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Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

NO. 377.
255 acres-80 acres timber, balance In pasture
ana cultisatlon good frame house OF FIVE
rooms comfortable stabling, smoke house, sc, ];
GOOD fencing; situated two miles northeast of
Mexico, Missouri. Price. $25 90 per acre
$1,000 90 down, balance time at per cent.
so acres, seven miles south of Mexico, Missou-
ri !; all under fence divided into three fieIds ::
50 acres in grass and cultivation about ten
ficreS In timber one and one-half story frame
house OF five rooms; good well and good pond :
about one hundred trees In fine bearing; good
neinhbOrhood school and church convenient
Price, $21G0 00-mostly cash.
200 acres. all under fence subdivided into six
fields, besides lots 100 acres meadow and pas
ture balance cultivating land, savd 80 acres
TIMBER new frame house one and a half stories
with 1Ve rooms, porch and pOrticO log and
frame stable: good outbuildings fine young
orchard OF acres in good bearing; situated
miles southwest of Mexico, Missouri well
watered by ponds and wells. Price. $50 90 per
acre.
220 acres, all under fence, save 80 acres timber
good comfortable house of four rooms comfort
able stable 20x24 feet orchard of about 40 ap-
the timber !; situated about o miles northwest
OF Mexico, Missouri, Price, S25 0O per acre
ohe-tnird cash, balance time at per cent. per
mum.
l50 acres, all fenced with rails and hedge 90
acres IN cultivation 60 acres in woodland pas
ture good comfortable frame house of rooms
log stable and coru crib good living wells and
eistern plenty of running creek water situated
ABOUT miles northeast of Mexico Missouri,
Price, S27 so per acre.
40 acres. all well fenced box house of two
rooms smoke house and hen house shed sta
bling. yard, garden, and lots fenced separate
ness; situated seven and half miles north Of
ICentralla, on public road. Price, $50 90 per
| acre-two-thirds cash, balance time at 8 per
| cent.
| 100 acres, all fenced save 20 acres of timber
detached. Divided in three fields fenced with
plank, rails. and hedges. in good repair 10 acres
meadow, about 20 acres in cultivation, balance
| in pasture, two-Story frame house Of rooms
with presses in upstairs rooms and in one
room below. New frame barn 2s by SO feet. well
First-class orchard of about 100 trees, one good
well ten feet in the clear and p feet deep Stu.
ated six miles southwest of Mexico, Mo.
| No. 4ol
$40 acres. all fenced with good rail fencing
Divided into six enclosures 80 acres meadow
about 10 acres in cultivation, balance in blue
grass pasture so acres timbered pasture Coco
| stream of water running through timber fiyf
ponds, plenty OF stock water, one and hall
and hen house. Good barn room for SO head d
stock, good grainery. fair orchard of 100 trees
garden fenced separate, No. coal bank 4 fee
vein, now opened for work Situated Q l..
! neighborhood, schools and churches convenient
| Price S25 per acre. Terms reasonable.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

The following is the committee of
arrangements for the Grand Military
Ball New Years night: c. R. Gibbs,
L. p. Smothers, P. Brophy, D. E.
Shea, Bob White. The supper will
be immense, the music will be the
finest and jolly time will be enjoyed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
Bob Armstrong and A Driver boI

Bob Armstrong and A. Driver hold
policies IN the Triple Alliance next
to Schlosser, and will get s400 each.
Sam Evans did have the former num-
ber, but went out of the Alliance, and
Bob Armstrong became one of the
lucky men.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

Earl Morris, the best shot in this
county, has our thanks for a dozen
quail. Earl knows where the tender
spot in an editors stomach is.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
Charles W. Baker,
REAL ESTATE,
Loan & Insurance Agent,
~ OFFICE---Front Room, Upstairs, Over the
Mexico Savings Bank,
MEXICO, MISSOURI.


