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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12
PENMANSHIP,
BOOKKEEPING,
MATHEMATICS, and all
LANHUAGES

Are practically Taught by experienced Profess
sors- Persons from fifteen to fifty years of age
at'ent. instruction given privately 10 each
s'uaeht' WHO has separate desk 10 himself,
ana Is pun through thorough and systematic
course of business transactions to ana ,ify h;,o
for the situation he intends to fill. Persons
who have neglected their education can here
speedily prepare for business of any kind Stu
dents from the country can boatd in the family
of the Principal.
IERss-Ihirty Ter cent. less than other
Commercial Colleges in this city.
Cost on fnil commercial course only SlO0
Average time three to -four months.
Inc Principal has been a,professional teacher
in New Orleans sine 1851.
For circulars, address
J. W. BLACKMAN,
oet 10 NEW ORLEANS, L..
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12
BILLIARDS ! BILLIARDS
AT
JOHN BILLIONS.
On Public Square and Corner ofsNard
Alley.
Lake Charles, Louisiana.

l wo1ll respectfully inform those of
my friend, both here and at a distance,
who have any expectation of getting
thirsty, that have just received most
complete assortment of Pure Liquors
ever imported to Lake Charles, which
l am DESTROYS of selling at wholesale
and retail at prices TO justify both seller
and buyer. My wines and brandies are
and my whiskies .'the
Simon pure" Before leaving town be
sure and call around and take a parting
farewell. Lager beer, Scotch ale and
porter constantly on hand. ap4n4y
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12

They are having q mad dog
scare in Leon county, Tex. No
less than forty dogs have recently
been slain, and it is claimed that
each and every one of the forty
dogs was suffering from hydro
phobia.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12
LOOK HERE! NEW STORE!

7 have just opened new store in
/ Lake Charles, on Front street. north
corner Of Courthouse Square, with a
new and large stock of Dry Goods,
Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,
Fancy Dress Goods, Notions, Hard
ware, Cutlery, Crockery Ware, etc, etc
] will keep everything needed in this
market, and my motto will be Live
and let live"
I respectfully request the public to
examine my stock and prices.
G. P. HAMPTON.
Feb. IS, lS77-lv
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12
u. S. MAIL STAGE ROUTE.
Lake Charles and New Orleans.
SCHEDULE OF ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

Leaves New Iberia Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, at A. NJ. arrives
at Lake Charles next days at 8P. NJ.
Leaves Lake Charles Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays at 6 A. NJ;
arrives at New Iberia next days at 8
p. M.
New. light and comfortable. mail
coaches, will carry passengers at the
following rates;
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12

And the same rates from New Iberia
to Lake Charles. SO lbs baggage al
lowed to each seat. 20per cent. deduc-
ton on round trip to either point.
Stage OFFICE at Lake Charles, at J.
W. Bryans store, corner Courthouse
Square.
July Is, 1675--y
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

This route follows the old stage road
Travelled last year. When Wards cut
off from Hat creek, via Old Woman's
Fork to Pleasant Valley is completed,
land he is under contract to have the
road ready for travel by March 31st, J
this route will be shortened over sixty
miles. The stage stations will be trans
ferred to the new road, and the dis
tance to be travelled by the Cheyenne
and Black Hills coaches will thus be
reduced to 230 miles.
Fare from Chicago to Deadwood, via chey-
enne.
The several railways running west
from Chicago are selling through tick
cts from that city to the Black Hills at
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
partisan Judges" "

Meeting Judge Swayne, of the Unit
ed States supreme court, a few days
after the decision of the electoral COM
mission in the Florida case, Represen-
tative Abram S. Hewitt, of New York,
said: "Judge, isn't it painful to note
the fact that the judges on the electoral
commission do not rise above PARTISAN
ship, but uniformly vote on party
lines?" The judge assumed distressed
expression of countenance, but with a
merry twinkle in his eye, replied: 'Why,
yes, my dear sir, it was subject of
modification to me, and 1 have serious
ly thought of demonstrating with Broth
er Clifford and Field on that subject;
but you know it would be rather deli
cate matter for me to do, and perhaps
you had better speak to them yourself. "
Washington Star.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

