The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-01-26

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coal oil springs on his place and is now
preparing to sink a well.
One car of machinery and 2 of mdse.
for Cheyenne will arrive from the east
this morning. One car Of machinery
arrived from the west last night.
A treasure train, consisting of seven
teen cars, laden with tea and silk from
the other side of the Pacific, will pass
through bound eastward, this morning.
Nine threshing machines We're stead
lily employed in the Cache-la-Poudre
valley last year. In the coming season
steam will be employed to thresh the
crops.
When you meet a schoolgirl with 4
far-away look in her eyes, and
Iy-moving lips, she is not thinking of
her beau, but wrestling with a conun-
drum in mental arithmetic.
Young man, go west, go to Nevada,
where, when you take a girl to spelling
you have to ride twenty-five
miles, and she expects you to keep your
around her all the way.
Plasterers and carpenters are con-
at work upon the elegant resi-
dence Of Judge Carey, corner Of Goth
and Ferguson streets. When COM
pleted 1t will be the finest in the city.
The estimated cost is 100000.
Tie Union Pacific pay car arrived
here last night and a good portion of
the employees were paid of. The re-
mainder will receive their monthly
dues this morning, after which the
money car will move westward on its
good mission.
A young Cheyenne bride, who had
been fashionably educated, was asked
by her fond husband to attend to the
ordering of dinner, as he shouldn't have
to go to market. 1t is a fact that
she blandly requested the butcher to
send home q leg of tongue.
Mrs. Z. V. Clark, who was so terri
bly, burned at Grand Island. Monday
evening, by the explosion of a lamp, as
reported in these columns, died at 2 a.
on Tuesday. Her daughter, Mrs.
Alderman, who gave birth to Il child
Sunday evening, is very low.
There are marked symptoms of an
early war in the coal market. The re-
duction in price of Rock Springs is
followed by a reduced price list of the
the Colorado Coal Co. and II fall of one
dollar per ton on Boulder Valley coal,
for which Mr.. r. II. Johns is agent.
The people are the gamers.
A large company of emigrants went
west last evening, on their way to Hub
bert, Marion county, Oregon, % miles
from Portland, where they propose to
Most of them were from the
Pennsylvania coal regions and We're
under the lead of a broad brimmed fol-
lower of William Penn, named Daniel
d. Miller.
Mayor Bresnahen, ut the last meet
ing of the City Council, appointed a
committee to revise the rules
for the government of that body. The
old rules were complicated, unsatisfac-
tory and incomplete. Councilman j.
w. Hammond is chairman of the
special committee, the work of which
is progressing rapidly.
The news boys on the Union Pacific
complain that times are not 40 they
used to be. The flush days when every
traveller purchased books or newspapers,
and was not very particular either about
the price he paid for them, are gone,
never to return. The prize candy bust
ness is no more, the travelling public
has grown poorer, and sales are light
and profits small.
The old reliable First National Bank
again comes to the front with a state
ment of its condition at the close of
business on Dec. %, 1877. The figures
show better than words of ours can
tell the rapidly growing popularity and
prosperity of this sterling institution.
Its affairs are controlled by gentlemen
Of acknowledged financial ability, and
their careful and shrewd management
is commended by all.
The best quality of meats, butter,
spiced beef and eggs at
1t J. E. RoTH's.
Bonds or No Bonds.
The r. r. Co. have reduced coal
rates to Cheyenne and we will until