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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
EeoIaiming fne Deserts

THE Great American DESERT" as it
was once called, including forty thous.
and or fifty thousand square miles OF
land in Texas, New Mexico, and Colo
RADIO, is made excellent grazing coun-
try and tillable by the wells sunk from
its surface, an abundance of excellent
water being easily found, which flows
in all directions towards the depres-
sions, forming streams which saturate
the soil and render it productive. The
desert Of Sahara is being made partial
ly habitable, and the terrors have been
removed from all the routes of travel
across 1t by flowing wells, of which a
vast number have been bored by
French traders and others interested in
the traffic Of Central Africa. Philadel-
min pgess
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
FGrmS---$l.5O per Alnum in Advance
&a II not Paid in Advance.

DAPTISr CHURCH. - F. NJ, ARCHER,
- Pastor Services every Sahbath az
1880 u. m. and 1880 y. IN. Young people
meeting at 200 p IN. sabbath school ut l2:OO
NJ Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
at7:3Jp IN Covenant meeting ON Thursuay
evening before the hrst Sabbath IN each
month.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
Candles for the Dining-Room.

Even during the height of the furore
for lamps Of artistic design, there ex-
listed natural prejudice against the
association of kerosene and dainty
dishes, which rendered the lamp, how
ever decorative in appearance, OBJ
iectionable in the dining-room. That
objection is this season obviated by the
Introduction of candelabra for the din
ner-table, the correct style being two
candelabra, one at either end, on a
table of small dimensions, and three or
five on one of more ample proportions
This new old fashion has brought out
in artistic metal work variety of can
delsbra, but the correct style Is repre-
sented in old English fashions handed
down from father to son for the past
800 years without the slightest vari-
ance in outline and decoration from
the original models.-New York Mail.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
A n.thet,c storv IL told Of the littl,

A pathetic story is told of the little
daughter of one OF our citizens, lately
deceased, who still maintains that
"papa' lives, and can only be comfort
ed by the constant presence Of a large
picture OF her father. to which she
brings various little offerings and all her
little sorrows and complaints. She
rarely sleeps unless the framed sem.
blance of her "desr papa is placed al
the foot of her crib, whore her last
drowsy glance may fall upon the loved
object. and In the morning her CHEEKY
saiutation wakes again and again the
,ad scenes OF loss that fills the breast
IF the older members OF the bereaved
househ cid. .-Rutland (Wl Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
Annual Report
--OF--
COM MISSI0NERS
Blue Earth County, Mimi.
For Year Ending
March 1st. 1885.

2sth, 1856, belonging to the different funds:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

Mr.. n. A. Brewster lives in Ran
dolph County, Ala. Recently he stood
in Randolph County, shot across Cal
houn County, in the same State. and
killed deer in Carroll County, Ga.
The same gentleman goes through
Cherokee and Cleburne Counties, Ala,
and thence into Polk County, Ca,
when he goes to his Post-ollice The
distance traversed in the latter instance
is only one and quarter miles,
Louisville CouTier-JOurndL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
l49 & Isl Huron ST.,
MILW AU KEE-

We wish to extend a general
invitation to all persons resid-
ing outside the city to make our
store headquarters. All mail,
etc., cali be addressed in our
care. During the exposition
we will offer a full line of bar
gains in Teas Coffees, Spices,
Canned Goods and everything
to be found in a frst-class store.
We mail a complete price list
free. Parties not having time
to visit the store can leave or
ders at our store in Exposition.
Telephone $50.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
Who Hutton Was For,

There has been some talk in Mex
leo about who Hutton endorsed for
revenue collector. Some claimed he
was for Cook. We did not think he
was. 1t would not be characteristic
of him. Gray, Of Louisiana, says
Hutton was for him. He writes as
follows in the Louisiana Press: "We
happen to have a letter from Col.
Hutton showing that Mr.. Voorhis
was not supported by Col. Hutton, as
the Rails County Guide says, but
that be (Hutton) endorsed the writer
(Gray)." We knew Hutton tele-
graphed to Gray to shave the caucus
postponed" but did not know his
reason for 1t. We presume that he
was surprised when he found that the
caucus went on and that the wheels
Of the government did not stop at his
behest. Cook would have made q
good collector and he would have
brought the Office to Mexico. Gray
would have made a good collector.
Voorhis will make a good collector.
So what's the odds?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
NeighborhOOd Meetings.

