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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Haps and Mishaps.

Capt. James Clark, formerly a
well known river pilot, hung himself at
his residence, near Newport, KY, on the
10th. No cause given.
At Iowa City, Iowa, a few days
ago, Philip McCarroll, while engaged
in a friendly boxing bout with his broth
er, received a fall which resulted in his
death.
"A German, name unknown, a few
nights g cut his throat with a razor
on the Chicago and Alton train, a few
miles out from Chicago. The affair
caused a general feeling of horror
among the passengers, and is described
as peculiarly shocking, the man having
succeeded in half segering his head
from his body.
On the afternoon of the 18th, an
unknown man went upon d wharfooat
at Cincinnati and deliberately. threw
hin self under Il steamboat and was
drowned; and, on the same day, Chas.
Kaufman, a travelling salesman for
plunged into the river and was
drowned.
Henry Velsar, an employe in the
; ton factory at GAINESVILLE, Wis, was
at work at a carding-machine a few
days ago, when, by some means, his
hand was drawn into the machine,
mutilating it ~fearfully. The flesh was
entirely stripped from the wrist for
ward on the back of the hand and
wrist. The cards were driven into the
flesh SO that they could no. be drawn
out, and had to be cut from the ma
chine.
At Niagara Falls, on the 10Th, the
wife of the Hon. Mr.. Hanford, of St.
Clairsville, O., made a desperate effort
to drown herself. Taking a carriage
from the hotel she rode to the fats,
where she alighteI, and, with her child
in her arms, walked down to the oar
apet, climbed up, and was just giving
the 4 tai leap as the driver of her car
riage saw Ter, and ran and caught her
as she touched the water. Another
brave man risked his life by going into
the swift water just above the falls, to
lift her on the wall from whence she
had just jumped. She assigned no rea-
son for the act, and said that her hus-
band was not aware of her being at the
Falls.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Science and Industry.

a quantity of brown cotton has
been shipped from Fall River manufac-
turers, and a lot of American duck to
make sails for the mercantile marine of
Great Britain.
Among the big -four mills in Aus
tria are the following: Concordia Steam
Mi l in Pesth, with 81 run of stone /;
Union Steam Mill, same place, As run /;
Pannonia Steam Mill, same place, 6S
run Blum'she Steam Mill in Ofen, 40
run; Febriskof Steam Mill, same place,
% run ;kikander Steam Mill, 16 run :;
Arader Steam Mill, Pannonia, u run !;
Lemberger Steam Mill, "a run.
On Wednesday, 30th of August,
there was rolled at the Black Diamond
Steel Works of Park, Brother 81 Co.,
Pittsburgh, a plate of cast steel of the
following dimensions: % feet long,
~ inches wide by 4 of an inch in thick
ness, weighing 3.O75 pounds. The
plate was a very perfect one, and was
rolled from the ingot to the dimensions
named, on one heat. 1t was sent to
Philadelphia.
u "A regent writer enumerates the fol-
lowing Varieties of India rubber as
known in commerce: 1, Ceara rubber 2,
Para rubber; 3, Quisembo balls from
Sierra Leone; 4, African knots in small
irregular quadrangular pieces about an
inch square 8, Mozambique rubber; 6,
African niggers in small round Jumps
about two inches in diameter; Z, NADIA
gascar rubber; s., Carthagena rubber;
9, Borneo rubber; 10, Rangoon rubber;
II, African rubber; and -, Guayaquil
rubber from Ecuador.
M. Lostal, aFrench railway contrac-
tor, noticing that the boards of mortar
beds became very hard and resist decay,
has invented a process for preserving
wood by impregnating it with lime.
Lumber is piled in a vat, and covered
with quick-lime, which is slaked bv
sprinkling. The vat is filled with wa
ter to the top of the wood, which re-
mains some days u~ndisturbed, and is
believed to absorb the lime through it's
whole structure, becoming hardened
and secured against dry-rot.
"A cotton opener, of German design,
and specially intended for long-stapled
cotton, appears to be an Ingenious con
trlvance. The cotton in this case is
spread on q lattice ~feed-cioth, at the
extremity of which it is taken hold of
by a spiked roller, and over this roller
is placed a ''shell.' The cotton is taken
from the edge of the shell by a cylinder
about Sc inches in diameter, having
eight rows of knife-shaped teeth which
project about one inch, These knives
are not intersected with plates. The
cylinder revolves upwards from the
she'll, and is surrounded with a grid,
the sand, leaf, and seed being driven
through this into an outer case which
surrounds the whole, and the cotton is
delivered in a loose form after it has
passed nearly around the beater. The
work is said to be accomplished in a
very satisfactory manner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

