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INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ASHLAND OREGON FRIDAY.“MARCH 26, ISSO VOL IV.—NO 4'2 $2 50 TER ANNUM. • a landlady of fifteen years’ standing. supper. You can pack up your old It is a Mistake If Mrs. De Young could be confronted lace scarfs and lockets you’ve been send MORRIS BAL M. 4* with the evidences that she was receiv ing Letitia to morrow. Mrs. Crane, A Story Foundod on Foot. It is a mistake to suppose that a man ing unlawful attention, and be dismissed you will find it more agreeable to sleep Is never employed as conductor of a I km tied every JEVkltty, Mrs. Crane, a very respectable New the house in disgrace, there would be a in your Led nights than to meddle with horse car unless he can bring the certifi ---- BY----- York landlady, entertains very decided two weeks’ rent mado clear, and the the affairs of other people, but when you cate of a respectable physician testifying LEEDS At MEURITT; Main Streep Ashland. ideas on the folly and meanness of eaves character of Mrs. Crane would bo amply feel compelled to take such a lively in to his total deafness. It only seems so dropping, since a night or two after New vindicated. Fortuno favored her, for terest in them again, let it be with any to you because you happen not to at Year. The circumstanced which led to the next morning's letter informed her body except a quiet business lady, who tract his attention when particularly de OFFICB—On Main Street, (in »econd story McCaH NEW DEPARTURE. the deposit of this opinion in her con that the unknown, or rather well-known has a devoted school friend with a hus sirous to take his car. A Bau^kMne* bulldinar.) • Romeo was to visit Mis. De Young that band she leads by the ear—-as my wife It is a mistake to think that your ac victions may be briefly told. . Jeb Printing. 3The unilersïguçd__ froni^ and after April night in the privacy of her own rooms. does me. Come Eliza. ” « alTSaferlptloiM Xino*<Ä aJIWtHottje. teil! Wafita, Mrs. Crane lets lodgings in a once tions or desires have any influence on 18th, propose to sell only for IMrwUra Buiinan Carda, Billhead», Letterhead», Poe- How soon that letter wns in the hands Mrs. De Young engaged rooms in a the dispenser of weather. You should fashionable anti still highly respectable ate., gotten up in good »cyle at living prices. quarter of the citv, and was more than of a lady on Madison avenue it needs pleasant boardinghouse within two be thankful they do not. If they did CASH IN HAND .... > --- not to inquiry. blocks. Somehow the story got round Old Prob would go mad, and your fel Terma of Subarrlption: Or approved produce delivered—except suspeeted of keeping‘a much more than Eatly that afternoon a veiled and t he neighborhood, and Mrs. Crane thinks low countrymen go madder. friendly eye on the affairs of persons Q m wot . one jar............ ................. Ft M y hen by special agreement—a short cloaked lady was shown into Mis. dx raontb»..^..». ,.^........ 1 50 of giving up her lease tho 1st of April seeking a home with her. Miss Critten It is a mistake to think your inter M “ thren month».......... ...... 1 00 and limited credit may be given. Crane ’ s back parlor. Sho was expected, locutor is listening to what you say. He den, a young lady of slender figure and Club rate», dx oopiea for............ ... ..... „..li 50 Barta» ia advance. nay more, the ardent, bold, adventurous Men Gossips. is thinking either of what he has said genteel appearance, who had the front They have commenced receiving their or is going to say, just as you were and . TajjasjktAdvertising! parlor, was certain that the letters in Crane crept out on the extension roof New Spring Stock, and that every •ns square ^ten llnss oHwo) 1st Inierlton...... 50 her trunk were regularly inspected and and into Mrs. De Young’s windows, un If it is a misfortune for a woman to will be. day Will witness additions to It is a mistake, young man, when her toilet bottles were tampered with. locked her doors from the inside, and in be born a gossip, it is doubly so for a aaeh additional insertion .......................................... 1 00 tho largest stock of T/ r * vited the strange lady to an inspection inan. Much has been said and written you think the girls are just dying after Mrs. De Young, on the second floor LOCAL |x*eal aotloaa per line ................ lOo back, who was proof reader for a large of the rooms. The two accomplices of a gossiping woman, and they have you. It is only you who are thorough Regular a«’ jr’tsemente inwrtod upon liberal terms. publishing house, found the leaves of went through Mrs. De Young’s biyeau been widely slandered by the opposite ly in love with yourself. It is a mistake for a preacher to say, her manuscripts mysteriously disordered drawers, the contents of lace boxes and sex.. Now women are honest about gos PROFESSIONAL. Ever brought io this market They de on her table. She kept no cat; indeed, jewel boxes were scheduled and a packet sip. I have often heard women say “ Just one word more and I am done.” sire to say to every reader of she had consulted the landlady’s prefer of letters taken from the portfolio of when calling on their neighbors, “I He but lengthens his discourse by so DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, , _ ■ this paper, that if ences so far as to give away her pet Mrs. De Young’s trunk’•were identified came over ior a little gossip;” but who much, without deceiving any one of his ASHLAND, : : : : OREGON. maltose, send her dog to the country, and taken possession of. The irate wife ever heard of a man owning he was a hearers for an instant. It is a mistake to suppose that every and put her boy in boarding school, in of the ardent Romeo then retired to gossip? Oh, no. It is always, “I have OFFICE At the AihUnd Drux Store. Mrs. Crane ’ s back room and was solaced business over in town to Mr. C — ’ s, and body is thinking about you. You do Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will obedience to that potentate’s expressed with a cup of tea and a recital of all off he starts never thinking of fences to so much of that kind of work yourself injunctions. When Mrs. Crane objected do it, they propose to do the largest “ the goings on in that house. ” How be repaired, and the many chores which that you exhaust the subject. to having the windows open in the close, business this spring and summer JAMES R. NEIL, that Mrs. Crane had never liked that are to be done on a well-appointed farm. It is a mistake to expect a direct an muggy Winter weather, Mrs. De Youug ever done by them in the Mrs. De Young from the first, because A T T O R N E Y - AT- L A W , But we seldom, if ever, see a gossip swer from a politician. His life is obediently sealed hers, and sweltered in last five years, and she “never could make anything out of with that kind of a farm, unless he had given to dodging questions before elec company with an open fire and the odor they can posi J acksonville, Oregon. from an untrapped wash basin. When her;” how she had resisted all etiorts to a present of it Why ? The time spent tion and giving evasive answers after tively make Mrs. Crane turned off the gas all over be sociable, and disclose her family and by other farmers in attending to little election. it to-the It is a mistake to suppose tlnit your the house at half past nine, no remon affairs to Mrs. Crane's friendly ears, things, is invariably spent bv them la advantage J. w. MMAKAR, burning to receive her confidence ; how menting their luck, liis neighbors al children will be satisfied with your ex strance was made, but an investment of every one to NOTARY PUBLIC, Mrs. Crane dbubted the story of her be ways know his business better than Lis was made in jjpratfine candles. The periences. You didn’t accept your call upon them, in. XlnkviHe, Lake Co., Oregon.'-'‘B"—*"r_l ing a proof-reader, since she did nothing own family, how much he owes, how father’s, but preferred taking a term in water was cut nff from the upper stories Ashland and test the truth OFFIL3E—In Poet OiScS bv.itóíig. Special attention but mark nice looking manuscript all up much he expects to make, etc., and that the same dear school. and only turned on when the landlady of their assertions. They will ivon to ednteyancing 4 • It is a mistake to suppose that men went to bed, so that ablutions were re with erasures and corrections, how she is generally a great deal. JLlis castles spare no pains to maintain, more had beta sure for a long time that her are built to tumble down when harvest do not mean what they say. Then*‘is fully than ever, tho reputation of their duced to the facilities of a hand basin, M. L M’CALU plainness of dress was only a pretence time is over, or cattle or hogs are sold. but one man of whom you can positively jut no complaint was made by the air House, as the acknowledged enduring feminine, awaro of the gross and a blind, consoling the indignant, in And when, reckoning time comes if make that affirmation. PURVEYOR ^JIA^iNGINEER, imposition on the world she had prac jured wife with the assurance that her lie has kept books the balance is on the It is a mistake to suppose that the Ashland, Oregon. revenge was at hand. “ Wouldn ’ t I like a wrong side, and then, he never made dismally pious man has had a change of ticed in being born a woman, and - the • • ta prepared io do any work In his line on abort notice. consideration extended in allawing her to see that woman when we find vour anything at farming, of course not. He heart. The change is in his liver, if For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, a roof over her head and rest for the husband in her room ?” breathed Mrs. tries another business, maybe, and fails anywhere. Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, It is a mistake to suppose that people soles of her feet for only three dollars a Crane in accents of deepest satisfaction. even sooner than he did at farming, and Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress It was a quarter past 9 when Mrs. De so it is, old age overtakes him and he is go to a concert to hear the music. They week more than a man would pay for DR. W. B. ROYAL, Goods,Crockery,Glass and the same accommodations. But myste Young, at the first tingle of tho bell, a poor man, and the habit of gossiping, go simply to exchange receipts for H m permanently located in Ashland. Tin Ware, Shawls, rious influences were at work in the stole down and admitted a gentleman, like drinking, has kept growing on and doughnuts and dropcakes. Will give his undivided attention to the practice of W rappers, Cloak 3, It is a mistake to suppose that your Crane mansion, l’he young German on who passed immediately to her sitting on until at GO he is enslaved with it. feediuine. Has had fifteen years’ experience in And, in fact, everything required for the Oregon. Office at his residence, on Main street, friend is consumedly interested in your The farmer that gossips and idles the top floor misaed half a dozen pairs room. “That’s he—that’s my husband,” opooatte the M- K. Church. • trade of Southern and South eloquent description of your liver of gloves and a silk kerchief from his cried the excited woman at the crack of away his time, is known by passing his eastern Oregon. bureau, and as the door was locked and the back parlor door ; and forthwith house or fields. The front yard is never troubles. On the contrary, he is exces the key with Mrs. Crane all day, injuri Mrs. -Grano established Lor visitor at the clean, frequently weeds grace the lawn, sively anxious to tell you of his catarrh. DR.X J. BOYD, A full assortment of It is a mistake to wish the butcher ous suspicions formed in his mind. The landing outside Mrs. De Young’s door, instead of flowers, hogs around the DENTIST. would remove tho bones before weigh jestrade family on the third floor traced remaining to keep her company and see house for want of a little time spent at etters addressed to lodgers into the back if anything was wanted. “ The nights the fences, or if the gossiper be a man ing your meat. How would you like to Link ville, ; : : : Oregon. For Blacksmiths* and General use. jarlor, where Mrs. Crane sat in com I’ve watchedand listened at these doors,” of any of the trades or professions much be weighed that way yourself ? •Aee and residence, aonth aide of Main atrset. >any with a turn-up bedstead when not murmured the enraptured Mrs. Crane. valuable time is spent in this useless, A Full Line of Some Fact3 About Australia. otherwise employsd, and the same let “That woman thought she was too breath-wasting business that has no W. U. Atklnao*. Jbonh W»fii«r K. K. Anderoon. ters went up stairs some hours after smart for me, but I’ve got her now— shade or coloring of improvement in it Australia, with Tasmania, is only a What can this idle gossip amount to ? wards rather thickly gummed, and with he, hel” Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Docskins To say that the strango gentleman If it is to discuss the floating rumors of little less in area than Europe. The inger marks about the flap quite Clothing, always on hand and egible to an observer of ordinary ex- greeted Mrs. De Yom g with kisses and the street, would it not be far better to hottest climate in the world probably for sale at lowest prices. >erience. In the dead of night floors remarks distinctly audible outside the await the issue of the local papers the occurs in the desert interior of Austra > i e creaked ominously, keyholes were mys parlor door, that the ladies outside heard statements of which are in almost every lia. Captain Stuart hung a thermome The highest market prices j>aid for teriously obscured about bedtime and an these sounds with fierce clicking of case made upon reliable authority ? Do ter on a tree shaded both from sun and We will continue to purchase wheat oar placed against a door panel could teeth, and that from the range of the not talk over the failures of your neigh wind. It w'as graduated to 127 degrees detect the faint whish of retreating keyhole, 'Mrs. De Youug soenied bor who may be doing tho very best he F., yet so great was the heat of the air flounces. Add to this Mrs. De Young incautiously to be silting on the arm of can, and at the same time forget your that the mercury rose till it burst the Oome One and All. Th8 Highest Market Drice, found a letter of Mrs. Crane’s dropped the gentleman’s chair, with his arm own shortcomings. — Western Farm