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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-22
1he Daily frfss and 1akstai1a
pAsoIA
Saturday Evening, September 22, 1877

A man named Adrian Perez, Wis was
snrprized in the act Of hanging himsclf In
house in Mexico recently, was cut down and
then sent to priron for having stolen the
rope he was using
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-22
fkAtAA MOVING
EST.
pAacIHaI1 H.!
'Plas stations. |relsgr.ph s..to

CONNECTIONS.
!. At Sioux City with Illinois CcL .:al, Sioux
City and Pacific and Sioux City and st. Pau RAD
roads.
!. Passenger train going cast connects at Davis
Junction with branch trains arriving 1T Port
landville at 1913 p r., and then connecting with
Howsrd'k stages for Virginia. Eden, Fairview,
Bcleit, Canton, harrisburg, Flandreau. Linwood,
Rock Rapids, Sioux Fells and all points on the
Big Sioux River, and from leaving Portlandville
at ! Is p. M, connects At Davis junction With
train going west.
5; Alex Point With stages for rca, Neb.
aud Richia d, u. T.
4. AT vermiiion with stages for Lodi Rive
side, Turner, Bioomingdalc and Finlay.
8. AT Mcckling with stages for 81 james
q. AT tGayylle with stages Tor ST. Helena.
I. At fankton with stages for all poin,s
southern and wcetern Dakota, and North Nebras
ka; ana during the season Of navigation with
Missouri River Transportation Companies line
Of steamers Tor Randall, Brule. Pierre, sully.
ttice, Bismarck, stevenson, Berthold, Buford,
a arro and Benton; connecting al Pierre with
transportation wagons for the Black Hills.
This is the only Direct Route to the
Black Hills.
GEO. E. MERCHANT.
| Z. V. DEhRicKsoS, Cent SuDerintend't.
INeH(.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-22

The name of the company Is The Connecticut
EIre Insurance Company.
IL is located III Hartford. Conn.
The auount of lis capital STOCK is One Million
Dollars
The amount OF its capital stock paid up is One
Million Dollars.
THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS
-l,;4Sl lnnl :iul Al ll.iI.Ii, uf
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-22
EXPRESS. | Exr.Kss
CONNECTIONS.

UON NEC77ONS.
l. a, U. p. Transfer with Union Pacific k.
OF I'M h.
:. Al Council Bluffs, WIKI Kansas City, ST. joe
ana Council Bluffs Railroad for 81. Louis and all
joints south
3. AT Missouri Valley with Chicago 4 North
western hallway for Chicago and all points eas,
4. AT Sioux City with the Sioux City and ST
aul. Illinois Central and Dakota Scui hern Rail.
roads, Steamers for upper Missouri river, during
navigation, and with stages for all points IN the
Northwest.
5. AT Blair with Omaha and Northwestern K
Z. for Omaha and Southern Nebraska.
6. AT Fremont, Neb., with the Union Pacific X.
K. foT 81! points west. and the Pacific csaet.
{. AT Wisner. with stages for Norfolk, and all
points in Northern Nebraska,
sN Be sure your tickets read via S.C.apR
7. 6. ELLIS, Gen'i Ticket Ag;.
I. s1SSxss. Super ntendent
c. j. CCoSSoR.
Western Passenger Agent.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-22
A TRAMP's MAxIMs.
From The Datroi, Free Press, Sept. 70.

From the Detroit Free Press, Sept. ~
In the hip pocket ofan old vaerant, pulled
in by the police the other night, was
memorandum book full Of his own writing
with pencil, and some of his philosophy is
good enough to be preserved. His first
paragraph reads:
drinking bad whisky because i,Iis offered
free is like getting in the way Of bullets
purcha ed by an enen ""
A second reads:
"Honesty is the best policy, but some
folks are satisfied with second best. 1t is
hard to be honest on an empty stomach
A third reads:
"a dry plank under rainproof shed is
better than feather bed in Jail, and one
isn't annoyed by the jailer bringing in a
square breakfast"
A fourth says
/" Paw as you go. If you haven't any.
II Won are
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24
Paper POultiees.

