The Red Cloud chief., 1879-05-08
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Texas is 1850 miles, including 375 miles
of gulf coast.
THE editor oftbe Hawkinsville (Tenn.)
DISPATCH has named his four children
"Brevier," "Lopg Primer" "Small
Plea" and /" Plea" after the names of
different styles Of type.
AMONG the various species OF oranges
now raised in Florida is the small, thin
skinned, delicate mandOrino from the
Island Of Malta, SO highly priced on
European tables.
A MARRIAGE was brought about I'M
der difficulties by two inmates OF the
Columbus (Ohio) Asylum for the Blind.
They stole out slyly, found their way TO
q clergyman, and were united. The
bride returned for her clothing, and was
imprisoned in q second-story room; but
she made a rope of sheets, slid down TO
the ground and rejoined her husband.
ACHILLE MURAT, while residing in
Florida, succeeded in convincing him
self that alligator was good eating. He
also tried buzzard, and when asked how
he liked it said: "Oh! l q eat any
kind of bird-I am not affrate to eat any
zing. have no prejudice, but re buzz
card is not goOde."
INTELLIGENCE was recently received
at Alden from the factory agent of Q
Hamburg house at Nossibe, in NADIA
gascar, OF the death of DR.. Nuremberg, q
young German savant, who, during 1877
and 1873, had been travelling in Eastern
Africa and Madagascar. The report
states that he was murdered in Menabe,
a district inhabited by the Sakalava
tribe, in the interior of the island.
MRS. JUDITH BEEBE, who has Just
died at Tamworth, N. H., at the age of
102 years, used to relate among the in
cidents of her childhood an encounter
with a mountain eagle. The eagle at
tackled an animal larger than it could
rise with, and little Judith in turn
attacked the eagle. Her hands were
severely torn, but che held the monster
bird until the arrival Of assistance.
THERE is a German colony of 425
persons on the Pozuzo on the eastern
slope of the Andes. The colonists cul-
tivate coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton,
rice, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, sugar.
cane, and tropical fruits. They keep
cows and pigs. Ants and c~ockroaches
are the only insect plague. The colony
is prosperous, but its development is
prevented by the want of roads.
B. F. RUSSELL of Milford, Mich,
publishes a card in which he says: 81
have been an inidel for more than IS
years-denying the Bible revelations of
God to man. Inow renounce my form
er belief, holding its positions to be ut
terly un;enable; and l espouse the
cause of Jesus Christ, acknowledging
Him as my only Redeemer and my only
hope for an Immortality of everlasting
happiness with Him"
PROFESSOR A. j. Cook of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College writes to the
Scientific Farmer that having given the
subject no little research and observa-
ton he is fully convinced that nearly all
OF birds, not excepting robin, jay
and grackle, are the farmers efficient
aids and very worthy of bis fostering
care. He has made "actual examina-
ton of the birds stomachs purposely to
eliminate every possible source of
error"
In Colorado the largest sheep-grow-
ing counties are: Ell raso, 220, OOO Las
Animas, 10000; Huerfano, 10000;
Ebert, 100000; CODejos, 115, 600;
Arapahoe, 10000; Bent, $4,000; Lari-
mer, 10000; Pueblo, $4,000; Weld, So
COO. The sheep average in value about
1925 per head. The following estimate
of capital invested in the business in the
State is semi.oficial: Sheep, $780,
GOO; ranches, improvements, etc.,
$1,000, 600; total, S5,5OO,OOO.
WHEN JEFF. Davis was making his
fight through Georgia in 1865, he passed
right through where Bowersville now
stands. One of his aids or guides grew
~treacherOus near there, and when the
party arrived in Wilkes County this
guide deserted the unfortunate Presi-
dent. And this guide stole Ia keg con-
tanning $4,000 in gold and rolled it
into a millpond down in Wilkes: and
soon afterwards the guide was convict
ed to the ~Penitentiary for iiA3 and died
a short time since, but before his death
disclosed the whereabouts of the hidden
treasure; and men are now engaged in
draining off the pond in search of the
same. So says an exchange.
AT the beginning of the present CEN
fury the number of Jews in Jerusalem
did not exceed three hundred, but in the
past 10 years, owing to the removal of
the restrictions of the porte, the influx
has been great. Nearly all the old
houses, as they became vacant, have
been bought up by them, while a great
many new ones have been built ia all
parts OF the town. Schools, hospitals
and religious associations have been
started, and the population, which was
barely 500, 80 years ago, amounted in
1875 to $4,000 in the city alone. Arich
jew OF Venice has founded and endow-
ed a school of agriculture with several
thousand pounds, SO that the country
seems in a fair way to recover some of
its old fertility.
MRS. JOHN p. RICHARDS of New York :
City heard a noise in the parlor the
other evening. Mr.. Richards laughed .
at her, as it is the habit of men to laugh :
at womanly fears. Presently he heard !
1t himself, and then he took his revolver
me Is M the fre-arm business) and went /,
down stairs. Having shot one burglar ;
DEAD and covered the other with his ,
pistol, he asked his wife to bring him !
bis hat and some more cartridges, !
whereupon he handed his prisoner over +,
the police. But just fancy Mrs. RS :
FEELINGS as she came down stairs with !
the hat and ammunition! The burglar ;
who was shot wa already under in. .
dictment for another crime and was out :
baI. He gets Is years in State !
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The missionaries among the Pueblo s
Indians of New Mexico find their Ian. {
guage the greatest obstacle to the spread
Of The Gospel. With the study OF this I