| Show EDITORIAL NOTES the new now york herald says there were fewer casualties on the centennial fourth than on any previous occasion rather bather indefinitely expressed but it is lail iiri i s supposable u that the herald me means s than on any previous celebration of the fourth the cincinnati times says cus ouster custer plunged into the little horn fight after a forced march of miles in three days the night before the battle he had ridden thirty three miles and right ohton on top of that attacked he wanted to tight before gibbon got there he succeeded the cincinnati times says we must needs confess without a moments hesitation that this thia whole e campaign has been a terrible blunder from its hasty inception to its sad finish it was undertaken at the request of the indian bue nue bureau not tho the war department its object being to force forc some esome roving bands of warlike indians on to the reservation to which they were bound by treaty undertaken at a time when the army was being mado the butt of political attacks when severe censure was bein being 0 heaped upon its cost when democratic were seeking to cut off its supplies and reduce its force it naturally followed that the expedition was cramped in strength 3 and fettered by a ruinous economy tilo tile omah omaha a herald says say this calamity to the west this bloody aarand war and its consequences is nothing in tte the world but a war of bings kings against the best welfare of the country neither sherman Sher man mau nor llor sheridan nor crook is responsible for it it dates to the how not to do it attempt of the allison commission of last year to purchase the black hills when an inner ring of indian thieves defeated all attempts at their purchase that they might continue to fatten upon robbery and thrive upon the public misfortunes it may come in our way hereafter to ventilate the conspirators spira tors in this business by calling men and things by their proper names that our people may know who the thi authors of this bloody ruin really are meantime it is alike our pleasure and lind duty to stand by george crook who is doing his utmost to guard great reat interests and upon whom in this exigency we all depend for their security 11 the new now york herald says tho the the tho sun of general grants granted administration seems to be going down in an eclipse alike ia in its earlier and in its later dater stages it is an expression of the personal humors gorsof of the president but hiscar his earlier humors were more anil amiable ablo able and kindly so long iong on as he lie remained the chief object of popular favor lie he had a hearty enjoyment of his position and it seemed to be hla hia wish to mako make every creature connected with him by blood marriage or friendship the sharer of his liis good fortune this showed an inadequate et aate sense of his great public trust but if etwas it was selfish it maa vaa an amiable selfishness since the dini disappointment point polut ment of hla hia cherished hopes 0 of a third nomination his temper has undergone a change tho the spirit of indulgent nepotism has been supplanted by a fell spirit of revenge and his hia chief delight 0 seems to be in punishing all who have been in any way instrumental in thwarting his hopes the money spent in intoxicating drinks is much greater than many people suppose last year the tho working classes of E england drank worth of alcoholic drinks equal to their con sump tion of bread tea ten coffeo coffee cocoa sub sugar arand anand and rice together leo sillier miller and mattie mattle strickland married themselves for as long as they might wish the doctor of unet haet sings tings jail minnesota where leo is said to be confined for some cause is ii reported to have said eald that ho he believed that cipols lt os free love views were caused by biliousness and that a good lobelia lobella emetic would quite cure him billous bilious people therefore should take notice of or his this hia in time meantime how is isi it if with mattie mattle Is she bilious too if so her parents should haave have plied her liberally with lobelia emetics emetic 9 and would not lobella emethes bo be good things for periodical doses dozes to the biliously inclined of both sexes mary clemmer ames amea says bays for only twenty minutes the twenty succeeding the sixth ballot on nomination day did blaine expect tho the nomination croath gathin gabbin Gat hin bin in the philadelphia times says our presidents have been married men inen tyler married in the white house and washington popped the question to five now we hate have come to bachelor times and are aro asked to elevate ti to the chief I 1 magistracy a man never sauced by his wife wire nor crawled over by the baby not out oftie orthe mouths of babes and suck lings has samiuel perfected praise man arrived at lon bon long bong branch july ath having escaped from the philadelphia lunatic asylum he was without money but he got passed ever over the road says an exchange lle lie ile he registered at the ocean hotel and called for the best suite of rooms in the house ho he looked well talked rationally and called many of his old friends by nanie name he said he had come here for the purpose of clearing up the malicious us rumors which drove him fro from his couil country try and exiled him for four sear years s from his home and family on tl the e m morning 0 ing of the ath two men kno knocked ck e d at tho the door of his room told him ho he was their prisoner and must return to t philadelphia at once ho he na was ts forced into a carriage and driven to the depot where he broko away from his captors ran I 1 into nto the america american n hotel and begged for protection an attorney was sent for who informed the off meers officers that it was a clear case of kidnapping a citizen of the state of new J jersey ersey erses and threatened that if they mado made another attempt he would send them to jail jall j ail all themen the men left on the first train and the doctor remained to enjoy his freedom A local contemporary has a paragraph concerning the late lamented general custer ouster in which is stated that ho never drank spi liquors nor tobacco in any form what does thau thai glean does it mean that he never dran drank lager nor ale nor porter in which it ia Is mysteriously hinted that a tobacco solution is not so ro rare as it should be the sacramento mccord union says of the indian wai wal W at As regards the question of tight or wrong it is too late to discuss it now the mischief has beon been done the war has hag been commenced and the reverses which our troops have sustained demand the most energetic prosecution of hostilities nothing less than the infliction of such chastisement as will paralyze the sioux and render them incapable of future