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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
Audrain Circuit Court, June term,
1877. (June ~
William NJ. Shumate.
vs..
Daniel RuUUIeS,

Daniel Ruggles.
Now, at this day, comes plaintiff bv
his attorney and on his motion il j.
by the court ordered that order of
publication issue for said defendant
Daniel Ruggles. you said nonresident
defendant, are therefore hereby mott
fled that n suit has been instituted
against you by attachment to satisfy
the sum of one thousand three hun
dred and tifty-eight dollars. and that
the following real estate, situate in
Andrain county, State of Missouri,
has been attached, to-wit: The 5. G.
S. e, "a, 81, g.; the W Inf $. W. or. and
the ne Or sw or and the Inf Sc Or and
S Inf he Or and the ne or ne Or: and
% acres off the south end NV Or, sec.
10; and w Inf sw or and Sc sw of sec
IL, tip 81, range 8 west: also begin AT
the ne corner of lot Z, block 8, orig
lnal town of Mexico; run thence s
ia feet, thence west % feet, thence II
ia feet, thence east 90 feet to place
of beginning. And unless you be
and appear at the next term of this
court to be begun and held at the
court house in the city of Mexico, LIST
Monday in October next, and plead
to said petition, the same will be tax
en- as confessed and Judgment rem
dered accordingly. 1t is further or
dered that a copy hereof be published
az cording to law in the Mexico Led
ger, a newspaper printed and pub
lished in Mexico, county and State
last aforesaid. A true copy from the
record.
Witness my hand and seal OF
[L.s.] said court affixed, Mt office in
Mexico, nth day of July, ~.
JAMES CARROLL,
n12-4t Clerk.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

The New PROBATE CoURr LAW
Under the new Probate Court act
passed by the last Legislature, approx
ed, April 9th, last, and which takes
effect on the 29th instant, there are
to be four terms in each year, on the
second Monday in February, May,
August and November. As the new
law does not take effect until the 29th
instant, it will be- necessary under the
old law now in force in this county to
hold the July Term on the 4th Mon
day rs heretofore, which will be done,
and which will be followed by the Au-
gust Term on the second Monday
thereof.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
PIKE COUNTY BANK.

w. w. Fry has our thanks for a
Louisiana juornal, containing a full
account of the affairs of the Bank of
Pike county, which has just sus-
pended. Below we give an extract
from A. M. Weir's statement:
AS TO the causes which brought about
the failure l will briefly and candidly
enumerate them: Among the first
adversities the institution had to con-
tend with was the failure of the Ocean
National Bank. on December goth,
1871, then our New York correspond
ent, where we had on deposit So
488. "a, most of which has been paid ;
but there yet remains--unpaid,
which / think will be realized ulti-
mately. Next in the category of ILL
fate was in December, 1874, when
during my unavoidable absence the
bank was unfortunately victimized
out of $1,000, concerning which the
readers of your paper are familiar.
Yet later in the history of the bank,
occurring not longer than a year ago,
was the failure of the City National
Bank, our Chicago correspondent,
on deposit there at the time
of Its suspension S3,854.69, % per
cent of WHICH has been paid. l might
also add with propriety that during
the first four years of the existence of
the bank considerable very undesir-
able paper accumulated, which was
very probable the cast With most
banks doing business during the same
years, due in a great measure to the
contraction of the currency; the
toward specie resumption
thereby causing a general shrinkage
of all kinds OF values, and prccipita-
ting b~ankrupts on every hand-the
end of which is not yet. But of all the
that befell the Bank of Pike
County, the greatest and most mex
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

