The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28
TIMELY TOPICS.

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OF this numbRl, So 63S has been held in
northern Texas, while the remainder,
254,652 had been driven north. Several
thousand head which were wintered in
northern Texas last season, were also
driven north, which will probably swell
the total to between 2GO, 900 and 27O, 900
head.
CUSTER was an experienced Indian
fighter, and it was probably to this fact
that he owes his death. He knew too
much about Indians, and much fam
iliarity had bred contempt. 1t is the
veteran railroad man who gets ground
up, and the veteran Indian fighter even
tUally loses his hair. Custer was one of
those dashing fatalists who believe that
man has an allotted time TO die, and can
neither hasten or retard -Ladianapo5is
Herald.
THE royal mausoleum of Russia is
2l0 feet long, 9S high. The tombs are
all alike-a plain block of marble, six
feet long, enclosed by gilded railing,
and bearing an inscription ON a surJ1en
golden plate. Over one hangs bunch
of keys taken from fortresses by the
soldier beneath, over another droop
'battIe-flags, while above a third, and
sparkling brightly in the glow of the
never extinguishcd lamp, is a closly
studded diamond betrothal ring.
CUsTER's personal appearance was
singular, Col. Newhall, who wrote ''With
Sheridan in Lees Last Campaign"
describes him thus: "Custer of the
golden locks, his broad sombrero turned
up from his hard face, the ends
of his crimson cravat floating over his
shoulders, gold galore spangling his
jacket sleeves, a pistol in his boot,
jangling spurs on his heels, and a
Ponderous claymore swinging at his side,
wild daredevil of general, and
prince of advance guards, quick to see
and act"
THE country in which Sitting Bull
has established his camp is a broken up,
mountainous country, among the large
affiuents of the Yellowstone river, which
rs itself an immense tributary of the
Upper Missouri. fhe Big Horn, the
Little Horn, the Rosebud and the
Tongue rivers, all Ofwhich are mentioned
in the news concerning this fight, are
tributaries of the Yellowstone and
empty into it just north of the 10th
FNaralial Of I,t HoI
106th and 10Sth degrees of west Iongi-
tude, in the Territory of Montana. It
* the Big Horn mountain country, and
part Of the territory reserved to the
Sioux by treaty.
THE people OF Australia are talking of
securing a new telegraphic connection
with England, by way of San Francisco.
They have had good deal of trouble
with their dispatches TO London, owing
10 the fact that the line between
Australia and India passes through
Dutch territory, and as the Dutch
operators are deficient in the knowledge
of the English language, they repeat the
Australian dispatch in the most in
fernally mixedup language, and they
reach England is an undecipherable
condition. 1t is probable that new
cable company will be soon organized in
Australia, the line to connect with our
telegrarhic system in California.
THE joker who offered life annuity
20 the collector of 1 100000 old postage
stamps, without any idea that the offer
would be accepted, has been brought to
book at last by the young girl whose
efforts to win the prize have been so
frequently chrOnicled during the past
two years. Every body who heard of the
offer, and had any power to assist in the
matter, has seemed to take malicious
pleasure in helping the young collector,
and contributions of stamps have poured
in from all quarters, one especially large
one being a contribution of 30, 900 from
Paris. 1t helps ones faith in human
nature to learn tn; the promise made IN
jest has been kept in earnest, and that
the young girl has her annuity secured
10 her.
BEIGE w. CUSTER, brother of the de |
ceased general, has lived in Columbus
for many years. Boston Custer, aged |
twenty-five, a forage and Thomas,
aged twenty-seven, a lieutenant, both |
unmarried brothers of the general, were
killed. The brother-in-law, who was |
killed, was the husband of the generals |
only sister; who, with Mr. Custer, was
with the expedition. The parents of the
general are upwards of seventy and very |
feeble. The mother, as were the rest of |
the family, was greatly attached to the
general, and his terrible death will |
probably kill her. Neither the general |
nor his brother-in-law had any children.
Mrs. Custer would never leave her hus-
band. She travelled many hundred miles
with him, on pony, slept with him in
ambulances, and when duty called him
to battle her grief was inexpressible till
he returned.-C Cleveland Leader.
THE Sioux are the perfection of Ma
ture's wild men. They are red repub-
licans, polytheists, who worship every
object in nature-objects being rare on
their plains. They are polygamist, to
whom nature contributes wife every
where; and Sioux infancy is spent in
listening to the delectabilities of war till
the child precociously weeps to take
scalp. The chiefs have little or no au-
thority and are overcome by the braves.
There is no law or code of law among
the Dakotas, and property is an institu-
ton of adherence with them. Untam-
able, factious, but formidable in war.
treacherous and cowardly, but still in
arms forever, they have survived every
European innovation smallpox, rail
road indian agents and rum. They all
used to go afOot and now they ride as
well rs Comanches. They had only