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£0 Vi JAL NEWS.
ton cotton-aeod oil mil's.
lias
has s eventv-one newspapers,
county,' M^s., wll ««“ tiie
crop this year since
,jt corn
and lockage elevator at
1 covers seven acres of
Tenn.,
[.{WE thousand dollars have
isis ecUoraco tfccn factory at Union,
djrolina. houses have
bun feed and six
[ erected at Cullman, Ala.,'within
jsf sis months.
U JJrtot county, Ga., voted on the
week, and gave a majority
j^tyfor “no Birmingham fence.” cotton fac
v on the
jj progressing very satisfactorily. It
3 few weeks.
lie comp jeted in a •
-organ factory has been discovered
".Vis.Tenn., which turns out instru¬
ct compare favorably xvith those
, elsewhere.
Uporce lain works in Augusta coun
« have commenced operations,
mods equal to any over made are
Lilt in large quantities.
is 10,000 bushels of Leon (Ill.)
div’s last year's com c rop re
ton the hands of the producers, and
L ^ught for 35 cents a bushel.
tajE are many parts of south Flor
lW j)cre the crops of Guavas are great
toa the people can use: being a per
jble fruit it cannot be shipped.
Lfkm in Gates county, N. C., owns
L m iles of narroxv-gauge railway,
Ling five of its t a w mills. It is
(largest lumber business in the State
L b T. Wall, Florida’s colored ex
igtossEiau, noxv farming in Alachua
B ty will realize between $7,000 and
DO net hem his vegetable crop this
.tew Carolina has two of the lar¬
ks vineyards east of the Rocky moiui
L The grapes raised are coming
Igjvst demand ex’en oitsidc of the
linTSX drinking match occurred at
llrou Springs, near Iuka last week,
■ton Mr. John Hays, of Memphis,
isdiammev. The drummer won,
jtimg two and a half gallons.
[Iran taking out the amount of a fare
feas railroad conductor handed §19
lb Hie wrong passenger, xrho pocketed
liii! refused togiveitup on the ground
pi he did not ask the conductor for it.
Tee band of Second Adx'entists which
fert time since established themselves
[Fairfax Court-house., Va., appear to
jrecarried everything before them in
at village, and it is said that in a short
fethey xvill have a large church, xx-hich
somber of their converts xvill build for
an,
■ The famous live oak tree, knoxvn as
lb “Devil’s Riding Whip,” which is sit
■leil three-quarters of a mile northeast
■ the “Devil’s Mill Hopper,” il ear
feesville, Fla., measures 33 feet and
■inches in circumference one foot from
■ ground. The tree is hollow and af
P 8 ample shelter for 40 hogs.
at the Hygeia Hotel, Old
lint Comfort, Va., drive over to St.
pirn s Protestant Episcopal church, at
pmpton, which is the oldest sacred ed
f e k iu brought the country. It xvas .built of
F from Holland in 1658. Its
F 1L given by Queen Elizabeth, v. as
pifed in a fire that once burned in the
Future for three days.
I Before ike wa" Alabama raised a
pt K r &uig; deal else; of cotton she and produces not much of
K now much
t>oats some northern states in the
ptietion p], and has of oats, pleasing finds profit in pork,
a assortment of
; es an ‘t niills. She also raises ten
r <en t more of cotton than she did ten
Ppago. taber of her She farms. has also doubled the
Jonesboro f
(Ga.) News: There are txvo
tea calling themselves elders in the
I unnon church stopping in the western
I Won cf.our county. They hail from
I ’ A and their presence here bodes no
I food. To tolerate their nefarious
peaching p is a reflection on the intelli
nce °* ollr people, and, unless the law
p l,e m adc to reach them, common de
I 1 demands that they be notified to
80 ed to go, and stand not the
II et °f (heir upon
Itnchbtjbg going but to go at once.
News: W T e xvere shoxxm
pteulay, * tlle Southern by Mr. Henry Charles, a flag
| a , the Confederacy which he
■ outbreak of the war, and at
e time plans for a flag for the then
federate is States were asked for. It
v w, 1 much faded, but its colors vet
U are
ant enough to show that it was a
dutiful and appropriate piece of work,
ft is bl ue, xvith wide
a red border, and
arevi, * Placed 01 U on e ‘Afferent the form Southern of States
in a cross.
editorial notes.
