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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
S~EASONABLE RECIPES.

Poor Mans Cake.--5 eggs, 24 cups OF
sugar, 81 cups of -four, l cup boiling
water, l teaspoonful baking-powder.
Pound Frust Cake.-1 pound brown
sugar, 10 eggs, l pound flour, 1 pound
butter, l pound r%aisins, 1 pound cur
rants, 4 pound ~citron, l teaspoonful
baking-powder. Bake 2 hours.
Frozen Eggs.-It often happens that
eggs get frozen so as to crack the
shells, in severe cold weather; but il
kept frozen until needed for use, and
then brought into a warm 70 and
boiling water poured over them and
left till cool, they will be uninjured,
and will beat as nicely as if they had
not been chilled, and be just as good
for any use. After being once thawed,
they should be used Immediately.
Potato Cakss.-Prepare q sufficient
quantity of thick mashed potatoes
lightly buttered and passed through a
colander; add the yelks of 4 eggs, min
gle well, and cook 3 minutes longer;
put the whole in a dish and let cool
when wanted roll them down on q
Toured table, give them the size and
shape of codfsh-balls, dip them in beat
en- eggs, then in yellow-meal flour; fry
them in hot lard see that they are of a
clear yellow brown.
Rice and T0natoes.-Boil 1 pint of
rice in 8 pints of water for half all
hour. Then mix with it II pints of
stewed tomato, and cook gently aAoth-
er hour, without stirring. This recipe
will answer as well with canned toma-
toes as with fresh. When the latter
a be had fully ripe, peel a slice and
place in alternate layers with rice in a
porcelain-lined kettle, in the proportion
of 4 or 5 parts tomato to l of rice, hav-
ing tomato for the upper and lower lay
ers, and adding all the juice. Stew
very gently on the stove until the rice
is tender.
Scoloped Oysers.-This name, at
first given to oysters cooked in their
own shells or small scolloped tins, is
now applied in general to all baked
oysters, and is of the most delicious
ways in which they can be prepared.
Have ready your baking dish, a large
plate of grated or finely crumbled stale
bread, a generous provision of butter,
pepper, and salt. Proceed then as fol-
lows: Cover the bottom of the dish
with a layer of tress oysters, drained
from their liquor, dot thickly all over
with small bits of butter, then cover
with bread crumbs, and sprinkle with
pepper and salt. Continue to add the
component parts of the dish in this or
der until it is full, taking care that the
hread and huftar for q ton laver- which
when nicely Drowned in a properly
heated oven, gives a most inviting ap-
pearance to the whole. This dish is
frequently spoiled by too large a pro-
portion of bread, as if the cooks under
stood as perfectly the relative value of
oysters and bread as market-men do
that of butter and salt. Always remem
Der that neither your family nor your
guests will relish this ruse, and try to
guard against its preparation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
Odd Marriage

A novel marriage ceremony was per-
formed at Washington a few days ago
by sta Unitarian Clergyman from Ros-
ton" The bride was the third .daugh-
ter of Mr.. S.P. Brown, was handsome
ly dressed, of course? and equally OF
course I" looked pretty and frightened
The groom was Samuel l.. Mattingly
and the unnamed clergyman was
s. pompous in manner and faltering in
Speech. He. suns out the name of
Samuel while reading the marriage
certificate. He afterwards asked for
two rings, and, turning hisfkack upon
the bride and groom, held a ringrin each
hand and called upon the company to
witness that there were'two rings they
we're round, which WAS symbolical of the
marriage. Then he informedthe guests
that the rings were of Igeld-another
piece of valuable information no base
metal this time After the rings were
sufficiently eulogized, he wheeled
around and addressed the trembling
pain and told the groom to putsone ring
on the BRIDES finger, and she must put
the other on the gentleman's finger,
and both repeat, "With this ring I.thee
we'd" After a. prayer, he announced
that the deed was done, and that Mr.,
and Mrs. SAMUEL MattIngly were pre-
pared to receive the fluctuations Of
their friends. Every one said they
never saw or heard of such q ceremony
before, and, no doubt, the minister in
tended to produce that impression.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
An Alligator Captured in the Missouri
River.

