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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
$3.50.

Not because we do not think the
LEDGER is worth $500 per year in
advance if it is worth a cent, not but
what we are going TO make the
LEDGER even better in the future than
in the past; not but what we think
our friends and patrons are able and
willing to pay q fair price for what
they receive /; neither do we fear that
our contemporary by under bidding
US can steal any from our list of
patrons +; neither r WE forced to
this step in order to raise money to
run the Office. The LEDGER never
was in q more prosperous condition
than it is to-day. But for reasons
satisfactory to ourselves, and which
we trust will meet with the APPRECIATION
of our patrons, we have concluded to
send the LEDGER in the future for
81. so per year, IF PAID PROMPT
LY IN ADVANCE. otherwise the
same rate of 50. 90 will be charged.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06

At present, mortgaged real estate
is subject to double taxation. Both
the owner of a mortgaged farm and
the lender OF the money for which it
has been pledged are assessed. This
proceeds from the idea that a note
given for a debt is money. Such
thoughts may pass current with the
fiat people. but will scarcely go down
with common sense folk. Nothing
ought to be taxed 1--WE had we'll nigh
said nothing can be assessed under
the CONSTITUTION but property. The
farm, of course, is Q legitimate object
Of taxation-it Is visible property,
So are dollars. Notes are only evil
dences of debts, promises to pay,
causes of action. If a man has a
farm, it ought to be taxed. So if
another man has 81 ,0G0. it also ought
to contribute TO the State in the sane
ratio. IL a owns a farm, and B
lends him . thousand dollars on it,
two questions arise. Ought B to
continue TO pay taxes on money no
longer in his possesslon9 Certainly
not. A ought to pay them or the
person to whom he has transferred
the cash. Tho other question is,
ought A to pay all the tsxes on the
farm3 Assuredly not he only has q
part interest in it. B, who has adj
vanced 81, 100 on it, ought to pay his
proportion. The collection Of his
share of the taxes from B can be
easily arranged fol-, by first taxing
the whole farm TO A, and giving him
psxer to collect BIS proportion on
! the payment o. the note given him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
jeff Jones,

The death of Gen. JEFF. Jones has
removed one of the most original char
acters in the State. He was an ex-
ceedingly positive man and his deter
mination anil re~soluteness bore the APP
pearance of stubboi mess. He rep
resented Galloway county in the
Twepty-eightb General Assembly,
and was noted for the honest yigor
with which he combatted every
measure that seemed to him to be
rot altogether square. When once
he got the floor of the House, 1t was
impossible to check him or head him
off, and he was generally permitted
his own way Upon one OCCASION he
was making a vigorous speech against
o certain measure, when Speaker
Boone called him 70 order. "All
right, Mr.. Speaker" said the General,
and forthwith launched out into
severer denunciation. s'The gentle
man is out of order!" roared the
Speaker. "No, Mr.. Speaker, I am
not out of order" replied General
Jones. s'Ihe gentleman is out oil
orderl" repeated the Speaker, pound
ing the desk with his gavel. HWeH,
Mr.. Speaker" cried the General,
whether I'm out OF order or not, !
amt going to sit down till I get
through" Unpariiamentary as this
proceeding was, 1t excited much mer-
riment, and the old gentleman was
permitted to have his way. He was
. Southern sympathizer during the
rebeliiog. For many years he bore
q prominent part In the affairs Of the
State, and was especially identified
with the history, development and
Improvement of Central Missouri. He
wac . generous, impulsive, noble
man, and his death, deplored by all,
has occasioned q void which may moi
speedily be filled. --Times-Jo urngk
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Notice Of sale of Real Estate by
Administrators.

