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i 3 i ' ' i i THE HERALD. I ' ' ' ' THE HERALD," ' ' '""- - Bf.;f pun r-- T. -m rr' ; i . . . t r 1-- .. 7T t " PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O A N tT i ! kt PL - v " "9 -- 1 Pi ; 4 K:i i' T'.i r":. ATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA r- - ? v 1 qr...lt o t6 a oi t2 iV) .ruMiit 2 si s. IN). 200. 2T5, 3 !iS inw, ir.iH 3 9H . 2(X 2 7M 4 Oil", 4 7.'. R.'i.; IJlut OFFICE: col.. 6()0: 0 10(l' 12(H) 'JO W) ZH ( i 0 On Vine St., One Block North of Main, 4 ol.. 8 00 12 0O 15 00 JH(rt' if. 00. Jo 00 1,0 10 1 col . .. 15 001 1K00 21 00! VS( 40 00 WW' ! i( Corner of Fifth Street. tSAU Advertising bills clno gunrtrrly. LAHWrsT CIRCULATION OP ANY JN0. A. MACMURPHY, Editor.) " PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS." (TERMS: $2.00 a Year. rPTr:iuslent aUvertlrH'n-.rHt- u must l rail 'AFEB1. CAHti COl'NTY. for I11 aiHiJu-o- . Term, in Advance: One efipv, one year .$2.00 AUGUST 9, 1877. J NUMBER 20. Extra pipe df the JIk.kamj f..r snip V THURSDAY, One copy, six months . l.oo VOLUME XIII. PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, Yuunc ro.-tit;ic-e i'w ili-it- .- mul O. 1'. Jolm-son.coru- cr Oue copy, three months . .60 of Jlu.;u hiiU niii Si it National Bank OF PLATTSMOCTH. NEBRASKA, "SUCCESSOR TO TOOTLE, IIAXXA &. CjLABK. Tonx Fitzgerald... ..President. K. o. Dovkt Vice President. A. W. Cashier. JO.NH O'KOCBKK ...Assistant Caahjer. This Bank is now open for business at their new room, corner Mum and Sixth streets, and 14 r re pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. ' Slocks, BondsGold, Cvmmirl and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Dvjivsits Rewired and Interest Allow- ed on Tim Certificates. ' DRAFTS iDrwjsr, AvaiUMn hi any part of the United Htates and lu all the Prin-ip;t- l Towns and Cities of Kurope. ACCTsToR TIID CELEBPvATED Ikman Line and Allan Line OF KTKAMERH. Person wishing to briug out their friends from Europe can PURCHASE TICKETS FROM US Throneh to Plattimonth. cn CO CD C O x 02 JO 55 a? W o g o IS) 2 in S o ; o to 2 o S CM x C O -- a o o cd o x s O Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, JCain Street, of2osite Saunders House. HAIR-CUTTIN- G, Shaving and Sliatnpooin?. ICSPECIAI. ATTENTION' til VEN TO t'titlisi? Children's and ladies' Ualr. C?ALL AND SEE UOONE, GENTS, And jiet a boor.e in :i CLT3AJJ SHAVE. wTlliam herold Keeia tine of the Largest Stocks OF GROCERIES, IN TOWN. 4y? rRoruirrrou tr PALACE BILLIARD HALL. (Main St., east of First -- Vat. Bank.) rL.lTTSMOl!TII, ... cn MY BAR IS UIri.IKD WITH TIIK BEST WINES, LIQUORS, BEER. ETC., ETC, yt F OUX I U Y aND Machine Shops JOHN" mTTSXOl'TH, XEB., Rejxiirer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw ami Grist MUU i.S AM WTKA3I ' ITT Vru!it Iron Pipe. Fon-- e and Lift riiie.Srfam (JaiiTM, Safety -- Valve Oovernnrs.and ail kin lsi.f Arass Kiiiriiie Finings, l.rpuiivd on sliort t:oliie. FARM MACHINEKTl llopaired on Short Notice. Mil YO UNG!" 0 13 f'flu al'cay be found at Haifa' Old Stand, ready to sell the lest Meats. YOUNG buy frech fat cattle, sheep, hos &e. direct from the fanners every day, and his meats are iilways good. OAME, FISH, AXD FOWL, IX SEASOX Syl. SAGE BROTHERS, Dealers In sir wis ETC., ETC., ETC. One Door East of the Post-Offle- e, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. ... : O : Proetfcal Workers In SHEET IRON, ZISC, TJX, BRA-ZIER- Y, tt--c dc Large assortment of Hard ana Soft COAL STOYEc Wood and Coal Steves for HEATING OR COOKING, Always on Hand. Every Yariety of Tin, Sheet Iron, and Zinc Work, kept iu Stock. - - MAKING AND REPAIRING, Dene on Short Notice. ZxTJZVEUYTIlIXa WAIUiASTED! PXXICKS IOW DOU'X. 'I,; SAGE BROS. i, n NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FANCY CARDS all styles with name. 10 cr. 25 post paid. J.B.HuBted. Naswau.Kens Uo.N.Y. itU01 Rom trml Kt, Snutpia tat Ftfidast Sreps, Beat 7ottpid tot j tit zt this TiVtt far 83 tycstf. Tarn 6tf tor rency or Bmpw. TRIFLlNii W ITH A COLD IS ALWAYS DANGEkOUS. . USE W ELLs' CARBOLIC TABLETS, a sure remedy for C0UO1IS, and all diseases of the THROAT, LUXQS, CHEST AND MU- COUS MEMBRAXE. PUT UP ONLY IN BU'E BOXES. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. C. N. CRITTENTOy.7SUthAyenue,N. Y. AGREATOFFER!!1 Hnrd Times d.igpoe of KK 11..XH Jk 01t(jiAXM,new and eeonU-lian- t of first clan makers tneladins U'ATEUS' at lowrrprires for rash or lustallments or to let until paid for than ever before of- fered. IV AT Kit Si' ;itAl HUUAItK and I'I'KKi I1T 1'IA.XOS A 1 OH-AX- S II(LI I1. TIIKIIt SEW HOI VF..WHAM) HO LT OO I It) are the 1UT MAbE. 7 Ottave lianes150. 71-- . do tflttO not used a year. "Htop Orgrans HJU 4 fitoys SH. 7 Mtops H MtonsS73. 10MtopsHM. lMtopsSlOO ran,not used a year, in perfect order ana warrantea. LOi'.t li ana 'i u ku-IAUK- T WAXTKI). lilnstraied Catalogues Mailed. A liberal discount to teach- - ers.mmister, clmrches. &c. Sheet mus!e at half price. HORACE WATERS & SONS, Manufac- turers and dealers, 40 East 14th St., Union Square ew xorK. Jit SCIIENCK'S SEA WEED TONIC. Durine the summer months, the lethannr pro ducedbythe heat takes away the desire for wholesome food, and fieauent oersDlratlons re duce bodily energy. In order to keep a natural healthful activity of the system wemuet tesort to artificial means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is very effectual. A few doses will create an appetite and give fresh vigor t.o tne enervated uouy. FOR DYSPEPSIA IT IS INT ALU ABLE. Many eminent physicians have doubted wheth- er dyspepsia eim be permanently cured by the drugs which are generally empioved for that purpose. The SE- - WEED TONIC iu its nature is totally different from nueh drugs. It contains no co'ros've minerals ir acids ; 111 fact it assists regular operations of nature, aud supplier her ueucieucies. l.n DR. JAS. CHARLES. OFFICES : No.232 and 236, Farnham St., - - Omaha, Xeb. ii- - I'reiscrvntlon of the Xatural Teeth Made a Kpeel alty. Oldest practicinj Dentist in the City. J. C CHATflBERS, Manufacturer of and Dealer in SADfiLES. COLLARS, HALTERS, WHIPZ, ETC., ETC ETC. REPAIRING Done withNeatne?s Dispatch. The only phice In town where "Turley's pat- ent bell adjustable hor .e collars are sold." 401116 HO FOR THE Mills ! IX PLATTSMOUTH. WHOLESALE I.iqi'OH . AI tKiAB HTORE O- F- t Mc'SUIKE'S old stand still kept open by the above. CIUARS. TOBACCOS, dC, WHOLE- SALE & RETAIL. TT. KKEP Good Goods, Buy Largely Aud invite trade to call and examine, lit Good fresh milk DELIVERED DAILY ! AT EVERYBODY'S HUME IX PLATTSMOUTH IF THKV WAST IT, BY J. F. BE.tl'JUEISTCR. SEND IX YOUE ORDERS AND I WILL TRV AND OIVK YOTJ 40yl aud serve you regularly. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines, WALL, JP&PEM. All Paper Trimmed Free of Charge. ALSO DEALER IN Stationery, Magazines, AND Latest Publications. rrcserlptloas Carefully Compounded by en Experienced Druggist. KEMEMBEIt THE FLACE. COR. FIFTH d- - MAIN SI RESTS rr.ATTSMorm. kec. PROFESSIONAL CARDS B. B. WIXUIIASI, ATTORNEY and Counselor at Law. Real esi ate bought and sold. Taxes paid : and spe cial attention snven to collations, omce over Dr. Chapman's Drug Store, Plattsmouth. 