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The Huron News-Record, 1891-09-30, Page 7mails OF Cod Liver 011 AND THIC $, popbOsphites of Limo and Soda. II1To • other Emulsion is so easy to take. It does not separate nor ( spoil. It is -.3-ways sweet as cream. The rnost sensitive stomach can retain it. l �l CURES Scrofulous and ' Vastirg Diseases. Chronic Cough. Loss of Appetite. Mental and Nervous Prostration. General Debility, tz.c. ° iewart of all itnitatior_s. fi plc for •'t" e n. Ft I.." E:ntI-Ion, and re use all others. PRICE 50C. AND $1 PER BOTTLE. The Huron News -Record s150 a Year—$1.25 in Advance Wednesday, Sept. 30th, 1891. warlike trophies and deooretigne be- coming a rich and noble representa- tion of a powerful line of chiefs, or "titans," es the Nuchae named their leaders. Generation upon generation of his ancestors have lived and died there, and the place has become famous throughout the great Indian nation as the most lovely, fertile and desirable posses- sion within the whole southern reg- ion, Seeing the valuable crops of grain gathered by the Sun's tenants, and recognizing the incomparable beauty of the White Apple planta- tion, Chopart made up his mind to seize the place and hold it as his own. No sooner had the thought formed in his mind, than he set abuut carrying the design into ex ecution. He seat a peremptory order to the Sun to vacate the place immediately, and to take with hien las family and all 14A p.lople ; but iustead of obeying, as the over- bearing Frenchman expected he would, the Sun seat back a haughty and unequivocal refusal, saying that the beautiful place was his by in- heritance, and should remain his null descend to his children. Chopart made dreadful threat:,, tad so intimidated the Indians that, in a -council called for the purpose, they agreed that, if permitted to re- main where they were, they would pa a heavy tribute, in e nature tja the rent or tax ; and so the red wen were made mere sla ves in all but name to the avaricious comman- der of the fort. It was while matters stood thus that a young wan by the name of Alphonse de Villars arrived at Fort THE SITN OF THE WH-IITE Rosalie. He was aetrikingly hand - APPLE. some youth, with a dashing air, and, as he brought letters from, Perier, he was treated with unlimited courtesy. lie had lately come over frau, France, was a rnentber of a Adis, tinguished and inlleeutal family, and was burning with the desire for wild adventure. Chopart, of course, felt the value of the favor of so lis, tinguished a visitor, whose influence Wight hasten the pi emotion that had been so long withheld ; there- fore, he wade him his special guest, and this led to a meeting betwee Mademoiselle Claire Roman and the young man, who forthwith became her devoted lover. Monsieur Roman, Clait'a father, was a wealthy trader, who, since the bursting of John .Law's celebrated schenie, lied been one of the chief financiers of the Louisiana colonies. At the time of our story he was sojourning for an indefinite time at Fort Rosalie, in the interest of some trading scheme, and had with him his family, consisting of Marianne Roman and Marie. The love which, like that describ- ed in all good old romances, sprang up between these two young and ex• ceptionally endowed people was so strong and evidently so genuine that no opposition to it was offered by Claire's parents. It was love in a wilderness, but the wilderness was a paradise of birds, flowers, warm sunshine ani: balmy breezes. Although winter was approach• ing, the only change perceptible in sky and wood wan a softening of colors, while the gentle showers, now and then, followed by -a sweet, dreamy warmth, kept the foliage green and all the plants leaped anew and burst into bloom, as if spring had come in November. Claire Roman by the sweetneaa and kindness of her disposition, as well as by her rare hearty, had endeared herself to the garrison of Fort Rosalie and to all the people dwelling near. Eveu the Indians, sullen and silent, who came to trade with the whites, learned to love her. The Sun himself became her friend, and, although able to speak but lit- tle in broken French, was always proud to exchange a few pleasant words with her whenever the op- portunity offered. Indeed, it was apparent that she had a great in- fluence over him. He called her "Sweet Violet," and ofteu brought her little presents, such