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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04

they do not always scalp. Their object
in scalpiDg is to furnish proof of their
deed, and give them to their women to
dance over. They always attack in a
sweeping, circling line, eagle-like, give a
volley, pass on, circle and return on a
different eagle. When they kill one of
the enemy there is always rush to get
the first crack at him so as to " count
the COUP" and then some Indian who
was disappointed in getting a cut at the
victim while alive scalps him. The
Sioux camp with tepes Ood dges) in circle,
making, as it were, stockade. and when
on dangerous ground they picket their
ponies in the center. Mr.. Keller is
familiar with the ground where the
strOusengagementOf of Custer occurred.
Concerning this he said; "My idea of
the Custer slaughter is that the Indians
had no women and children in their
lodges, and had parapets dug under the
lodges out of sight. Custer, thinking it
a family camp, rushed into the center of
their fort, where resistance would
necessarily prove fatal. His only means
of escape was, after finding himself in
this fix, tC run right through and out,
and not stop to fight, but join Reno's
command aud retreat"
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FOREIGN.

Later accounts of the outrages commit
ted in Bulgaria by irregular bands of Turks
give darker picture than those heretofore
published. Numbers of villages were
burned, ,'and thousands of Christians are des.
the intimation that the European powers
would Investigate the matter, has arrested
about one hundred marauders.
The disastrous explosion on the Eng
lish iron-clad Thunderer, lately, was ca1sed
by criminal carelessness. The boilers were
tested a few days before her trial trip, and
during the operation the valves were held
down by wedges. The wedges were never
removed, making impossible the escape of
the steam. Forty deats was the result.
A Constantinople correspondent says
the atrocities committed by Basin BazOuks,
Circassians, and other irregular Turkish
troops in Bulgaria, included the burning of
several villages, leaving thousands of Chris
tians utterly homeless and destitute, and the
massacre of several thousand Bulgarians, ir-
respective of age or sex. One hundred
Bashi Bazouks have been arrested by order
of the Turkish government for participation
in these atrocities and will be tried immedi-
ately.
The slave trade still prespers in Africa.
Lieut.. Cameron says that the whole of
Africa is now one vast slave field. The
slave trade is increasing, and whole districts
are desolated by it. lie thinks that by open
ing up the country to commercial enterprise
and placing steamers on the Congo river,
much can be done toward destroying the in
human traffic. and Mr.. Young, who recently
explored Lake Eyassa, says there are at
least 10000 slaves year carried off from the
shores of the lake. The population on the
south and west were employed by the Arabs
to make war with the tribes inland to the
west, and those that were captured were
taken as slaves.
The Suez canal company declared its
first dividend at the meeting of its stock
holders on the 9th ult. The dividend was
1 $500 francs per share, which, as the
shares rate at about 756 francs each, is but
a trife over One-fourth of one per cent
which is the sole and entire return upon,
the entire investment since the enterprise
was begun. The total Ieeeipts for the year
past were 3o,s27, ,194 francs, and the total
outlay, including interest account, %, ,727, ,0F
francs leaving balance of 1,1O0147 francs
-$22O.O29 gold-to be distributed among
the shareholders. During the year, 1 1,491
vessels, of the aggregate measurement of
294, ,7OS tons, passed through the canal, and
the successful passage of the English ship
Harknow, drawing 4-1OO meters (abcut
2SH feet is cited as proof of its excellent
working order. The proposition for the
naturalization of the canal, and for its pur
chase, or rather its support by the maritime
powers by annual contributions in 6eu of
toll, according to their respective tonnage, is
now favorably discussed by both the English
and French journals. This would cost Eng
land an annuity of 14,SOO,OOO francs, France
of 1 ,s42, 900 francs, and other nations in pro-
portion, according to the extent of their
merchant marine.
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LATEST NEWS.
sOUTH AND WEST.

