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Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
ROdes.WilsOn.

AS heretofore stated in the LED
GER DR.. Landon O.. Rodes, of this
city, and Miss Florence Wilson, oi
Sikeston, were married at $40
Wednesday morning at Sikeston.
The marriage took place at the M.
E. Church, which was crowded
with friends and relatives of the
bride. Rev. Dr.. Crow performed
the ceremony in beautiful, impress
sive manner. ]. G. Trimble, OF
this city, was groomsman and Miss
Cora Smith, bridesmaid. The wed
ding was quiet affair but largely
attended, as the bride is a great
favorite with everybody in Scott
county. Mr.. and Mrs. Rodes al
rived at noon Thursday and were
given reception at the residence OF
the groom's parents in this city that
night; only relatives invited. The
many friends of DIR. Rodes welcome
his bride to Mexico and wish the
happy couple long and prosper
Gus life.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

The Paris APPEAL says: Phil
Quisenberry has sold out his stock
of goods at Santa Fe to Lee Crigler,
Newt and Will Bishop, who have
taken possession and are now doing
business at the old stand. They
are all young men, full of energy
and pluck and the Appea, wishes
them success. We have not learned
what Mr.. Quisenberry expects to do,
but we guess the first thing he will
do is to collect what is due him.
He has been in business in Santa
Fe for about 20 years and has built
up a good reputation as square
dealing business man.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
A New Double Postal Card.

" NS" DVuUAo AVosat Soius
The Morgan envelope company,
of Springfield, Mass, has the con-
tract for 100000 double postal
cards, new device that has long
been considered by the post-office
department. The card will be 5 l.
2x3 IL inches, and will be folded
in the middle, presenting four sur
faces. The outside surface is for
the address and the inside for the
message, At the fold the card is
perforated SO the recipient will tear
off one-half and then answer on the
other. Before long the new postal
cards will be placed on sale at all
post offices. The two designs, one
for domestic and the other for the
international union service, have
been approved by Postmaster Cen
eral Wanamaker and the work OF
printing and distributing the cards
will be pushed with vigor.
G.. u. HASKELL & co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Milwaukee. Wis, has just suffered
from a severe fire. The loss is es-
timated at ten millions of dollars.
The st. Louis Republic contains the
following headlines in reference to
the matter: "a Doomed City,
I" Milwaukee, Wis.,, in the Grasp of
Fierce Flames''-"Mlllions Licked
Up"-"Blowing Up Buildings to
Stay the Confagration''-"Chicago
Fire Repeated"-"Wholesale Hous-
es, Elevators and Depots Wiped
Out"-"The Flames Beyond Con-
troll -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

r. M. Johns is erecting fine
house at A,Ixvasse for Squire
Burnham.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
THE NEGRO CONfESsEs.
Johanna Seh0liman's Murderer Breaks
Down and Tells OF His Crime.

SEDALIA, Mo-, Oct. 26.-The
Coroner's jury investigating the
mysterious murder of Miss Johanna
Schollman is still in session. So
great was the tear of lynching that
the negro prisoner, Dick Robinson,
was quietly removed from the Jail
last night and taken to California,
Mo. A telegram received by the
Gazette at 7 o'clock this evening
from California says that Robinson
has broken down and has made a
complete confession to SheriffSmith,
who has been with him all day.
The prisoner acknowledges the
crime, but whether he duplicates
another is not yet known.
ssCacterine'' for catarrh. For
sale by c. A. Buckner. 21-4m.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Governor Francis, speaking of the
local paper, says: Each year the
local paper gives from $500 to $5,-
600 in free lines to the community
in which it is located. No other
agency can or will do this. The
editor, in proportion to his means,
does more for his town than any
ten men, and in all fairness with
man, he ought to be supported, not
because you like him or admire his
writing, but because local pa
per is the best investment a COM
munity can make. To-day the
editors Of the home papers do the
most for the least money of any
men on earth"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Frost in Brazil has sent coffee up
in New York.
The w. C. T. U. Convention has
opened auspiciously at Denver,
Colo.
Geo. NJ. Pullman will contribute
to the Republican corruption fund
for Indiana.
Near Nevada, Mo-, well-cleaners
found in a well almost enough jew
elry to stock a small store.
A party of 40 capitalists from
North and Northwest are touring
Mississippi with view of locating
there.
Secretary Of War Elkins is putting
IN his time and using the clerks of
his department in campaign work
in West Virginia.
Senator Cullom has permitted the
use Of his frank to carry Republi-
can campaign documents through
the mails. This is contrary to law.
C. NJ. Baker, district passenger
agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott
and Memphis road at Knoxville,
Tenn, was shot and instantly
killed by bis son, whom he had at
tackled.
The story of a wronged wife told
by DR.. R. H. Jones as reason for
killing w. G. Veal in Dalton, Tex,
is denied, and revenge is said to
have been the true reason.
The two great parties will be al
most equally balanced in the fifty
third Congress, according to a sta
tistician, with the Peoples and
Farmers Alliance members holding
a balance Of power.
Judge Phillips of tbs Federal
Court at Kansas City has ordered
that the Cass County (Mo.) Judge:
in prison for contempt of court shal
be permitted to 60 home to appoint
election officers. They are then t.
return to prison.
Editor Simon J. Thompson o.
Shelbyville, Ind, and the repub
lican candidate for State Statisti
o,..,n, was attacked on the street anc
taoro,,, ,ghly thumped by John c
johnson. who felt aggrieved at
newspaper re,.' renee to him.
A Manitoba lndl. IN made a death
bed confession that he ana a com
panion, while accompanying 81
John Franklin Arctic relief e.xpedi
ton, discovered one of Franklh
ships, but were afraid to report it
fearing a delay at a time when pro
visions were short.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
DO You Wear a Kelley Butt0n?
From the Kansas City journal.

