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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
Miles on Miles of Clouds OF Winged
Ants.

On the afternoon of Aug. 29 a specta-
Gle was witnessed by Dansvillians re-
sembling one of four years ago in char
acter but greatly exceeding it in magni-
tude. Clouds of small winged ants
blackened the atmosphere in perpendic-
ular streaks, extending north and south
an apparent distance of five or six
miles, and perpendicularly from near
the earth about a mile upward, and
moved rapidly from east to west with
the wind from O'Clock until it was too
dark to see them, so that the vast insect
flock must have been over rs miles in
length. Many of them settled down in
the village, very thickly in spots, but
not nearly so thickly as in 1874. The
most of them were very small, but many
were as large as a large ant, and some
of those large ones were without wings,
the wings probably having dropped off
Occasionally one of the clouds, few
feet in thickness, would be seen NOV
ing rapidly downward as well as west
ward, while others would keep right on.
We have found no Dansvillian who
recollects any phenomena of the kind
except the one of 1874, which occurred
Sept 8 of that year, early in the even
ing DansuiLIe IN ~ Advertiser.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21

same security from internal as II already en-
Joys from external attack. The Liberals are
not much pleased with the speech, which
they regard as partly an Indictment against
themselves.
Modelling, who attempted to assassinate
the Emperor William, is dead from his
wounds.
Another horrible colliery explosion occur
red at Abercorne, near Newport, Mon
mouthshire, Wales, on the 11th, by which
some 20S lives were lost out Of 81 men en-
gagged i'm the mine.
Minister Noyes has opened public sub
scription in Paris for the yellow fever suf-
ferers.
Gen. Phillipovitch has been forced by the
exigencies of the campaign in Bosnia to
transfer his headquarters from Serannieva
to Brod, a retrogade movement which has
excited great and unfavorable comment in
Vienna.
The editor of the Bonapartist journal, lie
Pdys, has been fined $500 and imprisoned
three months for insulting President Mac
Mahon.
The Grand Council Of Switzerland has
granted amnesty to 03 Catholic priests de-
prived of their livings, in 1878, for refusing
to comply with the requirements Of the
State.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
A FOur.year.Old COlOred Prodigy.

There is now in Louisville a negress
who is perfect child-wonder. She is
Scriptural marvel. She does not even
know her letters, yet she can quote ac-
curately almost any passage in the Bible.
At the age of 9 months she could talk,
and would frequently tell her mother
what her idea of heaven was. AS she
grew older she would sit for hours and
expatiate on the beauties and glories of
the other world. The old colored folks
would listen to her sayings for hours.
At the age of 8 years she began to lee
ture on heaven, its wonders, or God and
his omnipotent power. She has lectured
in many places, and has created a fu-
rore every place she has yet visited.
The prodigy lectured at the York Street
colored church yesterday afternoon, and
at night spoke to large crowd at the
Green Street colored church. Her speech
was good, and her delivery impressive.
A reporter of the Csurier-yourndl in
terrogated her last night:
"What is your name, little girlpn
"Alice Coatny."
"How old are youP"
"Ise just four years and twenty-eight
days old tonight"
"Where were you bornP"
al was born in Liverpool, England
cross de Atlantic"
elbow long since ycu felt the power
within youP"
al don't know; Ise always felt the
power of God"
"What do you talk about when you
speak to a crowdP"
81 talk about Jesus, about heavenly
things, about how Jesus died and was
crucifed; how he rose again in three
days and sitteth on the right hand of
God"
Scan you spellP"
"No, sir; don't know my A, b, C's
yet"
She then went on in rapturous strain
about things biblical and spiritual, COM
pletely nonplusing the reporter.
She was accompanied by two colored
men. They talked in an enthusiastic
manner about her. She said in her con-
versation that she believed in two kinds
of baptisms. She spoke of the different
modes of salvation; how to reach Para
disc; how to be converted from n bad
man to good one, etc. Her sayings
were entirely original, and were not
spoken in hesitating voice, but in a
quick, keen and fercible manner. AS
young as she is, negress, without edu-
cation in the principles she sets forth,
her power partakes strongly of the mar
velous.-C0urteT-J Journal.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21

