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Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-01
LADDONIA NEWS.

What has become Of our Murphy
meetings? Have not had any for
several weeks and we fear they have
s'gene where the woodbine twineth."
Won't some of the good, enthusiastic
Murphys Of Mexico come downNnd
give US Ia resurrection? Soms e
that can do a great deal of speaking
for a little money preferred, as our
treasury is not heavy loaded at pres
emit; but we promise a good attend
ance and attentive listeners, and what
is lacking in money, will be made up
by attention. We presume it will be
all the same to the speakers. The
school house is opened again to all
meetings of a moral persuasion, and
the song Of "Curfew do not ring to-
night has ceased. Selkirk did not
feel more lonely when he sighed for
s'the sound of the church going bell'
than the Laddonians did when they
had to meet at the depot and private
houses for meetings; but now as they
trip along the path to the school
house to attend meetings, all trouble
is forgotten and the merry laugh
rings out with good will to all. 1t
don't pay to get mad. Did people
know this truth, they would prosper
better. IT'S time lost, for they al
ways have to 60 back, and commence
where they left off. Life is too short
to spend in doing spite work,
and to indulge in ill-feelings. Man
kind were made for a better and high
er destiny and the sooner they learn
to do without it and lift themselves
up to a higher life, the better it is for
them. Prayers nor money will not
avail much if we do not commence
with the firm resolve within ourselves
to do right. We hope our town will
glide along smoothly now, and the
little feuds that have occurred during
the summer. be all forgiven.
Some how or other the pathway grows
brighter,
just when we mourned there was meme
to befriend, -
Hope in the heart makes the burden seem
lighter
And some how or other we get to the
end"
"Life has q burden for ever cues shoulder,
None may escape from its trouble o.
care
Miss it in youth and it will come wheI
we're older
,And fit US as close as the garments WI
wear"
This poetry contains 'self-evident
truths, and the sooner we learn then
the better for us.
We understand a marriage wa:
nearly completed on yesterday eve
The couple went to the Squire's an
before calling him out held a consul
tation and concluded to postpone tn
important event.
, Farmers ale busy cutting hay.
:, Corn looks fourishing since th
, rain.
We noticed several car loads
corn come in to-day; and a big Il
, of cattle, and business in gener'
seems to be more lively.
We notice that Messrs. Jordan
:. Smith have enlarged their hardwaI
|, store and filed it with new good:
Now that the busy time is gettir
= over, our merchants will have more
do, get rid of some goods al
perpaps receive s~'leetle'' money.
Crawford & Wilder advertises f
so, 900 bushels of oats.
20 G. H. Benton, delegate to t
y Grand Lodge of the order of Co.
y fTomnIora raturnad from ST Lon
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-01

Inc General Association of the
baptist Church of Missouri will be
held at Mexico, October 2s.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
REVOLVER FIRED s s : q : IS IS :;

Cartridges, Address, j. Brown s. Son,
1876 and 1873 Wood ST., Pittsburgh, Pa.
1I-4W
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-01

HRDDnR EklE Gives the utmost satisfaction
NHnOULiNE as a Hair Renewer.
nRDDnI INE Has a magical effect on gray
NHn0ULtNE hairs.
nRDDn: IAIC Is free from irritating and poi.
UHnOuLlNE sonous chemicals.
NhDD0t ME Is the natural nourishment for
VHnCVhlNE the hair.
NADDnF iklC Has been Endorsed by the high
OHnOULiNE est medical authority.
nHDOnI IAIc Gives weak and sickly hair the
UHnDUkiVE gloss and visor Of youth.
nRnDnI INE Restores faded or gray hair TO
JHnOQklNG its natural color.
NADDnI IAIE Is not a dye-restores the hair
UNnDUklNE naturally.
nRpOnf me Cures oil Diseases Of the
VHnDUkiNG Scalp.
nhRR0 tNE keers the hair moist and the
nesd COOL
nh1H--Nl lAir Makes the hair look ~nsturat
SF, s0UkINE and beautiful.
nADnNI IAEC Delightful, fragrant, and sure
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-01
HAT FILTRATION.

