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STRAY NOTICE

Taken up by Bush Iarman, of
Cuiyre Township, in Audrain ooull-
ty, Mo-, on the "a Of November 1877.
One sorrel horse about ID 1-2 hands
high, white stripe in forehead. No
other marks ~ brands perceivable.
Appraised at $25 by G. Is. Clark and
I. j. NARROW, and posted before the
undersigned Justice, of Loutre town
shi ), III said county and state.
Given under my hand, this, Sd day
Of November 1877.
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-10
SIIERIFF'S SALE OF SCHOOL
LANDS.

By virtue and authority of an OF
der of sale issued from the office
the clerk OF the county court OF \.
drain county, Missouri, ruturnable Il,
tn. January ter n Of the circuit ON
ts1s, ana 10 ne dir tted, | have lie,
.'t upon the following described
tate, mentioned III sait ursit
1t:
All oi SECTION sixteen (16.) COW
ship iiity-tWo on range even {.
west, in AHdrain county, Missoui
and | will. Gu
Wednesday. Jan. 80. 1913,
between the hours of nine O'Clock /
the forenoon ana five O'Clock la II
afternoon OF tiltt day, at the ear
front door OF the court house, iii til
city of Mexico, county 81 Audrain
aforesaid, efier the same for sale Ii
tracts Of 40 acres each, to the hishe,
bidder
Terms OF SALE.
A credit. 81 Il months i'll be given.
the purchaser 10 give bond with OF
proved personal security and With in
te ast ut the rate of 10 per sent. per
annum, from day OF said sale.
IL. GLAscncK, Sheriff,
27-tds OF Audrain county
4 Ky q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-10
STRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by G. Eberhart of Sailing
Township, in Audrant county. Mo-, on the
Goth day of Nov. 1877 and posted on Dee.
9TH 1877, and before g, w. Holloway, j.
T. within ana for said county as a stray, one
iron gay lilly three years old, thirteen
haildsttree inches high, left fore foot
White. right hind foot white aid apprais-
ed atthe sum of fifteen dollars by John
Holman aud John Stewart. after being
duly sworn to the appraismfnt given under
hand this Dec. 7th 1877.
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Table.
EAST.
Mail train leaves 1T ....-....12. 81 p. III
Might Express leaves at--......l.30 a.
WEI
dali Train caves at.........2.4 40 ,. m
Night Express leaves at..---...2.4 a m
Chicago and Alton n. IL,
GOING EAST
Jefferson ana Fulton EXP. arrives.
at.... Ills a. m.
Accommodation (mixed train) run
ming only between Mexico and
Louisiana leaves. $50 p. m
ce1ver Express leaves. 300 a. N
GOING WEST.
Jefferson and Fulton Express
leaves. 1910 p. m.
Accommodation (mixed train run
ming only between Mexico and
Louisiana arrives. ..11:30 q. m.
Denver EXPRESS arrives. ...2:30 q IN.
WDenver Express: leaving
H.. III.
The only train to Chicago without
change of cars.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-10
Goods!!
V~ulcanized Rubber in every conceivable
Form, adapted to universal use.
WIND AND WATER. PRooF

ANY article under four pounds weight can
be sent by mail.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-10

rar~nn.-Fa speciality. Oil cloth Surface
Coat combines two articles i'll one. For
stormy weather it is g perfect waterproof,
and in dry weather. q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-10
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. r I @ I N A 7
GOODYEAR'S.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
Magazine Notices.

