The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-11
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

William H. Vanderbilt employs 81,
FOG men.
Adelina Patti is SO years old; Carl
otta Patti-Munck, SO; Nilsson, 80.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett paid $50,
600 for the Sydney Brooks villa at New
port.
Frank Murphy, the temperate,
apostle, has planned a European cam
paign.
President Lincoln used to say thai
Charles Summer was just his idea of
bishop.
Nordenskjold, the arctic explorer
demonstrated the fact of a northeas,
passage.
Senator Wade Hampton thinks John
Sherman will be the republican NOMINEES
for president. lIA.
Judge Key having gone to Tennessee,
First Assistant Postmaster Tyner i:
acting postmaster general.
DR.. Book, of Leipsic, says that the
nervousness of our times is chiefly at.
tributable to tea and coffee.
The emperor and crown prince ap-
prove the project for an international
exhibition at Berlin in 1885.
Beecher confessed to the Vermont
farmers that he would starve if he was
4 o1I;nal 20 o0nGna his afforfo
There is a movement on foot on foot
in Washington to create the new office
of captain general of the army, for be-
stowal on General Grant.
Mr.. Carlyle has signiHed his wish to
be buried quietly in the choir Of the old
cathedral at Haddington where he buri-
ed his wife twelve years ago.
Rudolph A. Leimer, cashier of the
Kansas Pacific railway express, invest
ed $3.50 in a pool to develop a mine,
and has now received $4,000 for his
share.
General. Conway is to publish a month
ly journal in the interest of colored en-
igrants from the south. It will be
painted in Vineland, but dated WASH
ington.
Mr.. Kraetke, the post inspector of
the German empire, is engaged in max
ing an examination at the New York
post office of the postal system Of the
United States.
That branch of the greatand ubiquit-
ous Smith family which traces its source
to Holland had a reunion at Peapack,
N. j., on Wednesday. There were 81
900 Of them on hand.
The London Standard believes the
Duke Of Edinburgh will become ad-
miral superindent of the naval reserves,
to succeed Rear Admiral Phillimore,
whose term has expired.
The return of Mark Twain from Eu-
rope was one of the sensations in We'd
nesday's New York papers. He has
the manuscript of a new book, ready
for the printer, but refuses to tell what
it is all about.
Horatio Seymour walks through the
streets Of Utica with a swinging gait,
with short black trowsers and with
heavy-soled boots. He is generally liked
there for his good manners and DISPOSE
ton, but is thought to be rather close
in money matters.
William Trego, of Detroit, has paint
ed a large picture of a cavalry engage
ment at Winchester, Va, which was
participated in by Custer on the 10th of
September, 1868. He has devoted a
full year to the task, and has, SO it is
said, produced a picture of great excel
lence. =
One day when General Garfield was
busily engaged at his desk in the house
of representatives, numerous cards
were sent to him. He became impatient
and told the messenger that he should
not receive, any more, as his time was
engaged. "Well," said the messenger,
''the gentleman that sent you this card
said he desired you to look at it." Gar
field did so, when he saw upon it this:
1.-THE man that sold you Bill" The
General says, 81 vacated my seat long
enough to see that man, and l would
go some distance to see him again."
Bill was General Garfeld's war-horse
throughout the war.