The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-13
aENERALNEMS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Although women are now allowed tc
practice law in all the courts of Ohio
not one is permitted to act as a notary
public.
Texas expends from $3.50, 900 to 5000,
600 annually to support a battalion OF
state troops for the protection of its
frontier.
Quail are becoming scarcer in Oregon
every year, as sportsmen and trapper:
slaughter them indiscriminately at all
seasons.
Florida does not want her constitu-
tion amended, the legislature refusing,
by a decided vote, to call a convention
for that purpose.
A Providence machinist has made
1850, 900 worth of gold and silver mod
els of locomotives, ships, palace cars,
etc. The number is Sc.
A Georgia paper reports that on
south-bound trains two-thirds of the
passengers in most instances are people
of the North visiting the Sunny
South"
There IS a religious newspaper in
New York which has beaten the crowd
in the way Of business, for it offers to
every new subscriber =" a genuine even
shooter revolver
The example of Memphis is proving
infectious across the river in Ar
kansas, where, the countries are having
the legislature take away their corpor-
ate powers in order to avoid payment
of the bonds issued by them in aid of
railroads.
The Atlantic Ocean, IL 1t We're to be
drained, would be u vast plain with Il
mountain ridge in the middle running
parallel with our coast. Another
range crosses from Newfoundland to
Ireland on the top of which lies the
Geographic cable.
A horseshoe has recently been pat
ented, which is made in two parts, the
plate being attached to the hoof, and
the calks being detachable. Restocking,
in this case, means simply the removal
of the calks, which. when smithed,
can be replaced on the plate.
All the farmers in the vicinity OF
Sacramento are jubilant now over their
fine prospects. Farmers say they never
knew the rain to come in better shape
than it has during the past two weeks.
The English government is making a
sort of Botany Bay of this country,
sending hitler now and then such
troublesome fellows and criminals as it
does not dare to make more summary
disposition Of.
A court in Kentucky has recently
fined a man $500 for sending n chal-
lenge to fight a duel.
A Jewess and an Irish girl are man.
aging a shoe-shop i'll Cincinnati, and
are managing it well.
From the time the average minister
is ordained until he dies he breaches, it
is estimated, 1900 m
From 10000 to 10000 acres will be
seeded to wheat in San Fernando val
ley, Los Angeles county, Cal, this sea-
son.
There is u small community of Nor
mons in Paris.
Edward Kimball is still raising
church debts. He raised q church at
Lynn, Mass, out of a difficulty amount
ing to s45, 900 the other day.
There are published in Sweden 300
papers and periodicals., of which 81 APP
pear in Stockholm. There are only ten
daily papers, of which five are publish
ed in Stockholm; while in Norway
there are 15, in Denmark 81, and in
Finland 6.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the Tribune,
will be the orator and George Alfred
Townsend the poet at the 23d annual
convention of the New York Press as
~sociation, which will be held in Roch.
ester during the third week in June.
One of the meanest indignities put
upon Mr.. Angel was giving him a
ready-made suit Of clothes, instead OF
taking his measure and making him a
suit to order.