The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-07
PENCIL POINTS.
Another rain yesterday.

tion to-day:
Prayer meeting this evening as usual
at the Presbyterian church.
Pumping water out of cellars was
largely INDUCED in yesterday.
The wheat crop of Utah is estimated
to be double that OF last year.
The wheat crop about Longmont
will be much lighter than usual.
The coach for Deadwood will take
out seven passengers this morning,
Colorado wheat is quoted at n dol
lar and twenty-five cents per hundred.
Officer Hall has excellent luck while
searching prisoners. So ''Jeems" Bean
says.
The crop of potatoes in the Greeley
colony promises to be very meagre this
| season.
Work will be commenced next Mon
day on the walls of the new Catholic
church.
Daniel McUlvan and Colin Hunter
will ship eighteen car loads of stock for
the east to-day.
George E. Lounsbury, Past Grand
Master Of Freemasons of Illinois, died
in Denver on Sunday.
Fifty men, and a train of seventeen
wagons leave Deadwood for the Bear
Paw gold mines to-day.
Some of the enthusiastic politicians
in Cheyenne are getting ready to bet OF
the Colorado election.
The Rochester Herald has a delicious
way Of refusing original poetry: sour
paper is not worthy Of your lines" 1t
says.
A couple Of billiard men have started
a herd of 425 cattle east, which they
propose to drive all the way to the
Missouri river.
The usual prayer meeting at the
Congregational church this (Wednes-
day. evening, at 8 o'clock. A cordial
welcome TO all.
Another new brick building is going
up. This time 1t is by r. b. Horrie,
on Nineteenth street. Workmen COM
mence their labors to-day.
DIR. Charles w. Meyer, formerly a
Cheyenne journalist, is working to get
the Democratic nomination as Delegate
in Congress from Dakota.
Wen soon know who will tackle
Loveland and Patterson in the lively
political campaign being inaugurated
over in the Centennial State.
Three prisoners, VIM. Thompson,
Thomas Lovejoy and Geo. w. Peck, es-
capped from the Pueblo jail on Sunday
and we're at large at last accounts.
Chicago has commenced to arrest
tramps and fine them 800 a piece.
Nothing makes a tramp feel so wretched
as to make him hand over twenty FIVE
dollar bills.
One Of the horse thieves supposed to
have been drowned last winter in the
Cheyenne river, has turned up again.
He foated down the str eam, crawled
out and away.
David Burley, who arrived at Omaha
on Sunday, from Spotted Tail Agency,
informs the Bee that the Indians are
now enroute to their new location on
the White Clay river.
The Hilliard smelling works have
started, and under the management Of
MI. Fred. Myers, are making q good run
OF bullion. A carload was ready for
shipment early this week.
G. II. Wilson, of Chicago, is here
with an invention which he claims will
prevent the sympathetic current be-
tween telegraph wires which so fire.
quently annoys the operators.
Rev. G. o. Tillotson, of Santa Clara,
California, has accepted a call from the
Episcopal church at Cheyenne, to be-
come its pastor, and will commence his
services here on the first of September
next.
On Monday, August 18th, a partial
eclipse Of the moor will occur. In this
latitude 1t will commence about 4:3O p.
m. and end about TAO. About seven
twelfths Of the moons diameter will be
obscured.
Mrs. Mcleod, of Anchor, in the
Black Hills, went out the other day to
gather blackberries, and has not been
heard from since. 1t is supposed she
died in the woods somewhere with
heart disease. She formerly resided in
Denver.
On Monday morning Peter Farley
was roasted alive in one of the rooms of
a Denver hotel. He was intoxicated
and went to bed with a pipe in his
mouth. The bed clothing caught fire
and he was burned to death, but the
hames were extinguished in time to
save the hotel.
A ten-year old girl named Ida May
howard was burned TO death at George
town on Monday. She was engaged in
building a fire with which to cook the
midday meal, and in order to hasten
matters, turned kerosene oil upon the
fire from a large can, which ignited and
caused an explosion. The child,s CLOTH
ing caught fire and hnfora a,.-