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THOS. w. ID. Ora Nc, Attorney and Counsel.
L at Law. No. Court street, Ottawa HIS Money &.
on on farm property. iuul'iSly
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GILMAN * COOK Attorneys AZ LAW. ONCE
~ Rooms and ArmOry woods Block, Ottawa, Iii
nus. GCCS
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EDWIN s. LELAND HIRAM r. GILBERT
I FL "a ~ ID 4 OH BERT, Attorneys at Law.
IL Otiice in Opera House Block, Ottawa. III Juhll'9
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('i AS. II. BRUSH. Attorney and Counselor ar
" Law Office IN Post Office Block Ottawa H. mari IS
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Professional CaroS.
AT TO r n e Y s.

w BUSHNE ELL, Attorney at Law. Ottawa III
w. viii practice in any Of the coarts IN mus STATE
Close attention paid TO collections Convcyaccs carefully
made and abstracts prepared with care, &c Notary pubic
Office west of Court House janl,9
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NJ II. NIOLONE.T, Attorney and Counselor Il;
wi Law. VOLTS Block La Sale street. Ottawa, Ills
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II McDo GA IL, successor to Cameron & Nc.
-. DUugall,J Attorney ana Counselor Law. Office IL
Glover u Cocks Block, Ottawa, H. Also United states
Commissioner. dcC2'I6
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T. r. BULL, Attorney AT Law. ONCE over cry
streets. Ottawa, III. mny2U16
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J. q. HATHAWAY. GEORGE y. VANCE.
MRS. HATHAWAY & VA NOE, Phye.
~ clans and Surgeons Ottawa III. ONCE, southwest
of Main and la Sale streets DR. Hahe~ays residence
Fox river, school house. Dr. Vance will bp
found in office day and night. janll
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II +. LINCOLN, Attorney at Law. once over
D No 10 In Sale street, west side If the Court House,
Ottawa, Ill., juy3'i5
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nR. X. NJ. NIcA TSII JJIS, Ottawa. III. Office
~ in the Opera House Block open from o'clock A.. NJ
to o'clock Residence Benton street, south of Hi
nOis Avenue. JanSgI6
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, Joseph II. seyier and
W Sarah X. Sewer, his wife, by
their deed of trust, dated the Soth
day of October. A. d. 1874, and re-
corded i'll book tx" at page 236 ct
seq. of trust records of Audrain coun.
ty, in the Office OF the Recorder Of
deeds, within and for the county Of
Audrain and state of Missouri, con.
veyed to the undersigned, as trustee,
the following described tracts or par.
cells of land, situate in the county Of
Audrain and state of Missouri. to-
wit: The northwest quarter of see
ton (32) thirty-two and the east hall
of the southwest quarter of section
(32) thirty-two all in township l52l
tifty-two, range (10) ten west; cen
tanning in all, $40 acres, in trust to
secure the payment of, and to pss
certain bonds and coupons in said
trust deed described. And, where
as, said bonds and coupons have lons
since become due and remain unpaid
Now, therefore, at the request Of
the legal holder of said bonds aR
coupons, and by virtue of the powd
in me vested by the terms of sail
deed of trust, l will, on
Thursday, January the 9Th, 1884
at the east door of the court house il
the said county of Audraim, betweei
the hours of9 O'Clock A. NJ. and
O'Clock p. n. OF that day. sell all thu
title and %intereRt Of the said
Ii. Sewer and Sarah Il, hh
wife, in and to said lands. at public
vendue, to the highest bidder, fot
cash, to pay said bonds ana cou.
pons aid the costs of executing this
trust. WILLIAM w. FUTILE,
80 tbs, Trustee. y
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
Order of Publication.
I'm yACATIoN,1
Audrain Circuit Court, Noy. 4, 1879,
The State of Missouri, at the relatiol
and to The use oc b. +. Dobyns, COZ
lector of the revenue for Audrsis
county, plaintiff,
e. Tilson, defendant.

