The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-13
PENCIL POINTS.

bankruptcy.
No base ball player has been sun
struck this season.
The Colorado election will take place
on the 9th of October.
Do not become wrapped up in your
self. The weather is too warm.
Rev. G. NJ. Sanders, Of this city,
preached in Deadwood on Sunday.
Frederick w. Pitkin, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Colorado, was
born at Manchester, Connecticut, in
1887. He is a lawyer by profession.
Dakota Territory has a good-sized
town without a name. 1t is e a Fort
Keogh.
DIR. Mary Walker would be appreci-
ated in Cyprus. The ladies there wear
trowsers.
Women love flowers and birds. They
are. however, not so partial to swallows
as the men
Tickets for reserved seats to Tony
PASTORS entertainment will be for sale
at Hollis book store this morning.
No matter how extravagant a young
man may be, he always feels mean when
he is compelled to put a th~ree-cent
stamp on a city letter.
Some thieves stole a valuable horse
and four yoke of cattle last week from
Fields ranch on Beaver creek, seven
miles from Jenny's stockade.
The meanest man in the world lives
in Sidney, Nebraska. He stole his
wife's false teeth and then got a divorce
on account Of her physical defects.
After the business meeting of the
Ladies' Reading Room Association last
evening, a sociable was held, inter-
spersed with music and select readings.
Archery is said to be very fashiona-
BILE at Colorado Springs and Manitou
among the ladies'. It has superseded
croquet. Can't Cheyenne have an arch.
cry club
The eclipse Of the moon in this sec
tion didn't pan out very well last night
We would not have known there was
one II the almanac man hadn't kindly
informed us.
"How old are youp"asked Conductor
Seeley the other day of a little girl who
was trying to ride at half fare. ~ am
thirteen at home but in the cars 1 am
s%cven,' was the innocent reply.
A great many people looked at the
moon last night to see the eclipse. To.
day they will have access to the alma.
mac, and find that the moons eclipse
doomed up better in other localities.
Messrs. Hurd & Calland. carpenters
and builders, will begin the erection OF
a dwelling on the ranch of Col. Bah
bitt, on the Chug, in about a week. 1t
will be 16x24 with an ell, and cost up
ward Of 5000.
Local news seems to be rather scarce
In Omaha. One Of the reporters is
writing up the John Brown raid Of
1859. When 6e gets through with John
he will tackle the details OF George
Washington's death.
On Sunday afternoon James Droney,
and another gentleman whose name we
have not learned, were thrown from an
open-top buggy and the former. quite
seriously injured. The turning over Of
the buggy caused the trouble.
1t is not safe to argue that a reviva'
of business is at hand just because YOU
wife has succeeded in disposing of YOU
second-hapd best suit Of clothes in ex
change for a green plaster of Paris par.
rot with d tomato-colored beak.
Thomas McShane, Esq, has returned
from Chicago, where he sold about four
hundred head of beeves. When pass
ing through Omaha with his cattle, Mr..
McShane was induced to offer two car
loads Of cows, which he sold at S2.S5.
This was the first sale effected at the
new stock yards in that place.
The Terr;tor;,, pon;,.n.,.rr c.m
mission held a meeting yesterday and
tive tn tho red,c,,on =, A. ar~aa.as".
- muN VI the expenses OF
Hoyt being out Of the city, the other