The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-18
SNOW FLAKES.
Almost 1879.

Almost 1879.
Weather very cold at Rawlins.
The snow storm was very severe at
Bear Springs.
Sixteen degrees above zero In Chey-
enne yesterday.
1t was colder than helpless people
wished last night.
We now begin to get the drift Of the
weather; also of the snow.
Almanacs for 1873 are becoming q
drug In the druggists hands.
The Union Pacific train, east bound,
was behind time q little yesterday.
THE Sunday-schools are again crowd
ed. Christmas trees are budding.
Cheyenne, Omaha and Deadwood
have each a pheasant Hours" club.
Wearers Of Panama hats are not put
ting on the style they did q few months
ago.
Baptist cottage prayer meeting to-
night at the residence of DIR. Crook,
Sixteenth street.
A good woman who marries the man
she loves, and Is ftly mated, grows
doubly good, however excellent she
may have been.
James Bryant wal fatally injured on
Monday in Strawberry gulch, Black
Hills, by a premature explosion of a
blast In the tunnel.
Mrs. Nellie Atchison committed
suicide at leadville, Colorado, ON Tues
day, by taking arsenic. No cause as
signed for the deed.
Aug. Hubermann, while In jail at
Omaha on Monday, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with Q piece Of
glass. Financial troubles.
Prayer and teachers meeting at the
Presbyterian church this "wednesday
evening at 7 O'Clock. A full attend
ance Of teachers is requested.
Among the late arrivals from the
north are Mrs. Fields, Canon Springs;
M. Morris, John c. Horner, Charles
Hambright and L. Thompson.
II you want a handsome job Of print
ing done send your orders to the LEAD.
Err Office. Everything first class, and
prices clear down to hard pan.
December yields one Christmas eve,
one New Years v and five Sunday
nights this season. We predict an i'm
mense crop Of weddings for January.
N. Robertson, Esq, is putting new
doors containing glass windows, into
his carriage shop. His business is rap
idly increasing and he must have more
light.
Over eleven hundred dollars in
money, material and labor has been
subscribed in the upper towns Of Dead
wood gulch toward building a Method.
ist Episcopal church.
Maybe IL the name of the prisoner
whom Officer John E. Hall brought
from Omaha. he Is under the charge
Of being a cattle thief, and is now Sc
cure in the county jail.
Gov. Hoyt is making efforts to Sc.
cure the establishment Of mail service
from Fort Laramie to the Black Hills.
He should be supported by petitions
from our citizens all along the line.
Hon. Geo. W. Brown, Of the banking
firm Of Brown & Thum, Deadwood,
went through the city yesterday to
Denver, where he will attend the fun
eral of his wife who died there on Mon
day.
Information exists in the sheriff's
office at Deadwood that the counter.
letters ~inhabiting the cabin near Canon
Springs, mention Of which was made a
few days since, have gone bag and
baggage to Miles City.
One serious drawback to polygamy
on the Utah plains Is that the head Of
a house never knows which way to grab
when his wives, by some freak or fright
break into q stampede and scatter to
the forty or more points Of the COM
pass.
In November there were handled at
the Greeley station, on the Denver
Pacific railroad, 1,348,005 pounds Of
freight; charges on same. s3,S49.3s 4.
passenger ticket sales, 1915. go; express
charges, $3.50. 80; telegraphic receipts,
SSS.40
The party who has for several morn
ings past been in the habit Of stealing
the LEADER from certain doors on
Ferguson street neal Sixteenth, is
watched. Just ''let up" On that sort
Of business and ave trouble and ex-
pense.