NOTICE ia hereby given that, by
~ virtue of nm order of the Probate
Cou tot the county of Andrain, made
at the January term, 1879, thereof,
we, W, j. Jessee aad'J. L. Day, adj
minisfrators of the estate of w. III.
Day. deceased, will, on
Friday, the 14th day of Feb'y, 1879,
at the East door of the court house,
in the city of Mexico, county of Au-
drain. and during the session of the
circuit court of said county of Au-
drain, sell, at pablo auction, all the
lterest OF w. Ii. Day, ~deeeased, In
and to the following described real
estate, situate In Audrain county,
Missouri, to-wit: The west half of
the southwest quarter of section sew
enteen I'D. township tifty-two (52),
range ten t10) west.
TERMS OF SALE: One-third cash ;
balance in twelve months. with six
per cent. interest.
w. J. JEsSEE,
j. L. pAi,
Sa-tds Admr's w. I'll. Day, decd.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
REPUBLICANISM.
Its Genius, by Senator Vest.

Capitalization is the genius, the
presiding deity of the Republican
party. 1t permeates all its policies
and controls its councils. Even the
federal judiciary, keeping step with
the political departments, has under
one device or other extended its
jurisdiction to every class of litiga-
ton until, in the terse and emphatic
language of Col. Benton, ''the feder-
al tribunals stand open like the gates
of hell day and night" Emboldened
by past success, eminent leaders of
the Republican party now propose to
organize a national militia to be con-
trolled by the general government,
independent of the States and in
violation of the Constitution.
Why is it to-day that Grant is the
unquestioned leader of the Republi-
can party, and that they propose to
give him what Washington never
asked for and jefferson never aspired
to-a third term. 1t is because he
is the incarnation of force and mill
tary power.
When two years ago the Republi-
can leaders conceived the desperate
programme which seated in the Pres
idential chair a man fairly and hon.
estly defeated at the polls; when an
infamy was perpetuated which will
live in history as the greatest outrage
Of modern times, Grant began i'm
mediately to move his regiments to-
wards the National Capital, as the
legions in the olden time moved
towards Rome, when the empire had
been sold to an adventurer without
the consent and even without the
knowledge of the people.
The Democratic party is denounced
as the party of notification, but not
one word of condemnation or even
protest has come from the Republi-
can press against the extraordinary
declaration of General Grant that
if silver was remonetized he would
advise every business man and mer-
chant in the United States to refuse
it in payment of any debt. In other
words he would nullify an act ofCen-
gress enacted in obedience to the
overwhelming will of the people.
is 1t Of all surprising then that
General Grant Is the idol Of the Gen.
trationalists? Or, to use the Ian
guage of Mr.. Howe, OF Wisconsin,
that shaving exhausted the honors nf
the Western Hemisphere, he has
gone abroad that the East might
stand and do him reverence"
The programme will be consum-
mated when, in asfew months, he
returns through the back door CT the
republic, and, making his trIunphal
march across the continent, attended
by the plaudits of the Eastern bond
holders and gold owners, shall realize
those sonorous verses of Homer:
''Hark 10 Tydides, rushing from afar,
AS with his golden chariot wheels
liz thEpders to the war.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
&tray NOffee.

TAKEN UP rs a stray, by John
L. Wilson, in Salt River township,
in Audrain county, Missouri, q light
bay mare, about eight years old, both
hind feet white, branded on her left
shoulder with the letter /; shod all
around !; little white in face; under
IL hands high ; appraised at twenty
dollars by Joseph II. Wilson, j. +.
Wilson and j. NJ. Pruett.
1927 ENOCH UOOTON, J. p.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Order of Publication.