Ihe one hundred and twenty-seventh volume
OF the North american Reuieao closes with the
December numbsr, q number iutersstino
throughout, and containing some notable artj-
cles. Horatio Seymour contributes readable
if not profound paper, The Government of the
United States, in which be takes an optimistic
view OF our system of government, contending
that it is even better suited to q nation which
shall embrace the continent than to the orisi-
nal thirteen States. Its distinguishing featnre
he finds to be that while it places power in the
hands OF the majority it effectuslly protects the
rights OF the minority Another article of great
interest is Japan and the Western Powers, con.
tributed By Matsayma Makalo, giving an &C
count of the relations of Japan with Western
nations and Justly comp aiming of the tariff
convention OF 1866. the extraterritorial jurisdic-
ton given to foreign powers, and the exactions
and intrigues Of European diplom attic agents
Hobart Pssha writes as one having authority
on Systems of Offence and Defence in Naval
Warfare. and thinks small, heavily armor,d
iron-clads are to be the war.ships of the future.
lie regards the torpedo as menace rather than
trusty weapon of offence. An Old Diplomat
ist discourses of the Treaty of Berlin and its
Consequences, believing the Treaty to be a
British blunder and the consequence another
war. The Emperor Hadrisn and Christianity
is graphic historical sketch by Ernest Renan.
James Parton shows the unreasonableness of
Antipathy to the Negro, bat does not tell those
SO affected how to do away with it. William
K. NJ artin treats of the Financial Resources Of
New York, DR.. Elisha Harris writes on public
health, and the Rev. DR.. Samuel Osgood re-
views, under the title Pessimism in the Nine
teenth Century, the works Of Schopenhauer,
Leopard and others. The Book Reviews COM
plets the number.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
NatiO nal THANKSGIVING.
BY THE PIaEsIDENT OF THE UNIT
ED STATES.
A


Ihe recurT ence of that season at which H. ia the
naDt OF our people to make devout and public con-
iesslon oI lheir constant dependence upon the Di-
vine iavor for all good gifts Of lite and happiness and
cord o. the year, abundant reasons for our gratitude
and ehankSgiving. Exuberant haryests pfoductive
miles, ample crops and staples OF trade and mann
isctures have enriched the country. The resources
ing commerce are fastening the uay when discords
and dlstresSes through the length and breadth of the
land WILL under the continued favor of Providence
nave given way to confidence, energy and assured
broken, domestic tranquility has prevaiied ana the
institutions of liberty and JUSTICE which the wisdom
glory and defence OF their children. The general
prevalence OF the blessings OF health through our
wide land has made more conspicuous the sutferinps
and sorrows which the dark shallow of pestience
mas cast upon portion OF our people. This heavy
afcti0n even, the Divine Ruler has tempered to the
suffering communities in the universal aid and sue
cor which have flowed to their relief and the wi ole
nation may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our peo
pie, BY which they cheerfullv hare one another's
burdens.
Now, therefore, ], Rutherford B. HAYES, President
OF the United States do appoint Thursday ibe
twenty-egbth day of November next, as a day Of ma
tionai thanksgiving and prayer; and earnestly re-
commend that, withdrawing themselves from secular
cares and abos, the people of the United States do
meet together on that day in their respective places
OF worship. there to give thanks and praise 10 AL
mighty GOD for MS mercies, and to devoutly beseech
their continuance.
In witness thereof have hereuuto set nv hand
and caused the seal Of the United States to be al
fixed ~ w "'
Done at the city of Washington this thrtieth dav of
october, IN the year OF our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy eight and of the indie
pendence of the United States the one hundred
and thru. r. b. HAYES
BY the President.
WILLIAM Nj. EYARTS, Secretary
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
frands of History.

