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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-07-28
County Omeer.
LAR1MIE OoUNIY.

LARAMIE OoUNTT.
CoRnassioHsrs l. D Barr,
SAsrtgLN. j. 0Bhen.
CohSiabLes-w. TayIor, c. s. Devoc.
IIs,iess Of &c rsaes-lno. slaughter. TN Fishes
TreGsuTtr-D. c Tracy.
Probate Judged. e, Tracy.
PTosecsffn1 Anorasy-W. ". Corlett-
School Supsrintsndtnt-F. W. Hi..iard.
C0rohsr-Ja Talbot.
4ssess0r-Ed. J. Morris
CHEYENNE CITY.
n. c. whippie, PreE.sz oG. Mayor
Bird TrHsteesj John &. Davis.
L. X BresnHhen,
Peter HANNA
CkrL-w. Richardson. Il. 81. Assessor.
Ndrshdt". : Devoc.
Anorhsg-T }. Street.
SulreBor-A J. PArshal.
Police Jushoes-IOhn Slaughter, T. ". Fisher.
Meetings Of the Town Trustees. Friday .Ssa
lug In each week, at the City Hail.
ALBANY COUNTY.
Commissioners sim. i Dur se6sr,
Thomas AlsoP.
SherLF-J. r. Bfophy.
justices az ne Peace Z \. P S
CIerk-J w. Medium.
Probate JUDGE W. Ritter. ez-oeeio Trsaszrsr.
Prosecuting InOrney-C W. Bramel;
Superintendent Of Sehoois-N. L. Andrews.
CoronsrCJames Vine.
LARAMIE CITY.
VIM Harrir. ez-encs, Nsye<
j. II. Finfrock.
Board Of Trustee r S@l5Eai,h.
flames Vine.
Csnk-John Mcleod, e9-oHcio Assessor
Mdrshdl-M. A. Hance.
TredsUrer-L. ID. Pease.
AhorHSy-Homer Merrcil.
Police JUstce-L.D ID. Peare.
R COUNTY.
~. I. Adams, Chairman.
Commissioners ID. Il. CLAY,
IL. II. Brainmer.
ShsrlrD +. Rcnnte.
Clerk Perry L. Smith.
Probdte Judge Nm. Z. Ash.
Assessor-B. r. Ryan.
Superintendent Of SohooLs-B. +. Kinney.
sWEETwATEK COUNTY.
". r. Noble, Chairman
CorarnisstoHers william Evans.
lJames Calhoun.
Sheriff r. A. McPhve.
ClerE-A. Mcintosh.
Probate Jad1s-Jas. A. Brcnuan, es. Of. Treas. r.
Asse, sOr- Wm. A. johnson.
NJ COUNTY.
re. A. Phipps.
ConiAaissioRers Newell Beemnn,
W X. Sloan.
Sherlp-wrliaT Hinton.
CtsrE-Alt. q. Lee
Probate Jud0e-w. II. Remington ,z. .6- Treas.
AssessOr-M. q. hopkins.
SurreVor-H. Robinson.
Superintendent Of SeAOok-S. X. Temple. -
Co 70 NT-Thomas Street.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08
TRUST.

