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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1876
Page
12
A Washington dispatch reports Secretary Chandler ridiculing the Democrats plan to profit from his telegrams. He, as chairman of the National Republican committee, objects to treating telegrams as private and warns messages could be read or intercepted. He kept campaign dispatches away from wires the Democrats might access.
The N S Tribune reports Morton’s sudden departure as part of a strategy to assess Democratic aims in Indiana and across the state. Officials consider arming counter organizations if protests grow violent, while Democrats split between extreme measures and a conservative, peaceful approach led by Hewitt Scott and Lord with others.
Washington dispatch debates whether if one or more states’ votes aren’t counted the election goes to the House or to the candidate with a majority of remaining votes. It notes no precedents, contrasts Republican and Democrat views, and imagines scenarios that could keep Hayes or elect Tilden.
The piece argues that partisan divisions over counting electoral votes threaten a Tilden victory. It suggests the Senate should not yield to the House on counting powers unless the House also loses its claim to elect the president. Democrats refuse to concede any rule that would disenfranchise a state and force a Republican outcome.
The Philadelphia Times decries Gov Grover's published letter vindicating his Oregon electors as plausible special pleading. It argues the law never intended legal trickery to defeat the will of the people in any election, especially for a presidential choice.
Democrats in Congress fail to unite over forcing the West ern Union Tel Co to turn over political telegrams between party chairmen and southern and Oregon allies. Hewitt is named among oppose rs. Republicans say Hewitt resists to shield himself as Democratic chair and keep telegrams from Republicans, who warn of a new Oregon case angle.
O pneumonia like health notes report new small-pox cases in Oden and Corinne Utah. Nickel saving among youngsters for a toy matinee next Monday. Cinderella prepares outfits for a Merry Christmas visit. C F Johnson of Carbon Wyoming imports two meerschaum pipes from Europe selling at cost. One pipe 75 to 50 dollars and another 25 dollars. Denver shoemaker sells gum shoes with a bill listing 27 pounds of India rubber at one dollar per pound.
A Denver man sought overshoes in a Seventh Street shop but the proprietor offered pine boxes instead, prompting the annoyed customer to leave and mutter about Cheyenne merchants’ slim stock.
Foreign creditors face hopeless prospects as revolutionary leaders refuse to honor both foreign and domestic debts. Mexico’s debt totals about 400 million dollars, averaging 45 dollars per person, with little official disclosure since 1865. For 1851 loans, the English portion and other claims are left in doubt amid ongoing anarchy after Lerdo’s overthrow.
A New York World report tells of Mrs Ostrom in a Colorado park near the North Platte. After her husband died attempting to save family, she and seven children faced night and cold beside a burning fire as they hauled the body to seek civilization. The piece praises pioneer grit and compares frontier hardship to urban refinement.
James D. McCabe presents The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition, a comprehensive narrative with 400 engravings. The National Publishing Co. touts it as a vivid, firsthand account, detailing grounds, Main Building, and all pavilions with construction and arrangement insights.
A large illustrated 874 page volume issued by the National Publishing Co. of Philadelphia and Chicago is offered by subscription only. The firm seeks agents in every county to promote the work, which is praised for its comprehensive content and abundant illustrations.
The Sonoma steamer carried prominent locals to Norfolk to inspect the Prismoidal railroad on Sonoma creek. A prism wooden rail measures twenty seven by fifteen inches with a top rail. A two-wheeled locomotive pulled platform cars along the single rail as the party cheered. The test showed smooth travel and reduced oscillation as speed increased. Construction cost for 3.5 miles is about $4,500 per mile, cheaper than narrow gauge, begun August 16 last.
The Railroad Argus explains floating debt as small, unsecured, non interest debts owed to locomotives makers, car builders, mills, dealers, conductors and others. When unpaid long enough they are converted into bonded debt and later wiped out by sale of the road.
Professor Young's lecture used vivid comparisons to illustrate the sun's vast distance. It described light traveling eight minutes to reach Earth, sound needing fourteen years, and a hypothetical iron rod reaching the sun with sound taking eleven months. It concluded that human sensation illustrates the immensity of the sun's distance.
A Denver girl of doubtful age married a youth of twenty and prepared her home for a wedding serenade with tin pans and horns. As musicians began, King fired four shots from front windows, scattering mustard seed shot. No serenade occurred. the night ended with injuries from the shot pellets.
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