. he had laid them aside,
within the bar, and Lad neglected to resume
them. .
Scarcely conscious of what he was
'doingy the defenseless drover slipped
frora-the foci of the bod, aad hid himself
in tho darkness behind a lot of
women's dressy suspended from the
wall, and watered the motions of a man
who was now slowly and cautiously
entering the room. He even fancied he
could detect the reflection of the dim
light upon an upraised knife as the
man approached the bed with staggering
and uncertain steps. But great was his
relief when, instead of an attempt at
murder, the intruder carelessly shuffled
off his clothes, and throwing himself
into the bed he had jost vacated, was
soon in a sound sleep, .
Not knowing what to make of this
strange affair, the drover determined to
<lres9 himself, call up the landlord, and
have thiB singular iitrusion explained,
lie had reached his clotnes, and slipped
on his trorsers, and was moving toward
the door, "when steps were heard cautiously
crossing the outer. T00ta/.Oace
more he sought the shelter of the dresses,
which completely screened his person,
and awaited the entrance of the
persons, whoever they might be. Presently
the door of the room was silently
'opened, ai d two men made their appearance.
It was not so dark but that the
drover could readily distinguish them to
;be.the innkeeper and the man he had
.seem at the supper table.
?' "Stop lightly, I tell you," whispered
the landlord, "or you 11 wake him up,
'and then we'll have a pretty mess on
our hands."
. ."Nonsense!" replied the other, with
anioith. "You are scared, old man!"
"Scared!" repeated the first speaker.
"No man ever told Jean Gamier before
he wa-< scared ! Here, give me the knife!
"I'll show you who is scared! You secure
the money?itV under the pillow?
I aw him put it tbere^ and. 'I'll do the
rest." ^
The old man was in advance, and as
he stood between the window and the
'drover, the latter coidd see his form bent
over the bed, while his han l seemed to
be searching beneath tho pillow.
"Here, Henri?take it. Here's the
wallet, and here's the belt. How heavy
it is!"?and he passed the monev to his
/mmnftninn fhp nfchpr had vot
reached the bedside. '
The old man then, put his hand to his
bosom, and the trembling drover saw
him draw forth the lor>g blade the other
had given him. For nu instant the murderous
weapon was poised over his head,
and then descended upon the person of
the poor wretch in the bed. .
The murderer paused in his work for
an instant, as if to satisfy himself that life
was extinct; and tben moved quickly
.from the room.
As soon zb the sound of his footsteps
had died in the distance, the horror
Btricken drover escaped through the
window, and ran with all his speed to
Marquise, where, arousing the people
of.the hotel, he told his fearful story, v A
crowd soon collected about him, ' and
ncoompanied him to tbe scene of the
. fearful murder. ' >
All about the house was still, but on
approaching the stable a light was discovered
within; and, moving noislessly
to the door, and peering through the
cracks, the two murderers were found in
the act of digging a grave beneath the
flooring. A rush was made upon them,
and they were arrested.
At the sight of the drover," who
was the first to confront the gniltv
wretches, the landlord uttered a shriek
of terror, and fell to the ground, while
his accomplice, as pale as a oorpse,
gazed upon him with afright, not doubting
it was the ghost of the murdered
man who stood before him.
The party now proceeded to the house,
dragging the murderers along with
them.
Lights were procured, and still keeping
the prisoners with thorn, the people
entered the room where lay the body of
the man so strangely murdered instead
of the horse dealer. The wife and
daughter followed. ......
When the oovering was removed from
the face of the corpse, and the full light
of the candles flared upon it, a wild cry
burst from the lips of the landlord's
wife.
" My son?my murdered son! Who
has done this?"
And with a hysterical scream she fell
to the floor. * :
" No, no I it can't be so, mother!" exclaimed
the daughter, as she struggled to
reaoh the bed. - But the terrible truth
burst upon her as her eyes fell upon the
mangled form of her brother, and she
also swooned upon the body.
The crieft of the broken hearted
females seemed to arouse the old man
ior a moment; and gazing wildl.v at the
sight before him, he realized also the
terrible truth. He had murdered his
own son!
On,investigating tne iaots Deiore ine
magistrate on the following day, it was
ascertained that the son of the innkeeper,
who was a dissipated young
man, had visited Marquise the previous
evening, where, with some of his associates,
he had been engaged in drinking
and gambling till a late hour; and being'
| too much intoxicated to - remount his
horse, and ashamed to meet his family,
some of his fellow gamblers tad accompanied
him home; and supposing the
room in which the drover had been put
to be vacant, they had assisted the
drunken man into the window. It was
their voices the lodger had heard; and
thus it was that the hapless youth met
his death and our friend escaped.
Tlie accomplice of the landlord
proved to be his own son-in-law, Henri
Legrand.
iSrom that - awful hour the wretched
mother of. that murdered boy, murdered
by his father's hand, remained a raving
manias . tvetit ~
It is only necessary to add, in 'concluding
this tale of horror, that the
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uruver reuuvwcu ma iukjukjj , nuu jiwuw,
claiming her due, the two murderers
paid the penalty of their crime upon the
guillotine. Shortly after this last event,
the people of Marquise, to whom the
scene of the unnatural murder had become
an eyesore, assembled and leveled
the building to the ground. The spot
is now covered with brambles and
thistles, and pointed out to the stranger
as the place-to be avoided; for the
ignorant Assert that it is haunted by the
ghost of the murdered son, f
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A Swedish-Norwegian Wedding. .
Norway and Sweden, crossed the ocean
to meet and fall in love with eaoh other
in Philadelphia. Bertha, the fair daughter
of Mr. Daunfelt, of the Swedish commission,
was married on the twentyninth
of June to Mr. Ohristorphesson,
of the Norwegian commission. They
had never met during all the years they
had lived so near eaoh other, but coming
to far America the two came together
and fell desperately in love. They
were married in the judges' pavilion on
the Centennial grounds in the evening,
when all was quiet as a private park.
This pavilion has a large, beautiful hall,
intended for receptions, and is attractively
decorated. The speaker's platform,
as it happens, resembles an altar, was
beautifully deoorated with Swedish and
Norwegian flags, and with masses of
blossoming plants in pots. A Turkish
rug, with two cushions on it, stood before
the altar for the bride and groom to
knee! on.
The bride came, on her father's arm,
followed by the groom and her mother,
?uid four bridesmaids and groomsmen.
She was so pale and weak ahe had to sit
down and rest a moment before standing
to be married. The ceremony was in
Norwegian, but nearly like the Episoo?
pal service in all its forms. As soon -as
the ceremony was over the bride's father,
whose ruddy faoe had been all aglow
with feeiiDg, blasped her'to his arms, regardless
of wedding veil and finery, and
gave her a right fatherly kiss, and then"
put both arm? around his new son and
kissed him affectionately ; then followed
the family congratulat ons, so hearty
and informal it did one's heart good to
see them. The bridegroom's friends put
their arms around him and patted him
jovially on the back, or kissed him ; and
the pretty bride, all alive with excitement
and rosy as ever, was charmingly
cordial in her greetings... She did not
stand in one place to receive, but moved
about to speak to ono or another, or
promenaded, on her husband's arm.
