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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-28

Won MoLTKEsr FIRsF AND aONLY
LovE.-W hen Won Moltke returned
to Holstein, after reorganizihg tue
Turkish army, he found living
toere. with bis sister-who had mar.
r:ed Mr.. Butte, an Englishman-a
Young girl between fifteen and six
teen, daughter Of Mr. Bute'sg fret
marriage. The pretty llittIe girl
loved dearly, before seeing him; the
soldier who had sont from the Orient
sach interesting letters 10 his sister
As for Won Moltlse, he.llade Until theti
seen in a woman onlyaas being con-
stantly iuterfering7with ltheI tieihodis
eal life Of q worker. lasBntg Whenaia
man more than forty years is
loved by bewitching girl ofsixteen,
he ends by returning! her affections.
From that time there Was -but-ocne
woman in the world atoahim, as there
was but one @ofk lIetiaarried Miss
Mary Butte. and swl.en aeRdied in
Z&Gs, los8rea{ Biela l could
cay that lis lie as 4 socia slug was
also ended. OlIY lis oIdier re-
nainod. The CouAfess Was buried
in his beautiful park at Silesia, and
on the marble above herds written:
Love is fulfilling the Ian. ., mrs Mary
Won Moltke was veryiTbrighfs s5yery
charming, very rnerry,IaTgd4LS,it g4L, s;I IS told
as pathetic truth i4th8taysinee hhers
death tho Field Marshal i,asltno boon
baon to laugh. =. r,a'I,2 sasoasvsonz s'ses
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-28

mpartiag heaIth,and strength to The system. Sold
sverywhereL OficeT35 Murray Street, New York.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.

FEB. 2S.-After a secret session Of four
and a half hours upon the oregon case, Senator
Thurman being confined to his bed by sickness,
the Commission proceeded to his residence,
where a number of votes were taken upon ques-
lions previously discussed. The first vote taken
was upon a resolution declaring Watts ineligi-
BILE within the express terms Of the Constitution,
which was defeated by the strict party
vote of Z to s.. Another resolution, declaring
odell and Cartwright the only Electors chosen,
was defeated by the same vote, as WAS
another resolution declaring the two Electors
chosen incompetent to choose a third under the
state law. A resolution declaring the ,rtnin
certificate invalid was adopt q unanimously. A
resolution offered by Mr.. Morton declaring the
three Hayes Electors duly chosen was then
adopted by the strict party vote of Sio Z. The
report of the 4 commission is in substance "a fol-
lows: That il is competent To go behind the Ger
'ti6ca,e Of the Governor, so far as The same is rot
founded upon action OF canvassing or returning
authority provided for by laws OF the state.
which authority in the case of Oregon is held to
be the Secretary of State The report viii also
take the ground that it is not esseI tial 70 shox
thai an Elector was eligible on he tn OF Nov2
Der, provided IL be sngWn 49, me Nas ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
The Rinderpest In Europe.

Rinderpest is n more let loose in
Europe. 1t is in Germany. 1t has.
eluded the detective system supposed
to be in vogue in Hamburg, and it has
been shipped to this country, whether
with the cognizance of any of the par.
ties concerned in the trade or not we
shall probably learn hereafter. But the
contagion has been brought 10 the port
of London. The authorities have de-
stroyed the infected animals at Dept
ford, melting them down in the digest
ers provided for the purpose, and care
fully disinfecting the persons who were
employed in slaughtering. The vessel
which brought the cattle-namely, the
Castor-has neen disinfected by scrub
bing and l~imewashing; but there is no
law to prevent that ship at once bring
ing another cargo of animals. We can
not consider such cargo safe unless it
is slaughtered urder the most rigid pre-
cautions. We are not much AFRAID of
cattle plague. The Veterinary Depart
ment of the Privy Council are fully
awake to the danger; they know how
to, stamp out any outbreaks IN, this
country, and we are confident that they
are determined to do it. Our anxiety
is not about q possible rayage by cattle
plague, but about the coming sacrifice
of the property Of stock-owners by foot
and-mouth disease, which the Veterin-
airy Department, the Privy Council and
Parliament have given us no means of
preventing or REFRESHING. Breeding
and grazing, the remaining sheet-an-
chors of the British farmer, are being
now loosened and uprooted as certain
means of}profitahle return by the COM
petition of American meat, by which
our meat is undersold; and if the farm
ers of the United Kingdom viii not
now use all their power IN obtaining q
compulsory prohibition Of the importa-
tation of foot-and-mouth disease, and
the establishment of a complete system
for depressing outbreaks of that de-
structive and rninous complaint, they
will cry when it is too late, and will de-
serve the severe penalty which must
fall on the whole husbandry of these
realms.-Chamber Of agriculture Jour-
mai
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
JOINT SESSION,

