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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16
Science and Industry.

Nevada is full of gold, but it does
not average very well for agriculture.
1t has one desert which alone covers
$4,000 square miles, and the mountain
districts are nearly all unfit for cultiva-
ton.
The manufacture of silk is the great
est addition to the manufacturing in
d~ustries of New Jersey during the past
80 years. New Jersey manufactured
One-third of the whole silk product of
the United States in 1875.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works re-
Gently celebrated the completion since
1881 of its four thousandth locomotive.
Calling these great machines worth on
the average $4,000 each at the time
they were made, there is d grand total
of S4S, O00, 900 earned in this one estab-
lishment in the manufacture of locOmo-
tiVeS alone.
Petroleum of excellent quality has
been discovered in North Statfordshire,
England. 1t is not the shale oil which
has been known in England for so long
a time, but it is the genuine kind.
Should the supply prove to be large, it
will have q damaging effect, doubtless,
upon the American petroleum market
in Europe.
The Importance, of the Eads j~etties
at the mouth Of the Mississippi, is be-
ing appreciated in Europe, as well as in
America. a recent English exchange
predicts that when the bar at the mouth
Of the Mississippi has been removed,
the grain traffic between England and
Southern Russia will cease to exist.
There is a mine of ferro-manganese
in Barton County, Georgia, which is
more valuable than Consolidated Vir-
ginia or Comstock. 1t is the only one
in the United States, and the product is
used in converting iron into Bessemer
steel. 1t is estimated that the mine is
worth ia the neighborhood of $9O,OOO,-
900.
A party of San Francisco adven-
'turers who lately left their country to
prospect the gold fields of Catapilco, in
Chilli, have been heard from; and a
Chilli paper, of August IL, states that
the results of the works thus far yield
strom $40 to $50 gold per week to each
man, with a prospect that these
amounts will be doubled or trebled be-
fore long.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16
Long Journeys of the German Navy.

Probably no European navy, except,
perhaps, that of England, has so many
vessels continuously employed in long
journeys to the most distant sea in the
world as the navy of Germany. The
large screw corvette Elizabeth, with q
nominal power of 400 horses, 1876
tons burden, and a crew of 308 men-
the best and strongest ship of the kind
in the German tieet-is now being got
ready in Kiel Harbor for a two years
journey round the world. 1t will first.
touch at Madeira, then at the Cape of
Good Hope, Rio Janeiro, the Dutch
possessions in the East Indies, China,
Japan, and perhaps Australia, return
ing by Cape Horn and the coasts of
North and South America.-PbilGdel-
pbtG Ledger.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16
HapS and Nisha. o.

Mrs. Geo. P. Delaplaine, of Madi-
son, Wis, was fatally burned q few
nights ago by a lamp explosion. Two
OF her daughters, in putting out the
flames, were also badly burned.
A little daughter of a woman NAM
ed Harriet Jones, of Leavenworth, Kan,
was burned to death. while handling a
can of coal-oil, which, being upset, set
fire to her clothes.
A little child of Mr.. Albright, of
Pierceton, Ind, aged 3 years, fell into
a pail of boiling water, scalding herself
so severely that death ensued the same
night.
"A young man named Bell, of WAX
arasa, Elkhart Co., Ind, was loading
his gun with the butt on a log. The
gun slipped, and the hammer, falling,
discharged one barrel into his body,
lodging neal the heart.
Mrs. w. D. Lee, living near Newell,
ing a can of tar for b~oat-calking pur-
poses. The a exploded, enveloping
her person with the ignited fluid and
burning the clothing from her body,
She died soon afterwards.
Lille Sover, aged 81, a domestic,
committed suicide at Columbus, Ohio,
by taking laudanum. Mrs. Sewers hus-
band left her some time ago, and this,
added to the loss of her child by death,
was no doubt the cause of the suicide.
Michael Fisher of Lancaster, Ohio,
was driving a wagon loaded with lime,
when the wagon upset in a ditch with
ahOut twO inches Of uafor and tho LIMO
slaked, burned up the wagon, and near
ly destroyed Fishers body.
August Kreimer, a quite wealthy
German resident of Minneapolis, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. A few days before
he took poison, but his life was then
saved. The cause of the suicide was a
supposed swindle of $4,000 by his
brother, of which swindle he was the
victim.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16
What Winking Caused.

