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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-02-27

position it may prove Que of those
rare phenouiena. characterized in our
textbooks as "total without continu-
ance." The central line raverses the
Southern and largest island Of the
Sandwich group, where the eclipse
will be annllar Tor n few seconds At
a point in longitude 1886 west. lati-
Jude 1928 north, the eclipse eOmmen-
ces al 8 hours 30 minutes, local mean
time. al 1852 from the suns north
point toward the west ldirecil, ami
the annulus is formed according to
the Nautical Almanac elements at
Ion. 49m.l0 los, and continues ten Sec
onds. This point is a little south of
kaavaroa, by the Admiralty chart,
and close 10 the spot where The mon-
u,Ient TO Captain Cook was erected /;
the central eclipse leaves this island,
Hawaii. near Manienie. also marked
ON the Admiralty chart Of this group.
The eclipse will be central and anuu-
lar also in Vancouver Island and
British Columbia. The central line
appears to enter Vancouver at Refuge
Cove, Sydney Inlet, leaving il at
Orange Point, Duncan hay, whence
its course is to George Point. British
Coiumbia. IL Vancouver Island the
annulus may continue eve or eight
seconds, being frrmed about Oh. 27m.
p. IN. local NEAR time. AT New
Westminster, British Columbia. cal
cnlation gives large partial eclipse
commencing at i1h 22m. II. M, and
ending al IN. 3n. p. NJ. local time,
magnitude O.95; here the first iiupre--
sion OF the moon upon the suns disk
is made at l27 urgrees from his north
point towards tho west. For further
information on the track Of The rem
trail line over these parts, the large
Admiralty chart of Vancouver Island
and vicinity should he consulted; the
above names of points traversrd by
the central eclipse are taken from it.
On the central line this eclipse must
prove one OF very considerable and
unusual interest. From Nature.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-02-27
The Black Hills.
THE MOVEMENT TO OPEN THE ooUS

49, AO ~ oI EN he SOlN-
TRY.
Special Telegram to The Inter-oc-an)
Washington, Feb. PA meeting
was held at the ooinS of Mr.. Kidder,
the delegate from Dakota, thi, eve.
ming, ut which nearly all the Con-
g%ressinen from the Northwestern
States were present, the Object of
WHICH was to discuss and ninpt7 a
method looking to the opening III the
Black Hill. The President aud thu.
Secretary of War are nf the opinion
tnat it would he impossible To keep
miners out of the hills. aud although
they wilt got acknowledge it, ii is
known that the military have had
orders not to disturbeither those who
are already in the hills, ar those who
are on their way there. When Gen
Sheridan was here the matter WAS
taiked oyer very freely with the
President, and such Il decision II,
stated above was reached.
THE SIOUX APPROPRIATION.
Mr.. Steele, of Wyoming, has IN
troduce ! n resolution in the Hous..
sdireetiug the COMMITTEE OH Appro-
priations to mako the appropriation
for the Sioux Indians contingent upnu
their consent To cetie the Black Hills
to the United States for a re ,sonable
price. The resolution is under con-
sideratioh by the Committee on In
dian Affairs, and will probably be
reported favorably. M as
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-02-27

" The following Washington special
to the Inier-O Ocean affirms the
LEADERS report in regard TO non
interference on the part of the gov.
ernmeut with the miners in the
Black Hills:
Washington. Feb. 22.-GeneraI
Sheridan was here II few days ag0,
and the President gave him orders
that the miners in the Back Hills
should not be disturbed, ST. tnal pros
pectOr5 car. now go into the new Ell
dorado without fear of the military.
Gen. Crooks expedition from Fort
Fetterman is not for the Black Hills,
but for the Powder River country,
where, i'll conjunction with General
Custer, he will fight Sitting Bull, the
untamed.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-02-27
The Solar Eclipse in March,

1t is quite possible thai this eclipse.
which s given as an annular one in
the EphemerideS, may he total for an
Instant on the North Pacific ocean IN
longitude l40 I6 West Of Greenwich
and latitude 35.S9 north. or near This
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-02-27
70 ALL WHOM IT NAY cosoEnN

Re 1t known that, on the lrh dny
cf February. 1875. at the Union Pacific freight
house In this city. there were seized by me
the following described packages OF di titled
spirits to-wit:
~ ne gallon keg of Rum.
% Three L gallon Kegs OF Wh'skey.
The ZANE having been sriz-d tor Violation
proper stamps.
Now. therefore, any pc son or persons
claiming the above Described packages of
G aim before me Mt my Office In Cheyenne
within staeys from this the Eth day ofFeb-
iuary. 1875. = EDGAR p. SNow,
a7-s~- Collector.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02
To 60 and when TO go.

