The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-05

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O&elal Paper OF the United stateN.
F0HLIsHED DAILY. EGCErT SUNDAY. ri
"a. CLAICHE. Proprietor
FRIDAY. FEB 5, 1875.
The subscription price Of the
DAILY LEADER has Leca reduced to
twenty-five cents a week, or ten dol
lars a year Ia advance.
The Cheyenne LEADER has double
the circulation Of any newspaper pub
H7hed in Wyoming Territory.
On and after this date, and until
further notice, Frank H. Stout will do
the collecting for the LEADER. All
orders for job work, advertising and
subscriptions will receive his prompt
zttention.
February %, 1879.
About the same delay in the trains
yesterday "A few hours late.
-Chas. Beno is gaining in health,
having been quite in.
AT Housman's is a neat little cabi-
net containing fine specimens from
the Metcalf Mines.
Several parties yesterday improved
their time in sleigh rides. Cheyenne
can turn out some ereditable rigs.
The city delivery wagons were
unusually busy all dry yesterday in
Supplying their customers with the
luxuries and n~ecessaries of life.
The subject Of the new "Grand
Hotel" Is being agitated to some pur-
pose. We begin to think that the
people are in earnest in this matter.
We work off to-day nearly an
hundred extra copies Of the LEADER.
This, together with our regular issue,
makes an edition Of no small pretcn-
sions.
If the heads of the different de-
nominations of churches will hand in
their announcements for Sunday ser
vices on Friday afternoons we will
glndly give them place in our columns.
S. II. Birdsall, Esq, late of Den
yer Is in town and proposes To give
Lessons in vocal music. Mr.. Birdsall
eome well recommended, and we will
have more to say in his favor at some
other date.
A large amount of game is in the
market at present, and rs our dealers
sell on the live and let live principle.
the merchant, the mechanic, and the
gentleman of leisure, enjoy many a
toothsomc dish.
We receive, each week, new sub
scriptions to our Mammoth Weekly.
This is as it should be. for we are GER
tajuly furnishing n paper that for the
large amount and varied and instruct
i've reading matter has no peer in this
Territory.
The debate on the civil rights bill
in the House of Representatives yes
terday, was very bittor, Brown of
Kentucky, making an outrageous at
tack on Gen. Butler, for which he was
called to the bar of the House and
censurcd by the Speaker. Without
reaching a vote the House adjourned.
Here is a legend to the effect that
a party desiring to transact some pri-
vate business with another, was invi-
ted to step into n neighboring store on
- Street. but we will be
disturbed there" said the first party.
"Oh, no." said the second party;
they don't advertise" This points
a moral and adorns n tale"
Tho Denver Nc,Us is not pleased
with the appearance of the LEADER
since the first of February. If the
proprietor of the Nous would follow
our example and discontinue to pub
fish some Of his many dead or non
paying advertisements. he would,
with considerable profit to himself, lop
off two or three columns of his news
paper and thus furnish a better look
ing and more readable Journal to his
patrons.
Death of Senator Buckingham.
The telegraph this morning an
nounces the death of Senator Buck
ingham of Connecticut, the great war
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