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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11
MuMAN'S WAYS.


Leap Year beverage for single
ladies Pop.
Romantic death-A young lady
drowned in tears.
An old gamekeeper says that with
and out the dear ladies we should be a
s%tag-nation.
Mock turtle-kissing before com
pany and fighting afterward.
The same man who popped theques-
ton by starlight got his sweetheart's
consent in a twinkling.
When she struck him over the head
with a lin dippcr for trying TO kiss
her, he called it, ''the t~intinnabula-
lions of the BELLE"
A colored brothers. opinion: "De
women.oughter work: OATS so;for lift
hadn'ibeen for Eve,we wouldn'tnone
of us ha' been 'bleeged to work tall.n
A Paris fashion journal declares
that in less than five years knee
breeches and six-inch skirts will be
the fashionable dress for ladies.
III woman could talk out Of two
sides of her mouth at the same time,
there would be a good deal said on
both sides.
When an American girl marrles n
Chinaman, John does all the work
while bis wife reads all the novels.
What II celestial life!
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11

The Washington correspondent Of
the Times-not over friendly to Mr..
Biaine-says of his defense; IA
more complete, overwhelming, as
founding rout never fell upon the
party, and as Blaine walked back to
his seat, a hundred arms were out
stretched to him, in hearty recogni-
ton of his magnificent triumph
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11

The New York Witness publishes
the following letter
DEAR SIR: Can you not Inform
your readers how Mr.. Bristow stands
on the question of Prohibition?
A PRoHIBITIoNIsT REPUBLICAN,.
BY and by some addle-headed duff
fer will jump up and want to know
about the constituent parts of a bald
headed gr%asshopper.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11

sultan Abdul Aziz that was; Is
now the Abdul Az-isn't. The re-
mort is to the effect that the rosy hues
of life paled in the shadows of the
seragIio, and the sick man, quietly
taking a pair of scissors, struck a
vein that led to his death.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11

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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11

Leap Year beverage for single
ladies Pop.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11

A foreigner says that the largest
family in the world live in Philadei-
mia. Their name is Roomstolet.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-11
SUNDAY. JUNE IL, 1876

Can a boy be said to be Transparent
who has a pane in his stomach?
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31
Costly Quarrel Over n Eff
Cent Knife.

The dispute between the Smith &
Carman families of Merrick, l.. l., o
the ownership of a fifty-cent knife
progressed from the County Court
Queens County to the General Ter
Three years ago MI. Joseph Smith
wealthy farmer, bought for his dau,
ter Marietta a fifty-cent knife. She c
ried it until, one evening about Il v,
and a half ago, a young man who v
visiting her borrowed it and took it W
him. Miss Smith missed it, and thou.
she had lost it, A few days after Il
she called on Miss Mary Z. Carmi
the daughter of another wealthy Lo
Island farmer, and saw the knife on I
mantelpiece, and claimed it. Miss c.
man said that the young man who /
taken it from Miss Smith had made |
a present of it. Miss Smith took T,
knife and went home.
The two families took up the dispu
and the trouble threw the church int,
ferment. At Il church meeting it "
agreed to submit the case to Lott C
man, Abel Smith and George c.
drews. They decided that they CO,
not adjust the difference. If the KIN
was Miss Smiths, she had no right
take it out of Miss Carman's hou
and she ought to sue for
if she wished it back. According
they gave the knife back to Miss c.
man. Miss Smiths father decided
sue. A search warrant was obtain,
and before Justice Bennett an examil
ton was had. The knife was award
to Miss Smith, but the Justice hand
it to Miss Carman by mistake, and $
would not give it up. A rcplcvin S
was then instituted before Judge Lo
which ended in Miss Smiths fay
again, but Miss Carman's father appc
ed the ease to the County Court and I
knife did not go out of the fami
Judge Armstrong decided the case
favor OF Miss Carman, and now Nj
Smiths father has paid Mr.. Mott, |
lawyer, another fee to take it beforet
General Term, and to have his poi,
printed. Both families attend the Il
church in Merrick, and ON Sund
mornings after the Smith family ha
taken their seat Miss Carman, who h
Il seat near by, takes ont the covet
knife and toys with it so conspicuous
that the Smith family cal not help st
ing it and getting in II rage.-New 10
Sun,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31
A Little Wanderer in the Snow.

