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The Idea Of a Deluge.

''The earth inhabited by men," says
the Singhalese version of the System of
the Universe, "with the various contin-
ents connected with it, is subject al
ternately to destruction and renovation
in series of revolutions to which no
beginning and no end can be discovered.
Thus it was: thus it will ever be. There
are three modes of destruction. The
world is destroyed seven times by fire,
and the eighth time by water. Every
eighty-fourth destruction is by wind" "
Such is the orthodox Buddhist belief in
the destructibility Of the earth-a belief
that elaborates the intensities in a most
unpleasant manner the idea commonly
pictured in most other creeds of the way
our world must perish some day. But
the story of flood is enough for most
people, and, when we contemplate for a
moment the terrible destruction that is
wrought by excessive rains and incon-
tinent rivers, the prominence it has in
the mythologies of Pagan countries is
hardly to be wondered at. The Romans,
we know, had a superstitious, if not as
devout q belief in the age of Pyrrha as
in the paternity and attributes of the
Thunderer himself; while the ever rest
less, over-uppermost in their minds
When fish were tangled in the branching
elm,
The brooding stock doves haunt in days
of yore.
And roe deers swan affrlghted mid the
roar
OF seas that did their native glades DER.
whelm.
That "uXorious river. was, indeed,
always avenging its llia's plaint, as
Horace would say, and creating as much
discomfort and expense among the poor
Quirites as the Father of Rivers periodi-
cally commits among the dwellerS along
its muddy banks. After Horace's time,
when Christians multiplied, the misbe-
havior of the Roman river was gener-
ally set down to the increase of their
number and the malignity of their rite
Under the earlier Empire their back was
made to bear the numerous shortcomings
Of not very careful people, and
"Christiani ad Leones = was the COM
mon remedy even in the time of Juve-
nal for an excess of zeal on the part of
the Tiber or neglect of duty on the
part of the Nile Boston Courier.
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Home Produce Market.