Matilda Stanley, known as the Gypsy
Queen, and recognized as such by all the
tribes throughout the United States, was
buried at Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, o (,
on the 18th. The Queen was a woman of
great influence among her race. She died in
Vicksburg last winter and her body was
embalmed and preserved until the present
time for burial. Representatives of all the
prominent Gypsy families in the United
States and Canada were present and assisted
at the ceremonies, which were very i'm
pressive.
A light frost occurred on the night of the
18th as far South as the vicinity of Yicks-
burg.
most horrible crime is reported from
the vicinity of Hockey, Harris County,
Texas, in a special to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. George Lynch, respectable
farmer, lived with his eight children, his
wife being dead, in a cottage seven miles
from town. His eldest child was daugh
ter aged II, his youngest mere infant. One
night recently Mr.. Lynch was awakened by
a pistol shot, fired by an unknown man.
The ball struck him in the breast, and, up
on his attempting to grapple with the as
sassin, q second shot was fired, entering
beneath mis- collar-bone and rendering him
unconscious. When he came to he was ly-
ing in a lane outside of the premises. His
house had been set on fire and was nearly
burned to the ground, and the agonizcd ia
ther was unable to 60 to the relief Of his
children. The following morning the dead
bodies were exhumed by the neighbors and
sufficient evidence gathered to show that
probably every one Of the inmates had been
Drained with hatchet. Suspicion rests on
q young man by the name of Boatware, with
whom Lynch had had a difficulty. Lynch
will probably recover.
AT LaSalle, ILL.,, on the afternoon Of the
14th, the driver of the United States Express
wagon was set upon by three ruffans, who
mounted his wagon, strangled and chloro-
formed him, and secured possession of
package containing $4,000, consigned by
the First National Bank of Chicago to the
Matthison i Heghler Zinc Company of La
Sale. This is the account the driver gives
of the affair, but there were no other wit
nesses besides the alleged participants.
A mob of colored men broke open the Jail
at st. Charles Courthouse, La, on the night
of the 14th, and taking out white prisoner
named valcour st. Martin, who had killed
a colored man in an anray, they riddled his
body with bullets. st. Martin was formerly
Deputy Sheriff.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
Odds and Ends.

from the Cincinnati Breakfast Tablet
The man who has no heaven in
him would sigh amid the joys of Para
disc.
The road 10 prosperity is always a
heavy upgrade to the man with soiled
shirt-front.
The Turks are the most courteous
people on earth, and never take the
wrong hat off the hat-rack.
A mule will behave himself eleven
years and six months just to get one off
hand shot at middle shirt-stud.
Patience and gentleness are potent
and powerful, but they can not turn a
mill-wheel nor break up setting hen..
When a young man asked an old
joker the other day what was the safest
business, he advised him to be miser.
Hired girls in Minnesota get dol
lar day, but they marry the first 25-
cent fellow that asks them all the same.
There is tide in the affairs of man
that taken at the flood leads on to for
tune, but it is not the tide that floats a
schooner.
Talk about importance and self-as-
sertion, did you ever see young man
come out in plug hat for the first time,
or girl with beau that came from
Chicagop
"A girl may be too busy to dust down
the mantle-shelf, but always has plenty
of time to devote an hour to tying a
cross-legged bowknot in wide pink rib
bon with blue edges.
Alex. Stephens was heard to remark
the other day, as he opened an envelope
and pulled out an anti-fat circular, that
he would willingly-yea, gladly and
eagerly-strangle all his ambition could
he but enjoy for two minutes and a
quarter Kearney's gift of ready and vig-
orous expression.
Some fellow has written poem to
his girl, beginning, elf thou could'st
only know" Yes, if she could'st only
know the number of old socks he is
saving up to be darned, and the dilapi-
dated apparel that she will be expected
to resuscitate, we have no doubt the
course of his true love would begin to be
less smooth.
There are a great many men in this
world who imagine that they are born
with genius, and lie down on the sofa
and wait for an inspiration until some
other fellow, who thought himself a
Ounce, rises by hard labor to compe-
tency, buys the sofa, and leads the wait
ing genius out by the ear. This is not a
joke; it is a fact.
1t is a wonderful triumph of mathe-
matics, says somebody, that the books
of the United States Treasury should
balance to a cent. If we had half the
money the United States has we could
balance some forty sets of books that
are little out of keller now. And we
have no doubt the owners of the books
would be glad of it, too.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
School and Church.

