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The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17

"THE war will not last long," says the
Hon. George 81. Boxer to reporter of the
Philadelphia Press. sRussia will carry ev-
erything before her, providing Turkey does
not find an ally or allies" A distinguished
officer in the service of the Porte has assured
him that the Turkish forces are in no condi-
tion to resist the advance of an army directed
in accordance with the scientific principles of
modern warfare, and that the Russian army
will be in Constantinople within six weeks, if
Turkey be unassisted by any other nation.
He thinks that a mutual understanding has
been arrived at between Russia and Germany.
The German Chancellor has never given up
the idea of crushing France. The wonderful
recuperation of The French nation after the
peace of Versailles, the rapid reorganization
of the army and the certainty that the strug-
gle would be renewed at some future day
all these have been taken into consideration
at Berlin. Germany to-day is one vast camp;
it is stronger than ever before aud better fit
ted for war; but this has been accomplished
at the cost of prosperity. While France is
growing rich, Germany is becoming poor by
reason of the vast armies, the expense of
which is draining the wealth of the nation to
its dregs. Germany has been unable to
crush France simply because the Gear would
not listen to it. Hence, in order to dispose Of
Russia, Germany was obliged to wait until
that power became involved with Turkey,
and to effect this the German Embassador
spared no pains in urging upon the Russians
the fact that Germany would not interfere
with any programme the Gear would under
take to carry out. But SO thoroughly was the
reason for this understood at the Russian
Court, that when on one occasion the Ger
man ambassador was speaking to the Emper-
or on the subject his Imperial Majesty turned
his back and refused to hear any more. Mr..
Boxer does not think that Great Britain can
long remain an impassive spectator when
Russia threatens communication with India.
If the war can be confined to Russia and Tur-
key the danger will be over--for the present.
But once let Germany give the signal for an
other march on Paris, and all Europe will be
ablaze With conflict SO mighty that empires
must be obliterated before peace shall reign
again.
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

THE Memorial Diplomatiqae is one of the
most reliable exponents of political opinion
in Europe. The following statement of its
London correspondent, therefore, will be read
with interest: eve are no longer in 1853.
The British Cabinet looks In vain on every
side for an ally. 1t has none-at least none
at this moment. France will remain abso-
lutely neutral and Austria is very uncertain.
Italy shows Muscovite tendencies and Ger
many holds herself in reserve. The situation
OF England Is therefore regarded in political
circles as gloomy, and the responsibilities of
the Cabinet of st. James are exceptionally
heavy. The Ministry will certainly remain
impassve during the first phases of the strug-
gle, and beyond that no one can see, and no
plan has been formed. The war. it is believed
IN London, will, even if localized, be long
one. In Asia the Russians will easily gain
great advantages, but in Europe the struggle
will be bloody and obstinate. The Russians
will not easily make themselves masters of
the Balkans. Erzeroum, Kars, Trebizond
and Batoum may be badly protected against
the attacks of the invaders, but it is quite
different with Widdin, Rustchuk, Silistria
and Varna. In Europe the Turks will wage
defensive war, with all the advantages on
their side. The Danube is furrowed by their
excellent gunboats, and Turkey has already
in sight new General, not well known on
the Continent, but very highly esteemed in
British military circles, Tahir Pasha, the
Governor of Rustchuk, who will soon, with
out doubt, replace Abdul Kerim in supreme
command.
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17
Card to Horse Owners.

fEHE Undersigned this day give notice to parties
Il wishing their services in HOrse shoeing,
that they have lowered their prices to Sl,50; that
is, you can have your horses soOd new, for
50, so and reset for rs cts. af 16S FEEDER al
ST between Market and Pearl SITS.
LENNON g. CAREY.
my7 DIFF
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17

The Chicago Tribune is disposed to agree
with the Indianapolis Journal that Mr.. Kel-
logg has valid title to the seat in the Senate
from Louisiana. 1t concurs that, if he had
enough legal votes in a legal body to elect
him, no subsequent proceedings can divest
him of his right. And on that point the
Senate itself must be the judge. 1t by no
means follows that what is called the settle
ment in Louisiana will affect this question.
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY IL.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17

Steamer Belgic sailed from San Francisco for
Hong Kong Wednesday, carrying $4,000 in
treasure, mostly fine silver. Much of the ship
ment was on European account.
HSnake Indian scouts have discovered hostile
camp of Badwaters about rs miles west from
Brown on the west side of the Big Horn range.
The Second cavaly has been sent against them
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17
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at 80 Congress Street, or to FRED. N. DOW,
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The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furn ished
with Card certificate couptersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
iOurnal
The Portland daily press., 1877-05-17
PORTLAND SAVINGS BANK.

