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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
Capture Of the Celebrated NOrthamp.
ton Bank Robbers.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-One of the
three men arrested to-day as the North
ampton bank robbers is not unknown
to the West. Jim Dunlap was original
ly a resident of St. Louis. He went
from st. Louis to Chicago previous to
the great fire, and there met a notori-
Gus burglar named Johnny Berry, who
taught him to blow open safes. About
this time Bob Scott, who had been re-
leased from Joliet State-prison for bur-
glary, became acquainted with the two,
and the trio came to this city about six
years ago. The first work that Dunlap
was engaged in was the robbery Of the
First National Bank, for which Berry
is now, under the name of John Myer,
serving a term of five years in the State
prison at Auburn. Other robberies fol-
lowed, among them that of the Fall
City Tobacco Bank of Louisville, from
which about $1,000 was stolen, on
the night of March 8 or 8, 1873; that of
the First National Bank of Quincy, Ill,
February II, 1874, from which
$4,000 in currency and a large amount
of securities were taken; that of the
First National Bank Of Pittston, Pa
and finally the Northampton Bank rob-
berry. Mr.. Il. A. Pinkerton says he has
proof enough to convict the three men
now in jail, and is on the track of
others concerned in the burglary. The
way he obtained a clew which led to
the arrest of the three men was by
watching the parties who were endeav-
oring to make a compromise with losers
by the bank robberles. He also says
his agency has known the robbers and
their whereabouts for five months, but
did not make arrests because depositors
in the Northampton Bank were anxious
to negotiate for the recovery of a part
of their lost money. Connors is a gam
bier and a go-between. He is of medium
height, thick-set and muscular. To an
interviewer he said he was a sporting
man, and could prove an alibi.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

tact, shows that the decision of the majority
OF the Electoral Commission had only
strength because 1t appealed to partisan.
ship, and was made by partisans, by the
exclusion Of all evidence upon or inquiry
into the merits Of the ease.-Detr0it Free
Press.
"Do you understand the nature of an
oath?' q juryman was asked in a st. Louis
courtroom. ttOf course / do,' was the
reply. "Do you mistake me for a member
of the Electoral Commission?''-Bosto
Post.
No commission can provide an adequate
remedy for the Republican performances
IN Florida and Louisiana, and for the
shameful bolstering up of the knaves and
knavery of those States in which leading
republicans have INDUCED since the cleo
polls. and that it will be found at the polls
DURELL, Bradley, Miller and Strong are
the four Judges to whom the country is in
debted for a Fraudulent President. Durell,
who started the work, has disappeale ed in
disgrace.-Neio York Sun.
HI DECISION OF THE COMMISSION IN PLAIN
ENGLISH.
Be it to all by these presents known:
With fraud and force you must hold your own;
To fraud and it's ministers, Wells, or Tweed,
We give carte blanche and we say God speed;
The hands of the people for them we tie,
The will of the people bid them defy.
W. furthermore write him an ass among men
VINO trusts for Justice to courts again.;
And we bid men look to the court on high
For a Judge who, swearing, will swerve not nor
-Neao York World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
Remarkable Women.

Among the large number of patients
who sought treatment at DIR. CHS
holm's Free Eye and Ear Dispensary,
yesterday, were two sisters, one eighty
four and the other eighty years of age,
who lived together for mutual support.
They were both active 10 limb, and
had walked over a mile to visit the dis
pensary. The elder sister of eighty
four had lost an eye, from an accident,
many years since. The younger, of
eighty, had lost both eyes, from in
fammation, forty years ago, SO that
for half her long life she had been
totally blind. One eye,and that a Grip
pied one, did the family work, except
the sewing, which was done by the
blind sister for both parties. She re-
tanned such delicacy of touch, even in
her old age, that she could thread an
ordinary sized needle with ease. and
even a fine one, after a few efforts.
Her method of threading reversed that
commonly adopted. Having cut off
seuarely the end of the thread, she held it
fixed between her fingers and brought
the eve of the needle up to it, and Of
ten at the first trial would pass the end
of the thread through the eye.-BaHs-
more Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
Science and Industry.

