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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Many people suppose that the murder
of Johnny Slaughter and the attempted
robbery of the coach which he was
driving was the work of Persimmon
Bills band, but men here who offer to
wager money on the truth Of their
statements, assert that Iersimmon Bill
is not in the Black Hills.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Men are like hymns. There are
short-meter men, sharp, blunt andhasty;
there are long-meter men, slow, weighty
and dignifed; there are hallelujah-
meter men, mercurial, fervent and in
spring; and there are eights-and-seveus
men, gentle, genial and delightful,
There are also some peculiar meters.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

A rafting storm of thunder, rain
and hail visited this vicinity yesterday
afternoon. A rather curious phenome-
non was noticed in the fact that the
area covered by hail was quite narrow,
being from $50 to 200 feet wide, and
several inches in depth in the Crow
creek bottom, while scarcely any hail
fell outside of these lines.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
Local Agents.

The following Is n list of the authorized
agents Of THE LEADER In Wyoming Territory.
Cheyenne, II. W. Moore.
Laramie City, r. Z. Fitch.
Rawlins W. l.. Ash.
Green River, John Graf.
Evanston, (To be appointed.)
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

The wrestling match between j. NJ.
Martin, who claims the championship
of the world, and Ira Cole, Of this city,
occurs this evening at the Dramatic
theatre. and will be al interesting ex-
hibition of strength and skill. U..
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Officer Howard is acting a City
Marshal during the absence of Marshal
Slaughter, and is performing the duties
of the office in a highly creditable man.
ner.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
Fanny earrettson Cuts Her Throat.

Word comes from Deadwood to the
effect that Fanny Garrettson, a variety
actress, who was engaged here last
summer and previously, is dead, having
committed suicide by cutting her throat
some three weeks ago.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
Card.

To oil who are suffering from the errors and
early decsy, loss Of manhood, &c, I will send
q receipt that Will cure you FREE OF
SHAhGE This great remedy was discov cred
eelEaddressed envelope 10 the Rev. JOSEPH
7. 1NMAN, station b, Bible House, New
York. marl3eod6 X6W
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
For STYLISH hats 90 to Polack's.

For stylish hats go to Polack's.
For spring suits go to Polack's.
origents' neckwear go to Polack's. 8
For trunks and valises go to Polack's.
For blankets go to Polack's.
For boys &youths' suits go to Polack's
For latest styles spring capsgoto Polacks
For silk handkerchiefs go to Polack's.
For s%uspenders go to Polack's, L. o. c.
me-
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Conductor F. F. Griffin has been
transferred to the Denver Pacific pas
senger train. ODE Croft takes his place
on the Kansas Pacific train. hA4
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Lyons Kathairon makes beautiful,
glossy, luxuriant hair; prevents its fall
ing out or turning gray. 1t has stood
the test Of forty years. Is charmingly
perfumed, and has no rival.
ap27-deod1y
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

A case Of smallpox has occurred in
Laramie City and the people of that
burg are greatly alarmed.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Send the Weekly LEADER to your
friends in the states. Only 80. so per
year--S1.50 for six months, and 81 for
three months.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

One Of our hotels has panes of wire
in some of its room doors, and a wit at
our elbow remarks that they are Chi
nese doors, made for Pe(e)kin cham
bermaids. v.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

The subscription lists of the Daily
and Weekly LEADER continue to grow
with a rapidity and steadiness which is
highly gratifying.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

We respectfully notify the ladies of
Cheyenne and vicinity that our Miss
Huston will be at the Inter-Ocean hotel,
Cheyenne, on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week, with a full
line Of samples of dress goods and:silks.
Orders will be taken for garments to be
made in latest and most approved styles
and at reasonable prices.
m17-3t DANIELS, FISHER & Co.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

More bread for 81 at Underwood Il
McGregor's than any place in town.
m25-6t
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

A No. four horse team, with harness
complete, and a Balm wagon, all in
good order, for sale cheap at the Cen
trail Corral.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

The barometer still betokens bad
weather. Rain or wind, or both, may
be expected to-day.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

copper lode has been discovered at
the head of Castle creek, Black Hills.
Assays show it to be very rich.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Just received a large invoice of real
Valencienne thread and point applique
laces at Joslin's. m2S
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Hagan's Magnolia Balm preserves
and restores the complexion, removes
freckles, tan and %sallowness; makes the
skin soft, white and delicate. Its ap-
p~lication cannot be detected.
ap27-deod1y
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church as usual this evening at 7:3O.
Strangers specially invited. l4.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

THE LEADER steam printing house
is crowded with work and is turning
out a splendid line of work from its
fast presses and new type.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

