The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-11
MINOR MATTERS.
Carefully Gathered and Prsssn.sd for the Ben
cot o. Our Readers.

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They now have o sta.ing rink at
Deadwood.
Roads rather bad between here and
Fort Laramie.
Prayer meeting tonight In the Pres
byterian church. fa I5uasm ses
The weather yesterday was exceed
ingly summer like.
The matrimonial market has fallen
of since the holidays.
Rev. Father Finotti, Of Denver, Is
lying at the point OF death.
The Thermometer was 17o above zero
yesterday at Laramie City.
The Pleasant Hours club gave q hop
last night at the Railroad house.
-Four passengers went north on the
Cheyenne s. Black Hills coach yester-
day.
We notice new buildings In process
Of erection In various portions Of the
city.
No cases in the police courts yester-
day. Truly we are a law abiding sspeo-
PIES"
The county commissioners do not ex-
pect to meet again until Tuesday, Feb
riary II.
The Sun that 1t will re-
sumo morning publication on the first
of next April. ~ AAtt+AQiL 90
A large quantity of general mer-
chandise was started for the Black
Hills yesterday. 10 n r.
There lisa woman living in south
Deadwood who has three husbands, and
they are all there. z III fa0a94 ega
1--WE have turned the corner,n says
Schuyler Colfax, land are going to
have better times"
The weather wa colder yesterday at
Rawlins than at any other town ON the
Union Pacific road.
There are seven places in Cheyenne
where you:can sit under the droppings Of
the sanctuary tomorrow.
Train men inform US that tie
weather has moderated all along the
line Of the Union Pacific road.
Joseph ,Granhauser Indignantly de-
MES that he is q 'skleptomaniac, " or,
In fact, any other kind of q maniac.
Live chickens sell at Yankton for
s2.5 a dozen. In Deadwood they are
worth all the way from s12 to S15 per
dozen.
The Wyoming commissioners ON PEN
itentiary affairs viii hold a session in
this city some time during the present
month.
Sunday gulch, eight miles from Gus
ter City, in the Black Hills, has pro-
duced one nugget worth 800 and an
other worth $40.
The wise man placeth the stock Of
his gun to his shoulder before he nreth,
but the fool looketh down the barrel to
see the ball start.
We are under obligations to Officer
W. Frank Smith, of Denver, for infor-
nation furnished regarding the recent
career of Cleary, the forger.
u. 8. Grant Of Illinois and James f.
Wilson Of Iowa are mentioned by a
number Of Jul exchanges as a good
ticket for president and vice presi-
dent in 1880.
The Endorsement by the Cheyenne
FIRE department Of Hon. Herman Haas
for chief and T. Mulqueen for assistant
chief, show good Judgment. No better
selections could have been made.
The Evangelical alliance prayer
meeting last night was, in part, de.
voted to prayers for newspaper men.
Some Of them need prayers badly
enough. We regret exceedingly that
Bramel and Hayford were not present.
Tho stock growers Of Colorado have
invited Mr.. Holly, who wa one Of the
founders Of the association, and for six
years its secretary, on his return TO
Denver, TO prepare a historical resume
Of the organization, with "reminiscences.
Olive. the leader of the gang, who
languishes in prison for the. murder of
Ketchum and Mitchell, is said to be
worth between n and two hundred
thousand dollars. But money will hard
ly save him from the halter.
Capt" A. B. Tuttle's lecture on
the polar sea, did not pan out well, and
those who hippodromed him felt badly
about it. The LEADER took him in ut
a glance at his real value and refused
to publish a column about his imagin-
airy discoveries. 4.
It is said that some cattle on the
plains are subsisting upon cactus plant,
and the food is quite nutritious. The
Greeley Sun suggests that these plants
might be collected by means Of machin-
cry, singed in kilns, and thus be made
to take the place Of hay. 9aiH
Messrs. Mann & Casey, finding their
business largely increasing, have re-
moved to the Neusitz corner, Seven
teenth and Eddy streets, where they
can be found with the largest stock of
second hand furniture and other goods
in Cheyenne. See their advertisement
in this issue.