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Year: 1878

At Mexico, in Audrain county, is
represented as being one of our most
thorough and practical literary insti-
tutions. His EXccllency, cX-Gov.
Hardin, whom we have the pleasure
to note as IN early acquaintance and
friend, sends Us the fourth annual
catalogue of this institution, from
which we learn that L large number OF
young ladies matriculated there last
year. Judging by the positiveness
Of style and terseness Of expression
of the address Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ter
r!, Principals, and the practical
good sense embodied in their rules OF
discipline, we have reason to believe
there is Il good education in store
there for any young lady who may
wish to obtain it. Had we room, it
would afford us pleasure to furnish
an extract Or two from their rules,
merely to show to similar institu-
rtions here and elsewhere their mCde
aud manner of procedure. Palmyra
Spectator.
Year: 1878

A little cheek to bluff the crowd,
A little talk, and bluster loud,
A little love for those who toll,
A little run amid the soil.


A little kindness spread about
A little drinking, riot, rout,
A little mony here and there,
A little more well, every where
A little speech upon the square,
A little trick or two unfair,


A little promise, and when spoken
A little while it may be broken.
a little time with fame to dwell,
A little glory, then-Oh. well
A little bill or two to pay,


\ little vote on lection day.
Year: 1878

4 We will send the LEDGER to any
new subscriber the remainder OF this
year for S1.40 cash in advance. Now


is the time to procure paper if you
wish to keep up with the times. We
make this offer SO that every man in
the county can try us for one year
There is no reason why every man in
the county should not take the LED
GER. 1t contains more reading mat
ter each week, than any other country
paper in the State.
Year: 1878

The New York Express speaking
about the Boston Philharmonic Club
that gives an exhibition in Mexico on
the 4th of April says: The concert
of the Boston Philharmonic Club at
Steinway Hall, last evening, proved
a most enjoyable entertainment.
Some Of the perform ers comprising
the Club are already familiar TO New
York audiences, and they are all
artists Of the best quality, forming an
instrumental sextette whose perform
ance of classical music leaves literal
! ly nothing to be desired. They were
loudly appiauded last evening, and
their work received every evidence ot
commentator from critical and in
telligelt audience.


| 50 -sDE-


China is suffering from a terrible
| famine
Year: 1878

We are authorized to announce
"Milt" Rely as a candidate for City
Marshal, at the coming spring clec-
ton.


We are authorized to announce
w. G, Davis as candidate for City
Marshal at the coming spring cleo
toir t'.a
Year: 1878




Time is the senior partner Of
avery mortal, and holds the ma
ior part Of the stock invested.
in a dumb way everybody takes
{ime as a partner; in q specific,
distinct, pronounced manner,
very few. Often the larger part
of life lies behind us before we
really begin to apprehend the
nature and probable results Of
this partnership.


Some people live wholly in the
present.. drawing slight wisdom
from the past, and letting the
future take care of itself; but as
life comprises the whole period
from life to death, such individ-
pals can hardly be said to live
at all. They are butterflies
ephemeral, gay creatures Of the
hour. Some live wholly in the
past. To them life is o 8memory-
a reminiscence-the present is
emptiness, the future vague
dream. 4 keen observer Of hu-
man nature places the telmina
tiOn Of growth in the individual
at that point where he lives more
in the past than in the present
or the future. He may ripen
after that time, but he will not
grow any more. Only when she
looked back was Lots wife
changed into salt.


We are to leave the things
ihat are past, and press forward
TO those that are before. Some
live wholly in the future; their
wealth, their enjoyment, their
GOOD time, is always coming,
5nd-it never comes. The past
holds nothing that they value,
the present is unsatisfactory,
but the future is full Of all they
desire.


