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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

Mrs. Josephine Shaw-Lowell has
been appointed by Gov. Tilden to fill
the New York City vacancy on the
Board of State Charities caused by
the retirement of Charles II. Mar
shall. 1t is the first public office
ever bestowed upon a Governor of
New York, and, as the term of office
is seven years, without salary, there
was no Democratic opposition to the
lady's appointment. OF Mrs. Lowell
the New York Evening Post says:
Mrs. Lowell is a daughter of Fran
els George Shaw, of Staten Island.
Her husband fell in battle at Winches'
ter in the late civil war. Her
brother, Col. r. G. Shaw, met with
a like fate at Fort Wagner while
leading his black regiment, the Fifty
fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.
She lives in this city, and gives her
time and cxertions to the human and
useful labors to which she has been
appointed, the proceedings of which
relate to the treatment of the poo,
of both x and include the care
of children; it seems a most proper
and fitting arrangement that womer
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

N. C. Meeker, of Greeley, Col,
says that General Hazen was wrong
to stigmatize as "the barren lands
all the region between the Tooth
meridian and the Sierra Nevada.
Military men don't know anything
about the agricultural value of the
land, says Mr.. Meeker: they have
their grain and provisions hauled
from the States to the posts at a cost
of twenty cents a pound, when they
could raise all they need for not over
two cents u pound right under their
W guns. Irrigation solves the
necessities of the region, and he
points to Colorado to prove it, esti-
mating that, when the irrigation
laws shall be definitely and wisely"
settled, Colorado can support 2,000,-
900 people, NewlMexico, Arizona,
and Utah each the same, Montana
and Wyoming 5000, 900.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

The report made to the President
of the United Suites by Gen. Haw-
ley, President of the Centennial
Commission, giving the full pro-
gramme of the opening ceremonies
on the 10th of May, shows hal the
programme will be quite interesting
From a musical point of view. The
musical numbers will include the ma
tional airs of all countries represen-
ted at the exhibition, by the Thomas
orchestra /; Wagner's Centennial In
auguration March ; hymn by John
G. Whittier, music by John X.
Payne, with orchestral and organ
accompaniment and Handel's "IIal-
lelujah Chorus" 1t will be apt to
make the testy old composer of 1.-THE
Messiah" turn over in his grave ifhe
should happen to learn that the noble
chorus will be sung to the accompan-
.iment of bells and artillery.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09
A New Plant for the Dooryard.


Among the plants distributed this
year from the botanic gardens is the
AraHa papyrifera. This plant pro.
duces the beautiful substance known
as rice paper; it has soft, downy pal
mate leaves /; it grows ten feet high,
with a stem four inches in diameter,
full of white pith like the elder in
a full-grown specimen the pith
is about one inch in diameter. 1t is
divided into pieces three inches long,
and by the aid of a sharp instrument
is unrolled, forming the thin, narrow
sheets known as rice paper, greatly
used by the Chinese for drawing
figures of plants and animals, and
also for making artificial flowers,
Until about 1850 the source of this
substance was unknown to scientists.
The Chinese, on inquiry, gave very
fanciful figures and descriptions Of
it, illustrating the fact that then, as
now ''for ways that + dark and
tricks that are vain, the heather
Chinee is peculiar 1t was first in
troduced from the island of Formosa
to Europe, at Kent Gardens, in 1853
from there it has been widely dissem-
mated. 1t is almost naturalized in
some parts of Australia; in the
Southern States, and perhaps Cali
fornia, it will flourish. As an out
door ornamental foliage plant it is
well worthy of cultivation in any
part of the country.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

. : Our Authorized Adyertlsing Agents for the
LsApsa are, In New York. s, NJ Pettengill a Co,
s7,Park Row, Geo. p. Rowell i Co., 40 Park Row,
ii. Louis, Rowell & Chesman, Cor. Third and
Chestnut Streets, 81, Louis Advertising and
Pnbltshing Agency: Chicago. II II. Chandler,
ia South Clark Street; Philadelphia, n. W.
Aver & Son. 7Ss Ssnsori Street: and coe, Welh-
enll & Co. Bulletin haildiag.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

List of letters remaining in the
Cheyenne Post office, Laramie county,
Wyoming Territory, May sth, 1876,
which il not called for within thirty
days, will be sent to the Dead Letter
Office. Persons calling for these let
tiers will please say advertised" Civ
ing date.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09
TUESDAY. MAY 8. 1876.

