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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-10-02
THE BEST OF ITS KIND.

4 This IL thu" cas-" with the Mexican
Mustang l.tHiTn cnt. Every mail
y Irin~s Intelligence at a ynI ms IN. h..n
Ha'"d' me ig"ny ct AN awful sea Id or
""tii subdurd, ia" horrors OF rbcu-
'h's'Nhi overcome. and OF Il thousand-
t'''i one other blessings and mcrcics
icai. aiusfaHg I.ihinrent.
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Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24
A "Tidal vvave'' of Popular
Favor

Seems to have struck Scribner'S
Monthly. The increase in sales du-
ring the past six months has been
nearly twenty thousand copies, and
the edition in England has doubled.
The May issue (95 .OOO) contains thirty
three articles and departments
among them an account of 1.-The New
Museum in Rome" Wilhelmj and
Remenyi, A Day on the New York
Docks, the first part of Adeline Traf-
toms story, capital installment of
"Haworth's," &C., &C., with the first
of 1.-The Brazil Papers," which have
been so long in preparation. In or
der to give new subscribers the open
ing chapters of Mrs. Burnett's great
novel, "Haworth's," the publishers
offer, or any dealer will supply, the
bound Volume XVII in the new and
elegant olive-green embossed covers
(instead of the unbound numbers)
for the past six months. without
charge that is, for $500 will be sent
Volume XVII bound, and a six
months subscription MAY '79 to Oc-
tober 10 inclusive), with four frontis-
piece portraits of Longfellow, Emer-
son, Holmes and Whittier. Scribner
& Co., 743 Broadway. N. Y.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24
MISCELLANEOUSITEMS.

A British Professor estimates that
bees, to collect pound of honey
from red clover heads, would have to
make $500, 900 visits.
The Rev. J. L. Wyatt, who has
lately returned from Tinnevelly, In
dia, reports that 900 Hindoos have
Joined the Christian Church within
the last year.
The German language is now taught
In fifty-six public schools of New
York City.
The Mexican international exposi-
ton building is to cost SS00.00
The Terre Haute Erpress, Green
back referring to the proposed demo
cratic-greenback. .tie-up, says that no
party half horse and half alligator can
win In this country.
The Chicago Inter Ocean has can
vassed the county jail to find out the
politics of the inmates. 1t finds that
so far as the two leading parties are
concerned the figures stands 100 to q.
And nobody needs to be told which
is which.
The Mobile Register warns Presi-
dent Hayes that If he persists in his
determination to veto Democratic
measures "it may be necessary for
Congress to consider very seriously
whether IL is not in order to call up
from the table Of the House that res
olution which was acted upon on the
Sd of March, 1877, to the effect that
Samuel J. Tilden was elected Presi-
dent of the United States" Suppose
they call 1t up and act upon it, what
| then
Philadelphia Press: Southern
Democrats do not want the negro to
"go." All they ask is that he shall
stay and do the work while they do
the voting.
The Kentucky Republicans, who
were Bristow men In 1875, have learn
ed wisdom, aud are unanimously for
Grant in 1880.
The Maryland Gazette, published
at Annapolis, flies the following
Presidential ticket: "The Peoples
Choice for 18S0-For President, Gen.
U. s. Grant, of Illinois. For Vice
President, the Hon. r. w. Thompson,
of Indiana.
The emigration fever has reached
the colored people of Virginia. Far
mers have tried to induce the negroes
to remain, but those who have money
are preparing to go West.
The extra session of Congress has
cost the nation heavy In reputation
and about $3.50, 900 in money up to the
present. At no time is history has a
party made a greater blunder than
the Democratic party did In making
the called session a necessity. No
disinfectants will prevent it smelling
in the nostrils of honest men before
the hot months end.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24
tSenatOr Teller's Speech.

