The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-05
sKBBHTH sUNBEAMs.
Deadwosd is to have gas.

lions to get married.
Four passengers came IN yesterday
ON the coach from DeadwoOd.
A new shade the color of q choice
cigar is called Havana brown.
Indians are not at all contagious.
They are very difficult to catch.
The Catholics are said to be the
wealthiest denomination in Boston.
On Tuesday the Colorado and Wyo-
ming Presbytery will meet at Denver.
Messrs. Terry s. Hunter have just
received n car load of excellent horses.
Transit of Mercury tomorrow. Show
opens ats:09a. m, and closesat3:42p. m.
The annual election of officers for the
Denver Pacific road will take place or
Tuesday.
The estimated cost of keeping up the
| city government of Salt Lake, is 25,-
900 per month.
THE Daily Morning Stop Bucket"
is one Of the mildest of ~endearing terms
used by the Chicago dailies.
&c west, young woman. The popu-
lation Of Arizona is in the proportion
| of n woman to four men.
The meetings of the Congregational
Association during the past week have
been exceedingly interesting.
| Tbara 10 a ru~ortbot fo,,r oo,npaoiaa
of cavalry will leave Fort Russell this
week for the Big Horn country.
The latest rumor in railroad circles
is that the Denver & Rio Grande will
lay a third rail from Denver south.
o. c. Waid returned from his trip
east yesterday. He brought with him
twenty-five mules for his freight teams.
About sixty Cinnamon are engaged
in placer mining on the upper Platte,
In Colorado. They average s1.25 per
day.
The man who wears o pocket diction-
airy in his coat is the man who borrows
fine-cut tobacco and is always out of n
job.
Thomas NJ. Fisher was buying bibs
yesterday. 1t takes nearly all of Toms
spare time now to look after the little
ones.
There has been 200 suicides in three
years in California. Most of them
were the result of losses in stock opera
tions.
At the Inter Ocean yesterday there
were nine arrivals; at the Railroad
House eleven; at Dyer's twelve; and the
Delmonico eleven.
A Laramie woman put starch into
her husbands beer, thinking it was ar
senic, and was surprised because it
didn't stiffen him.
The ladies of the Central Presbyteri-
an church at Denver have engaged
Hon. Schuyler Colfax to deliver his lee
ture on Abraham Lincoln in that city.
Luke voorhees,, Esq, returned to
the city yesterday from Fort Laramie,
having made the trip to and from that
place, by private conveyance, in two
days.
Geo. A. Taylor, the man who at.
tempted to shoot his wife, in Denver,
some months ago, has been let off with
a fine of 300, or twenty days impris
onment.
Ten millions Of hairpins are manu-.
featured in this country annually, and
yet they are not sufficient to prevent n
hair from getting into the butter now
and then.
Temperance meeting at the Presby-
terrain church tomorrow monday
evening at half past seven, under the
auspices of the Woman's Temperance
Union.
A fellow was recently locked up in
Deadweod for drunkenness, and upon
SOLDERING of was told that he had shot
a man, and that the vigilantes were
going to hang him, when he tainted.
Five emigrant wagons passed through
Cheyenne yesterday, Ell route for Cali
fornia. They had with them one hun.
dred and twenty-five mules, which they
were taking across the plains for sale.
The regular annual meeting of the
electors of School District No. /, will
take place at 10 a. m, tomorrow, al
the Public school building, for the pur,
pose Of electing one trustee to servt
three years.
You a teach a boy that if he plays
the three and four domino on q three,
leaving the six exposed ut the other
end, it counts ten, in about ten min
utes; but it will take him all day at
school to learn that four units and six
units make ten units.
Eugene Haw, the popular clerk who
has so faithfully served Mr.. Polack at
his clothing establishment for the past
two years, will resign his position on
the 18th inst. We understand that il
is his purpose, on leaving the clothing
business, to locate a rancho on Grow
Creek, where he will devote his entire
attention to rural pursuits. This will
be in~terspersed of course with the rails.
ing of little pigs and chickens.
About forty men went out to Hut