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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from
practice, having had placed in his
hands by an East India missionary
the formula of q simple vegetable
remedy, for the speedy and perma-
nent cure for consumption, bronchitis,
catarrh, asthma, and all throat and
ung affections, also q positive and
radical cure for nervous debility and
all complaints, after having tested its
wonderful curative powers in thous-
ands Of cases, has felt it his duty to
make it known to his suffering fell
lows. Actuated by this motive, and
q desire to relieve human suffering, I
will send, free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, with full direc-
tons for preparing and using, in Ger
man, French, or English. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp. nam
ing this paper. w. W. Sherar, 14s
Powers Block, Rochester, New
York. S5-4w
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

as q gold anu so.Ut
Probably one hundred Thousand PEG.
pie will go to Colorado this year, at.
tracted solely by the carbonate dis.
~coveries. This influx of people will
bring out much of the hidden re.
sources of Colorado, and at the same
time create new markets for the sur
plus productions of Kansas. so that,
in one way or another, all the nation
al interests of the New West will be
subserved."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

- W-+a f~N- 49, sASPAOlN8As sfHaM1
SEDALIA, Mo-, May I.-Charies
H. Payne, aged 23, was found early
this morning two miles south Of Hi0-
bee by the M. K, and T. section men
lying on the track with q bullet hole
In his head over the left q The
body was placed on g hand.csr, tax
en- to Higbee and. given in charge Of
the proper authorities. Lying by
his side was a seven-shooter, three
chambers discharged. Letters found
in his pocket indicated that he had
relatives and friends in Audrain coun-
ty, No. On an envelope containing
q photograph was written: ssThe
finder will please send this to J.. G..
Bruton, postmaster, Laddonia, Mo-"
Another contained a registered letter
receipt from c. III. Payne to Mira. s.
Payne, Laddonia, Mo. Aletter from
a young lady signed Miss Bette,
Mexico, Mo-, apologized for treating
him badly, ald telling him to come
and take a horseback ride. Payne
had a gold ring and q few articles Of
small Talue on his person., and the
general belief Is that he attempted
suicide. At 2 o'clock this afternoon
he was still alive though partly par
alyzed and no hope for recovery
Sinch the above was written Payne
has died. Only a few days befor,
Payne shot himself he came to Mexi.
CO and was married to Miss Wilson
and moved down to Laddonia to live
The day before he left for Higbee b
acted very strangely and told his wifi
something was troubling him. W
are not prepared at this writing t
! give the reason of the suicide. .
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Read and Heed.

-
We have been profoundly interest
ed in a work that has just been sent
us, the author whereof, Professor B.
F. Fsnning, aims to give the world
easy lessons in etiquette for gentle
men,. 1t is a useful work. Among
other things, the professor says q
gentleman ''never fsils to lift his hat
to a minister Of tine gospel" Posi-
bly,, but the minister would a great
deal rather see the gentleman lift his
pew rent.
mo gentleman" says the profess
sor, fever gives a military salute to a
lady,"
Well, hardly; we should say he
wouldn't. The military salute varies
from a simple graceful wave of the
hand 20 three ruffies of the drums
color. trumpets sounding the flourish
and arms presented, and so on up to
the president, who is entitled to a sa-
lute of twenty-one guns, and ''the
highest honors-all standards and
colors dropping, officers and troops
salnting, drums beating and trum-
pets sounding" Now if the gentle
men of America got into the habit of
raising such a racket as that every
time they met a lady, it would be
rather more st srtling than a chronic
Fourth of. July. Professor Tanning
is correct. This sort of thing wants
to be discouraged.
when calling on a new lady &C.
quaintance, the hat should be taken
to the parlor and held in the hand"
This 10 one of the best instructions
in the book. When you don't know
all about the lady and her family,
young man, freeze to your hat all the
time. We once knew a young lady
who kept her father and four BROTH
ers in nice, new stylish hats all the
time, by simply instructing the SER
want TO just skin the hat rack every
time a young man with a giddy hat
was fresh enough to leave his hat in
the hall. Wen bet q dollar Profess
sor flaming has been there himself.
And then, besides, a ''plug" hat is
such a comfortable thing to hold in
ones hand. When you can't think
of any thing to say, you can stroke
the hat the wrong way, and then ex-
ert your energies during the rest OF
the visit to getting it smooth again.
And then, if occasion demands, you
can use it as a cuspadorc.
. "a gentleman" says the profess
: sor, with becoming severity, "never
dances with his overcoat on"
And W may add, that he hardly
ever dances with his over-shoes on,
and the instances, in the best society,
in which a gentleman has danced
through an entire set with his ulster
; drawn closely over his head, hi:
trousers stuffed in the legs OF his in
dia rubber hunting boots, and an UNI
i, brella held over his head, are rare in
deed. Society cannot feel too CRATE
, full to the professor for mentioning
this little matter of etiquette.
"A gentleman" continues the pio'
i ~fessor, always wears gloves"
This is solemn, sober, earnest, in
! spired truth. When you meet a-s
person anywhere, in the street, II
the cellar, at the lunch stand, il
swimming, in bed, and you see b,
, wears no gloves, shun that person
- no gentleman, Professor Fam
; Professor flaming
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
4 Newspaper Of the Present Tina,
Intended Tor the psopis now On Earth.
Cool weather, this.

