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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
Science and Industry.

The Sutro Tunnel at Virginia City,
New, is now 1856 feet long, and the
mineral belt is fairly reached.
"A surprising amount and variety OF
American manufactures, especially of
cotton, are beginning to go to Chill
and other west-coast regions by way OF
Panama.
Tobacco is now successfully cult
waited in over so counties in the State OF
Missouri. In 1876, the State had 3S5
tobacco manufactures and she pro-
duced $4,000, 900 pounds, occupying the
sixth rank among the tobaccO-growing
States OF the Union.
There is a rumor from the coal
regions which is calculated to alarm
English miners. 1t is to the effect that
the proprietors of the mines have re,
solved to import cheap labor from
China, and have already consulted the
Chinese ambassador on the subject.
That official replied that he would I'M
dertake the management of immigra-
ton provided the emigrants were pro.
tected from insult and injury.
AT the annual meeting Of the Shelf.
field Chamber of Commerce, the Presi-
dent said Sheffield manufacturers and
workmen had only themselves to blame
for loss of trade with America and sue.
cessful American competition with for
eign countries. Sheffield workmen had
not come up to the make and style re-
quired by customers. Mandella, mem
Der of Parliament for Sheffield, said
American competition vas successful
because the Americans excelled in the
rapidity of their adoption of labor-sav
ing machinery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
School and Church.

The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology has several Japanese stu
dents.
Rev. Asa Countryman, pastor of
the Universalist Church at Dubuque,
has resigned his charge and Joined the
Congregationalists.
The Free Library of the Friends at
Germantown, Pa, does not contain a
work of fiction, and the Librarian v
read a novel in his life.
The Bishop of Iowa desires 500
without delay, to ave from immediate
loss to the church, by foreclosure OF
mortgage, the churches at Farley and
Cascade.
"A. w. Mum, formerly a teacher in
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Flint,
Mich, was ordained to the Episcopal
ministry in Cleveland, last week, by
Bishop Bedell. Mr.. Mum is the second
deaf mute who has been admitted to he
priesthood in that church.
Mrs. Cady Stanton relates how she
with other ladies educated ayoung man
for the Presbyterian ministry, had given
him a new suit, a beaver hat, and all
the etceteras pertaining to the minis
terial garb, and, of course, were agog
to hear their protege preach. Imagine
their dismay and disgust when the
young man announced the text: "Let
your women keep silence in the
churches, for it is not permitted unto
them to speak"
DIR. Adler, the radical Jewish phi
losopher of New York, has shocked
MANY people of his nation by preaching
a sermon against the rite of circumci-
sion. He characterized it as barbar-
Gus in itself and barbareus it it's origin,
it being derived from the bloody reli-
gious rites of races but just emerged
from animalism. The preacher-who
is still q Jew and the son of a Jewish
Rabbi-was heartily a%pplauded by an
audience mainly composed of Jews.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
ITEMS OF
Personal and Literary.

Miss Clagett, daughter of the late
Judge Clagett, of Keokuk, Iowa, is
about to make her first literary venture.
tt is q novel, entitled: "Her Lovers"
and will be published early in the
spring.
Albert F. Webster, n of the most
promising young ~magazinists of the
day, died at sea, on the way to the
Sandwich Islands, last December, and
news of the sad event has just been re-
ceived.
History repeats ITSELF" says Miss
Grundy in a Washington letter to the
Graphic. "Henry Watterson, who was
born in Washington while his father
was q Representative in Congress, has
had a son born to him here under SINH
lar circumstances"
Here is another illustration of wom-
ans inhumanity to woman: Susan B
Anthony has alluded cuttingly to Mary
Clemmer as "an innocent ineffectuali-
ty," and Mary sweetly describes Susan
as ga withered pea, forever rafting in
a dried-up pod"
Miss Emma Abbott, the young
American songstress, made her first
appearance IN New York on Feb. 8,
and was enthusiastically received by a
large audience. The critics agree that
she is n of the most promising Ameri-
a singers.
-Burdette, the Burlington Hawk-eye
humorist, pronounces the rumor that he
was about to start a paper of his own
as a base invention of his enemies. He
makes an emphatic denial, and says:
"He has had it. He had all he wanted
of it. So had the Sheriff."
Marie Prescott is the stage-name of
new candidate for histrionic honors
who has just made her debut, as Lady
Macbeth, in Cincinnati. The Louisville
Courier Journal says she is a Kentucky
girl, of rare personal beauty, highly
educated, and belongs to one of the
most aristocratic families in the blue
grass region.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
GENERAL BREVITIES.

