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Year: 1877

NEW YoRK, Nov, 16.-Sitting Bull
has been talking with a correspondent
and tells the story OF the Custer mas
sacre. He says the fight was "hell q
thousand devils" The squaws were
like flying birds the bullets like hum
ming bees. We thought we were whip
ped. not at first but by and by after
wards No yours, no, no, your people
were killed. tell no lies about dead
men. These men who came with the
long hair were as good men as ever
fought. When they rode up their
horses were tired and they were tired.
When they got off their horses they
could not stand firmly on their feet.
They swayed to aud fro, so my young
men have told me, like cypress grass
in the great wind. Some OF them stag
gered under the weight of their guns,
but they began to fight at once; but by
this time our camps were aroused and
there were plenty OF warriors To meet
them. They fired with needle guns.
We repeated with magazine guns and
repeating rifles"


Sitting Bull illustrated by putting
his palms together with the rapidity OF
a fusillade.


"Our young men rained lead across
the ravine and drove the white braves
back, and then they rushed across
themselves and then they found that
they had got good deal to do. The
trouble was with the soldiers; they
were exhausted and their horses both
cred them so mach that they could not
take good aim. Some Of their horses
broke away from them, and left them
to stand dropping fire. All the men
fell back, fighting and dropping. They
could not fire fast enough, though
they kept in pretty good order. They
would fall back across n coulie, and
make fresh stand beyond, on higher
ground. There were great many
brave men in that fight, and from time
to time while it Vas going on they
were shot down like pigs; they could
not help themselves. One by one the
officers fell where the last fire took
the long hair stood like sheaf OF corn
with all the ears falling around him.


Q.-Not wounded? A.-No.


Q,-How many stood by him? A
Few.


Q.-Then did he fall? Ale killed
n man; when he fell he laughed.


Q.-You mean he cried out? A.-No
he laughed.


Ole had fred his last shot from
a carbine? A.-No.


Odd he stand up after no first
fell? Ale rose upon his hands and
tried another shot, but his pistol would
not go Off


Q.-Was any one else standing up
when he fell? A.-One man was kneel-
ing. that was all, but he died before
the long hair.


Sitting Bull says there were only
squaws, old men and little children in
front OF Reno, keeping him in his
strong position on the bluff and pre-
venting him giving aid 10 Custer.
Year: 1877

Whatever difference of opinion may
prevail in regard TO drinking stimu-
lants, there should be no difference OF
opinion among good men as 10 the
guilt OF drunkenness. SO much has
been said during the Temperance
movement upon the sources aud causes
Of intoxicstion, that the thing itself is
sometimes in danger Of escaping with
little condemnation. As inducing
reckless disregard Of human life, IL is a
fearful evil and a crime. IL is difficult
and embarrassing 10 secure the arrest
Of a half-drunken brute, though his
manner indicates n violent and vicious
tendency. Any fancied reflection by a
mere look is enough to make him
threatening and dangerous. One must
wait for some desperate assault before
there can be any sufficient ground for
caging the beast. Consequently We
see daily in stages, cars, and ferry
boats, men with passions inhamed by
drink, moving about like conquerors,
all quiet citizens exercising ingenuity
TO avoid a difficulty and an explosion.
II greater rigor in arresting and confn-
ing intoxicated persons did not lessen
the vice itself, ID would make the VIC
Tins more considernte aud lead them 10
indulge themselves where their offepce
would not be so conspicuous and dan.
gerous. Whatever may he the sin OF
the tempter, IL does not lessen in any
degree the vileness Of the drunkard.
He has dethroned is own reason, and
has not the instinct OF dumb brute "a
guide him in his conduct. He is moi
iit for the companionship OF sane men,
and ought to be put in some safe place
until be has recovered from the effects
Of the poison.
Year: 1877

In response TO resolution OF the
House, the Secretary transmitted to
that body a statement OF the amount
of coin and bullion in the Treasury on
the 3lst of October, 1877, as follows:
Year: 1877

