The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-24
5Ir1zENs.
For CITY Trustees.


Judge Tracy win please call at this
office.
A man who is swearing off should not
eat much.
Bad weather for sleeping in dry
goods boxes.
Don't be bull-dozed-vote for Leigh
ton and Gueck.
Yesterdays trains brought 80 Chey-
enne passengers.
The biggest stockings in the house
will be hung up tonight. ~
Remember to get in vote for Leigh
ton and Gueck, tomorrow.
Good little boys and girls have been
very plenty for the past week.
Elegant calling cards at low prices at
THE LEADER steam printing house.
Jas. league and daughter, England,
and II. 1. Blish, st. Louis, are in the
city. lIHWM
At 8 O'Clock this morning all u. p.
trains due here to-day were moving on
time.
A flock Of geese passed over this city
yesterday, flying toward the bull-dozed
parishes. nf4YtlTl 8
To-day's u. p. freight trains have
2 cars mdse., l malt and / oats for
Cheyenne.
Don't get absent-minded to such an
extent that you may forget to attend
church to-day.
J. R. Cox and daughter, Auburn, Y.
T., and W. NJ. Kerr, Frisco, are at
the Railroad. sUDl
Maj. s. R. Gwin, E. Florada, A. ].
CARING and e. K. Mcvey arrived here
from Deadwood yesterday.
Every patriotic citizen will be at the
polls to vote for Geo. c. Leighton and
Augustus Gueck, tomorrow.
Several hundred small pigs, imported
by u market men for Christmas din
ners, found ready sale yesterday.
Conductor Frank Crawford leaves for
a visit to his parents, in Minnesota,
to-day, and will be absent a fortnight.
We encountered an inebriate yester-
terday who was knocking the snow off
his ciothes in several different langua-
ges.
In another week tidy housewives viii
be engaged in registering vows never
to allow another Christmas tree in
their parlors.
The rumor that Col. Murrin bought
Sidney and brought it home in his
pocket, is officially authenticated. He
froze EN- out.
A CRATE fire is all very fine to look at
and get sentimental over. But it is a
mighty poor institution to keep warm
by in cold weather,
The luxury Of sliding down hill is de-
MED the boys and girls in this fiat
country. They have got the nov but
can't see anything Of the hill.
But little business will DO done in
the city tomorrow. The holiday and
the election will interfere with shop
ping and the purchase Of groceries.
There r people who pretend to be-
lieve the practice of making Christmas
presents is all wrong. Those people
cannot be relied upon to decline a pres
emit, however.
Judge ]. B. Blair, who has presided
over the District court for the past few
days, leaves for Laramie to-day, and
Chief Justice Fisher will resume his
duties Tuesday.
At / o'clock this morning the mer-
curry registered ten degrees below zero.
1t was the coolest night Of the season.
The mercury stood above zero through
out Friday night.
Old Probabilities remembers the soft
ness Of the preceding weeks, and is
evidently after his back pay. 1t is very
proper, however, through this season of
merry-making, that we should wear
blithe noses, or W go goose-fieshed.
A bachelor has lately written a
lengthy treatise on married Blessed
ness" The only knowledge he has
had of his subject consists in sundry in
effectual efforts he has made of late to
unite an eyeless button to an aged
shirt.
We omitted to mention yesterday the
receipt of the Custer City Black Hills
Herald, published by Kennedy y Bar
tholomew. The FIRST number is hand
somely printed and as full of news as
an egg is Of meat. Success to the Her.
aid and its publishers. 4fNH
In the District court, yeestegday, Gold
Dust Ryan plead guilty, was sentenced
to 80 days in the county Jail and a fine
OF S25: Ryan was convicted Of OBJ
tanning goods under false pre.enses,
and his punishment fixed at three
months in the p~enitentiary. John c.
Elsner was granted a divorce from Mary
Elsner. Several witnesses and jurors
were mulcted in attachment fees for