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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28
A Story by Gen. Grant.

Now, as to telling stories, 1 have no
particular gift in that way. Sometimes,
conversing about the affairs of the war,
something that is said calls up an anec-
dote or good story where something
occurred of a ridiculous, pathetic, anus
ing or illustrative character. I might
tell, if T could happen to think OF them,
OF some things that occurred that Mr..
Lincoln told me at times when he visited
me in the field, and I will tell you one
thing that occurred just after the SUR
render of Lee at APPonaattf,x. I have
often heard the same story attributed to
Mr.. Lincoln in different ways, but this
is the way it occurred with me: II
hurried back to Washington with all
haste, to stop the enormous expenditure
the Government was making at that time
in the way of purchases, enlistments
and drafting. While I was not positive
that there would be further hostilities or
any further efforts made on the part of
the rebel armies, yet I thought it was
not unlikely there would be, and that
it was better to take proper precautions,
SO I ordered the army of the James
back to Burke's station, to remain while
we could go over to Washington and do
as say-stop expenditures that were
being made. As you all remember, the
authorities in Richmond had. taken
flight, and they never stopped till they
got to Danville. Finding we were not
pressing, they did not stop there. Sup
posing was at Burke's station, Extra
Billy Smith, as he was called, who was
Governor of Virginia at that time, sent
letter through by a flag Of truce to
me, which Gen. Meade received, and,
without letting them know I was not
there, telegraphed to me at Washington.
The letter was to this effect: That he
was Governor of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, and as such he had temporarily
removed the seat of Governments from
Richmond to Danville, and he was de-
sirous of knowing from me whether he
would be permitted to exercise the func-
tons of his Office in Danville unmo-
Tested, or, if not, if he and few friends
would be permitted to leave the country.
I was in doubt about the best way to
answer it, when happened to meet Mr..
Lincoln on the sidewalk, and told him
about it. He supposed I was asking
him for instructions, and his answer was
this: I will tell you,' he said. It's like
an Irishman I once heard of who was in
the habit of drinking whisky He had
done so for long time. At last he
Joined q temperance society, but the
habit of drinking was strong upon him.
He wanted to take something, and so
for q time he took soda water, but one
day he put his glass around and said,
Doctor, can't you put drop of brandy
in that unbeknownst to meg Mr.. Lin
coin couldn't have said any palmer that
Extra Billy Smith could have gone and
taken as many of that sort of drinks as
he pleased"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28

hOW OLD Is VLASS Tine Oldest
specimen of pure glass bearing any
thing like date is little nodded lions
head, bearing the name of an Egyptian
King of the eleventh dynasty, in the
Slade collection at the British Museum.
That is to say, at period which may
be moderately placed as more than 1000
years B: c., glass was not only made,
but made with a skill which shows that
the art was nothing new. The inven-
ton of glazing pottery with a film or
yarnish of glass is 80 old that among
the fragments which bear inscriptions
OF the early Egyptian monarchy are
beads possibly Of the first dynasty. Of
later glass there are numerous exam
pies, such as bead found at Thebes,
which has the name of Queen Hatasoo
or Hashep, of the eighteenth dynasty.
OF the same period are vases and COB
lets and many fragments. 1t cannot be
doubted that the story prepared by
Pliny, which assigns the credit of the
invention to the Phenicians, is so far
true that these adventurous merchants
brought specimens to other countries
from Egypt. DR.. Schliemapn found
disks of glass in the excavations at
Mycen@, though Homer does not men
ton it as a substance known to him.
That the modern art of the glass
blower was known long before is certain
from representations among the pict-
ures on the walls of tomb at Benz
Hassan, of the twelfth Egyptian dynas-
ty; but much older picture, which
probably represented the same manu-
facture, is among the half-obiterated
scenes in chamber of the tomb of Thy,
at Sakkara, and dates from the time of
the fifth dynasty, a time SO remote that
it is not possible, in spite OF the assid>
uous researches of many Egyptologers,
to give it date in years.-Sata1rday
Revie,U.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28
WIT AND HUM0R.

