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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

had got their range down fine and were
creating considerable havoc. There
were four cannon and they covered
about the same front that the advancing
regiment did. They used shell at first
against us, and in twelve or more
rounds we only lost three men. They
then changed to grape and canister,
and before reaching the guns our total
loss was fifteen men. We marched
square at the cannon, preserved good
front and the artillery could not have
had better chance. Had we been adj
vancing on one hundred infantry be-
hind fence or in life pits our loss
would have been four times as great.
At Gettysburg more than 400 can
mons belched away for hours, shaking the
ground as with an earthquake, but the
loss in killed and wounded was not as
great as that inflicted by brigade in
action. More than 100 Confederate
field pieces were turned on Round Top
for two long hours, and yet infantry
rested there and munched their hard
tack almost as coolly as in camp.
When Lee reiterated and Sheridan pur-
sued his wagon-train over the mountain
roads, the rear guard Of the Confeder-
ates planted two field pieces in the
narrow road to check pursuit They
were well served, had plenty of am
munition, and seemed to command the
entire approach, but those guns were
charged and captured with the loss Of
but three men.
The fire of artillery is destructive
only when it hits, the same as infantry,
but it is easier to shoot man with q
musket than with cannon. A shell
has been known to blow twelve men
into pieces, but perhaps twenty other
shells were wasted before that one hit
A round shot may crush two men as it
plows through regiment, but it will
take no more Grape and canister
will do murderous work at short range,
but that range can only be had once in
while, and then preserved for only
two or three rounds.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
The Keeping OF Scrap Books.

OF the keeping of scrap-books there is
no END. Nearly everybody keeps or
has kept q scrapbook. Strange as it
may appear there are some merits
about scrap-books. 1t is not utterly
silly like keeping diary or an album Of
the autographs of Congressman and
other worthless \ scrap-bool contains
what some other party had thought
good enough to print, and so the chances
are much in favor Of scrap-booKs of q
given number of men, being not quite
so dull as the diaries of those same men.
If, therefore, scrap-books must be
kept, and they undoubtedly will be un-
til the end of time and newspapers, it is
desirable to keep them in the best posi-
BILE way. AS a general thing scrap
books are a mass of information and
amusement, where everything is so ar
ranged that the owner can never find
what he wants, when he wants it. A
literary gentleman in this city suggests,
that the best way to keep a scrap-book
is not to keep it. His plan is to have
no scrap-book, but on cutting out a
newspaper article on any particular sub.
iect, he folds it up and places it in any
book he may happen to have on that
particular subject. For instance, a
scrap about the Crimea might be put
into Kinglakes "History of the Cri-
mean War" an article on hogs, in the
History of Chicago" or in volume of
"Bacon's Essays" and thus man could
make scrap.book of his whole library.
Detroit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
Injustice to Whitaker.

General Schofeld may be very fair
soldier, but he does not fill the bill as
Director at West Point. From the
start he seems to have assumed that
white West Pointers are incapable of
anything mean or unmanly, and that
the colored cadet Whitaker, who WAS
found with his hands tied, his ears mu-
tilated and otherwise maltreated, had
therefore necessarily inflicted these
cruelties upon himself; and this, too, al
though it is well known that the high
minded young military sprigs on the
Hudson refuse to sit on the same bench
with colored cadet, and that a mill
tary student who has already sufficient
burden to carry through life in the shape
of dark skin is subjected by the "gen-
tlemen" of West Point, throughout his
four years course, to utter isolation and
to every humiliation, and that he never
receives kind word, nod OF recogni-
ton or the slightest assistance or favor
from them. General schoield has been
acting in advance Of the investigation in
the Whitaker matter, as though he
knew all about it and had his mind fully
made up; and while throughout the
country the brutalities of West Point,
are being execratci. he is heaping cotn9
plinents upon his embryo army officers,
and is extending their privileges He
evidently has too much Of the army
spirit in him to fill the position of in
struotor or manager of an educational
institution. II would be well to ct him
occupy himself in some department of
the military service where coloret cadets
are unknown.-S. j. Chronicle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
The Indifference OF AfHuence.

