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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
NAV One Of Taft's Marshals Did for
me Cause of Hayes and Wheeler.

pvAsHINGToN, Jan. 24.-United States
tosaal Piddn, Of New Orleans, was be-
: inorrison's committee, in secret ses-
N, Yesterday. He testified that he had
mug 10 do with the election except in an
FUnsl capacity. but finally admitted that
So,nmoned a great many witnesses after
pectlon 20 testify, and paid them out of
Ss : scaled the court fund. He also tes-
s, ~ mat be had appointed $50 Deputy
Ssuals IN the city Of New Orleans, and
mem out OF a fund for which he made
squlsltlon upon the Department of JUS
m, ne admitted that he sent a dispatch,
hs e Cnlcago Inter Ocean on a rumor that
M N.Y. heard to the effect that q ballot box
Iaalson Parish had been taken out of
boa,aft by the Democrats anu destroyed,
eTS,t ~ the rumor had not the
tasst foundation.s,MH ess alsax admitted
he sent a dispatch to the New York
L., 80 10 the effect that he did not. believe
. Were 200 colored men in Louisiana
were Democrats. The dispatches
ra appeared in the Enterl ocean and the
I IidSwere produced by the Chairman,
l. %he he i b ytliei witness d Fgbeing the
N ns nad sent. Is - &aa @@ FAG@%
nsNslsnal Pitkin said that he believed a
m ynany witnesses who were sworn in the
N hn n and made afidavits to be
ny the Returning Board and the Sher-
ronmittee, Were procured by his dep
sa AiaIsnais ito further the Republican
'fAon come Of these were probably
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Lament Of the Later Logan.

e
81 appeal to any white man to say il he
ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he
gave him not advice; if ever he came we'll
backed and he gave him not office? Dur
ing the course of the last long and bloody
debate on the compromise bill Logan re-
manned idle in his cabin a candidate for re-
election. Such was my love for some kinds
of white men that my countrymen pointed
as they passed and said, Logan is the
friend OF Norton / had ever thought to
have staid for you in the Great Council but
for the injuries of my enemies. Their TOM
ahawks drank the blood of my friends in
the baIloting. This called upon me for re.
venge. [ have sought it. l nave killed
some OF my party. L have glutted my ven-
But what remains to Logan?
Where the eagle feathers in his scalp-lock?
where the scalps at his girdle? Silent is his
whoop in the Great Council chamber at
Washington. Who is there to mourn for
Logan: Not one!'-St. Louis Repubti-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Flaps and

"A young man at Lockport, Pa, IA
tally shot himself, the other night,
while dreaming he was fighting burg
lars. ..r.. =. ~.
R. P. Mills, aged 81 years, a stu
dent at Tabor College, Council Bluffs,
Iowa, committed suicide by hanging
himself. Unrequited love is supposed
to have been the cause of the act.
The wife of Judge Maynard, of
Minnesota, who was visiting with her
son-in-law in the village of Hillsdale,
Mich, was burned to death by her
clothing having accidentally caught fire
from a stove.
james Smith, of Cascade, DUBUQUE
County, Iowa, while in the act of tax
ing down a shotgun from a rack where
it was hanging, accidentally discharged
it., the load taking effect in his wife's
shoulder, who was sitting near by, in
fictisg a dangerous wound.
Allen Poe and family, living at
Roundhead, Portage County, O., went
to church, leaving a daughter, aged 10,
in charge of the house. By some acct
dent, her clothes caught fire, and it is
supposed she jumped into bed to extin-
guish the flames. The bed was entire
~ consumed and the fire was getting
under strong Roadway, when she was
discovered, and it was extinguished.
Miss Poe was found lying ON the floor,
burned to a crisp. She was subject to
fits. .r.
Mrs. Rose Gibson, daughter of DR..
Gerrish, of Seymour, Ind, having g.
severe headache, went to her fathers
office, lit a lamp, and took from its
place what she thought was the NOR
phine bottle, and swallowed a dose to
ease her pain. On replacing the bottle
she discovered it to labeled "strych-
nine," and saw the morphine bottle
near it.. She fastened home and drank
warm salt water to cause vomiting, but
to no effect. In a short time her lips
began to culver, she Strengthened full
length (the effect of the poison), and
saying "It's all right" dropped back
dead.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Foreign Notes.

