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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

General Grant will be in Chicago
on the 18th inst. A grand reception
will be given him. Tickets from Mex
leo and return only @.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

If you don't believe that Taylor
manufactures the best bed spring in
town, 60 get one on trial. 20 tt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06
DIED.

In this city on Tuesday night, Mrs.
Catharine Ii. Hamisfar.
Her funeral services will be con-
Quoted at 2 p. m. to-day, at the NJ. 4.
Church, South.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06
PROGRAMME

OF THE MEETING OF THE AUDRAI>
TEACHERS INSTITUTE, TO BE HE.H
FIVE MILES SOUTH OF MEXICO, AT
SEED TICK SCHOOL HOUSE, NOVEMBER
18th. 1879.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

To oAN.--S1, 900 to s $1,000, for
one to three years, on good real
estate. ID. Z. SHEA.
ECU Agent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Mrs. Shackleford, formerly of Van
dalia, Mo. has opened a millinery
department over Harper & Turner's
store, on the northeast corner of the
square. Patronage solicited. 29-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Pay no attention to a notice to
''shut the door" 1t is only q trick
of a lazy man to get you to do his
work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

For lame back, side or che st use
Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price, rs
cents. Sold by DR.. j. McDearman,
druggist, Mexico, Mo-.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

"They curel" What cures? Ayers
Cherry Pectoral for a Cough, Ayers
Pills for purgative purposes, and
Ayers Sarsaparills for complaints
that require an alternative medicine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Nails, locks, hinges and stoves at
Geo. Leslie Ferris at Gleason's old
stand. 29-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Purge out the morbid humors of
the blood, by a dose or two of Ayers
Pills, and you will have clearer heads
as well as bodies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

McLaren has recently retitted
very handsomely, his oyster parlor.
1t is one of the cosiest parlors of the
kind we ever saw. If you want a
frst-class oyster stew or fry give him
\ call.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

They found a pearl in an oyster
while enjoying a half dozen fresh at
McCarten's. 2l-2tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

McLaren sells oysters at wholesale
and retail. He has just received a
large lot by express.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06
What Does the wild Wind Say?

Buy your heating stoves of George
Leslie Ferris. without delay, at II. W
Gleason's old sand. 29-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Call at L. p. c. Taylor's manufac-
tory and examine the Centennial Bed
Spring before you buy. 20 If.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

D Hinze's is the place to get good
and cheap furniture. 27-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

When at Fulton stop at the Com
mercial Hotel /; Jas. Watson, proprie.
tor. 10 If,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

The Daily and Weekly Herald are
both patent backs. Could not the
distinguished extinguisher furnish
copy for a whole paper without print
ing half his paper in St. Louis? He
will find in the course of time that
the newspaper business is not child's
play, If he did think so.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Smoke the "Manzamillo," best
five sent cigar ever brought to Mexi-
co. For sale by McLaren.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Hinze does upholstering cheap.
Eft.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Hinze is the cheapest dealer in fur
niture in the West. EFT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Go to H,nze's for cheap furniture.
27--tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

II. w. Gleason has sold his stock
of stoves and tinware to Geo. Leslie
Ferris, and Leslie has filed the store
full, and will not be undersold. Give
him a call. 29-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

McLaren has the best five cent CT
gar in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Long, Republican candidate for
Governor, in Mass beat Ben Butler
by about 10, 00O-may be less. You
can't sit down on him. 'sHe lives to
run another day"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

Cornell, candidate for Governor,
was the only Republican officer elect
ed on the state ticket in New York.
This was due to the Democracy be
ing divided and having two candi-
dates in the field.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

1t is rather strange that the Au-
drain county Press yesterday in Its
election returns, said nothing about
greenback candidates. Is it possible
that in the eight state elections Tues
day not a greenback vote was cast ?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

l have no partner, and divide my
profits with no one. l have SAID
would sell stoves cheaper than any,
one, and l now repeat it. Call and
see for yourself. Respectfully,
GEO. LESLIE FERRIS,
H. w. Gleason's old stand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06

