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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
A Slight Mistake.

There's a good story, and a true n
withal, relative to Mr.. Gill, long re-
porter for the Boston Post, and well
known as a "fellow of infinite jest"
He was reporting a dinner of the sev
enty-fifth anniversary of the battle of
Bunker's Hill. The dinner was a
splendid affair, and every body vas
patriotic. Gill, when the excitement
was at boiling point, whispered to a
friend, one of those gentlemen who are
always ''happy" in speech-making, that
his father was engaged in the battle of
Bunker's Hill. The orator arose-made
a brilliant speech-alluded to ellis
father and Gill in Che highest terms, and
proposed ellis health, which was drunk
with the usual honors, and one or tive
more. There were shouts of "Gill,
Gill;" and he made a speech, returning
thanks in the usual manner, and said,
"But my learned friend omitted one
fact-an important fact-of which he
might have been unaware. My father
was in the battle of Bunker's Hill, but
he, unfortunately, fought on the British
side!" There was not quite so much
enthusiasm after that, and Gill has not
INDUCED in speeches since.-Yonkers
Gazette. Ii o.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

,walls and a ring of the faithful was
formed in the center, all on their knees
and facing inward, with, Smith and
Crandall in the circle, Crandal lying
fat on his belly and making the most
,unearthly groaning. Smith then said
he shoald issue orders for the devil to
como out. The first would be mild and
persuasive, the second imperative, and
the third, such that the devil couldn't
stay away any longer.
- THESE ordersh he proceeded ina gruff,
loud voice to give, and with the exact
effect prescribed. The devil came out
at the last call. But instead Of coming
from Crandall, he came from b grain
sack held by this same man Denton, at
the corner of the old stone chimney,
and was nothing Ore nor less than a
big black cat. The cat, finding itself
in q strange place. set up a great cater
wauling; thisEbrought a yelp FROM sew
eral dogs and a shout from twice as
many boys. The cat, and the dogs after
it, went round the room rs though the
devil was indeed after .both,f when the
door was opened and the cat and dogs
went out and the boys after. The cat
was freed, the tree cut, down. and the
cat killed. - ."i'" "'"
I give this, as one of the actual cir
cumstances that took place at the time
of the Mormon residence in Kirkland,
and the statement can to-day be verified
as the truth by witnesses now living in
Willoughby, Ohio, ,.!
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
A Mother and Two Children Burned
to Death.

A special to the Chicago ter-OceGn
from Iowa City, 26th, says: A terrible
calamity occurred in North English,
Iowa County, some twenty-five miles
southwest from here, yesterday fore
noon, in which the wife and two little
girls, aged 3 and 5 years, of Sylvester
Starkweather were burned to death. In
the morning Mr. Starkweather went to
his field to work, some mile and a half
off, and his wife was at work in the
yard, having left her two children up
stairs. She was soon shocked to see
the upper part of the house in flames,
and she rushed to it and up the stairs
through the dense smoke and flames,
but as she reached the top the flames
were SO intense that she was compelled
to back out. Her clothes, were burned
from her body, and her shoes were
charred to a crisp. Here injuries were
fatal. When the mother was thus COM
PEELED to turn back from her children,
they were in the horrible agonies of
death. There was nothing found of
their remains except portions of their
spinal bone which could be recognized.
MI. Starkweather was a handwriting
farmer, and had accumulated a com
Portable home and property with hope
full prospects of the future. His barn,
hay, corn, granery, all his out-build-
ings were also burned. The pleasant
family and comfortable home which he
had left in the morning he returned to
find all swept away. The poor man is
nearly insane.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
Christian Vassals Of Turkey Persecut.
ing the Jews.

