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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-24
NEBRASKA.
Fire In Omaha.

Omaha, April 23.-A fire originating
in the Pioneer block, last night, de-
stroyed nearly the entire block. g. +.
Goodman, druggist, loses his building
and stock, valued at 100000; insured
for $50, 0O0. james +. Lehman loses
OF building and stock, SIS, OOO, partly
covered by insurance.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-24
Judge Spodord Nominated for u. S.
Senator.

New Orleans, April 23.-Judge H.
NJ. Spofford was nominated to-day by
the Democratic caucus for U. S. Sem
ator. In an interview yesterday he
said the policy of President Hayes, as
outlined by his inaugural address, and
his official action since he was declared
President by constitutional authority,
has met my hearty approval, aud so
long as he stands squarely up to that
policy he will have my hearty support.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-24
Forgers Held for Trial,

New York, April 23.-Becker, Elliott
and Clement, charged with completely
in the forgery Of the check for S64, 000
on the Union Trust Company, were to-
day held for trial on bail of $40, 600
each.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-24
LETTERS.

List of letters remaining in the
Cheyenne Postofice, Laramie county,
Wyoming Territory, April I'D, 1877,
which if not called for within thirty
days, will be sent to the Dead Letter
Office. Persons calling for these letters
will please say advertised" giving
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-24

Netc York Money and Stock Market.
New York, April % Silver bars,
1873; greenbacks, 1lS; gold and silver
coin Il discount. Gold opened at 1864,
rose to 1O7 and closed at 1909. Money,
2(d3. Governments dull but strong.
Stocks active, unsettled, but irregular.
Western Union, 55l; Quicksilver, 13s;
Pacific Mail, l65; Mariposa. 81; Wells
Fargo, SO; New York Central. 500;
Erie, :; Panama, 70; Union Pacific
stock, 53t; U. P. bonds, 103i; Central
Pacific bonds, 1914,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-05-26

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,r,IA roSsoLrDArED MINING

d COMPANY. -Loesiion o.. pfine,p1 pisss
Lcea,Ion 81 works. virginia Mining District
So,ice -rnere are delinquent upon the toi
,o,,,n- described stock. ON account OF ~.
s.,.u,snt 90. .. levied on the otn aAy %
s.,i ,s-r inc several amounts Get opposats
m. name. Of the respective Shareholder. -
fOliowr: ~. A.,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
Struck Dead by q Bad Boy.

JAMES REILLY is the Youngest and
favorite son of respectable old couple
in New York. Mrs. Reilly had been
long in fear that her boy was going
wrong. from his late hours and rough
associations. She had heart disease,
and sitting up late Of nights, in anxiety
for her son, stimulated the malady.
James had had every comfort provided
him at home, and spending money
a-plenty for rational amusements, but
he became infatuated with the society
of one Wygand, the worst youth in his
ward, and James Reilly went wrong.
A store was broken open and Wygand
and Reilly were suspected of doing the
burglary. The next night a detective
followed them from the theater to the
door of Reilly's home, where both
stopped and Reilly rang the bell. 1t
was clear moonlight. The officer ar
rested the two and was leading them
off. A pale face appeared at the Win
dow, and Mrs. Reilly saw her boy in
the hands of policeman. She fell to
the floor and died suddenly. The boys
were taken to the station. and next day
the! pieaUeu guilty 10 burglary anu
were committed in default of bail.
just then Reilly's elder brother in
formed the Judge of Reilly's mother
death. 1t was news to the boy, and he
began to sob. The father was there,
too, and asked: "Can my boy come to
his mothers funeral?'' The Judge said
it was the most distressing case he had
ever met, but he could not grant the
request. James Reilly was committed
to the Tombs, and the remains of his
mother. whom his conduct had killed,
to the bosom of the earth. Missouri
RCDubIir6n
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of harming Tim until he was down in
the hole; the unfortunate man, finding
that his money-bag, which also con-
tanned his watch, incommoded him
while digging, had handed it up to
Hans to take care of; and the paltry
sum it contained-less than three
pounds sterling, including the price he
received for the watch from the detect
ive-was the only motive he had for
committing the crime. His victim had
fallen without a struggle on receiving
the blow from the pickaxc, and Hans
had filled in the earth around him as
he fell, half supported by his shovel
and the side of the hole.
Tim was buried that day, and the
consumption of large quantities Of g dig
gins brandy" and perhaps fifty fights,
marked the feelings of the miners
toward him, and their detestation Of
the murderer. Hans was carefully
guarded till next day, when he was
started down toward Melbourne IN
charge of one officer, and our party of
six as a hired escort, sworn in as spe-
cial COnstables for the occasion; but in
crossing small branch Of the Tara
River, on a log foot-bridge, the muir
derer suddenly freed himself from the
hold Of the officer, who was steadying
him over, and plunged into the river,
then swollen to torrent, We could do
nothing to save him. He was drowned,
and thus saved from the galloway.
Y. STIR.
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Prerequisites Of Success.

