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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
The Vanishing Deficits.

fIom the e-ItDloFfat.
1t is clear now that the days of the
treasury deficits are numbered.
From July /, 1894, when the present
fiscal year began, onward to January,
1895, expenditures exceeded receipts
nearly 50, 600 900 Il month on an aver
age. In February the shortage drop
ped to s2,s0s, 600, and in March, ac-
cording to the figures just given to
the public, it is down to a little over
S246,G00. The receipts from all sources
in March about s25, All 900 and
the expenditures S25, III 900, while the
deficit for the nine months ending with
March of the fiscal year was s36, 542, 900.
This last total has undoubtedly
reached its limit. There will be no
deficit in April. From this time on
ward, it is safe to say, the govern
ment's income will at least meet its
outgo, and a month or two hence will
exceed it. The sugar duties and the
increased whisky taxes are at last
making themselves felt, and they
will be important items on their side
of the balance sheet hereafter. The
improvement in business which is
under way, and which is increasing
the purchasing ability of the people,
will add largely to the general receipts
of the government both at the custom
houses and at the internal revenue
collectors offices. The fair working
balance which the treasury has on
hand will be maintained, and a few
weeks hence it will doubtless begin
gradually to increase. The govern
mant has made its last bond sale for
this year. Probably another will not
be necessary in many years.
The dread that an extra session of
Congress will have to be called if the
Supreme Court declares the income
tax unconstitutional now vanishes.
There is no real reason, of course, to
suppose that the court will do this,
but il it should Congress would not
have TO be summoned. Before the
lStCiiJlF Avn WIG thA DOSiH W VI
in the government will be in a po-
sition to do without them. The tax
is expected to yield between S30,000,-
600 and $40, 600, 600 a year, but the gov
eminent is no longer seriously CON
cerned about this impost. Whatever
the tax yields will be so much surplus.
The trifing shortage in March, and
the assurance which it conveys that
there will be no shortage at all in
April, constitutes the t~reasury's decla-
ration of independence on the income
tax question. No more gold or cur
rency scares are possible. The last
cloud in the financial sky has been
dispersed. Henceforth the panic OF
1893 and the business disaster which il
projected a be spoken of in the
past tense.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
MumpoWer-SOsey

Miss Eloise Mumpower, the accom-
plished daughter of Rev. j. a. Num-
power, formerly pastor Of the NJ. E.
Church, South, of this city, will be
married to Mr.. John Sosey, of Pal
myra, at the church in Gallatin, Mo-,
on April 16. Miss Eloise is very pop
ular in Mexico. Mr.. Sosey is a fine
business young man and a brother OF
the weiI-known editor of the Palmyra
Spectator
The young couple will be at home
to their friends in Palmyra after April
16. The LEDGER extends congratula-
tions in advance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
LETTER R o LANYON.
Says He Is a Poor Man and Cannot
Pay-He Talked Differently
at First.

Several parties in this city have re-
ceived letters from S. ID. Lanyon since
his and his sons unexpected flight
this week. The one published below
was written to w. H. KEENAN,.
Tne canyons have no money. They
came here and misrepresented them
selves. MIR. Lanyon, the senior,
claimed that he controlled as well as
owned mines in the Indian Nation and
at Pittsburg, Kan. Soon after he took
charge of things here it was proven
that he had nothing to do with any of
those mines.
Matters waxed so warm and became
SO uncomfortable and his business be-
came so involved that the best thing
to do, both men thought, was to
"slide from here" The following is
the letter received by Mr.. KEENAN,:
Upton, Mo-, April 5, 1895.
Judge kenRdn, Merico No.
DEAR SIR: l find / cannot carry on
the coal mine at Mexico. / could not
tell what would arise next, and / am a
poor man. | am in debt to the men
and can't pay them, SO turned the
coal contract yer to them and in
structed them to come to you for pro-
lection, which | believe you will do.
| am sorry, but | can't do anything.
l liked the people, and particularly
yourself. | suppose it will make talk,
and / feel very badly about it, and if
YOU can use q word to modify it |
would be glad. You see, the men, in
place of getting 2L1a cents per bushel,
will in this way get Az cents per
bushel; so they car pay themselves
out. Truly yours,
s. ID. LANYoN.
The proposal that Mr.. Lanyon made
in his letters both to Mr.. KEENAN, and
Mr.. c. c. Davis, to turn the coal con-
tract or lease over to the employees,
cannot be done, since they did not fig
ure in the lease in any way. The fact
of the case is, that all the men who
worked for the Lanyon Company are
out their labor and cannot procure
their pay, for Lanyon has no money.
He could never be induced to give
bond or to deposit a guarantee.
Mr.. Davis cancelled the lease this
morning and the mine is now being
worked as formerly and the coal sold
at the usual and sensible price.
1t seems that there is a man, Joe
Roberts, of near Upton, who was
silent partner in the firm, who ha'
some money, and it is to him tina
LANNON'S creditors can only look TO
their pay, which is very doubtful
This can only be obtained through
law. If at all,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
Audrain County, Missouri, Thursday,
THE WHOLE STATE CONCERNED.


