The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-27
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Eighty-three murdorers, all men, wera
hnaged in the United States in ISL.

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past four years, lost $500, 0O0, 900 by engas
ing in strikes.
Colorado College has had scvent,
students the past year from sixteen States
Canada, and England. There are thrc,
professors and one tutor. The term beguI
Ian. ..
Mr.. L. s.. Murad is now lecturiug o,
The Present Condition of the East" An,
person desiring his services can OBTAIN then
by addressing IS MacDougal street, New
York.
If you are always finding fault with othc
people, you may be sure that there is
good opportunity for some one to find fauI
with you. You can't attend to other folks
gardens without letting your own run t,
weeds.
Mr.. Spurgeun the other day, in an ad
dress to students concerning their preaching
said: LET your sermon be full o.
sound matter. You do not need to give F.,
corn-feld every time but you can give q
loaf of bread"
The royal astronomer at Greenwich
England, has figured up the transit of Venui
calculations handed in by the English oh.
servers, and makes out the distance from
the sun to tho earth to be 90, 375, 900 miles
The figuring from France and America has
yet to appear, and it is thought TINT it will
prove more accurate. Up to the time o.
the transit, the best methods pointed ou'
the distance to be 90, 900 miles.
French smallpox patient lately escaped
from his room, which an attendant had left
for n few minutes. and rushed out into the
night. In his delirium he ran frantically
across the country, plunged into water, anc
was at length discovered lying apparently
exhausted but from that moment he begar
rapidly to recover. The doctor says that
his prescription will now be in such cases.
take a walk.
At n reception given DIR. McCosh by In,
graduates at Princeton College residing il
Chicago, he said that in the last nine year.
81, 800, 900 had been given to the institution.
The number of students has increased from
$50 to 800, and that of professors from II t.
He has been enabled to establish fellow
ships, permitting a few of the most zealou,
students to spend an additional year of study
at Princeton, Oxford, Berlin, or elsewhere
but always responsible to the home faculty
Russia has to contend with famine
Dearth IL reported to prevail to a serious
extent in the province of Kazan in Easter
Russia, the province lying to the northwest
of and adjacent to the province of Samara
which suffered so disastrously from famine
u short time ago. The city of Kazan is
said to be crowded with famine-stricken
persons who have flocked into it in search
of food, and the peasantry in the outlying
districts are reduced to great straits. An
Imperial Commission has been appointed to
organize the means of relief.
The Pennsylvania Municipal Commission
has reported n plan for the government OF
cities. 1t is proposed to establish five classes
of cities, according to size, with n modified
charter for each class. In every large city
there is to be a Common Council with two
branches and legislative powers, n Mayor as
an executive, and seven departments. The
important feature in the plan is a positive
prohibition of the borrowing of money by
the city, except for unforeseen emergencies.
and then only OF n three fourths vote OF
the Councils, the loan not to extend beyond
the termination of the fiscal year.
A material called I" Indestructible glass
has been patented in France, and the pat
uses it for making printing types
hat have been introduced into practica
use among his countrymen in Germany.
and elsewhere. They are said to be pre-
ferable to metal types i'll many respects, Gnt
in no respect inferior to them. They art
cast in the same mould, and make an equal
ly clear and defined impression. They
suffer less from wear, cost less, and art
healthier for the compositors to handle.
Elder Evans, the head of the New Leban.
on Shakers, publishes n protest against any.
body being prosecuted for blasphemy. ~
under the IMPRESSION" he says, tina
his was not a Christian, but an American
nation, where the Mohammedan, the Hin
doc, the Jew. and Quaker had equal right
to their opinion. The recent earthquake
not more surely Indicate the existence OF
hidden forces in the earth that we cannot
than the arrest of one of our revereG
for blasphemy betokens the fact
that the church has already the control o.
the United States Government"
While the newspapers of the East are
describing the deeds of men who wrestle
with bears, who dance for twelve conscc.
utive hours, and who perform other feats Of
skill and endurance, those of the West
chronicle the exploits of n more practical
nature. Here is one Weedman. of Louis
berg. Ky, who has husked one hundred and
five bushels of corn in seven hours a Nevada
hunter who has killed two hundred auG
seventeen mountain deer; and a Pacific
railway engineer who hasn't missed Il trip
since The road was opened-with the cord.
wood choppers and the muskrat catchcrs
yet to be Heard from.
4 lady in n Paris street car got into
conversation one day last month with an
attractive young man, who vas reading a
book with apparently deep interest. Pres.
emily he pointed out to her n particularly
pleasing passage and insisted on her reading
il. and then rising, said, "Oh, pray keep
the book. I've quite done with it, - prepared
to leave the car. Fortunately n man with
blue spectacles had unobserved, watched
the young man very closely. and called out
to the conductor: Stop that fellow, he's
n thief" A search at the police office
revealed the lady's portemOnnaie and Il heap
of articles evidently the result of this lit
erary ruse.
Great doubts have often been thrown on
alleged case of burial alive, but the London
LuHret mentions n recent most undoubted
case at Naples. The grave in which a
woman had been inferred having beer
opened for the reception of another body
revealed the ~clearest proof of this dreadful
circumstance. The poor creature had tom
her clothes to pieces and even fractured heI
limbs in her efforts to release herself. The
doctor who signed the certificate and the
municipal officer Ii sanctioned the inter,
ment have been sent to Jail for three
months for involuntary manslaughter."
Few people nave an idea of the immense
business carried on in the manufacture OF
trunks, travelling bags, ~valises, &c. 4
short time since, n reporter of the WdHu
f%dcturer'S Guide visited the factory oil
Edward Simon e Bros, Newark, n. J. Tn,
works of this mammoth concern occupy Il
space of twenty-eight city lots, filled witt
buildings and material. 1t employs general
a force of 500 hands. In one article il
manufactures, that of iron alone, at least