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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-04

Washington, Sept. 3.-The following
telegraphic correspondence is fur
nished the state department: Harris.
burg, Pa, Sept. 8, 1881. To Hon. Jas.
G. Blaine, Secretary of State. Wash.
ington: I deem it fitting that the people
of Pennsylvania should have by procla-
nation an opportunity to assemble al
their places of worship on a secular day
between the hours Of 10 a. m. and noon
to make public prayer for the restora-
tion Of the president to health, strength
and the discharge Of his official duties.
Would it be inappropriate for you, by
Communication from your department,
to undertake to secure concurrent ac-
tion In all the statesY venture to
suggest Tuesday next as day not toe
near.
(Signed) HENRY NJ. HoYT..
Department of State, Washington,
Sept. a.-To His Excellency, Gov.
Hoyt, Harrisburg: Proclamations are
50 essentially the acts Of the supreme
executive power. that the cabinet has
not felt authorized to assume its exer-
else, even for the object which you pro
pose, heartily as they sympathize with
it, and earnestly as they desire it, but
it is entirely proper for your excellency
to communicate with members Of othe,
states and promptly accomplish the de
sired end.
(Signed) JAS. G. BLAINE,
Secretary Of State.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-04

San Francisco: Louis McLain, pres
ident of the new bank, denies positively
that there has been any change of Off
GERS Of the bank.
Try Rock & Rye. II
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-04

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 3.-The
mutilated body Of Bohemian farmer
in Putnam township was found in the
field this forenoon. He had been at
tackled by Jersey bull. which almost
literally tore his body into shreds; the
head was entirely severed from the
body; tho entrails strewn about the
field, and one leg was hanging to the
brute's horns. The animal endangered
the lives Of all who attempted to ap
proach him, and had to be shot 81,
times before he fell.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-04

storica1 Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
Important Prehistoric Discoveries.

A well-known miner who returned
last Wednesday from the valley of the
Grand River, near the Grand Canyon,
about one hundred and twenty miles
northwest of Kokomo, brought several
specimens of ancient pottery and brick
picked up on the site of reported ancient
mines. The miner is an old pioneer in
that section, and says that the ruins can
readily be traced there for space one
hundred feet long by twenty feet wide,
and that they are elevated above the
surface from foot and q half to two
feet. The brick is of much better quail
ity than that now manufactured, having
withstood the elements, possibly, for
thousands of years. The people who
lived before the flood may have inhab-
tied that country, for all that we know
to the contrary. Similar ruins, mainly
circular formations, are found in local.
ties directly in the vicinity Of the can
yons, which either mark thelsite of an
cient pueblos or forts, or are . singular
freak Of nature. The remains of pottery
found in the vicinity seem to point to
the conclusion that they were habita-
lions, of which only the traces remain.
-KokoDs0 (C6lo.) Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
PITa AND POINT.

Our lives are like the moon; va
never see but one side of them here
Yonkers Gazette.
Young ladies are forming archery
clubs for the purpose of drawing the
bows.-N. o. Rcavune.
Electricity in Franklin's time was q
wonder; now we make light of it,
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
-"I find that with light meals nv
health improves" said the Esquimaux;
and down went another candle.-Louts-
ville C0urier-Jour,sGl.
Sitting Bulls daughter is named
Sleeping Water. She is evidently no
relation to the water that Chicago peO-
pie are drinking just now.-Chicdgo Iri-
bune.
"A little Lowell boy has discovered
why Adam and Eve were never babies.
1t was because there was nobody to take
care of them.-LoWeA Courier.
This is his first season on farm,
and he has planted ten acres with to-
mato- cans. He expects the ground will
produce heavy crop of canned toma-
toes Philadelphia Chronicle.
Six million people in this country
have bilious attacks in the spring, just
about the time man can do the best
kind of work with rake in the back
door yard.-Detroit Free Press.
Some men will act unscrupulously
to get wealth. A Chicago man invented
a mirror that would make even the
homeliest woman look pretty, and pur-
chasers invariably select one of his mir.
rors as the best.-Boston Post.
"A sleeper is one who sleeps; q
sleeper is also place where sleeper
can sleep; and sleeper is, too, thing
over which runs the sleeper in which
the sleeper sleeps; so that the sleeper in
the sleeper sleeps, while the sleeper
runs on, as well as sometimes leaps of
the track.-WI and Wisdom.
The average clerk is rather fast and
lives up to his income. A few days
ago a merchant on Galveston Avenue,
on looking over the books turned over
to the book-keeper and said: ST think
we had better discharge young Nc
Smither." Why, he is ere of the most
polite and efficient clerks we have!"
81 know, but there must be something
wrong about him. He never over
draws his account, and never knew q
clerk TO do that before. There is some
thing mysterious about that young man.
He will do to watch. "-SaCeers SltingS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

