Show EDITORIAL NOTES louisiana has a state debt of a little over just before the war it was officially reported at JO after the close of the war 70 was expended for levees leveis and the balance nas haa accrued through interest on the old bonds the way to progress how long at this rate will intake it take a state to become bankrupt in another colu column will bo be found an au article from the cherokee aavo cate published at Tahle tallequah quah in the ibe cherokee nation partly in the cherokee language Them the massacre sacre of the Cheyenne a ia Is only one more bloody stain on the skirts of this nation and one more step nearer to the righteous retribution th that atwill will come as a consequence of rank injustice vile oppression and gross rapacity on the part of the superior race As evidence that money la Is plentiful notwithstanding the distress in papers state that when an additional issue at bf stock was made by the rotterdam street railroad Company flor florina ina lna or about was waa offered on the first day the books were opened capitalists hoard their money and will only invest in safe and solid enterprises and thus building and manufacturing interests linger the laborer is unemployed and destitution tit ution prevails sitting bulls message to the united states stales government is mournfully pathetic and peculiarly indian in its method of expression ha Hs says once I 1 was strong and brave and my people had bad hearts of iron but now I 1 am a coward and will fight no more forever my people are cold and hungry my women are sick and my children are free fret freezing zing I 1 will do as the great father wishes I 1 will give my guns and nay ponies into hia hands bands my arrows are broken and my war paint thrown to the winds 11 in the year 1874 the death penalty for murder was abolished an in the canton of Frieburg switzerland it contained inhabitants and in the ten years preceding there were only seven bi bases basos ses of murder during the three years following the change in the law fifteen murders were perpetrated and thero there were nive five more last year that is when capital punishment was the laws law the murders numbered less lees than one a year now they the occur at the rate of five a year the he inference is easily drawn A bright little three year old while her mother was trying te to get her to sleep became interested in some outside noise she was told that it was caused by a cricket when she sagely observed mamma I 1 think he ought to be oiled I 1 |