Business Property in the city of Mexico
Having all the United States facilities selling
lands
The following portion of
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
SMALLPOX
and
PITTING Of Small
Pox PREVENTED

A member Of my FAM
lily was taken with
Smallpox. l used the
Fluid: the patient was
not delirious, was not
pitted, and was about
the house again in three
weeks, and no others
had it. J. w PARK
IsSoN, PHILADELPHIA.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
A TARIFF WITHOUT PROTECTION.

Can Tariff without incidental
protection be framed in the present
financial condition of the country !?
Certainly such feat can be perform
ed, and if a ''Tariff for revenue only"
has significance of any kind it must
mean just such tariff. A duty lev
led to protect trade or manufacture
must necessarily be complicated af-
fair; but '.Tariff for revenue only"
is the simplest of legislation. All
that is necessary for that, is the i'm
position of percentage. There is
no earthly reason why tea and coffee
cannot be made to yield as much to
the government as whisky and tobac-
CO. if Tariff for revenue only be
the accepted policy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
THE COMING DEMOCRATIC LEADER

Now that Mr.. Carlisle occupies the |
Speakers chair, the next question to
be solved is, Who is going to be the
democratic leader of the House!
Perhaps there is no one Of the demo-
cratic representatives after Mr.. Car
Isle, who is more fit to be leader OF
that side than Mr.. Randall, and
doubtless a serious mistake will be
made by that party, il that gentle
man is not put at the head of cne OF
the prominent committees. Besides
Mr.. Randall, there are other notable
democrats capable of assuming the
role of leadership, and some names
from Missouri might be mentioned in
this connection; but confessedly they
are all deficient to Mr.. Randall as
parliamentarians. Had Randall been
put into the chair, and Carlisle ac-
cepted as leader, the organization
might have been more perfect than it
can be now made, even with Randall
to marshal the hosts of the democra-
o., and also more generally accepta-
BILE outside the democratic party.
With Randall as leader, however, the
democracy of the House will be an
earnest and harmonious body, and if
the committees appointed by Mr..
Carlisle confirm what that gentleman
gave utterance to upon accepting the
speakership, there need be no fear OF
any other issue. Randall is ready in
debate, quick of apprehension, and
gifted with far sightedness that falls
little short of intuition. He is eau
tious, sagacious and courageous.
He has been often tested, and has
seldom Or never disappointed expec-
tatlon, and his present intention, as
given expression to by himself, is
that she will exert all his power and
zeal to make the record of the first
session of this Congress one that the
democratic party can go the country
OH, with confidence that it will be ac-
cepted as satisfactory
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
Eradicates
MALARIA.

ALI Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on
the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has
never been known to spread where the Fluid was
used Yellow Fever has been cured with it after
black vomit had taken place. The worst
of H;rht ,,ieid IN
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
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HISTORY Z 3: y

schfIler's Thirty Years waf, 20. u; =
teen Decisive Battles, 4Oc. Cany!sss e
Revolution, soc, Green, Schiller, -
Carlyle In one, sf-5o. kenrickb ~ - = =
81. Rollins Ancient Histofy. 81
Rome, u 10, Hume's England. t3ss:
Chronicler, 81 Is. Catalogue
free. JOHN B. ALDEN, Ps
p. q. Box f2g. Is yesey As1
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

For Scarlet and
Typhoid Fevers,
Diphtheria, saH-
walton, liberated
SoreThroat, Small
Pox, Measles, and
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
DARBYS
PR0PHYLACTIC
FLUID.
FLUID.

A Household Article for Universal
Family Use.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

10 acres. all well fenced box house of two
rooms smoke house and hen house shed sta
ping; yard, garden, and lots fenced separate !;
good blacksmith shop; excellent stand for busi-
ness situated seven and a half miles north OF
Centralia, on public road. Price, $50 20 per
cent.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
Ready-Made Novels.