At II O'Clock the Senators entered the
hall, and the action of each house on the objec-
tons having been read. the presiding officer an
nOunced that, the two houses not concurring
otherwise, the Electoral votes OF Vermont would
be counted, and they " ere thereupCn declared
AS five for Hayes ana Wheeler. Then the certif-
cate of Virginia was read and the votes of ihas
State were announced as IL for ii!den and Hen
bricks. The votes OF West Virginia were an
nounced as five for IiIden and Hendricks.
Then came the last state, WISCONSIN,,
with 10 votes for ttayes and Wheeler.
The certificate of Wisconsin having been
read, DIR. Lynde presented objections duly
signed, and the Senate withdrew to its chamber
At ;0I a. m. the two houses again convefed~
joint session, the action OF the respective hous5
on the Wisconsin q estion Nas real, ana the
votes OF Wisconsin were announced for Ha9@
and Wheeler. The presiding officer then sa
This concludes the count OF the thirty -els
States of the Union. The Tellers will now
certain and deliver the result of the votes 20
presiaing officer" Senator Allison, one of
Teliers, having delivered his statement,
presiding officer expressed the hope that on {
announcement nothing would occur to mar {
dignity of the proceedings, so reputable to
of the world. He then said:
The whole number of Electors appointed
vote for President and Vice-Prssident of !
United States is 800, of which a majority is Il
The state of the vote for President. as deliver
by the rellers, and as determined under The act
Congress of January 20, 1877, on this subjec
is: For Rutherford 3. Hayes, 1855 votes, 4
Samuel j. Tilden, 1874 votes. The state OF L
vote for Vice President of the United States,
delivered by the Tellers. as determined und
act of Congress approved January 30. Is I,
this subject. is: For William A Wheeler, L
votes; Tor Thomas A.. Hendricks, I84 votes
Whereupon, l do announce that Rutherford
Hayes, of the State of Ohio. having received
maj 'rity of the whole Rumber of Electoral votea
Is ouly elected President of the United STATE
for four years, commSncing on the Tn day s
March. ISL; that William A. Wheeler, of IT,
State of New York, having received a majorits
of the whole number of Electoral votes
is duly elected Vice President of the Unite
States for four years, commencing on the At
day of March, 10 I. The announcement, tC
gether with the list of votes, will be entered o
the Journals of both houses The count of tn
Electoral votes being completed, and the result
determined, the joint meeting of the two houee
is dissolved. The Senate will now retire to is
chamber" q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
A Wonderful Spirit Communication.

It has often been charged against the
spiritual manifestations tha yhey 90 no
practical good-they can play banjos
and ring bells and cuff peoples ezrs,
but tina don't help any body or prove
any thing. Mr.. J. W. Giles, OF this
city, to the front, now, with d
remarkable tale of his own experience,
which tends to show that the spirits
"a be of some use when they feel dis
posed. His statement is as follows {:
A relative OF his, who was an officer in
an Iowa cavalry regiment during the
war, died, several years ago, leaving a
wife and children. \ part of the mon
ey due him from the Government was
paid to his widow. A few months
since Mr.. Giles was at a spiritual seauce
in Chicago, when the spirit Of the dead
soldier communicated to him, through
a meiium, that about $500 was still due
to his heirs, but had not been collected,
because the niece sary papers had been
lost. The spirit said the papers were
in a wooden box in a certain drawer in
a bureau st home, wrapped up in 3
bundle Of three newspapers. MIR. Giles
afterward went to the house, inquired.
of the family, and found that tge
money was due from the Government {,
but the papers had been lost, He ttIan
told what the spirit had said to him.
the box was found in the bureau, the
newspapers were in the box, and tEe
military papers were rolled up in the
newspapers. They We're immediately
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
Table Science.