No one who has any patriotism in his
pulse needs to be urged to attend the ceuten-
NAL. Whoever can, will 60. The question
is when to 90. Everyone is asking for re-
duction of railroad fare, decline of hotel
rates, and a little more information from
those who have been and returned. Al.
ready generous reductions of railroad rates
have been made, the fare down and back
from most places in Vermont, costing on an
average about SIG. Whether there is ground
to expect that tickets can yet be bought at a
still lower figure, is question for all to de.
eide for themselves. A pleasant way to go
is 10 parties of from twenty to fifty, econ
omy and the pleasure Of having some one to
compare notes with, being thus secured. In
a few days the exhibition will be complete
in all its various departments. Everything
will be fresh and new during the first few
weeks of the Fair, but we venture the opin.
ion that till the first of August or September
VNOu tuNiO VIII XIV SOlOi
enough to captivate the sight.seer.
With all farmers this is one Of the busiest
seasons-the seed time. No one should
neglect this. But all through the summer
by little extra effort there will occur
"gaps" Of leisure which can be used to nc
better advantage than by a trip to the great
exhibition. Vermonters ought to congratu.
late themselves on not having to cross the
Rocky mountains or the Father of Waters to
reach the Quaker city. The Fair is almost
at our door, Let us all attend it sooner OF
later-ii only for a day or two for at is
not great show shop, but it is a magu6.
cent academy where one can see evidences OIL
skill or thrift OF those natural or artificial
products which give to the nations their dis
tinguished characteristics"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02
Thoughts of the Season.

The most powerful sermons are often the
unuttered. And frequently some unvoiced
manifestation Of design beyond US and
above US causes the tide Of atheism to set
toward belief Tho very laws and forces
that science fails to grasp are the most en-
phatic teachers Of mighty Architect unseen.
The season is fruitful of suggestion, and
plain-spoken preacher of mans limitations.
The leaves are striving for perfection, the
latent germs Of the seed sown are bursting
into definite organisms, and the husbandman
again avails himself Of those mysterious
processes Of which be knows only few phe-
nomena and nothing essentially. Spiritual
things are spiritually discerned." Hard con.
tact with the rugged things Of sense and mat.
ter must give place now and then to the
study Of the great nOiseless forces that rule
the universe. Stop, for a moment, in that chase
after your favorite phantom and discipline
your senses by listening TO higher music
aud contemplating more perfect beauty
than art has ever given. II is matter for
cougratulation that around US there rise those
verdure.clad or snow-capped hills aud mount.
aims. Rocky aud untitled, they are the sym
bols from which men draw their inspiration
they are lessons teaching all to mount, by
whatever means, above the lowlands into an
air of cleaner thought and higher purpose.
Ia no profession does man come into 80
immediate contact and sympathetic relations
with nature as In farming, Honesty, punct-
uality, system, are written upon all the
processes which he employs, while his liveli-
hood is drawn from fountains Of perennial
and exhaustless supply. Poet, student, ora
tor, philosopher, are alike conscious Of fresh
delight whenever they como into the pres.
ence Of Vermont scenery, and they wonder
why man, owning his farm, ever sure Of
his food and raiment, complains of his lot,
aud curses his fate. Readers--some of you,--
the fault is not what you choose to call hard
luck, tight times, and sterile soil--it is with
you. People travel all over the world, Wis
iting every famous landscape under the sun.
and then come home to Vermont to pro.
nouuCe her scenery peerless. But some one
objects that there is no society in the Ordin.
AIRY town aud village,--no means Of culture,
too little life, aud too much conservatism,
Ay there's the rub. But let parents, there.
fore, make the greater effort to keep the
young men at home, by offering them larger
inducements, by multiplying their social adj
vantages, aud by showing them the hazard
and uncertainty that always attend western
speculation. Create the same advantages here
that are imagined to exist in the West, and
the bonanzas of the Black Hills, Kansas sheep
raising, Nebraska grasshOPPers, and Illinois
corn at twenty cents a bushel, will no longer
be preferred to the wealth that accumulates
upon the wood ,fringed hills and 10 the wind
ing villages Of Vermont.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02
The Coming Convention.

