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Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

He took six nauseating pills for
constipation. They panied, sicken-
ed and griped him all next day. He
lost his appetite, lost day from bus
lness and was left quite feeble. His
neighbor, who was also suffering
from constipation, took one dose of
Bailey's Saline Apartment. 1t cooled
and cleansed his stomach, moved his
bowels gently, and the next morning
he felt bright and happy. 25 2t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

A genuine female regulator and
iron tonic is in demand by nearly
every woman, and that which stands
pre-eminent is DIR. Dromgoole's En-
glish Female Bitters. Is 2t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13
Closing out at $50 store.
29tf

New boots, new shoes and all the
fall styles at Mitchell's Shoe Store.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

Grand opening Of new goods in
boots and shoes only at Aitchell's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

Coal.
Glascock & Hooten have opened
. coal yard in Mexico. All orders
promptly attended top coal delivered
ut the lowest rates. 2lH
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

We have q full line Of queensware,
which wc are selling at cost.
l5,H EUBANK & CRAWFORD.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

Be sure and 60 to the 99c store
Closing out at cost. 22tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

Call early ct Mitohell's Shoe Store
and see the new goods.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-13

Go zee what they have at the CSC
store. Closing out. 22H
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-21
VOL. 17---NO. 8.
Rev. Cyrus Dickson. late Secretary Of the

Rev. Cyrus Dickson, late Secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions and for
mery pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church
of Baltimore, died last week at his residence,
No. McCulloh street. The deceased was born
in Erie county, Pa, in December, 1916, his
father being one of the early pioneers in that
section of the country.
In ST. Louis, Mo, the people of the La
fayette Park Presbyterian church have been
gratifed by the announcement, as we learn
from the St. Louis Evangelist that Dr. Marquis
will not sever his connection with the church,
and that he thus resolves to decline the Profes-
sorship in the Chicago Theological Seminary, to
which he has been twice elected
The Presbyterian churches on the Pacific
coast show the results OF the great revival of
last winter in their reports to the General AS
sembly. To the First Presbyterian church,
Oakland, Cal, (Rev. Dr. Sprecher's,) 2l7 per-
sons were added on profession of faith in Christ
1S2 were added to Calvary Presbyterian church
San Francisco, (Rev. Mr.. Hemphill's;) 134 to
the Central Presbyterian church, San Francisco,
(Rev. Mr.. Smiths J and 131 to the Howard
Presbyterian church, San Francisco Rev. Robert
McKensle's) The whole number added to the
churches in the Presbytery of San Francisco
during the year was 999.-The Presbyterian.
Other Churches.
Methodist Revivals-The Soltther1, Chris
tan AdUocate of last week, said that its edi-
torials and other matter had to be postponed in
order to give place to glad news of revivals in
the Church. 1t reports from camp meeting in
the Eastvile circuit, 70 conversions; from Meek
lenburg circuit, As; from King George circuit,
56 from KING and Queen, 26; from South
Campbell circuit, 12i from Fluvanna, IA; from
Batesville, go professions, 40 of whom were
pupils of the Miller School" )" from Goochland,
II conversions, and from Bethany 20.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-21

before him. A large n G-of railroad
men are collected at this point, and they
attend the service OF the church in sur
prising numbers There are two things
needed to make the church com mplete-an
organ and a bell. Has any Richmond
congregation an unused bell that they
could send?
BY the way, it occurs to me that it is
an oversight on the part OF our Com
mittee of Revision, not to have made
some provision in the Directory for the
service connected with the dedication Of
a church. 1t is only an occasional SER
vice, and one with which many of our
ministers may not have an opportunity
OF being familiar, and for this reason it
would seem to be proper that directions
should be given for the appropriate con-
duct of the worship.
The service must of necessity be for
NAL and ought to be brief, and it seems
to me eminently proper that we should
find in our Directory some general direc-
tlons for setting apart house of wor-
ship to the service Of God T. L. P.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-21