Rowland BALL is an auctioneer in
New York.
A TEMPERATE and perfectly healthy
druggist of Indianapolis was mysteri-
ously stricken deaf and dumb, a few
days ago, and the doctors can't help
him.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas threatened
to shoot a number of Russian officers
who asked either for the opening of the
campaign or that they should be sent
into proper winter-quarters.
PIPES for heating have been intro
duced into all the passenger railway
cars of Alsace and Lorraine. In each
compartment the heat can be regulated
to suit the wish of the passengers.
Fac-Simile telegraphing is the latest
Boston happy thought. A zinc plate
receives the impression, and a pencil
point reproduces the very form of the
letters, words and sentences at the
other end of the line.
A SMOKED ham weighing 112 pounds
was exhibited in a store at Memphis,
Tenn, a few days ago. The pig from
which it had been cut weighed LILO
pounds, and had been raised by q plant
er u MlSslsslppl.
A TRAVELLER stepped off the train at
the Erie Depot, and, accosting a news
boy, asked: "Sonny, what is the quick
est way to get to the Central Depot?"
"Run!" he answered, and set the ex-
ample by getting out of the way pretty
fast.
AT Chaplain Junction, near London,
10 less than 952 trains pass daily, their
rate of succession during the busiest
part of the day being IS trains per hour,
or one every 4S seconds. L. At this point
their are Is lines of railway, and one
alone has So "points or switches,
with thirty ~interlocking signals, all con-
trolled from a single "box."
A THIEF entered Bob Johnson's coal
shed at Pontiac, Illinois, the other
night, but while filling his sack was
surprised by the entrance of another
robber, bent on a similar errand. Each
supposing the other to be the owner of
the coal, a sharp fight ensued, in which
both were badly mangled, while john
son sat unconscious before his stove,
warming his toes and figuring up the
days profits. a
PULvERIzED diamonds r in some
parts of India reputed to be the least
painful but the most active and infalii-
BILE of all p~oisons. Rubies, however,
reduced TO powder, are, it seems, con-
sidered to be rather beneficial to the
health than otherwise. At least such
is the opinion of the ex-Gaikwar of
Baroda, who, according to one of the
Indian papers, is now engaged in re-
pairing his constitution, and, with this
view, is in the habit of eating rubies in
the form of a fine powder sprinkled
over cakes. His Highness entertains a
very high opinion of the medicinal
qualities of rubies taken in this form,
and expends a considerable portion OF
his income in buying these gems for
conversion into physic. He also takes
other precious stones, not as pills, but
as powders, to assist in the r. storation
: of his health, and has engaged a large
number of native cooks, who have or
t ders to leave NO stone unpowdered
1 which, when mixed with confectionery
t may be eaten with advantage.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
Foreign Notes.

Rudolf Meyer, editor of the Social
tst newspaper, has been sentenced to
nine months Imprisonment for publish
ing a libel on Prince Bismarck, charg-
ing him with stock-jobbing.
"A number of Germans residing in
France have received, since the begin
ming of the year, an invitation from the
German Government to return to their
country before March if they wish to
avoid serious legal consequences.
The Duchess of Geneva is dead.
She was the tenth Duchess, and was
worth $4,000. She was a cow. She
belonged to Lord Bectine, of England,
and was purchased in New York in
1873. 1t is something to be a $780, 900
cow, and have a notice of your death
sent by the Atlantic Gable.
The Empress Eugene will return
to England in February. Her Males
tvs visit to Rome does not appear to
have given her so much satisfaction as
she anticipated. The Empress is grow
ing rather stout; it Is to be hoped it is
a healthy sign. The Prince is popular
with all classes.
The present King of Greece is a
young man of exceeding modesty and
frankness. He talks good English, and
with the freedom and joyousness of a
boy. The Queen is famous for her
beauty and the sweetness of her man.
ners the whole nation seems to be in
love with her, she is so gentle and good.
The pair have four ruddy-cheeked
children, who are always jumping about
like squirrels in the royal carriage, SO
that the King says he has them fasten-
ed in with leather straps lest they
should throw themselves overheard.
The King likes America, and he ,seri-
ously says that the chief revenue OF
Greece is derived from the plum ud-
dings of England and America, the cur
rants of Corinth forming it's principal
article of export.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01
Haps and