ADVICE TO GIRLS.-ln marrying, make
your own match; do not marry any
man to get rid of him, or to oblige
him or to save him. The man who
would go to destruction without you,
will be quite as likely to go with you,
and perhaps drag you along. DO not
marry in haste, lest you repent at
leisure; do not marry for home or a
living, when, by taking care of your
health, you can be strong enough to
earn your own living Do not place
yourself habitually in the society OF
any suitor until you decide the ques-
ton of marriage; human wills are
weak, and people often become bewll-
dered, and do not know their error un-
til it is too late. Get away from their
influence, settle your head, and make
up your mind alone. Do not rush
thoughtlessIy, hastily into welded
life contrary to the counsel of your
friends. Love can wait, that which
cannot wait is something of differ
ent character.
Year: 1877

DIED FOR LovE.-Mr. King tells a
romantic little story in an article on
Spain in Lippincott: In Seville,
some years since, youth who had
been encouraged by one Of the fairest
of the Andalusian maidens, arrived
under her balcony and began, as he
had often hegun before, love ditty.
He looked up; no light burned in the
window; the street lamp only, flicker
ing family at the house corner, threw
a feeble CLEAN upon the image of the
Virgin in niche Of the wall. AS he
was wondering at his lack of success
the great oaken door of the mansion
creaked on its hinges and priest
came out. Go away, my son. he said
gently; the girl within is dead; she
died but a few moments ago. The
Andalusian broke his guitar, knelt a
moment before an image Of the Vir-
gin, then rushed away in the darkness,
and the next morning a boatman drew
his corpse out of the Guadalquiver."
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN, FAMILY LANTERN,


PEOPLES LANTERN.
Each style being the best of its class in the market
Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides, with diree-
tons for using, sent on application.


Any enterprising can make money with q
Magic Lantern.


Rf- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line until
they come to our stores in New York. where they
will find greater variety and more moderate prices,
and can select more at their leisure. But we have
concession TO sell some styles of goods in tn e
building of the Department of Public Comfort, and
those not coming to New York invited to cali on
our representation there.


R5- full stock of Views of the Exposition Build,
ing and their contents.


June 90 '76-m6.
Year: 1877

patented the insignificant punch which is now
Welding such an immense revenue to Virginia.
Doubtless he would feel an inestimable graft.
tude for the introduction of the machine into
other States, and the suggestion to correspond
with him will at once impress itself upon am
bilious legislators, who are seeking plan for
the amelioration of the burdens with which
their constituents are environed.-Columbia
Register.
Year: 1877

GIVING ADv1cE-Advice is 6rst-rate
thing when the person giving it knows what
he or she is talking about. But there are
volumes of advice and counsel which are ut
tery useless, because it is simply the result
of an uncomfortable desire to say some


thing-what, makes no difference. Advice,
to he worth anything, needs to be matured in
the mind before it is uttered. 1t is altogeth.
er BETTER however, as rule, to attend to
your business and let other peoples alone, un.
less you are invited to interfere. Public men
are especially the victims of the advice CIV
en-. All men and women in the world think
themselves called upon to give map who
happens to be in public life, a sort of advice.
seeming entirely to lose sight of the very i'm
portant fact that any who has mind enough
to attract any considerable share of public at
tcution, probably has enough to manage his
own affairs. Get your own affairs in good
shape and keep them in it, and do not waste
so much of life in looking after other people.
Year: 1877

HINTS FOR LovERs.-In the first place, it
is an imposition on any we'll bred girl to keep
her up later than halfpast 10 o'clock, when
you have the opportunity of seeing her often.
If you always leave her with the wish in
your heart that you had staid longer, you
gain so much. Never run the risk of weary.
ing her with your presence. Be just as ear.
nest and straightforward as in your honora.
bic dealing with men. Impress your friends
with the worthiness and seriousness of your
love, so that vulgar and senseless bantering
will appear to them as such. Love is relig-
ion-the supremest happiness; wear it man
fully and proudly, but holly. Woo wo.
man bravely. If there is anything humilia-
ting to woman, it is to have lover, whom
she wishes to honor, weak and vapid, ever
yielding and half afraid of her. She longs
to tell him to "act like manp' The man
who conceals or denies his love for fear of be-
ing laughed at, is coward. A love that has
no divinity in it is not love, but passion,
which, of itself, has nothing ennobling. That
was beautiful inscription on an engage.
ment ring: each for the other and both for
God"
Year: 1877

