Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1886, Page 12

ADVENTURES OF MAJOR NORTH Wtita Chief of The Pawnee Frontier Experience. SIOUXRAIDS UPON THE PAWNEES The Great Sioux War—Abandonment of Frontier Settlements—Organ- ization of the Pawnee Scouts, COPYRIGHTED, L Pritten for the Sunday Iee by Alfrea Sorens 1 The Sionx Upon The War- Pawnee Soouts. In the spring of 1861 Frank North, who during his residence among the Pawnees had learned to converse fluently in their langu vd as Pawnee in terpreter and also as clerk at the trading post. The Sioux were then everywhere friend. 1y to the whites, but they still nourished their deadly hatred against their old cnemics, the Pawnees, whom they fre- quently attacked on their rescryation or wherever else they found them. About the 1st of June, a party of Sioux, 150 strong, mad A RAID THE PAWNEF who were out planting ten or twelve of them. As soon as the alarm the Pawnee sprang on their horses and gave pursuit. A running fight ensucd, in which the Pawnees killed quite a number of the Another raid made in the Sioux, and the Pawnees got and killed eleven after another at last became so that the agent, in the spring of 1863, asked for govern cction, and a company of the Seoond Nebraska cavalry was sent to the reservation. This had the effect of keep ing the Sioux away till autumn, when a party of 800, under LITTLE THUNDER, made an attack on the tribe. When they appeared near the agency buildings, the alarm was given, and all rushed out to defind themselves. A squaw came run- ning towsrd the agency with a mounte Sioux in pursuit. He fired a pistol ather, and she dropped upon the ground. F dismounted, scalped her in a twinkling, jumped on his horse again, and was off. The captain of the cavalry company ordered North to ride to the eamp, three- quarters of a mile distant, and order the men out at once. The captain and the agent then immediately armed themselves and mounting their horses started in pur- suit of the Sioux who had scalped the squaw. In following him they became so excited and inteut upon the pursuit that they paid no attention to anything except the fleeing warrior, and when they had ridden about a mile and a half they discovered that they were being surrounded by Indians. They could not tell whether they were Sioux or Pawnees, but supposed that they were the latter. One of the Indians finally rode up to the agent, and tapping him on the shoulder, said in English, *‘Go back, go home."” No, I want to kill that Indian,” re- plied the agent, who thought it was a Pawnee talking to mm. The Sioux there- upon drew his bow and strung an arrow, as if to shoot him, and not until then dia the agent discover that the Indians sur- rounding himself and the captain were not Pawnees. He instantly called to the captain to come back, and just asthe captain turned his horse, the Sioux let fly the arrow at the captain. It struck him over the right eye, cutting the skin s0 that the upper lid dropped down over the eye. The wounded captain and the agent then rode their horses at full speed back to the agency. The ecaptain, who remained at the agency to have his wound dressed, sent Frank North with a messuge to the first lieutenant to take charge of the troops. The Pawnees and the cmployes of the agency bad followed the Sionx, and A RUNNING FIGHT for five miles ensued, in which several of the Sioux were killed. The Sioux finally mude a stand und a skirmish lasting half an hour took place. The lieutenant and the cavalry company now eame up and charged upon the Sioux, who were drawn up in & beautiful line of battle on the side of & hill. In the charge one cavairyman was killed and one was wounded. A long and desperaic figiit followed the charge, and finally night coming on the soidiers and the Pawnves withdrew and returned to the agency, carrying with them the dead and wounded. There were seven or eight Pawnees killed, and quite a num- ber wounded. The squaw, whom the Sioux d shot ot and scalped near the agency early in the day, bad not been wounded at all by the bullet, as was afterwards learned, but had drepped to the ground throngh fright upon hearing the pistol shot. The Paw nees bad s great HORKOR OF A SCALFED PERSON, and superstitiously believed thata person surviving the scalping process would be transformed into some unnatural being— a witch, & ghost, or an evil