NOW, at this day m plaintiff
~ by his attorney and files his PETE
ton, verified by affidavit, alleging,
among other things, that said defend.
ant is a nonresident OF the State Of
Missouri.
You, said nonresident defendant,
are therefore hereby notified of the
filing of said petition, the objeet and
general nature of which is to enforce
a len against the following described
rea. estate, situated in Audrain cour-
ty, State of Missouri, te-wit: Fifty
(50) acres, lot {3) three, southwest
quarter section (30) thirty, township
toy fifty. two, range (lO) ten, for back
taxes for the years 1876 and 1871
amountiagto Sii.4s.
And unlesa you be and appear o.
h next regular term of this court
TO be begun and held at the coar1
house, in the city of Mexico, on tnss
fourth Monday in january next, ana
plead to said petition, the same VIII
be taken as confessed aud judgement
rendered accordingly. u
1t 10 further ordered that a. CODY
hereof be published, according to law,
IN the Mexico LEDGER, q snewspapefi
printed and published in the city
Witness my hand as clerk aad sea-
*s..4 tf said court, at 0Hlce IN
SEAL: Mexico, this 4th day of De-
1893 cember, 1879.
JAMES CARROLL, Clerk.
:. N. EpwARns, Plf7s Atty. SS-4ss
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

TAKEN up by G.. W. Peery, of
Il Linu Township, county of Au-
drain, State of Missouri, on this, the
2Sth day of November, 1879, and
posted before the undersigned Justice
of the Peace, on the 9Th day of De-
cember, 1879. as strays, one dark red
COW, with white spots on flank and
belly, three years old, branded on
left hip-brand not known. Also a
red roam steer, one year old, marked
with hole and smooth crop in each ear
branded on left hip with a letter sup
posed to be the letter IN - no other
marks or brands perceivable. APP
praised at fifteen dollars each, by A.
Lisenbury, Samuel Whitlow and
Thos. Hicks. Given under my hand
this, the Sth day of December, 1879.
Sgt. II. Ii. PERRY, j. 2.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

When eastern Gnanciers induced a
republican congress to provide for
the redemption of grsenbacks at New
York City, they hoped that the con-
sequence would be a rate of exchange
favorable to that place in every por-
ton Of the union. 1t was. expected
that New York would be the creditor
city, and that every one desirious of
making payments there, would have
either to send gold or buy exchange.
Bot owing to large crops and excess
Of export over import New York is
the debtor city, aad prefers to hoard
sreenbacks and pay out the gold
which Is received from abroad. In
order to put a stop to this, and re-
fieve tile producers from such an un-
necessary imposition as the risk and
cost 81 transporting coin, the House
Cpmmittee on Ranking and Currency
has directed its chairman, Hon.
Judge Bucsner, to introduce a bill
requiring the national banks to keep
one bali Of. their reserves in gold or
silver cein. The effect of this bill, if
hgbecemes a law swilI be the release
= . large amount az the l~egal-tenders
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
RAILROAD
Jay Gould Interviewed oy the
ledger Man.

AS the koli days approach the mania
for railroad passes spreads. Officials
Of the roads receive thousands of let
tiers a week from dead-beats, wanting
to go to e their uncles, cousins or
aunts to spa the holidays-too
poor to pay, &C., &c. In a talk with
Jay Gould, last week, the COLOSSUS
of roads, told the LEDGER man that
he got no peace at all and had to
keep a man hired by the week to at
tend TO this branch of his correspon-
denee and ''pass'' sentence on the
same. He has a printed form giving
his reasons for not granting passes
which he generally sends to those not
worthy of better courtesy. This
form generally does the work and is
somewhat as follows:
she passed for a raise and was
killed In those days were no
passes given search the Scriptures"
And underneath, the following series
of reasons, dsduced from Holy Writ:
Thou shalt not pass. Suffer not a
man to pass. The wicked shall no
more pass. None shall ever pass.
This generation shall not pass.
Though they war, yet shall they not
pass" To each quotation the ap-
propriate chapter and verse was
noted, and q concluding line, pur-
porting 20 be extracted from jonah,
first chapter, third verse, stated, $50
he paid his fare, and wss happy"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