outbreaks can be contemplated tem plated and sitting bull if taken aliv alive should be condemned to imprisonment for ilfe life whatever successes the expedition now being for formed nied may obtain however it is clear that the subjugation of the sioux will bo be a very costly enterprise ter prise and that it will add another to the already long list of unnecessary and anti inexcusable ludi indi indian all ali w war wr r I 1 which a vicious policy has eD entailed tailed upon tho the country the gloomy predictions about the anticipated failure of the delaware and maryland peach crops result this tills way the gathering and marketing of the usual number of baskets of peaches by careful estimate 1 the washington sar star of july ath says indian inspector vandever writes to the commissioner of indian affairs frodi fro m the red cloud ci oud agency that the stories of the sioux having left that place to join the bands fighting against general crook are wholly untrue he says the indians at the agency are loyal and true to the government and are endeavoring to keep the peace red cloud and spotted tail tall are active in their endeavors to restrain their people from joining the roving and have thus far been successful the st paul minn pioneer has the following mr leo hunter and Ms miss mattle mattio strickland daughter of a former member of Congre congress sao from michigan have been indicted by the gra grand nd jury of dakota county the question will doubt doubtless les ies S b be 0 d determined et e ami D ed VII N whether ether their mutual agreement in the presence of witnesses to live together as husband and wife is anything less than a convenient ar ran gement for a adulterous dult duit erous intercourse the cleveland Clev clex clanA nl herald bays says of the tho volunteer proposition it may be necessary to resort to this expedient but it is a hazardous one the raising of such a force would undoubtedly be the inauguration of a war not against the hostile sioux only but against all indians friendly or unfriendly no matter what the tribe the dogs of war once let slip cannot be re chained until nothing ia is left fo for them to destroy the life of an indian will be of no more value in such case than the life lire of a rat and the indians will not be slow to retaliate on the families of tho the se settlers f 11 tho the philadelphia dinies times says if the sad news of tile the little horn butchery shall bo confirmed coon toon firmed it will mean a war df of extermination we shall blot tho barbar barbaT barbarian lah lan out from his hunting grounds because he has vanquished an army in battle right bight or wrong sueh such is destiny that may be but destiny does not justify a wrong the boston post inclines to the opinion that a change of blood in the federal government would be desirable and says hayes is of scottish descent so Is ia grant and so are the camerons let lot us try the good old puritan stock ance onee once more to which governor tilden belongs qa lanier is not the odily poet america can boast besides walt valt whitman and joaquin miller the cincinnati enquirer says mys by y a judicious use of capital letters mr bayard taylor literary empiric managed to turn out a half hall yard of incomprehensible r nonsense called a national ode 1 I the tho H monitor of juno h tells 0 of f a cu rions circumstance and says mr french a member of tile the thorne dramatic troupe playing an engagement ga in this city was the ho he retired to rest at an early hour last night and soon fell into a deep slumber after the lapse of an hour or two he was aroused by a feeling of overpowering oppressiveness ind and suffocation and was horrified to find that a huge cat was sitting on his breast and ind had its head inserted in his mouth sucking away his breath ho he found himself in an almost exhausted condition I 1 so much so that ho he was unable to shaka shake ox off the vampire fiend attacking him struggle as he would the cat only fastened its claws the deeper in his chest and went on at its ita hor bor horrible feast his ills groans and cries of agony however fortunately brought some neighboring lodgers to his relief and he was rescued from his frightful position even then they were compelled to turn him out of bed and roll him over and over on the floor before the cat could be made to release its hold bold and abandon its purpose mr french Frenc hs face and chest this morning bear frightful evidences of his terrible battle with the monster tile the lancaster penn ex ez maliner says A man by the name of sawyer living at tionesta was stung clung by a black spider not long since ance and from a stout healthy man lie he became shriveled and emaciated in consequence and is unable to perform the slightest labor 37 august lehne a jersey city man had a grudge against a neighbor samuel cox and consequently dug a deep trench near the dividing fence where h ho c undermined his neighbors lot a and rid tid cut off the roots of seven of his neighbors vines mr cox was surprised to see his hia vines die and the use of a a 0 revealed the cause whereupon mr lehne Leh was invited to give bonds ta tod appear and satisfy the court why ho he interfered with those vines george W cutler 35 years old proposed to mrs sarah lewis a aged g ed 65 0 of philadelphia sarah th thought ought himmler him oer young to marry her so she said no georgo george persisted in his request and being still refused shot the lady through the breast the wound however is s not considered danger dangerous ous when en a man tries to kill hill a woman how can such conduct be dignified with the lame hame of love lore love bove boveia Is life and life and happiness is its Mg object ague arrue among the troops at tilbury horton forton eort port on the thames E england ng has been found to be due to an excess of fungoid matter in the tanks which supplied the fort these tanks ranks are in the grounds and are supplied by rain water from the rooting roofing of 0 tho the bort fort build ings the fungoid is hi supposed to have haXe been derived from of the marsh water around the tanks the philadelphia bulletin reasons in this way the tho the pocket handkerchief is tp an article of sublime necessity in civilized countries but its constant introduction upon the stage as a signal for a from the nostrils of an actor is le of questionable taste the professors of harvard pronounce the girl students of chemistry mineralogy and botany fully rully equal to the men certainly the girls were intended to be a match for the men and some of the dear creatures are occasionally more than a match for the men talking of the war in turkey turley an exchange remarks how bitterly men will night fight over a difference of opinion concern con eon cernius inz matters that none of them know anything about |