Paper has been made to serve so
many and diverse uses rs to deserve
numbering among the most valuable OF
inventions. To merely enumerate the
forms it has taken ut the bidding OF
mans genius would fill a good-sized
volume. We have from it the delicate
cigarette wrapper, and the massive car
wheel more durable than iron the
finely-wrought sheet whereon is m
printed the choicest literature for the
drawing-room, and the spittoon which
resists the variform attacks of the GIN
mill frequenter; bed-coyers and curl
ing gear, window blinds, card-tables,
and n thousand and one other con-
yeniences: and now a German has
added vet another phase to its useful
ness by so preparing it that it may an
swer the purposes Of a poultice, and
thus deprive the sympathetic house
wife of one of her most exquisite en-
joyments-popping a singing linseed
cataplasm on the iRconveniently stu
ated boil of her lord and master. The
paper is described as "thick and wool
W.. Wetted in hot water it swells up,
absorbing an immense quantity of fluid,
and thickening sufficiently to form an
effective poultice.n
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

San Francisco ,Alta,;r."'S Son. iGC' HE
laugh! Such a joke !" And he did
have his laugh out, and the crowd
waited till he got sufficient breath to
explain, thus Gentlemen, you have
heard of Cronin, of Oregon. Well, he
got the Democrats in trouble, it is said,
and they, TO get out of it, wanted. to
hire a lawyer or two up in Salem, Ore.
gon, and Tilden sent out IS, as a
retai-ho, no, haw, haw-ner, gentle
men. l have not time to tell you the
whole thing, as l find it difficult to re-
tain my feelings, but the point is this
l have practiced law fifteen years in
Oregon, and you may hang up a retain
er of $50 on the top branch of the
tallest fir tree in the State, and the
whole bar of Oregon will climb for it.
Good day, gentlemen. Ha, ha, no !"
The late Senator McDougall, of Cali
fornia, was on his way to Washington
from New York, and while stepping off
at a station in that unaccountable
State Of New Jersey to get a drink, the
train got away from him. Thinking to
Overtake it by a cutoff, he looked
around for 4 vehicle for that purpose.
No time to spare, and the nearest wagon
hitched up happening to be a hearse,
he crawled into it. The driver drove
furiously enough, but still had occasion
for a sudden halt, which waked:up the
passenger, who Immediately asked if he
had caught the train. "No, said the
Jehu, "just stopped to take a drink"
We'll" says McDougall, "you needn't
go on just yet" as he began crawling
out, " the corpse is dry, too"
Moody is getting along tolerably well
in Boston, but a Beacon street lady
was recently heard to remark that
while there is undoubtedly a singular
comprehensive electromagnetic undu-
latiop, as it were. ~permeating the i'm
mediate atmosphere during the phe-
nomenal creatures enunciations and
genuflections, yet the gravest of appre-
tensions must necessarily arise regard
ing the permanency of impressions
produced by an element so evanescent.n
She has not yet been converted.
Justice Bradley at the age of 3
years could spell words of four sylla-
bles. AT this rate of progress he could
spell words of eight syllables when he
was 6 years of age, and words of six
teen when he was II, and words of
thirty-two when he was "a, and words
of sixty-four when he was AZ; and just
imagine what a frightfully long-sylla-
bled word he Will be able to spell should
he live to be 96 years old. A prize boz
logna sausage would sink into insig-
nifcance in comparison.
The new $4,000 Boston church is
heated in a novel way. The entire
basement has been taken for a cham
Der for warming and distributing the
air, which is done by five immense
stoves, the consumption Of which is
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24

about a ton of coal a day. The air in
the basement, as fast as it is warmed,
rises through nearly three hundred
openings, scattered about the floor OF
the auditorium, and nearly concealed
under the ends of the pews.
Ben Hill said to a friend the other
day that he would give his six years in
the Senate for the opportunity of max
ing a three hours speech before the
electoral commission. This was re-
peated to Senator McCreery, when he
said, in his dry way: "Well, it's the
first time in my life that l ever heard
of a man who would give $4,000 an
hour to hear himself talk"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24