In order TO prevent the further
spreading of this disease called
pleuro-pneumonia, a large number of
the citizens met on the oath day of
April at Mr.. Hoods and the following
resolutions were introduced by W. S.
Hathaway and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That in the opinion of
the meeting the cattle interests of
Audrain county demand that the law
for restraining stock be rigidly en-
forced as against cattle being per-
mitted to run at large.
Resolved, That a committee of one
be appointed from each school district
by the meeting to see to it that the
law be strictly enforced.
The following committees we're ap-
pointed:
w. S. Hathaway, district Nos. 8,
80, 8.
VIM. Groves, district /.
r. Potts, district 4.
W. A. Edmondson, district 5.
L. Lakeland, Washington district.
II. L. Miller, Cant district.
VIM. Harrison, in district Nos. 3,
so, 10.
Ed. Beatty, Hurdle district.
VIM. Freeman, Seed Tick district.
Dick Fletcher, Jesse district.
West Stewart, Union district.
Jack Strobe, district west of Cant.
W. A. EDMoNDsoN, Chairman.
c. W. WRIGHT, Sec'y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
Frank
Fine Lectures.

thO
Every man, woman and child
should attend DIR. Henry's lectures.
He is a fine talker and a perfect OPP
orator. He has done much good in
Mexico. His lectures to young men
and boys are essentially worthy of
notice.
The lectures of DIR. Henry on
Psychology, Animal Magnetism, &c,
which have been in progress in this
city during last week and a portion
of this have been very well attended
by our citizens, and have given good
satisfaction to all who have listened
to them. DR.. Henry selects his sub
jects from the audience before him,
and when they are once fully under
his influence by a mere exercise OF
his will he will control their every
action with as much ease as he moves
his own limbs. Not only so, but he
will impress upon the mind OF the
subject any hallucination he pleases.
Anything tn esubject wishes to e he
can make him see, no matter whether
it be a reality or not. But perhaps
the most astonishing experiment of
all to the generality of people
Though there are many others much
more instructive and Interestingly is
where he temporarily paralyzes the
body of the subject, places the back
of his head upon one chair and his
heels upon another, and then steps
upon and bears his entire weight on
the centre of the unsupported body,
which shows no signs of bending.
In a number of experiments of this
kind the subject was but a frail boy,
while the operator weighs fully ITS
pounds. DIR. Henry is no humbug.
He speaks in plain language and any
one who reads and heeds knows that
he handles his subjects without
gloves,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
The Meeting OF the NJ. 2


The press convention at Columbia
this season promises to be unusually
interesting. The prospect is that all
the old members will be there and
we are receiving many applications
for new members. Every editor in
the state should belong. There will
be some fine speakers there. The
prospect is that Vest, Bayard,
Elkins, Blaine and Burdette will all
be present and address either the
convention, the graduates or some of
the societies Of the college. The
regular programme is nearly COM
pleted.
J. Linn Ladd, of the Rails County
Guide, will deliver the annual ad-
dress.
Miss Minnie L. Russell will favor
US with a reading.
Mrs Susie Mex. Fisher will have
an essay.
Col. Jake Child will read a poem.
r. P. Yorkston will have a treatise
on printing machinery, and ]. A.
Hudson will give US an insight into
the practical part of the printing
business.
j. II. Turner, OF the Carrolltor
Record, will also favor the associa
ton with o most appropriate address
The people Of Columbia ar,
making great preparations for a gal
time as it is also commencement
week We trust the convention wi
be one betting the Athens Of Mis
souri,.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
MEETING AT CANT SCHOOL HOUSE.

MEETING AT CANT SCHOOL HOUSE.
The cattle convention met at Cant
school house, in Wilson township,
April 9th. House called to order
at 2 p. m. and N. G. Flynt elected
chairman and J. E. Sims secretary.
Resolued, That the stock law of
this county be enforced.
Resolved, That the chair appoint
twelve men to go to Mexico and in
vestigate the law in regard to the
quarantine Of diseased cattle on the
2Sth inst.
Committee.-T. P. Shock, Baxter
Guthrie, C. FL Brown, r. West, Eu-
gene Jones, John Potts, j. f. Sims,
E. G.. Cant, Joe Brown, W. D.. Shock,
Tom Ridgeway and ]. j. Cox.
RESOLVED, That NJ. G. FIynt be
added to the list. Carried.
Resolued, That we request the
township committeeman to appoint in
each school district in this township
a committeeman to see that the stock
law is enforced.
NJ. C. FLYNT, Chairman.
]. E. SIMS, Sec'y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
Order of Publication.