Norway has a population of about
2,OOO,OO0, and an area of $500 geo
graphical miles. -.
"A magnificent vase, four feet high,
and cut from a single piece of agate,
has been sent to the Mikado by the
Emperor of Russia.
The Prince of Wales received near
ly a half million dollars in presents
while in India, and yet he keeps owing
those several bills in London.
The King of Sweden and Don AL
phonso are the only sovereigns in Eu-
rope who are of French descent.
Nearly all the others are of German
origin.
Mime. Ofenbach detests music ;
Nine. Verdi never goes to the opera !;
Nine. Gounod is a devout member of
the church, and thinks her husband did
very wrong to compose any thing for
the stage.
"A married woman in Rome, whose
name is only limited at by the initials
G. L.. has oome forward and claimed
part of the property of the late Cardi-
nal Antonelh on the ground of being a
relative of the dead prelate.
1t is said that the railway officials
in England are annoyed at the bad ex-
ample of the Marquis of Waterford in
riding third-cEss. They tried to break
him of the habit by giving a sweep a
seat beside him, but he simply bought
a irst-class ticket for the sweep, and
returned to his former seat.
1t is said that Earl Dudley, of Eng
land, who is 80 years old, has offered
to bet $4,000 to $25 that the son of
Napoleon LII. will be officially pro-
claimed Emperor of France during the
Earl's lifetime, and that the odds were
at once accepted by the Prince of Wales
and by three other persons.
When King Theodore, of Abys-
sinia, committed suicide, the English
officers found and brought away a little
boy, the son and heir of the dead King.
The lad has been educated in England;
in fact, the Queen has in q manner
adopted him. The Prince of Abyssinia
is now at Rugby, visits the royal house
hold during his holidays, and is studi-
GUS, but not smart. 1sFEE e.,aa
There is very fine whistling in the
Temple Church on Sundays, says the
London World. A legal gentleman,
known for his tuneful pipe all, over
England, ''obliges'' regularly, by way
of accompaniment to the choir. The
effect is said to be very sweet and pleas
ing. 1t would be a good thing to give
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Odds and Ends.

ALI hair-pins look alike to men,
but let a wife go off on a visit and come
| home and find a hair-pin near the door
and she can't wait a minute to grow
red in the face.
1t was an old but a good thing said
by a French paragrapher lately, to the
effect that he hates a girl when she is
trying to be a woman and a woman
when she is trying to be a girl.
-Adonis: o Miss Jones, do you think
Brown SO aWfully ugly? Miss j.: Uglyp
No, indeed! Why, we all think him ex-
tremely nice looking! Adonis: Well, I
was talking to him on the stair just
now, and a lady passed, and I heard
her say, ''That's the ugliest man I ever
saw!" and there was nobody there but
him and met
While he was sitting on the wood
box and chewing the bitter cud of re-
Election, a man with a brass watch
chain and a ~three-dollar set of glass
diamonds entered the car, and six of the
women lifted. their sachels down and
moved close up to the side of the car.
Such things are not right, but they al
ways will be done.
Women have been able fighters in
war; have managed commercial enter
prises; have printed, written, plowed,
shoveled in coal, governed kingdoms,
inspired great social enterprises; and
there is no good reason why they should
not preach, if they can save, souls.
There is n thing, however, that a
woman can not do dacently-she can
not sharpen a lead pencil.
-"What is a scold deck, and a
6 bob-tail flush ?" o. young lady, the
light of a South-Hill home, asked the
other evening, looking up from a news
paper she was reading. "Why," said
her elder brother, ga cold deck-,"
and it was worth Is cents for a student
of human nature to note how suddenly
he checked himself, and what a variety
of conflicting emotions played over his
face as, he bent ove his book, and pre-
tended mot to perceive the sharp glance
of suspicious inquiry which his father
shot at him over his spectacles, while
the silence was SO profound and awful
that the other members of the family
looked up and gazed around in dumb
amazement. An excess of knowledge
is oftentimes a burden. What does a
want to make himself a walking
encyclopedias for2-HaWE-eye.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

