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A TEXAS NEWSPAPER MAN
PLAYS Dead.
y. w. Brown. of the Frontiers
man, Not Bead. bat Alive
in Florida.

Part of the Beatty Brown mystery
is now solved. Brown and Beatty are
one and the same man. On the 29;h
ultimo the nicayuue contained long
account of n man about twenty three
or four years OF age. who arrived from
Texas on the 3rd of April and register
ei at the City Hotel as ]. Beatty San,
Antonio. an who left the city by the
Mobile line the next day for Jackson
vile, Florida,
This man. as il was stated in the
article, addressed communication to
the Frontiesman, in Texas. stating
that n young mau named Brown, claim
ing 20 be connected with the Frontiers
man, with whom he had come TO New
Orleans from Texas. had died Of hem
orrhace ri the lungs on the morning
of the Eth OF April. aud you'd be bur-
led east Of the city. The fact that
this letter WIS mailed at : =. VI. on
tbs 18th Of APRIL. and that Mrs. Brown,
wife o! J. W. Brown. connected with
the Froniiersman, had received let
ter from her husband in New Orleans
mailed at IL A. NJ. the saEe day, STAT
'p- TIA; be would soou be home, aud
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Federal Government. because incurred
by its officers and for its benehs'
But too many Senators and Kepresen'
tatiyes lack The courage OF Senator
Bayard.
ten. b L. Butler commenced last
night speech which was evidently
meant to have effect in Massachusetts
and other Eastern States. Before
finishing, his hour expired, and objec-
ton was made 10 his continuing. lie
will finish the speech at another time
and send immense numbers OF it to
New England. 1t treats Of labor, n
nance and other topics which are be-
lieved by some to have more interest
than any other question to an increas-
ing portion of the people. Butler is pre-
pared to take advantage Of any detec.
tons from the two great parties, and
is supposed to have vanity enough to
permit him to expect the highest hon
ors.
The tenor of debate in the House
seems to show that any considerable
reduction of the Army will be impos'
sible at this session. But its expense
will be lcssened. hEA'
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. c., |
May %, 1878.

Secretary Sherman and minister
Moves are the first of the Republican
visiting statesman, out of Congress
there are none of them out Of Office to
recognise the importance of the inquiry
proposed by Mr.. Potter's resolution.
The Secretary has written letter to
the Chairman of the Potter Committee,
asserting his own innocence of any
wrong, asking to be represented before
the Committee by counsel, and offer.
ing to prove that there was violence in
some of the Louisiana Parishes in the
election of1S76. In short, the Secretary
has suggested programme for the Re-
publican members of the Committee,
and we may expect them to attempt to
prove in mitigation of unquestioned
frauds in the action of the Louisiana
Returning Board, intimidation of col
ored voters OF and prior to election.
Any one who is acquainted, as the
writer of this letter is, with the mater
ial of which the colored voting popu-
lat.on is made up, and knows the ten
dency of considerable portion of it,
increasing steadily since the war, to
vote with the whites, knows that moth
ing out Observation-Disclosures of
blacks by blacks-has kept the voters
of the race substantially unanimous in
favor of Republican candidates. More
than five years ago, and again in Mary
land year ago, Fred Douglass recog-
nized and commented on the inevitable
tendency of the former slave to vote
with his old master. 1t is intimida-
ton that has prevented what Douglass
thought inevitable. This is the real,
etfectual intimidation that has control.
led the politics of the South for years.
In proving if they can, few acts of
violence on the part of conservative
white men in Louisiana, at or before
the election of 1876, the Republicans
will call attention to a slight symptom
of disease on the surface of the South
eru political body. The greater troub-
lie was not so apparent. but was much
more dangerous. In this matter of
intimidation the Committee should
adopt the Secretary's suggestion if they
consider the subject at all, and be
thorough.
No plan of investigation has been
decided upon by the committee. 1t is
believed, though, that five of its men,
bers will remain here, three go to
Louisiana and three to Florida. \
report is hoped for early in July, Mr..
Hayes was in consultation on the sub
ject with Secretary Evarts Secretary
Sherman and Representative Foster,
at the House of the last named the
other evening,
Senator Bayard yesterday in an elo-
queut speech. told great deal OF truth
about this District. and about the re-
spoDsibility of its present financial
condition. and the duty of the General
Government ccunectde Herewith. This
Senator has a habit of speaking his
convictions. whether they lead 20 pop
ulariiy or not. In this matter have
no doubt that in the near future all will
concede iha; the Senator was entirely
jus; in placing the responsibility for
much o. our D;s;ric: deb; upon the
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STATE ITEMS

