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Year: 1874

A remarkable case of lunacy has Just
been made known in Green Village, N.
j., by the death of Charles Crowell at the
age of seventy, who had been raving
maniac for over forty6ve years. He was
kept chained to the floor of his home, and
would never allow clothing to be put on
him. He was confined in a small apart
ment made for his use. No furniture
was in the room, the only thing in it be-
ing straw. His mother took care of him
for the first fifteen years, and during that
time he tore to pieces over 100 bcdquilts
which she had made for him. At times he
would be perfectly harmless, and would
allow his mother and sister to stay in his
room and feed him. But for months he
would pace his small room and no one
dared venture near him. In his room
was very small window through which
food and water were given him. Some
times lie would not eat for a week; at
other times enough food could not bc
given him to satisfy his voracity His
mother died from the great burden, and
his sister took charge of him. She, too,
died after some years from the constant
care and anxiety with which she watched
him. The most remarkable fact in con-
nection with the case was that just before
he died his mind was clear and he called
an attendant by name.-N. ?. n i1u,ee.
Year: 1874

EVERY night, before retiring, our In
dians have a war-dance. My tent is neal
their quarters and know it. To witness
their singular ceremony once is quite in
teresting, but when one is kept awake
half the night as a regular thing, and is
expected to breakfast at three o'clock
every morning, it loses it's romance The
most imposing occasion of the kind was
the night after the Santces Joined the
expedition and the alliance of the tribes
was celebrated. We were in camp at
Fort Lincoln then, and long, low, log
cabin was used as Indian quarters. In
the center of the room, on the ground
was built fire the smoke of which, min
gled with the odor that may naturally he
expected to arise from seventy or eighty
unwashed, naked and perspiring savages
made the place almost intolerable for Or
dinary beings; and even the poor, hungry
dogs that always haunt an Indian lodge
lett the room disguised, but the braves
pulled their killikinnick and breathcd in
the atmosphere with a relish. At the
start two groups were formcd-one OF
Rees and the other of Santees-eithe1
side of the fire. For a time they sa!
quietly smoking, till all the warriors were
gathered, when some one brought in q
drum and handed it to the Santees. They
placed it in the center of their circle, and
all who could reach began to pound its
head with sticks, their pipes, fingers and
anything available, humming dreary
monotone in the minor key.


All Indian music is in the minor key
1t was soft in tone and grew into sort
of moaning-like the wind in the branch
es of leaf1ess forest, and lasted five
minutes or so, ending with few subdued
shrieks. The pipes were relit and
passed from one group to the other, each
warrior taking a Whit or two and sending
it along to the next. Then the Rees took
the drum and went through the same
ceremony, but with a different theme tc
their chant. 1t was then repeated by the
Santees little louder and faster, and
the shrieks at its close more decided and
numerous. Then the Recs went at il
again; and the Santees for the third
time, interspersing lively little whoop!
between the measures of the song, and
pounding with decided emphasis on the
drum. Then it was passed over to the
Rees again, and two or three of the San
tees rose to their feet, doing a sort of {
walk around, for which their brethren il
the other group furnished the music
Then the others began to rise, one b,
one, and joined the dance, hopping uT
and down, first with one leg ant
then with the other as if the.
were tramping down something, eacl
uttering whoop at short intervals unit
the groups were broken up, and the ALI
ance was supposed to be formed. I'M


pow-wow grew livelier, the drumming
and moaning and whooping grew louder
and the atmosphere more vile as tn
dance went on, but white man get
enough of it in very short time, and


could not remain after they got we
a-going. 1t was my first war-dance an


in it I saw something of which ha
often read, but not the realization of m


anticipations. 1t was certainly curious


a fantastic, a savage scene-naked me
Year: 1874

lHE editor OF the Odell WeeEtu thus
pungently explains the situation:


Other towns of the size of Odell sup
port their paper, and the printer, to-
gether with the lawyer, doctor, merchant
and mechanic, can live. In the city of
Pontiac, about twice the size of Odell,
the editors of both the papers there wear
paper collars without turning them! yet
this is luxury beyond what we aspire
to, and as the publisher of a paper in
Odell we do not expect it.


