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The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-24

yxYANTED-TWO ROOMS, WITH BOARD.
for wife, child and self. In a private family
between First and Tolcdarfo streets, Fourth
District References exchanged Address,
myetf COMFORT. Democrat Office.
The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-24

WANTED-A YOUNG MAN, A NATIVE OF
w this city, is anxious for employment. in the
city or country as clerk. collector. day or night
watchman. or any other position where he can
and will. make himself generally useful A
good home In the country more Of an object than
salary Address w. II. H.. Jr.. Democrat office.
or New Orleans Postofflce. ap22
VNANTED-OCCUPAN FOR TWO FINE.
w airy. furnished rooms: cheap for the sum-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
A Pennsylvania Boy Monster.

Last week Thursday q lad about II
years of age, named Francis Van BARR
gar, whose parents live in Windsor, N.
Y, lured two little boys into a barn and
SAN he was going to kill them. He
stripped the clothes from the youngest
child and beat the little fellow with a
heaVAstrap and buckle until he tainted
from te loss of blood, which streamed
from Rs head. shoulders, back, and
legs. Bat this was not enough, and
whlhs his Nctim was still unconscious
he attache0 the strap to his neck in
good hitagmSu's style, and proceeded
to hang hsn to a ladder, and just as he
vas in the aet of suspending his victim
in the air, Mr McCreary's son, who
had made his escape, came upon the
scene with severalather boys, and seiz-
ing the young Nero, dragged him to
Justice DE Bois's office, from whence
he was sent to Jail. He SHOT a baby in
Campville but a few weeks since, and
the Coroner's jury pronounced &" acct
dental. "-Great Bend Reporter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
A Murderer Captured by a Yankee
Peddler After a Six Months Chase.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 26.-After
eluding for 10 months the professional
detectives who have been searching for
him, the Amherst murderer has fallen
into the grip of a cute Yankee peddler,
who turned detective for the express
purpose of catching him. The victim
Of the murder was Moses b. Dickinson,
a morose old farmer and an excessive
eater of opium, who, having quarreled
with his family, lived by himself. Last
fall he hired as a Farmland a stranger
who was not long in discovering that
the old man had money. He knocked
out the old mans brains with an ak in
order to get it, and, locking every door
and window, fled. AS the old man was
often stupefied with opium for several
days at a time, the neighbors knew not
that his life had been taken until the
murderer had had three days to make
good his escape. The old mans horri-
bly, mutilated body was discovered on a
Saturday night, the 9th of last Novem-
Der, and the town authorities immedi-
ately offered $500 reward, the highest
reward permitted by the laws of the
State, for his apprehension. A COM
fplete description of the stranger was
published, and the next Monday a mar
was arrested at Shelburne Falls who
filled the bill, but was not the person
wanted. Since then five or six other
men have been arrested on suspicion
in different parts of New England, only
30 be released.
About six months ago A. w. Small, q
hrunk peddler, found himself almost
CONSTANTLY Shadowad Inv a parsOu who
be became convinced, meant to improve
fhe first opportunity to rob and perhaps
murder him. 1t flashed upon him that
he man was the murderer of farmer
Dickinson, and going to Amherst he Sc
ured the murderer's description and
cher information, which confirmed that
klief. From that moment Small, in
sead of being the pursued, became the
Elrsuer, and his former shadow, sus-
pcting the truth, fled at his approach,
tiaveling by night, and keeping con-
daled by day. For five months Small
his tracked him through New England
into the City of New York, back to Bos-
th, into every sort of by-way, losing
TIE trail here and gaining it there. He
finally came upon him last night at Aga
WIN, and, with a Sheriff's assistance,
a1tested him. The son of the murdered
min came to this city to-day from Am
hest, and unhesitatingly pronounced
the prisoner his fathers murderer. The
fellow answers the description in every
detail, down to a small sea on his left
haid. The Yankee peddler this after
noon accompanied his prisoner to AM
herst to claim the reward.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

J-Miss Rhoda Switzer, aged IS, #
Greenville, Mich, attempted suicide g
shooting herself in the head. The caue
was a slight difficulty which arose b.
tween the lady for whom she was work
ing and herself. The ball entered hG
left a Her recovery is considered
doubtful. When discovered she at once
asked some one to shoot her again. r
A German named Or. John Mulla,
of Keokuk, Iowa, recently attempted 70
commit suicide in a mostshocking MAJ.
ner. He first drew a razor across hs
throat from ear to ear, inf1icting an ugy
cash, and partially severing the VIM
pipe. He then plunged a ~dissectint-
knife into his breast, but this strucka
rib and caused no serious injury. WhA
found he vas lying on the bed, star
naked and w~eltering in his own gor.
The We and dissecting-knife were II
ing beside him, and on the floor nea
the bed a Ratchet, which he had ais
made use of. He left a letter, assign
ing remorse of conscience and disaE
pointed ambition as the motives for tn
act. Strange to say, it was thought b
might survive his injuries.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
School and Church.

