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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-03


A meeting of fifteen hundred merchants and
manufacturers yesterday drew up an address
appealing to the patriotism of President Mac
Mahon to yield to the wishes of the majority r
view of the threatened ruin of trade and the in.
terests of the international exhibition.
A letter from NJ. Krautz, Chief Commission.
er of the exhibition, was read, denying that the
exhibition would be delayed single day, what.
ever might happen.
At meeting of one hundred and twenty
members of the Republican Left it wasdecided
to refuse to vote any part of tho budget until
the Government returned to parliamentary
courses.
NM. Laisaut and De La Rochelle, members
of the Chamber of Deputies, fought duel yes
terday. The affair grew out Of the publication
Of NJ. De La Rochelle of disparaging letter 10
the UDivers. NJ. De La Rochelle was wound
ed 10 the thigh.
The Marquis De Bonneville, Minister of For.
eign Affairs, has con6dentially notified the Vat.
loan that bis conduct will be guided by the
strictest good will to the Holy See, but he will
not tolerate any direct interference 10 the iu.
ternal affairs of France.
General Armandean, Conservative, and NJ
Massot, Republican, have been elected SeDa.
tors for the departments of Vienne and Pyre.
nees Orientales respectively.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-01-06

Has been originated by hybridizing the Califor.
MIA WILD with the old fashioned English
oats.
WHAT Is CLAIMED FOR THE HuILEss OATS: Z
The importxnt points Of superiority claimed
for this seed over the other varieties and which
are fully sustained by the voluntary statements
OF farmers who purchased Of me last season. are
these
lat. They will yield nearly A. mauy measured
bushels 10 the acre - any other variety. on the
same quality Of ground. with one hal: the amount
of seed.
I'd: The grain is heavier than the Old variety.
weighing 81 lbs. 10 the measured bushel.
81. The straw is of different formation from
other varieties. b ing larger st the ground taper
ing gradually to the head making il stronger at
the base where II is needed aud will stand cur
rich meadow soil without lodging. II Is also Of
finer grain. and sweetrr. masking Litter feed all
item q: Importance to the farmer
4th. These oats are two weeks Garlic, .han the
common variety. Therefore not iiaht " rast
escaping tlernsty season.
5th. They can be raised on any ground that
can rsise the common oat with more thsn double
the profit u the grower.
9Th. They do not shell in harvesting
eth One pound Of the Hulless Oats will make
is much -four - ~ pounds Of the common oat
or. ~ be more explicit ore bushel Of 80 lbs good
common oats, will make l2& lbs of oat meal
while one bushel Of Hulless Oats of 81 lbs. will
make 81 lbs. OF better quality Of rat meal
sth. They are as heavy a. wheat. and will make
more hour 20 the pound having less bran ON the
kernel. Dat meat Is worth more than wheat
-four. can he raised where wheat will fail, and
yield twice many bushels 70 the acre with leas
seed, On the same same quality Of ground
Wa. BOUTELIE. Montpelier. VI
Having raised small crop Of the Hulless Osts
from the seed procured from ". A. Boutelle, dur.
Ing the past year Il An prepared 70 furnish 4 lin
tied quantity to Farmers on the Sound 1t reason.
able rates.
All orders left with Mr.. Carr. At the Seattle
Postoffice. will be promptly filled Parties de-
string Ia inspect the quality Of the Oats before
purchasing can do SO upon application 20 Nr
Carr. my Agent.
John r. JORDAN
h21u Duwamish River.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
FUSS AND FEATHERS.

There is no solid reason for doubt
ing that if Gen. Sheridan had an army
of one hundred thousand fighting
men, he could slaughter all the IN
dians of the West in two or three
years, at a cost not exceeding one
thousand million dollars. The price
seems high, for every Indian killed in
warfare by your troops the expense
to the Treasury is about five thousand
dollars.
If we had an army of one hundred
thousand men, that could at once be
thrown on the Rio Grande, and put
to fighting the Mexicans, it is prob
able that our great, glorious, and
costly military leaders would be able
to slaughter all the Mexican maraud-
ers of the border, march triumphant
ly to the capital Of Mexico, and give
mankind another lesson upon pacify-
ing effects of wholesale carnage.
1t is doubtless true that if we had
had an army one hundred thousand
strong when the recent railroad
troubles broke out, the ilrustrious
Generals in command of that army
would have been able to slaughter
the strikers and rioters in the most
sanguinary fashion, carry terror
through all the States over which they
tramped, establish order, and pile up
still higher the mountain of debt
which rests upon us.
Icrease the army, that we may fight
and exterminate the Indians, that we
may fight and conquer the Mexicans,
that we may fight and crush out
rioters, that me may fight upon provo
cation, or without provocation, at any
time. This is the cry and the o,utcry
of tiInid fools, cunning knaves, and
military pretenders, whose glory is in
filss and feathers. '"'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23

