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MARRIAGE CONTRACTS NOT RE-
CURED TO BEN WRITING.

A case is reported in the New York pa
pers which covers a new enunciation of
the law relating to contracts. The suit
was in one OF the New York supreme
judicial districts, and related to the
form, effect and construction of a prom
Use Of marriage. A young woman sued
a young man for breach of such an agree
ment. 1t appeared from the testimony
that the promise or contract of marriage
had been entered into more than a year
previous to the time when the rupture
Of the engagement was alleged to have
occurred. The young man against
whom this suit was brought by the
young woman pleaded as a matter of
fact and law in his defense that the con-
tract, if any, the breach of which was
the cause Of action, had been formed
more than a year before the date at which
it was charged to have been violated, and
that it was not in writing.
1t seems hat there is a law in the
state of New York which requires that
contracts extending over a year in
time, in order to be valid, must be in
black and whitehall is, inscribed on
paper with pen and ink. 1t is not, how
ever, necessary in order to insure the
validity of such a written contract either
that the ink with which it is written
should be black, or the paper on which it
is written should be white. The words,
in black and white simply signify that
a contract so described shall be written
and not a verbal contract.
Justice Corbett, Of the court named,
decided that the statute of frauds of New
York, in requiring that contracts extend
ing over a year as to time, should be in
writing in order to establish their validity,
does not relate 10 the marriage contract.
Judge Corbett said: 1T is contrary to
every known attribute orinstinct of human
nature to suppose that the legislature in
tended to make mutual contracts of mar
rage void unless reduced to writing.
There is peculiar force and soundness
in this decision. 1t is not supposable that
when a young man Tor an old one) agrees
to marry a young woman Tor an old one)
the contract based on affection and passion
should be reduced to writing in order to
make it valid. The VOWS of love are
unwritten. They are inscribed only on
the tablets of the heart and of the mem
Dry. To require that the contract should
be reduced to writing, and produced in
legible form in court, would be an absurd
iy in law, logic and human nature.
Justice Corbett, Of the supreme court of
the state of New York, evidently under
stands equally well the volume of the
statutes and that of common sense.
, 1885-10-04

AMONG yesterdays Associated Press
dispatches is the following from New
York
Henry Ward Beecher is reported as
saying he was much less concerned with
the Republican and Democratic platforms
and nominations than he was with the
barbarous outagcs upon Chinese out in
Wyoming; that if anybody would get up
a big meeting in New York or Brooklyn
to urge the government to home vigorous
step looking to the better protection Of
Chinese, the punishment Of Chinese per
secutors and the maintenance Of treaty
obligations with China, he would be glad
to preside. He says he is surprised that
the moral sentiment Of the community has
not ere this manifested itself in some such
expression of public opinion. II there is
any issue between civilization and barbar-
ism in this business, he thinks civilization
is on the side Of the Cinnamon, aud bar
bansm on the side Of the stronger party.
Their meekness under persecution, more
over, he thinks shows these unhappy
, 1885-10-04

NHftN ANHE HNHHN
The suicides were engaged in nearly
every kind of occupation, but the great
majority were farmers, merchants and
laborers, though commonly it is sup
posed that the tendency to self-destruc-
ton is among men of strictly intel
lectual pursuits. But, in fact, suicide,
like insanity. is less among those who
work their minds chiefly, than among
those who lead sluggish lives in which
their intellectual faculties are not kept
bright by use. New York, though the
most populous of the states, had fewer
suicides in 1884 than lllinois-l61 to
169. Finally. the number Of suicides in
this country IS small in comparison with
Europe, out of the more than %, 900
cases of self-destruction which occur
annually in Europe and the United
States together, we furnish only about
600
, 1885-10-04

pagans have the spirit Of Christianity that
ought to make protesting Christian men
blush for shame. He regulates the i'm
putation that American workmen are to
be held responsible for these outrages,
and will probably have something to say
about it from Plymouth church pulpit
tomorrow. Beeoher's notion hat the
prosecutors are generally aliens, like the
Chinese themselves and hardly more de-
sirable as citizens, appears pretty generally
shared by the Eastern papers.
, 1885-10-04

Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Co. San Francisco Gal, is
Natures Own Ture Laxative, This plea
sent liquid fruit remedy may be had OF
Hunt & Whipple druggists. Sample bot
ties free and large bottles at fifty cents or
one dollar, Ii is the most pleasant,
prompt and effective remedy known, 10
cleanse tho system, to act on the Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels gently yetthoroughly;
to dispel Headaches, Colds and Feyeri TO
cure Constipation, Indigestion and kind
red ills. For sale by w. N. Hunt.
, 1885-10-04

