The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-10
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1877.
MISCELLANY.

Lung lSlauu SOu1u HAS IL ndln line
of railroad which is prosperous, but all
its branches are ''sinkers."
All the Indians attending services in
Washington, last Sunday, piously
folded their arms and fell asleep.
A young lady who was recently mar
ried in Ohio gave up the name of "Pet
shanks," and took another.
"The wind bloweth where it listeth,"
but most people wish to ''list' where
it bloweth about their houses.
Theirs was not SO much of a French
man as some think, after all. He only
fought n duel in his long lifetime.
Fur and feather trimmings will soon
be popular again, ladies, but fringes
will take the lead for height of
fashion.
Wade Hampton's son and namesake
is running for a seat in the Mississippi
Assembly. He served in the war on Joe
J%ohnston's staff.
The temperance movement is giving
a fat taste to the first batch of mince
pies. Maybe there will be more flavor
to the next baking, now that it is seen
what is lacking.
The inventor of n flying machine in
San Francisco knocked n mar down for
speaking with doubt of his continuance.
1t is always best to agree that every
thing is a success.
Horatio G. Eddy, one of the Yer
mont spiritualistic humbugs, has been
arrested for assaulting, with intent to
kill, Hiram j. Huntoon and his wife
Mary, who is Eddy's sister.
A great-grand-daughter of Thomas
Jefferson teaches school in Charlotte,
Va, which shows that we cannot tell
what oar MISREPRESENTATION may
have to do for q living.
Governor Dix, says the New York
World, killed six teal at a shot Mt
Quogue, and the Washington Nation
inquiries: Had they been hauling
down the American flagF"
Tilden is reported to be n candidate
for the United States Senate in New
York. As he still holds many of the
Democratic wires, he may make 4 good
fight for the position, in spite of the
fact that the Tammany faction of the
Democratic party captured the State
Convention.
H~ot-headed Frenchmen are spread
ing the suspicion that THEIRS may have
died OF poison instead of old age.
Everything, the rumor and the sus-
picion, may be laid to French politics,
which is looked upon as ut, or near, |
the bottom of all life and death in Mac
Mahon's land.
Mr.. Agassiz says that in certain
Amazonian tribes, on the day of his
marriage, while the wedding festivities
are going on, the bridgegroom's hands
are tied up in a paper bag with fire
ants. If he bears this torture smiling
ly and unmoved, lie is considered 1T for
the trials of matrimony.
If the officials of a savings bank
should pack up the cash and 60 away,
and if they should be followed and
caught, and if they should be choked
to death with ~bed-cords, would the
officials of the bank,nex door solemnly:
Resolre, That we continue to be
honest men?[Detroit Free Press.
The courts have decided that in call
ing Mr.. William Andrews, a politician,
of Springfield, H., IAN intolerable
nuisance" the Springfield State
Journal injured and libeled and other
wise mashed up the politicians high
character to the value Of one ~ cent.
But the paper considers the sum ex-
tortionate, and away out of keeping
with the amount of damage inflicted,
and will contest TIE payment 10 the
bitter end.
William C.. Crum, late of the RocAes.
ter Express, has sued the present pro-
prietors of that paper for libel, laying
his damages at $4,000. inasmuch as
they published al article defamatory of
him in connection with the obtaining
and disposal of railway passes. II the
suit terminates favorably, Mr.. Crum
viii probably turn his attention 10 the
Chicago Times, which first gave cur
rency to the alleged libelous charges.
Senator Mcdonald, colleague and an
tagonist of Morton, has visited the sick
man. Mr.. Morton told him that he
hoped to be in Congress ut the regular
session, and Mr.. Mcdonald replied that
he would gladly pair off with him in
order to relieve him from the necessity
OF daily attendance. The Democratic
indianapolis Sentinel is ungeuerous
enough to complain of this courteous
agreement. 1t is one of the kind of
sheets that is bravest, and that kicks
hardest at an enemy when the latter is
tied down.
Boston had her Winslow. Philadel-
.phia her Morton, Chicago her Spencer.
and New York her Gilman. Winsloy