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Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
Some Facts Worth knowing.

1t would require $4,000 cholera
microbes to form a procession an
inch long.
1t is estimated that 100000
square miles of the earth's surface
are still uninhabited or ownerless.
In Thuringia, Germany, there is
a whole district which is dependent
for its support on the manufacture
of glass eyes.
A dictionary of British musicians
is now compiled which the editors
are finding a hard matter to keep
within 1900 pages.
The oldest statut in the world is
that of the sheik of an Egyptian
village. 1t is believed to be not
less than 5000 years old.
The largest gothic church in the
world is Cologne cathedral. Its
foundation stones were laid in 124s
and the edifice was completed in
1890.
The five largest arsenals in the
country are at West Troy, N. Y. f;
Watertown, Mass; Springfield
Mass; Rock Island, Ill.,, and
Frankfort, Pa.
A Chicago man has constructed 6
checkerboard in which are 2S,07C
separate pieces of wood glued to-
gether with the finest art. 1t is val
ued at 81 900.
There is scheme to celebrate the
opening of the twentieth century o
the Christian era by great interna
tional worlds fair, or something o
that sort, at Jerusalem in 1900.
There are about eight times a.
many divorces granted in Japan a!
in the United States, the proportion
in the Mikado's realm amounting t.
COS out of every 100, 900 of popula
ton.
Some newspaper man started th'
report that Brookfield, n. j., CIR
kneads bread with her gloves on
An exchange answers : I'VE ais
need bread with our shoes on, will
our pants on, and with our clothe
on. We need it badly, too, and
our delirquents do not soon pay u
we will need it without any pants a
ALL"
The ancient Greeks used specie
of limestone known as sarcophagu
for making collins. The peculia
quality OF sarcophagus consisted il
the fact that it would consume th
human body within a period of
few weeks. 1t is said to have bee
found at Assos, city Of Lycia
The popularity accepted definition
of the noun sarcophagus, it may b
mentioned, is ga stone coffin.''
| The blue book of the City of Ne,
York shows that there are 6,72
persons paid by the city for thei
services. OF these 2,722, includ
ling Mayor, aldermen, heads of cit
departments, and teachers an
other employees of the Board {
Education, are exempt from civ
service rules, and 4 ,002 are appoin
ed only after competitive examin'
ton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
Some CurfOs Among Humanity.


The heaviest man of all history
was Miles Darden, who died in Ken
lucky in 1857.
The tallest woman in the west,
outside of museums, is lady resid-
ing at Boise City, Idaho. She is
six feet, nine inches in height.
Defiance, Iowa, claims ''living
skeleton, in the person of an hon.
orable citizen who is five feet eight
! inches in height and weighs but
sixty-five pounds.
A dwarf residing at Shigaken,
Osaka, is SO years old and but
seventeen inches in height. He is
| we'll educated and teaches penman-
ship for a livelihood.
A Marion county, Iowa, physi.
clan has a human monstrosity, a
male child weighing nine and one.
half pounds, which has a perfect
snakes head. 1t is preserved in
alcohol and seldom exhibited.
The smallest woman living west
of the Rocky mountains, is now
making her home at Pine City,
Whitman county, Washington. She
is twenty-nine inches high and
weighs thirty and one-half pounds
exactly.
The largest man now in the ser
vice of her majesty, Queen Vic
toria, is Lieut.. Switzerland, who i:
eight feet four inches high and
weighs 363 pounds.
The oldest man of modern times
was the old Indian "Gabriel,' who
died at Castroville, CAL, in 1890, a
the ape of 14T wars
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

FULTON wants two dog catchers !;
they must "come weilrecommended
and be of good moral character" Ii
is Just like Fulton to think she can
secure dog catchers of this kind.
The morals of Fulton, too, are some
thing to be wondered at.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

One who wants to study the
possibilities OF diplomacy, circum,
locution, bluff and finesse, should
watch the supposed endeavors OF
the two old rivals, Harvard and
Yale, in arranging a decisive game
IF base hall
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

DR.. NJ. J. Davis is a prominent
physician of Lewis, Cass county,
Iowa, and has been actively en-
gagged in the practice of medicine at
that place for the past thirty-five
years. On the 26th of May, while
in Des Moines EN- route to Chicago
he was suddenly taken with an at.
tack of diarrhGa. Having sold
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy for the past seven,
teen years, and knowing its reliabil'
ity, he procured % cent bottle, two
doses of which completely cured
him. The excitement and change
of water and diet incident to travel
ing often produce diarrhea. Every
one should procure bottle OF thi:
Remedy before leaving home. Fol
sale by c. A. Buckner, Druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

