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Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

Editorial Correspondence of the Ledger.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, November
24.-At noon to-day the American
editors leave this city of wonderful
sights for the Land Of the Monte
zumas. We have been treated right
royalty here by the hospitable
Texans during our stay, and
we leave the City of the Alamo
with regret. We are now to visit
the land of song and romance; OF
the dark-skinned ,black-eyed senior
tia Of whom the poets sing; the
land of wondrous sights-where
women, aged, and bent with toll,
do the labor Of beasts of burden.
We will visit the land into whose
earth the iron heel Of Certez ground
to death the followers Of Montezu.
ma, and cur editorial feet will tread
the self same ground.
The convention adjourned this
morning, after selecting Detroit.
Michigan, as the next meeting
place. From that city an excur.
sion will be taken to the Mackinaw
Islands. J. r. Belts, of Little
Rock, Arkansas, was elected presi
dent, and r. NJ. White was chosen
as the member of the executive
committee from Missouri.
The people here can hardly be-
lieve that Cleveland is not elected
but they are in a good humol
over the result; if it didn''
just suit them. Wick Mason coulc
find men here TO talk his leg off il
short order.
The Mexican quarter here, mex
to the Alamo, is the most wonder
ful sight | ever beheld-in its way
Flat Rock has the appearance o
being an aristocratic quarter whei
compared to it.
The Missourians are enjoyin,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that i, as adj
ministrator of the estate OF David
Niece, deceased, will, at the Jan.
term, 1889. of the Audrain Probate
Court, make my final settlement as ad-
ministrator of said estate.
sat J. g. MCGEE, Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

A MINER was driving along a
country road in Venango county,
Pennsylvania, yesterday, with a
load of nitro-glycerine, when the
wheels of his wagon struck a big
rock. The poor fellows liver
pad was found in a tree, but the
man has not yet been discovered.
The horses collar and n of the
animals Ears were also located.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29
When the post-offce department

When the post-otfice department
made the sweeping order requiring
all stores, news and cigar stand to
vacate rooms in which offices are
kept, it aimed to work a benefit to
the postmaster. But in nearly
every instance the result will be
directly opposite. The depart
ment increases the pay of the post
master to cover the loss by reason
of th1failure to receive rent, but
the increase is not sufficient. In
the case of the Mexico office,
Postmaster Beatty realized a much
larger sum in the rental of a part of
the post-oflice building than he
does now. Mr.. Mckee has moved
his establishment one door north
on the same street,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

A representative of the LEDGER,
while in Louisiana last week, was
shown through "The STAR
Clothing and Dry Goods House OF
Baird Bros. This establishment is
a model, and deserves the large
patronage it is receiving, not only
because they have everything the
people want, but on account of the
polite clerks, both ladies and gen.
tlemen. The FIRMS sales last Sat
urday were over $3.50.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29
THURSDAY, NOV. %, 1888.

WHAT would Mexico do without
Watcr-works? This is a leading
question.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that i, as ad-
ministratrix Of the estate of &. w.
Sherman, deceased, will, at the next
term, of the Audrain Probats Court,
make my final settlement as admin
i~stratrix of said estate.
LUCY J. SHERMAN,
Administrative.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29
The Women Voted.

RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 26--It is
learned that in Pitt county 1OC
negro women, dressed in mems
clothing, voted the Republican
ticket at the late election. The
matter is to be investigated. The
negro women of Granville Co. have
been arrested and are in Jail charg.
ed with thrashing with a buggy
whip a negre male who voted the
Democratic ticket.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29
NO BALM FOR BABY,
Widow Hubbard Loses Her Big
Breach of Promise Case.

BEAVER, Pa, Nov. 24.-There
is no balm in Beaver for Widow
Hibbard's~ lacerated feelings. Her
hopes in that direction were blasted
this morning by an unsympathetic
jury, who returned a verdict in
favor of millionaire defendant Fry
in the 800, 900 breach of promise
case, which has occupied the courts
time during the entire week.
The dashing widow is by no
means cast down at the result.
She evidently had anticipated the
verdict and braced up for the &C.
casion.
awe are all liars, then, l sup
pose," said Mrs. Hubbard. 81
didn't care about the money, but
wanted to vlndicate myself before
the world. However, there is not
a single person, not even the jury.
who disbelieved my story. 1t was
the power of money that crushed
my cause"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that l, as adj
ministrator of the estate of j. G.
Brown, decd, will, at the next term,
of the Andrain Probate Court,
make my final settlement as admins
traitor OF said estate.
NJ. s. BROWN, Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29

