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MADDOX, too, Is man OF blood, though
not rs fierce IA WELLS. Ho killed his an,agO-
mist, Lieut. McPHrRsos, in n duel at Micr dur
ing the Mexican War. 1t would be very close
fight II WELLS and MADDOX were led to contend
in mortal combat distance live paccs weapons,
Dcrringcr pistols. thug knives. and rifle canes.
all Of which the officers Of the House could sup
ply out III WE.Iss effects.
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TO resign and the other members are, we
hope, reputable men. Besides, GRANT has
only few weeks left in which TO do this
sort Of thing. His sands of public life have
npntlv run ont
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-08
The Lo,enc,' Women said 20 he In Baltimore.


THE NEW YORK SIN devoted consider.
able portion of It's editorial space Yesterday ~
We solution of the Intricate prohlom, Who IL
IN" handsom"st man in Amrr.Hf' As for the
men, We have nothing 10 snY-thoy can take caro-
OF themselves but when II comes Ia beautiful
women, we take issue with our luminous cons
temporary, and nunOun go, without fear Oi sUr-
Hsslul contradiction, that tlrrr are moro If
thom 70 be found lu~l here IN BaItmoro than i'm
any ON, r. lorhlty upon th' face of the hahltablc
Elopc, ms with our romllm, MS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-08

Tn. current nOWspancr Qu4h over flo
Electoral hin is oman In the criticism of h.ip..,
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rcnawn'
We ventura to rcmind the Boston I,lrer,iser
II homely old saving which affirm, that tho
proof of the uuddln.. ia in the oatinr.
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On Monday we published II letter from a
Sun correspondent with Gen. MlLEss COM
mand, in which the writer gave an account Of
tho march in search Of CRAZY IIoRsE's band,
and of the experiences Of the troops the first six
days Of the expedition during which ono man
had been killed by tho Indians. by lator ad-
vices by telegraph il appears that Gen. MILES.
on Feb, z, cnme upon CRAZY IIORsE's village.
consisting Of some five hundred lodges, extend
ing three miles along tho valley Of the Tongue
river, and after q five hours engagement de-
foatod the Indians suffering himselfa loss Of
three Killed and eight wounded, after which lie
returned to his permanent camp. As CRAZY
ioHsEs forces were estimated at fully one
thousand warriors, the march OF Gen MILES.
In the most lnclemont season. and the dcfcnt Of
force outnumbering his own more than three
TO one, entltle both the officers and the men en-
gagged IN the expedition to great credit for en- =
DURANGO and bravery. But all the circumstan-
ces connected with this affair tend TO prove that
the popular belief that our troubles with tho
Sioux arc virtually over. il altogether without
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-08

A book outitlod TIE rur0sol .lssi>'1,d.
Hmd hA " Fe,f, Tto'sHi hd,otd Fri, az Nuor. i,
what u, ute linda eatcs collection of receipt, aud u,,
| i"e'' PERTAINING TO Almo.t c'cry variety q industry
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-08

The little intelligence possessed by many
Of the drivers f'horses in this city is conspicu-
ously apparent in these days Of icc-cncumbcrcd
streets. The stupidity. not to say cruelty. with
which vehicles are londod up to their fun capa-
city without regard to the difficulty Of drawing
them. and the laundering why in which they
are cxtricatcd when thcy get stuck fast in holes,
are really amazing. For example, yesterday
morning. in one Of the cross streets up town. n
wO-ton coal cart. drawn by a pair Of haf-starvcd
horses. was driven into a hole. In front Of
which was a stretch OF perfectly level and slip
perry leo. OF course tho horses, on reaching the
smooth place. had no hold for their feet. and
yet for half an hour their driver. without de-
sccnding from his perch. continued whipping
them and urging them forward The poor
animals did their best, but they merely skatcd
and slipped about and the most they could do
was to keep from falling. Then another two
horse team. with friendly driver. came along.
and that was hitched on in front. and the four
horses. stlll standing on the smooth lee. were
whipped and goaded forward. but naturally
with the same result as before. Finally the cart
WIS backed. as it should have been at first. TO n
position that afforded IA better fOothold and by
getting n Roadway on II. IL was carried past the
obstruction. This sort OF thing goes on all over
the city. and almost rcconciles humane man
10 BEROH's meddesome Interference.
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KENNER Is the namo of tho Returning
Boardrr Of Louisiana who yesterday testified.
