St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 February 1888 — Page 1

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AT EVE. BYWM. HAUGHTON. ghe stood beneath u clustering vine, Apd 'midst the shadows dim, Intones, half mortal, half divine, She sang an evenin; hymn. Was it the music low pud sweet, The mystic fall of angel feet, Or twilight s pensive witch“ry, That brought me near, O, heaven, to thee? I dimly saw the fair young face And traced the childish form, But all the holy, happy place With breathing love was warm. The robin paused a while to hear The plaintive music throbbing near. Then with a songburst wild and free, Poured out his heart in melody. O, happy child, methinks there came A seraph from the throng, And on the sunset wings of flame Caught up thy rapturous song. The deepening dusk from yonder skies Prank in the azure of thine eyes ; The night upon thy fair young head Its dews of balm and blessing shed. Some angel sent that song to win My faith upon its wings ; To wake the music mute within To heaven and holy things. I may forget that fair, sweet form, The hour with twilight beauty warm— But roam I still the wide world o'er, 'iho song will leave mo nover more. CHAPTER XVL KETE had early learned that prudence is the better part of valor, and, consequent--Iy> n °t without a quake x ’ n his heart, did he draw rein instantly at • that peremptory command. •\\ Out from a wayside \ z bush stepped a tall, >2 rough-looking fellow, clad in the usual garb of a hunter and plainsman, and Sxete thought his large sombrero covered about the ugliest, glummest looking specimen of humanity he ever beheld. “ ’Fore de Lor’, boss, how you skeeredme!” “You don’t turn very vale, if I did,” laughed the man coarsely, chewing vigorously his mouthful of tobacco and leaning lazily on his rifle. "\\ hero be you goin’, Black Joe?” “My name ain’t Black J oe, it’s Skete, an’ I’m on my way home from de Indian country back dar.” “Ah, my handsome dark friend, so you’ve been in the Indian country ? Did you see any Indians?” “Yes, boss; a plenty. I lodged in their village.” “Likely lie. Why, there ain’t a redskin as lives that would let a nigger go scot free.” “But they did, boss; dey nebber touched Skete.” “Ho 1 ho! and they give you that ar pony to ride back home on, and a kiss, no doubt, of good-by.” “No, boss, dey didn’t gib me no pony, nor no kiss’tall; I jist took de pony, an’ rode off in de night. ” “How long ago?” “Three, four days.” “And you’ve been all this time in the mountains, and nobody shot or scalped you ?” “Yes, boss.” “Now where are you going?” “I tole you, boss, while ago. I’m going back to de ole home; de ranch in Nebraska—or de place where de ranch was; it am burned down now.” “Burned down, eh! Oh, yes; I begin to see daylight myself. Very well, my dark friend, you’ll come along o’ me for the present, and I’ll show you a short cut across the country.” Skete didn’t like the idea of accepting his present new acquaintance as a guide, but he had not the courage to say as much, and with sinking heart he followed him to where his pony was grazing, and when he had mounted him rode quietly along by his side. “You don’t look overjoyed, my colored friend, but as we jog along suppose you tell me something about that visit of yours to the Indians.” Skete complied the best ho cou’d, and his account was graphic and, his hearer felt convinced, truthful. “Well, well.” he mused, “you seem to bear a charmed life, sure enough, but I tell you it’s lucky for you none o’ them redskins caught you making off with that pony; if they had you'd if® She wandered down to the river bank. never lived to tell the story of what happened then. Now we’re to go northward.” “But I—l want to go East. I’m powerful anxious to see Miss Nora, boss.” “Yes; very likely. Didn’t I tell you I knew a shc.t cut? Come on, you black rascal, an’ none o’ yer foolin’. I won’t stand it.” Skete saw his hand rested on his revolver, and tremblingly yet very unwillingly he followed by his side,pretty well satisfied ho was going farther and farther every step from the old home on the prairies. “Skete had better lay 10. Skete beginning to find out dis yar country, and when de time does coma now Skete make tracks afoot, back wher* Skete

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knows der am friens who will take him I to Miss Nora.” At midnight they had penetrated far ! into the mountains, where all at once ! Skete began to realize that his surroundings were familiar. “Golly, dis yer de very place where ’ Jim Gregory bring me, ” thought he, ' but he prudently kept silent. “Trees j an’ rocks an’ roads. Yes, we be going straight back so Satan’s Roost. Oh, Lor’! what’ll ole Jim do wid dis yer darkey ?” But when they rode up to the outlaws’ secret home, Jim Gregory gave a real jolly laugh at the sight of Skete’s black, frightened face. “Land alive, man, where did you run across that chap ? W ell, of all things! Why, Skete, my boy, I thought the Indians had made mincemeat or broiled meat out of you. How in thunderation did ye ever git away from em ?” “I—l jist rode away, boss.” “His story’s a good one, ” said his companion; “you’ll have to let him tell it in his own way, Captain; but we’re both deuced hungry. Got anything for a feller to eat, and any rows worth mentioning?” “Plenty o’ truck if Skete can cook it; an’ there’s a big thing on hands—an’, besides, the old Captain made his appearance awhile ago.” “I thought he'd said good-by to Satan’s Roost fur good.” “So he did, it seems, till he run across There, Skete, hurry along. You know the way