as he would For sone time the appalled and have offered a child. grief-stricken tribe appeared to be utterly subdued. The braves ceased to struggle againat a .fate that was bearing them down with such merci less certainty. They became stolid tillers of the soil, opened trade with the white tnen, and went about as if heart -broken. BY MAURICE THOMPSON. In November, 1730, a French •officer by the came of Chopart, with a small body of picked soldiers, held the little post called Fort Rosalie, -in Louisiana, and ruled tvith mili• tary depotism the couutry round ; about. He was a brave and eflici- ont soldier ; no 'cotter ever drew •sword during the lung struggle for the upbuilding of the Louisiana colonies ; but, as was the caro with most of those haidy and intrepid .adventurers, he had little regard for the rights or the feelings of the real -owners of the soil, the illfated red men, whose romantic and heroic history has never been adequately jecorded. The region surrouuding Fort Rosalie was extremely fertile, and had been long occupied by the Natches tribe of Indians, whose knowledge and skill in agriculture were only equalled by their lofty pride of bearing and their courage in battle. They were inclined to be peaceful, and treated the white in- vaders of their country with great kindness at a time when it wo'ild have been easy to rid themselves of -their threatening presence forever. Bienville, lately superseded by Perier as governor or commander - :general of the province of Louisiana, had treated the Natclios moat brutal- ly. True, the Indians had massacred the settlement on theSainte Cather- ine; but before this they had been robbed, tricked, cheated and forced .from their lands by Bienville's fol- lowers, and their act was but the -outburst of a righteous indignation long suppressed. Bienville and his officers fearing to meet the Nachos in open warfare, sought an inter- view with their chiefs, and entered ,into a compact to maintain peace. No sooner were the Indians off their ;guard, however, than the French secretly took possession of Fort Rosalie, and prepared to drive the whole tribe into the wilderness. A general attack was made on the .quiet and defenceless villages and plantatiohs. Many of the Indians were slaughtered in the moat in- human way, and to crown all, Bien- ville demanded that the Natches should surrender up to him their e leaders. When this was done the brave chiefs were brutally murder- ed. n Chopart, whose desire for gain knew no boands, used his official power at port Rosalie as a lever for • hoisting gold into his coffers. He .had ceased to credit the reports of teat deposits of precious metals to e found farther northward, and had turned his attention to despoil ing the Indiana by trickery and intimidation. At this time, a famoue chieftain, One of the noblest of the Natehes tribe, owned a superb plantation called "White Apple," upon which she lived, surrounded by a small .village of his tenants. lie was a, man in the first prime of life, tall, lithe and of commanding presence ; his face, though inscrutable was of s fine minty type, dark, but not alask, straight -featured and full of 'iiiierVitTIaftY.dt ity. ITis¢iioroe4 t pit White Apple was a spacious lodge, hung withthe skins of wild beaete, and furnished with all the savage splendor of weapons and The Sun's influence over his peo, ple was no powerful that whatever the whites desired of them had to be effected through him. Monsieur Roman, well aware of thia, and ob- serving the chief's affectionate, almost fatherly, regard for Claire, ehrewdly encouraged the friendship with a view to consummating his (teen-ewcial designs. Alphonse de Villars was almost constantly in Claire's company, au free was the life of that wild and re- mote place, and it chanced that the sun often met them together. At such times he invariably ignored the young roan's presence and treat rd Claire as if she had been entirely alone. This treatment galled the Frenchman's pride and he resented it with insult of which the Sun took no perceptible notice. "Are you deaf r Can't you hear a gentleman when he addresses your. exclaimed the young pian one day, when some civil words, meant to "White man die 1" exclaimed the conciliate the Sun for Ctaire'e sake, giant lavage, lifting higher his were received in etolid silence. "I gleaming hatchet. will= make o spear eeir!' "arid "Ytit "CTarro 'rn at o ' for' a�erol`ace 7°roin half drew his eword. where it had dean pressed upon her The Sun flashed a quick glance lover's bosom. upon him and drew himself up The Sun stopped short and glar- defiantly, but did not utter a word. ed. Claire interfered at once, and the Suit turned and walked majestically away. The girl's quick eyee eaw something terrible in the immovable features of the Indian; she ran after htni and lair) gentle hold on his arm. "Far my sake, great Suu, do not swear vengeance againet bite," she pleaded, in her soft, Sweet voice. "He is young and rash—and—and —" she hesitated, turned pale and blushed alternately. Her hand, as it grasped his muscular arm, trete- bled violently. He looked [moodily down into her eyes for a wotneut, then !aid : "Sweet Violet laves bad young men, Sweet Violet will mourn." "Sweet Violet loves you, greet Sun, loves you as if able were your daughter," she responded, stili clinging to his arm, "Promise we that you will not swear vengeance against-._ag.,inst him." The Sun looked steadily at her, but did not wove a muscle of his face. "Promise, great sun, my red father, promise," she pleaded. He laid one hand lightly againet her cheek, and again turned and walked away. All this took place on. a bright November morning in the little street, which was scarcely [more than a path, near the rude but com- fortable house temporarily occupied as a home by Monsieur Roman's family. On the following night the Sun sent out to each village of his tribe an emissary, bearing a bundle of five slender reeds, with secret orders to the effect that 'on the next and every eul'ceediug morning a reed should. he withdrawn that was to serve as a signal for a rtrovewer,t against the whites. So quietly and secretly was this done. that not a suspicion was a- roused at Fort Rosalie. Ota the tift.b day the Sun cause early into the town. One h1• one and two by two the braves of his tribe, in aceorihanue with the secret arrangement, strolled carelessly in, apparently unarmed, and went about talking of traffic with the t raders of the garrison. Claire and Alphonse de Villars as al were together that morning d side by side on a rude bench a tree near the Roman house, g (wlide they told over and e tender phrases of a roman: 11 the sweets of bird -song, and gentle blowing wind. wsplrere, made golden soft by a flood of tern. ehiw wered over the ding village. 080 seat under enjoy in again th tic love) loaf -rustle A hazy ati and dreamily pered sunshine, fort and surroun Suddenly a loud cry rang out from a point near the principal warehouse of the post. It was the great Sun's voice ; Claire recognized it at once. What could it uteau'1 From here, there an hundred wild shouts ane signal, and fatthwith a tumult of clashing sounds aro the front. There was no mistaking the nificance of the dreadful noise , massacre was at hind—was alread begun. Shots, heavy, crushing blows, groans and snr•eants of agony filled the air. Indiana were seen running in every direction brandishing their weapons and falling with deadly fury upon every white man that they could find. At the first alarm, Alphonse sprang up and drew his sword ; but Claire threw her area about him and clung to him with all the lttrength of her terrible emotion. "Do not go! Oh, do not leave me or I shall die !" It was enough to have wrung the nerves of a stronger than Claire, as the demoniac yells and hoarse ex- clamations of the savages were an- swered by the shrieks and groans of their victims, yonder a wered the mighty e from rig - a y It was apparent beyoud doubt that the whites were at the mercy of the savages. Indeed from whore he stood, Alponse de Villars could gee that the work of extermination would be over in a few minutes. He hesitated, not from any feeling of cowardice, but with an over whelming consciousness of the awful doom that tenet fall upon him and his beloved Claire, so soon, so cer- tain, with such horrible conditions. If he should leave Claire and at- tempt to aid the shrieking and groaning victims of massacre, the poor girl would be at the mercy of the first furious Indian that [night come that way. While be stood appalled but cairn, withClaire clinging to him and with Madame Roman rushing towerde modameneamapaapaceamercenememuseg l'weet Violet!" he murmured, deep in his tbroat, as if the I31.41:09 were choltiog Alphonse de Vinare put the girl