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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-28
GENERAL
Delegate In Congress-
C0ngTsSs-Hon. W. R. sIsek

AeTfltofiAl OmcerB.
GOUcrnOr-Jno. N. Thayer.
SeereGTy-G. W. EIeLcA.
CALJ JgSGas Of SEPrEnaS Court. " Pfaksf
AssOeiGts Jusacss-JOs. " Carey, "a 49,.
GrF-' StAes COAectOr-E 2. Snow.
GeEtsTG-- SilAs iced.
GSestUsf Il Public Aohsys-G. W. Cerry.rI"E
asgsttr U LGNd 0Eo-S. n. Wfusuf.-S
zeSE-.SF+d LEeaSHrsr-S- W Downey.
IsTrA"Ta4 AGda0TT. II. HAyIord.
- I'LL ArpolG-
FeHt~HtAGrg Charles u 1TtSa.
Territorial LibrdrfdA John SsIgbser~S ~ .
SOD1DItssi0Her OF LgaHtgrahoRJ. X. jeffrey.
~ r,''S.deAt q Bs5HeasE-John Slaughter,
UHhsd Stdtss COHtHusStOher| W. Bruuu.
CLsrk Of ~ judicial DntretT. Vi. Braner.
kdrSAG-Frank WoIcotL.
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G. N. JONES, Proprietor.

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To California and the Pacific coast, making the
unexsmpled line OF 1900 miles in
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-28

Wyoming Conmandey No. ]. Regular Gee
clavo first Friday in each month. 8E2'
Wyoming Chapter, No /. R. A. NJ meets
tall, on the first and third Tuesday svsninSs In
each month, at = o CLOCK pm.
Cheyenne Lodge, No. 10, meets FIRST and third
Saturday nights in each month, at Masonic HAIL
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New Postal Arrangement Between the
United States and Canada.

WAsH1NaToN, Dec. 20.
For the purpose of placing communi-
cation by post between the United
Estates and Dominion of Canada upon the
most liberal and advantageous basis, the
following arrangements have beenagreed
upon, to be carried into effect on the 1st
of January, 1875, or as soon thereafter
as the necessary measures can be per-
fected for putting them into operation
Fssst-Un ifcatfon Of the postal systems of the
two countries in respect to correspondence ex-
changed between them; each country to forward
kinds, written and printed, received from the
other, which correspondence must in all cases Be
prepaid at the established domestic rates Of the
Sscond-Each country will transmit the domes.
tic mails of the other in closed pouches through
Its territory free OF charge, by its ordinary mai
INird-No account shall be kept between the
POstofice Departments of the two countries in
regard to International correspondence of anv
kind exchanged between them each department
retaining for its exclusive use all the postage 1t
collects on mail matter sent to the other for de.
livery.
Fourth 1T is understood to be the desire and
intention Of our respective Postofice Depart
extend to an international money order exchsnae
as soon as practicable.
FVtA-The provisions of this agreement. az
far as relates to the rate of letter postage, will be
Sirth-An provisions Of existing postal conyen.
tons inconsistent with this arrangement are
hereby abrogated.
visions Of this agreement, shall be prepared 70.
execution as soon as possible.
Depaty Postmaster-General, Canada, acting 10,
and subject to the approval Of the Postmaster
MARSHALL JEWELL, Postmaster General,
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.$17,437,741 @