now; fly!” Reluctantly Skete departed. He wondered much what great things were i about to be communicated, but ho was hungry and began preparations for supper with alacrity. There appeared to be only a few of I the men around the premises, and Skete । felt that there was a possible chance for his escape. “Golly, 1 guess Skete km w de way dis time; every tree an’ bush Skete ; watch; jes let dem robber scamps drop off sleep an’ Skete crawl out and am off fur shure to Miss Nora.” In the dusk of the mountain shadows and pines, with supper over, Skete be- । gan to feel new hopes springing up in ! his bosom, and could scarcely refrain from breaking out in song. The men lingered in the shadow of the trees around their lire, and Skete crept back in the darkness of the sheltered nest, or rather played-out claimwell, named now Satan’s Roost. A faint light gleamed at the far end, and as Skete wondermgly drew near with cautious tread ho saw something AX ; Ue saw something move. move from a bed of skins, and ns he advanced a low, startled cry greeted his approach. “Merciful heavens! Ob, thank God! Skete, dear, dear old Skete, is it really yon?'* “ ’Fore de Lor’, Miss Nora, honey, it’s nebber you. ” CHAPTER XVII. ESTER GRAY had been in the West long enough to be tolerably well up to its dangers, and it was , A ) with a wildly beating heart and troubled brain that ‘ fr e se ^ ou ^ to rescue Nora frolu wl j atever evil mi s ht ■ menace her. ” " He inferred naturally that Nora would ride toward the mountains. The novelty and beauty of the scene would entice her to enter; once in their treacherous paths and roads she had no doubt become lost, or else had been waylaid by bandits or captured by some party of sneaking redskins, who occasionally still wandered about their old hunting grounds. “I myself may become lost if I ven- j ture across the mountains. I had better seek a guide and begin my search with some method,” thought Lester. He reasoned well, and an excellent guide was at once secured, a man who I had long been a hunter and Indian fighter, and knew the secret passes and canyons of the Rockies equal to any Indian. When Lester appealed to him his answer was to begin looking after the I condition of his firearms, without a word of reply. Impatient at his silence, Lester exclaimed : “You’ll not refuse. Surely, you are willing to help me find this dear friend that I fear is in danger.” Then old Rube looked at him queerly, and dryly remarked : ■““Young man, what you take me fur? i reckon I’ll do what I kin." But when they were ready Rube refused to ride, saying: “I don’t need no boss. I prefer to take the kind nature provides. You ride ahead. I’ll catch you ’fore you know it. ” And Lestei’ dashed away, only to find, when he reached the base of the mountain and approached the broad mountain road, old Rube there in advance. “How in the world?” ho began. The old hunter and trapper smiled grimly. ' “I told you I git along all right an besides I knew a short cut. You had best turn that feller loose an’ let him return to town. I’m of the opinion the gal didn’t take to the road, but has followed some one o’ them treacherous trails. ” ; “What makes yon think that?” “Oh, gals are skittish critters gineral- ■ lv, most always doin’ what they’ve no i business to Ah i” > “What! have you discovered any- ) thing ?”

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Rube scratched his head and pondered a moment as if puzzled. “Yes, there’s been two or three persons went in this here trail, one o’ the wust in the Rockies, too; two bosses I should say an’ —an’ I believe a feller afoot. I'm purty sure o’ the two bosses, one o’ them I calculates is the gal’s pony.” “Then let us hasten after her at once.” “Not so fast, young man, you don’t know the beauties o’ that trail, but I iW'VuA" ■ H&WK ''Ain't you the same?" do, an’ besides there’s another way heap better for a feller afoot. We 11 igo that way. Come on, if you want i to, but, mind you keep quiet. Its a J gitten too tarnel dark to trail any way. ; but we ll probably gain just as much to go straight through this way.” Lester had always prided himself on , his nimbleness of foot and his powers ' of endurance, but he now found them tested to the utmost. How Rube managed to swing himself across precipices, steep, seemingly im- j l passable places, clinging for dear lif j now to a stout bush, now a ledge of overhanging rocks, was a thing not easy I for a tenderfoot to imitate. Nevertheless, by Rube watching and ; ' encouraging his progress, Lester managed to escape any accident, and as day j began to dawn, weary, covered in moist earth and almost breathless, he gazed around him. • Horo we are, pard,” exclaimed Rube in his quiet, pleasant voice, that to I Lester's excited feelings had a most excellent effect in soothing his troubled mind and wearied body. “ Here we are at the foot of ’tother trail, and, as I expected, we’re a trifle late.” “What do you mean? Has she really and truly been here?” “Yes, 1 think so; but they must have left early in the night.” “They who?” Rube pursed up his lipsand whistled and regardi d Lester witli a queer smile. ‘‘Wall, really, my boy, ti.ot’s a hard question; hunters, very probably, but we’ve a long trail ahead o’ us. an' we'll eat a bite and rest an hour or so, an then move on. 1 see you’re purty tired and need rest.” “Ain't you the same?” Rube shook his head. “I never allow myself to git tired, my j boy. I never go fast enough for that,” “Well,” laughed Lester, ruefully, “if you call the way we crossed the mountain slow, I'd like to know what your fast gait might