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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
A Birdie Charming Lady.

A few months since a handsome
mocking-bird flew into the residence of
a lady in this CITY and alighted at her
feet, exhibiting little or no fear or sus-
picion of her, and permitting her to
catch it in her hand. She placed it in
a cage, and it seemed happy and con-
tented, and proved to be one of the
finest singers of its species, filling the
house with its varied and melodious
strains, until after some four months of
captivity it was taken sick and died,
much to the sorrow and regret of its
mistress. A short time after the de-
cease the same lady was sitting in her
room when another beautiful bird of the
same family came in and took its posi-
ton nea her, apparently inviting her
to capture it, which she did without diff
ficulty. She placed it in the same cage,
and it seemed as cOntented as the other
had done, as if it knew and coveted a
life with so gentle amistress.-JackSon-
Uil!e (FHG.) Union.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
Death from joy.

Probably no city in the country pos
sesses so large a proportion of Spiritu-
aliSts as does the little town of San Ber-
n~ardino, in Southern California. All
the "isms" have their devOtees there,
and frequently members of q family are
arrayed in bitter dispute one against
another, as in the family of Mr.. Saw
yer. The subject of Sp~iritualism has
long marred their domestic happiness,
the mother and two ons being firm adj
voeates of the "spook doctrine" while
the more practical father as determin-
eddy resisted its teachings. SO it vas
lot strange that when Prof. Baldwin,
the exposer of the humbuggeryo of Spir-
itualism, was announced to appear in
San Bernardino last Friday evening that
the members of the Sawyer family de-
termined to be present. Mr.. Sawyer
sat quietly during the first part of Bald
wins exposures, but gradually, as the
Professor unrayeled the devious meth
DDS of the foremost Spiritualistic medi-
ums of the day, with his eyes fixed upon
the stage, with an unnatural intensity,
he began laughing with il~l-repressed
joy, which afterward became so fire.
quent and loud rs to cause universal
remark among his friends. One man
said: "Well, that tickles old Sawyer"
Sawyer turned to his eldest son and TX
claimed: "John, you and your mother
will have to come over to my way of
thinking. Is not it all plain?I Did l
not tell you it was all freud, and could
be exposed if one but knew how to catch
the medium?" John replied that he
and mother would have to surrender
their belief in spirits. This conversion
of the members of his w family filled
the old man with unutterable JOY, and
his joyful agitation was more apparent
than before. AS the Katie King appa-
rition stepped forward from the cabi-
net, Sawyer's excitement eliminated,
and, sprineing from his chair, literally
crying from Joy, wringing his hands,
utterly overcome, started down the aisle
toward the door, which he reached, and
fell apparently dead. Doctors .imme-
diately took him in charge, and after
laboring with him for a half hour pro-
nounced the man beyond all human aid.
1t seems that heart disease is hereditary
in the Sawyer family, and, superinduced
by great mental excitement, this caused
his death.-Stocktom (CaI.) Herald.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
The Standard of Beauty

AS to the female waist, although cor
sets, steel busks, and other c~ontrivances
of torture and deformity were in use
among the Greek women, the sculptors
took care never to model a form which
had suffered them. 1t was reserved to
anatomy, in a later age, to show that
the female trunk contains more, and
more complicated, organs than the male,
and that only by the incest packing and
adjustment can these many parts of the
vital machinery work without friction,
even in the larger cavity which was de-
signed for them. But the artists be-
lieved that nature could lot blunder.
And to them the slight waist and mar
rowed hips, which a tinical taste pro-
duced and admired, seemed not less
rrofane than hideous. Nor was a too
slender throat considered a beauty. The
head was set firmly on a firm, columnar
neck, rising from sufficient shoulders,
that the breathing might be deep and
free. If the sculptors carved large
waists because these, being true to the
facts of nature, were therefore beautiful
to all thoughtful eyes, they carved large
feet for a kindred reason. The column
of the body a not be easily supported
on an insufficient base. 1t is a fact that
all women with di-nronnrt'on"t"'" s""''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
A Wonderful Agricultural Feat.