Our readers need not be surprised if at
any moment they should see a flag of
truce hanging out of our Office window,
but in case they do they don't want to
mistake it for a flag of distress; we are
not distressed particle. We are just as
independent as three-year-old boiled
Shanghae rooster. The boarders can eat
'em or let i'm alone. It's all the same to
US, because if we can't edit paper in
Odell and make living at it we can lay
OFT and saw wood and laugh at the next
man who tries it; and we would do it if
1t extended our mouth another four
inches. One man wants a long-winded
article on politics in favor of
the next one wants the Democratic
~'o", t'Au IAoA VIC
are asked to support the Order of the
Grange, to the overthrow of towns and
empires. We are asked to say that one
man is selling goods twice as cheap as
his neighbor, then we have to go through
back alley for week in order to avoid
the other man, who was in reality giving
his goods away--that is, such as empty
soap-barrels and herring boxes. Wehear
q
pitch into him, but don't do it: he'd
leave US a wreck. One man wants US to
blow up the city fathers, and another
wants us to work out his poll-tax, or loan
him three dollars, and if we want a bar
some spot where mortals weep no more I?
where everybody advertises? If there is
we'll dig out. We are in very near the
same fix Methodist minister was in
Kansas. One morning he knelt in the
pulpit and prayed: 20 Lord, keep me
poor and humble" One of the deacons
in the church, who felt that Providence
was overtaxed, replied: 90 Lord, do
Thou keep him humble and We'll keep
him poor"


We have carried blackberries four
miles and sold them; we have walked
four miles to see circus; taught coun-
try school in York State one-half day;
served three weeks apprenticeship at
mixing mortar; carried pair of scissors
suspended with tape; made something
less than wagon-load Of Western Anti
Bilious Pills during term at drug clerk
ing-sold patent rights-herded sheep
wore out several hand d-saws-run a sta
tionary steam engine ne-superintended a
Sunday-school and chopped cordwood,
and even lay awake all night with a
squalling baby, but the present dilemma
publishing paper in Odell-is the
tlghtest fix we ever got into. Sometimes
we think we'll grin and bear it; then we
commence grinning, and the doctors ask
US if we are bilious; that shows the ex-
tent of their medical education. Then if
we get excited people say we are nervous,
etc, ETC., etc. But we are inclined to
take a different view of this matter, and
when we close this enterprise we'll an
nounce it with as much calmness as we
would the approach of town meeting,
and with as few regrets.
Year: 1874

When wheat is sprouted in the sheaf
the gluten and the sugar are the suffer
ers, while the starch is also changed into
glucose and diastase, rendering the flour
incapable of being raised into good light
bread-unless aided by alum-from the
absence of gluten.
Year: 1874

IT was considered deed of magnar-
unity for San Francisco street crowd to
allow Chinaman to depart with his life,
after having killed two immense dogs
that had been set upon him by some of
its members
Year: 1874

CHANCELLOR SAuIsBuRr has a large circle OF
friends in this county and throughout the entire
State, and they Will be grati6ed 60 learn that be
has now excellent health. He has largely extend
ed his library by supplying it with the best of the
works on chancery practice, and passes nearly all
of his time at home engaged in the study and the
preparation of the answers to the cases that re-
qaire his attention. The presumption now is
that the State win receive the benefit of master
mind and the great interests which come under
the notice of the Chancery and Orphans Courts
will be attended to with the greatest care and ex.
actness.
Year: 1874

The Entire White Ticket Elected by q
Handsome Majority-Cclcbrati0n Over
the Event.


VICKsBURG, August 4, 1874.
The white people Of vicEsburg have won q
glorious victory. They have elected the Mayor,
city officers and all he Aldermen with the largest
vote and during the most quiet election ever
known. Both whites and blacks polled


A FULL REGISTERED VOTE.


Some leading negroes OF the Third ward at
tempted to induce their followers to leave that
poll, but the excuse for such q course was studi-
ousy withheld by the whites. About lorty negroes
voted the white ticket and TOUR whites voted with
the negroes. The whites elect their entire ticket
by $50 majority the first political victory since
1851. The Union nag and every available piece OF
bunting was displayed in honor of the event.
Year: 1874

The Attorney General Decides that No
Change I'm the Compensa ton Can BE
Made-No Detention of the Mails as


Yet.


WASHINGTON, August 4, 1874.


