The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-07
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

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Politics are beginning to boom some
So are oysters.
War and famine abroad, peace and
plenty at home.
The English pedestrians are on the
move for New York.
Jerome Napoleon and Charles Bon.
aparate are both ut Newport.
Senator Thurman is fond of casino,
and will play at it all night. Senator
Bayard's weakness is fast horsefesh.
Mrs. Higginson, a sister of Professor
Agassiz, has twenty-five k~indergartens
under her charge at Boston.
Miss Nelson is playing Juliet in Lon
don, and Olive Logan calls her "a YER
satile piece of human loneliness in
claret.n
Hanlan has won S23, 900 since 1878,
and his bar-room at Toronto clears him
$500 per week. Courtney is compar-
atively poor.
Fitz-John Porter writes that he will
go to Washington early next winter
to urge upon congress his restoration to
active duty.
The Emperor William, on leaving
the German watering place Gastein,
presented its burgomaster with a costly
diamond ring.
Ex-senator A. G. Cattell, who was
one Of the travelling companions of
General Grant, has reached his Jersey
home from Europe.
Captain 1. Grant Thompson, origin
ator and editor of the Albany Latc
Journal, died Of diphtheria Friday
night at Saratoga Springs.
There is talk in Paris Of the marriage
of Don Philippe de Bourbon, second
son of the Comte d. Aquila, to a young
American lady now living in that city.
1t is reported that when his term ex-
pires Senator Bruce, of Mississippi,
will settle in Kansas. To this end he
has recently purchased 10000 acres Of
land there.
The late Sir Rowland Hill. the father
of the penny-postage' system, had the
largest and most complete collection of
stamps in the world. 1t is valued at So
600, but he esteemed it beyond all price.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in spite
of his 20 years, is necessarily busy; he
writes as much as eve and is as inter
ested in his duties at the medical school.
1t is limited that he intends to publish
another volume.
Major Fred Nichols, Of the Memphis
Aralanche, is the only member. Of the
staff who has fed from the city. He
edits, sets type and prints the paper
without assistance. He alone stood to
his post during last years. epidemic.
In the opinion of the Louisville
Courier-Journal Lord Dufferin is a
cooler and stronger man than the au-
thor of "Clytemnestra, !" lathe Wander
err and "Lucille." He seems to be
the man that Great Britain needs at
this juncture at Calcutta.
Mrs. Mary Quantril, the old lady
who waved the stars and stripes in
Stonewall Jackson's face in Frederick,
Md, and who was immortalized by
Whittier as Barbara Fritchie, died the
other day in Washington, which she
had made her home for some years.
Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens, having
been asked about his book, 1.-THE War
Between the States" replied: 81 wrote
it with a view Of having the facts as
they were truthfully stated, and with
out any pecuniary view. Ihave receiv-
ed, however, S35, 900 as my royalty on
the sale, or 25 cents a volume.n
George w. Adams, who has for twen-
ty years been a Washington correspon-
dent, has resigned his position at the
head of the New York World bureau,
Washington, to take the position of
president of the Euening Star company.
MI. Adams has represented the World
at Washington ever since its establish
ment.
Mrs. Sherman, the wife of the secre-
tary, was, before her marriage, Miss
Cecilia Stewart, the daughter of Judge
Stewart, who went to Ohio from West |
ern Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sherman Is
very fond of her farm home near Mans
field, and spends much time among her
fruit trees and gardens, driving about
nearly every day with quantities of veg
etables, fruits and other things, which
she distributes among the poor. Her
house in Mansfield is a pretty, comfort
able one, surrounded by trees and own
ing a porch on which the secretary de-
lights to sit on summer evenings and
talk with a group of friends about him,
his hat On the back of his head and an
excellent cigar not far away.
Wanted the Insurance.
j. w. Hillman, a merchant of Law
renee, Kansas, last December insured