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sroLBRAND AGAIN.-Commissioner Stoebe
came here last Friday for q little moro testi
mDny in tho standardization case, and nj
though many witnesses were on hand the,
did not testify. It appears that Col: Eugene
Gary. tAttorney for Mr.. Aiken) being unc
Y0idably absent, George Jollpstonc, Esq., ap
pcared for him, and brought such. strong oh
~tections to bear against the legality Of thu
Court that 1t was adjourned.-Ne'ober7y Ne1rs
A Coon OLD AGE.-Miss McQuerns was sew
enty nine years old or Tuesday last. She Il
vigor. Her natural force seems scarce abated
Likethe Psalmist she nay say. II am a won
der unto many" Mny the daya Of the year,
OF her life yet 70 come be full Of the peace o.
God ttat passes all Observation-Disclosures
Reformed Presbyterian.
The editor Of this paper has been confined to
bed for more than two weeks. We regret tc
say there IL no decided Change for the better
MS yet. We are sure that our brother Will have
the sympathies and prayers OF the whole
Church.-Associate Reformed Presbyterian.
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SEED CoRS.-Now Is the time to commence
10 lOok after your seed corn don't wait until
the day you arc going to plant. and then send
n couple OF darkeys into Your barn to bring
sound. but 20 TO work and select II yourselves
mt intervals you may have In your more act
i've lnbors. Nothing pays better for the
trouble than 4 careful selection OF good seed
whether 1t be corn, cotton or anything else.
Nub from both ends OF tho cob, saving FIR
seed only straight rows and well formed
grains. Examine your cotton seed that you
have saved for planting, and see whether they
ere in good condition. There has been n great
deal Of rain, and sometimes seed that has
been placed in buildings with large CRACKS
witch let in moisture freely, aSt"nlsh the
owner about planting time by being In very
~"nJ couditIsn rs manure, hut not worth a
s s'.;.t NJ seed. L:ok carefully after ynur stock
and provide suitable projection inr tiiose you
, ca iuyc In March Chester Keporhr.
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Sherif's Sale.

II. and ]. Myers and others, against II. G.
Tagyart, ct ul.
sundry Executions.
pY virtue Of Sundry Executions to me d..
- rected In the above and other cases / Will
sell to the highest bidder, at public auction,
within the legal hours, at Abbeville Court
House, on MONDAY the fourth day o APRIL
A. D. 1881, the following described real estate,
to wilt:
All the interest OF Dr.. n. c. Taggart. (being
the one.slxth) in the Home tract Of tho lnte
james aud Elizabeth Taggart, deceased, con-
tanning
more or less, lying and helnIin the County of
AbbevilTle, State OF South Carolina. on waters
Of CalhUuns Greek, and bounded by the ALI
stOn lands,sW. r. Kennedy and the Vienna
'~' J;F. C. pppRE.s. Al c.
Abbeville CHI, Sc, March 3, 1881.
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Sherif's Office,

Sheriff Q Office.
Robt. Hutchinson, Plaintiff. against SAINT. J.
Hester and others.
Judgment for Foreclosure. Z.
pY virtue Of an order Of Judge l.. q. Nor.
- throp tO me directed, In the above stated
case. I will sell to the highest bidder.a public
auction, within the legal hours o! sale, ut All
bcville Court House, on MONDAY the fourth;
day OF APRIL a.. D. 1881, the following de-
scribed real estate. to wit; The Home Tract
containing E
TWO HUNDRED AND TEN ACRES,
situate in the county Of Abbevllle, Stateo
South Carolina, bounded by lands OF Mrs. 3.
A. Norwood, Mrs. Sarah Calhoun and The Au-
. Also, The "Quarter' Tract, situate In same
county and State, containing
FIVE HUNDRED ACRES,
more or less, bounded by lands Of ]. Edward
Calhoun. Mrs. y. A. SUrH ood. the Augusta
road and others.
TERMS CASH.
March A.. 1891. ,
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the purpose of determining the capacity OF n
horse to undergo the privations incident to o.
state Of scise, n series Of experiments has
been made In Paris. The results show that Il
horse mny hold out for twenty-five days with
out any solid nOurishment provided It. is sup,
piled with good drinking water: that a hors!
can subsist for barely fire days without water:
and thirdly. ifa horse Ia well fed for ten days,
Throughout his period, 1t will not outlive tn:
eleventh day. a horse which had received
no solid nourishment for twelve days waI
nevertheless In q condition to drnw a load o.
CD pounds ON tho twelfth day OF its fast.
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LIST OF
Supervisors Of Highways,

