The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-10-02
c N GENERAL,
Colorado election yesterday.

this morning.
We have a live, energetic body Of
councilmen. +
Yesterday IA about the windiest
and busiest of the season.
Mr.. F. NJ. Darling takes possession
of the Key City house tomorrow.
Mayor Bresnahen presided last-hfght
in his usual business-like mspher.
They have Brussels> carpets on the
floors of billiard salo~ns in Evanston.
The Pioneer hooks will have a bust
ness meetj,g tonight at their rooms.
ThelEvanston p~ostofice issues money
opders daily at the average rate of $3.50.
Cheyenne Republican precinct o n
vention at the city hall on Friday next.
From various sections Of the county
we learn that the sheep are in a pros
porous condition.
1t is rumored that six men were muir
dered by Cheyenne. Indians at Buffalo
city on Monday night.
General Merritt and command are
expected to arrive at Fort Russell on
Friday or Saturday next.
The session of the city council was a
short n last night, and yet much
business was transacted.
Baptist cottage prayer meeting to-
night at the residence Of Mr.. z. Thorn
asson on Seventeenth street.
County Commissioner John Sparks
yesterday shipped 80 car loads Of cattle
for Chicagofr from Pine Bluffs.
Mr.. J. Dyer, we are glad to say, has
recovered the S115 which was taken
from his room on Saturday night.
Gen. Fremont met many old friends
Of early days ON the plains and noun
tains in his western ~journeyings.
Owing to the absence Of some of the
members the Black Hills gold mining
company held no meeting yesterday.
The Laramie county democratic con-
vention will meet at the city hall to-
morrow Thursday afternoon at two
O'Clock.
On Sunday afternoon during a nigh
wind the Grand Central MOTEL smoke
stack, at Omaha, was blown over. 1t
was the solitary monument of the hotel
ruins.
Quite a number Of our citizens went
down to the stage Office yesterday and
examined the treasure coach, which
was bulldozed and riddled at Canon
Springs.
A gentleman tells of hearing Juliet
remark to Romeo, as the former was
passing the city hall last night, "How
beautiful the moon is, but them stars
look sick.n
A. J. Marks, the painter, has put up
a transition sign owe his establishment
on Seventeenth street. 1t reads three
ways-according to the position taken
by the observer.
DIR. Slower, of Addoms & Glover,
having received new glass fronts for
their drug store, has repaired the dam
age done by the memorable hail storm
of August 18th last.
Henry Redman, conductor of the
Western Division of the Union Pacific,
has been selected by the Conductors
brotherhood to attend a convention Of
that society at Chicago.
just Us quiet and contentment seem
about to settle down upon this once
happy land, the dreadful rumor is nois-
ed abroad that the Sweet Singer Of Col
orado has a new poem in press.
A crazy man named Sam McQuoid,
came in from the west ON Monday and
proceeded on his journey yesterday to
Omaha. During his sojourn here he
was carefully looked after by Officer
Bean.
Hand-to-hand encounters are super
seding the deadly knife and pistol in
love affairs. A lover with a bloody
nose is not perhaps SO romantic an OBJ
ject as m on a stretcher, but he wears
better.
Considerable stock was shipped over
the Union Pacific road yesterday.
Messrs. Sheidley Bros. started so car
loads from Pine Bluffs; Paxton s. Ware
Is from Ogalalla, and Pratt & Ferris 90
from Pine Bluffs.
The Deadwood Times the
capture and speedy hanging of a road
agent in the vicinity Of Canon Springs,
and says Sheriff Seth Bullock and a
party Of twelve men are on the track
of other robbers.
Messrs. Hackney & Durbin, of Rich
ard creek, this county, will arrive in
Cheyenne o-day with 1871 head of as
zine beeves as were ever raised in the
county. The outfit will be shipped
east, probably as early as Friday.
Somebody says a baby laughing in its
dreams is converting with angels. Per-
hass so; but there is q young married
hardware merchant in Cheyenne, who
asserts tat he has seen one crying in
It's waking lours as though it was hay
ing a spat witt the devil.
Yesterday afternoon I. r .John.on