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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
CORBETT HAS QUIT.
Publicly Announced Last Night That
He Will Never Fight Again.

Hot SPRINGS, Ark, October 22.-"I
have fought my last fight. 1 hereby
announce that / have retired from
the ring and will give the champion
ship belt to the winner of the Maher-
O'DonneI fight"
This unexpected announcement was
made this evening in the rotunda of
the Arlington Hotel by James ]. Cor
bett, a short time after INDUCING in a
stormy interview with Martin Julian,
whom he had come up from his train
ing quarters to persuade to agree to
postponing the date of the fight until
November IL. The champion had just
partaken of a hearty dinner and had
a cigar in his hand, and, turning to a
friend at his elbow, remarked: 81
have quit training, and here goes for
my first smoke" So saying, he light
cd his cigar ard leisureiy pulled at it.
81 will leave here tomorrow morn
ing with my party for st. Louis. l
have lost four months in training and
allowing myself to be draggedfrom one
point to another. 1 am satisfied now
that this man Fitzsimmons does not
want to fight, and will not be here to
meet me. IL he is anxious to fight,
why doesn't he come on right now,
before there is any law passed in the
State to prevent us from meeting?
He wont fight and I don't intend to
lose any more time fooling with him."
Julian had only to say that on the
morning of the 31st Fitzsimmons' name
would be found on the register of the
Arlington Hotel; that he would be
ready to meet Corbett then, and no
sooner nor later, and that if Corbett
was not here, he would claim the for
felt and the championship OF the world.
An hour later Corbett changed his
mind about leaving for st. Louis in
the morning and gave it out that he
would remain here until after the 31st,
come what would.
The Hot Springs Athletic Club was
formed to-day and offered q purse of
$40, 600 for the fight OIL November l..
Julian returned from Spring Lake at l
O'Clock. Brady refuses to sign the
agreement of the Hot Springs Athletic
Club.
Brady cut proceeding off short by
declining to deal with Julian, but
stated hat he would see the club
members in the morning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
SALE,

WHEREAS, Alfred b. Carpenter and
Sarah Carpenter, his wife, by their
certain deed of trust, dated the 2Sth
day of February, A. D., 1898, and re-
corded in the office of the Recorder OF
Audrain County, Missouri, in book
eleven (11) at page 301, conveyed 70
Louis H. Lohmeyer, trustee, the fol-
lowing described real estate situated
in the County of Audrain and StatB
of Missouri, to-wit: The west half Of
the southeast quarter of section thirty
Ave (5) west, containing eighty (S0l
acres, and a strip of ground adjoining
the same on the west extending the
entire length thereof, and containing
one and ninety-four hundredths q .941
acres, and making eighty-one and
ninety-four bundredths (sI.94) acres,
according to government survey; also
the west half 90 of the northeast
quarter of section thirty-one (31l,
township fifty-one (b1), range five (51s
west, containing eighty (So) acres;
and the east half of the northwest
quarter of section thirty-one (a11s
containing forty three and eighty one
hundredths (43.81) acres, according to.
the government survey, and contains
ing in all 205.75 acres, according to
sao,rs the navment of n certain nots
in said deed of trust specified and in-
terest thereon; aud,
Whereas, Said note Is past due and
unpaid; and,
Whereas, Said Louis IL. Lohmeyer,
the trustee named In SAID deed OF trust,
refuses to act thereundef, or TO dis
charge his duties as such trustee; and,
Whereas, BY the terms OF said deed
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
A CHICAGoAN'S MAD FREAK.
Wealthy G. s. Merwin For Hours
Defies the Police-0vercome
by Sulphur. +,

