The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-12-28
PERSONS OF NOTE.

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The wife of Exjustice Swayne, of the
United supreme court, died in Wash
ington last week
Professor j. E. Hilgard has been ap.
pointed superintendent of the coast and
Geodetic survey.
Judge Horace Gray, newly appoint
ed to the United States supreme court,
is SO, a bachelor, and ''hale and hearty
D. B. Waggener, who was formerly
connected with the Times, has become
business manager of the New York
World.
The late Siro Delmonico sometimes
smoked as many as one hundred cigars
a day. His physician had told him
that unless he should stop smoking he
must look out for sudden death.
A. T. Goshorn and Miss Goshorn
gave a reception in honor of General
Noyes and wife in Cincinnati recently.
Hundreds of society people were present
and there was "a fashionable crush
from seven to eleven"
Miss Susan Allen, of Lynchburg, re-
members that when she was a girl she
helped to nurse at her fathers house a
wounded confederate soldier. The 9TH
er day she received sl0,0 0O, which sum
had been left her through the will of
the wounded soldier, lately dead.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is getting
to be an old lady, but is still very strong
and active in mind and body. Mrs.
Livermore narrowly escaped a very Sc
rious accident a few days ago, while rid
ing in the caboose attached to a freight
train in New York on her way to fill a
lecture engagement.
Octogenarian Sickles and his bride
entertained eighty-two guests at their
wedding breakfast, in New York. The
bridegroom disdained the use Of a car
riage, in spite of his millions and the
wet, and walked from his house to the
hotel in which the feast was served.
Dion Boucicault has arrived at Ne
York York on the Bothnia. He says
that his ''Mimi'' was not a success in
London because mo plays with Irish
heroes in them will go down" there. Q.
A. Mordaunt, Miss Lottie Pearson and
Richard Stoepel, of the same profession,
came over on the Bothnia.
Miss Anna Dickinson has been in
New York completing her preparations
for her theatrical tour, which she will
begin in January. She is looking ex-
ceedingly well, is full of hope and san
guine of success. Her intention is to
go England in the spring. She will be-
gin the tour at Providence, R. 1.
Mr.. Hugh Hastings, the stalwart
editor of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, aspire to be governor of
New York. Mr.. Hastings is a rising
man. He was, nearly thirty years
ago the editor of the Albany Knick-
erbocker, and he has been pushing
ahead like a true Irishman ever since.
Rev. Mellish Iring Motto, one of the
oldest Unitarian clergymen in the I'm
tied States, has just died in Washing
ton at the age of 80 years. Mr.. Motto
was ordained as an E~piscopalian clergy
man in 1922, and was located some
years in Charleston, S. @. Changing
his Theological views, he joined the
ministry of the Unitarian denomina-
ton, and on May 81, 1928, was Installed
as first pastor of the South Congre-
g%ational church, Boston. Mr.. Motto
retired in 1912, and was succeeded by
MI. D. Huntington, now a bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal church. Since
1912 Mr.. Motto has had no church.
General w. I. Sherman and Colonel
Bacon, his aide-de-camp, have been
at Leavepworth, Kan.,. The gen.
eral was greeted with the usual
salute, and is the guest of General Pope.
A reception was given at the hop
room in his honor. To General
Sherman more than any other man is
due the establishment of the training
school at Fort Leavenworth, and his
visit has as one of its objects to learn
how the same is progressing. He is
well satisfied with the outlook, and
thinks that his long-cherished scheme
of seeing founded at this post one of
the finest training-schools in the world
is in a fair way of being fully realized.