Gan. BeaureRaxd u the inventor o1
The system Of traction for pr0pelling Cars
or other vehicles on land or water wh1cn
Is used on the San Francisco street cars.
The last application Of the luminous
paint promises tebe very seeviceaole
one. Mr.. Browning, the well-known
optician Of London, has hit upon the
idea of coating compass dials with tho
PIGMENT. so that the belated traveller
or seaman need have no fear Of losing
his way for want Of light.
The electric railway now in success
ful operation ct Berlin is six miles in
length. An ordinary tram-car is used,
with . battery concealed between the
wheels, the principal battery being at
the station. A speed of only eighteen
miles an hour was allowed by the author.
tiles.
There is . growing interest in rails.
ing silk cocoons among American farm
ers. The American manufacturers de-
cline to buy the raw silk in such small
particles as are furnished by individual
Growers. A new association, therefore,
acts as middlemen, buys the cocoons,
sorts, and forwards them in gross. "A
sure market is thus provided for the
small producers. The price OF cocoons
varies with their size and quality, rang
ing from 81 to IS per ounce.
"A French doctor has called atten-
ton to case of illness caused by sleep
ing in q newly papered room. Upon
examination it was found that the paste
used for attaching the paper was in
state of putrefactiOn. Further inquiry
brought to light other cases of illness,
which were also traced to the impure
odor from paste or size undergoing
septic change. This change can easily
be arrested by the addition of salicylo
acid, oil of cloves, or any other antisep-
tic medium. Most people are familiar
with the unpleasant smell of q newly
papered room, and when they know
that it is sometimes accompanied by &C
tual injury to health they will be careful
to point out the easy remedy to the care
less workman.
Mr.. Thomas Meehan, of Philadel-
phia, has observed that the Yucca
gloriosa has the property of collecting
moisture on the outer surface of its flow
ers to such an extent that drops will fall
to the ground. In the plant in which
this popularity was first noticed, the
whole outside of the flowers was COW
cred with moisture; it accumulated in
drops at the tip of each leaf of the peri
anth, and the under leaves showed by
their appearance that dropping Of
water had been going on for some time.
Mr.. Meehan could not decide whether
the liquid was an oxidation from the
leaves or had been condensed from the
atmosphere through some special prop
erty of the plant, like that which is at
tributed to the rain-tree (Pithecelobinns
sGnaa1) of Peru.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

judicial Decision ON the Liquor Law.
Four cases, involving construction of
the Prohibitory Amendment to the Constitu-
ton, and the act of the Legislature to carry
the same into effect, were decided at LeaveB-
worth on the 9th. Mr.. Holmes, druggist
of that city, was charged with four viola
lions of the law: First, selling bay rum for
toilet purposes; second, in selling tincture
Of gentian compound for medicinal pur-
poses; third, In selling McLean's cordial for
medicinal purposes, and fourth, in selling
essence of lemon for culinary purposes. The
information filed by the County Attorney
charged that the articles sold would produce
intoxication and that Mr.. Holmes had NO
permit to sell the same from the Probate
Judge. The defendent moved to quash the
information, claiming that it did not state
that he had been guilty Of public offense.
Judge Crozier, in sustaining the motion to
quash, delivered an elaborate opinion, the
main points of which are as follows:
That under the amendment the law
can not prohibit, but only regulate
the sale of intoxicating liquors
for mechanical, medicinal and scientific pur-
poses; but in attempting to define the mean
ing of intoxicating liquors, the act says that
any liquor or mixture thereof that will pro-
duce intoXieation shall be considered intoxi-
eating liquor in the meaning of the act, and
It shall be prohibited, and hence the allega-
ton that the articles sold were intoxicating
liquors, in the meaning Of the law, must be
taken as true; therefore, the Court held that
inasmuch as the law undertook to prohibit
the sale Of articles which, under the amend
ment, it could only regulate, it was uncon-
stitutional, and that the act was further in
contravention Of the Constitution because it
undertook to confer judiciary powers upon
the Probate Court. The gist Of the decision
is that such articles as cologne and tinctures
are prohibited by the law, but that the law
itself is unconstitutional
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

