Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-21
MORNING LEADER.

In his letter 10 Tribune from Rssinger's
Greek, Station No l3,Pikes Peak Express Com
pany, May 3lst, Mr. Greeley states that he
is nearly through the Buffalo range, that al
the day previous they darksnod the earth
around, often seeming to be drawn up like an
army in battle array on the ridges and adown
the slopes on both sides of the route aud that
they were moving northward. He thus attempts
togive an idea Of the number Of the cattle Of the
solitudes;
What strikes the stranger with most amaze
ment is their immense numbers. know a
million is great many, but am confident we
saw that number yesterday Certainly all we
saw could not have stood on ten square miles
of ground. Often, the country for miles on
either hand seemed quite black with them. The
soil is rich, and well matted with their favorite
grass. Yet it is all Except very little on the
creek bottoms, near to the timber) eaten down
like an overtaxed sheep pasture in dry Au.
gust. Consider that we have traversed more
than one hundred miles in width since we
fret struck them, and that for most Of this
distance the Buffalo have been constantly 10
sight and that they continue for some twenty.
FIVE miles farther On--this being the breadth Of
their present range, which has length of per.
Ahpn u thbuhallh ihAithi dAiu Juh udNb huule hp
proach TO an idea of their countless millions
doubt whether the domestic horned cattle of
the United States equal the numbers, while
they must fall considerably short in weight,
Of these wild ones.
The country which supports such herds of
Bufaloes, summer and winter, must in time be-
come grand grazing and agricultural State -
The Western tide of emigration will tumble in
there ere long,
Masonic Festival at Painesville -IIa1g
The semi centennial celebration of the insti
Iutions of masonry in Painesvile was well
attended and pleasant festival of the Order
a capital dinner was served at the Oowes House
and speech sentiment and cong ruled the hour.
The ceremonies at the Lodge Room were deep.
ly interesting The Advertiser says:
The Lodge being opened in the Masters De-
| gree, DR.. Rosa read the minutes of Meridian
| Orb Lodge, instituted in Painesvill lust fftv
years ago, after which remarks were made by
the aged "brethren," each giving his "experi.
ence" in Masonry.
DIR. Rosa, by the assistance of Mr. Coleman
ascertained that;all the brethren present at that
meeting with one exception had passed 10 the
| luture lie, and nearly all those who were men,
bers of the lodge for the first five years of its
existence were now numbered among the dead
The incidents recited by these and others, cal.
led to mind other days, and thus was revived
In the breast of the agei brethren and all pre-
sent, 'raernal feeling which is more easily felt
than described
The only man now known to be living who
was present at the institution of this Lodge, is
MIR. JARius T. ANDREWS, who resides in Wis
consin. Mr.. WIN. COLEMAN, ofEuclid, aged 7s
was initiated in this Lodge in 1911, and was
one of the petitioners Cor the first Masonic
Lodge instituted in Cleveland The eldest man
in the Lodge Room was LEWIS MILLER, ESQ
of this village, 81 years. lie has been Mason
43 years Alfred Witter aged 10, initiated in
1901. VIM. Foster aged n, initiated in 1906
Simeon Wright, aged 72, initiated in 1919 -
Samuel 7. Booth, aged r. initiated in 1873
Col H. e. Paine, aged 20, initiated in 1927
w, Butteriield, aged 10, i.;tiated 1925 JOIN
Page, aged SO, initiated 1892 Horace Steele
aged g. initiated 1922, Dr. s.. Rosa, aeod 67
initiated 1919. Dan'l Kcer, aged 67, initiated
1915 M $. Harvey, Esq., aged 65, initiate,
1929 %. Slayton, aged So, initiated 1870
Joseph Card aged Sc, initiated 1920. Ear
Smith, aged GA, initiated 1927 Elisha Wood
aged 63 initiated 1925. NJ Taylor, aged 6I
initiated 1922,