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tall, bleak-eyed gambler with a feree
mustache, arose and said:

sesiA3 SASoATVt ~ EAfAoASAt'sS>s@ - ~ ~
mustache, arose and said:,,.
"Taint me as would try ter break
up meeting, or do anything disre-
hgious. No, sir; i am not that sort
of citizen. But In all public hoo,
docs it is a parliamentary, rule for.
anybody as wants to ask questions to
rise up an fire them off. 4. do. not
want ter fool away time questioning
the workings Of religion; oh, no.. AS
long as it is kept in proper bounds,
and does not interfere with the boys
in their games, do not see as it can
do any harm. 1 just want ter ask
the honorable speaker if he has not
given himself dead way! Does it
stand ter reason that bloke.. would
feed upon corn husks when there
were hash factories in the camp !?
Would anybody hev refused him the
price of a square meal if he had q
struck them for it? Would ..ny of the
dealers that beat HIM out of his coin
see him starve? AS 1 remarked afore;
/ do not want to make any disrespec-
table remarks, but must say that
have got it put up that the speaker
has been trying ter feed us On
cussed thin taffy, and no one but 8
silly would take it in."
Bill glared at the speaker and fairly
Kissed:
''Do you mean to say that am 8
liar"
"Wal, you can take it just as you
choos. Some folks would swallow il
in that shape"
Bill pulled his revolver, and in al
instant the bright barrels of numerou:
weapons flashed in the air as the
friends of each party prepared fol
active duty. The brevet preacher wa:
the first to fire, and the rash doubte
of spiritual truths fell dead on th'
ground. Shot followed shot in quicl
succession, and when quiet was agail
restored q score or more of dead ant
wounded men were carried from tn
tent. Having secured attention. Bill
said: ''Further proceedings is all
journed for the day. You will receiv
the doxology.''
The audience arose.
"May grace, mercy and peace b
with you, now and forever, amen
and 1 want it distinctly understood
that am going.to maintain a prope
respect for the Gospel if / have t
crosk every son-of-agun of a SHINE
! IN the mines. Meelin is out"
} The crowd filed from the tent a
coolly as if nothing extraordinary ha
occurred, and as gained the side
, walk / heard man remark:
''Bill has got the sand to make
bang up preacher, and l would nc
wonder if he made big mark in til
{ world vpt.''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25

I tell you women are more prudent
than men. / tell you, as q rule, wo-
men are more faithful than men--ten
times as faithful as men. / never
saw a man pursue his wife into the
very ditch and dust of degradation,
and take her in his arms. never
saw a man stand at the shore where
she had been morally wrecked, wait
ing for the waves to bring back even
her corpse te his arms; but have
seen woman, with, her white arms
lift man from the mire of degrade
ton, and hold him to her bosom as
though he were an angel. .-Inger-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25

Pay Up Before You Die.

The remarkable prophecy, known
as ''Mother Shipton's'' was published
in 1883. IT was re-pubiished in 164l.
All the events predicted in it, save
the last, which is to happen in the
near future, have come to pass:
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fll the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall 1y
In the twinkling of au eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders do
Now strange, shall yet be true,
The world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at foot of tree.
Through hills men shall ride,
And no horse or ass shall be at his side.
Under water meu shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk
In the air nen shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green.
Iron in the wafer shall float,
As easy as u wooden boat.
Gold shall be found, and found
In a land that's not now known.
- Fire tnd water shall wonders do,
2 England shah at last admit jew.
5zs The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eghty-One''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25

= 1t is bad practice tor church choirs
to be. singing Pinafore, as will Hbe
shown by the following incident
q The minister was tall, gray haired
individual, very mich resembling an
admiral, and in preaching the funeral
sermon of the deceased brother, said I
"We shallall miss him in his usual
haunts, :" whereupon The oheir sprang
to their feet, and sang. Aud SO " in
! his Sisters. aud iiisz eonsiIs and his
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25
TIMES OF HOLDING COURTS.

