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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
A Famous Scout,

The dispatches from Helena, Mont,
received last week, report that among
Gibbons wounded was the famous scout,
Beidler-X, for short-known far and
wide as the most daring scout in the
mountains. 1t was he who. piloted Con-
ners in the freezing cold of Utah winter
up the Bear River Valley to the encamp.
ment of the Snakes and enabled him to
gain his remarkable victory over the saw
ages. 1t was he who tracked the Pie
gans into the Teton Mountains and
marked out the route which Bakers
column pursued when he surprised Long
horses band in the gray dawn of win
ter's morning and literally swept them
from the face of the earth. He followed
Gibbon last year to the Yellowstone and
tracked for him a pathway across the Big
Horn Mountains, up to the scene of the
Custer massacre. When the battle
ground had been reached and scattered
around it lay the bodies of the slain
when all the particulars of the dreadful
slaughter had been gathered $50 far, in
deed, as they were to be obtained from
that savage waste of desolation and muir
der), a messenger was wanted to carry the
news to Fort Ellis. 1t must be under
stood that it was a terrible undertaking.
The mountains literally swarmed with
hostile Sioux There were ninety-nine
chances out of hundred that the mes
senger would never reach his destina-
ton. 1t was an even chance that he
would be killed and scalped before he
got out of sight of the command. But
still the necessity of sending the message
was imperative. To order anyone to
take it was like signing his death war
rant, and even the brave Gibbon shrank
from this. He called up a half.dOzen of
his men and proposed to them the under
taking The bravest of them shrank
from the trial. Boys" said Gibbon,
81 can't order you on this desperate
hazard, for l believe in my soul it is al
most certain death, and yet l must dc
my duty and send the message. If none
of the scouts will go l will send my
nephew" The person indicated was a
brave young officer just from West
Point, and this was his first experience
in warfare. What chance had heS Sit
ting few PAGES apart from the group OF
officers and men was Beidler, cleaning
his gun and polishing his equipments "a
stout, heaVy-DullJ man OF forty years ol
age. Hard service had rendered rugged
his set, determined face, and exposure
had grizzled his beard and hair. Blu
there was frank and manly look in the
full, black eyes, and about the finely
curved mouth a touch of tenderness
His voice was sweet as a wOman's. Ever
the rugged nature of this desperate serv
ice had not destroyed the symmetry o
his hands, which were clean and tape
as girls. But in the slender finger
dwelt the strength of giant-a deadl.
hand for his foes, but cordial and kint
as charity for all upon whom he looked
in friendship. AS Gibbon ceased speak
ing the frontiersman's voice rose clea
and distinct
"Never mind, General, I'll carry you
message"
Gibbon turned toward him in surprise
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
-.Ex-P President Theirs, of France.

Louis Adolphe Theirs was born at
Marseilles April 16, 1897, and was, there
fore, eighty years of age at the time of
his death. His father was blacksmith
in the humble walks of life, and the ear
ly education he received was all at the
public schools of Marseilles. When he
had grown up to a mans estate he pre-
vailed upon friends to post him in the
study of law, and with this object he
was sent by them to AK, where he
studied for several years in the Office of
nj. Arnaud. Upon being admitted to
the bar he met with Indifferent success,
and, after few years, he abandoned the
law as a profession and took up with
literature. AS stepping stone to this
kind of life he first became one of the
editors of the COnstStutGOnneL, writing
the political articles of that famous
journal. In the year 1928 the first
volume of his History of the French
Revolution" appeared, and nine years
later the entire work was completed.
After the revolution of July, 1880, he
entered into politics and was made
Under-Secretary of State to the ad-
ministration of Lafitte. Soon after
this he was elected Deputy for
AK. In 1882 he was appointed Min.
lister for the Interior by Louis Phil
ippe. In 1885 he was made Minister of
Foreign Affairs, an Office to which he
was again appointed in the year 1840
Here again he devoted his leisure time to
literary work, and in the year 1S42 the
first volume of his Consulate and EN-
pire of France" appeared. In the Revo-
luton of 184S he was a Republican and
carried musket on his shoulder in the
National Guard. In 1851, after Louis
Napoleon's coup d'etat, he was banished
In 1868 he was made Deputy by the Lib
eral Opposition, and caused his abilities
to be recognized by his opposition to
Louis Napoleon's schemes. When the
Empire ceased to exist he was among the
very first called upon by the French peo-
pie to administer upon their political
affairs. He was the first President of
their Republic and it's ablest one. Hon
est in his convictions and honest to him
self, he was entitled to recognition as
the foremost among the French poll
ticians of this generation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

