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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
TO A A BLAND BOOM.
Missouri SiIverites VIII Be Called To
gether July 4.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, June At
has developed here that friends OF
Congressman Bland intend to launch
a Presidential boom for him in con
nection with the calling of a state sill
yer convention to meet in this city
July 4 by J. W. Farris Of Lebanon,
chairman of the Laclede county Dem
ocratic committee and free silver lead
err, in defiance of the authority of the
state central committee.
The plan is to have the convention
indorse Mr.. Bland as a Presidential
candidate and his friends feel certain
the free silver element all over the
country will take off their hats and
yell for "Silyer Dick.r
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
The Price OF Wheat.


The time is now fast coming on when
the winter crop will be ready
for the market, and the farmer who
has the good fortune to have a prom
Using field of the grain naturally looks
upon the violent fi~uctuation of the
market with much anxiety. 1t seems
to be placed beyond serious question
that there is to be a better demand for
this years crop than for that OF any
recent season.
As for the price of to-day it will do
the average farmer no good whatever,
for there is little of the grain still in
the hands of the producer. The spec
ulative movement now on IS based
upon the future prospect of the mar
ket, and not a corner. All informa-
ton obtainable tends to show that
prices now current will be at least
maintained, taking the year through
out, and it may be that the dollar
mark will be reached before any con-
siderable amount of the crop reaches
the elevators. At any rate there is g
probability that Notwithstanding the
decrease i'll Missouri and Kansas ano
the serious damages to the fields o.
growing grain, the total price receiv'
ed for the crop will be greater thar
for that of last year.
So far as the influence on genera
business is concerned, therefore, the
situation is by no e as bad as i
might be, though the damage BY
drouth and bugs is greatly to be de
plored. The wild market will settl'
down before there is any wheat tt
sell, and then the farmer should lool
over the situation and determine
whether or not he will sell at nce o
hold for a further improvement il
prices. 1t is too early yet to make
calculation for that purpose.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
IN L KENTUCKY.
A Hot Fighi In Prospect For the
Goyernorship.

LEXINGTON, KY, June 2.-The cam
didacy of Lieutenat Governor M. O.
Afford for the Democratic nomination
for Governor has already put a new
phase OH the gubernational situation
in Kentucky. General Wat P.Hardin's
friends thought he would of a certainty
be a winner by the following lead OF
that free silver apostle, Senator 10
Blackburn, while the friends of Col.
Cassius NJ. Clay, Jr., thought their
man was a sure winner because he had
kept silent on the money question and
having posed as the farmers candi-
date, was believed to be able to swing
into line the large Populist vote in the
southwestern portion of the state. Mr..
Afford has upset all the calculations.
The coming of Mr.. Carlisle to Ken
lucky to work for the defeat of free
silver and the solid stand of the state
press against the silver craze made
Mr.. Affords candidacy a possibility
and he goes into the campaign on a
rising tide. That the silver men are
losing ground there a be no sort of
doubt. Public sentiment is rapidly
changing, and unless all signs fail the
converting of the Democratic State
| Convention in Louisville on the 18th
of this month will see the free silver
advocates in the minority in that
gathering.
1t is stated on good authority that
Mr.. Carlisle will make several speech
es in Kentucky before the convention
is held, and that Senator Lindsay will
probably do the same. These speeches,
supplemented by the sledge-hammer
| blows of the large majority OF the
Kentucky editors, cannot fail to coun-
teract the free silver speeches of SEN
ator Blackburn, General Hardin and
Hon. John S. Rea.
Mr.. Afford will make but few
| speeches and will seek to influence no
| delegate to vote for him. He will
| simply go before the convention a sthe
| advocate of party harmony and of the
| financial doctrine promulgated by Mr..
| Carlisle. 1t is limited that Mr.. Afford
will be put in nomination by Henry
whose paper Watterson, the Courier
Journal, will support the Lieutenant
Governor in his campaign.
General Hardin is a silver advocate,
and in addition, he has to defend him
self against the charges that he was a
member of the Statehouse ring, OF
| which "Dick" Tate, K~entucky's de-
faulting Treasurer, was a member.
| He admits that he was Attorney Gen
eral of Kentucky for y years while
Tate was Treasurer, but he asserts it
was the duty of his opponent, Colonel
Clay, who was then a member of the
Legislature, to have set on foot an in
vestigation of the Treasurer's books
Colonel Clay is strictly a granger,
and prides himself O II being o%pposedtc
the grinding monopolies. 1t is be-
lieved that he is for gold as a money
basis, but that he has fears to say so
because he would thereby lose the
support of the farmers, who believe il
silver, and the Populists.
This being the condition of the CUB,
ernatorial race in Kentucky it prom
lses to be enc of the hottest three
cornered political fights ever seen il
the state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
Bids FOR BRIDGES.
On Friday, June I, 1896,