We clip the following from the St.
Louis Republican:
1.-The receipts are so light, That it
may be said that the country has
practically returned none of the mon
ey that it has been taking steadily for
months past. This causes very much
more annoyance from the increase of
gold coin circulation than would 9TH
erwise be the case, if the country
were sending to the cities the same
proportion of orders for remittances
to New York that usually come at
this time OF year. New York has very
little to send west on orders for mon
.ey now, except gold com, and it fol-
lows ofnecessity that every city which
Iquidates its New York balances by
moving gold, must pay just as much
more in the settlement as the differ
ence between the cost of shipping
gold and currency amounts to. This
Is an increase in the tax on shippers
bills OF fifty per cent. at the very
least, and it is the shipper, not the
bank, who carries the burden. The
other Inconvenience of gold coin as
an active circulating medium are I'M
material, but this one is SO serious,
and will soon begin to be felt SO Sc
verely by the farmers, to whom the
burden is allotted in the end, tlat it
will intensity the present strong an
tipathy of the rural population to a
r money currency. That result
will be unfortunate, yet, it is almost
a necessary consequence OF the in
creased discount on commercial ex-
changes, which has come about from |
New York's paying for these bills by
shipping gold instead of currency"
More than q year ago, and long
before resumption, the LEDGER called
attention to the probable occurrence
Of what the Republican deprecates {;
and, to enable its readers to under
stand what has taken place, what was
then said is reproduced:
s'It is nearly eighteen years since
specie payments were suspended, con-
~sequently the majority OF those en-
gagged In business at present have had
little or no practical experience of its
operation, and still fewer can recall
the financial condition of this country
during the existence of the United
States Bank"
54f'Communities have been using a
currency composed o greenbacks and
national bank notes secured by bonds
and receivable everywhere for all fed
eral dues except duties. Nothing
could be gained by exchanging one for
the other, and together they made an
uniform currency of equal value .ev-
erywhere. No one has troubled him.
self about the notes he has been re-
ceiving They might be greenbacks
or blackbaeks issued by banks located
anywhere" .r n..
However improbable it may seem,
this indifference after resumption may
give place TO the strictest scrutiny.
AS greenbaeks will then be as useful
rs gold to the banks, they will be
boarded by them"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
FINANCIAL.

Every day it becomes o apparent
that finance should net be a political
football, kicked hither and thither by
pastisal presidential ~aspirants. View
ed frora the standpoint which the ma.
ton has reached, how laughable is
the effort Of the greenbackers to base
their party upon expansion, and how
extremely ridiculous is Mr.. Weaver's
bill for the issue of five hundred mill
ions of greenbacks, without other con-
sideration than the imitation that will
arise from making up in that way the
difference between the legal-tenders
and gold at the time they were paid
to the soldiers, Converting legal
tender bonds into gold ones cost the
nation six hundred millions, and now
MIR. Weaver and the ''greenies'' want
to add five hundred millions of dollars
nor to that loss. Considered as a
bid for presidential c%andidature, the
folly of such a proposition is without
parallel, unless it be found in Senator
Bayard's bill to strip g~reenbacks of
their legal-tender character, or in
similar propositions eminating from
the Secretary of the Treasury and
President Hayes. Let the political
tombs of these last be erected and
inscribed, "Died of contraction. They
collapsed before they understood the
character OF their fantasies" Let
the tomb of Weaver be near D~uncan's.
and let this be their epitaph: "Died
OF expansion. They inflated until
they became s~urcharged with gas
and bursted."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

As the LEDGER contemplates the
monetary interests of society, 1t con-
graduates its readers that it took
but three congressional days to
demonstrate that there we're enough
Of all parties ready to eliminate finance
from politics, and proceed in o nom
partisan spirit to discuss and provide
for such additional legislation as
would place the currency Of the ma
ton upon a secur and permanent
basis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
INTERVIEWING.
The Consequences of Speaking,
Talking or Whispering.