The Kelley League button is get
ting to be almost as common as the
G. A. R. button, and the wearers of
the former seem to take as much
delight in explaining "when and
where they won it.'' All classes
and some of the best and brightest
men in the land wear the Kelley
badge. We have met and talked
with several graduates of the Kelley
Institute at Excelsior Springs and
it is surprising the interest they take
in the cure. One of them said !:
"Why shouldn't l be enthusiastic
regarding the Kelley treatment and
ExcelsiorSprings? Everything I am
and expect to be is the result of be-
ing sober, of being cured of the dis
ease that was fast killing me, ruin
ing my life and wrecking the happi-
ness of my family. My friends took
to Excelsior Springs a drunkard
without hope, without self-respect OF
respect of others; they welcomed
him back from Excelsior Springs q
man, | will say a gentleman, with
health In the present and hope fol
the future. Is it any wonder [ am
enthusiastic on the subject? I tell
you there is not night that we dc
not thank God for directing me to
the Kelley Institute at Excelsior
Springs, and if my old associates
knew the happiness 1 feel, knew
what it is to be rid of all desire TO,
drink, to feel toward whisky as
toward backish water or dose o.
salts, they would do as 1 have done
they would live again. Why fee
ten years younger. They would &c
to the Kelley Institute at Excelsior
Springs and be made over again
through the wonderful power o.
Double Chloride of Gold"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Headquarters for carriage and
buggy repairing, Carriage trim
ming and painting. Horseshoeing
and blacksmithing all kinds. We
have also fine line of buggies, sur
ries, ph@tons, carts and spring wag-
ons. You are especially invited to
call and examine our spring wagons.
We thank you for past favors. We
are still located at the old stand and
are better prepared than ever to do
all kinds of work in the blacksmith
ing line. GIN. HASKELL q Co.
Southeast .eerner Jefferson and Lib
erty Street, Mexico, No. 2-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Mr.. C. B. Jones, of Spring Hill,
Iowa, says: 81 have used Cham
berlain's Pain Balm for severe and
painful burns With better effect than
anything else have ever tried. 1t
relieves the pain Instantly and cures
without leaving a seas." Pain
Balm is one Of the moa useful
medicines that any family can be
provided with, especially with rheu-
matism, lame back, sprains, bruises,
toothache, earache and like ail-
ments. One application will re~
lieve the pain and fair triad in
sures a cure. 80 cents a bottle. For
sale by C. A. Buckner. tDec.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Colman's Rural World says: W.
E. Crockett, Of Mexico, Mo-, won
the first premium for the best boar
and sow any age or breed at Au-
drain County Fair on his Poland
Chinas. The animals shown were
both under seven months of age and
shown against aged boars and sows
of Poland Chinas and Chester
Whites. He won second on boar in
class and on sow in class. There
were five contestants.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
A FIERY TOMB.
Loss of Life Gt o Clarksville Blaze.

