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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

reserving every alternate lot for
school and church purposes, the rest
to be sold to actual settlers to defray
expenses of land and survey. They
moved down the creek miles to To-
cate and our company went up the
creek 3 miles and led on 5 IA sec
tions. S. w. Crutcher, 800 acres !;
John and Will McCue, 32O acres !;
Thos. billiard, 16O acres of asylum
lands at $3.50 per acre, with ten
years time to pay for it, making one
payment every year. / left money
in the hands of the president to rep
resent me in the colony; have not
heard what they have done, but think
they will settle there.
At that meeting l found Walter
Adams; he was looking for a busi-
ness location in some of the new
county seats. I went to his camp
and stayed all night with him; he
was not looking as well as when
last saw him in Mexico, but says his
health has been good until this sum
mer; he thought the trip would be a
benefit to him. 1t was very warm
and dry at this time. l also found
another acquaintance in his camp, a
young man who, ten years ago,
taught school at the Jackson Thomas
school house his name is Garrett
he was a North Carolinian, came
to Mexico was taken sick, and was
cared for by DR.. John Potts and D.
b. Mcclure. He has a grateful
recollection of the kindness shown
him while there and says these men
possess the true charity. He was
looking for a business location also.
They were from Georgetown, Will
hanson county. Twas gone 80 days,
and rode about $50 miles horse back
and saw some fine country. would
not advise any one to come to this
country unless he fully makes up his
mind to endure the hardships Incl
dent to a frontier life. People live
in tents, wagons and in cabins with
dirt floors and roofs. You can sleep
anywhere. | have not slept in the
house only 2 or 3 times in 80 days.
There is no danger in sleeping out OF
doors on the ground. As for the
poisonous reptiles, 1 have seen only
two rattle snakes and have never seer
a centpede or q tarantula since
have been here. This country is sim
gularly free from snakes. l think
you will find 4 poisonous snakes in
Missouri to one in Texas.
]. w. THOMPSON.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
JOSH RELEINGS.
His Experience With Despep-
she.

/ bought a saddle-hoss once who
waG got up expressly to kure the
dispepshe-he waz warrant ed -t5 to Kure
the disease in ninety dais or kill the
boss.
He was warranted to trot harder
than trip hammer, pull wusser on
the bits, stumble safer down hill,
than any other hoss on this footstool.
rode the hoss until l was of a
jelly, and then sold him bride and
all for sixty eight dollars, and got
sued by the purchaser and had to pay
him ninety dollars and some cents
damages, because the hoss had the
"Nimshys," disease | knew moth
ing about.
The hoss and fixings cost me $45O
in gold.
kontracted for eleven cords OF
hickory wood-kross-g grained, and as
full of wrinkles az cows horn, and
sawed away three months on it and
the pile seemed to grow bigger every
day. l finally gave away the saw
and what wood there was left to save
mi life, and set down discouraged, a
square victim to the everlasting dis
pepshe.
l have lived at the seaside, and
cambooed with the saline flood until
l waz az we'll picked az number one
salt mackral.
have dwelt at Saratoga, and TAX
en- the water like mill, still l had
the dispepshe.
walked two miles before break
fast, then EFT slice of dri toast and
half the yelk ov pulletts eg, and
felt all the time az week az kitten
that had just cum out ov fit.
have laid down more than two
thousand times, and rolled over once
minute all night long, and got up
in the morning like korpse, and
there didn't nothing seem to all me
ennywhere in particular.
/ have read whole librarys on the
stumuck and liver, and when got
thrugh knu a great deal less what was
the matter NV me than when kom-
menced.
l have drank whiskee with roots in
enufF to carry off any bridge or saw
mill in the countree.
1 hav worked on the farm for mi
vittles and board, and dieted on ri
bread until was ez thin az the SER
mon of day Baptist preacher.
hav done all these things and ten
thousand other things just as ridicul-
Gus, and hav got the old despepshe
just as natural, and az thick az the
pimples ON four year old goose.
Ifyou git a good hold on the dis
pepshe once you kant never loose it
entirely. 1t will cum around once in
a while like a ghost, and if it do not
scare you so much az it did once and
make you think you are going to die
tomorrow, it will make you feel just
az sorry. JOSH BILLINGS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
Points of Etiquette.

