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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-01-29
NOW is the time. money
can be made from the start,
then grow up with the country.

II town LOT DEPARTMENT en-
braces enc hundred towns between Omaha,
Seb-, and Corinne. Utah. and lie now ready to
sell an unlimited number OF Business and
Residence lots, AT yEHI Low RATS, to actual
settlers d, -irous Of building up permanent
towns and cities along this great ~thoroughfare.
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and
Utah are rapidly filing up with a permanent
population. who are settling upon the rich sgri-
cultural lands on either side Of the road, and
d :Tcloping the Gold, silver, Copper, Lead.
Iron and Coal Mines Of the most exieh
sive and richest mining dssrTiets in the world.
All these. and the people OF int1riOr mining
camps and towns. must depend on the nearest
towns located on the Union Pacific Railroad
for their supplies OF dry goods, clothing, gro
eeries, drugs and medicines, hardware. eroekery
and glassware, furniture. farming Indictments,
machinery. tools, &c. &C. Already TIE demand
for legitimate trade exceeds the supply, and
will more than double every year
These towns have been located with .
view 10 health, business capacity and scenic
beauty. and large numbers OF Them are rapidly
growing into public prominence. As an index
Of their prosperity, 1t may be stated that the
new buildings erected in these towns during
the year ISL, cost Orc and three-fourths
miIlions OF dolIarsI
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-01-29
wTom,nE. II. chin .te, Resource.



The discovery Of rich gold mines
in the Black Hills OF Northwestern
Wyoming has directed general al
tcation TO our Territofy, aud letters
OF Inquiry in relation to the climate,
resources, etc. of our young common
wealth reach this ofiice daily. As
we have nOt the time to pen a reply
to each correspondent, We will at
tempt to answer their queries collec-
lively by giving a general resume Of
what may be consistently and truth
fully claimed for our Territory.
CLIMATE HEALTuFULxEss.
Wyoming is a Territory of i'm
Inenss extent and hence must have a
variety OF climate 1t is also a
mountainous region and what j. true
OF the climate Of the valley and
plains would not be tru of the
higher elevations; hut, speaking gen.
orally, and with special reference 10
the portions already settled and the
portion inviting settlement, we say,
without besiIation, there is o a
finer climate IN the world. IL is per
fectly healthy, tho air Is dry, pure
n bracing; there IS no malaria and
hence no ague occufs here Wyom-
ing IS free from the extremes OF heat
and cold, the yearly average temper
AZURE being II same as that of Ohio
and ~Indianarn Our winters are
usually warmer and far ~pleasanter
than those of Illinois or Pennsylva-
Hia. Snow rarely falls to any con-
sidenble depth in the valleys, aud
when it does, a warm sun or wind
usually takes il of in a day or two,
so that cattle have abundant grazing
the year round.
. RESOURCES
The special resources or Wyoming
are stock raising, mining and, ia
some portions, agriculture. Farm
lands are abundant in all tho valleys
and when Irrigated are not surpassed
for fertility and productivent s.. As
to mining, Wyoming has rich depos-.
its OF gold, silver, copper, inn, lead,
and coal. Our mines are, of course,
less developed than those of the older
Territories, ewing 20 the presence of
hostile Indians Ia the richest mining
districts of this Territory. When we
are relieved from the presence of our
red brethren, that is when the gov
eminent takes measures to keep them
on their permanent reservation in
Dakots,ths development Of our min
ing Interests, especially in the Black
Hills and Big Horn mountains, will
be on a scale that will surprise the
most singuine.
Immense tracts of our Territory
ESTIMATED To cover $4,000 square
miles) are uuderlaid with the finest
coal to be found west of the Rocky
Mountains, 50 that a perpetual supply
of cheap fuel is II certainty with u.
Timber of good quality is found in
nearly aliparts of Wyoming, consist
ing mainly of pine, cedar, hemiIock,
and cottonwood.
GRAZING PROFITS OF CATTLE
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-01-29
THE INDIAN QUESTION.