To make the mostof this part
nership with time, we grasp the
whole Of life, living enough in
the past to draw from it all it
can teach as to cur present &C
tivities and Cur future guidance.
TO quote from Americas most
illu8trous orator, "there is no
way of judging the future but
by the past" and we study the
past only that we may command
the present and the future. Life
is continual change, evolution,
metamorphosis, transformation.
One day we are hedged in by
obstacles on every side, and see
no way to the accomplishment
of our plans, the realization of
our hopes, but some unforeseen
event occurs that changes every
thing, and a way is opened.
"Waiting is but giving time for
the subtle chemistries Of change
They who, in readiness and pa
tience, doing the present duty
with fidelity, wait the golden
opportunity, will sooner or later
surely come where it is waiting
for them. Those who wait not
idly, win. Time as a present
partner is what chiefly concerns.
One moment, one hour, one day
at a time, is all that is given us.
But if we keep the lines Of our
conduct parallel with the lines
of eternal rectitude-if eyermore
the activities of our moral and
intellectual natures carry US
forward and upward; if the trend
Of our lives is in the right direC-
tion-there is nothing to fear in
the future; for otherwise there is
everything to hope.-Ex.


The population of England in
1901 woo IN OOO 900. Of +bo JTu;+o1
Year: 1878

IF you really want to be liked,
keep your egotism in the back
ground. You can think as much
Of yourself as you like, and be
as vain as you please, but do
not allow the fact to peep out.
If you really are anything or
anybody, people will find it out.
Selfpraise will not help you.-Ex.
Year: 1878

The communication elsewhere published
over the familiar initials Sc. F. T." gives a
concise and interesting sketch of the history
of the United States treasury note. Its read
ers will see, what doubtless many of them
knew before, that the treasury note is not a
novelty in our financial legislation, but had
been issued previous 10 the rebellion both in
times of peace and war. 1t is a legitimate
and recognized instrument of credit, with all
nations. Our earlier issues of treasury notes
indeed differed little from an English ex-
chequer bill.


But in conferring upon the treasury note
legal-tender function as we did we disre-
garded our former practice and the teachings
of all wise fnanciers. Our Government
while refusing to accept its own notes for
debts due it compelled the people to accept
those notes in discharge of money contracts
between man and man. That is, it repudia-
ted its obligations but insisted that others
over whom it had jurisdiction should accept
them. That was the Objectionable feature of
the treasury note or greenback. Perhaps its
adoption was necessary considering the
plight we were in, though there are grave
doubts as to its wisdom or expediency. But
it was justified by the highest judicial author
ity of the land as a proper exercise of the
war power though the Supreme Court did
not attempt to conceal its opinion that fur
ther issues of treasury notes should not be
legal tender for private debts.


This seems to be the position of Mr.. Tai
bot. Hefavors paper currency convertible on
demand into coin, issued by government and
receivable by it for all dues, currency which
shall not be legal-tender and which no man
shall be compelled to accept. OF course if we
believe that the Treasury will pay these notes
on presentation we shall have no hesitation
about accepting Them, but we should not be
forced to take any note, either of government
or individual, in return for value given. If
this doctrine were greenbackism there would
be more declared greenbackers in the State
than there are to-day. Bat Mr.. Talbot be.
lieves that the Treasury note must have
swift and certain convertibility into coin, and
in that all resumptionists are at one with
him. The Nationals on the other hand op-
pose all attempts to pay the de~and notes,
and demand an absolutely irredeemable pa
per currency. Were their quarrel with the
national banking system alone they could
command the support of men whose senti-
Year: 1878

ments find expression In the communication
under consideration. But as 1t is all advocates
of sound currency, whether friends or foes
of the National banks, are united in the con-
demnation of the pestilent heresy of irredeem-
able paper money. Obviously their aim
should be to give to the greenback as great a
purchasing power as gold has and to make it
exchangeable without loss for coin. When
that is done 1t will be time to consider the
question whether the currency shall be di-
rectly issued by government or through bank
ing corporations. When that question comes
up there will doubtless be differences of opin.
ion among hard.money men. But until Gov
ernment is prepared to redeem its demand
notes the question of the future use of the
greenback is not pressing one. Resump-
tonists of all classes and shades of opinion
are agreed that treasury notes should be made
payable in coin. That desirable end achieved
we can 60 on with light hearts to the consid-
Grafton of the question whether the bank note
or the treasury note is the most desirable and
economical form of paper currency.


