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, 1886-02-27

A large audience is sure to greet the re.
fined artists who appear at u opera
house this evening, and an enjoyable en-
tertainment may be expected, judging
from the following excerpt from the Pitts
burg Press;
ut is a matter of sincere regret on the
part of the admirers Of negro minstrelsy
that the engagement of McNish, johnson
K Slavin's minstrels in this city will in
clude but three performances. Last
nights audience at the opera house was a
delighted one, and Bob Slavin was
crowned king of Ethiopian comedians
by universal consent. McNish and John
son, the other stars of tho company,
we're excellent in their respective special
ties, and the minor performers all did
their share to render a well-arranged pro-
gramme in a manner that left no ground
for complaint. 1t is one of the best com
panies throughout that ever visited the
city"
The company will arrive on the $40
train this evening, and a grand parade
will be given.
, 1886-02-27
MUST BE LOOKED INTO.
An Investigation of Telephone
Matters Ordered.
A WOuld-Be Suicide Shot by
an Officer.
An Untamed Cowboy Brought
to His Senses.
The Matter.

WASHINGTON, Feb. PC Mr.. Morri-
son, from the committee on rules, re-
ported a substitute for the Hanback, and
Pulitzer resolutions directing inquiry into
the Pan-Electric telephone matter. The
substitute is as follows:
Resoiped, That a select committee con-
sisting OF nine members of this house be
appointed, and when so appointed the
committee is hereby directed, at as carly
a day as possible, to make inquiry into
any expenditure relative to the rights of
the Bell and Pan-Electric Telephone com
panies to priority of patents, said inquiry
to include all organizations and compa-
MES that have sprung out of the
Pan Electric Telephone company, or
for any other purpose, and also
to make a full inquiry into
the issuance Of stock known as Pan-Elec-
trio telephone stock, or any stock Of any
other company, companies or organiza-
tons springing out of the Pan Electric
company to any person or persons con-
nected with either the legislative, judicial
or executive departments of the govern
ment of the United States, to whom,
where, when and for what consideration
in money or influence said stock was de-
hvered; also, as to what opinions, decl-
sions and orders have been made by any
officers connected with the government
and by whom, and all the circumstances
connected Herewith or arising thereirom,
and sand committee Is further authorized
and directed to ascertain and report
whether either Of the telephone companies
herein mentioned, or their officers, agents
and employees, have in any i'm
properly influenced or attempted to intiu-
ence officials or official action by or~through
the public press, and ii so when,
by whom and IN what manner,
, 1886-02-27
5000 Men Idle.

LONDON, Feb. 26.-The employees of
the Nettlefolds screw works, at Smeth-
wick, a suburb of Birmingham, struck
work to-day. Subsequently a number of
sympathizers joined the strikers and a
small riot occurred, during which the win
dows Of the establishment were smashed.
Three thousand men are thrown idle. The
strike is against a reduction of 20 per cent
in wages. The police dispersed the riot
ems. 1t is feared that the disorder will be
renewed. The works have been closed
until next Tuesday. Negotiations are on
foot to limit the reduction to 5 per cent.
The company afirms that it is impossible
to continue work in the face of German
competition.
, 1886-02-27