The Indians in Wyoming are
known as ~Treaty Indians" living
on q reservation away from white
settlements. The northeastern part
OF Wyoming is yet neutral ground,
me ioux Indians being permitted
by treaty stipulatious to hunt over
the same. 1t is expected that Con-
gress mex winter will abrogate the
existing treaty and confine these
Indians 10 their present reservation
beyond the boundary lines of Wyom-
Ing Territory. The prese1t policy
OF d government toward the Sioux
Is likely 10 result in permanent peace
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
SPANS New King.

Alfonso the Twelfth, son of the ex-
Queen Isabella, who has been pro-
claimed king of Spain, was born on the
2Ssh of November in the year 1857.
He has consequently passed the seven
teenth year OF his age. He was bap-
tized Alphonse Francois d'Assisse
Ferdinand Pie Jean Marie de la Con-
ception Gregoire. His holiness, the
pope, WAS one of the sponsors (by proxy
and honored Isabella and her family by
permitting the infant to have his own
name, Jean Marie. The yeung Prince
has been educated in strict accordance
with the discipline of the Catholic
church. He is robust in person, Of
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Smuggling as a Fine Art.

The Spanish contrabandists, who
were in by-gone years the heroes of
many a romance, fourished because
import duties were high. At one time
English cargoes, or miscellaneous car
goes in English ships, were landed at
Gibraltar on purpose to be struggled
over the frontier into Spain, to the
value of Ell 200, 600 per annum. As to
France, in time long subsequent to the
era of the Milan and Berlin DEGREES.
and when import duties were levied
only for the sake of revenues, the land
frontiers were the scene of extraordi-
nary smuggling. Dogs were trained in
Belgium on purpose to smuggle goods
into France. The animals were of
large size, and were trained to carry
twenty or twenty-five pounds each, the
load consisting of tobacco, sugar, cof-
lee, etc. They were converted across
the frontier in packs from France into
Belgium they were kept all day with
on. food, beaten numerically (what
superior being man is y laden in the
evening and started of. The poor
hungry animals made the best of their
way to their French homes, usually two
or three leagues from the frontier,
and were there we'll fed and kindly
treated. In ten years more than 49,
600 of these Woodworking dogs were
destroyed by the French custom Off
GERS, three francs being given as
bonus for the capture of each. Some
times dog would be found laden with
nearly ESQ worth of struggled goods.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Russian Beauty.

The characteristics of the Russian
type of feminine beauty are an extreme
fairness of the complexion, grayish-
blue eyes, blonde or chestnut hair, and
a certain cmbonpoint, arising from the
lack of exercise and the life indoors,
which is compelled by winter latsing
seven or eight months. They suggest
the idea of odalisques, whom the genius
of the north keeps confined in the
tropical atmosphere of a dollhouse.
They have compilations of cold cream
and snow, with tints of the heart of a
camellia-like those over-veiled women
of the seraglio, whose skin the sunlight
has not touched. By this extreme fair
ness their delicats features are rendered
even more delicate and the softened
outlines form faces of hyperborean
sweetness and polar grace. The Rus
sian women in society seem to make
less display than the men, as the uni
forms and court of the latter glitter
with gold lace and embroidery and with
jewelled decorations. Yet the simple
robes of the ladies are composed of the
costliest fabrics, fastened with the
rarest gems and their dazzling skins,
and flashing diamonds, and cleaning
pearls, and flowing draperies match in
effect the heavier splendor of the mas
culino attire,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Winter Flowing.

Fall and winter blowing have many
advantages which the thoughtful farm
er will not fail to study. Freezing
water in plowed ground exerts powerful
force to disintegrate the most compact
clay and mellow it. Frost is almost in
valuable to the wise cultivator who
knows how to make it work for his
benefit. 1t masters chemical action in
many ways; for in congealing, water in
minerals and organic substances is ex-
banded, and often destroys tissues, as
when an apple rots soon after freezing,
or a potato. Ice that will burst an iron
pot does much to improve titled land.
Flowing increases the capacity of the
soil to hold water, making it more
porous and open while blowing and
freezing attain results which neither
alone can secure. 1t follows from these
facts that whenever the ground is not
too wet to pillow, and one ba blowing
to do, it is best to command the force
of jack frost to aid in comminuting all
compact earth. This great mechanical
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Flies,

