The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-06
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The Late DT, Samuel IL Coz was a
rigid Presbyterian, but several of his
children went over to the Episcopalians.
A friend having remarked this defec-
ton, the doctor said: "Yes, / have had
ten children; five of them were wise and
five were Episeopalians.'
Superintendent Smart, of Indiana,
has been studying the public schools in
the south, and has found a surprising
growth OF the system, especially in
Georgia and Tennessee. The eolored
people take great interest in the educa-
tion of their children, and the new gen.
Grafton can, as a rule, read and write.
James Burns, of Iowa, voted for
Douglass and vowed he wouldn't cut
his hair until a democratic president
was elected. A month ago he was
seized and bound and his locks sheared
close TO his scalp. He sued three Of his
ASSISTANTS for damages, but he not only
failed to secure any, but was told by
the judge that he came within an ace Of
being either a fool ora lunatic.
Quite a romance is attached to the
large fortune lately inherited by an old
member of past English liberal admin
istrations. Engaged in days Of yore to
a lady of large fortune, their adverse
political opinions caused a sudden ter
mination to their matrimonial inten-
lions, and they parted forever. After
long years the lady died and left her
old lover the fortune and estates which
he would have enjoyed had he been her
husband.
The White house is a rather expensive
institution, aside from the presidents
salary OF $4,000. The staff of employees
in and about the executive Office re-
quires 1900 a year, and the station
cry and miscellaneous appointments
some $1,000 more. This is exclusive Of
$4,000 a year for care and repairs of
the mansion, $4,000 for lighting the
house and grounds, $1,000 for fuel,
$500 for the greenhouses and n single
item of $500 0 for refurnishiag.
The Boston Commonwealth says:
1.-THE daughter of a gentleman who has
been governor, representative and sem
ator in congress, and finally secretary
of the treasury, while shopping one
day recently, rendered q check signed by
her respected father for the goods pur-
chased, but the clerk to whom 1t was
rendered did not know the name. De-
sirous Of verifying the signature, he
took it to headquarters, up stairs, and
there, too, the heads of the establish
ment failed to recognize it. What adds
point to the incident is that the store
where this took place is that of one of
the oldest and most respected dry goods
houses in Boston and one OF its leading
members has a national reputatioH as a
financler. Yet the signature Of an ex-
secretary OF the treasury was not known
there.
Capt. Boycott, the Protestant
Martyr of Mayo, is, curiously enough,
the son of one Of those ''pious women
not few" who, as Levers Anticipated
papist puts it, shave renounced the err
rors of the Anglican church for those
of Rome" Mrs. Boycott lived for some
time in Paris, where she was a recog-
nized leader in legitimist and clerical
society, and her salon in the Faubourg
st. Germaine vas graced on several oc-
casions by the presence of Cardinal
Manning, who is regarded as the very
type of a. dignifed prelate by devout
Parisians.
The San Francisco Alta has been
making n computation of what Kear-
neyism has cost California. There has
beena decrease of $50, 600, 900 in bank
ing capital, the Improvement Of prop.
erty has been checked, the number of
depositors in the savings bank have
beenless this year than the repayment by
borrowers, there is no new railroad
building in the state, and the home
capitalists are transferring their bust
ness to New York. California is the
only state that is not sharing in the
general prosperity of the country.
A stricken community is that Of
Shashan, n village of 800 or 600 inhab-
itants, in Salem, Washington county,
N. Y. Some three weeks ago the small
pox broke out there, the dread disease
not being recognized there until too
late to prevent its spread. A private
letter received from there, under date
of Wednesday last states that the whole
place is qu~arantined, over one-half the
houses are isolated, the school are
closed, nearly all business suspended,
many of the inhabitants have fed, and
those who remained are not allowed to
go away. The whole community is
terror-stricken, and it is feared that
there may be actual suffering for want
of food and nurses.
AT fashionable Jewish weddings in
London choral services are now looked
upon as necessities, the quantity of the
singers varying according to the liber-
ality of the brides parents. This is an
improvement on the old-fashioned or
chestra of violin, harp and piano strum-
ming Memberships March, and it
lends the charm of youth and melody
to the scene, as in many instances the
singers are boys and girls. Paid choirs
are readily obtained on these occasions,