The bride was dressed simply in white
silk, with a long veiL The only peculiar
thing about her, costume was the high,
small orown of myrtle, in imitation of a
royal crown, that surmounted her veil.
She wore ro flowers, and her bridesmaids
wore none, but each bridesmaid
and groomsman wore on the left shoulder
a small myrtle wreath tied with red.
or white, or blue, or green. The bridegroom
was in fnll dress, with gold lace,
epaulets, sword and cooked hat.
lite Own Head.
Count Paul de Gabriao publishes in
his travels the following reminiscence of
Lima: One day when dining with the
French consul, " the Man with the Silver
Head "was announced. He was a
Frenchman, owning a small property
near thecity. Whiletaking a walk Bome
months ago he heard cries of agony, and
hastening in the direction from whicb
they came, surprised three brigands, one
of whom held a traveler's head between
bis knees, while another cut his ears off
and a third stabbed him. The undaunted
Frenchman killed one of the
villains, whereupon the two others fled.
At this moment, and while attending
to the dying traveler, Peruviau gendarmes
appeared, one of whom, thinking
the Frenohman a murderer, with a powerful
horizontal blow <rf his sword cut
the top part of his head clean off, laying
the brain bare. The Frenchman, after
lying an hour unconscious, revived,
picked up the upper part of his head,
walked home in the broiling sun and
had a silver plate made in lieu of the
original scalp, which had fhrunk too
much. '
Gen. Coster's Death.
A special from Sioux City say that the
Indians who came into the hostile camp
I near Fort Sully say that after Rain-inthe-Face
shot Gen. Custer he cut Custer's
heart out, placed it on a pole and paraded
with it through the camp ; that when
the Indians broke camp and retreated
from the scene of .the slaughter they
were greatly demoralized, but that they
occasionally halted and had a dance
around the bloody trophy wJaicli tfiey
designated aa the heart of the yellow
haired white chief. Previous reports,
received through military sources, have
stated that Custer's remains were not
mutilated ; but these Indians state emphatically
that the above is true, and
that great satisfaction is felt in the fact
that Rain-in-the Face has fulfilled his
threat against the great white chief, who
once humiliated him.
AT THE CENTENNIAL.
Notes Taken by Oar Correspondent on
the Gronndt.
Quebec sends a violincello of date
1772.
Naples, Italy, sends i a cylindrical
piano.
There are twenty exhibitors of champagne
in the Agricultural building.
In Agricultural building is seen the
india rubber tree with the crude gum.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a rotary
polar map of the world, also a universal
olook.
Hon. Francis A. Ward, of Tale College,
has been appointed chief of the
bureau of awards, in place of Dr.
StOle.
Italy sends specimens of 132 different
varieties of red and white wines, also
Ratafia, and a superior article of vinegar
made from Musoot -wine.
The specimens of alder wood are
beautiful. Belgium exhibits in the
main building a pulpit of carved wood
sixteen feet high, composed of eighty
pieces. It has five fronts all exquisitely
carved.
There is a fine collection of sugar
'leaves from beets in the same department,
from France. The writer has
seen the beet sugar in general use upon
the continent of Europe. Some of
the; sngar-buts- grow to a weight of
eighty-four pounds in Belgium. The
sugar is lighter, and seems whiter and
more acid than ours.
Some of the most beautiful carpets
made in the world, and on exhibition,
are of Philadelphia manufacture. The
carpet factories of Philadelphia have 651
pover looms, v,wv nana looms, witn a
capacity of production^ 25,000,000
yards of ingrain and Venetian carpeting,
being much greater than the rest of the
interest in the United States.
Italy has a necklace of twenty-four
rabies, forming twelve pair of earrings,
a "thing of beauty.' * Price, 810,000,
gold. A set of diamond head ornaments,
$10,000, gold. Ihe celebrated '
vases from Berlin are worth : The Ger- J
man Model of Peace, $5,000. The Au- .
rora, $4,500. Otho's Visit to the Vault ;
of Oharlemange, $900. They are superb;
no visitor should fail to see them.
The Japanese have a fine cut tobacco;
its power of absorbing liquids makes it
a popular weed in Europe. Tobacco ,
was introduced' into Japan in 1627 by
the Portuguese. The Japs have a. eea
weed used forindustiial purposes, called ]
fu?looks like carragheen moss. It is '(
used for sizing the warp of silk goOda.
They also have a "kanteen," or vege- .*
.table isinglass. Their sea weed tengusa <
makes a good jelly. '
Oregon exhibits the section of a tree I
?the red cedar. The. tree grew to the :
lieiffht of 325 feet, and measured at the
.center of its height twenty-two feet in .]
diameter. Another section is from the ]
fir tree, which measured fifteen feet nine i
inches in diameter, at a distance of 158 <
Ifeet from the bntt.' Specimens of (
shingles thirty inches wide, cnt from a <
spruce or white pine which yielded
100,000 shingles and fifty-eight cords of !
fuel. {. "y * i y a ? |T1 ii 14
Portugal a work of, s*rt in an '
eagle made of fig Tree pith. The town '
of Coimbra sends a tree made of tooth- '
picks. Ponta Delgade exhibits a pincnshion
made of silk and Alaes thread. J
The same place show flowers made of j1
feathers and rags. The Portuguese 1
make a pretty exhibit of artificial flow- ]
era made from aloe fibers. The Osier
baskets are quite pretty. And Portugal 1
makes a fine display in horse accoutre- 1
j ments?the finish on the mountings of !1
bridles and saddles are beautiful. Brass
nails are a specialty with the Portuguese. 1
A palm leaf flail from Portugal is a curiosity;
|
In the Hawaiian department are collections
of dri^d ferns, samples of cloth
like the mulberry paper of Japan. It
is made of strips of the inner bark of a
tree, moistened and laid side by side, '
and then beaten by hand bats of different
patterns. This ia.called wanke fiber;
it is made into bed clothing, and is of
different tints, red, whit*, and blue, all
handwork. A waterpvoof cloak is also
exhibited, made by fitting leaves of
grass?a broad kind called " tea leaf "? :
over each other, like featherB on this
paper cloth. They make* rope from a
.;t 11?.J -1 ?
Uuur uiuua. xucj cuou u;aao a
hand braided cord, very flexible and
strong. It has a strange appearance",
white and black specked, resembling a
snake at first glance.
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A Mean Advantage.
There were a score or more of women
gathered together at Mr. Johnson's
house. Mr. Johnson is a good hearted
man and a respectable citizen, though
he is rather skeptical abont some, things,
The women had just organized "The
Foreign Benevolent Society/' when Mr.
Johnson entered the room. He was at
once appealed to to donate a few dollars
as a foundation to work on, and Mrs.
Graham added :
"It would be so pleasant in after
years for you to remember that you gave
this society its first dollar and itd first
kind word." , .
He slowly opened his wallet, drew out
a ten-dollar bill, and as the ladies
pmacked their lips and clapped their
hands, he asked:
" Is this society organized to aid the
poor of foreign countries I" . *
" Yes?yes?yes I" they chorused.