State of Missouri, County of Au-
drain, SIS.
In the Circuit Court of said Coun-
ty, June Term. 1879.
The State of Missouri at the relation
and to the use of John j. Steele,
plaintiff,
Daniel Ruggles and Mercantile Trust
Company ofNew York, defendants.
At this day come the plaintlffhere-
IN by his attorney, before the under
signed Clerk of said court in vaca-
tlon,a and files his petition and affida-
VT, stating among other things that
the above named Defendants arc nom
residents of the State of Missouri
Whereupon it is ordered bv the
Clerk that said defendant be notified
by publication, that plaintiff has
commenced a suit against them in this
Court, the object and general nature
of which is to enforce a lien against
the following described lands Situate
In Audraln county, state of Missou-
ri, to-wit:
LOU acres, southeast quarter section
= > AoAiP wv range ~.
lS7 acres, southwest quarter sec
ton 8, township so, range 9.
l6O acres, southwest quarter section
"a. township 81, range 8. for back tax
es for h year 1876, amounting to
$109 77-100th-
And that the said Daniel Ruoeles
aud Mercantile Trust Company of
New York be and appear at this
Court at the next term thereof. to be
begun and holden at the Court House
in the City of Mexico, in said county.
ON the 1st of June next, and on or be-
fore the sixth day of said term, an
'swer or plead to the petition in said
cause, the same will be taken as con-
tfessed, and judgment will be render
ed accordingly.
And it is further ordered that a
copy hereof be published according
TO law in the Mexico Weekly Ledger,
a weekly paper published in the City
of Mexico
State of Missouri, County of Au-
drain, SIS.
l.. James Carroll, Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Audrain County
aforesaid hereby certify that the
above is a true copy of the original
order of publication. in the cause
therein named, as the same appears
in my office.
Witness my hand as Clerk, and the
*......& seal of said Court. Done
SEAL at office in Mexico, this the
2Slh day of December.
1873.
ss-4t JAMES CARROLL, Clerk.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Notice of Final Settlement.

NOTICE ia hereby given to all the
~ creditors ofJohn Triplett,a and all
others interested in his estate, that |
will, as guardian of said John Triplet,
at the next term of the Pre- bate Court
of Audrain county, Missouri, to be
held on the 10th day of March, 1879,
at the Court House in Mexico, make
final settlement of said estate.
41-4t L. b. HIT. Guardian.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Notice Of Final Settlement.

NOTICE is hereby given to all the
In creditors OF Leonard Barnes, and
all others interested in his estate, that
| will, as guardian of said Leonard
Barnes, at the next term of the Pro-
bate court of Audrain county, Mo-,
to be held OH the 10th day of March.
1879, at the Court House in Mexico,
make final settlement of said estate.
42-It WIN. SINS. Guardian.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06

There was quite a FIRE in Columbia
last Monday night, bsrniDg the row
Of fame buildings across from the
planters House. The loss will not
~. verv great as the buildings were
.,srv nor. See account elsewhere.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE
AT ELECTIONS.

The Governor of New York has
called the attention of the Legislature
of that State TO Federal interference
with voters at its late elections:
"a significant fact in connection
with n recent election is the organ
lied attempt of the Federal authori-
ties to interfere with the suffrage of
our citizens. This seeing to me q
step upon dangerous ground. The
scanty justification pleaded for it is
that it is within the scope of Federal
authority to supervise the election of
members of Congress. In the exer-
else of this supervision the general
government pretends to find the right
of passing upon the qualifications of
voters at the poles, and to make ar
bitrary arrests in the discretion of
Federal supervisors, thus preventing
the person arrested from voting either
for members of Congress or State
officers. But the constitution of the
the United States provides that the
qualifications of the electors of rep
resentatives in Congress shall in each
state be those requisite for electors of
the most numerous branch of the
State Legislature.
The constitution of our own State
by virtue of which you hold your
official station declares what those
qualifications are. 1t further casts
upon you the duty of enacting laws
to determine by proper proof the per-
sons entitled to the rights of suffrage
thereby established. 1t is not fit
that the legislature of a great state
should sit quietly by while its chief
prerogative is torn from its grasp,
nor does it become an executive to
fail of warning words when such an
usurpation is attempted as the arrest
by Federal officers of the voter at the
pole. In the name of the people
whose highest right is unperiled in
this controversy. ] protest against
such interference.
1 urge upon your notice the danger
of permitting such proceedings to
pass unrebuked. Suffrage is a peo-
pies right, and by our organic law
its regulation is committed to the
State authorities. 1t has never been
yielded to Federal control and a
stern accountability will be put On
any servant of the State who neglects
to combat the dangerous precedent
Of Federal interference with these
reserved powers of the State"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Strayed or Stolen!

PROM tho undersigned, on Liberty
i street. Mexico, about the 10th of
November, one dark red cow, about
years old, half of one horn off; also
branded on the left hip with the letter
IL. ANY n delivering said COW, or
giving information of her wherea.
bouts, viii be liherally rewarded.
vat g. g. MINOR.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
All Want It.!