The first social meeting of the season of the
New York Yale Alumni association was he Id
Friday evening at Delmonico's. A large num-
per OIL member, were present, among others
edwards Pierrepont, Professor Wheeler, E. @.
Stedman, Brayton Ives and the Rev. DR.. Jes-
sup OF Beirut, Syria. Professor Wheeler read
paper, in which he exploded number of
historical tales. The famous saying attributed
to Louis XIV. Of France, "L'etat c'est mo.n
according to Professor Wheeler, was never
uttered by Louis at all, but was said by Mszarin
and by Queen Elizabeth. Sappho never killed
herself by jumping from rock, but died a
natural death. Laonidas fought at Thermopy
le' not with only 800 at his back, but with
7'oUo. The philosopher Diogenes never lived
In a tub The story of the virtues of the Ro-
man matron Lucretia must be rejected, while
the story of the Horatii and Curatii Is worse
than doubtful. The sons of Brutus were not
the victims of their fathers firmness. but of
hls brutality. 1t was utterly i'm possible for
HANNIBAL to have followed up his victory At
Cannfe and the story of his using vinegar to
cieave the rocks of the Alps is absurd So.
TOO, is the story of Cleopatra dissolving a pearl
IA IA goblet Of vinegar and drinking up fortune
AZ one draught. Archimedes never said "Giye
me lever long enough and 1 will move the
world;'' nor did he cry OUT 'Eurekap' at any
known period of his life or discoveries. Alex
andria was never visited by Omar, nor was the
Alexandrian library burned. No more did
Gallleo say sand yet it moves, for ali thalp'
since it is proved from authentic docu-
ments that he did not dare to. That
Columbus broke the end of an egg
and thus confuted his Knockers is
fabulous, as also the story that be encour
aged bis followers with brave words when San
Salvador were still out Of sight. Richard III.
OF Eogland did not kill his brother Clarence.
aud tue story about the butt of Malmsey arose
from the fact the body of Glare ce, who died a
natnral death. was transported from Calais to
England in wine butt. CHARLES III never had
the body OF Cromwell taken from Westminster
Abbey and hanged at Ty burn, for the 6aug hter
OF cromwell, apprehensive of some such iii.
treatment, had her fathers corpse secretly re-
moved from the sbbey and buried in a quiet
churchyard. Millions daughters could not hav.
consoled their father for bis blind cess by read
Ing passages from the old authors. for the best
OF reasons-they did not know how to read. To
q member of the association who ipaalred if
there were any doub:s Of the correctness OF the
story OF Z. w. and his little hatchet, the pro-
lessor replied promptly in the affirmative.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
Mark TMain,s Printing naxs-

one compositor who worked on the News
tnen SILL lives, says writer in the ST. Louis
spirit, and has made considerable noise in the
world. We allude to Samuel Clemens, batter
known as Mark Twain. He was then abont
twenty-one or twenty-five years Of age. verv
sood-lookiDg, and most impressed with that
Iact. lis was the LATEST mortal that ever
'soliiered" on the hook. Ia that year the
Crimean war and the printers were raging
the latter over the long disbolical combination
OIL consonants that made the Russian oficsrs'
names. When steamer arrived at New York
the telegraph would fire these internal hard
names over the wires until the tops of the
posts were shattered to pieces. Sam Clemens
used to say that the operator never wrote
these names-when he came to a hard name he
Just took up pepper box of black aud shook
IL over ths manuscript. Sam was known to
oweii 1or hfteen miautes over a Russian name
and then snatch few rs three SIS, and then
leno,og t9em IN with an he would 60 ahead
until the hrst galley came around to allow him
rest. lie occupied a stand in the corner of
the room which had been christened Sebas.
topol.
Aswe have said, Sam was lazy. He had a
pecu.lar manner OF drawling out his words that
was irresis1bly comical when relating a Joke.
and an ne was eternally relating a joke or some.
thlng that reminds me Of" But he was good
hearted and good uatured and much liked.
One hot morning in June Sam did not make
his appearance until about niue O'Clock. when
ne ne ous ut to have been there promptly at seven
Ihe foreman was excited and apgry and a.
oam came sauntering slowly in, flaming him
self with his straw hat, Bailey said: ''Sam, if
you oan't get here before this time of day Won
needn't come at ALL" Sam leaned UPON the
imposing stone with both elbows and drawled
out: Wen john, gues5 won't come again,
'tis too id hotr' and he slowlS meandsred
out OF the composing room. He got a berth on
the river, became pilot and Mark Twain.
Ihe world knows the Iest He used to drop in
occasionally when in port aud on one occasion
ne insisted on his brother Henry, who worked
river. They were blown up and Henry killed:
put Marx with his usual luck escaped unin,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
Knew q Little too Mneh
From the Burlington Hawkeye.


Intelligent young man Of Burlington who
has picked up little agricultural argot. To old
granger sitting beside him on the cars:-
This has been splendid weather for fan
plowIng."
Old granger, pleased with the general intelI-
gence of the young town mani
1T hez, stranger, it hez; eJuldn't ha' bin
better"
Young man of Burlington, warming with his
subject and pleased with his success
THE farmers have a greater average of
ground ready for sowing than they have had
at this season for several years"
Honest old granger, fairly delighted at the
really GOOD sense and observing habits of the
young man
"Yas, 'lo@ we hev; L ruther low we bav-p
Young man ef Burlington, ruined by success
and over-contidence:
But am very much afraid they won't be
of the frost this year,
Disguised silence for the next IS miles
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
A strange case comes from Asbary Park,