The Centralia Courier says: The
damage done by the recent wind and
hail storm in Audrain week before
last was underestimated rather than
overdrawn. The rain was much
greater than described. Many places
and scores of farmers who were in
the storm strip are more or less in
jured that were not reported at all.
The fury of the pelting hail may be
imagined when the fact is known
that it beat the bark from the tough
hedge trees and left rugged oaks
foliageless and barkless. All in all
it was the most destructive storm
that ever visit ed this section of the
State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

Hon. w. f. HARRITY, chairman
of the Democratic National Com.
mittee, says he favors an issue OF
bonds by the Government to relieve
the present financial stringency and
to restore confidence. He thinks
800, ,0OO, 900 would do the business
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

X. P. whitley, of Audrain coun,
ty, is one of the closest students and
brightest young orators we know of.
He captured both the collegiate and
defamation prizes at the Fayette
college. Young Wilfey's friends
may well be proud of his success.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

It's a little discouraging to a man
TO carry yowling, squalling baby
around for half the night, then sit
down and reflect that "Of such is
the kingdom of heaven"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

In this issue of the LEDGER will
be found a supplement containing
the monthly bulletin of the State
Board of Agriculture and the re-
port of fruit prospects. 1t is worthy
a close perusal by our readers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

THE terrible possibility is suggest
ed by an exchange that the Geary
law may cause the Chinese to re-
taliate by cutting off the supply of
fire crackers. What, then, would
the glorious Fourth of July amount
to in this country?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
RELIEF MEASURES. d.

Various plans for the relief OF the
sufferers are on foot. At a meeting
of citizens this afternoon IS 500 was
subscribed. President Cleveland,
who had been asked to preside over
the meeting but was unable to do
so because OF a pressing official
business engagement, sent his check
for 500, and Secretary Thurber his
for $75. The newspapers OF the
city are actively engaged in the good
work, and the clerks in the depart
ments are contributing literally.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

KEEP your eye on Mexico's Fourth
of July celebration. This city will, :,
on tina. glorious day, enterttion the
people of this part of Missouri in a
manner never before witnessed in
the state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

Says the Laddonia Herald Jer-
ry Feels, southeast Of town, owns a
2-year old heiter that lost her calf.
She took up with a seventy-five
pound shoat, which now sucks her
the same as a calf, only the heifer
has to lie down for the pig to apply
its force pump. She enjoys it and
seems to think she is the mother ol
q hog.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

We are glad to notice that Hon.
Jake Child, of Richmond, Mo-, has
been appointed Consul to Han
kow, China. This appointment
will meet with the approval of the
press and the Democratic party gen.
orally throughout the state. Con-
gresham A. NJ. Dockery, who is
one of the most effective workers for
the party, and his friends looked
after Jake's interests personally and
his efforts, ,as usual, we're successful.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

Gov. Flowers language was
sufficiently explicit to put an end
to the silly talk about Tammany's $
being opposed to President Cleve,
land, at least among those who
have any regard for the truth.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

THE cheek of those Wall street
fellows beats all. They now claim
that there would have been no finan-
cial furry had Secretary Carlisle al
lowed them to dictate his policy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

UNCLE SAM still has 100000, 900
in gold in his strong box, to say
nothing of other money lying around
loose, so there is no occasion for
setting up O. nights worrying about
hin,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

The Missouri State F. & l.. L.
will meet on the fourth Tuesday in
August. The place of meeting has
not yet been selected by the execu.
tive committee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
rope.

THE snide bankers of the country
are rapidly getting convinced that
dentCleveland made mistake,
for them, when he madeEckelsC Comp
troller of Currency.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

Mrs. Josephine Barton, the artist
and daughter of Rev. w. r. Wig
ginton, formerly of this city, has
just completed a two-ihirds life size
picture Of Christ In water colors.
The picture is the property of MIR.
w. ]. Morden, of Chicago, and has
been placed on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
Mexico Mules In Tennessee.


On a recent trip to Columbia,
Tenn, the Rural World representa-
tive was driven out to Clifton Place,
the home farm of Col. J. W. S.
Ridley & Son, who, in addition to
first-class crop raising, make a busi-
ness of feeding mules for the Louis
lana market. These mules are
known to the trade as "sugar mules"
and must be fifteen hands high and
equally well proportioned. Here
were 100 of this class of mules being
fed and grown; as they we're only
two-year-olds and ranging from Is
to. 16 hands, one can readily see
that they had been selected with
great care. Anxious to know where
mules of such size at so early an age
were raised, we were told that they
were shipped from Mexico, Mo. In
fact the younger member of the firm
then and there paid a high compli-
ment to the Missouri mule.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
Against Dealing With Depotism.

