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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
COUNCIL.
Church Directory.

Services in the Presbyterian Church
every Sabbath at IL o'clock, a. NJ, and a
Z O'Clock, L. NJ. Prayer meeting ant
short lecture Wednesday evening at
o'clock.
Sabbath School-Judge Macfarlane, Su
perintendent. A bible class conducted BY
the pastor, Rev. John s. Grasty, ID. ID.
Services in the M. L. Church, south
every Sunday at III. 80 A. NJ. and 7.30 P. NJ
by Rev p. II. Vandeventer, Pastor
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening al
7.S0. Sunday school ut A. M. j. M.
Marmaduks, Superintendent
Services at Baptist Church every Sun
day morning and evening. Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday evening, Rev. j. q.
Maple, Pastor. Sunday school at A. NJ.
James Carroll, Superintendent.
Services at the Christian Church every
Lords day at 1870 A. NJ. and 7.30 P, M,
by Elder John A. Brooks. Prayer meet
ng Wednesday evening at 7. Sunday
school at $50 A. NJ. B. l.. Locke, Sup't.
0. S. Baptist Church. Elder ] T..
Z. Lee, Services every 4th Saturday in
each month, and Sunday following, at
at half-past ten o'clock, A. NJ. Ali are
cordially invited.
Services at st. Paul's Episcopal Church,
on secOnu anu IOurLH ounuays hL IL a. M
and $50 p. m. Rev. T. A. Sharp, Pastor.
Sunday School at 2 p, M. N. Lakeland,
Supt.
Services at Methodist Episcopal Church
every Sunday morning and evening. Rev.
FL. B. Seeley, Pastor. Prayer meeting
every Thursday evening. Sabbath School
at 9 O'Clock A. NJ, j. Wright, Superin-
tendent. Teachers meeting every Thurs
day evening.
Services at the Catholic Church on the
first and third Sundays in each month.
Rev. q. +. O'Leary, Pastor.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
Sure SIGNS.

To meet a funeral is q sign of desth.
To dissipate to-day is a sign your
hair will pull tomorrow.
To kiss pretty girl against her
will is a sign you'll get your face
scratched. ,s.1s y. &
To take home piece of bcefstakc
is sign there win be broil in the
family.
To see a dog fly at q farmers leg
is sign misfortune Is going to be-
fall his calves.
To see man loafing around p bar
room is q sign he'll drink-if You ask,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
THE OLD RELIABLE
Martins Hotel,

~ MEXICO, MO.
Is still in full blast, anG open mt all
hours. Tables loaded with all the
dtlicacies of the season. Servants
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06

..
Difficult Breathing, and all Affections
of the throat, Bronchial Tubes,
and Lungs, leading to con-
sumption.
Prices 80 cents and ST per bottle,
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
c. N. CRITTENToN, Prop'r. 2 sixth Ave,
New York.
GooD REsULTs-Are al lways plt ms
mt to contemplate, as every dyspep-
sufferer who uses ParkeI's Gin ger
Tonic will attest. To obtain from
this remedy the most gratifying re
lief when distressed with headache
low spirits, nervousness, wakefuI
ness, palpitation of the heart, Iii, err
disorders, costiveness, pain in the
stomach, heartburn, cramps, etc, is
a pleasant experience that surprises
no less than il comforts. Another
remarkable feature of this remedy is
its powerful specific action ON the
skin and mucous surfaces of the throat
and lungs by which it unfailinglv
cures the worst cases of cough, cold
and sore throat. 1t cures in WON
derfullY short time, removes all sore
ness from the lungs and protects the
feeble from consumption. Buy 81
bottle from your druggist, j. +.
Ldewellyn, or sample bottle at Is
cents. and test its merits. 44weows j
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
killing Cat.