37yl 8AH 11 CIIAI'JIAX. ATTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor In Chan cery. Office In Fitzgerald's Block, Plattsmouth "veurasKa. I. II. WHEELER A CO. LAW OFFICE. Real Estate. Fire and Life In surance Azents. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Col lectors, tax -- payer. Have a complete abstract of titles. Buy and sell real eetate, negotiate loans, etc. iyi EHVAIt I. STOSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. office with D. II. II Wheeler & Co., Plattsmouth. Neb. 15yl ' B K LIVIXtiSTOX, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, tenders his pro fessional services to the citizens 01 tjass county. Kesiuence soutueast corner sixtn ami uaa sw. Office on Main street, two doors west of Sixth Plattsmouth. Nebraska. EO. H. HMITII. ATTORNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Bro ker. Special attention given to Collections ana ail matters anecting tne tiue to reat estate, Office on 2d floor, over Post Office. Plattsmouth Nebraska. 40 1. JOHX W IIAIXE8 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, an collector of debts, collections made from one dollar to one thousand dollars. Mortgages. Deeds, and oth- er Instruments dravn. and all county business usually transacted before a Justice of the Peace, Best 01 reterence given 11 requirea. Office on Malu street. West of Court House. 40-- yl JOHN W. HAINES. I) It. a. 31. WATF.KMAY, Physio Medical Practitioner. 1Ailsrflle, Cats Co., Ntb. iST" Always at the office on Saturdays. 40yl PLATTSMOUTH MILLS. PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. C. HEISEL, Proprietor. Flour, Corn Moal, & Feed Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices. The highest prices paid for Wheat nr.d Corn. Particular attention given custom work. SAUNDERS HOUSE. J. S. GREGORY, - - - Proprietor. Location Central. Good Sample Room.. Every attention paid to guests. 43in3 rLATTSMOCTH, --- --- NEB. COMMERCIAL HOTEL, LINCOLN. NEB, J.J.IMHOFF, - - - Proprietor. The best known and most popular Landlord In the State. Always stop at the Commercial. 'GRAND CENTRAL' HOTEL, Largest and finest Hotel be- tween Chicago and San Francisco. GEO. THRALL, - - Prop. OMAHA. NEB. O. K. SALOON. I keep constantly on hand Best's Milwaukee Beer. which can be had at no other PLACE IN THE CITY. Also the best of WIXKS, LIQUORS, AXD CIGARS. 33uiS Id. Ilosenbanm. LENII OFF cD BONNS, Morning Dew Saloon ! One door east of the Saunders House. We keep the best of Beer, Wines, Liquors & Cigars. 33ii)9 Constantly on Hand. A Ureat Ueilartioa in I'rices or GUNS, REVOLVERS, &c. Prices reduced from 20 to 30 ner cent. Write for Illustrated Catalogue, with reduced prices for 1877. Address. GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS, 91 Smithfield St.. Pittsburgh. Pa. I8yl H. A. WATERMAN & SON, Wholesale and Eetall Dealers in Pine Lumber. SHIFGLBS, Sash, Doors, Blinds, ETC.. ETC., ETC. - Ma., street. Corner of Fifth, PLATTSMOUTH, - - - - NEB. Still Better Rates for Lumber. STR EIGHT & MILIEU, Harness Manufacturers, 3ADDLES BRIDLES, COLLARS. and all kinds of harness stock, constantly on hand. Fruit Confectionery, AND Grocery Store NUTS, CANDIES. TEAS i, liS, To:to.'ors. r ... Jei:eui!'nT ' .! t ;'; : e. i'.. ; ; '.- - j l-- y STIIKIU'IV r-- UTl.LKJl. - . - IV L --- ! C i BEST FArlMTNG LANDS IN NEBRASKA. FOR SALE BY 33. ISO. El. ES.. IV XEBKA8KV. Great Advantages to Buyers IN 1877. Ten Years Credit at 6 per cent Interest. Six Years Credit at C per cent Interest, and 20 per cent Discount. Otlier Li be ml nineoont For Cash, Uebatet. on Karew and Frefsht. and Premlnmi tor Improve meats. Pamphlet and .Van, containing full partlo-ular- s. vill be maileil free to udt part of the world on application to LAND riOMJUSSIOXER. B. & M. R. R. Oil Li'colk, Nebraska Advice to Young Ladies. BT CLARA HASKELL. Chewing on the corners. Smoking In the street. Spitting on the pavements To stick on iteople's feet. They will tmoke In the kitchen. But that Is not enough, They will go Into the parlor. And there they'll sit and puff. And now all nice young ladies. When gents come in to woo. You pop the question flint. Sir do you smoke or chew. Mark well each word and look, And If they don't say no, Just cross him off your book And tell him why you do. Some gents carry suices Some cinnamon, some cloves. Make good use of your eyes, And good use of your nose. For when the wedding Is oe'r, Perfumes they'll throw away, They will spit upon the floor, They will smoke and chew all day. Now ladles, when you marry. Tobacco worms dou't take. Think not, that Dick, or Harry, Will quit it for your sake. Though you know him very well. And you think hiin very dear, Just wait till be resists. Temptation for cn year. Multum in TarTO. Sound policy is never at varience with substantial justice. "No shooten aloud here" is the warn- ing which confronts the sj ortsman at the gate of a suburban park. To mingle the useful with the beau- tiful is the highest style of art. The one adds grace the other value. More epitaphs are witten to show the wit or genius of the living than to perpetuate the virtues of the dead. Very few in the world have their passions adequately occupied; every- body has it in them to be better than they are. Many who tell us how much thev despise . itches and preferment, mean undoubtedly the riches and preferment of other men. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Friendship is the cordial of life, and the lentive of our sorrows, and the multiplier of our joys; the source equally of animation and of repose. If men would hate themselves as they do their netehb rs. it would be a good steD toward loving their neigbors u they do themselves. There are moments when the two worlds, the earthly ai.d spiritual, sweep by near each other, and when earthly- - day and heavenly night touch each oth- er in twilight. To be in company with those we love, satisfies us; it does not signify whether we speak to them or not, whether we think on them or indiffer ent things; to be near them is all. Wise Been mingle mirth with their cares, as a help to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind, is to cure mel- ancholy with madness. It is the most momenteous question a woman is ever called on to decide, whether the faults of the man she lov es will d-a- g her down, or whether she is competent to be hia earthly redeem er. Revenge is a momentary triumph of which the satisfaction dies at once, and is succeeded by remorse; whereas forgiveness, which if the noblest of all revenge, entails a perpetual pleasure. It will afford sweeter happiness in the hour of death to have wiped one tear from the cheek of sorrow, than to lave ruled an empire, to have con- - quored millions, or to have enslaved the world. It is not insolated great deeds which. do most to form a character, but small conternimous acts, touching and blend- ing into one another. The greenness of a field comes not from trees, but blabes of grass. No strttue that the rich man places ostentatiously in his windows is to be compared to the little expectant face pressing against the window-pan- e, watching for his father, when his day's occupation is d'nf. Oultiv.'!'