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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-20
Proposals fr Army Transportation.
HEADQUARTERS
DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE,
OFFICE c. @. NJ, OMAHA, NEB.,


Sealed Proposals in t~riplicate. SUBJ
iect to the usual conditions, will be re-
ceived at this Office until II O'Clock
noon on Wednesday, May 23d, 1877, at
which place and time they will be
opened in presence of bidders, for the
transportation of military supplies on
the following described routes in the
Department of the Platte, during the
fiscal year commencing July 1. 1877.
and ending June 30. 1873, viz:
From Cheyenne Depot, W. T., to
Forts Laramie and Fetterman, and
Cantonment Reno, w. T.
From Medicine Bow Station. u. p.
x. r., or other stations on u. p. r. R.,
to Fort Fetterman and Cantonment
Reno, w. T.
From Bryan or Green River Station
or other stations on the U. p. r. r., to
Camps Stambaugh and Brown, w. T.
From southern terminus Utah South
ern r. r. to Fort Cameron, Utah.
From Sidney or North Platte, on U.
z. X. r., to Fort Laramie, w. T. and
Camps Robinson and Sheridan, Neb.
From Corinne, U. p. r. R., to Fort
Hall, Idaho, or from northern terminus
Utah Northern r. r. to Fort Hall,
Idaho.
The contracts will contain a proviso
that the transportation service between
November LIST, 1877, and May LIST, 1878,
shall, If required by the Quartermaster's
Department, be performed by mule or
horse teams, and that if OK Transports
tion is authorized during such period,
the rate of payment will be twenty-five
per cent. less than for mule or horse
teams.
Proposals for transportation on any
of the routes above named, will be re-
ceived.
Sealed proposals for any or all the
routes named will also be received, up
to the above named day and hour (al-
lowing for difference of time) by the
Depot Quartermasters at Cheyenne and
Ogden; all to be opened in the presence
of bidders and forwarded to the Chief
Quartermaster, Department of the
Platte.
The Government reserves the right
to reject any or all proposals.
Blank proposals, form of contract
and printed circulars, stating the esti-
mated quantities of supplies to be
transported, and giving full information
as to the manner of bidding, conditions
to be observed by bidders, and the
terms of contract and payment, will be
furnished on application to this office
oil to the office of the Depot Quarter
master mt Cheyenne or Ogden.
Envelopes containing proposals should
be marked: Proposals for tr~ansporta-
tion on route from - to -"
NJ. 1. LUDINGToN,
a1S-d6tw1 Chief Q. NJ.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-20

Courtesy of Wvo. Arch
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-20

The probability of war between Rus
STA and Turkey is daily growing more
imminent, and the reported military
movements in those countries indicate
that a conflict is deemed inevitable.
The Russian Ambassador at Paris,
however, declares that his government
is disposed to accept further o~vertures
in the interest Of peace. This state
ment, taken in connection with the an
nouncement that Russia will not declare
war Immediately, leads to the hope,
forlorn as it may be, that the impend-
ing conflict may yet be indefinitely post
poned.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-20
TATEMEN

and Quarterly Report of The City Clerk
of the City Of Cheyenne, for the Quar-
ter ending March 31st, 1877, Shouting
the Receipts and Disbursements of ks
last three months, and amount Of War
rants outstanding at this date:
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-20
Proposals tor Indian Supplies, Goods
and Transportation.


