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Year: 1877

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Sheyenne Leader:


NORTH PLAT Feb IA 1877
Mr. Editor


dear sir as think it my duty as law
abiding to make small statement of
the facts connected with an Array that
took place betwean an old man by the
name of Hartgrave & desparado in
gayville deadwoOd gulsh January 81
steaptd into saloon cald Hanleys 81
Eiants was setting in the south end of
said building smoking my pipe present
there came in a desprorado making the
most horable threats what he would do
to enay one that would say word to
him


finely there came in an old californin or
nevada man it was'a short time until
the desparado went four him he was
taken off by man & showed & choked
back behind the counter and finly drew
his Revolver q swor he would Blow the
brains out of eney id sun of b
that would give him word presently
then old blacksmith came in and sat
down by the side of a Card table with a
man & they two commenced a game of
cards when this desparado came up
taking the cards from the opisit man
saying to the old man that he would
play him game of seven up for the
drinks for the house the old man con-
scented and but two hands ended the
game the old man beat the other raising
off his chair stood a few seconds talk
ing with prostitute riping out many
othes that he would knock the g-d-d
brains out of the old if did not treat
finly giving the woman a heavy push
from him raisd his chare 81 telling the
old man to the flour the old man pick
ing himself up stagard against the end
of the counter when the other started
atords the door heading the old man off
from the door drawing his revolver
swaring he would shoot hiss id son of
- brains out adozen Tins when
the man at the lower end of countear
clinched him with hiss revolver in hiss
right hand above his sholder making
severrell attemps to bring it to bare on
the old man the old man drew his re-
volver and starting for the door stopd
low behind the counter q men ophring
the right hand down his feete striking
the ice fell as it was bright moonlight
could see plainly the devil finly got
loose running to the door fitched his re-
volver against the left side of door COW
ring the old man in anstint loud
sound war herd in the street when the
divils revolver struk the sealing & he
fell & was glad to see him fall he had
the most abusive tonunger that ever
herd in all my travis expect to go to
the sanwan mines if my testimony is
ever wanted old man send to the most
Prominent post Office in that country Sc
you can have my deposition taking eny
time yours truly


JAMES MULLIN.
Year: 1877

a violation of the letter and spirit of
the act under which the commission
was created, and of the spirit of the
constitution of the United States.


No further objections being present
ed, the presiding officer announced that
the Senate would withdraw so that the
two Houses might separately consider
and decide upon the objections. The
Senate having withdrawn, after prayer
and the reading of the journal of Sat
urday, Wood moved that the House
take recess till tomorrow. The mo-
tion was agreed to and the House took
a recess accordingly.
Year: 1877

plowing previous oputting in a crop is
often followed by the stirring of the soil
among the plants, and the frequency,
depth, and best time for performing
the operation, call for some very close
calculations and Investigations, which
are undoubtedly of a scientific order.


In the feeding and care of animals
scientific Investigations are constantly
required, and although farmer may
not be able to conduct various analy-
ses in chemical labratory and deter
mine the composition of his timothy
or clover hay, and learn which is the
richest food for his stock, he can read
lily obtain the knowledge sought by
experiments in feeding the two kinds
separately, and noting the effect upon
the animals. But it is scarcely neces-
sary in these days of cheap books and
periodicals for farmer to spend much
time in practical experiments Of this
kind, for the value for food of nearly
every known forage plant was long
since ascertained, and man would
be very foolish to spend his time in
repeating experiments where no new
discoveries are likely to be made. The
great want of the day is not new dis
coveries in science pertaining to agri-
culture, but the general diffusion and
application of what is already known
to a comparatively small number.
There is not the least need of any
new forage plants or grain, but those
we already possess should become bet
ter known among the tillers of the
soil, and this can only be brought
about by more careful perusal of
books and periodicals devoted to nat
ural sciences.


