The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-24
MINOR MENTION.

berry and ice cream festival Wcdnes-
day night.
Seven million brick vi ~ required
for the construction of the Grant smell
ter at Denver.
Thirty-1ve passengers arrived from
the south yesterday going west on the
emigrant train.
+. A. Slack, Of the sun, has the
foundation of his new house on Fergu-
son street well under way.
The WEEKLY LEADER is Issued from
this Office to-day delayed two days by
the removal of the office to new quar-
tiers in the Opera house block.
The remains of little Rubic Donnelly
were buried from the residence of his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Donnelly, on Fer
guson street, yesterday afternoon.
The fine new residence on west Seven
teenth street, building by Colonel Bah
bitt, is nearing completion rapidly, and
viii be a very ornamental building.
Large crowds are attracted daily to
Lake Minnehaha to witness the efforts
that are being made to recover the
body of Willie Hays. the lost emigrant.
And now Charlie CoGey is smiling in
a wonderfully pleasant manner The
event occurred last evening, and the in
terested parties are doing exceedingly
well.
The agent of the electric light COM
pany reports encouraging progress in
his canvass, and doubtless the city will
receive light and water at about the
same time.
The city band treated the citiz-ns to
an open air concert from the porch of
Kirkland's photograph gallery last
evening, playing a deal OF musical mu-
sic in a creditable manner.
Wogkmen are progressing rapidly in
the construction of l.. Voorhees, new
residence on Ferguson street. 1t will
be of wood and a very ornamental
dwelling as well as convenient.
Passengers on yesterdays Nc. 3,
west bound, report passing through a
hard storm in western Nebraska, the
presence of which was Burmised from
Thursday nights electric display.
Come, let us reason together, - is an
excellent text for a sermon or a poIiti-
cal editorial, but 1t is generally to be
noted that either one who uses it.
generally does all the reasoning him
self.
II would seem sometimes that the
Denver Tribune's laconical cynic
sometimes mistakes vulgar slings for
pungent wit. BY vulgar slings we do
not mean those taken by the finger, for
he would make no mistake in those.
Mrs. Churchill has metainorphosed her
monthly Antelope, dainty and frisky,
into the weekly Bee, which keeps things
mildly humming. Mr.. Churchill spends
30 much time gazing beyond the pur-
preal hills" hat she is liable to get that
bee in her bonnet.
The big balloon, which will go up
from Denver on the 4th of July, Is
called the Belle of Denver. 1t is such
a giddy thing, you know. How proud
ly 1t will sail through the ether-it is 80
pulled up, you know. Yet Denver
bellies don't put on airs. Oh, no.
Preparations making for the Fort
Collins excursion from this city war
rant the expectation of u grand time
July 4. Collins claims to be a pretty
town, and some of our citizens are
prone to assert the claim is Il just one.
1t will be exceedingly lively, rs well as
pretty, on the natal day.
An error unintentionally crept into
our columns the other morning with
reference TO the attachment of the sa-
loon of John Owens, in Fort Collins.
The person is not the John Owens who
formerly resided IL Cheyenne, but an
entirely different man. Mr.. Idelmap is
authority for the correction.
The scattering arrivals OF the repre-
sentatives OF the different stock COM
mission merchants of the east reminds
US Of the advance Of the season, and
the approach of the shipping season.
This fact is all the more pleasant to
consider for the stock men as they
look over the p~raiEles and see good feed
and cattle in AL condition.
The Colorado horticultural show
proves to he n thorough success. A
gentleman well versed in flowers, and
who knows of what he speaks, says
that for variety, quality and quantity
the flower exhibitions of the west,
public and private, far excel eastern
collections. So much for the barren
west.
The trees in the public park are
mostly doing well, and in course of a
few more favorable seasons the
grounds will be very attractive indeed.
OF the trees sent from the Union Pa.
clio land department, which were so
long out Of the ground, owing to mis-
shipping, eight out of the twelve are
alive, and doing very nicely.
See the man run. lie is alarmed.
lie is fire alarmed by the fire alarm
bell. II is a useless alarm. lie Is use
lessly alarmed. some One laughs at
him, but he says he docs o give
Adam. How could le, when he had
not Adam to give = No Oue wants