The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-09
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Moving Day-Revenge and BlaekmaIl-
Petroleum Exchange-Suicides.

lO-udy 10 moving udy, aHu IIleleloIe
no matter how pleasant the day may be
in every other respect, however bright
the sun may shine, it cannot be other
wise than n very unpleasant day to all
NEWCOMERS who are obliged to move
out of n place into another, and al
most everybody moves on this day.
Some of the knowing ones take time
by the forelock on an occasion of this
sort and move out and in a day in adj
vance, but they are prone to regret it
for many reasons-the other family has
not moved out and whoever knew of
two families who could possibly agree
upon this all important topic, when the
sacred rights of a household vas unceri-
moniously usurped by another. 1t pro
duces bad blood and hard feelings and
| still harder words. They commence to
move out and move in shortly after
midnight in IL street, and this
thoroughfare is n very select one; but
it made nc difference, seemingly, to the
van men who yelped and yelled and I am
sorryto say, sworea as terriblyas our army
did during the late unpleasantness, and
broke looking glasses and dislocated
costly furniture, to the great delight of
my confirmed bachelor friend over the
way, who has nc occasion to move,
and, who only saw in all this row an
additional reason to eschew the society
of women-I neal married women and
to thank heaven that he vas not the
head of a family. lie smiled derisively
at that important member Of society rs
as he was seeu to appear and disappear
into the portals of his no longer quiet
home on all n of missions. But
let us be thankful after all. The Eng
lish nation are no better off than we
upon this glad day of the year, for with
them it is the chimneysweeps who cover
themselves and their patrons, not with
glory but with the unctious SCOT of these
brick tubes, that continually vomit their
inky clouds of smoke upward, and gen.
orally speaking, if it is in London or
ISlNCll pun, uo ~ we'll
REVENGE AND BLACSIAIL.
Istrolled into the rotunda of the
Astor House during the day and met
there a prominent lawyer who was con-
graduating his client, a policeman for
having escaped the clutches of the law.
1t seems that Mary Stewart, alias
Boozer, and other aliases of like sugges-
tive character, being locked up n night
by officer Gleason, out of revenge pre-
ferred charges against him Of such a
character that his captain was obliged
to suspend him. This occurred in
November last, and so positive was this
woman's testimony, that the officer was
on the point of being sentenced to
twenty years. Imprisonment; but fortu-
nately for him it vas ascertained that
this dove-eyed fiend, Mary Jane Stew
art had been the means of sending an *
pressman to the penitentiary for the
same crime. This led to further de-
velopments, and Mary, questioned close
ly, confessed that for the past ten years
of her life, this sort of thing has been
the sole means of her support. She
will be punished according to the law,
but not according to her just deserts,
for one man imprisonedon her account,
served out ten years of his twenty years
sentence before he was pardoned. Mary
is described as a ''dove-eyed little wo-
man with an angelic expression on her
face,'' and my lawyer friend informed
me that, but for the proof he could not
believe her capable of the crime; after
this, he added, I am ready to believe
anything about them. By them, l pre-
sumo he meant women of the Mary Jane
Stewart kind.
The New York Petroleum Exchange
of Beaver and Pearl streets opens to-
morrow; as it's name implies, it is a
brokers' institution and its object to
acquire and disseminate business in
formation and to adjuct controversies
and misunderstanding between its
members. The active members are
limited to fifty.
Suicides and mysterious disappear
ances are not unfrequent. Scarcely n
day passes but somebody passes out of
our midst under one or the other of
these headings. John ii. Baldwin, n
prominent insurance adjuster, of Balti-
more, blew out his brains in front of n
house in st. Paul street. He was a
prominent officer in Stonewall Jacksons
brigade during the war and came from
Winchester, Virginia. There are those
hereaways who wiTlrememberthe Major
well and favorably. A young French
man suicides the same day on account
of a woman, and Mary Howard, after
quarreling with her husband, found the
world too small to hold them both and
made the attempt by severing the ar
teries in her arms; but signally failed.
Mary will recover, and her husband will
bear the blame and nav the surgeons