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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1877
Page
4
The Wyoming news column reports Premier Tom Greek and Vice Admiral Canaris both dead. It notes Greek's death by apoplexy and mentions other international and national items including harvests, wars, and local civic anniversaries.
A rebuke aimed at nosy neighbors who pry into others lives. The piece argues privacy matters, meddling harms reputations and relationships, and that judging neighbors over packages, tempers, or personal outfits serves no one. It calls for punishment of meddlers to protect right to privacy.
A Albany gentleman, while testing a telephone, reported hearing the music of a concert through the line. The unusual incident suggests telephonic audio phenomena and raises questions about long distance signals and acoustic leakage recorded by local observers.
The Jewish year 4088, a leap year with 385 days, ends on Friday September 27 1878. It is the sixth embolismic leap year in a 247 year cycle, last of its kind in the nineteenth century, with 13 lunar months and Passover on April 18 1878.
Anecdote recalls Uiniel Webster hosting Western lawyers after Tyler's accession. Leonard, a bashful guest, toppled a gilt satin chair, drawing room wreckage. Webster helped him up and quipped that no cabinet work will hold together here, prompting laughter and a lesson for future guests.
The Atchison Champion recounts a creditor’s plight in a bankruptcy case where a cigar shop failed with over $4,000 in liabilities. The assignee, a prominent attorney, faced repeated attach and replevin cycles as stock moved through litigation and sales, with constant legal maneuvering and court action.
A historic note reports the Navy considering a fresh water basin at Norfolk Virginia to clean ironclads marine hulls after long salt water exposure and improve speed. The item appears amid a column of varied civic gossip and opinions.
A compiled 1880s style miscellany notes Walter Pisha as Graphic's pick to follow Brigham Young. It also lists editor I W Thomas of the Philadelphia Free Press passing at age 70, and a string of foreign and domestic items including politicians, explorers, and Civil War era Egypt and Mexico notes.
Osman Pasha may become Turkish minister of war. Bis mark and Andrassy reportedly met at a hotel and will confer again. Sime Clydé shipwrights end strike after arbitration and will resume work. The New York Tribune sees Conkling allies tightening GOP control in New York. A week of dull, windy weather aided wheat harvests. In Madras India relief reaches 1,826,971 Hindus, with nearly a million on public works. Grand Duke Granv declines France trip to avoid harming Marshal Mac Mahon's government. Presidential reception continues in Louisville with the President, Mrs. Hayes, and Cabinet. Wisconsin may go Republican. Greenback and Workingmen tickets unlikely to win. Portsmouth orders ready for sea by October for Triumph and Hercules. Triumph may relieve the Shah in the Pacific. Fort St. Nicholas, captured by Turks, cited as key to Russian positions in Schipky Pass. General Raditzky is said to command about 45,000, Suleiman Pasha about 40,000.
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