DR.. r. N. Piper, the naturalist, has
described, in private letter, some
microscopic investigations which he has
lately been pursuing in the study of the
fly. He has made what he calls neat
dissection of the tongue of house-fy,
and has put up rather nice specimen
of house from blowing fly, with all
its organs in a perfect state. He has
also observed, what he thinks is gen.
eral fact, that all, or nearly all, the
flies which survive the winter, are
females. In one of these which he
anatomical he found LOG eggs. He
adds: I have also demonstrated, what
is, perhaps, an chronological discovery,
that the central lancet of the horse fly
is tubular. For what reason-as he has
from the wound he makes? The lancet
of the horse-fy-the female, for the
male has no biting organs-is a COM
pound instrument. When closed, it
presents point when open, it shows
several points radiating from it's base.
The outside lancets have rows of teeth
like those on the jaw of shark. I sup
pose the creature introduces the lancet
shut like the sticks of fan. When it
is withdrawn, it is opened in tie pro-
cess, and thus makes that ugly, torment
ing wound which these insects infict
upon horses and cattle. The hollow
lancet, perhaps, carries some kind of
fluid to poison the blood or render it
more fluid. There is, however, no gland
to be found by which this fluid is Sc
GREETED. That the lancet is hollow, how
ever, have shown without question,
as have contrived to make fluid pass
through IT,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Railroads In China.

Two very curious articles have been
published by Shanghai native news
paper, the HaDei-P protesting
against the construction of railways in
the Chinese empire. The H,0ei- Pao is
of opinion that the existence of rail-
ways in Europe is too recent to admit
of a Judgment being formed as to
their practical utility, and, moreover,
that there is not sufficient business in
China to render them profitable. The
Chinese journal goes on to say that if
tea and silk are the principal objects of
commerce, and these have hitherto been
forwarded to the treaty ports by river
steamboats,. A substitution of railways
for steamboats, would not effect any
saving in point of time, and could not,
therefore, even from the point of view
taken by the foreigners themselves, be
of any service to China. Admitting
that a little time was gained, the Chi
nese would not be benefited, for the
goods would not be exported more rap
idly. Thus the railways would only
quantities of goods which, as they
could not be shipped off all at once,
wonld fall considerably in price" The
HaOei- Pao aleo says "Thc accidents
on the railway lines are very numerous,
caused by collisions, by the engines or
tenders taking fire, by the trains
running off the lines, or by the
bridges giving way and the trains being
precipitated into the rivers below. In
other cases the carriages are injured by
the great speed at which they are hur-
ried along, and the accidents are so
numerous that it is often impossible to
ascertain the exact number of dead and
wounded. All the foreign journals are
full of details concerning these acct
dents. But, admitting that most of
these casualties are preventible, and
that the trains follow their regular
course, they travel quicker than the
thoroughbred horse, and the people
walking on the lines would have no
time to get ont of their way. From this
cause alone the number of fatal acct
dents would be enormous. In all coun-
tries where railways exist they are con-
sidered a very dangerous mode of To-
comotion, and beyond those who have
very urgent business to transact, no
one thinks of using them" This latter
statement cannot as yet be accepted in
its entirety; but, unfortunately, we
howe ovorv rooson tn kpow fbat M for |
as England is concerned, travelling by
is Every dangerous mode of
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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

force costs the farmer nothing, if he
plows at the right time. Frost is about
the only pillow that nature uses to open
the pores of clay to admit air and the
roots of plants.
Study to utilize all natural forces,
whether of solar light and heat in our
sunny climate, or of hard freezing
weather of winter, or the spring, sum-
mer or autumn rains, which have a
much greater value to form variety of
crops than is generally appreciated.
Titled ground holds about twice MS
much water rs food for plants as the
same ground will hold without pillow
ing. The deeper the earth is stirred
the more water it will hold and not be
too wet for the crop or working it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

active habits and has enjoyed a good
training under military instructions,
French and English. The prince of the
Asturias is younger than the prince
imperial of France by year and eight
months; but it has been already init
mated by English juveniles in the
Woolwich academy, who have known
both of the young men, that if the
crowns of France and Spain were set up
as the prizes of fisticuff contest be-
TWEEN the two, the youthful Spaniard
would come eff the victor in the cropped
arena" and the English boys are keen
judges Of pluck and muscle. The two
princes are, however, very excellent
friends.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
A Chemical Difficulty.