An article by Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stoweinthe Spiritual Scientist indicates
her conversion to S~piritualism.
The largest library Ed
ward Island is owned by a wealthy cat
tie dealer named Webb who a neither
read nor write.
The song of "The Star Spangled
Banner was first set in type by Mr.. S.
S. Sands, editor of the american Farm
er, who is still living in Baltimore.
The Hon. Mark bennett, of Kittery,
Me-, oldest surviving member of any
Massachusetts Legislature entered upon
his ninety-first year on Monday, the
28th of August.
SO many delays and impediments
have been thrown in the way of the con-
struction of the 'sartistic forum" offered
to the city of Cincinnati by Mr.. David
Sinton that he has withdrawn his offer.
George Alfred Townsend, accord
ing to the Chicago Tribune, is writing
Republican letters for the New York
Graphic, Democratic letters forthe Gin
cinnati Enquirer, and Independent let
tiers for the Philadelphia Times.
"A notable party of ladies is making
a tour of the Western military posts
with General Sherman and Senator
Cameron, consisting of two Misses Cam
eron, Miss Burnside, Mrs. Sherman and
her children. 50
Mis- Toru Dutt is a young Hindoo
lady who has just published a book OF
tr%anslations of French verse into En-
glish, and the critics praise it and call it
/" an important landmark in the history
of the progress of culture" >. 8
Richard Grant White notes the fact
that Shakespeare's plays contain only
one passage in praise of woman and
that one mentions her with no very ex-
allied feeling. Mr.. White attributes it
to the poets ill-fortune in his wife and
afterwards in his mistress-that beauti-
full dark woman whose infidelity to him
with his best friend, he r~eproaches SO
bitterly in his sOnnets. So it seems he
had a mutual friend and wrote poems
at him.
"A colossal bust of Horace Greeley
has been made by Charles Calverley. 1t
will be of bronze, and will be placed in
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, n. Y.
1t represents Mr.. Gree Y as he was ten
or twelve years Ago., and the old white
overcoat =" is used, instead of the toga,
for dignity of effect. The bust is to rest
upon a granite pedestal, orpamented
with bronze tablets, II representing
Greeley as a printer working at the
case, and the other bearing his name,
together with the simple record of his
birth and death. The monument is to
be known as "The Printers Greeley
Memorial" and is to be unveiled in
October.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

bell during the passage of the Viaticum
through the streets is also prohibited.
Funeral professions do not come within
the limits of the regulation.
Joseph Smith, jr., son OF the found
er Of the Mormon Church, is preaching
in California. He denies the headship
of Brigham Young. He says that he
has from 1000 to $4,000, personal fol-
lowers, and that the headquarters of
the reformed church are at Plano, ILL.,,
He re%pudiates polygamy and also
81" blood atonement."
in Stoneham, Mass, while the
Congregational pastor was taking a va
cation for two Sundays, the pulpit was
supplied on one of those Sundays by
two Young ladies of the congregation,
each Of whom read an address. On the
other Sunday two of the deacons OFF,
ciated in like manner. But the people
seemed to like the ministrations OF the
girls better than those of the deacons.
The Baptist missions among the
Indians in Indian Territory are report
ed to be doing well. The Muskogee
Baptist Association Greek Indians)
was held Aug. 1921. The association
includes 80 churches, 25'native pastors,
8 negro preachers. and 1900 members.
From 600 to 1000 persons We're present
at the various meetings of the associa-
ton, and the best order prevailed. .4h&
The JeOish Times says that an
awakened interest is manifesting itself
in England in the change of Jewish
worship. "The rising generation an
mot be reconciled to obsolete traditions,
superannuated customs, which belong
entirely to the past. They will not at
tend q worship with which they can
have no sympathy, in which prayers are
.recited which they either no not under
stand, or which they must censign to
the realm of superstition.
. Some of the churches lave adopted
the practice of paying their pastors eV-
cry week. This is a great improvement
on the old custom of making quarterly
payments, or of paying irregularly, or
not at all. The minister who can buy
his household supplies for cash can al
ways preach better than the one whose
butcher, and baker, and candlestick
maker are constantly pulling his door
bell, and requesting "just the amount
of hat little bill, if you please" Con-
gregations that understand their best
interest keep their pastors we'll housed
and substantially fed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
The widow of Prince Felix Salm-

