, 1884-06-03

Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the CITY.


City Council at the City hall at the regu
lar hour this evening.
The crossings on Bent street are beinl
repaired and put in order by Commission
er O'Brien and his men.
The Bicycle club held a bushes,
meeting last night for the transaction o.
some important business.
The water in Crow creek has fallen
to nearly its ordinary proportions, but
the current is reasonably swift.
There will be a meeting of the ladies OF
st. Marks Episcopal church this after.
noon at half past . O'Clock.
To-day the heavy business will begin al
the Chicago convention, but the great
battle will occur tomorrow.
The County Commissioners will hold
their regular monthly meeting at the
Court house this forenoon at 10 O'Clock.
Mr.. John Single is abont to retire
from the saloon business and will engage
in another kind of business altogether.
There was an immense mount of spec
ulation INDUCED in among the political
sages in regard to the Chicago conven-
ton, yesterday.
Two or three baskets of flowers which
were hung on the G. A. r. monument
o n Decoration Dny have been taken away
by somebody.
John Chase's new barroom will proba.
bly, be thrown open to the public to-mor.
row, when the work on it is expected to
be completed.
Dcitrick's brigade was at work yestcr,
day on Sixteenth street, west Of Hill,
grading up the street and l%cveling off the
dirt which is being hauled there.
The eases of the City of Cheyenne
against NJ. \. Arnold are still pending,
but it is understood hat they are to be
dismissed by the proper authorities.
The highest temperature yesterday was
73o; lowest, lS0; mean temperature, 500;
mean humidity, &C per cent; highest
velocity of wind, IG miles per hour,
Little George Voorhees, was out last
evening with his pony attached to a two
wheeled vehicle, and he attracted nearly
MS much attention as did Coles circus.
1t now transpires that the grade OF
Warren venue is two feet higher than
that of Ferguson street, which seems
scarcely credible; but it has been surveyed
and such is the result discovered.
Three hundred young horses belonging
to NJ +. Post arrived in the city, destined
for the ranch. They are direct from Ne,
vada, but notwithstanding that fact they
are for the most part American horses.
Mr., j. Stroud departed for Omaha
yesterday afternoon, for the purpose OF
shipping 100 head of horses which have
been purchased by him in Illinois. They
are destined for his new ranch neal old
Fort Casper.
John i. Reynolds post have sent funds
to purchase a guidon and have deputized
\. w. X. Strong to represent them at the
unwilling of the bronze equestrian monu,
mcnt of General Reynolds at Philadelphia
on the LIST of July.
\ little difficulty happened at one of
the hotels of the city late ON Sunday
night, and one or two persons got black
eyes. The clerk also got knocked slightly
out of time, but no very serious results
are to be recorded.
\ slight unplcasantncss occurred at one
of the saloons of the city yesterday morn
ing about > O'Clock. One party drew a
knife and the other a revolver, but neither
attempted to use his weapon. The
matter was finally amicably adjusted.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is still holding regular business
meetings each week and are maintaining
their organization intact. They propose
To do considerable work in the temperance
cause, it is said, when the proper time
comes.
A pet deer belonging to A. H.. Reel,
was yesterday taken TO Camp Carlin, it
having been presented to Major Lord.
The deer is an affectionate but mischiev-
Gus little animal and will be missed by the
young folks in the neighborhood where it
has been kept.
Street Commissioner O'Brien, yester-
day, cut open the dyke which has recent
" been built across the north end OF
Lake Minnehaha, and let into the lake
proper the water which had accumulated