AcAh"Po tucIc Is HOtEing connected
with modern journalism that Is more
reprehensible than interviewing. For
merly, the interviewer was a reliable
reporter, who aimed honestly to adj
minister to popular craving for the
thoughts and suggestions Of those
capable of ~conceiving and ir1parting
advice; but what at first was solicited
as a favor, has come 10 be demanded
as a privilege, and when it is refused,
not untrequently the reporter trans
forms himself into the detective and
hunts up second-handedly what can
not be obtained directly. On this
account, it has arrived at such q pass
that scarce anything that e
some mea is respected. Their senti-
ments, mistakes, sorrows and misfor-
tunes are all exposed. What is
spoken, what is talked, and even what
is whispered by or about them, is
caught up by living telephones.
What has been said may not have
been intended for the public. 1t nav
confer no advantage to be made &C.
quainted with what has been impart- |
ed, but all that can be gathered is
repeated as if il were of the utmost
Importance to a widespread audi
ence, eager for news and clamorous
for sensation.
Not few great evils arise ont of
this state of things. While what is
supposed to be in demand, Is detailed
with every incident that can CRAFTY
curiosity; that which communi.
ties ought to hear is suppressed. Our
great men, those truly capable
Of imparting advIce-except when
they have something that they wish
to be freely. ventIlated-look with
contempt upon all engaged in this
sort OF work and not only avoid
them, bat when that cannot be sue
cesstullv done, as sometimes happens,
either communicate something trivial
or withhold by mysterious silence
what otherwise they would have been
disposed to impart. 1t is only our
wouid-be great men without capacity
TO utter anything worth listening TO,
Or those that seek to mislead. that are
open at all times to reporters.
The result is, that interviewing is
Is grand a farce as it is o prevailing
nuisance. 1t is also a great consumer
time. Desire to know what this or
hat mai thinks, says or does, on
either trivial or important occasions.
attention from what person
lily concerns him that is absorbed by
t. Effort is misapplied in remember
n.y. considering and talking about
he most nonsensical opinions, be-
'anse they are understood to come
rom Mr., So-apd-so; aud In this way,
ven sensible persons are diverted
ON investigating what is of private
n public coneernment, if they are
lot thereby rendered incapable of 1t.
Every man that is q man, that feels
le has some worth and capacity with
n himself, should nerve himself
'gainst what has been complained OF.
t furnishes useless employment to
10Th reporter and listener 1T invades
ought to be respected; it mis-
oftener than it informs, and
nost frequently it is destructive and
INJURIOUS. Designed originally to in
rease good will towards the inter-
iewed, it is now, in many instances,
made to administer to sinister desig rs
y being converted into occasions for
endering those against whom it is
ERECTED unpopular. -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
Final Settlement

NOTICE is hereby given to all
~ creditors, and others interested
in the estate.of David GA. de-
ceased, thatI, j. III. Stephenson, exe-
cutor of said estate, intend to make
final settlement thereof at the next
term of the Probate Court of Audrain
county, to be held at Mexico, Missou-
ri, on the 18th day of January, 1880.
32-4w. j.. H. STEPHENSON,
Executor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
If Col. Switzler wants TO kno,w what

III Col. Switzler wants to know what
is the matter with Columbia, we can
tell him. The people of that town
are too. ~high-toned for this world.
They won't associate with men that
work, and think that railroad n,eu. eat
hay. This is a world of realities and
not a fancy, fairy sphere. "BI God
may ten,' but it won't make alive
town.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

The school book war waxcth hot.
and why? From u report in this is
sue of the LEDGER, it will be seen that
the committee selected from our best
teachers had no trouble in adopting a
course of hooks. This committee
were each and every n good and
competent scholars, wholly unbiased
in their opinions; and really, their
opinion is worthy the respect of
school boards.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

The telegraph announces that Judge
Buckner states that one effect of the
enactment of the bill to be presented
by him. aside from the purposes in
Dictated by its title, will be to abolish
the present distinction between the
proportion of coin to be required to
be kept as a reserve by national banks
in the cities named, and the proper
ton required to be maintained by all
other national banks. The man OBJ
ject of the bill is, however, to effect
the distribution throughout Gbe coun-
try of a considerable portion of the
coin that has accumulated in the
United States Treasury, and, Incl
dentally, to release q corresponding
amount of l~egal-tender notes., now
kept by the banks as part of their re-
Seryes-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
now boarded and kept out of circula-
ton by the banks.

No correct estimate a be made
of the greenbacks that are at present
in the hands of the national banks
and their proprietors, or are stored
away in their vaults on special deposit ;
but it Is probable that their reserVes of
legal-tenders exceed n hundred
millions of dollars, the whole of which
might be substituted by silver, to the
great advantage of all Industries.
The bill to be presented by Judge
Buckner, however eontenplates re-
only one-half of this amount,
and the banks will no doubt obtain
gold for them at the u. S. Treasury,
through Mr.. Sherman's policy of pay
out what is demanded. These
le~gal-tenders, thus redeemed, will be
distributed by using them for general
disbursement, instead of coin as is
being done at present.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
Final Settlement.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the
~ January term 1880, of the Probate
Court of Audrain County, Missouri,
to be begun and held at Mexico, on
the 2nd.Monday in January next, |
will make final settlement of my adj
ministratorship of the estate of VIM.
Campbell, deceased.
32-4w. JIM. MARMADUKE,
.AdIninistrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

Jake Ladd, of the vandalia lee der
was up to court Tuesday. He saws
his 'burg'' is booming. Corn, hogs
and money plenty. Nc greenback ers.
bat plenty of greenbacks. Everyh ody
in his end Of the county is In fayo r of
reader.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
Final settlement.