A recent number of the Denver NeaOS
has the following: A little boy has wan
dered away from his home in Wet
Mountain Valley. The child's name is
Hiltman, and he is only two and a half
years old. His parents reside at the foot
OF Sangre de Cristo ranges five miles from
Ula. The child left the house u week
ago last Sunday morning, between 8
and 10 O'Clock. The neighbors were
alarmed, and a party began searching
among the adjacent timer in the foot
hills. In the evening the tracks of the
little estray were discovered in the
snow, leading into the mountains. This
trail was followed two miles, when, in
the darkness, all trace was lost, though
every foot of ground was scanned with
the aid oflanterns. The night was very
cold and about three inches of snow fell
before morning. At daybreak the search
was renewed, and was kept up all day
Monday, Monday night, and Tuesday
until 2 o'clock p. NJ, when Oscar Smith
came upon fresh tracks in the snow.
These he followed eagerly for fifty
yards, when a whirlwind passed across
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31

his course, drifting the snow in she
and obscuring the footprints of
child. Further search that afterno
revealed no sign or trace of the lost o
By this time the news had spread
and wide, and the searching party \
increased to one hundred strong. J
search was continued over Wcdnesd
and was, at the date of last advic
Thursday still in progress, thou
the hope of finding the child alive !
been abandoned by all exceptthe chill
father and mother, who had accom-
MED the searchers dayand night. Tn
interesting facts arc CLEANED from a
ter to the Pueblo Chtettatn.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31
The Biggest Snake Story We

"Tell you what's a fact, men; l W
agwine long by myself, when, all
wuns't, l seed q little king snake n
bigger'n my little finger a nosin' abo
'crost the road, like us he was a traili
somethin'. Thinks |, I've alters hea
ov it, all my life, an now I'm agwi
ter see it. SO l follers him, sly n
quiet like. Wall, he smells along,
windin' an twistin' about jist like n
blue speckle houn' on a hot deer trac
pine blank. | could a most hear hi
bark. Finerly, after he'd smelt all Il
grass an bushes roun', he starts o
brisk like, toge the fence, an then l
seed the marster rattler. Gentle-me,
l begin to git excited an creeps up pr
ty clost. Leetle king he slides rou
'ithout noticin' % me, n watchin' b
chance, an ole rattler he lets in t
singin'. Jeeminy cracky! l couldl
hear my WI yurs. All at wunst leet
king he gives hisself Il quick wrigg
an the next thing any body knows /
wal tied into.a double bow-knot rou
ole rattler's neck. let you know, me
thar was fun. Fur a mint l couldn
see nothin' but a kind o. glimmer lii
o. dimunts and black an silver strip,
an glitterin' scales; but, after a littl
every thing quoted down, jis like
lamb, an then | seed the curuses sigl
yet. Ole rattler war dead, clean chol
ed to death, an thar he laid, bigger
my thigh an six foot an a half lon,
an he had nineteen rattles an q buttol
o, | medjered him and counted Il
r%attles! Well, gentlemen, little kin
he swallers ole rather! Turns in al
licks him all over an swallers hiI
b~odashusly, and then crawls inter
hole! Hits a fact. III sware it, an.
kin provet by w livin' witnesses" ~
Womasvi1e co., Times.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31
WALLER GULCH.
A Yankee Sailors Yarn.