- - rvm.Mdf rition for the feel- - incs : utiH i ..;', n you would nev- er hav y ur own injured. Those who complain most f jit are the ones ii alms'' tin-ins- ves and others the T5: '';. i alnav.5 something great L:: tlK-i- t m in whom the world exclaims, at whom every one throws a stone, and on whose character all at- tempt to fix a thousand crimes, with- out being able to prove one. Have the courage to give, occasionally that which 3?ou can ill afford to spare; giving what you do not want, nor val- ue, neither brings nor deserves thanks In return; who is grateful for a drink of water from another's overflowing well, however delicious the draught? If some are refined, like gold in the furnace of affliction, there are many more that like chaff, are consumed in it. Sorrow, when it is excessive, takes away fervor from plenty, vigor from action health from the reason, and re- pose from the concience. A Temperance Lectnrc. A lecture on temperance is quite apropos just now. Several days after New Year's almost any body is willing to hear something on this very inter- esting subject. "When the derll waa sick, the deril a saint would be." Now that we have all had our little headaches, and have gone the rounds of soda cocktails, seltzer-wafce- r, red pepper, and a general inclination to kick every dog or any other man that came in our way, let us go over the subject calmly. v I - AN AWFUL EXAMPLE. The general rule is that the man who talks on the subject of wlmkey, should, himself, have been an old stag er in the business. He should be able to say things that will thrill the mar- rows of weighty and pious old women and awaken the sympathies of the young ones. For my part, I have a very thorough contempt for anything in pantaloons and whiskers who will get up in public and say: "My friends I am an awful example of the effects of Intemperance. On such a night I lay in the gutter. On such a night, when it was blowing, snowing, storming, and freezing I kick ed my wife out of doors, and slung the wailing baby bv the heels out into a snowdrift. Or "On such a time, I was in jail for ar son. Once I went about in rags, steal ing dinners from blind dogs in order to pawn them for whiskey." "Vfu- - T lmvo an nnininn tliMf. tlip man who will geUup before an audi ence and boldly avow that he was a dirty dog on any former occasion, is an equally dirty dog at the moment he makes the avowal." I am free to confess that in assum- ing the role of a temperance lecturer, I nave no nastmess to present. I never pounded that amiable but over con fiding woman, who was swindled into taking me for better or worse, I never sat down on a pair of twins and smoth- ered them. I never committed mur- der, or rape, or arson or "whaied" my grandfather, or "squared off" before the "governor" for the purpose of clos- ing up his toplights. In view of all these I do not feel as if I were a tem- perance lecturer of the popular sort, of the regular persuation. Nevertheless, let us talk together over this matter. II. SWEAiriXQ OFF. To me the most interesting phase of the temperance question is that relat- ing to quitting, or as we lively old and young bucks are in the habit of term- ing it, "swearing off.', This featuro is of its self, sufficiently fruitful to f ur-- ni sh matter for half a dozen lectures. From Noah, who became indecently intoxicated to D.ivid, who also ot on a regular "tear", and made an unsemly exhibition of himself, and from David all the way down to Rip Van Winkle, Grant and the undersigned, swearing off has been a common development of their drunks. The man who gets drunk always swears off again on the next day and the next. Like the veteran Rip he is generally in a position in which this time won't count. Some of the boys come round and capture him; oi'his nerves demand screwing up, or he will "have it out to-da-y and quit w. Among ws joily knights of the bowl, the reform which begins is fixed for a day that comes. Ah! these tomorrows how laden with excellent resolutions; and how invariably they are caught in bogs nul storms, and never reach the wished for shores! Let him who has aught that is precious not risk it upon that treacherous craft to-mo- r- row.. l he bottom or times ocean is covered with the wrecks of these fatal vessels, whose safe arrival no shores have ever witnessed. And now my fellow-bumme- rs let us see how the thing works. . III. nOW IT IS DONE. You drop into a saloon to play a game of billiards; you meet a friend from the country ; you go in somewhere to have a friendly chat with, a neigh bor, and and you fall in with Mousi- - eur Alcohol. Ihere is nothing pre-a- r- rangedabout the meeting. You find your self in company with him, while you no more expected it than you did to meet your great-grandfathe- r'a maternal grandmother. Monsieur and yourself spend the evening together. It's jolly. Your imagination springs into life, and the whole world becomes roseate. Rich, happy, inspired, with every nerve thrilling with happiness. And hours pnss, and you reel away to bed. A few hours, not of sleep but of stu- por, and you awake mouth parched, head swollen, appetite gone, and the d to pay generally. Hat slouched over your eyes, curses lolling from your tongue, you go down town. You drop into a saloon. There is Monsieur Al-choh- ol. "See here, old fellow, you served me a cursed mean trick, last night!" you say. "No, did I ? I'm sorry. Take a hair of the dog that bit you." "Nc, thank you, I am done with you. I won't associate with anybody that serves me as you have. Good-bye- ." And Monsieur, without a word de parts. He is gone. A day, a week, two weeks pass, and you do not see him. You congratulate yourself on. your resolution, and flatter yourself that you will never see him again. But Monsieur A. is cunning. It is just four weeks from the day you "shook" him. You drop in somewhere and, before "you know how it came about, or even suspect his presence, you find yourself cheek-by-jo- wl with your old friend. And he isn't a bad fellow after all He's been gone a whole month. You have no habit formed for his society. You can "shake" him when you please that's clear. You will have a little set-dow- n with him. He's a bully boy! How his presence warm3 the dry cook ies of your heart! More inspiration, more dreads and then to bed drunl er than before. And, now, you whelp, I am done with you, surel" you say from your disgust and pain, on the next morning. In just two weeks he has captured you again. And then he captures you again. And then it is twice a week, and then God only knows what ! It is a critical moment. It is your very last chance for safety. No "Good-by- e, old iellow," will send him off now. He has come to stay. There is just one single chance remaining. It is not a good-natur- ed adieu. It is not a feble effort ; it is not reasoning, persuasion, or ap- peal. It is sheer brute force. You concentrate all your strength, you gath- er every energy ; and then you clutch Monsieur Alcohol by the throat: "Deceiver! False friend! Devil! Hell-bor- n monster! Damn you! Go!" And, once or twice, right between the eyes, nana mm one straight irom ine shoulder. IV. TO MY FELLOW BUMMERS. You see, my fellqw-bummer- s, what