among other things. that he had voted in the
board to throw out moro than 10000 TLDEN
votes. and admitted that something grossly
fraudulent was done with the return from YER
non parish
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It is always permitted to hope for the
best. But good many Democrats. at Washing
ton and elsewhere. are looking forward to the
final decision NJ tho fifteen citizens. in whose
fnvor the Congress OF the United States has ab-
dicnted ts constitutional powers and functions.
with good deal moro anxiety than hopeful
ness. If it should turn out that the pnrty mum
agcrs have initiated the prudence Of the little
French chevalier famed in story. who was 50
averse to lighting that he committed involun-
tnry suicide in his cagcrncss 10 run away
There is this difference though. the chcvalicr
would really have had To fight II he hadn't run.
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There IL increasing uncasincss in Paris
over the tone Of tho German official prcss and
the military activity Of the German Govern
mcnt. A Strasburg correspondent writes to the
R5publique FRANCHISE that ammunition. provi-
sions. war material Of all Sorts are being hur-
ricd into that town and into Metz with haste
that Is positively feverish. The trains arrive
aud are unloadcd In the night. The corre-
spondcnt believes himself to be speaking within
bounds in saying there IL enough food stored
in Metz and Strasburg to-day to subsist the gar
risons and populacc for two years. What does
II all mean2
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foundation. Tn the first place. the expedition
itself was caused by the boldnoss of the Indians,
who had been in the habit OF running off stock
from Gen. MILEs's headquarters on Tongue
river. This was kept up until. after an I'M
usually large herd had been captured by the
Sioux. 1t became necessary TO pursue the
thieves. or run the risk OF losing all the cattle
belonging to the command. When CRAZY
HotsEs band was struck. tho Indians were
found we'll supplied with arms and ammuni-
ton; but finding that they were likcly 10 be
worstcd in pitched battle, they, after the usual
fashion in Indian warfare rctrcatcd into the
Wolf Mountains. where it was Impossible for
the troops TO follow them. Whom spring comes,
however and hostilitics are reopcncdin earnest.
CRAZY Horse and his thousand warriors will
probably DO heard from again, perhaps in u
most unexpected locality.
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Tho obnoxious feature Of legislative com
missions will probably be- taken out Of the Jcr-
soy City charter by Senator ABnErr's bill. which
passed the New Jersey Senate yesterday. 1t
provides body Of three members for each Of
the departments. Public Works, Fro. and Po-
lice. to be elected at the ensuing spring election
upon the principle Of minority Representations
While this Will bo an Improvement upon tho
present plan, 1t has ono serious defect in COM
mon with the system Of legislative commits
sions Administrative officers should be immc-
diatcly responsible for their conduct to tho
power that appoints them SO that they could be
promptly suspended when charged with neglect
or wrong doing and removed il tho charge
should be proved. The New Jersey Legislature
would do well to refrain from tnkcrng their
municipal laws until they hear from tho intclli-
gent commission appointed year ago by Gov.
BEDLE to consider this subject.
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called for an investment in the Returning
Board.
Just now WEST is engaged in tho patriotic
duty Of representing the Pacific railroads In
the Senate, to SEQ that JAY GOULD and other
DISTINGUISHED citizens who have served their
country faithfully shall not bo harassod by a
patcrnal government, and required TO fulnl
contracts they consider oppressive This will
be perhaps his last service 10 the republic, and it
seems hard that his prcrogativc as Senator
should be invaded in these closing days of an
eminent career by inquiries touching his private
correspondence. especially when WELLS had
written at the close Of his touching letter.
strictly private and confidential"
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We venture 10 rcmind the Boston Alrertiser
Il homely old saying which aflirms that the
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-04
GLEANINGS.

-"Pll pay you that money wrote a
delinquent debtor, " the LIST inst. | can get
it, and that will be the list prox.'
The Hamkeye man makes this humiliat-
ing confession: "Bogus ten cent pieces
have been put in circulation, and crafty
ing increase in church collections is no.
ticed''
An 1rishman, seeing a vessel very
heavily laden, and scarcely above the
waters edge, exclaimed. "Upon my sowl,
if the river was but little higher, the
ship would go to the bottom"
Somebody has written an article on
the subject, " How to Keep Boys at Home"
To tie them to gate post would be good
way, but shoot them and pack them in salt,
with little saltpeter, would be more
effectual.