A nice furnished room for rent. APP
ply at Eureka Hotel, Ferguson street,
between 18th and 18th. m27-6t"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Subscribers who fail to receive their
papers regularly will confer a favor by
Immediately reporting the fact at this
office tt
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Advertising will gain new customers,
Advertising will keep old customers,
Advertising literally always pays,
Advertising begets confidence,
Advertising shows energy,
Advertising shows pluck,
Advertise and succeed,
Advertise or ''bust,"
Advertise often,
Advertise well,
Advertise
Here.
IF YOU
Want a cook,
Want q clerk,
Want a partner,
Want q situation,
Want Il servant girl,
Want to buy a ranch,
Want a place to board,
Wanttosell orbuy property,
Want to sell groceries or drugs,
Want to sell dry goods or carpets,
Want to find customers for anything.
ADVERTISE IN THE LEADER
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

What's the use of fooling with blue
CLASP Swallow half a peck of nitrate
of silver and it will die you permanently
hIua
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

The D. P. Owl train brought %
Cheyenne passengers this morning.
At 4 O'Clock this morning all q. p.
trains due here to-day were moving on
time.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

To-day's west-bound u. p. emigrant
has a dozen Cheyenne passengers.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

There will be a trotting ace at tn,
driving park tomorrow afternoon. 81
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
Good eating 81 per week, Oyster Bay.
The latest and cheapest lines of or
sets in the city at Josl;n's. m2S
Silk and stuff suits in large variety
at
m2S-6t. MARKS & MYERS.

To Let.
Furnished room with board in a pri-
vate family suitable for a couple of gen.
ptlemen. Also, 5 or 6 day boarders want
ed. Apply corne 10th and Hill SITS.
m2S-2t"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
MARRIED

JoNEs-REED.--In this city, March
26th, 1877, by Rev. ]. Y. Cowhick,
Mr.. Robert Jones to Miss Matte Reed,
all of cheyenne.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

The most popular gymnastie exercise
just now Is the backward Spring.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

WANTED-By a competent woman,
a situation IS cook and housekeeper on
a ranch. Good references given. Ad-
dress this Office. m23-6t
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

"Potato Bug Exterminator' is man.
ufactured by s. H. Kennedy, Omaha.
a27-dtf
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Pie plant or rhubarb roots, best sorts,
81 a dozen; Houghton gooseberry roots,
81 a dozen; Wilson strawberry plants,
IS a thousand, IS cts. a hundred. Sent
promptly, by freight OF express, on re-
ceipt of price. Address. g4
N. c. MEEKER,
m22-d&w4w Greeley, Colorado.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Use S. H. Kennedy's Hemlock Dip
for skin disease and vermin in sheep.
a27-dtf
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Buy your bread of Ellis, and get q
pounds more for n dollar, than at any
other place. m20-ta5
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

LOST. A bill-book. Finder will
please return it to d.. j. ]. Clark, over
Joslin & Parks. m2s-1t.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Kid gloves cleaned nextto State Bank.
f2l-3m
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

1t is with pain that WI note the fact
that the photographers throughout the
country ave giving blue glass a rest. We
apprehend that their gibes, jeers and
puns have done more to advertise
Pleasanton's specific than any other
agency that has been or could be con-
ceived of.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Good lines Of kid gloves at JOS
Inns. ms
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

If you want to buy dry goods, go to
Joslin's. m2S
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Eighteen pounds of bread for n
dollar. (m20-ta5) H. II. ELLIS.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Use 8. II. Kennedy's Hemlock Lini
ment for horses. a27-dtf
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

METRoPoLITAN.-F. Ranseil, Mrs.
Andrews, Denver, Colo-Otto Simdars
and wife, Scotland.
DYER's.-E. Paschal, Tie Siding
VIM. Mason, John G. Semple, Fort
Laramie-James Mills, b. F. Kelly,
Chug-R. H. Johns, Greeley-A. w.
Ramsey, st. Vrain, Colo-O. p. Good
win, Bear Creek.
DELMoNIco.-R. II. Mills, New
ark, N. il. w. Webster, H. F.
Clark, Eureka, New. Finlay and S.
Branneman, Richmond, Va-William
Pott, Colo-T. B. Riggs, San Francisco
j. Flicklinger, Deadwood-G. D. Todd,
Rockport, MOD. S. Richards, Cam
den, Mo-Ira Page, White6eld, N. H.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Spring cloaks-the latest styles-at
Joslin's. m2S
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.

ried, stewed and raw at Oyster Bay
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Silk Cloaks and Talmas Just received
at
m2s-6t. MARKS & MYERS.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Oysters, nice and sweet, Oyster Bay
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Yesterdays trains brought IS Chey-
enne passengers.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-28

Authorized Capital, $1,000 600
Paid Up Capital Stock, $4,000
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-08

The Growth of Children.