I wish to impress on your souls is the fact that you can'i coax this gentle man to leave you. but you can drive him. Especially is it very fruitless and silly to say to him: "Mv dear sir. you have treatea me infernally mean lately. I'm going to part company with you. I can't and won't stand this soft thing any longer, 1 11 tell you what i ll do. lou may stay around till the first day of next month, and then you must put out, Do you understand that, my- - gentle covey O yes, he understands that, and he seems perfectly wining to agree 10 your proposal. He will go, he says, when the time comes; and when the time does come he goes in a horn. Give me a week to stay, and it is thousand to nothing that ha will stay a month, and then stay all the time, if possible. I appeal to the experience of Broth er Moody. John Wentworth, Brother Hatfield, Emery Storrs, John V. Fare- well, Daniel O. Hara, and other mem" bers of the organization of Good Temp ers, if I am not correct in my conclu sions. What lam very desirous of impress ing upon my fellow-bumme- rs is this: The great dificulty about quitting oc- curs before you quit, and not after. If any of us ever contemplated a visit to the-dentist- . we remember that we suf fered an eternity before the fang came, and the twentieth part of a second when it did come. So about quitting. All the trouble, and difficulty, and pain is in making up your mind to quit. When once vou have screwed your courage up to the sticking point, the labor, the bread, the difficulty's are all over. In fine, all there is about quitting is in making up your mind to doit, and not in doing it. With which few plain remarks, the matter is herewith submitted with- out further argument. Toliuto. FROM THE BLACK HILLS. Rapid City. Pennington Co., ) D. T. July 25th, 1877. f Ed. Herald: Knowing that the exciting and interesting news transpir- ing in our section of country, would be interesting to many readers of the Her- ald, I will try to furnish vou with a few items of the same, just as they transpired and almost as witnessed by myself. From Rapid to Dead wood one travels a broad valley, with the main hills on the left and the foot hills on the right. For the last two months up and down this valley hardly a sin- gle night has passed without from one to one hundred horses or mules being stolen, by a band of well organized, horse thieves. About the 1st of July a man from Rapid was up in the house-log- s, he saw three men coming towards him on horseback, he thinking they were Indians became frightened and ran to Rapid for help; a crowd of men were soon organized and equipped, and started after the supposed Indians. When they came upon the three men they became fright- ened and acknowledged they had stolen the horses up near Crook City. They were taken back'by the crowd to Rap- id and lodged in the city jail. That night a well organized crowd came to greet their new found guests with a neck-ti- e sociable, the ball room select- ed was about one mile west of the city on the top of a mountain, on the left side of the road under the spreading boughs of a scrub fine tree, standing! all alone on the sumxit cf 'the barren lonely peak, three men drew the three neck-tie- s, the entertainment soon end- ed, the only music furnished for the oc- casion was the wind whistling through the matted limbs above, and the dis- tant strains from the golden harps of the other world. In a few moments the crowd dispersed, and all remained as quiet as the silent tomb on that lonely mountain top; three human be- ings hung suspended in mid-ai- r, with their black and swollen faces turned towards the blue vault of heaven as if imploring it for mercy. The next day about 10 o'clock the Deputy Sheriff went up and cut them down, and buried them about GO yards down the moun- tain side, with an appropriate inscrip- tion on their tombstone, warning their comrades of their fate if they fell into their hands. This to a great extent has checked their bold deeds in this lo cality. The Knights of the road ate becoming both numerous and danger- ous. There is a well organized band of them here; five of them have .been seen and are known, they are the ones that robbed the stage on the night of the 12th of July, between Battle Creek and French Creek, 15 miles below Rap id City, (within four miles of our camp) they stopped the stage near a little deep, stony ravine; one of the band rode out of the ravine, hailed the driver, whilst another one, drove the team out of the road ; then the other three took all the passengers out of the stage, stood them in a line, two stood guard over them with loaded guns, whilst the others ap propriated all of their money and val- uables, then took off the treasury box, two large trunks, five valises, etc., then marched the nine passengers back into the little wagon, robbed the driver of 81.25; after about two hours delay they were allowed to go on their way rejoic ing. I he agents after taking all they desired from the treasury box, trunks and valises, left the rest sitting by the roadside. The night was very dark and stormy. The passengers described the robbers as fine looking men, well dressed and well mounted, they are supposed to be under the leadership of "Percuiuine Bill," a well known des- perado. The amount they obtained is not known. They made good their es- cape into the hills, not far distant from the scene of the robbery. There wasn't a shot exchanged between them. July 17th, a Mr. James Wagner, wife, and his brother, of Crook City, having come to the Black Hills, and like many oth ers were disappointed in the fabulous wealth of the hills, gathered- - their wordly goods up and started alone with a yoke of cattle and wagon for Bismark, Just west of Bear Butte and 10 miles from Crook City they were foully mur dered by a party of Indians, they were badly mutilated, especially Mrs. Wag- ner, her body was savagely outraged, her head cleft in twain and scalp ta ken. The savage fiends had barely completed their cowardly assault when the stage came rolling along; they pick- ed up the dead bodies and took them to Crook City. A hay ranchman mow ing hay at a distance witnessed the killing of the family, he ran for his life, leaving his team and all behind, the Indians came up. took one horse and left the rest, the ot her being too poor a horse for their Lordships. The next day (having prepared coffins) the three unfortunate victims were taken to a little flat on the mountain side, east of Crook, followed by 15 hardy mountain eers and myself, all well armed, to pay the last tribute to our fellow mortals. The funeral and its surroundings is a scene never to be forgotten. Instead of the gilded carriages, were the pack saddle; the prancing horse, the scrub pon'es of the planes; the cortege, the hardy mountaineer. In lieu of the fu neral services, the muttered curse of revenge. There were few tears in the crowd, yet every face bespoke a deter mination greater than tears, that stern cold smile of revenge that played! around the cold white lips of those gathered there was not hard to inter- pret, the bodies were silently consign- ed to their last abode without any cer- emonies whatever. In the little valley on