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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-12
COLONIZATION
The Proper Method OF orsaIi1aiis

The y Method of Organization.
Inquiries Addressed 10 the Leader"
The following letter has been received
at the LEADER Office;
WATERTowN, n. Y, Mar. 2, 81.
Editor Cheyenne Leader:
A friend has sent me a copy of the
Cheyenne LEADER containing an arti-
Gle regarding the formation of colonies
to settle on the public lands of Wyo-
ming. As there are a large number of
people in this vicinity who would like to
go to the far west, 1 would ask you to
inform us how to properly organize, in
order to secure all the advantages that
under the law car be obtained for such
colonies. If convenient, please answer
through the LEADER, and send me
twenty-five copies, for which l enclose
one dollar.
Vonra HH.rnu DNea
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
Hit Birds Flutter.

Time and experience are rapidly vindicat-
ing the work of our much-abused legislature
The tax law alone would seem to be honor
enough even for our legislature whose repu-
tation was so badly battered during its late
session. But the abolition of the office of
court auditors, and investing the state audi.
tor with the performance of their duties,
seems destined to prove an act only second
in Importance to the passage of the tax law.
The evidence of this belief at present lies
more in the futtering of birds whom Audi
tor Powell has evidently hit or routed out of
warm nests, feathered at the expense of the
state, than in any statistical showing. The
loudest squawking seems to come from Cal
edonia county. The North Star makes wry
faces over the result of the new order of
things in that county, but that journal has
big job on its hands to make the people of
the state believe its foolish statement that
"The state auditor makes fying trip
around the state, stopping an hour or two in
place, and during that brief time he runs
through few thousand vouchers and throws
out all that he don't like the looks Of" Some
claims disallowed by the auditor are made
the basis of this and similar absurd asser-
tions. We know nothing about the partic-
ulars of these claims, but we believe it would
be perfectly safe to offer double the amount
involved in them for every one the Star can
provo WAS unwarrantably thrown out by tho
auditor. We believe an examination into
the merits of the case will show that these
discarded claims are very much like case
of constructive charging in that county,-a
Oimple case of petty larceny in which there
were number of witnesses and hearing
OF few hours for the purpose of binding
the parties up. The records show that the
mathematical process of Formulation was
applied in making up the costs, and that
the state paid for this brief hearing about
$500. There may have been $50 paid in
honest charges, and the presumption is that
the balance, $3.50, lined the pockets of the
prosecuting officer. This case was unearthed
in the late overhauling of court expenses
which led the way to the reformatory act
passed by the legislature last fall. Auditor
Powell will drive his official plowshare
through all such rotten messes without fear
or favor, and the people will bid him God
speed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

BErHEL-There was great excitement in the
potato trade the past week, dealers paying as
high as seventy-five cents per bushel for some
lots, and we think some OF the parties are little
sick just now. 80. April blew its last cold blast
Saturday night, and introduced May day " to
us Sunday morning with frozen ground and a
heavy frost -, The White River Iron Company
is about starting It's forge two miles from this
village, at a place called the Locust Creek This
forge was built three years ago this season, and
few tons OF iron were made, when the company
failed. We think this company will make a sue
cess OF 1t. The ore will be brought from Pitts
field, where 1t is taken from the crushed rock.
-. Sunday, May LIST, George Chamberin and
Charles Pond, aided by large bear dog, captured
three bears, the mother and two cubs about as
large as a medium-sized cat. They brought their
game to the village on Monday, and seemed well
pleased at their good luck, as they expect to get
forty-fve dollars bounty, besides the pelt from
the old one, which they think will bring from ten
10 fifteen dollars
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
The Star Route Scandal.