" Aud it wants money if"
"Yes?yes!" ... ' . . .
" Well, now," said Johnson, as he
folded the bill in a tempting shape,
"there are twenty married women here.
It there are fifteen of you who can make
oath that you have combed your children's
hair this morning, washed the
dishes, blackened the cook stove, and
made the beds, I'll donate this S10."
"I have," answered two of the crowd,
and the rest said :
"Why, now, Mr. Johnson!" .
" If fifteen of you cau make oath that
your husbands are not wearing socks
with holes in the heels, this money iz
yours," continued the wretch.
"Justhear him !" they exclaimed,each
oue looking at the other.
" If ten of you have boys without
holes iu the knees of their pants, that
' X ' goes to the society !" said Johnson.
" Such a man !" they whispered.
" If there are five pair of stockings in
this room that don't need darning I'll
hand over the money I" he went on.
" Mr. Johnson," said Mrs. Graham,
with great dignity, " the rules of this
society declare that no money shall be
contributed except by members; and
as you are not a member I beg that you
will withdraw and let us proceed with
the routine business."
' The Texas Cattle Drive.
TheJKansas Oity Price Current has
advices that the grand total of the
Texas cattle drive to July 6 is 305,290
head. Of this number 50,638 have been
held in northern Texas, while the remainder,
254,652 tiead, have been driven
north. Several thousand head, which
were wintered in northern Texas last
season, have also been driven north,
which probably will swell the total to beHrflfin
2R0.000 and 270.000 head.
Dignity is expensive, and withont
other goed qualities is not particularly
profitable.
GEN. CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE.
Lieut. Garland's Story otithe Bangnlnary
Battle with the Hlonx.
A letter dated "Mouth of the battle
Horn," giving a new version of Ouster's
fight with the Sioux, has been received
from Lieut. John Carland, of Company
B, Sixth infantry, attached to Gen. Gibbons'
command. Lieut. Carland says:
At the mouth of the Rosebud, on the
twenty-second of June, we struck a
large Indian train leading up the Rosebud
valley. Gen. Caster from there
took command of the twelve companies
of cavalry and pushed on after the
Sioux. He followed them to the foot of
the mountains, and found by scouting
ikni 41*AT* nravA an/MtnnA/)
UI lllO YOUOJ liuai> lUADj TTOJIO uuviuuywi
011 a branch of the Little Horn. This
was on the night of the twenty-fourth.
On the twenty-fifth he took five companies
and fallowed the stream down on
one side, while Major Reno, with seven
companies, went down on the other.
Major Reno was to attack the enemy in
the rear while Custer fought them in
front. His would have worked all right,
as Reno had got in their rear, but Gen.
Caster, marching down on the other
side, saw what he supposed was the
front of the camp, and made a charge on
them, the Indians giving way and letting
him right into the gap. The brave man
rode on with his three hundred men,
and would have killed the whole 2,000
Sioux, I believe, if there had been no
enemy behind him; but instead of charging
the front, he was right in the center
of between three thousand and four
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tUUUOOUU UiVUAi J.UVOC liunv TTOiO w
hind him kept concealed until he was
right iu their midst, and then, when it
was too late, he made a bold dash trying
to out through them, bnt the enemy
were too many. He fell about the first
one, and the horses becoming unmanageable,
the poor soldiers were out down in
less time than it takes to tell it.
The Sioux then turned with all their
fury upon Major Reno. He charged
them with one oompany, and returned
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witii oniy eieveii mtui. at) uitiu
ed a short distance, placing his men on
a hi tiff. He kept them off until tho
night of the twenty-seventh, his men going
without water forty-eight hours. He
was relieved by Gens. Terry and Gibbons,
who saw the smoke from where they
were at the Little Horn, and thinking
it a signal of the Sioux, marched that
way just in time to save the last handful
of the Seventh cavalry..
Out of the whole "regiment only 828
men are left, and forty of them are
badly. wounded; ?It makes one heartaiok
to look over-tl$e * battle grwmd. apd Bee
the poor 4b11oy>8, some of them Ttiththeir
entrailn out out, others with their eyes
dug out and heart laid across their faqe.
They even" stopped to cut their pockets
to get their money and watches. Th?most
fearful sight was Colonel .Cooke.
He was a splendid looking man, with
Long, dark whiskers. They dug his
Eace all, oat b?> as to get his fine beard, it
is supposed. They did not disfigure Gen.
Custer in any way,-but his brother,- ?om
Ouster, was opened and hie heart taken
3Ut.
r^A?v^ TAm nnofnv on'il
UC1I. Vtt^U? xvux vuowvi | uuu
Boston Custer, brothers of the general,
First Lieutenant Calhoun, brother-in-law
of the general, and A. H. Reed, the general's
nephew, fell within ten feet of each,
other. - - - We
estimate the loss of the enemy at
five hundred, though it is hard to tell
liow many were killed, as they carried
tnost of them away. Gen. Terry and the
remaining officers are feeling very badly.
I was standing by Gen. Custer when
Gen. Terry came-up, and as he looked
down upon the iioble general tears
rmnraed Hntrn hi'n fnrtfl nfi lift ftflid : " The
flower df the army is gone at last." Caster
was supposed to be the first one who
fell, but we found seventeen* cartridge
shells by : his side, where he had kept
them oft until the last moment.
No blame can be attached to any one
for this fearful slaughter. 'If Ouster
had had the whole regiment, it would
etfly hare been worse, as the Sioux Were
too marly/* & t u. vi-M vi J j i .C <
There is one poor Grow Indian on the
boat who has five shots through hiA, vet
he is happy because he has nine scalps
at his T ? "I tjfi f\ ^
These- Sioux were all from the same
agency,'as we found camp equipments
that had.neyer been used, jalso b^kets
thai were aw and bfaofled United Statee
Inofian departmant.^ ? jf *
If III
In case of prostration by the heat, if
the case is not a serious, one, the. only
course necessary is the opening of all
ligatures ^bout the. person, fanning the
face afcdlareaifc, and the administering
of Bomajight' Bthnulant,-Buchjaa sherry
wine. This relief will prevent the more
ie'riotis grdwth at the* disordfer tihtil a
- ' ' ?- -- ? ? /V A?m?v\AnA<l T? ft QAM.
piiytuuiiui ctm ua DUUUUUUCU. >U B OOHouacase?i.e.,
wliere the face is flushed
and the condition of breathing indicates
congestionthe brain?no- stimulant
should be given at alh With all possible
expedition the patient should be removed
to Jkh^ nearest shady place,.allowed
plenty "erf fresh air, and should be
bathed well up?n the top of the head
and around the neck with cold water.
No time should be lost In the calling of
a good doctor, as it is frequently necessary
in cases of this character to have
the patient bled.
As "an ounce of.prevention, however,
is worth a pound of cure," it may be
well for people to know that to guard
against sunstroke it is necessary to keep
as much^as possible in the shade, not to
qv^rheafc the body by muscular exertion,
and to refrain from too frequent indulgence
in ice water. The occasional
gargling of the 'uhroat will invariably
slake thirst and prevent the overloading
of the stomach.
