The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-24
WHISPERS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Herbert Spencer has unkindly referred
TO Oscar Wilde as an Outlandish
person who attempted to reconcile idio-
cy with art and namby- paimbyism with
sentiment.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler is saying
that in his humble opinion it will take
more than 800 600 votes to beat him for
Governor of Massachusetts, this
Gen. Hancock's vote in The state was
less than 112, 600.
Capt. Mayne Reid, who is now a resi-
dent of England, is hereafter to receive
a pension from the United States of S15
a month. He served as second lieuten-
ant in the LIST New York volunteers in
the Mexican war. He is reported to be
quite poor and living on n small hired
farm.
Nineteen years ago a Louisville belle
was led astray by a man whose wife
forsook him when she learned that her
husbands victim bad borne a daughter.
The runaway wife took with her her
little son. Smitten by remorse, the
Lothario wandered over the country
for years, and returned last week to
Louisville in time to see the child of his
son and his illegitimate daughter, who,
not knowing each the ~parentage of the
other, had been married for a year.
Ex-senator Conkling has returned to
the city after a few weeks soiourn at
the springs in the Virginia mountains.
He is about to abandon his little law
Office on Nassau street, which is incon-
yenient and unsuited to his great and
growing practice. He will remove in
a few days to the United Bank build
ing, at the corner of Broadway and
Wall streets, n of the finest OF tho
new sky-scraping structures in lower
New York.
Louise Michel some time ago told
the women of Paris who listen to her
harangues that the way for them to 90
when oppressed by their husbands was
to strike. She has now gone further
than mere words in this matter. She
is engaged in forming what she calls an
international League of Women
Against their Tyrants,' - and has started
a subscription in aid of her object. She
proposes that men, until they shall
have accorded certain political rights
to women, shall be socially ''boycot-
ted"
Mr. Swinburne contemplales a tour
in the United States. Mr.. Swlnburne
is a poet of the fieshiest of the fieshy
schools. His poetry breathes of passion
and his breath reeks of gin. AS he gets
drunk with becoming regularity he is
a rather more interesting, if not more
amusing, figure, than the l~ackadaisical
Wilde. American whisky drank on
its native he ath will doubtless inspire
his muse to g flights OF sensuo us
verse. He will, of course, be well received
in this country, where his poetry
has many admirers, and where conyiy-
iality is not altogether unknown.-Chi-
cago Times.
An engineer named Crulman recent
ly died in Syracuse, and of his last
hours on earth a local paper says:
During his last hours he became de
~lirious, and in imagination he again
made his regular trips from Syracuse to
Buffalo. The minutest details were
commented upon. He described the
appe arance of the country, and at
Rochester noted that he was a minute
or two ahead Of schedule time. Near
Buffalo, at the crossing of the Buffalo.
New York and Philadelphia road, he
started suddenly and exclaimed: s'They
signal Ganger!" and reached out his
hand with an effort to put on the air
brake. He seemed TO accomplish this.
and bring his train to a stop. 1T is all
right now, the train is safe and the trip
is over he said, and turning upon his
side be breathed his last"