DAILY LEADER. all transient advertisement
10 cents per line each Insertion, 6 consecutive
Insertions : cents per line one month s cents
per line.
Minor mention notices. among local reading
matter. 70 cents per line each insertion.
WEEKLY LEADER, all transient advertise
menis 25 cents per line first Insertion one
month, % cents per line SIX months 10 cent
per line one year . cents per line. Marriage
and birth notices Si.Ou each. No advertisement
inserted for less than . cents.
II. CLAICHE Publisher.
, 1885-10-04

At indianapolis a manufacturer is
turning out log wagons for service in
the mahogany woods of South America
Zach weighs 800 pounds and is up to
a ten. ton load on a rough road; the
wheels have tires four inches wide and
an inch thick, and the motive power
will be OK teams Of from eight Ia
twenty yoke.
, 1885-10-04

In delicate health and all who suffer from
habitual constipation, wi. find the pleas
ant fruit remedy, Syrup Of figs, more
easily taken. and more beneficial in effect
than any other remedy. 1t acts promptly
yet gently on the bowels, kidneys, liver
and stomach, and does not sicken or de
bilitatc. For sale by w. n. Hunt.
, 1885-10-04

biologists think that southeast Of
Long Island, New York, there is a great
submerged swamp. Peat, fossil leaves,
Ignite trunks, and branches are often
rolled in upon the beach. 1t is believed,
too, hat the coast in that region is
slowly settling.
, 1885-10-04
COVERED WITH SALT RuEum.

Cuticura Remedies are the greatest medicines
on earth. Had the worst ease OF salt rheum In
this country. My mother had IL twenty years,
and In fact died from 10. ! believe Cuticura
would have saved her he. My arms, breast
and head were covered with II for three years.
which nothing relieved or cured until ] used the
Cuticura Rcsolyent, Internally. and Cuticura
NEwAnK, u. j. W. ADAMS.
, 1885-10-04

Incorporated In 1865 for % yea. by the Leg
lslature for Educational and Charitable pur-
poses-with n capital OF 81, O00,OOO-to which a
reserve fund Of over $4,000 has since been
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made a part Of the present
State Constitution adopted December "a, A..
ID 1879.
The only LOTTERY euer roted on and endorsed
By ohe people OF any STATE.
II naer Scales or Postpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN
A FORTUNE. Tenth Grand Drawing.
Class IA. In the ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
r ORLEANS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10.
lss5.-ls5th Monthly Drawing,
CAPITAL PRIZE, $4,000.
100, 600 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
hracfinna in EiHha in MAMMALIAN
, 1885-10-04

Daily, delivered by carrier. 25c per week.
81 per month.
Daily, by mail. 81 per month, $500 for six
months, SO per year. In advance.
weekly $40 per mum, sl.D for six months.
nayahlp In advance.
, 1885-10-04
ECZEMA FROM HEAD TO FEET

Charles Eayre Hinkle, Jersey City Heights.
N. j.. writes MY son, a lad OF - years. WAS
completely cured 81 n terrible ease or eczema
by the Cuticura Remedies. From the top OF his
head to the sOlcs Of his feet was one mass o.
scabs % Every other remedy and physicians
had bpau fried iu vain
, 1885-10-04
imam. EACE Am nODY nAW-

/ commenced TO use your Cuticura Remedies
last July. My head. face and some parts OF my
body were almost raw My head was covered
with scabs aud sores. and m suffering was fear
full. ! had tried everything had heard Of in
the East anG West. My case was considered a
very bad one. ] have now not u particle OF skin
wonderful.
DEoArrn Mich. MRS. $. f. WHIPPLE.
, 1885-10-04

When you can't sleep for coughing take
a dose Of Chamberlain Cough Remedy,
For sale by w. n. Hunt.
, 1885-10-04

1857 Prizes, amounting o...a.....-....-s $685. 500
Application for rates 10 clubs should
be made only TO the office ofthe Company In
New Orleans.
For further Information write clearly,
giving fun address.
Postal notes, Express Money Orders, or New
York Exchange in ordinary letter. Currency
by express tall sums OF 60 and upwards
al our expense) addressed
NJ. A. DAUPHIN. New Orleans, La,
or M; A. DAUiHIN. COZ Seventh ST., Washing
ton. DC
, 1885-10-04

Are sold everywhere. Price Cuiicura, 5Dc.,
Soap. &c. Resolycut,S f.O0 Prepared by the
Potter Drug and Chemical Co, Boston. Mas,
send for How to cure skin Diseases
nDTTpC Plmples. skin Hlemishes and Baby
OIOODD'Humors cured by Cutlcura soap.
, 1885-10-04

II TisH lime OF boys under
Cear Is 10 be found at ~.
Marks, Eddy and >eren-
feeufh streets.
, 1885-10-04

Nobby suits for men, youth and boys
NJ polack's.
, 1885-10-04
BEAR SPRINGS RANCH,
JOHN NEWMAN, Prop.

