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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

named Ralph wander in the streets.
The little girl 1 picked up in town.
They have been with me nearly a year."
Lingering and lingering, they were
surprised by the daylight of Christmas
morning. The short winter night was
gone.
Two little night-gowned sleepers
crept down the stairs and made a rush
for the we'll filed stockings. Still half
asleep and staggering they disappear
ed, and Ralph kissed his love "Merry
Christmas with the sensation that
years of family life and happiness had
softened his black mood OF the night
before.
"Don't come to the door," he urged,
as he withdrew slowly, and she insist
ed on standing in the hall, wrapped
lightly, to watch him as he went.
"But I must see the earth this morn
ing" cried May. "It's a Christmas
earth. Oh, how beautiful and white
every thing isl"
"Yes," said Ralph, "it's a blessed
white Christmas. A White Christmas!'
said Ralph, kissing May again.
MARY HARTWELL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Assaults.

When a candidate for high office is so well
liked and so popular with the masses as to
make his defeat difficult in a fair and hon.
orable fight, mean and cowardly men are not
wanting who delight in manufacturing lies
and slandering his good name. There are
also those whose s~elfiShneSs prompt them to
prostitute their honor, pervert truth, and ig-
more right, for the sake of injuring a com.
petitor in business, whose prosperity they
envy, and with whose business sagacity they
have not the talent to successfully compete
in an honorable way. These thoughts are
suggested by the mean, coWardly attacks
made upon me and my medicines, by those
who imagine their pecuniarv prospects in
iured by the great popularity which my
standard medicines have acquired, and the
continued growth of my professional prac-
ii &c. Narrow-minded practitioners of medi-
Gin C, and manufacturers of preparations
which do not possess sufficient merit to sue
ceSsfulY compete for popular favor, have re-
sorted to such cowardly strategy as to pub
lish all sorts of ridiculous reports about the
composition of my medicines. Almanacs,
"Receipt Books" and other pamphlets, are
issued and scattered broadcast over the land,
wherein these contemplate knaves publish
pretended analyses of my medicines, and re-
ceipts for making them. Some of these pub
locations are given Understanding names, pre-
tend to be issued by respectful, men Of edu-
cation and position, for the good of the peo-
ple-the more completely to blind the read
er to the real object III their circulation,
which is to injure The sale of my medicines.
"The Popular Health Almanac" is the high
sounding name of one Of these publications,
which contains bogus receipts, without a
grain of truth in them. Not less devoid
of truth are those which have been
published by one DR.. L., of Detroit,
in the -Nichigan Farmer, and by other
manufacturers of medicines, in several
so-calIed journals of Pharmacy. They
are all prompted by jealousy and utterly fail
in accomplishing the object of their authors,
for, Notwithstanding their free circulation,
my medicines continue t. sell more largely
than any others manufactured in this coun.
try, and are constantly increasing in sale de-
spite the base lies concocted and circulated
by such knaves. The people find that these
medicines possess genuine merit, accomplish
what their manufacturer claims for them,
and are not the vile, poisonous nostrums
which Jealous, narrow minded physicians
and sneaking c~ompOunders of competing
medicines represent them to be. Among
the large number Of pretended analyses pub
lished, it is a significant fact thatno two have
been at all Extraordinarily proving the
dishonesty of their authors. 1t is enough
for the people to know that while thousands,
yes, l may truthfully say millions, have
taken my medicines and have been cured, no
one has ever received injury from their use.
4. V. PIERCE, NJ. D.,
Proprietor of DR. Pierce's Medicines,
Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo. N. z.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
& as from the Interior of the Earth.

