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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
COLORADO.
A 100000 Foot Race.

a 100000 Foot Race.
Denver, Nov. 23.-An exciting foot
race took place here to-day between c.
P. Williams, of Denver, and - Davis,
of California. The stakes 81 900 side,
were won by Williams. Time, OF Sec
onds. Distance 100 yards. Thirty
thousand dollars changed hands on the
result
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

THE nono-metallic financiers, in
whose golden eyes silver seems as dross,
are agitated lest the silver men and the
greenbackers in congress unite to pre-
vent the demonstration of silver.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

GAMBErTA is likely to have some
legal trouble for engaging in duel.
But what was he to dop To back out
would mean his political burial, while
now he will have some sympathy.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
DOTS AND DASHES.

Newport: Stephen Griffey, executed
at Newport yesterday, is the first white
man ever hung for rape in Tennessee.
Lahore: The British column is adj
vancing into Afghanistan by way Of
Quettah and has occupied without resist
ance Sebi, due east of Dazar. x.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

THE British parliament win meet on
the fifth of December. Beaconsfield
was strongly opposed to the idea, but
was overruled by a majority vote in
the council of the ministry.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

OPINIONS from leading congressman
are in order, and of course, Mr.. Atkins,
chairman Of the committee on appro-
priations, must have his say, and it is
this: An extra session Of congress
will be unnecessary.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

Now IT is thought that the remains
of Mr.. Stewart have been recovered, as
Mrs. Stewart has returned to health
and cheerfulness. The motive of secrecy
Is to prevent another robbery.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
Ne,o York Monsv and STOCK Marhe,

Heto York Money and Stock Markee.
New York, Nov. 23.-Gold closed
lO0a. ,s
silver-bars, 1104 greenbacks 11Oa
gold! ~
Silver Coin-4@1 discount.
Money-active at 2t@3. la
Governments strong; Stocks strong.
western Union, 96i; Quicksilver, o.
aS Tactic, 15a, Mariposa, 81; Wells-F Fargo
%, New York Central, ll1f; Erie, 1Si
sanama, 123; Union Pacific, 68; q. p
'onds. 1911; Central Pacific bonds, 107e
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

OWING to the hurricane raging of
the northeastern coast, the safety of the
sarmatian and the distinguished per-
sonages aboard was feared. The English
squadron was to have gone out to meet
the Sarmatian yesterday but the storm
was too great.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

ENGLAND will undoubtedly thrash
Afghanistan roundly. But Russia pro-
poses to prevent the conquerer from
imposing any amercement of territory.
Admitting that England would domi-
nate over Afghanistan, the political
boundaries of England and Russia
would then be but few miles apart.
This would soon provoke that inevita-
BILE war.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

A HIGHLY sensational story was
cabled to the effect that fenian cruiser
would attempt the capture of the Sar-
matian. A creature of some wild imagi-
nation
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

By THE way, what has either Russia
or England gained by the marriage Of
the czar's daughter to the Duke Of
Edinburgh.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
DELAWARE still glories in the whip
ping post and pillory.
TIE Sarmatian arrived at Halifax
last evening, after q heavy storm. De-
tails in another column.

AND now the Umatilla Indians are
taking little fly. Nothing like keep
ing the race well advertised.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
MEXICO.


City Of Mexico, Nov. 5.-The Chica-
go visitors will be handsomely received
at the capitol. Balls, dinners and ex-
cursions will be the features of the re-
ception.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

O'LKARY is to have foe worthy Of
his steel in Napoleon Campana. The
latter is now preparing for contest
with the champion.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24
DELAWARE.