What, you, X-why, man, l couldn't
ask you 70 do such thing. besides, you
are our pilot"
Yes, know, but l don't mind the
venture. Anyway, I'll carry the mes
sage"
You know better than do, x, that
it's deadly venture. Wouldn't have
dared to ask you"
It's all right, General. Get your let
ter ready and let me have it az dark"
Then rising to his feet, he limped away,
for X Beidler was lame. An Indian
bullet in one of the wild forays of the
border had shattered his hip, and, al
though the wound had long since healed,
1t had left him lame for life. Two hours
later, when the shadows of mountain
twilight were falling thick and dusky
over the valley, he cautiously rode down
the canon of the Little Horn and disap-
peared from view About the incidents
of that desperate ride of 400 miles-of
his hair-breadth escapes-of his desper.
ate adventures 1T would be impossible in
the limits of an article like this to give
anything like an adequate description.
1t will suffice to say that the message
was carried, and when the writer saw
him two weeks later preparing for his
trip down the Yellowstone he seemed as
careless and talked as unconcernedly
about it as one might speak of a trip to
Boonville orSt. Louis. Andyethe had just
performed deed from which the boldest
frontiersman would have shrunk away in
dismay. When not on duty as a scout,
he can generally be found around Helena;
at night, invariably around newspaper
offices, reading the exchanges and listen
ing eagerly to the news of the great out
side world, which he has not seen for
twenty years; always genial and kindly,
and taking faithful interest in the "pil-
grims," as the newcomers are called in
the mountains. .-SedGIiG { MOI Buzoo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

coined the Presidential party at Marietta,
Ohio, on the 7th. A procession Of veteran
soldiers and militia was Termed, with the
distinguished visitors at the head, and
marched through the principal streets. In
the afternoon reception was given in the
public park, at which 1t is estimated that
25 900 people were present. Speeches were
made by the President, Atty. Gen. Devens
and Postmaster.Ge Key. The party left in
the evening for the Presidents home at FIRE.
mont.
President Hayes and family were received
at the depot at Fremont by a crowd of sev.
eral hundred old neighbors and citizens on
his arrival on the Sth.
The Treasury commission has commenced
the investigation into the management Of
the San Francisco Custom House.
Grand preparations are being made at
Louisville for the reception of the Presiden-
tial party on the 17lh. Besides the President
the entire Cabinet Is expected to be present.
The Indiana Soldiers Orphans Home at
Knightstown was destroyed by fire on the
night of the sth. Loss 100000; insurance
$4,000.
The Women's Congress is to be held at
Cleveland, October 1912
The total number of deaths at Fernandina, d,
Fla, from yellow fever up to the 10th was
ten.
A circular was issued by the Apostles Of
the Mormon Church at Salt Lake on the 10th,
saying that they held meeting and waited
upon the Lord, who blessed them and re-
vealed the steps they should take. John
Taylor is sustained as acting President Of
the twelve, and a quorum of the twelve
Apostles is the authority of the church. j..
w. Young, D. H. Wells and g. F. Cannon
are ordered to assist President Taylor. 1t is
claimed that the last days are at hand, and
that all Saints must be faithful in building
temples and paying tithing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
Extraordinary Workmanship.

Yesterday evening, at the shooting
gallery on Broad street, near Ninth, some
extraordinary feats of craftsmanship were
executed by Mr.. John Hartman, Jr., the
proprietor of the gallery, and Mr.. w. H
Ralston. The latter-named gentleman
held in his mouth hard pine block
seven. eighths of an inch thick, one and
one-third of an inch wide, at distance
of about thirty feet, standing face tc
face with Mr.. Hartman, who fired the
shot and pierced the center of the block
without the least injury to Mr.. Ralston
Several other fine shots, though full OF
risk, were made, among which was shoot
ing an apple off the head and from the
mouth, snuffing a candle, backward shots
with looking glass and several Others
Richmond VG.) Wig.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
THE EAST.

