The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


hl ventures in mining, and is an ex-
ensiye breeder of cattle.
A picnic party of sixty or NOR were
poisoned slightly on the Fourth ut
Eagleville, Conn, n manufacturing
lamlet near Norwich, by coffee pre-
pared in q copper boiler. Violent nau-
lea and purging Frustrated nearly the
fshole number after reaching home.
10 lasting ill-effects resulted.
Jeremiah Burns, of Newburyport.
lass. only Is years old. cut his throat
Wednesday evening. not fatally. He
lad been turned out Of doors two or
three days before by q drunken father,
aud with nothing 10 eat or a pla'e To
stay. he sought 10 end all. he was
taken TO tine almshonse-
MIR. Parkhurst, one Of Mrs. Sp aSGs's
counsel. has lost the ise Of one eys
through The rupture OF u small b., |
vessel in it. and is in danger of lpa
The other. While he is in this pre-.
ious condition nothing 4 be dor
with the divorce sniE.
A medical paper at Leipsic has bee
fined 100 marks and the costs If tho
suit. brought by s~eventy-fiye homer
pathic doctors. for publishing a lecture
delivered before a Berlin me lieal o.
ciety, in which homeopathy vas de-
nounced as quackery and swiniling.
The estate of Mr.. Wheelwrigat. o.
Newburyport, Mass. of South America
fame, who died several years ago. is 10
be shortly settled. Among his beg tests
was 500. 900 to establish a ~scicu'iic
rchool here, but owing to the De re-
citation of his property only 100000
will be realized.
The Bostouians are getting excited
wei a proposition of the majority Of
the committee on parks of the common
council to spond 81. 800. 900, and prob
ably much more on an elaborate sys-
tenn of public parks. which shall give
almost every district of the city a local
breathing-place.
The new school of political science
in the University Of Michigan is to be-
gin its work OF instruction Sept. 20,
the opening of the new collegiate year.
Students in 1t will be permitted to take
such studies in the academic depart
ment as they may desire. provided 1t
does not interfere with the regular
work.
Tho Interior of Hillside chapel. Con-
cord. Mass. where the Summer School
Of Philosophy is held, has been consid-
orably altered and improved this year,
and among its decorations. in addition
to the busts Of Mr.. Emerson, Plato.
and Pestalozzi. and the mask OF Anax-
agoras. will DO busis Of Mr.. Alcott and
John Brown. .
Tho awful and wonderful amount of
leg exhibited by young ladies up to IA
Is being severely animadverted on in
London. The French call the fashion
mode a Ia vdlet de pied, because lnck-
eys alone display the shape Of their leg
to the knee. The young princesses OF
Wales do not adopt tho prevailing
mode. Their dresses reach just above
tho ankle.
William Wilson engaged himself to
marry Susan Southwell at Ogden. Utah.
and among his gifts were > sewing-ma-
chino and q cabinet organ. Her par
cnts forbade the union, and told him to
take away the presents; but he delayed
doing so until he was married to anoth-
or girl. and then, when he called,
Susan gave him such . thrashing that
recovery IL doubtful.
! Tho worshipers In the church at
Windsor. where tho roya; horse-guards
hold their church parade. were some
what astounded, not to say scandalized,
recently, to see the rest Of the congrc-
igation stand up when the prince and
!princess Of Wales and other members
Of the royal family entered the sacred
buildlng-an acknowledgement of state
supremacy which the extreme high
church docs not brook. But outsiders
were greatly pleased when the prince
appeared In full uniform ct the church
ldoor at the head OF his fine regiment,
and marched with them.
Six hundred and fifteen out of one
thousand one hundred and seventeen
teachers have replied to n CIR
cular asking their opinion of the adj
visibility of forming a relief ass ,ci,-
ton for aged and iniirm teachers. -Four
hundred and twenty-eight favor it. bat
only two hundred and twenty are will
ing to join.
A successor to tho title and estates II
the late earl of Mar has appeared in
the person of n young workman in tho
car-shops at London, Ontario. b.
name John Francis Erskine. Ho is
said to possess strong evile nee to SUB
Ftantiate his claim. including var, ms
physical characteristics correspond .,
10 the traditional strawberry marx. ..o
las visited Scotland. and there obtain d
sufficient encouragement to war; ut
him placing his case in tho han > OF
the lawyers.
A report comes from the west co i,
of Africa that eve men have b,r'1
sentenced to death at Old Cala3a.' H.,
murders committed under most a 70.
cious circumstances. The men in
question, who were natives of tho ? ar..
dressed themselves in tigers skins sni
lay in wait for their victims. VIII ,m tasr
killed with great brutality. Tais g
tenn OF murder has been going on ips
som, time, anl the perpetrat +. arc
called ''men tigers"
Miss Jean Burnside Carr, the ac-
tress, is mentioned as n OF the I "
heirs of the estate of $50 WD DIT
late John Burnside, of Ne OiiraiS.
who is believed to have leI. 10 will.
Mr.. Burnside was nj eccentric Old
bachelor, who was thought to be nj
serly by some of his feliow-ciliz rs.
because he didn't contribute to ssty
charitable project mentionc | TO lrin.
He once gave, however. S5oo,ofl To
the state OF Louisiana, to be devote !,
charitable purposes.
The Charleston Is. C.) Meas: .'Tae
two battle-fags which were displayed al
Fort Sumter during the great sixty
days bombardment, while Capt. lIu-
guenin was in command, were sent
away with his private baggage on the
night preceding the evacuation. an |
are now in the custody Of the Wash
ington light infantry and the Sumter
guards Of this city. The flag which
Was set on the last day that the fort
was held. and wa lowered on tho
evening of the 18th. upon the firing of
the sunset gun, and which had never
been fired at by tho federal batteries.
was turned over TO Capt. Huguenin's