be. But if hunters found Nora they would surely lead het back to her friends.” “Mebbe so, mebbe so.” “But if sho foil into the hands of some cruel Indian party, then alas!” "No, no, my boy. miry Injun carried her off; but we ve other varmints, 1 kin tell you, than Injuns.” “But you said you thought it might I have been some hunters.” "I did, an’so it piiybt; but, la me! 1 > couldn’t swear* to the facts o’ the ease. I ■ 1 find they hev started in a direction ; the opposite of the way that leads tc Cheyenne.” “Heavens! Then she must have i been borne off captive by some foe! Oh, my poor, dear little Nora,” sighed । Lester. “Let us hasten on our way, I am quite rested now. ” “All right, pard, I’ll try to take things moderate for your sake. See tn । yer shooters’ and then we’ll start.” The day was passed in following the trail as rapidly as possible, but as night set in Rube suggested to his wearied companion that they had bet- | ter pause for the night, and get a good ■ sleep and rest. "I kin fuller the trail a heap surer ' by daylight, and it won’t do to miss our game now, pard, so well eat a bit ; of cold lunch and sleep for a few hours. I’ve an idee we've a lot of trouble ' ahead.” [TO BE CONTINUED. J Appearances. It is all very well to say “don’t judge I from appearances;” but in emergencies that preclude the investigations of i facts, appearances are sometimes the | only basis upon which to found an ' opinion or a decision. For instance, in cases where there is neither time nor opportunity to ascertain the antecedents of applicants for employment, it is necessary to judge them by the eye; and the eye of a shrewd, observant man is rarely at fault under such circumstances. The theory that appearances are generally fallacious is in itself a fallacy. When we see a fellow with a face like a bull-dog, wo know very well ho is not a philanthropist, and no one who ever looked upon the mild countenance of Howard could ; suppose that under any combination of events he could have figured us api i rate or a poisoner. Napoleon held that firmness and courage were indi- : cated by a large, well-formed nose, and that military genius was never the con- ; comitant of a snub. Examine the ; portraits of the world’s great captains, from the era of Julius Cicsar down to that of Wellington, and you will find [ Napoleon’s dictum correct. Good Advice. : “About to make a trip to Europe, eh?” ; “Yes; and as you are an old traveler, I I thought 1 would ask you what is ' । good for sea-sickness.” ' I “There’s only one thing that will 1 prevent it. I know this, for I have crossed the ocean seventeen times.” "What is that?” eagerly. “Just before buying your ticket, > take a dose of strychnine.” Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Notes cn the Lesson for February 12—“ Jesus and the Little Ones.” IFwm the Chicago Standard.] The lesson lor the above date may bo found in the first fourteen verses of the eighteenth chapter of Matthew. DAILY HEADINGS. M.—Jesus and the Little Ones. Natt.l7:l-13 j T.—Jesus an Example lor the Young. Luke 2: 40-52. W. —The Childlike Believer. Mark 9: 83-5), T—Serving Ono Another. John 13: 1-17. E.—Christhko Uuselfisness. I’lul. 2: 1-18. B.—Grace for the Humble. 1 I’otar 5: 1-14 B.—Christ and his Disciples. Matt2s: 31-46. BREAKFAST VEBSES. M.—“ The kingdom of God.” Rom. 14: 17. T.—-‘*Siiall ho find faith?” Luke 18: 8. W.—“ Consider your nays.” lluggai 1: 5. 'l'.—"Aly children.” John 3; 4. F.—“Humbio yourselves. ” James 4: 10. 8.—“1 love them that love me. ” Proverbs ' 8: 17. , ix—“My kingdom.” John IS: 3(5. IX>’B<>DUCTOi;Y. The Galilean mimstry is drawing to a close. Clinst is about to bid farowod—and ho knows that it is to be forever—to "sweet Galilee” and its familiar surroundings. Ere ho turns his steps and those of his disciples toward far-away Jerusalem, he pauses for a time, in the city of his frequent sojournings, Capernaum; an 1, as seems iv.d -iit, it is at the house ot Peter. 'Hie minds of his disciples are now at rest as to his Mossiahship. lie is indeed tiie Son of Cod. Hut they are not at perfect peace amongst themselves us to priv leges ami prerogatives. Christ must needs teach them here two lessons; one on forgiveness as m next Sunday’s Scripture selection, another on humility, the topic of this week. Taking up a little child—per- ! haps, as Dr. Broadus suggests, one of ! Peter’s own—ho teaches the disciples ami us I a lesson which none of us, so long as his I spirit abides with us, cares to forget Happy : tue Christian, happy the church that learns it : Well. WHAT Till. LESSON TEACHES. ".If the same time came the a’ixeip/ec. It was at . the same time when our Lord Ind been teuehI ing Peter through the tribute-money (Matt. ■ 17: 24-27) of Ilie spiritual freedom ot the I children of tlm Kingdom ; vet behold ; them coming here w ill shackles of I ■ worldly sertuom sttH upon them. It was j at thu same limo that lie had set his face I toward the city of immolation, "and they were ; exceeding sorry’' (17: 23); yet here they Como I as if going up to a worldly touni'y mstoad. । | Os a truth, as Mark says (9: 32), "they understood not that saving." i B7io i' the yr.iitixtf Thoughts of rank and , caste. 