bellied him aud threw himself into nu attitude for action, hie sword at guard. It was a eceue worthy the pencil of a master. The two oppenente were eat steeliest a background of blood aud !daughter never surpaesed in the history of savage warfare. They were both superb !specimens of the races to which they belonged. The Iudian was the larger but the Frenchman showed a cloeer•knit and more compact frame. In that moment as they stood gaz- lug with concentrated visioa jute) each other's eyes, all the tretneiadeue .auinial courage of the mon was uou- doused and rendered available. In another arena/ the struggle about to take place would have been iaterestiug. It waa the most expert awordsmau uf France against the most adroit aud powerful wielder of the tomahawk ever known to the Natobes tribe. Such a duel meant an exhibition of strength and skill seldom witnessed, especially in deadly combat. The Sun measured hie antagonist with one searching look ; then rash• ed upon hin, and aimed a swinging blow with his tomahawk. A tine, clear steel note, as the Freuchmau's blade parried the stroke, rang out like the sound uf bell when its sonorousnees is suddenly checked. The sword flashed through a short curve and leaped forward in a straight thrust. Quick as lightning, it was turued aside by a short quick sweep of the hatchet, which tigaiu was dashtel at the face of the white mau, who caught it fairly near his sword hill, and, by a deft, strong lute, wrung it from the Situ's hand, It would have been tik1Sy fur Al- phonse de Villata to have run the Sun thiough the heart as he stood defenceless, but he did not do it. Something in the proud hearing of the savage checked hie hand for the IDODI Ont. The two men looked straight into each other eyes. They were not a vvord was spoken .Madatne Ranieri had fainted, and ley uncouscions on the ground. The tumult of the hideous sounds was beginning to lessen, as the bloody work of the Indians neared completion. Not a white man of garrison wae spared, Claire thing hereelf forward, and, spreading out her arms, clasped the "Oh, iny read father?" ehe cried, "have mercy 011 !" Her lung golden hair fell down, and the breeze blew it across the Sun's ehoulder like a scarf. She continued to plead iu the most pita. ous tonere Meanwhile four or five infuriated braves rushed to the spot, eager to coutiuue the slaughter. Alphonse de Vinare faced them with sword reads. The Sun, with Claire still cling• ing to him, stepped between and gave some order in the Indian ton- gue. The braves stood still. Turnieg now to the Frenchman, Suu said : the "White man put' duwu his Alph Claire be and was m cam hesitated, but when sought bine he surrendered ade prisoner. A drunken weed° followed the maesacre, the Indi ins finding stores of liquors in the -ware houses of the fort ; but the Sun having gathered all the wotneu, the wives and daugh• tors of the murder d garrison, order- ed them to be protected. Alphonee de Villa ruan taken alive, an bound, Va,fifi kept apart of the prisoners. It is recorded in the h Louisiana that (110 Natche their let rible act of veugeanc theit' pi tsurturs to a strong for there kept them uutil the tw fifth of the following February. Chevalier Louboie, with six hun large body of friendly Indians, invested the fait and forced the Sun to come to terms. A parley was held and it was agreed that if the prisonera were released at the end of ten days hoetilitiee ehould cease. Before the close of the stipulated period, however, on a dark and stormy night, the 51111 and his braves stole forth from their stronghold and escaped, leaving all the pris- oners behind. Among the prisoners were Al- phonee Villare, Madame Roman and Claire. Monsieur Roman had boen killed early in the terrible uggle at Fort &mile. The young people were married at Now Orleans and shortly after- ward went to France, where their descendants still keep alive the ewe at Poi, -Menke, Cir the great Sun is connected with the family history by a manuscript in the delicate writing of Claire (Roman) de Villars. was the only he, tightly ram the rest istory of a, after e, took t and uty A PRETTY SCIIODLMA'Abl BITTEN, BUT UER LIVE SAVED BY DEE WICK- EDEST PUPIL. Hartford special. to New York Sun : Ruth McDougal, the prett ty, lies on a little cot at her Burn side horne—her cheeke pallid, great dark cirelee under her eyes, and an ugly, greenish -yellow