The motto of the Dawson, ga, girls
is to "let no singleman escape"
The pay of members Of the Texas leg
islature has been reduced to two dollars per
day.
The schooner Lily of the Valley, from
Milla, has arrived at New Orleans with the
crew of the schooner Lizzie, of Mobile,
wrecked recently near the balize.
There is on exhibition at Marietta,
Ga, three solid bars of gold, worth one hun
dred and sixty dollars, from Dobbs' gold
mine, located four miles north of Marietta.
Reports from all parts of Kansas agree
that the crops this year will be the largest
and finest ever harvested. Most of the small
grains are already harvested. Corn prom
ises an abundant yield. Weather very favor
able.
The cotton worm has appeared In great
abundance in all the cotton fields in middle
and southern Alabama. They seem to be
general and fears are entertained, owing to
their advanced state at this date, of the total
destruction of the crop. The corn crop will
be the best ever made.
A special from Bismarck says the state
ment that Sitting-BuIl was killed in the fight
with Custer is confirmed from Indian sources.
Crazy Horse and Black Moon were also
killed. The statement that Sitting Bulls
band of Unippapas lost one hundred and
sixty killed, and that the total loss of the In
dians will reach nearly four hundred, is re-
ceived.
Advices from Los Angeles state that
daylight was let through the San Fernando
tunnel on the 18th This is the longest tun-
mel in the United States except the Hoosac,
and the last completed on the line of the
Southern Pacific railroad between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. By connection of
the now separated lines through the big tun-
mel there will be a continuous railroad from
this city to to Fort Unan, a distance of over
six hundred miles.
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VOL. XIII. NO. a.

white population has been quite gener-
ally accepted on both sides of the At
lantic, but DIR. Jarvis has recently dem
Onstrated that it is a fallacy based on
statistical blunders.
In 1870 One-thirtieth of the population
was in cities, and there was only six
towns whose population exceeded 5000.
In 1870 one-ffth of the population was
municipal and there were 374 Incorporate
cities. The growth of some of these
cities has been marvellous. In ten years
the population of Jersey City increased
1877 per cent. Of San Francisco, 1852,
and of Chicago, 1897. During the colo
NAL period the principal occupation
were husbandry, numbering trading,
hunting and fishing. One-third of the
labor of the country was employed in
tiInber-cutting. According to the last
census nearly 6,001000 are engaged in
agricultural pursuits, l 100000 in trade
and transportation, 100000 in manu-
faturing and mining, and 100000 in
professional life and there are 43, 900
clergymen, 10000 lawyers, $1,000 ply
sicians, 12G,S22 teachers, 1000 actors,
5000 journalists, ,000, 900 laborers. and
975, 900 domestic servants. Alexander
Hamilton's dream of the diversity of hu
man industry in the New World ha
come to pass.
ARIA.
The territory nOminally occupied by
the colonies thatunited in the declaration
of independence extend from the seabOard
to the Mississippi and the great lakes,
and exceed 100000 square miles. The
aggregate area covered by population in
1890 was 239, ,935 square miles. The
main line of settlements ran 1860 miles
along the coast from the Pennbscot to
the Altamaha, with an averaSe extent
inland Of from 100 to $50 milo. A few
pioneers had made their he nes in the
Ohio valley; there were two or three
patches of sediment in Kentucky there |
was village in Indiana and another in
and there were bands of ad- |
venturous spirits as far west as Illinois. |
The Louisiana purchase in 1908, supple !
mented by the Oregon treaty 1916, added |
|, III ,93l square miles TO the national |
domain; the Spanish cession in 1919 !
59,26S square miles; the an
1exation of Texas in 1915, the treaty of |
Hidalgo in 1913, and the
iadsden purchase in 1853 brought in
,67, ,45l square miles; and finally Mr..
Seward's Alaska investment involved
he acquisition of 500,000 square miles.
The total area is now 3,6O3, 1874 square
niles, or 1,942 2,000.0QQ acres, one-half of
which are public lands.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
SITTING BULL AND THE SIOUX.
Personal sketch Of the Indian ChieftaIn'
PecuIIarItIea Of the Tribe when
ON the War Path.