Peaches are now ripe in Texas.
Homestead has an archery club.
Meyersville, in Dewitt county, had
a Mail Fest,
Local Option was defeated in Pal
mcr by 1853 to 40.
The new Masonic Temple at Pales-
tine cost $4,000.
Dallas is still wvangling over its wa
ter works question.
Hempstead is still determined to
have its prismodial road.
The Ledger reports great activity in
the building line in Mexia.
The Cuero Bulletin tells of oats five
feet high grown in Dewitt county.
Moore e. Swinford's mill, at Orange,
cut III 1000 shingles in one day recent
ly.
The State Firemen's Convention
meets in Galveston on the 18th OF next
month.
w. A. Peters has commenced fenc-
ing another 5000 acre pasture near
Goliad.
Mr.. Rice, of LAGRANGE, has 1000
silkworms busy eating all the mulber-
ry leaves within reach.
Il. G.. Downing, a well known pho
tographer, was found dead in his bed
at Waxahatchie, recently. Morphine.
1t is believed Austin city warrants,
now worth S0@S2l cents, will be down
10 20 cents in less than three months.
Houston had its usual stabbing at
FRAY last Saturday. A colored man
named Craze disemboweled another
named Parker.
A negro attempted to outrage the
person of widow lady named Mrs.
Cathariue Kaiser at Houston few
evenings ago.
All but twelve men of Jim Peak
command OF rangers nave ueeu uuo-
tered out OF the service, their time
having expired.
One Fore, of Kinney county, goes
to the peutentiary for five years for
horse stealing and two years for as
sault with intent to kill,
Over fifty harvesters have been sold
in the vicinity of Austin. Large sales
of reaping machines and threshers are
reported in various portions of the
State.
The fourth annual exposition of the
Texas State Horticultural and Pomo
logical Association will be held at
Houston. commencing July 18th, and
continuing three days.
When Red River county bought a
poor farm, she had twenty papers on
hand. Only one o. these has applied
tor admission to the poor farm. and
thus the county gets nd OF paying
board toT the other nineteen.
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face of the moss brown granite rock, were
two letters, 81. NJ and the date, "1846."
This had evidently been erected to mark the
grave of some unfortunate pioneer who had
died there thirty years before. The fate of
his companions can only be conjectured,
but from the appearance of the camp ground
and the broken tools and camp equippage it
is inferable that they fell victims to the
ferocity of the terrible Crows or Blackfeet,
or the jealous Minnecouyeus or bloodthirsty
Uncapapas, who now follow the uncompris-
ing Sitting Bull.
Other positive evidence is being furnished
from various sources. The Omaha Bee gives
the statements of a Mr.. Witcher, one of the
Black Hills pioneers, who has been talking
with the Oldest settler of the upper Missouri
country, La Plant. La Plant asserts that ne
visited the Black Hills twenty-five years ago
and that white men had visited and explored
the hills before he went there. He says he
| can lead the way to the cave where he and
his companions lived while exploring ''the
sombre elevations and point to the names
and dates inscribed upon the rocks. There
is no room left for doubt as to the discovery
of gold in the Black Hills as. early as 1916
Evidences are being discovered in the variou:
parts of that mysterious region. The mys
| terry about the matter is what became O
these early explorers. A party of ten started
| from Fort Laramie in 1864, and were neve
heard of again. La Plant knows of part
of Choteau's men who went to the Hills II
1852, but who never returned. Judgin
from the many discoveries recently made i
the valleys of the Black Hills, all the earl
pioneer gold seekers met the same fate
death at the hands of the savages.
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with power to maintain the government-or
his branch of it's also fact that "the Potter
plotters'' will not dispute. But what would
be his purpose in informing them that sat no
distant day forbearance may cease to be q
virtre?" When ''forbearance had ceased"
etc., what would the Journal have Hayes
do? Would it have him dispense .sthe Pot
ter plotters,'' assembled by lawful authority
to do lawful act, at the point
of the bayonet? Is this what the idiot
aforesaid conceives to be one of s'the pow
ers of the President to maintain the govern
ment?" This, we beg to say, is not "what
the country is expecting President Hayes to
say" for the country does not regard Hayes
as foolish enough to place his neck in hal
ter. If he should make such remark and
attempt to at upon it, MIR. Hayes would
rise higher in the world than he has yet
attained, and we fancy his elevation would
not be altogether to his liking.
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4 PRIZE IDIOT.