*bf v holesale shipping of arms and
Mahons of war, from the United States
tlnaa, has been made public. The
_
^rOant 1 the expended Chinese government in this country is thus
OOf) - f-5,000,
I; vie w ( f the damaging effect which
H ri¬ fe ^v n 35 s - > n
1 I
73 I-': U m J,l„J
VOLUME VL
the Potlach feasts are having on the civ¬
ilization of the Indians of the northwest
territories and British Columbia, the do*
minion government in the official gazette
recommends and urges the abandonment
of the practice of Potlach, proclaiming
a continuance of the same to be in viola¬
tion of their counsel and desire. The
practice is indulged in by both rich and
poor, who spend their time and money
in accumulating property to distribute
among their own and other tribes. The
custom of Potlach is based on a desire
afor destruction, and is practiced with
view of receiving greater presents than
those mad a. The poor borrow from the
rich to be able to practice Potlach, lay¬
ing exorbitant and ruinous interest or
usury, for advances in money or goods.
The custom, which is also practiced
among United States Indiaus on the Pa¬
cific, it is held, leads to immoral practi¬
ces, those entering into it frequently
depriving their families and themselves
of the necessaries of life for that purpose.
It will readily be seen that the result
must prove most ruinous if the practice
is allowed to continue. The dominion
government, however, prefer to counsel
and advise rather than enforce its aboli¬
tion. Thus failing, more stringent
me a mrcs will likely be adopted.
AMERICAN FABLES.
The Sailor and the Slmrli—TU6 Box and the
Farmer.
A Peasant, who had often heard that
Truth xvas a Jexx - el lying at the bottom
of a xvell, one day descended into his well
to search for the treasure. He skinned
his knees and elbows, barked his nose,
ran an old fork into his foot, and shivered
around for six long hours before his wife
drexv him up and asked :
“What in Goodness’ name were you
doing doxvuthere?”
“Looking for Truth,”
‘-‘Why I could hax’C told you before
yon went down that you xvere the big¬
gest Fool in America!”
moeal:
You can get more Truth than you want
around any well-curb.
THE SAILOR AND THE SHARK.
A Sailor who had fallen overboard and
was speedily interviewed by a Shark,
cried out to his enemy :
“Have pity on a man who is down 1”
“My friend," replied above the Shark, is “a of
man xvho keeps himself water
uo use to me. Now is my time!”
moral:
The man who falls overboard in busi¬
ness can expect no favors of the Sheriff
TIIE FOX AND THE FARMER.
A Fox one day made a call upon a
Peasant and bitterly complained of the
custom of shutting poultry up nights iu
Fox-proof pens, “It isn’t because I
suffer at nil,” added Reynard, “but think
hoxv nhcomfoitable it must be for the
poor Foxvls. It is their condition I wish
to mitigate.” took the matter under ad¬
The Peasant
visement, and next evening he neglected
to shut up his fowls. Next morning lie
came across the Fox just as he had fin¬
ished feasting on a fat Pullet and cried
out: “All! this is the xvay you take to
pity my poor Fowls, is it?”
“Well, you see,” grinned Reynard, “I
feel very sorrry for the Fowls, but at the
same time cannot afford to miss an op¬
portunity.”
MORAL :
The man xvith ten acres of land to sew
is the chap xvho first sees the need < f
an orphan asylum .-—DetroitFree Pres*.
A Too Funny Boy.
A , Washington w wtpv lettei^says snvs- — Bennv nenny
2ffil reioris. a r ’very lively otlA boy according to nil
The day he infuriated all
of the staff of the Attorney-General to a
PI On his^fatheris desk there is a lot calls of
buttons, connecting whh electrical
m all subordinate offices of: the depart
ment, from the Solicitor Ge -
°ne day, not long o“ad Suddenly, ffiv hefom the
with his father. P
latter could stop him, Benny began to
play upon all of the electric buttons at
once, as if upon the keys of a piano.
These sudden and repeated calls created
a panic in the department. The Solici¬
tor-General, a grave, dignified gentleman
the Assistant Attorney-General, twenty the chiefs, Chief
Clerk, and in all about
came in one after another in mad haste,
only to he met by an apology from the
Attorney-General, while Benny howled
with laughter upon the carpet where he
lay rolling, as the slaves of the buttons
appeared and disappeared, black ■vsitli
wrath notwithstanding Brewsters ami¬
able begging for forgiveness of the mad
freak of his dear-, merry son.
