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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-17
ton, ST.

Notice.
In reference to notice OF Benson,
appearing in the last and present is
sues of the LEDGER, 1 desire to say
that said Benson las no authority to
sell Montgomery county, but Only
St. Louis, St. Charles and Warren
counties, which territory l made him
a present of, and only rated the same
at $3.50. Neither has Benson right
to sell the Mandarics note, as it was
only put into his hands for collection.
He has fallen out with HE because ]
would not give him a full half inter-
est in my patent and his advertise
ment is intended for no other purpose
than to affect me and injure my bust
ness. Any Il wanting hight On the
subject can get it by calling upon
DIR: Bolton, George Ogan, James
BARLEY or E. Nobson, Of Williams
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Ague FllIs. Ihey ACT gently OH Hs
liver and bowels, and remove the
poison nom the system, purify the
blood, and impart health and strength
to every part of the body. Be sure
and get them, and you will be hap
py. zi-ti.
I propose to advertise the lands iefS
fer sale or trade with me, by circular
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tan. Last week real estate was eX-
changed for diamonds. Quite all an
usual Occurrence in this part of the
state.
Thos. d. BOgic. formerly Of the
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Lee Mcconnell will rem ain in
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train dispatcher's office at Mexico
when the extension is completed
~ q o.
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dirty Ilar and SKUNK, makes lnsinua-
tions which have no foundation.
Monday wnS GRAND. GLOOMY and
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to their case. ~
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speciality. Consultation free. Once
and residence, first house North OIL
the old Catholic church building, IN
Mexico. 3S,t-
A SURE CURE.
A certain and permanent cure for
chills and fever, dumb ague, diseases
of the liver, neuralgia, &c., is found
in DIR. Patterson's Sugar Coated
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Church every night this week.
Miss Florence Clayton, of Column
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IlUTtsNClIt IIVTdIW- MS lihVII CTItW
of the Richmond, Ray county Chroni-
Gle. Bogie is q mos excellent news
paper man and we wish him much
success.
IL AI-r.E. -ul.A ..-.,c lie ctnnn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-17

papers in the north, east and south,
and all parties sending me full des-
cription of lands and prices viii get
the benefit of such advertisement this
fall. No charges unless sale or trade
is made satisfactory to owners
G. W. Baker. Real Estate q Pt.
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respectfully solicited.

IVII DgNTFFNTF - ~"
JAMES CARROLL,
Secretary.
\. B-Rn0ms are free to al.
GLASGOW EEE'H..
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10 q IIIDoU INUVNDIN N"tNT PIASO VIII
should be kept up.
A gentleman makes charges. A
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The Sharp Sl0Olcr, OF Fulton, Is 4
live, loud, lushcr, the only objection
any one could have to it, is that you
cant find anything personal in it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-17

II. b. Seeiey is now preaching at
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and Judge FORREST, are attending the
Supreme Court, at Jefferson City.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-17