Sanders is a great winker. He can't
talk to you two minutes without enforc-
ing his point with a drop of one of his
upper eyelids; he never takes a letter
out of the office without winking at one
of the clerks; he winks when he duns
you, and he gives you a sly
one when he pays a bill.
When he meets and greets you on the
street it is always with a significant
closing of the left eye, and when he has
a stunning piece of news to tell you his
wink is one OF the greatest import. The
world moved along smoothly enough
with Sanders until last Friday. Up to
that time he had gone winking and
blinking along peacefully enough, and
no clouds had obscured his happiness;
but a pail is hanging over Sanders
now, and life has NJ charms for him.
It's all his wife's fault, he says. She
had no business sending him to a milli-
merry store. She wanted a DOW to match
one on her hat, and she started Sanders
off to procure it. He entered the store
whistling, and when one of the shop
girls approached and said "Good
morning, "he winked and replied "Good
morning"
The girl blushed and looked nervous;
Sanders displayed the bow and said:
SCOT any thing to match thatp" and
winked again. The girl vanished to the
back room with flaming cheeks, leav-
ing Sanders to stare after her in open
mouthed wonder. In a moment or two
the boss milliner, who had been in
formed of his actions, appeared. She
was highly indignant, and as she slam
med the door behind her she said,
"Sir-n
"Good morning, madam" said
Sanders. "Fine day, amt it now,"
and a wink was unconsciously slung at
the lady. She bridled up instantly.
"Sir, the conduct"
"Of that grill" interrupted Sanders.
"Oh, that's all right; never mind her
little bashful, ehp"
Another tremendous wink.
81 can not permit such conduct, sir.
1t is shameful and insulting"
"Not at all not at all" says Sanders,
still off the track. "Don't say another
word, we understand each other"
Another portentous wink.
The milliner vanishes, slamming the
back door behindher, and Sanders sinks
into a seat ejaculating: "Well, I'll be
doggoned!" But he bounced up quick
when a gentleman entered, and, calling
him San old hippopotamus,~ proceeded
to divest himself of his coat, and, squar-
ing off at Sanders, cried out: "Now,
then, come on!"
"Why, why, bless me, what does this
mean?" said Sanders.
"Oh, yes, you're a nice one, you are.
What kind of a place do you take this
for, coming around and insulting
women and girls with your winks.
Come on!" and he danced around
Sanders. He got one in on Sanders
over the eye: his left duke felt of San
ders's ribs, while his right ratified
around all over Sanders's mug, and
when he got through with Sanders that
individual was as badly demoralized as
a pig in a whilwind, and he never found
out what it was all about until the
milliner's husband, who had ascertained
his habit, called on Sunday and apollo
gized. Sanders shook hands, said it
was all right, and was just about to
wink again when he checked himself
and said:
"Blame it, I'll swear off from that
habit" and then he turned and winked
at the wall to enforce his oath.--Ke0-
EuE (IOUG) Constitution.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16
Foreign Notes.

The city of Cologne, in Germany,
is about to raise a statue to Bismarck in
one of its public squares. Twenty
sever models have been sent for selec-
ton by sculptors from different parts
of Germany, which are on exhibition at
the public museum.
Madame Jenny Lind-Goldsmith
has given the Stockholm Society of
Arts, of which she was an honorary
member, 10000 crowns, the interest of
which is to be presented as a prize to
the young artists who have won notice
at the society.
"A congress of German women was
recently opened at Frankfort, Germany.
The subjects to be discussed were pre-
JUDGES, reform in the education of
women, the literature of youth, woman
in the family, the obstacles which pre-
sent themselves to the extension of the
sphere of employment of women, infu-
ence in social life, etc. At last accounts
they were still talking.
Two autograph letters of Queen
Victoria were offered at a recent sale of
curiosities in England. One of them
was in the child-like large script of a
beginner six years old perhaps, and
was addressed to her aunt, the late
Princess Sophia. 1t is amiable, rum
ming thus: "How do you do, dear aunt?
do you love poor Vicky? dearest aunt,
this is Il present for you. VICTORIA"
The original, in accordance with the
custom Of writers of SO early an age, is
innocent of punctuation.
-Gymnastic exercises for Young la
dies are a part of the regular instruc-
ton in a large number of the schools
of Germany. In the higher schools in
Berlin they have been for some time
compulsory, and on Oct. l the same
system was extendedito all the
al schools for girls in the German
capital. The chief hostility to the
movement comes from the mothers of
the pupils.
The civil government and admins
tration of Turkey are based on the ko-
ran and its textbooks, which are infal-
lible guides for every Turkish official.
They absolutely forbid any equality be-
tween Mohammedan and Christian,
who is not allowed to carry arms, and
whose evidence is not permitted to be
taken against a Mohammedan. Even
if the Porte wished to carry out the ex-
acted reforms the Koran makes it i'm
possible to do so.
"A special from Paris states that at
the grand concert at the Cirque d'Hiver,
given under the direction of PasdelOrp,
an attempt was made to perform Sieg-
fried's death march, from Wagner's
"Nibelungen." The musicians had no
sooner begun, than. the audience be-
haved d~isgracefully, h%ooting and with
shouts of ga has Wagner" The march
concluded amid deafening and disgust
ing shouting. Weber's overture to
"Der Freischutz" shared similar fate,
so deep seated is the hate which the
French heart bears toward Germany
and German music.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

