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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
TraiStNe'S Sale

hy virtue of certain deed of trust
dated September 14th, 1876. executed
~ Daniel Ruggles and Richard
Eta Mason Rug.les, his wife. hy her
attorney. Daniel Rnggles, recorded
IN book IL page 325 in Off 20 of
HHcorder Of deeds in and for Au-
drain county, Missouri, to secure a
note in said deed described. |. the un-
derslgned trustee, at the request of
inc holder of said note, will, on
Saturday, September 18TH. 1879.
between the hours of ten O'Clock 4.
M, and four O'Clock p. NJ. of thst
DAY, sell at public sale. at the east
front door of the court house i'm said
huufalh county, State OF Missouri.
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described real estate Wing
n being III said county and state
aforesaid as follows, to-wit. The
southeast quarter and the south half
OF the southeast fourth of the north
Cast quarter and twenty acres off of
the east side of the southeast fourth
OF the southwest quarter and ton
acres in the southeast corner of tae
northeast fourth of the southwest
quarter; all i'll section thirfv- (SOI
tow nshlp ffty-two, (52l OF range
elght W west. Also the southwest
quarter OF section eighteen. us,
township fitty-two. (52) of range
seven go containing" in all. three
hundred and seventy acres, more or
lcsS' L. W. BAKER,
Trustee
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04

Whenever new phrases slip into the
political vocabulary, it is well to con-
slider what they indicate. For the first
time, so far as we remember, sin
the Main'' was used by Mr.. Duncan
at Montgomery City. Among preach
ers that phrase is of long standing.
Timid and heterodox divines accept
their creeds as teaching sin the
Main Biblical doctrines but others,
with holder and firmer faith, hold
forth the Bible and it alone as their
"main" argument.
What, then, did Mr.. Duncan mean,
when he proposed that the conven-
ton should endorse SIN the MAN,
the principles enunciated in the plat
form of the Decentralization party,
adopted at Chicago, 4th Of March,
1879?
Some unsuspecting person might
suppose that sin the Main meant
the gross buik'-'the greater part
but that could not have been Mr..
Duncan's design, since he only en-
dorsed some three or four sections
out of the thirty in his sa~lutatory.
SIN the Main is also synonymous
with SIN the cock pit" At first it
was thought that Mr.. Duncan meant
that the platform ought to be adopted
by the ''ring." The Growing and
Hopping and the kicking and picking
that followed seemed to impart con-
tirmation to hat view; but when SIN
the Main'' disappeared from the pit,
like the cats at Kilkenny, it was
manifest that if the convention had
received it they would have been
dubbed Honorable Bllks" by Kear-
ney, who applies that name to all
that secede from communism. We
now propose that title for the fourth
party that Mr.. Duncan gathers from
the Labor GIeenbackers.
If SIN the Nam" has been mlsin-
terpreted, it will be in order for the
Press to explain.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Land Limitation.

The platform of the G~recnback-
Labor party, adopted at Utica, n. Y.
on the 29th Of August, IS freer from
communistic ideas than the one re-
Gently endorsed by the Labor Green-
hackers at Montgomery City. New
ertheless, it too embraces the plank
of land limitation. Unlike the Mont
gomery City deliverance, it does not
mix this demand up with grants to
corporations, so as to make it almost
unintelIigible. 1t claims thai reason
able land limitation laws shall be
enacted to prevent land monopolies.
We arc opposed to grants of land to
corporations but how many acres
ought an individual to own? So far
as we know, this matter has not been
discussed yet. How much ought a
nan to be permitted to own, 40, so,
ICE, 800, $40 acres or how much
Who is prepared to answer:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
CASE NO. 1913.
CASE No. 1893.
United States Marshal's Sale
Of Real Estate.

