, 1884-07-12
LOCAL.
Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the CITY.

What has become of the Athletic Club.
GiireRe- GiircRa is the bill for the
matinee.
There is a nice crop of white clover
growing in the school house grounds.
The Shetland pony belonging to little
George Voorhees, cost $3.50 in Illinois.
The costumes worn in the operas pre-
sented by the Fay Tcmpleton company are
very fine.
The streets were lively again last even
ing and many carriages were dashiug back
and forth.
A new sidewalk was put down in front
ofKapp'S restaurant on Seventeenth street
yesterday.
a brick yard has been started at Granite
Canon, and very excellent brick are be-
ing turned out at that place.
The controversy in regard to the laying
out of the Pine Bluffs road has been post.
poned by the County Commissioners.
County Assessor Jeffrey is at work with
the Board of County Commissioners in
their labors as a Board of Equalization.
Very many people will be glad of the
opportunity presented this afternoon to
hear Miss Templeton sing the Drinking
Song"
The patent virgin oil pedlar was out
again in his glory last evening, and made
noise enough if he didn't sell any
medicine.
The Adams Copper King difficulty is
about to be compromised and settled up.
Mr.. Adams was in the city yesterday for
that purpose.
There are nine patients in the County
Hospital and two of them are paralytics.
One of the other seven is nearly ninety
years of age.
1t is rumored that there are to be races
at the Trotting Park this afternoon, and
also that there is to be a shooting match
at Major Talbot's.
John Dryer, the hopeful poet, is now
contributing to one of the Eastern papers.
and was earnestly engaged yesterday in
composing his latest.
Some of the prisoners confined in the
calaboose lately made an attempt to dig
out, but were discovered in time and pre-
vented from so doing.
La Belle Coquene, to be presented at
the Opera House this evening, closes
Miss Templeton's engagement here. As
a farewell, the house should be crowded.
The highest temperature yesterday was
49, lowest, SCI; mean temperature, 7l0;
mean humidity, % per cent; highest
velocity of wind, IS miles per hour.
The Warren Mercantile building on
Sixteenth street, now that it is repaired, is
a much better looking building than it
was before being 50 nearly destroyed by
fire.
ANYBODY who says that isn't a fine
company is a liar and a horse thief said
a man who came out between the acts
last night. He was slightly intoxicated,
but his Judgment was good.
There was not a single case of intoxica-
ton tried in either of the Police Courts Of
the city yesterday. This speaks well for
the brand Of whiskey which was drank on
the political situation.
1t transpires that it was not Crazy Jane
who committed suicide at the Three
Mile" ranch, near Fort Laramie. 1t was
another person altogether.
Charles Blent, George Thompson and
others lately secured a number of young
wild ducks and a young owl at tie Natural
Fort, which they brought into Cheyenne
and are keeping as curiosities.
John A. Martin has a horse hat Ia
very remarkable for speed, and when he
gets to going is very hard to stop. John
says that he has to carry au anchor when
he rides him and cast it when he wants to
stop.
There were lots of offers to make bets
yesterday on the result of the Presi-
dental race after the news was received
hat Cleveland was nominated, but none
were actually made SO far as could be
learned.
Richard Durbin, the janitor at the
main public school building, has moved
into the neat little residence lately built
for him on the school house grounds.
His orders are not to permit people to be
roaming around on the grounds, especially
at night.
On one of the intelligence office bulletin
boards there appeared the other day the
inscription, Wanted, one man to ir-
rigate." A person who wants to find a
man for that purpose can very easily do
SO by going into a saloon and saying,
Come up bows, let's irrigate.'
In a New Field.
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