Integrity Of character and truth in
the inner man are the prerequisites of
success in any calling, and especially 50
in that of the merchant. These are at
tributes which never fail to command
respect and win admiration. No one
fails to appreciate them. and if they
lido not pay in the vulgar sense Of
the phrase. they bring an amount of
satisfaction and peace to the owner
that all the wealth of CrGsus could not
yield.
There is no better stock-in-tradc than
these principles: no capital goes so far
or pays SO well, or is so exempt from
bankruptcy and loss. When known,
they give credit and confidence, and, in
the hardest of times, will honor your
paper in bank, They give you an UNI
limited capital to do business upon, and
everybody will indorse your paper, and
the general faith of mankind will be
your guaranty that you will not fail.
Let every young man, upon commence
ing business, look we'll to these indis-
pensable elements of success, and de-
fend them as he would the apple of his
eye. If inattentive and reckless here,
he will imperil everything. Bankruptcy
in character is seldom repaired in an
ordinary lifetime. A man may suffer
in reputation and recover; not SO the
man who suffers in Church
Union.
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Contrary to the general impression

Contrary to the general impression,
the water of the Dead Sea is remarka-
bly, clear, but it is so largely charged
with saline matters, among which the
salts of magnesia prevail to such an ex-
tent as to make it most intensely bitter
and unfit for any animal life. The per-
centage varies with the seasons. After
the periodical rains, when it has be-
come diluted with much fresh water, it
is found to contain Is per cent, but at
other seasons % and 80; and Lavoisier
found, after dry season, when the
water was quite low, as much as 43 per
cent. 1t is evident that by the high spe-
citic gravityof this water, varying from
IL to 1.3, many substances will float in
It which will sink in fresh water, or in
from to 4 per cent. of salts, and of
which the specific gravity is 1923 to
1.O26. Plinius, the Greek writer, states
that the water of the Dead Sea is so
light that most all bodies float in it; if
we change the word light into heavy, it
is still a very exaggerated statement.
AS matter of course, every freshet
in the River Jordan tends to raise the
level and increase the surface of this
inland sea, and this increasing the
amount of evaporation, the normal
level is soon restored. The surface of
the whole watershed of the Jordan, and
other little streams emptying into the
Dead Sea, is about 5000 square miles;
the average rainfall and temperature
are such that all the water falling as
rain can be evaporated again from a
surface of about 1000 square miles.
Nearly one-third of this falling water
reaches into the Dead Sea, which has
an area of 372 square miles. Thus it
will be seen that the yearly supply by
rain and loss by evaporation must
counterbalancc each other. The solid
substances which are introduced in
very dilute solution by the rivers, have
no chance of escape, the evaporation
carrying off only pure water, they
must accumulate; and this accounts for
the large amount Of saline ingredients
it contains. AS these ingredients are
nothing but the washings of the soluble
contents of the $4,000 square miles of
watershed which feeds it, it proves that
this land was very rich in saline mat
tiers, much more SO than the average
amount on the earth which has been
washed out in the ocean, and to which
the ocean owes its sadness. -Mauutact-
urer and Builder.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
Idle Winters.

