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Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
Death of Mrs. Mike Duegan.

Deceased passed away Jan. 26, 1896,
at her home 8 miles northwest of
Thompson. The angel of death came
and called her nome to live in the
eternal sunshine of His pre- sence. We
all know that her family have a dear
one waiting at heavens gate to meet
them. She was SO kind and loving and
had such a soft and gentle voice that
we can't help from missing her. But
we have to give up our best friends,
sooner or later. Of course, we all hate
to give them up, but we have to part
here on earth, but trust to meet in
heaven.
| A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled;
| A place is vacant in our home,
Which never a be filled.
| God in his wisdom has recalled,
The boon his love had given;
And though the body slumbers now,
The soul is safe in heaven.
Had He asked us, well we know,
We should say, "Oh! spare the blow.'
Yes. with streaming tears should pray,
Lord, we love her, let her stay.
In love she lived, in peace she died,
Her life was asked but God denied.
NORA WORSHAM.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
Their Money Question.

from tine ST. LOUIS ftepuDnc.
Western Republican Senators are
making large professions about what
their States will do if the st. Louis
Convention does not nominate afriend
of silver.
It has always been possible for the
Republicans i'll the silver mining states
to promote the cause of bimetallism
by joining the Democratic party.
Whenever a free-coinage bill has
been up, the majority OF Democrats
have supported it and almost all the
Republicans, except those silver min
ing representatives, have opposed it.
Sincere bimetallists could not stay in
the Republican party.
Professions like those which Dubois
and others of his ilk are now making
are transparently insincere. Western
Republican politicians are for free
coinage when they are talking free
coinage. At no other time. The sill
yer question with them is not the
money question. If it were they
would join the Democratic party and
act with Bland.
The only silver question they know
is the bullion question, and the only
politics they know is Republican pro-
lection politics. They will vote next
fall as they always have voted-with
the Republican party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
r MOLINO ITEMS.


Correspondence of the Ledger.
NORTH MOLINE, Feb. 1.-THE Dye
Voolfolk trade we mentioned last
week is declared off by Mr.. Voolfolk
failing to come to time.
We were reliably informed that Mr..
Oscar Cauthorn, from near Santa Fe,
has rented the Joseph Price farm for
the coming year for s175. We vel
come Mr.. and Mrs. Cauthorn in oui
midst.
Mr.. Henry Weaver, from east oil
| Moline, was the guest of Sim Creed
last Friday night. We we're informed
that Mr.. Weaver is a candidate, but II
only takes one vote to elect him.
We attended services at MI. Zior
Sunday and heard a very able gospe
sermon by Ed. Hawkins, of Mexico
Mr.. Daniel Arnold, who has beer
down about Florida the past month
has returned and is taking hog ans
hominy with G. w. CrigIer.
MIR. Ernest Pitcher recently pur
chased of Henry Berrey n steer cal
for s1s.
Mr.. VIM. Mundy and little son
Robert, have gone to Vernon ant
Barton counties to visit relatives.
James Hill, of Oregon, was the CUES
of Sim Greed last Monday.
Mr.. Watkins has rented a farm j
Galloway County and will move Their
about the first of March.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
REICHEL AGAIN VIOLENT.
Attacked His Father in-Law-Ph ysi
clans Say That Reichel
Cannot Live.

MACON, Mo-, February 10.-George
Reichel, who was thought by his ply
sicians here to be improving since his
return from the Baptist Sanitarium at
st. Louis, was seized with a violent
attack this afternoon and leaped from
his bed, and, in attempting to escape
from the room, knocked down his
father-in-law, Richard Cromwell, who
was trying to restrain him. He also
made a terrible lunge at the doctor in
attendance.
Since his return from st. Louis Mr..
Reichel has been at his own home,
and it was thought that his mental
condition was improving along with
his physical. For the last two or three
dayp, h~owovoryhe hoe boon u~nucuaaiJ
respondent, but no evil results were
feared. The doctors say that he can
not possibly live.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT

FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
MARTINsBURG Feb. 12.-Miss Mamie
Dix, accompanied by her niece, Miss
Lolita Cornett, spent Saturday and
Sunday with the latter's grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Cornett.
Tom Powell has gone to the city,
where he expects to stay several
months.
Miss Ida Clifton, who has been quite
sick, is improving slowly.
Pinckney French made a flying trip
to Mexico Monday.
Miss Lille Northcutt visited home
folks over Sunday.
Miss Nellie Clines, of st. Louis. ii
the guest of her brother, B. ClInes.
Henry Wilson will move the iatte1
part of this month to Mrs. Hollis farm
west of town, which he has rented fol
the coming year. B. Holterman vii
take possession of the house vacated
| by Mr.. Wilson.
David Hagerman will have a sale Oh
| the 18th, after which ne VIII leave 10
| Warrenton to reside. We are SORT.
to lose him from our midst and heart
lily recommend him to the people o
Warrenton.
Bernhardt, the converted Jew, VIII
lectured at the Christian church Sun
day night, was greeted by a large an
appreciative audience.
Miss Nellie Broughall spent Sunda
at her home near Wellsville.
Chas Peyton and Pinckney frenc
went to Thompson Sunday, returnin
Sunday night.
Several of our young folks have re
ceived invitations to the masquerad
ball in Wellsville the 14th of tn
month.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Prominent Missourian Said to Have
Obtained Stock on False
P~retenses.

CENTRALIA, Mo-, Feb. ia. w.
Shelton, a prominent farmer and stock
dealer living a few miles south OF this
city, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
r. j. Hodge to-day and taken to Co.
lumbia to answer to IN Indictment
charging him with having obtained
some stock on false pretenses. About
a year ago he is alleged to have bought
some hogs and cattle IN the southern
part of this county and is said to have
gwen checks on the Bank OF Gen.
traiia in payment when he did not
have sufficient money in the bank to
meet the checks. They went to pro-
test and it is claimed that only half
| the amount due on the checks was
paid. Shelton is highly connected
and easily gave bond for his appear
| ance at the examining trial. He says
he can easily prove his innocence,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13

List of letters remaining in the Post
Office at Mexico, Mo-, for the week
ending February 10, 1896, which if not
called for in thirty days will be sent to
the Dead Letter Office at Washington.
Persons calling for letters in this list
will please say s'advertised:n
Y. @. Anderson, Mrs. M. A. Burns,
Miss L. NJ. Burleson, Miss r. Brown,
Miss E. N. Bonem, Miss Emily Baker,
Miss Fannie Baker, Chas. L. Baker,
Eugene F. Davis, A. Efron & Co.,
Miss Mollie Galloway, Jake Gardner,
M. j. Hill, G. w. Henry, Geo. Hen
dirk, Jno. Kingston, Miss Mary Kol-
ley, Daisy Laughlin, Matson, Phillips
& Co., Miss Ruth Scott, Mamie L.
Stewart, Soma Mexican.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
A Horses Peculiar Affection.

DIR. R. A. Ramsay Monday received
by mail a piece of hard clay stone
about 2x3x119 inches in size, which was
claimed to have been lodged in a
horses gullet for about three years,
eventually causingthe animals death.
The horse was owned by a Mr.. Dinse,
OF Hillsboro, who sent the specimen
to the st. Louis Journal of agriculture,
which paper referred the matter to
DIR. Ramsay. The owner of the horse
claims that after the animal died an
examination was made and the stone
found lodged in the gullet, not far
from the heart. 1t is shaped in such
a way that food could pass over one
side of it, and one side is worn per-
fectly smooth on account of this. DE-
Ramsay says such a thing would be
possible, and as the fact is vouchee
for by reliable men it is entirely prob
able. How the horse ever came te
swallow such a large stone is a mys'
| terry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
"I,et nc Ha,a I.aana,,


