Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-02
MARK TWAIN WAKES SARCASTIC.

He Acknowledges some of His ObIf-
cations to the Bay state.
| CONCORD, Mass, April AT a recent
meeting of the Concord Free Trade club S.
L. Clemens Mark Twain was elected an
honorary member of the club. A certificate
of election was sent to Mr.. Clemens and the
following acknowledgement has just been re-
ceived:
HARTFORD, March 90.
Frank A. Nichols, Secretary Concord Free
Trade Club
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your favor of
the Gath instant conveying the gratifying
intelligence that I have been made an homo
rary member of the Free Trade club of Con-
cord, and desire to express to the club
through you my grateful sense of the high
compliment thus paid me. 1t does look as
if Massachusetts were in fair way to en-
barrass me with kindnesses this year. In
the first place Massachusetts, judge has just
decided in open court that a Boston pub
Usher may sell not only his own property in
free and t1nfettered way, but also may as
freely sell property which does not
belong to him but to me; property
which he has not bought and which 1 have
not sold. Under this ruling 1 am now ad-
vertising that judges homestead for sale and
if I make as good sum out of it as I expect
I shall go on and sell out the rest of his
property. In the next place committee of
the public library of your town have con-
demned and communicated my last
book and doubled it's SALE This
generous action of theirs must nee
essarily benefit me in one or
two additional ways. For instance. it will
deter other libraries from buying the book
and you are doubtless aware that one book in
public library prevents the sale of sure
ten and a possible hundred of it's mates.
And secondly it will cause the purchasers of
the book to read it out of curiosity instead
of merely intending to do so after the usual
way of the world and library com
missioners, and then they will discover
to my great advantage and their own
indignant disappointment that there is moth
ing Objectionable in the book after ALL And
finally the Free Trade club of Concord comes
forward and adds to the splendid burden of
obligations already conferred upon me by the
commonwealth of Massachusetts an honorary
membership which is worth more than all
the rest just at this juncture, since
it endorses me as worthy to associate
with certain gentlemen whom the moral ice
bergs of the Concord library committee are
bound to respect. May the great common
the heartfelt prayer of one who long a recip-
lent of her mere general good will is proud
to realize that he is at last become her pet
Thanking you again, dear sir and gentlemen
l remain,
Your obliged servant, s. L. CLEMENS.
Known to the Concord Winter School of
Philosophy as mark Twain."1
BUTCHERY IN THE NORTHWEST.
RfeI,s Followers Massacre All I'm
Their Path-They Desert Battle Ford
to Entice other Tribes to Their
Csnse.
WINNIPEG, April --latest advices from
Battle Ford state that all the Indians have
suddenly left that town after pillaging and
burning most of the houses, but where they
have gone cannot be learned. II Is feared
that they have gone to Edmonton to plumber
that place and to induce the Indians on the
reserves to join them in their raid Another
supposition Is that they have started for
Carlton, eighty miles distant, where Riel with
the half -bred rebels and eight hundred In
dams of Big Bears and Beardy's band are
encamped The troops of General Middle
ton start tomorrow morning northward by
way of Touchwood Hills to meet the rebels
An uprising is reported to have occurred
among the Indians at Riding Mountain, but
the rumor is unconfrmed.
OTTAWA April Late reports from
officers of the government at Battle Ford in
dictate that a terrible and wholesale
massacre of the unprotected settlements is
going on and that there has been a general
uprising among tribes heretofore thought to
be friendly The residents of Battle Ford have
learned that an attack will be made on the
barracks tonight. They have food enough
to hold out if the troops arrive. The situa-
ton is critical. Hundreds of Indians have
come in who pretend to be
friendly, but who will probably join
the rebels in an attack upon the barracks I'M
less help comes for the settlers soon. The
settlers have a small cannon, two hundred
stand of arms and plenty of ammunition. A
telegraph line constructor has been murdered
and settlers are being killed wherever found.
Colonel Herchmen with seventy mounted po-
lice will probably arrive at Battle Ford to-
morrow night. prominent government
official states that important information has
been received regarding the gathering of a
brotherhood near a small town in New York.
TORONTO, April 1. - Northwest advices
state that it will require seven thousand adj
ditional troops to squelch the rebellion. Ar
rangements are being made in all parts of
eastern Canada to send large numbers of vol
unteers to the front. Some fear Fenian
raid on eastern Canada while the troops are
absent. Rumors prevail that suspicious per-
sons from Buffalo, presumably Fenians,
L re appeared in Hamilton.
OSMAN'S SCHEME MISCARRIES.
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