TTNHE annual meeting of corporators of the Port
Il land Savings Bank will be held at the Banking
Room, on WEDNESDAY, the 23d day Of May inst,
at O'Clock p m for the purposes specified IN the
FRANK MOVES, Secretary.
Portland, May 16, 1877. my16td
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

are called twins, three, triplets and
four (the largest hand a man can
hold without raising a suspicion of
fraud) are called a quartet. We
have never heard of a pecklet or a
qushlet. In architectural construe-
ton infants are all alike ; and it, dan
gerous to get two youthful children
mixed for fear they will stay mixed.
So far as our Investigation goes, all
babies favor one another, and hone OF
them are handsome. We will not,
however, argue that point with the
Mothers
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
''BABlES.'

Young men, read, pc nder well and
then act.
For the benefit Of young men Of our
town, as it is Il matter of interest to
young men only, we submit for their
perusal commentary of grave i'm
~portance TO them. 1t is short and to
the point and seems to have been
written by n person well posted and
who knows whereof he speaks. Here
it is: "The baby begins life very
young. Its primeval life is made up
of diminutiveness, dampness and dis
tress. Its early friends are few and
fearless. Lit has two legs and two
arms-unless it is a side circus baby,
and then it hasn't either legs or arms.
1t has two eyes in its forehead, one
on each side of its nose, which it uses
as vent-holes for the tears of its early
sorrow. Its head is hairless and near
Iy always so badly cracked that it
has to be tied up in a rag. In the
first few days of its existence it can't
sport more than one suit Of clothes,
which generally consists of a piece of
flannel. The surprise which comes
over it at the novelties of its existence
renders it speeches. for more than a
year. Its habits generally are good.
1t never drinks anything stronger than
milk, and goes to bed early. If it
doesn't swear much during the first
few years those around it make amends
for remisses of this sort. As d gener-
al thing very young babies are ex-
'empt from toothache-the pain strik-
ing them lower down, in the stomach;
mothers call it Etwind," but they
can't give us that. A real healthy
infant can cry six solid hours from
sunrise to sunset without shedding a
tear, and make enough noise in that
time to kill all the flies in August.
We saw a baby or heard of one
who was fond of base ball or politics.
Their domestic inclinations are great,
and you'll mostly find them at home
trying to swallow their toes. Some
how everybody likes babies, and near
ly every family manages to grow
some. They do not grow like amush-
room, but are born; that's wherein
they differ from a toadstool. Some
babies are born all by themselves,
and sometimes they come in twos,
,hrees and tours. Whenever any
provides itself with more than
me baby at a time you may bet all
rour sugar that there has been some
niscalculation, and that the supply {
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

A striking illustration of the hard
times among politicians as well as
among other folks is afforded in the
fact that among the special police
sworn in at the Capital the other day
were two ex-Goyernors, one ex-Judge
and one ex-Congressman, and several
prominent State politicians who have
been hanging about Washington for
months waiting for something to turn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

All sufferers from this disease that
are anxious to be cured should try
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