Oakland, Cal, has Chinese Pres
byterian Church with 30 members.
The Methodist Conference in
France, after generation of labor, has
20 churches.
Fifty young Sioux are being educat-
ed to useful labor in the Virginia Agri-
cultural Institute. They are said to
learn fast, and to be reasonably indus
trious.
The "Spanish Christian Church :"
is the name taken by the Protestants of
Spain. The Church is Presbyterian,
having a Presbytery at Madrid, where
the first assembly was held, and another
at Andalusia.
An African Methodist congregation
of Norwalk, Conn, has been received
into the First Congregational Church of
that town, and constituted mission
church The congregation has become
weak and dissatisfied with the itin
erancy.
The S25, 200 given anonymously to
Andover Theological Seminary will be
appropriated to the enlargement of the
old chapel. Announcement is also made
of pledge of $4,000 for the endow-
ment of chair of theology in Oberlin
by Massachusetts lady.
An important experiment is being
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
Mans Monkey Ancestors.

A dinner was given at Paris recently
to Prof. Hackei, of Jena, by French
savants. In his speech he expressed
qualification at the progress of evolu-
ZIONIST ideas among Frenchmen of
science, and remarked that professors
and preachers who ridiculed mans de-
scent from the ape unwittingly furnished
the best proof of it, their pride and
childish vanity being foibles which
might have been bequeathed by the ape.
Man, however, did not descend from
any known anthropoid, but was a
branch of the catarhine monkeys of the
Old World. The continuity of nature
was daily becoming more evident, and
superstition, mysticism, and theology
would give way to reason, causality,
and mechanism. Among philosophic
minds, at least, the believers in final
causes of the universe, immutability of
species, sterility of hybrids, geological
cataclysms, successive creations, and
the late appearance of man were dying
out. The primitive life organisms were
formed chemically by spontaneous gen.
Grafton at the bottom of the sea like
saline crystals in the waters. No how
else could the origin of life be explained.
Lamarck and Darwin had struck the
last blow at the doctrine of final causes,
and modern morphology was irrecon-
cilable not only with the dogma of the
creation, but with that of Providence or
vague idealist pantheism, of Hegel,
Schopenhauser, and Hartmann. The
transformations of living organisms un.
der the influence of adaptation, heredi.
tary selection, and struggle for exist.
ence, could not, indeed, be mathematic
ally demonstrated, but its existence
could not be doubted, any more thar
psychology or social science, and anoma
lies would soon be explained by the
laws of mechanics were all the element:
procurable; but the instability of tn,
elements constituting the tissue of or
ganized being made biological prob
lens very complex. The speech wa
much applauded. London Times.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21

French army are better fed than
in the German army, each horse receiv-
ing in the light cavalry regiments two
pounds, and in the cuirassiers artillery
four pounds more forage than in the
corresponding arms in the German SER
vice; while the French soldier is given
a far more substantial ration of meat
than the German. He receives also half
a litre of sound country wine daily, and
a sufficient amount of well baked wheat.
en- bread-every man getting two good
hot meals day, of each of which a
thick, palatable soup forms the prin-
cipal part.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21