prevented thereby from wandering over
and trampling the pasture. In this, as
in the matter of having no fences, the
French farmer shows wisdom beyond
the American, and indicates the cause Of
his wonderful prosperity in despite of his
failure to economize In the use of modern
iabor-saving machinery.
On every side the peasants were
Cutting and Gathering the Harvest.
Not reaper was to be seen-only men
welding cradles with long ungainly han
dies, cutting down the yellow grain with
quick and nervous stroke, and followed
for most part by single woman. A sol
itary noble horse (the Norman horses are
famous) in cart, sufficed to haul the
grain. Everything was on the petite
mandy. The PEASANTS whole property is
rarely more than ten acres. And yet
the yield is not petite The variety and
amount of the products would astonish
an American, familiar with only the skim
ming process Of agriculture. We exam
ined the grain and found the kernels
wonderfully plump, and fully third
larger than our own. Whatever the re-
suit of the year may be to other nations,
if Normandy be a sample, France will be
blessed with full granary, and the
French farmer with prosperity.
My lord rides through his palace gate,
My lady sweeps along in state;
The sage thinks long on many thing,
The maiden muses. on marrying;
The minstrel harpeth merrily,
The sailor ploughs the foaming sea;
The hunter kills the good red deer,
The soldier wars withouten fear
But fall whate'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all
l.. M. @.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-21
Central 4resbpterian.
OFFICE:
No. 1015 Main street. opposite the Post Office
TERMS:

Three Dollars year; six months, S1.5o;
three months, rs cents; payable in Gdcance.-
Ministers of the gospel, S2.5O.
Payments may be made to local agents wher-
ever practicable all ministers of our Church are
authorised to act as such. Or by checks, Post
Office money orders, or letters Registered by
Postmaster. Otherwise it must be at the risk of
the party sending it.
Obituaries charged at five cents line. The
party sending can make the estimate by count
ing eight words to line. Payment in advance.
Advertising rates furnished on application to
the Office.
Communications and letters on business should
be addressed to CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN, Box
81, Richmond, Va.
~, Richardson & Southall,
~ Editors and Proprietors.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-21

ENTERED at the Post Office at Richmond, Va, a:
second-class matter.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-21
ORRESP NOE.
Letter from France.

HARFLEUR, FRANCE. Aug. %.
MesSrS. EditorS,-We have oft paused
at the market-places in French cities to
note the peculiar forms and strange modes
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-08-27

which is filed with fine perforations.
Into Il galvanized iron tank holding 100
gallons af water is put finely graduated
or shaved ice. This water is sprayed
upon sheets IL the lower tank constant
Is. In each end Of the iron chamber
are openings thirteen inches square TO
the outer end of this chamber a pipe
connecting with an outdoor air-con-
ductor. TO the opposite end is connect
cd a similar pipe leading into an ice
chamber at its top, and from the bottom
Of the same pipe leads Il small exhaust
fan, and from the fan cold and dry
air is forced directly into the presidents
room through fues some twenty feet IN
length. The air received at % tcmpcra-
turc is supplied at the rate of 22,O0O
cubic feet per hour at the register in The
presidents room at "a, and with the
windows and doors open the tempcra-
ture at the presidents bed, twenty five
feet away, is maintained steadily at 10
day or night.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-08-27
The Proposed Money Order,

The plan Of simplifying p~ostotice
orders as proposed by Postmaster Gen
erul James is thus described:
= The blanks will have the figures |, .,
s and 4 printed in one column, the nine
numerals in another and again in a
third. When IL postmaster prepares IN
order for use, he punches out in the
three columns tie figures making up
the sum desired. In the 50 blank there
will be three cyphers printed at the bot
tom of the dollar column and when it is
desired to transmit the full amount Of
the order these will be cut out. No in
dication will be made OF the sender or
the intended receiver. A stub on which
the amount aud the date viii be mark
ed will be the only record of The post
office authorities. The time of their
value is to be limited To three months to
prevent them from passing as currency.
Up to that time they will be casiled at
any post office by whomsoever present
ed. They will be no safer to transmit
than money, but they will perfectly. it
Is believed, accomplish the object of Gu
aiding people to send awkward sums
without the Inconvenience Of signing
and countersigning necessary to obtain
and redeem a money order, and the
great amount of clerical labor which
these involve to the department. The
demand has been very great for some
such system, and especially by persons
whose business requires them to collect
large numbers Of small small sums from
people out of their own place. 1t will
be a boom to newspaper and magazine
publishers and to many Of their adver-
tisers. Stamps are very unsatisfactory
to senGers and receivers, and are worse
in this country than III England, where
they are ~redeemable if not torn apart.
The new orders are to be protected
from counterfeiting by fine lathe work
and by official stamp. The punching
will prevent raising. They will be
printed on light note paper, which IAN
not be easily detected in the envelope
and removed by a thief. The lower
denomination viii probably be sold for
two and the higher for four cents. The
proper bill for their introduction will pe
introduced into the next congress prob
and perhaps in connection with
one to extend the old money order to
500 and reduce the price.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-08-27
Dining With the Two-TIeaded Girl.

