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THE LEADING JOURNAL
Eastern Maine.

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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
Report of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-ln his forth
coming report on Indian affairs for the last
fiscal year, Commissioner Smith Will make
some important recommendations in regard
to the future management of the bureau.
That which will probably attract the most
attention, and which is supposed to be in
harmony with the views of the President
Secretary Chandler, and other members OF
the Cabinet, is the abOliShment of the con-
tract system of purchasing supplies, and the
transferring of the whole of this portion OF
the business of the bureau to the proper
branches of the War Department when the
purchases shall involve an expenditure OF
II 200 or more. Commissioner Smith thinks
it will be better in all respects for the Indian
service if it can be relieved of every trans
action of a purely business or commercial
character, and devote itself exclusively, as
far as NAV be, to the civilization and educa-
ton of the Indians. His plan Is that al
supplies Of clothing, annuity goods, arms
and ammunition, horses, wagons, tents,
farming and domestic utensils, etc, etc.
be furnished the agents for distribution by
the QuartermasteT' Department of the
army, after having been inspected by al
officer of the army to be appointed for thai
purpose, so that the agent shall be response
bic only for the proper distribution of the
goods, and that all food be purchased anC
dropped at the agencies in the same manner
by the COmmlSSary department Oh Jh'
army. This will, on the one hand, relieve
the bureau of all suspicion of financial man
agement, and, on the other hand, will bene
fit the agent i'm his official relations with the
Indians in many ways, and give him more
| time to attend to their education.
Commissioner Smith will also recommend
! that the Indians living on reservations with
| in the limits of certain States be transferred
to the care of the proper officers of thost
| States. There are now living in the State o
| New York on their reservation, and unde
the care of the bureau, 5000 Indians; IL
| Wisconsin there are 5000; in Michigan, g.,
| 900: and in Minnesota, 6,O00. In each o
! these States the Indians have reached de
| gree of enlightenment and civilization tha
| separates them from what are known a
.'plains, - or wild, Indians, and the SAM
systems do not apply properly to both classes
| In each State there is property enough in tn
reservation, if properly managed, to educat
each individual Indian to the average stand
ard of citizenship, and give them permanen
| schools and churches. Commissioner Smitl
will recommend that the care of these In
dians, their property and funds, be trans
| ferred to the government of the States il
which they live, believing that it can be bet
! ter managed, both for their interests and tn
| interests of the General Government.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
PerilS of Submarine Divers.

The London Telegraph of November 2
has the following: During the recent
operations on the Vanguard, two of the
divers narrowly escaped death. The
first instance was that of man named
Rowe, who went down quickly to his
work, knowing that he had not much
time to stay below. In his rapid de
scent the pressure became suddenly in
creased to such an extent that he lost
his senses. The signal-man above twice
gave the signal, s'All right" and, re-
ceiving no response, ordered his men to
haul up. Rowe, however, was fast en-
tangled in the spare rigging floating
about, and it was only by the combined
strength of seven or eight men that he
was eventually brought to the surface
quite black in the face. A few minutes
more under the water and he would
have been dead. The next case was
that of IngledOn, who went down to the
bridge of the Vanguard, in crossing
which he slipped and fell on the deck.
Stunned by the sudden increase of pres
sure, he was unable to answer the sig
nails, and was in consequence ut once
hauled up into the boat in an apparent
ly lifeless condition. RestOratives were
applied, but it was two hours before he
revived, and he is still in the hospital
under medical caTe. The great
est danger the divers experience
is from the ropes, sails and
shgouds, etc., which necessarily
move in the waters below. As the tide,
which here exceeds the rate of four
miles an hour, sets in one direction, all
the various moving objects 90 with the
stream, and the divers, who have to
wait until the water is moderately still,
90 down clear of all embarrassment.
As, however, the tide reverses its course,
the moving mass returns upon them,
and they often have to cut their way
through to gain the surface. NOtwith-
standing all these difficulties, the divers
and especially two of them, White
and McCOlloch have successfully
reached the hull, which lies in deep
darkness, and measured the hole in the
side by means of nOtching a wooden lath
carried down for the purpose, and
placed against the aperture. The
Denayrouze lamp, which had been ma
terially useful in removing the rigging
of the ship, was not taken down on this
occasion, as the divers required to use
| both hands in endeavOring to escape
ENHANCEMENT by some stray rope. The
men consider that with the aid of the
lamp a great difficulty will be overcome
when working at the hull of the vessel
after the tOp-hamper is removed
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
The Career of ''BuSted" Railway
King.

