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, 1884-07-20

tCor. N. q. Times-Democratl
Here on the Red sea, for tho first time in
my seNenty-hve days and nights OF sea voy-
aging, l have a taste of what a fire on ship
board implies. One hot breathless day the
chief officer is having a large kettle of a
rcsinOus liquor boiled, up forward on a deck
stove, for application to certain parts OF the
ship 1t is left alone for u moment, boils over
into the fire, and in Il moment more the
whole mass is ablaze. The liquid flows over
the deck, and almost before we can take the
fact in, great sheets of fiamea are leaping half
way up to the square-salis. The
alarm is sounded, the sailors rush to
the sand-barrels, and by the time each
man has thrown a psilful of Sand upon
the deck there is nothing left burning but the
kettle. Over this a courageous fellow throws
a piece of sail-cloth, and two other men lift
it to the deck. In the meantime the captain
has ordered the donkey engine to work, and
there is an immense stream ready to play
upon the deck, were such a measure neces-
sary.
confess that my heart is humping away
wildly, but none OF the officers or men seem
any more concerned thun if such a scone were
of daily occurrence on s~hipboard.
A few men have been wounded or burned
in the operation, while some others nave lost
part OF their clothing. l suppose no more
dangerous form of fire could break out, and
yet it is handled with perfect ease and does
not create a ripple of excitement. In three
minutes it has ceased TO be a subject OF com
ment.
, 1884-07-20

t"CasparT in Detroit Free Press.l
The Pres club reception the other night
was a jam, and as the night was unpleasantly
warm, some of the guests, especially the fat
ones, found the gathering rather uncomforta-
BILE. There was an interesting musical and
literary entertainment in one part of the
building, some Of the billiard experts gave an
exhibition of their skill in another, and a
supper worthy of Delmonico, was served in q
third.
The Press club began in a small way four
teen years ago, and got on with rather small
quarters, but it has grown a good deal since,
and 1t now needs a lot OF elbow room. Its new
quarters at 100 Nassau street take in -four
floors, each about sixty feet deep, and they
viii probably meet its wants for some
time to come, even though it continues to grow
as in the past. The reception was a sort OF
house warming, as the fitting up of the new
rooms had just been completed One of the
Press clubs merits is it's thoroughly demo
cratic spirit There is 10 high-toned nom
sense about 1t at all. Its object is to bring
the real workers of the press together,
whether they are editors or reporters, and
when they come together one man is just as
good as another. All the leading papers of
the country are kept on file, and any news
paper man who has writing TO do may drop
in and do it as quietly as If he were in his
own room.
The club is now an established institution
and q prosperous one, too. 1t has come to
stay. One thing l noticed at the reception
was a scarcity of gray heads and bald ones,
Ihres-fourths of the men present were under
-, and their craniums were well covered
, 1884-07-20
A sarc-BIower'. Kit of Tools.

lthlCdEO NeWS.l
"How'd you like 10 go into the safe-blowing
business for awhile, p" said the police lieutenant,
Just 10 make it lively for the boysY'
First rate, y answered the reporter as he
thought OF the possibilities of escape. Emu.
m=rbte the tools necessary, and the rest viii
bc an Decentralization"
The best why is u show you a list OF tool
caught with Il good gang Of thieves u few
years ago. They had several grip sacks, and
We found "a complete set OF tools for safe
blowing and burgIuries. There were self.
cooking revClyers VI J!-caliber and u guam.
tlty OF cartridges to match. The tools were
formidable implements Of the craft, such az
the pusher, for opening combination locks,
extremely rare and expensive; the jinlmies,
in three sections and five feet long; u bel.
lows worked by the feet; a lot OF half
Inch hose and tin tubes for powder to be
forced through in blowing open safes; very
line powder in fas ks, and q lot OF nitIo-
Rlycerine and atlas powder, in cartridges, so
arranged as to be exploded by electricity If
desired. Then there were coils of water
proof fuse, Il fur null to deaden the sound,
and a gcssamer to hide the rays of the light;
pocket dark-lnnterns, a thin spatula TO open
window ~fustenings, an adjustable wrench,
II bit-stock, dozens of drills Of silver steel, and
half us many steel wedges ranging from
three-fourths OF an inch TO four inches in
length. For coercion and defense you will
need two ~new-pattern revolvers and a pair of
improved handouts, a map OF the United
States and Cook county; II machine for cut
ting out door locks, and a bottle OF whisky.
Get those and you will nave as fine a kit as
the best OF 'em carries, and I'll guarantee to
give you u year in the bridowell il | only sue
coed in finding the tools in your possession. y
The reporter weakened, and it is likely the
new enterprise will hzzle out.
, 1884-07-20

