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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Report Of the Postmaster. General.

The expenditures of the Post office Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876,
were $33 ,263 ,4S7; receipts, $29, ISL ,697; excess
of expenditures over receipts, - OSl 100. The
number of postage stamps issued was sos 1885,
O9O, valued at $1s, 713 ,454; and the total value
of stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards,
the latter being 3 ,4OS $50. was S26 1858 All.
There were 6,126 contractors in the service at
the close of the report, ond 9.003 public mail
routes in operation, of which u ,34S miles were
by bya ra'l eos s2ssln g4 si 3; ne per mi mile and s'S 1s4. P 5y7 s1 miIes
of other routes averaging about $9.21 per mile.
The number of arrests for violations of the
postal laws and regulations during the year was
439, and the number of registered letters actually
lost 464, valued at 8 Is 1874. is. The whole num-
Der of registered letters was 4,007 81; entire
The total weight of The mails dispatched to
postal union countries were as follows: Letters.
1855 ,lO3 ounces; other matter, y ,9S5 ,SsS
zion of 1921 1856. 70 from the year previous.
The number of post-ofaces established was
1 1892; number discontinued, 1.l57; number OF
appointments. s,762; total number OF post
masters, SO 1888; letter carriers, 1888; agents,
clerks, and other employees, ID ,702.
Tbs general results of the free delivery system
are satisfactory, the postage on local matter ex-
ceeding the entire expense by "a .375:22 The
whole cost of this service was 81 ,9Sl 1851, or
an increase of five per cent. over 1879.
There were 3, 697 money order offices in opera
ton June 80, 1876, and orders were issued dur
ing the year to the value of $17,'35, 972, a de-
CESdSS VI 20 per Ccut- III tLHO alilOuhU 1oouOu nv
year preceding. This statement is exclusive of
international money orders, amounting to about
81 900 900.
During the last fiscal year, by the aid of leg
~islation enacted at the late session of Congress-,
the loss and annoyance to the department occa-
stoned by the vicious system OF 'straW blds"
has almost wholly disappeared and is not like
ly to recur.
Serious embarrassments are reported to have
arisen from the discOntinuance OF fast mail
trains, and the hope is expressed that the labors
of the commissioners appointed to investigate
this question will lead to a satisfactory under
standing with the railway companies in regard
to the modes and amounts of compensation for
this important service.
In conclusion the report states that in seven
years the receipts of the Department have in
creased 81. IA per cent. while t e increase in ex-
penditures has been only 40. 50 per cent. while
the decrease of deficiency for the same period
has been IL. II per cent, from which the Post
master General argues that if this percentage be
steadily maintained, there is reason to believe
the postal service will ultimately cease to be a
burden on the General Treasury.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
WEST AND SOUTH.

The official canvass Of votes.polled in New
Mexico at the recent election gives Romero,
Republican, for Congress, 1851; Baldez,
Democrat, 7,418.
The National Association of Short-horr
Breeders met at St. Louis on the 9th, rear.
ly one hundred being present. The conven,
ton adjourned to meet at Lexington, KY.
on the oath Of October, 1877.
T. j. Fitzgerald, ex-editor of the Cath,
Ottc Advocate, and late Auditor of the l..
P. and S. ". Railway, committed suicide,
at Louisville, with strychnine, on the 18th.
Cause, no work.
A Charleston Is. c. dispatch of the ILL
says that Is negroes were arrested in Able.
vile County, charged with the murder Of
two white men, Allen and Baker, neal
L~owndesVille, and with having formed a con.
spiracy to murder the white inhabitants OF
the village. They were placed under guard
and started for Anderson, and it was re-
ported that, while en- route, they were cap.
tured, and Ii of the negroes lynched. A
later report, however, says that the negroes
were lodged safely in Jail at Walhalla, with
the exception of one, who committed sui
eide.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange crop
report for November, for the States of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, shows
a falling off in the yield of from % to SO per
cent, as compared with last year. Most
of the crop had been gathered ON the list of
December, and a large proportion already
marketed.
By the moving of the ice gorge in the
river at Louis, on the 18th, the steamers
Bayard, Jennie Baldwin, Andy Johnson,
and Rock Island, belonging to the Northern
Line, were cut down and sunk, and the
Golden Eagle and War Eagle and some 9TH
er boats of the same line were badly dam
aged. The Fanny Keener, belonging to
the Naples Packet Company, was also cut
down and wrecked, and a number of smaller
boats and barges were also more or less in
jured.
1t is reported from Vicksburg that John
p. Briscoe, a prominent Democrat, and
Chancery Clerk of Claiborne County, was
assassinated on the 9th, while out hunting
near Port Gibson. He was the only wit
ness against the negroes who fired on the
Sherif's posse, October q.
By the explosion of the boilers in a saw
mill near Texarkana. Ark, or the 18th,
men were instantly killed and two
others badly injured. The names of the
killed are Chauneey Beach, James May, w.
White, Nicholas ~Rosebaugh, Ed. Griffin,
Geo. Green, Tip Stewart, Geo. jackson and
Fred Williams.
The Indiana Democratic State Central
Committee held.a meeting at indianapolis
on the 18th, and decided to issue a call for
a convention Of the people, regardless of
past political opinions, at each county seat,
on December %, to select and instruct del
egates to assemble in State Convention, at
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THE HOUSE INVESTIGATIONS.
louisiana.

