The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-17
NEWS BREVI1lES.

ginning to talk base ball.
A. H. jackson, of Horse Creek, and
8. Doty, of Chugwater, came in yester-
day.
Prayer and teachers meeting was
held last night in the Presbyterian
church.
Perhaps Mr.. Edison might invent a
new kind of Chinaman who wouldn't
be Objectionable.
Fair, festival and dramatic exercises
to. might in Recreation Hall. See no.
tice elsewhere in this issue.
The Ivinson silver wedding cere-
monies at Laramie City were largely
attended by friends of the parties.
The members of the gun club will
have a business meeting at Stebbins,
Post & Co.'s bank tomorrow night.
A man named Mccain has mystic
riously disappeared from Golden, Col,
and his friends fear he has been muir
dered.
o. L. Whitelaw and E. L. Southern,
two capitalists from st. Louis, are here
with a view Of engaging in sheep and
cattle business.
There are two hundred and seventy
three graves in the cemetery at Lead
vile. This shows a great mortality in
SO young a town.
The Nellie Boyd entertainments at
the Cheyenne Dramatic theatre are de-
serving of even larger houses than have
thus far favored them.
A pleasant hop was given last night
at Camp Carlin by Capt. Thomas
Moore. Several Cheyenne ladies and
gentlemen were present.
The postmaster general has ordered
the appointment of Ben. NJ. Hermans
as postmaster at Fort Laramie, in Lar
annie county, Wyoming.
MI. p. Bergerson, of this city, has
received notice that his application for
patent for magazine fire arms has been
officially allowed by the department at
Washington.
The board of equalization on city
taxes held no session yesterday nor last
night. To-day, however, the work will
be resumed. The alphabet to n inclu-
sive has been passed upon.
The religious world predicts an I'M
usually severe future punishment for
Bob Ingersoll, and some people are so
extreme MS even to believe that he will
go to Leadville when he dies.
There are one hundred hostile In
dams encamped on the middle fork of
the Salmon liver, Idaho, and the Bo-
nanza City miners are talking of treat
ing them to::a shower Of lead.
Capt. 8. A. Sheppard, for six years
assistant postmaster at Denver, has re-
tired, carrying with him the good
wishes Of his late subordinates and the
respect Of the entire community.
Capt. Fitzgerald expects to leave
shortly for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
where he will appear before the retir-
ing board. And, by the way, the cap
tain's wife recently presented him with
a fine son.
The family of Lieut.. Alfred Morton,
OF Fort Omaha, has been again be-
reaved in the death of John King,
third son. The bereaved persons have
the sympathy of many friends in their
affection.
Now that Brother McClelland, Of the
Express, has been made postmaster ut
Fort Collins, he proposes to remove the
postofice into his newspaper building
where he will make his general head
quarters.
When a (~so-called) journal stoops to
so contemplate a trick as to write and
print an obnoxious article and sign the
name of a respectable journal thereto,
we are led to fear that honor is at a
discount in that locality.
The supreme court yesterday heard
the remainder Of the Warner Roth
controversy, and the case is now taken
under advisement by the court. The
case of Stebbins, Post s. Co. VS.. Union
Pacific railway is occupying the
attention of that legal body.
While Mr.. G.. E. Parker was COM
.placently eating his supper yesterday
evening at his hotel, a portion of the