M# AS #
The widow of Prince Felix Salm-
Salmis about TO be married at Stuff
CART to an Englishman named Heneage.
Years ago, under the name of Agnes
.Leclerq, she travelled through the West
ern States as a tight-rope dancer in a
circus, and in 1862 she m.lrried Salm-
Salm, then a Brigadier in the army,and
afterward an aide.de-campOf Maximil-
ian in Mexico. The Prince, restored
through her efforts to his position in the
Prussian army, fell at G~ravelotte. The
widow has since resided in Germany.
BY the will of Henry Raine, a Lon
don brewer, a fund was some time since
established to provide. for the "mar-
rage of poor maids" Before his death
he established an asylum where 40
Young girls are trained for domestic
service. On arriving at the age of 81,
any girl who has been educated in the
asylum and can show that she has be-
haved well may become a candidate for
a marriage portion of $500, for which
six girls are allowed to draw twice
each year, the LIST of May and the 9Th of
November. The portion drawn in May
is given, after a wedding, on the 9Th of
November, and the November money
is given in like manner on May-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
WEST AND SOUTH.

A very serious accident occurred on the
Panhandle Railroad at Black Lick Station,
about II miles east of Columbus, o., at an
early hour on the morning of the 22d, by
which four persons were killed and some
30 or more injured. The names of the killed
are: VIM. Kinchling, supposed to be from
Cincinnati; j. Thornton, of Van Meter, Iowa;
a son of S. P. Bennett, Of Cairo, Ill.,. Lizzie
Bancroft, a 3-yesr-old child, Philadelphia.
Mrs. BraZelton, of Greenwood, Iowa, sub
s%equently diedof her injuries. The train was
running at a high rate of speed at the time
of the accident. The four passenger cars
jumped the track, from some cause not
known, and went down an embankment 25
Or 30 feet high, smashing them all to pieces.
The locomotive, baggage and mail-car re-
manned on the track.
Information has been received through S.
q. Denny, of the Canadian Mounted Pc.
lice, who has just returned from a visit to
the Canadian Blackfeet Nation, that the
hostile American Sioux have made an at
tempt to secure the aid of their Cana
dian %neighbors in fighting the
United States troops. The Sioux
promised them a portion of their spoils, and
also a number of white women, whom they
claimed to have captured. They further
promised, after the American whites were
exterminated, to go across and massacre the
Canadian whites. The B)ackfeet having re-
fused these propositions, the Sioux threat
ened to come across and punish them.
1t is stated authoritatively that the old
Rockford, Rock Island and st. Louis Rail-
road has been sold to the lows pool lines of
railroad for a million and a half dollars.
The purchasing roads are the Chicago and
Northwestern, Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy. The road will be transferred about
October LIST.
The Indian council at Red Cloud Agency
was brought to a successful termination on
the 2Cth, when the representatives selected
by the Sioux, Cheyennes and ArapahOes,
affixed their signatures to the proposed
treaty without the alteration of a single
word.
A grand Democratic State Convention of
Union soldiers and citizens is announced to
be held at indianapolis on Oct. 5, for the
ratification of the nomination of Tilden and
Hendricks.
The Iowa Independents have nominated
q State and Electoral ticket on the Indian
apolis platform. The nominations are: |
Secretary Of State, A. McCrady; Auditor,
Leonard Brown Treasurer, George c.
The Mayor Of Brunswick, Ga, tele-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
school, and Church.

Mrs. Margaret F. Breckenridge,
widow of DR.. Robert Breckenridge. is
building a church at her own expense,
there beng none at present in the
neighborLoOd of her estates.
Twenty years ago. Indiana did not
own a school-house, aud now there are
10000 school buildings in the State, on
which has been expended more than
S1O,OOO,OOO. There are II, OCO teachers
IN the State. Last year more than 49,
00O,OOO was paid to teachers.
AN order has been promulgated in
Italy forbidding all public Religious
professions, including the procession
OF the Viaticum. The sounding of the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
Odds and EndE.