The Attorney General to-day, at q conference
held with Postmaster General Marshall said the
law fixed the compensation so explicitly with refer
ence to the postal car service that opinion was
needed on the subject to interpret It's meaning.
Postmaster General Marshall this morning re-
ccived the following telegram from Mr.. HincKley.
dated yesterday


have your telegram. Our cars are plainly
marked with our name. VIII allow them to-day
to go to New York and Washington only on the
understanding that you will pay our price ior their
use on this road. II you refuse, do not load them,
as we intend to keep them up on our road when
returned to us rom New York and from Washing
ton.


TO this no reply was sent. The postal car north
this morning was one belonging to the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad with the running OF which
it would seem Mr.. Hincklev does not propose to in
terfere. The car which left New YORK this morn
ing Is one OF Hinckleys, and he will have an op-
portunity to carry out the threat, and stop it at
Baltimore this evening. Should he do so, and
compel the transfer of the mails. the act will DO
considered by the Post Ofice Department suffi-
centy overt to warrant 1t in making new arrange
ments


President Scott, OF the Baltimore and Potomac
Rail- DAD, telegraphs the Postmaster General that
the officers of that road have been instructed to
do whatever is needful to meet the wants OF the
government, but expresses the nope that the
department Will be able TO make satisfactory ar
rangements. so that mails may not be deyiated
nom the channel heretofore used


John King. Jr., President pro tenn. OF the Balt-
more and Ohio Railroad, teegraphs the Depart
ment that the postal cars of that road will be at
the disposal OF the Postmaster General for such
service as may be designated.


Meanwhile Mr. Hunt Assistant Superintendent
or the Railway Postal Service, telegraphs from
Philadelphia that everything is all right, and he
Will be home this afternoon.
Year: 1874


BY the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades 4 the new grass culver,
Asleep are the ranks Of the dead.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment day,


Under the laurel the Blue,


Under the willow the Gray.
These in the robing of glory
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood CORY,
In the dusk OF eternity meet


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment day,


Under the laurel the Blue,


Under the willow the Gray.
From the silence of sorrOWful hours,
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and the foe.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment day,
Under the roses the Blue,


Under the lilies the Gray.
So with an equal splendor
The morning sun rays fall,
With touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for AL.


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment day,
Broidered with gold the Blue,


aIellowed with gold the Gray.
So when the sumnner oalleth
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal mnrmer falleth
The cooling drip of rain


Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the Judgment day,
Wet with the rain the Blue,
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not upbraiding,
The generous deed was done,
In tbs storms of the years that are fading,
No OI aver battle was won.


pder the sod and the dew,


Haiting the Judgment day,
Under the blossoms the blue,


Under the garland the Gray.
No more shall the War-cry sever,
Or the winding river be red
They Danish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves of our dead.
Under the sod and the dew,


Waiting the judgment day,
Love and tears for the Blue,


Tears and love for the Gray,
Year: 1874

A TERRIBLE ACCIDENTAL LITTLE GIRL
FALLS FROM SEcoND-SToRY WINDOW AND IS
KILLEp.-Yestcrday morning about halt.past
O'Clock terrible accident occurred ut No.
1921 Franklin street, which resulted in the
death of an attractive little girl aged about
five years and two months, a daughter of
Mr.. d. Meoni. The little child was standing
in high baby-chair at one of the back bay
windows in a room of the second story OF
the house mentioned, laughing with some
one in the yard below. There was strip
nailed across the window, upon which she
was leaning, and while payfuIly jumping
about in the chair, which unfortunately was
too high, the little girl swung herself too
far out of the window, and losing her
balance, fell to the brick yard below, q
distance Of about thirty feet. Her head was
terribly mashed, and her side shockingly


bruised. When taken up she was perfectly
unconscious, but was breathing. She was
taken into the house, surgical aid summoned
at once, but it was of no avail, for in five
minutes life vas extinct. ....