You see we was rather rough out our
way, where Hez Lane and me went with
our bit of tent and pickers, shooting
irons, and sech like, meaning to make a
pile of gold. We went to Washoe, and
didn't get on; then we went to st. Lar
annie, and didn't get on there. Last we
went right up into the mountains, pick
ing u way among the stones, for Hez
seq: "Look here, old boss, let's get
whar no ones been afore. If we get
whar the boys are at work already
they've took the cream and we gets the
skim milk. Let's you and me get the
cream and let some o. the others take
the skim milk"
"Good for you," I says; and we
tramped on day after day till we got
right up in the heart o. the mountains
where no one hadn't been afore, and it
was so still and quiet as it made YOU
d. quite deaf.
1t was a strange, wild sort of place.
like as if n o'them coons called giants
had driven q wedge into a mountain
and split it, making a place for a bit of
a stream to run at the bottsm and Law
bare the gold we wanted to find.
"Thisnl do, Dab" says Hez, as we
put up our bit of a tent on a pleasant
green shelf in the steep valley place.
"This'n do, Dab; thar's yaller gold
spangling them sands and running in
veins through them rocks and waller
gold in pockets of the rock"
"Then let's call it Yaller Gulch." 7
says.
dome, old hoss!" says Hez; and
Waller Gulch it is.
We set to work next day washing in
the bit of q stream, and shook hands on
our luck.
"This'l do" says Hez. "We shall,
make a pile here. No one won't dream
of hunting this out"
essay, stranger!" says a voice as
made us both jump, "Do it wash
well?"
And if there warn't a long, lean,
ugly, yallcr-losking chap looking down
at us as he stood holding a mule by the
bride.
Why, afore a week was over, so far
from as keeping it snug, l reckon there
was fifty people in Yaller Gulch wash.
ing away and making their piles. Afore
another week was over some one had
set up a store, and next day there was a
gambling-saloon. Keep it to ourselves!
Why, stranger, I reckon if there was q
speck of gold a~nywheres within five
hundred miles our chaps'd sniff it on,
like vultures and be down upon it.
1t warn't no use to grumble, and VIC
kept what we thought to ourselves,
working away and making OR ounces
the best way we could. One day | pro.
posed to go up higher in the mountains
but Hez said he'd be darned if he'd
move; and next day, if he'd wanted me
to 60, I should have told him I'd be
darned if I'd move; and all at INC
from being red-hot chums, as would
have done any thing for ono another.
Hez and me got to be mortal enemies
Who should come into the gulch one
day bat an old bookkeeping sort of fel,
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31
Lost.
BY ROSE II o

L NUDE IEbhi CoohE'
Once on a time she came to me,
As some small star from heaven might flee
To be a mortal's sole delight,
A love by day, a dream by night,
The sweetest thing on land or sea,
Ny little darling crept TO me.
A trembling, tender. fairy thing,
Tee grave to smile, too sad to sing,
Aware Of earth with grieved surprise.
An alien from her native skies,
A baby angel strange to see,
My little dazzling CAM To me.
But love and loving taught her smiles,
And life and living baby wiles-
The way TO cling, to coax, TO kiss,
To Gil my soul with deepest bliss,
My heart of hearts, my life was she,
This little love who came TO me.
What words she stammered soft and low,
No other ear but mine could know;
More gentle than q cooling dove,
More fond than any voice of love,
80 shy, so sweet, 30 tenderly,
My little darling spoke to me.
/ know not how to tell the grace
That dwelt upon her wistful face
The tinted skin, the lips pure bloom,
The clearest eyes that knew not gloom,
The hair as soft as moth wings be,
My little darling showed to me.
hlasl ! know that all ia gone,
That hereI sit and grieve alone,
That every fair and gracious thing
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31

GEORGE ELIOT says that "girls are
delicate vessels in which is borne on
ward through the ages the treasure OF
human affection" and some unhappy
Benedict adds that "girls are delicate
vessels which require a small fortune
every season to keep them in sail"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-03-31

WHAT letter of the alphabet, if los
would soon make you sick of music
The letter M.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07

SPRcTACLEs Losr.-Tom Murphy
wishes US to announce it that no has
lost his spectacles. He thinks he
dropped them from his pocket some
where between Stocks, the bakers,
and the butchers shop, we'll down
toward the Bacon and Trench mills,
which IS to say, somewhere in lower
Main street. Tom is somewhat at
sea without his glasses, and is un-
able to read the newspapers. This
he regards as little short of calam-
ity, especially IN these interesting
times, when SO much is to be learned
of the sinister designs of the treach-
erous Democracy. He would like to
have them in time to read the cleo
ton returns in to.morrow's papers,
and he will be especially grateful to
the finder if he will leave them at
this office, and the very next claim
that he takes up the finders name will
be accorded place among those OF
the locators. The glasses were en-
cased in leathern protector, and
had steel frames.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07
A Long Runaway.