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
OFFICE OF lNDrAN AFFAIRs,
Washington, March 30, isT.
EALED PROPOSALS. Endorsed Proposals
for Beef" Flour. Clothing, Transportation
las the case may be) and directed to the Conf
MISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, No. 40 Leon
ard ST.. New York. will be received until IL
N. ofTUEsDAY. MAY s. 1877, for furnishing
the following Supplies. Goods and Transport
alton required for the Indian Service for the
fiscal year ending Jun 80. 1878
Beef on the hoof-------....................S4 "a, 8ss.Ov
................ .....5 6. 764, 500
c -..-....-...6I9,4u0
$4,000
Corn Q 46I5OO
Mess. pork, barrels
Coffee, $500 pounds; Sugar, 500, 600 pounds /;
Tobacco. 9,35o pounds; Soda. 1880 pounds;
Baking Powder. 2s,sio pounds; Rice, 5000
pounds: Tea, $3.50 pounds; Beans. ls4,50o
pounds; Soap. lis, 100 pounds; n Hominy,
$4,000 pounds.
ALSO
BLANKETS, CLOTHING. WooLEN AND COTTON
GOODS. HARDWARE, NOTIONS AND MEDICAL
SUPPLIES.
TRANSPORTATION for such of the above sup
plies as may not be contracted to be deliver
ed at the several indian Agencies.
Schedules showing in detail the quantities
and kinds of goods and supp. les required for
each Agency, transportation routes, time
and place of delivery. conditions to be OBJ
served BY bidders, and terms OF contract and
payment, together with blank proposals and
forms of contract and bond, will be furnished
upon application to this ONCE. Tin Washing
ton or at No. 20 Leonard ST.. New York } to f.
N. kingsley. so Clinton p ace, New York to
VIM: Nicholson. Superintendent of Indian
AnAlrG. n wrenCR- Kansas. tn the CnmmiR-
saries ofSubsistence U. 8 A., AT st. Louis,
Chicago, Sioux City, st. Paul, Leavenworth.
dian Agents.
apr4-dIm ]. Q. SMITH. Commissioner.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
A BRAVE GIRL.

A painful case of hydrophobia has just
occurred at Colyton, Devon, England. At
the latter end of July Or beginning of
August last, threoyoung girls, the daugh-
ters of cottager named Coke, living at a
place called Buddleshayes, about five miles
from Colyton, on the main road to Ottery
ST. Mary, while out on an evening walk
near their home, saw strange dog lying
bv the roadway. They went to look at the
animal, when it sprang at the eldest, re-
markably fine girl of sixteen, and seized her
by the wrist The girl couragcously laid
hold of the dog by the neck and dragged
him to turnpike gate near, and asked the
keeper of the gate to destroy him, as both
of them thought he was mad. Owing to
some bungeing on the part of the man
arising, probably, from nervousness-tho
dog broke away and escaped. When she
had returned home the father took his
daughter to the parish surgeon and had the
wound cauterized. There was only one
nuncture and scratch, which soon healed
Nothing more was thought of it until a few
days ago, when she complained of intense
pain affecting the whole arm. Medical ad-
vice was at once procured, and undoubted
SYMPTOMS of hydrophobia showed them
selves. The poor girl waste the lastperfectly
conscious of her trouble, and besought her
father and sisters to keep away or she must
bite them, and further implored her father
to put an end to her sufferings.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
NICE CALCULATION.

Few writer's realize the extent of their
own labor. A rapid penman can write
thirty words in minute. To do this he
must draw his pen through the space of a
rod-sixteen feet and half. In forty min
utes his pen travels furlong, and in five
hours a third of mile. We make, on an
average, sixteen curves or turns Of the pen
in writing each word. Writing thirty
words minutes we must make four hum
dred and eighty to each minute; in an hour,
twenty-eight thousand; in a day of only
five hours, one hundred and forty-four
thousand and in year of three hundred
days, forty-three million, two hundred
thousand. The man who made one NIL
lion strokes with pen in month was not
at all remarkable. Many MEN, newspaper
men for instance, make four millions Here
we have in the aggregate, mark of three
hundred miles long to be traced on paper
by each writer in year. In making each
letter of the ordinary alphabet we must
make from three to seven of the pen-or an
average of three and half to four.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.