tube, and the temperature |must thus have been at least 128 F., apparently the J. M. MeCALL A CO. at her bedside in her own room, where around her, would be to admit details Journal. Arid will deliver highest ever recorded in any part of the not a servont was allowed to penetrate, obviously undesirable for a family news world. For three months Captain Stu Life a Hundred Years Ago. and which she swept and dusted with paper. The listeners heard ardent de art found the mean temperature to be her own hands. A3 the doors were clarations of love ; they heard him in a JAMM THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, Anywhere in town, locked every time she went out, the low, strained voice unfold a plan for One hundred years ago not a pound over 101 degrees F., in the shade. W. H. ATKINSON, E. X. ANDERSON. conclusion was evident that the letter Mrs. De Young to meet him in Canada, of coal or a cubic foot of illuminating Nevertheless on the southern moun AT MILL PRICE ■. did not blow there by chance, and the where business would soon call him ; gas had been burned in the country. tains and table lands, three feet of snow Wasner, Andaman A discovery that Mrs. Crane’s keys fitted they heard her objections, coquettish ly No iron stoves were used, and no con sometimes fallB in a day. Snow storms •very door in the house settled any urged, yield before his professions of re trivance for economizing heat were em have been known to last for weeks, the doubts on the maker Mrs De gard, and the contract signed and sealed ployed until Dr. Franklin invented the snow lying from four to fifteen feet Young’s subsequent action in put that they were to meet at Odensburg iron framed fire place which still bears in depth and burying the cattle. Aus his name. All the cooking and warm tralia is a land of drought and flood. ting spring locks and bolts on her door, one week from that date. “Now,” said Mrs. Crane, applying ing, in town as well as in the country, The annual rainfall at Sydney has var and in asking leave to have a private letter box in tlio hall, was denounced by her false key to the spring lock, and were done by the aid of fire kindled on ied from twenty-two to eighty-two inch Mrs. Crane as highly unladylike and walking boldly in, pusliing the distracted the brick hearth or in the brick ovena es. Like George, near Goulburn, was, insinuating, not to say suspicious. The wife before her to astound the miserable Pine knots or tallow candles furnished in 1824, twenty miles long and eight letter box was indignantly forbidden; pair. But her eves misgave her the the light for the long Winter nights, and miles broad. It gradually sank till, in ARE NOW MAKING FROM but as Mrs. De Young had the spring first moment. Instead of appearing sanded floors supplied the place of rugs 1837, it became quite dry, and its bot Main Street, : : Ashland. lock put on without asking or demand overwhelmed, the two took matters and carpets. The water used for house tom was converted into a grassy plain. ing leave, no action could be taken on quite coolly. Mrs. De Young did not hold purposes was drawn from deep In 1865 it was a lake again, seventeen I have constantly on hand tho very best even move from the arm of the chair or wells by the creaking sweep. No form feet deep; two years later it was only that count. Soon after this a marked increase was the gentleman take his arm from her of pump was used in this country, so two feet deep; and in 1876 it was ■ADDLE HOBMEN, BVCiUIEM AND CIBBIAUES, apparent in the letters which came to waist. She was even more surprised to far as we can learn, until after the com twenty feet deep. Mrs. De Young. These were mostly see the outraged wife walk up to Mrs. mencement of the present century. Poor Mary Harris. And can furnish my customers with a ina J k >U1 masculine hand, scented with De Young and kiss her on the cheek There were no friction matches in those - . . I tip-top turnout at auy time. cigar smoke, and rather lightly sealed. with the utmost familiarity, her height early days by the aid of which a fire Mary Harris, the young woman who By means not specified, Mrs. Crane ened color and eyes dancing with mis could be easily kindled, and if the fire several years ago killed her alleged se BLANKETS, HORSES BOARDED possessed herself of the facts that a chief which was not malicious, alone went out upon the hearth" Over night, ducer—Borroughs—in one of the corri and the tinder was damp, so that the dors of the treasury department, and well-to do gentleman was violently in marking any disturbance of feeling. FLANNELS, O b reasonable terms, and given the best “Did you have any trouble in getting sparks would not catch, the alternative love with Mrs. De Young, was making whose sensational trial for murder and attention. Horses bought and sold appointments with her for lunches