A . „ * C i,-..,,, '
AnEngltahMs ly
Corunna leeeu *
g in the cefflre. At the
wffh with a a wfflte n nite eross cross small En-
8 o
S n foremost. The English
gush ” h flag flag at at her I er rfor the
C n°Uriu to O
captain to to lower 1 the Ugh green flag, but the
messenger met treatment on
summone d
the Uvis assistance arce o 0 f the Spanish i ^ ^ Coast
Guard, sralois .bonded and even t * \y^V ^ remoVeJ lias
the objectionable gv^ ^ inquiry of
been^stituted pit circuia stauce
CON YERS, GA.. AUGUST IT, 1SS3.
“WIPED OUT” AT LAST.
A STOIIY OF A FAMOUS SCOUT OS
CL’STEU’S COMMAND.
Return, to Civilization, but t.ongs tovliis
Old Exciting Rite, Gets nn Appoint*
went and Goes to His Dealii.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
Renders of. the Free Press will re¬
member a series of articles that appeared
m these columns upward of a year ago,
being the adventures of a guide and
scout upon the plains. The hero of them
was Mass. George Singer, a native of Lynn,
At an early age he was placed at
tvork in . one of the shoe manufacturing
establishments in this city, but when 19
years of age, became infatuated by tales
of border life, and started for the far
West in 1856. He soon attached him
self to Phil Kearney’s command, in the
capacity the of a hunter, and went with him
to scene of the Mountain Meadow
massacre. The celebrated Brady, the
scout, was with the same command, and
a the strong attachment sprang up between
two.
A great many wagon trains of emi¬
grants were crossing the duties plains in those
Sam’s days and one of the chief of Uncle
soldiers was to protect them from
Indians, them. or “Ingjius,” as Sieger called
As guides and hunters for these
trains Brady and Singer were constantly
employed he used to for declare, year’s, he during became which familiar time,
with every trail, water course and range
from Texas to Oregon. He had picked
up tongue, a smattering and of nearly every Indian
hunting spoke Custer’s Spanish fluently. lie
was for command at
the time he was annihilated, hut lie was
away on a scout at the time. Custer, he
declared, was afraid of no man living,
and had a supreme contempt for the In¬
dians. “I never knew him,” said he,
“to hesitate an instant when he came
upon a band of Indians he was pursuing.
He would draw his sabre, jam his spurs
into his horse’s flanks and shout
in ‘Charge!’ and away he would go, rods
front of his men. He was always tho
first into a fight, riding down the savages,
slashing demon. right ” and left, and yelling like
a
Of the cause of Singer coming to De¬
troit he was ever reticent, or why lie
should come here at all. Ho said that
the opening of an old wound rendered
him unfit for the life of a scout, but to
John E. Long he intimated that there
w.os another reason why he came, and
without admitting anything, conveyed
the impression that he desired to remain
in obscurity for a time. Certain it is
that, when interviewed by the reporter,
he requested that his name bo withheld
from publication, saying that he desired
no notoriety. He had a little brick shop
on the corner of John R. and Center
streets, and was very skillful in making
fine, shoes for women’s wear. In fact,
he very soon built up such a custom
trade that lie gave employment to o
journeyman.
One of the first acquaintances he made
in the city was John E. Long, the gun¬
smith, who gave the reporter a 1 ‘pointer. ”
Singer height, xvas a man of about medium
broad in the shoulders, deep in
the chest, and his arms were a sight to
behold. He had been twice a prisoner
to the Indians, and one day drew off liis
blue woolen shirt, baring a body that
bore the marks of seven bullet wounds.
One of these missiles had struck him in
the right breast and passed out some
distance below the right shoulder-blade.
This wound had healed imperfectly, and
its opening xvas the cause he assigned
for returning to civilization.
He often expressed a desire to return
to his old life, and one day in the spring
of 1882, the reporter found him in Long’s
gun store purchasing a repeating rifle.
He stated that sometime previous he had
written to the War Department and asking
appointment as scout, had just
received orders to proceed to St. Louis
and report for duty as a guide for Gen. that
Cj . ooFs comm and. He left Detroit
night, and promised to write to Mr.
