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Show THE TERRITORIES. A gentleman recently at Cheyenne from Red Cloud mentions an uncred-itcd uncred-itcd rumor among the Indians, that Crazy Horse and his baud wero coming com-ing in from the north. Tho Cheyenne Issufr.r rcporls that Col. Dodge and sttifl) just in, report 1 meeting California Joe, with forty men. the advance guard of a party of four hundred, near the South Cheyenne, Chey-enne, on their way into tho Black Hills. Miners seem to bw going in from every direction. Tho general court martial which convened at Fort Laramie last rveok for the trial of dipt. Cain and Lieut. Shut, 4th infantry, has adjourned to meet nt Cheyenne-. Gen. John S. Mason, -Ith infantry, recently in command at Fort Fetter-man, Fetter-man, has been detailed us inspector-general inspector-general of the department of Texas. Prof. Jcnncy arrived in Choyonnc on Saturday last. Tho Leader says: Ho reports the gold-bearing beltof the Harney I'eak district, which is nearly all in Dakota, about fifty miles long, anil will average twenty miles wide. The diggings prospered arc not extraordinarily rich, but will pay good wages, and are what California miners designato aa poor man's diggings, dig-gings, and will pay iron, four dolhirn a day and upward. The country is woll watered, climato dolightfnl, mountains covered with forests ol pino, It ills covered with nutritms granges, and tho valleys lovely and fertile. Thoro is a greater extent of agricultural and grass land than any one has previously supposed. The Boar Lodge district is all in Wyoming '1'erritory, and whilo not na oxtunsivo in area as tho Harney Peak district, indicates richer deposits ol the precious metals, The agricultural and pastoral advantages of this Boction aro greater than anyone had heroofore supposed. Wild fruits of diilercnt kinds were found in great abundance. Whito birch, oak, ash and soino other hard wood variety wero found here in great plenty. Tho gold found was of a very lino quality, unsaying 'jyii tlno, and worth an ounce- in coin. It is tho opinion of the professor that tho gold diggings are sufficiently rich to furnish employment employ-ment for labor ami capital lor yearn, which will result in developing iho other resources of thatcouutry. It is reported that J. H. Modal, trnusurer of Park county, Col., has absconded, in default to the amount of about $7,000. Tho Colorado Caind company has been organized at Denver, to construct a canal, thirty leet wido and nix feet deep, Irom Platte cufiou to tho oust lino of section 0:t, west, in Arapahoo county for purpones of navigation, and lor the irrigation of some JKKI.OOO acres of laud iu Douglas and Ampa-hoo Ampa-hoo counties. The question of how to put babies to sleep has been solved by an exchange, which Biiys : A baby is a very tender , thing, people say; but most of them aro very far from knowing how tender. Imagine how nervous you aro in cer-i tain states when recovering Irom illness, say when the fall of a book or, the slam of a door makes you quiver and faint, as it someone gave you a blow. That is tho way a young biiby I reels at its best. A pull of wind will j set it gasping, its little brenth blown' quite away. A noise makes it tdiivur, a change of summer air makes it turn death cold. A baby is tlio most nerv ous of beings, and the tortures it suflers in going to sloep and being wakened by careless sounds when junt "dropping off," are only comparable to the same experience of an older person during an acute nervous headache. head-ache. Young babies ought to pass the first months of their lives in the country coun-try for its stillness no less than its fresh air. But where silence is not to bo commanded, baby may he soothed by folding a soft napkin, wet in warmish warm-ish water, lightly over tho top ot its head, its eyes and ears It is the best way to put nervous babies to sleep. I have tried it hundreds of times for a child so irritable that paregoric and soothing syrup only made it wideawake. wide-awake. A fiuo towel would be wet and laid over its head; tho ends twisted a little till it made a sort ol skullcap, and though baby sometimes : fought against being blindfolded in this way live minutes usually sent him otl into deep and blissful slumber. The compress cooled the little feverish brain, deadened tho sound in his ears and shut out everything that took his attention, so that sleep took him unaware. Teething babies find this very comfortable, for their heads are always hot, and there is a fevered beating in tho arteries on each side. |