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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17

NO. 1872.
% acres. two and one-haif miles west of Mesi-
co. dwellings 1 and 2 stories high, and all out
buildintls in good repair orchard OF ab"iit 200
trees garden fenced with pIckets barn With
room for g horses and ! tons hay corn crih ana
granary. Farm fenced with hedge, plank ana
rails = good cisteriis. Price S2,01J,OJ, uHe-iliird
cash. balance to suit purchaser.
NO. 175,
800 acres, all unner fence save 30 acres. Siih-
meadow all enclosed susceptible OF cuItiya-
ton creek running through pasture, furnishing
wafer all year round. 2 story frame dwelling,
with one story l., q rooms in all. good well and
good out-5uildings. Barn and Stable sufficient,
fair orchard. Good tena t house. good rich land.
aud ole o. the best stock farms III the county.
church situated s miles north of Mexico. Price
$500 per acre, one third cash balance, time to
suit. -
No. 19s.
2I0 acres. all under fence. I25 acres in cultiva-
ton, 60 acres In pasture good orchard fenced
with plank, containing 30 trees good garden
fenced with pIckets good frame dwelling of 4
rooms, hen house. smoke house, log stable she'd
ded all around, room for eight horses good corn
crib, good well, two large ponds school house
within 2l5 Yards of dwelling: Situated G miles
northeast of mexico. Price $50. per acre $1,000
cash balance, time to suit purchaser.
NO. 2os.
lOl acres, all under fence. 30 acres in clover.
40 acres corn ground. balance in pasture and
timber: Good one and half story frame dwell
good plank fence around the yard, all other
fencing in good condition. Moderate barn, good
ponds, good %cistern. good living well that never
goes dry store and post Office within 100 yards
OF the house ; church and schoO! house near by.
Situated 10 miles west OF Mexico, and 1 miles
southwest of ThompSons' Station, on the branch
OF the C. & A. r. r.. Price 5000 per acre !;
time. to suit purchaser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17

$50 acresl iii i'll cultivation, 20 acres -, ~"titiva-
ton. balance III blue grass and timothy, large
brick and frame house with 10 rooms, Ice house.
buggy holIre and AL necessary improvements,
three good orchards. running water through the
farm, good coai bank 33 inch vein. A splendid
farm of humber one land. Price low.
No. 70.
$50 acres in farm, all under fence, 40 acres TIM
bered pasture 40 acres good meadow 80 acres
pasture balance in cultivation plenty Oh timber
for home use creek runs through farm good
orchard. Good one and a half story frame
dwelling in good repair outauildilgS fair. The
land is iirst-elaSs Situated four and a half
miles northeast Of Mexico, Missouri. Price, $50
per acre.
Farm of Sc ceres all well fenced, goo! one story
tacIied. good frame barn HxI4 feet, and other
out buildings, yound orchard and abundance OF
small fruit, 40 acres i'm cultivation balance TIM
berCd pasture, situgte . i-2 miles west OF Mexico.
Price 81, 800. terms easy.
NO. IO6
$50 acres under fence, 20 acres timber de-
tichel. Farm divided into 3 fields. Is acres
nler 60 acres blue grass. balance in cultiva-
ton. This is rich rolling prairie land good 2
story frame house, 4 rooms good barn shed, all
sound good granary, good out-hotiSes. good Or
chard-fiVe varieties of fruit-sfiade and orna-
mental trees 2 good ~cisterns good stock water
Situated 7 miles southeast OF Mexico, and one
mile south of Benton City. Price $500 pei
acre, one half cash, balance to suit purchaser.
500 acres. 6 miles southwest Of Mexico All
fenced with hedge and rails, save 20 acres tim
bnr detached. $40 acres blue grass and timothy,
balance cultiyating land. Good comfortable
house of 5 looms, good frame barn 40xio, good
buggy house, good granary. Young orchard.
well watered by artificial ponds. and running
creek wafer good well at house. All high and
rolling. Price 50 90 per acre, one-third cash,
balance to suit purchaser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17

CHOICE fresh meats ALWAYS d
~ hand. Billie" expects to s
meat in Mexico always, and so oisss
none but the best to his customer
If you want a tender steak don't ii
to trade with thr most reliable mu
merchant in Mexico. SAN
L
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17