Letters should never be crossed.
Anonymous letters are beneath no.
tice.
Letters of introduction shorld be
brief.
yours, &c. )" is rude ending to
letter.
Never wait over fifteen minutes for
tardy guest.
Say "Good-hye" and not "Good-
morning"
Upon introduction at once enter in
to conversation.
Upon leaving a room one bow
should include all.
A call should not be less than fifteen
minutes in length.
A note requires as prompt an an
swer as a spoken question.
Regrets in reply to invitations
should contain the reason therefor.
At table you are not required to
thank the oae who waits upon you.
"Yours truly" is the correct form
for closing business, not for friendly
letters.
You should exchange calls with
individuals before inviting them to
your house.
The custom of leaving blank mar
gin on the left hand side of each page
of letter is obsolete.
To return personal call with cards
enclosed in an envelope signifies that
visiting between the persons is ended.
Unless there is a great difference in
age, lady visiting should not rise,
either on the arrival or departure OF
other ladies'.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

The Lemara, Iowa, Sentinel, rep,
the counterpart of the Okolona, Miss,
States, "booms' for Grant in this
fashion:
Transcendentalism, -gush, reconcile
alton, and all other tricks of recon-
struction are played out.
Exit doves, olive branches and
fol-de-rol.
Grant and gunpowder.
Grant and bayonets.
Grant and the gallows for traitors.
Grant and the grand old Union
army on the top shelf.
Grant in the Presidential chair
his Congress and Cabinet taken from
the grim warriors who saved the I'm
ion to preserve it
And to stay there till the crack of
doom, if the integrity of the Repub-
lie requires it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

A traveller accosted a granger boy,
when the following conversation en-
sued:
"Hello, my son, your corn seems
to be small?"
"Yes, sir; we planted small corn" "
"Ah! But what makes it look so
yellow?"
s.We planted yellow corn"
"Well." said the traveller, as he
moved off, II don't think you'll
make more than half q crop"
"No,'' said the tow-hesded young
ster, raising his voice. I'VE don't ex-
uect to make but half crop; we on4y
planted on shares, anyway"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
the Past Hope Future Vigorous Work in the
MEXICO AUGUsp
EIIE LOST 9OOM-
he breaking waves dashed high

The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound pier,
AS old man Sprague with flashing eye
And loaded gun drew near.
Not as the conquerOrs came
With trumpet's blazen blare,
But to vindicate fair fame
He brought his Gatling there.
Lord Roscoe saw the gun
With Sprague at the business end,
And he half suspected fun;
And he cried, CIV hatwi ye, friend?''
And the Irate Sprague replied,
"I have brought my weapon rust
And I'll pepper your lordly hide
If you don't get up and DUST
And he didn't stop to talk,
Nor tarried to explain
He had business in New York,
And skipped out on the first through train
Aye, call it holy ground,
With its seaside damp and gloom---
He left behind what he never found,
presidential boom.
St Louis Times-Journa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

Here comes something freshly
handed in, but decidedly suspicious: ::
At one of our hotels the landlord
said to 6 boarder:
"See here, Mr.. B., the chamber
maid found hair pin in your bed
this morning, and it will not an
swer."
"Well," replied the boarder, IL
found a hair in the butter this morn
ing, but it does not prove you had a
woman in it,
The two men looked at each other
for about ten seconds, when each
smiled and went his way, no doubt
pondering on the peculiarities of cir
cumstantial evidence.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

