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AVENGING A MASSACRE.
T». PARKER, PnontiTOR.
J. M. FREEMAN, Ennaf*^ ^ ~~
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A Reminiscence of Che Sioux Out
break in Minnesota in 1802-Men.
Women and 'Children Murdered.
A letter to the New York Jfail and
Exprat from Mankato, Minn., recalls the
terrible Indian massacre of 1862. The
writer says: The savages saw regiment
alter regiment sent away, and in the anx-
of Minnesota to fill up her quota
a r the first call for 800,000 men, a
military ardor had been excited among
the half-breeds, and, a large number were
enlisted. “There.” said the Indian, “see
how hard pressed the Great Father is for
men; all the able-bodied whites are gone,
now even they Have come to us for help
and take our half-breeds.” A short dis
tance below St. Peter on the Minnesota,
the bordering forests begin to widen ana
extend in either direction for over a hun
dred miles. This is called the Big
Woods. Along the verge of this great
forest was built many a settlers* cabin,
and here and there a village was c
mcnced. In this wood and along
river the Indians hunted and fished,
to these settlements they sometimes c
to exchange furs for such articles as they
needed or fancied. One day in August,
1862,a party of 'ten Indians came to the
Big Woods to exchange their peltries for
a wagon, but, for some reason, they were
unable to mako the trade as they ex-
\ and left greatly disappointed,
separted, and four of the number
went on further and, at some p '
tained a quantity of fire-water,
indulgence in this inflamed their anger
and increased the bitterness and hatred
that was before growing in their hei
Not a mile from the settlement they
tomahawk into their quivering f
river, but many of them were soon ex
humed and taken East for the dissecting
table. Great mortality ensued among the
remainder of the prisoners during their
confinement in the log building, many
dying of consumption.
HDiTHS.
Lard, if applied at once, will remove
the discoloration after a braise.
A warn bath relaxes the system and
opens the way for colds. Therefore the
best rime for it is at night, just before re
tiring.
In heart disease special treatment should
be avoided as much as possible. General
heart let the patient ]
tl\U position
action almost immediately.
Powdered rosin is said to be thp best
thing to stop bleeding from cuts. After
pected,
They se
cold water.
Blackheads and similar blemishes on
the skin can best best be cored by keep
ing it in a clean and healthy condition.
Many physicians recommend that the face
as well as the hands be washed daily With
some pure soap, and the use of a flesh
brush on other parts of the body will also
be helpful.
Cancer is essentially a local disease and
can be cured by operation in
Operation, win
October.
Ware—First Mondays in April and
November. .
Coffee—Tuesday after second Monday
In April and November.
Chariton—Tuesday after third Monday
in April and November.
Camden—Fourth Mondays in April
and November.
Glynn—Beginning on the first Mon*
days In May and December, and to con
tinue fqr two weeks, or as long as (he
business may require.
The -carrier-pigeon service of Paris is
almost as completely organized as is the
telegraph system, for missives can be sens
by the winged messengers' to neighboring
forts and towns, and even to distant
places in the provinces. The staff num
bers 2,600 trained birds. The Parisians,
duringthe terrible days of the last siege,
learned the value of the pigeon post, and
the lesson has not been forgotten.
Italy is having so much trouble in Abys-
synia, where Rosalula recently destroyed
nearly the entire Italian force in that
country, that Che Chamber of Deputies
have approved a credit to lay a cable to
Hassowah- from the Islands of Perim,
which will connect with the Red Sea
cable and establish communication with
Rome, And only a little more than
twenty years ago the interior of Abyssynia
was almost an unknown country, though
Englihd has hkd representatives at Mas-
sowafi for a century.
There is an aesthetic street car con
ductor of Philadelphia who for the past
two years has spent much of his spare
time in. making his car beautiful. Two
handsome silk flags adorn tho centre of
the car, and the bell rope is jauntily
linecl, with knots of brightly colored
worsted, He takes great pride in this
work. The attendants at the stables say
* he scrubs and airs his car with all the
care' of a housekeeper. A sponge is
always to be seen in tho car. No man on
the line keeps his temper better in a time
of blockade.
The Emperor of Russia's dentist must
enjoy practicing his science upon the im
perial grinders, for while ho is at work
two gendarmes keep loaded pistols point
ed at his head, and the. Lord Chamber-
lain stands at his side With a sabre, to
wbisk off his hand if it touches the Czar's
person. At least this is the talc that a
former American resident in St. Peters
burg relates to his friends in Boston.
Some one has thrown cold water on this
gossip by affirming that the autocrat has
the finest teeth in Europe, and no den
tist has ever meddled with them.
