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Colonial THANKSGIVING.

The early observance OF day OF
thanksgiving in the Colonies is well
known. Not only was such a day
set apart for remembering the bounty
of the harvest, but for various other
blessings. Along with these days of
giving thanks came about as fire.
quently the days of fasting. So far
as want of food was the occasion of
fast days they would occur usually
in the springtime. In order to give
an idea of the great variety of oc-
casions for the one or the other of
these holy days. there have been
gathered from the early records Of
Massachusetts, the following causes:
ITO seek the Lord for His direc-
tion," Ito intreat the help of God"
''for humiliation to seek the face of
God," novelties. oppression, athe-
ism, excess, superfiuity, idleness, con-
tempt of authority, and troubles in
other parts to he remembered" "for
the want of rain, and help of breth-
rem in Distress" lin regard to our
wants, and the dangers of our native
country" "for Gods great mercy to
the churches in Germany and the
Palatinate," "for a bountiful har-
vest, and for the arrival OF persons
ofspecial use and quality" "for sue
cess and safe return of the Pequot
expedition, success to the conference
at Newton, and good news from
Germany" and "sad condition of
our native country"
Throughout the continuance OF Ike
Provincial Government the procla-
nations of thanksgiving were issued
by the royal governors. This action
was sometimes taken, however, upon
the suggestion of the General Court.
When the Stamp Act was repealed in
1866, the House OF Representatives,
desired Governor Bernard to appoint
a day of general thanksgiving, to he
observed throughout the province.
A proclamation was issued, appoint
ing July oath for the festival.
Upon the termination of the Pro.
vincial Government, the Provincial
Congress issued the thanksgiving
proclamation direct to the people.
In 1774 the first Congress held its
session in the meeting house at Cam
bridge. October 22d of this year it
appointed Thursday, the fifteenth OF
December, to be obrerved as n day
of thanksgiving.
1t had been the invariable usage Of
the royal governors to append after
their signature the formal eiacula-
tion, God save the King!" 1t was
not added to the Congressional
proclamation OF 1774.
The following year, 1775: the
Council, or the upper house of the
Provincial Congress, in session ut
Watertown. appointed November
23d as day of public thanksgiving
throughout the Colony. This pro-
clamation was signed by the several
members ofthe Council, and beneath
their signature was added the pray
err, "God save the People!" The pro-
vince still retained the old title oil
Colony"
In the following year, 1776, the
Congress acted in behalf OF the
estate" for the first time, and siEce
then the proclamations have closed
with the prayer "God save the Com-
monwealth OF Massachusetts"
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CONTINUING EXPERIMENTS.
Many Foreign Physicians Interested in
DIR. KOch's Cure,

DIR. KOch's Cure.
BERLIN, Nov. 26.-Prof Lister, leading
English surgeon, has arrived here with his
niece, whom he brings for treatment by
Prof. Koch. Empress Frederick, who has
shown great interest in Prof. Koch's rem
edy, to-day visited the hospitals conducted
by Doctors Cornet and Krause. The Tage-
blatt protests against the excessive fees de-
manded by private physicians for treat
ment by the Koch method.
PARIS, Nov. 25.-Dr. Schafier, who has
Just returned from Berlin, bringing with
him three tubes of Prof Kochs lymph,
says he saw cases of cavities in the lungs
much diminished by Koch's treatment.
COLOGNE. Nov. 25.-A series of expert
ments have been conducted here by Dr..
Prior with the Koch curative lymph.
Forty-five physicians attended the expert
ments. In all cases the symptoms follow
ing the injections of the lymph were pre-
cisely similar to those described by Prof
Koch.
VIENNA, Nov. 25.-Prof Schnitzler with
the consent of his colleagues, is expert
menting with Prot. Koch's lymph upon a
cancer patient whose case has been pro-
nounced incurable.
BERLIN, Nov. 25.-Dr. Bergman, in his
clinical lecture to-day, warned his patients
that no absolute cure had yet been effected
by the use of Prof Koch's curative lymph.
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THE FTGrRE "9."

