THE INDIANS.
—At some points the Government has issued to Indians what are called scholars' rations, in order to assure school attendance, accompanying teaching with gifts of loaves and fishes almost literally.
—Agent Miles, of the Osage Indians has secured the passage of a law cutting off annuities from all Osage children between seven and fourteen, who do not attend school. These Indians have a Congress of their own.
—The Indian children of Forest Grove, Oregon, publish a paper edited by themselves, called "The Indian Citizen." It is in the interest of the Forest Grove school.
—The Presbyterians commenced their work in Kansas by the establishment of a Mission among the Indians. They now have 300 churches in that state.
—The Indian boys at the Hampton Institute have a debating society for the purpose of encouraging each other in speaking English. The topic for the first night, over which two exercised their powers in the new language was, "Shall we allow the white men in our reservation?" There is also a debating society among the girls in Winona Lodge.
—A Canadian Indian was recently seized by a party of masked Americans and hanged within the borders of the Dominion, in British Columbia, and the matter having come to the ears of the Government at Ottawa the question has been considered, and satisfaction is to be demanded of the United States Government.