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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
THE NEWSPAPER.

l am a farmer. My farm is named
Pastureield. / take great pride in
it and work as steadily as I can, for
l am sixty-six, and was Injured to
farm labors in early life. but trained
to dry-goods business. Well, no
matter for this. I work and enjoy it.
Then / get tired, then / smoke, and
then l sit down to the newspaper.
Anthem my fatigue is forgotten, and I
revel in enjoyment, and am .r~ecreated.
The great, good newspaper! / used
to read good books, but neglect them
now. What becomes of all the books
published? fused to take agriculu-
raj journals, but there was too much
agriculture. I get hints enough in
the home newspaper to satisfy me.
All around me are men who work
hard, and are honest and faithful in
their aims and ways, who take no
newspaper. How do they live? I
should have died twenty years ago
without them. I lend and give mine
to my neighbors.
And the newspaper grows and
grows, and win continue to grow.
Better and better men contiue to 90
into its labors. The best only will
live. 0, men of the newspaper, great
teachers Of the people, accept the law
that honesty is the best policy"
Cast out the cowardly, the weak, mean
and wrong-headed; and let the brave,
the manly, the clear-eyed and cour-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
THE NEWSPAPER.

Ihe newspaper as a journal OF
news, has not only become the great
educator Of independent opinion, but
it performs a scarcely inferior func-
ton in quickening the sensibilities OF
mankind and in broadening and iber-
alizing the whole tone of human feel
ing as well as of human thought.
The old narrowness and provincialism
of sympathy and sentiment give way
to a cosmopoliton spirit-to the habit
ual consciousness of worldwide rela-
tionship and interests-when a man
receives daily communications from
his fellows all over the world. and Is
touched with no matter how mome,.-
tary an effect by the trials or tri-
umphs, the joys or griefs, the pleas
ures, OF pains of his neighbors far
and near, around the globe. The re-
hottest item of news, the most trivial
incident of Gfesreported from strange
people, and strange lands, is a mes
sage of human brotherhood-an APP
peal from heart to heart-and, con-
sciously or not the generous sensibili-
ties in human nature are warmed and
broadened by an increasing influence,
from the paragraphs and jot-
tings that We skim with the eyes in
the morning newspapers. The news
paper is, in truth, the most powerful
agent of all that are acting in
what we call the civilization of man.
kind, but it is so, more strictly as a
compendium of current events and
less as an organ ofopinions and as a
of ideas, than most peo-
pie appear to understand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
Mr.. President HAYES has appointe


Mr.. President Hayes has appointed
his cabinet, ahd the names and as
signments are al. follows:
Secretary of State-Wm. NJ. Ev.
arts of New York.
Secretary of the Treasury-Johr
Sherman Of Ohio.
Secretary of War-George w.
McCrary of Iowa.
Secretary ofthe Navy--Richard w.
Thompson of Indiana.
Secretary of the Interior-Carl
Hchurz of Missouri.
Postmaster General-David M.
Key of Tennessee.
Attorney-General-Chas. Devens
of Massachusetts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
AUTHENTIC.

President Grant says that Julia
Ward Howe told him that she heard
Rev. CD Henry Ward Beecher say
that Anna Dickinson heard that there
was no doubt that Charlotte Cush-
man said MI. Woodruff thought that
Longfellow had told Theodore Tilton
he5had declared to Ben Butler that it
was generally believed that Edwin
Booth said in plain terms, that he
heard one of our Alderman say, that
his friend Harriet Beecher Stowe had
said that George Francis Train inform
ed her at Washington, that it was
well known all over the country, that
Maggie Mitchell had caught Tom
Collins in saying that in his. opinion
it was a matter of fact and Of great
public interest, that the author of
Snipe's Baby, had said that John G.
Whittier had told him that Wendell
Phillips had asserted that Carl Schurz
remarked that the people of Mexico
and vicinity that had been seen read
ing this, were sober, serious and sur
prised to find that they never before
knew that the Mexico Weekly LEDGER
was the largest and best paper in the
county and the only local one.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

to have had the presidency, but we
never could have got it, against
Grant and his army and generals, and
the Republican party at their backs.
1t is better in this case to suffer wrong
than to do wrong. It is noble to do
duty in the face of such a great dis
reimbursement as this, and the De-
mocfacy will glorify themselves by
quietly going forward and submit
ting.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
CONVENTION.

