The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-23
CAUGHT ON the FLY.

lively last evening.
Some Of the Laramie City girls have
become son-struck-
The Atlantic (Wyo.) postoface is now
a ~money-order Office.
That Bear Paw mine excitement stirs
up the boys Of Deadwood.
Grasshoppers are devouring every
thing green around Reno, New.
Next to . lady's mirror q thermome-
ter Is most looked at these days.
They haven't got the Deadwood on
gold discoveries up in the Hills.
The new Catholic church building
has progressed to the brick belt.
A slice Of lemon added to your iced
tea viii greatly improve the beverage.
Has the hot spell anything to do with
the closing of saloons on the Lords dayf
An express between Deadwood and
Camp Bear Butte has been established
by Ben. Hazen.
McDaniel's has changed back again
to his old stand at the corner Of Eddy
and Sixteenth streets.
The bridge over Bear river, on the
Union Pacific, il completed, and trains
are now crossing upon 1t.
The Hilliard smelters are to COM
mence operations soon, when times will
again be lively in that burg.
Two ranchmen felt warm last even
ing and raised q little breeze on their
own account, out Seventeenth street.
Mr.. J. G. Baird, recently Of the Pitts
burgh Telegraph, has taken a position
on the editorial stan Of THE LEADER.
The coming church will have air
forced through pipes on the sleepers-
no, worshippers, during torrid months.
Several fine specimens Of antelope
were seen yesterday from the Union
Pacific cars about thirty miles east Of
Cheyenne.
1t Is reported that forty Indians re-
Gently stole seventy-fve head of horses
from Gen. Bradley's command on the
Little Missouri.
There Is talk Of our B. B. club giving
the Cheyenne boys a rub ere long.
Deadwood Enterprise. Let them conn
and get Cheyenned up brightly.
A Saratoga correspondent says: "Cul-
tured people have voted the hop a vul-
gar amusement" The scarcity Of
young men Mt that place accounts for
this opinion.
A fend disturbed the holy calm in
the vicinity Of THE LEADER Office last
night by the frantic tintinabulations
Of q dilapidated harmonicum. He is 1T
only for n cayotes' chorus.
The man who begins a newspaper
card my attention has been called"
is a self-proclaimed idiot. Men of COM
mon sense see things for themselves,
and don't lie about them.
N. Shelton, cashier of the Union
Pacific, has issued an order to all agents
and conductors Of the company not to
receive Mexican or trade dollars except
Mt q discount Of ten per cent.
The Laramie base ball club has re-
organized for the season Of 1878, with
the following named officers: Presi-
dent, James McGibbon; Vice Presi-
dent, e. ]. Lehman; Treasurer, Ed.
Dickinson, and Secretary, w ]. Mai
smith.
In Boston last week there were
twenty-five deaths from consumption.
Had those twenty-five persons been res
idents of Cheyenne they would proba-
bly, not have died at all-of consump-
tion. As Barnum says, "consumptives
come out here to die ana can't"
Why pay 500 for a photograph when
u few dollars judiciously invested in
ice-cream during the summer, and q
dollar next fall for a marriage certih-
cate, will give you q life-lease Of q talk
ing machine that never requires any
tin-foil on the cylinder escapementp
The alarm of fire which was given
Sunday night about IL O'Clock, was
occasioned by some pine bows taking
on fire at Kabis & Dillman's saloon, on
Eddy street. 1t was Immediately ex-
tinguished without the aid Of the Ere
observation-disclosures they were prompt
ly on hand.
Our nobby young men will be graft
fed to learn that, in fashionable circles
east, it is quite the thing not to wear
kid gloves on any occasion, excepting
a wedding. Loveliness-bare hands.
1t Is said, needs not the aid of foreign
ornaments, but Is when unadorned,
adorned the most.
The blazing Chicago advertisement
Of the fremen's tournament, contains
the coat Of arms Of every State in the
Union, except Nevada, and that little
State does not propose to take part in
the celebration. The engraver evil
IDENTIFY was not aware Of the existence
Of the ssilver'' State.
Another discovery of quartz has been
made, which from the prospects already
got, promises to be one Of the richest
In the Black Hills. From small pieces
Of the ore, Weighing from or.-ha,s :,