The number of Refreshments during
the last year has been 400 more
than during the previous fiscal year.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1874, there were 1900 less assertions than
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1873. A little of this reduction is due to
the diminution of the number of en-
listed men, but it is fair to presume that
. large share of it is owing to the in
creasing contentment with the service
by the full operation of the acts Of May
Is, 1872, for gradual increase of pay and
for soldiers deposits.
The Paymaster- General recommends
to favorable confederation an annuity
scheme for officers of the army, first
presented by Gen. j. B. Fry, Of the
Adjutant- Generals Department. ii Under
it, officers could, by making certain
monthly deductions from their pay, secure
to their widows, heirs, or nominees q
monthly annuity which will commence on
the death of the officer. It Is contem-
plated that the operation shall inthe end
be q safe one for, the, Government, and
Shall involve no loss to the Treasury. It
contemplates that the War Department
shall have power to prescribe from time
to time the rules and tables to he EN-.
ployed in the execution of the plan.
The average annual mortality OF
officers of the United States army dur.
ing the last fifty years Gncluding deaths
in war) has been A.1 per 1000.
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A private letter from an officer at Fort
Sill, Indian Territory, gives the follow
ing account of an ingenious expedient
adopted to aid some soldiers in strait:
'sO01poral John Smith, of the F0esieth
Infstfy VIII 1cut 49, NSsaempigYed
'o9sa0me dDt1il sSonaeFFt uenfy4nse niles
from this post. While thus engaged he
was surprised by body of some hundred
Or more ln0aHted vIndians, he thinks
either Kiowas or Comanches, from this
reservation. As their purpose was I'M
mistakably hostile, he and his men lost
no. time in. taking to the ollys available
shelter, ans Old buffalo wal1ow, where, in
q very uncomfortable, constrained posi-
ton, they managed to protect their bodies
and Keep theif enemies al y distance for
the day and might. The next mofhiAg,
however, their suffk ringsforRant Of food
and water became rather serious, and
something had to be done. Corporal
Smithgwas equal to. the occasion; taking
q piece OF, his own white sKfft, the only
substitute for paper 70 be had, he wrote
d note dcscfibfng their situation, secufed
lie with care - thonecikof Aasmafl, shaggy
lno.grelA dog which had followed them
from the fort $ then haktering up a'csn;
teen he fastened it to the dogs tail and
let him 70: The dog; TO quote the Cor:
Fperars yOWn expression, sjtst :hu4npted
himself.sr The Indians, taking iR to Id q
mere act of ,bravado, I presume, made no
attempts to stop him, and within two
hours from the time he started the dog
Preached the post. Snccof was fniffnedi.
stely sent and the brsrea Corporal and
his comrades gbroughte in, Thea Indians
- H;un M ~<tho 43rcf ii chit ~ thu ronCrtn
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A Kansas Farmers Account of the
1850. Grassh0ppers. r.,,.>

Near Topeka, Kan, 1 talked with
farmer who planted a thousand acres of
corn but did not gather an ear. Last
year he sold corn for seventeen cents and
this year he was shipping it from Iowa
at 81 rs. He sat on the balcony mourn
ing the utter destruction of his crop.
GLOW did they come-the grasshop-
pers?" I asked. ia - =
They came like shower, sir" he re-
piled. "They came in a great shower
from the west. They filled the air.
They darkened the sun. They covered
the stalk of corn until it was black.
Then they ate every leaf, ate the stalk
down to the young ear and then ate the
little ear too" .a,.--
"Cob and all, STRIP
"Yes, cob and all. Why, don't you
see that 1000 acres of corn out there
now?" he exclaimed" standing like
broken whip-stocks?"
"What else did they eat?" 1 asked.
why, they ate every leaf off of the
peach trees, ate the young peaches, leav-
ing the stones, and there stood my trees
leat1ess, bearing crop of peach-stones.
They ate little cottonwood limbs an inch
thick; they ate my beets, turnips and
onions clean down into the ground
followed them out, leaving the rind
ate cigar-stubs, sir, and"
Hold up" 1 said, "that's too much /;
that's"
"But it's the solemn truth, sir. Why,
one night sat on the balcony with the
engineer of the Santa Fe Road. The
'hoppers had piled up against the west
side of the house three feet thick. 1t
was crawling, sinking, nasty pile. The
Ia 1onrv T
guild OF tobacco and the hoppers covered
it and ate it up. in few minutes, and
when I put my foot on pile of them
ones up. Why, when went to build my
fires this fall the stoves wouldn't draw,
! and, on examination to learn the cause,
found the flues full of 'hoppers. They
! filled the air with horrid stencil. They
covered the pools and springs with their
poisonous green excrescence and made
the cattle sick, they made the hens and
turkeys sick; and they fairly made me
| sick. Why, I've seen them so thick on
the railroad that they'd stop a train
grease the track till the locomotive
wheels would roll over and over"
What became of them?" asked.
"They flew east. They always flew
in the daytime and ate at night. They
went through my corn-field in day, and
the next day they were half-mile to
| the east.
"And the trees?"
"Why, they all leaved out again, and
many of them blossomed over again and
tried to bear fruit, and did bear it till the
frost came. In my trees you'd see dead
peach-stones and pink blossoms-all to-
gether. Oh, twas mournful sight, sir
dreadful" and the farmer drew long
sigh.-Cor. New York Sun.
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1Postomce Regulations.

