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Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15
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CENrRALIA. NO., Jan. z, 1885,
In political parlance We often refer
To an ''off year" as applied to ma
tional affairs. But life has been too
full Of duty and too similar to a tread
wheel for US 10 have an .off year.
individually. But we've just had an
''off day" for we've been to Stur-
geon, not by invitation, not by solic-
itation, not because the desr people
called for US, or because ne had TO
hut just simply because VIC wanted
to go. And the going was all right,
The staying was all right, but the get
ting away from Sturgeon was what
done US up. Not that individual To-
comotion was retarded or crippled
but of that We will speak farther on.
rhe occasion was the public INSTALL.
ion of the officers-elect of Sturgeon
Legion of Select Knights Of the An
cient Order Of United Workmen.
And with all the pomp and chivalric
display Of the knights Of ancient
times was it done, with all its attend
ant grandeur and impressiyeness.
Boone county has long been ceiebrat-
ed for its home-iike hospitality and
genuine old-fashioned Democratic
free-heartedness. But 1t was left for
Sturgeon to give the finishing touch
and elimination in this most admired
of all social traits-hospitality. As is
known to most 'smortals here below"
We all have our weaknesses, and we
for one are free to confess that the
owe Of oysters is our ssssetting sin,
md we fail to feel Paul's great sacri-
fee when be said he'd eat no more
meat if it offended anybody. He GER
tainly never had any select oysters or
he'd have eat them regardless Of con-
sequences, especially if he had been
IN Sturgeon. We've had some expe-
rience in sacrifice, and in eating also.
Hive been to numerous barbecues
and once in our life .'dinnered with a
Lord;" but Sturgeon SO completely
overtopped anything in. the supper
line we've ever had that the past with
all its bygones and bivalves is forgot
ten, while the lingering taste Of her
delicacies and dainties tickle our
palate and join our overburdened ma
ture. Sturgeon Legion and A. o. q.
WIS know how to treat man; know
how to make the hungry soul happy !;
! know how to fill an aching void or do
anything good, except To get man
out of Sturgeon, and that's some
thing they can't do. God Almighty.
) the government, Governor Marma-
duke or Col. Kissel can't stop Wa
, hash train at Sturgeon in the night.
Dear reader, il you ever 60 there
make up your mind to stay and while
, staying call on Mr.. Smith, Landlord 1
of the leading heiel. II you csi
p you'll remember it. Try and wake
q him up and get a move on him. II
d you succeed you shall have chrome
; postpaid. The rest OF the town II
p aup to snuff" wide awake, and {
e more congenial, whole hearted set Of
; people do not live on earth than th.
d merchants and men (women, too. o.
It Sturgeon. With many pleasant re
!. of our visit we viii eyel
wish the fair littlecity. the bone o.
e. Missouri's most able and moral sena
d tor, q. NJ. Proctpr) good luck
,e good trade and an early return o
10 such another oyster supper.
III j. v. W.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

Cheap Sugars and Coffee At r. c
Paul's. 35-4t.
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AsseSSrd valuation

ASseSSrd valuation
of real estate.
Assessed valuation
of personal prop
Assessed valuation
OF Il r property.
Assessed valuation
ni bridge prop
ASSeSSrd valuation
Telegraph prop.
Aggregate ds>mits
taxes of 'S3 s 81
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

Valuation for Valuation for
tax-s of 1888 taxes of 1884.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

DEAR SlR-Your monthly assess
nient Of so cents for the support of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Bible fund) is now due. and the
earnest interest you have always taken
in the work assures me you will
promptly remit the amount. You
will he pleased to learn that the go,,d
cause progresses rapidly, as you pre-
dicted it would in your address, de.
livered here few weeks since.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

been withdrawn, ny foreign corpora
tions, from the state. thereby serious
ly affecting its commercial interests.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
This building is in better condition
to-day than it has been in for a num-
Der of years. In order to make 1t. a
pleasant and comfortable home for
the outgoing aud incoming governor
number of bills have been unavoid-
ably made, which should be paid.
They will be presented before the
proper committee. 1t is now one OF
the handsomest executive mansions
in the United States, which has been
as carefully managed and preserved
by the better part oe the executive
Office as If it had been her individual
property.
CATTLE DISEASE.
Some legislation should be had tt
protect the stock interests of thi'
state against infectious and othe
deadly diseases. The executive o
the state should be invested with th
power, under certain emergencies, t.
issue his proclamation quarantinin'
this state for specified period agains
cattle and other stock from localitie
infected with dangerous diseases.
/ PUBLIC HEALTH.
! An increased appropriation for tn
lstate board of health is strongly ret
commended, to meet apprehensions &
cholera next season.
SUPREME COURT COMMISSION.
ii This commission has done excelieI
WORK. The supreme court Is sti
much behind in its work. With tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