r"Driver." in San Francisco Examiner.l
"Sometimes Il countryman comes into the
car and drops some money into the box, ex-
pecting that the conductor will take it out
and give him change. They do not know
that there is an aperture for change In the
door. Some OF them are so ashamed OF their
ignorance that they subside when they find
what "a bad break they have made. Often on
this car gold pieces have been put in as fare
in that way. A granger once came in and
threw q four-bit piece in the box. He CON
tinued standing and looking out at me for a
block or 50, and then had the door opened.
He said that he wanted his change. / tried
to explain matters to him, and told him to go
to the Office. He would not have that. "You
needn't take me for a sucker he said In a
loud voice; Il know as much as you do, and
| won't stand any OF your little games" He
commenced to get violent, and so / proposed
that lie should take his change In tickets, in
order to pacify him. To this he agreed, and
/ have him half a dozen transfer tickets,
which he could only use that day. He was
no sucker, but he took those tickets and sat
down as IL he was the smarter OF the two
, 1884-07-20
How n Lost Hat Found n Bride.

ISL winnipeg SUM-
One day last week a gentleman living at
Qu'Appeile, received a telegram from the
young lady whom he intended to make his
wife in "A few days, stating that she was at
the Grand Central hotel and to come on. The
Indy had been living in one of the northwest
ein states of the adjoining Union, and had
obligingly consented to meet her afianced
half way in order to complete their own
union. The happy and excited bridegroom
took it for granted thar the Grand Contra
was in Winnipeg, and lastly preparing for
the journey, boarded the first train for that
city. When nearing Brandon he put his head
out of the window to take a survey OF the
situation. The wind blew his hat off, and he
landed at the station bareheaded. OF course
his first care was to rush up town to buy a
new hat, but he had not gone far before he
came face TO face with his intended bride
She had telegraphed from the Grand Central,
Brandon. Explanations quickly followed,
and soon after they found themselves in st.
Matthew'S church, where the Rev. Mr.. Boy
dell duly made them man and wife.
, 1884-07-20
UNCLE SAM or PIATT
says Omaha Is Destined To Bo the
Great Cattle Market.

New York SUM-
Mr.. Samuel W. Allerton, Of Chicago, the
stock yard king, is known at home as Uncle
sam Of Piatt, because on change he is always
illustrating his remarks about the crops with
references to my farm in Piatt county
This farm covers six square miles, and in
spite OF its size Is one OF the finest and best.
cultivated farms in Illinois.
4 will make this prediction" said Mr.,
AlleIton, in the Fifth Avenue hotel the other
day. Ten years hence Omaha will bd
the great cattle market of the coun'
try. -Four years ago, in Boone county,
Nebraska, there were but four "
five sod houses. There are more cattle fed
there now than in any four counties in ILL
nOs. As the country becomes settled and di-
yided into farms, the cattle raisers arc pushed
further west. Cheap lands are necessary to
raise cattle. There we're more cattle raisel
in Illinois in 1885 than to-day, and the pro
ductiye area has passed west OF the Missis-
sippi.
The finest abattoir in the world is bsing
erected at Omaha. Chicago has go acres in
its stock yards, which were built about 1857.
Their value is some Sl5,0OO,0O0, and the yards
are owned principally in Boston. The new
yards at Omaha, when completed, will cover
4OO acres. The cost will be about $4,000.
Mr.. William Paxton is president, and he
and j. II. Swan are principal stock
holders. Ihe yards will be completed In
September. st. Louis has COO acres OF
yards, which cost some S2,OOO,OoO. They
we're built about 1873, and at present are
the completest yards in the country. There
arc some twenty acres OF yards ut Sixty
Fourth street, in this city, and thirty acres in
Jersey City. There are five yards at Kansas
City, also,
Speaking Of exporting CATTLE continued
, 1884-07-20

