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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Friday Night,

Notwithstanding the presidential
complication people must have cheap
boots and shoes these hard times
To meet the popular demand, n,
Lscklsnd will positively offer his en-
tire stock of boots and shoes, hats
caps, and gloves at cost for 80 days.
Read advertisement and go and see
for yourself. 35tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

COMING. - cua.l u Bro. have q
ehotcs selection OF psrtumery OF the
'H3es aud must popular oders
1871.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

have just received a large lot of
clocks direct from factory, for which
| paid cash and for cash viii sell re-
cheap. Mark Pitcher, south
side square, Mexico, Mo. 32-9t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

-Four has gone up rs cents on
the suck. Cut your brea d thin and
spread yonr butter thick.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

would respectfully invite the at
tention of the public 20 my large as
sortmcnt of silycrWarc streceivcd.
All fresh and new. Casters,
butter dishes, pickle dishes, vases,
mugs, cups, ladlc spoons, knives,
sc. Prices guaranteed to suit every
body. MARK PILCIIER. n32-St.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Ws are under obligations to Mr.
M, Y. Duncan for thoughtful ia
vor this week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
100 Cavelry Horses Van ted.

Will be at Central ST ,bles, L9wls
Hord proprietor, Saturday Dec. 70
BRING in your horses. Il. Nj Grant
35tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Fine soo!e, bair cloth and tooth
brushes ara Other toilet articles
kept by MITCHELL Bsns.
SO {.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

SAMUEL GROVE, 2. N.
All ee Tnos BIoughton + 2
Baliles l. Bradley Fannie 2
Blown j Barnett NissA
Cogeweii JAS Canada Hattie
Clemont Cunningham A
Cirasio W. Danlols l. w .
Do1a Joha Dunthu Josie
Delano Jos Ellis b Il
Graiiain NIaA Horlan Wm 2
heumann a Hall A j
naii Al Johnson 7 Ii
1AnAsey NJ LockrlGge Jno
Leit w Miller Winnie
Mallory N ,ry e Peek K
tecA Jerry kheiley r
Sa'es mary o%ternborg d
0coItNC Thomas VIM
hnls Mamie WlgglnLon Bill
Ackine L col NcDmuy.;l a
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

All those who are indebted to me
or work will please call and settle
at once. Gentlemen you have your
work and l need my money, all &C
counts must be closed by Jan. 1st'
II. JNo. DRARINa. 35-2t.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Advertise.-fo give notice, to IN
form, advice, or intsIlIgsncs.-Web
ster.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Capt. Dan Shea and B. L. Dobyns
have been appointed by Mr.. Tory
son to take the census and assess
the city Of Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

70 Aayo The be,t and cheapest
-. o. Joys wagons, n ads &C., in the
w. Gail and examine 1ur lire OF
goods before purchasing elsewhere.
v ct side square at S,ansbsrry &
SIC rs 35-2t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
LOCK HERE

If you want to trade l viii take in
exchange for Singer SEWN Machines
horses, cattle, hogs and corn at the
highest market prices.
Office in P. M. Morris building.
t. W. NICHOLS, Agent Nez.co, lilo.
27-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Oaks genuine home MADE c." dies
better and finer than ever II g.A-s-
BERRY's & MEANa. 0g--..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Sewing machine for sale or trade
at this office. CHEAP. Call and see
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

To those wishing TO buy Christmas
presents: You Will do we'll to call
on Mark Pitcher, south side square,
Mexico, Mo. 3--St
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

One OF our subscribers came IN the
other day and complained that be
hadn't had q paper tor two weeks.
We happened t 0 see something in
his overcoatpockst, which upon ex-
animation, proved to DC the very
one. be hadn't got.-Centralls SEN
tinsI.
o, how that fellow values the Sec
tinel.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Mr.. 6. L. Duun, prosecuting at
torney of Troy, brother to our
townsman S. A. Dunn is in this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Six dollars for a set OF solid silver
tea spoons, al Mark Pitchers. 32-8t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
FAXES.

Amount Of taxes received on rail
road values in Audrain county for
1876, to-wit:
County revenue fund. .....$ 4,67 80
" railroad fund. 49, 11,14o 20
u" road fund.-. -. 1929 IS
" school fund. ...... 5.405 Is
1923 ,460 rs
c;tv IF Mexico 223 81
Town Of Mart;nsburo 80 81
Total, .$23, 720 So
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
%IIurrail! Hurrah!