NOTICE Is hereby given that at the
Court of county. Missouri.
1 will make my final settlement as
administrator of the estate of Henry
Williams deceased. w. II. REED,
32-4w. Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, James T: Carter al
w Sarah a. Carter, his wife.
their deed of trust, dated on the ts.g
day of September, a. ID. 1874, and
in book "K." at page le4 y
SEQ, of the trust record in the or
The Recorder of deeds, In and e
the county of Audrain and statp W
Missouri, conveyed to the undersimM
ed. as trustee, the following descS;s
ed tract aud parcels of land sitna.s
i'm the county Of Audrain and stas
of Missouri, to-wit: The southsas
quarter of section ~ five, 100 arras
and the southeast quarter of sect;os
(6l six, 100 acres, in township ffty.oSs
(51), and range (8) eight west. Az
the north half of the northwest ouss
ter of the southeast quarter. of ssa
ton (2) two, 20 acres. and the soma
east fourth of the northeast Quar-
of section (11) eleven, in towusbis
(51) fifty-one, range (9) nine West.
containing in all, $50 acres, as Nj,
appear from the description tberaaa,
in said deed %oftrust, and from a a.
cree of the Audrain county circn;,
court, rendered at the January tesn
thereof, 1877, and recorded in boat
d." of the circuit court records, !,
page Al, ct seq. in the office of fl,
clerk of said court in and for ssiS
county, ordering and de~creeingsthr
the description of said land as civ
len in said deed of trust be chspge.
and corrected SO as to CONFORM to m
agreement of the parties thereto, /
trust to secure the payment of, an
to pay certain bonds and couponsi
said deed described. And, whereas
said bonds and coupons have Ion,
since become due and remain UNPAID
Now, therefore, at the request of tn
legal holder of said bonds and con-
| pons. and by virtue of the power in
me vested, by the terms of said deei
Of trust, L will, on
Thursday, January the 9Th, 1884,
at the east door OF the court house,
SAID county of Audrain, between tk
hours OF 9 O'Clock A. NJ, and 5 o'cioe
p. NJ, of said day, sell ali the RICH
title and interest of the said jaime
T. Carter and Sarah A, his wife, h
and to the said lands, at public ven
due, to the highest bidder, for cash
TO pay said bonds and coupons am
the costs of executing this trust.
WILLIAM w. FUTILE,
SO tds. Trustee
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

THOICE fresh meats always on
hand. "Billie" expects to sell
meat in Mexico always, and SO offers
none but the best to his customers.
Ii You want a tender steak don't fail
TO trade with thr most reliable meat
merchant in Mexico. 34-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11
ORDER OF PUBLICATION,
IIN vACATIoN.l

State of Missouri, In Audraip
County of Audrain. { Circuit Cour
Joseph W. Morris. plaintiff, !
vs.
John w. Trewet, dr., Emily A. Ea
den and William Harden, her hui
band, Thomas ID. Trewet, william
S. Trewet, James Trewet, Ezekh
TreweU, Spencer Trewst, heirs Q
j. w. Trewet, deceased, and til
unknown heirs Of Jesse Trewe
deceased, defendants.
NOW, at this day, comes plaintiff
~ by his attorney, and files his s
tition, verified by affidavit. alleging
among other things, that said defend
ants are non-residents of the stated
Missouri; that their residences ar
unknown to plaintiff.
You, said non resident and IN
known defendants, are therefor
hereby notified of the filing of said
petition. the object and general naturf
of which is to obtain a decree of said
court. vesting title in said plaintiff
Joseph w. Morris, in the follOwim
described lands, situate in Audrai
county, state CT Missouri, tO-wit
The northeast quarter of the NORTH
west quarter, section five, townshi,
fifty, range ten west; that plaintii
holds a warranty deed from the heir
of 5. L. Moberly, deceased, late o
Audrain county, state of Missouri
and that unless you be and.appear al
the next regular term of this cpurt
to be begun and held at the Com
House, i'll the city of Mexico, on th
fourth Monday of January next, and
plead 10 said petition, the same will
be taken as confessed, and the titles.
said land adjudged to said petitions
1t is further ordered that a cop
hereof be published, according to Law
in the MEXICO LEDGER, 3 newspapa
printed and published in the cityd
Mexico, Mo.
o...... y true copy from TIE
SEAL: record. Witness my hand
o' and said court; affixed At
office in Mexico, the 9TH day of No
vember, a. D., 1879.
JAS. CARROLL, CLERK.
KEENAN, & MCINTYRE,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Nov. Is. lS79-3l-4w