If any person discredited the charge
that Mr.. Tilden defrauded the Govern
ment out of a large part Of his just in
come tax because they thought he was
too good for it. perhaps the proof of his
corruption in the Oregon case will open
their eyes. A man who as a candidate
for the high office of President will fur
nIsh his money to bribe an Elector and
steal State is none too virtuous to
cheat the Government or perjure himself
to do it. Albany IN. " Journal.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

A Hartford paper tells how lady OF
that city ''plays it, on tramps, through
the agency of the bogus money known
as advertising greenbacks, "and which
to the casual observer, appear genuine.
The lady, with studied carelessness,
puts bill under the mat at the back
door, and waits the approach of the in
nocents. Up to the door comes trampy,
and his greedy eye at once alights on
the money. In flash it is transferred
to his pocket, and without stopping to
knock and beg, as he intended to do, he
hurries out of sight, radiant with the
joy of one who Unexpectedly strikes
good luck. When at safe distance, he
looks at the bill, and as the extent of
the terrible deception dawns upon him,
he clutches his hair, and with a wild.
desparing cry Of ''sold by Jerusalem!''
crawls into convenient rat-hole and
dies.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

A good story is told at the expense
of Perry Cheen, who is at present, and
has been for many years, Interpreter
at the Crow Agency. During the visit
of the Earl of Dunraven to Montana, in
1s74Sbe called at the Crow Agency, land
after giving sumptuous 'feast' and
having little "medicine talk'' with
the chiefs, he commenced making in
quiries in regard to the business pro-
fessions, &C., of the white men present;
and, turning to Perry, inquired of him
his occupation. Mr.. Cheem stretched
himself up to the full dignity of his
profession and delivered himself thusly:
81 am interrupter for the Crow Indian
cy and dis-tri- butter of the India-new-
tiles.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications intended for
publication must be accompanied by the
name of the writer, not for publication,
but as guaranty of good faith. All
communications written on both sides
Of the paper or unaccompanied by the
writer's name will be thro,on into the
tpaste basket.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
CHEYENNE WYOMING WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY g. 1877

les, provisions, clothing, mining tools
and all other necessary articles can be
procured at this point. The following
may be considered average prices for
animals and WAGONS
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

Tilden's unlucky days: Friday Feb.
9th, he lost Florida; Friday Feb. 10th,
he lost Louisiana; Friday, Feb. 23d, he
lost Oregon. "Three times and out"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

Henry W. Hough. president, and ]. L.
Pierce, secretary Of the Life Associa-
tion of America, have been indicted at
st. Louis for swearing to false retuns
of the financial condition of their COM
pany,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
THE BLACK HILLS.
Facts of Interest to Those Who
are Going There.
Cheyenne as an Quitting
Point.

In answer to the many communica-
tions which we receive daily, we have
compiled the following budget of infor-
nation, for the benefit of all those who
are afflicted with the Black Hills fever.
While it is not as complete as we
might desire and promise to make it,
we think it will answer most of the
questions asked. The first query pro-
pounded is whether we really believe
there is gold in the Black Hills. This
has been too well proven to admit of
doubt. Good judges who have the
means of knowing, estimate the amount
of gold brought from the Hills during
the year 1876, at. a million and half of
dollars; as much more remains undoubt-
ly in the hands of miners and merchants
in the several settlements; for it is only
recently that the Cheyenne and Black
Hills Stage company has commenced
to carry gold dust with a guarantee of
safe delivery.
Gold is found in paying quantities in
nearly all the mining districts opened.
The richest discoveries in placer and
quartz mining have, however, been
made on Deadwood and Whitewood
creeks, and along these creeks cluster
the principal mining towns in the Black
Hills.
Owing to the hostility of the Indians
the mountain ranges west and north of
Deadwood received last year but lit
tie attention from the prospector; but
it is known that that section also
abounds in gold and silver, which dur
ing the present year will be brought to
light by the hardy miner.
How to Reach the Black Hills.
Without decrying any of the propos-
ed routes from points on the Upper
Missouri river, we assert that the route
from Cheyenne northward is the safest,
speediest, cheapest and best to reach the
Black Hills. Cheyenne is at the juno
tion of the two competing railroads from
the East-the Union Pacific and Kan
sas Pacific. 1t will be two days. rail-
road travel to Cheyenne from Chicago
or st. Louis. The following table will
show the distance and present rate of
fare from these two points to Cheyenne:
LIST class ID class
Miles. Fare. Fare.
Chicago to Omaha............... 400 Sl6 90 sl3 90
st. Lonis via St Joe to Omaha 4T l6 90 10 90
Omaha to Cheyenne............,5 81, Sig 81 % q 60
Chicago to Cheyenne e..............lOO8 Al 20 81 w
st Louis to Cheyenne, via
Leavenworth and Denver-.l053 40 90 40 10
We are credibly informed by the rep
resentatives of these two railroad COM
panies, that special rates will be given
from Chicago to Cheyenne, to Black
Hills parties, which will be at least one
third less than the above rates.
Through ticke is from Omaha to Gus
ter City via Cheyenne, are being sold at
the U. P. ticket offices at the following
rates:
First 90
SecOnd %
Third class OD
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

