Over the MM.
Oh, boat of my lovar, go softly, go safsly ,
Oh, boot of my lover, that bear* him from
mo 1
From the home* of ths olaohan. from the
bnrn singing sweetly,
From the looh a-id the mountain, that he'll
Oh, boat of my lover, go aoftly, go asfoly ;
Thon boarest my sonl with the# over ths
Ma
I said not a word, bat my heart it was break
ing.
For. life is eo short, and the ooean so wide
Oh. host of my lovor, go softly, go tsfely ;
Though the dear roios is silent, ths kind
hand is gore ;
But oh. lore mo, my lovor, and I'll llvo Ull 1
And thee ;
Till onr parting is over, an * our dark days
toa
(Lore's Ruse.
" Lat mo in!" cried CujuJ, knocking
At ny door ono day.
To 'ho spriio 1 *nword. shortly :
"• i'vo no lima for play
It it tho regno ith olWory laughtor
St rove to uovo a.y l.oirt.
Templed mo villi rn. rry daring
And k vo's cunning art.
Snll unmoved, tho door I fastened
Gainst the coating optito ;
Then he peep.-d wittuii my window.
Beautiful and bright.
IT. iuiee.l me all things delightful.
Wealth and wondrous fame.
" XV oasd I -, '• I deem yoor promise
Light, air, as your name."
R'owly turned ho from tho window,
With a pozalod face.
" Faro thee woll," I cried. rejoicing ;
•• 00. and leave no trace "
But too soon 1 heard a aighuig
J net without :uy diwir :
'• let mo in "erred tearful Cttpid ;
• Open. I implore.
" Lo! my jvui us are oo weary !
Give mo rv*t. 1 pray,
Only fvr one tL ourg mowont.
Ere I go away."
Si very laughter bad not won mo.
Coating I had wv,rud,
Premier e, ah ! thank* to reason,
>ar. st thea I was warned.
But whoa Cwj*l name ui toable.
lie brought pity loo;
I. ve and pur leagued together,
What coakl mortal do ?
Then 1 threw my door wide open :
With s mocking about.
In Sow Cupid, and I never
Now can tern him out.
The Horse Dealer's Story.
Many years ago, before the era of
railroads, and when highwaymen abound
cd along the great route from Calais to
Pahs, a noted drover, who had been to
Boulogne with a large drove of homes,
which he hail sold for cash, was over
taken by night on his return, near
Marquise. He remembered that a little
distance ahead was a quiet inu he had
never stopped at. aud he determined to
spend the tight there.
As he rode up to the house, the land
lord, a respectable looking person, re
reived his horse and led him • way to
the stable, while he invited the drover
to enter the public sitting-room.
Here he found two young men, one of
whom, from hum-semblance to the laud- j
lord, he recognised a* his son ; the
other, somewhat older, from his man
ners, appeared also to belong to the
family. Immediately after supper (dur
ing which tho 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 Mar
quise 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 gar
ments, he felt for tbe leathern belt
about his waist, hi see that it was secure.
This contained his gold, while his (taper
money was in a large wallet, carried in
a pocket made for the purpose, in the
inside of his west. Depositing these ar
ticles beneath his pillow, he extinguish
ed the light and threw himself upon the
bod, when, overcome by weariness, he
soon fell asleep.
How long he bad been in this state of
forgetfnlnesu he oould 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 name time he heard suppressed
voices without, as of several p-rsons in
whispered consultation.
Startled by this suspicions appearance
of things, the drover reach-, d toward
the chair on which he had thrown his
clothes, for his weapons; bat, to his dis
may, he remecToered that no his arrival,
when preparing to wa-h off the dust of
his journey, he li*d laid them aside,
within the bar, a IJ aud m gleeted .to re
sume them.
Scarcely conscious of what he was
doing, the acfca-w-iw-s drover -lir{* 1
from the foot of the bed, and hid him
self in the darkness behind a lot of
women's dresses suspended from the
wall, and watched the motions of a man
who was now slowly and cautiously
entering the room, lie even faucied he
could dutect the reth ctiou of the dim
light upon an upraised knvfo 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 careles-ly shuffled
off his clothes, and throwing himself
into the bed be hail just vacated, was
soon in a sound sleep,
Not knowing what to make of this
strange affair, the drover determined to
drees himself, call up the landlord, and
liave this singular it tnision explained
He had reached his clothes, and slipped
fu his trorsers, and w.s moving toward
the door, when steps were beard can
tion>lv crossing the outer re m 0..-o
more be sought the shelter of the dr< sa
cs, which oumpletely screened his per
son, and awaited the entrance of the
persons, whoever they might t*>. Pres
ently the door of tho r • m was silently
opened, ai d two men made their ap;x-ar
auoe. It wa r . not so dark but that the
drover could readily distingui h th-m to
lie the inukeeper and the man he had
seen st the stipf* r table.
" Step lightly, I t l! yon,** whi-pered
the landlord, "or yon 11 wake hitn up,
and then we'll have a pretty me*s on
our hands."
"Nonsense !" replied the other, with
an o th. "Tun are scared, old man!"
"Scared!" repeated the first s]>eaker.
"No man ever told .Tenn G.trnn-r before
he was seated ! H' re, give me the kuife !
I'll show yon who in scared! Y>n se
cure the money—i' * under the pillow—
-1 taw him put it there, anil I il do the
rest."
The old man w iu advance, and as
he stood between the window and the
urovr, the latter could see his form bent
over the bed. while his hand seemed to
be searching ben ath the pillow.
"Here, n. rii—take it. riere's the
wallet, and here's the belt. H>w heavy
it is!" —and he passed the monev t' his
companion before the other had yet
reached the bedside.
The old man then put his hind to his
bosom, and the trembling drover raw
him draw forth the lorg blade the other
liad given him. For an instant the mur
derous weajxm was p .ised over his head,
and then descended upon the person of
the poor wretch iu the bed.
The murderer paused in his work for
ail instant, as if to satisfy himself that iife
was extinct; and then moved quickly
from the room.
As soon as the sonnd of his footsteps
had died in the distance, the horror
stricken 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. A
crowd soon collected about him, and
sooompanied hi.a to the eoeue of the
fearful murder.
Al! .bout the house was still, but on
appro u-hing the stable a light was dis
covered within; and, moving noislessly
to the door, and peering through the
cruckß, the two murderers were found in
the act of diggiug a grave beneath the
flooring. A rash was made upon them,
and they were arrested.
FRKTX KURTZ. Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
At tho sight of tho drover, who
was tho first to confront tho guilty
wretches, tho landlord uttered a .shriek
terror, au.l foil to tho ground, while
his accomplice, an pale AN A corpse,
pared upon him with alright, not doubt
lag it WAN the ghost of the murdered
man who SLHHI Wfore huu.
The party now proceeded to tho house,
dragging the murderers along with
thorn.
Lights were procured, and still keen
iug the prisoners with them, the people
entered the room where lav the l>ody of
the man so strangely murdered instead
of the horse dealer. The wife and
daughter followed.
When the covering WAN removed from
tho faoe of the corpse, and the full light
of the candles flared npou it, a wild cry
burst from the hps of the landlord's
wife.
•Mr son—my munlereil son ! Who
has done this I"
Aud with a hysterical scream she fell
to the door.
