The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-05
Clear weather at Deadwood.

Clear weather at Deadwood.
Yesterdays trains brought AZ Chey-
enne passengers.
The Board of County Commissioners
meet this morning at 10 O'Clock.
At 3 O'Clock this morning all L. p.
trains due here to-day were reported
on time.
The first regular session of the City
Council for the present month, con-
venes at the City Hall this evening.
There is a young man on Seven
teenth street who has offered to bet
that he can walk a million hours with
out sleep, if his girl will only walk with
him.
The Right Rev. ]. F. Spaulding, d.
D., Bishop of Colorado and Wyoming,
will preach at st. Marks church this
evening. Service at 7 O'Clock. All are
earnestly invited to hear the Bishop.
We were shown n very beautiful dec
Grated piece of pottery yesterday. 1t
was a bright pink on the outside, and
the inside was decorated with two
quarts of beans and half a pounG of
pork.
Yesterday a schoolboy asked that he
might go home, giving as his reason for
the request the death of his mother.
When asked by the teacher when she
died, he, tearfully, said "Four years
ago"
The Postmaster General has estab-
lished a postoffice at Bear Gulch,
Black Hills, and appointed Darwin
Knight postmaster. This will prove u
great accommodation to the miners in
that district.
Two car loads of recruits for cavalry
service passed through here Sunday on
the west bound express. They go to
San Francisco, being the first detach-
ment of $50 who are ordered there for
assignment to the First and Sixth regi-
ments of cavalry.
Harry Altman has at last adopted
the stand.up collar for every day wear.
He says he wants people to think that
his brains are so large and demonstra-
tive as to compel the use of ''side-
boards to keep said brHins from slop-
ping over.
The rush to the Black Hills from the
west has begun. The coaches have
been running full for the past week,
and on Sunday every seat up to Thurs
day was booked, SO that quite a party
is delayed here. Superintendent Voor-
hees contemplates putting on a double
daily line and making faster time as
soon as the needs of travel justify it.
In the House of Representatives, at
Washington. last week, Mr.. Leonard
introduced n bill III. II. No. 276D pro-
viding that the judges of the supreme
court of the Territories of the United
States shall hold their Offices during
good behavior; which was read Il first
and second time, referred to the COM
mittee on Judiciary, and ordered to be
printed.
a fellow away in Cincinnati wants
to send us hbank note detector, pro-
vided we will DO e printing for
him. If that book Cha detect money
where there is none, then we want it.
We are inclined to the opinion, how
ever, that there is somebody in Cincin-
natl that mighshsin the lunatic asylum,
that is, if he thihks~aewspaper men
have any use for bank note detectors.
Sunday afternoon the railroad hose
company took out their cart and made
Il trial of the water works. They threw
n fine fire stream through II II inch
nozzle, and amused themselves by wet
ting down passing freight trains and
all unlucky individuals on the ground.
One young horseman who thought he
could run his horse past without getting
hit, was almost knocked from his steed
by the powerful stream.
A good advertisement in a live local
paper like TIE LEADER is as n guide
board to the bewildered traveller. 1t
points him to a place where he can find
the articles he needs, and never fails to
remunerate the dealer n hundred-fold.
Our subscription list is increasing daily.
Over one hundred new subscribers
have been added to our lists in the past
week, and the opportunity offered to
advertisers was never better than now.
Passengers of the Cheyenne a. b. ii.
stage company, over the Cheyenne
route, have for the past two months
enjoyed the luxury and rest of a sleigh
ride from Cold Springs to this place,
about 30 miles, but the late warm
weather has so far melted off the snow
as to compel the company to draw off
the sleighs, and yesterdays coach, in at
l O'Clock, was a sure enough coach,
and no longer sleighing is enjoyed by
the weary traveller. Black Hills Times.