Natural gas is sufficiently abundant
in some localities to allow of it's being
used for the illumination and heating
of towns and cities. Fredonia, N. Y,
which has been lighted with natural
gas for a period of over forty years;
Erie, Pa; Pittsburgh, Pa, where some
of the large manufacturing establish
ments have been successfully lighted
and heated for some years past by gas
received from wells over forty miles dis
tant. There are also many instances in
Northern Ohio, neal Cleveland, and in
Northwestern Ohio, principally from
the shale foundations, where gas wells
are in successful use, and in all the gas
is obtained at so trifling a cost that
nothing can at all approach it for cheap
ness, even for fuel. Within a few years
it has been discovered that natural gas
exists in great quantities beneath the
soil of Mill Greek Valley in Ohio. Some
six Or eight years ago a man, while bor-
ing on his grounds in Cumminsville for
the purpose of ascertaining the locality
of the old red sandstone, struck a reser-
voir of c~arburetted hydrogen gas at the
depth of about 299 feet below the u
face. The volume of escaping gas
through the four-inch shaft was SO
strong that when a match was ap
piled a steady column of flame
shot high into the air. 1t was the
intention to utilize the discovery for
lighting. Further boring, however,
tapped a vein of water, which in turn
filled the shaft and checked the flow of
gas. Previous to this a pipe, with no
gas. jets rudely attached, furnished light
at every jet for many days and nights,
and a fresh vein of gas was tapped every
10 feet until a depth of 436 feet was
reached, and the force of the gas was
great enough to eject columns of water
high above the mouth. Prof. orion,
in his geology of Hamilton County, says
that underlying all the various drift de-
posts of Mill Creek (Miami) Valley are
"thick beds of carbonaceOus clay,
charged heavily with vegetable matter
such as the trunks and roots of trees,
twigs, branches, layers of leaves, ripen-
ed fruits, grasses, and sedges." All
deep geological researches in Mill Creek
Valley have shown an underlying
stratum of heavy, tenacious blue clay,
varying in thickness from so to 100 feet.
In many parts of Mill Greek and in the
| Miami River at Hamilton large outcrop-
pings of the blue clay are seen. 1t is
the theory of many that the decompos-
ed vegetable deposits in this blue clay
| are of themselves sufficient to produce
a large quantity of carburetted hydro
gen gas, but that besides the drift de-
posts below the blue clay are extensive
enough to furnish an abundant supply.
Boston Transcript.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Something to Rally On.

Just before dinner yesterday a wom-
on living on Larned Street entered a
Jefferson Avenue grocery with snap
ping eyes, and as she slammed a tin
pail down on the counter Kissed out:
"Mince-meat is itp Why don't you
call it slop, or stuff, or hen-feed?n
"Ies, that is some of our mince-
meat" replied the butcher, as he un-
covered the pail. 81 remember of your
buying this yesterday"
81 bought this hash for mince-
meatP" she exclaimed.
cit is called mince-meat, madam
"But it tastes like saw-dust and pork
scraps chopped t~ogether!'
81 shouldn't wonder it it did. but
you see most every body understands
that ready-made mince-meat is simply
a nucleus to rally on 1t is the founda-
ton, as it were, of a good thing. You
want to add more meat, more apples,
more r~aisins, some brandy, some cider,
a little cannamon, q few cloves, a sprin-
king of sugar, a trife of spice, and you
can't fail to have good pies.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Clergymen Looking For Work.

New England economy has struck
the ministerial salaries very generally,
and few realize how widespread is the
resulting unsettlement of the clergy.
Not all of them have left their parish
es in consequence, of course, but most
Of them are on the lookout for a
change of field because of reduced sal
aries. They don't wait to be picked
mp by richer parishes either. They
Write directly or by friends to intro
duce their claims, doctors of divinity,
lots of them. Evidence of this can be
collected of the supply committee of
any large vacant local church, of which
there are agood many in western Massa-
chusetts just now, including the three
most prominent Congregational pull
pits of Berkshire. A good deacon, not
far away, has a pile of letters from such
candidates several feet high, and every
mail adds to it.-Sprtngteld Repubk-
can.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Decorations Of the Christmas Tree.

