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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1879
Page
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The Graham Leader lists subscription terms: one copy one year two dollars, six months one dollar. Advertising rates start at one square and scale by size, with monthly to yearly totals. Special notices cost ten cents per line each insertion, and a 50 percent surcharge applies to personal ads, with advances required for political candidate notices.
A historical directory lists U S District and Circuit Court officers led by Judge A P McCormick and District Attorney F W Minor with Marshal Ann Norton and Clerk F W Girand. It covers district and county officials, commissioners, justices, court schedules, religious services, Sabbath schools, Masonic lodge, and temperance society details.
Eastern Mail including Jacksboro arrives daily except Sunday about 3 PM and departs daily except Sunday at 9 30 AM. Mail closes promptly at 9. Money Order Office opens from 7 AM to 8 AM and again from 9 30 AM to eastward mail arrival. Tuos B Stevens P M.
A Deep Water signed correspondent critiques log rolling in Washington and state legislatures, arguing localism undermines national representation. He warns that machines, patronage, and private special interests distort congress and state bodies, demanding broader patriotism and skilled lawmakers to serve industry, navigation, and commerce.
In Texas the democracy is accused of rugged independence yet crushing rebellion to the party machine. The telegram argues that party leaders suppress controversial measures, favoring the old caucus line. It cites 1873 Texas and Coke versus Roberts as proof of machine control and condemns ruined schools and state finances. It warns that unless dead weights are removed, opposition parties may win the next governor.
The New York Times argues that electing the ticket by a mere plurality would have no signficance for New York's presidential position. It would keep New York as a doubtful state with a strong presumption of voting Democratic in a presidential year.
A general court martial is called to convene at Fort Stockton on October 22 for the trial of Captain Geo Armes of the Tenth Cavalry.
A Texas man, Mr. Gresselmann, armed after losing smell and fearing burglars, blows out hotel gas at midnight. When a porter asks him to stop, he threatens and fires repeatedly. Police find him loading a pistol with about $50 on him, unaware of the gas.
A Christian Standard essay argues fathers shape sons more than mothers in guiding virtue and temperance. It contrasts maternal influence with paternal examples, urging men to walk the good path so sons follow, lest temptations lead them astray.
Reports indicate widespread showers across the state but demand for heavier rain persists to meet water needs. Authorities monitor levels as communities await significant precipitation expected to ease drought conditions.
Our Norwich correspondent reports Henry C. Cook a Boston tailor with a beard six feet six inches long kept concealed in a bag under his shirt. It would reach to his toes when extended and lay ten inches on the floor. Growing about twenty one years, it is praised by Barnum as the longest in comparison to a Michigan bearded man. Cook avoids parade about the beard, though he sometimes shows visitors.
The Denton Monitor reports a sermon or resolution praising a legislature for enacting an impartial Sunday law that restates the Sabbath as a day of rest and urges strict enforcement. The Presbytery ordered the clerk to publish a copy of the resolution in the Monitor and asks other papers to copy it.
A Lexington tale from the Cincinnati Commercial reports Captain Ben Drake of the night police offered reward for seeing a ghost. Over several nights, witnesses, both white and Black, gathered at Spring and High to watch a vacant lot where a supposed apparition appeared only to vanish, leaving forty nine watchers by morning.
The article notes about two hundred thousand beggars roving the German empire and an annual alms total of at least 18 million dollars in cash, not counting food and clothing. It explains many became beggars due to old oppressive laws that forced apprentices to roam as journeymen to learn their trades.
The Chicago Times reports a tense start to the Ute conflict with tribes beyond the immediate combat area sending alarm. General Merritt’s force reportedly nears Milk River while General Hatch moves south with eight hundred troops toward the war zone. Ouray warns settlers to evacuate as danger grows and loyalty to whites is noted as a factor in the possible brutality of forthcoming clashes.
Letter from Philadelphia dated the 27th says the future of the road is assured and will be built westward with private capital at least to El Paso and likely to the Pacific. A bond for 8,908,000 dollars is recorded to secure a loan, and authorities say it will immediately extend the line westward from Weatherford for 100 miles.
In Fort Worth Democrat commentary the writer hopes the Ute uprising will reveal a corrupt ring profiting from Indian mistreatment and agency fraud. The piece urges transferring the Indian bureau to the war department, condemns years of policy as imbecile and villainous, and argues army interests align with preventing further Indian depredations.
Excitement in Lampasas as gold specimens are reported in the creek bed 500 yards above Hancock spring. Local businessmen drill a shaft from the surface and work waist-deep in water, paying three dollars a day. An attempt to keep details secret accompanies a vivid courtroom exchange about a Drexler, a little old man with gold spectacles.
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