A NEW SCHEME TO GIVE THE BOYS A
" "" SIR CHANCE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-01

The article is telling its own story in the hands
of thou sands whO are using ii with most crafty
ing and encouraging results:
MIR. GUSTANUS F. HALL, of the Oates Opera
Troupe writes: after six weeks use am CON
WINGED. as are also my comrades, that your CAR
BoLINE has and Is producing a wonderful growth
of hair where | had none for years.
N.s M~CCLARRAS, Sixth Avenue Pharmacy.
Pittsburg. Pa. says: The good effects from the
use of CARBOLINE are brought to my notice every
day to such an extent a. tn justify me in recon-
mending il to my most intimate friends"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
Origin of Two Well-knOwn Phrases.

"Cutting Dido" is phrase older
than most people imagine. The hus-
band of Dido, Princess of Tyre,
was Acerbas, priest of Hercules, and
that respectable gentleman was murder
ed for his wealth by the King of Pygma-
lion, brother of Dido. The widowed
princess was enabled to escape from
Tyre, bearing with her the wealth of
her husband, and accompanied by a
number of disaffected mobiles. After a
variety of adventures they landed uron
the coast of Africa, where Dido bar
gained with the natives for as much land
as she could enclose with bulls hide.
Selecting large, tough hide, she caused
it to be cut in the smallest possible
threads, with which she enclosed large
tract of country, on which the city of
Carthage soon began to rise. The ma
tives were bound by the letter of their
bargain, and allowed the cunning queen
to have her own way; and after that
when any one had played off sharp
trick, they said they had "cut Dido,
That was almost three thousand years
ago, and the saying has come down to
our day.
The phrase TO scrape acquaintance,
comes to us from the Roman Emperor
Adrian. He was at the public baths one
day, when he saw one of bis veteran
soldiers scraping his body with tile.
That was such poor luxury that Adrian
ordered that his old comrade should be
supplied with more suitable cleansing
materials, and also with money. On a
o subsequent occasion, when the en-
peror again went to the bath, the spec
tacle before him was highly amusing.
A score of old soldiers who had fought
under Adrian were standing in the
water, and each was currying himself
with tile and wincing at the self-in-
fiicted rubbing. The emperor perfectly
understood what he saw and what was
the purpose of the sight. "Ha ha p
he exclaimed, "you had better scrape
one another, my good fellows" He
added, "you certainly shall not scrape
acquaintance with me-"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

as light as noonday-a hot, sickening
light, if may so term it; and lying on
the bank, but a step from the water, 1
saw John Richards, begging of me to
come to him.
"Oh, Joe just try once to save me-
only once, Joe I'll ask no more |"
Gould you have refused, even though
1t seemed like certain death to venture
back into that burning heat9 No more
could I.
One noble man-God prosper him and
his IN this life and hereafter l-returped
with me, and together we dragged poor
John through the water into compara-
tive safety.
"God bless you'll" murmured John,
as he felt the cool water enveloping
HIM. You have saved me from a hor-
rlble death, and 1 will repay you. Bend
your head down, Joe. The money is
all right, Jocl"
What tell me that again !" 1 de-
manded, forgetting everything but the
nope OF saving my honor unstained.
81 took it, Joe. 1 knew Belle loved
you, and couldn't bear it. ThatJetter
L sent was to get you where I could
carry out my plan. 1 might have left
you in the hut, but Belle would always
remember you then, while shadow of
suspicion upon you would have ended it
all. But L give her up to you, Joe. I'm
not good enough for her, even if she
wanted me; but if live, I'll do better.
You'll not tell Belle, or fatherP"
"No, John," said.
By this time the heat was 80 intense
that we were forced to wade deeper into
the water, and keep our heads wet to
save our skins from blistering. All, sir,
it was terrible Many a poor being
fled down into the water that night, and
never returned-fed from one death to
find another, and, perhaps, an easier
one.
Well, l scarcely know how we lived
through that awfdl night; but here l
am, as you see, considerably scorched,
and somewhat stiff and sore, but quite
man, after all. There is John, too
John Richards, in that bed in, the cor
ner. He will get over it, I guess. I
shouldn't be telling you this now, only
he said might. He has turned over q
new leaf, and does not want any secrets
weighing him down.
There is Belle, too, just coming up
the walk. They put my bed here, 50
that l should be the first to see her when
she came, and the last when she went
away. Isn't she beautiful9 All, but
that is nothing to her goodness She
has saved John and me, they say and
she is my promised wife. Do you blame
me now for saying there never was an
evil that good did not spring out of it
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
Fashion Notes.