1t was nearly year ago when Lead
vile was first showing what there was
IN Der There were several newly made
bonanza kings about Denver then, and
among them was man who had proba-
bly, never had $50 in his pocket at one
time previous to his strike. To him the
possession of a watch was the natural
evidence of competence, and as he
made more than a competence he felt
that the fact should be indicated by the
purchase of several watches. Those he
deposited in the Grand Central Hotel
safe.
=. One night he came into the Office very
much the worse for liquor, lurched up
to the desk and hiccoughed up to the
clerk :
"Gimme watch.
A timepiece was passed to his I'M
steady hands, but in endeavoring to
thrust it into his trousers pocket, lie let
it slip and fall upon the floor. Without
casting glance at the fallen watch, he
lurched against the counter again,
reached out his shaking hand, mustered
all his faculties TO the task of speaking,
and then blurted out:
"Gimme 'nuther !"
Can the Indifference of aflueDce &c
beyond this denver Inter Ocean.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
The Corner in Sea Lions.

Captain j. Mallet, who quilted New
York for Omaha on Friday says that he
has captured every sea lion now exhib-
tied anywhere in the world. He was
for many years master of an English
vessel in the guano trade, and it was
while laying off the Chincha Islands of
South America that he studied and be-
came interested in the sea lion. Being
told that this animal would be valua.
bic addition to the geological gardens
and travelling menageries, he gave up
his occupation and engaged in the new
venture, capturing the animals on the
coast Of California, the only other place
where they are to he found, and the best
place in point of proximity to the routes
of travel. He has several vessels en-
ployed in the trade. Finding what is
called rookery of sea lions on the rocks
along the coast, his men approach
stealthily, lasso the beasts, cage them,
fasten lines to the cages, throw them
into the surf, and float them to the YES
sells lying beyond the surf Captain
Mulett has captured two hundred sea
lions. Their average price to showmen
is 81, O0O He has provided the show
men, dealers and gardens of San Fran
cisco, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati,
Philadelphia, New York, England and
Germany with specimens of this race Of
aquatic beasts. At first the sea lion
was transported in a special car contain
ing o tank of water. When the water
grew foul the animal died. Now it is
not found necessary to use tank if the
animals body is occasionally moistened.
The sea lion is ferocious at first, but is
easily tanned. and becomes obedient.
The captain says that no other animal,
except the elephant, is so intelligent.
Four sea lions that Were captured by
Captain Mullett are now in the Central
Park. 1t is said that wherever there is
sea lion more people congregate
around its tank than around the other
animals in the exhibition The sea lion
is of the seal species, having coarser fur
and attaining larger size. While
Captain Mullett was in New York he
received telegram from California no;i
flying him of the capture by his men of
two sea elephants, and of the fact that
hey were both feeding and in good con-
dition. He says that the sea elephant
has never before been seen by any living
man. Wise men have discussed the ex
istence of the animal, many of them de
claring it fabulous, although what pur-
port to be portions of the sea elephants
skeleton are exhibited in Europe.
Therefore Captain Mullett telegraphed
every possible purchaser in the world,
notifying them of the acquisition of the
curiosity and opening bids for them. A
firm in ST. Louis made the highest offer
and obtained the animals. They are
mates, weigh 600 or 700 pounds, and
are possessed of the PROPOSES and tusks
that give them their nickname. Captain
Mullett thinks of turning his attention
to the walrus next. He says this beast
has never been exhibited. 1t attains a
weight of three tons-N. Y. Sun.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

of the bridal wreath. Near it was a
tall floral harp, with strings wteathed
of cypress shoots and sides made up of
camellias and white pinks, and the SNOW
white, bell-shaped blossoms of the wood
lily. The graceful leaves of maiden's
hair were entwined with the lilies and
surrounded the sides. The base was
Of white roses, immortelles and forget
me,nots.-San Francisco Chronicle,
April 10th
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

The English ladies who, some time
ago, inspected Mount Holyoke Female
Seminary have, since their return, in
augurated movement to esta blish a
similar one in England.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

Nearly all the iron works about Dan
VILE, Pa, ere in operation, and the le-
mainder are being got ready.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