C. NJ. STEBBINs, n. ", late OF Stebbins &
Porter, Denver, Col.
w. X. STEBBISS, Atchison, Kansas.
NJ. +. POST, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications intended for
publication must be accompanied by the
name of the writer, not for publication,
but as a guaranty of good faith. AH
communications written on both sides
of the paper or unaccompanied by the
writer's name will be thro,cn into the
frdste basket,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24

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 owe sixty
miles. The stage stations will be trans
ferred to the new road, and the dis
lance to be travelled by the Cheyenne
and Black Hills coaches will thus be
reduced to 230 miles.
Fare from Chicago 10 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 rateS.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24

cure an outfit to much better advantage
in Cheyenne than elsewhere. Grocer
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, 1877-02-24
Rates of Advertising

No Advertisement inserfed for Tess man my
cents.
DAILY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments 10 cents per line, Nonpariel, each IN
rertion; 6 insertions eight cents per line -
Insertions, 8 cents per line.
Local Notices, per line, bourgeois, each In
~sertion, 10 cents per line 81 insertions D cents
per line.
WEEKLY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments . cents per line, first insertion one
month ~ cent? peg i!nc; S.= months, !" ce:its
per line; one year 5 cents per line.
Cheyenne, Jan. Isl, 1876
fl. CLAICHE. Proprietor.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24

EAduertisers riI make note Of the fact
that THE LEADER has a larger circtld-
hon than any paper published in. Wyo-
ming. -
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-24
''0n to Big Horn

The immense and constantly increas-
ing immigration to the new gold fields
of the north is destined to completely
overflow the Black Hills, and before the
close of III or early in '7S, at the far
thest, the cry of son to Big Horn will
be heard in the land and the myriads of
gold seekers will pass thither. Here
with we give with as great accuracy as
possible a table of distances from
CHEYENNE TO BIG HORN MOUNTAINS
AND RIVER.
Miles
Cheyenne to Lodge Pole Creek ."..-.."........ 10
Lodge Pole Creek to Bear Springs...-........ 20
Bear Springs to Chugwater......"."-.....-....l II
Chugwater to Hunton's Ranch..""....--.. -. 10
Huptnp,s Ranch to Phillips Ranch.:...... y
Cottonwood a&ntcf attp4.wood Ranch"""-- %
Elkhorn to Wagon rs
Fort Fetterman to Sage Creek #................... Is
Sage Creek to South Fork Cheyenne River IS
South Fork Cheyenne to Buffalo Wallow I 81
Buffalo Wallow to Dry Fork of Powder
Dry Fork of Powder to Old Fort Reno........ Is
Fort Reno to Crazy woman's Fork .......... %
Crazy Woman's Fork to Clear Fork.......... %
Clear Fork to Old Fort Phil Kearney ............ 20
Fort Phil Kearney to North Goose Creek. . %
North Goose Creek to Bear Creek ............... q
Bear Creek to Grass Lodge Creek ............, %
Grass Lodge Creek to Old Fort G. F. Smith 10
Total .4OO
NO wood and but little water
I Water poor and scarce.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
THE DIFFERENCE AND THE
COMMERCIAL RESULT.


Don Cameron, the out t-going Secre-
tarY of War, and son of Simon, the
sentimental love-maker among the
treasury girls and sweetest singer of
all the Israel of godly, sanctin onious
R4dicalism-this blessed Simon No. 2,
sometimes called ''Don," denounces
Haycs's policy of justice, conciliatiou
aud peace, and is ut once elevated to
place in the United States Senate by
the Pennsylvania Legislature. On the
contrary, the Ohio RI publican Legisla-
ture, knowing that Stanley Mathews
was the exponent Of Hayes's policy in
the South, makes Mathews Sherman's
successor in the United States Senate.
The Presidents scheme prospers. The
Central and Western States, it will be
observed. accept, while the Eastern re-
ject the Western policy of conciliation
and peace. The South and West will
yet cooperate, and, standing side by
side, throw of the yoke of Tammsny
on the one hand and OF Blame and
Buffers RSdIcalism on the other.
Pennsylvanis is most uAwise. What
ever party leaders may think of it, soon
er or later the purposes Of the Presi-
dent will be achieved, and the West
and South stand side by side against
the long-endured autocsacy of the
East. The trade OF these Southern
States and cities will be affected by
political and partisan facts, and st.
Lous, Cincinnati and Chicago will be
the great commercial benefciaries Of
the revolution inAugurAted by Presi.
dent Hayes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
VIVA. the hest paper. say. z

