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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-22

WOULD Mr.. Riddle be kind enough
to return our compliments to Mr..
Spirit Shakspere, and say that his
spring poetry is respectfully but firmly
declined? We consider Mrs. Julia A.
Moore, the saccharine warbler of Mich
igan, vastly his superior in budding
''pomes."
Mr.. WINANs, Of Baltimore, who has
millions of money, is determined to
have a large cigar shaped ship to cross
the ocean in FIVE days. He is having
one built, therefore, in the Clyde. She
will be Of 1850 tons burthen and will
cost 81, 000,0 If she proves a sue
cess the system Of ocean transit will be
completely revolutionized.
FATHER ROBERTS, a nephew of Car
dinal Manning, startled his logical
uncle and the priesthood generally by
violating the vow of celibacy in marry
ing one of his parishioners. The girl
fell desperately in love with the rover
end father and confessed it ardently to
him in the confessional. They were
soon thereafter made happy in mar
riage.
THE late Princess Christina, of
Spain, died of a broken heart because
she was a princess. Like girls of ordi-
nary birth she fell in love. The object
of her alteration was a young English
gentleman. No royal blood coursed
through his veins, and hence a mar
riage was impossible. Not having the
courage Of young ladies who marry
their coachman, she pinned away sadly
and died Of a broken heart. Romantic
girls will please observe that plebian
birth is after all the happiest.
ST. CLEMENTS Episcopal church,
Philadelphia, is become famous for it's
adherence to ritualistic practices. The
attempt to discipline it was a allure.
So it celebrated a requiem mass for the
repose Of the soul of the late DIR. De
Koven. This was an extraordinary
proceeding I'M Protestant church, and
gave rise to IN argument afterwards be-
tween the assistant priest at st. Glenn
ent's and a Roman Catholic, which is
reported as follows by a newspaper man
who was present:
The Catholic asked if to-day's cere-
mony was really a requiem mass for
the repose of DR.. De Koven's soul. The
priest responded that it was.
"Then,' % said the Catholic, 81 sup
pose you believe in purgatory?"
NO." said the %ritualist.
"Well," rejoined the other, s'If you
pray for the repose of his soul you inn
ply that his soul is not at rest. If so, he
must be in p%urgatory, and as your
church does not recognize purgatory,
you had better come to us and get him
out. Purgatory, you know, is a good
old Catholic institution"
The clergyman did not care to discuss
the matter further, saying that he had
better see Father Prescott.
The service on the occasion referred
to was said to be almost identical with
that of the Roman Catholic church
upon similar occasions. What to do
with the refractory congregation is
something that puzzles the leading Epis-
copalians of the east. They claim that
their sect is much injured in conse-
quence of the Romish practices.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-22
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-22

SENATOR BAYARD lives in hope.
His other residence is Delaware.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-22

LEADvILLE emigrants are streaming
out of the camp rapidly.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-22

PRAYER of the Turks-Give us this
day our daily loan.
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THE Courier-.Journal is the dead line
of democracy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25

l
The Huntsville normal school has
additional sccummc d 4tion for fifty
students.
w Il. Smith, of Mason county,
raised $50 bushels of sweet POTATOES
this season OF one acre Of irrigated
Isni.
Kingsburry, Of Waco, has been grant
ed q new trial aud is out under bond.
L may as we'll be said he has Oeen &c
quilted.
Goose rsBches in Texas are proving
quite profitable. Even the Gosling at
CastroviiIe has been quite far in
vestmeDt.
Rufin Washington has been SEN
tenced at Marshall to life imprison-
ment for the murder OF Yep Taylor,
both colored.
Col. c. B. Kilgore has been honored
with special ju1geship by the Gov
ernor, and now we would like to see
him interviewed anew.
The Oldest man in Texas, says a
special to the Nelcs, ls Robert Kidd, Of
San Philippe de Austin, now in Hous-
ton. He is 105 years old.
There has been another death in the
Fort family at Waco-;his time boy
fifteen years of age. Daughter, father
and con have gone in a twelvemonth.
A man was tried last week at Clarks-
vile for murder committed in 1857.
The only living witness being insane,
he was acquitted. Time cures all
things.
On the nineteenth the entire police
force of Houston met and resolved to
serve the city no longer without pay.
These officers have been paid nothing
since August.
The Grand Master of the Masonic
fraternity in Texas holds that the loss
of an eye or of a fiuger joint disquali-
fies candidate for initiation into the
mysteries of the order.
Prisoners in the Dallas jail got the
prison keys and eight OF them walked
cut. All were recap ured except Por-
ter, stage robber. james Wilson,
convicted OF murder, and Bliss Walker
the notorious horse thief.
ADenison lady wants the gentlemen
callers to get cut of the way on New
Year and give place to the ladies, who
would go rollickIng around in regular
masculine style, taking tsffy and such
like. The girls ought to have at least
one showing on regular tare.
The bell punch law is deiied and
violated in all parts of the State. and
upon principle the Fairfield Record
thinks it won't be long till other laws
will be broken to the same extent if
officers and juries do rot see that this
law of the Safe is not broken with I'M
puni,y.
a ranchman not far from Leesburg
in Gorz1les county, while digging al
ordinary well, reached a stream OF
water at depth of forty feet, which
ran in with such force as soon to flow
over the top. and continues to flow
making quite a creek. He has struck
3 real b0narZl worth more to his
ranch than a silver lead.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25
RAILROAD NOTES.

