, 1886-12-26
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences in and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.


A warm Christmas brings Il cool
Faster.
Quite a number of our citizens will go
to Denver this week.
Christmas day was duly celebrated in
this city yesterday.
The mails for the past few evenings
have been very large.
The stage from the North yesterday
was well filed with passengers.
Nearly all the public offices and husi-
ness houses were closed yesterday.
The fire companies responded very
promptly to the alarm last evening.
cry interesting services were held in
all Of the churches yesterday and last
evening.
The wind quoted down yesterday and
there IL Low a prospect of a little fair
weather.
Comparatively Few drunken or disorder
ly characters were seen upon the streets
yesterday.
The city was, o! course, unusually
dull yesterday. and items of news were ex-
ceedingly scarce.
The services at the various churches,
Yesterday. were very attractive, especially
for the little ones.
-.
The Alert's jumper tipped over last
evening while being taken to the fire, but
was not badly damaged.
Members of the Mannerchor and their
friends thoroughly enjoyed themselves
last evening at Keefe's hall.
. The officers of Wyoming Chapter No.
|, will be installed to .norrow evening. A
grand banquet will also be given.
Owing TO the wind yesterday the Chey-
enne Gun club did not shoot for the
championship medal. as before an
nounced.
The children of the South Side Sabbath
school had a most enjoyable time Christ
mas eve, each scholar receiving a nice
book and card from Santa Claus.
The end of the track on the Cheyenne
4 Northern is now forty-eight miles from
this city, and regular trains are running
to a station forty-seven miles from here.
The time of meeting of the city Demo
cratic convention, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for mayor, has
been changed to 7:30 O'Clock u. IN. on
Monday, Dec. y.
Santa Claus had his sleigh loaded and
ready for a start; but there was no sleigh
ing and he had TO pack in on bronchos all
the holiday presents for the little ones,
and they got them all the same.
Leopold kabis, proprietor of the Ger
mania hall, received a beautiful gold
headed cane as 4 Christmas present from
his son, Jacob. In the good cid times
the cid man used to do the Gaming.
Capt. q. W. Baxter is spending the
holidays with his family and other rela-
tives In Knoxville, Tenn. He has writ
ten to a friend in this city that he will re-
turn to Wyoming soon, Notwithstanding
reports to the contrary.
The vacancy caused by the declination
of Mr.. John A. Martin will be filled by
the third ward delegates to the city con.
v%ention to morrow. T. Dyer, II. Har-
rington and II. Haas are mentioned in
connection with the nomination.
John A Martin, the Democratic nom.
inee for councilman from the third ward,
informs TIE LEADER that owing to the
fact that his time will be taken up by
official duties after Jan. /, he will be
compelled to decline the nomination for
the city council.
Although Mayor Reel is out of the race
for the mayoralty many of our prominent
citizens declare that he ought to be re-
nominated. Cant the Democratic con-
v%ention prevail upon him to reconsider
his determination not to be a candidate
for a second term
The Democrats OF the second ward will
meet at J. w Snyder's barn, corner OF
Nineteenth street and Central avenue, at
. O'Clock p. IN. tomorrow, Monday, for
the purpose of placing in nomination a
candidate for the city council from the
second ward, and to select five delegates
to the city convention.
Notwithstanding the great demand for
flowers and cvergreens for Christmas
day, Mrs. V. 5. Glafcke, the florist, cor
ner Sixteenth street and Warren avenue,
is prepared this morning to fill all orders
for floral work and decorations. She has
an abundance of camelies, %violets. lilies of
the valley, roses and ferns. Orders for
New Years day should be sent in without
delay as the supply of flowers may soon
be exhausted.