Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-03-15
HERE AND THERE.

Ihe big price OF ~, 700 was paid for
hunting dog at High Point, N. c.,
the other day.
1t is said that fashionable beauties
produce red cheeks by rubbing the
face with ice.
Thirty thousand dollars have been
spent in fighting the Scott temperance
act in Ontario.
Rural swains and damsels are again
enjoying the diversion of hunting for
the ''red ear"
A larger ratio of people born in Ver-
mont have emigrated than from any
other state in the union.
The debating societies of California
are exercised over the questions "Re-
SolUed, That the Chinese must 60"
The bank of the Mississippi river at
Hopefield, Ark, is caving in. The
wharf and several streets have gone
in.
There is an old lady living in Alpathe
Ca, who was scalped by an Indian
during the Seminole war, forty years
ago.
The American mackerel fishing
season is over. The catch falls short
of last years by many thousand bar
rels.
A milk white alligator was discov-
cred in pond at Escambia, Ala,
lately, and also one that is parti-col-
ored.
Confederate bonds are booming, and
sell readily for cent on the dol
lar. At this rate they will soon be as
dear as good wall paper.
Three young Cuban ladies who had
been studying pharmacy in New York
recently opened n drug store in a fash
ionable quarter of Havana.
A Maine newspaper says that the
village of Prospect Harbor, GoldsbOro
county, 'has no church society, no
temperance society, no gin-mill, no
drunkard, and no pauper."
The skeleton of man was recently
found in the Dead river region, Ore
gon, caught in a bcar-trap. The ap-
pearance of the skeleton indicated
that he had devoured his own flesh.
A recent Investigator into the causes
of consumption says that the disease
is often inherited because the heir has
taken for his personal use the deced-
ent's old mattresses, upholstered chairs s
and carpets.
The geological museum at Cam
bridge, Mass, which Agassiz began
in 1858 on gift of $50, 600, now repre-
sents an investment in buildings, etc. e,
of over S700,O0O, and has 5000, 600 OF
invested funds.
Some men at work in Georgia viii
lage cut down tree in which they
saw that piece of different kind oil
wood had bean dove tailed, This they
cut out. and found more than $1,000,
which had been secreted apparently
twenty or twenty-five years ago.
A young Salvation army girl recent
ly fell very i'll in Portsmouth, n. Ill.
The captain refused to permit her to
90 20 the hospital, and said she must
work till she died. She thereupon de-
serted, and the indignation of the peo
pie is aroused.
Birmingham, Ala, has thief nam
ed Sturgess, who makes specially o.
wedding presents. He was regular
attendant at church, and never missed
a wedding. HIS house was found full
of beautiful articles stolen from va
rious wedding feasts.
Chattanooga is troubled with al
epedemic of lovers, Every nigh
from 7 to II o'clock the streets ar,
lined with couples, arm-in-arm, takinl
up the whole sidewalk and forcing
single individuals into the street. Th
council has been obliged to pass al
ordinance to keep ali lovers of tn
street
The citizens of Bordentown, n. j.
irrespective of party, have appolnte'
committee to draft a bill to be pre-
sented to the next legislature modify
ing the present bribery act so that tn