New Castle, Nov. 23.--Nine convicts,
six black and three white men, were
publicly whipped to-day; FIVE being also
pilloried.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

THE three war vessels belonging to
Russia,-the Europe, Asia and Africa,
are still at Philadelphia and seem to
have had no preparations for sailing.
They will be convenient, however, to
send forth on an errand of mercy to
English shipping in case something hap
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

And you all know it, the celebrated
Rock Springs coal is in the market in
any quantity, and it pays to buy it at
sc. so per ton.
nov1ytf HANNA & MURPHY.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

MONTGOMERY BLAIR is off color as
usual. He has written column letter
to prove that Tilden is the only availa-
BILE democratic candidate for 80. And
he advances the somewhat novel theory
that the democrats of the north owe
their rout to an attempt to throw Til
den overheard. Wonder if Mont. has
heard of such a thing as solid south.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-24

PRESIDENT HAYES telegraphed his
congratulations to King Humbert, Of
Italy, and the latter sent good sized
stick Of taffy.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
Swimming for Girls.

The public are continually reminded
of the numerous contrivances, supports,
stays, shoulderstraps, etc., and the va
rious exercises that are best calculated
to prevent round shoulders, a STOPPING
awkward gait, contracted chests, and
50 fourth; but perhaps there is no kind
of exercise for girls more calculated to
attain those desirable objects than that
of swimming. During the act of swim
ming the head is thrown back, the chest
well forward, while the thoracic and re-
spiratory muscles are in strong action,
and both the upper and lower extremi,
ties are in full play. Indeed, in a
health point of view, females would of
ten have an advantage over the strong
er sex, as, owing to the large amount
of adipose tissue covering their muscles,
and the comparative smallness and
hghtness of their bones, they not only
have greater powers of fiotation than
men, but, as q rule, can continue much
longer in the water. They are, there
fore, naturally qualified to become good
swimmers; and Mr.. Macgregor men,
tions that out of class of thirty girls,
whose instruction commenced late last
season, twenty-five were taught to swim
in six lessons, and six of them won
prizes. 1t is to be hoped, therefore,
that girls wiz not be debarred from
learning this graceful and healthful acss
complishment either through lack of
baths or of teachers. Such practice
is particularly called for at the present
day, as a set-of against the 90 girls of
the period'' to indulge in those literary
and sedentary pursuits which are any
thing but favo! able to the development
of healthy physique.-MedicaI Press
and Circular.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
Haps and AIishaps.

AT Kokomo, Ind, Mrs. John John
son, colored, was fatally burned while
endeavoriDg to kindle fire with kero-
sene.
Near Marion, Ind, child of John
Webster fell against board and stuck
splinter into the brain through tine
right eye, causing fatal injuries.
Two boys and two girls, children of
Jacob Stieffie and Fred. Schwark, while
bathing in Lake Michigan, six miles west
of Michigan City, Ind, were drowned.
The house of Richard Toner, a
farmer living near Waseca, Mimi,
burned to the ground. Mr.. Toner, and
a neighbours child 10 years of age, stay
ing in the house, were suffocated in the
flames.
Seventeen threshers at work upon
the farm of John Miller, west of Urbana,
o., were poisoned by eating of pork sup
posed to have been affected with cholera.
1t was thought all would recover.
AT Laporte, Ind, the wife of Albert
Hudson attempted to commit suicide
Her husband married her because he
thought she was rich, and week after
ward, finding that she had no property,
he began to maltreat her, which drove
her TO desperation.
Near McConnellsville, o., the wife
of Samuel Thompson, during period of
temporary insanity, as is supposed, cut
her infants throat with butcher-knife
and then attempted to take her own life
in the Same manner There were SLIGHT
hopes of her recovery.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
A Universal Language.

Just now Paris is engaged with anoth-
er learned theme-and | forget how
many this makes to add to the dozens
commenced, finished and unfinished,
since the first of May. This last theme,
or rather present, for no one knows
when the last theme is to come, is on the
advantages of adopting language that
shall be one and universal. Some dis
comfort would be saved did such boon
exist. We should never realize the cha
grin that Charles Lever describes in one
of his characters by whose French he
was discovered TO be English and by
whose English he was discovered to be
Irish. We should be relieved of that
doctors Latin which is as puzzling as a
cooks French or curate's Hebrew, and
a Yankee editors English. When we
learn the number of languages in the
Old and New World comprise over 5000,
this oneness of French savans is very
desirable. We have 587 languages in
Europe, 937 in Asia and 1854 in Amer
lea, according to these polyglot reform
these there is much that is obscure and
illogical. 1t is now proposed that all
nations study and master one and the
same language. not necessarily to the
rejection of existing ones, but studied by
all, that language will be medium Of
thought between all. 1t is not to be q
language of literature, but for converse
ton. The basis is to be in the recog-
nized sounds of music known already to
ALL London Cor. Baltimore Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
A Busy, Brief Life.