In breaking eggs for cake and pies
leave the shells as nearly whole as pos
sible or in two halves. Ornament these
with bright bits of color and gilt. Paste
small cords to them, fill with candies
and hang OF the tree. With care these
fancy shells may be made to do service
several years. Pop corn nicely, string
it, and hang in festoons or the tree.
Use bitter-sweet berries in the same
way. Apples of bright color and
oranges hung on q tree look very pref
ty. They should be hung near the
body of the tree. Take common bobbin-
ct, cut it like stocking shapes, sew to-
gether with bright worsted, fill with
transparent candies of various tints.
Get rock candy, break into small bits,
and suspend by fine spool cotton from
the boughs. Twill glitter like frost
work. To fasten OF the candles, if you
have not the little candlesticks made
on purpose, use fine wire from some
old hat or bonnet frame. Hang all the
heavy articles near the body of the tree,
the llghtest e near the ends of the
boughs. For a Sunday-school a very
pretty change from the conventional
tree is a ladder. Let it be decorated
with evergreens and flowers, the rounds
Illuminated with a candle at each end,
and the presents be suspended from the
rounds. The ladder should reach from
floor to ceiling. Unless n has seen
"a ladder thus decorated he can form no
idea how beautiful it looks; and then
the lesson it teaches is one that a be
brought home to the hearts of all the
children, little and large.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
A CHRISTMAS SONG.
BY MRS. HATTIE 8. RUSSELL.

BY MRS. HATTIE 8. RUSSELL.
The oak is a strong and stalwart tree,
And it lifts its branches up,
And catches the dew right CALAMITY
In many a dainty cup.
And the world is brighter, and better made,
Because of the wO0dman's stroke,
Descending i'm sun, or falling in shade,
On the sturdy form OF the oak.
But stronger, / ween. in apparel green,
And the trappings 80 fair to see;
Witt, its precious freight, for small and great,
LIS the beautiful Christmas -Cree.
'The elm is a kind and goodly tree,
With its branches bending low;
The heart is glad when its fora we see,
AS we list to the rivers flow.
Ayi The heart is glad. and the pulses bound,
And Joy umine the face,
Whenever a goodly elm is found,
Because of it's beauty and grace.
But kinder, / ween, more goodly in mien,
With branches more dropping and free,
The tints OF whose leaves, fidelity weaves,
Is the beautiful Christmas tree.
The maple is supple. and 1.-THE, and strong,
And claimeth our love anew,
When the days are ~listless, and quiet, and long
And the world is fair to view.
And later-as beauties and graces unfold
A monarch right regally drest,
With streamers afame, and pennons OF gold,
1t seemeth of all the best.
More lissOme, L ween. the brightness and sheen
AND the coloring, sunny and free,
And the banners soft, that are held aloft,
BY the beautiful Christmas tree.
st. Nicholas for December.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
The Shfverfng Victims

OF fever and ague, who freeze to-day to
burn to morrow, might have been exempted
from their present trials had they availed
themselves in time of that safeguard against
all malarious diseases, Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. But if it is too late for prevention,
it is not too late for cure. A single bottle of
this irresistible herbal tonic will stop the
paroxysms, and q brief course of it will re
store the patient to vigorous health. The
prudent and thoughtful, however, who
would rather forestall disease than wait for
it's assaults, will resort to this sure defense
against intermittent and remittent fevers at
the commencement of the season when they
prevail. NoW is the time to forearm the sys-
TEN against fever and ague, bilious CON-
plants and Observation-Disclosures which are
often engendered, and always aggravated, by
the chills and damps of winter and early
spring.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
A Curious Indian Legend.

The existence of an ancient Indian
village at Paragoonah, Utah, about two
hundred miles from Phoebe, is reported.
The houses, now covered with trees and
brush, were arranged in uniform rows,
and were about eight by nine feet in
size. They were all two-story, built OF
adobe, supported by pillows of sand
stone rock. The only entrance discov-
cradle was a sort of man-hole in the
top. Bone needles, rude appliances for
grinding corn, and other relics, were
found i'll several of the houses. There is
a tradition among the Indians of that
region that long years ago the tribe that
inhabited this village brought about
their humiliation by their own prepos-
ferrous opinions.
They were quite a prosperous people,
and refused TO associate with the Sioux,
Shoshones and other tribes. Indeed,
they were far above the savage Indians,
inasmuch as some of them were real
giants, and walkei the Western plains
Goliaths in power and size. They were
wbiter than most American descendants
of Shem. They, however, hadtheir ce-
fects, and n of these was a well de-
They refused to believe in the Grea
Spirit, and declared that they could re-
member>when they had existed as four
legged animals. Their remote ances-
tors could trace their origin to the SER
pentine world, and told how their an
cestors in turn could tell of the very
time when the first member of their
race had absolutely sprung into being
from nothing.
The other Indians did not take to this
idea. On account of this preposterous
piece Of ignorance, this peculiar race
would have nothing to do with the other
tribes. = They also looked upon their
beliefs in regard to a spirit realm and a
hereafter as all foolishness. They did
not believe in the good and evil genii,
and were loud in their denunciations of
the spiritual visitants of this mundane
sphere. They were very persistent
in their denunciations, and at last
brought the whole spirit world down
upon them.
The ethereal characters determined
to avenge themselves for the indignity
offered them. The long and short of
the matter was, that an army of them
swooped down upon the i%rreverent
wretches one night and carried off the
whole tribe, men, women and children.
AT last, they disappeared between two
suns and left no trace except their
buildings. Not a word has ever been
heard of them since.
Darwin and kindred philosophers
should take warning.-DemUer Tribune.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