and your key to work, Mrs. Crane ?” quoth remained of wading through the snow acquittal on the plea of insanity are CASSIMERES, and satisfaction guaranteed in a milo or so to borrow a brand of a drives and conducting himself in a Mrs. De Young. well remembered by our citizens, has all ijy transactions. “Mrs. Crane, allow me to make you neighbor. Only one room in any house DOESKINS, most loverljke fashion. Large bouquets since been an inmate of the Government and baskets of flowers were anonymous acquainted with my husband and most was warm, unless some member of the Insane Asylum, but made her escape H. F. PHILLIPS. ' J AND HOSIERY. ly sent to the house in the dusk of the intimate friend,” said the injured wife. family was ill; in all the rest the tem yesterday afternoon while in charge of evening, on receipt of which Mrs. De “As I planned this litte performance perature was at zero many nights in her attendant, Miss Acton. It appears 11» n : Young was observed to blush deeply, from beginning to end, and dictated Winter. The men and women of a hun that Miss Harris accompanied Miss Ac ■ and on scrutiny applied to the proper those letters to Mrs. De Young which dred years ago undressed and went to ton to the city yesterday for the pur point, viz., the keyhole, was seen to you opened, making yourself liable for their beds in a temperature colder than pose of attending the matinee perform press the flowers convulsively to her felony, as I am witness, I don’t see that that of our barns and woodsheds, and ance at one of the theatres, and before lips. Corded boxes of delicate articles we will need tc trouble you any farther. they never corn plained. '• - the hour they drove to a residence in of ladies’ wear, lace »nd jewelry came I am very much obliged for the enter the western part of the city, where Miss Pitting in Small-Pox. directed in the same hand as the letters, tainment you have furnished us.” Harris wished to stop and write a letter. “So am I,” said Mrs. De Young. with references to blissful hours spent in By some means she disappeared from OLD AND new , “So am I,” said the unabashed hus Somebody has ascertained the curious the presence of Miss Acton and has not the society of his charmer, and allusions not - altogether complimentary to some band, broad smiles irradiating the faces facts, in small-pox, that poor people are yet been found. It is thought that she Are invited to send in their orders and obstacle in the way of the writer’s af of the party. pitted least, rich people are pitted most, proceeded to the railroad station and are assured that they “I give notice, Mrs. De Young," said and no class are pitted under their took passage for Baltimore, as she had fections. This was sufficient to put.any the irate Crane, “that I shall want dress. Poor people have less light in $1 50 in money with her, and that she landlady - on- the watch. About this not their homes, the rich plenty of light, and is now in that city somewhere. The po time Mr»-* Craneput on her bonnet and these romns immediately. I went down toa certain Wall street office called on to be made part in any such under the dress there is, of course, less lice are on the lookout for her, and light than in either case.i The explana measures have been taken by the police and from thence took the stage to a unladylike conspiracy as this.” At Prices that Defy Competition. tion, according’to thli observer, is a authorities in Baltimore for her appre handsome house inr avenue.^ i “Mrs. De Young will give up your scientific one. The sunlight coneigts of hension if in that city. She made her ta, Her detective1" abili her in roew the first of February,” said Mr. . i . « ri ted ptNMlgsion of factsl with which she re Graves significantly. “I think she had thrqpprijutty eeiors. The red, the blue escajie several years since and was re *•; etc ble turned to her house triumphant Mrs. better not go out till then, and I am not and the yellow rays have distinct and tak erteomewhere in Pennsylvania, after or- ASHLlto WOMEN MILLS.“ *1 De Young’s month’s rent Iras paid in afraid but she will be well till then. characteristic properties—the yellow mi absence of several months.—Wash* ern advance and only two weeks had Elira,” to- his wife, “you’ve done the gives light, tho r6d, heat, and the blue, ingtouStar. - — >1 elapsed, chance of re-letting the love making in this scrape, all but cop actinism. Now the pus of variolar pus Edison is all right His success was rooms was not to be considered in com ying your own. letters to Mrs. De tules absorbs, by its yellow medium, the actinic rays, which results in corrosion predicted in the Bible. In verse 18 of parison with the opportunity to retali Young. Suppose you relieve her from itaseli, ate on a lodger who had cast suspicion Sitting on my chair any longer, and let of the tender flesh at the base, and thus Psalm Ixxvii may be found the sentence, “The lightnings lightened tho world.” on a landlady who had cast suspicion on uaall go round to thé Brunswick for leaving “pits.” An; Eavesdropper Cautioned. ! IRON AND STEEL » Ashland Woolen Goods! ASHLAND MILLS 1 Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard. Flour, Feed, Etc., ZASHLAND Livery, Sale & Feed MÄNÜFÄC’G CO., STABLES, The Very Best -• » ASHLAND •£ . First Occurrences. Indian Civilization. V* THE • K.” WO O L EN Standard Goods! T I S THE ASHLAND General Merchandise! 