Mr.. Teller said the Democratic par
ty had heretofore always sustained
the exercise of the veto power by q
Democratic President. This law had
existed fourteen years without being
objected to by the opposite party. and
| If it was unconstitutional he thought
it strange fact that it had just been
discovered, the proper place to test the
validity Of law was In the courts. He
quoted from a decision of Judge Sto-
rev In 1916, that the constitution had
stripped the states of the highest at
tributes of sovereignty and conferred
the same upon the United States gov
eminent. This doctrine had been ac-
cepted by all parties until now, and
in 1856 the United States senate rec
ognized its force by prescribing regu-
lations for elections in the state of
Delaware, etc. He quoted other judi
cial decisions supporting his assertion
and eaid that the constitutionality of
the law being established, the only
question was as to expediency or pol
icy of retaining it. He himself depre-
Gated use of the army to enforce civil
process except in extreme cases, but
the Democrats had not always been
so afraid of military power as they
now are. Mr.. Beck had quoted from
a speech made by Seward in 1856, pro-
testing against the use of the army,
but Mr.. Teller proposed to show that
on that occasion Seward was earnest
Iy com batting a Democratic plan to
send the army in Kansas to force GER
tain odious laws of territorial legisla-
ture. Seward had denounced these
laws as subversive of the right of free
speech and free press but not DEM
ocrat voted with him to keep them
from enforcing them. If his friend
Beck could extract anything from
such facts tosupport the present DEM
ocratic policy, he had read history
carelessly. Mr.. Teller said the Dem
ocratic cry seemed to be for free bal
lot. All frauds on the ballot for the
last twenty years he said emanated or
had been to the advantage Of the
Democratic party. He cited frauds
in Kansas in 1852 and 1854, in Louisi-
ana in 1854, and In New York City in
1868. He then reviewed at consider
able length the testimony taken be-
fore the committee of which he was
chairman and declared that even
white Democrats in good standing
testified to lawlessness and intimida-
ton at elections to prevent colored
people from voting as they desired in
and South Carolina. Mr..
Teller said he did not know what the
President would do, but he did not
think any threat to deprive the army
of its sustenance would affect the ac-
ton of any Republican senator nor of
the President.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

The Observer, published In New Or
leans, gives the reason for the exodus
of the colored people, thus:
Almost daily explanations are CIV
en- by the press why the negroes are
leaving the South and going North.
Hear the true one!
Cotton lands that would not COM
maud, under forced sales, more than
$40 per acre, are rented to the negroes
for from 81 to 50 year per acre. A
good mule and plow is worth $3.50.
For the use of these the laborer pays
from $50 to $40 per year. A barrel of
pork Is worth say SO In the city. The
negro pays from 10 to 124 cents q
pound on the plantations.
This Is a sample of what goes on
with the land owners and laborers,
both on the sugar and cotton estates.
A man cannot cultivate in hot oil
mate like this more than seven acres
of cotton or cane and three OF corn.
A bale of cotton, or hogshead of su-
gar, and twenty barrels of corn Is
considered an average yield. Deduct
the expenses of the laborer from the
present prices of cotton, sugar, and
corn. and find the balance II you can.
Why, then, talk of yankee" ennis
saries and circulars, or the fear of re-
enslavement? These are sufficient to
depopulate the South, and are the ma
ked truth besides.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Senator Blaine made q most effect
i've speech on.the 14th inst. while the
army appropriation was under con
sideration. In the entire South, said
Mr.. Blaine, there are !, ,l55 soldiers tC
intimidate, over-run, oppress, and
destroy the liberties of Is millions Of
people in ,2C3 counties, and not quite
one soldier to each county-One sol
diers to about 200 voters. go. The
real motive of the Democratic party
must be looked for elsewhere. II is
simply to get rid of federal elections
to get rid of the civil power of the
United States in the election of rep
resentatives to Congress. Mr.. Blaine
concluded as follows: 81 don't pro-
fess to know, Mr.. President, what the
President of the United States will do
when these bills are presented to him
as l suppose in due course of time
they will be, | certainly should never
speak single word of disrespect OF
the gentleman holding that exalted
position, and l hope | shall not speak
word unbefitting the dignity Of the
office of a Senator of the United
States; but as there has been specula-
ton here and there, on both sides, as
| TO what he would do, it seems to me
the dead heroes of the Union would
rise from their graves if he should
consent to be intimidated and out
ragged in his proper constitutional
power by threats like these. All the
war measures of Abraham Lincoln
are to be wiped out, say the leading
Democrats. The Bourbons of France
buised themselves, / believe, after the
Restoration, in removing every trace
of Napoleon's power and grandeur,
even chiseling the NJ from the pub
lie monuments raised to perpetuate
his glory, but the dead mans hand,
from st. Helena, reached out and
destroyed them In their pride and
glory, and | tell the Senators on the
other side of this chamber: / tell
the Democratic party, North and
South in the lead and the
North following-that this slow, un-
moving finger of scorn from the tomb
of the martyred President on the
prairies of Illinois will wither and
destroy them. Though dead, he
speaketh.' [Great applause in gal
leries. "When you present these
bills with these threats, to the living
who bore the commission
of Abraham Lincoln and served with
honor in the army of the Union
which Lincoln restored and preserv-
ed, I can think only of one apprOpri-
ate response from his lips or his pen.
He should say to you, with all the
scorn betting his station: Is thy
servant dog, that he should do this
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

