The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-08-11

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Chief J Justice Fisher went up to Lar
annie Wednesday evening, and was
attacked during the night with cholera
morbus.
Larry Bresnahen met a friend Of his
boyhood days at the circus-in James
Jordan, ticket agent for the concert
troupe. --Av-
in 2 cars of mdse., l of malt and l of
corn, and takes out this morning 9 cars
of mdse.
One car of mdse., 1 of oats and l of
corn for Cheyenne will arrive from the
east to-day. Also, s ears of hay for
Fort Russell.
Old bachelors shouldn't take little
girls to public entertainments. If you
doubt this, interview the fellow who
twas there" yesterday.
Omaha is threatened with two new
daily newspapers. One is to be issued
in the morning; Democratic in politics.
The other will be an evening neutral
paper.
The two political committees of Lar
annie county will join early next week
in a call for a mass convention, for the
purpose of placing in nomination Ave
candidates for members of the Council
and nine for members of the House of
Representatives.
DIR. Gates will address the people this
evening, on the Postofice- corner, at
early candle-light. Subject: Capital vs..
Labor, and the Chinese Question. All
candidates for office are invited to par
ticipate and express themselves on the
topics of the day.
Because one man lives i'll a certain
way, drinks anything, eats anything,
and at any time, another thinks he can,
forgetting the fact that there is as much
difference in the hearts, livers, and
stomachs of men as there is in their
foreheads, noses, and ears.
They were at a dinner party, Jones
and his Seraphina, and he remarked
that he supposed that she was fond of
ethnology. She said she was, but had
not been very we'll lately and the
doctor had ordered her not to eat any
thing for dessert except oranges.
Con Waldraven, while working at
the fire Thursday, discovered a place
where a pail of water was needed.
Taking a pail he approached John Har-
rington, who was holding a nozzle, and
told him to fill 1T. The nozzle was
turned into the pail, and Waldraven is
hunting the pieces to this hour.
Mr.. NJ. S. Halfreceived the material
yesterday for a stone sidewalk to be
laid in front of Joslin s. Parks jewelry
store. C The work will begin to-day.
The stone is a handsome pinkish brown,
and is from a quarry between this city
and Sherman, discovered by Mfr. Hall
while grading on the Union Pacific.
A. Field, Union Pacific Agent at
Cooper Lake, met with aserious ac-
cident last Wednesday. He was placing
a cartridge in a Sharp's rifle, having
thrown down the lever, when the shell
exploded, filling his eyes and face with
powder. The ball passed down through
the platform. Both eyes are very
badly burned, but the physician thinks
he will be able TO, save the mans sight.
A prominent young man about town
has been trying to prove for the past
month or two that beer is not intoxicat'
ing. He gets along very well until afte,
dinner, when he finds that it don't make
drunk come so soon as whisky, but fl
nally when he tries to 60 to bed in the
drfpping-basin of the hat-rack in the
hall near his chamber, door he says it is
too SIMPLIFYING. Next morning he
eulogizes the Germans as sober people
and good citizens, and tries to prove il
all over again, with the same result.
In time he will probably learn that
alcohol, taken in frequent homeopathic
doses, is as eficacious sin regard of
drunk as when swallowed in n big
gulp.
There is a deep-seated conviction III
army circles that reports sent hithei
from Montana about an influx of Me-
Perces Indians are ingeniously con
cocted lies which have been circulated
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