The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-23
NEWS NUGGETS.


with her troupe this afternoon.
The next meeting of the city council
will be one of unusual interest.
Those who are eager after praise,
show that they are poor in merit.
Next Saturday will be the anniver-
sary of the birth Of Robert Burns.
We are under special obligations to
Probate Judge C. F, Miller for recent
favors.
The Hyer Sisters combination will
shortly visit the west, appearing first
at Denver.
Candidates for Office under the new
municipal government are still on the
anxious seat.
BY taking revenge, a man is but even
with his enemy; but in passing it over,
he is superior.
Coroner Lee had his first case yester-
day-a Chinaman who came to his
death by violence.
Miss r. B. Pratt has been engaged to
aid Prof. Mayer in giving lessons in the
Terpsichorean art.
All trains were on time yesterday
except the Colorado Central, which was
only forty minutes late.
The controversy between the mayor
and the council elicits considerable in
terest In the community.
A business meeting was held at the
Congregational church last night by
the leading members thereof.
The standing committees of the city
council will be appointed at the next
regular meeting of that body.
A soldier and a citizen had a fight on
Sixteenth street last night resulting
in the former receiving a black eye.
Services will be held again this even
ing in the Congregational church.
Public cordially invited to be present.
We understand that Miss frankie
Logan has been appointed as a teacher
in n of the schools north of this city.
The road ambition travels too mar
row for friendship, too crooked for love,
t,o rugged for honesty, too dark fol
science.
According TO recent returns the pop.
ulation of Nebraska is now 313, 74S.
In 1870 the population was 122, 092, and
in 1873, 257,747.
The ordinance passed by the council
on Tuesday night reduces the salaries
Of city officers 1920 in the aggregate
for the coming year.
Mr.. G. p. Goldacker expects to re.
move his barbering and hair dressing
establishment to-day to the room for
merly occupied by the Occidental
saloon.
Old settlers say the wind, which
prevailed here Tuesday night and early
yesterday morning, was the most VIC
lent aver experienced since Cheyenne
sprang into existence.
Charles Matthews, the long lost
brother of a well known Chicago bust
ness man, arrived in the city yesterday.
He is the party advertised for a few
days since in the LEADER.
Lee Ami, the Chinaman who died
here yesterday morning from the effects
of wounds received a few days since in
Sidney, was buried yesterday afternoon
at the expense of the county.
A large number of persons were in
attendance at the prayer and teachers
meeting in the Presbyterian church
last night. The subject discussed was
1.-THE Builders Interrupted"
Good breeding is the result of ma
ture and not of education; it may be
found in a cottage, and missed in a
palace. 1t is a general regard for the
feelings Of others that springs from the
absence of s~elfshness.
The Washington Star thus gushes
over on the Indian question:
If there is any noble red man it Ii
Chief Joseph. He looks it and has
acted it. He is an Indian without bru.
tally, a merciful savage, a military
genius who does not despise the arts OF
peace.
The fierce gales which prevailed
Tuesday night and yesterday morning,
demolished a number of chimneys in
| various pOrtiOns of the city. The