Helen Gray, a young girl residing
near Arkansas City, Kan, committed
suicide ON the 9th. Her lover, Joseph
Harrison, had basely betrayed and then
deserted her.
At Memphis, the other day, a little
daughter of VIM. Nucles, Clerk of the
steamer Garland, while burning leaves
IN q yard, set her clothing on fire and
burned to death.
At Toledo, o., on the 14th. John
Jones, a wealthy farmer, from Rigs,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1877-10-02

NOTABLE OONFLAGRATION9.- The
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutions
alist says:
Our readers may remember it was
publicly and confidently predicted
that, in the event of the Inaugural
ton of Mr.. Tilden, there would be
extensive fires in the Departments at
Washington. Whether reported
truly or falsely, many thousands of
people were convinced that the Rad
ical leaders never would allow De-
mocrat to become President, if they
could help it, or. failing in that, they
never would permit man like Mr..
Tilden to get at the records of their
party for Investigation and exposure.
10 prevent anything of that kind, it
was boldly charged that the public
buildings Of Washington, containing
damning documents, would be con-
sumed by fire. What gave color to
these allegations, was the obstruction
by fire Of the files and correspou-
dence of-the General Land Office
AS the FIRE chanced at time when
Boss Shepherd had fully sway. sus-
picion was aroused that there was
something rotten in the State of
Cenmark"-that is in the Radical
regime. Tho burning Of the Patent
Office has created fresh alarm in
these premises. perhaps because Mr.
Hayes has unexpectedly turned out
TO be quite as much u reform:r and
rogue-repeller as Mr.. Tilden. The
New York Sun recalls. that when
the Democratic House was known
to be fixed fact, Secor Robeson's
aud Belknap's departments took FIRE;
aud. but for prompt exposure by
the press of the motives for such
fires, the records of those depart.
ments would. doubtless. have disap-
peared in smoke and fa,nes." The
same paper adds: "The Land Office
records were fill of evidence of
frauds committed under Delano and
others; and when Committees of the
next House inquire into such frauds,
they will be confronted at the start
with the lAck of proper records. The
Indian Bureau and the Pensions OF.
flee, in both of which fraud is know
to have existed. arc in the same
building; anAit is not unlikely that
their recorda will be found to have
partly or wholly vanished iii connec-
tion with this fire." These are
grave charges or suspicious. hut they
possess elements of'fact that must
seriously alarm the public. A big
FIRE among the Treasury records
would almost compel the skeptical
to believe that there is some methpd
in this incendiarism, and that, the
mcn who have "organizedfs hell"
since, l860-6l. up to the inaugura-
tion Of Mr.. Hayes, are determined,
if possible, to smother present in.
quiry and to make impossible, so far
as they eau, future punishment in
this world.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1877-10-02
Blaoksmith's Tools,

Atth Sign Of the Golden Anuit.
- BLACKSMITH'S BELLOWS, from %
&Sto 40 inches
w. Wright's Patent Steel-faccd Anvils.
Solid Box Golfer Key Vises, Faricr's Knives.
Files, Rasps, Blacksmith Tongs.
These goods are of the very best quality, and
are marked down In conformity with the decline
In gold and labor. For sale by
Sept27 JOHN AGNEW.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1877-10-02

