The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-14
MINOR MENTION.
Local affairs are growing dull.

shooting club.
Travel over the o. P. road continues
to be very good.
Pneumonia Is getting away with
many residents of Leadville.
A company has been organized in
Omaha to connect Lincoln by telephone.
The meteoric shower, advertised to
take place Thursday evening, failed to
connect.
Frank whitney is doing some heavy
freighting over the Fort Pierre route to
the Black Hills.
Secretary McCrary is putting In his
spare time on the second edition of
The Laws of Elections"
Tom johnson, the second of the two
murderers of R. B. Hayward, Of Gold
en-, Col, has been arrested.
Avery interesting and instructive ar
ticle on ''Meteorites'' win be found on
our third page this morning.
Sitting Bull demonstrates the quail
ties of a bully fellow as long as he stays
on the other side OF the line.
NJ. J.. Gayisk, city editor of the Dem
yer Ne,ss, will be managing editor of
the new democratic paper in Leadville.
VIM. Hodge, John Snodgrass and d.
E. Brown, of Bear creek. arrived in the
tcity yesterday, and are stopping at
Dyer's.
George F. Moore and Miss Kitty
Parker were married on the stage of
the Palace theater, Denver, on Wednes-
day night.
The governor Of California passed
west yesterday on No. 8. He was
quite sick In his berth, suffering from
a severe cold.
The North Denver land company is
a swindle Of the first water. Its mail
has been returned to the dead-letter
office from Denver.
The recent Chinese marriage in Dem
yer turns out to have been an abduc-
tion. The girl was carried off, and her
father is raising joss about it.
A barkeeper in Weston, the present
terminus Of the South Park road, shot
and killed a hummer who wanted a
drink ~"charged up" the other day.
There are several members of the leg
~islature who have not yet introduced
bills. But there are several days of the
session left, so they have plenty of time.
Four prisoners, named James Lynch,
H. Brown, alias Stevens mickey"
McGovern, and Lewis Keefer, broke
from the Leadville jail on Monday even
ing last.
Franz Nagle, a young man aged 20
years, attempted suicide the other day
in Omaha, because his brother would
not give him money to go home to Chi
cago.
A young lady resident Of Denver has
brought suit for $1,000 damages against
a notion dealer of that city, who
charged her with stealing yarn from his
store ana put her out.
They had numerous circuses yester-
day morning in the house. Hon. John
McManus and the speaker introduced
several, and Mr.. johnson closed the fun
by bringing in Forepaugh's.
"Ten nights in a bar-room" was
played in Denver last night by some
young men. "Ten bar-rooms in one
night is frequently played in Chey-
enne by both old and young men.
Up to November 8, $500 a loads of
cattle have been received at Council
Bluffs and Omaha from the Union Pa
cifc railroad. This is an increase of
1000 cars over the receipts Of the same
date last year.
DR.. Ellis, who was to lecture In this
city tomorrow evening, for the benefit
of the Ladies' reading room, has asked
to have the lecture postponed until
next week. The time will be announ-
ced in the LEADER.
DR.. Ellis refuses to leave his Denver
congregation. The tempting offer of a
$1,000 salary has been successfully re-
sisted. If the able doctor will pardon
our seeming irreverence we will say he
is a sound, theological brick.
John German, a b~arkeeper in Lead
vile, put q hole through Thomas Cor
mar (not a relative) on Monday night
last, and was fined twenty dollars for
his indiscretion. Had Thomas been
killed John would have escaped without
any fine.
1t looks to us as IL the Meeker family
is liable to overdo the lecture business.
They all demonstrate too much readi-
ness to rehash their sorrows for pay.
Besides, they cannot tell any more than
has already been published. Evidently
they have fallen into the hands of Phil
istine spectators.
j. L. Smith, one of Sheriff Draper's
deputies, was arraigned in the police
court yesterday on the charge of Great
ing a disturbance and a breach Of the
peace, on Tuesday last. He was found
guilty by Judge Bean and sentenced to
pay a fine of s1s 80. Smith appealed
to the district court and gave bonds in
the sun of 800.
MI. Silva writes to the LEADER to
say that an error recently appeared in
this paper relative to the killing of an
Indian by a man named Davis, of