davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-04
FURNITURE
will find this a

Rare Opportunity,
rs you will admit after learning our
prices. No joke, no humbug,
but actual fact. Come and see.
jl9tf CRAIG & GARDNER.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-04

FRIDAY. FEB. 4, 1881.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-04

IN MEMOIR OF IL LATE capt. JOSEPH Ia
soN,3 D o.. 4.

n MEMORY OF THE LATE CAPT. JOSEPH La
SON., 81 U. q. CAVALRY.
A hero has left us,
Worthy, indeed,
ofthe name of a soldier,
Worthy indeed.
Proved on the battle field:
Mic the lark night
Ofthe Unions existence
He offered his life.
Proved On the plains
When the Cheyenne he found
There he stood like the granite
Surrounded by death.
Never h%inchinef from danger.
But ever prepared
To die with his comrades
Ifhis duty said then.
Proved too-at Milk Creek.
When the first savage yell
From five hundred red skins
Sent forth their death knells.
Firm. firm he stood
With his forty brave men,
Driving ack the Ute udlan
With their ten TO his one.
Cool and calm came his orders,
With men well in hand,
He saved from destruction
The White river command.
He Is gone from our sphere,
A brave, modest man,
Lawson, the stainless,
with his maker now stands.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-04
Cheyenne. W. r.. Feb. 8, 1ssl.

Cheyenne. W. T., Feb. 3. 1851.
Army and Marcy Register:
First Lieutenant James Allen, third
cavalry, registered at the Ebbit on
Wednesday, He is acting signal Off
Ger, and is on court martial duty at TT,
Whipple, Va. The appointment of
First Lieut.. Charles A. II. McCauley
to be assistant quartermaster promotes
Second Lieut.. Joseph F. Cummings,
third cavalry, to be first lieut.. The APP
pointment of First Lieut.. Charles r.
Barnett, fifth artillery, to be assistant
quartermaster, promotes Second Lieut..
George E. Sage, fifth cavalry, to be
first lieut.. The two vacancies have
been filled by the appointment of First
Lieut.. Charles A. II. McCaulay, third
cavalry, the First Lieut.. Charles r.
Barnett, fifth artillery. We believe
these are excellent appointments. That
is the verdict in army circles, so far as
we have heard. Lieut.. McCauley's ap-
pointment was urged by Senator
Hill, of Colorado, and other gentlemen
from that state. Lieut.. Barnett was
also strongly recommended. The bill
retiring Gen. Ord, with the rank and
pay of major general, has passed both
houses of congress, and he consequent
ly will receive a considerably larger
compensation than he would if he had
remained on the active list as a birga-
dier general.
From the Fortress Monroe letter TO
the Register: Major James Gilliss,
quartermaster U. S. A. (recently pro-
moted), left here on Monday evening
for New York, as a member of the
board of officers To examine and report
upon the Neptunite process for treat
ing cloths, etc., which renders them
water repellant and impervious to
moths. 1t is understood that Don
Piatt has no interest in this invention.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

The census of 1880 shows the impor-
tant fact that the black man is multi
plying in this country faster than the
white. While the whites have increased
from 239, 667 in 1870 to 39l, OIL in
South Carolina, the black advance is
from 4l2,32O to 6O4, 235; in the Dis
trlct of Columbia the whites grew from
IS, 27S to 1926 the blacks from 49,
4O4 to 59,4O2; in the city and county
of Baltimore the white increase was "a
and the black 81 per cent; in % North
Carolina counties the white per cent of
growth was 25 and the black So, and
in IL Alabama counties it was Is per
cent white and 81 colored. The figures,
of course, include among the colored
population large numbers of persons of
mixed blood. and there is whitening
process IN progress at greater or less
rate among the blacks; but while the
proportion of pure Africans to the white
races may no5 be increasing. the census
makes it tolerably plain that the condi-
tion of freedom is not physically destruc-
tive to the colored race.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

