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The case Of this family strikingly illustrates
the truth Of the official report of Inspector
Watkins, who says: Two women and one
child were wounded, but that was acciden-
tai ~ Mrs. Manuel and her infant child
were both killed. The only other child at
home was thrice wounded, as stated above,
and Mr. Manuel still suffers from his wounds,
having. after being wounded and unable to
travel, kept himself secreted in the brush for
thirteen days, until the citizens Of Mt. Idaho
and Grangeville were able to visit the place
and rescue and remove him. Besides this,
five worthy women and mothers suffered
from the brutal tioGds' outrages. worse thar
death, part of theIa being stripped of their
clothing and dragged about naked by the
heels. others wounded, and all Of them, after
defending themselves TO the last extremity,
We're the victims Of the lust Of the hell
hounds. Yet. fOTSOoth, savages must be ex-
cused and our citizens held indirectly res
ponsible for the deplorable past and present
hy INSPECTOR Watkins We VIII repeat, for
the benefit Of the admirer Of the chivalrOns
Joseph. quotation from his official letter.
No houses have been burned or other dep
made by Joseph's band in order
10 refresh his memory with the fact that on
The 18th day of June last, seven days before
his official letter was written, four Indians
were discovered robbing the dwelling house
Of Sir. Ahuer Smith, five miles from this
place They retreated from a body of citi-
zenS who discovered them, and sbout Jns
mile from the house one of them was killed,
having in his possession a horse stolen from
Henry johnson. and other property, all the
proceeds Of rcbbing the neighbors of Mr..
Smith.
This Indian vas one of the braves of
Joseph's band and admitted by them to be
50. Inspector Watkins cannot plead ignor-
ince Of nearly all the facts above set forth,
IS they were notorious at Fort Lapwai at
.he time Of the date OF his letter, and he ad
nits that "other information is somewhat
lifferent " but his Indian loving soul re-
rolted At the truth, and he either stated
what he knew TO be false, or repudiated re-
ports from reliable authority and gave full
.redence to the statements of the red men
md brothers." probably emisaries of tue
hostile Indians GEo. NJ. SHEARER,
Mai. of Volunteers.
B. H. MORRIS,
County Recorder, Idaho Co, l. I.
c. W. CASE,
Sheriff of Idaho County.
, 1877-08-25

4 MIsTAKE-A wei known young lady
OF this city recently made herself the VIC
tim of a ridiculous mistake. Ahandsome
and wealthy gentleman, whose acqualnt-
ance she lad Just formed, invited her to
attend dress party in his company. She
accepted, and arTayed herself for the event
with unusual care. To her surprise and
modification he appeared, TO escort her to
the party, attire1 in white linen coat
She invited him 10 be seated and then
begged to be excused for a few moments,
To her mother she stated the fact that
she would be ashamed 10 go with him if
he wore 'sthat coat. 1t was finally de-
cided that she should ask the gentleman
to pass the evening at the house. Asham-
ed, but determined, she told him that
she did not believe that any OF the gen
tlemen would wear linen coats at the
party, and that they had not better go; =
delightful evening could be passed at
home, etc. The gentleman took the mat
ter good naturedly and remarked, ''N ny
this is only my duster" BE revealed be-
meath it a garment Of shining broadcloth-
The lady recovered from her modification
sufficiently to attend the party, but she
feels ashamed OF her stupidity TO this day
Her companion was the best dressed man
there.
, 1877-08-25

being furnished through an endless wire rope
by stationary engine 10 be situated at the
end of the Brooklyn approach. Itis expected
that trains VIII be run every ten minutes, or
Oftener. and that they viii take from three
10 four minutes to make The Journey from
the terminus at Chatham square, New York,
to Sands street, Brooylyn, a distance Of
slightly over a mile. The great cables being
finished the bridge towers viii he finished by
4 parapet somewhat similar 10 the one now
IN process of construction at the roadway Of
the Brooklyn tower The saddles and cables
where they pass over the towers viii be COW
cred by brick archway Spiral stairways
for the use of employees VIII lead up to the
towers, and It has been suggested that no
more appropriate place could be found Tor
the establishment Of the United States Sig
nal Service station in New York than the
top of the New York tower.-N. J. Herald.
, 1877-08-25
SHORT EIrx IN THE GERMAN ARMY.