While other men have been talking
politics and ~neglectIng their busl-
ness we have been at work and now
have The best aud cheapest lot OF
Tlnware in Mexico. /
IL. W. GLEASON.
3I-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Great closing out sale Of millinery
goods, at Mrs. Harding's.
Hats for 50 cents, at Mrs. Hard
ings. 32-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

Divine service will DO celebrated
at the Episcopal church Sunday next
as usual, at ii a. m. and 3 l-2 p.
u.
The church will be open for ap.
p.oprlate services nsxs day, Christ
mas, st IL a. m. with Holy CoRmun,
ion.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21


VIM. Rice, OF Rocheport, has a
SOW that has seven pigs and q kit
ten. The kitten sucks whenever
the pigs do.-Ex.
This 70 nothing. Mr. T. johnson
nes this place, has a sou that has
several pigs and a ealf. The Cal
sucks Whenever the pigs perform
their ~'flLing-up' duty.-Ststesman.
Pshaw! these are mere trifies.
There is q man in Centralla who has
a cat which has Ave kittens, and 7
dogs But while puss nurses Der
young,ths dogs prowl around among
tie nslghbors' mea house, and bay
the moon, just like other dogs.-Cen-
trablla Sentinel.
That 10 better than your Last
Hit 'em again.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

3I-tf'.
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lexico Weekly Ledger.


$4,000. rss HfizEaz@fE
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05
Der Attachment 20 Life.

The young man, till thirty, never
feels practically that he is mortal; he
knows it, indeed, and if need were, he
could preach homily upon the fra
gility oflife; but he brings it not home
to himself, any more than in q hot
June we can appropriate to our mag
nation the freezing days Of December.
But now-shall / confess a truth?-I
feel these audits but too powerfully.
| begin to count the probabilities of my
duration, and to grudge at the expen-
diture Of moments, and shortest pc
RODS like misers' farthings. In pro-
portion as the years both lessen and
shorten, l set more count upon their
periods, and would fain lay my inef-
fectull finger upon the spoke of the
great wheel of time. l am not con-
tent to pass away "like a weavers
shuttle" These metaphors sOlace me
not, nor sweeten the unpalatable
draught of mortality. / care not to
De carried with the tide that smoothly
bears human life to eternity, and weep
at the inevitable course of destiny.
| am in love with the green earth
unspeakable rural solitudes, and the
sweet security of streets. 1 would be
content to stand still at the age to
which am now arrived, to be no
younger, no richer, no handsomer.
l do not want to be weaned by age
or drop like mellow fruit, as they say,
into the grave. Any alteration on this
earth of mine, in diet or in lodging,
puzzles and discomposes me. My
household goods plant terrible fixed
foot and are not rooted up without
blood. They do not willingly seek
Lavinian shores. A new state of being
staggers me. Sun and sky, and breeze,
solitary walks, and summer holidays,
and the greenness of fields, and the
juice of meats and fishes, and society,
and the cheerful glass, and candle
light and Preside conversations, and
jests and irOny-dO not these go out
with lifes Can ghost laugh, or shake
his gaunt side. when you are pleasant
with him?-Liife remains Of ChGs. Lamb.
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For the Hartford Herald.
OUR LIVES.

The days still como and 60, and time the re-
cord writes
Its epitaph Of strand ID joys, and hopes that
gave them life,
Its biiIowy wave with crested foam, which
hides the gloom Of night
Thar turks beneath its ieeey depth, rolls
ward in its might,
And gathers love, and faith and trust, and
wings them in its fight,
Unmindful of the yearning prayers, our hearts
20 Heaven indite
To stay the ruthless hands Of change, that
takes them from our sight
And shuts the pearly gate Of hope, lifc's only
beacon light.
Our heart still ihrOb, with labored pain, its
pulse Of life,
Nor thrills with one emotion now, that once
was rife ..-
With all the glowing imagery, that time has
proved a type
OF rainbow beauty, that dissolves in elemen-
try stife,
And leaves the sky serene and cold, rs Polar
SHOWS are white,
without sign of the dread reign, Of devas-
Eating blight,
That chilled the tears of morning dew, to fro
zen stars of night
That glittering shine above the ruins. mock
cry of light.
Our feet still press the weary way, that duty
bids us tread
Nor dare we pause to question why, by paths
like these we're led?
Where thorns that hedge them wound us so, ne
onward we have sped,
And left barb Of singing pain, to rsnkte
till we're dead,
Instead of flowers that grew there once, and
sweetest incense shed.
All bathed in drops Of pearly dew, they bowed
their fragile heads
To breathe their dying sweetness out, beneath
the careless tread
That shut the tiny petsls up, and crushed the
fragrance dead.
Oh! days so frausht with pain and care, ye
soon will close;
The record Of our weary lives, whose sOrrous
Jesus knows,
The broken threads Of friendships ties Of thar
dear "lOng ago"
lie will unite in HIS bright cline, without one
chord of woe,
And weary hea t! thy troubled share of many
sorrows throw,
Upon the str of Ills love, where promised
mercics flow,
That lead the feet by pastures green, where
flowers forever blow
And Angels beckon us to stay, and leave the
walks below.
NELLIE.
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Punctuality I'm An Things