A Democratic convention for the
snomination of candidates for city of
iiccs was announced to meet this eve
sning, but SO little interest has been ia.
lksn in it, it is thought that it will iad.
journ for three or four days, perhaps
if0-u-r-ever. Now, permit US to say {
.words Democrats IF yeu are goins
10 have a convention, have one. Z Have
me voice of. the people expressed
This is democratic. Don't let a hal
dozen sore heads run our election
III you can't get the voice of the PEG.
pie by a convention don't have one
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
THE MODEL SUBSCRIBER.

Good morning, sir; Mr.. Editer, how
are your folks to-day
| owe for your next years paper; ]
thought I'd come and pay,
And Jones is agoin' to take it, and
this is his money here;
[ shut down leadin' it to him, and
then coaxed him to try it a year,
Aud here l. a few items that happen
Ell last week in our town;
thought they'd look good for the
paper, so | just jotted 'em down.
And here's u bushel of russets my
vile picked expressly for you;
A small bunch of flowers from Jen-
ne, she thought she must do
something, too.
You're dom The p..litics bully as all
our family agree; ".
Just keep your old goose quill a flap
pu;1, and give them a good one tor
Inc 2
And now you are chuck full of bust
ness, and | won't be taking your
time.
I've things of my ownI must tend
t0-good day, sir, | believe | will
climb.
The editor sat in his sanctum, and
brought down his fist with a
thump,
GOOD bless that old farmeri" he mutt
tered, ''he's a regular jolly
trump"
And tits thus with our noble profess
sion, and thus it will ever be
still:
There l. some who appreciate ito
labor and some who perhaps
never will.
But in the great time that is coming,
when Gabrel's trampet sh all
sound,
And they who have striven and suf-
fered TO teach and enable the
race,
Shall march to the front of the coll
umn, each one in his God-given
place;
AS they march through the gates of
the City, with proud victorious
tread,
The editor and his assistamts viii not
be tar from the head!
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

The7Maine crowd is thoroughly dis.
gusted with Hayes and his cabinet.
Mr.. Blain ((sseandidate fornext presi.
IDENTIFY thinks it is a scandal tina,
Maine has not a man in the Cabinet.
NHayes will keep up his policy he
dwill make a better president than we
gave him credit for.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
SANDS OF GOLD.

Take care not to go to the brink OF
vice, lest you fall down the preci.
pice.
Society is a masked ball where
everyone hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
Forget injuries and remember bene-
fits if you grant a favor forget it, if
you receive one, remember it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
OBITUARY.

As we go to press W. learn that
conductor Greenman's large New
Foundland dog Ned was poisoned
last night. Ned was one of the no.
blest Of the canine species and it is
a shame he should have died such an
ignoble death.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

Best brands of cigars and tobaccos
a fine assortment Of pipes &c., al
ways to be found at the, Red Cigar
Store, Ringo block. No. 2 1-2 south
jefferson street. 46-3m-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
OUR NEW PRESIDENT.