The Freie PreSSe of Vienna gives de
tails respecting DIR. StrOusberg, who
was arrested near St. Petersburg after
failing for nearly flOO,OOO StrOusberg
is of Jewish origin, his full name being
Baruch Hirsch Strousberg. Born IN
1928, in humble circumstances, at NeI-
denburg, in East Prussia, he went to
London in 1885 after the death of his
father. Here he was received by his
uncles, who were commission agents,
and was shortly after baptized MEM
Der of the church of England. Gifted
with great intelligence and energy, he
more or less educated himself and en-
tered journalism. In 1913 he went to
America, where he gave lessons in Ger
man, but finally realized some money
by buying a cargo of damaged goods
and selling them at q heavy profit.
With his capital he returned to London
in 1858 and founded several newspapers,
but six years afterward he went to Ber-
lin, where he was for seven years the
agent of an English insurance company.
In 1864, however, Strousberg began to
think of improving his fortunes, and,
having made acquaintance at the Brit
ish Embassy, by this means came to
know some English capitalists, with
whom he contracted for the construc-
ton of fTilsit-Insterburg Railway. With
in six years Strousberg was making
dozen lines, among others those of
ROumania. He had over 1000 work
men in his pay, and had launched out
into other vast enterprises. At Hanover
he established a gigantic machine fac
tory; at DOrtmud and Neustadt he had
smelling works and iron factories; at
Antwerp and Berlin he built entire new
quarters; in Prussia he bought ten es-
tates; in Poland an entire county; in
in Bohemia he paid ES0O,OOO for the
splendid domain of ZibrOw, where he es-
tablished railway carriage works which
employed 5000 workmen. Meantime
he built palace for himself in the VIII
helmstrasse at Berlin, which in decOra-
ton, luxury, and accommodation sur
passed the Emperor himself. In it
were to be found works by the first Ger
man and French artists-DelacrOiN,
MeissOnnier, GerOine and others. Nor
was his charity on less splendid scale.
In winter he caused 10000 portions of
soup to be given daily to the poor, in
addition to $4,000 worth of wood.
When the famine broke out in East
Prussia he sent whole trains laden with
corn and potatoes to his suffering fel-
low-countrymen. Of course such man
had his own organs in the press, and
was chosen to represent the nation. Yet
he took from the Moscow Bank, which
he founded, 4,30S,0O rOubles, and il
is hinted that his future is not altogeth-
er unprovided for. No greater collapse
than that of Strousberg has probably
occurred in the financial history Of the
country, save. perhaps, that of Law.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
Our Mail ServiCe-0fficiaI Report.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The Hon.
James n. Tyner, Second Assistant Post
ter-General, in his annual report,
says:
During the fiscal year ended June so,
1870, the cost of inland mail transportation
was as follows: On S71 rail routes, aggrega-
eating JOSS miles in length, S9,2l6, ,5lS;
on 50 steamboat routes, aggregating 10, ISS
miles in length, S6S4, ,130; on 1928 other
routes, designated Star routes, aggregat-
ing 1872. .002 miles in length, So, 453, T21. To-
tai cost during the fiscal year, So, 353, 369,
which was an increase of $40 miles in the
length of routes over the preceding year,
and decrease of SIS, ,6SS in the cost thereof.
The appropriation to cover the eXpendi-
ture for inland transportation during the
present fiscal year is 81, ,54S, 900, and the
same sum is estimated for the next year.
The cost of mail routes in operation July l,
1879 (the commencement of the present tis-
cal year,, was S14. $40, ,669 .13, to which has
been added an increase for July, August,
and September of $3.50, 1851, which being
considered an average increase for the several
quarters of the year, would make the IN
crease during the entire year SI59. ia, IA
Add to this the recognized service of rail-
roads, estimated at S162, 49, 19, making the
probable cost of inland transportation fol
the present year S16, AL 333 So.
In conclusion, Gen. Tyner calls attention
to the interesting fact that the total appro-
priations asked for the next year exceed
those provided for this year in the sum oI
only ST. .415.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
The Oldest Inhabitant.

A woman named Mrs. Jane Suther-
land-familiarly known as Big Jean
is now living in upper Barney's River,
in this county, who is now aged l5O
years-a fact of which the old lady her
self makes us sure. She was born in
the parish of Clyne, Sutherlandshire,
Scotland, and since her emigration to
this county. has resided in her present
place of abode, where she reared a large
family, the youngest member Of which
is now an old man. Mrs. Sutherland
can still readily converse in the good
old Gaelic tongue, and her hearing IS
but slightly impaired. She still plies
her daily labOrs on the old Scotch SPIN
ming wheel, and is as good as many
woman a century younger. Longevity
seems a prominent trait in her family
for her brother, John Sutherland, hel-
tie. who died about seventeen years
ago, was over 115 years old, and his
wife, who died shortly afterward, was
but little younger. The united ages Of
this couple were 23O years.-PjctOH (N.
g Colonial Standard
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
Rats Feeding With Their Tails.

