The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-24
Commercial JOB Pnniing
NEWS BREy1r1Es.


North Carolina has sixty-fye cotton
factories and two hundred and fifty to-
bacco factories.
In South Carolina there are 46, 225
members Of the Methodist church, and
ls9 local preachers.
1t is said that five large panthers in a
herd W. been seen within three or
four miles of Benton, Ark.
Immense quantities of deer, antelope,
and mountain sheep are being killed in
Wyoming Territory.
A well-known grocer of Boston. who
died recently, left $40 to be annually
expended in caring for his dog.
Over one thousand printing presses
have been shipped from Philadelphia
To France since the Centennial.
William Loekridge. OF Highland coun-
ty. Va, says that he has killed in h
Time as many rs fifteen hundred deer.
Publiclands in Dale county, Alabama.
are entered rapidly, sixteen or eighteen
hundred acres having been taken rs
homesteads within a single week. be-
sides purchases at Government price,
Wagner-not the composer, but the
palace-car man-began life as Il wagon
maker. He is said 10 be unchanged by
his subsequent prosperity. The stock
in his a company now pays 55 per
cent. per annum.
The Queen of England has conferred
the order of knighthood on Mr.. Walter
Hughes, an Australian celebrity. He
did better than .sstrike oil;s he discov-
cred the Walleroo and Moonta copper
mines. and became the richest man in
South Australia. tA
Julia Ward Howe has sued George
III. Norman and others for building "a
dam across a stream which flows through
her property at Portsmouth, r. l., and
which has heretofore furnished the sup
ply of a large ornamental pond and for
domestic purposes.
Judge Levi Parsons, who last winter
gave $50. 900 to establish q library at
Gloversville, N. Y, which is to bear his
name, has Just presented another $780,
900 to Union College, Schenectady, tho
interest Of which is to be used for the
benefit Of worthy students.
A missionary church of Scotland
writes from China: '.At Chin Yuen we
saw q herd of swine in boots. 1t seems
that, having far to be driven to market.
the poor creatures feet e tknocked up;
but giving them apair, or rather two
pairs, of boots made of straw, they are
enabled to do the journey without risk
Of hurting their legs"
Rev. John. Marshland, the Central
Village Comm clergyman whose dis
appearance and discovery at Bingham
ton, N. Y, caused so much interest.
SAYS he left his home to consult the
church records at the house of the So
ciety clerk, and had no further knowl
edge of the cause of his actions until
he reached Binghamton. When he
came to himself he made preparations
10 return, when he was found by his
wife and taken back by her.
In the municipal cremation furnace
1t Gotha, in Germany, you can get
Yourself ~incinerated for SIG. Since tho
establishment Of the furnace, two years
ago, thirty bodies Of the nobility and
gentry have enjoyed its hospitality.
Persons, progressive but poor, who arc
prejudiced Against interment should go
to Gotha while they can still call their
souls their own, since the German rail-
yoads charge high rates for the carriage
Of earthly tabernacles from which the
spirit has flown.
Tho San Francisco Alta has been
making a computation of what Kear-
1eyism has cost California. There, has
Deen a decrease of $33, 000, 900 in bank
ing capital, the improvements of prop
erty have been checked, the number Of
depositors in the saving banks has fall
len off, the loans of the banks havc
been less this year than the repayment
81 borrowers, there is no new railroad
building in The State, and tho homo cap
;talists are transferring their business
to Now York. California is the only
State that is not sharing in the genera
prosperity Of tho country.