The Louisiana Congressional investigating
committee arrived at New Orleans on the 18th
and Immediately organized and served subpe-
mas upon the members of the Returning Board
and a number of parish Supervisors who were
then in the city.
On the 18th, the Secretary of the Return
ing Board, Mr.. Charles S. Abel, presented to
the committee a communication, signed by all
the members Of the Eeard, denying in effect the
authority of the House of Representatives to re-
verse the decision of the Board. The Sergeant
alarms was instructed to notify the members of
the Board personally to appear at IL a. m. on the
following day.
Gov. Wells, President of the Returning
Board, appeared before the committee on the
18th,. but declined answering any questions
Mr.. Morrison said they would not press the
questions. Sub committees were appointed to
visit the various parishes where votes had been
thrown out ON account of alleged intimidation
and fraud. The Republican counsel addressed
that Republican witnesses before the mmi
had been subjected to profane and threatening
remarks by some OF the bystanders, and asking
that witnesses be projected from such insults
and threats.
On the 14th, Clover, Supervlsor of East
Baton Rouge Parish, WIN had made affidavit
accompanying his returnsA to the Returning
Board of riot and intimidation throughout his
parish on the day of election, testified that he
was not personally cognizant of any violence,
but was Informed of it by other persons. The
afhdaVt accompanying his teturns was pre-
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The LOng-LOst Uncle.

He was a man with bronzed features,
stoop shoulders and long hair, and as
he walked up Fifth Street any one
could have told that he had made a pile
of money in some far off country, and
had come home to live with some of his
almost-forgotten relatives. He finally
found the house he was looking for,
knocked at the door, and that was the
last the boys saw of him. The rest of
the story was yesterday told to apolice-
man by Mrs. Mccarthy. Said she:
81 was washing me dishes when I
heard a knock at the door, and L ran
and opened it. 1t was a stranger on
the step, and he smiled like a duck and
axed me does Mister Mccarthy live
here? He does, says l, and then says
he: sWas your maiden name Mrs.
O'Rafferty?' 1t was, says l, and at
that he began hugging and kissing Nv
me and called out: 4 am your long
lost uncle from Queenstown"
swell, that was very NICE" remark
ed the officer.
"Nice, was it! Oh, the ~sneaking
villain! [ set him up to a warm break
fast, and me eyes were full CT tears, for
l thought he had money be the thou
sands. After he cleared the table he
borrowed a dollar Nv me to telegraph
to Ireland that he was safe here, axed
me to lind him me husbands Sunday
hat, and the next | heard of him he was
in the shtation for q vagrant, and was
no more me long-lost uncle than you
are!"
sis that SOP"
"That's the shining truth, sor, and
think of his kissing me on the nose and
fairly cracking me ribs! Whin | think
of how l tux him for me long-lost uncle
l feel as if I could kick the park fence
down and lather him wild the pickets."
Detroit Free Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