Two matters touched upon by Mr.. Talbot,
the reissuing of the greenback and its accept
ance by the government for all dues, have re-
ceived the favorable consideration of Con-
gress. and will in all probability soon be ac-
complished facts. The first indeed is already
settled. With these questions out of the
way there are no present differences Of opinion
that can interfere with the hearty union of
hard-money men in opposition to the pur-
poses of the Nationals.
Year: 1878

We do not read an nonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

The Russians of to-day is another volume of
the franklin Square Library series New York:
Harper Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short s.
HARMONY 1t is written by the author of The
Member from Paris, and is vivid and minute
picture of the present social condition of Rus
ss. The first chapter is devoted to brief
and able recapitulation of Russian history
since the days of the Huns to the present date.
To this Introductory passage, succeeds a de-
scription of Russia in its many phases, told iu
way that Gradgrind would have despised, but
which to the general reader is full of the inter-
estthe reality and the charm that bare statistics
are powerless to convey.
Year: 1878

The Annual Record of Science and Industry
for 1877 is the seventh of the excellent series
now familiar to students. began in 1871. Here
tofore the Record has for the most part been
composed first OF a summary of scientific pro-
gress during the year, and second of a series of
abstracts Of the more important articles con-
tained in the proceedings of learned societies
and in the scientific and industrial journals of
the day. The abstracts are now omitted, much
to the advantage of the book as a work of refer
ence, fol room is thereby given to an extension
OF the summary. A minute index is another
advantage which this volume has over the pre-
ceding ones.
Year: 1878

Lord Beaconsfeld's remarkable speech last
evening in the House of Lords, supplies much
of the information that was wanting in the
MARQUIS of Salisburys dispatch. The text
of the Premier's address was the existence
of the Ottoman Empire. He set out
to show that England had attained great
victory at the Congress and had impaired re-
newed vitality to the tOttering power OF the
Sultan, who, according to Lord Beaoonsfeld'
still controls in Europe an area OF oO'Ooo
square miles, with population of 6,OOO,OoO.
The Premier undoubtedly made good
point when he explained that Eng
land had made Bulgaria end at the
foot of the Balkans, and had shielded
the capital by securing to the Sultan the right
to garrison the mountain passes. He met the
objection that the safety of Turkey Is still
in question, by the tnte observation that 1t
might rely upon the courage and lntrendlty
of its defenders at the Balkan passes. When
the exhaustion of the Empire and the inferiorlty
of the Turkish Army are taken into account
Lord Beaconsield's rethoric seems delusive.
He is right in maintaining that Turkey
has received a new lease Of national life,
but he adroitly cOnceals the feeble thread





ferring to the Austrian occupation and
the Greek claims, the Premier said moth
ing new. He instanced the loss of her
American colonies to England as proof that
the surrender of territory is not necessarily
fatal to national power. Here again, OF course,
be disclosed weak point, and failed
to show that there is any practical differ
ence between "partitiOn and distribution"
the phrase by which he would reconcile the
Sultan to dismemberment of his Empire.
On the Asatic question, Lord BeacOnsfeld was
less 1iffuse, since he said little more than is
generally known. He did his utmost TO pla-
cate the French, and was emphatic in declaring
that English Intervention was simply intended
as a barrier to Russia. Lord Salisbury went
further, in observing that the security of
India rested upon making British power felt
in the Orient On the whole, the Premier
and his colleague made out a plausible
case, and England is likely to ring
with their praises.-The wOrdy encounter
between Lords Derby and Salisbury is trace
able to the bitter rivalry which exists between
these statesmen for the succession TO the Pre-
miership. In the question Of fact which is at
stake the probability is that Lord Derby IS
correct.
Year: 1878

