Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-29
Haps and Mishaps.

Three children recently diedin Lu
zerne County, Pa, from the poisonous
effects of eating " SKUNK cabbage.
Mrs. Tuckens, aged Is, was burn
ed to death at Rochester, Pa, by her
clothes taking fire from a CRATE
At Fort Wayne, Ind, a young man
named T. d. Wilson was examining a
revolver, when the weapon. was acct
dentally discharged, the ball entering
his forehead and inhicting a fatal
wound.
Three children of Thomas Hogarth,
of Clay County, Iowa, Q left alone
in the house while their parents went
to town. During the day the house.
took fire and two of the children were
burned to death. z@ #r%gE pc =
George Tolles, aged 81, a. dwarf,
became lost and blinded in a snow
storm in Cowley County, Kansas, on
the night of the 14th, and travelled
round and round in a circle until ex-
hausted, when he lay down and died.
Near Milwaukee, on the morning
of the Sth, the house of a milkman
named Plautz, was destroyed by fire,
and a child that had been left sleeping
near the stove, while the family were in
a distant barn milking, was burned to
death. -
Mrs. Susan Ferguson, of New York
City, had completed preparations for a
journey to Missouri to see her sister,
when she received a dispatch announc-
ing the sudden death of her sister. She
was utterly FRUSTRATED by the news, and
died IN half an hour. .a FL.
l. A. N.,ola NIL 80 Az 1StL ,-l;1o
going towards the Union Pacific Depot
in company with a friend, MIR. Harri-
son B. Nichols was knocked down and
run owe by a runaway team. The
horses slipped on him and fractured
his left arm and skull. He lived but a
short time. He was well known citi-
zen OF Denver, and was on his return
from Detroit. CASA. .1 as.fa@E .EtG
Foreign Notes.
Baroness Nathaniel Meyer de Roth
schild is dead. .. e,
The buildings for the great Paris
Exposition of 1878 are making rapid
progress. Over 1000 workmen are
employed, with 1900 carts. na .
The Prince and Princess of Wales,
with the royal children, will spend 81
part of the. summer at Copenhagen
with the Danish royal family. I'd
jung Bahadoor, for more than a
quarter of a century the Premier and
virtual ruler of the powerful State of
Nepaul, India, died in Calcutta ON the
Sd inst.
The English farmers are strongly
~condemning the Government for having
in the present crisis of their affairs,
omitted all reference to agricultural af-
fairs from the Queens speech. aaes5 70
"A railroad panic broke out at the
beginning of the year in Switzerland
and the shares of the two principal
lines fell about one-half. This, with
the decline of the watch trade, makes
the Swiss feel poor.
-Catharine Of Modena, wife of the
Count de Chambord, lately kissed the
Pope's slipper. and presented him with
10000 francs in gold. His Holiness
favored her with an alloeution, of which
the lady, being very deaf, did not hear
a word. -. a-.
This wear the st. Petersburg
Demtshe Zeitung completes a century
and Il half of existence. La commend
ration of this event, with the new years
number it gave a fac-simile of the first
number of it's second years issue-that
of the first year was not obtainable.
The authorities of Italy are max
ing another attempt to suppress brig
andage and the secret society Of Malta.
They have begun at the top by arrest
ing people high in society and politics,
among them being the Mayor of a mu-
nicipality in the infested district.
European gossip has it that the
young King of Spain is broken-hearted
over the late marriage Of the daughter
of the Duchess Sesno. Alfonzo hadn't
the courage to attend the wedding, but
shut himself up in his room, where he
received every few minutes a note from
an attendant informing him OF the
progress of the ceremony.
The Emperor of Brazil finished 9
discussion If ~raIiUiouso uestiOn with