The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-06
GENERAL ITEMS.


Brunswick bar, Georgia.
The almost solidly democratic house
Of the Alabama legislature has elected
a colored chaplain.
Judge Fleming, of Georgia, the sue
eessor of the late Congressman Hart
ridge, is seventy-four years old.
The postmaster at Arrow, Grundy
cornty, Iowa, draws sixty cents salary
every three months.
He saw a negro smoking a new meer-
schaum. ..Thunderl" he exclaimed;
why, the pipes coloring himl''
The constitutional convention of
Louisiana will meet April 21st, and be
in session sixty days, at a cost of s40,-
O00.
Chokichi Kikkawa, a Japanese stu
dent, has just carried off three medals
at the annual exhibition of the Chaun-
cey hall school, Boston.
Aunt Dorothy wants to know if bill
lizard matches are any better for home
use than the old fashioned ones.
A young lady, aged thirteen, was
married the other day at Consecon,
Canada, to a bridegroom of twenty
eight.
Anna Dickinson on marriage: "If
you can help it, DON'T" And the ma
jority of women taking this advice,
don't-help it.
Madame Anderson. who has been
walking in Pittsburgh, "a fined S25
by the mayor for walking on Sunday.
She has gone to Chicago.
There are eight murderers in the
Little Rock jail, and they don't exactly
know whether to buy some rope or en-
large the Jail.
=Oil City, Pennsylvania, is in a rapid
decline. There was but n solitary
transaction in Oil City the other day at
the exchange.
A little girl, attending a poultry
show, cried bitterly because she was
not permitted to take home q peacock
for a mantel ornament.
The ice men in and about Boston
have harvested the biggest and best
crop for many years. Nearly a million
tons have been slowed away.
Last year 3,606, 465 cigars and $500
cigarettes were made in Maine, con-
Stunning s9,s14 pounds of tobacco, while
S20,S32 worth of revenue stamps were
used.
The Victoria parliament proposes
spending S25O,000 a year in supplying
gratis as u supplement to the daily pa
pers a verbatim report of the proceed
ings.
A Chattanooga darkey, who was one
of a jury which failed to convict for
want of evidence, explained to his
brethren that the culprit was released
on s'picion."
Smother" said a little square-built
urchin about five years old, ''wby can't
the teacher make me monitor some
times? l can lick every boy insmy class
but one.;
Mary Anderson chews gum, but she
does it with a tragic intensity and an
artistic dramatic action that is scarce
ly equalled by any other gumcliewer in
this country.
A novelty in the export line at Bos-
ton was the sending out last week of
800 kegs of horse-shoes for the use of
certain London, Liverpool and Cork
omnibus lines.
English hams, prepared at a cost of
from ten to fifteen cents per pound
more than ours, find a ready sale, and
are preferred to American hams in the
Brazilian market.
Newfoundland dog at Ridgewood,
N. j., seized a little child by its clothes
and dragged it from the railroad track
Just in time to prevent it from being
killed by Il passing train.
Judge Hilton is fitting up a tea room
in the basement of the Stewart store,
in New York, to which the clerks have
access from two till four. They can
drink all the tea they want gratis.
A cockpit was raided at Pittsburgh
one night last week, and two hundred
men and boys were arrested MS partlcl-
pants. Six councilmen and one alder
man, who were present, escaped.
At a ball in Washington the other
evening Senator Hannibal Hamlin
danced every quadrille and %lancers, and
went through a polka. The old Penob-
scot warrior is just as young as he used
to lie.
A Touching Death Bed ems.
o II I had only received Il before. am
| confident IL would have cured me- These
Impressive words Were spolken by, q gentLe'
man in the last stages OF VINO
on his death bed had received a bottle Q,
| Hale's Honey OF Horehound and Tar, nn9
bad taken only a part Of II, when ne ion ns'
he could breathe with almost perfect ease'
| his cough had left him. but not having CON
menced the article in time, his conslltutl
was broken, and he had not sn,neen'