The details of the investigation have not
yet been disclosed, and the individual respon.
sibility or criminality for the postal frauds
does not yet publicly appear. Whether it
will be shown that General Brady has had
guilty knowledge of these corrupt transac-
lions or participation in their benefits;
whether he has been good-naturedly tolerant
of irregularities, or neglectful in the exercise
of that degree of vigilance which was re-
quired to secure an honest and efficient dis
charge of their duties by his subordinates,
and fulfillment of the strict terms of their
obligations by contractors,-can now be only
surmised. All the facts will in due time
come out. General Brady, meantime, pub
fishes communication in which he main
tains that the charges against him are the
work of contractors and malicious CORES
pondents, laying the responsibility for the
increase of pay to certain contractors, if
there is anything wrong about it, upon con-
gressmen who recommended it, and treating
the matter in general with apparent indif-
ference.
While no defects in system should ex-
culpate any officer, chief or subordinate, for
failure to do his full duty, for the prac-
tice of favoritism in the letting of contracts,
or connivance with contractors in schemes
for robbing the government under the sem
bance OF contracts for services never per-
formed and which it was never intended
should be performed, it is still doubtless
true that the system Of the postal department
is lamentably defective, and by its looseness
has invited fraud and encouraged dishonesty.
A thoroughgoing reform Of postal matters
will be more question of revising and re-
constructing the entire system under which
the postal business of the country has been
transacted than the turning out of few
corrupt officials and putting new men in
their places No cabinet officer has ever
brought to the discharge of his duties
stronger evidence Of correct conception of
the duties and requirements of his position
and OF his capacity for successful and sys-
tematic reorganization than Mr.. James, and
we believe that under his firm, iudicious and
practical management the work of reform
aud reorganization, so promptly and eff
GENTLY begun, will go resolutely and tri-
umphantly forward. Eminent fitness for
his duties has not always been the touch.
stone which has decided the selection Of the
cabinet officer to whom was assigned the
portfolio OF the postmaster general. The
office has been generally looked upon as the
rump of cabinet positions, a convenient
shelf on which to store away troublesome
claimant, a position of no special honor or
usefulness, sort of fifth wheel in the cab
met coach. Mr.. James seems destined, in
his quiet but effective way, to magnify the
office and redeem it from its low estate both
in the popular esteem and in its business
methods and efficiency.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
The Inventories.

Judge Dunton of Rutland has given his
opinion OF section fifteen of the new tax law.
lie leans to the inquisitorial view of the in
tention OF the law as expressed by this Sec
tion, but gives no reasons for views that are
directly opposed to the plain wording of the
act His statement of the intention of the
law Is his simple ipse dira that "The in
ventory OF taxpayer, when accepted by the
listers and their valuation of the property is
extended thereon, becomes the personal list
OF such taxpayer. The ninth section of the
act favors this view" The views of the
WATcHMAN as to the meaning of section
fifteen have been fully expressed The ground
we have taken is fully sustained by high and
competent authorities, is warmly approved
by the true friends of the law, and almost
unanimously acted upon by the listers of the
state So far as any authority for such a
course is obtained from any section of the
act, the inventories might with as much pro-
priety be handed over to the bill-sticker and
posted about town as to be displayed to the
public eye in the town clerks office. The
purpose OF the publication of the lists has
been fully explained. If the law intended
to make the public sort of general spy or
detective agent, the extent to which it could
exercise the fnnct;ons Of that oe;,a ,o,,IJ
aeero 10 no I;,n;tod - .ha ;ssa"o.. - 80.
- ''"''N W '''' i"ioihia'ioh winch
sectioh twenty-seVen, chapter eighty-three, of
the general statutes says the listers shall file
in the town clerks office. II ito nerson al
knowlsdoo 10 Co. 49, A.. p'Ieo""'
.ha,r " a .aA-Paye,s aiiairs convinces
inc Puohc mat the published list is incor-
rect, it undoubtedly is the public's privilege
to give the listers the details If ;ts bo,tar
information bv v,h;ob tho oos.oo.. 80. Az
H., ..a' ~ ~ sn,'n .no o9''eo'hess Oh the
hs' may DO Verihed or the taxpayer brought
to justice, If willful perjurer; but to com.
pei the taxpayer to first disclose 10 the nub
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
The Returns.

The interest in the result of the recent
list taking is as great as in the outcome Of
an important election, and we devote por-
ton OF our space to the returns thus far re-
ceived. The result of the new method will
surprise even those most familiar with the
extent to which personal property has hith-
erto escaped taxation. The old methods of
listing were thoroughly shiftless and unbusi-
nesslike, and to this fact, probably, more than
to an innate spirit of dishonesty on the part
OF taxpayers is attributable the success of
personal property in evading taxation.
There certainly is no reason why so impor-
tant work as taking the list should not be
conducted with all that care and precision
that pertains TO the transactions of the in
ternal revenue bureau of the general govern
ment, or that is required from accounting
offices in every department of government or
business. The moral benefit of the new
methods will be measurably as great as the
material. II will arouse the conscience OF
the people and call halt to that looseness
Of moral sentiment which has seemed to re-
gard the government as the legitimate OBJ
ject of plumber and cheating, and him as
the shrewdest man who could manage most
successfully to keep his property out of the
list. All this has been changed, and the
finger of Reproduction is pointed to the man
who "dodges" or against whom lies the
suspicion that he has not returned an honest
list. Dishonesty in listing has been reduced
to the level of common cheating. 1t has
been made personal matter. The man
who cheats in giving in his list steals so
much of his neighbours money,-that is the
way the transaction is now stated and the
light in which it is viewed, and it is a light
in which few men are anxious to be seen.
For details relating to the practical and
comparative working of the new law our
readers are referred to the tabulated reports
in other columns and particularly to the re-
port Of the Montpelier town meeting. The
happy results secured in this town will be |
measurably realized throughout the state
These reports will make, as Horace Greeley |
used to say, mighty interesting reading" |
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