DIR. George ]. st. Louis, who was to
have been hanged at Wahoo, last Fri
day, for the crime of wife murder,
about 8 O'Clock Friday morning drew
a pistol from beneath the bed clothing
in bis cell and placing the muzzle just
above his right ear, sent ball crush
ing through his brain. The unfOrtu-
nate man was confined in the Jail at
Fremont, for safe keeping, and at the
hour named he had risen from his bed
by order of his guards to get ready for
the Journey to Wahoo, Saunders coun-
ty, where the gallOws awaited him.
st. Louis got up, and was sitting on
the side of the bed, when he remark
ed, "Well, suppose l have got to
CO." and believing no doubt that
then was bis last opportunity to es-
cape being hanged, and having the
pistol for this emergency. and no
guardsman being nearer him than ten
or twelve feet, he suddenly drew from
beneath the corner of a blanket, the
cooked revolver, and fired. He lived,
but remained unconscious until the
Goth at 2:3O o clock. when he breathed
his last. 1t was not ascertained where
he procured the weapon with which
he cheated the gallows of Its prey.
While the testimony aud circum-
stances were very much against him,
and q large quantity of poison was
found in his wife's stomach, yet there
were sufficient grounds upon which to
found q very reasonable doubt of his
guilt.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

A member of Congress rushed to
the footlights and declared that 1.-The
editor of the Okolona Southern States
was an Ohio carpet bagger." AS Hurd
and Thurman were both from Ohio,
and the similarity was great. every
body hesitated to deny it. But the
Memphis AvdLdnch steps forward
with this statement: at won't do to
charge the crazy editorials in the
Okolona States on the Ohio carpet
bagger. Colonel Harper was the wild
eyed boy of destiny who runs the ma
chine and, if be isn't Southerner,
the race is extinct" And the AUd-
Ldnch might have added be is about
the honestest Democratic politician in
the whole lot. Whatever his utter
ances. we know where to find them.
Inter Ocean.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

With the Republicans 1t is univer-
sally believed that the President will
veto the army appropriation bill on
account of the political legislation at
tached to it by the Democrats; but he
has never indicated In any way what
he would do regarding the matter.
Republicans believe it because they
all want him to do SO, because it is In
his line of duty to do so. because the
Republicans in Congress are unani-
NOUS in urging him to do SO, because
he himself is Republican, and be-
cause 1t will be consistent with his
often avowed determination TO protect
the freed men IN their political rights.
And one of the best reasons fos be-
lIeying the President will interpose
his veto is that in his last annual mes
cage his pointed reference to reported
frauds on the ballot box in the South,
warrants the opinion that be has lrre-.
fragabie evidence that such frauds
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

A Good Templar Lodge was never
intended to be a dancing club. The
Order does not assume to determine
the propriety or impropriety OF dane
ing. But inasmuch as there are
many members opposed to 1t, and in
asmEoh as dancing is no essential help
to or part Of temperance work, the
Order says we will have nothing to
do with it, and lodges which engage
in 1t forfeit their chsrte: thereby. 1t
ought to be so. A lodge which finds
it necessary to turn itself into ball
In order to keep up an interest has
far outlived its usefulness and becomes
dlscredit to the order. True Cfti-
zen.
We have frequently heard of Good
Templar lodges having dances and
festivals, connected, and never heard
yet of a charter being taken from a
lodge. for doing so. The Grand Lodge
has cursed the order with too much
law. We think 1t should be none of
the Grand Lodges business whether
subordinate lodges dance or not.
Subordinate lodges are really bound
only by the constitution and con-
dition of the charter.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Colonel bob" Ingersoll offers to
give 81 900 at once and half of his in.
come for the next five years, If neces-
sary, in aid of the negro emigrants to
the west.-Erchdnge.
Wonder how many of those fellows
who are constantly bowling at Bobs
style of religion, will "cover" his
pile for the oppressed black man ?
We have no doubt that at least q
thousand of them have "come down"
but we haven't heard of a single one
yet. Too many of them, however,
lay up their treasures Ia wind, it being
so much more convenient than gold /;
and they being so 10th in distinguish
ing between the rewards for him
THAT doeh the will of my father"
and him that 6lo,Oeth it.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24
Randall wanted to please home

