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Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Let Us Have
From the Monroe City News.

Iohh LIE nAouroe C1ty news.
In the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict there is already a search fol-
some one to run against Hon. Champ
Clark. 1t is a pity politics of a
cooler character cannot reign for a
few years over in that district. II
would be next to impossible to beat
Mr.. Clark for a second term and a
fight next year would only serve to
keep the old sores open. The best
thing the Ninth district people can
do is to put in a few years restoring
harmony. The district needs it and
the people need it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
NJ. Z. A. Reception.

At the reception to be rendered the
Missouri Press Association at Chi.
cago in the Missouri building at the
Worlds Fair next Tuesday an ad.
dress of welcome will be made by
Charles Green, editor of the Brook.
field Argus and a member of the
Missouri commission. This will be
responded to by the President-elect
of the Association. Governor Stone
will respond to missouri" W. C.
Brown will respond to "The Rail.
roads and the Press" Mrs. Potte,
Palmer, "Women at the Fair" E.
W. Stephens, of the Columbia Her.
aid, "Our New University; r. NJ.
White of the Mexico LEDGER, "Bene.
fits from Press Associations" Per-
ry S. RAIDER, of the Brunswick Mo.
Brunswi cker, ''The Press and its
Mission"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
MISSOURI AND MISSOURIANS.

The pawpaw has its advocate as
the Estate flower" of Missouri.
At a recent wood saving match at
But Ter Mrs. Barnett was the winner
with Mrs. Butler a good second.
Fulton insists on a connection with
the Missouri, Kansas & Eastern and
an electric line is deemed feasible,
A. w. Elsner wants to bet that he
can eat more crawfish than any 9TH
er man in the Eighth Congressional
District.
Snakes revel in the long, luxuriant
grass of the Marshall court yard.
much to the discomfort of the bows
and girls.
Mrs. Annie McHann lives at West
Plains at the age of 105 years, and
the youngest of her large family is
As years old.
Congressman u. s. Hall is in
Moberly and signifed his intention
to recommend Theodore F. Priest
for postmaster.
Charles Carter the Lawrence coun-
ty murderer, has been respited to
July 10. This is the fourth respite
he has been given.
A %Plattsburg woman, who has
been widowed eight times, has VOW
ed to love, honor and obey her ninth
husband. She is still hale and hearty.
G.. Van Ameronges, of Amster-
dam, Holland, has purchased 81 900.
acres Of land in Shannon county and
will shortly locate 100 Dutch fami-
lies on it.
A piece of petrifed wood was re.
Gently dug up in Phelps County on
which was carved a Masonic emblem
and the inscription, "T. c., 23d In
fantry, 9TH Cavalry, H. c."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Some Kansas Populists are going
to the Worlds Fair in wagons.
The loss by the Mesaba Iron
Range fires will aggregate at least
So, 500, 900.
The sale of the Cherokee bonds
will probably be closed at Chicago
next Friday.
1t has been intensely hot in Eu-
rope. In London two deaths oc-
cured from sunstroke.
An unknown man threw himself
in front of a Vandalia train near
Casey, ILL.,, and was cut to pieces.
Eight men dead and 100 wounded
was the result of a wreck on Long
Island of a returning Sheepshead
Bay race train.
Edwin Booths will divided an es-
tate worth $6O5,O00 among friends
and relatives, with a liberal bequest
to charitable institutions.
Hon. Jeff Chandler thinks the
Democratic party has a golden OPP
portunity to clinch its hold on the
masses by solving the money ques-
ton.
There is a belief that the II Ar
menian Christians convicted by
Turkey, will be shot OIL poisoned I'M
less England or America i~nterferes
personally.
The jury at New Bedford, Mass,
after being out an hour and 20 min
utes, found Lizzie Borden not guilty
of the murder of her father and
stepmother.
Samuel A. Wilson, the lone train
robber, will be taken to Union for
trial the latter part of the week. He
is now arranging to put his photo
graph on the market.
Colonel Ainsworth and the others
included in the Coroner's iury's
verdict of responsibility for the Ford
Theater disaster at Washington ap-
peared in court voluntarily and gave
$4,000 bond for their appearance
in court.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
The Nations Extra yagance.

