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Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Order Of Publication.

STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF AUDRAIN.
In the Circuit Court. Jan. term, 1886.
John Forsythe, Plaintiff,
VS..
Ella Forsythe, DEPENDENT.
NOW, on this day. comes the plaintiff
IN by his attorney, and files his petit.
ton and affidavit, stating, among other
things, that the said defendant, Ella
Forsythe, is a nonresident of the state,
and 1T appearing to the satisfaction of
he C Jerk of this court that service can
not be had in the ordinary way, 1t Is
hereby ordered by the clerk that pnb-
location be made notifying said defend-
ant that suit has been commenced
against her in the Circuit Court of Au-
drain county Missouri, the object and
general nature of which is TO procure a
divorce, and unless the defendant, Ella
Forsythe, be and appear al the next
term of said court To be holden at the
court house in the city of Mexico, Au-
dram county, Missouri, the fourth Mon
day IN Jan, A. D., 1887, and ON or be-
fore the sixth day thereof, answer or
otherwise plead to said petition, judg-
ment will be rendered according to the
prayer of said petition. 1t is further
ordered that a copy hereof be publish
ed in the Mexico Weekly LEDGER,
a newspaper published in said
county of AudraIn for four weeks sue
cessively, the last insertion to be at
least four weeks before the commence
ment of the next term of said court.
[sEAL] In witness whereof l have
this day set my hand and affixed the
seal of office. Done in Mexico this,
the Goth day of November, A. D., 1886.
34-4w BEN. c. JOHNSON,
Circuit CLERK.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Trustees Sale.

VIZ HEREAS, on June %, 1882, John
w MCGOWAN and Mary McGowan, his
wife, made a deed to G. B. Macfsrlape.
trustee, recorded in book S, page 1913, OF
trust records of AudraIn county, Mo-. to
secure the payment of a certain note
therein described, by which they con.
veyed the following described real estate.
situate, lying and being in the county of
divided one fourth interest in and to the
southeast fourth of the southeast qrar-
ter of section two (2), in township fifty
(50), range nine (9), west, and also the
undivided fourth interest in and TO
the north half of the northwest fourth
of the northwest quarter of section
seven %, township fifty, range eight,
west. 1t is understood that the one
fourth interest to the above lands hereby
conveyed has been acquired as n of the
heirs of Patrick McGowan, deceased.
And whereas said note is unpaid and
due; and whereas said trustee refuses
to act. Now, therefore, /, John w.
Atchison sheriff of Audrain county, Mo-,
at the request of the holder of said note
will, on
FRIDAY, JAN. 2lst, 1887,
between the hours Of 8 O'Clock a. M. and
4 O'Clock p. m. of that day, at the east
front door of the court house, in the city
of Mexico, county of Audrain, State of
Missouri, sell to the highest bidder, for
cash, said land to pay said note, inter-
est and cost costs.
3s-tds JOHN w. ATCHISON,
Sheriff of Audrain County, Nc.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
A DANDY.
Bentonville (Ark.l Journal.

Bentonvilte tArk.l Journal.
Bob White, of the Mexico, mo, }
LEDGER is a dandy. He now has Dan
X. Shields and over 1000 of the red
ribbon folks a-straddle of him. A
few years ago he gave Allen and the
sanctiied people a tilt. Bob can't
learn that there is never any sham in
these big local excitements. Bob
fights about as well underneath as he
does on top.
Allen and Shields are in our opin-
ion on a par. The majority of the
people of Mexico who are not fanat-
les are with us. Shields has not been
gone a week. Even his former adj
mirers agree with us now that he
worked only for money. He did no
good. He did harm. There never
was as much drunkenness in Mexico
as there was on Christmas day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE CANTING individuals who prate
most glibly against ''letting the left
hand know the good that the right
hand does I commonly those
whose right hands cling the tightest
to their purse-strings. Giving pub
licity to good deeds very often leads
others to 'go aud do likewise.' But
the misery and the avaricious proof
against both appeal and example.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Money Alone.
From the Paris Appeal.