The following quotations represent the Wholesale
rates from producers or first hands
FLOUR--Quotable IN iObbng lots at Standard brands,
6 0O@ts5 so; best country brands, - 5O9S5 2j
superfne, - 5UW4 %.
WOOL-Valey, 2Oa22t; Umpqua, 224G24; Eastern ore
gOn, lid2lc Very choice Of Valley, UmpQua and
Eastern oregon command advance on these
terms
WHEAT 81 s5asl s71 for average; milling 81 sjt@
81 81; Walla Walla from 2!95 cts. less.
POTArOES-QuOtable at GOcG75c per 100 hs, az to
description and quality.
NOTWITHSTANDING at feed, s2oGS2b; fine, SIS
s271 y ton.
BRAN'Jobbing at per ton, sl5.
oATS-Feed, per cental 81 l0dSl 10; choice shade
BACoNNSides, s@lOc; hams, l2alsc: shoulders, 7asc
HAY--Timothy baled, buying at Sl09sl2 per ton;
weak.
LARD-ln kegs, &c: new in tins, lie.
BUTTER--We quote choice dairy at 21!c; good fresh
roll, 2O@22!c; ordinary, l5@lsc, whether brine or
solid; common, l249l5c, market steady; California
fresh roll. 2246o25
GREEN FRUITS Apples, G5c@sl 90 per box
LINES, sl@sl 30 per box; Oranges, 50 5o@s5 per
100.
DRIED FRUITS Appes sun dried, 4d5c; machine
dried 6dSc Pears machine dried, 7dSc. Plums,
machine dried ljglSc; pitted, l0@i2c; with pits,
no sale.
EGGS.-d25c per dozen. ..
POULTRY-hens and roosters, 81 5Oqs5; chickens sS
25dSi.
CHEESE-OTegon, lOdl2Ic California 1O9l5c,
HOGS-DreSsed Sc; on foot, 4c.
BEEF--Live weight, 23d3ic, for good to choice.
SHEEP Live weight, 2t@3lc,
HDES-QuOable Ii at l59lyc for all over 10 its, one
third of Tor under that, also onethrd of for culls
TALLOW-Qu at 5a5tc.
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RICE-Market quoted at China mixed, 6YdH6; japan.
G{I7E Sandwich Island, 7iW7I
COFFEE Costa Rca, 1s!@lS4c; java, 25c Rio, none;
Guctamala, 17!mloc.
TEASING quote Japan in iowered boxes 4G@5Oc; La.
quered boxes, 450s5Oc; paper, 3jg45c.
SUGARS--SandwiCh Island, S!@l0c; Golden c. In bbs
Si1 hi bbls 1Olc; Crushed bbs, lO5C hi bbls 1910;
Pulverzed bbIs lie, hf bbls ll!c; Granula,ed bbs
lOc Inf bbls l0lc
SYRUPSQ Quotable at 47Ic in bbls SOC in hfs and 55c
in kegs.
SARDlNES-Qr boxes, 81 90; hfboxes, s25a3
OLS-Ordnary brands OF coal 25c, high grades, Dow.
ner e. Co. 35GyiOc; boiled nseed, 0Oc raw linseed
sOc pure lard, slSSl 10; castor, 81 25@l so; tur.
pentine, s6Ou65c.
YEAST POWDER-Donnelly l9g20c U gross; Doory,
2Od22c u gross; Preston & Merrill, 24c q gross.
WINES-Sherry, foreign in blk, 81 $685. III Cs, S7CeSJ
Sherry domestic in blh 81 5092 so; in cs, 81 so
@s6.
Port, foreign in blk, SO 5O@s7; in cs, s7@s9.
Port domestic in blk 81 50@s2; in cs S4 50ds6.
Angelica, domestic in blk 81 50G2 80; in cs, 81 90
mf6
Muscatel, domestic in blk, 81 75as2 80.
Reslipg, domestic in blk, IL 50aS2 90.
Sonoma White, domestic in blk, II 00aSl 25 in cs,
81 00a$5 90.
Claret foreign in blk, 81 5Oas2 90: in cs, "a 5Oa3S
Claret domestic in blk, 75c; in cs s3!aSit.
CANDLES-Emery, l2lc: Pick & Shovel, l5c Hark
ness, 2OIc; Grant, ljc; wax, 2lc.
SPIRITS AND MALT LlQUORS-The following are
the prices current OF certain brands of whlskes and
beer: j. II. Cutter, old Bourbon whisky, manu-.
featured by C. 2. Moorm IN Co., Kentucky, SO %
al; NJ. NJ Marshall, Kentucky, 50; other brat DIS
81 500s2 rs.
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pontion of their own, and so perpetrate
their peculiuities. AS an illustration
of this Suppose Il young theological
graduate Of twenty-five years in search
of a parish. He Iinds one, but he can
not get it unless he will marry his pre-
drccssor's daughter, who may he 50 or
10 years old and as ugly as sin, with
half dozen brothers and sisters The
young priest and the old maid with Il
parish attached to her never hesitate to
declare, in answer to the question asked
during the solemn ceremony of matri,
mony, that they choose each other of
their own free will.-Sun.
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LONDON, October 8 Floating cargoes,
steadily held.
Floating cargoes maize-Turn dearer.
Cargoes on passage and for shipment,
wheat, very fiat, downward tendency maize,
steadily held
Quotations of good cargoes off coast, 4S0
bs, sea damage for sellers account, less
usual, Pa per cent. commission: Med. CHI.
or Mil, 49s: Red Winter, SIS; Gala,
500 bs 52s 6d(053s.
Good shipping Gala. wheat on passage,
per 500 bs, Queenstown for orders, just
shipped or to he promptly shipped, 53s Cd;
nearly due, 54s Cd; Oregon for shipment,
52s.
Fair average Chicago or Milwaukee, for
shipment during present month and follow
ing one, per 4S0 lbs, Am. terms, sos 6d@5ls.
Good cargoes Gala off coast per or of 500
ibs 54s 6dG55s.
Weather in England, fine.
Good wheat cargoes off coast per 4S0 bs
sea damage for sellers account less usual 2 "a
per cent commission. No. 2 Spring, 1850
49s Cd. Red Winter, 54s.
Mixed American maize off coast, per 4S0
lbs, tale quale, less usual 21Iper cent. COM
mission, 48.
London quotations of same on same terms
for shipment present and following month,
49s 6d@493.
Imports OF wheat into u X. during past
week, 800 000@295, 900 qrs.
Imports of -four into U. X. during past
week, l60, O00@l65, 900 bbls.
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The Faithful Wife of Communist