ing said s'only the lawless element
of the county refused to pay its rail-
road debt" He speaks Of the injury
the editorials written during his
absence have done him.. and among
other little things, he writes very
tersely and cynically as follows in the
Galloway Gasette.
"And its effect did not stop here,
but went SO far as to infuse a spirit of
prejudice i'm the bosom of a journal
istic neighbor of another county, who
IS late as last week had the %effrontery
to call upon me to ''rise and ex-
plain" and that too by a palpable
misquotation of the alleged language
used-as lift was any Of his business
whether 1 explained to the people OF
Galloway or not.
Gen. Hockaday knows we don't
care wether he explains to Galloway
or not, so he need not be so curt
about it. We simply thought that as
Gen. Hockaday was a public man he
owed some explanation to his friends,
and constituents in Galloway county.
Perhaps he is not a judge of what is
tour business" in fact, we know he
is not. If he did make that remark,
he surely owed some explanation. Ii
he did not make it he should ''rise
and explain any way. Of course he
like every other politician is very in
dependent, but still, he thinks it vel
to clear the affair up. We guess tht
most of the readers of the Gazette
are satisfied with his explanation, { ~
course sit is none of our business
Not our funeral, so we don't care.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
II. II. > IT E-N, ttIiII +.
Mexico, Mo-, July Il, 1S77-1S-4t
GS77 is not easily earned in tlies'
Wa times, but it can be made il

Gf777 is not easily earned in these
va times, but it can be made in
three months by any one n either
sex, in any part of the country, who
is willing to work steadily at the en-
ployment that we furnish. 500 per
week i'll your own town. You need
not lie away from HON. over night.
You can give your whale time TO the
work, oil only your spare moments.
We have agents who are making over
$40 per day. All who engage at once
can make money fast. At the pres
ent time money cannot be made 50
easily and rapidly at any other bust,
ness. 1t costs nothing to try the
business. Terms and IS outfit free.
Address at once. II. UALLEr & Co,
Portland, Maine,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

cusable is due entirely to my own inn
prudence, and myself, and myself alone
is fully responsible for it. Each as
sociate officer, director, clerk, en-
ploye and stockholder-all are fully
exhonerated and e%xculpated from any
blame in the matter, or wen knowl-
edge of it; not even my dearly be-
loved wife had the remotest suspicion
of my transactions had / even init
mated to her my actions, her wise
counsel would have prevailed and
spared me the trouble, deep anguish
and h~umiliationI am now undergoing.
Something overtwo years ago the bank
had quite an amount of surplus money
on hand, and it was so difficult to
make loans on satisfactory paper that
it became evident it would be difficult
to declare a good dividend and with
only one object in view, to increase
the profits of the bank, / most impru-
IDENTIFY INDUCED in a stock speculation
which resulted in a small loss. Some
time after this the bank lost the $4,000
at the hands of Chas. Lawrence above
mentioned, and in order to regain this
loss L again tried speculation, which
resulted unfavorably. When the divi-
dend day came l well knew that if
one was not paid that the bank would
90 down, and in order to counteract
this a forced dividend was declared
and paid in 1875, and also in 1876.
In order to make good these divi
dends, paid but lot earned, as well as
previous losses from speculation, l
continued my chance adventures,
which principally caused the suspen-
sion of the bank on the 1%linst., and
for which, as already stated, L alone
tim of my own zeal for the success of
the bank; but l presume no one will
agree with me ON this point. | GER
tainly have not made one cent person
ally and did not SO intend. Anything
that was made the bank would have
received the benefit of. 1t grieves me
deeply to think that | should cause
the citizens of this community to sus-
tain a loss when they have so univer-
sally confided, befriended and re-
spected me. But should | be per-
mitted to do 50, the day shall not be
far distant, should L be spared the
health, when l will reimburse all who
have been so unfortunate to lose by
my imprudence.
L shall again begin life with re-
doubled energy, and have the utmost
confidence of my ultimate ucces
1t may not be improper to state
that i have made amends az far as
possible, as follows: l have executed
a deed of trust on my life, or which
is the same thing, have duly assigned
for the benefit of the bank policies of
insurance on my life for 500 600, is
sued by three of the strongest COM
panies in the world. Myself and wife
have also conveyed to the bank our
homestead and all other real estate
owned by me also 25 shares of Lou
isiana Loan and Building Association
stock, my building association salary,
q promisory note for 100000, also,
1925 90 cash which / have earned
while sick in bed and since the sus-
pension of the bank.
In conclusion i would add that Ian
guage is inadequate to express the
gratitude of myself and family for the
sympathy and encouragement extend
ed 50 freely by many, many warm,
hearted, true friends in this hour o.
great distress. Yours truly,
A. NJ. WEIR,
| Late Director and Cashier Bank o
Pike County.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