MEXICO, Mo-, August IS, 1879.
To the Editor of the Sedalia Democrat
Your correspondent left Sedalia
Thursday night via Moberly. Ar
irving at the last named place we
found the trains did not connect !;
late in the evening took a freight
train and arrived here in the night.
Saturday morning was up early and
prepared to take in the town. MeXi-
co, the county seat of Audrain coun-
ty, was laid out nearly forty years
ago, has a population of about 5, ,0C0,
and IS steadily increasing, not with a
floating population, as in most rail-
road towns, but one that comes to
stay. The houses, though usually
small, are well and substantially
built. The town is spread out over
nearly as much ground as is Sedalia,
while it only has one third as many
inhabitants. The streets run north
and south and east and west are wide
and well laid out, and, considering
the fact that they have no under
ground drainage and no street sprink.
lers, are kept in very good fix. The
town is laid out around q square, in
the center of which is large two
story brick court house, that would
be u credit to many larger and more
pretentious places. In the court
house we met Mr.. Glascoek, sheriff
Mr.. Locke, county clerk; Mr.. Hay
don, county surveyor, and Mr.. Bow
man, school commissioner, all gen.
tlemen OF irreproachable character
and Democrats of the Andrew Jack
son type. A short distance west of
tie court house is the public school
building, which is a credit to the
builder and an ornament to the city.
Professor Blanton is principal of the
public school, and from the report of
tie school for 1873 and 1879, we are
led TO infer that they have been very
successful. There are about 1920
children. white and black, on the
roll, aside from the public school.
Hardin College, large and imposing
building in the southern part of the
town, under the principalship of
Rev. J. G. Maple, is one of the most
flourishing educational institutions in
tue state. Mexico is the home OF
Ex-Governor Charles ii. Hardin, Hon.
A. IL. Duckner, Hon. D. Ii. McIn-
tyre, and others who have inquired
prominently in the politics of Mis-
souri,.
There are two newspapers here,
the LEDGER, with Bob White at the
helm, and the IHtelLjgeacer, owned
and edited by Col. j. +. Hutton,
who will move into new quarters in q
short time, and then start q daily
evening paper and one that will last
There WAS Grcenback paper here
some time ago, and we learn, was a
paying institution till III. Martin Will
llams came over here and made Il
speech that busted it. Another is to
be started soon by Messrs. keeton
ana Duncan, and they think if they
can keep III. Martin away from here
with his windy speeches they will
succeed. As temperance town
Mexico is Il success. There is not a
saloon in the place, the Murphyites
having captured the city government,
placed the license at such a price,
81, 800, that dealers preferred to shut
down rather than pay it. In the
meantime we learn the drug stores
are doing land office business.
Crops are looking fine and rain is
needed badly. leave Tomorrow On
business trip to Fulton; will return
in a few days when | will write you
again. Yours, truly. w. n. G.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

"Can You remember anything
about being baptized?'' was asked OF
Il three -year-old girl. 81 dess l tan -
"Well, what did the minister do to
youi" she showed up my sleeve,
and stuck knife in my arm.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

General Grant is a great man. He
writes us that after a careful compu-
tation he has ascertained that the
drinking places in New York, if set
in one street, would extend seventeen
miles, and those in London seventy
three miles. He facetiously adds a
postscript saying he would like to
enter a walking match on that Lon
don street. He thinks he could make
the seventy-three miles in seventy
three quarter inmates, and lap little
of the ardent at each place. Oil City
Derrick.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
STATE DIRECTORY.

RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
James Harding, of Cole.
j. >. Marmaduke. of St. Louis.
John Walker, of Howard.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
RESIDENT OFFICES.
T. r. II. Smith. N. D., superinten-
dent and physician.
ii. X. Hinde, NJ. D., first assistant
physician.
T. A. Howard, NJ. D., second as
sistant physician. -.-..
G. o. Atkinson, steward.
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
WIN. ID. Kerr, A. NJ, superinten-
dent.
James X. Shelley, Jr., steward.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
MEXICO MELANGE.

About the County
Seat of fAudrain---Ets Location
and Newspapers---Hts PrOmis
nent Citizens and Sch0OIs---A
Dearth of SalOOns-iEOw H.
Martin Williams ''busted'' a
Greenback Paper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
les OF HOLDING COURTS.

TIMES OF HOLDING COURTS.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Regular Terms-Fourth Monday in
January, first Monday in june, and
second Monday i'll October.
PROBATE COURT.
Regular Terms-SeconI Monday i'll
March, May, July, September, No
vember and January.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms irst Monday in
NJ, ..-t, November and Feb
rulrV.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

"What shall the harvest be?"
Brethren, please ryes and sing this
wheat song after the choir leader
gives the keen oat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
Missouri Fairs.