SHORT MEN III TIE GERMAN ARMY. -
9'he standard Of height for the German
infantry is at present fixed 1t l.57 metres,
or about , feet J inches. i medical maIi
writing to German military paper, points
out that, by thus summarily rejecting all
men who are below a fixed height, the
State annually loses the services OF a very
Iar.,e number Of men who would make eX-
ceiient soldiers. \ short man well pro
porioned, Will, the writer argues, not only
be able to make long marches and bear as
much fatigue as a taller man, bat VIII even
excel the latter In power Of endurance
The length of peace end the cadence
which are employed with advantage by
the one NAV not, it is admitted, sut the
other. and small man may not be able to
use with full effect the weapon carried ny
his larger brother in arms. Bat let the
short man march with a step suitable 10
his stature, and let him be armed with a
frelock somewhat shorter IN the stock,
and the writer maintains that he Will be
able to render excellent service. Conse-
seauentlv. it is proposed that ali the men
who. being below the required height, are
now rejected, shall, provided always that
in other respects they are well developed,
be embodied in a separate corps-a corps
which, il Is promised, viii soon contain,
So far as physical performances are con
cerned. the elite of infantry regiments II
The measure round his chest after expir-
alton is equal to haf his height, and If
the chest as well formed, and has sufficient
depth, a man, even two or three inches
below the present standard for the Ger
man army, viii be able to do more work
than many Of the taller and by no means
so well-proportioned men for serving IN
the infantry. In the other arms it IS ad-
mitted that certain stature Is essential.
The mounted soldier must have sur
ficieut length of leg to enable HIM 70
mount and set his horse, and the artillery
man must be tall enongh to enable hlm TO
work, to timber, and unlimber his gun !;
but mere height IS, it is argued, IN no way
A necessary qualification for Il man who
has TO Eght on modern field OF battle.
, 1877-08-25
Girls ATTITUDE TO YoUSG Men.

GIRLS ATTITUDE TO YoUSG Men. -
There is a thing of which want to speak,
and that Is the behavior OF young girls to-
ward Young men who are not lovers but
simply friends. Let me tell you plainly
that our sex were not meant TO be wOoerS.
The custom prevalent among certain
class of Young ladies Of asking, directly or
indirectly, the attention Of young gentle
men, is not an admirable custom Ny
son. said lady TO me not long since, ''is
much prejudiced against young girl,
whom / admire, because she is constantly
sending him notes, inviting him TO be her
escort here and there, and planning TO
have him with her" A modest and dig
nified reserve, which IS neither prudery
nor affectation, should distinguish your
manner TO gentlemen Too great famili-
arity and too evident pleasure IN the so
ciety of young men are errors intb which
no delicate and pure-minded girl should
fall
, 1877-08-25
Only,

Only seed-but II chanced to fall
In little cleft of city wall.
And taking root grew bravely up,
Till a tiny blossom crowned It's top,
Only flower but it CHANGED that day
That burleDed heart passed by that way !;
And the message that thro' the flower was
sent,
Brought the weary soul sweet content.
For it spoke of the lilies so wond 'rously clad;
And the heart that was tired grew strangely
glad
At the thought Of q tender care over all
That noted even sparrow's fall.
Only thought-but the work it wrought
Could never by tongue or pen be taught;
For il ran through life, like thread Of
gold
And the life bore fruit a hundred fold.
Only a word-but twas spoken in love,
With a whispered prayer to the Lord above;
And the angels in heaven rejoiced once more;
For newborn soul entered IN by the door.
, 1877-08-25

They were courting clandestinely over the
fence, and she had just remarked Yes,
love, the eyes are the windows of the soul,
when suddenly the old man closed In on him
with club, and his soul hasn't been able TO
see out Goors since.
, 1877-08-25

Two country attorneys overtaklng
waggoner on the road, thinking 10 break
a ioak with him, asked him Why his fore
horse was so tat, and the rest so lean.
The waggoner, knowing them to be limbs
of the law, replied, That the fore horse
was lawyer, and the rest werehis clients
, 1877-08-25

M IDAHO, l. T., July p, IS1l.
In the Herald of the Sth inst. under the
title OF Special dispatches to the Sunday
Herald, from Washington City, d. C., aP-
pears The following:
, 1877-08-25
TRUSS EXPANSION