The smaller a mans means are the
more does he need the benefit of the
help that scientific research can give
him to use those means to the best
advantage. 1t is only the well to-do
who can afford with IMMUNITY to neg
lect such teaching. People who do not
know how for themselves to make use
of the tables want the facts put before
them in some form as DIR, E. Smith
gave it in Privy Council reports. He
divided the needed daily amount of
carbon and nitrogen into three meals,
and gave a series of examples for
breakfasts, dinners and teas aJ different
prices. The amounts OF the foods he
mentions were expressed IN pounds and
ounces or pintS of each, and then he
gives in grains what is the amount of
nitrogen and carbon in the meal. For
example, he gives a breakfast, calcu-
lated for s. family at three cents a head,
consisting Of skinned milk, oatmeal,
water, bread and fat. which gives to
each ration, if equally divided, carbon,
LAS grains. nitrogen so grains. An
other breakfast, at the same price,
somewhat different, and including ba-
con, gives carbon 1854, nitrogen 90;
and another, also at the same price,
carbon 1880, nitrogen Sc. For dinner.
at four cents q head, he gives carbon
1,6l6, nitrogen Il; table 1870 gives,f for the
same price, carbon 1918, nitrogen l40;
another, also st the same price, carbon
2,l44. We quote also three tables Tor
tea at two cents . head: Carbon go,
nitrogen 30; carbon 1854, nitrogen 81;
carbon 1,25O, nitrogen 43. There are
also other examples at slightly different
cost. This is, however, sufficient to
show that the cost of a meal has no re-
latiOn to its value as nutriment.-NeW
York Herald.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
EAST.

j. P. Hassler, late Cashier OF the Carlisle
Deposit Bank, Carlisle, Pa, hanged him.
self, on the Goth, in the garrett of his dwell
ing, which was attached to the bank. Hass-
Ter was elected Cashier in 1865, and held the
position until last October, when he was
found to be a defaulter. The bank officers
had instituted criminal proceedings, and
bail was fixed at SIS, 600, which Hassler was
unable to secure. He was found hanging
from the same rafter on which the Cashier
preceding him, VIM. NJ. Bertram, hanged
himself in 1866.
The Vanderbilt will is to be contested by
Cornelius j.. Vanderbilt and some of the
daughters of the late Commodore.
Ex-Gov. Joseph Johnston, Of Virginia,
died on the 28th ult., in the ninety-second
year Of his age. He was born in the State of
New York, December, 1855, served four
teen sessions in Congress, was elected Gov
ernor Of Virginia, besides being five times
elected to the. Legislature and once to the
Constitutional Convention.
The Vanderbilt will is to be contested by
Cornelius j. Vanderbilt and some of the
daughters Of the late Commodore.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

The Presidential election in Mexico has
resulted in the election Of General Diaz-at
least he claims to have received q large ma
jority of the votes cast, and pending the
official count he has taken the p]recaution
Of being sworn in as President de fdct0.
General Corales, Governor of the State OF
~Tamaulipas, has taken possession of Mata-
moras with 1 900 men and placed General
Cortina under arrest, Ostensibly for a dis
obedience of orders, and it is rumored that
he will be court-marshaled and shot. Cor
tina's friends have generally taken refuge
upon American soil.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
CURRENT NEWS.
GENERAL.

B. p. Brashear, q former, Government
agent. who was indicted for bribery in
connection with the St. Louis Whisky Ring
frauds, is reported seriously ill at Brus-
sells, Belgium, where he has been living
since he fed to escape arrest. President
Grant has therefore ordered the Attorney
General to discontinue proceedings against
him, so that he may return to his native
land.
Gen. Macarthur, Postmaster at Chicago,
on the oath t~elegraphed his resignation to
the Postmaster General. An investigation
of his accounts, at that time in progress,
showed that he was a defaulter to the
amount Of $3s, 600.
The President. on the Goth, nominated
Hon. Frank w. Palmer for Postmaster at
Chicago, oice Macarthur, resigned.
The majority of the House Committee on
the Privileges, Powers and Duties of the
House, on the Goth, agreed to report a bill
to provide for temporarily filling any vacan-
cy occurring in the office Of President, in
the event of there being no constitutional
declaration of an election before the COM
mencement of the regular term. The bill
provides, If the Senate be in session at the
commencement Of the new term, the pre-
siding officer shall act as President OF the
United States until the President shall be
elected and qualified in accordance with the
Constitution and existing law, but If the
Senate be not then in session, the presiding
officer last elected by that body shall become
President of the United States until the va
cancy shall be regularly filled, provided
that such last presiding officer shall not have
ceased to be a member of the Senate on the
4th of March, and provided, also, that he be
possessed of the constitutional qualifications
as to age and nativity. The bill also provides
that, in the possible contingency of there
being no such presiding or ex-presiding
officer of the Senate, the Speaker OF the
House shall act as President. The bill
looks to a new Presidential election next
November, and in the event Of any tempo
rary occupant being installed, he would be
entitled to continue in office under the pro-
visions above referred to, until the 4th of
March, 1878.
The public debt statement for March l
shows u decrease of debt during the preced-
Ing month OF g 070, 429; coin balance, 1902, .
637; currency balance, $91, 228; special de-
posts, 1914, $50.
The counting OF the Electoral votes for
President and Vice-President Of the United
States by the two houses OF Congress was
concluded at APO a. m. on March 2, and the
result announced by the presiding officer as
the election OF Rutherford B. Hayes and
VIM. A.Wheeler.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
the purpose of destroying the records and