The Sioux Thermopylae.^, .
Long ago a frontierseout named.Hank
Clifford, who had"*taken a squaw f/oTi
?u? a:
LUC UIUUA uaiuuj oaxu uo uau trxuuu
heard them declare that if ever the antagonism
between- them and the whites
grew to a final struggle there was a coontry
in the north where they could take
refug^ and conld never be conquered' or
dislodged- They would wait there to
reoeive the force sent against them, and
could hope to destroy it before it could
escape. This region they described as
extremely rough, where steep ridges,
precipioes and deep canyons formed a
cliaotio surface upon winch the force
first in possession could fight successfully
three times1 their own number.
Clifford believed it was the Rosebud
mountains, where the terrible fight with
Custer and Reno took place, to which
they referred, as they are nearly impregnable
to an invader. r- vr
Agate in Arrest.
At. t.hfl window of form of the cells in
tho jail at Long Branch a man stood all
day beating his bleeding fists against the
iron door screen, and uttering violent
and discordant speeches to the few
stragglers that stood in the broiling son
to listen to him. This man was Dr. H.
T. Helmbold, who nsed to spend a hundred
thousand dollars in a season at
Long Branch. He had been oonflned
at a Philadelphia lunatio asylum bat
escaped and went to Long Branch, where
his violent conduct caused his arrest.
He was penniless, but on account of
what he had done 'for Long Branch in
former years, he was given everything
he wanted while there, until his violenoe
become so marked that it was necessary
to order his arrest.
MURDER AS A TRADE IN INDIA.
How a Snapected Individual vol DIscovered?Confeulon
at Thirteen Mnrdera.
A London newspaper of a recent date
oontains the following: The story of a
strange crime oomes to ns from India.
From the seething mass of humanity in
the valley of the Ganges weird beliefs
and sects spring up, such as Thuggism,
which is a religion of murder for the
caste of thieves, who, from generation
to generation, follow the same profession,
and who, so far from being looked upon
with contempt, have their patron deity,
and consider themselves important and
even reputable members of the community.
The last tale which reaches us is,
however, that of an individual who pursued
murder as a trade. For years past
wagon drivers have mysteriously disap|
peared. At intervals all would go well,
I >I>|4 *1inn >Min Himr wnnM hflerin fcn dlR
I OUU UUUU (tgnui Mfvj ttvvuv.
[ appear. Sometimes bodies would be
found in the jangle off the highway, but
generally so decomposed that, though !
they were believed to be the missing
people, yet their identity oould not be
established, and the mystery still con- ;
tinues. At last a olew was obtained. It
was found that Kahdur Borah was the
name given by various parties as that of 1
the person who had hired a cart which ;
had disappeared. < A oiroular was issued !
giving a description of the suspected ]
man, but without effect. At last, in the '
examination of a criminal arrested at
Kamptee, for some other offense, the (
jailers suspicion was excited that thisi,
was the individual wanted. His suspi-1 (
cions proved to W true, and t&e murderer
has now been identified by several of '
the relatives of the murdered people as '
the man who had hired the cart. He is ,
a Mohammedan?abont forty years of ;
age?a well-to-do man, and son of a per- ,
sou of some property. Eleven and a (
quarter years of his life have been passed
in prison for comparatively petty offenses. 1
After 1872 he kept clear of gaol and '
begun to be looked upon as a reformed j
character. In reality his career as a
murderer then commenced in earnest,
and had he not, strangely enongn, always
given his right name, he might ]
have been still, at large. He had
previously followed the same trade,
thongh not to the same extent, and the !
loll in the disappearance of people was 1
owing to the fact that every now and 1
then he had disajfpeared from his soene '
of operations intoprison. Finding es- i
cape hopeless, he has now, with the fa- ]
tality of his race, 'made a clean breast of !
his crimes. His iiiode of: going to work
was to enter a village and hire a cart, (
\vith the ostensible purpose .of going to '
a distant village t??ee his relatives or to '
transact some business. He always took ]
core to seleot a good cart and good ]
bullocks, the property of a man of a
better class, who was likely to carry 1
money about him. < After proceeding ior '
thirty or ;forty miles on their way, he
chose some quiet part of the road to ad-minister
arsenic to his unsuspecting 1
companion, the driver. This he nad no 1
difficulty in doing; if the driver was a !
Mohammedan, for in that case they :
would take their mess together. If. his companion
was a Hindoo the murderer j
would offer him some poisoned sweet- '
meats, or watoh his opportunity to '
sprinkle arsenio over the flour the poor '
mail was about to make his ohupatHes '
out of. After death he would rob h?s 1
viotim, and either ?hrow the body into. 1
the jungle or bum it. The wagon and '
bullocks he would dispose of in the ]
nearest village for, say, fifty or sixty
rupees, and in a few days more go on \
the same round of assassination and rob- 1
bery., He has already confessed the par- :
ticulars of .thirteen murders committed 1
by him within a short time. J
After the Indian, Fight.
? -' it. n?A-_ i ui. n.u ]
a. survey ui mts v;udi?i uatue ucxu,
says an officer from the army, is horrible '
in the extreme. AIT bat Caster himself 1
are bnitally mtttilated. He is stripped !
only. Oaptain Keogh had left aronod ;
his neck an Agnus Dei, suspended by a
gold chain, and had not,-evidently, been 1
'mutilated furtherJ[affcer the discovery, of 1
this. * ' * 1
It is sickefling to look at the* bodies '
stripped. Here a hand* gona, herd a !
head, ghastly gashes cut iff all parte ot
the body, eyes gouged "out, noses and
ears cut off and skulls crushed ia 1
*0'n% fees at a distanqe a dead horse 1
lying on the plain or^near the river, and
upon, a near approach the gleaming white 1
skin of a naked cavalry soldier, the bodj
cut aud maugledfbeyond description, is '
brought into view. "
A Grow scout (Curly) who stayed until
he saw that the last man luust be killed, 1
saw a Sioux jump off his horse to finish '
a wounded officer, and, taking the Sioux !
blanket and horse, effected his escape. j
From his description ot the massacre '
Lieutenant Cook was the last man left, '
and he says that the white men killed of '
the Sioux more than their own number.
There is every evldence_of a desperate 1
fight, but Custer wag outnumbered ;
fifteen to one. The fight oould not have !
lasted over two or three hours. The J
Indian says that Custer's oolrnnn moved
forward to cross the ford into the village, 1
ana oeing met uy a large lurue ox
Indians, dismounted and' gave tfrem a 1
volley. By this, time another force came 1
in their rear, completely hemming them !
in. fie (Ouster) then retreated by the
right flank to the top of a hill, where the ;
desperate fighting took place.