Every farmer should know enough
of botany to enable him to distinguish
the commonly cultivated grasses and
other plants from those growing wild
in his uncultivated lands. When he
has learned this much, he will know
the noxious species from the useful,
and enough of their natural habits to
enable him to more readily DESTROY
the one and encourage the growth of
the other, than if he remained in total
ignorance of botanical science. The
same is also true of etomology, for it
requires no great amount of study to
learn the difference between the COM
mon moths and butterflies, or to dis
tinguish the bugs from beetles; and
yet this knowledge would frequently
be of great assistance to the farmer
in enabling him to know his friends
from his foes among insects. Even
what would generally be termed mere
''smatterings" of science in the branch
es named become valuable when ap-
piled or employed in farming; hence
the importance of their accumulation,
and the earlier in life the better.-N.
y. Weekly Sun.
Year: 1877

A young man in Cincinnati-who
had been spending the evening with
his adored-went home late one night
recently, and feeling hungry thought he
would get piece of bread and butter
before going to bed. He went into the
pantry, and after cutting generous
slice of bread, proceeded to hunt the
butter crock. After fumbling around
for time he found a crock, and
literally spread the bread with its
contents. He searched still further
and found something he thought to be
apple butter. This he spread his lunch
with. He took one huge mouthful of
the piece and found it spread with
lard and soft soap.-Local, Cincinnati,
Iowa.
Year: 1877

l. Any person who takes paper regularly
from the post-office, whether directed in his
name or anothers, or whether he has SUBJ
scribed or not-is responsible for payment.


Q. Ifa person orders his paper discontinued,
be must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made and
then collect the whole amount whether the
paper is taken from the office or not


5. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the post.
Office, or removing and leaving them uncalled
for, is prima facia evidence Of intentional
fraud.
Year: 1877

To MAKE POTATOES MEALY.-
A Canada paper says: We have
found from our own experience that
potatoes are very watery from the
month of Mcrch until the market offers
us new ones. In our kitchens we over
come the soggy disposition of these
valuable vegetables by soaking them .
few hours in cold water, and putting
them into hot water to boil, without
salt; then when they are tender nearly
all the way through turn the water Of.
refill the saucepan with cold water. Put
in salt aud boil till they are qnite done,
drain off that water also, cover rs tight
ly as possible, and set on back Of range
to steam, lifting the cover once VI twice
for an instant; then with one hand
holding down the lid, shake the sauce
pan gently, quickly and steadily for .
moment, and serve your potatoes hee-
If rightly managed they viii b kks
snow balls.
Year: 1877

DR.. Caldwell, of Iowa, states that in 1862
he was present at the exhumation Of body
which had been buried two years before.
The coffin had sprung open at the joints,
and the hair .protruded through the open
ings. On opening the coffin the hair of
the head was found to measure eighteen
inches, the whiskers eight inches and the
hair on the breast five or six inches. The
man had been shaved before being ~hRsiA1u
In 1S47, similar circumstance occurred
in Mercer County, Pa. In digging grave,
the workmen came upon the skeleton Of q
man that had been buried ten years The
hair was as firm as during life, and had
grown to length Of eleven or twelve in
ches.
Year: 1877

An ambitious Philadelphia couple were
on Sunday last married whilst on their way
to Atlantic City, on the morning excursion
train: The ceremony was witnessed by
car full of friends, the wedding cake was
cut and other festivities were indulged in.
Year: 1877

The glad song of the harvest, set
to the mighty music of many thou
sand reapers, has been sung thirty
five million bushels of the best
wheat in the world have been shock
ed and stacked in the glorious sun
light, and now comes the grand
symphony of the full-throated tllresh-
ers, IN whose mouths the golden
cones of plenty melt and run into
golden rivers of melody, while the
railroads take up the joound strain
and pour the yellow effiuence into
the great tide of commerce which
courses round the world. Thirty
five million bushels Of the best wheat
in the world is Minnesota's contri-
button to the revival of good times
1t means prosperity for the farmer,
the miller, the merchant, the labor
ing man; the revival of trade and
industry, and the emancipation of
farmers and all classes from the
nightmare of debt and dependency.
1t is time for cheerfnlness and
gratitude. The State Fair should
be a noble paan of thanksgiving,
and from out the full and generous
heart Of the grateful people should
leap stream of timely bounty for
tie INDECENT farmers whose all has
been swept away by the wicked To-
custs.-Pi0neer- Press.
Year: 1877