As YET but little arrangements have
been made by the mass Of the farmers
for profitable winter employment. Now
is the time to take this matter serious
ly into consideration. There are but
few truer aphorisms than "where there
is will there is way The DIVERSE
fed fields Of industry are not half Occu-
pied. The man of genius and tact can
turn his time into money in almost any
country or any season of the year.
There are many Improvements which
can be made on the farm, barn, pig
pens, lawn, fences, gates, ETC., which
when done are as good as money in the
bank. Many articles of demand on the
farm, which are now bought ut the
stores and implement depots, can be
manufactured on the farm during win
ter, not only for home use, but to sup
ply the neighbors. There are thou
sands of things now purchased by
farmers, which were manufactured ut
home forty years ago, such as plows,
ox-yokes, harrows, sleds, neck-yokes,
singletrees, wheelbarrows. brooms, az
handles, baskets, wagon-boxes, rakes,
etc. It is not necessary consequence
that these were poorly made, or that
they were rough and bungling. The
boys were taught to do these things,
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

WHILST agriculture rewards honest
toll, it has no golden prizes for those
who labor not.-losCd State Register.
DEcAYING vegetable matter about
the houses, around the walls and in the
cellar are prolific causes of diseases in
the farmhouse. I
| CARROTS FOR HORsEs.-Carrots for
horses, experiments have shown, are
most beneficial when fed in conjunction
with oats. Alone, they are less nutri-
tious than oats alone; but when fed to-
gether, in the proportion of, say, two
quarts of oats and two of sliced carrots
to a mess. the result will be more salts
factory than if either were fed sepa-
rately.
BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGs. = Roll
thin any nice puff paste and cut into
square pieces. Pare and remove the
cores from nice stewing apples and roll
an apple in each piece Of paste; put
them into a baking dish, brush them
with the white of an egg beaten stiff
and sift sugar over them. Bake about
three-quarters of an hour and serve
with sauce or milk and sugar, favored
with vanilla.
POTrED BEEF.--Take piece of lean
beef weighing five pounds and free it
from the skin and gristle; put in a COW
cred stone jar with half teacupf;;l of
water and stand the jar into kettle of
boiling water to boil from five to six
hours; see that the water does not boil
into the jar. When done, take it up
and cut into shreds; then pound in a
mortar, with seasoning of pepper,
salt and ground cloves. when smooth
and like paste, mix with it ten ounces
OF clarified butter; press into little jars,
pour butter over the top and tie dow n
for use.
HAD three large powders in one of
my fields. They weighed about three,
four and five tons, respectively. l
took some old stumps, old fence rail,
several brush heaps, and the small
limbs of an old apple-tree-i in all I had
perhaps a little over half cord of
wood. Iput it upon the powders and
set it on fire, and it made them as full
of cracks as if they were glass. The
heaviest piece did not weigh over a
hundred pounds, and some of the
smallest pieces did not weigh over five
pounds, Some kinds of stones will not
crack at all, while others will crack
into a hundred pieces with less than
one-fourth of a cord of wood burned
around them.-OhiO Farmer.
ANIMAL manures of all kinds are
good, but different in the rapidity of
their fertilizing effects as well as in
their duration. Horn, hair and wool.
as Prof. johnson has well remarked,
depend for their efficacy precisely on
the same principle as the blood and
flesh Of animals. They differ chiefly in
this, that they are dry, while the blood
and flesh contain from 80 to 90 per
cent. of their weight in water. Hence,
a ton of horn shavings, of hair, or of
dry wooden rags, contain vastly more
fertilizing materials than the same
weight in blood or flesh, but the effect
of soft animal matteris more immediate
and apparent, while that of hard and
dry substances is less visible, but con-
tinues for Il much longer time.-Rural
NeW Yorker.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
Improved Method Of Wintering Cows.