General Grant said, "Let us have
peace" That has been nearly thirty
years ago and though nearly. thirty
years + gone into history since
peace has been restored az far as the
clash of arms between the north and
south are concerned, still there's war.
War between labor and capital, war
as regards the proper legislation for
peace and prosperity, war about the
financial policy, whether ire coinage
of silver will solve the problem. More
money liz what we want. Bob Taylor
says 1--WE want more gold, more silver,
more greenback and a leetle counter
felt" If necessary to keep things roll
ing. Just think of the resources of this
country, its inexhaustible mines, fer
tile soil, great schools, and all in
situations necessary to develop the
arts and sciences. If you want peace
secure at once some of that fine syrup
just received at Johnston & Asbury's.
Peace at home goes a long ways in ad-
justing all things to your satisfaction
away from home; and don't forget
when you order that fine molasses to
include flour, sugar, coffee and tea and
a few geneting apples, SO juicy and
fine; hay, corn and ship. Prompt de-
livery. Come and see us and find
peace.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
The Home Forum Benefit Society

Liz I1OuIo VI uul pcucLL 6uCICCys
Mexico Forum No. $40, of the Home
Forum Benefit Order, closed its char
ter Tuesday night, Feb. 4, with sixty
nine charter members-twenty- eight
IadTes ana genrIemen pe1ng mrIared
at this meeting. The charter list is
composed of some of III best people
and the number initiated Tuesday
night was the largest of any fraternal
insurance organization ever organized
in our city. The State organizer has
been in Mexico for the past ten days,
and with the assistance of the mem
bers the local lodge increased Al mem
bers last week and quite a number are
ready to be initiated at the next meet
ing. The Home Forum has rented the
A. o. u. w. Hall for one year and will
meet the first and third Tuesday even
ings of each month. Applicants will
be received at next meeting, Tuesday
evening, Feb. IS, at the reduced rate
same as charter members. The Off
GERS are: President, Eugene Jones
Secretary, ]. D. Mckee; Treasurer, j
E. Biattner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
County News.
SAILING NEWS,

Correspondence of the Ledger.
SAILING, Mo-, Feb. lob. F. Turner
shipped two loads of fine cattle to
Chicago Monday, and sold one a of
hogs to Mcbride.
Monroe Ketchem sold one car load
of hogs to the Afieck Bros. at $40.
G. @. Turner sold one load of hogsto
w. r. Mcbride.
Corn sold at Young's sale at So cents
in the pen, pen measure.
1. III. Starr brought in 40 head of
cattle from Kansas City last week.
W. P. Reed has returned from a trip
to Atlanta, Georgia.
Excelsior school closed Friday. The
patrons are much pleased with the re-
suits gained under Prof. F. q. Harris
supervision.
F. M. McAlister, wife and son,
Hayes, have gone to st. Louis to re-
side.
Uncle James Mahan has been on the
| sick list for the last few days.
A petition has been sent to the
county clerk, signed by nearly all the
tax payers in the district, endorsing
w. A. johnson as road overseer for
the coming year.
We are glad to welcome our new
neighbors, Will Irvine and wife, and
trust they will meet with prosperity.
Radford Fountain, of Centralia, Wis
tied his cousin, Henry Fountain, last
week.
| d. A. Mayer Bro. have sold 1000
white oak posts in the last two
months.
Elmer Crawford spent Sunday in
Centralia.
Lake Trail spent Sunday at Sans.
There has been several cor buyers
in our neighborhood this year. /. H
Starr bought 5000 barrels, B. F. & g.
G. Turner, 1900; Dr.. E. W. johnson,
2,7OO; Mrs. L. F. Smell, 1900; d. A,
Mayer & Bro, 1000; s. w. Downing.
1000 and W. P. Reed, 1000. All with.
IN four miles of Sailing.
Rev. N. R. Dale, of Sturgeon, has
been selected as pastor of Friendship
church for the coming year.
We understand that E. M. and Johr
Young will return to Independence.
Oregon, this week.
Owing to the bad roads Prof. l. M
Barnes school will probably not con
tinue for the present.
Miss Nettie Anderson, who has beer
visiting her sister, Mrs. Dewert, has
returned home.
Stock hogs r scarce. There ha'
been some sold round here at $5.1'
per hundred.
The roads are SO bad that the farm
ers can't get out and we have to rel.
entirely on the only paper in Audrail
to get news this week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
ITEMS.