BALLoTIN9 for United States Sena-
tors, to fill the vacancies caused by the resig-
nations of Senators Conkling and Plat, was
resumed in the New York Legislature on the
Sd, with the following result: Total vote,
$50; necessary to elect, 76. Conkling, 81;
Cornell, 10; Rogers, IA; Wheeler, Z; lap
ham, Z; scattering Republican votes, 10. one
of which was for Henry Ward Beecher.
Democratic vote, for Jacobs, 40. The vote
on the Plat vacancy was substantially the
same.
GEN. GRANT and Capt. Eads arrived
at New Orleans on the Sd, on their return
from Mexico. Being interviewed with ref
erence to Conkling's resignation, Gen. Grant
said: she [Conklingl has been shamefully
treated, and for no cause whatever that I
can discover. He certainly should be re-
elected as vindication of his course, and
would be if had anything to do with it."
AT Peru, Nemaha County, Neb. ,on the
Sd, Albert Clark, recently arrived in the town
with his wife and five children, cut his wife's
throat with a pocket-knife, and then took
his shotgun and went out on the street.
The first person he saw was E. M. Sargent,
well-known harness maker, who was shot
and Instantly killed. The mailman then took
his pocket-knife, with which he had already
slain his wife, and cut his own throat.
The supposition is that Clark was crazy, and
had become impressed with the idea that
some one was following him with the intent
to do him injury. Mr.. Sargent leaves a
family, and the five children Of the murder
er are homeless.
THE Virginia Readjusters in Conven-
ton at Richmond on the Sd decided upon
Cameron for Governor and ex-senator John
T. Lewis for Lieutenant Governor.
AT Monticello, Iowa, James Hogan
emptied six-bsrrel revolver into his di-
vorced wife's body and then reloaded the
weapon and shot himself through the brain,
causing instant death. Mrs. Hogan was lit
orally riddled with bullets in the head, neck
and shoulders, but, strange to say, none Of
her wounds were fatal and she stands fair
chance of recovery.
BEN JAMES, colored, was hanged at
Marion, s. c., on the Sd for the murder Of d.
NJ. Howell.
AT Cris6eld, N. j., Elijah Sterling,
proclaiming himself the son'of God, made an
attack on his wife and son with an Ak. The
son escaped with flesh wound; the wife IL
thought to be fatally injured.
A LANCASTER CO., dispatch says .
ten-year-old son of Michael Heleburger
killed young son of Henry Strake by stab
bling him to the heart with . pocket-knife.
JACOB BERRY, for years principal of
the public schools at Buffalo, N. T., COM
mitted suicide on the Sd. He was Yale
frst-prize man, and leaves wife and two
children.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
Tantivy Coaching.