Mr.. LINUS w. MILLER, of Stockton,
N. V, an experienced dairyman, advo-
Gates, in II pamphlet, entitled "Mcal
Feeding and Animal Digestion sys-
tenn OF feeding cows during winter,
which involves the use Of but three
quarts of meal per day. He asserts
that this amount Of good Indian meal,
fed under proper conditions, is more
than the equivalent for all the good hay
Il COW can be coaXed to eat-that the
animal does not need to have its stom-
ach distended with great bulk of
woody fibre, which imposes upon the
system a large amount Of extra mechan-
zeal work both in the processes of diges-
ton and remastication-that, in brief,
bulk in food is not advantageous, but to
the contrary, and that nutriment in
food governs the condition and health
of the animal, and that condensa-
ton of nutrimcnt is true economy.
Mr.. Miller has conducted physiologi-
cal Investigations into the functions
of the four stomachs of the COW,
whence it appears that meal follows
the same course as herbaceOuS food,
and stays longer in the rnmen than
coarse food, while it also digests
more thoroughly than when the ener-
gies of the stomach are divided between
meal and coarse heritage.
Whatever may be the correct theory
in this regard, results of actual practice
appear to bear out Mr.. Miller's views.
The report of committee, appointed
to examine into the system, by the
Western New York Dairymen's Associ-
alton. shows the following facts: The ex-
animation was conducted upon Mr.. Mil
er's herd Of Chautauqua County native
COWS, the average live weight of which
was 900 pounds. The herd were fed ex-
clusively upon corn meal for seven
weeks, each animal according to its d.
gestive capacity, making an average of
about three quarts per day for each cow.
The animals did not ruminate, did not
manifest so much desire for food as
cows fed on hay alone in the usual
way, little less than they will eac
showed no signs Of unrest or suffering;
and at the time of going back to hay:
the cows had neither lost nor gained
flesh. After returning to hay, their
stomachs filled and Eliminating went ON
normally, and when turned to grass the
animals took on flesh faster than those
wintered in the usual way. Their daily
yield of milk was 20 lbs, ozs., or Id.
II ozs. per COW more than that Of any
other herd sent to the same cheese fac
tory.
As regards the economy of meal feed
ing, Mr.. Miller points out that one
bushel of corn, ground and tolled, will
last an ordinary sized cow of 900 lbs.
weight twelve days, and is equal to 24O
lbs. of hay. Corn at 60 cents per bushel
is therefore the equivalent of hay at IS
per ton of 1000 lbs, and where it can
be had at that rate the cost of wintering
the animal will range from 81 to $40,
according to GOODNESS and length of the
foddering season. But hay, as rule,
costs at least $40 per ton, and fire.
quently much more. Hence the esti-
mated saving by meal feeding is placed
at from $5. 90 to $40 per animal, accord
ing to the respective prices of corn and
hay. Scientific american.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
without Food for Five Days.

William Beach, an extensive sheep
and land owner from Los Angeles
County, had occasion to cross the
mountains little north If this place in
search of new camp of one of his
bands of sheep. which had managed to
survive the drought this season by rang
ing along the toughest and highest
SUBMITS of the Sierras. He took
Smiths saw-mill trail, camped at the
mills, and from thence expected to
reach his destination in days ride
not thinking it necessary to overload
his horse with anything like food. But
in spite of his mountain experience he
missed the trail, made by a single mule,
and after searching in vain for three
days, was obliged to turn back. He
had at one point fired off all the loads
of his pistol rs a signal for aid when
near what he took to be the camp. In
this plight-weary, sOre-footed, strength
slowly but surely failing, with no nour-
ishment except water at long intervals,
eyes dimmed with ever-straining, and
the brain nearly crazed with the ever
lasting buzzing so peculiar in high al
titudes and everlasting solitude-no one
but those who have been there can i'm
agine the desperate will, the indefati-
gable determination required. when
forced to retrace ones steps over pas
sages where life and limb are in immi-
nent peril. But Mr.. Beach's faculties
proved keen to the end, and, taking the
safest route to independence, he came
back UtG the Keersarge trail. Near the
ummit he met a Mexican, who fur
nished him with a little cheese and
bread. This was his first food for five
days and five hours. He had lost his
voice, and his stomach was so weak
that it was only after eating a large
piece Of salt he was able to take proper
nourishment.-Inyo (Cat.) Imdepe'sd-
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NOCEMBER.