In the following table may be found
the places, date and length of all the
principal Missouri fairs for the pres
cnt season:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

Be 1t ever so humble, there's no
place like your best girls house when
the old folds are away.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
D. E. SHEA,
REAL ESTATE,
LOAN AND
General Insurance
AGENT.
Office in Opera Block.
Mexico. Missouri

Has for sale large selection of town
and country improved and unim-
proved property at very low figures
and Oh reasonable terms.
Represents the following old sub
stantial Companies:
Home n. assets $6,1O4 ,651
Continental n. S... " sD40,0S5
InsuI ancC Co. of n. A.
Philadelphia. a... assets 6,60l 1884
Fireman 'sFriend Cal. [GOld
assets. ts................. 7OS, 1922
Fire Association of Phila.
assets. ................. 3,77s, ,651
n. British & Mercantile of
London Gold Capital. e. 10000, 200
Assets in the L. S......... 1867 ,277
LIFE INSURANCE.
North Western Mutual Life Ins. Co.,
assets. s......S1 S1S ,O62 1925 .O2
Abstracts and cOnveyances furnished
OH reasonable terms. CorrespOn
encen solited. OF f
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
CITY DIRECTORY

UFFECEKS OF MEAlCO.
Mayor, William Pollock.
Recorder, James +. Gillian.
City Attorney, T. Il. Buckncr.
Clerk, James f. Gillian.
Treasurer, ;. NJ. Locke.
Marshal and Collector, W. Potts.
Assessor, Samuel W. Buckley.
Street Commits sioner. a. j. Stacy.
Z City Wcighcr, X. Hiscy.
City Engineer, Thos. w. Carter.
Night Police, AL. Campbell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care
She'll come to pieces if
Raised by the hair.

An exchange-one of the awful
class of papers-says: ''Those two
Illinois sisters who committed sui
eide together we're probably fighten-
ed into it by the report that BficK
Pomeroy was looking around Tor
new wife.
According to the Contemporary Re-
view. the ..interesting young man is
a thin, pale, consumptive-iooklns
chap, who captivates young womsn
by making himself mysaeracus- ~
,:e..ing about sidewhiskeSs, eye
classes, or parting the hair IN the
middle. -
Nantuoket has more visitors than
at any time Ii Ave years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-20
General Trade.

The general order and jobbing trade
controlled the bulk of the business
transacted yesterday. No fresh atviv-
ais worthy Of the namo was reported
and no sales from first hands occurred
aside from a'ioad or two of hay, a few
potatoes, some oats and a limited
amount of sundries. Several boats arc
looked for to-day, including the
Shinkle from the Ohio, and aa add
tion to- the now depleted stock will
come in. c4t
FLOUR-Movos freely; western in
jobbing lots So so per Dbl for X, 81
for Xxx, 81 so for XXX, 81 70 for choice
family, and s. 25@6 80 for fancy. Single
bbls 25c higher.
CORNMEAL-Scarc and irm at 81 70
per barrel from the mills and 81 % IN a
small way.
CORN None offering except from
store; last round lot sales 4Sc; from store
A604Sc. Market firm.
BRAN-Firm az $3.50 for wheat, $40
for corn, and Sll for chopped feed small
orders 60GS0e per cwt.
OATS-In lote, 3l@SSe; from store on
orders, S4@S6c; seed oats ia good demaad,
AZ 85@40e for white, 3S@45c for black and
Soc for red rust proof,
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Sagacity of Rir,Is.

Certain facts render it probable that
birds in some manner become aware
Of cholera infection in the air. Recent
German journals state that at Munich.
where several cases Of cholera have
occurred, the rocks and crows. which
flew about the steeples and through
the trees Of the public promenades,
have all e%migrated and the same
thing happened during the cholera
seasons of 1886 and 1854. According
to Sir Samuel w. Baker, the same
phenomena occurred at Mauritius.
where the martins, which exist in i'm
mense numbers the year round, wholly
disappeared during the prevalence Of
the cholera.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-20
COMMERCIAL.
PUBLIC LgDeER 0FPIcR,
Mr,fpuIe Februorv on 1QTo