Beside it stood tall broken column,
four feet in height, of heliotrope, white
rosebuds, camillas and smilax, with
garland of violets twined around it.
Attached was white ribbon, on which
was inscribed in small gold letters: "Our
mournful mpatby-Chronicle Business
Office"
Another large pillow Of immortelles,
with camillas at each corner, bore in
delicate blue forget-me nots the single
word:
REST.
Beside 1t stood another broken col
umn of heliotrope and immortelles, with
similax and ferns intertwined.
A large anchor of black pansies, with
smilax and cypress border and wreath
Of camellias encircling it, stood upon
the mantel, photograph OF the de-
ceased, draped in Grape, occupy
ing the center On the accompany
ing card was inscribed: "From the at
taches of the Editorial Department
those who knew him best"
Among the many wreaths was one Of
coal-black pansies bordered with leaves
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4. A. nre.sn, t,s .csn. ~ . ,r.n,. err
s,de ia. .,,u.g,a 20 mt dc,.n an
old fashion and snh.tituts n nav one
and the cur,ous element IN the ca.a Il
that the ,-nnovator. ara the nrose..or.
az the old university Every one who
knows the German nation, knows the
fondness for the ceremonial OF street
salutations. The friendly nod by
which an Englishman condenses a great
deal Of meaning into a very slight res-
ture, Is entirely foreign to the steady
salute Of two gossips meeting In a Ger
man street. We ARE content to raise
our hats to ladies' and crowned heads,
and are n little intolerant of the defer
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

HANCOCK passed u very quiet day on
Governors island last SUNDAY. Most
OF the time he spent in his office. writ.
Ing letters In answer to his correspond.
ence, which grows nor voluminous as
the political campaign advances. Many
OF his letters are Invitations To attend
political meetings and offers OF free
quarters at different watering place no.
tells. He respectfully but firmly declines
both, his mind being made up distinct,
that he viii not make political speeche
in his W behalf, and that he will re-
main on Governors Island during the
summer.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10
surnrrr BENDER, with the allese

SHERIFF BENDER, with the alleged
Bender prisoners, arrived in Kansas
City early Sunday morning, where he
remained during the day, fearing to
proceed further, having been informed
that the people at C~herryville, Kansas.
were awaiting their arrival there. The
eagerness OF the people to see the pris-
oners was 50 great that Sheriff Bender
placed them upon exhibition ut the
Theater Comiqne, charging an admis-
sion Of % cents. This proceeding was
severely condemned by the county and
city officials. At 5 O'Clock the prison
ers were started for Oswego. Kansas.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

DA- TAEkEH spsat Sunday quietly
and - very lev yizit0n, His physi,
clans say he u inPnosing - ssL As scan
be sHpsetsd after such . long fast.
Daring the eahy part u tbs morn
ing be chssed half . pound u
haefstsAk, only retaining thu juice.
and partook Of some milk toast
and wine. Shortly before noon he
ate half 4 pound Of beefsteak and some
stewed pot4toes- He WAS then weighed
and turned thu scales at l36 pounds.
About every hour hs partOOk Of some
nourishing food or drink, which iDclud-
ed watermelon, potatoes stewedin milk.
ale, beef tea. bread and wine. About
9 O'Clock his weight WAS again taken
and was found 70 he $50 pounds. lie
WAS quite lively and frisked about his
room like = schoolboy. His physicians
say his rapid recovery from the effects
Of his long fast Is something remark
aide When asked rs TO his future
mOvements, DIR. Tanner said be had
not given them any thought 'I'ys
been offered" said he, ''s2,7O0 10 de-
liver ten lectures In California, and rs
I have long been anxious TO visit the
Pacific slope, l am inclined 10 think IN.
yorably Of that"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

GERMAN imperialists and socialists
are congratnlating themselves over the
hasty departure for America Of Herr
Hasselmann. the well known radical
deputy. Hasselmann had been ar
raigned under the a~nti-socialist law,
was increasingly harassed by creditors
and the police, and finding himself
abandoned by his W party, which
could not OF dare not accept his de.
structive ideas, he fed the country,
The chances are he will come 10 Amer.
lea and develop into a great ref ormeI
aud statesman like Carl Schurz.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

In A recent number OF the Neue Frei.
Presse. Of Vienna, an account Is given
Of ~arsenical poisoning by means Of q
dress. A gentleman brought from
Paris tor his daughter an elegant dark
green dress, trimmed with light green
leaves. She had worn II several timer,
when numerous pustules broke out on
her neck and arms which grew so pain.
full that she was forced to call n physi'
clan. He at nee recognized the effects
Of a~rsenical poisoning, and chemical ex.
animation revealed n large percentage
Of arsenic In the dress.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

