, 1885-12-27
BY The WAY.
Waits Caught on the FLY From
Busy Men.
Good hatured Gossip on General
Matters.

There Is u woman IN the county jail
charged with the crime Of larceny.
Gov. Martin raised the quarantine
against Missouri and Illinois cattle on
December 23d.
Sunday again, read the church notices
make your selection and go to church if
you feel so disposed.
1t is well to keep an-eye on the CANNES,
for the mad dog scare is liable to reach
Cheyenne before a great while.
There are some parties around town
who have not yet recovered from the
effects oftheir Christmas dinners.
The weather is now and has been for
some time exceedingly fine around Little
Bear and the cattle are looking well.
The plate glass was put in at the new
addition to the Collins block yesterday
and the front now looks quite nobby.
One Of the subdivisions of the base
ment under the Carey block is being
cleaned out and is to be made deeper.
Buffalo Bill is to be in Cheyenne for a
couple of days during the present week
and will shake hands with all the boys. Z"
The uniformed rank of the Knights of
Pythias are to give a grand BALI at Library
hall On Tuesday night of the present
week.
1t would be a good plan for the church
%janitors to brace up a little this morning
and have the churches well warmed up
for once.
Tom and Jerry, two well known indi-
viduals, have arrived in the city and will
probably remain here the greater part of
the winter.
A good many bicyclists were out on
wheels yesterday dashing to and fro in all
parts of the city. The club has rooms of
its own and is prospecting.
Some of the youngsters in the north
eastern portion of the city were u
parading under arms yesterday accom-
panied by the juvenile drum corps.
The 9th Infantry dramatic club will ap
pear in the Cheyenne opera house on the
evening of January LIST, 1856, instead of
January 2lst, as heretofore announced.
The Christmas tree which the members
OF the Second Baptist church were to
have had on Christmas night has been
postponed until some night during the
coming week.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
5S.7'; lowest, 2s.0'; mean temperature.
39.5o; mean humidity, ESQ per cent
highest velocity of wind, 10 miles per
hour.
Edward kerigan, one Of Cheyenne's
promising young men and who has been
employed in r%ailroading for the past three
years has been promoted to a CONDUCTOR
ship onthe line between Como and Lead
vile. Ed" is in the city spending the
holidays,
Patrick Conner, who did the shooting
act at Harry HyLds' saloon, Christmas
eve, reposed over Christmas in the Gala
boose and came up before Justice Lee
yesterday. He was fined for breach of
the peace and drunkenness, and, on the
promise that he would leave Cheyenne,
the charge Of using fire arms within the
city limits, was dismissed. He was taken
to the train and started for Denver.
II will play you Il game OF billiards for
$50, and a discount game at that" said
a welknown man to another equally well
known citizen, at the Inter Ocean hotel,
Christmas night. Talk enough, said
the other and at it they went. The
hands on the clock crept slowly around,
and at 5 o'clock 10 the morning the games
ended, and the challenging party retired
to his slumber with a little check for S2l7
in his vest.