the purpose of destroying the records and
covering a defalcation in the Tax Collect
or's Office, amounting to about 500, 600. 1t
most Of the money had been gambled off by
VIM. Rumsey, Deputy Collector, and that
a number of prominent citizens OF Salinas,
including certain county officials, had been
winning it. Collector III. A. Castro has re-
signed, Rumsey is locked up awaiting ex-
animation, and several prominent citizens
have been arrested for completely.
Aterrible tragedy was enacted at Tifin,
Ohio, on the 2sth. Jacob Wettzle, a baker,
deliberately shot his little babe through the
heart, killing her instantly. The child was
only two years old, and at the time of the
tragedy was sleeping in bed, where her
mother had placed her for the night. After
killing the babe he attempted to shoot his
other little girl, but the mother, putting her
self between them, received the shot, which
inficteda slight wound. Wettzle was ar
rested and placed in jail, and his actions
seemed to indicate that he was insane.
W. H. Walker & Co., a wholesale whisky
firm OF Louisville, KY, filed a petition in
bankruptcy ON the 2Ssh. Liabilities exceed
500, 600; assets, $3.50, 600. Outside specu'
latiens are said to have caused the trouble
Governor Hayes and wife were rendered
a public reception by the citizens of Colum.
bus, irrespective of party, at the Capitol,
on the evening of the 18th.
The capital of Arizona has been changed
from Tucson to Prescott.
Each of the Louisiana Governors issued
a proclamation for an extra session OF thu
Legislature, commencing from the expira'
ton of the regular session, March L.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
JOINT SESSION.

At 1880 the Senate took their seats and
the decision of he Commission in the South Car
olina case was read. Mr.. Phillips presented
objections to the decision, signed by Is members
of the Senate and House, and objections were
also fled by Mr.. Southard on behalf of other
The Senate thereupon withdrew At
& Do the Senators again came Int the hall, and
the action of each house on the decision having
been read, the presiding officer announced that,
the two houses not concurring otherwise, the
Electoral votes of South Carolina would be
counted, and they were thereupon declared by
one OF the Tellers as seven for Hayes and Wheel
er. The votes of Tennessee Q2) and Texas (S),
for Tilden and Hendricks, were then announced
without objection and without full reading of the
cert ficates. Then came Vermont with four
votes for Hayes and Wheeler. The certificate
having been read in full, Mr.. Poppleton presen:-
ed two sets OF objections 10 the vote of Henry Y.
Solace, one of the Electors, on the ground that
ne was Postmaster when he was elected, and
that the law of Vermont did not author re an ap-
pointment by the College of Electors to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the absence Of an Elector
The joint session then terminated.
In the Senate, on the LIST, no business
whatever was transacted, although nearly all the
Senators were in or about the chamber during
the entire day. At 10 80 p. m. a message was
received from the House, announcing the action
of that body on the Vermont case and the Senate
immediately repaired to the hail OF the House
Tor the purpose OF resuming the count. Upon
retu fning at IL 80 a resolution to count the vote
of Downs together with the othes Hayes Electors
a.xa.- ~ iaenna sin WA Y. agreed 10 With
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

ana mad never been used. In one of
the rooms also, vas an assortment of
tin utensils all bright and new, and in
the chamber of the deceased were
found two un~derskirts used by shoplift-
ers, and which were quilted, and had a
number of capacious pockets convent
emily arranged. Both had heavy straps
to fit over the shoulGers.-San Fran
cisco Cbron,cie.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

