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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
MISSOURI ODD FELLOWSHIP.

The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
OF the State of Missouri met in st.
Louis May Is, it being the thirty.
ninth annual session. The attend
ance quite large, all the elective Grand
officers and nearly all the appointed
officers and representatives being
present.
The reports of the Grand officers
show a healthy increase in member
ship and assets.
During the past year there has been
t~wenty-three new Lodges instituted,
two of the number being in this coun-
ty, vix: Amana, No. $50, at Lacle-
do, and Browning, Nc. L37s, at
Browning.
GRAND ~sEcRETARY's REPORT.
Present contributing membership
in the State, IL, 1861.
revenue for the past year, $89, 695.
Number of brothers relieved. 1872.
Number of Widowed families re-
heyed ....... 80
Amount paid for relief of bro theirs
1913, TAI so
Amount paid for relief of wild
owed families. .8.40e 90
Amount paid for education of
orphans. 4.144 M
Amount paid for burying the
oCdu. h DDT m
Total relief. S35.314 IN.
Amount of money in the treasu-
1919 90
amount Of Investments . d. 81, PSI 90
Total assets Of Lodges 1865, O1O 90
The officers elcted and installed for
this year are as follows:
E. R. shiplcy, Springfield, NJ. W.
Grand Master.
W. II. Graves, Canton, R. W. D.
Grand Master.
j.. A. Gregory, st. Louis, r. w.
Grand Warden.
E. M. Sloan, st. Louis, r. w.
Grand Secretary.
W. II. Thompson, St. Lewis, r. W.
Grand Treasurer.
E.. R.. Threikeld, Kansas City, r.
W. Grand Representative G. L. U.
S.
The Grand Encampment of Odd
Fellows also met in st. Louis on the
18th inst. ALI the Grand officers
were present, and a larger number of
representatives than usual. ID. A.
Shepherd was representative from this
place.
The reports of the Grand officers
show this branch of the order to be in
a satisfactory condition.
There was very little business in
the way of legislation at this session.
The Grand Scribe's report shows the
following:
Present membership.........1,9 s5.
Number of patriarchs relieved, III.
Number of widowed families
relieved.
Number of patriarchs buried. .12.
Amount paid for reiiet of patri-
81 1863 60
Amount paid for relief Of wild
owed families. .104 SO
Amount for burying the dead 215 40
1859 55
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
the author. Let all be saved the
trouble of questioning the employees
of the printing office.
SHE KILLED A MAN.

Soon after daylight Tuesday morn
ing a widow woman occupying a cot
tage on Fort street east, Fran
out upon the street and excitedly
called to a policeman:
"Come owe here-hurry-quick
I've killed a man stone deadi"
Where is he ?'' asked the officer
as he came up.
"Right around in the back yard,
sir! Oh! sir, I heard a noise at the
window, and I got up, and there was
a burglar trying to get in, sir! Itook
the shotgun from behind the door
and fired, and you'll find the corpse
under the window Oh! I can't
hardly catch my breath, and / am
afraid they'll put me in jail!"
The officer walked around to the
rear of the house, looked over every
foot of ground and failed to find a
corpse. One of the windows was
raised, but there was no blood, no
marks of shot, and no evidence that
a man had been hit.
"You are sur you saw a man and
sure you hit him, are yoa?" he asked
of the widow.
''Oh, l know l did-I'm certain of
it."
''But where is the body?"
perhaps his partner carried it
off," she suggested.
The officer lookd all over the win
dow-casing for shot marks, but there
were none, and he asked for the gun.
1t was lying across the bed, and he
was only a minute discovering that it
was not loaded and had not been for
months. The lock, too, was out of
order, the hammer broken, and no
one could have fired the gun.
II guess you didn't kill a man
with this" he remarked, as he put
the weapon down.
"Why didn't IL" she i~nnocently
inquired.
When he had explained matters she
burst into tears and walled out:
'It's awful to be n widow, and
shoot at a burglar, and to miss him,
and to find out that you shot
at all. Seems rs if everybody was
down on me !"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
LEARNED PUNDITS ON INSUR-
ANCE.