The figure 9 in our dates will make long stay,
No man or woman now living will ever date q
document without using the figure 9. 1t stands
In the third place in $780, where it will remain ten
years and then move up to second place in 1900,
where it will rest for one hundred years.
There is another ''9 which has also come to stay.
It is unlike the figure in dates in the respect
that it has already moved up to first place, where
1t will permanently remain. 1t is called the mo.
D. High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine.
The No. 9" was endorsed for first place by the
experts Of Europe at the Paris Exposition of 1882
where, after severe contest with the leading ma
chimes of the world, it was awarded the only
Grand Prize given to family sewing machines, all
others on exhibit having received lower awards
of gold medals, etc. The French Government
also recognized its superiority by the decoration of
Mr.. Nathaniel w heeler, President of the company,
with the Cross of the Legion Of Honor.
The NO. g. is not an old machine improved
upon, but Is an entirely new machine, and the
Grand Prize at Paris was awarded it as the grand
est advance in sewing machine mechanism of tho
age. Those who buy it can rest assured, there.
tore, Of having the very latest and best.
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The Appropriations. A

WASHINGTON, SpeciaI.==SecretarY Win
dom and Chairman Cannon, Of the house
committee on appropriations, were closeted
at the treasury department this evening
going over the estsmates submitted by the
various departments for the running ex-
penses of the government for the fiscal year
iS9l.2 In this connection the probable
revenue for the same period was discussed
and the effect of the new tariff on the
revenue, as far as it has appeared in the
short time in which the new tariff bin has
been in operation, was observed. It is pn-
derstood that Mr.. Cannon desires to keep
the estimates for government expenses
down to the lowest practical limit, so that
the increased pension appropriations will
not interfere with the revenues and create
deficiency.
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Debatable Ground.

WASHINGTON, special, United States
Treasurer Huston, who was chairman OF
the Indiana Republican central committee
in the campaigns of 1886 and 1888, and who
led his party to success in both contests, has
prepared a comparative statement OF the
Mr.. Huston saws that the state has been de-
batable ground since 1856, and that III nine
national elections the Republicans have
carried IndianaAix times, Mr., Huston says
that lie thinks his tables will convincingly
prove to the Republicans Of Indiana that
the recent de.eat ia no sense implies that
the state is hopelessly Democratic. but on
the contrary the Republicans can, he says,
with united effort, meet and vanquish the
enemy.
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KILLED BY INDIANS.
A Half-Breed Murdered for Not Engag-
ing in q Ghost Dance

ing in a Ghost Dance.
BLUNT S. D., Special Telegram, Nov. 26.
Gov Mellette has been appealed to by the
city council for guns and ammunition.
Oneida, the county seat of Sully county, is
in terrible state of alarm, and the gov
ernor has been asked to send guns and am
muntion at once.
Shields, a noted chief heretofore living on
the lately ceded Winnebago res ervation,
but who has been participating in the
ghost dance at Rosebud, is in town to-day.
His actions are suspicious, and the city
marshal will hold him until it is settled
that he is not here as spy. He claims the
Indians are not contempt ating any trouble.
The very fact that better Indians of known
integrity differ with him, gives the
lie to his statement. A later report
states that Oneida has been supplied with
100 guns and 700 rounds of ammunition
from Fort Sully. A stage driver who came
from Fair5ank, opposite Fort Bennett, to-
night says half-breed was killed by In
diarls near that place because he refused to
participate in the ghost dance. The town
of Fairbauk is depopulated and the settlers
have fed Gov. Mellette says he can
furnish MS no guns, and an appeal has been
~"1t to Fort Sully.
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They We're So Happy.

They were young lovers, and as
they strolled through the ramble in
Central park the future looked very
bright and pleasant to them,
''That is a dogwood tree, my love-"
he said, tapping il lightly with his
stick. "How do you know that it
Is o dogwood tree, George, dear?"
~ can tell by it's bark, my dar-
ling,n and then a. policeman came
along and ordered them off the grass.
land they were very, very happy
Life,
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PEOPLE OE NOTE.

Henry Willard and others, it is reported,
are to build railroad from Puget sound to
Alaska, entire trains being ferried across
Behring sea.
Joseph NJ Carey. ex.deleGate to congress,
was elected United States Senator from Wy
oming. He received every one of the thirty
nine Republican votes in the Legislature,
while George W. Baxter, the late Democratic
nominee for governor, received the vote of
every Democrat.
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STEAMERS SUNK.
Wrecks and Collisions OF the Coast of
Great Britain.

