The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-27
NEWS BREv1T1ES,
Picked Up Here and There BY a Leader
Reporter.

seat.
The thermometer goes up and down
by jerks.
Both rain and hail visited this Sec
tion yesterday.
''The bow of promise" spanned the
heavens yesterday evening.
The young grass on the green is
reaching for the kiss of its father, the
sun.
]. II. McMinn, sutler at Camp Car
lin, has received a beautiful buggy from
the east.
The Cheyenne gun club will hold a
meeting in Secretary Spates' office to-
morrow night.
The amount realized for the Episco-
pal church by the two recent entertain
ments was s634.32.
Strawberry festivals will soon be
here, and then, young lady, your beau
will be mysteriously missing.
There is some talk Of a shooting
match between the Cheyenne and Lar
annie City clubs-by telegraph.
v The Frewen Brothers will bring r.
900 head Of Oregon cattle into Wyo-
ming during the coming summer.
T~wenty-three bars of silver were
brought up from Georgetown, Colorado,
yesterday and shippedeast by the Union
Pacific.
Frank Whitney and Morris Appel
expect to leave In a few days for the
Black Hills with an immense quantity
of freight.
A lot of valuable Norman and Nor
gan stations have arrived at Thorp's
stable. They were brought from Mar
engo, Iowa.
A meeting of the Metcalf mining
company will be held at IL a. m. on
Tuesday in the parlor of the First
national bank.
The score Of the shooting match
yesterday afternoon, resulted in DR..
Barkwell's side winning by six balls,
the totals being, Barkwell's side 67;
Boulter's side 81.
A $1,000 carriage from the manufac-
turing establishment of Tom Connolly,
Dubuque, Iowa, was taken through
yesterday to Denver. 1t is the property
Of David Moffat, OF the City of the
Plains.
On Monday, May 9th, the annual
meeting Of the board of directors for
school district No. / will be held. The
selection OF a director to succeed Judge
John Slaughter, and other business will
be transacted.
Remember that Francis Murphy; the
rival Of John b. Cough as a temper
ance lecturer, will deliver an address
tomorrow night for the benefit OF the
Ladies' reading room association. Let
there be a full house. Help the ladies'
noble enterprise along all you can.
1t is the intention to have all the
Cheyenne Sabbath school children
march down to the train on the Goth
prox., and give the ex~cursionists to the
Yosemite valley a hearty reception. A
band will be secured and other arrange
ments made.
The fifth annual session of the Wyo-
ming Teachers institute, will convene
at Laramie City on Monday, May 18th,
and continue seven days. During hat
week the public school Of Cheyenne
win not be in session, as all the teach
ers desire to be in attendance.
"Wnl Science be Substituted for
Christianity, or is Bible Christianity
Wearing OutP" is the important ques-
ton to be discussed this morning at
the NJ. E. church. Many are disposed
TO think the bible will become obsolete.
Let them hear Mr.. Gillian to-day.
An interesting episode occurred the
other day, while a lady and gentleman
we're out horseback riding, but we will
not mention the names Of the parties.
The gentlema an in question secured two
horses at n Of our livery stables and
the lady and himself sauntered out,
and when reaching Grow creek they
stopped their horses in the middle Of
the stream to let them drink. The
horse which the lady rode Immediately
laid down In the water. The gentle
man, seeing the predicament the lady
was in, reached out and took her by the
shoulders and endeavored to raise her
on to his horse, but she was too heavy
for his muscular powers, and slipped
from his grasp, falling back into thu
water, and getting completely baptised
The lady thinks she will not venture
crossing a creek on that horse again.