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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

The Banner of Light is, as every one
knows, one of the most successful de-
nominational publications issued in
this country.
In its nth volume it is at once CON
sentative and bright, discussing not
only modern Spiritualism, but fire.
quently lending it's influence fearless
ly in matters of public Importance out
side its principal field.
Mr.. John W. Day, who is editor and
one of the proprietors, writes in The
Banner of Light as follows to the pro-
prietors of Paine's celery compound:
81 owe you a debt of gratitude i'll
placing on the market such a nerve
easing and soothing remedy as Paine's
celery compound. 1t was brought to
my notice by a friend who had him
self been greatly relieved by its use,
as L have also been.
81 have frequently taken occasion
to commend Paine's celery compound
to others, and l do not know an in
stance wherein, if faithfully tried, it
has not worked a benefit.
"Yours truly, John W. Day."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
WALL
PAPER

MYSPRINGSTOCK
OF new PATTERNS
Is now ready for exhibition and l can
assure you that never before have
been able to secure for this market
such a choice selection of
Artistic Patterns
AND
Beautiful COlOrinsS.
Tho prices are wonderfully low and
l solicit an opportunity to show you
my collection.
u. Fl. SALLEE,
EAST SIDE SQUARE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
SAYS IT is A GOOD SIGN.
Director of the Mint Notes a Great
Demand for Small Coins.

WASHINGTON, June 27.-For two
months there has been an almost I'M
precedented demand for / and scent
pieces, and the men at the Philadel-
phia Mint have been working day and
night to supply them. By law the
coinage of these pieces is confined to
the Philadelphia Mint. R. f. Preston,
director of the mint, said to-day that
this is an infallible sign of commercial
activity. "During my long connec-
ton with the mint" said Mr. Preston,
81 have noticed invariably that the
first indication of business depression
is the accumulation of minor coins.
They are sent in large quantities to
the Treasury for redemption, and this
movement continues until a return OF
prosperity. regard the recent de-
mand for these minor coins as a pos
tive indication of business activity.
From January 1 to May 81, this year,
scent coins aggregating s2S2, 651.70
have been minted, and that is about
$40, 900 in excess of the amount mint
ed in all of 1884,.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Mr.. Days portrait is given above.
He is a member of the Masonic, Odd
Fellows, Grand Army and other fra
ternal organizations, and is highly
esteemed by his brethren and others
in the social walks of life.
His gratitude for the good that this
greatest of remedies has done him is
in no remarkable. Thousands
who have been made well by Paine's
celery compound have sent their un-
solicited testimonials to the proprie-
tors of the remedy or direct to medi-
cal journals or newspapers telling for
the benefit of others the results that
have followed the use of the remedy
that is food for the erves and brain,
that enriches the blood, that makes
the weak strong, and is the Il never
failing specific, prescribed by physi-
clans and recommended by all who
have ever faithfully used it, for in
somnia, V debility, neuralgia,
rheumatism, indigestion and the many
ills that come from deranged, worn
out nerves and impure blood.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
HANGED BEFORE THOUSANDS.
bad Tom" Smith of Kentucky Punish
ed Publicly for Eight Murders.

LEXINGTON, KY, June 28.-"Bad
Tom" Smith, a member of the French
faction in mountain warfare and the
murderer of eight men, was hanged
at Jackson this afternoon in the pres
ence of 5000 people. He was baptized
in the Kentucky River at s O'Clock
this morning in the presence of an i'm
mense throng.
People camped along the river bank
alLnight and excursion trains were run
to jackson this morning, while hun
dreds of mountaineers arrived on foo
and on horseback to witness the hang
was public, the seaffold be.
ing erected in a hollow near the jai
and the view from the surrounding
hills being almost unobstructed
Smith made a speech from the scaffold
He confessed On the scaffold the muir
der of RAIDER and five others and sait
he was the hireling of B. F. French o.
the French faction in every murder
except that of RAIDER.
No mountain desperate killed more
men in Kentucky than "Bad Tom
Smith. He murdered Joe Hurt in
1883, the Combs brothers and Eversole
in 1888 and Ambrose Amburg, Robin
Cornell, Jacob Midnight and Ed.
Campbell in 1889. In September, 1894,
town Marshal III. c.. Hurst. .Jr.. of
Jackson and Deputy Samuel Mans at
tempted to arrest Smith and a num-
Der of his friends, and a fight follow
ed, in which Smith was shot in the
left arm. Then he went to live with
Mrs. Catherine McQuinn, a woman of
bad repute. AT her house DIR. RAIDER
was killed one night by Smith, when
he was arrested. He tried to charge
the murder of RAIDER to Mrs. Nc
Quinn, but the court found him guilty.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

