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Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31
A O D MISSOURI TOWN.
MEXICO, AUpRAM CousTY, Mo.
sTATIsTICs OF ITs TRADE AM
INDUSTRIES. E

Some time since We requested MIR.
JohnJ. Gill, one OF the leading mer-
chants of Mexico hourishing town
on the line of the st. Louis, Kansas
City g. Northern railway, to. furnish
the Gazette with some reliable figures
showing the development of his town
and county. He has kindly aceeded
to our request, and the matter which
follows is, he assures us, an accurate
statement of the acthalitfes and ea-
liabilities of Mexico, Audrain conn
ty, Missouri. AS an Introductory he
gives the following figures OF the re-
ceipt and shipments of merchandise
and general produce since 1877.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31
w. Humph re. M. + K,,a
DPS. HUMPHREY g. KsETav
KEENAN, & faoINrtRe

4 TT Ne vs. AT L4E
Office over Southern Bank. mn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31

Total exports tor 1877 1862, 10000
Nearly the entire corn and hog
crop of Audrain county, with q large
number OF fat cattle, was unshipped
at the end of the year, for which the
foregoing statement was complied.
This was due to bad roads and poor
demand at commercial and packing
points. In 1875, over 1,500 cars of
shelled corn were shipped from this
depot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31

j. A. HARRISON, see'y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31

Sale, of dry goods during the past
year amounted to over S~2j0,0OO, and
furnished employment for 30 persons.
This line is well and fully represented
by the following ti~rst-class firms:
Ricketts, & Emmons, Morris q
Cauthorn, W. ". Harper & Co., W.
+. Reed, NJ. Blum Il Son, Geo. ka-
brich.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31

#Ea otA SSlIh.
s. L. McKean.
NEWS DEALERS.
Sallee & Brooks, and VIM. Frost.
Daily circulation OF Republican and
Globe-Deiaocrat from 100 to l2O
copies, tasnis1 9Lot{slaoE a., ts#
LUMBER YARDS.
The lumber business OF Mexico
furnishes employment for twelve per-
sons,. besides oteamss 25S cars of
lumber were brought here last year,
Of which 20S came from Chicago, and
so from st. Louis. Sales in this line
amounted last year to oyer $780, 900.
The demand for lumber was larger
in the eariy part of last year than
usual. The condition of our roads,
in the fall, affected this industry in
juriously. This important business
is well and fully represented by the
firms, ii'ttissF !
Jay Coatsworth. e Josiah Wright,
D. n. Evans.
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January ID.
ST. KENTIGERN, BISHOP.

II is to st. Kentigern, by birth Plot, by
education disciple of St. Serf-by whom be
was miliarly called Mungo, or Beloved--snd
finally Bishop of Glasgow, that the western
distficts OF Scotland owe their first knowledge
of the faith. He arrived in those parts . per-
secuted exile but his personal holiness and
invincible zeai won to the faith Pagan Idol a.
tiers and PelagiAn heretios, and turned an
almost heather wilderness into . fruitful
vineyard of the Lord. In E43 an usurper of
the throne of the North Britons compelled
Kentigsrn to seek refuge with St. David in
North Wales. There he built q monastery and
gathered round him nearly q Thousand monks
org of whom was ST. Asaph, who succeeded
hun as sbbot when he returned to his bishop.
rio. Many of these religions however, pre-
ferred to remain with Kentigern, aud formed
the nucleus of q band of missionaries whom
he sent from Glasgow to the Orkneys to Nor
the Saint was such that he has been called a
second John Baptist yet he never allowed
his notifications to interfere with the duties
of his state. Besides the work of the episco.
pate, he Practised constant manual labor th at
he might not eat the bread of idleness. He
died at the age of eighty We, about the year
600. His tomb at Glasgow was famous for
miracles.
st. Columb. hearing of the fame of Kenti.
germ, came with company of his monks to
visit him and Kentigern also with his O ergy
came out to meet the Saint. As these two
armies of Jesus Christ marched towards each
other they Gang hymns and spiritual cantioles
on both sides. Then said Columb to his fol-
lowers, see fiery light after the manner of
golden crown descending from heaven on the
bishops head See here now like meets like
If We would live with the Saints, let MS en-
deavor ourselves that We also may be holy.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-06