DENVER, Feb. , {. John Fitzgerald,
loborer, on the Highline Ditch company,
came to Denver several days since and
went on the spree. This evening he went
into a pawn shop and asked to be shown a
revolver which he loaded with the inten-
ton of suiciding. The police was called,
and as Capt. Swain was entering the door,
Fitzgerald pointed the revolver at the
officer, but before he could fire Swain
shot him in the right groin, inficting a
wound from which he will die. When
Fitzgerald was asked what he intended to
do with the revolver he replied, 81 in
tended to commit suicide, but now am
saved that trouble" The of the
attempt is unknown.
, 1886-02-27
Tho Love-sick senator.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2G.-The senators
who have returned from Detroit say hat
they saw Senator Jones, of Florida, and
that he appears to be in good health and
spirits. lie is boarding at the principal
hotel, spends most Of his time about the
lobby and in the street, aud his face and
business in Detroit is known to almost
every child in the city. His antics are
the common topic Of conversation, the
people knowing how many bouquets he
sends to Miss Palm, how many notes
he writes her, and whether he succeeds
in having them delivered or not. Jones
is pointed out to strangers as the love
sick senator, and there is a question
whether his extraordinary conduct is an
awkward case of fortune-hunting, or
whether his mind is actually turned by
his infatuation. The woman he processes
to adore, the senators say is rather a
plain person of about 30, with no con-
spicuous attractions, mental or physical,
and inordinately nervous lest some one
love her for her money and not for her
charms.
Some Of the senator's urged Jones TO
return to Washington, but he said that
he would not do so. He was indignant
about the publication Of his affair but
said that he might have expected it
from papers that had always been I'M
friendly.
When warned that he would lose the re-
spect of the public if he remained away
much longer, he replied that after ten
years of constant and assiduous labor he
thought himself entitled to a few weeks Of
rest, and preferred to take it in Detroit in
stead of Florida. Don Cameron, he said,
went to Europe during a session, Sharon
and Fair were very seldom in their seats,
Jones, of Nevada, was away a great deal,
and Bowen was very often absent for
weeks at a time, and he did not see why
he should be selected by the newspapers
as a target or be complained of for his alb
sence. The distracted senator did not
mention the name of his inamorata. nor
explain why he remained in Detroit. The
senators say he that he looks, acts and
talks like himself, and they do not be-
lieve he is crazy, but at the same time
not one of them will attempt to explain
how a man So years of age can make a
public scandal of himself in the way he is
, 1886-02-27
Failure of a Savings Bank.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. pa special from
Houston, Texas, to the Post Dispatch
states that the Houston savings bank
closed its doors this morning. Some OF
the banks heaviest deposltors withdrew
their funds yesterday afternoon, and later
in the day asked that a receiver for the
bank be appointed. D. T. Smith was
appointed receiver this morning, and the
affairs of the bank are now in his hands.
The total amoant of money deposited
with the bank is s25O,OQ0. The failure
is due to a heavy run upon it at the time
when the Houston city bank failed, re-
Gently
, 1886-02-27

LoaANsPoRT. Feb. 26.-A decided sem
sation was caused by Charley Maurice, a
cowboy tough, to-day. He saddlcd his
horse, filed his hide with whisky and
started out to take in the town. He rode
into three saloons and up to the bar and
ordered drinks at the point Off revolver.
He attempted to ride up TO the general
delivery window in the post Office but was
headed off by the police, who jerked him
from his horse and threw him into jail
This Is the second time he has figured in
this frontier business.
, 1886-02-27
Ollie Must Keep Moving.


WAsHINGToN, Eeb. 20 The police
of Washington have been having a great
deal of trouble lately with Ollie Z. Ellis,
known as the Chicago Daisy" who is a
handsome and fashionably dressed black
mailer. She arrived here last night and
put up at a fashionable uptown hotel with
a companion named D. S. Ketcham as
man and wife. They were hardly settled,
however, before they were arrested by the
police and both spent the night in the
station house, the charge against them
being that of suspicious characters, and
the Daisy s. bonds, which she gave
some weeks ago to leave the city, were
declared forfeited She paid the money
and left at noon with her lover for the
North.
The police say she has worked the bad
ger" blackmail scheme in every city
the in the Union, and has made
$50, 600. Her plan OF opera
tons is to get an establishment, pass her
self off as a lady ofmeans, get some prom
inent man compromised with her, and
demand hush money. In one of her re
cent visits to this city she blackmailed an
amorous member OF one OF the foreign le-
cations out of $500. She threatened ex-
posture of the distinguished foreigner if he
did not give her more hush money, but
he absolutely refused to yield further to
her importunities. 1t is said that some
spicy correspondence took place between
the Daisy and the gay foreign Lo.
thario, which, if published. would cause
a social scandal of rare magnitude.
, 1886-02-27

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 26.-Mr. Watterson
was kept from exciting interruptions to-
day, the result being to his advantage.
He is doing as well as could be hoped for
under the circumstances, and his slow re-
covery is the natural result of weakness TO
which his system has been reduced by the
great strain of six weeks of almost deathly
ilneaa
, 1886-02-27
Salt Lake Matters.