1t Is astonishing how many people
there are who neglect Punetuality.-
Thousands have failed in life from this
cause alone. IL IS not only a serious
vice in itself, but it is the fruitful pa
rent of numerous other vices, so that
he who becomes the victim of it gets
involved in tolls from which Il Is al
most impossible to escape. 1t makes
the merchant wastefhl Of time; it saps
the business reputation Of the lawyer,
and 1t INJURIES the prospects of mechan-
les who might otherwise rise to for
tune; in a word, there IS not q profess
sion, not a station In life, which Is not
liable to the canker of this destructive
habit
In mercantile affairs, punctuaIity
Is as important as It is in mili-
tary. Many are the instances. in
which the neglect to renew an insur>
ance Punctually. has led to serious
loss. Hundreds Of city merchants are
now suffering in consequence Of the
want Of punetuality among their
Western customers m paying up ae>
counts With sound policy do the
banks insist, under the penalty Of q
protest, on the punctual payment Of
notes; for were they 10 do otherwise,
commercial transactions would fall
into inextrieable confusion Many
and many a time has a failure ofOne
man to meet his obligations brought
on the utter ruin of score Of others,
just as the topping down in line of
bricks, of the master brick, causes the
fall of all the rest.
Perhaps there Is no class Of men
less punetual than mechanics. Do
you want an upholstererc He rarely
comes when he agrees. SO with car
penters, planners and nearly all Others.
Tailors and shOemakers often do not
have their articles home in lime
The consequence IS that thousands re-
main poor all their lives, who, if they
werem more faithful to their word, would
secure large run of custom, and so
make their fortune.-iSeientifc AsOerii-
can. ...i3 .-t
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05

We are heartily sick and tired Of
reading political papers nOw-a-day.
The Democratic papers swear Repub-
licans are dishonest because they are
Republicans, and the Republican pa
pers are ready to make affidavit that
Democrats are natural born thieves.
This is all wrong.-There are honest
and true men in both parties, and we
are glad to believe that the great masses
of both deserve this character. 1t
would be much better for both to unite,
for the good of our common country,
in. expelling dishonest people from
public position and replacing them
with honest ones. A rogue should be
scorned and avoided, no matter what
may be his political sentiment. We
don't know that We would rather have
Democrat break into our house than
a Republican, Or vice versa, but we do
know that we would much prefer that
neither of them wonld do it.-Riuer>
side Weekiy.
Hit 'em again, brother Thompson.
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so that they can rise from the depths
of the sea by simply filling these blatl-
ders with air.
Ifany one is disposed to ask where
they get the air for such imitation, let
him understand in advance that this
article is not intended for the solution
of petty cOnundrums. There are
many interesting rumors about fish
which might be mentioned, but the
foregoing facts may be considered as
of>fsh-al.-DttO:t Free Press.
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Don't Croak About Hard Times.

Standing on the street corners or
moping around like blue-herrings and
grumbling about hard times is now one
of the conspicuously disgusting practi'
ces of the day. Thousands do nothing
else. Let all hands find something to
do and the times will not appear half
so hard. Lazy, triAing people are
glad to cloak their Incidence under
such a cover, and the more triAing
they are, the louder they grumble
about hard times.
This will be year on excitement, a
year of jubilee, so go to work and make
it also a year of industry and general
prosperity. The times are always just
what the people make them.
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SANDY Higgins Adventure With
the Widow.