The governor warmly commends
the normal system. The biennial ap-
preparation for the Warrensburg
school should be increased, and an
extra appropriation made for the COM
pletion of the assembly room. The
reports from the agents of tbs, Kinks
willie and Cape Girsrdeau Normal
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

HANNIBAL AND ST. JOE RAILROAD.
The governor continues the history
of the controversy between the state
and this railroad, which is here omit
ted. 1t is suggested that the retiring
encouragement, D. H. Mcintyre,
be continued in the case, and an APP
preparation for that purpose is rec
commended.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

s 81 S65S ,250. .ii4 6sI SIPS. 1929 As
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

Nine thousand dollars was appro-
priated by the last legislature for a
survey of the Southeast sunk and
overfowed lands. Jas. F. Brooks.
the engineer, has drawn So. 142, but
made no report Of his work. The
governor would have removed him if
he possessed the power. He trusts
action will be had to insure proper
survey, and an investigation made
into the conduct of the engineer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-15

The present road law should be re-
viewed and the contract system
adopted, boarding for the employ
ment by the county court of as many
laborers as may be necessary to work
under an experienced road builder
this force to be paid in money by a
tax levied for that purpose.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
Personal and Peculiar.

Mrs. Langtry has invested $125, 200 in real
estate in New York.
Henry irving is ill at his hotel in Boston,
and has been unable to fulfil his engagement
at the Globe theatre this week.
Soudan means literally the Land OF the
Blacks in the Arab tongue-''Beled-es-
Soudan."
Senator Garland has stong aversion to
seeing any of his children married, and did
not attend his sons (Sondeis Garland) we'd
ding last week.
Within the memory of nearly every high
school lad in the country there were no
electric lights. Now there are over 10000
alight every night In this country, alone.
teacher, speaking before the Rhode
Island Institute of Instruction, recommend
ed the introduction of healthfnl story books
as an antidote against the evil of flash litera-
ture.
A successful rival to DR.. Tanner is report
ed from the Bloomsbury IN. j. almshouse,
'7here there is an old woman who has eaten
nothing for forty-three days. When she be-
gan her fast she weighed $50 pounds. She
is now down 70 about 200 pounds.
Paris had 10000 less foreign visitors In
1884 than in the preceding year, and the
small tradesmen are in despair. The sight
of British and American gold, upon which
they have depended so much, is becoming
alarmingly rare to them.
1t was Boston clergyman who on Sunday
thought proper to make some reference to
Handel. 1t was all right until he spoke of
the impression made upon him by Perepa's
singing of "Comfort ye'' in sTbe Messiah. :,
and then one listener who had heard this
noble tenor song smiled.
A new literarian," a person de.
voted tc literary pursuits-is proposed by
the Literary World, which says: "Littsra-
teur is foreign; literary men is awkward, be-
sides being restricted In gender; literarian,
following the analogy of fparliamentarian, )
is natural; it is also sensible, euphonious,
and convenient"
In speaking of progress in journalism, W.
A. Croffat says that in February, '61, he
happened to go from Springfield to New
York on the same train with Vice President
elect Hannibal Hamlin, who was on his dan
gerous way to Washington to be inaugurated
with Lincoln. Although large and excited
crowds gathered at every station, there was
no newspaper man on hand. Hamlin made
dozen brief speeches and Croffut took
them down on the fy-leaf of book. Three
New York newspapers in succession refused
his story, but the fourth paid him $75 for a
column and half. Imagine such an occa-
sion now, and no reporters aboutl
President Arthur's Cabinet is preparing
for dissolution Mr.. Frelinghuysen will re-
turn to the qaiet of bis New Jersey home,
whence nothing short of Gabriel's trumpet
is likely to call him again. Mr.. McCulloch
will go to his Maryland home and look after
his banking interests. Mr.. Hatton will give
his attention to the Burlington Hawkeye.
and Mr.. Chandler to The National Republic
can, which will require bis remaining in
Washington. Mr.. Lincoln will return to the
law practice at Chicago. Mr.. Teller stays in
Washington as United States Senator and
Mr.. Brewster will again practice law in
Philadelphia.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
The Candidates.