From the st. Louis Republic.
Hon. Carl Schurz is opposed to
any kind of an extradition treaty
with Russia, and so is every other
American who is not willing to con-
cede that the will of a divine right
despot is law.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

THE Indiana lynchers seem to
have overlooked Zimri Dwiggins.
Perhaps they think he'd look better
in a zebra suit than at the end of a
rODe
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

The coal house in the northwest
corner Of the Court House yard was
sold Friday at public outcry by the
Sheriff and was bought by Judge
Edwards for sc. The Judge will
use IL for q bee hive.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

TALK about speed Eulalia has
been in America only a few days,
yet race horse has already been
named after her and has won race.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
CAME WITHOUT WARNING.
THE BOOTH COINCIDENCE.

The multitude that heard of the
disaster remarked on the coinci-
dence that it was in this building
that John Wilkes Booth slew Presi-
dent Lincoln and that on the same
day as the burial OF Edwin Booth,
the assassin's brother, this very
building should be the means of
killing scores of people.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

In the name of sweltering hu-
manity we protest against opening
the campaign of so this summer,
as some newspapers are trying to do.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

Ignorance of the merits of De Wits
Little Early Risers is q misfortune.
These little pills regulate the live,,
cure head ache, dyspepsia, bad breath,
constipation and biliousness. French
& Garrett
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

ALI the talk in the world will not
convince you so quickly as one trial of
DE Wits Witch Hazel Saive for sca,lds,
burns, bruises, skin affections and
niles. French x Garrett.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

THE fopulist State government
of Kansas isn't living up to the re-
form preached by that party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

Mrs. W. V. Walker has gone to
Kentucky to spend the summer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

The Centralia Guard says The
recent Missouri Legislature passed a
bill for the protection of farmers and
the public generally from swindlers
who obtain orders for wares under
a species of false pretcnse. The act
renders any note or bill obtained by
false pretenses non collectable and
non-negotiable and the failure of any
contract, given by an agent, to have
specified quantity and description OF
the article sold, is made a felony,
punishable by from two to five
years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. 1t is to be hoped that this
measure will make Missouri uncom-
Portable soil for tricksters of the
agent class,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
VOL. XXXV.

Mr.. CLEVELAND announces that
he will convene Congress not later
than September 10.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

A. NJ. Harrison is making ar.
rangements to manufacture fire and
pressed brick. The machinery fol
this is quite costly, but if Mr.. Har
rison goes into it he will manufac'
ture on an extensive scale. He has
an abundance of fine fire clay
Andy made the first fire brick eve
used in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

The Vandalia Leader says: Un-
Gle Aaron McPlke was selected as
one of the commissioners to set off
the dover to Mrs. Mansfield's claim
to a part of the land on which Mex
leo stands.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

James Cox has purchased of Lewis
Phillip the house and several lots in
northwest Mexico for which he paid
81, 500. A cheap piece OF property
at the price.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15