The London Ir\ \nger says that it is
quite probable that iron ties may entirely
take the place of wooden ones, and that
metal, may become a substitute for wood
in many other ways. “Timber is gradu
ally growing scarcer all over the world,
owing to the recklessness with which
North America and other regions have
been disafforested. Climatic and econo-
* mic considerations will sooner or later
put a stop to this wholesale destruction
of trees, as timber becomes scarcer and
dearer. There appear to be many open
ings for the more extended use of iron
and steel, such as ornamental exteriors,
roofing, paving, etc., and the present very
low pricea of them will stimulate inven
tion at to these new adaptations.”
out all traces of the white man.
bloody scalps from Redwood were pro
duced, the war dance celebrated’ with
savage yells and songs, while the
peering whites slept without kn
the danger which hung over them.
The carnage commenced the following
day at the Lower Agency and ins
rated a reign of terror throughout
region. The attack on the
made in the early morning
mates had risen, and many were hewn to
pieces in their bods, others receiving
their death wounds while leaping from
windows or endeavoring to escape.
Women and children who not ten days
before had fed the savages at their tables,
pleaded for mercy, but their words were
drowned by the crashing of the deadly
tomahawk through their skulls. From
house to house the torch, followed the
hatchet. Tired of
fiends fired dwellings ana burned alive
the inmates.
Shortly after this occurrence Colonel
Sibley came to the rescue with a body of
troops, and on the 23d of October bej
his much, with some four hundred
dian prisoners for New TJlm. Here the
inhabitants grew furious at the sight of
the red miscreants who hod wrought such
dire disaster in their peaceful homes, and
in a frenzy attacked the train of prison
ers, who were
with
folks, knives and guns,
and children participated, and few
blamed them, for their provocation
certainly beyond forbearance. The
soldiers, however, interfered, and the
train moved on to a point about two
miles from this city,. Mankato, on the
Blue Earth River,- where tents
pitched and the command went into
camp. The military commissioners
who were conveyed in army wagons,
i, knives and guns, in which women
p Weeding from c
r is sprinkled or
l a soft cotton dot
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core prolongs life and diminishes the
total amount of suffering. Operations
should be repeated as often as there is
any chance of entirely removing recur
rent growths. The earlier and
when it recurs, is
generally of a milder type than that of
the original growth, less painful and less
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more radical operations possible,
better ultimate results than formerly ob
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Two of Edison** Inventions,
ople who think that because Edison
der the weather and enjoying him
self down South he is idle, do not know
the man. He does not know what idle
ness means, and I have just heard that he
has perfected an invention which may re
sult fatally for him unless he locks it np
in his safe for some future generation, to
suffer under. Perhaps it may be remem
bered that years ago Edison was interest
ed in the microphone, a device for mag
nifying minute sounds in a most wonder
ful manner; it was with the microphone
that Edison said he would enable people
to hear a fly walking across the ceiling,
the steps of the fly sounding like that of
a war horse upon a theatrical stage. His
latest move in this direction is a device
which, attached to a small cabinet organ,
enables it to give oat the sound of a
cathedral instrument bigger than that of
the Boston Music Hall, and he says that*
hand organ provided with his new inven
tion win be heard across the East River.
If this 'is so, someone is going to get
killed, either Mr. Edison or the Italian
nobleman who attempts to put his. device
The idea of hearing “II Balen”
or “The Heart Bowed Down” or “The
Sweet By and By” from two or three hun
dred hand organs suddenly endowed with
ten times the power of Barnum’s steam
calliope is something awful, and Edison
* a I fi” * ’ ' rout of the reach
announcing his
jefore Edison left
w vui toy, the phono
graph, and said that he had not the
slightest doubt that the perfected phono-
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Revival meetings have been held for
some time past in the Method ist Church
in Sweetzer, Ind., of which the Rev.
George Howard is the pastor. It would
seem that the effects have not been as
lasting as they should be. A few nights
agd some of the young folks created a
slight disturbance and the muscular pas
tor threw them out bodily. James F.
Smith, one of the disturbers, had the
pastor arrested and fined far assault, and.
in retaliation, the pastor had young
Smith's father arrested for profane swear
ing. Ttien Mr. Howard was arrested for
allowing the church doors to swing in
instead of out, as the State law provides,
and the pastor promises to make things
very lively for his persecutors. The whole
community is intensely interested and has
taken sides for or against the minister.
the result of which was the
some 850 participants
sacre, of whom 803 were condemned
to be hung and the remainder
to imprisonment for life. The
cecdings were forwarded to TV
ington for ratification, where
was decided to execute but thirty-nine
present. The 22d of December w
•elected as the day for the execution M
Mankato, and although the date was not
generally understood throughout the
country adjacent, the town was crowded
for two or three days in advance by an
immense throng, which, of course, tar
overtaxed the facilities for their accom
modation. There were but two «mall
hotels, so that tents were pitched in the
fields, and barns, sheds, shops and any
manner of building that would afford
•belter was impressed into service; and
as the weather was sharp great suffering
was experienced by the majority, whilelthe
town was soon “cleaned out” of eatables.
