The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-06
OF NOTE

A memorial WINDOW 10 PRESIDENT
Garfield is to be placed in Williams col
lege, of which he was a graduate.
Whatever changes may be made in
the cabinet, all agree that Robert T.
Lincoln will retain his place as secre-
tary of war.
Secretary Blaine is almost worn out
by the anxiety and fatigue Of the past
three months, and shows the effects
very perceptibly.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her
recent Atlantic article, calls the New
York tenement house the "forerunner
OF revolution
Garibaldi, who is now a constant suf-
ferer from illness, is looking for a
warm place wherein to spend the win
ter, Capril being too bleak.
Says Mr.. 1. L. Register, the financial
o cent of the Equitable life assurance
society. than President Garfield was in
sured in that company for $4,000 just
a few days before he was shot.
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, will
marry the heiress, Mile. Jessupoff, in
compliaLcs with the wish of the emper-
or of Russia. Her dowry is 80, 000, 600
Of rnbles or about $50, 900, 000.
Alonzo Bell, acting secretary of the
interior, told a Washington reporter on
Monday night that in his belief the
policy of Mr.. Arthur will not differ
materially from that of his predecessor.
The statement that General Brady
has changed his place of residence from
Washington to Canada is idignantly
denied by his paper, the Washington
Republican. He is at the national cap
ital.
General Garfield was made a mason
in Magnolia lodge, No. 20, at Column
bus, o., September %, 1861. He was a
member of Columbia commandery,
No. 2, Washington, d. G., at the time
of his death.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor is about to erect
at Longwood, to her lamented hug
bands memory, a monument in the
shape Of a circular Greek altar. 1t is
to bear on the top a lamp with a flame,
and on the. round a bronze bas relief por-
trait.
The Rev. Issac Errett, Of Cincinnati,
who was selected by Mrs. Garfield Ia
preach the sermon at Cleveland, is one
of the most eloquent divines of the
Christian church of the disciples. He
was an intimate personal friend of the
late president.
Three aged sisters have died in Con-
necticut within less than a month.
They were: Mrs. Russell. Wooster, died
at Ansonia. September II, aged So;
Mrs. Erastus Downs, died ut %Southbnry
the week previous, aged SO, and Mrs.
Olive Tuttle, died AT North haven,
August %, aged 80.
Governor Foster, of Ohio, says that
General Garfield never had time enough
TO do his work. He never had an idle
hour. The governor visited the presi-
dent on the evening before he was shot,
and found him more like the old Gar
field than he had been since his nomin-
ation-as cheerful and buoyant as a
school-boy.
A striking coincidence was related
by General Hancock while OF the cars
Saturday on his way to Cleveland to
attend the presidents funeral. He
said the news Of the shooting of the
president was brought to him at the
very moment he was writing a letter Of
thanks to General Garfield for his act
in promoting General Mitchell, a favor
ite member of Hancock's sta fl.
The letter in which the president
apprised General Hancock Of this
action was the last one he wrote on the
night before he vas shot, and the news
came to Hancock while Ire was writing
his Acknowledgements.