The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, September 23, 1885, Image 2

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    NEWSOF THE WEEK
—Colonel McCaskill, of Mississippi,
on the 4th qualified at the State De-
partment as U. 8. Consul at Dublin.
—The Secretary of State has received
a dispatch reporting the honors paid by
the Government at Venezuela to the
memory of General Grant. Flags on
all the public buildings were half -mast-
ad for ten days and by executive decree
the Mmister of Exterior Relations
made an official visit of condolence to
the United States Legation at Caracas,
~A wagon load of dynamite exploded
near Lakefield, Ontario, on the 4th,
blowing to atoms a team of horses and
two men named Morton and Simons.
—Rev. Dr, J. P. Newman discoursed
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, on the
6th, to young men onjthe ‘Moral Char-
acteristices of General Grant.” His
congregation was limited only by the
capacity of the church.
—Charles Upson, ex-member of Con-
gress fell dead of heart disease at his
home, in Coldwater, Michigan, on the
5th, He was 64 years of age. Major
Aaron Stafford, said to bave been ‘‘the
last surviving officer of the war ot
1812,” died In Waterville, New York,
on the 5th, in the 99th year or his age.
—The Presiaent and hs Uabinet are
expected to attend the Iroyuois Club
jubilation in Chicago on November 4th,
Among the prospective speakers at the
banquet are Vice President Hendricks,
Secretaries Whitney and Lamar, Sveak-
er Carlisle, Senators Hampton, Vance
and Voorhees, Representatives Curtin,
Reagan and Blackburn, and ex-Senator
Thurman.
—The Democratic canvass in Ohio
was opened by Governor Hoadly in a
speech at Hamilton on the 5th.
~The thirteenth annual Convention
of the German Roman Catholic Central
Society of the United States opened on
the 6th, in Wililamsburg, New York.
Nearly 1000 delegates were present,
representing all the principal cities in
the United States, Joseph Hirte, Pres-
ident of the Brooklyn Society deliver-
ed an address of welcome. The dele-
gates then attended Mass at the Church
of the Most Holy Trinity, Bishop Wig-
ger ntificating, in the evening a
grand concert was given in Turn Halle.
—DECTelary Aranning resumed his
duties at the Treasury Department on
the 5th, after an absence of several
weeks,
-— President Cleveland arrived at Al-
bany on the 6th and remained at Dr.
Ward’s residence until five o'clock in
the afternoon, when he left for Wash
ington, accompanied by Colonel La-
ment. Durning his stay in Albany, the
President was call upon by the State
officers and mauy local politicians.
—Secretary Lamar and Indian Com-
missioner Atkins returned to Washing-
ton on the 6th,
—John H. Dickerson, ex-Superin-
tendent of the Pension Building in
Washington, charged with stealing a
flag, was acquitted on the 5th.
—Major Carpenter, of the Fifth
Cavalry, telegraphed on the 5th to the
department headquarters at Fort
Leavenworth that *‘all the herds of
catlle in the Indian Territory were be-
ing moved to points outside the pre-
scribed limits.”
— President Cleveland, accompanied
by Colonel Lamont, arrived in Wash.
ington on the 7th, looking healthy and
sunburnt. After breakfast at the
White House he immediately settled
down to work. The Cabinet meeting
will be resumed on the 10th,
—There was no race between the
Puritan and Genesta on the 7th, those
yachts becoming becalmed on the
course, Only half of the 20-mlile course
was gone over on the 7th. “The Puri-
tan squarely outsailed the Genesta one
mile in ten and nearly two miles in
twenty.’
--The race between Hanlan, Lee and
Ross, rowed on the 7th on Sheepshead
bay, Long Island, was won by Hanlan
by a length; Lee being second. Dis.
tance 3 miles, time 22.21, The race is
described as being *‘a poor farce.”
—Trouble is anticpated in the Indian
Territory over the distribution of $300.
000 recently paid the Cherokee Nation
by the Government for ceded lands.
The freedmen in the Nation claim
equal rights with the native born Cher-
okees, The matter will come up at the
session of the Cherokee Legislature next
month. Senator Dawes is said to favor
the claim of the freedmen.
~Comptroller Durham on the 7th
stopped a requisition for the salary of
J. A. J. Cresswell, Government Coun-
sel before the Court of Alabama Claims,
for the month of August until it is set-
tled that there is any salary due him.