This well-known road ranch on the
Fort Laramie and Black Hills stage line,
has recently been re-opened, and the
proprietor is prepare. to furnish good
Accommodations for man and beast
Meals 50 cents. Horses to hay IS cents
per span. Hay sold by the bale. Large
corrals and barn for 40 horses. Broken
horses for sale.
, 1885-10-04

Omaha steel barbed wire. Call for
prices at Arp & Conway's.
, 1885-10-04
The Democratic Leader.
SUNDAY. OCT. 4, 1855.


Entered al The Post Office, Cheyenne. WUo-
nitnO. yor trdnuntssion through ne midfLs ns
fecOnd stdss mnue
, 1885-10-04
Gag~ CAPITAL PRIZE $4,000 -Bs
Ticktts only So. Shares IN proportion
Louisiana State Lottery COMFY

I'VE ito hereby certify haf ne supervise the
arrangements Jor all The Monthly and Semf-dn-
nuot drawings Of me Loitisidnd State Lottery
Company, aud IN person manage aud control
The Drdtollgs Mc1asctrca, aud that he sdHe are
conducted Nth honesty, fairness. and ~ good
fdHh t0io1rd all parties, aud zee authorize The
Company 10 use his certificate, Nth mc-sfsiles
ofotp signatures G1tdchen in its ddpei tfsemenfs.is
, 1885-10-04
New Advertisements.

WANTED yong ladies in city or country to
w work for us at their homes fascinatiog I'm
ploN ment no distractions TO buy work can be
sent by mail distance no objection 50 to 81 per
week can be made. No eanNsts,ing. particular
1ee. or sample Of work mailed FOR four cents ir
stamps. Please address HoME MANUFACTURE
no Co. Boston. Mass. T.. o. BOX 1916.
WANrEn-An active Mai or Woman in
w every county 10 sell our goods. salary So
per month and expenses, or commission. EN-
penSes in advance Outfit free. For full partic-
uiar addru-s sTASDAsD SiLNEg WARE
CO. BosToS. MASS.
, 1885-10-04

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives & HI s+orioa
, 1885-10-04
LEI MEN
DIR. WAGNER & 60.

3ss Larimer street Address, Box 2Bs9, Denver
Cut this out and take along.
, 1885-10-04

~. G. BAIRD and A. G. CANpBELL). AT
tom~eys-at-Iaw and Notarics Public, Chey.
second floor, Stebbins 4 Post 3 bank block
, 1885-10-04

Tenders his professional services to the cit
liens of Cheyenne and vicinity. Olic'
Iiams. Telephone No. ~.
, 1885-10-04
BAIRD & CAMPBELL

enne, Wyoming. Rooms No. 2 and TO,
Land and mining business attended TO.
, 1885-10-04

A. B. EAST a ATTPR 4aSPGy Ar ATTENDED AY To- acS Object S,P and ,5. q 1eT e Ra.i
Sixteenth Street. Cheyenne Wyoming
, 1885-10-04

CT0I ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office: Room II, Posts
/. Bank Block, CHEYENNE. Wyo
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who did not so serve it, in the bestowal of
positions of honor and profit.
This was astraightfotward, clean-cut, we'll
understood contract. 4 was offered the
same terms, but did not accept them. Now,
upon what possible grounds can he come
forward and resist the carrying out the peo-
pies agreement with A? B has certainly
done nothing since the war to offset the
rights and privileges A gained by his mill
tary service. Carrying torch in process
sion may be more meritorious in the eyes of
political boss than soldering but it is not
SO in the eyes Of the people, or of the law.
Working caucuses entitle the workers to the
gratitude of candidates and managers, but
the reward due for such labor has never been
formally recognized by the laws of the coun-
try. We repeat that any denial of SOL
dier's right to preference must be on the
ground of some one else having superior
claim, and we ask again, what possible
foundation can there be for such q superior
claim ?
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FRIGHT 10 OFFICE