Searching for strawberries ready to eat;
Finding them crimson and large and sweet:
Wnat do YOU think found at my feet,
Deep in the green hillside?
Four brown sparrows, the cunning things,
Feathered on back and breast and wings.
Proud with the dignity plumage brings,
Opening their four mouths wide.
STOPPING lower to scan my prize,
watching the motions with curious Ges,
Dropping my berries in glad surprise,
A plaintive sound heard.
And locking up at the mournful call,
I spied on branch near the old stone-wall,
Trembling and twitting, ready to fall,
The poor little mother bird.
With grief and terror her heart was wrung,
And While to the slender bough she chung
She felt that the lives of her bindings hung
On a still more slender thread.
All, birdie! / said, if you only knew
Nv heart was tender and warm and true!
But the thought that | loved her birdlings,
Never entered her small brown head.
And so through this world of ours we go,
Bearing our burdens of needless woe,
Many heart beating heavy and slow
Under its load OF care.
But o. if we only, only knew
That God was tender, warm and true,
Aud that He loved us through and throu CHI
our hearts weuld be lighter than air.
-Sprinaield (.Nass.) Republican.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Congregational Union was found
cd twenty three years ago, and has assist
ed 925 churches in thirty-four States and
Territories, at an expense of nearly 5000,
600.
The salaries of the Bishops of the
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church are
now paid by voluntary contributions from
them embers of the churches. Their treas.
urer reports them fully up.
Bishop Haven estimates the wealth of
the Methodist Episcopal denomination as
at least 81 900, DOC, 900, and says: 1--WE do
not get mill per year tax on our capital
for the worlds Christianization outside
our own parishes
The receipts of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Reformed Church in
America for the year just ended were SOL
240; of which amount S34 ,626 were
from church collections. The total
amount falls 81 ,103 below that of the pre-
vious year.
--Zachariah l.. .Jamison, a Seneca In
dian more than sixty years old, sustained
at recent meeting of the Presbytery OF
Buffalo satisfactory examination, and
was ordained a preacherto his own nation,
ON the reservation in Western New York.
The Indians on the reservation number
1900.
The Archbishop of Canterbury takes
deep interes: in the labors OF the evan
gelists Moody and Sankey in the city Of
London. He "reioices when Christ Is
preached, whether regularly or irregu-
larry, and trusts that the clergy will en-
deayor to deepen the salutary impression
produced by the revivalists."
"A new religious vagary IN Califor-
MIA is sect Of " Child Christians who
interpret literally the passage Except we
be converted and become as little chill.
dren, We shall not enter the kingdom Of
heaven" They endeavor TO feel and act
like children, playing childish games and
adopting an infantile manner OF speech.
The London Telegraph says Of Mr..
Moody; Notwithstanding all the easy
talk about hysteria, cpidemics, magnet
ism, nervous systems and the like, the
philosophers and divines have yet to ex-
plain to us why it IL bad thing for these
Yankee itinerants TO turn people by thou
sands TO right aud virtuous lives, and
good thing when Bishop or Cardinal
manages to convert half DOZEN
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08
Rats in the Mines.

Every mine in this township of any
size and age has IA large number of rats in
it, The writer Of this has often seen hun
dreds of them congregated to hear whist
ling or singing or to get the crumbs left
by the miners after their dinners These
rats are not poor, weakly things, but are
large and fat and show that they live on
the fat of the land-that is, the odds and
ends of candies and the remains of din
ners. We once secreted several candles
~ the beginning of the shift, in order TO
save the trouble of carrying them with Us,
but what was our establishment ON going
to ret one TO find them all gone, except IA
small bit OF wick. The rats had smelt
them out and had grand meal over our
property. We levied an assessment on
the boss TO replenish the loss. The miners
never iniure a rat, in fact they will pro
tect them very Zealously. This amounts
almost to superstition similar to that Of
the sailors. Frequently they have been
tanned. The Eureka boys had "a white one
that was bobtailed and which used TO
come out very boldly and sit in the mid.
die OF group of men upon its launches
and MUNICH the tender bits thrown it like a
squirrel would. Ii was a great pet of the
men--either one of whom would have
whipped the man who would dare to at
tempt to nolest it. The rats underground
are far more fortunate and favored than
their surface cousins, for they have plenty
10 eat, with no fear of cats or traps, and
while the surface one is either freezing or
melting the miner rat is enjoying an
even, cool atmosphere. They by eating
up the stray bits prevent them from de-
composing, and when we think of the
amount that necessarily falls from the
miners meals this is an important item, for
it helps keep the atmosphere pure. Women
are sworn enemies 10 all of the race, but
the poor rodent has an ever ready cham
pion in the hardy miner.-Grass Valley
(Cal.) Union.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08
The late English Baptist annivcrsarie

The late English Baptist annivcrsarie
show a clear increase of members for the
past year of 1852 a larger number than
for the last ten years. There We're twenty
five new churches organized during the
year, and thirty-two new chapels were
built, at cost of e64, 1856; 124 others were
enlarged and improved at u cost of e49,-
S63. The work of the denomination in
the United Kingdom indicates growth and
likerality
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08

THE Minong (Mich) Copper Mining
Company is about to inaugurate opera
tions on an extensive scale At Isle
Royale. There are some sixty ancient
pits on the company's property, and 1t is
estimated that with the tools then in use
il must have taken a hundred thousand
men hundred years to perform the
work done by that ancient and unknown
race. Certain it is that copper exists
there III almost fnexhaustible quantities,
and no mine has yet been developed on
one of these ancient sites which has not
proved profitable.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08