Wrecks and Collisions On the Coast of
Great Britain.
LONDON, Nov. 26.-The violent gale still
prevails in the English channel and else
where along the coast of Great Britain. A
number of wrecks and collisions have been
reported. The British steamer Tipping
ham, from Cardiff for Port Said. is ashore
at Harland. Twenty-one persons were res
cued from the steamer. The first officer
was lost. A boat containing five of the
crew is missing.
The British steamer CALYPSO, from Med
iterranean ports, foundered off Sandgate,
two miles southwest of Fulkstone, after
having been in collision. The crew of the
Calypso have arrived at Folkstone. The
other vessel was q Spanish steamer and it
is supposed that she also foundered.
The Danish schooner Regina has been
sunk in q collision with the steamer Pri-
mate. Five of the schooner's crew were
drowned. The steamer put into Copen-
hagen for harbor.
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New YoRK, Nov. 26.-The jury in the
case OF Forger Smith rendered verdict of
guilty of forgery in the first degree after
three-quarter of an hours deliberation this
afternoon. He will be sentenced Wsdnes-
day.
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JACKSONVILLE, H., Nov. 26.-The trial OF
Posten, the would-be SLAYER of frankie
Keener, his former employer ended to-day.
When the trial was called it was evident
that Miss Keener did not care to appear
against the man who had all but killed her.
and the darky was therefore let off with
O year iii the penltentiary
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One Indian win Not Fight.

BISMARCK, N, D.. Special Telegram. Nov.
26.-White Arm, the Berthold Indian
charged with the villainous assault on Miss
Dora Wright Saturday night had his ex.
animation to-day, and was bound over in
1000 to await the action of the United
States grand jury. In default OF bail he was
lodged in Jail.
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Fourd q Mnrderaa nT.r

TACOMA, Wash, Special Telegram, Nov.
28.-To-day the body of a murdered man
was found near the Zoo garden. He lis sup
posed to have been recently shot at the
house of questionable character at that
place. tits being Investigated.
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A Dwelling burned.

W1LLMAR, Special, Nov. 26.-The dwell
ing house of Fred Furguson caught fire
early this morning and was entirely con-
sumed. Loss, 81, 800, partially insured.
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CIVIC SOCIETIES.

A F. &. A M Golden sheaf Lodge
No 1873, meets Ist Il 3rd Saturday of each
month. F. A. HANCOCK, W. NJ.
W. W. GRGsWoLD, Sec.
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, Bethel Command
cry No. I9, meets End and 4th Monday of
each month. EdWlN J. JONES, 4. c.
0. Z. HANSON. Rec.
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MT LEBANON R A CHAPTER No Al
mt cts I 8 Wed ofeach month
w. c. BICKNELl, Sec DAVID KEMP, II. P.
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A. o. U. W. Morris Lodge No. So MAats
each Tuesday evening at their hall
A. E. ANDERSON, NJ. W.
J.D. GILLESPIE. Rec.
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G. A. r. G.. A. J. Overton Post No. 9s
meets l & Friday of each month. at p. IN.
n. R. SPURR, Com.
II. T. BEvANs, Adj.
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P. A. MCCARTHY,
Notary Public COnVpyancer.

