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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08
A Newly Arrived German In a
Theatre.
Letter in New York Tribunal

Letter in New York Tribune.1
1t is strange whit a faculty some people have
for making themselves unpopular. Their Is
DR.. B., one Of our German fellow travellers,
whose exterior, l confess, is far from engag-
ing, but whose conduct nobody can find
fault with. Yet he seems to be unable to
make friends. l remarked once before that
he seems to find some difficulty in adapting
himself to strange surroundings and circum-
stances. A scene which some Of us witnessed
In a Chicago theatre seems to prove it be
yond doubt. Tn curtain had just dropped
upon the first act and the orchestra was pre-
pairing to strike up some lively uir when the
doctor stood up, and leaning against the back
ofthe chair in front of him proceeded to ex-
anime the audience with his opera glass.
Now there Is nothing in this action which
would astonish, very greatly at least, a New
York audience, and certainly not a European,
but In Chicago it seemsto be otherwise. The
doctor had been engaged in his interesting
investigation half q minute when Kisses, in
termingled with cries of "Sit down. were
heard in all parts of the house.. He probably
did not understand the meaning of the words,
for he continued quite unconcernedly to ogle
the audience through his glass, never paying
the least attention to the noise, which seemed
to grow louder every second. Before long
the house was actually divided in its sympa-
thies for the originator of all this uproar.
Cries Of make yourself s~carce,n go 1t, old
curly head, ;" Squat, !" 'Don'tget frightened
andother like expressions could be heard on
all sides. The doctor never moved. There
he stood with the greatest self-composure in
the world, not a smile on his expressionless
face. surveying the shouting and laughing
multitude. And to this day, l believe, he has
never taken in the situation of that night.
Powers alivel what will the book he Is to
write on America containl
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08
THE HACK DRIVERS OFF EYE.
The Efforts OF n Funny Dry Good
Clerk Rewarded with Remarkable
kurress
BrooklYn Eagle.

lbTOOKiyu EuBie+l
A hack driver, who was waiting for some
patrons on Fulton street the other day, with
the enterprise of his class, utilized his spare
moments in taking a nap on the scat Of the
vehicle. A funny dry goods clerk saw him,
and procuring a large feather he fastened 1t
to the end of a walking cane and began to
tickle the nose, ears and face of tho sleeping
driver. A man who was passing by saw the
operation and stopped TO witness it An
other man halted 70 find out what the first
WINS looking at, and in tho good old way q
large crowd soon collected.
Tho efforts of the funny clerk werc ro-
warded with remarkable success. The cab
man waved his arms mildly at intervals, and
struck out wildly right and left at imaginary
flies, mosquitoes, June bugs and other atroci-
ties. 1t was great fun for many In the au-
dience, but no one relished the Joke 80 greatly
us the pcrpetrator.
1t seemed for a short time that the per
formance would be unending; but suddenly
a hush fell upon that portion of the crowd
furthest removed from the lively young
clerk Some one had seen the off eye Of the
driver cautiously open and then go shut
again with a movement well known to soda
fountain managers. His hand, which waved
almost necessarily In the air, at last settled
In a most natural manner on the handle OF
the whip.
Tho clerk tickled and tho crowd laughed.
The clerk laughed and the crowd was
tickled.
Suddenly the form of the sleeping driver
executed a %gymnastic motion; there was a
swishing sound, and
The clerk-Oi where was hel He had re-
tired TO q sheltered position behind tine door OF
the dry goods store, and was dislocating his
arm in the vain attempt to cares a tender
spot between his shoulder blades.
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Pour Minutes Cost SS5 900.
fNaur Vol. NNa~11

On the day of ons OF the great failures in
Boston, recently, a check Of tho insolvent
firm for s5,OOo was deposited in a Boston
bank aud sent TO the clearinghouse 1t was
then Transferred TO the account OF another
bank and was then taken TO hat rank for
redemption The rules Of the Clearing-Houso
association provide that checks when proved
To be worthless shall be returned TO the bank
from which they were received before ] o'clock
on the day they were received. BY courtesy
the bank allows five minute more. The
bank which received tue check in question,
finding that 1t was not good. returned it to
the other bank. where it was received Just
four minutes too late, and the holder OF tho
PAPER loscs SIS ,0OO.
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santa Barbara's Floral Industry.
rAp,hnmnhrsn ElaLa n