1t is proposed to establish a Lay
College at Auburn, N. Y, for the proper
training of Christian men and women
for church work.
The Central Ohio Methodist Con-
ference has, by a vote of a to %, re-
fused to concur in the proposed change
ofthe bases of representation in the Cen
eral Conference.
The Madison Square Presbyterian
Church in the city of New York con-
tains the largest membership of that
denomination in the United States. 1t
numbers 1884 communicates. e
The Trustees of a Congregational
Church in Michigan have closed a con-
tract with q young minister, who is to
u their church for a year for the mu-
nlticent remuneration of 5000! Too
cheap to be good.
Bishop Gilbert Haven has not yet
sailed for Africa, but has just visited
about a dozen camp-meetings, and
preached with his customary fervent
1uency. He will go to Liberia during
the present month.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

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- thoughts Of wifhteT's5e esnS uS'er f99pfhssT 10
In the sah the blithe mosquito dips his siphon il
rs your nose r. al n ea7f "a I'd -
ARA correspondent asks ms what o
lion OF the ear is aeahed'thessslobe.'h 1t
isathe portion which your parent used
to grab VIXEN he led YOU gently out to
gaze upon the handsome proportions of
the neglected woodpile.
AN exchange editor who was evil
IDENTIFY brought up under q good grand-
mother, with daily associations with
pumpkin-pies, exclaimss: : "The pump
kin-pie season is again breaking upon
the nation in full-Orbed and transcahdent
.lory.'' - 60 s'~1 %.2 baS x.s'ssf'''
who shtanldst der streets cts and corners sr. round NJ
Nit. sefrel ages to be ground, INA
Und shmied and bowed and Meier frowned?
.gA*ga- gas Der candidate. #af E5E@a E5
Who hold your hand when you would start. 70
ind told you you was mighty shmart, yit
And how he loved you NIT his hart? =. aHta s.
Der candidate. .y 80.
Mrs. Oliphant says: "sThe honey
Don IS not always q delightful mo-
emit" Correct. And when theAgroom,
bile on his wedding tour,zis presented
18th a hotel bill amounting to $50, and
nds only 1850 in his pocket-book, he
experiences one of the moments when it
not delightful.
Intelligent farmers, and scientists
re now discussing the question, "De
ices hear?n We believe they do, and
t Gamble easily proved. You take a bee
py the tail, holding him between your
humid and forefnger, and say, List,
list, oh list" and you will feel listing
pm the end of your thumb before you
are through speaking.-Burlington
H~awk-eye.
"A abOrer of Hibernian extraction was
not long since lamentingt the hard times,
md said finally, "AvI was only back
gain in me fathers pallis." A jolly
ehow-workman squinted his eye and
eplied: "Surss am av ye wore there,
moight sefesl4z@ean the groun' an
ach yer hasz4Sl0yfh the chimbley an
zen the d~deN&H5e" ..
james Gordon Bennett is working
"A new plan of reporting. He is 60
ing to engage all the frst-class poets
and have his paper worked into verse,
when it will read something after this
fashion: .
ACCIDENT.
MIR. Smith, a young man of BROOKLYN,
Sat down yesterday on a pin,
But it caused him much pain,
So he rose up again;
How wise are the youths of Brooklyn.
Or this:
TERRIFIC MISHAP.
Mr.. Brown, of Fourteenth Street, New York,
Essayed to eat soup with a forks
Terrific mishap, it fell through ON his lap,
And scalded John Brown, of New York.
Boston Globe,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
1'erso,.aI ana Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is to
give a series of lectures On English lit
erature at Wesleyan Hall, in Boston.
The Comte de Paris has written to
the Southern Historical Society at Rich
mond, desiring to become member,
in order to examine its documents re-
lating to the civil WAL. a. es.tryuk
President Grant has expressed his
intention Of making Washington his
future residence. He says he feels
more at home and more Identified with
it than with any other city. ~
Mr.. Boxer, the United States MINI
lister to Russia, will resign at the end of
the year in consequence Of i'll health.
The climate Of the country does not
agree with him nor with Ids wife, wh6
is now at q German watering-place by
the advice of her physicians.
The famous Southernl editor, Col
John Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, is
illinthat fashion which touches to sym
pathy the most indifferent, His mind,
once so clear and Efficient shows fatal
signs of weakness, and at times he fails
to recognize his oldest and best friends.
He has entirely given, up editorial work.
This is the obituary of the late jeff
Thompson in the New Orleans Times:
General jeff Thompson is dead. AT
St. Joseph, Missouri, at 8 O'Clock last
evening, that genial, whole-souled, dew
il-may-care, personification of eccen-
tricity,' Syclimbedy the fgyilden stair.
Known and very generally liked the
length and breadth of the land, scarce
ly an act CT his life challenged CRITICISM
and certainlynone was provocative OF
asting enmity.n go =, 90
Prof. Huxleyis is. of medium size and
height. His form ID somewhat bent
His face is Thin and chiseled with deep
lines. He looks like a stpdious, dys-
peptic clergyman, who has tried to live
on hall s salary and failed in the at
tempt. The vigor,f and subtlety, and
force of his published lectures and es-
says, which abound in trenchent criti-
cisms and defiant challenges to popular
beliefs, give the impression of an ath-
letic and powerful personality, and
make the appearance of the rather
slight, paie-faced studenr-prrofessor
somewhat Disappointing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