The Kansas City Times says: Yes
terday morning while Mr.. Samu-
ell Gardner, the well known fisherman
sons near this city, they captured an
alligator. The presence of a reptile of
this species so far away from its natur-
al home in the sunny South was some
thing unusual. MI. Gardner says that
at first he thought it was a large snake
with its head projecting above the drift
wood and called the attention of his
sons to the strange object. They forced
their skiff cautiously around the strange
object and were somewhat astonished
to find the supposed snake to be the
tail of an alligator about seven feet in
length. After some consultation as to
the best mode of killing or capturing
the creature before it could make its
escape, it was decided to tackle the
varmint then and there, without wait
ing to come to the city for a gun. 1t
required more than ordinary courage
to engage such an ugly looking mon
ster with the weapons the Gardeners
had with them, which were merely
knives and clubs. But they did it, and
after a desperate struggle, in which
Sam Gardner nearly lost his life, the
ugly brute was secured by means of
nets and ropes and brought to the
shore. 1t was towed at the stern of the
skif down the Missouri River from the
mouth of the Kaw, and tied to the shore
below the city. 1t is the intention of
Mr.. Gardner to skin the brute, and Mr..
Henry Bedgood, the fish-dealer on
Fourth Street, near the market, will
have it stuffed for exhibition in his
store
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
The Mississippi Jetties.

The New Orleans PicGyune says: We
learn that for some time past the chan
mel between the jetties at the mouth of
the South Pass has been everywhere
more than 200 feet wide for a depth of
20 feet at an average flood tide, and
that in the middle of this wide channel
the depth is equal to from %! to % feet
at the highest tide at the South Pass,
when a range of three feet tide, with a
channel depth of 1Ot feet, for from 80
to 100 feet in width, is usually reported
at South Pass. Therefore it is seen that
the jetties have given, although in an
incomplete state, a magnificent chan
mel across the South Pass bar to the sea,
twice as wide and several feet deeper
than has ever been obtained across the
Southwest Pass bar.
We are informed that the works re-
quired to confine the flow of water from
the main river, above the common
head of the passes, into South Pass, so
as to secure a like deep channel en-
trance to South Pass over the river
battle-ground shoal above its head, are
being energetically prosecuted, with
every prospect of early success. AL
ready, Notwithstanding the low stage
of the river, the one-dipper dredge-
boat at work there to expedite
the cutting out of a deep channel
entrance has succeeded, as we
are assured, in obtaining a depth of
inlet of from 20 to % feet across this
shoal, which the tidal current suffices
to maintain and widen. Soon, we are
told, two more powerful dredges will
be put to work there, and, with three
obats working together, an entrance
channel across this hard sand middle
ground shoal of sufficient width and
depth for the largest class of ocean
steamers, even at the present low river
stage, may be expected at an early date.
With the river at the height it was three
months ago we would have even now a
clear and unobstructed channel of more
than % feet in depth, from New Or
leans 10 the sea, through South Pass.
, This long looked for and hoped for
d~esideratum, "an open river month";
seems at last to be near of accomplish
ment, and we take pleasure in congrat-
ulating the merchants of Jul city on
the prospect of the revival of their bust
ness interests which must result there
from.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
How Whitnarsf Amused His Neigh.
bOrs.