To remove ink from carpet, make a
paste of arsenic and water, apply it,
wash off and put on more. After three
or four applications the ink will disap-
near.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
HANDY'S
Real Estate and
Loan Agency
Office with J. W. Bruner, Seventeenth Street,

OPPOSITE CAREY BLOCK,
Will negotiate loans on real estate
with eastern parties at low rates of in
terest on long time.
Money to loan on personal property
in sums to suit, on reasonable terms.
County, city and government vouch-
ers purchased.
Railroad tickets bought, sold and ex-
changed on small margins.
Deeds, leases. mortgages and bills of
sale drawn and acknowledgements taken.
Plans, elevations and estimates for
buildings of any description furnished
at short notice.
Tso'ss and accounts written up.
Parn ,rship accounts adjusted.
j2l H. P. HANDY, Agent.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
From Cheyenne to the Black Hills.

A fine natural road, over which the
United States mails have been carried
for many years, leads from Cheyenne
to Fort Laramie, distance of ninety
miles. This route passes through
settled country, and good ranches are
found at convenient distances from
each other. From Fort Laramie to
Custer and Deadwood City good wag-
on road is found, which has recently
been shortened by our county officers,
thus reducing the distance necessary to
be travelled by freight teams over sixty
miles. The whole distance from Chey-
enne to Deadwood over thisroad is about
two hundred and thirty miles. The
Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage COM
pany, Luke Voorhees,, superintendent,
makes at present tri-weekly trips over
this road to Custer and Deadwood, car
rying passengers. express matter and
the U. s. mails. Early in the spring this
company will put on daily line of coach
es and, with a superb outfit of horses
and stages, well-kept stations at con-
venient points, and reasonable charges,
this stage line will continue to be the
only first-class line of communication
between the Black Hills mining towns
and the outside world.
The Stage company sells first class
tickets to Custer at $500; to Deadwood
City, $4,000.
Outfits for Miners.
AS miners and prospectors generally
travel in parties not less than four, we
give below list of the necessary arti-
cles needed by four men with teams,
comprising provisions and grain for
ninety days:
Five hundred pounds best quality of
flour in so lb. sacks; 1900 pounds grain;
| 200 pounds sifted corn meal; 20 pounds
Drowned coffee; pounds of tea; 8 gal
| Ions syrup; 5 gallons vinegar; 10 pounds
dried apples; so pounds white beans;
100 pounds bacon; salt, black and red
pepper, mustard, etc. And in camp
chest the following articles:
| COOKING UTENSILS.
Two camp kettles, coffee pot, min
er's oven, fry pan, dish pan, ladle,
l meat fork, tin cups, tin plates, l
butcher knife, set knives and forks,
4 tablespoons, 2 crane hooks, l coffee
mill and lantern.
| PROVISIONS.
| Five pounds of coffee, l pound of
tea, 20 pounds of sugar, 2 boxes yeast
powder, sack of salt, quart of syrup
and jug, 2 quarts Of vinegar, quart OF
sperm oil. 1 dozen boxes of matches,
35 pounds of flour.
Mining Tools.
Four mining shovels, strap gold picks,
gold pans, sluice forks; l two-inch
augur, l half-inch augur, l hatchet
hammer, screw-driver, draw-shave
hand saw, file, gold scale, assorted nails
and screws and gold blower.
A complete outfit should also include
rubber boots, heavy pegged boots, extra
double miners blanket, rubber blanket
pack saddles, lariats and pins.
Those who desire to purchase theil
own teams for the transportation o.
miners and miners. supplies, can pro
cure an outfit to much better advantage
! in Cheyenne than elsewhere. Grocer
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
CERMs OF SUBSCRIPTION
I'm ADvANCE.)
Rates of Advertising