spot ou her right forearm. She passed throngh day morniug. She was bitten hy a rattlesnake, then made very drunk on whiskey, and theta carried to her home in a spriagless wood wagon. Miss Dougal is blued:eyed and 19, and began teaching the young peo• pie who attend the "Cottonwood District" school in the village of Burnside, five miles from the city, on Sept. 2 last, when the fall term was begun. Her father was killed on the New York and New Eng land Road a year ago, and elect) to support her widowed Loather. Yesterday inorning,while the dew was yet on the grass, Miss Me - Daiwa! started from her home to walkbto the schoolhouse, nearly two mike away. Her journey led through the Burnside woods. 'While passing through this minia- ture forest, she espied some late fall flowers growing about ttventy feet from,the pathside. Miss McDougal loves flowers, and she started to gather the blossoms, thinking to place them in the belt that spanned her slender waist. Before dc.)ing so, however, she placed her little lunch basket beside an old tree, THIS LUNCH EASKET which has for a fastening dilapid• atm' wicker clasp contained two boil- ed eggs, a cruller or two, some cold must, a paper of salt, and bread and butter. The pretty schooltna'ain gathered the flowars, placed them iu her belt, picked up her lunch bas- ket, and cotitiLlted her journey to The mot uing session being over, she seated herself at her desk and pi spared tu eat her luncheon. There were several small boys in the room, who remained indoors to their luucheou ab -o. Miss Mc Dou,gal reached fur the basket, rais ed the cover, and put one white hand into the receptacle. Then the small boys were 91,110,10d by a loud scream. Looking up they saw their pretty teacher etanding in her chair, while coilt3d about her right emu they saw a yellow-brown thing that squirmed and hiesed and shot out a long red tongue. 1Villie Phelps, the best fighter and the best speller in the school, ran forward. He grasped the snake by the tail and tore it from the teacber's arm. Then, with a quick toes about his head, he dashed it to the floor and stamped cal its head until was dead. Then Willie looked at Miss Mc Dougal. She was lying prostrate on the floor. Ile dashed water in her face, and seeiog a drop of blood just above the wrist of her right arm, he put his MOROI to it and suck- ed at it vigorously. Thee, being a boy of action, ha called upon one of his schoolmates to run to Mea pint of whiskey, and, on his way back, inform Dr. Chide of what had happened. In less than half an hour the schoolmate returned with the whiskey, which WILLIE FORCED DOWN • his still unconscious teacher's throat. Not long afterward Dr. Chide reach- ed the schoolhouse and ordered her removed to her home. Farmer Stoughton was passing on hie wood wagon at, the time, and volunteered to transport her. This he did. In the meantime the teacher had re- gained her senses, hut she was drunk. To day she is aober, and the physician thinks that, owing to prompt measures, she will live. The snake, probably at- tracted by the smell of cold meat or boiled eggs, evidently entered her lunch basket while she was picking wild flowers. It measured 4 feet 24 - inches and had eight rattles. AFTER TWENTY YEARS. The old adage that truth is stranger that: fiction had a singular verification in Chicago a few days ago, when a heather and sister ere reunited after a separation of er twenty years. The medium of est romantie tounion was the ie and commonplace tele- ov pros phone W. W. Wheeler, No. 11 South Clinton treat, the happy brother, told the story to reporter. 'Helen nd myself," he said, "were the only children of our par- ents. Our mother died when we were young and our father married a second time. As is usual in such eases our home lif was not as happy as it ought to have been. I left it as aoon as I was able—this wae the year before the Chic go fire—and eince then, until the other day, I never saw or heard defln'tely of my "Of course I titled ever means abouts, but never with success. I was told and believed that she had settled in California. "Judge my surprise last wee when I was call4 to the 'phone and asked my name and eorno family partioulere which told me a0 once that I was speaking with my sieter, I went immediately to see her atid fouud her wiVh the family of William 13, Kerfout, the wealthy real cat,.te man and World's Fair