CLARKsvILLE, Mo-, Oct. 81
The largest and most disastrous
fire in the history of the town broke
out in J. P. Fink's drugstore at IL
o'clock this morning, burning every
thing on the Collins House block
except the hotel itself, which is bad
ly damaged. The loss in buildings
and merchandise will aggregate
fully sixty thousand dollars, the in
surance reaching about twenty thou
sand. The saddest thing connected
with the fire is the killing of Thos.
Crowley, merchant tailor, and a Mr..
Schubert, one of his workmen, by
the walls of another building mash
ing in his roof while they were get
ting out some merchandise.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

j. M. Cook, who lives near Els
berry, is claimant for the cham
pion corn cuttership of the United
States. He is Al years old and
during the past nine years has cut
5,O27 shocks of corn and all with
one knife, on the handle of which is
cut the number of shocks for each
year as follows: First year, 763
second, 472; third, 565; fourth,
46O; fifth, 500; sixth, 59s;seventh,
593; eighth, 522; ninth, 454. He
has cut as many as fifty shocks in
one dav
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
The Lost Is Found.

SEpALIA, Mo-, Oct. 27.-Editor
E. D. Crawford, of the Sedalia Sen
tsns', whose mysterious disappear
ance in St. Louis last February
created such a sensation, has been
found. He is in Denver, Colo. and
it was learned to-day that his wife,
who left Sedalia three weeks ago
ostensibly to visit friends in Kansas
CITY. has ioined him there.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
How About Shirk2

Farmers will find that it pays to
patronize Daniel & Mcdonald. If.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castorla.

The most wonderful medicine /
have ever met with is Chamberiain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea REM
edy. In cases of collie it gives
speedy relief. On hunting trips /
have found it indispensable. Put
it in alkali water it imparts pleas
ant taste and prevents the painful
diarrhoea which alkali water pro-
,duces. | could not feel safe with
out it in my house. ]. F. SMITH,
Fort Abercrombie, n. d. For sale
by G.. A. Buckner. I Dec.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Thank heaven, the Democratic
managers have put no woman ON
the stump; woman was made for
something higher and nobler than
stump speaking and political wire
pulling, and, while good and pure
women may engage in it, we rejoice
that they are not relatives of ours.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Statements That Don't Consist.

Our Republican friends ought to
agree upon some policy with ref
erence to Tammany.. Here they
are saying:
cit is not in the bounds of reason
that Tammany hall will give ear
nest support to Grover Cleveland.
What fool Cleveland Is to expect
i'll"
And in the same breath they de-
clare that Tammany is going to
commit all manner of frauds to
elect Cleveland.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
CORRUPTION IN ELECTIONS.

The adoption of the Australian
ballot system inithis State has done
much to check the corruption of the
ballot box so threateningly lnereas
ing, especially in cities where in
ducements to dishonest practices in
elections are strongest and where
opportunities for election rascality
are most abundant.
But the operation of this law,
valuable as it is to check villainy,
does not present an insuperable
barrier to it. It assures honest
voters the privilege of casting and
having counted honest and secret
ballots free from intimidation, inter
ference and vicious influence. 1t
protects the ignorant voter and bal
lot box from the heeler and ballot
"fixer." With all this corrective
work, it leaves, however, an opening
for dishonesty and venality in that
it does not make impossible the free
and illegitimate use of money in
elections which is the suffrage OF
corruption. The briber and the
venal voter may still strike their vile
bargain and the Doodle candidate or
political manipulation of slush funds
may still resort to Doodle influences.
Another step in legislation is
needed to construct an effectual
safeguard for the purity of the bal
lot box. The use of money in cleo
tions must be limited strictly to
legitimate and necessary expend-
itures. In order to accomplish this
object and supply the desirable sup
plement to the Australian ballot law
it is proposed by prominent citizens
of the State to introduce in the next
legislature a comprehensive Cor
rupt Practices Act similar to that in
troduced in the last legislature by
the late Senator Sparks. This act
| limits the election expenditure Of
| candidates and campaign commit
! tees. In order to make this imita-
ton effectual and to assure the prop
er outlay of campaign funds it re-
quires sworn statements from candi-
dates and committees and pre-
scribes adequate penalties for bribe-
giving and bribe-taking, and for all
violations of the law.
In addition to the elimination OF
money as a controlling element in
elections, the root of suffrage ills and
the factor most dangerous to popu-
lar rights and liberties, law of this
kind will bring about two important
results. 1t will cut off the pernic.
Ilous and burdensome practice OF
Ilevying large campaign assessments
upon candidates, ostensibly for nom
Iinative and elective expenditures,
but really to line the pockets o1
greedy politicians, and will place the
Iich and poor on the same basis
| The poor mans poverty will not be
| bar nor the rich mans wealth a
means to political preferment. L
i will abolish at one stroke the slusf
| fund, the Doodle candidate and tbs
Doodle manager.
| The appeal in behalf of the Cor
Irupt Practices Act comes with ir
resistibIe force to honest citizens
who view with alarm the menace o
ballot box corruption and Whose
voice in elections may be nullified BY
| the villainy of unscrupulous polite
lians and disreputable voters. Leg
Iislators should not be left in doub
| as to the will of the people with re
lspect to an act SO nanifestly in thei
| Interests and SO clearly demanded
] by the conditions Of politics.
sz =
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
WHITELAW REID saws that as BIZ

