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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-22

Cleveland Leader: 4 gentleman
travelling in Scotland says, in letter to
a friend in Virginia: II will now tell
you of two young women who, disap-
pointed in marriage. aud being intimate,
revealed their minds to each other and
resolved to live as man and wife in
some place where they We're not known
They drew lots to decide who should be
the man. The one on whom it fell as
sumed the name of James Han. They
then set out on their journey and at
last came to Epping, leased house
there, and kept an inn, each performing
the duties belonging to his or her station.
They gained good deal Of money, were
well respected. and lived together thirty.
one years, until at last the wife died,
when the discovery was made. James
Han served in all the offices of the place
except Constable, and was to have been
Church Warden if the discovery had not
been made.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
The IS Feather. Robe.

The most costly article in the cloth
ing line exhibited at the Centennial is
the 4,a1so or royal cloak of her Majesty
Emma, the Sandwich Island Queen,
made of feathers that look like gold.
Its value is named at $150,000, but it
seems idle tosset a price upon it, for
there is nothing like it to MAKE a stand
ard to Judge by. 1t must have taken a
hundred years to complete it. At least
it was in process of manufacture
through the reigns of nine soUeresqns.
The feathers come from a rare bird
called the 90, which a writer in the
Christian Union thus describes, and the
method of its capture:
This pretty little creature has, under
each wing, a single golden feather
about an inch long. To catch the 90
without inhicting any injury was neces-
sarv, or the birds would soon be ex-
terminated; hence, to entrap them sue
.cessfully was considered great accom-
plishment. With the gum of the bread
fruit tree, which is very sticky, the
~bird-catcher smeared the twig of a
tree near some tempting fruit; across
this twig he laid a light string slip
moose. ana, holding n line, concealed
himself in the thick foliage. Now came
the ~unsuspecting 90 for his mango or
guaya dessert, and alighted on the
smeared twig. Finding it an unpleasant
standing-place he tluttered and strug-
gled to extricate his feet, bat instantly
the slipnoose closed tightly around both
little legs and he was a prisoner; his
two beautiful golden feathers were
pulled out, and then he was given his
freedom.
Until within a few years there was a
feather robe, which belonged to King
Lunalilo; but, as he vas the last of his
family, it was wrapped around his dead
body and buried with him.
Verv few of the old bird-catchers are
living, and, as the young generation
does not follow the pursuits of the old,
the present manao is considered the last
specimen of a lost art.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

"Oh! oh! obi" cried George. "Call
Aunt Sue; call Uncle True. Run for the
doctor, Jake-run for your life. Oh!
obi Is a sunstroke very dangerousp
Can't I battle his poor head, or do
something? Poor fellow! it'll break
somebody's heart. Why, it is-it is"
with a gasp-''it is MI. Reedl Go,
both of you, all of you-go for the doe
tor. I will take care of him. Mr.. Reed
dear MIR. Reed-speak to me-look at
me. I am your own George, and L am
so sorry-so sorry, and l will never,
never vex you any more if you will just
say, Il love you,' again, just once
again!" and the tender words somehow
reached the half-conscious ear, and he
moved his lips feebly, whispering, half
inaudibly, "Love-I love you! / love
you!"
And so it happened that Mr.. Reed did
not resign his situation at Wildacre,
though the trustees were obliged to find
a substitute for many a week, while he
was recovering from the sunstroke,
while he made a wedding tour. And
so it happened that the Wildacre School
became the most orderly in the country,
perhaps because he married the ring
acknowledgements Bazaar.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
How Coats Vary i'm Value.

The other day when a New Yorker
took a coat around to a dealer in Sec
ond-hsnd clothing the man looked it
over in a contemptuous manner, elevat-
ed his nose, flung the garment aside
and said:
"Do 20 know how much | wouldn't
gift for dot goatP I gif you twelve
shillings, only"
cts worth five dollars" replied the
owner.
"Fife tollar! Shust wait till l gall
my wife and dell dot we hat a lunatic
in der store. Why, mine goot trent,
you mist have been sunstroke by der
heat last summer"
He finally got the coat for two dol
lars. Passing the same store in the
evening, and seeing his coat hanging
at the door, the man halted and asked !:
"How much for this old coatP"
cold goat!" exclaimed the dealer,
"why, dot goat was made only last
week, worn 20 one party, and can't be
had any more for only seven ~tollars!"
"In give you two"
"Two! Here, wife, hurry up! Put
up der plinds, lock der doors, and let
us say our prayers, for We must 60 into
bankruptcy tomorrow! Shust tink of
dot man offering me two tollars for dot
goat what you bought of a great alder
man yesterday for five tollars!"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
DisgracefuI Scene at O Funeral.