A JUDICIAL IND1crMENr.-True bills
have been found against Judges
Grason and Yellott, at Towsontown,
Md. An extra presentment was
found against Judge Yellott for
drunkenness, rendering him unable
to discharge the duties Of his posi-.
tion. aud bringing the Court over
which he presided into disrepute and
Disgrace. A bench warrant has been
issued for Judge Yellott's arrest.
The opposition to the Moffitt bell
punch is taking practical turn in
Virginia. and the private bottle is on
the increase. By buying as much
as five gallons, the special tax Of 40
cents gallon is avoided. and drink.
ing at home is more popular. So
are the private club rooms more po-
pular.
The London Times, in q leading
article on the war, says: "Thc end
of the campaign must he near and it
promises to present something like a
drawn battle. Formally or inform
ally, the powers will then, no doubt,
attempt to avert the necessity Of an-
other campaign by the aid of diplu-
macy"
The assignment of Frank Leslie,
the publisher. for the benefit OF his
creditors. with a schedule annexed,
has been filed. The total liabilities
are set down at $3.50, 1882. The
nominal assets at 1920. .308 65, and
actual assets at SIS, 1868.
SINGULAR, ISN'T Ir.-The New York
Commercial Advertiser. Rep, says:
Even the most prcjudiced bloody
shrtist must admit that the annual
crop of negro shootings is remarka-
bly, backward in South Carolina this
season.
Gov. Hampton has commnted the
death penalty Of John Joh,Von. a
colored man, of Edisto Island. con-
victed of murder. to imprisonment
for FIVE years in the penitentiary.
Thos. E. Tabb, about nine years
old. son of DR.. Tabb, of Beach, Is-
land, was caught in the gin machine
ry Of b. B. Lamar's cotton gin, ard
almost Instantly killed.
SUDDEN DEATHS. Judge Barnard
Hill. of Georgia. died on the bench,
in Crawford County. on the 26th.
VIM A. Sh"rt.r. Esq. of Rome, Ga.
died suddenly ON the 9th.
A man named Mcclure, who has
been travelling with a circus com
pany, committed suicide in Nash
vile, by cutting his throat from ear
to ear.
Justice Swain. formerly Presiding
Justice of the Cape May, N. j.. Co.
Courts. cut hin throat with a razor.
at the Gatzner House, in DennisviIle
and died on Tuesday.
Among the models destroyed By
the late fire. in the Fatcnt Office. was
the original cotton gin invention,
which has done 80 much for the South.
L. j. Kercheval. Republican, has
been reelected Mayor of Nashville,
Tenn, by majority of l.l5O votes
The election passed of quietly.
A difficulty between several color
ed persons in Augusta, on Saturday
night. resulted in the death Of Brad
Mckines. with knife.
Thos. Williams, anotherv ictim If
the phosphate boiler exp osivu, died
in Charleston
An entire family, c"l"rcd. five in
number, haa becu committed to- I.iI
in Lancaster.
on@rar r~r,+
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The New York Evening Express
hits the nail ON the head thus: "Ac-
cording to Pasha Cohkling and his
followers, Hayes has committed three
objectionable sins. L. Hc got the
Cincinnati nomination, which the
Pasha wanted. 2. lie put Evarts
and Schurz, the Pash.'s most init
mate enemies. int" the Cabinet. 3.
His civil service order. if carried
out. would knock the Republican ma
. chine to pieces. And the Pasha is
the machine"
FIrLY SArD.--During the trial of a
case relating to Confederate money
received during the war. an attorney
having made an able argument,
adorned with beautiful figures, aud
noble sentiments, Judge Mackey
said. "as in the eye Of the chemist,
the diamond is bnt a piece of carbon
and the tear of sorrow but u drop of
salt water; SD court should strip
questions of all mere sentiment, and
decide them in the light of principles
Of law"
The Boston "AtIas," in 1881, adj
vertised that "an experience Of five
years has demonstrated of Fairbanks ,
Sca'cs that for accuracy, convenience
and durability they are unrivaled." +"
The Atlas and most of. the men who
made it arc dead, but the Fairbanks ,
Scale. retaining and increasing it's
merits, has enlarged it's d"main until
it has become the recognized stan
dard of the wo.ld-all within the
LIFETIME Of its sinvcntor.-N. Y. Even.
ing Post. H.. .:ltls' 49,,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1877-10-02
Excursion Tickets to Charleston.
SoUTu CAROLINA RAILROAD.

CHARLES'TuN. SEPTEMBER 25 IA17
EXCURSION TICKETS to Charleston will bc
IL sold from all points on this Road, from list
to 9th October, and good to return within ten
days from date Of sale. at the following rates
From all points above Biackvilie, on the Au.
gusta Branch. and above Lewisvlle, on the Go.
lumbia Branch the rate will lie 81 for the round
trip. And from Blackv;l" aud Lcwisviile. mlri
all points South Of them, the rate will bu O., 4
FARE for the round trip. 8. b. PICKENS,
Sept % General Passenger Agent.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1877-10-02
Hardware, Paints and Oils
Gold and Silver Watches.

r WILL. scll. from this date until the first Of
L November. all g"",iS in my line below New
YO:k cost Pc,s",,s III want of Gold Jcwciry
and Diamonds. in inrt all good articles kept in
Il first lass iewciry store, should call. have
the largest stock kept in the State. The goods
must he s0ld Those in want will call nd See
for themselves All kinds Of JOBBING done
and the best of ENGRAVING.
Sep. 2 2mu WIN. GJ, WE.
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Greenville aid Columbia Railroad,