I will let to the best bidder, at the east
front door of the Court House IN Mex
leo, Missouri, the contracts for the fol-,
lowing wooden bridges for Audrain
County:
The Lynch bridge, 40 foot span, "A
foot of approaches, situated in section
II, township 81, range g.
The John Fountain bridge, 30 foot
span, 28 foot of approaches, i'll section
SO, township 81, range II.
The Mathew Fountain bridge, 40 foot
span, 2S foot of approaches, in section
6, township 50, ran ge II.
The Sefe Eubanks bridge, 30 foot
span, "a foot OF approaches, i'll section
%, township 81, range 8.
The George Horton bridge, 80 foot
span, 28 foot of approaches, in section
%, township so, range Z.
The Frank Hagedorn bridge, 60 foot
long, i'll section Is, township 81, range
S.
The Thomas Ford bridge, "a foot
t~restle, in section 80, township 80,
range 8.
The Smith bridge, "a foot t~restle, in
section %, township 81, range 8.
The Lowery bridge, 20 foot t~restle,
in section 2, township 81, range &.
Scott fridge, 65 foot span, 80 foot of
approaches, in section %, township 81,
range 8.
Also repairs on Walker bridge, new
floor and approaches.
Plans and specifications can be seen
at my Office after May "a.
All contracts will be let subject to
the approval of the County Court.
c.. K. ALLEN,
Bridge Commissioner for Audrain Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
ENCOURAGES INFANTICIDE.
Report of the Government on Infant
Insurance.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 81
Touching the evils of infant insur-
ance, United States Consul Chancellor
at Havre has sent to the State De-
partn1ent a report on the practice in
France and England, in the course of
which he makes some remarkable
statements and arguments. The con-
illusions reached are that it is most
injurious in it's effects and tends di-
rectly to infanticide. Malnutrition is
q common mean of destroying such
children, and another frequent cause
of death among infants is ''suffocation
while in bed with their parents"
It is said that more than 80 per cent
of accidental deaths'' are of children
who die in this way. The Consul gives
a comparison of the death rates of the
rich and the uninsured and the poor
and insured classes of infants, and
scouts the idea that such insurance
tends to encourage thrift.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
SHERIFF's SALE IN PARTITION.
JESSE II. CARTER EFT AL,
Plaintiffs,
Vs.
ORA CARTER EFT AL,
DEPENDENTS.
In the Circuit Court of Audrain Coun-
ty, Missouri.

BY virtue and authority of a decree
and order of sale made by the said
Court, in the above entitled cause,
and of a certified copy thereof, dated
February %, 1895, l will, on
Friday, the Seventh Day OF June,
A. D., 1895,
between the hours of 9 O'Clock i'll the
forenoon and 5 o'clock in the after
noon of that day, at the front door of
the Court House, in the City of Mex
leo, in Audrain County, Missouri, sell,
at public vendue, to the highest bidder,
the following deseribedreal estate, viz:
East half of the southeast quarter of
section SO and so acres south part of
the northwest quarter OF the south
west quarter of section 81 and IS acres
north part southwest of the southwest
quarter of section 81, all in township
81, Range 10 in Audrain County, Mis-
souri,.
Terms of sale as follows, viz: Cash.
j. N. STEPHENS,
til. Sheriff.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
WORSHIP IN A NUDE STATE
Belief of a New Religious Sect in
Omaha Led by Rev. Morrow.
From the Chicago Record.