This is a question which affects the
rights and the interests of the people
of the entire State almost as vitality
as it does the people of the cities i'm
mediately concerned. When we re-
fleet that about o%ne-fourth ofthe total
population of the State reside in st.
Louis and Kansas City, and consider
the tremendous influence which those
cities a exert in the election of ma
tional and State officials and on the
legislative policies of the State, no
thoughtful and patriotic citizen can
be oblivious or different to the para
mount Importance of vigilantly guard
ing the ballot box against every de-
scription of fraud and crime.
Therefore, in view of the premises,
and by virtue of the authority in me
vested by the constitution of
the State of Missouri, |, William J.
Stone, Governor of the State of Mis-
souri,, do hereby convene the Thirty
eighth General Assembly of the State
of Missouri in extra session, and l do
hereby call upon the Senators and
Representatives of the general assem-
ally aforesaid to meet in their respect
i've places in the capitol in the City
of Jefferson, at the hour of II O'Clock,
noon, on Tuesday, the 23d day of
April, A. D., 1895, for the following
purposes:
First-To enact such legislation as
may be necessary and expedient to
properly define the relations between
the different classes of employees of
railroad corporations in the State,
and also the proper relations between
all such employees and the railroad
corporations employing them and to
define and fix the legal liability be-
tween the different employees them
selves and also between such en-
ployes and the said railroad corpora
tons for injuries done or received by
IL such employee as the result of
their culpable negligence of another
such employee while engaged III the
SCI vice of such corporation.
ANTHOLOGY LEGISLATION NEEDED.
Second-To provide such legislative
enactments as may be necessary and
e~xpedient to prevent the maintenance
of an organized lobby at the capitol
of the State, either to obstruct or pro-
mote any legislative or executive act;
and also to regulate the II of
presenting any question affecting leg
islation by persons interested therein
before the general assembly or any
committee thereof.
Third-TO enact such laws rs may
be necessary and expedient to pre-
vent fraud against the elective fran
chise and to secure honest elections
in all cities having over 100000 in
habitants.
Fourth-To consider any other sub
ject that may be submitted by special
message during said extra session.
Fifth-To make an appropriation for
the expenses of this extra session of
the General Assembly.
In testimony whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the great seal of the State of
Missouri.
Done at Jefferson City, this third
day of April, A. D., 1895.
By the Governor, WILLIAM j. STONE.
A. A. Leseuer, Secretary of State
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
COMMITTED LIBEL IN A PRAYER.
Los Angeles Minister Learns That He
Must Check His Tongue.

Los ANGELES, Cal, April Judge
Clark has overruled the demurrer in
terposed byRev. JIG. Campbell in the
suit charging him with s~landering
Miss Tesea l.. Kelso, librarian of the
Los Angeles public library. The basis
of the action was a prayer offered by
the defendant before his congregation
in the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, in which he said: go Lord,
vouchsafe they saving grace to the
librarion of the Los Angeles city
library and cleanse her of all sin, and
make her a woman worthy of her
office" Rev. Mr.. Campbell in his
demurrer took the position that his
statement was privileged. The court
held that a SANDER can be perpetrated
in the form of a prayer as readily as
in any other form of speech.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
THE PRESIDENTS FISH STORY.
The Biggest Fish That He Ever Caught
Was the Fish That Got Away.
From the Washington Post