-" - 'WAsHINdroN, Dec Is.
The Postmaster-G General will soon send
to all Postmasters of leading cities cir
cular, Of which the following is an sex-
s1"The increasing deficiency IN the
Postoffice Department is assuming such
proportions as to demandsa strict and
rigid effort to reduce expenses, with a
view to. curtail this great deficiency. One
Of the largest items in the annual
expenditures of this:w Department
is the re expenses Of the ,, Post
found to differ. very materially in
offices of the same class which, are, in
fluenced by the same condition Of
service. The appropriations for these
expenditures for The fiscal year are 3d.
ESQ, 900. The expenditures at the present
rate win be $3.50, 600, leaving deficit
Of 600, 600. ] have determined upon an
investigation of allithe Offices, to be made
by agents Of the Post0f1ce Department
who are thoroughly versed IN all the de-
tails of Postofiice woIklands requirement,
with .. view o., discovering the amount
necessary to be- appropfiated fof the next
ensuing year. .e196stt@1 9aiFV gJ!s .S1sa
In connection with this I deem j. ad-
visable to reorganize the clerical force
of allthe Offices Of the higher grade,
systematizing the labor and basing the
compensation of the clerks upon the
quality and amount of the service per-
formed and introducing . system Of .ap-
pointnientsi and promotions that Will
enable you to reduce she force and sex-.
pshees tnthe: lowest limit, and increasing
the shcieneZ Of tie service tothe greatest
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Alaska.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 8,

WASHINGTON, Jan. s.
Henry w. Elliott, Special Agent of the
Treasury Department, has submitted to
the Secretary of the Treasury his report
upon the condition and Importance of
the fur trade in the Territory of Alaska,
the haunts and habits of the seal, the
preservation and extension of the fish
cries as source of revenue to the United
States, with like information respecting
the fur-bearing animals of Alaska gen.
orally, the statistics of the fur trade,
and the condition of the people or
natives, especially those upon whom the
successful prosecution of the fisheries
and fur trade is dependent.
The first measure suggested by the in
vestigation of Mr.. Elliott this season
was one of change and reform in the
present shadowy government of the Ter
ritory. 1t was; not intended to waste
time and money as matters are now con-
Quoted, when the same annual expendi-
ture would give prompt and effective
supervision on the part of the Govern
ment over its new sadly neglected inter
ests in the Territory. This: mistake in
the Government as it now exists in
Alaska is not attributable to any other
cause than that of the universal and
special ignorance prevailing In the
United States at the time of the, transfer
in regard to the form of government
needed, and since then no one seems to
have taken any Int nigent or active in
sterest in the matter. The pecuniary
value of the fur-seal interests Of the
Government renders it highly important
that the Treasury Department, now in
trusted with its care and supervision,
should possess definite and authoritative
information "a to the proper management
for it's perpetuation in its original in
tegrity at least. ' .ss 60 "a
Mr.. Elliott calls attention especially
to the accompanying report upon the
subject which embodies the results of
three seasons ofs close personal OBSERVE
ton and research on the ground, with maps
and Illustrations. In connection with
the condition of the natives of the Ter.
rit0ry, on whom the successful prosecu-
ton Of the fur trade Is dependent, he has
been led into very careful study of the
history and habits of the sea-otter in
this country, to the successful hunting
of which between four and five thousand
Christian Aleutiafs and Kodiakers look
for means of. livelihood. Since the
transfer OF, |: the Territory firearms, for.
merly prescribed, have been introduced
an ong the ot'er-hunters. This in com
bination with the keenest rivalry. of OBJ
position traders, makes it. only g. Ques-
tion. Of q very short time at which these
Evaluable and Interesting animals shal]
be- exterminsted, although on their ak
istence SO many, ChFistianiseda natives
are totally dependent for all the comforts
and many even of the necessities of q
semi-civilized life, The remedy for this.
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Brief Sayings by Josh Billings.

