The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-09-17
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MINOR MENTION.
MY dear, what makes you always yAwn-'
The wife exclaimed. her temper gone
"Is home 20 duh and drearyf"
MOT 50. my love-" he said. mot 80.
But man and wife are one. you know.
And when alone I'm weary
Highest temperature yesterday s6o'
lowest, 46o.
This Is the 18th anniversary of the
battle Of Antietam.
Remember the trotting race on Sat.
urday at the driving park.
1t Is said that one touch OF rumor
makes the whole world chin. True
enough.
A woman named Lima Chapman,
aged 20, suicided ut Fremont, Neb., on
Tuesday last by taking strychnine.
According 10 the Omaha papers all
the military prisoners that are taken
through that city are from Fort Rus
sell.
The Cheyenne LEADER-No. / vol.
XIV. Our motto. now. rs ever: '.In-
dependent in everything; neutral in
nothing
A confidence operator who deserves
hanging, dofrauded an old lady over 90
years OF age, out Of $3.50, at Omaha
on Tuesday last.
The six immense BOOSTERS which the
Omaha Herald displayed on Wednesday
morning. are nov for sale, the owner
having no further use for them.
The territorial republican committee
has issued n call for n territorial con-
vention. Mt Rawlins, October 9th, for
the purpose Of nominating a candidate
for delegate 10 congress.
Passenger traffic yesterday. No. 8, 8
Cheyenne; 30 Colorado; 40 through;
No. 4, o Cheyenne; o Colorado, AZ
through; c. G., IA Cheyenne; 0 east
IA west; d. p, 0 Cheyenne, 81 east. 9
west.
The ladies Of the Congregational
church society will give their first
sociable for this season ut Dea. J. s.
Taylor's On Seventeenth street. A
good time Is expected. A cordial well
come TO all.
The Custer Chronicle has been re-
vived, and to us looking fresh
and healthy. Messrs. Clark and Kub-
Ter are the publishers, and they are
making n nice publication. We wish
them success.
Candidates for the legislature are
now showing up very numerously. The
fact that the successful candidates
must wait thirteen months before TAX
ing their seats, proves a damper to the
ordinary aspiration.
The democratic central committee Of
Albany county decided not TO wait for
the slow-going territorial committee,
and have called a county convention
for the nomination OF county officers on
the I'd Of October next.
Orders for job printing and advertise
Ing will pass for birthday presents at
the LEADER Office to-day. Therefore
send in your orders, IL you want to be
included among the donors at the
LEADERS birthday party.
Salt Lake Tribune: Over q dozen
missionaries left this city yesterday for
Latter-day work In the British isles.
With u blighted wheat crop and polyg-
amous tramps, John Bulls troubles are
not all confined TO India.
The Pullman palace car company pro-
poses to do away with the old style Of
silver or nickel plate for the trimmings
Of its cars, and to substitute oroide,
which will resemble n freight finish,
wear like gold, and not tarnish.
Mr.. John Sanders, a resident of
Leadvilie, was out riding the other
evening when his horse SHE'D and
jumped down n precipice sixty feet in
height. The horse escaped with but q
few scratches, but Mr.. Sanders receiv-
ed fatal injuries.
Salt Lake Tribune: cheyenne dis
patch says fourteen female missionaries
passed through that place yesterday,
bound for Mormon settlements in
Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. They are
represented rs being sent out by the
Presbyterian Board Of Missions. We
bid them welcome, and can assure them
their field Of labor is broad and hard.
A Jacksonville, Ind, dispatch says:
"while Sells circus was being trans
ferred to st. Louis, over the U. & NJ.
road, the elephant was put next to the
engine. Between here and North Yer
mont he became thirsty, and made a
raid on the water tank on the tender.
When the engineer got 4 club and be-
gan beating him he turned his trunk
and threw n spray Of water on the m
gineer which came near drowning him.
He was compelled to stop the engine
to procure more water.
A special to the Denver Republican
from Trinidad says: The community
has been greatly annoyed with sneak
thieves Of late, and last night Harry
Mulnix found one providing about In
the rear Of his house. Harry "drapt,
his game finger on him. and ordered