The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-20

We had snow again last night. TAX
ing ii ''all in all" tine weather this
winter is very uncertain.
There is still a dead lock in the
Pennsylvania legislature oyer the cleo
ton Of a United States senator.
The ''sleighing'' played out very sud-
denly yesterday at about IL O'Clock; the
snow having melted unceremoniously.
The Omaha Bee says that a bell is
soon TO be provided for the court house
in this city. We hope the Bee is cor
rect.
The Denver and Rio Grande road
has ordered IA locomotives. They
will cost over 81. 900, 600, or an average
Of 81, 900 each.
There is a young man in Cheyenne
who is said TO be engaged to the well
known American prima donna Clara
Louise Kellogg.
Our city ordinances ought to DO more
generally circulated, as but few OF our
people know anything about them or
have ever seen them.
Those of our citizens who were here
when Union Pacific stock was selling
for II and IS, will wish they'd bought
a million of it, now that it is quoted at
1921.
There will be n number of visitors
from Cheyenne TO Laramie to-day to
attend the select masquerade hop to be
given at the Thornburgh house this
evening.
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, 3
Cheyenne, ~ Colorado, 50 through;
No. a, A Cheyenne, G Colorado, so
through; q. e., 6 Cheyenne, s east, /
west; d. F., 4 Cheyenne, 7 east, 2
| west.
Several parties, well known in this
community, have, during the present
revival, come out and have taken their
place with those who undertake to
march under the banner of the Prince
Of Peace.
A teachers meeting will be held at
the Presbyterian parsonage this Thurs
day. evening au u O'Clock. A. c. Ham,
mond will conduct the meeting. The
teachers and older scholars are invited
to be present.
The candidates for the various city
positions are of course on the anxious
seat and rs no determination will be
arrived at before next Tuesday the
suspense will probably have a detri-
mental effect.
The remains of Leo Steinau were
taken through on No. 4 train yesterday,
bound for Louisville, Ky, where his
parents reside. Steinau is the young
man who committed suicide in Salt
Lake one day last week.
The present condition of the weather
is not as favorable for cattle as we have
hoped for. A fall of snow which covers
the plains, unaccompanied with wind,
is the worst thing that can possibly
happen to the stock interests.
The consolidation of the three large
telegraph companies of the United
States, viz, the Western Union, the
American Union and the Atlantic &
Pacific, is now fixed upon. The new
corporation'will be the most gigantic in
the country.
The story, or rather the intimation,
in regard to the existence of what is
supposed to be a ghost in Cheyenne, is
not a myth but is in fact n reality. We
mean of course that the ghost is seer
actually or in imagination by certain
parties, whose names IL is not necessary
at present TO mention.
Our types made us say yesterday that
Hon. t. Dyer was elected AS president
pro ton. of the city council. The gen.
tleman, who has been a faithful and
valued member of the council for n
year past. has been elected president for
the current year, and, in the absence of
the mayor, becomes acting mayor.
Remember the meeting Mt the Con-
gregational Church tonight at 7:30.
The young ladies and young men will
have a prayer meeting this evening for
special cases, commencing at $50. All
the young folks are cordially invited to
this meeting, and old and young to the
regular meeting n hour later. The
meeting last night was an earnest one
and all who were present felt that it was
indeed good for them to be there.
The trial of the Cahill ease was pro-
ceeded with before Judge Slaughter
yesterday. A jury wal empanneled as
follows; |. G. Whipple, John Single,
G.. J.. Durbin. L. S. Smith, j. d. Co
rey, and A. McGregor. At a late hour
in the afternoon the court adjourned
until this morning at 10 o'clock, at
which time the arguments will be made
by counsel. Judge W.. II. Miller has
also been retained by the defense.
A letter has been received from WIN.
Comerford, esq, of st. Johns, New
Foundland, by Mr.. J.. g. Baird, which
settles the question of the legacy left by
n Mr.. Baldwin in st. Johns, who was
supposed TO have a brother William In