This is one of the saddest accidents which
has occurred in this city for long time, and
the parents of the unfortunate little girl have
the sympathy of large number of friends.
Year: 1874

A RUNAWAY MyLE-About / o'clock yes
terday afternoon mule attached to- bag
gsge-wagon belonging to A. W. CARRIER &
Co., being frightened at the tean.roler
when near the corner of Seventh and Grace
streets, ran of. In his route along Grace
and down Eighth he scattered the baggage
around promiscuously, and on reaching the
corner of Eighth and Main he was stopped


by coming in contact with telegraph. pole.
Year: 1874

We would call especial attention to the
letter from Bro. Benjamin, on the inside Of
this issue in reference to the destitution
among the settlers in Cottonwood and 9TH
er counties. Here seems to be an opportu-
nifty of relieving the wants of suffering
brethren
Year: 1874

Tom Scott, the great Pennsylvania rail,
road king, says that all he asks of the gov
ernment now is 10 guarantee the payment
Of the interest OH the bonds Of the Texas
Pacific Railway Oh modesty, thy name is
not Tom Scott. What if Imerchant
should ask the government to guarantee
good interest on the capital he should put
into business. and all over the interest he
could make he would put into his own
pocket? What if farmer should 90 to
specializing in wheat and ask the govern
ment to guarantee him !: round interest on
the money he should risk in the business :?
What if any man but I. railroad king had
made this request, wouldn't he have been
hustled into an insane asylum just us quick
as the papers could be made: We shall
see shortly whether Thomas owns the
whole government or not
Year: 1874

On the inside Of this issue we print the
speech of D. W. Wellman, delivered at Zum-
brota on the 4th instant, on the subject of
a narrow gauge railway from Wabasha to
Faribault. Independent of its local in
terest. as connected with the road in oues
ton, the speech is very valuable for the
great amount Of information that it con-
tains with regard to narrow gauge roads in
general. 1t looks now as though the build
ing Of narrow gauge roads would, at no
very distant day, furnish solution to some
Of the difficulties of transportation. In a
week among the farmers, we have found
that they look upon the labor of marketing
their crops as the most difficult part of farm
work.


TO have market which can at least be
reached, and the farmer return to his home
the same day, making moderate days
drive, seems to be, at the present time, in
this State, the one thing desired by every
farmer. If this can be accomplished by
the building Of narrow gauge roads, great
good will have been accomplished, and the
farmers be saved many hardships and his
family much anxiety.
Year: 1874

LIEUTENANT RoXIFS NOMINATION.


The Senate Committee on the District have rec
ommended the confirmation Of Lieutenant Hoxie,
Of the engineer corps Of the army, to be o member
Of the Board Of Public Works, in place Of Adolph
Cluss removed.
Year: 1874

WE find the following in late eastern exchange:

 Commissioner Burdett of the General Land Office, in his annual report, recom- mends consolidation of the homestead and preemption law, and also that Con- gress give validity to homestead entries granted Indians who had abandoned tribal relations under a decision of Secretary Cox, but which was practically reversed by Secretary Delano. He also suggests amendments to the homestead laws so as to invest this class with fall right of par ticipation in their benefits upon their severance of the tribal relations as & step forward in their civilization.
Year: 1874

THE ALBUQUERoUE REVIEW of a late date puts in the annexed item in this very sensible way: Quite number of strangers were in town this week, mostly from Arizona. Like most unsuccessful persons they speak disparagingly of our sister Territory.
Year: 1874

P. LAZARUS has sent to San Francisco for cotton seed and will soon have a sup ply for this market. We hope many of our rancherS will each plant a few acres in cotton and make a thorough eXperi- ment regarding the practicability of mak- ing it's cultivation a source of profit.
Year: 1874

WANTED, THE CITIZEN of date NOvem- Der l, 1873. Any person who will leave said paper at THE CITIZEN office will place us under obligations. and enable another party to complete his file, which he is very deSirOuS of doing.
Year: 1874

WE enjoy the steubenvillo papers ex-
ceedingly these days. For instance, when
we get through reading one page in the
Herald 6 NetoI showing that prohibition
Is q fat failure and that take 1t on al
average the crusade movement has done
more harm than good, We can turn to the
next page Of tho same paper and read
just the reverse Of all that from the cru
sSders themselves, inasmuch as tho latter
have a column set of to their exclusive
use, in which they publish just what they
please, the same as If they were running
the paper. This Is delightful. II re.
minds US Of that scene in the play where
a courier struts across the stage with
bag slung across his shoulder. On being
asked what he has in the fore part Of the
bag he replies "orders Tor the army"
And what in the hind psrt' Counter.
orders" he replies, and moves rapidly on,
We admire the spirit and perseverance,
which the Sisters evince up at Steubeu-
vile. They are nor discouraged even at
the relapse Of the Gazette since the cleo
ton. They propose to fight it out on this
line if it takes ever SO long. We notice
that the ex,Secretary Of the League, like
our h,g, Is "s!ill there" She is "chsir-
man." so to speak, Of the editorial COM
mittec. We doubt not that she will yet
"prove herself" JOSH Of Arc OF Steuben.
vile despite the depraviLy Of the newsps.
pers Of that wicked place.
Year: 1874