Nothing has been heard of Stanley
since he struck a tribe whose chief
had $50 wives for sale.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

The Titusville (Pa.) Herald says
the production of petroleum this year
will probably be short $500, 900 of
actual demand of the trade.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-09

>houI+ Uc called ulo II t. counsel alI
u~-S!~.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
fOREIGN.

Intelligence has been received at Bonn
bay that the plague has appeared on the
banks of the Euphrates.
Baron Radich, on the part of Austria,
has informed the nerzegovinian insurgents
that their conditions were inadmissable; that
Austria would maintain complete neutral
ity; strictly guard the frontier, and cease to
relieve refugees at the end of March.
The Herzegovinians answer the Turk
ish bulletins by battles, and have plastered
the proclamation Of proposed reforms all
over with deaths heads. The Austrians' cry
of peace was responded to by sanguinary
engagement in which 500 Turks were killed.
This is the insurgents way of reforming the
government and punctuating the policy with
which the great powers are settling the cast
ern question. Give the people chance and
they will give the sick man a funeral that
will leave no possibility for resurrection.
The chief cause of the present insur-
recton of the lIerzegovinians against Turkey
is, at bottom, the impossibility OF obtaining
Justice for Christians in Mohammcdan courts,
so that il is useless for the former to become
legal proprietors of land. The Turks and
Slavonic Mohammedans hate aud despise
Christians, and generally hold that they have
no rights that true believers are bound to
respect. They may legally acquire landed
property, and may legally testify in court,
but the Turks pay no attention to rights or
caths, and do with them as they choose. The
Judges are, without exception, yenal to the
last degree. The great reason why the terms
of the Andrassy note are not accepted by the
insurgents is that they know the sultan can
not enforce them even if he is so inclined.
The beys do not believe that iirmans of lib
eral import are seriously intended, and pay
no heed whatever to carrying them out.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

The democratic state convention of
Arkansas will meet June l4th.
The president has nominated Richard
II. Dana, ir., of Massachusetts,, to take
schenck's place in London.
Mr.. Lewis Jennings, the late editor OF
the New York Times, has sold out his inter
est, which consisted OF nine shares, for $780,
900, the purchaser being Mr.. George Jones,
the publisher.
A home for INDECENT persons in Brook
lyn was partially destroyed by fire last week,
and the appalling feature Of the catastrophe
was the burning to death Of some twenty or
thirty of the aged inmates.
On Wednesday, March lst, the house
Pacific railroad committee adopted resolu.
ton postponing indefinitely the Texas Pacific
and Southern Pacific railroad bills. This is
virtually defeat OF both bills for this ses.
sion.
The Turkish legation at Washington
says they are authorized to deny the reports
that the insurgents had been twice success.
full in Herzegovina; that the Turkish troops
had nothing to eat but dry bread; that Chris.
tians had been murdered in Bosnia; and that
new reforms promulgated throughout the
empire had not been enforced in Thessalis
and in Epirus.
A statement made by the adjutant
general, giving the nationality of men enlisted
in the United States army from Jan. /, 1866
to Dec. 81, 1874, shows the largest enlist
ments to have been from the natives of tn,
following countries:
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEAT.

The Cairo and Fulton railroad COM
pany is vigorously preparing to build a
branch road from Little Rock to Pine Bluff.
X. j. Schenck, cashier of the Iron
Mountain bank, in st, Louis, committed sui
eide in that city by shooting himself. His
wife committed suicide in The same manner
few days ago, which it IL supposed led the
husband to the act
Thirty-three mines in Colorado have
been opened to a depth of from 100 to 800
feet since 1852 Five of them were idle last
year, but the rest produced ore valued at
nearly s2,000,009. Since their discovery they
have yielded s26,9s0,O0o.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railroad company have begun prepara-
tions for the change of their track from the
old broad gauge to the narrow gauge. 1t is
estimated that the cost of the change, which
is to be effected before the first of June, will
exceed 81 100000.
The Macon, Ga, Telegraph and Mes
senger says that there has been more guano
sold in Macon this season than has been sold
any season since 1870. The farmers are com
ing for it from far and near, and buying it to
the very last limit their credit will reach.
They promise to pay for it in cotton, deliv-
cred next fall, at fifteen cents pound.
A special to the Courier-Journal from
Mount Sterling, KY, says that a most won
derful phenomena transpired in that section
on the sth. The correspondent says during
sunshine and clear sky there fell from the
heavens quivering aesh, which came down
in large quantities, and filled many acres of
territory. Hogs and chickens eagerly de-
vour the flesh, specimens of which have been
sent to this city for scientific examination.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
GE ERAI.DINE.

