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Middletown transcript., 1876-02-19
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.

When the mad passions of the war, whic
ought to have been laid aside a full decad
ago, are sought to be again aroused by th
Blaines and Mortons of the North, by faunt
ing the shirt of sanguinary hue in the ma
tional halls of Congress, it will not be amis
to read with profit the following anonymou
lines:
20, mother what do you mean by the blue
And what do they mean by the gray?"
Was heard from the lips of little child,
As she bounded-in from her play.
The mothers eyes filled up with tears,
! As she turned to her darling fair,
And smoothed away from the sunny brow
Its treasures of golden hair.
"Why mothers eyes are blue my child,
And Prandpa's hair is gray.
And the love we bear our darling one
Grows stronger every day.
'But what did they mean?' persisted the
child,
sFor saw two cripples to-day,
And one of them said he fought for the blue;
The other he fought for the gray"
"Now, he of the blue had lost leg,
The other had but one arm,
And both seemed worn and weary and sad,
Yet their greeting was kind and warm.
They told Of battles in days gone by
Till it made my young blood thrill;
The leg was lost in the Wilderness fight,
And the arm on Malvern Hill.
"They sat on the stone by the farmyard gate,
And talked for an hour or more,
Till their eyes grew bright. and their hearts
SO warm,
While fighting their battles o'er;
Ard parting at last with friendly grasp,
In kindly, brotherly way,
Each called on God to speed the time
Uniting the blue and the gray"
Then the mother thought Of other days
Two stalwart boys from her riven-
How they knelt at her side and, lsping,
prayed,
"Our Father who art in Heaven
How one wore the gray and the other the
blue,
How they passed away from sight,
And had gone to land where gray and blue
Are merged in colors of light
And she answered her darling with golden
hair,
While her heart was sadly wrung
With the thoughts awakened in that sad
hour,
By her innocent, pratling tongue;
The blue and the gray are colors of God,
They are seen in the sky at even,
And many noole and gallant soul
Shall wear them united in heaven.
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The confirmed preudices Of a
thoughtful life are ss hard to change
as the confirmed habits of an indolent
life; and as some must trif1e. away age
because they tri6e away youth, others
must labor on 10 a maze Of error, be-
cause they have wandered there too long
to find their way out -Botingbroke.
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Middletoun 4irettorp.
CORPORATION OFFICERS.

TowN COMMISSIONERS e. W. Lockwood
President; J. R. Hall, Secretary: l.. P. Nc
Dowell, J. H. Walker, L G. Vandegrift.
Assessor &C. E. Anderson.
TREAsURER.-Joseph Hanson.
JUsTIcE OF THE PEAcE.-DeW. G. Walker.
CoNsTABLElAND PoLlcEMAN.-Vacant.
LAMpLIGHTER.-F. G. Schreitz.
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Prof. Rudolph says that he has found
out that the sun is white. hot mass,
$685. 900 miles in diameter. having a
surrounding ocean of burning gas 3d.
900 miles deep. with tongues Of fame
darting upward $4,000 miles, and vol
canic forces that hurl luminous matter
to the height Of 100, 900 miles.
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BUILDING AND LOAN.

MlDDLETowN B. l. l.. ASSOCIATION. Samuel
Pennington, Pres; A. G. Cox, Secretary. Meets
on the 6rst Thursday of every month at 8
O'Clock, pm.
MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MIDpLETowN.
JAS. H. Scowdrick, Pres; A. G. Cox, Sec
retary. Meets on the third Tuesday of every
month at O'Clock, p. m.
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OFFICE HouRs.-Opens at 30 m and
closes at 9 p m every day except Sunday
Mails for the North close at 7.30 m, and
2.45 m.
Mail for the South closes at 10 Is m.
Mails for Odessa close at 0.23 M and 7.30
pm.
Mails for Warwick, Sassairas and Cecilton
close at 1923 N.
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OFFICERS OF CITIZENS NATL
BANK.

DrREcroRs-Henry Clayton, B. Gibbs, B.
T. Biggs, John A. Reynolds, James Culbert-
son, E. c. Fenimore, NJ. E. Walker, .. B.
Cazier, Joseph Biggs.
PREsIDENT.-Henry Clayton,
CAsHIER-J. R. Hall.
TELLER.-John s. Crouch.
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MASONIC.

