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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

JOHN j. MITCHELL, of st. Louis,
who is a director and a large stock
owner in the C.&A. r. R. speaking
ofthe rumored sale of the road to
Gould, says: "There had been
numerous rumors of that character
sent over the wires, but if Mr..
Gould had secured control of the
Alton stock he (Mr. Mitchell) would
certainly know something about it,
and he would have no purpose to
serve In concealing the fact. There
was nothing in the story"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

VIM. KENDALL, of near Rush
Hill, who thought he was running
for Assessor at our last primary,
wants an Independent candidate
for Congress. We presume Bill
thinks he stands good show for
the nomination himself. Bill ran
for Office IN the Democratic party,
got left and got out of the party.
If he should fail to get what he
wants in this party We guess he
would then go over to the Republi-
cans and try his luck. A renegade
democrat" who claims to stand
for Democratic principles and at
the same time votes against these
principles because he can't get
office himself is, to say the least,
to be pitied. There are few, very
few such in Audrain county.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

IT will be bad news tor the low
ers of the beautiful that the blonde
type Is disappearing. The British
Medical Journal says sit would
seem as if the fair hair so much be-
loved by poets and artists is doom
ed to be encroached upon and even
replaced by that of darker hue" "
The Journal does not attempt to
account for the change; but it is
probably due to the disgust of ma
ture with the execrable limitations
for which female vanity .and the
hair dressers are responsible.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
BARNETT'S BAD BREAK.
He is More Radical Than Even
the GlObe-DemOcrat-
Tariff on Binder Twine,

"The Mckinley bill is a good
measure; one of the best that has
been introduced into Congress for
years. You ought to be in favor of
that bill-it puts more articles on
the free list than any other meas
ure. In some respects / do not
like it. Take binding twine, for
instance; they ought to have put
duty of two or three cents more on
it instead of putting it on the free
list; and l will tell you why l
think so. The Missouri river bot
tom is the greatest hemp-growing
country in the world. If the far
mers in that locality would get
protection against this imported
sisal-or whatever you call it
they would go to raising hemp and
make millions out of it, and sell
binding twine cheaper than it will
be sold under the free importation
act. I believe in the principle of
professionally. o. Barnett, Re-
publican candidate.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
VOL. XXXII.

The "nickel in the slot" idea
has been wrought out into some
thing more useful than supplying
the public with gum or an oppor-
tunity to hear the band through a
phonograph. A newly invented
gas meter is so arranged that by
dropping penny in the slot one
can get twenty-five cubic feet of
gas or supply for one burner for
five hours. The experiment has
been tried in Manchester and is
about to be in Birmingham. The
ordinary price Is 60 cents a thou
sand, and this method makes it
cost so, but it will be great bles-
sing to small consumers even at
that price, provided the slot ma
chimes will tell the truth and not
lie like the ordinary meter of COM
merce,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

BILLIE SMITH, formerly a prin-
ter OF this city, has been nominal
ed for Recorder Of St. Louis by the
Democrats. Smith is represent
atlve of the young, active and
working element of the party. He
has done good work for the party,
is we'll qualified and would make
a fine officer. We predict not only
his election but that he will run
ahead of his ticket.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

One of the wonders of California
is a feat of engineering which has
never as yet been described in any
book, and is but little known out
side the neighborhood in which it
is situated. 10 Sonoma county,
near the Pacific coast, may be seen
an actual railroad-bed in the tree
tops. Between the Clipper Mills
and Stuart Point, where the road
crosses deep ravine, the trees are
sawed off on level with the sur
rounding hills, and the timbers
and ties are laid on the stumps.
In the center of the ravine two
huge redwood trees, standing side
by side, form the most substantial
SUPPORT.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

ssfe Informed not long since
business man" of Mexico
sescottlaga the LEDGER be-
= tase.. d the school tax last
ihs LEDGER would never
1Esw,s VI the boycott ii its
had not been told of the
The LEDGER and a liberal
- school system 60 on togeth.
81 hieser while the busines.
aae e lillle boycott sit In tn,
s1.a grass while the process
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
More Good News.

A New York chemist ia out with
the good news that beef at eight
cents a pound is just as nutritious
as beef at twenty cents. 1t is
harder to masticate, and there is
more danger Of being choked to
death, but after it is once in the
stomach it is all right and begins
to put fat on the ribs.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
DelaWare,S RarhariSm.

