The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-20

Peter Vanwinkle, n OF the mos
prominent and wealthy citizens of Ar
kansas, has just died. He was of Ger
man descent, emigrated 10 Arkansas il
1882, with no capital but industry ant
energy, invested his savings in wildlands
and converting the timber into lumber
made large profits, leaving IN estate
worth half q million.
A justice of TIE peace in Truc3tce
New, sentenced DR.. f. CicsS 10 pay 5
line OF $40 and to Imprisonment for on,
day in tho county Jail for contempt o
court. The doctor WIS taken 20 the jal
in Nevada City at q rest % so. But,
owing 10 . dc!ay Of the train in whicI
he was taken. he did nUi arrive ut IA,
Jail till within thirty minutes at the CO.
pirstioa OF his time as imprisonment.
Nevada Ial about y m9iion acres OF
salt land @nl could supply the whole
earth il necessary. The Gr.at.bls:l has
salt IN %d2"ca places. Nea: silver peak.
in my" county, thcrs Is one valley will,
n quac!rc Ct q million acre. Lone val.
ley, betycca Silver pea; aud Columbus.
IN Esm.rai'ia couatT has loo. 900 aarc,
OF sail. Columbus Hes .ight la the cen.
Ier of = salt marsh. Fifteen miles north
OF Columbus lies u salt bed OF imnic:isC
resource.
There IS II city provided with rur
milk, and that is FrankFort-on-the-biain
The business is conducted by n concern
called the a~nStalt, established by the
medical association and managed by a
commission consisting of three physi-
clans, one veterinary surgeon. and a
chemist Tho COWS are carefully select
ed and properly fed and lloused,-man-
aged, in fact, pretty much as the herds
OF the ''gilt-cdge' dairymen arc,-and
tho milk is delivered within four hours
from the time it leaves the COW, in glass
bottles, sealed with wax.
The Virginia tobacco manufacturers
have issued a circular to the tobacco
planters of Virginia and North Carolina,
urging the Importance of the cultivation
OF Burley tobacco instead of Virginia
leaf in places where the latter fails TO
prove remunerative. Ten thousand
copies of the address are to be printed
and distributed through the states nam
cd. The press of Virginia and North
Carolina are requested to give the mat
ter favorable consideration and wide
circulation.
The peach crop, so far, seems to have
escaped general injury from cold. In
Michigan prospects are particularly
favorable to a good crop. From New
Jersey there are a few reports of injury,
but from the Delaware peninsula nc
harm has been reported so far. In west
srn New York prospects are also good.
In the Hudson valley there are places
whore the buds are said t have been in.
tured. but the cases are scattering.
The biggest girl in the school at Ham.
mond's Corners. o., was whipped by the
teacher with great severity. Her father
had the young man arrested. and q few
days ago The case was called for trial.
But the prosecuting attorney said that
the matter had been amicably arrang-
ed; the girl not only was convinced that
the punishment was deserved, but &C.
cepted the teachers discipline for life as
bis wife.
The remains of Mrs. Surratt are burr
cd in a beautiful lot in Mount Olivet
cemetery, Washington, the four corner
stones marking which, are simply in
scribed with her initials, IN. Z. S." but
lately a neat and modest headstone,
bearing only her name, MRS. Surratt,"
has been placed at the grave. A we'll
known sculptor and marble-worker Of
ters to provide q suitable memorial free
Of charge, if he car ascertain the wishes
In that respect of the relatives of the
deceased, now living in Baltimore.
Thirty tenants in the townland of Bal
hnrnn, near Kilkeel, County Down, have
lust concluded the purchase of their own
farms, which consist altogether Of 1926
scres of tillage ground, and LOG mount
ain pastures. They were sold by the
owners. representatives of the late Gen.
Chesney, in the landed estates court,
and wero purchased on behalf of the
tenants at twcnty-one years purchase,
The commissioners have advanced
three-fourths Of The purchnse-money. at
8 per cen'. interest, extinguishable in
thirty-fiVc years.