Only a rosebud,
All fresh with the dew;
A wee bit of Heaven escaped from the blue
Only flash
of thu bright. golden morn
But the earth grew In glory the day she born,
grain in lilc--ands
leaf on the tree;
But whole world Of love is my darling to me.
Only a kleam
OF the sunshine to come,
To tinge with new luster the day dreams OF home
Only drop
Ia life's decp-rolling sea-
But that drop is an ocean OF Joy unto me.
Only unit
In earth's ccnsus-roll.
But what is all space TO my little ones soul7
Two tiny feet, waiting
LIES ladder to climb,
Just pressing the verge OF the causeway Of fine;
Bright eyes full of wonder
And beauty aud grace,
Looking out on the Infinite, forth into space;
smile lingering ever,
The angels last kiss
As she passed through the gate between that world
and this.
o 0dewirop of Heaven,
Sent down from shove
q fresh life, od-given, TO hearts full Of love!
q princess Of babies
% sweetest of elves
10 here at thy altar we pledge thee 9ursolycsl
To crown thee with wisdom
And rear thee In truth
Shall he our one task through thy oncoming youth.
Only an atom,
monad, a clod
But fleamin and giowing with life, fresh from God
only mite
Aud little one, too;
But without her, q wise mani say, what should
do7
Only whisper
In lile's shifting scene;
But she's still my own daughter. my wee Geraldine.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
GRADUAL RESUMPTION.
The specie Pay meut Hill Agreed UPon ny
the Democratic Caucus Committee.

Subjoined is full copy of the bill
agreed to by the majority of the demo-
cratic caucus committee, and reported TO
the caucus by Mr.. Payne:
BE IL enacted ETC., That it shall be the duty
Of the secretary of the treasury, during each
and every year from and after July /, 1876,
and until the legaltender notes of the United
States shall be appreciated at par value with
gold, and shall be convertible into coin, to
cause to be set aside and retained in coin
an amount equal 70 three per cent. of such
legal-tender notes outstanding, and from the
date of such convertibility, as aforesaid, the
amount of coin set aside and retained, ms
aforesaid, shall be held as a resumption fund
in respect to said legal-tender notes, and
shall at no time be less than thirty per cent.
of such outstanding legal-tender notes; pro-
vided, however, that the coin SO set aside and
retained az above provided shall be counted
as a part Of the sinking fund for the purchase
or the payment of the public debt, as required
by section 1894 OF the revised statutes.
See. 2. That il shall be the duty Of each
national banking association, during each
and every year from and after July /, 1876,
and until the full and complete resumption
of the payment in specie of it's circulating
notes, 10 set aside and retain from coin re.
| ceiyable and interest on the bonds deposited
| with the treasurer OF the United States as
security for its circulation, an amount equal
to three per cent Of its circulating notes
issued TO such association and not surren.
dered, and from the date of it's resumption
of specie payments as aforesaid, the amount
of coin to be held and maintained as re.
sumption fund shall at no time be less than
thirty per cent of its outstanding circua.
tion that the coin by this section directed
to be set aside and retained shall be a part
of the lawful money reserve which said asso
citation are by existing laws required "a
maintain.
Sec g. That so much of section of an act
entitled can act to provide for the resump
ton OF specie payments" approved January
IA, 1875, as required the secretary Of the
treasury to redeem lcgaltendcr notes to thu
amount Of eighty per cent. of the sum o
national bank notes issued to any banking
association increasing its capital or circula
ton, or to any association newly organized
as provided in said section, and also 80 much
of said section 3 as relates TO or provides fol
the redemption In coin OF the United State
| legal-teDder notes on or after January |
1879, and all other provisions of law inco
sistent with this act, are hereby repealed.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
How the Awards will be Made at the
Centennial,