WHITELAw REID says that as be
saw the wonderful spectacle in
Chicago last week he thought what
would have been the fate of the
country if the republican party had
not triumphed in 1860 and 1864.
MIR. Reid should know that the re-
publican party did not triumph in
those years. Mr.. Lincoln was
elected in 1860 on a half dozen diff
ferent tickets and in 1864 he was
elected with a democratic running
mate on the national union ticket.
The republican party of monopoly
and corruption came into existence
in 1888
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

ACCORDING to the latest news from
the betting centers, Republican
money is not keeping up with pro-
fessed Republican confidence. Men
may talk against their judgment,
but they seldom bet their cash that
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Some Election Possibilities.

Mr.. Josiah Quincy, of Massachu-
sets, a member of the campaign
committee of the Democratic Ma
tional committee, gives the follow
ing list of states which he expects
Mr.. Cleveland to carry and thereby
win the election, the number of
electoral votes required beine 223.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
VOL. XXXIV.

How can any Third Party man
vote the Third Party ticket on
which is the name of Judge w. S.
ohirk for Supreme Judge? Shirk
Is the very embodiment OF every
thing the Third Party people claim
to be fighting. No consistent man
can vote that ticket.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Quite a delegation went from thj

Quite delegation went from this
city to the big rally at Vandalia Fri.
day. Hon. John M. Glover and
F. w. Lehman are the speakers
Among those who went from Mex
leo are John Atchison, RIM. White,
R. R. Arnold, Jas. Minor, Jos
McWilliams, C. K. Gibbs, J. G;
Trimble, H. E. Craig, J. A. Clan.
don, At. Brown, s. NJ. Edwards
B. C. johnson and "Hop" Kemp
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Mexico papers say that the band
now consists Of 80 pieces. Let's do
little figuring: There is to be a
Democratic rally at Mexico on the
3rd of next month; q collection will
be taken up to pay for music. We
viii bet 30 cents against a blind
hog that the band busts on the morn
ing of the 4th.-Fulton Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Nancy Hanks Fails,

Nancy Hanks failed to trot to hel
record of 2:04 at Sedalia last week
She made the mile in 2:06k
Fractional time-quarter in 80, the
half in 1 :01, three quarters in 1 80
mile in 2:06R.
Jno. R. Gentry, the PAGER, went
against 2:13, made at Mexico, and
finished in 2:12A.
Miss Edith, owned by ]. M.
Nickel, of Hannibal, WOO the 2:25
trot; best time, 2:20A.
Frank X. won the free-for-all
pace; best time, 2:144.
Star Hawk won the 2 80 trot ;best
time, 2:25.
Doctor H., entered from Mexico,
Mo-, by B. M. Burke, won the 2:3O
three year old trot; best time,
9 .2Sh
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
ain i'm Che IaundrY.

The Centralia Guard says: The
new Bank is ga thing of beauty"
now, being decorated with beautiful,
fragrant flowers and plants. Mr..
Morris Arnold, the cashier, is very
proud of the lovely appearance of
the Bank; the plants adding much
to the beauty of the magnificent
building. Everything looks SO
cheerful, coy and home-like.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Who Says Women are Lar.

Ff0fn tflt ZstS fUfE AIiftftlsrr-
There are to-day more than 2o0,-
900 women in the United States
earning a living by professional and
personal service outside that of me-
chanical labor or workshops, in the
practice of law and medicine, the
teaching of music and art, literature
and science and in clerical work Of
different kinds in government and
other official places.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

R. E. Wilson, who has been read
ing medicine with DIR. Watts, of this
city, is attending Barnes Medical
College, of St. Louis. Young Will
son is very ambitious and young
man of fine habits and a good stu
dent. We are sure that he will
make a mark in his profession.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

The Republican editors have been
reinformed by the big politicians of
that party, in the writing of persua-
slve articles, and yet the hard-head-
ed voters refuse to believe that it is
to their interest to vote for the con-
tlnuance of the vested monopolies
represented by the Mckinley tariff
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

Ministers of the gospel are re-
quested to call at our drug store
and we will give them, free of charge,
a 81 package of "Gaeterine'' or Ext.
of Mexican Cactus which cures ca
tarrh, hay fever and all throat and
nasal troubles. c. A. BUCKNER.
21-4m
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Heads StudfO.

rhe largest and most complete in
northeast Missouri. Everything in
order for first-class work. The
leading photographer. Work super
ior to any in the city. Call and see
the photos, ink crayon and walter
eolored portraits. Southwest corner
square. 1S-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Sold to j. T. Miller.

