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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1877
Page
4
The Rev Mr Stebbins, greeted by boos at a San Francisco public meeting, retorted with a pointed question about truth amid the clamor. He challenged the audience as he denounced the hostile reception and defended his remarks in a tense exchange.
Wade Hampton pledges protection of colored people’s rights if recognized as Governor. He remains discreet about which rights he believes belong to that demographic.
At the Denver city election held Monday, Republicans secured five of six alderman seats. Linton McElheny Knox Case Root and Hartman were named to the new city council. Total city vote reached 2,321.
A one-year tutor among the Cherokees writes home of flogging a youth for a war whoop during geography class and fears the pupil’s father will arrive with a scalping knife. The note reflects tense tribal education scenes as the Cherokee system contains over eighty schools.
In his Boston lecture on Tuesday evening, Ingersoll attacked annexation plans, recalling arguments against San Domingo. He warned that bringing in 5000 preachers and 5000 professors would lead to a future generation riding mules with roosters at cockfights on Sundays.
The St Louis Globe Democrat accuses Wendell Phillips of being a violent agitator and impracticable politician. It contends he foresees disaster if freedmen’s interests fall under bourbon southern rule and notes his warnings often later prove true.
On a Michigan Central train a man asks if he has met the other before. The reply, in tale like fashion, mentions being a Turkish pasha in Philadelphia, a cannibal in St. Louis, plans to become a gorilla in California, and hints at a lecture career or country fairs as a fallback. The exchange closes with a musing remark on life’s vicissitudes.
In Corinne Utah an Indian boy allegedly burned his mother by striking a coal fire lid while she sat with a papoose on her back. The mother leaped up in alarm and jumped toward a tub of water, chasing the boy as he fled through the shop doorway, leaving observers astonished by the scene.
Blackwood's describes 1696 siege of Azof where Russians under General Patrick Gordon buried the Turkish fortress with earth. Twelve thousand men built a moving earthen rampart over five weeks, marching forward like steps until the fort surrendered rather than be overwhelmed.
Senor Mirande, a gymnast in New York, escaped bed restraints and performed dangerous feats from a third story to the street edge while delirious from fever. He clambered along gutters and shutters before leaping to safety. He died the next day.
A curious analysis explains the sea shell hum when placed near the ear. It suggests the shell vibrates body muscles, especially fingers and legs, transmitting vibrations to the ear via the acoustic nerve, creating a distant ocean-like noise.
Several Ponca chiefs who toured the Indian territory with the Indian Inspector last month arrived in Sioux City last Saturday. They recount hardship and deception claimed by government agents, saying they were left without passes or money and faced threats of bayonet force if they refused relocation. They petition the President for immediate relief and clarification, signing White Dog, Standing Buffalo, Standing Bear, Smoke Maker, Frank Laflesche, Little Chief, Big Elf, Garega, with others remaining at the Omaha reservation.
A New York letter decries sensational journalism with frequent divorce cases, murders, and frauds. It notes adulteration in milk and food, Mary Walker’s Treasury scene, and Dem press efforts to spin elections. Mentions Black Hills migration and liberal construction as arguments amid public discontent.
The Modoc Indians now number 54 males and 63 females on a 4000 acre fertile tract in the northeast Shawnee reservation, Indian Territory. They have labored actively this past year and produced a large valuable crop on their farm. The government spent $1882 for schooling for ten months under the Society of Friends.
The Sentinel reports three prisoners escaped Albany county jail Tuesday evening by cutting a cross-bag in a cell window with a saw fashioned from an old knife. Frank, who formerly called on local justices, Pawnee Liz, Bill Bevans, and another prisoner named Bond fled. Frank was the only one recaptured up to the latest advices.
A Bowdoin College gallery is famed for rare beauty with a Vandyke portrait once offered at 30000 dollars and three Rubens originals including St. Simeon. Separate items describe a Chicago grocer’s sales quip, a Cincinnati streetcar scene of manners, a Paris court dispute with Dr Gerard over no cure no pay, and varied global notes on Belgian army retirees, Turkish fleets, and customs toward widows and child marriage.
The Deadwood letter in the Chicago Times foresees a busy summer with emigrants and capital flowing to the Black Hills mining camps. A secretarial decision on land titles unsettles settlers, threatens property interests, and heightens concerns over emigration routes and security amid Indian policy tensions.
Hon W W Corlett the delegate is at Rawlins and will depart for the east on or about May 20th Mrs Corlett will accompany him the trip marks a notable official assignment for the pair in the approaching month
Troops at Russell and Carlin districts received pay on Monday and have since wandered the streets in a comical spree. Soldiers discontent with garrison life plan to desert, scavenging second-hand shops for citizen clothing and discarding uniforms to slip away. Many are caught and confined to the guard-house, while some face harsher punishment. A large number of cavalrymen who overstayed their leave are mentioned.
The Green River Press reports that Ogden Freeman confronted the postmaster over misdirected papers. A struggle followed as the postmaster felled Freeman with a hardwood club, leaving him unconscious until passersby intervened.
Marriage announcements from Cheyenne list John W Stevenson and Maria Finn wedded at the Presbyterian parsonage on March 8 1877 by Rev J Y Cowhick. George Brown and Mary Ann Blake also wed at the same parsonage on March 30 1877 by Rev J Y Cowhick.
In Footville Wisconsin on March 29 1877 Lucy L Wallihan mother of Tun Leader city editor dies of lung hemorrhage. In this city April 3 1877 infant Richard P son of F and B A Douglass aged 23 months 24 days. Esther McConnell wife of John dies April 3 1877 at 24. May Louise Chase infant daughter of J Arthur and Julia E Chase dies April 4 in city. Denver papers please copy.
A roundup of rapid-fire notes from 1890 era dispatches noting fires in Xenia Eminence Jacksonville and other towns, political updates on Montenegro and Taft, losses in floods and fires, a prison reunion to be held in Hartford and election results in Leavenworth and Kansas City, plus canal flooding near Chicago Desplaines.
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