" No, no! it iwn't lie so, mother!" ex
claimed the daughter, as she st- ugglej to
reach the bed. But the terrible truth
burst upon her as her eves fell upon the
mangled form of her brother, and she
also swooned upon the bod v.
The cries of the broken hearted
females seemed to arouse the old man
(or a moment; and gaxuig wildli at the
sight before him, he realised also the
terrible truth. He had murdered his
own son!
On investigating the facts before the
magistrate on the following day, it was
ascertained that the son of the inn
keeper, who was a dissipated young
man, had vuuted Marquise the previous
evening, where, with some of his asso
ciates, he hail 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 had accom
panied him home; anil 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.
Tire accomplice of the landlord
proved to be his own son-in-law, Henri
Legrand.
From that awful hour the wretched
mother of that murdered boy, murdered
by hw father's hand, remained a raving
maniac.
It is only necessary to ad J, in con
cluding this tale of horror, that the
drover re Tered his money; and justice,
claiming her dne, the two murderers
paid the penalty of their crime upon the
guillotine. Shortly after this last event,
the people of Marquis#, to whom the
scene of the unnatural murder bad be
oome an eyesore, assembled and leveled
the building to the ground. The spot
is now covered with brambles and
thistles, and pointed ont to the stranger
as the place to be avoided ; for the
ignorant assert that it is haunted by the
ghost of the murdered sou.
A Swetlish-Xorwegian Wedding.
Norway and Sweden crossed the ocean
to meet anil fall in love with each other
in Philadelphia. Births, the fair daugh
ter of Mr. Dauufelt, of the Swedish com
mission, was married on the tweutv
uinth of June to Mr. Cbristorphesson,
of the Norwegian commission. They
had never met during all the years they
had lived so near each other, but com
ing to far America the two came togeth
er and fell desperately in love. They
were married in the jiiilges' pavilion on
the Centennial grounds in the evening,
wheu all was quiet as a private par..
This pavilion has a large, U-autifui hall,
intended for receptions, and is attract
ively decorated. The speaker's platform,
as it happens, resembles an altar, was
iwautifullv decorated with Swedish and
Norwegian flags, and with masses of
bloasoming plants in (Hits. A Turkish
rug, with two cushions on it, stood be
fore tbe altar for the bride and groom to
kneel on.
The bride came, on her fa her's arm,
followed by the groom and her mother,
and four bridesmaids and groomsmen.
She was so pale and weak she had to sit
down and rest a moment before stand
ing to be married. The ceremony was in
Sorwegiau, but nearly like the Episc •
pal service in all its forms. As soon a->
the ceremony was over the bride's fath
er, whose ruddy face bad been all aglow
with feeling, olasjied her to his arms, re
gardless of wedding veil and finery, aud
gave her a right fatherly kiss, aud 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 t< •
see them. The bridegroom's fri nds pnt
their arm* around him and patted him
jovially on the back, or kissed him ; and
the pretty bride, ail aiive with excite
ment and rosy as ever, was charmingly
.■ordial in her greetings. She did not
taml iu one plaoe to reoeiv*, but moved
about to s(-ak to ono or another, or
promenaded, on her husband's arm.
The bride was dressed simply iu white
silk, with a long veil. The only peculiar
thing alxu.t her costume was the high,
small crown of myrtle, in imitation of a
royal crown, that surmounted her veil
She wore ro flowers, and her brides
maids woro none, but each bridesmaid
and groomsman wore ou the left shoul
der a small myrtle wreath tied with red,
or white, or blue, or green. The bride
groom was in full dress, with gold lace,
epaulets, swor.l and cooked hat.
His Own Head.
Count Fan! de Ghtbriao publishes in
his Travels the following reminiscence of
Lima: One day when dining with the
French consul, " the Msn with the Sil-.
ver Head " was announced. He was a
Frenchman, owning a small property
near the city. While biking a walk some
months ago he heard cries of agony, and
hastening in the direction from which
they came, surprised three brigamis, one
of whom held a traveler's head between
his knees, while another cut his ears off
and a third stabbed him. The un
daunted Frenchman killed one of the
villains, whereupon the two others fled.
At this moment, aud while attending
to the dying traveler, Peruvian gen
darmes appeared,one of whom, thinking
the Frenchman a murder- r, with a jiow
erfnl horizontal blow of his sword cut
the top part of his head clean off, laying
the brain bare. The Frenchman, after
lying au hour unconscious, revived,
picked up tho upper part of his head,
walked home in tho broiling sun and
had a silver plate made in lien of the
original scalp, which had hrank too
much.
Gen. Coster'* Iteuth.
A special from Sioux City say that the
Indians who came into the hostile camp
near Fort Sully say that after II lin-in
the-Faco shot Gen. Custer hecut Custer's
heart out, placed it on a pole and parad
ed 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 which they
designated as the heart of the yellow
haired white chief. Previous reports,
received throngh military sources, have
stated that Custer's remains were not
mutilated ; but those Indians state em
phatically 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, w{io
once humiliated him.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
AT THE ( KMT >\IAI,.
, Ntirt Tmkrm by
III#
Quebec rends A violtuoello of dale
Naples, ItAly, wiids A cylindrical
piano.
t here Are twenty exhibitors of chani
)>Aguo in the Agricultural building.
lu Agricultural butliiuig is won tho
india rubber tree witli the crude gum.
Ottawa, Ontario, (UIUJA, A rotary
polar map of the world, alao a uuiveraul
clock.
lion. Francis A. Ward, of Yale Oul
lege, lias been appointed chief of the
bureau of awards, in place of Dr.
Btllle.
Italy sends specimens of ltl dilToreut
varieties of roil anil white wines, also
lLlatia, and a superior article of vtucgar
made from Musoot wine.
The sjHH-uueus of alder WIHK! are
beautiful. Belgium exhibit* iu the
maiu building a pulpit of carved wood
sixteen feet high, composed of eighty
piece*. It has live fronts all exquisitely
carved.
There is a flue collection of sugar
leaves from beet* in the same depart
merit, from France. The writer has
seen the lieet sugar in geueral use npou
the coutineut of Europe. Borne of
the sugar buts grow to a weight of
eighty-four pounds in lU-lgium. The
sugar is lighter, and seems whiter aud
more acid tlnui ours.
Some of the most beautiful carpets
made in the world, and on exhibition,
are of Philadelphia manufacture. The
ivirpet factories of Philadelphia have G6l
power looms, 3,409 hand looms, with a
aqucity of production of 25,000,000
yards of ingraiu ami Venetian car|>eting,
t<eiug much greater than the rest of the
iutereet in the United Stst<.
Italy lias a necklace of twenty four
rubies, forming twelve pair of earrings,
u "tiling of beauty." Price, SIO,OOO,
gold. A M t of diamond head orna
ments, SIO,OOO, gold. Ihe celebrated
vasts from Berlin are worth : The tier
man Model of Peace, $5,000. The Au
rora, $4,500. Otbo's Vuut to the Vault
of Charleuiaugc, SIXO. They are su
perb; no visitor should fail to see them.
The Japanese have a tine out tobacco;
its power of absorbing liquids makes it
a popular weed in Europe. Tolaooo
was introduced into Japan in 1027 by
the Portuguese. Tlie Japs have a sea
weed used for industrial purposes, called
fu—looks like carragheen moss. It is
used for siriug the warp of silk goods.
They also have a "kanteen," or vege
table isinglass. Th ir t*-.l Weed t> DglWi
makes a good jelly.
