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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-03-17
RHODE ISLAND.
Democra ic Nominees.

Providence, March 16.-The Demo-
cratic state convention to-day nomi-
mated Gen. Geo. l.. Cook, for Gov
ernor; B. o. Slocum, for Lieut.. Gov
crnor; John S. Price, for Secretary
of State; Oscar s. Lapham, for At
torney General, and VIM. p. Cong
don, for General Treasurer.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-03-17
FOREIGN.


hOSt at sea-
Queenstown, March I6.-The ship
Enmenides capsized on the 18th inst.
The second mate and seven of the
crew have arrived at this port. The
remainder of the crew and the cap
tain, thirteen in all, were drowned.
Liverpool, March 16.-The ship
Greta, from San Francisco, arrived
here to-day. She brings portion of
the crew of the ship Great Britain,
which left this port Jan. 22d, and
which was abandoned at sea in
sinking condition. Eleven of the crew
of the Great Britain were drowned
and four died from exposure.
The Weather.
The weather is hardly settled yet,
though it. has greatly moderated.
From all parts OF the country come
details of destruction by the gale.
The rivers CherwelI. Tone and others
overflowed the country for miles
about.
Paris Flooded.
Paris, March I6.-The suburbs of
this city are all more or less inun-
dated. and suffering caused by the
floods is very Marshal and
Madame Mcmahon lave each visited
separate quarters and distributed re-
lief personally. Madame Mcmahon
sent the prefect of the Seine five
Thousand francs fer the relief of the
sufferers, and public contributions are
being made for the same object.
All the large streams between Paris
and the eastern frontier of France are
over their banks and the country for
miles around flooded.
In Normandy the gale was terrible.
On the Calvadas coast masses of rock
were blown off the cliff.
In Belgium the hurricane was ter
rife. The barometer at Liege fell
below the lowest reading on record.
Elsewhere in Germany the storm was
most violent and generally on the
continent. The telegraph lines were
damaged to an extent hitherto un-
paralelled.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-03-17
Nd. 14s.
GRAND ISLAND STORE"
COMMISSION HOUSE OFF
John Thormahlen & Co.,
GENERAL DEA LERs IN
Grain. Produce and Fruit.


Flour, 50 2s. 8, 5, and s. rs per saele. War
anted good.
Meal, fre.h ground. white or yellow. 81 70 per
Ito tOu
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-03-17
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23

Brown, slate, dark blue and cardinal
red are the most fashionable colors in
the new hosiery. When stripes appear
they are formed by the ribbing only, or
in hair lines of contrasting color.
The new French coiffure, consisting
Of puffs of hair on the back of the head,
and water wave held in a catogan loop
by silk braid net which covers all the
puffs and the loop, is to be seen.
Ball and evening dresses ale cut low
in the front and back, and given asquare
effect by broad shoulder straps, which
do duty as sleeves, coming high on the
shoulder, and hanging like an epaulette
over the upper part of the arm.
The new pockets on polonaises are
placed low down and far back on either
side according to the caprice of the
wearer, and they are of all sorts of fan
ciful shapes: funnel and fan formed,
halberd shaped, square, triangular and
hexagonal.
Elegant and reasonable priced opera,
Saratoga and Newport shawls are shown
in stripes of repped silk, alternating
with raw silk matte. They come in all
| COlOrS anu pure WulGes LHey lOOh
| Oriental, but are French.
In America and England the right
hand is no longer useful to ladies, it be-
ing required to hold up their dresses.
In Paris this is thought economical, and
therefore base, and the train is allowed
to sweep the street like broom.
American women refuse to follow
French styles in the arrangement of the
hair. In Paris great deal of false
hair is necessary in the composition of
the present style of coiffure. Here the
neat, compact but severe fashion of the
French twist prevails for this moment.
The range of fancy in hosiery is
greater this season than ever. Some OF
these fancy silk stockings are literally
covered with vines, leaves, butterflies.
flowers, bees, truelovers' knots, and
other devices in colored embroidery
that extend all over the stocking, from
the rise of the instep to the knee; Others
have the sandal straps and bands around
the ankle defined in flowers and vines.
while others are embroidered in self OF
contrasting color of any kind, OF
grounds of black, white, and all shades
of every color of the rainbow. And al
these are initiated marvelously in the
cotton and raw silk hosieries.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
The Population of Turkey.