1t requires ten well-directed blows
with an ordinary boot-jaek to kill the
average cat, and, at the distance of a
foot, the chances are ten to one that
you miss the cat. If you don't be-
lieve it, try it, says the Indianapolis
Journal. Secure the cat by string
one foot long, so as to give the cat
plenty of play, and after a weeks
practice you will consider this scant
estimate for the cat. Therefore, at a
distance of one foot it will require
100 boot-jacks.
But your chances of killing the cat
decreases as the square of the dis
tance increases. This is an axiom in
natural philosophy and fundamental
truth of Technology. Therefore, at
distance Of ten feet it will require ten
thousand. 81 - ...
Again, the force of the projectile
decreases as the square of the dis
tance increases Ten squares equal
100; 10,000x100, 1000, 900, equals
number of book-jacks on this count.
But then the darkness of night in
creases the chances of fair bit ten
to one. Hence, at night it will re-
quire 10, 900, 900 boot-jacks.
Fourthly, Hthe tom-cat being black,
decreases the chances twenty to one,
according to the well-known rule of
optics. Fourth count 200, 900, 900.
At this stage of our solution we
will leave the domain of science, and
draw couple of local differences.
First, after man has hurled 200,-
600, 900 boo.-jacks, he will be old, IS
we shall hereafter show, and very fee
BILE. We have no means of knowing
how much his projecting force would
decrease, or his aim fail. But at
very fair allowance the chances from
these two causes would decrease in
the ratio of 100 to 1. Count fifth,
20, 900. .000,0 900.
1t is true that 20, 600, 900, 900 boot
Jacks thrown round promiscuously
might afford the cat almost invinci-
BILE shelter, but to save paper we viii
suppose this to dlminish the chances
only as ten 70 one.
Count six and answer 200, ,000,-
boo, 600.
It is true the man might improve
n his aim, but the cat would improve
,qually in his dodging.
!; Now, suppose Adam to have
brown, on an average, 500 per day.
This is liberal estimate when we
make no allowance for Sundays,
sbums, mending his breechcs,
lowing up Eve, etc., he would have
job of ], ,056, ,220 years. At pres
Mt the cat would be 1,l86th dead,
II, suppose the weapons to contain
me square foot ii inch pipe and SIX
ight-penny nails The lumber, third
lear, wCuld cost s26 per !, 900 feet,
r S5, 200, 600 600. And the nails,
S, 400, 0O0, 900 pounds at three cents
&c pound, would cost &462, 900, ,OO0.
these figures are startling. II
yer toln-cat is killed tits by 4 apo
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
Justice of the Peace. Joseph Lupton
SALT RIVER TOWNSHIP.
Enoch Hooton
Justices OF Peace Orlando Hit
Constable. .Rob't Hooton
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
TIMES OF HOLDING COURTS.

TIMES OF HOLDING COURTS.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Regular Terms-Fourth Monday in
January, first Monday in June, and
second Monday in October.
PROBATE COURT.
Regular Terms-Secona Monday III
March, May, July, September, No
vember and January.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms irst Monday in
May, August, November and Feb
fuary.
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TIME TABLE.
. Louis, z. 6. 3 Northern E'y Time Table.


cept ounoay'....... .........'4'zo p. u,
Way freight west........................ 10
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06

RAILROAD COMMlSSlONEhS
James Harding, of Cole.
]. 5. Marmaduke. of st. Louis.
John Walker, of Howard.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
RESIDENT OFFICES.
L. r. III. Smith. M. d., superinten-
dent and physician.
IL. X. Hinde, NJ. D., first assistant
physician.
Il. A. Howard, NJ. D., second as
sistant physician.
CO. Atkinson, steward.
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
VIM. ID. Kerr, A. M, superinten-
dent.
James X. Shelley, Jr., steward.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
The Bourbon Policy.

DAILY does it become more apparent
that the underlying purpose of the
Bourbons in Washington is to establish
in practice theory of our political sys-
tenn which is older than the resolutions
of 1898, and older than the written Con
stitution itself. 1t is not against the
National election laws that the hostili-
ty of the Bourbons is especially di-
rected. 1t is against the implication of
these laws that there exists such po-
litcal being as the American Nation,
with power to protect American citi-
zens in the enjoyment and exercise of
their rights and privileges as such citi-
zans. There is no Nation, and there
ought to be none, say the majority.
There is nothing more than a league of
States-a Confederation with no attri-
butte of National sovereignty, no SUI
preme authority, no power to protect
any man unless he happens to be in
some foreign country. There is no
such thing as National Elector, and
no such thing even as National citi-
zen. There is no citizenship but State
citizenship, and no citizen of a State
can look TO any other than State an
thority for protection and redress OF
grievances, except in case of injury by
other States, or citizens thereof, or by
foreign powers or aliens.
Patrick Henry maintained that this
ought TO be the theory of our political
system, and he and those who agreed
with him vehemently opposed the rati-
iication of the Constitution because II
contemplated Nation. and not q
league. Not long after the ratification
of that instrument its former opponents
changed their ground, and asserted thai
the rope-of.sand theory was the true
theory of the Constitution. That theo
nv was transmitted from the bitteresi
enemies of the Constitution to those
who, after its adoption, claimed to be
its only true friends and infallible ex'
Founders; and the Bourbons of to-day
inherit it from the same source. II
is the theory which at last bore
its own proper fruit in the
war for the destruction of the
Union. 1t was to this theory that Mr.
Ben Hill referred when he said thai
the South event out OF the Union hug
ging the Constitution to her breast. '
| II is this theory which was supposed tC
have been annihilated by the victorious
armies of the Union, but which thu
South, forced TO abide in the Uniol
against her will, still hugs to her beast
and proposes to force upon the countr,
or starye the Government to death
There ought to be no occasion to com
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
MIR. FRYE'S SPEECH.