<AANSH
"Hans, why don't you insure your
life?"
"Life inshoorance is all hoom'
boog."
"How so, Hans?"
81 vas life%-inshoort meinself Won
whole year, andt lit coomt to nix"
"You neglected to pay your prem.
Jun, 1 presume"
"Nein /; ]. payt and payt till 1 wash
tiredt, andt waited and waited, but
vat wash the use, I triedt not"
"More's the pity, Hans don't you
think so, Pat?"
"Sure / do. Hans is in the roight.
Why should he be afther insurng his
life to die? A man may insure his
house and burn it down, for the good
of the company and pocket the
money"
ssBut if he should be found out,
Pat, what then?''
"Let him prove an alibi and be
acquitted IN the ground of arson.
Faith, it was not Patrick O'Gaf that
swept out a lawyers office for moth
ing"
"You are a great lawyer, Pat; but
suppose that Hans had committed
suicide, what them"
"Sure, ye're betther at maxim an
Irish bull than meself. Ye don't UNI
derstand the p'ints of the law. If
Hans had committed suicide, he
couidn'thave proved an alibi at all
and he'd been ayther hanged or STINT
to State prison for life, as sure as my
namei is Patrick O. The Clean
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
PRINTING OFFICE SECRETS

A properly conducted printing Of
fee, as an exchange remarks, is as
much a secret as a Masonic lodge.
The printers are not under any oath
of secrecy, but always feel themselves
as truly bound to keep
office secrets as though bound by
triple oaths. Any employee in
a printing office who willingly dis
regards this rule in relation to print
ing office secrets would not only be
scorned by his brethren o the craft, but
lose his position. We make this state
ment because it sometimes happens
that a communication appears in a
newspaper under an assumed sigma
ture which excites comment, and
various parties try to find out who is
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14

A GAMIN's GENERosITY.-There
was Grape hanging to a door on Beau
bien street, yesterday forenoon, and
q boy six or seven years old stood at
the gate with pale face and red eyes.
A ragged, tobacco-chewing imp,
about twelve years old, came slam.
ming along, and he was making ready
to stick his finger into the small boys
eye, through the bars of the gate,
when he caught sight of the Grape.
"Sumbody dead" he asked.
eyes, my pa" gasped the little
one.
Hickey. but that's tutf.." ex-
claimed the imp, and he began search
ing his pockets, After discovering
that his personal property amounted
to three nails, an old cigar stub and
a clay pipe, he said:
''See here, bulb I'd like to give
you candy, or a knife OF suthin' to
kinder make you feel good, but |
can't do it. I'm dead-broke, and
feelin' half sick, but I'll tell you what
I'll do. l could chaw you up i'll one
minute, but you can come out here
and I'll let YOU take me down and
I'll boiler like Il loon, and all of the
boys around here will think o are
the wickedest fighter east OF the
avenue"
The small boy might have appreci-
ated the motive, but he didn't accept
the offer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
The Burlington Hawk-Eye tells OF

The Burlington Hawk-Eye tells OF
a solitary Ohio man who demanded,
in a husky voice, at the Office window
in the railway station: Tiki"
"Wherc TOT" asked the unruffied
monopolist behind the window.
o"Nywhere!" was the frenzied re-
Spouse. "Anywhere! Clean through
Clean acrostl To Burglary, or
Prooshy, or the Danube,o or Diffendor-
fer, OF any place. Anywhere out OF
an ungrateful country, that coldly
turns its back upon its deserving
children. Anywhere out of America
And he bowed his head and wept.
He was the only man in ONO that
didn't get an office.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14

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PITCHERS
CASTORIA

Mothers may nave rest and their babies
may have health, il they will use CsstoIia
tor Wind Gallo, Worms, Feverishuess,
Sore Mouth, Group. or Stomach Com.
plants. 1t is entirely a vegetable prepar-
alton, and contains neither mineral, NOR
phine, nor alcohol. 1t lie as pleasant to
take as honey. and neither gags DOR gripes.
= DR.. f. Dimocb of Dupont, o.. says;
i am using Castosia in my practice
with the most signal benefits and happy
result" "
This is what everyone says. Most
nurses in New York City use the Cassoria.
1t is prepared by Messrs. j.. B. Rose &
Co., 40 Dev street, New York, successors
Samuel Pitcher, NJ. ID.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14