LOSING FRrENDs.-Never cast aside your
friends, if by any possibility you can retain
them. We are the weakest of spendthrifts
if we let one friend drop off through inatten-
ton, or let one push away another, or if we
hold aloof from one petty Jealousy or needless
diamond because it pricked your One
good friend is not to be weighed against the
Jewels of all the earth. If there is GOODNESS
or unkindness between US, let Us come face to
face and have it out. Quick, before the love
grows cold ! Life is too short to quarrel in
or to carry black thoughts of friends. It is
easy to lose friend, but new one will not
come for the calling, nor make up for the
old one when he comes. r = .,,s,.....
Year: 1877

GENERAL TooMBs.-General Toombs, oi
Georgia, in the course of conversation with
reporter of the New York Sun, said it was
his opinion that the electoral commission was
made up in New York, and that the inspira'
ton which decided Congress to 60 into an
arbitration of the Presidential contest, came
from Gramercy Park.


"When the House of Representatives had
an undisputed majority of seventy members,
and when the country we'll knew that Tilden
had been elected President by large major.
ity of the popular and electoral vote, and
when the country was so anxious for change
of administration-and the power lay with
the Democracy to execute the peoples will as
expressed at the ballot box in efecting the
change-I can but believe that Mr.. Tilden
not only favored the settlement Of the ques'
ton at stake by commission, but that he
preferred its settlement that way because of
the great financial interests of the country
which would have been seriously disturbed in
the event of any trouble. Then Grant was
in measure responsible for the result He
quartered troops around Washington-and
what for? To intimidate Congress? No
doubt. Tilden, believe, would rather have
seen Hayes inaugurated than to have the
credit and the business interests of the coun-
Try injured by any public revolt"


Gen. Toonbs thought there was great
deal of mystery about the way the electoral
commission managed the Presidential lottery.
Bradley had not sufficiently explained his
connection with the commission, and Judge
Field might tell more about the business if
he would. Hayes has queer set of Cabi-
net officers around him." said Gen. Toombs.
"They all seem to be men who have no fol-
lowing to speak Of, and little influence. And
Key-I often wonder where Hayes picked
him up. He is by no means representative
of the Tennessee Democracy. Nor has he
much ability" ........
Year: 1877

BLUNT BUT TRUE-There is said to be q
young man in the Missouri penitentiary whose
parents, at their death. left him fortune Of
$4,000. There Is where his parents made
fatal mistake. Ifthey had taken the precau.
tion to invest that sum in small dog and
shot him, and then had simply left the young
man jack plane or wood saw, with printed
instructions how to use it, the chances are
that, instead of being in the penitentiary, he
would today have been gradually but surely


working his way up to handsome competency
and an honorable old age. But ever since the
days of Adam snd Eve, parents have made it
point to toll and struggle all their lives in
order to realize sufficient sum of money to
purchase, when they are dead and gone, their
sons each a first class through ticket to the
devil, and it is not much to be wondered at
that 40 many of their sons, reared in vice and
ideneas, as too many of them often are, have
no higher ambition than to invest their inher-
itance in just that sort Of transportation. ,.
Year: 1877

THE meeting of the Social Science Associ-
alton at Saratoga this year is to be prolific in
schemes for more perfect government and
better living. If the theories of the innumer-
able gentlemen who are to read papers on
that occasion could all be carried out, this
country would become veritable Utopia and
we should have governmental machine that
would put to shame the most cherished theo-
ries OF the civil service reformers. The ses-
sions Of these social. regenerators will cover
four days, and in that time it is proposed to
elaborately discuss, and if possible, settle the
industrial and social aspects of the Southern
question, changes in populati on, municipal
government, vice and pauperism, ventilation
and warming of school and other buildings,
various educational problems, insanity, the
silver question and resumption, taxation,
banking, hygiene, and numerous other sub
jects recognized as belonging under the head
of ''Social Science" A vast amount of brain
power must needs be exercised in considera-
ton Of all these topics, and it is perhaps for
tunate that the Association meets at Sarato-
ga, in order that it may avail itself of the
daily recuperative influence of the waters and
the charming drives in that locality.
Year: 1877