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says: AS might be ex
pected, there have been Enoch Ardens
among the returned Communists, but
happily very few. When their wives
read their names in the lists published
in the journals, they disappeared A
case of an opposite nature has been re-
ported to me 10y a friend of the family in
which it happened. The wife in this in
stance was heroic in her constant atfec,
tion, and accomplished prodigies of en-
ergy in putting her children to trades,
setting Lerself up in business and send
ing money to her husband, who was laid
low with a chronic malady. He was so
altered by illness and hardship that at
the railway neither she nor her children
recognized him. The latter went back
to distant parts of the city where they
are employed, and the wife returned
home in a despairing mood, which tbs
spectacle of the rejoicing people around
her intensified. The amnestied husband
first lost time seeking for her in crowd
and then waiting to see if she would
hunt him up. He remained until 6
o'clock, waiting in the hope that she
would arrive, and then went to look af-
ter some baggage in which he had col
lection of curious shells and stuffed ami
mails, which he thought would please
her. When at last he got to her domi-
Gle lie was shown to her room and found
the door bolted inside. Nobody answer
ed to the loud knocking, and the police
commissary was sent for Upon his ar
rival a letter, freshly written, was found,
in which the unfortunate woman said
that she had only loved once in her life,
and that the object of her love was her
husband. 1t was evident that he was
dead, and death only could relieve her
from her heart wound. Her dead body
lay on the floor. She had committed
suicide.
, 1879-10-16

Why would ready.made clothing deal
ers make poor euchre playerss Because
they have so many suits.
Sitting Bull has 5000 warriors in the
field, and a fortune awaits the enterpris-
ing individual who catches, cleans and
and stuffs them for cigar store figure
heads. ....
, 1879-10-16
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
PoRrLANp, Oetoh. r >, 1878

Legal tenders in Portland, buying, par, and selling
Mt pm,
Silver coin m Portland the banks quote az per cent
discount to per.
COin exchange on New YORK per cent. premiln.
Coin exchange On san Francisco par To \ per cent.
premium.
Telesraphic transfers on New York, per cent pre-.
niuu
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

New York, Dec. 2.-On the PROPOSE
tion to renominate Grant, the San says:
"We want to see who is the member of
congress willing to take the responsible
ity of offering the proposition to buy off
Grant as candidate by an enormous
pension to be saddled on the backs of
the overloaded taxpayers. If the re-
publicans desire to take him up as their
choice, and to stake the issues of third
term and the restoration of Grantism
on the presidential campaign, let them
show their hands boldly. By all means,
let US once for all settle this question
and decide whether military despot-
ism can be erected on the ruins of the
republic in the first century of its exist
ence. Grant is exactly the man to rep
resent the fallen state of his party,
whose managers are now pressing him
to the front with prepared ovations." T"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03
BRIEF TELEGRAMs.


New York: The ship Gen. Werder,
from Europe, brought $4,000 in
American gold coin.
New York: Two representatives of
the French government are here in
specting postal facilities.
New York: James Keene gave the
Seventh regiment fair, now holding
here, a thousand dollars yesterday.
lPoughkeepsie, N. Y: AT the mu-
nicipal election on Tuesday the repub-
lican city ticket was elected by an av-
erage majority of 300.
Wilmington, N. &C.; The schooner
M. Sc e. Henderson, of Philadelphia,
Capt. Silas Swim, is ashore near Kitty
hauk. The captain, both mates and
the cook are lost.
Chicago: A gang of burglars was
captured by the police tonight which
has done some of the sharpest jobs ever
worked in this vicinity. All are well
known to the police.
The Hague: The Dutch minister of
foreign affairs, in introducing. the esti-
mates in the states general to-day, ex-
pressed the hope that an extradition
treaty with the United States will soon
be adopted.
London: Hereafter sheep imported
from tile United States will not be re-
quired to be Slaughtered at the place of
landing, the restriction in consequence
of the foot and mouth disease having
been removed.
Dublin: In consequences of recent
anonymous threats received by the com;
mander of the barracks at Birr Lem
ster, all the ammcnition, including sew
eral hundred casks of powder, have
been removed under an escort to Dub
lin.
London: The Chemitz (Saxony)
Tageblatt states that an explosion oi
fire damp occurred in a mine in that
district on Monday evening, and it ii
feared that from seventy to eighty per
sons perished. Recovery of the corpse!
is actively progressing.
Youngstown, Ohio: Two boilers a
the Girard furnance exploded this after
noon with terrific force, wreeking th'
engine house and badly damaging tb'
furnace. Tive men were buried in tn,
debris. and one,s Amos Llewelyn, wa
killed. z q Il EEgE.5 80 u.
y. New Haven, Conn: AT the tow
election to-day the democrats elected al
the officers'by majofities ranging from
| Eve to eight hundred. ii The common
council is democratic for the first tim
in three years. The greenbackersyotet
with the democrats; ,r,i.. r., .-,r-l..
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