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-G. S. Merwin, a
member of the wealty firm of Rogers,
Brown & Co., pig iron dealers, attend
ed a concert at the Auditorium Satur-
day afternoon. Mrs. Merwin was i'll
and did not GO. When Mr.. Merwin
returned to his home in the aristo-
cratic suburb of Woodland park early
in the evening he complained of a
pain in his head. AS the evening wore
on his headache grew worse. He ap-
Piled such remidies a were at hand,
but they did not relieve him. In the
middle of the night he sprang from the
bed and, seizing his rife chased his
wife to the kitchen. Throwing up a
window, the terrified woman leaped
to the ground, ten feet below, n ran
to the residence of Abraham Baldwin,
where she was cared for.
The police were notified, and three
men sent to the Merwin residence.
When they tried to enter through a
rear window several shots were fired
at them, while the insane man shouted
at them, calling them burglars and
saving he would kill the first man to
come up stairs.
Friends of Merwin were sent for and
tried to reason with him, but it was
useless. He fired shots from a Win
chester rifle and a revolver at the
neighboring houses, breaking windows
and causing the inmates to take refuge
in the rear rooms One or two bicy-
clists passing were fred at, but his
aim was bad and they escaped with a
bad scare.
The police obtained .c~hloroform and
squirted it into the room with a syr-
inge through the keyhole, but Merwin
was shrewd enough to throw up the
windows, thereby neutralizing it.
Finally, about 4 O'Clock in the after
noon, sulphur was placed in the fur
mace and all of the registers were
closed except in the room barricaded
by Merwin. An hour later, overcome
by the fumes, he took to his bed, and
was secured with but feeble resistance,
He was dressed and taken to the de-
tention hospital.
Merwin is IS years of age. He came
to Chicago from New Haven, Conn.,,
five years ago. Three years ago.
while in the iron range in the Tennes-
see mountains, he was kicked in the
head by a horse, and to the consequent
brain injury his present condition il
ascribed. He was married a year an6
a half ago to a leading young lady OF
New Haven, Conn. He is a member
of the Union league and several Other
| prominent clubs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

THE Mexico LEDGER is in receipt Of
a very interesting letter from Col. j.
G. Renshaw, who is now at Charlotts-
vile, Virginia. Mr.. Renshaw is max
ing q personal matter of the fact that
the LEDGER published o statement
that the Assessor of Audrain County
is trying to locate where he lives and
where he pays his taxes. The editor
of the LEDGER has nothing against
Mr.. Renshaw at all. The statement
was a fact. The officers of Audrain
County are trying to locate Mr.. Rem
shaw's home. The editor of the LED
GER will return from Atlanta, Ca,
about the first of November, when he
will look into this matter nor fully.
The LEDGER has nothing to do with
the investigation the officers of this
county are making, and made this
statement as a matter of news. Col.
Renshaw is a very wealthy man and
as an honest, upright citizen of course
has no objection to paying his taxes
In Audrain County il it is right for
him to do 10. One thing is very sure:
The Mexico LEDGER will never favor
his paying taxes here unless it is right
for him to do 70. The writer per-
sonally knows Col. Renshaw and
would not for a minute think that he
would be classed as a tax-dodger.
Every property owner should pay
taxes somewhere. Col. Renshaw, of
course, don't want to pay taxes in all
places that he may temporarily visit,
but as a citizen of the State of Missouri
OF the State ofvirginia he is, Of course,
DESTROYS OF paying axe somewhere.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
A Metal $40 Bill,
From the New York World.

fTuul tue NEW AOTk WOfIu-
Something quite remarkable came
into the redemption division of the
Treasury at Washington "a short time
ago. 1t was a thin plate of silver
about two feet long, into the surface
of which a $40 silver certificate had
been pressed in such a manner as to
incorporate its substance actually with
that of the metal. 1t was a bran-new
bill, and in the process had been
squeezed out to about twice it's origi-
nal size. Nevertheless it was perfect
ly recognizable.
A statement accompanied it to the
effect that a workman in a silverware
factory had dropped the bill accident
ally upon the plate of silver as the
latter was passing through a rolling
machine. This explanation being sat
isfactory, a fresh $40 certificate was
returned to the loser.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
IF you want new, clean,
stylish Clothing at fire
store or ~cheapJohn prices
go to McLoney's.
Divorce is too Easy.

