The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-23
FRIDAY, APRIL p, 1875.
NEWS ~mI<CELLANY.

eSoutnern press acqulescea IN the
opinion OF General Gordon that the
South should not be represented on
the next Democratic National ticket.
The South is content to keep in the
background before the election and
take its pay afterwards.
The Independent thinks that the
next Presidential election viii be the
hardest fought contest through which
the Republican organization has ever
passed and, rs things now look, the
party has not a man to spare, and not
a friend whom it ear afford to alien
ate. -
Since the railroads in Connecticut
have been enjoined from granting
free passes, members-elect Of the Leg
islature have begun to talk of a short
session. The effect of the Injunction
is, of course, to prevent many flying
visits home.
A plot for the assassination of the
President OF Mexico and the men,
bers OF his ministry has been discov-
cred and frustrated, and fifteen of the
conspirators, among them several
Journalists, have been arrested and
banished.
1t Is reported, there Is authority for
stating, that the Pope, should events
necessltate his leaving Rome, will
select Montreal as a place of resi-
dence. The Catholic population of
the Diocese of Montreal is now no.
600. e
New York proposes a compliment
tary banquet to Carl Schurz before his
departure for Europe.
President Grant will be SO years
old on the 9th of the present month.
Providence, which orders all things
well, threatens to make seed time
late this year in order that farmers
may not lose too much OF the testi-
mony.-Brook1yn Aryus.
The Rome correspondent of the
New York Herald intimates hat
Archbishop Bailey, of Baltimore, will
be the next American recipient ola
red hat.
Dan Bryant's real name was Dan
lei Webster O'Drien. He was a
native Of Troy, where he was born in
1898.
Woman's rights. San Francisco's
new s3,OOO,O 900 palace hotel will con-
tain, among other features, a ladies'
billiard room, furnished In a prin-
cessly style.
The approaching constitutional
convention should do two things, viz:
provide for an independent supreme
court, with a decent salary for the
judges, and then adjourn sine die
Onlaha Herald.
The Papal Ab-Legate and guards
man will remain some time in this
country, as they have brought with
them the palIiums of the new Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, Boston and
Milwaukee.
my sympathies are with grand
old Ireland. May God bless her."
wrote President Grant in declining
an invitation to the banquet of the
Baltimore knights of st. Patrick.
The third term hobgoblin doesn't
bother those Irishmen much.
Judge Taft is now mentioned as
the most likely Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio. The Toledo
Blade comes out fatty for him, and
the CINCINNATI Gazette is counted on
to support him. He has n strong
German following.
Uncle Sam is issuing II new coin
for the Pacific Coast. 1t is a 20-cent
piece, which will be equivalent to
the Californian 1.-TWO bits" 1t Is
worthy of note that the Canadian
Government is engaged in calling in
this coin, as being of no practical
value, an incentive to dishonesty, and
asource of confusion.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars was
the remedy given by a British jury
for the damaged affections of Miss
Nightingale. She had never met the
gallant Captain but once; but when
she learned that he had sailed for the
Cape of Good Hope she wrote her
love. Naturally, the Captain an
swered, and so it went on from letter
to letter, Till it reached the jury as