= ~ SF E#fS% "a"
H-AtI the Sunday-school Assembly
which was lately held. at. Chautauaua
Lake, M w., 40 lecturers were enibfoyed.
and, among other illustrations of objecti
teaching, there was a model of. Palss-
tine 200 feet by 100~feet in area. The
attendance was great, Is ,.iaF 9.t1'
Q 1.-The Faculty of Cornell University
has organized d course of sermons, in
which prominent Baptist, Congrega-
tionalist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Epis-
copalian and Unitarian divines will par
ticipate. An invitation extended,to the
Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese
to nominate two preachers of his Church
was declined. = fs-e. .,4I. g,L.
The COngregattona1ist says that a
great many New England ministers
haYe felt~thn 0hrinhn~~ +h~~has.5
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

The Russian army a now b
brought up to 100000 men,, withou
counting the national militia.
Prince Charles of Monaco has beet
deposed, and his son, Prince Albert
has been instructed with the Regency
The incapacity of Prince Charles arises
from a nervous complaint, the nature
of which is o stated. The Prince i
% years of age, and has served in the
Spanish and French navies. Since the
close of the war he has lived almost
entirely on his own yacht.
On the Sd ult., there died at Milan,
Antonio Luzzi, widow of the ~unfortu-
nate Leon, Prince of Lusigman and
ling of Armenia, who died last Feb
.ruary. Shej EFF SIX young children
wholly without means Of support.
Three havP b e. aiken to public chart
table institution and the Others tenn
pora"ily Iop1ed III a workman, jacques
Merlini. I they se the last of a line
which HecAone / 2 Emperors and 80
Kings.
N 4 long age Madame Ribard was
eZ5mi Jed - the school of Medicine in
ia is psf0ce a lal re and curious audi
ance TIE lady is about 81 years old,
and tie Alnther Of two children. At
frs. khe seemed q little disturbed, but
500 recovered herself, and her replies
were market with much perspicacity.
II jury dccidett that Madam Hbard
N or hted the diplo ma of doctor, and the
T eEident complin ented her on the ex-0
tent of her knowledge. -
ON q recently published Lit of
Ell lsh landed gentry appears thehame
of Vyndham Hollywood, a minor heir
to D,436 acres, worth 1925 year.
" 7!dhaln Honywood is a youngei son,
younger by a quarter of an hour than
h twin brother. who will inherit What
e. r REM ms foT him of the family es-
tate. A kindlD1cle left all he IBID to
thu younger tN n, because he WIS the
Y anger, 9 nd th.t he too might ipt be
without bis due hare of the good Kings
OF he earth. A the Fates have b this
ms Ance wilIed it, that quarter of an
ho,f's space which divided the fbthers
at birth, and which was regarded by
font relatives as most disastrous to the
prospects of the younger tim, Will bel
the cause Of his becoming 4 far wealth
Ter pan than hi elder bfQther.
For some time thereaas been much
talk abotH the conduit Of the Crown
Prime OF Holl nd. He lives in Pa&is,
bis rslacs in tn Hague iaclosed, andall
endtrvors to duc9 him to return to
the Iaguethavf failed. The Prince pre-
fers , amusa imself IN Paris, instead
of performing isduties as the first sub
ject o, his row father. This behavior
has oeated mach discomfort, but till
now sisnce IS been preserved on the
subject To e great surprise of every
one, we've Mr.. Mock, a well known
Cons ative 5olitician of Amsterdam,
the der day inproposing a toast at q
diny5r, openl reproached the Prince
fo' going int voluntary exile, and for
50 aiding on Inc Boulevards the time
whrh ought to be given to his country,
owe which be will perhaps reign as
Wiiam ~. Mr.. Mock further eX-
prlssed his regret that the Crown Prince
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
Science and Industry.