Chenille trimmings and ftinges are
used on autumn dresses.
A thick rouleau of satin is now used
to finish the edge of the flowing train Of
| handsome dresses.
Silver necklaces composed of four rows
of graduated rosettes are worn with
black and wl.ite dresses.
The newest short dresses have wrin-
kled apron and knife plating in front,
and three knife plaitings in the back.
Wreaths of silk roses, shading from
pale buds to blossoms gorgeously deep
in color, have been made up for fall
| bonnets.
Satin or velvet bodices are much worn
with white muslin skirts. With these
costumes the petticoat is of white silk,
and the washer-woman overskirt is
trimmed with satin to match the bodice.
Monograms that had been little used
of late are restored to favor since the
fancy for embroidery began. The mon
ogram is wrought on linen collars, on
parasols, on lace mitts, on the insteps of
stockings, and sometimes on shoes.
The white muslin pleatings once SO
fashionable for trimming black silk and
colored dresses are coming into use
again. They are worn under black lace,
or else they peep from beneath ruffies
of the dress material. A great deal of
white lace of very open pattern is also
used on dark silk dresses; among these
are church lace (or Irish point, Honi-
ton, Flemish laces, the open-meshed
torchon without any pattern upon it,
and Valenciennes of new open designs.
These are all modern laces, yet they are
given look of age by being dipped in
weak coffee until they are quite yellow.
They are very much used on the panier
and Vatican dresses of damask and of
foulard that are ordered for fetes.
The style for dressing the hair varies
according to the occasion. For walking,
it is dressed high in the neck, and fiat on
the top of the head For dinners and
ordinary evening wear at home, the hair
Is rather more elaborately arranged, and
for full dress all fanciful styles are re-
sorted to, such as long curls and puffs,
the hair being generally more becoming
when falling over the shoulders, espec-
tally with low-neck dresses. In the
country the hair can well be worn falling
loose in net. A pretty way of dressing
the hair for q dinner is to have it
crimped aud fiat in front, and the whole
back of the head covered with very light
puffs. A style for full dress is to have
the hair curled, falling gracefully down
the back, and long puffs on the top of
the head. 1850
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
A Lost Art Recovered.

A paper published in Virginia City.
New, says: DIR. J. s. Meyer of this city
claims to have discovered the secret by
means of which the ancients we're able
to make tools and weapons of bronze
and copper of temper superior to that
OF the best steel. He says he is conf,
dent he can make bronze that in wear
and tear, temper and elasticity, will sur
pass the best steel. The doctor has
samples of the new metal which he will
show to persons desirous of seeing them,
and considers that he is near perfection
He says the metal when completed can
never be analysed, on account of its
peculiar manufacture. He hints that it
is combination of copper and iron,
brought about through the addition Of
some third metal or other substance.
The doctor wishes some who can fur
nish from $500 to $500 to Join him in
the manufacture of the new metal; that
he is to make sufficient quantity for
testing, to show that it ia really what he
claims for it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
The Russian Officer and Soldier.

The Russian officer has the splendid
valor OF his nationality, he is no brag-
gart, but does his fighting as O matter of
course, and as part of his days work.
when he is hidden to do it. As for the
Russian private, I regard him as tho
finest material for soldier that the
soldier-producing world, so far as am
acquainted with it, affords. He is an
extraordinary weight carrying marcher,
tramping on mile after mile with a good
heart, with singular freedom from re-.
lance on sustenance, and with good
stomach for immediate fighting at the
end of the longest foodless march. He
never grumbles; matters must have
come to bad pass, indeed, when he
lets loose his tongue in adverse com
ment on his superiors. Injured to pri.
vation from his childhood, he is q hard
man to starve, and will live on rations,
or chance installments of rations, at
which the British barrack room cur
would turn up his nose. HIS sincere
piety according to his narrow lights,
his whole-hearted devotion to the Czar
which is ingrained into his metal sys-
tom, not the result of process of rea-
soning-and his constitutional courage.
combine to bring it about that he faces
the casualties of the battlefield with
Wiling, prompt, and long-sustained
bravery. He needs to be led, however;
not 80 much because of the moral en-
couragement which gallant leader i'm
marts, but because his reasoning facuI-
ties, for lack of education, being COM
paratively dormant, he does not know
what to do when an unaccustomed or
unlooked-for emergency occurs. He is
destitute of perception when left to him
self. Somebody must do the thinking
for him, and impart to him the result of
the process in the shape of On order:
and then he can be trusted, while
physical power lasts, and strive his
pithiest to fulfill that order. But if
there is nobody in front of him or with
IN sight of him, to undertake the mental
part OF the work, the Russian soldier
gets dazed. Even in his bewilderment.
however, he is proof against panic. and
we saw him with sore heart at Plevna,
on the Both of %uly, standing up to be
killed in piteously noble stubbornness
OF Ignorance, rather than retreat with
out the orders, which there were none
to give. The Turkish soldier is his
master in the intuitive perception of
lighting necessities. The former is a
born soldier, the latter brave peasant
drilled into soldier. If the Turk ad-
vancing finds himself exposed to flank
attack, he needs no officer to order him
to change his front; he grasps the situa-
tlon for himself, and that is what the
Russian soldier has neither intuitiye
soldierhood nor acquired intellience to
do.-Ihe Nineteenth Cents,ry.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