made by the Supreme Court was again taken up.
and Mr.. Bogy spoke at length against it's pass
age. Upon coming TO q vote 1t was defeated
yeas, 81; nays, A.. The House took up the
bill to utilize the products of gold and silver
mines. Speeches in favor of the double stand
ard of gold and silver were made by Messrs.
Durham and Willard. The latter is a member
of the silver Commission, and declared
that the testimony taken by that commission
was largely in favor of a double standard.
Messrs. Garfield, Hewitt and Chittenden made
strong speeches against action on the subject
pending the report Of the Silver Commission.
Mr.. Kelley argued in favor Of the bill and OF a
double standard Of money. The debate on the
Silver bill being closed, the substitute proposed
by Mr.. Bland was agreed to without division.
1t is that silver dollars of the weight of 4l2x
grains shall be coined, and shall be a legal tender
the payment Of gold coin is required by law,
The House then voted, by yeas and nays, on the
passage of the bill thus amended, and the bill
passed-yeas, 1877; nays, %.
In the Senate, on the 14th, the resolution
to print extra copies Of the Presidents message
and accompanying documents in regard to the
late election in Louisiana was taken up. Mr..
Thurman moved to amend 30 as to have printed
with the message and documents the memorial
of Messrs. Bogy, Stevenson and Mcdonald,
embracing the report of the Democratic com
mittee which witnessed the count In New Or
leans. Quite a long discussion ensued between
Messrs. Sherman and Thurman, regarding
the fairness of the two reports, when
MIR. Thurman's amendment was agreed to. Tine
Chair laid before the Senate the message from
the President in answer to the resolution of the
Senate of 9Th inst, in regard to troops being
stationed at Petersburg, Va, on election day.
Ordered to be printed, and to lie on the table
Also, a communication from the Attorney-een-
eral in answer to the Senate re-
solution of the 18th inst. in regard to employ
ment of Deputy Marshals on election day. The
Attorney General says this information
called for is not in his possession
and can only be obtained from the Marshals OF
the United States, who have power to appoint
deputies, but he will seek to procure the infor.
nation at as earlya day as practicable. Order
ed printed and laid ON the table......In the
House. Mr.. Knott, Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, reported a resolution as a substitute
for MIR. McCrary's resolution about counting the
electoral votes. 1t provides for a committee Of
seven to act in conjunction with any similar
committee that may be appointed by the Senate,
to report without delay a measure best calculated
to accomplish the desired end; also, another
committee of seven to report what are the priv
legcs, powers and duties of the House in count
ing the electoral votes. The resolution wa!
adopted under the operation of the previous
question without debate or division. The Speaker
laid before the House a message from the Presi-
dent relative to the removal of the Sioux Indians
to the Indian Territory. Referred. The Post
Office bill was considered in Committee of the
Whole.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
A HOrrid Butchery.

One of the most desperate and inhu-
man crimes that W stained the pages
of history was committed a few DAYS
since near Calamus, in Valley County,
Neb. A farmer named E. N. Case,
blotted from existence his entire fami-
ly and then hung himself. The discov-
cry was first made by a boy who was
sent by his mother on an errand to
Cases residence. Arriving he found
the house closed and the windows blind
ed. On looking toward the stables, a
short distance away, the boy
saw, as he supposed, a man
standing under the cow-shed in
his night-clothes. The lad a home
and spread the alarm. An officer and
one or two others at once started for
the place and found Cases body sus-
pended by the neck from the roof of
the shed. They then went to the house,
where a horrible scene met their eyes.
Upon a bed lay the murdered wife and
mother, her whole forehead crushed in
by the blows from a sledge-hammer,
and her blood and brains hanging in
great clots from the wall. Her throat
was also cut Passing into an adjoin-
ing room, the parties found the two lit
tie boys, victims of the same brutality
which befell their mother, with the ex-
ception that the throat of the youngest
was not cut.
On a table in a third room vas found
a piece of brown paper, on which was
written, in the steady hand of the muir
derer, the following: 81 a not live
always, and am not willing to leave my
family to suffer. Bury US all together
on the top of some high bluff" This
was signed "Ed," an Authorization of
the murderer's name. The body
of the suicide was taken down and car
ried to the house, and an inquest held.
Some of the citizens believe that Case
committed the terrible b~utchery through
jealousy of his wife.-Siou9 City (Ia.)
Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

