The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-15
PERsONs OF NOTE

letter ne Sent
DIR. Archibald Billing, q famous En-
glish physician and author of medical
works, is dead.
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Comstock, the
friend Of the colored refugees in Kan
sas. is in Chicago for a few days.
Princess D~olgorouki, the widow Of
the late car, has been visiting the Aus
trizn emperor and empress at Schon-
brunn. She is now at Carlsbad.
Rev. Father A. J. Ryan. the southern
poet-priest, has returned to his home In
Mobile, Ala, much improved in health
by his summer travels and ~recreations.
A London paper says King Kalakaua
is in manners, and, doubtless, morals,
UNNECESSARILY superior to the Shah Of
Persia, who visited Europe q few years
ago.
Mr.. Spurgeon regards the New Re-
| vision as a most valuable help to the
New Testment, but needing to be itself
revised before 1t can come into univer-
| sal use.
DIR. T. B. Elliott, once an editor Of
the Indianapolis Journal. and who was
largely instrumental in the development
OF the school system in Indiana, died a.
Los Angeles. CAL, recently.
Charles O'Conor's house and fre-proof
library, two district buildings, which
he is erecting at Nantucket, will cost
about S35 900. They are on o cliff on
the north shore OF the island.
Rev. c. M. Terry. who died recently
in Minnesota, Of consumption, at the
age OF IS years. was q son-in-law OF the
late President Hitchcock, Of Amherst
college and was a mar Of much promise.
Anna Louise Cary seems to haye
really left the stage with the intention
of never returning to it. The Boston
Irareller says she steadily refuses to
make an engagement for next season on
any terms.
Tie many friends OF the genial, talent
ed and philosophical DR.. j. G. Holland.
the editor OF Scribner, will be glad to
learn that he is engaged in writing n
new novel. Whatever the doctor does
is well done.
II. NJ. Hoxie, formerly of Iowa,and q
man Of large experience in railroads,
has received the appointment Of gen.
eral manager Of the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railway. sue
ceeding Colonel Soper.
Rev. DIR. Henry Darling. late of Al
bany, is to be ~inaugurated as president
OF Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y,
on the 10Th instant. The ceremonies
will take place In the Stone church, and
will be very impressive.
Chief Justice Waite, of the United
States supreme court; Senator-elect
Warner Miller, Congressman McCook,
Congressman HIscock and Mr.. Wat
rous have sailed from New London.
Conn, ON a fishing cruise.
The present princess Of Egypt, the
Khedive's only wife, is a cultivated
and liberal minded m She receiv-
ed a European education. and her
children are brought up by English
governesses and III English ways.
General B. F. Butler, who has been
ut Rockland, in Maine, was summoned
by telegraph to his sons d~eath-bed, but
failed to reach Gloucester In time.
Young Butler was a genial fellow Of
fine abilities, and his future as a lawyer
seemed full of promise.
NJ. Gambetta is not an agreeable
speaker. His voice is cultural. and has
an often-recurring tremulo, and be &C.
casionally astonishes his audience by a
tragic h~iccough, and even a snort Of de-
Hance. His gestures, moreover, are in
cessant and without dignity.
Queen Margaret, of Italy, looks worn
and older than she is, but she is always
handsome. Since the Neapolitan at
tempt upon her life the poor lady has
been so that even In the noun
tains, where she is now staying, a dozen
special attendants surround her car-
riage. and drive away the people who
approach her.
Miss Jewett, the famous equestrienne,
is having trouble, being prosecuted and
maligned by her adopted father, J.. Q.
Jewett. Her correct name Is Emeline
Christien Peterson, and her father be-
ing killed while in the Union army dur
Ing the war, she was adopted by Jewett.
who resides near Litchfeld.
The new Senator, Lapham, is o cousin
Of Miss Susan B. Anthony, and, short
ly after his election, wrote to her thus:
"Canandaigua, July 80, 1Ss1.-Dear
Cousin: I have only time now to return
my sincere thanks for your cordial con-
graduation and kind words. OF the
future l hope that our country will
prosper, and that woman will yet be
accorded her rights. E. G. Lapham."
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, Of Boston,
is described as giving an exhiliarating
surprise to the baggage smaahers" at
a Bangor wharf the other day. He ar
rived at the wharf in a carriage, de-
scended, asked where the baggagemast-
or va, seized his big trunk as II It were
q triiing portmanteau, and crossed the
wharf LIGHTLY tn where that lofty official