pY VIRTUE and authority of a
- writ OfeXecution. issued out OF the
office of the clerk of the circuit court
of the L. >. for the eastern district
of Missouri, dated July 25th, 1879. in
favor of the Wheeler X Wilson man.
~utacturing company, against VIM. 0.
Lee ct al, and to the undersigned L.
;. Marshal directed and delivered.
| will, on
Monday, October 9th, A. D., 1879,
at the front door OF the Court House
in the town of Mexico. county-seat of
Audrain county, for the said western
district Of Missouri, eastern division
thereof, between the hours of nine (9(
o'clock in the forenoon and five Isl
O'Clock in the afternoon of that dav.
and during the session of the circuit
court for the county of Audrain, State
of Missouri, expose to sale and sell
all the right, title, interest aid estate
of the defendants, William O. Lee
and Homer St. John, in and to the
following described real estate situate
i'll the county of Audrain, in the
eastern division of the western dis.
trict of Missouri, tO-wit:
begin at station NO. Il IL in sur
vey No. TWO hundred and nine (2O9(.
run thence south 2.30 1-2 chains, thence
west 4.99 1-2 chains to a point les l-2
chains north of station No. three Isl.
i'll survey No. 209 thence north 2.$0
ID chains to station No. four a. in
survey No. 209 thence east 4.99 IL
chains to the beginning, and being
part of northwest fourth ofthe south
east fourth of section 26, township
81, range 8 west, and being all of lot
or survey No. 209, excepting that part
sold To w. II. Woodward.
Levied upon as the property of
William .. Lee and Homer St. John.
to satisfy said execution and costs.
&. {. ALLEN.
|. :. Marshal Western Dist. of Mo.
BY {. (. CRIPPEN, Deputy. 2O-tds
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
q. w. VANDEMAN, AGENT,
MENlCO. MO.

SalcSrOom in rear of Mrs. MuldrOw
X Clark's Millinery Store.
fY All kinds of Sewing Machines
repaired. 2O-lvr
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04

expression to the conflicting senti-
ments of our populations, impart in
formation, and already a great deal
has been gained by listening to teach
ers of eminence, experience and abil-
ity. 1t viii be a great thing if croak-
ers are put to shame and silenced by
the high ground on which public ed
ucation stands, and the fulfllment of n
contract, the payment of a debt for
which national and state honor is
pledged, one more sacred and o
binding than ,he gold bonds, for
which the nation is taxed, for that is
to be paid to men while that of educa-
ton is due to children.
Much of the interminable discus
sion of educational methods, arises
from absence of due discrimination
between civic and rural wants. 1t is
one thing to provide for the %instruc-
ton of the children of such q place
as St. Louis, and those of sparcely
settled agricultural district, and until
we learn to distinguish between such
dissimilarities we shall be at cross
purposes. To tell how this ought to
be done would exceed our limits, as
our present purposes are confined to
directing the attention of parents to
the advantages Jul public school
presents, from primary up to uniyer-
sity requirements. Will father and
mother see to it that their children
are benefited by them? When they
go bounding and joyously from ont
their houses on Monday next, will
their anxious hearts follow them, and
throughout the scholastic year they
are entering on will they countenance
and sustain and cooperate with the
efforts of directors, superintendent
and teachers to promote their welfare:
The whole country has embarked up
on g new era. The cry that rings out
from every hill and valley, from for
est and prairie, from town and
try, from palace and hamlet, and from
every youthful heart is, Excelsior.
Mexico is no laggard in the march
of progress, and demands that the
educational advantages of her chill
dren should equal, if, indeed they
should not surpass, those Of many
others.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
AGENTS WANTED.

-" Call and examine the NEW
AMERICAN Sewing Machine before
" purchase. Fully warranted by
the company and its agents. The
hohbin is wound without running the
machine or revolving the belt.
j. X. MARTIN, MANAGER.
10 \. 9th ST., St. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Town Chatter.

Mr.. WHITE: The LEDGER is an
enterprislng sheet. 1t evidently
wishes to please everybody and give
everybody the worth Of his money
It's reports are excellent, and il is the
only paper that gets them up; and
yet dear Bob, there is sOmcthin!
lacking. The question is, can YOU
listen to yOur deficiencies: Your re-
ports of the temperance takers make
very good reading. You dress w
the speeches a little, but the speak
ers ought not to complain of that
and then you give us the arguments
Of the lawyers and the remarks OF
the cOuncilmcn. The first are shams
and the latter furnish no clue to
aims. You must ON down to
hard-pan and give your readers the
under current OttoWn chatter.
Now. what has town chatter to
say about the newspapersf Don't
vince, Bob. 1t pTon0unces them
frauds ; it charges that they have
spread through Audrain and adioin-
ing counties the idea that Mexico has
a tender conscience, and is governed
by moral principle; that they have
furnished pabulum for temperance
takers and foundation for deceptive
statements to committees and county
courts that while the newspapers
are engaged in this work, the best
temperance talkcr i'll this city is cx-
crcising his gift to induce the
ell to license saloons at reasonable
figures; that the mayor has yielded
his judgment to a petition, and that
the contention in the council does
not turn on prohibition, but is con-
test between dOggerics and dram
shops; that while the liabilities of
the city mature they are re-
ieWed at hugh rates Of interest. the
council meets, fuses, enacts and re-
peals, consumes time and eats up
funds that might be better applied;
that the majority of the council, with
the mayor, al to increase the reve-
nue., but are prevented from doing so
by contentious and combinations
that are damaging; that the
best citizens prefer to have
a few regulated saloons to ill-con-
Quoted doggeries and that, in face
of all this, the council adjourned
without receiving the sixteen hun
dred dollars offered to it.
Dear Bob, the only remedy for all
this is enlargement of the council.
There is need OF men that will do
what they think ought to be done.
pHILO JUSTICE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Lemuel $. House. Defendant.