and preached without remuneration to
q small congregation in a log church.
1t was here that William Writ heard
him, after which he wrote the well
known account in the British Spy.
"A pastor, retiring from a field
which ne has occupied for several years,
writes: 81 leave here a people need
ing a pastor, but who are not able or
willing to give M a good support.
Ihey want a man of talent, and one
who a stand all the gossip of a small
town, and live on faith. One who can
let the Deacons do all the work, and
then be blamed for not meeting with
success, and bear it as meekly as a
lamb."-Baptst Weekly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

When the Rhode Island militia
paraded the other day, you might have
heard the officers thundeneforth their
commands: "Guide right; steady,
men; don't push any one over into Con-
necticut!"
Why didn't you put on a clean
collar before you left homer" called out
an Impairment young fob to an omni-
bus driver. "'Cause your mother hadn't
sent home my Washing" was the ex-
tinguishing reply.
By this time every loving wife in
the land is looking around after a
Christmas present for her husband, with
the understanding that the merchant is
to send his bill down to the store after
the holidays.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
Perso,.al and Literary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson recently re-
marked of a resonant but not very
wicked oath: "That sounds very fruc-
tifying."
MR.. LUCIFER was among the guests
at q recent social gathering in Boston.
The young ladies seemed to think he
was an eligible match.
-"Nasby" has gone back to his old
,editorship of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade,
after trying lecturing, running an adj
.vertising agency, and sundry other
things.
--Boucicault has recovered over
$3.50, 600 from the "Colleen Bawn,n
which he wrote in three days, and thus
obtained the neat wages of So, ZOO a
day.
The critics agree in praising Mrs.
Brick Pomeroy's clothes and beauty.
and say that she is by no means able to
play tragedy, though some of them be-
lieve that she would make q fair come
.dienne.
Mr.. Macgahan, who wrote the
book about khiva, and has written the
recent letters from Bulgaria which have
appeared in the London NeWS, was born
in Toledo, o., of Irish parents.
Miss Anna M. Lea, of Philadelphia,
whose picture of "The P~atrician Moth
er'' in the Centennial Exhibition has
attracted so much attention, and to
whom was awarded by the judges one
Of the thirteen medals, has accepted all
invitation from Lord Dufferin, Gov
ernor-General Of Canada, to visit OF
tawa and paint a portrait of Lady DUFF.
FERN.
During the past year Miss Hind
man, the talented Woman-suffrage lec-
turer, has organized IA suffrage socie-
ties, held 81 meetings, 56 of which
were in orthodox churches, and adj
dressed at least 10000 persons. She
delivered six lectures at the Capitol,
giving one by request before the House.
She is said to be a talented and logical
speaker, and is one of the most efficient
workers in the cause.
The London Examiner condenses
"Daniel Deronda" into seven mystic
paragraphs, which give the idea that
the hero lifted himself by the coat-col-
lar into and out of most of the perplex-
tiles of his life. Our conclusion is that
the heroine, owing to the hard condi-
tons of her sex, had no coat-collar with
which to lift herself, and was conse-
.quently left sorrowing-which is the
Woman Problem in d nutshell. Give
US cOat-cOllars OF marry us, is the moral
of the story.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