- A few weeks ago five Jews were Or
dered to leave their homes in Roumania
without delay, and this command was
followed by a similar order referring to
all Israelites residing in villages in the
Putnu district, where the five co-religion-
lists had also lived. In one place some
Jews contrived to bride the sub-prefect,
and were then permitted to remain un-
molested. The farmers in the whole
district have been authorized by Gov
eminent officials not to pay any debts
which may be owing to Jews, and it
need hardly be stated that this author
ity has been seized with avidity. Num-
bers of persons have been mercilessly
robbed without being able to obtain
any redress, the magistrates informing
the hapless victims that they have no
right to settle in Roumania. In the
Putnu district there are e~ighty-four
villages. containing three hundred
Jewish families, who are thus compel
led to seek shelter elsewhere. Jews
who have lived ten and even twenty
years in the village of Gatinesci have
been forced to urn out at the bigoted
caprice of a local underling. Surely it
is time that some resolute action were
taken, not only to prevent a recurrence
of these disgraceful events, but to
bring summary punishment upon the
heads of the offenders. If the Rou-
manian Government be either too in
tolerant or faint-hearted to grant the
Jews the privileges to which they are
entitled, then the civilized governments
of Europe should unite in compelling
them to take this step.-Jeaoish World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
Science and Industry,

The glass-makers of Germany have
adopted Herr Pieper's process for
tempering glass, by subjecting it while
red-hot to the action of super-heated
steam.
The adulteration of red wine in
France by coloring matter has zone so
far that the Government has taken the
matter up, and will bring offenders to
punishment.
An eminent French chemist SAYS
that ozone, or active oxygen, is a dead
ly poison instead of being a remedy. 1t
may possibly be of assistance in pre-
venting too great a rise of temperature,
but to carelessly disseminate it to de-
stroy miasma is dangerous.
"A French chemist makes the re-
markable announcement that the mere
presence of an iron bar in a box of
grain, biscuit and the like will prevent
both decay and attacks of insects. It's
not an expensive experiment. Any
farmer can find a broken plow-share or
log-chain to put in the grain-bin.
Experiments with dynamite in Eng
land, by dropping of heavy weights and
~discharging gunpowder, show that no
COlCuSSlOu, uOWCfC1 FlOICLIS Will ga
plode it. It's intense local action was
also demonstrated and its efficacy as a
fog-signal shown by firing a cartridge
on the end of a rod without injury to
the latter.
A machine has been invented in
England for utilizing the rolls of a ship,
caused by the ocean swell, as a means
of propelling the vessel. BY the rise
and fall, air is compressed into cylin-
ders, which can be used as reservoirs of
power. The inventor thinks that an
average Atlantic wave will give as much
impulse as a 20O-horse-power engine.
Several recent losses of vessels by
fire, caused by spontaneous combustion
of coal, have occasioned inquiry into the
subject in England, and it is found that
ventilation of coal is responsible for
these disasters. Rapid oxidation of SUBJ
stances found in coal, especially iron
pyrites, often produces enough heat to
set the Goals on fire; and the absorbing
and c~ondensing of oxygen in the coal
fires has the same effect. The risks of
spontaneous combustion are increased
by the length of the voyage andthe bulk
of the cargo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
ITEMS. OF
Personal and Literary.

I'D
"A strong petition to Congress is be-
ing prepared, with the object Of seeur-
ing an appropriation for the purchase
of the papers of the Gen. Count de
Rochambeau. These papers, as Illus
trating the French view of the Reyolr1-
ton, would be of great value to stu
dents of American history. ,g..H
Dom Pedro is going to publish an
account of his travels in the Old and
New World. The first volume is com.
plete, and contains an account of his
travels in the United States. The book
will be printed in Paris, and the proofs
are to be sent to Constantinople. The
Emperor has written his story in Portu-
guese, but it has already been translat-
ed into English, French and German,
and is to be published in the four Ian
guages about the close of the year.
Mr.. Joseph jefferson has been de-
voting himself, as far as his dramatic
engagements will permit, to oil paint
ing, and his talent is bearing fruit. An
enthusiastic English admirer SAYS he
bids fair to become as famous in one
department of art as in another. Some
of the greatest painters have passed
high encomiums upon his works. 1t
should be understood that his studies
in oil have been of comparatively recent
origin, although he has long had repu-
tation for skill with the pencil.
-Sothern arranged a practical joke
to celebrate the close of his recent en-
gagement al Boston. He caused Mr..
j. G. Goodwin, a we'll known dramatic
author, to occupy a stage-box, and in
terrupt the performance with a bolster
ous demand for an explanation of what
it vas all about. This furnished occa-
sion for a pithy dialogue between the
comedian on the stage and the come
dian off it, and enlisted the sympathies
of the audience in favor of the former.
Goodwin was disguised, and was not
recognized by any body present until
he was taken from the house by a po-
liceman. Then every body was COM
PEELED to confess the edo"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
School and Church.