NOW, at this day m plaintiff,
by ms attorney. and files his petition,
verified by affidavit, alleging. among
other things, that said defendant is a
NONRESIDENT of the state of Missouri.
You, said nonresident defendant.
are therefore hereby notified of the
ming OF said petition. the object and
general nature of which is to enforce
a lien against the following describ-
ed real estate, situate in Audrain
county. state of Missouri, to-wit.
All OF block 3, Efoadwater's addi-
non to Mexico, for back takes for
the years 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1877.
amounting to S3S.4S-1OO.
Ana unless You be and appear az
the next regular term of this court.
to be began and held ut the court
house. III the city of Mexico. ON the
tIrEt N"nday i'll October next. and
piead to said petition, the same will
oe taken as confessed and Judgment
rendered accordingly.
IL Is further ordered that n copy
hereof be published, according TO
law, IN the Mexico LEDGER news
paper Irintcd and published in the
city of Mexico.
witness my hand as clerk and seal
........ Of said court at office in
SEAL Mexico, this 18th dav of
August, 1879.
JAMES CARROLL, Clerk.
=. NJ. EDWARDS, Pltf's Atty. IVA.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Administrators Notica

NOTICE is hereby given, that let
!ers OF administration upon the es-
tate of William Reagan, deceased.
nave been granted to tie undersigned
by the Audrain Probate Court, i'm
audraln county, Missouri, bearing
10Th day of August, 1879.
All persons having claims against
sald estate are required to exhibit
them to me for allowance within one
year from the date of said letters. or
they may be precluded from any ben
EFT of such estate; and if said claims
be not exhibited within two wears
from the date of the publication of
this notice they will be forever
barred. NARY L. RF.a.N
l9-4t. dm;n;st.ot
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Order Capitalization.
Audrain Circuit Court, Aag. Is, 1879.

The State ofMissouri. Mt the relation
and to the use of B.. f. Dobvns,
collector of the revenue of Audrain
county, plaintiff,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04

One Of the most elegant
and comfortable Dwelling
Houses in Mexico. Good
surroundings. convenient to
the square. Terms to suit
purchaser. Address or call
j. W. PLUNKETT,
20-tf MEXICO. MO.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Kind Words.
SIN Sun CITY, CAL,
Aur- 25th 1870

SIN Sun CITY, CAL,
Aug. 25th, 1870.
m. WHITE-DEAR FRIEND Bob
Enclosed you will find +. o. order
for So. Excuse me; ] should have re-
mitted long ago, and my only apology
is, neglect. L can't do without the
LEDGER; ! always feel disappointed
when | fail TO get it on Tuesday. 1t
always reads 10 me like q ''newsyr
letter. | think | shall write Won a
long letter soon. We are in the midst
of n of the most exciting elections
that have ever occurred in California.
Politics in this state is a complete
conglomeratiOn-iour partias. i'm the
field, and all sanguine of electing a
governor. Dr.. Glenn, formerly of
Monroe county. Mo-, ] think will be
the next governor. He is a "simon-
pure" democrat.
By-therway, you haverecentIy mar
ried. Permit ne to present my con-
CALCULATIONS. God bless YOU and
yours. Kind regards to friends.
A. p. SPENCE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04

Why is it that the Greenback par
ty orators are all the time defying
and abusing the Democratic party
and Y have anything to say about
tie Republican party? There is
something rotten somewhere and we
fear it Is in the speakers themselves
Paris Mercury.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-04
Self Threading Shuttle.

