Mixed International News and Opinions Appearing
A collage of dispatches covers global affairs from the Turkish case to Italian politics, and notes on Berlin, Bulgaria, and the Geneva award. It mentions Western reactions to Chinese aid, rail pooling in Chicago, and Bayard Taylor’s national stature praised by the president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Deputies
Italy
Black Hills
United States
Welsh
London
Gladstone
Edinburghshire
Geneva
Chicago
Romer
Constantinople
Abolish the little gold dollar for silver currency
The article argues for abolishing the gold dollar as a nuisance and replacing it with a silver dollar to ensure monetary honesty and equity. It notes silver supply now matches demand and condemns gold speculation, urging destruction of diminutive dies and expansion of silver dollar minting. It also mentions a Paris case where a long-ago crime led to fresh arraignment but humane acquittal. It reports on Edison’s claim of improved Wallace machine efficiency for powering lights at theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Edison
Wallace
Booth
Old Frenchman Defies Butler Permit in New Orleans Wood Cuttings
In 1862 Gen Butler granted a permit to a Frenchman to cut wood in a New Orleans swamp. He has since built a large woodcutting business and sold rights to others. Property owners protest timber destruction but the man flaunts the permit. An injunction will be sought to stop him, yet he remains convinced Butler’s permit stands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Gen. Butler
S.ince
Frank
New York Lady Praises Ingersoll’s Influence on Husband
A remarkable letter via a newspaper thanks Col. Ingersoll for transforming a husband. The wife says he was once orthodox, morose, and temperamental. since Ingersoll’s influence he has become kind, merry, and gentle with the family, a much easier man to live with.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Ingersoll
New York
Ingersoll
Fashionable Canada Follows HA. R. H. Pedestrian Boom
Fashionable ladies imitate a London flunkey as HA. R. H. receives praise. The princess is seen with a small cane during walks and starts long morning strolls. Pedestrianism becomes a trending topic with every mobile gesture noted and echoed across Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fashionale
Canada
HA. R. H
London
Experts find 8 percent of Chicago hogs infected with trichina
Two Chicago experts studied pork to gauge trichiniae prevalence. They found eight percent of hogs infected. A white rat fed diseased meat died full of trichinae, yet parasites can be killed by thorough cooking. The speaker warns against eating undercooked pork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fragmented 1878 telegraph cipher notes and society items
A scattered column covers politics and gossip from 1878 including Tilden cipher telegrams and speakership talk, European affairs, Edison patent notes, German press views, Chicago cultural events, the Clark trial, a Princess Alice obituary note, and social anecdotes from Lyons to Kalamazoo.
Horse Kicks Man. Eye Safe Despite Severe Wound
Ey Rugg of seven miles north west of town sustains a bad facial wound after a horse kick. Dr. Graham treats the injury. prognosis says he will not lose his eye or life. Snow and cold prevail with light snow at Hat Creek and frigid conditions elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roan Tverturts
Ey Rugg
Graham
Rugg
Hat Creek
Sidney
Laramie
Fort Laramie
Deadwood
Brown's Cough Balsam and Tar Troches Advertisements
A period ad column promotes Brown's Cough Balsam for coughs colds and consumption relief with no opiates and Brown's Tar Troches for voice hoarseness and sore throat. Also mentions Brown's Arnica Salve for inflammation and old sores. Local grocers Hoyt Addams Glover and Hurlbut Bros. Cheyenne Wyoming sell these goods. Also a legal notice: L Murrin plaintiff petition against J C Davis in district court for 589.21 due for goods with appearance and answer deadline January 10, 1879.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Hoyt
Addams & Glover
Hurlbut Bros
Cheyenne
Wyo
Did&wii
District Court
J. G. Davis
Judicial District
J.C. Davie
L. Murrin
Notice of suit against P I Fisher in Wyoming court
Oliver P. Goodwin as administrator of Joseph Armijo decased files suit in the First Judicial District Court of Wyoming Laramie County on September 22 1878 for 220 dollars with 12 percent interest from April 24 1877 and attachment of the Bear Springs ranche on the Fort Laramie stage road. P I Fisher must answer by January 11 1879 in Onivin P Goodwin administrator case filed November 13 1878.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Judicial District
Wyoming Territory
Laramie County
P. H. Fisher
P. If. Bisher
Bear Springs
Fort Laramie Stage Road
Jo Armijo
P. Nf
Fisher
Onivin P. Goopwin
Joseph Armijo
Foreclosure sale of chattel mortgage in Cheyenne
Abraham Hershfield of Cheyenne Wyoming territory defaulted on a chattel mortgage dated October 10 1878 securing 267 48 to W B Clapp and O Young. Mortgagees will sell mortgaged personal property including a safe a six foot metal showcase a chandelier and a standing desk at A H Reed Co warehouse on January 3 1879 at 2 PM to satisfy the debt plus interest and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatiul Morigageh Sall
Abraham Hershfield
Cheyenne
Laramie
Wyoming Territory
W. B. Clapp
O. Young
Moster Bohman & Co
A. H. Reed & Co
Juddy and
Fifteenth Streets
Wyoming
W. B. Cuarp
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California
Georgia
Edison
Subasian
Missouri Division
Northern Pacific Road
Lorreecy
New York Sun
Berlin
Bulgaria
Ayes
Grant
Gen
Blaine
Conkling
Sims
J. H. S Wayford
Bayard Taylor
China
Taylor
Pennsylvania
Walsh
France
Paris
Germany
Bruor Wortwo
England
Ture Solid South
Tilden
Gold Room
Europe
Stewart
Turkey
Podgoritza
Montenero
Gov. Szymoun
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Gazette
Paul Broca
Ben Bouvuer
Massachusetts
Benjamin
Lake Lachine
Montreal
Bismarnck
Government
Bismarck
Thy “Hoan
Clark Trigs
Itc
CircaGco
Ins
Princess Alice
Daily News
Erin
Ius
Alice
Ilesse Darmstadt
Prince Alice of
Hess
Athenæum
Wilhemj
Wilhelmj
Red Grant
Wesern
Anon. F.C
South
Murrin, PI
Inter Ocean Hotel
Cheyenne, Wyo
L. H. Cole
W. G. Elliomt
C. M. Stebbins
Stevbine Oy
Porter
Denver
Col
GRO
Stebbins
Colorado
W. R.stebbins
Atchison, Kansas
M.K. Post
Stebbins, Post & Co
Cheyenne, Wyc
JV. Atugion
Ate of
Atchison Nations
Banteih Est
G. H
J. S. Collins
Saddlery
Wagner
Carey Block
Dawtl
Geo. Ford
French’s Warehouse
15Th Street
Bankers
Ogden, Utah
Gray
Gray Medicine Co
Mechanics’ Block
Detroit
Mich
Dle
D&nly
Llan Rutherford
U.S. Treasury
Grant Place
Washington
D. C
Army
Hlon
Sam''p. Phillips
James Giltian
M. McGrew
Treasury
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