1 bus m tlie midst of tile wheat of the kingdom do the rankest tares of heathenism spring up. Perhaps the Hentim mt expressed hero ha* more of tim core of worldhueas in it than any word yet spoken by the apostles. It repreeenta pure setiishness, and strikes directly at th heart of true Christianity. It was hard for the disciples to put tins sly devil | | from them. Again and again, veil up to the I very hour of tnmr Savior's death, it was getting tho advantage of them. Ami wo who, 1 with our democratic notions of equality, have । I less temptation than did they, even in the I light of thia Christian ceuturv, arc not guilt- I less hero. Lit him that is w ithout sin cast tho first stone. /« the kim/d’m of h' <i ,i. It was, in part, a laudable ambition, hr, as Chryaost 'tn su ' goats, it was not worldly, but -I -tmc ively re- ■ hg ous There is, how v-w, impiety m our : spiritual th sires. L axl, keep thou us f- .i i presumptuous sins Was Iktor appointed ■ spiritual pr mate? If so, tho disciples would | ! haveknowi.it. Vet why then this quest on? If 1 so, Christ would have bad hero a couveiiieiit ' opportunity for Us iullor enunciation; yet bohotd, ho mys nothing of it. Significant si- । leneo! Called a little child and .of him in the midst. 1 This is one blessed thing Christianity has | done for the world. It ha > called up tho child I from his neglect al corner and set him in the I midst. I. ok nt the ohl chidlnss feasts ant i assembhes of hi athondum, and then look at , tho Sunday-school, a symbol of tho Christian life of 10-dav. A little child sot in tho midst, like that child of tweivo amid-t the doctors of } the temple, has b n for tho renewal and ! blessing of the world. ) < shall not enter. Ah, tho question is su<! ilotily changed. It is not how high up shall 1 be piaeed, but shall I have a p.ace in that , kingdom at all? Not pre-eminence, but sim- : plo entrance. I'uleas we come with themeek- । ues^ of ehillhoQd, w may well despair of ■ gel ting any furtln r than tho outer door. Peter, you may think you have some claim . from tho event of the great confession. AuI drew, y> u wi re, perhaps, first called. John i and James, you were also with Him in the ; mount Liatt n, the word is for tho humbling j of you all: "Except yo Ln converted and Ire- ; come as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.” I H7«w<> shah <f l nd. Jesus is the ohildreu's ‘ friend. Childhood has m Christ a ehami'ion. The L >rd Jesus dignified youth and childhood i in more ways than one while here on earth. . So closely doos he identify himself with the estate of the little ones that to often I one o. the least of them is to offend him When you i sei a child, think of Christ. We may rightly ' say that m the children, and all indeed who uro meekly dopemdemt, we have an opportu- ; nity to prove our Christ an charity ami devotion; a practical opportunity in tho sehem s for children’s aid now before us. To do good I or ill to the littl' Onoe is to do good or ill to j their Frieml in the heavens. | Jt must cds be that offenses come. Account ■ for it as you may, the truth abides: tun is a world of temptation. Whether wo account I for it or not, tho fact and consciousness abides. Sin is in the world. Do wo reconcile it with God’s s ivereignty and sympathy? Yes, just as Jesus did. He acknowledged both truths. Siu exist God is good. Tho heart confirms both. It is enough for the present. Jdut tcoe to that man through whom the offense cometh. Did Judas hear it'? If so, could he ever forget these words, and may they not have been at the very heart of his subsequent remorse? At any rate, willing participation in offense is blood-guiltiuess. It may bo true that inen’a appotitos and passions will abide m Willfulness and wantonness, but woe to that person who encourages or puts temptation in the way. “On my way home from my work,” said the man aga.n I abandoned to his cup j , “1 had to pass twenty drinking-saloons >with the small ol liquor strong about their doors, I could pass by the most of them, perhaps, but the nineteenth or twentieth caught me every time.” Woe to the men, yes, and woe to the municipality, by whom such offense cometb. Cut them off'. Heroic treatment, but effectual. Even blameless things, if they are v.n oc'asioti of evil, are to bo resolutely exfiuded. The hand, suggesting control, the loot, energy, the eye, intelligence-—whatever in the domain of these militates against tho higher life, it is duty and policy to sacrifice. As you care for vour soul, cut them off. In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my bather. It is the children’s kingdom and the royal estate of all the weak and lowly They have advocates, favored and honored, in tho high courts of heaven. Despise them not. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for tlioirs is the kingdom of heaven. ” IMoiceth more. What is heaven’s commonest joy? Head it here. It is soul-saving. 1 Lat the passion of the coles ti ll hosts become the moving passion of tho church on earth. । How manv in this Sunday-school have this ; I year occasioned songs of joy in heaven by their conversion? Go I wants, along with others, tho children. Shall ho not have them? b)ven so it is not the with And what is heaven’s will regarding the needy of earth? It is that thoy perish not—that they believe on ' tho Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. A’ery well, then, we have our commission. Lot us > catch UP tho calls of high heaven for tho i hoodloss children of mon, "Turn ye, turn ye, for why will yo die! saith the Lord of hosts.’ HINTS. Notice as suggested in these verses: Christ 1 as a teacher. Novel lessons from our Suvior^H lipa. l lio i‘hihl in the kingdom. — —-Christ and the helpless. The door of . entrance.— —The oap-‘meaf of tho Christian > aMtuos.— —A world us offenses. Christ’s j p. ohibitions. Prudent decision. Roprosentation in the heavens. Tho face of tho > Father. Tho “o trays” of earth.——Songs among the angels.——God and the world.