1t has selfSetting Needle. Never
BREAKS the Thread. Never Skips
Stitches. Makes the Lock stltch,
The Strongest and the Best. Light
Running. Durable. Easily Learned.
Does not get out OF order, and does
more work with less labor than anv
other machine. Illustrated Catalogw
Free.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11

ElFnn TO 8eOOO A YEAR, OR AHHt s5 to S20 day in your own VISS Vlocaliiy. Women do as well as men. Many make more than amount stated above. No one can fail 10 make money fast. Any one can do the worK. You can make from 90 cents to S2 an hour by deyoting your evenings and spare time To the business. IL costs nothing 10 try the business. Nothing like 1t for money making ever offered before. Business pleasant and strictly b onorsble. Reader. if you want to know all about the best paying business before the public, send us your address and we will send you full particulars and private terms free; sam. pies worth s also free; you can then make up your mlnd for yourself. Address GEO SIISSON & O., Portland, Maine.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11
Steamship EriZonn. |"

Arizona enjoys the honor of bear. ling the same name as that of the largest with one exception) and fast est ocean steamship in the world. THE CITIZEN has heretofore published the fact that such a steamer was be. ing built and also that it had been completed. Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated both gave cOpious illustrations of the vessel in side and out, accompanied by extend. led descriptions. Owing to the name of the steamer, the following will prove interesting to our readers be yond its historical facts:
 NEW YORK, June 25.-A dispatch received from Queenstown at the office Of the Williams & Guion Steamship Line, says that the Arizona, the new est addition to the fleet, made the pas sage from New York in seven days. nine hours and twenty-three minutes. The steamer is the largest afloat, with the exception of the Great Eastern, and this is her first trip out of New York. She is of English build The fatest time previously recorded was made by the Britannic, of the White Star Line, in August, 1877, from Queenstown to Sandy Hook, in seven days, ten hours, fifty-three minutes. Her fastest time from Sandy Hook to Queenstown was seven days, thirteen hours. Her sister ship, the Germanic, has run between Queenstown and San. dy Hook in seven days, eleven hours and thirty-seven minutes.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11
Tombstone Shipment Ho. 3-Ten Bars
 HaIued at S22,5f7,6f.

The third shipment of bullion from the Tombstone Mill and Mining Com Pany was received today (Thursday) by Stafford, Hudson & Co, and by them at once shipped per Wells, Fargo Fargo & O., to Stafford & Seheifelin, Philadelphia. This makes a total of $5s,657,47.
 As before, we give the No, fineness and value of each bar: No. F, 1873, ,9j ounces, 9O7 fine, S22O4,61; No. IS, 1991,9 s96, $23O7,61; No. 19, 1883, s19, $2296,79; No. 20, 1S64,93, 933, s2249,6 ,66; No. 21, 1916, ,46, 916, $23O5, ,l9 {; No. 9, 1714,4O, 900, S1994,s7; No. g, 1901, ,O6, S94, $2Os1, ,S4; No. 24, 19O7, ,Sl, S6S, S2lS0,15; No 9, 1919,56, 9l6, S2932, ,S3; No. 26, 1977 ,31, 963, $2564, ,16.
 The record shows the first twenty three baFs to contain all silver, but Nos. 2f, 9 and 26 containing gold $S9,4s, $59,5O and S1O2, ,22 respectively. The weight of the ten bars received and shipped from here today, is 1297 pounds.
 All advices from the Tough Nut mine from which this bullion comes is highly favorable-the later develop nfents more clearly establishing the fact that the vein is true, large and rich one about whose permanency there is no doubt. The mill con- tinues to work perfectly, and it is to be noted that seven of the ten bars of bullion just received are over 900 fine.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11
SlLI RLKER RESERVATIONS.
As They Stand by fife Modified Executive
 Order.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June IA, '79. In lieu of an Executive order dated
 January 10, 1879, setting apart certain lands in the Territory of Arizona, as
 & reservation for the Pima and Mari lcopa Indians, which order is hereby lcanceled, it is hereby ordered that
 there be withdrawn from sale and set tlement and set apart for the use of
 said Pima and Maricopa Indians, as
 an addition to the reservation set apart
 for said Indians by act of Congress, approved February 2S, 1859 q1 Stat, 4O1), the several tracts of country in
 said Territory of Arizona lying within
 the following boundaries, viz:
 Beginning at the point where the
 range line between ranges four and five east crosses the Salt River; thence
 up and along the middle of said river to point where the eesterly line of Camp McDowell. military reservation, if prolonged, would strike said river :; thence northerly to the southeast cor .ner of Camp Mcdowell military reser-
 vation; thence along the southern
 boundary line of said Camp McDowellI military reservation to the southwest corner thereof; thence up and along the west boundary of said reservation until it intersects the north boundary of the southern tier of sections inI three north, range six east; thence west along the north boundary of the southern tier of sections inl township three north, ranges five and six east, to the northwest corner of section thirty-one, township threel north, range five east; thence south along the range line between ranges four and five east to the place of be- ginning.
 Also, all the land in said Territory bounded and described as follows, | viz: Beginning at the northwest cor ner of the old Gila reservation; thence by direct line running northwest erly until it strikes Salt River four miles east from the intersection of said | river with the Gila River; thencel down and along the middle of said Salt River to the mouth of the Gila River; thence up and along the mid dle of said Gila River to its intersec- tion with the northwesterly boundary line of the old Gila reservation; thence nOrthwesterly along said last described boundary line to the place of begin ming
 It is also hereby ordered that so much of townships one and two north, ranges five and six east, lying south of the Salt River, as are now occupied and improved by said Indians, be tenn porarily withdrawn from sale and set clement until such time as they may severally dispose of and receive pay ment for the improvements made by them on said lands.
 (Signed,) R. B. HAYES.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11
General Want Of fam.

