The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-21
GLEAHIKGS.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee Is writing a history
of the campaigns of the army Of north
ern Virginia.
Joaquin Miller lives a hermit's life in
New York city, occupying rooms at the
top Of q house and doing his own cook
ING.
Surgeon General Woodward, whose
health was impaired during his attend
ance on President Garfield. has been
granted an eight months leave Of alb
sence.
Senator Davis boards at the National
hotel in Washington, where his sitting
room reminds one of an Illinois law Of
ice. There is no carpet on the floor, a
large wood fire crack1es and blazes on
the hearth, the chairs are c%apacious.
with rush seats. and at night candles
supply the light
The Courier of the Rhine reports the
| discovery at Steeten. on the Lain, of a
hitherto hidden cave, in which eve
human skeletons have been found. At
che opening of the cave a huge heap Of
bones of animals and other remains Of
primitive existence have been laid bare.
Miss Louise NJ. Alcott is a lady ID
middle life. with a broad, high brow
like that of Charlotte Cushman, and q
sensitive, intellectual face, with black
eyes and ebon hair. She is by no means
one of the ''little women" being five
feet seven in height, and large in pro-
portion.
1t is announced that a herd of eleven
thousand sheep has just arrived at Lin
coin. Neb., from Washington Territory.
The journey has occupied two years.
The trail from Washington Territory TO
the Missouri river is said to be the long
est and hardest known to stock men.
Three years is often consumed in q drive
over this distance.
The Etna observatory, erected on o
small moun near the crater, and so
placed that a current of lava would prob
ably divide in two and avoid it, has
been completed. 1t is 2,943 meters
above the sea; the Great st. Bernard
monastery is 2,49l, and the st. Gothard
2,075 meters.
Accidental rich finds of gold still oc-
u in California. Some men who were
recently walking along the road on
Trays fiat in Eldorado county, noticed
a piece of quartz which had been
crushed by a wagon running over it.
The specimen was found to contain con-
siderable gold, and the party making
further explorations came upon a 'pock-
ct" from which they took in one day
what was estimated at from 81, 900 to
S13. 900 worth of gold.
The dispute between the state of Ohio
and the United States government as to
the ownership of a large scope of swamp
land east of Toledo, on the lake shore, is
being settled at Washington. This
swamp has been much frequented by
sportsmen in quest of ducks and other
water fowl. The Cedar Point Gun Club,
Of Toledo, will purchase a considerable
part Of the swamp as soon as the ques-
ton of ownership is decided.
At Clintondale, Ulster county, N. Y,
a farmer became deeply enamored of q
young lady residing there, and after a
few days acquaintance the twain were
married. Immediately upon the con-
clusion of the ceremony the bride es-
capped to an adjoining ROOM, and the
bridegroom has not seen her since.
Some practical jokers had secured an
administering boy to personate 8
young lady and fool the farmer. I
In Giles county, Tennessee, resides q
widow lady, an invalid, who has moi
been able to stand upon her feet or walk
a step in the last twenty years. About
fifteen or sixteen years ago her husband
died, leaving her a set of shoemaker's
tools and n little farm with a big mort
gage on it, and she borrowed money
enough to buy a side of upper leather
and a piece of sole leather, and with only
such knowledge Of shoemaking as she
had gained from binding shoes for her
husband, she commenced to make Shoes,
and she has sat upon her bed from that
time (some fifteen or sixteen years ago),
to the present, with her shoemaker's
bench beside the bed, and made and
mended boots and shoes.
l regret to hear hat Prof. Blackie, OF
Edinburgh, is seriously indisposed. The
last time l saw the old man was one
cold and cherries day, in Princess
street. He was wrapped, as usual, in
his shepherd tartan plaid. His face
cooked as if a good deal of the fire and
force of yore had passed away. No one
would be more missed in the Scotch
,apital than the genial Greek professor.
who has, in his time, uttered so many
wholesome ruths.-London World.
Benjamin R. Curtis says concerning
the late Prof. Pc: Coming once to my
house, in all the splendor of his Orien-
cal habit, to dine with some gentlemen
Who had travelled in China, he was soon
conversing delightfully."- about his coun-
try. When one of the guests inquired
what he had seen in our country that
';leased him most, in contrast to the
mode Of life at home, he promptly re-
| piled, 'Horse-cars.' Anyone who has
seen or ridden in the terrible Chinese
carts will say that this reply from one Of
his own race indicated a progressive
spirit as rare as it was frankly con-
fessed.'
There is a great demand for the report
of Guiteau's trial. 1t was taken by the
official reporters at 4 cost Of several
thousand dollars. A resolution is pend
ing in the house printing committee to
have printed five thousand copies for
distribution. The reporters, however,
want, in addition to their pay for the
work, to have a monopoly Of the publ
cation, and are using their influence to
keep the resolution from passing. Per-
sons wanting the verbatim report of the
trial should write to their members of
congress urging action on the resolution.
Under it each congressman will have
twenty-five copies to distribute; other
wise it will cost about IS.
Frank Armstrong, who committed
suicide, recently, in San Francisco, was
prosecuted to his death. He C served
a brief term in the Oregon penitcntiary
for stealing an oyercoat while drunk.
Being afterward restored to honest en-
ployment in Portland, every ~ex-convict
who knew him blackmailed him in sums
ranging from so cents TO $40, and kept
him in constant fear of losing his place.
He could stand the persistent calls for