"Then why not make my own mince-
meat!" she shrieked.
"Why> notP We keep it on sale
simply as an objective point to rally
on"
"Well, you and your whole caboodle
of clerks can rally on this half7gallon,"
she firmly said, turning the pail upside
down on the counter.
"Just as You desire, madam" was
the affable reply, and when she reached
the door and looked back the merchant
still wore the same kind and patient
smile.-Detr0it Free Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
CHRISTMAS COMING.

Now time has turned, with q restless hand,
His hour glass DER and DER,
And the news goes forth on sea and land,
Old Christmas comes once more.
There never was cheer like the Christmas cheer
The last, best gift of the dying year,
To the weary sons OF men.
The bells are ringing the story old
From out their brazen throats.
AID millions listen to hear 1t told
As over the world it floats.
tn wanderer hears the joyous sound:
.S'God bless the bellsl Lam homeward bound,
For Christmas comes again."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

For the first time in the history of
the country the Department of Agri-
culture and the Southern Cotton Ex-
changes agree about the current cotton
crop. Ten per cent. decrease, or $780,
600 bales, are the figures agreed upon,
making the crop 4,200,0 900 oaies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
An Ingenious Astronomical instrument.

NJ. Mauperin of Paris has invented
an ingenious apparatus for enabling
one to determine instantly the name of
any star or constellation, by simply
pointing in its direction with the indi-
Gator provided by this instrument.
The apparatus consists essentially of q
tripod stand supporting a circular ia
BILE, which may be inclined at any angle
to the horizon. On this table is en-
graved a map of the stars, and its cir
conference is divided into degrees and
the divisions of the year. From its
center there stands up a column which
revolves about its axis and supports at
its top a pointer. This pointer IS NOV
able about its center in a plane per-
pendicular to the table, while in a hori-
zontal direction it carries a second
pointer, fixed at the base of the column,
and, therefore, in close contact with
the map of the stars. It., of course,
follows, that when the upper pointer is
directed toward any stars, and the star
map is properly oriented for the day
and the hour, the lower pointer will
then cover the star in question, and it's
name may be read on the chart, with
the utmost readiness and convenience.
Eliminates the chart sufficiently, so that
the whole stand may be carried out of
doors and used there with advantage.
The indicator may also be employed for
the inverse process-that is, for max
ing charts, and may be used, too. by
observers OF shOOting-stars and aurOras.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
60 COLLINS
VOlTAIC PLASTERS
Afford the most grateful relief in all
Affections of the Chest and Lungs.
CHRONIC PLEURISY CURED,

Messrs. WEEKS & POTTER:
GenHepaen,-Uaying for many months past suffered
with q very lame side, called by my physician Chronic
Pleurisy, caused by a former injury and strain, and for
as the so-called rheumatic cures. without the least
bencnt, my physician recommended one OF your COL
Inns VoLTAIcP LAsTERs, which, to my great surprise,
relieved the pain and soreness almost Immediately,
and / have been able to attend to my household af.
fairs ever since With perfect ease and comfort, where
as before the application OF your Invaluable plaster
inestimable and shall with pleasurs recommend them
to the afflicted. Yours respectfully,
Mrs. RANCE HARTMAN.
ORLAND, Me-, April 81, 1876.
There is no medical or protective appliance that
will prove SO grateful and effective in Tickling Coughs,
Irritation and Soreness ofthe Chest and Lungs. We
believe them capable OF preventing serious diseases
Of these organs.
Price, IS cents. Sord by all druggists. Mailed on
receipt Of price, Is cents for one, $l25 for six. or $?;25
for twclycsa carefully wrapped, and warranted, BIZ
WEEKS POTTER Projectors. Boston. Mass.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Living in Ice for a Year.

