The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-27
MINOR MENTION.

The Omaha boys scooped the Desc
rets of Salt Lakes to 2.
Forty-five cars of tea passed east
yesterday, and twenty-five will pass
to-day.
1t is rumored that we will have
another hat store in town when j. Jay
Joslin moves out.
1t is rumored that there will he q
walking match at Recreation hall dur
ing the coming week.
A tombstone with a simple cucumber
carved upon it, is quaint and simple
but OIL how expressive.
A small herd Of choice cattle wa.
sold yesterday by Mr.. MacMahon, to {
Mr.. Shaw, OF Horse creek.
Gov. Hoyt manifested a good deal.ot
that s'pluck'' he talked of last night
by not succumbing when the r~attlin,
hail stones tried to drown his voice.
Twenty-Five car loads OF cattle be
longing to Mr.. s. F. Emmons, wer,
shipped east from Julesburg yesterday
District court was in session a short
time yesterday morning, when a little
business of minor Importance was trans
acted.
Col. A. I. Babbitt purchased about
a thousand head of fine American cat.
tie yesterday from Lee & Blewett, OF
Nebraska.
In yesterdays issue we urged the au.
thorities to give Cheyenne an ample
supply of water for irrigation. Our
prayer has been answered-it has been
raining ever since.
The board Of control of the fire de-
partment will go up TO Sherman to-day
to meet the board from Laramie, when
they will decide who gets the prizes
won on the Fourth.
The lady officers of the Reading Room
organization takes this medium of pre-
senting their sincere thanks to the
ladies and gentlemen who so kindly as
sisted them at their late festival.
The newspaper men of Deadwood
when speaking of one another, use such
tender epithets as ''the japonica of the
Herald' and ''the sun-lower OF the
Enterprise" They are a sweet boquet.
"Recollections Of an old man." is the
somewhat singular, but interesting sub.
ject announced for Rev. W. II. Gill
ans morning discourse. He will dis
cuss the limits of enthusiasts this
evening in a lecture on the Pocasset
tragedy.
Jno. ii. Brown, who has been In Jail
for the past year, charged with being a
road agent, was liberated yesterday,
his time having expired on that charge.
The sentence for stopping the United
States mail was cancelled by his taking
advantage of the %insolvent act.
August LIST, the anniversary Of the
abolition of slavery by the British gov
eminent in the West Indies, will be
celebrated in this city next Friday
evening by the colored people with ap-
propriate exercises at the Dramatic
theater. including addresses by the
Hou. John w. Hoyt, governor, Hon.
A. Worth Spates, secretary of the ter
ritory and w. j.. Hardin, esq. The
Fifth cavalry band is also expected to
be present.
Another sad instance of the baleful
effects of not studyisg natural history,
comes from Thorp's stables. There
were some new mules there yesterday,
and one of the stable hands, not having
studied the peculiarities of the animal,
got too close to the wrong end. The
mule resented his ignorance by sending
him through the partition into John
shingles club room, where they were
gathering up stray pieces of stores and
crockeryware at a late hour last night.
The story about t%wenty-nine cattle
being killed by lightning is altogether
wrong. The true version of the affair
is, there were about 1,400 head of cattle
in a pen on Heck Reels ranch; they
got frightened in the storm and STAN.
peded from II side of the pen to the
other; they ran against the paling,
which failed to give way, and there
were t~wenty-nine tramped to death.
About seventy more of them met a
similar fate on Friday night.