Delaware whips men at the post
for certain ofenses, and is therefore
barbarous. At the same time COM
pairing populations, she has only
one third of the small crimes of
any other state in the union. Her
jails do not cost one dollar where
other states pay ten, and it is the
same with her courts,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

uiauuiactuEe Oh ardent splr'tS,
Col. Ingersoll, in summing up,
made the following brilliant tenn.
perance lecture: | am aware that
there is prejudice against any man
engaged in the Manufacture OF al
cohol. l believe, from the time it
issues from the poisonous worm in
the distillery until it empties into
the hell of death, dishonor and
crime, that it is demoralizing to
everyone who touches it, from the
source to where it ends. I do not
believe anybody can contemplate
this subject without being pref
udiced against the crime. All we
have to do is to think of the wrecks
on either side of the stream of
death, of suicides, of insanity, of
poverty, of the destruction of the
little children tugging at the breasts
of despairiug wives, asking for
bread, of the men of genius it has
wrecked, OF the struggling with
imaginary serpents produced by
this devilish thing. And when
you think of the Jail, of the aims
house, of the asylum, Of the pris-
ons, and of the ecaffolds on either
side, ! do not wonder that every
thoughtful man is prejudiced
against that vile stuff called alco-
hol. Intemper"nce cuts down the
youth in its vlgor, mamie hood in its
strength, and age in its weakness.
1t breaks the fathers heart, be-
reaves the doting mother, extin-
guishes natural affections, erases
conjugal love, blots out filial
attachments, blights parental
hope and brings premature age
in sorrow to the grave. 1t
promotes weakness, not strength,
sickness not health, death not life.
1t makes wives widows, children
orphans, fathers fends, and all
paupers. 1t feeds rheumatism,
nurses gout, welcomes epidemics,
invites cholera, imports pestilence,
embraces consumption, covers the
land with misery and crime. 1t en-
genders controversies, fosters quar-
rels, creeds, riots. 1t is the blood
of the gam bier, the element of the
burglar, the prop of the highway.
mao and the support of the mid
night incendiary. 1t countenances
the liar, respects the thief, esteems
the blasphemer. 1t violates obi
cation, reverences fraud, hates
love, scorns innocence and virtue.
Incites the father to butcher the
helpless offspring, and the child to
grind the paracidal ak. 1t burns
up the men, consumes woman, de.
feats life, curses God aud despises
heaven. It suborns witnesses,
nurses pertidy, Gcfiles the jury
box ,and stains the ju!ic:al ermine.
1t bribes votes, L;squalifes voters
corrupts elections and endanger.
the government. It d-grades the
citizen, debsses the legislator, dis
honors the statesman and disarms
the patriot.
1t brings shame, not honor; ter
tor, not safety; despair, not hope;
misery, not happiness; and with
| The n'alevolence of fiend calmly
surveys its frightful desolation,
and unstalned with the havoc, it
whips our national honor then
curses the world, and laughs at its
ruin. 1t does more, it murders
the soul. II is the sum of all vii.
lainles, the father of all crime, the
mother of all denominations, the
DEVILS best friend, and Gods
worst enemy.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

SEALsKIN cloaks will be more de-
sirable than ever this winter, not
because the weather will be unus-
ually cold, but because the seal
skins will cost more. The higher
the cost, the more conclusive evil
dence that the wearer is person
of wealth, if not otherwise distin-
guished. If sealskins could be
bought for a dollar apiece, nobody
would use them for a cloak or any
other garment.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

WE are surprised to hear that
three wagon loads of wheat were
taken to the Florida mills this
week to be ground. What is the
trouble? We have one of the very
best mills in the State and it is al
ways a good idea to patronize home
industries.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
The Other Side.

A man who spent ten months in
South Carolina, where divorces are
never granted, made a record of
$40 separations, many of them
with murder as the result, and
several hundred cases where hus-
band and wife have lived together
for years without speaking. He
saws that divorce would have been
a godseDd in every case.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Mr.. Geo. A. Morris will ship his
Jersey bull, Uproar of St. Lam
bert, to st. Louis tomorrow to
compete for the premiums offered
in the rings for Jersey bulls at the
st. Louis Fair. There will not
be a higher pedigreed Jersey ami.
NAL on the grounds than Uproar.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

The St. Louis Republic says: Mr..
Filley is reputed to have a pretty
we'll organized force of hungry
chicken-thieves lodging around
Democratic poultry yards in the
back districts of Missouri, but they
are not going to get many birds.
The Democrats Will be around
next month setting the dogs on all
such vagrants.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
The Mexico Ledger.
From the Troy News

The Mexico LEDGER has entered
upon its fourteenth year under Bob
Whites management. The LEDGER
is Democratic from center to Cir
cumference and wields an influ-
.ence second to few journals in Mis-
souri,.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

