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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
Hans and

Joseph Omer, an old resident of
Clinton County, Iowa, was recently
kicked to death by a mule he was driv-
ing. 4... "a,
Ada Holmes, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, shot herself while carelessly
handling a pistol, infiicting a serious,
and probably fatal, wound.
Riley Stonebreaker, a wealthy
farmer living in Bristol, Kenosha
County, Wis, was accidentally shot
while in the act of taking a gun from
a boy who was hunting in company
with him.
At Terre Haute, Ind, a few days
ago, a number of boys were shooting at
a mark with a pistol, when n of
them was accidently shot in the eye by
a companion, dying in few hours af-
terward. ....
Hayden Cole, a student at Green
castle, Ind, from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
had both legs cut off below the knees
in attempting to board 3 moving train
in the Union Depot at Indianapolis, a
few days ago. His injuries were sup
posed to be fatal. t.-e
jacob Lamb, a New York butcher,
followed the remains of his sister to
Greenwood Cemetery, and after her
body had been lowered in the grave,
drew q pistol and shot himself in the
head, killing himself instantly.
-Neils Nelson, a mechanic in the
Union Pacific Railroad shops,a at Omaha,
was caught in the belt of some machin-
cry and hurled to the scaffold above.
His skull was terribly crushed, bones
broken in several places, and death
was instantaneous.
"A young man named Samuel Gran.
nahan was killed recently six miles
north of Norway, Iowa, while trying tC
separate two fighting bulls. The cat
tle-men saw his danger and a to his
assistance, but reached the spot too late.
He was dead before they got there.
Miss Tracy Mounoch, a young lady
19 years old, of Fort Wayne, Ind, wa:
singeing chickens the other day, wheI
her clothes caught fire, and she was in
stantly enveloped in flames. Hel
mother, hearing her screams, went t.
her assistance, and succeeded in eXtln
gushing the flames, but not before the
mother was burned a great deal wors'
than the. girl. The mothers inJurie
will probably prove fatal.
AT a logging-bee neal Miner Lake
Mich, the other day, Emmett Sampson
took up a pistol which he saw in tn
house, when George Wall jerked it from
him, and, pointing it at him. playful
said: "Sampson, I'll blow your brain
out" At the word, the pistol was dis
charged, lodging a load of fine shot i
SIMPSONS head, over the left eye, caus
in a painful, but not necessarily fata
wound.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
School and Church.

The first Baptist sermon in Texas
was preached in 1887. The denomina-
ton o consists of 10000 communi-
cants in that State.
The Canadian Irish Catholics will
make a pilgrimage to Rome next sum-
mer, and will carry an offering OF $780,
900 to the Pope.
The Detroit Methodist Conference,
at its late session, criticised most Sc
verely the rationalistic tendencies in the
University of Michigan.
Bishop Green, the episcopal head
Of a small body of colored Methodists
in the United States and Canada, an
nOunces that a consolidation has been
effected with the African Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The Boston School Committee has
voted a salary of 5 1000 to James Rob-
inson, aged %, and an old teacher. The
old gentleman is dependent on this
money. and is left to believe that he is
still liable to be called on to teach arith-
metic and bookkeeping.
The death is announced from Rome
of the Rev. Father Perrone, of the So
ciety of Jesus, a learned Roman Catho-
lie theologian, and the head, at differ
ent times, of various Church colleges
in Rome. Father Perrone was born in
1894, and died upon the 28th of last
August.
Cornell University has 215 new stu
dents. Six OF these are ladies, % are
from other colleges and universities, 50
enter the scientific course, II the course
in literature, p the course in arts, Is in
engineering, and the remainder are dis
tributed among the minor courses or
are optional students.
Prof. Swing, in a recent lecture on
revivals before his church in Chicago,
said: "While personally l do not be-
lieve one-half of the doctrines Brother
Moody teaches, | expect, when | go to
those meetings, to be wakened up to the
general atmosphere of the place by its
religious surroundings"
The question of retaining married
women as teachers in the public schools
is before the Board of Education of New
York. Commissioner Fuller is opposed
to them and gives his reasons He be-
lieves that s'the maternal obligation un-
fits her for teaching. She is liable to
be untitled for the duties of a school
room for months at a time, and to sup,
ply her place a floating teacher must be
employed, and the progress of the class
disturbed only to be again subjected
to confusion when. the teacher
returns" Mr.. Fuller also thinks the
practice of retaining teachers after mar
riage tends to encourage hasty and in.
discreet marriages. "Young womer
from the Normal schools are better
fitted" he thinks, ''for the occupation
than the older teachers" a-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19

