The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-27

" " 4 I'LL oadg
The decision in the Boughton-Hecht
ease will be published tomorrow.
Deadwood firemen are to give a ball
for the purpose of buying a fire bell.
The second district court will be con-
vened at Laramie City on Monday
next.
The young peoples literary society
will meet this evening at C. n. Potter's
residence on Ferguson street.
The Meekers must go-and learn to.
keep their mouths shut and their pens
still. They are their worst enemies.
A man named Day was struck by a
locomotive in Omaha the other day and
had the Daylight nearly knocked out
of him.
DR.. Glenn, of Lead City, d. T., died
recently of pneumonia. The Enterprise
says he was born in Londonderry,
Dublin, Ireland"
Jack and his assistants have orders
to deliver the guilty Utes dead or alive.
This means that Jack is to become ex-
ecutioner in his own tribe.
Denver's improved morals don't seem
to be contagious. At least Leadville
hasn't contracted the moral fever,
though she's contracted almost every
thing else.
The snow of yesterday will prove a
boon to the grass on the cattle ranges.
We should not omit to mention that
the shade trees around town will also
be benefited.
A new ten-wheel locomotive, the
first OF a lot of twenty from the Pater-
son, N. j., works, has arrived at the
U. P. shops in this city for fitting up
| Omaha Herald.
One of the things needed in Dead
wood is a chain gang. 1t would be a
big institution here, and would save
many a dollar to the tax payers of Law
renee county.-Iimes.
The Fort Collins Gazette says: "Lind-
ley Muncy, the celebrated grammarian,
was made a Mason in 1776." The
admirers of Lindley Murray will look
upon this item and weep.
The Leadyille Herald exposes the do
ings of its board of comfy commission
ers. Lake county has been run into a
debt of 800, 600, while thousands of
dollars have been misappropriated.
Lead City Enterprise: .Ye who de-
light in holidays will be disappointed to
learn that washington's Birthday, Dec
grafton Day, and the Fourth of July,
all fall on Sunday this year. Yet such
Is the fact.
DR.. Hooker recently took from the
leg Of ALI. G.. Lee, q piece of a steel
needle, which was embedded in the
muscles and gave sever pain. Mr..
Lee doesn't recollect when the needle
got into his flesh.
Bradley, one of the escaped prisoners
from the Denver Jail, has been recap
tured. On the night the seven prison.
ers broke out, as many horses were
stolen from barns round about Denver.
The refugees probably "borrowed" the
animals.
Fred. Landau had the small finger of
his right hand taken off at the first
joint yesterday, by DIR. Barkwell.
While f~reighting recently, he had his
toes and fingers frozen. The member
alluded to was injured most, and had
to be amputated.
Brooklyn Union-Argts: Call not
upon the editor If you have hitherto
been impressed with his good looks.
Invite him to your apartments, hail
him upon the streets, but never invade
his sanctum if you want to hold you
favorable impression.
A 1,4O0. pound safe fell through a
building in Deadwood the other day,
and the Neps says that "Chase's safe
went through a carpenter and did not
hurt him." That 1,400-pound pill was
certainly q safe one for the carpenter,
No iron-ical remark intended.
Miss Minnie La Verde, the younger
and more beautiful of the La Verde
sisters, died of diphtheria in Denver on
Sunday. She was only fourteen years
old, and a perfect Venus. The three
sisters performed recently in Cheyenne
and made an immense hit. The body
of Minnie has been embalmed and viii
soon be taken east with the family.
When he comes to round up the pop
u~lation of Wyoming, we hope he will
not count out the democrats as they
are really needed in the territory il
order to make the election interesting
-Sun. Yes, friend Slack, we viii
make the election about as interesting
as Major Glafcke did the last one
You know how it is myself. -Rawlin'
Journal.
Deadwood Pioneer: "a gay teamstel
came in last evening with a buffalo-cov
head as a i%gure-head to his wagon, ant
as a trophy of his workmanship on hi!
inbound trip. He expressed a natura
willingness to meet the same bully lucl
to perpetrate a similar cow-ardly muir
der on every trip he happens to MAKE