The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-28
PENcILINGS.

day.
The mud end snow were pretty evenly
divided yesterday.
Some men are born great, some have
greatness thrust upon them, while 9TH
ers were born at Sidney.
The Cheyenne Literary and Debating
Society meets this evening in the Bon
block. Public cordially invited to at
tend.
Teachers meeting and prayer meet
ing this Thursday evening at the
Methodist church. Public cordially
invited.
There will be a ball given at Fort
Russell tonight; the Fifth cavalry band
will be in attendance and a very enjoy
able time is expected.
1t is rumored that Professor Sham
beck left the city yesterday, but the
knowing ones say he is secreted in u
certain house whers he is laid up for
repairs. No more Ullman for him.
There will be- meeting of the officers
of the fire department this Thursday
evening at u O'Clock in the City Hall.
\ full attendance is earnestly request
ed by the chief Of the fire department.
A new town called Parkersburg is
springing up on the Union Pacific rail
road, about two hundred miles west of
Omaha. A party of one hundred emf
grants from West Virginia will form a
colony there.
The Fort Collins Express says far
mers who held their wheat for a high
er market are coming to the conclusion
that one dollar last fall was better than
seventy-ive or eighty cents per bushel
this spring.
Look at John A. Dix and Daniel
Drew and Thurlow Weed, drawing
their little twenty-four dollar pensions
AS veterans of the war of 1872, and
then say this country doesn't take care
of the poor boysl
A newspaper mar can spell, punctu-
ate and capitalize with magnificent ac-
curacy, but put him to speaking and
half the time he will seem a total stran.
ger to pronunciation. He is n writer,
and not a talker.
The Shambeck scandal has caused
trouble enough. If the fellow will skip
out forthwith he will confer a favor
upon this community. Any one de-
slrous Of going along with him can
doubtless easily be spared.
The Omaha Republican has adopted
a new Sunday edition, a mammoth folio
sheet of thirty-six columns, well filed
with interesting news, local and mis-
c%ellaneous matter. An evidence of
prosperity and enterprise.
On Tuesday evening as the regular
express train from Cheyenne was enter
ing the Denver depot, IL drunken man
named Charles White was struck by the
engine and hurled from the track. The
man sustained severe injuries but NAV
recover.
The storm Of yesterday extended all
along the Union Pacific road from
Omaha to Ogden. East Of Sidney
there was more rain than in this Sec
ton; west of Cheyenne there was little
rain, but about the same mount of
snow as here.
Owing to the storm the funeral of
Mary NJ. Wilson, infant daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Wilson, did not
take place yesterday. 1t will occur this
afternoon at 2 O'Clock, from the corner
of 18th and Eddy streets, Rev. l.. ].
Hall, officiating.
Chief Clerk Paul V%andervoort, of the
Railway Mail Service, at Omaha, has
received orders for the quadrennial
weighing of mails over Nebraska rail.
ways, to show the amount to be paid to
each railroad per mile for hauling the
United States mail.
The Forresters and the Denver News
editors are on bad terms and the latter
don't get any more free passes. Wick
ers and Thomas are now skirmishing
around for an extra quarter in order to
obtain admission to the Adah Rich
mond entertainment.
The mail contract for carrying the
mails from Green River to Camp Brown
has been let to Mr.. j. W. Parker. of
Kansas, for 3d. 900 per year.. This is
about one-third the price that has here.
tofore been paid for this service. The
Northwestern Stage Co. received s41,.
100.
The cattle market at Denver is fair
Corn-fed steers are worth four and one.
quarter to four and one-half cents
grass-fed steers three to four, butcher
cows two and one-half to three and
one-half, and veal calves, scarce and in
brisk demand, sell at six to eight cents
dressed.
There are a great many young men
who belong to the Photographers As.
ISOLATION, and earh a ~precarious living
by getting off an%tediluvian Jokes about
1.-THE Administration" who wouldn't
he SO ~ill.tempered if somebody would
give them a square meal and kind of