Soufee.-A French dish. Take 4
eggs, beat the whites and yelks sep
arately until an exceedingly thick froth
is formed; then mix the two and add !
cup of powdered sugar, and J spoonful
of extract of vanilla, and stir in quick
ly; pour this into a deep dish and bake
for Is or 20 minutes in a moderate
oven. This dish should be made and
be ready to put in the oven just as din
ner commences, in order to serve while
hot. 1t falls when cold.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

DR.. Allchin, an eminent London
physician, has frankly avowed, in an
address to students, that "of all seien-
tific pursuits which practically concern
the community, there is nom perhaps
which rests upon so uncertain and in
secure a basis as medicine"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

The striped stocking still holds its
own; which, as the discriminating
Rochester Democrat wisely remarks, is
a pretty nice thing to do.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-16

"A man sweeping a sidewalk will
sometimes stay his horrid broom to let
a fellow-being pass; a woman sweep
ing, and better the passer had crawlsd
into a dust-cart. A sweet unconscious
ness of all save her own existence
seems to characterize woman in all the
walks of life, particularly the sidewalks.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12
MEXICO.
MEXICO.
NEW LAREDO CAPTURED.
Minister Fosters Family Returned Home.
The ReyOlHtiOnlsts Victorious Our
Troops Hold Fourteen Prisoners.

GALVESTON, April IA special to the
Galveston Ne,cs. dated Laredo, Texas
April II, says: New Laredo, Mexico. has
just been captured by the revolutonists
The fighting is over. The United States
forces have fourteen Mexican federal
prisoners, with q portion Of their arms
Quintana, the Federal commander, es-
capped down the river with q portion of
his forces.
President LerdO.
The feeling in Congress in opposition
to the reelection Of President Lerdo
De Tcjada is gaining ground. but the in
dications are that in the House there is
q majority in his favor.
The family OF Mr.. Foster United
States Minister, have returned homo.
Congress re assembled on the 1st Of
April. President Lerdo, i'm opening the
session, stated that Mexico's relations
with foreign governments were peace
ful; the labors Of mixed commission
had ended, but the result was not yet
known.
The leaders Of the present disturb
ances in Mexico he said were old often
ders. The elemency granted them on
former occasions proved useless and the
Government must subdue them.
The revolution in Oaxaca began the
moment, the Government reduced the
army for the sake OF economy.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12
COLUMBIA, S. G..
RErUnLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

COLUMBIA, S. c., April 1.-THE morn
ing session Of the State Republican Con
vention was turbulent and exciting
There are two distinct parties in that
body-one OF them led by Gov. Cham
berlain, and consists Of those who sin
cerely support his reform policy and are
not jealous of his strength and popu-
Iarity. The other party is led by United
States Senator Patterson, who has at
his back Collector Worthington, Of
Charleston, Congressman Sma!ls, and
most of the Republicans who were con-
spicuOus as rulers Of the party before
Gov. Chamberlain election.
Each OF the two parties desired to
control the convention as that would
carry with it not only the selection Of
delegates to the National Convention,
but also probably the control Of the State
nominating convention to be held here
after. The trial OF strength took place
upon the question whether delegates
whose seats were contested by other
delegates, should be allowed to take
part in organizing the Convention. Gov
Chamberlain insisted that whore any
county sent two sets Of delegates all
should be temporarily admitted or all
excluded The debate grew very hot.
Judge Mackey, one Of the delegates,
denounced the Chamberlain party
as
Band Of Robbers,
and told Congressman Elliott, who
asked whom he meant, that he (ElliOtt)
was the head and front Of these robbers.
Elliott drew pistol and sought to get
at Mackey, who awaited him. Desks
and chairs were OverthrOwn. and the eX-
cited delegates gathered around
Mackey and Elliott and dragged them
apart. A chair was brandiShed over
Governor Chamberlain head by an OPP
position delegate, but no blows passed.
When the convention had calmed
down little the chairman, ex-Congre8s
man Whittemore, ruled out the contest
ing delegates, all of whom were sup
porters of Chamberlain. Swails, col
Ored, State Senator, and Gov. Cham
berlain were nominated for President
pro tenn, and the vote stood SO for
Swails, 40 for Chamberlain. A commit
tee on credentials, mainly made up OF
the anti-Chamberlain party, was then
appointed, and the convention adjourn
ed to this evening.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12

sent single sure electoral vote. You
see it would never do to nominate such
q candidate. I'm not at all afraid Of
him"
Are you afraid Of Mr.. Bristow ?"
NO.. BriStow has good deal Of
strength among the people, but it is not
organized. don't see how he can pos
sibly get u majority in the convention.
Well, are you afraid Of Senator Conk-
ing r asked Judge Black, going on
with his catechism.
He cannot carry his own State in the
convention or at the election. and his
candidacy is an absurdty. No, I'm not
afraid of him.
is there anybody you are afraid OF %
Yes, there is, replied the ex-
Speaker, with q serious air.
well. who is it ?"
The Great Unknown.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
Murder for n Chew Of Tobacco.