Do people suffer when they are killed by
lightning? This is very interesting ques-
ton, and one upon which there has been
much speculation.
A SEMITIC writer-Dr. John Tyndan-
has published a learned essay on the sub
ject, and his conclusion is, that death
caused by lightning is not accompanied by
any pain whatever. 1t is an instantaneous
''negation of ife," or cessation of conscious
ness, without suffering.
He says that the seat of sensation is the
brain and to it the intelligence of any i'm
preston made upon the nerves has to be
transmitted before this impression can be-
come manifest in consciousness. The
transmission, moreover, requires time, and
the consequence is that wound inflicted
on a portion of the body distant from the
brain is more tardily appreciated than one
inflicted adjacent to the brain. BY an ex-
tremely ingenious experimental arrange
ment the velocity of this transmission has
Leen determined, and found to be about
one hundred feet to the second, or less
than one-tenth of the velocity of sound in
the air. Taking into account this time re-
quired for the transmission of sensation,
and the further time believed to be re-
quired for the invisible particles constitut-
ing the brain to take up the motions or
positions necessary for the completion of
consciousness, DR.. Tyndall estimates that if
whale, fifty feet long, were wounded in
the tail, one second and tenth would
elapse before it would become conscious of
the injury.
From these premises the deduction is
made that if an injury were inflicted which
would render the nerves unfit to be the
conductors of the motion which results in
sensation, no matter how severe the injury
might be, we should be unconscious of it.
Or it may be that long before the time re-
quired by the brain to complete the ar
rangement necessary to consciousness, its
power of arrangement might be wholly sus-
pended. In such case, even if the injury
were fatal, death would occur without feel
ing of any kind.
This is the most learned scientific view OF
the subject. 1t is supported by numerous
well-authenticated cases of persons who
have been struck senseless by lightning,
and, on their recovery, had no memory of
pain.
However, clear as this reasoning is, and
strong as the evidence seems to be, there
is, and necessarily must be, degree Of
mystery hanging over death, however oc.
casioned, which can never be fully dis
persed until we experience it ourselves. All
the testimony on this subject comes from
persons who have not died; none from
those who have. We have no witnesses
from beyond the grave. They are clothed
in an inpenetrable cloud, and whether they
be dumb or not, they are all speechless.
From them no word ever comes back to our
longing hearts and listening ear.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
CELESTIAL SPACE.

When astronomers assure us that th'
diameters of the circles which the planets
describe in theirperpetual revolutions rount
tho sun are millions Of miles, how is it pos
sible for the mind to take an idea of thu
space or room in which such globes as those
of eighty or ninety thol.. miles in diane
ter arc running, thirty times moro rapidly
than cannon ball, without the slightes
interference with others?
Space - without limit! There is M
boundary no barrier, no precipitous termina
ton, but space for ever and ever, and there
the intellect leaves the pursuit-the brain
of man cannot grasp it.
But there is something more perplezine
in the belief that interminable space il
filled with billions, ay, with countless or
ganized worlds, beyond all human compu
tations, far excelling our own in grandeur
of proportions, physical resources, anf
beauty, so immensely distant that no tele
scope can ever survey those on the nearest
border of that celestial space which they
occupy; and yet still beyond and beyond
so far that the light they send abroad, at the
speed of one hundred and ninety-twe
millions of miles in one second, may mo-
reach the earth for hundred of millions
of years to come, and there again ani
again there are globes infinitely multiplied
Space, then, is q field in which the AL
mighty displays the majesty of His SUI
preme power.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
prene power

The number of pieces required to finish
camels hair shawl is from five hundred to
four thousand. Often twenty men have
worked daily for twenty years in order to
finish first-class camel's hair shawl, the
highest average of wages being four cents
per day to the most skillful worker.
Fifteen thousand dollars in gold was paid
for watch chain and locket to jewelel
in Manchester, England They contain SAC
diamonds, and in the centre of the hook is
q stone of eleven karats. There are twenty
links to the chain, all of which are studded
with diamonds, and the locket contains the
monogram OF the owner.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
IN REGARD TO
THE MOON.