A New ORLEANS lady had her sleep
oddly disturbed one night lately She
was lying quietly in her bed when she
was disturbed by a noise in the vicinity
of her child's cot in the same room.
She raised herself and peered intently
into the darkness, when she discovered
black object climbing up the bed-post.
Summoning up all her courage she
sprang out of bed, when the black OBJ
ject leaped toward her, and the next in
slant she felt the sharp fangs Of some
animal in her flesh. Her shrieks for as
slstance seemed but to enrage the beast,
and it climbed up her body, fiercely
burying its sharp teeth deeper at every
move. Finally assistance came and q
light, and then the quality Of the mon
ster appeared-it was huge raccoon,
one o. the largest ever seen, and in APP
parcntly frenzy of rage it sprang for
ward TO attack another woman who en-
tered the room, and dying only after a
hard fight The injured lady was found
to have received twelve deep wounds,
enough to indicate the fact that an es-
cape from even death was fortunate.
- -
"A thoughtful book.canyasser out West
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08

A thoughtful book-canvasser out West
wears cowhide pants.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
ALIENS Bitterness,

There was some apology for the bitterness
and intensity of feeling which prevailed
| among the citizens of Southern States. du-
ring the war; but what northern man-es-
pecially if ne was in favor of suppressing
the rebellion-can esteem Gov. VIM. Al
len as worthy his support, when he calls to
mind, that on the 10th day of September.
1868, in public speech, he gave utter
ance to sentiments so disgraceful IN Ian
guage and traitorous in purpose as the
subjoined? 1t is not claimed that he has
changed his views;
What could the South do? The
North had shown that it not only
had the power of seizing on the whole
country, but the government and
the South barely stood by, known
ing what they had to expect at the
hands of their masters. What could
the South do if Lincoln and his
gang choose to pass laws to abolish
slavery? What use would it be
for the South to say, "Oh here's
the Constitution" Mr.. Lincoln had
nothing to do but to say, 81 don't
so construe the Constitution; l, A.
Lincoln, being elected by the North
ern States, have a right to do what
l please with the Southern States"
What could the South do? There
it was. Now whoever heard of
man willing to hold his rights and
interest, subject to the will, caprice,
and good pleasure of another man?
l put that question to you in regard
to your own private affair.
We put down South Carolina null
LITIGATION, and how? By calling out
5000 men? No. By numbering sew
en- or eight hundred thousand men?
By making million and a half of
orphans in this country? That's not
the work that Democrats have done.
These bloody scenes were reversed
for abolitionists to produce.
Lincoln has shed enough blood to
float the Great Eastern, and how
much nearer the end does he get. His
cry is still for blood. The Admin
istration stands on tip-toe every day,
with its eyes distended, and its
arms stretched forth calling on the
American people for more blood
and more money. And their preach
ers-those Chicago priests that went
to Detroit to get Lincoln to bite
the forbidden fruit, to commit the
first act the initial sin, by the pub
lication of an act emancipating the
slaves; these priests, I would not
like to have met these fellows, they
went down canting and whining,
their mouths all the way watering
for the blood of the people. Every
one of them thought that God
had made it his special busin ess to
go and beg Lincoln to commence
the business of numbering the Amer
lean people"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13