A lively exchange tells the following
story some of our merchants re-.
Gently sold a gross of matches to a
woman, who, on reaching her home,
could not make them burn. In tow
ering passion, which increased all the
way back, she returned and demanded,
Why did you cheat me with these
worthless matchesY Matches re-
sponded the grocer pleasantly al
ways wears smile for his customers
what is the trouble with the matches P
'They won't burn, not one of them,
was the quick, angry response. Let
us see, said the gentleman, applying the
charged end to his pantaloons and
caused it to blaze instanter that burns
we'll enough But the rest won't,
replied the woman, who began to fear
that she had walked seven miles and
was to return seven more on foot, and
had not got angry for nothing. The
grocer opened three punches and proved
them all the same. Il don't want to
burn up all your Matches he said. but
there is not ono that will not burn the
same way Chsgrined she stared at
him with tiger eyes, and not to be
beaten, burst out If they will, You
don't s'pose every time want fire I'm
cou.i ing all this way to rub them on the
seat of your trousers, DO you p
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

A correspondent of The Rural World
writes as follows: "The right time to
SOW buckwheat for bee pasturage is
about the first of July. If sown then,
it not only forms the best pasturage
for the bees, but usually yields good
crop of seed. It is one of our best
honey-producing plants. The proper
quantity to SOW to an acre is one peck,
although some prefer to SOW two pecks.
L raise it largely, and succeed best by
sowing only one peck to the acre. The
number of acres required for thirty
colonies OF bees will be about four, if it
is good season for secreting honey.
have known one acre of buckwheat to
furnish food enough for bees, 80 that
800 pounds of honey and S5 bushels of
grain we're made from it. This was,
however, an unusually favorable season.
Five acres are the least that should be
sown for the number of colonies men,
toned, as it is better to have "too
much than not enough"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
AGRICULTURE.


A writer in the National Live Stock
Journal gives his idea on this subject ::
Sheep pay better than any other
stock, no matter what the kind of stock
is. 1 have been breeding some 800
head of cattle, and I am satisfied that,
even with the most favorable condition
for selling, when the time comes, I
shall make great deal more money,
dollar for dollar on the money invested
in sheep than shall make on the cap
ital invested in cattle. / have about
900 sheep running without any partic-
ular attention Or care, and have sold
81. 400 worth of wool of this years clip,
and have $50 lambs besides. 1 do not
think it possible to have done so we'll
on an equal amount of capital invested
in cattle. One great advantage sheep
have over other stock is, that they
never die of contagious diseases which
they contract. They get the scab or
foot-rot or something else, and if I'M
checked it gets them in bad condition,
and would ultimately, perhaps, kill
ohChi. oup thO NCAy "OAcp SOh1eeAf5 h'A'
diseases to which sheep are subject,
give the owner ample time to treat the
affected animals, and the diseases are
of a character which yield
readily to treatment. But man may
have lot of hogs, and feed them hun
dreds of bushels of corn daily, and
about the time the bottoms of his cribs
are neared, and he is thinking of selling,
some disease breaks out among them
no one knows what it is or what to do
for it-one animal after another follow
ing in rapid succession is effected, and
the greater portion die. have known
farmers to be well-nigh ruined by the
appearance of contagious disease of
This character. Sheep are happily ex-
smpt from such rapid and fearful NOR
,ality. Besides, when q sheep dies
md they will die sometimes-his pelt is
sufficient to pay for his keep from the
asst shearing to his death. 1t makes no
difference when he dies, or what kills
him, the sheep never dies in debt.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

