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11' - - -si - -lj ESTABLISHED FOR THE DISSEIISITIOS OP DE10CRATIC PRINCIPLES. 1SD TO EARN AN HONEST LIVING BT THE SWEAT OP OCR BROW WHOLE NO. 491. EUGENE CITY, OR., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1877. $2.50 per year IN AO VANCE. r CITY flTT ir Sftfie (Eofltit (City (Suari CEO. J. BUYSPfo'p. ' OURONLX tlATBS OV ADVKItTISlNa. advertisement, inserted M (ullow. : r )ne square, 10 line, or les, one insertion 15; each VbJequeat insertion IL Cash required in advance Time adrerfuen will be charged at the following Jn sqsan three months.... $0 00 six months., 00 " " tike year....... 1 00 Traniielit notice! in local column, 20 eenta per line (Sbr each Ihaertien. Alrerflin tiflli will be rendered quarterly. AU tub wo' nut be id roa ox ukuvkbt. rosTOFFICE. trl&Ve Honrs from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Sunday. itrr.iiitlotoS:M,,-. Vail arrive, from the aoutb and leave going north 'M a. tn. Arrive, from the north and leave, truing yrjth at 5:33 p. m. for Biiiialaw, tranklm anil lxinir 1 im, ciiise at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, rorurawtoni.' Ville, Caian Creek and Brownnville at I p.m. Letter, will be ready for delivery half an hour after rival of train.. Letter, ahould be loft at the office Vue hour before mail, depart. A. S. PATTERSON, P. M. SOCIETIES. EtroixK Lorjfli No It. A. P. and A. M Meet, first and third Welneadayi in each montli. pSVto, Bp KHcirn Btrmt Lomik No. 9 I. O, y-.-r n c r.....- T 1..- WIMAWHAL F.iCI'AMPMXMT No. . meet, on the XI an t tn n eunesaays in earn moniii, LON. CLEAVER, DENTIST OOMS OVER MPA JACKSON'S Mil linery Store, WILLAMETTE STREET. DENTAL. DR. F.WELSH has opened Dental liooms ier manently in the Underwood Brick 3Kugeae City, and resjiectfully solicits a share of the public patronage. .Meters Dy permission io J. &. Uardwell, l"ortl(mt G. A. MILLER, , DENTAL ROOMS in DUNN'S WILDING, EUGENE CITY. frofmcs DENTISTRY AND ORAL SURGERY A. IP. PATTERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office on Ninth Street, oppoalte the St. Charles Hotel, and at Keaidence, KJGKNF, CITY- - QIIKOON, DB3.NXCSLIN& SHIELDS, HAVINOx ASSOCIATED IN THE prac tice of Medicine, offer their professional services to the citizens of Eugene City and the surrounding country. SKciiil attention given toallOllSTETMOAL CASES and . UTER INE DISEASES entrusted to their care. Bills due when the service is rendered Offices on Ninth street and at the residence .of Dr. Nicklin on Willamette street, between Ninth and Tenth streets. se2 DR. JOSEPH P. GILL CAN BE FOUND AT HIS OFFICE or res idence when not professionally engaged. Office at the POST OFFICE DRUG STORE. Residence on Eighth street, opposite Presby terian Church. - . Chas. M. Horn, PRACTICAL G UNSMITIL .DEALER IN GUNS, RIFLES, and materials. Repairing done in the neatest style and Warranted. Sewing Machines, bales, Liocks, etc., repaired. Guns loaned and ammunition furnished. .Shop on Ninth street, opposite Star Bakery. WJL B. LAKE. Purchasing Agent, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. JEWELRY ESTABLISMENT. J. S. LUCKEY, Zhn d' MM Clocks, Watcnes, Chains, Jewelry, etc. Repairing Promptly Executed. CaTAUWork Warranled.-0J .T.S LUCKK.Y, POST OFFICE BUILDING. Wtna"ette Eighth St. Eugene City. M and Stationery Store. POST OFFICE BUILDING, EUGENE City. I have on baud and am constantly receiving an assortment of the Best School and Miscellaneous Books. Stationery, Blank Books, Portfolios, Cards, Wallets '""'Vpson"11' naes, etc, etc A. S. rAl fLKMi.v C A L LIS OH & 0SBURN ARE OFFERING TO THE PUBLIC SUGARS. TEAL, COFFF.i; CVNNED GOODS, TOBACCO A. CIGARS, GLASS AND I'EENS WARE. WOOD AND WILLOW WARE, BREAD CAKES AND PIES, And in fact everj thing ually kept m a firrt-dv- Ciwrj Store or Bakery, at BLIKCH K TRICES for cash or ready ly. batiafaction iGoods delivered to any part of the city free of charge- m , OPPOSITION IS THE LIFE OF TRADE! SLQAH BROTHERS -rrrrLL DO WORK CHEAP EB thaa ar other f Y abopiatowa. HORSES SHOD TOR 1 50, yrnh mrm material, all ronlkl. EMetUnf oU ahoas Ceata. All warraated m rle eatllaetl. 