GIKIIII IUUHI.
REGULAR Terms Monday in
January, first Monday in June, and
second Monday i'll October.
PROBATE COURT.
Regular Terms-Seconl Monday III
March. May, July, September, No
ycmber and January.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms-r irst Monday III
Nav, August, November and Feb
runI'V
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25

The national bureau of statistics
says all the church properly IN one une
United States is worth sS54. .OOO, ,ooO
whale every year $500. .000. 900 are
snent for drinks. There is nothing
valuable in this paragraph, save thst
IL shows that men drink just about
twice as much ~ they pray. And
there iss't anything in chat partaeu-
larly valuable, either,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25

AS this is All era OF economy 10 all
aapsrtmcnts ofthe government, why
wouidlt ft be. u good thing to make
Tie asiiaf commissioners take their
pay III Indians? And on the other
hand, why wonldn,t TT be a splendid
scheme, also, to make the Indians
take their annuitessi In commissioners 7
Lets try it. {o8 #
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25
CITY DIRECTORY.
OFFICERS OF MEXICO.

IF T IOFINo UT VI 'IE9.NICV'
Mayor; William Pollock.
Recorder, James f. Gillian.
City Attorney, I. Il, Buckner.
clerk, James +. Gillian.
Treasurer. ). NJ. Locke.
Marshal anL Collector, w. Potts.
Assessor. Samuel W. Buckley.
street Cummis -iomcr y. j. Stacy
CITY Wcigher, X. lli~cy.
CITY f,n@iuccr. Thos. w. Carter.
Night Police, Al. Campbell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25
STATE DIRECTORY, T,

James Harding, OF Cole.
7. :. Marmaduke. of st. Louis.
John Walker, of Howard.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
RESIDENT OFFICES.
T.R. ii. Smith. Nj. d., superinten-
dent and physician.
II. X. Hinde, Nj. D., first assistant
physician.
T. A. How ard, M. D., second as
sistant physician.
CO. Atkinson, steward.
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
Wm. ID. Kerr, A. NJ, superinten-
dent.
James X. Shelley, Jr., steward. r~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25

The reason there is resemblance
between soldier and goat is thateone
mans the ramparts and the other rams
the mans PARTS. 11 . sstiw Z
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. e-~-
Justice of the Peace. Joseph Lupton
SALT RIVER TOWNSHIP. s.
EnOch IIOoton
Justices Oh L e"ce' Orlando Hit
Constable Rob't IiootOn
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
A Town Destroyed by Burning Oil.

The fire which destroyed Red Rock, one OF
the most ente' prising towns in the Bradford
Oil district, was the most destructive that has
ever occurred in that region. Eighty build
ings were burned, the district covering over
twelve acres. A well on the side hill had
been cleaned out preparatory to torpedoing,
the tubing being lett out OF the WELL One OF
the hands passing by with lantern the gas
caught, consuming the rig and destroying a
250-berIel tank Of oil The fluid ran down the
hill and communicated with a tank containing
%, 90 barrels OF oil. The monster iron tank
burned Tor hours, the blaze being plainly visi-
BILE ut Bradford, Pa, distance OF six miles.
The tank was located in position that COM
manded the heart OF the town. Embanknents
were thrown up and every precaution taken
to save the place from destruction, but with
out avail.
Between three and four o'clock in the morn
ing the upper bands OF the great tank tell in
with crash and the tank burst. The burn
ig oil ran out; huge fiery wave jumped
high over tho establishments, and spreading to
the extent of three hundred feet, swept
through the heart OF the town, which literally
meleG away before the heat. The burning
oil coursed through the streets fully four
feet in depth. A wave of fire would bound
against house, jump over the root, and
in less time than it would take to write de-
scription OF the disaster tho entire town was in
flames. 1t was truly q grand sight. Had it
not been Tor the alarm sounded about mid
nig hit the loss OF life would have been great.
AS il was people barely had time TO escape
with their lives. The burning oil swept
through the town like tidal wave. Little or
nothing saved. Not q store or saloon
was lett standing, and over one hundred
families were rendered homeless. The loss is
estimated at Sl60,0J0.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
The Bath in Cold Weather.

