The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-31

eaess OF his Death. Il Is quite likely that had
p lived another year, he wouh have been
fut on trial for his life. The confession Of
bee, ~inculpating Brigham in the Mountain
psadow Massacre and other crimes, vas fast
lelns sersngthened by other evidence. BIS
pnusnos with his own people was rapidly
fanins, The enmity of the Utah Gentiles was
Fowing more aggressive, and the day of
et1buaon was plainly drawing near. Very
kely the keen perception of the veteran
pormon enabled him to see thnt he could not
Ping hold justice at bay, and 1t may be that
Hs forebodings Of evil hastened his end.
However this may be, the timely death of
Brigham will shut.out any investigation into
ne crimes alleged against him, and since
hese allegations cannot be judicially main
aimed, we can view the life of the great
Mormon prophet only in the light of a sue.
Iessful leader. That he was endowed with
emarkable qualities as a leader there can be
20 question. His personal magnetism, his
ndomitable will and his well-tried courage,
aused twelve thousand people to follow him
thousand miles through a trackless waste as
Hu Of trust n confidence as were the
IMaelites under the leadership of Moses.
Brigham Young had a strange combination
u qualities. He was selfish, cruel, unscrupu-
Gus and hypocritical but he was a thorough
organizer, an excellent manager, q keen bust
k~~ $1,000 o0A pOpulhE ltdutT.
The history of the growth and expansion of
he Mormon community, under his leader
hip, is truly marvellous. From the smallest
possible beginning it has become a great,
powerful and rich body. Young was the
brains and heart of it all, and the probability
sthat with his death disintegration will rap
dly set in. It certainly can have no perma-
aency, for it is founded in wickedness. 1t
aas reached its present status through the
Eenius of one man, and with the death of
hat man the cohesive force of the whole in
luitous system of Normonism will naturally
!ose its power.
Several months ago Gen. Gordon and
Col. r.. A. Aston, of Atlanta, Ga, while
Walking down Pennsylvania Avenue, Wash
ngton, noticed.a crowd standing on the side
walk, and,discovered q portable stand, upon
which q speculative group of canary birds
we're telling the fortunes of the bystanders.
4 stranger would give one of the birds a
aickel. The bird would then hop of to a
baeket near by, and pick up little envelope
n his bill and carryft to,the customer. Gen.
Gordon handed the wisest Hooking canary he
could see a nickel, and awaited the result.
The bird returned with an envelope, which
The Senator opened. 1t announced that the
Senator talked too much, had five children.
md would live to be eighty-ive years of age"
Col. Aston determined to have his fortune
old. The first clause was this ''You invite
90 many people to your house many of
hose you invite are not your friends" The
printed slip went on to recite that the Colonel
would in q short time receive a large sum OF
money as an. inheritance, INT that it would
be the basis on which he would build q defin
te prosperity. He folded the scrap of paper
N his pocket and went to Wizards, where he
net Judge Lochrane. On showing the paper
70 this gentleman, he was interrupted by the
exclamation why, my dear sir, your for
tune is already left you. 1 saw this very day,
in a Newspaper, that John E. Aston, of
Brooklyn, had died, and bad left a fortune of
,bout $500, 900 to be divided among his heirs
md relatives in the South" A day or two
afterwards Attorney General Devens asked
him if he was any kin to John E.. Aston, of
Brooklyn, remarking that the gentleman had
eft q large fortune to be divided among his
family. Col. Aston replied that he was not
10 lucky and soon aftersardwent to Georgia.
A few days ago, however, he received a
printed copy of the;will, addressed to him as
one Of the heirs of the estate. The will be-
queathed various amounts to special heirs,
and the balance, amounting to $197, 900, to
the heirs in Georgia and South Carolina
through the agency of Albert Glover. Col.
Aston may have as much as $50, 600 from
this inheritance and the sagacity of the clar-
yoyant canary is indicated.
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-'Leonanie" has been put to bed by the
sditor Of The Rokono Tribune. The author
Of this ridiculous poem is said to be ]. W.
Riley, Of Anderson, Ind. After writing and
rewriting the verses and initiating Poe's
style as closely as he could, he determined to
bring them out under the eccentric poets
name, n after all the world had read and
admired them, to claim them as his W and
become famous. The fokomo Dispdtoh pub
dshed the verses, and stoutly asserted that
Poe had written them, r%eciting ingenuously
the circumstance under which they were
found in a fy-leaf of IN old book. Al East
I'm publisher requested the editor to send to
him the original manuscript, as he was fami-
bar with Poe's handwriting. 1t is charged
that young Riley hired an expert penman to
.ranscribe the poem on the fy-leaf of an old
sopy of Ainsworth's Dictionary. A recent
number of Scri6ner's contained thefac-simile
Of the poets handwriting. and this was taken
rs a model. The book was then sent East.
II these charges are well founded a shallow
hoax has been developed into a contemplate
fraud. The ingenious author of the Rowley
manuscripts was found out at last, and this
dull imitator of Poe could not expect any
better luck. Chatterton was a poet, how
aver, and embalmed a dead mans name with
bis genius. Riley is simply an ass.
Spice from the Boston Commercial Bulletin