"A Hindoo has just passed out of
the Roorkee College, India, at the head
of his class, in which he had English
competitors.
There are said to be 100000 Pro
testants in France. DR.. Hitchcock,
who says it, is considered good author
ity. Protestant missionaries spent last
year in France about $780, 200.
The. Anti-Mission-vulgarly known
as tie Observation-Disclosures are no
longer reported with other Baptists in
the Year Book issued by the Baptist
Publication Society. Their number is
still considerable in the South; in the
whole United States it is 41,454.
There were during the last summer
term Is, 74S students in attendance upon
the 228 gymnasia of Prussia. AS show
ing the Church tendencies of the popu-
lation, it is stated that of the entire
number so, $50 pupils were members of
the Protestant State Church, 15,5O9 RO-
man Catholics, 1878 Jews, and IL Dis
senters. .r.t.4
There is a body of Baptists in West
Virginia known as the "Thirty-Day
Baptists." They are so named because
they have preaching only oncein thirty
days. They are regular Baptists, how
ever, and have preaching only once a
month because the churches are too
small and poor to support pastors, and
one man serve as many as nine congre-
cations. F'14
A large number Of Methodist min
ISters and laymen, representing both
Inc Southern and Northern branches of
sne Church, met at Louisville on the
@otn, the object being the promotion
ana establishment of feelings more fra
Gernal between the two sections of their
denomination than have prevailed since
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
The late Rufus Choate is described

The late Rufus Choate is described
in a late number of the Albany LaW
Journal as a man six feet in height,
with a powerful chest and shoulders
and gaunt frame. His hands and feet
were large, and he walked with q roll
ing gait. His face, of a bilious, coffee
colored complexion, was deeply cor
rugated with wrinkles and hollows, and
his eyes large, deep-set, and wonder
fully expressive. His hair was black,
curly and luxuriant. Hewas generally
attired in i'll fitting, slouching garments:
He shrieked, raved, swung his fists, and
distorted his body Into unnatural con-
tortions, and poured forth his argu-
ments with startling force and velocity,
but with the arrangement, detail and
wide, command of language of a born
orator, utterly forgetfui of himself in
the abandon of the moment, his whole
soul being thrown into the cause he had
undertaken to present. - "
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
4 Black Hills Incident.

You remember Isaac Spencer Par
sons, a fellow of infinite mirth and jol-
lily. He had enlisted in the Wyandotte
Rangers, and yesterday he went out
from the fort on a private foraging ex-
petition. This morning his mangled
remains were brought in. His body
was found in. a piece of dead wood
about five miles from camp. He had
been shot and scalped by the Indians,
his ears cut off, and his body otherwise
horribly mutiliated. But when you tell
the story of his death, tell also that he
died as an American should-with his
face to the foe. And nigh him WAS
found the evidence that he had sold his
life dearly, and before he had been.
overpowered he had sent two of his as
'sailants to the happy hunting grounds.
Poor Spencer'srife and pistol hadsbeen
taken and his body stripped blythe PEN
sioners On Uncle Sans bounty. Cor.
Troy N. Y.)aPress. EeH . '4
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

