The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-28

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light of recent events.
A large assortment of New Year.
calling cards at the LEADER office
Call and leave your orders.
The election for directors of the Col
orado Central railroad company will b;
held in Golden tomorrow.
Clara Crookham is a member of the
New York comedy company, which
played in Boulder, Col, last evening.
o. P. Truman, of Galesburgh, Ills,
died suddenly in Denver on Friday last.
His ailment was congestion of tn,
lungs.
A party of gentlemen who are inter
| ested in North Park, will leave in 9
few days for that new and rich mining
district.
The Sabbath school connected will
the Congregational Sabbath school will
hold a concert tonight at Z O'Clock,
Seats free.
How do you feel, nov that Christmas
is past?-Denrer Republican. Perfect
ly sober, thank you. How did yon ge,
over IT?
A full description of Edison's inven,
ton Of the electric light will be found
on our third page; also a cut illustrat'
ing the lamp.
Janauschek, tue queen of tragedy,
has eighteen members of her troupe.
After playing in Cheyenne, she will
tour through Colorado.
Persons who intend keeping open
house on New Years. day, will confer
a favor by sending name and place oil
residence to the LEADER Office.
Bishop Spalding will come up from
Denver on tomorrow. He will o~ficiate
at the services to be held in the even.
ing, after which he desires to meet the
people of the parish in the church.
At the annual election of Sunday
school officers in the NJ. E. church. Mr..
w. D. Pease was chosen superintend-
ent; Job Herrick, assistant; Richard
b. Durbin, secretary; Miss Belle Barn.
harte, librarian, and ]. Sterling, treas
urer.
We learn that the services to-day
will be unusually interesting at the NJ.
E. church. The pastor, Rev. w. H.
Gillian, will preach this morning on
"The Lights and Shadows of Human
History This evening he will lecture
on the "The relation of Christ to Mys
terry and Human Destiny"
The rumor that was current ON the
streets Friday night, to the effect that
Mr.. Hudspeth had been fatally shot, al
his father-in-law's ranch, (Mr. o. p,
Goodwin's) proves, as the LEADER an
ticipated, groundless. No n was
hurt at Mr.. Goodwin's ranch on Christ,
mas night or at any other time.
The prospective reformer is engaged
in designing New Years resolutions
On the first Of January he will place
the same In n gilt frame covered with
glass. and hang 1t up. On the second
he will turn the face to the wall. And
on the third he will smash the entire
arrangement with a Budweiser bottle.
A Greeley special to the Denver Trib,
ine, of the Goth inst, says: "Bill
Smith, armed with a revolver and knife,
assaulted Ed. Smith, a rival black
smith, here to-day, inficting two seri'
Gus stabs in the left arm. Arrested
and jailed in default of $500 bail. The
rest of the Smiths-twenty -eight-and
t~wenty-four Thompsons are having q
reunion at the Academy Of Music"
The cut that appears on our third
page this morning illustrating Edison's
electric lamp, was made by Mr.. Buech'
ner, of the popular jewelry firm Of
Zehner, jackson & Buechner. This
firm turns out the best of work in every
branch of the jewelry line. Their owr
manufacture of jewelry has been most
popular for holiday presents. Indeed,
there is u steady demand for their
goods, which are always of the best
quality and lowest prices.
Several city cases which have beer
appealed to the district court from thu
decisions of the city police Justice, viii
come up for hearing in court to-mor
row. The usual method of disposine
Of these cases is Tor the city attorney
to dismiss them at the cost of the city
Now il this course is to be pursued, II
would seem to be economy for the city
council to instruct its police justices tc
change their verdict Of guilty tc
mot guilty. in all cases where an ap
peal was demanded.
A nearly fatal accident occurred OIL
the Denver & South Park railroad OF
Wednesday morning about IL O'Clock
The passenger tram was approaching
Central City at a fast rate of speed
when the engine jumped the track ant
was hurled down the mountain side il
a moments time, barely giving the en-
gineerI and fireman an opportunity t
jump of In order to save their lives
which, however, they succeeded in dc
ing with but slight injury. Fortunate
ly the swaying Of the engine broke tn
link which connected it with tn
coaches, and left the train standing
stationary on the track. The locomo
tive was badly damaged, and the escap