AhuuaAhhI IN OlODSDeulOCTlU
Looking down from any Of these hillsides
and driving along the roads, one sees patches
OF earth all white, as if snow-banks rested
there, and can hardly believe when told that
this is the way in which the great crops of
pautpas grass are prepared for the market.
In every city the florists keep punches of the
fluffy. feathery pampas plgmes for sale, and
1t is from Santa Barbara that the chief sup
ply for the United States comes.
The origin of this industry dates only a few
years back, when a florists wife, who had
watched the great row Of pampas grass
| bloom and blow away, asked that she NIGH
gather it and sell 1t the next season. The
shrewd woman picked her pampas plume5,
bleached them on the ground, and, shipping
them to a great New York scotsman, no.
ceived $1,000 as the result of her ventura.
Her husband woke up after that revelation,
and the news spread, until the culture of
pampas grass has become an important
feature OF the place. One of the florists has
as much as nineteen acres planted with PAM
pas grass, which yields a revenue of from
800 to S30O an aero, with no labor save pick
ing. drying on the ground and boxing up for
transportation The pampas roots are gem
orally set out in alternate rows between the
fruit trees In an orchard.
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STORIES OF FORTUNE
How n Water Wei Became an OH
Well and an OIL lwen n Water

bradford Letter In NewYork SUM-
Talk about tumbles in tho price Of oIl,T
said a veteran operator OH the Bradford
Petroleum exchange, nothing like tho one
of the winter OF 1850 has been known in the
modern days of the trade. That was the
winter that Jesse Heydrick put down the
old Farmers and Mechanics we'll, or rather
the company that ho formed put 1t down and
that was the first company ever formed TO de-
velop the oil territory. Tho well came in
good for about 5000 barrels a day, and
half OF it couldn't be taken care Of but ran
down the creek In a regular flood Oil was
oil then, and was worth els a barrel. Pitts
burg was the only market, and we had only
one way TO get oil there, and that was by
running it in berges down the Allegheny
river from Oil City. OF course II was neces-
sary to have freshets to transport it in this
way. The winter that Heydrick struck his
well the river WIS frozen over, but no was
bound to get some oil TO Pitbsburg. He sue
ceeded In cutting q way through, and ran
ten fat boats down. He sold all his oil for
sls n barrel The next day thaw set in,
and In two days the river broke VI. Then
the boats began TO run, and in n short time
the market was ovoTstockod, and in less than
a week oil was selling at 80 cents a barrel.
The carly days OF oil production were at
tended by many curious incidents. One Of
the queerest wa a streak OF luck u well owner
struck oil the creek in 1861. He had drillela
well down To the third sand, but found moth
ing hut water, and three days continuous
pumping failed 70 bring anything else to the
surface, so he nbsndonel tho well in disgust
The next day q neighbor Of his, who was
operating GU an adjoining lease, came ovor
10 sec the Disguised well owner, and informed
him, with much excitement, that since the
pumping OF water had ceased at his well great
trouble had resulted at the othor well, which
had yielded thirty barrels Of oil a day as long
as the water was being pumped, but upon the
stopping OF the water pumping had flled up
with water and prCdu,e / no morp oil
The result was that the man who owned
the producing well hired the less ortunat OPP
orator to keeP his pump going, for which he
paid him $40 a week. The producing well
was thus restored o its fornicr condition, and
things worked satisfactorily for six months,
when suddenly one day tho well that had
been yielding nothing but water began pump
ing oil. aud the ono that had yielded oil in
turn became a water well. The changed sit
uAtion resulted In a lawsuit, which was won
by the owner OF tho well that had at first
yielded nothing but water.n
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The spnrrow Post

A few years ago great Efforts were made
to acelimatiLe sparrows in South Australia,
and they have proved successful to a most in
convenient extent. as the birds ave lately
increased 50 much and have inflicted such
serious damage on wheat, vegetables. and
fruit crops that a reward OF sixpcnce per
dozen has been offered for their heads by tho
government
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Chicago Tribunal

'1 remember, n says a correspondent, 'once
breakfaSting with NJ. Theirs. There were six
projects at the table. Cod was served. M.
Theirs took a large plateful He then took
the oil cruet and poured nearly the whole of
the contents over the cod / was alarmed at
seeing an old man preparing to eat such a
dish, and could not refrain from asking
whether he was not afraid OF doing himself
some harm. No, no. he replied, I want to
show these gentlemen that I am Capable o.
governing, because 1 nave an easy dtg.s.
tion.fH
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Boston Transcript
NO" said Mrs Shoddy, II don't care g
much because l never had n Children; !
never liked children you kno@. But l should
like TO have one, so that / could have a nurse
In lace cap to take care of it when l 20 "a
the seashore. It's SO stylish, yon know"
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ENVY.