Twelve days more aud the convention at
Cincinnati becomes fact. According to the
Times and Tribune both Of which papers have
made most careful researches, Blaine can now
rely on from 257 to 262 votes while consider.
able diversity Of opinion, iathcred in most cases
by the wish, exists as TO the relative strength
of Morton Ind BrIstow. Could the latter
combine with Blaine--a thing not at all
likely to be done-nothing could oppose
them. 1t is certain that all attempts to
smirch either of these candidates have
tended only tho more powerfully to con-
vince the public OF their integrity. But tc
predict who shall be successful is like proph
esy,ng about the weather. Sectional bases
will have no small weight in determining
the ticket. Bristow could unite admirably
with Poland, or Blaine with Morton, so faI
as locality is concerned. Just what sort OF
tack the Coukling and Hartranft delega-
tons will take Is the riddle to be solved
Matters are, on the whole, so beautifully
mixed that the convention bids fair to b.
one Of the loudest and widest ever known ia
American politics. Many delegate is yet
open to conviction, and worse to say, many
though having some preference, are market
able. 1t would be a lesson for all time il
each vote polled at Cincinnati could speak
its own history. Men on the outside have
no more idea of the essential significance
Of a vote than person would have Of {
watch who never saw more than the dia
plate or the 260 delegates said to be
committed to the ex.speaker, how many are
are above price and purchase That thu
exchequer will play proud part in fixing
the majority is & statement which no one
has the data to refute. A suspicion il
abroad that both parties will WELD their
millions 10 the cause, and thus speaks 1
correspondent for an exchange:
HTllden has bureau at Washington with
oceans Of money, who are buying up dele.
gates at so much head, and paying Tor
them in good, hard cash. There are gor
gcous headquarters at the Arlington, and into
these headquarters the country delegate il
piled with every influence known to politics
from so much money to foreign mission
as the price Of supporting "Honest Sammy.
Tilden has n long purse aud so have hi
hackers in New York. They will beat hi
opponents, if they are not very much ii
earnest"
1t is not safe, therefore, when inhu enc,
depends so largely on quantity, to plac,
much reliance on any favorite son. A
"corner" at the very last hour may throw
any Of the candidates now ahead high and
dry upon the sand. 1t is the few vote
that hold tho balance Of power aud of those
few nine out of ten may perhaps be purch as
| able.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02
U,aferFOIrm C0ffIe .UnrkeI.

Cattle-Tho count OF Northern only 81 head with
the exception of f0w pairs these were all mlch cows
Western Cattle are gbundanti shipments Ia these
yards 1867 hoad slim attendance Ot buyers at mar
ket II being Decoration Day sufficient reason 20
draw OF many who usually attend, Brighton will be
their destination tomorrow. Prices as far Us noticed
were about the same AS last Tuesday. &. W. Bailey
sold Northern Oxen fed Up Ahial Hanks OF Warren
VT. and sold IN r. Smith at s. v Il W home weight
37aO Tbs q. Leayitt a Sons sold steers to ar Chan
dler, average l22O lbs, at sic steers To H. Holiness
average 1880 lbs ut 81 live j. Stetson sold ~ Steers TO
MIR Barker average 1854 lbs at as 2Oj - Steers TO Mr.
Winter, Weighing 1910 ibs, at so. Hathaway swirl
sold Steers 70 q. Wentworth, weighing sl35 he, al
s. 10.
Shocp-Only l73 head Of sheep from Vermont ami
New Hampshire two nockS OF Northern Now York
received. Sales ELECTED early, with no advance from
last week noticed A. Livingston sold 22l shearod
yearlngs ut &c " h. 1. b. Sargent sold 70 shearel
sheep, average 69 Tbs, at &C. NJ. r. ShaGkett sold 70
sheared sheep, average IGi h., at jc ii wool sheep
average Is ibs Mt 7lc, Veal Calves at steady prices
POultry--POultTy In lots at lie W lb, A, Williamson
sold 100 lbs at lle NJ H. Shackctt sold gUJ bs at sane
Drico
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02
FACT AND FANCY.