w. H. Day, the liquor man at the
foot Of Gold Hill, whom the reader
may have seen betimcs about the
junction Of the bus lines hence to
Virginia, busyiug himself alike in the
care Of teams that chance along and
the comfort of passengers in transit,
at the same time rescrving . share of
attention for those of the public at
large who may fall within the radius
of his business rsmifcstions-this
Day met with something of a perplex-
ing misfortune aud annoying acct
dent yesterday. His team that hsuls
demijohns of the delicious about to
customers in rather remote localities
from the place Of sale, had arrived at
the Buckeye mine in the rounds Of
the days business. While the drivers
back was turned the horses took
freight at some trivial thing happen
Ing about the hosting works, and.
not being hitched, dashed off on their
own account. They ran in = circuit
Gus route until they reached Silver,
when they pursued course south
ward in the eastern euvirons of tho
town toward the Dayton mine, and
halted at the old foundry building.
The wagon overturned at this point,
and its contents were Of course hope
lsssly wrecked on the spot. Some
boys who CHANGED to be on hand at
the time busted themselves in gather
ing up the fotsam and jetsam and
drinking whatever OF the liquor lin
yered in the corners Of unbroken
parts Of the demiiohns. All the
demijohns, strange TO say. were not
broken. The wagon, too, escaped
with but . bent dashboard and y
smashed tailgats. 1t was fortu-
nate escape all rouad, rs the distance
Of the run Was little if any less than
. mile, aud the course was over a
broken surface. The driver came on
afoot after his team. aud was rs tired
AZ they when he reached them.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07

RACES To-NoRRow.-A race has
been made between Benefits mare
Flora and Box's horse Holy Terror,
for $3.50 q side, best two in three,
running, half mile heats. 1t will
take place tomorrow on the track at
6utro. 1t will be An interesting
race, and . large gathering is ex-
pected to witness it. 1t must strike
ono as suggesting a scarcity of
names when Holy Terror received
his christening. A horse with such
name ought to be able to intim-
idate competitor to ay the
track. At the same time and place
race will take place betweea Tom
McDonald's horse Silver Bell and
Big Nick's mare (nsme not given)
for $500 a side. This will afford de-
fested candidates an opp ,rtunily to
get even with the expenses of the
campaign by betting on the right
horse. Successful candidates Can
also bring the campaign to fitting
climax by winning few hundred
if they bet right.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07
DIR. SCHRANM'S OPINIONS.
He Speaks His Mind Regardless
Of Consequences.

The great political contest of to-
day was the leading topic Of inter-
est on the street yesterday. Mining
stocks we're quite forgotten in the
general tumble of speculations,
facts and predictions. In order to
lay the real probabilities, with as
many attendant truths as might be
at.ainable, before our readers this
morning, the reporter of rnE TINES
went abroad in the afternoon in
search of whom he might interview
on the situation. All. or nearly
all, Of our leading citizens were
preoccupied With events and cir
cumstances more or less intimately
connected with o. hinged upon the
impending contest. 1t was there.
fore quite beyond the range Of pos
sibility for mere cleaner of news
to secure their attention apart for
even very brief space OF time, and
it would be scarcely consistent With
that rectituds of decorum which
should always attend the profess
sioual excursions of q conscientious
reporter to press for it. The prom
inent nominees, the men above all
others who are best acquainted
with the exact situation aud the
weight of probabilities, we're assidu-
ously engaged in plving their awful
vocation of olectioneering. To at
tempt to gain their listening ears
for . moment or to elicit from their
inner consciousness an oracular
statement pertinent to the matter in
hand Was to incur the humility OF
q snub or to no put off with . few
random incoherencies. Reporters,
it may be said parenthetically, are
from the nature of their occupation
at length rendered 30 obtuse that
nothing short OF Q direct insult
will balk them in their path toward
the goal of first class information
Their conscienoes become in time
90 elastic, their skin 80 like that oil
the rhinoceros, that snubs rebound
from them like arrows from q shield
OF polished steel. leaving them a,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07

