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Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
AFTER BROWNS MuRDERERs.
A Reward OF $1,000 offered For
Their Capture by the Live stock
Exehange-A brutal Crime.

ST. LOUIS, March 3.-The Live
Stock Exchange at the NationalStock
Yards, East st, Louis, met this
morning and decided to offer a re-
ward of $1,000 for the capture and
conviction of the murderer or muir.
derers of Edwin E. Brown, the live
stock commission dealer who was
assaulted and robbed at Garrison
and Franklin Avenues Thursday
night, receiving injuries from which
he died an hour later. Several ar
rests have been made and a number
of suspects are being Swallowed.
The assault is characterized by
the police as one Of the most brutal
and daring which have OF late oe-
Cured in this city. The victim was
walking leisurely south on Garrison
avenue when the three footpads ap-
preached him, and as they passed,
one grabbed his watch and tried to
snap the chain. Mr.. Brown caught
the thief's hand as he did so, but
his resistance was met with a shower
of blows about the head and face,
which almost blinded him. Still
he would not relinquish his hold
upon the man who held the watch,
which he priced dearly, since en-
ameled upon its case was the picture
of his dead son. It was then that
the third ruflian kicked him violent
ly in the abdomen, rendering him
helpless and speeches., then fright
ened by the near approach OF several
people who had witnessed the strug.
gle from a distance, the thugs took
to their heels without waiting to Sc.
cure the money their victim carried,
and escaped. For a moment Mr..
Brown was see to stagger to the
side of the pavement, and would
have fallen had not Roland Stark
and w. E. Smith, two young men
living at Oil NorthG Garrison avenue,
rushed forward and caught him. AS
his breath returned he was able te
scream ''police," but in the interval
the robbers had disappeared. He
was taken to his home, 3119 Morgan
street, where he died about an houl
later.
BROWN KNOWN IN AUDRAIN.
Edwin Z. Brown was a brother o.
DR.. A. F. Brown, of Laddonia, ano
also of the late Capt. Brown, for
merly of Galloway county and Al
one time the proprietor of Browns
hotel in st. Louis. The murdered
man was quite well known in this
county, especially in the eastern
end. The news of his death created
CONSERVATION at Laddonia. where
his brother resides.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
About People.

The painting by Millet recently
sold at BRUSSELS for $780, 900 was
originally sold by the artist for a
cask Of wine worth about %.
The late Phillips Brooks once
said that "most mel are neither
sages nor FOOLS" In the language
of the genuine Yankee, they are
"middin' smart"
Donna Isadore Coucine, Of South
America, who is said to be the
richest widow in the world, has an
income Of $4,000 per month from
her mines alone.
Speaking Of DR.. Parkhurst's way
Of chasing the devil out of New
York, Sam Jones says it reminds
him of the way his dog ran a hog
out of a Georgia eornield. The
dog ran on ahead.
There is a movement on foot to
buy Walt Whitman's humble home
as his most fitting monument. The
Boston Globe says it is one of the
! wisest fancies in current monument
tai enterprises.
Florence Blythe, now Mrs.
Fritz Hinckley. of San Francisco,
whose inheritance amounted to
about $4,000, 900, is said to have
paid 1894 ,342 ,044 to her attorneys
and the executrix in order to secure
her estate.
The highest honor as a medical
student ever won by a woman has
just been gained by Miss Louise AL
drich Blake, the daughter of an
English clergyman. She was
"double first" in the examinations
at the London University.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, although
an artist, has absolutely no taste in
dress. Her favorite blouses appear,
even on occasions of full dress, and
they are, as some one graphically
describes them, "such blousey
blouses, too"
DR.. McCosh has sent 1880 to
the congregation of the East Free
Church at Brechin, N. j., of which
he was at one time minister, to help
any deserving young man connected
Herewith in his studies for the min
istry of the free church.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton sug-
gests as the proper memorial for
Phillips Brooks a library building
for Harvard University, to be named
for him. A half million dollars is
the least sum for which a proper
structure could be erected.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
s'A Coleman Tree"
From the Kansas Cify Star

State Superintendent Wolfe, in
his annual circular calling attention
to the observance OF Arbor Day,
which this year falls on the 7th OF
April, reminds the teachers and
scholars of Missouri that the day was
established in this state by the late
William E.. Coleman, when State
Superintendent of Schools. It would
be a fitting memorial, to endure for
all time, if near each school house
in Missouri a tree were planted to be
called THE Coleman Tree"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Ch0Ierine in PENNSYLVANIA.