A dispatch from Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania, October 20, says: One of the
most disgraceful scenes ever witnessed
in this vicinity occurred at Dunmore,
q short distance from this city, to-day,
where two men, who were about to
lower a coffin into the grave, wrangled
and engaged in a desperate and bloody
fight. There was a large assemblage
in the graveyard at the time, and the
friends of the deceased, disconsolate
with grief, were weeping bitterly and
bemoaning their bereavement, when the
solemn scene was broken up by the re-
voting quarrel. The combatants, to
make the matter still worse, were
brothers-in-law, who had dug the grave
into which the dead was about to be
consigned, and the cause of the dispute
was u difference of opinion as to its cor
rect construction. After a few short,
angry retorts they struck each other,
and one of the men knocked his oppo-
nen into the grave. He was soon out
again, however, and, enraged to the
point of desperation, rushed at his as
s~ailant, and, despite the protests and
%entreaties of the shocked and startled
multitude, the fight "was continued
t~iercely for some minutes until the
bleeding combatants were eventually
separated by main force.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
FOrextaIliD~ Disease,

When We see that death is so often the
penalty paid for a fatuous disregard of the
symptoms of approaching disease, should we
defensive measures when called for in our
own case? Assuredly we should, and upon
the first manifestation of i'll health or decay
of physical vigor, seek the aid of medicine.
The fortifying influence upon the system of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters cntitle that
medicine of many virtues to the highest
consideration as a preventive, and it cannot
be too strongly recommended as a means Of
arresting the progress of malarious fevers,
dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint,
kidney and bladder troubles, govt, rheuma-
tism, and other disorders which in their in
cipiency arc far more easily overcome than
in their neutrality-suspicious., the great altera-
tive has repeatedly demonstrated its power
to %vanquish them in their worst phases.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
Born ON the Fly.

The western train which arrived at
Camden Station, over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, on Saturday after
noon, brought a mother with two babes,
ticketed from Indianapolis, Ind, to
Crisfield, Md. The woman's name
was Richardson, and when she left In
dianapolis she was alone. She didn't
stop nor the babies weren't passed to
her from some station. Those babies
were born on the fly. Mrs. Richardson
left Cincinnati on Conductor Frank
Harris's train. She occupied a seat in
the ladies' car, and had travelled a part
of the night before from Indianapolis,
and looked sleepy and tired. Mr.. Har-
ris saw she was troubled, and, on ask
ing her the cause, was requested to
please send some married lady to speak
to her. Mr.. Harris did so, and through
the medium of this third party was in
formed of the probable increase to the
passengers under his charge. The car
was cleared, and, half an hour after
ward, the passengers were informed
that two bouncing boys had begun life
at the rate of IS miles per hour, and
they were young boys, too. Excite
ment prevailed, propositions to stand
godfather for the pair were freely ten
dered, and names in as great abundance
as in the first book of the Chronicles
were proposed and refused. At Athens,
on the line of the road, the train stop
ped long enough to allow of certain
necessary clothing to be purchased,
which the passengers paid for, and the
mother and children came through
without stopping. Mrs. Richardson is
the mother of four other children, and
makes her home on the eastern shore
of Virginia. She continued q journey
to her Southern home without delay
Baltimore american.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
THE SMOKBR'S REVERE.