A certain carpenter, n long, long
time ago, murdered his wife by driv-
ing a nail into her skull. lie fled,
and the better to conceal his identity
became an actor. lie rose to emf
nence, and the whirligig of time and
the wheel of chance brought him to
the very village in which years before
he had killed his wife, whose murder,
however-so the story runs-had not
been suspected, her long, thick black
hair ~concealing the cruel wound,
from which no blood had flowed.
The part was Hamlet. Whatever
memories the piece evoked, he had
sufficient mastery over his feelings to
keep them hidden. The theatre
stood on what had formerly been a
burial ground and the property man
had not far to 60 for skulls, but just
dug a little and brought up a dozen
or more, and at night tossed them into
the trap for the grave digger to shovel
on the stage. He handed a skull to
Hamlet saying:
''Here's a skull now hath lain you
in the earth Internationally years.
Hamlet-''Whose was it?''
Grave Digger-'This same skull,
sir, was Yorick's skull, the Kings
jester" HalsG naa "
Hamlet took the skull. saying:
'.This-' ~ sis .s-
He turned pale and staggered, for
the skull had left on it one long losk
of black hair. Handed to him upside
down the lock fell back, revealing a
nail in the skull. The actor recog-
nized it as that of the woman he had
murdered just twenty-three years be-
fore. At this mute evidence of his
1t, coming from the grave to con-
him, the actor lost his presence
and his senses. sr
ane u~tterances he revealed
'et, and was only saved
by his fellow actors
d hurrying him,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, Jeremiah j. West and
Zelopha West his wife, did by their
certain deed of trust, dated August
eth, 1876, and recorded in the record
er's office i'll and for the county OF
Audrain, and state of Missouri, in
book 3d." page 800, of the record of
mortgages and trusts, convey to the
undersigned trustee, the following
described real estate, situated in Au-
drain county, Missouri, to-wit: The
southeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of section "a, township 81,
range 9; and the west half Of the
southwest quarter, and the northeast
quarter of the southwest quarter,
and the north half of the southeast
quarteg, and abe south half of north
east quarter, and northeast gnarter
of the northeast quarter, and % acres
of ofthe south end of the northwest
quarter of section 10, and the west
half of the southwest quarter, and
the southeast quarter Of the south
west quarter Of sedtion II, all in
township 81, range 8. gv.
The above deed of trust was made
to secure a certain promissory note
therein described. md said note and
interest is now due and remains I'M
paid. Now, therefore, | the under
signed trustee, at the request Of the
legal holder of said note, win, on
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23

Whereas, Henry e.. Tunis and VII
liam Tunis and wife Mary Tunis. by
their deed dated July 80, 1876, and
recordedain book "M"in the record
er's office in Audrain county, page
SO. conveyed to John Z. Robinson as
trustee, THE following real estate, sit
uate i'll Audraiu comfy Mo, to-wit:
Part of the northwest Quaster of see
ton 26,, township 81, range 8 west, as
foilows.ibegin at the northeast cor
mel, of The lot of grouRd in West
Mexico, formerly owned byMrs. al.
Wisdoui, lately by one James NJ, La
rue;f runwtbenee northerly aboht so
yards to a stone; thence westerly Al
yards TO a stone; thence southerly
about 80 yards to SAID Larue's fence
corner; thence east ri yards to place
of beginning, being the property ae-i
.duired by them as heirs of Sarah Tu-
mis-, deceased, whiohsaid conveyance
was in trust to secure the paymentef
q certain note and taxes as specified
in said deed; and whereas, said note
is. due and remains unpaid, and John
C.. Robinson, the trustee, refuses to
act. New, therefore, I Harrison
Glasseeek, Sheriff faAudrain coun-
ty, at the request of the legal holder.
of said note and In pursuance OF, the.
powers CONTAINED ihsaid deed, WIN
on Friday, the gath day of August,
1877, between ten o'clock a. m. and
4oscloek p. IN lat the east door of the
court house in the city of Mexico,
sell said real estate for cash for the
purposes OF said trust,
GIL dasH.GLAseocR, Sheriff, =
l4-5t ,sa ~ Andraini county, Mo-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
JOYCE.