Aostracter and Examiner of Titles. Speo-
Al attention given to business before the
United States Land office and Pension Blu.
rcau. Detectiys land titles remedied and
perfected
Real Estate Loans and Insurance.
MORRIS. MINNESOTA,
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DIVISION NO. lao. H. meets second
Wednesday OF each month at it's hall.
S. A. FLAHSRTY, Pres.
TIMOTHY MURPHY,R R. S.
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Also Select knights meet at same hall lsr
and 3rd Friday of each month
J. D GILLESPIE, Com.
W. H. MILES, Rec,
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l. Q. 0. F.. Crystal Lodge No 1872 meet ev-
cry Monday mig Int at it's hall
A. C. THoRP, R. S. c. PHELPS, N. G.
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A'F' &. A M. '.-Golden Sheaf Lodge
No 1873, meets lst 4 3rd Saturday Of each
month. F. A. HANCOCK, W. NJ.
w. W. GR1swoLD, Sec.
MT LEBANON R A CHAPTER No Al
mt cts I 8 Wed ofeach month
w. c. BICKNELl, Sec DAVID KEMP, II. P.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,-B.thelC Command
cry No. l9, meets End and 4til Monday of
each month. EdwlN J. JONES, Z. c.
o. Z. HANSON, Rec.
G. ARG. A. J. Overton Post No. 50
meets l & 8 Friday of each month. at p. IN.
n. R. SPURR, Com.
H. T. BBvANs, Adj.
A. ~. W. Morris Lodge No. So. MAets
each Tuesday evening at their hall
4. E. ANDERSON, NJ. W.
d. GILLESPIE. Rec.
Also Select Knights meet at same hall lsi
and 3rd Friday of each month
J. D GILLESPIE, Com.
W. H. MILES, Rec,
DIVISION NO. IA. O. H. meets second
Wednesday OF each month at it's hall.
S.A. FLAHBRTY, Pres.
TIMOTHY MURPHY. R. S.
l. Q. o. +. Crystal Lodge No 132 meet ev-
cry Monday hight at it's hall.
A. c. THoRP, R. s. c. PHELPS, N. G.
knights of Aurora, meets every End and 4th,
Friday of each month, at their hall.
A. l.. STBSGER, &c. PA. MCCATRTHY, Rec
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Open every Saturday from to 6 and Ito
9 o'clock pm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
JOHN THOMAS HISTORY.
He is q Gay LOthariO, and In
His Time Has Played Sad
Havoc With Many.
Hearts.
From the Linneus Bulletin.

We noticed in the Mexico papers
of last week an account of a young
man named John Thomas desert
ing a girl just at the time he had
promised to marry her. There
was nothing unusual in the names
of the parties involved or in the
occurrence itself and the article ex-
cited no particular interest here
until we saw it announced in late
copy of the daily LEDGER that
Thomas had come from Linn coun-
ty.
Investigation proved this John
Thomas to be the same man who
lived with his father, VIM. Thomas,
on the Wilkerson farm, 2 IL miles
north of Linneus, until four months
ago when they moved to Audrain
county, near Mexico, to reside.
Young Thomas is about thirty years
old and quite a 'ladies' man." In
his new home he made the acquain-
tance of a Miss Dee Davis and after
a courtship of about three months,
it was announced that they were to
be married on Thursday, Dec. II,
but when the time came, the groom
to-be did not put in his appearance,
and has since been missing. A
brother OF Miss Davis, who left at
the same time as Thomas, was also
not to be found, and tor while
foul play was suspected, but he has
since turned up and claims to be
ignorant of Thomas whereabouts.
Mr.. Thomas, the father of the
recreant groom, is well and favora-
bly, known here, but it is said that
John had trouble with a woman
| while living in Linn county, and
that it cost him somewhere near
$500 to get out of it, though many
believed him innocent at the time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
The Elixir of Life.

From the MODefly MonitOf
A test of the artesian well at
Mexico which was drilled some
twelve hundred feet and then
abandoned because the drill was
lost in the bottom of the hole,
shows that water comes in faster
than it can be taken out; in fact, be-
ing inexhaustible. The Water
works Company will build tank
and connect it with the city water
mains, thus giving the town whole
some water the year round in
quantity sufficient for a popula.
ton of double the size of Mexico.
The doctors will have to take in
their shingles and the drug stores
will have to shut up shop if the
newspapers are to be credited. The
water, they state, contains valuable
medicinal properties. Those who
used the water the first day declare
they felt fifty per cent. better on
the day following. 1t is pretty
near a ground hog case for Mober.
ly to be in quest of one of those
holes IN the ground.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
BURGLARIZED.
A. p. JOhnsOn's Grocery and
Feed Store Broken into and
Robbed of Several
Articles.