11AA hAol ANpAaaA -Vs Aolysl
The light demand for money has
caused increased interest in govern
ment bonds, and three or four of our
banks now keep them on hand for inn
mediate delivery to customers. There
is but little disposition to invest in
other securities, All local securities
are so uncertain that sale is difficult
to effect The Mississippi and Ten
nessee railroad first mortgages at 115
and seconds at 80 are among the most
active at present. M
The mercantile paper offering is
light and our bankers continue to re-
port but little margin in their line of
business. Discounts range from 6 to
10 per cent, at which rates any ac-
ceptable paper may be negotiated.
Exchange continues to offer freely,
though a Stacking off is anticipated at
an early day. Eastern cotton bills are
taken at lie off, if not carrying grace,
and &c off on New England points for
sight New York cheeks are sold at
par, also New Orleans do. Bills on
New Orleans are taken at lc off.
Shelby county wrrrants are quoted
at SO@8Sc buying and selling. A light
demand prevails for taxpaying pur-
poses. These and Bank of Tennessee
notes are the only uncurrent paper
receivable for taxes at present. The
former will pay county and the latter
State taxes at par, City taxes must
be paid in cash.
Silver bullion is scllingto the United
States mint at New Orleans for $40
per of 800 fine and in sums un-
der 10000 ounces Mexican dollar,
are quoted at 84@S5c and trades at 81
@95c. The latter are worth CSC il
New York.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-20

ture must come. The heiress ola Hof
enjoys royal privileges and truly royal
is the manner in which thenegotiation
IS conducted When the Young
Bauerlnn likes her regards upon a
sweetheart, two Intermediates are re-
quisite to convey the delicate intelli-
gence to its object. If the gentleman
should be preoccupied in the matter
Of his affections, he simply ignores the
compliment, and the extremely indi-
rect way in which the invitation has
been extended saves maiden pride.
But, If otherwise, as is usual when the
prize of a Hof is in the scale, then a
visit Of state is made, in company with
his parents, when a rigid tour of in
spection is instituted of the house and
premises Of the lady, and an inventory
taken of every item of her possessions.
from the linen closets to the corn
ields, during which her parents
we with one another in ex-
limiting to the utmost advantage
the resources Of the estate. This
visit, supplemented by a h~ospitable
entertainment, is ~reciprocated by a
similar investigation on the part of
the lady and her parents, when the
father of the lover declares the endow-
ment that he will make to his son.
how much money, what treasure in
linen, household goods and stock and
a careful survey and estimate is made
by the other party. But now is the
critical moment the irrepressible in
stinct of traffic has been fermenting
In both their minds. A slight differ.
ence arises between the Aeltern, upon
the score of an extra calf or sheen,
demanded on the one hand, denied
upon the other. 1t is enough: dis
pute only whets eagerness and hardens
resolution; the negotiation is at amend.
80 frequently does such termination
close these gentle overtures that the
peasants have turned their wits upon
It and made a proverb thereat, to-wit :
lie gives up his bride for a wooden
| SPOON.
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Attachment Notice.

Before G. Z; Smith, j. P. for Shelby county,
Ienn.-Edward White VS.. Isaac Smith.
N this cause an attachment having been
Tennessee, and returned, "levied upon the
property Of the defendant, " and affidavit hay-
ing been made that defendant is indebted TO
the plaintiff in the sum of $40, due BY
account, and that the claim is just, and
that the defendant is q nonresident of the
state Of tennessee; it is therefore ordered
that said defendant make his personal appear
anee before me on the 18th day Of March,
1879, ct Y o'clock m, at my Office in the Thir-
teenth civil district, Shelby county, Tenn,
and defend said attachment suit within the
time prescribed by law, or the same will be
proceeded with ex-parte and that a copy Of
this, order be published once a week for four
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 18th day Of February, 1879.
1l7-l53-3-9 @. d. SMITH. l. p.
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Attachment Notice.

No. 2269-Before j.. S. Galloway, J. p. for
Shelby county, Tenn.-H, L. Guion, agent,
VS.. Thos. IL. Williams.
N this cause an attachment having been
j sued out under section 1856 of the Code of
Tennessee, and returned, "levied upon the
property of the defendant" and affidavit hay
to the plaintiff IN the sum of $50, due
by account, and that the claim is
just, and that the defendant is a nom
resident of the State of Tennessee; it is there
fore ordered that said defendant make his
Of March, 1879, at u M, at my office, No, n
Madison ST., Memphis, Tenn, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed by
law, or the same will be proceeded with ex-
parte; and that 0 copy Of this order be pub
iished once q week for four weeks in the Pub
lie Ledger.
This the 10th day of February, 1879.
l45-l5i-4-lO j.. S. GALLOWAY, j. p.