400 acres. All under fence save 20 acres. 100
acres in blue grass, LOO acres in timber, balance
cultiyating land 2 story frame house ifxiS con-
tanning G CONS, has good reoiny hall. 2 good
barns smoke house, ice house aud other good
cat buildings, good orchard of fine selection of
fruit. fine garden spot. nice lawn in frJnt OF
house of 2 acres, good well at house. creek
running through farm, good ponds with wafer
in every pasture. considered a very fine stock
farm situated 6 miles south of Mexico, in good
neighbOrhOod. with excellent school and church
facilities, half mile to school house and two and
one-half miles TO church. Can be bought for $40
per acre, one-thlrd cash balance, to suit pur-
chaser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17
St. LOuS St. Paul Packet CO.
Il. = MAIL E.syE

u. =, MAIL ssSE.
FINE SIDE-WHEEL PASSENGER PACKETS
Between st. Louis, Hanihal, Quincy,
Keokuk, Burlington, Rock Is
land, Davenport, Clinton, Du-
buque, La Crosse, st.
Paul and Mime
apuIis, 5
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17

Imrfrmem edmmeW Mmw M mm maGmMrm Farming LamsmueS State of M@ia bhkp s. Also desirable
Business property mtM dy Mexico No
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17

Montreal Is getting in about the same
muddle with Its streets as that from
which Toronto is just escaping. In the
last ten years the city has spent $780,
go0 % her streets, and has nothing to
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17
PAINTING

"'S LIN
TRIMMING, AND ALL KINDS :
REPAIRING PERTAINING no
THE CARRIAGE LINE
Done on short notice and at Low :.
Rhg~ Plow and Machinery work j
kinds cxpeditiously done.
s. II. BELL Z a
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17
NO. 1893.

100 acres-GO acres IN cultivation and under
rail- fence good ltoliSc, g rooms /; good orchard,
good garden, good weli-2i feet deep and = feet
in diameter stable fer six horses with corr CRIB
attached good pond, creek rams through iiml-
Der situated four and q half miles south OF
Mexico. Price $500 per acre, slOoO cash bal
ance, to suit purchaser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17
NO. l16.

30 acres. 100 Of which is prairie. 20 azores tim-
Der, detached one mile distant. Prairie vel,
fenced with hedge and rail fence. and sabdi-
yidrd into ( fields good orchard Of 10 trees.
Good one and half story frame house, cottaln-
ing : rooms, good stable sitnrtei 3 miles south
east of Mexico and 1 miles south of Benton CITY,
on the Wabash railroad. Price $3.50 per acre,
one hall cash, balance. time 10 sGit purchaser.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26
Something Definite.

The Galveston News of We'd
nesday says, upon official au-
thority it is now learned that the
management Of the Gulf Colo
RADIO and. Santa Fe railway have
secured control OF the Mont
gomery Central railway, a line
IS miles in length nunning from
Navasota southeastward to
Montgomery, Montgomery
county. The design of the
management of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, it is
further learned, is to build a
branch from Brennan to Nava-
sofa. and eventually to extend
the connection from Montgom-
cry to the pine region of south
eastern Texas. This says the
News is an important acquisi-
ton. 1t will be used principally
as a lumber feeder for the great
northwestern district into which
the Santa Fe is Stretching
and will eventually draw
to Galveston an important trade
from the district traversed by
the Montgomery Central. The
Central and Montgomery extern
sion of this line but adds another
chapterin the successful pro-
gress of Galveston's chief rail-
road enterprise.
The people of Brennan and
also those along the proposed
line to Navasota will no doubt
be happy to learn that it is the
intention of the management of
the Santa Fe to make Brennan
the starting point of the propos-
ed extension; its importance to
Brennan in a business point of
view can scarcely be over-esti-
mated and our people should
cheerfully comply with any
reasonable demands that may
be made of them by the Santa
Fe company. The Central and
Montgomery will bring Bren-
ham cheap lumber and large
additional trade from Navasota
and the country on this side
that is now practically cut off
from US.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26
From Waco.
Waco, Jan. 2Ist.