NA
President Cleveland's thoughts are
now divided between business and
pleasure. In other words, he gives
half his time to thinking about our
foreign complications and half to his
next summers vacation at Gray
Gables. The delights of anticipation
of his annual outing at his summer
home counterbalance the mental
fatigues and worries of his official bus
mess. He has not yet determined
when he will be able to leave the cap
ital for Gray Gables. Before leaving
he will, he hopes, have satisfactorily
settled the present public problems
which confront him.
He has little doubt, however, that
by the time the weather is sufficiently
warm to make Gray Gables a COM
Portable place for outdoor life, the ex-
listing international conundrums will
have been answered, and the relations
between this country and others, re-
lations characterized by some people
as strained will have resumed their
normal tension. If this prove true he
will doubtless leave Washington the
latter part of May or early in June for
the summer. He at least hopes now
to be able to do so.
INDUCING that hope, he devotes
most of his evenings to telling fish
stories to such of his cabinet friends as
happen to be present.
Frank Daniels sings a song in "Prin-
cess Bonnie" about '!The biggest fish
| ever caught was the fish that got
away" President Cleveland, his con-
tidential advisers say, declares that
the song describes his WI cas- to at.
He says, however, that he had landed
his fish-it was as gallant and brave
and strong a trout az ever rose TO a
fy-but that after depositing him in
his creel the fish, with a vigor, dex-
terity and sagaciousgess which had
long enabled him to defy the most
worthy disciples of Izaak Walton,
sprang through the slot of the cree
and, landing upon his tail, which he
seemed to use as a spring, rebounded
high in the air and ere the man with
the net could catch him, dived into the
water and disappeared.
"At such a time" the President il
reported to have said: 81 think tina
any man is perfectly justified in swrar
ing. If had only attempted to weigh
him before putting him in my creel
he would not have escaped me-"
"Why didn't you weigh him?" on
of the cabinet inquired.
Because" said the President, "h'
would have broken the scales.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest US Govt Report
@a!!a!!! R Rs%asSz
ABSOLUTELY PURE
I'm GOING FISHING"
What Senator Dunn Will Do During
the Extra Session.
From the St. Louis Republic.

EIum tne 81. ldJulS hSIuplC-
Senator George T. Dunn, chairman
of the committee that framed the
election bill which finally passed the
Senate, will ask Lieutenant Governor
O'Meara to appoint a new Election
Committee when the extra session
convenes. He proposes to hunt a
cheap lodging house in Jefferson City
and camp for a long siege. Yester-
day he provided himself with a new
fishing tackle and wrote a letter to
Senator Cash, of Clay county, to come
prepared for numerous excursions to
the Usage river. Within five miles of
jefferson City the bass are reported
in inexhaustible quantities. Senators
Dunn, Cash and Morton are bachelors
and their thoughts in spring turn
to rod and bait.
81 have had enough to do with
election bills,n said Senator Dunn at
the Laclede yesterday. 81 am going
to resign and give somebody else a
chance. l will hang about Jefferson
City and be prepared to vote when
the time comes, but | will have lots of
time to fish. Cash is a fine fellow.
Morton and / have fixed it all up and
Cash is so dead anxious at all times
for a fish that he will attend to the
horses and cut all the bait. don't
see how anything is going to be ac-
complished. Now that the Governor
has called the session, | will help him
out; but was not consulted, and /
don't know who was. A number of
the Democrats in my county urged
me to write the Governor and protest
against reconvening the session, but
| declined to do it. l am not mixed
up in it one way or the other.
"About half of those House fellows
will regard an extra session with So a
day as a snap. If the House does not
show more of a disposition to make
concessions than it did at the regular
session, there will be no use fooling
around with an election bin. The
Senate bill would have passed the
House If it had not been for Filley and
the caucus. Filley can kill it again."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

THE Mexico LEDGER has been I'M
der the present management sinceSep-
TENDER, 1876. During that time there
has been nearly a many newspaper
changes and deaths in Mexico as the
number of years which have elapsed.
Newspapers are now run on business
principles the same as any other le-
Ultimate business calling. The mer-
chant adyertises because it pays. The
people subscribe for a paper to get
the ews Very few people take a
paper because it agrees with them in
politics or religion. The time when
the people subscribe for n paper sim
ply to keep it alive has passed. 1t should
never have been. Newspaper men
should be business men and their pub
locations must be worth the money
before they succeed. Advertisers must
have the circulation. Subscribers must
have the news. The prosperity of the
Mexico LEDGER, both daily and week
ly,is founded on these two facts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

