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water, having already secured steam
boat 10 make this exploration. III Cen
eneral Forsythe Ia successful, will send
General Custer with a command from
fort Lincoln across the mouth Of Powder
RIVER, thence upon the south bank Of the
Yellowstone, crossing Powder River.
Tongue River. Rosebud, and on To the
mouth OF Big Horn. This country is as
YET entirely unexplored, and the expe-
ditlon may develop very valuable auri-
ferrous section and make the Father DE
omet story To some extent true. But I
am of the belief that the mountain OF mica
has not changed to gold. will also send
an expedition down Wind River, through
the Owl Greek Mountain. from Fort
Stambaugh via Fort Brown TO the
mouth OF Big Horn, and will bring
II back through the parks about the
head. waters of Powder River. visited nv
Captain Mills and his command last sum-
mer. These parks are, for beauty. fully
equal TO those described so graphically by
General Custer az existing in the Black
Hills Of the Cheyenne. | NAV also saw.
from my own knowledge. thst the val
leys of Big and Little P0poagie, Little
Wind River and Main Wind River can
scarcely be excelled i'm beauty and fertility.
while the student of nature will find there
the mostexuaordinary upheayals of earth
crust probably 10 be found on this CONT
nent. am of the opinion that this coun-
try Is collaborating, but of its abundance
there can only be conjecture.
AL present feel quite confident of our
ability 10 prevent intended trespasses on
the rights of the Indians. and cavalry and
infantry In the Department OF Dakota are
being moved at the present time to the
most available points. TO carry out my
directions of September 3, of last year.
We're 1T not for these precautions on the
part OF the Government there might be a
repetition Of the California Gold Beach
and Gold Lake humbugs, with still greater
sufierings, as many of the persons now
CRAZY TO GO TO THE BLACK HILLS
never think OF how they are to exist after
they get there. or how they could return
In case OF failure. If they viii wait for
further Information from the Government,
which now seems TO be DESTROYS OF making
concessions TO meet these new interests,
there will be no one more willing than
myself 10 aid In asccrtaining their value.
80 far as the troops are concerned, l will
promise vigilance in the present ener-
gency and conscientious performance of
my duty. Should the points from which
the miners start be so remote as TO make
II Impossible for our scanty force to watch
them, we can occupy the two or three
gaps i'm the Black Hills, and efiectually ex-
clude the trespassers.
Very respectfully,
lSigned. II. ii. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant-GeDeral Commanding.
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The Man Who Saw the Flood.

The Popular Science Monthly saws the
indications are that the primeva man of
Europe and his descendants Were of short
stature. The popular notion that the
present generation Is physically weaker
and smaller than the primitive or ancient,
l. not only utterly unfounded, but there is
abundant evidence that the reverse is true.
Most of us would be amazed If not shocked
at true and life-szed portrait of the real
Eve, " Mother Of all the living" We
often hear, indeed, OF giants bones here
and there dug up, but intelligent examin.
alton invariably proves them to have be-
longed ~ the mammoth or some other an
imal. A singular bunder of the kind
shows the real value of such reputcd dis
coveries. Years ago, a skeleton was dug
from the calcareous shale at Oeningen,
which the veteran savant Scheuchzer con-
fldentlv christened {" Homo dluvii tests"
the man who saw the flood. Casts of II
were made for various museums, and, In
full faith In the legitimacy of the name,
one Deacon Muller was moved 10 write
some pious and edifying lines about It..
Unfortunately, the first competent study
OF the skeleton proved II to be that-not
of an ancient sinner, but OF large sala-
mander, closely resembling the giant sala-
mander of Japan. Yet, TO this day, every
casually unearthed petrihction, found no
matter where, or In what relations. is to
many a memorial Of the Noachian deluge.
Thus, theories which science has long ago
refuted and dismissed from further consid-
Grafton. are persistently held fast aud re-
affirmed.
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Odds and Ends.
IRON the Detroit Free Pre-. l

From the Detroit Free Press
"A Virginia photographer can take
photographs In the night. lie took l:d
rom a brother artist, and was then taken
to Jail.
Some Of the colored folks of Cleveland
thought civil rights meant free rides on
The street cars, and they had 10 be stood
ON their heads and argued with.
Speaking of strikes--it looks as II the
painters were about TO have brush. don't
its-N. y. Commercial Advertiser. Yes.
that's putty good.
The season has now arrived when the
husband who finds buttons off his shirt
should make known his purpose To 90 to
the Black Hills. Ii will act like charm.
