The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-10-17
INSIDE GllMPSES.

IlCulcS are nearly out Ol udte tnIS
year.
Several overcoats were bought yes
terday.
Congregational church sociable this
evening.
Light snow at Sherman yesterday
forenoon.
Two hops last night and both well
attended.
Old Boreas was truly on the war
path yesterday.
Supreme court meets again this morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
A large quantity of freight was
shipped yesterday for Deadwood.
Stages now run from this place to
Deadwood on time over the new road.
Flags were hoisted yesterday in honor
Of Postmaster General Key and party,
who returned from the west.
Phil Regain was yesterday sent up for
twenty days by Justice Fisher for be-
ing q vagrant. Served him right.
Let every voter carefully read the
republican territorial platform. 1t
does not contain an Objectionable plank.
We don't expect to get any gen.
eral news from the Black Hills papers
until their election day has passed into
oblivion.
One reason why we accomplish SO
little in this world is because so much
time is lost hunting up collar buttons
of a morning.
The entire time of the supreme court
yesterday was occupied in the discus
sion of a suit brought by A. G. Lee
against Carey Brothers.
The western bound passenger train
was two hours behind time yesterday
afternoon, and the train going east was
nearly two hours late.
A number Of the candidates on the
democratic ticket .p~eremptorily refused
yesterday to squander any Of their
money in the campaign.
The man who AN sing the 'Sweet
By-and-By" while he is joining a
~stove-pipe is not, like Tom Hood, far
Their off from heaven than when he was
a boy.
1t is highly probable that Seth Bull
lock and John Manning, the latter the
present sheriff at Deadwood, will make
the race against each other for that
office. +.
Carey Brothers yesterday shipped 27
car loads of cattle from Pine Bluffs for
Chicago; Yates & Co., "a from the
same point, and NJ. Mendenhall y
from Cheyenne.
The postmaster general has ordered
the establishment OF a postofice at
Benefits Ferry, Carbon county, and
the appointment of Frank Earnest as
postmaster thereof.
William Wallace johnson, otherwise
known as Lengthy" Johnson, who has
been in the county Jail here several
days charged with being a road agent,
was released yesterday on habeas o r
pus. He still claims to be innocent.
The Ladies' sewing society of the
Presbyterian church will meet at 2
O'Clock p. m. to-day, at the residence of
DR.. Clark, on Hill street, Immediately
east of the Congregational church. All
ladies interested in the church are re.
quested to be present.
From the time a boy is eight years
old until he is thirteen, he devotes two
solid hours of his busy life to learning
how to make a new kind of noise. By
the time he is thirteen years old he has
accumulated noise enough to last him
the rest Of his natural life.
We understand that Thomas +. Tai
bot, candidate on the democratic ticket
for constable in this precinct, has with
drawn from the contest in favor Of
John A. Martin. The consideration
paid by Martin to Talbot is S25. We
think Talbot got the best end of the
bargain. Curran will make Martin
feel very sick on election day.
The Australian cricketers, who are
visiting Chicago, are expected to pass
through Cheyenne on Sunday en- route
for San Francisco, where they will play
several games. Those concluded, they
will sail for Australia. They have
been making quite a tour, beating all
the clubs against which they played in
England and America, except the
Philadelphia club.
\ DIR. l.. +. Babcock, formerly of this
city but now a resident of Deadwood,
publishes a card in the Pioneer, saying
that Mr.. Gale Hill, the wounded mes
senger, wishes him to correct some
statements that are current along the
road and at Cheyenne about his care at
Cold Spring. Hill received the best of
care and will always remember the
kindness Of Mrs. Frazier and Mr.. Snow
at Cold Spring ranch.
The Colorado state press association,
formed in Denver some months ago,
and embracing in its membership the
proprietors and editors of nearly all the
papers in the state, have made arrange
ments for an excursion IN soufbarp