Any one ambitious of producing a
work of fiction has only to read the
newspapers TO find in their columns the
most thrilling plots. which, with due ex-
pansion, can be developed into novels
quite as good as those Of Miss Braddon
or Mr.. Wilkie Collins. This, at least, is
what one is given TO understand by
newspapers themselves. in which il is
no rare thing TO see quarter of a col
umn, or so, headed "a Rsady-Made
Novel; or Stranger than Fiction,n
which we are assured is as wonderful as
anything the ingenious authors before
named have done in devising strange
complications Of human affairs.
When was young. and my first great
work of fiction, was in view-a point at
which it has persistently remaiued-I
made an extensive collection of clip
pings of this sort, believing they would
at least stimulate a laggard imagina-
ton. / must confess that have found
this method Of writing fiction failure.
1 have tried the excerpts for novels and
for plays. but have never got a-satis-
factory plot out Of them. They have
retained. through all processes Of liter
ary treatment, certain inherent Jour
nalistic stamp, which somehow has
been fatal to my story. have thus
come to disbelieye in the ''ready-made
novels" of the newspapers, and to think
that narrative of fact, however curl
Gus it may be, is of little help, except
for the germ it may contain, unless'it
is translated and reshaped by the imagi-
nation. Miss Braddon and Mr.. Collins
do not owe their success to the reporter;
and no one can think for amoment that
newspaper clippings have substantially
helped the author of ''The Cloister and
the Hearth Nevertheless, it is Mr..
Charles Reade's hobby to preach the
utility of the hard. unrounded fact as o
potent ingredient of fiction; and it is
his delight to confound the critics of
any seeming improbability in his stories
with reference to some occurrence in
''real life," of which he has an account,
carefully preserved with clove-scented
gum tragacanth in a scrap-book.-Jd's-
Wdry atlantic.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
Didn't Like His Room,

st. Louis was recently crowded by
visitors from the country who came to
see the Fair. Among the amusing Incl
dents related of some of them, is one
told by the Republican, in which tall,
lank, lean countryman stopped at a
prominent hotel. The immense crowds
he had came in contact with had made
him wish time and again that he had
stayed at home, and when finally he
reached a hotel and was informed that
he could get room by paying the
usual price, he breathed sigh of relief
and wanted to 60 at once to his apart
ment.
The bell-boy motioned to him to come
along. Soon they reached the elevator,
and the countryman was told to step in.
In an instant he surveyed the elevator,
and just as the door was closed, the
man cried out:
''Look here, my young man! open
that door. I'll see the clerk at the Of
flee. If l can't get bigger room, I'll
go to s. M other shanty. There amt
no candle in here, and the furnishin's IS
pow'full SLIM"
1t was q moment or two before the
boy could convince his passenger that
he was in the elevator and not in his
room. And then there was rich scene.
When the elevator began to move the
countryman seized the rope and pulled
it with such violence that the elevator
shot up at a rapid speed, nearly soaring
the poor man to death.
Great beads of perspiration stood on
his forehead, and it was all the boy could
do to keep him from jumping through
the wire door.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
The Turk and the Torpedo.

Sultan Abdul Hamid, with the
shrewdness characteristic of the Turk;
perceives that in the. torpedo lies the.
power to defend Constantinople from
naval attack, and with an energywhich
might well be emulated in the same
cause by the United States, he is en-
deavoring to ascertain what is the best
torpedo system, in order that he may
adopt it. Wish Gen. Lew Wallace as
his adviser. he is examining the torpe-
dos produced by Gen. Berdan, Col. Lay
and Ericsson. If he can place in his
harbor bonts capable of sending out
torpedos at a speed of forty miles an
hour, certain to hit the object at which
they are aimed, and powerful enough
to blow up the heaviest ironclad, he
need have little fear that Constantinople
will suffer the fate of Alexandria. 1t is
believed by experts that England's
mighty naval fleet would be unable to
enter a harbor which is well equipped
with the best torpedoes. Gen. Wright,
Chief of Engin GERS at Washington,
thinks so, and hence his earnest entreaty
that one torpedo system be adopted, in
all the harbors of the United States, as
again and again urged by this journal.
--NetO York Express.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
Winding Up The Clock,
When the Weary Wheels Were Almost Still
Lucky Accident Reveals
the Lost Key.
lg did you say You had'it?n