ed me Ike a brother, and when he gave
up business last February he brought
me here with him. When We landed he
made me present, which will keep me
above water for many long day. But
there's another strange thing. When 1
got here my sister supposed me to be
dead. The captain Of the Alexander
Scott had published an account of my
being cast away; and, of course, every
body supposed that, crippled as / was, 1
would perish miserably. The captain
had secured my money-belt along with
his own valuables when he was taken off
the wreck, and knowing my sisters ad-
dress from me he forwarded the money
to her. So, you see, all ended well after
ALL"
Mr. Barnes is an Englishman, of al
most thirty-five, ruddy, healthy, and,
save for his mutilation, model of a
physical man.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
1t Spoiled Their Appetites.

The Albany EVening Journal says:
Although it happened over half cen.
tury ago, the following story, vouched
for by Mr.. Chester Burbank, of Water
vliet, an old resident of the town, will
be found interesting, even at this late
date: In the year 1926 the sloop Rob-
ert Burns, of Castleton, was lying at
anchor off the Palisades. The sloop was
200 tons burden; and was manned as
follows: Captain, Arad Buckman; pilot,
William Forgy; cook, Chester Burbank,
who now relates the story; and Henry
Douglass, Titus Mink, and one Bogue,
of the crew. There were also two young
ladies aboard, who occupied the cabin,
one of whom was named Miss Almira
Austin. About twelve O'Clock at night
the crew were reused by the shrieks of
the young ladies, and terrible commo-
tion in the cabin. The door was broken
in, when it was found that huge stur-
geon was the cause of the trouble. APP
pearances indicated that the fish had
leaped from the river upon the locker,
and slid through the open window of
the cabin, landing in the berth occu-
pied by the young ladies. The young
girls, unable to realize what the object
was, were paralyzed with terror at first,
but soon regaining their senses, gave
utterance to shrieks for help, and spring
ing from the berth, crouched in the fur.
thest corner of the cabin, while the
fish, finding himself in strange quarters,
Topped about in the berth. It is need.
less to add that the sturgeon was speedily
dispatched by the sailors, and divided
equally among those on board. The
young ladies, however, refused their
shares, and could not be induced to even
taste of the fish after it was cooked.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
Country Girls.
Up in the morning early,
~ "A Al.

Up in the morning early,
Just at the peep Of day,
StrSining the milk in the dairy,
Turning the cows away;
Sweeping the floor in the kitchen,
Making the beds up stairs,
Washing the breakfast dishes,
busting the parlor chairs.
Brushing the crumbs from the pantry
Hunting for eggs in the barn,
Cleaning the turnips for dinner,
Spinning the cotton yarn;
Spreading the whitening linen,
Down on the bushes below;
Rsnsacking every meadow
Where the strawberries grow.
Starching and fixing for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream,
Rinsing the pail and strainer,
Down in the running stream;
Feeding the geese and turkeys,
Making the pumpkin pies,
Jogging the little ones cradle,
Driving away the flies.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
Beauty in form and feature.
Thousands might covet to own;
Cheeks that rival spring roses,
Teeth the whitest Of pearls;
One Of the country maids is worth
A score Of your city girls.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

The mission of the watermelon is to
be enlarged, a company having been
formed in California with large capital
to make watermelon sugar and oil,
which claims ability to get ten per cent.
of the sugar from the juice, twenty-five
per cent of oil from the seeds, and alco-
hol from the rind and pulp.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30
TIMELY TOPICS.

