Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-05-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Every wcll-regulated newspaper has
the Cars obituary ready.
Galveston is creeping mp rs q cotton
market-900 coo bales this season
One may remain in Bermuda rutiI
the end of May. After that it is very
hot.
The growing crop OF oats is two feet
high in some of the fields in Sumter
county, Ga.
The newly discovered placcrs on the
Agua Fria, Arizona, are attracting con-
aidcrable attention.
Besides his duchy of Cornwall. the
Prince of Wales owncs real estate
valued at 100000 year.
An artesian well. four hundred feet
deep, at Parnasus, Va. has been fin
ished, and affords excellent water.
\ London physician says the English
sparrow j. subject To the smallpox,
and can easily spread the disease.
One billion seven hundred and
seventy->iN million letters, cards and
newspapers last year weIt through the
British postoliicc
a Georgia bottle Of whisky, found IN
the wall of an old courthouse, was
sixty years Old That was rs old rs it
was allowed to get.
The California wine production, rs
measured by receipts mt San Francisco,
has risen from 1864, COZ gallons in 1879
TO 1000, 600 in 1882.
Old-faShioned nint-lock shotouns are
still made at birmingham, England,
for use in remote places where, should
the ammunition Tor patent guns give
out, the hunter would be helpless.
After the wheat came mp on q Ken
tucky farm a slect-storm covered the
tiold with ice. Before this melted u
flood swept over, and the ice, rising to
the surface OF the water, pulled every
blade of wheat out Of the ground and
carried it away.
The new married woman property
act in England encourages woman
to lend money to anybody except her
husband. 1t enables her to sue him
and To be witness against him. II also
renders her liable TO maintain both her
husband and her children.
AH immense amount of building is
progress at Washington. Many gov
crnmcnt employees at from 50 800 to
> 600 y year own handsome houses in
more or less fashionable quarters, and
/ invite the reflection that they must be
maryellously good managers to DO it.
A recent visitor in Maine said he
succeeded in getting drink of whisky.
| The bar was the vest pocket of II
hotel keeper, and the liquor was poured
out for hlm i'm n secret room. After
drinking it he made rush for the
hotel pump to put out the fire.
A Wisconsin court decides that u
pOund-mastcr does not hold an office
or place of trust, and need not there
fore be sworn. The owners of i'm
pounded stock, however, seem to think
that considerable swearing is absolutely
essential and therefore do ii themselves.
The Boston sheriff who made the an
neXcd remark Is lcvcl-hcadcd: "ManY
women come to me at the jail and want
10 read and talk to the criminals, but
tell them TO 90 and read and talk TO the
same class that are not as yet crmi-
nails, and keep them from being such. -
NJ Ferd Reiber, of StraSburo. has
published a book ON beer, in which he
states that it has already invaded the
south of France, and is rapidly making
its way into Italy. lie gives a curious
reason for the fact. "Bcer is the only
liquor he says, (which one can drink
and enjoy While smoking. "
A married man in Rochcs' cr, accord
r inc TO the Post of that city, took Il
+ young lady to the theatcr one night
| and nfinr lEn first act cXcnseN himsell