The St. Louis Globe e-Democrat o.
Saturday give the following sketch OF
the Sioux chief, in Il conversation with
Mr.. J. D. Keller, of that CITY:
Mr.. Keller was from 1868 10 1873 clerk
of the agent at Standing Rock, and had
ample opportunities to get ACQUAINTED
with this tribe of blOodthirsty savages.
in fact he lived among them 30 long that
he learned to speak their language "like
a native" and was greae favorite OF the
big chiefs who came to the agency. They
called in Minnehua Ochila," (tbe
writing boy). The word Sioux means
"cut-throat." According to Mr. Keller's
statement, the various bands of Sioux
number from thirty-five thousand to
fortv-five thousand, and are divided into
the following different tribes: UnkaPapa,
Rlack Feet, Sans Arcs, Two Kettles,
Up,ar Yanktonais, Lower Yanktonais,
Santee Sioux, Burgklys, Minneconjons,
and Galkas. Part of these live east and
part west of the Missouri river. TatOnko
Otahka, (Sitting BulD, who led in the
fight against Custer, belongs to the
Unkapapas (dried beef eaters(. Mr..
Keller knows him well, and describes
him to be about five feet in height. He
has a large head, eyes and nose, high
cheek bones; one of his legs is shorter
than the other from gun shot wound
in the left knee. His countenance is of
an extremely savage type, betraying that
bloodthirstiness and brutality for which
he has been so long notorious. He has
the name of being one of the most
successful scalpers in the Indian country.
There has been a standing reward of
81 900 offered for his head for the last
eight years, by the Montana people, who
have special cause to know his ferocious
nature, some of his worst deeds having
been perpetrated in that territory. The
Sioux, when on the war path, black their
faces from the eyes down, the forehead
being coloredS bright red. When in
mourning, and very eager to revenge the
death of friends or relations. they cut
their hair short and daub their faces
with white earth. Their feats of
horsemanship are wonderful. They
consider the greatest act of valOr to be
the striking of their enemy with some
hand instrument while alive, and, whether
alive or dead, it is the first one that
strikes the fallen foe that counts the
COUP" and not the one that shoots him.
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mOrmER,s DAnLnNa.
BY FRANK }, O1rArsOS. a. NJ.


On the seashore at morning she wandered alone,
The waves kissed her cheek ama the wind tossed
her hair,
And the great solemn fishes came up one by one,
And swan by her side all the time she was there.
Did the fishes remember what legend has told
How Queen APhrodite arose from the seal
Did they think that my darling, with Tinglets Of
Was Venus returned. or one fairer than shef
In the woods she would stray all the long summer
Now Glistening in the sunshine. now lost in the
shade,
And the birds would flock round her and show her
To their leaf hidden nests where their children
were laid;
For they knew she was gentle and harmless to all,
And her prattliDg they answered with chipping
and song.
She would pet the young birds till the tree shadows
Said, Home little truant, the journey Is long"
So she placed the dear chicks In their nests, and
Each wide-open bill as she murmured By-bye;"
Then she stole from the wood like star through
the mist,
When the sun to the moon yields the rule Of the
sky.
The jlysayiug homo famed her CHEEK with their
The lambs blested kindly. the dogs bayed adieu,
And even the owl-the most stupid Of thing
Kept Hodding good night till she passed from bis
view.
Then she came up the lane-mother's darling and
Not formal and prini, like your city bred girls;
With q foot-weary stumble she sunk al my side.
Brown hands on my knees, and my lap full oil
curls.
The embra.e and the kiss only mothers can know
The supper, the bath, and the old cradle song;
- Good night, mamma dear % From the room did
gOf
Yes, MY form, but my soul was there all tho
night long.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
jefferson Davis and Reputation.

The New York Evening Post pub
fishes private letter from Jefferson Davis
to lady in that city concerning his al
legged connection with reputation in
Mississippi. He says:
had no more to do with the repudia-
tion by Mississippi of the bonds issued
than either of you had. | was sen. to
college when a boy from college went
to West Point, from West Point into the
army, and served on the Indian frontier
until 1885, when | married and left the
army. | took up my residence in very
retired place, distant from the country
in which my father lived and where !
had been reared, so that | was q stranger
in Mississippi, seldom leaving the cane
brake in which l lived, when, in 1886,
the last of these notorious bonds were
issued.
1t was seven years thereafter before /
was brought into any political discussion,
and then only in the county in which |
resided before that time-1S33-th
famous Union bank bonds had been re-
pudiated, and though the question still
entered into party politics it had little
more than historical existence.
Upon the question as a politico-moral
one ] opposed the doctrine of repudia-
tion, insisting that governments, like in
dividuals, when claims were made
against them, had no right to make any
other issue than one in fact. Is there a
debt, or is there not
For that publicly declared opinion the
party of repudiators made war uPon me
in the beginning of my political life,
using both stratagem and concentration
of their forces to defeat my nomination
for congress in 1S45.
When the federal government sought
TO discredit the confederacy in foreign
markets, they sent - to England to
represent me as a repudiator. No man
knew better than he the falsity Of his
representations, for he was an active pol
itician in Mississippi when repudiation
occurred, and it was years afterward be-
fore he knew of my existence.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
Curious Facts About Blind Tom.

