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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1883
Page
6
Fragmentary report references powder quality and dealer names like Harkins & per Bros. and Royal. The text mentions comparisons of AR TAR lines, color lines, and potential opening for eminent Chicago ties. Details are unclear and fragmented due to OCR, but the piece centers on powder trade notes and market observations.
An old Arkansas traveler narrator recalls a city opera outing with a rustic squatter in Iolanthe. The man misinterprets the stage as a rural scene, mixing praise and mockery as he imagines fairies, lords, and disguised workmen. A confrontation ends the viewing as guards eject him.
A Boston Traveler report notes a shift among Fifth Avenue youth. Dudes fall in status to second class while upper swells adopt conservative fashion with wide trousers and modest coats. Silver-tipped canes remain common, and female swells imitate male styles amid slow wardrobe changes.
The article explains four irrigation methods in California. Flood irrigation in flat districts uses large water heads. Furrow irrigation distributes water in streams across fields. Basin irrigation builds water around tree roots via pipes or ditches. Subirrigation uses buried pipes to water soil beneath the surface.
Mrs Popperman recounts a pre marriage letter from her husband promising Italy, milk baths, opera boxes, and daily royalty. They compare dreams to reality noting trips to Hoboken, cheap paintings, and bill posters, ending with a late night quarrel and a stumble in the dark.
A New Yorker named Bill Nathans closely resembles President Arthur. Nathans recalls sharing barber shop visits with Arthur during earlier years, and a mistaken identity led Arthur to sit in Nathans’s chair. The barber, unsure after a single day, doubted memory and later signed a temperance pledge.
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece recounts a betting scheme where an owner concealed a weight in the jockeys boot to alter handicap results. The trick involved removing a weight at the start and reinserting it at the finish, influencing the outcome by seven pounds and a length.
A Americus resident reports his rooster crowing twelve times before the clock strikes midnight for two consecutive nights. The owner jokes the bird may have swallowed a clock.
The Navajo Indians of New Mexico expect a wool clip of 810000 pounds and hides and pelts totaling about 600000 pounds this year.
Croffitt's letter recounts a July Madrid bull fight for King Alfonso with amateur noble participants. A Castilian bull is savagely gored by barbed darts while spectators cheer as women and children applaud, then the animal is finally slain beneath the box of the king. The narrator leaves disturbed, calling the event the only thing in Spain she does not like.
A Chicago Herald item notes Oxford England with 35000 residents hosting 319 licensed liquor outlets. The map suggests locals drink as much as they study and describes widespread patronage and common intemperance. Inter Ocean reports an unbroken rail line from Portland Maine to Oregon.
A Detroit Free Press piece centers on a dead drifter nicknamed Brandy. An empathetic bootblack challenges the crowd at the wake, lamenting the lack of opportunity and kindness that could have altered Brandy’s fate. The story contrasts callous remarks with a plea for human compassion.
In the Buffalo column from Flagstaff a year ago describes northwestern Arizona and western New Mexico as a vast pine forest belt cut by rail near the San Francisco mountains. Water scarcity dictates mining and timber operations, with springs scarce and artesian wells mixed success. Water capture proposals and seasonal floods shape life for lumber mills and railroads.
The New York Sun reports on publishers discounts for retail dealers. Scribner's Sons offer 8 1 2 to moderate buyers, 40 percent for large buyers, 30 percent for small buyers. Dodd Mead 40 percent to jobbers, who sell to retailers at 33 1 3 to 34 percent. Century sells whole edition to American News. News charges 28 cents a copy, retail 35 cents. Appleton 33 1 3 to 40 percent depending on size. Harper 3 1 3 percent standard, 40 percent juvenile, 16 2 3 percent school. Periodicals prices listed for trade and retail.
In Egypt a major push against slavery leads to the capture near Asslo of a caravan of about 250 slaves. Ali Saidi, Cairo’s slave leader, is arrested and to be court martialed soon. Among the liberated slaves are six women, three Circassians and three Africans. five gain freedom while one Circassian girl refuses liberty, seeking life as a slave to a wealthy pacha. The fate of the others remains unclear amid mystery surrounding the case.
English journalists face class distinctions in newspapers with reporters seen as day laborers and editors as well paid specialists. War correspondents and resident reporters drive foreign and political coverage, while war news boosts circulation dramatically, as with The News during the Franco Prussian War.
The piece reports that 700 to 800 Indians live in the Everglades while only eighty appear on census rolls. It notes Indians resist trading with whites, many slaves or descendants remain under Indian control, and Seminoles forbid guiding whites into their lands. Chief Tiger Tail sells a freed slave, asserting white man’s nigger but Indian’s nigger.
The Salvation Army marks its eighteenth anniversary with 591 corps and 1,439 officers worldwide, including 180 officers abroad. India sees native interpreters aiding work largely funded locally, while Australia and New Zealand expand to twenty four corps under about forty officers. The War Cry weekly becomes bi weekly and eleven other War Crys publish globally with four more expected.
The royal baby of Spain reportedly rests in a cradle shaped like a shell, lined with pink satin and a canopy of rare colonial finery. The ornate cradle reflects regal care and traditional display associated with royal infants.
The aged Longstreet stood in black at a Chicago agricultural gathering and spoke of reconciliation between the North and South. He recounted amnesty talks with Grant and Johnson, noting that those forgiven most love the most, then faltered before the judges and whispered, I must surrender. A woman offered him a sunshade as he sat.
A New York Letter recalls a chorus girl from Lydia Thompson's burlesque who, after a railroad accident in England, had her nose changed to remove a masculine cast. The altered nose, though imperfect, gave her a piquant look and, it is claimed, aided her prospects as an actress. the girl is unnamed.
A Mexican Macienda describes the Salado ranch and similar giant holdings in central and northern Mexico. The piece notes over a million and a half acres, spread across Nuevo Leon Coahuila Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, with towns and mining sites along the central railway. It laments caste divisions and lazy peon labor under absentee owners.
A Jersey City tramp asks for help and hears far richer self made men claim their surplus. They boast of starting from pennies then warn they can show him how to fail in business and beat creditors. The tramp thanks them and vows to begin amassing a competency immediately.
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