Correspondence OF the Ledger.
WORCESTER, Feb. lion account
Of the bad ROADS the supper at Rock
Hill Church will be postponed until
later.
Flod Iiams, of Lincoln County, is
visiting his brother, Bryon Iiams, this
week.
Ed. Scherer sold II head of hogs
to Hughes and Johnston for 4 cents
per pound.
A. F. Scherer, south of the Hill, is
moving in with his father, N. Scherer.
Dye school will give an entertain
ment at Rock Hill Church Friday
night, Feb. 81.
The many friends of Ed. Atchison
will regret to hear that he has decid-
ed not to be in the ace for Sheriff,
owing to physical disabilities. Had
he made the race he would have
had a strong following both at home
and all over the county, and if he hae
| been elected he would have made az
| good a Sheriff as Audrain County evel
had.
Mrs. G. G. Ragsdale is home from
the Baptist sanitarium, st. Louis
where she went with her little girl
who has heart trouble. There is Blu
little hope of her recovery.
George Brown is buying up a buncl
of calves.
Gather Berry has gone to Soutl
Missouri to buy 100 head of cattle
which he will feed during the sum
mer.
Hughes, Bolts & Johnson are feed
ing 300 head of cattle on the Judg
Stuart farm.
M. B. Paige and lady were GU
sleighipg Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
In the February Heavens,

Jupiter is now the evening star He
is very conspicuous in the east just
after shutdown. Mercury is also an
evening star, but Saturday he will be
in inferior conjunction with the sun
and be morning star until April IS.
Venus is morning star until July 9.
She will not appear at her brightesi
| this year. Venus rises SO late in the
morning and SO near the sun that it ii
hard to find her.
The first eclipse of the year occurs
on February 10. 1t will be an annulal
eclipse of the sun, but not visible in
the United States.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
HIS FACE.

Lines Written on a Rainy Day for the Mexico
Ledger by Miss Snowdie Willis.
What means this sense of sadness DER
me stealing?
This strange, unhappy, melancholy
feeling?
Tan I be longing for a face 30 sweet,
So glad, so happy,thatI used to greet,
A face that is all sunshine? It must be
His bright, fair face that I SO long to
see.
/ did not dream that life could be so
dreary
Without HIM, bnt my life seems dull
and weary.
The task that l performed beneath his
smile
Gave joy. My heart was singing all
the while.
Now he is gone, the task seems tedi-
GUS. Oh,
To see once more the face / used to
knowl
Across my pathway o a shadows
lying;
1t darker seems / cannot keep from
signing.
Yet were he here / could not meet, ]
know,
His steadfast gaze, but lest my tears
might flow
I'd drop my tender eyes, and would
look down
Where fancy traced his face upon the
ground.
Did l but know I'd % that face to-
morrow,
At once would vanish every thought
of sorrow.
He'd bring the roses to my cheeks
again;
With joyous steps 'dwander up the
glen.
Come back, Old Sol, | want to see you
face;
Scatter the clouds and shine in YOU
old place.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
FOR SELLING CANDY.
Predicament of a Missourlan Who
Broke the Sunday Law.