A correspondent to the New York Star
thus writes of New York coaching
IS The fresh air, the fine horses, the de-
lightful sense of quick motion, the charm
ing scenery, the slight but interesting Incl
dents of the journey, the splendid appe-
tite which the substantial lunch at YOnk-
ers abundantly satisfies, and, sometimes,
the good-fellowship of my fellow-travel-
ers, 60 to make up what may
be most emphatically pronounced
"a good time.' But as I pay my five
dollars for my seat, or tip the guard
with 'trust-in-God dollar I can not
help asking myself what fascination
there is in driving which induces my
friend, the wealthy owner of the equip
age, to make q coachman of himself
and spend laborious days in whipping
up four horses at an expense which
would pay q regular driver handsomely.
There was once mad lord who drove
the Guilford coach in England, and, if
he took fancy to his passengers, would
give them q tremendous supper at his
own expense, at the end of his journey.
There was some fun at that. To study
the characters of his chance acquaint-
ances and see how they warmed up
over the wine was excellent fun for the
mad lord. But the coachmen of Tantivy
never think of giving or accepting sup
pers, except from their friends,
and as they sit mumchance during
the journeys and take no part in the fun
which often goes on behind their backs
among the passengers, am at q loss
to know how they get any enjoyment
out of their daily routine. Having
booked and paid for my seat, light my
cigar, decline to recognize the person
who drives in any other capacity than
as q coachman; tip him and the guard at
the journeys end, and think that he is
rather snob for taking my money. His
excuse is that the English noblemen do
the same thing. My excuse is that hav-
ing paid for my seat ought not to be
called on to pay any more. Fancy fee
ing the engineer on railway train!
Sometimes the drivers attempt to enter
into conversation with me about society
matters; but viii not permit it. II
they choose to masquerade I will not
disturb their disguise. If they want to
play at being coachman, they shall be
coachman so far as am concerned. I
should no more think of talking stable
in society than would of talking society
to man who deliberately crowds some
poor but honest coachman, out of his
place and pockets his wages. II there
be any practice more totally un-Ameri-
can than driving Tantivy coach, I can
not recall it at present."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Kansas State Fair.
The officers Of the State Fair have issued
the following circular:

Kansas State Fair.
The officers Of the State Fair have issued
the following circular:
TO TIE PEOPLE OF KANSAS.
We desire to call your attention to the fact
that there has been no State Fair since 1874
At that date the State Board of Agriculture
became fully convinced that twas not its duty
20 hold Fairs. Our State has greatly increased
both in wealth and population. and q general
demand Is felt throughout the State for q re-
union of all the industries in annual exhibit.
tions. To supply this demand an association
has been formed, with ample capital to carry
out it's objects successfully. Believing that q
large majority of the citizens prefer that q
State Fair should be located at the Capital OF
the State, and receiving. as we have, very sub.
stantial Inducements from the city OF
Topeka to locate at that place, we have
decided to hold the State Fair at said
city. Permanent grounds have been pur.
chased, adjoining tie city, and the construc-
ton of exhibition buildings, stock stalls and
pens, viii be at once commenced, and COM
pleted at least thirty days before the COM
mencement of the fair, that exhibitors may
see the space assigned to them and prepare
an exhibition intelligently. Arrangements
are perfected for lease of the old State Fair
Grounds. This will give us control of the best
one half mile track in the State, and plenty
of shade. A creek of running water passes
through these grounds. skirted with q fine
body of timber. On these grounds are al
ready constructed good substantial buildings,
and several hundred stalls and pens, which,
added to the extensive improvements in the
same line that we will make on our own
grounds, will fully accommodate all Most OF
the railroads in the State have signided their
willingness to aid BY cheap passenger and
freight rates. The hotels win give reasona.
bic reduction from their regular charges.
Good facilities for camping near the grounds.
A liberal list of premiums will be offered. The
Kansas State Horticultural Society has joined
with us, to hold on our grounds at the same
date their first annual exhibition, and will Of
fer the most liberal list of premiums ever Of
fered in that department.. The reputation OF
this society is sufficient guaranty for success
in that department.. The stock-breeders are
rallying to our support. The State pride of
Kansas is aroused and everywhere the subject
is explained the people are enthusiastic. Lo-
cal organizations, County or District Fairs, we
will aid as far as we can, and desire that they
should all feel an interest in the State organi-
cation. The date was published one year ago,
and according to that notice. will be held Sep
TENDER 12, I3, IA, Is, 16 and II, 1881. We hope
for your active support, and earnest cooper
alton. For Premium Lists or further infor.
nation, address George Y. johnson, Secretary
Kansas State Fair, Topeka, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