SOME silly "Christian Scientists in
Iowa are protesting against the teach
ing of physiology in the public schools
there, on the ground that there is no
such thing as a material body. They
should, before entering protests, stop
eating and drinking. If there is no
material body, then food is not nee
sgu1py
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

FULTON, Mo, voted on an electric
proposition Tuesday. The question
was whether the city should be bon
ded for $4,000 for electric light ornot.
The proposition carried by a vote of
COS to 76. We understand that it is
proposed to buy Il plant for $4,000.
A flrst-class electric light plant of suf-
licient capacity to light a town the
size of Fulton will cost between S25-
900 and $50, 900.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
MANSUR G
The Deputy Comptroller Seriously
I'll at Washington.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., April dep
uty Comptroller Mansur, Of the
Treasury Department, is dangerously
Ill Of a complication of diseases, at the
National Hotel. His son, who risides
in Missouri, has been sent for.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

WILLARD Z. CAVE, Democrat, and a
cousin of DR.. l.. s. Cave of this city,
vas elected Mayor of Moberly. The
Moberly Monitor, referring to the new
Mayor, says:
Hon. Willard p. Cave is an active,
energetic, safe business man, a good
lawyer, in the prime and vigor of life,
II whose past life "a a citizen
and lawyer is without spot or blemisf
lie is thoroughly acquainted with the
law and having served well and ac-
ceptably to the city and with honor to
himself in the office of City Attorney
for several years is peculiarly fitted to
steer the city ship clear of all shoals
and hidden rocks.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

B. III. Bowman, Pub. Enquirer, o
Bremen, Ind, writes: Last week our
little girl baby, the only n we have,
was taken sick with Group. After two
doctors failed to give relief and life
was hanging on a mere thread we tried
| One Minute Cough Cure andit its life was
! saved. Woodbridge & Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

1t will be an agreeable surprise to
persons subject to attacks of bilious
collie to learn that prompt relief may
be had by taking Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy. In
many instances the attack may be
prevented by taking this remedy as
as the first symptoms of the dis
ease appear. 25 and so cent bottles
for sale by Chas. A. Buckner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

". NJ. Treloar, of Mexico, Mo.,Con-
gresham of the Ninth Missouri Con-
gr~essional District, was in the city for
a few hours this morning. The object
of his visit was to gather information
relative to Missouri River improve
ments needed in this section.-St.
Charles Daily Monitor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

TIE Laddonia Mo Herald is twelve
years old. The paper comes out en-
larged and all home print. Laddonia
is IL of the best little towns of it's
size in the State and is surrounded by
Il fine country. The Herald is receiv-
ing liberal patronage and deserves
the cordial support of all the business
men of Laddonia and the farmers of
the county. The Herald ''keeps ever
lastingly at it" in doing good work for
I1H1pnin
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

says that his little girl is troubled
with malaria very severely, and that
since he gave her Sulphur Bitters he
never thinks Of leaving New York for
his summer resort without Il few bot
ties, for they always cure his family,
and are far superior to q%uinine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

THE individual who looks to the
government to make his prosperity
will always be down in the mouth;
likewise in pocket. There's no form
or system of government that will
give a man prosperity without indus
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

THE people of Mexico would love to
get a chance to vote on a proposition
for the two railroads to build a new
Union Depot in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

Doctor II. R. Fish, of Gravois Mills,
Mo-, a practicing physician of many
years experience, writes: De Wits
Witch Hazel Salve has no equal for in
dolent sores, scalds and burns. 1t stops
pain instantly, heals a burn quickly
and leaves no scar. Woodbridge & Nc
Arthur
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
Why Sam Jones is a Prohlbitionist.