Niagara .Falls, i > .1
The Dubuque (Iowa) Tfynes prints a j
letter from a.eitizen of tjiat .town, .at '
Niagara Falls, in which the writer gives 1
this bit of graphic description : The j
falls look to me like a river standing on J
end and trying to walk off on stilts. <
The'only thing I can compare.Niagara to <
is J&lian avenae, and thkt covered With *
sleet and'ice, and abput thirty boys and 1
girls riding down on handaleds of a <
moonlight night at lightning.g^it,.^pd '
fetching up at the Lorimier Houee all <
pellmell, with "a few legs and: * arms '
broken after rtmning over three or four 1
horses and carriages. Our Dubuque '
water works don't begin to oompare
with Niatara as to quality and nofee, but (
the water"is better for drinking purposes, 1
and oomes out of a great deal longer 1
hole. '.A person viewing the fallBhasa 3
sort of nervous feeling?almost afraid '
the watfer w^ll run over before one can '
have a fair look at it. The water after 1
it passes through the falls and rests from '
its labors in the abyss below, collects 1
itself together and forms itsetf into a I
river again, and passes down the deep '
gorge at a rapid gait, whirling^ leaping, :
and foaming Hke a thousand whales :
when it reaohes the great whirlpool; 1
there it performs a duok waltz, and after 1
sashaing up the liver a short distance it
finds a narrow opening and passes 1
on to mingle with the briny deep, never 1
to return until taken up by evaporation
to the clouds and brought back by the
winds of heaven to take the same fearful
eap again.
' How It Stood.
Some time ago an inquiry was made
in England as to the Btiite or the teetotallers
in a oertain regiment. The reply
was that fifty per cent, were dead and
fifty per cent, were invalided. This
alarmed the temperance party a little,
but on inquiry it was ascertained to be
oorrect. It was fotfed that one man had
died from the bite of a serpent, and the
other had been sent heme invalided
with a broken leg.
THE ISLAND OF BARBADOES.
Terrible Condition of that Overcrowded
Island?People Dying of Famine and
Eaten by Doc
The annual report of the auditorgeneral
at Barbadocs for 1875 has just
been issued. In addition to much valnable
information on the finances and
defective Bystem of taxation, this report
throws some light on the social and
economic state of the colony :
The island oontains 166 square miles,
or 108,470 acres of land. Taking 16,470
as covered by towns, garrison,
roads, public buildings, sea beach, etc.,
there wonld remain, supposing every
acre to be cultivable land, 90,000 acres,
or just half an acre for the sustenance
of every individual in the colony. The
presept population gives 1,084 to the
square mile.
The census of 1851 gave 135,939 of
population. That of 1861 gave 152,275,
showing a gain in ten years of 16,336,
notwithstanding the loss in 1854 of 20,727
by cholera, as shown by the governor's
report upon the census of 1871.
The census of 1861 gave 152,275 as the
population ; that of 1871 gave 162,042,
Bhowing a gain in the ten years of 9,767,
notwithstanding the . loss of 20,408 by
immigration during tnat period, 'i'ne
population having been 162,042 in 1871,
has risen-to 180,000 up to the thirtyfirst
of December, 1875, showing an increase
in the five years (1871-5) of 18,D00,
as compared with an inorease of
^,767 in the previous ten years (1861-70;,
ind at this rate, unless pestilenoe, need
ar immigration intervene, in 1881 the
population will reach 200,000.
It would have been 28,000 for the last
Ave years, but for the frightful mortality
among children. The loss of these
tias been put down by an eminent
alergyman at 1,000 per annum. .He has
Jescribed these as "preventable
ieathB," and advised the government of
Demerara to establish foundling hospitals
in Barbadoes to save and rear the
infants for the labor market of that
jolonv. Barbadoes being innocent of the
possession of any suchhumane institutions.
.. .. ?
The great majority of these poor infants
are illegitimate. The mothers do
lot themselves know who the fathers
ire, or they are married men with wives
ind families which they ere scarcely
?ble to support; or, ff unmarried, having
prior claims of. the same sort fully
aring'all resources. The poor law in
Barbadoes is* terribly defective, and the
ionsequence is .the large crop of infant
leaths. The parents of the mother
Dfien discard her for mesalliance, and
in her weakly state she iq unable to support
herself, much less her infant.
When death takes her child die is more
;han resigned, if she has not by delibsrate
neglect hastened its approach.
The correspondent of the London
Timed says: The laws regulating .labor
md labor tenure, the. harsh conduct of
planters and their agents, a defective
artnmifirtnal Runtom nnnrfiRHlVfi tATfia.
tiave largely conduced to the present
lamentable state of* the Bubadoea poor,
md it remains, to show in a few words
how far their present condition has been
iffeofced by the present parsimonious
3ystem of poor relief. No better evilence.on
this.pomt could- be found than
that given in the reoords of coroner's
inquests. I have read a large number
these documents, and have been appalled
at their shameful disclosures.
When the strength of old men or women
fails them, when women are pregnant or
in child-bed, when those of either sex are
incapacitated for the time bv siokness,
no help or shelter is afforded them exsept,
in very extreme cases, such
wretched doles?usually about three
pence per week?aa are permitted but
not enforced by the Barbadoes vestry
laws ; while, so long as they continue to
occupy their holdings, the rent is in
many cases mercilessly demanded, or
deducted from any small sums they may
tiave been able to earn by fitful labor.
Fhe necessary results of this system are
misery, vagrancy and, in too many cases,
absolute starvation. ' I have read the
?-a i r? ? ?;j 4-UA
most litUTOWIJJg ret^jruo wjluuii auicou tmo
Bxistenoe of these evils. As one striking
example, I will quote the evidence given
by Thomas Henry Kirton, manager of
Olifden plantation, in St. Philip's parish,
it' an inquest on the body of a laborer
itamed Samuel Dottin, aged about fifty,
who had been found dead in his cottage
Dti the eleventh of August, 1870 :
I knew Samuel Dottin. Hje was a tenrat
and laborer on "this estate. When I
book up the estate, about five years ago,
[ found deceased, working for ten cents
(flye pence) a day. I had a talk with
dir. Haynes about him, as he asked me
for more wages, and Mr. Haynes raised
bis wages to twelve oenta. Deceased
paid twenty-six cents a week for a piece
of land. He only got the twelve cents
when he worked for a day. He seldom
worked a whole week. Three days was
about the average. Some weeks he did
nothing for a whole week, the following
nmntr Via Vi.i?1 flff.r.fcwn /TAnffl tn TlftV. TTo
looked ver/ weak, and tottered as he
walked, going from oho aide of the road
bo the other. '
The medical man who had examined
the body then described it as " emaciated
to the last degree," though'' with the
slightest trace of disease; there had
been "only a general wasting of the tissues
from, a long continuance; of defective
nutrition." The verdict was: "Death
through want of the common necessaries
}f life." . .
If space permitted, I could give you
the official minutiae of numberless other
Heartrending cases in* which colored
men, women and children have died
from sheer hunger and want, sometimes
in housed, sometimes in the caneflelds,
juarries or cases. In one case a woman,
Sying thus, was eaten by dogs. In another,
that of an infant, in which the
verdict was death from starvation, it
transpired that the .mother, while still
weak from Jhor confinement, had been
obliged to try and earn some money by
working in the caneflelds. In the effort
bier strength failed her and her miiK
iried up, and as she had nothing bnt
'<eorn pap" wherewith to feed her
3htldr }t v^ry soon perished. Nor are
these exceptional cases. The bishop and
many of-the' clergy have avowed that
not a day passes without its one or more
victims-to starvation in this island, no
bigger than the isle of Wight. The
state of the poor at this moment is no
better than it was in 1845; it is even
certain that there has been serious retrogression.