grabbed the bell rope and stopped it
again. The conductor declared he
shouldn't stop. The old boy said he
should, and throwing open the platform
gate in spite of the official, who violently
resisted, he grabbed the latter by the
throat and took him along too. Every
body cheered, and cards of possibly use
full future witnesses were showered on the
grim old victor, who marched off unmo-
Tested through the startled people of the
road, while the crestfallen victim of his
ire had to board the next train, in pursuit
of his own so unexpectedly and unwill-
ingly abandoned.
A remarkable auction of a church has
just taken place in Brooklyn, which, in
some of its features, seems to suggest
that some church people are as mean as
sinners can be- The church, like many
others, has been mortgaged for about its
| full value to a life insurance company,
| the officials of which, tired of not getting
the business settled, or even the interest
on the mortgage regularly paid, foreclos-
| ed, and ordered an auction sale. The de-
linquent stockholders in the church en-
terprise, who were so awfully poverty
stricken that they couldn't meet even a
fraction of their just debts, managed to
gather up SAC, 1000, and intended and ex-
pected to buy the property out and out
for less than that figure. The insurance
people were up to the game, however, and
got their backs up. They rolled up the
bids to the limit of the congregation, and
then bids the property in at a small adj
vance. One of the deacons and prime
movers in this smart lodging is an old
public functionary, with a multitude of
sons, whom he has provided for in COM
Portable berths, Immediately about him.
self, at the public expense, and who has
had multitude of wives-I am told his
present helpmeet, young and quite at
tractive woman, is the thirteenth The
old Bluebeard was once great gun in
Beecher's church, but took sides against
the Plymouth pastor at the time of the
| SICdG dl0l SCNCACO. AAO Aiuoo bS
considerably over three score and ten,
and is queer-looking object as he sa-
lutes every one he meets-for everybody
knows him-on his daily return from
market with monstrous hamper full OF
groceries and other purchases.
Two singular accidents, one on the top
of the other threaten to deprive us of one
of the most charming features of Christ
mas celebrations. At one merry party
a Christmas tree caught fire and a pretty
little girl was burned to death, or al
least so burned that she died shortly af
terward. At another party, well-knowr
restaurateur (not Delmonico, but close
rivaD, who represented Santa Claus, il
full costume, found his beard of fluffy
cotton wool decidedly inconvenient whe1
it caught fire and blazed up, peeling his
face like one of the onions in his most ap
petizing stews. Carpets, furniture, &C.
were ruined, and the unhurt guests wer'
robbed of the best part of long looked
for entertainment. RADIX.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

st. Adams is to have large shirt fac
tory.
The amount of hay that has been and is
still being bought in Western Vermont
shows that the yield last year was the
largest for the past six years.
George P. Foster, about so years old,
for many years proprietor and keeper of
the Union House in Montpelier, dropped
dead of heart disease Saturday.
The trustees of the old Norwich Uni
versity (now Lewis College,, at North
field, have elected Charles H. Lewis, LII.
D., of Boston president of the college.
Rev. Father Mahoney, for some time
past one of the assistant priests at St.
Mary's Cathedral, Burlington, has been
assigned to the charge of the church at
Brattleboro.
Two mines of red hematite steel ore
have been opened in easy distance of st.
Adams which promise to be extensively
worked. The ore is the best known for
the production of Bessemer steel.
Among the natives of Vermont who
will be members of the next Congress
from other States are Senators Carpenter
from Wisconsin, and Kellogg of Louisiana,
of Massachusetts, Morton, Smith of New
Jersey, Caswell of Wisconsin, Horn of
Michigan, and Ray of New Hampshire.
The Ottaquechee Wooden Company's
factory, located at North Hartland, is now
making 5000 yards of cloth daily, or
100000 yards annually. Wool growing
has proved to be profitable to farmers in
this section since the establishment of
the mill, and they are obtaining better
prices here than they can get in Boston
market.
Charles S. Colvin, Of the firm of George
Stockwood & Co., manufacturers of knit
goods, Bennington, was found in the
street Friday, where he had fallen from
an attack of heart disease. He was taken
to his residence and died soon after.
Mr.. Colvin was large manufacturer,
and had wide circle of acquaintances.
He was prominent in town and county
matters, and was upwards of sixty years
old.
The people of Wolcott were startled
ON Saturday, Dec. %, by the suicide of j
Harvey Trow, who lived with his aged
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin TroW
On Thursday he borrowed revolver tc
shoot some cats around his barn. Early
Christmas morning he shot himself in his
room, the ball entering the right temple
he was speeches. and unconscious from
that moment, although he fingered two
hours. He was thirty years old.
A drunken spree terminated in the hor
rible death of a Mrs. Rock at Moretowl
Sunday. She and two men got drunk
and the latter went to bed leaving he
alone. Nothing more is known defnitel.
till about 8 a. m. Sunday, when the neigh
: bors came in and found Mrs. Rocks dea,
body burned to crisp, and the chat
where she was sitting burned, and hol
burned through the floor. She had drag
ged herself some fifteen feet to the door
and was found there dead. The indica
lions are she was smoking, and droppe
fire in her lap. The room presented
e sickening spectacle. The floor was coy
: cred with blood and grease, where sh
4 had crawled to the door, and her sufferin
! must have been terrible.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10
CLUB LIST FOR 1881.