The Treasury receipts for the first
eleven months of the fiscal year have
been 1856, 762 $40, or $31 DOC, 900
more than during the same period
of the last fiscal year.
But the expenditures for the first
eleven months have been 1862 $780,
055,or about $31, 900, 900 more than
during the corresponding period of
the last fiscal year.
These figures indicate that for the
entire fiscal year the Governments
receipts will be about 1887, 0O0, 900
and it's expenditures about 1884,
10000. That is to say, the Gov
ernment is spending about $1,000
600 a year more than its income,
though its income has been increased
by 31,00O,0 900.
The single item of pensions has
consumed $25, 900, 900 more during
the first eleven months of this yeal
than during the corresponding year,
This increase nobody would grudge
if it were possible to believe that the
money had gone to relieve the neces.
sites of deserving old soldiers. But
the evidence is strong and clear thai
a sum exceeding the entire increase
has been squandered through the
Pension Office by the reckless mis-
Interpretation of law and by the
fraudulent admission of persons te
the pension rolls who have no claim
whatever to a place there. But fol
maladministration there the Govern.
ment b~alance-sheet would have 6
surplus.
The rulings already made and the
reforms instituted in this depart
ment under the new Administration
warrant the expectation that the
reckless extravaganza viii be check
ed. 1t will remain for Congress te
do the rest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
THAT METHODIST BOYCOTT.
They Will Not he Allowed to Re
move Their Exhibits.

CHICAGO, June 19.-The Metho.
dist and other church societies
which threaten to remove their ex.
hibits from the Liberal Arts section,
because the Exposition is to be kept
open on Sundays, will find them.
selves baked when they come to dc
so. The Director General will in.
form them that the goods are en-.
tered for the period of the Fair and
that they must remain till the Fail
is over.
The Methodists of Chicago at
their meeting to-day decided to keep
up the fight against Sunday open
ing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Big Run On a Local Institution
paelaKapt Open After Regular Hours,
Confidence Established,

These lines do not refer to any of our
local banking institutions, hut TO II
ut almost as much Importance to our
purchasing public generally, namely;
That of Messrs. j. Bernhardt Il Co, the
south side elothiers and f~urnishsrs
Daring the past few days OF warm
weather this firm has had sueh a ter
rifle rum upon the fine lines of under
wear, summer clothing straw hats aud
furnishing goods in their establish
ment that they kept their doors open
way past the usual closing hours III
order 10 accommodate tho hosts Of cus-
toners. This proves that the new firm
has received the confidence of the pub
lie of Audrain County, and do hereby
signify their appreciation Of the reli"
anee placed In their manner of doing
business. Notwithstanding the heavy
drain, this stoek is yet rsplete with all
the above goods at the lowest market
rates. Come In and don't fail to ask
tor the new Tourist Umbrella. 1T Ia u
wonder.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Stub Ends of 1hanDhf.

When young hearts break they
knit again readily.
Discover your false friends; you
true ones will discover you.
A little woman may be a yer,
large-sized devil.
No sympathy is felt for a man wht
is a fool twice.
When gossip beats the drum o
the ear the tongue tells the tune.
Some men pray without thinking
and some think without praying.
While one woman is quiet thu
other ninety-nine are asking her VIII,
she is.
A flower grows wherever a kind
word is spoken.
Tears are sorrows diamonds.
A baby is a blossom on which
there r few thorns.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Sunday Opening.

To the Editor of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, June 81, 1893
The opening of the Worlds Fair
on Sunday is still agitating the
minds of the people. 1t is to be
hoped this question will be amicably
settled and settled right. In dis.
cussing the subject everyone should
be fair and not become exasperated.
Each advocate is, presumably, con.
scientiously right, although he may
be very inconsistent-we are all
entitled to our own ideas. 1t is not
a crime to miscomprehend the stu
alton, therefore if you think one
way and your neighbor another dc
not censure him. Just as good PEG.
pie fell on the battle field of our wal
on one side as the other-both
died for what they conscientious
ly considered right and no just per-
son ought to emblossom n grave
and not the other. You believe with
all your heart that the Christian peo-
pie are doing an injustice to you by
declaring their opposition to opening
the Fair on Sunday. Are you to
be condemned for your opinion?
The Christian people believe with
all their heart that they should
oppose the opening on Sunday
because it is a Dissertation of the
Sabbath. Are they to be condemned
for their opinion? Volumnous ar
gument can be made On both sides,
but a devout, contentious, sancti-
monious Christian would not only
close the Fair on Sunday, but
every other enterprise hat makes
him forget the Sabbath and not keep
it according to the commandment
OF the Omnipotent, the Omniscient
and the Omnipresent. Yet he would
not be exasperated with his brother
it he did his part and fniled.
SINE PREJUDICIo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
COLONEL AlNSWORTH.
Held Responsible for Lives Lost In
Washington City.