The Comptroller holds that Mr, Cress-
well is not entitled to a fixed salary of
r annum, but that that sum is
as the limit of the fees to Le
allowed hum for the trial of cases,
~The most destructive hailstorm
ever known inCharles county, Maryland,
over that section on the Sth.
hailstones were as large as hens’
eggs. and entire fields of corn and to-
bacco were ed. The loss 15 esti-
mated at $100,000, The schooner Da-
vid A. Story, the first of the Iceland
fleet, has returned to Gloucester, Mass,
the stormiest season on the
coast since 1857.
~At Cleveland, Okio, early on the
th, a fire in the Doan oil works caused
stills to explode. The biazin
fluid ai into the Biabaan) Ol Yank
agitators, more than
5000 barrels of oil were lost, but the
t swells the loss to
international yacht
Puritan fouling the
the start, The
Hopkins, of Rochester, addressed the
convention for an hour. At the con-
clusion of his speech Mr, Whaeler read
a telegram addressed to an Ohio Prohi-
bitionist, **pledgmg the party here to
carry New York if thelr brethren there
would carry Ohio,”
Creek Railroad injunction suils were
called up on the 8th by Attorney Gen.
eral Cassidy, before Judges Simonton
and McPherson, at Harrisburg. Mr.
Scott, Solicitor of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, sad that the numerous defen
dants had found it impracticable to
confer with each other within the time
allotted, and were not now prepared to
proceed, He moved for a continuance.
The Attorney General in assenting to
the motion said the Commonwealth had
expected to go on with the case, The
Court set down the hearing for the 20th
mst,
~The second annual session of the
American Historical Association open-
ed on the 8th in Saratoga, About 300
members were present. President A.
D, White delivered an address on “The
Influence of American Thought Upon
the French Revolution.” Professor
Goldwin Smith also spoke,
—Col. J. B. Walton, commander of
the Washington Artiilery, died on the
8th, in New Orleans, aged 72 years,
Rev. Dr. Raymond H. Seeley,a leading
Congregational mmister, died in Hav-
erhill, Mass., on the Tth,
—A heavy rainstorm set in at Par-
sons, Kansas,on Sunday night, and eon-
tinued until late on the 7th, The city
is surrounded by water, in some places
several miles wide, and many people
have been forced to leave their houses,
Some stock has been lost, the crops on
the bottom lands are destroyed, and
there are two washouts on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad.
~The local option election in Shack. |
elford county, Texas, has resulted in
the defeat of the Prohibitionists “by a
two-to-one vote,”
—The state census of Wisconsin, just
completed, shows a population of 1,503, -
$30, a gain since 1880 of 21 per cent.
The principal gain is in the northern
part of the state, where new lumber
districts have been opened.
TE —_——d " ¥ » -
NOTHING 18 LOST,
Nothing is lost; a drop of dew
‘Which trembles on the leaf or flower
Is but exhaled to fall anew
In summer thunder shower;
{| Perchance to shine within the bow
That fronts the sun at full of day;
| Perchance to sparkle in the flow
Of fountains far away.
Nothing is lost; the tinest seed
By wild birds born or breezes blown
Finds something suited to its need;
‘Wherein ‘tis sown and grown.
The language of some household song,
The perfume of some cherished flower,
Though gone from-outward sense, belong
To memory’s after-hour,
80 with our words, or harsh and kind
Uttered, they are not forgot;
| They have their influence on the mind,
i Pass on, buat perish not,
So with our deeds or good or ill,
They have thelr power scarce understood,
Then lot us use our better will,
To make them rite with good!
MRS. GATES’ EXPERIMENT.
From one of the trains that came
roaring and tearing into Blithedale sev-
eral times a day a lady alighted one
November morning, whose character-
istics were an unmistakable city air
and a general aspect of never having
been in Blithedale before. She was
not sure, so far, that she would care
ever to be in again, for the New Jersey
town did not impress her picturesquely.
She objected both to the redness of soll
and the matter-of-fact expression of
the houses,
Yet Blithedale was always described
as “*a place of resort” in summer and
early autumn, and “within easy access
of the city: but the last of Novem-
ber is an unfavorable season for such
settlements, when the green, leafy
glamour of summer has vanished and
the bridal veil of winter has not yet
been thrown over the scene.