Long and the reporter, hut he failed to
ke |P^ ™ reporter met M r. Long
and inquired if he had heard from their
replied ^ Mr. Long, “and I do
^ expect A 8ho rt time ago I read,
connect i on w ;th Crook's campaign
against the Indians, that the body of
Singer, a i g the scout, was found riddled
. „
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\ Modern Fable for the Brave.
A fly, observing one day a sheep run
nine * with great rapidity from a forest,
inquired. “What is the matter, my
friend?” enough !” panted the , sheep.
“Matter yonder wood there is
“Dear fly, in a
‘‘Really ? and wliat of that ?” returned
he fly. “Surely, you are not afraid of a
ion 9**
“And do vou indeed not fear him?”
gasped the sheep. it, I xvill my
“Certainly not; to prove
self enter the wood.” and returning
T|, e flv hurried away
alter some time, continued: b
i £:
. h him for some minutes, and I
even flatter myself that it xvas I xvho mi
noved him. Prav, do. not be so timid!
At this moment a spider, who had just
completed her web near by, appeared turned
suddenly on the scene. The fly
pale Lay. and, xvithout warning, fainted quite
The spider seizing him, bore
himinto her web, whence he never reap-
1 d friend,” sighed the sheep
„ Alas! my quietly “it not so
as he walked away, is
much what vou are afraid of, as it is the
being afraid \”—Life,
STARTING.A PAPER.
wax an arkansaw enterprise was
SUDDENLY ABANDONED.
[From the Arkansaw Traveler.]
Captain Lomuth has just returned
from an interior county’, where he went
some time ago to establish a milch*
needed and loudly-demanded newspaper. full
When he left Little Rock lie was so
of hope, and so confident that his enter¬
prise would prove a success, that his
sudden re-appearance and declaration
that his venture was a failure, created
:ii inquiring interest among his friends.
“Why did you give up tho other enterprise,
captain ?” he was asked the even*
ing. “Well,” he lied, blowing cloud
rep a
of smoke over the head of a short inan
who sat on the opposite side of the
table, “I did not receive sufficient en¬
couragement to, continue, but received
a great deal of it to quit. Arkansaw
may be the future home of -the cottn*
try paper, but at present 1 am inclined
to believe that the hand press and the
roller are mistaking their calling, and
misappropriating the wisdom of tradi¬
tion, when they assume citizenship under
the rural piue tree. Some time ago I
heard that Bugleville wanted a news¬
paper, and that the citizens of the pros¬
perous place were so rife for a local pub¬
lication that they would willingly con¬
tribute toxvard the permanent establish¬
ment of a xveekly journal. I wrote and to his a
loading citizen of the town,
reply fairly blazed with encouragement,
“ ‘Of course wo want a newspaper,’ ho
said, ‘and to slioxv you hoxv alive our citi¬
zens are, coxae over and see what they
propose to put up by xvay of a starter.’
i xvent over. Everybody was glad to
seo me, and with considerable ceremony
I was conducted around tho town, con¬
sisting of a few board stores, a saw-mill,
a blacksmith shop, and ail undertaker’s
t stablislinieiit, xvhick seemed to be the
livest institution in the place. Filially
xve met in a back lot, and held a meeting
in regard to the paper. After numerous
speeches, it xvas agreed to grant me for¬
ty-five acres of land, situated near toxvn,
and then to further promote tho matter,
the mayor declared that ho xvonhl give
me a mule. This seemed encouraging
enough, and I invested what money I
had in an office. I soon got things originnb in
running shape, and by way of
it T called my paper the Shark. I did
not attempt to*canvass for subscriptions
until the first number xvas issued, could pre¬
ferring to let people see. what I do.
When the paper came out, I went
around town, having hired an apt pen¬
man to accompany me, and take down
the names of the subscribers, while 1
solicited and called them off. The first
man we struck said: ‘Certainly, you may
put me down. ’
“ ‘For a year ?’ I asked.
“ ‘Oh, yes, - or for two years.’ you,’ I
“ ‘I am much obliged to grate¬
fully replied. all. Needn’t write out
‘Not at a re¬
ceipt, for you see, one acre of the forty
five given you, was donated by me. I
don’t think that you will have any troiibk
running a paper on forty-live acres (1
land, for I understand that some of the
most successful papers in flic country
are operated on a basis of about ten
acres.