A wildwood rose woke from its midnight
rest
Beneath a lonely stars caressing light;
And sighed, 20 wondrous human world, how
blest
To roam like thee, forever IN. and
bright"
The radiant star, strange home of mortal
strife,
Murinured, in memory Of its hapless
reign,
20 gentle flower, had l thy tranquil life.
Thy fragrant sleep, that knows no dream
of painfr
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08
Mother swan.s Worm syrup.

InfalIible. tasteless, harmless, ca
thartic; for feverishness, restlessness,
worms, constipation. 25c.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08

d you ever gambler she asked, as thcy
sat together, her hand held in his. He re-
piled mo; but IL I wanted to now would be
my time" "How sor' because / hold a
beautiful hand" The engagement Is an.
uounced.
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is three times the man he was before
he began using Wells Health Re-
newer" 81. Druggists.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08

Singing irritation, Inflammation, all
kidney and urinary complaints, curedby
Encyclopedias" 81.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08

The Methodists of Canada have dropped
the word obey from tho marriage ssrvice
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-08
ROREHOuND&1AR
Eg- Invariably Cures Coughs;
Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Threats,
Asthma, Group, and all Alice
lions of the Breathing Organs.

Its soothing influence upon the Initiated
air passages is due to the fac. that Its Ingredient
ore the most emoacious pulrnonios known,
tho basis of the article being the honsy of the
horenound plant, chemically united with the
Abies B~alsamea, or Balm of Gi1end. Their
lro besides Eve other botanic elements whlc'
give additional efficacy.
Those h have used It say that Hale's
Honey of and Tar Is wonder
fully remedial In ALI cases where The organs OF
respiration arc Affected, and that its action Is
unusually rapid. 1t contains nothing that
can disordertho stomachj It has an extremely
agreeable flavor, and is sold at a figure which
enables those OF the most limited Means to svail
themselves of its virtues.
Children derive great benefit from its
soothing properties when suffering with Group
and whooping Cough.
P~rices-5oo. and 81 per bottle; largest, eheape-'
soLD BY AL DRUGGISTS.
C N. CRlTTEKT0N, Sole Prop'r,N.Y
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Tall. Potato stalk.
In Indiana, where hoop-poles are chased as
timber a farmer has succeeded In raising
n potato stalk over ians fset high. He trim
med of all the side branches aud supported
Il by means OF a stake.
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courtesy of Eyo. Archives
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-12-29
A SPELL OF WEATHER.

Last Sundays storm, which gave u'
here but an inch or two of mingled snow
slect and rain, was very serious east AND
south of US. In New York and New
England, commencing with rain and slush
it resolved itself into heavy snow fall
blocking the railroads, pros,ratlng tele-
graph wires, and ending IN q violent freeze
up, the thermometer falling to 80 below
zero at points ia northern New York, and
generally to 10 and l2 below throughout
Massach usetls, Connecticut, &c. Further
south the fall was manly ram, ending with
half foot of snow, which, however. south
of the Ohio river, melted as fas. as it fell.
The consequence was food in the OHIO,
from which Cincinnati has thus far been
the chief sufferer, the river at that point
rising 80 feet, flooding the ground floors
ON Front street and in Rat and Sausage
rows. where hundreds OF poor families are
housed. Great damage was also caused by
the LEAKAGE and collapse Of roofs. The
food also swept away 400 barrels Of mo.
lasses at one point, and the Oak street tun-
mel caved IN. The food in the Licking
River carried off steamer and nine coal
barges, and the surelng OF the Little Mia
mi wrecked the narrow. gauge bridge and
iron tres,le work near California. The
rivers are still rising at Pittsburg, and rail
way travel was greatly impeded by land
slldes and the destruction of culverts and
bridges. 1t was believed, however, that
the intense cold of Thursday and yester-
day would arrest the thaw IN the Ohio val
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CONGRESS.

