The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-27

Inc price u CutliuS anu DlnulliS
grain is reduced to 81 per acre near
Longmont.
Two companies of troops, numbering
152 men, passed through here yesterday
for Chicago. ~
One car of oats, l of mdse., 1 of car
riages and 1 of beer will arrive from
the east this morning.
DR.. D.. V. Gates gives his unique en-
t%ertainment at the Dramatic theatre
tonight. Admission % cents.
The dust and gravel market was
o~verstocked yesterday. Cursory re-
marks were almost universally made.
The Denver Times has come to us
on the half. shell for the past week.
What's the matter, Brother Wood
buryP
Greeley people are confident that the
Colorado Central will sooi extend its
line f :om Longmcnt to Julesburg via
Greeley.
The Twilight Serenaders discoursed
some of their sweet music for the COM
positors of THE LEADER early this
morning.
An enterprising Canadian has started
a pair of antelope for the Dominion, for
the purpose Of stocking the country
with that animal.
The Greeley Tribune states that Mr..
G. NJ. Jones, of this city, is talking of
buying a place in Greeley for growing
the vegetables and small fruits he
needs.
Don't fail to attend the entertain
ment at the Dramatic theatre Tonight.
DR.. Gates has received high praise
from the press of the west. Admission
only 25 cents.
A stroke of lightning the other day
tore a boys boot all to pieces and didn't
harm the boy. The reason was that
he had placed the boot under a tree and
gone in swimming.
The Government directors of the
Union Pacific arrived at Laramie yes
terday from the west. They leave there
to-day by special train, and will pass
through here about noon.
Several circuses this year pay NJ
wages to ordinary laborers. Work is
so scarce that men are willing toengage
for their board alone, the privilege of
travel being also an incentive.
Fort Collins. offers fine inducements
for some practical factory man A
number of capitalists there propose to
furnish half the means to start a WOOL
en- factory if a~practical man will raise
the rest. ItIsY .fff
John d. Lee recently had a talk
through the agency of a spirit medium
with some of his relatives on earth, and
it is said he urged them to delay not
but send at once an assortment of
Japanese fans, a straw hat, and a Their
mometer. EFFgy EE
Turner s. Herman, freighters, ar
rived here yesterday with $500 pounds
of ore from a silver mine near Galena,
in the Bear Butte district, Black Hills.
The ore was sent out by Chambers C.
Davis, who purchased it, and it will go
to the st. Louis Smelling works.
AT a Denver butcher shop is an ex-
tremely rare animal-a white VOLTA
genuine albino, with white hair, and
eyes the pupils of which are of a dull
blush white. The Utes consider these
freaks of nature as sacred, and under
no circumstances will they kill one.
The Evanston Age speaks of the
burial of Mrs. Jane Keene, a washer
woman of the place who died last week,
as a disgrace to Christian community.
Within twelve hours after life became
extinct the body was consigned to the
grave, without a prayer, a word said,
or a line read, or a mourner being
present.
What the thieves do with all the
horses they steal in Central and West
ern Dakota, or where they find a mar
ket for tnem, is surely a great mystery.
The stealing in the vicinity of Dead
wood alone, for this season, will average
n horse for every t%wenty-four hours,
and but few horse-thieves have been
caught.
Prof. Riley, chief of the grasshopper
commission, thinks it will be more
difficult to rid Colorado of the grass
hopper pest than some of the lower
Mississippi States, because of being
nearer the breeding grounds of the fly
ing choppers. He does not believe
there is any particular reason to fear