THE CUSTER MASSACRE! | Allison, the Noted Scout, Recounts the - Story of the Terrible •“ Affair. lie Claims that if Reno Had Done His Duty Custer Would Have Achieved a Victory. [Chicago special.] Edward 11. Allison, tho celebrated Government scout, passed through Chicago a few days ago on his way to Washington. This famous Indian hunter, came into prominence ten years ago, when he succeeded in bringing about without aid the ! surrender of Sitting Bull and his murderous baud of Sioux Indians. Scout Allison, as the army officers call him, is a remarkably intelligent man, and, in spite of his rough exterior, has tho carriage of a gen- J tieman. In a talk with a Chicago reporter he told of the events that brought about the prolonged and bloody warfare between Sitting Bull’s band and the United States. He blames the Indian agents tor it all. As an illustration, he mentioned the case of an agent who some years ago had charge of the Standing Hock agency. This agent, the scout ’ claims, made $50,000 in eighteen months ' by cheating the Indians out of what was justly due them. He made them live on soup and ax-handies. These were the only goods the agent could not trade for furs. To his own personal knowledge, a steamer loaded with three hundred tons of provisions and amnesty goods, consisting of clothing, blankets, tobacco, and general supplies, intended for distribution among the Indians connected with the Sioux tube, had touched at the agency, but after taking the invoices the agent had sent the goods live hundred miles farther up tho river, where they were traded for his personal advantage. By a bit of rascality tho invoices were returned to the Government Supply Department with forced certificates of distribution atta lied. Tho scout related tins incident in a manner that indicated his cordial contempt for tho transaction, and Ins frank, epen countenance changed expression altogether as he told of other episodes that led to the death of his friend, the gallant Custer, on that memorable dav in -lune, 1876. Mils ni Ims acquired more facts concerning this tragic cir umstanee than any man in the eountr .. I his intelligence has been obtained by diligent inquiry among the squaws and children of the warriors who i paitn ipated in the massacre. The Indians ' could not ti i the story and no whites were j left to relate it. " Gain-in-the- l ace” did I not kill Custer, Allison declines, although he is credited with so doing. Neither was he i*t the battle. The scout has the proof , that “llaiu-in-the-Face” was watching tho I movements of Gon. Crook s troops titty miles away when Custer met his death, i Crook wus then iiihanemu from the north. I Regarding the buttle, Allison says that I Man Reno, who has since been dismissed I from the I nited Stales army, was alone to I Illume foi the slaughter of Custer and his I men. Il wus duo -olelv to Reno's cowardice, and at the inquiry that followed the | .Major wa ■ wbitewashc I sinq lv through the shame his brother otlieeis felt at having him as a conqainioii. Custer has been accused of rashness, wlarvas lie acted altogethi r correctly and in aeeordimee with j the surroundings and bis knowledge of the Indian mode ot lighting. His manner of attack was well planned. The redskins were greatly surprised. When Custer swooped down upon them their hors s were giu/.m ; uutethered on the plums, and their tepees or huts were standing up- 1 right. During tho panic that followed the ; sudden appeimiuce of this galloping band of cavalrymen, one of Sitting Bull’s wives ■ forgot one of her twin babies, and left it j behind her in her flight. The child was . subsequent!.! mimed “bled and Aban- j doued.” Be bears that name to-day. Reno s eyes, the scout says, gave every woman and child the appearance of a war- । rior of the Silting Bull character. He gave ' the order to retreat without apparent cause, । and before he had lost a man. Major > Reno’s command numbered 270 men all । told, and Custer had about the same num- ! ber. Captain Benteen, who commanded ’ the third division, had two companies, or ' about 130 men. The attacking force numbered very close to 700, all well mounted. | Captain Benteen joined forces with Reno on the hill about two miles from where i ('lister was. The Indians, seeing that Reno ; was retreating, called to their flying com- ■ rades to return and give battle; that the ■ whites were cowards. As soon as Sitting । Bull could gather his braves together he left enough of his warriors and boys to eu- i gage Reno’s soldiers and then threw his ; whole fighting force on Custer aud his ; doomed band. Sitting Bull’s entire army did not number more than 1,290 men, but his warriors were good lighters aud well : armed with Winchester repeating ritles and o her modern appliances of warfare Ca]>t. Benteen begged Ueno to hasten to Custer’s aid, predicting a massacre should he not re-enforce him; but even then it was too late. If Reno had held the position he had before ordering a retreat, ten minutes longer, Custer would have struck the camp at the lower end and gone through it as easily as a bull dould plow through a corn-field. The whole Indian question would have then and there been settled. But Sitting Bull and his warriors were the victors, and a five years’ bloody warfare iolowed. Allison’s