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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-06
THE BOY WHO HATED CATS.

nams. children, gather round my chair,
And ri relate story
hviIl not be of ocean wreck,
0rfelds of battle CORY;
/ Tlfell the fate of William Gill,
Ebo did at last coffin fill.
iii william Gil he hated cats,
Though why can not say;
bnay have been his nature born,
Ind be couldn't help his way.
Butbad it was for every cat.
lean assure you all of that.
Hkanes walked along the fence.
Itsted upon their prey,
M gQta stone behind the ear,
Ind bowling fed away.
III william laughed in fiendish glee
~ - the frightened telines flee.
alnDmss cat had laid his plans
Intake . little doze,
ixbflng the sun to bear upon
Hgeers and head and nose
This William Gill was there to throw
skcub or stone or ball of snow.
Nldn darkness came upon the land;
~ 1ghUmAs had right
nNcA his back upon the roofs,
lndapit and yeowl and fight,
n nmsha that firht;po coma to ni1
f'f- A'-'e N-o v" MA
n,p,doors vosld omen slow and soft
0Hith rushing sound;
tnd7honas eats would find themselves
n ~ ! So,v. oharan ou,u y f,uunu. sHu. ,.
~ dS n. rSsnr SrriES TSe y, s,,1s Noudu M N.Y.
As pooi Auo''l"s IN 'he eye.
~ s.,s+e, va.,s .,,,. wprorc cn
,sa seia y , ali ne eats In awe
w n nsEdly dared TO raise yeowl,
WMs midnlght paw,
o wonder, then, the felines met,
~ mAsse, one night when dark and wet
/ 1u.,,...
Apiack one had the floor,
avhfse one he got up and said:
time this thing were o'erv'
AyAller cat with yaller eyes,
Ihen nom his seat did softly rise.
sesaos, seas, Romans" J" said the yaller cat,
we got g fix that boy,'
-sS %Sa y, me osner cats began
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-06

By way of consoling the sharehold-
ers of the exploded City of Glasgow
Bank, the Lord Provost tells them that
the f5,00O,0O0 sterling lost represents
but six months expenditures of the in
habitants for LIQUOR.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-06

"A very large number Of English
landlords are returning from 10 to ID
per cent. to their tenants on the last
half-year's rent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-06

Sugar of tin is the latest chemical
discovery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

Thomas WiIlingham. Richard Will
ingham. Andrew W~illin@ham, Jas.
Wi!lim@ham. William Wiliingham.
Lucy Powell, +. Il. Powell. Anuis
kilgorc. Malinda Elder, Sarah Bell,
W, 5. Elder and JONI Bell, dct"nts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

BY virtue OF IL certain deed of trust
dated September l4th, 1876. executed
By Daniel ltuggles and Richard
Eta Mason RuggIcs, his wife, by her
attorney, Daniel ~l!uggIeS, recorded
in book IL" page 325 in OH &c ot
Recorder OF deeds i'll and for Au-
drain county, Missouri, to secure Il
note in said deed described, l., the I'M
dcrsiSned trustee, at the request OF
the holder OF said note, will, OH
Saturday, September 18Th, 1879,
between the hours of ten O'Clock \.
Vi and four o'clock l.. VI. Of that
day, sell at publiL .a!c, at lhe east
front door of the court house in said
Audrain county, State OF Missouri,
To the highest bidder for cash. the
following described real estate living
and being i'll said county and state
aforesaid as follows, to-wit: The
southeast quarter and the south hall
OF the southeast fourth of the north
cast quarter and twenty acres OF OF
the east side Of the southeast fourth
Of the southwest quarter ami ten
acres in the southeast corner OF tho
northeast fourth of the southwest
quarter; all i'll section thirty, (30)
township fifty-two, (52) of range
eight (s) west. Also the southwest
quarter Of section eighteen, US)
township tilty-tWO, (@2) of range
seven (7l containing in all. three
, hundred and seventy &Cies, more OF
less. (. w. BAKER,
TrUStnp
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

NOW, al this day comes plaintiff,
by his attorney, and files his petition,
verified by affidavit, alleging, among
other things, that said defendant is a
nonresident of the state of Missouri
You, said nonresident defendant,
are therefore hereby notified of the
filing of said petition, the object and
general nature of which is to enforce
a lien against the following describ-
ed real estate, situate in Audrain
county, state of Missouri, to-wit :
AL of block 5, Broaiwater's addi-
ton to Mexico, for back takes for
the years 1S74SIS75, 1876 and 1877,
amounting to $39S. 4S-10O.
And unless you be and appear at
the next regular term of this court,
to be begun and held at the court
house, in the city of Mexico, on the
first Monday In October next, and
plead to said petition, the Same will
be taken as confessed and Judgment
rendered accordingly.
1t is further ordered that n COPY
hereof be published, according to
law, in the Mexico LEDGER, news
paper printed and published in the
city of Mexico.
Witness my hand as clerk and seal
*......x of said court at Office in
SEAL Mexico, this 18th day of
#"',* August, 1879.
JAMES CARROLL, Clerk.
>. NJ. EDWARDS, Plti's Atty. 17-4.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