Ellsworth French, of Shelby
vile, H., is the guest ofhis sister,
Mira. j.. Al. Pollard.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, Annie E. Sailing and S. L.
Sailing, by their certain deed of trust,
dated March IL, 1888, and recorded in
the Recorders office of Audraln county,
Missouri, in book T., page 1876, convey
ed to the undersigned, all the follow
ing described lots, or parcels of land, in
said Audrain county, Missouri, viz: Be-
gin at southwest corner of Water and
Maple streets, being in southwest IA,
southeast quarter, section %, township
81, range ., thence north 50 degrees and
IS minutes west, and with the south
line of Maple street, 297 1-2 feet for a
beginning; thence north SO degrees and
10 minutes, west l3l IA feet; thence
south 30 minutes, west 20S 1-2 feet
thence south SO degrees and Is minutes
east 131 Ia feet, thence north so min
utes, east POS I-2 feet to beginning, con
tanning 3040 square yards, In trust, tc
secure a note in said deed described
and, whereas, default has been MADE il
the payment of said note; now, there
fore, at the request of the holder of sale
note, | will, en-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-29
Saturday, December Is, 1888,

At the east front door of the Court
House, in Mexico, Missouri, sell, at
public auction, TO the highest bidder,
for cash, the above described lands, to
pay off said note, interest and costs.
30 At SAM NJ. EDWARDS, Trustee.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
A DISGUSTED GREENBACKER.
HE WOULD RATHER SEE A SMOKED
HAM IN THE WHITE HOUSE
THAN CLEVELAND.

DETROIT, April 20.-Ex-Con-
gresham Moses w. Field, Chair.
man of the Greenback State Cen
trail Committee. of Michigan, has
resigned the Office. Mr.. Field, on
being asked why he resigned his
craftsmanship, replied;
81 have realized for sOmo time
that a considerable popular rep
resentatlon of the Greenback party
has been tinctured with the falla-
cies of the Golden Club. Now, it
is well known to the people of the
United States that | am pro-
nouDced prOtectiOnlst. ! believe
in the principle announced by Liszti
that the markets of the country be-
long to the labor of the country.
| will never consent to the scheme
now being advocated to snatch
labor out of the hands OF the poor
in our own country in order to en-
rich the industries of foreign lands.
In saying this | speak in the full
consclousness that | am represent
ing the views OF the major part OF
the Greenback party.
"Entertaining as | do strong pro-
lection views, | can not, without
doing violence to my conscience,
be party to any movement look
ing to the reelection of Grover
Cleveland to the Presidency. |
would rather see a smoked ham in
the Presidential chair than the
present incumbent"
"Then, of course, you would not
like to see the Greenback party
coalesce with the Democrats this
year,
"Coalescel No, sir; and | don't
think they will"
"If Cleveland Is put in nOmina.
ton, what should be the course OF
the Greenback partyp
ain reply to that question let me
answer for myself personally and
await future developments to show
how nearly my own views accord
with the views of the party. 1t IL
safe assumption that the tanfi
will be one of the issues. Let me
say right here that, with this sltua'
ton to face, Moses w. Field Green
hacker, will be found working for
the SUCCESS of tue Republican ticket.
]. Ii Russell A. Alger, or II, in tact,
any other good man with SOUND
views on the tariff should he the
party's candidate, | Will take tho
stump and work night and day Tor
his election
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.

To the Republican Voters Of the
County Of Shenandoah:
There will be mass meeting of
the Republican voters of Shenan-
doah county, held at Woodstock,
Va, Monday, May 7th, 1888, in
lrwln's Hall, at 2 o'clock, p. M, to
elect delegates to the Republican
district convention, to be held in
I is, the 7th Congressional district,
which convention is to appoint two
delegates and two alternates to the
National Convention at Chicago,
and to appoint an electOr tor this
district IN accordance with the call
and rules of the National Repubh-
can Committee.
Also to elect delegates to the
State Republican Convention at
Petersburg, Va, May 18th, 1888,
which convention is to elect tour
delegates and four alternates for
the state at large and to appoint
two electors for the state at large.
JNO. L. KELLER,
County Chairman.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
Call for a Republican District Con-
ventiOn, in the 9TH District
of Virginia.