"A schooner recently cleared from
Norfolk for Matanzas with 10000
hoops, the largest cargo of the kind
yer shipped from that port.
"A Baltimore inventor is ruined.
He invented a kind of air cushion for
women's bustles, put all his money in
to their manufacture, and now a change
in fashion has left the stock valueiess
on his hands.
California is experimentally intro
ducing the culture of the cork tree, thus
far with considerable success, and
soon to arrive from Spain, will be free
ly distributed among the farmers of the
State.
The New York Herald has a table
prepared from the most reliable sources
showing that there are in the city near
ly $4,000 skilled workmen in various
branches of mechanics now out of en-
ployment.
The slate interests of Vermont and
the other slate States are enabled by
freie bit concessions to export slate
roofing, school and ornamental. 1t
goes mostly to Great Britain, and the
export amounts to 1866, 600 for last
year.
A mar in Georgia raised 800
pounds of seed cotton on three-fourths
of an acre of land, and secured the
prize of $500, which had been offered
by the seller of the seed for the largest
yield from a So package of seed.
"A steam iceboat, constructed by
Mr.. Mower, of Arcola, Mimi, has been
doing a good business on the St. Croix
River this winter. The boat has a fine
cabin for passengers who prefer such
warm quarters to ar open cutter. The
boat has an iron wheel filed with spurs,
is moved on runner of steel, and pro-
PEELED by steam.
Gen. Changarnier. who died in
Paris, the other day, at the advanced
age of "a, was a soldier of great expe-
rlence and uncommon executive abili-
ties. He first distinguished himself in
Algiers and was made Governor Gene
raj of that province in 184S. When
Louis Napoleon became President, he
was appointed Commander of the First
Military Division, but subsequently ex-
cited the jealousy of the President, re-
fused to take part in the coup d'etat of
1851, and was banished to Belgium.
He returned to France under the gen.
eral amnesty act of 1859, and during
the Franco-German war, by special in
vitation of the Emperor, came to Metz
and conducted the initiatory negotia-
lions, which resulted in the capitula-
ton of the French Army. Since the
war he has held a seat in the National
Assembly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
school and Church.

The cost of tuition per pupil in the
Boston schools is three times that of 20
years ago.
1t Is reported that 40 cents per
capita is provided for the education of
colored children in Georgia, and $1.9O
for white children.
Delaware has $40 schools, with 21,-
597 pupils and 430 teachers. 1t has
spent during the past year, for school
purposes, $216, 225 40.
-Sadlier's Directory for 1877 gives
the Roman Catholic population of the
country as 100000. The hierarchy
consists of, l cardinal archbishop, 10
other archbishops, 56 bishops, and 2,297
priests. There are 1922 churches and
1857 parochial schools.
The Collegiate Reformed Dutch
clergy of New York City are called for
life, with a salary of $1,000 a year, and
an annuity of $4,000 if obliged to leave
through ill-health or old age; and one
of them now wisely refuses his elders
request to resign until his $4,000 a year
is assured.
Brother Moody has got his ideas of
Aod'tu, anu gives tHeih: II YOU Wo'o
to take an unregenerate man off the
streets of Boston tonight and put him
or the crystal pavements of heaven, he
wouldn't want to stay there. 1t you
could take a drunkard and put him UNI
der the shadow of the tree of life, he
would say, Z" 1T is hell for me-" Heaven
is a prepared place for prepared people.
The Legislature of Minnesota APP
proves a uniform system of textbooks
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Miss Nelson, the faForite actress,
has just been granted a divorce from
her husband, Philip Fl. Lee.
Joaquin Miller has written a satiri-
cal poem on modern society, curiously
called "The Princess of Pills"
Our American Kate Field is regu-
larry engaged upon the staff of that lit
erary and political weekly, the E1am-
sner, of London.
Louise de la Rance, better known
as "Ouida," lives in a magnificent
mansion just outside of Florence, Italy,
where, amid silken hangings, marble
statues, old pictures, medieval bric-a-
brac, and 8. perfect wilderness of flow
ers, she writes her popular stories.
The late Cornelius Vanderbilt al
ways pronounced his name Vanderbilt,
and there is a story told to the effect
that having bought a trunk once upon a
time for his eldest son, and ordered his
initials painted on it, it was sent home
marked "V. FL. W."
The Smith Sisters of Glastonbury,
Conn.,, have published in pamphlet
form a history of their trials and mis-
cries incurred under their resistance to
the law. Their new version of the Bible
is not successful, a large part of the first
edition remaining unsold.
Mr.. Richard A. Proctor says that
when he went to lecture in Dayton, o.,
he was placidly let by the manager of
the lecture course not only to see after
all the arrangements for suspending
diagrams, but to take the lions share
of the work of hanging them. "The
manager was good enough to look on
and give me instructions as to the lee
ture itself-informing me, for instance,
that so and so (naming a deservedly
eminent American lecturer) had spoken
only for an hour and a quarter. Now
l paid him. said this worthy, 'to give a
full sized lecture, not short of two
hours The proprietor of the hall,
who was also present, ard helping me
as much as he could, remarked that a
lecture ought not to last two hours.
But the manager OF the course whisper
ed to me that this gas 'only to save his
gas.'n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