Mrs, Rapson was making an experi-
mental and anberaled visit to her friend
— A terrible tornado struck the town |
of Washington Court House, in Fay-
ette county, Ohio, about eight o'clock
on the Bth, Forty stores, three
churches, four railway depots and over
two hundred dwellings were destroyed,
Five persons were killed and about 300
injured, four perhaps fatally. The loss
on property Is estimated at $1,000,000,
Damage was done in other places in |
Ohio, houses being unroofed or destroy. |
ed and persons injured.
~The Prohibition State Convention
of New York, in session at Syracuse,
on the 9th nominated the following |
ticket: For Governor, H. Clay Bas-
com, of Troy; Lieutenant Governor,
W. Jennings Demorest, of New York;
Secretary of State, Edward Evans, of
Tonawanda, Edie county; State Treas. ,
urer, Hiram Vandenburg, of Fulton
county; Comptroller, Frederick Shel.
don, of Hornellsville, Steuben county;
Attorney General, W, Martin Jones, of
Rochester, Monroe county; State En.
gineer, George A. Dudley, of Ellen
ville, Ulster county.
The National board of steam navi-
gation, in session in New York, on the
Oth elected the following officers: Presi.
dent, J. IL. Fisher, New York; Vice
Presidents, B. D, Wood, New Orleans,
and F. A. Churchman, Pittsburg;
Secretaries, Joo. W. Bryant, Now Or-
leans, and C, H. Bover, New York:
Treasurer, Adnan Lycle, Pittsburg;
Executive Committee, General J. 8,
Negley, of Pittsburg (chairman), C, P.
Truslow, of New Orleans, D. M, Mun-
ger, of New York, T. C. Hersey, of
Portland, Henry Haarstick, St Louis,
F. W. Vosburgh, New. York, and
George W, Pride, Philadelphia.
-The next annual convention of the
American Bankers' Association will
begin at Chicago bn the 23d inst,
~The President on the 9th appointed
Mrs, Marion A. Mulligan to be Pension
Agent at Chicago, in place of Miss Ada
C. Sweet, resigned. He also appointed
to be Indian Agents, Thomas M. Jones,
of Virginia, at the Shoshone Agency,
in Wyoming Territory, and John 3,
Ward, of California, at the Mission
Agency in California. Mrs. Mulligan
the new Pension Agent at Chicago, 18
the widow of Colonel Thomas A. Mul.
ligan, organizer and Colonel of the
ulligan Brigade, famous during the
early part of the war for the Union.
He was killed in the defence of Lexing-
ton, Missouri. His widow Is about 40
years of age, and prominent in social
and religious circles in Chicago.
~-Ex-Goverpor St. John, of Kansas,
on the 9th delivered an address at the
Seventhday Adventist camp at Syra-
cuse, New York.
~A train from New York to Mon-
treal was thrown into diteh a near Com-
stocks before daylight on the 9th by a
rock which had fi on the track.
Engineer Brown was killed and several
passengers were injured.
~The post-offices throughout the
United States are being supplied with
the special delivery stamps at the rate
of 1000 offices per day.
Ss am—————— II — A
There is nothing which shows more
clearly the truth and goodness of vir-
tue than the universal homage that is
paid to it,
The, surest element of success is
promptuess—prom
execution of Da AE DOL Toth or a
prompt pay.
Proud men never have friends; either
Body oe Adve Lon soy
y *
y y
The extreme pleasure we take in
plkug bt ourselves, should make us
fear that we give very little to those
who listen to us.
It is with some good quaiities as with
good 3 they are incomprehensible
and Be rvait To such as are des
ives 4 is the in all
ago had been obliged, by
losses, to go into exile on the Line of
the New Jersey Central Railroad and
having some friends in the place she
chose Blithedale, What she was doing
with herself there, and in what way
remamed to be seen,
It was not difficult to find the house,
son fresh from New York. It was of
wood, dingy white in hue, and the two-
storied front slanted to a point over
the windows, giving the Impression
that by some accident, which could
scarcely be called a happy one, the
sides of the dwelling had got turned to
the front, The door and windows
were small and severely plain; there
was ground on both sides of the house,
and a flagged walk led from the lower
wooden gate to the steps,
ed piece of civilization, and the visitor's
ring was quickly answered by a neat,
smiling bandmaiden with a very Ger.