How TO FATTEN SrooK.-A old far
mer thus relates his experience in fatteniug
beef and feeding COWS for milk. My prac-
tice in fattening beef and swine, as we'll as
feeding COWS for milk, has been to pour
boiling water on as much meal as would not
make the animals bowels move too freely
at night and in the morning when the mash
is cool give it TO the cow or pigs. In COW
ering the meal with boiling water in this
way the starch Of the meal is dissolved, and
the latent nutritiye properties extracted,
and tho animal receives the entire nutriment
of the grain. have for two years past fat
ted two ordinary size COWS, feeding only
meal and hay, and only three hundred
pounds each of the former, and each yielded
upward Of forty pounds of rough tallow.-
Salt was given once week, and occasionally
tablespoonful of wood ashes. In my ex.
perience one hundred pounds scalded and
fed as above is equal to two hundred pounds
fed dry.
Year: 1877

| ending with a full chorus by $50 mules
L didn't hear the whole thing, for when
came too, the regimental surgeon was stand
ing over me, giving me powerful restora.
tives, and heard him say that might pos
slbly get out again, though l would never
be a well man again. have been through
the New York Stock Exchange, and spent
part Of the day in boiler factory, and have
been on one or two Sunday school excur-
sions for children, but never knew what
noise was till [ heard lot of army mules
bray.


One Of the dead certaintics about mule
is that he is sure footed, especially with his
hind feet.i .Hc nevers rsnisplucos !them. ,-tIf
he advcrtises that his feet will be at a ccr--
tain time, with sample of mule shoes, to
which he would call your attention, you will
always find them there at the appointed
time. lie is as reliable as the day of judg-
ment, and he never cancels an engagement.
Every man now living who drove mule
team during the war now draws pension.


never owned a mule. came near buy
ing one once. He was fine. looking animal:
his ears stood up like the side spires on an
Episcopal church. His tail was trimmed
down so that it looked like tar brush lean
ing against him. He was stripped off like
the American flag, and Raphael's cherubs
never looked more angelic than did that
mule. He looked all innocence, though he
was, in no sense


TRYING TO TRADE.


The owner sat in the wagon, with is chin
resting on his hand and his elbow on his
knee. In the other hand he held stick
with 4 brad in the end of it, | examined
the mule and asked the man few questions,
and out of mere form inquired if the mule
was kind, or if he kicked? "Kind? Kind?"
said the man, and those were the last words
he ever uttered. He reached his stick over
the front of the wagon, and struck the brad
into that mule. 1t was awful to sec man
snutted out as quickly as he was. 1t almost
took away my breath he went so suddenly
l never saw the thread of life snap so abb
ruptly as it did on that occasion. He didn't
have time to leave message for his family.
That mule simply ducked his head, and then
a pair Of heels flew out behind; there was
crash, flying Of splinters, and that was
all, and the next moment that mule aud |
stool alone, my face covered with astonish-
ment two feet deep, and his covered with
| part of an old bride. The next day read
AN account in the tel,graphic news of Il
shower Of flesh in Kentucky. 1 was the
only man that could explain that phenom-
enon, aud | did not dare to, lest should be
implicated in the affair with the other mule.


have seen death in many forms but
don't recolect Of ever seeing funeral got
ten up with less pomp and display than on
that occasion. If had my choice, to either
work in nitroglycernc factory, or take
care Of mule, should go for the factory,
as in case of an explosion, there would be
more possibility Of my friends finding some
little mcmentoes of me, with which to
assuage their grief. A very small piece Of me
would tighten very big sorrow.


will hunt around, and if find any
other facts that belong to the mule, will
write them down, and send them to you by
express, G. 0. d.
Year: 1877

REMEDY FOR BRoNcHITIs.-Take dried
leaves of common MULLEN plant, powder
them, and smoke them in new clay pipe
be careful that no tobacco has been in the
pipe. Draw the smoke we'll into the throat,
occasionally swallowing some. Use it three
or four times daily.
Year: 1877

CURE FOR RHEUMATIsM.-Boat three
fresh eggs thoroughly up together, add half
ounce each Of oil orisanum and spirits Of
hartshorn, and when these are well mixed,
add half pint Of strong vinegar. Put ii
in bottle and shake it well up every time
you use it, On going to bed rub the affec-
ted parts.
Year: 1877

Always contradict ill report with person
al merit.


Death comes equal to us all, and makes
us all equal when it comes.


Concession is no humiliation, nor admis-
sion Of error any disgrace.


