The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-25
NEWS ~BREVITIES
District court tomorrow.

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The races will begin in Omaha OF
Tuesday.
The matrimonial market is exceed.
ingly dull.
The new Catholic church will be
dedicated to-day.
See notice elsewhere in this issue OF
strawberry festival.
The delegation of firemen from Lar.
annie City stopped at Dyer's,
The teachers have decided not tc
have school On Decoration Day.
Sheriff Draper looks as though hi,
trip to Minnesota agreed with him.
N. E. Post, the popular banker
daily appears on the street with thai
new team.
Hurlbut Brothers, druggists, AT,
having some painting done In their es
tablishment.
Prof. Stark will again be with hi.
class this afternoon in the Presbyterian
Sabbath school.
There were twenty-three arrivals yes
terday at the Inter Ocean, thirteen al
Dyer's and fourteen at the Railroad
house.
Owing to the absence Of Rev. e. NJ.
Sanders there will be no preaching this
morning nor evening in the Congrega.
tional church.
Wonder If our Pelton, who was
brought into the fold yesterday by
Sheriff Draper, is also one Of Sammy
Tilden's nephews?
A portion of the crew of the jean
nette arctic expedition is expected to
pass through the city this afternoon, on
their way to San Francisco.
Those who desire to scan the villain
u phiz of Harry Clifton, the garroter,
can do 70 this afternoon, when the
Colorado Central train arrives.
Arguments in the Mccain case were
concluded last evening, and Chief JUS
tice Fisher is expected to render his
decision in the premises tomorrow.
Quite a large party of young ladies
and gentlemen returned last evening
from the region of the new mines,
where they passed the day in Almost en-
joyable manner.
II. b. Young, of the firm of Cuth-
bertson e. Young, Deadwood, was Sc
verely beaten over the head with a re-
volver a few days ago by q party with
whom he had an unpleasantne
A Deadwood paper announces the
death of Christopher Columbus, the
chap who discovered US all. II the
Sun had seen the paragraph it would
doubtless have snapped it up as a piece
Of late news
The San says 1t Is a territorial
paper" Why, bless your soul, the
LEADER was q territorial paper when
Slack was a barefooted boy planting
corn and beans on the swamp ranches
of the Sucker State.
The flicker is a territorial paperlr
And yet it averages only a column and
a half of telegraphic matter daily. The
LEADER furnishes four and three
quarters on an average. And the same
proportion applies to the local col
umns.
THE Prudent Wife OF q Drunken
Husband'' is the theme for Rev. w.
II. Gillam's lecture this evening ut the
NJ. E. church. The subject covers a
large scope in human history, and will
no doubt be listened to with unusual
interest.
1t has not yet been decided whether
or no the children of the public school
will march in q body on Decoration
day. 1t is more than probable, how
ever, that they will be absorbed by the
Sabbath schools, which have decided
to become a part of the procession.
In another column will be found the
neat advertisement Of Sturgis Bros.'
California fruit store. These gentle
men have been engaged in the whole.
sale and retail fruit business for a
number of years, and have won the
well earned esteem and patronage of
this community, 1t is the only estab-
lishment of the many of this kind that
has been started which has withstood
all difficulties and supplied the people
with just what they want. 1t will con-
tinue to do the same in the future.