CALLAwAY BoNDs.-Our County
Court ut it's late session, June 27th,
made an order directing that $780,
600 of County Bonds be prepared i'm
mediately, to be used in funding our
outstanding Railroad debt, at the rate
heretofore indicatcd-55 SO. This
action Was taken by the Court to be
prepared to make the exchange when
ever Bonds arc presented for compro-
mise.-GFulton Telegraph.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

As Hayes was being escorted
through the streets of Boston, on his
recent visit there, a colored woman
held up a infant a few mouths old
and called out: ''Mr. President, /
named this baby for you, Rudderford
Hayes Benson. Don't you go back
on the colored people,"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
~CONSUMPTION POSITfVEN
GTRED.

All sufferers from this disease t1
are anxious &c BE cured should a.
Kissncr's Celebrated CONSUME
tive Powders. These Powders al
the only preparation knownthat VII
cure consumption and all diseases
the Throat and Lungs-indeed, \
strong is our faith in them, and DIV
to convince YOU that they are no hue
bug. we will forward to every sufa
er, by mail, post paid free trial boz
We don't want your money unit
YOU are perfectly satisfied of tha
curative powers. If yourlife iswofa
saving, don't delay in giving th'
Powders a trial, as they will snr'
cure you.
Price, for large box IS, sent toas
part of the United States or Cams
by mail on receipt ofprice. Addrta
ASH & RoBBINS, 800 Fulton stree
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Estimated total liabilities S1l5, $50 90
1t is est mated that $50, 900 will
cover all the losses.
The following resolution was
adopted at the mass meeting Tue.day
night
RESOLVED, That the depositors
agree to give a forbcarance TO the bank
of six months from date without in
terest for the respective ralances due
each of us, condition d that the
directors will pay over said amounts
as fast as 10 per cent. of their liabili-
ties is received from their assets, and
further conditioned that the directors
will make q call on the stockholders
within thirty days for such per cent.
as will be sufficient to meet all liabili-
ties nOt met by the present assets,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that | have
taken charge Of the estate of Jacob p.
Clark, deceased. All persons having
claims against said estate are required
to exhibit them to me for allowance
within II year from the date hereof,
or they may be precluded from any
benefit of such estate; and if such
claims be not exhibited within two
years from the date of the publica-
ton OF this notice, theg will be for
ever barred.
ID. T.. SHEA. Admir-.
! Mexico, No., July Il, 1S77-lS-4t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Six banks have broken i'm st. Louis
during the last week or SO: State
National, about three weeks since !;
Butchers and Drovers' Broadway
Savings; North st. Louis; Savings
Bank of St. Louis German Savings,
and Bremen Savings. Quite a panic
in money matters is reported in St.
Louis. Nothing serious is appre-
hended; all now that is wanting to
quiet affairs il the confidence of de
positors.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
LANDS CUT AWAY BY WATER.

From a recent survey made by a L.
S.district surveyor and engineer it APP
pears that during this year 1877 acres
of land have been swept away by the
Missouri River above Cedar City.
The following is a list of the owners
and number acres lost by each:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
FOR 1880.
THE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET
GRAND COMBINATION.

For President-Ulysses S. Grant OF
Illinois.
For yice-P resident-Edwards Pier
repont of New York.
For Minister to England-G. WASH
ington Chiids, A. NJ, of Pennsylva-
Liza.
For Governor of New York-Reu-
ben L. Fenton of Chatauqua.
THE PLATFORM.
No Returning Board-No cheating
in counting the votes.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE CAMPAIGN FUND.
G. w. Childs, A. NJ. $3.50, 900; T..
Pierrepont, 10000; U. S. Grant Ito
be paid by Jay Gould) $1,000; r.
E. Fenton, $4,000; w. NJ. Eyarts,
nothing Carl Schurz, nothing /; Simon
Cameron, nothing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
FITS EPILEPSY,
FALLING SICKNESS.