While few people in the country at
large would agree to the South Caro-
lima laws which allow no divorces,
there is a wise and very wide spread
opinion that divorce is altogether too
easy in most of our states. Uniform
divorce laws have been thought de-
sirable by those interested in protect
ing the sanctity of marriage and ele-
waiting and purifying the moral tone of
the country on this subject. There is
no doubt but the present laxity in
most states has a degrading effect on
the people. Silly and immoral people
rush into marriage with the knowledge
that at a small cost and very little
trouble they can separate again. Al
most any trivial plea will do in some
states. In effect they have only to
state to the court that they are dis
satisfied with the contract and it is
annuled for them. The result is that
the marriage contract ia a fraud in
such states and the social responsible
tiles, the care of the offspring, the
sancity of the home, all that is thought
in civilized society to be dependent
upon marriage, is in effect, lost by
these easy methods. Looking at the
matter from a sociological as Wen as a
moral standpoint, the law of Christ is
a good one, and that law recognizes
but one cause for divorce and that is
adultery Separation may be allowed
for many causes, but not absolute d.
vorce. Just in proportion as society
this high moral ground
will the home be happier and society
in general cleaner. If marriage vows
are only to hold until the parties are
dissatisfied with each other there is
Dup-~ -nors-pt-Pto Sfrse
the parties may associate together
without any vows, and only so long as
they choose. Toward that condition
of society we are rapidly tending in
some of the states.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
Canon On the Subject Adopted By the
Episcopal Convention.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 20.-Several of
the Bishops and a large number of the
deputies of the Episcopal convention
have left for home and the attend
ace at the remaining sessions will be
rather diminished. The house of
Bishops held an afternoon session to-
day and adopted a canon on marriage
and divorce. The canon differs ma
terially from the one first proposed,
reading as follows:
SECTION j. No minister of this
church shall solemnize the marriage
of any person who has a divorced
husband or wife still living, but this
prohibition shall not be held to apply
to the innocent party in a divorce for
the cause of adultery, o r to parties
ono divorced from each other seek
ing to be united again The evidence
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

sS1s seo v y LlAAlc
"Don't," begs a physician, "try to
60 to bed with cold feet. You may
succeed, but it is at an unnecessary
waste Of effort. Hot water bags are
now SO cheap that every bedroom in
the house may be supplied with one,
or one Of the little Japanese hot boxes,
which are eve more convenient,
since they do not have to depend
upon the boiler supply. More dis
comfort is had and more colds, that
might never have developed, cement
ed in this way than in any other"
The remedy prescribed by a famous
German physician for insomnia is ON
this principles: Wiring out until not a
drop drips, a pair of white cotton
stockings in cold water, put them on
as wet ~ they will still be, and draw
over them a pair of dry wooden n
Let the cotton stockings be larger
than those usually worn, and the
WOODEN ones, of course, still bigger.
Hand knitted wooden, or the thick
ones sold at the Athletic goods shops,
are the best to use, and the result Of
this steaming process, 90 far from be-
ing In any way harmful, as might be
feared, is said to be magical In its re-
lief and agreeable sensations.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
Installed a New Pastor.

COLUMBIA, No., October 2o.-This
was a high day for Preabyterians in
Columbia. This morning Rev. J. r.
Bridges, of Salem, Va, was installed
pastor of the FirstP Church
here by a commission of the Presby-
terry of Missouri. The members of the
commission were: Rev. A. A. Wal
lace, of Mexico; Rev. W. W. Akers,
of Deer Park; Rev. w. Fl. Ferguson,
of California, and Elder Stephen Hay
ward. Rev. A. A. Wallace presided,
and preached the installation sermon.
Rev. w w. Akers delivered the charge
to the people, and Rev. Ferguson the
charge to the pastors. This afternoon
Rev. w. w. Bridges lectured to the
University Y. NJ. @. Al. upon sssome
Misconceptions Regarding Missions
Tonight Rev.w. H. Ferguson preach
ed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
The Number of States.

fNA D@<A
Do You know how many states
there are IN the Union? No, of course
not. No n knows except school
four years the political arithmeticians
learn the number in the process of
figuring up the presidential election
returns, but they forget again almost
Immediately. Next years United
States flag will have forty five stars,
the latest being for Utah, which be-
comes a state on the 4th of next July.
Utah will get into the flag six months
or more before she gets into the
Union. She is to be represented in
the new sets of regimental colors that
Secretary Lamont has ordered for the
army. Her star in the official flag
goes to the right of the fourth row
from the top.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
FACTS WORTH