The Tyrolese cure freckles by washing
them at night with water in which the moon
shines. In the Harz Mountains and Siesla.
The remedy for golfers is to turn ones face
10 the increasing moon three evenings run
ming, then take a stone, silently touching
ihr swelling with it, and throw it over the
left shoulder. Meier quotes u SWablan
charm for toothache. When the crescent
moon appears for the first time, The sufferer
! must gaze at it steadfastly and repeat thrice:
see the moon with two points; my teeth
shall neither shoot nor ache until l see the
moon with three points, Grabs caught
during full moon, and then burned alive
and ground to powder, cure hydrophoSa'
| Of course, the moon necessarily assists nt
all deeds of sorcery, such as casting magic
bullets, the manufacture of q divining-rod,
| and the like. The following receipt tor
,Ncnging ones self on ones enemies Is
given by Kuhn in Wcstphalia 'Whcn the
new moon falls on Tuesday, so out before
Aoybroak to q stake selected beforehand,
dnnto the east and say, Stick, grasp thee
in the name of the Trinity Take thy knife
anl say, Stick. I cut thee in the name OF
thc Trinity, that thou mayest obey me and
tastsc any one I mention. Then peel
h' stick in two places to enable thee to
tmv' these words, Abba, obia, saba. Lay
b smo, ,h-frock on the threshold and strike II
bard wi, Ii the stick at the Same time nam
ug the y, >rson who is to beaten. Though
be may be 1uany miles away, he will sulier
hs much as if he were on the spot" The
ancient Greeks and Romans considered the
Pnoon to be a protection against the evil
eye, and they hung small moons made OF
mctal round their necks as amulets, Even
the wives and horses of the Romans wore
them. The custom has not yet disappeared
Pin Italy and the East. Some years ago
|Neapoltan ladies used to wear small silver
half moons on their arms, as prcservatlVe
against epilepsy, which popular belief has
always been connected with the evil eye. line
|taismanic crescent has ever been the badSe
Of Islam, and it still glitters on the mln--
arets.-AU the Year Bound.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
STONE TREES.

n,be site of the petrilied forest Is about
o4housanl feet above sea level and iss
t., tbo same trend with the geysers, Mount
O. Helena and the thermal springs of Cal
;stooa Geologically, it is one vast tufa
hod in which the trees lie as they were
thrown, probably thousands Of years ago,
hv some vast convulsion of nature. This
tufa will say, for the benefit of the unini-
,;oted in scientific lore, is volcanic ash
Or cinder; it is lava thrown upward in fiery
mass and descending with rain. It is gray
in color and granular in structure. Some
t;mes it is found embedded III the form of
little globes or bombs. Ammonites, found
in the strata, fix the event in the cretaceous
nerod the professor inclines to the opin-
ion that it was pre-glacial. The trees lie
ot five or six different levels-on the lower
almost north and south; at the highest
northeast and southwest. At the latter
leve the trees must have been buried un-
der so or 100 feet of lava; at the low
est 500 feet Their dip conforms to the
din of the tufa, and is at an angle of thirty
to forty-fve degrees. They are in frag-
ments, many of which have been converted
into charcoal, others into Ignite, and others
into beautiful specimens of jet. Where
The heart of a tree had dccayed the cavity
is filled with opal, form of lustrous, un-
crystalized silica, containing water. Chulce-
louy, another form of silica, but clear and
I;mp;d is found in other cavities. Notop has
been petrifed, and only here and there root.
Many have been charred by fire. Some
are broken after petrifaction had taken
Mace as there is no mark of splintering or
bruising What must have been the giant
force that followed their first destruction to
have dealt this further blow? The majority
of the trees are redwood, some few the
medrona and the limb of an oak has also
been found. One of the first named is
eleven feet in diameter, and the part of the
trunk still preserved is sixty-eight feet in
length, Another shows marks of having
been hacked with an axe, probably made
of obsinian, as all the prehistoric imrle-
ments from this locality was made OF the
same substance-a volcanic rock-which
appears in abundance all about. There is
no mistaking the fact that the cutting was
done before petrifcation began, as the cuts
at different angel, to the grain of the wood.
The deduction is inevitable that man was
in California before the birth of Mount st.
Helena even, and also that he was of type
superior to the people who inhabited it at
| thc advent of the European, for he knew
how to fashion cutting tools. San francisco
4 Post
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05

A rich man in Sutton, Mass, lately de-
ceased, bequeathed to his daughter "four
of the best hedgehogs on his mountain lot;"
to his first son living in the West $5, in case
he never returns to Sutton to live, and the
second and third sons $4,000 and $3.50, 900
respectively; the latter awards to go to the
town if they die without issue.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05

Telegraphing in France is government
monopoly, and all dispatches have to be
Vlsed by the government. Telegrams do
not go directly, but are sent by & pneu-
matte tube to the Rue Grenelle Saint Ger
main. There an agent of the government
takes them out, reads them, has an inter-
prefer read them if in foreign language,
huppresses them if he does not like them,
puts his stamp upon the harmless ones and
Tshev are sent CT
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
TANT@,W1
~ w. 81 ~ .sal y