man face. Mrs, Gates was at home,
and her friend was requested to walk
into the sitting room, which appeared
to cross the entire house,
It was falriy tapestried with vines,
and in the windows were
plants. An open Franklin stove, the
next best thing to a grate, had a cheer
ful fire in it, and there was a general
look of warmth and brightness about
the large low room that impressed the
visitor very pleasantly.
lounge and easy chair, covered with
Turkey red, had something to do with
“but who would expect her to make a
but like this habitable-looking?"
from some mysterious back precinct
with a warm welcome, and she was im-
mediately called upon to give an ac.
count of herself,
“There is not very much to give,"
she began smilingly. “You were so
late this year at your beloved mountains
that my flitting had to be done while
you were away. No, I didn’t * feel
dreadfully’ at all at having todo it. 1
sm very fond, you know, of the Joys
and Saunders’s, whe have homes here,
and I mean to make the best of it
When more than balf of mv little capi-
tal was swept away, I felt that the first
reduction to be made was in rent, and
1 get this ugly, comfortable little house
for twenty eollars a month, while my
fourth-story ‘cabinet-bnished’ flat cost
me, as you know, sixty dollars,
“But are not other expenses very
much the same?”
“By no means,’ was the reply.
“Provisions are one-third cheaper than
in New York, for Blithedale has quite
a reputation in this respect, and Louisa,
my German maiden, a prize among
servants, is absolutely contented with
eight dollars a month,”
“Well,” said the astonished visitor,
“this is certainly Arcadia in one way
if not in another,’
““I must show you the house,” con.
tinued Mrs, Gates, “It is better than
it looks: but first you shall see my green.
house,”
Her friend restrained her surprise as
she was conducted through a
-*
Every plant looked green and glossy;
and the temperature of the place seemed
perfect.
*“1'his and the steam pipes for heating
were all in readiness when I took the
house, having been put in by the own.
er for his own use. But the doctors
ordered him south for his health, and I
fortunately appeared just at the right
time,”
“It is very nice” murmured her per
plexed friend; “youn werealways so fond
of flowers”
“Yes, and you remember how 1 al
ways had something in bloom in my
New York flat? It was that circum:
stance which made me bold enough to
venture on a green-house,”
“And you have no roses?” asked
Mrs Rapson, who did not quite see her
way through this green-house problem.
“Nothing but callas and carnations,”
rejoined her hostess, *for both require
the same temperature and moisture,
both are easy to raise, and both make
generous returns in the way of bloom,
Within a fortnight I shall begin to cut
and keep steadily at it all through the
winter. 1 see from your puzzled face
Cornelia, that you do not understand
me. You must know then, that my
green-house is altogether a commercial
venture; and the expected blossoms are
to adorn the windows of a city florist
who has agreed to take from me all that
I can raise, at a very remunerative
sm smn
THE STARS AND BARS,
The Standard of the “Lost Cause.”
Prior to March 5, 1861, the seceding
states had no national flag. The day
President Lancoln was inaugurated at
Washington the southern congress had
adopted the stars and bars and on that
day it was first flung to the breeze from
the state house at Montgomery. Prior to
this the state flag had been used by the
teveral seceding states. The first flag
raised in the confederacy is in the flag
collection at the war department at
Washington. It is a Palmetto flag, and
is said to have waved over Charleston
mm 1861. A palmetto tree of eight
branches 1s sewed upon its center, and
it has eleven red stars surrounding it,
with a rising red moon at the top.
On February 4th, 1861, the secession
convention of South Carolina, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia
and Florida met in the old state-house
at Montgomery, Ala., and proceeded to
organize the Southern Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis was elected president
and Alexander Stephens vice. president,
and the convention adopted a constitu
tion and chose the Confederate flag,
ceived letters and designs from all parts
of the south, and these are now hidden
away in an old scrap-book among the
Confederate archives in the war depart-
price.”
“What ever made you think of it?»
gasped the amazed visitor.
“Poverty my dear,” laughed Mrs. |
Gates; “it sharpens ones faculties won. |
derfully,
be done to increase the pittance that re- |
mains to me, and flower raising presen- |
ted a more attractive field than any-|
thing else that seemed practicable. So
I consulted florists and successful gar-
deners, read a little, and determined to |
venture with my two varieties. The |
great fault with beginners is that they
attempt too much at once. It was
and I was fortunate enough to make
my purchases at great advantage. The |
excitement, even at thisstage is delight- |
ful. I am intensely interested in every
leaf that puts forth, and when the flow-
ers come I shall scarcely be able to con-
tain myself.”