Smart boy: "Pop, will that gun you
got hurt anybody" Papa: ayes, my little
son; if it were to bark once you would
soon see." Smart boy: is that the rea-
son gun has muzzle, because it banks ?"
1Cuer SuUSlQeS.
The Philadelphia Star speaks of "the
beautiful, passionate sea-" When the beau
tiful sea grabs a fellow up and slams all the
gumption out of him against an old bath
ing house, he is apt to recognize the pas
sionate part of it.
Another day has come and gone, leav-
ing us all older and wiser, but as yet no
communications have been received indi-
eating that any one has discovered man
who can drink out of spring without get
ting the end of his nose wet.
An Englishman has patented a new
umbrella, called the ''Rhabdaskodopheras."
This is formidable name, but if it was
ten times as long it wouldn't prevent an
umbrella from disappearing from your door
on cloudy day-not unless the name
weighed half a ton, and couldn't be de-
tached from the umbrella.
The Baptist Weekly has long article
on the subject, care ministers entitled to
a vacation?' 1t claims that they are not.
1t is an ably written paper. from the pen
of minister who has been in the Adiron-
dack Mountains, hunting, fishing and draw
ing full salary, ever since the first Of June.
1t is intended to apply only to Western
ministers.
-" Which is the largest gland ," asked
Chicago medical professor of a new ar
rival in his class the other day. The
student buried himself in deep and atten-
tive thought for moment, and then bright
ened up suddenly and exclaimed: "The
largest gland, sir, is-En-g gland" Then
the professor kindly led the youth aside,
and pathetically advised him to think no
more of medicine, but to join a minstrel
show or enter the army.
-"Oh, DEAR" said she, sweeping away
with her broom, "what shall do9 Here
it is eleven O'Clock and haven't this room
swept, the beds are not made, and the
breakfast dishes are yet to be washed. Oh,
dear, was ever woman pressed for time so
much as l amp Then she suddenly stop
ped, leaned on her broom and listened for
a half hour, trying to catch the points of 4
quarrel which was going on between a mar
red couple in the next door house. The
study of feminine character is hard one.
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/ unconscious. He croons an Indian lay in
low, dreamy voice, with dropped eyelids
and head sunken on his breast. He sways
slowly to ane fro, from side to side.
Look! You see his fingers twitch nerv-
ously His head begins to wag in strange
uncanny fashion. His sides heaves and
culver, and huge drops of Precipitation
exude from his skin. The tom-toms are
beaten faster, the pipes and reeds wall out
more loudly. There is sudden yell, a
singing, stunning cry, an ear-piercing
shrek, hideous, abominable gobble-
gobble of hellish laughter, and the devil
dancer has sprnng to his feet, with eyes
protruding, mouth foaming, chest heaving,
muscles quivering, and outstreatched arms
swollen and straining as il they were cru
Gifted.
Now, ever and anon, the quick, sharp
words are ierked out of the saliva choked
mouth, GO am God! am the true Godr'
Then all around him, since he and no idol
is regarded as the present deity, reeks the
blood of sacrifice.
The devotees crowd round to offer obla-
tions and to solicit answers to their ques-
tions. "Shall die of cholera during this
visitation ," asks a grayheaded farmer of
the neighbornood. 80 god, bless this
child and heal itn' cries a poor mother
from the adjoining hamlet, as she holds
forth her diseased babe toward the gyrating
priest. Shrieks, VOWS, imprecations, pray
ers, and EXPLANATIONS of thankful praise
rise up, all blended together in one internal
hubbub.
Above all rise the CHASTITY cultural
laughter of the devil dancer, and his
stentoran bowls, 81 am God. l am the
only true God"'
He cuts and hacks and news himself, and
not very unfrequently kills himself there
and then. His answers to the queries put
to him are generally incoherent.
Sometimes he is sullenly silent, and
sometimes, while the blood from his self
inflicted wounds mingles freely with that
of his sacrifice, he is most benign, and
showers his divine favors of health and
prosperity all round him.