On gon exhibits the section of a tree
—the ml oslar. The tree grew to the
height of 325 feet, and measured at the
center of its height twenty two foot in
diameter. Another section is from the
tir tree, which measured fifteen feet nine
inches iu diameter, at a distance of 158
fs t from the butt. S|Mx*imens of
-hicgh". thirty inches wide, cut from n
spruce or whip" nine which yielded
1(10,000 shingles fifty-eight c< rds of
fuel
Portugal sends a work of art in an
eagle m ule of fig tree pith. The town
of Coimbra sends a tree made of tooth
picks. Poiita Delgude exhibits a pin
cushion mad.- of silk and A lues thread,
l'he same place show flowers mule of
feathers and rags. The Portuguese
make a pretty exhibit of artificial fl >w
ers made from aloe lils rs. The Osier
baskets are quite pretty. And Portugal
amk-s a fine display in horse accoutre
ments —the finish uu the mounting* of
bridles mid saddles are ts-autifnl. Brass
uails ar. a specialty with tbe Portuguese.
\ palm leaf flail from Portugal is ca
riosity.
11l th • Hawaiian department nr.- col
lection* of ilri- d ti-rua. mil:i !<•* of cloth
tike the innllierry pap*4r of Japan. It
i* made of strips of the inner Isirk of a
tree, m -U-ned and laid side liy aide.
Hid then beaten by hand bat* of differ
•nt patterns. Thi* is called w a tike liber;
• bin made into bed clothing, aud i* of
liffereut tmta, red, white, and blue, all
handwork. A waterpio >f cloak is also
-xhibited, made by fitting leave* of
grass—u broad kiud calld "tea leaf "
over each other, like feathers on this
paper cloth. They make rope from a
;i!>er called oloua. They also make a
iiaud braided cord, very flexible and
trong. it has a strange npis-araiioe,
white and black stacked, resembling a
snake at Unit glance.
A Mean Advantage.
There were a scoro or more of women
gathered together at Mr. Johnson's
bouse. Mr. Johnson is a good b< arted
man and a respectable citiz<-n, though
he is rather skeptical about some thiugs.
I'lie wompn bad jn*t organized "The
Foreign Ileocvolent Society," when Mr.
Johnson entered the room. He wns at
once appealed to to donate a few dollars
a* n foundation to work on, and Mrs.
Graham added :
"It wonhl lie so pleasant in after
years fer yan to remember that v ou gave
this society its first dollar aud its first
kind word."
He slowly opened his wallet, drew oat
a ten dollar bill, and an the ladies
-mucked their lips and clapped their
hands, he asked :
44 Is this society organized to aid the
jioor of foreign count rii-s!"
" Yes—yes—yes !" they chorused.
" And it wants money ?"
" Yes—yes 1"
" Well, now," said Johnson, as he
folded the bill ill a tempting shape,
"there are twenty married women here.
If there are fifteen of you who can make
oath that you have combed your chil
dren's hair this morning, washed tho
dishes, blackened tho cook stove, and
made the beds, I'll donate this $10."
"I have," answered two of tho crowd,
and tin- rest said :
"Why, now, Mr. Johnscn!"
" If fifteen of yon can make oath that
your husbands are not wearing socks
with holes in the heels, this money i~
yours," continued tho wretch.
"Just hear him !" they exclaimed,each
one looking at the other.
"If ten of yon have boys without
holes in the knees of their pants, that
4 X ' goes to the society 1" said Johnson.
44 Such a man !" they whispered.
44 If there are five jmir of stockings in
this room that don't need darning I'll
hand over the money !" ho went on.
41 Mr. Johnson," said Mrs. Graham,
with great dignity, 44 tho rules of this
society declare that no money shall be
contributed except by memiiers ; anil
as you are not a member 1 l>eg that you
will withdraw and let us proceed with
the routine business."
The Texas Cattle Drive.
The Kansas City Price Current has
advices that the grand total of the
Texas cattle drive to July 6 is !105,2iK)
head. Of this number 50,(W8 have been
held in northern Texas, while the re
mainder, 254,052 head, 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 be
tween 260,000 and 270,000 head.
Dignity is expensive, and without
other good qualities is not particularly
profitable.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 10, 1870.
WKN. (TSTFK'S I.AST CHARGE.
Haul, with Ih* Mlvai.
A letter dated " Mouth of the Little
Horn," giving a new version of Custer's
tight with the BioUX, has bocu received
from Lieut. John Carlaud, uf Company
B, Sixth iufaiilry, attachtxl to (leu. Gib
bous'command. Lieut. Carlaud says :
At the mouth of the ltoseliud, ou the
twenty second f June, we struck a
large ludian train leading up the Hose
j hud valley. Geu. Custer from there
t<xk (xuumaiid of the twelve companies
of cavalry and pushed on after the
Hioux. He followed them to the foot of
the mountains, and found by aooutiug
iu the valley that they were encamped
on a branch of the Little Horn. This
was on the night of the twenty-fourth.
Ou the twenty fifth he Uxik five com
panies and followed the stream down on
one side, while Major Ueuo, with seven
oompantea, went dowu on the other.
Major Bono was to attack the enemy in
the rear while Custer fought them iu
front. This would have worked all right,
as Keno had got in their rear, but (leu.
Custer, marching dowu ou the other
side, saw what he supjxieed was the
: front of the camp, and made a charge on
them, the Indiana giving way and letting
| him right into the gap. The brave man
I rude ou with his three hundred men.
oud would have killed the whole 2,000
j Sioux, I believe, if there had been uo
enemy bebiudhim; but instead of oharg
mg the frout, he was right iu the ceuU r
of t>etween three thousand and four
thousand Bioux. Those that were be
| hiud him kept concealed until he was
! right iu their midst, and then, wheu it
was too late, he made a bold dash trj '
j mg to cut through them, but the enemy
1 were Ux> many. He fell about the tlr-t
one, and the horses becoming unmanage
able, the poor soldiers were cut dowu in
lees time thau it takes to tell it.
The Sioux theu turned with all their
fury upon Major Reno. He char go 1
them with one company, and returned
with only eleven men. He then retreat
ed a short distance, placing his men on
a bluff. He kept them off until the
night of the twenty seventh, his men go
ing without water forty eight hours, lie
was relieved by I tens. Terry and Gib
bous, who saw the smoke from where they
were at the Little Horn, ami thinking
it a signal of the Sioux, marched that
way junt iu time to save the last handful
of the Seventh cavalry.
Out of the whole regiment only 328
men are left, and forty of them are 1
badly wounded. It makee one heartsick j
to look over the l<attle ground and se
ttle jxxir fellows, some of thrnu jrlth their
entrails cut out, otln rs with their eyes i
dug out and heart laid across their face. '
They even xtopjxvl to cut their |x>cketn
to get their money and watches. The
RHx>t fearful xiglit was Colonel Cxx'kr.
He was a splendid looking man, with
long, <lark whiskers. They dug his
face all out so as to get his flue beard, it
is supiKasxl. They did uot disfigure Gen.
Custer iu any way, but his brother, Tom
Custer, was ojtened ami his heart takeu
out.
Gen. Custer, Capt. Tom Custer, aud
Huston Cuatif, brothers of the general.
First Lieuteiiaut Calhoun, brother in law
of the general, and A. H. lieed, tb gen- j
eral's nephew, fell within ten feet of each
other.