No Advertisement inserted for less than my
cents.
DAILY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments 10 cents per line, Nonpariel, each in
SCI ton 8 insertions eight cents per line; 30
insertions, 5 cents per line.
Local Notices, per line, bourgeois, each In
sertion, 10 cents per line; 30 insertions cents
per line.
W EEKLY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments % cents per line, first insertion /; one
month 20 cents per line; six months, 10 cents
per line; one year cents per line.
Cheyenne, Jan. LIST, 1875.
II. CLAICHE. Proprietor.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28

g Advertisers ,oiH make note Of the fact
that THE LEADER has larger circula-
tion than any paper published in Wyo-
ming. 81
Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
Four Reasons for tine Success or the
 American Rifle Team

lGeneral Hawley in the Hartford Courant. ]
 The controversy between breech lc&d-
 CTS and muzzle ioaders may te consid.
 cred decided in favor of the former.
 The British loaded in the Rigby style,
 never wiping out their muzzle loaders,
 but pushing down upon the powder a
 closely fitting disk of touch felt, satura-
 ted with oil, which is expected 10 take
 along in going down and being fired
 out all the residuum and foulness in the
 barrel. That il cannot do so is evident to any one who will make the expert ment in breech loader. The Ameri- can rifiemen wipe out the breech load CT after each shot till the bore becomes as bright as silver. In the second place three of the British team lie prone up- on their breasts in firing That atti- tude has been abandoned by the Amer jeans, who have proven that lying upon the back or side gives a much firmer position. In the third place, the Brit ish riflemen-English, Irish and Scotch have never trained together as much as the Americans, are not as well ac- quainted with each others peculiarities, and are not in the habit of exchanging suggestions, information and opinions every moment, or as freely and cordial ly as the Americans do. The latter had
 better cOachers-the veteran riflemen BOdine, Hepburn and COnlin, who sat close by all day giving occasional ad- vice, with a reassuring calmness and good judgment that must have been useful. And, lastly, American rifiemen believe that they have made, and can make, better rifles than any body in Great Britian, and think something isl due to that. American rifles have won four splendid victories in four years
Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
Small Fruits in Gardens.
X. WILLIAMSON,
 Commissioner

But few people seem to know the value of small fruits to a family, when
 grown in their own gardens. You commence with strawberries; they continue about a month. You pick, perhaps, from six 10 twelve quarts a day. You have them on your table as a dessert, if you please at noon, and your tea table is loaded with them al evening, and you want little else but your bread and butter Your family consume, in one way or another, about eight quarts day, and while they last no medicines for bodily ailments are required, as a quart of strawberries daily will generally dispel all Ordin- ary diseases not settled permanently in the system, After strawberries, rasp- berries come to continue about three weeks; then we have blackberries where the climate is not too cold for cultivated varieties: then the entrants ripen, which remain until the early grapes mature; and taking the season through any family with half acre of land in garden can grow small fruilsI that make country life delightful, and at the same time hundreds of dollars can be saved in the supply of the ta- ble.-Chautauqua Farmer.
Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
our Relations wlth Mexico.