OMAHA, NEB., May 30.-The Rev.
Charles w. Savidge has sent to the
local press a letter referring to the
peculiar theology taught by the Rev.
John Morrow, of Pittsburg, Pa, who
belonged formerly to the Presbyterian
church. He founded a bible school in
that city and conducted it for many
years, and is the editor of a we'll
known paper called the Faith Of God.
Mrs. E. Watson of 612 South 18th
street says: "He taught that the
work of sanctification in the human
heart could be and ought to be carried
on to such perfection that fear and
shame and passion should be dead,
and to prove this the spirit indicated
to him and to other men and women
that they should appear in each others
! presence in a nude state.v Mrs. Wat
son says she was present with Mr..
Savidge when he visited Morrow and
that the latter declared in her presence
that it was the truth that ne vas teach
ing such a creed and that he believed
that the creed was founded upon FREE
erences in the bible; that the effect
produced was not an evil, but that
there is a stage of %godliness which peo-
pie may attain where fear, shame and
passion will be absent when male and
female address their invocations to
God in a state of nudity.
Mrs. May Z. Laird of 1925 North goth
street vas also seen, and, though very
much averse to talking for publication,
admitted that she had conversed with
the Rev. Mr. Morrow on the subject,
and that in her opinion he is truthful
and godlike man, pure and firm in his
| belief in his teachings. She said that
though she had not participated in the
practice of worshiping in a state OF
nudity in the presence of male fellow
Christians, she was not yet in a posi-
ton to pass upon the truthfulness or
| falsity of Mr.. Morrow's opinion. She
also said, as did Mrs. Watson, that
Mrs. Christensen, wife of Nels A.
Christensen, a carpet beaten at 1923
North Goth street, was IL of the
women who had taken up the teach
ings of Mr.. Morrow and was following
the practice.
A call was made upon Mrs. Chris
tenson and she acknowledged being a
follower of the faith of Morrow, hav-
ing sat in sessions with him. The meet
ings were always held at the homes of
the sisters, and sittings have been at
tended by Mrs. Christensen at her own
house and at that of Mrs. Thomas
Grocox, who is also a believer. The
husbands of Mrs. Christensen and OF
Mrs. Grocox offered no objection to
the service, but did not participate.
Mrs. Christensen explained that Nor
row taught that the services Of nudity
should be held only in private in the
homes of the members. In all the in
stances she knew he was the only man
who participated.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
Advertised Letters

List of letters remaining in the Post
Office at Mexico, No., for the week
ending June s, 1895, which if not
called for in thirty days will be sent tc
the Dead Letter Office at Washington
Persons calling for letters in this list
will please say "advertised:"
G. F. Burdett, Mrs. E. P. Burns,
Vinia Basket, John Barrett, L. B
Basket, Henry NJ. Clark, DR.. w.
Clark, c. Cowell, J. W. Duncan, Pol
lima Irwin, B. j. Griffin, W. A. How
dard, Fanny johnson, Ada Mitchell,
Mrs. Elizzie Robinson, Mrs. Matte
RoInes, DR.. L. L. Romans, Mrs. Lucy
Scott, Ida Smith, Nora Steward, S. E.
Tells, Clara Vandeford, R. G. Wealth
erford, Mrs, Fanny Wright, j. d,
Thorpe.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
JOE & VIC BaRTH.
PALMER FoRESEES DANGER.
Says the Silver Convention May False
" Commit Illinois Democrats.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, June 3.-united
States Senator John NJ. Palmer this
afternoon gave out the following in
terview in regard to the silver con-
vention to be held this week:
sT have no doubt that the conven-
ton which will be held here on June 5
will inaugurate a national movement
for the unlimited coinage of silver. Mr..
Hinrichsen and the minority of the
state committee which concurred with
him in the call for the convention
probably intended nothing more than
to secure to themselves some cheap
notoriety, but men behind them in
tended to commit the Democratic
name and the Democratic party to the
unlimited coinage of silver npon the
ratio of 16 to /. Mr.. Hinrichson in one
of his numerous interviews confesses
that before the cali for the convention
was issued he conferred with Mr..
Thomas, of Colorado. Mr.. Thomas
| represents the silver mines, and was
quite willing to use Mr.. H~inrichsen III
the great movement to give to the
corporations who own silver mines q
market for their product at the ex-
pense of all the people of the United
States.
Mr.. Hinrichsen, in calling the con-
vention, probably intended no more
| than to a great debating So
ciety. 1t is more than probable, how
ever, that the convention will do more
than 'resolute' in favor of the unlim-
tied coinage of silver. 1t may issue an
address. 1t may call a national con
yention of free silver The con-
vention was called by men who have
imbibed the belief that the Democratic
| party is dead aad that it's only hope
for resurrection is in making it the
tool and slave of the silver barons.
who would, from sheer cowardice, de-
cline a contest with Great Britain Tor
the commerce of the world and take
refuge in association with Mexico.
South America and the Asiatic coun-
tries like India and Chiua.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Crops in Nebraska r reported re-
vived by the recent heavy rains.
Sheriff Musgrove was fatally shot by
outlaw Frog Davis at Claremore, I. T,
The Supreme Court has decided that
the tariff law took effect August %,
1894.
National bank circulation for the
last month shows an increase of over
81, O00, 900 over May, 1894.
Floods in the Western states have
caused great damage to property.
Several lives have been lost.
The First National bank of Pella, To-,
has been closed. The president, F. r.
Cassett, tried to kill himself.
Daniel Richardson of Nevada, Mo-,
was aroused at night to find that his
feet had been strapped by a burglar.
British Consuls all over the United
States T sending home reports of a
great rival of business in this country.
Including Secretary Gresham, 10
members of the Cabinet have died in
Office since the foundation of the Gov
eminent.
It has been foundin the dispute over
pensions that the Supreme Court has
ruled that the war did not close until
August, 1866.
The Captain General of Madrid was
shot and dangerously wounded by a
Lieutenant, whose request for his
daughters hand he had refused.
Girls, get ready for the Fourth of
July and blackberry pie picnic and
buy your white dress goods of Me-
JOney.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
To Render an Income Tax Constitu
tional.

