The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-01

VOL. XII.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the 4 per cent. loa
$4,000.
BY the way, Mr.. President, wha
about that mission to Berllnr
TIE Californians say it Is question
of which shall go-they or the Chi
nese.
A SAINT Is in the Indiana legisla
ture. and Illinois now has an Angel IL
her penitentiary.
1T is said Ex-Governor Palmer doe
not banker to be vice president. III
desires the hrSt place.
THE Russians have taken measures
TO frustrate the design Of the Bulgari
ans to burn Adrianople.
as Friday Secretary Sherman in
AZ ted 0llector Beard, of Boston, to
forbid the hnding of neat cattle from
England.
DIT. CoRBrS. contestant during fh'
past two years for a seat in the Unitet
States senate from South Carolina, hal
withdrawn from the contest.
THE house has non concurred in the
senate amendment to the postoftice ap
propriation bill, providing for steam
ship mail communication with Brazil
THE Russian forces occupied Arab
Tabia the second day after the R0uma.
nian evacuation, and are dismantling
It in accordance with the treaty Of Ber.
lin.
AN item OF $40, 900 has been inserted
in the sundry civil service bill to pay
D. T. Corbin's expenses in contesting
for his seat In the senate, from South
Carolina.
MEMPHIS Is said to be in an admir-
able condition to invite the plague Oh
the yellow fever. Bayou Gayoso, into
which the filth of the city is poured, Z
as foul as ever before.
THE leading democrats in Washing
ton are reported as troubled about Til
den, feeling that he will push himself
on the party, whether or no, and cause
an internal quarrel of alarming dimen.
sions.
THE mayor of Sheffield, England,
states that in one district of that town
there are 1900 persons destitute, and
400 families actually starving. The re-
lief fund, except about f800, has been
expended.
THE brother of Lord Beaconsfield,
Ralph Disraeli, Is an old man, living in
obscurity. He strolls about the gar
deus with u book in his hand. He goes
into no society, and is never among the
list of guests at Beaconsfeld's house
THIS is what Dom Piatt got thrashed
for writing: Like Billy McGarrahan,
the Comanches are bow-legged. Their
crookedness is not confined to their
lower extremities to any greater extent
than sweet Williams, but, like the
same, it traverses throughout their en-
tire person."
THE Augusta iGa.) Chronicle says
that the Independents of that state
will run q candidate for governor in
1880, and that Toombs would be sure
Of the nomination but for the fear that
he cannot secure the negro vote, on
which the independents largely de-
pend.
AT special meeting of the mem
bers of the Montreal corn exchange on
Friday, a resolution was passed by a
large majority, protesting against the
contemplated protective duty on bread
stuffs, and expressing an earnest hope
that United States grain would be adj
mitted free as heretofore.
The Indiana Bourbons are not in
the pay of the republican party, but
they are doing all they can to make the
state republican. They are showing
their true character in the legislature,
and will succeed in opening the eyes OF
the people to the danger OF trying ex-
periments with democrats.
CONGRESS has appropriated S27, ,O0O,-
900 for the first installment of pension
arrearages. This amount will be dis
tributed over the different states
through the different pension agencies.
1t is estimated among the list, that
Colorado, Kansas and Missouri will re-
ceiye through the st. Louis agency 81
10000.
THE motion of Sir George Campbell,
In the house of commons, that a strict
prohibition Of the Importation of cat
tie from the United States is calculated
to destroy an important trade, and de
prive England of the advantage Of