, 1885-02-18

Tho Mahdi has proposed to Gen. VOL
seley terms on which he may stay in tn,
Soudan in safety. He says that the Eng
iish viii be welcomed and made comfor
table if they turn Mussulmans. MIR. =
w. may be compelled to accept the offer
The president has by executive order
opened to public settlement after May 10
1895, all lands within the Niobrara OF
Santee Sioux Indian reservation in Ne
brsska remaining unalloted to and unsc'
lected by the Indians, except such as are
occupied for the agency school and mis-
sionary purposes.
Senator NJ. C. Butler, Of South Caro-
lima, is the handsomest man in Congress,
His wife is a beauty, too. She has
Titian-red hair, lovely features, a perfect
figure and exquisite hands and feet, and
is the daughter Of n house whose race has
been distinguished for generations in
politics. as in the social world-blue-
blooded, rich and talented.
In Washington excitement in regard to
the cabinet il a small affair compared to
that in relation TO the Inauguration
ball The decorations for the ball are to
cost $4,000 Tickets are IS, and sup
pen win be 81 each. II is stated that
the usage of Washington and Jeffer-
son at similar festivities will be restored,
and that President Cleveland will stand
on a dias during the opening ceremo-
mics Of the ball. the dais to haye such a
canopy of flowers as that under which
ex-senator Tabor's marriage occurred a
few years ago
Two hundred fne black-tailed deer,
which had taken refuge from the storm
in a deep cut on the Oregon Short Lane
near Medford, Ore, Sunday night, were
run into by the fast west bound passen-
ger. train. They were dumbfounded BY
the glare of the headlight. and twenty
three were killed outright and about
twenty more were crippled. The train
was slowed M and the killed were taken
on board. -Four deer wero killed in the
same manner the same night on the Utah
& Northern railroad, and the next night
three very large ones were killed on the
Wood River branch. An unusually large
amount Of snow has fallen this winter on
all these lines, and the deer in order to
avoid the biting winds, repair TO the cuts
and there stand huddIed together. On
the approach Of u locomotive they are
dazed. More than one hundred have
been killed by trains within tvo months
Everybody is nov asking whats q
Mahdigr The New York Herald says
Mahdi. or MAhadi, as D'Herbelot spelll
il, is an ancient title in the Moslem world
which at first simply signifed director o.
the faithful But in the course of Moslen
history, and especially MoSem history Ii
Africa. it came TO have another signi6ca'
ton related to an accepted prophecy o.
Mohammed. 1t Unnecessarily refers to th'
African part Of Arabic history. By thu
secondary significance Of the word. thu
Mahadi Is n second ancient leader com,
again Hiss appearance is the secont
advent Off prophet who lived in the ole
days. and who in all the meantime ha|
been with the immortals- Mohammcd
the twelfth Imam, and the twelfth in de
scent from Ali. is ethereal original He il
the Mahadi who m again every now ans
then. He was hidden from the world a
an early age, and communed only with hi
disciples through his lifetime. and finalt
did not die but went up with the fxe'
Intention Of returning to revive the elorie
Of Moslem-