TOWNSHIP NO. /, Niuetysix.-James 8.
L Pinson.
Township No. 2. Greenwood.-R. r. Blake.
Township No. 3. Cokesbury.-D. v. Sharp.
Township No. 4, Donnaldsville.-Wm. Bar.
more.
Township No. S, Due West. F. W. R.
Nance.
Township No. 9, LongGane.-JamesP Pratt.
Township No. 7. Smithville.-George Lo-
max.
Township No. 8, White Hasl-D. W. Jay.
Township No. 9, Indian aiii.-William Ad.
amson. --
township No 10, Cedar SPRING. william
Miller. v,
Township No. Ii, Abbovilie.-p. A. Cheat
ham.
Township No. l., Diamond Hlll.-Johu Ale
wine.
Township Nc. 10, Lownd esville.-G. F. Bur-
dett.
Township No. IA, Magnolta.-Fpnk Cowsn.
Township No. Is, Cslhoun's Mil!.-Henry
Latimer.
Township No. 'ls, B~ordeaux.-s. A. Mc!n.
W. T. cowAN,
W. R. MCKINNEY,
J. T. BAsK1N,
County Commissioners.
7. p. cornnAs, CIERK.
March 9, 1881, 2t
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SPRING BEDS-14O and 154

THE Spiral Spring Bed 40 springs $50; the
price Of the above Beds reduced to-day 10 $40
and $500, which makes them 81 per cent.
cheaper than uny Bed sold ut saine price.
Each Of the springs are chained together. each
that they cannot get out Of order; no and l6i
springs to each bed, the springs are Of light
, weight. which makes them Elastic, Durable
and the most comfortable bed ut The price
sold. Before buying call and see them ut
J. ID. CHALMERS. .
March 8. 1881. tt.
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Presbyterian Chapel Lot
SPECIAL NOTICE.
To Arrive this Week

To Arrive this Week!
CPRING Dress Goods, Dress Trimmings,
y Black Dress Silks, Black Cashmere, Ken
rfetta cloths, Black Tamise, Black Runtinga
(plain and lace(, Black French Buntlngs. and
many new styles colored Dress Goods, Fancy
Buttons, Cord and Tassels, Hosiery. Gloves,
&C, &c. @.
r. n. Hadden & Go.
Aforoh o 1921
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TIE DAT OUGHT TO BE MARKED.


It ought to be 80 sot apart from other days thata per-
SON coming into tho house would know that II WAS moi
a week day. It ought to be tho plsasantost day Of the
week to your children. The Sabbath should DO q
day that every child shall remember - long As be
not to remember Il on account Of the bondage, the lin:
ita,ions, and the burdens that are put upon him. Oh,
the sweetness Of the household, and the tenderness Of
love, on that day! Oh, tue sancsities that never were
80 regent as on that dayI Then. II ever, the father
shsuid be perfect and the mother should bea saint
Back TO sabbath, and the home.sabbath, your children
- long As they live, should look ~, after . storm upon
the deep, men greet the breaking ont OF the stnrl
again, BY which they can take an observation. Make
tho sabbath day beautiful; make 1t sweet and lovely In
the family. Do not make 1t oppressive nor burden.
some.
WHAT TO READ.
Then, - to what children may read and what they
may not read on Sunday. l would certainly make .
great distinction as to what my children had better aud
What they had better not read. OF the great amour,
Of novel reading, / think therr are somo novels tina,
might DO read IN Sunday, though they are ir~; and
would not reject them simply because they are called
novels. It Ii the contents OF = book, and not the name
Of It, that determines its value or unvalue. There are
some histories. or digests OF history, that may be read
on sunday. There are many biographies that may be
read on that day. But As to this matter the parent
The Sabbath must be different from every other day
by reason Of that which 1t stores mp In the heart els-
vation aad modification Of life which 1t produces.
PAUL, 4 LOVER OF LIBERTY.
Iblsss God that, though l am called, oftentines, to
contravens the sentiments Of the time In which !
live, and to make criticisms that seem to be cutting
The cords which b%indtnen to their beliefs, never do
It w~antonly; that l never do 1t e1cep t with the feeling
that I have imbibed from the Gospel, and from the
great example Of that heroic lover 81 liberty. Panl. !
live for the liberty Of my own sell, and for the ibArty
Of my fellows and l Judge Of all laws and all institu.
tions by their effect upon men as Immortal crsatureE
and whatever l think Is ~hindsring them, In theolgy or
elsewhere, I thunder at and ~criticise. MAD, first 10
this world and In this sphere, and God himself, are tho
only two things worth thinking aboutin creation; and
for mans sake, because Christ 10 In him, and behind
him, hight agalnst anything that will circunscribe
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BLASTING Fuse and Powder.
Feb, @, 1881, II
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SPRING BEDS.