From Tue Paris Appeal.
Capt. Shields has closed his cru
SADIE at Mexico. He closed last Satur-
day night, for the simple reason hat
money could no longer be raised to
pay him. He was paid ten dollars g
night, and boarded free. Our opin,
ion is that the Captain has done more
harm than good in Mexico. We I'm.
derstand that former friends have
been estranged, the churches split up,
and the devil raised generally, all by
Capt. Shields, who talks for money
alone. 1t Is about time for the good
Captain to go on another drunk.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Ministers and Not Shields.

NVCHtpUFt IUIlHtTCIaI.
There is some talk of bringing D.
X. Shields to this place to deliver a
series of temperance lectures. There
is enough growing in Rocheport al
ready without the fire being set
ablaze by such cattle as Shields. We
are in favor of temperance, but think
it best for the ministers of our church
es to preach it from their pulpits, in
stead of having a good cause and its
legitimate effects ruined by travelling
lecturers, who preach temperance
one week, and get drunk the next.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
A Host of Friends.
New Haven Notes.

The many friends of the Rev. j. c.
Armstrong will regret to learn that
on account of failing health he haste
resign his passionate at Mexico and
will leave for California when cifcum-
stances will admit. We lesrn that
he is suffering from 8 throat affection
and hopes to be benefited by the
change OF climate. The best wishes
of q host Of friends In Franklin will
attend him wherever he goes.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

A blaze in the millinery store
owned by Mrs. DeJarnatt, on the
corner of Jackson and Washington
streets, called out the fire department
at $50 o'clock, a. M, Monday. A
heavy stream from the hydrant in
front of the opera block saved the
building, and perhaps tie surround
ing ones, but damaged the stock con,
siferably, which was insured for $500,
with Kilgore & Howell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

OUR friend and fellow-cltlZen, j.
Med. Trimble, last night severed his
connection with us as q resident of
our city and went to Kansas City,
where he will engage in a new field
of labor in the practice of his profess
sion. If prompted by s%eltishness we
would say he ought not to leave US,
but viewing his departure charitably
we say to him go where and do that
which your better Judgment dictates,
We say this because we have been
intimately acquainted with him for
the last eleven years, and know him
to be a man who, in his judgment,
seldom errs; a man of fine learning
and intelligence, and under all cir
cumstances cool and considerate ;
always courteous and prudent, yet
firm in his convictions, and never
fearing to persevere in anything
which he believes to be right. The
whole of him might be summed up
in this: As a lawyer he Is honest,
able and diligent in the discharge OF
his duties; as a citizen he is public
spirited /; as a man he is noble, kind,
charitable and true.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE Christmas edition of the Boon
vile advertiser is one of the n~eatest
and most complete publications of the
kind. The editors and publishers are
to be congratulated on the success of
their enterprise. This issue of the
Advertizsr will he appreciated and
saved for years by every subscriber
Of that valuable paper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Council Proceedings Monday Night,

On account of the absence of
Mayor Emmons, Councilman Pratt,
of the Fourth, President of the
Council, occupied the chair.
Bunton, as one of the committee
appointed to have water put in the
City Hall, reported that the work had
been attended to and the plumbing
was completed and everything was
ready to have the water turned on.
Report received and committee dis
charged.
Judge Forrist appeared before the
Council "to talk about the stock sales
matter" He said the sales were a
nuisance, per Sc; that the Council
had no right to authorize the use OF
the public streets and thoroughfares
for such purposes Any woman CT
child, he thought, after going from
his office to the postoffice, express
office or National Bank on a busy
stock sales day, jamming through the
crowds, could recover nominal dam.
ages. After a speech of a quarter
of an hour, the Judge sat down. w
B. McIntire, City Attorney, said
there was an ordinance il effect now
which provided that the streets and
thoroughfares be kept clear, and al
that is necessary is to enforce the law
He thought it the duty of the police,
and not the Council, to look into the
matter.
A. G. Barnes then addressed the
Council for twenty minutes, in regard
to the increased insurance license
He thought the Council should re
consider their action and repeal The
ordinance; that it would be to the
interest of the city to do so, as every
Board company would quit bust
ness here after January 1st, and con
sequently, it would be an unproitabl'
job to allow the ordinance to remain
in force.
Mr.. Barnes was followed by shor
talks on the same question and in thu
same strain, by Hayden, Tucker
Mitchell and Lakenan.
F. H. Mitchell: What would hin
der us from moving our agencies jus
outside of the city limits"
Winscott: Nothing at all, sir, tc
hinder you; move your agencies just
as soon as you get ready
1t was very plain to be seen thai
the Council was not prepared to take
action on the question at that time
and Mr.. Duncan put an end to the
discussion by a motion, that wher
the Council adjourn, the adjournment
be until Friday evening next, at I
o'clock. The motion was carried
and the insurance men walked out
looking as if they thought they would
gain their point at the next meeting
at any rate.
The appointment of j. T. Bunton
as a policeman, vas confirmed by the
Council.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Trimhlp-Rotts.