To allow for tie expansion ard eOntrae-
ton of the trusses, caused by the extremes
Of temperature, and which amounts to some
twenty inches for the middle span, there
VIII be provided peculiar and ingenious ar
ranuement. At the end of each OF the di-
agonal STAY systems above described the truss
VIII be cut In two and connection made by
heavy plate rivited TO the chords OF the truss
on one side and sliding IN a series OF sleeves
fastened On the chords OF the other truss.
This arrangement viii be made on both rlver
and land spans, the expansion limits IN the
latter cases being calculated at eleven inches
The gauge OF the railway tracks, Of which
there viii be two one in each way, Will be
SIX feet and nine inches. The ears Will be
built 10 accommodate sixty passengers each,
and trains Of ten cars VIII be run, the power
, 1877-08-25

THERE are only three printers confined IN
Auburn, New York, prison Among the con
victs can be found twenty-seven clergymen,
forty-two lawyers and thirteen doctors.
, 1877-08-25

Those who blow the Goals Of others
strife, may chance 10 have the sparks fly
IN their own faces
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(through which the Russians made
their first Balkan cxcursion), and
throw this force upon the Russian rear,
thus surrounding Radetzky on tour
sides. Bold as the plan is, II will take
so long to realize it that the Russians
will have plenty of time to prepare.
Hain Koi pass is a laborious twenty
fve-mile march through the mountains
east and north of Kezanlik. There
are only mountain defiles through
which to dcbouch on tho northern side,
and unless the Russians are imbcciles,
Suleman Pasha must join with Me-
hemet Ali and encounter large body
of Russians from Tirnova before he
will be able to pitch a tent in the vi
cinity of Schipka pass on the north.
There is mountain highway from
Hahn Koi northwest, but it docs not
lead to Schipka. There is also mar
row road from Kezanlik northeast up
to the heights, through steep and ardn-
Gus iootpaths, TO what is known as
Kezanlik pass, some fifteen miles east
of Schipka. Through these two Su.
Lehman proposes to. take mon enough
to cut off Radctzky from further rein
forcements from Gabrova and Tirnova.
If he succeeds, he will have well earn
ed his glory. If he fail, the death
warrant of Abdul Kerim, whose ideas
of strategy render SO perilous an ad-
venture necessary, will be quickly
written Chicago Times.
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DYING OF STARvATIoN.-The editor
of the Madras Tines, who is a member
OF the Relief Committee, writes under
date OF Aug. !, as follows: "The pop
ulation in South India, more or less af-
flictcd by famine, numbers $4,000, 900.
In the most favorable circumstances at
lesst one-sixth Of the people will die.
The famine is unmeasurably greater
than was that in Bengal. In Madras
no camp Of 5000 rises morning after
morning without leaving 30 corpscs.
In the interior the distress is most fear
iul. One gentleman passing down
valley in the Wyraad district counted
20 dead bodies on the road. A coffee.
planter seeking shelter from the rain
In hut found six decomposing corpses
in IL. On any day and every day
mothers may bc seen in the streets OF
Madras offering their children for sale,
while the founding portion Of the poor
honsc is full Of infants found by the
police on the roads deserted by their
parents. Since the famine commenced
100000 people have died Of want and
distress. Tho first big tragedy may
be expected in Mysorc. In that Provl-
ncncc, indeed, information has reached
me from Bangalore OF two cases ofcnn-
nibalism already"
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UNITY OF CREA T1ON.