Turner & Williams to-day sold to
J. T. Miller the Mexico Steam
Laundry. Mr.. Miller is formerly of
McCredie and very energetic busi-
ness man. Mr.. Turner will devote
his entire time to the ice business
while Mr.. Williams will likely re-
,,oip in tho la,,edrv
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

]. s. Snidow will speak at Skull
Lick or Pool school house Nov. 7 at
7 o'clock p. m. Mr. Snidow is one
of the soundest Democrats and
ablest takers in this part of the
State. He should be greeted with
large audience.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
0yerbsghSpigser.

I. C. Leake and daughter, Erma,
went down to Mastinshsrg Thurs
day to attend the wedding Of Nj. 81.
A. Overbagh, son ofthe postmaster ats
Martinsburg, and Miss Louise Sci
gler, of Galloway county. The mar
riage occurred at 8 O'Clock that eve
ming. Miss Leake played the we'd
ding march. The LEDGER congrat-
ulaJes the parties.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

The. stockholders in the Mexico
Water Works Co. met Thursday
and reelected the following direc-
tors: G.B. Macfarlane, ]. F. Lllew-
eIlyn, John J. Steele, A. B. Jack
son and Clark Dewing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

/ Hon. w. FL. KEENAN, addressed
the Democracy Thursday at Bryans
school house on YoungsCreek. There
was large attendance and much in
terest was manifested. YoungsCreek
Democracy will go after the flag on
the Sd
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

The Centralia Courier says: Mr..
Robert Potts sold his farm south Of
Mexico for 5000 and yesterday
bought the farm of Mr.. j. s. Mat
thews north of this place for $50 pen
acre. Mr.. Potts win locate on his
new place right away.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
IT is now well nioh certain tha

IT is now well nigh certain that
after the 4th of next March the Re-
publlcans will not control the United
States Senate. This is encouraging
to tariff reformers. Remember,
Democrats, we have only to retain
control of the House and elect Mr..
Cleveland to be in position to give
the people relief from the tariff
burdens they are now compelled to
carry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

The Clarksville, Mo-, Sentinel
says: A party who came from st.
Louis to St. Charles with r. H.
Norton Wednesday night told US
that Norton said that he thought
Clark would loose 500 votes in
Lincoln county. Democrats who
have heretofore supported Mr.. Nor
ton will hope that in this prophecy
the wish is not father to the thought.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Repairing Neatly Done,

If you want your watch cleaned
or repairing of any kind done neat
ly, cheaply and promptly, call on
7. S. Riley. Satisfaction guran-
teed. T. S. RILEY,
At Beck's Jewelry Store.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03
Garrett Eiilaspie.

On last Wednesday Mr.. Burton
D. Garrett and Miss Effie Gillaspie
were married at the BRIDES home,
North Jefferson street, at 8 o'clock.
Mr.. Garrett is a son of Mr.. Sid
ney Garrett and Miss Gillaspie a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Gillaspie. We extend best wishes
in advance,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

There are to be quite a number of
weddings in Mexico this fall and
winter. Two or three will be bril-
liant society affairs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

lOE udFuHdTc. IL.
Jedge Waxem's Political Proverbs
Don't count your votes till they
are ketched.
A rich man can't enter the king
dom NV heaven, mebbe, but he kin
git in the United States Sonnet
mighty dogoned ezy.
Taint very hard work to convinse
a taxpayer that his taxes is to
mutch.
Men candidates will kiss ladies,
but I don't beleev wimmen candi-
dates would.
Sum patriots is so bizzy talkin
politics that they haint got time
to drop a cent into the conterbushun
box.
The Anerikin eagle is all rite.
A man scratches his party's
back, expeetin to git his own
scratched.
Stump speaches aint useuly OPEN
ed with prar.
A split party is mighty wabbly on
its legs.
Thar wuld be plenty Of honest
politishuns if thar was emmy demand
for them.
Don't take any imitation, but cali
for "Caeterine, the true extract OF
Mexican cactus, for catarrh.
21-4m. G. a. BUcKSER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-03

THE "Third Party People" who
are Republicans are going to vote
the Republican ticket. What are
the Democratic members of that
party going to do?