WASHINGTON, d. G., June l9.-lt
was decided by Coroner Patterson
to-day that Colonel Ainsworth should
not be summoned to appear as a wit,
ness before Coroner's jury investi-
eating the cause of Ford's Theatel
disaster.
After the evidence was all in the
jury, at 3 O'Clock, brought in a YER
dict holding Colonel F. c. Aims
worth, Contractor Dant, Superin'
tendent Covert and Engineer Sasse
responsible for the lives Of the vic
TINS by reason of criminal negli
gence on their part.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

JOE JOHNSTON, formerly manager
of the Ferris Washing Machine Co.,
of this city, is now manager of the
Standard Electrical Co., of Detroit,
Mich, which manufactures the Lo.
gan battery. Mr.. Johnston has
associated with him some prominent
capitalists of Missouri and other
states. He is an active, pushing
business man and informs the LED
GER hat he has the very best thing
going. Factories are to be built, in
addition to the one at Detroit, in
Chicago, st. Louis, Pueblo and
New York. These batteries store up
electricity, which is used for motive
power, heating and lighting and
promises to revolutionize the whole
electrical world.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Seeking to Convert Inperso,,.

New YORK, June 1S.-Gordor
Lawrence, "P. J. S." has come al
the way from London to convert
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. His cru
SADIE has proved ineffective thus far.
For two weeks he has been praying
nightly in front of Col. Ingersoll's
home that the Colonel might be.
come a Christian and the head of q
new religious organization to be
known ass'The Society of all Souls"
Col. Ingesoll and his family have
not been inhabitating the house
during the prayerful bombardment,
having moved 10 Dobbs' Ferry for
the summer. Now Mr.. Lawrence
has written to Col. Ingersoll that he
win hereafter pray at the Colonel's
law Office, on Nassau street. The
lawyer and orator is much interest
ed in this new effort to convert him
Miss Linda Boyd is visiting in
Fulton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Great and Free Missouri.

III thc hdushS NitS otdlE
The Supreme Court of Missouri
in declaring unconstitutional the
law under which the service of sever
al negro Migrants have been sold a
auction has simply obeyed the pre-.
vailing sentiment, which in Missouri
is opposed to preserving any remind.
ers ofslavery. The constitution of Mis-.
souri, declares that there can not
be in this state either slavery Oh
involuntary servitude "except il
punishment for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convict.
ed" and an overwhelming MAORI
ty of the people of Missouri are
glad that this clause is in the con.
stitution. To this great majority
the sight of human being, no
matter how black, or poor, or
miserable, or worthless, sold under
an antiquated statute into "invol,
untary s%ervitude,' was deemed
unworthy OF great and free Missouri,
and hence to aprotest from press and
people, an appeal to the Supreme
Court and the opinion now pro-
mulgated. This will end, greatly
to the satisfaction of the people
generally. and further ''sales'' Of
human creatures in this state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
absolutely Reliable Insurance.

The Farmers and Laborers' Co
operative Insurance Association OF
Audrain County, at their annual
meeting on the 18th inst, endorsed
the Missouri Farmers Mutual Tor.
nado Insurance Company of the 4th
Congressional District and instruct
ed the Secretary to keep an office
open in Mexico and to take applica,
tons Gin force from the day signed)
for insurance in that company.
The Company was organized May
1, 1891, and has nearly two
million dollars insurance now.
1t has provided reliable insurance
for its members very cheaply.
If you want to insure against
Fire and Lightning or Wind Storms
please call and investigate the mer.
its of these companies.
j. N. Cross, Sec. and Agt.
Office at Harper's store until
July 1.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
TnR Ian useos sTlTuTiosAL'
IL Cantravsnes the Consultation OF
the United States and Also OF
Missouri.