The Seventh Annual Session
of this noted Institution VII, open oa September
sih, and uonrinu. nIlI forty weeks thorough
mental development, with constant wa chrare OF
the morals aud manncrs. The health and COM
fort of its students are the essential features upon
which this college bases it, claim to he patronage
ofan intelligent and discriminating public.
instrumental and vocal Music of the highest
order a special feature.
The boarding department VIII he under our
immediate supervision, and parents MAY rest
assured that the best of care will bc taken Of
tn-lg tau-rt.;s.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

mar. PROMISING the tady 10 fooh
out for the individual she went away.
Saturday evening Conway staggered
into the Central station, pretty we'll
saturated with whisky, and said to
Acting Captain Kennett that be want
ed to see him on some detective bust
ness. The officer was only too glad
to meet him and took him into his
private room. He then detailed an
officer to go for Mrs. Bellows. Mean
while Conway was voluble He said
that detectives had a great deal to do
that was unpleasant, which keEnett
allowed was true. ''Men never know
We are around, do they" asked Con-
way, land We take 'em in sometimes
when they don't know it, don't we?'
asked Conway. Kenneth allowed that
the Chicago man was correct. just
then Mrs. Bellows came in and
CONWAY TURNED WHITE.
"Look at this man, madam said
Kennett, land see if he is the man Of
whom you spoke"
ale is the very man."
"You are positive?"
81 will take my oath TO it,"
"Take HIM down STAIRS said the
acting captain to an officer, and away
the Chicago man went.
Acting Captain Kennett then in
formed Mr.. Crosby, and Crosby,
thinking 1t was all day with him, un-
locked the trunk of his departed
guest. 1t was filed with advertise
ments of--electric plasters, and
nothing else, not a button. A hand
valise was examined, and three cakes
of soap, a bottle of cologne and some
plasterss were misunderstanding
more. Crosby sat down on the edge
of the trunk, and looking over the
assets he remarked very emphatically,
'soLD AGAIN BY G-D.'
A TImes-Journal man who happen
ed up at the Four Courts last night
was told that a representative of the
Chicago Times was locked UP below.
The reporter vas granted permission
to see him. Conway came up smil-
ing and the following talk was had /:
"What are you in for?"
81 don't know. l wish YOU would
find out for me-"
"You are from Chicago:"
eyes; | am representing a drug
house there; doing some detective
work for Mr. Woods agency, and
was to meet DR.. Reilly, the yellow
fever correspondent of the Chicago
Times here, to make some arrange
ments with him."
"Were you ever employed on the
Chicago Tines"
''Well-pO, not exactly that; but
you know when the Morning Herald
was started there not long ago as {
tTiiden paper, it was understood that
Mr.. storey, OF the Times, was back
ing it. ] was the advertising and bus,
mess manager Of the Herald. 1t has
since suspended"
WHO was the editor:'
Ham. Wicks, of Milwaukee,"
"Did you ever work OH the Times
ut all?''
REPORTORIAL ''sUB.'
4 coIiiSbiitlS9 With -OlllC u
the boys wanted to GO off on Il froliC
| used to do their assignments fol
them, you know"
"For whom did you work."
Il don't remember their Names
"And you don't know what you
are in here for?"
well, | was told that it was fol
something | had said about a man.
You amt going 10 say anything
about me, are youE"
y don't know anything to say"
That's right" said Conway, "yol
know we newspaper zen don't like
notoriety."
Mrs. Bellows says she will prose.
cute with a vim.
I. NJ, Gill Of Mexico, Mo-, al
able musician, was III tie city Ii,
past week, looking for a band master
and teacher.-St. Louis Republican.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21
CD SLOW