FUTURE OF THE SOUTHERN STATRE.-The
present prospects throughout the Son thern
States would seem to indicate that the Rebel
lion and adjustment of Slavery WILL after all,
eventually prove a. blessing in disguise in tb at
it has infused new life and inspired q marked
degree OF enterprise to ppt forth the best
energies and efforts of it's people to develops
most rapid refrigeration from he crippled con.
dition in which the South was left at the close
of the war.
We see on every hand commeudable zeal
and enterprise in the development Of her great
agricultural resources, and the opening mp of
new Industrial and manufacturing interests,
the establishment of large and ample trauspor-
tAtion facilities, to which end the most favor.
able Inducements are being ofered to attract
immigration within it's borders. A determine
ton and spirit seems to pervade the Soush, to
be hereafter more self reliant by utilizing all
her advantages.
We not only see our great transportation
lines transferred from northern to more sonth
ern ports, and q vast German immigration SCI.
ting in that direction. bnt numerous factories
are sprineing up in all directions at the South
turing in the North he's seen its best DAYS.
Capitalists are not likely to put more money
into an industry so far from the raw material
and whore fuel is scarce. Some of the finer
tissues will be proftsby produced in the
northern States but in future the south will.
without doubt be made the eeat of operations
in the manufacture of all coarse cotton fab
and other southern States, since the war,
than are now ia operation throughout the
Northeast. They axe all paying factories and
the demand for their goods is on the increase.
That tells the story.-Poytland Price. C4rYenk
December Is.
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| OF some disciples. who, few at first, became in
| Iime vast humber, aud Theo6osius bniit o
| large monastery and three churches for them
| he became eventually Superior of all the reli-
gfous communities of Palestine. Theod osius
never refused assistance to any IN poverty or
I'M elton on some days the monks laid more
than hundred tables for those in want. In
times OF famine Theodosius for babe the aims
TO be diminished, and often ,niFacaioasly mul-
tlplled the provisions. He al.o built e We hos
pitfalls, in which he lovingly served the sick
while by sssida cas- spiritual reading he main
tanned himself in perfect recollection. He sue
oessfully opposed the Entychian heresy in
Jerusalem, and for this WAS bsnished by the
Emperor. He suffered long and painful
ma!ady, and refused to pray to be cured, cali
ing salutary pensnce for bis former sue.
cesses. Hs died as the age of LOG.
Iheodos,ns accommodated himself go care
folly to the characters of his subjects, that his
reproofs were loved rather than dreaded. Bnt
once be was obliged to separate from the COM
munion of the others religious guilty of
grave fault. Instead Of humbly accepting his
sentence the monk was arrogant enough to
pretend to exoommunicate Theodosius in re.
venge. Theodosius thought not of indigna.
ton, nor of his own position, bnt meekly sub
mitted to this false and unjust excommunca-
ton. This SO touched the heart of his disoiple
that he submitted at once, aud acknowledges
his fault.
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DOMESTIC LOVE.