If you wish TO collect money owing TO you
in these hard times, just send tho delinquent
a postal card and the thing is dun.
A Detroter, who was deceived by the
warm weather 10 March into taking his
parlor stove down, had it back again in four
days. Next week he took it down again
and the next restored it. lie remembered
Of six different changes, the last OF which
was made yesterday; and as he sat with
leg on either side of the grateful heat he
patted the top of the stove and remarked,
Don't blame you at ALL am the fool !;
| you are up here for 5000 years, now, and
I'll hire man to keep you red hot all
through July aud August !"
The way some New York hotels propose
to evade the Sunday excise law is by open.
ing lunch room where, for ten cents, you
eau secure crackers aud cheese, and for ff.
teen cents more something TO wash them
down. The Commercial Advertiser adds ;
Amusing scenes occurred at the fashionable
fifth avenue restaurants where gentlemen
congregated last Sunday morning. The po-
lice "rum"- maged and "whis"-kied about
and would have "brand"-ied those places,
determining to "claret"-fy them--stating
they should not keep "Mumm" but would
read the sold rye"-et act. The game of
"Heid".seek would not work. "Sham" pains
could only fud relief in vice beer.
Sarcastic Slash-Y Young swell al should
like to have my moustache dyed" Polite
Enthusiastically. Did you bring it
with you 7"
Henry Hobbs bet s. that he could drink
quart of whiskey. He did it and earned
So toward paying the expenses Of his funeral,
which occurred the next day
One friend to another, who has just re-
turned from trip abroad "Did you enjoy
your European tour ?" "Yery much, indeed"
"Did you call on any OF the big ones ?"
ayes; l called on three queens one
evening"
A western manufacturer sent a pair Of
ladies' slippers to tho centennial without
designating their use, and they we're at once
assigned a prominent place among boats aud
nautical affairs.
1t is said that the summer duster for gem
tlemen will be made with trail, and will
be striped with red white aud blue down
the back,
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Commodore Vanderbilt was 50 years old
last Saturday.
Ulysses s. Grant, Jr., was admitted to
the bar, last Friday.
-Four murderers were lynched near Charles
ton, s. g., the Oath ult.
The Porte declines to accede to the pro.
visions Of the Berlin memorandum.
Forty thousand Sunday school children
paraded in Brooklyn last week Wednesday.
Yellow fever is said to be raging in Rio
Janeiro, the death rate being 80 to 100 daily
The Senate has decided. 81 to ~, that it
has jurisdiction in the Belknap impeachment
case.
Old Kentucky has 10000 square miles
Of fertile soil and does not owe dollar OF
state debt.
Brigham Young in early life lived at
Port Byron, on the Erie canal, and was a
painter by trade. ........
The attendance at the centennial exhibi-
ton Tuesday was larger than on any day
since the opening.
A bee killed the Hon. j. A. Crawford, at
Kingston, (Geo.,) few days since by sting
ing him in the head. ..7.
The testimonial fund for Capt Webb, who
swan across the English Channel, has
reached about 100000,
Up to Friday last the amount of appro-
prlations by congress of questionable char
Acter was sl33, 750,795.
San Francisco, according to its new direc.
tory, has population of 272, 345, a gain Of
$4,000 during the past year.
A disastrous fire visited Quebec Tuesday
afternoon. Over 1000 houses aud 81 ,000,.
900 worth OF property were destroyed.
The price of wool is so low 10 California
that many sheep raisers have commenced
killing their stock for the skins aud tallow.
The prospect Of war in the Fast aud a
rise in the gold premium has given an uneI.
pected activity to the New York grain
trade.
The fast mail train jumped the track near
Albany, N. Y, last Friday, and the fireman
was killed and the engineer was fatally in.
jured.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02