New Orleans, Dec. 2.-The election
in this city passed off quietly. There
was very light vote polled, probably
less than two-thirds' vote. The ring
ticket in this parish was generally
elected. Special dispatches to the New
Orleans Democrat from all the telegraph
stations in the state show heavy demo-
cratic gains. These reports are giving
the estimated majorities in eleven
country parishes clean democratic gains
of twelve Thousand, compared with the
democratic count of '76. The same
parishes gave Hayes 1000 majority.
All dispatches say the election passed
off quietly, and most of them report
that the negroes are voting the demo-
cratic ticket, and for the constitution.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03
Master Commissioners Sale.
Silas Reed
vs..
Genroe C. Leighton and Ithama


George C. Leighton and Ithamar C.
Whipple.
BY virtue and authority of decretal
order of sale to me directed, and issued
out of the district court of the first ju-
flicial district of Wyoming territory,
within and for the county of Laramie,
on the goth day of November, A. d.
1879, in a suit wherein Silas Reed is
complainant and George G. Leighton
and Ithamar e. Whipple are defend
ants, directing and commanding me to
sell the following described property, to
wit:
The south one hundred and ten (110)
feet of lots No. twenty-one (21) and No.
twenty-five (22) in block No. four hun
dred and sixteen (416) in the city of
Cheyenne. county of Laramie, and Ter
ffitesJ,-off WJoming, as said lots are laid
down and described on the plat of said
city recorded in the office of the county
clerk Of said county, together with all
| the appurtenances and privileges there.
unto belonging, to satisfy and pay COM
plainant the sum of four thousand
three hundred and sixty "a, ,360) dollars,
with costs and accruing costs; and to
satisfy and pay the defendant, Ithamar
| C. Whipple, the sum of six thousand
4 two hundred and fifty-seven thirty one
hundredths (6, 257 30-1O0) dollars, found
due by the decree Of said court on the
2lst day of November, A. d. 1879, and
iby the decree and order of said court.
This, therefore, is to give notice that
i will, on Thursday. the 18th day of
December, A. d. 1879, at the south
front door of the court house, in said
1 city of Cheyenne, between the hours of
9 and B O'Clock in the afternoon, offer
the above described property for sale at
public auction, and sell the same to the
highest bidder for cash in hand, to sat
isfy said decree and all accruing costs.
GEORGE a. DRAPER,
4 Sheriff Laramie county and special mas
ter commissioner.
Cheyenne, Wyo. Ter, Nov. 29, 1879.
] n30-d11 ~
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

it was remarked that there are still
employed by the senate number who
were placed in Office by the republicans,
who were never in the army in any ca
pacity, and desire was expressed by
some of the members OF the caucus to
replace them with democrats. After
some discussion resolution directing
inquiry into the nature of the instruc-
tions given by the caucus last session,
and several other resolutions providing
specially for the retention Of Captain
Bassett and various other old lem-
ployes, in case any further changes are
made, were referred to the caucus CONT
mittee on organization created last
March, to be reported on hereafter
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

London, Nov. "A Berlin dispatch
says the czar will inform the nobility of
Moscow at reception to-day of his de-
termination to call number of unoffi-
cial advisers to assist him in the gov
ernment of of the empire. The council
will be purely deliberative, without any
right of control or interference, and
will be chosen partly by the suffrages
of the middle and peasant classes, and
partly by direct nomination by the car
from the ranks of the aobility. Other
measures of local reform will also be
announced. These innovations have
been strongly advocated by the czarc-
witch.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03
A LOUD PROTEST..
rHE MAINE nETURNrNG BoARD
The Republican Onieers- Elect Present
: ~ a Clear and ForcibIe Protest ~
TO the Unwarrantable
Outrage.

Augusta dec. 2.-Tne governor and
council have in session all the
forenoon, and till / o'clock, when they
adjourned They allowed the returns
of the county officers to be examined by
the senators and representatives elect,
or their attorneys, but refused to ex-
hibit the returns of the votes on the
senators and representatives. Just be-
fore the adjournment they declined, as
at present advised, to exhibit the re-
turns of the senators and representa-
tives, as they have no power, under the
constitution, to alter, correct or sub
stitute returns, and therefore 1t would
be no use to exhibit them.
Augusta, Dec. 2.-When the final
answer from the governor was received
stating that no one could be permitted
under any circumstance to inspect the
returns of the election of senators and
representatives, long protest was for
warded the governor and council by the
members-elect, as follows: ~
aYour honorable board will permit
the undersigned to remark that they
never grounded their right to inspect
the returns on the act of 1877 alone,
which you now declare unconstitution-
al. If this be the definite basis on
which your honorable board proposes
to execute the laws of the state, it
would be merciful act to notify the
people as to which laws your honorable
board regard as binding, and which as
and especially as to which
statutes are safe from change of con-
lstruction beyond the period Of fourteen
days. All laws duly enacted are bind
ing until repealed or set aside by Judi
lcial decision. and your honorable board
is guilty, you will permit US to say, of
glaring usurpation of power whenever
you decide to, disobey, or annul, or re-
fuse to execute any law on the statute
book. The undersigned protest against
this arrogant assumption of power
the unprecedented destruction of
rights, the bold usurpation of judicial
Functions, the scandalous secreting of
public records hitherto open to honest
inspection, which have distinguished
the course of your honorable board in
all matteIs herein submitted for your
consideration.
SIT is understood that the Republican
senators and representatives will now
resort to judicial proceedings, and will
make no further personal effort with
the governor and council to procure ac-
cess to the returns. The department
Of the government can set aside the
plain, direct language of the statute.
Your honorable board will permit the
Undersigned to remark that you enjoy
the distinction of being the first gov
ernor and council who have directly
assumed the duty of the judicial depart
ment of our government. You assume
to set aside the plain provisions of the
law now on the statute books" y 81
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