peculiar-more peculiar than grand
and more gloomy than either.
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are being built IN MEXICO.
II, Sclarlach is in St. Louis pur-
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a NewspapSf Va VA r..4L
Intended for le Se0piS Az" VI ~
wellsvi,,e hi a telephone,
Lent expirl last Sunday.
Some ms,svere born tired.
Meuico III hare the deris'on.
For 1907 Pork and Beans.
Al. ca.pbell, is night police.
Foxeggrow gray, bnt never good.
..p,y as you CO." or stay at home
The ~poslofice will not be moved.
The boys are walking out of Lead
Vile,
The late am saved the wheat
crop.
Saline county wants a new court
house.
Stanly Pearson has returned from
Texas.
Strawberries IN St. Louis, so cents
aquart.
Mexico needs 4 public park and a
market house.
See advertisement of Howell &
Baker in this issue.
Never say die" What, never!
Well, hardly ever!
The life of the Gar of Russia has
again beer attempted. -
Coles circus VIII be a. jeff. CITY
on the 2Sth of this month.
Baby Mine should be crooked
in The cradle Of the deep.
If you want to make your collar
last, make your shirt first.
Never cat late Mt night. Adam ate
an apple after Eve and died.
The Glasgow bridge will he com.
pleted about the first Of May.
The Home Club will give thcir lna
dress ball next Monday night.
Mexico needs a public park. "
suggest the old base ball ground.
Hail storm in St. Louis, did $40,
900 WORTH of damage last Monday.
Read the financial statement CT tn
county in this issue of the LEDGER.
Hiram Moses shad-boat, Punch
em-a-shorc, is all the 90 in the east.
The wages Of sin should be CT
down and the salaries of minister
raised.
The boys let the wolf get away La
Thursday. Wonder what was tf
matter.
The Linton District Medical ms,
tnte meets in Mexico Tuesda.
May 9th. a
One of the Moberly papers mig
be called Light Head if it was II
called Head Light.
Mrs. Oliver, Simon Cameron
lady love, has taken to the le"tu
: platform Next
Tie Fulton Callawegian will not
issued in the future. The editor
sick and the paper is dead.
The votc for School Commission
in the whole county was j IN
423 G.. d. Bowman 500.
Zcll's Condensed CyclOpcdia +
sale at this office for S4.O0. L
\ book is new and cost $500.
Prof. Hamill, Of Louisiana, VIII
ell route Cor Jefferson City last 5;
surlay, paid Mexico a flying visit.
Tie town nine and public scht
20 crossed hats last Saturday el
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Here never was as muCIl DulIdlDg
going on IN the county as there is
now.
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a new stock OF drugs.
prnnnh.nn Of Tia Dnnrhrrtnrinn
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Is. D. filte, proprietor II pofta-
BILE cook stove fender, has his head
quarters in Mexico. Give him q call.
Tho times arc Cnttinr hotter
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read, put them in the LEDGER, it is
the only local paper in the county
and everybody reads it.
80 G. -&-
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II I"TT'"VFFN T"T-V -
built in the spacious yard of the NJ.
f. Church, South. 1t will be q COM
modious and neat little cottage.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-04-17

IT you deslre 10 trade or sell IaTm
ing or grazing lands in Audrain OF adj
counties, send description
wifh-lnwasf cash nrica To C. W b.
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ker, Real Estate Loan and GeneraI
Insurance agent. Office over New
Savings Bank Building, Mexico, Mo.
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Not less than one dozen new houses
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,ut their hands down into their peck
Is and come out with their milk OF
,,,,,n E;.Inns-' N~pxiro t.nIli have
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room just vacated by DR.. Patterson
Is going to enlarge the 81 ne and put
in Il plate glass front, preparatory to
moving his stock of furniture INTO
that room.
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Stewart w. III.
Torreyson T. J.
Basket j. n.
Total, -
MISCELLANEOUS.
Judges and Clerks of Elections,
Gill T. NJ. hardware.
Steele J. j. sheriff jury bill,
Luptou J. bill cost state cases,
Glascock III. bill cost state cases,
james Carroll, circuit clerk, bill cost state cases,
Hooton +. bill cost state cases,
Hooton II. b. bill cost state cases,
Gordon j. M. bill cost state cases,
L. j. Marshall, money borrowed Jail &c,
Gass J. 2. expense school commissioner.
Dunbar Il. d. painting safe County Treasury,
Shell J. H.. road commissioner,
Gibbs +. C.. road commissioner.
Rankin Giles right of way to bridge,
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teDry L
rubbery iail and court lTouse,