ANY man can edit newspaper, but it
takes genius to make 500 miles in six
days.
Italians of less renown have made the
peanut stand.
"THAT puts different face on it." as
the boy said when the ball struck the
clock dial. -.
WHATEVER objection may be opposed
to whipping, it is at least undeniable
that it makes boy smart.
The lilies of the fields have pistils,
and every wide-awake citizen of fair
Texas is "arrayed like one of these"
The ightning-rods man must be al
lowed a good profit, for when he sells
out his business he never can get much
for the goodwill.
LITTLE Gertie CATER waiting some
time for dessert)-"Uncle, don't you
have anything after dinner?" Uncle
Yes, dear; the dyspepsia"
A LADY, a regular shopper, who had
made an unfortunate clerk tumble over
all the stockings in the store, objected
that none of them were long enough.
II want" she said, "the longest hose
that are made" "Then, madam" was
the reply, "you had better apply to the
next engine-house."
THE DEAREST LOVE.
A sisters love is charming,
AS everybody knows;
And handsome cousins love is nice
at least, should SUPPOSED;
And the love of true lover
Is the love that cannot pail;
But the love Of new bonnet
Is the dearest love of all
MOTHER to her daughter, just years
old" What makes you look so sad,
Carrier" Carrie, looking at her baby
brother, 3 weeks old was Just think
ing that in about ten years from now,
when I shall be entering company, and
having beau, that brother of mine will
be just old enough to bother the life
out of me-"
A ROCKLAND man read that one should
endeavor to draw somethinguseful from
everything he saw, and nobly resolved
to profit by the teaching. That night
when the moon was hidden he essayed
to draw number of useful cord-wood
sticks from his neighbours woodpile, and
got filed so full of rock-salt out of a
gun that he won't be able to taste any
thing fresh for the balance of his natu-
raj life.
The round yellow pumpkin that the
housewife has in eye for nice batch
of inch and half deep pies, with under
crust as brown as a berry, doesn't
always show up when cooking-day
comes round; but down behind the
darkness che can see fendish face all
aglow with fire. That's her favorite
pumpkin, and the only wax-candle she
had is inside of it.
HE origin of "dog-days"i is accounted
for as follows: The great heat of July
led to superstition among the Ro.
mans; they conceived that this pre-em-
inent warmth, and the diseases and
other calamities flowing from it, we're
somehow connected with the rising and
and the setting Of the star Canicula-
the Little Dog-in coincidence with the
sun. They accordingly conferred the
name dog-days upon the period between
the Sd of July and the 18th of August,
HER FOOT.
Just as she her coach was entering
Did see her foot one day
All! what feeling Overcame me!
But what it was cannot saw.
Crazy-like the coach followed
Where it stopped stopped again
And once more the wondrous vision
OF that foot disturbed my brain.
Not one instant forget it,
Or in peace, or joy, or strife
never saw larger foot
never did in all my life!
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28

W1cKs made of spun glass have been
tried in lamps, and it is said they do
very well. It is said that they supply
the petroleum, oil or, alcohol to the
flame with more steadiness than the or
binary wick; that they secure clear
and pure light at a less expense of fuel,
and that they diminish the usual un-
pleasant odor.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28

The peculiar pebbles known in Aus
tria as the travelling stones have long
been regarded as great curiosities.
Similar ones have also been discovered
in Nevada, almost round in shape md
as large as walnut. The cause o: s..e
stones rolling to a common point :,,m
distances of three or four feet is the
lodestone or magnetic iron ore of which
they are composed.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28

Mr.. TALMAGE was asked in London
what he had come there for. II guess
1 came to get money" replied Talmage.
But" said the questioner, II thought
America was the place to make money!"
Yes, but in England it's already made"
was the answer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28
BALLAD OF BLUE CHINA.

There's o JOY without canker or cark,
There's pleasure eternally new
'Iis to gaze on the glaze and the mark
OF china that's old, and that's blue;
Who'd have thought they would come to us, who
That DER loot of empire would hang
A veil of Morrisian hue
In the reign of the Emperor Hwang?
These dragons-thc tails, you remark.
Into punches Of lOtus-fower grew ...
When Noah came out of the ark,
Did these lie in wait for his crew?
they snorted, they snapped, and they flew;
They were mighty of tin and Of fang
And their portraits Celestials drew, .t
In the reign Of the Emperor Hwang. .
Here's a pot with house in park, ..
In park where the peach blossoms blew. ,..
Where the lovers eloped in the dark,
Lived, died, and were turned into two
Bright birds that eternally flew
Through the boughs of the May as they sang;
IT'S q tale was undoubtedly true
In the reign of the Emperor Hwane. ..-
ENVOY. .E.1. .s
Come, snarl at my ecstasies, do, ISL.
Kind critic, your tongue has tang,
But sage never needed shrew
In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
Andrea Lang, In Scvibner.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-28