Washington, Dec. 2.-The demo-
cratic senators met in caucus this
morning. There was large attend
ance. Senator Wallace, chairman of
the caucus, announced that the meet
ing had been called as usual at the be-
ginning of the session, to consider the
subject of revising the democratic
membership Of committees prior to a re-
apportionment by the senate. No va
yancies having been created by death
or resignation in the democratic mem
bership during the recess of congress,
and there being no applications pre-
sented to-day for exchanges, it was re-
solved that the majority representation
should remain as fixed at the extra ses-
sion, and the chairman was directed to
notify the republicans that the commit
tee positions occupied by the late Sena-
tor Chandler are at the disposal of the
minority. A somewhat general dis
cussion then ensued concerning the dis
tribution Of senate patronage. Several
Of the senators complained that it had
not been equitably distributed, and said
that when the officers of the senate
were spoken to on the subject they re-
ferred to the caucus resolutions of last
year, which bound them to retain GER
tain employees except in the event of
misconduct, and contended that
with the remainder of the patronage
they had done the best they could. The
question Of amending these resolutions
was then broached. There was no dis
POSITION manifested to interfere with
The one by which the senate officers
were required to retain all disabled
union soldiers that were on the roll, but
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03
TEXAS AMUSEMENT.


Fatal Shooting at n Country Dance.
Galveston, Dec. "A Netcs special
from Waco says: Last night, in the
country, near here, where-a dance was
progressing, Bud Wood asked Miss
Grace Stanfield to dance, which she de-
clined. Wood became angry, and de-
manded that the dance cease Wood
then followed Will Currie into the back
room and provoked fight. Currie
knocked him down with the tongs.
They met outside the house, had duel
with pistols, and a dozen shots were ex
changed. Currie was wounded in the
hand, a bystander in the leg, and Geo.
Wood was shot in the thigh. Bud
Wood then went to where Miss Stan
field was talking with Albert Choch and
made two attempts to shoot her; then
remarking to Choch, "You are a friend
of Currie,'' shot Choch dead and es-
caped. N
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

Washington, Dec. 2. The bill intro
duced by Mr.. Belford to-day for the re-
moval of the Utes provides that all laws
establishing reservation for the Utes
in Colorado shall be repealed, and that
the lands constituting such reservation
shall become public domain. IL furher
provides that the president, with the
consent Of the senate, shall appoint five
commissioners to select in some one Of
the territories reservation for the
Utes, and arrange with them for peace
full removal. The bill proposes the ap-
preparation of 5000, 900 to meet the ex-
penses of removal.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03

Chicago, Dec. 2.-The Irtbmts's Ga
lena special says: Gen.. and Mrs.
Grant will leave for Chicago tomorrow
at 1:30. Remaining several days, they
will then fulfill engagements in eastern
cities, and will sail for Havana the-lat-
ter part of the month. They will re-
main in Haynna part of the winter and
thence go to Mexico and after visiting
the principal cities of that country re-
turn via Galveston in April, going di-
rect to Denver, and from there visiting
the mining districts, including Lead
vile. This is his latest programme.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-03
Grants Mind on His Nomination.

New York, Dec. IA gentleman
who, with cne or two other friends of
Grant, had talk with him at the house
of the governor of Nevada, and who,
from his intimacy with the general, felt
al liberty to ask him directly what he
thought of nomination for the presi-
dency, says that Grant replied promptly
and with emphasis that ''he sincerely
hoped the necessity for his nomination
would not arise Subsequent conyer-
sation showed that the necessity which
he had in mind was connected with the
condition of affairs in the south :