Mrs. Mary V. Bolts, of this city,
and Rev. w. S. Trimble, of st. Joe,
were married Monday at 1 o'clock p.
M, in the Presbyterian church, in
the presence of a large audience OF
friends, by Rev. DIR. Reason. Mr..
and Mrs. Trimble will reside perma.
nently st st, Joe. Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Administrative Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that letters
of administration upon the estate of
J. F. Whitley deceased have been grant
ed the undersigned. Sarah X. Wiley,
by the Probate Court of Audrain Coun-
ty, Missouri, bearing date Dec. 29th,
1886.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required TO exhibit them
for allowance to The administering
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 will be forever barred.
SARAH &. WILEY,
3S-4t Administratrix.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

The ''cruel war; must surely be
quite over when Mostly, the ex-Con-
federate trooper, is invited to lecture
in Boston and is entertained at din
ner by some of the ''Yanks" whom he
once took captive in quite a different
way. The news may be sad for
Blaine and John Sherman and other
non-combstants of the war time, bu,
the people in general are glad al
every new proof that there is no fire
left in the old embers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Fact.

j. f. Mounts In Aurora Springs Messenger.
Mexico's water works saved her
from a 500, 900 fire last week. And
yet there are croakers there who fight
against maintaining the system. The
works were put in operation about q
year ago and have already been in
strumental in saving enough property
from the flames to pay for them.
selves ten years, leaving out of the
count the other advantages the works
have been to the city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE sheriff's sale of the stock of
Mitchell & Stephens, at Laddonia
and Farber, has been the most sue
cessfully managed of any that has
come under notice. Too much
credit cannot he given to Sheriff
Atchison, J. G.. Trimble and others
who may have superintendent the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
ADMINISTRATIVE Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that letters of
IN administration upon the estate of
Robt. Hood, eceased, have been grant
ed the undersigned, Hannah Hood, by
the probate court of Audrain county,
Missouri. -
All persons having claims against said
estate are required TO exhibit them to
me for allowance within one year from
the date of said letters, or they may be
precluded from any benefit Of such
estate; and if such claims be not exhib-
tied within two years from the publica-
ton of this notice, they will be forever
barred.
Letters bear date of Nov. 22nd, 1886.
HANNAH HOOD,
3S-4t Administrative,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Ab0uf Ben Butler,

Troy Times.
Ben Buffers portrait hangs In the
private gallery IN the harem OF the
Shah of Persia, and the Shah is pref
ty well satisfied that none OF bis
wives win ever run away with Amer.
clans.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
HALLIDAY EynurSf0u-

The Chicago & Alton and Wabash,
ST. Louis 4 Pacific Ry's. will sell ex-
cursion tickets Dec. oath and 25th,
and December 31st and January LIST
to all local points at one and one-third
fare for the round trip, tickets good
for return up to an including Jan. 3,
1897
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
w. III. Kerr, Dead.