that lonely mountain 'side, neath the lofty pines, and in the deep shad ows of the lonely gulch, silently slum- bers in that peaceful sleep that knows no waking, three more victims of an unprotected border. July 17th, the Indians committed one of the boldest and most skillful robberies ever committed m this coun try. A mule train of fourteen wagons and 51 head of mules, bound from Sid- ney to Dead wood was attacked by them at Spring Rancho, about 23 miles be- low Deadwood, this train run some of the best stock on the road. They went into camp ia the evening about seven ty-fi- ve yards from the rancho, and put the night herder (a Mexican) out with the mules, the herd at the time of the attack was between the camp and the foot hills, between the camp and herd there run a small stony ravine, distant about 50 yards from the camp, on the edge of this ravine the night herder was holding the stock, between 11 and 12 o'clock at night the herder stood holding the lariat of his pony, at about 80 feet range, an Indian crawled up the little ravine, between him and camp, and fired a shot at him, seeing that he had missed his man he jumped to his feet, run and grabbed the lariat and attempted to jerk it from the herd- ers hand ; the herder fired on him and he run ; the herder then mounted his j'vuj , itiiw litis uiw ttw uitu i from between him and camp, fortune favored him and he reached the camp safe and sound. When the first shot was fired, the Indians rose all round the herd and began shouting and yell- ing, until che whole herd was stampe- ded, in less than 10 minutes after the first shot was fired the whole herd was gone. Twenty-seve- n of the mules bo-long- ed to Mr. Hedge of Denver, he is an old freighter, and the herder is a good trusty man and has been with Mr. Hedge over three years. Mr. Smith and Mitchell of Denver lost four head apiece, Mr Parrot of Cheyenne lost 10 head. A party of men were dispatch- ed from Deadwood to follow the stock, they arrived in the afternoon, and fol- lowed the trail out about 20 miles and found a hat known to be an Indians by the unmistakeable perfumery it bore; they gave up the chaee as useless and too expensive, and returned to Deadwood. From Mr. Parrot they got four fine blooded American horses, in good condition ; twenty miles out they made a halt, changed on to those four horses and are driving right along; they drove them straight towards the Missouri river, almost directly east; had not changed their course when the trail was abandoned. They also got f;om the rancho five head of stage stock. About fifteen months ago sixteen head of stock was taken from Mr. Parrot by the Indians, since which timo he has got nearly all of them back again, lie merely places a man at the Red Cloud agency to watch for them, and they are soon found among the "good In- dians" at the post. The ones our gov- ernment has made such gallant sol- diers of. They expect to get back most of this lot of slock ia the course of time in the same manner. News just come in that two more men are dead and scalped near Crook, whether report is true or not I cannot sav, but can say that they are making it lively up tho road. No one can predict the fate of the smaller trains when eight or ten Indians run off and successfully escapo with all the stock of one of the largest and best trains and among the most experienced freighters on the rod., More as it comes. Joe II. Fairfield. Dead-Head- s! There are people in every communi- ty who think that every newspaper man is a dead-hea- d. The New York Evening Post hits this class of pco lo a severe back-hande- d blow which wo think they well deserve. "In case .any- thing happens to a person, he hastens to the nearest newspaper and demands that the editor shall wield his pen and shed ink in his vindication and defense. And if the jaded editor does not with alacrity espouse the cause of his patron he will make an enemy for life. 'Mem- bers of the press' are literally hunted down by all sorts of people who have axes to grind. The managers of pub- lic meeting who do not find reporters at the desk suffer pangs of disappoint- ment, the judge who sonoriously blows his nose before reading his opinion, looks anxiously for the stenographer; the preacher who descants upon some special subject, loses spirit if the rep- resentatives of the press are not t. ere; even the burglar on his way to State's prison, covets a talk with tho newspa- per man. Yet tho outside barbarian thinks all newspaper men are "dead- heads," and envy them the fine time they have In the .way of free tickets to all manner of shows. There never was a greater mistake. People don't seem to realize that on the part of the journalist, it is merely a matter of bu siness that tho reporter goes to these places, so attractive to outsiders, much as the horse goes to the show because he must do so. We venture to say that four-fifth- s of these entertainments are to journalists an intolerable bore. Tho press is the victim of the public's rapa cious and unceasing demand without pay. Let us have the boot on the right leg." runishlng Children. Anna C. Bracket, in the American Journal of Education, calls the atten- tion of teachers to the liability of chil dren to be punished or corrected with out their clearly knowing why. "They may thus perhaps understand," she adds,"what often seems to them so in-- . comprehensible why a child who has been rebuked for soma disorderly con duct repeats the olTense almost immdi-atel- y, giving the impression of willful ness and m alicious wrong-doin- g. Tho same mistake is frequently made ia re- citations. A pupil's answer is pronoun ced wrong, and the question passed to another, when he doe3 nut know what his error is, and often fancies that it lies in quite a different direction frorn that in which it really lies. One ot the most suocessful teachers we know is almost invariably In the habit, after having passed a.question and received a correct answer, of asking tho pupil who failed;. 'Why did I pass that ques- tion?' A few trials of this simple in- terrogation will soon, we think, con- vince any teacher of the truth of what we say. The most astonishing misun- derstandings are thus continually brought to light, and wo become con- vinced of how double-edge- d a thin;j ii. this language which we use so thought- lessly and freely.
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Advice to Young Ladies.
BT CLARA HASKELL.
Chewing on the corners.Smoking In the street.
Spitting on the pavementsTo stick on iteople's feet.
They will tmoke In the kitchen.But that Is not enough,
They will go Into the parlor.And there they'll sit and puff.
And now all nice young ladies.When gents come in to woo.
You pop the question flint.Sir do you smoke or chew.
Mark well each word and look,And If they don't say no,
Just cross him off your bookAnd tell him why you do.
Some gents carry suicesSome cinnamon, some cloves.
Make good use of your eyes,And good use of your nose.
For when the wedding Is oe'r,Perfumes they'll throw away,
They will spit upon the floor,They will smoke and chew all day.
Now ladles, when you marry.Tobacco worms dou't take.
Think not, that Dick, or Harry,Will quit it for your sake.