One month tner after I had the pleas
ure of identifying my friends, Goodman
and the Soi-diSant "Policeman Perrin of
the Third District" as they were led
from the prisoners box, adorned with
iron bacelets, each to serve 3 second
term in the State-prison. Goodman
nodded patronizingly at me, while his
companion looked me full in the face,
smiled suavely, and-winked.
Lmay add that the plate and jewels,
with most Of the money, were recov-
cred; but l have since been very par
ticular in always closing the window
shutters and curtains at night.-New
York Clipper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

A young man named Andrew j.
Moreland, on his way from Ely, Iowa,
to Denver, killed himself on the Union
Pacific train as it was crossing the
bridge at Omaha. He was suffering
from consumption, and was going to
Colorado to recuperate. He blew out
his brains with q pistol.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
Odds and Ends.

When is a candle like commissioner
When it is put up for o late husband.
The average American would gladly
die defending the name of Washington,
but there isn't one in a hundred VINO
would hand out a dollar to help COM
plete the old hero's monument.
-Longfellow is authority for the
statement that some days must be dark
and dreary. Few will doubt this. There
are men who having pawned their over
coats during the warm snap see the
weathercock going round to N. w, and
they wish they were q time-painted
shingle on a country schoolhouse, patch
ed with moss.
ALITTLE al
She is pretty-too oft it's been sung
And her dimples are wondrous fair,
Like mother of pearl is each little tooth,
And golden is her hair;
But what of the rattle,
What of the tattle,
What Of the sharpness of her little tongue?
The Chicago Alliance says that a
certain Boston deacon formed his Sum
day-school in line and marched them
along the aisles, himself in front, sing
ing {. Hold the Fort" The consterna-
ton which seized all parties at the Sec
ond stanza,
''See the mighty host advancing,
Satan leading on"
can be better imagined than described.
A wHIM.
Up to her chamber window
A slight wire treliis goes,
And up this Romeo's ladder
Chambers a bold white rose.
To her scarlet lips she held him,
And kissed hi many q time
All, mel iG was he that won her,
Because he dared to climb.
II. B. Aidrich.
A method by which persons with
short memories may sing songs which
have been partly forgotten, and also
supply rhymes, is suggested by the foss-
lowing:
Oh, if I had a lumty tunA lumta tum too
In the land of the olive and fg,
Iwould sing of the lumti tu,n lumti to you
And play on the thing -uHny Jig.
And If in the lumty tum battle | fall,
A tumti tum'5 all thar i crave;
On, bury me deep n the what you may call,
And plant thingumb0bs over my grave.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
FOREIGN Notes.

-SOl. OOEuOu, tu6 d1IlCdu cApiOISls
has been appointed Governor of the
entire province of Soudan.
Eugene will not live at Chiselhurst
much in future. She is going to Spain
to try to get a royal wife for her son,
who is to offer his military services to
the Gear.
The Czarewitch, the eldest son of
the Russian Emperor, is spoken of as q
man of extraordinary physical vigor.
He has been known to twist a silver
rouble like a corkscrew in his powerful
fingers.
Marion Harland, who is travelling
abroad for her health, is improving &C
cording to last accounts, but is still I'M
able to bear the fatigue of writing even
as much as a letter. Her husband, the
Rev. E. P. Terhune, has been offered
the chaplaincy of the American chapel
in Rome for two years, with a comfort
able salary and a three months aca
ton every summer thrown in.
The Countess Waleuski, the widow
of the well known Minister for Foreign
Affairs under Louis Napoleon, is about
to wed M. Alessandro, q young Napoli-
tan many years her junior. She has
three grown-up children, and n
adopted son, now French Consul at
Cartagena, the result of Count Waleu-
skis intrigue with the great Rachel.
The Countess has been authorized to
assume on her new marriage the title
of Marquis Ricci d'Alessandro.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