Whereas the call of the National
Republican Convention provides
that District Delegates and alter
mates 20 the National Convention
to be held at Chicago on the 18th
of June, 1855, "shall be chosen in
the same way as the nomination
of a member of Congress is made
In said District And whereas
the INvARIABLE practice in the
State of Virginia has been to noml-
nate candidates for Congress in
conventions held within the limits
of the said District.
Now, therefore, as a member OF
the Congressional Committee for
the Seventh District of Virginia, |,
in obedience to the letter and the
spirit of the call of the Republican
National Commute, do hereby call
a Convention of the delegates
elected and to be elected to the
congressional convention for the
Seventh District under the call Of
the State Committee TO meet IN
Charlottesville, Va, May l6, 1888,
at l. o'clock, NJ, for the purpose
Of electing two delegates and two
alternates to represent said district
in the National Republican Con
vention at Chicago, June 10th, 1885,
and an Elector for the 9TH Con
ssioDal District of Virginia.
STUART f. LINDSEY,
Member of 9TH Congressional
District of Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04

A curious case of citizenship is
to be decided by the Iowa courts.
In one of the towns OF the State a
Methodist minister appeared as
prosecuting witness against a sa-
loon keeper. At the next election
the saloon keeper challenged the
vote Of the clergyman on the
ground tina, he was an itlnerant
Methodist minister, and, being
subject at any time to removal by
the Bishop of the Methodist Epis-
eOpal Church, could not, therefore,
be a citizen of any town, city, cOun-
ty, or State. The judges of cleo
ton Overruled the challenge, but
the plaintiff has carried the case to
the Supreme Court of the State,
and it comes on IN the May term.
The Christian AdcOcdte says that,
as there are more than $4,000
Methodist ministers in the United
States, it will be q decidedly IN
terestiDg thing "fOr 1t to be declar-
ed that they cannot be citizens.
AS Methodist ministers have been
Governors of States, members of
Congress, members of Legislatures,
Justices of the Peace, aud candi-
dates for the Vice Presidency OF
the United States, there are few
precedents IN their behalf"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
The Bell Company Again Win.

NEW ORLEANS, La, April 2S.-
Judge D. A. Pardee, of the United
States circuit court, to-day render
ed decision on final hearing in
the case of the American Bell Tele-
phone company against the Nation
al Improved Telephone company
IN equity. The decision Is in favor
of the Bell company and declares
that the instruments used by the
defendants are an Infringement on
the Bell patent and orders them to
be delivered to the court, subject
to further orders. The decision
also gives the complainant iudg
ment against the defendants Tor all
costs of the suit.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
REPUBLICANS SPEAK.
THE UNIT RULE AND THE PLAN OF
ORGANIZATION REPUDIATED.

If anything were needed supple
mental to the reason and policy of
the demand for a change in the
plan of Republican organization in
the state, and the rejection OF The
unit rule for the government OF the
delegates to the National COnven-
ton, it will be found in the clear,
positive and fOrceful expression OF
public sentiment on Monday last.
In nearly every county and city,
as far as we have heard, where
there was q fair and untrammeled
declaration OF popular sentiment,
it was very decidedly against the
unit rule and the present plan Of
organization.
In Rockingham resolutions were
adopted against the unit rule aud
the present plan of organization.
In Smythe county it was the
same.
In Rock5ridge it was the same.
In King William it was the same.
I'm Albemarle a like sentiment
was declared.
In Culpeper the same.
In Roanoke City the same.
10 Richmond the same.
In Northampton county the
same.
In Elizabeth City county the
same.
In Campbell the same.
In London the same.
Greenville county the same.
In Norfolk county the Malone
Chairman changed the place OF
meeting at the last moment, to pre-
vent a defeat, and two sets of dele
gates we've appointed.
In Petersburg, by methods pecu-
liar to Malone tactics, public senti-
ment was not given fair express
sion, and a revolt, lead by Hon. j.
NJ. Langston, was threatened.
In Lynchburg a split occurred,
two conventions were held, and
two sets of delegates chosen.
Page county declares for the unit
rule, the present plan of organiza-
ton and Gen. Malone for Chair
man.
Washington county does the
same.
In Buckingham the same.
1t is evident, from these manifes-
tations that the Republicans of Vir-
ginia have reached the conclusion
that it is not right nor is it wise
politics to submit to the despoti0
rule of one man. In Richmond,
Mr.. Wise exposed the insidlous
and stealthy methods of Gen. Ma
hone to defeat popular sentiment
and throttle the will of the people.
It's further significant tact that
when an expression of opinion, by
resolution, was made, it was in ia
yOr of Blaine for President, except
in the rump meeting in Norfolk
county, where Sherman was en-
dOrsed.
The Infamous "personal and con-
fidentialp circular and the unfortu'
nate address to the National Com
mIttee, in both Of which the fellow
ship of those Republicans who op.
L. nj n
sour chairman" was to be re-
nounced and the CHECKERS sum-
marily read out of the party, have
done the work. The rank and file
have spoken and they will have to
be needed. The Chairman is not
the party. and the Republicans who
constitute the party are not his
slaves Valley Virginian
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
Justice Waite's Successor.

