The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-23
MINOR

"Coming events cast their shadows
before" d. d. Dare's new house is
going up.
The Deadwood press are favoring the
organization of a new territory for the
Black Hills.
Gov. Hoyt is adorning the entrance
to his rooms, by having his stairs nice
ly carpeted.
A new railing is being put up in the
Live Stock Exchange, opposite the
Inter-O Ocean.
Messrs. Stebbins & Post are erecting
an elegant structure in Deadwood as a
bank building.
There are some twenty places washed
out on the U. P. track between Sidney
and the Platte.
Five hundred head of cattle will be
shipped from this point east to-day by
the Swan Brothers.
Several new, and stylish looking bug
gies arrived from the east to-dap for
Russell Thorps livery establishment.
The ladies of the reading room So
ciety are preparing for q sociable, to be
given at their rooms at an early day.
The various soda fountains in town
do not seem to run dry, although the
turning of the faucet is of frequent &C.
currence.
Two attaches of Harper's Weekly
were grossly attacked on Saturday last
by the Infatuated railroad employees at
Pueblo, Col.
The lustre of that once bright and
shining light, Dennis Kearney, is grow
ing dim. He wants to be a brigadier
from California.
Boss Caswell wouldn't be a bad man
to nominate on both tickets at our next
legislature. Then IL either half gets
in he will fill the chair.
The quartette club of the NJ. E.
church are practicing their selections
for next Friday evening, when Gov.
Hoyt will deliver his lecture ut that
church.
Already 10000 political speeches and
documents have been sent into Maine
by the Democratic party.-Ex. The
lunatic asylums win soon have to be
enlarged.
An exchange, speaking of the Dem
man-Thompson troupe, says that when
at Greeley a minister dismissed q prayer
meeting in order to make the acquaint-
ance Of Joshua Whitcomb."
Diligent observation since the last
meeting of the city council on the part
of the marshal has caused him to con
clude that the dogs of Cheyenne are
exceedingly sensitive animals.
The reason why so many ladies are
grouped together round Dare's win
dows nowadays is a counted for by
the fact that Charlie Miller's new pic
ture adorns one Of the fronts.
This is the way an exchange puts it:
When a woman challenges another wo-
mans vote in Wyoming, there is a
scream, a rush, and S1s worth of mil
linery is raked up and carted away.
The boys who make a habit of bath
ino in Crow creek, north of the rail-
road bridge, should be made:to desist
or wear something for decency's sake,
a paper collar, a stocking, or some
thing.
When Superintendent Law heard Of
the washouts he jumped on his best
broncho for Sidney. Red DAILY, the
engineer. with Oscar Sharpless at the
''break, took him the 102 miles in an
hour. How's thatP
Judge Kuykendall publishes a two
column article in the Deadwood Pioneer
ventilating the Leggett estate matter,
thanking our townsman, Col. w. r.
Steele. and l%ampooning a party by the
name of Offenbacher.
Some wicked IN asserts that 1t
was a great mistake that potato-bugs
weren't introduced into the Garden of
Eden, since their presence there would
have kept Adam and Eve so busy that
they wouldn't have had time to go for
aging for pippins.
The judges of the supreme court met
this morning, as per adjournment, to
dispose Of the two cases that were post
poned at their last sitting. The case
of Johns VS.. Adams was continued, and
the matter Of p. Ware vs.. Wanless ct
al. was argued by counsel.
Now the startling news comes by tel
egraph that a Harvard student knocked
down a Coney Island policeman for
clubbing a lady. This is q fine state of
affairs, and il it is to go unrebuked it
will o get so that a policeman can't
club a lady with impunity anywhere.
The miners in North Park are trying
to figure out some way to rite-ilize the
Indians. A key of this joke will be
furnished to every cash subscriber
Laramie Times.
Migrants need not apply for posi-
tions, as there will be no new hands
appointed to dish up the keys.
Gen Hazen has written a long letter
to the war department complaining Of
Gen. sheridan's order promulgating the
proceedings of the Stanley court mar
tial, taking the ground that the refec-