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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1877
Page
12
A notice seeks the whereabouts of William Brady who was last heard from in April 1872 in this city. His mother in Newark New Jersey asks him to contact A Jerolamon. The item references a Mormon elder and notes a grave burden of responsibility and the impact on eighteen widows and sixty four orphans.
At a San Francisco public meeting the Reverend Stebbins was hissed. He confronted the crowd saying he heard a hiss and asked if any word of truth ever enters the vortex of hell without rising as hiss, signaling a contentious exchange.
Wade Hampton states he would protect the colored people and their rights if elected governor, but remains discreet about which specific rights he intends to guarantee. The remarks suggest a cautious stance on civil rights while promising protection.
At the Denver city election held Monday, Republicans secured five of six aldermen. The new city heads are Linton, McElheny, Knox, Case, Root, and Hartman. Total city vote reached 2,321.
A young east educator sent home a letter describing inflamed discipline in a Cherokee geography class. He claims he flogged a youth for a war cry and fears the boy's father will scornfully arrive with a scalping knife.
In a Boston lecture dated Tuesday evening, Ingersoll spoke against annexing distant islands. He recalled warnings about San Domingo, joking that importing five thousand preachers and professors would produce a generation eager for cockfights, depicted with roosters and hats in a vivid, irreverent metaphor.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat calls Wendell Phillips “perverse” and an impracticable politician ahead of his time. It argues he distrusts freedmen under Bourbon rule and predicts their safety would fail if control shifts to violent, slaveholding Bourbon interests. The piece notes his forecasts often prove true.
On a Michigan Central train a man asks another if they met before at the Centennial or in St. Louis. The reply jokes about being a Turkish pasha in Philadelphia and later cannibal in St. Louis, now chasing California gigs or a gorilla act, with plans to lecture if luck fades. The conversation ends with life being full of vicissitudes.
The Corinne Utah record reports a mischievous boy targets his mother in a blacksmith shop while Con Orem is away. The mother sits with a papoose, grows tired, and sits on supposed dead coal. A sudden flare erupts from the seat as the boy pumps the wel l ows, prompting the mother to leap to a tub of water and flee, cursing in Piute.
A Blackwood's Magazine account describes General Patrick Gordon's siege of Azof in 1696. Russian forces buried the Turkish stronghold with earth by gradual approaches, using 12,000 men to advance a massive earth wall in five weeks. The fort capitulated after the wall rose above the ramparts.
Delirious with fever the gymnast Senor Mirande escaped bindings, climbed roofs, and swung from gutters in a dramatic display that ended with a fatal collapse the next day. Crowd cheered as he defied gravity and danger on a 40 foot ascent.
A historical note explains the sea shell ear phenomenon. Pressing a spiral shell over the ear. the sound resembles distant water. The piece posits that facial and body muscles tense during the experiment, transmitting vibrations to the shell and amplifying them through the acoustic nerve.
Several Ponca chiefs who toured Indian Territory to locate a future home recount suffering and broken promises by government agents. They allege deception, lack of passes and funds, and threat of force to coerce relocation, sending a telegram from Sioux City to the President. The group remains at the Omaha reservation while the remainder stay with the Omaha.
The March 31 1877 New York Letter critiques sensational journalism in the city. It discusses divorce cases adultery and fraud in markets the milk trade and child health concerns. It notes Dr Mary Walker at the Treasury and a harsh opinion of the Democratic press pushing for political change and new parties. It hints at Black Hills excitement coming mid spring and public unrest. ANouan Tender.
The Modoc Indians, total 117 individuals, live on a 4000 acre tract in the northeast Shawnee reservation in Indian Territory. They have labored actively over the past year and now boast a large, valuable crop. The government has spent $1,882 on schooling for ten months under the Society of Friends.
The Sentinel reports three inmates fled Albany county jail Tuesday night by cutting a cross-bag in a cell window with a saw fashioned from an old knife. Frank, who formerly visited local justices, Pawnee Liz, Bill Bevans, and another man named Bond were identified as the escapees, with Frank the only one recaptured by latest advice.
Bowdoin College hosts a famed gallery with Rubens originals and a Vandyke portrait valued at about thirty thousand dollars. A Chicago grocery agent touring Detroit asked about trade as a grocer recounted molasses sales, while city streetcar scenes and Paris legal twists color the column.
Deadwood notes a heated response to a interior department ruling on unceded lands and mineral titles in the Black Hills. The piece cites fear of disrupted emigration and capital flow, plus concerns over the Indian question and security for settlers and investors as Spotted Tail and Crazy Horse move toward agency talks.
Hon. W. W. Corlett our delegate is at Rawlins and will depart for the east around May 20. Mrs. Corlett will accompany him on the trip.
Soldiers paid off Monday drift through streets in cast-off clothes, shoplift, and attempt desertion, finding liberty elusive. Many cavalrymen who overstayed leave are caught and sent to guard-house or face harsher punishment.
The Green River Press reports that in Ogden Freeman, a man named Freeman, argued with the postmaster over misdirected papers. The postmaster felled Freeman with a hardwood club after a chase, leaving him unconscious until bystanders intervened.
MARRIED. Stevenson Finn At the Presbyterian parsonage in this city March 8 1877 Rev J Y Cowhick joined John W Stevenson to Maria Finn both of Cheyenne. Brown Blake At the Presbyterian parsonage in this city March 30 1877 Rev J Y Cowhick united George Brown to Mary Ann Blake both of Cheyenne.
In Footville Wisconsin on March 29 1877 Mrs Lucy L Wallihan mother of Tun Leader city editor died of hemorrhage of the lungs. In this city April 3 1877 Richard P infant son of F and B A Douglass aged 23 months 24 days. Esther wife of John McConnell died April 3 1877 of quick consumption aged 24 years. On April 4 1877 May Louise Chase infant daughter of J Arthur and Julia E Chase aged 2 years 9 months 19 days. Denver papers please copy.
Multiple brief dispatches report fires in Xenia Indiana Eminence and Jacksonville Florida with heavy losses including $100 000 in Jessup Moore paper mill and substantial property damage. Political notes cover Bismarck leave Bosnia insurgents and Tafts Mount Auburn residence fire. Flooding hits Chicago area and Leavenworth election results noted.
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