The two best blessings ov life are the
two that are most neglected, youth and
health
Life IL short, but if it was shorter it
would be better for menny people.
Don't cry for split milk, young man,
but pix up yure pail and milking stool
and 60 for the next COW.
Edukashun haz the same effekt upon
talent that policing haz upon a hill ov
lima beans: it sets it to kimbing.
Thare il no slavery so terrible as to
gro old and be continually lamenting
about it.
The man who IL willing to live his life
| over agin haz probably got more konfi-
dense in himself than hiz Majors hav.
We are all of us apt to think that we
are absolutely necessary in this life, but
if we should cum back after an absence
ov two years the world would probably
be more surprised than delighted to see
US. ..r ga 49, rqgs. ~ze -p-r-- W.
Economical wives make fond and in
dulgent husbands. .szzsae..
Don't never trust sman at the rate ov
fifty cents on o. dollar. If you kant con-
fde in him at par LET him slide.
The devil was the father Of lies, but
be neglected to take out q patient, and
thousands hav taken advantage of his
invenshun. A - Il. d
Nobody Is ct for solitude who IL fit for
emmy thing else.
Don't never try to refute lies lies are
like hous dys, they will all die, off when
their timecums, and yu kant hill them
off before, try as hard AZ you will.
Wellbred persons are thoze who are
eazy themselfs and make everyboddy
else feel eazY.a@ ..l,..-..44-- ssaassss.
Just in rasho that, Q man makes good
husband m makes good citizen, and he
who amt worthy ov wife ain't worthy
ov ennything.
stubborness haz ruined q menny peo-
pie az extravaganza hax.
Mi advicefo III IL to marry yung and
gro old together.
If man hAz got real merit modesty
bekums him best; If he haz 10 merit it
seems to be almost necessary that he
should be mpudert. F..
Misers cheat themselfs and never seem
to diskOver the frat 4
All evils are eax1y managed If they
are nipt u the bpd; II yu giv canada
thissels or blackberry bushes a three
years. lease, they will chase emmy man
OFF from q good farm. 7a,ssrisrT .ETT5}1 :
b. 1t IL q kurious fakt that the more q
man haz to do the less time he kan do it
in. g.rs.fg,8.a z;s.rg .s.g - Inv .e74gssylT
The. excentricity of CRATE men hav
more inmitators than their virtews hav.
IN. Y. Weehav &.ssA .@l.sE Ass9TgS7E
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stockings with scarlet heel patches.
Neat and not gaudy and saves earning.
"A New York reporter asked Kala-
kana if Mark Twain told the truth about
big dominions. His Majesty said mo"
The Rev. Joseph Williams, Of Bos-
ton, says that the people of Great Britain
are identical with the lost tribes of Is
rael.
"A Chicago correspondent says that
Mrs. Lincoln has refused numerous eligi-
BILE offers of marriage since her husbands
death.
Senator Stewart, the very wealthy
Nevadian, in early days trudged after
droves of cattle across the plains for a
living.
Prof. Watson, who is at the head of
the American transit party, at Pekin, has
discovered a new asteroid of the eleventh
magnitude.
speaking Of the personal appearance
| of Socrates, recent writer intimates he
was by no means spruce-lOOking fel-
low. That's so. He took more after the
hemlock.
| Senator Jones, of Nevada, got scared
about his Crown Point mine stock the
other day and sold heavily. When he
got control of his stock again he had lost
u great deal of money
| delaware is peculiar at all times.
This year she has full Legislature
thirty men-with not a lawyer among the
number. There are farmers, and mer-
chants, and philosophers, but not men,
Der Of the legal profession.
AT the Kalakaua reception in New
York a gallant warrior of nine summers,
dressed in superb uniform, marched up
to His Majesty, having upon his arm a
fashionably- dressed young lady who had
attained the mature age of six.
| "A Chicago Alderman tried for three
hours to think of George Washington's
last name, but he couldn't do it. He
said he knew it was George, and that the
man had something to do with the
Mexican war, but he couldn't remember
fu1ther.-Detroit Press.
Out of the 1893 games of checkers
played in New York, Mr.. Wylie won 2S6
and lost four, the remainder being drawn
lie has played 1000 games since landing
in this country, out of which he has lost
but fourteen! He has been close
student of the game of checkers for forty
years, and his equal is not living.
An old soldier corrects the common
error in regard to the rank of Gen.
Grants son. He is Second Lieutenant
in the Tenth Cavalry. Gen. Sheridan
is entitled to certain number of staff
officers with the rank of lieutenant
colonel, and has appointed young Grant
to one of these places, and while on that
service he bears nominally that rank,
but his real rank in the army is that of
his place in his regiment. g..
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The Postmaster GenexDd sugqts TOD
Poi masters that they fthwiths hbmik
a dftt Of such schen of orgaS Ratio
of 6eir respective o. Ses as tlT m0v
think necessary. W NS
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Army Report.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2

WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
The Paymaster-Gen of the army
in his report for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1874, gives the following state
ment of receipts and disbursements:
Balance on hand at the beginning OF
the fiscal year Gully l, 1879. 800. 2991 81
Received during the fiscal year from
the Treasury. ............... 4,241 ,O96 IL
Received from soldiers deposits. 346,6O9 Sc
Received from other sources. 697,O43 "a
Total. 81, 437,741 43
Discussed to the army. 49,, 1853 S6
Disbursed to the Military Academy. 185,828 AZ
Disbursed on Treasury certificates. 1,2S4,733 II
Total disbursements. $50 "A
Surplus funds deposited in the
Treasury. .:.........:........... ss7,7sa IS
Paymasters'. collections dspositedin .s -
the Treasury: ...................... 6s7,442 80
Balance in hands Of Paymasters June
90, 1874, to be accounted for in next
report. Observation-Disclosures. 26ss,s7s "a
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Personal and Literary. 49,.
- 80