The Charlottesville republicans have
spent much time in caucus during the past
week. The only visible result of their de-
alterations is the appointment of commit.
tee to take the whole subject of the course
to be pursued by the party in this contin.
gency into consideration and report as soon
as they may be able. The senate proceed
ings have been without interest. Butler
OF South Carolina presented his " rrefraga-
BILE proofs of a bargain between the repub-
lican senators and Mr.. Malone, which turned
out TO be dreary rehash of the stale
charges which have run through the debate
from Alpha Hill to Omega Butler. 1t was
expected that the deadlock would be par
TALLY broken on Tuesday, the republican
caucus committee having decided to recon.
mend the holding OF executive sessions for
action on the various treaties now awaiting
ratification and for the consideration Of un.
contested nominations.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

The total loss by floods along the Missouri river
between Pierce and Sioux City is now estimated
at s2,5OO,0OO. In the James river valley thou
sands Of cattle and horses have been lost and
many houses destroyed. Great suffering Is re-
ported among the inhabitants. All the bridges
for one hundred miles up stream have been car
ried away 1t is estimated that the government
will have to furnish food to 5000 persons in the
flooded districts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

THE late Mrs. Letcher is said to have been the
original Of the character of Eva In "Uncle
Toms Cabin" Her father, General Kennedy,
who owned George Harris" otherwise Lewis
G. Clark. was one Of the crueest OF the old slave
holders, and is reported to have whipped one of
his chattels to death. Mr.. Clark says that Mrs
Letcher. when Miss Kennedy, often fed and
clothed the slaves with her own hands, and that
her father was sometimes cruel to her on account
OF her kindness.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

Current Literature.

WE have received Of Howard Gannett Boston,
Notes on the International Sunday-Schoo Lessons
for 1881, by Rev. r. r. Meredith. Part Two
April to July, thirty cents. Among the many
helps, we know Of none superior to this. And
this we can say, after having used Part One
d. ApPLroN n Co, New York, have projected
series OF New Hand Volumes at a low price, de-
voted to all subjects pertaining to Home and
Household. Building Home, by A. F. Oakley,
and How to Furnish Home, by Ella Rodman
Church. have been issued at sixty cents each.
Every mans proper mansion house and home,
being the theater Of hospitality the seate of self
frution the comfortablist part Of his some inner
itance, q kinde Of private prncedom, naye, to the
posessors thereof OF eptomie Of the whole world
may well deserve by these whole attributes, ac-
cordng to the degree of the master to be decently
and delightfully."- adorned. These books, In a sim
pie way, help the master OF the house to realize
the firm sentiment and make home fitting him
self and his family.
The North American Reuie,p for NAV has "Cen-
tralization in the Federal Government" by Hon.
David Dudley Field, in which he maintains that
Capitalization in the government is constantly ad-
vancing Mr.. Fields paper is worthy Of careful
'N'.Nihb' Dis bNhoh Wiitcs vi tne new heN1slOn,
giving useful information in respect to objects,
ends, and rules, under which the revisers worked.
The Needs Of the Supreme Court" by Mr.. JUS
tce Strong, advocates the establishment Of court
OF appeals, intermediate between the United States
supreme court and the circuit courts. The Hon
George Q Cannon the frstIadvisor OF the president
of the Mormon church, and delegate to congress-
makes defence of utah and its People"
"shall Americans Build Ships o. is considered by
Mr. John Roach, the ship-buder, who brings for
ward large number of facts to prove that the
people OF the United States must build ships IL
they would hold place among maritime nations
The other articles are "The Life-Saving Service"
by the Hon S. S. Cox 1.-THE Ruins Of Central
America" by NJ Charnay; and finally, an attack
on evolution philosophy, written in vein of the
finest irony and entitled, "what Morality Have
We Left p"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

PROFESSOR SWIFT discovered new comet Sun
day morning at the observatory in Rochester, New
York, being the first discovered this year The
new comet is very bright of fair size, and moving
in a southerly direction, thus showing that pre-
sumably 1t is not the expected comet of 1912.
Though Proctor asserted that the appearance OF
another comet this year would give serious
grounds for apprehending the end OF the world,
Swift does not share these views
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

THE New York Times Columbia, South Caro-.
lima, special says; 1.-THE testimony in the con.
tested election case Of Smalls. republican, against
Tillman, democrat in the fifth congressional dis.
trict, shows that a large number Of colored re.
pubicans were not allowed to vote, and fraud, in.
timidation and violence were used. Smalls as.
serts that the colored people OF his district are
suffering under worse state Of slavery than be.
fore the war"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

FAysros.-On Sunday night, April "a, bear
broke into the sheep-cot Of Peter Cotton and
carried OF large sheep. Mr., Cotton set trap
and the next morning found part OF foot with
three enormous claws in the trap. A party OF
men went in search OF the marauder but was un-
successful, and brun Is still at large Judging
from the appearance OF the claws and the TACT
that he carried the sheep up steep hill and over
a high board fence, the bear must be large one.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
Grand List Returns.