fOrttsn NOtes
Father Hyacinthe has decided to
open a church in Paris. .,,,
A Paris paper says Christine Nils
son has lost $500, ZOO by American in
vestments.
Seventy, eight more Communists
have been pardoned or had their sem
tences committed.
The ex-Empress Eugene is so af-
flicted with the gout that she has to
lean heavily upon cane while walking.
"A hundred students suspected of
Nihilism have been arrested and eXpell-
ed from the universities of St. Peters
burg and Kief.
Her royal highness, the Princess
Louise, who, previous to her marriage
with the Marquis of Lorne, was notori-
ously fond of Irritation, is reported to be
not wholly Indifferent even now to that
fascinating pastime.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Calcutta says it is universally re-
cognized that the present is one of the
most critical epochs in the history of
India A single false move in the con-
duct of the mission to Afghanistan may
involve not only costly frontier war,
| out Wluer cOH1plicdtlonS. Inc uisslou
forms single step in an extensive con-
certed scheme for the protection of In
dia.
&C. C. Fulton, of the Baltimore
american, testifies that English women
still wear the dawdiest bonnets in the
world. "The present STYLE" he says,
"is an oval or a square top hat, large
enough to come down to their eyebrows,
and mostly covering the upper part of
their ears. Around the crown, and al
most hiding it, is wound an abundance
of ostrich feathers and lace trim
mings."
The very day of the attack on Gen.
Mesentzoff, an agent of the secret po-
lice was stabbed at Boetoff, the chief of
the gendarmerie ut Gharkoff, the chief
of the secret police at Taganrog, and a
Colonel of gendarmerie at Pottava. All
these functionaries had previously re-
ceived by post warning that the pen
atty of death had been pronounced
against them by the secret societies
Panic overpowers the police in view OF
these assassinations. Order does not
seem to reign in Warsaw.
According to military writer in
the Cologne Gazette the soldiers in the
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21

tried in the Boston public schools, where
books have been excluded from the
primary departments, and oral exer-
cises and object-lessons substituted.
The young pupils are especially taught
to express ideas in their own language.
The teachers lecture, or talk, daily about
such knowledge as little children may
best acquire.
Two thousand delegates attended
the International Conference of Young
Mems Christian Associations in Geneva
August IA. The United States, Canada,
Nova Scotia, Sweden, Denmark, all of
Central Europe, and England were rep
Mems Christian Associations in the
total one-half are in America. The next
International Conference will be held in
London.
The widow and daughters of the
late Prof. Agassiz, Mrs. Horace Mann,
Miss E. P. Peabody, George B. Emer-
son and others have been made a trust
company at Boston to receive donations
and bequests for the publication, among
other objects, of standard library of
the works of Froebel and his chosen
apostle, Baroness Marenholz Bulow.
Over 81, 900 has been received and spent
thus far in publishing two books, and
more money is asked for.
Prof. G. F. Thwing has collected
very valuable statistics of the religious
life of American colleges, some of which
are new. One fact of Importance named
is that leading UNCONVENTIONAL colleges
such as Amherst, Princeton, Oberlin
and Brown University-require no re-
ligious tests of the members of their
faculties of instruction. Practically the
majority of professors in nearly all
American colleges are communicates of
Christian churches. As to the students,
nearly half of the total number in the
United States-20, ,OO0-are reported as
decided Christians.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
Charlton Gunrier.

smoking the pipe, which she clings to,
which they have to put into her hands,
and they have to move her around. The
folks pay the people well for caring for
her."
"That's q picture-a Gypsy centena-
rian summing herself in her second cen
tury, with the pipe that she is too feeble
to fix for herself.n
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Gen. James Longstreet has been appoint
ed Revenue Agent for the district of Geor-
gia and Florida.
The War Department has prepared long
argument in favor of the transfer of the In
dian Bureau to the War Department. Sec
retary Schurz, on behalf of the Interior De-
partment, is having prepared an argument
against the transfer. These arguments are
to be submitted to the Congressional Com
mission which is to meet in st. Louis on the
18th of this month.
+. l.. Cordoba, formerly State Treasurer
OF South Carolina, has been appointed to
si,2Oo clerkship in the Treasury Department
at Washington.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21
Haps and NIishaps.

