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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

LosT.-A pair of gold rlmmed
spectacles, between R. H. Kernan's
and the residence of the late r. d.
Alexander. Finder please return
to VIM. Llewellyn's grocery.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

THE 'resoluters" of Saline coun-
ty have resolved that Jasper Burks
must resign. Who is there to
break the sad, sad news to Jasper?
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

1T. Fields is erecting a neat
blacksmith shop on the lot he
bought from J. G.. Bassford.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Mrs. Walden, mother of Mrs. I.
J. Sims, who was thrown from a
wagon some time since, is fast re-
covering.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

The Dusenberry case on Nov.
IL will attract more attention than
any case tried in Audrain for years.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
Bible and Gospel.

From the Kansas City Times
Mr.. Wanamaker will teach a
Bible class in Washington instead
of Philadelphia. But Mr.. Clark
son will continue to execute the
gospel at the same old stand.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Mrs. E. D. Graham sold house
and lot ON Promenade street to-day
to Capt. Dix for 81, 300.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

IT would not be much more
trouble to move the old grave yard
than it is to move the street car
track.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Moore & Nelson sold for R. 81.
Fowler his Promenade street resi-
denee property to Mrs. Mary Cline
for $1,000.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Smiley, Of near
Santa Fe, were thrown from q bug
gy last week, but only slightly In
iured
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Felix Mullen, formerly resi-
dent of this place, died at his
brothers., Andy Mullen, in Sla-
ter, Thursday. His remains were
shipped to Alton, ILL.,, last night.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Among the wedding presents for
Mr.. and Mrs. Fjkenscher We omit.
ted crystal cake stand from Mrs.
Olivia DeJaynatt,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

If Mexico is not going to do any,
thing else, it might at least move
the old grave yard oct of the heart
ofthe city.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
Campaign Thunder.
From the Courier-JournaI.

1t was not until Uncle Jerry
Rusk took hold of the Agricultural
Department that squash in New
Hampshire grew to weigh 100
pounds,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

BOUND AND GAGGED.
Two White Girls Carried Off by
an Indian Buck.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 23.-For
three months an Indian medicine
company, in charge of "Dr." Will
kins, has been travelling through
out this part of the State, stopping
at the larger towns. Their entire
route has been marked with crimes
of minor sorts, committed by the
Indians of the troupe.
Two members of the company,
one an Indian named Black Horse,
stole two respectable young girls
from their homes at Horton, bound
and gagged them and led them to a
secret camp in the woods near
South Horton. The screams of the
girls attracted the attention of G..
K. & N. R. R. shop men, a num-
her of whom at once followed the
abducters, and overpowered them,
thus preventing further crimes.
The Indian and the white man.
whose name is linda Wilcox, are
now in Jail here and will be held
under the Kansas law against the
enticement of young girls for i'm
moral purposes, the penalty for
which is very severe. Indignation
against the Indian has been aug
mented by report from Highland
Of the marriage of Dora Harvey, a
respectable white girl of that viii
lage, to Fast Horse, an Indian of
Wilkins troupe, with whom she
had become infatuated.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
Still Ftnd,ne Bodies.

JoHssTows, Pa, Oct. "a
Thirty more bodies of food victims
were lifted and reinterrsd to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
Were I q Woman.

Talmage.
If I were a woman:
l would stay woman.
If there is anything despisable to
my mind it is an effemlnate man or
a masculine woman.
Just in proportion as woman does
her work in the sphere that God
has appointed for her she will be
happy and attractive.
There is a great multitude of
men now who, by their manners,
assume a sort of womanhood. They
want to be soft. They 60 simper-
Ing through the world, and they
are far from being of interest to
anybody. A man should be a
man a woman a woman and noth-
ing else.
There is no reason why there
should be any distinction as to
where the line should be that di-
vides mans appropriate field and
woman's particular sphere. Every
man knows when he is engaged in
his right occupation, and so does
every woman, and when they at
tempt otherwise they become Of
fensive to all sensible women.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Tom Roberts has bought 8. G.
Baskin's interest in the Ferris
House at the depot and will con-
tinue the business. Sam Baskin
is one of our most worthy young
men and we trust he will remain in
Mexico and go into business again.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Auxvasse, Mo-, is growing more
than any town of its size in the
State.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