STATE OF MISSOURI, lss.
COUNTY OF AUDRAIN.1
In the Circuit Court, June term, A. d.
1885. s. d
Levy S. Moody, Plaintiff, t
Ida F. Moody, Defendant,)
NrOW on this day comes the plaintiff, by
in his attorneys and files hispetition and
affidavit, stating among other things thai
the said defendant, Ida Z. Moody, fsA
nonresident of the state, and it appears
to the satisfaction Of the Clerk of this
Court in vacation, that service caunot4be
had in the ordinary way, it is hereby Or
dered by the clerk that publication BE-
made, notifying said defendant that n
action has been commenced against DEC
in the Circuit Court Of Audfafn couaty,
Missouri, the object and general natufs
of which is to procure a divorce, and m.
less the defendant, Ida f. Moody, be ana
appear at the next term of said Court %
be holden at the court house In the chg
of Mexico, Audrain county, MissourIs
the first Monday In June next, A. ID. 1854
and on or before the sixth day thereof
answer or otherwise plead to said petit
ton, judgment win be rendered accord
ing to the prayer Of said petition.
And 1t Is further ordered that q copg
hereof be published In the MEXICO LEDG-
Err, a newspaper published In said count
of Audrain, for four weeks successiEelIs
the last insertion to be at least four wee4
before the commencement Of the next terna
of said court. =.
Witness my hand and seal Of Office tn
sth day of April, 1885.
Ben. C. JOHNSON.
Hit & Duncan, Clefk
Attys. for Plaintiff.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Pray see to your wells. If you
have the slightest suspicion that the
water is impure have them emptied
and cleaned out. See that there is
no possible connection between the
well and the barnyard, ithe privy or
cessDoOls,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

A Centralia lady writes US a ''yal-
liable recipe" to keep flies away and
says it is simply castor oil. She
neglects to state how much Is a dose
for a fly; neither does she state the
best way to catch the beast before
giving the medicine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Sheep husbandry is well worth
considering on account of its peculiar
adaptsbility for association with all
branches of agriculture. A well
selected flock will, in a majority Of
instances, add to the value of grain
and grass crops, while adding in
other directions to the profit side of
the balance sheet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENTs-s
IN Notice is hereby given that I, as "a
ministrator of the estate of Simeon CAR
lop, deceased, will at the May term, 1881
of the Audrain Probate Court, make Ml
final settlement a administrator Of saie
estate. d. A. ROBERTS.
52-tdcm Administrators
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
AdmInistrafOr'sN Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that letters OF
IN administration upon the estate OF Al
exander Marshall, deceased, have been
granted the undersigned, NJ. 7. Duncan,
by the probate court of Audrain county,
Missouri, bearing date March 10, 1855.
AnSpersons having claims against SAID
estate are required to exhibit them for
allowance to the administrator within
one year after the date, or they may be
precluded from any benefit of such estate,
and if such claims be not exhibited within
two years from this date they viii be
forever barred. NJ. Y. DUNCAN
4s-4t Administratof.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
Notice.
Free to Farmers.

To secure 1000 900 new subscribers
during next sixty days, we will actu-
ally send the best farmers magazine
in the q. S. free for one entire wear
to every one sending us at once the
names of ten farmers and 12 oct
stamps for postage, etc. Regular
Prlc S1.00. Address NATIONAL,
AGRICULTURIST, Nund, N. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

A gentleman writes to us for infor-
nation about a room to open china
and book store. He also wants to
handle silverware. If he can get. a
good room he will locate here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
An Old Settler.