The system of awards adopted for the
centennial exhibition at Philadelphia is
praised by the London Times as the first
fair and thorough system yet devised. IT
is generally approved by exhibitors and
by the commissioners from foreign coun-
tries.
First.-Awards shall be based upon
written reports attestcd by the sigma
lures of their authors.
Second.-Two hundred Judges shall
be appointed to make such reports, one
half of whom shall he foreigners and one
half citizens of the United States. They
will be selected for their known qualif-
cations and character, and will he ex
perts in the departments to which they
will be respectfully assigned. The for
eign members of this body will be ap
pointed by the commission Of each
country and in conformity with the dis
tribution and allotment 10 each, which
will be hereafter announced. The Judges
from the United States will disappointed
by the centennial commission.
Third The sum of 81 900 will be
paid to each commissioned judge for per-
sonal expenses.
Fourth Reports and awards shall be
based upon inherent and comparative
merit. The elements of merit shall be
held TO include consideration relating 10
originality, invention, discovery, utility,
quality, skill, workmanship, fitness Tor
the purposes intended, adaptation to pub
lie wants, economy and cost.
Fifth.-Each report will be delivered
to the centennial commission as soon rs
completed Tor final award and publica-
tion.
Sixth.-Awards will be finally decreed
by the United States centennial commits
sion, in compliance with the act of con.
grcss, and will consist of diploma with
a uniform bronze medal and Il special re-
port of the judges on the subject of the
award.
Seventh.-Each exhibitor will have
the right to reproduce and publish the
report awarded TO him, but the United
States centennial commission reserves
the right to publish and dispose of all
reports in the manner it thinks best for
public information, and also to embody
and distribute the reports as records oi
the exhibition.
The method of the selection and ap-
pointment of judges in many respects
differs radically from the systems hither-
TO tried in International exhibitions.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
OSCEOLA ARKANSAS SATURDAY MARCH 49, 1876

ular, her complexion clear and fair, while
her hair Is black and her eyes black and
very bright When first she came to
Washington, Mrs. Belknap was the widow
of Mr.. Bowers, who had died some
months before in Cincinnati. Her fam
lily name was Tomlinson, and she was a
native of Harrodsburg, Ky. Her father.
DIR. Tomlinson, was an eminent physi-
clan, and highly connected. He had a
large family Of sons and daughters. All
of the latter were noted for their beauty
and were regning bellies Of their native
state. The mother of Mrs. Henry Clews
OF New York, was one of the sisters, and
the second and present wife of Gen. Bel
knap another.
All shades and colors are becoming TO
Mrs. Belknap's style, and she INDUCED in
Worth's most effective combinations. At
the many entertainments she has at
tended this winter, she has looked equally
beautiful, whether attired in pale rose.
colored silk, with soft, creamy lace, or
turquoise blue silk, with long garlands
of flowers trimming the low corsage and
very short sleeves, rs well as the tabler
anu tidiilS VI iNoi N'tinttu BIN tillillitu
with fringe and lace, or even her car
riage costumes-one of black velvet and
lace, another of blue velvet trimmed with
bands of pheasant's feathers. She has
many other toilets of the richest mate
rial. Mrs. Belknap is dainty fror. head
TO foot Hats and boots match each cos
tune. Her foot is the smallest in Wash
ington. She wears number one and
half shoe, though she is five feet six
inches in height. Slippers and boots of
satin for these dainty feet come from
Paris, and are always enough seen to he
admired. The jewels Mrs. Belknap most
frequently wears consist of string of
large pearls around her neck, with beau
tiful pendant of diamonds. Her ear
rings are two solitaire drops for each ear.
An aigrette of diamonds is the only orri-
ament she ever wears on her shapely
head, amid the pufis of dark hair that
are always arranged to suit the contour
of the handsome face. Prior TO her mar
riage with Gen. Belknap she spent
eighteen months in Europe, ard brought
her wedding trousseau with her ON her
return.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
Froebei's kindergarten Theories.