Whitnarsh's next-door neighbor is
the owner of a very fine hog, an animal
OF n remarkably large size, a sharp
backed, l~ong-nosed specimen. When
WhStmarsh came home yesterday a,fter-
noon he found this hog in his garden,
surveying with great complaceneY the
Some men would have killed the hog
then and there, but Whitmarsh restrain
ed himself, and started to drive the
brute quietly out; but the hog, instead
of permitting himself to be driven out,
showed fight, and when Whitmarsh
kicked at him he seized the foot in his
mouth, which made Whitmarshl lose his
balance and fall backward over a wire
flower stand. He got a little angry at
this, and his anger was increased by
seeing several of the neighbors looking
at him from their windows. Seeing a
hoe handle lying on the ground Whit
marsh picked it up and renewed the as
sault. The hog retreated to a corner of
the fence, and stood at bay, and when
Whitmarsh advanced on him with the
intention of whacking him with the
stick he made a rush between Whit
marsh's legs, which flew from under
him and sat him on the hogs back
facing backwards. Whitmarsh with
great presence of mind dug his heels
in the hogs sides, and leaning forward,
secured a good grip on the hogs tail, a
position often seen in a circus when the
volunteer riders attempt to ride the
trick mules. But this position could
not be maintained even by so agile a
man as Whitmarsh, and the hog max
ing a sudden plunge Whitmash doubled
up over his tail end somewhat after the
manner in which a toy monkey goes
over the end of a stick. Whitmarsh
held on to the tail, however, and the
hog dragged him around in the yard,
rolling him in the dirt in the most reck-
less way, amid the laughter of the
neighbors and to the intense delight of
fourteen small boys, who, perched on
the back fence, were heartily cheering
the performance. Then the hog took
to running through bushes, some of
which had large thorns on them,
hoping to drag Whitmarsh
off from his tall, ~squealing horribly
all the time; but WhiGmarsh still held
on, determined to die right there rather
than let go. Finally the hog dashed
into a large pile of decayed tomatoes,
and Whitmarsh, forgetting himself for
a moment, put his hands up to his face
to prevent its being smeared with the
OdOriferous mass. In doing this he let
go his grip on the hogs tail, and that
animal, leaving him in the tomato heap,
disappeared through hole in the fence
with a farewell squeal of triumph.
Whitmarsh picked himself up and went
into the house, and when he came out
of the bathroom two hours later he re-
marked with suppressed emotion that
he now had but one object in life, and
that was to be the supreme owner and
governor of a small State, and to see
some enterprising genius undertake to
bring a hog into it. He says that after
disposing of just that n Ease he could
die happy.-NeaO Orleans Bulletin.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
A Merchants Son Reclaimed.

A recent announcement in a city pa
per of Il new partnership, by which an
old merchant associates himself with
his son as full partner, recalls a very
singular episode in the young mans
history. Less than IA years old, he was
a graduate of a popular educational in
stitution, and returned to his fathers
house with one very unfortunate habit
that of gambling. He gambled away
every cent he could obtain by fair or
foul means and finally forged his IA
theirs name to a check for $1,000, and
left the city. A private detective was
employed to bring him back, but start
ed from the city without the slightest
clew to his whereabouts. 1t was as
certained, however, that, he had gone
off with another young scapegrace, and,
without any information as to their
route, the officer concluded that the
party would want to see the world en-
route. He followed blindly, but lucki-
ly overlook the fusitives near Cleve.
land. The companion was warned to
take care of himself, but the merchants
son was reckless, and at first declined
to return 10 the city with the officer.
Al IenStn he consented 10 coLne as 1ar
as Jersey City. This was satisfactory
to the detective, who managed to tele-
graph to the anxious father to meet
him on the trains arrival. The young
man was astonished to see his father,
but a truce was soon established and
the son taken home. Ever after he
avoided cards and bad company, and
for four years and more has borne am
pie evidence of his complete reforma-
ton. He is now a partner in a bust
ness reputed to be worth S50,00 year
ly, and not one of his acquaintances
knows these facts. They are recorded
in a private detective agency.-Neoo
York Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
HsW the Nevada Indians Live.

The weather yesterday was of char
acter to depress the spirits of the no
BILE red man. A dead-in-earnest snow
storm he didn't mind a bit; but wet,
thawing weather gets him. When the
snow banks up on his wickiup it aids to
keep him warm; but in q rain or thaw
the trickling moisture works through
the holes in his residence, which is con-
structed of pretty much all holes, and
the cold drops insidiously crawl under
his clothes at his neck and creep down
his spine and make him get up and
howl. In such weather he don't be-
lieve that there is no place like home,
and so he don't stay at home. He
wraps his blanket about him and seeks
the haunts of the pale faces and lounges
on the street corners and chats with his
own or some other Indians squaw.
When it is considered that the Indians
sleep at night ON the damp ground,
with scarcely any shelter to speak OF, and
during the day time, no matter how Sc
we're the weather, seldom enter a house,
one would think their lives must be
miserable to an extreme. But such
does not seem to be the case: they
were born on the bleak hillsides and
the miserable structure for which hut
is too good a name is the only kind of
home they have ever known. Most of
them would die if forced to live in a
comfortable dwelling; and, so long as
they possess a blanket and can get
enough to eat and can earn a little sill
yer to gamble with, they are far more
happy and coHtented than the majority
of white people who live in luxury
EaE, pEu Se7,kfY1eI az e.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