assiduous inquiry leads him to believe that it took about an hour to concentrate all his men. The great Sioux chief threw a wall of redskins about tho cavalrymen, and then the slaughter began. That Custer died hard was demonstrated by the fact that the ground about where his body was found by General ferry’s troops the following day was thick with cartridge shells. Strange as it may appear, only twenty-seven of Silting Bull’s braves were killed during the light. The scout has made careful inquiry and is quite positive on this point. Major Reno lost thirteen men during Ins retreat. As soon as the work of extermination was complete a carnival of butchery and mutilation began. The atrocities of the squaws was simply barbarous. Sitting Hull and his chiefs searched for Custer’s body, but could not find it. They knew him as the “Longhaired Chief,” but as the General had his hair cut in the spring before starting put on the expedition, they did not recognize him, so the barbarous story of “Rain-in-the Face” cutting out his heart aud eating a piece of it goes for naught. MILLSTONES ELY IN PIECES. Three Ulen Killed and Three Wounded by a Singular Accident Near Tuscola, 111. ITuseola (111-) special, i The burs in the grist mill in Broadlands exploded Tuesday evening, killing three men and badly wounding three more. Ibe building was blown to atoms and parts of the large stones were thrown half a mile. “What do you grow on this land?” he inquired of the farmer, who was leaning । over a fence, inspecting a particularly bari ren piece of ground. “Grow lazy,” was the | satisfactory reply.

CONGRESSIONAL. Work of the Smate and the House of Representatives. The bill to increase the pension of the totally helpless to 872 per mmth passed tiro Senate on the 2d mat. Mr. Cut om introduced u bill permitting officers who have served in one grade lor twenty-oue years t > draw tho pay of tho next higher grade, yr bo retired on tho pay allowed to retired ollie yrs of the next grade. Mr. Kenna addressed thu Senate on the ITesideut’B ' tariff message and in reply to Mr. Sherman's j speech on the sun o subject. Mr. bhorman i replied to Air. \omia, and Mr. Keagan ' spoke brieliy in de: enso of the administration tariff policy. Mr. 1' .umb addressed the Semite I in favor of his rosol .tiou regarding inefficient mail service in th a South aud West. Mr. Ingalls announced the appointment of the following special conn littoe on the Pacific Kail- ; road funding bills a ad tho President's message and comniissiou reports: Messrs. Irye, Dawes, Hiscock, l>nvis, Morgan, Butler and Hearst. In tho House of Kejneseutativos, Mr. Ci ain, of Toxas, from the Committee on Prisidentinl Elections, etc., reported a joint resolution proposing a constitutional umeudmet t providing that Congress shall bold its aum al meetings tho first Moui day in January. Mh Ford, of Michigan, in- । troduced a bill for tlie organization of tho Territory of Alaska. After considerable debate the bill to prevent t le t< ansmissiou through the mails us second-class matter of cheap literature, aud requirm; it to bo transmitted ns third-class mutter, was passed; Yeas, 145; uavs, UG. Mr. Dockery reported a bill to tho House of llopreseutatives, on the 3d iust„ authorizing the appointment of eleven division superintend- ■ ents of the railway mall service. A bill was ' reported for tho relief of the sufferers from the wreck of the Talia) oosa. Mr. Nutting of Now York, offered a rest lution calling on the Hecretar ■■ of the Treasur ,■ for information in regard to the refusal of t 10 Canadian authorities to allow American vreeking vessels and machinery to assist American vessels while in distress in Canadian waters, and us to whether Canadian wreekin? vessels and machinery are permitted to opera o in American waters. The amendments were conuorrod'in to the House bill to punish crime in the Indian Territory. Tho Senate wus no ; in session. Tub White-Lowery contested election <me occupied :he exclusive attention of the House >u the 4th inst. Mr. Cockrau, of New York, made a t«n-minuto speech in favor of White, saying the whole case rested on his own testimony, that he had natural! atiou yap irs, and tffat lie for one was unwilling to im.icato a disbelief in the tu-timony of the brave soldier who helped to cemeit the Union with blood, or to tear open afresh bis wounds reveiled in defense of his country. The bill fixing times and pla >es of holding United States courts In Minnesota makes dates as follows: In I'uluth in April of each vear; St. Paul in June : and Hecember; W nona in January. The urgent deficiency bill, us reported to the House, permits the use of mo :iey left over from the amount granted for tie n» s on the postoffice building last v rar to be deioted to general repairs of the building. There v ras no session of the Senate. Mu. Hoar, from the select committee on the celebration of tin centennial of the Constitu- ■ tion, reported in t io Senate, on the 6th inst., a । joint resolution providing, in addition to such I other celebration us may hereafter lie provided ! (er, “that the two aousesof Congress shall meet m the hull of th < House ot Kepresentutives; : that tho Chief Jus lice ot the United States shall deliver an ora ion." The resolution was । adopted. Mr. 1 lutt