The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-05-08
NEWS BREyTrTEs.

assessing its horse railroad companies
5000 a year for each mile Of the
streets on which their tracks are laid.
A bowler in n Cleveland alley had a
ball poised TO roll, when a bystander
made an insulting remark, and he
threw 1t violently Mt the offender, kill
ing him by fracturing his skull.
Tho Danites" had its fhousandth
performance recently in Philadelphia,
and is worn out. The Rankins, to
whom 1t has brought a fortune, intend
to try another mining camp play next
fall.
Arizona resembles all mining regions
in being o~yercrowded with persons who
have no money and find it difficult to
make q living. There are 1000 per-
sons in Tucson and Tombstone living
from hand 10 mouth.
Tho Associated Press is n great
boon, is it notP" asked he. ut is, in
deed" shc replied, in soft tones;
George and | had one all last winter,
hut papa came in one night before
George could take his arm away, and
acted dreadfully."
Letter carriers intrusted with valua-
BILE mails have been assaulted by rob
bers in the streets of Vienna and Pesth,
and now the employees of the Austrian
postal service have been armed with re-
volvers. which they are forbidden to go
without.
Algeria is beginning { o develop n
taste for the fine arts. Not long ago the
success OF the exhibition Mt Algicrs
took every one by surprise, and now
another. which has been organized Mt
Gran, is equally successful. The pic
lures sold," says an enthusiastic corre-
spondent. ''as II by enchantment."
There was only one rocking-chair in
the Nessells' residence, at Kendallville.
Ind, and both the sons, John and Hon.
.ry, liked to sit in it. Henry had en-
joyed it two hours, when John demand
ed a turn. A quarrel was followed by
a fight, in which Henry was killed by
his brother.
Tho discovery of a human finger in .
sausage has least a gloom over tho
trade in that delicacy in Liverpool.
The explanation offered wasssthat tho
boy at the machine had his finger cut
of. and the digit, being left lying
about, somehow went in with the other
mincemeat while its owner was at the
hospital.
M. Cluseret, once q colonel of volun-
teers in the Union army. and subse-
quently, under the Commune, war min
lister, was sentenced in Paris by default
to two years imprisonment, and to pay
5000 francs fine, for an article in tho
MdrseiUdise deemed insulting to tho
army, and justifying Berezewsky for
attempting to kill the Car.
Sergeant Snyder, Of the B~ellevil!e
(Ont) police, owed q great deal OF
money in small amounts, and his cred
itors were importunate. Duns met him
Mt every turn. He could not dodge
them, for his duty compelled him to
patrol certain streets, and therefore IL
was easy to find him. Unable to pay
his debts, he endured tho torture for
several months, and then committed
suicide.
According to lie Francois, q French
Journal recently stated in Cambridge.
Mass, M. Jules Ferry. has Just proposed
. noyal method for public instruction
In geography. For this he will mako
use of the ~race-course at Longchamps
by arranging on It cards bearing the
names Of the different countries with
their capitals and seaports.
The natives Of the Itu-o-tane district
Of Sawaii, one Of the Samoan Islands.
attacked a German sailing vessel, bus
were repulscd without loss. The Ger
man Government then demanded a pay
ment Of e2.500 by way of punishment.
and under compulsion this amount was
finally, though very reluctantly, paid
The German Government now becomes
magnanimous. and orders the money to
be turned over to fund for building .
hospital In Abba, the chief settlement Of
tho Islands.
Mrs. Miles, the wife Of the General
{ Indian fighting fame, and the new
vife of Senator Don Cameron are sis
ers. Mrs. Miles, when very young,
was adopted by Secretary Sherman