The editor Of the Indianapolis Journal
may justly lay claim to the belt as the
champion idiot of America. He is none of
your ordinary lunatics whose minds have
been unsettled by some untoward circum-
stance. Not at all. He takes to it as duck
takes to the water. He has a genius for
idiocy, just as Blind Tom has a genius for
music. And to his natural adaptability in
this direction he has added cultivation, hay
ing evidently bestowed the greatest possible
attention to the improvement of opportuni-
ties by which he may display his peculiar
faculty for making an ass of himself.
The inquiry into the electoral frauds has
afforded this peculiar genius rare chance,
which he has not been slow to take advantage
of. In recent issue of the sheet over
which he presides, lie takes pains to inform
"the monumental fraud who occupies the
White House. that he has still 'one way in
which he can add greatly to the popularity
of his administration, and that is by giving
the Potter plotters to understand, at the
earliest opportunity, that he is President
invested with power under the constitution
to maintain the government, and that, at nc
distant day, forbearance may cease to be 6
virtue. This is about what the country is
expecting President Hayes to say, and the
sooner it is said the better for both the gov
eminent and the plotters.''
1t may be interesting to the prize idiot t.
know that ''the Potter ploters'' are full,
aware that Mr.. Hayes is President, and the,
are busily engaged in finding out by wha
means he became 80. That he is investet
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MINNESOTA NEWS.

Some days since, the house of j. Harring-
ton, of Lakevjlle, Dakota county, with all
its contents was destroyed by fire.
In the village of Waseca, Waseca county
last Saturday, the barn of William Young
was struck by lightning and entirely con-
sumed.
Robert Alexander, prominent and valua-
BILE citizen of Antrim, Watonwon county,
died on Sunday the 9th inst. He leaves a
widow and seven children.
The house of Thomas Morden, in South
Branch, Watonwan county was struck by
lightning short time since and badly shat
tered. The family escaped uninjured.
At Heron Lake, jackson county, last week,
the infant daughter of Charles w. Ozner,
aged about one year, was drowned in tub
of rain water, which stood on the stoop OF
the house.
AS John Redding of Cedar Lake was re-
turning from Helena township with a load
of lumber, his horses took fright and ran
away. The deceased was thrown from the
load, and was found in an upright position
between a tree and one OF the hind wheels
crushed to death.
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Crime and Cas- ualties.

OMAHA, Neb., June 1O.-Yesterday afternoon
a man named Leuis Erdman, railroad section
hand, was shot in the abdomen by man named
Wheeler. The ARRAY occurred in hotel at
MDlard, twenty miles from this city. Erdman
had been teasing Wheeler. and the latter had
warned him to desist. Wheeler escaped. A
party is now out in pursuit. Erdman is still
alive, but there are no hopes of his recovery.
SAN Francisco, June 10.-The British bark
Adhesion, just arrived from Newcastle, board
ed Japanese junk found drifting in 40 degrees
north on A degrees west. Those living were
three sailors and one passenger, alive, but help
less. All the others, eighteen in number. died
Of scurvy, exposure and starvation. The junk
left the island of Jesse, on coasting voyage,
October 25th, was blown seward by . gale
November 18th aud dismasted, since which
she has besn drifting about the ocean.
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A HORRIBLE CRIME.
A Citizen of st. Peter Foully Murdered
Two Young Rufflans.

A Citizen of st. Peter Foully Murdered by
Two Young Ruff1ans.
Especial Telegram to the Globel
ST.. PETER, Mimi, June 1O.-One of the
most frightful murders that ever took place
in this part of the country, took place at
Co1ralline station on Saturday evening last.
A German named Schumacher in
vited several of his friends to
merrymaking at his house, but for rea-
son of his own did not invite two boys
named Morton, who thereupon became very
angry, and after the dancing had commenc.
ed they approached the house armed
with clubs, threatening to kill
all who approached. Schumacher began to
demonstrate with them. upon which they sci
upon him, inflicting wounds of which he
died this morning. The boys fled, but were
captured near Mankato, and will, doubtless
suffer the extreme penalty of the law.
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danger is apprehended, can probably be in
d1ced to remain nniaf sc thew can he satisfied

