, 1884-05-21

northern country yesterday.
Laramie City is duller thar ever since
the railway mills shut down.
The minstrels left for the East shortly
after midnight on a special train,
There will be the usual meeting at the
Congregational church this evening.
EThe Leavett minstrel band was out
upon the principal streets yesterday after
noon.
A fag-stonc walk is being laid from the
Club house to Ransom street along Seven
teenth.
The %janitor's residence is TO be built in
the northeast corner of the School house
grounds.
Little Fannie Martin is lying very ill
with the measles, but is beginning to
improve.
Nine days more and it will be summer
again, at least, so far as the season is
concerned.
The G. A. r. firing detachment are
drilling nearly every night at headquarters
in the Masonic temple.
The Court house needs a bell, and this
fact might be suggested to the County
Board of Commissioners.
No matter what the condition of the
weather is Nat Goodwin deserves an over
flowing house this evening.
L. r. Bresnahen has greatly improved
his cottage on Seventeenth street by en-
larging and ornamenting it.
Confusion is the greatest comedy sensa-
ton, and if you do not see it at the Opera
house this evening you will regret it
B. WiIderson talks Of retiring from the
saloon business, and will locate at Fort
Laramie or open a lodging house ON Six
teenth street.
The Prcsbyterians ON yesterday received
a large addition to their Sunday school
library, procured mainly through the
efforts Of DIR. Chapman.
A lost dog was advertised for in The
LEADER last week, and no less han seven
pups have shown up to claim the reward.
The proper dog was secured.
The highest temperature yesterday was
GO; lowest, 450; mean temperature, so;
mean humidity, 50 per cent; highest
velocity OF wind, &c miles per hour.
Work was resumed in the Idelman ex-
c%avation on Monday, but the rain last
evening will set matters back again. The
bank has caved in slightly in one or two
places.
Judge Carey will start Fast very soon,
and will probably be present at the con-
vention in Chicago, inasmuch as he is a
member ofthe Republican National Central
committee.
John Fleming, who used to be plumber
here in Cheyenne, has got into trouble at
Denver. lie shot ut IL man for killing his
dog and killed the fellow horse. He has
been arrested.
Dirt is being hauled to the Catholic
church, and the ground between the
church and the pavement on the west side
is to be filled up so as to correspond with
the established grade of the walk.
Judge Lee has had thirty-seven tramp
cases within n month, for which he has
received no fees, of course, as the parties
had no money to pay fines with. He has
also had a number of DRINKS that were in
the same boat.
Mr.. w. d. Pease will to-day sell at
auction his stock of furniture and house
hold goods at the old stone warehouse on
Fifteenth street. lie will 60 north to
select a new ranch and his family will go
Fast next week.
A reporter looked into Keefe's hall
yesterday afternoon in seach of an item,
when a feminine voice from amonga num-
Der of ladies at the lower end of the hall
was heard to say Good bye" He took
a change of venue.
Some one has stuck up a tent on the
eastern shore of Lake Minnehaha, and
has hauled material there with which to
build a home, The. prospects are that
there will be many more follow suit dur
ing the present season.
Judge Fisher has two hens that lately
Matched out n brood of chickens. Their
nests were close together, and MS soon as
Matched out the chickens of one crept over
to the other hen. They were put back
but did the same thing over again, and
one hen now has both chickens.
Nat Goodwin deserves a crowded house
this evening. He was unfortunate in his
last visit to Cheyenne, and, if he be not
greeted with good patronage, he may give
MS the go-by in the future. Outside of
this. his play, Confusion, is truly a genuine
comedy, full of rollicking humor and fun.
Deitriek had two fellows in his brigade
that refused to work, and he took them
out ON the streets yesterday with balls and
chains attached to their feet. They
weakened, and promised to go to work.
The balls and chains were removed, and
before night he sent them away nearly
two blocks TO do some work and they
never tried to escape,
For fancy half hose 70 to Polack's.