Whatever may be the latent feeling
OF Democrats on the wrongs of the
late campaign, it is becoming we
should quietly submit to the result.
It'll foolishness to fight against a
finality. 1t is also bad policy to
keep up agitation over bygones fol
another four years.
Hayes has been legally and consti-
-tutionally inaugurated. If the states
cfSouth Carolina, Florida and Louis.
lana have been lost to the party, it is
the fault of the>local laws and domes-
tic regulations of. states over which
other states cahebxercise no control.
Now, let the result, if ~distasteful,
impel those states to reform their
own internal affairs.
We feel like giving every aid and
encouragement to the new president
and his administration, SO far as he
acts for the good Of the common coun-
ty, and whoever refuses this, but
,.4.inues useless and turbulent denun
citation and agitation, is no good citi-
zen or ftena ofpeace.
Besides, w think the Democrats
should hnil as q good omen the ten
der of the white flag to our party by
the ~occasioal appointment of a Dem
ocrat to Office. We think both the
president and the governor of this
state are disposed to make such ap-
pointments occasionally, and it is lit
file and mean of Democrats to spurn
the overtures.
Least of all do we approve of the
course of Democratic papers in de-
nouncing Mr.. Tilden in quietly SUBJ
hitting to the decisions of the pow
ers that be on his case. He is doubt
less convinced that opposition would
he useless and dangerous. He is no
coward, but q bold, successful Or
ssanizer, and the country viii need
him hereafter. ssTYlden or fight"
never suited MS, and TYlden was the
list man to brave law and public
Union and head an infuriated party
= war for the offices and the an
F6intnients. |
Dur conclusion in the matter is
nOW settled for the best. We ought
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

ageous help in making this great and
glowing gospel-this big book, this
early teacher, this household preach
er, this hope, comfort, help, and en-
joyment of the common people-the
American newspaper. Make it clean
and true and faithful.
AS l b lieve the newspaper has al
ready heightened my life, I doubt not
that it will lengthen it to the extent,
probably, Of twenty-five years, which
will give me quite a respectable span.
And l think of what it's character
must be to me! But then / know
the true, the brave, will live and
flourish, and that the puerile. the
foolish, and false will soon die.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

Mrs. Ii. B. Allen respectfully in
'orms the citizens of Mexico and vi
clnity, that she is prepared to cut
and make dresses in the latest STYLES.
Long experience enables her to guar
antee entire satisfaction. Patronage
solicited. Rooms at Hardin House,
Mexico, Mo. 42-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

r.-..... ......--~. ....... ......2 ,0S5, 537
The population in 1870 outside of
st. Louis county was 1870, LOG. The
population now of 1,547,03O shows
an increase of about 4 1-2 per cent.
1uer annrm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
POPULATION OF THE STATE

The following statistics are CLEANED
from the state census for 1876 as re-
turned to the secretary of state:
The total population is .....1 ,547, O3O
Estimating st. Louis on the
baeis of the directory of
1876 and adding the popula
ton fthe county the same
as in 1870 will be apopula-
ton for that county Of. 1888, 507
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15

Making the total for the state
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
Election Notice.

There viii be an election held il
the city of Mexico, Mo-,
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
sILK-WEAvERs ON STRIKE

The striking silk-wesvers OF Paterson, N.
j.. are still holding out IN hopes that the
manufacturers and mill-owners will accede
to the terms offered by the operatives. The
strikers are very bitter in their expressions
towards the manufacturers, and make threats
of the most incendiary nature. The en-.
ployees of the Phoenix Mill, who were
forced to leave their work on account of
the violent demonstrations made by the
strikers, have not yet returned to work. An
effort is being made TO discover who the
men were that threateded them, and If found
they will be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law. Owing to the prevailing excite
ment the trials OF the silk,weavers for vola>
tion OF contract have been adjourned until
some time next month. There are large
number of turbulent spirits in Paterson who
are ready and ripe for any kind OF mischief.
They denounce the manufacturers and rail
road authorities In the most severe manner,
and have been trying ito incite the silk
strikers to riotous proceedings. These per-
sons call themselves "Social Democrats"
and they breathe the spirit of the French
Communicable spirit OF riot and bloodshed.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
CRACKING OF PEARS.