FARMERS are beginning to pay
their taxes and money appears to
b. easy all over the county.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Hatton is to have q Wheelers'
store. Concord now has such an
institution.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Ed. Renie last night sold to Ray
Ridgeway, Of near Modoc, his fine
stallion, "Harry Montrose," tor
81, 200. The horse will be taken
to Texas next week.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
for the Future Let us Add Vigorous work In tho Living Present
The County Court meets Nevem-

Christmas comes on Wednesday
this year.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

G. D. Ferris is building two
new houses.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

G. Hunter, of Scotland, is the
guest OF his brother-in-law, NJ.
Russell.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

You can hear little county pol
itics talked around on the edges.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

/ The large amount of lumber
being sold in Mexico shows clearly
that there is a good deal of build
ing going on all over the county.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

MEXICO evidently wants-to be
let alone.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

THE apple crop, as usual, is
immense.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Senator Vest En- Route to WASH
tngton.
SEDALIA, NO., Oct. 23.-Senator
Vest has recovered from his recent
illness and left here to-day for
Washington. He will stay one
day in st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

W. S. Hathaway is home from
Michigan and has our thanks for
late papers from that state. He ls
interested in valuable property
thoro
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Wife-Mother wants to come and
make US a visit, John, but I'm
afraid she never will as long as we
have that parrot. She detests par
rots.
Husband-Does she?
Wife-Yes, and you know you
have standing offer of $50 for the
bird.
Husbsnd-My, dear, I wouldn't 4
sell that parrot for 81 900.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
The Force of Dynamite.

Dynamite is SO instantaneous in
its action that green leaf can be
compressed into the hardest steel
before it has had time to flatten.
One of the experiments at the
United States Torpedo Works was
to place some leaves between two
heavy, flat pieces of iron, set them
on firm foundation, and see what
gun-cotton would do in forcing the
iron plates together. A charge was
placed upon them by COMPRISING
the gun-cotton into a cylindrical
form about one inch thick and three
our four inches in diameter, through
the center OF which hole is made
for cap of illuminate of mercury,
by which the gun-cotton is explod-
ed. The reaction was so great,
from merely being exploded in the
open air, that one of the iron
pieces was driven down upon the
other so quickly and with such
force, that it caught an impression
of the leaves before they could es-
cape,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
Hickory Nuts.

James R. Hance, at Mcntgomery
City wants thousands of bushels Of
small and large hickory nuts. The
crop is abundant aud many persons
make from rs cents to 1.50 per
day gathering them. Put them in
sacks and mark them plainly and
snip them to him by freight train.
Mark your name plainly on the
sacks. They are worth from 35 cts.
to SO cts. per bushel. Merchants
and others are requested to send
all they can get. Fifty pounds
make a busheI. Write and send
weights to J. r. HANcE,
29-3t Montgomery City, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Life insurance men have done a
big business this year in Mexico.
We judge that over 500, 600 in life
insurance has been taken out in
Mexico during 1889.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31
A Courtship Trust.

A Courtship Trust.
He: "Wlil you marry me!"
She: "No."
He: "Then will you marry Bob
S.yer7 He wanted me TO ask you
for him, too, while ! was about it. "
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

81 feel highly gratified at the
result of our experiments with
Texas fever" said State Veteri-
marian Paquin to a reporter. "You
remember we sent bunch of four
teen cattle to Texas some time ago;
ten were inoculated and four were
not. Of those that were inocu.
lated, but one had died and my
information is that one probably
died from some other cause than
the fever, while of the four that
were not treated, three are dead
and the four is sick unto death.
Ous, experiments at the Kansas
City stock yards have also proven
very satisfactory; I believe tha,
we can now save the cattle from
this disease if we are allowed te
take hold of them in time"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Two Mexico girls are training
for the ballet.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