Hours pass by. The trembling crowd
stand rooted to the spot. Suddenly the
dancer gives a great bound in the air; when
he descends he is motioless. The findish
look has vanished from his eyes. His
demonacal laughter is still. He speaks to
this and to that neighbor quietly and rea-
sonably.
He lays aside his garb, washes his face
at the nearest rivulet, and walks soberly
home, modest, well-conducted man.
Ha7pers
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-04
THE MAN WHO WEEPS.

He entered a bakery on Grand River ave.
nue. at II O'Clock yesterday forenoon. He
didn't look like a neat, tidy old man about
ready to join the angels, but he resembled
an old man who had slept in barn and
was about ready to join big dinner.
81 think" he said as he looked around,
81 think I'll take huckleberry pie"
The women behind the counter replied
that she hadn't seen pie of the sort for
six months.
"What is collateral to huckleberry pie"
asked the man as he looked into the show
case.
She didn't know, and he said he thought
pumpkin was, and that he would take
pumpkin pie She handed one down, and
as he took out his knife and cut into it, she
said:
"Twenty cents, if you please
"Change a bill, s'pose ?" he queried as
he took in twelfth part of the pie at one
bite.
"Yes, SIR"
"Have you any objections to feeling down
my bootleg and pulling up ten dollar
bill?' he asked as he cut the second piece.
She said she had, and she furthermore
limited that he hadn't seen a ten dollar bill
for the last ten years.
"Oh, yes l have" he pleasantly respond
ed as he cleared his mouth. was looking
into brokers' window yesterday, and
saw over forty such bills"
There was one more mouthful of pie, and
as he swallowed it the woman called out:
"Now want the twenty cents ~
$50 do /" was his quiet answer; "but
haven't got it,
"I'll call my husband and have you
kicked out ~ she exclaimed.
"You will call in young and vigorous
man and have him beat and bruise an old
man like me, weak in the legs, near gone
with consumption, and only able to stand
up! That brushes what little spirit had
left when began on that pie."
He sat down by the stove and began to
weep and sob, and after moment she said:
"You should have told me that you had
no money"
"More abuse-more recrimination-boo-
hoo!' he sobbed, shedding tears as large as
BEANS
"Don't make so much noise" she
chided
"There you 60 again, heaping more
anathemas on these gray hairs? Oh. what
a cold, cold world is this-boo -hoo"'
"Never mind the pie-go long out
doors.'
"1'll never leave this bakery with a stain
on my character-never? have no money,
but you shall have my coat! Here-take
itr
He was peeling it off, when she said she
didn't want it-that she wanted him to get
right out doors.
"I'll never go until l requite this (boo-
hoo) claim-boo .hoo"' he sobbed, and he
pulled off his jacket and flung it after the
coat.
Get out, l say-you can have the pie
get out ~ she screamed.
"My character boo hoo) must be cleared
boo hoo), and if these are not enough I'll
leave my boots! Here, take my old boots,
and III go forth in my bare feet?
"Stop-stop! l was only in fun with
CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.l
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-04
BUBBLES.

-Hydrophobia is naturally superinduced
by dog daze.
You can always get trusted at the tele-
graph office; they send messages {" on tick. ?"
An old lady wants to know what it
meant by "mean time" Our watch keeps
it.
Many man could buy his wife pony
ph;eton with the money he spends for pony
brandy.
- Life is short" moraliZes the Tribune.
We can sympathize with Life. We're
short, too.
Why is the door to the stove in the
steamcar kept locked: To keep the fire
from going out.
-"Why didn't you insert my article ."
asked a contributor. "Was it too long?'
"No," replied the editor, cit was too
narrow"
What must he the potato bugs opinion
of the humanity that goes around all day
putting poison on the victuals of humble
insects.
The Derrick man sayes: "With his
wages reduced ten per cent, every few days,
railroad man can board a train easier
than he can board himself.
-Mother--" Mrs. johnson comes,
Jenny, say I'm not at home" Jenny
-"Oh, dare say! And then you'll give
me whacking for telling story. "-Judy.
"A California doctor says that quails
are dangerous eating, their flesh being
liable to cause inflammation of the bowels.
"Give us the quails," says Blifkens, "and
let him intlame."
The crop of land tortoises bearing mi.
tials and dates of twenty-five and fifty
years ago, is unusually large this year.
The refreshing raines have probably caused
the crop to be abundant.