Mr.. G.. j. Romanes contributes to
Nature the simple experiments he made
to prove that rats and mice feed by
means of their tails when the desired
substance is not otherwise accessible
as, for instance, when it is contained in
a narrow-mouthed jar. He filled some
preserve-jars with soft jelly to within
three inches of the top, covered the
bottles with bladder, and set them In
the way of the rats. Next morning a
small hole, Just large enough to admit
a rats tail, was found to have been
cnawed through the bladder, and the
surface of the jelly was lowered to an
extent agreeing with the length OF a
rats tail; showing that the animal had
repeatedly dropped its tail into the bot
tie, and withdrawn it to lick off the
iellv which adhered. But, to be dOubly
sure, the experimenter next fitted cir
cular piece of moistened paper to the
surface of the Jelly and stood the bottle
in damp place, free from rats, until a
good crop of mold had gathered; when
the bottle, with its contents thus ar
ranged, was again put in the way OF
| the rats. The hole was gnawed in the
bladder as before, and the surface OF
the moldy paper showed distinctly the
tracery of the tail-end of the animals,
who had thus evidently been sweeping
about in the vain endeavor to make
some Jelly stick.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
The Havana Lottery.

For the information of parties pro-
posing to invest in the Havana lottery,
with the expectation of drawing sundry
bags full of Spanish doubloons,a Cuban
correspondent of the New Orleans Pted-
y,l,1e writes as follows: 81 have OBJ
Served in the columns of the PjcGyttHe
an advertisement of the Havana lottery,
holding out for the inducement of ticket
BUYERS an attractive list of prizes to be
drawn on the 23d December proximO,
amounting ostensibly in all to 81 POO
900, the capital prize being 100000
When, however, prize has been drawn,
the winner will find that he is to be paid
not in gold, but in the deprecated cur
rency Of the country, which is worth
as have said, only IS cents on the dol
lar. You will then perceive that the
whole Havana lottery scheme Is a con
trivance to convert the comparatively
worthless shinplasters of the Spanish
Bank into the really valuable currency
of the United States"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
What He Was.

They sat and swigged his beer until
they were we'll soaked, and calculated
that there was just enough locomotive
power in their legs to take them home.
They started out and one held up his
fingers and said:
Kaiserlicher, slate them to me-"
"Vat YOU say? Don'd L told you
'boud dat kind Ov peezness vOnst ahead
ov this time?"
"Wen, it's all (hic) right-take it off
in the mOrnin' soon's come down town,
(hic) old feller!"
You shust come right away back
agin, now! Ven you tole me put dem
down on dad shlate, mine leetle pOy he
gone by dem publick skools unit he
dakes dot shlate for do his 'ridmetick
sums, unit l don'd do dot way some
more!"
"Oh, don't make such racket about
tits all right--all right" grandly
exclaimed the hummer.
"Vell, l shust seen 'boud dot!
wants YOU extinctly to understood dot
hafe redoosed dis peezness down to a
cash bazis, goot gollaterals or tig!hd'
! by sheminy, unit dots de KNIT oy aprlze'
box what l ami
And Kaiserlicher planted himself at
the door and didn't leave until he had
pocket-knife, two shirt studs, a nickel
plated corkscrew and half plug of to-
baeco as collateral.-AtlGntG CO1stit1t-
I JjO11
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-02
Romance in Real Life.

The Portland (Me.) correspondent of
the Boston Herald tells the following:
A story has Just come to light that reads
like sensation novel. Mr.. John Rod
man, a mechanic, was sufferer by the
great fire of 1866, and moved with his
family to Harlem, n. Y, where he had
a brother residing-a widower with
small property. Soon after going to
Harlem Mr.. Rodman got a chance to 90
to Valparaiso. He went, leaving his
wife, son, and daughter with his broth
er. At first he sent money home, and
then his letters ceased. Then the broth
er died, and his little property was eaten
up by lawyers in the settlement. The
widow, with her young son and daugh-
ter, returned to Portland and became a
seamstress. The latter part of 1873 an
English captain took the son, boy of
fifteen, to sea with him. The vessel
was wrecked in the Gulf, and all were
supposed to be lost. The mother was
taken sick, but physician of this city
took charge of her and afterwards rem
dered her much aid. A short time ago
Mrs. Rodman saw an advertisement in a
New York paper that if the wife of John
Rodman, formerly of Portland, would
apply to certain New York firm she
would hear of something to her advan-
tage. Her doctor advised her to 90 to
New York, and she went there with her
daughter, interviewed the law firm, dis
covered her husband had failed to hear
from her before she failed to hear from
him; that he had been with Myers, the
great American railroad speculatOr, and
. made his pile," and wanted his fami-
", if possible, to join him in New
Orleans, for which place he was about
to sail. The firm had been compelled
to advertise, as the family when they
left Harlem left no traces and no friends.
The mother and daughter left for New
Orleans. They arrived a day or two
before the vessel by which Mr.. Rodman
was expected. While out walking the
daughter was insulted by a young dan
DIV, who thought the two women were
! unprotected. A young sailor lad knock
ed the dandy into the gutter, and as he
turned disclosed the features of the long
| lost son. 1t seems when his vessel was
wrecked he was picked up by Nor
wegian vessel and carried to a port in
that country. From thence he went to
Calcutta, thence to Southampton, and
arrived in New Orleans the day before.
A few days afterwards the father ar
rived, and the long-separated family
were reunited and happy.