The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-26
CITY AND COUNTRY.

There is a dearth Of interesting news
In our exchanges just now.
G. A. Searight g. Co., have dissolved
partnership. See notice.
Greeley is discussing the advisability
Of erecting public buildings.
Read the School Superintendent in
teresting letter in this issue.
John Armour, an old citizen of Dem
yer, recently died at Palmyra, Nc.
Colorado banker McIntire claims to
have been kidnapped. SO did Tweed.
Fritz Kiger was killed on Wednesday
in a drunked row at Deer Trail, Colo
RADIO.
The books of the Denver Public Ii
brary have been donated to the public
school.
Now Is the time for spring cleaning.
II you have not got a spring, clean ont
your we'll.
Capt. A. II. Nickerson, Of Omaha
recently lectured at Grand Island on
Gettysburg"
There were $50 applications handed in
for the two positions of mail agents on
the Colorado Central.
| Parties are now engaged in loading
| $1,000 ties at Tie Siding for distribu-
| ton along the road east.
The prayer and teachers meeting in
the Methodist Episcopal church last
night vas well attended.
The name of Coyote Station on the
Kansas Pacific railroad, has been
changed to Collyer Station.
Judge Slaughter, our successful ANA
teur gardener, has a number Of straw
berry vines in fine condition.
Major Gustav Schnitger has accepted
the United States Marshalship for this
Territory, and will be here about the
10th of May.
Mr.. Z. n. Lamont, of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, has resigned, and taken u
n place on the New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The young man who quarrelled with
his Eddy street girl last evening, says
you a bet your bottom dollar he
knows what the belle punch q
1t is proposed to establish a telegraph
line from Deadwood to Fort Ellis,
Montana, the route to take in the
numerous Sioux military posts between
those points.
Twenty-eig car loads Of freight for
Cheyenne will arrive to-day. This
large quantity of freight embraces
nearly every kind of goods for our
business men.
Col. /. W. French, Hon. W. R. Steele
and lady, and Hon. A. r. Converse and
lady, intend to take a trip to France and
visit the international Exhibition dur
ing the summer.
Circuses are II little backward this
season. Only five of them are the big
gest show on earth" Each of the 9TH
er six is simply the ''most complete ag-
gregation on the road"
The biggest freight train, says the
Longmont Post, yet run over the Col
orado Central road passed through
that town on Wednesday. There
were twenty-one cars chock full.
1t is the painful duty Of our astron-
omical man to that for u
year and n half the satellites of Mars
are to be invisible. Lovers will please
take notice, and invent some other e.
cuse.
The Bulldozer says the Democracy of
Wyoming ''never would support n
paper or man advocating its cause. "
We beg leave to state that they have
never had a paper yet. Give them n
chance.
Tom Thumb and Commodore Mutt,
while in England recently, rendered
half-fare tickets on the ground that
they were both not equal to an ordina-
ry-sized passenger; but they We're COM
PEELED to pay full fare.
What's the matter with him, any
how? The Gazette man says: Ere
many moons shall wax and wane, we
will meet In mortal combat, on the
stump and otherwise, in the political
arena" Bring on the pail bearers.
The following named have been elect
ed officers of the Episcopal chuch at
Laramie for the ensuing year: II. b.
Rumsey, Senior Warden; c. S. Dun
bar, Junior Warden; W, Sinclair, W.
H.. Frost, j. W. Dysart, C. II. Jones,
NJ. H. Mills, G. V. Henry, G. b. Grow.
A new freight tariff went into effect
yesterday on the Colorado Central.
Car load rates are increased $40 to all
points from Denver-flrst class freight
is increased We cents from Denver TO
Golden, second class and special is in
creased five cents, and third class from
one to three cents.
The Typo (Nevada) Sun recounts the
particulars of q cosmopolitan poker
game as follows: There was Il cosmo-
politan poker game going on in a saloon
the other night. One of the players
was a native of the Flowery Kingdom,
another was an American citizen of AZ