The bridge across White River, on
the Wisconsin Central Railroad, is the
largest wrought iron one in the world
1t is 1926 feet long, 107 feet high, and
cost $500, COO
In the Chinese Department of the
Centennial there is a bedstead whose
beautiful carving required the work of
twenty Celestials for five years. 1t is
valued at $4,000. ts9>s@
During the past year, ending Sept.
1, $50 miles of new railroad have been
built in Texas. The State has now
within 1S5 miles of as much road as
Georgia, the latter State having the
greatest mileage in the South-2,264
miles.
Col. j.. w. Finney, of the U. S.
Engineers, has been detailed to survey
the Union and Central Pacific Railway
between Omaha and Sacramento, it be-
ing alleged that the measurement of
distances on which the L. S. bonds
were issued TO the companies was mac
curate.
The Boston and Albany Railroad
recently took off a set of steel car
wheels that had run 523, 00C miles, a
greater distance than was ever u by
any car-wheels before in this or any
other country. The average running
distance of a common chilled iron car
wheel is only $4,000 miles.
"A patent has been taken out in
England for brown paper blankets as
bed coverings. They compensate for
their lightness by their density, and
add materially to warmth. They are
perforated at distances of about four
inches, in order to promote ventilation,
and the small sizes, 4S by 81 inches, sell
at about nine cents each. Several con-
tracts have been made for hospitals and
schools.
Among the new articles of export
from The United States to England
whittier we are now sending even fresh
beef-is slate, a cargo of which has just
arrived out. The slate is better and
much cheaper than that found in the
Welsh quarries. The time may come
when we shall supply Europe with
many of its staple articles of food and
industry from our W vast natural
storehouses.
A hydrometer for testing the pro.
pOrtlOn OF wafer III cluer HAS coLHe 'nGO
use in New England. The test, how
ever, does not indicate which has the
most pleasant flavor, but simply de-
termines the amount of water in the
cider, whether. it came from the apples,
or was poured in to reduce the strength.
Cider made from grated fruit contains
the most water. A miserable knurly
apple will produce the highest grade OF
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

A BoOK-AGENT was shot and killed
one day last week in Texas. Here In
Iowa the only way q book-agent can be
killed is by running a freight train over
him, and the plan is SO expensive that
book-agents generally live about as
long as other people. Occasionally,
when n comes straying into town,
with his legs thrust into a couple OF
lengths of stove-pipe, his body encased
in a beheaded flour barrel, and a copper
kettle inverted over his head, the peo-
pie know that he has been selling "Pha-
raoh's Lives of the Saints" in some IN
hospitable country where the shotgun
iearishes, but it excites no particular
remark.-Rurlsmqton HGsOE-eye.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
AT the recent execution of two pri

AT the recent execution OF two pris-
oners within Kirkdale prison, Liver
pool, a very long drop was used, which
had the advantage of breaking the
mems necks with the fall. The Cor
oner, however, ordered the Sheriff to
direct attention of the Government to
the fact that this method did not COM
ply with the letter of the law, which
contemplates hanging by the neck till
the culprit dies through strangulation,
whereas a very heavy fall causes death
through d~islocation of the v~ertebra.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

had not yetgisVen the ntattiioh, The o lab6r
tunity to welcome a Crown Princess. 1e5
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

-si4av yvega 80, uos 3 mil o. %
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

| hhayianaT tsaf sad hnaI41aI Z
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12

LURKING NEAR A HAY-sTACK,
which stands hard by the path which
the Major would have to traverse in GO
ing from his ferry-hoat landing TO his
house. After being seen, he quickly
disappeared, and vas not again seen
near the More residence until about 8
o'clock yesterday morning. On APP
preaching the house, he inquired of a
colored boy who lives on the place if
the Major had returned, and, on receiv-
ing a negative reply, asked if the front
door to the house was unlocked, and
just here it may be well to add paren-
thetically that the Major has a crippled
son named William, somewhat older
than the sister Mary. By an accident,
when a mere boy, he was made utterly
helpless, so far as a use of his legs is
concerned. He is an intelligent man,
and, though unable, however, to move
around, does a great deal of the head
work about his fathers very large farm.
| His room is located in the rear part of
the house, and it was the vicinity of this
room that Harrison was SO careful 10
avoid. 1t was for this reason that he
wished to make bis. entrance through
the front door, but, upon learning that
the door was locked, he stole slyly
around to the side entrance, which is
still opposite to the entrance, to Will
liam's room. He slipped into the sit
| ting-room unannounced, found Mary
there, and, it is supposed, made some
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