During the past year the United States
sent 105, 900, 900 yards of cotton abroad,
about ten times as much as during its
predecessor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

The stroke of the headsman's axe in
Berlin was answered by dagger thrusts
and pistol-shots in st. Petersburg. On
the morning when Hoedel the tinsmith
was beheaded for attempting to kill an
emperor, the chief of the czar's police
was stabbed to the heart, and one OF his
associates was shot in struggle with
the assassins.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

The 25, 900 Touring mills of the United
States manufacture so, 600, 600 barrels Of
-four annually, 1000 600 Of which are
exported; and pay their help 800, coo, 900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

Cali ornia has law providing that,
under certain restrictions "any Sheriff,
coroner, keeper of a county poor house,
public hospital, county jail or State
prison, or the mayor or the Board OF
Supervisors Of the city of San Francisco,
must surrender the dead bodies of such
persons as are required to be buried at
the public expense, to any physician or
surgeon, to be by him used for the ad-
vancement of anatomical science, prefer
ence being always given to medical
schools by law established in this State,
for their use in the instruction of medi-
cal students"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-30

The people of Moscow declare that
their great bell shall never be pulled
down from its glittering steeple, where
it reigns over all other church bells in
the world. Its weight is 443, ,772 pounds,
while the other famous bells are light in
comparison: st. .Pauls, London, 13, 600
pounds; Antwerp, 10000; Oxford, IT,
600 !; York, $4,000; Montreal, 20, 1000
Rome, 19, 600; Bruges, %, 900; Cologne,
25, 900; Erfurt, 10000; English House
of Parliament, $1,000; Vienna, 40, 600
Novqorod, 69, 900; Pekin, 1876, 600; Sens,
81, 600; Moscow (its Second), 141 600.
The great. bell OF Moscow is nineteen
feet high and sixty-four feet round ; it's
noise is tremendous.
A great work now in course of execu-
tion, is the lighthouse of Ar.men, on
rock beyond the Isle of Sein, off Cape
Finisterre Nand's EndD, Brittany, west
ern France. In 1860 commission was
first appointed to inquire into the possi-
bility of constructing lighthouse at this
point, where the currents were so tre-
mendous that even in the calmest wea-
ther they cause a very heavy sea in GER
tain directions of the wind The rock is
of hard gneiss, from forty to fifty feet in
length, and about twenty. five in breadth.
The preliminary work was done by fish
ermen of the Isle of Sein, whose famil-
iarity with these waters enabled them to
reach the rock when no one else could.
Their method was, when opportunity
offered, for two Of them, wearing cork
belts, to get out of their boats and lie
upon the rock, which they clutched with
one hand, while they made holes at inter-
vals of three feet with the other. Mean
while they were covered with spray, and
sometimes carried away, to be recovered
by q boat. In 1867 only eight hours
work could be accomplished, and fifteen
holes were made. Next year forty holes
we're made. In 1869 the building was
begun, and now the tower is forty feet
above the highest tides. 1t is intended
to be about ninety feet above them.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-28
MARRIED.

ELINGHOLZ-LUEPS. the residence of
the bride, n6aF this city, on Friday evening,
February p by L. j. Nash, Esq, Mr. HUGO
KLINGHOLZ and Miss SOPHIA LUEPS.
Together with host of others, friends of
the young couple, we tender our congratula-
tions and hearty wei wishes for long and
prosperous career. The bIide and groom are
children of two of the oldest residents in Mani
towoc and have a large circle of friends.
SIMEK-IPSH.-Att the residence of the bride,
in this city. on Saturday, Feb. %, by W. H.
Glover, Justice of the Peace. Mr.. FRANK
SIAEk and Miss AMELIA IPSH,
When Frank began talking about manufac-
turing baby carriages at the Clipper City Car
rage Works. we suspected that he was on the
point of doing the sensible thing he did. We
congratulate MIN, and hope he and his may
s'live long and prosper"
MITCHELL-NEWEL the residence of
the bride, on Wednesday eve, February 20,
Ivy Rsy. Mr Cellars. NJ. GEO. ". MITCHELL,
of AmherS;. Portage county, and Miss LUELLA
NJ. NEWELL, daughter Of S. A. Newell of this
city.
The young couple left for Amherst on Thurs
day. whittier the best wishes of many friends
follow Them.