For the convenience and advantage of
our subscribers, we have arranged with
the publishers of the periodicals named
below for club rates for the year to come.
The understanding with subscribers is
that they are to pay arrearages and one
year in advance on the MONITOR, always
accompanying the order with cash. If
more than one periodical is wanted adj
dress US for price Should any irregular
ity occur after receiving the first number
of periodical, or for any change in the
address, write to the publisher of the pc
riodtcal, and not to us. The first column
gives the price at office of publication,
the second gives price of MONITOR and
periodical together.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor. ]

New YORK, Jan. 8, 1881.
Pheugh! It's cold. There's no news in
that, for the haZing that Hazen, the new
cold Prob.," is giving us seems to be
there are more evidences of suffering in
the great city than in the smaller place.
The pitiable sight of tramps with ill-shod
feet and no overcoats, and of the poor
peddlers who are hardly better of, as they
hawk their small wares on the street
corners, abounds. The city is the winter
haven of such. They are lodged for the
main part like behring's in a barrel in the
station-houses at night, but are ruthless
ly bounced in the morning, and a nice
cold time of it the poor wretches must
have till they get barreled up again. No
wonder that if they can raise the price of
a soda-water bottle full of forty-rod at
distillery, they should look on the ''vel-
vet ROOM Of the establishment as a veri-
table paradise and turn up their blossom
| ing noses at all talk of temperance.
OF course, mails are delayed and trains
are showed in everywhere, but that's to
be expected in the country. Not so much
a matter of course is such an embargo on
nearby places which has sadly bothered
our men who work in New York and
sleep in the suburbs. Even adjacent
Brooklynites have been sorely put about
to get down to business in anything like
decent time. On the rapid transit route,
for instance, which only takes the trav-
eler some five or six miles from the fer
ries, it has been found impossible to run
more than one car in a train, and armies
of shoyelers have been at work night and
day trying to keep the track clear. AND
in Newark among other distressing in
cidents of the blizzard, prominent den
fist, a very religious and sober man, was
frozen to death within few doors of his
own residence, in the best part of the
town.
Talking of temper, a jolly, good, rous
ing fit of passion is not always an unmix
ed evil. The way choleric old gentle
man laid out a conductor on the Elevated
Railroad, the other day, was joyful to Tn
: beholder. The conductors are not TIL
most civil among human beings, an,
e would meet with more sympathy for thei
t undoubtedly unhappy financial condition
r were their manners trifie less brusque
f Many of them act as if they owned tn
e road, and were inclined to be hoggis
t about it at that. On the occasion in ques
/ ton the old gentleman, who had gallant
e given up his seat to lady, was gradual
a forced to the middle of the very crowde
If car. When he wanted to get off it took
; working his way through the throng, til
! conductor started the car. The old be
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