S. buys a stove large enough for
your bed room, 81 buys q stove large
enough for your sitting room. and SO
buys a stove large enough for your
parlor at Geo. Leslie Ferris'-H. w.
GleasOn's old stand, west side of pub
lie square. 29-tf.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
Steamship Gallia brought $4,000 in British
hnr and Inprinan crcld coin

Steamship Gallia brought $4,000 in British
gold bars and American gold coin.
A Santa Rosa, Cal, despatch says J. G.. Hill
was killed on Saturday night at Forestville
and Hamilton Litton wounded. There was q
disturbance between Hill and family named
Travis, growing out of alleged slanderous re-
marks made by Hill about Miss Travis. The
Travis boys are i'll jail.
The settlement of Phillipart's affairs by the
Banque Europeanne began on Monday, the
funds being furnished by the Credit Lyon
naise.
Within IS hours that pc! ton of the state of
California south of Sanfeo bay has been visit
ed by a copious rain, averaging about two
inches. The storm extended over the central
and northern portions of the state, but the
rainfall was lighter than in the south.
1t is reported that Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher secured the appointment of Sias
Boone as successor of the late internal revenue
collector Fg,eland in Brooklyn.
The report that the body of the missing
Ploof child had been found in the woods at
West Jay proves to be untrue.
Appraiser Snyder of the New York custom
house is under $3.50 bonds for examination by
the United States grand jury on allegations
that he passed goods at an under valuation.
The statement that store in New York had
been seized for containing quantities of SNUG
cled goods which, if the duties had been paid
thereon would have Melted the government
half million dollars, dwindes into the fact
that there is difference on the part of the
firm and the customs officers of only $500, and
the business of the concern is going on as
usual.
Steamship Nevada sailed from New York
yesterday, and will stop at st. Johns, n. F., to
take the passengers of steamer Arizona.
Several lottery dealers in New York were
raided Monday, and the clerk of Williamson
& Co. was held by United States Commission
er in $1,000 for violating the postal laws.
Silvestre, official candidate of the Fourt ou'
Brogle ministry, for deputies, and Montag ne
ex-sub project, have been sentenced to five
months imprison ment each for bribery and
oorruntiOn.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
Hunting the Adjective.

Unlike many other men of letters, Gautier
was constantly reading. NJ. Bergerat tells us
that when he was not talking, eating or writ
ing he was always reading, and that nothing
came amiss to him down to mere scraps and
waits of printed waste paper. The progress of
his fatal illness was marked by nothing SO
much as by the cessation of this inveterate
habit. These miscellaneous readings were un-
doubtedly part of the great adjective hunt"
as he was wont to phrase it,. His copid rerbo-
ram was thus constantly fed and increased,
while at the same time his unccasing practice
in writing made the store one of constantly
circulating capital, and not a mere useless ac-
cumulation. There never seems to have been
q time when even the most minute question Of
literary practice, rhyme-hunt or the like,
had not vivid interest for him. Thus, his
occupation, however he might occasionally
groan at and complain OF it, was in practice an
unfailing source of pleasure, OF relief from
ennui, of alternatives from self-regrading
cares. 1t was a strong tower which success
fully kept out the enemy, until sheer physical
collapse ceased to make it any longer defen-
sible. On the other hand 1t would be difficult
to find in Lever any trace of love for or inter-
est in his art as an art. 1t seems to have been
always means to an end, or rather to half
hundred different ends, pursued with less or
more zest for the time, but rarely falling in
with any possible or coherent plan OF life.
Though he was man OF letters, his interests
were nothing so little as literary. The widest
absurdities of the Jcunes-France and the Bou-
siitgots were somehow or other connected with
literary questions. Levers youthful escapades
and later dissipation had nothing to do with
literature at all, and might have been and
were shared in by persons of no taste or inter
est in literature whatever. There is famous
sentence of Thackeray which has sometimes
excited good deal Of surprise. "No class of
men talk of books, or, rs rule, read books so
little as literary NEIL" 1t is not true of Eng
land now perhaps, but it certainly was true of
England then.-Fortnightly Review
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