And now the Yankee comes to the
front with "sour milk jewelry." 1t
is called celluloid coral, and is made
in Mansfield, Mass, out of the curds
of milk. What next?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14
FORTY EAI 1L10-~E An.
DR.. G. MCLANE'S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS,
Hepatitis or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
FOR II CURE OF

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
DAIN in the right side, under the
edge of the ribs, increaseson pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patieht is rarely able to lie
on the left side sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder-blade, and
it frequently extends to the top of
the shoulder, and is sometimes mis-
taken for a rheumatism in the arm.
The stomach is affected with loss of
appetite and sickness; the bowels in
general are costive, sometimes alter
native with lax; the head is troubled
with pain, accompanied with a dull,
heavy sensation in the back part.
There is generally considerable loss
ofmemory accompanied vithapain
full sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been
done. A slight, dry cough is some
times an attendant. The patient
complains ofweariness and debility;
he is easily startled, his feet are cold
or burning, and he complains of a
prickly sensation of the skin his.
spirits are low; and although he i
satisfied that exercise would be benz
fetal to him, yet he can scare
summon up fortitude enough to
it. In fact, he d~istrusts every
edy. Several of the above sgt
toms attend the disease, but a
have occurred where few of them e.
listed, yet examination of the boz
after death, has shown the Liver to,
have been extensively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
DIR. c. McLANE's LIVER Pills,
IN CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive
of the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory
to, or after taking Quinine. We
would advise all who are afflicted
with this disease to give them a
FAIR TRIAL,
For all Bilious arrangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are an
equaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
The genuine DR.. {. McLANE's
LIVER PILLS are never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on
the lid, with the impression DR..
McLANE's LIVER PILLS.
The genuine McLANE's LIVER
Pills bear the signatures of {.
McLANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
wrappers.
By" Insist on your druggist or
storekeeper giving you the genuine
DR.. T.. MfLANE's LIVER Pills, pre-
pared by Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally.
To those wishing to give DR. c. McLaNE's
LIVER Puts a trial. We will mail post paid 10 any
part Of the United States, one box Of Pills for
Twenty-Five cents.
FLEMING BROS. Pittsburgh. Pc
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-14

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05
Brightwood Tournament.-The da,

bfIRnlWOOu ut utV
was clear and warm and gave animation to
the chivarous participants in the tourney
which took place on Wednesday of last week
at Brghtwood Driving Park, situated about
four miles from Washington city. On this &C.
casion the contest for superiority in horseman-
ship was between the District Of Columbia,
Prince Georges and Montgomey counies -
Though The knight of the former county gained
the championship by securing greater mum
Der of rings in the tilt it would be an unen-
vable position to hold in which one would
be compelled to make decision of excellence
between the most successful knights of the two
counties was the riding SO very good. In the
afternoon when the large assembly of people,
composed mostly of Washingtoninns, was
seated in the grand stand Of the park, the
knights were addressed briefly by Spencer G,
Jones, Esq of this town.
The knights were then placed in position
preparatory to tillng by chief marshal Col
II. W. bowman with Messrs W S. Davis,
Edward Watkins and c. NJ. McBair assist
ants; DR.. Charles G. Stone chief herald, A.
L. Graves Richard Ray and James NJ White
assistants. The judges, Messrs John 2. Peter,
B. F. Stuart aud F A. Tschifely, called the
knights in the following order, in which three
rides at the three rings each each one scored
the number of rings annexed to bis name:
knight of Milton Valley Thos. Thompson
6; Knight of Magnolia, Deias Elizar,
Knight Of Bachelors Retire, 7. s. Magruder,
z; Knight of Med Fly, ]. s. Elizar, 6 Knight
OF Forrest Glen, W D. Brooks, Il knight of
Maryland, Edward Magruder, C Knight of
Springfield, T. F. Lusby, 8 knight of Blithc-
wood, VIM. P Magruder 6 Knight OF Coles
willie, W. e. Wylie, 81 knight of No One 10
Love, Pnckney Scaggs, 8 Knight of High
land, G. W, Bland, Knight of Excelsior
f. P. Clark, 4: knight Before Last, Ed Rider,
6; Knight Of No Chance, Oliver Clarke,
Knight of Lone Star, Thos Councilman, 0
Kniphl Of Take 1t if You Can, c. II Church,
0; Knight of Sandy Springs L. S. Davis, 7
The knights of Springfield, No One to Love
and Coesvie being equal, they rode off, the
former T. F. Lusby winning the first prize,
handsome saddle, AS also the honor of crown
ing the queen Of love and beauty. W. Z.
Wylie, a lad of sixteen, won the second prize,
fine bride, Pinckney Scaaes, the third, a
riding whip, and L. S Davis the fourth, pair
OF spurs
Miss Berthe Crandell was chosen queen, Miss
Nettie Hurdle first maid, Miss Pink Fawcett,
of this county, second maid and Miss n. A
Church third maid
BY the time Hon. Montgomery Blair had
concluded the coronation address at the stand
the shades Of night covered the EARTH and the
crowd repaired 10 the masonic hall in the viii
iage Of Brightwood distant one-fourth Of a
mile from the park where an all-nighr dance
was enjoyed by Washington and Brightwood's
beaux and beautiful bellies.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05
Attempted Eiopement.-F

