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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
FROM LADDONIA.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
LADDoNIA, Mo, March 20.-The ''holi-
ness people," under the management OF
Mrs. Brinker and Mr.. Sumner are hold
ing a series of meetings here. They
preached to a crowded house on Sunday,
and to-day we can hear discussions held
through town, some talking of the errors
preached, and others of the truths. IT'S
thought by the sanctitied that the editor
of the LEDGER will attend their meeting
as often as possible, and perchance be-
come one of their number. Book agents
are excluded from their number.) The
town is full of wagons this morning haul
ing corn and hay from here. Corn is sell
ing at IS cents per bushel. This is the
first spring Laddonia ever had corn ship
ped here. Heretofore, it has always beer
4 rush to get cars enough to ship corr
from here at 90 cents a bushel. W. Beal's
dwelling is nearly completed. r. Bas-
kett's and j. p. Smiths new houses are
approaching completion. Mr.. Smith has
also n of the best barns in the country
Mrs. Benning and Miss Kate Mullins
have opened a d~ressmaking shop at the
residence of Mrs. Benning. Miss Roa
Hurd will, in short time, open a full
line of ladies' furnishing goods and no.
tons in the furniture store. Misses Ev-
erett and Spencer have also opened theil
new shop. The town election is much
talked of, and there is much enthusiasm
exhibited in regard to the "choice of the
people," Farmers are making an effort
to have early crops and good ones. Las1
Saturday most every one planted pota-
toes, and in a few days more they'll be
making their gardens in earnest.
Aru
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
They Never Get Oyar II.

do you know, my DEAR" she suddenly
sald' as she looked up from her piece
you know that next week
Will be the twentieth anniversary of our
wedding?"
sis that SO? By George! how time
flies! Why, had no idea of it."
"ies, we have been married almost
twenty long years." she continued, with
something of a sigh. "You nave been a
good husband to me, darling"
"And you have been a blessed little
wife to me, Susan. Come here till 1 kiss
you. There"
81 was thinking to-day-I was thinking
"Of that sickly-faced baboon who used
to go home with you from prayer-meetine
before l knew your" he interrupted.
"Who do you meanl"
"Why, that Brace fellow of course"
"Why, George, he wasn't such a bad
fellow"
"Wasn't he? Well, I'd like to know OF
a worse one. He didn't know enough tc
chew putty, and there you were as good
as engaged to him."
eyes, George, but you know you were
keeping company at the same time with
that Helen Perkins"
s'That Helen Perkins! Wasn't Miss
Perkins one of the loveliest and prettiesI
young ladies in Liverpool"
ono she wasn't. She had teeth like ;
horse!"
"She did, eh? How about that stoop.
shouldered, white headed Brace?"
"And such big feet as she had! Why
George, she was the laughing-stock of thu
town"
"Not much, she wasn't. She was
young lady who would have made a mode
wife"
"Then, why didn't you marry her an
all her moles, and warts, and mushroom
eyes?"
"Don't talk that way to me! Her eye
were as nice as yours"
"They wasn't"
"They was! Ibelieve you are sorry be
cause you didn't marry that Brace!"
And l know you are sorry because yo
didn't marry that beautiful and accomp
lished Miss Perkins"
81 am! Oh! thought you said ha
been a good husband to your"
Il "And didn't you call me your blesse
, little wife?"
:, Then he pumped down and began
I read the mortgage sales and advertise
ments in the paper, and she picked up h,
I sewing and gave the cat a gentle kic
2 These old things will come up now al
then, and somehow neither side ever &c
5 entirely over it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
FROM WORCESTER.