II a barn should blow down, there will be u
diagram of the premises; view of the barn be-
fore being blown down; view of the barn
while being blown down; view Of the ruins;
interview with the hired man, who said
he always knowed it was going to
blow down; Interview with the owner, with
his and others theories on barns blowing
down; interview with Professor Mugwump,
the distinguished Chicago savant, with his
views as to the reason why barns. blow down
rather than up; comparative table of barn
mortality in this and other states for the last
forty years, showing percentage of barns
blowing down compared with the iIliterate
vote; history OF los from the earliest times
to the present; statement Of loss-S500.
, 1884-07-20

"You have stepped on my footr'
The murmuring zephyrs OF a jun morning
were kissing with dewy breath the rose
bushes that were soon to burst forth in n
wealth of bud and blossoms. The twitter of
the robin and the meadowlark rose checrily
upon the cool, flesh air, that came from be
yond the hilltops in the west, and athwart the
eastern sky faint bands of crimson light, rosy
harbinger of the golden food that was to
come, made a vivid constrast to the deep
blue OF the zenith, while over all was spread
the solemn hush that comes before break
fast.
''You are mistaken, darling" said
Gwendolen Mahatfy, looking up tenderly at
Pericles Perkins, sit was the horse"
Perhaps you are right" the man replied.
stroking the neck of the horse-a beautiful
Norman that weighed nearly u ton-"but it
would lave deceived even a more trusting
heart than mine.n .a4 ..
, 1884-07-20

IDeITOII FTte ITess
There was u queer incident happened some
years ago that hsve never seen in print. A
lady who is immensely aristocratic lost her
father, and he was buried with much state
and style. There was a great many reia-
uves, and the line was drawn very fine. The
lady called the undertaken 10 one sde, and
said:
you will SEQ that all the collaterals ride
In coaches together"
"COllateralsfn
YES, collateral relatives, not blood rels-
tons you know"
80, certainly said the undertaken, your
husband must come out of that carriage, and
take the fifth in the row; he is a collateral
Now, isn't that equal to the Irish Under
taker, who said; The second cousins of the
CORPSE will plense step This waylH -
, 1884-07-20

New York Cor. Cincinnati SUM
The Greeley family has been peculiarly UNI
fortunate. Greeley's presidential canvass
was a sad blunder, costing him his life and
almost iwrecking The Tribune. His wife's
death occurred the same year, and the shat
tered presidential candidate was mmo
from political e~xertion to attend her funeral,
which only preceded his own by a few weeks.
The same Ill luck has followed bis children.
The eldest Is said to have married in very
uncongenial manner, but was in a few years
removed from earthly troubles by the hand
Of death, and Gabrielle, who is the only sur
vivor of the Greeley family, has recently
been severely injured by the upsetting Of her
carriage. What "a curious series of mishapI
and c~asuS5tiesl
, 1884-07-20

s. Mr. +. n. Chase, Director of the Iowa
State Board Of Agriculture, says: While
out at the State fair grounds on the 9th
inst, Mr.. Rounds, of Cedar Falls, was
taken with a sudden and violent attack of
cholera morbus, | procured q bottle Of
rhamberlain's Collie, Cholera and niar-
rh@a Remedy for him, after his taking
the first dose he felt relieved of the pain
and in o short time he was well and re-
manned to see the fair. Sold by Hunt &
Whipple.
, 1884-07-20