No liquor was allowed to be sold.
The Indians were confined in a low,
long log building, and on the Monday
previous the thirty-nine condemned were
taken out and placed, in an apartment
separate from the rest. The reading of
the death warrant had no perceptible
effect on them, but they smoked their
pipes with that stolid indifference char
acteristic of the race, refilling the bowls
when exhausted, and apparently enjoy
ing the scene in much comfort.
The Indians seemed to care nothing
about the preparations for the execution;
many confessed their implication in the
massacres, and boasted of the number
they had slain. One day .was set apart
before the execution, when each of the
condemned was permitted to send for
two or three relatives to '/bid them fare
well. But in the interviews with wives
or children no emotion was displayed,
while in one or two cases those who were
inclined to take a humorous view of the
surroundings attempted a joke.
The military force detailed for the oc
casion consisted of detachments of the
Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth regi
ments of infantry, Captain White’s com
pany of mounted men. and a regiment of
mounted rangers, in ail about 1,500 men.
The gallows, which was about twenty
feet square, was constructed of heavy
square timbers in such a manner that the
drop was sustained by a single rope
niug down a beam in the centre and se
cured underneath the platform, so that a
blow from the executioner's axe would
let the whole lot swing at the same mo
ment. Upon reaching tne place of execu
tion the Indians ascended and at once
commenced the death song and dance,
continuing this until the drop fell. When
all was ready Major Brown, signal officer,
beat three sharp taps upon the drum, and
William Daly, of the scouts, cut the rope
with his keen-edged axe, and the thirty-
eight wretched Sioux paid the penalty of
their horrid crimes. Rattling Thunder
was a giant in stature, weighing some 250
pounds, and this great strain was too much
lor the strength of the rope and it gave
way, the body tailing to the ground, but
it was found on examination that his neck
« as broken. The bodies were buried in
a tong deep trench on the bank of the
f^say, 500 years from now, will
^ with evory sort of writing and
printing. People who want to write s
letter will say what they want to say into
their phonograph, take out the tittle slip
of foil or paper, and send it off, while the
' * — itintohis
his friend
has tossy. The printer’s occupation will
-mar - b newspapers will, consist
” to be put into each
i, when the news will
the phonograph in a
w and effective manner,
some device being adopted by which the
reader will be enabled to have read exact
ly what interests him or her, and skip
the rest. Probably the advertiser who
takes a whole column for five words will
pay extra to have the pi
out that his soap is the t
by Celopatra, Mrs. Langtry, an
beauties of past ages.—Brooklyn J
The Land of One Statue.
letter from A
the New York Sun says
heart of this city is still a wreck from the
English bombardment of 1888, but the
equestrian statue of Mehemet Ali was,
unfortunately, spared.
Apropos of the Mehemet All- statu
is a singular fact that, notwithstam w
no name in modem Egyptian history ap
proaches his in historic interest, the pro
ject of raising a statue to his memory
met with the most furious ai 5 '
time, successful opposition,
alone from religious scrupl
presented by the most pious
pie. Mohammed was so resolute in his
hostility to idolatry and so resolved to
discountenance it in every form that he
prohibited his followers from making
any likeness of any living thing, human
or other.
The reason given oy the priests is a
curious one. They say that at the last
day Allah will say to every one
the impertinence of imitating his crea
tions: “Put thou now a soul into this
thing that thou hast carved or painted in
resemblance of my work;”and when the
unhappy artists fail he will pack them
off to sheol in contemptuous wrath at
their presumption. Accordingly, from
of the Khedive to the hum
blest home of any Mussulman of Egypt
you may search in vain for a picture or a
statue adorning its walls or decorating
its halls or chambers.
Alone in all this land stands this one
statue of modem workmanship. All the
other wonders of the genius of Egypt in
the great arts of imitation are separated
from it by a span which encompasses the
many centuries of Mohammedan rule on
the Nile.
After years of opposition one of the
successors of the great founder of the
modem power of Egypt finally so far tri
umphed as to erect this wretched travesty
of art, whose enormities must console
the faithful Moslem who resisted so long,
if so unavailingly, its creation.
At
brothers
union. Their ages ranged from seventy
one to ninety-four, and combined footed
up 521 years. Their total weight was
1,443 pounds, being on average of 160}.
The most remarkable thing about the re
union was that it was the first time that
the nine brothers had ever been together.
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