The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-21
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR

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Senator Ben Hill figures in a bad
railroad transaction way down in
Georgia.
A colored orator has appeared in
Louisville with a ''reply to Bob Inger-
soll.n
The hunt for the stolen remains of
A. T. Stewart has entered on its sixth
week.
Adjoining districts are beginn ing to
quarantine against Breathitt county,
Kentucky.
Robert H. Newell (Orpheus c. KERR
is still doing editorial work in New York
city.
Things have quieted down and the
grave-robbing business is doubtless re-
viving again.
Philadelphia people wear a black rib
bon in the button hole to show that
they are In mourning.
Patrick Tierney, the last but one of
the Fenian military prisoners, has ar
rived in New York.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman continues to re-
side in Baltimore. Her husband and
daughters reside in Washington.
The serious question, according to
Senator Blaine, is whether or not the
vote of Il northern man shall count as
much as the vote of a southern man.
Gen. Grants house In Washington,
which cost S25, 600, has been sold by his
agent for Sl8, 900 to an Ohio lady, who
now occupies it. The house has been
long vacant.
This country can't go very deep into
out door statue establishment until its
boys are taught not to throw stones
The statue of Gov. Andrew, in Boston,
has lost a hand.
1t is estimated that it cost $50, 900 to
'~'receive'' the vice regal party in Cana
day, including the municipal fuss and
feathers at Halifax, Montreal and Of
iowa. 1t was a bigthing-the expense.
The latest Oldest man alive is the col
ored "Uncle Bill" Scott, of Baltimore,
who is gazing on his149th winter. When
he was 8 years old George Washington
vas born, and Baltimore went by the
name of JONES' Town.
A Canadian colonel is engaged in Or
ganizing a company of Highlanders.
Each man must be over five feet eight
and one-half inches in height, and
measure fifteen inches around the calf
of the leg. Drawn, not brains, is what
he wants.
A Boston idiot, named Burnside, will
loon attempt the feat of crossing the
Atlantic, doubling the Cape of Good
Hope, and then crossing the Indian
Ocean to Australia, in a sloop-rigged
craft, nineteen feet in length over all,
and two and one-half feet deep.
The state department has received
from the president of Chilli a life-sized
portrait of Washington, by a native ar.
fist, which has the traditional face an6
figure, though the vest and breeche.
are white instead of buff. Also, from
Samoa, a mat of c%ocoanut fibre. six feet
square, three hundred years old and
valued at $4,000. 1t came as the out.
side wrapper of the Samoa treaty.
Should Senator Wade Hampton live
to take his seat, South Carolina will lie
represented by two men with wooden
legs. Senator Butler lost one of his
legs in a cavalry charge. The song OF
South Carolina candidates for the posi-.
ton will henceforth be likely to be that
favorite one, "Saw my leg off,"
Daniel Drawbaugh, of Cumberland
county, Pa, is the inventor of IL perpet-
ual clock, which, by utilizing magnet
ism as Il dynamic force, has been tick
ing away without winding for four or
five years, and is said to show no dispc-
sition to stop before its works are worn
perpetual motion.
Ole Bull, the veteran violinist, lately
said to IA New York reporter: "Con-
tentment is my motto, and | am always
contented. / am like AN old tar.
weather proof. If it rains, let it rain;
| shall be dry Tomorrow. I'll tell you
how l do it. begin every day anew
all by itself, you Understandable |
leave all the unpleasant things behind
and remember only the things that
make me content and young"
The frey untamed.
From the Dentcr Democrat.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, is grooming