There was desperate fight in northern
Mexico Sunday between Indians and whites,
in which so of the latter were killed.
The London journals are very much disap-
pointed with Beaconsfeld's speech. 1t was
expected that he would throw some light on
Eastern affairs and the Afghan question.
The ST. Petersburg press has been forbidden
to discuss the relations of Russia with Germ&-
ny and Austria.
Latest advices from Mexico say the Cabinet
crisis is over and that no changes will be made
There is considerable mining excitement IN
the country.
The 'longshoremen's strike in Boston Is
over, the employers having yielded.
The late treasurer of the Berkshire lnsur-
ance Company of Massachusetts, is defaulter
in $1,000.
The Cabinet discussed yesterday the Domin-
ion law which forbids American vessels rem
dering assistance to vessels in Canadian waters
unless there il danger of loss of life or cargo,
and considered the propricty of retallatory
measures. The question was not settled.
Ex-Gov. Deunison Of Ohio says neither Eos
ter lior Sherman is candidate for the senator
ship.
1t is now conceded that the Readjusters
were successful in Virginia.
The official canvass of the vote OF Now York
began Yesterday The indications are that
the whole Republican ticket except Soule is
elected.
Rear Admiral Kitty, U. s. N, died in Bal
timore Monday.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
Preparing to Receive Grant

CHICAGO, Nov. 10.-The preparations for
Gen. Grants reception, although on less
magnificent scale than was originally intended,
are going actively forward. Buildings are be-
ing lavishIy decorated, and the windows along
the lire of march are already bought up.
Large excursions from the country are arrang-
ed over every line of railroad centering here.
The Board of Trade today voted to hold no ses-
sion Wednesday, and that day will virtually be
holiday i'll many business places.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The committee on
the reception of Gen. Grant met tonight.
Judge Macarthur, chairman of the meeting,
stated that in pursuance of the action of the
ctizens' meeting of Oct. 9th he had selected
q committee of 100 to make preparations for
the reception of Gen. Grant when be should
visit Washington. In selecting this commit
tee, he said, he had endeavored to appoint
gentlemen who represented the business in
terests of Washington. An inquiry was made
whether any information had been received
indicating the time Gen. Grant would visit
they city No one present being able to give
the desired information, the Chairman was
empowered to communicate with the General,
inviting him TO Washington and requesting
that he name the date upon which he may be
expected. The meeting thereupon adjourned,
subject to the call of the chairman.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 11.-Ex-Confederates will
turn out in body to receive Gen. Grant when
he visits this city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
Death of Rear Admiral Kitty.

New YORK, Nov. 11.-Rear Admiral Au-
gustus Fl. Kitty of the United States navy
died at Baltimore yesterday at the age of 70
years. He was born in Maryland, and re-
ceived his appointment in the naval service
July 4, 1921, and his Fl ;st cruise was on the
Franklin in the Pacific. He served in the
West Indies and along the Atlantic coast until
1887, when he was commissioned as lieutenant,
serving in that capacity for II years, mostly in
foreign waters. He then spent six years at the
Baltimore and New York naval stations. He
was made a commander Sept.14, 1856, and re-
manned in command of the Baltimore rendez-
vous until 1860. In the following year he was
ordered to st. Louis to assist in organizing the
naval fiotilla under Admiral Foote, and sub
sequently took command of the gunboat Mound
City, which was engaged in the battles of Is
land No. 10 and Fort Pillow. The Mound
City was sunk in the latter engagement, but
was, raised, repaired and rejoined the fiotllla.
On June IT, 1862, being in command OF an ex-
peditlon to White River, Ark, he attacked
Fort ST. Charles, about 100 miles from the
mouth of the river. With the aid of q military
force under Col. Fitch the fort was captured.
Near the close of the action a shot entered the
steam-drum of the Monnd City, and the es-
Gaping steam caused the death of more than
100 officers and men. The commanding off
Ger received severe scald, which caused the
loss of his left arm. He was made captain
July 16. 1862, and on July 25, 1865, was COM
mssoned as commodore. He was in command
of the Norfolk navy yard from 1867 to 1870,
received his appointment as Rear Admiral
July Is, in the latter year. The funeral Will
take place on Thursday.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
The Enemies of the Menhaden.