JEFFERSON CITY, NO., June H.
time during March, in the
of Mexico, Audraln County,
one Thompson, a negro. was tried
aad declared a vagrant under sec,
sa49, Revised Statues, 1883, the
Justice issued a warrant to the
Constable OF the township COM
the sale of the negro to
the highest bidder as Il vagrant.
Pending the execution OF the
warrant petitioner applied to the
Supreme Court for a writ of habears
corpus. The trial and sale of the
negro was had under ecs 8,S46,
S,S4S and S,S49, which the court
holds TO be in conflict with the
constitution. Sec. 2 of art. | of the
constitution of 1865 declares that
there cannot be in this state either
slavery or involuntary servitude,
except in punishment OF crime,
whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted. This section has
now become sec. 81 of art. 2 of our
present constitution. The court
holds that the prisoner is guilty OF
no crime. Doubtless be might be
proceeded against under section
3S41, which makes the act of being
a vagrant punishable as a crime,
but in no other way. To sum it
up, the court holds that the sections
of the statutes under which the
negro was tried co%ntravenes the
constitution of the United States
and of this State, and he is there
fore entitled to discharge.
JUDGE sHERWOoD's OPINION. &.
In his opinion Judge Sherwood
says that the Constitution CT the
State declares that there can not be
in this State either slavery or invol'
untary servitude, except in punish
ment of crime, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted. The
petitioner, he continues, has been
guilty of no crime; that these
proceedings, if allowed to continue
and reach their anticipated ultimate
development, would result in the
IL prisonment of Thompson, and
his being subjected to involuntary
servitude and to punishment. HI
concludes this opinion by saying
"The convict may lawfully be
condemned to involuntary servitude
to imprisonment in punishment o.
his crime; not SC with one in SINH
lar circumstances to those of the
petitioner. Doubtless he might
be proceeded against and punished
under the provisions of section 3S41,
which makes the act of being g
vagrant punishable as a crime, but
in no other way, if obedience is due
to express constitutional prohibi'
| ton.
"The premises considered, we
hold that the law under which the
petitioner is restrained of liberty
contravenes the Constitution of the
United States and of this State.
and he is, therefore, elected to be
discharged, and it is so ordered.
All concur"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

A MINNESOTA correspondent who
made unkind comments concerning
some meetings conducted by a re-
vivalist named Mills was taken by
mob, and would have been hanged
except that his worldly brother ap'
peared with a carnal rifle and scat.
tered the white-robed throng Of
masked and indignant good people.
For turning away wrath, a rifle is
far from orthodox, but it seems to
be not wholly useless.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Administrator,s Notica

Notice is hereby given that letters of
administration upon the estate of Gid
con J. Mallory, deceased. have been
granted the undel signed by the Pro-
bate Court of Audrafh County, Mis-
souri,, bearing date June ], 1888.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested TO exhibit
them for allowance to the administra-
tor within one year after date of grant
ing letters, or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate, and if
such claims be not exhibited within
two years from the date they will be
forever barred. J.. 7. WILLIAMS
9-4-t. Public Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Mrs. Ford Dies from a Rat Rite.

RICHMOND, Mo-, June 19.-Mrs.
J.. I. Ford died at her home one
mile east of this city to-day from
blood poisoning, caused by a rat
bite ten days ago. She was the
mother Of the notorious Bob and
Charley Ford. who killed Jesse
James at st. Joseph. Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

Mr. EVAN S. Brooks, of Monroe
county, who was appointed Tobacco
Inspector of st. Louis by Gov.
Stone, is the second son of the late
Elder John T. Brooks, for many
years a resident of this city, and is a
brother of Mr.. H. T. Brooks and
Mrs. Johnson, wife of Circuit Clerk
B. c. Johnson. The new Inspector
is a Kentuckian by birth and is
thoroughly capable of attending to
the duties of the office,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

The business men of Mexico
should make arrangements with
MIR. c. c. Davis to develop the
coal mine on his land. He stands
ready to make arrangements which
will be beneficial to all concerned.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
GOV. sf0SE's APPOINTMENTS.
Vacancies Filled ut Various feiass ia
the Mate.

JEFFERSON CIry, Mo. June IT,
Governor Stone surprised everybody
nv making a number OF important
appointments to-day, The surprise
is not so much due to the appoint
ments, as the places were mostly
vacant, but ON account Of some who
were not known to be in the races,
Following are the appointments out
side Of st, Louis:
John 7. Buttner, late of Living
ston county, Inspector OF Oils for
Kansas City for a term ending two
| years from June Is, 1898.
Ed. I. Yancey, to be Clerk of thu
Criminal Court at Springfield.
Perry D.. Giruhb, n State Commits
sioner to locate the position OF Mis-
souri, troops ut the battle of Chicka.
manga, vice Joseph Conrad, resign
ed. Mr.. Grubb is the present Rep
re~sentative from Adair county.
ST. LOUIS APPOINTMENTS.
Excise Commissioner-Nichola
NJ. Bell, TO hold office at the pleas
ure of the Governor.
Inspector of Oils-Colonel Free
P. Bronaugh, late ofCooper county
for a term of two years from Jun
IS, 1898.
Police Commissioners-John A
Lee and jeremiah Fruin, to serv
four years from January /, 1898.
Tobacco Inspector--E. S. Brook
of Monroe county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
A Verdict Of MansIaughter.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, June 19.-The
jury in the case of the State against
James Gopher for the killing of Ed.
ward Rowland, after being out fou1
days, brought in a verdict this
morning at $50 O'Clock convictinp
him of manslaughter in the fourth
degree, and sentencing him to II
months in Jail.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
Exeeutrix Notiee.

Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary upon the estate of Henry
Gerard, deceased. bearing date Nav
IL, 1888, have been granted to the un-
dersigned by the Probate Court of An.
drain County, Missouri.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to pre-
sent the same for allowance within
n year of the date of said letters:
and II not presented within two a
from said date they will be forever
barred, JULIA A. GERARD,
S-4t Exeanfrfx
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

THE less a man knows, the more
likely he is to think he knows it all.
A man of less than average attain
ments is more reluctant than a SUI
perior scholar to say, when asked a
question, 81 do not know" Yet
that answer in itself is ordinarily an
indication of exceptional intelli-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

Four years ago Audrain county
went dry by SO majority. Last Sat
urday it went wet by 279 majority
Evidently the voters of this county
think local option don't sop"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22

Lowlander won the great subur.
ban race at sheepshead Bay. 80, OOC
spectators saw the race. He was
a rank outsider, and is the property
OF Fred Loeye, the bookmaker,
who won $32 900 off of $500. He
went the mile and a quarter in
2:O6 3-5, beating Salvatore record
OF 2 :06 As IN 1861.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
A BLOT WIPED OUT.
THE LAW RELATING TO THE SALk,
OF WARRANTS Decided IN.
CONSTITUTIONAL.
All the Supreme Judges Coaear In the
Opinlon.-A Prominent Mexico Law
yer and the Mexico Ledger the
Motive Power That Swept
the Obnoxious Law on
the Statute BOOK.
Special Dispatch tn the Ledger.

JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, June i9.-
The vagrancy law relating to the sale
of Migrants on the block was to-day
held to be unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court Of Missouri. The
opinion was delivered by Sherwood,
all the Judges concurring, Joseph
Thompson, the negro held at Mex.
leo, was ordered discharged.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-22
HISTORY OF THE CASE.

There have been recently sold pub
licly in Missouri a number of va
grants, notably several at Fayette
and one in this city--George Hardin
and the attempted sale of Thomp-
son. both negroes. The sale of the
first negro in this city attracted a
large gathering and after the vagrant
had been knocked off to the highest
bidder there was a decided sentiment
in the crowd who witnessed it that
the law was an inhumane one and
that the sale itself savored of barbar.
ism. The advertised sale of Thomp'
son attracted only a few spectators
for the most part school children and
idlers. Geo. Robertson interested
himself in Thompson's case and he
was not sold. Mr.. Robertson insti.
tuted habeas corpus proceedings and
the case came up before Judge Ed,
wards, who decided that the ques.
ton was not within the jurisdiction
of his court. A new writ issuing
from the Supreme Court was served
upon Constable Bunton, and the
prisoner was held to await the de
cision just rendered.
Sober-thinking citizens cried out
against the second advertised sale.
claiming that at this day and age
public barter in humanity-whethel
white or black-was a matter to be
condemned. The LEDGER took The
question up editorially and vigorous,
ly denounced the law as a relic of {
period all people wish to forget, anc
demanded its repeal. In this actor
the LEDGER was backed almos'
unanimously by the press of the
State, as u readers know. This
! paper then said, and now claims.
that vagrancy must be legislated
against, and that, too, in vigorous
measures, but thought a new, better
and more humane law could be en-
acted.
Geo. Robertson, the we'll known
attorney of this city, said he was
confident that the law was unconsti.
tutional, and aided by such able
lawyers as Hon. Fred Lehman and
Geo. S. Grover, with whom was as.
ISOLATED E.. S. CAN'T, a 40 page brieI
was prepared and the cas- was sub.
mitted to the Supreme Court. The
style'of the case was "Joe Thomp.
son VS.. J. T. Bunton-Habeas Cor
pus."
The law in question was first en-
acted in 1915, when Missouri was a
territory. 1t was in substance the
same as the law just declared un.
constitutional. 1t was repealed in
1924, but was at once re-enacted
without change in its terms. 1t was
enacted in its present form March
10, 1885.
The fact that all the Supreme
Judges concurred in the opinion is a
fine testimonial to the conviction
or belief-of our distinguished fell
low-townsman, Mr.. Robertson.