Observation-Disclosures Now they have
many churches, numbering 2,C43 men,
bers, 1,1S8 of whom are Indians. The
four members who composed the first
church are still living and still mem
beers of the original church.
The accommodation of a Protest
ant Episcopal clergyman-a solemn and
unusual ceremony-toek place at Trini-
ty Church, Pittsburgh, a few days ago.
The person deposed was the Rev. Per-
cival Beckett, lately of McKeesport and
Monongahela City. The charge was
immoral conduct. Bishop Kerfoot read
the sentence.
The United Presbyterians are tax
ing great "a to preserve the Centen-
NAL historical discourses delivered by
the pastors last year. Each discourse
is the record of a local church from the
time OF its origin. The histories of all
the congregations in each Presbytery
will be bound together, with a history
OF the Presbytery added, and deposited
with the Secretary of the Historical So
ciety.
President Robinson, of Brown Uni
versity, says that we can better afford
to have a wooden head over a college
than we can over a primary school.
=" Men," he adds, "go to college and
break down because their early |
education was not properly attended to,
and it seems to me that the one grand
error in our education is the mistaken
idea about elementary training. Make
studies interesting to the pupils.
There Is a certain amount of good to
be obtained from object teaching, but
there has also been a great deal Of non
sense getting about in relation to it.
We should not depend too much on
teaching, for the reason that all
knowledge is not obtained by percep-
ion, and a large proportion of our
are abstract ideas, which must be
communicated by the teacher in another
.r.,r.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
A Tough Hawaiian.

The Honolulu Gazette says: One of
the Hawaiian sailors on the whale-ship
Rainbow, a boatsteerer, who had just
returned from a cruise to the Arctic,
met with a remarkable accident during
his absence. One day while out in his
boat after a whale, the gun in the hands
of n of the crew, who was to shoot
the whale as soon as harpooned, was
accidentally discharged, and the bomb
lance with which it was loaded struck
him on the back of the neck, just graz
ing the spinal column, passing between
the carotid artery and the trachea, and
making its exit through the middle of
the inferior maxillary bone, which was
badly fractured. Strange to say, this
rough treatment did not prove fatal,
but the wounds rapidly healed, and the
man is o wholly recovered. His
name is Kalauku, alias Harry Smith.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

paid for SO swearing.wzHa w~asureauired by
the chairman to furnish the committee with
a list of the witnesses brought to New Or
leans by process served by him through his
Deputies, which he reluctantly consented to
do. He was asked to give his reason for
three or four days after the cleo
ton that the State had gone 1000 RepubIi-
can, when it is known that it takes at least
days to hear from all the parishes. He
was not able to give a satisfactoryreply and
endeavored to give several very eqati9oeal
reasons for making such a statement.s@tI =.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

Personal and Literary

George Eliot (Mrs. Leeywes) is with
IN twp summers of being 80 years o
John Lathrop Motley is il, Pari,
looking up historical authorities and
!. There died, in Middlebury, Vt, a
Few days ago, a cabinet-maker named
Nahum Parker, in whose shop Stephen
a. Douglas served an apprenticeship.
"A granddaughter of John Ran
dolph, of Roanoke, Mrs. Tyree, has
taken up the pen, and has written a
book called Housekeeping in Old Vir-
ginia.'h F''''H gal'H1.r'o
Mrs. Brooks, who models heads in
butter, says the New York Graphic. is a
small, ark-haired woman, who is en-
thusiastic about her work, and she
makes her heads with two little wooden
paddles of different sizes. She has a
farm IN Arkansas, to which she will re-
turn, If her art does not prove remune-
rative.
Gen. j. E. B. Stuart, it is said. was
exceedingly fond of song and of that
exercise which Mr.. Dick Swiveller O
lively terms "the mazy,n and even
when a Lieutenant General he was
often seen riding at the head of his
column with q soldier by his side, pick
ing the adventures of the ssArkansas
Traveller" out of an o~ld-fashioned
banjo.
Capt. James B. Eads, who is about
to receive an installment of $500, 900
for his opening of the mouth of the
Mississippi, is in his ffty-seventh year,
and a native of Lawrenceburg, Ind.
At a very early age he evinced a strong
TASTE LOT machinery, and at II con-
structed. without any instruction a min
lature engine that worked perfectly
with steam. He has struggled upward
to the possession of a large private for
tune, excellent health and thoroughly
American taste, passing such grades as
apple peddler, clerk, Mississippi
wrecker, proprietor of the first glass
blowing establishment in the West. and
builder of twenty-seven iron-clad gun
and mortar boats.
"A correspondent of the Louisville
Courter-Jowrma! ran across Joaquin
Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, in New
York City, and, accompanying him to
his den, there interviewed him. "Yes,"
said Miller, noticing that l was looking
intently at the portrait of a beautiful,
s%pirituelle woman, hanging just over
his table, upon which were a thousand
odds and ends of proof and manu-
"Yes, 'Biz,' that's her-you
don't know her? Veryfew do, my boy.
It's my 'One Fair Woman She's
there every minute in the day and night,
looking down into my eyes,
whether they are weary or glad. She
help it," II afterward learned
the 'One Fair Woman about
whom there has been so much said and
so little known, is Miss Antoinette Polk,
niece of President Polk, and that Miller
met her at Rome.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

a -"Remember whom you are talking
to, sir" said an indignant parent to a
facetious boy. 81 am your father"
swell, who's to blame for thatp' said
the young impertinence, "'tain't me-"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Science and Industry.

