The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-05
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John Bolton. of Toronto. Canada
one day married, was drowned in en-
deavoring TO ave a dog.
A l~o-year-old boy at Newport. Que
bee. vent out and hanged himself rath'
er than set the table for supper.
The grave of Gen. Braddock, de.
feated near Pittsburgh in 1875, is a few
miles east Of Uniontown, Fayette coun
y. on the old national pike. There i.
no monument or stone.
"A girl 8 years old. at Newburyport,
Mass, got mad because her mother
wouldn't give her two cents recently,
and shot at her with a pistol. The ball
struck the stove pipe and the mother
tainted.
The wild blackberry crop of Clarke
county. Washington Territory, has
been immense this year. 1t Is esti-
mated that no less than ten thousand
bushels of blackberries we're picked in
Humboldt county, California.
George Smith of New Brighton, Sta
ten island, recently returned from q
four years whaling voyage. He re-
ports that his boat captured ninety-fye
whales. which made $500 barrels of
oil. worth about SIG. 900.
The wife of the Rev. Bryan O'Malley.
q Church Of England divine, has OBJ
tanned a separation because he kicked
and beat her. During the trial it trans
pired that the clergyman's mother I'M
derstood no language but Irish.
At Omemee, Canada, they have a
curious plant grown from q seed sup
posed to have been turned up with the
earth taken from q well at the depth
of fifty feet. 1t resembles q century
plant. and Is nearly seven feet in
height
A policeman saw q woman digging
in her garden at Paris, KY. before day
light She was not noted for indus
trious habits, and therefore he covertly
watched her until she brought out a
box containing $4,000 the proceeds Of
q recent bank robbery.
There is a speculative feeling among
oil men in Sarnia (Ont.) and vicinity,
owing to the superior quality of oil
which is taken from the new oil well.
The company have already been Of
fered a contract at "a per barrel for all
They can produce of the same quality.
Trouble is likely to arise between the
Town OF Niagara Falls and the Canada
Southern. The railway people are ac-
rustomed to transferring their passen-
Ecrs directly across the river, thereby,
iepriving the town of a great amount
Of money that otherwise would be spent
in Canada. |
Several fin-back whales have recent ]
y appeared in the bay of Monterey, CAL
lorna. and the Whaling company was
at last accounts preparing to resume
operations. The fishermen are having
treat luck in the bay at present, more !
Than a ton Of rock cod being shipped
10 San Francisco daily. !
A bunch of wheat grown on the farm
of Jerry Despair, near Pendleton, Ore, |
apparently from q single seed. consists
sf 1872 stalks, each bearing O full head
# wheat. What was taken to be an
.verage head shelled out sixty-three
we'll developed kernels. Henco that
mother grain has yielded S.316-fold. |
Two negro women living at Sharps-
burg, Cowatta county, Ca, lately !
whipped three children. aged s, 8, and |
J years. until their little bodies were |
irightfully lacerated from head to foot.
Two of them have died, and the brutal
'somen. who are aunts of the children. |
lave been arrested under charge OF !
murder.
A girl of 16, while on her way to |
shurch at Preston, England, to be mar
ried. was murdered by her betrothed.
She was induced by him to go into o
aublic house. He there cut her throat,
nearly ssvering her head from her
fody. He was at once arrested. She ,
pregnant by him. ,
The returns of the five emigration |
,gencies of Ontario show that for tho
six months of the current year TO-.
1874 immigrants have settled in the |
province, as compared with 9.142 for
,he corresponding period of last year.
Tor tho seven months ending with July
total number was IL, 065, as conn.,
pared with 11.082 for tho correspond.
'ng period of last year. 1
A bald-headed eagle lowering over
Sir Johns island. Canada, suddenly
swooped down and attempted to carry
off q 2-year old child Of Mr.. John
Clancy's playing in q field alone. The
light clothing gave way with every tug
Of the voracious bird, and was torn in
to ribbons. Some men working near
by came up in the time to save,
child from injury, but tho eagle refused,
10 go my distance away until shot at
Paul Gregory, M. D., writing from;
Hermosillo, Sonora, says: every mean
thing I have known to be done, during
. stay of nine months in Sonora, has
been perpetrated by American adven-
mrers, who have flocked to the country
by thousands in quest of railroad work.
the rich mines, and pretty girls; fol
they all want to marry as soon as they
get there. but they find it not Us easy 81
thing as they supposed. All the troub-
les are brought on by such men,"
jacksonville. (Ore.) Sentinel: For the;
past week or ten days q number oil
Cinnamon have been engaged at the
Jacksonville cemetery exhuming the
bones Of dead Cinnamon, preparatory
to shipping them to the Celestial en-
pire. About fifty bodies that have been
buried five or six years are being taken
up, and the bones Of each placed in o!
separate sack and labeled with the
name of the deceased. These sacks
are afterward placed in boxes-so many
sacks to each box-and then they are
ready to be shipped to China. 1t Is a
ghastly process.
A pet fox escaped from the premises
Of DR.. Smelling at Richmond. Va, a
few days ago. but had not gone far be-
fore several hounds in the neighbor-
hood scented him. Dol got on his trail,
and in u few minutes = regular fox hunt
was cxtemporised on the streets, in which