Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

go. This action is on account of the
continued lockout.
An entire shipment of English plate
glass, consigned to prominent inn
porter, valued at 500, 900, is held in
the New York custom-house for irreg-
ularitics IN invoicing.
A Congregational convention at ST.
Albans, Vt, adopted report depre-
ciating the running of Sunday trains.
A committee was appointed to present
the report 70 the legislature.
President Barrios, of Guatemala,
proposes to give the Mexican nationa
library the original manuscript of Ber-
nails Conquest of Mexico" which is
now in the library of Guatemala.
The historic island of st. Helena is
reported to be in very bad way, the
abandonment of the Cape route since
the opening of the Suez canal having
taken away its trade in retittng and
victualing ships.
A number of charitable Christian
ladies of New Orleans have formed an
unsectarian aid society, whose object
is to afford immediate relief to urgent
cases, pending investigation by the
conference of charities.
The rains have done much dams ge
in the interior of California to grain.
Hay on the ground, especially in San
Benito, has been seriously injured.
Beans, corn, and buckwheat have been
benefited. Strawberries and cherries
have suffered to large extent
Mary +. Stockett, of Norwich, Conn.
was q soldiers widow and drew pen
sion. She married a colored man. thus
losing her pension, and lately found
that he had a previous wife living.
Now she sues to have her marriage
declared void, so that the payment of
pension may be resumed.
Many leading firms of Hartford.
Conn, have signed a petition to the city
council praying for the imposition of
license or tax upon those who 90
there for a short time and offer goods
for sale in direct competition with
legitimate city trade without having to
pay any share of the city taxes.
A Philadelphia girl who las lived in
Europe since she was child (she is
now 1O will create sensation at
Long Branch, where she will pass the
summer, by the extraordinary beauty
of her complexion. She owes it all to
the old recipe of sleeping every night
with piece of raw beef on each
cheek. This she has done for eight
years.
When ladies at n horse show 90 to
the extreme of kissing the horses that
they most admire, there can be no
question as to the sincerity of their ad-
miration. This method of bestowing
volumes of praise without words was
not uncommon at the recent show at
Madison Square garden, New York.
The usual spot of imprinting the kiss
was on the side of the glossy arched
neck, though some of the ere eatures
which gave evidences of gentleness
were rewarded with kisses on their vel
vety noses.
The deep-sea fishes taken by the
United States fish commission steamer
during its late cruise in the Caribbean,
are exciting much interest at the
Smithsonian. Curiosity is intensified
by those specimens of deep-sea fishes
which are nearly or entirely blind =
the eyes becoming atrophied or obso-
lete from disuse, like those of the fish
inhabiting the Mammoth cave of Ken.
ky,-while others have large eyes,
and the blind fish of the cave are allied
TO some superficial marine fishes that
have well-developed eyes.
Isaac Langdon, Salt Lake Mormon,
who lately took second wife without
the knowledge of his first, brought the
former home few days ago. The
first was so shocked that she became
temporarily insane. Her husband told
her she would soon get over it, and