"A pretty widow, whose husband
has been dead for several years, re-
ceived a beautiful bouquet the other
day. The man that sent it had been
flying around with her with an earnest
ness worthy of a dry-goods clerk, and it
was with extra delight he saw her pass
his store that evening with the bouquet
of flowers in hand. cam SO pleased
to see you with them," said he, and a
thousand little cupids dimpled in his
smile. eyes," she replied, "it was
very kind in you; l always knew you
liked him; l am taking them to his
grave"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

The seedy gentleman who comes in
regularly every other day to say he, has
not tasted food for two days, has APP
poeaared to be in falling health since his
return from the Centennial. He coughs
frequently and eve after getting L?
cents he does not step up to the next
saloon with the alacrity which charac-
terized his former efforts. Bates says,
ssDat man minds me of de muffie drum
taps in a funeral possession. He's a
dead beat on his way to the grave."-
N. 0. Rep.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
A Gr0tesque Idea.

M. Leonce Dupont, in his curious and
piquant "Souvenirs of the Republic
mentions a number of the grotesque
folk who swarmed in the ante-chambers
of the Government of Defense at Bor-
deaux and Tours. One day, for in
stance, Admiral Fourichon was inter-
viewed by a druggist sent by La Ligue
du Midi, who thus addressed him:
"Citizen, you are doubtless acquaint-
ed with the properties of vaccine virus?
1t preserves man from smallpox; but,
alas! we have occasion to remark
among the poorer classes a culpable in
difference to avail
"WellP"
"Well, why does not the Government
take advantage of the existing war to
remedy this deplorable state of things?"
"How?"
"Let me explain. With those senti-
ments of humanity which should pos
sess 6. Republic even in its dealings with
its foes, why should the Government
not ordain that the arms of its soldiers
be dipped in a bath of vaccine? With
out doubt the Germans would agree to
reciprocity in this good work, and thus
the sabre or bayonet, while wounolng
an enemy, would insure him forever
against a fatal and loathsome disease"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

superiority of these extracts consists in their
perfect purity and great strength. They are
warranted free from the poisonous oils and
acids which enter into the composition of
many of the fictitious fruit favors now in
the market,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
Pianos and 0rSana.

i am prepared to make great inducements
to dealers, having now in store 500 Organs
and Pianos. Illustrated circulars, showing
prices and styles, mailed free of charge. w.
W. K1MBALL, cor. State q Adams, Chicago, Ill.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
YOU NEED 10 FEAR

that people will know that your hair is dyed If you
use that perfect imitation of nature, TUFTS Hair
Dye. No one can detect it. 1t imparts a soft. glossy
color and fresh life to the hair-a want never before
suDDlied.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

THE Emperor of Brazil on the 2Oth
OF September visited the University OF
hlev, in Southern Russia, and was pre-
sented with a diploma of honor. The
Empress arrived in Constantinople on
the Both.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
BAD BREATH!

