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Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10

Judge Buckner, h letter pub
lshed elsewhere, withdraws from
the candidacy for Governor, and
favors the nomination of Governor
Phelps. The Judge says his con-
sent to become a candidate was
given under the information and be-
lief that Governor Phelps would not
be g candidate.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10
Warrenton Btn-
w withdraws from
a.A g. A.-~.

Warrenton Ban-
~, withdraws from
ID contest in favor
Phelps. The Judge
iii retire from public life.
ZkIco, No., July 8, 81
ZR. S1R.-No one knows better
In yourself my repugnance to en-
tering the contest for the nomination
for governor, the objections that /
urged against it and the motives
which finally controlled me in giving
my consent to become candidate,
hence the propriety Of addressing
this letter to you. My consent to be-
come candidate was given under
the information and belief that Gov.
Phelps would not be candidate.
Now that Gov. Phelps has signified q
willingness to accept the position, I
am left free to carry out my original
purpose of retiring from public life
on the 4th of March next. The
Democratic party now has an OPP
portunity to nominate a candidate
for governor who has often been
tried and never found wanting; who
can maintain our party ascendancy
in the State and whose well-de.
served national reputation will add
strength, instead Of. being q source
Of weakness, to our friends in othel
states, where the contest for tht
presidency will be close and doubt
full.
"With q heart filed with graft
tude to you and many other stead
fast friends in all parts Of the State
who have given encouragement t.
my candidacy for the position o
tgovernor, and with a sincere con
viction that the supremacy Of tn
Democratic party and the advance
ment of the best interests Of tn
State depend in great measure up
on the wisdom of the state conven
ton in the selection of a ticke
which the whole party can sustain
/ am, as ever, your faithful and de
voted friend, IA. H. BUcKNER.
"S. B. Cook, Warrenton, No."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10
DIR. w. G.. PIPING.
Electro vapor Bath apart
OFFICE-Over Dobyns & CT
Drug Store, Mexico, Mo.

It is not deemed necessary 70 detail 81
way enlarge On the remarkable c1fe9
ed through the agency Of thess hafee
wonderful effect Of fumigatiOn O H.
oody, has attracted the attention md &
Cd the admiration Of the most disen
medical men OF the age, and have Ee1e
ceived the plaudffs Of ell classes Of
the humble = well aS the higher WAlk1
In Chronic Skin DISEASES, Kheumattms
thsfia, Nervous Heasiache, &C.. &c
6o-Vapor Baths never fail % afiofd rela4
phuf Baths, for instance. c0mDinee
pfejudiced physfcia1A or the most g
scfant pfetender, % be the best r.
uIsed for Chrcnic RI heumAtdsm. and -
md All kfnds OF Hloud and Skin D1Deaee
shS rsy,nerous forms Of Catsk1h.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10
Assignee's Notice. )
AIOTICE d hereby given that I The q
u dersigned assignee Of Logan
Smothefs Will on

MONDAY AUGUST 4zH, les4s
and for two consecutive days theresf
between the hours Of 8 o'clock Il j. -
s O'Clock p. II. Of said days, st my go
in Mexico. No., SIT for the pulpoee =
and allowing demands go
said trust estate; and al creditou e
said assignor are hereby notified =
pear at said time and place TO have IL
respective demands allowed and ad5u1e
against said estate or they Win b
cluded from any benefit Of the same II
less legal excuse be given for sueA -
ure to attend.
GEO. ROBERTSON,
1886 Assienso.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10
ME LAURIE.

Brownsville, Mo-, a little town Of
1900 inhabitants, now has street
lamps. The same cannot be said Of
Mexico, good-sized city Of 5000
people.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10
r. Greed Carter.

To the Editor Of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, July 7.-R. Greed
Carter made a good Judge and we see
no reason why he should not be re-
elected. DEMOCRAT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10

Judge Elijah Robinson was in
town Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-07-10

Dissolustaon Nefiee.
The firm Of Steele q Gambse
dissolved by mutual consent Of -
members Of the firm.
ROBERT sTEELl.
11.lW. w. G. GA1Bkk
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
Something Around Her.

