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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-08

RECENT expressions of James G,
Blaine on important national ques-
tions has brought him prominently
forward as the probable candidate
of the Republican party for Pres
ident in 1892. This makes it look
very much like we will have Cleye-
land and Blaine again as opponents
for the first Office in the gift Of the
people. If such a thing should
take place, the next Presidential
campaign will be soul-stirring.
Both the great parties will exert
themselves as never before, and
popular excitement will run higher
than ever known in the history of
the country. o.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-08

The office-holders in the Ten
nessee Republican convention got a
brief and stereotyped Endorsement
of DR.. Harrison's administration
into the platform. This must have
been gall and worm-wood to. the
Nashville crowd Of disappointed
pie hunters that some time ago
turned the doctors picture to the
wall. Birmingham Age-Herald.
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OF OtakIe, l. e, she who kills many-
He was the first one tried. He was SEN
fenced to death, but upon the recommend
alton OF the commission, his sentence
was committed by President Lincoln to
imprisonment for ten years. He rem
dered the prosecution great service upon
many of the trials, testifying in a number
OF cases He is said TO be still living on
a Missouri reservation.
Over four hundred prisoners OF all
ages, from Is to so, were tried, and Of
these three hundred and three were con-
yicted. Their sentences varied from
death down to one years imprisonment
Finally, after considerable delay, thirty
eight of them were ordered to be exc
cQted at Mankato, on the Goth day of
February, 1863.
A few of the condemned Indians ac-
knowledged their guilt. but for the most
part they maintained their innocence.
Clergymen. both Protestant and Catho-
lie, labored with them and succeeded in
converting and baptising quite number.
They were allowed to send for some of
their relatives, with whom their parting
was quite affecting.
On the morning of the fatal day their
irons were removal and their arms
bound with cords, their elbows behind
and their wrists in front. Then, long
heads, but left rolled up so as to show
their painted faces. During this opera
tiOn, which consumed over an hour, sew
eral exciting death songs were sung.
At exactly 10 o'clock the condemned
men were formed into a procession and
| marched into the street and directly
across from the jail, between files OF
soldiers, to the long scafold which had
been erected there. AS they commenced
the ascent of the scaffold, they started
the death song again, and made a per-
fectly hideous noise, which had won
derful effect in keeping up their courage.
Then the white caps were drawn down.
the nooses adjusted, and, in the presence
of a vast concOurse of people, Major
Brown gave drum three distinct taps,
rope was cut, and the thirty-eight red
handed murderers shot simultaneously
doWnward to a most righteous doom.
As the platform fell. a long though
not loud cheer went up from soldiers and
citizens, and silence reigned over the
awful scene
Another such wholesale hanging ha:
never taken place in America, and per
haps not in the civilized world.
The next summer Gen. Sibley drove
the hostile Sioux from the State, killing
over one hundred of them in the process.
The number of whites killed in 1862 was
1877, of whom GA were citizens, mas
sacred.
Little Crow continued his depreda-
tions, killing a good many whites the
next spring, actually venturing within
twelve miles of st. Paul. July 3, 1868,
while picking berries near the town OF
Hutchinson, he was shot and killed by
two men named Sampson, father and
son. Little Crow was one of the bright
est and bravest of all the Sioux. His
name had become synonym for terror
in Minnesota, and news of his death was
received amid universal rejoicing.
DWIGHT BALDWIN.
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Many lost their lives in trying to save
their friends, while not a few suffered
martyrdom rather than abandon woupd-
ed and dying loved ones. Mrs Estlick's
son Barton, not ten years old, and his
brother, aged five, having been separat-
ed from their mother, arrived at the set
Elements several days afterWard. Bar
ton alternately led and carried his little
brother distance of eighty miles. Such
an act of heroism and devotion on the
part Of one of such tender years deserves
to be kept green in our memories.