We estimate the loss of the enemy at
fire hundred, though it is hard to tell j
how many were killed, as they carried t
most of them away. Gen. Terry and the
remaining officers are feeling very badly.
I was standing by Gen. CusU-r when
Gen. Teiry came up, aud as he looked
dowu njsjn the noble general tears
coursed dowu his face as lie said : " The
flower of the army is gone at last." Cos
b<r was sujiposed to bo the first one who
fell, but we found seventeen cartridge
shells by his side, where he had k< j t
them < fi until the lat moment.
No blame can t>e attached to any one
for this fearful slaughter. If Cutter
had had the whole regiment, it would
ouly have lx>en worse, as the Sioux w<<to
too many.
There is one poor Crow ludian on the :
boat who has five shots through him, yet
he is hapjiy Iwc.v.'e ho has nine scalps
at his snle.
These Hitmx were all from the same
agency, ax wo found camp equipments
tint had never been used, .also blank' ts j
that were new and branded United Stale.*
ludian department.
What to lh.
In case of prostration by tbo heat, if
the case is not a serious one, the only
course necessary is the opening of all
ligatures about the person, fanning the ■
fnce and breasi, ami the administering
of some light stimulant, such as sherry
wine. This relief will jirevent the more !
serious growth of the disorder until a :
physician can le summoned. In s seri
otis case—. r., where Uie face is flushed
nnd the condition of breathing indicates '
congestion o the brain—uo stimulant
should be given at all. With all pnssi
bin expedition the patient should lie re- I
moved to Bis nearest shady place, al
lowed jilenty of fresh air, and should be j
bathed well ujian the top of the heml i
and around the neck with cold water. ,
No time should tie loat in the calling of j
a good doctor, as it is frequently neces
sary in cases of this character to have j
the jiatient bled.
As "an ounce of prevention, however, :
is worth a pound of cure," it may lie j
well for people to know that to guard i
against sunstroke it is necessary to keeji ;
as much as possible in the shade, not to '
overheat the body by muscular exertion, j
and to refrain from too frequent indnl- I
g<<nce in ice wnt<<r. The cxvasional 1
gurgling of the throat will invariably ;
slake thirst and jirevent the overloading
of the stomach.
The Sioux Thermopj Is*.
Long ag<i a frontier scont named Hank
Clifford, who had taken a sqnnw from ;
the Bionx nation, said that he lia<l often
hoard them declare that if ever the an
tugonism Ix'tween th<<m ami the whites
grew to a final struggle there wasaconu
try in the north where they oould take
refuge, and could never le conquered or
dislodged. They would wait there to 1
receive the force sent against them, and
; could hope to destroy it before it oould
escape. This region they describe I as
extremely rough, where sfeeji ridges,
jirecipiooa and deep canyons formed n
clutotio surface ujxin which tho force
1 first in j>ossession could fight success
fully three times their own number,
j Clifford believed it was tho Rosebud
mountains, where the terrible fight with
Custer aud Reno tixik plaeo, to which
, they referred, as they are nearly impreg- '
liable to an invader.
*JrD<U.
At tho window of 'one of the poll* in
the jail at Long Branch a man stood nil
day boating his bleeding fists against the
iron door Hereon, and utt<<ring violent
and diaoordant ajx>eehoH to tho few
ntragglern that Htood in tlio broiling mtn
to listen to him. Thin man wna Dr. H.
T. Helm bold, who used to upend a hun
dred thousand dollar* in a HO anon nt
Long Brnuch. Ho had been confined
at n Philadelphia lunatic asylum hut
escaped and went to Long Branoh, where
hia violent oondnct canned hia arrest.
Ho was pennileaa, but on acoonnt of
what he had done for Long Branch in
former years, he was given everything
he wanted while there, until his violenoe
tteoome so marked that it was neoeanary
to order hia arreat.
Again In Arrest.
MURDER AS A TRADE IN INDIA.
y •!•% A Nmprr Ird UdltUNsl *■• lUr.
rrd.-( •HIIMUH ml Iblrirrn >lurdrr.
~ A lsmdou newspaper uf n riwut date
„ ooutaius the following: The t< <ry of a
j xtnuige crime comes to us from India.
y From the seething masa of humanity in
, the valley uf tho t tango* weird beliefs
. litul sects Hjtruig tij, such MM Thuggtsm,
„ which in M religion uf murder fur the
„ > VIM to of thieves, who, from geueratiou
, U> geueratiou, follow the name profession,
~ Mint who, MO far from lieiiig looked upon
„ : with contempt, have their patron deity,
~ ami oonoider themselves im|M<rtMUt Mini
( ' vtui reputable uietiiliora of thn oumuiu-
J nity. The LMMI twin which reaches UM IM,
1 however, that uf MU individual who J>ur
„ Mind murdnr MM M trade. For years j<at
wagon drivers have mysteriously disap
peared. At lntnrvahi all would go well,
j and then again they would begin to din
j appear. Boaietimea Ixslioa would be
found in the jungle off the highway, but
\ generally ao deoouipuaed that, though
, they were believed to be the miaaiug
people, yet their identity oould not be
established, and the mystery still oou
r tin una. At last a clew was obtained. It
, was found that Kahdur Borah was the
t name given by various parties MM that of
, the jteraou who had hired a cart which
\ had disappoaretl. A circular waa issued
1 giving a description of the suspected
i man, but without effect. At la-<t, lu the
, examiuatiou of a criminal arrested at
Kamptee, for some other offense, the
■ jailer's suspicion was excited that this
was the individual wauted. Ills suspi
clous proved to be true, and the murder
, er has now been identified by aeveral of
the relatives of the murdered people as
the aiau who had hired the cart. lie is
is Mohammedan—about forty years of
age—a well to-do man, and son of a per
v 'ii of some property. Eleven and a j
quarter years of his life have been passed
in prison for comparatively petty offenses.
After 187*2 he kept clear of gaol and
begun to be looked u|x>u as a reformed
character. In reality his career as a
• murderer then commenced in earnest,
and had he not, strangely enough, al-
I ways giveu his right name, he might
have been still at large. He had
previously followed the same trade,
though uot to the same extent, and the
lull lu the dlsapjtearauc- of people was
owing to the loot that every now and
then he had disappeared froUl bis scene
of o|s<rutioiis into prison, Filming es
cape hojK-lcss, he lias now. with the fa ■
lahty of his race, made a clean breast of !
his mines. His mode of going to work
was to outer a village and hire a cart,
with the ostensible purpose of going to
a distant ullage to see his relatives or to
, transact some liusiuess. 11.- always took
i care to select a g<*xl cart and g<xxl
i bullocks, the projterty of a man of a
' better cans, who was likely to carry
money alxjtit him. After proceeding for
thirty or forty miles on their way, he
chose aome quiet part of the road to ad
minister arsenic to his unsuspecting
companion, the driver. This be had no
difficulty in doing, if the driver was a
Mohammedan, fur iu that case they
would take their m* together. If his
I companion was a Hindoo the murderer
would offer him somei poisooed sw.n t
meats, or watch hia "opportunity to
; sprinkle arsenic over the fiour tne ptxrr
' man was about to make his <-At</>afries
] out of. After death he would rob his
victim, and either throw the laxly into
| the jungle or burn it, llie wagon and
J bullocks be would disjx.se of iu the
uin*t viilagw f<<r, say, fifty or sixty
rupees, aud iu a few days more go on
the sam<> round of assassination and rob
hery. He liax already confessed the par
ticulars of thirteen mur.h rs couiuiitt.'d
j by hiui within a short time.