The Newark Advertiser has this story
"Fish are cold-blooded creatures, as
every one knows, but the proprietor of
the Fourteenth Ward House, on Murray
Street, has a sample of the piscatorial
tribe which for GOODNESS is equaled only
in scientific annals. He is of diminu-
tive size, a minnow, in fact, and was
brought to the establishment embedded
in q block of ice, somet two inches below
the surface. He had evidently been
frozen in when the ice was formed last
winter, and has been living a comforta-
BILE, though inactive, existence ever
since. That he was alive, has been
alive, and is alive at present, is demon
strated by the fact that, when removed
from his icy home yesterday morning
and placed in water, he padded off
comfortably and easily, evidently en-
joying a release from his long impris-
onnlent. The little fellow has been liv-
ing a life of suspended animation for
nearly a year at least, but, though it
has retarded his growth, he is evidently
in a healthy condition"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

The widow and two daughters of
Gen. Anderson, the hero of Fort Sum-
ter, will return from Paris to Washing
ton for the winter. -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Each package contains Sanford's Improved Inhaling
500 per package. For sale by all Wholesale and Re.
tail Druggists throughout the United States. WEEKS
d POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale Druggists,
Boston.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

SopELY AEElICTED-

J. o. Bosroorth 6 Co.. Denrer, COL: Gentlenaen,-
Prompted by q fellow.feeling for those afflicted with
Catarrh,I wish to add my testimony in behalf of SAN.
FoRD's RADICAL CURE FOR CArAREu. l have been
sorely afflicted with this fearful disease for four years,
and have tried every known remedy without avail.
until l bought a bottle Of the. above CURE from you,
which gave me almost instant relief, II being s con.
all that is claimed for it, a Radical Cure for Catsrrh.
Very truly yours, WIN. AMETIVE,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
AFFLICTED,

Kessrs. j. o. Boscorth G Co., Denrer: Gcntener.-
take pleasure in recommending SASFORD'S RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH 10 all who are afflicted with this
disease. was greatly afflicted with 1t for a long time,
and cured it with two bottles of the above CURE,
About a year afterwards l was again taken with Ca
tarrh quite severely, and Immediately sent for another
bottle. which fixed me all right, giving me relief from
the first dose; Lam conhdenttlat this remedy, will do
all that Is claimed for 1t, and more too. Wishing you
success in its Introduction, I am, very truly yours,
A. W. SMITH.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-22
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SPECIAL. NOTICES.
The Original Cheap Store
or
SOLOMON PAhElRA,
lA9 & IL CoIpnlcrciaI AXenu

9SI * tte C0fDnlcrctat ANcnu-,
Mss reduced his price to correspond with
the present HARD TIMES. The public need
rot be reminded that my prices have always
been lower than any other house, but I
wish t. inform everybody in need OF new and
fresh goods ia my line. that | have made
special reduction IN all lines to suit the
times. ! invite all to call and let me de-
monstrate the fact that can and will sell
Dry Goods. Clothing, Boot, and Shoes,
Ladies' and Gents Furnishing Goods, Hats
and Caps, Trunks and Valises, Furs, Checks
Blankets, shawls, Wrappers, CloaLs. lower
then any house in the trade. The reason is
plain, We buy and sell only for cash.
Remember the place.
SOLOMON PAREIRA,
Dec. lit l42 & 144 Commercial Ave.
Co-t"rtneS~hip Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the under.
signed have this day formed a co-psrtuer.
ship TO carry on the manufacturing business
of mattresses, pillows md holsters. whole
sale and retail. at No. 100 Commercial ave.
nue.. betwep nth and 18th streets, also up
holstering, repairing and vanishing. Carr
pets win be sewed and laid 10 order. The
styls OF the firm is Hicks & Casner.
G.. W. HICKS
G.. w. CASHIER.
Cairo, NJ, Dee. 3, 1875. j.d.lm