“I moved away, somexxdiat disap¬
pointed. The next gentleman, an intel¬
ligent looking fellow, said:
“ ‘I have always been regarded as the
most enterprising man in this communi¬
ty, and I must say that I am proud ol
the distinction. I was (he first man to
suggest the establishment of a nexvs
paper. and I shall lie by no means small
in mysuppoit. Put me down for two
subscribers—hold on, put me down foi
three, as I want to send a copy to my
brother. No, a receipt is unnecessary.
Ten acres, of the forty-live, were do¬
nated by me. Just give me credit on
your books for the balance.”
This dug dee]i into my flesh, but lie
seemed to be so interested in my success
that I could not tell him how I longed to
stand flat-footed on the top of a barrel
and split an oak board over his head.
• The next man xx’c approached intentions xvas very
warm in his praise of my ; but
I decided upon being careful. The land
racket had been worked on me just a
little too often and xvas in a fair xvay to
bankrupt my scheme.
“Did yon contribute any of the forty
five acres ? ” I asked.
“ Not a foot,” he repeated, “but not
because I did not favor the project. 1
am a surveyor, possess a fair degree than oi
intelligence and shall he more
pleased when you have worked up a
good circulation.”
“ You will of course subscribe ? ”
“Oh, yes, for two copies.” advance,”
“I must insist on pay in
I said, xvhen after a fexv moments he
still made no movements toxx'ard hand
ing out the money, right,” he replied. “I’ve
“You are
always thought that newspaper men
xvere indiscreet in giving credit. Say,
there’s a little balance on our account.
You see, I surveyed the forty-five
“ C “
G »a ** Kir,”with »»i„,lig»
tion that lent agility to my legs, I walked
away. Soon afterward I met the mayor
xvho subscribed for ten copies on the
strength of the mule, and a little further
j on I met a man who wanted to be put
j down for six months because be had fed
| the “I mule. decided to sell the land, and one
jay xvent out for the first time to esti
mate its value. It was on one side of a
mountain and stood on its edge. A
thrifty German, who owned a farm ad
; joining my land, said that he of plowed the land, by
j moans of a windlass at the top
NUMBER 21.
he would - 1
When the plow was wound up
throw it down, and a man stationed at
the bottom would arrange it for another
furrow. Just as I was about to close a
trade with the German, the sheriff came
out and seized the land for non-payment
of taxes. I went back to town and of¬
fered my office for sale, when one of
tho leading citizens mounted a stump
and said :
. . This is the return we get for kind¬
ness, fellow-citizens. We started him
in business, gave him lends and stock,
now he wants to desert us. We’ll give
him fifteen minutes in which to leave
the town,”
“I went to the stable to get my mule.
Ho was lying down in the .stable when 1
entered, but I aroused him, but a bridle
on .him, and left, Tho mule began to
stagger, and by the time I had gotten
two miles from town, he laid down and
died. Then I started on foot, and after
walking sixty miles reached the railroad.
I still oWn the office, figure.” and am willing to
sell at a reasonable
(foxv Bank Notes arc Redeemed.
Perhaps, says a- Washington holders cor¬ of
respondent, the thousands of
National bank notes in this country
would like to know something of their
redemption. The facts are The not generally National
known to the public. is in the
Bank Redemption Agency Treasury He*
Treasury building. lias The it, but tho
partment full control of
National banks themselves pay all the
expenses. To this agency pounds daily, and of
mutilated bank notes come and
those not fit for use are counted
ground up into pulp. From this the
color is extracted and the material sold
to paper makers. Tho money comes
to the agency from tho banks all over
tho country. It is sent by the Adams
Express, xvith whom the agency has a
s pecial contract. It is put up in pack¬
ages before being sent, and the amounts
in this are marked on their outside.
These packages must be counted on
their receipt here, and of the fifty-seyen
employees of the agency forty are count¬
ers of money. The counters arc very
skillful, and they are the most export of
detectives. If they make a mistake in
counting the amount is deducted from
their salaries; and if they permit
counterfeits to pass unseen these are
also deducted. In many eases these
counters have discovered counterfeits
when the most expert detectives have
passed them unnoticed. Bills are al ways
recounted, and the average number
counted each day is §300,000. This
continual practice gives such a delicate
touch that the difference in the quality
of the paper enables them to detect
counterfeits, and it has happened that
the engraver of a plate from which a note
WHS taken has declared that a note xvas
genuine until its defects were pointed
out by one of these counters. The txvo
worst counterfeits now out, which are
liable to deceive any one but an expert.