MEMPHIS, April 1.-THE Ledger says
that on last Saturday, between Popes
and Courtland, on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad, an old man named
Wash Howard, was found murdered
near the bridge. Howard was on his
way to Texas, to his relatives being
without tmoney. He was making
the journey on foot. A worthless man,
named Frank Taylor, was arrested on
suspicion Of being the murderer, and
admitted having killed the old man with
q club, because he refused him u chew
Of tobacco.
Fears Of the Flood DispeIied.
Fears Of serious damage by the food
are rapidly being dispelled, though
the planters below are still working like
beavers to keep the levces intact.
Boating Matters.
BosToN, April H. Harvard will send
representative crew to the contend
with the oarsmen from Cambridge and
Oxford, England, at the eight cared
Centennial race.
wilkinson Intervicwed-He He speaks.
SAN Francisco, April 11.-Col. A. G..
Dawes had an interview with Charles b.
Wilkinson, ex-CollectOr of Internal
Revenue for the Western District Of
Wisconsin, arrested for embezzlcmcnt
of stamps and cCnspiring to dcfraud the
Government. Liner Bettinger has plead
guilty Wilkinson is convinced that a
conspiracy to defraud the Government
extended throughout Northern and
Western Missouri.
He learned from fugitiyes, distillers in
Melbourne, that Joyce levied the money
for party purposes and remitted to Bab-
cock, in Washington. He says he has
information that eleven United States
Senators signed petition for Bettin-
gers pardon, including Harvey and
ingalls, of Kansas, Cockrell of Missouri,
Morton OF Indiana, Spencer OF Ala
bama, and Hitchcock and Paddock OF
Nebraska. Wilkinson goes east Thurs
day, in custody.
PHILADELPHIA, April iii. Fl. Read
& Co. s warehouse, on Water, above
Chestnut street, burned. Loss Sl4,O0o-
Closed till saturday.
New YORK, April 11.-Both Of Stew
arts establishments will remain closed
until Saturday, except for banking and
necessary bookkeeping purposes. Busl-
ness will be resumed Saturday as usual,
under the direction of Judge Hilton and
Mr.. Libby. Judge Hilton remarked
that there were seven thousand persons
on the pay roll Of the firm, and that
a sudden stoppage OF such business
would be a great calamity.
MAGNIFICENT Donation.
A. Y. Stout, Shoe and Leather Bank,
gave SO.OOO to Wesleyan University,
Georgetown. %
More CrOOkedness.
ST. LOUIS, April 1LFMax Blumenthal,
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12
JacmcI Still HlOckadeI.

HAVANA. April 11.-Jacmel is still
blockaded. President Dominique has
given notice to the insurgents that he
would lombard the place. 1t is ru-
mored that two passengers on the
steamer from st. Thomas were shot on
landing at Jacmel.
Yellow Fever Raging.
Rio JANEIRo, April 1O-Yellow fever is
raging with unusual violence.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12

''Sambo did you ever see the CatskIli
Mountains % mo, sab; but L Fe Seeu
um kill mice"
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12
Marine News.

SOUTHWEST Pass. April II. ?; n1-Barome,ter
299o. wind east southeast ilgha. "sHIebl "trHitisb
eleaGy 9,ar an Jaeinta at $50 this D M Kicker
master, from Galysstonn. to \ K Miller 4 ~ 80.
ateaTaer St Louis IS at anchor inside. hound
out.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12

"Too much Of it stolen is the reason
given by the Baltimore gazette for the
failure of the fund To supply gas ana
fuel to the public buildings.
The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-12

Josh Billings observes: ''Sekrets are
poor property ennyhow; il yu cirkilate
them yu loze them and il yu keep them
WI lozc the interest on the investment.