, 1884-05-31
The Democratic Leader.
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1854.
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

For, when at home, connubial war
His peace and comfort Hles.
lie slips behind the nearest door
And softly, sweetly smiles"
Then. as he Tits the Jolly Jug
II chuckles Eayly, Glug, glug. glug."
-Ncto York Journal
The trains were light loaded yesterday.
There is a scarcity of houses for rent in
the city Mt present.
The 4th of July fire cracker will soon
put in an appearance.
The county will have its hands full OF
bridge building this season.
The bicycle fend will soon be here. He
will reach Laramie City on Sunday.
Fortune favored the Grand Army yes
terday; it didn't rain during the exercises.
The Sixteenth street bridge is in good
condition again, and is being used as
usual.
There was no school at all on yesterday
on account of the Decoration Day ex-
e%rcises.
1t is said hat james Talbot will be let
the contract for repairing the Nineteenth
stree, bridge.
School is to begin at Lone Tree on Mon
day, and for a commencement there will
be seventeen pupils.
Crow creek is still so high that teams
can only cross by swimming except over
the Sixteenth street bridge.
There was but little drinking done
around the saloons yesterday compared
with what there is OF some great holidays.
The Laramie Boomerang has been en-
larged a single column to the page, max
ing it now the same size as THE LEADER.
The City Council is getting along rather
slowly as a Board of Equalization, and
will not complete It's labors for some days
yet.
There were as many as l,5O0 people in
and around the cemetery yesterday during
the time when the decoration exercises
We're being held.
The highest temperature yesterday was
6l0: lowest, 43o, mean temperature, 52o;
mean humidity, G4o; highest velocity of
wind. IA miles per hour.
Mr.. j. NJ Tompkins yesterday let the
contract for the building of two new
houses on Sixteenth and two on Four
teenth street to NJ. p. Keefe.
1t was, Of course, very dull at the Court
house yesterday, as some of those who
generally have business to transact there
were otherwise engaged during the day.
The washout near Orchard station, on
the Julcsburg branch, has not as yet been
fully repaired, and all trains that should
pass over that road still go and come by
the way of Cheyenne.
A good many of the colored people of
the city have had an attack of the Cali
fornia fever, since the train load of their
class passed through Cheyenne the other
day en- route for the Pacific coast.
In the eastern portion ofthe city several
cellars have filed up with water since the
rainy weather came on, and the great
question with many now il what is to DE
done under the circumstances.
Mr.. William Ferguson is in the city to-
day, and reports that there have been
several recent discoveries in the Silver
Crown mining district which indicate
something pretty good in the way of
silver and copper,
The attempt to open the racing season
at the ~trotting park seems to have been
made 4 little to soon, and there will be
some fixing up and rearranging done there
before any further attempts are made.
An old lady marched alongside the j.
+, Reynolds post yesterday while on the
way to the cemetery. She wept
and took on bitterly, saying that
she had Il son who was killed in the
army, and she wished she could decorate
his grave.
During the prevalence of the terrible
thunder storm on the night of the big
washout in the Crow creek bottom, the
lightning played havoc with some of the
electric lights on fifteenth street. and two
or three passars were shocked slightly by
the electricity, The lights kept going
out, but after u short time they would
start up again.
Every Smoker should try "Littl.