Odds and Ends. =5 "a.
"A boy Of II, dining at mis- uncle's,
made such a good dinner that his aunt
observed, "Johnny, you appear to eat
WELL" eyes, aunty," replied the
urchin, "I've been practicing all my
life.n
When peaches are five dollars per
bushe1 and sugar ten-and -a-half cents
per pound, there is every reason to be-
1ieve that dried apples will soon. be ap-
preciated as they deserve.-Free Press.
The current issue of Harper's
Bazar gives an illustration of a gor-
geous wedding toilette. 1t is such pic
lures as this that discourage marriages
and make a man resolve to die an old
bachelor Herald.
-Anoble old Roman emperor, whose
last name we have forgotten and whose
front name we never knew, very init
mately, used to say, whenever he had
bought wrong in the pool, OF laid his
shinplasters On the wrong color, "Per-
didi diem," meaning, 81 have lost ten
cents" But the entire Latin vocabula-
ry, with all its wealth and terse energy
could not fill the orders for vigorous ex-
pressions by the man who is suddenly
and Unexpectedly called out TO address
a political meeting, and discovers that
his wife has used his manuscript for
curl papers.-HGW6-eye.
1t requires six men, according to
the San Francisco NeWS Letter, to put
up a car window. A young lady gets
in, and having bumped around in her
seat for about five minutes, she turns
and requests the gentlemen just behind
her to perform that service. This is a
near-sighted individual, who peers
around the window frame some time
for the catch, and then-of course the
window sticks-jerks his finger nail
half off and sits down with a red face,
amid the giggling of the schoolgirls
opposite. Next, the man in the front
seat puts his lavender-colored knee on
y paper of cherries beside him, clutches
and yanks at the knob, ana finally falls
over into the young lady's lap. The
cause of all this misery now remarks
that sit doesn't NATTER and then
smiles sWeetly at a pale young man
with long hair. This martyr turns
white, rises, and buttons up his coat for
the death struggle. On the eleventh
pull he bursts a blood vessel some
where, and goes into the toilet Compart-
ment to bleed. A supplemented me-
chanic now comes forward with his tool
bag, from which he takes u crowbar.
just when he is about to use this the
conductor happens by, and slides the
window airily up with a gentle twist of
the wrist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
FARMERS ERrIT GAZE

FARMERS FRUIT CAKE.--Soak 8 cup
fuls of dried apples over night in warm
water; chop slightly in the morning,
and then simmer 2 hours in 2 cupfuls of
molasses. Add 2 eggs, 1 cupful of
sugar, l cupful of sweet milk, : cupful
of butter, Il t~easpoonfuls of soda, flour
enough to make rather a stiff batter
say, l quart. Spice to suit the taste.
Bake in a quick oven.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

-"Well, uncle, how is the cause of re-
ligion getting on inyour neighborhood?"
"Mighty poor-mighty poor" "No
new converts, eh?' "Not a single n
not de sign of one" What seems
to be the matterP" asked the citizen,
after a lengthy pause. "De matter
is dat some n hez stolen four big
watermelons out o. my cart dis after
noon, an feel in my bones dat religion
is gwine down hill all froo dis locality!',
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
CURRENT NEWS.
WARRINGTON.


According to a Washington dispatch Of the
Oath, Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina,
then in that city on his return home, had
received dispatches from Columbia, stating
that from 80 to 100 negroes had been killed
during the recent troubles in Aiken County,
growing out of the alleged assault Of two
colored men upon a white woman.
Gen. Ruger has issued a general order
announcing the transfer Of the Headquar-
tiers Department of the South from Louis
Vile to Atlanta, Georgia. ..,...
Up to Sept. 26th $40, O5S, 252 in silver coin
had been paid out by the Treasury Departs
ment, for the redemption of fractional cur
rency and in payment of obligations since
the 10th of April last, leaving a balance Of
So, 600 900 Of such coin on hand.
The "Union Soldiers and Sailors Re-
form Association, - of which Gen. Joseph
Hooker is President, has issued a lengthy
address ia favor of the election of Tilden
and Hendricks. ed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05
EAST.

