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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1877
Page
2
Py ris European war news has an ac tive effect on the grain markets, causing breadstuffs to advance about 20 percent since Monday. Uncle Sam lacks funds to pay Black Hills court expenses fixed for the fourth Monday of May, delaying justice until September.
A Chicago Journal correspondent describes Cheyenne as a major rallying point for Black Hills travelers, noting crowded streets at 10 a.m. and noon, a west-bound train disgorging many more, saloons full, theatres closed, and hotel capacity stretched as crews from Maine farms and logging camps fill the town.
Senator George H. Spencer and colleagues plus others depart next week for the Black Hills to organize the Territory of Manito. Graphic notes the notable travelers and hints at rivalries over future offices, with names like Murphy Li Jones Cope Doc Meyer and judges Murphy Bennett among potential contenders.
The piece notes Republican support for President Hayes despite mixed views on his southern policy. It argues most Republicans in the region remain loyal, fearing a viable alternative party from Blaine, Morton, or Conkling, and urges confidence in Hayes’s honesty, courage, and willingness to correct errors. It frames the policy as controversial yet politically strengthening for the GOP in the South.
The Black Hills report daily on meetings backing a new territory, organized by carpetbaggers allied with Colorado politicians to absorb northern Wyoming. The article condemns their scheme, notes failed Senate action, and urges Black Hills residents to oppose disintegration and unite with Wyoming for a strong northwest territory.
Gen Sheridan asked for 200000 for two new posts and agreed to abandon six old ones. A distance table suggests Tongue river post 180 miles from the Big Horn post, which would be at the mouth of the Little Big Horn. The Tongue river post about 236 miles, and the Big Horn post would be 8369 miles from Yellowstone mouth.
This excerpt contrasts Lee Jackson and Stuart as three great Civil War names, detailing Lee as a composed command figure and rider, Jackson as a stern infantry leader guided by Providence, and Stuart as a passionate cavalry ideal, noted for courage and color with a cited claim of his virtuous private life and deep devotion to family.
An Editorial Link to a long-footed Sioux leader named Longfoot is suggested as responsible for recent ranch raid horse losses in Laramie County. The piece calls for a government ordered examination of agency feet, noting the remarkable length of the tracks likened to a gun stock and urging identification of the culprit.
The Ogallala chief Sitting Bull, once guarded public property for the Red Cloud Agent, is reported dead. He wore a valuable rifle gifted by President Grant and led a life at odds with whites’ allies, once driving off Crow ponies before his death near Tongue River after entering lines with a truce flag.
Dr. Chas V. Petty surgeon U S A Fort Russell married Miss Ettie M. Carpenter of Washington D C at the Episcopal church with Rev F Tomkins Jr presiding. The ceremony linked two prominent households in a formal, civic event.
A collage of 19th century quips and anecdotes touches on German politics, Prussia, spiritualism, and a money lender case. It cites amused observations from Fulton Times and Boston Advertiser about aristocracy, gratitude, parasols, and concerts, plus a Scots exchange jab at a Glasgow terminus and a Highland laird quip.
Gen. Ord, based at San Antonio Texas, states he will not attempt to reinstate President Leredo. The remark clarifies stance amid political turmoil surrounding the leadership succession.
A newly emerged Indian statement reexamines the Custer fight. It claims Reno retreated, prompting a surprise attack on the camp on the Rosebud river where women fled to the hills while warriors pressed to cover. The narrative asserts the Great Spirit aided the attack, with heavy losses on the lower end and far fewer at the upper end.
The National Woman Suffrage Association calls its tenth annual convention at Masonic Hall New York May 94. It aims for a sixteenth amendment to grant women's ballot rights with petitions to the Forty-fifth Congress. The New York State Society also convenes there, with communications to Mrs Ma tilda Joslyn Gage Fayetteville NY.
Michael Frederick Fagan 42 died in the city on April 24. Funeral from St Marys Catholic Church today at 2 PM. Friends are invited to attend. Carriages will be furnished for all.
An inventor demonstrates a photographic method to register heart motion. A thin india rubber bag with a short glass tube, filled with mercury, sits over the heart. As the heart beats, mercury rises in the tube, and a moving sensitive slip records pulse extent and rate, revealing that the pulse can descend and then re-ascend in horizontal lines.
The present Dublin archbishop, author of Study of Words, frail and fearing paralysis, rose during a dinner hosted by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and declared a stroke had come. He said he had pinched himself for twenty minutes and found no sensation, prompting the Duchess of Abercorn to remark it was him pinching LI.
General Sheridan supports arming Sioux with cattle and sheep for stock raising to assimilate their ways and improve living standards. He notes details like training youth, teaching women domestic duties, and money depositories, but insists on permanent personnel in the interior department’s Indian bureau before proceeding.
In Sicily brigandage remains bold and widespread with citizens and travelers seized and held in caves for weeks until ransoms are paid. Brigands are mainly 18 to 24 year old men in velvet jackets and breeches, armed with knives and pistols, led by a chief known as Leono. The evil stems from rural poverty, land monopolies, underdevelopment, and justice obstacles, with some locals secretly aiding the outlaws.
The piece recalls a South Carolina colored wife who fatally attacked her husband with an axe last fall after he admitted being persuaded to vote Democratic. It also notes a Louisiana incident where a prominent negro politician’s wife deserted him upon hearing of his alleged dalliance with a rival party in Odd Yellows Hall, reflecting local tensions and gendered reactions to political loyalties.
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