The smallest flower known to the
botanist is said to be that of the yeast
plant. 1t is microscopic in size and
is said to be only one-hundredth of a
millimeter in diameter.
Capt. @. w. Thomas, of Cole Co.,
Me-, has produced the largest water.
melon ever known-weighing 70 lbs.-
which he has cbristened "the Defend
err" the world heater.
In England and Scotland milkmaids
believe that if they forget to wash
their hands after milking their cows
will go dry. This superstition is dill
gently fostered by the owners of COWS.
There IS a superstition among many
colored people in the south that to
meet a frog is a lucky incident, in
dicating that the one thus favored is
about TO moneyfrom some un-
expected quarter.
Although Vermont has for several
years offered the liberal bounty of SIS
OF bears, the animals are still found
upon the mountains, and, in the opin-
ion of hunters and trappers, are grow
ing in numbers in that section.
A seventeen-year-old London boy
killed himself with cyanide of potas-
SUM because he had to wear a wig
while his hair, which had fallen out on
account of a fever, was growing out
again.
M. Eugene Ysaye, the violinist, has
bought for s5,085 the Stradivarius
violin known as Hercules. 1t is dated
1872, Is n of the most perfect of its
family, and is beautifully preserved.
The New Jersey fish commission
has started a movement for the pur-
pose of exterminating carp in the
streams that were literally stocked
with that species of fish a few yea
ago. 1t has been discovered that carp
live on fish spawn, and that they
multiply "ery rapidly. Since their
introduction In local waters other
food fish have gradually diminished
and 1t Ia feared they will soon be in
full possession. Fish Commissioner
VIM. G. Wise, of Burlington, N. j.,
has granted special permission to a
number of local fishermen to fish for
carp, other fish taken at the same
to be turned over to him for
stocking purposes. July oath 400
pounds of carp taken, n an
other haul was made of 1,4oO pounds
the next day.
A number OF young people win u !
JOY . hay ride Friday night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
THE FIGHT DECLARED OFF.
Fitzsimmons' Manager Would Not
Consent to a Postponement-
Maher Against Corbett.

Hot SPRINGS, ARK, Oct. 21.-The
fight between Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons was declared off by the Florida
Athletic Club at a conference this
morning between the managers of
Corbett and Fitzsimmons. The club
asked that the contest be postponed
until Nov. IL. Brady ~acquiesced, but
Julian would not. The contest was
then declared off.
Brady then said that Corbett would
meet any man IN the world, Fitzsim-
mons preferred, OF Nov. IL, the man
to be named within twenty-four hours.
Vendig announced he would match
Maher against Corbett, and find some
n to take his place against O'Don-
nell, the contest between Maher and
Corbett to be for $780, 900 a eide.
Julian is keeping the wires warm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
How Many Eees9

A woman took q basket of eggs to
the city for sale. Upon being asked
how many she had, she replied: aft
take them out two at a time / have
one egg left. II I take them out
three at a time I have one egg left. II
l take them out four at a time ] have
one left III take them out Ave at a
l have one left. II ] take them
out six at a time l have one egg left,
but II take them ont seven at {. time
! have none left in the basket.u How
many eggs had she In the basketf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
$500 FOR HIS VOTE.
Representative Hoeffer, of Ohio, Makes
a Confession.

GREENFIELD, O., October 19.-Rep-
resentative U. W. Hoeffer, a promi-
nent minister, to-day acknowledged
writing a letter soliciting a bride of
$500 for his vote for Senator. Mr..
Hoeffer has been prominently con-
nected in the MINISTRY of the Chris
tian Church for 25 years, and was a
leading member of the last legislature.
On seeing the fac smile copy of his
letter to the Democratic Committee in
the papers to-day, he confessed, and
Immediately sent the Republican
County Committee a letter of with
drawat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
Sheriff of Audrai
Assignee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all the
creditors of Holt & Storr, of Mexico
Mo-, that 1 will, on the 18th day at:
November, 1895, at the Law Office OF
L. 4 Crigler, Ia Mexico, Mo-, proceed
publicly to adjust and allow demands
against the estate and effects assigned
70 me BY Holt & Storr for the benefit
OF creditors and viii continue said
nearing during the tao days following.
zo-4t r. j. HOLT,
Assignee of Holt & Storr.
This October stb, 1895.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

