Contributed by our Regular Correspondents The Indians The following are the opinions of a young school girl living in the town of Big Flats. We give them a place, as promised last week: Mr. Editor:--As I was reading in the Adams County Press I saw where the Indians had made trouble in Oregon by killing people and destroying all that was worth anything. I think it is a shame for the United States to let those people who have toiled so long to suffer. There is an army there to subdue the Indians; but when this army gets the advantage it does not do enough. It should put down the Indians so that they would not have the power to commit their ravages again, even if they wished to. I should think the United States had fought with the Indians long enough to know their ways-to know that as soon as we get the advantage they (the Indians) declare for peace; but as soon as they get another chance they slaughter all they can. I heard a person say, that if there were 200 whites killed, there would be about two dozen Indians killed in return, which, if so, is very unfair. I say they ought to be subdued. Yours respectfully, E. S. Badly Burned.--From the Montello Express we learn that on Monday of last week a daughter of A. SCHAEFER of Harris, in Marquette county, had a narrow escape from burning to death, at the residence of Hon.. W. H. PETERS, where she was employed. In working about the stove her dress caught fire, which she did not discover until, in passing a looking-glass, she saw the flames bursting out around the bottom of her skirts. She immediately ran toward the lake at the rear of the house, intending to jump into the water, but before reaching it she became so badly frightened that she did not know where she was and threw herself on the grass, under the delusion that it was the lake. Members of the household, hearing her cries, were quickly on the scene, however, and succeeded in rescuing the girl from her perilous situation, but not until she was severely burned about the lower limbs and lower half of the body, the fire also extending up on side, scorching one cheek and singing off the hair on one side of her head. Under prompt medical treatment she is recovering rapidly, and will soon be able to attend to her household duties again. The Montello Express has the following: "Robert WEIR, of the Stone House, Buffalo, has succeeded in raising from old land no less a crop than thirty-six bushels of wheat to the acre-something never done before, we believe, or even approached by any of our farmers. The quality of the wheat is splendid and cannot be surpassed." Some of our farmers have done that very thing; but the cases are rare as all must admit. Pretty much the same quality of "sand" pervades the two counties, and it is fast being demonstrated that the right kind of tillage is making it superior for grain and clover crops to any other part of the State. Julius C. CHANDLER, known generally as "Shanghai CHANDLER," died at his home in Baraboo on Wednesday evening. The immediate cause of the death of CHANDLER was dropsy, but the real cause of death was strong drink. Sunday afternoon Mr. S. S. BARKER, and old citizen of Kilbourn City, whose once raven locks have been whitened by the frosts of three score winters and ten, was united in the holy bands of wedlock to Mrs. A. B. CONVERSE, aged about 50. Mr. T. JOHNSON, of Neillsville, had a cow and two calves killed by some wild animal on his farm in the town of Lewis, a few nights ago. The cow and calves were in a log stable covered with scoops. It is generally believed that it was a panther from the tracks and the manner the door was scratched and the scoops moved on the roof, and from appearances attacked the cattle on the backs and afterwards cut their throats with his teeth. The cattle were scratched and torn in a horrible manner on their backs and throats. There is quite an excitement in that neighborhood, and almost every person who has a gun is hunting for the alleged panther. It is stated by some of the residents in that locality that they have heard screams and signs of a panther in the woods for some time past. This is the second instance of the kind that ever occurred in Clark county. MARRIED SPUHLER-PIERCE-Wednesday, Aug. 21, at the residence of the bride's father, at Big Spring, Adams County, by Rev. A. L. TULL, Mr. Phillip SPUHLER, of Kilbourn, and Miss Emma PIERCE, of Big Spring.
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