The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-10

Let the city prisoners be put at work
on the streets this morning. A good
work can be done with them.
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A man named Heller. shot his SON.
in-law, Z. S. Fryer, in Denver, last
Saturday night, but failed to kill him.
President Hayes has appointed Hon.
W. G. Tom, of Evanston, to be regis
ter of the U. s. land office recently>es-
tablished at that place.
A select ball, this evening. at the
Carey block hall. The last party of the
season. Given by Westover. Prof.
McConnell's band will be in attend
ance.
The prices of admission to the lee
ture of the great humorist, Eli Perkins,
will be as follows: Box and parlor seats,
(up %staiIs) 81; reserved seats, 75c; gen.
eral admission, zoe.
The CHEYENNE WEEKLY LEADER
is the largest, best and cheapest weekly
newspaper published between the Mis-
souri, river and the Rocky mountains.
If you don't believe send 10 cents for Il
sample copy. Per year, $3.50; six
months, S1.5o; 8 months, 81.
You can utilize your cake of maple
sugar, if you find there is too much
sand In it to make molasses of, by put
ting it in a neat frame of cardboard, or
some kind of fancy work, in bright col
ors, and hanging it up against the wall
to light matches on. 1t never wears out.
And now that spring begins to loom,
romantic maidens will vent their feel
ings in ''stanzas to the ripping brook
and odes to ''the violet blue !" the lark
of melifluous tone will also receive his
due share of poetic homage, and ''the
cowslip fair" will get a recommended
ton.
What Is DooLEY's YEAST POWDER,
do you ask, my friend 1t is made
from the purest and strongest elements.
Among them cream-tartar made from
grape acid expressly for these manufac-
turers. The result is that the biscuit,
rolls, wafIles, cake, bread and pastry
produced, are beyond comparison.
A Cheyenne man tried the effect of
blue glass on a link Of bologna sausage
yesterdly In five minutes 1t began to
hump in the middle; in ten the word
"Ma-ri-ar" was distinctly heard, and
in fifteen the cat was himself again and
out on the coal house roof, ~joyously
calling for his old sweethearts.
Many of our exchanges are comment
ing on the fact that the suicide of an
editor is almost unheard of. OF all
professions, it is said, the percentage
of suicides is smallest in the editorial
profession. The explanation is plain.
No editor is eve so insane as to will
lingly subject his memory to an obitu-
airy article or a set of resolutions of
respect.
The streets of Reno, New, are filled
with drunken Indians by day and high
way robbers by night, and the exhaust
ed reporters will hardly go to the WIN
dow now when they hear 1.-THE petu-
liant pop of the pistol" The Reno edi-
tor will probably soon make this an
nouncement: Yesterdays street
duels declined; also, four odes to
spring."
A Cheyenner who appeared to have
2,3TSt pounds of care on his mind,
called in at one of our drug stores last
week and called for a strengthening
plaster to put OIL his back. "Rheu-
matism?" queried the clerk. swell,
no." replied the man, mot edzactly;
but my wife, she's been hintin' about
whippin' the parlor carpet and takin'
down the sittin' room stove, and 1
know just what's comm as soon as
v e the now goes off,"
THE LEADER charges every patron
alike for the same class of work. and we
calculate to make a fair, living profit on
every thing we do. People who wish
cheap. dauby work, done by white Chi
namen, or cheap advertising in papers
of small circulation and smaller inlu-
ence, need not call at THE LEADER Of
fee. This paper has the largest bona
fide circulation, the best class of read
ers and is the best advertising medium
in the whole Rocky Mountain region.
Mr.. v. W. Seely, who came here
some two months ago to engage in the
practice of law, has been confined to
his bed for six weeks past by a serious
attack of mountain fever. In addition
to his W affection, his bright young
son, j. Z. Seely, was taken down with
congestion of the brain, and after an
illness of over a month, died on Sunday
evening last, at the Metropolitan hotel.
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