Mr.. Frye based his opposition to
repeal of the Federal election laws
chiefly on the good effect of their oper-
alton in the city of New York, where,
he said, false registration, repeating,
voting on the names of dead men and
the registration of convicts had been
pretty effectually stopped by the en-
foreement of those laws. He argued
that in that city interference by
the Federal authority was ne
cessity, so far as it could be consti-
tutionally had, and that it had purified
the elections there. Why, then, was
this Houses cry for the repeal of these
lawsp Was it because their enforce
ment operated against the Democratic
party rather than against the Repub-
licansP OF course it did, but so did the
enforcement of any law against crime.
If the whole criminal code were re-
pealed, and the doors of all the jails and
penitentiaries were opened, the Repub-
lican party would soon be in a hopeless
minority.
In conclusion, he said, what spec
tacle do we behold to-day! A union
between the Confederate Democracy of
the South and this Tammany Democ-
racy of the North! Have they forgotten
history, and that it repeats itSelfP They
have worked together before; worked
for slavery, and against the rights of
man; worked for dcspotism, and
against a republic. The one finally
made mad attempt to destroy the Gov
ernment; the other cheered it on. The
one fought for years to achieve its ter
al Il, NJ at IN
but, coward like, dared not help.
The one sowed the wind and reaped
the whirlwind; the other cringed and
shivered before the blast The one
mOurned over blasted hopes, broken
families, ruined fortunes and IL devas-
tated country; the other lamented only
the loss of political power, and now
once more they clasped hands. The
Confederacy demands that all protec-
ton to the voters shall be withdrawn;
that no civil or military officer shall,
with armed men, secure to the trem-
bling black citizen his right to the ballot;
that Ku-Klux and White Leaguers shall
reorganize; that scourgings, beating
and assassinatiOns shall go unwhipped
of justice, and Tammany, as before
shouts "amen and amenm Tammany
demands that the thieves, vagabonds,
gamblers, 'tramps, loafers and bad
citizens" shall again control the cleo
ton in the city of New York; that cor
rupt judges, false witness and perjured
applicants, shall again swell their ma
| jorities; that false registration, repeat
ing. Stimulating voters, and manipula-
ting votes, shall once more overcome
the whole of the people, and the Con-
federate Democracy shout back their
amen. Together they demand that
their wicked will shall prevail, or the
army shall be starved and all the func-
tions of the Government shall perish.
But the old Ship of State sails calmly
on. She has encountered in her Voy-
age deeper seas, fiercer waves, angried
storms, more dangerous Shouts, and
has found safety from them all. The
Great PILOTS at her helm, and freighter
as she is with the hopes of man, all the
powers of darkness cannot prevail
against her.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.