Elk County, Pa, uses 10000 cords
OF hemlock bark annually, and turns
out 10000 sides of sole leather.
Large quantities of marble for
building purposes are being shipped to
San Francisco from Knoxville.
1t is stated that deposits of lead and
silver have been discovered in Preston
and Monongalia Counties, w. Va, about
10 miles from Uniontown, Pa.
San Francisco has shipped several
cargoes of wheat to Australia and New
Zealand this season. Australia has
heretofore been a very considerable
grain exporter.
The pineapple is cultivated extern
sively in the East Indies, where the
leaves are converted into q kind of
wadding, used for upholstering pur-
poses instead of hair, and into a sort of
flannel, of which substantial shirts and
coats are made.
The Germantown Telegraph recon-
mends that farmers sell their produce
when ready for market, as a general
thing, rather than wait for higher prices
in the future, as the shrinkage on corn
and other grains is equal to 20 per cent,
and % per cent. on potatoes.
of the sugar crop the New Orleans
Times says: The prospect is, from
present indications, remarkably fine,
not only for a good yield, but for a good
quality, good price and economy in TAX
ing off the crop. The yield of molasses
will not be so great, but the quality will
be better than usual.
The total shipments of petroleum
from the Pennsylvania oil regions dur
ing 1876 amounted to 10000, 600 bar
rels. In January the price was s1.47
per barrel; in March it had reached
50; in August it averaged $3.50. Crude
oil is now selling at $500 per barrel at
the wells, and refined oil at $12. go per
barrel at the s%eaboard, netting the re-
finer a profit of Sc per barrel.
The fisheries are a source of great
wealth to New England. The whale
business has filed the Golfers of New
Bedford, Gloucester and Newburyport
have grown rich by the produce of the
During the present season not
less than 10000 men have been engaged
in New England fisheries. The catch
VI LAdShCACl ID DOOlCI tIdu bud5 Vi 1Cff.
Since October 1, cod-fishing has proved
nearly q failure, and the returns are
smaller than they were last year. +.
School and Church..
The kindergarten system has been
introduced in the Government schools
for girls in China.
The names of 1872 young women
have been entered as students of the
Faculty of Medicine at st. Petersburg.
Professor SWINGS society, in Chi
eago, PAID him $1,000 and paid $4,000
for the theater last year, and gave 1000
free seats, and has s. 1000 left as a nest
egg for a building fund.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman is at present
engaged I'M Reinforcement to collect mon
ey in.this country to be presented to
the Pope on the fftieth anniversary of
his entrance to the priesthood.
OF the $4,000 Chinese in San Fran
about $50 attend the evening
mission schools. Three hundred have
Joined churches. Seven hundred are
members of Christian societies and are
studying Christian doctrines. Nearly
LOCO regularly attend Sunday-schools.
The first Presbyterian Church or
ganized inOregon was in 1916, with q
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-23
s. Cauker in the Bud. -

You watch its development with ex-
pectant solcitude-the choice, exquisitly-
moulded bud which promises to unfold with
the perfect flower. You perhaps think how
it will adorn the drawing-room vase and an
ticipate the pleasure of showing it to your
flower-loving friends. But some morning
you find its head droopIng,l is fragrance fled,
and an ugly purple spot on one of the del
icately-tinted petals. 1t is the poets "can-
ker in the bud" How often the loathsome
canker blights the cherished "infant bios
soms'' in our household gardens-those hui
man buds which give earnest of a brilliant
future. The noisome canker, so long con-
cealed-scrofula- length reveals its
dreaded presence and to our bright hopes sue
ceeds the most agonizlng fear, for we know
the fatal sequel it portends-pulmonary con-
sumption. 1t is estimated by eminent med
ical authorities that at least one-ffth of man
kind are afflicted with this insidous malady.
But its ravages are so secret, that even its
victims are unaware of its presence until it
suddenly discloses itself in,some of its myriad
and oftimes fatal forms. A slight cutaneous
eruption is often the only indicator of its
presence. The only means of DISCRIMINATING
this disease from the system is by thor
ough course of constitutional treatment.
This treatment must fulfill three indications,
namely, promote nutrition, alter or purify
the blood, and arrest disorganization of the
tissues and the formation of tubercles. No
more efficient Alternative can be employed for
these purposes than DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
zeal Discovery While imparting strength
and tone to the digestive organs it cleanses
the blood and heals the diseased tissues.
lest It's virtues ere the deadly canker has
blighted the life YOU prize
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-23
A Vegetarian's Experience.