Joyce, of Missouri and the Whisky
Hing, is at large again. lie has
gained flesh in the ~penitentiary, but
his hair has grizzled. His rhetoric is
as lofty as ever. He thinks it rather
hard lines that he, Mcdonald, and
Avery should have been made the
scapegoats for the entire crooked
fraternity, and he intimates that
Grant didn't do the square thing by
him !; but, having been putged of his
dross in ''the fires of misfortune"
he purposes to devote the residue of
his days to instrueting and delighting
his fellow men. He has a volume of
poems nearly ready for the press, and
Is going to follow it up with an auto
biography and a novel.-TN. Y. Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
NORTON.

OF all the bold, bad, unscrupulous
men of the Republican party, none
are equal to Oliver P. Morton. His
late speech at Salem, Oregon,
abounds with all the gross exaggera-
tons and willful falsehoods which
characterized his utterances during
the last campaign. He tells the old
bloody-shirt story of '..fraud, intimi-
dalton, violence and murder" He
holds up Georgia, where he says the
Democrats have only a small MAORI
ty-6, 900 OF S,000--and yet he says
Georgia actually gave the Democrats
a majority of $1,000. Precisely So
and yet there, was no complaint from
any quarters that there was the least
attempt to interfere with the freedom
of elections in Georgia. He tells a
doleful story Of violence and intimi-
dation In South Carolina, Louisiana
and other Southern States, and yet
o. p. Morton is one of the very men
who refused to go behind the returns
for the purpose of getting at the facts
concerning the allegedviolenee. Com
mon deceney ought to make a man
refrain from charging crimes against
a people when he has had the oppor-
tunity to bring those crimes to light
and has refused to do so. The least
particle of honor and ~self-respect
ought to make these Republican lead
ers blush when they repeat these old
stories which they were challenged to
investigate when first produced. The
Republican at this day talks of Demo-
cratic fraud and violence i'm the late
election, who had not only the oppor-
tunitysto show up such wrongs, but
was importuned to do SO, writes him.
| self down rs a calumniator and an
INSCRIPTIONS villain. If Il Demo
cratic majority in Congress had muz-
zled investigation, it would be in
order for Morton and Blaine to hurl
anathemas at the South and still keep
up the cry of fraud; but when these
leaders deliberately refused to inves-
tigate charges which they themselves
had made, the judgment of impartial
history will be that it is an exhibition
of unprecedented shamelessness to
repeat them at this late day.
But Morton thinks the South will
demand pay for their slaves, next the
pensioning of their soldiers and final
ly the recognition OF their wal debt.
1t takes a man destitute of honor to
accuse, without evidence, others of
dishonor. Doubtless Morton, if he
were a Southern politician, would adj
vocate this policy. He is capable of
violating plighted faith.
But the people of the South have
little more to hear from Morton. We
are free, and all the slanderous rant
ings about ga solid South" ''pay-
ment of rebel debts" pensions for
rebel soldiers" and others Of a sim
liar character, serve only to reveal
the desperate straits of the Republi-
can party to maintain its ascendancy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
NEGRO LICENSE.

There seems to be an idea existing
in the minds of some people that a
negro, simply because he is IL negro,
is possessed of nuLnberless social and
civil prerogatives which are not
vouchsafed to his brother Of Cauca-
sian extraction. This fact is evil
dcnced almost daily in our own town,
by the liberty which the negroes ell
joy of herdlng togeth& i'll turbulent
mobs, and rendering themselves CON
spicuous and disagreeable by loud,
boisterous and unseemly conduct and
language in public places. Scarcely
a day passes but the ears Of the
moral and refined are shocked by
some outburst OF profanity or black
guardism from this class of citizens.
They are allowed to congregate in
knots and lunches ODE the street cor
ners, and in front of business houses,
and engage i'll controversies, alterca-
tons and disputes, using loud, pro-
fame and boisterous language, TO the
great annoyance OF people who are
pursuing peaceful ~avocations in Il
peaceful manner, when, for Il similar
otfense, Il bunch of white men would
be arrested and fined for disturbing
the peace. The females of this pc
culiarly favored Il C are permitted to
tramp our streets at all hours of the
night, and even in the daytime, prac-
ticing their dissolutc vices with I'M
punity and Haunting their licentious-
ness in the faces of decent people.
These things are a disgrace to our
town, and should be abated at once.
Let the proper authorities give this
matter the attention which it de-
mands, and we will soon be blessed
with a better condition of affairs
and can with some consistency boast
Of the town in which we live.
We do not write these things in a
spirit of persecution, as some might
suppose. We are willing to give
the negro full credit for any good
quality he may possess, and give him
all the respect that he is entitled to
enjoy. We a~cquiesce fully in the
proposition to make him, in point OF
law, as good a a white man, butwe
do object, and desire to register our
solemn protest, against making him
any better than a white man.-TEx.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
GRANT ABROAD.