Correspondence of the Ledger.
WORCESTER, Mo-, March 2O.-After
another very heavy rain last night and
clearing off so beautifully this morning,
it begins to look more like spring than at
any previous time since grounding day.
The grass is looking green, the elm in
full bloom, and our peach prospects are
flattering yet and bids fair for a full crop.
The apple being later, l do not know as
to them. Our farmers would like to be
at work, if it wa only dry enough. Some
| few have sOwn their oats, while others
have been getting ready, but it continues
so wet they make slow progress. Not
| much news of interest in our locality, but
little doing in land sales or stock. Squire
BARLEY sold 20 acres of land to one j. NJ.
Fox a few days ago, but the Fox took
water the third day after purchasing, and
has not been seen since. He is a cunning
"Fox,"and has lodged the track, but it Is
a common thing in this part Of the county.
l guess he, too, goes to Montana with one
| Jesse Bright-if he don't, he should by
all means. Well, Mr.. Editor, can you tell
me why it is that Congress does not get
down to work, and do something for our
oppressed people, instead of talking of
pensions and retiring Useless S. Grant?
1t is my opinion if they will let Grant
alone he is already one of the retired mes.
l don't think, if our wise heads would
keep their mouths shut OF Grant, he will
never be seen again above the surface
not even of a whisky ring. l think him
a "dead duck" and, so far as the pen
sions of the soldiers of the Union army
are concerned, WE can do better without
that, with the exception Of a few cases
1t is only about one out of seven hundred
and fifty that deserve a pension, the
others being all able-bodied men. We
have two of the gents (pensioners) in OIL
neighborhOod that do as much work, are
as stout as any man, are good farmers
large dealers in stock, and making more
money than their neighbors, yet they
draw a pension. l for n oppose, anC
forever will oppose, any such drawing
soldiers pay all their lives; they are no
soldiers now, and never will be again
and l think Il Congress should put ;
stop to such p%ensioning, and pay thu
three or four millions of dollars set apar
for pensions on the national debt, anC
once more we shall be a happy and pros,
porous people. Away with the pension
business. Off with the tax on tobacco
farmers, who are the backbone of thi:
great nation, once move on to prosperity
l should like to write more, but this will
we think, suffice for the present.
Yours respectfully, SCAD.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23

/ A New York teacher of the art OF
says that women learn
quicker than a man. They are natu-
E-al kickers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
Killing Dogs.

Since there have been SO many
sheep killed by dogs in this county
lately there has been a good deal of
talk about the best way to kill the
dogs. A well known talkative re-
porter at the post-oflice last Sunday
was giving his experience in extermi-
mating dogs to a host of admiring
friends, and was asked:
''Kill many"
"Well, l should say So"
"How many did you ever kill in a
day.
"Three hundred"
"No!'
"You don't mean three hundred
dogs in n day"
Eyes, l do"
s'You must have struck a kennel.
Three hundred in n day! Whew
What time did you begin"
'.Oh, about 10 O'Clock in the morn
ing"
"And how long did it take your"
about an hour"
There was a pause.
During which establishment, incred
ulity and worse were visible on the
faces of the crowd.
Finally one man stepped forward
and said:
Did you use artillery:'
NO, SIR
"a saw-mill!"
NO, sir
Maybe you will tell us how YOU
did ito
eyes, sir
"How?"
Il talked 'em to DEATH
We believed him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23

We have a letter from Madison,
Monroe county, asking us to pitch
INTO Sheriff Jackson, of Monroe
county, for not keeping a clean Jail,
and the letter is signedQ.X. We don't
know who Mr.. @. X. is. How does
he know anything about the Paris
jail? Has he been in jail there? Does
he want us to 90 over and sweep the
jail out with the sheriff? Why don't
he go over and lick the sheriff and
clean the old Jail out? Does he ex'
pect the LEDGER to tackle a sheriff
with the experience he has had with
book agents? If Q. X. will send us
his name We will give him a receipt
for keeping out of jail, and then ii
will make no difference whether the
] Jail is kept clean Or not. We sup.
pose Q. X. wants to 60 to Jail where
they have brussels carpet, lace cur
tains and a change of linen twice a
day. He wants cut glass windows
and hot and cold water privileges,
maybe. We are sorry for Q. X. il
he has to 60 to jail even, if the Jail is
clean, but if dirty jails will keep mel
out we say the dirtier the better.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
Some Water Statistics.