TaFTS Appeal.
W. H. Kerr died at his home in
Vernon county, on the 14th inst, of
fux, and was buried on the 18th at
Nevada. Mr.. Kerr has many friends
in this and Audrain county, who will
regret to learn of his death.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Liver. Blood, and Lunus.

If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have
sallow color of skin, or yellowish-brown spots
on face or body, frequent headache or dlzzl-
ness, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or
chills, alternating with hot flushes, low spirits
and gloomy forebodings,% Irregular appetite,
and coated tongue, you are suffering trofn
indigestion, Dyspepsia, and Torpid
Liver. or SEsiIiOusness.s In many
cases only part of these symptoms are expo
DIR. Pierce.s Golden Medical Dis
cOyery is unsurpassed.
For weak Lungs, Splitting OF
Blood. ShOrtness of Breath, EroH:
chitis, Asthma, severe Coughs and
kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy.
SoLD by DRUGGISTS, at Sl.0O, or SAX
BOTTLES for $500.
Send ten cents in stamps for DR.. Pierces
book on Consumption. Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Assoc
citation, 663 Main Street, BUFFALO. N. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

j. H. HAYDoN growls because the
fire company destroyed an ''entire
stock of millinery goods to be paid
for by an insurance company in
order to save an entire block of brick
stores from the flames.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

CHRISTMAS, being of foreign origin,
should have tariff duty attached
That it has not, is doubtless owing to
the fact that Pennsylvania hasn't got
any of it to sell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

"Poo-BAH' Wlnscolt called this
afternoon and demanded a retractlor
of the editor of the LEDGER for some
thing. He did not get one. He then
left a card which is published in this
issue rprhntinn.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

TIE Executive Committee thanks
Mrs. Shields for her splendid adj
dress" Ii we r correctly informed
she charged admittance TO her ''splen-
did address" and paid a license for
her show.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE SEASON of swapping presents
is here. The old-time custom of
giving to those who could give naught
but thanks and gratitude in return
had much to commend it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

IT MAKES US tired to observe some
newspapers slop over in praise of
Logan and other men after death,
when during life they could not find
language strong enough to express
their abuse. Silence, we think, would
show better taste.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
CONSUMPTION

which is ScrOfula of the Lungs, is ar
rested and cured by tins remedy, If taken be
fore the last stages of the disease ere reached.
From its marvellous power over this terribly
fatal disease, when first offering this now
celebrated remedy to the public, DR.. PIERCE
thought seriously of calling it his "Con-
~sgIElption Cure,'' but abandoned that
name rs too limited for Il medicine which.
from its wonderful combination of tonic, or
strengthening, Alternative, or blood-cicansing
anti-bilious, rectoral, and nutritivc proper
ties, is unequaled, not only as q remedy Tor
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

We PRESUME Mr.. j. III. Hayden
would have the Fire Company walt
to see if the town is going to burn
down before they throw any water
when it will likely damage san entire
stock of millinery to be paid for by
an insurance cOmpany.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Lumber and Livery in Ashes.

STURGEON, Mo-, Dec. ga fire at
Clark, the junction of the Wabash
and Chicago & Alton railways five
miles west of here, at 4 o'clock this
morning destroyed VIM. Harris lum-
bar yard ard Clay Cross livery sta
bla
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

SQUIRE j. j. Wlnscott comes to
the front in the LEDGER with a card
to-day. We will read and digest it
tonight, perhaps we shall refer to it
Tomorrow,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

AN ONO man has been arrested for
stealing a locomotive. This is con-
sidered the most remarkable larceny
since an Ohio man filched the Presi-
dency.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

The Brookield 4rgus got out a
daily Christmas edition. The DR..
gus is always a good paper but Oh
this occasion surpassed all of its pre-.
Yious efforts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Assignee,s Notice Of Final Report.