It never seems to occur to those who
DANGEROUSLY oppose the preference Of soldiers
for Office to ask what right non-soldiers have
for such preference? If they deny the sol
diers' right to preference it must be because
of some one else's superior rights. How can
this have been gained? Suppose that A and
B are both applicants for an appointment,
and A is an honorably- discharged soldier,
while i never entered the army. Now the
question occurs: What can 3 possibly have
done that sbeaid make him be preferred to
AZ" AS right to preference rests on very
solid foundations. He was told by the peo-
pie, the press, the Legislature of his State,
and the President and Congress of the
United States that if he would leave his
occupation, forsake the chances OF advance
ment that it offered and take the risks and
hardships of soldiers life in war time, the
Nation would give him preference over all
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1.-THE RED RIERON.o

The splendid worth of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE as an advertising medium Is
demonstrated almost daily. Its great circu-
Iation-second to that Of no other paper in
the country-is among the very beat people
the intelligent, thrifty men and women
who are carrying on the great work of life
with brains and industry. These read adj
vertisements, and when good thing is
offered them in the columns of the paper
they know it, and buy it. The Indiana Paint
& Roofing Company recently put large
advertisement in a number Of the leading
papers of the country. The other day we
received the following letter from them:
INDIANA PAIgT & RooFING Co,
I43 DUANE ST. NEW YORK CITY, Oct. s, 1854
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Our manager at indianapolis sends q list Of
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our advertisement in your paper of Oct ], and
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Michigan.
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pennsylvania
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ONO
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Our manageable. Geo. Z. ForliTger-was SOL
der and went all through the war, being wounded
III times. Yours, truly,
INDIANA PAINT & ROOFING COMPANY,
GEO. T. GLISEs President.
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GEN. LOGAN's MEMOIRS.

We wish again to remind our readers that
in December next Gen. John a. Logan will
commence series of military papers in
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and to advise
those who are not already subscribers to
become so at once, so SIS not to miss single
paper 1t is, Of course, superiuous to say a
word commendatOry Of these forthcoming
"reminiscences, coming as they do from a
statesman and soldier whose name is a
household word in the home Of every veteran
in the land; but we will say that since the
war no writings On the subject so dear to
the heart of every veteran will evoke so
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Let every veteran who is not subscriber
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81 made that for you," she said.
Bully for you " said ST, for he felt that he
must begin to talk like soldier.
The first day or two after reaching Louis
Vile the 2OOth received rations of soft bread"
But that didn't last long. 1t was only way
they had of letting the fresh soldiers down
easy. Orders came to get ready to pull out
after Bragg, and then Sis regiment had its first
issue of army rations. As the Orderly pried
open q box of bareback and began to distribute
them to the boys, ST exclaimed:
"Thems nice-looking soda crackers. / don't
believe the grub is goin' to be so bad after all.
ST had never seen bareback before.
Better taste one and see how you like it! y
said one of BuelPs ragged Indiana veterans,
who had come over to see the boys OF the 2oOth
and hear the latest news from " Gods country
1t happened that this lot was one of extra
quality as to hardness. The bakers watch had
stopped or he had gone to sleep, and they had
been left in the oven or dry-kiln too long. 81
took one of them and carried it to his mouth.
He first tried to bite it in the same way as he
would quarter section of custard pie, but his
incisors made no more impression upon 1t than
if it had been cast-iron.
you'll have to bear on hard" said the vet
eran with grim smile.
"Je-ru-sa- lem!" exclaimed 81 after he had
made two or three attempts, equally barren OF
results.
Then he tried his "baek teeth" His molars
were in prime order, and his jaw power was
sufficient to crack hickory nut every time.
ST crowded one corner of the bareback as far
as he could between his grinders" where he
| could get good purchase" ON it, shut his
| eyes and turned on full head of steam. His
teeth and jaws fairly creakcd under the strain,
but he couldn't even phase" IL.
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THE NEW YORK CAMPAIGN.

The splendid campaign which the New
York comrades are making for soldiers rights
should have more than the sympathy of
every soldier and sailor in the country.
It is campaign for the benefit of every
man who wore the blue. New York but
pioneers the way where all the loyal States
must follow. Whatever measure of justice
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other State in the North and West. The
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The peoples sense of justice can always be
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"REMINISCENCES OF AN ARMY MULE.

Sometime in December next Mr.. John
McElroy will publish the opening chapters
of his "reminiscences of an Army Mule"
This work is written on plan probably
never before attempted by any author. The
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adventures, and when the readers of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE have heard it, they
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when he is inclined in that direction. In
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