1idtj onEiihth Bt. opposife Hun- The Naturalists' Agency Minerals, Shells, Birds, &c. THE NATURALISTS' AGENCY HAS been established at 3725 Lancaster Ave nue, Philadelphia, for the purpose of giving collectors oi objects ot amiirni iiiNiory an opjiortunity of buying, selling or exchang ing their duplicates or collections, please state where vou saw this advertisement. Specimens sent to any part of the world by mail A monthly bulletin of 8 pages sent free. My Mineka logical Cataloui'i and table of Bpevie, uy wmcn moei minerals may lie menu tied, illustrated by over ?o00 worth of Em-rav- r. i .a i i i i . ings, is now ready for distribution. It is an excellent check list containing in the price lisi every snecies and all the more common varie ties arranged alphabetically and preceded by the species numlier. The siecies number indi cates the place of any mineral in the table of species, after it will Lie found the species name, comMwitioa, streak or lustre, cleavage or frac ture, hardness, sp. gr. usability and crystaliza- tion. Free .to all customers. To others on re ceipt of ten cents for postaire. sc. The latve increase of mv business has com pelled me to rent the store Nov 3727. and use it entirely for Hints, Mammals, Miells, Plants. Books, Fossils, Mound Builders' Relics and all objects of Natural History except Minerals. I have secured the services of one of the best taxidermists in the country, a gentleman who who was employed by the ftimthsonian lnstittl' tion in South America for three years. I have a very lanro stock of Western and Southern birds on hand Also, Heads and Antlers for Museums, Dimng-Rooms, Halls and Libraries. 1 have now over 3a tons, and nearly $3.000 worth of Minerals on hand I have sold over $17,000 worth since the 17th day of Janui when the first box was put into my establish ment November 13th, mycash sales were over ei.atiu and cash receipts over ?1,3J0. I have the liest siecimen ever seen of Ama ion Stone. Ruby Silver. Samarskhe. Amethvst Brookite. Oolumliate of Yttria. Zonochlorite. Unlenite, Chalcedony, Kntile in Quartz, Jl) drotitanite, Itacolumite, Nigrin, Green Wave! lite colored by Vanadium, Peganite, Smoky yuartz, nock l;rystal, renitskito, ncliroloimte. Aegerite, Feldspar, (pink, red, gray, brywn ana green), Embolite, Melanite, Ozarkite, and Chlo- rastrolite. Collections of Minerals For StudenU, Amateurs, Professors, Physi cians and other Professional Men. These collections illustrate all the principal species and all erand subdivisions in Dana ann other works on Mineralogy ; Every Crystalline ivstem ; all the principal Ores and every known dement. The collections are labelled with a printed lnliel that can only be removed by soak' mg. The labels give Dana's species, number, the name, locality, and In most cases the com position of the mineral. All collections accompanied by my Illustrated Catalogue and table of species, 100 Crystals and Frainnents for Study (1 100 Siecimens, Student's Size, Larger ft 100 Specimens, larger, Amateur's size 2J 1J inches IU Collections of Gems, Ores, Earthy minerals, Minerals used in any Arts or Agriculture, on hand or put up to Order. We sell Minerals by wek'ht. for the Chemist and llowiii. uim, at Very low piUv-, u skite 25c. per lb., llrookite Pure Crystal fcw. per lb., Rutile pure 25c. per 11). , Wavellite 25c per lb., Blende 10c per lb., Lepidolite 20c, per lb. . . I desire especially to call attention to my re markably fine siiecimens of Amazon Stone, of Inch I have or have had nine-tenths of all the siiecimens ever found. I have made six triiis to le locality, and think i may saieiy say no more will be found Good crystals from 10 cents to $1 each. I have just purchased the best of the Kuny Silver exhibited at the Centennial by the Chil ian government These are the only specimens weighing less than three lbs. that ever brought anything like 81,000 each. My Titanium minkuaijj are tne nnesi ever nown. .Besides tne nyaraieu ituimu au.u, Hydrotitanite, a mineral recently analyzed by ht. Kceniir. of Pennsylvania University, I have