One day Sandy came into my Office
and sat doxn without a word. For
minutes he sat still watching me in
tently as if he was trying to make out
by the sound of my pen what l was
writing.
Squire" said he at length, "did |
ever tell you about my scrape with the
widow Horny, up here on the river ?"
Never did," said /, laying down
my pen, 'let's have it."
THEY'RE curious creatures, widows
is" said he, in a meditative tone, "and
the more You study about 'cm the
more you don't know anything about
'em. What was that thing I've read
in Egypt, or some other country that
nobody could unriddle?" .s'. -..,~
"The Sphinx, probobably," l re-
piled.
"Well," he continued, ''that was a
widow as sure as you ever had gran.
ny.-Everything else in earth has been
found out but them, and they're as
much mystery to-day as the length Of
the North pole. You may read the
history of the world from Genesis to
Revelation, and you'll find that wild
ows has been at the bottom or top of
five quarters of all devilment that's cut
up. Was you ever in love with one?"
Lots of them" said l.
"YOu're great gander-that's what
you are !" said he. "a man that loves
Que and gets over it won't never get
bit by another, if he's got as much
sense as a common ground hog. /
don't consider that I've got any sense
at all, but I'm ,leetle too smart to let
another of them get all the trumps on
me. This widow Horny that / was
speaking of is a little the handsomest
woman, reckon, that ever looked a
man into fits, and ought to be judge,
for I've seen lots of pretty women in
my days. She was about twenty-five
years old when / went up there to work,
jest in bloom of her beauty, and as full
of deviltry as three year old mule
colt. There was ball over at Jen-
kins', and of course l went, for / al
ways go where there's any fun going
on, and generally act the fool before l
get away, of course. The widow was
there dressed as fine as one of Solo
mons lilies, and a flying around as
frisky as a young lamb in rye patch.
1 got introduced to her, and asked her
to dance with me, and when she flashed
her eyes at me and said eyes" l jump.
ed up like I'd set down on lot of live
fire Goals. You may talk about sensa-
ton, but when she took hold of my
hand, and I sorter squeezed it, felt a
sesatiOn as big as a load of wood, and
it kept running up and down my back
like a cat squirrel with hawk after
him. / am very fond of dancing, but
I'll be hanged if know whether en-
joyed it that night or not, for every
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05
Books and Bellies.

Women and books may be COM
pared. The most gaudily-bound,
gilded and costly volumes are usually
those senseless ANIMALS designed to lie
upon drawing-rOom tables, and con
tanning only collection of vapid com:
monplaces or sickly sweets. Really
original sterling works are found in
more modest bindings. So the gay
est=dressed and most deliberately Or
riamented women. They look well in
the drawing-rOom, which they are
Specially designed to adorn, but there
Is very apt to be found lack of ster-
ling worth in the contents of their
heartsand minds. Ifdepended upon to
give relief to sorrow, or add strength
to our mental discipline, they would
disappoint; they are to look at, not to
be read. ....t - ...a...
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If one should give me dish Of sand
and tell me there were particles Of iron
in it, 1 might look for them with my
eyes and search for them with my
clumsy finger, and be unablI to detect
them; but let me take a magnet and
sweep through it, and it would draw
to itself the most inevitable particles
by mere power Of attraction. The un-
thankful heart, like finger in thesand.
discovers no mercies but let the
thankful heart sweep through the day,
and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it
will find, in every hour, sOmeheavenly
blessings--Only the iron in heavens
sand is gold. ...-
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after l had fixed up to marry her my
self, for her to walk right out before
my eyes and marry that great baboOD. ."
at was bad, that's fact" said |.
"Bad!" replied he, at was meaner
than eating fried cOons. frstthought
I'd go straight home, but then l con-
cluded that wouldn't spite nobody, so
l determined to stay and see if
could not get satisfaction out of some
body. You know l am the devil to
get myself or somebody else into a
scrape when l take a notion, and I'd
taken one that night that went all
over me like a third day chill, so 1
commenced studying out some plan.
l recollected hearing the doctor say
that where he came from (but the
Lord only knows where that was) the
bride and groom always washed their
faces together before they went to bed,
as charm against infdelity or imbe-
cility or some other long word. While
| was studying about that / saw the
doctors saddlebags setting in a corner,
so waited till they went to supper,
and then | got the bags and looked to
see what l could discover. Nearly the
first thing, l saw a piece of lunar caus-
tic. / slipped it into my pocket, for
| had my plan as soon as l saw it.
Well, l watched around till | saw one
of the girls go to water pail with a
pitcher, and | went out and asked her
what she was going to do with it. She
said she was going to carry it into the
room for the Doctor and Polly to wash
their faces in. l kept talking to her
while she was filling the pitcher, and
when she turned her head away, |
dropped the caustic into it. 1t was
then about bedtime, and l got my hat
and put out, but / couldn't help laugh
ing all the way home whenever I'd
think about it
"Well, Squire, they do say when
that couple walked up the next morning
they both had the hardest kind of fits,
each one thinking they had been sleep
ing with niger Oh, it was rich !!
He a eussin' and tearing up things,
and she a screaming, and fainting, and
coming TO and going off again, and me
not there to see it They made such
an ungodly racket that the folks broke
into the room to see what was the
matter, and there they was with their
faces and hands as black as the inside
of a forty year old stovePipe! I'd a
given half my interest in tOther world
Just to have been in some safe place
where L could have seen the whole
row. As soon as they found out that
they we're really the same folks that
married the night before, they called
for warm water and soap. but just then
the Doctor happened to think about
the pitcher, and took it to the door to
see what was the matter. There was
little piece of caustic that hadn't
dissolved, and as soon as he Saw it he
says:
ats no use washing Polly. All
the soap in New York can't wash that
black off" ..l.
That was the truth, Squire, soap
and rags had no more effect than it
would on a native born African, and
all the chance was to wait for it to wear
off. How long it took them to get
white again, l never found out, but
one thing l do know" Che concluded,
getting up to gO), "the next time l saw
the Doctor, had the hardest fight,
and come the highest getting whaled
that ever did in all my born daysp
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Paste This I'm ..Hisn Hat.