Randall wanted to please home
Democrats. The Harrisburg, Pa,
Telegraph compliments him thus:
"Great gods and little fishes !"
'Skim-milk masquerades as cream ~
Morgan r. Wise. of Greene County,
a chairman of a committee of the
United States Congress. Who would
have thought it? A common distil-
ler without brains or breeding, thor
oughgoing free luneher-a hummer
on his constituents for his campaign
expenses-a man who presents his So
called friends with a gallon ofwhisky
and then draws on them for an
amount that would purchase two gal
lons-this man Speaker Randall
makes Chairman of the important
Committee on Manufactures. Can
Pennsylvania Democrats blush? II
so, now's the time.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Beatrice Express: We have in the
past week talked with a number OF
intelligent men who voted the green.
back ticket in Gage county last fall
and they are of the opinion that the
great contest in 1880 will be between
a solid north and solid south, and in
this case they propose to help crush
out of the land again and for all time
the Democratic, revolution. State
rights party. There is a patriotic i'm
pulse that lies deep in the hearts of all
true northern men, and that impulse
will prevail when the proper time
comes.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

DIR. st. Louis was sentenced to be
hung for the murder of his wife, on
purely cIrcumstantial evidence.
On the positive evidence of an eye
witness who saw the murder commit
ted, Olive and Fisher are sentenced to
the State prison for life.
Twenty or thirty men take two men
from the custody of the law. and
murder them in the presence of two
or three hundred citizens, and there
is not even an indictment found.
Surely 'justice is justice" as the Ia
mented Judge Black once said on the
bench In this city.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Fairbury Gazette: The journal
states that several of the most impor'
tant acts of the last legislature are In
valid on account of the enacting
clause having been left out. The
people will soon begin to enquire
whether that body really did any
thing. Several hundred head
of cattle and sheep were burned in a
prairie fire in Dawson county some
days ago. Mr.. F. s. Peabody lost 300
head of extra Merino sheep, among
them eight thoroughbred rams that
cost $50 each.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

The jury In the murder case of Oh.
I've and Fisher were out seventeen
hours, bringing In verdict at 1880,
q. M, on the 18th, of murder in the
second degree. Both were immedi-
ateIy sentenced to imprisonment for
life, The first ballot of the jury show
ed ten for murder In the-first degree.
one for second degree and one for man.
slaughter. The attorneys for the de-
feuse moved for new trial, which
was overruled by Judge Gaslin.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Mrs. Oliver, Simon Cameron's old
flame, Is so mad at heE defeat that she
has gone to lecturlDg. Her first ef-
fort was in Alexandria. Her whole
tirade is at Cameron and Ben. Butler.
She hates Butler, compares him TO q
turtle, end says be sits with his eyes
closed in court, .aad when, disturbed
opens them q little and snaps.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Perry Mccormick, of Sidney. Neb.
was shot in a pawn shop kept by
James Davis and wife, in Omaha, one
day last week. Mccormick was
drunk and acted insultingIy toward
Davis and wife, when each OF them
drew a pistol and took a pop at the
unruly fellow, hitting him three
times, but there are slight hopes, how
ever, of his dying.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

DIR. Miller, of the Omaha Herald
thanked Gov. Nance for promptly fur
nishing troops to secure execution oi
law at Hastings during the trial OF
Olive and Fisher. After reading the
speeches of Congressman Blackb burn
and Knott, of the Confederate Con-
gress. on the "trupe" question. he
concludes that "the liberties of the
American peopls.have been trampled
upon.u
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

