Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-09

A MISSIONARY IN CHEYENNE.-ThiS town,
which, when the Pacific railway first came
through, flashed up to population of $500 and
then subsidized to 1900, is now coming up again.
A fair estimate would add three hundred to the
fifteen which the census reported in 1870. A
large and firSt-claSS hotel has been built by the
company. The trains stop here for dinner 60
ing both ways. A few two.story brick blocks
have been built, presenting more substantial
aspect in the business part of the town. All the
decent houses are again occupied. A very fine
court house with Jail and sherif's house at
tached, is going up in stone and brick | find
here house that manufactures the finest of
jewelry. Fort Russell, with It's thousand SOL
ders, gives business and life to the place, which
is now undergoing healthy and second growth
The most prominent edifice is two-story
school house in brick, crowned with a cupola,
built at a cost OF S13 900. Prominent citizens
here tell me that they owe that piece of public
improvement to Rev. Coli j. d. Davis, who
was the first missionary sent by the American
home missionary society to Cheyenne. As
they were using rckety building for school
house, he set himself to get one more worthy of
the town. He gave notices and preached upon
the subject. He secured public meeting and
favorable action. This was followed by another
meeting TO oppose it. Sel6shness said the taxes
would be TO heavy. But the house has been
built and is an ornament to the town as it is
an attraction to the settlers.
Another thing the home missionary aided.
The town is upon "the great American desert"
which will not produce trees or shurbs or garden
vegetables without irrigation. The Crow creek,
a small stream from the mountains, flows by.
Davis preached upon the subject, pushed it, and
now Davis ditch" bringing in health, and
verdure, and beauty, is one of the things by
which the missionary in Japan is remembered
here. The same ditch has this season been put
also to the service of utility and of pleasure in
filling pond back Of the town, and hundred
feet above it. TWAS n basin. The government
ceded as much land as the water would cover
and so beautiful sheet of twenty acres OF water,
fifteen feet deep in the middle, affords immense
pleasure as a place Of resort, and Of boat row.
ing, while it has yet TO be used for putting out
fires in the Itown Eastern people can hardly
imagine the pleasure these people take in this
body of water The burial place of the com
munity was unfit, and SO a sermon upon "Our
Machpelah," brought the appropriate ceme-
terry"
While the church was going up under con-
tract, the preacher, aided by his wife, was build
ing the parsonage, which in its two stories, has
furnished accommodation for the several mis-
sionares, who, in their passage across the con
tinent, have shared its hospitality But all this
was only accessory TO the spiritual building
which is being well set forward, as appears in
an increasing membership, good congrega
ton, an unusually well attended pravermeet-
ing, and fine Sabbath school. The church is
paying half the salary, while other churches in
the place pay scarcely anything in that way
| The church is also paying Its instaments OF
one hundred dollars upon the tive hundred
borrowed Of the union, besides the FIVE hundred
of appropriation. Rev Josiah Strong, who ca
tered upon Mr.. DaYis's labors Immediately upor
his leaving for Japan, Is carrying the worl
along with most encouraging SUGGESTION
Wcgotiondha.