Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-12-21
FACTS AND FANICES.


Vessels arrive daily at Gloucester,
Mass, loaded down with halibut, and
they are fast becoming drug on the
market.
A cricket eleven from the West
Indies will soon begin the task of teach
ing America organizations how to play
that game.
A swift steel steamboat is soon to
make its appearance among tho
wooden fleet on the waters of the
upper Mississippi.
The Young ladies of Vassar will COM
pete in the iternational cooking-match
to be held at Westminster for spec
ial prize to be given for indestructible
bread.
Mr.. Ferguson, of Bucksville, Ky, af-
ter twelve years distracting work,
says he has perfected an engine which
has lImitess possibilities. No water
or fuel is required.
Generals, colonels, and lesser official
military lights can be found to the
number of sixty-two in Rome, Ga. but
mot a single private is known TO be
within the city limits"
There are now forty-thousand China
men in San Francisco, ten thousand
of whom live outside of Chinatown.
The majority of them are well armed
and prepared for attacks.
The Laramie Boomerang calls atten-
tion to the fact that the reservation
Indians leave their reservation and
slaughter droves of wild game
by driving the animals into pockets.
The great triple toboggan slide that
| 80, 30, l. 10 IS l,n Gu I,t
ring the winter, is almost finished. 1t
has been graded for n distance of 1900
feet wide. The grade is one in four.
A horse that fell overheard in New
York harbor the other night, swan
for seven hours, when rescued at dawn
munched his oats rs contentedly rs il
nothing out OF the usual course OF
events had occurred.
Joseph Hatfield, weaver in tho
Baltic mill in Sprague, Conn, has just
received word that by the death of an
uncle in England he comes into one
fifth of an estate of $l25, 900. He sails
for England next Saturday.
Miss Florence Miller, of Texarkana,
Ark, woke up Saturday night, and
perceiving burglar in the room
sprang at him, pulled his hair, and
showed him towards u window, out OF
which he jumped, Florence firing sew
eral shots at him.
There is n hill on fire near Minnedo-
sa, which caught from a prairie fire
last spring and has been burning ever
r since. The smoke can be distinctly
seen, and when the wind blows from
, that quarter to the settlement it smells
like burning coal.
A tramp printer to whom the editor
of The Northeast Md. Star gave 25cents
, two years ago acknowledged the kind
ness last week by an editorial on Mary
, land hospitality in prosperous Mime
sofa paper of which he is now the
editor and proprietor.
z Montana and Dakota combined
. would form domain larger in extent
t than all of the United States from the
t st. Lawrence to North Carolina and
l from the Alleghanies to the Atlantic.
Custer county, Montana, alone is larger
I in area than the whole state of Penn
: sylvania.
Near Gilmore, Neb., is being built o
I feedng-stable, 300xS00 feet, containing
I $3.50 separate stalls, and in which il
I will DO possible to tatten yearly l,250
head of cattle, for which purpose it is
estimated that 800, 900 bushels of corn
and 1000 tons of hay will be required
= The Charleston Ne,Os and Courier
, saws there is deplorable condition OF
, morals among the cOlOred people on
the Sea islands. Ii left to themselves
!, they will sink to the lowest level OF
r degradation in n few generations.