A wonderful feat was performed the
other day by Mr.. Charlwood, a farmer
of Padworth, who made a wager that
he would, without assistance, put up on
carts the product of twenty acres of
wheat, and send it to be stacked, the
time specified being as long as he could
see to load in the morning and as long
as he could at night. Beginning his
task at 3 AS in the morning, Mr.. Charl-
wood completed it by 800 at night,
and thus won his wager. 1t is COM
puted that during the time this vigorous
farmer was at work he did not carry a
less quantity of wheat than 200 sacks
and 55 or 60 tons of straw-calculated
to be equal to what would be consider
ed a fair amount of work for three days
for an ordinary agricultural laborer.
There can be NO doubt that the feat
performed by Mr.. Charlwood was an
extraordinary one, and entities him to
great credit for his energy and perse-
verance. But the British agricultural
laborer can, when put on his mettle,
get through an immense amount of
work in an incredibly short time. A
notable instance of this was afforded in
the year 1905 by William Stanton, a
day laborer to Mr.. Dodfield, of Breedo,
near Tewkesbury, of whom it is record
ed that "he threshed upwards of sixty
bushels of pulse between six in the
morning and six in the evening of the
same day, besides taking it down from
the NOW himself, and after it was
threshed helping to winnow it. All
this was done and the pulse put in bags
before 8 o'clock the same night"
These facts in the harvest field and
barn do not attract so much attention
as the attempts to swim across the
channel, now so fashionable at this
season of the year, but they are quite
worthy of record.-PGU Mall Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
Drinking Beer In Germany.

A handsomelydressed dignified look
ing lady arose from the corner, where
she had been knitting, and approached
me with, "Was wuenschen sic. .enaedi-
ger Herr?" The "worshipful sir" in
formed her deferentially that he wanted
Berlin beer. She disappeared to the
eavernous depths below, and presently
returned bearing the beer in the most
remarkable glass I ever saw the bever-
age, served in. 1t was like a great
smooth berry dish without handles, of
about the, size and shape of a ssplug
hat"/with the rim cut off, and, by ac-
tual measurement then and there, was
twenty inches in circumference and
nine inches high. I tried to span it
about with my two hands, but these
could by no means accomplish the Job.
1t is called a "pokal," which CORE
spends, | suppose, with the beaker or
tankard of our tongue, and they tell
ne that the style is of great antiquity,
but is Pow only found in very s'swell''
and old-fashioned restaurants. 1t is
certainly a goblet worthy of Gambri-
u himself, and its appearance when
filled would strike terror to the souls of
Ao Wv oSA1PCAhlSC SOCIcbf. lulS
q~ueer-looking glass contained about a
quart and a half of a tawny chrome
colored beverage, which was surmount-
ed by a good inch of solid looking white
foam, SO dense that l at first took it for
yeast, and had some trouble in getting
my mouth and nose through it to make
the desired junction between the former
organ and the liquor below. l found
its strength very light, its flavor slightly
acid or sourish, its general style that of
diluted hard cider which had suddenly
become effervescent. After serving me
the gorgeous waitress laid aside her
knitting and, going to a fine, full-toned
piano in another of the deep recesses,
played away at a succession of melodies
in a style worthy of a concert room.
All the old fogies around listened in
grave approval, but never intermitted
smoking or drinking, or vouchsafed
her a single rap of applause.-Dresdem
Cor. Detroit Free Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
A Baby Traded for Rum.

/ 80 F - E-r-r- 80 LEaEEE . =4HaE
A sad story of the terrible influence
of the liquor traffic comes to us from
talrview, in this State. Some three or
four years ago a promising youag man
OF that place married the lovely and ac-
complished daughter of a minister of
the gospel. The youthful couple were
highly esteemed, and for awhile their
welded lives ran smoothly and happily,
and they, were all in all to each other.
But the tempter came-not to the wife,
but to the husband. He fell-not at
once to the lowest depths, but slowly
and surely he went down the grade that
leads from moderate drinking to CON
hrmed drunkenness, until he spent ev-
cry thing he had for whisky, even sell
ing the family Bible to procure money
with which to CRAFTY his cravings for
drink, A few months ago a baby was
born to him-a sweet little innocent
that laughed and cooed unconscious of
the degradation of its father. 1t would
have been a "well-spring of pleasure
In the home of sobriety and virtue, but
here its innocence and helplessness
touched no tender chord inthe paternal
heart. The love it should have aroused
was dead, and in its place was an all
absorbing thirst for Intoxicating liquor.
The poor mother alone found some
consolation in its presence for the
grief caused by her husbands fall.
But it was to be the means of
adding a sharper pang to her despair.
The drunken father, unable to bear the
torture of his raging thirst, was at his
wits end for means to secure its graft
fcation. He had nothing left which he
could sell, and the barkeeper refused to
trust him for another drink. His NOR
bid craving for stimulants was driving
him frantic, and he was ready for al
most any desperate deed. At this june
ton he bethought him of his baby, and,
horrible to relate, the unnatural father
took the little innocent from the house,
carried it two miles to a low doggery,
and there actually traded it to the bar
keeper for a drink of whisky! Is there
II deeper depth of shame than this? If
there is, nobody but the rum-seller can
show the way to it. The distress of the
unhappy mother can better be imagined
than described. She recovered her
child on paying for the whisky, but her
blighted hopes, her bleeding heart, her
wrecked lite still remained to bear
damning testimony against the Internal
traffic through which such ruin and in
fanny were wrought.-Muscattne (IoVa)
1Tihune.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
An Old BOmbshell Explodes in a Kitchen