In response to an invitation from Mr..
j. r. Smith, a Star reporter took break
fast with Mile Christine, the double
headed girl, yesterday morning. This
interesting young lady, who possesses
two heads, four arms, four feet, sings
duets, wultzes, Pall;as and boasts OF
several other. accomplishments has a
suite Of. rooms Al. No. 81 East Ninth
street. When the reporter arrived all
was ia readiness for the morning meal.
Five persons comprised the party. The
weather is exceeding oppressive" was
the greeting Of the right side of the
double-headed girl, as she shook the
right hand Of The scribe with two OF her
four hands. The left side smiled sefer-
ly and famed itself vigorously with the
disengaged hand. There was II great
deal said at the table, but the guest was
there for the purpose of taking break
fast with Mile Christine and omitted
TO make a note OF the conversation. The
nightingale occupied one entire side Of
the table, and while ~ of her pair of
eyes was intent upon gazing on the we'll
spread table, the other pair was looking
out of the window with a dreaming eX-
preston. Two plates were well filed
with edibles, and the work of destruc'
ton was begun. One-half of the lady
had an especial fondncss for fricd
chicken and toast, while the other
would partake of nothing but porter
house steak and fried potatoes. In the
line of liquids one half drank iced milk
10 the others coffee, and two napkins
were demanded and freely used. some
how or other there was time found for
talking toward the close Of the meal,
aud the nightingale spoke freely and in
t~elligently upon a number embarrassing
topics. At times one head would make
an assertion which its companion could
lot entertain, and then IN Interesting
and animated discussion would follow.
Happily these arguments we're amicably
adjusted, and breakfast was finished III
time for the double-headed lady to go to
Bunneli's museum for the midday ex.
hibition.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-08-27
The Garfield Cooling Machine.

Washington special to Cincinnati Gazette.
The machine by which President Gar
fields room is cooled was furnished by
Mr.. Jennings Of Baltimore. 1t consists
of a cast iron chamber, about ten feet
long and three feet wide and about three
feet high, filled with vertical iron frames
covered with cotton terry or Turkish
toweImg. These screens are placed half
ar inch apart, and represent some 5000
feet of cooling surface. Immediately
over these vertical screens is placed a
coil Of inch iron pipe, the lower side of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
Superstitions at Sea.
from the United Service. !


A state paper, written In 1854, says
there were 10 women under trial and so
accused of raising storms against the
ship of Charles [. Oh it's passage from
France. In 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her
daughter were tried as witches in Eng
land. Among other things they were
said to have raised storms and wrecked
ships by pulling off their shoes and
making with them lather of soapsuds.
Another old witch in Devonsh1re was
popularity reported to raise storms. A
visit to her cabin brought TO light sew
eral implements of her mountainous. A
mop-handle had the head ornamented
with miniature sail and q dried fish.
The witch of Fraddon, alluded to in the
"Legends of the Spectre Ship" cruises
still off the coast of England In her
coffin, and raises storms. At st. Levan,
Cornwall, is cubical pile of stones
called "Madge Figge's Chair. A witch
SO named was tabled to sit there and con-
jure up storms. Another Devonshire
tradition relates that three witches
boarded vessel at sea, Toasted on the
rich food and sank the vessel. Another
witch, Charlotte Barclay, was said to
Lave CduSSu UUC W1CCh vi ~ Sl11p Ny
moulding figure in clay and casting it
in the sea. The two storm spirits sent
against Frithjof's ship were the witches
Heyd and Ham, and Norwegian seid
women boiled seid to raise storm. An
old woman named Leckie, living in Som
ersetshire, England, was said to have
caused storms. She would come to the
pier and call for boat. If it came all
In it would be wrecked. If it did not
come the same fate awaited them. She
appeared in her own shape On her sons
vessel, and raised storm by blowing a
tin whistle, when the ship was wrecked
but the men were saved. Seamen
affirmed they often heard the old lady's
whistle in gale. A witch on the Isle
of Man was said to have caused storm
and the loss of many of the herring
fleet. She was put in a spiked barrel
and rolled down hill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
PilOt-FiSh.
[From the London Field. ]