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danger is apprehended, can probably be in
duced to remain quiet If they can be satisfied
that the government will not endeavor to
force them from the lands they at present
occupy to the Colville and Yacina reserva-
tons, which they have been informed by
officers of the Indian bureau will be required
Of them. These Indians have never entered
into any treaties with the United States and
have no reservations. Many of them are
farmers and nearly all stock raisers and live
peacefully with the white settlers surroun-
ding and among them and can
localities without inaugurating serious
war, compared to which the Nez Perez war
will be Insignificant. portion of the Nez
Peices remaining on the reservation, melted
by the hostiles who have returned after
their exodus of last year, are also threatening
and turbulent
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Disaster ON the Lake.

PoEr Huron, June 1o.-The propeller
Montgomery took fire and burned to the
waters edge at 1870 last night, while at
Point Edwards dock. Her lines were cast
off and she drifted down the river four miles,
where the tug Crusader showed her on the
Canadian bank. The fire originated in;some
broom corn that was slowed on deck. It is
supposed that some person had been smok-
ing pipe and probably some of the fire
fell into the straw. Every effort was made to
extinguish the fire before the propeller was cut
loose from her moorings but without success.
Her cargo consisted of corn, wheat, -four and
merchandise, probably insured. There is
some insurance on the propeller. The tugs
Crusader and Wilcox are now working at her
and will tow her to this city this afternoon.
A fire engine was taken down on the ferry
Sarnia this morning. There is no water in
the propeller except what has been thrown
in from the tugs and steamer.
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NOT AS NEW AS SUPPOSED.
Evidences that the Black Hills We're Ec
ptOred Long Before Clusters Time.
Kansas Citv Times

Evidences that the BlacI Hills Were Er-
plored Long Before Custe,''s Time.
Kansas City Times.
The question as to whether the Black
Hills we're or were not occupied by white
men prior to the white settlement of 1856,
is being discussed by the Eastern and West
ern press. The Kansas City Times, during
the winter of 1876, announced the discovery,
near Calamity Peak, on French creek, of the
remains of white mans camp or settle
ment, long since deserted and abandoned.
And it gave forth the opinion then that the
Black Hills had been inhabited by white
men many years before Tallant's colony
from Sioux City entered the Hills and made
the first white settlement at Custer.
The statement made by the Sioux City
Journal, and now going the rounds of the
press, announcing the discovery of white
men's presence in the Hills many years ago,
is confirmed by discoveries made by gen.
tleman in Kansas City, who spent several
years scouting in the Hills as early as 1868.
party of scouts. including Henry Levin,
Wilbur F. Harris, Thomas Terrier, Charles
Engle, and the Kansas City man, found at
the mouth of Beaver creek, at its junction
with the Cheyenne river, the skulls of three
men, the remains of boats, the bones of two
horses, a few rusty mining tools, and other
relics of white mans camp. They were
found in the centre of rocky backbone or
ledge. The large slabs of loose stone set up
edgeways as wall of protection are still in
position as left by the unknown pioneers,
who were killed there, perhaps generation
before. The bones were bleached and de.
cayed, and had certainly lain there for
years.
Another positive evidence of the early oc-
cupation of the Black Hills was furnished by
the Times in 1876, when another and larger
deserted camp was discovered near Tallant's
stockade, on French creek. Here Col. Tai
liant, the leader of the white colonists ex-
PEELED from the Hills in the summer of 1875
pointed out the remains of white mems set
Elements. In the bed of the creek was the
rotten remains of rudely constructed sluice
boxes, formed by chopping the heart out OF
cottonwood logs. There were four
or five of these, two of them in
and advanced state of decay. The re-
decayed pieces of tin and fragments of iron,
found not far from the decayed sluice- boxes.
Near where these curious relics were found
was seen the former home Of these mystic
rious and unknown pioneers. A few pine
poles, rotted by age and falling down, were
found leaning against sheltering rock, moi
far from the creek. These had formed the
support to the rude miners home many
years before.
The strangest and most interesting feature
about this camp was rude wooden cross
formed by pine poles tied together with raw
hide, and which stood upright against roch
| not far from the ruins Of the old cabin. Or
one side Of the cross, rudely cut into the