City of Mexico sidewslk,
City of Mexico keeping prisoners,
Total,
COUNTY OAR EQUALIZATION.
DouuIass A, j.
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Jas. Fasqu til has purchased a new
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Reed A. J. work on
Total.
JAIL.
Quincy Iron Work Co., cells,
Evans ID. n. builder,
Bishop J. r. fence,
Boyd Mat. cistern and sewer,
Bass L. n. repair chairs,
Woodward W. Fl. insurance,
Buckley $. w. insurance, =
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- HE- E~--r@~.
Jas. Fasqu til has purchased a new :
took of goods.
H. b. Seelcy is now preaching at
Mo.
Lee Mcconnell will rem ain in
drug store.
Not less than one dozen new houses
ire being built in Mexico.
r. Sclarlach is in St. Louis pur-
a new stock OF drugs.
Preaching at the Presbyterian
Church every night this week.
Miss Florence Clayton, of Column
b,a, attended Miss sBee Spence's
wedding.
The city HILARY Is now open. This ,
is q most laudable enterprise and
should be kept up.
A gentleman makes charges. A
dirty liar and skunk, makes insinua-
tions which have nc foundation.
Monday was grand, gloomy and
peculiar-more peculiar than grand
and more gloomy than either.
There will probably be a branch
train dispatcher's office at Mexico
when the extension is completed
G. B. Nacfarlane, w. H. KEENAN,
and Judge FORREST, are attending the
Supreme Court, at Jefferson City.
B. S. Hite, proprietor of the porta-
BILE cook stove fender. has his head
quarters in Mexico. Give him a call.
The times are getting better.
There never was as much building
going on IN the county as there is
=
now.
If you want your advertisement.
read, put them in the LEDGER, it is
the only local paper in the county
and everybody reads it.
A handsome parsonage Is beins
built in the spacious yard of the NJ
f. Church, Souta. 1t will be a com
modious and neat little cottage.
The Sharp Shooter, Of Fulton, is
: live, loud, iushcr, the only objection
, any one could have to it. is that yOI
. cant find anything personal in it.
Mexico is getting quite metripo!i
tan. Last week real estate was eS
; changed for diamonds. Quite all III
usual Occurrence in this part of til
state.
Thos. d. Bogie, formerly Of II
Huntsville Herald, has taken charg
of the Richmond, Ray county Chron
Gle. Bogie is q mos excellent new
paper nan and we wish him muc
success.
II j. NJ. Mcncfec. who owns the stor
e room just vacated by DR.. Pattersc
n IS going to enlarge the sa ne and pr
e in 81 plate glass front, preparatory
II moving his stock of furniture IN
N that room.
Miss M0llie Shootman left for :
=, Louis last Saturday To purchase
full asl coMplci" line of miiiin"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
What will Make q Town.

A few years ago, Mr.. Ball, hav-
ing invented q new threshing ma
chine which sold readily, proposed
to the people of rather an obscure
town in Ohio that they should loan
him ten thousand dollars with which
to build an establishment at their
place for the manufacture of his ma
chimes. The business could barely
be set agoing with that expenditure of
money, but he was willing to under
take the enterprise and run all risks.
The people who subscribed the money
were, of course, Unidentified against
any loss by proper security on the
property as the buildings progressed.
The sequel is soon told. After strug-
Cling year or two, Mr., Ball finally
succeeded in getting lis machine
shop in successful operation, and
make pro rata returns to those who
had started him in business. No
sooner was the hum of his machin-
cry heard than his establishment was
made the nucleus around which other
extensive shops were built for the
manufacture of stoves, hollow-ware,
plows, saddlery and harness hard
ware, furniture, wagons and car
riages, horse rakes, and wrought-iron
bridges, etc., etc., besides large
number of minor factories of more or
less importance. The farm machine
interest alone now employs over two
thousand men and boys, about equal
to the original population of the lit
tie village. At last accounts, the
town had trebled in the number of
its inhabitants and quadrupled in
wealth. This is no fancy sketch,
but an actual fact in all its details
from first to last. Nor for the ap-
plication. Suppose the people of
Olympia were to say to live, opera
tor, "Come and build wooden
mill at Tumwater. We will assist
you in securing a site at the Deschutes
falls, and loan you ten thousand dol
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
An Open Question.

The following preamble and resolu-
tons, have been handed US for pub
LEGATION. They were introduced by
Gen. r. Fl. Milroy, at the last meet
ing of the Blue Ribbon League, and
laid on the table for further consid-
alton. As will he seen on their per-
usal, the publicare respectfully in
vited to give the matter thorough
and careful consideration. Like most
questions, there is wide field for re-
search and inquiry on either side.
WHEREAS, The existence of alcohol is
vastly more injurious than beneficial to
mankind, and
= WHEREAS, In every case in the chemical,
medical and mechanical arts, where alco-
hol is used in any form without injury,
substitutes have been discovered that are
equally as efficient and cheap that are in
capable of being used as beverages, there
fore
Resolred, LIST, That real prohibition with
the true friends of temperance means the
prohibition Of the importation, manufac-
ture, possession, sale and use of alcohol,
in every form and dilution, however min
ute.
ResoIped. Cd, That the Blue Ribbon
League of Olympia prays the Congress of
the United States to enact law prohibit
ing the importation, manufacture, posses
sion, sale and use of alcohol, in every
form and dilution, however minute, under
penalties equally as severe as those of the
law prohibiting the importation, manu-
facture, possession, sale and use of coun-
terfeit coin or currency, within the limits
of the United States and Territories.
Reeolred, Sd, That this League respect
fully requests all temperance organiza-
ton within the limits of the U nited States
and Territories to endorse preambles and
resolutions similar to the foregoing and
to agitate and keep the same before the
people, through the pulpit, the press and
the forum, and before the Congress of
the United States, by petition and other
wise, until such law is enacted,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
The Cost of Living.