The II. X. Sc T., road is maneuver-
irg to push its road from Denson to
Whitesboro.
The st. Louis and Texas railroad has
all lis bridges built from Texarkana to
SulPur Springs.
The Central cannot furnish cars
enough for the business which it re-
ceives from Waco.
The people of Cleburne would give q
bonus to t6r Central to get the road to
that place. They gave to the Dallas
narrow gauge $50, 900.
The grade OF the T. & P, railroad
extension TO Weathtrford is complete,
and now awaits the ties and iron, which
will soon be laid by the company.
A new attempt is being made in New
York TO negotiate the bonds of the Sa-
bine Pass aud Northwestern railway.
The length of the line is $50 miles and
the Texas Phc fic has rendered the use
Gifts track from TeXaIkana 10 Marshall.
Governor Bishop, of Oaio, is in
Washington in connect on with the
business OF the Cincinnati Southern
railroad, of which he Is a trustee. The
Governor says the road will he opened
between Cincinnati and Chattanooga
within ten days and that it is the finest
railroad in America.
Mr.. Upson has introduced bill into
the House, to authorize the Secretary
of War to contract with the (proposed)
San Antonio and Laredo railroad com.
paDy to build g military and postal
route from San Antonio to Laredo, a
supposed technical Improvement on
Senator Coke's railroad bill,
The Southern Pacific has overiures
from FIVE roads, including the Texas
aud Pacific and Galveston and San
Antonio railroads, regarding an extern
sion to Ell Paso. 1t prefers, however,
to meet at the RIO Grande and there
give and tske in exchange traffic with
all. The Southern Pacific is now CON-
plete to near Tucson.
There is an evident need for reform
in the way railroads are managed in
Iowa. In tie State commissioners re-
port it appears that out of their net
earnings of $3.50, 600 the railroads in
that State paid II per cent. or 1854, 100
in s ate taxes, leaving less than two per
cent. profit to the owners out Of an In
vestment of $161, 600. 600. It may be
asked whether this is robbery or extor-
ton, and the answer probably would
be that. it Is both.
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Nutmegs grow on little trees which
look like email pear trees, and are gen.
orally over twenty feet high. The
flowers are small, like the lily Of the
valley. They are pale and very fia-
grant. TIE nutmeg is the seed of the
fruit, and mace is the thin covering
over this seed. The fruit is about as
large as peach. When ripe it breaks
opeu and shows the little nut inside.
The tree grows on the islands OF Asia
and tropical America. They bear fruit
for seventy or eighty years, having
fruit upon them at all seasons. A fine
tree in Jamaica has over 1000 nutmegs
on it yearly. The Dutch used to have
this nutmeg trade, as they owned the
Banda Islands, and conquered all the
other traders aAd destroyed the trees.
To keep the price up they once burned
three piles Of nutmegs, each of which
was as large as q church. Nature did
not sympathiss with Their mesnness.
The nutmeg pigeon, found in ell the
Indian islands, did for the world what
the Dutch determined should not be
done-carIIed the nuts, which are their
food, into all the surrounding countries,
and trees grew up again, and the world
had the benefit. = Boston Journal Of
Commerce
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PlTH AND POINT.
Bsst when rare-F.mlly broils.
A s~ar,a -.