The Harlem IN. " Bank has suspended
operations and gone into voluntary liquida-
tion. Depositors will be paid in full.
The annual session of the American Social
Science Association commenced at Saratoga
on the 4th. David A. Wells, President, de-
livered an address.
One fatal case of yellow fever was reported
at New York on the 4th.
Gold sold in New York on the 5th at
10314-the lowest rate since May, 1862.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has re-
prieved Allen c. Laros, the NORTHAMPTON
County poisoner, sentenced to be hanged on
the 10th, for thirty days, TO allow an exam
ination into the prisoners sanity.
The funeral services OF E. L. Davenport
the actor, at New York on the 5th were
largely attended. Rev. DIR. Chaplin preached
the funeral sermon and Mayor Ely was one
of the pall-bearers. The streets through
which the procession passed were crowded
with people.
Baseball on the 9Th: Boston IL, st. Louis
2; Cincinnati l, Louisville 0.
The President of the D., L. & W. Company
refuses to negotiate with the striking miners
until they resume work. Then, when the
price of coal warrants it, the company will
increase wages or pay the sliding scale.
Nine men were burned, three fatally, by an
explosion of gas in the Phoenix Park Mine,
near Minersville, Pa, on the 9th.
The Wilkesbarre (Pa.) coal companies have
decided to advance the price twenty cents per
ton for the Northern and Western markets
Two steamships arrived at New York from
Europe on the sth with about 81 800, 900 in
gold coin. The outgoing steamers were
heavily laden with grain, canned goods,
butter, cheese and beef.
Baseball on the sth: Chicago l, Boston 0;
Hartford Is, st. Louis 6; Cincinnati 8, Louis.
vile 3.
Frank Leslie, the well-known newspaper
publisher of New York, has failed. Liabili-
ties S320,000. An arrangement has been
made whereby his publications will be con-
tinued.
Rt. Rev. Amadeus Rappe, Catholic Bishop
Of the Diocese of Cleveland from 1S47 to
1870, died on the sth at St. Albans, VT, aged
seventV-four. The Bishop was well known
throughout the United States end Canada as
a missionary and temperance reformer.
Three bodies were found on the 9th in the
ruins of the burned piano factory at New
York.
Thomas F. Curley was hanged at Norris
town, Pa, on the 10th for the murder of Miss
Mary A. Whitby, May IS, 1875.
The shock Of an earthquake was expe-
rienced in New Jersey on the 10th. AtMount
Holly houses were shaken and crockery
broken.
The miners of Neshquehoning, Pa, re-
Sumed work on the 10th. They have been
out since July.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
WEST AND SOUTH,

On the night of the Sd Robert, James and
Samuel Goodrich and James Simmons were
taken from the Newcastle (Ky) Jail by mob
and hung. They were charged with murder
ing number of persons in Owen and Hen
derson Counties, Ky.
A congress of women will be held in Chi
cago, Oct. and 5.
The National Masonic Convention (colored)
met at Chicago on the 4th. Some fifty or
seventy-ive delegates, representing nearly
every State in the Union, were present.
At meeting of ex.Federal and Confeder-
ate soldiers in Cincinnati on the 4th it was
decided to hold grand reunion of members
Of both armies In that city next year, and a
committee was appointed to arrange for
State organizations.
The convention Of colored Masons at Chi
cago on the 5th adopted resolutions looking
toward securing recognition from the white
Masons of America.
The reunion of the Army Of the Tennessee
at st. Paul closed on the 9th. Gen. W. T.
Sherman was elected President Of the society.
New notes which will figure as available
assets Of the Chicago State Savings Institu-
tlon have been discovered, which will bring
the assets up to Sl,O0O,O00
The American AnthropOlogical Associa-
ton, in session at Cincinnati, on the 9th re-
elected all last years officers.
Brigham Young's will has been admitted
to probate in Salt Lake City. The estate is
probably worth $2,00O,OOO. He was the
father Of hfty-six children, and left seventeen
wives, sixteen sons and twenty-eight daugh-
ters. The will aims to make an equitable d.
vision Of the property between all the wives
and children, with no preference to any.
The yellow-feyer having appeared at Fer
Randina, Fla, all vessels and trains from
that city will be quarantined.
The Apostles OF the Mormon Church al
Salt Lake have arranged that a quorum Of
Apostles next in order to the President shall
assume control Of the church. John Taylor,
the first of the Apostles, is now virtually the
head Of the Mormon Church.
An immense concourse of people wei.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WARRINGTON.

