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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

THE bishop presiding at the Fifth
General council of the Reformed Epis-
copal church offered resolution ten
dering the heartfelt thanks of the coun-
Gil to Edward Martin, of Red Hook, for
his munificent gift of 100 acres Of land,
near Chicago, for the establishment and
maintenance of college Of Theology
for this sect in the west. Then the
Rev. Mason Gallagher spoke at length
upon the services and earnest work of
their women missionaries and offered a
resolution, that was unanimously
adopted, commenting the work of their
women missionary societies.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

THE Russians are once more in
marching order. This time there are
three columns Of them, and not as be-
fore, an extended line. Ostensibly they
are going towards Giurgevo, Sunmetza
and some other point, with name to
hard for us to pronounce. The proba-
bic danger would seem, therefore, that
they propose to cross the Danube some-
where. The object of all this march
ing will be to break the Turkish line,
and separate the corps at Widden from
the main army. It seems to us that
they attempted something of that kind
not very long ago and got badly hurt
themselves.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

FROM Dublin the news comes inform
ing us of the election of Mr.. Gray, the
Home Ruler, to Parliament, from Tip
perary, ireland, in place of O'Callahan,
deceased; defeating Carey, the extent
an prisoner by large majority. The
mob pelted Gray and finally became so
menacing that the constabulary fixed
bayonets; the riot act was then read,
and a severe rain coming on at the
same time the crowd dispersed.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
THE MYSTIC REX.
"Let 10y be Unconfined."

New York, May liking Carnival
reigned supreme in this city to-day. At
Q O'Clock this morning crowds began to
gather i'll Broadway and to select avail
able positions upon porches of banks
and business houses. Before IL O'Clock
the omnibus drivers had abandoned
Broadway to the retainers of King Car
nival and dashed with their vehicles
perilously through the side streets.
Down the main thoroughfare the
chariots of Rex's train began to come,
on their way to meet the monarch at
the Battery. The people began at an
early hour to assemble ON the Battery to
witness the arrival from some myste-
rious shore of the Mystical King. AT
last there was shout, and everybody
rushed forward. The steamboat
Thomas Colyer, decorated with the
symbols of all lands in bunting,
was approaching the wharf. AS the
boat touched the pier, the bands played,
salutes were fired, the crowd hurrahed
and the steamboats, screamed a well
come to strange gentleman of. middle
height, very fair complexion, and with
blonde hair and beard. He wore a
velvet hat with plume, and he was
otherwise respondent in purple and
ermine. With him were the Grand
Turk and Khedive of Egypt, ,georgeously
arrayed. The king and his compan-
ions entered their carriage, and the
procession started up Battery Place.
The van was composed of mounted
policemen, followed by band who, in
tnrn were followed by marshals on
horseback; then came the King. The
Industrial chariots fell into line
from side streets, and from Whitehall
street nearly all trades, were repre-
sented, from makers of clothing to
makers of axle grease. The brewers
were out in force, with tableauX cars
and living representatives of Gambri-
nus. A printing house sent out a
little printing office on wheels, and q
printers devil therein was provided
with horns and tail.
When the last wagon had passed st.
Paul's church, Broadway looked as il
it had just experienced a snow storm,
presenting cool and refreshing aspect
on this warm May day, so lavish were
the distributors Of handbills. If the
act of the carnival was to attract at.
tention, it must certainly be credited
as success.
The night pageant, this evening
was a grand feature of the festival
The efforts of the carnival association
to make the tableaux perfect, met witt
great success. The main feature wa
a representation of American history
accompanied by a molly display of King
Carnival's merry followers, illuminated
with lanterns, torches, colored fires
etc. The crowds were so great every
where that it seemed as if all the town
and cities in the neighborhood of New
York had contributed their population
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
MISSOURI.
Meeting of Master Mechanics.

st. Louis, May 16.-The annual con-
vention of the Railroad Master Me-
chanics Association of the United
States, convened in the Chamber of
Commerce building this morning, and
were welcomed to this city by Mayor
Overstoltz in brief address. Letters
were received from II. w. Britton,
president, and w. A. Robinson, second
vice president, resigning their respec-
tive positions. n. E. Chapman, first
vice president, took the chair. After
the transaction of preliminary business
the convention took recess.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
sPulN1ERs FROM CASTLE CREEK.