Though you know him very well.And you think hiin very dear,
Just wait till be resists.Temptation for cn year.
Multum in TarTO.
Sound policy is never at variencewith substantial justice.
"No shooten aloud here" is the warn-ing which confronts the sj ortsman atthe gate of a suburban park.
To mingle the useful with the beau-tiful is the highest style of art. Theone adds grace the other value.
More epitaphs are witten to showthe wit or genius of the living than toperpetuate the virtues of the dead.
Very few in the world have theirpassions adequately occupied; every-body has it in them to be better thanthey are.
Many who tell us how much thevdespise . itches and preferment, meanundoubtedly the riches and prefermentof other men.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bondsthan happiness ever can, and commonsufferings are far stronger links thancommon joys.
Friendship is the cordial of life, andthe lentive of our sorrows, and themultiplier of our joys; the sourceequally of animation and of repose.
If men would hate themselves asthey do their netehb rs. it would be agood steD toward loving their neigborsu they do themselves.
There are moments when the twoworlds, the earthly ai.d spiritual, sweepby near each other, and when earthly- -
day and heavenly night touch each oth-
er in twilight.
To be in company with those welove, satisfies us; it does not signifywhether we speak to them or not,whether we think on them or indifferent things; to be near them is all.
Wise Been mingle mirth with theircares, as a help to forget or overcomethem; but to resort to intoxication forthe ease of one's mind, is to cure mel-ancholy with madness.
It is the most momenteous questiona woman is ever called on to decide,whether the faults of the man she loves will d-a- g her down, or whether sheis competent to be hia earthly redeemer.
Revenge is a momentary triumph ofwhich the satisfaction dies at once,and is succeeded by remorse; whereasforgiveness, which if the noblest of allrevenge, entails a perpetual pleasure.
It will afford sweeter happiness inthe hour of death to have wiped onetear from the cheek of sorrow, than tolave ruled an empire, to have con- -
quored millions, or to have enslavedthe world.
It is not insolated great deeds which.do most to form a character, but smallconternimous acts, touching and blend-ing into one another. The greennessof a field comes not from trees, butblabes of grass.
No strttue that the rich man placesostentatiously in his windows is to becompared to the little expectant facepressing against the window-pan- e,
watching for his father, when his day'soccupation is d'nf.
Oultiv.'!'- - rvm.Mdf rition for the feel- -
incs : utiH i ..;', n you would nev-
er hav y ur own injured. Those whocomplain most f jit are the ones
ii alms'' tin-ins- ves and others the
T5: '';. i alnav.5 something greatL:: tlK-i- t m in whom the worldexclaims, at whom every one throws astone, and on whose character all at-
tempt to fix a thousand crimes, with-out being able to prove one.
Have the courage to give, occasionallythat which 3?ou can ill afford to spare;giving what you do not want, nor val-ue, neither brings nor deserves thanksIn return; who is grateful for a drinkof water from another's overflowingwell, however delicious the draught?
If some are refined, like gold in thefurnace of affliction, there are manymore that like chaff, are consumed init. Sorrow, when it is excessive, takesaway fervor from plenty, vigor fromaction health from the reason, and re-
pose from the concience.
A Temperance Lectnrc.
A lecture on temperance is quiteapropos just now. Several days afterNew Year's almost any body is willingto hear something on this very inter-esting subject."When the derll waa sick, the deril a saint
would be."Now that we have all had our little
headaches, and have gone the roundsof soda cocktails, seltzer-wafce- r, redpepper, and a general inclination tokick every dog or any other man thatcame in our way, let us go over thesubject calmly.
v I- AN AWFUL EXAMPLE.
The general rule is that the manwho talks on the subject of wlmkey,should, himself, have been an old stager in the business. He should be ableto say things that will thrill the mar-rows of weighty and pious old womenand awaken the sympathies of theyoung ones.
For my part, I have a very thoroughcontempt for anything in pantaloonsand whiskers who will get up in publicand say:
"My friends I am an awful exampleof the effects of Intemperance. Onsuch a night I lay in the gutter. Onsuch a night, when it was blowing,snowing, storming, and freezing I kicked my wife out of doors, and slung thewailing baby bv the heels out into asnowdrift.
Or"On such a time, I was in jail for ar
son. Once I went about in rags, stealing dinners from blind dogs in order topawn them for whiskey."
"Vfu- - T lmvo an nnininn tliMf. tlipman who will geUup before an audience and boldly avow that he was adirty dog on any former occasion, is anequally dirty dog at the moment hemakes the avowal."
I am free to confess that in assum-ing the role of a temperance lecturer, Inave no nastmess to present. I neverpounded that amiable but over confiding woman, who was swindled intotaking me for better or worse, I neversat down on a pair of twins and smoth-ered them. I never committed mur-der, or rape, or arson or "whaied" mygrandfather, or "squared off" beforethe "governor" for the purpose of clos-
ing up his toplights. In view of allthese I do not feel as if I were a tem-
perance lecturer of the popular sort, ofthe regular persuation.
Nevertheless, let us talk togetherover this matter.
II.SWEAiriXQ OFF.
To me the most interesting phase ofthe temperance question is that relat-ing to quitting, or as we lively old andyoung bucks are in the habit of term-ing it, "swearing off.', This featuro isof its self, sufficiently fruitful to f ur-- ni
sh matter for half a dozen lectures.From Noah, who became indecently
intoxicated to D.ivid, who also ot ona regular "tear", and made an unsemlyexhibition of himself, and from Davidall the way down to Rip Van Winkle,Grant and the undersigned, swearingoff has been a common development oftheir drunks. The man who getsdrunk always swears off again on thenext day and the next.
Like the veteran Rip he is generallyin a position in which this time won'tcount. Some of the boys come roundand capture him; oi'his nerves demandscrewing up, or he will "have it outto-da-y and quit w. Amongws joily knights of the bowl, the reformwhich begins is fixed for aday that comes. Ah! these tomorrowshow laden with excellent resolutions;and how invariably they are caught inbogs nul storms, and never reach thewished for shores! Let him who hasaught that is precious not risk itupon that treacherous craft to-mo- r-
row.. l he bottom or times ocean iscovered with the wrecks of these fatalvessels, whose safe arrival no shoreshave ever witnessed.
And now my fellow-bumme- rs let ussee how the thing works.
. III.nOW IT IS DONE.
You drop into a saloon to play agame of billiards; you meet a friendfrom the country ; you go in somewhereto have a friendly chat with, a neighbor, and and you fall in with Mousi- -eur Alcohol. Ihere is nothing pre-a- r-
rangedabout the meeting. You find yourself in company with him, while you nomore expected it than you did to meetyour great-grandfathe- r'a maternalgrandmother.
Monsieur and yourself spend theevening together. It's jolly. Yourimagination springs into life, andthe whole world becomes roseate.Rich, happy, inspired, with every nervethrilling with happiness. And hourspnss, and you reel away to bed.
