The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-27

vestigate the rumors of the Insecurity
Of the granite piers on which the Dome
rests. Mr.. Robinson, who offered it,
said that intimations Of insecurity had
been published In some Of the papers.
We are glad this matter is to be in
vestigated-inasmuch as certain news
papers have sought to create a feeling
of apprehension. when in reality there
Is no occasion whatever for any such
feeling. And it viii SO be shown.
No! much weight need be placed on
the intimation, repeatedly made in the
New York legislature by Mr.. Ecclesine,
yesterday, that Senator ConklinR's
certificate o ~reelection Is invalid because
of the failure Of New York state to
carry out the new apportionment. This
claim Of invalidity is based on the act
ion of the national senate in admitting
Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, on the
principle that q contestant sclaim Is not
good II its rests on the failure Of aleg-
islature to carry out the state law; and
the intimation is that the democrats,
who will control the senate next month,
will GUST Conkling for this informality
or ~irregularity in the failure of the
reapportionment. Guess not. Cover
nor Robinson has ordered the certificate
to be prepared, and it will stand.
A Baltimore tea merchant Is making
the tour of the south making investig-
ations in regard to tea culture, He
thinks that Americans should not at
tempt TO initiate the China green tea,
with its coloring and fancy twisting,
but confine themselves to curing the
leaf SO as to obtain the best possible
cup of tea without regard to appear
ance. Besides the work of twisting,
that Of sorting the tea according to
shape and size can; he thinks, be dis
pensed with to advantage, simplifying
greatly the process of preparation, and
as greatly diminishing the cost. The
cultivation Of the tea-plant In Georgia,
he declares from his experience of
several years in China and Japan, is
perfectly practicable, and he offers 81 a
pound for all leaves shipped to his irm
(Messrs. Martin Gillet & Co., Balti-
more), the firm engaging to do the cur
ing and preparation till the producers
are fairly on their feet. naf~+
A romance of the California gold
diggings has just ended in as thrilling a
way as the liveliest novelist could de-
sire. When the fever Of 40 broke out,
a Racine wis., doctor deserted his
wife and son, and went to the Pacific
coast with the crowd. lie located at
one Of the mines, but soon eloped with
the wife Of a Digger Indian. The
sQuaw had a baby girl, but this was
given to an old Spanish woman, and
together the doctor and squaw roamed
the country till she died. The doctor
then resumed the practice of his pro-
fession at San Francisco, and, when lie
had made money enough, sent for his
wife he had deserted in Wisconsin. A
daughter had been born after the fa-
Their left; but, when the boy grew to
years enough, he disappeared. The
other night came the strange conclu-
sion. The doctor and his wife were
returning from a San Francisco thea
tire when they picked up a lady's chain
and watch. A younger couple came up
to claim the lost ornaments, and, in the
young man, the doctors wife recogniz-
ed her missing son. Stranger still, it
was afterward discovered that his
young wife, whom he had found with a
Spanish family at Los Angeles, CAL,
was the daughter of the Digger squaw
with whom the doctor had eloped years
before.