The war i'll Turkey has had the effect
of discovering to the majority of news
paper readers their ignorance of its geo.
grapby, history and population. Espe-
cially with regard to the races subject to
the sultan and the inhabitants of tribu-
tary states included in maps as parts of
the country does a general ignorance
prevail. 1t may not, therefore, be pre-
sumptuous in us to present on this sub
ect some recent and authentic informa-
tion. The population of European Tur-
key, exclusive of tributary states, is
S,430,0 600. Adding to these the number
Of inhabitants in Servia, 1,340, 900;
Montenegro, l25,000: and Roumania,
4,500,000, the total population is ID, 1876,
000 of whom about forty-two per cent.
are Mohammedan. The Greeks, Alban-
ians and Roumanians are of the Greco
Latin race; and the Servians, Bulgarians
and Russians, of the Sclavonic. Besides
these are represented in smaller num-
bers Armenians, Jews, Gyspies, Circas-
SLAMS, Arabs, Magyars and foreigners;
merous of this group, only numbering
144,000 1t is calculated that of the
Greco Latin race in Turkey the Greeks
number /, 1877, 900; the Albanians, 1,011,-
600, and the Roumanians, 200, 900; and
of the Sclavs, the Servians, 1888, 600;
the Bulgarians, 2,877, 800, and the Rus
SLAMS, 10000.
To localize these numerous peoples is
work of considerable difficulty; but
roughly it may be said the Turks are
the majority in Constantinople, and in
the sanjaks of Serayvo, Prizrend, Divra,
Berat, Drama Ras'chuk, Tulcha and
Varna. The Greeks, of whom many are
thought to be nothing but Grecized
Sclavs, are stronger in the Epirus,
Thessaly, Macedonia, Thrace, and along
the shores of the Black sea. The Al
banians, fine, warlike race, lve prin-
cipally between the Epirus and Monte
negro; 723,000 of them are Moham
medans, 200, 900 Roman Catholics and
$4,000 belong to the Greek church. The
Roumanians are of the bulk of the popu
lation of Wallachia and Moldavla. Most
of the Servians are members of the
Greek church, but large number hav
ing turned Mohammedan to save theil
lands from confscation, there are nov
about 1853, 900 Servian followers of the
prophet. Over 60, 900 are Roman Oatho
lies The Montenegrins and Herzego
Vinians are Sclavs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
The BOTTOM of the Sea.

Professor Huxley, speaking at a din
ner in Edinburgh of the result of the
Challenger expedition, sent out to OBJ
tain more accurate information of the
physical characteristics Of the sea and
of the animal life in it, gave the follow
ing interesting facts as examples of what
has been discovered:
Some of the discoveries which have
been made by the Challenger are un-
doubtedly such as to make us all form
new ideas of the operation of natural
causes in the sea. Take, for example,
the very remarkable fact that at great
depths the temperature of the sea always
sinks down pretty much to that of freez-
ing fresh water. This is very strange
fact in itself-a fact which could not
have been anticipated prjOri. Take,
again, the marvellous discovery that over
la, ge areas of the sea the bottom is Gov
cred with a kind of chalk, substance
made up entirely of the shells of minute
creatures. The fact has been known for
long time, and we we're greatly puz-
zled to know how these things got to be
there. But the researches of the Chal-
lenger have proved beyond question, IS
far as [ can see, that the remains in
question are the shells of organisms
which live at the surface and not at the
bottom, and that this deposit, which is
of the same nature as the ancient chalk,
differing in some minor respects, but
essentially the same, is absolutely form
ed by rain of skeletons. These crea-
| tlires all live within one hundred faith
oms of the surface, and, being subject
to the fate of all living things, they
sooner or later die. and when they die
their skeletons are rained down in one
continual shower, falling through a
mile OF couple of miles of sea water.
How long they takea6ou it imagination
fails one in supposing, but at least they
get to the bottom, and there, piled up,
they form great stratum of substance
which, if upheaved, would be exactly
like chalk. Here we have a possible
mode of construction of the rocks which
compose the earth Of which we had pre-,
viously no conception. But this is by
no means the most wonderful thing
When they got to depths of 5000 ano
1000 iathoms, and to 4, 400 fathoms, OF
about five miles, which was the greatest
depth at which the Challenger fshed
anything from the bottom, they fount
that. while the surface of the watel
might be full OF those calcareous organ
isms, the bottom was not. There they
found red clay. This red clay is a grea
puzzle, great mystery; how it comes
there, what it arises from, whether it is
as the director has suggested, the ash o
foraminifel@; whether it is decompose(
pumice stone, vomited out by volcanoe
and scattered over the surface; o
whether. lastly, it has something to dc
with that meteoric dust which is being
continually rained upon us rom tn
spaces of the universe. Which of thes
causes may be at the bottom of the phe
nomenon it is very hard to say; it is on
of those points on which we shall hav
information by-aud-bye.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
The Prevention Of Crime.