spirit—and live forever. A wurrior who lived after being scalped would kill himself rather than present himself again to his people. This sealped squaw upon being discovered alive by her friends was taken by them to au oid cellar, where they buried her with dirt up to ner neck, and placed a straw matting over her bead and face, and thus left ber to die. Sowe three or four days after tne fight, Murs. Platt, the school teacher, was pass- ing by the cellar on her evening walk. She heard a groan proceeding from the place, and upon investigation she discov. ered the poor squaw. She at once sum- moned ussistance and bad her dug out The squaw was found to be tverribly emuciated, her head particularly bein in a very bad condition. Mrs. l‘i:fll had rovisions brought to her, and then had her head dressed, after which she had her conveyed to the saw and grist mili— there being no hospital—and there & com fortable place was prepared for her n the boiler room. For three weeks M Platt kindly attended 10 her wants, visit- ing her three times » day. The squaw finally improved so much that she w eonsidered in a fair way of recovery, and Nrs. Platt appealed to the agent to com. pell ber people to take care of her. The agent thereupon sent sent for the chiefs and told them of the condition of the squaw and informed them that her peo- ple must now care for her. The chiefs, not daning to disobey the agent's orders, consented to take charge of her, and that night they carricd ber awsy from the mull. The agent never saw her nluc-m and never knew what became of er. The null was located sbout one hua dred yards from the trading post. Two . ludisns went 1o the will and took away Path-The . was emplc SQUAWS corn, and killed was given warriors Sioux fall by tk er them dropping tk waus warriors, m one ina oW acks frequent and annoyin ment pro Sconte ~His | THE the squaw, but instead to her family. they TOMAHAWKED HER at the bank of th reck d sunk dead body 1n & deet placing s knowing good gence would d THE NEXT oux, which ATTA of the S was Jnence while t} corn bluffe The 8 | who ret and wagon the cornfield to squaws who was supposed of cou bring in among the one of his illed. North se that the chief would also bring in all the others and have them buried. All the squaws were found lying with their faces downward, as In- dians invarably torn themselyes when dying. Some fourteen or hftecn squaws were turned over before the chief found his. He loaded the dead body on th wagon, and then directed North, much | to s surprise, to return to rency without the rest The sevente other dead squaws were left where they had fallen. Some were afterwards buried, and some never were THE GREAT SIOUX WAR broke out in the spring of 1964, The Sioux claimed that they had ‘been badly treated by their a 4 that their treaty stipui: n lived up to. They asserted that the agent had, instead of delivering their goods to them, turned the proverty over to the trader who had sold it, and this really proved to be the case. The Sioux were a bower fuland & numerous sple, inhabiting the northern country. At this time they had a temporary agency on the north side of the North Platte river Secott’s Bluffs, and it was that they first became declared war against the were a great many different bands of Sioux—some twenty-fiye or thirtv—prin cipal among which were the Ogallulas. When the news the Sioux had DECLARED WAR, the alarm became ger AT sults were gry red The everywhere on frontier frightened, and aeserting the anches, flocked for safety towns, where they built stocka GENERAL CURTIS, acting under instructions, at once organ ized an at Fort Kearney against the hostiles. He had brought with him from Kansasthe Sixteenth Kan sas cavalry and part of the Twelfth Kan sas ¢ y, which regiments had been engaged in fighting the confederates, the war of ther on then being in pro. gress. General Robert Mitehell, who was in command of the District of the Plains, was to accompany the expedition. YOUNG NOETH proceeded with the Second Nebraska walry company from the Pawnee rescr- ion'to Fort Kearney, and Ge tis, upon meeting him. form liking for him. _Learning ti b lived among the Pawnees for some tir and had acquired a knowledge of their language and habits, and was held in high esteem by them, the geueral sngges- ted that he orgamze a company of Paw- nee scouts for the campaign. The