From an Occasional Correspondent.l
clustering winds and light falls of
snow-alternating with hail and rain
for several days past.
Major Lewis, of Yankton, has been
appointed postmaster at Castleton by
the postmaster general.
There is fine field in this immediate
vicinity for quartz prospectors who un-
derstand their business.
Rich dry diggings are being discov-
cred daily by prospectors unable to OBJ
tain ground in the main gulch.
Sitting Bull City, the most enter
prising town in the gulch, is rapidly as
suming city-like proportions.
Pony gulch, tributary of Castle, is
the latest discovery, and district has
been organized, with fifty claims
staked.
Representation day passed off o. X.
in Lawrence district. Contrary to eN-
pectation, no dabbling in gore was
INDUCED in.
Shooting suckers and catching club
is the principal amusement of Castle
ties, since elk and black-tail have be-
come scarce.
Canon district, on Big Rapid, will be
formally opened on Monday, May 7th;
Omega district, on Little Rapid, on
May 18th, 1877.
One weeks grace was allowed absen-
tees OH representation day, there being
only four absent. On account of
the richness of A. T. Bangs claim it
was laid over for sixty days. r..
Messrs. Code & Billings have suspend
ed operations in their shaft. Their
boiler not being of sufficient capacity to
run the pump, they have telegraphed
for a 25-horse power, which is now on
the road.
NJ. V. Rowland of Deadwood, who
lately purchased an interest in the Phe-
nix Mining Co., is now in Omaha, pre-
pairing to forward machinery via Chey-
enne, the popular route to the Black
Hills.
Rapherty, the missing link, has not
been seen in this section. 1t is thought
by many that he has struck pocket OF
pilgrim gold (mica) and is panning him.
self to death in some lonely, secluded
gulch; while others think he went out
to view the Sidney route, and is stuck
fast. BLUE GRASS.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

PROMINENT Hebrew bankers in New
York deny the cable statement that
the Russian government recently raised
a loan through Jewish bankers, by stip-
ulating, to give the Jews control of
Palestine, in the event of it's being con-
quered from the Turks.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

THE Turkish gunboat which passed
Kalafat under cover of a Turkish fire
from Widden, was captured by Rou-
manian battery lower down the river.
This gunboat was built at Pesth, was
fully manned and equipped and was en-
route to Rustchuk for its armament.
Score one for the Russians.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
THE great fires of Michigan ;

THE great fires of Michigan are
being duplicated in the state of New
York. Clinton Mills, on Monday
morning, was thriving village, to-day
it is levelled to the ground. Not a
single house is left standing, and its
people were found this morning hud-
died together out Of the way of the
heat about a mile west of the Mills, in
a perfectly destitute condition.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
No doubt her martial leaders

No doubt her martial leaders became
excited in meekly looking on as quiet
spectators Of the scene, and her civilion
element getting tired Of being assessed
to support somebody, quietly concluded
that it was merely question of heads
I win, tails you lose, and the die being
cast, ,Roumania has declared against
Turkey.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

HEAVY brush fires are reported
Throughout the northern portions of
the eastern states and of New York
and Canada. Several houses have
been destroyed, and the Stantead and
Chambly bridge, near CRANKY, burned.
The smoke was SO dense in Montreal
on account of the fires in the neighbor-
hood, that the street lamps were lighted
at O'Clock in the afternoon.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
The Turks Defeated.

Vienna, May 15.-Dispatches from
the seat of war report that the Turkish
sqadron bombarded a village near Sock
gomkale. Six Turkish iron-clads ap-
peared before the town and heavy ar
tillery engagement followed. After a
sanguinary fight, in which a whole
Turkish battalion was destroyed, hos
tilities were suspended. Miridite is
is bringing down reinforcements, to CO.
operate with the Montenegrins.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

TUESDAYS steamers carried away
two hundred and fifty thousand in gold
coin, and to-day, when you are reading
this, like amount will be on its way
across the ocean, outward bound from
New York to Europe.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
FOREIGN.

