The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-07
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TElEGRAPHlc NEWS IN BRIEF.

A cyclone passed over Cuba yester-
day.
The Rio Grand is very high and still
rising.
National Telephone exchange is in
session at Boston.
Tho Bodie bank has voluntarily re-
tired from business.
No political or other mob occurred
at Hig%ginsville, Mo, as reported.
st. Paul reports say there will be
an average crop of wheat in that dis
trict.
At Milwaukee, the industrial exhibit
ton opened Monday, with = large
street parade.
Etienne, a French authority, makes
a favorable estimate of the worlds
crops for 1882.
Vermont election returns indicate
republican vote Of Is, 900 and dem.
ocratic vote $1,000.
a reception is to be given Melville,
of the Jeanette, in Philadelphia on his
arrival from Liverpool.
The Greenback Labor State conven-
ton at Columbia, South Carolina, has
1875 delegates, many colored.
At Columbus, S. c., the trial of
Capt. Halle, for killing L. W. r. Blair,
a prominent greenbacker has began.
Progressive Spelling was the sub
iect of a paper read by Francis WayIan
before the social scinece convention at
Saratoga.
At Usage, the ninth annual meeting
of the womans christian temperance
union OF the State Of New York has
convened.
Judge Field In the circuit court has
decided that merchants coming from
countries other than China may land
without certificates.
The steam Whaler North Star was
crushed by ice and sunk off Alaska
July 8. TIE crew were fed and shell
tered there until the ice broke up.
The Chicago grain markets, after
being lively and strong on Tuesday,
fell OF considerably yesterday, wheat
suddenly declining and corn unsettled.
Hanlan has challenged Ross, Court
ney and Lee, to row anywhere between
Washington and Boston, three miles,
and two weeks to intervene between
races.
There is an excitement at lei. Paso
over the reported discovery Of gold
quartz, worth one hundred thousand
dollars, in the Organ mountains fifty
miles away.
The Oswego convention will be one
of the most important wei held in
New York, in view of the recent i'm.
pulse the temperance received in
other states.
The rise of the Rio Grande carried
off the remainder Of the bridges of the
International & Great Northern and
Mexican National Rail Roads which
spanned the river.
At Washington, the board Of direct
ors Of the Garfield monument have or
gained, electiug John L. Thompson
chairman, Gen. d. Swain treasurer,
f. T. FilsOn secretary.
The steamer Annie Young, overdue
at Frankford, Mich, it is believed has
met with q disaster, and the captain of
a life saving station reports finding the
cabin Of n steamer along shore.
The Chickasaw Indian Legislature
organized yesterday. Governor Over
ton was declared elected. He delivered
4 message, dwelling strongly on the
necessity of school a penitentiary, and
a tax on cattle going through.
Customs officers will decide whether
Cinnamon travelling on through tickets
from one point to another in this
country, and passing en- route through
Canada, shall be admitted to enter the
United STAGES on the latter part of their
journey.
The practice shooting ut Creedmoor
yesterday, was very fine, but the Eng.
liss, was finer than the American.
The scores made by the former are so
much ahdae of the yankees that ulr
less n sharp and radical change is made
the Americans will no literally no
where.
At Syracuse, the state convention
amendment committee representing
various temperance organizations OF n,
Y. call a state convention ut Syracuse,
October. 4. TO take steps TO secure a
submission TO popular vote of the pro
hibitions amendment to state conven'
tiOns.
The general opinion Of the railroad
men In Chicago, OF the recent purchase
of the Hannibal & st. Joe railroads by
Gould, is not really to strengthen thu
Wabash system, but in the interest o.
the Union Pacific, and that this causl
taken in retaliation in the Burlington
X Quincy railroads for extending III
lines TO Denver.
AT Bakersfield, Cal, a carload o.
sick Cinnamon arrive yesterday, severa