A lady writer has this relative 10
lovers attentions: In the first place,
it is an imposition on any Well-bred girl
to keep her up later than halfpast 10
O'Clock when you have the opportunity
of seeing her often If you always
leave her with the wish in her heart
that you had stayed longer, you gain
so much. Never run the risk of weary
ing her with your presence. Be just
as earnest and straightforward As in
your dealings with men. Impress
your friends with -ths worthiness and
seriousness Of yorn love, 70; that yul-
gar and senseless bantering win appear
to them as such. Love. IN religion
the supremest happiness /; wear it
manfully and proudly, but boldly.
Woo woman bravely. If there is
anything Illuminating to a woman, it
is to have a lover whom she wishes to
honor weak and stupid, ever yielding
and half afraid of her. She longs 10
tell him TO "aet ike man J" The
man who conceals or denies his love
for fearOf being laughed at is coward.
A love that has no element of divinity
in il is not love, but passion, which Of
itself has nothing ennobling That
was a beautiful inscription on an en-
gagement ring Each for the other
and both for God. " aixi --l-i .--.--I
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We lately met an old negro trudg-
ing along with heavy side of bacon
he had bought, swinging over his
shoulder. We noticed that he was
miserably clad, and we. felt sorry. for
him, for a cold wind was blowing.
We demonstrated with him. "Why
do you spend your money for meat,
You'd better buy a coat" The old
man stopped, looked US fun in the
face for a few moments, and said. in
the most solemn tOnes-"Massa, when
1 ak my back for credit it gibs it;
when 1 speak to dis, (laying his hand
upon his stOmach,) it calls for de
cash." .- ..... .--
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05

Political orators in the West indulge
in some high>Aown asseverations in
regard to their frmness OF principle.
The following is moderate specimen:
Build worm fence around the win
ter's supply of summer weather; skim
the clouds from the sky with teaspoon;
break hurricane to the harness; lassO
an avalanche;pin napkin on the crater
of an active volcano-but never expect
to see me false to my principles T.
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/. O. O. f.
HARTFORD LODGE No. 1873.

Meets in Taylor Hall, in Hartford,
Ky, on the Second and Fourth Saturday
evenings in each month. The fraternity
are cordially invited to visit us when con-
venient for them to do so
J.. BARRETT, y. g. WV. PHIPPs, SEC.
b. p. BERRYNAN, D. d. G. NJ.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05

After four thousand years warn
ing the great majority of people
havn't found out what a stupid thing
it is to get into debt.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05

The St. Louis Republican says that
Grants friends are true as steal.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05

This Hotel is situated on the Louisville,
Paducah and Southwestern railroad. Passen-
gers for Hartford on the East bound train will
have ample time for eating before going to
Hartford. frst-class dinner is furnis he'd for
SO cents. Sample rooms furnished to CONNER
eial men. If
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-05

What does young fellow look like
when gallanting his sweetheart through
a shower? A rainbeau.