The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-07-13
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some of Ia sad Things OF Life OFTEN
Met with.

JOEldl lhDOE, uluIc luhu a. AiSb hpPSoiSf
and the ju~xtaposition Of varied pictures
is often startling and sometimes anus
ing In the course of a days general
work. 1t is often a passage from a
wedding to a funeral, from a church to
dens of sin, from lightest pleasure to
gravest business cares; all as the
chances of occurrence may throw them
in his way.
The rumor of q stabbing scrape in
the western part of town late one even
ing afforded the hope of q sensational
| item and an illustration to the present
purpose. The place where the affair
occurred was sought out and the dusky
patrons piled with questions tending
to make the story a complete one; but
no one knew anything of it to all ap-
pearance-at least their knowledge
wasn't fashionable and mot at home''-
and the Faber pusher sailed out in the
twilight to look up another cue. An
officer was found andin his company the
hut of the wounded man sought out. 1t
was set back from the street in a dark
alley. A knock brought al invitation
to come in, and the invitation was &C
copied. The cabin was q squallid, poor
thing-the home of the negro who was
stabbed. A wierd, uncertain light
from q balf burned candle cast fantas-
tic shadows upon the chaotic contents
and begrimmed walls of the hut. n
single attendant. colored, waited
at the side of the wounded
man, who lay in restless slum-
ber, upon "a rude bed spread on
the cabin floor. Like the home of the
very imp of darkness appeared this
rude cabin by night, a comparison the
force of which was not decreased by the
ebony faced denizens. The story was
soon told, and steps were slowly retrac-
ed through the darkness back to the
brightly lighted business streets with a
certain feeling of relief.
Another incident is recalled by
inquiries made but a short time since
concerning ar emigrant passenger who
was going east n night some months
ago. The fellow had seen better times,
and he had seen rougher. He had
INDUCED in drink to such An extent
with others, hat he was nearly intoxi.
Gated when he stepped on the platform
and went for more liquor. The train
started and the crowd made u rush for
it. This fellow had two or three bottles
in his aims and, coming near dropping
them, he lost himself in saving them
and fell under the wheels.
The wound was not a serious one.
The wheel merely passed across his
foot, crushing his toes, but the man
himself was in bad shape as he was
taken to the hospital. First the toes
were removed. Then, gangrene super
vening, the knife and saw took the
foot, the lower leg and then the grim
visitor death took him entirely, and the
stranger was placed in a strange grave
by friendly hands but not by friends.
A few weeks since came along g young
couple from the west with the report
er's story of the affair clipped and
saved carefully, and quite n romano
was developed in the series of interest.
ed questions.
Word was received early one morn
ing that q foul murder had been com
mitted in a certain portion Of town and
that a young artisan lay stiff and STARK
in the cold embrace of al immature.
death, and thither the news gatherer
must go perforce. An old building
hanging oyer a half dug cellar partially
filled with the wash from a Chinese
wash house, marked the spot where the
deed was perpetrated. The dark brown
stains on the side walk marked par
TALLY the course of the victim in hi!
struggle.
On a cot in a little room in the real
of a neighboring shop the body of the
dead man lay cold and rigid in death,
surrounded by all the paraphernalia Of
his trade. The nude body, made ready
for the inquest, was cold and marble
like. The face was pallid and CHASTITY
the features sharp and clear as cut from
stone, while in the temple was a small
irregular wound, from which some dark
blood had oozed and which told the
tale. A wife and family some hundreds
of miles away, received a telegraphit
message that morning cruelty brief,
which brought sorrow to the hearth for
time to come because of one nights
carousal.
On The vast overland roadway-that
iron band which binds ocean to ocear
-scenes often are enacted which ART
touching to the extreme, and often.
times highly romantic. 1t was but
few weeks since that the widow of ont
of China's most learned representative!
in this country passed west with hel
family accompanying the remains O.
her dead lord to the Celestial country
that his bones might lie in the land o
his fathers and his burial fulfil the ira,
ditions of his country.
The errand In itself was a sad one,
but a sudden bereavement while en-
route made it doubly 80, for just as thu
overland train pulled into this city {
little son breathed his last and ar
undertaken here arranged the worn out
body to accompany the silent father oil
the long journey, while fresh tears fill
ed the eyes of mother and brother, .