SALT LAKE, Feb. 26.-Frank j. Can
non and Angus Cannon were held to day
in $1,000 bail each for an assault on
United States Attorney Dickson. s. A.
Kenner was discharged.
II. l. Gowans, w. II. Lee and II. j..
Foulger. all defiant unlawful ~cohabitors,
were each sentenced to-day to six months
imprisonment and 5000 fine.
, 1886-02-27

The LEADER office will pay the above
reward for the arrest and conviction Of
anyone guilty Of stealing copies Of The
LEADER from the premises OF subscribers.
, 1886-02-27
A Lady Blown From a Train.


BUFFALO, Feb. 2e.-One of the heav-
lest gales of the season set in last night
and continued this morning; the wind
reached a velocity of f%ity-seven miles an
hour. The temperature was A. above.
About 9 last night, while the wind was
blowing strong, a lady, said to be a sister
of the late Ex-Governor Seymour, vas
blown from the Lake Shore train between
Erie and Dunkirk. She attempted to
pass from the dining car to the sleeper
with her husband, and had no sooner
stepped upon the platform than she was
carried swiftly off the train. Tho train
backed nearly mile before they found
the lady, who had escaped death, but re-
ceived a deep cash over the right temple.
, 1886-02-27
Bessie Darling's Narrow Escape

1OooA 0oAhb % 1oNNROs
NEW YORK, Feb. Bessie Darling,
the well known actress, was burned out of
house and home this morning. She and
her mother and daughter barely escaped
with their lives. Mrs. Darling awoke
shortly after midnight and discovered a
strong smell Of smoke. She awoke the
rest of the family and all started for the
stairs. Their escape this way was cut off
by the fire and they then made for the
roof, where they remained in their night
clothes until their screams aroused the
occupants of the adjoining house. who
let them down through the sky-light.
Mr.. Darling's furniture and wardrobe,
which were valued at $40, 900, were ru-
med
, 1886-02-27
McCormick's Works to start UT

McCormick's Works to Start Up.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-The proprietor of
McCormick's large reaper factory stated
to-day hat the works would again start
up in a few days, a committee of work
men assuring him that about 1000 of the
men desired to return to work no matter
what action might be taken by the Knights
of Labor. The strike began Feb. l6,
AGO men going out owing to the refusal
to discharge four non union men in the
moulding department.
, 1886-02-27
Railroad War Spreading Eastward.

CHICAGO. Feb. 26.-The Milwaukee 4
st. Paul and Northwestern roads have
been selling frst-class limited tickets to
Council Bluffs to, day for 80 and St Paul
for $ll, a cut of 50 and $3.50 respec-
lively. The Rock Island, Chicago, Bur-
lington 4 Quincy and Illinois Central
have not yet met these figures, but are
expected to do so tomorrow. All roads,
however, have reduced the first-class lin
tied San Francisco rate to s39. so, and
have also reduced Denver, Salt Lake and
all competitive intermediate points 80.
NEW York, Feb. 26.-The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe has reduced frst-class
limited tickets from New York to San
Francisco to $50. There are rumors Of
cuts in freight rates, but as far as large
shippers are given private rates, it is diff
fcult to verify them.
, 1886-02-27

The annual meeting of the stockholders
Of the Little Medicine Bow and Richard
Creek Irrigating Ditch company will be
held at its Office, in Cheyenne, Wyo., on
the LIST day of March, 1886, for the cleo.
ton of trustees and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly come
before the meeting
A II RIcHFY
, 1886-02-27

In the eastern part of the city, one
small red and white fox terrier bitch, an
swering to the name Of Vic A suita'
bic reward will be paid on her return to
No. 704 East Eighteenth street. W
, 1886-02-27
Lire, fresh fish ar ), =
TayfOr's.