“1 am very much interested, too,”
1
| pecunious women of my acquaintance
| had your courage, It must be remem-
| bered, though, that it 18 not an every-
day affair to happen upon a house at a
small rent with a greenhouse attached.
| This bas saved you quite an outlay at
| the begginning.”
“Very true; but I should not hesi.
| tate to make the outlay, with my pres.
{ ent knowledge; I would even bor.ow
| money to do it, for two hundred dollars
| seasons’ returns should more than pay
| for it. Tell the impecunious women to
| try it."
“But you used to write very cleverly,”
pursued Mrs. Rapson; ‘would it not
| have been more agreeable and quite as
| profitable to stick to your pen?”
| For answer her hostess pointed to
| she Jittle writing desk in the sitting
{ room, which had been saved from the!
a story
i
occupation does not interfere
i
i
“You are a wonderful woman,
| charming lunch to which we are sitting
down.”
| with an appetite. She even promised
| to come for a week's stay before Christ.
i mas after a sight of the quaint up.
stairs rooms, furnished characteristically
Blithedale was a very sensible one.
patched by rail to the city; she saw
received in return, and she po longer
doubted the success of Mrs, Gates’ ex.
periment,
-
Tolling the Bell.
The following account of the origin
of the custom of tolling the bell on
boats passing the tomb of Washington
was given at a meeting of the Washing:
ton Literary Society, by Dr. Toner:
“This token of regard, it is said, origi-
nated on a French merchant vessel
which had been to Alexandria for a
cargo, and going down the river after
Gepers! Washington's death, but be-
fore his interment, placed its colors at
half-mast and tolled its bell continu
ously while passing the house of
mourning. This special testimeny of
respect impressad every person as be.
coming and appropriate, and it was at
once taken up and practised by all river
craft. Ever since then the bell is tolled
on vessels of every character and na
tion which pass the tomb of Washing.
ton. It may, therefore, be claimed to
have grown into a custom of revereys
gE
Hs hy
nt at Washington.
It is a ragged volume, eighteen Inches
hick,
ww a faded pink. Iis covers are worn,
d its corners are dog-eared. In it are
pasted 120 designs for a Confederate
flag, which were presented to the Mont-
gomery convention, and by their sides,
Some of these letters are addressed to
Jefferson Davis, some to Alexander
who was the chairman of the Commit-
tee on flags.
and colors, Some of them, especially
sent by ladies, are of silk, the
of bunting, rudely painted, and a
ferent colored pasteboard or paper pasted
together into the design desired. There
oes,
of colors and form of the stars and
stripes, while not a few are modeled
afier the Gags of other nations now
use. In design No. 41, for instance, sent
to Jefferson Davis {rom
Ala., the very colors “swear at each
other.” The devise is too feet by three
in size,
Un this broad blue half which is near.
est the pole, a big black eye is painted,
in the shape of a crescent which faces
stars, From the eve eight
stripes radiate, running out of
blue and Josing themselves in the yel-
low,
Four designs directed to Hon. Rob-
bert Toombs represented a phoenix as
white field, with borders of red and
bine, One of the largest designs has
and red.
the upper corner of which, almost rest.
ing against the staff, looks out a great
eve, below which is painted a red hand
grasping a wreath of green. The most
beautiful designs are those sent by wo-
men. One device sent by the ladies of
Charleston was made of red, white and
blue put together with many delicate
stitches, It 1s eighteen incheslongand
consists of two series of three stripes of
red, white and red above a broad stripe
of blue, upon which are sewed seven
white stars, Six of the stars represen-
ted the states then in convention, the
seventh Texas, which was about to
| secede. From the desigus and the let-
{ desire throughout the south to retain
| all that was possible of the old flag.