NEW YORK, October 1.-Letters to the World from the city of Mexico say the opinion is becoming very general there that trouble between the United States and Mexico soon is probable, and consequently some military officers are uniforming the calIbre of their arms.
 Agents of New York houses are there soliciting orders for American textile fabrics and other manufactures. in sue cessful competition with the German houses, which heretofore nearly mo- nopolized that trade
 The recently pending negotiations for the recognition of the Diaz govern ment by the United States are said to have been suspended because the Amer ican Minister demanded as the basis of the arrangement permission by treaty for American troops to cross the Rio Grande to pursue marauders and the exemption of American residents in Mexico from forced loans.
Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
Unfermented Wine.

Caleb Caldwell of San Jose, says it is well known that the grape is a most nutritious and healthy food, but that its distillation into wine and liquor destroys all nourishing qualities and simply leaves a stimulant He argues that the juice of the grape unferment- ed can be kept sweet and palateable for years, and that it may and ought to become the general drink at meals all over the land. He recommends the general growth of vIneyards-a recom- mendation we urge upon the farmers of Arizona. Every farmer should grow grapes and other fruits for his own use and for sale. Speaking of unfer- mented grape juice, MT. Caldwell says: {:
 1 have drank it put up in bottles the same as canned fruit, and afler stand ing two years it was perfectly sweet. In fact if well put up, the longer it stands the sweeter it gets; for It is well known that the acid condenses and crystalizes by itself.
Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
TIE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. OCTOBERls. 1877.
Desert Land Entries Suspended.

The following circular has been ad- dressed to Registers and Receivers of Land Offices:
 WASHINGTON, D. C., October !, 1877.
 SIR: You are advised that all entries under the provisions of sn act, entitled An Act to provide for the sale of des- ert lands in certain States and Terrlto. rles," approve d March 3d, 1877, United States statutes at large, volume 19, page S99, are hereby suspended. You will give public notice in some newspaper of such suspension; also of the time and place where you will hear testimo- ny in regard to the character of land entered under such law. All testimo- ny will be reduced to writing and for warded to this office with your joint opinion thereon. Investigation must be most full, thorough and complete, showing whether any of the land enter ed under said Act will produce agricul- tural crops without irrIgatlon; wheth- Ter any had been previously cultivated by parties residing thereon or now res idents, and whether any had to be pro tected from overflow by levees; whcth- CT entries have been made by parties other than real applicants. Such de velopment of facts must be made as will fully protect the interests of the United States, prevent the success of frauds and secure the rights of all per sons who have made entries in good faith under law If the parties in in- terest do not procure testimony to de- velop these facts you will endeavor to procure the same yourself.
 Very respectfully,
 J. X. WILLIAMSON,
 (fOp u- rSciOppr
Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
ITEMS fram The Sentinel of October

ITEMS from The Sentinel of October 6:
 MT. R. c. Kerens is here looking af ter his stage business and in few days will go over his line to the eastward.
 Isaac Lyons was appointed Supervi sor of this county to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of H. s. Fitz gerald, Esq. A. L. Grow is now chair. man of the Board
 E. Conkling is now doing" Arlzo ns for the American Press Association and in ihe interest of Frank Leslie, with whose business he was recently connected.
 George Fields train left here Mon day with very nearly 60,00O pounds Of freight for Tucson. It consisted of six wagons drawn by thirty mules in two teams. One team was loaded with S5, 900 pounds and the other with 25,- 900.
 Charles H. Naylor has been appoint ed by the Southern Pacific Railroad company to confer with General Will cox-probably on the best means of letting the Secretary of War down from an uncomfortable position.
 Two banana bulbs were brought from Los Angeles and planted here about four weeks ago by Hon. H. N. Alexan- der. Both have sprouted finely and seem to feel quite at home. One of them has already grown over twenty four inches in that time.
 Several new strikes of gold quartz are reported from the Carga Muchacho district Prospecting in those noun talns has been stimulated by the liber- al action of the railroad company in delivering water, free of charge, at the point on their road nearest to the mines.
 Lang's tunnel into the hills in front of Gila City Station is now in forty three feet having cut through fine ledge of decomposed quartz. Lang now proposes 10 sink and drive on the ledge, until he opens up pay rock enough 10 justify erection of machin- cry. He believes he has struck the mother vein from which came all the gold that has been washed from the Gila City placers.