Insurgents at the Work of Destruction
Vienna, May 15.-On the 18th inst.
an insurgent band burned the barracks
at Grab, and two block houses, two
magazines and the custom-house at
Ziblan. The Turkish soldiers made no
resistance but fled, leaving considerable
ammunition and provisions behind
them.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

THE Hebrew syndicate, in New
York, deny emphatically that there is
any truth in the statement relative to
the raising of money for the Russian
government; the equivalent to be the
control of Palestine by the Jews, on
the event Of its being conquered.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

NEWS from Mexico, via Galveston,
states that General Valdez, with force
of six hundred soldiers, in the district
of Rio Grande, state of Coahuila, Mex
leo, have pronounced for the Lerdo
government.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

Frenchman to Prussian: "The Iron
Cross is your highest decoration, (sneer-
ingly) but still you cannot get five cents
cents for it." Prussian: "It's true. my
friend; its intrinsic value is not worth
that amount, but it cost you
Frenchmen two Napoleons. "[Colorado
Jonrnal (Ger.l.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

ASSOCIATE Justice, A. ]. Willard,
was elected Chief Justice of the State
of Ohio, yesterday, on the first ballot,
thereby creating vacancy in the asso-
ciate justiceship. This election will
occur shortly.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

THE New York Chamber of Com
merce banqueted the President of the
United States on Monday evening last.
Considerable speech making was in
dulged in and the entire affair was
decided success from beginning to end.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

ADvIcEs are to the effect that great
fire is spreading rapidly among the for
ests of Canada and northern New
York. ,el.f
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

EIGHT buildings on First and John
streets, New York, was burned Tues
day morning. Loss S25, 900; insurance
S20. 900.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

LOSSES by the fire at st. Stephens,
New Brunswick, aggregate sum total
of nearly, if not quite, half million
of dollars.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
Omaha and California Line

Is the shortest and hest route between Chi
cag0 and all points in Northern Illinois,
Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado.
Japan and Australia. n6-wly
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

The Newmarket spring handicap
was won by LaSantesse. Coeruleus,
second; Briglia, third.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
Chicago & Northwestern
RAIL Way

Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway lines of the West and North,
west. and, with its numerous branches and
connections, forms the shortest and quickest
routes between Chicago and all points In
Illinois, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Min
nesota Iowa, Nebraska, California and the
Western Territories. Its
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
The Daily Leader.
RAILROAD Master Mechanics to the
front, at st. Louis yesterday. See our
telegraphic dispatches.

IT Is reported that Gen. Hancock
will be one of the three officers to visit
and observe the European war.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16

Archives & Historical Dept; Cheyenne, Eyo
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-16
">>1 COMMISSION
U0u MERCHANTS,

Cash advanced; prompt sales; prompt re-
turns. Colorado and Territorial wools q
speciality. Inquiries promptly answered.
Before selling or consigning obtain latest
market reports by addressIng co
No. log Chestnut Street,
may le-d&wIy Philadelphia.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28
A Brave Brakeman.