Personal and Literary,

-Bancroft, the historian, spent his
seventy-sixth birthday at the Centennial
on the Sd.
The wife of an American consul in
Germany teaches school over her hus-
bands Office.
Gen. Sam Cary, Vice-President on
the Greenback ticket, was the uncle of
Phoebe and Alice Cary.
Julian Kennedy, Yale's crack oars
man. has gone to Youngstown, Ohio,
where he takes charge Of large iron
works.
Walt Whitman is to read a poem
ON the occasion of the unwilling of a
bust of Thomas Paine, in independence
Hall, Philadelphia. ;
Alexander FL. Stephens, although
still in feeble health, is engaged in pre-
pairing an article on American history
for "Johnson's Encyclopedia"
The Rev. Josiah Henson, the orig
inal of Uncle Tom in Mrs. Stoves nov
years old, and his home is in Canada.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, our Secreta-
ry of Legation in Turkey, has received
a handsome OTTER from q lecture man.
ager to deliver a series of conferences
in this country on the Bulgarian atroci-
ties.
Mark Twain and Senator Jones are
among the shareholders of the Hartford
Accident Insurance Company that has
just burst after a brief but inglorious
existence of two years.
"A British journal pays this pretty
compliment to an American bard: GAL
drich says: tAs wild as the winds that
tear the curled red leaf in the air, is the
song that l have never sung The mar
who knows a song like that, and nobly
forbears to sing it, is a credit to any
country"
Mr.. Upper, the Proverbial Philos.
/ opher, intends to remain in the United
States about six months. In New York
City he will be the guest of the Rev. I,
De Witt Talmage, and will probably
make his first public appearance in the
pulpit of that eminent divine. His for
mer visit to the United States occurred
in 1851, when he spent three months in
the country. .
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
Outwitting a French Mob.

1t is 4 o'clock, and the dense crowd
surrounds the Hotel de Vile.. A man
decends the steps, crying aloud: SNAKE
way! Make way for a messenger of the
Government of National Defencel"
He waves, a paper above his head, on
which is written, legibly:
SIN the name Of the Republic, one
and indivisible! Liberty, fraternity, and
equality! Allow Citizen M, to whom
has been intrusted an important mis-
sion of state, to pass freely where he
will.", f-es1 .nct
AS if by magic a broad way is opened
through the surging crowd, and cries OF
"sVive La Republique!', greet the mes.
senger as he hurries upon his mission.
He bounds into the Rue de Rivoli, and
entering a tobacconist's exclaims:
"Quick, there! Ten cents worth OF
fine-cut for Citizen Floquet!"-Neu
Orleans Republican.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
Foreign Notes.

Sir Thomas White, member of the
Board of Aldermen for the ward of
,Portsoken, has been elected Lord Mayor
of London. .aa a%
The publisher of the Tribune, a
Radical Paris newspaper, has been SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment
for an article insulting religion
The Rector of Haywood, England,
recently issued an edict ordering all
members of his Church choir to dress
in black, with black ties, to take the
sacrament once a month, and not to
sing in the streets or places of amuse-
ment, or "for the promotion of dis
sent.n The choristers have struck.
I'm the London Divorce Court, late
ly, a woman prayed for dissolution of
her marriage on the ground that she
was insane at the time it took place.
She was then SO Frustrated with grief
at the loss of her husband as to lose
her reason, and a man in a much hum
bier station of life than herself per-
suaded her to marry him. She had
since been in an asylum, but was now
sane. The evidence being perfectly
satisfactory, the marriage was dis
solved. .....;E qarf.r al
"A barrel of 1861 Johannesburg,
from the famous cellars of Prince Met
ternich, has just been knocked down
for the highest price ven given even
for that wine. The purchaser is the
recently deposed Sultan, who, after
attempting to jump into the Bosphefus,
appears determined to drown his cares
in the bowl. The piece contains 1,4O(
bottles-about f3 IS. a bottle-so the
Sultan Murad will have something te
console him for the sword Of Osman
now worn by his brother, roasnaaao7
When the Emperor William visitat
Leipsic, the King Of Saxony surprised
him, hammer in hand, driving a mai
into the wall above his camp bedsteae
to hang his watch upon. In reply t.
! the very natural question why he di'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
Extraordinary Suicide.

