The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-18

Io-day's U. L. freight trains have 8
cars corn, i mdse., and l oil for Chey-
enne, and 6 cars hay for Fort Russell.
The melancholy days have come
The sRddest of the year
That usher In the two bit drinks
And-usher out the beer.
Old papers-just the thing for putting
under carpets, etc.-are for sale at this
Office, in any quantity desired, at rs
cents per hundred.
The great want of the age is a lamp
attachment which will obviate entirely
the trimming nuisance, and keep the
blaze clear, full and shapely.
Seventy-nine men informed Rapher.
ty, yesterday, that winter had arrived,
and seventy nine funerals will occur to-
day, the corpses being prepared.
VIII L. Foglesong is selling an i'm
mense amount of groceries and pro-
visions. He claims that he can't be
beat either in quality or price. Go and
see.
The number of pupils now in attend
ance at our excellent graded school
closely approximates four hundred, and
rapid improvement is noticeable / nevery
department.
Thanksgiving Day approaches, and
let's hope that all the returns may be
in by that time, that we may return
thanks for the election of an honest
man-Rutherford B. Hayes.
Frank Yates says the kind of court
ing he is doing now isn't half so pleas
ant as the kind he did several years ago.
There is no s'linked sweetness long
drawn out'' about it now, he says.
Judge Bill Nye, of the Laramie Sem
tinel, says that when he reached Chey-
elne, a day Or two since, he was be-
sieged by reporters, seeking to ascer-
tain if he was virtuous. Just as If all
Laramie editors were not perfect para
CONS of virtue.
Superintendent Davis isn't going to
build that new office after all. The
bosses down at Omaha say that if Davis
keeps his vest pulled down and his chin
wiped off they will build him a new
office on or about the day our next Gen.
tennial show opens.
Parks, who shot policeman Talbot
Wednesday evening, claims that he was
crazed with liquor, and says he remem-
bers nothing about the shooting. He
vas removed from the calaboose to the
county Jail yesterday. The grand jury
will take up his case at once.
The Hon. J. w. Dear is favorably
mentioned as a candidate for matri-
mony. He will undoubtedly accept the
nomination, and if the writer were
only a charming young lady, he would
propose at once, a Ia leap year. Dear
has ducats, and would dearly cherish
the right girl.
Pease s. Taylor were busy all yester-
day afternoon and evening, storing
away an immense stock of choice candy,
purchased especially for the trade of
the rapidly approaching holidays. They
fed the Rapherty boy a large quantity,
and if he is sick to-day, everybody will
know what ails him.
The Denver Pacific will issue a new
time table Dec ember LIST, to conform to
changes of time on connecting roads at
Denver. The express train will there
after arrive here so as to connect with
the west bound U. P. passenger, and
depart upon the arrival of the east
bound U. p. express.
The MaGilder is about to don a plug
hat, purchase IA 75-cent nickel chain and
a cactus cane, and branch out into the
lecturing field, where be will shine as a
formidable rival of L. Puttyhead Rich
ardson, the celebrated martyrs
Rapherty and Kit will never stoop so
low. They prefer peddling lightning
rods.
Not less than ten thousand dollars is
now in the hands Of Stockholders in this
city, awaiting the day when the name
of our next president is announced.
Naturally there is considerable anxiety
over the matter, but the betters have
cooled down so that they don't call at
this office more than fifty. or seventy
five times a day to learn the final re-
suit.
People who saw the announcement
in Thursdays LEADER that Max Ger
vais had been summoned before the
grand jury, and thought he had been
robbing Eraves, OIL something of that
sort, are informed that he had forgot
ten having been summoned, as a wit
ness before that body, and OF course an
attachment had to be issued for him.
sOnly this, and nothing mors."