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Newspaper
Springfield Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1869
Page
2
The Springfield Weekly Leader reports Judge race updates as T A Sherwood withdraws, leaving candidates Lindenbower and Geiger. Editorial notes stress civil tenure act debates, party stances, and church division history with reference to North and South distinctions and 1845 conference decisions.
The piece contrasts two candidates for judge Lindenhower and Geiger. It denounces Geiger as controlled by radical city cliques and praise Lindenhower as a firm, impartial legal mind with steady Republican principles. The author admits personal dislike but argues Lindenhower is best qualified for the bench.
The Passover observance is described, noting unleavened bread, labor abstinence on its first and last days, and domestic rites recalling the Exodus. Mentions continue from ancient practice to modern celebration after the destruction of Jerusalem's temple.
A lively piece weighs mayoral prospects including John How Arthur Barrett and Captain Joseph Brown with other figures like Phebe Couzins and Anna Dickinson. It surveys market economics from Center, New City, Lucas and Soulard markets, noting costs receipts and net revenues.
Long dispatch outlines ongoing congressional fights over Georgia and South Carolina reconstruction, political maneuvers by Switzler and Dyer in Missouri, Georgia’s disputed election cases, and Radicals pressing to repeal tenure acts while Grant era tensions rise. Reports on Cuba, Pacific rail construction, and naval reinforcements frame a turbulent postwar scene.
Reading a local item, Samuel Hype of Dent County offered 150 dollars for his horse and gear or 75 dollars for either after a night raid near Licking. Authorities pursue the suspect along a route south of towns, as lawmen gird for capture amid ongoing survey work and unsettled weather.
Fragmented report describes mineral discoveries near Van Winkle's locality with claims of possible silver or gold deposits and a rush to Arkansas mines. Also details an affray between Marion Fly and BP Hardcastle with gunfire injuring Fly and Hardy, and a later Indian fight near a western fort with armed exchange and casualties.
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