ADoxIRAM CHAPTER No. s, R. A. N. Meets
in Masonic Hall on the second and fourth Fri
days of every month at o'clock, p m.
UNION LODGE No. 5, A. F. A.. Meets on
the first and third Tuesdays of every month
at o'clock, p. m. Masonic Hall.
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lAFAsTIoIDE is said to be an alarm
ingly prevalent crime in London. II
is reported that 10 the district of Mid
dlesex. alone. three hundred children
are annually smothered in bed by their
parents
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

DAMON LODGE, No. IL Meets every Friday
evening at o'clock. Lodge room in the
Town Hail.
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DIRECTORS OF TOWN HALL co.

I'M. Cox, Pres; Samuel Pennington, Sec;
J. R. Hall, Treas; R. A. Cochran, Jas. Gull
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MIDDLETOWN LIBRARY AND
READING-ROOM.

EW. Lockwood, Pres; J. T. Budd, Secy
Rooms in TRANscRIPr Building. Reading
Room open every day until 10 O'Clock, p m.
Library open on Wednesdays and Saturday 8
from O'Clock TO 5 p m.
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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

PENINs. AGRICULTURAL AND POxoLoGIcAL As
soclATIoN.-Wm. R. Cochran, President and
Chairman of Board of Managers; J. B. Clark
son, Secretary. Annual Meeting fourth Sat-
urday in January. Next annual fair will be
held on October 4th, 5th and 9Th, 1876.
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STAGE LINES.

Stage for Odessa, with q. s. Mail, leaves
shortly after arrival of the TO- 43 am and 7.55
| p m mail trains.
Stages for Warwick, Sassafras and Cecilton
leave shortly after arrival of the 1913 a m
train,
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NOTARY PUBLIC.
John A. Reynolds.
TRUSTEES OF THE ACADEMY.

Hon John P. Cochran. Pres. Henry Davis,
Treas. Samuel Pennington, Secretary James
Kanely, B. Gibbs, R. T. Cochran, n. Williams
Principal OF AcADEMY.-T. 8. Stevens.
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People have . custom of excusine
the enormities of their conduct by talk
ing of their passions as if they were
under the control of blind necessity.
and sinned because they couldn't help It.
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The value of the butter made in the
United States In 1875. amounts to
$42O. 900. 900. This is equal to the
combined yield Of gold and silver and
the cotton crop. Bully for the COWS.
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HOUSE FOR SALE.

The commodious and comfortable residence
with shade trees, lawn, garden, carriage
house, stable, &C.. one mile south Of Middle
town-kn0wn as St. Anne's Rectory.
Apply to either Of the Vestry, or to
feb l2-2t RRr. WILLIAM C. BUTLER.
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Visiting cards, extra fine, and Of the most
fashionable styles. can be had, beautifully
printed, for seventy-6ve cents per package Of
fffy cards. at the TRAxscsIPT Office.
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[. O. 0. f.

Coop SAMARITAN LODGE, Nos. Meets every
Thursday afternoon at 8 oclk. Lodge Room
in Cochran Hall, No. 2, Cochran Square.
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DELAWARE RAILROAD.

Passenger trains going North leave at 7.46
a M and OIL p m. going South at 1898 m
and 7.55 p m. Freight trains with passenger
car attached, going North, leave at $40 N !;
going South, at $50 m.
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Fear Is far more painful ia coward.
ice than death to true courage Str
Phaip Sidney.
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PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.

Tuesday evening at I O. clock Grange Room
in the Knights of Pythias Hall.
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DISSOLUTION.

THE co-partnership heretofore existing be-
1 tween ]. B. Fenimore and G.. E. Hukil,
under the style OF
j. B. FENIMORE & CO.,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The
business of the late firm will be settled by G..
E. Hukill, who is authorized to sign the firm
name. Persons having claims are requested
to present them, and persons indebted are re-
quested TO make settlement at once, as it is
desired to have the business closed mp with
out delay. J.B. FENIMORE.
G. E. HUKILL.
Middletown, Del, Feb. lst, 1876.
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DIAMOND STATE BRASS BAND.
POST OFFICE.

Meets for practice every Monday evening at
8 o'clock.
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8 Horses.

