The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-13
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OF the 81, OOo, 900 of inhabitants Of
Italy $4,000, 900 can neither read nor
write.
The Empress Of Austria cut short
her hunting bout in Ireland on account
of the disaster at Szegedin.
A young man at Wandsworth, Eng,
recently accidentally shot and killed
his mother, while showing her a loaded
revolver.
The electric light has been found a
valuable accessory for surgical opera
tion in dull weather and after dark,
but it is also an expensive one.
Mary Anne Tichborne, alias Orion,
wife of Roger Tichborne, alias Orion,
was recently fined 8 shilliugs for not
sending her daughter to school.
An English missionary named Pen
rose is supposed to have been murder
ed, with his entire party, by the natives
in the region of Victoria Nyanza.
William Broadhead, who died re-
Gently at Sheffield, obtained an unsavory
notoriety some years ago as the insti-
gator of trades-union outrages of the
most fragrant kind.
Two clerks of the London and West
minister Bank, the most important of
the joint stock banks of London, have
been held for trial for embezzling funds
Of the institution.
There is said to be much dissatis-
faction among thes Cardinals resident
at Rome on account of the number of
foreign Cardinals proposed to be made
at the Consistory on the Goth of May.
The people in the interior of Bolivia
are suffering from famine, and an Oruro
correspondent of the South Pacific Times
says that the people have been dying OF
starvation in large numbers.
A former French Deputy for Neu-
chatel, who shot and killed a man in
his own house, was recently acquitted
on the ground that he was so drunk
that he didn't know what he was
about.
Mr.. Mndford, who was made the
irremovable editor of the London Stand-
ard by the will of the late proprietor,
was a few years ago a reporter in the
gallery of of the House of Commons.
The:grand prize of tn French Acader Y
for poe.ry has been adjudged to a young
Communistic refugee, NJ. Renard, now
a Professor in Louisiana, for a compost
ton entitled "La Poesie de la Science"
DR.. Butt, during his recent illness,
is said to have been unconscious for
three weeks, except in moments of de-
lirium. During one of these intervals
he delivered a fervid speech to an i'm
aginary House of Commons.
Mark Twain left his ''studies" in
Germany to attend Frank Millet's we'd
ding in Paris. His wedding present
was a couple of logs of irewood bound
together with pink silk, which he said
was the costliest thing he could find in
Paris.
The accounts Of the French Exhibit
tion of 1867 have just been settled, and
show a surplus of 55,So5, francs to be
divided between the state, the munich
pality and the subscribers. The latter
are entitled to / franc 70 centimes per
share.
Some aristocratic English Catholics
recently held a meeting, presided yer
by the Duke of Norfolk, at which, on
motion of the Marquis of Ripon, a COM
mittee was appointed to raise a fund
to be presented to DR.. Newman on oc-
casion of his appointment as a Cardinal.
Antonio Link, for several years a
very popular actress in Vienna, has
left the stage to marry Herr Dessauer,
Director of the Credit Bank. She is a
Jewess, and the daughter of a shoe
maker, and went on the stage with the
avowed purpose of making a good
match, in which she has succeeded.
According to the marriage treaty,
the Duches Connaught is to have ST.
500 yearly fer her own sole and separate
use, and if she becomes a widow, she is
then to have an annual allowance of
100000. On the other hand, she brings
a dowry, guaranteed by the Emperor Of
Germany, of 100000 marks. She re-
nounces in favor of the male line of the
| Royal Prussian Margravien- Brandon
burg family all contingent here ditary
rights thereto appertaining.