Ndr is it in the least likely
that any effective mear,urea of improvement
will be passed by the present Legislature,
or by any Parliament elected
under the existing representative system.
Nothing iu the right direction
will be douo -without large and radical
(ilinnniio rlii-Afif.imiM xrhinh thnfiA
changes should take is clear in the
opinion of all dispassionate persons interested
in the future of the colony.
That opinion is, that, as the home government
has done with Jamaica and
every other West Indian colony, so it
should do with Barbadoes. Barbadoes,
in a word, needs to be transformed into
a crown colony, and ruled by a wise and
mild despotisjn. Unless the protection
of a paternal government be promptly
applied toward ameliorating the poverty
stricken condition of the vast masses of
tho colored population, it may be safely
predicted that the neglect to do so is
certain, sooner or later, to be followed
by results which will be deplored by
every one concerned in West Indian
trade and interest?.
THE INDIAN WAR.
The Narrow Escape of. a Party t( Crook's
Command?Thirty Soldiers Barroanded
by Hundreds of Well Armed Indians?A
Hncceeslnl Rase.
A reconnoitering party of thirty persons
under the command of Seoond
Liout. Frederick "W\ Sibley, of the Seoond
cavalry, was sent from Gen. Crook's
camp on Jul} 6. They were to observe
the movements, and position of the
8ionx, and if possible the whereabouts
of Terry. On the ninth they returned
on fool, after a terrible retreat of two
nights and one day. Th6y were surrounded
by the enemy in prodigious
numbers, and only escaped miraculously
by the sacrifice of all tneir equipments
excepting arms ana ammniiiwu, mu*uuing
thirty-one picked saddle horses and
two moles. Bat for the sagacity and
caation of gnides Grnard and Baptiste,
and the jndgment and gallantry of Sibley,
no one would have survived.
The handful of men left our' camp,
a correspondent writes, in broad daylight,
with a strange absence of precaution,
for which somebody superior to
Sibley in rank ts responsible, it being
usual to disguise suoh movements under
the shelter of darkness. They marched
all night of the sixth, toward the
sources of the Little Big Horn. On the
seventh, after a slight meal, which afterward
saved them from perishing, they
pursued their course through some foothills
verging toward the mountains.
The conformation of the cavalry was eitremelv
favorable to an ambuscade.
At about half-past four a large body
of Sioux was espied from the top of the
bluff, marching eastward. They seemed
to spread all over the plain, and evidently
were moving to attack the camp on
uoose creek. Lieut. Sibley's party remained
concealed and in horrible anxiety
for an Hour watcning cneir movements.
Soon a tremendous ehont warned them
that the trail they seemed to be looking
for was found. Quickly hundreds of
savages were crowded upon it, and set
out upon the chase at a full canter, uttering
those terrible wolfish cries peculiar
to the Sioux and Oheyennes.
The scouting party mounted and
galloped toward the mountains, the
Sioux yelling as they caught a glimpse
of them like hounds on the scent. They
seemed to be distanced in the race, but
had broken into two bodies, and were
making a double circuit to gain the high
points which they knew the pursued
must pass. The scouting party climbed
the outer ridge, and were approaching
shelter about noon, trotting quiets
through a ravine, when suddenly a volley
of fifty shots was poured from the
surrounding rooky dopes, where the
savages were massed, while as many
more of them charged down them like
fury. Eveiy man of the little party felt
despair chilling him. They wheeled
and galloped for the timber in the val<nllnrrfl^
hr A vnlldV fVlfiV
!OJf M/uunwu,M ?v-vj? ??wj
reached shelter three horses were wounded.
. ..
They dismounted on a knoll covered
by a grove, and oould see the enemy
swarming on the foothills below, while
constant reinforcements gained the
higher points around them. A plunging
Are tore the foliage from the pines, and
as their numbers thiokened the roar of
the volleys was .perfectly deafening.
The bullets were all too nigh, but the
enemy were gradually perfecting their
aim, and notched the trees close about'
their heads. Their leading chief was
clothed in white buckskin, and called
out in the Cheyenne tongue :
" You are not the only people in this
country." vj
He was undoubtedly the celebrated
White Antelope, a Southern Cheyenne.
All the boldest attacking warriors seemed
to shout Cheyenne war cries, while the
more timid, who fired lrom rocks, uttered
Sioux ejaculations.
The fusilade continued an hour, the
scouts replying seldom, in order to save
ammunition, when suddenly there was a
lull, seeming to portend some new mischief,
the guides declaring that death
was certain, and swore to end their own j
lives rather than suffer capture and tor-1
tore. Sibley delivered a harangue of j
twenty words to hia men, to whioh they
responded stoutly. He told them that
there were two alternatives?to diejhonorably
or to escape honorably. Uruard
declared that if there was a coward
among them he would be shot rather
than the enemy.
A brief council was held, and by the
advice of the guides they determined to
attempt tofescape further into the mountains,
leaving their horses to engage the
attention of the Sioux, tied to the trees.
All the ammunition was taken from the
saddles. The party then' moved stealthily
from the ground and dashed behind
the projecting rocks. The Sioux did
not see them, and they climbed up ami
up,.over slippery precipices, until exhausted.
While resting they heard firing
recommence louder than ever, and knew
all their horses would probably be
killed, and be a sorry prize for their
captors.
The volleys were terrific, the Sioux
thinking they still had them in their
clutches. The scouts resumed their
clambering; the carbines were handed
up the rocks from hand to hand. Had
the Sioux pursued them up the grim
heights that frowned upon them they
could have crushed them with bowlders
/a11 ' 11 hQtT
WHICH WCIC puiDCLX i oauj w acmji* auv;
continued to Lear the sound of rifles
until it died away in the distance. They
toiled over mountains until dawn of
July 8, resting under the cliffs. They
once more abandoned hope when they
saw a largo band of Sioux among the
foothills moving as if to intercept them.
It, however, turned toward the Tongue
"river, and they supposed it to be the
rear guard of the larger force which had
been advancing to attack either a camp
or a wagon train. Their hunger was
great, as they had abandoned all their
rations. From dusk they scrambled
along the sides of the mountains all the
night. About dawn on the ninth they
reached the bank of Tongue river.
* Two men were so worn out that they
could not ford the swift and deep current.
They therefore hid themselves in
the thickets, and were left. One of them
was crazed by exhaustion and fear. A
few miles further south the Sioux were
seen, btit, luckily, the fugitives escaped
observation.
Four miles from camp a packer, who
was hauling, loaned his mule to one of
the scouts, and news was carried to Col.
Royall, who was commanding during
Gen. Crook's absence on a hunt. Two
companies of cavalry were sent oat with
horses to bring thorn iu. Before meeting
the relief they were "so fatigued
liritr nnnlr? nnlv mnroh nn? hnnHrflrl
yards without dropping on the ground.
