The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-09-27
PENCIL POINTS.
Another stage robbery.

Four aces in the sleeve are worth
two in the hand.
The Union Pacific pay car has re-
turned to Omaha
The coach for Deadwooi took out five
passengers yesterday.
Laramie City has contributed $500 to
the yellow fever sufferers.
No wonder a printer can't save any
money; he has to set 'em up SO often.
No more contributions needed for
fever sufferers at Memphis and New
Orleans.
1t is rumored that a wedding in
high life" will shortly take place in
Cheyenne.
Mr.. Charles H. Caswell has been APP
pointed a news agent on the Union
Pacific road.
Charles Vail murdered William
Armstrong at Lincoln, Neb., on Sum
day, and fed.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage says: "There are
four roads leading to hell, and Mr.. In
gersoll is opening another"
Rapid Greek valley wants farmers.
The Journal says they can make s120
an acre by growing potatoes.
The Omaha Bee insists that Charles
Francis Adams looks like a runner for
a first class New York dry goods house.
Dakota paid $40, 954.2 20 into the gov
eminent revenue fund during the year
ending June 80, 1873.
The road agents are travelling in
larger gangs than formerly, as will be
seen by a dispatch elsewhere in this
issue.
Alonzo Rice, formly clerk at the In
ter Ocean hotel here, is running for al
derman on the democratic ticket in
Denver.
Snyder and Tillotson are out of luck.
BY this time we presume they are anx-
ious to get out of the Fort Fetterman
country.
Gen. Merritt and command were at
Fort Fetterman yesterday and will
reach Fort Russell about the 9th of
October.
Hon. A. Ii. Swan, president of the
board of county commissioners, yester-
day signed 800 of the Colorado Central
railroad bonds.
There is a full blooded Cherokee In
dian engaged in a Sixteenth street res
taurant as cook. He has a wife and
several children.
Thomas Follow, who was foolish
enough to thresh a Chinamai without
cause, paid S13 yesterday in the police
court for his fun.
Several g%reenback candidates for
coroner developed yesterday. Among
the number were d. G. Rhodes, J. G..
Mills and John Single.
They have a man named Hog Baker
in Colorado who is running for office.
We.suppose his motto is, "Buy votes
Hog or die''-at the polls.
Quite a number of gentlemen from
this city expect to attend the pigeon
shooting match which takes place at
Denver tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Charles Edmunds formerly, an
employe of the Sun and afterwards clerk
at Camp Carlin, it making campaign
speeches in southern Colorado.
The eastern bound train was twenty
minutes late, brought in Al passengers,
eleven stopped here and the remainder
continued on their journey east.
Leave Of absence for one month,
with permission to apply for an extern
sion Of eleven months, has been granted
Capt. E. M. Hayes, Fifth cavalry.
Edison has a plan for making the
rafters of a dwelling monographs, SO
that anything said beneath them may
be repeated in The great hear rafter.
The Cheyenne 6 Black Hills stage
company will put on a line of coaches
between Rapid City and Rockville,
October LIST, making round trips daily.
Four insane men from the western
portion Of the territory were taken
through the city yesterday en- route for
the lunatic asylum at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa.
The Cheyenne s. Black Hills and
Sidney & Black Hills stage company
has purchased Farnum's ranch at
North Water Hole, on the Sidney
route.
In Pennsylvania the crop Of apples
exceeds anything before known. In
Washington county an entire orchard
was sold at two cents a bushel, hand
picked and delivered.
The Laramie Sentinel endorses Gen.
Thayer for delegate in congress, and
says he has made a record both as a
soldier and a statesman of which we
all may feel justly proud.
In the Black Hills nearly every town
large enough to have a ~postofice, now
has a daily paper. We learn from a
private and confidential source that all
the editors up there are getting rich.
Yesterday morning. at Golden, three
man ware woupda1 ~