The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-10-22
OCTOBER 2EPHTRS.

by a small snow storm.
Postmaster General Key and party
started for Washington yesterday.
Sabbath last was one Of the windiest
days ever experienced in Cheyenne.
Beautiful Pease'' is expected to ar
rive on this afternoons train from the
west.
John Buchanan, postmaster at Love-
land, died from consumption on Satur-
day night
The passenger train from the east
yesterday consisted Of twelve full
coaches.
Douglas Goodale, the stage robber ar
rested at Atlantic, Iowa, is expected
here on Thursday.
Alamosa is making preparations to
entertain the Colorado state press asso-
citation in fine style.
Owing TO the high wind the passen-
ger train from the east was two and a
half hours late yesterday.
The Marston-H Higgins murder case at
Denver resulted in the acquittal of Hi
ram p. Marston, the accused.
Senator Spencer has returned to
Deadwood. He expects to locate there
when his term In the senate closes.
Freight business on the Colorado
Central is unusually brisk. The trains
both ways were well loaded yesterday.
Omaha is so crowded with people
that the hotels cannot accommodate
them, and many are quartered in pri-
vate fam lilies.
A social hop will take place in Nc
Daniels hall, Eddy street, on Wednes-
day evening next. Prof. Galloway will
furnish the music.
1t is reported at Bismarck that DIR.
Burleigh, of Yankton, will be brought
out as the greenback candidate for del
egate to congress.
The postofice department at wash
ington has changed the name of Last
Chance postonce in Carbon county to
that Of Douglas.
Judge W. L. Kuykendall has been
nominated by the democracy Of Dead
wood for a seat in the upper branch Of
the Dakota legislature.
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The democratic platform of this ter
ritary is in favor of ''free tariff Now
IL 1t is ''free" we would like to know
where the tariff comes in?
Since our last issue there were thirty
arrivals at the Inter Ocean; twenty-nine
at the Railroad; seventeen at the Del
monico, and twenty at Dyer's.
Col. C. c. Tompkins, formerly United
States marshal for Colorado, has been
adjudged a lunatic and is now in an
asylum at Staunton, Virginia.
A reduction of twenty-four hours in
the time of emigrant and fast-freight
trains on the Union Pacific, between
Omaha and San Francisco is proposed.
Miss Ida May Cramer, the Wyoming
elocutionist, is to be married at Law
renee, Kansas, on the 30th inst, to
James w. Wilson. Of Rochester, N. Y.
A party of English tourists which
have been s%ojourning several days in
Cheyenne, left yesterday for Laramie
Peak. Harry Yount accompanied the
party as guide.
Theladies of the Methodist Episcopal
church will give a sociable this Tues
day. evening at the residence of Mrs.
Ellen Housman. The entertainment
will be free. All are invited.
Messrs. Marks & Myers, the popular
dry goods merchants, corner Eddy and
Seventeenth streets, have something to
say to the public this morning. See
their new advertisement in this issue.
Rev. Henry Porter, for a number OF
years a resident of China, preached an
interesting sermon in the Congregation.
al church-on Sunday morning, relating
his experiences in the land of the
"Heathen Chinee.n
The sermon by Rev. W. ii. Gillian
at the Methodist church on Sunday
evening was IL of the ablest ever de
livered in Cheyenne. His subject,
bible Spiritualism," was handled in
a mastery manner.
1t is estimated that M~arston's trial a
Denver has cost the prosecution at
least three thousand dollars, of which
amount the county bears about five
hundred dollars, the balance falling
upon the friends and relatives of IIig
gins.
The Deadwood Times says Lengthy
johnson, the road agent, is still a resi-.
dent of the Spearfish valley and visits
the metropolis of that section whenever
he feels like it; which rather goes tc
prove that the lengthy" Johnson
now in Cheyenne is innocent.
The train from the East yesterday
broughtin the bodyof Mrs. Caspar Regar
who died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on
Saturday last. The remains were met
at the depot by the sorrow stricken
husband and a large number Of friends,
and borne to her late residence on
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