Mr.. Angel, of Boston, spoke before
the Social Science Association on "The
Prevention of Crime" Mr.. Angel be-
gun by giving some instances and statis
tics showing the rapid increase in the
number Of criminals, and said there
could be no doubt that the remedy for
many financial and moral crimes may
be found in European habits of econo-
my, a knowledge of domestic industry,
and a reformed public opinion which
shall make it more respectable to be
married and live in small house than
to remain single and board in large
one. Coming down to the practical de-
tails OF the question CHOW shall we
stop crime2" Mr.. Angel said: The
.irst step, in my judgment, is to or
ganize societies for the purpose. Lei
each Of these in our cities establish an
office, and put into that Office an ener.
getic, clear headed, practical man, witt
such assistance as he may need. whose
duty it shall be first to aid, protect an6
advise the poor, and gather and publish
information ana promote plans calcu
lated to benefit them; second, to SEE
that proper laws for the protection OF
the public health and the security O
property and life are not only enacted
but enforced. For the present relief O
the poor there should be in our cities
and larger towns temporary industria
homes" where any one can obtain ;
bowl of soup and clean bed, paying
the value in money or labor, and where
fuel can be bought in small quantities a
low prices. For the permanent relic
of poverty and prevention of crime TIVE
things are needed: First, constant re
munerative labor; second, places wher
the poor and the unemployed, and tn
inebriates who are trying to reform, cal
pass their evenings. He would hav
day or evening schools where the poo
Of both sexes can be taught variou
trades and branches of industry to max
them self-supporting. He would hav
farms where young men can be taugh
agriculture, and places where youni
women can be taught sewing and dc
nestle industry, and how to nurse til
sick and how to prevent sickness by OF
serving sanitary laws. In answer t
the question of how to provide labor fo
the unemployed, he urged their color:
zation upon the cheap and fertile land
Of the West.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
A Case Of Female RoguerY.

Celia Logan tells the following story
of romance in letter to the San Fran
cisco Call: An instance of female du-
plicity has lately come to my knowledge
which greatly resembles the New Mag
dalcn story, with the advantage of be
ing true. A man-Wilkins we'll call
him-of wealth and influence had
brother who immigrated to the West
when young, and whom he had never
seen afterward. He (the brother) died,
and also all his family, with the excep-
tion of a daughter, who came to New
York to seek home with her uncle.
She was armed with facts OF family his
tory, letters, and every credential to
prove her identity, which was not dis
puted. She was young, beautiful, ami
able, and soon made herself beloved by
the Wilkins family. She was surround
ed by every luxury, introduced into
society, and soon married well-a rich
society man, by whom she has now two
children. Her character is irreproach-
able, and her manners good. She Is
not, however, quite as well educated rs
her uncle could wish, but she pleads as
her excuse that her father was poor and
kept her working on q bit of farm
when she should have been at school.
And now, after four years of happiness,
another woman appears in the Wilkins
household, asserting that she IS the
veritable niece, and the other is an i'm
postor. Lydia, the new coEler, tells a
strange story. She says that when her
parents died, she took what little money
| the farm was sold for and set out to find
! her rich uncle in New York that in a
village on the road she was taken seri.
ously sick and was carried to hospital.
| The young woman--the hired nurse OF
that institution-was much above he1
station in life, was kind, attentive and
sympathetic. Naturally she confded
her history to her, also her letters, pho,
tOgraphs and money to be taken care oi
nutil her recovery. She recovered hel
health partially, but her mind was found
to be so uphinged that she was re
moved to an insane asylum, where she
had been all this time. At length she
was discharged, cured. The hospita
nurse had disappeared, along with al
the effects intrusted to her care. The
| NlOuBtC NOAiDlI LlHIhSOSt w toOo w ANON
York, only to find that her place hat
been usurped by the treacherous attend
ant.
The first woman takes the matter very
coolIy, alleging that she was the one
who fell sick on the road that the Other
is the nurse, who got possession of hel
history, and is now trying to MAKE
capital out of it. The uncle unhesitat
ingly believes in the first woman, bu
the husband is much disturbed in mind
each story being so plausible and 81
well sustained that he cannot decid;
which is Wilkins niece, and which j
not but his wife says: "What doe
it matter, anyhow, whose niece l am?
am your wife, that's certain, and th'
mother of your children"
If an impostor, she has fixed hersel
very comfortably in life, while the de
frauded woman wandels about almost il
beggary, for the Wilkins utterly refus'
to countenance her. She has, however
appealed to several Of their aristocrati
friends, and SO the story got out.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23