.na¬ .§5 bills on the Hampton National
Bank of Westfield, Mass., and $109 bills
on the Pittsburg National Bank of Com¬
merce. After tho notes are counted and
sorted those which are in good preser¬
vation are again issued, and those
mutilated are destroyed as above shown.
Female Government Clerks.
Boston The Washington correspondent The of tho
- Advertiser says: women
clerks employed by the Government in
Washington are paid poorly compared
with the male clerks. But $900 and
$1,000 are large sums compared with
xvlqit they could expect to receive in
Boston and Nexv York. What xvould the
shop girls in Boston say to going to a
desk at nine o’clock, completing their
work at four, going away ■without loss of
pay for a month’s summer vacation, and
staying at home xvith pay xvhenever ill?
And that is xvliat women clerks do here
at 81,000 a year.
What wonder that scores of them sup¬
port families, educate children and have
money saved. With the prospect of
permanency these government positions
are by no means despicable. They re¬
quire only honesty, decent and appearance iliey fur¬
and ordinary respectable education, and income. A
nish a sure
clerkship is not to be scorned, and the
clerks are to be pitied only of rigor because too
short hours and a idlers. laxity The encour¬
age shirks and women are
not xvorih so much as men. They are
less constant and harder to manage.
Butin some kinds of xvork they excel. A
feeling against their employment is
prevalent, based to some extent upon
the abuses which inevitably follow of xvhen
these places are given as matt ers glar¬ per¬
sonal favor. Some of these are so
ing and pernicious that they cannot be
told. But those xvho understand best
the way things have been xvill rejoice
that it is something besides favor xvhieh
xvill hereafter influence these selections.
In genera], women remain but a few
years in government employ. the Unfor¬ best
tunately, those xvho do not are
fitted.
It is no exaggeration to say that there
are hundreds of women xvho have out
groxvn their usefulness. But their pov¬
erty invites pity, and they are retained
in charity. Were “business the clerks principles” could
to control, one fourth of
be dispensed with; but, after all, tho
money thus spent is not wholly wasted.
There are pathetic stories enough that in
these offices to make one willing the
some latitude be allowed in retaining
stojin-Ucaieii.
rrsiuQUF/s NEW jpiumot: vy no is tms
sober Looking citizen? He’s a news
papor Funny Man. Are ail Humorous
Writers toxicated sober by Success. ? No, tbev This Are poor often bellow ^In-
1 j s Evidently one That has Not Caught
On. Right yon are, My Son.
STORY OP THE CUSTER MASSACRE
All Account of the slaughter Given by an
Indian Woman.
Since General Custer and his coni"
maud of three hundred were massacred
by the braves of Sitting Bull, two which or
three accounts have been given of
purported to be a corroet history the
tight. But of the particulars of tho
scene there have bees only meagre pnb- ac¬
counts. The Pioneer Press now
1 is lies an interview between a correspond¬
ent at Standing Rock Agency and the
wife of Tatatukahegl ska, or Spotted
Horn Bull. This woman is first cousin
of Sitting Bull, and the story is vouched
for ns being a true account of tho battle.
Aft r describing the advance and the re¬
treat of Ma jor Reno—whom she declared
to be either drunk or crazy, and his men
t horoughly panic-stricken—the and its woman
stated that the retreat conse¬
quent slaughter was scarcely trumpets ended told
when the blare of Custer’s
the _Sioux of his approach; but they
" prepared for him. The quiet¬
wore men
ly crossed the river, and hundreds gal¬
loped to his rear, out of range at first,
but soon hemming him in constantly
narrowing circles. The woman mounted
her pony and rode behind her camp,
where she could get a good view of tho
hills beyond. She saw the troops come
up and dismount. Each fourth man
seized the bridles of three horses besides
his own. The rest deployed and ad
vane d on the run toward the river. She
saw the terrible effect of the withering lire
which greeted tho approach side item of tho the
willows on the Indian’s
slroarn, and laughed ns she said : “Our
people, boys and all, kill had the plenty soldiers. of gi ms
and ammunition to new
Those who had run away left them be¬
hind.” Slowly trotting north along tho
outskirts of the encampments, she noted
tho Indians xvho had crossed getting
closer to the troops. She watolled the
latter—those who were left of them—
retreat to their horses and mount. She
heard the yells of her kindred and tho
shouts of_the whites; but soon, as tho
former grew ploiitier and the latter
fewer, she could distinguish little save
here and there an animated cluster of
men and horses.