After the Indian Fight.
A survey of the Custer battle field,
oys an officer from the army, is horrible
in the extreme. All hut Custer himself
ire brutally mutilated. He is stri|>ped
only. CapUui Keogh I tad left around
his neck an Agnus I hi, Huspendtxl by a
gold chain, and bad not, evidently, tx<eu
1 mutilated further^after tlio discovery of
this.
It ia sickening to look at the bodies
stripped. Here a hand gone, hero a
h< ad, ghastly gashes cut iu all [<*rt* ol
the laxly, oyos gouged out, IIOMW and
ears cut off and skulls crushed iu.
One at a distance a dead horse
lying on the plain or near the river, and
upon a near approach the gleam ing white
skin of a naked cavalry soldier, the body
out and mauglcdjbejoud description, is
brought into view.
A Crow scout (Curly) who stayed until
ho saw that the last man must be killed,
saw a Bioux jump off bis horse to ftnisb
a wounded officer, ami, taking the Sioux
blanket and horse, effected his escape.
From his description of the massacre
Lieutenant Cook was the last man left,
auil he says that the white men killed of
the Sioux more than their own number.
There is every evidence of a desperate
fight, but Custer was outnumbered
fifteen to one. The fight could not have
lasted over two or three hours. The
ludian says that Custer's column moral
forward to cross the ford into the village,
and being met by s large fotca of
Indians, dismounted and gave them s
volley. By this time another force came
in their rear, completely hemming them
in. He (Custer) then retreated by the
right flunk to the top of a hill, where the
desperate fighting took place.
Niagara Falls.
The Dnbnque (Iowa) TSmr* prints a
letter from a citizen of that town, at
Niagara Falls, in which the writer gives
tins bit of graphic description : Tlie
falls look to me like a river standing ou
end and trying to walk off on stilts.
Tho only thing I on compare Niagara to
is Julian avenue, and that covered with
sleet and ice, and about thirty boys aud
girls riding down on handsleds of a
moonlight night at lightning gait, and
fctchiug up at the Lonmier House all
peliuiell, with a few legs and arms
broken after running over three or four
horses aud carriages. Our Dubuque
water works don't licgin to oomporo
with Niagara as to quality and noise, but
the water is 1 letter for drinking pnri*)ses,
and conies out of a great deal longer
hole. A person viewing the falls has a
so/t of nervous ft ling—almost afraid
the water will run over liefore one can
have a fair look at it. Tho water after
it passes through tho fallsaud rests from
its labor* in the abyss below, collects
itseif together and forms itself into a
river again, and passes down tho deep
gorge at a rapid gait, whirling, leaping,
aud foaming like a thousand whales
when it reaches the great whirlpool;
there it performs n duck waltz, and after
sashaing up the ivor a short distance it
finds a narrow opening and posses
on to mingle with the briny deep, never
to return until taken up by evaporation
to the clouds and brought bock by the
winds of heaven to take the same fearful
cap again.
How It Stood.
Some time ago an inquiry was made
in England as to the state of the teeto
tallers in aocrtain regiment. The reply
was thut fifty per cent, were dead and
fifty per cent, were invalided. This
alarmed the temperance party a little,
bnt on inquiry it was ascertained to be
correct. It was found that one man had
died from the bite of a serpent, and the
other had been sent heme invalided
with a broken
THE ISLAND OF Ilk It HA DOES.
Tarrlkl* CanSlllea <•( ibal Ovarr-rawSe*
letaa* Peapie ll,las •< Kaaiiae as*
Kales ki
The annual if port of the auditor
geueral at I tar had • a for 1876 has jtut
IKM-U Issued. lu addition touiucb Vttlll
able information on the finance* in I
defective system of taxation, this repoit
throws some light on the social aud
economic state of the colony :
The island cou tains 166 square miles,
or 106,470 acres of land. Taking 16,
470 as covered by towns, garrinon,
roads, public buildings, sea iieach, etc.,
there would remain, supposing every
sore to be cultivable laud, 90,QU0 acres,
or just half an acre for the sustenance
of every individual in the oolony. The
present population givea 1,084 to the
square mile.
The census of 1851 gave 1.16. OH9 of
population. That of 1861 gave 162,275,
showing a gain in ten years of 16,336,
notwithstanding the loss in 1864 of 90,-
727 by cholera, as shown by the gover
nor's report upon the census of 1871.
The census of IH6I gave 162,275 as the
population ; that of 1871 gave 162.042,
showing a gaiu tu the ten years of 9,767,
notwithstanding the loss of 20,408 by
immigration during that period. The
population having been 162,042 in 1871,
has risen to 180,000 up to th* thirty
first of Deoember, 1875, showing au tu
cn-aae in the five years (1871 5) of 18.-
"OU, as compared with an increase of
9,767 tn the previous ten years (1861-70;,
and at this rate, unless pestilence, need
or immigration intervene, in 1881 the
population wUI roach *200,000.
It would have been 23,000 for the la*t
five years, but for the frightful mortali
ty among children. The loss of these
has been put dowu by au eminent
clergyman at 1,000 per sun am. He lias
described these as "preventable
deaths," and advised the government of
Dt-merara to establish foundling hospi
tals tn llarbadiies to save and roar the
iufauts for the labor market of that
colony, Barliadaea being iuuooont of the
(Hiaanaaiou of any such humane institu
tions.
The great majority of theno poor in
fant* ar illegitimate. The mother* do
not themaelven know who the fathers
are, or they are married men with wive*
and families which they rre scarcely
able to support; or, if numarried, hav
ing prior chums of the same sort fully
taxing all resource*. The poor law in
Ihirtwuloes is terribly defective, and the
oonaequrnoe in the large crop of infant
deaths. The parents of the mother
often discard her for m'talhanrr, and
tu her weakly rtole she in unable to nap
port her* 11. mrch leas her infant.
When death taken her child alio in more
than nwtgned, if she han not by delib
erate neglect hastened itn approach.
The correspondent of the London
7\mtt aayn : The lawn regulating labor
and labor tenure, the harsh conduct of
plantern and their agents, a defective
educational nyntem and oppressive taxes,
have largely conduced to the present
lamentable ntate of the Barltadoea poor,
and it remains to nhow in a few wordn
how for their present couditiou lion been
olfeoted by the preaent parsimonious
nyntem of j<Kr relief. No l*<tlcr evi
dence ou thin point could be found than
that given in the records of oorouer'a
inquest*. 1 have read a large uumWr
of these document n, and have been ap
palled at their shameful disclosures.
Wheu the strength of old men or women
fails them, when women are pregnant or
in child bed, when those of either out are
incapacitated for the time bv sickueas.
no Lclp or shelter is afforded them ex
oept, in very extreme cases, ouch
wretched dolra—usually about three
pence iwr week—on ore permitted but
not enforced by the llnrbodms vestry
lawn ; while, so long a-- tliey continue to
occupy their holdings, the rout in in
many canon mercilessly demanded, or
deducted from any small sums th< v may
have IH*-U able to earn by tltful labor.