The first American steamer that ever
made voyage on the Nile is reported as
having recently started for the first cata-
ract. IL is IA small yacht owned By some
American tourists.
If you want TO know what the free
American people think of the last Con-
gress just tand around the Detroit Post
Office and hear the mild remarks of the
man who pays six cents TO senda two cent
package.
-" like TO hear man indulge in n
hearty laugh" says the Rev. Collyer. SO
10 we. IN case it's some other man who
suddenly sits down on the sidewalk
When II isn't "some other mar" we
despise hearty laughter.
The Enterprise. at Cave Spring, Geor-
gla, asserts that that that place has the
most coui teous deputy sheriff in America.
but you ought to see the Detroit officer
who carries extra watch keys,a corkscrew.
spare lead pencils, penknife, always has
dollar to lend, gives away tobacco and
goes security on notes.
Justice Potter had walk of nearly
two miles the other evening 10 perform a
marriage ceremony. and when he had
finished II the groom crowded dollar bill
into his hand and said " Never mind any
thing back. She's "A bang-up girl. got a
house and lot, and haint going 10 look at
two sbillings at such time as this ~
AT the City-hall Market YESTERDAY a
pale-faced, solemn man took off his hat.
smoothed back his hair and said: "My
friends, we know not how soon we NAV
fall by the wayside. We stand here to-
day-next week may sleep withthe dead.
feel that have only few DAYS more to
stay. and l wish some OF you would lend
me fifteen cents so that can get dish of
baked beans" The crowd at once moved
away.
"A boy about twelve years old knock
ed at door OF house on Second Street yes
terday. and when the lady appeared, said:
!" Therell be boy round here pretty
soon TO clean your walk. but don't give
him the job. His names jim he's cross
eyed, and blows up cats with powder
snaps. I'll be here with my partner pref
ty soon. We go to Sunday-school, never
sass our mothers, and we'er going to give
half the money to the grasshopper-suffer-
ers.' The job was saved for him.
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Science and Industry.

"A type. composing machine is used Ia
set up the new edition OF the Ency-
elopedia Britannica"
A busy season Is anticipated in fitting
out sperm whalers in New England this
spring, stimulated by the small stock of
oil Oh hand and the high price which il
commands.
There are In the United States l5G firms
and corporations engaged in the manufsc-
iure Of silks. with an aggregate capital OF
sl6OO0,OO0, aud force of 1861 opera
ives. New York has 81 of these estab-
lishments; New jersey. 30; Connecticut
2, and Massachusetts, u.
The copper industry promises to be
prosperous this year. The price Is remu-
nerative, aud The stock on hand no greater
nan last year, when il was 10000, 900
pounds. All that is not needed at home
can DE exported To Europe, which recoiv-
n most OF the 9,OUO,OO0 pounds exported
AT year.
The Newburyport men do n large
business in catching frogs for the Boston
market, and they have several thousand
now heing tatted. They get fifty cents a
dozen for them, and the demand Is always
greater than the supply. Over 100000
lrOgs were sold in the Boston market last
season, and the demand is constantly in
,reasing.
The science OF medicine and surgery.
according TO European notions. Is making
some progress in Japan. We learn that
Y the hospital of iIakodadi there are
twenty young men regularly entered as
Students of medicine. daily lectures are
gwen, and "bedside and other clinical
demonstrations" the curriculum being
SIMILAR to that of most medical schools.
Al illustrated medical journal, in the
japanese language, Is also published every
Two months.
"A simple but valuable addition TO the
astronomical sextant has been devised by
,Ptain j. f.. Davis. of the Hydrographi-
al Department Of the British Admiralty.
~ the application Of micrometcr-wheel
me hngent-screw and movable indica-
W 10 the are, a series of observations can
Y made OF heavenly body without the
necessity reading the angle at the time.
W removing the eye from the telescope.
me micrometer can be thrown out of gear
\ pleasure, and the sextant used without
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school and Church.

-ls,OW persons assembled In and
Iound Agricultural Hall. lslington, Lon
Sankey.
-heligious disturbances have broken
~. IN Buenos Ayres. The Archbishop's
pnAce has been sacked, and the house OF
we Jesuits burned.
The English rcvisers of the authorized
Trslon OF the New Testament have COM
pe'el their second revision To the end Of
u'e 10Th chapter of st. John.
me Methododist Church added last
,ear 5o5 parsonagcs to its number--equal
%uhe Tor every day Of the year. IL has
@'iG9,l7O.
The average pay Of male teachers in
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

PffsOnAt A<tsfofys
--Wilkie Collins has been turning hii
noyel Armadale" into play.
