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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
DON'T FORGET.
Ignorance OF tho law excuses

Ignorance OF tho law excuses no
one.
1t is fraud to conceal a fraud
The law compels no one to do
impossibllities.
An argument without considera-
tion is void
Signatures made with lead pencil
are good in Law.
A receipt tor money paid is aot
legally conclusive.
The acts of one partner bind all
the others.
Contracts made on Sunday can
not be enforced.
A contract made with minor is
void.
Contracts for advertisement in
Sunday papers are Invalid.
Principals are responsible for the
acts of their agents.
Agents are responsible to !heir
principals for errors.
Each individual in partnership
is responsible for the whole amount
of the debts OF the firm.
A note given by a MINOR is
void.
Notes bear interest only when
stated.
1t Is not legally necessary to say
on note for value received.
A note drawn on Sunday is
void.
A note obtained by fraud or from
a person in state Of intoxication,
cannot be collected.
Il note be lost or stolen, it does
not release the maker; he must pay
il.
An jndorser of note is exempt
from liability if not served with
notice of It's dishonor within twenty
four hours of it's non-payment'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

st Louis. &c. & Northern Eailroad Time.
Table.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
Letter from a Postmaster.1

| Letter from Postmaster.1
"ANTIocR, ILL.,, Dec. 1, 1874.
"Messrs. J. B. ROSE & CO.:
ny wife has, for long ti1ae, been a
terrible sufferer from Rheumatism. She
has TIED many physicians and MANY RENE
dies. The only thing which has given her
relief Is Centaur Liniment. am reioiced
to say this has cured her. I am doing
what can to extend its sale X
.... VIII. RING.
This Is sample of many thousand Gesti-
monlals received, of wonderful cures
effected by the. Centaur Liniment. The
ingredients OF this article are published
around each bottle 1t contains Witch
Hazel, Mectha, Arnica, Rock Oil, Car
bolic, and ingredients hitherto little
known, 1t is an indisputabe fact that tae
Centaur Liniment is performing more
cures of Swellings, Stiff Joints, Eruptions,
rheumatism, Neuralgia. .Sciatsa, Caked
Breasts, Lock-jaw, &c, than all other Lin
lnents, Em broca.ions, Extracts, Salves.
Olntments, and Plastsrs now in use.
For Toothache, Earache Weak Back,
tch and Cutaneous Erupcions it is al
mirable. It cures burns and scalds with
out scar. Extracts poison from bite
and stings, and heals frost bites and chill
blalEs, in short time. No family Can
afford to be without the Centaur Lini,
ment white wrapper.
The Centaur Llniment, yellow wrapper,
is adapted to the tough skin, muscles and
flesh of the animal creation. Its effects
upon severe cases OF SPAWN. Sw ely,
Wind Gall, Big Head and Poll Evil, are
little less than mary llous.
Messrs. j. Mcclure u Co., Druggists
corner Elm and Front streets, Cincin natl
o., say: .....
"In our neighborhood a number of
teamsters are using the Centaur Llnlment
Ihey pronounce 1t superior to anyth in
they have ever used. We sell as nigh as
four to five dozen bottles per month to
these teamsters."
We have thousands of similar testimo
mails.
For Wounds, Calls. Scratches, Ring
bone, &c, and for Screw Worm in Sheep
II has no rival. Farmers, Livery nj,
and >tock-raisers, have in this Imminent a
remedy which is worth hundred timae
its cost.
Laboratory OF j. B. Rose s. Co. {.
46 DEY STREET. New Yohk
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

New MASH FOR uoRsEs.-The
Brabant Journal of the AgrlcuItraI
society, recommends very his hly
a mash for horses, made Of three
arts by weight of bran, four Of
oats, and tbirty-six to forty eight
OF faxseed. Boiling water is first
poured upon the oats and faxseed
IN bucket, and the bran then add
ed, and the vessel covered with h
WOODEN cloln, aud allowed four or
tive hours to cool. The horses take
1T eagerly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
SUNBEAMS