Swickley, Penn: We had ar
epidemic of cholerine, as our physi.
clans called it, in this place lately
and | made a great hit with Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhea Remedy. l sold four dozen
bottles OF it in one week and have
since sold nearly a gross. This rem
edy did the work and was a big ad-
vertisement for me. Several per
sons who had been troubled with
diarrhoea for two or three weeks
were cured by a few doses of this
medicine P. P. KNAPP, Phi. G.
25 and so cent bottles for sale by
c. A. Buckner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Mothers, Ree0mmendatio,

We are acquainted with many
mothers in Centerville, who would
not be without Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in the house for a good
many times its cost, and are recon.
mending it every day. From per.
sonal experience we can say that il
has broken up bad colds for our chill.
dren .-Centerville, South Dakota,
Citizen. 80 cent bottles for sale by
G. A. Buckner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
E~x.Presidsnt Harrison "a a prosss,or

WASHINGTON, D.. c., March q
President Harrison this evening ac-
cepted a professorship in the Leland
Stanford University of California.
He will deliver a series of lectures
on constitutional law, commencing
in October next. He has had the
matter under consideration for some
weeks, but did not signify his formal
acceptance until this evening.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Children Dry for
Pitchers CastoFia.
The Judges Must Remain in Jail

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March q
Judge John F. Phillips Of the United
States District Court refused to-day
to grant a writ Of habeas corpus fol-
the County judges of st. Clair coun-
ty, now in Jail here for refusing to
make a tax levy to pay off railroad
bonds. In the course of his decis-
ion he took occasion to sharply
score Gov. Stone for his recent
States rights message to the Legis-
lature on the matter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Young Dreps Missing.

D.. B. Drops, of Centralia, was in
Mexico Friday, searching for his
14-year-old son, Missouri Drops,
who had left home without provo
cation. Mr.. Drops is very uneasy
about his son ard is anxious to find
out his whereabouts. In company
with Marshal Kemp he made a Wig
orous search over Mexico, but was
compelled to return home without
any information that would lead to
his sons location.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
u. NJ. & co.

Headquarters for carriage and
buggy repairing. Carriage trim
ming and painting. Horseshoeing
and blaeksmithing all kinds. We
have also a fine line of buggies, sur
ries, phsetons, 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& Co.
Southeast corner Jefferson and Lib
erty Street, Mexico, Mo. 2-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

Laddonia Herald: Rush Bal
sold his farm, known as the Mich.
OILS farm, to B. C. Torbert tor $25
per acre and bought of Torbert $50
acres for the same price and sold the
80 acres to his brother for $27. sc
and has leased for five years Henry
Crews large stock farm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

The following item is a favorite
just now among Missouri papers,
owing to the marked appreciation in
the value of the Missouri porker
"My son." said an old farmer,
thoughtfully, the other evening to
bis boy, "you can turn that $12
cow out into the lot and take thai
blanket off of that $25 horse and put
it on that $32 hog"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
eedalia's Race Meeting.

SEDALIA, Mo-. March 2.-The
Missouri State Fair Association to-
day announces the stakes and purses
for the annual meeting, September
ID TO 80 inclusive. There are Is
stakes and 7 purse races, for which
SAC, 1000 is hung up. The entries
for the purses close on April 1.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
MarshalI's Electric Light COMPANY

MARSHALL, Mo, March 2.-The
Marshall Electric Light and Power
Company filed articles of incorpora.
ton at the Recorders Office with q
capital stock of $4,000. The stock
holders are Thomas E. WardelI,
Harry NJ. Ruby and VIM. E. Nc
Gully, Work on the plant will be-
gin here next week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.
SpanIsh-American and West India Ex.
cUrsiOns,

Spanlsh-Ameriean and West India Ex.
c%urSi0ns.
The Chicago d Alton, in concert
with the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and
tho Plant Steamship Company, has
arranged for a series of delightful
winter excursions to Kingston,
jamaica. Complete arrangements
have been made for the care, com
fort and entertainment of the patrons
of these excursions, and the tickets
will be sold February 20 and March
6, 1898. Full particulars will be
gladly furnished upon application to
E. S. Wilson, Ticket Agent Chicago
& Alton Railroad, Mexico, or by ad-
dressing James Charlton, General
Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chica-
go, Ill. Till March 6.
Do you lack faith and love health?
Let US establish your faith and r. store
your healt with De- Wits Sarsaparilla.
French & Garrett.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
New Trial in the Lewis Case.

