The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-18
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Hotel arrivals were scarce yesterday.
! Two passengers came in on yester-
days coach.
Both England and Russia act a little
embarrassed.
Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company
meets tonight.
The croquet parties are out every
pleasant evening.
A new counterfeit 500 bill has
made its appearance.
N. E. Church strawberry festival to-
night in the Fisk block.
Seven passengers go out on this
mornings coach for Deadwood.
Geo. Davis got fined thirteen dollars
yesterday for using obscene language.
How could there have been fraud In
Florida with Grover and Cronin 1000
miles awayP
All Denver Is anxiously awaiting the
appearance Of that new paper-The
Greenbacker.
A Cheyenne belle Is Moore miserable
this morning than she was yesterday.
He's gone to Texas.
Prominent statesmen, clowns, pugil-
lists, editors, and rihemen are numbered
among the recent dead.
Tickets will be sold at greatly re-
duced rates from Laramie City to the
fireman's excursion to Central.
No alleged wife ever comes around
claiming q poor man as a husband after
he II dead. Remember this and stay
poor.
Company D, Of the Fourth infantry,
arrived yesterday from Omaha, and
will proceed to Fort Laramie in a few
days.
The Colorado Central extension was
completed to Central Thursday. The
terminus and depot grounds are in
Spring gulch.
VIII wonders never cease2 Wilbur
F. Storey, publisher Of the Chicago
Times, has been sued for libel, and by
an ex-Congressman at that.
Call up Tilden, Grover, Cronin, Pat.
rick, Kountz, doc" Miller, Nephew
Pelton and "Gobble," and let's have
two Investigations while we are at 1t.
Frank Williams was adjudged a va
grant yesterday by Judge Fisher. The
usual sentence was passed upon him,
and a few hours given him to walk oui
Of town.
A light snow fell here yesterday.
We learn that 1t was general all along
the line Of the Union Pacific road west
of Cheyenne. East OF Sidney 1t assum.
ed the form Of rain.
| A heavy hail storm occurred In tn,
vicinity Of Cheyenne Wells, on til,
Kansas Pacific, Thursday night. Hal
stones the size Of walnuts fell, breaking
windows and Frustrating the telegrap
lines.
A gentleman who has an unfortunat
habit Of i~nterrupting when others ar
talking, was brought up with a roun'
turn the other day, by a victim, VIII
quietly said: "Go ahead and tell you
story You might forget it,"
The Georgetown Miner, under tn,
combined management of Messrs. e
II. N. Patterson and Charles T. Bella
my. will do much to increase its popu
larity and usefulness. He and '.Snik
tau'' will make q strong team.
This Is what the Deadwood Times
says about Slack's newspaper enter
prise: The ghost Of the defunct Chey
enne Gazette is now en- route for Leat
City. But in view Of the fact that tn,
"good die young" we predict that til,
town won't be haunted very long. Tha
journalistic genius, Editor Horton, vii
preside over the local department Of tn,
coming ~apparition.
Among the bills agreed upon yester
day by the House committee on rail
roads and canals, and favorable report,
OF the same authorized to be presented
to the House, were the bill passed by the
Senate April 18th, authorizing the con.
struction Of a railroad from q point Of
or near Bismarck, Dakota Territory. to
the Black Hills; and the bill passed by
the Senate April 18th, to incorporate
the Cheyenne & Black Hills Railroad
and Telegraph Company.
Remanded to Jail.
DEADwooD, May Ii, 1873.