The Lord will not abopdon in adversely
the man who trusts him in prosperity


Folly soon wears her shoes out. She
dances so fast we are all of us tired. Col
den wires may annoy us as much as steel
bars, if they keep us behiud prison win
dows.


Kind words are among the brightest
flowers of cath they make the humblest
home u paradise.
Year: 1877

How THE RATTLEsNAKE BITES
When a rattlesnake is disturbed it
sounds an alarm, and then, if compeil-
ed, it will fight. When the victim is
within reach the jaws of the snake are
separated and the head thrown back so
as to bring the fangs into a favorable
position to penetrate the object. The
head is then darted rapidly forward, the
unsheathed tooth penetrates the body of
the victiU, and the poison is injected
into the flash. The same muscular acts
which open the wound inject the venom
through the duct and into the part pen
etrated by the tooth. Yhe divergence of
the fang points when the snake bites
often causes considerable distance be-
tween the two, wounds, The power
with which the venoKa is elected from
the tooth depends somewhat upon the
amount contained in the gland and its
ducts. If the snake fails to strike the
object aimed at, the poison is sometimes
projected several feet; and case is on
record where it was thrown into the
eyes of man who Waa six feet from the
snake, when it atSuek upward at a stick
held ab2Ya lis coil.
Year: 1877

does not object, will be given to the
press at once. The report is long and
the Secretary devotes considerable
space to the Mexican border troublts
and the Indian difficulties. and portion
is also devoted to army affairs.
Year: 1877

Robert Ingersoll is credited with say
ing tiIe following:


1t there is Il young man in the au-
dlence, / beg Of him never take a
clerkship in the city of Washington. y
Don't you do it Never do you put your
self where yOu have to duck your head
and take Oft your hat to every BODY
else. Don't you do it. Don't put vour
happiness, don't put your fortune in
the power Of another mans breath.
Don't you do il. You never will lave
any manhood You never will have anv
FertepTa y0H never will have any real
square spHDK; yoH cannot have IT.: and
YOU Will loose confidence, and you will


begin TO think, il you cannot have a
regular payment each month Of 294 m
thdt you cannot possibly make a living
III this world. It will take all the nIncE
out or you. beg of you not to dis
count your future; beg Of every yonno
man, nave the courage to take what
comes, let II be feast or let it he famine.
put don't sell the gilt that fortune NAV
nave Tor you Tor petty salary Of $50
OF OF S!a or @l0a per month. Don't do it.
10 West would rather have forty
acres OF land and a log house with one
room-yes, and the woman | love, and
some LATHE work over the window, so
tAat t!le sunlight would fall checkered
on the badly In the cradle, and II few
Iloiiynocks at the corner OF the h0use--
/ would rather have thai, and q nice
naFn leading down to the spring, where
L could go and hear the water gurgling;
would rather live there and die there
than be clerk OF any government Oh
eartE.
Year: 1877

The thunders may roll and light
nings fash about your house for nine
hundred and ninety mine tfsaes. aud not
touch it but the thousandth time, they
may strike it, destroy it, and kill your
self and entire family. Therefore be
warned in time, and apply at once to
DR.. Gilbert who will put safety light
ming rod protector on your house.
Year: 1877

We have had the pleasure of visit


from Robert W. Ogden, Esq, Vice


President and manager of the Louis


lana Equitable Life Insurance Company.


The object of Mr.. Ogden's visit is 70 es-


tablish an agency of his company in


our section of the State.


The Louisiana Equitable is the only


corporation that has ever received a


perpetual charter from our State Leg


islature and the only Life Insurance


Company in the United States that


makes its policy holders secure by a
special deposit in the State Treasury of
its reserve in registered bonds of the


United States or of the State of Louis
lana, according to act 80 passed April
I'd, 1877. The passage of this act has
rendered as safe as any human Legisla-
ture can, the vast interest held for the
protection of widows and orphans. Its
NECESSITY grew out of the previous de-
fects and workings of Life Companies
in the North, and elsewhere, which by
their failures and mismanagement have
entailed such disastrous results upon
so many of our citizens.