"There Frances, you've caught another
cold, and I'll warrant you you caught it
when you were out walking with Joe last
night"
''Oh no, mother! I couldn't have
caught it then, cause we didn't go fast
enough to catch anything, in fact, we
just set down on the stile and studied
astronomym
"And did you have anything around
you, my dear"
"Oh, yes, indeed did! Joe's always
particular about that; he won't allow
me to sit down anywhere in the evening
air without putting something around
me. - YOakerS Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28

An enterprising individual, realizing
that a confident air and plausible story
are in most instances the only requisite
necessary to insure a profitable return,
has devised scheme by which he has
managed to secure considerable sum OF
money from number of well-regulated
banking establishments scattered here
and there throughout the country. Rep
resentlng himself as an agent of the
United States treasury department
sent out for the purpose of ascertaining
the amount of counterfeit money in
circulation, this self-delegated pro-
tector and purifier of the national cur
rency presents himself at a bank and
with document highly and graphically
ornamented with sealing wax, which he
conspicuously and Ostentatiously exhibits
as his warrant of authority, whispers
into the ear of the awed bank cashier
that it has come to the knowledge of the
government that the banking house OF
which the aforesaid cashier is a brilliant
ornament is engaged, perhaps unknow-
ingly, in the circulation of counterfeit
money, and that it has become necessary,
in order to protect the government, that
the funds now on hand in the bank
vaults be examined. BY this time the
feelings of the bank cashier can be more
easily imagined than described Thun-
derstruck and almost paralyzed the
cashier in many instances has not only
given this bare-faced swindler access to
the vaults, but on more than one occa-
sion, as is reported, permitted him to
carry away a no inconsiderable sum of
currency, on the pretext that a more
critical examination was necessary in
order to determine its genuinencss. 1t
is needless to add that in an instance of
this kind the currency is never returned
The gentleman is still at large, and there
is no telling where he may next turn up.
-Clegelaad Leader.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
SELECT SIFTINGS.


The ancient Egyptian name for the cat
was ''maow."
The greatest known depth of the At
lantic ocean is five miles.
The ancient Britons used to inflict
death by drowning in a quagmire.
Near Salt Lake has been discovered a
limestone that produces flash of light
blue light-with every stroke of the ham,
mer. 1t is called hell-fre rock.
Ewing Isbell, of Warren county, Ken.
lucky, was born on Washing tons birth
day, his wife was born on the Fourth of
July, and their only child was born on
Christmas.
In Guatemala one species of pine tree
is grown with needles fifteen inches long,
and another that furnishes fat pine for
the candles of half the republic Trees
eight feet in diameter are not uncommon.
The battering- ram, with other military
implements, is said to have been invented
by Artemon, a Lacademoniau, and en-
ployed by Pericles, about 441 B. G. Sir
Christopher Wren used battering-ram
in demolishing the walls of old st. Pauls
CatBedral, 1875.
Deer and moose antlers are just now
very fashionable for decoration. Prop
erly mounted they range in price at FASH,
ionable retail stores all the way from SO
for very small pair of deer horns, to $40
for magnificent set of moose antlers.
Mounted head and all the latter will cost
about SO.
Among the records of the town of Wor-
cester, Mass, is an account of a six-year-
old boy who in 1879 had his ear bitten off
by a horse. The manner in which the
injury was received was carefully re-
corded by the selectmen so that the loss
of the ear should not be prejudiced to
the boy when he grew to mans estate.
The introduction of the modern slang
word dandy as applied, half in admir-
alton and half in derision, to fop, dates
from 1916. John Bee ("Slang Diction-
ary" 1929 says that Lord Petersham was
the founder of the sect, and gives the
| peculiarities as "French gait, lispings,
wrinkled foreheads, killing kings Eng
lish, wearing immense plated pantaloons,
coat cut away, small waistcoat, cravat
and chitterlings immense, hat small, hair
frizzled and protruding."
The old Britons wore, according to
Meyrick, shoes made of raw cowhide,
with the hair turned outwards, and com
ing up to the ankles. They much re-
sembled the brog, which is still used in
remote parts of Ireland. In Roman times
the chiefs and mobiles of Britain adopted,
in addition to the sandals, the costly
side-laced shoes of their conquerors. The
Anglo Saxon shoes were open at the
instep, aud secured by thong. Princes
and high ecclesiastical dignitaries wore
them of gold stuff, with lattice-p pattern
embroidery and pointed toes. This fash
ion of pointed shoes lasted from the time
of Rufus to that of Henry VII.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
THE vOYAGER.