The binding twine industry will
not be hurt by the placing of this
product on the free list, but the
trust which controls it will be
broken. Just as much of it will be
made in this country as at present,
the men actually engaged in its
production will receive the same
wages as now, but the manufactur-
ers' profits will be lessened and
the consumer will be benefited to
the extent of 20 or 80 per cent. by
a reduction in prices.-Globs- DEM
ocrat, Sept. s; Republican news
paper.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

MEXICO Is to have gymnasium.
We know this is a fact because we
need one and because Miss Lizzie
Talbot IS at the head of a move to
establish one. The young folks OF
both sexes should take hold of this
matter promptly and have the en-
terprise established in week or
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
Opposed to Free Binding Twine

Opposed to Free Binding Twine.
ST. CHARLES, Mo-, Oct. lit is
probable that the entire farming
element in this county, which is
strongly Republican, will bolt the
nomination of w. 0. Barnett, the
man who was nominated by the
Republicans against Congressman
r. II. Norton. Barnett, in an
interview, declared that free bind
ing twine would be a curse to the
farmer. This one remark will in
sure his defeat. Already the Re-
publican farmers are clamorlng for
another candidate.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

The House conferrees call 1t a
"compromise" to license the Bind
ing-Tw1ne Trust to levy ~, ooo,ooo
of tribute on the farmers instead OF
"a 600 900, The farmers views
will be known in November.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

A subscriber from Santa Fe
writes that our Worcester CORE
spondent is mistaken and that the
Santa Fe boys can play ball. He
says the Santa Fe boys are six runs
ahead on the series played this
season with the Wesley nine.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

aaafkvER is to be done IN re-
% building the Salamander
= u Mexico should be done at
Wien it is too late then
people will wake up and find
.H fa'1ed. If this company is
'eh away Mexico need never ask
isesn,y Of any kind,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

4aE business men of Mexico are
ssI zed to protect the Salaman-
company from damage suits on
nuss Of smoke, and the company
z proceed to enlarge its plant by
|s'lng new kilns on the property
3 bought west of the present
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

REV. A. A. WALLACE has been
pastor of the Mexico Presbyterian
Church for three years. He is an
earnest, active worker in the Lords
vineyard and is greatly beloved by
his church and the community at
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
Grand millinery Opening.

The ladies are requested to read
the advertisement of Mrs. M. L.
Mckee, who is offering large and
varied assortment of millinery
goods and notions. Mrs. Mckee
will have a grand opening In a
short time and the ladies will find
it to their advantage to wait and
see this display. It viii be grand.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

'RE statement is all stuff and
|asense that the Republicans of
|safsla to a man would have
Esa lor Clark for Congress. ="
(aa,s will be frozen over before
republicans of Audrain to a
support any Democrat for
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

A GOOD many Of Audrain's Re-
publicans are disguised with Bar
nett's position on the tariff on bin
der twine, and are asking if there
is not some way to get him Oft and
put Maj. R. E. Lawder on the
track
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
'Tis sold everywhere.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Tn Salamander is here to stay.
b action of the business men in
fa it's protection from damage
Els. 1t is the duty of every citi-
TO forward the success of such
Enterprise.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

In this issue of the LEDGER will
be found an article explaining the
grand work to be done by the
"King's Daughters of this city.
Several of Mexico's ladies are
members of this organization and
among other grand works a home
for the aged is to be erected in
Moxinn
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

I'm Bowling Green Times has
q ten years under its present
anagement and is one of the
fshtsst and ablest papers in the
aIs. 1t is flourishing, as new and
proved machinery is being put
The office.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

President Fleet, of the Military
Academy, to-day expelled and
sent home five of his cadets for
slipping off last night and visiting
house of questionable character
in this eifv
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

la'sE men claiming to be Demo-
sho participated in the
asss.t,1n called to nominate an
fsr''ens candidate for Con-
y IN bowling Green next Satur-
sheald never be allowed to
Il another Democratic pri.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
No. Sir!

The Mexico papers say this in.
dependent movement is a trick to
help a Republican into Congress
from this district. Do they charge
the Alliance OF being at the bottom
of trickery ?-Laddonia Herald.
No, sir! The Alliance has moth
ing to do with it. The names
signed to the call show clearly who
the niger in the wood pile is.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Fl. P. Harper, of Lincoln county,
who has been visiting his brother,
VIM. Harper, OF this city, return
ed home to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