Blind Toms birth place is Georgia, and
he began to excite attention az musi-
clan at the age of four years. All sounds
afford him delight; even the crying of n
child causes him to dance abont in a
state of echacy. When at home he often
bit and pinched his brothers and sisters
to make them emit cries of pain. If
kept away from a piano, he will beat
against the wall, drag chairs about the
room, and make all sorts of noises. When
in London a flute was procured for him
of very complicated pattern, and hav-
ing twenty-five keys. He frequently
rises up at night and plays this instru-
ment, initiating upon it all sorts of sounds
which he may hear at the time. Once
when the agent attempted to make him
stop playing a piano in a high toned
hotel at three o'clock in the morning,
Tom seized him and threw him through
the door. In Washington he threw
man down stairs who came into his room.
When at home in Georgia he lives in a
building about two hundred yards from
the house, and there remains alone with
his piano, playing all day and all night,
like one possessed with madness. Bad
weather has an effect upon his music.
In cloudy, rainy seasons, he plays somber
music in minor chords; and when the
sun shines and birds sing, he indulges IN
waltzes and light music. Sometimes he
will hammer away for hours, producing
the most horrible discord imaginable.
Suddenly a change comes over him, and
he INDUCES in magnificent bursts of har-
mony taken from the best productions of
the master Since his childhood he has
been an idiot, and he played nearly as
well at the age of seven as he does now;
but now his repertoire is much larger, as
he can play anything he has ever heard.
He now plays about 1000 pieces, and
picks up new ones everywhere. 1t is a
curious fact that he will not play any
music if he can help it,
having a great dislike for it.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
Sitting Bull and his Braves.

Gen. Sitting Bull and his Lieut.. Rain
in-the Face, Crazy Horse and the other
horOes of the Yellowstone massacre, were
armed by the United States with Win
chester rifles, that were more effective
than the arms of our own troops. They
were supplied by the United States with
ammunition, stores and horses. The
blankets given his command by the
Indian agency were freshly supplied, and
were all new and marked U. S. Indian
department" While Sitting Bull and
lieutenants were killing Clusters men,
the United States was kindly feeding
and caring for their squaws and papooses.
1t now appears that, since Clusters de-
feat, the Indians are wearing their clothes.
Perhaps it would do well now for the
United States to keep on with the farce
it is playing, pension the Indian widows,
and present sitting Bull with a sword
and the freedom of the whole Indian
country.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
The Industrial Depression in England.

Manchester files of July I'd, fore
shadow plainly enough the further cut
ting down of operatives wages, the clos
ing up of some mills and the resort to
shorter time in others, of which the ca
bic, from day to day, in the course of
the current week has been apprising us.
The following from the Examiners trade
article, under date of lst instant, tells
the whole story
"Our market is again worse, that is,
business continues to dwindle, while
prices still give way. The stagnation is
more complete than ever yet, and the
dependency of tone in all departments
is more than ever striking. If there
were anything of the nature of panic,
the position would be less irksOme as il
is, there is little prospect of early relief.
Again, great outcry for reduced pro-
duction is made on all hands, and, by
some means or other, production GER
tainly must be reduced.
In no department at all is there any
improved tone 10 report in none does
there seem to be even an average bust
moss doing demand being limited
strictly to absolute requirements. Com
ing to explain a state of affairs SO dis
couragiDg, we find firstly, that political
anxiety Is one OF the increase, not 50
much on account of the war actually
begun or threatened, ~ from fear of
ulterior consequences; secondly, the
trade has been suffering 80 long that
climax of some sort seems inevitable;
and it is felt that, unless production is
greatly and quickly reduced by de-
1iberaie action, credit will not long be
able to sustain the present strain of adj
versity.
If it were only textile manufactures
that were thus, as il were, in a state of
collapse, the situation, bad as IL is, might
be less alarming, but from most of the
great mining centres we are having re-
ports of depression in business scarcely
less severe. As might I've expected,
these are accompanied by the constant
threats of workmen's strikes. These
may be carried out, but no one
that is not blind but can foresee the
ultimate unavoidable result--a brief
period of enforced idleness, the impover-
ishment and decentralization of the
strikers, to be followed finally by re-
turn TO labor on the best terms they can
pet
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
HAYWOOD GRANT.
The FIend who vi Mnrdered Gen. HIndman
at Helena. Arkanaas.