also remarkably well crystalized Perof skites, Brookites of enormous size, Rutiles gen inilated till they form a circle, Schorlsmite, Warwickite, 4c I have the most beautiful creen WaVKLLITE and l'eganite ever known, colored by Vanadic acid I am sellinir Amkthyst at far lower prices lian i was ever sold at before. Over $2,500 worth sold since the 10th of July. I have just bought the famous Chilton Col lection of Minerals and Shells.which have been on exhibition at Tiffany's for the past two H'V. i.J.l .1,1 no.. M fKW. ears, i lie uiimui i'i contained a number of unequaled things, among them a Rutile in Quartz, for which Mr. Clinton was ottered &iu gold, a iwin crysmi clear calcite containing pint ot water, weighing over 10 lbs. The only perfect spiny murex in the country. My collection of plants Is very nne compris ing many that are rare, irom uie iw .nu " West I haye just secured the Northern and Middle States (including Va.) collections of A. 1L Curtis, who will no longer deal in them. I have several hundred volumes oi rare oiu works on Mineralogy, Chemistry and th natural sciences. Among them are many the most interesting of the State and Govern ment Reports. ,r A. k. unjir., ii. v.. Prof, of Chemistry and Mineralogy, 3725 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Witches, Clocks and Jewelr MUBIO, AND SEWING MACIIIJV ES " m HANK ING rPJJ'A A the public for . c fe .M-A. their uast hberal fttmnaire. DOW nvite them to call us at our rooms Lnderwood ft -i 1 vj t , I wneremay ueiouou V0Tl-i a full aaaortment of gowls in the auove line. .... Watchea, Clocks and Jewelry Repa"! W beat manner, AND WARRANTED. Willamette St, Zugeaa dt7 Orco) . CRAIN 1JKUS. F OK MALI: A STANDARD ORGAN, entirely hew instrument; cost A bar- gain offered Arl'lyt GEO. 3. BUYS. JUST RECEIVED. A Large Stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES, GROCERIES. YANKEE NOTIONS, ETC., ETC., AT REDUCED PRICES. Hu-W nuu-Vet price pa'"' ,"ra kinds PKUDLXE, UID1-S and 1 1 la. A. G0LDS2HTE FOU THE SPRING A SUMMER TRADE WE BEG to Inform aur friend, and tl pablii thai we have just remind direct fiom bai ranciKo and the us tern nurkine AN IMMENSE STOCK or GROCERIES, HARDWARE, DRY-GOODS, FAJSTCY GOODS mmi CLOTHING, , ' FURNISHING GOODS. HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, Clocks, Paints, Oils, Etc., Selected by our MR. S. ROSENRT.ATT wuicn we oner at KKDTJCKD PRICKS. Parties will find it to their advantnea to call and examine our stock and prices befoJa pur cnasing eisewnere. Highest price paid for all k;nds of Produce S. ROSENBLATT & CO. SELLING AT COSTI FOR SIXTY DAYS. Manufacturer and Dealer In Lead, Hack and Wheel 3ES X& 3ST 23 SS, warranted ifelitornia Leather. SADDLES OF ALL KINDS, BRIDLES, HALTERS, SURCINGLES, HORSE COVIRS, IWiorl and ilUuui W H1IS, COM US and BRUSHES, HARNESS DRESSING, U A V. AJ i V'. Thankful for past favers I would respectfully solicit a continuance ot the same. 1 Important I Persons knowing themselves indebted to nw either by note or account, are requested to make settlement by Jan. 1, 1877, or payment must be enforced WJfcL PRESTON. mm. J- mns. 500K ANI-JOK-PJUVTVe KTTOF.NE CITY. OREWIN. TUB BEST M1IOICS EVER BROUGHT IO to this market, at the lowest price, at, - T. . llfNIIKIt'KM'. University Subscriptions. All subscriptions to the State University are now over due. The property has been accepted liv anil turned over to the State, and I am in structed by the proper authorities to proceed and collect all sums at once. GEO. B. DORKIS, Attorney-at-Law. JAS A. STERLING, Dranesville, Douglas County, Oregon. Dealer in General Merchandise. NOTARY PUBLIC. Full line of Legal Blanks on hand. Manager of ' STERLING'S EXPRESS. TO COOS COUNTY. All business promptly attended to. ASTOR HOUSE, EUGENE CITY, : : OREGON X. N. DIBOIN, Proprietor. Formerly of St. Charles Hotel, Albany. THIS HOUSE WILL HEREAFTER BE conducted as a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. L A BLLLK WAUOM-I am the sole agent for this celebrated wagon. T. G. HENDRICKS. A New Deal. R. G.GRAHAM, MERCHANT TAILO It HAS JUST RECEIVED from the Eaat a line of fin and fashionable cl'rtha, such as has never before been brought to Eugene, con sisting of PU U.4s, Coatings, in Crates, 4 Fine Teatlac. CALL AND SEE MY STOCK. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the nndenrigned has been appointed, by the County Court of Lane County, Orecon. admiiaistratrix with the will annexed ol the estate of Alexander Renfrew, deceased ; and all persona having claims again aaid estate are required to present them, with the voochera, to bm at my residence in Eagrni City, County afomaid, within nx months from the date hereof. Dated this 2fta I gill I day of Januarv, 1KT7. CATHARINE RENFREW, Administratrix. The "Son" on the luaunaraU Air. llayps who has not hwn W.I wm Prwident of the United States, but who- baa twice Uiken the oath of office, as if to make op oj abumlaot iwearmr bis essential lack of f olii, delivered it inaugural add rest at i aiiuigion yesterday. A large part of it wis eomposed of ffener alitics, not glittering, but dull. Mr. tluyea onened with the rnmnrb i V otve assembled to repeat the publio ceremo oiai begun by Wuhmirton." This would seem to be in historical mistake, as Wish ington went through no ceremoowl of inauu uratioD until liter his election. Mr. Have.' ceremonial might more aptly be compared to the mock funeral got up by Lord Timothy uxier oi massacnasetts, durin? his hreliine. Mr. Hares next intimites that a rnn all doubt of bis Terscity may heretofore Da? e prevailed, by this remark: "I wish now, when erery motive of misrepresent! uuu ous paswu away, to repeat what was said before the election." For a man who assumes to be president of the United States mis seems rather an extriordioarv sell abasement. On the Southern auestion Mr. ITaves's observations ire dreary and unmeaning plati- lUUPS. To civil service reform ha renews his pledges. Speaking of the views entertained by the rounders ol the Government in refer ence to the tenure of office, be asserts that : "lbey meant that the officer shonld be so cure in bis tenure as long is his personal character remained untarnished and the performance of bis duties satisfactoty." Such is the avowed policy of Mr. Hayes ; il he keeps bis word, be will, in this respect, iuiiow wnat oe trunk's was the doctrine ol the founders. Now let os see bow lomr be will do this. We predict that he will begin by chanirimr mo viiuev, auu inai iuib will De lucceeuea by great many changes : and that the cry of civil service reform will prove to be, under Dim, as it turned out under bis immediate predecessor, the mil est political chaff to caicu votes wun. Io glurlmr inconsistency with his renerul doctrine shout the tenure of office, Mr. Ilnyes recomends an amendmentol the Constitution so as to make tu Presideut ineligible to a second term. It is to be fervently hoped that what there is fefl of the Constitution, alter the creation and the exploits of the Electoral Comraiiwion, may remain intact. Jf there were to be any change, il should be to prevent, if possible, not the re-election ol a deserving President, but the assumption of the office by a roan no nas not been elected. Justices Clifford and Field manifested their sense of piopriety by absenting them selves from the ceremony. Had they kept sway from the Electoral Commission it would have been still better. . - -ti.o tmng ur iimuiii at t asiungton is said to bave been immense. A large pnrt of them are from the State of Ohio. Their purpose is generally understood to be to sus tain Air. Ilnyes In his views or civil service reform at leet to the extent that after they once get into office they ar entitled to re main hi lor lite. The Voice- ol lhe Fre The House of Representatives should not give the War Department one dollar for rmy purposes liter tbe present appropria tion has been exhausted, unless coupled with positive condition that oo portion of the military forces should be used to control elections or Interfere with tbe disputed gov ernments of Smith Carolina and Louisiana. liulttmori Amtrieon. . Warn can business be done, taxes collected or suits io courts be prosecuted in any way under in