EAST.
Frank b. Smith, private secretary of the
Secretary of the Navy, a few days ago COM
mitted suicide on a steamer between New
York and Newport, R. L. He had regis.
tered under an assumed name, evidently
for the purpose of concea!ing his identity.
The death of a sister and the refusal of q
young lady to become his wife are accepted
as the moving causes to self-destruction.7
Smith was under orders to go to China with
confidential dispatches from the Secretary
of the Navy. ..
An unusually sad casualty is reported
from Forest County, Pennsylvania. Owing
to heavy and long continued rains the noun
tain streams flooded the valley in which is
located the little numbering settlement of
Ralston, and during the night of the Dist
two cabins, occupied by the families Of
George Parks and Daniel Cooper, were
swept away, and their inmates, 16 persons
in all, were drowned. Several other per-
sons were also drowned in the same vicinity.
John h. TarbOX has been renominated for
Representative in Congress by the Demo-
Gratis of the Seventh District of Massachu-
sets. His competitor is Gen. Butler.
Judge Samuel Lee Selden, a well known
New York jurist, died on the Goth, aged rs.
The great He'll Gate blast, off Hailett's
Point, Long Island, took place on the oath
at 2:50 p. M, under direction Of Gen. New
ton. The charges comprised $3.50 separate
cartridges of dynamite, about SO, 900 pounds
in the aggregate, which were exploded
simultaneously by an electric fuse. The
blast is believed to have been entirely sue
cessful in removing the obstruction tn nayi-
CATION at that point. Many thousands of
people gathered at various safe points of OBJ
servation to witness the explosion. A
dull thud was first heard; the rocks
trembled beneath the feet Of the multitude
as if from two quick, short pulsatiOns of
earthquakes; the water, which appeared to
remain stationary for an instant, broke and
spurted up in irregular dark yellowish
masses about twelve feet high, mixed with
dark smoke from the dynamite; then it Tell
back, and in q moment the river resumedil it's
usual peaceful aspect.
The New York Independent Greenback
Convention, held on the Goth, nominated a
full State and Electoral ticket. Richard
Montgomery Griffin, editor of the Albany
Ecentng Post, is the nominee for Governor.
The first announcement of Centennial
awards and distribution of prizes took place
on the 9th. President Grant delivered a
number of the awards in person to repre-
sentatives Of foreign governments.
A bronze statue of William H. Seward,
Secretary Of State during the administra-
ton Of Presidents Lincoln and johnson,
was unveiled in Madison Square, New York,
on the 2Sth, with appropriate ceremonies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

AT Gowen, Mich, a few days ago,
a man named Charles Pierson was
caught by a belt in a shingle-mil and
literally torn to pieces. j.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-07-01
Philadelphia Letter.

PmLA, Pa, June %. 1s79f
DEAR ADVOCATE L commence this letlet in
a toasted or roasted condition. Old Sol is ffving
us a taste of the nIneties and If he keeSs on he
Will oelebratethe Centennial with opf fhundred
degrees in the shade. Bow pleasAht % 1t is
these red hot summer eveningsffo sit by the
glowing crate and discuss tho ropcs of the day.
Strange to say. as pleasantSas iG may be- DO
not care to Join the festive Lhrong round the
firesile at this particular time OF the year.
Carpenters are busy putting up an immense
platform in Independence Square. -Four thou.
sand patriots and hundreds Of Representatives
from all parts OF the world are expected 20 Oc-
cupy the same on the night of the 80 and on the
day OF the Fourtn.
stockholders OF Insurance Companies are
getting nervious. for the fire works on the Ma.
tions birthday is apt TO cause reduction Of
their dividends. .t
Business is nearly at a standstill, some
blame the weather and some blame the politics,
yet all the blaming does not revive trade IN the
least
-Rhymes for Hayes and Wheeler are now In
order, Poets Will please take notice and rhyme
accordingly,
will be n grand affair, thousands of men will
be in line carrying torches, and there will be
many other attractive points. July 4th will be
oelebrated by the military as It was never cele-
brated before. Soldiers from all parts OF the
Union VIII take pArt IN the grand pageant 1t
VIII be well worth Q trlp 20 PhiadelRhia, II only
be composed of one company from each OF the
original thirteen States.
Wonder what the population Of Philadelphia
will be ON the Atm IG nearly taxes away ones
senses at the idea Of being able to make a cor
"A slight fire in Agricultural Hal eaused
much excitement and any quantity OF smoke,
beyond the destruction of a few pounds OF cot
ton in the BraEiiian Section. but little damage