All travellers stopping for a time in
Cheyenne can find the best accommodate
tons in the city at the Western Hotel on
Fifteenth street The location is agreea.
bic and convenient rooms pleasant and
newly furnished, meals the best a first
class cook can prepare from the finest
materials in the market, walters who I'M
derstand their business, the best liquors
and cigars IN the bar room are among the
many attractions Of this popular house.
.af HERMAN KMME, proprietor.
, 1886-02-27

Grain. stocks and provisions bought and
sold on margin every day at our office.
Checks for differences made promptly at
3 O'Clock. Nef Prentice * Co. 6 aud s,
Commercial block. Telephone No. CT.
, 1886-02-27
Lire, fresh fish at >. $
TNUfOr.'S.


".MA A
SECTION | Of an ordinance concerning
dogs, provides that the owner OF every
dog, bitch or whelp within the limits Of
the city of Cheyenne, shall pay to the
city. marshal the sum Of three dollars on
or before the LIST day of March in each and
every year; and for each slut or bitch the
sum of five dollars, as a tax on said slut or
bitch, to be paid as aforesaid.
The marshal is authorized to impound
in a pound or pen, provided for that pur,
pose, any such dog, bitch or whelp, and
after OBTAINING them in confinement for
three days to kill and destroy the same
unless called for and licensed; and in case
any dog. bitch or whelp shall have been
impounded. as provided herein, the same
shall be delivered to the owner thereof
upon payment of the license and a fee of
one dollar to the marshal.
nenar WM. X. ScHSITGER. .
City Marshal.
Cheyenne. Wyo., Feb. 20. 1886.
, 1886-02-27

Heafh's City market has
est abIishsd abranch on the
South Side ana the people
there are nor sf0,C 10 see The
advantage they hare Ia
being athletic purchase their
marketing close at home.
, 1886-02-27

OF prize winning strains, pure breds and
grades.
One thoroughbred 3 year old Bull, $500.
One Is mos. $3.50.
Eighteen 4 year old COWS in calf to the 3
year old thoroughbred bull.
The bunch for $720 (the calves are worth
the money at 6 weeks old.
Also twelve three-quarter blood young
bulls for $625. if taken soon.
The above mentioned stock offers Of
the best opportunities to start a Polled
Angus herd.
Address BENNETT, BoyD 4 Co,
Auctioneen and Fine Stock Commits
sion Agents. Des Moincs, la
, 1886-02-27
FOR the Mannerchor Masquer'
aAe

The society has received word that
Madam Putt, from Denver, will arrive on
March I, with the largest and most varied
assortment of costumes ever shown in
Cheyenne, for the Mannerchor masquer.
ade on Tuesday evening, March 9.
, 1886-02-27
For fine watch repairing,
DAVID MILLER. Idelman block
Lire, fresh fish at ,. s
TayIOr'S.


A first class feeding farm in Iowa for
sale or exchange for ranch and cattle in
terest This farm is situated miles
from the town of Spencer. on the Chicago
Milwaukee 4 St Paul railroad and con
sists of 1000 acres in all, 500 of which
are fenced and improved as under, 400
acres enclosed pasture with creek, go
corn land, l63 hay land, 4 acres shade
trees, 3 acres ornamental lawn and garden,
two very gooddwelling houses, first class
barn and cattle sheds, 3 big corrals with
windmill waterpower, scales, etc. Apply to
+. SHIvEs, Spencer, Iowa.
, 1886-02-27

CHICAGO. Feb. 26.-Cattle-Receipts,
6,0O0 head; market active and firm; ship
ping steers. $50 to 1900 pounds, $4,000
sos; stocken and feeders firm at 5000
400; through Texas cattle, 50. 50(94. so.
, 1886-02-27
Order the .NE0rshNU Coal
from .Riaef- n .DOksssO1e's.
Telephone zoe