I'm sitting at dark meath the old beechen tree,
With its leaves by the autumn made ripe;
While they cling to the stems like old age unto
II dream Of the days when I'll rest from this strife,
And IN peace smoke my brentwood pipe.
oh my brierwood ~pipei-cf bright fancy the
what ! medley of forms you create;
Each puff of white smoke seems a vision as fair
As the poets bright dream, and. like dreams.
While the dreamer dreams on of his fate,
The leecy white clouds that now float to the sky,
Form the visions L love most to see;
Fairy shapes that I saw in my boyhood's first
dreams
Seem to beckon me on. while beyond them there
bright future in waiting for me.
Oh my brierwood pipei I ne'er loved thee as now
See, she beckons me on to where roses are
And she points to my fancy the bright land
Where the wind whistles nothing but love.
oh, nswer my pipe. shall my dream be as fair
When autumn's chill winds make this leaf look as
sere =
AS the leaves on the beech tree that shelter me
viii the trees heart be chilled by the blast?
While musing has gathered around me a heap
OF the leaflets all dying and dead;
And 1 see in my reverie plainly revealed
The slope of life's hill in my boyhood concealed
BY the form that fair fancy hath bred.
While l sit ON the banks Of the beautiful stream,
Plucking roses that bloom by its side,
4 know that the shallop will certainly come
When the roses are withered, to carry mt home,
And that life will go out with the tide.
OIL my brierwood pipei may the heart be as light
When memory supplants the bright dream;
When the sun mas gone down, may the sunbeam
EemaiR,
And LIES roses, though dead, all their fragrance
retain,
Till they catch at eternity's CLEAN.
Cincinnati Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
MIR. REEDS WAY.

The Wiidacre School was universally
Thought TO be the most hnmanageable
in the State, though it was only a girls
school When Miss Briefly kept it, the
trustees voted it little short of Bedlam.
The young ladies were down in the
lower hall, chatting and flirting with
the young men who CHANGED to lounge
that way, or dropping 6ilEets-dou1 out
the window with a cord, and pulling up
the nswer by the same means, and
sweetening their devotion to Virgil with
French candy. III Miss Kew tainted, as
she had a nervous trick of doing, half
the school would rush to a neighbours
for the oamphOr bottle before Miss
Briefly could look about her, and it was
ten to one if many of them returned for
the remainder of the session.
Miss Briefly" George Jones would
say, in the blandest tone of friendli-
ness-'Miss Briefly. the braid is rip
ped off the bottom of your skirt half a
yard"
"Thank you, thank you," Miss Brier-
ly would reply, in her nervous, hurried
way, perfectly conscious of her slovenly
appearance. But, on her path to the
blackboard, another piece of oficious-
ness would give her the same disagree
able information.
"The braid's off your dress, Miss
Briefly"
eyes, thanks; I've just been told;'
and thus, in her progress about the
school-room, a dozen other mischievous
girls, as il by preconcerted movement,
would announce the same pleasing
fact-a dimpled hand would be lifted
from one seat and another to ask per-
mission to tell her the braid was ripped
off her dress-till Miss Briefly, out of
all patience, would cry out,
"The first young lady who speaks
about the braid ON my dress shall lose
q hundred marks and her recessl" s
"But it isn't on your dress, Miss Bri-
erly; it's ripped off," would be the last
shot from the most daring foe.
Sometimes the theme was her hair,
escaped from its combining pins; and as
Miss Briefly wore a switch, and switches
were something to blush for in those
days, it was, naturally, enough to vex
the heart ola saint. The girls of Wild
acre were too full of vinegar to reflect
whether they would like to stand in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
LETTER
From a Gentleman Known and Hon.
ored from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast.

Messrs. WEEKS q POTTER, Wholesale Druggists, Bos.
ton, Mass: Gentlemen.-Ihave for soma months felt it
q duty that owed TO suffering humanity to write you,
stating the great benefit that I have derived from the
use of SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH. For
more than 30 years l have been afflicted with this very
troublesome Complaint. / have tried all the remedies
that ! could md, but without material or permanent
beneat. Last fail the disease had arrived at that state
that l must have relief or die. The entire membran-
ons system had become SO infamed. and the stomach
SO disordered, that 1t was a doubtful matter whether
l could 60 to the Pacihc coast, or II did go whether
i should live to come back or not. saw an adver-
tisement OF this medicine. and although being very
incredulous about specifics or nostrums of any kind,
yet in sheer desperation / tried this, and was at once
benefited by IT: The changes of climate, a chronic
disease OF the liver, and my age over D-may pre-
vent my entire restoration. but the benefit l derive
from its daily use is to me i9rdtuGble, and I am hoping
to be completely cured. and at last arrive at a respect
able old age.
If this statement fmy case can be Of any service to
those afflicted as I have been. and enable you to bring
this remedy into more general use, especially on the
writing this note win be obtained:
AURORA, N. Y. June, 1776. OF Wells. Fargo Co.
Each package contains DR.. Sanford's Improved In.
haling Tube, and full directions for use in all cases.
Price S1O0. For sale by all wholesale and retail
druggists throughout the United States. WEEKS
e. POTTER General Agents and Wholesale Drag
piStS- ROstOn- Mass
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
THE EAGER"