DR.. Arthur w. Eds, writing to the
British Medical Journal on the subject,
says: "Now that the weather is be-
coming very cold in the morning. the
question of giving up the cold sponge
bath, or converting it into the tepid
bath, forces itself upon the attention of
many who, without being invalids, are
not in such robust health as to enable
them to establish reaction after even
temporary immersion in cold water.
The French method of providing small
tub of warm water to stand in whilst
dressing, on returning from q bath in
the sea, is a luxury few will forget who
have experienced it. This method of
standing III warm water is one that
might, with advantage, be more fire.
quently followed during the winter
months by all who indulge in cold bath
ing. In place of sitting in an ordinary
sponge bath of tepid water, a far more
insigorating plan is to fill the hand basin
with cold water, pour a small canful of
warm water into the bath placed c.ose
to the wash-stand, then stand in
this, and sponge with cold water from
the basin. Where the full-length bath
is employed, momentary immersion
in water at fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and
then getting out into foot bath in
which 4 little warm water has been
placed, when soap OF q flesh brush may
be used and another immersion in cold
water resorted to, enables one to enjoy
the invigorating effects even in the
coolest weather. Thinking it possible
there may be many who will be glad to
avail themselves of the hint, I venture
to draw attenticn to the subject.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
Hobbies.

A banker well known in the financial
world died lately in one of the Atlantic
cities, at the age CT eighty, leaving q
property valued at millions. After his
death, aeollection of toys was sold for
over 300, 900, which he had been aecu-
mulating for twenty years. Scarcely
any valuable scientific or mechanical
toy had been made in Europe of which
he had not a specimen, but his assert
ment included also the most trivial of
children's playthings.
Another, a citizen of Philadelphia
one of the foremost jurists of his day,
had fancy for collecting fairy tales.
His shelves contained thousands OF
these volumes in every language.
Manias for china, old brasses and rare
editions are SO common among scholarly
men, that the incongruity of the pur-
suit does no tsJrike us.
The popularity of a hobby indeed is,
that it is usually at odds with the gen
ers.l character of the person who ex-
hibits it. 1t is bit of childhood left
by nature among the sterner stuff of
which manhood is made.
Jim Fisk had passionate love for
canaries, and was surrounded by them
at home.
The geriai poet Oliver Wendell
Holmes delights in graveyards. boasts
that he knows every one within forty
miles OF Boston, "and when the spring
opens," he says, smiling, g / go out to
see how my dead men do" The doctor
also isfond of working with tools. The
portable stereoscopic glass is his inven-
ton.
One of the most eminent surgeons in
the country delights in writing poems,
and very bad poems they are. There
can be no doubt that an innocent hobby
is a safety-valve, for the escape OF ner-
vous excitement in men who use their
brains to an exceptional degree
| Y0atth'S Communion
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
Ancient Arithmetic.

In our day arithmetic is looked upon
as science of which every boy at four
teen ought to be master. Such WIS not
the case century or so back. In Eng
land, as well as upon the continent,
arithmetic was long considered higher
branch of science, and university
study, like geometry. In part, this is
accounted for by the strong conviction
which has always possessed mankind
until within the last two hundred years,
that numbers have about them very po-
tent and mystical properties. During
the middle ages this science had its
skilled professors. The partial title of
u work gives an idea of its exalted
claims even after the time of Shakes
peare and Bacon. The book appeared
in London in 1924. Its title page runs
thus: "The Secrets of Numbers ac-
cording to the Theological, Arithmeti-
cal, Geometrical and Harmonical Com
pltation. Pleasing to read, profitable
10 understand, opening themselves to
the capacities of both learned and UNI
learned; being no other than Key to
lead Man to any Doctrinal knowledge
whatsoever.-"Po Popular Science Monthly.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
A Gentle Sstn,xIus

Is impaired TO the kidneys and bladder by
Hostetter's Bitiers' which is most useful in
overcoming torpidity of those organs. Besides
infusing more activity into them, this excellent
tonic endows them with additional vigor and
enables them the better to undergo the wear
and tear of the discharging junction imposed
upon them by nature. Moreover, they are
the channel for the escape of certain impurities
from the blood, it increases their usefulness
by strengthening and healthiuliv stimulating
them. In certain morbid conditions OF these
important organs, they TALL into sluggish
state, which is the usual precursor OF disease.
What then can be Of greater service than o
medicine which impels them to greater activity
when slothfnl? No maladies are more peril
GUS than those which affect the kidneys; and
a medicine which averts the peril should be
highly esteemed.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24

