The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-16
PENCIL POINTS.
The weather continues showery.

Daniels hall.
Dan Rice's circus exhibits at Omaha
to-day and tomorrow.
We notice a great many tourists are
arriving on the west bound trains.
The city was full Of cowboys Wed.
nesday night and part Of yesterday.
THE LEADER has has neither time,
space o inclination to wrangle with
the Sun.
Travel on the railroads yesterday
was quite good and the arrivals at our
hotels were numerous.
At the rate things are going, politics
will be 1922 in the shade in Colorado,
and still rising, before fall.
The statement floating about the city
that Conductor Sadd and Miss Merrill
were married in Denver, had no foun-
dation in fact.
"Buffalo Bilr' at a recent glass ball
shooting match in Omaha, broke % out
of 25 balls thrown into the air, using a
rifle without sights.
Mr.. Iddings, clerk for the Cheyenne
& Black Hills Stage Co. at this point,
informs us that travel on the line is
quite good at present.
The earnings Of the Burlington and
Missouri River railroad, in Nebraska,
for May, 1878, were s145,7 54. Same
month in 1877, s49,430.
The trial of ]. J. Moore, the Ere
mont postal clerk charged with stealing
money from registered packages, is in
progress at Laramie City.
Messrs. Kabis & Dillmann, doing bus
mess on Eddy street, have dissolved
partnership by mutual consent. See
notice elsewhere in this issue.
DR.. r. G. Buckingham, of Denver,
is the Greenbackers' nominee for Gov.
ernor Of the Centennial State. This
makes it a three cornered fight.
Twice round an elephants foot is the
animals height. II the elephant is MOI
handy, once round n Laramie Cit,
bellies foot will give the same result.
The earnings of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad for the
month Of June, were 1897, 090. The
earnings for June, 1877, were 1857, 734.
On Sunday morning Rev. Jeremiah
Porter, chaplain U. S. A., Fort Rus
sell, will preach in the Congregational
church. Rev. J. w. White will preach
at night.
Tony PASTORS troupe performs to.
night at MeDaniel's. We advise every.
body to go, who can possibly dc
SO, for 1t will be a m~eritorious enter
tainment.
John Dacey, Esq, late city engineer
Of the Durant steamer, leaves to-day
for Golden, Col, where he will accept
n position a. engineer for the Colorado
Central railroad, in the round-house at
that place.
There is a remarkable scarcity Of
hired girls in the Black Hills. 1t is
next to IN impossibility to secure q
good girl as a domestic servant-unless
you marry her, and then you havn't
got . sure thing on it.
A valuable steed belonging to Harry
Conley, while being picketed on the
prairie rear his residence yesterday,
fell and broke his neck. The rope was
too short and the animals life was for.
feited. Harry valued him at 5000.
There is a great demand for reserved
seats to the Tony Pastor entertain
ment, to be given at McDaniel's New
Theatre tonight. 1t is by far thu
largest and best theatrical troupe that
ever did Cheyenne the honor to pay IL
n visit.
Some hoodlum writes a s~landerous
letter to the Philadelphia Republic
about female suffrage in Wyoming. He
pretends to describe an election Just
held here and says he sdid not see a
respectable woman at the polls" AS
no election Of Importance has been held
here for nearly a year it is plain to be
seen that the scribbler is a fraud.
The party who took morphine We'd
nesday night for the supposed purpose
of putting an end to her existence was
Miss Maggie Glinn. She lives in one
of Mrs. Adams houses, on the corner
of Hill and Eighteenth streets. TIKI
LEADER reporter was shown the labe
which came off the bottle. 1t read,
"Ten Grains Morphine-Poison." The
woman admitted to DIR. Crook that she
attempted self destruction.
When a man enters the postofice and
sees a woman standing at the delivery,
he braces up, smiles, and concludes tc
wait patiently a few moments. If there
are two women there he sneaks up be.
hind them and tries to wink to the
clerk to get his mail. But when one Of
the women enters into conversation
with the official as to the reasons why
her magazine has not come, and how
long before 1t viii be here, and If he Is
SURE he looked in the right box, the cit.
izen jams his hat down over his eyes
and strides out of the p~ostofice lobby
in a way that would do credit to a pro.
fessional pedestrian. The next day he