No. l. TRUSS bay horse, II years old.
good family driver can trot in less than four
minutes. 4Rl aie
No. .. BLACK soUTHERNER-a black
horse, years old, good driver, and can trot
in less than four minutes.
No. 3. MOSCOW very fine young bay,
coming four years old, kind and gentle 10
both single and double harness, sired by Old
Moscow.
Also, colts coming years old in the
spring (gcod stock1.
8 HEAD OF GOOD MICH COWS,
most of them coming into profit soon yearl-
ing calf head of shoats.
: s = FARMING UTENSILS. n y
farm wagon, mill wagon, two-seated
carriage, ! carriage tongue, ! drill, mower,
! horse rake, two sets of single carriage har-
ness, one of which is nearly new; set Of
double carriage harness, corn shelter, (Pen-
nocks) plows, harrows, cultivators, wagon
and plogh harness, forks, shovels, hoes, &c.
Lot Of picked pork 100 bushels seed oats
30 bushels early rose potatoes
TERMS.-All sums of $50 and under,
Cash All sums over $40, credit of eight
months will be given by the purchaser giving
negotiable note with approved endorser in
terest added, payable al the Citizens National
Bank of Middletown, Del.
W. ]. ELIASON.
3. N. ENOS, Auctioneer. fe5-4t
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Having disposed of my entire interest in
the Lumber and Hardware business, lately
carried on by J. B FENrxoRE l. Co., to my
former partner, G. E. Hukill, take pleasure
In giving this public expression of my grati-
tude to my former friends and the public gen.
orally for the very liberal patronage contin-
uaiiy enjoyed by the late firm and respectfully
feeling assured that the business will he SO
uniformly conducted in the future as to merit
similar confidence. J. B. FENIMORE.
Middletown, Del, Feb. LIST, ls7e-4t
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 1875,
z Head. Horses and Colts.

erty:
z Head. Horses and Colts
No. l. Belle, bay mare, years old, II
hands high, sound and very gentle, perfectly
safe for a lady to drive, fearless of the loco.
motive, and can trot mile in three minutes,
and is with foal by "Captain," owned by L.
P. Mcdowell, Esq, Middletown, Del.
No. Q. Viola, handsome light bay mare,
years old, Is hands high, sound and very
gentle, a superior driver, will work anywhere,
is fearless of the locomotive, and can trot
close to $3.50.
No. 3. Lucy, beautiful chestnut sorrel
mare coming years old, l5} hands high,
sound and very gentle, fearless of the loco
motive, trots well now, and if properly
trained, think will trot mile year hence
in 3 minutes.
No. 4. Lady, a light bay mare, IL years
old, l52 hands high, sound, fearless of loco
motive, good driver and will work any
where.
No. 5. Morgan, fine bay colt coming 3
years old, good style and action, and will
make good horse.
No. 6. Fanny Fern, a fine sorrel colt COM
ing year old, fast trotting stock.
No. 7. Daniel Boone, a beautiful black
stallion colt coming ] year old, (Joe Lane
lstock) fine style and action.
pair bay mules, years old, l52 hands
high, sound and very gentle, will work any
where, and just the kind Of mules for a
farmer 10 buy.
CATTLE.
cows, four of them giving milk, the |
other will be fresh soon. Also very fine |
heifer, II years old. The above cattle are |
young and good stock.
8 very fine ''Jersey Red" shoats.
Lot of potatoes and turnips.
1000 bushels good blades.
WAGONS, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, &C.
l 6rst-rate farm wagon, in perfect order
frst-rate road sulkey, light buggy wagon,
light mill dearborn, nearly new; ! horse
cart as good as new, carriage tongue,
sleigh, corn shelter, telegraph feed cutter
Q sets single harness in good order, sets of
wagon harness in good order, Sc; light
double harness good as new, several sets Of
plough gears, collars, brides, harrows,
ploughs, cultivators, hoes, forks, shovels,
spades and other articles not enumerated
Will also sell part of my Household and
Kitchen Furniture.
TERMS.
All sums of $50 and un ier the cash will
be required over that amount credit of 8
months will be given by the purchaser Civ
ing judgment note with satisfactory security.
No goods to be removed until the above con-
ditions are complied with, and any per.
son purchasing goods at this sale and failing
to comply with the above conditions, will be
held liable for any loss that may occur from
a second sale. III
RICHARD TOWNSEND,
wv A HIIKIII. Aucfinneer Gahs.of
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THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING pI

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING PUR-
y chased the entire interest of J. b. FEN
more, in the late firm of J. B. FENIMORE
b CO.. viii continue the lumber and hard.
ware business at the old stand, opposite the
Railroad depot, Middletown, where he will
keep on hand a general stock of all kinds of
building material, and hopes through con-
slant. personal attention to business and fair
dealing to merit good share of the public
patronage, which has been go generously be-
slowed on the old firm.
See advertisement in another column
G. z. HUKILL,
MiDDLETowN, DEL, Feb. l, 1876. fe5-lm
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Nelu advertisements,
POSTPONED
PUBLIC SALE.

The subscriber, intending to discontinue
farming. will sell at public sale, at the Brick
House Farm, near Harnan's mill, of a mile
north Of Townsend, Del, on
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PUBLIC SALE.