Of the long report of the committee
| up to an explanation why more of the
| stars and stripes could not be embodied
| in the flag presented, The report then
| states that the committee humbly think
| the following design combines the above
| requisites, and they submit it as “‘the
: lag of the Confederate States of Amen.
ea.’ “It shall consist of a red field,
with a white space extending horizon.
tal'y through the center and equal in
width to one-third the width of the flag,
the red spaces above and below to be
the same width as the white. The une
fon blue extending down through the
space. In the center of the union cir
cle ot white stars corresponding in
number with the states of the Confed.
eracy.” ‘This report was adopted, and
the above design became known as the
stars and bars, :
The stars and bars were, however, a
yt
a battle-flag for our forces.” Designs
were asked for, and one presented by
Colonel James B, Walton, of Lousiana,
was chosen, This design was origi
nally oblong but General Johnston mod-
fled it by making it square, and, so
modified, it became the baitle-flag of
the Confederacy. It was in September,
1861, adopted by the Rebel army of the
Potemae, and shortly afterward, with
slight modification, by the other armies,
In 1863 the Confederate States adopted
it as the union of its new natwonal en-
sign,
This battle-flag had a red fled, with
two wide blue bars running diagonal y
from one corner to the other, thus form-
ing the Greek cross, On these bars
were white or gold stars equal in pume-
ber to the states of the Confederacy,
The design was substantially the same
as the one presented to the Montgomery
convention by Willian Porcher Miles
when the stars and bare were chosen.
It Is known as the “Southern Cross,”
and was the only flag in general use by
the southern troops during the war.
The Confederate congress, in adopting
it as the national! flag in May, 1862,
added the white field, that it might be
of use upon the sea. But square as it
was, this design was such that it could
| not be reversed as a signal of distress,
| The white field, on trial, wasalso found
open to objections. It made the flag
| liable to be mistaken for a flag of truce,
and at a distance it lookea much like
the English white ensign. To remedy
these faults a broad red stripe was
{ added to the end of Lhe flag, and this,
st national flag of the Confederacy,
was adopted by the senate at Richmond
in February, 1865,
{the la
ss ————— i ——————
Where ladlans Worsti'p,
The valley of the Mississippi is full
spots made interesting by Indian
| traditions, Many of the points have
| been made prominent by the pen of
i the historian and many of them are
| known only as the tongue of the
| wrinkled ploneer copper-oolored
| aborgine tells of them to the curious
listeners,
About ten miles below this cily, on
the left bank of the river, lies a stone
jon the margin of a flowenng prairie,
| that for decades has been looked upor
by the Sioux with the deepest reverence
i and awe, and which bears the marks
the sacrilegious curiosity-seeker’s
{ soulless chisel. In the language of the
Sioux it is known as E-ver-shaw, or
| Red Rock.
not of giganiic proportions,
| weighing not more than a ton, and
{in form looks like a monstrous egg
that might have been deposited there
| by some fabulous bird. Broad stripes
{of red paint encircle the bowlder, be-
Ing frequently retouched by the hail-
civilized vet superstiticus remnants of
this once mighty people, who still live
in the vicinity of this spot so sacred to
them,
The tradition of E ver-shaw is not
| uninteresting, but bas been ignored by
the pen of Lhe historian, who has passed
| it by and shown favor to less prominent
pots. Away, back in the years that
have gone, when this ground was held
defmntly azainst the avaricious en-
croachments of the Chippewas by the
determined Sioux, at the close of asum-
mer’s day, and on the eve of a great
| battle between the contending tribes
i of
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tof
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v
| the rock 1s said to have walked down
from Zion Hill, a small mountain
that hfts its front from the portherp
skirt of the prairie, and rested where it
' now lies,
Ka -be-bou-ik-ka, the storm spirit of
the Chippewas, became so enraged that
| ho sent forth fery arrows of lightning
| against the rock and thundered forth
| his ungovernable rage, but tlhe rock
| defied the powers of the Chippews god
| and remained intact, and in the midst
of the terrific battle of the elements
! the Indians fought and the dishearten.
| ed Chippewas weie driven across the
| river and defeated, From this time
{ drove them from the grounds the Siouy
| each year brought gifts of fruit, moc
i
‘casins and viankets to the rock, and
| Spirit who had given them so signal a
| victory over their enemies,
i The superstition of the Indians wa:
| a source of considerable profit for many
| years {0 an enterprising negro who lived
| in that vicinity. He quietly purloined
| the articles from the rock, and sold
| them back to the Indians at a good
{advance on the onginal cost. He
| became 80 bold in his thieving that
| be was at last caught in the acl and
{ his woolly skull cat open with a foma
hawk and his body thrown into the
river,
Morning Star,
Saturn is the morning star, and by
far the most interesting of the three
planets that precede the sun, He rises
on the 1st, about 2 o'clock, and wher
August closes makes his appearance