Mr.. John 81. Fogg, the Republican candi,
date for mayor, has served three years in
the city council and his course has always
been such as to command the respect, not
only of his political supporters, but of his
political opponents as well. He is clear
headed and cool headed. He is thoroughly
familiar with city affairs. He is a man of
sound and discriminating judgment More
than all he is man of honest purpose,
with no axes to grind, whose sole object
will be if he becomes mayor to administer
municipal affairs for the best interest of all
the citizens. He has kept himself free from
entangling alliances with all cliques and
factions. To each and everyone he has
declared his purpose to be to enforce all
the laws strictly and impartially according
to his official oath. Nobody doubts his in
tegrity or honesty of purpose.
John w. Deering, the Democratic candi-
date, has already been mayor one year. The
public knows what kind of an administra-
ton he gave them. 1t wasn't one certainly
that suited them, for they repudiated it
and him at the earliest opportunity. It is
not at all probable that Mr.. Deering has
changed for the better during the past
year. If he becomes mayor again we may
expect repetition of the performances
which disgraced his former administration
and made the city government the laughing
stock of the State. Mr.. Deering's temper
renders him incapable of cool and deliber-
ate reflection, such as is necessary in an
official charged with the administration OF
great interests. He blindly follows his i'm
pulses and his impulses are quite as likely
to be wrong as right. Utterly destitute of
dignity, he is always squabbing and kicking
up rows, for no reason apparently than
because he has taste for that sort OF thing.
While he was in it the city government was
always bear-garden. He bullied every
body who disagreed with him, Democratic
members as well as Republican. He never
displayed any of that great business sagacity
that his boomers claim he possesses, when he
was mayor. Almost everything he under
took he bungled.
These are the two men whom the people
must choose between
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
A Word to Temperance Men

There are two classes of temperance men
in this city. One of them is made up of
men who simply use the temperance agita-
tion to advance personal ends. AT heart
they care not straw whether the prohibi-
tory law is enforced or not. To that class
we have nothing to say. They are cheap
lot of dishonest politicians There is anoth-
er class composed of men who really have at
heart the temperance cause and firmly be-
lieve that the best way to advance it is by
nominating third candidate pledged espec-
tally to the enforcement of the prohibitory
law, as has been done in the pending muni-
cipal contest. To these men we have a
word to
1t is admitted on all sides that either Mr..
Fogg, the candidate of the Republican party,
or M eering, the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party, will be the next mayor. Mr..
Cox's supporters frankly confess that he can
not be elected. The enforcement of the
prohibitory law for the coming year is to be
in the hands of Mr.. Fogg and the Republi
cans or Mr.. Deering and the Democrats
The only practical question, therefore, for
temperance men to consider is in which
hands the prohibitory law will be safer. ALI
the prohibitory legislation on the statute book
has been placed there by the Republicans
much Of it against the strenuous opposition
OF the Democrats, The law may not have
been as stringently enforced always by the
Republicans as the most radical prohi-
bitonists demanded, but it has always been
much better enforced by the Republicans
than by the Democrats. The men who COM
plain of Republican enforcement admit this
much. There can be no doubt therefore
that, as between Mr.. Fogg and
Mr.. Deering every sincere prohi-
bitionist would prefer Mr.. Fogg. They
have undertaken to relieve themselves from
the necessity of making this choice by
nominating a third candidate. But they
have done so only in appearance. The
choice is just as much between Mr.. Fogg
and Mr.. Deering as it would have been had
Mr.. Cox not been in the field, A great
many temperance men, like the Rev. Mr.
Blanchard, an interview with whom is re-
ported elsewhere, see this and do no pro-
| pose to assist the Democracy indirectly by
voting for Mr.. Cox. A great many more
would see it if they would stop and reflect
a moment.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

Republicans have given the people all the
prohibitory legislation they have had and all
the enforcement of the law that has amount
ed TO anything. Yet there is danger that
some sincere temperance men, msled by the
false representations of Democrats thinly
veneered with prohibition, will stab their
best friend to-day. This ought not to be so,
and would not be SO if men who really have
at heart the cause of temperance would stop
and consider what the real effect of vote
for Mr.. Cox will be.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
ELECTION MONDAY, MARCH 2.
FOR MAYOR,
JOHN H. FOGG.
FOR WARD oFFIoERs.