The Charleston Nelcs and C0tftEey
says that 1.-THE Southern peOple1~ill
be Just in dealing with him and his ed-
ministration. They will honor him, as
President, so long as be does honor, by
his conduct, TO the chair Of Washing
ton and Jefferson. They demand that
they be governed by the officers Of
their choice in the States, and they say
plainly, but respectfully, that they will
have those officers or military rule.
Against President Hayes they hsveino
prejudice. They will be glad 10 'find
him statesman and patriot; but they
must be pardoned If they prefer TO
Judge him by his works, rather than
by the words Of his admiriDg friends.
For their own sake. for the sake Of the
South, for the sake Of the Union, they
pray that President Hayes may plant
himself upon the Constitution, respect
the nights OF the States, and so save
the couatry from the maelstrom OF rev.
olutior. Il is their interest, as well as
their desire, that the country shall be
united and prosperous; but they have
sworn TO be free, as are the people OF
Massachusetts, or Michigan, and for
that fresdom they will sacrifice ease,
oroperty and life itself This was
Tritten Saturday before Hayes's irau-
purstion. Now that President Hayes
promises all that the Hsvs and Courier
demands shall We deal fairly with the
new President
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CON,
GRRSS AND PROHIBITION.

The great doctrine of legal prohibi
tion Is no novelty, and the grand moral
reform, which it inspires, Is no expert
ment. 1t is glorious resurrection
from the dead. 1t comes up from the
graves Of the fathers. The history of
prohibition goes far back of the present
movement, TO the foundation of the
Republic. The first national prohibi-
ton convention held on this continent
was at the old State House in the city
of Philadelphia, one hundred and one
years ago. 1t was made by what
is known in history as the
first Continental Congress. On the
twenty. seventh of February, 1875,
this platform of prohibition was
adopted by the Continental Congress,
and recorded on its journals
Resolped, That it be recommended to
the several Legislatures of the United
States to Immediately pass laws the
most effectual for putting an imme-
diate stop to the pernicious practice of
distilhng, by which the most extensive
evils are likely to be derived if not
quickly prevented. ..,-
These heroes to whom we are in.
debted for our freedom from
British rule, and who were
jealous to the last degree
of all personal rights, proposed to go
further than we do; they struck at the
roots of the deadly upas-to the foun-
tain heads of the poisoned rivers. 1t
suggests no laws of license, or of regu-
lation, or of dollsr-and-cent compensa-
ton for resultant injuries; but it de-
nounces as ''pernicious" and calls for
the total and immediate prohibition OF
business which government now
treats as virtuous and honorable. That
memorable Congress, after giving this
platform OF temperance by prohibition,
in a0out four months unfurled the flag
of freedom, and embodied in the Dec
larasion Of Independence those grea;
fundamental truths of the father
hood of God and the brother
hood Of man. How fearfully have
their predictions been fnltilled. 1t is
estimated that within the last fifty
years in the midst Of all the efforts and
achievements Of moral suAsion mors
than three millions Of Amencan citi
zens have been destroyed by the liquor
traffic, and more than seven millions
Of women, and children. under ou
vannted Gag Of protection, have sen
up their cries Of want and shan'
aud woe. By the graves of muir
dered husbands and fathers. to th'
protecting and avenging God Of th
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