IT is said that if You strap man
tightly to large cannon and fire it off
the conclusion will kill him and death,
will be painless.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-04
Two for the parish of Raridee.
One for the parish OF Red River.
One for the parish OF Richland,
0na for- ina - a ,.s.L r q 80

Two for the parish of Raridee.
One for the parish OF Red River
One for the parish OF Richland,
One for the parish OF Sabine.
One for the parish Of st. Bernard,
One for the parish of ST.. Charles.
One for the parish of st. Helena.
One for the parish OF st. James.
One for the parish of st. John the BAPTIST.
Four for the parish Of St Landry.
One for the parish Of st. Martin.
Two for the parish of st. Mary.
One for the parish of St Tammany.
One for the parish of Tangipahoa,
Two for the parish of Tensas.
Two for the parish OF Terrebonne.
One for the parish OF Union.
One for the parish OF vermillfon.
One for the parish of Vernon.
One for the parish Of Washington.
One for the parish of Webster
One for the parish of Vim.
Total, ninety eight Representative delegates
Now, therefore. 1. FRANCIS T. NICHOLS
Governor OF the State of Louisiana. do hereby
issue this my proclamation. directing an cleo
ton to be held throughout the State. at such
places as may be designated by the legal local
authorities Thereof. on TUESDAY. the eiRh-
teenth day of March. A. D. 1879, from O'Clock In
the forenoon until 6 O'Clock in the afternoon
for the purpose of electing delegates to Con-
vention to frame a new constitution for the State
o. Louisiana. according to the above apportion-
ment. the deleea es to meet In convention, at
the State House. at New Orleans. on MONDAY.
the twenty-frst day OF the month of April A.
D. 1879, at IL o'clock m. And do hereby order
and direct all sheriffs. commissioners OF cleo
ton, and other officers therein concerned. to
hold said election on the day aforesaid, at the
places designated by the local authorities there
Of and to cause the same to be conducted and
the returns thereof to be made In the manner
and within the time prescribed by law.
In testimony whereof have hereunto affixed
my signature and caused the seal of the State OF
Louisiana to be hereunto attached. at the city OF
New Orleans. this twenty-fifth day OF the month
of January. in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-hine. and
OF the Independence of the United States OF
America the one hundred and third year
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS.
BY the Governor:
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State. ia76
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-04

act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and
that this act shall take effect from and after
its passage. -
JOHN C. MONCURE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
LOUIS A. WILT,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved February 8, 1879.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS,
Governor OF the State OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-04

holds the disease in check In the Fall and Win
ter months. the insect that causes the Soap is
forcing his way go deep into the true skin that
he cannot be reached or destroyed; while in the
early Spring the insect comes to the surface OF
the skin. and is easily eradieated By one or TWO
clippings in nv Sheep Dip.
Sold for 81 rs gallon and Freight paid on
SO gallon lots to your railroad S,pot. Bo9k
sent free to Sheep Growers. Address .. Hs
KENNEDY, Omaha, Nebraska,
KENNARD q FORSYTH,
iv91v Omaha. Nebraska,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-04
Scab and Ticks
In SHEEP.
NON POISONOUS
SREEP DIPl
Manufactured by
n RENNEnv


s. Fl. KENNEDY.
Omaha. Nebraska,
eradicates the pest,
This is the only dip that
adds to the staple and
value of wool. 1t will
cure the most obstinate
cases-dilute each gallon
In $50 parts hot water
and will not cost n cent
q head each dipping.
Packed in ONE and
FIVE g ALLON TIN
CANS.
Dip Scabby Sheep in
the early Spring and
Summer as that Is the
time TO eradicate the dis
ease from the skin. Fail
and Winter dipping viii
n M aIYra tho SpQh III only
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-04
OFFICIAL.
g THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.

s.r-RrrsHED BY AUTHORITY.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01
TIME MAKES ALL THINGS
EVEN"