Attempted Opponents
are SO rare in our county that we cannot per-
nit even "A futile attempt at one to pass with
out mention. Upon last Tuesday night in the
upper part of our county the head of family
was awakened By noise in the house, and
Immediately started up to discover its cause.
Just as he opened the door of his bedroom,
standing just in front of him in the hall was
his young and beautiful daughter, with hand
trunk 10 her hand and completely attired for
journey. The old gentleman had turned a
deaf ear for many months to the pathetic
prayers of young and ardent lover who
wished to endow bis daughter with all he had
the affections Of noble and generous heart,
The old gentleman well knowing how little
nutrition flowed from the bosom of love, and
not desiring his daughter to waste away upon
such unsubstantial food, had steeled his heart
against the earnest peadings of the devoted
lover, and several times insnlted him with the
merited epithet of "fool" When he met his
daughter in the hallway upon that Inflated
Tuesday night he at once derived the cause
of her movement He gently, with parental
tenderness, led her back to her room, turned
the key of the door and left the weeping damsel
10 herself. Down the stairs he softly glided,
snatched a cowhide on his way and passed
through the outside door into the darkness of
the night. He saw the indistinct outlines of
buggy and horse standing in front of the
house. Almost noiselessly he wended his way
towards it and was soon greeted with the
questions, uttered in the sweetest softest
melody OF musical love, ''My darling what
has kept you SO longP" In the darkness, mis-
taking him for the adorable object Of his at
lection, the doting lover frantic with delight
at the prospect Of success, rushed into the
waiting embrace of his almost father-in-aw
Cupid, trembling with fear, and Hymen terri
fed beyond control, fed from the scene with
startling rapidly and left their clipping ward
in the merciless hands of wrathfu Chastise-
ment. The only thing we regret in this sad
affair is the loss of a marriage notice.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05