William and Mary Hewitt seem to
many OF the Americans like authors of
the past. Indeed, comparatively few
know that they are living, a hale and
Vigorous pair, in the full enjoyment of
their literary powers, though William
Iowitt is 81 years of age and Mary Is
ardiy ten years younger. They are
fot brother and sister, as is also conf
monty supposed, but husband and wife,
in literary work since the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

There are sad moments in every
mans life, especially round St. Valen-
tines Day. Well do we remember that
first exquisite valentine, all worked with
angels and hearts pierced with arrows.
and roses climbing up a stick, and
drawer-rutfies cut beautifully into the
paper edge. It cost five cents to the
girl that sent it; and the next day her
mother came over to the house and bor-
rowed q dime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

The st. Louis, Lawrence and Western
Railroad, Kansas, better known as the
Pleasant Hill Road, has been sold under
foreclosure Of mortgage for $500, 000, to
Frank Morrison of Boston, ia the interests
of the mortgage bond-holders. The road
cost over 81, 00O, GOO, and was built largely
by county and township aid.
An important arrest was made at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 23d, of a number of
the parties engaged in the attempted train
robbery, and the murder of Milo Eames,
engineer, at Long Point, on the vandalia
Railroad, July 8, 1875. The parties ar
rested are Charles st. Clair, a hackman,
Bud Shoemaker, a brakeman, Samuel and
Alexander Cauthorn, colored, Billy Carr,
n Jennie Osgood-the latter being per-
sonally engaged in the robbery, for which
purpose she donned a man's clothing and a
false mustache. She was on the engine
when Games was killed, and has signified
her intention to tell all she knows about the
affair.
The house of John Conoly, in Hazelton
Township, Shiawasse County, Mich, was
burned on the night of the Goth, and five
children persisted in the flames. The IA
ther and W elder sons escaped, but were
badly burned in trying to rescue the chill
dren.
The steamer Belle Rowland, laden with
Loco bales of cotton, sunk at Swan Lake,
10 miles above Fulton, Ark, on the 22d.
Boat a total loss. No lives lost.
A horse thief named Cage, from Wilkin-
son County, Miss, was taken from the Jail
at Alexandria, La, Oh the night OF the Odd,
and summary hanged by a mob. Cage had
stolen a horse frem Maj. Watts, and, being
pursued, turned and shot Watts, wounding
him severely.
Inc Indians attacked and captured two
cattle trains nesr Crook City, ID. T., ON the
Path, killing two men named McGonigle
ard Riley. and seriously w%ounding another
named Jones.
The Nebraska Institution for th3 p
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

but appealed to Democrats To yield to the deci-
sion and trust to the ballot box for o remedy.
Members gathered round him in excited circles,
and he was asked by Mr.. Cate why, if the deci-
sion was infamous, he advised yielding to it.
Mr.. Hewitt's reply was, that it was better to
yield than to precipitate anarchy and revolution.
That sentiment was characterized by Mr.. Cate
as cowarelly, whereupon Mr.. Yeates upbraided
Northern Democrats with denouncing those
who yielded as towards, although they
had, fifteen years ago, when the pinch came,
turned upon them. There was great excitement
and confusion, recalling some of the scenes in
1861. The discussion having closed, Dir. STEM
gers resolution that the vote OF MIR. Boggs, the
Pennsylvania Elector, be no. counted, was
adopted, I35 to 1l9, and the Senate was notified
that the House was ready to receive the Senate.
After the Senate had withdrawn on the objec-
tions to Rhode Island, a motion to take a recess
was voted down. A motion to count the vote
of Slater, the Rhode Island Elector, was Their
carried unanimously, and the House adjourned
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08
JOINT SESSION.

The two houses again met in joint ses-
sion on the 2'th, and the decision of the Elector-
al Commission as to the votes Of Oregon was
read. senator Kelly objected to the decision,
and the Senate thereupon withdrew to its own
chamber ...... the two houses again met
the vote of Oregon was counted for Hayes, and
the Electoral certificates of Pennsylvania We're
real. Objections being called for, objection
was offered to the vote of mr.. Morrell as an
Elector, anu the Senate retired.