On Wednesday morning a bombshell,
which had been picked up on one OF
the battlefelds of the late war as a
relic, found its way into the cooking
range at 4 South Broadway, the resi-
dence of Capt. Alex. Jones, and ex-
ploded, doing considerable mischief,
but injuring no one. The shell was
shought to be empty, and had laid IN
5he cellar for seven years. A servant,
Without knowing it, picked up the mis-
lie with a bucket of coal. The coal
nd the she'll were elnptied into the
ange, and the servant left the room to
,ttend to other household duties. The
gaell exploded with loud report, near
NY demolished the range, tore through
the ceiling, and caused other damage.
Baltimore Sum-.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

Naaman was a mighty man of valor:
but he was a leper. The v clues ot
the plain were fruitful, but the men OF
Sodom were awful sinners. L calleo'
/ but you answered not, etc. When n
! candidate came down from the pulpit
and entered the vestry, the trustee po-
llitely remarked: "Sir, you gave US a
Most ingenious discourse, and we are
,ch obliged to you; but we don't
1vou are the preacher for u.s."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

Each person furnishing a club of ten or
more subscribers is entitled to one extra
WEEKLY, and Of fifty or more TO a SEMI
WEEKLY.
Liberal inducements offered to those rails
ing clubs. For Posters, Specimen Copies,
and further particulars, address
TIE TRIBUNE, New York.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
TO Subscribers { the N. ". Tribune
for the Campaign.

subscriptions to the WEEKLY or SEM
WEEKLY New YORK TRIBUNE which were
made for the current political campaign,
may be continued until Dee. 81, 1877, or
nearly fourteen months, ut the regular year
ly rates, If renewed before expiration. This
offer applies to clubs as well as to single
subscriptions. The rates for IL TRIBUNE
under this arrangement postage free to the
subscribers are AS follows:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02
CHROME CONSTIPATION

is not cured by simply unloading the bowels. Th
must possess tonic, Alternative and correc-
pre- perties. These qualities are combined In
Z UTT's Pills, and they will permanently cure
serious disease. Is Murray Street, n. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

j. M. Patterson, who has six acres
of prune orchard near San Jose, Cali
fornia, has had this season 80 tons of
fruit, or 10000 pounds to the acre.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and
cheapest Embarrassing in the world.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

SUBSCRIBE f seIt the eb 81; bt a9at soS G0m@ssf'q n, Ssr
published in St. Louis. Its money and CONNER
cia1 articles are worth the price, 81, for one year.
Orders received before Jan. 1st., will secure the Ga
zette the balance OflS76 and all of 1877 for So. Address
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

IN ACRES-WELL IMPROVED-NEAR CITY
0S1For Country Drug and Book Stock. Wili pay diff.
ference, cash. j. HARRIS. Ottawa, La Sale Co, Ill.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

VNARM. STORE, CUSTOM WINDMILL, good i'm
IL s PROVEN ents: $40 acres, 100 under fence. Makes
So. 900 a year clear. Active man can do more. Price
Farm, etc. $500: Mdse. 5000. S. PARKS. Goliad. Tex.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

on ACRES, mostly Woodland, In Clark County.
1SU Wisconsin. Address S. B. HUTCHINGs, Chi
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

HHoICE FARMS o SALE in every desirable
u county in the West. Address FARM BUREAU, Z.
P. Hotchkiss & Co, l42 La Sale street, Chicago.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

600 ACRE IMPROVED FARM on time.
l.UUUAddress ROBERT WATSON, Peabody, Kansas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