THE removal of the Hon. Geo. F. Talbot
from the position of solicitor of the Treasury
reflects no discredt upon the character of our
distinguished townsman. The reasons for the
removal,so far as they have been given to the
public, are very vague, but the gist of the
whole affair seems to be that the President
and Secretary Sherman wanted the place for
another man. Just how this illustrates the
civil service reform on which the administra-
tion prides itself, it is difficult to see. Ger
tainly no complaint has been made but that
Mr.. Talbot faithfully and capably discharged
the duties of the office.
Year: 1877

IF Gen. Grant is not altogether qualified to
be Doctor of Civil Law, the bestowment of
the degree is nevertheless a very civil thing
on the part of Oxford. And after all a ruler
who so well administered the civil law for
eight years, is not without title to the dis
tinntinn
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

RETURNS from the election in Georgia as
to the holding of Constitutional Conven-
tion come in slowly, but enough are received
to determine its success. Georgia has
habit of going overwhelmingly Democratic
whenever it takes the notion, and as there are
some features in the present Constitution
notably the late war as rebellion, and that
which recognizes allegiance to the National
Government as paramount to fealty to the
state-which do not sit we'll upon the aver
age ex-rebel and Democratic stomach, the
opportunity to revise and amend the obnox-
ious instrument 10 make it accord with secesh
notions and State Rights doctrines was not
permitted to slip. The convention will meet
July 18th, when the work of tearing down
the old and buildn ng up the new upon the
views of the Southern Democracy will begin.
Year: 1877

II seems to be about as dangerous just now
to be Republican in France as in Mississippi.
The President of the Municipal Council of
Paris got fifteen months and heavy fine
for presuming TO say what was not agreeable
to MacMahon.
Year: 1877

THE question is asked, says the Cincinnati
Commercial whether Samuel j. Tilden is to
succeed Mr.. Conklng in the United States
Senate" Well, it would strike the average
observer of New York politics that Mr.. Til
den will not succeed anybody, and
least of all the Hon. Roscoe Conkling. Touch
ing this matter the Buffalo Commercial says:
"The people of New York will think twice
before they replace man possessing the
magnificent abilities and actuated by the
broad craftsmanship of Roscoe Conkling for
man who cannot lay claim to any higher
qualifications than those OF sharp lawyer
and shrewd politician. These latter are
not the characteristics for a Senator from
the Empire State of the Union"
Year: 1877

There is noqusstion bat that tbeDsmo-
cratic victory in November last, has been
lost in the hands Of Congress. The case
has been badly managed. Had lawyer
gone into court with case prepared and
his b-ief was defective he might have had
the privilege Of correcting it. But this
the law was drawn for the purpose Of
getting the facts and the evidence before
the commission, and the fatal defect
seems TO have been in not putting dovnin
the Law the evidence which ii was neces-
sary for the commission TO examine and
pass upon before decision; and in ex-
press terms making it imperitire on the
commission to examine and 70 decide as
70 whether their was fraud and to decide
upon tbs very truth and night, Justice
and equity Of the case. This was the


more necessary since the commission
was composed Of a majority of RepubH-
cans
Year: 1877

1t was Edmunds of Vermont who. hot
longer ago than last December ofr.red
"a resolution in the Senate providing for
An investigation OF the November election
N South Carolina. His sudden percen-
non OF the beauties of State rights dates
from the time that he became convinced
mat The only way to put Hayes in tho
"hite House was to shut the door to any
investigation to ascertain the honest and
true result Of the election.
Year: 1877

Il is rather odd to find bin before the
Legislature to alter the charter of the
School Board, of this city and cut down
the number Of its representative. The
people have notpetitioned for the passage
Of this bill, and it would seem to be time
enough to legislate the peoples right to
representation away whei they petition
for such change.
Year: 1877

The Republicans say that the democrats
have allowed 70 go unchallenged the case
Where they had the strongest point that
could be made. When the State of Main.
was reached in the joint convention there
seemed to be little anxiety displayed on
me republican side, as the President of
the Senate paused for an instant after
asking whether there were any objections
70 the vote of the State Of Maine. After
The vote OF Maine was counted the re-
publicans said that one of the electors, by
name Merrill, was a postmaster at the
time Of the election.
Year: 1877

on the vote in the House Tuesday in
the matter of the Louisiana decision of
electoral commission, it should be noted
mat seven members of the Massachusetts,
delegation out of eleven recorded their
solemn conviction that Hayes had no
claim TO the votes of Louisiana.
Year: 1877

SOME ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.


