Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-29

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GaIignani's Messenger recently gave an ac~
count Of a will case at Nismes. in which
win, in every other respect proper and valid,
was set aside on the ground that it bore
false date. II was drawn up on stamped
paper, which, in its water mark, contained
the date 1879, while the will was executed on
the 31st of August, 1873. The court was un-
der the impression that stamped paper is
never issued before the LIST OF January of the
year of which it bears the date, and the
discrepancy in the two dates appeared con-
elusive. That judgment has caused profess
sional men who have to draw up legal docu.
nents to examine the stamped paper now
sold by the treasury agents, and the extra
ordinary discovery has been made that sheets
dated 1885 have already been issued. This
has occurred not in q single locality, but in
places widely ssparated-in the Pas-de-C Calais
in the north, and at Avienon in the south.
The consequence is that Wills or other deeds
drawn mp inadvertently on such paper are
in danger of being declared invalid, or sup
posed to be forgeries.
Professor G. E. Bailey, of Cheyenne, ter
ritorial geologist of Wyoming, gives some
interesting facts about the soda deposits dis
covered in Wyoming. One series is on the
old Laramie Plains, fourteen miles from
Laramie City. where there is a chain of SO
called lakes five to twenty-five acres in area,
averaging fifteen feet in depth. These de-
posits are sulphate Of soda. II cuts out in
water is so impregpated with soda that they
are filled up in a few days. In the Sweet
water Valley, near Independence Rock, are
thirty-four deposits varying in size from
thv%s and four aclss up to thirty-two acres.
A few of these are simply. bodies Of water
highly charged with sulphats of soda. Many
others contain mixture of sulphate and
carbonate to the depth of forty eight feet.
The depth and extent of these beds have
only recently been known. Experimental
works have been erected at Laramie City to
manufacture carbonates and bi-carbonates
In the Sweetw ater region bi-carbonate Is
found on the surface. He has used it Ia
cooking in camp and made good bread with
it. The only other soda deposit in this
country is q lake in Nevada twenty acres in
area and four feet deep.
The Hawley boom is getting well started.
A Washington correspondent of the Boston
Herald looks over the field and says: If there
1anl ir,k he aonh1iaan 1toh1A his
aRme is Joseph R. Hswlsy Of Connecticut. I
regard his chance of being nominated as very
much better than that of Garfield in April,
$3.50. The marked feature of the prelimina
y party canvass this year is the absence Of
If the friends and advocates of
ii the leading candidates desire to unite on
man whom all can support with pleasure
nd success, why is not Hawley the most
man7 He has spotless record. |
1s was gallant soldier. He is satisfactory |
o the independent voters. He represents |
doubtful State. He is owned by no man. |
lie is identified with no great schemes or
He lives very near to the city |
i New York. As president of the centen- |
ial commission he won his civic prestige. He |
las large personal acquaintance all over /
he Union. He can make an eloquent speech. |
nd the country does love an eloquent man
Ie has made his own way up from modest /
eginning He is a newspaper editor and
nan Of literary tastes. He hates scoundrels /
f all sorts He was born in North Carroll /
a, and, if he were the candidate, that fact
night be used to give Republican majority
q the Old North State. How many more
ood things might be said of him will not
top to record. I know of no man whose
anne could be thrown into q Republican con-
ention this year with such perfect accap-
ability to all elements and all sorts of men.
lis nomination would enable Robert Lin
oln to be made the Vice President, thing
lready determined by the common sense of
be Republican party. HaWley and Lincoln
,ouId make q winning ticket