Michelet, in his work "Love," gives this
little picture, painted with pen and not with
pencil, which might be labelled IAN Inte-
rior" Every man of letters must have expe.
rienced its fidelity to what has ed und er
his own roof 1t is = charming bit of domes-
ticity'.-a poem or a picture, rs the reader may
choose to view it. But it has al The truth Of
beauty, and the beauty of truth
A charming thing to observe, which have
otSen remarked with pleasure among my more
studious friends, is the infinite delicacy of the
yonng wife, who in u restricted space comes
and goes, and moves round the al udent, with.
out in the least disturbing him. Any other
person would have pat him ont but .'she, )" hs
Gays lis nobody" In fact, she il himself, his
second and his better soul
She holds Ter breath, aud steps on tip toe
She glides along the floor. She has such re.
speot for work. In this you can zee what q
gentle and qnick.sighted creature woman is !;
constant need of the beloved object. II he
allows her. she will remain in the room sewing
or emhroideripg. II not, q thousand occasions
or thousand necessities will occur to her as
pretexts to come into the room. what is he
doing Rowf How far has be got3 Perhaps
be Is working too hard. He will make hi mself
sick 7" All this passes through her mind.
There are many studies to which inviting
~ she imparts moro than che can take away.
DO you think that the charming electricity she
communicated in passing yon. lightly touching
you with her dress, goes for nothing with the
artist aud the author, if with our tiresome aad
unooBgenial work is opportunity mingled that
perfume of the flower of love which revives
every thing 30 in old Italian pictures do we
see in q deaths head hundred leave rose, and
death himself seems to enjoy it.
And how happy he is to feel that she is there.
he pfetends not to see her. He remains bent
over his work, as if absorbed in it. But his
heart gains the upper band, and be exclaims:
My darling do not muffls Your steps. Your
movements are harmony, your voice q melody
It's influence upon my work it will be adorned
with your grace, aud glow with the Il An Q of my
pafpitating heart.
here, by the increased ardor Of my work, by the
light which oVerspread my spirit"
thousand years from they will say:
His is yet a live book; all warmth and Aztec
tion" And the reason of it sll-she beside
you when you wrote it.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-06

The enormous sales Of the Singer sewing
machine Throughout this country and Europe prove
beyond dispute that IL by long odds the popular
machine made This popularity Is based upon
that in its construction and Management IL s simple
and in ita work most txcslent, leaving absolutely
nothing to be desired. Moreover. the purchase Of
and Invaluable sssistsnt that will save hundreds
Of dollars In time and money and win not get tired
wear out In lifetime OF late a. viii 30 seen by tbs
advertisement another page the prices have boss
80 greatly FtdHSsd that Good Singer machine can 10
bsnshB a. the csPsns elegant store. es Canal s1oat
Gse su6s tlAa Bany lafpIsse q bagzs nashinos
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January IL.
ST. BENEDICT BISHOP.

A. the ago OF twenty-five, Benedict, a noble
Angle, gave up high offices at court and large
estates to make pilgrimage to Rome. HecAme
back full of veneration for the Roman Church,
and pleaded earnestly for the adoption of irs
customs at home. By command of the king
ne made o second journey to Rome, whence be
repaired to Lsrins and there entered the BEN
edlctine Order. On the completion OF his no.
vitiate he was frat appointed Superior of St.
Peters Monastery at Canterbury, and was
then sent 10 Northumbria. his native country
where he seconded s. Wilfrid in introd o Gin .
Roman customs and the Benedictins Ruls
With this end he built two abbeys one dedi.
Gated to st. Peter at Wearmonth, and the other
to st. Paul at Jarrow. He brought from
France skilled workmen to construct stone
churches in the Roman style, and lit with
glass windows, which were then unknown in
England. John the archchanter of St. Peters
in Rome taught the monks to chant aud read
aloud and Benedict made three more Journeys
to Rome, to obtain proper church furniture and
books for bis six hundred monks to study. The
pictures in the church were SO arranged that
the most ignorant might learn from them the
great truths of salvation, and the duty of re-.
forming their lives. ST. Benedict lived to see
his Order firmly established in the North, and
his country conforming in ritual, as in faith
with the Roman See. He died in $50
Whea Benedict lay dying, Sigfrid his sue
cessor, also found his end approaching. and
had himself carried to the side of Benedict,
th at they might together select a new Abbot
Together then they chose Ceolfrid, because he
also bad been trained in Rome, and by his
fidelity to Roman traditions would secure the
union of Wearmouth and Jarrow.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-06