That Is what DR.. Ilayford says in his
PAPER, which lac issues occasionally in
Laramie City. He means by this, that
as Laramie City has lost the Job of
keeping prisoners at a dollar a day, he
and a few Of the leading lights of our
jealous, little neighbor, will try to make
it even by taking the capital away from
Cheyenne. He says:
There is one other fact that might be
mentioned, too, and that is that Chey-
enne has often set up the claim that
the p~enitentiary was located here TO
compensate Laramie for the location of
the Capital at Cheyenne, and that now
Cheyenne is seeking to repudiate the
SO called bargain by depriving us of
any benefit it might be to us. And yet
we don't care a cent. Time makes all
things even.
Hayford and his friends have been so
often beaten at their little game, that
one would suppose they would retire
from the field. and give some men of
brains and common sense a chance to
manage the affairs of Laramie City and
Albany county. The threat that they
will move the capitrl certainly will
have no more effect upon the people of
Wyoming now, than it has had during
the past ten years. They raised this
cry every second year since the organi-
zation of this territory, but have been
beaten every time.
The charge that the territorial prison.
ers were sent to Lincoln by the Terri.
torial Commissioners where they are
being kept for less than half the amount
charged by the prison authorities in
Laramie City, out Of hostility to the
latter place, is a ridiculous one, and
without the least foundation. The
Commissioners, having the welfare of
the whole territory at heart, sent the
prisoners where they would cause the
least expense, and thereby brought
about great saving to the tax payers of
the territory. What would have become
Of our finances, and how large a debt
would o be our share, if Laramie
City had been permitted TO keep our
prisoners for us during the past two
years The last legislature a%ppropri-
ated S48, 600 for the keeping of prison
ers, and three months had not elapsed
before the whole amount was swallowed
up. If Laramie City a get away with
S4S, 600 in three months, it would take
$685., 800 to satisfy this glutton during
two years. But fortunately the board
of penitentiary commissioners was
created by the last legislature, and the
members of that board, like honest and
capable men, when they saw S4S, 600
disappear in three months down the
capacious gullet of the Laramie peni-
tertiary ring, cast about at once for
ways and means to save the territory
from bankruptcy. By good manage
ment they have succeeded, and to-day
the certain %shipwreck which about two
years ago stared us in the face, has been
avoided, and financial affairs are once
more on a sound basis. 1t will be for
the next legislature, however, to find
out where that S4S, 900 went to. Mean
while 'time will make all things even"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01

Wallace King had perhaps the best
voice on the stage. AS to the Duets,
trios and choruses, they sounded bet
ter for the reason hat the imperfections
were hushed in the din of sound.
By people Of intelligence and taste,
the intrusion of gross burnt cork antics
between acts was considered highly out
OF place. 1t would never be permitted
in a first-class company.
The duty of a critic is not a pleasant
one, and it must not be understood that
anything is said in a malicious or cap
tious spirit. But the public here have
a right to expect frst-class performances
for frst-class prices and these conditions
cannot be said to have been filled last
evening. The combination is a failure
in Pinafore, and the managers should
know it for their own good. Even
those who never heard the opera before
were greatly dissatisfied, and this fact
is certainly not greatly to the perform
ers' credit.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01

The sheep in England suffered very
heavily last winter on account of the
severity of the weather.
Among the cattle here to-day was a
thoroughbred Durham COW, an old
prize winner from the herd of John
Colts, of Jacksonville, ILL.,, which cost
that gentleman when he purchased her,
the neat little sum of 1900. -Stock-
man.
\ Cheyenne correspondent of the
!Stockn,un says; son Tuesday last
Isaac N. Alter, one of our prominent
stockmen, shipped from Cheyenne to
Denver three car loads of beef cattle
for use in that market. We have all
the time been asserting that our cattle
up among the mountains and in the
foot hills we're in better condition than
those on the plains, and now, when
Colorado sends to us for supplies to last
until her own cattle are marketable,
we think no other proof is necessary
tiihl pui iaiui lidNI DCEu Dd1tu vi
good grounds. Mr.. Alter is now in
Colorado making arrangements to keep
the supply of cattle moving forward as
needed.
"The sheep business of the territory
proves every day more satisfactory, and
more men are constantly embarking in
it. This spring the firm of Miner &
Warren, of this city, invested 100000
in the sheep business, to run five years
without drawing out a dollar, and in
tend by that means to test the sheep
business thoroughly. Their ranches
are scattered in the best sections of
this grazing region, and Mr.. Miner has
supervision of them and devotes his
personal attention. Their nearest
ranch to Cheyenne has 5000 head, and
in May the flocks were increased by new
lambs at the rate of more than 100 per
day. If the programme is rigidly
carried out, at the end of five years n
quarter of a million dollars will not
cover the value of their nocks. This
beats compound interest, as sheep
compound more rapidly than bank
notes.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01
Pinafore Photographed.