WARD ONE.
Alderman-Horace A. Hallett.
Councilmen-Alpheus Griffin, BENZ. Thompson,
Geo ge W. Beale.
Warden Samuel Thurston
Clerk--Osman c. Monroe
Constables-R -Ruel N. Field, Edward K Heath.
WARD TWO.
Aiderman-EzIa Drew
CounclmeD-Frank H. Plummar Tsaiab Danials
Charles h. Scott, Jr
Warden Ernest True
Olerk-Herbert D. Marr.
Constables-Luther A. Sterling BENZ Gribben.
Scnooi iCommittee-Char.es II. Oldham.
WARD THREE.
Alderman-Augustus H. Prince
Councilmen-Franklin Simonds, Geo. II. Buxton,
Milton Higgins.
wsrden-Edwin @. Milliken.
Clerk George II. Townshend.
Constables-Freeman T. Merrill. Edwin A. Leigh
ton.
WARD FOUR.
Alderman-Ira s. Locke.
Oouncilmen-Levi F. Hoyt, Frank D. Turner,
George K. Brown.
Harden-Wesley 81. Jadkns.
Clerk-Peter K. Deehan.
Sch oil Committee-Charles o. Files.
Constables-Arthur M. Sawyer, William p Lar
kin.
WARD FIVE.
Alderman-Whitman SAWYER
Ceunciimen-Ruel I. Mcclellan, John Williamson,
Wsrden-Josiah H. Drummond, Jr.
CleIk-Charles A. Perry.
Constables-Left with City Committee.
WARD SIX.
Alderman-Elias B. Denison,
Oouncilmen-Theodo G. Woodbury. Thomas P.
Shaw, Henry Small.
Warden-John +. Barrett,
Clerk-Fred V. Chase.4
School Committee William M. Bradley.
Constables- Benjamin 7. Libby, Granville Frank.
WARD SEVEN.
Aforementioned A. Moves
Councimen Herbert G. Briggs John p Hobbs
John c. Roberts.
Warden william II. Plummer.
ClerK-ThomaE f. Keating.
School Committee-Silas II, McAlpine.
ham. '----
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
The Council,

The Democrats will make strenuous en-
deavors to elect a majority Of the members of
the city council in the hope that eventually
the choice of a mayor may devolve upon that
body. All sorts of devices will be resorted to,
to accomplish this. Split tickets with the
name of the Republican candidate at the
head and all or a part of the Democratic
nominees for aldermen and councilmen be-
low will figure prominently among them. Re-
pnblcans should examine with the greatest
care and see that all the Republican nomi-
nees are upon their tickets. Scan every name
before voting. Don't trust to the general
appearance OF the ticket and the name at the
top.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
Mr.. George l.. Kimball and The
City Marshal.

SAVy 4A01 Su6tl
At the temperance rally at City Hall Sat
urday evening Mr.. George L. Kimhall is re-
ported by the Sunday Times as saying that
'he went to the present city marshal and
asked him to close up place; the marshal
said, 1 don't know, Mr.. Kimball, why that
place shouldn't be shut up for, between our
selves, / havn't the slightest faith in that
mans claim to be a Republican, +"
In card printed elsewhere Marshal De-
celle denies that he ever used such language.
1t seems to us that the marshal's denial was
not necessary. Mr.. Kimbalps charge
is too absurd to command belief for mo-
ment. Mr.. Decelle is not an idiot. No
body ever accused him of being that. But
made statement of that kind. Just look
at it for moment. Mr.. Kimball has been
for some years a prominent temperance
worker. he has been identified with the
Law and Order League, an organization
formed to secure a strict and impartial en-
forcement of the prohibitory law, from its
very start. he went to Mr.. Decelle to urge
him to raid rumseller4 And Mr.. Decelle,
If Mr.. Kimball reports him correctly, volun-
tarily confessed to Mr.. Kimball that he re-
garded the fact that rumseller had voted
the Republican ticket as good reason for
not prosecuting him. In other words he ad-
mitted voluntarily, without the slightest oc-
casion for it, that he was a dishonest officer
and that he was willing to violate his official
oath to protect rumseller who had voted
the Republican ticket. Is there a man of
ordinary Intelligence in this city who can
believe for an instant that Marshal Decelle
made such confession as that? Mr.. Kim
balfs capacity for misunderstanding must
be phenomenal.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

Altogether the funniest thing in the
shape of "boom'' for the Hon. Johr W.
Deering appears under the head of ''new
advertisements in the Sunday Times. 1t
purports to be report of meeting Of rum
sellers, at which glowing tributes were paid
to Mr.. Deering as temperance man. Ac-
cording 10 this report when man suggested
that there should be committee appointed
to see Capt. Deering, prominent and dis
tinguished citizen" said, II don't want to be
on that committee. John w. Deering
would kick us out of his Office if we asked
him to say that he'd not enforce the law,
He isn't the man to make pledges" Who
was this ''prominent and distinguished citi.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
Current Comment.
ROME NEVER KNEW WHAT IT MISSED.
CNnrfh Annarican \