lSomerVille journal.
"a understand you are getting up IA sur.
prise party FOR Smith aid Jones 70 Brown
the other day.
Yes" was the reply; I'VE think him
worthy OF one"
What has he done 30 entitle him to your
c~onsidemtionF'
well, he has lived among US many years,
gone in and out among us, been II good friend,
u good ueiShbor, and a good citizen, but the
principle reason for our honoring him Is thai
during his ~sojourn among us no man has ever
heard him say, mo matter how warm the
weather. "Is this hot enough for youT
, 1884-07-20

Halls Vegetable Sicillan Hair Renew
er never fails in restoring gray hair to Its
youthful color. lustre and vitality. Dr.
\. A Hayes, state assayer of Massachu-
setts, endorses it, and all who give it a
fair trial unite in grateful testimony to its
many virtues.
, 1884-07-20
Local. MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

DOu l lOI8tlt Z U clOch ". III
Cattle shipments are beginning to be-
come quite frequent
A small picnic party will go to the
Natural Fort to-day.
The passenger train from the East was
a badly mixed one last evening.
Kellner Bros. have made immense re
auctions in lace curtains; come and see
the prices.
Remember the fact that on tomorrow
evening the business phases generally will
close at : O'Clock.
The Congregational pastor at Greeley,
Rev. Nh. Staver, exchanges with Rev.
Mr.. Sanders to-day.
The Eddy street bridge has been re-
built by Street Commissioners O'Brien and
Is again in good condition,
The Rev. David Staver, of Greeley, is
to preach at the Congregational church
this morning and evening.
Furnished rooms for rentare very scarce
in Cheyenne Just at present, and are liable
TO become more so very soon.
Some of of the Cinnamon are in hot
water again, I'd will doubtless be i%nvesti-
gated by the police or some other officers
very soon.
A. c. Snyder has joined the Grand
Army, and thinks that he is liable to shed
more blood than all of the remainder of
the organization can
Judge Fisher says that if business CON
tinues as dull as it has been for the past
few days, he will close up his Office as it
will not pay his room rent.
The highest temperature yesterday was
7s'; lowest, 5l0; mean temperature, 65o;
mean humidity, 65 per cent. highest
velocity of wind, "A miles per hour.
The Pine Bluffs people expect that the
present shipping season will witness the
starting of what will eventually become
quite a smart little town at their place.
If Wyoming is to be afflicted with the
road agents a~gain-it would be well to call
the Mosier brigade together, round up Il
few of the marauders and give them a
benefit Of some sort.
In excayating for the Trinity Block. ON
Seventeen street, a vein of water has
been struck which will make a good deal
of trouble and expense for Messrs. Under
wood and Justus and the Knights of
Pythias.
There are two or three small roundup
outfits camped not far from the city
mainly in the vicinity of Lake Mahpahlu-
tab. Several new %ranchmen and cowboys
made their appearance in the city last
evening.
Work was renewed ON the gas ditch ON
Ferguson street Yesterday, it having been
suspended since July 3, during which
time the attention of the company and its
workmen have been directed to other por-
tons of the city.
Operations have commenced ON the
water extensions, and the first point of the
line to which Contractors O'Brien 4
Lawler have directed their attention under
the direction of the City Engineer, is
Eighteenth street commencing ut the west
end.
, 1884-07-20

The old Catholic church is now being
repaired and fitted up and will be put in
readiness for occupation by the list Of
September. u which time the school of
the Sisters Of the Holy Child will be
opened for the reception of those who de
sire to attend.
, 1884-07-20

When you learn that there is an office
ot the Genuine Singer Machine in Chey-
enne, give US a call and be convinced that
we come to stay. A irst-class repairer in
the office; all work warranted, at the cor
ner of 18th and Hill streets. i1Hia
The SINGER MIRO. Co..
, 1884-07-20

expected to pay when they lose Eeayfly-a.
lcast they don't do it as a general thing-ohd,
although the chances are against success,
still there arc big enough profits when one
really does make n hit 10 give the business a
strong rover of fascination
, 1884-07-20
The Democratic Leader.
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1884.