Excepting the three war and recon-
struction amendments, namely, the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth,
the Constitution has been changed on
ly once during the past one hundred
years; and that was in 1904, respect
ing the method of choosing a Presi-
dent and a vice-President.
To put the income tax into the Con-
stitution the following process must be
had:
1. The people must either induce
the Legislatures of thirty States of the
Union to unite in calling a Constitu-
tional Convention to propose the in
come tax amendment; or they must
obtain the passage of a joint resoIu-
ton, proposing such an amendment,
by a two-thirds vote in the Senate of
the United States and a two-thirds
vote in the House of Representatives.
2. Then they must procure the rat
ification of this proposed amendment
by the Legislatures of thirty-three
States of the Union, or by Constitu-
tional Conventions in thirty-three
States.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
Sheriff / N Stanhanc

j. y. Stephens, sheriff of Audrain
county, has just finished a neat piece
of detective work. Last August Ben
Bolin, well known in this county, bor-
rowed a horse from A. Yelton, Yho
lives near Martinsburg. Bolin rode
the horse off and, after selling him,
skipped the country. stephens has
been on his track for some time, and
last week located him in the Indian
Territory. He got out the necessary
papers and went after his mar and
brought him to Mexico. BoIin was
promptly indicted, pleaded guilty, and
was sent TO the Penitentiary for
two years. This was good work,
promptly done.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06

FIoil lic HIS NiAN iiihc
The Hon. John G. Carlisle, Secretary
of the Treasury, ought to be ashamed
of himself. AS a public servant he has
done the best he could with the OPP
portunities at his command, and a
velously well, all things considered,
but that is no excuse for his offense.
Upon assuming the duties of Secretary
he found the Treasury bankrupt, the
revenues deficient, the trust funds
looted and the whole business in a
state OF disorganization and demorali-
cation. As Representative and Sena-
tor in Congress he had previously
tried to obviate such a disgrace, but
the Republican party prevented it. In
all this he was patriotic and manly.
But he has since committed an offense
that is objectionable.
Judging the new tariff law by the
false estimates made by ex-Speaker
Reed, Senators Aldrich and Sherman
and a few economic parrots who speak
for the Republican party, and estimat-
ing Mr.. Carlisle by the a of ex-
Secretary Foster and other Estates
men, of his type, the Republican
press of the country, with one voice,
and hat shrill and unmusical, declared
hat under MI. Carlisle's administra-
ton of the Treasury the country was
going to the 'demnition bow vows"
with toboggan slide velocity. They
insist that the markets of the world
would be closed to the products of this
country, that the revenues would fall
off to a beggarly total, and that at the
end of the fiscal year the deficit would
be enormous and the credit of the
country irretrievably lost. Neither of
these things have happened. The ex-
ports of the country are constantly in
creasing. The revenues are multiply
ing, the deficit is, comparatively
speaking, a trife, and the credit OF
the country is higher and better than
it has been for a generation.
Mr.. Carlisle's great fault is that he
permitted these improvements to oc-
cur. They bring confusion to the able
editor that followed the advice OF the
economic botches who had looted the
Treasury, bankrupted the people, par,
alyzed industry and betrayed the gov
ernment into the embrace of poverty
and woe. The vast majority of the
people will thank Secretary Carlisle
for his work, but the imbecile editor,
will never forgive him. He has com
mitted a mortal ofrense against them
He has made each of them resemble
the traditional ass which, tired o.
braying, closes its eyes and brushes
cobwebs off the ceiling of his stable
with his ample ears.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
Friday, the Twenty-Eighth Day of
June, A. D., 1895,
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that letters
OF administration with will annexed
upon the estate of George CoughIan.
deceased, have been granted the un-
dersigned by the Probate Court of
Andrain County, Missouri, bearing
date May 80, 1895.
An persons having claims against
sad estate are requested to exhibit
them for allowance TO the administra-
0 within n 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.
10-4t. JNO, z. CALLAHAN
Administrator with will annexed
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
DISEASES OF WOMEN
Will Be Treated Free by DR.. Hart
man During the Summer Months.