'How long did you say you hadit?"
a''Twenty-fve years. $50. - g e.
what! a bad cough, with occasional attacks Of
hemorrhage, for twent five years? Why, man, it's
mercy that there's dozen pounds left Of you"
abraham orner, of Righspire, Dauphin County,
Pa. stuck to his statement and when the exclama-
tons of wonder ceased, he added:
EXACTLY. You're right. 1t is mercy. But the
greatest mercy Of all is that before actually cough
ed myself out of existence, got hold Of PARKER's
GINGER Tonic and few bottles of it cured me-"
"Cured you? Relieved you, you mean2"
"Imean what say; 1t cured me, " said Mr.. Orner,
imply. 81 feel like another man."
Please take especial notice: PARKER's GINGER
Tonic is not mere essence of ginger, not mere
stomachic. The ordinary preparations of ginger
beneficial for transcient aches but at that point
their value ends. PARKER's GINGER Tonic covers
far wider and totally different field 1t attacks and
dsspates radical and chronic diseases of the Lungs
Kidneys, Liver and Nerves. 1t is delicate to the
palate as it is prompt and effective in operation
Ginger is only one among many powerful curatives
which the Tonic holds in combination. Test Its vir
tue for that cough of yours or for any Of the ills
which .require an invigorant for the whole system
And, above all, do not permit yourself to be mis-
led. PARKER's GINGER Tonic stands alone. Moth
ing else is ''just the same,' ''iust as good.
Prices SO cents and ST. Economy in buying the
arger size. HIscox g. Co., New York. Feb lin
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
The Longest Bridge in the World.

The land of Celestials still boasts of
the most wonderful bridge in the world,
and this, according to travellers, is the
bridge of Legaag, over an arm of the
sea in China 1t is built in q similar
way as the bridges of Babylon, but en-
tirely of stone.
Its length is said to be 10000 Paris
feet, and comprises 5000 arches, or
rather openings of pillars. These are
not overspread with arches, but there
are placed above them large slabs OF
stone, which form the roadway, seventy
feet broad.
The distance of the pillars is nearly
744 feet, the latter being 20 feet high
and Is feet broad, and strengthened
with stone facings of the form of tri-
angular prisms, which extend over the
whole height of the pillars up to the
transversed slabs. The latter (of course
more than 70 feet long) extend in
breadth to fifteen feet, and have nine
feet in thickness. The parapet is bal
ustrade, and every pillar supports a
pedestal on which lion, ts0entu-one
feet long, and naade,of one block Of mar
bic, is placed ! Elj I.}
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
GEDDES FOR GOVERNOR.
A Republican Opinion as to His Avail
ability. &
Especial to the Plain Dealer. ]

ISD9CtAl TO the EIhlu Dehicrsl
WASHINGTON Jan. 26.-"Why don't
your party nominate Geddes for Tower
nor?, asked Republican ofa Democraflc
member in one of the House cloak rooms
II don't know" said the Democrat.
"Is Geddes q candidate?"
sIf he isn't he ought to be. l have
heard that he is. and he's your strongest
man. He would be hard to beat"
"What makes you think so!''
"Well, the man who was able to wipe
out three thousand Republican majority
against him up in the Western Reserve
Of Ohio and get himself elected to Con-
gress by fifteen hundred majority is no
sIouch as runner. He made one Of the
most remarkable campaigns ever made
in Ohio. Then look at his strong points.
He is straighout Democrat, good repu-
tation, good record in Congress, good
speaker, energetic. affable and one of the
best mixers in the state. And then he
is strong with the Methodists. That's
where he would get big vote"
"What's that got to do with it?"
"More than you think, tell you that
the churches are clanDish. Religion is
stronger than politics sometimes. 1t was
the Complexities who elected Dick Bishop
Governor of Ohio. You remember in one
of his letters to Dorsey, Garfield sug-
gested that there were twelve Thousand
Disciples in Indiana. and that they should
be worked Garfield understood it.
Those twelve Thousand fellow church
men of his carried Indiana, and perhaps
made him President. Geddes' promi-
nence as Methodist would gain him 20,
900, Republicans in Ohio. He's strong
man"
Stronger than Hoadly?:"
"Well some think not. but do. Hoad-
ly is a strong man, too"
Judge Geddes says that while he is not
putting forward any claims, he would
not refuse nomination.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
OHIO'S CANALS.
Their Extent and Cost, as Reported to
the Legislature.