A few hours, not of sleep but of stu-por, and you awake mouth parched,head swollen, appetite gone, and the dto pay generally. Hat slouched overyour eyes, curses lolling from yourtongue, you go down town. You dropinto a saloon. There is Monsieur Al-choh- ol.
"See here, old fellow, you served mea cursed mean trick, last night!" yousay.
"No, did I ? I'm sorry. Take ahair of the dog that bit you."
"Nc, thank you, I am done with you.I won't associate with anybody thatserves me as you have. Good-bye- ."
And Monsieur, without a word departs. He is gone. A day, a week,two weeks pass, and you do not seehim. You congratulate yourself on.your resolution, and flatter yourselfthat you will never see him again.
But Monsieur A. is cunning. It isjust four weeks from the day you"shook" him. You drop in somewhereand, before "you know how it cameabout, or even suspect his presence,you find yourself cheek-by-jo- wl withyour old friend.
And he isn't a bad fellow after allHe's been gone a whole month. Youhave no habit formed for his society.You can "shake" him when you please
that's clear. You will have a littleset-dow- n with him. He's a bully boy!How his presence warm3 the dry cookies of your heart! More inspiration,more dreads and then to bed drunler than before.
And, now, youwhelp, I am done with you, surel" yousay from your disgust and pain, on thenext morning.
In just two weeks he has capturedyou again. And then he captures youagain. And then it is twice a week,and then God only knows what ! It isa critical moment. It is your very lastchance for safety. No "Good-by- e, oldiellow," will send him off now. He hascome to stay. There is just one singlechance remaining. It is not a good-natur- ed
adieu. It is not a feble effort ;
it is not reasoning, persuasion, or ap-
peal. It is sheer brute force. Youconcentrate all your strength, you gath-er every energy ; and then you clutchMonsieur Alcohol by the throat:
"Deceiver! False friend! Devil!Hell-bor- n monster! Damn you! Go!"
And, once or twice, right between theeyes, nana mm one straight irom ineshoulder.
IV.TO MY FELLOW BUMMERS.
You see, my fellqw-bummer- s, whatI wish to impress on your souls is thefact that you can'i coax this gentleman to leave you. but you can drivehim. Especially is it very fruitlessand silly to say to him:
"Mv dear sir. you have treatea meinfernally mean lately. I'm going topart company with you. I can't andwon't stand this soft thing any longer,1 11 tell you what i ll do. lou maystay around till the first day of nextmonth, and then you must put out,Do you understand that, my- - gentlecovey
O yes, he understands that, and heseems perfectly wining to agree 10your proposal. He will go, he says,when the time comes; and when thetime does come he goes in a horn.Give me a week to stay, and it isthousand to nothing that ha will staya month, and then stay all the time, ifpossible.
I appeal to the experience of Brother Moody. John Wentworth, BrotherHatfield, Emery Storrs, John V. Fare-well, Daniel O. Hara, and other mem"bers of the organization of Good Tempers, if I am not correct in my conclu
sions.What lam very desirous of impress
ing upon my fellow-bumme- rs is this:The great dificulty about quitting oc-
curs before you quit, and not after. Ifany of us ever contemplated a visit tothe-dentist- . we remember that we suffered an eternity before the fang came,and the twentieth part of a second whenit did come. So about quitting. Allthe trouble, and difficulty, and pain isin making up your mind to quit. Whenonce vou have screwed your courageup to the sticking point, the labor, thebread, the difficulty's are all over. Infine, all there is about quitting is inmaking up your mind to doit, and notin doing it.
With which few plain remarks, thematter is herewith submitted with-out further argument. Toliuto.
FROM THE BLACK HILLS.
Rapid City. Pennington Co., )
D. T. July 25th, 1877. f
Ed. Herald: Knowing that theexciting and interesting news transpir-ing in our section of country, would beinteresting to many readers of the Her-ald, I will try to furnish vou with afew items of the same, just as theytranspired and almost as witnessed bymyself. From Rapid to Dead wood onetravels a broad valley, with the mainhills on the left and the foot hills onthe right. For the last two monthsup and down this valley hardly a sin-
gle night has passed without from oneto one hundred horses or mules beingstolen, by a band of well organized,horse thieves. About the 1st of Julya man from Rapid was up in the
house-log- s, he saw threemen coming towards him on horseback,he thinking they were Indians becamefrightened and ran to Rapid for help;a crowd of men were soon organizedand equipped, and started after thesupposed Indians. When they cameupon the three men they became fright-ened and acknowledged they had stolenthe horses up near Crook City. Theywere taken back'by the crowd to Rap-id and lodged in the city jail. Thatnight a well organized crowd came togreet their new found guests with aneck-ti- e sociable, the ball room select-ed was about one mile west of the cityon the top of a mountain, on the leftside of the road under the spreadingboughs of a scrub fine tree, standing!all alone on the sumxit cf 'the barren
lonely peak, three men drew the threeneck-tie- s, the entertainment soon end-ed, the only music furnished for the oc-
casion was the wind whistling throughthe matted limbs above, and the dis-tant strains from the golden harps ofthe other world. In a few momentsthe crowd dispersed, and all remainedas quiet as the silent tomb on thatlonely mountain top; three human be-
ings hung suspended in mid-ai- r, withtheir black and swollen faces turnedtowards the blue vault of heaven as ifimploring it for mercy. The next dayabout 10 o'clock the Deputy Sheriffwent up and cut them down, and buriedthem about GO yards down the moun-tain side, with an appropriate inscrip-tion on their tombstone, warning theircomrades of their fate if they fell intotheir hands. This to a great extenthas checked their bold deeds in this locality. The Knights of the road atebecoming both numerous and danger-ous. There is a well organized bandof them here; five of them have .beenseen and are known, they are the onesthat robbed the stage on the night ofthe 12th of July, between Battle Creekand French Creek, 15 miles below Rapid City, (within four miles of our camp)they stopped the stage near a little deep,stony ravine; one of the band rode outof the ravine, hailed the driver, whilstanother one, drove the team out of theroad ; then the other three took all thepassengers out of the stage, stood themin a line, two stood guard over themwith loaded guns, whilst the others appropriated all of their money and val-uables, then took off the treasury box,two large trunks, five valises, etc., thenmarched the nine passengers back intothe little wagon, robbed the driver of81.25; after about two hours delay theywere allowed to go on their way rejoicing. I he agents after taking all theydesired from the treasury box, trunksand valises, left the rest sitting by theroadside. The night was very darkand stormy. The passengers describedthe robbers as fine looking men, welldressed and well mounted, they aresupposed to be under the leadership of"Percuiuine Bill," a well known des-perado. The amount they obtained isnot known. They made good their es-
cape into the hills, not far distant fromthe scene of the robbery. There wasn'ta shot exchanged between them. July17th, a Mr. James Wagner, wife, andhis brother, of Crook City, having cometo the Black Hills, and like many others were disappointed in the fabulouswealth of the hills, gathered- - theirwordly goods up and started alone witha yoke of cattle and wagon for Bismark,Just west of Bear Butte and 10 milesfrom Crook City they were foully murdered by a party of Indians, they werebadly mutilated, especially Mrs. Wag-ner, her body was savagely outraged,her head cleft in twain and scalp taken. The savage fiends had barelycompleted their cowardly assault whenthe stage came rolling along; they pick-ed up the dead bodies and took themto Crook City. A hay ranchman mowing hay at a distance witnessed thekilling of the family, he ran for hislife, leaving his team and all behind,the Indians came up. took one horseand left the rest, the ot her being too poora horse for their Lordships. The nextday (having prepared coffins) the threeunfortunate victims were taken to alittle flat on the mountain side, east ofCrook, followed by 15 hardy mountaineers and myself, all well armed, to paythe last tribute to our fellow mortals.The funeral and its surroundings is ascene never to be forgotten. Insteadof the gilded carriages, were the packsaddle; the prancing horse, the scrubpon'es of the planes; the cortege, thehardy mountaineer. In lieu of the funeral services, the muttered curse ofrevenge. There were few tears in thecrowd, yet every face bespoke a determination greater than tears, that sterncold smile of revenge that played!around the cold white lips of thosegathered there was not hard to inter-pret, the bodies were silently consign-ed to their last abode without any cer-
emonies whatever. In the little valleyon that lonely mountain 'side, neaththe lofty pines, and in the deep shadows of the lonely gulch, silently slum-bers in that peaceful sleep that knowsno waking, three more victims of anunprotected border.