All mon are not homeless, but
some men are home less than
others.
After demolishing the house OF
the mine managers in North Wales,
the riotous coIiers went home sing
ing, Safe in the arms OF Jesus
A friend of ours, says the editor
of a contemporary, lis growing
weaker and weaker every day. He
has got so weak now that he can't
raise So.'
Little Robbie went to a show.
and saw an elephant for the irst
ii ne in his life. When he came in
his mother asked him what he had
seen. AN elephant, mamma, that
gobbIsd hay with bis front tall
In Barren county, Kentucky, a
man recently found u brass Ratchet
abeIed Noah 1t is supposed to
have dropped from the Ark while
one of Noah's sons was fastening
the hinge on the cabin door
Waiter, he yelled with an awful
roar, This napkin, Pm sure, has
been used before.
sBy four, sir, no. did tho waiter
say-'You're only the third that's
used 1t to-day.
Sankey is accustomed to tell, ,ss to
the origin of Hold the Fort about
Sherman's message signaled to
Gen. Corse, at Altoona, 'Hoid the
fort-I am coming The evange-
list, however, does not quote Gen.
Corse's reply, which was; L am
short a cheek bono and an ear, but
am able to whip all hell yet
There, he said, as he separated
the pennies from the nickels, and
laid the latter on the town-hall
stoop, last Sunday evening, there's
five cents for beer, five cents for to-
bacco, two cents tor postage stamps.
and that leaves me one cent to put
on the plate tonight. l figured
mighty close on last uigbt's drink.
The editor of a county paper wrote
one evening: To-day 10 the ami
yersary of the death of Louis Phil
ippe.' When the printers proof
came up, the name read Sam Phil
lips The editor wrote on the mar
gio. sWho the duce is Sam Phili'ps?
Next morning the article read: TO
day is the ADVERSARY Of the death OF
Sam Phillips. Who in the duce is
Sam PhillipsT'
, Owing to the disaster to the Arc
tic feet wbalebone has gone up
nearly fifty per cent. in value, ana
onlv steel corsets will be worn this
winter. Steel corsets are more ob'
iect1onabIe than whalebone on the
ground of danger from lightning
but as there is q good deal more
'give' to them, even when embraced
by the left arm, we haven't much OF
an opinion of a girl who won't DC
willing to risk the lightning
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

Sour milk or buLtermitk have been
found an excellent remedy for cry
S'pelas applied as a wash.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas. Joel Guthrie and Martha
ID. Guthrie, by their certain deed OF
trust bearing date April LIST, 1873,
which is duly recorded i'll book "II'
OF mortgages at pages 429. $50, All
and 4:}2, i'll the recorders office for
Auirain county. Missouri. conveyed
to the undersigned trustee, the fol-
lowing described real estate, situate
in Audrain county, Missouri, to-Wit:
Block number (6) containing eight
and 5S-10O acres, and block I'D" con-
tanning tive 90 and 98-10O acres, all in
Guthrie's addition to the town OF
Mexico, in Audrain county, Missouri,
as shown by plat on file in the re-
cordcr's Office, TOR the record of deeds
for Audrain county; and further de-
scribed as lying and being situate in
the northeast fourth Of the northwest
quarter section (35) thirty-tive in
township (51) titty-one of range No.
co. nine, which said deed OF trust was
| made to secure the payment of GER
| tain note in said deed of trust de-
scribed and interest, signed by said
Joel Guthrie. And, whereas, it is
provided in said deed "f trust, that if
said Joel Guthrie fail, refuse or neg
lect to pay the said note and said in
terest or any part thereof when due
according to the tenor, date and et-
feet of said note, Then the whole and
| every part of said note with interest
shall become que demandable and
PAYABLE; and whereas, said interest
ON said nole has long since become
due and remains unpaid. Now, there
fore, by virtue Of the power in me
vested by said deed Of trust, and at
the request of the holder of said note,
| will
On Tuesday, December 18th,
1876, sell said real estate at public
vendue for cash to the highest bidder
at the east door of the Court Hou>c
in Mexico, Audrain county, Missouri
to satisfy said debt and the expenses
of executing this trust.
w. ii, KEENAN,,
Trustee.
Blum & Son have just received 81
pieces of suiting and overcoat pat
! torns from the east. 25t
loo ME TO THE LEDGER Fol
, OUR PRINTING.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
STRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by William NJ. Sims, of Viii -
son township, in Audr lin county, on the
4th dav of November, 1875, and posted
before the undersig1,i, a Justice of the
Peace for said county, ono two-year-o d
steer. of white color, marked with crop o Fl
the left ear and split in the right, bran G.
ed on the right nip. supposed to be he
letter NJ, and appraised at the sum o
So: 80, by Joseph A Potts and John G
Cooper. =.
Given under my hand this November
the 14th, 1876.
THos. G. HUDSON,
3O3t Justice of the Peace.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23