A curious stud y is involved in the
relative prices of labor and the nee
essaries of life. Some curious ia
bles have recently been compiled in
England relative to the prices paid
to farm hands in that country dur
ing period of six hundred years,
and the cost of living during a SINH
lar length of time. In the thirteenth
century, wages were about so cents
a week, and it took a hundred years
to advance them to seventy-fve
cents. During the eighteenth Gen.
fury, they had reached $1.S7. To-
day, the average price paid to farm
hands is $3.50 week. In the
thirteenty century, a bushel of
wheat could be purchased for II
cents. At the present time, the
price of wheat is about $1.45 per
bushel at wholesale, in England.
Thus a poor man can bread large
family for considerable length of
time on less than two and half
days work. While in six centuries,
food of most kinds has trebled in
price, the wages paid for labor have
increased seven fold; thus still leav-
ing large margin in favor OF the
poor man. The conclusion, then, is
inevitable, that the condition of the
laborer is steadily improving. While
this has been going on, the affairs of
the rich have also been growing bet
ter. In fact, civilization itself has
been enhanced in due proportion.
"The luxuries of one generation be-
come the necessities of the next. "
The truth of this assertion is made
strikingly manifest. to close OBJ
server, in the last twenty-five years.
Poor people account as indispensa-
BILE now, many things which were
considered only as the rarest luxur-
les only few years ago. Hundreds
of middle-aged men and women well
know this to be q fact. II seems,
then, that fair increase of wages,
is one of the secret springs of pros
perity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

lars to start the business" We verify
believe that the sequel in the sup
posed instance would prove to be
substantially like that in the case we
have related.
1t is safe to say that whatever is
done by Olympia for Tumwater is
only so much capital invested in a
savings bank which no panic can
even effect. To the people of Tum-
water, also, this is a question of no
small moment and importance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

Mr. Josiah Bacon, a prominent
business of Boston, was verv mystic
riotsly murdered in his room at the
Baldwin house in San Francisco, on
Sunday last. Hewas found stretched
on the floor in front of his dressing
bureau with a wound, as from a pis-
toll shot, in the abdomen. Lucky
Baldwin has offered a reward OF $500,
for the discovery of the person who
shot Mr.. Bacon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

The Seattle Inteltigencer states
chat a letter has been received by q
lady in that city from Marmora,
Western Canada, containing the
news that fearful disease had broken
ont there, which the physicians pro-
nounce none other than the black
death. According to the letter, hum
dreds had already died in the town
where the writer lived, and new cases
were reported daily. We give this
for what it is worth, but it seems
very strange that news of such a
thing has not, long ago, reached
every part of this coast through
feiegraphie dispatches. The letter
could not haGe been less than two
weeks in traasit, time enough for
such sensation to be known
throughout the world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18

"A CELEBRATED physician coming"
is the way an itiassant healer of
the sick proclaims his movements
through the country. Now we never
heard of a celebrated physician who
was obliged to travel about to find
business. Quacks travel through
sheer necessity--the necessity Of
IsE citing away from the people they
have swiudled.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
M'ashiagtoa Staaaar@
OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON TER.
FRIDAY, APRIL IS, 1879.
Longevity.