Cool weather, this.
She is the queen of May.
Saturday evening matinee.
Jas. Buckner is in Mexico.
If you can't win don't enter.
County court adjourns to-day.
Probate court meets next Monday.
The wool trade is now in full blast.
Elder Cake is in Mexico on a visit.
Miss Lulu Hord is visiting in Fu.-
ton.
County court convened last Mon
day.
Our carpenters and painters are all
busy
Prairie schooners are still sailing
West.
Di. Bourne has returned from ST.
Louis.
The small hoy longs wistfully for a
circus
Smith Spence is clerking for j. D.
Morris.
Business is lively on the c. & A.
extension.
j. C. Bassford is in St. Louis on
business.
County surveyor, Jack Hayden, is
very busy.
Strawberries are 25 cents a box in
Cur market.
DIR. McDearmon Is having his drug
store painted.
Our farmers are nearly through
planting corn.
Ioberly is invested with tramp:
and fly crooks.
A mammoth brick hotel is being
built in Fulton.
The organ grinder was ''nicking'
the town Monday.
Greenamyer Bros. have our thanks
for Leadyille papers.
Mrs. Reilly, Of Glasgow, is the cues
Of Mrs. T. j. Casey.
Scandal, like the river Nile, is hare
to trace to its source.
The perfectly contented man i
also perfectly useless.
City council meets in regular ses
sion next Monday night.
Strawberries have made their ar
pearance on our market.
Live men advertise in newspapers
Dead ones on tombstones.
The time card on the c. & A. E1
tension will be out Sunday.
The. new NJ. E parsonage will be
very neutrality-suspicious.
! Life is too short to waste in kick
ing a man when he is down.
Charley Daniel and wife, of Var
dalia, are visiting III Mexico.
Billie West, the renowned q
G, drives a good turn out.
We are needing rain badly. l..
us establish q weather bureau.
Jimmie Graham's new house
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

"nfuss slA aIIoiIUIlo 49, oosauI naS
bought from fifty to one hundred dol
lars. Residence lots range from one
hundred dollars to several hundred.
A good store, one story, 25x40, and
Whereabouts, rents from two hundred
to three hundred dollars a month.
Offices rent from thirty TO one hun
dred dollars a month. Probably
there are at this time q thousand or
more houses of various descriptions
10 process of erection. The city al
ready extends almost from Malta to
the foot of Freyer Hill, and is re-
ceiving an accession offrem one hum
dred and fifty to two hundred a day.
The following shows the price cur
irent:.
PRICES OF STAPLE HOUSEKEEPING
GOODS IN LEApvILLE.
Hemp cottage carpets, So, As and
soc per yard; cotton chain, As, SO,
I65, S5c and 81 per yard; tapestry,
Brussels, slips to Sl.35; curtain
fixtures, 35 to 75c; window hollands
and opaques, 20 to SOC per yard ;
cotton pillows, SIS per dozen live
feathers do, S24 per dozen; COM
forts, $1.50, So and So. SO each ;
blankets, $3.50 per pair and up ;
bleached pillow case cottons 15c per
yard nine quarter sheeting, so 10
H35c; tiekings, IS, 20 and Csc per
yard; counterpanes, 50 to $50 per
dozen; towels, 81 to So per dozen ;
crash, 10 to. 25c per yard. Dry
goods and housekeeping goods are
sold as cheap as in any Eastern city,
actual freight added.
MINERS OUTFIT.
Heavy Canton flannel shirts, rs
cents to 81; heavy Canton flannel
55drawers, rs cents to 81; flannel un-
Hderwear, So to So. so per suit over
alls, 81 to 1925; lined, So, $3.50;
overall vests, $1,25; lined, $3.50 f.;
overall coats, 50, IS, $50; lined,
$500; wool overshirts, S1.50, 81,
ISL so, ,S3, So so; all wool cashmere
suits, SIS to SIS; coverlets, 81. so to
Sl.75; blankets, So and So so, 10 Id
rubber boots, knee, $3.50 hip, $3.50;
overshoes, So; miners boots, 81,
$3.50, IS, $3.50; shoes, nailed, S1.75
to So.
GROCERIES,. ~
Granulated sugar 6 IL pounds for
81, New Orleans sugar 8 pounds for
81, coffee, green Rio, % cents, Java,
40 cents, ham 16 cents, bacon Is
cents, tea from 81 to $1.50, canned
goods frem so to 40 cents, eggs (not
used mueh) 40 cents per dozen, but
ter strong at 35 to As cents, -four
81 per ewt., potatoes 5 1-2 cents q
pound, milk FUSED less than eggs, J
81 a gallon, hay $3.50 a ton.
The city has good water works, an
excellent police department, a fair
nre department, aud is putting IN a
fre alarm and gas works. All this
i and much more has been accom-
pushed In eighteen months.
81 SOCIETY.
. There is lots of society in
vile, and it teuches~seYery
the scale. Ecu win find
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Conversational.