COURAGE AND bITALITY.-It will
be remembered, perhaps, that we
Published an item q few weeks ago
in relation to an accident that befell
A. A. Atkins of Dayton. He was
scuftling in friendly manner with
Walter Schwartz, when an unexpect-
ed fall caused the breaking Of one of
the bones Of his right leg. The &C.
cident happened just six weeks ago
tomorrow. Mr.. Atkins was in
Silver yesterday, walking with the
aid of cane merely. He is s6
years old, and possesses remarkable
vitality. When he broke his leg he
walked, bearing but lightly on the
disabled limb, to . doctors office,
hrst having arranged the broken
bones in their proper position with
his hands The doctor insisted that
he should take to his bed, but the
old man laughed. The leg was
splinted and bandsged, and the next
morning Atkins went his sounds
with the milk wagon Oe is in the
dairy business) to show new man
the route. He never lay down at
oil, only to get his regular sleep. He
says that he would not have carried
crutches - he did, only that he
wanted to please his daughter and
the doctor. Once he fell down .
cellar, "crutches, broken leg and
all, ~ he tells it, but suffered no
injury. He is surely remarkably
we'll preserved old man.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07

CHURCH AFrARs.-We are glad to
learn that our suggestioa in last Fri
days issue in reference to . church
revenue has taken the desired effect
and that the matter is to be pressed
entrgetically. The plan adopted is
this: Some Of our best and most re-
spsctable ladies' have volunteered to
take the natter in hand and to can
vass the town. They are to take the
names of those who are willing to
subscribe, with the amounts affixed.
These parties are to b waited on
each month, when the collection will
10 made. We earnestly hope there
will be q most liberal response, IS the
matter 10 ono which should call out
the liberAlity Of each and every one.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07
Lively Scenes.

The streets yesterday wore an
aspect of life that is quite unusual
for our town 1t is not unusual to
observe lively scenes and an evidence
of thrift on all hands, but yesterdays
events were SO multiplied as to be at
least remarkable. They quite cut
stripped and overshadowed all ordi-
nary occasions and occurrences. The
reason is not far to find. The eve of an
important election, the fact that the
morrow was to witness no bibulous
convlviality, no social drinking, no
friendly shaking of the dice, no en-
enjoying of liberal candidates gen.
crosby over the glossy counter
these circumstances seemed to in.
spire men with desire to be free in
their courtesies, off hand in their gen.
eral beh .vior, and glib with their
tongue. Aud then 1t was close to
the last opportunity for candidates
to importune, to put their best foot
forward, and to pursue the sinuous
course of Jealous effort at election
eering. How like Othello will these
people be when the events of to-day
are ended, when the die is east and
the fate is known. And how chop
fallen some, while others are light
hearted at the thought Of two years
incumbency before them. Politics,
the fist will say, are most deceptive
and unsatisfactory. The people
themselves, they will add, are un-
worthy to be served we'll by their Of
ticers, because they do not choose them
as they should. The meritorious
are shelved, while the unworthy are
taken in and provided for. The re-
suit of an election, too, they will de-
clare, is one of the things that can
not be forctoid. The more sanguine
you are, sometimes, the further 10
victory from you. The successful
ones will of course have = much bet
ter opinion Of themselves than they
had before. They may come after
while, however, to realize the truth
of a couplet somewhere in Byron's
Dying Giour, before their terms of
office expire, which runs:
A lovely toy. when hsrcely sought,
Hath lost its charm by being caught.
The pursuit of An object of inter-
est often surpasses in its yield of
pleasure the subsequent possession
Of it, SO some say. Whether it is
trus in politics rs in other things, the
writer is not philosopher enough to
know. If true, those WHO to-day
will witness their defeat may be able
to draw measure Of consolation
from it.
1t is the easiest thing imaginable
to wander from the subject in writing.
The real purpose of this item was to
show that yesterday was an uncom-
monty lively day about town, and
to duly record the fact. How those
who are defeated and those who are
elected will feel. is but guesswork at
best. The first will have our con-
dolence; the second, our cougratula-
ton.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-07

VIsIToRs.-Our people were yes
terday pleased to meet upon the
street and take by the hand Mr.. ].
Crawford, Superintendent Of the
Carson Mint who formerly dwslt in
this county and who knows nearly
every man in it. He was on a flying
visit and was accompanied by Mr.. A.
NJ. McCabe, an attache Of the Mint.
Both departed for Dayton in the
evening, where they remained over
night. They were to depart for
Carson this morning.