Are you disturbed at night and bro
ken OF your rest by n sick child suffer-
ing and crying with the exerntiating
pain OF cutting teethp II 30, go nj
once and get q bottle OF MRS. WINS
LOWS SOOTHING SYRUP. II
will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately-depend upon It; there Is no
mistake about 1t. There Is not n
mother ON earth who has ever used 1t
who win not tell you at once that It
will regulate the bowels, and give rest
to the mother, and relief and health 10
the child, operating like magic. IL Ia
perfectly safe to use in all cases, and
pleasant TO the taste, and is the pre-
scription Of one Of the Oldest and best
female physicians and nurses In the
United States. Sold everywhere; %
cents q bottle. jan0-eodAw WHY
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10
1T was recon tly decided In the I'm

1T was recon tly decided In the United
States court, after a bitter fight, that
the o. & NJ. railroad in Nebraska had
the right 10 cross the Union Pacific
track in Omaha, so that 1t can make
connection with the new Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis Il Omaha railroad,
on the levee. On Sunday the b. & NJ.
company put In the crossing, and have
got 40 men ut work and three gravel
trains building the grade. They took
advantage OF Sunday To prevent the pos.
sibility Of an injunction on some new
oround
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

When a Bostonese does give her pen
full swing. IL cuts like a razor. This Is
the way 4 lady from the ''Hub" de-
seribes q literary and artistic party she
lately attended in London: The wo-
men dress In the strangest fashion
the Burne Jones style, I should say,
and aiming at the picturesque, they fall
just short, and appear ridiculous. They
look 10 me so wonderfully false, and
somehow I feel that they are not every
day people with every day cares, but
they are animated dolls-and not very
animated either-dolls that 60 home
and are placed on the shelf for the next
occasion. One giri-heaven only knows
II she was old or young-had a pale,
long, haggard face, Swallowed by n
chopped on untidy mop Of fair hair, out
OF which all the life had been tortured.
She wore n long, scant gown OF red
serge, cut square In the neck, with very
little sleeve. 1 doubt II she had on n
skirt, and I am SURE she did not wear n
corset. However, In their stead she
wore n long girdle and odd golden beads
about her neck, and her long arms were
hidden n little by red mitts-kid, l be-
lieve. She was wonderfully long and
lank. and she sank into chairs as II she
had no backbone. 1 thought her fear
fully and wonderfully constructed.
There were a few pretty women, but the
majority were dreadful. SO on n
count Of their remarkable costumes.
As for heads, they were decked out like
North American Indiana
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

What = sLsdy la the middle Of Tia
river liksf Like 70 bs drowned.
American residents In L0Rdoa pro.
Poss srectinE an Episcopal ehaTeh Al :
cost II $4,000.
As late a 1855 IS wheat Was import
Cd into the United States from Portug-
al and The Baltic.
Marx Twain works every day. some
times be writes all day and throws
away the manuscript. Sensible man.
Blessed be the cOuntryman who has
no city relatives. lest he should he
hunted up and visited,
Connecticut has discovered a true and
only remedy for ehills and fever.
Scatter cayenne pepper in your shoes.
'.coanterfeiting," remarks the Ilan-
bury Meas. has finally got down %
where IL really concerns US. Bogus 10
cent pieces are ahoAt."
The man who leaves two-thirds Of a
cigar In . dark nook on the front door
stoop, when he gees 10 ~ his girl, viii
make a thrifty husband.
Thunder showers brighten ladies al
the cztskill Mountain House. The
thunder is intensihed by the eehOes, and
becomes lawfully grand"
Can Ezekiel have had an eye To the
/ coming blcycle In that vision where he
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10
A Mothers Gratitude.

