The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Jay Cooks gaudY house at Chelten
Hills, near Philadelphia, is turned into
a girls seminary.
Milwaukee has planned a G.. A. R
meeting for 1885 which shall be the
largest reunion of veterans ever held in
this country.
Sitting Bull, jr., called We-Myee,
aged twenty-three, is at the Feehan-
vile training school, lear Chicago. He
has a wife, but left her at home to get
a book education $50 that he can be a
carpenter"
Fear God; and take your own part"
is the motto of the state of Dakota,
adopted by the statesmen who make
the prenatal convention. The thing
may not shine much in a literary sense,
but it is characteristic, anyhow.
The Importance of some kinds of
news varies with the locality. In one
short half-column of local items an Ari-
IONA newspaper called the Silver Belt
has accounts of one robbery, one shoot
ing ami II stabbing not fatal, and
four murders.
An ingenious person tells us that,
whereas in 1860 it took FIVE days, nine
changes of cars and several long trans
fers from one depot to another to get
from New York to New Orleans, you
can o go through in fifty-eight
hours, and with hardly any changing
at all.
The United States treasurer received
a letter postmarked in Missouri and
containing eighteen cents in postage
stamps the other day. which ran thus:
81 bought two and a half pounds oil
leaf tobacco for W use in acooun of
strength. U Sam is rich, but Cesar
ought to have his due"
the accident at "a Chicago bridg- the
other day leads to renewed taik of
building docks On The lake front, 81 as
u remove all traffic from the river.
Mayor Harrison jJinS i'll urging the ex-
tinctioh OF the swinging bridges aud
just what his h nor says is: do away
with the d u cuuc rus"
Is. c. Sparrow, superintendent of the
second life saving district, mas b.eh
experimenting with oil on troubled
waters, and reports thus; The ma.
jorIty of the printed statements, to-
gether with all verbal statements made
by mariners who have used it, furnish
conclusive evidence that in deep water
oil has a calming effect upon a rough
sea, but the conclusion deduced from
ex reriments is that oil exerts no
the shore. The result when an inrol-
ling and u%ndulating wave from the
ocean throws thousands of tons of wa
ter upon the shore csnnot be prevented
by a thin film of OIL"
w. w. Griest, in a recent article in
the Philadelphia Times, tells of an in
terview with the late Captain Avis,
John Browns jailer. He says: L
asked Captain Avis whether or not it
was true that John Brown, on the day
of his execution, stopped and kissed a
little negro child, as Greeley asserts in
his story and as Whittier has put into
his rhyme. He said that Brown was
taken from the Jail to the scaffold in a
spring wagon, in which were the driver,
the sheriff, two guards and himself;
that he was beside the prisoner from
the time he walked out of the cell un-
til the fatal drop vas sprung; that the
story has no basis in fact whatever.
No doubt the origin of this pretty piece
Of sentiment is due to its FEASIBILITY
to the fact that the rough and
grizzly yet tender and blue eyed father
might do just such a thing, thus paying
his last respects to a race for whose de-
liverance he and three of his sons faced
and met death. I'm the wagon, on the
way to the scaffold," continued Avis,
''the only thing that l can remember
Brown. saying was, You have a beau
tiful country On the scaffold l ad-
justed the rope, and just before the
high sheriff gave the signal L asked
Brown If he had anything to say. His
reply, the last words he ever uttered,
was, No; be quick"