unconstitutional President T II is luthot ity could be disputed everywhere, and for the best of reasons be is not a lawful President ; and now and then there would be a judge of sufficient honesty and knowl edge to decide against him. A President made by fraud is a nullity, a nothing. Al bany Argut. These insane men cannot comprehend tbe fatal truth of their own position. How can Hayes presume to befriend the Sooth after rst partaking in the fruits of defrauding it T If the eletoral votes of Louisiana bid Dot been given to him, be certainly could Dot become President ; but if those votes honest- belonged to him, be cannot deny that Packard was equally elected Governor. Hoilon Pout. A commission of arbitrators bis refused to arbitrate ; commission of investigation ha refused to investigate ; a commission appoint ed to try i most grave and momenteui ques tion of fraud has pervei ted law to the ex clusion of truth and justice. Most shame ful of all, it has enacted a hideous burleiHue state rights by setting tbe Sfil of its sol emn approbation upon en infamous returning board, the notorious product of State murder. Giiivetton Scut. Sam Howies' paper, which did more for n.yes than any other journal during the campaign, says : " I be usurpation ol IJayes under rorms or law, is as much worse than secession as poisoning Is worse thso duelling No Iree government can long exist that en dures and tolerates such a fraud." lion. Henry L- Pierce, Radical Representative in Congress Irom Massachusetts, oo the floor of the Iloose, declared of and concerning the decision of the Electoral Commission in tbe Louisiana case : "It is contrary to good government ; it is contrary to good morals ; it teods to weaken tbe bold o' tbe people. And the party wbicb gets office by lis adop tion, will be a party founded on a principle dangeroos to the perpetuity ol tbe Govern ment. Tbe Republican members of tbe Pennsyl vania Legislators will approve the bill by fool means to prohibit Sheriff Wright of Priladelphia from appointing deputies at elections to counteract tbe outrages nsoatly perpetrated by lb Mayor's police. Tbe Democrats will retaliate by opposing sll ap propriations, which most pass by atwo-lbirds vote. Wells. Fargo t Co. office at Dallas. bsve established an An inbamsn sesesptaio named J L. Grio- ii i i . . , l i.i r.AIM toie, wa psraoneo 17 ursut, ou uie u, m U Albany peoiteDtary. Monntalu Meadow Massacre SA!FRANci9co,"March 25. The Call mis morniDg publishes an interesting interview wun captain John Morse concerning the Mountain Meadow massacre. J his ccntleraan reform.! to has figured during many years f ovuuuui mo as a frontiersman, pros- CKctor, trapper andjtrader, and was io tah prior to the Mormon sett'oment and for many years after it. At the time ot the massacre lie was living witli some bands of Indians, not mnr I .!.!. .. -. . umu unny nines irom the Mountain Meadows, and two dava after thotrnrr edy he visited the socne and saw the mangled bodies of slaughtered immi- grants lying on the erounJ as ther had been lett by the destroying horde of Mormon fanatios atrd allies, tho In dians. Captain Morse was an intimate acquaintance of Lee, and this departed saiut, in conversations occurring be fore his trial, admitted to Morse his complicity in the atrocities, but, as in his confession, bo consistently with his off hand declarations, he threw tho re sponsibility of the butohery upon tho leaders ot the Mormon Chutoh, and directly implicated as accessory before and after the fact, Brigham Young. morse niBpnes i.eo'8 statement that there were 500 Indians present, claim- ing there were not more than 300 in that wholo sootion of country. The butchory was planned by Mormons. and almost entirely doneby them, the Indians not killing over half a dozen, lie says plunder was the chief incen tive to the massaore. At that time tbe Mormons wore excessively poor, having no money and scarcely any thing olso. They would tradd thoir produce with Indians lor even old olothos. The train was a rich one and excited thoir cupidity. Morse was very much with Loo during his resi