Congress adjourned over on Monday 10
the 9Th of January, less than so members
being IN attendance at Mondays session,
and these remained only to give speaker
Carlisle an opportunity to announce the
standing committees. These are gwen in
thr papers at length, and upon the whole
are regarded AZ well selected and IA the
main satisfactory. Morrison, of course, Is
placed At the head of the ways and means
committee, with four colleagues who Will
favor moderate tariff revision, two out
and ont tree traders, and four high tariff
republicans. Randall heads the commit
tee on appropriations; Tucker the Judi
cary, Buckner Banks and Currency and
Reagan Commerce. Neither Cox or Bel
mont got the Foreign Affairs committee,
over which both had quarreled, but Curtin
was made chairman with Belmont as sec
ond man. Cox was put off with the Naval
Committee, about which he is mad and
says he will decline 10 serve. Springer,
who wanted to be head of the Elections
committee, is also dissatisfied, that COM
mittee having been given to Turner, OF
Georgia, while Springer was put OIL with
the craftsmanship of the unimportant com
mittee on the Expenditures Of the Depart.
ment OF Justice. Beng one OF the Oldest,
ablest and most experienced members of
the House, he certainly deserved better
treatment. He attributes his slight to the
jealousy of Morrison, while Morrison de-
clares he had nothing to do with it.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-12-29

RAILROAD DIsAsTERs.-About daylight
On Monday morning passenger train
from Chicago, on the Louisville, New Al.
bsny e. Chicago railroad, crashed through
bridge near Salem, Washington county
Ind, crushing three cars, which we're az
forwards burned. Seven persons were
killed outright ana nilecn or twenty more
or less dangerously hurt.
On the same morning, near Avon, Ind.
U passenger tram ran into freight, tele-
scoping the caboosc and several cars. re-
sultiug In the loss OF at least two lives
Al Fort Wayne passenger train on the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad was
struck by sw!tch engine aud halt score
Of passengers injured. On the Chicago Il
st. Louis railroad, about twenty miles
from Indianapolis, spreading rails caused
the complete wreck of passenger tram,
though no one was fatally hurt. In add
ton to this terrible chapter Of Christina
casualties, there were two accidents in
Minnesota, three IN OHIO, and sporadic
cases In Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, and
elsewhere.
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cause OF inattcntlon than for any Other
reason. 1t Is an easy way to meet the bur
den OF public duty, but 1t is by no mean'
the best way. think that the idea OF re
moving the desks so that members vii!
have to attend to what is going on IL
good one, ana when the public come tc
appreciate IL it will be demanded. Certain
ly something should he done to keep con
gress from idling away its time or devot-
ing it to purely personal ana exiraneouS
matters.
1t has been commonly reported that Mr.
Blaine few months ago erected very
large residence IN Washington. Some
people have wondered why his name has
not appeared in any OF the lists of tax pay
ers. The explanation as given to me Is
that Mr.. Blame bought his building LOT
from Hon. William Walter Phelps; that
he has never had his deed recorded, and
that he now prefers 10 have the whole
property stand in Mr.. Phelps name. Mr.
Phelps is taxed for about Sl50,00O. Con
sequcntly no valuation of the Blame man
sion appears in the tax list.
The object of the bill recently introduced
in the House to examine all the clerks
now in office Is said to be to create vacan-
cies in order to fill them by civil service
methods, and thus insure If possible per.
Torrance of the reform. For it is clear to
all here that the endeavor TO divorce de
partmental appointments from politics has
had the appearance of being little more
than device to keep republicans IN office.
Should democratic administration come
into power IN March 1886, it would find
that less than 10 per cent. of the five or six
thousand classified employees in the de
partments have entered through the non-
partisan methods of the civil service law !:
the other nine tenths being the appolntees
of republican administrations for political
reasons mainly. 1t would in fact take a
good many years at the present rate Of
progress 10 bring the departments into
such state as would offer no excuse for
wholesale removals to democratic ad-
The civil service act has
been in force nearly ten months, and yet
there are not much above score of ap-
pOintmcnts to its credit in all the depart.
ments together.
The men and women who look with pc.
culiar dread upon the passage Of such
law are those who are retained or have
been appointed for sentimental reasons.
There are hundreds of such. The class
includes men and women who have grown
DID in the service and have passed the age
Of efficiency; those who have been ap-
pointed because they had failed in other
walks of life, such as broken merchants,
dismissed army and navy officers, &c,
Widows OF deceased soldiers, sailors and
politicians. secured from absolute want by
heir places. Such people are least likely
o pass an examination which is at all
searching
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CONING TO THEIR SENSES.