NAsHINGToN, April 80. The
President to-day nominated Mel
vile W. Fuller, of Illinois, to be
Chief Justice of the United States.
Judge Fuller is native OF Maine,
and is a grandson OF ex.Chief JUS
tice Weston, of that state. He has,
however, been a resident Of Illinois
for many years, and has obtained a
prominent place at the bar OF Chi
cago. He is a personal friend of
the President, and is well known in
this city from his frequent visits
here on business before the Supreme
Court. He was not an applicant,
and has not been in Washington
since the death of Chief Justice
Waite.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
Seduced his Sister.

NORFOLK, Va, April 2S.-W.
III. Tanner, an agent of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, was
dangerously shot here this after.
noon by a white man named Wal.
ter Taylor. Ia, lOr claims that
Tanner seduced his sister. She, it
is said, gave birth to a child in
Washington several monts ago and
afterward went insane, being pick.
ed up on the street and sent to an
asy lum. Tanner denies the Sc.
ducing and claims that the girl
was seduced before he knew her.
The wounded man has three holes
in him, two Of the balls entering
the small of his back. His recov
cry is improbable. Taylor has
been locked up, and says he Is not
sorry for what be did. Tanner is a
married man.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

If Democracy could have few
vars more of power the govern
ent would haye neither surplus
nor credit.
Colonel IngersOll will deliver a
memorial address on ex-senator
Conkling May 9th, before the
Legislature of New York.
At the last municipal election in
Martinsville, W. Va, prisoner in
iall was taken oat and allowed to
vote and then returned to his cage.
Messrs. Geo. ID. Wise and @. T.
O'Ferrall are set down among the
Virginia members to speak in Con
res in favor of the Mills free
trace tariff bill, and Mr.. YOst
against il.
Capt. Joel IL. Campbell, who
was shot by CommOnwealth's At
torney John l.. Lee, at Amherst
Court House, during the progress
of the local option election last
week, died Sunday.
The committee having charge of
the Blair bill in the House has de-
cided to recommend some other
measure as a substitute. This only
means its defeat again by Dem
ocratic House, where it has so Of
ten met a similar fate after pass
ing a Republican Senate.
Henry George demands absolute
free trade, and tells his readers
that zone OF the two great parties
is moving our way" and that is
why he supports Cleveland. Now
let Us hear some timid administra-
sion organ explain wherein Mr..
GEORGE Is mistaken IN regard to
Mr.. Cleveland's tariff ideas.
This is the year for the Republi-
cans to carry New York. 1t alter
mates every Presidential election
In 1861, Lincoln carried it. In
1868 Seymour in 1872, Grant {;
in 1876, Tlden in 1880, Garfield /;
in 1891, Cleveland and III 1888,
Blaine, or whoever is the Republ.
eau nominee. That is the way to
count it.
The Grafton Eagle Sentinel says (:
"The New York Sun regards Cleve.
Lands denomination as a sure sign
of Den Ocratic defeat and says that
if the Democratic party wants to
save its bacon il must nominate
either Hill or Randall. But Mr..
Randall would be about the last
man to receive the nomination,
though infinitely superior in every
respect to Hill Or Cleveland.
1t is stated IN The Norfolk papers
that Gen. Malone has removed
Capt. p. OCOpner, Chairman of
the Republican Executive Com
mittee of Norfolk, and that Col. G..
A. Martin, as Chairman of the
County Committee, has removed
Charles Howard as chairman Of
one of the precinct committees
These removals are because the
offenders are opposed to the pres.
ent plan of organization and
the "managerial policy" of
sour chairman" That is the way
the chairman gets at the will of the
majority and respects 1t.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
Damage by Frost.

