A TEACHER. * * * * * DEATH OF REV. WILLIS POLK. Died, at his home in Fayetteville, Ark., after a lingering illness, Rev. Willis Polk, pastor of the Colored Congregational Church of that place. He came to Fayetteville in the fall of 1884, and took charge of the public school for the colored people; and up until the time he was disabled by sickness, he labored in the school-room during the week, and preached in the little church, which he had organized, on the Sabbath. His education and his gifts as a preacher were above the average of his race. He met death calmly and peacefully, and died in the blessed hope of a home in heaven. He was kindly nursed and provided for by the members of his little flock and others, during his long sickness, and his mortal remains were reverently laid in the tomb by the same kind hands. He leaves a wife and four small children to mourn his loss, and the little flock to which he ministered without a shepherd. J. N. * * * * * THE INDIANS. Away up in the northern part of the Territory of Dakota, on the bank of the Missouri, live the Mandan Indians. They are a small tribe, numbering not quite 400, are peaceably inclined, and are somewhat ambitious. They have a tradition that “they came from under the earth, where they lived near a subterranean lake. They ascended by means of a grape vine, which a heavy woman broke, so that part of the tribe were left below.” They are lighter in color than many other tribes, and gray hair is often seen even among the young people. They live with the Arickarees and Gros Ventres, in a very friendly way, but are a distinct tribe by themselves, with their old chief at their head. Little can be said in praise of their morals; they are far below the Sioux nation in this. Polygamy is very generally practiced, although the younger people are beginning to adopt the white man’s ways, and to give up this with others of their old customs.