All the revelations Of science go to
demonstrate the unity Of creation, and
the arrangement Of its various king
doms into an organic whole, with in
termediate gradations, by which one
kingdom passes insensibly to another.
The human frame itself is composed of
organisms of various degrees of fine
ness, from the delicate substances of
the brain down to hard and almost
lifeless bone, and they are interviewer
one with another in the most marvel
Gus manner. All animals are like men
in structure and physiological iunc-
tions. Vegetables resemble animals
in various respects. They have in
modified way an arrangement Of parts,
and digestion, circulation and respi-
ration like that of animals. Minerals
spontaneously crystalline into forms
emulating those Of vegetables. They
make up the substances Of vegetable
matter, and through It help to compose
the animal frame. Nor was II an al-
together unreasonable fancy which
saw in this great globe itself, with its
ceaseless motion and fux and rcfux of
forces, a living animal. The cvapora-
ton OF its waters, their descent in snow
and rain, and their return in countless
brooks and rivers TO the ocean, are the
circulation of It's blood the winds that
sweep over it are its breath of life;
and the silent decay and renewal
which go on upon It's surface its waste
and digestion. The distinction, again,
between solids, liquids and gases is one
of degree, and not Of kind. A little
more or a little less heat is all that
makes the difference between them,
and matter is constantly passing from
one OF these forms into another. The
forces of nature, too, we now know 10
be but notifications of one common
fcrce--hcat, light, electricity, magnet
ism and chemical affinity being mutu-
ally interconvertible. The waves of
air which produce sound are paralleled
on the one side by the circles which a
stone makes when thrown into still
water, and on the other by the vibra.
tions of an invisible medium which
reaches to the stars, and constitutes
the vehicle Of light. The phenomena
of electricity, magnetism and gravita-
ton point 10 the existence Of yet
subtle fluid, the characteristics Of which
are still undiscovered Since, therefore,
the whole universe, as seen by the aid
OF science, reveals common plan, it is
unreasonable to draw the line at par.
ticular point and say that here that
plan ends and something distinctly diff
ferent begins its sway. Is IT not more
philosophical to conclude that the
world beyond the grasp Of the physi.
cal senses resembles that within it,
that the soul is like the body in con.
struction and operation, and that II is
affected by agencies similar to those
by which the body is affected, than TO
suppose everything OF q spiritual na-
turc to be so completely Disseminated
from the rest OF creation that we can
form no conception Of it2-North Amer
iodn ReuieD.
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IN NTERNATIONAL EIHIBL
TION.
ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
When, on November 10, 1876, the
curtain fell upon the glorious Centen-
nial Exhibition, those present on that
august and memorable occasion feared
that the beautiful, one might almost
say magical, creation, in the varied de.
lights Of which they had been reveling
for months, had vanished forever How
poignant then came the regret that so
many unparalleled opportunities for
instruction had passed by unheeded I;
that so many multiiorm objects Of beau
ty and Of @sthetic charm were to be
numbered among the things OF tho
past; that all that splendid ingather.
ing Of the worlds skill, art, and cum
ming bandicrait were TO be numbered
among tho things of the past, and all
vanish dixie the baselcss fabric of n
vision"
Even at the very time, however, the
projection Of its worthy successor, the
present more permanent Exhibition,
had been conceived IN thoughtful minds.
The greatCentennial Exposition, whose
matchless creations and attractions
had astonished two hemispheres, en-
braced such surprising merits, so many
clustering memories, and so many IN
structive features winch ministered 10
mans best culture ana elevation, that
they were promptly hidden to stay
with us, and all this wealth oil beauty
to become a Joy forever"
IL was but a orlei period thereafter,
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NEW SERIES--VOL. IS, NO. 81,
of The amount Of labor and capital re.

Of the amount Of labor and capital re-
quired to grow peaches, Young peach
orchards are cultivated as thoroughly
as corn-felds by the successful growers.
In fact, the orchards are planted by the
Delaware and Maryland farmers with
corn and receive the same cultivation
for two years. The third year three
rows Of corn are sometimes planted be-
tween the rows of peaches, which are
usually twenty feet apart, but after the
orchards come into bearing no other
crop can be grown upon tho ground.
Yet as long as the orchard lives II re-
quires cultivation and fcrtilizing.
In Delaware and Maryland there are
upwards of 10000 acres of land under
peach trees. This land is the best on
the peninsula, estimated to be worth
$50 per acre, or $4,000, ,000 To ship
this fruit requires 100000 of baskets,
or nearly that many, which costss250,.
000 The money invested in necessary
implements for cultivatiDg and ship
ping the peaches to market is estima-
ted at $40 for every 100 trees, or
100000 The cultivation Of peach
orchards and the picking Of the fruit
gives employment to upwards of 1000
laborers. The growing to maturity OF
a peach orchard requires the expendi-
ture OF at least $50 per acre, or upwards
of 81 800, 900 on the orchards Of Della.
ware and Maryland. Nearly s6,00O,-
900 ofcapital are now invested by these
growers In peach culture. Among the
heavy consumers of peaches during the
season are the Gamers This industry
uses annually many thousand baskets
Of choice fruit. In Baltimore the can
ners are the principal buyers in the
market but, after all, the great bulk
of peaches are eaten from the hand.
And in past seasons it has been found
that, however great the supply of good
peaches was, there was always demand
enough for them to effect sales at some
price or other, of all that were offered
on the market. And it has been only
the poor and worthless fruit which has
been thrown away.-Phad. Times.
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the most Complete Sertss Of Lac
BIGmks rwbItshsd.