Eight years ago, in small city on the
upper Wabash, one of the present COM
naonaOeGlth staff was accustomed to see
daily, passing to and from his employ
ment, a section repairer of the railway
telegraph line. He was young man,
twenty-four years of age, quiet habits
and unobtrusive manner, and apparent
" with a Flooding and uneventful
career before him. And yet, within
this brief period, his pen supplied the
English reading world with the COM
pletest and most graphic news OF all the
great events making the current history
of the civilized globe, and won him an
enviable reputation on two con-
tinents.
During this eight years he crossed the
desert of Khiva, chronicle the bloody
deeds of the French Commune, endured
the hardships of Polar expedition, post
ed the world on the Carlist campaign,
braved the terrors of the Asiatic desert,
followed the victorious Russians from
battle to battle, portrayed the unspeak-
able horrors of the Bulgarian massacres,
crossed the Balkans with Ghourko, was
in the front at Shipka Pass, wrote the
well remembered account of the strug-
gle over the Gravitcha redoubts, saw
the fall of Plevna, accompanied the
Russians to Canstantinopis and there
surrendered his young life, victim TO
disease. His experience in Khiva he
preserved to the world, in a volume I'M
der the title of campaigning in the
Oxus," while his adventures with the
North Polar expedition are embodied in
a book entitled "Under the Northern
Lights"
The hero of this busy, brief life was
Mr.. John A. MeGahan, newspaper cor
respondent, and at his death, was COR
respondent of the New York Herat5
and London Daily Nes0s.-T0peka
Commonwealth.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
School and Church.

MIR. w. w. Corcoran, of Washing
ton, has added to his many generous be-
quests to the University of Virginia one
of $4,000 to endow a new chair OF
Natural History.
The Worlds Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association at
Geneva, Switzerland, is reported to be
successful, and more than well attended
by delegates from America and the
Christian nations of Europe.
The Bishop of Manchester, England,
rebukes the clergymen who marry when
they have not "livings" that give them
fair support. He says that many
clergymen do not have meat as often as
farm-hands, and are glad to get cast off
clothing.
The oldest minister in the world is
believed to be the Rev. DIR. Ingram, of
INST Free Church, Shetland. He is over
100 years old. He has always been a
Rtal-abstinence man, and is said never
u have tasted intoxicating drink. He
has 8 son who has been 40 years in the
ministry.
The Rev. DIR. Lyman Coleman, of
Lafayette College. at Easton, Pa, is be-
lieved to be the Oldest college professor
in active service in America. He was
graduated at Yale in 1917, and is now in
his eighty-third year. With the excep-
ton of seven years employed in preach
ing, he has spent all his active life in
teaehing. He has travelled at intervals
and written several books
The Established Church of Scotland
in England is declining, and win soon
cease to have any existence. Its CON-
municants in London number only about
200, while those of the English Presby-
terrain Church number 10000. DR..
Cumming had only between 80 and 100
persons hearing him ON q late Sunday
morning, and yet be breaches with much
of his wonted eloquence and vigor.
The translation of the Bible into the
language of the Dakotas has been COM
pleted. DR.. Riggs, the venerable trans
lator, writes from Constantinople that
the preparation of the Turkish Bible for
the press is at last finished. The Old
Testament is printed both in the Arme-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
GENERAL.