At the last term of Circuit Court
George Lewis, of Pike county, was
found guilty of numbering old man
Brown, father of his sweetheart, ano
his punishment fixed at ten years in
the penitentiary. Judge Hughes has
granted a new trial in this case or
account of erroneous instruction hav,
ing been given to the Jury.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

ledge Wexem's Political Proverbs
Most state Legislators need muz.
zlin.
Ell local polliticks wuz clener
nashunel polliticks would show it,
Theirs two kline of money in poll
ticks-that you put in, that you gil
out.
Uncle Sam don't let anybody
impose on him but his own family
Tain't one ufichaI in a hundred
that's got sand enuf in his craw to
tell a man right out hat he won't
give him an offs.
The Star Spangled Banner is the
Gospel ov Liberty.
Morals in polliticks is subiick to
to revlshun and amendments.
When a politishan prays the an
gels lift Their eyebrows.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
WANTEDi,

Hides, Furs, Tallow, Wool. Pelts
Feathers, Rags, Scrap Iron, and all
kinds of country produce.
Special prices made on large lots
to butchers and country produce
dealers. Write for prices and ship
ping tags. SAMMORRIs.
W till APP 10.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
New Trial in The Woolwine Cas-

At the last term of Court Henry
Woolwine was found guilty of as.
sault upon little Miss Middleton, Of
Rush Hill, and the jury found him
guilty and fixed his punishment a
7 years in the penitentiary. Judge
Hughes has granted a new trial on
the ground that the evidence was in.
sufficient to merit the verdict.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

1t is stated by the papers that the
Populist Governor of Kansas has
already been bribed by policy men
of Kansas City, Kan.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

Sam Fuller will have Grace Napo-
leon, ajax Kentucky Union (3),
2:15ia; Walnut Boy, pacing record
2:114 Topaz, 2:26, and Heiress,
sister of Godela 2: 1919 in the stable
this year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
What is

Castoria Is DR.. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. 1t is q harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops. Soothing syrups, and Castor oh.
II n Pleasant, It's guarantee Is thirty years use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feyerishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curds
cures Diarrhoa and Wind Collie. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and hataiency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels. giving health and natural sleep. Gas.
soria Is the Children's Panacea-the Mother's Friend.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

We have a collar that is superior
to all open throat collars. Call and
examine it's merits. 4S At.
RoTH & RICHARDS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
this year,

G.. w. Painter was up from Ben.
ton City this week. His school
will be out in about three weeks and
then a new school house will likely
be erected.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

Mr.. V. Harrison, of Galloway ,one
OF the best auctioneers in the country,
was in Mexico this week on BUSH
ness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Castoria

"Cxssoria Ia so veil adapted to children thas
I recommend it Is superior to an prescription
know o to me-"
II. A. ARCHER, n. D.,
ii! So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
"oaIr physicians in the chiidren's depart
ment have spoken highly Of their expert
enee in their outside practice with CEsteria,
and although we only have among cur
medical supplies what Is known a. regular
produces, yet we are free to confess that thu
merits OF Castoria has won US to look With
favor upon it."
UNITED HosprrAL N D~IsPEssARg,
Boston, Mass
ALIEN C. SMITH, Pres,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

Forty car loads of cattle were
shipped from Benton City last
month. This beats Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

Go to w. S. Hathaway for your
garden seeds. They will cost you
less than half the usual price.
d&w till AID /
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

There is still no news of the over
due steamer Naronic and her crew
of 70 odd men.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
A Noted Cor federsts Dead.

NEosHo, Mo-, March 2.-Briga-
der General T. r. Freeman, oil
Freeman's Brigade in PRICES army,
died of typhoid fever yesterday aged
63. He will be remembered as the
leader of the last Missouri Brigade
to lay down its arms at the close Of
the war.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

The Humphrey murder case
comes up for trial at Huntsville,
Mo-, on March 9Th.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

Piles Of people have piles, but De.
Wits Hazel Sdtve a0iH cure them
French & Garrett r.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
FENCES.