After years of study and labor, there
has at last been discovered a sure and
never-failing remedy. 1t has been
tested on patients, who have despair
ed of yer being cured; the results
have been, in every case, wonderful.
Groff's Rheumatic Cure is unequaled
as a positive remedy in all cases of
Chronic and Acute Infiammatory
Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, Sciatica,
Neuralgia; especially Ovarian Neural
gia, Dysmenorrhea and all kindred
affections. 1t is also a valuable blood
purifier, being especially useful in
Eczema, Psoriasis, Scrofula, all Gland
ular engagements and diseases of the
Liver and Kidneys. 1t is absolutely
free from all narcotics. Severe at
tacks are relieved in from one to three
days and a positive cure effected in
from five to eighteen days. For sale
by E. 8. Frost, Mexico, Mo.
d&w { July 20.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
Circuit Court Notes.

Woodruff and Morris, the two men
who held up citizens of Vandalia dur
ing February and burglarized several
stores, pleaded guilty to burglary and
robbery yesterday and were given
twelve years each in the state peni-
Tertiary.
In the a 8 of Claude Blue, charged
with burglarizing the house of E. b.
Norris, the jury failed to agree.
Birdie Mitchell was ordered sent to
the Reform School for girls and was
taken to Chillicothe last night by
Deputy Sheriff Nelson.
State VS.. Jas. Dempsy; continued.
State VS.. WILDER Washington; trial
by jury; discharged.
State VS.. Fred Woodruff and J. E.
Morris pleaded guilty on three counts
and sentenced to penitentiary for 2, 5
and 5 years-12 years in all.
State VS.. Mike Lyons; failed to give
bond and ~rearrested and committed to
Jail.
State VS.. Claude Blue; jury failed to
agree and was discharged.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
A BAPTIST SPLIT THREATENED.
Greene County's Association Divided
on the Question of Young Peo-
pies Societies.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June 27.-At the
session of the Greene County Baptist
Association, which will begin here
Saturday, there is sure to be a hot
fight over the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor and the Baptist
Young Peoples Union. Many MEM
bers claim that these organizations
are contrary to seriptural teachings
and some even go so far as to decry
the Sunday Schools, claiming that
thorough Christian work ear be done
in the church only. There may be a
split in the church on the issue, as the
younger generation are very warn
supporters of the societies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
AUDRAIN COURTS.

CIRCUIT CoURT-3d Monday in jan
uary, 1ss Monday in June, Sd Monday
in September.
COUNTY CoURT-1st Monday in Feb
ruary, LIST Monday in May, LIST Monday
in August, LIST Monday in November.
PROBATE COURT-2d Monday in jan
uary, I'd Monday in March, I'd Monday
in MAY, I'd Monday in September.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
"RAINMAKER" A FRAUD.
Frank Melbourne Admits That He
Humbugged the People.

CLEVELAND, o., June 27.-Frank
Melbourne, the erstwhile Western
Grain King" whose services were in
such urgent demand in the West two
or three years ago, is located in this
city. In speaking of his experiences
as a rainmaker, Melbourne admitted
that the whole thing was a humbug,
and that he never possessed any more
power in that respect than any other
a He says that the American
people like to be ~humbugged, and the
greater the fraud the easier it is to
work it. Melbourne made a fortune
in the business and spent it like a
nrinPa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
LARGE CORN CROP INSURED.
Benefits as Well as Damage Result
From the Heavy Storms.

FAYETTE, do, June 26.-This &C.
ton of Howard County vas visited by
a heavy wind storm last evening,
which did considerable damage to
wheat in the shock. Large trees and
fencing yer blown down. A very
heavy rain followed, insuring a mann
moth corn crop. Many fields of wheat
will average thirty bushels per acre.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
The FinicaI Man.