A suicide, under extraordinary Gil
cumstanees, has occurred at Rebougl
a suburb of Limerick, Ireland. II
nuptials of a daughter of a man name
Lawlor with a Mr.. Hogan, a farme
residing in the neighborhood, were b.
ing celebrated at the residence of ii
father of the bride when, at an advan
ed stage of the proceedings, the merr
making was changed to horror by a di
eovery of the body of Lawlor suspends
from a rafter in a small bedroom. II
had got on a basket, adjusted a moo
on his neck with one of his braces, til
it q the beam of timber, and, kicki5
away the basket, succeeded in hangii
himself. The only motive alleged
this singular occurrences is that Lawla
having after long refusal given
daughter the fortune required C.
and a. portion of the land) repenY
the step he had taken, and in con-
quence committed suicide. He Y
over 60 years of age.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19

"A California journal makes some
comparison between French and native
wines, stating that, while France pro-
duces a vast quantity of very superior
wine, California produces a great deal
of wine of medium quality, which is SUI
perior to ordinary French wines. In
the north and northwest of France the
grape crop is not thoroughly ripened,
and the wine made is therefore sour, and,
if sent to foreign markets, must be
sweetened and otherwise prepared in
order to be sold. California grapes
ripen sufficiently to furnish the color
and sweetness required, so that there is
little inducement to adulterate it.
Among the ne,, Industries of the
past few years, says the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, is the collection
and sale of the creeping ferns, SO COM
mon in New England woods, but en-
tirely unknown beyond the Alleghanies,
and, until last year, unknown beyond
the Hudson. Often the value of the
ferns growing ON a single acre of wood
land will exceed that of an acre of corn,
and wood-lots have been bought at high
prices solely to control the fern trade.
The season for gathering these ferns
begins about the middle of August and
lasts till late in autumn. Originally
only fresh ferns were sold, and those
largely for Christmas decorations, but
the trade in the pressed ferns is now by
far the largest part of the business, and
gives employment to a number of hands,
One dealer keeps about IL girls at work
pressing. A dozen ferns are pressed
in one I" string" and one New York
house has ordered 20, 900 strings. The
pressed ferns are sent all over the Unit
ed States and Canada, many going te
California.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19

Two Roman Catholic priests have
recently joined the English Unitarians
Fathers Sufield and Hargrave. The
latter has just been called to a promi-
nent congregation in Leeds.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
Ii Rnrritt writes

-Elihu Burritt writes in the Cons
qationagtst that some of the modern 1
popular religious songs Guido the am
GUS sentimentaEty of the most ser
tional novels. The language, style
metaphor of some Of them, ne %
can not have been borrowed from nov
but from q more sensuoias source.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19

Sketches i'm hinat0wn-1t Sights, Signs
Living. d @
Correspondence Chicago Tribune.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.-If the
thumbnail jotter were to stand at a San
Francisco street-c,orner and watch a
trades-procession, he would not require
a very large nail,--certainly not that of
a Chinaman,-or to use mi~croscOpical
writing, to note down those callings to
which the Chinese might not furnish
representatives. B~ootolacks, car-con-
ductors, bar-tenders, masons, express
men, h~ack-drivers and newsboys make
up the miserable few who have not the
honor of a daily competitor for bread
with the Grant IONS of Cathay. All
other rade-calling-without particular
izing-are vigorously pursued by the
Chinese, and very many to
THE EXTENT OF MONOPOLY.
The means of livelihood from which
white labor has entirely, or almost en-
tirely, been driven, are shoe and slip
per-making, cigar-making, washing,
fish-peddling, the sewing of flannel un-
derwear and mems coarse clothing, and
domestic service. This list, it will be
seen, includes about every thingi in which
white girls and boys could find an hon
est living. At the session of the Sena-
torial Committee of investigation held
last April, and already referred to in
these letters, Officer Rogers presented
a report '.of details relative to the diff
ferent industrial pursuits which are
either monopolized by the Chinese, or
are fast becoming So" Had there been
"~sufficient time," the report might per-
haps have been made the vehicle of
some most valuable and correct statis-
tics. AS it is, however, the paper pos
sesses no particular value; and, when
the following figures have been taken
from it, there would be no use in en-
bodying it here. These figures show
the numbers engaged in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
THE CHINEE.