The KING AND THE PRErENDRR.--
In window in Broadway are por-
traits OF Tilden and Hayes, SIDE by
side, and underD cath is written the
old JacobiD legend:
God bless the king; God bless the
fai his defender;
God bless--.thcre's no harm in
blesslng---lhe pretender,
But who that preiender is, and
who that king,
God bless US all is quite another
thing.
Said one fellow 30 anOther-lf |
was as fat-ioOted as You are, l
would not be afraid of shppil & on
the sidewalk.
Yes was the responce; some peo-
pie are fiat one end and some on an
other,
And then the first chap looked
thoughtful and went on dtwn the
street.
, 1876-01-08

New HAMpsHIRE PoLITICS.-The
first election of the centennial year
will be that of New Hampshire, early
in March. Coming as it will just be.
fore the Presidential nominations of
the National Conventions of the year,
much political significance will be at.
tached to the result, i'll view of the
fact that in every one of those six
states in which the republicans have
been successful this year, their state
conventions of this year which put in
nomination their respective tickets all
passed resolutions in favor of admins
trative reform and against a third
term. The New Hampshire politicians
now in Washington declare that at
the coming state convention in their
state the third term will be condemn
ed in stronger terms than it was last
year.
, 1876-01-08

The course of Father Grace, of
Newport, r. l., in refusing to perform
burial rites over the remains of Geneva
De Fray shows to what extent surly
bigolry can be carried. He was will.
ing to allow the body of the child to
be buried in the Catholic cemetry, but
he could not pray over the girls grave
good man. She had, it appears, at.
Tended Protestant school before her
fatal sickness, principally because the
Catholic school was too far for one in
her weakly condition. The imposing
burial services performed by dignita.
res OF the same church over tie re-
mains of the actress Dejazet in Paris
the other Gay area rebuke to such mar.
row Intolerance as that displayed by
this country ecclesiastic over a school.
girls corpse.
, 1876-01-08
sHEIsIFF's SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF TWO CERTAIN EXECUTIONS
ID issuei of the District Court OF the First Judi
cial District Of Washington Territory, and 10 lie
directed and delivered, tO-wit: One in favor Of
CORBEFr & McCLEAY, Plaintiffs, against ID.
:. BALDWIN, individually, and against the firm
OF BALDWIN Co, DefenidntS, dated, December
H. 1875 for the of SIPS IS loo gold CON- with
interest thereon at the rate of 10 per cent per Al mum
IN ike coin. and the further Of So costs of
suit and also one other execution III favor of J..
GOLDSMITH & co, Plaintiffs and against ID s
BALDWIN, individually. and the firm Of BALD
WIN & CO, Defendants, dated January :, 1876, for
the Of 1888 gold coin, with interest thereon
the rate Of one per cent. pr month in like tOn and
so $500 costs Of suit lave levied upon the follow
ing described real estate, situate lying and being in
the city and county Of Walla Walla, Territory of
Washington, and particularly described follows,
tO-EIt:
An those certain lots or pieces of land situated on
Nam street. in the city O; Walla Wala and deserted
as folowS: Commencing, at a point on the north
side OF Nam street IN SAID city, distant li9 feet
north-eastely nom tie south corner Of block two of