Moonlight and Sunlight.
Almost bewitchinE symphony
In snow-white drapery arrayrd
a saucy little red-lipped mouth
Round which the dlmpleS swectly played.
NoSDAY MORNING.
A line of clothes hung up to dry,
Faun'd by tho breezes from the south
4 pair of freckled arms appraised.
A dozen clothsspins in her mOuth.
philadelphia CuH.
, 1884-07-20

Notice 10 S,orlto,-n

We are prepared to contract, on short
notice, large or small lots Of Texas cattle,
fresh from range In Texas, to be delivered
by rail at any point in the North.
JNo. ID. DoBYNs x Co.
, 1884-07-20

Benton & White, located ON Hill street
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth,
keep a feed, sale and boarding stable,
Teams for sale at reduced prices.
, 1884-07-20

Ranchmen will save money by calling
on G. w, Clark q Son for their groceries
in the Wyoming block, Cheyenne.
, 1884-07-20

OF Course He Comes.
Now he comes without n warning.
Where the sultry day is dawning,
Where the weary sleepeH lie.
Round he hoyers all the morning.
All our vain repulses scorning
when the Summer sun is high.
In the silence of the cleaning
He Is ever lone OF roaming
Where seductive sweets are slgh
May the trosts OF Winter freeze thee.
May some stalwart spider seize thee.
o thou pretty little N.Y.
-NeiB York Journal.
, 1884-07-20
Amer1oan N1ethod,

"
"A The mysuncationso Of the cid schools are passed
~ away. and the pupfitanght 10 recognize at sight
that which the fingers are required to perform.
Thai those who practice Tor years. without a
thorough and comprehensive knowledge OF the
material from which their music is composed.
are playing The DaIf of an automatom-not an
Intelligent being. +thS AoNl
That execution upon any instrument must be
considered in no other light than mechanical
Art, governed by n principle, which, thoroughly
"a g understood and practiced. covers the whole
ground Of artistic deHterity.
That the price OF success Is honest, daily,
mental and mechanical study of those funda-
d mental paSsages-chords aud s~cales-from
LII which are developed die peculiar forms Of all
l. composers MnhEWH
That good pupils never graduate, or see the
time there Is nothing new TO learn, but study
on, gaining familiarity with every composer OF
M merit cleaning t%hereiroh. aud appropriating TO
themselves tile beauties and gems from every
= school Of composition. D
TIKI AMERICAN METHOD has. within
the sixteen year. Of its pobAestlon, elected from
thou sands OF delighted patrons scattered from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacing Coast, the most nat
teTinR testimt, malls, Which cau1 be seen by call
Ing OH Mrs. Mercer. Can refer ~ great numbers
of PATROLS on the Pacinc Coast and in the East
, 1884-07-20

The new machines sold by Beckstead,
$40 Seventeenth street, are going off like
hot cakes. New Home or New Howe
for cash or easy monthly payments.
, 1884-07-20

Ladies', please do all your shopping
before I O'Clock p. m.
, 1884-07-20

No drug store whisky at Pioneer sa-
loon, but Bond J. Lillard at Jake Essel-
born's.
, 1884-07-20

Positively the finest toilet soaps ever
brought to this city, at Rhodes & Trox-
ellis
, 1884-07-20

Brass hanging lamps with colored cut
glass prisms at Craig. Davis 4 20. s.
, 1884-07-20