Three companies of the Fifth Mime
sofa Infantry, just organized for service
in the Union army, were rendeZvoused at
Fort Smelling to draw supplies to fit
them for service at the front, when news
of the uprising arrived. The first
courier who galloped into the fort, we'll
nigh exhausted from his hard ride and
the attendant excitement, was unable to
give an Ineligible account of what had
transpired, and was taken in charge IS
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embracing all their lands in Iowa, Da-
kota and Minnesota, except a tract along
the Upper Minnesota, which they re-
served for their future home. This tract
began below Fort Ridgely and extended
$50 miles TO Lake Traverse, with width
of ten miles on both sides of the river.
The treaty contained a provision by
which this reservation was also to be
ceded and the Indians located where the
President might appoint.
BY treaty made in 1853 they coded
to the Government all that portion north
of the river, retaining the remainder. y
1t is the custom of the traders who
know that the Indians will ultimately
sell their lands, to give them credit for
supplies, holding claim against the
proceeds of the sale. This was done
largely in the present instance, and the
traders, by means of many false repre-
sensations as to the vast wealth the In
dams would receive, and also by refusing
them further credit unless they voted to
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brave men fought on, but with less loss
now. AT 10 o'clock on the morning Of
September the CLEAN of rifles was seen
in the distance, and the saVages sullenly
withdrew before the advance of a relief
party which had been sent from Fort
Ridgely, where the firing, thanks to the
favorable direction Of the wind, had been
heard
Taking into account the small number
engaged, the battle of Birch CoOlie was
one of the hottest fought during the
period of the civil war. OF the 1853
whites, twenty-three were killed and
forty-five severely wounded, while very
few escaped altogether uninjured. When
relieved they had been thirty-one hours
without either food or water, and were
almost exhausted.
There were many wonderful escapes
from death. A. P. Connolly, Adjutant
of the Sixth Minnesota Infantry, who
was present, mentions the case of wom-
an, the only one of a party who had
escaped with her life, though badly
wounded with buckshOt She had been
twelve days without food, other than
berries, when she was found by Maj.
Browns expedition. During the awful
thirty-six hours of the seige she re-
manned in the wagon where she had been
placed, praying for her deliverers. The
wagon was riddled with bullets, but,
strange to say, she was struck by none
of them. She ultimately entirely recov-
cred
On the 18th of September the camp at
Fort Ridgely was broken up, and the
expedition, disguised with its long mac
| tivity, started on it's march after the foe.
/ On the morning of Sept. % the enemy
were encountered at Wood Lake. The
/ Indians were sanguine of success, but
were badly beaten, the white loss being
four killed and about forty wounded.
Colonel Sibley sent out word to the In
/ dams that if they would come in, no in
J nOcent man would be harmed; and in a
short time all except Little Crow and his
most, desperate followers were within
reach and encamped near Lac qui Parle.
/ Colonel Sibley encamped with his forces
about half a mile from the Indians, al
Camp Release, so called because the cap
tiYes were released there. These, to the
number of about two hundred and fifty
were at once set free.
A large number of Indians were made
prisoners and a commission appointed tC
try them. The remainder were sem
down to Yellow Medicine Agency. An
inquiry developed the fact that almost
the entire nation had been involved il
the outbreak, and the braves at the
Agency were quietly discovered and made
prisoners A number of half-breedS
were among the accused, and one negro
or mulatto, named Godfrey or Gussa, te
whom the Indians had given the name
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never received a penny until four years
afterward, when SIS, 900 worth of goods
were sent the Sioux, and these were de-
Quoted out of money due them under
former treaties.
Thus a long series of wrongs, coupled
with want amounting almost to starva-
ton, had rendered the Indians desper-
ate, and on Sunday, the 18th of August,
1862, the work of murder began. Four
Indians killed as many whites, and then
made haste to join their band. Little
Crow, an influential chief who had been
several times in Washington in the in
terests of the Sioux, was at once con-
suited. He knew the vast strength
of the whites, and would, no doubt, have
advised the surrender of the murderers
were it not that he had been accused of
acting in the interests of the whites
against his people, and had thereby lost
much of his influence. He now saw a
chance to regain his lost power, and as,
in common with all Indians, he hated the
whites, he advised a general massacre.
"Trouble with the whites is inevitable,
sooner or later" he said. at may as
we'll come now. I am with you. Let US
go to the agency, kill the traders, and
take their goods.