Their Extent and Cost, as Reported to
the Legislature.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 27.-Chief Engineer
Gregory has submitted the following re-
port to the Legislature, relative to the ex.
tent and cost of the canals of the State:
Miami and Erie-The main line, ex-
tending from the Ohio River at Cincin-
natl to Lake Erie at Toledo, $50 miles in
length. cost 30, 922, ,300.41 branch from
function to State line, 18 miles, $3.50. 600;
Sidney feeder, from Lockington to Port
Jefferson. IA miles, $685., ,958. 80; Six-Mile
Reservoir. $4,000; Mercer County
Reservoir, $52S. .222.07; Lewiston Reser-
yoir S600,0 Total cost, S,O62, ,66O.s0.
Ohio Canal.-The main canal, extend,
ing from Lake Erie, at Cleveland, to the
Ohio River, at Portsmouth, 300 uliles,
with twenty miles of feeders, or total
of 334 and reservoirs, cost 81, ,627, ,203. W.
Muskingum Improvement.-This inn
provement of the Muskingum River for
slack water navigation, extending from
Dresden, at the junction with the Ohio
Canal. to Marietta via GAINESVILLE, nine
ty.one miles, cost 81 627, ,61S.29.
Walhonding CanaL-This canal, twen-
ty.fiye miles in lenght. extending from
Roscoe, on the Ohio Canal up the valley
of the Walhonding River to Rochester,
cost 1907, ,268,99.
Hooking Canal. This canal extends
from Carroll to the junction with the
Ohio Canal along the valley of the Hook.
ing River, fifty-six miles, to Athens, and
cost $s75, 5,4s1.01.
The following portions of the canals
have been ceded by the Legislature for
other purposes:
To the city of Cincinnati, that portion OF
the Miami and Erie Canal that ran from
Broadway to the Ohio river. now known
as Eggleston avenue, about three-fourths
of mile in length.
To the city of Toledo, that portion Of
the Miami and Erie Canal which extends
from the State lot in Toledo to its
junction with the Maumee at Manhattan.
four miles in length.
To the city of Cleveland, that part OF
the Ohio Canal which extends from a
point where it now locks down to the
Cuyahoga River. at Lock No. AZ, to Mer-
wins basin. about three miles in length.
That portion of the Hooking Canal
from point one mile below Nelsonvilie
to Athens, fourteen miles in lenght, is
not in use.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
loorrectedb H.H.vocke& Bro. !
Foreign Markets.
CINcINNATr

