Twenty-four Widows

Mrs. Geii. Crittenden, of Washington city, ïnother of Lieut. Grittenden, who was alain with Custer in the niassacre of the Little Big Hora, has reeeived a letter froin Fort Rice from the widow of one of the officers who perished in the battle. ïhe letter, after a tender oxpression of condolence with Mrs. Crittenden in her bereavement, describes the scène of angnish nt Fort Rice as soon as the boat arrivod with the news of the iight. When the awful tidings were disclosed tho air was rent, says the writer, with tho lamentations and shrieks of twenty-four widows, many of them Tritli ■ailing children at their skirts. Some of tho women thus suddenly afliietod are withont money to leave the placo wliere they partea with their husbands for the last time on earth, and others again are without homo or place of shelter to go to when they can get away. A man who had been wounded in a railroad accident was denied adraission to a hotel ai Oakland, Cal., because ha might keep the boarders awake; and, in tho morning, tho boarders all left bocause he liad not been cared for.