The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-21
NEWS BREvITIEs.

on the Texas coast are the largest and
finest in the world.
Canadian papers report an unusually
large demand for horses, particularly for
export 70 this country and to Manitoba.
Making barrel slaves is said to be q
new industry in Texas. A contract to
make 100000 has been taken by 8 gen.
tleman of Jasper.
The new church at Hawoth, which
stands on the site Of an old building SO
closely associated with the Bronte fam
lily. has been c~onseerated.
The town and county of Dallas Tex,
were named (about 1S46) after George
N, Dallas, vice-president of the United
States.
The money order department of the
New York postoffice handled SOL .000.-
700 in cash last year. The orders aver
aged $3.50.
Young Brown could not lift one end
Of a heavy timber at Unionyile, Ohio,
and old Brown. aged 20. showed
him how to do it. but killed himself
in SO doing.
A complaint somewhat like the Nj
agara Falls cry comes from Boston.
where it Il asserted that there is scarcely
y spot in the city. adjoining the sea, to-
which the public has free recess.
Upward Of 2. 22O young girls are at
present attending the painting and
drawing classes in state and municipal
schools In France, while 1850 are stu
dying music in the various colleges.
An agreement has been reached in
the case Of Lewis the Hoboken miser,.'
who left > million to the United States
government. The government gives up;
Q fourth Of the estate TO the heirs.
The total number Of periodicals publ
lished In the United States at the begin.
ming Of the present year was 10, ISL,
with an aggregate circulation. per ISSUE,
Of 20. 677, 548. !,
icers, as follows: 1881. Edward Living
ston, secretary Of state; 1850. Charles
M. Conrad, secretary of war; 1881,
William H. Hunt secretary Of the navy,
Harvard Is . pushing university.
President Eliot says that for pressing
needs-that Is needs which are clearly
calculated and foreseen and recog-
nized." Harvard will, in the near flu
ture. want IS. 900, 600 more.
A fierce dog ran after Emma Grutz-
rier, q bright little 11-year old girl of
San Antonio, and when the brute
reached the horror-stricken child she
Tell lifeless to the earth. She was alb
solutely frightened to death.
The New Haven Journal tells a story
II . young woman from the back coun-
Try who attempted to enter q car ON the
Housatonic railroad by squeezing her.
tek through q window, ~supposing that
70 be the only means Of ingress.
The Dominion parliament house at.
Ottawa has an open bar In the base.
ment, and an attempt Is being made to.
close It. II the movement succeeds the
bar-keeper will use tea cups instead Of
lumblers.
White labor is badly needed in South
Carolina. A gentleman Of Due West,
Abbeville county, has applied to the
South Caroline commissioner Of immi-
grafton for ten families to be employed
by himself and responsible friends.
The French government proposes to
employ tho electric light in forty-two
has till now been used. Up to the pres
lighthouses in the world, three Of
"AaSA SoASnk W EbohSo. =
The late Thomas Brassey. "England's
wealthiest son." SO far, at least, as per-
sonal property was concerned. was q ma
live OF Cheshire, and his sons have lately
restored the southeast angle Of the CATH
edral in his memory. Nj. Brassey be-
queathed to his eldest son his modest
patrimontal estate, q farm in Cheshire.
but divided $50. 600. 900 between the
three.
"A corporation has been recently or
gained in Boston. with . capital o,
$1,000. 900, to finish the bottoms O.
boots and shoes by q new invention. L
Il claimed that by the aid of the ma
chino six hundred to eight hundred
boots q be finished by one operate,
in one day, where one hundred and fit.
ty to two hundred are now done BY
hand.
One Herr Won Rodt, the son Of o Prot
estant minister ct Bernie, who Tough
in the Austrian cavalry in 1866 and ir
tho frdncs-tireurs in 1870. has rentec
the island Of Juan Fernandez from the
CHILEAN. government. and established
there a colony to supply whalers wit,
vegetables and meat.
"A oCCACs albACAC III tue oxLTHuILlOV
treaty between Italy and Roumania, tc
country to capital punishment, is be.
on the part Of King Humbert to com.
mute any capital sentence passed upon
o criminal extradited from Roumania.
The teachers Of New York and Brook.
lyn are making an effort to pass a BIZ
through the legislature to pension tn
teachers of the two cities after twenty
five years. service; OF if disabled By
sickness or accident while teaching.
after fifteen years service. the pensio I
not to BIO less than one-half the salar'
received at the time of retirement, an |
the pension money to be raised in tho
same manner rs teachers salaries.
Theodor Billroth, the illustrious pupil
of Langenbeck, has performed another
deed in surgery. He removed q cancer
from the stomach of a woman, formed
a healthful. if reduced, stomach, and
had the great fortune of saving his
patient. Such a operation has beer
performed but once before on q human
being, and then with a disastrous re.
suit. But some animals have been thu
treated successfully, notably by Gussen-
bauer, Whitewater and Czerny. Bill.
roth's patient had sleep. was able to
take milk, and suffered no pain beyond
a feeling Of general dibelity. The pa
tents appearance, according to tho
latest accounts. was favorable.
Not long ago Deacon Lewis Hunt, OF
the Peekskil(N, " Reformed church.
visited Herman Forces house and
while there. so it is reported, took o
drink Of liquor. At q subsequent meet
ing In the church, Force thought he
would get . joke on the deacon, and so
he said, right out loud: well Deacon.
how do rnn liLa INV rum pii Tho daacon