Mackenzie's Mexican raid proved abortive
owing, 1t is said, to a portion Of the COM
mand being unable to cross the Rio Grahde
on account Of high water. An attempt was
made to corral the bandit Areols in the viii
lsge Of Newtown, but be succeeded in MAX
ing his escape. The American forces reach
ed home on the 18th.
Prof. Edison has carried off the Grand
Prize for inventions at the Paris Exposition,
awarded by the French Government, being
the highest honor which could be conferred
upon any exhibitor.
Prof. Sumner, of Yale, Horace White,
Charles Francis Adams, and other distin-
guished students of social science, have ap-
peared before Mr.. Hewitt's committee and
given their views Of the causes Of the pres
ent depression in business and financial
stripgenCy.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
Science and Industry.

Water absorbs its own volume of
carbonic acid gas.
"A strong glue is produced by adding
powdered chalk to common glue.
There is in the Paris Exhibition an
apparatus for cooking by means of the
heat of the sun.
The $4,000 fouring-mills of the
United States turn out annually 80, 000,-
600 barrels of flour, 100000 barrels of
which are exported. The annual
wages paid to employees amount to $780,
000,00
Last year p, 100000 pounds of to-
bacco and nearly 1000, 900, 900 of cigars
were smoked, snufed, and chewed in
this country, an increase of about s, O00,-
600 pounds of tobacco and $4,000, 600
cigars as compared with the year pre-
viouS.
In perfectly dry atmosphere the
durability of wood is almost unlimited.
Rafters of roofs are known to have ex-
listed 1000 years. and piles submerged
in fresh water have been found perfectly
sound 800 years from the period of their
being driven.
"A number of unemployed young
men in San Francisco have combined to
establish laundry in opposition to the
Chinese, who make laundry keeping one
of their chief industries. Some unoccu-
pied public buildings have been offered
them by the Common Council without
charge for their experiment.
Naxu 0yop.poro fov. ,o,ol
ucts turn up every day. The Pennsyl-
vania coal companies send coal to Italy
and sell it with profit at several dollars
less per ton than is paid by the Italian
iron founders for English coke, 10000
bushels of which are sent each year to
Mediterranean ports.
-Watermelons are looming up in the
near future as an important American
product. 1t is said that experiments in
California have shown that sugar can
be extracted from the melons at cost
of two cents per pound less than sugar
cane. Besides this, oil is made from the
seed and alcohol from the rind.
One of the most valuable and en-
couraging triumphs of our exhibitors at
the Paris Exposition, is that achieved
by the paper manufacturers. There are
27 American exhibitors in this line, 25
of whom have received awards, and they
have won four out of five of the gold
medals. The worlds prize for fine
writing paper was awarded to Byron
Weston of Massachusetts,. The result
will doubtless open up to our paper
manufacturers throughout the country
large and valuable foreign trade.
-Messrs. Eberstein, of Dresden, Sax
ony, have invented a walking-stick for
naturalists and tourists The handle
contains compass, microscope and
whistle. Beneath is thermometer on
one side and sand glass on the other,
also measure. Near the end is knife
blade, which, when opened, will serve
to clip off plants which are beyond
reach by hand. At the extreme end is
a spade (for botanists), a hammer (or
geologists), or a Ratchet (for glacier
A hollow il the stick is for
a bottle containing ether for killing Gu
rious insects.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
FOREIGN.

A Vienna dispatch of the Goth says that
the combined forces Of Gen. Phillipoyich
and Gen. Tegethoff, on the previous day,
after desperate fight in which many were
killed on both sides, succeeded in capturing
and occupying the town Of serajevo. 1t is
reported that the Bosnian insurrectionary
chief, Radji Lola, has ordered that every
Austrian officer captured be hanged.
Three men were killed and 81 wounded by
the police and soldiers in recent election
riots at Harburg, Germany.
The Dowager Queen Christina Of Spain
died on the 22d.
! Gen. Grant was banqueted at Vienna on
the oath by Minister Kasson.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
Uncle Remus as a Murderer.

