The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-27
LOCAL MENTION.

4AaAC Observation-Disclosures DCAit IN
rage.
Ordinary topics Of discussion are al
most entirely eclipsed.
Buy your tickets to-day for the Dale
Creek excursion tomorrow.
Smoked glasses will be in demand
Monday only. That's where they differ
from other glasses. IS
Cool-Telling a man that the sun is
100000 miles farther from the earth
now than in winter.
This mornings coach will take the
following gentlemen to Deadwood: G.
Let's and John R. Markle.
There will be a business meeting Of
the Baptist church this evening at 8
O'Clock, at Red Cross Hall.
The political canvass in Colorado is
becoming as animated as any New
/ York Five Pointer could wish.
Jno. Dacey had out the Durant yes
terday pumping water from the Carey
block cellars. He did good work, as
| usual.
The operatives in the Western Union
office are treated nightly to a fine pyro-
technical display on the switch board.
At every stroke Of lightning the board
bristles with white flashes, accompanied
by a cracking noise.
Carroll got terribly mixed on the
Potter question when he said that he
was at Bushnell station, at one O'Clock,
yesterday, only nineteen miles from our
city. Bushnell station is Hfty-ive miles
from Cheyenne and the first station east
Of Pine Bluffs.
s. d. Hunter, ESQ.,, Of Greeley, COL,
shipped yesterday fourteen car loads of
cattle for Chicago, from the Union Pa
ciic depot. Cheyenne is gradually be-
coming the great centre to. which par
ties In all eastern Wyoming and north
ern Colorado come for the shipment of
their live stock.
The Laramie Sentinel objects to call
ing him Professor" Edison. Isn't he
a professional inventory The Western
Union Telegraph company, we think,
pays him q regular salary Of $500 per
month, just to invent. And he has al.
ready turned out for them the duplex
and quadruplex-wonderfu inventions.
Owing to the heavy rain which fell
In Clear creek Canon, Colorado, Thurs
day night, three hundred feet of track
washed away, together with several
freight cars at Beaver Creek station.
Steps were Immediately taken to put
the road In order for the passage Of
trains, and it is thought the road
would be made passable by last night.
The report is current upon the streets
that the juvenile base ball club, which
has recently been organized here, will
challenge the Reds to play them a game
on their return from Salt Lake. 1t is
doubtful, however, If a sufficient num-
Der Of that club can ever be gotten
together again to play anything. II
somebody would go to work and change
the clubs name and some Of the play
ers, it might help matters q little.
BY reference to the te~legraphic dis
patch from Deadwood, printed else
where, 1t will be seen that another
coach was attacked. As six men were
engaged, 1t is probable that it is the
same party that went through another
coach on Thursday. Fortunately, the
messenger, E. s. Smith, is a man Of
grit, and repulsed the attacking party.
1t seems that a detail Of men Is needed
up there to capture these marauders.
Mr.. Addison Payne, Of Sullivan
county, Missouri, is the owner Of a COW
that has given birth to 1s calves within
n period of seven years In the following
order: Twins for four years, triplets
the fifth year, bankruptcies the sixth
year, triplets the seventh year. Mr.. D.
Payne, who is the son of Addison Payne,
says he can prove this by his neighbors,
comprising of some of the most respon-
sible people of the country. The COW
and calves are all doing well and are of
a medium size. Surely Sullivan county
N boast of the boss cow.