" ASO, GIL. = io1'
Editors Banner:
The Examiner seems to be
more progressive and is pros
pering under its new manage
ment. The BANNER reports the
Austin Statesman as saying
that "the university fund has
been robbed" to support the
Prairie View Normal school
that was not a branch of the
university, but a normal school
only, and it very clearly states
that correctly. VIII the BAN
NER please ask the Statesman
to tell its readers and the peo-
pie what name it will give the
taking the common school fund
for the supporter the Sam Hous-
ton Normal school at Huntsville;
it is certainly no more a branch
of the university than the Prai-
RE View school; it would be a
matter of some interest to the
people to know how comptrol-
Ter Brown finds his constitution
al reasons for paying the one
and rejecting the other. 1t is
presumed no sane man will
claim that either of these schools
are by the constitution branch
es of the university" and it is
hoped that the people will no
longer be deceived by the cry
of the inaugurators of this plan
of taking the money belonging
to one of these educational
funds to carry on another, or in
old fashion language robbing
Peter to pay Paul, particularly
when as in this case Peter repre-
sents the great mass of the chill
dren in the state and Paul the
few, while claiming to be in
favor of common schools.
CITIZEN.
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Fixed Juries.

The publication of the jury
system is a subject that is re-
ceiving some attention at the
hands of the press and has long
been a matter of thought with
thinking men who have closely
watched the result Of trials, es-
pecially in murder cases. In
what the lawyers technically
term bad case, that is to say
a case in which 1t is clear that
the murderer should be punish
ed, either by imprisonment in
the penitentiary or hanging, the
selection of a jury is regarded
as the most important matter
connected with the trial. If the
jury can be properly fixed the
defendant is already more than
half cleared; witnesses with
convenient memories and elias
tic consciences may be relied
upon to accomplish the remain
der. Too frequently sheriffs
lend themselves to the lawyers
and assist in fixing the juries by
summoning only such men on
special veniries as can be man
ipulated by the lawyers engag-
ed for the defense. Again the
most intelligent men in every
community are disqualified
from sitting on juries in murder
cases, because in all important
cases the full details of the
murder are published by the
newspapers and read, and when
read opinions are formed. Those
who have formed or expressed
an opinion are disqualified from
jury service, and great many
men thus disqualify themselves
purposely, for the reason that it
is a very disagreeable duty to
sit on Jury in a murder case.
The laws governing the quali6-
cations of jurors in capital cases
are in need of amendment, not
only in Texas, but in nearly
every state in the union. Better
and more intelligent juries than
it is possible to get under the
existing laws are a necessity,
and until we have them, justice
will not be done. This is a
matter that is solely in the
hands oil the masses of the peo-
pie themselves; so soon as a
majority of the good citizens
determine that thorough re-
form in the jury system is a
matter of necessity the law can
be changed, but not before. Pub
lie opinion is the ruling power
in a free government like ours,
and public opinion alone can
remedy the evils.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26
True Charity.

"True charity" is the sub
ject of an editorial in the New
Orleans Times-Democrat of
last Sunday. 1t doubts the
propriety of taking up enor-
nous collections for the sup
port of foreign missions and re-
marks that, "for centuries past,
this has been an acceptable and
favored policy. We have
squandered thousands of lives
and millions OF money in the
vain endeavor to overthrow
Buddha and Brahma and the
idols of Africa, while at our own
door the demons of suffering,
vice, degradation and destitu-
ton, have reaped their hideous
harvests." The only deduction
is that true charity begins at
home, and while we have so
much misery at our own doors
it is folly to go ten thousand
miles to convert the heathens,
who dc not want to be CONVEX
ted, and who have not and per-
haps never will be converted.
All efforts in the direction of
converting the heathens have
proved of but little avail; ninety
nine per cent of them are heath
ems yet, and numerically they
outnumber us more than ten to
one. We are inclined to think
with the Times-Democrat that
the m oney and lives spent in
the missionary service could be
much better applied at home
where there is no lack of ma
terial, much of it fully as bad,
some oft far worse than any
heather in the world, There is
probably not a town in the
United States in which there is
not suffering poor, while in all
the cities, especially the large
ones, they are numbered by the
thousand. Those who bestow
charity must judge for them
selves what constitutes true
charity.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26
The democracy.