addressed the Senate in op{>osition to the tariff views expressed in the President' i message Mr. Carlisle re- ; sumod his dutii s ns Speaker of the House alter a two week-' absence. The Lowry-White contest wus docid id in fan rot Mr. White, the sitting member, I y the decisive vote ot 187 to 1 ... Unity seven Democrats voted with the Kepublioans in favor ot White. Among the । bills aud resoluti ms introduced in tho House were the follow ng : Uy Mr. Chipman, rosolut - . f the Heir >.t Board of Trade in favor ot ' a i< -tal telegraph; by Mr 1 uades, for a public building at Olney, Hl.; by Mr, lan lei, to protect tho consumers of butter by requiring wholesale uealers to puy an annual tux of SSOJ and retail dealers to pay an annual tax o SI; also to repeal the oleomargarine tax; by Mr. Cuswell, for a public building at Kacine. Wis.; by Mr. Baker, directing the Committee on Military' Afi airs to iuquii' into the expediency of the (loverument pin chasing the site of Old Fort < hnrtros, Illinoi- ; bv Mr. Peters, forapublic building at Hute- linson, Kan. ; by Mr. O Neall, lor a public building at Vincennes, Ind. Mb. Svwv i n, cl Wisco. in, introduced a bill in the Senate, on tho 7th inst., providing that all soldiers who nerved at least ninety days in the late war and were honorably mustered out i or dischargo.l on surgeons' certificates of disability shall be entitled to receive the same : bounty to which they would have been entitled , had their lull term of enlistment been served out. Mr. Stockbridge, of Michigan, introduced n bill refunding to pilots, engineers, and mates I of steam vessels, or their heirs, the license I fees which the; have paid since the law was passed in In 1. Licenses hereafter are to be free. Ho also introduced a bill ' making it obligatory upon every sort of steiunor to carry at ull times a full complement of licensed ollie srs and a full crew. The law | now applies onl fto passenger steamers The Senate also idopted a resolution directI ing the Commerce Committee to inquire into i the right and e:p > oncy of Congress assuming control of tl e erection ot bridges over navi- । gaole waters v ithin State limits. A bill to grant a pension of si2 per month to army nurses was rep rted favorably from tho Senate Comiinttoo on Peinmus. The House of Kepreseutai tivos adopted G an. Weaver's resolution culling ' on tho Se retar • of the Treasury for detailed ; information relative to the recent policy of tiie । department o; lurchasiug bonds with surplus i money and to tl e present policy of depositing funds in a lai ge number of national banks. Tiie House aJu adopted the resolution of i Mr. Landes eu ling on the Secretary of the ; Treasury for in ormation regarding the amount । of United State s bonds aud notes in circulation when the act o' 18,s limiting their issue was passed, and whether any have been lost or destroyed Alice. Among the measures passed by the House were bills providing for the punishment of bauk-< xaminers for false reports or suppressing : acts in their reports; to abolish tho minimum punishment in in-ternal-revenue cases, and authorizing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to compromise cases under the law ; to amend the law ! pres ribing tl.e death penalty for willfully I casting away ■ essels so ns to allow punishment by hue o imprisonment if there is no loss ' of life. ' The C immittoe on Military Affairs reported a bill a ithorizing the President to appoint and retire Alfred Pleasanton as a Briga--1 dier General. The Foreign Affairs Committee reported the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. It q proptiates #1,403,867. Mr. Tillman, from th i Military Committee, reported tho military a ademy appropriation bill. Why (VoißPii Arc Ne ioul Pro essor Redom, the eminent German hygienist, deilared in a recent lecture that the nervousi ess of women is generally owing to two defects anmmia, caused by the silly not on that a hearty appetite is unfeminine, and fresh-air starvation, accompanied bi’ a lack or exercise. To their fondness for fresh air, their open windows 1 at night, ami their constant exercise he attributes the greater beauty of the English women. “The beauty of the German women,” he says, "lies in their face, with its changing ar d amiable expression. The beauty of tre English lies in the whole body and in their health. German womj en,” he adds, “are martyrs to an unnatural state of civilization, and if they would only imitate the English, hysteria would diminish in frequency.” A LATE novelty in use of poultices is to wet a spong > in a concentrated decoction of mustard, and wrapping it with a handkerchief ba idage for application. It is readily rene ted by simply again immersing in the sima liquid. — Canada Lancet. Dr. Rabov, of Berlin, finds that half a teaspoonful or more of common salt, taken as soon as premonitory symptoms of an attack of sick headache begin to show themselves, will frequently cut it short in about half an hour. When your husband and the boys have a leisure hour or two one of these days, get them to put all the walks about the preml ises in good condition. It will save you I work in the opening season of mud. Always teep the oil-can in an old waiter, or somechirg of that sort, to receive whatI ever grease may come from it.