MIR. n. Bishop. the paper canoe voy
scer. has arrived at 81. Mary's, Fla.
%. o. stealey edits a column OF items
IN the Louisville C0urier-J0auak. Whats
in a namey'
Two Of liachcPs sisters are living In
paris-the one n maker of perfumes. and
M other an actress of no striking abilities
81 London" "The Devil and "Ori
enta Religion are the subjects upon
which NJ. d. Conway is TO lecture next
fal.
-"Texas Jack" adyertises in the Lon.
don Field Offering his services "a guide 10
foreign gentlemen visiting the American
plains.
Poker John, a sportvc Piute has
cleaned his brethren out Of all their Gov
eminent supplies. and has corner on
blankets, pantaloons, coats, and food.
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
sehwerin Is writing book on the Franco
Prussian war OF ls70.7l, which is more
especially devoted to the events in which
his division took an active part.
"A granite bowlder from the Kear-
sarge Mountain j. to be erected over the
grave of Admiral Wilson, in Mount Au-
burn Cemetery, which will be emblemati-
cllly fashioned 10 commemorate the ship
and peak he rendered famous.
Judge Clinton. OF Buffalo, Y. Y, has
lately come into possession of pair of
silver vases which were presented to Gov
emor Dewitt Clinton. by the merchants
Of New York in 1926, in testimony of his
services In building the Erie Canal.
Baroness Burdette-Coutts, the emf
nent English philanthropist, has taken
steps 70 form society for the prevention
OF cruelty 10 humming-birds, asserting
that thousands are annually slaughtered
snply TO crafty woInan's vanity as dis
played upon bonnets.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Williams. settled
full Of youth, health and hope. in the will
derness south of Syracuse, n. ", eighty
one years ago. They are still living in the
town of Pompey, enjoying health and
comfort in the old homes tead with their
son. who is past seventy.
The Rev. Mr.. Warren, a Baptist pas
tor at Burnt Hills. Saratoga County, n.
T.. was exposed several weeks ago AS the
husband of three living and undivorced
wives. He resigned at the request of his
congregation, and wanted to preach fare
veil sermon, but they would not hear il.
The first appearance of Adelaide Ris-
lori on the stage was when she was only
two months old. she being carried on in
basket as Ney- \ ears gift. At the age
offour she began to appear in child parts
but not until after she was sixteen did she
have the advantage of any intelligent clas-
steal training. Before she had discovered
that her real genius lay in tragedy she
mad acquired considerable reputation in
comedy, but her fame was then confined
20 Italy.
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The idea that some connection exists
between the weather on the earth and the
spots on the sun is supported by the nu-
merous series of meteorological observa-
tons which have been collatcd by Mr..
Charles Medium. OF the Island of Nauri-
fius, with special reference 10 the subject.
These observations show that there is
terrestrial rainfall periodcity correspond
ing with the periodcity Of solar spots.
There j. an increase Of rain when the spots
occupy the largest area on the suns sur
face; and, conversely. when the sun-spot
area is the smallest, there is a decrease of
rain. Whether changes OF temperature
upon the earth also correspond with the
fluctuations of the sun-spots Is yet TO be
determined.
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Colorado Is SG2 per month. Female teach.
ers receive SOL. The amount expended
for school purposes during the year ISL
was $l4l ,37i.31.
-Forty-four students of one of the chiei
Evangelical divinity schools IN the I-nited
States, and thlrty-eight In another. have
recently sent word TO the American Uni.
tartan Association thltthey will Gratefully
accept and read the works Of Charming.
In 1873 Prussia contained | .O73 monks
and s.0ii nuns. In the diocese OF Cologne
the numbers increased between 1850 and
1917 rom 212 to :, l3l; in Breslau. from
~ to lbs In Posen, from 10 10 337. and
In Kuhn, from To l9l.
"A telegram To the London Times from
81. Petersburg, says that forty-iiye par
lshes OF the Bishopric Of Siedletz, Poland.
containing $4,000 inhabitants. with the
whole OF their clergy, have Joined the
creek Orthodox Church. The public re-
ception was presided over by the Arch
bishop OF Warsaw.
The ceremony OF canonizing Maria
Christina of Savoy, the mother OF King
Francis III. OF Naples, will be completed
within two months. The expenses OF the
canonizition are borne entirely by the
~ " Haiit ricNtis lIt i@uipItss ludMuIe
OF Austria. The Cardinal Archbishop of
Naples is conducting the sacred ceremo-
NAL.