The following table shows the total grand list
Of the towns named and the amount Of grand list
derived from personal property. The valuation
Of real estate and Of the road-beds OF railways is
not yet complete; but, as nine-tenths Of the in
crease Of the grand list is from personal property,
the table Is sufficiently full to show the working
Of the new listing law It Is not claimed that the
table Is in every instance strictly accurate, but II
is close approximation to accuracy-near enough
for our purpose:
1890. 1891
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

SIR WILLIAM JENNER, M. D., KC,B. Queen Vic.
toria's physician, has been elected president Of
the Royal College ~ phyoioians OF London. He
Is 1t is said. the first president Of tho College of
Physicians who has received a license to practice
from all the English medical corporations -
namely, the College Of Physicians, the College Of
Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04
Waterbury Grand List.


The following Is the grand list Of the inhabi.
tants Of the town Of Waterbury for 1880 and 1881,
which exceed ten dollars:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-05-04

a CORRESPONDENT OF the Chicago Tri-
bune, writing from st. Paul April 10th,
says; "After examining the wheat crop
during the last three weeks, from Tennessee
to Dakota, l am prepared to place my judg.
ment on record, as have in previous years,
and say that the prospects for both winter
and spring wheat are as good as have ever
seen in this country. | believe the next
crop Of wheat will be 525,OOO,OOO bushels.
Last year estimated in the Chicago Tribune
the coming crop of wheat at 475,OO0,OO0.
1t finally measured up $50, s49,723 bushels"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-03-16
A Cunning Cat.

A gentleman who took a trip from
Carson City, New, into the country,
when on the plains, a mile from any
house, noticed a cat, huge one, almost
as large as fair-sized dog. 1t was
lying upon the ground, its feet upper
most, in such way that he had no
doubt that it had fallen victim to
some vicious dog. Around it, feeding
unsuspectingly, was a flock of young
birds. The apparent lifeless cat was
within range of the vision of the OBJ
server for some time, and Just when
he was thinking how much easier ii
would be for an animal to feign death
and catch bird by deceiving it than by
slipping up to it, he was astonished to
see the cat suddenly roll over and grab
one of the feathered tribe that was very
near. The other birds few away hun
dred yards or so and alighted. The cat
only made one or two mouthfuls of the
game, and then crept around to the
windward of the birds, laid itself out
again, and once more played success
fully the dead dodge. The gentleman
drove laway without seeing how many
birdsf at took to satisfy the feline,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-03-16
Household Hints,

In icing cakes, the knife should be
frequently dipped into cold water.
Cool rainwater and soda will remove
machine grease from washable fabrics.
Parsley eaten with vinegar will re-
move the unpleasant effects of eating
onions.
If your coal fire is low, o tablespoon
full OF salt thrown on it will help it very
much.
Oil-cloth should be cleaned with milk
and water; a brush and soap will
ruin it.
A teaspoonful of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes will aid the
whitening process.
Cakes, puddings, ETC., are improved
by making the currants, sugar and -four
hot before using.
A spoonful of stewed tomatoes in the
gravy of either roasted or fried meat is
an improvement.
In boiling meat for soup cold water
should be used to extract the juices. If
the meat is wanted for itself alone,
plunge in boiling water at once.
Water standing for night in a close
or crowded room absorbs the impure
air, and becomes very unwholesome and
positively injurious to health. Be care
full not to use water that has stood in O
lead pipe.
All sorts of vessels and utensils may
be purified from long retained smells OF
every kind, in the easiest and most per-
feet manner, by rinsing them out well
with charcoal powder, after the grossel
impurities have been secured off with
sand and water.
In washing oil-cloths, as we have be-
fore advised, never use any soap OF
a scrub brush. 1t will destroy an oil
cloth, that should last for years, in a
short time. Use instead warm water
and soft cloth or flannel, and wipe of
with water and skim-milk
Tea drinkers nowadays will do well
to apply the following simple tests to
the tea purchased of their grocers.
Turn out the infused leaves, and if they
are found good brown color, with fail
substance, the tea will be wholesome;
but if the leaves are black and of rotten
texture, with an oily appearance, the tea
will not be fit to drink. The purer the
tea the more the distinctively brown
color of the leaf strikes the attention
The mixing that is frequently adopted
to reduce prices results in the two kinds
of leaves being supplied together. II
is important to see that the leaves have
the seTrated or saw-like edges, without
which no tea is genuine.