Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-08-28
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A farmer in northern Mississippi has
cleared SIG an acre from his water
melon crop.
Key West has eighty-one cigar fac
tories, which turned out $4,000, 600
cigars last year.
A Chinaman committed suicide in
San Francisco, recently, by hanging
himself in sewer.
An car and part of n skull are held
as relics of tho Carlyon disaster by an
Albion, N. Y, man.
Nine young women of Huntsville,
Ala, beat nine young men at baseball
by score of 20 to IL.
Ohio girls on the Erie shore hang
their clothes ON q hickory limb and
dive when trains pass.
Baltimore has about four hundred
hacks. The cost of one and pair OF
horses averages $1,000.
Wolves destroy $12, 500, 900 worth of
cattle in eastern Russia every year,
and human lives are also lost.
A topper of Park City, KY, was SO
thirsty as to sell his spectacles for 80
cents, which he spent for whisky.
A man named Garfield, who is total
ly blind, carries the mails between
Highland and Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Cow-bells are the musical instru-
ments used for serenadipg ncwly-mar-
ried couples until they stand treat, in
the glorious west.
A girl in Howard, Steuben county,
N. Y, has plowed, planted, and culti-
waited four acres of potatoes this sum-
mer on her fathers farm.
There is much excitement among
the Mongolian residents of Philadel-
phia, Pa, over the proposition to ap-
point Sam Wah patrolman.
Opium has advanced heavily under
an increase of duty and the expectation
that the cholera will interfere
with the harv6lt in that Levant.
An ingenious Stockton, Cal, burglar
goes about with a lishing-tackle and
hauls the clothes through the transoms
and then takes his time looking them
over.
Pie-a-pot is the name of a north
western territory chief who, with n part
of his tribe, entertained the people of
Reginer with a genuine Indian pow-wow
recently.
An Elmira, n. Y, florist has sue
ceeded in growing bananas in green
house, and the fruit is said to be a vast
improvement on that imported from
the tropics.
A japanese writes home to Toxic
from New York that Americans can
not distinguish him from Chinaman,
and that in consequence he suffers
, many indignities.
Six persons, English, French, and
| Italian, have written to secure guides
= for the ascent of the Aiguille Blanche
Q du Penteret, in which Prof. Balfom
r lost his life last year.
G An artesian well at WaynesborO,
q Ga, has struck vein of sharks teeth
: at four hundred feet depth. The fossil
j, bed is quite thick, and other bones are
: occasionally brought up.
A bolt of lightning struck the
: ground near East Thompson, Mass.
II II in front of pair of horses. One was
y u killed and the other, a bay, is now
q u coal black, and much faster.
- - The following is literal transcript
% of sign on Pennsylvania village
u store: "Tea and Taters, Sugar anC
+ shingles, Brickdust and Lasses
d Whisky, Tar and other Drugs"
/ Hot Springs, Ark, now steps TO thu
IS front with ''small man." whom the,
n claim to be the smallest in the world
< He is two feet and seven inches tall
le and is as old as the oldest of tn
,e smallest
'e The grave of young woman VIII
RI was huriad forty wears apo in Texas