TIHE "~Invigorator" is Strong, Elastic, Dura.
i bic. Made OF 30 Spiral Springs IND on
each Spring securely fastened, Elastic Stats
each Stat chained together. The best bed fol
the price offered for sale. Price $40.
j. ID. CuALAER6.
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- 49, A@~
March 2, 1881.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
Preliminary Notice in
Insolvency.

Henry L. Crouse) No. Insolvent,
%. In the Circuit Court for
His Creditors. Allegany county.
To tile Creditors Of Henry L. Grouse, lnScl-
cent:
VOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED,
L That Henry L. Grouse, in the county
Of Allegany, has filed in the Circuit Court
for Allegany county petition under the
Insolvent Law of Maryland, approved
April IA, 1880, and that netltion in insol-
vency is pending in the Circuit Court for
Allegany county, Maryland ; that a meet
ing of the creditors of said insolvent debt
or to prove their claims and choose a'Per
manent Trustee of his estate, will be held
at the Clerks Office on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1881,
at 10 o'clock, a. m, bef'r Theodore Lu-
man, Esq, Clerk of tho Circuit Court for
Allegany county. JNO. S GROVE,
Feb 19-2t Preliminary Trustee.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19
TRUSTEES SALE OF
Real Estate
NEAR FROSTRURG.

AT II O'CLOCK A. NJ,
All that Real Estate, described as follows,
viz:
LIST. Lot No. IS in Grahamton, conveyed
by G. NJ. Graham and others to Joseph
Warn by deed dated January Goth,
1874, and recorded in Liber 7. L., No.
AZ, folio 131.
I'd. One acre of ground adjoining the
above, which was sold to said Joseph
Warn by Thos. G.. McCulloh, Execu-
tor, described as follows: Begin
ming at stake standing at the end of
1851 feet on the I'd line of Reese's lot
and running thence north "a degrees,
east 1109 feet; south 81 degrees, east
401 feet to an old fence row, and with
it south 57t degrees, west 142 feet to
the end Of the Cd line of Reese's lot;
then north 5S degrees, west 314 feet
to the beginning.
Said two lots of ground will be sold as
one property, the same being improved
Inv n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

IT is very kindly but emphatically
suggested to the management of Odd
Fellows Opera House that, as a place
ofpublic amusement, it isinsufficiently
heated. Last Monday evening when
the curtain rose the breath of fresh
air which famed the audience on the
forehead, suggested the fear that the
Arctic circle had shifted around to
the east and moved closer up.
MINING NOTES.-The Koontz tram
road engine broke down last Saturday;
it will be repaired by Monday. This
accident caused suspension of work
in the mine this week.
The new 'Cony mine commenced
work last Tuesday.
The bridges leading to the Potomac
dump have been washed away by the
late freshet; also the trestling at the
Phoenix mine.
The Consolida ton company have
secured a number of props recently.
The Eckhart and Hoffman headings
will meet by the latter part of next
week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

In the CASE of Joseph Carlin, use
of Second National Bank Of Cumber-
land vs. the Atlantic Insurance COM
pany, in the Superior Court of Balti-
moro, the former gained a verdict
Friday of last week for $1,000. The
suit grew out of the refusal of the de-
PENDANT to pay amount of policy upon
stock owned by Carlin in the Percy
mill burned at this place several years
ago.
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Boot, Shoe, Hat and Cap
EN- % IL I U M,

TN Bank building, opposite St. Michael's
l. Church, Main st Frostburg, Md.
All who want anything in the line of
Shoes, of the best and finest quality;
Shoesof thebest and heaviest make; Shoes
for poorer rich, young orold; Shoes foran,
ion. Boots for Men; Boots for Ladies;
Boots for Children; Boots for all. Hats
for old and young. TRUNKS, VALISES,
&c.,-all at far prices. should go to
WILLIAM THOMAS.
GSy- Bootsand Shoes made to order. Re-
pairing neatlyand promptly done. Leather
and Shoe Findings on hand. Apr Is
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

On CRUTcHEs.-About FIVE weeks
ago Ross Hoblitzell, of Wheeling,
we'll know here, sustained painful
injury to his instep by jumping on a
sled. Taking cold subsequently he
has been compelled to lay off on
crutches and choice reading matter,
the JOURNAL leading as an intellec.
tual luxury.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