su restion struck North favorably, and nowing the Pawnees to be excellent warriors and possessed with an intense hatred of the Sioux, he believed thata company couid be easily raised and that the organization would not only prove a useful auxiliary to General Curtis’ com- mand, but would do_splendid fighting. He therefore immediately concluded to act upon the suggestion, and taking with him a man named McFadden, who had been in the United States service and also an interpreter at one time, he went back to the Pawnee reservation with authority company of scouts, Seyenty- seven young and active Pawnee warriors were quickly enlisted, ana McFadden, who had a military record, he having been in the Ash Hollow fight with General Harney in 1856, was selccted as captain and North was made first lieutenant. THE PAWNEES furnished their own horses and 1n their native costumes rode to_ Fort Kearney under the leadership of McFadden and North. The enlisting of Indians in the army service was a new idea, and every- body in the command became more or less interested in the Pawnee company. and seemed anxious to see how they would act. It was the first time that In- dians had ever been umpln{ml as enlisted men. They were promised the same pay as the cavalrymen, and a certin amount for furnishing their own horses, but they never received a cent for their serviees during this campaign, as there was no appropriation to cover the services of such troops. GENERAL CURTIS' COMMAND, consisting of 1,800 men, marched to Plum Creek, and leaving the Platte river went south, crossing_the Republican river at the mouth of Turke reek, and th, moving south to the Solomon river in Kansas, along which stream frequent raids were being made by the Sioux upon the white settlements.” The command was finally dividea, General Mitchel striking out to the west, and General Curtis moving down the 'Solomon river. The country everywhere was deserted and death and ruin prevailed, the Sioux having thoroughly raided the region, and then departed for a new field of opera- tion. The campaign was concluded without a single fight. General Curtis, who was greatly pleased with the con- duct of Licutenant North and his Paw nees, ;iu\a instructions to North to enlist a regular company of Pawnees, one hun- dred strong, as soon as the tew porary or- ganization was disbanded, and to have them equipped and uniformed like other cayalry soldiers. He accordingly gave Northa captain’s reeruiting order, and he returned with his Pawnees to the re: ervation about the middle of October, 1864, In less than an hour after his return to the roservation he enrolled one bhundred tine looking, svlendidly built warriors, all of whom were anxious to go out upon the war-path against their old enemies, the Sioux. Captain North, as we shall now call him, then proceeded to Columbus to obtain telegraphic instructions from General Mitchell. Owing to provoking delays be was detained two weeks, an when he returned to the reservation he found that all the Pawnees had gone off on a bufialo hunt. After a fruitlesssearch for them, he waited until their return, and catching them near Fort Kearney he secured his hundred men and tak them to Columbus had them muste: into the United States serv COMPANY A, PAW. with himself as captain, Charles A as first lieutcnant, and James Murey, a Pawnee interpreter, as second lieutenant Remaining in camp at Columbus but a short time, they marched to Fort Kearney and there went into winter quurters About the 1st of February they were supplied with arms-old style muzzle louding infantry guns. Captain Gilleite, of the First Nebraska cavalry, commanding the post, gave orders that the Pawnees should e drilled thoroughly in the mapual of arms, and Captaun North accordingly put them through the manual for two bours every day. After ten days trial the experiment settlers beeame rfar: o the 1 OMAHA DAILY } | | S men, and river, wh point. In wilist-deep in the wat utter a word of compla ing the weather was ve reachir Lo Fe Known on the plains remain in camp days, the storm | ross | unabated fury ions, and post, the m suffering, ms aving their fect, hands and ears severely frozen The Pawnee scouts were now furnished with horses, and were ordered to march to Julesburg, which was then quite a noted station on the ove road A few days wer Wagon train read on th march four