1t begins to come to light, by pri-
waite letters received from abroad, that
Grants triumphal career through
Great Britain, as cabled to his native
shore, was grossly exaggerated.
The kilograms were prepared and
sent by the slippery Pierrepont and
that contemplate turnkey, Adam Ba-
deau, in order to Manufacture public
opinion favorable to Grant at home.
The truth, which is gradually creep
ing out, is that our ex-P President was
on a grand old drunk during his STAY
in England, and since his departure
has been afflicted with his old Wash
ington complaint, called neuralgia by
his friends, but believed by Others to
be a mild form of ID. T.
AS Hayes drnr"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23

The following is nov law in regard
to exhibiting deadly weapons III the
presence of one ormore persons:
? 9Section l.. Whoever shall, in the
presence of one OF more persons, ex-
hibit any kind of firearms, bowie
Knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot OF
other deadly weapon, in rude, angry
or threatening manner, not in the ne
cessary defense of his person, family
or property, shall be deemed guilty Of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine Of
notices. than ten no more than five
hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment
in the county Jail not exceeding six
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisOnment." -.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
THE PROGRAMME.

'H Va. ~ .#.f - E - -4E Ha.E n %#E e y
A paper called Labor, the professed
organ of workingmen in New York,
has a draft OF a bill called 'tthe work
ingman's last remedy which gives
us a hint of what the communists
really aim ut. j 1t provides that after
tile year 190OEssthere shall be no pri-
waite ownership of land or mines-all
lands to be free," and the population
to identified to a pre- rata share OF
them, or 10 acres Il 1each person.
This relates to lands outside towns
and cities. In towns and cities no
person is to own Or occupy more than
one lot so feet by 100 for residence
and even this is not to be owned in
fee. There is to be no such thing as
ownership of read estate a. person
may hold one lot in town oril0 acres
in the country as long as he uses it,
but when he neglects or fails to occu-
DIV and use it for two years it is to
revert to the State and be awarded to
some one else. Each county is to
have q board of thirteen free land
agents who are not owners OF. land or
mines, and who are to be chosen by
landless residents; their duties are
to apportion lands and mining privi-
leges as fast as they become forfeited
by; non-use, among the landless.
When the general forfeiture of lands
and mines takes place in 1900, the
former owner is to be graciously
allowed the privilege of the first
choice of a ten-acrc tract for himself,
and after that all the rest is to be
open to all persons who may choose
20 take up and occupy similar tracts.
10 prepare property holders for the
general forfeiture, the bill provides
that ope-tenth of all town lots now
owned Shall lapse to the State on the
death of each owner, or on every sale,
gift, or bequest of them. There be-
ing no individual ownership OF real
estate, there will be no sales of it
an occupant will not eyen have the
right OF selling his possession; if he
moves off his tract, or fails to use il
for two years, it forfeits to the free
land agents of the county, and is to
be given to some one else. There is
TO be no ejectment for debt and no
mortgages; taxes are to be assessed
on lands in proportion to the produc-
tons made thereon and the salable
value of the improvements. Land
now held by owners is to be taxed j
per cent. en- its cash value, and when
the taxes are not paid for two years,
it is to be forfeited to the county
agents, and divided among any land
less persons who desire to occupy it.
The bill recognizes the French idea,
making each county n commune,
and the nation a system of communes,
abolishing what are called rights OF
property in land, and holding all real
estate to be the common possession
of the population.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
The Seaside Librsrv

Choice books no longer for ~.
only. The best standard aoye,s y
in the reach of every one, ny
usually sold from 81 to So oivoo !
changed and unaDridged) for IA !
20 cents.
/. East Lynne, by Mrs. Hon..
Wood, double No.)
2. John Halifax, Gentleman h.
Miss Mulock, double No.l
3. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Br0,s.
double No.
4. A Woman-hater, Chas. Resds,
new novel, double No.
5. The Black Indies, Jules Verns'
last new novel, single No.
6. The Last DAYS of Pompeii /,
Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttop. ~.
gle No.
Z. Adam Bcde, by George Film
double No.
8. The Arundel Motto, by Mar,
Cecil Hay, single No.
9. Old Myddleton's Money. i,
Mary Cecil Hay, single No.
10. The Woman III White, by MI
kie Collins, dounle No.
IL. The Mill on the Floss. by Goa
Eliot. double No.
II. The American Senator. BY An
thony Trollope, double No.
-. A Princess of Thule, BY Wn
Black, double No.
IA. The Dead Secret. by Wiki
Collins, single No.
Is. ROmola, by Gesrge Eliot, sin
gle No.
l6. The English at the North Pol
by Jules Verne, single No.
II. Hidden Perils, by Mary Ceci
Hay, single No.
Is. Barbara's History, by Ameli
Il. Edwards, double No.
10. a Terrible Temptation, d
Chas. Reade, single No.
20. Old Curiosity Shop, by Cha
Dickens, double No.
For sale by all booksellers
newsdealers, or sent, postage
paid, on receipt of price, by
GEORGE MUNRoE, PUBLISH
p, % and % Vandewater street.y
p. o. Box 1856. il
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
OUR PLATFORM.