from the Kansas Clty star.
4 man afflicted with the disease of
finickism, and e~xaggeration of the
value of details, was giving his order
for breakfast to a hotel waiter. The
man vas flnical in the extreme and
the exactitude of his order respect
fully amused the waiter, who was
somewhat of a Judge of human nature,
inasmuch as he had served breakfast
to many men. Breakfast time is when
you invariably get down to the bed
rock of a mans true disposition. 1t is
too early in the day and he is too
close to nature itself to have put on
the little Disgusting frills that he be-
gins to assume along about II o'clock.
AT all events, the waiter understood
and took his order respectfully, even
servilely, without losing his own
estimate of the man.
The man had a morning cough and
slipped ice water as he gave his order.
"Bring me a pot of Coffee" he said.
"And mind, it must be hot-hot and
strong-don't forget to have it strong.
And a sirloin steak, rare; remember,
have it rare and no fat. L can't bear
the sight of fat in the morning"
"Yessir, yessir, No fat" replied
the waiter.
Sand bring me some dry toast, hot,
mind you; hot toast, and have it made
from stale bread. | don't want it
toasted outside and soggy within. Now
don't forget that"
"Nosir; all right, sir; not soggy in
side, SIR" echoed the waiter.
"And some sliced tomatoes" con-
tinued the man. "And take the
chopped ice off the tomatoes and drain
them. want them dry, you under
stand, dry. Now don't forget that"
tAu right, sir Tomatoes must be
dry"
"And let's seel Yes, bring me
some fried eggs. Fresh eggs, you
know, perfectly fresh. And | want
them fried on one side only. Don't
forget that
"Yessir; fried on one side. And
which side, STRIP
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Let it be noted that the figures above
include only the money in actual cir
culation and held in the United States
Treasury. The figures from 1850 to
1871 are taken from the New York
Tribune Almanac, those from 1872 to
1894 are taken from the latest statis-
tical abstract of the United States.
9 1t will be seen from this table that
the circulation per capita was nearly
"a, or IS per cent greater last July
than in 1875, the highest point reached
during the war. 1t is nearly double
what it was in 1860. In the five years
succeeding 1878, when the so-called
crime against silver was committed,
the currency circulation per capita
was contracted Is per cent; in the
next five years, from 1878 to 1888, the
expansion was 40 per cent. And from
1878 to the present time the increase
in the circulation per capita has
amounted to over IS per cent.
The Value of Coins.
The value of gold coin is in its
weight; the value of silver coin is the
government stamp on it. The value
of Simmons Liver Regulator is the re-
lief it gives from biliousness and sick
headache. A 25-cent package of pow
der has permanently cured many q
one,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
SECRETED IN HER SKIRT.
The Late Widow Keller Kept 10000
in That Garment.

FAYETTE, Mo, June 2~7.-Secreted
in an old skirt belonging to Mrs.
Augusta Keller, who died here Tues
day night, was found $4,000. Mrs,
Keller was a wealthy widow, worth
about $4,000 in property in Kansas
City, and at the time of her death was
visiting here. During her illness she
kept the skirt secreted about the bed
A nephew, Hermann Scott, with
whom she lived in Kansas City, sup
posed that she had a will hid in the
skirt and was greatly surprised to fine
the money.
FIRST ST. CHARLES WHEAT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Johnnie, the invalid son of Rev.
j.. FL. Jackson, formerly pastor of
the nj, E. church, South, of this city,
but now a resident of Hannibal, Mo-,
died ON Friday, June %, 1895. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jackson have the sincerest sym
pathy of the people of this community.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Miss Mamie Watts, daughter of j.
t. Watts, who lives near Union Chap
ell, s miles southeast of Mexico, died
Thursday night, June 81, of quick con
sumption. The funeral took place on
Friday, June IS, the interment being
made at Union Chapel graveyard.
Deceased was about IS years of age.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

At Bloomington, ILL.,, June rs in
the 2:22 pace, stake $1,000, the geld
ing, Our Dick, driven by Lester Sims,
landed inside the money. Longbrake
won the race in straight heats. Best
time, 2:16h. Our Dick was second,
third and seventh,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
Kentucky State Ticket.

For GOVERNOR. Watt Hardin.
ntGovernor-R.T.T Tyler
For Treasurer-R. G.. Ford.
For Auditor-Luke G.. Norman.
For Register of the Land Ofice-G.
B. Swango.
For Attorney General-W. j. Hen.
bricks.
For Secretary of State--H. S. Hale,
For Commissioner of Agriculture
Ion B. Nall.
For Superintendent of Public In
struction-Ed Porter THOMPSON.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
1t Was Sold to the Merten Mill for 81
per Bushel.
From the st. Charles Banner.