Mrs. E l.. Jacobs is visiting
Mr.. j. N. Cross, her brother.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

After weeks of preliminary worl
the Cronin trial is under way.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-10-31

DR.. Smith, of the Marceline
Journal, read Bob Whites toad
story and made up his mind to tell
a bigger one. Here it is: "There
is young gentleman in this city
who is very absent-minded. The
other day he went to the well for a
pail of water and tied the we'll rope
to himself and jumped into the
we'll and did not find out his mis-
take until he struck the cold water
in the bottom of the we'll. Mon
roe City Neus.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27
SAMOAN house AT TONGA.

some plays were given, always accompanied
by the weird singing and clapping of hands.
One play represented dogs quarreling over
bone, and the deep grows and snarls of the
men representing tile big dogs as well as the
shrill bark of the chiefs daughter, the little
dog, were very natural. as we'll as their &C
tion. Ano' her play represented mother
moaning over her dead baby. She vas vas
moan custom, when the father coming in
discovered the misfortune which had. be-
fallen his honse. 1hereupon the grief was
even more violent than that of his spouse,
and he indicated that nothing could solace
him but rum. When he had gained sufti-
cient control over his feelings he asked the
mother what was the cause Of the child's
death, and her reply created great merri-
ment among the natives. She said it had
died waiting for the American man-on-war
to Gomez The entertainment finished in a
frenzy Of motion, throwing up Of hands,
a whirl of the body, and hearty peal Of
The question is frequently asked: "What
interest has the United States in Samoa!"
The interest is not a small one. Samoa ls
almost directly in the course Of vessels rum
ming between the Pacific coast and Australia
and New Zealand. This line of commerce is
growing very rapidly, and its proportions
will soon be immense. Tho United States
needs port of call and n coaling station in
Samoa, and if the kingdom is in the posses
sion Of one of the great European powers
it would shut American vessels out
in case Of hostilities, and thus do ire
parable damage to this country. II the
Nicaragua canal is completed Samoa will
then be in the direct line of communication
between Australia and Europe, and this will
add enormously to the commercial and
strategical value Of the islands. England
does not want them; she has FIJI. Australia,
and New Zealand. The United States does
not want them: it only wants to see them in
dependent: it only asks that Samoan auton-
olny be not disturbed or imperilled.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
PATTI gets $6coJ night --st
JOSEPH JEFFERSON is worth $500, 900.

S~SSfS~Ss q.
MARY ANDERSON is in her thirtieth year..
The Kellogg Opera Company has COLI
lapsed. ~
SARAsARTE, the famous violinist, is coming
to America. s.
HAsTREITER is the lion of the operatic-
season in Rome. -
VERDI has declined to write an opera on
the discovery Of the new world.
JOSEF HOFFMAN,, the piano prodigy, Is now.
studying music with Urban OF Berlin.
MopJEsKA has finally agreed to act the
leading roles in Booths support next season.
The Scandinavian drama is growing in !.
popularity in Germany and German Switz-
erland.
JANAUscHlK, the German tragedienne,-
has been paying to crowded houses through
the West
HANS VoN BULow, the pianist, viii sail
for New York in March to make tour OK
the country. ~
PHILADELPHIA SO far this season has proven
itself the best shown town in this country for
travelling companies.
If Henry Irving visits this country again.
on professional tour it will be contrary to-
his present intentions.
Mrs. LANGTRY's reduction Of Macbeth"
Is meeting With much success at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, New York.
A CURIOUS feature of the theatres in Mel
bourne, Australia, is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard rooms. sg
THE HENRIETTA" "Shenandoah," and
zone of Our Girs' have all been arranged
for London production by Bronson Howard1-
EMMA NEVADA, the cantatrice, is shortly
to dedicate the new Teatro Nevada, which
has been named in her honor at Rio Janelro,
Brazil
A LITTLE American girl, Olive BARCLAY,
has attracted attention as proiigY IN Lon
don by the precoc.ous cleverness OF her reel;
tatonS. -
THERE will ne Chinese theatre as part
of the Paris Exposition, with native actors
and plays. Connected with the theatre Will
be Celestial restaurant. ~
LEE LAMAR, now starring in Eartley
Canpbell's p!ay' 'Fate, "is Southern actress.
She is relateI, it is sad, to the Lees OF Viz
ginia and Justics Lamar.
AT Henglers Circus, now exhibiting at
Covent Garden Theatre, London, an intrepid
pony descends from the high telling to the
ring by means Of parachute.
RosINA VoKEs, the English comedy queen,
is acting IN "Ghastly Manor" burlesque
melolrama, in which she rnimics the gym
nastic death scenes which have become so
common OF late.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27
LATER NEWS,