1T was a free-luncher who. mourn
fully and weakly staggered Ep,out of a
basement house Of beastlys Ell ertain-
ment for men, drawing his Ishioy coat
sleeve across his bristling eaIn. Strike
it?" inquired his hungryfriEnd. Anod
was the reply "WhaE WIS 'itP"'
"shadowu soup.p The fseekeri after
sustenance inquiring fort info rmation
on the secret of constructing this new
refreshment, had the recipe to him i'm
parted. "Take a pot of pure Water
set it on the floor within the I ays OF the
sun struggling through the basement
window panes; let a chicken walk slow.
ly by on the outside of tlpe glass. Its
form falling into the water, you have
shadow SOUP"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

yers, and general Adrudgers; the frap-
ments of a tribe of lazy, shiftlsss. p-
ute Indians, and what elsep GO ono
Street.-The main business avenue-and
you will see. For nearly a mile in ex-
tent either side Of this street is Ined
with what out of compliment are called
&C business places" More than half of
these establishments are devoted to tie
sale of whisky and its accomplishments,
and every respectable gin-mili has a
rear attachment where gambling is
openly carried on, the only requirement
of the law or municipal regulation be-
ing a license which can be obtained by
the payment of a moderate fee.
, In these convenient places the tiger
turks and disports himself at all hours
of the day and on all days ,ofTthe week,
with the same disregard of hours or
seasons that characteristics the working
of the mines. Faro, roulette, keno,
the various games played with dice,
and all other forms of gambling are
here INDUCED with open doors and un-
der the protection of the law. THE
minjngscompanies pay out half a mil
lion dollars monthly in gold coin to
their employees. Can any body COM
pute what percentage of that sum goes
into the Golfers of these licensed sharks?
The community of professional gam
blers, it will be readily seen, is quite a
large one, and forms a very influential,
if not respectable, portion of the popu-
lation. Pass from G to d Street, and
another of the peculiarities of Virginia
City life is unfolded to view. Here
licensed vice, and what is elsewhere
held to be crime, in another form holds
her sway. .1 --sr.. ,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

Irene A. v. House, who shot her
husband snd was acquitted by a New
Jersey jury the other day, is going to
hire a hall and tell the public all about
it. Her agent, who is to secure the hall
in New YorkIfor5her lecture, is Gerratt
House, one of the ~brothersfnf the muir
dered man. The lovely murderess and
the House 'sboys'' r a queer lot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

1874. In that year, during the session
of the National Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Louis
vile, differences that grew partly out
or the slavery question caused q divis-
ION of the Methodist Church into two
branches, which during, the War be-
came known as Northern and South
ern. Two years ago the Conference of
the Southern branch, while in session
at Louisville, took steps looking to a
church union. Nothing was then def
nltely accomplished. This year, at
Baltimore, the Northern branch also
endeayored to bring about a more posi-
tive understanding of feeling between
the two divisions, and now, so far as
union in sentiment, purpose and BROTH
erly love are concerned, the two
Churches r in unison. At the meet
ing just held representatives from the
Northern and Southern divisions, in
Guiding Bishop Foster, of Massachu-
sets, sand Bishop Kavanaugh, of Ken
lucky, delivered addresses, thanking
God that the aforesaid union has been
brought about after 80 years of separa-
ton of the largest ecclesiastical demon
nation in the United States.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09

Miss Stella Hutton, aged Is. OF
Washington, d. c., quarreled with her
parents. and then committed suicide.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
FOREIGN NOfeR.