The remains of a race of liliput.
ians, believed to be the ancestors Of
the Mexican Aztecs, were unearthed
in East Tennessee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
An Old Death Trap.
TM MENTY- Two MEN KILLED AND
FIFTY INJURED ny the coz
LAPSE OF fORD's THEATRE.
Among the bead and Wounded Were
Several Missourtans-The Nuili-
Ing Was Condemned Many
Years Ago-NOt as
Had an First
Reported.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., June s.
Ford's old theater, the building in
which Abraham Lincoln was assas-
sinated and used by the Govern
ment for many years as part of the
Office of the Surgeon General OF the
army, collapsed this morning short
ly after $3.50 O'Clock with a terrible
result in loss of life and injury.
The building stood on Tenth street,
northwest, between E and F streets,
and not far from Pennsylvania
avenue. 1t had been condemned
for years, and some claim as long
as Is or 20 years ago, and had been
repaired, propped up and renovated
from year to year.
There were Ats persons, mostly
Government clerks, all men, en-
ployed in the building, and nearly
all of these were at work when the
building fell.
An excavation for an electric light
plant was being made in the cellar
OF the structure, which was a three
story affair, and the workmen this
morning had dug beneath the
foundation supports in front of the
building, weakening them to such
an extent that the walls gave way
before they could be lacked.
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED.
The number Of persons killed is
not as large as at first reported.
Twenty-Five are known to be dead
and about fifty injured. Only
twenty bodies have been recovered
from the wreck but the work of
searching for those lost is still III
progress.
Words cannot picture the awful
ness of the accident The imagina-
ton stands back and fails to give
any idea of the scene. Its horrors
will never be fully told. Its sud-
denness was the chief horror.
MEN FROM MISSOURI.
Only one man from Missouri was
killed-David C. Jordan, of Sulli-
van County. fhe following persons
from Missouri were more or less in
iured C. D. Shadbolt, Kansas
City, seriously injured and may
die; Fred Auchenback, of Clayton,
bruised, not seriously.
George w. Davis, St. James leg
broken and scalp wound.
Thomas Hynes, of st. Louis,
skull fractured.
J. H. Thomas, Sedalia, arm frac-
tured.
Among the other Missourians in
the building were G. d. Bulla,
Gentry County D. H. P. Brown,
Jackson ; c. A. Johnson, st. Louis;
G. l.. Ebaugh, Montgomery R. ].
Donnelly, Andrew B. F. Edwards,
st. Clair G. W. Davis, Phelps /;
L. B. Bowman, Barton J. Fl.
Schooley, Jackson w. F. Kirby,
Howard E. A. Clarke, Cole H.
G. Chamberlain, st. Louis w.
Barnes, st. Louis.
CAME WITHOUT WARNING.
Men who were in the building
said it came without warning. Those
on the top floor were suddenly pre-
cipitated to the floor below and the
weight of the falling timbers and
furniture carried the second and
first floors with it.
Fortunately only the forward
half of the different floors gave way,
the outer ends of the floors and
the rear part Of the structure re-
| manning intact. The walls did not
fall.
THE BOOTH COINCIDENCE.
The multitude that heard OF the
disaster remarked on the coinci-
dence that it was in this building
ihat Iohn Wilkas Rnnsh alew Prasi.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-15
nEiGGS ON HkitsGSiSM,
The Professor Writes Abaat His Sas-
pension frem the Church
For Ileresy.

! NEW YORK, June To-day
New York EeangeliSt, which is re-
garded as the organ of the Briggsite
wing of the Presbyterian Church,
contains an article from the pen
of DR.. Charles Briggs, touching his
suspension for heresy.
In it he says no minister is oblig,
! ed to retire from the Presbyterian
Church on account of the illegal
acts of the General Assembly. He
was defeated, he said, byan agrees
i've minority. He says that the
majority should rally and use all
lawful methods to undo the damage
wLich has been done to the fair
fame of Presbyterianism.
| "Let no one leave the ranks, y
the letter says significantly.
| "Let the bugle call resound from
ocean to ocean, from the Gulf to
! the Great Lakes-a call to every
man who loves the Presbyterian
Church and wishes her the future
to which her history and present
advant age entit'e her.
"The lines of battle should be
legal and doctrinal The legal lines
are those for which the appellee
contended that there should be no
appeal by publicprosecutor against
a verdict of acquittal.
"The doctrinal lines are that holy
scripture is the only infallible rule
of faith and practice, that the Gen
eral Assembly can make new def
nitions of dogma either by deliver
ance or by final judgment in a
heresy trial.
DR.. Briggs says he is quite will
ing to sacrifice himself for the peace
and welfare of the church. He
asks his friends not to consider him
or his interests, but devote their at
tention to the cause he represents.
If they act wisely and we'll the
triumph of the revolutionary party
will be short. Prof. Briggs urges
Presbyteries to awake and overcome
the minorities which have outrated
them in recent years by scheming,
planning and working together for
a predetermined purpose. He
pleads for a determined fight in
favor of Prof. Henry Smith, now
awaiting trial on charges of heresy.
Katolik. (Winona, Minn.) 1893-1895, 1893-06-08

moe przeciw wszystkim ME
bezpieczehstwom, bijacym ma
niego zewnatrz Z wewnatrz
i zagrazajqcym zbawieniu
jego.
My, dzieki Bogu, many
tysiace tysiecy robotnikow,
ktorzy ida W zyciu "a glosem
Koscio}a swletego, kt6rzy sic
modla i Sacramento swiete
cd czasu do czasu przylmuja
i czerpia tego moe si}e
do przezwyciezenia z}ych
skionnosci i wsrod swiata
grzesznego prowadza zycie
cnotliwe. Znaiduja sic oni
moze W ludnem miescie, zle
mowy odbDala sic prawie
codziennie o ich uszy; SWAT
neci ich rozkoszami sWemi
do siebie; ludzle przewrotni
ods}aniaja pred mimi ME-
szczesne i Dezbozne swoje
zasady; "a poczciwost i cnote
spotyka ich pogarda, a jednak
wszystko to oobijja sic tylko
10 z}ote ich serca; mocno
trzymaia sic Boga i cnoty;
ME chwieja sic, jak ME dry
ska}a IA morzu, chociaz na]~
straszniejsze burze ma MIA
uderzaja.
Katolik. (Winona, Minn.) 1893-1895, 1893-06-08
ID el g CT.