Because it is a family newspaper IF
pure, sound reading for old and young
and it contains a reliable and compre-
hensive summary O fall the importaIt
news.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06

NEW YORK OBSERVER

THE JEST FAMILY NEWSPAPEH,
Publishes both the religious and sec
ular news that is desired in any FAM
lily, while all that is likely to do harIn
is shut out. 1t devotes four pages TO
religious news, and four to secular. |
The New York Observer was first
published in 1928; and it is believed
to be the only instance of a Religious
Newspaper continuing its even course
for fifty-six years, without a char ge
of name, doctrine, intent, purpose or
pledge from the date of its birth.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Sale i'm Partition.

Sheriff Sale i'm Partition.
NJ. NJ. Wigginton, and Elizabeth
Wigginton, his wife, Anne +.
Collins, Barbara NJ. Collins by
their guardian and curator, VIM.
D. johnson, ex-parte petitioner.
by VIRTUE and authority of an
'order of sale, made by the circuit
court OF the county of Audrain. in
the State of Missouri, in the above
entitled cause, June 8th, 1872, and re-
newed by order of said court on the
10TH day of October, 1873, a duly
certified copy of which order dated
January 18th, 1879, and to me deliv-
cred, nv the clerk of said court. on
the 10th day of January, 1879. Twill
OF
Thursday, February 9th, 1879,
between the hours of nine O'Clock in
the forenoon and five O'Clock in the
afternoon of that day, at the East
front door of the court house, in the
city of Mexico, Audrain county, Mis-
sour, sell the following described
real estate at public vendue to the
highest bidder, to-wit: Northwest
quarter section twenty-three (23),
and the Southeast fourth of South
west quarter section twenty-five (25),
township fifty (50), range seven "a
in Audrain county, Missouri.
TERMS Of SALE.-One-third cash
in hand and the balanc &c in twelve
months with ten per cent. interest
frsii o"t-
II. GLASCOCK,
80 St, Sheriff Audrain county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06

T WILL SELL, at public auction.
l. on the 18th day Of February, 1879,
at my farm, 4 miles west of Mexico,
the following described property:
HORSES, CATTLE, Hoes, WAGON,
SPRING WAGON, HOUSEHOLD ]
AND KITCHEN FURNITURE, FARM.
ING UTENSILS, &C.
Terms made known on day ofsale.
42-lt w. r. WIGGINTON.
Dissolution Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given to NIL con.
~ cerned, that on and after Jan
uary, 1879, the partnership existing
between 7. NJ. Gill and Il. w. Gilt
under the firm am of 4 NJ. Gill Il
Co., is dissolved, II. w. Gill retiring.
Debts due the firm may be paid 10
either party. The firm name will re.
main L. NJ. Gill & Co.
T. NJ. GILL.
AIT IL. W, GILL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
The 57th Volume

will contain all the important news
that can interest or instruct !; so that
any one who reads it will be thor
oughly posted.
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ished, and we propose to sell it es
cheaply as il can be afforded. Let
those who want pure, sound, sensible
truthful reading, subscribe for it and
let them induce others to do the
same. We are now publishing in The
Observer the story of
JOAN, THE MAID"
by Mrs. Charles, author OF "Chroui-
cles of the Schonberg-Cotts Family.
We send no premiums. We will
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THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
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42-4t 81 Park Row, New York.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
OF PENSIONS.