Correspondence OF the Ledger.
MEXICO, March 2l.-A family OF hve
persons with a horse, COW and pig re-
ouires 20 gallons of water daily for drink
ing, culinary and washing purposes. Up
on such a basis, a city like Mexico where
cisterns and wells are the main sources OF
water supply, consumes 10000 gallons
daily. To this may be added for steam
engines, hotels and liveries mother 1000
gallons, making in all, upon the o
economic estimate possible, not less than
II, 200 gallons a day, Or 6,2o5,ooo gallons
annually. But this ratio is more than
doubled by the waste i~nseparable from
hydrants wherever they are resorted to.
To supply water for u present popula-
ton on the principles adopted In large
cities would require a lake covering at
least 10 acres, and averaging not less than
5 feet in depth. 1t might be 10 feet, or
| even 20 feet deep in the centre, but
| should shallow as it shores. In order to
avoid the expense of a forcing engine,
| which is scarcely ever resorted to, except
for the purpose Of filling such a reservoir
as the lake proposed, it should be located
on grounds higher than those to be sup
| Piled. If a fall of from one to one and a
half feet per mile is secured II. VIII be
| sufficient. 1t will be found better in the
| end to 90 a mile or two in the country fol
such a location, not only to secure pure
water, but because a few miles OF pipe
can be put down and maintained at much
less expense than a steam engine.
With the above data almost everybody
can calculate the probable cost OF secur'
ing and bringing water to the city. The
expense of carrying this water in pipes tx
our citizens, and in erecting and keepln:
up hydrants in their yards, is a matter o
far greater difficulty. To this must b'
added the outlay necessary for good sub
stantial paved cutters and %curbstones
and, possibly, sewers that cannot b
washed out. We did not intend to go int
the details of estimates of such thing
at this time. Our only object was to ca
attention to the subject, and make a be
ginning, which we hope will be tinishe
by some one more capable Of enlightenin
the community. n.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
What the Ledger would Love to See,

Our streets macadamized.
The Fowle house completed.
Who will be the next marshal.
Young men not in a hurry to get
rich.
The sheep killing dogs all extermi-
mated.
A full vote on the water works
proposition.
Who will get the least votes of all
the candidates.
A prettier girl than a certain school
teacher in Mexico.
How somebody can keep from be-
ing beat for recorder.
Our county roads worked in the
spring instead Of the fall.
A town the size of Mexico that car
boast of less drunkenness.
Every nan attend to his own bust
ness to even the detriment of others.
Where you can find more indus
trious ministers than we have in Mex
leo.
Parties who have had their sheel
killed by the dogs get pay for thei
sheep.
If a man really wants to know O
how little Importance he is, let hin
90 with his wife to the dressmaker's
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
SenseleSS Sentinel.

The GAINESVILLE Sentinel, from some
use unknown, except that f. B.
take, formerly of Mexico, whom the
H.EDGER one noticed in its peculiar
way. writes for its columns, OCCASION
;iy takes the trouble to indulge in
: i'm humOr at Dur expense: and, by
Re way, humor looks about as much
1t home in that paper as a circus pos
Ter would on a tombstone. We clip
he following brilliant item from their
last issue:
I'VE are panied to see that R. Ma
raulay White, the talented Mpcenas
Of the Mexico LEDGER, has abandon
81 his "Society DEPARTMENT. He
will now have no use forthe big ''sun-
flower fan" he received last week.
Ne fear that he feels injured from
<ome cause
OF course the egotistical ass who
"rote the above supposed rs soon as
he tried to sit down on us we would
feel injured and, like the spider
that jumned on to a red-hot stove,
would look around for a moment in
surprise and then melt away Like a
snowfall in HI. We dislike to get
into Il quarrel with any brother editor,
especially such a small potato as We
are HOW dealing with, but from let
tiers we have received from Clarks-
vile we think the people of that town
are anxious for us to punch up and
turn over the petrified cadaver of the
editor of a paper that used to he one
Of the best in the State, but under
the present management has sunk
into beastly ignoble insignificance.
As much as we dislike to bother with
such trIfles unless the Sentinel attends
TO its own affairs we shall feel con
strained to write a sketch of its pres
ent managers and send a few hum
'tred copies of the LEDGER contain
ing the sketch to GAINESVILLE as we
lave been requested. A hint to the
rise is sufficient.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
No Place Like Audrain.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
LEADvILLE, COLORADO, March 6.-]
will endeavor to write you what little ]
know about this place. 1t is very dull
times out here; spring has not opened
yet, and hundreds of men are loafing,
not doing a thing, and, more than that,
don't seem to want anything to do. ]
would not advise anybody to come here,
unless they come to work. You can't
get board for less than s5 per week
Everything is high here.
The mountains are high,
The sky Is blue,
The clouds are nigh,
The rains are few.
Come, all We boys in your wandering ways,
Never leave home in your youthful days.
When you leave you will begin to roam,
And you will never be contented until You get
home.
But now l am here I shall remain.
But there is no place like sold Audrain.n
W. W. JOHNSON.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23