MINNESOTA FOR HEALTH.-A lady
came from Detroit, Mich, and her
great pride was being an invalid.
She lost no opportunity in stating
that she came to Minnesota to recu-
perate. She did not hesitate to en-
ter into a conversation with any
person she came in contact with
giving advice, Chronological or
physiological, to invalids, and seek
ing the same from those of robust
constitution. Her conversation was
always prefaeed with the introduce
tory inquiry, so common to visitors,
'EDid you come here for your
heaithz' She thas addressed stall
wart, rudy-visaged young man at
the dinner table of the Metropolitan
. few days since and the following
dialogue epsNed:
eyes, madam, l came here prob
ably the weakest person you ever
saw. l had no use of Gay limbs, in
fact my bones were but little tough
er than cartilages. l had no intel
ligent control of a single muscle,
nor the use of single faculty."
"Great heavens!" exclaimed the
astonished auditor, "and you lived?"
did, miss, although L was devoid
of sight, was absolutely toothless,
unable to articulate single word
and dependent upon others for eve
rythiDg, being completely deprived
of all powertO help myself. l COM
menced TO gain Immediately upon
my arrival, and have scarcely expe.
rienced a sick day since, hence | can
conscientiously recommend the eli
mate"
"a wonderful easel" said the lady
''but do you think your lungs were
SGected?''
-sThey were probably sound, but
possessed of so little vitality that
but for the most careful nursing
they must have ceased their func-
tions."
81 hope you found kind friends,
sir?"
Indeed l did, madam; it is to
them and the pure air of Minneso-
ta that l owe my life. Ny fathers
family were with me, but unfortu-
nately my mother was prostrated
with severe illness during the
time of nay greatest prostration."
NHHow sad? Pray what was your
diet and treatment2''
'My diet was the simplest possi-
bic, consisting only of milk, that be-
ing the only food my system would
bear. As for treatment Idepended
entirely upon the life-giying proper
ties of Minnesota air, and took no
medicine except an occasional light
narcotic when very restless. NY
Improvement dated from nv arrival.
My limbs soon became strong, nv
sight and voice came to me slowly,
and full set of teeth, regular and.
firm, appeared" )"
'Remarkable-mi Sue-
ly, sir, you must have been greatly
reduced in fesh?"
MADAM, 1 weighed but nine
pounds. I was born in Minnesota.
Good days.. Paul Press.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
Is Genius transmitted; ;

Does the transmission of genius ex-
ist? Can dynasties entail merit by the
privilege of nature, as they entail
power by the errors of society? There
were five Caesars of the family of
the great Julius, and none of them
attained the universal and humanitari-
an genius of the illustrious chief of his
race. Augustus, though able and pru-
dent, was so timid that he would
hide himself under a bed when he
heard a crash of thunder. TiberiUs
avoided war, and wasted himself in
pleasure. Claudius deserved that
Seneca should compare his divine
skull with a gigantic calabash. Cali
gula was sanguinary madman, and
Nero sanguinary mountebank. In
dividuals of the same family, children
of the blood, St. Louis and Charles
of Anjou, the one was saint and the
other a demon; the one founded tri-
bunals and the other suborned them;
the one compelled respect to that
point that kings submitted to his
judgment the bloody strifes Of ma
tions, and the other excited hatred to
such point as to command the hor-
rors of the SiciIian Vespers; the one
under the oak of VIneennes gives
every man his right, and the other in
the public square of Naples assassin
ates the last scion of the house of
Suabia; the one leads the Crusaders
like a great missionary and great
general, the other robs them by Ian d
and sea like thief and pirate. 1t can
not be denied that Charles the Fifth
bears gloriously on his shoulders for
thirty years the weight of the world,
but century afterward the successor
of that Atlas is called Charles the
Second. Isabel the Catholic, who con-
quers Granada, and discovers Anne
RIGA, who ends the feudal age and in
itiates the modern time, is daughter
of the feeble Joan the Second, and
sister of the impotent Henry the
Fourth. Charles the Third imbibes on
the throne in geat draughts, the NOR
al spirit of the eighteenth century,
assists the progress of his time, fills
glorious page in the history of Italy,
another glorious page in the history
of Spain, but he leaves his name and
his authority and his rights to two
imbeciles, one of whom knows moth
ing but to kill javalies in the Prado,
and the other to train kangaroos in
Caserta. No dynasties exist in nature.
Genius is like the God of Mohammed,
without father or sons in it's great
ness and its eternity. The hereditary
principles in power is a principle
which is at once condemned by rea.
son, nature, and history.-EmiIiO
CASTELAR,.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
Whole Number 1873 6