Every maniis in a sense, three diff
.ferent men. In the first place he is the
man he thinks himself to be; in the Sec
ond place, he is the man other persons
think him to be; and, finally, he is the
man that he really is.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

st. Louis has 60 public schools and
$500 pupils.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

show.-PhIGdetphtd Telegraph (Repubtt-
CAM.
MR.. HAYES will hold Office by reason of
the success of fraud and perjury; that this
is the case, Mr.. Hayes knows full well him.
self. Under such circumstances, what is
the duty of every honorable man in the
country? 1t is to denounce him as the re-
ceiver of stolen goods; as the President of
Returning Boards composed OF rascals and
thieves, and as a man utterly unworthy Of
the respect of the American people.-In-
d~ianGp0itS Sentinel.
1T will certainly be a national misfortune
mi a national disgrace if such a wealth of
wrong-doing as has been gathered under
the Kellogg State Government in Louisiana
and eliminated in the proceedings of the
Returning Board is to fasten itself upon the
Nation and aecredit US with a President
Springfield Republican.
THERE are not two more honorable men
in the United States House of Represents
tives than Julius 81. Seelye and Henry l..
Pierce, of Massachusetts. They are men
of spotlsss renntations, and political pur-
lists. That men of their standing and char
acter voted with the Democrats on the Lou
isiana ease, in spite of the tremendous
pressure to keep the Republican ranks in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

in the public school Of that State, an
proposes to let the monopoly for 10
years to any publisher who shall give
assurance of furnishing books to every
scholar at half the present t~rade-prices.
This important measure, over which
there has been animated controversy in
that State of late, only asaits the Gov
ernor's approval to bec
Mr.. Tooth, the Iona
martyr who is now immurea
monger Lane Jail, is allowed to fuAa
his W cell, to pay a poor prisoner for
cleaning it, to use a second cell as q
dressing-room, to look out of a fairly
large window, to take airings, to eat
and yea what he pleases, to smoke
whenever he likes, and drink q pint of
wine or a quart of beer a day, and to
receive as many visitors as he chooses.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

large window, to take airings, to eat
and wear what he pleases, to smoke
whenever he likes, and drink q pint of
wine OF a quart of beer a day, and to
receive as many visitors as he chooses.
Haps and Mishaps.
"A 10-year-old daughter of A. Gold
man, of Grand Rapids, Mich, was
building q fire in a stove when her
clothes caught fire and she was fatally
burned.
DIR. 81. G. Phillips, a well known
dentist, committed suicide by taking
poison at Quincy, Mich, on the 10th.
lntemperance was the cause.
AT Appleton, Wis, a few days ago,
a little son of P. N. Smith was burned
to death while engaged with some play
mates in building fires in a vacant lot
At Manistee, Mich, the other day.
Perry Russell, while engaged shooting
at a target with a pistol, accidently shot
and killed his nephew, a young man
named Willis Russell. The pistol went
off accidentally, the hill entering at the
left arm-pit ard piercing the left lung.
Mrs. Eleanor Seabrook Apologize,
aged Is, of Red Bank, ". j., was car
rying a lighted kerosea.e lamp to her
room, when the lamp enolodpd, setting
her clothing on fire and burning Aer 80
severely that she died IL eight aours.
William Schmelin proprt Or OF
the Lisbon Plank-road House, Mlwau-
kee, was fatally burned By the explo-
sion of a can of kerosene, which ignit-
ed from a lighted caadie, while filing
from a barrel.
One morning recently e teashsrs
and scholars of the Second W.aa School
in GAINESVILLE, Wis, were thro ru tito
confusion by the report of a pistc' and
the exclamation, "My God! I'm sHt5!"
1t appears William Roper, abo@' IS
years of age, had in his possessiol a
small pistol. During a recitation Re
put his hand into. his pocket and began
fooling with it, when the weapon VS.
discharged, causing a painful but not
dangerous wound in the boys leg.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-13
Masonic.