After several attempts to get to
Cheyenne to perform, the Hyers' sisters
combination arrived finally and pro-
duced 'iPinafore" at the Dramatic
theatre last evening. To be more speci-
fic, as Conkling would observe, it should
be said they gave u photograph or a
daguerreotype of the performance Pin
afore. Those who have heard this
attractive little opera by first-class
companies would scarcely recognize the
counterfeit presentment given last
evening. 1t was faulty from beginning
to end, and was badly ''cut.n There
a most doleful lack of chorus
power, while the painful efforts of
Hebe to symbolic ''his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts, +" were agonizing.
Hebe played a lone hand. To be
strictly truthful, perhaps, to the num-
Der of her sex or the stage at the time,
she should have sung s'and 1 am his
sister and his cousin and his aunt.n
The solos were indifferently sung.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01
Wild Rill,s Grave Robbed.

When Wild Bill, the noted frontiers
man, the man who has 'downed" dur
ing his lifetime, more fellow-creatures
than he had fingers and toes, was bur-
led in the old cemetery on the ridge,
in South Deadwood, his ivory handled
revolvers and knife, according to the
custom ofthe border were laid away with
his remains in the coffin. These imple-
ments of death were quite as famous as
the owner himself, and the fact that
they had been buried with the remains
of their owner was kept q profound
secret for a long time, but finally leaked
out, and now it is said that some ghoul
has gone through the grave and robbed
it of these relics. When the sacreligi-
GUS act was committed we are unable
to say, but that it was done is pretty
well established in the minds of some
people.
Robbing a grave is among the most
dastardly acts in thecatalogue of crimes
and the man or men who despoiled the
grave of Wild Bill deserves the fate of
his %cowardly assassin. The revolvers
were made expressly for him, and were
finished in a ann unequalled by
any ever before manufactured in this
or any other country. 1t is said that n
bullet from them never missed its
mark. Remarkable stories are told of
the dead shootist's skill with these guns.
He could keep two fruit cans rolling,
one in front and n behind him, with
bullets fired from these firearms. This
is only a sample story of the hundreds
which are related of his incredible dex-
terity with these %revolvers. - eadwood
Times.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01
POINTS.

h. l.. Van Fossen, OF Adel, Iowa,
connected with the press of that city,
is in the city. He is pleasmin9 over
the plains for 4 brief season
Deputy sheriff Arnold, of Denver,
is able to be about again.
Master John K~uykendall returned on
Sunday last from school. to spend vaca-
ton at home.
A. G. McGregor was elected yester-
day to fill the vacancy in the city coun-
Gil from the third ward.
Charles II. Layman, esq, u new
United States district attorney, arrived
in the city yesterday.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-01
LEGAL NOTICE.
TERRITORY OF WYo,uSe,


COUNTY OF LARAMIE.
In the District Court OF The FIRST Judi
cal District.
Frances A. Nichols, Complainant,
VS..
Samuel Nichols, Respondent.
The said Samuel Nichols will take
notice that the said Frances A. Nichols,
OF the County of Laramie, Territory
OF Wyoming, has filed her bill of com
plant in the First Judicial District
Court, next to be holden within and for
the County of Laramie and Territory
OF Wyoming on the Chancery side
thereof, praying for n decree of divorce
from the bonds of matrimony now ex-
isting between the said complainant.
Frances A. Nichols and respondent.
Samuel Nichols, on the grounds of will
full abandonment, and unless the said
Samuel Nichols appear and answer said
bill Of complaint on or before the 18th
day Of August, A. d. 1879, said bill of
complaint with all the matters therein
stated, will be taken as true and a de.
cree rendered accordingly.
Witness my hand and the
seal Of said court, at fsEAL.
Cheyenne, this 18th day
OF June, A. ID. 1879.
T. J. FISHER,
Register in Chancery.
CD. F. VAN DE SANDE,
Solicitor for Complainant.
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