The Waco Examiner is cor
rect in saying there are thous-
ands of democrats in Texas
who want a revision Of demo-
cratic policies and measures, as
illustrated in the government Of
this state. 1t says, let US warn
these democrats right now that
the ground on which to make
the fight is within the demo-
cratic ranks, as democrats and
under the leadership of a demo-
crat. Congressman Jones, nor
any man who is not democrat
is competent to carry out a
successful movement against
the regular democracy. Those
democrats who suffer them
selves to be deguiled into the
Jones movement will retard the
very ends they seek to bring
about. Stay in the party lines,
but insist that the party shall
turn over a new leaf.
The BANNER regards the ad-
vice of the Examiner as en-
inently correct; the views eX-
pressed are moderate and con-
sentative; the proper place to
begin reform is in the party
and not out of it. Times
change and there is no reason
the democracy of Texas should
not keep fully abreast of them,
instead Of tagging behind ten,
fifteen or twenty years. The
fundamental principles OF the
democracy must of course re-
main the same, but state pol
ices that would have been wise
ten or twenty years ago must
be abandoned and new ones
adopted that suit the times and
exigencies of the present.
Democrats that follow Wash
Jones or any other nondescript
independent need expect Moth
ing. Jones and others of his
ilk have but two objects in
view: one to break up the demo-
cratic party, not only in Texas
but throughout the south and,
the other to pocket the spoils,
and let it not be forgotten that
the latter is almost as much of
an inducement as the former.
The democracy of Texas has a
large majority over the COM
bined opposition, but the in
dlcations are that the liberal and
conservative element of the
party will demand a change in
the present policy. The BANNER
has stated the simple name of a
party is beginning to lose its
charm and that men no longer
vote for this or that man for of
fee simply because he is a
democrat or a republican. Can
didates for all Offices are being
more closely scrutinized, and
fitness and qualifications are be-
ginning to cut an important
figure.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26

GOVERNOR ROBERTS has ad-
dressed a letter to comptroller
Brown, which if judged by its
length, nearly two and a half
columns of solid nonpareil, is
ceatainly exhaustive. The
governor takes the ground that
the comptroller has done wrong
in refusing to pay the Prairie
View Normal School vouchers,
and the last clause of his letter
is construed to mean that the
governor, in accordance with
his duty to see that violations
OF the law are punished, will
ask for the impeachment of the
comptroller. Governor Roberts
seems to be continually in hot
water with the heads of the
state departments. There has
never been a state administra-
ton in which there has been as
much quarreling as the present
one. 1t may be that Roberts
is right and the heads of the
departments. With whom he
differs, are wrong.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26

AT Norwich, Conn.,. couple
of prccocious children, male
and female, aged respectfully
nine and eight years eloped, os-
tensibly to be married.
THE Hazel Kirke company
never play on Sunday night and
although in San Antonio, a
town that always turns out the
largest audience on Sundy night
they gave no performance.
THE Galveston Journal says
that the entire jury system is a
farce and a fraud in the body
politics, and that it should be
legislated out of existence and
something better substituted,
but it does not say what.
THE Huntsville Item thinks
that all the railroads will in due
time reduce passenger tariff to
three cents a mile, and that
when they do this they will
make more money than they
now do by charging five cents.
ENocH PLArr, wealthy Bal
timore merchant, proposes do
mating a million dollars to the
city for the purpose of founding
a free circulating library, pro-
vided the city will agree to do
nate $4,000 per year, forever,
to maintain it.
The San Antonio Express
got out a splendid special edi-
ton of SIX pages on Tuesday
last; it is devoted principally to
write up of San Antonio. and
western Texas. The Express
is worthy representative of its
section of the state.
Ex-Gov' A. H. BULLOCK, OF
Massachusetts,, while walking
along the sidewalk in Worcher-
ter, January II, was attacked
by apoplexy and fell dead. He]
was a native of that state, born&
1916. He was elected governorI
in 1866 and reelected in 1877.
The Dallas Herald says it
looks a little singular that indie
pendent movements are always
directed against the democratic
party. Nothing is ever heard
of such attacks upon the repub-
lican party, except in Pennsyl'
vania, where they invariably
fail.
The Galveston Journal is now
engaged in making war on Texas
Siftings. The MeXia. Ledger
and the Jefferson Democrat
have both tried to squelch Sif-
tings and made failures, as
Siftings still lives Perhaps the
Journal will have better luck.
We shall see.
WAR is being made on the
Ganesborough hats now so fash,
ionable with ladies and which
in derision has been called the
"cart wheel hat" The objec-
ton urged to these hats is that,
they are so outrageously large
as to obstruct the view of those
setting behind them at the thea
tire and the opera.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26
A RAILROAD OFFICIAL INTERVIEWED