dence in Southern Utah, and tho latter often onbosomod himsolf froolv. The Bubjeokof the massaore seomod to so dwell on his mind that he eoustantly reverted to it. Conoernincr the im plication of Brigham Young with the massnorev Morse relates the tollowm 1 interview with Lee : The last timo saw lina waa in Million cou:.ly. I got to his ranch, and the night I got thero he received a letter, in taot I brought it mvaett irom a place oalled luuiab, which statod tho troops were on Loe's traoK hunting mm iift uu" uoiiSJ f uS ti ter move on a little further. He show ed mo the letter and I said : "Leo, this l an iiWcrnal lie; there aro no troop on your track at all. This is all put up by thosu Mormons in St. Goorgo-, whero Ikigham Young was, and whom Brigham has influenced to got you out of bis way." I told biro ; i on take my advice, and go ml the Gentile camp ant) give yourself up, and make a elean breast of the wholo thing, and you will get along first rate." I asked him whotherlBriaham Young was interested in the massacre. le at first said no. Says L "I know belter a good deal." He aaya "Ot course there Is no nse lying to you. Of course I was under orders, and irig'iam Young knew evervthiiiQ with me from the time we loft Salt ako, but the intention was to let them pass on to Muddy and then catch them at Muddy. Do you sup poso that any of theso men you knew most of them do you suppose they would have entered into tLis arrange ment if they had not belioved in the Mormon church, and that this thing emanated from lsrigham, their Mor mon prophet?" Captain Morso says no attempt was made to prooure his tes timony, further than that ho waa sent tor to attend the first trial, but did not appear, boing down on the Colo rado river noar Fort Yuma. Lee was confidential with him on account of their frequent solitary companionship on prospecting and other expeditions, and because he knew Morse bad other sources ot information from the Indi ans. Captain Morse ia now a resi dent of this city. t Horso-Eallna; la Paris. It is thought by a committee which has been established in Paris to pro mote the use ot horse-flesh as food, that tho reappearance of the cattle plague is a fitting time to bring it be fore the English public. In their ef forts at doing this the following sta tistics bave been given: The first horse butcher in Paris opened his shop in 18CG. In 18C7 there were sold to the publio for consumption 2,152 horses, asses and mules. Hie number had risen in 18GS to 2,038 in 1872 to 5,732 and in 1875 to 6.8G5. Last year the French people ate nearly 9,000 horses, C 13 asses and 35 mules. At the same time, the butchers' shops iu various provincial towns at which hip pophaginl can gratify their taste bad risen to 58. It is also added that a philanthropic Frenchman has placed at the disposal of the committee a sum of 1,110 francs, which i to be given (together with a medal) to the first horse butcher who shall establish himself in London. Edward Wells, the negro who murdered Wm. O'Brien, wis taken from Uil at Wavne.. boro. Go., on thi 21.t, by Bikaowa parties aoa aiDgea. TUB INDIANS' SIDE OF THE STO RY. Maddened byOnlraceaandthoOoyern nieul'o Violation of Us Promises, Col. A. B. Meacham of Oregon, who was with Canby and Thomas' when they were killed by the Modoos, lectured on Sunday evening on the "Indian Question' Ho attributed tho Indians' vindictivo hostility to' the whites to tho Government's breaks hg its promises to them. "When I lay on tho rocks of the lava beds ore tho memorable. 11th of April, 1873, with my life blood flowing Irom wounds mado by tho savages bullets,' with Canby dead on one side and Thomas on tho other," tho . Colonel, said, "I covenanted with God that if my life was spared tho American peo ple should hear tho Indians' side of the story.- Tho United States sol diers Bet tiro to a hut and burned to' death an old Modoo woman who was' lying sick in- it. The Modocs made oath to the Great Spirit that tho aged woman death should be avenged.' Tho Govornmujit demanded that four toon Indians who had boen indicted! for crimes should" be delivered up, but thoir comrades would not surrender' them. The Indians knew that the' United Slates authorities would hancr. tho indicted Modocs, and they be- I! 1.1-.!