AoKNowLEDeMENTs,-Through the
courtesy of Mr.. L. G. Colborn we have
an invitation from Somerset (Pa.)
Lodge, No. 1858, to attend Masonic
banquet to be given By that Lodge on
Washington's Birthday.
Col. H. ]. johnson sends us neat
ly printed copy of his postofice reg
lister.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

A VERY FRIENDLY FAMILY.-In
Garrett county last week Mr.. Amos
Friend married Miss Alice Friend
and Mr.. Ward G. Friend married
Miss Jennie Friend.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

INSTALLATION OF OFFIoERs.-The
following is list OF the officers in
stalled in Mountain Spring Lodge,
No. IL, I. o. G. T., last Friday even.
ing to serve during the quarter end
ing April Both, 1881:
P. W. C. T.-Thomas G. Mason.
W. C. T.-Wm. S. Burton.
". v T.-Miss Agnes Davis.
0W. r. S.-Wm. FL. Carson.
". f. &-John A. Wagner.
". T.-George Conner.
W. A.-Wm. Kennedy.
W. Own. B. Baird.
W. d. M-Miss Kate Bath.
W. A. r. S.-Miss Lucy Kalbaugh
W. 1. G.-Miss Annie Thomas.
W. 0. G.-Arthur B. Largent.
W. r. Fl. S.-Miss Annie Williams
W. L. H. S.-Miss Mary J. Taylor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

A NUMBER of yearly and haL:yearly
subscriptions fall due today. We
would be glad to have all in arrears
come in, settle, and reneso by paying IN
advance for neat year. His hazardous
to run behind you might die.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

NEXT Tuesday is Washington 8
Birthday. This is one of the nation.
al holidays and our citizens should
celebrate it in patriotic manner.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

ASHooTIBa-MAToH will take place
at Mt. Savage Feb. %, commencing
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

A COMPLETE account Of Lincoln
Lodges anniversary will be given in
our next issue.
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49, 49, COMFORTABLE
snIIH Dwelling House

Terms Of Sale One third cash and 9
balance in six and twelve months Said
deferred payments to be secured to the
satisfaction of the trustee and to bear in
terest from the day OF sale.
VIM. BRACE,
Feb lots Trustee.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

ALL the trestlings and bridges on
the G. & P. railroad have been re-
paired.
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Cantata J
THE CANTATA,
"UNDER THE PAL MS"

w HIGH has met with such favorable
w reception in several of the Western
cities, will be given in
ODD FELLOWS OPERA HOUSE,
Under the direction of Prof. REES
ID. REEFS, assisted by some of th3
best II us al talent IN Frostburg, on
Tuesday Evening, Feb. 22d, 1881.
Doors open at o'clock.
Performance commence at II
The entire proceeds, after paying ex-
penses, will be for the benefit OF the M. D..
Sunday School.
Tickets, 25 cents.
Select Seats, 30 "
Tickets for sale at D. G. Percy's drug
store and by the children.
COM OF ARRANGEMENTS.
Feb 19.1t
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LAST NOTICE.
TAXPAYERS READ CAREFULLY

hA-I LlD NEAL UhhLI OuI1
THE ATTENTION of all Taxpayers
Il who have not paid their taxes for
1880 is directed to
Article Nj, Section ~,
of the Revised Code of the Public General
Laws of the State of Maryland, wherein
il is provided that every tax collector
shall pay over the taxes within six months
from the time he gets the books, and any
tax collector who fails to do so shall be
liable 10 prosecution and punishment"
The collector has therefore no discre-
ton in the promises, and he hopes no ono
in arrears will give occasion for instituting
a single process of collection by law.
N. S. FROST,
Collector.
Office at John J. Keller's Store, Frost.
burg, Md. Jen 30
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

ANOTHER fresze-up last Tuesday.
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oENTERTAINMENTs.-Prof.L L. Por-
ter, Of Eckhsrt, will give sleight.of-
hand performance in Pauls Opera
House, next Monday evening, for tile
benefit of the German Lutheran
Church, of this town. This will be
the first entertainment this young
magician has ever attempted to give,
and lovers of the mysterious will be
amply repaid for their trouble in at
tending.
The Methodist folks will offer an
unusual attraction to the public next
Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows
Opera House, in the shape Of reli-
gious cantata entitled Under the
Palms" This is something new in
this section, and az all the participants
are home folks large crowd is ex-
pscted. Admission Is and IS cents.
Duprez q Benedict's Minstreis gave
one of the finest entertainments ever
rendered here last Monday evening.
Too much praise cannot be given to
this troupe for the satisfactory manner
in which they put their plays and
dances on the stage. Tom Warfeld
and Archie White were the concen-
trated essence of fun in black. We
are confident that the large audience
was pleased with the evenings per-
Torrance.
The Maryland Mammoth Minstrels
will entertain the citizens of Mt.
Savage this Saturday evening. Our
nsighbors will have a chance to enjoy
hearty laugh at these fun-loving
fellows. Go and hear them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