OlNClNNAIl
Cincinnati, January 3O.--Hogs quiet; common and
light, So 5UG06 40; packing and butchers, SO 35@6
IS; receipts, 1866 shipments 64a
BALTIMORE
Baltimore, January 30.-FIour firm, unchanged;
western superior SO 25Gs3 IS; extra So 0Gab4 rs;
family S5 0006 90.
Wheat western active and higher: No. 2winter red
spot tl451l14c; January I13k6aNc; Feb. 113lzDl14
20; March 1l5a4D ll6c; April iisl sla5l1l19isc.
Corn wessern higher; mixed spot 651o; Jan. 69si ;
Feb. 6tss @D64Sc; March 54h9nc.
OATS very firm, western white 50@5lc
PHILADELPHIA.
Philadephia, January 3O.-F Flour firm but quiet;
Minnesota extra S5 62M06 90; pennsylvania extra
amilt s.; Ohio extra family s. 00D5 rs; Minnesota
latents S7dD7 %,
Wheat options opened lower but closed steady;
liked elevator il0c; No. red elevator Il3c.
Corn, dull; No. 3 yellow 68064c; steamer, mixed
itH96Gc; sail mixed 67tl68c. tet
Oats steady; No, mixed acc; white 4615lc.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
DAUGHTERS. WIVES and MOTHERS.

DR.. MarchislS Cathollcan, temale Retn.
edy-guaranteed to give satisfaction or
money refunded. Will cure female dis
eases. All ovarian troubles, inflammation
and liberation, falling and displacement
or bearing down feeling. irregularities.
barrenness, change OF life. leucorrhoea.
besides many weaknesses springing from
the above, like headache, bloating, spinal
weakness, sleeplessness. nervous debility,
palpitation of the heart, &c. For sale
by druggists. Price 81 and 81 30 per bot
tie. Send to DIR. j. B. Marchisi, Utica,
N. Y, for pamphlet, free. For sale by
d. j. Humphrey. - a5 kl
Positive Cure for Piles. TO the peo-
pie Of this country we would say we have
been given the agency of DIR. Marchisis
Italian Pile Ointment--warranted to cure
sor money unded-internal, external
blind, bleeding or itching piles. Price,
so cents box. For sale by D. j. Hum
phrey.
Rock Candy Cough Cure.-Warranted
to cure or money refunded. Coughs,
colds, horseness, throat and lung troubles
falso good for children.) Rock Candy
Cough Cure contains the healing proper
ties of pure white rock candy with ex-
tracts of roots and herbs. Only 25 cts.
Large bottles 81, cheapest ITO bug. ' For
sale by D. j. Hufnphreya Nov. a.1y.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01

The railroad companies are taking
proper precaution against loss by food.
Parties having goods consigned to them
should not delay removing the same
from the Middle Ground. The ice in the
river is very heavy, and should it remain
so until broken up by a freshet, there
will be danger. The ice from the rapids
is lodged at Perrysburg and will remain
until there is general break up. 1t may
ali pass off without damage, as is gen.
orally the case, but it may make trouble,
and it is wise to be prepared for the
worst.-Telegrdm
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
Locomotive Drivers

There have been innumerable improve
ments in steam railroading; but. an ex-
perienced engineer who says that men
Of his class have not been relieved of any
of the load upon them, tells New York
reporter that "the time is not far off
when every locomotive, drawing pas
senger train on every busy railroad will
have a pilot This pilot will have no
more to do with the engine itself than
the pilot of . ferry boat. His duty will
be simply to look ahead and commune
cate with the engineer in the cab. !"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01
Idle ExDariments

When a man is well and sound he can
afford 70 be Indifferent to the character Of
all the medicine in the world. But when
disease is fairly eating him up he must
do something at once and do il intelli-
gently. Therefore do not dose yourself
with hundred things in the hope that
some of them may hit the mark. but try
DR.. David Kennedy's "Fsvorite Remedy
which hits it every time. For Kidney
and Liver troubles. Piles and Constipa-
tion, il is just what you want. Druggists
have it. or mail One Dollar to the Doc.
tor, at Rondout, N. Y. ct
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-01

Dispositions were taken at Napoleon
yesterday in the Howard Democrat suit
by Major Dodd for the latter, Judge
Collins being present for the defence.
The testimony of Hon. Fl, G. Groschner
was to the effect that he saw Mrs. Asire
and Mr.. Howard together at Columbus
during the session of the Legislature of
1881, at which time the Howard Police
bill, to suppress prostitution, was being
Dem. 27th.