The most popular brand Of soap evei
made, at Rhodes & Iroxens.
, 1884-07-20

Furniture repaired and reupholsteFde
al Craig, Davis & Co.'S,
, 1884-07-20

For 6ne watch repairing,
DAVID MILLER, 18th street.
, 1884-07-20

Largest line of boots and shoes in the
city at Jenkins & Ross.
, 1884-07-20

Little Joker is the best smoking to-
, 1884-07-20

A host of them, at Rhodes & Troxells.
, 1884-07-20

Warranty deed, Samuel Lewis TO w.
W. Gnash lot No. 7 In block No. 40, in
the City of Cheyenne; consideration $50.
, 1884-07-20

The most popular brand of soap ever
made, at Rhodes 4 Troxells,
, 1884-07-20

The following instrument were filed for
record in the office of the County CLERK
,rautarJay.
, 1884-07-20

E.%.E. BURLlNGAME .5 5SiAS iSEF'G Fs AER ASpF y SaNa9pI hAR b
1866: Samples by mail or express will receive prompt and careful attention, Gold
and slysr bullion refined melted and asHged or purchased Address 49, Lawrence
, 1884-07-20

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-06-20

An UGLY FELLOW.
Arrest Of Frank walker, the Embden
Murderer.

NORTH ANsoS, June l9.
Frank Walker, OF Embden, who shot Al
bert Daggett, Tuesday forenoon, was arrested
oy Constable Stillman Walker, Wednesday
forenoon at about ten O'Clock. He was hoe
ing IN his garden at the time of his arrest,
and manifested much obstinacy. He ex-
pressed no regret at what he had done, but
said 1t was a wonder that No more of the sere-
naders were hit. as all the chambers of his
revolver were loaded.
An inquest was held over the remains OF
Daggett BY Coroner Mayor, of Skowhegan,
wednesday. The jury rendered q verdict
that the deceased came to his death by shot
from revolver fred by Frank Walker.
Walker was brought to North Anson for a
hearing before the trial justice, on Thursday
There is much indignation all through the
country at his dastardly act. He had been a
chief of the serenaders in the village, where
the custom was an established one. Many
of the men in the crowd at which he fired
were married men. whom he had serenaded
himself. As he says, it is a wonder that no
more of the crowd were hit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-06-20
MAINE DISPATCHES.
MAINE UNIV ERSALISTS.
Annual Conference of the Society at
ROckiand.

RocKLASD, June 10.
At the Maine Universalist conference last
evening Rev. G. w. Perry, financial agent of
the general convention, addressed the meeting
on the work of the national body and the re-
lation of the State parishes to it. A SER
mon OF original thought and deep earnestness
was preached by Rev. G. l.. Perrin of Boston
on the theme, 1.-The structure of the moral
world" On Thursday morning at five and
eight o'clock in the morning a conference
and prayer meeting, large in the number of
attendance and speakers, was held in which a
true religious feeling prevailed. In the
forenoon business meeting adopted reso-
lutions favOring the adoption of the prohibi-
tory constitutional amendment, the suppress
ion of permiscous literature, commencing
the Maine Central railroad for deciding not
to run Sunday trains, renewing the opposi-
ton of the convention to capital punishment
as opposed to the spirit and aims of christi
anity and the best governmental policy, thank
ing the Rockland parish for their grateful
hospitality, the railroads and steamboats, for
special favors and the preacher of the occas-
ional sermon and the ministers of the State
with Stanford Mitchell for assistance.
At II o'clock Rev. l.. l.. Greene of Bath
preached sermon. AT this meeting resolu-
tions were passed commemorative the life and
work of Rev. G. o. Quinby, ID. D. Addresses
in their support were made by Rev. 1. J.
Mead and Rev. J. II. Little.
A mass praise meeting with addresses was
held Mt = z. M. Rev. w. S. Perkins of
Lewiston presided and made an effective ad
dress puon "Our faith" He was followed
by Rev. f. o. Hoyt, Stanford Mitchell and
G.. w. Kent.
The closing meeting held in the evening
was mainly for social purposes. The con-
vention has been large, interesting and
profitable.