"Femaie diseases" is q term which
has come, by constant use, to be APP
piled to all of that very distressing
class of affections which r peculiar
to the female organism. At least three
causes should be recognized. The
cause which is perhaps most frequent
is displacement of the womb. The
second cause is congestion of n or
more OF the pelvic passages. The
third cause is known as inflammation
or liberation. Pe-ru-na should be
taken in tablespoonful doses before
each meal in all varieties and stages
of the disease. This dose should be
gradually Increased after seyera
weeks use of ii to two tablespoonfals,
Vaginal injections should be taken
three times each day, two or three
quarts at each injection.
Any woman wishing to become
regular patient of DIR. Hartman should
send name, address, duration of dis
ease and symptoms at once, and spe'
cific directions for every detail of hel
treatment will be promptly sent. The
doctor will direct every item of the
treatment free of charge. The pa
tient ear obtain the necessary meci'
cines at the nearest drug store, ant
every patient will be expected to re
port once a month. This gives ever,
woman in the United States a chance
to receive the benefit of the extensive
experience of this renowned physician
in all forms of female diseases.
Book on female diseases sent fire.,
by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufactur
ing Company, of Columbus, Ohio.
For free book on anc address
DIR. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
Mexico Mo-. Friday, June I'll.
At the WINDSOR HOTEL, returnin
every fOur weeks.

Al lHt NINDoo1b III lILlI} iiiS
every four weeks.
Eighteen years has been devoted to the study
and treatment of Nervous, Chronic and Obscure
diseases in the great cities and hospitals of Eu-
rope and America. and our offices are perfectly
! equipped with special imported drugs and APP
piiances which are necessary to effect a cure in
long standing ailments, such as Stomach, Liy-
pr. Heart and Nervous troubles, Kidney, Blad-
der and Brain Diseases, and all forms of Rhfu-
matism, Neuralgia. Constipation, Dfopsy, st.
| Eitus Dance and Epilepsy.
DR.. shrimp has devoted much time and prac'
tiCe 10 the special study OF
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
MR.. MAFFITT's EXPLANATION.
Committee Unwilling to Set an Elk,
traordinary Precedent.
From the ST. Louis Republic

EIOm the 81. LOUIS HepuDlC-
Mr.. c. c. Maffitt, chairman of the
committee, stated after the adjourn
ment that the action was the result
of the committees unwillingness to
set an extraordinary precedent with
out some emphatic expression from
the masses of party voters.
"Ouiy H." he said, 'out of ia
counties, besides the city of St. Louis,
presented any request to the commit
tee officially. The majority of the
committee deemed that it's province
does not extend to a use of it's powers
in the matter of an abstract question
of party belief. Its function has to do
with the conduct of organization
alone. Without a positive and I'M
mistakable instruction from the voters
the committee may have the power,
but has not the right to call a conven-
ton outside the regular curse of
party procedure, which all the people
understand. The precedent would be
one liable to the most dangerous abuse.
A central committee could take adj
vantage of a favorable moment to
commit the party to almost any side
of any question. No body, chosen
solely to maintain organization and
manage campaigns in the interest of
the whole party, can assume such vast
authority. The very instant a Demo-
crat reflects upon the duties of a COM
mittee it seems to me he perceives
that the precedent would be one of
disorganization, laid down by a body
whose sole and special obligation ia
| organization.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-06
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Notice is hereby given thai letfera
u aamlnlstration upon the estate Of
haa henry Bratton, deceased, have
~ TO the undersigned by
Court OF Audrain Conntv
All bearing date May %, 3
s.fa persons having claims against
thern SsatS are requested to EXHIBIT
tor 49, to the administra-
taIIng letters, or they NAV he orc
any benefit of sTcb es1 ata.
All. y such claims be not e1hih;ted
WIZ mrrhIh TWO years from the date 30"
VIII be forever barred. 'e "hey
g-4t 1T WILLIAMS,
Public Administrator.