were At Plux conta for I The command, aft rough this \wtain Nick O'Br O'Brien with to dr m nly m then ve t e rrounded AND DESPERATE 1 ap, that was iptain O'Brien ure and ann hem back to the s through th lessening, that ( his company from ¢ tion. The Sioux drove y nearly ¢ Failing in this to the station r up the piunder. coffee and other provisions of which burned the buildings to tI tried to shell them out, but attention to the shells w hem with any grent o y. Late in the afternoon the Sioux »d with their booty 1o the bl the south side ot the Platte [TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY.] they pi h did not « -~ EDUCATIONAL. There are 2,00 Chautau iian. Massachusetts hoasts of having Jo0ls and 11,000 art students. Thomas F. Bayard, jr., son of his father, is a Yale freshman this Tall. There are seventy-three Harvardannex, 10r womer come. P, T. Barr buiit o new plans, to the port, Coun, Itis expected that Mrs, Garfield will at- tend the opening of the Gariield University at Wichita, Kan., which takes place this fall. The classesof Yale college this vear wili number nearly as follows: Seniors, 13; juniors, 140; sophiomores, 135; freshmen, 175, “The new freshman class at Vassar college is ot only the largest that has entered the institution, but its standard of scholarship is pronounced very high. * James Russell Lowell will deliver the ora- tion at the 250th anniversary, of Harvard, which will be observed with un. ussal honors early in November. The colored citizens of Mobile, Ala., held a meeting Monday night and voted to build an orphan asylum for eolored children, and also a house of correction in counection there with. About $200,000 will be required for th plrpose. 1t is reported that a university for women, foundea on private capital, which proposes to have three faculties—a mathewatical, & natural history, (with medical studies) and a philojozieal, is contemplated 1n Moscow,if the government widl sanction the sct “The chief rabinical school in Italy is now at Mantua. Padua held this position forwerly, and still bas for the head of itsaJewish ¢ munity the greatest Hebrew scholar in Italy, Iabbi Ende Lolii, who is brofessor of He- brew at the University of Padua, aud was a pupil of the celebrated Luzzatto. Schiools of technology are indispensable ad- juncts of industrial progress, and it is i Lap- py sign that is furnished of the manufactur- ing fever in Ceorgla by the strong efforts of the citizens of Atlanta to secure the loeation there of a technological institute built apart from an independent or any other college or university, Mich- sixty art students with now in more to 1 is to give a new schoolhouse. town of Bridge - NGULARITIES, Bears are numerous in Gladwin county, Michigan, A Cedar Rapids, Ia., cat has adopted a young mouse and is tenderly rearing it. A hog on exhibition in Wirt county, W, Va., is over eight feet long, three feet high, and weighs 715 pounas. Amoug the treasures of Orange county, Y., exbubited at its reeent fuir, was & rot which is kLown o be at least eighty-six years old. A deer described as a beautiful specimen of hiskind, joined a herd of cows that were being driven lome by a Mrs. Moore, of Ash- land, N, H., sud permitied ber to secure him after he had walked into the barn. A Wisconsin hunter named Wextord shot at what be took for an extra large squirrel on & limb, and a wild cat came down and clawed him in forty-two places to convinee him that his eyesight was a good way off. Ope of the peculiarities of & 230-pound pumpkin grown at Newburg, N. Y., 1§ that it was fed on milk. A root was sent out frow the vine 10 & basin of wilk, and it con- suwed a pint of the fluid each day. The rather doubtful story is told that a new finger has grown on the hand of Josepl Muthers, of Norwalk, who lost the member (index tinger, left hand) six months azo, white chopping wood. The narrative is complete oue of its kind, making the new Linger grow with bones, joint and finger nail all perfect. A tea ship that recently wrived at Port- land, Ore., had on board a very peculiar bird, called'tue Japanese tumbler. It has & habit of jumping from its perch, turnioy s somersault, and coming down oo the pereh all standing, and this trick it will perform dozen of times iu succession, till beholders deein the bird demented. l&hefllw: larger canary, and of rather iy um:i%u not fuch 15 