The sagacious monkey, who, according
to the time honored story, used the
reluctant paw of cat to withdraw hot
chestnuts from the fire, is outdone by
the performance of another member of
his tribe, whichis recounted bya French
resident of South Africa, in letter to
Les Mondes. The writer is the posses
sor of large coffee plantation, and his
crops have suffered severely from the
ravages of a large species of baboon,
which greedily devours the fruit Of a
small tree which grows among the
bushes. The best gafegards against the
depredations are tho wasps which make
their nests in the lower part of these
trees, for, of the fierce attack and pain
full stings of these insects, the balloons
have wholesome fear. One morning,
q hideous chorus of yells and howls was
heard from portion of the plantation
where the wasps had most thickly con-
gregated, and where the fruit trees con-
sequently were heavily laden. On
searching for the cause, the writer saw
from afar venerable and ancient baboon
busily engaged in throwing infant mon
keys at the trees. These living proiec-
tiles thus knocked down the nests and OF
course were objects of the keen atten,
tions of the infuriate occupants. Mean
while the baboon quietly made his way
to the upper branches, gorged himself,
and then added insult to injury to the
badly stung monkeys by pelting them
with the rinds and pits of his repast.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
What Rum Does.

Among the prisoners who are periodi-
cally arrested and brought into a New
York court is woman named Catharine
Leonard, whose passion for whisky is
unappeasable. she frequently appeared
in court with a small, emaciated baby,
which was destitute of anything that
could be called clothing. Her husband
was sober and industrious, and was her
exact antipodes. A few days ago sho
was arrested on the usual charge, and
was committed for five days. She vas
released, but Immediately followed her
usual course. While walking throuR IA
the street her baby, after years sick
ness and i'll treatment on her part, d'rd
in her arms, and was thus delivered frUla
much prospective uffering.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
A Painters Whim.

The house in which Turner, the
painter, lived was SO dirty and disorder
ly that it was known as "Turner's
den." He was very untidy, and in this
dwelling his popularity had full sway.
The windows were never cleaned, and
had in them breaches patched with
paper; the door was black and blistered +;
tue iron palisades were rusty for lack
of paint. If would-be visitor knocked
or rung, it was long before the summons
was replied to 10y a wizened, meager old
man, who would unfasten the chain suf-
flciently to see who knocked or rung,
and the almost invariable answer was :
{" You cau't come in" It was here that
he kept for many years the greater part
of his store of pictures, shrewdly cal
oulating upon the time when they should
De worth thousands Of pounds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
How She Put Them Up.

"What exquisite preserves, Mrs.
Smoothly; how do you have such splen-
did luck with everything you put up 2"
complimented one of the ladies at the
tea table. What are they, by the
way r. Mrs. Smoothly is taken by sur
prise, but RECEIVERS herself and calls the
servant. 81 have not tasted them yet, 4"
she said, "and have really forgotten
what I ordered the girl to put on for
you. Bridget, what are these preserves4 ~
Thin, ma'am9 Thirty-fve cents a
can; sora the nickle less wud the grocer
take, and thin big green things in the
dish beyant is fifty cents fur little
glass jar" Tableau of silence, and a
goo hearted, honest girl out of job
two hours later.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23