l was very anxious to obtain speci-
men of the pilot-fish (N0ucrates datc-
tor.) Dr.. Gunther quotes with approx
al DIR. Meyen's opinion that the pilot
feeds on the sharks excrements, but
adds also that it obtains great part of
it's food directly from the shark, in feed
ing on the parasitic crustaceans with
which sharks and other large fish are
infested, and on the smaller pieces of
flesh which are left unnoticed by the
shark when it tears it's prey. On seeing
a solitary pilot-fsh near the vessel one
day [ attached small outlook to a
trout hy-line, and tried various bats,
such as dried cod, herring and beef with
out success. [, however, succeeded IN
hooking him with a small piece of pork
fat, but unfortunately the point of the
hook afterward gave way. Mr.. Mosley,
in his interesting book, F'Notes by a
Naturalist on the Challenger" says
"The pilot-fsh often mistakes ship
for large shark, and swims for days
just before the bows, which it takes for
the sharks snont." This, however, is
not, l think, always, the explanation OF
the pilots appearance without it's mess,
mate. Sharks are often known to accom-
pany vessel for days together, swim.
ming unobserved beneath when the yes.
sci is III motion, and only appearing
during calm. This [ have been as
sured is the case by many seafaring men
and competent observers. and it may
often account for the pilots apparently
solitary appearance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
About Fish.
From All the Year Round. I


When sailors catch shark, they make
barometers of the skin, wallzing-sticks of
the backbone, q chimney ornament of
the jaw, and eat certain portious of the
fesh-partly, no doubt, because it
forms relief to the monotony of salt
junk and pea soup, but chiefly, perhaps,
in the full savage qualification of tri-
umph over their, hereditary foe. The
fishermen around our own coasts find
the back of the which, it may
be, has robbed them of their hoped-for-
catch-a welcome addition to their fru-
gal meals; and if porpoise were trife
less oily, all three, to my thinking,
would be at least as good as sturgeon, of
which royal but tasteless fish I once
had the privilege to partake. Caviare,
though familiar, must certainly be
classed also among queer dishes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

William j. Coughlin. of Somervie, Mass says: In
the fall of 1876 taken with bleeding of the lungs
followed by severe cough. I lost my appetite and
hesh and was confined to my bed. In 1877 was i'd
mtted to the hospital. The doctors said had hole
in my lung big half dollar. At time report
went around that was dead l gave up hope, but
friend told me of DIR. WILLIAM HALLS BALsAM FOR
THE LUNGS. got bottle, when, to my SURPRISE com.
menced to feel BETTER and to-day feel better than
three years past. write this hoping every afflicted
with diseased lungs will take DIR. WILLIAM HALLS
BALsAM, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION BE
CURED can positively say it has done good than
all the other medicines have taken since my sickness
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
Progress of Mankind.
[From the New York Evening Mall