STRAY NOTICE.-Taken up by Gusp Ed
- wards, of Lin township, Audrain County.
OF the Peace, one Roam Steer. two years old.
and appraised at $40 by Thomas Edwards and
James Scott. Given under my hand this 10th
day of February, 1882.
F-2t A. w. TAPSCOTT, J.. r.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
HEIFERS,

HElfERS.
Red Maynard 4th, J. A. Harrison, $l35
Countess 4th, c. NJ. Lakeland, $55.
Belle Princeton 5th, Jno. A. Judy, $45
ma Belle I'd, John A. Judy, S65.
Rose Bud I'd, J. VIM. Harrison, $75.
Belle Rowland, L. A. Bolts, $50.
Geneva Rose 5th, John A. Judy, 500
Kate Duncan I'd, John Davis, $40.
Bracelet Beauty Sth, John Davis, S55
Rosette 18th, John A. Judy, $45.
Bracelet Beauty 18th, Jno. A. Judy, $50
Louan 9Th, J. W. Harrison, $55.
Maud, S. p. Emmons, $50.
BULLS.
Juvenile Lad, Cliff Black, $50.
Scott, John NJ. Daniel, $55.
Nelia's Duke, Frank Carter, $65.
Sharon Lad, j. NJ. Gordon, $40.
Duchess Lad, w. F. Reed, 375.
Cambria's Duke, Earl Cunningham ,$75
Duke of Evergreen, c. M. Lakeland
SI1O.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23

/. At a sale Of coins in New York, the
other day, a confederate half dollar OF
1861, of which only four were struck,
brought $50. A Sommer Islands
sixpence was bid of at 500, and a
shilling Of the same coinage at $50.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
Sale OF ShOrt-HOrns.

j. o. Richart had very successful
sale of short-horn cattle last Monday,
and will have another in the course OF
a month. The people of this county
should patronize these sales, for We
need a better grade of cattle badly.
The stock did not sell as well as they
should have done, and will, we think,
at the next sale. The result Of the
sale was as follows:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23

cloves young dream was rudely
shattered by a SNOWFALL, the other
day. An clipping couple were being
driven at furious rate through Louis
vile, KY, to catch a train to Chicago
and happiness, when a mischievious
bow knocked off the drivers hat with a
SNOWFALL. This interruption caused
such a loss of time that when, a little
later, the lovers ran breathlessly into
the station, the train had gone, and
before they could devise another plan
of escape the young woman's father
and mother appeared and carried off
their daughter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
LABOR STRIKES.

lust now there are labor strikes at
omahs, Chicago, Topeka and Phila-
a,lphis. In Maryland, there is also
r.. large district of forced cessation
from work among coal miners, and in
Nebraska, both national and state
troops have been brought into reoui-
sition to protect life and property in
anticipated labor riots. Such a con-
didou Of society," even if things go
no farther and get no worse, is suf-
se,eut to excite concern. Something
must be grossly wrong somewhere to
occasion overcoming strife between
labor and capital, whenever and
wherever methods of more econom-
ied production have been imperative,
the result of which, almost universally,
is thst workmen are deprived of en-
ployment when it is most essential to
their welfare and the comfort of those
dependent on them.
If the demands of operatives in the
prevailing condition of trade were
complied with, it would be impossible
in face of constant shrinkage of values
to continue their employment. Our
industries are cut off by unwise leg
islsion from foreign consumption
andthe attainment of supplies cheaply
from abroad, the necessary conse.
ouence of which is, that when there
is a lull in domestic demand, it is
well nigh impossible to get rid Of
their products, except by accepting
unremunerating prices for them. If
therefore, either employers or work.
1nan refuse to divide this decline
fairly, there is no other resource thar
suspension of operation and a tempo
rary and sometimes p~rotracted in
crease of discomfort.
Everybody rejoices when labo.
gains its aims and secures high wage:
and short hours but it does not TAX,
much reflection to conclude that sucl
aspirations are impossible of realiza
ton at present, and that the hes
thing for workmen to do is to submit
graeiously to the inevitable. In tn
very nature of things, forcible in
s;stance upon high wages must occa
SION loss of employment. 1t is I'm
fortunate that operatives cannot lear
from experience the p%roprieties o
times and seasons. They never az
able to stand decrease of wages; bu
they are eve ready, at the beck 0
cine demagogue, to demand increas
.: them, regardless of the situatio
i their employers, and reckless a
"a what may be the result on them
ives. When employers evince
aFasping spirit, which, unfortunately
% often occurs, it will always b
lest for operatives quietly to see
Enjoyment elsewhere, as resort t
:: ,lence seldom or ever betters thei
eanditiOn,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
Whiskey vs.. Water,