Inc following is an extract from one
of Sam jones' sermons:
Down in one of our southern towns
some time ago a father, a farmer,
came driving into town in a one horse
and a bale of cotton on the
wagon; it was his last bale-he had
lust made two-and he drove into the
little town, with his little boy, with
little cotton pants on, that came to his
knees. and his little bare legs and feet,
with no coat and an old hat full of
holes on his head. And it was n of
those cold, bleak, penetrating days,
misting awhile and sleeting awhile.
And he drove up in the town square,
rolled his bale of cotton off and sold it,
and said to the little boy-I expect he
told him from the start-"I am going
TO get you some comfortable clothes
to-day; you helped papa make the
cotton. You stay here and mind the
horse and I will be back directly" He
sold his cotton and went into the
saloon and began to drink with his
hilarious friends, and he drank and
drank, and the little fellow sitting out
in the cold shivering, and he staid
there an hour, and then climbed down
and with his benumbed and cold little
legs walked into the saloon and walk
ed up to his father shivering, and he
said: 80 papa, please, sir, come and
take me home,'' and that imbruted
father set the glass of whiskey i'll his
hand down on the counter and raised
his right hand and brought it against
the jaw of the little fellow and slapped
him against the wall of the saloon, and
the little fellow grabbed his face and
ran out with his little benumbed
muscles and climbed upon the wagon
again, and by and by his imbruted old
father, full of whiskey, walked stag
gering out to the wagon, and piled
over into the bed of the wagon, and
the little fellow drove him out home.
And next morning that stupid, drunk
Ell man was awakened by his wife,
who said: 40 husband, get up, please.
sir, go for a doctor; little Johnnie has
got the highest fever l ever saw
And he crawled out of that bed ant
dressed himself and went hurriedly Il
the doctor, and when the doctor came
and examined the boy he said tina
both of his lungs were on fire will
pneumonia, and his fever 40, and thai
he could not live through the day
And the next morning that father
stood over the corpse of that little boy
with that great bruised, black, swoller
Jaw, and looked over him and kneeleo
down and kissed his lips and said;
80 God, is there any chance for a poo
wretch that would treat his child like
this?" My God, that would make {
prohibitionist out of me If That were
the only case in the world. God sav'
the poor drunkard.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

Billie West has rented the home
place lust west of MeXico-3G acres and
house from J. T. Williams, Public Ad-
m~inistrator, for $3.50 until March l.,
1896.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
Mexico Goes Forward.

itS" AZ hSN"W'
Mexico has taken another step for
ward and has voted to double her
electric light system. Enterprise pays
and the people of Mexico deserve
aIiccesH.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
Vol. XXXVII.
A MONSTER CANAL PROJECT.

The ship canal era is upon us. 1t
began with the success of the SueZ
canal. Since then the Greek canal
through the Isthmus of Corinth has
been completed; the great Manches-
ter ship canal; the Baltic canal in Ger
many, recently finished; and the Har-
lem ship canal at New York City.
Work is progressing on the great Chi
cago drainage canal, which, while it
will drain the city, will be really Il
great waterway between Lake Michi-
gan and the Mississippi river, and will
cost $4,000, 900.
Now comes an organization called
the Maritime Canal Company of North
America, which is asking the New
York Legislature to grant it a charter.
Its purpose is to construct an ocean
roadway for vessels of the largest
size, connecting the Hudson river
with the Great Lakes, and this is to
be done on an estimated capital of
$3.50, 0OO, 900. The scheme is q vast one
so vast, indeed, as to seem vision
airy; but it is not impractlcable to
modern engineering. The question is,
can the company obtain enough CAPT
tai? If it can show that the canal,
when completed, will pay a fair inter-
est on the investment, there is plenty
of money available. The hardest
work is to convince men with money
that the canal will pay. That done,
the rest is easy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

W. II. KEENAN, this week sold 10
acres of land for Mrs. Walker to Jo-
seph Maxwell for $50 an acre. This
land joins the Reed farm which Mr..
Maxwell lately purchased.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

THE Palmyra Mo- Spectator is fifty
five years oldand in its prime. TheSpec-
tator is n Of Nissouri's pioneer pa
pers and gets better all the time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

DIR. MmBURN, the blind Chaplain of
the United States Senate, has gone to
Europe on a sightseeing tour. He
will see through the eyes of his daugh-
ters. however.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

To have perfect health you must
have pure blood, and the best way to
have pure blood is to take Hoods Sar-
%saparilla.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
Land for Sale

1 have so acres of farm land for sale
six miles from Mexico. Price $4,000,
on five years time. Also 53 + of
timber land at $40 an acre on five
years time. e.. ID. FERRIS,
Care of Ferris Hardware Store, Mex
leo, Mo-. No-l-2t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

J. X. Pool. of the.Centralia Courier,
tralia by one vote. Pool is 4 thorough
school man and will favor good
schools. and that's what Centralia has.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11

Rev. S. b. Erwin married Mr. VII
son Thomas and Miss Gertie Vaughn
both Of Audrain county, Wednesday,
April3 3.