director, with whom she had been living for the last six years. She ki now making her home with me." Mr. Wheeler spoke as one over- joyed, though he strove hard to conceal hie feelings. Miss Wheeler is a lady of refineuaent aed culture and line travelled much. She has She has hoeu eleven yeare in Chica- go, during which she has paid le lengthened visit to Europe. Her discovery of her brather was the mereet aceid en t. She had been looking through the telephone booke was struck with his name and initials, and, as he had always been in her mind, called him up at random, but with the heppieet re- sults. "A strenge coincidence, if it be a coincidence," said Mr. Wheeler in concluding the story, "is that the day before my !deter called me up I talked of her continuously tG my brother-in-law. He had heard her story a thousand titeee, yet I could du dothieg but make coujectures as to her fate and fortune. Strange, wasn't it? I wish !wine of our scientific inen could explain it. It was certainly something tnure than KEEP THE iIAILS FULL. SIGNIFICANT FIGURES. The Rev Fred H. Wines,. Illinois, specie). agent of the ative to pauperism and crime, has made anuther interesting report to the Superiuteudent of the Census, at Washington, U. 8. It is ou the priionere in cuunfy The tables show the total number of prisoners in county Juue 1, 1890, to have been 19 538 ; the number reported in 1880 was 12,- 691, au increase in teu yesis of 6,847, or at the rate of 53.95 [Air cent. The inet ease in the total pop- ulatien was 24.86 per cent. In 1880 the ratio of prisouers cuunty jails to the populations was 253 in each million ; in 1800 it was 312. The increase therefore has been 59 to the million. The largest increase has. been in the north Atlantic Division, where it was 95 to the million. In respect to nativity uot iug the colored prisoners, who may be supposed to ha natives, of the 13,961 white prisoners, 9,684 are na- tive born, 3,765 foreign born, end the place of birth of 512 is unknown. Leaving out of view the 1,056 na- tive white prisoners, whose parent- age is unkeown in whole or in part, there remein 8,628 cases in which the proportiin of eative to foreign blood eau be estimated.- It to the 5,265 white prisoners born of na- tive pareuts is added one-half of the number with one parent foreign - born, the etint is 5,579, If to the 2,734 native white priso...eas born of foreign parents is added an equal amount, the sum is 3,048 ; but to this latter figuee must also beadded 3,765 foreign-boru prisonere which gives as a result 6,813, Iu other words the foreign popu- lation of this country contributes directly or indirectly in the persons of the foreigu born or of their im- mediate descendauts, 6,813 to the population of the county jails, or 1,234 more than the °Mire native white population. It waa stated in the buletin with regard to the penetentiary convicts whose birthplace and parentage are known, that the foreign born elee ment, the colored element, and the native white element each furnish- ed about onelhird of all the in- mates of our state prisons and peni- tentiaries. The same remark applies to caunty jails, the preponderance being slightly in favor of the foreign 31:010.n. element. In respect to sex, 17,801 are men and 1,737 are WO" Pennsylvania leads with 2,386 prisoners the reason for,the, large number 'being that in that State many county jails are authorizAl to retain penitentiary convicts sentenc- ed to a term of years. The only State in which there has been any absolute decrease of jail prisoners is Vermont. There has been a decrease relatively to the total population in nine other States and Territories, namely, Cali- fornia, Dakota (counting the two new States as one) the District of Columbia, Illinois, 11/faryland, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. For the most part this decrease has been very light. The relative as well as absolute increase in the other States and Territories is a striking fact in the prison statistins of 1890. Gen- erally speaking, it has been large°, in states with small population. CLINTON C. I. NOTICE. At the last meeting of the Clinton Collegiate Board it was resolved that the fees for pupils re- siding outside the County and those residing in town shall he the same as those fixed by the county Council tor Cip144.-UPPAk viz : According to School law Fees mast be paid in 1180-31 Secretary.