High DER dark Earth, red in the sunset
glow,
Hangs a bright bubble, strangely poised in
air
And now its silken bulk with motion slow
Through the broad west the solemn night
winds bear.
The dusk draws on. strain my eyes to
meet
On purple skies that fragile ship aioat;
Brief guestl that gliding steers, ghostlike and
fleet,
Past the great mountains upheaved rim re-
mote.
Who silent, far, sails the high seas abovel
What lure seeks earth-born man in either
waste
Unpiloted, through baseless night to rove
With life upon the empty spaces castl
Ahl vagrant sailor of the upper air,
1, too, my little all have set adriftl
We know our guest; but how our barls shall
fare
Who lnowsl or on what skies our morning
liftl
Mrs. d. II. r. GoodaIe, in Good Cheer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
A PE2IL0US ADVENTURE

The kindness Of kinsman of the late
Howard Schuyler has furnished us with
the following interesting story of the
perils of engineering life ON the plains
only fifteen years ago:
In recent letter from - he informs
me your request that | should write out
in detail the story of Howard's miraculous
escape from the Indians, as l had mar
rated it to you. If it is matter of in
terest to you, it will certainly be a
pleasure to me SO to do.
In the month of June, 1869, when
the grass and flowers on the plains of
Kansas and Colorado were nearly knee
high, the result of unusually abundant
rains which left clear pools of water in
all the little arroyos, corps of Kansas
Pacific engineers, under the leadership of
Howard Schuyler, were engaged in
making certain preliminary surveys in the
vicinity of the terminal town of Phil
Sheridan, near the border line of the two
States. They had been out on trip of
several months in the direction of Den
yer, and had returned to the end of the
track to begin the definite location,
which we afterward carried through to
Denver. At this time bad been with
the party some two or thfee months, TAX
ing my novitiate in engineering, and was
occupying the position of rodman. Prior
to commencing the location, we were
running some rapid trial lines north of
Sheridan, and by the June 10 were
some fifteen or twenty miles out in roll
ing country, where the heads of the
Smoky Hill and Republican Forks fthe
Kansas river interlock. On the evening
before our camp had been brought up to
the end of our work, and we started out
bright and early on this memorable Sat
urday morning, so that by 10 O'clock we
were several miles away from camp. In
all our work we had been accompanied
by an escort of fifteen infantry soldiers,
under the charge of lieutenant, acting
in the capacity of camp-guard, who,
while they were very useful in guarding
our base Of supplies were of no protec-
tion to us in the field, Our party num-
bered thirteen all told, two of whom re-
maired in camp rs cook and teamster.
The working party was therefore reduced
to eleven, including Howard, whose Gus
tom it was to ride several miles ahead
looking out the line and indicating it
by building sod mounds two or three
feet high with a shovel. We followed
from one mound to the next, measuring
angles and distances and lcveling the
ground. Our progress was as rapid al
most as man would walk at Il moderate
pace, and we were exceedingly vulnera-
bic to attack as we were all separate,
strung out over distance of a mile OIL
more. while Howard was always out of
sight, and several miles ahead, but
having been out several months
without seeing any Indian signs
we had no suspicion of danger and did not
dream there was an Indian in the coun-
try. We afterward knew that they had
been watching us some days and were
simply waiting for the most favorable
opportunity To make the attack, having
evidently planned 10 kill Howard first
and then come back along the line pick
ing off the rest of the party one by one
In pursuance of this plan they lay il
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
On Stills.