The growth of children has been made
the subject of very ingenious and origi-
nal researches through some $4,000
measurements of the children in the pub
lie schools of this city, by Prof. Bow
ditch, of the Harvard Medical School,
and published by the State Board of
Health. His summary of the most inl-
pOrtant results he has obtained i as
follows:
The growth of children takes place in
such way that until the age of II or II
years boys are both taller and heavier
than girls of the same age, but at this
period of life girls begin to grow very
rapidly, and for the next two or three
years surpass boys of the same age in
both height and weight. Boys then ac-
quire and retain size superior to that
of girls, who have now nearly completed
their full growth. Children born of
American born parents are in Massa-
chusetts taller and heavier than children
of foreign born parents, superiority
which seems to depend partly on the
greater average comfort in which
such children live and grow up, aud
partly upon differences of racesor stock.
Pupils of American parentage at the
public Latin schools and other higher
schools are apparently for the same
reasOns) superior in height and weight
to the generality of boys of American
parentage in the public school, and to
English boys of the nOn-laboring class
attending public schools and univerSi-
ties, the superiority in weight being a
rule more marked than that in height.
1t will be seen that several popular
delusions of long standing are here dis
PEELED. and the regulation of physical
and mental training 20 much the better
guided The value and importance of
the conclusions however. are diminished
by the very fact that they are unique,
and other communities have "a yet no
similar statistics. When such basis of
comparison has been supplied, the in
fluenee of geographical and climatic
condition on growing children may be
discovered, the number of generations
in which climatic changes are accom-
plished, the effect, if any, of the season
of the year, the comparative effect of
city and of country life, &c.-Bostop
TrdaScrjpt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-08
The Electric Lights in Fortrcsses.

The committee appointed by the En-
peror of Russia to carry out certain eX-
periments with electric lights in order
To ascertain which of the machines sub
mitted TO them best fulfilled certain
given conditions, and also to determine
how far it would be desirable to intro
duce the electric lights into Russian
fortresSeS, has recently published it,
report. The experiments were con-
Quoted in the fortresses of Novogeor-
gievsk and Brest-Litovski, with the
following results. Using the magnetic
electric light supplied by the Alliance
Company, it was found that in clear
weather white targets could be plainly
discerned at Il distance of 800 metres.
At l 200 metres a sunken battery was
plainly visible, and also men working
the workmen could be made out. In
wet or cloudy weather, however objects
could not be seen at Il greater distance
than 800 or 600 metres. At the same
tlHlt TWO oilltT lHdCnlllt> were iIltu.
the one Gramme dynamO-electric
light, the other an apparatus designed
by Count Alteneck and constructed by
Siemens. But the latter gave better
results than the Alliance machine.
Moreover, they are less costly, and pos
sess the great advantage of being OF
smaller dimensions and easily moved
from place TO place: whereas it took
Twenty-Five men, superintended by an
experienced non-cOmmis>ioncd officer,
from ten to twelve hours To set up the
Alliance apparatus. The committee
consequently recommend that, while
the latter machine is retained at NovO-
georsievsk, Brest-Litovski, and Kron-
stadt. where it is already erected, and
where the men are expert i'm its use, a
sufficient number of the Alteneck appa-
ratus be ordered to supply one to every
Russian fortress, and that an officer
and an intelligent non-commissioned
officer be sent from each place To st.
Petersburg to receive instruction in the
manipulation and use of the machine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-08
death of him who A.,

death of him who I.....
plant was the mandragora of the r~.-
the mandrake of scripture, a species of
the Soldne or nightshade tribe; the be-
/ lief in whose qualities as a sedative or a
charm was as old as the days of the
childless Rachel. Indigenous to the
East, where probably its uses as an an
Odyne and soporific were early known
to the initiated, il may he that in order
to enhance the wonder of its effects and
prevent the extirpation of the root by
its too common use, miraculous powers
were imputed TO it, and superstition
/ hedged it round with fabled terrors.
The evil reputation of the plant pro-
cured it subsequently the name of At
| T0pd HGRdrdgOrd, by which our Oldest
botanists distinguish it; name bor-
rowed from the most terrible of the
Fates, AtropOs, and since transferred
to its relative, Atr0pd JeiddORnd (dwale,
or ''deadly nightshade. So potent
and valuable were the medical uses of
the root at time when few anOdy-
mes were known, that the ancient
Romans made it the subject of weird
ritual, without which they would have
deemed it impious TO have taken it from
the earth. The operator stood with his
back TO the wind, drew three circles
round the root with point of a sword,
poured libation on the ground, and,
turning to the west, began TO dig it up.
The root of the mandrake, a plant with
tap root, frequently forked, as we see
that of the radish, and covered with
fitrous rootlets, was easily convertible
into a grotesque likeness of the human
form. In the times of Henry VIII. and
Elisabeth, little images made of mand-
ted in large number from Germany,
and found a ready sale in England. The
fable of the wOndrOus powers of these
vegetable idols was easily accepted by
our superstitious ancestors, and the
pedlers who travelled about from place
to place with cases of them drove a
brisk trade. Sir Francis Bacon had
them in his minds eye when he wrote,
''SOme plants there are, but rare, that
have messy or downy root, and like
wise that have a number of thread-like
boards, as the mandrake, whereof
witches and impostors make an ugly
image, giving it the form of of a face at
top of the root, leave those strings to
make a broad beard to the foot" It is
to the credit of the old herbalists, Ger
ard and Turner, that they both essayed,
without fear of consequences, to dig up
and examine for themselves the dreaded
mandrake, and lost no time in publish
ing the fallacy of the weird stories told
of it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-08
Use of Volcanoes.