AT meeting OF the Republican national
committee in Washington, a few days ago,
Senator Cameron, oil Pennsylvania was elected
to succeed the late Senator Chandler as chair
man, and the national convention for the
nomination OF candidate Tor President was
appointed TO be held at Chicago, June 8, 1885,.
The House banking and currency committee
has accepted the bill OF Mr.. Price, of Iowa, for
that of Mr.. Buckner, OF Missouri, requiring
one-hat OF the national bank reserve to be
kept in coin.
Foreign News.
AT 1angeer, Nova Scotia, a dynamite cart
ridge exploded among men who were working
a gold mine. The shaft house was blown to
pieces, and james Ferguson was killed in.
stantly. His father and Joseph Ferguson
were terribly mangled, so that their recovery
was considered impossible. man named
Joseph Mason, who was either in the shaft
house or near it, was also badly injured, and
was thrown across the road by the explosion
Nearly all the rivers in Pennsylvania and
Hungary have overlooked, causing a great
loss of life and property. Fully 10000 per-
sons were rendered homeless, and many en-
tire families were frozen to DEATH In some
cases people were for days on trees and roofs
OF houses, awaiting fescue.
A Cabul dispatch reports battle between
Blifish troops and large force OF Afghans, in
which the former were worsted.
Lord Lytton, viceroy of India, was fred
upon in Calcutta by lunatic, but escaped in
jury.
The explosion OF q magazine of nitro-glycer-
ue and mica powder on Fox Island, opposite
AmheItsburgh, Ontario, was heard forty miles
away, shaking the ground like an earthquake,
and making hole sixty feet in diameter and
-6iteen teet deep.
May Williston, a daughter of Judge Willis
ton, and jamie Watt, while skating on the
river at Newcastle, n. b., broke through the
zee nd we've drowned.
While number of people were skating on
the bay at Penetunguishene, Ont, q young
man named Joseph Gendio and a yourg
lady, Amelia Cloutier, fell Though hole in
the ice and were drowned.
Lord Ferpoy an Irish landlord, was felled
to the ground and knocked senseless by
cudgel il the hands of an elected tenant, who
was Immediately arrested.
An appeal has been made by American mis-
sionares in certain districts of Persia in be-
half OF the inhabitants, who are starving.
The noted execu,ioner Calcratt, who for
iorty-six years held the Office of hangman in
England, is dead.
Advices from Lima p ru, state that bat.
tic has been fought between the invading
CHILEAN army and the allied Peruvian and b.
livian forces. The allies were defeated with
the loss OF about 1900 men, the CHILEAN loss
being put at 1900.
Twelve miners were killed and eight in.
jured by TN explosion Of blasting material in a
salt mine in Wurtemburg, Germany.
The allied Peruvian and Bolivian forces
burned the important city OF iquique, Peru,
before abandoning it, to prevent its falling
into the hands of the Chiians.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24

Poor emaciated, bed ridden invalids,
can be restored to robust aad blooming,
health with Hop Bitters, and no one
need be out of health if they will only
use them freely. Ask your druggist or
physician.
The New York Tribune in IFS market
report short time since, explained why
some butter was sold ut low prices. 1t
said Light colored goods are very
hard to dispose of and several lots were
thought we'll sold at to 10 cents. III
butter makers would get the top price,
they should use the Perfected Butter
Color, made byWells, Richardson & Co..
Burlington, Vt. 1t gives pure dande-
lion color and never turns red or rancid.
but improves and preserves the butter.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
By a Large Majority.

An Eastern Oregon paper relates an
incident in Baker City which was Of an
exasperating nature to ut least one of
the paItie involved. A divorce suit Is
pending between q couple in that place,
and, the husband on the lookout for
another helpmate, sought to ingratiate
himself with the fair sex by offering a
handsome prize to the lady who should
be voted the most worthy by the largest
number Of respectah zens. To his
CONSERVATION the b showed that
his wifc--separated FROM him, but not
divorced--was the favorite, by large
majority. ~
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
A warranted RUb6er Root.

The "Candee" Rubber Co., of New Haven
Conn, is making new rubber boot, which is
just what outdoor men have long been look
ing for, viz, one that is warranted. These
boots are called the " 95 +" Per Cent. Sterling
Rubber Boot. They warrant them three
months, and il your boot cracks or gives way
in that time, you can secure new pair free
of charge, provided the boots have had fair
usage.
That there may be no question about tn.
three months, when you buy the "s5 y Boots
the storekeeper punches the date in the top OF
the leg, in spaces provided for hatpurpose
and the warrant begins from that date and
cannot be disputed. These 95" Per Cent
Boots are pure can be made, and will
last six months hard wear. The exposed
portions are doubled, and the soles are halt an
inch thick, OF solid rubber, and will outwea1
three pair of any other rubber boots. Illus
trated catalogues with full particulars are
supplied by the " Candee" company on appli-
cation, or the boots can be seen in mos,
stores.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
Advice on Winter.