An ingenious writer on the progress of
mankind says 1t may reasonably be
doubted whether the population of the
earth has doubled itself within thirty
centuries. Except among some Euro
pean and American states no certain data
exist among nations and tribes by which
the present number of mankind can be
estimated with any degree of exactness.
Avoiding extremes, the writer assumes
that in round numbers Asia, including
japan, contains 100000, 900, Europe
200, 100000, Africa 6O,OOO,00O, America
SO, 600, 900, Australia and the Polynesian
Islands 100000, making total of
720, 00O,O 900 for the present population of
the globe. Within the temperate and
torrid zones the area of habitable land
on the earth is about 40, 00O,O 900 of
square miles, which would make the
average population of the habitable land
about eighteen to the square mile. The
population is unequally distributed,
two-thlrds living upon one-tenth of the
land in China, India and Western Eur
ope. It is conjectured that ten times
the present number of inhabitants could
easily obtain subsistence from the soil of
the earth. The writer calculates that by
doubling only three times in century
the population of Great Britain and Ire
land, supposing it to have been only six
millions in 1907, would by this time
have amounted to more than 1000, 000,-
000-enough to have coionized and i'm
proved ali the waste and thinly peopled
lands of the earth. War, pestilence,
luxury, useless consumers and popular
ignorance are assigned as the causes of
the slow progress of mankind.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
THE LAND TO WHICH WE GO.

The land to which we GO,
The beautiful, the dread,
With all its peace our spirits know,
And all that's sung or said,
OF countless wonders it may show
We weep and bow the head. fs
The land to which we &c,
If faith had other eyes,
If Death aside it's mask would throw,
And grief would hush her sighs-
But this is doubt; enough we know,
And God is very wise.
The land to which we go,
Its splendor around us lies;
I've seen it's golden sunlight glow
Deep in my baby's eyes,
And on my mothers brow of snow
With tender radiance rise.
-Springfeld Republican.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

THE Milwaukee wis Evening Wis
consin says: "In all our experience we
have never heard SO many favorable re-
ports from all classes as we have concern
ing st. Jacobs Oil.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

DR.. WINCHELL's Teething Syrup had never
cases of Summer Complaint, Cholera-infantum
or pains in the stomach. Mothers, when your
little darlings are suffering from these or kin
dred causes do not hesitate to give it a trial.
You will surely be pleased with the charming
effect. Be sure to buy DR.. Winchell's Teething
Syrup. Sold by all druggists. Only 25 cents
per bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
The Dead CANNOT DE Raised

nor if your lungs are badly wasted away can
Discovery" It is, however, unequaled as a
tonic, Alternative, and nutritive, and readily
cures the most obstinate, cases of bronchitis,
coughs, colds, and incipient consumption, far
SURPRISING in efficacy cod liver oil. Send two
stamps for DR.. Pieree's pamphlet on Consump-
ton and Kindred Affections Address WORLDS
DIsPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, NY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

GREAT POND is lake lying between
Asbury Park and Dead Beach, N. J.
On Monday night high tide cut away
the sandbar between it snd the ocean,
and by daybreak Tuesday morning the
lake, which had covered 100 acres, haG
disappeared.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

The Babylon e.. I. } South Side Sig
nal quotes from Missouri paper: Mr..
VIM. F. Quinlan, Crystal City, Mo-,
suffered occasionally from rheumatic
pains in his knees, Tor which he success
fully tried st. Jacobs Oil.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
s.FenlaIe Complaints, >,

DIR. r. '. PIERCE, Buffalo. N. Y: Dear Sir
write to tell you what your "Favorite Pre-
scription' has done for me. had been great
sufferer from female complaints, especially
" dragging down." for over six years, during
much of the time unable to work. I paid out
hundreds of dollars without any benefit till
took three bottles of the "Favorite Prescrip-
tion," and I never had any thing do me SO much
good in my life. advise every sick lady to
take it, MRS. EMILY RHOADS,
McBrides, Mich.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

For Headache. Constipation, Liver Com
plant and all bilious arrangements Of the
blood, there is no remedy as sure and safe as
Eilert's Daylight Liver Pills. They stand I'M
rivalled in removing bile, toning the stomach
and in giving healthy action to the liver. Sold
by all druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

For a Christmas present buy one of the
Mass. Organ Co.'s Harpettes, and your children
will be delighted and give you music in your
own home these long winter evenings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
Not bad to Take.

Consumptive people and those suffering with
weak lungs, coughs, colds, sore throats and
asthma, are earnestly recommended &c take
Pisos Cure, the best and most pleasant remedy
for those diseases.
H. NJ. Bangs, of Chatsworth, Ills, writes
"Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best cough
remedy in the market, without any exception
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07

HUNDREDS and thousands of articles
can now be found at James Morgan's
Dry Goods House, Milwaukee, suitable
for Christmas Presents.