Mrs. Gen. Lees suit for the recovery of
Arlington has been postponed until January.
The Jewish residents of Smyrna recently
waited on the U. s. Minister to Turkey and
thanked the U. g. Government for its solici-
tude for the Jewish people in the Ottoman
Empire.
Senator Morton's physician has returned
to Washington and expresses the opinion
that the Senator will be able to attend the
regular session of Congress.
Gen. Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning
Board, las been appointed Deputy Collector
Of the port of New Orleans.
Changes will be made in all the leading
positions in the New York Custom House at
the convening of Congress.
The removal of the New York Custom
House officials should not be construed as
meaning hostility to Senator Conkling, a
Washington telegram says. The Senator will
be consulted when the new appointments are
made.
Secretary McCrary heartily approves the
order OF the commandant at West Point pro.
viding summary and severe punishment for
hazing cadets.
The instructions to the Sitting Bull Com
mission are to treat with the Chief on the
basis Of a pardon to himself and all his war.
riors for past offenses, and to demand the
unconditional surrender of their arms, am
muntion and ponies, and that they proceed
forthwith to such reservation as shall be Sc
lected for them. II this is declined negotia-
tions will be suspended and the Government
will wage vigorous war upon these hostiles
II at any time they return to the United
States.
Sitting Bull is reported to be encamped on
Paint Horn Butts, 100 miles from Fort Walsh,
British Columbia. He says he has no inten-
tion Of going on the war-path and is deter
mined to remain under British protection.
On the Sth the flags on all the Government
buildings were at half-mast in respect to the
memory Of ex-President Theirs, of France.
0sman Pasha was born in Asia Minor, of
Mussulman parents, the Turkish Minister
says.
Should Mexico succeed in preventing the
border raids of which COMPLAINTS made, our
Government will recognize Mr.. Mata as the
representative Of that Republic, thus resum-
ing diplomatic relations between the two
Governments.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
WAR NOTES.


A Russian official dispatch on the 5th an
nounced the capture of Loftcha after twelve
hours desperate fighting.
On the 4th the Turks captured Kadilxoi,
near Rustchuk, but were subsequently driven
out with great loss.
On the 4th 1900 Montenegrin troops sur
rounded a village near Bessika. During the
night another force OF Montenegrins arrived,
and the first force, mistaking them for
Turks, attacked them. In the fight which
ensued 700 were killed. The mistake was
not discovered until morning.
On the 9Th Eyoub Pasha's corps defeated
the Twelfth Russian Corps, which recrossed
the Lom in disorder, abandoning their forti-
fed positions near Kechlowa. The Rus
slams lost 5000 killed and wounded.
Three thousand wounded from Sulieman
Pasha's army had reached Adrianople on the
7th; 1900 were at Kazarvlik, and at schipka
Pass they we're lying all over the hillside.
The Russians in Asia Minor are conHning
themselves to a defensive attitude.
Nicsics surrendered on the 9th. The gar
rison and inhabitants withdrew to Gatschko
Plevna was captured by the Russians on
the 9th. In the evening the Turks were re-
treating in great disorder. The losses were
enormous. The cannonading had been con-
tinuous from the morning of the 7th.
The Gear witnessed the operations before
Plevna on the 7th.
A Constantinople telegram of the 10th re-
ported that the whole of Sulieman Pasha's
army had passed north of the Balkans.
The Turks on the 5th occupied Ablava and
were driven by the Russians across the Lom
with loss to the latter of 900 men. On
the 7th, during an armistice for the burial of
the dead, Russian and Turk fraternized
heartily wherever they met. In the evening
the Russians evacuated Ablava and the fol-
lowing day reached Banitzka.
Further accounts Of horrible atrocities
have been sent out by Russian and Turkish
authorities.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

THE Hindoos are endeavoring to intro
duce their religion into Australia, and
HindOo missionaries have been for year
laboring in that country. One of them,
Kabu Surajee, reports to the society that
sent him on the condition in which he
found the Australians. The things which
he particularly notices are that drunken
ness and profanity are frightfully com
mon, that abject poverty and deep ignOr
ance are the leading characteristics Of
the people, and that, as he thinks, the
Christian religion degrades instead OF
eleVates.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
-As Michael oIeary, Henry Heuke,

AS Michael Cleary, Henry Henkes
and Thomas Dollard were crossing the
Wabash Railroad in Springfield, H.,
in a wagon, few afternoons since,
locomotive struck the wagon and upset
it, Cleary was instantly killed, Henkes
died few hours later, and Dollard es-
capped with little injury. The men lived
in Edinburgh, and were into the city at
tending Cleary's wife's funeral.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
The Indians.

