The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-28
dLEANINGs,


Silk culture promises to become a
important industry in North Carolina
Gen. James Watson Webb, the las
survivor of the old school of New Yor
journalism, is 80years old.
An anti-vivisection crusade has bee.
started i'll Germany, and the reichstag |
to be petitioned on the subject.
j. W. Henley. the oldest member O
the British house of commons, Is IS
James Dickson, the youngest, is 2S.
The %janitor at the Kansas state CAPT
tol has occupied his position ever sine,
the admission Of the state, tw~enty-oni
years ago.
The monument of Victor Emmanuel
which is to be erected in Rome, will
cost 10000, 900 francs. The design ha
not yet been selected.
Great Indignation exists in Oswegt
county, N. Y, against a clergyman a
Mallory who married two children, aget
respectfully 10 and IA years.
Suggestive figures from the list o
subjects of taxation in Alabama; Me
chanical tools, 1928, 500; farming i'm
Plements, ST.. 100; guns, pistols, ant
dfrks, 1851, 250.
1t is proposed in the legislature o
Mississippi to appoint a commission t.
treat with the authorities of Alabam.
for g resurvey of the boundary line be
tween those states.
The total cost of the public and in.
corporated charities in the state of New
York last year was nearly $4,000, 900
The total number of individuals benefit
cd was 1873, 065.
Ono hundred and twenty thousand
American %grapevines have been planted
on the island of Monte Christie, rendered
so famous by Dumas novel, and are
growing finely.
In Vienna Il mass-meeting of printers
has been held. and a resolution unani-
mously passed. demanding cessation
from work on Sunday. and petitioning
the Legislative authorities TO this effect
The sultan of Turkey has sent to this
country for specimens of the most ap-
proved agricultural works. Send him
some Of our patent ~hay-cutters for the
little Turks to operate on, and let him
watch the result.
Since the public sentiment in favor Of
prohibition is more pronounced in Scot
Land than in England, the temperance
party in the house of m has de-
cided to bring in a local option bill for
Scotland alone, at the next session of
parliament.
The water-works of Cincinnati have
been conducted of late in a manner far
from satisfactory, and there is now talk
OF a syndicate of capitalists being form
ed in that cityfor the purpose of supply
ing their fellow-citizens with wholesome
water at a low rate.
A new colonization company, with a
capital of 50, 800, 900, has been formed
at Montreal. with Sir Hugh Allan as
president 1t is intended to purchase a
million acres Of land in the northwest
and introduce settlers from Great Britain.
The will of the late Clarkson N. Pot
ter b%equeaths 1.-The Rocks" a fine New
port estate, to his brother, Gen. R. R..
Potter, but according to the records at
Newport the estate already belongs to
Gen. Potter, and he was taxed on il
$53,o0f asst year.
Things one would rather have left un-
said-Nervous person Speaking at last
to his n~eighbor): do you know who
that remarkably ugly person is Just OPP
posite-talking to the black-haired lady,
you know-um-ehP" Neighbor: That,
sir. is my brotherr' Nervous person:
.Yesf Ill beg your pardon-I-I-stupid
of me not to have seen the family like
ness-a-a-s-" (Collapses and disap
peaTb.) F" .4u.