81 have often heard of the brave and
daring deeds of engineers, firemen and
brakemen," said well-known cattle
dealer yesterday in the hearing of q Bee
reporter, "but never witnessed a more
daring feat than that performed by Pat
O'Keefe, brakeman on the Grand ISL
and division of the Union Pacific rail-
road. 1t was on Durfee 4 Gasman's
cattle train, on Thursday afternoon.
Conductor Jennings had charge of the
train. We were running pretty fast for
freight train-about twenty-five miles
an hour-equal to passenger-tra time.
The cars iolted fearfully. When we were
within about a mile and half of Shell
ton station, the door of one of the cars
flew of, having been kicked from its
fastenings by one of the rambunctious ,
steers. Pat O'Keefe, the brakeman, saw
the door fly off, and yelled out, For
Gods sake, stop the train, but his voice
was stopped by the rattle of the cars,
and did not reach the engineer. The
next thing L saw was steer Jump
off the car. The animal landed on his
feet, and skipped off at a lively gait, en-
tirely unframed, and went to grazing.
That's fact, as strange as it may seem.
L expected to see the whole carload fol-
low him, but they didn't; for O'Keefe
had by this time climbed down the side
OF the car, between the bars, and, hang
ing hold with one hand, he took his hat
in the other and waved it back and forth
in the open door in the faces of the
steers, and thus kept them at bay until
we arrived at Shelton. l wouldn't have
done that for the whole train of cattle.
with the cars and engines thrown in.
He saved twenty head of cattle which
the company would have had to pay for
had they been lost. That brakeman de-
serves promotion. "-On,oha Bee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28
Deadheading on Newspapers.

The Rome Sentinel rises to explain.
and its language is plain, and is as fol-
lows:
"There is no other business on which
the public levies such heavy contribu-
tions as on the newspaper publishing
business. An organization is getting up
some kind of festivities, for example.
1t pays for the use of grounds, pays for
music, pays for refreshments, gets 81
worth of tickets and 81 worth of bills
printed either at newspaper office or
somewhere else, and then expects free
advertising from the paper to an extent
actually worth from 80 or SO to $40.
The mere announcement of picnic, So
ciable, or festival is an advertisement,
and ought to be paid for. The result is
that generous proportion of the profits
OF nearly all entertainments of this kind
is money which rightfully belongs to
newspaper publishers. Then, after the
thing is over, the managers will come in
with long string of resolutions, with
which to rob the publisher of more vaiu-
able space. The truth is that space in
a newspaper represents money. 1t is
worth money to the publisher. There
is no more reason why he should give it
away than why merchant should give
away his goods. Part of the space of
the paper is sold to business men for
advertising purposes, the rest of the
Space is devoted to interesting reading
matter. On the last the publisher de-
ponds for the attractions which shall sell
his paper. Either space represents cash
to him. Yet the business man who buys
space to the amount of 50 often buys a
gratuity of local space to the amount of
81 or 81, or even more. The managers
of festivals, picnics, or other home en-
tertainments may not buy cents worth
of space, but all the same expect the
free gift of several dollars worth of
space. The minister, who never adver-
tises, may want space to the amount of
81 or 81 weekly, for the advertisement
of coming sermons. The politician.
even though he forgets to keep his sub
scription paid up, demands column after
column of valuable space free, and rare
ly so much as says thank you forit. For
all this the newspaper man, taxed be-
yond any other business man, enjoys the
high distinction of being regarded as a
deadhead by two-thirds of his neigh
bors
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28
Bismarck and His Cigar.

During the great war between France
aud Germany Prince Bismarck, "the
man of blood and iron, was the actor in
an incident of most suggestive and
gentle nature. The Prince is said to be
a smoker ardently attached to the
tweed" He is reported to have said
"The value of a good cigar is best I'M
derstood when it is the last you possess,
and there is no chance of getting an
other" Most devotees of tobacco in any
form seem to delight in their bondage to
it, and to be miserable if deprived of it.
1t is said that Bismarck had cherished
his last cigar all through battle, in glad
anticipation of the luxury in store for
him, when he suddenly and gladly de-
prived himself of the smoke-giving So
lace. In his own words, :" painted in
glowing colors in my mind the happy
hour when L should enjoy it after the
victory. But / had miscalculated the
chances. A poor dragoon lay helpless
with both arms crushed, murmuring for
something to refresh him. L felt in my
pockets, and found that had only gold,
and that would be of no use to him.
But, stay; had still my treasured cigar !!
l lighted this for him, and placed it be-
tween his teeth. You should have seen
the poor fellows grateful smile. 1 never
enjoyed a cigar so much as that one
did not smoke"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28
A Terrible Story from Kentucky.