The ueowsary results of this system ale
misery, vagrancy and, in too many cones,
aleolute starvation. 1 have read the
most harrowing records which attest the
existent of theae evils. As one striking
example, I will quote the evidence given
by Thomas Henry Kirtou, manager of
Clifdeu plantation, in St. Philip's parish,
at on inquest on the body of a £alsrer
uamed Samuel Dot tin, aged shout fifty,
who had txwn f utul dead in his cottage
on the eleventh of August, I*>7o :
1 knew Samuel Dottiu. He was s ten
ant and laborer on ■ his estate. When I
took up the estate, atamt five years ago,
1 found deceased working for ten cents
(five pence) a day. I had a talk with
Mr. Hsyues at tout him, as he asked me
for more wages, and Mr. Haynes raised
his wages to twelve cents. 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 wboi-i week. Three days was
about the average. Some weeks he did
nothing foi a whole week, the following
week he had tlfly two cents to jy. He
looked very weak, and tottered as he
walked, going from one aide of the road
to the other.
The medical man who had examined
the body then described it as " emacia
te*] to the last degree," though "with the
slightest trace of disease ; ' there had
been "only a general wasting of the tis
•lies from a long continuance of defect
ive nutrition." The verdict was: "Death
through want of the commou necessaries
of life."
If space permitted, I oould give you
UM official miuutne of numberless other
heartrending case* in which colored
moD, wouien and children have died
from sheer hanger and want, sometimes
in houses, sometimes in the oaneflelda,
ouarrioa or cam. In one out a woman,
dying thus, was eaten l>y dogs. In an
other, that of an infant, in which th
verdict was dcAtli from starvation, it
transpired that the mother, while still
weak from her confinement, had been
obliged to try and earn some money by
working in the caiit'licld*. In the effort
her strength failed her and her milk
dried up, and as she hail nothing but
"corn pap" wherewith to f<eu her
child, it very soon perished. Nor are
these exceptional caw s. Tlio bishop and
many of the clergy have avowed that
not a day passes without its one or more
victims to starvation in tins island, no
bigger thau the isle of Wight. The
state of tho poor at this moment is no
I letter than it was in 1H45; it is even
certain that there has been serious retro
gression. Nor is it in the least likely
that any effective measures of improve
ment will bo passed by the present Leg
islature, or by uny Parliament elected
under the existing representative sys
tem. Nothing in tho right direction
will lie done without large and radical
changes. The directions which those
changes should take is clear in the
opinion of all dispassionate persons in
terested in the futrrc of tho colony.
That opinion is, that, as the home gov
ernment lias <lono with Jamaica and
every other West Indian oolony, so it
should do with lhvrbadoes. llatbadocs,
iu a word, needs to be transformed into
a crown colony, and ruled by a wise and
mild despotism. Unless the protection
of a paternal government l>e promptly
applied toward ameliorating tho poverty
stricken condition of the vast masses of
tho colored population, it may lie safely
predicted that tho neglect to do so is
certain, BOOuer or later, to be followed
by results which will lie deplored by
every one oonoerned in West Indian
trade and interests.
TERMS: &U.OO a Year, in Advance.
THE INDIAN WAR.
Thw Sarrcw ir> *r ■ fart* •' frwwa'w
rawu4-TlilMi OelSlere aarvaeaSed
br lluaSre** s) Well Araa4 I ■*!--A
NIMWMIII Ma aw.
A reoonooi taring party of thirtv per
aotia under the command of fieoond
Lieut. Frederick W. Bibley. of the Sec
otid oavslrv, a* sent from (Jen. Ofook's
camp on Jul) 6 They were to observe
the movenien(- and position of tin
Sioux, aud if poasibis the whereabout*
of Terry. On the ninth they returned
on foot, after a terrible retreat of two
night* and one day. They were wur
rounded by the euemy in jirodigtou*
number*, and only escaped miraculously
by the sacrifice of all their equipment*
excepting arm* and ammunition, includ
ing thirty-one picked saddle horse* and
two inulea. But for the sagacity aud
caution of guides Oruard and B*|>Uate,
and the juilgmeut and gaU antra of Bib ]
ley, no one would have survived.
The handful of men left our aamp,
a correspondent writes, in broad day
light, with a .strange abeenoe of preoan
tion, for which somebody superior to
Bibley in rank is rweponaible, it being
usual to disguise such movement* under
the shelter of darkiitaa. They marched
all night of the with, toward the
sources of the Little Big Horn. On the
seventh, after a alight meal, which after
ward saved them from perishing, they
pursued their coarse through sine foot
hill* verging toward the mountain*.
The conformation of the cavalry was ex
tremely favorable to an ambuscade.
At about half past four a large body !
of Bioux was espied from the hip of the
bluff, marching eastward. They seemed
to spread all over the plain, and evident
ly were moving to attack the camp on
(loose creek. Lieut. Bibley'* party re
mained pouoraled and in horrible anxiety
for an hour watching their movement*.
Boon * tremendous shout 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 aauter, ut
tering those terrible wolflah cries pe
culiar to the Bioux and Cbeyetmea.
The scouting party mounted and
galloped toward the mountains, the
Bioux yelliug a* they caught a glimpse
of them like hounds ou the scent. They
seemed to be distanced in the race, but <
had broken into two bodies, aud were
making a double circuit to gaiu the high
point* which they knew the pursued
must pass. The scouting party climbed
the outer ridge, and were approaching
shelter about noon, trotting quietly
through a ravine, when suddenly a vol
ley of fifty snots was poured from the
surrounding rocky slopes, where the
savages were massed, while as many
more of them charged down them like <
fury. Every man of the little party felt
despair chilling him. They wheeled
and galloped for the timber in the val
ley, followed by a volley. Before they
cached shelter three horses were wound
ed.
They dismounted on a knoll covered
| liy a grove, and ooold ae* tbo enemy
-warming on the foothills b low, while
constant reinforcements gained the
! higher points aruond them. A plunging
tire tore the foliage from the PUiee, and
an their numbers thickened he roar of
the volleys was perfectly deafening.
The ballets were all too nigh, but the
enemy were gradually jwrfecting their
aim. and notched the trees close about
their heads. Their leading chief was
clothed in white buckskin, and called
oat in the Cheyenne tongue :
" Yon are not the only people in this
oouutry."
He "was undoubtedly the celebrated
White Antelope, a Southern Cheyenne.
All the boldest attacking warriom seemed
to shout Cheyenne war cries, while the
more timid, who Ami Irom rocks, ut
tered Hum* ejaculation''.
The fuatlade continued an hour, the
scout* replying seldom, in order to save
ammunition, when suddenly there was a
lull, seeming to portend some new mis
chief, the guidea declaring that death
was certain, and swore to end their own
lives rather than suffer capture and tor
ture. Sibley delivered a harangue of
twenty words to his men, to which they
responded stoutly. He told them that
there were two alternatives—to dishonor
ably or to escape houorably. (trnard
declared that if there was a coward
among them he would be shot rather
than the enemy.
A brief oonncil was held, and by the
advioe of the gnides they determined to
attempt to escape further iDto the moun
tains, leaving their horaee to engage the
attention of the Sioux, tied to the trees.
All the ammunition was taken from the
saddles. The party then moved stealth
ily from the ground and ilaabed behind
the projecting rocks. The Sioux did
not see them, and they climbed up and
up, over slippery precipices, until ex
hausted. While resting they heard firing
rt commence louder than ever, and knew
all their horses would probably be
killed, and be a sorry prue for their
captors.