the wusical fine. BEE wion | SUNDAY, OCTC 3 FOR THE HONEY LADIES, viots have broken vered wit s and mant etched, ox £n 18 very fashio with cheeron ground patterns in run work in se are worn with red and bl ree. have palm ed silk < with e Striped materials Beaded camel's te, is used f and 5§ trim girls wear ets r bells, aud the chesu witl ong has been Indianapoiis ns $ uncie in the fatheriand. Hats are not as high as straight arranzenient of (11t secmingly increases their all Woolen materials, in greeu or blue, have crossbars of brown wc With the horiz tal Dars ewmt dered with crossstitch formerly wming, Loy the ever Spiderweb' & with jet trimming tiny jet Itis shown i is made of fi1 ads veined 1 beetles att tthey can w Mis. Folsom is “Pretty Prospect country place, whiel will not considera g Jero; er home at eveland's 1y | Leonard W Lord This is a big can alone™ and beco nary Amerie of the social s rs when the furn but she is n unty t wasi, woman ean of her new ons unload urse never really certain the hired girl ' asks an ex t were awfully odd bed an ho: fortable. thir i for if notto warn h id she do it irst, Lier fe was wari husband feet, anyway ] ever desires tomake a man she refuses to marry him she very good triend foreve and any ) wman e securc friends by proposing mamiage to g would otherwise cut him. The autuwn displays df millinery have not borne out the promis= that fowers were 1o be used in profosion. ‘There are very velvet flowers and Jeaves, but t winority, while teathers and b pity, are placed lavishiy upon ba bonnets, Alfred Smith, 1s who neat-looking and quiet. hited out as a_waiter at a hotel ut Lake Elwo, near St. Paul, Minn. Soon he wa niade'second steward, and was doi when his Toom mate Teported that he was a woman, 1t proved 1o be’ Mattie Carpenter, a Rhode Island girl. She disappeared at once. The New York Mail and Express mentic apur of ladies’ shoes, ou cxhibition in Broaawsy window that are worth $ They were made for a Murray Hill be who bas a pretiy foot and an eq ive pocketbook. They are wmade, soles, of plain black satin, Rhinesiones set in solid silver form the buttons. A Kentucky planter was so well pleased with actin: of alittle girl in a play at Louisville that the next day he sent her a fine arze doll “to amuse her when n theater.” This is the reply he “Kind friend, have just received your note and package containing the doll; thanks very much. ‘Lhedoll is very handsome. 1 showed it to my husband, and we think it will be great amusement for me.” cess Wilh hias late] ns nine,heir to thethrone brated Ler sixth iday ayniversary. On that occasion the 1 invited to the royal palace all ehildren on the same day as the prineess and treated them to anquet of presents and toys. A surpr wwber responded to the call aud thoug wed thew all she was heard to Temark that the 31st of Au- gust must have been the Rreatest day for births on record CONNUBIALITIES, Henry Abbey still denies his marriage to Miss Géurard. young doctor to a lady patient; Iust take exercise for your health, my All right,” she said, “0’ll jump at the first offer.” They were marriea in about SIX months. They call it a romanti iaze in Minne- sota when 2 couple of the neizhbors get the bride’s father into a back room and sit on him to prevent his interraptiog aud breaking up the wedding. Walker Blaine is on his way to Chi, where he expe 20, s to make his home in the fu- ture, having received a very good offer from ding Chicago railroad. Tt is also said s soon 10 be married to a daughter of b, editor of the Chicago Tribune. as Suwith. Horace Greeley’s poetically beauteous son-in-law, is soon o ATy again. The object of the hahdsoma colonel’s aflec— tions is saia to be a lovely and wealthy heir- ess of the blue grass region of Kentucky and a relative of General Cerro Gordo Wil Liams. A young womsn at New Richland, Min agreed 1o arTy a young wan of that town, and all arrangenients for the sacrifice were made, including clothes and cake. On the evening of the wedding, however, after the expectant bridegroom,’ the guests and the parson had arrived, she decided to remain single. On the banks of the Murray, N. 8. W, which separates Victoria from New South Wales, a Presbyterian minister has his charge, his church and residence being on the Victoria side, and a portion of his con- ficgation residing on that of New South ales. In