July 17th, the Indians committedone of the boldest and most skillfulrobberies ever committed m this country. A mule train of fourteen wagonsand 51 head of mules, bound from Sid-
ney to Dead wood was attacked by themat Spring Rancho, about 23 miles be-
low Deadwood, this train run some ofthe best stock on the road. They wentinto camp ia the evening about seventy-fi- ve yards from the rancho, and putthe night herder (a Mexican) out withthe mules, the herd at the time of theattack was between the camp and thefoot hills, between the camp and herdthere run a small stony ravine, distantabout 50 yards from the camp, on theedge of this ravine the night herderwas holding the stock, between 11 and12 o'clock at night the herder stoodholding the lariat of his pony, at about80 feet range, an Indian crawled upthe little ravine, between him andcamp, and fired a shot at him, seeingthat he had missed his man he jumpedto his feet, run and grabbed the lariatand attempted to jerk it from the herd-ers hand ; the herder fired on him andhe run ; the herder then mounted hisj'vuj , itiiw litis uiw ttw uitu i
from between him and camp, fortunefavored him and he reached the campsafe and sound. When the first shotwas fired, the Indians rose all roundthe herd and began shouting and yell-ing, until che whole herd was stampe-ded, in less than 10 minutes after thefirst shot was fired the whole herd wasgone. Twenty-seve- n of the mules bo-long- ed
to Mr. Hedge of Denver, he isan old freighter, and the herder is agood trusty man and has been withMr. Hedge over three years. Mr. Smithand Mitchell of Denver lost four headapiece, Mr Parrot of Cheyenne lost 10
head. A party of men were dispatch-ed from Deadwood to follow the stock,they arrived in the afternoon, and fol-
lowed the trail out about 20 miles andfound a hat known to be an Indiansby the unmistakeable perfumery itbore; they gave up the chaee as uselessand too expensive, and returned toDeadwood. From Mr. Parrot they gotfour fine blooded American horses, ingood condition ; twenty miles out theymade a halt, changed on to those fourhorses and are driving right along;they drove them straight towards theMissouri river, almost directly east;had not changed their course when thetrail was abandoned. They also gotf;om the rancho five head of stage stock.About fifteen months ago sixteen headof stock was taken from Mr. Parrot bythe Indians, since which timo he hasgot nearly all of them back again, liemerely places a man at the Red Cloudagency to watch for them, and theyare soon found among the "good In-
dians" at the post. The ones our gov-
ernment has made such gallant sol-
diers of. They expect to get back mostof this lot of slock ia the course oftime in the same manner. News justcome in that two more men are deadand scalped near Crook, whether reportis true or not I cannot sav, but can saythat they are making it lively up thoroad. No one can predict the fate ofthe smaller trains when eight or tenIndians run off and successfully escapowith all the stock of one of the largestand best trains and among the mostexperienced freighters on the rod.,More as it comes.
Joe II. Fairfield.
Dead-Head- s!
There are people in every communi-ty who think that every newspaperman is a dead-hea- d. The New YorkEvening Post hits this class of pco loa severe back-hande- d blow which wothink they well deserve. "In case .any-
thing happens to a person, he hastensto the nearest newspaper and demandsthat the editor shall wield his pen andshed ink in his vindication and defense.And if the jaded editor does not withalacrity espouse the cause of his patronhe will make an enemy for life. 'Mem-bers of the press' are literally hunteddown by all sorts of people who haveaxes to grind. The managers of pub-lic meeting who do not find reportersat the desk suffer pangs of disappoint-ment, the judge who sonoriously blowshis nose before reading his opinion,looks anxiously for the stenographer;the preacher who descants upon somespecial subject, loses spirit if the rep-
resentatives of the press are not t. ere;even the burglar on his way to State'sprison, covets a talk with tho newspa-per man. Yet tho outside barbarianthinks all newspaper men are "dead-heads," and envy them the fine timethey have In the .way of free tickets toall manner of shows. There neverwas a greater mistake. People don'tseem to realize that on the part of thejournalist, it is merely a matter of business that tho reporter goes to theseplaces, so attractive to outsiders, muchas the horse goes to the show becausehe must do so. We venture to say thatfour-fifth- s of these entertainments areto journalists an intolerable bore. Thopress is the victim of the public's rapacious and unceasing demand withoutpay. Let us have the boot on the rightleg."
runishlng Children.
Anna C. Bracket, in the AmericanJournal of Education, calls the atten-tion of teachers to the liability of children to be punished or corrected without their clearly knowing why. "Theymay thus perhaps understand," sheadds,"what often seems to them so in-- .
comprehensible why a child who hasbeen rebuked for soma disorderly conduct repeats the olTense almost immdi-atel- y,
giving the impression of willfulness and m alicious wrong-doin- g. Thosame mistake is frequently made ia re-
citations. A pupil's answer is pronounced wrong, and the question passed toanother, when he doe3 nut know whathis error is, and often fancies that itlies in quite a different direction frornthat in which it really lies. One otthe most suocessful teachers we knowis almost invariably In the habit, afterhaving passed a.question and receiveda correct answer, of asking tho pupilwho failed;. 'Why did I pass that ques-
tion?' A few trials of this simple in-
terrogation will soon, we think, con-
vince any teacher of the truth of whatwe say. The most astonishing misun-derstandings are thus continuallybrought to light, and wo become con-
vinced of how double-edge- d a thin;j ii.this language which we use so thought-lessly and freely.
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