Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-15
PASSING EVENTS.

caSl0nalIy eats candy ana ginger
bread.
The mobilizing of the Mexican army
of twenty thousand men in Chiapas,
on the Guatemala frontier, will, it is
said, cost S1,000,00
Texas will soon abound with cotton
mills, says San Antonio paper, which
also chronicles the erection of mill
at Riverdale at cost of $500
what is the first thing to be done
in case of freP' asked teacher.
''Sue the insurance company" promt-
ly answered boy at the foot of the
class, whose father had had his house
burned out twice.
A veteran of the waves who is de-
voting his old age to the amelioration
of the condition of seamen, says that
''pOor Jack" now receives worse treat
ment on the water, if not on land,
than he did forty years ago.
AT the advanced age of 107 years
Domingo Acevedo died in Ingenio, in
the canton of Orizava, state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico. He was for several years
city treasurer of Ingenio, and was be-
sides an old soldier of Mexican inde-
pendence.
An old and respected citizen of
Southold, l.. l., fell from a load of
cornstalks two mon tbs ago and broke
his hip and leg. Last Saturday, while
crossing the room, he fell, by the slip
ping of one of his crutches, and broke
both his arms.
Nevada population has dwindled
to fifty thousand, and it is said that
the average tax per head on every man
woman, child, Indian, Chinaman, pau
per, jail-bird, and tramp in Nevada,
for county and state purposes, can not
be less than $50
The Will of Thomas Hege, of Frank
lin. Pa, provides that "should any of
the officials of the Vearngo Nantional
bank become conscience stricken, and
conclude to return to his executors the
$50, ZOO they stole from him, he be-
queaths that sum to the cemetery"
An enterprising Chnaman has I'M
ported models of Chinese bellies foot
two and one-eighth inches long by one
and quarter inches wide. me sells
him to Mclean belize for models to
makee him begoe feet alice samee
smallee fashions" says Wah Sing.
Five hundred and thirty enumera-
tors will 90 forth through Massachu-
setts on the 1st of May tC collect in
formation for the new census. The
nature of the inquiries will be the same
as formerly, with the addition of a
question regarding parent nativity.
The question of again opening the
New Orleans exposition on Nov. | is
being agitated. Notwithstanding the
expense that would be entailed during
the five months intervening between
the closing and reopening of the build
ing, in tie way of insurance, repairs.
and police, it is believed that the en-
tcrprlSe may be made to pay.
A bell-boy with nearly dollar in
hlm is being mined by physicians in
Portland, Me-, where he was employed
IN hotel. He was running upstairs
with 7o cents in his mouth, when, sud-
denly stopping for something, he
gulped the entire amount-two %
cent pieces, two dimes, and the rest in
pennies. Strange to say, there has
been no change in his internal arrange
ments since
A New York club man has on exhi-
Oltlon talking parrot which can give
my order that is issued on shipbOard.
ne other evening, when the wind was
blowing n pretty stiff breeze, jim
(the parroO began to muster aft hands
on deck to take in the light canvas
ana reef topsails, using a great many
nautical phrases that are not given in
any encyclopedia, much to the amuse-
ment OF the guests present.
lhe resources of civilization have
oecn brought into service in the case
)t Maxwell, the st. Louis murdoror