The volleys wf re terrific, the Sioux
thinking they still hail them in their
clutches. The soouts resumed their
clambering ; the carbines were handed
up tits rocks from hand to hand. Had
the Sioux pursued them up the grim
heights that frowned upon them they
ix'uld have crushed them with bowlder*
which were poised ready to fall. They
continue*! to hear the sound of rifles
until it died away in the distance. They
toiled over mountaius until dawn of
July 8, resting under the cliffs. They
once more abandoned hope when they
saw a large !>aud of Siotix among the
foothills moving a- 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 lnal
been advancing to attack either a camp
or a wagon train. Their hunger was
great, as they had abandoned all their
ration a. From dusk they scrambled
along the aides 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 tliey
could n*>t ford the swift and deep cur
rent. 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, but, 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.
Itoyall, who WAR commanding during
Gen. Crook's absence on a hunt Two
companies of cavalry were sent oat with
horses to bring them in. Before meet
ing the relief th< y were so fatigued
they could only march one hundred
yards without dropping on the ground.
The Good Turkeys I)o.
The Hartford Oourant says: It is
pretty well established that if there's
any bug especially disgusting the turkey
will look out for it. lu the California
regiou last year the best fields wore
saved from complete destruction by
caterpillars ly these birds, and now it
has been fonnd outover iu Rhode Island
that the potato bug is the favorite food
of the turkey, and u nourishment upon
which it fattonH liberally. No donbt, if
there should come along any other pest
to rival caterpillars and beetles, the
turkey would also devour that. Cer
tainly the bird has earned a place at enr
Thanksgiving tables, even if these in
teresting developments as to its develop
ment ornate a wonder regarding the pe
euliar sweetness of its flesh.
NUMBER 32.
NUrvetf lu the Midst of
, If there ia one thing more sickening
11 than another in the dismal catalogue of
. the diseases of eivilination, it ia the faet
that in the greatest and most opulent
communities in Christendom it M pos
sible for human being* absolutely to die
of starvation. In London, for example,
" death by starvation" ia one ef the per
manent recognised items of the regular
bills of mentality. Only the cither day a
return waa presented to the House of
Gammons of " the number of *ll deaths i
in the metropolitan district in the year j
1675 upon which a ooronurb jury re
turned a verdict of death frotn rtarva
tiou or death accelerated by privation."
The number of such deaths is the cen
tral division of Middlesex waa seven ; in j
the eastern division, thirty-two ; in the
western division, one; in the city of Lon-
Jon and borough of Bouthwark, five,
and in the city and liberty of West- '
minster, one ; total, forty-six.
The population of the Briti4> metrop
olis may be stated in round numbers at |
three million and a half cf aukia. It is .
true that this huge human tflve is da
pendent npun external suppttaa for its ;
daily bread, getting ite eggs and lis 1
meat from Prance, its fish from the
North aea and the channel ; and it is
equally true thai the larger k city be- j
cornea, the kwa likely ate those who live
in it to trouble themselves about the >
ways and the wants of their it*u
neighbors. Nevertheless it ia and mast
remain a monstrous thing that in the .
course of a single year nearly fifty hu
man beings can fall by the wgyside and
perish ia the midst of million* of their
j fellow creatures precisely as they might
have perished of shipwreck upon a das- j
olate island in the barren aea.
It ia a not leas monstrous thing that !
within six weeks no fewer than seven ;
similar cases should have bead reported I
by the police of our own American use- j ]
tropolis aa happening at our own doom. ; j
Not a month ago the wife and child of
an unhappy man were found dying of
famine io an old and shattered canal- j
tioat, hauled up and deserted near Jer- ,
xey Oity, in which, aa it appeared, they j
had all been living huddled together Jn- i (
ring the winter, having taken refuge,
there when they were turned out of
house and home by a disappointed land- '
lord. And only the other day a police- '
man who had casually been made a© '
quainted with the fact that them was
something rather mysterious going on '
in an upper chamber of a tenement
house in a crowded part of the city, (
broke in the door of the chamber, and 1
found in it four children, all delirious '
with hunger, and rapidly drifting into
the state of mauia which precedes the <
awful close of dramas like thai of Ugo- 1
lino in the "Tower of Famine." In both
of these caeca, very likely, a careful in- i
quest might have ahown greet faults and 1
shortcomings on the part of those who t
were rpeponxible for the well-being of v
the *nff rra. But, however this may i
be, the naked fact remains and stares us i
in the lace, thai it ia poarible for an in
nocent human being to wander unfed t
and dying with famine through our .
street*"for day after day, or to creep into j
some dismal bole or corner and there t
mgherahly perish for lack of the most c
ordinary'comforts and necessities of life.
And this fact, we ■ epeat, is a sickening
and ■ staggering fact which needs to be
looked manfully in the face, and to be f
dealt with eoorageouaiy. We leave to
others the cynical teal; of accounting for *
d. It is enough, aud more than enough,
for us to establish it as a fact,— Aew 11
}"ork World.
The iVath of raster.
A correspondent with the army, de
scribing the severe fighting, gives the
views of < Ulcers as to the b rrible fight
with the Sioux. He says : Meanwhile,
where was Ouster! He had gone arouud
, the bluffs and hail attempted to ford the
the river at the northern end of the vil
lage. The Indians were massed in his
' front and on Ids flanks. The whole
command dismounted and made a deter
mined resistance, which checked mo
mentarily the onset of the Indiana.
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 and cloned the door
of escape in that direction. At the bead
of the upper ravine Calhoun's oompany
was apparently thrown on? as skirmishers
to defend the entrance- Hew 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 were in their places— in
advance of the files. The Indiana,
twfiled for a moment, immediately flank
ed the force on the left, rushed up an
other ravine which lad into the main one,
and attacked Keogh'a company. That
gallant Irish officer fell surrounded by
his soldiers. Retreat wus cut off from
this ravine, and the soldiers ware then
killed ooe by one. Meanwhile, the eol
diers in the other ravine had been sub
iect to a severe fire. The line of retreat
led through a deep gully, at the mouth
of which twenty-eight men were killed.
They fought desperately, but the Indiana
had surrounded them and there was no
escape. Oapt. Smith fought his say to
a peak, where a last stand was made.
They must have known that their hour
had come. Here were Caster and his
brother, Adjutant Cooks, Oapt. Yataa,
Lieut. Hiksy, Oapt Smith and a few sol
diers. Making ramparts of their fallen
horses, they fooght to the end. Here
their bodies were found. Custer him
self seemed to be sleeping ; his attitude
was natural, his expression sweet and
serene.
There was only one survivor—ft Crow
scout. He crossed the river, dashed
into the village, seised a horse, covered
himself with a Sioux blanket, and escap
ed. Prom his account, it is safe to esti
mate the force of Indiana at 3,000 war
riors and their loss in battle at many
hnndmla.
Telling the Truth.
Borne years ago s benevolent lady
took s little girl into her family,
intending to give her a very thorough
moral and religious training. Unfor
tunately the child was much given to
lying, und though the mistress strove
incessantly by preoept and example to
eradicate "this vice, her efforts were far
from successful. One day, returning
home after some hours' absence, the
lady was met st 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 iu the darkness at last,
strict truthfulness in the face of repri
mand or punishment, and the good
mistress was delighted. Such an oppor
tunity to reward and strengthen virtue
must not be lost; so tho lady magnani
mously forgot her annoyance at the loss
of her cherished pitcher (one of a pair),
aud taking out a penny, said, kindly:
"Well, Jenny, sinoe you have been
such a good girl, and told the truth so
quickly, I shall not even scold you,
Heie's u 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
. have broken the other pitcher. Won't
you give mo another penny I "
Further description of • that good
woman's state of mind would be super
fluous.