A German paper of Cincinnati IA
vors Ben. ButterwOrth for Governor
Of Ohio. Mr.. Butterworth has pecu-
liar talents that fit him for Congress,
and there is where he should remain.
Ohio has plenty of good Republicans,
any of whom can be elected Governor
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

State Journal: Jack Nolan, a des.
peraGlo who killed Mexican in Sid
ney last winter, and who has been
confined In the Plum Creek Jail since
that time, succeeded in making his es-
cape the 18th inst. A reward of $3.50
is offered for his capture.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

The attorney general has affirmed
torney general for the pOst-of-
flee department that regular
publications, designed primarily
for advertising purposes, cannot be
sent through the mails at the rates
charged legitimate newspapers.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

The Omaha Republican is fearfully
out OF humor because DR.. st. Louis
would not allow the law to choke him
TO death. Some Of the hangist advo-
Gates of Fremont wanted to hang the
Doctor after be was shot, in order, we
suppose to LegdLize the death.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

A man, said to be crazy, in the
House gallery at Washington the 9TH
er day, after looking at the Democrat
ic Congress awhile, yelled out at the
top of his voice: "Woe, woe, woe,
to this den of thieves" when his
wind was shut off and he was bur-
riedly led away.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

A number of shells received very
recently by the British field artillery
in Afghanistan were found to be fill
ed with brick dust instead of gum
powder. Just when or where the sub
stitutieu was effected Is unknown.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

were practiced thereby establishing In
his mind the conviction that the po-
litical rights of the people, and pure
ballot in Congressional elections, can
only be had by proper laws and their
rigid enforcement.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

By the decisions of the U. s. Su-
preme Court, as appears from Wash
ington telegram, which we copy, the
u. p. railroad lands are not Govern
ment lands, by any means. This de-
cision will be hard upon great many
settlers upon these lands.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Eranois A. Oppenheim, clerk in
the banking house of MaDdOrf &
Heinman, Chicago, has been arrested
for forging drafts on Berlin banks.
Fast" was what was the matter with
the young German.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Ennis, the American pedestrian
who was second to Rowell, the Eng
lish champion In the recent contest
In New York, has sailed for England
to have another walk with Rowell,
for the championship Of the world.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

ESTATE OF FREDERICK RA.
II CINE, DECEASED.-In the County
Court of Nemaha County, Nebraska.
Notice is hereby given that May 10th and
November 10th, 1879, at II o'clock, noon, at
County, Nebraska, in Brownvllle, Nebraska,
have been fixed by the court as the times and
place when and where all persons who have
claims and demands against said deceased;
can have the same examined adjusted, and
allowed, all claims not presented at the last
mentioned date will be forever barred by or
der of the court.
Dated March 22d, 1879.
JOHN 8. STULL,
~
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

Omaha NelUS: The AdVentists have
named July 11th as the day for the
ascension of the righteous. This will
give the Democrats a clean g weep in
1880.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

On the 10th inst. Chicago railroads
reduced the rates on lumber to the
Missouri river to fifteen cents per 100
pounds or $50 per car.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24
1ssTATEOF WILLIAMD. Shell

ESTATE OF WILLIAM ID. SH Ell
II LENBERGER, DECEASED.-IN THE
County Court of Nemaha County. Nebraska,
Notice is hereby given that May 3, 1873, at
u O'Clock noon, at the office OF the County
Judge of Nemaha County, Nebraska, In
BrownvIIIe Nebraska, has been fixed by the
court as the time and place OF proving the
will of said William D. Shellenberger, de-
ceased when and where all oncearned may
appear and contest the probate thereof.
April /, 1879. JOHN ,. SIQLL,
I-4w County Judge.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

The st. Louis Globe Democrat char
acteyizes Black burns recent speech
in Congress as "Fhe Rebel Yell"
That's all it was.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

If about two hundred thousand ne
groes would emigrate to Indiana,
they would greatly improve the pol
itics of that State.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

A negro named Carol, at Lickville,
Nd, charged with ravishing Mrs.
Thomas, was hanged on a tree, by
lynchsFs, 18th inst.
Nebraska advertiser., 1879-04-24

attorney General Pillars, of Ohio
has promulgated an opinion shat the
appointment of women as notaFies
public is unconstitutional.