The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-04
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tie sale OF 93,UU0 pOunuS OF poIaIoe
yesterday.
Rev. w. G. Harvey, the new Baptist
minister, delivers his initial sermon In
Laramie this morning.
The Webb family, three of whom,
father and two children, have been
sick, are reported much better.
Chicago has only been receiving 3d.
600 to As, 900 more cattle per week than
st. Louis, for a few months past.
The Congregationalists are to unite
with the Baptists in Sabbath evening
service to might and until further no.
tee.
The sewer contractors struck a
stratum of rock yesterday, and were
Obliged TO resort to blasting powder to
overcome the difficulty.
Work on the new Hellsan block has
beer somewhat delayed Ny difficulty in
obtaining the stone, but will be prose.
cuted with all diligence this week.
Highest temperature yesterday, 500;
lowest temp, 400; mean temp, 45o;
mean humidity, 40 per cent; highest
velocity of wind, Is miles per hour.
Lost, on Evans between Twenty fir ut
and Twenty-second streets, a fiat door
key with a bit of red tape to it. Mrs.
J. G. Hummurston, surveyor generals
office.
A lot of 225 Wyoming cattle belong
ing to a prominent company, sold on
the Chicago market last week at SO, so.
They averaged 1923 pounds and were
very poor.
Several Of the articles Of furniture for
the Presbyterian church arrived during
the past week. They are donations of
individuals, and are gems of elegance
and beauty.
The workmen on the sewer were paid
off from one of the windows Of the
Inter Ocean last night. A slight mis-
understanding resulted in n man get
ting his head thumped.
For some reason, unknown to the
editor of this paper, the Catholic and
Methodist authorities fail to report
their church services. That is the rea-
son they have not been published.
Peter Morahan demonstrated the
value of his patent fire kinder in the
LEApFR Office last evening, by lighting
the bare coal in a stove by simply
thrusting the kinder under the CRATE.
Good thing.
The new city directory is now being
delivered throughout the city. The
work is very complete and gives gen.
eral satisfaction. The price has been
reduced to tifty cents for paper covers
and 81 for bound copies.
The furnace is being put in position
in the Presbyterian church. the carpet
is being made, the seats have arrived
and it is the expectation Of the congre-
cation to be able to occupy the audi
torium of the church next Sunday.
Rev. Libby is agitating the matter
Of holding a series Of public temper
ance meetings, and the organization of
a reform club in u city. The idea is
a good one, and we hope the worthy
gentleman will succeed. Boomerang.
A probable outcome OF the recent
production of Queen Esther will be the
formation of a local singing club. A
meeting looking towards such an or
ganization will be held tomorrow
night, at which time also the financial
outcome of the opera will be announced.
The Owen surveyors inform us that
at SWANS Mule Shoe ranch, on the
Sable, they saw 100 potatoes which
weighed 400 pounds, or averaged four
pounds each. Here, also, are grown
wstermelons and everything else in the
vegetable line, of large size aud best
quality-Boomerang.
One of the evidences Of Cheyenne's
progress is the show window of Rhodes
& Troxell, which excels anything here
tofore attempted in that line in the
west. Among the attractions is some
cut glass which was on exhibition at
the Centennial and eclipses anything
heretofore brought to this city as to de-
sign and fine workmanship.
Harper, Kan, Sentinel: A few days
ago Gen. Rhodes boys branded some
cattle on time before a party of admir-
ing spectators. One hundred and for