Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01

The Grand Duke Alexis and suite arrived
in New York from Norfolk on the 18th.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The steamers Clifford and Pine Bluff were
sunk on the 15th-the former in the Red
River and the latter in the Arkansas. Both
were laden with cotton.
Weldon, the young man who attempted
| to assassinate Gov. Packard, is identified
as dry goods clerk recently employed in
Mobile, where he had gone to the bad from
hard drinking, coupled with an unfortunate
love affair. He was last seen in Mobile on
the 18th, when he informed an acquaintance
that he was going to kill himself.
At Oregon, Holt County, Mo-, on the
10Th, John T. Simero shot his wife and
then shot himself, both being killed.
Simero was carpenter by trade, of dissi-
pated and brutal habits, and his wife had
applied for divorce. He was 80 years old
and his wife 81, and they had nine children.
The ferryboat Jones, from Bayou Goula
to PIaquemine, La, exploded her boilers
on the 18th, killing six persons.
Eph. Holland, a well known sporting man.
is under indictment at Cincinnati for COM
plicity il election frauds. 1t is said that he
has made a confession, in which he admits
receiving about 81 200 indirectly from New
York party, and accounts specifically for
some 156 illegal votes for the Democratic
ticket He says that about 500 fraudulent
votes in all were cast by the gang OF repeat
ers under his direction.
Winslow. indicted for larceny of a S12, 600
package from the Treasury Department,
has been sentenced TO Is months i'm
prisonment in the Albany Penitentiary.
The Searcy County, Ark, Court house
was burned on the 18th, it is supposed oy
an incendiary. Most of the records were
saved.
At Minneapolis, on the 10Th, young
woman named Kate Noonan shot and killed
VIM. H. Sidle, assistant Cashier of the First
National Bank, for alleged seduction and
desertion.
A young man named Abe Rothschild made
an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide
in Cincinnati on the 18th. 1t has transpired
that he murdered his mistress, named Bes-
sic Moore, in Jefferson, Texas, on Jan. 81,
and her dead body was found some days af-
terward in a secluded spot, with bullet in
the brain. Rothsehild was a commercial
traveller. He will be taken to Texas for
trial.
The eastern approach to the great rail-
way bridge across the Mississippi at St.
Louis was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 10Th, compelling the temporary aban-
donment Of the entire use Of the bridge and
tunnel by the railway companies.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic Railroad is now completed. The first
train left Galveston for San Antonio on the
10Th, with an excursion party including the
Go oJernor and other State officials.
E. d. Henney, Master Commissioner of
Garrard County Circuit Court, Kentucky,
was killed by G. C. Kennedy, his nephew,
at Lancaster, in that county, on the Goth.
The difficulty was about law suit. Ken
nedy was arrested.
By the explosion of boiler in the nail
keg factory of Holland & Maxwell, at Pom
eroy, o., on the 21st, George Riley, john
Brown, Writ Mason and Adam Diel were
instantly killed and nine other employees
badly injured-one or more fatally.
A projected parade of military companies
in Charleston, S. c.. on the 22d, Washing
toms birthday, was forbidden by srder of
President Grant, for the reason that such
parade might provoke serious disturbances.
Gov. Hampton, while protesting against
the interference of the President, counter
manded the order for the parade.
FOREIGN.
The Russian army of advance numbers
$50, 900 infantry, $4,000 cavalry and 720
guns, mostly massed at Kishbt #, on the
Danube, where it can be crossed in single
day. There are two army corps at Odessa,
enumerated with the above.
The French General Changarnier died on
the 14th, aged "a.
The Emperor of Brazil had cordial in
terview with the Pope on the 10th.
A cable dispatch states that 80 vessels,
many with their entire crews, were lost in
the gale on the English coast ON the night |
Of the 10Th.
The bark Maria, from Doboy, Africa, |
TO Belfast, Ireland, with q crew of IA men, |
,prang leak in gale, and filled with water
10 that it was impossible to save any provi-
'ions or fresh water. The lumber with
which the vessel was laden prevented her
rom sinking, but the weight of her masts
urned the vessel on her beam ends until
he masts broke away, when she righted
nd the men regained the deck. Having
10 food or water they soon
egan to die of starvation, and as
DON as one died the rest subsisted upon the
cad body, and so on until only two were
1T. 1t was 80 days from the time OF the
isaster until the wreck was sighted, and
uring all that time the crew had not drop
{ water or other food than the bodies OF {
lefr dead shipmates. They were finally
licked up by an American sch ,oner, ana Z
ne of the two survivors died within four /
ours. as.I
A London telegram of the 22d says that I
'verat leading Home Rulers have refused j
assist at the funeral of John O'Mahoney, .
, the ground that their CO. r