A strange Case comes from Asbury Park, N.
j. There arrived at that place on Tuesday a
wealthy young lawyer of Baltimore, named
Charles B. Smith, who died on Wedne nesiay.
Conscious of approaching dissolution, he wilied,
first of all, his body to DR.. LeMoyns of Wash
ipgton, P4.. for cremation. His next beouest
was out of the ordinary ruu-that of 500, 900 to a
young lady in South Amboy, N. j., to whom
ne was oetrotbed, the condition being that she
must not marry until two years shall have ex-
pred. Tnis disposed of, the dying man
directed his private secretary to express 5000
to Vasssr college, $4,000 to Hampton college
aud $1,000 to the CITY of Baltimore for its moor.
To cap these proceedings it transpires that
young Smith was the same person who killed
Walter Fauquer of Virginia in a duel. and
fed to England eight months ago. He return
ed to this country on the 18Th of last month
broken down by consumption.
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s.; e.; :
ments, Interterences. e,C
promptly attended to. Inventions that have been
n Mn Nm n N by the Patent Office may
III | still, in most cases, be
| l secured by us. Being
nJ I'M N opposite the Patent Of
~ ~ " - W l. II - fee, we can make closer
searches, and secure Pat
tents more promptly and with broader claims than
those who are rem ote from Washington.
T1ITT n NJNe n N dus mode or
nj III nj IuiB u sketch OF your de-
III III X y vice; we make exam
IIlv Ill 1inations free ofcharge
~ ] - ~ y W Au ~ and advise az to pa
tentabity All cor
respondence strictly confidential. Prices low, AND
NO CHAReE UNLESS PATENT rs
SECURED.
We refer to officials In the Patent Office, and to
tnTentors in every State n the Union
G. A. SNOW 4 CO.,
Opposite Patent O&ce Washington. d. G.
no2s lit
Il Trpitod s+otac n;ctr;ot of Moioa Tn tho ftar

TN BANKRUPTCY.-Di Court of the
Il United States. District of Maine. In the matter
OF Josiah Sterling, Jr., Bankrupt.
This is 10 give notice that petition has been pre-
sented to the Court this eleventh day ofNoyember, by
Josiah Sterling, Jr., of Peaks Island, Bankrupt,
praying that he may be decreed to have full dis
charge from all bis debts provabe under the Bank
1t is ordered by the Court that a hearing be had
upon the same, on the sixth day of January, A. d.
1879 before the Court in Portland in said District, at
10 O'Clock A. M. and that the second meeting OF the
creditors of sald Bankrupt, he held before james d.
Fessennen, Register, the thrtieth day of Novem-
Der, 1s7s at 10 A. M and the third meeting Of the
same the twenty-eghth DAY of December, 1878, at
10 A. NJ and that noCice thereof be published in the
Portland Advertiser and the Portland Press, news
papers printed in said District, once week for
three successive weeks, and once in the weekly Ad-
vertiser and Press the last publication to be thirty
days least before the day of hearing, and that all
creditors who have proved their debts and other per
sons in interest," may appear at said time and place,
and show cause, if any they have why the prayer Of
said Petition should not be granted
VIM. P. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court tor said District.
no13 d1aw3wW&5w1w46
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

HERE are some plain words from the leading
Democratic paper in Missouri, the St. Louis
Republican: 1t is to be hoped that the DEM
oeracy will learn wisdom from experience,
and have better plan of campaign in 1880
than in 1873. If they do not, their chances
OF success in the Presidential contest are
small indeed. Those who think there will
oe democratic "walk-over" in 1880 are
tools or blind. 1t promises to be the bitterest
ana most desperate struggle in the annals of
American politics. II there are any first
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