Slowly the pony jogged down tho
- When she'reached tlio Minrns
stream. left,,
conjo camp, on the extreme not an
hour’s ride, sho said not one white sol
ah-r xvas visible on the field. Of horses
there were plenty; these the Indians
stripned The Ouster fnen xvero soon
and tho Indians knew they bad
kilted the long-haired chief; by his buck
g;i:i coat trimmed with beaver which
Liey found upon him. Tho Sioux lost
thirty killed and more than twice as
many wounded, Indians numbering
•five thousand in all.
The Romance of line Bridge.
The Brooklyn Bridge has its romance.
In 1867, xvhen tin; first Bridge Company
John V.’Y.H formed, A. Roebling, tho distinguished at engineer, secured
xvas once
as the Chief Engineer of the .xvork. Ilia
thorough practical knowledge of the
truetion of suspension bridges pointed
him out as the proper person for the
position. IIo bad already contemplated
Mali a stracllire and felt a warm inter
e-;fc in the enterprise. He embarked in
it. with enthusiasm, and for two years
worked faithfully at the important ore
linrinarios.
One day xvliile standing on the pier at
the feiry slip on tlie Brooklyn crushed. side Sixteen his
foot xvas accidently
days after this unfortunate occurrence the
eimincer di >d of lockjaw, before a stroke
of actual construction had been done to
the bridge. Hero was one valuable life
sacrificed to tho great work.
The dead man’s son, who xvas familiar
with all his plans, took his place as Chief
Engineer. Like his father, lie xvas' de¬
voted to tho enterprise. lie labored at
it more dilligeiitly aild for more hours of
the day than any of his subordinates,'
until a disease, contracted through con¬
stant exposure to the damp of the foun¬
dations, destroyed his health. Three
years after his father’s death ho xvas
physically prostrated, although his mind
remained as clear as ever. He removed
to a house on Brooklyn Heights from
the wiuddxvs of which he could constantly .
watch and direct the work, although twelve his
limbs xvero powerless. laboring For years
his brain has been on the un¬
dertaking. xvliile the devotion and intelli
gence of ins wife have made up for tho
loss of his bodily activity.
Colonel Roebling’s health has been
sacrificed to the work, perhaps beyond ■
recovery. His sufferings, liis persever¬
ance and the assistance he receives from
his wife’s devotion call to mind tlio caso
of Mr. Henry Faxvcctt, the English Post¬
master General, xvho, although afflicted
with blindness, carries on with the aid
of his xvife one of the most exacting and
laborious departments of the Govern¬
ment Despite their misfortunes, Mr.
Fawcett’s administration is vigorous and
efficient and Colonel Roebling’s brain
work has been of inestimable value to
the bridge enterprise.
l eft Him There.
One ot the characters in Lord Beacons
field’s “Eufl.vmion,” the named famous Mr. London Vigo,
was intended for
tailor, Poole. The story of Poole is now
going the r< uuds that, xvhen walking one
day in King’s road, Brighton, I)86ulunching a .“larky”
yor.ng nobleman, whoiiad
with some friends, determined to “risk -
a fife ut Poole,” as he expressed it. So
eoiug to “our Vigo," he loudly asked -
what thedeucehem aut by building lord) such
a coat as that he (the young xvas
wearing. The eminent tailor ...merely !
said that ho regretted having failed to
meet xvith his lordship’s approbation, *
and asked him to button up the coat.
This done, Mr. Vigo took a piece of tail¬
or’s chalk Donalds pocket and proceeded
quite gravely to mark and remark the
.
coat well mountebank’s nigh ail over, jacket, until and it. looked then,
like a
gravely raising his hat. lie assured his
lordship that if he would call with the
coat the next time he was duly passing, alter-.it Ids
(Mr. Vigo’s) people Would
for him". And' long bc-f re the yymng
sprig ° of nobilitf had hit upon a rl-fort,
’ lie xvas hit in the centre of a group of,*
grinning friends.
elu sion of some matter of business upon
which it xvas evident they could not agree. 1
-The Continent,