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Show THE TERRITORIES. The horse epizootic is flourishing in Cheyenne. Scarcely a horjo in Denver is free trotn the epizootic. Earthquake shocks have been ro-porlcd ro-porlcd recently on tho line of tho Kansas l'acitic railway. A female counterfeit note shover is the latest sensation at Denver. She was speedily grabbed by the cops. It ii supposed that Johnson, the young man who came out from St. Louis to Colorado with his pockets full of recommendations, and turned out an express rubber in les3 than three months, lias gone over to California. Cali-fornia. . A Sacramento man, who had a fine mare slnl-Mi from him early last August, pur? tied the thief south to Mexit o. The thief was finally found and fixed ro that he will never again disturb stock, and the Laramiomau, after a variety of adventures, has just relumed from his long trip. . Duncan Campbell, the fool who is walking' from the Atlantic to tho I'acilic, on ft wager, but chiefly or the little notoriety it will give him, reached Evanslon, on the Union Pacific, day before yesterday. He has already been four months on the innrnr.v. Ha had fine weather through .Illinois; very wet weather through Iowa, lor ten days never had ft dry shirt on hii back; fine weather through Nebraska; gocd weather in Wyoming till he got to Laramie, and from there to Rawlins four days and four nights through heavy wind and snow storm. From tho time ho left Laramie till he got to Rawlins, he nays he never sat down fur even ton mimilesi. H was ao cold that ho was afraid he might Irec.e, and tried to find shelter at station and section housed, but supposing him to be a tramp (which was- a correct supposition), supposi-tion), they refuted to entertain him, and he was ntraiil to stop or lie down for lear he would perish. He sends word that ho will start from San Francisco, on the return trip, on February Feb-ruary 1. He will recross the continent conti-nent by tho enine route, with a wheelbarrow, in which will be trans-milled trans-milled his blankets and cooking apparatus. Ho says he expects to make the return jouruey from one ocean to the other in l'JO days. Campbell keeps a daily journal, eon-tainioK eon-tainioK A record of incidents, dvnn-turw, dvnn-turw, etc., and a brief tmcription of all tbs cities an Tillage he has pawed through, l On tho 6th a grand encampment of t-ie Champions of the Red Cross of ; Wyoming au(j Utah was established ; at Cheyenne. Hon. C. W. Brame: j was elected G. Ccn. Governor Thayer, of Wyoming, wisely wise-ly and earnestyl appeals to the legislature legis-lature to prevent "wanton destruction of game.' The governor says a party of elk-murderers recently killed one hundred elk and simply took away the hides. "This is, indeed, cruelty to animals," sayB the governor, "as well as a grevious wrong to the people." A ' Washington correspondent writes: The colored servants of Washington Wash-ington are awakening to the now limes. A lady just beginning housekeeping house-keeping engaged a cook. In due time the former dropped into the kitchen to eee how ita new mistress w.issuited with the place, and whether she had been able to make any progress pro-gress with tho dinner. She found the cook at work over a pan of flour, with a plentiful friz of dusty back nair hanging loose over her shoulders. The lady mildly suggested that it should be tied up, at least while she was cooking. At this the owner ol the hair dropped the flour-pan, stood up in her majesty, and thus unbur-; unbur-; deued her mind: . "Nebbcr duz that, missus, any more. In do ole times colored folks w-is made to wear de turbans But de old timc3 dono gone now, and we'a all one people." There was a vacancy in that kitchen betore dinner. |