ONE OF THE FINEST 16o-acre farms in Central II
~ linois, near Decatur. State premium on fruit, etc.
For particulars address E. p. HoTCHKIss q Co., Sale
and Exchange Bureau for Farms. 1G2 La Sale street.
Chicago. Ill
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-02

HIGHLY IMPROVED 615-acre Farm, Linn Co.,
III Iowa, having II. X. station on it. A bargain. Ad-
dress, for particulars, E. r. HoTCHKiss d Co., Farm
Bureau, 142 La Sale street. Chicago
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28
BOOK NOTICES.
THE SANITARIAN.
pay the pip

Again we welcome The Sanitarian, the
April number being or our table. The
article Oh tenement houses inS New York
City entitled, "Has New York Board of
Health" shows how badly law is admins
tered in New York. The author draws
attention to the want of ventilation in
public school houses. The lecture on
"Value of Health to a City" brings the
question down to dollars and cents, show
ing clearly how much community will
save by maintaining health.
Our lady friends should read Fashion
and its Penalties by DR.. Alter, Of Phila-
delphia. In this the author treats Of
dress and is particularly severe on the
shoemaker, and his high-heeled shoes.
The lawyer will find an excellent article
by w. G. Davies Of New York Bar, on
"Mysterious Disappearance and Presump-
tions Of Death in Insurance Cases." In
this there is resume of the Udderzook
case, which created so much excitement in
Baltimore and in Chester Co., Penna.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28
THE NEEDS OF THEHOUR.

The needs of the hour are not so much
what is called Craftsmanship as honest
management. An honest coal hea er ele-
waited to the Presidency would better ad-
minister its functions, than tricky though
eminent and able politician. The duties
of the President are so clearly defined by
the Constitution, that an honest man ad-
vised, or able to comprehend its purpose,
could make no mistake--but govern the
country we'll and wisely.
Dishonesty and perjury are the cankers
threatening the life of the Republic. 1t
is question far above party; it is one vi
tai to our existence how can we be saved?
Manifestly by putting in power an honest
man, truthful man. We want no schem-
ing politician, no one whose hands have
been defiled by dishonest gain, no man
who has sought to rise into power by in
flaming the acrimonious portions of one
section of our people against another; to
be the Chief Magistrate Of the United
States.
Judged thus, very many of the aspirants
for the Presidency, will be forced out OF
the contest.
Honesty Honesty !! Honesty all
else will follow.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28
LEra6E 'EAND CLAY.

The Commkcial'is angry at City Couns
|cil, for the stoppags OF rations. We con
dole with our neighbor lit ought to have
some "pap." 1t need not envy the HER
AID. The city advertisements are the
only party ones, save the Trial List from
the Prothonotary, ii ever receives.
The sheriff of the county is a man Of
such exceeding obliquity, that he ignores
the existence of the HERALD, journal in
accord with, and entitled to speak in the
name of large minority, if not majori-
ty Of the voters of this county and its Vi
cinage. Why the sheriff discriminates,
can only be accounted for-upon the score Of
latent dislike to the owners of the HERALD.
Were he anxious to learn lesson Of liber.
ality, he ought to visit the HERALD office
with its twenty-seve employees, and there
learn that no mans faith or blood is in
quired into, when seeking employment or
position, as by accident all are different
from the proprietors. Of course the vo-
ters of our "kith and kin" must be pro-
foundly grateful to the sheriff, for ccnde-
scending to accept their votes in 1874. 80
good Commercial, don't complain, you are
no worse treated than your neighbors. At
ter all it is pleasant feeling, that the
HERALD is living and growing, without
being sustained by an act Of Assembly, or
the favor of the sheriff
We produce the best penny paper in
the United States-we now publish an
edition greater than all the dailies Of this
city combined-save one and we
will live and flourish despite the pro-
phecies of bilious contemporaries, and lib
eral sheriffs.
Let the band play-we can dance and
pay the piper.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28

LAST week the New York Herald trot-
ted out thirteen Centennial Republican
candidates for the Presidency, and this
week it trots out thirteen Democratic can
didates, heading the list with Thomas F.
Bayard of this State, and says Of him,
that he would make superb Presidential
candidate, especially in these Centennial
times. His name would recall the bright
est days Of chivalry, as in his veins rnn 8
fine strain OF Revolutionary blood. /
says, the Democrats would have the liveli
est Fourth of July over Bayard they have
known since the days Of Jackson.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28