The memorandum prepared at the Berlin
conference states that the three Powers have
agreed upon the following points
First. A two-months' armistice, during
which it is hoped an understanding on the
basis Of the Andrassy note will be reach ed =.
Second. The Porte to restore the Chris
tians' houses and churches, supply owners
with food one year and exempt them from
taxation for three years from their return.
Third. Such relief to be distributed by a
commission composed Of representatives Of
the two religions of Herzegovina, with a
Christian presiding.
Fourth. Turkish troops to be withdrawn
except from six fortified towns, until the
complete pacifcation of the country.
Fifth. Herzegovina not to lay down arms
until the Moslems lay down theirs, and the
reforms are faithfully executed.
Sixth Consuls or delegates of the Pow
ers to superiutend generally the execution of
the reforms, and specially the return Of ref.
ugees.
To which Turkey objects in explicit terms,
holding that the sovereign rights of the Sui.
tan include free action with regard to the
disposition of his army. There seems to be
pride enough yet in the Sick Man to rebel
against such foreign dictatious. Meantime
England not concurriug with the three
ChancellOrs, is supposed to be preparing for
a crisis from the fact that one of her admi-
rails was recently seen at Portsmouth yard,
surveying the feet and estimating the pres.
ent available strength of the navy. France
remains neutral.
Though reports as to the slaughter Of
Christians are exaggerated and unreliable,
the Sultan is evidently in serious situation,
for the Sofas 1.-THE persons connected with
Mosquesl insist that he shall restore S25,-
600 900 to the treasury, reduce his civil
list to $5,000,000, and cease to be Caliph--
that is, spiritual head of the Mohammedans
They also demand that the Sultan shall es-
tabish a national council, and appoint for
eigner as minister of finance. The immedi-
ate dependence of nations upon the well filled
treasury even to assert their independence is
we'll illustrated in Turkey.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02

made himself the reservoir for one hundred
and thirty-seyeu glasses of lager beer in one
evening without discomfort or exhilaration
That man. Of course, has cslibre--a soul Of
the most refined texture aud a body Of the
most sensitive construction. But intoxicate
or not intoxicate, every iutelligeut person is
aware of The ultimate effect upon the system
of such immoderate guzzling Of malt liquor.
That the Germans eau be living casks Of
beer, and that Germany is nation Of war;
riors, scholars and thinkers, seem like small
reasons for American imitation. Differ.
ences Of climate, Of education, OF inherent
tendencies disqualify the average American
for adopting what in Germany may seem
and be shown TO be harmless regimen
The question is, can the energies and intel.
lect of the American people soak for hours
in this mild but distending fluid without
being impaired? Is the beer garden an
institution that can be introduced unmod-
fed in Vermont where the atmosphere
with its abundant oxygen is a stimulant of
itself?
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02

tory, and that would amount to a positive
defeat Of decency. The very fiction of law
Is saluiary; il is a charter by which right,
whenever il would take the form Of action,
can do so; a sort Of sword at the service OF
violated public conscience. The men who
say that this Or that law is practically dead
letter and, therefore, urge its repeal, ate not
the men, as a rule, who seek socictys high
est good. 1t is something worth remember
ing that often in legislatures recognition is
made Of certain principles sighted or wholly
neglected in common usages. Many a good
law is really the shadow promising the sub.
stance Of some genuine improvement. To
legislate as by a hair line, just even with the
power of society to enforce, is to leave moth.
ing to aspire to; it is simply retrogression.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-02

81 specs, my b'uvvod hearers" said
colored parson, 81 specs to-day to take a
broad field in my 'scourse. 1t takes me
good vile to git away from de dock, but wen
[ once strikes de deep water, den look out
fur de big FISH,"
Nowadays when a man is charged with
crime he holds up his head and says: 81
am not worth a dollar. That proves my
innocence" 1t will soon be necessary, in
abiding to gentleman Of liberia! posses
sions, to describe him as "rich but honest"
pheasant for George, who is entertaining
"the governor" with the latest college gossip
Pater-"Now, George, this is all very well
about the foot ball, the prospects OF the
crew, and the rest Of it. now, suppose you
let us know about the Greek aud Latin, and
this afternoon we will go over all your bills. "
-HarUard LampOon.
The spiritualistic theory is that Piper was
possessed by the spirit of a big burly negro
former slave, who was whipped to death
for gross insult upon his white mistress,
and that his three murders, Of which one is
to be discovered, were energized by this
demon.
A clergyman who had been staying for
some time at the house of friend, on going
away, called to him little Tommy, the four
year.old son of his host, and asked him what
he should give him for present. Tommy,
who had a great respect for the "cloth''
thought it was his duty to suggest something
Of religious nature, so he answered, hes
itatingly: I'll think | should like Tes-
lament, and knO,o l should like q pop
gun !"
A Brookyn girl was asked by very
thin gentleman if she didn't think she could
learn to love him. 81 might if you was
stuffed" was the laughing reply.
Two young ladies in the library were dis.
cussing preference expressed by one Of
them for clean shaver men, when the other
was heard to remark IL don't object to a
man with a reasonable quantity Of hair on
his face, but | wouldn't like to marry a
buffalo robe"