said city; thence northeasterly along the line Of
Nam street sixteen feet thence norih-westerly az
night angles 10 Main street between PARALLEL lines
to the lett hank Of Mil Creek the same Icing part
of lot eight, IN block ten of sad city
Also, that other certain lO5 purcell Of hni des-
cIihel As follows: Commencing at "A point on the
north side of Main street in the city of WaIla WalIa
distant lS5 6-l2 feet IN north-easteTly direction
from the south corner of block two in said city
thence north eastery along said line Of Main street.
westerly course, between parallel lines at right
angles 10 Main street, 20 the left hank of Mil Creek
bang part Of lot 9, II block of said city Of Wala
Walla
Also, that certain lot parcel OF land fronting
Rose street IN said city, and being part of lots and
), in block ,, and described Is follows Commence
ing at point on the south sile Of Rose street IN
sah city, distant IS feet sOuth-Westerly from the
Forth corner Of blck two of said city thence SOUTH
westerly along the south sieof Rose street seventy
eight feet thence back at right angles Rose street.
IN sOutheaste;ly oourse between parallel lines, 10
the right bank OF Mil Creek. Notice Is hereby
given, that on
MONDAY, the eth day of February. 1876.
at the hour OF O'Clock, P. N of said day, Will
sell all the right title interest of SAIL defend
ants d. 5. BALDWIN, and BALDWIN & CO., III
OF 70 the above described property, at the Court
House door, IN the city a3d county OF Walla
walla, Washington Territory, 81 Public Aue-
ton, for gold COIN, 10 The highest and best bidder,
or ~ much thereof may be necessary 70 satisfy
said judgments and all costs
Given under my band this TIh day OF January, A.
D, 1876, GEORGE z. THOMAS,
Sheriff CT Walla walia County.
J d. MIX,
Attorney fCT P-aintif-. tts
, 1876-01-08

The NORTHERN PACIFIc RALRoAD.-
The New York Tribune announces,
on the authority of Jay Cooke, that
the Northern Pacific Company are
not in alliance with Colonel Scott in
the effort 10 procure subsidy. Mr..
Cooke does not say that his COMPANY
will not ask for subsidy, but leaves
it 10 be inferred that each Company
viii stand on lis own merits. Mean.
time the road is in healthy financial
condition. It's land grant is much
more valuable than was supposed.
aud is u'sde so by the generosity of
the Government in giving alternate
sections TO actual settlers, which en>
sbies the Company 10 sell one snd
give the purchaser another at the ex.
pense of the public This Iiberality Of
the Government will aot probably pre-.
vent the Northern Pacific Company
from asking the Government TO build
their road for them and present it in
running er9es together witt the l7nis
, 1876-01-08

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
1t is probable that the coming
National Democratic Convention will
be held as early as May or June. The
Convention at New York, IN 1868,
and that at Baltimore, in 1873, were
held in the month of July, later
season in the year than is usually chos
en,and later than is thought to be de,
sirable for the coming campaign. 81.
Louis bids fair 80 have it held in the
new hall of the chamber of commerce
which was dedicated on the Dist nit.
and which is the most beautiful hall
in the United States and one Of the
largest in the world, being 239 feet
long, 9S feet wide, and 69 feet high
from floor to ceiling.
, 1876-01-08