The outside fences of farms ought
always to be of the most substantial
and permanent character. Staked-
and-ridered fences take up much
room and their recesses furnish
spaces for the growth of weeds /;
moreover, they are easily broken by
both stock and wind. Outside
fences ought to be at the least four
and a half feet high and have good
strong posts firmly set in the
ground. They can be made OF
plank or plank and wire. Nail on
to the posts at least two six inch
fencing boards (three would be bet
teri and finish with three strands OF
barbed wire. Inside farm fences
are best when constructed SO as to
be readily moved. 1t helps to keep
a farm free of noxious plants to
change its division fences and fields
occasionally. Woven wire inter
mixed with barb wire makes a good
division fence. Fences require con-
slant looking after. 1t will always
be best to go yer and repair them
before planting in the spring or
turning stock into pastures. Nothing
tends to make breAchy animals more
than poor fences. A loose wire
fence is always dangerous. It's
wires should be Strengthened and
frightened and kept taught.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

When Baby was sick. we gave her Castoria.
When she was q Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them castoria,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

A little Ill. then a little pill. The Ill Is
gone. the pill has won. DeWitt,s Little
Early Risers the little pills that cure
great Ills. French b Garrett,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

W. S. Hathaway keeps a full line
OF garden seeds in bulk. They will
cost you less than half the usual
price. d&wtiI AMI.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
Children Cry for
Pitchers Cast0Sia.

Onion sets and seed potatoes at
blattner & Davis. MARI. 2Wd&W
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

What I suffered for years with
those terrible raeking sick head
aches. Life was only a torment TO
me; hyou are SO troubled, / would
advise you to use Sulphur Bitters,
Tor they cured me.-CLsRA BELLE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
CaStorta.

sC>etofa Is an excellent medicine for chill.
drun. Mothers have repeatedly tc9d me 81 its
good elect upon their children."
DR. G. G. osaoop,
Lowell, Mass.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

TIA centaur Company, u Murray Street, New York City.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09

fined by a thorough narrowing.
After that it should be laid in long
rows from three to three and a half
feet apart. In these rows peas,
beans, beets, parsnips, carrots, cab
bages, sugar corn, turnips, squash,
potatoes and melons can be as easi-
ly and successfully titled with pillow
and eultivator as field corn. Where
the truck-patch cannot be MANFRED
commercial fertilizers may be used.
They are in convenient form and
may be applied broadcast or to the
row or hill. They destroy insects
and greatly increase the growth and
yield of vegetables.
HOT BEDS.
If hot beds have not been made
it is not too late to construct them.
Sow in hot beds in March beets,
cabbage, carrots, caullhower, celery,
cucumbers eggplant lettuce melons,
parsley, peppers, onions, radishes,
tomatoes and herbs and also in cold
frames as soon as they can be
made.
snn TAND
The farmer has often occasion to
prepare sod land for seeding. This
is of regular occurrence where a
system of rotation has been adopted.
Then it is necessary to break up
clover sod for corn every spring.
ThIs-ean be best done with a pillow
with rolling cutter. In breaking up
no more land ought to be cut than
can be turned. If this is done there
will be uneven places that cannot
be titled. Sod ought to be broken
up early and as it may be ploughed
when wet without injury this may
be done before other land is in con-
dition. If sod can be broken up in
the fall or winter SO much the bet
ter as the frost will then assist in
pulverizing it. A disc harrow is an
admirable implement for reducing
plowed sod to filth. 1t should be
first run over in the same direction
as it was plowed. After that the
operation must be repeated cross
wise. Two borrowings are usually
but some times three or
four are required. Sod cannot be
cut to pieces or fined too much. If
a disc harrow cannot be obtained a
spike tooth harrow will answer a
good purpose.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-06-01
Acquiring a Vocabulary.