Why some pears crack, seems one of
those queer things which no one can find
out. We have never claimed much luck
at finding out these riddles, but we do
think that there may be several reasons
and that all kinds of pear cracking are
not from the same cause. All around
everywhere, except IN closely built up
cities, so far as we know, the old Butter
pear, or white Doyenne cracks badly. 1t
is rare, indeed, that we see a perfect
fruit. The Seckel never cracks-at least
we never knew of case. But some seem
to crack sometimes and not at others, and
why this should be so is more of mys-
terry than in the case of the Butter, which
has the disorder as a regular thing. In
this region the Beurre Glffard is one we
have frequently recommended in our lists
and elsewhere. So far as we know it is
regularly good everywhere about here,
and no one need fear to plant it as one
of the best early fruits. Yet we read
once in awhile in some distant place
that the "Giftard cracks badly
This can hardly be a close constitu-
tional matter as in the case of the
Butter pear, but probably is owing
to some very local and temporary
cause. .
We see the same thing of the Tyson
pear, native, by close neighborhood, of
Philadelphia, and one which in accord
ance with the spirit of the good old OBJ
servation, that prophet is not without
honor except in his own country. 1t is
extensively planted and valued here in
its native home as among the highest
type OF the pear race. 1t is sometimes
said that it does not bear as freely as
some others, but no one ever thought of
charging it with the meanness of crack
ing. Yet we see it suggested in distant
contemporary who, after enumerating a
long list of virtues, adds, "but it once in
awhile cracks"
These failings we think can scarcely be
of the same nature as that which charac>
terizes the Butter pear, and are probably
of no more permanent eXistance than
that which once in awhile we find
in a tomato patch. Germantown 1ele-
graph.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
sTENoGRAPHY A NECESSITY.

at an examination before Register Ketch-
um, in New York, in the matter of banks
ruptcy of Daniel Frey, Isldor Frey and
Jacob l. Haas, counsel for the assignee pro-
ceeded to take down the examination by a
steDographer, whereupon counsel for the
bankrupts objected to the proceedings,
unless the counsel for the asssignee
assignee would supply him with copy
gratis, OH the ground that the register Is
obliged to have the dispositions taken in
common writing, so that The counsel might
see clearly the question and answer in order
to conduct eros. examination. The regis~
ter overrruled the objection, holding that
the art of swift writing was too valuable to
be parted with, and that the question pre-
sented was substantially il any party may
al his will forbid stenography upon the
trial and compel common writing. Counsel
for the bankrup's objected to the decision
of the register, and the question was certl-
fed to the United States District Court.
Judge Blatchiord concurred in the opinion
of the register.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
''THE EPEOPLEoF PITTSBURG"
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

o.. q
There are many misapprehensions Gre
ated by the anarchy of ten days ago,
wnicn remains to be corrected. Officers
ana soldiers have been mIsrepresented
and misunderstood, the strikers have
been unjustly pronounced rioters and in
cendiaries, and the "People of Pittsburg''
have been soundly abused by some who
always have a stone to fling at their
,neighbors as proof Of their own virtue
and integrity. The "People of Pittsburgn
have been charged with being in syr1-.
pathy with Communism and incend,ar.
ism, and with refusing such hospitaH-
ties as troops brought bither to protect
public property and preserve the peace
should be entitled to.
| AS to hospitalities, the troops who
came to preserve the peace and protect
property failed in their mission absolute
ly. They were engaged in the first open
outbreak. and their presence was made
the excuse for the uprising of a second
and dangerous mob. The troops were
badly handled, and between the time of
indignation at reports that they had fired
upon defenseless people without cause
and their departure from the city, .'the
people" had no opportunity OF getting at
the facts in the case, nor of rendering as
sistance, though food did follow the
Philadelphians and wagon load WIS
ready to be started to them on Monday
morning, when it was ascertained they
had de parted from the scene of their en-
campment on Sunday night by special
train. The citizens had assembled. and
were devising measures for a restoration
OF order and the protection of property
on Sunday afternoon, when the fire
broke out for the second time, to
double the damage of the preceding
night.
They did organize, they restored order
and preserved the peace through the
trying times of Sunday night, and from
time till the present, regardless of cost or
personal sacrifices, of which they have
been by no means niggardly when called
on. The misfortune was that when the
trial came the "People of Pittsburg''
were made aware that their civil govern
ment was inefficient, and they must go
to work as if there had been no pretense
OF city and county officials There is
nothing in the entire history of the case
to warrant the unjust attacks which have
been made on the "People of Plttsburg"
by virtuously indignant writers who
know nothing Of the facts in the case
Other cities had the benefit of Pittsburg's
experience in time to take measures to
guard against her fate, or there might
now be stories to tell of Philadelphia,
Chicago, and st. Louis. 1t might be
well to consider, who restored order in
Pittsburg-not the military of the State
nor of the United States but the people
OF the city, who arose with one voice and
said disorder must be put down.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
PERSONAL.

