The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-05-08
GENERAL NOTES.

VIII. vANDERBILr,s new steam yacht viii
cost $4,000.
JOHN ROSE was tarred and feathered on his
wedding night at Lewis, KY, because his
bride was his niece.
BRET HARTE has been accorded the privi-
leges of the Reform Club of London for a
month under the rule which admits distin-
guished strangers to the privileges OF the Club
for that period.
THY four weeks old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Downs, of Bear Lake, Erie County, Pa, meas
ures but four and a half inches In length, and
weighs two and a half pounds. Its head will
go into common wine-glass. Yet the child
is a perfect one.
EDWIN RoorH's birthplace, a brick house In
the English style at Havre de Grace, Nd, has
been bought by Mr.. Kyle, OF Baltimore. A
large tree, In the boughs Of which young Ed
win sat while reading and declaiming, still
stands in front of the house.
CoNsUELo, VIscoUNrEss VAUDEVILLE, while
canvass1ng theoretically for her husbands
election, recently, was tod by rough that
"they didn't come there to hear girls talk.
Lady Vaudeville, 1T is reported, was not at all
abashed "Come, come" she said, "give US a
chancel THIS Is leap year; and If we don't
talk now, we never shall again"
COLONEL GEORGE F. B. LEIGHTON, Norfolk,
Va, Is one of the largest strawberry and fruit
growers In the country. His pear orchard
numbers 5000 trees. Since his retirement from
the Confederate army in 1855, he has devoted
himself to fruit culture, in which he has been
highly successful. He Is an active and prom
inent member of the American Pathological
Society.
A FoUR-YEAR- OLD girl lately made the jour
ney across the continent TO San Francisco
alone. She was a self-reliant little traveller,
and was in clined to resent any intimation that
she could not care for herself. She was, how
ever, taken in charge by the conductors, In
accordance with request written on her
ticket Her mother had died in the East, and
she sought her father.
Miss CHARLOTTE MARY YoNGE, the author,
Is now fifty-seven years old. She Is woman
devoted to religious work. The profits OF her
book, the "Daisy Chain, amounting to $4,000,
she used In building a missionary college at
Auckland. ". H., while large portion of those
derived from 1.-The Heir OF Redclyffe" went to
the equipment of the late Bishop Selwyn's
missionary schooner, the southern Cross"
"I AM told, ;" said Mr. Gladstone to Mr.. Sam
Ward one evening at Dalmeny after a day of
great oratorical conflict, "that you have in
your country a man who can play on harp
OF thousand strings." .'I es," was the reply,
"but have listened to q man to-day IN this
country who can play upon a harp Of ten
thousand strings" Mr.. Gladstone is under
stood to have been pleased with the compli
ment.
THE report that Rev. Ezra d. wiuslow, the
fugitive Boston forger, Is living at Buenos
Ayres Is confirmed. His assumed name is
Daniel Warren Lowe, and he lately married n
Miss Clark, aged sixteen, though he has wife
In Boston. He became an active member of a
Protestant church aud superintendent of its
Sunday school, soon after his arrival In Buenos
Ayres, but was expelled when his identity Was
established.
A COTTONWOOD tree believed to be over $50
years old was recently cut down in front of
one Of the hotels In Denver, Col. Under this
tree was held the trial OF Moses Young, Ger
man, who committed the first murder In Dem
YER. The jury convicted him, and he was
taken to the cabin of the Sheriff. At day break
posse of men took Young from the cabin
and hanged him to a branch OF the cotton.
wood tree. The lynching was witnessed by q
large number of Indians, who had elm bed to
the branches of neighboring trees. In the
same year Jim Gordon was tried for murder
under the huge cotton wood, and was hanged
to the same branch from which Young was
suspended. 1t Is believed that there were
other trials and hangings In its shade The
tree was In the early days of Denver the larg-
est OF a cluster of cottonwoods, standing where
the city Is now th!ckly built up. A section of
the trunk Ii TO be sent to New York to be man.
ufactured into toothpicks.