What this country is yearning for
just now is a sleighing that will come
on along in November when it should
and stay. We've cutters, horses and
good-looking girls enough in this corln-
try, and for the government not to fur
nish better article of sleighing is an
oversight that blocks the wheel of COM
merce and interferes with the bright
dream of love. Some winters we have
a little sleighing that melts right of. and
other winters it gets all covered up
with snow SO as to be of no use. We
would throw out the suggestion that
Congress abolish the present snow used
for sleighing, and construct a more
permanent sleig hing by making the road
beds of plate glass, and have them
creased with lard oil daily from a
sprinkler. Ofcourse the oil would be a
trifie costly, but the saving in time to
the public, and the corps Of officers who
would officiate On the sprinklers would
compensate for the expense.
Then another need of the season is
different kind of ice. The style of ice
now in fashion may be good enough to
give bodyto creams in the summer season,
but it is entirely too fragile and brittle
to be safe for the use of skaters. We
want "a kind of ice made without any
air holes in it, and kind that is just rs
thick in one place as 1t is anywhere.
Then could the gay skater and skatess
go bounding over the frozen surface Of
the deep mill pond without fear of a
premature bath. Then too, If a plan
could be devised toraise the temperature
of the ice little, it would be better for
awkward and timid skaters like our
selves. We frequently sit down when
we are skating, and the amount of cold
hid in a few square feet of ice offers too
much encouragement to the latentrheu-
nlatis1n. If this ice could be taken in by
the fire, or heated By the Holly system
we should want to skate oftener than
new. Ed. 4. adams, IN Narration. In
depesstIesat
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
Divisions of Time.

A solar day is measured by the rotation OF
the earth upon it's axis and IL OF different
lengths, owing 10 the ellpticity of the earths
orbit and other causes; bat mean solar day ,
recorded by the time-piece, is twenty-iuut
hours.
IN astronomical day commences at noon,
and il counted from the first 10 the twenty
fourth hour. civil day commences at mii-
night, aud Is counie from the first to the
twelfth hour, when it is recounted again from
the iirst 20 the twelfth hour. A nautical day
Is counted us n civil day, nut commences like
an astronomical day, from noon.
A calendar month varies in length from IS
TO 81 duys. a mean lunar month is 20 days
~ hours, IL minutes, seconds and 5.2l
thirds.
A year is divided into 36j days.
A solar year, which is the time occupied by
the sun in passing from one vernal equinox
TO Rnother, consists of 365.2i244 solar days,
or S65 days, hours, As minutes, and 1885
seconds.
A Julian year is 365 days. A Gregorian
year is 1852 days. Every fourth year is
Bissextile, or leap year, and is 366 days. The
error OF the Gregorian computation amounts
only to one day in 1871. 1886 years.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-24
Commenceme tortbe Yerr.

By the reformation OF the calen ar by Pope
Gregory Kill, the year began Inc first OF
january, and, nstquently, whenever and
wherever the new style OF reckoning time was
adopted, then and there the year mnenced
on this day. Previous to the use OF the Gre.
gorian Calendar the years had different days
OF beginning ut various times in the same and
different countries, and occasionally at the
same time in the same country. In most
countries IL began one of the following
days: Christmas day, the 25lh OF December ;
Circumcision day, the LIST of January; Lady
day, the 25th OF March, Easter day, the day
OF the resurrcetios OF OUT Lord.
In England. in the seventh, and so late az
tue thirteenth century, the year began on
Christmas day; but in the twelfth century the
Anglican church commenced the year on
the 25th of March, rs did also the civilians OF
The fourteenth century This continued until
l1p2, the time oil adoption OF the new style
by this 1t appears that two mo les OF reckoning
the commencement oil the year have generally
existed in Great Britain and its colonies,
causing what Is known as the Civil, Ecclesi.
astical, or Legal Year and the Historical
Year The last named OF these have c,,rn.
meuoed on tho first OF January tor long
period of time.