Permanently cured-no hunbug-
by one months usage of DR. Co..
Celebrated In!allible Fit Pov
dcrs. To convince sufferers that Ties
powd Is will do all we claim 10
them. we will send them by mai
post paid. a free trial box. Asl
Goulard is the only physician thu
has ever made this disease a speca
study, aud as to our knowledge thou
sands have been permanently cula
by the use Of these Powders, We VII
guarantee a permanent eur in ever
case, OF refund You all money e
pended All sufferers should CIV
these Powders an early trial, and
convinced OF their curative powers.
Price for large box, So, or boz,
for $40, sent by mail TO any part
the United States or Canada OHr
ccipt of price, or by express, CT
d.. Address,
ASH & ROBBINS,
$50 Fulton ST.. Brooklyn, NJ
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

1t is estimated that there are at
present about 1900, 600 able-bodied
men in the country out of employ
ment. If the price of a days labor
is worth 81 so, we have an actual
loss to the country of So, O00, 900 per
day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Five hundred and sixty-eight news
boys sat down to MFR. Childs' (Phila-
delphia Ledger dinner. The dinner
was in thirteen courses, and the boys
sat at the table one hour and three
quarters.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
THOMAS A. BRADLEY,
NOTARY PUBLIC.

VIII draw deeds on short notice and
take Acknowledgements to all legal in
struments at any part of the coun
ty; strict attention paid to renting
houses and collecting rents. All bus
mess entrusted to my care will re-
ceive prompt attention. Office with
John NJ. Gordon, rear of Savings
Mexico Mo. 2-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
TO CONTRACTORS,

Sealed proposals to furnish materi-
al and build the approaches to the
bridges at Ioung's Creek, Thompson
Station, Boat Greek and Culver, re-
spectively, will be received till 3 y.
M, August 9TH. 1877. Separate bids
OIL separate bridges entertained.
Plans may be seen previous to let
ting, at office of Bridge Commissions
Right to reject any and all bids
reserved.
j. \. BASKET.
l3-4t Bridge Com'r Audrain Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Hayes has issued an order that
postmasters must not dabble in poll
tics, mass meetings, &c. This does
not prohibit them attending prayer
meetings.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

The Butchers & Drovers Bank of
St. Louis suspended last Friday.
MI. Chambers says he will give up
his own and wife's property to de-
Dositors.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

The st. Louis Browns are in good
spirits. Their star is again in the as
cendents.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Kate Claxton says there are very
few gentlemen among newspaper mel
of the country. We know it, Kate ;
we know if, and often feel very lone
some.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Vice-President Wheeler docs not
approve of the president recent Or
der prohibiting post Office holders from
taking an active part i'm politics.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19
TRUSTEES SALE,

Whereas, Henry w. NanGalder and
wife, by their deed dated May 80, 1874,
and recorded in trust book -" page
358 Audrain county records, convey
ed to the undersigned trustee, the fol-
lowing described real estate. situate
i'll the city of Mexico, county of Au-
drain, to-wit: Twenty feet front by
one hundIeu and fourteen feet, run
ming back west, being the south one
third of Lot No. five (5) in block No.
thirteen (13,) original town of Mexi-
CO; and which conveyance was in
trust to secure the payment of GER
tain notes specified in saids.deed; and
whereas, default has been made in
the payment of two of said notes.
Now under the provisions in said
deed | will offer said real estate for
sale and sell the same for cash. at the
east door of the court house in said
city of Mexico, Oh
Friday, the 10th day Of
August, 1877,
between 10 O'Clock in the forenoon
and four O'Clock in the afternoon, for
the purposes of said trust.
Ill. W. GLEASON,
l3-4t Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