THE Populist editors of Missouri
met at Kansas City Monday and or
ganized a Peoples Party Press Asso-
citation. Miss NJ. E. O'Neill, editor OF
the Peoples Record, of Marshall, was
elected president, and ]. G. McDon-
aid, of the Warrensburg Star, was
elected secretary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
Boston Female Snffraaa

ooSson euiale outrage.
me women of Boston in Novarh.
will have the privilege of. voting ~
school directors as usual. At the go.
time they may vote yes or no upon ~
question of whether women shal, ~
allowed a vote on all municipal ops.
tions. There is good deal of stir uno,
the subject An address or anna.
against this enlargement of fema,.
suffrage is signed by some of the most
eminent men of the city: such man
for example, as President Elliot 81
Harvard. There is also a strong 20,
out against it which Is signed by yerv
many of the leading society ladies n
Boston. But in favor of the extension
of course, are all the old -time femais
suffrage agitators. The indifference a.
the women themselves, however, n
very clearly indicated by the fact thai
only 12,oeo out of 100000 women 81
VOTING age have cared SO far to regis
ter even. 1t is evident, therefore, that
those who cry aloud for suffrage are
but a very small portion of the Boston
women.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
of adultery must be found in the rec
ords of the court,

of adultery must be found in the rec
ords of the court.
Sec. 2. In all cases of doubt as to
the facts, Or as to the pastoral duties
arising under this canon, the cody
counsel of the Bishop shall bs sought
and followed.
The canon will receive no further
action at this session, as the Bishops
voted to refer it to the Committee on
Revision of the Canons. The Bishops
also adopted a canon providing for the
administration of affairs in dioceses
where the Bishop is absent or inca
FACILITATED for work. A committee of
four neighboring Bishops must first
declare him incapacitated and then
the convention of the diocese request
an outside Bishop to take his place for
the time being.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

THE Duke of Marlborough thought it
an outrage that he was arrested for
violating the law in regard to fast BIZ
cycling in Central Park. 1t is natural
for English peers to think the laws do
not apply to them, but it will do them
good to find that in America they are
not a privileged class.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

THE subscription list of the Mexico
daily and weekly LEDGER has been
largely increased during the last ten
days. The circulation Of each n is
larger to-day than it has ever been be-
fire
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

If three members of the State
Democratic Committee want a COM
mittee meeting why don't they call
it and stop talking and writing
ssthrough their hats"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24
FOR GIRLS.

Economy is q Christian virtue and
extravaganza is a sin.
Honest poverty is no disgrace, but
living beyond ones mean is.
Marriage is not the chief end of ex-
istence. 1t makes or mars two lives.
Learn to help yourself even If some
times You trench upon s'boy's work.
An honest, Woodworking mechanic
is worth a cor of idle, perfumed
dandies.
Do not follow the extremes of fash
ion. 1t Is a vulgar desire to wish to
outshine everyone else.
To marry for money or for any OBJ
ject whatever, ave and except inn
mortal and all-powarful love, is to
perjure and debase the human heart.
1t is folly and madness for girls to
think of marrying a drunkard in the
hopes of redeeming him. Il is a mig
sionary labor few women have sue
ceeded in, and surely there are enough
men who become drunkards after
they are married for all reasonable
purposes of experiment, without tax
ing them fully trained In a career Of
and debauchery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

A DAILY paper in a western town
suspended publication recently, and
the editor printed a valedictory in
which he eaid: ''That we have given
a paper far in excess of what the
patronage would warrant, we are sat-
isfied; and if our merchants are sat-
isHed with the encouragement they
have give US, we will not complain"
Did this editor think it was incum-
bent upon the merchants to support
his paper? If he did he labored under
q serions mistake. 1t was his duty to
give the merchants who advertised
with him full value for the money
they paid him. 1t is an utterly wrong
theory to cherish that the business
men of q town are bound to con-
tribute to the support of a newspaper,
irrespective of the value of the as
sistance the newspaper is to them as
advertisers, and yet it is the theory of
q great many publishers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

The report made to the New York
State Medical Association upon the
results Of the use of anti-toxine in
diphtheria 10 favorable to the new
method Of treatment. The mortality
from the disease In that city during
the nine months OF this year has been
only about one-half ~ large a. it was
In previous years. Both in this coun-
try and In the countries Of Europe
medical experience has justified the
ne o. the auti-toxine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

T. j. Gibson & Go. shipped a car
load of geese to Chicago to-day. The
geese wers driven through the streets
to the depot this morning and made
sweet music on the way. They are
not quite as easy to drive as a herd of
cattle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

THERE is a good deal of happiness
in the sunshine of this world, but
some people always prefer tallow a n
dies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

How much happier would all of us
be in this life if we did not spend so
much time in searching for what we
do NOT want to find.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-10-24

No, a bicycle doesn't eat. A horse
does. But an ordinary carpet tack
will not take all the wind out of a
boraa-