The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-08
sIFTINGs OF NEWS.
The Earl of Wilton is dead.

new discoveries are DelDB maue vi
coal in Victoria.
Moscow advices state that there are
serious signs of a movement among the
Poles.
The Illinois general assembly meet
on the 23d inst. to ~apportion senatorial
districts.
At W~ilkesbarre, Pa, yesterday, the
gas works were demolished by an eX-
plosion.
Important arrests of Nilihists were
made in Odessa lately. A secret press
was discovered.
Earl Rodesdale has introduced q bill
to exclude atheists from both branches
of parliament.
Philadelphia dispatches state that the
demand for wool is improving, but
prices are unchanged.
The Prussian chambers have voted
the. necessary amount to establish q
legation at they atican.
The family of the late professor of
Chinese at Harvard is en- route to San
Francisco, thence to China.
Emigration to America this year
from Germany promises to be very
much greater than last year.
Henry Ward Beecher was as well as
usual yesterday and went to Ottawa,
where he lectured last night.
A New York grand jury has indicted
SPECIAL Treasury Agent Curtis for ask
ing money for political purposes.
There was a terrific explosion yester-
day morning at the works of the Amer
lean powder company, Sudbury, Mass.
1t is expected debate upon the Chinese
bill will be concluded to-day, and that
a vote will be reached upon the meas
ure.
A Moscow correspondent says that
custom officers discovered hats contain
ing dynamite in cases remaining un-
claimed.
The effort to make the sessions secret
of the foreign relations committee while
looking into the Peruvian affair seems
likely to fail.
The foreign affairs committee has
commenced the investigation of the
alleged abstraction of state papers from
the department files.
The bill Incorporating Eads' ship rail-
way has been reported back from the
committee on commerce, accompanied
by volumnious speeches.
The journeymen painters of st. Louis
are out on a general strike for three
dollars a day. Various classes of work.
men are agitating a strike.
During February British imports de-
creased 100000 pounds and exports
increased 2, 10O,0 900 pounds, as compar-
ed with the same month last year.
Our crippled navy is receiving at
tention. Representative Harris has
completed his report favoring the re-
construction of the navy, and a proper
bill has been introduced.
The German press is indignant at
Gen. Skobeloff's speech at Warsaw, in
which he fattered the Poles, saying if
there was no Russian garrison at War
saw there would be a German one.
The Chinese bill is still before the
Washington Solons, and if strong and
long speeches could condemn the Celes-
tials to Halifax, the whole of the flow
cry kingdom would have been there ere
this.
Thirty counties in Louisiana are now
under water, which are the richest cot
ton lands in the world, and if they are
not rescued the cotton crop of the COM
ing year will be cut down at least a
million bales.
The attorney general has received
a verdict in his favor against Wander,
bilt in the case of the consolidation of
the G., c., c. & 1. and the g., H. s. d.
roads and leased lines. This is n square
defeat for Vanderbilt.
Disastrous effects of the Sunday
night storms are reported from all parts
of Mexico. The principal market is a
total wreck. The corrugated iron roof,
ing gave way settling down all the
stone supports, Two Indians were
killed.