CHEYENNE, Sept. D.
Three companies of the Third Cavalry
and about $50 friendly Indians were sent
out yesterday morning to disarm Crazy
Horses band. The village broke up
very early in the morning and was STAN
peding when our forces reached the
ground about seven miles out. About
forty lodges were captured and more
we're brought in last night. Friendly
Indians are after the remainder and will
capture them, as they went toward
Spotted Tail. Crazy Horse escaped
alone and went to Spotted Tail, was ar
rested there last night and is now in
prison. Seventy-ive people of Lame
Deer's band surrendered at Camp Sheri-
dan yesterday. They state that the rest
of the band, numbering 400, under Fast
Bull, will be in in four or five days.
Gen. Crook and staff left here at noon
to-day for Camp Brown, from which
point a detachment of the Fifth Cavalry,
Gen. Merritt, and part of the Second
Cavalry have gone to intercept the Nez
Perces.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

INFORMATION from Japan recently re-
ceived conveys the intelligence that the
river Nisheynaagawa, in the Province of
Nasha-no- Matamora, has suddenly dried
mp, leaving an empty bed. We consider
it important to let our readers know of
this fact, so that there will be no misap-
prehension in case any of them go fish
ing or swimming in the said river. We
can imagine nothing that would mortify
a man more than to go swimming in the
Nisheynaagawa for two or three hours
under the impression that everything was
right, and then, when he came out, to
learn from somebody that the river was
dried up.-PhiLadeLphiG Bulletin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

"A Texas paper says that Capt. K
King, of Santa Gertrudes, is making an
addition of sixty-three miles to his past
ure fence, and will have inclosed alto.
gether 160, 900 acres Of land.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

A CHICAGO reporter has just won his
spurs by an article headed Desperate
Bloodshed-The Murdered Man Not Ex-
pected TO Live"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

military on the Rio Grande, the latter being
so hostile to the Americans that they cannot
be used to enforce the terms of the treaty
between Mexico and the United States.
Ex-President Grant was presented with the
freedom of Inverness, Scotland, on the 9Th.
France and Germany have demonstrated
with the Porte against the release Of the per-
sons condemned to penal servitude for the
murder of the servian and French Consuls
at Salonica last May.
A definite agreement, tits reported, has been
arrived at between Greece and Russia for
the protection of Christians in Turkey.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
CHICAGO, Sept. {

CHlCAGO, sept o.
Orders have been issued for the appre-
hension of some of the principal agi-
tators among the Indians in the disturbed
regions of the West, with view of
placing them in confinement in Florida,
a practice which has proved effective in
quelling disorders among the Indians in
the Indian Territory and elsewhere.
Army officers do not anticipate any
serious trouble on account of the death
of Crazy Horse
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14

Natural flowers are "tonier" for or
namenting full dress than formerly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-09-14
CAMp RoRINsoN. Neh.. S

N7A1HK HRVnH4NSO1Ni 4NNUi
Crazy Horse made a desperate attempt
to escape last night and was stabbed
with bayonet and killed. His people
took his body and all is quiet this morn
ing.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-07-07
Dickens in Black Velvet.

In Rochester had occasion to go into
little shop kept by talkatiye old wo-
man who had q photograph of Gadshill
lying on a counter. This led to my ask
ing her whether the illustrious master OF
the house often made his appearance in
town. "Oh, bless you, sir" she said,
eve every one of us knew him to speak
to- He was in this very shop on the
Tuesday with a party of foreigners
he was dead in his bed on the Friday.
He lad ON his black velvet suit, and it
always made him look so 'andsome.
said to my 'usband, | do think as Charles
Dickens looks 50 nice in that black
velvet suit But he couldn't see as he
looked any way particular.-Henry
James, Jr., IN Lippincotfs.