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Show CHEYENNE. A Good Place to Start From. Wrll Situated for Geiiile Zephyrs. Three Times Three IVculiarl-Ukh IVculiarl-Ukh cl the Hruirle Itur. Tho LKlHlutur ol YYyomtuic. Special Correspondence. Cocyen-kx, Wr., Nov. 13, 1877. Three drinks for a quarter is tbe rule in Cheyenne. . . . Three breweries here, all bragging on their beer. Three hundred liquor saloons, more or less; license $25 for three months. Aod yet their proprietors wear a solemn nspect. Three diminutive little churches oi I frame. j Tbreo daily papers, good and cheap fur tho place, but tbe three editors have to rustle around lively to make their ends meet. Three sleopers full of Omaha boajd , of trade dead heads are expected here' at dinner en route for Denver and southern Colorado. Neither Cheyenne nor Denver felt able to do the honors lor euch a party or tender them the freedom of their cities, and they will therefore pay for their grub and enjoy it the more. The three local editors find a surfeit of items at tbe railroad station, when the trains p&BB aud mute tbe most of them. Plenty of tbe impecunious, burated, dead broke Black killers waiting for something to turn up, Or to fiud a convenient train for the east and a Thanksgiving holiday. Only two railroads between Cbey-euue Cbey-euue and Denver. How the country can survive without three it is hard to eay. On the opening of tbe new road fares dropped down from $10 to $5, and a great many disinterested pereonB would be glad to see tbe rate fixed at three. Cheyenne is well situated for wind. One of these northers, which ruges to day, ia equal to anything except a Farmingtou zephyr as breathed upon a Utah Central trian tbe other day. It is also a good place to start from to any other part of the world; but witnout money I think I should prefer pre-fer to be on Antelope island, or at the Dry Tortugas, unleas I bad credit at Jones' railroad house, where Colonel Hooker's head quarters are. The colonel wields the cattle baton in tbe interest of the Bock Island railroad with remarkable grace. Mr. Clark Martin, whilom clerk of the Tounsend house, and fortwoyears previously officiating at this hotel, is spending a few day witb his- friends herefrom whence he will on to Denver and back to Salt Lake. His gravity is nB marked aa ever. The legislature ia in session here. The state bouee is on tho lower floor of a new store and the question under discussion, this morning in the assembly was aa to the probability of stopping the noise of tbe carpenters overhead. The assembly took a recess and the mechanics have the floor to tbemseives. I did not try to find tbe council, for the dignity of the assembly sufficiently impressed me. I do not sea tbat female suffrage has materially interfered with the morals of Cheyenne. Tbe gentlemen and ladies appear equally modest and hopeful. Hoping tbat you will hear from me again soon. I remain Yours. E. N. F. |