Sketches i'm Chinatown-It Sights, Signs
and SmeIls-HOw An Sin makes His
Living. d .HE
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No. 43ql q X K A r mo 13g
7TH sT.S INDU CEM ENTS 7THST.
TO purchase r Of
PAPERHANGINGS,& de-,
n A X II k IT T. -.

u
b.-lc' u ana >iS.,s door, d5Orc Otd r. o'rS Hail.
To make room for Spring Goods, ue offer. for the
nsNt sINty days, our large stock Of PAPERHAaG
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, FOR CASH.
All Gilt Papers % per cent. OF regular mari ea
81 ices; a good Gilt Paper as low a. 81 cents per
piece Paprrs from ~ cents y piece I'D t. 81.
good Satin Finished Pap low as % cents per
WINDOW SHADES.
difreEt -izes AID co! ore, Piail Shade, Cloth and
Holasd, popular COlUTs, which We make up IN
PICTURE FRAMES,
the ieTgrs' -tCr AID greatest variety In the city
cu brs C!t 2 " aiuUI alI Gilt, six Velvet, Fancy
Att-l aid Velvet. Of foreign and domestic msnGfAc-
PICTURE CORD AND TASSELs.
Gold, SilyeT, IIIDed. Wire Covered and W0rsted
IictGTe Cusd, rlc;Cre Cord, Picture Nails, Rings,
PAIATINCS. CHROHOS, STEEL ESCRsy.
INGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS,
IL appropriate frames Finest assortment # GEM
iDr BEEStEN PORCELAIN PAJNTIN :, in rich
velvet ai carved frames, in the District, which viii
De- offered at a small al aucs on cost PhOtcgr apis
Il tGtusTy GA Black Ground ard Mats, Easel stat
LRLWEETUN,S PUPCLAR PASTEL PAINT
which combine the extTens deIioacy Of the water
color WIZ tie breath aud power OF oil with 8
other process of art; they enduring, are in no
It-I CT Nee ESuIcai, each picture being original
NctE q art, rJ sc'cn GU the spot, au1 dressed IN
Is most beautiful dress Cf shy, IN, and amos
pheEic effect A few choice subjects on exhibit N
Orders tor PaperbRnciugs. Window shades aud
guaranteed. Persons needing goods in our line are
inv tied e. eNSnne goods sud compare prices, :
are d .ermincd to sell To make room for Spring
-" T.yJ7s Pos,',rs'y Crsh, unless there Is an
aFreemeIttO the contrary when the order Is re-
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s,If St no l2g 7th street
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To Advertisers

IN ordeT nh0t the urge Gssd r0I'tpV i'icre1st'i0
esfifion THE STAR may be deliUe7ed 20 Us car
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hotr each dSrV, d necessary 10 close The forms
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received after thls hour there is great danger thar
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That Washington is one OF the lealtbiest
cities IN tie Union, statistics printed in a
New NOr. paper prove. The death rate in
London for the week ending January sth
last was - per l. .'- EiiurursI, D., Gas
SOW, y, Dublin, q, and Brussels. -. The
census o. i-.H puts tue death rate 81 several
American cities a. follows: Nashville. I9.-i:
Cincinnati, 1855 Cleveland. @H.~f. Boston.
;G.ll; Baltimore, 25r2. District ol Columbia,
. /, BroOs-yu- --51. Theayeyage death rate
for severe months past has b-,n at about
the same ilsure- a. tat given above.
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4vtBg smoked y ur iobsCcn, Vanity Far. b. tn
camp FIRE ana the hearth, believe IL in . lInt Of
fragrance ard taste superior T. All brands SHOWN to
re Beng in search % t1harC1 thai would not fire
the tongue and mouth, y A. ma b acquainted with
our VANITY Fair, aud found II % he the as p'Us
Tlf If natural leaf
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The matter OF the District Indebtedness IS
siill before the Senate, and the press or the
country has also taken up the subject. The
general expression of opinion, even from
papers most hostile To the Admi nistration,
and to the District government, is that the
load OF Indebtedness for the Improvement Of
the national capital, cannot by law or JUS
tice be saddled upon the people Of the Dis
trict- Thus, the Baltimore Gazette. a staunch
democratic paper says:
'The District OF Columbia again occupied
the attention the Senate yesterday. draw
ing forth the FIRE OF the opponents and de
tenders OF The present government and the
late ring In that city. The point in c0ntrC-
yeTSy il who shah Immediately pay the in
tereSt ard ultimately the principal of the inn
meCSe debt Saduled upon Washington by the
Board OF Public WORKS and by the present
commission eTs. (71JGeV per alum JtIcit per
Sc, is maxim as old as the law itself and as
The two governments whose acts are so uni
NeIsally ard so GvSerycily condemned were
the mere Instruments OF Congress, we do not
see how tie citizens of Washington, who had
no voice in these appointments, and VINO
could Rot ~ any way control them, can in
equity be held responsible for what they
have done. To be sure the pTOpert Y holders
OF Tie capital city are the bcue1iciaries, but
The cost or the Improvements equals in
amount one fourth OF all the property OF the
city, and tu MAKE the unfortunate citizens
lay IL would be practical cOn1ScatiOu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-03