The Railroad Gazette thinks India NAV
become our rival in the grain markets of Ed
rope. 1t is reported that vessels at Calcutta
are offering to take cargoes Of wheat to Eng
land for fifteen shilllngs per ton, which is
about 81 cents per bushe, and fourth less
than the current rate from New York to Liv.
erpool, though the distance is three times as
great. Last year the rate was nearly four
times as high, but at present there are about
one hundred thousand tons of vessels in CAL
cutta, and very little grain or other freight to
expert, and they take grain much as our lake
vessels take coal from Buffalo to Chicago, at
almost any price, to avoid going back empty.
A permanent rateof this kind would make
India most dangerous competitor of this
country in the European grain market: but
it can only be temporary as ocean rates tend
to equalize themselves the world over: for if
profits are greater on one route than on an.
other, vessels can always, and always will for
sake the latter for tbs former, in which they
have great advantage over railroads. Bnt
OF late years it seems that there is no corner
OF the earth so remote that it cannot supply
wheat to Eorope, if only it can reach deem
water cheaply. San Francisco is about as far
from London as you can get (by saiD, and
yet there have been years when it shipped
more wheat to England than any other port
in either hemisphere
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

Capt. EAds, having baen unable to accept
Don Pedro's Invitation to supervise the i'm
provement of BraziPs Waterways has recon-
mended Col. w. Wilmer Roberts, chief
engineer of the Northern Pacific road, 10 his
stead. A salary of $40 900 year for three
years has induced Col. Roberts to accept the
Offer de IS one of the oldest and most DIS
tnguished engineers in the country, having
mad hand ia many public works, and besides
is president of thu society of civil engineers.
and member of the royal institute of civil
engineers of Great Britain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
What Resumption Will and win Not Do.

1ne GfeenDackerS are getting reconciled to
the idea OF resumption and no longer pro-
Tess to doubt that the resumption act will he
carried into effect January next. But thew
assert that the act will fail to achieve its pur.
pose, and explain their meaning by contend
ing that unless the country becomes extraor-
dinarly prosperous, and great sales are made
and all laborers employed at high wages in
few days after the Treasury begins to paw
out gold dollars no benefit will be gained and
the object Of the law will be defeated, Then.
they say, the resumptionist plan having
failed, ours must be tried; ignoring the fact
that their plan has been tried many times
and has always resulted disastrously.
National. prosperity is only reached, they
say, echoing Butler, when tie people can
buy what they want, and they clamor for
laws that will bring about that result, and
offer their system of currency as the means to
that end. If we are to wait for that time
before we are prosperous then prosperity is
forever out Of our reach. For men want to
buy fine houses and rich clothes and dainty
food and expensive ornaments, and all man.
ner of indulgence. When we are all able to
buy these things who will produce them
Who will even raise the corn we eat. or
manufacture the commonest clothes we
wear? That state of affairs is contradic.
tion, an impossihility. If man can buy
fne house why should he build houses for
other people? If he can buy elegant cloth
ingRhy should he stand behind the loom or
sit upon the tailor's bench? If he can get
all he wants without labor why should he
work9 When we all attain this happy state
of ability to buy all we want who will care to
undertake the drudgery of producing and
selling?
Neither the resumption nor other law can
bring about a condition like that. The act
will certainly fail to achieve that end, But
what it will do, unless silver coinage and the
bill requiring the reissue of legal-tender notes
destroy its power for good, will be to give us
a stable measure of values, currency based
on and convertible into coin, restoration of
confidence between borrower and lender. a
sense of security to capital and an opportuni-
ty for employment to labor. And these
things are the things that make for natiopa,
prosperity. in the common acceptation of that
term.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

The Democrats continue to rejoice at that
majority OF four in the House. A majority
acquired by gerrymandering in the North
and ballot-box stuffing in the South is not
thing to be proud of.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

class Democratic generals, the sooner they
come together in council of war and decide
where and how the approaching battle shall
be fought, the better tor the party prospects.
We cannot win by ''bull-luck and awkward.
ness" the next time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING.. NOV. 20.

We do not read anonymous lett srs and commupi.
cations The anne and address n the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not neces sariy for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to retu n or preserve com-
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS ia furnisb.,
with Card certificate COUP sersign ed by stanlsv
Pullen, Editor. All railway, ste, .mboat and boto,
managers will confer favor upo,l us bv demandina
credentials Of every person CLAIM ing to represent ops
Ournal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

H. V. REDFIELD believes that Tennessee
will never pay its bonds, and thinks the hold
ers of the bonds may as well send them to
the rag-mill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-20

THE heads that wear crowns must indeed
lie uneasy nowadays, if faith be put in the
Berlin report of a conspiracy to kill all kings.
But threatened men live long, says the PROV