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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1879
Page
15
Published daily except Monday by The Leader Printing Company the Pioneer paper of Wyoming. Rates given for advance subscriptions include one year six months and three months with weekly options.
The excerpt lists varied items from a Marseilles almanac forecasting deaths of Bismarck Gortschakoff and Beaconsfield in 1879 to notes on politics religion and society. It references Tilden voting ties in New York and London conversations plus cultural tidbits from Mardi Gras New Orleans to Prometheus Unbound availability and a Motley memoir by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A compact excerpt reflects on self discipline in pursuit of happiness at home. It argues quiet fault confession persuades others of virtue, the philosopher tames passions, clear aims drive success, and action should be timely and persistent. The fragment ends noting the difficulty of balancing tranquility with acceptance.
The passage argues that hardship refines character and judgment. It notes that even in general calamity, great minds emerge, comparing the hard life to ore refined by fire and a bright flash from a dark cloud. It also mentions that a just heart yields sound judgment.
A Rochester journalist recounts Prof. Swift’s moon observations using a 36x telescope. Dawn advances ten miles hourly lighting desolate plains, craters, and volcanic rims while shorelines fade into lava-formed steps. The moon remains airless, solitary, and endlessly awe inspiring.
By writ of execution in Cheyenne Wyoming two hundred sixty five dollars and costs, the sheriff will sell the Jo Armijo ranch property Bear Springs on Fort Laramie stage road. Sale set for February 24 1879 at noon on the premises. Geor ge A Draper Sheriff of Laramie county Wyoming Territory announces the public auction to satisfy judgment for O P Goodwin administrator of Joseph Armijo estate against P H Fisher.
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