Charlie Wong, dealer in all kinds Of
French. Japanese and Chinese goods.
Call and examine them. No. lTl5 Fergu-
son street.
, 1886-02-27

" Gao Conner TO old Rest
denf--Ca you tel nae sChfch
Is the best market fH form Z
Old ResfdeHf-HGre been
here ten years and HO-Oae
has gtUen ms ~ better mar
kef than Heafh's.
, 1886-02-27

water. There are hopes OF saving her.
She is valued at $4,000, and her cargo
Mt $50. 600.
, 1886-02-27

Shaw gives fine prizes on billiards and
pool this month. Corner Seventeenth
and Eddy streets.
, 1886-02-27

Can in and look at the Chicago markets
G and 8. Commercial block. Tel No. 81.
, 1886-02-27

aFoR REsn -Large front room, suitable
for Office, over VIM. Myers dry goods
store; sseam hcai, Inquire at h RrBres-
nahen 4 meat market.
, 1886-02-27
NEW .ooA. NOTICES.


V. S. Glafcke, the florist, telephone
No. 6S. Artistic floral work a specially.
, 1886-02-27

6FoR REsT.-Furuished rooms, Tildeu
block, with privilege Of baths twelve to
fifteen dollars per ON. Corner SIX
teenth street and Warren avenue,
, 1886-02-27

So, O00:0o in First National bank, Den
yer, says the S. NJ. s., is the best nickel
cigar in Colorado. G. G. Peabody has
them.
, 1886-02-27

4, FoR REsEnOhecs and furnished
rooms. s. b. futile, withF.E Il. Warren.
, 1886-02-27

FoR RENr-Or for sale cheap an eight
room house. with barn. Corner Seven
teenth and Van Lenneu streets. Inquire
at Collins saddler store, Sixteenth street
, 1886-02-27

b WAwrEDNIAdics to work for us at
their own homes. 81 to $40 per week can
be easily made no canvassingj fascinating
and steady employment Particulars and
sample of the work sent for stamp. Ad-
dress Home Mnfy GovP~O.~Box 1916,
Boston. Mass.
, 1886-02-27

Rooms for rent. apply to VIM. q.
provinces. ~
, 1886-02-27

Township plats Tor sale at THE LEADER
office.
, 1886-02-27

WAsTED-A irst-class and experienced
dining room girl at the Metropolitan.
None but irst-class need apply.
, 1886-02-27

y WASTED.-We want statesmen every
where, local and travelling, to sell our
goods. Wil pay good salary and all ex-
penses. Write for terms at once and state
salary wanted Standard Silver Ware
Co., Boston. Mass.
, 1886-02-27

orica1 Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1886-02-27

FoR SALE.-Twelve mi of hay. In
quire Of II. Haas L
WANTS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-04-03