Several weeks ago an 11-year-old
daughter of Ballard county farmer
mysteliously disappeared, and all efforts
to find her whereabouts were fruitless
until ten days after her disappearance,
when neighboring farmer, while out
searching for his COW, heard the cries of
some one in distress, and, following the
direction OF the sound, found the lost
child in a dense thicket, with both hands
tied together with rope, one end of
which was tied to tree. Near the tree
were some old clothes upon which the
child slept. The farmer inquired of the
child how she happened to be there in
that condition, when she told him that
a negro man had brought her there, and
that he came every night and brought
her something to eat and drink, and as
saulted her. The farmer told the child
to remain quiet until night ard he
would procure assistance, and when the
negro came back that night they would
secure him, which they did. When the
girl was asked what must be done with
him, she said "skin him alive" which
they proceeded to do Immediately.
They began at the crown of his head
and stripped the skin to his feet. He
only survived the operation five min
utes. -MaHfeLd (hy.) Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28
French Criminal Statistics.

The statistics relating to the admins
tration OF criminal law in France during
the year 1875 have just been made pub.
lie. The number of persons tried at the
assizes during the year 1875 amounted to
4,791, as against 1928 in 1874. OF the
accused LOAF were described as wholly
illiterate, 3,042 could read and write. 2O2
had received superior education. The
men were zoos, the women 1888. The
acquittals were 947, or over 20 per cent.
OF the persons convicted 80 were SEN
fenced to death, 141 to penal servitude
for life, 975 to limited terms of penal
servitude, and the remainder to simple
excepting three, who were
only fined. Out of 1916 individuals
1878 had previous sentences
recorded against them. With respect TO
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28

the nature of the offenses, there were
369 prosecutions for crimes punishable
by death. All the accused under this
category We're found guilty, but 1856
with extenuating circumstances. OF
the 33 condemned to death only IL were
axacutad
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28

Well, Tom, my boy must say good-by
I've had wonderful visit here
Enjoyed IL, too, well as could
Away from all that my heart holds dear
Maybe I've been trihe rough
little awkward, your wife would say
And very likely I've missed the hint
OF your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old roof
Sheltered us both when we were boys,
And the same dear mother-love watched both
Sharing our childish grefs and joys,
Yet you are almost a stranger now;
Your ways and mine are as far apart
As though we never had thrown an arm
About each other with loving heart.
Your city home is palace, Tom;
Your wife and children are fair TO see;
You couldn't breathe in the little cot,
The little home that belongs 10 Dte.
And am lost in your grand large house,
And dazed with the wealth on every side,
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In the midst OF so much stately pride.
Yes the concert was grand, last night,
The singing splendid; but do you know,
My heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert, 30 sweet and low
That maybe II wouldn't please the ear
OF any one so cultured and grand as you
But to its music Laugh II you will
My heart and thoughts must ever be true
1 shut my eyes in the hall last night
(For the cla,h of the music wearied me),
And close to my heart this vision came
The same sweet picture l always see
In the vine-clad porch of a cottage home,
Half In shadow and half in sun,
A mother chanting her lullaby,
Rocking 10 rest her little one.
And soft and sweet, as the music fell
From the mothers lips, heard the COO
OF my baby GIRL with drowsy tongue
She echoed the song with "Goo-a-goo."
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
My wife and child, by the cottage door.
All that is the concert, brother Tom,
Ny ears aching TO hear once more.
SO now good-by. And I wish you well,
And many year of wealth and gain.
You were born to be rich and gay;
4 am content to be poor and plain.
And go back to my country home
With love that absence has strengthened 90
Back to the concert all my own
Mothers singing and babys COO.
Monthly for October.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-28

DESPITE competitive examination.
every thing in the civil service does not
go quite smoothly as yet. A young
gentleman had to be mildly reproved
for the irregularity of Ills attendance.
His Celtic blood was inAamed, and, turn
ing upon his rebukers, he angrlly told
them, "Sure if it wasn't for the thrife
of salary We give, the divil bit O. me
would come here at all 1"