Haywood Grant, who was executed at
Rome, Georgia, q few days ago, was
born in Ohio, in 1874, of free parents,
but afterward became a slave of his own
accord. According to his own confes-
sion, he had murdered several men,. In
1865, while employed upon a western
river, on the steamer Potomac, he killed
a deck-hand with billet of wood some
months later he killed another deck
hand on the steamer BOstona, and threw
him overheard. He committed many
thefts about this time, and next muir
dered an lrishman in Memphis, and rob
bed him of one hundred and forty dol
lars. Then he stole a mule, and was
sent to the penitent ary and escaped.
in 1875 he was tried in Memphis for
shooting at white man and killing a
policeman. He was sentenced arain to
the penitentiaTy for half a lifetime and
was hired out with other conyicts TO
work, and escaped. On the twenty-fifth
day of September, 1868, general Thomas
c. Hindman, late of the confederate
army, was brutally murdered. No clue
to the murder was ever found, though
large rewards were offered. Grant con
fessed before his death that he shot gen
eral Hindman in the neck with an En-
field rifle. He also shot and killed Viii
liam II. marlborough, of Richmond,
Virginia, in a Tennessee town, but was
never found out. AS much as twenty
five thousand dollars in rewards were
offered for the arrest of the criminal who
committed some of the crimes above
enumerated.
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The Potato Beetle in 1875.

The yearly reports o. f.Prof. Charles V.
Riley, state entomologist of Missouri,
low how practically valuable the labors
of a scientific man may be, and also how
much one state can do for the whole
country by providing for scientific aid to
its own people. Last year Mr.. Riley was
able to predict that the Colorado potato
beetle would not dc so much damage
this year as last. The result has verified
his prophecy. The summer in Missouri
he says was so excess ivvly wet that al
though the beetle was abundant enough
in the spring, it subsequently became
comparatively scarce and harmless, and
did not again become multiplied till af
ter the rains had ceased and the third
brood had developed by which time the
crop was sufficiently matured to be out
of danger. Very much the same condi-
tions occurred all over the upper Missis-
sippi valley country, and as there was an
incrt ased acreage planted the crop
throughout this whole section was larger
and prices lower than they have been for
m any years. Indeed in some parts of
Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, it has been
difficult to dispose of potatoes even at
twenty five cents per bushel.
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The New York Graphic is authority
for the statement that the experiment of
Co operative living on the socialistie
plan is to be tried anew shortly in Vir-
ginia, on the banks of the Potomac,
where domain of some seven thousand
acres has been secured at a cost of $780,
600. The property includes finely cul-
tivated farms, with thousands of fruit
trees and valuable water power. The
projectors of the enterprise have been re-
cruited from those in every section of the
country who have an abiding faith in the
possibility of realizing the dreams of
Fourier. Brisbane and Owen upon this
continent. The immediate leaders are
Mr. Samuel Leavit, of New York, and
Mr.. Charles Sears, of the co operative
farm, Silkville, Kansas. A monthly
magazine entitled the Eclectic and
Peacemaker is the organ of the new
scheme, and will naturally excite great
deal of interest in certain circles. The
projectors of this new community believe
in the sanCtity of marriage, and regard
both the Shakers and Oneida commu-
nists as social hcrctics.