Among the enemies of the menhaden may
be counted every predictions animal which
swims in tie same waters. Whales and dol
phins follow the schools and devour them by
the hogsheadful; sharks of all kinds prey upon
them largely, 100 having been taken from the
stomach of single shark: all the large, car
nivorous fishes feed upon them. The funny is
the most destructive. 81 have often" writes
gentleman in Maine, concerning the tunnies,
watched their antics from the masthead of
my vessel; rushing and thrashing like demons
among a school of fish; darling with almost
lightning swiftness, scattering them in every
direction, and throwing hundreds of them in
the air with their tails The pollock, the
whiting, the striped bass the cod, the sque-
league and the garfish are savage foes The
sword-fsh and bayonet-ish destroy many,
rushing through the schools and striking right
and lefl with their powerful swords. The
bluefish and bonito, are, however, the most de-
structive enemies, not even excepting man.
these corsairs of the sea, not content with what
they eat, which is of itself an enormous guam
tity, rush ayenously through the closely
crowded schools, cutting and tearing the living
fish as they go, and leaving in their wake the
maneled fragments Traces of the carnage re-
main for weeks i'll the great sticks" OF Oil SO
commonly seen on SnlOOlu water III Culliutf.
Prof. Baird has estimated the destruction by
the blue-fish, based on period of four months
In the Summer and Fall. and for the coast of
New England only Applying similar meth
DDS of calculation to the nenhaden, the total
number destroyed annually on our coast by
predacious animals may be estimated at 1,0OO,-
600, DOC, GOO COX, 900; in comparison with which
the quantities destroyed by man, yearly, sink
into insignificance. 1t is not hard to surmise
the menhaden's place in nature; swarming our
waters in countless myriads, swimming in
closely-packed, unwieldy masses, helpless as
f1ocks of sheep, near to the surface, and at the
mercy of every enemy, destitute of means of
offense and defense, their mission is unmistak-
ably to be eaten In the economy Of nature
certain orders of terrestrial animals, feeding
entirely upon vegetable substances, seem in
tended for one purpose-to elaborate simple
materials into the heterogeneous tissues necessary
for the food of other animals, which are Who'll
ly or in part carnivorous in their diet; so the
menhaden, feeding upon otherwise untitled
organic matter, is prominently o meat-pro-
ducing agent. Man takes from the water ev-
cry year SOC, 600 900 or 900 100000 of these fish,
weighing from 200, 900 to 100000 tons, but his
Indebtedness does not end here; when he
brings upon his table blue-fish, bonitoes, weak
fish, sword-fsh or bass, he has before him usu-
ally menhaden flesh in another form.-G.
Brown Goode.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
MARINE NEWS.
A Bangor Schooner Sunk.

A Bangor Schooner Sunk.
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Austrian bark Major,
which arrived today from Cucasto, reports
Nov 9th, at midnight, eight miles off Win
ter quarter light ship collided with schooner
Pathway, Captain Snare, bound from Rappa-
hammock River for Bath with lumber, and
sunk her. Crew of the Pathway were res
cued. She was 144 tons and owned in Boston
and Bangor.
An Abandoned Bark Picked Up.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.-Steamer Zealand
from Antwerp reports Nov Sth picked up the
Royal Arch Of Sunderland, abandoned. The
bark was loaded with salt and general mer-
chandise ana sails, masts and rigging all in
good shape She had but two or three inches
Of water in her hold and the pumps were in
good working order. A crew was put on board
to take the vessel to New York.
The Loss of the Champion.
Official inquiry will be instituted tomorrow
by acting British Consul Crump into the causes
of the collision of steamship Champion and
Lady Octavia, Friday morning
A British Steamer Sinks a Norwegian
Ship.
LONDON, Nov. IL The British steamer Mill
anese, from Boston, Oct. 26, for this port is at
Gravesen1 with hole i'll her port bow, having
been in collision last night off Dungeness with
the Norwegian ship Bokhara, from Antwerp
The latter was SINK, but all hands were saved
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12

Ara at New York 18th, barques Archer, Hatch,
Buenos Ayres; Cardenas, Yates, West Coast Africa.
Sid FIN Liverpool Sth inst, ship Gettysburg, Call,
United States,
Cid at Larne 10th inst ship Caiope, Smith, for
United States.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12