y RAILROAD OFFICIAL INTERVIEWED
Not every one so cheerfully communicates
his knowledge and opinions as recently did
+. L. L0weree, ESD, cashier of the Cinein-
natl Southern Railway, that splendid outlet
to the south from the Ohio. Our representa-
tive waited upon Mr.. Loweree, and in reply
TO certain questions the latter gentleman OBJ
served: al was suffering from very severe
attack of rheumatism In my right foot; 1t
was in a terrible condition; the pain was al
most intolerable; our family physician wal
ted on me without success; sent for another
well-known NJ. D., but even the twain could
10 nothing for me; could not get down here
to the Office TO attend to my duties; in fact
could not put my footunderme at all, and af=
ter nine weeks suffering bagan to growdes-
perate. My friend iwhom,' of course you
know, for he is known by everybody, Mr..
Stacy Hill, of the Mount Auburn Inclined
Plane Railroad Co., called to see mej he
spoke very highly of st. Jacobs Oil, and rec
commended the remedy to me in glowing
terms. laughed at the Idea of using pro-
prietary medicine, and yet the party recon-
mending it, (Nir. Stacy Hill, remember,
being n man of sound judgment, set me TO
thinking the matter over. The next day,
when the physicians called, l dismissed
them, and said to myself that would let ma
ture take its course. That resolution lasted
just a day. On the following morning l, in
lit of desperation, sent servant for bot
tie of st. Jacobs oil. applied that wonder
full remedy, and IL penetrated me so that
thought my foot was about TO fall of,
but it did not; in fact it did just the opposite.
The next morning the pain had entirely left
my foot, the swelling was reduced, and real
ly the appearance was so different altogether
from the day before, that it actually surprised
me. ] applied more Of the ST. Jacobs Oil,
and that afternoon walked down here to the
Office, and was able to attend to my duties
and get around as well as any one. Let me
say for St. Jacobs Oil that it beats railroad
time, and is always sure to wln.-Cincinnat-
ii ENQUIRER
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The Houston Post says that
a parcel of school boys could
have done better than the gov
ernor and the comptroller in
their quarrel over a matter that
should have been definitely de-
termined by law. but which it
appears was not. The Post
sides with the comptroller say
ing that he but exercises neces-
sary prudence in the matter as
a self protection. The Calves
ton News also gives an exhaus-
tive review of the controversy
and accuses the governor of at
tempting to make political CAPT
tai with the colored people in
taking up the cudgel for Prsirie
View Normal school. In the
opinion of the News the comp
troIIer is right and the governor
IS wrong. Unquestionably we
have a happy family at Austin.
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The Austin Statesman fully
endorses Governor Roberts ad-
ministration and would willing
see him elected for a third term,
yet it says there are others, as
true democrats and as honest
as Roberts, who would make a
good governor. Referring to
Judge Hancock it says he is as
pure a democrat as lives in Tex
as. He has never deviated one
jot or title from the true prin-
ciples of the party and has
scorned all propositions to en-
ter the field as an independent.
The BANNER, while it advocates
the claims Off one man for
governor, prefers Hancock to
Roberts, because it believes
him to be more liberal and
progressive in his views and
not as egotistical and dogmac-
tic as Roberts.
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Scientific Miscellany.

Prof. TAFT describes three
forms of mirage. The frst,and
most common, is that seen in
the desert, where the sunlight
is reflected from the heated
layer OF air resting upon the
sand to the eye of the observer,
and irresistible gives rise to the
impression of rejecting sur
face of water at the point in
desert from which the rays are
projected. A second form is
that observed in the Artic
regions, of which many beauti-
full illustrations have been given
by scorcsby. The principal phe-
nomenon is what is called
looming" - distant objects
showing an extravagant increase
of vertical height without alter
alton in breadth. Distant
hummocks of ice are thus mag
nified into immense towers and
pinnacles, and a ship is some
times abnormally drawn out
until it appears twelve or four
teen times as high as it
is long The celebrated
fata morgana of the
straits of Messina is this
character. Rocks are seen
drawn up to ten or twelve times
their proper height; and houses,
as well as human beings and
animals, appear in like exagger-
ated shape. The most remark
able instance of this kind of
mirage was observed in 1898,
when from Hastings a portion
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The Houston Post says that

The Houston Post says that
Oscar Wielde's poems are
grossly immoral if not ahsolu-
tely indecen, and that a whole
some suit of tar and feathers
might open the eyes of Mr..
Wilde to the improperly and
danger of his aethetic course,
and that he is in danger of
coming to the pump, the pistol
or the tar-barrel.