Lincoln meeting urged by Nebraska Editorial Club this week
A note from Sidney dated January 4 1879 states the Nebraska Editorial Club will meet in Lincoln within the week. The telegraph notes invitations to the Annual Meeting of the Colorado Cattle Growers Association in Denver on January 14 1879 and discusses Central stock raiser organization east of the Rockies. Also mentioned are Governor Garber’s call to fund mob conviction efforts and various antiquated anecdotes about Pryce Bismarck and superstition.
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Nebraska
Editorial Club
Lincoln
Garber
Mitchell and
Ketchum
Colorado Cattle Growers’ Association
Denver
Rocky Mountains
Solid South presses Democratic power in 188 electoral build
The Louisville “Dollar Democrat” argues the Democratic Party holds a solid South with 138 electoral votes, 96 House seats, and 30 Senate seats. It claims the South’s reinvigoration comes from shared sentiment and causes, making the party anew a Gibraltar of strength for the next two generations.
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Federal House
Senate
Democratic Party
Democratic strength and northern battlegrounds amid Nebraska crime note
The discussion notes eight electoral votes and Northern state battles where a 1 percent swing decides control. It argues for organized Democracy over third parties and warns Nebraska’s criminals, boosted by rail and telegraph networks, are unlikely to hide amid state law enforcement and rewards.
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Democratic Party
Indians recover ponies captured on the South Platte
Sunday last several Indians arrived from the upper agencies and disclosed that of thirty three ponies recently captured on the South Platte by Messrs Hamlin and Cowles, thirty belonged to American Horse, two to White White, and one to Little Women’s Band at the Cut Off on the Sidney and Black Hills Stage Line. The names have been taken back to their owners. The men who originally drove off the stock are now in jail or awaiting trial in Deadwood.
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South Platte
Hamlin
Cowlea
Sidney
Black Hills
New Year Calls Mark Sid ney Society Progress in 1879
The piece notes a rising standard of society with New Year calls in Sidney, listing prominent local visitors and hostesses, describing lively parades of carriages, and the cordial welcome to business people. It mentions named residents and guests and the shift in local postal names, plus a brief public notice about Walters Importing Company of Cincinnati offering inexpensive watches.
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Sidney
Tully
Eaqcal
Walters Importing Company
Cincinnati
Fim
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