pat, pat of Little Nell's feet could
be heard as she came off the back
stretch.
There was achuckle of delight from
the judges stand. The being up
there was facing the home stretch.
He could follow the flying horse
around the track at that midnight
hour as well as the men below could
have seen in the bright light of noon
day.
Observation-Disclosures even a
skip!" he chuckled, rubbing his
hands together. ''She won't quite
make it this time, but she will on the
next! How she comes! What keen
action! What a reach! How she
keeps the bit!''
In another second, almost, the lit
tie horse, reaching out as no n had
ever e her before, passed under
the. wire. The white face of the drl-
yer seemed winter to the men beside
the track, but he was looking straight
ahead and holding the lines with q
firm grip.
Ding! ding! ding! rang the bell,
and the horse came back at a jog.
AS she stopped at the stand the
strange timekeeper bent down and
whispered:
ssYou made 2:14 1-2. You'll beat
that by a second next time!"
Honest Jack nodded his head, and
Us his wheel almost brushed the old
trackman it was seen that his face
wore an exultant smile. The stable
bows stretched out their hands as ii
they would stop him, but the old mai
shook his head and whispered.
Hist" It's race against death,
and the time-kecper is aghost.'
1t wasn't a minute before the bel
called the horse to the score, and the
watchers hardly dared to breathe.
She had scarcely caught her breath
and yet when she came down un e
the wire and heard the hoarsely wills
pered word, ''Go!" she shot into thu
darkness like an arrow from Il bow.
Don't move as much as Il tinge
don't even breathe,.' warned TIN
old trackman, as he bent forward t.
listen.
''Pat. pat! pat!" came to hi
ears as regularly as the ticking of
clock. Down the sidestretch, int,
the backstretch, he followed the fly
ing feet, and lost the sound for Jus
a second-just long enough to hea
the timekeeper saying:
''She'H do it-she1l do it-she'
coming like u bullet"
So she was. Never Il skip, bu
pat. pat. pat! and she went unde
the wiIe like a flash. The bell struc.
to recall her, and the watchers locke
into the gloom and then up at til
dark figure. A minute crept by
another-then IA third, and all at one
the judges stand was vacant. Til
man or ghost had vanished us q Dir
drops out of sight.
Something wrong here!" said til
old man, and he led the way dow
the track.
: Down near the first quarter the
came upon the body of Honest JAG
lying across the track. He was deao
Even in the midnight gloom the
could see the smile on his cold fac,
A hundred feet further OH they four
Little Nell and the broken sulky.
D., "Be tender with hiin!" said Il
old trackman, rs the men lifted I
the corpse of the driver. They DO
. it past the deserted stand, and, loo.
; ing up, they saw the same boal
hanging on its hook. On its blaC
surface was chalkcd in bold figure
Thine, 2:l3 II.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

We know the cold Greenlander eats
candles with a relish, the Chinaman
INDUCES in rats, the Frenchman in
horse meat and frogs; but there is an
enterprising dry-goods man in New
York who evidently desires to get up
a new diet for Americans.
He advertises Ladies' shawls for
dinner and breakfast"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

A DIR. Rolpf: of Milwaukee, owns a
monkey which hung itself because its
tail froze off last winter. Darwin
should make a note of this event. In
former days the uncultured and de-
PRAYED monkey would not have hung
itself, but spent its time in coaxing
other monkeys to freeze their tails.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

The use of the water from DIR. ALI
lison's celebrated mineral spring
seems to be having a beneficial effect
on persons afflicted with ''big lays
especially those of them who visit
the spring early every morning. There
are still others who, we think, would
be benefited by the use OF this water,
that are not using it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

A stout Fulton woman who sought
a seat the other evening on the top Of
an empty flour barrel found herself
a moment later doubled up inside of
it, with her head and heels alone pro-
trudingr She was extricated with
considerable difficulty, and wants no
more of that kind OF hoop-skirt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
A TRICK AT CARDS.

A well dressed, clerical-looking
gentleman had attracted a crowd OF
gaping passengers around him by q
number of ingenious and skillfully
executed tricks with apack of play
ing-cards, and, at last, shuffling the
cards several times and slapping them
down on his knee, he said, "I'll bet
any man i'll the crowd that / can cut
the jack of diamonds at the first at
tempt" Every II hung back sus-
piciously, until a green, gawky-look-
ing individual with hayseed in his
hair, pushed his way forward.
''~SIister," he questioned, ''may /
take a squirt at them keerds?'
Certainly" replied the professional,
as he handed them over. The coun-
tryman inspected them suspiciously,
and then, apparently satisfied, re-
turned them, but did not take the
bet. 1.-The cards are all right, aren't
~thcy?"thc professional asked. ''Ya'as
/ guess they'd suit me-" the
c%omtryman said hesitatingly. s'Why
don't you take my bet, then?''
"Waal, | don't know; | amt much
of a betting man." The profession
al saw that c~ountryman was more
than half inclined to take him up.
and, to make ure of his game, lie
said: "Come, I'll bet $40 to s. ::
SIS, $40 to S5!' "Durned if /
don't take ye," exclaimed the coun-
tryman, after Il moments hesitation.
and, diving into his pocket, he drew
out a strip of calico apparently a
sample to show his girl), some con-
fectionery, plug of tobacco, several
horseshoe nails, and, lastly, a dys-
peptic-loGking leather wallet, from
which he extracted a greasy So green
back, which he placed in the hands
of a bystander. The professional
speedily covered the deposit with a
$40 fresh from Uncle Sans printing
bureau, and, then, thoroughly shut
fling the cards Is a prelude, he grasp
ed the pack firmly in one hand, and
producing a sharp pocket-knife he
cut every card in the ,pack in two.
There" he exclaimed triumphant
ly, ''haven't | cut the jack of dia-
monds?" ''Ill be certainly chawed
and swallowed if you have" replied
the c%ountryman, producing hat veri.
table card from his sleeve, whittier
he had dexetrously conveyed it while
pretending to examine the cards
The countrylnan quietly pooketed ths
stakes, and the professional skunk OF
into another car.-Exchange.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
She came to me