Notwithstanding the desires and
even the predictions of the Eastern
press, the president has signed the
pension bill. This may not be alto
gether q wise measure. Indeed In
the present condition Of the country
it is liable to the grave objection of
increasing the burdens Of taxation
and adding to the weight of national
obligation and still 1T is not wholly
without fitness.
Modern warfare Is not as many
think, only an army, a battle aid a
victory. 1t involves suffering and
defeat also. II Is are indeed, that
Its 'triumphs arc all on one side
Some indeed, perish Ga tie fala Eof
honor, yielding up their lives amid
a halo of glory, but alas, how many
perish ANONYMOUSLY and die I'M
known, unhonored and unwept. War
has scenes more devastating and
more destructive of life than battle
fields. In our war, how many per-
ished in tents and languished in pris-
ms, amid and swamps-
pale, torpid and helpless-amid ex-
halations and putSefaetion-gasping,
turning and groaning, unpitied while
living and overwhelmed, unwashed
in pits when dead. How many of
our braves were taken off in incom-
modlous encnmpments asd Hnwhole-
some forts, never attacked where
courage was useless and enterprise
impracticable.
Quartermasters, contractors, com
missjoHers and agents have reaped
their harvest. We have seen their
e~quipages rolling in grandeur, and
their palaces rising like e~ahalations.
Why, then, should not the wounded
soldier end the wife and orphans of
his dead comrades be comforted in
their misery and bereavement.
Nothing could forbid this, but the
financial embarrassment it may occa-
sion. Congress, however, has met
the nations greatest debt, its debt of
gratitude. 1t has ordered it to be
paid and there are not many that
would interfere to prevent its liquida-
ton if they could.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06

TAKEN UP by Samuel j. Bovine.
l. of Sailing township, Audrain Co.,
Mo-, and posted before the undcrsign-
ed, o Justice of the peace within and
for said county, as a ST. ar, one small
three year old steer, collar white, with
yellowish brindle sides and neck no
MARKS OF brands perceivable. APP
praised at the sum of twenty dollars
by M. ". Baker, s. Defigh and VIM.
Anderson, after being duly sworn for
the same. Given under my hand this
November 10th, 1873.
Ss-2t G. w. HOLLOWAY, J. r.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06

''Hark to Tydides, rushing from afar,
As with his golden chariot wheels
liz thEpders to the war.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-06
Public Sale !

42-4t 81 Park Row, New York.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-16
A Glass Mountain.

Another marvel recently brought to
light In the Yellowstone Park Of Wyo-
ming, Is nothing less than a mountain
Of obsidian or volcanic glass. Near
the foot Of the Beaver Lake a band of
explorers came upon this remarkable
mountain, which rises at that place In
columnar cliffs and rounded bosses to
many hundreds of feet In altitude, from
kissing hot springs at the margin of the
like. As 1t was desirable to pass that
way, the party had to cut a road through
the steep CLASSY barricade. This they
effected by making huge fires on the
glass to thoroughly heat and expand it,
and then dashing the cold water of the
lake against the heated surface SO as to
suddenly cool and break it up by shrink
age. Large fragments were in this way
detached from the solid side Of the
mountain, then broken up small by
sledge-hammers and picks, not how
ever, without severe decorations Of the
hands and faces of the men from flying
splinters. In the Grand cahon of the
Gibson river, the explorers also found
precipices Of yellow, black and banded
odsidian, hundreds of feet high. The
natural glass of these localities has
from time immemorial been dressed by
the Indians to tip their spears and
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-16

This forenoon DR.. Bowke called on
Governor Tabor at his Office and said:
GOOD morning, Governor"
"Good morning, good morning,
good"
VI came a begging"
"-Godlr
81 want you to help Jesus Christ.
You can afford to help"
God all mightyln
1--WE are struggling"
Eyes, yes, yes; you you want-well,
how much do you want? Name it.n
"I'd like you to give the Baptist
church, one hundred dollars this morn
ing, for the sake of Christ-the saviour
of your SOUL"
Eyes; l 'spose twas Christ, and l
had ought to- yes; I'll help the Faith
er Son and Holy Ghost to all the money
they may need in Leadville. Here's
the hundred; and now go tell the pres
byterian, the methodist, the episcopal,
the catholic, the congregational, the
go tell every church that is, or is to be
in Leadville, to come and get a hun
dred dollars. I give them each and
every one a hundred dollar BILL"
As the reverend doctor retreated
with his crisp, new one hundred dollar
note in his hand, the governor was
heard to mutter: "There, now 1 guess
my title to a mansion in the skies will
be all clear. But bless these churches,
anyway Chronicle.
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