NOTICE is hereby given to creditors
and all other persons interested in
the assigned estate of c. +. Yerger. thai
| will make my final report as assignee
at the January term of the Circuit
Court of Audrain County. to be begun
on the f ur b Monday Of January, 1857
and ask 10 be discharged. 35-6t.
P. 4. LOCKE,
Assignee Of g. f.. Yerger
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

Bob White is mad because he is
not first in Everything. As to one
man wanting to Run Everything-if
any one mar in Mexico is more Eager
to Run Everything than Bob White 1
would like for him to show up and l
think he would find Bob against him,
unless he got Bob as his adviser, and
as there is so much stuff about him
that is not admirable so much so l
dobt much if he Ever Receives Pro-
motion above captaincy in the fire
company, Now, Bob, you ar alittle off
in your insinuations, for l have no
desire to run anything you referd to
in your yesterdays issue, nor never
had Except the Justice office and
council man of the third ward,-and
as 10 Running the Printing offices,
council, fire company Lodges and the
Rest of the Earth, you ought not to
complain for you know that if any
man in Mexico has Ever undertook
that you are the man But Cook kick
ed the Lodges and the rest be it what
it might that you would under take
would Kick, so | think if you will
hereafter attend to your own business
and not try to create fails impressions
you will succeed just as well as to be
all the time making and Publishing
your slangs of Misrepresentation
and in all Probability will succeed
better. j. j. WINsCorT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

RESOLUTIONS we're never passed in
regard to three more worthy men
than B. L. Locke, A. j. Douglas and
J. Med. Trimble.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

The LEGISLATURE this winter will
remedy any defects there may be in
a third class charter, and we think
that Mexico should then adopt it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

No DEMOCRAT will for o moment
countenance any movement to defeat
the caucus nominee for the United
States Senate.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

READ THE resolutions passed by the
Shields Executive Committee and
then climb q tree.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE friends of the late Gen. Han
cock have raised a fund for the pur-
chase of a home for Mrs. Hancock in
Washington, where she will hereafter
reside.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

IT Is thought that the succession
of Gen. Logan in the United States
Senate rests between Gov. Oglesby
and Chas. B. Farwell of Chicago.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THERE is talk of an extra session
Of Congress to devise some means to
reduce the surplus.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE executive committee" can.
not injure any of III ministers by
trying to stab them in its fulsome
resolutions.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE ordinance filming a MAI SIS for
leaving his team unhitched should be
enforced o few times. We would
not then have so many 1unaways.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
Ferris 4 Son.

Have purchased the Plumbing
Business of Cunningham e Martien.
They have sent to st. Louis for first
class plumbers and will give the bust.
ness special attention. They will
employ nothing but experienced
workmen. They propose to reduce
the price OF plumbing % per cent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

The BOARD OF TRADE should meet
often and do something every time it
meets.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Is reported
to be dangerously sick. Can it be
that he is going to die, too?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

The Suns candidate for President,
Mr.. Randall, would drop further and
fall harder than the Suns candidate
in 'S4-Ben. Butler.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

The people Of Mexico are not slow
to show their appreciation of a cit
izen who leaves them, if he is
worthy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30
CALL LII IL AGAIN.

The telegraphie admonltion Of Mr..
Morrison's wife, upon the refusal OF
the House to consider bis Tariff bill,
to Call it up again; keep them
comfortable" though tinged with
feminine resentfnlness and irony,
contains after all the essence of wis
dom for the emergency, as the sug-
gestions of a wife devoted to hei
husbands success are apt to do.
The subject of tax reduction
should be kept before the House, moi
to make it uncomfortable for those
who opposeit, but because the PEG.
pie are entitled to relief from unjust
burdens, and because the Treasur.
should be deprived of its extraya
gance-breedlng surplus.
There is great virtue in persist
ence. A statesman with a right Oh
ject in view should never yield t.
encouragement. The war taxes vii
never come down without continues
agitation and ~unceasing effort, keeI
| 1t up.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THERE WILL be no calling in Mexico
New Years day except by bill colIec-
tors.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

CHRISTMAS day is a queer time for
a man to select on which to get par
allied drunk.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

G. Kabrich & Co. have the largest
assortment of Xmas presents in Mex.
leo. Call early while so cheap. 1t.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-30

THE Board insurance companies
are going to leave unless the Council
Weakens.