She came to me,
And herscoming seemed TO be,
Like the coming of the dawn.
Ger a dark and silent sea
Like a swell of music born.
In perfect harmony.
She came to me,
And her coming seemed to be,
Like the blooming of the rose,
Fraught with sweets alone for me;
Like the falling of the SHOWS,
In spotless purity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

What Il great ''ado' is made by
soTe folks about the ''so-callcd nee
essaries of life" If a working man
has plenty of water, air and exercise,
what is the use of bothering about
food and clothing?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06

There are GS ditferenC kinds of sew
ing machine stitches, and over 200
different ways of lying about them.
The velocipede fever is raging in
Mexico at the present time. Veloci-
pedes are very nice things to run into
when you are in a hurry and the
street is crowded.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
w. RI. HlNZfE
upHoLsTRER aAWNING MAyER
MEXICO, MO.
MEXICO, MO.

Repairs Sofas, Rocking-Chfifa, Ioun.
ges Mattresses, c~ane-bottom chairs, &C.,
Buys and sells all kinds o. secondhand
furniture.
Southwest COR of the Public Square:
WEI. HsNZIE.*
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-09-06
The Seaside Library.

Choice books no longer for the few
only. The best standard novels with
in the reach Of every one. Books
usually sold from 81 to IS given Jun
changed and unanridgcd) for 10 and
20 cents.
/. East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry
Wood, (double MOI zoe
,. John Halifax, Gentleman, by
Miss Mulock, double No.) zoe
5. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
double No. 20c
I. a Woman-hater, Chas. Rcade's
new novel, double No. zoe
). The Black Indies. Jules Verne's
last new novel, single No. Zoe
8. The Last Days of Pompcii, by
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, sln-
gle No. Zoe
I. Adam Dcde, by George Elliot.
double No. poe
8. The Arundel Motto. by Mary
Cecil Hay, single No. 1Oc
8. Old Ayddleton's Money. by
Mary Cecil Hay. single No. l0c
10, The Woman i'll White, by VIII
kic Collins, double No. Zoe
II. The Mill on the Floss, by Geo.
Eliot. double No. 2Oc
l.. The American Senator. by An
thony Trollope, double No. zoe
10. y Princess Of Thule, by VIM.
Black, double No. 2Oc
IA. The Dead Secret. by Wilkie
Collins, single No. Toe
10. Eomola, by Gcarge Eliot. sim
gle No. 1Oc
1G. The English at the North Pole
by jules Verne, single No. 1Oc
II. Hidden Perils, by Mary Cecil
Hay. single No. 100
Is. .Barhara's History, by Amelia
3. Edwards. double No. Poe
10. 4 Terrible Temptation, by
Chas. Readc. single No. 10,
20. Old Curiosity shop, by Chas.
Dickens, doubIc No. 20,
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- 49,
ed. Little Nell worked her ears and
stamped her feet as she stood there,
and the trainer whispered:
''See how nervous she is-she
smells the dead" =.
The bell rang out sharp and clear,
and horse and driver dashed past to
the Score. Every ear in the group
heard the sulky turn, and the next
instant the little horse was down D O
them. Her a II were pointed for
ward, her eyes blazing, and in that
one instant all took notice that she
had a free head. The overcheck bit
had been taken off, the check was
down, and her feet were not weight
ed as ever before. "Go!" shrieked
a strange, tremulous voice as the
horse reached the wire, and the
watchers had not time to wink before
the gloom had swallowed up every
thing except the ghostly white-washed
stand. and the strange Judge; yet
they could hear the pat, pat. pat. OF
the horses feet as she few around
the turn and went down the side
stretch. Then they were lost for two
or three seconds as the lone horse
Numbered into the back stretch.
ssGod ave usi but | neyer saw
such a night as this" whispered the
trackman, whose hair had grown gray
in the long forty years he had put in
on that and other tracks.
'sIIist! He's comingi" replied
one Of the stable boys, and the pat, i
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