The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-20
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The oath inst. win be st. Johns
Day.
The horse trotters will be out on the
Fourth.
What has become of all the dancing
schoolsp
Five sinners in the calaboose this
morning.
The Troubadours at Recreation Hall
tonight.
The water works Of Cheyenne are in
excellent order.
The Horribles expect to have a ton
of fun on the Fourth.
The Bowling club seems to have ad-
journed for the summer.
The Gould-Dillon party have left
Denver for Kansas City.
Travel on the Cheyenne & Black
Hills stage line is increasing.
Nearly all of our citizens will hoist
flags over their dwellings on the Fourth.
Judge Slaughter received several
valuable additions to the library this
week.
George, of the Sun, would look bet
ter in crinoline now that he has turned
milkmaid.
The hail storm yesterday damaged
some Of the gardens In the city to a
considerable extent.
At the last meeting of the City Coun-
Gil bills to the amount of s495 were al
lowed for various purposes.
Three enlisted men Of ordnance have
been ordered from the Rock Island ar
senal TO Fort Russell, for duty.
The amount cleared by the ladies of
the Presbyterian church at the festival
on Tuesday evening was s40,45.
Sixty passengers en- route for Califor-
mia passed through the city on the Un-
ion Pacific emigrant train yesterday.
We are afraid Potter, the wheel bar
row pedestrian, will never reach San
Francisco. The Bannocks may gobble
him.
]. L. Murphy has been awarded the
contract Of building the addition to the
hospital at Fort Sanders, and began
Tuesday.
We understand that some Of the hail
stones which fell yesterday afternoon in
the vicinity Of Pine Bluffs were as large
as q hens egg.
We understand the temperance or
ganization in our midst are making
vigorous preparations to join in the
forthcoming celebration.
"Sea-weed' is accommodating in Lake
Minnehaha, and should be removed,
before the hot weather makes it often
sive, as 1t certainly will.
The juvenile fire company was out
last evening engaged in practice. The
little fellows exhibit as much zeal as
those whom they initiate.
As we go to press Congress was dis
cussing the necessity of again post
poning anal adjournment, this time
untiI7 O'Clock this morning.
Quite a number of our citizens pro-
pose to attend the laying Of the corner
stone of the new public school build
ing at Laramie on Monday.
Rev. D. j. Pierce delivered an able
discourse in the Red Cross hall, Bon's
block, last evening. His subject was
Common Sense and Religion"
Alfred Early, the colored ~janitor Of
the postofice, who was arrested and
lodged in jail last week for robbing the
mails Mt Omaha, has confessed his
guilt.
The Postmaster General has re-es-
tablished the p%ostofice at Chimney
Rock in this county, and appointed
Henry Rehmayer postmaster at that
place.
We notice n large number Of private
residences n being erected in the
city. Cheyenne is livelier than Denver,
and in ten years will outnumber her in
This section was visited by a hail
storm yesterday afternoon which con-
tinued nearly ten minutes, covering the
ground until 1t had the appearance of
being buried under a snow storm.
A man named VIM. Sheriff was ar
rested in Denver on Tuesday night,
supposed to be implicated in the U. P.
train robbery at Percy. He is in Jail
awaiting orders from Sheriff Rankin at
Rawlins.
Lieut.. G. A. johnson, Fourteenth in
fantry, Camp Robinson, Nebraska, is
the city. He was called here as a
witness in the trial Of s. S. Stanton,
late in charge Of the Government trains
at Red Cloud.
We have received an invitation to
the Anniversary Ball to be given
on Monday evening in Laramie by the
Masonic fraternity. During the day
the Masons will lay the corner stone of
the new public school building.
On the invitation committee for the
hop to be given at Laramie by the
wyoming Masons, we notice the names
OF Z. T. Snow, F. E. Addoms, W. B.