Uncle Remus met officer Jarrel on
Broad Street yesterday.
g You amt hear talk er no dead Mig
ger nowhar dis mawnin', is you Mars
Willis?" asked the old man earnestly.
"No," replied the policeman reflect
lively. "No, | believe not Have you
heard of anyP"
Pears unto me dat / come mighty
nigh gittin' some news bout dat size,
and dat's wat I'm huntin' fer. Bekase
eff dey is foun' stray niger layin'
'roun' loose wild is BRET gone, den !
wanter 60 home an git my brekfus, an
put on UNI clean cloze, an liver myself
up ter wunner desc yer jestesses er de
peace, an git far trial"
"Why, have you killed any bodyP"
"Dat's W at I'm 'quirin' into now,
but | wouldn't be sustonished eff L amt
laid a Niger out somew' eres on de SUBJ
burbs. Hits done got so it's agin de
law fer ter bus loose an kill a niger,
amt it, Mars Willis?''
swell, 1 should say so. You don't
mean to tell me that you have killed a
colored man, do youP''
az spec is, Mars Willis. l spec |
done gone an done it dis time, sho.
Hits bin sorter CROWN on me, an it
come to head dis mawnin' less my
name amt Remus, an ..dat's wat dey bin
er CALM me sence wuz ole er huff fer
ter scratch myself wild my lef' ham,"
Well, if you've killed man, you'll
have some fun, sure enough. How was
it?''
Hit wuz dis way, Mars Willis: l
wuz layin' in my bed dis mawnin' sorter
rumenatin' 'roun', when de fus news
know'd | hear fuss 'mong de chick
ems, an den my brissels riz. l done
had lots er trouble wild dem chickens,
an wen hears wun un um squawl my
ve'y shoes cum omitted. So des sorter
riz up an reich fer my ole muskit, an
1 crope out er de back do, an waiter
you reckin seedP"
"I couldn't say
al seed the biggest, blacklist nigger
dat you ever laid eyes on. He shined
like de paint on i'm wuz fresh. He he'd
done grabbed fo'er my forwardes' pull
let's. / crope up nigh de do, an hol-
Tered an axed i'm how he wuz gittin'
on, an den he broke, an ez he broke /
jammed de gun in de small er his back
and banged aioose. He let yell like
forty yallar cats a courtin', and den he
broke. You never seed no niger hump
hisse'f like dat niger did. He tore
down de well shelter and TO- pannils er
fence an de groun look like wunner
doze yer harrycanes had lit dar and
famed up de earf''
. "Why, l thought you killed him?''
"He bleedzed ter be dead, Mars VIII
lis. Didn't ] put de gun right on to
imp could feel i'm give way wen she
went off,"
"Was the gun loadedp"
"Dat's wat my ole oman say. She
had de powder in dar sho, but disre-
member wedder l put de buckshot in,
er wedder L lef' UNI out. Leas' ways,
I'm gwineter call on wunner deze yer
jestisses. So-long, Mars Willis. At
ANITA Constitution.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29
CURRENT NEWS.


II is the intention OF the War Department
to expend upon Mississippi River improve
ments the entire amount appropriated By
Congress for that purpose.
The Mexican Minister IN Washington.
Senior Zamacona, does not believe there Is
any danger Of war. President Dlaz, he says,
is anxious TO maintain friendly relations
with the United States, and is doing all he
can 70 suppress lawlessness on the border
The National Republican states au-
thoritatiyely that voters in the Depart
ments viii be granted the usual leaves Of
absence to attend elections in their several
States; and further that the President has
contributed literally 10 the Republican
campaign fund, as has every member Of his
Cabinet.
The Sioux Commissioners recommend
that the Red Cloud Indians be removed 70
White Clay Creek and the Spotted Tail In
dians to Rosebud, and that the names OF
The agencies be changed to Ogallslla and
Rosebud.
Col. John S. Mosby has been rendered and
accepted the position of Consul at Canton,
China.
Ellis Spear, Patent Commissioner, has re-
signed, and Representative Halbert T.
Paine, of Wisconsin, is named as his sue.
cessor.
The President has appointed Henry Dith-
mar, Of New York, Consul at Breslau, Ger.
many. fEr - gE