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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1877
Page
4
On Christmas Eve near Tours, several young Frenchmen caused disturbances during a midnight mass. One seized a burning taper and set it under a devout spectator. They have since been sentenced to imprisonment for these antics and other eccentric acts.
During General Ignatieff’s England visit, Queen Victoria kept Madame Ignatieff standing while seated, then dismissed her with a wave after a brief, formal exchange. The scene reflected chilly diplomacy between the two governments.
A sequence of royal deaths follows the Czars grandson Grand Duke Alexander and the Empress brother Prince Charles of Hesse. Mourning pervades the imperial court as dynastic ties link the Russian, German, and Danish royal families.
In Paris a vast establishment offers imitations of pearls, diamonds, and precious stones crafted with modern skill. The sand used in the process comes from Fountainbleau forests. False pearls are prepared with wax and fish scales kept alive to preserve their shine, while settings use real gold and the latest fashion.
Secretary Sherman says he suffered more pain than in any life moment during the removal of employees. He recounts urging reduction after predecessor testimony, and that three trusted officers examined and slimmed the force to a barely sufficient number, with the list reviewed by Governor McCormick before delay ended.
The death of Field Marshal Sir John Fitzgerald of the British army at 91 recalls past army frauds from about eighty years ago. He was the son of an Irish MP with influence to nominate him as an ensign at seven, a captain on half pay at eight, and joined at fifteen becoming Brevet-Major within two years. He saw fighting in Spain, was captured by the French and exchanged, yet little active service followed and his rise remained puzzling.
From Red Cloud Agency a military correspondent reports no campaign plans yet despite a Cheyenne meeting among Sheridan Crook Mackenzie and Merritt. Col Miles, nephew to the Army chief and treasury secretary, may secure a brigadier general post, a prospect seen as favorable. Crook is credited for progress achieved largely without violence.
The administration plans a permanent Sioux settlement along the Missouri river with Indians moved to Indian Territory south of the Union Pacific and northern Wyoming opened to settlement. Grant and Hayes push the removal, backed by Congress funding for years, with religious groups to supervise, while generals Sherman and Sheridan discuss sites and warehouses before winter relocation.
Rev. J Gossin reports relics found in a Davenport mound near Iowa. Tablets of dark slate show a funeral pyre scene, twenty two stars, sun and moon, and unknown writing. A reverse side depicts men, animals, birds and trees. A second tablet shows a dial with zodiac signs and cardinal points. Authorities deem them potentially the country’s most important archaeological treasures.
The piece portrays a desolate Mountain Meadows landscape scarred by a massacre, with a blighted region and depopulated emigrant camp near a sunken spring. Cedar City shows signs of vengeance as residents tied to 1857 massacre vanish, while Haight Higbee and Stewart families linger as rumored targets.
In a lush April 1877 Albany style letter from Laramie the writer hails the town as the Gem of the Rockies, praises its growth, governance, and mining prospects while recounting crimes and an ambivalent view of public reform. The piece then shifts to a Missouri legislative scandal exposing bribery in bond renewals tied to the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company with named figures and paid sums.
The Standing Rock Agency reveres a two foot diameter stone formed by a petrified mother and child. A tale says a betrayed squaw and her infant were turned to stone after the lodge split. Offerings in beads cloth arrows and cloth adorn the rock, and its summit is painted.
A dying gentleman in Paris made his creditors laugh by a chamber of horrors where mirrors showed distorted versions of the man. Each reflection presented a bizarre caricature from flatheaded to upside down, with a clownish grin or undertaker’s mien. No creditor stayed more than a quarter hour.
A Kentucky Republican news item from April 17, 1877 describes a local election for Justice of the Peace at Confedrit Corners. Eliphalet Boyer’s longtime service ends as Bascom’s liquor and Hayes politics influence a new vote. Pettus runs as an independent against Deekin Pogram amid white versus Black tensions. Pettus wins with Black voters backed by Pollock and Bigler. The piece laments racial strife and predicts continued corruption and civil upheaval, ending with a dooming note on future county elections.
A Cincinnati man known as Abe Rothschild awaits trial in Jefferson Texas after killing his mistress. A letter from his jail reports he enjoys social visits from 50 to 300 people daily, bouquets twice daily, and walks the streets as if not a prisoner. He notes he has no burden on his mind regarding the upcoming trial and inquires about associates Mike Ike and Frank, with the latter tied to an incident of illegal voting. The piece muses that murderers may be unusually celebrated in Texas.
Dr Jowett headmaster of Bal iol, famed for independence, hosted Mr M D Conway in Cincinnati. During a Sunday service the guests George Eliot and Lewes entered late. Jowett signaled them forward and they sat beside the communion table in chairs usually for bishops, provoking astonished crowds as the sermon unfolded. This act is described as the boldest move by an English clergyman.
Stirling Journal recounts a Sunday incident near Gartmore where a pulpit roller collapsed a window blind during a preacher sermon on the devil. The startled minister sprang from the pulpit as panes shattered and a terrifying cry echoed through the church. No panic followed, but the event serves as a caution to ministers handling the devil’s personality in sermons.
In the suit by Charles H. Marshall and Co for 225000 linked to the sinking of the Harvest Queen in the Tris Channel on December 80th and 75000 against the steamer Adriatic, the court dismissed the libel with costs.
A brief, damaged OCR piece shows stray words and letters, rendering a partial poetic fragment with unclear author or context. It mentions a kind act and names Blan and low, but the fragment lacks complete sentence structure or identifiable details.
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