1. Repeal the law Of 1873 and coin
silver dollars.
z. Substitute legal tenders for Ma
tional Bank notes.
3. Receive gold, silver and green
backs on equal footing for Custom
dues. ....s. .
4. Retire the National Bank paper
and follow this by issuing a sufficient
amount of legal tenders TO meet the
wants of the business of the country.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
,~TgusTEEss SALE.

Ia WIersas, SamueIAIathews and Bar
baEayMatheWs4his wife, did by their
dcel Of trust dated April 3. 1877.
and REGARDED on page1S4in mortgage
box N0~2, of the records Of the of
ice D f9he Geoor6ef ofGteeds for Che
county Of Randolph Missouri. con-
ycy to-the Undersigned trustee, in
trust,~the following described real
Festafe, situate in aieJeftpoflAEobeEy,
of Missouri, to-wit: Begin
ming tive hundred and thirty-two and
one-halfEfeet iser th Of the northwest
corner efahe rflieast quarter sees
ton one11,) township tifty-three (55)
range fourteen (141; thence running
west oaelAlnttrcd and forty-onc and
one-haif feet I141 1872 tliencc running
north ninety-six (96) feet; thence.
west soalc hnndredg and TWEEN
south l96) feet; thence, east one, hum
Il part OF the east half of all the west
quarter section t~hirty-six 1885, town
ship tlfty-four Oh range fourteen
Q4).c IT being part of g. W. Grimes
original farm. and near and adjoining
the land Oh which the tobacco factory
is situated in Moberly. Said convey
ance being made to secure the pay
ment OF aacertain promissorv note de-
scribcd in said deed of trust.
Now, therefore, said promissory
note being due and remaining unpaid,
the undersigned, acting at the request
iuf the holder of said note, and III
pursuance OF the provisions OF the
deed of trust, will, on 81
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23

distinctions are removed by the ply
stefan, death and decay will follow.
Statesmen are the nations physicians.
We~have too many quacks. Years
ago allopatllic quacks prescribed
bleeding for neariy1every aifment. I
warn political quacks that bleeding
will not cure the nations disease. q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23
TAX COLLECTORS
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that the
Collector of Audrain comfy will
meet the citizens of the various town
ships at the time and places hereafter
mentioned, for the purpose of collect
ing the taxes due for the year 1877,
viz:
Loutre MISUNDERSTANDING
Thursday Friday and Saturday, Sep
TENDER 9th 18th and Sth.
Wilson Townshia-Thompson Sta
ton; Monday, Tuesday and Wcdncs-
day, September 10th, 18th and 18th.
Linn Township-waIkcr's school
House; Thursday, FRIDAY and Satur-
day, september 18th, l4th and 18th.
Prairie Township-Bluc's store,
Monday and Tuesday. September 18th
and 18TH; and Laddonia, Monday,
Sept. 24th.
Cuivre Township-Elzea's school
house, Thursday, Sept. Goth; Crows
school house, Fritay, Sept. DIST; and
VandaIia, Tuesday, Sept. 25th.
Sailing Township-Pisgah school
house, Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, Oct. LIST, ID and Sd. a
Salt River Township-Mexico.
Monday, TUESDAY and Wednesday.
Oct. Sth, 9th and 10th.
JOHN j. STEELE,
Collector Audrain county.
Mexico, Aug. II. 1877. 17-4t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-23

The mills of the gods grind slow
~ but grind exceeding tine,'' and
justice, though tardy, is meted out
to all. These reflections are brought
about by reading an account of light
nlng striking the residence of the
PROBABLY now venerable Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Her brother. Henry
Ward Beecher, of Tilton and bread
and-wa er notoriety, has not vet re-
ceiyed his divine visitation,