The fellow who tried to steal tele-
graph operators umbrella is decidedly op-
posed to metal handles. He says the mo-
ment he seized the umbrella he felt as if
he had been run over by an express train.
The long stalks of wheat sent to news
paper offices every spring should be care
fnlly preserved and presented to Summer
resort hotels. Short straws and low coun-
tiers are making the tall young men of our
best society frightfully ound-shouldered.
An exchange tells how the joke was
on him: GA bright little girl of our &C
quaintance asked us the following conun-
drum: " How many letters are there in a
postman's bag? We gave it up, and she
said there were three-b-a g."
"A woman who bought stamp at the
post office this morning asked the engineer
of that department to stick it on for her.
He inquired if she could not stick it on
herself, and she could not, because she
was an entire stranger in Denver.
The good man reclineth at his ease; he
covereth his head with a paper; he taketh
his rest and his snores are head in the land.
The house fly is not so, for his heart de.
viseth evil continually, and when he hath
crept under the paper, he will tickle the
good mans nose. Verify all this is vanity
and vexation of spirit.
"A Rome man has been questioning his
son, who has just returned from an ex-
| pensive school, and says the boy answered
! four questions out of five correctly in every
branch of his studies. To four questions
out of five the boy says 81 don't know"
and this answer is always true one.-
When he hazards any other it is apt to be
wrong.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-04
THE DEVIL DANCE IN INDIA.

1t is an extremely difficult thing for a
European to witness devil dance. AS a
rule, he must 60 disguised, and he must be
able to speak the language like a native,
before he is likely to be admitted without
suspicion into the charmed circle of fasci
mated devotees, each eager to press near the
possessed priest to ask him questisns about
the future while the divine atflatus is in
its full force upon him.
Let me try to bring the whole scene
wildly before the reader. Night, starry
and beautiful, with BROOD low moon seen
through palms. A still, solmn night, with
few sounds to mar the silence, save the
deep, mutfled boom of breakers bursting
on the coast full eight miles distant. A
lonely hut, huge banyan-tree, grim and
gloomy. All round spread interminable
sands, the only vegetation on which is com
posed of lofty palmyran, and few stunted
thorn threes and wild figs.
In the midst of this wilderness rises, spec,
trelike, that the aged, enormous tree, the
banyan, haunted by most ruthless She
devil.
Cholera is abroad in the land, and the
natives know that it is she who has sent
them the dreaded pestilence. The whole
neighborhood wakes to the determination
that the malignant power must be propi-
tiated in the most effective manner.
bn tod irh ~
village and hamlet and hut pours the wild
crowd of men and women and children.
In vain the Brahmins tinkle their bells at
the neighboring temple; the people know
what they want, and the deity which they
must reverence as supreme just now.
On flows the crowd to that gloomy Island
banyan. The circle is formed; the fire is
lit; the offerings are got ready-goats and
fowls, and rice and pulse and sugar, and
ghee and honey, and white chaplets OF
oleander blossoms and jesmine buds. The
tom. toms are beaten more loudly and rapid
ly, hum of rustic converse is stilled, and a
deep hush of awe-struck expectancy holds
the motley assemblage.
Now the rickety door of the hut is quick
ly dashed open. The devil dancer staggers
out. Between the hut and the ebon shadow
of the sacred banyan lies a strip of moon
lit sand; and, as he passes this, the devotees
can clearly see their priest.
He is a tall haggard, pensive man, with
deep sunken eyes and matted hair. His
forehead is smeared with ashes, and there
are streaks of vermlion and saffron over
his face. He wears a high conical cap,
white with red tassel. A long white robe
or angi, shrouds him from neck to ankle.
On it are worked in red silk, representa-.
tions of the GODDESS of smallpox, murder
and cholera. Round his ankles are massive
silver bangles. In his right hand he holds
a staff or spear, that jingles harshly every
time the ground is struck by it.
The same hand also holds a bow, which,
when the strings are pulled or struck, emits
a dull booming sound. In his left hand
the devil priest carries his sacri!cial knife,
shaped like sickle, with quaint devices
engraved on its blade.
The dancer, with uncertain, staggering
motion reels slowly into the centre of the
crowd, and then seats himself. The as
sembled beople show him the offerings they
intend to present; but he appears wholly