SIxrEEN.-There are no less than six
teen contested cases to be disposed of
by Congress, most of them by repnbli
cans against democrats, elected by
mall majorities. The case Of Hon,
S. 5. Fem against Gov. Bennett will
not probably be reached before the
middle of January, as the last session
passed an act repeating the law pro,
vidiug for the opening and examina-
ton Of evidence before the meeting of
congress. Bennett drew his salary ar
Governor with great regularity mp TO
the last quarter ending with the first
of this month-jnst one year from the
time he issued 10 himself the certlti
cate of Lection a> Delegate. II had
two certificates on tile-the second
one Issued by Ac'jag Governor Cnrtis
in August last Tom might Just ~
veil aS not had rew mere from the
different government officials in the
Territory, in orler to make things
d0ublv sure.-iddhO World.
, 1876-01-08

PoLIrlcaL NosrRURM.-It is propos-
ed by philosopher, who is, perhaps
" "onIy nor northwest mad" that the
country shall be saved from the dan>
gers of the negro suffrage by the bal
ance wheel OF female suffrage, ," WIN
an intelligence clause" by gFlng
votea to the slaves it is admitted that
We have sdulterated the political hie
of the nation, and to the extent OF
that adulteration debased and degra-
ded the body polite; but the addition
of the women as voters, VIII nentral-
ize the evil effects, because their vote
will ouinumber the negro vote, and so
practically, count Sambo out, Provid-
ed. of course, the suffrage Is given
only to the white women. That is. OF
course, the meaning of 1.-The intelll:
gence clause which therefore could
only stand the assaults of the dema-
goguery till it was thought BY some
one down in New England that the
votes of the colored sisters would be
useful. Then Dinah would come IN
beside Sambo, and We should have
the prettiest kittle Of fish, politically
speaking, the world ever saw. There
is only one point OF view from which
this proposition can be said to offer
any advantage. Things are pretty
bad as they are, but before they Can
mend they must, perhaps, be worse,
and this will make them worse.
, 1876-01-08

Pacific CcAsr STEAMERS senator
Morrill, has introduced a resolution in
structing the Senate Committee on
Commerce to inquire into the expedI-
ency of reporting some measure TO ln>
crease the efficiency of Steamboat In.
spectors, and in doing so he said that
90 if the accounts in " the newspaper s
of the loss of life on the "Pacitic Coast
were true, something should 4" be done
to improve the service" The reSolu-
ton was agaeed to, and the Commit
tee will make some inquiries, with
what result remains 10 be seen. We
do not know how Senator Morrill,
could have doubted the accuracy of
the accounts concerning the loss OF
life on this coast, for such matters are
not usually trified with, even by the
most sensational journals. We are,
however, thankful for small tavors,
and would suggest that perhaps the
best mode of increasing the efficiency
of Steamboat Inspectors would be 10
dismiss the venal and incompetent of.
fieials, and appoint instead honest and
fearless and capable men.
, 1876-01-08

THE FRENCH GOVERNED, i'll procur.
ing the passage of an amendment 10
the Electoral Districts bill reducing
the representation of the city of Paris
in the new Assembly from twenty five
to twenty, and that of Lyons from
eight 10 six, shows that it will resort
10 any parliamentary expedient for
keeping down the radical population
of these great communistic centres.
Cutting down representation is, how
ever, poor method Of contenting the
masses.
, 1876-01-08

SITTING Bull, the Chief Of the Un-
capapas Sioux, is on the war path.
He recently emcamped his hostile
band within four DAYS march of the
white settlements on the Upper Mis-
souri, river. Friendly Indians have
warned the officers of military posts
in that vicinity regarding the inten-
tions of Sitting Ball, which are not by
any means of a pacific character. He
has announced his intention of GRUB.
bing" on the white population OF
that region this winter. 1t is proba-
bic that he will ges more than he
bargained for if he attempts any raid
ING projects, as the military, it is said,
are prepared TO give the redskins a
warm reception.
, 1876-01-08