the course of events a young lady of his people was 1o be married; but wiih the fancies that young ladies so often indulge in, she would be married in her father's home, which was on the New South Wales shore'and by her pastor, who, as it appeared at the last ‘moment, was registered only to tie a nuptial knot in Victoria, Here Was a preuty fix: the hour bad come—and the man. “Moved by tears of the lovely sup- pliant, the winister was equal 10 the oce sion, "It appears that the whole of the waters of the Murray pertain to Victoria, so, obtain ing a boat, and putting therein all his para- phernalia and books and other instruments requisite for the performance of the cere- mony, he put off from the sbore. The young lady and ber friends cawe to the foot of her father's erounds, and the narty standing on the shore in battle array, the marriage ser- vice was duly performed by the minister in the boat. “Thie marriage was enrolled in the records at Melbourne ; bui i he quesiion arises OF Iuay arise, of 1o the evenit of cesiain con- tingencies very certain will arise, is the mar- riage legal? OCTOBE R 17 1886 -TWELVE NOW PAGES. 11 OPEN'! Ll (GeEvBi AL NKRUPT SALE OF Furniture, Carpets And General Household Goods. At 1317 and 1319 Douglas St 'This elegant stock will be sold at !, the MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. nghter is the latest eater for amateurs in New Jst 200,000, York is to vs that this is to be his | st season upon the stage. chim was at one time the leading violin zst’s Welmar orchestra, Smma Thurshy will shortly leave for ed tour in Australia. ti concert at Swansea, viched the local hospital $10,000. Rubinstein, it is said, will not undertake any tours as a pianist this season. The Templeton opera company will remain in Canada almost the entire season B Ricei is on the road with “The ak Hussar.” Luckless Bertha! Murray's opera_house, Albany, Wis stroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000, Mine. Janish arrived from Havre last Mon- day to begin ber traveling tour at Albar Unele Tom's Cabin has been turned into an opera. John Gilbert's company is to sing it. Miss Emma_Thursby, the soprana, is soon | to make an extended concert tour in Aus- tralia Jane Coombs’ new company is once more enjoying the calm delights of howe, sweet lioe Fauny Davenport and her company ap- pear at the Chestnut, Philadelphia, Noverm- bers. Frank Daniels continues his success as 01d Sport, the pugilistic aspirant, in the “Rag Baby.” St. Paul and Minneapolis paid Edwin 315,000 for the seven performances of Wales, en- was Mme. Janish's tour opens in Aibany, N.Y., show town” in the country—on is_troubled with defect- ive eyesight, and there is danger that he may becoine blind. Miss Fortescue flatters herself that she can look the part of the bLeroine of “Frou- Frou" 10 perfection. Professor Hubert Ries, of the Berlin Royal orcliestra, died recentiy. aged 54 He wasa celebrated violinist. Patrie, the new opera by MM. Paladilhe and Sardon, is announced in Paris, for the middle of December. Frauleiu Eroddy, a fine German comedi- enne, lately shot herselr in Berlin through disappointment in love. Miss Rose Coghlan opeued her season at Montreal last week, and was given a recep- tion which amountéd to an ovation. Ada Monk, the lively Countess in “Fedora,” is suffering from chronic rheuma- tisiu, and is contined to her bed nearly all the time, Dixey, than whom no freshman was ever less salted, announces ou his “Adonis” post- ers that he has been patronized by the Prince of Wales. Nat Goodwin has introduced ing lady” illusion in *Litte Jack Sheppard.” Mrs. Sheppard is made 1o disappear in the second act. About $3,500 was cleared at the Bayreuth Festival, unteered their services the result would have been a loss, “Theodora” is still running at Niblo's New York. Miss Oleott, it 15 said, bas inproved in her impersonation of the character made famous by Bernhardt. Mlle. Dovadio, who sang Rosina mauy years azo at the Academy of Mnsic, s officially advertised in Berlin asthe *lm- perial clancellor's favorite.” ‘The literature of Wilson Barrett's life and achievement: is like unto the ampliwude of the Encyclopedia Britanpica. Never was actor 50 bewritien 1n advance. If Edwin Booth continues 1o draw as he has done so far this season there will be $320,000 to divide between himself, Barrets and Mr. Chase