BurgiaFy.-Early on Saturday morning
it was discovered that the store of DR.. Owens
in this town had been broken into and proba-
bly, robbed On investigation it was discov-
cred that the thieves had entered the store By
breaking the door open, and they had taken
some money FIVE revolvers, and a case of
knives. Suspicion rested on George Meades,
q coored boy in the employ Of Mr.. Jacob Poss,
Of this town, and search warrant was pro-
cured and the boy searched. DR.. Owens recog-
nized 3 counterfeit ten-cent note which had
been in his possession for some time past, and
which was found on the boy during the search,
also was found a small piece of the best
grade of Gravey chewing tobacco, which the
Doctor remembered to have dropped into the
drawer whilst emptying some silver from his
pocket.
On this evidence Meades was sent to Jail -
On Sunday, however, the revolvers and knives
were found in the room above Mr. Poss' office,
the room being occupied by Meades They
were concealed between the floor and ceiling
These articles have been identified. Meades
confesses to the theft and duplicates another
boy, known as "Hvnest John" in Washing
ton as an accomplice. Honest John" was
arrested in Rockville on Tuesday and sent to
Jail. It is the impression that the boy arrested
on Tuesday is innocent.
Meades has for a long time been an object Of
distrust, and is believed to have been a party
to many Of the petty thefts committed about
town of late, bat until now there has been no
proof The finding of the stolen property 10
his room and the Identification of the money
make out a strong case against him.
Judges OF Election.-The County Com.
mssioners at their meeting on Tuesday made
the following re-appointments Of Judges Of
Election:
First Dstrict-Jas. Williams, Charles A.
Pope, Jno. II. Thompson.
Second District-Samuel Scott, Wm. Will
liams, P. NJ. Smith, Jr.
Third District--Alex. Dade, G. R. Hershey,
Jno. II. Allnutt.
Fourth District-Nathanie Clagett, Sylyes-
ter G. Jones, Geo. NJ. Graft
Fifth Distributions E. holland, John D.
Berry, julius NARROW
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05
ORDER nJT5T-
VIRGINIA WHITE AND OTHERS,
vs..
GEORGE N. WHITE AND OTHERS.
Mthe Circuit ConH for Montgomery County
siHbg ~ a Courto Of Equity.

ORDERED this 9Th day Of September,
" 1877, by the Circuit Court for Montgom-
cry county sitting AS Court Of Equity, and
by the authority thereof, that the sale made
and reported in the foregoing report to Peter
K. hlossburg, in the above entitled case, be
ratified and confirmed unless canse to the con-
rary thereof be shown on or before the 18th
day Of October, a. D., 1877 Proyided a
copy of this order be inserted in some news
paper published ia sld Montgomery county,
once in each Of three successive weeks before
the said 18th day Of October, 1871.
The report states the amount OF sales to be
IS, 775 90.
W. VElRS BOUIC,
Judge Of the Circuit Court
True copy--test:.
sep 2l--3t r. Is. PRETTYMAN, CPk.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05
'HlgE 6 MAXElIU vi :"
FERTILIZERS.

We manufacture two grades of MAX
imum, zone Of which is composed of 800
lbs. Of Peruvian Guano. LOO lbs of
Dissolved Bone, and 100 lbs of M,,ri-
ate Of Potash; the other, 600 lbs. of
Peruvian Guano, 1900 lbs of Dissolved
Bone and 100 lbs of Muriate of Potash.
These articles are prepared and com
bned with great care and nothing is
spared to make them the HIGHEST
GRADE FERTILIZERS in the mar
ket. The proportions herein indicated
are guaranteed and the articles to con-
tain NOTHING that will not readily
pass through Drill.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-10-05
EXAMINERS NOTICE.


TNHE undersigned having been appointed
4 Examiners, by the Commissioners Of
Montgomery county, TO ascertain whether tho
public convenience requires the opening Of
Il public road, beginning on the Germantown
and Barnesville road, Al or near the bounded
stone between the lands Of jacob Snyd aud
Mrs. Rhnehan; running thence on or near
the dividing line between the lands Of Jacob
Snyder and Mrs. Rhinchart to the lands Of
John G. Richter; then on or near the divid-
ing line between the lands Of Jacob Snyder
and John g. Richter to the lands of Il. II
Richter then through the lands OF the said
Il. II. Richter TO the lands OF Americas Daw-
son and Sisters; then through the lands Of
Americas Dawson aud Sisters TO the lands Of
Is. g. Gotl; then through the lunds Of B. G.
Gottto the lands Of 3 f Dyson; then through
the lands Of Is. f. Dyson to the lands OF
Alexander Dade and Dir. Brewer; then
on or near the dividing line between the lands
Of Alexander Dade and Dr. n. Brewer to tue
b. 4 White road
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE to all interested
thai they will meet on the premises, on MON
DAY, 22d day Of October. 1877, at 10 O'clock
A. N to execute the commission as aforesaid.
THOMAS RAWLlNS,
WIN. W. POOLE,
ISAAC FYFFE,
sep 2l--td Examiners.