Nothing is SO unpleasant, nothing so common. as
bad breath, and in nearly every case it comes from the
stomach, and can be SO easily corrected If you will
take Simmons Liver Regulator. DO not neglect SO
sure q remedy for this repulsive disorder. 1t will also
improve your Appetite, Complexion and General
Health tF .#F
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

NNEAS and BAKING POWDER sold direct to fami-
Il lies. Agents wanted. Woodwork & Cook. 81, Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
I The BEST YET

The Sunday School Times, orwhich Fl. Clay TrTm-
bull and George \. PeltZ are editors, and John Wanna
maker is publisher. will, in ISL. contain critical notes
on the International lessons. by Prots. Tayler Lewis
and Il. Z. kendriCk; Il popular exposition of the
HpsSonS every week. by the Rev. Newman Hall, of
London; aud a practical application OF the lesson
%trutl>sh ny II. Clay Trumbull. This plan SSaIres fuiaer
and better lesson helps than can be obtained else
where. The Times il sent TO new subscribers, three
months on trial. for - coats; one year. SID.
~ For seven cents there vii be sent "A specimen copy
of the Scholars Quarterly. Abe best SGu6.y school
leSSGtF help for scholars published. ....
Specimens of the Weekly Lesson Leaf sent free
The R4ost complete leafo any; although 1t is sold at
so low i price. Address,
JOHN ID. .FS. Business Manager,
------El0 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-22

The Office of Vice President has sometimes
been called tho fifth wheel Of our political
coach. For many years the Office has had
but little credit Aspiring politicians de-
spise it nominating conventions think liz
tie Of it; it has too often been flung to Sec
ond rate men. In the early days of the Re-
public the place seems to have had far
greater consideration it was during many
terms filed by first class men, and was in
deed, the stepping-stone to the Presidency,
Adams, Jefferson and others having gone
from the lower to the higher Office. Later in
our history the Office of Vice President has
been carelessly conferred, but the death Of
three Presidents ought to convince the coun-
try that it is better to make careful
selection.
We have presented on several occasions
the names of centennial candidates for the
Presidency and we present to-day GEN.
tennial list of democratic and republican
candidates for the Vice Presidency for pub
lie consideration. The selection of Vice
Presidential candidate will necessarily be
ruled by the residence of the Presidential
nominee; for it is not probable that both
candidates ON any ticket will be Eastern or
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-22

unyielding in scenting out and resisting
every proposition which had the least SEM
blance OF a job. In the battle for economy
and integrity he is both an elder and bet
ter soldier than any Presidential aspirant of
either party. Moreover. he could be entered
in the race as Q reform candidate without
an open rebuke to President Grants admin
istration. If Mr.. Bristow, for example. who
Is the most conspicuous reform candidate on
the republican side. were nominated, Presi-
dent Grant would regard it % an affront,
and the vast power Of the federal patronage
would not be exerted for his election. But
the President would support MIR. Washburne
cordially, both as an old and tried friend
and because he knows that his zeal for
economy is not a mere mask for enmity or
ambition. Mr.. Washburne would have still
other elements of strength. His noble and
courageous conduct during the siege of Paris,
and the protection he secured for the Ger
man residents, endeared him to every man
who has German blood in his veins, and es-
pecially to American citizens Of German
birth and sympathies. If he should be
nominated at Cincinnati he would receive
the almost unanimous support of our Ger
man population, which is numerous enough
to turn the scale in every doubtful Northern
State The Carl Schuz contingent, what
ever it may amount to, would go for MIR.
Washburne en- ndsse, for he meets every re-
quirement insisted upon by the Fifth
Avenue Conference. Charles Francis
Adams hos Endorsed him as man
with head on his shoulders"
and every way competent to make good
President. We do not undertake to say that
Mr. Washburne is the veritable ozark horse"
but we are willing to stake our reputation for
political intelligence on the opinion that he
is the hardest candidate to beat that the re-
publicans could put in the field. His reform
record is better than either Governor Tildens
or Mr.. Bristow's being Of SO old date that
it is not exposed to the suspicion of self
country must make him impartial between
the prominent candidates now in the field,
and he would treat them and all their friends
with fairness in the event Of his election,
whereas they could expect little considera-
ton from one another. Conkling, Blaine
and any of them would favor his own set if
he were President, but Mr.. Washburne
would come into Office free from such per-
sonal ties, and would harmonize the party by
just recognition of all meritorious claims.
We have spent so much time in currying
<bo rov>u11icop ssdorly bnrcan that ,o,,rt
leave the other unattended to for the present,
although there is great deal to be said in
his favor.