The mother-hoase of the Marst Fathers
at Lyons was the principal lodge of the
FreemasoDs OF that city when the veneer
world, bat full of confidence in the assistance
of st. Joseph, resolved to purchase the house
TO establish there q residence for the Most
The Chapel of the Perpetual alteration, at
Toufou, in reparation for the outrsges heaped
upon our Blessed Redeemer in the Holy En-
charist, was formerly q variety show, notori-
Gus for immoral orgies. For number of
years the Blessed Sacrament has received here
the fervent alteration not only of many pions
ladies but also of considerable number Of
gentlemen, among whom the officers of the
French navy are we'll represented. tn soleu.
did Church of st. FOy, at Charities, which dur
ing the great Revolution was termed into q
low theatre, where the most bfime mysteries
of Faith. were reviled by impious buffoons, has
also been reclaimed by q Jealous Marist
Father, who has likewiSe Succeeded in estab-
fishing Divine worship in it once more.
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Lot us do good, according to the means that
God has given us, with disoernmsnt, with
courage, and with perseverance,. With dis
cernment; for charity, while it seeks to pro-
mote the glory OF God by imPsFti8R to man, has
reference to the nature, the work, aud the con-
dition of him who undertakes it; it avoids
disproportionAte designs. With courage; ST.
Paul exhorts us not to be weary in welI-dOlnR;
that is, let rs not DO wanting in true zeal
aud faith. With perseverance; for We seek
weak spirits, light and iDconstsnt minds, soon
looking back in the career of virtue. We shall
always End occasions to do good they pre-
sent themselves everywhere; il is the will to
do good that IL wanting. Even solitude,
where we eeem to have no means Of action,
aud affords tho least eommunioation with cur
ksliOW.baings, utilI pEasonts opportunities OF
Certifying Elm who ia their MAstSr end oars.
- FaEegen.
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PROPOSED DIVERSION OF THE EILE-It is
we'll known that the main stream of the Nile
is Supplied by the great equatorial lakes OF
Africa, and that the annual foundations are
caused by the inrusn of torrent water laden
With soil from the fertile slopes of the Abyssi-
nian plateau in July August and Septem Der.
This silt is now for the most part being de-
posted in the bed of the Mediterr anean, where
1t is gradually forming a new delta similar to
the delta already formed at the rivers mouth.
Sir Samuel Baker has written to the Times
suggesting q plan by which not only the water
OF the Nile but the mud, which it now depo sits
wastefully in the sea may be turned to good
account as fertilizer of the deserts of M oi a,
Libya, and the Soudan. He proposes by snita.
BILE engineering works to divert q portion of
the Nile food water into these deserts. where
it can deposit its rich sedI meut the sands
and also Irrigste them so as to transform them
from desert into cotton fields that woald
render England Independent of America"
This could be effected by having suitable dana
and slaices at different points of the Nile, say
at the Catarscts. These dams and eluices By
enabling craft to pass the Catarscts, would
also render the Nile navi1abIe from the Med
itterranean to Gondokoro, space of 29o OF
latitude.
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STREET. wax AND PAPERS.

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January "A.
ST. HILARY OF PoITIERs.

st. Hilary was q native of Poitiers in
Aquitane Born and educated q pagan, il was
NOS TIL near middle age that he embraced
Christianity, moved thereto mainly by the
idea of God presented to him in the Holy
Scriptures. He soon converted his wife and
daughter, and separated himself rigidIy from
all un-Cstbolic company. He entered Holy
Orders, and in 3j3 was chosen bishop of his
native city. Arianism, under the protection
of the Emperor Conssautus, was just then in
the height of its power, and St. Hi airy found
himself called upon to support the orthodox
cause in several Gallo councils, in which
Arian bishops formed an overwhelming
mej ority. He was in consequence accused
to the emperor, who banished him to
Phrygia. He spent his three years and more of
exile in composing his great works on the
Trinity. In 359 be attended the Council of
Seleucia, in which Arians, semI-Ariaus and
Catholics contended for the mastery. With the
deputies OF the Council he proceeded to Con-
stautinople, and there so dismayed the heads
of the Arian party that they prevailed upon
the Emperor to let him return to Gaul. He
traVeEsed Ganl, Italy and IlIyria, wherever be
came discomftting the heretics. and procuring
the triumph OF orthodoxy. After seven or eight
years of missionary travel he reformed to Fol
there, where he died in peace in 3GS
In the beginning of his conversion, st. Hilary
would not eat with jews or hsretics, nor salute
them by the way. But afterwards for their
sake, he relaxed this severity.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-06
MAKE ME A SONG.