One hundred graduates and COO under
graduates have been sent out from the
Maine State Normal School at Castine
during the seven years of its existence.
All OF these have found work In the
schools of the State. Every pupil In this
Normal school is required to conduct the
recitstions of his class from time 10 time.
to give practice in teaching.
At meeting of students of the Uni
versity at Madison, Wis. on the 18th,
Messrs. j. w. lIiner, II. VI. Remington,
X. IL. Dudgeon. :. >. Richie. and Miss l..
). Clark were elected to write and deliver
orations ut some future day, the one hav-
ing the best Grafton TO represent the Uni
versity in next year s intercollegiate con
test tor that State. The home contest
will take place next fall.
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Last year $4,000 emigrants from the
United States landed at Liverpool.
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oceanic animalcules with which the sea
abOunds at this season.
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KEEP OUT TREsPAssERs.

But to go back to the Father De Smet
information. There is not much doubt OF
the correctness of this statement that gold
exists I'm large quantities IN Black Hills,
but much further west than the Black
Hills of the Cheyenne. | have nuggets
from Big Horn and Tongue Rivers, and
many specimens from near FIT. STAN
baugh, in the Upper Wind River country,
where mining has failed for want of wa
ter for alluvial washing. and from hostili-
ties of the Indians; and | have good
reason To believe, in fact. ii Is quite GER
tain, that gold exists i'm the Owl Creek
Mountains. in Lower Wind River, and In
the head waters of Powder River and the
Rosebud, all the localities being under gen.
eral meaning, In the Black Hills, and out
side Of the sherman, Augur and Terry
treaty of 1869, except so far as the priv
lege to hunt game. Ii has been my intcn-
ton to communicate much information,
this coming summer, to the Government
on the above country, and as the Indians
have no absolute right to sell, there may
be but little difficulty In
ExTNGUIsuING THEIR HUNTING PRIV
LEGFs.
purpose. If you do not object, to open
up the Yellowstone River by sending
General George A. Forsythe and Colonel
Grant, Of my staf. up the Yellowstone
to the mouth Of Big Horn. as soon as the
ice breaks which will give the lowest tide.
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still here. Also, Judge Reed, Supreme Cour'
Of North Carolina /; General Gormon, OF Ra'
leigh and many others no less distinguished
from he Old North State. Judge Wood
Bouldin. of the Court of Appeals. is still
here. His healthis much improved. Judge
Christian, of the same court, Is daily ex.
pected.
OF the number Of bellies and bcauX 1t Is
useless to nsme and particulsrize. They
torn select party Of their own. and we
have no inclination to invade Cupid's realms
Of thought aud exclusion, but leave them in
their own select coterie, to indulge in all
their arts, destinations, love-taIks, and CO.
quoting. They are Of course now looking
with anxious expectation to the grand fancy
dress bali to come of here on the S1h proxi-
mo. From the character OF the gentlemen
elected as Committee Of Invitation and the
managers, it will no doubt be 81 elegant en-
tcrtalnment. Young ladies consider fancy
dress balls the acme of human bliss. where
ali can display their charms, and each one
show that
"Whatcver she does. whcre'cr her steps she bonds,
Grace on every action silently attends. I"
We have after diligent inquiry among the
planters in this vicinity heard of no serious
damage to the crops thus far by the incessant
rains. Apprehensions exist II the weather
continues so unfuvorahle that the tobacco
will" fire" and "backen"; and at this stage
Of the crop the experienced say when it com.
mences 10 injure, whole fields can be ruined
in forty eight hours. Old Sol has not made
bis appearance here now for four days. j. :.
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,CoHvawT OF PROTESTANT CLERaYxEs.-
Sea Grootee. Cape Nay. August 20:-The
Convention of Protestant ciergymen of all
denominations, in session mere, opened with
religious exercises by Rev. Drs. Wheeler and
Conrad.
The Convention proceeded to consider the
aggressions of The Romieh Church in form
ing political organizations whose aim 10 to
obtain share 10 the public school funds.
4 report was submitted by Rev. Mr.. Van
Dyke, with resolution which, among other
Things, urges upon the people Of New jersey
to adopt provision 10 the new Constitution
of the State which prohibits appropriations
for sectarian purposes.
Other resolutions were adopted, urging
the resembling of all appropriations hitherto
made by the State Legislature for sectarian
purposes, and determined opposition to any
measure that will tend to destroy our public
school system.
Rev. DR.. Otis, Of Delaware, read paper
on the same subject.