SECRET PoLITIcAL SoctETiEs'-Ihe
New York Herald publishes the con-
stitution and bylaws of secret po-
litical society, organized for the Pnr-
pose of excluding Catholics from offlce
and perpe,uatiug the existence OF the
radical party. 1t rightly says that IN
a republic like America, or IN any
free country indeed, where there Is
liberty of press and speech and action
the secret society is in itself a eonies-
sion of weakness or wrong intent.
Suppose that some OF our citizens
spurred on By the fervor OF deep re-
Iigious conviction, believed that there
was a movement ON the part OF the
Catholic Church to interfere with
the schools or take possession OF the
country, can they not do as mnch to-
ward antagonizing that influence in
the open air, through the public press
and platform and the pulpit, as iE a
dark room? II the Catholic Church
were a paramount body in America
we might see reason for Protestants
TO organize and protect their religion.
This is not the case. The Catholic
Church is only fraction-a moderate
fraction-of our people. 1t is not a
growing Church, with us, except as 1t
grows from emigration. So far from
its controlling the country there Is a
latent Protestant feeling which. makes
it impossible for any Catholic 10 be
elected to any national office. With
exception of small, isolated sections
like New York and st. Louis, and
New Orleans and Baltimore, there is
not a part of the country where the
Catholic fai III is an advantage in the
race for preferment. Therefore the
allegation that it is necessary for
Protestants to form into q secret po-
litical society 10 arrest the machlna-
tions of the Catholic Church " is lie.
There have been movements of this
kind before, aud every one ended III
disaster. 1t was seen that the men
who inspired them were not earnest,
God fearing. religious men, but shrewd
politicians who, knowing how deeply
seated in the Anglo Saxon heart Is
the sentiment of respect for religi-
Gus institutions, summoned up all the
bitter memories OF ihe past for politl-
cal ends. The disaster which befell
Know Nothingism and Native Ameri-
eanism, the contumeIy that is visited
upon all who took part i'll that cratic
movement, was so widespread, that
for the last generation, at Least, every
honest politician, without regard to
party, has made it a fundamental
maxim that to attempt to bring religi-
on into politics or to control political
action by secret societies is the lowest
kind OF demagogism.
, 1876-01-08

PRINCE PIERRE BOyAPARTE, who has
put himself forward in Corsica as a
candidate for the Assembly, is what
NAV be termed the rowdy of the Bon
sparte family. His prominence IN
public affairs in France will not help
bis party.
, 1876-01-08

AT 4 recent funeral of a Tillamook
country man, one of the neighbors, a
female of very sympathetic nature,
was deeply affected as to attract the
attention of those present. The wife
of the deceased, a tall, raw-hOned
woman, noticing the attention paid to
the nelghbor, kindly approached her,
and in a hoarse whisper, indicative Of
the most intense disgust, demanded :
" Who is running This funeraI-you
or me?'' The sympathetic neighbOr
dried her tears.-ADany Democrat.
, 1876-01-08

SPAIN seems desirous Of impresslng
the world with her determination TO
pacifv Cuba. More troops and heavy
guns are promised Immediately, and
when the Carlist war is over an etfi-
cient army is to be maintained in
Cuba as a measure of precaution. The
saving clause about the Carllsts is
rather funny, and suggests the catch
of lsrks which We are to have when
the sky falls.
, 1876-01-08

CANADIAN PAClrIC RAILwAY.-L2t-
est adyices from Ottawa, the capital
Of the Dominion Government of Can
ada, indicate the Indefinite abandon
ment Of the building of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad 1t even goes so far
as to refuse to build the section be.
tween Victoria aud Nanaimo, which
was recent compromise measure ac-
cepted by the provincial Dominion
Government, with the approval OF
Downing street, London. But the
Dominion in lieu of it offers, as q peace
offering, to indemnify British Colum.
bia in the sum OF S750,000. This is a
severe blow to the high hopes hereto
fore entertained by British Columbia
and from which it commercially cam
not recover; as the indefinite postpone,
ment reduced to plain English means
simply never 10 build.