at the end of his tour. Miss Louise Montague, the $10,000 beauty, was dsked to leave the “Evangeline” com pany. She showed too much inclination to kick her little boy who waited on her “4 Run of Luck” is proving worthy of its title at the Drury Lane, Lonaon, ‘The weekly Teceipis, 1t is Stated. are irom 510,000 u $12.000. " The Awerican rightbas not been sold yet. Katharine Rozers has joined Wallack's New York stock company, and will subside cracefully into old woman parts. Her eldest daughier is weil known on the stage as ¥ anor Morett) Edmund Gerson, the London manager, rotnises w 0 America late next year e %, the Russian actress. Geor- “the vanish- i1 the principal artists had not voi- | cost, and | son says he has been after her for three years, He will also take her to Havana, Mexico and South America. Karl Kausche,a Baltimore tenor, is the latest addition to the American opera com- sany. He is a_member of the Harmonic, Pledertatel and Liederkrans societies of thai city, and sang second tenor parts in light opera last summer. Wagner’s greatest musie-drama. “Tristan and Isoldo,” will be produced during the first week of next December at the Metropo tan opera house in New York. The princi- als will be Neimann, Fischer, Robinson, YAl Lenmann and Marianne Brandt, USRI IR Xoushemttioos id as forfeit to a Madrid manage Inst baby cost the loss of her sing- ing voice. Mme. Nevada-Palmer has not been heard from as yet,butshe is not singing. Maternity is an expensive luxury to a canta- trice. Zelie de Lussan will head the Boston ldeal Opera company again this season. The new membe re Mlie. Louise Lablanche, con- tralto: William H. Lawton, the tenor brought out by Mlle. Henrietta Corra Clement Bainbridge, baritone, and Ivan Morawski, basso. New York was overrun with last week, including Jananscheck at the Windsor, Mrs. Langtry at the Fifth avenu Clara Morris at the Union sxuare, Mrs, Bo ers at the Fourteenth street, Lilian Alcott at Niblo's, Violet Cameron at the Casino and Lillian Conway at the Third Avenue theater. Clara Mer manacer has arranged for a three weeks season at the Baldwin theatre, San Francisco, in January. Miss Morris has never visited’ California, her health not bitherto permitting a trip that necessitates long travel and consequent fatigue. But she now feels confident in her strengih, and will essay the engagement. Joe Jeflerson is not likely to remain much longer ou the stage. He has been playing for over forty years, though latterly only about three months in the yedr, He has suffered a slight stroke ot paralysis this fall, which warns him that if he subjects himself to ex- ertion or strain he is liable to be taken off at any thime. He is worth at least $500,000, so he'his not dependent on his profession. Mile. Rhea has hit upon a novel plan of exhibiting her magnificent wardrobe.” 1n a new piece, in which she will probably appear next month, there is a scene in a dressmak- ing establishment, and Mile, Rhiea, who en- actsthe role of the proprietor of the place, will array over twenty dummies in hand- some, elaborate and_costly dresses, all made abroad and many of them after her own de- signs. What the other ladies who advertise extensive wardrobes will do 1o surpass this will be waited with interest. female stars IMPIETIES., Savannah News: A negro woman stole some dresses m Columbus and used one of them as her baptismal robe, An independent old lady, speaking of Adam naming all the animals. said she didn’t think be deserved any credit for naming the auy one would know what to call hit, ere is & good deal of practical common in the answer of the old cook in Ne us when b ang mistress told her of Wiggins' comi rihquake, jo long, ehile,” she said, wid yer nonsense God a-mity don’ g0 an’ tell anybody what he's gwine ter do; He jes’ go long aud do it ‘Phere was meeting of the preachers of Lynchburg, Va, and when it was breaking up Dr. Joun Hannon could not find his hat Turning W Rev. K. k. Acree he said: of your Baptists bas my hat.” “Then,” said Brother Acree, “your hat las wore brains in itthan ever before.” A few days after that Dr. Haunon was passing by Brofher's Acree's yard-zate, and when arged o come in “Iam on my way to preach.” u ean't preach,” replied Brother Aeree. 