Thos. Crouch, ST., of near Mid
dletown, called in to e us this
week. Mr.. Crouch is one of the old
est settlers in Audrain county and
a relate many incidents of pioneer
life. He has arrived at the advanced
age OF seventy-five years but retains
considerable of the vigor of youth,
as he sowed oyer two hundred bush
els OF oats this spring, which is
abundant evidence of his sprighth.
ness We trust he may enjoy many
years OF life upon earth
Wellsvilie Democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

If the county court is prohibited
by law from giving any money toward
a sidewalk to the cemetery no one
outside of the city should be allowed
q burial lot unless they pay extra.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

The LEDGER, As usual, got in a
scoop on the burning Of the Lindell
Hotel, both by telegram and extra
edition of st. Louis Chronicle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

We have received a letter stating
that the foundry and mill are shut in
by closed streets. Complaints Of
this kind should be fled before the
council, who will open said streets if
they belong to the city
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

The merchants of Nevada and
Moberly are bonded together into a
board of trade. They can work in
unison for any enterprise
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

The Legislature should add a school
for s'cow doctors" to the University
at Columbia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Our young friend of the Moberly
Head gilt for the past few weeks has
not had time to throw q brick at the
LEDGER. He has been busy attend
ing to his OWN business We hope.
The St. Louis Chronicle we notice is
giving him about all he can well at
tend to, be he as talented even as he
thinks he is.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Hog cholera is appearing in many
portions of the state and is proving
quite fatal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

The council should take one thing
at a time and get it through before
they let 60 of it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Clinton, Mo-, is going to have
water works at once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Mexico is to have a new brass
band. The citizens Are again being
called on to buy instruments. 1t
seems as though new instruments are
bought annually. The question is,
what becomes of them? Mexico is
nearly always without a band in spite
Of this liberality. Mexico should
have q good band and we trust will
have, but such unbusiness-like pro-
ceedings as we refer to are calculated
TO make the public tired.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
THE NEV.MANIA.

- AtA
Additional impetus has been given
by Gov. Oglesby's proclamation to
the new cattle mania. People, how
ever, are at loss to understand how it
comes TO pass that so many states
have Jurisdiction of the shipment OF
cattle both east and west of us, when
congress has sole power to regulate
Interstate commerce. The national
authorities have forbidden individ-
uals and corporations to transport
diseased animals from state to state
and the governors of several states
have established rigid guarantees
against the introduction of even
sound ones unaccompanied with bills
of health and certificates of not hay-
ing been exposed to eontagion from
tue COW doctor empowered to issue
them.
While such things are transporting
it may be we'll to examine the founda-
ton upon which the ae~-maaia rests.
According to sen%sationalists an ami
NAL may not only be seriously dis
eased for months without outward
indication of it., but capable of i'm
parting contagion for an equally long
period after having recovered. If
this be the case it is something un-
heard of. Heretofore
| CoNTAGIoN
has been looked upon as the COM
munication of disease from a sick to
a healthy animal, either by contact
or through the excretions and exhal-
atoms of an unsound body. If a
Ian ger number of healthy animals as
sociated with a sick one become i'll
than can be accounted for on general
sanitary principles the disease taker
by them is thought to be propagated
by contagion. In some cases, under
circumstances favorable to its exist
ence, a specific ~contagion has beer
known to reproduce disease to al
almost unlimited extent. Indeed
contagious diseases generally attach
large numbers simultaneously ant
travel from place to place with grea
rapidity along ordinary lines of com
munication. Up to this writing tn
cattle disease existing in the v~icinit,
of Fulton, Galloway county, is con
fined to the neighborhood in whicl
it was first discovered. Many hav
been butchered but none have diet
outside of 1t, and this would seem t.
indicate that it is endemic rathe
than epidemic. That is affecting
number of animals in a locality afte
the manner of fever and ague, or, q
worst, merely sporadic, that is at
lacking only a few and not spreadin!
after the manner of epidemics ant
| dependent on conditions but littl
l understood. Measles, scarlatina an
even smallpox and cholera, as is we
, known, often occur In this form with
l out extensive damage.
1t is to be hoped therefore tina
this New-Monia will speedily subsid
s and thus permit cattlemen to regal
e their wonted equanimity. There
: little doubt that the existing stat
cattle guarantees if brought to jud.
5 cial test would be declared by Unite
States courts to be invasive of n:
e tional authority and therefore inoper'
tive. The states of Illinois, Colorad
and Kansas had best confine the:
Legislation to their own jurisdictio
. and leave to the nation the control {
interstate trade. **
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30
J, MISSOURI.