on January 8, to consider
public affairs, and take such action as will
secure a full execution of the Constitution
and the laws.'
Gov. Hayes was serenaded while on q Wis
it to Dayton, Ohio, on the 18th, and madea
short speech in acknowledgement, in which
he said: 81 have too much faith in the
saving common sense of the American peo-
pie to think they desire to see in their coun-
try a Mexieanized Government. Whatever
may be the result at which the lawful au-
thorities shall arrive, you and I will quietly
submit, and I have sufficient respect NJ
confidence in the great majority of the OPP
posite party to believe that they will do the
same.'
The Colorado Legislature has elected
Henry NJ. Teller United States Senator for
six years, commencing next March.
The clearinghouse of William NJ. Ream,
at Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, was en-
tered by four masked men ON the night of
the 18th, and over Sic, 900 stolen. The
bank building is a two-story brick situated
in a prominent part of the town, the Sec
ond floor being occupied as a
dwelling-hous by Ream's fami-
ly. About / O'Clock a. m. Ream
was suddenly aroused by two masked men
on either side of him Selling his wrists,
while wv others stood at the foot of the
bed with revolvers. Ream was ordered to
accompany three of them to the vault, the
fourth remaining to prevent an alarm being
given by Ream's wife. On reaching
the vault Ream was ordered to unlock
the doors, and the thieves took $40, 200
therefrom, leaving gold and silver coin,
bonds, etc., untouched. Ream was then
gagged and bound to a chair, and the whole
party fed. Ream was not released until
nearly daylight, his wife expecting to be
killed, as had been threatened, if she gave
the alarm.
Little Rock, Ark, was again scourged by
fire on the night of the 18th, a large num-
Der of valuable buildings being destroyed.
The steamer Horner sunk on the 14th, OPP
posite Payne's Landing, on Red River. The
cabin PASSENGERS were all saved. Ten deck
passengers were lost. Boat and cargo total
loss.
Gen. Crooks command arrived at Chey-
enne on the 9th and went into camp to re-
cuperate. The next move will be to the
mouth of the Little Powder River. No
knowledge Of the whereabouts of the hos
tiles.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

The u%nidentifie ed remains of the victims
of the Brooklyn Theater disaster were in
TERED on the 9th. They were inclosed in
mi hundred collins, and the whole inferred
in a large plot in Greenwood Cemetery.
Business generally was suspended through
out the city, and a vast concourse followed
the funeral co rtege to the grave and par
ticipated in the final ceremonies.
A wagon-load of nitro-glycerine exploded
near Petrolia, Pa, on the 10th. The horses
n wagon were blown to atoms, and two
men named Smith and Humphreys, who
were engaged in unloading the explosive
material, met with a similar fate, only de-
tached fragments of their bodies being af-
terward found.
Mr.. Henry S. Murdoch, who lost his life
by the burning of the Brooklyn Theater,
was born in Boston and was about 50 years
of age. He was an actor Of considerable
ability, and was a nephew of Mr.. James E.
Murdoch, the great tragedian. Mr.. Claude
Burroughs, another victim of the fire, was
26 years of age, and an actor of promise.
Both were gentlemen highly esteemed both
in their professional and private lie.
Maj. -Gen. W. S. Hancock, late in com.
mand of the Military Department of the
East, with headquarters at New York, has
been ordered to the Pacific Coast, and Gen.
Phil. Sheridan put in his place.
The annual meeting of the National oun-
Gil Of the Union League of America was
held at Philadelphia on the 18th. Ex-Gov.
W. A. Newell, of New Jersey, was re.
elected President. Important action was
taken on the political questions now agitat-
ing the country, the details of which were
ordered to be kept secret.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-An address has
to. night been issued by the Democratic commit
tee. 1t is the last desperate attempt to prop a
failing cause. Gov Hayes has been fairly elect
ed by a clear majority of the electoral vote.
There is no indication that any right minded
citizen has any doubt as to the result. The a.i-
dress of the Democratic Committee is an impu-
dent and audacious attempt to prejudice and
pervert the public judgment. Hayes and
Wheeler are elected and the will of the American
people will be carried out and maintained.
lSignedJ Z. CHANDLER,
Chairman Republican National committee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Dom Pedro astohished the great
people of Copenhagen by riding on the
tops of omnibuses, and going about on
foot among the people, just as If he
were not a "nob."g
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Political ManifestOes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The following
have been issued to-day:
Democratic Address.