This advice was at once acted upon;
runners were sent out to call in the
gun which extended along both sides of
the Minnesota River to within six miles
of the town of New Ulm. Many were
put to death, and that by the most cruel
methods that the ingenuity of demons
could devise. Children were nailed alive
to doors and used as targets at which to
throw tomahawks; many were burned
| alive in houses; while, if possible, still more
inhuman and unnatural crimes were per
petrated by these veritable fends.
That week an attack was made upon
New Ulm and Fort Ridgely, but the In
dians were driven off with considerable
| loss on both sides, Little Crow being
wounded. The uprising had now become
general and extended through the whole
western frontier of Minnesota, and into
Iowa and Dakota During the first week
not less than 700 people persisted, while
! 200 more were carried away as captives.
In the meantime, the excitement can
not be described. All who could hur-
ried toward the large towns, numbers
falling on the way. While the awful
panic developed not a little selfshnes:
and cowardice, it furnished many in.
| stances of devotion and endurance
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Dry Goods Salaries.

at is not generally known" said Mr.
Q. B. Worth, of 81. B. Clafin s. Co.,
a few days ago, shat some of the high
est salaries are paid in our business.
We are often accused of paying starva-
ton wages to our clerks by people who
never look at the expenses entailed in
running an establishment. Take the
buyers, for instance. There are firms
in this city who pay men from $4,000
to $50, 600 year for simply being able
to tell three-quarters of year in adj
vance what the fashion is going to be-
One gentleman, who buys for a whole
sale house on Broadway, is said to earn
$4,000 year.
"Dry goods houses are noted for pay
ing low wages to their clerks, because
the supply of clerks is so abundant. In
some of the smaller stores the pay runs
as low as So week But the buyer
on whose Judgment the sale of next
years fabrics depends gets half as
much as the President of the United
States. The smallest, and some of the
largest, salaries are paid in the dry
goods business.
"How does the buyer for the house
distinguish in advance what the fash
ion for next year Is to be-"
All, DIldb Is WIGT0 IL QlT6S u WIQS
awake man. He must watch the grow
ing tendencies among the firms richest
and most fashionable customers at
home and abroad. Whatever has be-
come popular among them will make
its way among the masses, and this
tide the house must catch and swim
along with it.
~In Europe textile manufacturers
make few goods except on orders. The
buyer for firm must decide what hi:
house can sell next season, and order
his supplies of cloth made in advance
A serious mistake might be sufficient
to bankrupt the firm, by leaving then
with a stock on hand of unstable
goods. the patterns not being to the
liking of the firms customers. So yor
can easily see why a skillful buyer car
command his own price"
sHow do you select man for such
position ?"
Nothing less than kind of intui
ton is demanded for such a place. II
addition. the buyer must estimate what
amount his employer can sell of {
given style of goods. If he overstock,
the firm, then they are left with old
fashioned articles on hand which they
must resort to the 'bargain-counter
devices to get rid of at a severe loss.
-NelU York Star.
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ly.~ the too great accentuatiOn of the
wave. This destroys the delicate char
acteristics Of the hair of the Caucasian
race, possessed by it alone, and degrades
it to the crinkly wool of the African
and his cOngenerS- When properly manu-
featured by skillful hair dressers, the
hair or rather the outer layers which
are subjected to the corrugating proc
ess, keep their "pli" or wave for even a
third Illustration you will note several
different fashions of arranging the hair
after the wave has been impaired to it,
and you may make your election.
From hair to hat is but a natural and
easy step. l see many charming au-
tuHfnal conceits on the new hats, sug-
gestions Of the season, such as autumn
foliage, nuts and berries, particularly.
the mountain ash, bittersweet, barberry,
etc. These are softened by velvet bows
and feather piquets. Large hats still
cling to public favor, but the enormous
brims of the summer time find few
~takers, +" and it is also to be noted that
the crown or the largest hats worn have
decreased in height-in fact in some
cases becoming nothing more than a
mere plaque, slightly elevated in the
center to fit more ,.nugly over the top Of
| the head.
