The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-22
ERsOx AND THINGS.


was a 6asco.
Mr.. D.. r. Locke l"Nasby'') has re-
turned from Europe.
General S. D. Hill, Dakota's first
surveyor general, died at Yankton.
Now the rampant ostreophagist goeth
nightly for the luscious ostracean.
1t begins to look as If Professor King
and his big balloon had ''gone up'' for
keeps.
General John Z. Fremont has resign
ed as governor Of Arizona. 1t is thought
that General N. p. Banks will be his
successor.
United States Senator Lapham, Of
New York, will be 81 years Of age this
week, and has a venerable appearance,
his hair and whiskers being as white as
snow.
The wife of ex-President Hayes is
now q guest of Ex-Governor Claflin at
his home in Newtonville, Mass, aud
she held an informal reception there
Thurday afternoon.
The New York Postmaster has in
formed Postmaster General James that
upward,o of 81, 700, 000has accumulated in
that office from m~oney-orders unpaid
since the system was originated.
A philosopher out ut Omaha has
written a book to prove that Shak-
speare's Hamlet was a m Next
we expect somebody will undertake to
prove that Shakespeare was an idiot.
1t IS related that when the late Gen
eral Burnside received a telegram from
General Sprague at the breaking out OF
the war, asking how 500 he could be
ready to take charge of the Rhode Is
land troops, he flashed back the instant
answer, SIN one minute!'
Colonel r. G. Ingersoll will shortly
make journey to New Mexico to look
after his mining interests. The roman
tic story going the rounds about his fam
lily accompanying him in order that, If
attacked by the Indians, they might
all die together, is ''all nonsense"
1t is announced from Copenhagen
that the Punishment decree against the
members of the S~chleswig-H olstein .Au-
~gustenburg family, dating from 1852,
has now been a~brogated, thus removing
almost the last vestige Of enlargement
between the courts Of Denmark and
Prussia.
Henry Guy Carleton, Of Chicago, has
written a new tragedy, called MEM
non," which Mr.. John Mccullough,
the tragedian, has read in manuscript
and purchased, paying $4,000 for it. He
will bring it out shortly, himself filling
the principal character in it. 1t is said
to be full Of genuine dramatic and liter
airy merit.
William NJ. Davis, Of Monrovia, ex-
Attorney General of Liberia, recently
married Miss E. J. E. Seton, a native
Of the Grebo tribe. educated in the
schools of the Episcopal mission at Cape
Palmas. This is the first marriage Of a
prominent Americo-Liberian with one
of the aborigines, and the influence, 1t
is said, has been salutary in those CON-
munities.
Oscar Wilde, the poet of the silly es-
thetes, is described by Miss Blanche
Roosevelt, who met him at q London
reception, as having a languishing face,
long light hair and blonde complexion.
He was dressed in light pantaloons and
a gray redingote, buttoned so very
tightly that it displayed a profusion of
wrinkles. He looked as If he had hard
work to get into 1t. He is q large-sized
man, with enormous feet and hands,
and makes q conspicuous feature in
every throng; but his face has q decid-
eddy animal-like expression, which is
only offset by the originality of his con-
versation, in which, being a poet, he
occasionally utters bright things. He
told her be thought of coming to Am
erica to see what we are like, and re-
ferred with apparent pleasure to the
flattering manner in which some Of his
poems had been received by a portion
of the American press.
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