PRESIDENT HAYES encounters lion
in his path in the person of Packard.
President Grant was most generous to
his successor, He assepted to Hayes's
wishes, and by defining policy which
Hayes could hardly have lnaugurated
Grant almost solved the problem.
True enough, if the Republican ticket
with Hayes at its head were triumph
ant in Louisiana even SO was Packard
who received larger vote than Hayes.
To abandon Packard "because his
claim is unjust " would be to assert the
defeat of Hayes in Louisiana and thus
the election of Tildeu and the corrupt
ness of the electoral commission. 1t is,
therefore, argued that the President is
helpless and that he must sustain
Packard and dethrone Nichols at any
cost. But Grant removed this great
obstruction from Hayes's path. Hu
asserted and instituted the policy of
non-intervention. He said that Pack
ard or Nichols, unsided, might be
governor. The President would surely
stand aloof. Nothing more was re-
auired. The President of to-day need
only accept the acts Of his predeces
sor as final, and Packard Is no more
and Louisiana redeemed. There
fore we find Stanley Mathews, said to
be the only brother-in-laE of the gov
ernment, telling Packard to beware of
violence. that he will be rewarded for
peace given Louisiana, with any re-
spectacle foreign mission. Packard,
we would fam hope, will soon
pack up and quit. Hayes does
not undertake to say that Pack
ard was pot legally chosen gov
ernor. With this 4uestiou, under
Grants recently adopted policy of non.
Intervention, Hayes has nothing to do.
Packard, Hayes having no right uL-
der the Constitution as he construes
it to interpose, must necessarily aban-
don Louisiana. He has neither money
nor credit. He can pay neither HIM
self nor his legislature, and the Pack
ard Kellogg government, whether le-
gslly constituted and created or not,
must go to pieces. Hayes only pro-
poses to become the wrecker and save
few of the mariners. If Hayes take
care of himself, even so must Packard.
Hayes owes him nothing, and whether
he believes that Packard had a major
Ity or not, the President can only stand
aloof until violence, under the United
States Constitution, requires and JUS
titles his Intervention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22


THE AdUocdte of Chicago, unlike the
Allocate of Galveston, deals in tempor-
al insurance policies. 1t exists to as
sail insurance that affects even mortal
life, and pronounces the whole system,
as in vogue, fraudulent, rotten and
full of knavery. The only scheme
approved st all, it seems, is that by
which the assured assure one another,
paying no more than the actual risk
and cost of organization. This is the
system adopted by an organization re-
Gently effected In Galveston and Aus
tin, and in many towns Of Texas and
other States, and is the basis of the
idea on which the Life Association of
America Is founded. Very certainly
the unprecedented hard times of the
past four years have destroyed most Of
the weak and approved the virtues of
the strong and honestly managed COM
panies. But the business will never
recover Its original proportions. The
people haYe seen themselves too re-
morselessly robbed, and communities
have been absolutely impoverished by
the vast sums constantly drawn from
the country by enormously rich corpo
rations built up or Broadway and in
Hartford by plunder drawn from re-
mote districts. One of these COM
panies, beginning . few years ago with
one hundred Thousand dollars, has q
capital of thirty millions, and all this
wss wrested from the innocence and
ignorance Of the country by the
tac. and shrewdnsss of the
East. States should legislate against
the system. The profits are al
on one side of the account and thos,
that fAiled went by ths board becaus.
they were robbed by presidents, sscre-
taries and directors who paid them
selves enormous salaries, and then stol'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

The Presbyterian Church of this
country had origin in Scotland, which
still furnishes the church with its pro-
foundest thinkers and wisest morallsts.
The established Presbytery of Edin-
burgh, at the close of recent learned
debate on the whisky question,
adopted, by twenty. four to four, the
resolution that "all ministers within
the bounds shall direct the attention of
:heir congregations to the prevalence
of drunkenness, and warn them of the
sin of it; and shall also urge upon
them their duty to use all wise means
for its prevention and for the reclama-
tion of the intemperate. They recon-
mend the formation of temperance
association in every parish, as approved
and recommended by the General As
sembly; and, further, reappolnt the
committee, with instructions to con-
tinue to give the subject their atten-
tion, and to take such steps as may be
advisable and competent for them to-
ward the effective carrying out of these
recommendations" The minority were
of opinion that the resolution was not
sufficiently expressive on the side of
total abstinence,