WASHINGTON, April 30.-Caucuses
Of both House and. Senate Demo
Gratis were Leld. The Senate caucus
referred consideration. in regard to
future policy to q committee Of which
Senator Thurman is chairman. In the
House caucus a similar conclusion
was reached. The army bill and
veto are to be voted on without de-
bate. There vas only q brief session
in both Houses. The following de-
bate is reported to have taken place
in the House caucus. Mr.. Goode
offered the resolution In regard to
voting on the army appropriation bill
without debate. Pending its consid-
Grafton Speaker Randall advised the
Democrats to make a square fight on
the issue presented. He appealed 10
members not to yield a jot or title OF
the principles commended for. His
speech made a great impression. Mr..
Mr.. Blackburn made a conciliatory
speech. 1t was intended wholly for
Democrats however. He said that the
Southern Democracy was willing to
be guided in this matter wholly and
solely by Northern Democrats; thai
for one, while it was his judgment
that they should not reeede from th'
position they had taken, still he wal
willing to be led by Northern Demo
Gratis. Gen. Singleton, of Illinois
made a strong speech. He said tn
co ,stitution provided that a majorit
Of a ouo,-nm of the two Houses coul'
pass laws. TIL. position assumed b
the President however,
essary to accomplish any lee ~;
that was Objectionable. to Repuo..
cans, that it should receive two-thlrds
of all the votes cast for and against
it. This would defeat if persisted in,
all the legislation representatives had
been sent to Congress to accomplish
for the relief of the people,. He fur.
cher declared that if these laws were
permitted to remain on the statute
book, the result would be the election
of whosoever the Republicans should
nominate for president. 1t was a
fOregone conclusion with that party.
that the Democrats should never
again secure an e~xecutiv e, and under
these circumstances, it were better
that the Democracy went down in it.
own boat, than to be ignominiously
sunk while submitting to Republican
measures. Mr.. Morrison took similar
ground. He was opposed to yielding
anything of the position that had bee,
assumed. Alex. Stephens said tina
while he believed it was right 10 re
peal the law authorizing the use o
troops at the polls, yet it was the dut,
of Congress to make appropriations
He thought the Democratic party
could not afford to adjourn withou
granting supplies to carry on tn
government. Mr.. Hill favored refer
ring the message to the Judiciar,
: committee, but it was the genera
judgment that there was nothing i
it about which there was any diss
greement, or that was worthy to b,
considered by a committee.
The Nationals of the House ais
: held a long caucus. No definite &C
ton was taken as to the proper cours
to be pursued and there are indies
tons that they were not very ha-mo
NOUS in their opinions.
WASHINGTON, May L. The join
committee to which the Democratic
caucuses delegated the mahagemen
. of the political situation held a Ion,
session and decided to pass the repes
of the troops at the polls clause, a
= an Independent measure. In tn,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Mexico and san Juan Mining
Com pany.