Parliament was opened at noon ON the
8th by the Queen in person. Lord Cairns, the
Lord Chancellor, read the Queens speech.
A Madrid dispatch of the 9Th says the
'royalists were complete masters of the provinces
of Bscay and Alava.
Weston, the American pedestrian, de-
fcated Perkins, the English champion, in walk
ing match for $50 cup, on the 9th. The match
was for the greatest number of miles in twenty
four hours. Perkins made sixty-fve miles in
fifteen hours and stopped,
A Hendayc (Spain) dispatch of the 9th
says the Carlists had assumed the offensive
against the Aphonsist position at Ajarzan.
The Spanish Government has recently
sent to its diplomatic representatives abroad an
exhaustive confidential memorandum upon the
condition of Cuba. The circular gives the causes
of the insurrection, the character of it's leaders,
and describes the reforms which Spain will intro
ducc when it is subdued
The reported discovery of a quantity of
gunpowder in the coal on a steamer at Antwerp,
Belgium, is declared to be untrue.
The Bank of Commerce at New Lon
on, Conn, was robbed on the night of the 9Th.
On the morning of the 9th the bank officers were
unable to open the vault, and an expert was
called in who finally succeeded in forcing en-
trance when it was found that about s21 600 had
3een carried off.
Sir John Taylor Coleridge, nephew of
the poet Coleridge, and editor of the London
quarterly ReUiesO, died in London ON the 11th
aged cighty-six years.
The steamer Rotterdam, from New York,
reached Rotterdam on the 18th. Winslow, the
Boston forger, was not aboard.
Turkey has refused DR.. Schliemann
permission to pursue further exca iatons in the
Troad.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 18th
says the Sultan ofTurkey had agreed to grant an
amnesty to all insurgents who would immedi-
ately submit.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
Mr.. Lamb's COnundrum.

THAT anecdote of mine about Mr..
Snifien trying to tell a funny story at the
dinner-table and breaking down in the
middle of it, recalls little feat performed
by Peter Lamb several years ago at an
evening company. They were sitting
around in a circle asking conundrums,
and Peter had a hazy recollection of one
which read in this way: "Why is love
like canal boat? Because it is an in
ternal transport" So he concluded to
offer it, and he did so in the following
shape:
Scan you tell me why love is like an
internal transport 20
There was silence for few moments,
and, as nobody guessed it, Peter encour-
aged further conjecture by saying:
!" Love; why is love like an internal
transport? It's the best conundrum | ever
heard. Funny as thunder.n
Then they all said they would give it
up, but Peter said:
:. Now think again. Why is it like an
internal transport? You'll be astonished
that you didn't guess it. It's perfectly
splendid" l o.s.
They all gave it up again, then Peter
exclaimed
+" Why, because it's canal boat, of
course! Tip-top one isn'tit?' and Peter
slapped his knee and laughed. Every
body else was as solemn as the grave, and
Miss Mills said that for her part she didn't
see it yet.
"Why, don't you see, love is an intern
al transport, isn't it? and so is a caual--.
No, by George, [ haven't got it exactly
right Less see, now, how does that
blamed thing go? Why is canal boat
like an internal-no, no. Why is an in
ternal canal boat like a.. Pshaw, how
is it, anyhow? Why is a-a-internal
love love like a ca-like a transported
canal boat-like a--a--a--. Well, blame
me if l haven't forgotten exactly how that
conundrum is, but it works in somehow
about canal boat and love, and it's the
best" ..4
Here Mr.. Butterwick asserted that he
didn't believe there ever was such a con-
undrum; and thereupon Peter, with flash
ing eyes, said to him:
"Oh, there isn't, isn't there? No such
a. conundrum! There's more in that
conundrum than you've got in that bald
headed cocoanut of yours, and more'n
you ever will have, unless somebody lifts
up the lid of it and dumps some new
brains in it, you wall-eyed outcast, YOU"
Then Mr.. Lamb went home, and the
company proceeded to tackle the refresh
ments. -''Mar Adeler, !" IN ". 7. Weekly.