Died in Somerset, o. Sept. 1st., A. D.
1877. Bro. Geo. Brunner SEN, at the ad.
vanced age of 90 years month and 25 days
being the senior member of Somerset Lodge
of Ancient Free and Accepted masons. and
probably the Oldest member of the order in
this part of Ohio.
Bro. Brunner was born in Dauphin Co.,
Pa. July 9th 1885; was married to Miss
Ann Maria Weaver, in Cumberland Co.
Pa. Oct. 1905, and emigrated to Perry Co.
Ohio, Aug, End, 1918; settling In Somerset.
a small forest villa containing but
26 houses and about 140 souls; here he en-
gagged in the business of Shoemaking for
some time; but subsequently turning his
attention TO that of tobacconist, which
calling he pursued until the infrmities Of
age disqualified him for the active pursuits
of life.
Bro. Drummer espoused the cause of ma
sonary in the early part of the year of our
Lord, one thousand eighthundred and TWEEN
ty six, (1S26) or very soon after the organ
ization of Somerset Lodge No. 76 A. F. &
A. NJ. (Which was Jan. Goth of same year;)
and from hasty glance at the old records
we find him filling at different times, some
Of the more important and trustworthy po-
sitions, while his name occurs frequently
on the different COMMITTEES &C., which
proves that he was not only faithful in at.
tendance, but an efficient working membe,
Of the ancient mystic order; and the facts
that he retained membership in said lodge
over half century, that his six sons and
only son-in law, are all active working
members of the ancient and noble fraterni
ty; and that his dying request was, that hs
be buried by the Mason; all speak volume,
in favor of his record as a man and Mason
as well as rejecting hale of lustre around
| the enshined altar Of the honorab bic frater
nifty.
Bro. Brunners last request was granted
the sad yet kind offices of his brethre,
over the remains of the time honored vete
ran, were offered freely; his grave was sur
rounded by a large assembly whose clos
attention TO the service throughout, evince,
the respect to the memory of the deceased
the order was respectfully represented, boil
az to numbers and rank, and while with tn
usual impressive service and Masonic hon
ors, we resigned the body of our aged broth
er to the earth whence it came, we do no
forget to tender our heartfelt sympathy t
the freinds of the deceased and would com
mend them to the tender mercies of tina
GREAT ARCHITED of the UNIVERSE, VIII
is ever ready to fold the arms Of his prosec
tion and love around all those who pu
their trust in Him. Fraternity, &c.
Somerset, o. II. c. GREINER.
September 8. S. T. BABE.
]. G. CURRAN.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-13
There were Twenty five OF us or More.

II was o'clock P. NJ. on the 2sth OF
Aug. The curtains were close drawn and
the lamp burned low. Dimly discernibls
were our forms as we sat, impatiently wait
ing her comeing. At the sound OF her ap-
proach all were still, not voice, not n
whisper, not q sound save of soft breathing
could by heard in the room.-About twenty
five girls and boys aged from twelve to
twenty and village school teacher and
three or four elderly ladies all of the town
of Somerset at the same time and in the
same room were quiet for full minutel!!
She opened the door to enter. The light was
suddenly turned on and showed her large
circle of young associates In gay evening
habit with faces beaming forth delightful
welcome. In the center was a table on
which were tastyfully arranged boquetts,
and on the farther wall beautifully wreath
ed in evergreen were the words "s0eet sir-
teen." One single moment of amazement,
then burst Of joyous surprise and then a
happy and hearty greeting made tablsau
that will be green in memory when we and
She in whose honor it was played shall be
burdened and scattered BY the cares that
coming manhood and womanhood must
bring 70. US all, and until We shall At the
last meet again "st the same little gate
when all's DONE"
We seated her by the table of foweri
and little cousin placed upon her head {
wreath Of myrtle and pure white roses ant
said with sweet voice beautiful words o
congratulation. love and good cheer. Tear
came 10 more than two eyes, not Of sadnes
but "happy tears" that told only Of ingen
urous and disinterssted general sympsth,
and love. Then came beautiful present
from friends. then games and jokes to pleas
. the mind, and confectionery .ich an
. eligently prepared TO please the sense. A
. length with light hearts and with mind
! refreshed and inspired for ifss duties an
e pleasures we parted. each wishing that fo
our young friend and 70. each other man
, happy birthdays, and years Of ussiulnsl
may be in waiting in the time shatYi
not yet.
To much praise cannot bs given 10 II
parents, the brother, the cousin from Brool
lyn, and the kind aunts for SO skillfull
h planning and 80 perfectly and successful
II executing this happy "8i,thday Surprise