The Mexico and San Juan Mining
Company have just organized With
$4,000 capital-R. Gentry. preSi-
dent; B. r. Cauthorn. secretary.
This company is composed of the
leading substantial men of Mexico on
a firm basis. No stock is on the
market. The ~ranitaI =" c." 600 *
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Mrs. "Tony" Galloway, Mrs. Hi
ram Ricketts,, Mrs. Carroll and Miss
Mary Carroll all left for St. Louis
Tuesday. Miss Mary Carroll will
leave for Portland, Virginia, to be
absent a couple of months.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

DIR. Price has prepared a rich vari-
ETY. of perfumes, from which the most
fastidious can select an odor with
agreeable satisfaction. DR.. Prices
Pet Rose, alista Bouquet, and other
perfumes, are great fayorites, al their
sweetness and freshness are so de-
cided.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

The knights Templar will have a
grand banquet, &C., in Mexico on
Ascension Day, May p. DR.. Vincil,
of st. Louis. will be in Mexico on
that day. A full programme Ct ex-
ertises a, far as possible will be given
next week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Photo lottery in Mexico last Satur-
day. Some of the country boys seem
ed to take hold" hut not many
The average country hoy now, has
more good common sense than a
good many of our city chaps who
think they are SO very smart.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
P0stponed

Prof. Hamill and associate teach
ers of Louisiana not being able to at
tend our Teachers Institute on ac-
count of their school closing, the term
Of the Institute has been changed to
Friday and Saturday, the 18th and
l4th Of June.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Persons suffering with headache or
toothache, should call at S. S. Craig
& Co.'S dug store and have it cured
with the cele brated headache medi-
cine. 1t will cost you nothing to
try IL
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

The boys who are in the habit of
going through farms ard leaving the
fences dewn on the way out to Watts
house of '.notoriety'' will get in trou-
BILE if they don't look out.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Five Cent Goods.

We will offer on Monday, May IL,
a large line Of useful articles from our
FIVE cent counter. No M should
fail to examine these goods as they
have usually been sold al from 10 to
rs cents. RIcKETTs & EAMoNs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Keep Out.

The young gentlemen of Mexico,
who visit the notorious house kept
by Bill Watts, and who in doing so
cross the lands of Albert White,
opening and leaving open the fences,
and thus permitting his stock to roam
at will o his crops, are hereby for
hidden to come on to said lands, as
they will be regarded as tresspassers
and treated as such.
ALBERT WHITE,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Give DIR. Price's Special Flavoring
Extracts a fair trial, and if they
please you, recommend them. We
have no fears of your not being sat
isfied. provided you get DIR. Prices,
as their popularity and extensive sale
is from their perfect purity and ex-
cellent quality. .
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Uncle Billie West is talking Of
buildings new Opera House on the
corner next to the Hickerson House.
There is the place for the temperance
tabernacle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

The season has opened suspicious
ly for American racers and trotters
abroad. The rugged gelding, Pa
role, who waxed stronger and stur-
dier on reaching the native soil of
; % grand old sire, bennington, has
h;s No. York owners colors
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

r. Gentry and G. III. Ribble leave
for Colorado Monday to look after
their mining claims in that state.
They will probably be absent all sum
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

1t requires no learned experts to
establish the fact that DIR. Prices
Cream Baking Powder is the purest
and the strongest. If it will make
sweeter, lighter, and more digestible
bread, biscuits, cakes, etc., than can
be made with other kinds, it is an
i~ncontestible proof OF its purity and
greater excellence.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
IFAN-
BARE e L

0 7. ". P0LLIRD
has just rcfurnishcd his Pnrlor Barber
shop with the approved Rochester
''laIl back chairs. Hair cui in style.
Easy sha,rs, none but il3c test work
men employed. Two doors south OF
l.ingo House Silly
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Two VS. always go together-wine
and women, Two more-whisky and
wickedness. Two nore-wrum and
wretchedness, and waste and want,
&C., &c.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

DIR. McWilliams has gone into
partnership with DIR. Flint. Office
on north side of square.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Charley Brandriff, while in st.
Louis, bought a new Collender bill
lard table, which you can see by call
ing at his place, next door to Hick-
erson's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Audrain county sadly needs q fair
ASS ociation. The farmers of this
county would take pride in the sup
port of it. Are we less enterprising
than our neighbors2
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Dave Steele is visiting at Perry. B.
F. rom;inson is clerking for Galloway
i'm Dawes absence.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

L. N. Bass has jast finished q very
neat and convenient affair in the way
of q refrigerator for Willard Potts, to
keep butter, &c, in, during the sum-
-. 1t is very convenient for gro
mI..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

DR.. Allison's spring will be open
for tie season on May LIST. None
but ticket-holders admitted. Tickets
for sale at DR.. Allison's residence or
"rice of season tickets s..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Miss Mary Cromwell has just n.y.
turned from q very pleasant visit to
Columbia.