Since we now have an active volcano
in the United States, the subterranean
disturbances of our neighbors will be-
gin to be OF some interest to US. Many
of the Mexican volcanoes have been
silent ever since the discovery of Amer
ica, and others are on record as having
famed out for the last time shortly
after the Spanish invasion. Among
those that had the longest quiet was the
mountain Ceboruco; but in 1870 it
broke forth after a sleep Of centuries.
1t has been noticed that earthquakes,
formerly frequent in its vicinity, have
not taken place since its last eruption,
and there is notion that the vent given
by the volcano has served as relief to
pent-up gases and materials that other
wise would have caused disturbance.
If this theory holds good, California
may be saved from another earth-shak-
ing by the activity of the yet unnamed
volcano in her southeastern corner.
The eruption is said to have taken place
about sixty miles north of Yuma. That
place always had queer reputation.
There is story of the ghost of dead
soldier being interrogated by the spirit
rapping process as to whether his pre-
sent abode was hot. EYES," was the
reply, sits awful; but it isn't any hot
ter than Fort Yuma"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-08
What they do in Africa.

Cameron's "Across Africa" says that
on the death of Urua chief it is the
custom "to divert the course of a
stream, and in its bed to dig an enor-
nous pit, the bottom of which is then
covered with living women. At one
end a woman is placed on her hands
and knees, and upon her back the dead
chief, covered with his beads and treas
ures, is seated, being supported on
either side by one of his wives, while
his second wife sits at his feet. The
earth is then shoveled in on them, and
all the women are buried alive, with
the exception of the second wife. To
her, custom is more merciful than to
her companions, and grants her the
privilege of being killed before the
huge grave is filed in. This being
completed, number of male slaves
sometimes 40 or 50-are slaughtered
and their blood poured over the grave,
after which the river is allowed TO re-
sumo its course"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-08
richness, and then we u


richness, and then we Co.
and steamed away into laziness
Georgian Bay, past Frazer River, past
Rosario Straits, past the Island of San
Juan, over which England and Amer
lea had so much dispute, but which
King William adjudged to our United
States.
Mount Baker still now CLEANS in the
distance like hale and hearty old fel
low. His head is half the time cur
tanned in the clouds, and his sides are
ribbed and scanned and covered with
snow. But he reaches out and gathers
unto himself hundred little hills that
nestle up TO him and cling about him
and take upon their brows the snow he
shakes from his shoulders, and so he is
like a great pearl set around as in a
brooch with dozen of smaller size.
Very beautiful is he 10 see as the eve
ming shade falls over him, and it is as
though he were gathering his mantle
of dreams around him and all the world
were hushed in shadow. But Rainier
stands like grand old man, bald
king of the North, Lear alone in the
wilderness. Yet stay; Cordelia's love
Lear never was without, and here upon
the left of Rainier steals timidly a little
mountain, trembling and fearful, TO
his side and upward turns It's gaze to
receive gleam of reflected light from
the snOw-white crest of this king of the
Olympians who lifts his head in its
pride above the clouds, and in his
grandeur dwarfs the mountains. Like
a frozen tear upon the horizon he has
been with us for two days, now before,
now behind, now TO the right, now to
the left, and again confronting us as
we wind in and out and cruise about
the shore. In the morning we see the
red light of the sun erimsoniDg his bare
herd, and in the evening here is a blue
veil let down between US, and the glow
ing sun shining through it to east over
Mount Rainier, grandest of mountains,
a pale and lovely robe of orange. We
turn and look, and, 10. Mount Baker
flusbes into morning brightness, and all
his little hills, and in the evening he
yellows with the sun. while the flock
over which he keeps watch like a
yellows, too, in sympathy
with his kindly face.