The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-19

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. The citizens of Newport. r. l., pro
pose inviting President Arthur to a
clam-bake.
Cetewayo is to return to Africa, and
will be clothed with a restricted power
over his people.
A Japanese military officer in the
Corean service is among the killed in
the recent massacre.
Gray, imprisoned for charging drunk
enness in a jury, is receiving substan-
tial aid in commons.
Alfred Guthrie, son of the discover
er of chloroform and percussion powder,
died in Chicago Thursday, aged II
years.
The small grain and tobacco crop of
eastern Kentucky will be about three
fourths average; caused by the rain and
insects
The anti-monopoly league of New
York have issued a call for a state con
v%ention, to be held at Saratoga, on Sep
TENDER 10.
On Thursday 81 new cases and two
deaths were reported at Brownsville.
At Matamoras but a few new cases
we're reported.
The election returns in .Kentucky
from all the counties but five, give
Henry ~(democrat), for appellate clerk,
$4,000 majority,
Fifteen cars of a gravel train on the
Iron Mountain road were wrecked near
Benton Thursday. Mogart, the con-
ductor, was killed.
The president has appointed commits
sioner. to examine the $50 miles of the
Northern Pacific railroad company's
newly completed road.
They are holding a lively greenback
convention in Boston, OF account of
some wanting to adjourn without max
ing a nomination for governor.
Samuel Allen, a native of Canada,
and a graduate of McGill University,
was instantly killed Thursday, near
Aspen, by a tree falling on him.
Fred. G. Moyle and Thomas Harris,
miners, were fatally injured Thursday,
at Los Cerrillos, near Santa Fe, by a
premature discharge of a blast.
Potter and Scott, colored men, have
fought at Crestline, Ohio, under the
Marquis of Queensbury rules. Scott
was knocked out of time in the fourth
round.
The mill estate of the United States
fax manufacturing company at Central
Falls. a part of the Sprague estate, sold
at auction for 500, 100, to the Union
company.
The Mississippi river commission, in
session in New York, rave determined
to recommend "a, 2l3, 900 out of the
So, 150, 600 for improvement of the river
below Cairo.
IA four thousand dollar trotting horse
belonging to c. Donavan, at Jersey
City, N. j., was drowned by falling
through a covered well, Thursday.
A meeting was held at Angus
ia, Ga, which passed resolutions ex-
pressive of sorrow over the death Of
Senator Hill. The stores Of the city
were draped in mourning.
A Berlin correspondent of the Col
ogne Gazette expresses his opinion that
Russia is preparing for a war with
Turkey, by way of compensation for
England's occupation of Egypt.
The United States steamship Adams,
now at San Francisco, has been ordered
to proceed to Sitka, Alaska, to relieve
the Wachusetts, now at that station,
which vessel will proceed to San Fran
cisco.
The Astor coal mine, near Cumber-
land, Md, which has been burning
since 1872, on Thursday burst forth in
a tremendous blaze, the flames rising TO
a height of so feet, endangering much
property in the neighborhood.
Secretary Lincoln on Thursday APP
pointed two hundred clerks and a num-
Der of messengers and watcLmen for
service in connection with the pension
cases, provided for in the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. OF the appointments four are
credited to California, five to Colorado,
one to Nevada, two to Oregon, two to
Dakota, n to Wyoming, and nine to
the United states army. There are
still about $50 appointments to be
made.
The New York Times editorial of
yesterday says that "Richelieu, Rob
inson, the eminent Brooklyn blather-
skite, has a rival in the person of Capt.
John Mullan, of California. who pro-
poses to take a turn at twisting the tail
of the British lion, apropos of Henry
George, the California journalist. The
captain, as has been stated, has filed
with the secretary of state a petition
inviting the attention of the state de-.
partment to the second arrest of Mr..
George.