The Good Turkeys Do.
The Hartford Courant says: It is
pretty well established that if there's
any bug especially disgusting the turkey
will look out for it. In the California
region last year the best fields were
saved from complete destruction by
caterpillars by these birds, and now it
has been found out over in Rhode Island
that the potato bug is the favorite food
of the tuxkoy, and a nourishment upon
which it fattens liberally. No doubt, if
there should como along any other pest
to rival caterpillars and beetles, the
turkey would also devour that. Certainly
the bird has earned a place at our
rm 1 ? ! if iL -
inaiiksgivilig uiuicb, bvbii h meee interesting
developments as to its developnjent
create a wonder regarding the peonliar
sweetness of its fleeh.
Starred in the Midst of Plenty.
If there is one thing more siokening
than another in the dismal catalogue of
the diseases of civilization, it is the fact
that in the greatest and most opulent
communities in Christendom it is possible
for human beings absolutely to die
of starvation. In London, for example,
" death by starvation" is one of the permanent
reoognized items of the regular
bills of mortality. Only the other day a
return was presented to the House ol
Commons of " the number of all deaths
in the metropolitan district in the year
1875 upon whioh a coronor's jury returned
a verdict of death frojn starvation
or death accelerated by privation."
The number of such deaths in the oen<-?ol
^im'oinn nt VQfl RAtrAT) in
the eastern division, thirty-two; in the
western division, one; in tkecity of London
and borough of Soathwark, flvo, ,
and in the city and liberty of Westminster,
one; total, forty-six The
population of the British metrop-'
olis may be stated in round numbers at
three million and a half of souls. It is
true that this huge human hive is dependent
upon external supplies for its
daily bread, getting its eggs and its
meat from France, its fish from the
North sea and the channel; and it is .
equally true that the larger a city becomes,
the less likely are those who live
in it to trouble themselves about the
ways and the wants of their immediate
neighbors. Nevertheless it is and must
I remain a monstrous thing that in the
course of a single year nearly fifty human
beings can fall by the wayside and
perish in the midst of millions of their
fellow creatures precisely as they might
have perished of shipwreok upon a desolate
island in the barren sea.
It is a not-less monstrous thing that
within six weeks no fewer than seven
similar oases should have been reported
by the police of our own American metropolis
as happening at our own doors.
Not a month ago the wife and child of
an, unhappy man were found dying of
famine in an' old and shattered canal*
boat, hauled up and deserted near Jersey
City, in which, as it appeared,; they
had all been living huddled together during
the winter, having taken'refuge
there when they were turned out of
honse and home by a disappointed landlord.
And only the other day a police
man who had casually been' made acquainted
with the fact that. there was
something rather mysterious going on
in an npper chamber of a tenement
house in a crowded part of the city,
broke in the door of the chamber, and
found in it four children, all delirious ,
with hunger, and rapidly drifting into
the state of mania which, precedes the
awful close of dramas like that of Ugolino
in the "Tower of Famine." In both
of these cases, very likely, a careful inquest
might have shown great faults and
shortcomings on the part of those who
were responsible for the well-being of
the sufferers. But, however this may
be, the naked fact remains and stares us
in the face, that it is possible for an innooent
human being to wander unfed
and dying with famine through our
streets for day after day, or to creep into
some dismal hole or corner and there
miserably perish for lack of the most
ordinary comforts and necessities of life.
And this faot, we repeat, is a sickening
and a staggering fact which needs to be
looked man folly in the face, and to be
dealt with courageously. We leave to
others the cyhical task of accounting for
it. It is erougn, ana more man enougn,
for us to establish it as a fact.?New
York World.
~ The Jtaath of Custer.
A correspondent with the army, describing
the severe fighting, gives the
views of officers as to the terrible fight
with the Sioux. He says : Meanwhile,
where was Caster? He had gone around
the bluffs and had attempted to ford the
the river at the northern end of the village.
The Indians were massecHn his
front and on his flanks. The whole
command dismounted and made a determined
resistance, which checked momentarily
the onset of the Indians.
Then Custer ordered a retreat, his force
dividing in order to take advantage of
two ravines on the left flank. The
enemy had already appeared in large
force on the right ana closed the door
of escape in that direction. At the head
of the upper ravine Calhoun's company
was apparently thrown out as skirmishers
to defend the entrance. Here their
bodies were found after the battle ; the
skirmish lines were clearly marked by
the rows of the slain; with heaps of
empty cartridge shells; Calhoun and
Crittenden wore in their plaoes?in
advance of the files. The Indians,
j baffled for a moment, immediately flanked
the force on this left, rushed up anroVlirtVl
I<w1 infn I.VlA tTIAin nnp
UlUCI 1M l*4*v W ?>VM
and attaoked Keogh's company. That
gallant Irish officer fell surrounded by
his soldiers. Retreat was cnt off from
this ravine, and the soldiers were then
killed one by one. Meanwhile, the soldiers
in the other ravine had been subject
to a severe Are. The line of retreat
led through a deep golly, at the month
of which twenty-eight men were killed.
They fonght desperately, bnt the Indiana
had surrounded them and there was no
escape. Capt. Smith fought his ay to
a peak, where a last stand was made.
They must have known that their hour
had come. Here were Cnster and his
brother, Adjutant Cooke, Capt Yates,
Lieut. Rilev, Capt. Smith and a few soldiers.
Making ramparts of their fallen
horses, they fonght to the end. Here
their bodies were found. Coster him
self seemed to be sleeping; nis attitude
was natural, his expression sweet and
serene.
There was only one survivor?a. Crow
scout. He crossed the river, dashed
into the village, seized a horse, covered
himself with a Sioux blanket, and escaped.
From his account, it is safe to estimate
the force of Indians at 3.000 warriors
and their loss in battle at many
hundreds.
Telling the Truth.
Some years ago a benevolent lady
took a little girl into her family, intending
to gi^e her a very thorough moral
and religious training. Unfortnnately
the child was much given to
lying, and though the mistress strove
incessantly by precept and example to
eradicate this vice, her efforts were far
from successful. One ^ay, returning
home after some hours' absence, the
lady was met at the door by her hand
maid, who with many tears informed her
that she had broken a very valuable
china pitcher, an heirloom in the family.
Here was light in the darkness at last,
strict truthfulness in the face of reprimand
or punishment, and the good
mistress was delighted. Such an opportunity
to reward and strengthen virtue
must not be lost; so the lady magnanimously
forgot her annoyance at the los8
of her cherished pitcher (one of a pair),
and taking out a penny, said, kindly:
"Well, Jenny, since you have been
such a good girl, and told the truth so
quickly, I shall not even scold you.
Here's a penny for you."
Alas ! the next morning the lady, on
returning home from market, was met
at the door by her promising pupil, who
delightedly exclaimed : "Oh missus! I
Iiova Ki?nlrfln f.lio rvfhor mfnVlAT Woil't
you give me another penny I "
Further description of that good
woman's state of mind would be superfluous.