NORFOLK, April 27.-There was
a heavy frost IN this section We'd
nesday night, and the damage to
farm truck is said to be from one
and half to two million dollars.
These figures were given, however,
by some OF the truckers, who were
completely discouraged by the re-
suit of the damage to their fields.
The most careful estimate puts the
damage at from half to three quar-.
ters of million dollars. The wind
was from the south, and the farms
situated on the water so as to get
salt air experienced small damage,
but in the back country Of Norfolk,
Princess Anne and Nansemond
counties, the potato vines were cut
down to the hills; beets, beans,
cucumbers, wateTmeIons, tomatoes
aud cymlings were entirely de-
strOyed, and peas and strawberries
put back a week or ten days. The
seed stores here we're entirely ex-
hausted OF stock for replanting yes
terday.
NORFOLK, VA, April 29.-lIenry
kim and Hardy Duke, two of the
largest truckers in Norfolk county,
did not lose anything by the late
freeze, their farms beng on the
water. There was very little dam
age to any of the farms near the
salt water. Ambrose III. Lindsay,
the largest potato grower, who VIII
raise $4,000 barrels this season,
only had abOut One.flith of his crop
above ground, and they we're nip.
ped, but not destroyed. The Nor.
folk truckers will be put back fully
two weeks, but as the North Car
DINA truckers, as far down as
Wilmington, have suffered similari-
~, the delay in getting to market
will not be so very serious after
all. 1t is believed that everything
lost will be made up in prices when
it is marketed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04

Gen. Malone by his peculiar
methods to make things solid for his
"manageriaI policy" in the Norfolk
district in decapitating county and
precinct chairmen who are OppOs-
ed to his plan, has stirred up hOr-
nets nest in that locality. Ii the
reports we see in the papers be
true, he will find that the "klckers,"
as he prefers to term them, are go.
ing to give him some trouble, and
demonstrate to him that they can
kick to purpose. From all pOr'
lions of the State the same force is
crystalizing, indicating that the
people are beginning to see and
understand the humiliation that
has been placed upon them by his
tyrannical ways and selfish agen.
cies. 1t is good sign and shows
that the Republicans Of Virginia
are going to strike for a higher
plane and appeal to more courage.
Gus inspirations than have been
observed under the present man.
agement. The Republican party
OF Virginia cannot grow and com.
mand public confidence, hampered
as 1t is by ono mans will and con-
tr0lled by influences that do not
commend themselves to the better
Judgment of the people. Give
them liberal organization, rec
ognize their tights and manhood,
and the first step will then have
been taken to win recruits because
of the principles of the party, and
command support from many who
have remained In the opposition
rather than approve the arbitrary
methods which have dominated In
the party valley Virginidn.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-04
Maine Republicans.
THEY DEMAND PROTECTION FOR
AMERICAN LABOR AND REDUC-
TON or INTERNAL REV.
ENUE TAXATION.

BANGOR, Me-, April 2G.-The
republican state cOnN ention assem-.
bled here to-day and nominated
state officers and the following
delegates at large to the Chicago
conventions: Charles III. Prescott,
Joseph II. Manley, S. II. Allen,
Cha. les A. Boutelle. The platform
AS adopted declares that the pro
lection of American industry and
of our home markets to the e e",.1
t at American labor may be shield.
ed against depressing influence of
foreign labor aud the vast natural
resources of The country developed
is demanding protection and the
craftsmanship of common sense and
therefore it is the duty of republl-
cans In congress to resist to the
uttermost the attempt now to
force through the house OF repre-
sentatives the Mills bill, the off
spring of President Oleveland's
free trade message of December
last, and supported by his official
patronage, by the Golden club and
the Bourbon democracy and press.
The republicans of Name demand
the abolition of so much of the in
ternal revenue taxes as will bring
the total annual receipts OF the
treasury to equal as near as posi-
BILE the just expenditures Of the
government. That Hon. JAS. IL.
Blaine, our long trusted statesman,
is deserving of the thanks OF the
people OF Maine and of the entire
nation for the prOmptness and
remarkability with which in his
Paris letters he answers the free
trade manifesto of President Cleye.
land and pointed out the duty OF
maintaining the American indus
tries and markets for the American
people.