Our interior exchanges, especially from New Mexico, northern Arizona and from some parts of Utah and Colorado, note the want of rain, and generally agree that the springs and hence the streams are mostly lower than for years. The Mesilla Indepen- dent learns that the Rio Grande is dry at Fl Paso, and is very low at Mesilla and that vegetation is suffering there, and says there is less water in the Rio Grande st present than has been Known at this season of the year for many years." The New Mexican at Santa Fe learns that the Rio Grande at Albuquerque is so low that it is i'm possible to get water into the acequias that in Valencia county the stock is suffering for grass and water; that the water on PecOs river is unusually low !: also, that fires are raging in the tim Der in the mountains and that nothing out rains can stop it. In Central and Northern Arizona, the papers for weeks have said the drouth was un- usual and damaging. Salt river, a large stream during most of every year, was so low that crops suffered in the lower part of the valley. In this part of the Territory, we have heard of no suffering on part of stock or crops, but the testimony from different sources Is that springs and streams carry less water than for many years past. Southern California is unusual ly short ef water this year. So it seems the d1outh extends from Texas % the Pacific ocean.
 But rain is falling and a good deal of it in this part of Arizona. The eelightfully cool and damp atmos- phere shows how thoroughly the AountaiEs have been wet down. and the rain still comes down, on all sides. Our New Mexico exchanges tell of clouds and here and there rains from mesillato Santa Fe, and we hope toi soon hear that the whole Territory is sufficiently soaked. The grasses off these Territories retain their fattening quality even in the driest weather, snd the want of water for stock can be remedied by digging wells.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11

THE Executive order withdrawing lands in Salt River Valley from sale and settlement, for the use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, is published in full today. It covers the same land Inspector Hammond said he would recommend to be included in the new order, save perhaps the temporary withdrawal of the land in townships one and two north, ranges five and six east. The taxpayers of Arizona have been made to pay $2OOO for no service and no influence whatever in this mat ter.
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11

THE people of Charleston and Tombstone want the San Pedro river bridged at Charleston. All the lum- Der and some of the wood for the mines and mills have to be taken across the river, and in rainy seasons. the river cannot he forded. NIT. w. B. Scott, Charleston merchant, is in town to-day, and he thinks the county ought to assist in the work. We have no doubt but the Supervisors will give the matter as favorable consideration as they can lawfully do. That section will from now forward pay large amount revenue into the county Treas ury, and Is entitled to the benefits of a fair share of county aid in necessary public work,
Arizona citizen., 1879-07-11
The EccOrnJck- Hicks MILing.
TOMBSTONE. LnlY N 1871

TOMBSTONE, July 9, 1879. The preliminary examination of the parties interested in the shooting affray on Sunday morning was held yesterday before Justice Burnett. Many witnesses were examined and the evidence deduced showed conclu- sively that the parties acted in self. defense, and they were by the Justice, according to the evidence given, hon orabIy discharged.
 The wounded Hicks is slowly re- cuperating and hopes are entertained of his entire recovery.
 A heavy shower of rain fell here to- day. The San Pedro is booming.
 J. W.