When Lentulus was consecra-
ted priest of Mars, Lucius, CeciIi-
us MetelIus gave banquet, the b i'll
of fare of which has been preserved
in history. Among the guests were
the Vestal virgins, and among the
choice 7iands asparagus figured
most honorably. In the museum of
utensils unearthed in Pompeii is
knife that was used for cutting as
paragus plants, which is a model for
such knives to this day. The mode
of eating the cooked vegetable was
that of the present time; with the
fingers, which preceded forks in Ro-
man table furniture. Juvenal cele-
brates the sueculent plant in his
writings, and Cato tbe Censor pre-
ferred it to cabbage, in the cultiva-
ton of which he was devote.
To come down to more recent
times, William the Silent used to
open his mouth with alacrity before
a dish of asparagus. His descend
ant, King William III. of England,
brought to that country the Dutch
method of cutting and eating it, and
taught it to Dean Swift, who of
course impaired it to Stella and
Fannessa, SO it became the fashiou
among ali except Jacobites. If any
reader doubts this statement about
William and Swift, we refer him to
Macaulay's History, volume II, p.
383. William was not the only
modern monarch whose love for
asparagus has become historical.
Louis XIV. of France, fairly dotted
on it, and his favorite, Mind. de
Pompadour, invented mode of
cooking and serving it that still fig
ures on the menus of France rs
"Asperges a la Pompadour," and is
regarded as the most precious lega-
cy the lady left to her country.
French memoirs mention that
Fontenelle, who lived nearly centu-
ry, in his old age retained his relish
for asparagus. He liked it served
with oil, while his friend Cardinal
Dubois liked it with sauce. One
day when the Cardinal was coming
to dine with him, he ordered one half
of the asparagus to be served in oil
and the other half in sauce. Just
before the dinner hour news came
of the sudden death of the Cardinal. /
Instantly Fontenelle called out loud
iy to his cook: "All the asparagus
in oil!" The incident and the phrase
live in history.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13

ASPARAGUS IN HIsToRY.-It may
not be generally known that asPar-
agus was a dainty especially priced
by the ancient Greeks, and it is not
impossible that it may have gro wn
on Olympus and been served at the
banquets of the gods, with ambro-
sia sauce. 1t is supposed that the
MUSES. on Helicon had beds of aspar-
agus, which they watered from
Aganippe and HippOcrene. But
this is only eonjectural. 1t is GER
tain that the Greek Philosophers and
heroes fed on 1t. The Athenians
cultivated it as devoutly as they did
the arts and letters.
Among the ancient Romans, with
whom the art of cooking was some
thing almost as sacred as a priest
hood, asparagus was precious veg
etable, and Apicius taught how to
cook it in his famous cookery books.
Julius Cesar loved it, and we may
mention that Napoleon |. and NaPo-
leon III. resembled him having tho
same love for it. Perhaps President
Grants Cesarism has also this char
acteristic. 1t is quite certain that
the plant is n favorite at the White
House table. To return to ancient
Rome: Pliny speaks of asparagus in
his writing as a very choice dish.
1t was muclSliked by Heli6gsbalus,
the cruel monster, but good liver,
among. whose celebrated events in
life was the invention Of & famous
pie made Of peacocks brains and
pheasants' tongues.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
Blinders9

This is still a mooted question
among horsemen. The following from
foreign paper makes some good
points on the negative side:
We never could see what vice or
deformity lay in horses eye that
should make it necessary to cover it
up and shut out its owner from at
least two-thirds of his rightful field
of vision. The poets say that old age
looks backward, but we never heard
such an indiosyncrasy charged upon
the horses. The theory that horse is
less apt to be frightened when shut
out from everything behind him we
suspect to be fallacy, else saddle
horses and warehouses would be duly
blinded. Every horse is as familiar
with his own carriage as with his own
tail, and, as far us his ''personal"
fortitude is concerned, is no more dis
turbed at being pursued by one than
by the other. As for other scarecrows
that come behind, they are mostly
so familiar to the animalthat the
more fully the horse can perceive
them the more quietly does he sub
NIT to their approach. Then it is .
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
Bees on the Farm.

The prejudice of our forefathers
against bees is now outgrown with
the improvements Of the age, and
every farmers home, should be sup
piled with few stands of bees to
furnish pure, sweet honey for the
family table; for unless honey is pro-
duoed on the farm it is rarely had
at all, and a luxury so easily pro-
cured all should enjoy. With a
small investment-less than for a
calf-a stand of bees may be had
that win increase at the rate Of 100
per- cent, furnish a good supply of
honey, and not require any feed. Is
there any farm stock that viii pay
so well on the investment.
With the world of flowers that
we have in the West, with tons of
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
AsHTABULA, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 1875.

pity to cover up one of the most bril-
liant creatures. The horse has borne
such hand in the civilization of this
rOugh-aud-tumble world that it
seems not so much a cruelty as a dis
courtesy, as well as a disgrace, to hide
MS form with embarrassing toggery.
No wonder we estimate the force in
the world as horsepower; no wonder
the Romans and the Germans, each
in their own languages, designated
their aristocracy as riders; no wonder
their descendants made chivalrv a
synonym for their highest virtues.
Let the horse be given his due and
unbllnded.