STATE officers of the Grand Army Of the
Republic were elected in Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
REAR ADMIRAL S B. LUCE struck his fag
from the masthead Of the Ga,ena few days
ago. at Key West Fla. He bade official
farewell to officers and crew and sailed on
the steamer Olvette for Tampa, whence he
proceeds to Washington, where he will be re-
tired.
Mr.. AND MRS. HENRY WoMAc,o of Monroe
Ga. have died Of hydrophobia caused ty a
cats bite
GENERAL ALGER has bought the Pitts.
burgh and Lake Superior Company's iron
mine, at Marquette, Mich. for ssoJ,o)O, in
cluding 1850 acres Of iron land.
THE Bank of Bedford, at Liberty, Va
has suspended payment on account Of over
drawn accounts by stockholders.
MRS. HARGRovE, wealthy lady of Smyr-
na, , Ga. was murdered by unknown parties in
her own home while she was alone She was
found by her son horribly mutilated and her
skull crushed in.
TIE nomination of Norman j. Colman, Of
Missouri, to be Secretary Of Agriculture, has
been confirmed by the Senate.
THE proceedings of the Senate on the Brit
ish Extradition Treaty have been made pub
lie.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is circulating a
Iumor of approaching war with Russia. 1t
is alleged that he is beheading three hundred
persons daily for interfering with frontier
traffic.
The Queen Regent Of Spain has received
Hon. Perry Belmont, the new American
Minister to Madrid, who presented his Gre
dentials. Her Majesty cordially welcomed
Mr. Belmont, who made an appropriate
reply.
THE biggest and coldest blizzard Of the
winter ragged in Canada. Snow blocked the
trains, telegraph lines were in inextricabIe
confusion; sleet and wind made walking
dangerous. Numerous deaths were reported.
FREQUENT skirmishes between natives and
French troops are reported outside of Haip-
hong Haner and the coast ports Of Tonquin.
China. LAtand Of 1000 natives recently at
lacked the French and have practically driven
lhem out of Monkay. In these fights tErte
French soldiers were killed and five were
wounded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27
NORMAN J. CoLMAN.

The law creating the new department does
not define It's functions or limits A DIS
patch from Washington says: THE
Senate will doubtless confirm the noml-
nation, as it rarely interferes In tne
Presidents choice Of advisers. But qulte
aside from this, it is conceded that Mr. os soI,
man has discharged the duties OF his once
with intelligence, faithfully, and to the satls-
faction of large number Of Democrats
as we as Republicans 1t is therefore quite
certain that he will have the satisfac action OF
being the first Secretary OF Agriculture,
though he will have held the office but three
weeks At any rate he will return 10 MIS-
souri, as Secretary"
It is forty years since new executive de-
partment OF the Government was created.
The State Department and other depart
ments Of the Government in ls4S had be-
come overburdened with public business.
The result of the war with Mexico was
large acquisition OF territory. The discovery
of gold in California opened up new era in
emigration to the West, and the land ques-
ton was becoming very important one.
The business of the Patent Office was
also increasing. The details of the census,
the care of the Indians pension and bounty
matters were multiplying details. All these
were grouped under the new department, and
the act making it the Interior Department.
was approved March 3, 1919.
Naturally, agricultural matters aggre-
gated under the Secretary of the Interior
until 1862, when Congress created Depart
ment Of Agriculture, independent entirely
of the Interior Department., but
made its head only a Commissioner.
The new department which is now to take. q
part Of the burden of the Interior under
rs care will be known as the
Centennial Department Of the Gov
ernment One hundred years ago
the State, Treasury, War, Postoffice and At
of Congress, and these five Cabinet posi-
tions we're filled that year by President
Washington. The Navy Department did
not begin until 1876.
For fifty-two years thereafter these x de-
partments had charge of the executive bust-
ness of the government, and the new depart.
lnent Just now created completes the octetta
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27