Bsst when rare-FsmIly broils.
A game leg-A haunch OF vepison.
Sharp prac,ice-Learning to strap a
razor.
An angry man should pull down his
choler.
The baker always has his hour OF
knesd.
A chasm that often sepsratrs friends
-sstcssm.
Where there's vi. there's q
way to break it.
A hot discussion freqseu,ly makes 5
cool friendship
How to acquire short hs06-Fool
around buzz saw.
An engineer basks bis.6re Tar oftener
than he banks hIs cash.
It's wise railroad ssoek that knows
its own par nowadays.
The old fashion I.ish 'tator is again
popular in Ireland, - A2itatOr.
Wsn'ed, hoy With q decided talent
for drawing-to learn dentistry.
There is no vine that contribute more
sustenance t. man than the bovine.
If you would have a clear vision
never put your ''rys" in your mouth.
A correspondent wants to know what
to do when n dog shows signs OF by
drophobis. Climb tree.
A X must have been sea-csptain.
We fr' qaently bear 81 A isxs crew.
Don't judge man by his family con-
nectious, for Cain belonged to 3 very
good family.
The man who steps on deposit of
soft soap aud glideS swiftly down the
front stairs lie ne. dead, bat slIppoth.
When is there = srsAseC satire upon
man than in chess, whore the queen has
to do the work aud the king is to be
protected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25
Comm D1aIities

The household that keeps a baby can
afford to sell its alarm clock very cheap.
To mothers-Vaccinate from the cali
direct If y0u have any regard for your
nfant's wea.
Cetywayo 10 not the wort off OF
mankind for he does not know who bis
mother-ln-law is.
Massachusetts, is amazed to find that
her divorce cases have increased 100
per cent. since 1860.
In Michigan etiquette permits bride
to be married without gloves, because
that's the way she handles the groom
after marriage.
II is difficult to understand why q
wife never askes her husband ''if the
doors are all looked" until after he is
snugly covered up in bed.
All doctors recommend people to go
to sleep lying on the right side. This
is all the better il you are a little deaf
in the left ear and don't get home till
late.
After marriage young couple always
want at least half dc zen chairs In every
room in their home, while before they
find ole in the parlor will answer every
purpose, with spece to spare.
Women are naturally suspicious. You
may have got long hair on your shoul-
der from holding six-year-old girl,
but your mother-ir law will back your
wife in doubling tho statement every
time.
An exchange says the way to live on
% @ week apd save money is to get
married and ''sponge" on your wife's
parents. One dollar and seyenty-fYe
cents will kosp you in cigars and beer,
and the other twenty-five cents yo1 can
put away for rainy day.
Careless husbands can now be de.
tectsd in their provoking neglect in
one respect. The new rule of the post
Office department requires all letters to
be stamped with the date OF their re-
ception. When Q husband carries
letter for bis wife in his pocket n week
the old excuse IN regard TO the delay of
the mails does not work. Some other
excuse must be invented.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25
A New Republican Trick.

The New York san says that the Re-
publicaGs are seriously discussing the
question of changing the mode of APP
pointing presidential electors in that
state. The Sun, if we may judge from
IT'S remarks, fiads not so much differ
enoe of opinion az to making a change,
as divergence of opinion as to what
the nature of the change shall be. The
constitution confers on the Safe Leg
islature the power of deciding on the
manner of appointing electors for Presi-
dent and Vice-Preaident. For the ten
elections ending 1924 the electors were
generally appointed by the State Legis-
lature. In some States the method of
appointment by popular elections was
adopted on the plan of oae electer for
each congressional district; theee to &C.
lect two for the State at large. This
method was prseticed in New York,
where titled to split in the electoral
vote between Adams and jackson. or
course it could nos be applied to States
in which members of Congress were
elected by general ticket, a method
which was followed by many of the
States up to 1841, when tho first ma
tional superintendent law WAS passed.
After 1924 the system of popular vots
By general ticket was rapidly substitu-
ted for the cid methods, and it pre-
vailed in all the States except South
Carolina up to 1850. At present there
is no exception to this rule, although it
happened, for transient reasons, that
Florida at the first election after recon-
struction, and Colorado, in 1875, ap-
pointed their electors through their
legislatures
The New York Republicans, feeling
pretty well assured that they cannot
carry that state on the popular vote next
gear, now wish to achieve their purpose
by geing back to one of the old and
discarded methods. Some of them
favor the cor rressionsl district plan,
by which they would be sure-ef vrins-
ing from twelve to tweaty votes away
from the Democratic candidate. OH
ers prefer the more heroic exPedient OF
appointment by the Legislature, in
which case they would assure them
selves of solid vote.
AS the PieGyune has before remarked,
there can be no dispute about the con-
7NAeNiOHoA SoPoOAty VI SSeeC lOE.sto-
lures to appoint the electors. Neither
is there any power that can interfere
with this right even when it is exercised
as purely partisan expedient, and
with the design of DISTINGUISHING the
majority party in the State. Never
theless, any sort of decent public opin-
ion will condemn resort TO such
method of circumventing the will OF
the majority. This would be exactly
the purpose of the plan if it should be
adopted in New York. It would be
simply trick intended to disfranchlse
the majority; and by the disfranchiss-
ment Of the mejority in the greatest
State in the Union, 10 disfranchise the
majority in the country. Constitutional
forms and technicalities could not, and
would not, extenuate DO fragrant def
ance of pubic opinion, and Of the will
of the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25
PERSONAL.