Items tt Internal.
A abol tha* hfte i* better than a broad
aide that interna.
The trae gentleman needs no placard
to announce his breeding, the ill-bred
IBMI StiU hHk
There • 180 Flutes sad Simlkwi
in the procession in Austin, Ner., on
the fourth of July.
No awn can afford to loeehia tempar
in this waathiar. Ills is too short under
Niagara FbOh has boon reoommended
by Archbishop Lynch of Toronto as a
place of religions pilgrimage.
Vary fow men can bo wholly wrong.
Tba clock that dooa not so at all is ngbt
; twieo ovary twenty-four boots.
An Austrain officer, Captain Ahktrom,
•warn from Vienna to Peeth, in tho
Danube, 160 miim, in thirty-six boors.
Dio Lawis aays that a lady will eat
' fonr time* as much oorn beef when alone,
aa she will in the proemee of other
people.
"Giles, cea yoneoajagate 'behave V "
' • Behaves— behooves —behivtw—be
" Bee here I Too go atand in the
corner."
Several Baltimore piyaknans eay that
many diseases are fanned by map, the
graaae for which le obtained from un
healthy wiim* l *!
The present number of churches in
London ia 802, an ineraao of aizteen the
peat year. The clergy have increaeed
from 1,875 to 1,445.
On Governor's island there ia the grave
of a soldier who served bis eifintry forty
years in the hope of achieving a lieu
tenancy, and died with hie moderate
ambitioo oaappeased.
"Marie! what's that strange noise at
the front gate I " "Gets, air." "Gets I
i Well, when I waa young oats didn't
' wear stovepipe hats and smoke cigars."
"Times are changed, air."
In Ireland only 68,756 persons oat of
5,406,486 own any land at aU. and of
theae, only 82,614 have more then one
acre, the remainder owning among them
all only 9.065 aerea. chiefly bouse prop
erty.
In Java a frnit tree ia planted on the
birth of each child ; in Biscay a land
owner ia obliged to put dowo two plants
for every tree he feiia ; in Jepea every
tree cut down mast be replaced by an
other.
A savage dog in Borne, Ga., attaeled
a man, who defended himself with a
lantern that he waa carrying, and the
lantern beoame fastened to the dog's
neck m audi away aa to cause death by
burning.
Cholera of an on usually virulent type
killed half the residents of Golwod,
India, within four days. The rent fled,
but were refused admission to other vil
lages, and bad to retain to the infected
plaos, moot of them to die.
Thank Heaven, said the Ban Francisco
S'cm LtUer on the morning of the
fourth, there ia no one ia our city so
poor or humble but that he can help
hold down a Chinaman while a cannon
cracker ia act off in hie mouth.
A man who bad been wounded in a
railroad accident was denied admission
to a hotel, in Oakland, GaL, because be
might keep tba boarders awake ; and, in
the morning, the Lsudera ad* left be
cause he bad not been cared tor.
A motion in the British Hon## of
Common* to aboluh flogging in the
narv has be* n negatived by 120 against
sixty-two. In 1674. only eight out of
30,000 seamen were banished with the
cat, which is now only used in extreme
misconduct.
In the Pyrenees the following notice
is posted in a hotel: "All travelers will
be entitled, gratia, to e bath with fric
tion and special lotions. Tbeee lotions
will guarantee the traveler perfect im
m unity from the numerous insects which
infest the hotel."
There ia a type machine at the Cen
tennial which manufactures type,
polishes it, and eata it in the stick. But
it cannot pick out the word upon which
the meaning of a sentence depends, aud
change it so as to drive the editor into
paroxysms of despair.
An ingenious, if not learned, philolo
gist IMMO sradring np the origin of
"ooboa," tba won! tumd by farmers in
calling their oattle. He Ji that the
Greek word boaoc, meaning "to drive to
i .suture," repealed lupidK become "ko
KM," whence "ooboa." "Lhere's nothing
Kke learning.
Not long ago a paragraph from Paria
told of a man whose noae had begun to
grow alarmingly. We aow And, in a
French madioal journal, an aooonnt of an
operation performed upon that noaa.
The excrenenoe, waighing 280 grammes,
waa cut off, lea ring a badly scarred but
mow symmetrical organ.
They hare a Mexican circus at Tuc
son, Arizona, this summer. It ia held
in a corral, and the prioaa of admission
are one dollar for a place in the shade
and fiftv cents in the sun. Each one to
furnish his own aeat. Thwe homes and
four men compose the whole outfit, and
they make tola of money.
Deacon Parkinson remarked in a
prayer meeting in Carson, New., that he
knew young boys who went to saloons
where their fathers had credit, got bot
ties filled with whiaky. ostensibly for
the parents, and got drank on the hqnor
themselvra. He suggested earnest
prayers for those boy*.
South California baa three temperance
ookmiaa. Two of them are in Los An
gles county, and the third in Santa Bar
bara county. The colonists are thrifty,
quiet and enterprising, and the colonies *
UMtaaahres aw in a most flourishing
condition, the absence of intoxicating
liquor attracting a moral and intelligent
dam of people.
Three boys, the eldest nine years old,
went atrawberrying near Pktteburgb.
N. T. Not returning at night, a search
was begun. nd their dead bodies were
found completely buried in a sandbank.
A half eiwi of strawberries gave
the clew to their whereabouts. It is sup
posed they were hunting swallows' nests
when the bank gave way.
A man called at a post-offioe. purchas
ed a three cent stamp and requested the
clerk to pat it cm the letter for him.
This the accommodating clerk offered to
do, bat asked him why he did not do it
himself. The answer was that as he oonld
neither read nor write he oould not, bat
after some instructions he was persuaded
to try, and succeeding, was much pleased
to discover that although he was unedu
cated he could lick a postage stamp and
affix it to an envelope.
Wife Whipping.
The last Legislature of California
passed a law authorising the infliction
of corporal punishment upon men for
whipping their wives. There liave
been several canes of wife beating siuoe
the enactment of the statute, but magis
trates have he-itated iu ordering
the use of the lash. A justice of the
peace in Colusa, however, resolved to
enforce the law, and sentenced a man
convicted of beating his wife to receive
twenty-one lashes on his bare back. The
attorney for the defendant has appealed
against'the conviction and sentence, and
thiß will probably raise the question as
to the constitutionality of the act. The
constitution of California says" Ex
cessive bail shall not be required, nor
cruel and unusual punishments be in
flicted." It was claimed that whipping
is both a cruel and unusual punishment.
As Good as they Had.
A Woodbridge youth was taken to
Newark on a visit a few weeks ago, aud
on the night of his arrival at bis aunt's,
she inquired if he liked milk, Wheu
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 he
bad swallowed abont half of it, when
the lady came out, saw the mistake, and
exclaimed:
"Goodness! that isn't milk.
" Isn't it T" asked the boy, as he stood
off and surveyed it
" Why, that's spearmint tea. Didn't
yon know it waan t milk t"
i "Iknew it wasn't like Woodbrvg -
milk," was the reply; "but I tV
it might bs as good as you ever g * u
Newark."