Last Thursday night the grocery
store of A. P. johnson, on North
Jefferson street, was broken into
by some sneak thief and robbed of
several articles, such as pocket
knives, combs, canned goods, etc.
The thief gained admittance to
the store by prying and cutting
one of the back windows in the
building to pieces, which was one OF
the most bunglesome jobs on
record, and which shows evidently
that whoever it was is not very
we'll up in the profession. They
went to the money drawer and
bursted it open, but, as luck would
have it, there was only $1.50 left
in it by Mr.. Johnson. There is
no clew as to who the sneak might
be, but Mr.. johnson thinks that IN
all probability it was some local
thief.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
THE little folks of Mexico and

THE little folks of Mexico and
Audra1n county, who are daily
calling on and writing to the editor
of the LEDGER, the original Santa
Claus, will not be disappointed in
their confidence. The Mexico
LEDGER is the original Santa Claus
among the newspapers of Missouri,
and while it's editor is not as old
as the sold Man," he will see
that every "small boy" and "little
girl" who has confded communi.
cations to him shall not be forgot
ten on Christmas day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
Ho BE CONTINUED
Well write it down til

Well write it down till
everybody sees it
Till everybody is sick of
seeing it
Till everybody knows it
without seeing it
that DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy cures the worst cases of
chronic catarrh in the head,
catarrhal headache, and "cold
in the head"
In perfect faith, its makers,
the Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association of Buffalo.
N. Y, offers to pay $500 to
any one suffering from chronic
catarrh in the head whom
they cannot cure.
Now if the conditions were
reversed-if they asked you to
pay $500 for a positive cure
you might hesitate. Here are
reputable men, with years of
honorable dealing; thousands
of dollars and a great name
hack of them and thew saw
ave can cure you because
we've cured thousands like
you-if we can't we'll pay
you $500 for the knowledge
that there's one whom we
can't cure"
They believe in themselves
Isn't it worth a triala Isn't
any trial preferable to catarrh
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
Naked Pictures.

At the meeting of the First Con-
gregational Society, held last night
in Kansas City, the following
resolution was adopted:
"The billboards by the public
streets and the Autographs in pub
lie windows of our city, in many
cases, outrage all sense of decency
by their fagrant advertisement of
vice; they are calculated to under
mine and corrupt society by their
influence upon the thousands OF
school children who daily pass
them by.
"Therefore, we, members of the
First Congregational Church, do
solemnly protest against the exist
ence of indecent pictures in public
sight, and request of the City
Council that the laws providing for
the prevention of this evil be
strictly enforced.''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

day in January, 1879, / read an account in tho
Tribune Of your CUTreuRA REMEDIES. Itdescribed
my case 60 exactly, that thought rs last resort
20 give then trial. When first applied them /
was all raw and bleeding. ffcm scratching nv
seis, bat went asleep almost Immediately. cone
thinS had not done for years, the effect was SO
aoothing. In about two weeks could stand
sores were nearly we'll. As near as can tuds
tcflcuHA REMEDIES cured me in about
eignt weeks, and up to this date fi. e., from
aary, 1879, to January. 1851 have not been sick
ease Feappearing on me-
W. j. MCDONALD.
49, Dearborn ST.. Chicago. ILL.,, june 80, 's7,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
HIGGINsvILLE HAPPY.
Location OF the Confederate
Home at That POint-Sevefal
Good Offers Received.

Special Dispatch to the Ledger.
ST. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 20.-The
committee composed of Messrs.
James Bannerman, of st. Louis,
H. w. Salmon, of Clinton, w. II.
Kennan, of Mexico, F. P. Bro
naugh, of Boonville, and Frank
Pitts, of Paris. Shis afternoon
located the Confederate Home at
Higginsville. The committee re-
cei1ed several very flattering offers
from various other towns in Mis-
souri,, but Higginsville's offer was
considered the best, hence the
Home was located at that point.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

A curiosity in the shape of
two fish with white eyes is the at
traction at the hole-in-the.ground.
They were pumped from out of the
well yesterday and are no doubt
known below as the "devll fish,"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Judge Thos. P. Bashaw has COM
menced suit against the govern
ment for s., ,050 for services render
ed while he was United States
district attorney.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

mitted, he said, but it must be distinctly
understood that only one Of either could
be allowed. All three of the condemned
accepted these terms. perceiving that
they could hope for no better, and shortly
afterward Moreton and Schneider took
their leave. Thorold fingered for while
with his host, not caring to walk away
in the company of men who had shown
themselves so gratuitously spiteful to-
ward him