Nothing is more fascinating than the
study OF words; nothing more clearly in
dicates the scholar as opposed to the mere
tyro than the nice and fastidlous use Of
these. In words we clOthe our thoughts
Eloquent, subtle, poetical. or thrilling as
these may be, they are intangible and in
visible until arrayed In language. In
spoken thoughts are like unborn children.
They cannot come into the world or on the
scene Of human action till they are born of
the spoken or the written word.
One way of acquiring good vocabulary
is, of course, by habitually assoclatiDg
with people who speak correctly, and
whose choice Of words Is careful and ele-
CANT. To live with highly educated and
congenial people is in itself liberal edu-
cation in this regard.
One sometimes wonders at the singular
lapses into slovenly and illiterate blunders
conspicuous in men and women who
should know better" True, they should.
and probably do knO,r better, but in daily
practice few people rise very much above
the ordinary level Of those with whom they
always converse. A city-bred girl went to
live in part of the country where pro-
vincialisms are the current coin of daily
talk. Returning few years later to her
home, no one would have supposed her to
be the same person, so many queer little
phrases and downright forms of speech,
inelegant and lacking In good form, had
she, very susceptible person, picked up
and adopted.
II we wish our daughter to be proficient
In music, we take her TO hear the most re-
nowned artists. Technique may be ac-
quired by constant practice under the best
instructors, but she can gain feeling, ap-
probation Of color and phrasing, sincere
and genuine culture in music. only by hear
ing it rendered well; and this is true of
both vocal and Instrumental performance.
So it is true that q good vocabulary is
greatly augmented by habitually listening
to eloquent and beautiful speech, to the
polished diction Of the pulpit, to the
rounded and rhythmic sentences of prayer
and praise. The young person who al.
ways goes to church will gain something
not included in our usual thought OF
church-golng-a larger and more facile
vocabulary.
For two years." said a student OF
French. Il heard no English that | could
help. l attended q French church; went
wherever French was spoken, in public
and in private; lived in French atmos-
phere."
This is equally true Of English. A vo.
cabulary is not gained in day or u week.
1t is the slow accretion of many days, the
development of many weeks.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-06-01
State News.

-Nume Panchaud was caught by NOV
ing car at Brunswick, Friday, drawn under
the train. and his ankle was so crushed that
amputation was necessary. The victim of
the accident was 40 years of age and has q
family of ii children dependent upon
him.
Mrs. Thomas jackson, aged S5, OF
South Lewiston. was drowned In a water
hogshead Friday. She probably lost her
balance In dipping water.
Schooner d. Howard Spear Of Bath,
Capt. Greene, at Boston from st. Jago,
Cuba, reports April G, one of the crew
named l.. w Gilkey, native of Islesboro,
Me, died of dysentery at the hospital In
st. Jago. Mr.. Gilkey had children resld.
Ing in Milford, Mass.
-Governor Cleaves Friday reappointed
ID. X. Wylie of West Bath as trustee of
the Military and Naval Orphan Asylum.
In the superior court at Portland Fri
day afternoon motion was made by
the county attorney to continue until Sep
tember the case of Warden Harper of
Ward |, indicted for election frauds, by
reason Of ex City Clerk Russell being out
OF town, and no one knowing where he
had gone. Russell was the principal wit
ness. The motion was granted
Saturday afternoon Blanche, the seven
years old daughter of Maurice Fogg, of Au-
burn. while playing around bonfire, caught
her clothes on IRE. she was so badly burned
that it caused her death Sunday.
The big coal run at Fish Pond, near
Portland, belonging to the Grand Trunk
railway, totally collapsed Saturday after
noon, burying six men in the ruins, two of
whom are perhaps fatally injured. The
cause Is unknown.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-06-01

An unelected infant sighed out il. little breath,
And wandered through the darkue,, along the
shades Of death,
Until the gates Of heaven before him he
espied,
And ran to them and clunS there, and would
not be denied;
Tho still from earth rose mutterings, You
cannot enter in,
Depart into Gehenna, you child Of wrath and
sin."
At last the gates were opened-a man with
features mild
stopped down aud raised the weeping and non
elected child;
Immortal light thrilled softly down the ayen-
ues of bliss.
And on the infant. forehead the spirit placed
Who are you thus to hslIow my non-elected
brow>"
Dear child, my name was Calvin, but see
things better now.'
Why shouldst thou ill to-day with sorrow
About tomorrow,
My heart?
One watches all with care most true,
Doubt not that He will give thee too
Thy part
Panl Femmtag.