Mexico is about to do away with
whiskey by putting in water works.
The change will be very sudden for
some of the newspaper men.-Bow-
ling Green Times.
Bv no means. We will then put
water in our whiskey instead Of whisky
in our water as we do now.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25

of the public enterprises which are now
under consideration is Immediately essential
to the welfare either Of the Government Or
the people. Even the reconstruction OF the
Navy. which we regard rs one of the most
important propositions before Congress,
could be delayed without, in any way,
endangerug the safety Of the Republic, and
indeed, we cannot imagine any measure
involving the expenditure of money over
and above the ordinary demands of the
Departments that could not be safely set
aside, were that necessary in order to pro-
vide the means for the payment of the
increased clerical force which Commissioner
Dudley says viii be necessary in order to
dispose Of the pending pension claims within
the next three years. AS a matter of fact,
however, the appropriation required is so
small that it will not interfere, in any way,
with the measures we have enumerated.
Congress viii he false to ITSELF uncaithful to
the people, and unjust to the ex-soldier, If
it shall fail to vote the money which is
needed to carry out etfectually it's own
pension laws.
The National tribune., 1882-03-25
The Mason Case.


The sentence passed upon Sergeant Mason,
of eight years confinement in the peniten-
tiary for his assault on Guiteau, has natur-
ally awakened great deal Of sympathy for
the prisoner in. all parts of the country, and
subscriptions have been opened in all the
leading cities for the relief of his family,
which, by the action of the court martial, is
practically deprived of its natural means of
support. We are not among those who,
from considerations of sentiment, take issue
Mason was tried according to the forms of
military law, and was convicted solely on
the evidence submitted during the trial.
That evidence showed conclusively that the
accused had fired into the cell occupied by
Guiteau with the deliberate intention of
putting an end to his life, and had his aim
been better, or Guiteau at the moment been
in the position in which Mason supposed
him to be, the assassin of President Garfield
would doubtless. then and there have ex-
plated his crime. Mason himself has never
denied that he intended to kill Guiteau, nor
was there anything in the evidence before
the court martial to show that he was not
in his right mind when he attempted the
deed. No more than Guiteau was he Gin
spired" to commit it. He may, indeed,
have deluded himself with the idea that he
was rendering a service to the country by
taking the law into his own hands, and that
public sentiment would Justify his action
but while the knowledge that he was influ-
enced by that belief may incline us to pity
him, it cannot justify Us in excusing him.
The vindication of the law must always be
a matter of greater consequence than the
welfare of the individual, and the same
reasons which made it of the highest i'm
portance that Guiteau should be given full
and fair trial before jury of his peers
rendered it essential that Mason should be
subjected to the same ordeal. Both were
offenders against the law; and it would have
been direct encouragement of lawlessness
had either been permitted to escape the
natural consequences of their acts. We
should have considered it great calamity
had Mason's shot removed Guiteau beyond
the jurisdiction of earthly courts. 1t must
inevitably have degraded the Nation in the
eyes of tie world and placed it on level
with Mexico or the South American Republics,
where one assassination is quickly followed
" another, and the sword is the only
authority which the people recognize and
respect.
When Mason fired his futile shot, he not