Instructions to Ladies Gratis.
All who arc dcsir"us to he their
own dressmnkers, would tiud il to their
advantage to call on Mpdanc schwartz,
at her temporary reSjden"" ~ Shiplty
Street, where She viii r@Dnin tor n
few days TO teach the ce, teur ialpriZe sys-
TEN of cutting garments tor adieS and
children, also. shrs shirts
for sale Cutting, b 's'lng and lifting done
aJ the shortest notice aud | west prices
You will only cali az Il be convinced. Ladies'
wanted to solicit subscript'O, $.
sepl2-tf
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05

=, moor woman coming from a wretcheo
garret in an inland manufacturing to"n iol
the first time to see the sea-shore, gazing at
the ocean, said, "she was glad for once III
her life to see something which there was
enough Of"
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
Dr.PierCe's S Fay0rite Prescription.

The term, however, is but feeble expression
OF my high appreciation of its value, based up"E
my own personal observation. AS Il close oI-
server, have, whl'o witnessing iia positive re-
suits in the few special diseases incident to the
separate organism OF woman, singled 1t out IA
tho climax or crOWntng Eefs cf nay
tive snfe and cffcctual remedy for thi, claaa
If diseases, and one that Will, at all times and
under all circumstances, act kindly and i'll har-
mOnv with the laws which govern the female
system, am willing To stake my reputation as %
physician. Nay, even more, so confident, am |
that 1t will not dsappoint tho most 5lnEulnc
expectations of a single invalid lady who uses it
for any Of the ailments for which recommend il
that offer and sell it under A RONqFgNE
If 4 beneficial CT, It IS not
experienced by the time two-ihirds of tlo con-
tents OF the bottle are used, will, on return OK
tho bottle, two-thlrda of the medicine havlng
been taken according to directions, ans! the case
being one for which recommend i, promptly
REFUND tho money paid for It. Had not the
most perfect confidence IN It's virtues could not
offer It as do un>.cr these conditions; hnt hay
sands of cases, 4 feel scarrantr& ana
perfectly safe In riskina hoth ms
reputation and my money "h i's
merits.
The following arc among those diseases in
which my FAyorito Prescription has
worked cures, as if by magic, and with ccr-
tanty never before attained by any medicine:
Leucorrhna, Excessive Flowing, Painful
MOntly tHSioH6 WIN mum Hh
natural causes, Irregularities, Weak Back, Pro-
lapsus, or falling Of tho Uterus, Antcvcrson and
Rctroversion, Bearing Down Sensations, inter
nal Heat, Nervous Depression, Debility, Dcs-
pondency, Threatened Miscarriage, Chrome
Congestion Inflammation and liberation of thn
Uterus, ImpotenCy, BarrCnncS5, or Sttrll.'v, Ic-
male Weakness, and very many other chronic
diseases incident to woman not mentioned here.
In all affections Of this nature, my favorltc
Prescription works cures-the marvel of
tho W OrId. This medicine do not eXtol rs
curc-all, but it admirably fulllls single
ness Of purpose, being most perfect
specific in MI chronic diseases of the N,al 5ys
tcm of woman. 1t will not disappoint, nor VIII
II do harm, in any state or condition.
Those who desire further information or
these subjects can obtain it in THE PEOPLES
COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER, a booH
of over 800 pages, sent, postpaid, on receipt
of $l.50. II treats minutely of those diseases
peculiar TO Females, and gives much valuable
ldvice in regard to the management OF those
affections.
FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION SOLD
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
R.V. PIERCE, NJ, D., Irop'l,
BUFFALO, N. Y.
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05
W()M AM

BY an immense practice, extending through
feriod of years, having within that time treated
hany thousand cases Of these di ,ca5cs peculiar
N woman, / have been enabled to perfect u
most potent and agreeable medicine THAI mc"tt
the indications presented by that class of DIS
eases with positive certainty and cXactne,+.
To designate this natural specific compound,
have named it
The Morning herald., 1877-11-05

In England copper pennies to the amount
of Is. and farthings to the amount Oh oo'
are legal tender.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-24
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