IL is uiStdhCh Aoe" w S"PP
that long life is essentially the re-
suit of superior physical strength
and development. 1t is no more
probable that man will live to be
eighty years old because he is physi-
cally strongly built, than that lie
will die q rich man simply because
he receives a goodly income. As a
rule. those who are blessed with
goodly incomes, meet with reverses,
sooner or later, and being unable to
retrive their losses, die poor men. So
it is physically. The world knows
that, as a rule, those who die wealthy,
have amassed their vast fortunes by
dint of the most abstemious frugal
ity, and not because they were made
bank clerks in their youth or in any
other way enjoyed the advantages of
lucrative situations. The young man
who starts life in easy circumstances,
is careless of small expenditures,
improvident, and dies a bankrupt.
The poor man, we'll knowing that
his only chance is based on the most
strict frusality, lives within his
means, adopts the principle of saw
ing while he is young, to spend
when he is old, and ten to one, dies
O millionaire. Now the same phil
osophy obtains in the laws of
health. The man who is born with
n strong physical system is careless
of the sands of life. He thinks he
can endure all things and SO VEN
lures all things. In this way he
goes through his life, and just when
he imagines himself strongest. he
drops away at premature age,
much to the wonder of those who
knew him only as his personal ply
sique presented itself. On the con-
trary, the man who is willing to own
that he is neither giant nor Her
culess, carefully measures his
strength for every outlay; and while
he cannot add the millionth par. OF
a horsepower to the physical capt.
tai with which he was born, he sur
prises himself and his friends by his
achievments. Such man, if nat
ural death is in reserve for him, al
most invariably attains arips old age.
The world furnishes an abundance
of examples illustrating the position
we have taken. Richard Henry
Dana was regarded as an invalid
until he had reached his fiftieth
year, and yet, he went down to his
grave as one from a former genera
tion. Peter Cooper was puny from
birth, and through all his life, was q
week and feeble man. Notwith-
standing this serious drawback, the
city of New York is, to-day, far in
advance of what she would have
been had it not been for the eminent
services rendered by MIR. Cooper,
now an old man. Sir Isaac Newton
was prematurely born, and was SO
feeble throughout the period of in
fancy that it was thought he would
never grow up into manhood. He
lived, however, far beyond three
score years and ten, and achieved an
undying fame. Volumes might be
filed by noting just such instances
as we have cited. Let strong men,
then, beware how they fritter away
their vitality which is more valuable
to them than gold, and let people
of puny physique take heart.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
Legitimate Result.

We ventured a prediction, some
time ago, that the fisherman of the
Columbia river would find their oc-
cupation gone, if they did not pay
strict attention to the way and man.
ner in which they canned their fish.
1t now turns out that an impression
exists across the Atlantic that Co.
lumbia river salmon is not to be de-
pended upon; or, in other words,
that can of that article may posi-
bly, be infected with disease or
poison, while hundred cans of it
are in prime condition.
A correspondent writing from
Astoria, uses the following ominous
language: eft is said that only one
firm out of the forty along the river
has contract for its salmon pro-
duct this season. The town is full
of fishermen and Chinese, all dead
broke, but willing to work if
there is anything to do. 1t seems as
though the Gamers have been the
vi ctims of dishonest competitors,
and now have to suffer for the crimes
of which they are innocent. By
some means, the report has gained
credence in England that the Co.
lumbia river packers have put up
diseased fish, and the suspicious
Of buyers having been aroused, it is
no easy matter to restore confidence.
The facts in the case are, that sew
eral disreputable Gamers have put up
diseased fish, labeled them Colum-
bia river salmon and thrown them
on the market" So much for what
the correspondent has to say. While
he takes a very shrewd way to get
his town out of a bad scrape, intel
ligent people on this coast know
we'll enough where the trouble is.
For years the people of the lower
Columbia have monopolized the sal
mon fishing business of the Pacific
coast, a business which has gained
an enviable reputation, the world
over. We believe this advantage
might have been retained by them
for an indefinite time still, had they,
in the outset adopted a strict bust
ness integrity which no knavery on
the part of INSCRIPTIONS dealers
could possibly gainsay. 1t is some
times said of individuals, that they
canuot bear prosperity. Doubtless,
this principle may have had some
thing to do with the leading proprie-
tors of the salmon canneriessof the
Columbia, in their late days of pros
perity. In an evil hour, a shipment
of bad or damaged goods was suf-
fered to go forth and work mis-
chief with the fair name which the
business had been term of years
in attaining. But there is still hope
in the future if our Astoria friends
adhere to first principles. Let them
enter into a solemn compact to put
up none but a prime quality of fish.