TIE first shipment Of Georgia peach
O. arrived in New York on the LIST. The crop
IN the State for this season is estimated at
10000 baskets,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

THE journeymen brewers of St. Louis
entered upon general strike on the LIST, to
enforce their demands for shorter hours and
Increased DAY.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

TEE Mexican Congress has adjourned.
It's action on the tariff Increases the revenue
"a 900 200. The Executive will use his
authorization to contract for the construc-
don of railroads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

Ex-Gov. ANDERSON, of Maine, aged
%, and Gen. Thos. d. Hoxey, Greenback
candidate for Governor of New Jersey in
1850, are dead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

The New Hampshire Legislature met
on the LIST, under the provisions of the
amended Constitution, to elect United
States Senator to succeed Senator Rollins,
whose term expires in 1888. Mr.. Rollins is q
candidate for reelection, and his principal
competitor is William e. Chandler, recently
rejected by the United States Senate as So
Gcitor- General of the Treasury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

The Democratic Legislative Caucus
ct Albany, N. Y, nominated John C. Jacobs
and Francis C.. Herman for United States
Senators. to fill the vacancies caused by the
designations Of Conkling and Plat. The Re-
publicans held no formal caucus, the Conk-
ling men being finally unable to secure a
majority of the Republican members to sign
. call for that purpose.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

LATE news from Dublin: The police
arrested sixteen rioters at Bodyke, all armed
with rifles, which were taken from them and
they were allowed to 60 on bail. A son of
Lord Dunssndle has been shot ut and
wounded. A flying column of engineers,
artillery, infantry and cavalry left Dublin
for New Pallas to assist in the execution of
eviction DEGREES. Engineers will repair
bridges broken down by the populace to pre-
vent The passage of artillery. The expedi-
ton TO New Pallas Is also dispatched to cap.
ture the castle held by the Land Leaguer,,
The facts In the Goshawk affair are that the
people prevented the police from landing.
and the Goshawk subsequently attempted to
land them, but without success. At Scariff.
County Clare, tho people fred on
the police, who returned the fire. kill.
ing one OF the rioters. About 100 shots
were exchanged. The Assistant Secretary
and . member of the branch of the Land
League at Kilby, near Kells County, Meath,
have been arrested under the provisions Of
the Coercion act on suspicion of mutilating
cattle. Archbishop Croke has made num-
Der Of speeches defending the Land League,
He said: "Thb movement Is not q revolu-
donary movement In the strict sense Of the
word. 1t Is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; it
y lawful movement; it Il movement
which We intend to push forward by moral
foRce alone. We do not intend to violate any
law. I hear Of disagreement among the
leaders Of tho people, but these things are
exaggerated. Our phalanx is unbrohea,
our spirit Is unsubdued, and the result b,
therefore,, clear as day. We mustsucceed.n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

"A tri-monthly periodical devoted to
American affairs has been started in
Vienna, and Is called Anseriko.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

The American horse Iroquois, owned
BY Mr.. Lorillard, won the great Derby race
st EPSON on the LIST. Peregrine, the favor
he, came in second. This il the first time
tho Derby was ever won by An American.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

GOVERNOR LEW WALLACE has left
New Mexico for his home in Indiana, turn
ing over his Office to Acting Governor Pitcho,
pending. the arrival Of Governor Sheldon.
Although confirmed, Governor Wallace has
not fully decided whether or not to accept
the Turkish mission, on account of his ex-
tensive mining interests in the Territories
claiming his personal supervision.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

THE President has nominated Charles
baylor, Of Indiana, Consul General for the
United States at Berlin, Prussia.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

The public debt statement of June l
shows decrease in the debt during May Of
I'll, Isl, 721. Cash in Treasury, $236, Az, 0Ss;
gold and silver certificates, $66, 6s5, $50; GER
tifcates Of deposit outstanding, $3.50, 900;
legal tenders, $346, IA, Gas; fractional cur
rency, 81, 109, 102.