SMALL pay for last month.
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PERsoNAL.-D. W. McCleary, ESQ.,,
Of Cumberland, paid us pleasant
visit Monday.
Miss Lille D. Miller, who has been
visiting the family of Mr.. D. s.
Fately for some time past, returned to
her home near Woodstock, Va, last
Wednesday. Miss Lille leaves many
warm friends in this town.
Mr.. D. S. Wright, scotsman, called
at our Office, last Saturday. He is
distributing garden seeds, Wright's
Anti-Bilious Pills and Pectoral Cough
Syrup. He is looking well and meets
many warm friends who are glad to
see and settle with him.
Edward Price, painfully hurt in
New Hope mine two weeks ago, is
regaining his wonted activity.
William Thomas is also recovering
rapidly from injuries sustained in a
fall from his back building few
weeks ago.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-19

INpRovENENTs.-Mr. Alex. Reck-
ner has recently fitted up the store
Of Mr.. William Fl. Evans, on Bowery
street, this town, in an excellent man
nsr. The room has had an addition
made to it of 20 feet-making it OK
40 feet in size, and one of the cosiest
business places in this section. New
counters and shelving have been ad-
dsd, and painted in imitation of oak,
walnut and maple in an artistic style
BY Jas. Hawk, Esq. A new feed rooms
l4x30 feet has been annexed to the
main building on the south side.
Mr.. A. A. Rogers has recently re-
fitted his photograph gallery. Among
the improvements noted is change
in the dark room" thereby giving
the artist more space.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

Cattle branded q on left side, and
two waddles on left side of neck.
Also have cattle branded with a
Tomahawk on left side, waddled as
above, and vented with a bar on the
left hip. Horses branded 81 on left
thigh.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

In 1863. M. Cugnot, a Frenchman.
constructed a locomotive steam-enginc
designed for use on common roads II
ran On three wheels, and was moved by
the impulsion of two single acting cylin-
ders. the pistons of which acted alter
nately on the single front wheel. This
machine would travel at the rate of two
or three miles IN hour and would carry
four persons, but the boiler was SO small
that it was necessary to stop about once
in twelve or fifteen minutes to get up
steam.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

Frank Wilkeson writes from Kansas:
l know of five families leaving ono
township last Fall. All Of them aban-
doned their mortgaged farms. All drove
mortgaged teams out of the country.
Not the slightest trace of them was dis
covered by the officers sent in pursuit
Never again will they be seen or heard
of in Kansas. As ships sail out to sea
and disappear, never to be seen or heard
Of, so do the white-domed wagons roll
away from mortgaged homesteads and
disappear on the Western plains.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

A tenant has been dancing all night
over the head Of his landlord. At six
in the morning the latter comes upstairs
and complains bitterly of the annoy
ancef" what a~nnoyance?" asks the
tenant. "Why, 1 haven't slept q wink
all night" was the answer Neither
have l." says the tenant; land yet 1
don't make any fuss about it."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

A panther killed in Coahoma county,
Miss, measured eleven feet four inches
in length.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

In one grove in California are 1880,
trees. none measuring less than six feet
in diameter.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

Fine specimens of pure plumbago
have been found in Cherokee county,
Georgia.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

The share of South Carolina in the
Peabody educational fund is hereafter
to be devoted to the education of teach
ers.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-17

Byron wrote 1.-THE Corsair'' in ten
days. at the rate of two hundred lines .
day; Lope de Vega wrote three hundred
dramas in one hundred days; Voltairs
composed "Zaire" in three weeks and
Olympic" in six days; Dryden wrots
his '.Ode to st. Cecilia at one sitting.
and Mrs. Browning's sThe Lady Ger
aldine's Courtshipn was the work Of
twelve hours. Shakespeare, Dickens.
Wordsworth, and Moore, on the othor
hand, were slow workers. Hepworth
Dixon rewrote his 1.-Two Queens" eight
times, and Kinglake's "Eothen, was
rewritten five or six times.