Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-08

THE Daily Cbionist of Newfoundland
advises the lobster men of that tight little
leland "to arm their factories with resolute
crews and Calling guns or Enfield rifles
as the only means of galvanizing the
barDacles of Downing street into whole
some apprehension of the inherent rights
of Observation-Disclosures. " This is rather
fierce talk, but II Is only in tune with the
dispatches from tho island which show
great public irritation. 1t seems that tho
row Is all over tho determined effort of tho
French to establish their fishermen in
lobster fishing on ;he coast under the
terms of the treaty of Utrecht, which gave
thom the fishing rights they claim. The
Newfoundlanders say that these rights
only applied TO cod fishing and that the
lobster fisheries are of recent development.
but England has all along yielded
to the Frencl, claims, doubtless thinking
that the matter was too trifling to worry
over. The Newfoundland Legislature last
year sent II unanimous address to tho
queen protesting against tho arbitrary
course of the French, "who had destroyed
lobster factories owned by Messrs. Murphy
and Andrews, two British subjects, at
the instance of the French authorities
French warships assisting and British war
ships interfering to support the unwar-
ranted contention Of the French" f"
The one thousand miles of coast over
which the French thus claim control Is
fertile and valuable territory and tho
island government Is spending ten millions
In building railroad to develop 1t. The
French have built permanent factories and
it is charged that they defy Newfoundland
laws and import without paying duty
whatever they please. The reply of Great
Britain to the address of the Legislature
comes in tho shape of news of an arrange.
ment with France establishing tho French
position and placing tho control of the
coast In the hands Of the French and British
naval officers. This is tho reason for the
Newfoundland excitement.
"A PARTY of curious arcnaeologists ran
bitches through mound on the banks of
Peters creek which enters the Monongahela
about twenty miles from Pittsburg. They
found layer of charcoal and ashes and
then some stone implements, shell beads
and bear tusks, and finally half of the
lower jaw bone of a man in good state of
preservation. They also found two plates
OF copper one sixteen inches long by eight
inches wide and one fourteen by six, both
about an eighth of an inch in thickness.
There were three small copper sheaths
made to tit the bears tusks land the shaping
of these was considered wonderful for men
without tools Two Jumps of the red paint
used by the Indians wero found. 1t is sup
posed that the piece OF jaw bone is the last
trace of the red man who was originally
planted there, although no explanation is
offered as to how the rest of him happened
to disappear so completely.
Authorities differ as to whether mounds
like this are the work of Indians or another
race that has disappeared, hut the weight
OF evidence seems to favor tho theory that
the mound-builders differed very little
from some Indian tribes now known. A
plausible explanation of mounds of the
character described has been suggested
Perhaps the tribe had custom of burning
the hut of dead warrior while the body
lay within 1t and then heapng earth over
the ruins. This would account for the
layers of ashes and charred wood often
found. Some claim TO have discovered the
remains of three or four dwellings and
their occupants forming successive LAYERS
one over the other,in the largest of mounds.
Perhaps those cheerful people camped
right over their family burying ground or
crematory, or, perhaps an enemy thus
grimly triumphed over his fallen foes
ashes.