PENSACOLA-Ar It'll, sch Carrie Heyer, Poland,
Galveston
NORFOLK--Ar 9th, sch Thos Stone, Pitcher,
Wiscasset.
BALTINIORE-Ar Sth, sch c Tyron NickersoH,
kennebec.
PARLIAMENTARY th, sch Willard, Wal
lace, Portland.
Ar 9th sch Carl ID Lothrop, MeAllep, st john
Ar 10th, schs B Paine, Hillyard, Kempt, Ms;
Milwaukee, Pickett, st John NIB; Jas Bliss Hatch
Bangor.
NEW YORk-Ar 10th, schs z HaZeltne, SWEET,
Jacksonville days; HATTIE Card, Foss, do g days;
L II Drummond Higgins, Brunswick; w Wood
rnV, st John. NIB; Sea Breeze, Clay, do Rising Sun,
Jones, st George; Silver Spray Hall, Thomaston
q b Ferguson, Bath; Annie Gus Sawyer, Bluehill
War Steed, Gookins, from Saco; Gen Howard, Reed
Gardiner; Ann, Stratton, Sullivan; A II Hodgman,
Frye, Providence.
Cid 10th, baroue Almira Robinson, Given, London;
briggs Hyperion, Williams, Cienfuegos; s Smith.
Trim, New Orleans; sch Harry White, Hopkins, for
Point-a-Pitle.
Passed the Gate 10th, 'schs G W Rawley, Hoboken
for Allyn's Point S Lindsey, do for New London;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
The HAYDEN Murder Trial.

NEW HAVEN, Ct, Nov. 1.-THE medical
experts for the defence in the Hayden case
express the opinion that the marks found on
Mary STANDARDS cheek, which it Is claimed
corresponded to the nails on the shoe worn oy
Hayden on the day of the murder, are similar
to marks common in cases of qualification and
resemble those caused by small pox. The
states experts, however, insist that the mark
are clearly defined as if cause by nails.
DIR. White was on the stand this morning
and identified articles of clothing and the
knife taken from Hayden at tue time of his
arrest He found a case knife, which the
state claims was used in cutting pears the af-
ternoon of the murder. Hayden and wife
previously stated that she used the knife with
which it is claimed the murder was committed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
NEW YORK.
The Purchase of Six Per Cents.

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Up to noon to-day
the Assistant Treasurer had paid on account
of $40, 1000 of United States bonds bought
for the Sinking Fund the sum of SIS, 246. 1854.
AS the whole amount is to be paid in gold, and
in the ordinary way would have to be trans
ferred bodily from the Sub Treasury vaults,
the banks, through the Clearing House Asso-
citation, have asked the Secretary of the
Treasury for permission to store the money in
one of the sub-treasury vaults, built for the
accommodation of silver, until such time as
the Bank of America can complete arrange
ments for acting as storehouse for gold
against which certificates of deposit are to be
issued for Clearing House settlements. The
Post says an account of such embarrassment
of riches would have read like fairy tale five
years ago. The loan Market although it has
not yet actually felt the effect of the Treasury
money, is working comfortably for borrowers
at and per cent.
A Bold Highway Robbery.
John Clayton, a storekeeper of Bucks, Pa,
was deliberately robbed of a watch and S1lOO
in money by two genteel thieves on Broadway
near Chambers street this noon, in dense
crowd. One escaped by the Elevated Railroad
and the other by mixing in the crowd, al
though several people pursued them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-12
California Whining stocks.
xy.ter,own Cattle Market.

WATERTowN Nov. 11.-Beef Cattle-receipts 834
head: owing to an over supply of Cattle the market
is dul;prices declined fully "A 1ac from last week.
butchers bought only to limited extent; sales of
taS IS; second quality at 1895 80; third quality
1854 so; Store Cattle, Working Oxen y pair at
S1O0as1 80; Mich Cows and Calves at s200$50;
warnings at S7tdS14; two years old at $11@S28;
three Years old S20dS38 Western fat Swine, live,
Sheep and Lambs-receipts GIGS head; market
decidedly dull, prices declining zee p H.. Many
droyers talked strongly of carrying back their stock
3 OOa4 5O;Spring Lambs 495c; Veal Calves 495.