FTUM the It OHaIIts BdlutT.
The first st. Charles County wheat
was brought to town yesterday after
noon by H. A. Hallway, living just
south of Boschertown, and vas sold to
the Merten Mill for 81 per bushel. II
consisted of one wagon load, or Sc
bushels and 45 pounds. Mr.. Hallway
threshold out on Tuesday and brought
it to town yesterday. This morning
he received his money in new bank
notes issued by the First National
Bank, of this city, of which Henry
Angert is cashier, just fresh from his
hand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

The New London Record says: RIM.
White, editor of the Mexico LEDGER,
and Hon. W. NJ. Treloar attended the
funeral of Hon. j. p. Wood in New
London last week. Mr.. White was re-
garded by Mr.. Wood as che of his
staunchest friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
Battery to Camp.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, June 2s.-If
suitable transportation rates can be
secured Adjt.- Gen. Wickham will, in
n few days, issue special orders per-
hitting Battery B, of Kansas City, to
go into camp at Moberly with the
First Regiment on July 7.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
CLAY County Peaches

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo-, June U.s.
Clay County homegrown peaches ap-
peared on the market here yesterday
They were of the cling variety, fully
ripe, and as large at hens eggs. The
prospects are now that peaches will
be abundant in this section this sea-
sOn.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

The most pleasant little pills for
regulating the bowels are De Wits
Little Early Risers. Cure sick head
ache and constipation. Small pill.
Small dose. Woodbridge & Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
The Value of Coins.
A GREAT FARM.
In the Southern Part OF Louisiana and
Contains 100000 Acres.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The largest farm in this country, and
probably in the world, is situated in
the southwestern part of Louisiana.
1t extends 100 miles north and south
and % miles east and west. 1t was
purchased in 1883 by a northern syn
dictate of capitalists by whom it is still
operated. At the time of it's purchase
its 1900, 900 acres was a vast pasture
for cattle belonging to a few dealers
in that country. Now it is divided in
to pasture stations or ranches, exis-
ting every ak miles. The fencing is
said to have cost about $4,000. The
land is best adapted for rice, sugar,
corn and cotton. A tract, say half a
mile wide, is taken, and an engine is
placed on each side. The engines are
portable, and operate a cable attached
to four plows. sBy this arrangement
thirty acres are gone over in a day
with the labor of only three men.
There is not a single draught horse on
the entire place, if we except those
used by the herders of cattle, of which
there are $4,000 head on the place.
The Southern Pacific railway runs
for thirty-six miles through the farm.
The company have three steam boats
operating on the estates, of which three
hundred miles are navigable. 1t has
an ice house, bank, shipyard and rice
mills.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
Killing Chinch Bugs bv Infection

Topeka, KAN, June 26.-Chancellor
Snow, of the State University, reports
that within the last ten days he has
sent to farmers $500 boxes of infected
chinch bugs and that wherever scat
tered in fields they have killed these
pests by millions. The demand for
infected bugs is SO great that Snow
cannot supply il,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

We recommend De Wits Collie and
Cholera Cure because we believe it is
a safe and reliable remedy. It's good
effects r shown at once in cases of
Cholera Morbus and similar COM
plants. Woodbridge & Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Miss Laura Cooper, of New York,
will spend the summer in Mexico the
guest of friends. Miss Laura is a
great favorite with all who know her.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
FOR THE FAIR READERS.

To take the place of chiffon is a
slightly heavier material called mig
non.
Perforated muslin, either white or
ecru, looks particularly pretty over a
color.
Milliners are making great use OF
net, tulle lisse and lace, particularly
black and white.
Fancy trimmings and startling con-
trasts in bathing dresses are avoided
by well-bred women.
Some of the new bathing dresses are
made with very pale Turkish trousers
that fasten Just below the knee.
A pink gingham has a bodice with
diagonal stripes of white satin ribbon
and white guipure insertion.
For general street and outing wear
are many plain white sailors and walk
ing shapes with white bands.
Black satin ribbon in sash Width
embroidered with scale spangles il
electric blue, garnet, green, copper
gold or steel.
An unusually pretty button in
tieur-de-lis design framed in a fanci'
full circlet is of rhinestones cut and SCI
like diamond chips.
For summer wear blouses will be
cut low and square at the neck,
bordered with gallon or embroidery
and with short sleeves.
Very dainty boating costumes are
made of blue and white striped can
vas, with two box plaits in the back
of the blouse waist and one on either
side of the front, where it opens over
a lawn shirt with Valenciennes lace.
Travellers find a safe companion in
De Wits Collie and Cholera Cure. A
change in drinking water and in diet
often causes severe and dangerous
complaints. This medicine always
cures them. Woodbridge & Near
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