There Blanks arc gotten up 10 superior style,
sre Of uniform siae, and furnished at very low
figures for cash.
o.li A the RsruniioAr ofhse and sxamin
them. Orders by mall promptly hlled.
Address, 000DLANDER 4 LEE
J,,v rs. ls77.u Clssr6eid "a.
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lmpOsslDt iOr tio auIIlAl- ,sSssSS. -
grasp every division of knowledge.
Hence universities, libraries, and lee
lures, are now practically open to all /;
but the greatest system Of what may
be called eye or object education is.iw,,
piled in the one word-exhibition.
The South Kcnsington Museum OF Eng
land, for instance, with its elevating
and quickening influence permeating
through all classes OF society in Eng
land, is, beyond all question, the most
powerful instrument towards the ac-
quisition of general knowledge in that
country. 1t was but the offspring of
the great Worlds Far of 1851, and
was established for the benefcent pur-
pose of preserving and keeping for pub
lie inspection and study the more prom.
inent and important instructive objects
and processes which had only been
casually examined by so many; the
mighty achievement Of science, art and
industry, already forgotten, and the
innumerable productions of human in
genuity, which should have been but
were not made familiar to all. With
the same noble and comprehensive pur-
pose in view, the project of a Perman-
cnt International Exhibition was con-
ceived, and in spite Of the many and
great difficulties in the path Of the en-
terprise,--the disturbed condition Of
business and finance all over the land,
and the usual misapprehensions which
beset all such schemes,-the Interna-
tional Exhibition Company secured
their charter, and succeeded in obtain
ing sufficient capital for their mighty
project and day by day the labor Of
refitting The splendid structure for its
now varied uses, rearranging courts
and pavilions, receiving new exhibits,
and rehabilitating the old ones which
were to be retained, so rapidly pro-
gressed that on the 10th of May, 1877,
the first anniversary of the formal open.
ing of the Centennial Exhibition and
the day fixed for the opening of the
new Exhibition, everything was in per.
feet readiness for the triumphant in
augural.
1t was wisely decided to concentrate
the entire Exhibition under one roof,
and for that purpose the Main Exhibi-
tion Building was purchased from the
Centennial Commission. By this means
that utter prostration of physical ener.
gies which nearly every one Of us ex-
perienced during the Centennial, in en-
deavoring to grasp within our mental
vision the innumerable objects Of inter-
est scattered throughout the many
buildings all over the grounds, obviated.
Here, within the composs OF one build
ing, have been collected the choicest
and the most prominent Of all the rare
exhibits that graced the Centennial.
The experience gained last year was
taken advantage Of, and every effort
made to remedy the many defects so
palpablc in the previous arrangements.
In word, by utilizing the vast ma
chinery set in motion by the Centen-
nial, and by improving and modifying
the details wherever found necessary,
q Permanent International Exhibition
was inaugurated, entirely worthy of
the new departure which our nation
took when It entered upon the second
century of its existence.-Erhibition
Bulletin.
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ther has laid down. The tide of the
nineteenth century will soon sweep
away tho structure Of church and
State that Brigham Young had reared
upon sand and the great Mormon
temple at Salt Lake will soon be q rec.
ord of faith as dead as that Of tho
Sphinx, the Mcmnon or the Parthenon.
But the time must come sooner than
that when those who believed in Brig
ham Young will hook back and won
der at their own blindness and folly !;
they will see blm as he was, no longer
prophet and saint surrounded by a
holy radiance and purity, but a cruel,
grasping, bloody, ldstful tyrant, who
made their lives delusions that he
might feed fat his own pampered per-
sonality. Better, perhaps, the fate of
those who died in their faith than
those who live to see through its cheap
and vulgar imposturc. alQii aiDgsl
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CAREER or THE MAHOMET or
AMERICA.

How he led the Latter.day saints to Utah
aud Established Theocratic state.