L "a Personal and Literary. s~,et;
Spinner has been Treasurer fourteen
years. ssa,h ,5rIaas<s ,sesz. ~ : i
Hon. Horatio Seymour and Senator
Conkling are brothers-in.law.
The works Of Marion Harland have
been sold to the extent OF SOC, eco vol
sunies. 70 .s,sss -, - -,
.-1fiss Louisa Webster, daughter. of
aDr.N6ShoNSitster, died at New Haven
iiscehtly agS n kty;beven. - ~
= a1Ulara Norris. they SAY, feels adverse
icfiticfsm yeTx keenlY and, womsn like,
wil1at d0Wn and cry 0yef it.si ,gset.ssE
ssa.--.Af rs. Jane sBWisshelm wears black
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$64,63.512
1,93S,705
24,325,396
5,6O1,sss
1S,13,55s

Rumors of the resignation of Gen. Spinner
and other officers of the Treasury Depart
ment are denied by Washington dispatches of
the Sd.
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Industrial.

Green peas, grown in the open air,
have appeared in the Savannah markets.
The mills of Cohoes, N. T., have en-
ploted for the year 3, ass hands, u and have
manufactured $685. 900 dozen shirts and
drawers.
I-American saws are said to have
been recently offered for sale in Sheffield,
England, Is per cent. under the price of
Sheffield makers. r.,
"A Washington paper says that it is
lamentable fact that the number of men
and women now out of employment in
the cfy@is greater than at any former
period, 2, .nA:, ,-..-. g.
Andrew Bates, of Hanover, Mass, is
largely engaged in trapping skunks.
the year before 1, SOC, and this year he
expects to send 2,Oo0, The oil Of the an
ma1 is extracted for medicinal purposes,
and the skins, which bring about SIS per
dozen, are made into ladies' clOaks.
The difference between steam power
and horse power is indeed wonderful.
Thps it is shawn by Favre, Sherman
and !others that q pound of good coal
will hberate, during complete combus-
ton, 14,OO0tor II, 900 units of heat, each
| unit being equivalent to 772 foot pounds !;
and the, mechanical equivalent of the
heat developed by the combustion OF q
pound of coal is, therefore, over H.
106D6O foot pounds. i Now, "a horse
power is always assumed to be equal to
5000 foot pounds per minute, Q. $780,
COO foot pounds per hour. Thus, the
combustion of each pound of coal per
hour liberates heat enough to develop
1000, 0oo, divided by 1880 O00, equaling,
say, I've horse7power;y and in perfect
steam engine the consumption of coal
would Be abo1taat the rasesof one-ffth of
q pound per hour for each horse power
developed. w ,..,.,. -
gineer, London, Of some experiments
made to deteNmine the, temperature OF
the earth, IL is stated that in England tho
temperature is constant at . depth of
ibbus Mty feet, Iwheie the temperature
Il about MY degrees, Fair. The rate Of
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surred 1t hi. homo in Petersoro, n. q, OF

surred at his home in Peterboro, N. &, on
The 3lst. NJ 81
The Connecticut Republics State Convea.
ton is to be held on the 10th init.
Gen: Morgan L. Smith, Of Bloomington, m.,
died recently at hotel in. Brooklyn, n. Y.
His remains were taken to warrington, D. c.
After settling up the affairs of the late James
Fisk his estate is left in debt to the amount of
$17S,5OO
Subpenas were served on the I'd on wit
nesses in the Tilton- Beecher suit, and panel
of 500 jurors drawn.
At the time Of his death Gerrit Smith was
worth $1,25O,OOO. His charities during his
life were of an equal amount
In the Pacific Mail investigation, on the
ID, Henry Clews, Director, testified that no
knowledge came to the Board of Directors, as
a Board, of the money spent to procure the
subsidy until after it became law, and
when they did learn the fact it was-a matter
OF surprise to them. A. l.. Phelps testified
that Stockwell told him that money was
being spent in Washington. Stockwell also
said he supposed Irwin would have to be sent
out of the country if an investigation into the
matter should be instituted. Phelps thought
this was in September, 1879.
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General News Summary,
Washington News.

In the Cabinet meeting in Washington on
the 18th Atty.-G Williams emphatically
reiterated his opinion that there was a neces.
sity for the Government to sustain the report
of the Louisiana Election Returning Board
at all hazards, and that its decision is right
in law and in fact.
A Washington telegram of the LIST says
Vice-President Wilson had arrived in that
city, and intended to preside over the Senate
during the remainder of the session.
The internal revenue receipts for the month
OF December were 1854 $50. For the fiscal
year to Dec. 81, So, pa, 430.
The public debt statement Jan. 1 is as fol-