Speaking at a vegetable banquet at
Leeds, in England, the other day, the
Rev. G. II. Collyns said he was descended
from long line of equity ancestors. He
had been sufferer from govt, but hay-
ing more than ten years ago, become a
total abstainer, and having, not long af-
terward, become q vegetarian, he had
gradually driven the govt out, and could
give no other reason for it except pure
and wholesome living-total abstinence
from alcoholic liquors and from flesh
meat. The teeth of man showed that he
was not carnivorous, but frugivorous
animal, and the stomach, he contended,
also showed that he was intended not in
tended to receive flesh, but the fruits of
the earth. He would not go back to his
former mode of life for anything that
could be given to him. Vegetarian diet
agreed with the delicate as we'll as the
robust. 1t was wholesome and enjoy
able, and to it he owed new issue of
life
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-23
The Last of Table Rock.


On May "a, the last of what was SO
long known as Table Rock, at Niagara,
broke off and fell into the river. The
mass weighed nearly six tons, and up
to 1876 over ZOO names of visitors had
been carved upon it. The part which
fell on May 24, composed only half the
original rock, the rest having fallen in.
On Saturday, January l, 1929, surface
of the rock supposed to be the size of
half an acre, forming the bed of Maiden
Walk, broke loose, and was precipitated
into the immense chasm. The crash was
heard for distance of five miles, and
the effects in the immediate neighbor-
hood resembled the shock of an earth
quake. The water running under the
bank is supposed to have caused the
fall on May "a, and the shock when the
rock struck the water was distinctly felt
three miles from the fall. Several of
the trees which stood on the rock are
now seen standing in the river as erect
as when in their original places on the
rock. Where the rock shelved off from
the bank, at distance of twenty feet
from the top, can be seen the root of a
tree estimated to be two feet in diam
eter. 1t attracts considerable attention.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-23
The Seventeen Year Locusts.

A correspondent of the Hartford Cour-
ant has visited the thickets between
Berlin and Meriden, recently, and found
the seventeen year locusts, (so-called)
most interesting subjects of investiga-
ton. They gather thickest upon the
banks of trout streams, and they, or
something else, seem to have virtually
driven the trout all away. They have
not, however, disturbed the mosquitoes.
The locusts are in appearance quite
like the ordinary summer locust, but
they are not more than a third as large,
and they have very peculiar bright red
eyes which stand up from the head like
the eyes of lobster. They are I'M
countably plenty. "The woods are full
of 'em,' and they choose the alder for
their resting-place. So far as recorded
this is the first evidence that nature has
offered of the utility of this annoying
bush. The locusts are all over the bushes,
and by the living creature is the dried
shell it has come out of. When they
fly, the locusts, unlike those of summer,
make no noise, but go as quietly as a
moth, with very rapid wing motion
and evident fatigue. AS yet they do not
seem to be injuring vegetation.
Their time, SO far, seems to be devoted
to musical diversions. They keep up a
constant and peculiar noise. 1t is hard
to see them make it; indeed it proved i'm
possible, yet there it was perpetually
sounding. 1t is, more than anything
else, like the song of the insect world at
night in summer in the quiet country.
There is some resemblance too, to the
roar of a sea-shelI held to the ear. And
there is no abatement, no variation. The
amazing perSistency of it is one of its
remarkable characteristics, and if they
keep it up much longer this year, it will
not be surprise if the locusts have to
rest seventeen years again to take fresh
start.
AS was said before, they seem to be
doing no damage, except indirectly by
not eating the alders A half dozen
school boys out fishing, trampling grain,
breaking fences, soaring cattle, and
frightening trout could do more harm
in a day than the locusts have yet done.