Tomorrow will be an exciting day
among our ncighborS in Pennsylvania,
especially in tho District Immediately
adjoining W. and also among the people
Of several other States. The States vot-
ing tomorrow will elect 2l9 members Of
Congress, and the result therefore Is On
event Of great importance 10 the country
Of large. The following is Q list Of said
States together with their party repre-
sen!ation IN the present Congress.
Year: 1874

A CLERGYMAN's APPEAL.-A ministcrin
a Massachusetts, town near the New Hamp-
shire line, whose salary is somewhat in ar
rears, is reported to have astonished his
congregation on a recent Sunday by saying
to them from the pulpit, "Do not, my dear
hearers, delude yourselves with the idea
that am an angel, for am far from hav-
ing arrived at that blssful state. If were
an angel, would fly away to heaven and
get my dinner, and come back and preach
TO you again; but as am yet only of the
earth, earthly, must have something to eat,
and in order to do tiat must have some
money TO pay the bills"
Year: 1874

mother-I am afraid he could not have been
SO sorry as he should, for poor Bill Thur
lows paralytic shock.


Somehow the captain discovered Tins
instrumentality in saving his vessel, and
what the captain knew the ship-owners
must have found out, for one night when
he came home from his lobster buoys he
found bulky package sealed with red
wax awaiting him, in which was a state
ment Of deposit made that day at the
Seaton Bank by the owners of the steam
ship MERMAID" in favor Of Timothy
Weller.


Tim Is going 10 school now, and has been
offered the "keepership" of the CULTS
Head lighthouse, when he shall be few
years older.


And think he deserves his good fortune,
don't you T'-Portland Transcript.
Year: 1874

"Sandy Gulch! You as don't stop
here git breakfast" We had deter
mined to stop here, and had kept this
spot in view as an objective point dur
Ing several hundred miles Of stage
journeying. There is something weari-
some in six days continual stage rid
ing-it becomes slightly monotonous in
twenty-four hours; cramped up in q
corner, unable to lie down or get a
good stretch, is trial to the patience
of the ordinary American.


We cannot present an active-losking
picture of our fellow-travellers to your
mind-they were all too stiff and sore,
and we might say out Of humOr. The
man who could rest his head anywhere
and sleep was an object of envy and
distrust, and a general desire was felt
by each wakeful one to pinch the man
driving you mad with his delicious
snores. Twas at . time when our
nerves, detached and shaken up, and
our very brains sloshing around, we
heard the welcome sound, "Sandy
Gulch !"


Not very beautiful name, nor, as
We poked our heads out of the coach
window, did it look TO be particularly
charming. Two hundred or more min
ers' cabins that seemed to have start.
ed from the stage station and got lost
in all sorts OF places along the Galch
odd little boxes of houses perched up
on the very top of an immense rock, OF
nesting close to their messy sides,
down by the roaring mountain stream,
or far up on the mountain side, a. the
airy fancy Of the rough owner in fee
simple dictated.


The "main house" Of the Gulch was
at the ''Bar," and the bar was at the
main house.


The broad stretch Of golden sands
washed by the heavy rains from ths
mountains and deposited near th,
mouth of the Gulch, gave the place it.
name. The Overland" always stop
ped at the main house. we supposed
on account Of the bar. The coming
Of Skaggs, Jim Jones, and Boss Myer
was something to Sandy Gulch. The
were heavy operators, aud the owner
Of the ponderOus machines that wer
up the Gulch battering away at tn
silver ore. Even the bar-keeper shoo
hands with all and said. "What, is
SkaggsyT But we were unnoticed
We, who had come to edit the Miner
Friend, found none-no, not one to