1895 
Pinotepa del 
Estado 
has about 2000 people and the rest of the municipality about as many 
more people, or 4000 in all, T© attend to the writing and other busi¬ 
ness of this small community there has been on duty and busily occupied 
constantly a Presidents and secretary, a Regidor and one or two copyists, 
a chief of police and 8 to 10 men besides the jailor and 7 soldiers. 
Then there is the man who has charge of the portnggo or local customs. 
During the day there id a constant succession of people coning before 
the President© with nil manner of little quarrels and complaints which 
he hears gravely and his jud^aent is usually final end accepted by the 
people, Qm ease was of as Indian woman who earn© to complain that her 
lover had struck her. Ho admitted it but alleged in defence that he 
had come in end found his wcwan with another man which $he did not deny. 
T%en the case calls for it, the offending party is put in jail or fined. 
The whole proceeding has a kind of patriarchal look, 3?h© Indians in 
their peculiar costumes and frequently squatting about on the floor 
while the ease is being discussed, but rising to speak each in his turn. 
Memoranda ; "»:« , 
Mexican newspapers publish that at sea near Qtnetopec after the earth* 
qrnke of Hovember 2, evidences of a submarine volcano had been seen and 
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a light given out by it. Mir, Mcn&ejs who lives here and, owns lands ex¬ 
tending to this pert of the coast discredits this statement. Lava is 
said to bo found on plains about Quajinieuilapa• 
l%ere Americans cc mm to Mexico and marry, the children except in 
rare cases grow up in the local society with the ideas and habits of 
their Mexican associates «o that the result is that they become a part 
of the common population with none of the force and character that my 
have made their fathers successful. The father adopts the native tongue 
and in the case of Mr, Luis Mender,, the children know no Fnglish. 
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