Bands and Drummers Generation Ago.
l'w. H. p" IN Philadelphia Timesl
In the olden times bands played more
difficult pieces than the slam-bang-
throughout elortsnow essayed. At the
head OF regiments the bandsmen have
almost to blow their heads off, and the
drummers beat their heads In to gain
on the roar of big city. Then the
parades were made by single companies;
the scheme OF quickstep was brill
liant opening, followed by solo, merg-
ing into q rafting close. The drums
always saluted Independence hall. Thu,
cymbal-player carried fife. When tbs
band stopped he would cease his Gym
balls, whip out that fife, and away he
and the drums would 60 with the girl
he left behind him.
George Bancker, discharged regu-
lar, was then the Drummer King" He
was the embodiment of soldierly pres
ence, worshipped his drum. which
he beat with a pair Of lignam vitae
sticks no one else could handle. His
pride was to beat his drum exactly in
the center and within the space of sill
yer dollar His double drag was q
marvel, his rolls prolonged roars, cut
off by pair OF shutters. One red day
in his calendar George was detailed,
solus. to beat Off" Three roars from
the right, and behold Bancker, dressed
in white cap, cap-a.pie. Over his ma
hogany face and gray hair rose huge
leather cap, cooked to the right. II
was of the pattern of the Henry Pc.
ice" cap, but foot in diameter across
the top, Twas arctic of his army service
BACKED to match his polished boots.
His wooden face, expressing the solem-
nifty of ten undertakers, he started down
the line, beating "Washingtons March
head and neck screwed into shoulders
reared away back, arms squared like a
grasshopper's legs, knees bent, toes
turned down and out. AT the bottom
of the line he faced about, then threw
both arms high in air. AS the sun from
a dark cloud, a radiant smile drove the
gloom from his impenetrable face
Down came the sticks in one tremendous
fam, and, with a half-dancing cadence,
away he sailed up the line, playing the
Devil Among the Tailors." Three
deafening roars, fifteen minutes regi
mental grinning and the show wa!
| over.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-04-03
COnsomme of Cave Bear.
fCnrnhill Mnpnzina


Some of the bones of extinct animals
found beneath the stalagmitic floor OF
caves in England and elsewhere, pre-.
sumably of about the same age as the
Siberian mammoths, still contain
enough animal matter to produce d
good strong stock for antediluYian broth,
which has been scientifically described
by high authority as pre-Adamite
Jelly. The congress of naturalists al
Tubingen few years since had a smok
ing tureen of this cave-bone soup placed
upon the dinner table at their hotel one
evening, and pronounced it with geo
logical enthusiasm scarcely inferior tc
prime oxtail."
But men of science, too, are accus'
toned to trying unsavory experiments,
which would go sadly against the grain
with less philosophic and more squeam-
ish palates. They think nothing Of
tasting caterpillar that birds will moi
touch, in order to discover whether ii
owes its immunity from attack to some
nauseous, bitter, or pungent havoring;
and they even advise you calmly to dis
criminate between two closely similar
species OF snails by trying which Of
them when chewed has delicate soup.
con of oniony aroma. So that natural
lists in this matter, as the children say
don't count, their universal thirst fol
knowledge will prompt them to drink
anything, down even to consomme OF
Quaternary cave bear,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-04-03
FRlCHTFUL CATARRH.
Pieces Of Bone.

For four years l have been afflicted
with IA very troublesome catarrh of the
head So terrible has its nature been
that when blew my nose small pieces
OF bone would frequently come out OF
my mouth and nose. The discharge
was so copious, and at times exceeding
ly offensive. My blood became so i'm
pure that my general'health was greatly
impaired, with poor appetite and worse
digestion.
Numerous medicines were used with
out relief, until l began the use of B. B.
B., and three bottles acted almost like
Magic. Since their use not a symptom
has reterned, and l feel in every way
quite restored to health. l am an old
citizen of Atlanta, and refer to almost
any one on Butler street, and more
particularly to DR.. L. M. Gillian, who
knows of my case.
MRS. ELIZABATH KNOTT.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-04-03
The City Nurse and Her Charge.

lDiOOhJh lAhkiC.J
To see the nurse at her best, she must
be studied, not at the house where she
belongs, but in the parks and squares,
surrounded by her companions of the
nurse persuasion and accompanied by
her baby carriage. The baby carriage,
by the way, has became so essential a
part of nurses outfit that to see one
carrying a child in her arms rather
causes surprise. No family is now so
poor as to be without baby carriage,
for they may be had at all prices, from
IS upward. Seated in one of these We
hicles with huge umbrella over it and
wheeled along the grass of Prospect
park or Fort Greene, baby should GER
tainly feel that its birth had come in a
highly favored age and country. George
Washington may have had little
Ratchet, but he never had baby car.
riage; and as for John Adams it is diff
cult to imagine him ever having been a
baby at all. The nurse looks upon her
baby carriage with much the same feel
ings as a horsemen regards a fayorite
trOttAr