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
IN Notice is hereby given that I, as ad-
ministrator of the estate of VIM. Hinze,
deceased, will at the May term, 1885,
of the Audrain Probate Court, make my
final settlement as administrator of said
estate. j. Fl. HILDERBRAND,
80 Administrator de bonis non.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

The Randolph Republican is a live
paper, full of news and sensible ed
itoriaI matter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

Moberly is building 10000 water
works. 1875
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1885.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-04-30

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
llNotice is hereby given that l, as admin
istrator de bonis non of the estate of
Hannibal Downey deceased, will at the
May term, 1885, of the Audrain Probate
Court, make my final settlement as adj
ministrator of said estate.
J. j. HULEN,
lat Administrator de bonis non.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-29
August 2S, 1885.
JustiCeJottings,

Justice Ankle yesterday sent James Kelly
'ojsIl for swearing on the street.
The case Of the State vs.. Hiram Aldridge
and Nellie Gaylord, charged with adultery
and fornicstion, came up at 2 o'clock yes
terdsy afternoon. Mr.. Jordan appeared
for the State and Messrs Elson and
Marshall for the defense. The defense at
first moved to qussh the warrant, but this
vas overruled, and Thomas M
Osrrsh, Clerk of the Municipal
Court. was placed on the stand to
estity as to the facts transacted on the oc.
cssion of Miss Gaylord coming to police
headquarters to swear out the warrant for
Aldridge's arrest. Any number of SQUAD
9les occurred between Mr. Jordan and the
counsel for the defense, aud be-
cween the latter and the Justice, and
The entire ST ernoon was put in
on tie case which comes up again this
morning at 9 o'clock, the parties giving
bond until that time. The evidence brought
out during the hearing, vas Of the mosr
disgusting character The defense sought
10 prove, by The co'ored cook, Mary
Thornton, that nothing immoral had ever
'rsnspired in the apartments, and that Miss
Gaylord was simply The housekeeper Of the
establishment
The warrant sworn out for DR.. Nozer
before Squire Davis was not
executed, and was Withdrawn by com.
plainsnt, Dr. Lunsord, State Comm ;ssion.
~, because the defendant had q regular
diploma, such as is required by law.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-29
PERSONAL POisIs.

Movements OF Whe elingites, and the Com.
ing and Going Of Strangers.
C. N. Fisher left last evening sor Cincin-
natl.
Hon. Benz Fisher and wife are at Ocean
Beach.
Max. Weller, gainesville, O., was in the
city yesterday.
". S. Wiley, of New MartinSVile, W. Va,
is in the city.
Miss Laura Ssyra, one of Mariettas bellies,
IS visiting friends on the Island.
Dennis Strif, who has been visiting
friends in Ohio, returned yesterday.
Miss Annie Davis, a charming young lady
of the Island, is visiting friends in Pennsyl-
vanis.
Miss Lizzie Lodge has returned home
from q pleasant visit to friends in Steuben'
vile, o.
Mrs. C. B. Sterling returned yesterday
from pleasant visit to friends at Shalers-
vile, O.
Miss Ida Coonbs, of South Market street,
returned yesterday from visit TO Steuben'
vile friends.
Mr.. E E. Patton, B. & O. passenger
agent at Somerset, Pa, is quartered at the
New Mcclure.
Fhe Misses Nightingale, of Marietta, who
were visiting friends in the city LETT yester
day for home.
Miss Kate Crew, who has been visiting
friends in GAINESVILLE, returned yesterday
evening very much pleased With her visit.
Mr. David Ash returned home yesterday
morning from business trip of two weeks
in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, etc
Mr.. William McNabb departed last even,
ing for his home in Baton Rouge, La, at
,er an extended visit among relatives in
this city.
Mics Maggie Morrison, of the North End
who has been spending the warm months a.
he Moundsville camp grounds returned
home yesterday.
The statement yesterday morning thai
Mr.. George A. Laughlin had entertained
some friends at stag party on Tuesday
night was an error.
Mr. C. P. Reed, of South Market street
accompanied by her two children, returned
last evening from a pleasant visit to the
home of her parents in Newark, Ohio.
John R. Cow, of the Bellaire Independ
emit; W. F. Snively, Secretary of the Bel
mont Class Company, and George Shilleto,
also OF Bellaire, were in the city last even
Dg.
Nj A. A. Franzbeim left this week for
Soccoro, New Mexico, where he is inferred
in gold mine that promises grand returna.
DR. Frapzheim will be gone until SOM
ime in the winter, when he will PROBABLY
,elurn for short time.