The road has been constructed from the
Bedford station on the Concord line of rail
road TO the Lowell railroad at North Billerica,
IA distance of eight and n half mil,s. Two
thirds Of this distance is through country of
rocky lodges, yet the number of rock cuts is
very few, and only one formidable one has
been encountered. The scenery along the
route is very fine. The road passes near the
shores Of Sylvan lake, one of the most ro-
mantle and beautiful sheets of water in the
State At the Billerca station, near the COM
mCn, the IL uuntains Of New Hampshire are
visible. From Bedford to the Summit in
Billerica the grade is easy, reaching in the
steepest place so feet to the mile. The de
scent from the Summit TO North Billerica. q
miles distant, is easily made by grade of 10
feet to the mile, until reaching the plain be-
low. The engines will ascend much sleeper
grades than any on this road, as was clearly
shown on the narrow gauge railroad at the
centennial grounds Gt Philadelphia. That
road is three miles long, has several sharp
curves, and in some places has a grade of two
hundred and fifty feet to the mile, grade
which no engine on standard gauge can
overcome, As they are now constructed, The
cars on the Billerica a Bedford road are six
feet wide The diameter of the car wheels is
Is inches the journals are ! inches long and
q inches in dameter-thc same sizes as for
mcrly used on the broad gauges These sizes
for such lightweight rolling stock give much
greater strength and safety. Every car pas
senger, freight and excursion, is fitted with
the Miller platform and air-brake Besides
all this all the cars are provided with "a safety
chain, so that in case the connecting hooks on
the platform should by any means become I'M
hitched the chain would not allow the car
thus disconnected to become separated from
the train. As soon as the construction trains
can put the road in its best condition, it is in
tended to have a formal opening of the Bill
erica & Bedford railroad, when the pub
lie and the members of the press will have n
favorable opportunity to inspect and enjoy
the novelty of this diminutive but well pro-
portioned road and equipment. d. M.
Year: 1877

PBoTEcTIoN FROM THIEVES. The interest
ing statement has recently been made, ON
good authority, that nine-tenths of the losses
by bank robberies fall upon special dopositors.
In referring to this fact, and to several recent
cases of such losses, the Boston Advertiser of
the 27th inst says;


Notwithstanding these repeated warnings
there is hardly a bank in New England whose
vaults are not numbered with trunks and par
GELS containing in some cases the entire wealth
of their owners. There was a reason for this
in former years when bank vaults furnished
the only protection, however imperfect, from
fire and thieves but now that in every large
city there are institutions especially devoted
to the safe keeping of valuables, there is no
good excuse for the heedlessness or the par
simony which prevents so many from avail
ing themselves of their protection. There
are three such institutions, as our readers
know, in Boston. 1t is, perhaps not so gen.
orally known that the vaults of the Boston
Safe Deposit and Trust Company are more
extensive and more massive than those of any
other institution in the country. Here for ten
dollars year or upwards, according to the
room required, a safe can be hired where a
mans property will be absolutely secure"
Year: 1877

The PRESIDENT UPoN HIS POLICY. In
his speech at Cincinnati, the President in re-
forring to his course in the Southern States
said it was taken, not because it could not be
helped, but because it was wise and right
This is the true ground. The representation
of such action as an experiment in any other
sense than all human action is an experiment
is foolish. Is it supposed that, after some
months have passed, an investigation will be
undertaken TO ascertain whether il works
according to some unknown standard-and if
found to be working enthusiastically, that the
troops will be restored to the Columbia and
New Orleans State-houses, and Messrs. Cham
berlain and Packard replaced in their positions
of March ? Or is it in this sense an expert
ment, that if next year the condition of the
two States is not what somebody may think it
ought to be, the Republican conventions will
denounce the President as Mr.. Chamberlain
denounced him Mt Woodstock? The course
pursued in Louisiana and South Carolina was
an experiment as all measures of government
are experiments, but in no other sense. The
national authority can intervene in these
States only upon the conditions which would
authorize intervention in New York or Hi
nois,-HvpG's Weekly.