The resolutions reported were debated at
length and generally adopted, with substi-
tute offered by the Rev. DR.. Grammar, re.
solving that, believing in freedom of con-
science and the right of self.government, this
Convention call upon every patriot to resist
by every lawful method every and any en-:
croachment upon the present system Of pub.
lie education.
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ro,, s,bcmarIo county.
ScorrsvlLLE. August -, 1870

srnrTSVltIE. August ~, 1910
r,,;tors dispatch: We have JuSe oeen
LAX n. sna;.rr tinc rain-,n iacI' we are
',.'" ~ ,or tlu.r orr share of this article;
E',"'1 ,,,,;t,..f4n.nnc. the tobacco crop mas
H"'' ", ~, been injured by ii. The acreage
49, rms staple j. very large IN Alneihas'e' anu anu
o. u.s. ,'~,.,,,,, !, hgAl, differing for flae
~. 49, = We hs>r never had 4 better sign Tor
H.E'", cron If corn throughout this and the
. tC'',S ra,m-;s> ct buckingham and Flu
''" Extracted meetings. which have been at
,>t Min h,rpy results. have recently
t'""' "a a. me various churches ID this
'"," and one i now III progress nj the
,,I,@|.,h,,f.,, Epi>copal church IN this Town.
~ 1,nr ,.,r charge Of the pastor, Rev. James
=, ,..,.. n II. >!-ratc prcachcr), formerly OF
''', T'i',,r> r1cnry very little of the time or
...'n'.,n .. ~co;i>yilsnS n present. but
.,.n.', .br Conservatives put their ticker IN
= = every man il this 'ime.honored
.',...,, vii. 40 hi" level best" and repud'a-
,,.,,,,..a1iv "parson" Massey and
r,H,H,:.. aiH he NJ a hcAyg discount.
,,,,r ,,,laic ,rboai> will commence opera.
80. ,..,,n az the Isl Of September under
.,.,,....,Ii.,l ,,.prrv,>ion oi u. !. Powers, one
-" NOS, II. tent county superintendent
STA AN OLD CITIZEN.
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NoUsE FOR THEoRlsTS.-One OF the officers
in the Signal-Service Bureau, Lieutenant
BEALL, said to an interviewer:
"We have nothing to do with theorists
our work is practical We are matcrlallsts
here. and leave speculations to others. For
instance, have listened to gentleman who
insisted that the rainfall is caused by the un'
usually large size OF the solar spots this year,
which spots affect the magnetic arrangements
of the earth, and in this way produce ralD'
falls. There is no doubt that the solar spots
we see this year are larger than usual Du'
strange TO say there are scientists now VINO
tell us that we see the sun in different posi-.
ton, and in fact that the sun reyolyes around
its own axis, like any other body OF the plane,
tary system, thus overthrowng the theory Oh
ages. Then, again, there are theorists VINO
state that the Increase Of these solar spots
will make it cooler all over the earth; Out
can assure you that observation has tansh!
US that the temperature OF the earth mas not
decreased one hundredth part OF degree III
five hundred years"
we commend this sensible talk to PROBES
sor TICE, of st. Louis.
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The poSt-oflice authorities, believing That
excessive sums are paid many railroads Tor
carrying the mails, the compensation being
based on the weighing made sometime sine"
by one Safely and which wciShlngs are now
believed to be fraudulent, Assistant post.
master. General Tyner is now perlectlng ar
rapgements for having the mails re weighed
under The supervision OF confidential Gill.
Ger. Several Of the western railroads, which
are supposed to have protited by the fraudu-
lent weighing, will shortly he examined by
Mr.. Tyner.
Ex-senator John II. Henderson, as the
leader of the Republican party in Missouri,
has advised his fellow-Repubicans to vote for
the new Constitution, and expresses his Sra-
tfication that the Democrats have seen 1t
"to put so many saulary limitations upon
the exercise of power which promises TO re-
main with them several years at least.'
Six counterfeit ten.doIIar notes on the First
National Bank OF Philadelphia were on
Thursday received at the National Bank Re-
demption Bureau, at Washington. from
New York bank.
Miller alias Woodruff, the defaultlng secre'
tary OF the Contract and Finance Company
OF the Central Pacific Railroad Company, has
been indicted by the grand jury OF San Fran
cisco for embezzlement.
Mr.. j. H. Noe, the New York merchant
who was assaulted by burglar in his store
on Sunday last, died Thursday night. His
assassin has not been Identified.
The Texas military telegraph is completed
to Rio Grande City, and is now open 10 that
point.
H.O. Claushton (not Claytop) is the Con-
seryatiye nominee tor the Senate in AleXan'
uria.