days ago they found the entire family dead
father, mother and four children. They
had all succumbed to malignant dlphtherla.
NJ. DE LEssEPs in circular letter issued
from Paris to Panama Canal subscribers
said that no new company could be formed
to complete the canal, because not enough OK
the new shares had been taken.
GALES and snowstorms were prevalent in
Great Britain. Along the coast there were
numerous wrecks A bark was lost off
Grimsby, and eleven people were drowned.
REAR ADMIRAL CHANDLER, commanding
the United States naval squadron in Asiatic
waters, died few days ago at Hong Kong,
China, of apoplexy.
A MAN, thought to be "Jack the Ripper"
the Whitechapel fiend, has been arrested in
Dundee, Scotland, for numbering his wife.
The Scrutn d. ACCOMPLISHMENT bill has
been passed by the French Chamber of
Deputies, which is considered victory for
Minister Floquet and q set back for Boulan-
ger.
CARDINAL JOHN BAPTIsTE PITRA, OF
Rome, who was the second in rank IN the
Papal Sacred College. is dead.
THE Constitution of the Japanese Empire
was proclaimed by the Emperor in person
amid great popular rejoicing.
A MOB stoned the guard which was escort
lug William O'Brien, the Irish agitator, from
Clonmel Jail to Tralee, Ireland.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at Bolton
and Manchester, England. The earth trem,
ors extending to Wigan, Blackburn and
Stockport They were accompanied by re-
peated rumblings.
A GOLDSMITH of Vienna killed his five
children with cyanide of potassium. After
administering the poison to the children he
took some of it himself, and died in great
agony.
THE Soudanese have evacuated Handoub,
Egypt, after destroying the town by fire.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt at
Naples Italy, in consequence of which
Mount Vesuvius is in violent state Of erup.
tion.
The Portuguese Cabinet has resigned.
THOMAS A. robson, Consular agent Of
the United States at Frierth, Germany, has
Just died of consumption.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-27

Samoan commerce has decreased some.
what during the past two years, due to the
great disturbances there, but it is not SO
small as some peplc might imagine. In 1855
the total amount of trade was S542, ,Gl2. or
this Germany secured S2Sl ,612. the United
States $14G, ,0O0, and Great Blitiin the remain
der, sil5,GOO There is no reason why, il free
from internal troubles, the Samoan Islands
should not have trade worth annually fifty
times as much as the foregoing figures. The
soil is rich and is covered with the most luxu-
RANT tropical vegetation. TIE bills are
masses Of timber right UP to their SUBMITS.
most of the trees being Of valuable varie-
ties. Fruits such as only the tropics can pro-
dIce are erywhere-oranges, bananas,
mulberries, cocoanuts, pineapples, lines, ana
bread fruit. Cotton grows to perfection
there, and sugar cane will prosper wherever
planted. Coffee can be made the staple
product.
The Samoans are really a fine-looking
people, especially the men. They are tall,
weli-proportioned muscular and red headed,
the latter popularity being due to the habit
they have of applying lime to the hair as
cleanser. Their clothing is generally OF the
least elaborate description, and i'll the ma
;ority of cases consists simply OF cloth or
shawl twisted around tho waist and falling
to the knees or therealnuts. This garment
covers the elaborate taLtooing which is found
on every Samoan, and which ls never