Senate, April 22.-House bill to amend the
insurance laws to compel the Commissioners
of Insurance to examine into the affairs of
any insurance company suspected OF being
weak, came up for third reading. After a
few minor amendments it was placed on its
passage and lost by vote of II yeas to ~
nays, having failed to receive the constisu-
tional majority. The entire afternoon was
spent on the bill on private corporations.
Ho,Se.-Bills passed: Senate bill to estab-
lish quarantine in certain cities, and for
other purposes; the Asylum Appropriation
bill.
Senate, april 23.-The following bills were
passed: Revising the statutes relating to the
Legislative Department.; authorizing the
Board of Public Works to lease the south bank
of the six-mile reservoir in Paulding County,
to the Paulding u Antwerp Railroad for a
road bed providing that number of persons
living on an unimproved road may get per-
mission from the township trustees TO i'm
prove said road, and the cost of the same, ex-
ceeding their road tax, may be credited to
them on future road tax; providing for a
school at the Orphans Home in Warren Coun-
ty. A resolution was adopted to place the
Senate flag at halfm on the following day
in honor of the memory of Gen John A. Dix.
House-Resolutions were offered and
adopted as follows: Providing that the House
shall meet each day at a. m. and 2 p.
M, Instead of 10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m, as at
present, ana JlaJ llglG sessions Snal DC nelu
each evening from 1:30 to . 80 O'Clock, and
that after this tri-weekly adjournment there
shall be no further tri-wcekly adjournments
this session; providing that unless otherwise
ordered codiled and appropriation bills shall
take precedence of other bills, and that
in the consideration of such bills, speeches
shall be limited to five minutes each, unless
by consent of the House or the Committee,
A number of local bills were passed. The
bill providing that property which is mort
gagged when assessed for taxation shall be val
ued only at real value to the owner, deducting
the amount OF the mortgage, was read the
third time and lost
Se1tdte, Aprd decentralization OF the Cor
poratlOns bill was resumed and after some
amendment was passed, The bill cOdifying
the laws relative to benevolent institutions
was read the third time and passed, after somC
amendments.
HouSe.-The following bills were passed
Amending the laws relative to free banking
providing that the Prosecuting Attorney
of counties where Probate Courts have
criminal jurisdiction may transfer, papers
! in criminal cases from the Common Pleas Il
nicipal corporations TO issue bonds to rails,
| money to construct water works. Bills intro
duced: To authorize the State Board o
| Charities to make an investigation of public
| Institutions; to provide for the prompt pay
ment of judgment in certain cities.
Senate, AprH 25-After reading the journa
the Senate adjourned until the Goth.
H0uSe.-Several bills of local characte
were introduced and the House adjourned un
til the goth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

tive men of the opinions of your Sec
tion. Communities are acted upon in
masses, and we all know how often in
this worlds history reason is dethroned
by feeling, and passion usurps the
province of reason. But you are better
educated, you are better informed, you
are better instructed; you deal more
with the outside world than the people
of your districts. Ought you not to be
leaders, not followers, of their ideasP
Ought they not to take instruction
from you, and ought you not to so teach
and control them that not only individ-
ual men but organized masses shall
learn to look TO justice as right and to
strive for rightP You have among you
statesmen who, in other times and
other duties, have made these halls
vocal with the advocacy of great rights;
you have orators in whose blood the
warm currents of youth still flow with
manliness and power, men whose life
seem to have been touched with the
rod of Hermcs; whose voice in the
hustings and hall rings out like silver
clarion. You have soldiers as brave
as ever Wallace led; men who have
commanded armies greater than those
with which Napoleon swept the CONT
nent of Europe on fields more deadly
than those on which were decided the
destinies of nations; you have states
men fit to stand by any one of the gov
ernments of the world. Will you not
listen to the voice ofpeacep Win you not
understand that you are needlessly
forcing upon us this propositions Not
e
the United States can he enforced, but
whether or not the United States has
any "peace" which it may and can
maintain. Now ask you to pause on
the threshold of this question and en-
deavor to take away your own minds
from the impress of natural association
and natural feelings. You may be OPP
posed, men may revile you; regard
them not, it is but the scream of the
vulture which you scare from his prey.
You may, some of you, be called upon
to sacrifice yourselves. Remember the
highest offering of citizen to his
country, or of a soldier to his cause, is
not always valor, but is sometimes sac
rifice. Remember that when the earth
gaped in the forum it was not fruits nor
wine, nor gold nor precious stones,
nor the offering of forest or flood; not
the gladiator, slave, nor rude bar
barian; not the client OF freedman; no,
not even the child, nor wife, that could
avert the threatened danger, but the
Roman citizen himself, patrician sol
dier, knight, clad with the regalia, and
armed with the weapons of the highest
type of citizen, soldier and leader.
Mr.. Chairman, l repeat my PROPOSE
ton, that the United States is n Gov
ernment of limited power, delegated to
it by the Constitution, but limited only
in number and not in quality. The
powers of the Government are the
supreme law of the land when orga-
nized in the form of law by the Natio-
nal Legislature, and when they are so
organized they must be enforced by all
the powers of the Government or the
Government itself will fall to pieces
and be destroyed, and remain only a
derision to the enemies of free govern
ment throughout the world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

