The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-12-02
HINOR


The proposed worlds fair is simply q
New York affair.
Garfield is afraid to offer US a place
in his cabinet. He is afraid We would
accept.
The New York morning papers now
get TO Washington by ten O'Clock in
the morning.
Highest temperature yesterday 35o;
lowest, II highest velocity Of wind
81 miles per hour.
Legal business is failing in Laramie
county. There are too many lawyers
for the number Of ntigants.
A colored barber in Denver cut a
fellow employe with n razor the other
day, during a disagreement.
Just about this time Of year old hens
enter their second childhood and are
killed and sold rs spring chickens.
The man who always shut the door
last summer just begins TO understand
the situation and now leaves them all
open.
Notwithstanding the nasty weather
Of Tuesday in these parts. Denver ex-
perienced the most pleasant day in two
weeks.
Bernhard visited Edison at Menlo
Park. But even the great inventor
could not devise n father for her four
children.
Our article on the "Blizzard" drove
II out Of the country In hot haste, and
We had fine weather yesterday in on
sequence.
A young man named Albert Summer,
engaged ut work in an Omaha beef
packing house, dropped dead whilo at
work on Monday.
We recall "A rumor that was floating
hereabouts last summer 10 the effect
that n new railroad would be built from
Cheyenne northward.
Teachers meeting ut the Presbyte-
rian parsonage this evening at 7 O'Clock.
All the teachers and older pupils are
requested 10 be present.
The trial Of the McCann case has
been postponed until Friday afternoon
In order TO produce certain testimony
which could not be obtained before that
time.
The great men of Ohio are bothering
Gen. Garfield very much. lie doesn't
know what TO do with them all. But
We have been assured that Major Gar
vey Is safe.
The Durant steamer has been re-
paire1 and is now in excellent shape for
service. She was fired up yesterday
and tested, giving full satisfaction.
Bring along your fires.
The Colorado Central train encoun
tered n big snow drift, a few miles south
OF Cheyenne, on Tuesday evening, and
vas forced to return to the city. IL
went out yesterday morning.
The Durant fire company held n reg
ular meeting last evening. The tenn
porary committee or library was made
permanent. Mr.. Dave Hart was elect
ed TO membership. The dues of Mr..
j, l.. Murray were RENTED on account
of illness.
An Austrian who believes beer Is
thicker than water publishes n card in
the Vienna Neir Free Press, announc-
ing that he is ready to starve on II
against DIR. Tanner with his cold water
diet. The Austrian claims he can sub
sist forty-eight days on beer alone.
Religious persecution is being re-
viyed in England. Enright, the con-
tumacious clergyman who persisted in
his ritualistic practices, notwithstand-
ing his suspension by the ecclesiastical
court, has been arrested ut Birmingham
and locked up in the county jail Mt
Warwick.
Jersey City yesterday developed n
boy .hero, John Barton, u lad Of IL, who
plunged into the Morris canal to rescue
two girls, respectively , and . years of
age, who had broken through the ice.
The plucky little fellow got both ashore,
but not until the younger Of the chill
dren was dead.
II the associate editor OF the LEADER
has to go barcheaded for want Of n hat
we will send him one by express, other
wise lac will have to wait until we get n
good ready. Children are always impa-
tient.-Times. This is how Brother
Peasc tries to get out of paying an cleo
ton bet of a hat.
One OF the most curious Of that class
of marriages which clergymen should
refuse to perform is disclosed in Brook
Ign. The bridegroom, n boy OF II
years. is now locked up In his home un-
Ill his parents can take steps to annul
the marriage. II should be said for the
clergyman who performed the ceremony
that he declined to marry the couple
until the girls mother showed herself,
which she did.
While the English are in n ferment
over the marriage -with-the-deceased.
wife's- sister bill they may seek consola-
ton and encouragement on this side of
the water. The other day n Nevada
widower took his four sisters-in-law to
Salt I ak. mud marriad than all Tha