the unspoken despair of heart crushed
under load of daily censure and con-
slant striving for the appreciation never
given. And you tell me now she has
never failed in her duty to you. There
is a grave error somewhere, Herbert. "
The sadly earnest tone, the face of
thoughtful gravity, sent every word
home to the young mans heart. He
spoke no word of self-defense as Lima
slowly left the room. In the profound
silence that followed conscience review
ed the past, and he knew that his sister
had spoken only the truth.
"God help me-" he whispered, "t to
conquer this fault. Essie shall hear no
more fault finding, and if l see her
dropping, 1 will send her to mother, and
have Lima here to keep house.
Never had wife and mother warmer
welcome than greeted Essie. The chill
dren were unchecked in their loudest de-
monstrations of delight. But Lima had
to rush into the hall to hide her merry
eyes when Herbert, kissing Essie, said
"We must let mother have Lima rbw,
dear. She has been very kind and
worked hard for my comfort but there
is no home fairy like my Essie."
The quick, glad look in his wife's soft
eyes told Herbert one step had been
taken in the right direction, AS the
days glided by, and Essie found ap.
preciation meeting every effort to add tc
home comfort, a word of praise for every
little triumph of cookery or needlework,
her pale face grew bright with happi
ness, and Herbert found his own heart
lightened by the cheerful voice, the
sunny smile, the bright eyes of the
Essie he had wooed years before.
And Lima, making a visit six months
later, told her mother on her return
Herbert learned his lesson by heart
mother. He appreciates Essie now at hel
value, and let's her know it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23

Mr.. Crookes' apparatus for weighing
the beam of light is an exhausted glass
chamber in tho form of q horizontal
cross, with arms of circular cross sec
tion. Inside the larger arm is a glass
fiber maintained in uniform state of
tension by spiral spring at one end,
and by glass stopper at the other end,
which stopper is capable of rotation.
The shorter arm of the cross contains
in like manner a stouter fiber beam Of
glass secured at the point Of crossing to
the longitudinal or torsion fiber, and
having at ore extremity pith surface
of two square inches area, and at the
other end little cup, Inside the cham
Der is loose particle of iron weighing
1-100 of a grain, and outside the stop
per is counter recording the number
of torsions or turns the glass fiber
makes. The method OF procedure is as
follows: The position Of dot of light
from the little mirror placed at the i'll
tersection of the two glass fibers having
been noted, the little iron weight is
lifted by means of magnet, and placed
in the cup, which, when thus weighed,
descends. Torsion is then applied to the
glass fiber until the beam is lifted, and
the dot of light returns to its former
position. This may be called the zero
of the machine. This exact amount Of
torsion having been determined and its
equivalent in weight ascertained, the
torsion is removed, and the ray of light
is then made to fall ON the disc, which
causes a depression Of the glass beam.
The calculation of the absolute pressure
of the suns radiation on square foot
Of the earth, when carried out to the
square mile, gives force of fifty-seven
J tons.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-23
The Fair TambOurinIst.


With feet half naked and bare
And dress sll tattered and torn;
With penny here and mockery there,
And floods Of derision and scorn,
She wsude-s the street, wherever her feet,
Weary or willing, are borne,
With an eye as bright and cheek as fair
AS the earliest blush of the morn.
Wandering up and down,
And driven from door to door
A jest for every idle clown
And butt for every boor;
While the velvet slippered, in satin and lace,
Go rustling by her side,
With chilling look and averted face.
And lip all curled with pride.
So beautiful-yet 20 frail;
So willing, and yet so weak;
Oh, what il the heart should fail
And heavenly purpose break,
And the dens and kennels Of vice
Another poor victim should hold2
A celestial spark be quenched in the dark
And an sngel be bsrtered for gold?
No wonder the heart should fail,
And a he1venly purpose fade;
The eye grow dim, and the cheek grow pale,
When none stand ready to aid!
No wonder the lairs and cradles OF sin
So many poor victims should hold,
While the good are content to worship thei
God
And tie rich TO worship their gold.
Move patiently on, oh, earth!
TIL mercy i wondering Dove
Shall fl, to the rosy realm of its birth,
And rest in tho bosom Of love.
Move psteutly on Till the Crucifed
Shall gather His radiant crown
From the lowly flowers and bleeding hearts
That the world has trawpled down!