The subscriber, intending to quit farming,
win offer at public sale, at MOUNT PLEAS
ANT, Del, on
Tuesday, February 29th. 1876,
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TERMS.

RICHARD TOWNSEND
w. A. HUKILL, Auctioneer. feb5-2i
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-05

The Union Pacific train bound east
from Ogden, yesterday morning, was
detained by y wash-out in Weber
Canon.
The Central Pacific train this norm
ing ran off the track near Promontory,
killing the engineer and fireman.
At2 o'clock this morning all trains
due here to-day We're moving on time.
All trains We're on time yesterday.
The west-bound U. p. express had rs
Cheyenne and 81 through passengers.
The east bound express had 10 Chey-
enne and LOG through passengers.
The d. P. train took out IL and
brought in 81 passengers.
U. P. freight No. 8, due here at
1880 a. m. to-day, has l car merchan-
disc and l car corn for Cheyenne. No.
Z, due at 3p. M, has l car merchandise
for Cheyenne.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-05
Personal Paragraphs.

d. J. Mccain, Esq, returned from
a trip TO Washington yesterday.
Niscaunt Vilvein and lady, Of Brus-
sells. Belgium, are at the Railroad
house.
H. II. Hono-e. Esq, n leading
Chicago capitalist, and the father Of
Mrs. Col. Fred Grant, is stopping at
the Inter-Ocean.
S. 5. Davis. Supreme Chancellor of
the world. X. of p. came up from
Denver last night and attended lodge
here. He goes west to-day.
Rev. Sheldon Jackson, editor Of the
Rocky Mountain Presbyterian. came
in from the west yesterday, and left
for Denver this morning.
Col. II. A. Bodine, of New York
city. n member Of the Creedmoor rifle
team, the champions OF the world, and
himself one OF the finest marksmen
in America, is at the Inter-Ocean.
AT Lawrence, Kansas, Wednesday,
r. +. Carr. J. ID. Perry, c. S. Greeley,
A. Meier, S. Edgell, Jay Gould, Oliver
Ames, Sidney Dillon and Jas. Smith
were elected directors of the X. P. and
G. G. railroad companies.
At the Railroad house are V Van
dever, lac S Carter, N Y-Mrs
Darneal and daughter. Ohio-F II
Brown, IIl-M A Lathrop and wife,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-05
Western Waits.

Utah strawberries will be rips By
the 18th of this month.
The snow is rapidly disappearing
from the foot hills north aud east OF
Salt Lake City.
A narrow guage railway to The Pa
cific, via Salt Lake, is now being talk
ed of in the east.
The inhabitants of Greeley, Colo,
have secured a $50, 600 school house BY
contributing $40 apiece.
An exchange makes the statement
that, in the whole route of the South
ern Pacific railway to the Desert,
though il crosses an altitude Of four OF
five thousand feet. there is not a cut
six feet deep, nor an embankment
eight feet high.
The water in Great Salt Lake is
higher than ever before known since
the advent of white men in these
valleys of the mountains, and II the
swollen streams continue to pour their
torrents into il at the rate they have
been during the past week, there is nc
telling whore the salty pond will
bring up.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-05
The KnelI of Sitting Bull.

The Fort Lincoln column to cooper
ate with Gibbons and Crooks COM
mands from Forts Ellis and Laramie,
will start next week. Gen. Terry,
Department Commander, will prob
ably accompany the Lincoln column,
and direct the operations.
The three columns, Gibbons being
already in the upper Yellowstone
valley, will move towards the mouth
of the Big Horn with such divergence
from a direct line as is necessary to
gather the main bodies of hostile and
wild Indians. Terry understands that
Crooks column will again move north
ward within three weeks.
Terry will not he disappointed, as
Gen. Crook is completing his arrange
ments for starting. and when he does
move, the grass will not be allowed 10
grow under his feet while en- route to
the Big Horn. The liveliest C campaign
ever known In the west will be the
campaign of 1876 against Sitting Bull.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-05