Senator Cameron is reported as express
ing preference for some one as the re-
publican candidate for President Tho will
take care OF Pennsylvania a.J PeunsyIva-
mans, recognizing the one as an important
element in the political fabric Of the nation.
and the other as entitled TO It's fair share In
the administration OF the affairs OF the gov
ernmeuL' The veteran Senator has never
thought our political fabric quite sound on
Its pegs since New York goblet up two i'm
TOrtant Cabinet places and the OLD Ksystorc
got nor @.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-03

After Lands * acquitted Of Ire murder
ofCarruth let the physicians % tbe latter be
promptly arrested and sUGlnar.Iy triei for
Killing ther patient. one Of ;ie counsel for
Lands i authority for the statement that
the pail fred hy their client was harmless
tenant OF The brain" of CarTuth; aud that che
would have lived but for me probing Of Drs.
Morgan and Fuller, who with hard and Ia
h-Xlbie silver PROBES, broke through the
healthy brain matter, Causing the formation
Of these brain assesses from which he dtet."
This rs serious charge, AMI if il can be
proved by unimpeaChable evidence the.phy-
sicians ought by ali means to be held re-
sponsible. Certainly If the charge is I'M
founded in fact the attorney has rendered
himself liable to the pains and penalties OF
malicious libel.
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From Seth Green. snpt. N. Y. State Fishe-

tTd Vanity Fsir 20 b. the best article of tobacco
a1sp-es - the wants % The sportsman Have used
your ichsoco- for many years, aad them ali to
be first class.
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The fact is heralded that Capt. BoyarIus,
the celebrated pigeon shot, has succeeded In
slaughtering % out Of 100 birds at recent
match. This is certainly a very extraordi-
nary feat, but in the eyes OF many the wan
ton destruction of Sc harmless birds to ac-
complish il, stigmatizes il as cruel and I'M
necessary exhibition. II crows, the farmers
pest, could be substituted for doves no one
would be disposed TO find fault
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-03

General Burriel, who made suen indecent
haste TO execute Cuban prisoners at Santa
go de Cuba in ISIS, is to be tried by the Span
ish authorities in Difference TO the wishes of
the American government. The trial will,
OF course, lie farce, and the Spanish butch
er will be acquitted. Let him be tried, how
ever, no matter what the result. He was
long since triei and found guilty by the en-
Hghtened sentiment of all nations
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VANITY FAlY.
Buy II

~ 10 IS shaved from best Va natural
Lat. for Meerschs1m aud Cigarettes Does roo
n axe the tongue sample receipt o. - cents
Highest award, Vienna, lS73.
S-rd for Giro slar. W VI. =. kENRsIL A. CO
PEERLEsS TOBACCO WORKS. RsCnester Ny,
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The CJr.5eTIdr.d Allegation is the name OF a
handsome, weIl-hlled, and spirited daily pa
per started at Cumberland, Mi, by Messrs.
l.. q. stephens and t. b. Taylor. They are
practical printers, lately OF this city, who
stand in the front rank OF the business. Mr..
Taylor was formerly foreman Of the Rep'JJli-
can Office, and Mr.. stephens was for many
years corrected with TIE STAK. They nave
energy, integrity and capacity, and cannot
fail 10 succeed.
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IL is pretty generally conceded that
Toombs, OF Georgia, Is injuring his people
and correspOndingly beneft!ng the republic
can party by his rash utterances. Tue Bal
timore sun says that no one seems TO be
pleased with II except ultra radical journals,
into whose hands il plays, and whose party
could well afford 10 pay Mr.. Toombs a large
per diem To travel through the sOath this
year and make just such speeches.
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DOES .oT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

SEuEE VANITY FAIR 1t Is n wonderful SOlace.
and the bCst ProCf tba, " works injury i th- re
f-es bed :e"lIrE You awake with next morning. con
sCcu> that there Il reasonable task you could not
pfF fgIm.
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