DON OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMIT
TEE, WASHINGTON, Dec Is, lS76.-Io the PeO-
cratic Committee announces as the result of the
Presidential election held on the It'll of Novem-
Der, the election of Samuel j.. IildeH, of New
York, as President, and Thomas A. Hen
bricks, of Indiana, Vice President of the
United States. We congratulate you on this
victory for reform. 1t now remains for the
two houses of Congress, in the performance of
their duty, on the second Wednesday in Febru-
airy next, to give effect to the will of the people
thus expressed and constitutionally made by a
majority of the electoral votes, and confirmed
by a majority of all the states. as well as by an
overwhelming majority of all the people of the
United States. BY order OF the Executive Com
mittee. [oignedl
ADRIAN S. HEWITT, Chairman.
FREDERICK o. PRINCE. Secretary.
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pared in the Custom house. Hugh j. Campbell
assisting in it's preparation.
Florida.

The Florida Congressional Investigating
Committee organized at Tallahassee on the 18th,
and decided to go into an investigation of both
the State and National Elections.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

"A number of Republican papers in
Paris have been fined from 1000 to
1000 francs each for a libel on the En-
press Eugene by the publication of a
Spanish Judicial decree, nearly 50years
old, respecting the conjugal relations
of the Count and Countess Montijo.
This couple the defendants represented
as the Empress's parents, and they
throw doubts on her legitimacy, but it
appears that the documents refer to
other persons of similar name and title.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

The 700 Congregational churches
in 1875 have increased to near $500;
the membership from a number un-
known to about $50, 200.
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NIA.ON q mAMLIN CARINEr ORGANs.


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"a the MCoN ana Sankey Eeetng. throughout Eng.
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Excursions.

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NIAso< q HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS,

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Monfort about sherman.

To THE EDIToR; On the 18th day OF Febru Try.
1870. applied TO DIR. j. A. Shernans ONES, and after
sstisfsc9ry explanation Of nis method ~ tres ing her
na. had his treatment adapted 10 case. must say
that At nrst was somewhat skeptic OF cure wing
been ruptured over twenvnine years and being In the
sNty.tbrd year OF my life, besi my rup get.
ting worse 40 that when applied to Dr. sherman IL
Was large and verY troublesome. had tried gr at
many rnsses, not only WITHOUT benent but with post
tive injury The last tried, the elastic rubber
truss, was the worst Of all.
Although have been very active since went under
tins treatment gradually Improved until was en-
urelY cured which Is now over seven months could
not have believed the cure would have feel
much better until experienced H. While was rup:
turrd was oftcn-very often--cntrely incapactated
from attending to NV business 0ar1lng). but now am
entirely able To pursue the varOus lauOrs OF
uon without the pain al necessity % wearing truss.
not the comfortable app ance furnished by D.
Sherman, having further U.s. tor anythnS OF the
KIND l. J. MoSFoRr.
CHARLESTON. Ill March L. 1879.
When az honest farmer speaks, relating incidents
ike the above. fnu endorse what he says puJ.
Ishing II Tor the guidance Of those Interested. An
honest heart Ia sympathy with the afi have
act iated Mr.. hOnfort In relating these Interesting
truths.
Tho a6ct.d from all parts OF the country daily
Waiting Dr. Shermln' sp cious oice PARK row. to OBJ
tain his reient, which II less Involvement than
wearing a truss and a certain