Two herdsmen quarrelled on a Ne
braska prairie, and each threatened to
kill the other. Neither was armed,
but there was gun in their hut, mile
away. Both started for the weapon,
and il was race for life, for the man
who got it was certain TO shoot his COM
panion. They had several fights on
the way, and were bruised and exhaust
ed when they neared the goal; but they
ran with desperation, and kept abreast
until close TO the house. Then one
tripped and fell, giving the other the
lead. The victor dashed into the build
ing, pulled the gun down from its hooks,
and mercilessly murdered his faAen foe
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

Pendleton introduced q bill to increase educa-
tional facilities and establish normal training
schools for the benefit of Indian tribes
who have educational claims on the
United States. Referred. The House joint
resolution TO repeal certain clauses in the
Sundry Civil Appropriation act tof March 8,
1879 passed. 1t makes appropriations for the
extension Of military telegraph lines in Mon
tana and Texas. The bill giving seats on the
floor of the Senate and House to heads of
Departments was taken up, and Mr.. Pendle-
ton made speech in its advocacy. The bill
on motion of Mr.. Pendleton was then laid on
the table to be called up hereafter. A bill
was passed providing for the publication OF a
supplement to the Revised Statutes. The bill
to prevent the introduction of contagious
or Infectious diseases into the United States
was taken up, pending which the Senate went
into executive session, and, when the doors
Teoponed, adjourned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

PRoFEssoR QuINToN declares his be-
lief that at some future age of the world !
man will have attained such complete
mastery over the forces OF nature as to
be able to communicate with his tel-
lows over long distances, and from
country to country, merely by the ex-
ercise of his will power. When this
period arrives our wife can halloa over
the back fence to Queen Victoria and
ask her whether she intends to have
her new spring silk made up with a
Camargo basque displaying the vest,
or a shirred front with boutfant back
drapery-or somehow that way. And
every man win be his own Atlantic
cable.--NorriStOt0 Rerdld. s at
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

THE management of the Connecticut
State prison, according to the report of
a legislative committee, is very bad.
Drunkenness is common among the
keepers when on duty, prisoners are all
lowed to keep tools in their rooms, bar
barous punishment and laXity of dis
cipline are the rule and not the excep-
ton, prisoners are often released before
the expiration of their terms, and $751;
900 received from contractors cannot
be traced.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

1t was in Portland, Oregon. Mr..
Wilson said it was " ack-a-demy," and
Mr.. Jones said it was a-cad-amy."
They drew their pistols and popped,
and both sleep in the field behind the
ao.ad-emy.N
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

The ice cream season comes on
apace, and the young man regrets with
exceeding bitterness the money wrung
from him by an outrageously long
sleighing season.-N. Y. Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

AGE imparts richer flavor to wine
and increases its value; but, alasl II Is
the worst thing that could happen to an
egg. -Hackensdek RepnbicdR. fseal ii
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

BURDETTE says: 81 never waste any
time in listening to the meaningless
twitter of the blue birds when the din
ner gong is winding its mellow hum"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
FOREIGN INTELLucENCE.

ator Brownlow, died at Knoxville, Tenn, on
the 06th u1t
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

ONE thing is certain, the lamb isn't
goihg to have much show this year
Rochester Express,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

The only word that rhymes with
" BLOSSOM" is "opossum."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
THE EAsr.

August Belmont was badly hurt on the 29d
by being thrown from his carriage, a heavy
road wagon having come in collision with
him.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York
Tribune, has sent another lot of destitute
boys TO the West. The funds to defraY the
expense of their removal were placed in Mr.,
Reid's hands by charitable gentlemen to ex-
pend as he thought best in relieving the
wants OF suffering in New York Mr., Reid
has placed about seventy boys in good homes
In the West.
The Mount Carbon rolling mills, two miles
south of POttsville, Pa, were burned on the
23d. Loss about $3.50, 600; no insurance.
The New York Senate, bya vote of II to
10, on the 23d, adopted concurrent resolution