Itching Piles-Symptoms and Cure.
The symptoms are moisture, like per-
SEPARATION, intense itching, increased by
scratching, very distressing, particularly
at night, as if pin worms were crawling
in and about the rectum; the private parts
are sometimes affected; if allowed to con-
tinue very serious results may follow.
s'DR. SwAYNE's ALL-HEALING OINTMENT
is pleasant sure cure. Also for letter,
itch, salt rheum, scald head, erysipelas,
BARRIERS itch, blotches, all scaly, crusty,
cutaneous eruptions. Price so cents.
boxes for SIPS. Sent by mail to any adj
dress on receipt of price in currency, or
three cent postage stamps. Prepared only
by DR.. Swayne & Son, $50 North Sixth ST.,
Philadelphia, Pa, to whom letters should
be addressed. Sold by all prominent
druggists. Ally
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10
TRUTHS CONFESSION.

The paper Truth, in which the forged
Morey letter was first published, seeks
to gain a new notoriety by printing a
formal and and very elaborate confession
that the thing was vile fraud from be-
ginning to end. This confession appears
General Garfield, and again in lengthy
editorial, in which the managers of the
paper assert that their investigations
since the original publication have not
only proved that the letter was forgery,
but have discovered the author, who will
in due time be called upon to answer for
the crime in court of justice. These
men further declare that they were i'm
posed upon in the matter by Barnum,
Hewitt and their pals, who ''unhesita-
| tingly pronounced the letter genuine
and procured it's publication and distribu-
| ton.
This confession will, as far as the let
ter itself is concerned, go for naught, for
there was not a man or woman from
'MdIHe W CdIlIofHId WHO neeueu any 1uf-
ther evidence that the letter was stupid
forgery. But if, as it claims, Truth has
discovered the scoundrels who procured
the forgery, and can convict them of it,
it will have earned the gratitude of all
decent people. 1t has been evident
enough for months that large share OF
the men who had the management of the
last democratic campaign should be be-
hind prison doors, and the war against
them ought to go on until they are where
they belong.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

1t is not necessary that President Gar
field should take sides with any faction,
or with any group of leaders. He should
keep clear of all complications in their
separate interests or quarrels, recogni-
zing all of them according to their de-
serts, and treating neither with marked
favor or disfavor. The Democrats have
no other hope of regaining their lost
ground except through the Administra-
ton laundering into the camp of one OF
the other factions. Their hope will be
rendered altogether futile should Presi-
dent Garfield determine to keep his adj
ministration free from all entangling al.
liances, and so shape and steer it as to
make it serve country and party by max
ing it serve the whole party, and not any
small or great faction of it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

HoAE.-In calling attention to an arti-
Gle advertised in our columns, we are
pleased to notice an excellent sign in re-
gard to it, viz: that the testimonials
relating to Hoods Sarsaparilla are from
New England people, and many are from
Lowell, the home of this medicine. We
are assured that the sale of this article in
Lowell, where it is best known is wholly
unprecedented in the annals of proprietary
medicines. We leave it with you to de-
eide as to the probable merits of an, arti
Gle with such solid foundation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

The Democrats of the House generally
have abandoned all hope of trying to pass
the Bicknell-Morgan joint rule. They
say such thing will be impossible until
they can get a quorum here, and there
seems to be no inclination on the part of
members to stay here to attend to bust
ness, the absentee list being quite as
large as usual. In this condition of
things they say they will go on as rapidly
as possible with the appropriation bills,
and get through by the 4th of March.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