ASK your tailor, dry goods deal
er, grocer, tobacconist, wine mei.
chant, hardware and glass seller II
you have any doubt as to whether
the tariff ia a tax, and who pays H.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

luz new organization of busi-
p men in Mexico will take the
bee Of Mexico's old Board of
Fsas. The old Board, while
e~, did much good, and there is
|tsA more to be accomplished by
|ka body of business men.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

eWs MEXICO 100 smoke stacks
lad Of two or three and then
. sould be on the high road to
|psperity.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Warner Williams, of Mexico,
sold last week, to Obadiah Par
sons, for fourteen hundred dollars,
his farm of ITO acres, in the south.
east part of the township.-Louis-
lana Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

|THE most attractive design that
|m York has for a Grant monu.
as is the design she has of get
q one without paying tor it her.
hs
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

MEXICO should by all means
have a public library. With q
public library in this city 1t would
be the means of keeping the boys
from loa6ng around On the streets.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

A block of buildings in the town
of Holiday, seven miles west of
Paris, burned Friday. Loss,
about $4,000; fully insured.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Anew Salamander company Is
posed. If organized it will
II works ON the Abbay land,
tssst of Mexico, where there is
sbundance of fire clay.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

S. L.. Mexican is down from
Kansas City and says he can see
great improvements IN Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
MILLER-RUSE.
A Fashionable Wedding Large
ly Attended.

HE marriage of
J as. T. Miller to
Miss Carrie Ruse
was selemnized
at $50 o'clock a.
m. Wednesday,,
Oct. LIST, at the
elegant home of
the BRIDES pa
rents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jas. Ruse,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

The Northeast Missouri Short.
horn Association will sell fifty
thoroughbreds at the Fair Grounds
in Mexico Oct. 80.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

B. B. Tureman sold Friday a 13
acre fruit farm, just northeast of
Mexico, to J, w. Town for S4O0.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Gus Weber had a 3-year-old, 16
hands high, iron gray horse stolen
from Mason's pasture at Florida
bridge on the night of Sept. 30th.
He will pay $40 reward for his re-
turn
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

BARNETT finds it very hard to he
Rspnblican and a friend of the
liner at the same time. It can't
fdd, Oscar, and you might as
GlGve it up.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

-Afk l.pers from VIM. U. Lack
VI hololulu, inform us that
Y Cd ,ut to be a row in that
my lie king wants a stand
1my. The people don't want
The king will have an army
psruiaee will see that it
rilsshing TO do besides
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

BnpIse twine makes one of the
mas. strands of the rope
bieh will hang the Republican
hiority in Congress in November.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

J. T. Bunton is erecting a new
house in the Fifth ward,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

rHrRE is nothing in a name, yet
[.ny ladies' of our acquaintance
,sjrs 8 change.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

psaPLE who are so prejudiced
,ius. smoke in this world should
4 10 i. that they do not go to the
hoka country over the river.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

set, hammered brass tray, Bick-
ley Il Moore.
Silver butter dish, E. E. Jones
and wife, Cant, Mo.
Fancy work basket, Frank and
Willie Skallv
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

J. w. Squires is home from Co.
lumbia, Mo. He leaves for Full
ton Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Tur business men of Mexico ap-
,.e;sts the value of the Salaman-
!, nmpany and will protect it.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

E. P. Smith has a red birkshire
sow which has dropped 80 pigs in
ten and one half months.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

soxE kind of a company should
|ps be organized to secure a side
LIN 10 the Fleet school.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Walker Ragsdale Gays he has
been cured of a felon by a Chris
tian Scientist.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

A. G. Armstrong, who has been
visiting i'll Louisiana, Hannibal and
Palmyra, is home.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Mrs. Donophan, of Chicago, who
has been visiting J. N. Basket and
family, returned home to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Miss Lucy Thomas is visiting
her friend, Miss Cora Farrah, at
Beaver Dam.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Mrs. r. w. Edmonston is going
to Kansas City to live.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09
Rarnett and Binder-Twine.

From the Bowling Green Times.
All, there, Mr.. Barnett! That
was bad day for you when you
said binder-twine should have a
few cents more protection! The
farmers pay enough for it now.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

Lieut.. Brown will not go West
for ten days yet.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

J. A. Potts carried off almost all
the premiums on saddle horses at
the Wellsville fair.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

j. 7. johnson says that every
thing sold high at Jim Crockett s
sale, northwest of here, yesterday.
Sucking colts sold as high as $50
Abe Wilfley, of Youngs Creek,
was in to see us this week and
says he thinks the prospect good
for fine A. o. U. W. Lodge out
there.
Misses Josie Estes and Eva Nc.
Calister, of Pike county, will spend
several days visiting friends in
Mexico. They will probably &c
from here to Kentucky to spend
the winter.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-10-09

J. Linn Ladd has returned from
a visit in Missouri to his home in
Mississippi.