wv SAA
This is the old cry. Go slow, is
the thought that has killed every pub
lie enterprise that has been projected
since the war in Mexico. Perhaps no
town in the State has made more
rapid progress than ours, and perhaps
none has a brighter future, but what
has been done and what will be done
has not been brought about and will
not be accomplished by the 60
showers. Wherever this class of men,
whether rich or poor, have exercised
influence, they have killed everything
they have meddled with. The
wont's and the cant's are everywhere.
Their logic is: 1t won't, it can't
succeed. Go slow. Put on the brakes.
Proud as we feel to-day of our town,
conscious as we are of its enterprise,
we recognize the fact that Mexico
owes everything that gives birth to
such emotions to the individual man.
hood that spurned the shackles of the
slow-goers. There is not a public
building, a hotel, a bank, a church or
an educational institution in our
midst. excepting those in which the
county united to erect, that cannot
be traced to individual effort. Every
one of these b%enefactors could be
named, but it is not necessary. They
are crowned already. The go-slows
are as w~ell-known, and are also i'm
m~ortallzed.
The LEDGER has better words than
go slow, put on the brekas. Its
motto is: Go ahead. Develop the
town. Supplement individual activi'
ty by public enterprise.
On the 30th of June, 1878, only a
little over a year ago, the LEDGER
was laughed at for saying:
strangers como and go and praise our town,
but who among them has "A full conception of its
future? Who looks forward to graded and mac
adamized streets, or stores or houses rebuilt
with stone or IrOn? Who forecasts the time when
gas shall illuminate, when clear water shall
spout from artesian depths, when our vacant
lots shall he occupied with factories, OH medic
inal spring become q fashionable resort and our
two railroads multiplied into innumerable com-
pnarriol avanIIes lending off into every direction
and carrying with them as they run our varied
products? Nevertheless, there are those living
that shall behold all this and more. Not to come
up to the picture drawn will be to be left behind,
The town in this county that does not accompiish
ali that has been enuwerated Yithin a single gen
Grafton, finds itself d~istanced in the race ofcom.
petition and subsidies into a dreaming Rip Van
Wrinkle"
Within the year that has passed
there have been some converts &C our
views, and yet there are many 60
slows. A contemporary, the LnteLj-
gencer, thus expresses itself:
''There is no abatement in the-we were about
to say--building mania in Mexico. Is it a ma
MIA? Do we dream, or is this solid, wide awake
prosperity /? We believe it is the latter. still
We say, don't go too fast; put down the brakes
occasionally and examine the track"
This is the old alarm. What do
the mechanics and laborers say to
such talk? Do they favor putting
down the brakes? On whom, on
them?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21


The long-expected salutatory of the
Audrain County Press is at last issued.
OF this milk and water effusion it is
not too much to say, Oh! NJ. Y. !
The mountain has labored but where
is the mouse? The city and the u
ty expected some vindication from its
editor of his desertion of the Demo-
cratic party 1t has not been given,
and the public are disappointed.
MIR. Duncan will discover, if it has
not already been suggested to him,
that the Democratic party is not GO
ing to permit him to palm off Demo-
cratic policies for Grcenhack Or Ma
tional doctrines.
He cannot skulk behind or set up
Democratic targets for Democratic
sharp-shooters to fire at. Let the
editor of the Press disrObe his Demo-
cratic habiliments-he has 10 longer
any right to chem. AS the special
advocate for the National party, let
him take up, maintain and defend the
peculiar doctrines Of that ~organiza-
ton. In hat event lie can have a
feast of reason and a flow of logic.
What has he got to say about an
income tax, and the revenue laws,
and eight hours for a days work OF
farm labor, the disuse of militia, and
the passage of a usury law by Con-
o. - -~+ionnl ond state repudia-
ton, and concentration of power in
the general government? And how
much of radicalism has he absorbed
in order to catch Republicans? And
what has he to advance against a solid
South?
Although he has deserted the Dem.
ocraGic party, it won't quarrel with
the views he takes with him from its
platforms in regard to legal tenders,
national banks, disbursement of the
treasury's bearded coin, remonetiza,
ton of silver, gold bonds and resump-
ton. Nearly every word he has said OF
these has been already said and per-
haps as forcibly presented by leading
Democrats in the LEDGER as by his
s~alutatory.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