Hitherto there has been no representa-
ton IN Congress more completely subserv
lent to the New England cotton and the
Pennsylvania iron lords than that from the
state of Maine; yet no state suffered more
severely from the robber tariff than that
same state oG Maine. She has the finest
timber in the world for ship.building, the
finest ports on our whole Atlantic coast,
the best docking and in all respects excels
every other state IN her convcniences for
ship building. Yet to pamper the cotton
and iron lords she submitted to such a tax
on iron, cordage, copper, and overy other
article entering into ship-bullding that all
her ship-yar3s went to decay and the hun.
dred thousand carpenters they employed
we're driven to the woods to cut saw logs
for the New York and Boston lumber
kings, or drive1 to the Yves, to exc out an
existence by raising corn and wheat on
government lands. At last, however, the
representatives of that state have come to
their senses, and one Of them, Mr.. Ding
ley, "a prominent republican, IN their be-
half has introduced tour bills in congress,
of which the following are the leading
features:
The first bill allows American vessels TO
sail with foreign officers, the Captain only
excepted, and allows minority ownership
bv aliens. II regulates the consular super
vision over the relations between master
aud crew. Under It's PROVISIONS the Con-
sui no longer has the right to exact three
months extra wages on the discharge of
seaman. 1t abollshes fees for consular
services 70 vessels and scamen. In place
OF all tonnage duties it substitutes tax Of
three cents ton on each eHiry from Cana
dian, West Indian, and Mexican ports, and
from AspinwalI, Panama, and the Sand
wlch Islands; the total tax, however, not
to exceed fifteen cents ton on any one
vessel in any one year. On entry from
any other foreign port, the duty is SIX cents
q ton.
The second bill is designed TO relieve
coasting vessels of pilOtage. 1t provides
for the licensing of the masters as perma-
nent pilots on board Of their owa craft.
The third measure admits free OF tluty all
foreign material that is to be employed in
the construction, equipment, or repair of
vessels designed for the foreign trade. This
applies both to iron ships and wooden
ships; and 1t includes material for the
shipyards and shops, as well ms for the
ships.
The fourth Of Mr.. Dlngley's bills estab
fishes Bureau OF Commerce and Navi.
CATION.
Upon which the New York Sun MAKES
this comment:
II will be observed that the first and
second Of these measures are aimel al
minor evils OF which American shIpowners
complain. The fourth Is wholly unim
portsnt; the existence Of such q bureau
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THE COURTS.

The courts have been closed this week. II
the county court there WAS an insane case
Michael Brophy, aged % yesrs. His troubl
is hereditary. He nanifes,s hOm0cidal ten
denotes, and was consigned to the count
asylum until he could he admitted to Elgin
The following were this week granted Ii
censes TO marry:
Walter Doak and Maggie CayanSugh.
James Price and Elizabeth Hitler.
John 8 Dearth aud Lorella Hagus.
James NJ Stevenson and Ella b Hcaly.
Geo II Rich and Mrs Carrie johnson.
Chas Grottos and Carrie Battles.
Edward II Walden and Mrs Lena Peterson
VIM Gilllbrand and Mrs Hannah Hill.
Geo Moss and Jane Mather.
Clarence J Doran and Mary Stsdden.
Geo Funk and Mary Whalen.
Jos w Woodward and Lizzie Hook.
Sylvester 8 Gaines and Fannie Grubb.
Geo NJ Finkle anc lneZ Long.
Frank O Chapman and Emma snyder
Jas B Cook and Belle Miles.
Ed C Modes and Susie NJ Fairfield.
John N,ckleson and Minnie Brooks.
John Morowitz and Theresa Mcdonald.
John Wissen ard Mary W Graft.