The unusual and intense cold in Vir-
ginia causes great suffering among people
and animals. On Thursday evening the
mercury was % below, near Fredericks-
burgh, and several men were frost-bitten.
Birds froze to death in the fields, cattle
were lost, and deers were caught in the
door-yards of farmers, where they were
driven by cold and hunger
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A notorious gang of forgers was broken
up in New York last week by the capture
of Chas. Becker and Geo. English.
Total importations of coffee into this
country amount to nearly 350,000,00O
pounds per annum, worth about $50, 000,-
900.
An old colored man, named Simeon Nc
Kew, killed himself at Seguin, Tex, by
drinking three pints of whiskey on wa
ger.
There is woman in Lancaster, Penn,
who has not lived in vain. She has had
nine sons, and every one has entered the
ministry.
The census office has nearly completed
the first count of the population of the
United States, which shows the aggre-
gate to be little over 81, 100000.
Miners have struck at Wheeling, w.
have thereby been closed and four or five
thousand men thrown out of employment.
| President Hayes will go to his home at
] Fremont, Ohio, after the Inauguration of
I his successor, and will probably visit
Europe next summer, accompanied by
Mrs. Hayes and their two youngest chill
| dren.
Edward Richardson of New Orleans is
called the section king of America. He
is said to be worth $15, 900. He owns
ten or. twelve cotton plantations, on
which from fifteen thousand to twenty
thousand bales Of cotton are grown each
year. asae as-
Twelve steamships left Boston for Eu-
rope during the week ending Dec. %, la
| den with assorted cargoes aggregating in
value $2,7OO, 900. Besides the shipments
| of grain, beef, pork, flour, and live stock
we notice increased shipments of the
products of New England. Among other
things, large quantities OF baked beans.
The record of marine disasters for 1880
shows no less than lat steamships, of a
total tonnage Of III 1862 tons, were wreck
ed. A very small percentage of them
was raised again, repaired and put back
into service. OF the whole number 107
were British, 10 French, 9 American, and
German; IL are missing, with no clue
to the cause of their destruction.
The discovery that old shoes were being
collected for some unknown use in Brook
Ign led to an investigation recently, and
it was found that the old shoes were made
into Jamaica rum. When they came
from the rag pickers the good pieces were
cut out and sold to small cobblers fol-
patching purposes. The rest was distill
ed with spirits, colored with burnt sugar
and sold as Jamaica rum, and the most
singular fact about the business is that il
is bought not by saloon keepers, but by
druggists, who pride themselves on the
purity of their articles. s'
The population of Massachusetts i:
, 1,783,0S6. This is not very large com
} pared with other States, but it is IL, 49'
more than the combined population o
: the States of Vermont, New Hampshire
Delaware, Colorado and Oregon, ant
the territories of Idaho, Montana, Arizona
New Mexico, Utah, Washington Wye
, ming and Dakota. The population o
Boston is &c., 535, which is larger thai
| that of either of the States of New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Colorado
, Delaware, Florida, Nevada or Oregon
? and is of course larger than that of an
of the Territories. a
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

Malone of Virginia will issue in few
days an announcement that he intends to
act with the republicans in the organiza-
ton Of the Senate next March, and in
future altogether apart from the demo-
Gratis in Virginia. In other words, as far
as officers are concerned at Washington,
he proposes to be republican, and as far
as voting is concerned in Virginia, anti
democratic.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

The Cabinet makers claim that two
names have certainly been selected by the
President-elect for his advisers-Senator
Blaine for Secretary of State, and Mr..
Foster for Secretary of the Interior. One
other place, it is declared settled, will go
to the Pacific slope
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

The President has ordered a court mar
tial for colored cadet Whitaker, and of
the ten officers comprising the court only
four are graduates Of West Point. They
are all officers of high grade and it is safe
to say that when they complete their in
vestigatiOns and make mp their verdict
nothing more can justly be said about the
case by way of criticism, because it can
not be possible that board constituted
as this is will see any injustice done to
the cadet or to West Point, which is it.
self in a measure also on trial
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

The country will be glad to know that
Senator Edmunds says he will not accept
a seat on the beach of the Supreme Court
message to Gen. Grant is the message the
country sends to Vermont's great Sena-
tor-"Stick. Nashua Telegraph.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-01-10

I sometimes think Of myself as a man
going to prison. You have heard the adj
vice given to man who has been con.
victed Of crime, to go to prison and
bear manfully the punishment for his of
Tense, to obey all the rules of the prison
and when his term expires to come back
home and Give it down." am going tC
see if can obey all the rules of the pres
idency, and then come back home anC
''live it down. "-Ga1feld