By virtue of the provisions oftwo
certain deeds of trust made by Rufus
5. Pearson and Lucy Ann Pearson,
his wife, one dated May 18th. 1877,
and recorded in book 81" at page 5l4.
i'll the Office of Recorder of Deeds in
and for Audraiu county, Missouri,
and the other dated MAY 90, 1873, aud
recorded in book On" at page 1872,
in the office of Recorder of Deeds in
and for Audrain county, Missouri, to
secure notes in said deeds described,
|, the undersigned trustee, at the re-
quest of the holder of SAID notes, will.
on
Tuesday, September 9th, 1879,
between the hours of ten O'Clock, A.
Nj. and 4 O'Clock, +. NJ, Of that day,
sell at public sale, at the east front
door OF the court house, in the city of
Mexico, County of Audrain and State
of Missouri. to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described real cs-
tate lying and being in said county
and state aforesaid, as follows o-Wit:
Ten (l0) acres off the north part of
the southeast quarter of the south
east quarter. section tWenty9thrce
(23); ten (1Ol acres oil of the north
part of the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter, section twenty
three (23); northwest quarter of the
southeast section twenty-three (23N.
and the west half of the northeast
quarter, section twenty-threo, except
and save 20 acres heretofore sold and
decided to Clifton +. Wills; and also
3 acres lying north Of Salt river, sold
to Stephen bowman, in township 81,
range 8; aud the east half of the
southwest quarter, and west half OF
the southeast quarter, section seven
~, township fifty-one (51) range
eight (S).
left. ID. III. MCINTYRE, Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

Would it be presumption for the
LEDGER to claim any credit for the
gigantic strides Mexico is taking to-
ward improvement? What paper
works harder or more assiduously for
its town and connty than the LEDGER !:
All we want is an approving nod. We
think we have it; at least the people
on the north side of the square seem
to be with us when we say, keep the
wheels Of progress oiled and the
brakes off.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21
DIR. J. Fl. CONWAY,
TEMPERANCE LECTURER, NEWSPAPER
CORRESPONDENT AND CHICAGO
DETECTIVE
THE MASK STRIPPED FROM AN ADVEN-
TURER WHO HAS BEEN
s I. LOUIS.

HIS LATEST EXPLOIT IN PERSONATING
A wELL-KNOwN DOCTOR AND IN
A LADY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS
OF AUDRAlN COUNTY,

NOTICE is hereby given to tho tax
AS payers of Audrain county, that l
will meet them at the following time
and places, for the purpose Of recelv-
ing their taxes for the year 1879:
Martinsburg, August p and %.
Laddonia, September LIST.
Vandalia, September 2.
Crows School House, Sept. 3.
Pisgah Church, (Saling township
September 8.
Baptist Church, (ncar DR.. Sanes')
September 9.
Thompson Station, Sep. 10 and II,
Walkers School House, September
18th and 10th.
Blues Store, September II.
b. +. DOBYNS,
Collector Audrain County.
Mexico, Mo-, August >, 1879 1G-3
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21
Notice of Final Settlement,

NOTICE. is hereby given, that at
~ the Sept. term, 1879, of the Pro-
bate court of Audrain county, to be
begun and held at the Court House,
IN said county, on the SECOND Monday
IN September, 1879, we will make
flnal settlement ofoup administration
of the estate of VIM. Ii. Coil.
JAMES A COIL.
f. p. FRENCH,
! 17-4t Admr's Estate w. III. Coil,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

Some Of our exchanges seem to
wonder how a stalwart democrat
like M. Y. Duncan, can edit a Green
back paper" 1t is not much of a
wonder when you take into consider
alton that Duncan could not get Of
fee in the Democratic party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21
Tuition, 10 months, S 1000.
Board, 10 months, . $4,000.
Washing, per dozen, so cents.
~. J. BAIRD,
Business manager.
Order OF Publication.
IN EACAIID\

Audrain Circuit Court, Aug l, 1879
The State OF Missouri, a the relation
and to the use OF t.. +. DOWNS.
collector ofthcrcvCnurt or Audrain
counts, llaintiii.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

I. NJ. Gill Of Mexico, Mo, an
able musician, wa3 III tie city the
past week, looking for a band master
and teacher.-St. Louis Republican.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21
Order Capitalization

Audrain Circuit Court, Aug. 10, 1879.
The State OfMissouri. at the relation
and to the use Of Il. +. Dobyns,
collector of the revenue of Audrain
county, plaintiff,
Lemuel 5. House, Defendant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-21

NOW n this dav, comes plaintiff,
by his attorney, and files his petit
ton, verified by affidavit, alleging,
among other things, that said defend
ant IS a nonresident Of the State of
Missouri.
You. said nonresident defendant,
James Willingham, are therefore
hereby notified Of the filing of said
petition, the object and general ma
ture of which is to enforce a lien
against the following described real
estate, situated III Audraiu county.
State Of Missouri, to-Wit: Fifty feet
middle part of lot one (l) i'll block
eight (S) in original Mexico, for the
years 1873, 1873, 1876 and 1877,
amounting to $50 3O-lO0.
And unless YOU be and appesr at
the next regular term ofthis culWt. to
lac begun and hcid i'll tho court house.
in the city of Mexico, on the first
Monday in October next, and plead
0 said petition, the same will be
taken as confessed and Judgment rem
dcrcd accordingly.
1t is further ordered that Il copy
hereof be published, according to law,
in the Mexico LEDGER, IL newspaper
printed and published in the city of
Mexico.
Witness my hand as clerk and seal
*....of SAID court, at office in
SEAL. Mexico, this 4th day of Au-
gust, 1879.
JAS. CARROLL, Clerk.
;. Nj. EDWARDS, Plf's Atty.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-05-29
THE POULTRY YARD.
TO TELL THE AGE OF FOWLS.