Ont of the silences make me . cong.
beautiful. sad and colt and lows
Let the lopel,est music sound along
And wing each note with q wall OF woe.
Dim aud drear
AS hopes last tear.
Ont OF the FL fences make me hymn,
Whose sounds arc shadowe soft and dim,
Out Of the stillnesses in your heart
A thousand songs are sleeping there
Make me bnt one, thou child oil art,
The soDg of hope in lAst despair,
Dark and low,
A chant of woe.
Out Of the stfjtnesses, tone by tone,
kofr as = snowflake, wild az = moan
Out of the darknesses flash me q song.
Brightly dark and darby bright;
Let IL 9 weep as lone star sweeps along
The myntical shadows of the night,
Sing it sweet,
Where nothing 10 drraf or dark or dim
And earth songs melt into Heaven q by mn.
Father Ri an.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-06
January Q.
ST. VERONICA OF MILAN,

Veronloa's parents were peasants of village
near Milan. From her childhood she toiled
hard In the house and the field, and accom-
pn,shed cheerfnlly every mental task. Grsdu-
ally the desire for perfection grew within her :;
she became deaf to the jokes and songs Of her
companions, and sometimes, when reaping and
hosing,, would hide her face and weep. Know
ing no letters che began to be anxious about
her learning and rose secretly at night to
teach herself to read. Onr Lady told her that
other thiDgs were necessary, but not this
After three years' patient waiting she was re-
oeived as lay-sister in the Convent of st.
Martha ut Milan. The Community was ex-
ceedipg ly poor, and Veronioa's duty wac to beg
through the city for their daily food. Three
years after receiving the habit, she was afiict-
cd with secret but constant bodily palms, yet
never would consent to be relieved of any of
her labors or to omit one OF her prayers. By
exact obedience she became q living COPY Of
the Ruls, add obeyed with smile the least
hint of her Superior. s % sought to the last
the posb hard and humblpg occupations and
In their performance enjoyed some of the high
est favoIs ever granted to q Saiot. She died
In 1887, on the day she had foretold, after "a
six months illneSs, aged fifty two years and
in the tbirteth of her religious profession.
Our Lady showed Veronica three mystical
Ietters, which wonld teach her more than
books. The first signifed purity of intention
the second, obhorrenCe of murmuIipg or ortiz
cism the third, daily meditation on the Pas
sion. By the first, she learned ts begin her
daily duties for NO human motive, but for God
alone: BY the second, TO Garry out what she
had thus begun, by attending to her own
AFFAIRS, never judging her neig b Dor, but pray
ing for those who manifestly erred. By the
third, she was enabled to forget her own pains
and sorrows in these of her Lord, and to weep
hourly but silently over the memory of His
wrongs. She had constant ecstsoes, and saw
IN successive visions the whole life of Jesus
ana many other mysteries. Yet, by special
grace neither her raptnres DOR her tears ever
death.
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January 10.
ST. JOHN CALYRTrR.

St. John was born in Coustan tin ople of noble
and wealthy parents. But when he was about
twelve years old be began to yearn after the
sweet yoke of Christ. One day an abbot on a
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, came TO his fathers
house, and John made him swear to call for
him on his return, and take him to be one of
his monks. So when the abbot returned from
the Holy Places, the boy went with him he-
pretty, for he feared his mothers tears Ate.
ne had served Christ manfuliy in religion for
Blk years, his heart grew sad and he began to
pine for home. His Superior, seeing him waste
away under the soreness of this conflict, let
him CO. for he knew that, by Gods mercy
grace would triumph in the end. And SO il
was. When halfway home, John chan ed
CLOTHES with 3 beggar, and 80 disguised himself
that his mother, diegusted st the sight of his
raga and misery, drove him from her door. He
now lived in neighboriug hovel, spending
his time in prayer and good works. After three
years the Lord visited him and said, Thy trial
lS over will give thee rest after three days.
.1nen John sent for his mother, and showed her
e. book of the Holy Goapels which she had
given him in his childhood Thus at last was
No made known to his parents, and died in their
John, as he lay dying, made his mother pro-
GnlSe 10 bnTy him in his rsgs. Yet after bis
eeath she arrayed the body in costly coverings,
a. burial might be worthy OF her house.
sne vas straightway struck with palsy;
sess. Thus did God keep His own, nor Suffer
~ MN 10 be buried as any others than His.