1t is to the credit of our Senators,
Garland and Robertson that this great
and protective result has been obtained
They presented and sustained this bill
until its final passage, Notwithstanding
great opposition, brought to bear against
~ hu fhn hnoxTTy NoH4hnnY, Ensfnrn
Western Life Companies, who opposed
it in every possible manner, they being
willing to take from our people their
money, but not willing to give them any
tangible security, that when a policy
became claim the funds to meet that
claim should be under the jurisdiction
of our coIffts and held by our State
Treasurer as a special fund to meet this |
result. Although all foreign companies |
can avail themselves of this law, none |
have thought proper to do SO, and our
home Company, the Louisiana Equitable |
Life, is the only one now doing business
in our State that makes its policies safe
by this special deposit.


It must be fatt9ring to our Senators
to know that as soon as this law reached
Canada their government adopted pre-
cisely the same, only going further by
from all companies, foreign
and domestic, special deposit of their
reserve upon all policies taken within
the Dominion.


Recently commissioner of Insurance
in one of our Western States, has writ
ten letter to leading Insurance Jour
nal, setting forth as the only aositive
security for Liz Insurance, the passage
of laws in each State requiring every
policy ON life to be thus secured.


We have now in our little Louisiana
ahead of our older and more
wealthy neighbors in one respect, and
we would be pleased to see them all
follow our footsteps by protecting their
widows and orphans, by special statute
requiring the reserve on every life policy
to be specially deposited in the State
Treasury and thus not be exposed to be
lost or stolen by board of directors
who however honest may be unfortunate
in their investments.
Year: 1877


ERNEST PoTIER-My dearest brother
ly friend-L can not thank you enough
for what you have done for me, and
pray to God to bless you for what you
have done for me, and in the last mo-
ment OF my life, | will not endeavor to
write my sincere thanks to you, for it is
beyond the power of pencil. | pray
that God will be with you and family
now and forever. Good bye.


! remain your brotherly friend,


jules GUIDRY.
P. S.-Give my love to my mother.
little brother and sister, and all inquir-
ing friends If die on the gallows it
is that my friend Potter has made me
take another step. was ready to take
my own life, but he begged me to go
on the gallows, and | will do anything
he ask of me, for | think more of him
than any one on earth, in the last hour
of my life he was standing by my side,
and may God have mercy on him.


remain your brotherly friend,


JULES GUIDRY.
Year: 1877

CuIiOusly enough the army appropriation
fares worse in the Senate than in the House.
As amended by the Senate appropriation
committee the total number of men on the
army rolls IS limited TO 2),OOO men. The
committee also recommend a reduction of
the amount OF expenditure voted in the
House bill To the extent OF s5), 900 in the IL am
for the conversion of smooth bores TO ridsi
cannon; S5O,0oO in the amount for hospitals;
and $50 IN the appropriation for the Office Of
the commanding general. or course the Sen
ate may disagree with the reduction amand-
ments OF the committee, bu: usage in that
body gives great weight to committee re-
ports, ard IL really looks as If the republican
Senate was disposed to appropriate some of
the retrenchment thunder the democratic
House has claimed as peculiarly its own.
Year: 1877

The reports of the Fire Commissioners and
Chief Engineer elsewhere showing the abso-
lutte necessity for an increase OF the District
fire department, is worthy the attention of
our tax payers and citizens generally, and II
is hoped that members OF Congress will read
whet is said about the duty OF the national
government In the matter OF bearing a fair
share Of the expense.
Year: 1877

If the defence of the Texan border be priu-
cipally assigned to Texan militia whose
prt judices unfit them 10 occupy a position
rendered so difficalt by the complicated and
delicate questions that must be decided by
those who hold it, and of such great import
ance TO the interests OF the United States as a
whole; those who look forward to gaining
profit or honor from a war with Mexico may
well throw up their has in triumph. 1t is
true that such course would not be Just TO
the Mexican central government which has
placed regulars on the border, but tha: is a
consideration which will not necessarily
have much weight in our dealing with 50
weak and distracted a nation. With lawless
bands of Indians furnishing pretexts for in
vssion 10 both sides, with a varying border,
Win the emissaries of Lerdo melting raids
on one side and Texan troops ready TO punish
the raiders and make offensive retlrns on the
other, we might reasonably look for the rise
OF such complications between the two ma
tions as would furnish US with a supply
military presidents for the next half CEN
tury.