The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-03

The ''musical'' has been postponed
until Tuesday evening, February 10.
A premature blast killed Alex Muir
ray, a Lead City, D. T., miner, the
other day.
Cheyenne literary society meeting
this evening at the residence of c. N.
Potter, esq.
A party of English capitalists will
soon build a railroad from Deadwood
to Redwater.
tKepler, the only child of Governor
and Mrs. Hoyt, is lying ill of diphtheria
and scarlet fever.
A drunken man tilted Laramie City
on end the other day. One drunk goes
a great way in Laramie.
The Bismarck and Black Hills rail-
road company" is endeavoring to evolve
from the ~chrysalis state.
Councilman Kimme is still happy
and smiling over the appearance Of the
new Miss Kimme on Saturday.
Ha
Over a month of leap year gone and
not one OF our bachelors downed. The
girls are evidently not in a hurry.
The proposed route for the Wyoming,
Montana and Pacific railroad is pro-
nounced practicable by Surveyor Wood.
Over forty dollars were collected In
st. Johns church on Sunday for the
benefit of the suffering poor in Ireland.
The quiett?) of Leadvilie has been
disturbed by the repetition Of mine
jumping. The Herald contains ac-
counts of several such instances.
Fort Fetterman wants a school.
The people desire the young idea to be
taught how to shoot Lindley Murray,
etc, as well as elk and jack rabbits.
A society item from the Leadville
Herald: "a new invoice Of dance
house girls has arrived, and they may
may be found anywhere On State
street,
Maud Eiseman, n well known harlot,
was found on the public streets, last
night, with q male companion, beastly
drunk. They were arrested bya police
man and lodged in the city Jail.
The drama, mo Thoroughfare, " in
which the late Charles Fechter made
his reputation wa produced in Dead
wood for the benefit of the Episcopal
church. Amateur talent figured in the
cast.
A Chinaman passed westward on the
Union Pacific the other day, having a
handsome young American wife. Con-
trary to the Yankee custom, he had his
mother-in-law along. They were des-
tined for China.
The Merchants national bank is be-
ing organized in Deadwood. The bank
of Stebbins, Post g. Mund will be
merged into the same, and many of the
leading business houses of Deadwood
will take large blocks of stock.
There is a newspaper war in Denver
among the a~llopathists and homeopa-
thists. The LEADER suggests a six
days tournament, kill as you please,
with five patients for each physician.
Nothing else will settle the dispute.
Ed. j. Crowell, a Leadville actor,
charged his wife with adultery, and
upon losing the suit, feigned to commit
suicide for the purpose of soaring his
wife. She didn't scare worth n cent
and Crowell got better but not until
after a powerful emetic had been given
him.
The s~ix-year-old daughter Of Justice
Bean died at 4:3O O'Clock on yesterday
morning, of scarlet fever. She took ill
only on Friday evening. The funeral
will take place this afternoon, at 3
O'Clock, from st. Johns church. Rev.
Father Hayes will oficiate Mt the SER
vices.
BY reason of the scarcity Of fat cat
tie in Utah and Wyoming, beef at the
retail markets has advanced two cents
per pound.-Sah Lake Tribune. That
paper should have confined its state
ment to western Wyoming. There are
plenty of fat cattle in this region and
prices remain stationary.
One of the downs and ups as related
by the Black Hills Times: There
was a young fellow taking an egg-nog
at Christie's last evening, who has been
carrying a hod in this city during the
fall and winter, but will take his de-
parture this morning to San Francisco
to receive n clean $50, 600 legacy left
him by his father"
On a Denver & Rio Grande train on
Saturday night last, a passenger named
Chas. Hull deliberately shot another
passenger in his front, named VIM.
Mclean, the ball entering his head.
Mclean will recover as the ball-a %
went around under the scalp into his
left cheek. Hull is crazy, but was con-
fined in Jail at Colorado springs.
George II. Dewitt, a deserter from
the Fourth infantry band, Fort San
ders, was arrested in Denver on Sun
day last. He deserted about a year
ago, at which time he went by the
name of George II. Smith. After de-