Ssnotor Beck remarks that the length
If the session Will depend on whether
Jim Blaine shakes the bloody shirt in
the face of Ben Hill.
Senator Wade Hampton has accepted
an invitation to address the Grand
Army OF the Potomac at Pittsburg.
Politics are getting strangely mixed
this year.
German newspapers in the United
States are one-third more numerous
than III the Fatherland, where Bis
marcks censorship keeps them In per-
petuai fear of fine and suspension.
Colonel George E Waring, the sani-
tsry engineer, has been investigating
the drainage at Memphis, and the citi-
zens of tnst -ffeeEVer-ridden place have
decided to a6op his pfans ior II e coB-
struction of sewers.
Pierre L1rillard doubtless counts the
figures in the English turf statistics,
which hss just been printed, with pleas
disable emotins. He r;tDks fourteen in
the list of winners, with seven WIN
nings and e5 $40 to his credit.
Lord Kutore, of Scotland, has sent
a shepherds crook as a present to the
Rev. T. De Wit Tslnnage. His lord
ship says that the crook, which IS made
of hsrl wood, is typical of the Rev.
Dr's. calling-a shepard of the Lords
sheep.
''In 1862" writes Jefferson Davis to
the Rock Islander, of Rock Island, Ill,
"the Secessionists, per sc, were few
snd far between they are now fewer
and further between it is, therefore,
utterly untrue that State rights, as
sometimes asserted, ttmeans SECESSION"
The late Senstors Go!dthwsite, of
Alabama, is said to ave been the most
absent minded man b the United States
Senate. He was much given to walk
ing up and down tn lobby, plunged 10
deep thought, often smoking fragrant
Havana, and entirely oblivious OF all
things about him. Often some cheeky
page of the Senate would wsld up and
ask the Senator for light. Mr.. Gold
thwaite would mechanically hand over
his cigar, the boy would take light,
put the choice weed in his precious
mouth and hand oyer bic old stump to
the old gentleman, who would continue
bis stroll in bliSsf0l ignorance. ] IL
related on good 81 ,hority that, in ons
Of his fits of satisfaction, he walkec
into the Senate elevator, dropped
nickel INFO the hole back of the mirror.
and calmly requested to be let out at
''Hn street, thinking all the time that
be had stepped INTO the street car.
Marx Twain is heartless satirist as
well as . sort of wRg. Not long ago
he wrote to the Hartford Courant
making mouths ST the Postmaster Gen.
eral for insisting that the name OF
q county should be used in addressing
3 letter. The other day Thomas B.
KIRBY, Mr.. Keys private secretary, re-
pied to Mr.. Clemens personally, uo-
brAiding him in what was intended to
be . funny manner for the er0wl
"a the CoHrans. Now Mr.. Glenn
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Home Rdusation.