SEDALIA, Mo-, Feb. Sra Follen,
who was convicted last fall at La
monte and fined $40 for selling a
pound of candy on Sunday, and who
made application to the Circuit Court
for release under a writ of habeas
corpus, was to-day denied the writ,
and was sent to the Lamonte village
calaboose for twenty days. This case
attracted more than local interest on
account of the smallness of the
offerse and because Fellon was not
charged under the State liquor law.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
A SALVATION ARMY CONGRESS.
Lassies and Ladies' From Western
States in Convention at st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. IA large
number of officers of the Salvation
A-my fram-fua-Western States ara
here to attend the midland congress,
here. The congress will last until
February IA. Friday VIII be spent in
private interviews between the differ
emit officers of the army.
A big parade will take place Thurs
day evening. 1t will break ranks at
music hall, Exposition building, where
the marriage of Ensign Austin Chap
man, of st. Louis, and Captain Emma
Harmon, of Denver, will be solemnized
by Commander Ballington Booth. At
the conclusion of the marriage ser
vice Commander Booth will deliver
an address on the "Advance of the
Salvation Army"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13

Mrs. E. B. Crowel, of Blanchards-
vile, Wis, who is visiting her cousin,
Mrs. Perry, fell on the icy sidewalk
this morning just west of Joe Moore's
and dislocated her elbow. The injury
is quite painful, but is not considered
sarinua
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
HALL,
A KEEN-EYED ENGINEER.
1t Took q Pair Of Field Glasses to
Equal His Vision.
Fram the Hartford Times
The ladies Furnisher..

70 ~ IL kkANAh AAASE
An old engineer was getting his sight
tested by a doctor who lived in q house
facing a large park. She doctor used
to say to his patients: "Look over
there and tell me what You can see."
When the engineer learned that his
sight was to be tested he had arranged
with his son to take his bicycle half q
mile into the park and be oiling it. In
due time the old man was led to the
window, the doctor saying, as usual:
"What do you see?"4
The old man, peering out, said: 81
see a young man STOPPING beside his
bicycle"
"Do your" said the doctor. 81 don't
see anything at ALL"
"Nonsense," said the engineer.
"Why, he is oiling it,"
The doctor took up a pair of field
glasses and plainly saw the same.
Magnificent sight" he said.
The engineer is still drawing his
weekly wages.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
Abraham Lincoln.

Feb.12 was the anniversary of Abra-
ham Lincoln's birth. A day which
should be kept as sacred in the hearts
of the populace rs the birthday of
Washington, which comes ten days
hence. Awkward and Of unseemly
countenance, he planted himself a
landmark in the history OF nj coun-
try, and each succeeding year has
strengthened the support Of that
mark. It is a milestone Of human
liberty and a guide to everlasting
peace.
No longer do two flags float over
this great nstion, no longer Is there an
invisible boundary line dividing into
two parts the people Of the foremost
nation of the world. Who have we to
thank for all this? Whose careful
Judgment and honest efforts are the
cause of this2 There comes In IN
swer from north, from south, east and
west, borne on the wind like q whisper
In the night, and the answer is ono
word, "Lincoln."
True, the great generals and many
soldiers, who played so important o
part in that struggle for freedom, de-
serve credit, but to him, who with his
rugged mind, untajnted by o dishon-
orable thought, and to him alone does
the great credit fall.
His was the guiding spirit, his was
the hand that signed the document
giving freedom to any race, regard
less Of color, while under our flag.
And then when he had done all this,
when he had seen the North and
South take part in the most disastrous
civil strife that was ever known and
come out OF IL as one, 1t fell to bis LOT
to be martyred. 1t sometimes seems
that Providence had ordained IL thus
. that a man who had so well served
his country should not die the death
of common men, but that hissoui shouit
be borne into the presence Of III
Maker along with those Of the Apps
ties and martyrs, who gave up thei
lives for their religion as he gave NJ
= his for his country. Be this as 1t may
, the name Of Abraham Lincoln win b
FURNISHED by the ages and VIII stsns
/. with Washington's, the one as tn
: Father of his Country, the other as tn
Defender of his Nation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
RUSH HILL ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL, Mo-, Feb. 11.-Albert
Scherer is moving to Worcester.
Clarence Day will move to the b. O.
|Torbert farm.
The Ladies' Aid Society met last
Thursday evening at the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Clark, of this city,
and all enjoyed q pleasant evening,
The candy contest was very amusing.
James Meyers won the prize in the
| contest.
The Modern Woodnian Camp, oil
Rush Hill, viii give an oyster supper
in the near future.
The Salvation Army was in town
again last week, but Stan Captain and
Mrs. Cousins did not show up, az they
were billed.
Miss Lulu Jerman, of near Centraaa
is the guest of relatives and friend
here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
FIGHTING Carl PLAYING.
A Warrensburg Church Suspends Two
of Its Members.