Somebody-we won't say who
while out serenading last night, got
q nice boquet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

A large number of physicians are
in Mexico attending the Linton Dis
trirt Medical Institute.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

The new Catholic church is nearly
completed. 1t will be surrounded
with an iron fence.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

Liverpool, LUnuU d TIoDv, A--
Htna, of Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, of Hartford, Conn.
Phoenix, Of Hartford, Conn.
Franklin, Of Philadelphia, Pa.
Underwriters, of New York.
German-American, of New York.
Phoenix, of New York.
Niagara, of New York.
American Central, of st. Louis.
Life Association of America, St.
Louis.
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York.
The above line OF Companies is the most
reliable known.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
American Horses ABROAD

Buy your wall paper at ''Afar-
tins" north side square. tt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

ball, by a process of rapid develop
ment during the last twenty-five
years, has become a quite complieat-
ed game, with a long series Of rules
and presidents, which only much ex-
perience and unusual aptitude for the
sport can master. This is the expla-
nation of the rise of the professional
player, whose interest it Is to make
base ball a business of increasing DIFF.
ticulty, proficiency in which can only
be attained by more constant practice
than most men can give to it. No
voice nowadays stands any chance
against an expert pitcher, who ac-
composites wonders with the ball, and
a thoroughly good catcher is as much
of a trained specialist as q mechanic
1t is well enough to see our great
game getting something ola scientific
character, but we need to take care
to guard it against becoming o. mere
trade. Theacollege clubs and the
many private clubs for base ball, who
play for sport and in healthy COM
petition, do more for the game than
the professional men, and in some OF
them are players of a skill which RI
walls that Of those who mako q bust
ness of the bali and bat.
In addition to the professional
National League clubs, whose number
is now greater than ever, there is an
association of junior base ball clubs,
formerly known as the international
| Ae.no;ot;on lint uyhfoh pnxv HonaGS
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Delightful Perfumes.

Ice Cream, Sherbet and Strawber'
berries, at j. SoNTAG's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

She figured up: "Two cans at 80
cents, so cents-that is 150 oysters
milk, butter arg sundries, 81,
tai S.. &c ns1sa stn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08

j. Med. Trinhle, of our city, has
'.~."tnd nv press
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
The Truthful Test.

See what 5 and ten cts. will buy at
3-2t J, SoNTAG's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Give Them a Fair Trial,

5000 useful household articles, at
5 and 10 cts, at j. SoSrAG's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
O FEBRIFuGE.

Buy your wall paper at f'Mar
tins" north side square. 1t-f.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
BOOTS ANDSH0ES

GEORGE UABLUTZEL
Is again at his oldSAAnd, three doors
south of Ringo House, and is better
prepared than ever before to manu-
facturc the best of all kinds of Doors
end SHOES.
REPAIRING A SPECIALITY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-08
Church

nnY in each month. . A. M.
, 1879-06-09

Look At the last days ot Talltrrtnd, md see the
r'osnE Of life cniuhtcnc,l by no memory Of
generous toll dohe for lts fc|low.rnrn. In
tIrcary solitude, tic old and subtfe statesman
traced t',ese liros: Eighty years OF life are
now passed; filled NTH what an1tciios, what
a9tsattons; what Troublesome perplcxltfea; and
nll With no oileF fc*t,lt than 0rcat wcas1ness,
physira! and moral, With \ profound aense OF
announcement will, regard 10 tho future, and
disgust for the paatn Miserable, wicked, dis.
appointed fnan 'rhis;; then, Is the end q all
for fans. This, thcn Is the harvest OF selfish
ness: better, far ttotter, bn Iivingstono. worn
and hnlpleat, dying 10 the xtcrncss; better be
Judson, breathing bis sptrft out upon she mighty
doep; bstter bo COLUMBIAN, peri4hlng among
the saraga tribes whom 10 secka TO elevate I;
better be Xavier, stretcllcd on the bleak Sands
OF Chtna, exposed to tho wtntnr'a blast, nhd
dying HERE attcr life Of service, than states
man who, will, alt his titles po,nDs Offices, anil
wnn1tbt enjoyed nut his own npproyh1 when 1y-
Ing, OF the honor Of h!a feI1ow-betngs when
6ahH