His whole method founded itself upon
the child's nature. a child is social,
therefore he must have companions and
not be left TO the solitude Of his home.
He is active and fond of making-keep
him busy, and help him to produce
things. lie loves the earth-give him a
garden patch. He is an artist-give him
music, initiative action, and other appro-
pirate means of expression. He is Gu
rous-teach him to think and discover.
He il religious-lead him to trust in God.
On this last he said God-trust, rock
firm God-trust, has died out of the world.
The kindergarten shall bring it back so
that the next generation of children
shall he Gods children"
Here is work for child, not against
the grain, but with it; not in violation
of Gods law in the child's nature, but
in loving obedience to il. Instead of
Furnishing the lad who makes pictures
upon his slate, the loving kindergarten
master puts him to making pictures, and
gently shows him how to produce with
his fingers the pictures that float in his
brains. Instead Of rebuking his curiosity
and constructiveness, the Keilhau school
master yokes them to his purpose. In
stead of checking the child'ssweetest inn
pulse-the impulse to play--he conse-
crates it. Jean Paul has said: "Play
is the child's first poetry" 1t was 9
wise and poetic saying Of poet. Blu,
Froebel was not poet. but a schoolmas
ter and philosopher. He went deeper
and said the supreme word about PLAY
when he called it "the first work 0
childhosd." 1t is the child's chief bust
ness, Use play TO serve the ends Of edu
cation you may, but to do away with i
is the objectionable sin of the prevalen
method Of teaching.-E Eggleston Il
iScribnv for March.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18

THE proposed tunnel under the Eng
lish channel will prove to be work of
much greater difficulty than the Suez
caNal, which has made the name of Fer
dlnand de Lesseps famous. The sound
ings last fall, one thousand five hundred
and twenty-five in number. revealed the
fact that iour6ilhs of the way across
thick stratum of gray chalk exists, pre-
senting a favorable condition for exca-
waiting purposes, but it will require the
greater portion of the present year to
complete the preliminary investigations.
NJ Lavelly, the French engineer, who
made report to the French directors,
indulgcs in the assertion that when the
tunnel is completed, one million trav-
clers will annually pass through it, and
the revenue from that source alone will
amount to two millions of dollars. The
revenue from freights by rail will be
much larger. 1t may be safely said OF
this tunnel, however, that it is a ques-
tion of time.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18

WHENEVER case of yellow fever oc-
ours in New Orleans the streets sur
rounding the square arc sprinkled with
Calvert's No. 8 carbolic acid, diluted in
fifty parts of water. A large sprinkler
on wheels is used for the roadways and
the sidewalks are sprinklcd by hand.
The grounds of neighborng yards are
similarly treated, and the privy vaults
disntected with solution of zinc-irvn
chloride. At the termination of the case
by death or removal, the infected apart
meuts are fumigated with sulphurous
acid of chloride. The extent Cf the
ground disinfected is according to the
lapse of time since the appearance of the
fever. The extent Of the disinfection
along the ground is about forty or fifty
feet daily, so that after some days delay
the whole square must be enclosed with
disinlecting band and the enclosed
surface sprinkled.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
EAST.

In Philadelphia, on the 9th, the Jones
burial case was decided in the supreme court.
The authorities OF Mount Moriah cemetery,
last autumn, refused to allow the body Of
Henry Jones, a colored man, to be buried in
the cemetery, although his widow owned a
lot there. The matter was taken into court
and the authorities were ordered to permit
the burial. They appealed from the decision
and carried the case to the supreme court
The decision of the supreme court to-day
affirms the finding of the lower court, and
orders the burial to be made in the cemetery.
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18
How Mrs. Belknap Looked and What
She Wore

Says the New York World: This lady
has been the object of general admiration
since first she came to Washington six
years ago to visit her sister, the former
wife of Gen. Belknap. Her handsome
face and figure and witty conversational
powers at once made her central figure
in any assemblage. She is tall, has n
well-developed and rounded form, and
graceful carriage. Her features are reg
The Osceola times., 1876-03-18

A GENTLEMAN in Great harrington,
Mss, has geography published in Lon
don in l7i9, in which California is de-
scribed as an island. and map is given
showing it to he entirely surrounded by
water The book tells OF tree in Flor
ida "the leaves of which, if bruised and
thrown into large pond of water, all
the beasts which drink thereof will swell
up and burst asundcr." II says that the
air Of Pennsylvania is generally granted
TO he clear and sweet, the heavens being
seldom overcast with Clouds" and tliat
the "length of days and nights is much
the same rs in New Jersey" There is a
chapter devoted to "rarities of New
York" in which it is said that in divers
parts of New York Especially those nigh
unto and upon the banks of the river
ConnecticuD grows a sort of snake weed,
whose root is much esteemed of for the
biting of the rattlcsnake"