The attacks of the French radical
journals upon the Empress Eugene
have led to investigation of her family
records, and the legitimacy of her birth
has been established beyond dispute.
"A curious provision of French Ell
quette is that which exempts the Duke
d'Aumale from requesting the honor"
of the Marshal-President's company,
as all ordinary entertainers who are in
a position to extend invitations at all
are expected. The Duke, being of roy
al blood, is only expected to request
"the pleasure" of seeing the President
of the Republic.
The deficit on the performances of
the Ring der Ntbelungen at Bayreuth,
amounted to $4,000, which the cor
poration of the town has undertaken to
pay on condition that the Tetralogy
(not Trilogy) shall be repeated next
veal. The price of admission for the
series will be S25. This year it was
$75, and Over 100000 was spent by
visitors at Bayreuth during the progress
of the performances.
Charles Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant,
while occurring in an English town the
other night, were interrupted by per-
IONS in the audience. MIR. Bradlaugh
intimated that the next man doing it
should be put out, whereupon a local
tradesman "dared him." Down came
Bradlaugh from the platform, and the
subsequent proceedings We're painfully
interesting to the local tradesman.
Three members of the English
House of Lords within the last six years
have committed suicide. Lord Walsing-
ham, Lord Delaware, and more lately
Lord Ribblesdale. The last, Lord Rus
sells son-in-law, aged AZ, was known
as a dissipated man. Lord Delaware
destroyed himself in a fit of love-mel-
ancholy, but Lord Walsingham's self
destruction remains one of the most
mysterious of it's kind. Within o month
after the Prince of Wales had paid him
q visit at his seat in Norfolk, Lord
Walsingham, without any known reason
for the act, destroyed himself. =" -.
a lady writing from Paris to the
Chicago Times says that in France
women of the highest rank post them
selves at the exit doors of the churches
after service, with an enticing little
bag, in which they supplieate you to in.
vest. This is part of the duties of their
church membership. The writer adds
81 have seen Patti on her knees on a
praying-chair, at the great door of the
Madeleine, in Paris, begging those leav.
ing the church for contributions for the
poor. I noticed that the stream of out
growers passed her way, SO as to have
a good look at the charming diva, anc
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-09
Haps and Mishaps.

al aAu VkAShkapss
John II. Bulls, of Bismarck, Da-
kota, committed suicide on account of
domestic troubles.
An infant child of John Clark, of
Comanche, Iowa, fell into a tub of wa
ter and was drowned.
, Miss Anna Spear, aged 26, daugh-
ter of S. B. Spear, of Cincinnati, com
mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the head and heart. Ill health
is supposed to have been the cause.
William Johnson, IS years of age,
of Union County, Dakota, while climb
ing over a fence with a loaded gun in
his hands, accidentally struck the ham
mer against a rail, discharging the gun,
the whole charge passing through his
heart.
"A party of three young men of Gov
lngton, Neb., went out to have a days
hunt. One of them, named Patrick r.
win, in carelessly handling his gun
while climbing a fence, shot himself
in the head, blowing one side of it to
atoms.
Mrs. Hill, wife of a bridge carpen-
ter at Terre Haute, Ind, was working
by the stove when her dress caught fire.
She ran out of doors, where several
men saw and poured water upon her,
but the fire was not put out until the
clothes were almost entirely burned
from her body. She lay in a semi-con-
scious state for about y hours, when
she died.
Three boys, while cunning in the
woods near Philadelphia, had 8 friend
ly tusSle for the possession of a pistol.
During the struggle the pistol was dis
charged, the ball entering the head OF
John Mccall, who died in a few hours.
The other boys were arrested to await
the action of the Coroner.
AT Sioux City, Iowa, George r.
Witeman, a miller in the City Mills,
was adjusting a belt, when his clothing
was caught by a shaft, which made 50
revolutions before he was released. In
revolving with the shaft his feet struck
the ceiling, pounding them and one
arm to a Jelly. A millwright working
near succeeded in throwing the ma
chinery out of gear, and rescuing the
unfortunate man, but it was thought he
could not survive.
"A young man named Geo. Miller,
20 years of age, of Worcester, Mass,
was accidently shot at the Sportsmen's
Club, while attending the target for
some members of the rifle team, who
were practicing. He was deceived by
a shot in the woods near the grounds,
and, thinking the rifeman had fired at
the target, stepped in front of it just in
time to receive a ball from one of the
rifles. He lived but a few moments.
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