Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-15
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fatally wounded.
Miss Theresa House, of Calvert,
Texas, aged II, was accidentally shot
and instantly killed, the other day,
while playfully attempting to take a
pistol from a ~12-year-old boy.
One night during the recent cold
spell, Mrs. Mary Geary, aged about 55,
left a neighbours house, near Meadville,
Penn, to walk to her w residence,
some distance away, took the wrong
road, and was found the next night
frozen to death.
Charles P. Wetmore, 26 years of
age, died at Cincinnati on the 28th ult.
of hydrophobia, after suffering fearful
ly from the attack for several days.
Deceased had been bitten three times
last summer,by n dog, and once by
another. "a. -.
Mrs. Dell Davis, aged 20, was seri-
ously burned at Liberty, Ind, by her
clothes taking fire from a stove. She
was alone in the house, and ran to a
neighbours in a sheet of flame. They
smothered the fire with a blanket, but
she was SO badly burned that she is not
expected to live.
james D. Osborne, aged 81 years,
living about two miles from Center
Point, Linn County, Iowa, committed
saicide, on the 31st, by shooting him.
self through the heart. He had been
the affianced of Miss Flora Hunt, of the
same place, who took her life by poison
a few weeks ago.
"A young woman named Julia
| StnnEfald oonGnoI IN tho Tounfr Toll
at Lacrosse, Wis, committed suicide
fire with a coal taI-en from the stove.
When first discovered the poor woman
was wholly enveloped in flames, which
were SOC extinguished, but not until
the clothes were almost entirely burned
from her body. She died a few hours
later.
An ~S-year-old daughter of Rev.
Abraham Schenck, near Newton, JAS
per County, Iowa, attempted to step
upon a chair, with her hands full of
dishes. The chair tilted, throwing her
backward to the floor, breaking the
dishes, a sharp fragment of one pierre
ing the jugular vein of the neck, and,
although her parents were but a few
yards distant, and quickly went to he
rescue, she bled to death before a rem
edy could be applied.
-Josep Barouche, a dry-goods clerk
at Manistee, Mich, shot himself on the
28th. A note left on his desk address
ed to a young lady whom he had been
counting revealed the fact that he had
committed suicide because his love had
not been requi.ed. He had had an in
tor1yioxu q four bnT1rc hoforo with tho
lady, and it is supposed a difficulty of
some kind occurred with her, as they
were seen to part at the door in a rath-
er hasty, excited manner.
Foreign Notes.
MANY ladies of fashion in Paris
powder their stockings with gold dust.
The official organ of the German
empire publishes the population of Ger
many as now AZ, 727,620. .
There were sold in Paris for New
Years Day consumption $4,000 head of
poultry, 10000 pates de foie gras, $780,
900 Holsters, and 10000 oysters.
The most noted leaders of the So
cial Democrats who have lately mani
tested so much strength in Germany,
and who are so powerful in Denmark,
are Israelites.
The Russian Minister at Washing
ton prudently has his name spelled on
visiting cards according to the phonetic
system, "Shishkin," although he writes
it "Chichkine."
The French Government has dis
missed several Mayors for attending
masses in memory of Napoleon Ill,
and has decided to treat severely all
officers participating in Bonapartist
demonstrations.
Young Prince Louis Napoleon has
been scraping favor with the Cardinals.
On New Years day he sent to all of
them to whom he had been presented
an eel with his visiting card in his
mouth, thus following an ancient Gus
tom.
There are three superior officers in
the German army who have served for
more than 20 years-the Emperor, who
received a grade during childhood, Mar
shall Wrangel, who reckons so years of
service, and Lieut.. Gen. Maliszewski,
commanding the Invalides, who has
served y years.
since the opening of the Suez
Canal the little town of ISmalia has
prospered amazingly. AS an instance
of the increased value of real estate, a
little tongue of land near the mouth
of th. canal that was declined by
LORD Palmerston when offered him for
$4,000, has just been purchased by an
association of English capitalists at the
price of $780, 0O.
AT Walsall, England, it has been
Edecidcd to exclude the Ten Command.
ments from the religious teaching in
the board schools, on the ground that
difficulties would arise in explaining the
fourth and seventh commandments to
children. The passage from the New
Testament has been substituted, run
ming, "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy
God" etc.