HIS Majesty the Emperor of Brazil
and his wife are on their way to the
United States. They are coming as pri-
vate passengers On British steamer.
The Emperor is accompanied by dis
tinguished suite, and is expected to reach
our shores about the Goth of April. His
coming will be an interesting event. He
is prince of three of the most ancient and
illustrieus of the royal houses of Europe.
He represents the royal splendor of dy-
nasties of the old world as well as the
strength and wealth of the most powerful
nations of the new world.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28

SENATOR MoRToN's bill in reference to
the counting of the electoral vote, has pas
sed the Senate. The Constitution of the
United States made no provision for the
contingency of two sets of electors, each
claiming the right to cast the vote of a
State for President. When such state of
things occurred, in the reconstruction pc
riod, Mr.. Mortons friends were in power
in both branches Of Congress, and they
enacted a joint rule that the electoral vote
of any State shonld not be counted if either
branch objected. The Democrats having
obtained ma .jority in the lower branch
Mr.. Morton discovered that it was dan.
gerou, rule. After II debate of man,
weeks, full Of partisan bias, the bill ha,
been adopted.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28
MORE GIFT TAKERS.
FOR PRESIDENT

1t seems that Gen. Grant does not have
the monopoly Of accepting brown stone
houses and bull pups, for it now comes
out that general army officer high up in
the regular service and West Pointer,
too, has been following the precise example
set him by his illustrious chief in the
White House.
Gen. Mcdowell McCook, was selected
by Gen. Halleck, when Secretary of
War, to go as Inspector General through
Texas and look into certain rumors that
were ahoat about certain army officers,
among which rumors was one, that Gen.
Beynolds West Point officer had accepted
the present of house and surrounding
land made 10 him by the firm of Adams 4
Wicks, contractors for army supplies in
that department. Gen. McCook in the
course of his Investigations obtained a
copy of the deed to this house and the
surrounding land. 1t was conveyed to
Mrs. Reynolds by Mr.. Wick, and was wit
messed only by the other partner Mr..
Adams. All the facts in the case has long
been no secret with the citizens of San An
tonic. A gentleman of this city has often
seen the house-had it pointed out 10 him
by the citizens of that place as the house
which Adams & Wicks, army contractors,
had presented to Gen. Reynolds. Their,
is not citizen of San Antonio who doe'
not know that the house was made pre-
sent to Gen. Reynolds, and know why the
firm Of army contractors gave it to him,
nor is there citizen of Austin who does
not know that Gen. Reynolds moved his
headquarters from Austin to San Antonio,
because large sum ofmoney, some twenty
or twenty-f thousand dollars were raised
by army contractors to present him with a
house in the later city. Gen. McCook in
his evidence also stated that Gen. Reynolds
himself admitted that the house was pre-.
sent to Mrs. Reynolds.
Gen. McCook's was the most interesting
and important testimony which has ap
peared before Clymer's Committee since
Marsh made his statement. He is one o
the bravest of the fighting McCooks, nov
Colonel in the regular army, and on th'
personal staff of the general commanding
the army, Sherman. From his evidence
which was given in brave, mani y way
without evasion and without temper, it ha
been made manifest that Gen. Grant is no
the only West Pointer who has accepte
gifts of fine houses. There are more mill
tary chieftain gift-takers' than Ger
Grant.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28

Two soda lakes have bee:: discovered in
Wyoming Territory, one averaging two
hundred acres and the other about three
and half acres. 1t is estimated that the
largest lake would yield an evaporation Of
over four million dollars worth of soda
and the smaller lake already crystalized is
supposed to contain another million dol
lars worth of soda. During the greater
part Of the year this lake is in a concrett
mass of carbonate of soda chrystals.
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28

The New York Sun says the new
frigate Trenton, which was launched on
last New Years Day, cannot be sent tc
sea with safety to her officers and crew.
This fine new ship, one of the eight or.
dered by Congress, vessel that has cos
the Government million ofdollars, and
which was to be the finest ship in tn,
American navy, cannot be sent to sea witt
safety. So much for Secor Robeson anl
John Roach,
The Morning herald., 1876-03-28

From our exchanges We learn that
the snow storm of Saturday last
was extraordinarily severe and the
cause Of great damage, particularly
along the coast, washing out railroad
tracks, etc. The New England railroad.
appear to have suffered most where the
storm prevailed with gleat force. In the
New England States the storm was at
tended with considerable loss of life