The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-09
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Gen. Garfield at home has four horses
two gray and two blaek-eight fine
black pigs, an orchard Of sour apples, q
big patch Of Dutch drumhead cabbages
and a field Of elegant turnips. II may
be interesting to readers of campaign
literature to add that two colored ladies
ofieiate in the washhouse, aud that the
general plays croquet with his secretary
and his telegraph operator on the lawn.
The daughter Of an English clergy
nan 1--WE years ago dashed into the sea
aud saved the lives Of two "women of
high position"-Edmund Yates can
hardly, under the circumstances, cal
them ladies-and they left their pre-
server exhausted ard senseless on the
beach without even inquiring her name.
The young Lady has been i'll ever since,
is poor and friendless, and almost dy-
ing. She has neyer heard of the people
whose lives she saved.
President Hayes was asked TO fill a
vacancy in the army by appointing a
young man whose great great grand
father was u naval officer during the
revolutionary war, whose great grand
father was a gallant soldier Of the army
and whose father was a distinguished
ex-army officer. The president, says the
Washington Star, responded with n
merry chuckle, ''Don't you think it
about time that one Of that family
earned a living for HIMSELF"
Max Maretzek tells the Cincinnati
people that society pieces, freaks, farces
and empty nonsense have made the
American stage degenerate, because
they draw full houses. Local opera
houses, he thinks, will in the long run
bring native composers. There is a
difference between the ring OF gold and
the ring Of silver, and American voices
have the Italian timJre, says Maretzek.
In twenty years the opera will be nat
uralized here, but now things are very
bad.
The Bangor County Court recently
gave judgement in an application made
On behalf Of Lady Willoughby d'Eresby,
to declare the signboard of the Royal
Oak Hotel to be her property as the
owner Of the house +, as against the
claim Of the trustees OF Miss Themes,
the late landlady who filed a petition
for liquidation by arrangement. The
signboard in question possesses some
historical interest as being the work Of
David Cox , and was fixed to the outer
wall OF the hotel a S signboard , being
retouched by the painter in 1s49. In
1866 it was removed to one Of the sit
ting-rooms and subsequently fastened
to the wall OF the hall and had re-
manned in that position fourteen years.
The Court held that the whole history
of the signboard showed that it was a
fixture belonging to the house, and not
to the debtor. While granting the
costs Of the application out of the estate
he should allow only two thirds of the
costs Of the voluminous afiidavits which
nau been nleu.
Apropos OF the political situation is
the following, one OF President Lin
coins stories, which has been out of
print for years. In n OF his speeches
he said:
l once knew n good, sound church,
man, whom we will call Brown, who
was on a committee TO erect n bridge
over n very rapid and dangerous stream.
Architect after architect failed, and at
last Brown said he had q friend named
Jones who had built several bridges and
could build this.
Let's have him in," said the com.
mittee, and In came Jones.
"Can you build this bridge, sir?"
lueried they.
YES" came the answer. 81 could
build n bridge to the internal regions,
IL necessary"
The sober committee were Mortified,
and, when Jones retired, Brown thought
it but fair that he should defend his
friend. ~ know Jones so well," said
he, land he is so honest a man, and SO
good an architect, that II he states So
berly and positively that he a build n
bridge to Hades, why l believe him.
But l have my doubts about the abut-
ments on the internal side."
'.Just So" added Lincoln, "do l
believe those politicians who say they
can harmonic the northern and south
ern wings of the democracy. | can't
help having my doubts about the abut-
ments on the southern side."