WARRENsBURG, Mo-, Feb. 1.-THE
Cumberland Presbyterian Church of
this city is after card playing mem
bers with a sharp stick. Two mem
beers, both prominent in social circles,
we're indefinitely suspended by the
session at its meeting tonight on the
charge of attending and entertaining
the Ladies' High-Five Club, a social
organic alton which meets weekly and
owes nriZas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
The Advantage of Good Roads.

Saturday was a comparatively dull
day in this city on account of the ter
rible condition of the roads, which
kept many farmers from town. Mr..
]. Barth told 6 LEDGER reporter that
while he did a fair business on that
day, his store in Columbia did a big
business. Columbia has rock roads
leading in all directions into the sur-
rounding country and the weather
cuts no figure there. What Mexico
needs is good rock roads leading at
least 5 miles in four directions from
the CITY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
A Card,

Our spring goods are now arriving
and by the LIST of March we will have a
full line of everything carried in a dry
goods store. We have now ready for
inspection a nice line of embroideries,
laces, white goods, percales, dress
goods, Topsy hose; also mems, ladies',
misses and children's shoes, which we
will sell for cash as cheap as anyone.
We have to meet our obligations every
thirty and sixty days, consequently
cannot carry any long accounts.
Please do not ask it.
Respectfully Yours,
46 4tW Aid j. d. MORRIS & Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13

H. G. Turner has purchased of H.
A. Forgey the brick house and one
lot situated on Anderson and Water
streets, three blocks from the Public
Square. The property will be i'm
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-13
HAINEs HAS NOT SHOWN UP.
He Was to Appear Before Justice Riley
at / o'clock Yesterday and Has
Not Made HIS Appear
ance Yet.

Jim Haines, who stole a few small
articles from the Temple Of Economy
on Wednesday evening, and who was
arrested on Tuesday morning by Com
stable johnson, was taken before JUS
tice Riley Immediately after his arrest
and the case was continued until i
O'Clock in the afternoon. Justice Riley
did not think the man would try to
skip on such a small charge, and
therefore required nc bond, but OBJ
tanned a promise from Haines to re-
appear at / o'clock. When the hour
came the lawyers, witnesses and all
interested were present, but the
prisoner was not. After waiting about
an hour, during which time Haines did
not make his appearance, the case was
given up as a bad one and the only
thing now left to remind one of Hainee
is o warrant for his arrest, which will
| be served on him when he makes his
appearance, IL he ever does.
The short statement concerning thii
affair made in yesterdays evening
LEDGER was slightly incorrect on ac-
count Of the reporter being misin-
formed. The true facts of the CASE
are these:
On Monday evening Haines and an
other man entered the Temple o.
Economy and Haines remained in tn,
front part of the store, while the othei
man with him walked back and pur'
chased a package Of coffee: Mean
while, a gentleman who was standing
In front of the store noticed Haine
pocketing a few small articles. Ate
the two had left the store these arti
cles were missed and the testimony o
the gentleman who had seen Haine
help himself was introduced, afte'
which q warrant for his arrest wa
sworn out.
Haines will not be much missed !
the community.