"A young son of Charles Fritzer, of
Laporte, Ind, fell into boiler of scald-
ing water, and died from the effects in
few minutes.
AT Buchanan, Mich, child of Mr..
Simmons, aged five years, was choked
to death by getting a watermelon seed
in its windpipe.
p. w. Fauntleroy, prominent cit
izen and farmer of Essex County, Va,
was found dead in his orchard with a
load of shot in his side from his own
gun.
A lad named Mack McCrystal was
fatally burned at Leavenworth, Kansas,
by the explosion of cal oil lamp,
caused by blowing down the chimney to
extinguish it.
William Beers, of Mishawaka, Ind
a farmer, aged about 20, endeavored to
pull ramrod from a loaded rifle, when
the weapon was discharged, blowing the
rod through his body and killing him in
an hour.
"A man named Anderson was out
hunting near Grayson, KY, and at
tempted to draw his gun through a
fence. The hammer caught on a rail,
discharging the contents into his arm
and side, causing lockjaw, from which
he died in few hours.
The boiler of a threshing engine
exploded about nine miles north of
Rochester, Ind, fatally scalding Louis
Strong, engineer, and seriously injuring
boy named Albert Highway. Several
others were slightly injured. The cause
was defect in the boiler.
H. j. Bosworth, manager of the
telegraph at Muscatine, Iowa, drank a
glass of water from a pail in which
some of the boys had spilled quantity
of blue vitriol. His life was saved by
the liberal use of raw eggs.
AT Winchester, Va, Mrs. Edwin
Lewis, beautiful young widow, and
her two young children, were poisoned
by eating toad-stools, which they mis-.
took for mushrooms. She had gathered
the supposed mushrooms for a fine din.
ner for her pastor, who was expected
but was detained by a railroad accident
Her two children died in few hours,
and Mrs. Lewis was lying at the point
of death.
Rev. j. A. Carr, Methodist minis
ter stationed at Scioto, o., was drowned
while fording Pine Creek on horseback
with his young child before him on the
saddle. 1t is not known in what man
ner the accident occurred, but shortly
after, parties going to the creek saw the
horse upon the bank, and the infant
upheld by its clothes, floating upon thu
water. 1t was brought out, and, al
though life was apparently extinct, i
was finally resuscitated. Search wa
made for the body of Mr.. Carr, and i
was recovered about three-quarters o
an hour after in 10 feet of water.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-21

The London World says: Sarah
Bernhardt has made the discovery of
new cure for delicate lungs and health.
She passes hours now daily in success
siye ascensions in the ballon captif of
the Tuileries Gardens, finding more and
more healing for her shattered health
and delicate lungs, as well as general
invigoration, the higher she goes-
The Benton record., 1878-05-03
The Indian war signs are ae-

The Indian war signs are ac-
cumulating and what has been
known at General Miles headquar.
tiers, Fort Keogh, all winter, is now
received in Washington as fact.
Sitting Bull has been regarded by
Miles as an enemy, and his plan, il
permitted to carry it out, would
have seen his command at this time
across the Missouri and in''the Milk
River country ready to receive the
Sioux confederation with ball and
shell. The United States consul
at Winnipeg reports the threaten
ing intentions of the hostiles and a
fresh telegram to day confirms
everything that has been said or
published npon the prospect of
difficulty. IF General Miles has
the men We have faith that this
will be the last Indian war in this
particular section. Sitting Bull
will retire to his St Helena with
the fall of the leaves Bismarck
Tribune.l
The Benton record., 1878-05-03

In fact it may be said that Mon.
tana,s career has been one Of con
tinuous prosperity, for while labor
ing under the disadvantage d
isolation and apparently degenefat-
ing, she has been slowly butsurely
laying the foandation for future
fame and unlimited wealth. And
now that our steamboat Companies
are directing all their energies and
capital to opening up cheap and
convenient avenue for immigration,
the tide must soon set in, for while
our Territory offers unequalled in
ducements for the investment of
capital, it has also advantages for
the poor and industrious classes OF
the crowded cities of the East
which no other country on the