The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-21
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DR.. Ball. charged with murder. ss-
sspsd from the Jail ct Tyler, Tex. by
mans Of : French harp, which he con
Fsrted into : key.
Apoorf fisherman Of Tallahassee, Fla,
while digging worms for bait recently.
struck . brass kettle that was found to
,ontain d, 400 IN coin
Miss Bette Green Of Forsyth county,
GEORGIA. has two silk dresses which
She made herself. having raised the
n;"inis. spun the silk, colored and wo-
zen it with her own hands.
Nearly 1000 persons visited Mount
Vernon during the fiscal year ending
June Is. The receipts were 80. 634. so,
and the expenditures e10, 223. SO, leav-
ing . balance Of $610.92
The japanese government has APP
pointed . special commissioner. Mr..
Monosuke Sano, to study the subject of
cremation. and he Is now investigating
the merits Of the Italian system at
Mi'rn.
A paper dome, thirty feet in dame
ter and weighing about two tons. is
4 r. made for the observatory at West
l'int. II will weigh only one-tenth as
r,s'eh as a copper dome Of equal size.
Mrs. Abijah Loomis, q widow. cele-
i,.'rd her one-hundreth birthday in
\ " Hartford, Conn. recently. Her
= eight and hearing are represented
. be quite good. and her health is fair.
According to the Boston Herald: s.If
I'll the things that JEFF Davis didn't
earn in the late war were written
down in books, the aggregate would
'ake a very respectable library"
A handsome young lady, . perfect
type Of the Albino. white hair, pink
eyes. and q clear, beautiful complexion.
crn be see walking one Of the princi-
f.nl streets of Milwaukee any bright.
clear day. She is the daughter Of an
Oil and wellknown citizen.
1t is said that tho check given by the
Pc n~sylvania railroad company In pay
ncnt for the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore road. ga, 949, Ob2
wrs the largest ever drawn in this
country.
At . woman's suffrage convention a.
Portland, Me-, mi Of the speakers
siaicd that she had q letter from q
pr, minent physician. advising women
rot I become mothers until they had
the ballot.
The bronzed old captain Of the ferry
ry-boat Mystic, plying across the Hud-
son from Haverstraw to Cruger's sta
ton has q daughter, Hattie, who
though only twenty years of age. Is ac-
customed to steer the boat while her
father collects the fares.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
cprcted a law making $500 fine and 80
nys imprisonment the penalty for any
: loon-keeper who allows his custo-
mcrs to play pool, cards. or any other
anne for drinks.
Josephine D'Orme, an Italian wo-
nan claiming the title Of Countess Of
Carroll, recently died . domestic SER
ant in San Francisco. She went to
hat city in 1868 as prima donna of the
i.ianchi Opera company, but lost her
voice, and dropped into poverty and
ohscurity.
q Atkins Lawrence. the handsome actor
who has been the Romeo to Mary An
derson's juliet and the Claude to her
Pauline, has been compelled to guar
antee IS q week 10 . wife whom he de-
serted in Philadelphia He urged that,
after paying his W expenses and those
of W. children by . former wife, his
salary of $40 . week was exhausted.
The late Henry Wells. founder Of the
American express system. personally
handled the alleged Mormon plates
(which Joe Smith pretended to find near
Palmyra, N. T., and which contained
1.-The ..reyelationsn on which the Nor
imon religion is founded. They were
encased In . cotton bag, and Nh. Wells
did not actually see them, I t from
their lack Of weight he did not believe
jthey were metal plates - Joe Smith al
legged. but were States. He was great
!ly tempted to ''smash' them; and II he
;had-where would Mormonism havs
been to-isyP Mr.. Wells died in le7A
Perhaps The most Agreeable incident
Of the recentroyal ievee In London. say4
The London World, was old Admiral
Sart0rirY-he Is 92-going past with ks
Two sons on their appointment to the
Victoria Cross. There Is only onx
other man in England who can boast
such o chevron on his oscutcheon, and
that is Colonel Hugh Cough, who also
has two sons possessing each q Victoria
Cross.
The Rev. Charles F. Seldom, Of Hor-
nellsville, N, Y, has been suspended
from his church and ministry on ac-
count of i~mmoralities. He is . mar
ried man. about so years old. and . ma
tive of Wisconsin. He will be formally
tried at the session of the Bath district
conference in September. His reputa-
ton until recently has been good.
Australia has added to other natural
anomalies q fish on legs. The Eclipse
expedition has dredged up one of them,
and the creature placed upon the deck,
raised itself on its four legs-and
walked! Yet to all intents and pur-
poses the thing was . fish, with fms,
and q tail and gills. Another wonder
of the same expedition was the rats.
The voyagcrs stopped on . small is
land which was over-run with rats
but the rats were yellow, chestnut, and
to~rtoise-shell.
In Ojocaliente. Mexico, a poor wo-
man went to church recently with n
child in her arms, which cried and dis
turbed the discourse Of the priest. who
ordered the woman at once to take the
innocent out of the house of God; the
woman not obeying Immediately, the
priest descended from the pulpit,
seized the child. banged it over the
head. and then jabbing it under the
pulpit, continued his discourse.
On opening tho coffin of a little
daughter of Meredith Kendrick, buried
at Newman, Ca, twenty-five years ago,
the child vas lei with every feature
just as perfect a the day it was put in
the grave. In its hands was the little
bouquet of flowers which was put there
upon its burial day, perfectly pre-
served. Its cheek was slightly more
florid than when buried. The child
was not buried until three days after
death. and was then brought from
Fayetteville for interment
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