NUMBER 33.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. —The annual report of Superintendent Baker, of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, shows that during the year there were 357 deaf mutes admitted to tho institution and thirty-two dismissed. About sixty pupils have received instructions in articulation, and the results, the Superintendent says, has been wonderful. But the report adds: “Many more could receive instructions than are now receiving it, but so long as there is but one teacher of articulation, as at present, it will be impossible to increase the number,” aud the Superintendent recommends that steps be taken to secure an additional teacher. It is also recom- । mended that a system should be adopted whereby a teacher for each particular trade taught in the industrial department should be employed. For this purpose it will be necessary to increase the amount of the annual appropriation $5,000. The art of printing has been added to the industrial department during the past year, with gratifying results. Eight boys aud eight girls are receiving instructions under a practical printer. A five-column paper, called the Indianapolis Deaf Mute Journal, is being published semi-monthly. The Superintendent's report was a neatly printed document, the typographical and press-work being done by the mute printers of the institution. • — The Fair Managers, Builders’ and Exhibitors’ Association of the counties of Grant, Blackford, Huntington, Mells, AVhitley, Kosciusco, Wabash, Madison, Tipton, Howard, and Miami met at Marion recently. The purpose of the meeting was to adopt a uniform list of premiums, to prepare a schedule of dates for the county and district fairs in tho circuit, and to transact such other business as might be neressary. The dates for fairs in the district were fixed as follows: Tipton. Aug. 14 to 17; Xenia, Aug. 21 to 24; Hartford City, Aug. 21 to 24; Marion, Aug. 29 to Sept. 1; Anderson, Sept. 3 to 7; Warren, Sept. 3 to 7; NV abash, Sept. 19 to 14; State Fair. Sept. 17 to 22; Montpelier, Sept. 18 lo 21; Fairmount, Sept. 24 to 28; North j Manchester, Oct. 2to 6. -—One night recently some students of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, concluded to have some “fun” at the expense of the college. They procured a ladder and entered the chapel, carried away the singing books, nailed up the doors, and placed limberger cheese inside the heaters. The next morning the devotional exercises were held as usual, in spite of the smell of the cheese, and with singing books procured from Center Church. Such “fur” us this should be paid with a dose of law. - The trial of the Fort Wayne \1 "ter Works Trustees by the City Council, lor malfeasance in office, did not come off as anticipated. The Trustees applied for a restraining order, and Judge Chapin granted the application and issued a temporary order restraining the Council's action. The Court held that the Trustees were not answerable to the Council for their acts, and that the charges of the City Council were not sufficient to warrant a trial for malfeasance of office. —A 4-year-old sou of John Fahey, living four miles north of Indianapolis, was burned to death recently. Mrs. Fahey left the child in an upstairs room while she went down stairs to get a bucket of water, and when she returned the little one’s clothing was in flames, having caught fire from an open grate. She called for help, and some of her neighbors came to her assistance, but before the flames could be extinguished the child was horribly burned. —The arrearages and increase of pensions during the past year have added 1 argely to the total amount paid out by the United States Pension Office at Indianapolis. The January statement shows that $1(19,680 was expended (lining that month, making an increase of $50,000 over the amount paid on pensions during the corresponding month of last year. — The old settlers of Wayne Township, Henry County, met in convention recently, and organized a historical society, with the following officers: Dr. Wilson Hobbs, President; J. Lee Fergason, Vice President; T. B. Deem, Secretary; W. M. Heaton, Treasurer. The constitution and by-laws of the County Historical Society were adopted. —Howard Baker, a wealthy and highlyrespected farmer living near Shoals, died after suffering intense agony for a week. At the time of the accident he was unloading hay from a sled, when he slipped and fell on one end of the standards of the sled, which penetrated his abdomen five inches. —A vestibule train westward-bound on the Fort Wayne road, struck a sled at Hobart, breaking it to pieces. The sled contained Charles Miller, a farmer, and his wife. Both were thrown out. Mrs. Miller was not hurt at all, but her husband was very seriously, if not fatally, injured. —Members of the Standard Gil Company have leased 4,0(10 acres of land in Madison County for the purpose of drilling gas wells to supply R icbmond with gas. As per contract, 50 cents per acre per annum aud SIOO for each successful well drilled is paid the lessor. —George Moody, of Terre Haute, for many years a farmer living north of Brazil, fell between the cars on the Vandalia coal branch, near Knightsville. Au arm and a leg were cut off. He was removed to a house near by, but died in a few minutes. He was 60 years old. Recently George M. Bicourt, of Lebanon, cut his foot badly with an ax. While his father in-law. Dr. D. C. Scull, was on his way to attend him he fell on an icy pavement and fractured three ribs. —Edward Harrington, of Jonesville, aged 40, was run over and killed by a J. M. & I. train. — Greenfield aspires to become a manufacturing town, aud the Council has resolved that free gas shall bo furnished manufacturers who will locate there during the present year. The Board of I rude has laud and money to be used for the same purpose. —The physicians of Knightstown are said to have formed an association agreeing to furnish each other the names of those who aro bad pay, these names to be put in a black list, and no medical service rendered them unless their foes are paid in advance.