Ul66UVIII6 dNu CUIUHiDId ltdIII Udu,
DASSENGEl. rains ran daily, Sunday eX-
L cepted, cumhccl .ng with South Carolina Day
Trains up and down.
UP. D"MS.
Leave Columhi. .i2.45 pm Arrive. 80 y III
Al>ton.... 2.3b NJ LOO l. III
Ncwbcrr1.. 3.4:i u in ~ ~ u H.
lodges 80. $50 pm S.:,7 III
BrltOu.... $50 IN 30 u m
Arrive Greenville 1U.W pm Leave. $40 L NJ
ANDERSON Branch &c Blue h.",t Lr.
Leave Walhalln. 4.25 Il Ill Arrive. ii.i5 Pr
I'r,ryvile 800 m l0.40 p III
Pendlcton $40 n IN 10 p NJ
Anderson. ESQ am b.2c p NJ
Arrive Bclton... 7.l0 III Leave. $50 y III
Luurcns Branch Trans.
Leave Clinton. 900 II IN Newbcrry 800 p m
Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays.
IilOS. DODAMEAD, Gen. Sup.
JABEZ NonrnH. Jr., Gen. Ticket Agent.
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Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta r. r.
nN aud after this date. Passenger Trains will
" run as iui.ovS:
Dmiy Mail El1re*s.
GOING NORTH. GOihG sUr1H.
Leave Augusta. sis pm Airvc.. 4.32 III,
Arrvr Columbia II .35 p III Leave. loo ii III
Leave Columbia l.I5 p III Air:vc. 80 II III
Arrive Charlotte. 4.l0 IL III Lcn,c... 7.a5 III
Accommodation. S"hdG5 cfct plea.
CT iEI.OTTE DIVISION.
Leave Columbia. 500 ~ III Arrive. 10 90 y m
Leave Charlotte. t. 30 IN Arrive. 100 y II
AUGUSTA DIVISION.
Leave Columbia. q. 80 III Arrive. 3.57 M
Leave Augusta. IA, Il III Arrive. 5.53 m
JAMES ANDERSON, Gen. Sup.
\. P0rE. Gen. Frc ght and Pass Agent.
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ShoveIs, Spades aud Forks

Sn0VelS, spades aud Forks.
A FULL line of Long and Short Handled
IA Shovcls, Long and Short Handled Spades
aud Long and Short Handled Manure and
Spau'hg FORKS, of The most approved make, on
hanL aud for sale low by JOHN AGNEW.
S.pt 20
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South Carolina Railroad.

South Carolina Railroad.
PASSENGER Trains over this road run as
L Notwithstanding July Is. 1877:
Day Passenger, Sunday excepted.
Leave Columbia. 3. Is p m Arrive. l2l5 p M
Leave Charleston. b.45 IN Arrive. III. On p u
Night Express accommodation Train.
Leave Columbia. 100 pm Arrive. 7.l5 n
Leave Charleston. g.. pm Arrive. $40 IN
Camden Train leave Camden at 7.3O IL. ~, on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, aud connect
ut K;ngsviIa with up day passenger train for
Columbia. Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday,
connect ut KingsviIie Will, down passenger train
from Columbia, and arrive ut Camden 3 p NJ.
Connect daily with Charleston trains.
SIS. SOLOMONS. Su,erint endent.
National Republican., 1877-10-11

SENATOR Dorsey, who has now been four
years in the Senate, and has earned for himself
among Senators al enviable reputation as one
of the most efficient working members of that
body, has just reached the city with his fam.
lily. Cool, clear-headed and practical with
his physical powers in their full vigor, and an
intellect of more than ordinary force he dis
poses of an amount Of work under which older
and feebler men would quail. Arkansas has
never had Senator or Representative who
looked more closely after the interests of the
State and its people, though they do not oc-
cupy all of Senator DoRsEY's time, much of
which he devotes to questions of general
interest to the country. Senator DORSEY is
also chairman of the District Committee, be.
sides being member of the important COM
mittecs on appropriations and railroads. He
has thus far proved an ardent friend of this
District, whose citizens would like to claim
him for permanent resident.
National Republican., 1877-10-11
The Ohio and Iowa Elections.

We have not seen man in the last
twenty-four hours, be he from Ohio or else.
where, who has the temerity to even hint
ut probability that the Buckeye State has
gone Republican. In view of that condi-
tion OF things we are prone to conccde the
State to the Democrats and to consider the
Republican party under defeat.
We have lurking suspicion of the causes
which have led to this disaster, but we shall
defer to the views of the Republican states
men Of Ohio-and they are as plenty as
blackberries," and of every variety of size
and quality-whsn they shall have solved
the problem according to their own
theories.
In this great misfortune we have our
comfort-Iowa has been saved. Its ma
jority has been somewhat reduced, but it
did not quite succumb to the Southern
cyclone. The Republicans of that State
fought II out on the line of Republican
principles and have won. If Ohio had done
the same thing her fate might have been
different.