The fourth illustration will give cor
/ rect idea of some of the fashionable shapes
and styles Of trimming. Plaits of velvet
| ribbon are laid in clusters at the back
of some hats, and made to project over
the top toward the front with stylish
effect The oxford hat with the pro-
jecting toque brim is very popular.
! Those who like something dashing will
choose black French felt, the brim on
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rones at this little dance wore a lovely
dress in satin "moire green" with prin-
cess demi-train cut in pointed decollete.
A garland of velvet ivy leaves in various
shades Of green encircled the decolletage
and then passed down little to the side
and bordered the skirt with most charm
ing effect.
But I have not told you yet of the
bright particular star of ball dress
which appeared that evening at the hop
of the Country Club like a dainty, deli
cate gem in the armament of fashion.
1t is very correctly pictured in the second
illustration, but still its delicate beauty
must, after all, be imagined, for such a
poem of dress needs to be read-ex-
cuse me-worn in the soft light of pink
tinted glass-globes in order to bring out
its full value and enable you to catch its
complete expression. This lovely ball
dress was made entirely of white tuIle,
spangled with small white beads, and
further ornamented with rows of white
bead trimming arranged in the charm
ingly original manner pictured in the
illustration. There was an air of de-
liciOus simplicity about this toilet, and
that. be it said, was its strong point
The third illustration sets forth a
group of heads with the @WaVe effect, " a
style OF frisure which is a happy combin-
alton of antique simplicity with modern
love of Ssoftening" and "tOning down, "
for such is the result of this undulating
style Of wearing the hair. If the face
has any charm at all, this mode of frs
ure is sure to bring it out and accentu-
ate it. 1t is hard to explain just why the
simple act of waving the hair should
work such complete change in the ex-
preston Of the face. Probably it is due
/ to the presence of Hogarth's line of
/ beauty almost infinitely repeated.
If the gentler and sweeter phases of
human character could be made visible
no doubt they would be found to consist
of curved lines and rounded contours.
It is only the spirit of wrath and anger
which flashes through the night of pas
sion in zigzag lines
But one thing is to be avoided, name
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cord that the savages were solely re-
sponsible for that blood-curdling trag-
edy. But what use to write, unless to
tell the truth? Seldom has the white
man-never, perhaps, except in isolated
cases-treated the red man in a fair and
equitable manner.
Minnesota was organized as a territory
in 1S49, and the emigration rapidly set
Ting upon the eastern side of the A1issis-
sfppi River began to encroach upon the
fertile country opposite. So, in 1851,
the Indians were induced to sign treat
les by which they transferred to the
United States over 10000, 900 of acres,
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the outside being faced with black velvet
overlaid near the edge with two rows of
narrow gold gimp, torsade of maize
yellow velvet running between the brtm
and the crown, and at the back g. large
upright loop of wide white satin striped
with gold tinsel and supporting several
small black birds-a very stylish bit of
headgear, and one well qualified to make
a woman who can't wear it turn green
with envy.
AS the terms "toque" and @capote"
have become distinctions without differ
ences, there is to be an effort made to do
away with them entirely and in their
stead use the expression "small bonnets"
Whether this change in phraseology will
be successfully accomplished remains to
be seen.
Plain cut velvet holds it's popularity
in the CONNECTION of fine millinery, va
ried by the occasional use of terry or
uncut velvet and by the use of very mar
row ostrich feather bands. Some very
stylish creations in the line of high-class
headgear have the appearance of being
made whollysOf feather bands. For in
stance, . small bonnet having a narrow
band of black velvet on the edge of the
brim has the brim covered smoothly with
narrow ostrich points, curled at the edge
and curving upward to the top, with a
ring-shaped bow made of black terry vel
vet ribbon set at the base of the crown
and another bow of the same kind posed
at, the front supporting a tuft of small
curling ostrich tips and strings of narrow
cut velvet ribbon.
The craze for mere airy nothings in
the shape of headgear goes on with in
creased fervor. The wire frame is barely
concealed beneath band of velvet, a
strip of feather band with bow set at
the back, supporting a mOnture Of tiny
curled feathers of several small birds.