- , ii ... iiuvcu vnni, ii a man is nangea ne will in tho spirit world always have a rope around his neck. Tho Indian "medi oine man" marks a lino around the' camp. This line is culled the "sacred mark," and tho Iudiuns stay within' the circle. When tho Government troops Btrtick that line the Indians fired. Eleven times iu tho lava' beds thti troops charcod upon that terrible line. It was 400 soldiers' against 23 Modocs. Col. Meacham described a confer, enco with a Modoo chief. Tho ohiof held in his hand several twigs that he' had broken from a tree, ana counting them over snid that each twig repre sented a wrong that the Government , had dono his people. These wrongs' the chief demanded should bo righted Tho chief took a stick and made a .igzag mark on tl.e ground. "That,' he said, "is tho way tho white men' mako laws. The laws are crooked,' with rights for tho white men but rauruw cii.It to ino 'cfckeju authorities wero gotting better. The' Indian tauntingly replied, "How long has your .Government been gotting better P-M Y. Sun. Mr. Diogenes. This singular man lived in Greene. He was distinguished for his occentricities, bid manners and bad disposition It was his chief business to find fault. . For exmnple, be took a lantern one day when the sun as shining brightly and went out to look for iu honest man, thereby insinuating thut such persons wore exceedingly scarce. W h'n Al exander, a distinguished military gentleman paid bim a visit and inquired what be Could do for him, hs bad the Impudence to toll him to "get out of bis sunshine." To cap the climax ol his oddities, hn dressed like a beggar and lived hi a tub. He was a sour, crubhed, oriwty, old bachelor. We Infer that be had no wile, first, because history does not mention ber ; second, beesnse do' woman would take quietly to one of his hab its, dress or manners, or aspire to become mistress of bis mansion. "There wis an old woman who lived in a shoe,"it is true, but the woman who would live io s tub, and es pecially wi th such a companion, bas not been beard Irom. Tbe misanthropic spirit which possessed this man was doubtless doe to a disordered digestion and a biliousness. one of the prominent symptoms of which is a in or oso, fault-finding disposition. The' tongOD is heavily coated, giving rise toabad taste, the appetite is not good, and tbe pa tient feels dull, sleepy, or dizzy, and is apt to be fretful. Unfortunately, Mr. Diogenes lived several ceotarins before Dr. Pierce 't I'lessant Furgutive Pellets were Invented. - few doses of which would have relieved him of bis "bile," and enabled him to find scores of honest men without tbe aid of bis atntero.- Lnder their magic influence with that of the Goldon Medical Discovery, to cliunse his' blood, he might have beeo led to take a more cheerful view of life, to eJKhar.go bis tub for a decent bubitation, to "spruce op"" in per sonal appearance, end at last to bare taken a wile to mend his clothes and bis manners. both of wbicb were in evideot need of repairs, and become tbe happy lire of little Dioge-' nnses who would bare banded dowo to pos terity the name, not of a cynical philoso pher, but of a cheerful, boallby,bappy, virtu-' ous man. Tbe Poultry. Feed the table scrans to tliA chink.' ens instead of throwing them to tho' nigs. They are worth more to the poul try; and everything that tails from tho table dry crusts, vegetable leav ings, cooked meat bits, fco. is eager ly devoured by both old and young' fowls. There is variety in this food also, which tho birds appreciate. Crush the eggshells before throwing thero, to your poultry, as otherwise egg eat ing may be taught. The bones may pounded in a mortar, and all tbe cruubs after the family's meal may' thus be admirable utilized, and to one half better profit than if this do-, bris is given to the swine. Poultry World. The New York Sua blames Blaine for' Packard's persistency. Trouble U boar! expected io New Orlt-ans. Erey's Stable,