The chief external characteristic of the
French Basques is the extraordinary skill
with which they walk on stills. This
hereditary accomplishment has been
forced upon them, so to speak, by the
nature of the country they inhabit-a
waste of shifting sands. intersected by
runlets of water that produce admirable
pasturage, but in places occasion very
dangerous morasses. The Basques, used
from infancy to make their way through
drift and quagmire, seem sometimes to
be actually unaware that they are perched
up aloft, like so many storks or herons,
as they tend their sheep or carry home
their oat-sheaves. And the women are,
perhaps, still DETER on their stills than
are the men, who invariably cast off their
wooden props when cudgel play, or a
bargain claims attention, who are, also,
a little uneasy in the presence of strangers.
1t is in marshy districts, where struggling
lambs and half-wild calves have to be
sought for, or in deep, loose sand, that the
stills find their main employment and
best exhibit the dexterity of the wearers,
who, with the help of an iron-shod pole,
can knit the wooden stockings and night
caps WHICH DOll SCACS are Clever III max
ing, practice the flute and the binion, and
even, it is said, go to sleep for hours.
Nothing more amuses the people of
Landes than when a troop of strolling
mountebanks, with its two or three dam
sells in spangled muslin, and mounted on
stills, ventures into Basqueland. To see
the saltimbanques in gay apparel pain
fully trying to do, for money, what the
spectators have done with practiced ease
since childhood, evokes Homeric bursts
of laughter, usually followed by shower
of sous. 1t sometimes happens, in rural
life, that the stills act as safeguards.
For the fondrieres. as the French call
them-''funda" is the Spanish word en-
ployed by the small dark people of the
land-are quicksands as perilous to pass
as any between AvTanches and st.
Michael's Mount, and the sinking over
deep of the ashen prop is a warning that
has saved many herdsman's life, when
an incautious foot would have been held
forever in the grip of the tenacious mire
below. The list of annual victims by
such accidents is almost wholly made up
of travelling thinkers, chapmen, knife
grinders, and especially glaciers, or
plumbers in quest of job. An THE Year
R0und
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
VentrilOGuism.

Some time since the Detroit Free Press
contained short article on "Ventrilo-
quist Humbug,n in which the statement
was made by an expert that ventriloquism
is very largely a humbug; that the de-
ception is largely accomplished by merely
lowering the voice, and that no man is
so skillful that he can get along without
a screening mustache. A London eng
land) correspondent differs from this ex-
pert. He writes:
Pure ventriloquism is not done by
merely lowering the voice. And as for
a man not being able to ''get onn with
out a mustache, that is absurd.
l can ''get on" without a mustache, in
fact, for obvious reasons, am obliged to.
He must be a poor ventriloquist, indeed,
that cannot get ON without mustache.
| have practiced the art-which it is
for the past six years, and | will defy
anyone, experts included, to sec any
movement of my mouth, though they
may be within an arms length of me.
Nine out of ten so-called ventriloquists
are not ventriloquists at all, but what
are termed colloquists. The act of colo
quism consists ofmerely lowering the voice
and twisting the mouth aside. A mus
tache would aid the colloquist, it would
hide the distortion of the mouth, always
more or less visible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
PAINTING.

Weep not that we must part:
Partings are short; eternity is long;
Life is but one brief stage,
And they that say love ends with life are
wrong.
List TO thine own hearts cry
Love cannot die.
What though so far awayl
Thy thoughts are still with me, and with thee
mine
And absence has no power
To lessen what by nature is divine.
List to thine own hearts cry
Love cannot die.
Then grieve no more, my love;
Grieving but shows thy trust in me is small
Faith is by calmness proved,
For know this truth-thou canst not love at
all
Unless thine own heart cry
Love cannot die.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
Work and Rest.

NJ. Bouchardat, professor of hygiene at
the Paris faculty of medicine, protests
against the ott-repeated adage that old
age is the age of rest, and says that the
regular general exercise Of the organs of
nutrition and locomotion is necessary in
all ages. The fact that mental activity is
conducive to longevity is illustrated by
the louglist of members OF the French
academy of science of men who are over
eighty years of age. Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
WELLS THAT NEVER FREEZE.

Natures wells are deep below,
Deep below the line Of frost and snow;
They are clear and sparkling, cool and sweet
Clear and sparkling underneath our feet
Cool through oil the summers heat,
Free through winters frost and snow,
For, the wells that Nature digs
Are below the line of change,
Deep, deep below.
Natures wells are never dry,
When the August sun is blazing high
They are deep and cool, they are cool and deep
And in rocky cisterns moisture keep
For the tiniest seeds that sleep
For the roots Of mighty trees,
For the thirsty lips that know
Natures wells are far below
The line Of change
My lifes wells lie far below,
Far below the line Of frost and snow;
Safely hid within my homo they lie,
Deep and still and sweet beneath Loves sky.
Frost and heat and wind pass by;
Life has drought and frost outside,
But the household wells still flow
Clear and sweet and far below
The line of change.
For homes wells are never dry.
Outside oft the conflict wakes high,
And a bitter drought is on the strife,
Or frost ties fast the hopes of life;
Then, at home by side Of child and wife,
Are the wells that never fail,
Are the household wells that flow
Sweet and deep and clear, below
The line of change.
-HdIper'S Weekly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28

