The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-09
IN A GLANCE.
Brief Notes OF Haps. Mishaps and
Opinions In the News OF the bay.

Hanlan has postponed his departur,
from Boston a week, having received
offers to go TO Berlin.
Parnell is reported to be very mucI
depressed and disheartened at the fear
full blow to the cause of Ireland in tn,
murder of Lord Cavendish.
The water in the Red and Assina,
boine rivers still continues to rise and
Winnipeg is largely under water
causing much suffering among the in
habitants of the flooded sections.
The 9Th ward land league of Chicago
passed resolutions Sunday expressing
its adherence and exercration of the
assassination Of Lord Cavendish, and a
hope of speedy justice to the assassin.
Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati, gave
a dinner Saturday to John Russell
Young, minister to China, Alphonso
Taft, minister to Austria, e. T. Noyes,
ex-minister to France and other PROM
iuent people.
Little Rock adyices state that two
freight trains on the Iron Mountain
road collided Saturday and both en-
gines and fifteen cars were wrecked.
Two colored tramps stealing a ride
were killed and a stockman injured.
Malinda Hope, formerly a resident of
Denver at which city some of her rela-
tiyes now reside, attempted suicide for
herself and death for her three children
in New York, Sunday. The druggist
to whom she applied for drugs becom-
ing suspicious, gave her a harmless
powder and the deed was averted.
Destitution and the desertIon of her
husband caused the attempt.
O'Donovan Rosa, the Irish agitator,
when asked Sunday evening by a New
York reporter to give his opinion on
the causes and effects of the recent as
sassination in Ireland, said: II have
not a word to say on the matter. 1 can
not talk with you about it at ALL"
When the reporter found him he was
busy bunting up the pedigree of the
Cavendish family In "Burke's Peer
age"
Parnell in an interview on the sub
ject of the GROWING outrage in the
Irish chaos, said: "This terrible event
should dash our hopes. l wish to God
1 never had left Portland. The crime
was without a motive and was not only
the most fatal blow that has ever been
struck at the land league but one of the
most disastrous blows which has been
sustained by the national cause during
the past century. Its occurrence at
this particular ~juncture seems like ter
rible destiny. My only hope is that the
assassins may be discovered and pun
isaed as they deserve. 1t is wonderful
how the outrage could have occurred
within a few hundred yards of the con-
.stabulary depot"
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached
land and said of the murder of Lord
Cavendish that the act was but the try
ing to change the destinies of the ma
tion by the use of the pistol and the
dagger. 1t was a bloody murder but
the work was not that of the Irish peo-
Pile or ever of any Irish party, and ap-
peared to be the outburst of the blind,
unreasonable fury of a few against the
government. They thought that in
stabbing the chief secretary they had
struck the very. throne itself. Within
the last few years the Irish have been
right in much that they have done.
The English are a great and good peo-
pie but they go not know how to gov
ern their subjects. The national Irish
workingman must be a land laborer.
In the main the Irish patriots ha We act
ed wisely, but the murder of Lord Cav
endish will tend to enrage all the peo-
pie and England will rock with indig-
nation. We should not take sides but
judge alphabetically and wisely. AT
ter referring to Queen Victoria's dis
played affection for the American PEG.
pie, the speaker closed by paying a
tribute to the Irish.