Az SERGE skacze widzac,
jak ten ,stary kraj" sic nami
opiekuie. Delegat "a delega-
tenn dazy przez mora do mas,
uscisna6 dion bratnia, przy.
nies6 pozdrowienie i nieco
rady i nauki
-ZeszIego tYgodnia jakss
pastor luterski ze Szlaska
austryackiegQ, ma sic rozu-
mice, wielkl patryota Polak,
sclska} w hall czeskiej w
Chicago bratnie d}onie zwjlz-
kowc6w j rozczulaI lch
patryotyczne serca goraca
patryotyczna mowa, wypo-
wiedziana W iscie zydowsko-
polskim zargcnie. Towarzystwo
ma tym obchodzie, urzadzonym
przez arcy projektowicza p.
S!upskiego, niby ma czesc
Mikolaja Kopernika, a w}as :
civic ma czesc luterskiego
predykanta, by}o arcy.wybo-
rowe. Ma estradzie zasiadl p.
Adalia, czyli Rad narodowy
" wolf narodu, luterski
predykant-arcyblagie / tenn
plaryusz 30 zbola}ych "a
o]czyzne piersiach", Ma}lek,
dzielny nastepca Orteusza, i
wlelki re schmistrz; Nicki,
literat polski first class =
szymon Modrzewski, stolarz-
poeta a przytem i anarchista
L.. no prosze odgadn?c? ..
panna M. s., przedsta.w .wicielka
emancypacyi kobie. polskich.
Kazaaie lu+. .erskie predy.
kanta' ktf,fego P. Nicki
pasowaf milosciwie ma dok-
tora profesora, glebokie
zrobilo ma patryotach polskicb,
), kt6rzY szanuja religia kato.
licka. wrazenie". Widzianc
Katolik. (Winona, Minn.) 1893-1895, 1893-06-08
Robotnik powinien
kochac ware .SWieta.

Cztery So rzeczy, ktore
robotnil kocha6 winlen, to-:
wiare swieta, rodzine a takze
ojczyzne, prace i umiarkowa-
ME. My pierwsze] miloscl
poswiecimy fl uwagl nasze.
Naiwyzej ze wszystkiego
stoi swieta wiara katolicka;
te wiec robotnik ma pierwszem
miejscu kocha6 powinien i
publicznie do niej sic przy-
znawac~
o swietym Ludwiku, kr6lu
francuzlxim, opowiadaia, he
szczeg6lniejsza miloscia ota-
cza} ono =sa'y.,iete miejsce, ma
kt6rem t,%.odebra} chrzest
Swiety, a zatem godnosc
chfzescianina. Bardzo chetnie
odwiedzal on ma}a> zamkowa
kaplice w Poasy (PolssD
klekaf pred chrzcielnlca, abY
dziekowac Bogu "a wielka
laske chrztu swietego "a
odebrana ma MIN wielka god.
nose chrzescianina. Il tego
samego powodu podpisywal
sic nieraz iako kr6l ,,Ludwik
z Poasy". Kiedy sic temu
dziwiono / pytano 60, czemu
TAX wielka czcia otacza skrom
ma kapliczke W Poasy, W
ktorej tyIko chrzest sw. ode
bra}, a obojetnielszy jest ma
tum wspanialy, W Rheims, W
ktorym zostal ukoronowany
ma krola, odpowiedziai praw-
dziwie po chrzesciahsku:
Katolik. (Winona, Minn.) 1893-1895, 1893-06-08
Sk1adki podarunko.
we ma kosei6f
polski.

Niedaleko Cd m!asta Pierce
City, w stanie Missouri,
formuje obecnie gorliwy kap.
Ian polski X. Edward Ra]ne-
ryusz Reinert polska pa.1satiq.
S? tam znaczne obszary
ziemi W reku polskich farme-
rdw, a zakatek ten by} do
tychczas- 0puszczony'i zapom.
MANY Cd reszty swiata, tax
il hdzie zyli tam jakby dzicy
po lasach, bez religii bez
nauki. Dopiero teraz, po wy
karczowaniu lasow, postawili
maly kosciolek wielka
trudnosciq postarali sic 0
ksiedza polskiego, ably wniosl
" tie strony pierwsze oswie.
Genie.