HOME NEVER KNEW WHAT IT MISSED.
North American.)
They expect TO make Washington howl
next March as Rome never howled. But
tnen Rome had no Tammany Hall.
MR.. CLEVELAND Is NOT POSTED.
(Chicago News.)
Mr. Cleveland is said to be not altogether
pleased with the work of Congress. What
work? Has Congress been doing some
thing?
TWO ELEPHANTS WITHOUT A SINGLE HEAD.
providence Journal)
The question seems to be as to whether
President Cleveland or the Democratic party
will have the most troublesome elephant on
their hands
FOR INSTANCE, THE FAMOUS TABULAToR
(Boston Journal.)
The Maine Inaguration Club will 90 to
Washington bearing banner on which will
be inscribed. Free Suffrage To make
the farce complete, it should be borne by
one OF the counting out conspirators of 1880.
THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM.
(New York TimesO
The elective system, without any restraint
whatever, is better than the old compulsory
plan. Colleges which retain that in this age
are guilty of gross fraud upon the boys
they pretend to educate, and upon the
parents whose money they take.
WHY HE CALLS FOR A CHANGE.
president Ellot)
left Harvard College 80 years ago with
ont knowing anything. had smattering
OF Greek, of Latin, of mathematics, of phys
les and other studies. / had studied bits of
each, but had no comprehensive knowl-
edge OF any particular thing.
THE USE OF MATHEMATICS IN JOURNALISM.
(Wiscasset Lilliputian.)
One side of our supplement- was printed
two weeks ago and was intended to go in the
issue OF that week, but the non-arrival of
materal has caused the delay. Our readers
can make it all right by multiplying the date
by two.
THE COMFORTABLE STIPEND OF 1926
MONTH.
Qlowel Courier.)
Swain is suspended for II years on half
pay-which is pretty light for the offence for
which he is convicted. It leaves him the
comfortable stipend of 1926 month. With
this conclusion he ought to manage to enjoy
himself pretty well during his suspension,
and catch good many fine strings of fish,
if he enjoys the sport. And he isn't so very
much disgraced-by the sentence.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

The Hon. John W. Deering has aban-
doned all hopes of an election by the people
to-day. The most he hopes to accomplish is
to turn enough votes away from Mr.. Fogg to
Mr.. Cox to prevent choice. All sorts of
falsehoods will be circulated by his hench-
men to-day to accomplish that result. 1t is
always safe to set down reports discreditable
to a candidate which are held back until it is
too late to reply to them as falsehoods.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

1t 10 extremely fortunate that the issue is
not, as the Deering "boomers" would have
1t, between the cholera and Capt Deering.
II it were the city would be in bad way
for the next year, no matter what choice
was made. Both can be escaped by voting
for John q. Fogg.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

II John w. Deering is defeated to-day he
will be done for politically. If he is elected
he may be presiding over the post Office
before the year is ended. That is what he
is aiming at. He thinks that his claim
with such an endorsement as an election to
the mayoralty would be, would have to be
recognized By Cleveland.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02
Tb,, . called modern elective system prc

This so called modern elective system pro-
posed by President Eliot is not modern after
all. Sixty years ago President Quincy of
Harvard divided all the studies pursued at
the college into two classes. Tive years
later Prof. George Ticknor inaugurated
method of requiring certain amount OF
prescribed study and then permitting the
student to elect his further work. Since
that time there have been repeated changes
in the curriculum, both in the classics and
sciences. President Eot's decision is, con-
sequently, evolutionary ard not revolution
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

We don't want the man who repaired the
Chestnut street school house at cost a
third more than responsible bidders offered
to do it for, to build the Back Bay sewer.
The city is saddled with sufficiently large
debt already.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

II the great cholera expert were elected
mayor 1t Is by no means certain that the
people of Portland would have the benefit of
his profound knowledge and medical skill.
Those who profess to know assert that he
would resign any moment to accept the post
mastership.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-02

Philadelphia people are beginning to feel
anxious about the Liberty Bell. They have
reason for this feeling, for if, in New Or
leans the birthplace and home of the Louisi-
ana lottery, the historical relic isn't rafied
on Ia some dime museum they will be re-
markably fortunate.