If hens spur is hard and the scales of
the legs are rough, she is old, whether you
see her head or not; but her head will cor
roborate your observation. If the under bill
is SO stiff you cannot bend it down, and the
comb thick and rough, leave her, no matter
how fat and plump, tor some one less par
ticular. A young hen has only the rudi-
ments OF spurs; the scales on the legs are
smooth, glossy and fresh colored, whatever
the color may be; the claws tender and
short, nails sharp, the under bill soft, and
the comb thin and smooth
An old turkey has rough scales on the
legs, callosites on the soles of the feet, and
long, strong clawes; a young one the re-
verse of all these marks. When the feathers
are on, the old turkey cock has long tuft
or beard; young one but a sprouting one,
and when they are off the smooth scales on
the legs decide the point, besides the differ
ence in the size of the wattles OF the neck
and in the elastic shoot upon the neck.
An old goose when alive is known by the
rough legs, the strength of the wings, par
ticularly at the pinions, the thickness and
strength of the bill, and fineness of the
feathers; and when plucked, by the legs,
the tenderness of the skin under the wings,
by the pinions and the bill, and the coarse
ness of the skin.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-05-29
'IAMoND CITY, MONTANA, MAY %. 1879.

making the hills, use none but the best COM
post, or thoroughly rotted stable manure.
Mark out with plow across the ridges,
give large shovel of manure to each hill,
cover so the hill is raised fully an inch or
two above the general level, tramping the
manure somewhat firm. Make the hill
broad, so the rim seeds planted outside may
not interfere with the sods of seeds trans
planted, giving to - seeds or more about
each hill. Cover about one inch deep.
The cultivation consists simply in keeping
the land clean with the plow, and drawing
little earth from time to time to the hills,
keeping them broad and fiat. Never hoe
deeply in the hills. The hoe should simply
scrapee the surface to destroy the weeds.
Thus there will be but little difficulty in
getting crop of perfect melons.
A stiff clay is not adapted to melons. A
sandy soil or light loam is the best. In any
event the soil must not be wet, since melons
like the stongest heat. If the soil is heavy,
mix bushel of sand in each hill. Thus a
load will be sufficient for all the melons O
large family can use. In lieu of sand the
same quantity Of. sifted coal ashes may be
substituted, but it is not SO good. On all
stiff garden soils coal ashes will be found to
be available disintegrator, and they may be
applied from year to year until they COM
pose nearly or quite one-third of the soil to
the depth it is usually plowed. There is lit
tie manurial value to coal ashes, its chief
value consisting in its mechanical action as
q disintegrator.-P Prairie Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-05-29
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

After the resignation of Professor Riley,
the etomologist of the National Department
OF Agriculture, it was reported that Profess
or Thomas, of Illinois, would be appointed
to fill the vacancy, and now we learn that
he has declined the honor. Men who have
devoted their lives to science do not choose
to hide their light under bushel for 81, 800
a year, and be compelled to live in Wash
ington, besides. No scientist, however pro-
found he may be, is ever known in the cor
respondence of the department. His inves-
legations, deductions and discoveries appear
as the work Of the commissioner, though
that parsonage, as he generally is, may be
Ignorant OF even the alphabet of the science
involved. This rule must be changed before
the department will be able to command
even fair order of talent and scientific at
tainment. Men should have credit for what
they know and do.-Colorado Rural Life.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-05-29
PACKING EGGS.

Fine cut straw or hay and clean oats are
good materials for packing eggs, but chaff
should never be used. The packing should
be.perfectly sweet and dry. Place two or
three inches Of the material at the bottom of
the package, then layer of eggs with the
end toward the side of the package, but not
touching the side by an inch or more then
put ON several inches Of packing, pressing
down gently with follower; remove all
but an inch in depth of the packing and put
IN another layer of eggs in the same way as
the hrst, taking care that the packing is
pressed between the ends of the eggs and
the side of the package, and so continue un-
til the last layer is in, which should be COW
cred with at least two inches of packing and
an inch Of hay, and the cover Of the pack
age pressed down closely. Eggs packed in
this way can be transported long distances
without injury.