The domestic fireside is q seminary
of infinite importance. It Is impor-
tent because it Is universal, and be-
cause the education 1t bestows, being
VIC zen in with the wool of childhood,
gives color and form to the whole
texture OF life. There are few who
can receive the honors of Q college,
but ali are graduates Of the heart. The
learning OF the universe may fade
from recollection; its classic lore msy
moulder in the hall Of memory, but
simple lessons Of home, eaameled upon
the heart Of childhood, defy the rust OF
years, and cutlive the more mature but
less YiYid pictures Of after days. 80
deep, 90 lasting are the Impressions Of
early life, that Jon often see 9 man in
the imbecility Of age holding fresh in
his recollection the eventso Of chiIdhoor.
Whilt all the vide space between that
and the present hour u forgotten wsste.
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A New Y ~ iclter % December IL,
SAYS: Fhs y * ~ Ion to-day com
aared with ib- same dsfe last yesr
s rews the imyof'ant rise of Tour cents a
,.ound. II We coun- the s1vaDce in
sbst part of the present crop slreadT
marketed AZ only two cents . pound,
we have a rsin over las, year Of about
S23. coo. 600, and If only existing fg-
ures continue the balance OF the season
there will be further gain of at
least SIS. 600, 600, making q total of
$7S. coo. 600 more received FIR this crop
than was received for the last. The
advance in Liverpool has not been so
important IS here, bat it has bsen
Marked, nevertheless, spot upl4nds
selling IN that market tt-iSy al Is
49,, sgSinst only 5 ST., at the same
date in 1873.
The Russian government proposes to
construct railroad, for purely strategic
purposes, from Oreoburg to Tashkend.
This line will be 1850 miles long, and
will lie for the most part through the
high ard dry KirghIs Steppe, sterile
region only inhabited by few wild
nomsdes, and comparatively worthless
for commerce. 4 single track road
through this rugged country will cost
800, 600 600, and it is not expected to
pay anything beyond aiding tne mill
tary power in prospective struggle
with Great Britain for supremacy in
India. A Russian railroad bank, it Is
reported in the L lndon Daily Neics, will
guarantee FIVE per cent. interest TO CAPT.
ia SITS who may undertake the constIuc.
ton of the road. 1t Is not stated who
will guarantee the bank.
A coroner's il quest was recently held
at Innishowen, Ireland, On the body of
poor woman, the wife of q cottier ten
ant, who, according to the medical
evider ce, died from sheer want of food.
The hard times had come upon the fam
lily, and, like most of the agricultural
population, when the harvest failed
they had nothing to fall back upon.
The mother sank under the j)int pres
sure of severe mental distress and want
of proper nj urlshmert. Insufficient
clothes and want of fuel brought on
congestion of the lungs, and starvation
did the rest. The remaining members
of the family are now cast upon the
charity of the parish. Some persons
who visited the wretched hsbitatIon IN
which this poor woman died say that
they saw there no food and no fuel.
Nourishment of any sort there was
none, "save cupful of Indian meal.
Fire Il as represented BIZ a little heather,
The use of which showed the utter
dearth of ordinary fuel" This is not
a solitary case in this district, aud of
many districts throughout Ireland the
came sad story can be told.
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ems, addressing Mr.. KubY as
.smY csllov friend" breaches HIM
with INK aud pours s whole quart
down his threat. Il was talking to
the dog and not TO the tail, says Mr..
Clemens; '1f 1 stepped on this tail 1t
was not 70 cali the tsii's attention to
anything, but only to direct The stt=n-
ton of the main body of the animal.
You perceive, that beng q private Sec
rotary, l was talking to the depart
ment, not to you-i,s irresponsible, in
expensive, Unnecessary apptn lage." "
Mr.. Clemens adds that when be rings
a bell, his business isn't with the bell,
but with the owner of it Mr.. Kirby
is not the boot. but the bootj.ck; not
the molssses but the bung of the bar
rel; not tie lightning but the light
ming rod.
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FOREIGN

LONDON, December 23.-Tbe Vice
roy of India to-day telegrepbs 90 fol-
lows: Gen. Brighcs reports copfTm
the statements of the advance Of rein
forccments. Al is quiet. Pi,zsrand
conveys are passing thence 70 Godaiuk.
The Kughins are quiet.
A dispatch from Gen. Roberts, dated
Cabul, December 10, says g slight
skirmish Iook place GA the eighteenth,
during which one or twp principal
Afghan leaders were killed. SaOw
fell during the night but is disappear
ing.
LONDON, Dvcsmber ga Rome dis.
patch reports fire on Sunday on the
Sporesca Corssire Palace, which caused
considerable damage. Some gslu4oIe
works Of art were destroyed.
LONDON, December 23.-Tbe prices
OF gas stocks depTecistci yes'tfaay %
the report Of Edison's discovery 20 :
cheap electric light.
LONDON, December %. "A part Of
the crew of the British steamer B0Tus-
sia, from Liverpool for New Orleans,
have been landed at QueeDstoWn By
the British ship MslIowdale, from Bus
sier. The Borussis was abandoned in
sinking condition on the second in
slant,
LONDON, December 23.-Part Of the
crew Of the steamer BoFussia Eese land
ed at Queenstown to-day by the ahip
Mallowdale. They consisted Of the
chief engineer. doctor, bostsHain and
SIX sesmen- They were picked up en-
the fifth instant In al open boat b.
the MalIowdale. TIE B5russIa bad $50
passengers, Of which number l02 enc