Once upon an evening bleary.
While | sat me dreamy, dreary,
In the sunshine thinking over
Things that passed in days of yOre;
While 1 nodded, nearly sleeping,
Gently came something creeping
Up my back like water leaping-
Leaping upward from the floor;
I'll a cooling breeze, {" / muttered,
"Fron the regions meath the floor
Only this and nothing moref"
All! distinctly 1 remember
It was in thai wet September,
When the earth and every member
OF creation that it bore
Had for days and weeks been soaking
In the meanest, most provoking
Foggy rains that, without joking,
We had ever seen before;
So / knew it must be very
Cold and damp beneath the floor
Very cold beneath the floor!
So I sat me nearly mapping
In the sunshine, stretching, gaping,
Craving water, but delighted
With the breeze from meath the floor;
Till I found me waxing colder,
And the stretching growing holder,
And myself a feeling older
Older than Pc felt before;
Feeling that my joints were sitter
Than they were in days of yore-
Sitter than they'd been before!
An along my back the creeping
Soon gave place to rushing, leaping,
AS if countless frozen. demons
Had concluded to explore
All the cavities-''the varmints !"-
t'Twixt me and my neither garments,
Up into my hair downward
Through my boots into the floor;
Then j found myself a-shaking,
Gently first, but more and mere
EuQrU m0m emit more and moro
Twas the "ageri" And it shook me
In my very clothes, and took me
Shaking to the kitchen-every
Place where there was warmth in store;
Shaking till the dishes clattered,
shaking till the tea was spattered,
Shaking, and with all nay warming
Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it had exhausted
Ali its powers to shake me more
Till it could not shake me morei
Then it rested till the morrow,
Then resumed, with all the horror
That it had the face to borrow,
Shaking, shaking as before;
And from that day in September
Day that / shall long remember
1t has made diurnal visits.
Shaking, shaking O 30 sorei
Shaking off my boots, and shaking
Me to bed, if nothing more
Fully this and nothing mOrei
And 10 -day the swallows fitting
Round my cottage see me sitting
MOodily within the sunshine
just inside my silent door,
Waiting for the Eager" seeming
Like a man forever dreaming;
And the sunlight on mi streaming
Throws no shadow on the floor
For / ana too thin and sallow
To make shadows on the floor
Nary shadow any morei
Boston Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
Death at q Tournament.

Saturday last Feeds Mill, in the
southern portion of Kaufman County,
was the scene of an accident, by which
Hiram, Millsack, a young man about 81
years Of age, came to a terrible death.
A tournament ground with track and
poles had been laid off at that place,
and last Saturday was the appointed
time for the gallant knights to test
their skill. Prof. Townley, a writing
master of the neighborhood, was one
of the most proficient gentlemen pres
ent, in taking the rings. He rode a
fierce, powerful and unmanageable
horse and upon starting to run through
advised the other not to follow him I'M
til he had succeeded in stopping the
fiery animal. Millsack, however, dis
regarded the advice, and started after
him at full speed on a pony. Prof.
Townley succeeded in catching all the
rings but one, and in turning his horse
at full speed ran against Millsack, who
had turned or a sharp angle. The
powerful and fiery horse of Townley
struck Millsack with it's head, knocking
him from his pony. The larger horse
struck the pony and threw it with ter
rible force upon the fallen young man.
Millsack was crushed to death.-Gal-
Ueston NeaCs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

A WOMAN runs the Coast Line OF
stages in Northern California.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

A GOOD story is told of a far Western
man who was encountered, on his re-
turn from Philadelphia, denouncing the
Centennial Exposition as a humbug of
enormous proportions. He had seen
more animals in a travelling circus and
had better entertainment. Tt turned
out, however, upon cross questioning
him, that he had visited the Geological
Garden, supposing it to be the Fair, and
had never seen the Centennial, though
he had travelled nearly across the CONT
nent to do so.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-23
A PRAYER.

Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and
sweet,
T rom OUT the halleluiahs sweet and low,
Lest I:shOuld fear and fall. and miss Tbea 90
VINO art not missed by any that entreat.
SPEAK to me as to Mary at thy feet,
anu II no precious gems my hands bestow,
Let my tears drop like am Der, while 90
In reach OF thy divinest voice complete
IN I I affection-thus, in sooth,
whose song-bird seeks the wood forever
more.
Is Is s sung to in its stead by mothers mouth.
II In, sinking on her breast, love reconciled'
lie sleeps the faster that he wept before.
Mrs. Browning
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-23
THE SHORE OF ETERNITY,

Alone! to land alone upon that shore
With no one sight that we have seen be-
fore
Things of different hue,
And the sounds all new,
And fragrances so sweet the soul may faint,
Alone! Oh, that first hour of being a
saint
Alone. to land alone upon that shorel
knowing so well we can return no more.
No voice, or face of friend,
None with us to attend
Our disem barking on that awful strand.
But to arrive alone in such land.
Alone. the God we love is on that shore.
Love not enough, yet Whom we love far
more,
And Whom we've loved all through.
-, And with a love more true
Ihan other loves-yet now shall love Him
True love of Him begins upon that Shore
-Faber.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-23
ONLY A VOICE.

It was only voice that swept thro' the hail
In accents responsive to somebody's call,
From form that / did not see.
But the door stood ajar, and the sound MADE
way,
As its musical rhythm asserted its sway,
And fatefully fioated TO me.
At first it was only thrilling surprise,
Inviting the soul from its slumber to rise
After toll of a tedious day;
And the paper and pencil seemed tired, too,
And suggested the artists labor was thro',
Till lie by the mornings ray.
But the spell of that voice was a potent spell,
And its musical cadences rose and fell
In dreams and in days ecstacy;
Till the brain gave heed to no other tone.
And the soul was in bondage to this alone,
Nor mourned for its lost liberty.
We have never yet met-but that voice so
clear,
With its marvellous melody smote my ear,
AS loves own reyeille;
And till heart throbs are silenced by deaths
tattoo,
That voice shall hear and the long sleep
through
Be the call to eternity!
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-23

BY Mr. Parker: To uthoriZe Sumner
county To issue bonds for Is indebtedness to
Choctaw county.
BY Mr.. Aldridge: To incorporate Mar
shall comfy Banking Co at Holly Springs.
4 BY Mr.. Boyd: To incorporate the French
4 Camps Educational Association.
4 By Mr. McNair: To fix the compensa-
ton of Tax Collectors and Assessors.
By Mr.. benson; To repeal the anti-li-
quor law of Beat 2, and Carthage, Leake
/ county.
establishing the fees of certain officers.
By Mr.. Clifton: "A memorial from Joseph
Willis, State Architect.
By Mr.. Tison: A petition for the resto-
ration of 10 sections to Lee county.
By Mr.. Hudson: A petition in relation TO
liens; referred TO special committee of eleven
on Lien Laws.
Mr.. Percy, chairman, reported the bill
fof the relief of Boards of Levee Commits
sioners of Washington. Bolivar and Issa-
quena counties, recommending its passage;
and the bill passed.
HOUSE BILLS.
To better provide for practice in Justices
Courts. Indefinitely postponed.
To aid officials in the service of civil pro-
cess, on m otion or Mr.. REYNOLDS was post
poned until Monday next.
To amend section LOG of the Code of 1871.
The committees substitute was adopted, |
anu Tue UliI pdSScu.
The bill to construe the act in relation to
the rights of married women passed.
The bill to repeal the act "to reduce the |
expenses of the Judiciary Department."
was reported by the committee, with the |
recommendation that it do not pass. 1t |
was made the special order for Tuesday
next at 10 o'clock.
The following bills were indefinitely post
poned:
To amend section 1850 Code of 1871, for
the relief of Matte Boykin; the better to
enforce criminal laws; to provide for costs
in criminal eases; and to amend section
81 Code of 1871.
The following bills were passed: To
amend section 81, code of 1871, in relation
20 persons upon whom fines, forfeitures,
penalties or amercements have been inn
posed; also to change the rules of evidence
n certain cases.
To repeal section 4, of the sub lien act
Vas referred to special committee OF
eleven.
Mr.. Powell was appointed on the Davis
INVESTIGATING committee. ,
By Mr.. Bridges: To require all persons
holding warrants against Choctaw count
o present them for registration. Adjourn
INSCRIPTION TO LEE MONUMENTAL FUND / s
Not before reported-Mr. Aldrich 5000