We Rel like conrratulafing mothers OF
pininE oaeie. that at iHst = preparation ha.
been iound To take the place OF q healthy
young mothers milk. InnutrItious and i'm
proper focd sends thousands of in1antA Ia
premature graves, and many n mourning
household might have been spared the griel
Of seeing their dariinEr pining nsd Stalking
day BY Gay and NJ iasi carried an by that In.
liant ecoorxe. SUNNI compliant had they
or ~fncdotrophine." THIS late discovery q
Geuman Chemists oontaips the element- ol
tnother mitk. u always uniform In quality,
o tiatbis TO infAntz. Dutritious. and Of I'M
most ca<y digrEtion. Pm, sicians commsn nd
fthfxhiy and doubtless thousands Of nfants
are annually kaved by its use. We call the
attention Of mother most earnestly u
-akhMAS INFANT Sold by all
druggists NJ 20 cents per can-
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

MINE NovGoRoD FAm.-The great
market Of the eastern world has been
held at this junction Of the yolga and
Olga Rivers In Russia, every hummer
for hundreds Of years. Hero the ma
lions Of Europe and Asia meet with
their products for trade. Cossack, Chi
nese, Turk and Persian meet the Ger
man and the Greek with every variety
Of merchandise that mankind employs,
from sapphires to grindstones, tea,
opium, fur. food. tools and fabrics, and
last but not least, medicines. j. c.
Aver 4 Co. s celebrated remedies from
America were displayed in an elegant
Bazaar, where the Doctor himself
might sometimes be seen. They are
known and taken on the steppes Of ASIA
as well as the praries Of the West, and
are m effectual antidote for the diseases
that prevail ia the yaonrts Of the
North rs well rs the huts and cabins OF
the western continent -Linooh I'M.
Times.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

JUSTICE PKIscE. Of New Mexico.
has granted n stay Of proceedings and
an appeal 10 the territorial supreme
court, which meets in January next. In
the case OF James Allen, a hotel waiter,
who killed A. II. Morehead in March
last, and who was sentenced on satur.
day morning TO he hanged on the 9Th
ln.f
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

Ok FRIDAY. w. w. walch, n farmer
Of Hamilton county, Nebraska, chal-
lenged John Wiley. another farmer. To
light q duel TO settle some difficulty.
Wiley went To Aurora yesterday and
had Walch arrested and bound over for
trial at the district court for violating
the state law against dueling.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

THE Grand Standard OF Knights
Templar. about TO depart from New
York 70 Chicago TO attend t~heconclave
Of the order. was co~nsecrated with i'm
posing ceremonies at Grace church on
Sunday. Rev. Dr. Piatt, the rector,
officiating.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10
pn. H. N.

Kewanee. Ill. advises ms Of q remarka-
BILE cure OF Consumption. He says:
"A neighboris wife was attacked With VI
olent lung disease. and pronounced DO
yond help nom Quick Consumption. As q
last resort. the family were persuaded to
Try HALLS BAIsAn. To the as,onishmeni
OLA by the time she used one half dozen
bottles she was about the house doing her
own work. l saw her nj her worst stage
and had no idea she c ,uld recover"
BEWARE OF CoUNTFRFEITs.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

The immense sale and great popular
ity OF Green's August Flower In all
towns and villages In the civilized
world has caused many imitators to
adopt similar names, expecting 10 reap
q harvest for themselves ut the expense
Of the afflicted. This Medicine was in
trodu3ed In 1868, and for the cure Of
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, with
their effects, such as Sour Stomach,
C~ostiveness, Sick Stomach, Sick Head
ache, Indigestion, Palpitation Of the
Heart, Vertigo. ETC., etc., Il has aerer
failed 10 our knoWledge. Three doses
will relieve any ease Of dyspepsia. Two
million bottles sold last year. Price 20
cents, Samples 10 cents.
Green's Atlas and Diary Almanac,
the most expensive free Almanac ever
published, sent ina on receipt Of two
cent stamp. G.. G. GRkkN,
daw Woodbury., N. j., u. 8. A.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

FITS. All Fits are STOPPED
FREE by DIR. KLINE'S GREAT
NERVE RESTORER, A MARVEL
LOUS MEDICINE for all NERVE
DISEASES. Send 10 931 Arch street,
Philadelphia, Pa. je2d& w3mos
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-10

To all who are suffering from the error,
and indiscrctlons Of youth. nervous weak
ness, early decay. loss Of manhood, &c., I will
send a recipe that will cure you. FREE Oh
CHANCE This great remedy was diseov'
cred by \ missionary In South America
send n self addressed envelope To the llKy
Jos~rH T. iSnAr. STATION ~. Nes fork cfD
m~ysdAwly