All agree that rotation of crops is a
necessary condition to productiveness.
If we plant the same land year after
year in the same crop, the result will be
almost barrenness. So it is with ma
nures. If every year we manure our
land with the same species of manure,
it will finally lose its effect, and the
consequence will be small crops. Even
land will become tired of farm-yard
manure and will ask for a change.
Guano, bone dust, lime and ashes hav-
ing been applied to the same land for
number of years, the land will fail to
respond as it once did. The great agri-
cultural chemist, Liebig, explains this
popularity on the ground that unless
all the elements required ty plant are
present, the extent to which the ele-
ruent existing in the smallest quantity
is present, determines the resulting fer
tility. This explanation has been gen.
orally accepted as correct.
It is true that there are but few cases
wherein any land upon southern farms
run any danger of becoming fatigued
by any kind of manure. Our lands
generally suffer more from hunger than
from repletion. But the fact is one of
interest and was brought specially to
our notice during recent visit to the
market garden of an acquaintance who
informed us that his crops were falling
off from overdoses of stable manure
every year for several years.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
Origin of Fruits.

In a paper recently presented before
the Egyptian institute of sciences, DIR.
Schweinfurth asserts that the parent
species of many of our cultivated fruits
and vegetables, whose origin is sup
posed to be lost in remote past. still
exist in the heart of Africa. The Luffa,
or washing gourd-one of the plants
whose wild ancestors are regarded IS
extinct is said by the doctor to be
certainly indigenous to Central Africa.
He also AYERS that the original of the
vine is found in a wild Abyssinian
species. Not long ago, DIR. Regel, an
eminent botanist, insisted that the
original of the European grape is to be
found in hybrid between two species
from the north of China. The olive,
the sycamore-fig, and the Doum palm,
DIR. Schweinfurth believes to be in
digenous to remote parts of the Red
Sea region.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
BETWEEN THE DANCES.

Deep night This night is worthy of you, sweet
So many stars it has! A soft wind
The aspens trembling DER the garden seat.
And murmuring such low tones as lovers use,
1t breathes along the flowers; and slumbering
spices
Are blown abroad beyond the gded spears
Which crest the gates. How coyly it entices
The wind-harp into strains which sound like
tears
Changed by a charm to musicl Love. it
That you and night are sisters; both so pure,
So beautiful made to love and lure,
20 full of music, murmurs, odors, beams;
Both queens Of dreams divine and starred repose
Which day less heaven encompassed
knows London Society,"
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An Arkansas CORRESPONDENT of the
Scientific American says: "I came here
80 years since, and began clearing land
and building houses with hewn logs and
boards split from the trees. After sew
eral years residence noticed that very
often pieces of the same kind of timber
decayed more quickly than others; and
after much thought and observation
came to the conclusion that timber
felled when the leaf first commenced
to grow rotted the sap off very quickly,
but the heart remained sound that
timber felled after the fall of the leaf
rotted in the heart, even when appar-
emily sound on the outside. When fire.
wood cut in the winter was put on the
fire the sap came out of the heart, but
when cut in the summer the sap came
out of the sap wood, and next the bark.
notice also that all our lasting wood
has but little sap at any time in the
heart-such as cedar, mulberry, sassa-
fras, and cypress. A cypress post cut
in the summer of 1888 is still sound,
although exposed to all weathers, while
one of the same kind of timber, cut in
the winter of 1856. and painted, has
rotted in tho heart. I saw yesterday
a piece of gum plank, which sawed in
the summer of 1856, that has lain ever
since, and is perfectly sound; while oak
timber that was felled in the winter
before is now entirely rotten. My con-
clusion then is J.: Gut timber after full
leaf, say in July and August, to get the
most last from it. The sap goes into
the heart of the tree after leaf-fall, and
causes decay"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23

A BEAUTIFUL WoMAN.-The percep-
tive faculty of women is usually keener
than the same chronological organ in
men. Woman knows that beauty rather
than genius is worshiped by the sterner
sex. A man may talk with his lips of
the latter to his lady-love, but the keen
ness of the woman knows that he is
thinking of the former in his heart. All
women have an innate desire to please
their beaux. They are fond of admira-
ton, hence one of their lungings is to
be beautiful. The grand secret of fe
mole beauty is health-the secret of
health is the power to eat. digest and
assimilate proper quantity of whole
some food. Take Vinegar Bitters. It
will cleanse the stomach, tone the vital
organs, give perfect digestion, purify
the blood, clear up the complexion and
produce state of mental and physical
electricity which gives symmetry of
form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy
hair and genuine type of female love
illness which no cosmetic can compare
with,