If those banks don't quit failing
we are ruined. The country is in a
dreadful condition.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

The Universal Life Insurance Com
pany has gone up the spout.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Joe. Coburn, the prize-fighter has
been sentenced to Sing Sing for ten
years.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

About 1000 American firms will
exhibit at the Paris exposition in
1873
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Theodore Triton started for Europe
on the 7th inst. Who is next?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Hard on the narrow ''gouge"-the
''busted'' st. Louis banks.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Now York has two more white
whales.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Kansas City is to have a new Union
Depot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Austria is not to be diverted from
her position of strict neutrality.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Secretary Sherman is making a
Southern tour.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY Gt
T1NE
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

Shall receive special favors in getting
their work done promptly. 1t Is to
the interest of every Wool-groWcr to
encourage home manufactures, where
all your goods are warranted.
| thank my old customers for their
former patronage, and hope they will
e ntInuc the same.
3-tf IL. RICE, Proprietor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-19

years.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-05
Mardi GrRa.

All lovers of dancing and merry.mak-
ing are on the tip-toe of anxiety waiting
the arrival Of Tuesday, February 10, to
"trip the light fantastic;" and as will
be seen by re erring to the numerous ad-
yertised balls tor Mardi Gras night, the
one to be given at Greenwood and Mo-
zart Halls will have all the better class
es. In the first place, the popular young
manag 4rs have remained finn in their
price OF 81 a ticket, thereby running no
risk OF having The halls over-croWded
with that class of people who patronize
"cheap balls" They have not adver-
tised an imitation "Rex," when all sen-
sible people know that where there is Ito
general Mardi Graz d splay and no OBJ
servance of the day, there can be no
genuine "Rex." Aud as the "Rex"
manager went back on his word on
Christmas night and did not make room
for the patrons of that ball as promised,
what guarantee have we now "more
than his WORD" that there will even be q
ball OH February 13.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-05

THE PARIS OPERA-BALL.-Tae Paris
correspondent OF the London Telegraph
writes: LAST nights Bal de POpera
was unquestionably the most brilliant
public tete we have had since the palmy
days Of the Empire. Everything that
the sculptor's art, the decorators skill,
and the gardeners taste could invent
seemed to have been employed, and to
all this must be added the magical effect
of an orchestra conducted by Strauss in
person. While the Viennese maestro
conducted Tor the second time 'Le Dam
ube Bleu,' was foroibly reminded Of
the witches dance in Tam O'Shanter!
Such sights have nothing in common
with drunken revel. 70 the sound Of
some of the finest and most refined light
music ever rendered by an orchestra a
company Of highly trained dancers cut
series Of capers which, compared to
those Of a corps de ballet, are what q
clever carlcature is to u masterpiece ol
oil painting. For u few hours Paris
drank deeply OF the CUP OIL folly ;or
which it is renowned. Five thousand
two hundred tickets were sold, one
thousand five hundred vehicles drew up
be lore the door ot the Opera, and Heaven
only knows what the supper bills
amounted top
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-05

motive in the introduction Of House
Bill No. 67S, in the House of Representa-
tives, is simply that OF establishing a
competent Board of Superintendents OF
the repairs ON our streets, which cost
the city about $240,000 per annum, at q
cost Of So 500 per annum less than paid
to Superintendents nova measure to
save $500 to our taxpayers every year,
and having the work done just as well,
IL not better, than now.
AS for taking anything out Of the
hands Of the Board Of Public Works,
which would render the same less eff
cient to our city, would not be willing
to do, for /, for one, think that Board the
best institution the city ever had, and
should so be kept. Now if the writer of
said article can propose or advance a
proposition better than the one intro
duced by me, by which our work can be
done and said amount OF money saved
for our taxpayers, let us have it, and
agree it shall be either incorporated in
my bill or substituted for the same, as l
have no other motive here in the Legis-
lature than to see to the best interest OF
our city and the State at large.
Respectfully, GABRIEL DIR.