The strings of this dainty creation are the
most corporal thing about it, consisting
as they do of inch-wide ribbon. Velvet
ribbon for bonnet strings may be ac-
cepted as the decree of Fashions court
of last resort; other ribbons, however,
may figure as trimming, and vary from
three to four inches in width.
To go with cloth tailor-made, you'll
need stylish little cloth bonnet made
| of the same material and trimmed with
fur to match your fur cape, cuffs, and
muff. In some cases the muff, too, will
be made Of the same material as the
dress, and be edged with fur to match
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n the month of Au-
gust, 1862, the IN
dams Of Minnesota
Initiated a massacre
which viii live In
the pages of history
as one of the bloodi-
est scenes in all the
mighty conflicts that
marked the advance
of the white race
.across cur continent.
Occurring, as it did,
in the midst of the
great civil war, at a
time when vast ar
mics were contend
ing on sanguinary
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ASTONISHING success has attended
the effort of DR.. Lannelongue, an emf
nent specialist of Paris, to give intelli-
gence to a little idiot girl. Though
four years old, the child could neither
walk nor stand, and never smiled nor
took notice of anything. The Doctor
concluded that the abnormal narrow
ness of the head INSTRUCTED the growth
of the brain, and in May last he made
an incision in the center of the skull
and cut a piece of bone from the left
side of it. The result was marvellous.
Within less than a month the child
could walk, and She is now quite bright
playing, smiling, and taking notice
Of everything around her.
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~ VIZ Aa--N ~ IL =
The subject is not
a pleasing one, nor
has it lost much of
its hideOusness by
the lapse of nearly
three decades, yet
/ I S consideration
cannot fail to in
terest all readers,
and cause them to
rejoice that the
long-discussed In
dian question" is at
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IN white tulle trimmed with pearls or
white beads, the same style OF ornament
making its appearance in their hair.
There is no doubt about it, white is to
be very modish this season. Already
these charming white cloth dresses are
met with, in almost every case being
worn by some lady just returned from
the other side. How it will be when our
dancing women are asked to waltz in a
cloth. dress remains to be seen; but II
this new wl4im settles down into an &C
cepted dictum, it will be done, no mat
ter at what sacrifice of comfort
In spite of the denunciation of Mrs.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps directed against
the decollete in dress, don't see any in
dication that this custom of displaying
neck and shoulders is likely to fall into
desuetude. 1t seems to be mere matter
of choice between square or pointed
one, front and back both cut out, or
front only.
The lady in the initial will give you a
correct idea of the most Venturesome
style of decollete which the young per-
son may with proper respect to the feel
ings of the austere world indulge in.
Another thing which caught my eye at
the little dance at the Country Club was
the peculiar style with which corsages
are made this season. The idea seems
to be that this part of a ball dress must
have something novel and striking about
it. You'll notice how the lady in the
initial has hers made. The effect is al
together charming. Most of the dancing
costumes, especially when of light and
gauzy material, have a ruche at the bot
tom, and when it is run with a ribbon
the same style of ribbon appears on the
corsage, and, If the sleeve be large
enough, there also. One of the chape-
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the cape. Some of these cloth bonnet
will be set of by tiny heads of fur-bear-
ing animals, artificial of course, but
quite like the natural article. In a WORT,
fur trimming will be omnipresent from
the crown of your bonnet to the edge OF
your dress, but always the same kind of
fur, mind you-DGtsy Dart In Chicago
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|AAf NfAlOOC4 low
OMEONE called my
attention, at a little
dance given at one
of the country clubs
last week, to the
fact that there were
not half a dozen col
ored dresses in the
room, nearly every
lady present being
dressed either in
white or black. The
seffect was not par
ticularly pleasing,
e spe CT ally when
these two color 5
were about evenly
balanced; but as the
evening worOon the
white, overslsUghed
the black, and then
the magpie effect
was not so appar-
ent. Many of the
younger ladies were
; most dafntiIV attired
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have not lacked careful historians, yet
few of the present generation know
much, if anything, of one of the BLOOD
lest pictures ON the book of Time" as
the awful slaughter of the whites and
the subsequent defeat and punishment
of the fiends NAV properly be termed.