De Wits Collie and Cholera Cure
never disappoints, never fails to give
immediate relief. 1t cures just as sure
as you take it. Woodbridge & Near
thnr
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Reader, did you ever take SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR, the king OF
LIVER MEDIcINEs?" Everybody needs
take a liver remedy. 1t is a sluggish or
diseased liver that impairs digestion
and causes constipation, when the waste
that should be carried off remains in
the body and poisons the whole system.
That dull, heavy feeling is due to a
torpid liver. Biliousness, Headache,
Malaria and Indigestion are all liver
diseases. Keep the liver active by an
occasional dose of Simmons Liver Reg
uiator and you'll get rid of these trou-
bles, and give tone to the whole sys-
TEN. For a laxative Simmons Liver
Regulator is BETTER THAN PILLS. 1t
! does not grippe, nor weaken, but greatly
refreshes and strengthens.
Every package has the Red Y
stamp on the wrapper. j.. I'll.
Ycilin 81 Co., Philadelphia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

AT Bloomington, ILL.,, Thursday in
the free-for-all pace Strawberry won
in straight heats with 10 He second,
sixth and second. Best time, 2:1o.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

1t is said that most of the brakemen
and switch tenders on Maine railroads
wear congress shoes. The fact is
brought out in connection with the
death of a brakeman in North Berwick
a few days ago whose foot got caught
in a frog, and he, being unable to ex-
tricate it, was run down by a train
and MORALLY wounded. 1t was found
that he wore a laced shoe. His fell
low workmen testified that had he
worm congress shoe, according to
usual custom, he would doubtless have
been able to promptly take his foot
out of it when caught in the frog, and
might have escaped unhurt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

non't you know that Hoods Sarsa-
parilla win overcome that tired feel
ing and give you renewed vigor and
vitality.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
White pinue Skirts

John Atchison was acting as Sheriff
in the case of State of Missouri against
Geo. Lewis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Miss Edna Pleasant, formerly ofthis
city, was married to Mr.. James Cum
ningham, a travelling man well known
here, in st. Louis Tuesday, June 25.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Reports from Arkansas show that
500 a loads of first crop Irish pota-
toes have already been shipped out
of Crawford county, prices 40c to 81.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
Pretty BIG Alligator Gar.

LOUISIANA, Mo-, June 2s.-George
Smith, a fisherman of this city, caught
an alligator gar in Salt River to-day
which was sever feet four inches long
and weighed 1872 pounds. 1t was
caught in a seine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
A Valuable Find.

Born, to DIR. and Mrs. E. S. Cave,
Saturday, June 20, a daughter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Born, Thursday, June "a, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. v. Mansfield, north of
Mexico, an 8 pound daughter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Leslie Hartley has just been paid
$500 in cash, a side benefit in the
Triple Alliance Association.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

Mr.. j. @. Meyer, one of Audrain
county's most prosperous and indus
trious farmers, predicts that we are
going to have one of the largest corn
crops ever raised In Missouri.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

White pique skirts are worn with
silk or grass linen shirt waists by the
up-to-date summer girl.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

There is one medicine that will cure
Immediately. We refer to De Wits
Collie and Cholera Cure for all Sum
mer Complaints. No delay, no dis
appointment, no failure. Woodbridge
& Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

California is carefully stocking all
the rivers and accessible lakes of the
state with the best varieties of Eastern
game fish. A week ago a car load of
many varieties of fish not found nat
urally in California waters arrived at
Oakland for the breeding station.
There were many thousands of fish,
and some of the varieties were black
and white bass, perch, sunfish and
China catfish.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

]. P. Gibbs, of the Temple of Econ
omy, has the general agency for the
10 second Royal ice e freezer in
this county also the right to sell coun-
ty right. DIT wit
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
What the Figures Show.

The circulation per capita of the
money issued in this country on the
first day of each July, from 1850 to
| 1894, was as follows:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04

When occasion demands its use,
try De Wits Witch Hazel Salve. 1t
is cooling to burns, stops pain instant
ly, cleanses, a perfect healer for
scalds or skin eruptions. Always
cures piles. Woodbridge & Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-04
$500 Reward!

WE viii pay the above reward for any case Of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. H.
digestion Constipation or CostivcnesS we cannot
cure with Vests Vegetable Liver Pills, when
the directions are strictly complied with. They
are purely Vegetable. and never fail TO give sat.
isfaetion. S~ugarloated. Large boxes, as cents,
Beware Of counterfeits and initatioEH. The gen.
uine manufactured only by THE JOHN WEST
COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL.
G A Huckner Druggist Sole Ao,t. Mexico m