9 't The first chimneys were introduce! into Rome from Padna in 1368. The first almanac was printed by Geo. Von Purch in 1460. Post oflices were first established in 1461. Printed musical notes were first used in 1473. Watches were first constructed in 1476. The first watches were made at Nu- remburgin 1477. The first printing press was set up at Copenhagen in 1493. Copernicus announced his discovery of the true* system of the universe in 1517. Luther was summoned before the Diet of Worms in 1521. Albert Durer gave the world a proph ecy ‘of;future wood engraving in 1527. Jergeng sot the spinning wheel in motion in 1530. Henry VIII, of England, finally and forever broke with the Pope in 1852. Ignatius Loyola founded the Order of the Jesuits in 1535. Calvin founded the University of Geneva in 1537. Modern needles first came into use in 1545. The first knives were used in Eng land, and the first wheeled carriages in France, in 1859. Torquato Tasso wrote in 1560. Religious liberty was granted to the Huguenots In France in 1852, and was followed by the massacre of St Barthol omew in 1572. Coaches were first used in England in 15G9. Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in 1573. The first newspaper was published in England in 1588. Spencer, Shakespeare, Bacon, Kepler, Tycho, Brahe Mero contemporaries in 1590. The first telescope was probably used in England in 1608. The first printing press in the United States was introduced in 1G29. The first newspaper advertisement ap peared in 1G52. The first pump was made in 1650. The first copper cent was coined in New Haven in 1687. The first steam, engine on this conti nent was brought from England in 1753. The first balloon ascent was made in 1783. Glass windows were first introduced into England in the eighth century. The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The first saw-maker’s anvil was brought to America in 1819. The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1820. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. The first horse railroad was built in 1826’7. The first lucifer match was made in 1829. The first iron steamship built in 1830. The first steel pen was made in 1830. Telescopes were invented in 1560. Omnibuses were introduced in Now York in 1830. Ships were first “copper-bottomed” in 1837. Envelopes were first used in 1839. Tho first almanac-calendar was issued in 1858.—G. Bergen. J. M McCall & Co I <. • lOPRPmONSt ORKS. Facts havo proved not only tiiat the American Indians are not decreasing in numbers, but they are advancing rapidly in civilization. Of the entire number, ' estimated at 275,000, 56,000, or about one-fifth, receive rations from the Gov ernment. The number of rations issued is steadily diminishing; for instance, 12,000 rations now given to the Nav- ajoes, will cease to be issued next year. About 70,000 Indians aic living under constitutional and written laws, adopted and administered by themselves. There are 112,903 who wear citizens’ dress; these occupy 22,190 houses. There are maintained among the tribes 330 schools, in |which are 11,515 scholars; the sum of $337,370 is expended eta ed ucation, and 40,397 have learned to read. The number of acres of laud cul tivated by Indians within the jurisdic tion of the United Htates is 292,550 ; the total of bushels of wheat raised by them in 1877 was 688,728; of corn, 4,656,952. The horses and mules owned are 216,286 ; cattle, 217,883, and sheep 587,444. These facts are proof that the peace policy of the National Government is far from being a failure. Dr. Clark, one of tho Secretaries of the American Board, has expressed the opin ion that'dyr Indians have made more progress in ‘civilization in the last de cade than during the preceding fifty years.—Harper’s Weekly. 4 • J SHall Receive ‘ Prtmpl Attention I Aff' Pap er as a substitute for wood in the manufacture of lead pencils is being at tempted in Germany. The paper is steeped in an adhesive liquid, and rolled around the oore of the lead to the re quired thidenraa, and is colored after dryi11?» 'wltelMt resembles an ordinary cedar p^cil. ♦ » -I III. . A person has been arrested in Texa3 tor the murder of R man named Smith. Any attempt to decrease the Smith fam ily by foul means will be resented in Texas as elsewhere. t L ... /