Moody and Sankey will give camp
meetings and conventions wide berth
this summer.
Ex>Confederate General d. H. Hill has
resigned the editorship of South Caro-
lima paper to accept the presidency OF
the Arkansas Industrial College.
Ex>Mayor Oakley Hall is believed to be
in the employ of James Gordon Bennett
at the seat of war in the East. Being
asked as to Mr.. Halls Whereabouts Mr..
Bennett, without replying, turned the
conversation.
MIR. Hilliard, the new Minister to Bra
zil, was an Old Line Wing before the war
and leans that way still. He was Charge
d Atfailes in Belgium under Tyler. Last
year he was an independent candidate
for Congress in the Fourth Georgia dis
trict.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
Hard Times Among the show People

The Detroit Free Press mentions as an
evidence of hard times that speculator
started from that city last week for a
tour through Canada, with a "grand
combination" of ten people, whose COM
bined salaries for week amount-accord
ing to contract-to less than 500. And in
that combination are gymnasts who COM
mand $25 a week less than month ago;
song and dance men whose figures in
June were 'S40 week for two weeks
engagements" and serio> comic vocalist
who played an engagement recently at
80 dollars week.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03
How Poe Wrote His Raven.

Poe's new biographer, W. F. Gill, re-
jects, as nearly every one of sensihility
and discrimination must, the poets la
bored account of "The Raven" as mere
product of art, and seeks for clew to
the poem in in the circumstances under
which 1t was written. Poe was living at
Bloomingdale, N. Y, and shortly before
''rhe Raven" appeared, "his child wife,
Virginia, whom he loved with a purity
and intensity that was little short of ad-
Grafton, was prostrated by a serious ILL
ness which had previously afflicted her,
and for weeks her life was hung by a
thread. Animation was at times, indeed
seemingly suspended, and on one dreary
December night, the poet was agonized to
find her cold and breathless, apparently
dead. In his lonely, silent vigils in what
was, to all intents and purpose, the pres
ence of death, many strange imageries
and much better self accusation naturally
came to him. Although uniformly kind
and tender to his wife, he had been weak
and erring from his unfortunate suscepti-
bility to drink, and an exaggerated sense
of wrong done to his lost loved one,
through his weakness, not unnaturally
come to him at this time, exciting the
most irrational remorse. His unreason-
ing, agonized repinng undoubtedly took
possession of him as to completely sur
charge his mind with the imaginative rev.
cries that no mortal ever dared to dream
before and in picturing to himself his
wife as departed, his remorse also for
bade him any hope of meeting her in the
distant Aidenn of the future" Mr.. Gill
follows this natural hypothesis with an
analysis that rivals Poe's own for its in
genuity. The house where "The Raven
was written, by the way, has been alb
sorbed into New York, with the rest OF
Bloomingdale, and is still standing on a
rocky height near the corner of Eighty
fourth street and the old BloomiDgdale
road, now the st. Nicholas boulevard. 1t
is plain, old-fashioned, double-framed
dwelling, two stories high, with eight
windows on each side and one at either
gable with pointed roof fanked by two
tall brick chimneys.
The daily gazette., 1877-08-03

A Constantinople correspondence of the
World says: "The Count della Salla,
who was commissioner from Turkey to
the Philadelphia Exhibition, is resi-
dent of Constantinople, and 1 found him
on my arrival as delighted as ever to talk
of the pretty girls and good cheer of
America. He and a friend were out rid
ing the other day on the road from Pera
to Buyuk dere, when they were stopped
by body of CircasSians and Zeibecks.
Both resisted the efforts of their assailr
ants to rob them, and though unarmed
succeeded IN keeping them OFT. But in the
scutfle the Counts friend-an attache Of
the Austrian Embassy here-received a
terrible scimetar wound in his back"