The Red Cloud chief., 1879-04-03
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A SULLIVAN, Me-, woman attacked q
wild cat, which was killing her geese,
the other day, em~pty-handed, and
strangled it in the snow.
THERE is a bar-room in Blue Ridge,
n. c., that has posted up notices tina,
"Children under 10 years Of age will
not be allowed 10 get drunk on these
premises, unless accompanied by thei!
parents"
ONE of the largest of the Great Mars.
ton salt mines at Northwich, England,
was lately lighted with the electric
light. The experiment was so success.
ful that this method of illumination is
likely TO be adopted.
LORD ToLLEMANCHE, OF Cheshire,
England, has gathered together his
cheese-making tenantry and told them
that if they expect TO hold their own
against American competition they must
quit signing for their lost pre-eminence
and make better cheese.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL KY says that
the women who have been appointed
postmistresses during the last four years
doetheir business more faithfully and
take more pride in their work than the
men holding Offices of the same grade.
THE prosecution of the corrupt Rus
sian army contractors, Conan, Greger
and Horwitz, has been abandoned by
order of the Gar, because the proceed
ings threatened to compromise so many
persons in high official positions.
Two Swedes, who kindly entertained
tramp near Kane, Mexican County,
Pa, were both killed by said tramp with
a Ratchet. The tramp was o @ cap
tured, and it was with difficulty the peo-
pie could be restrained from lynching
him.
A FEW days ago a Northern Pacific
train crossed the Missouri on ice three
feet thick at Bismarck, Dakota Terrific
~. II is stated that this is the first train
that ever e over a river on ice with
out some false work beneath.
A GENTLEMAN of Cambridgeport,
Mass, offered a prize Of 90 to the New
York newsboy who would save the most
money in a month. The largest sum
saved was $40, and 40 boys saved
S203 25 in different amounts from twen-
ty-hve cents up.
THE Chinese washman has gained a
footing in New York. He has organ
lied a large system of h-houses, and
there are indications that all belong TO
one company. The style of their sign
boards in the various streets and ave-
nues is as uniform as those of the tea
stores. The Chinaman has a very mole
like fashion of creeping into business
and capturing it after creeping in.
THERE is an old gray fox in Ogle-
thorpe, Ga, that could tell many excit-
ing stories if he had the power of speech.
He has been chased time and again, and
his hairbreadth escapes are the talk of
his county. Recently he was driven in
TO a railroad cut by dogs, and would
certainly have been caught if a
train had not dashed along and scatter
ed his pursuers. In a public meeting it
was formally voted to let him die in
peace.
THE English agent in an Indian prov
ince lately arrested the head priest,
~hS!Supoh idhllS W INC UuflUeT OI ~
or 50 sat down in front of the official
bungalow, and proceeded deliberately
TO starve themselves to death. 1t was
not until they begun to dig graves for a
few of their number who nearly reached
the expiring point that the agent gave
it up and released the priest.
The Omaha Neus gives as a reason
for the delay Of a Union Pacific train
into that city one day recently, that cat
tie blockaded the track. 1t seems that
herds of cattle, numbering 800 or 400,
get on the track at different points 10
enjoy the shelter afforded by the snow
piled high on each side, and pay no at
tention whatever to the trains. A num-
Der are generally killed before apassage
is effected.
NEEDLES and the stories about them
keep coming to the surface. A Chilli
cothe (Ohio) man who has been afaict-
ed with rheumatism for some time,
finally had a surgical operation per-
formed. The result was that a needle
was found, just ready to show a point
against the theory Of rheumatism. Now
the man is well. but he insists that at no
time in his life did he ever make a pin
Tor needle) cushion of himself.
AFfO a marriage ceremony had been
performed in n of the churches in
Adrian, Mich, the bride, when receiy-
ing the congratulations of her friends
shed tears, according to the established
custom, at the sight Of which the groom
followed suit, with copious flow of the
briny fluid. After his friends succeeded
in calming him he said he could not
help it, for he felt Is bad about it as she
did.
THE Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle says that
one of its butchers lately discovered a
Missourian q long way from any settle
ment, and purchased cattle Of him
United States notes were offered in pay
ment, but the Missourian, who had evil
IDENTIFY not seen any thing but hard
money for years, did O want to take |
them. Finally, however, he said:
"Wall, eff you'll agree to indorse them
ar III take them" The trade was
thus at once brought to a specie basis.
THIS is the way they play billiards in
New York, according to the reporter
who has been attending the tournament:
"The globes crept along with a soft,
musical click, and amid the cheers of
the assemblage, crossed to the bottom
rail, rambling leisurely on their way
like two children wandering in a coun-
try lane, who sometimes separate to
pick sweet flowers by the wayside and
run back to meet each other with a
kiss.n
A RAILwAT employee in France, by
wayof apieceof brayado, lit his pipe with
ticket 955, 06S in the great French lotte-
rys and that there might be no doubt on
the subject, he chalked the figures on
van IN the presence of several of his