Ella Wheeler asks ''IIave you heard
of the Valley of Babyland p No, but
we have heard from" it late at night. -
Hartford Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28

The mines of the Black Hills, in Dako-
Ia. have mined and milled, 1,512, O37
tons of good ore, yielding SIC, ABA, 116,
an average Of only 1913 per ton, max
ing a profit aud paying in dividends
So, 142.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28

In Montana the law prohibits a woman
from marrying until she is eighteen years
old, and man cannot marry until he is
twenty-one.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28

The United States raises double the
number of sheep annually that it did
twenty years ago.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-28
0 0
= Evansville Argus.

Way down in despairs black abyss,
Sank the heart Of the youth, when hiss
From the parent SO grim,
Sent the dog after him,
And the place the brute bit was like this:
. F.! ! !
Carl Pretzel.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-30
Brandon for the Female College

EJir1Es CLARION: Your correspond
cnt has observed in the last issue of THi
CLAEioY. the communication of "Jef-
fcrsoa" urging the location of the State
Female College to be made at Fayette,
and ,Gggcsting various things wherein
Fnept e surpasses Brandon, in my ma
tive county Of Rankin. Jefferson seems
to toe severely ''tickled" at the sugges
tim made. lay pr. &. X Marshall, o!
Nic.shuIg, proposing Brandon, as u
most excellent place for the establish
ment Of this lnstitttinn In fact, JEFF
fers..n 5 article is very persuasive one,
hut then persuasion seldom Overshadows
fact.
Bra sdun, while she is modest town,
and free from the bad influences which
usually surrounds the College student,
Is not without superior advantages for
the location of any educational institu-
ton: it is known and acknowledged to
be aS healthy, if not the healthiest To-
cality in the state. Situated as it is, on
an eminencc high above the level, its
atmosphere is invigorating and pleas
ant, and students may pursue their
studies, vigorous in body and mind.
Brandon is easy of access. being situa
ted on the Vicksburg and Meridian Ril
road and has daily communication with
every locality; it is near the geographi
cal center OF the State, and when the
Trustees Of the proposed institution
meet, it will show its hand in the way
of pecuniary inducements. The religi
Gus. moral and social advantages of the
town are unsurpassed by any in the
State, aud there is no reason why Bran
don should not be the coming town for
the college. RANKINITF.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-30

Ben Perlev Poore says il his reuinis-
epnees. published IN the Boston huages;
Horace Greeley's personal AppeaEanee
.ses alwave 4 subject of remark IRON
l,is borhood. Rollin e. MallaFy q mem
her of Congress from Vermont, Who Nas
~ ahle champion of the American SIS
Sena. sIsed to narrate visit of hIs e the
printing ofice of conatFT neNspeI
at Poultney. VI. his place g re.'ee..ss.
His attention NAs At1Eeesea p s4se
c0mpositaF. who was rather aN ssssss
sticking type. and N.lo' tneasA tssa
grown. Vas evidently the EQNa
prentice ii fha 0Iace. His legs I7N
eood deal more than s.leet through
lis panEaloone. the sleeves g hle e2st
scsseel1 reached heIeE his elbows ezs
hair 1'1s very white end Aaxea. ana g
nss. an he whale. q IAe p
te .s's ssI ~ Ie.T end <19 be-. re ze1.l.
- looking specimen as humanity
ever looked at and thia $ saying Eee1
'1==Si for t@e keeps E60k{f9 glass
'1Fk4f bs4 SaId z UfiI1EF EzN
-,sI.s 4 ~ s'',Sf<fh|6 mans can bold n
.Sr.| ',enf NTH Him 6n Masonry 6 alg
Sims e|Ss eonntcI1d with politics
#t So 4ss en- eI,1 cr1 q t1f et'
~sn |n ff<. 6'S ref11rk tI.a zt
.5',S s,lr 1's6| ana ~ Pot
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E@.| I0 M = 81.