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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1877
Page
10
The Senate approved Wm. G. Le Duc of Minnesota for Commissioner of Agriculture. The issue is noted amid a wide array of reports including financial summaries, military losses, and curiosities from the era.
A collage of satirical items and quick takes from Worcester press humor. Topics include woman suffrage in Colorado, anti death convention in Boston, Georgia peaches valued at 1.5 million dollars, Peter Cantine as New York candidate, GOP shifts, and quips on French Republicans, Sioux leaders, and temperance anecdotes. Also notes about bracelet with a music box and a New York Times correspondent Tevis being expelled from Roumania.
Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, born August 4, 1823 in Wayne County, rose from law to judge and governor before becoming a U.S. senator. He led Indiana’s Union war effort, raised troops, faced illness, and continued service in the Senate on Foreign Relations, Agriculture, Military Affairs and Privileges and Elections, later chairing investigations and enduring declining health until his death in Indianapolis.
Senator Brock traveled to the races citing the need to show he properly represents Kentucky. The remark suggests public perception of his commitment and accountability to constituents.
About 4000 women gather in Chicago for the Woman's Temperance Convention. They seek funds to advance the work and the bonneted attendees average eight dollars each, totaling around thirty two thousand dollars.
Senator Ingalls offers a bill to move the first regular session of the Forty-fifth Congress to the first Monday in November from December. The move echoes the constitutional clause and aims to cut two recesses and ferry mileage savings for traveling members. Opposition may arise from those voting in this month’s elections, but prospects look favorable if timely.
A Growing Town Fontenelle at the river mouth near Green River City is rapidly developing with the arrival of G W Holden and family from Green River Press. It now serves as an election precinct with Justice Justin Pomeroy as J P in name and office, having built and sold over 4000 dollars worth of Pomeroy butter. Large herds of cattle and sheep winter there.
The Western Union under contract with Colorado Central R R begins building from Longmont to this city. The poles and materials are ready and work starts next week. Superintendent S T Armstrong arrives to inaugurate the project. The Fort Collins dispatcher will shift operations to the new line when finished.
The Friday session opened in solemn calm as senators whispered about the death of Senator Morton. Many spoke of his warm heart and shared anecdotes, and during the chaplain’s prayer several eyes filled with tears on the Senate floor.
A wide roll of brief notes from Buenos Ayres to New York covers currency decline, labor strikes, shipwrecks, kerosene lighting, olive oil fraud, arsenals stock for winter, Maine salmon runs, sugar refinery outputs, and odd curiosities. Reports include deaths in Savannah, a Papal blessing to Spain, fashion gloves, and city sanitation efforts.
The Protestant Episcopal Church congress in New York concluded its session on Friday, wrapping up its meetings and activities for the event. The gathering featured talks and discussions among church leaders and attendees from several regions.
Gras Grimore and Duane engineers on the Washington Monument board report the structure has not settled and may be finished. They advocate building a strong wall from surface to twelve feet below the current walls, with at least six feet clearance at corners, curved to place centers twelve to fifteen feet from the monument. Fill space between wall and monument with rubble and cement concrete to stabilize the shaft area. The report copies Colonel Kurtz’s final notes and interlineations.
The article describes treating wood to resemble walnut. It involves drying and warming the wood, applying a walnut peel solution, heating, then brushing with bichromate of potash in boiling water. After drying, the wood is rubbed and polished to fix a walnut-like color to a depth of one or two lines, effective on red beech or alder.
Kansas Senator PiLump introduces a new article of war prohibiting gambling and gaming for money or stakes and banishing officers or soldiers guilty by court martial from service in the case of violation.
The passage observes lawyers working late at night in their offices, poring over dusty legal texts and drafting with diligence as each minute seems highly valuable. It portrays the meticulous labor behind legal rights work through vivid, period voice.
TheWestern Union and Atlantic Pacific telegraph firms failed to agree on cost sharing. The issue was referred to Wm. H. Vanderbilt who ruled the Atlantic & Pacific company must pay 134 percent of the gross expenses of both firms. The decision has been ratified.
A large constrictor gave birth to fifty young boas Saturday night in a public aquarium exhibit. The mother measures thirteen feet and the newborns about two feet each, kept together in a large glass enclosure.
The text notes that achieving notoriety as a top criminal is harder now because such a figure must lead a long life of morality and piety, making genuine sensational crimes less likely.
An announcement notes Iowa Axmronso will marry on the twenty third of January. The groom is described as a non native seeking a wife to help him settle and align with local customs.
The governor calls for gratitude and charity on Thanksgiving Day urging residents to share a turkey with those in need across Rhode Island.
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