/
The trae gentleman needs no placard 1
to announce his breeding^; the ill-bred *
man still less. . . ' *$;
There were-160 Pintes and flfenShrraw
in the procession- Austin, on
the fourth of July.
No man can afford to lose his temper
in this weather, Life is too short under
any circumstances.
Niagara Falls has been reoommended
by Archbishop Lynch of Toronto *6 a
place of religious pilgrimage.
Very few men can be wholly wrong.
The clock thai doAs not go at all is right
twim flverv twentv-four Honrs.,.. ,
swam from. Vienna m^SSe
Danubej 180 miles, in thirty-six hours.
Dio Levis says that a lady wfll eat
four times fcs much corn' beef alone^
as she will in the presfenoe. of-other
people.Worn ?i(i i&it&i*to & -Jtid
" Giles, can yon ooajagiie-f b*tbr0 ?-H
" Behavee?behooves?behiyp???Tjh9,"-rr
l See here I Yon go .fitaad 4n, fh?
earner.'" \T '
Several Baltimore physicians say that
many diseases are caused Icytofip: thi - '
grease for which is obtainedfrom unhealthy
animals^ tt i|
The present number of ehtxrdwft in
London'is 802, anincreaeeof sixteen the
"""* Tli? flowr ham inoreued
On Governor's island there is the crave *
of a soldier who served Mb coufiby forty
tenancy, and^^died with hi^modetrtte
ambition anappeased*^ ad tttU
"Marie I what'0 that strange noiae at
the front gafa Vhl\Q&M9&
Well, when I was yotu^; c^ts .didn't
wear stovepipe hats and sm'olte omriH
u Times ar^ eharig6d#lilf!L^,!j>'^*"^^
In- Ireland
5,409,485 own' anydawS at nil, Gild' ?#
these, 02 iy?32,614 faanr^more then one
acre, the reni^4^of9ipftM)Pffff then*
aUonly 9,065 acres,
In Java a fruit tree la'. plahied on the
birth of todi1 Atf&'fSmfiil fcafc
owner is obliged to put down two plants
for every tree he fells iffat Jmfax. tfppry
tree out down must be replaced oy an- '
other.
A savage dog isHtatne, Ga., attacked
a man,. wh?. d$fej$e? &BS?& a '
lantern that he was Ca5^M^flfldT!8)9
lantern became lastetied "tactile''dbg'd
neck in stibh a way a& -to 'cftufe" dSSk vp
burning, ,la.'.iu; [ '? Juq 0 to t*ni*u
Cholera of an nnamtftjMrirulent'type >
Lages, and had to ietarntcftli&
place, most of thtein to w
News-Letter on the metning Yit t&A
fourth,'there is no one InottCtosBtt
poor orjiumble butfr# ^e^qsp
hold down a Chinaman whil?,.a cpuDW
cracker is Bet on in his month.
/ .7.A'v. v???yr OUJ
A man who had been , wounaejpn a
railroad aAciJe^t was de&^apLM
to a fiofol; M
might keep the boarder* mwtlu J; -and,- ?*
the. morning, tfce ,bqardew,aU
cause heh^^noibefflioayi^fc v'/** ** '
A motion in the British House of
Commons to abolish flogginir jn, the
navy has been negatived by 120 against
sixty-two. In 1874, only' eight 'out of
30,000 seamen were punished with the
oat, which is now only used in extreme
m i BoondncL (l ^
In the Pyrenees the following, nojaoe
is posted in a hotel: "All traveler? will
be entitled, gratis, to a bath wain mo?
9 . ,- WTL^-- wHftiiniltjauu
tion and special iouoiib. xu?? wumu
will guarantee the traveler perfeat immunity
from the nameBotif inaafets which
infesttlie JjoteL" , j.rALjfumg* """
^JThare ia a
polishes it, and seta it id fhe stibk.'' Bht
it cannot pick out tile iford upoii which
the meaning of tt'semteiioedependa, rind
change it so-as to drive the editor into
paroxysms of despair. taw ?t?
An ingenious, if not. learned^' phiiologist
has been siudving up the origin of
"cobos," the word usfBdW farmers nr
calling their cattle. He 'toys that the*
Greek word bosoo, meaning"*) drive to
pasture," repeated rapidly ceoomei "ko
bos," whence "oo bos." There's nothing
like learning. v.
^ Not^ong ago^a paragraph -faom.
Wiu Ui ft mail. ??uud\j MVW ^wv.
The eicreflinoe, weighing*^ giiw ?^
was cut off, leaving a badly scanted,bui
more symmetrical organ^^ ^ ,w
They- have a Mexican cirous at Tucson,
Arizona, this summer. It is held
in a corral, and the prices of admission
are one dollar for a place in the shade
and fifty oents in the Bon.: 'Each one to
furnish his own seat. Three hoipea and
four men oompoee the w^aje outfit^ and
they make lots of money. ^ ,;*_T ^
Deacon Parkinson remarkod in a
prayer meeting in Carson, Nev., that he
knew young boys who went to saloons
where their fathers had credit, got bottles
filled with whisky, ostensibly lot
the parents, and got drunk on the liquor
themselves. He suggested earnest
prayers for those boys. ' " v 7 'f
South California has three temperan6e
colonies. Two of them are in Los An/wiTini-iT
tmA fNnihirdin Santa Bar
gcico WUUVJJ
bara county. .The colonists jure thrifty,
quiet and enterprising, aitt tlfe'Gofarfar
themselves are" in a most- flourishing
condition, the absence of intoxicating
liquor attracting a moral and intelligent
class of people. .. : ?4>
Three boys, the eldest nine years oid,
went strawberrying near Platteburglv
X. 7. Not returning at night, a search
was begun, and their dead bodies wei?
found completely buried in a sandbank.
A half filled dish of strawberries gate
the clew to their whereabouts. It is supposed
they were hunting sWaUdws' nests
when the bankgav<3 jS jSSr<QSr
A man called at a pos?<}i&>e, .purchifc?5^
a-4hree*cenCJf^p and re<jaeeted the
<3erk to ptit it on the letter for hiinc
Thisthe accommodating clerk offered to
* ' -1 -l"> Ua /JiVI riot do it
do, bat asKea mm ??; ?
himself. The answer w&sthatas he ooukk
neither read nor write he coold not, bat
after some instructions he was persuaded
to try, and succeeding, was much pleased
to discover that although he was uneducated
he could lick a postage stamp and
affix it to an envelope.
. * '
As Good as they Had. *
A Woodbridge youth was taken to
Newark on a visit a few weeks ago, and
on the night of his arrival at his auntffcj1
she inquired if he liked milk. When
answered in the affirmative, she told
him where he would find some. The
boy found a bowl of spearmint' tea
where she said the milk was, and h<f
had swallowed abcfat half of it, when
the lady came out, saw the mistake, and
exclaimed:
"Goodness! that isn't milk."
' Isn't it ?" asked the boy, as Jie stood
off and surveyed it ;,j.
" Why, that's spearmiht tea. Di&n'f
you know it .
" I knew it wasn't like Woodbfidg*
milk," was the reply; "but I thonffhi
it might be as good as you ever aoL in
Newark."