0 1 1 Tor a long time,” revlied Dr. Hannon ; “but since hearing yo the other day, 1 have chauged my wind At a house in Ohio w & minister was boarding the servant-zirl was auxious 1o an. ticipate everything 1 her work that ansone wished her i She had always “just done it,” or wa: when any or “One s+ low 101 but designed to be overheard by the g few winuies later the mistress said | the presence of the clersyma you washed Mr. Blank's y but I've e Wi Motto for a chicken thief--never coynt your chicken before they ure snatchod. IT WILL PAY YOU Gall and See these Goods at Once ankrupt Furniture Sale, 1317 and 1319 Douglas Street. RELIGIOUS, South Dakota already has over 100 Congre- gational churclies. There are eleven churches and thirty Sab bath schools in Utah. The Episcopal church will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its formal organ- 1zation in 1559, There are 1,476 churches in New England with a membership of 214,467 members con- tributing $1,630,591. In Greenland there are 7.000 Esquimaux converts under the fostering care of the Dan- ish Missionary society. One person in twenty in Colorado is a church member, one in 6557 in New Mexico and one in 655 in Arizona. The Christian community in India is In- creasing at the rateef Sk percenta year, and therefore doubles every twelve years. The number of students in Union Thec- logical Seminary, for the current year, will be ten or twelve in excess of last year, which was 121, Despite the weakness attendant upon his eighty-five years. Cardinal Newman still half “past four every morning and up his' bed. The first Young Men’s Christian assocla- tion was organized last December in Foo Choo. Aunother orzanization was effected March 11, at Shanghai. A lady has placed the sum of $200.000 in the hands of Rey. H. 8. Hoffman and Mr. C. sl Morton for the purpose of establishing in West Philadelphia a divinity school for the Reformed Episcopal church, On the first week in July the misslon-snip, Harmouy, set out from London on its twenty-sixth _aunnual vovage to Labrador, laden with gifts for the Moravian missiona- ries and the uative Christians, By the death of Mr, Samuel Morley many a ohifanthropic institutions in London and Bristol lose a great supporter. 1t is said ne gave away between £20.000 and £50,000 yearly. The Congregationalists will also miss him, as twenty-four of their chapels in the metropolis were indebted 10 him as their founder. The tower of a new church, at Wilkes- barre. Pa., which was dedicated only a few months ago, is said to have settled, owing to the recent earthquake shocks, wlich were perceptibly in that locality, and the doors of the church have been closed nntil & careful investigation of the masonry of the tower has been made. The Evancelical Alliance of Japan has 168 churches orzanized, 57 of the number being wholly self supporting. ‘The native ordained ministers number 60: unordained, 115, The total ehurel mewbership is 10.775, besides %08 baptized children, The total number of for- el iissionaries is 250, of whom 110 are men and 74 unmarried women. The adult con- verts baptized in 156 number 5,115, The Youns Men's Chiristian Association at Osaka, Japan, has secured enough money tocomplete their association building. The assoctation at Beirat, Syria, is making an eflort to secure an_association building 10 cost 5,000, The members hiave already sub- seribed $1,000. The New Britain, Conn., as- sociation will ‘put up a building at once, to cost with lot §40,0u The Protestant ehurchies of Britain, ica and the continent of Europe tave 5,001 or- dained missionaries; 740 laymen: 2500 women laboring in all parts of the heathen and Mohammedan world. These are now preaching the in tweuly tiwes as many laneus were spoken on the day of Pentec hese 6,250 agents were dis- tributed amon 870 millions of heathen and 170 imltions of Mohamwedans, it wonld #ive 162,000 1o each missionary Twentysix thousand native converts are employed ns 3 elists among their own countrymen and 2500 as ordained pastors of bative churches. The ““Minute shows the strengt) and abr Amer- of Conference.” of Great Britair just issued, Methodisin at embers, 412,854 on trial 1,407: on trial. 813 Supernumerar - Mewbers, 24,644 o1 trial, 173: on_trial, 2%\ n Missions 5, 7. Prench trial y Ar Vest Indian € 3 on triad, 15077 winis- 18 Totals—Members wilaisters, 2215; ¢ 845 The R i maesndwers in the A ustra nud in the Methodist chureh of nister ian charch " Canada wre not inciaded in e nbove,