Another expedition Is being organ
iZed here for The Black Hills, which
comprises son Of our most substantial
Citizens. The company viii go well
prepared TO meet the demands of the
inner man. As welt as 10 stand off the
Indians. LBozeman III, r.. Ayaut
Courier.
Nr. George Higgins, of this city, has
returned from the Black Hills, where
he has been spending a few weeks.
Mr.. ii. brings a good report from the
Hills. He says considerable gold is
being taken out, and thai The next
three months will undoubtedly see
big developments. [Salt Lake Herald.
The Hunter Black Hills expedition
effected u permanent organization on
the 9TH inst, on Saltwater. William
Langston vas elected Captain; VIM.
Wright, Lieutenant; j. Z. Cook, Ad-
jatant; NJ. Burton. Wagon-master.
Several have signed the roll since or
ganization, and the expedition now
numbers, all told, $50 men, with IS
wagons and about 800 head of horses.
lBozeman IN. - Avant Courier.
Il. f. Walsh writes from Custer City
that the guleh claims of the Black
Hills are not over-rated. He says
some of them will pay twenty dollars
a day, many of them ten dollars and
some only five dollars per day.
Mr.. e. A. Tewksbury. of Denver,
returned from q trip to the Hills on
Tuesday last. He states that he is
satisfied that there is gold in the Hills,
and proposes returning as soon as lie
can make the necessary arrangements.
He says that the Indians are very
lively. Mr.. Tewksbury made the trip
from Custer City to Fort Laramie in
five days, and from Laramie to Chey-
enne in two days. Hesaw Geo. Stokes,
formerly business manager of the Dem
yer Tribune, sell five ounces of gold,
the product of his w labor, for 500.
A letter from H. G. Phillips. dated
on the 18th ult., at Custer City, can
be relied on for Black Hills authority,
as Mr.. Phillips came to Colorado fif-
teen years ago, has a wide experience
in mining here, and also in Montana
and Nevada. His opinion is that
there are very good mines there.
Three hardy miners, who went out
to the Black Hills in December last
and who have not been afraid to work,
returned yesterday from Custer City !;
and one of the first calls they made
was at the Office o. the Cheyenne
LEADER not TO hang the editor, las
some eastern newspapers say is the
main object of the returning Black
Hillers) but Ia show him some excel
lent specimens of gold-bearing rock
found about ten miles from Custer
City. These gentlemen, named Chas.
Carey. George Melge and A. Scott,
have brought out of the Hills a wagon
load of ore and a quantity of .'pay
dirt" from Deadwood Creek, ali of
which they propose to take to the
Centennial exhibition. They intend
to erect a cabin Oh or near The exhibi-
ton grounds, disply their ore and
show the visitors at the great national
exhibition the process of washing gold
out of the Black Hills soil. In this
way they expect TO realize money
enough to enasle them to buy n,achin-
cry with which to work their rich
discovery in the Hills. Success to
them.
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Particulars Of the Fort martsufr Fight.

Last Friday morning, the 18th ult.,
ut 8 Il. M, u band of six Indians were
reported a few miles above Fort Hart
suff, on the Loupe Fork river, by set
tiers. Lieut.. Heyle, with nine men,
started in pursuit, but the settlers ex-
posed themselves and scared the In
dams and they scampeerd of. The
Indians were overtaken about 20 or 25
miles from Fort Hartsuif. entrenched
in a blow out in the Sand Hills. Lieut..
Heyle asked the settlers to aid in the
charge on the Indians, but they
refused to do SO. evidently afraid.
Lieut.. Heyle attacked them from tile
edge of tile bluffand MORALLY wounded
or killed one Indian. Sergeant Dough-
erty. of company A, 23d infantry, was
killed. shot through the heart by the
Indians. Lieut.. Heyle having only
three men besides himself to fight,
not being strong enough, drew Off uId
the Indians retreated. The other SOL
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-05
! q Arrivals and Departure.

tniil further notice. the Postohice will be
open ior delivery and reception OF mail mat
ter from 5 A H. daily. except SUNDAYS. and
on sundays enc hour after arrival of Western
mail. OMAHA time liz the time OF office.
Money order office open from . A. n. TO
5 T.. NJ Gaiiy except Sundays.
Western mails close daily at Ills p. NJ.
Eastern mails close daily at els p. NJ.
Denver Pacific Railroad, including Denver
id southern mails. close at & p. NJ
atails arrive from east daily at lilo T.. NJ,
and from the west daily at 2:l5 y L..
Mails arrive from Denver, Col, and way.
ria Denver Pacific Il. r.. at p NJ.
Malls close for Fort iaramie and Fort Fet-
terman on Mondays at 7 A. N,
Malls arrive from Fort Laramie and Fort
Eetterman Fridays at 7 p. NJ.
Mail closes for Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
Agencies Tuesdays and Fridays nj : A. e..
Mail arrives from Red Cloud and Spotted
rail- Agencies Mondays and Fridays at Up NJ.
Mail closes for Davis Rancho Saturdays at
An.
Mall arrives from Davis Rancho Fridays at
) T.. N.
Mall closes for Fort Collins aud Ioncmont.
col Tueshays. Thursdays and Saturdays at
s A. II.
Mail a~rrivei from Fort Collins and Long
mont, Col. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
Il. GLAFcKE. Postmaster.