The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-02
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A FIGHT BETWEEN LITERARY LADIES.
And here is another piece of con-
temptible business, and smaller; of
course a woman figures in it. Helen
Potter, reader and elo%cutionist, comes
forward In Philadelphia and personates
Miss Anna Dickinson in the ''love-
letter and quarrel scene' of Anne
Boleyn, Initiating her every gesture
and maneuvers," say the papers. Miss
Potter never did anything that was
original in her life. 1t is all copied.
She is a capital monkey on account of
those inimitable initiative powers.
That is all. Her requirements are
superficial, whilst Anna Dickinson's
have a deep sub-strata of solid sense.
and generally speaking, she knows
what she is about and never descends
to venom. Helen Potter has been
attempting to soar into the heavens
when the Dickinson has been estab-
lished here firmly for years, and has
failed, and now comes forward and
enacts the monkey ''trick'' of initiating
the mannerisms of a much-abused
woman, hoping thereby to gain for
herself a little cheap notoriety. To
make this more patent l have only to
add that lawyers, with writs of injunc-
ton, appeared on the scene and the
stage at the right moment, and at
tempted to prevent the readers capers.
1t will not detract anything from Anna
Dickinson and her abilities az a lee
turer or even amateur performer, but
it will react upon Helen Potter and
her agent, 1. B. Pugh, sooner or later,
when the people perceive the incentive
that produces the imitation.
THE UNIVERSAL NUISANCE.
The tramp is on his rounds ono
more, but move rapidly westward out
of the State of New York, for a bill is
now pending in this legislature, which
provides that all able-bodied persons
between the ages of 16 and 55 years
who shall be found wandering from
place to place and applying to people
for aid shall be arrested and sent to
prison. This is a most excellent law,
and other states are adopting it. Your
tramp is a dangerous and a vicious
animal, and should be chased from
state to state, and from territory to
territory, until he brings up on the
shores of the blue Pacific, a very good
jumping-off place for the tramp to fin
ish in, for the shores are steep and its
waters deep.
BosToN's LATEST MURDER.
Boston has a sensation-one of the
Jessie Pomeroy kind, and peculiar to
the modern. Athens and its refined So
ciety and heretical teachings and doc
trines. Here it is: A lad named Cox,
about 81 years of age, was playing with
one Kimball, aged a little over A years.
The latter, a very %precocious youth, got
angry at Cox, entered his fathers
house and got his little revolver, and
shot the offending Cox directly through
the head. The Boston papers, whilst
commenting upon this new horror,
takes care to tell its readers, many OF
whom are evidently in direct sympathy
with the murderer, that they both be-
long to highly respectable families, and
Kimball certainly must have had Sc
| rious p%rovocation to have done the deed.
Fancy the serious provocation of a
four-year-old brat!
AN OILY MISTAKE.
l came across an anecdote whilst
travelling on the cars yesterday, and
perusing Mrs. PROFITS Autobiography
Letters, etc. 1t has not lately been i'll
print, but will bear repeating, and with
it 1 will close this letter. One day
somebody had given this gentleman
friend of hers a bottle of castor oil,
very pure-it had but lately been
brought into use. Before he lett home
he gave it in charge to his man, telling
him to be careful of it. Upon his re-
turn, after a lapse of considerable time,
the gentleman asked his servant for
the oil. 60, its all used!'' replied he.
"Used!" said the gentleman, show
and when, sir?" Faith 1 put it in
the caster when wanted, and gave it to
the company. "CLEw GARNET"