The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
Romantic Fact.

IN one of the incursions of Indians
upon our frontier settlements during
he Revolution, says the author of Rev.
olutlonary Papers, a very romantic in
cldent occurred. The celebrated chief
CornpianJer made an attack upon the
neighborhood of Fort Plain, burning
and destroying, and among the prison.
ers he captured was one John Abel,
an old lnhabitant. The party had not
travelled but few miles on their re-
turn. when it was discovered that this
Abel was almost as we'll acquainted
with their language as the Indians
themselves. This fact interested the
chief, and on inquiring of his captive
his name, Cornplanter knew at once
that he stood before his own father.
Abel, twenty-five years before, had
been trader among the Indians of
Western New York, and in one OF his
visits became enamored of a pretty
squaW, and the result of this affection
was the graceful and celebrated warrior,
whom the father now for the first time
saw standing before him. The chief
had learned from his mother the history
of his parentage, and his fathers name.
The meeting was certainly extraordi-
nary to degree. The young chief
held out strong inducements to his
white father to accompany him to his
tribe, but paternal affection did not
seem so strong i'll the heart Of Abell as
his love for the comforts and luxuries
of white mans home. and so he chose
rather to be set at liberty and be return
ed to his friends. This was yielded,
and he was conducted in honor back to
the settlements. Thus singular!y met
and parted the father and son.
Reference has been made to breed
or swine in Texas, whose hOofs are not
cloVen. Such y circumstance might
nave caused some confusion if the
breed had been known to the framer Of
the Levitical law. Dr. Coues has re-
Gently examined specimens of these
swine, and he declares that 1.-The ami
hoof is perfectly solid, and on its sole
there is a broad, angular elevation of
horny substance, which is curiously
like the frog of the horses hoof. The
breed is SO firmly established that 10
tendency to revert to the tWo-toed
form is observable. In case of a cross
between the solid-h0ofed boar and a
SOW of the ordinary type, the majority
of the progeny have the peculiarities
OF the male parent. DR.. Coues says
that there is, Ill this instance, q case of
change from an artiodactyle mammal
to perissodactyle from even-toed to
add-toed.) But Professor j. D. Dana
contends that the pig is no less artio
dactyle than before, since, although
The two toes are cOalesced of their ex-
tremity, they are still present, and the
outer one of the two equals the inner
which, he maintains, is the character
lStlc Of the even-tOed mammals.
The criminal code of Scotland has
some remarkable features. There are
about twenty-five different crimes for
which the legal punishment is death,
including burglary, robbery, child
stealing, stealing Il horse, an OK, or
more than one sheep, rape, arson, barn
burning, or setting fire to woods, as
saulting with intent to kill, or robbing
the house of clergyman, cursing or
beating parents by any child over six
teen years of age, importing poisons,
striking justice sitting in Judgment,
stealing ten shillings' worth of linen
when exposed for bleaching, pulling
down any church where the Queen is
prayed for, saying mass, or hearing and
cOncealing the same, casting away or
scuttling vessels, etc. Most of these
laws are imperative, however. and no
one is hanged for any crime III Scot
land for which he would not be hanged
in England.