WHEN thistlc-hlows do lightly float
About the lssturc-height,
And shrills the hawk parting note.
And creel,s the frost Mt night,
Then billy no. though singing 80.
And whistle As may,
There comes again the old heart min
Through all the livelong day.
In high wind creaks the leafless tree
And mods the fading fern:
The knobs are dur IA snOw-cluuds be,
And cold the sun does burn.
Then no. hollo. though calling so,
cannot keep il down;
The tears arise unto my eyes,
And thoughts are chill and brown.
Far in the cedars' dusky stcles.
Where the scrc ground-vine weaves,
The partridge drums tunereal rolls
Above the fallen leaves.
And hip, hip. ho. though cheering So,
1t stills no whit the pain:
For drip. drip. drip. from bare br:,ncll-tip
hear the wears last rain.
80 drive the cold cows from the hill,
And call the wet sheep in;
And let their stamping clatter fill
The harm with warming din.
And no. folk. ho. though it is SD
That We no more may roam,
We still will find Il cheerful mind
Around the fire at home.
&C. l.. CferelaRd. IN .iNantic Monthly.
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The Dead Sea In Palestine.

THE great Desert of Sahara, covering
surface estimated at some 1900, 900
square miles, has been found to be
eighty feet below the level Of the ocean.
1t is the same with the Caspian Sea;
they are the most extensive, but not the
deepest depressions Of the earth's sur
face; the other depressions are chiefly
situated on the northern coast of Afri-
ca, west of the River Nile. These val
leys are separated from the Mediterra-
mean by chains of hills and mountains,
between which the level of the valleys
is lower than the neighboring sea;
often there is little lake in their low
est portion, which drains the surround
ing slopes and receives the remnants
OF the scanty amount of rain falling
there, and the level of which lakes is
kept below the oceans level by evapo-
ration. East of the River Nile, at the
Isthmus of Suez, there were such lakes,
called the Bitter Lakes, which, being
put in communication few years ago
with the great Suez Canal, have since
been filed up to the level of the ocean,
and now form an interior basin, very
useful to the navigation of the canal.
OF the other depressions near the
last mentioned one, the most remarka.
bic is the Valley of the Jordan and the
Dead Sea, which is the only receptacle
of its waters. 1t is chiefly remarkable
for the amount of depression, having
been proved by surveys of the sur
rounding country to be not less thar
1,34O feet below the level of the neigh
boring Mediterranean, from which it il
separated by hilly region, consisting
chiefly of arid lime rock, where the
forest and other vegetation which once
adorned it has nearly all disappeared
by the neglect of the occupants, who
destroyed trees without ever planting
others.
The most remarkable fact in connec
ton with this region is that the whole
River Jordan, except its sources in thu
mountains, is, as well as the Lake o.
Tiberias and the Dead Sea, below fth,
level of the ocean; the depression of th.
latter, as mentioned above-1, $40 feet
is lower below the ocean level than thu
Lake of Constance, in Switzerland, i:
above the same, the elevation of tn,
latter being 1900. Humboldt says tina
the traveller, in going eastward from
Jerusalem, when nearing the Dead Sea
enjoys a sight which no other porto,
of the earth's surface can offer, fookin.
down as he does into q valley so mucl
depressed below any other portion o
] of the earth's surface.