DefalcatiOn will out, and even the fleet
footed defaulter will be taken in at last. Yes
terday an ex-cashier who fed from justice nearly
eight years ago was captured in one of our
streets - penniless. friendless, brOken-dOwn.
And yet with enough of the thief in him still
TO feel indignant that his bank had not for
given him, seeing that he had not ruined i'll
Year: 1878

During the past season nave published numer-
Gus communications on the subject OF cheap living.
Cornell student pursued his college course. with
ont loss of health. upon a SUN which seems almost
ludicrousy small; a physician, while attending
medical lectures IA this city, lived comfortably at
surprisingly low rate; another man got plenty to
eat and drink for few cents day. In reply to
these experiences we have printed the opinions OF
persons who insist that culture obtained by such
self-dcnial is notworth the cost, that health mast
suffer when subjected to such strain, and that the
sums mentioned would not provide the merest de-
cencos OF life. The cheap-liyers have returned TO
the charge with slight show OF asporty, asserting
that they have done what they have done, aud that
having done it, fairness required that the other side
should admit that any one so minded could go and
do likewise. In this last quarter of the Nineteenth
Century It may seem rather late to rciterate that
lone mans meat is another mans poison" but this
principle is at tho bottom Of all such discussions,
and no one who ignores il is tit to take part in them
at all. While AS internal economy is such that
oatmeal gruol will supply bis blood and
tissues with what is needed to make them efficient,
b. may absolutely require an occasional pound Of
meat TO keep him on his legs, aud A. may secure
for 10 cents day degree Of health and strength
for which b. is compelled TO pay twice or three
times that sum. We are not made alike. Physi-
clans have come TO the conclusion that general rules
for the treatment of dyspepsia are absolutely worth
less Some persons enjoy dreamless sleep after eat
nQ half warm mines-pie at midnight, when a slice
Of cold bread would have set all the demons dane
ing in their stomachs. In the face of such proof
that. while fearfully and wonderfully made" we
are all made different, it is absurdly untrue to
say that all the world can live at the rate Of 10
cents day apiece.
Year: 1878

After the public has well-nIgh forgotten the ex-
stence Of the young man who was known TO his
andlady as Lord Ogilyy, letter from the acting
Consul General of Great Britain undecoives the few
credulous people who may still have believed that
this was live lord. There is little reason however,
to hope that the average person, whether in
this country or Others, will learn anything
from this episode. There will be barber
counts aud yalet-lords TO the end of time America
has no more than her share Of them Such imposi-
tions have been the stock in trade Of novelsts for
generations, for the yearnne for close contact with
a real title is not necessarily republican, but hui
man. This case, however, must he ranked with
the clever achievements in this line of business.
When the would-be nobeman has the wit to spread
about reports of hisexalted station without SEEM
ing to do so, and TO meet them with persistent de-
mails that only serve to feed the rumors, people
who would know barber when they saw him may
be forgiven for being fooled.
Year: 1878

Now use your common sense to-day. Don't be in
a hurry. This is the first and greatest command
ment Don't be in hurry about anything. even
about your cooling drinks. If you obliged to go
down town, ride. II you must walk, take the shady
side of the street. Carry sun umbrella


Wear stout hat OF white color. and texture i'm
pervious to the SUMS rays, light straw hat COW
cred with loose folds of game or cambric


Let there be a fringe to cover the nape of
the neck and temples. Keep the spine well
protected, and encourage perspiration. Get
ont of town if YOU can. A saltwater bath IS
cooler and cheaper than doctors visit II labor
ing man, remember this is a capital time TO strike.
Treat yourself to a holiday. Never mind the Eight
hour law. Better work ten or twelve hours in q
cooler atmosphere than elk in tins weather.
Whatever happens. take IL coolly, and keep
your temper Swearing at the heat or the
Aies ia far too violent arareisA with tho
Year: 1878

The hot-air wave can safely be announced
among the distinguished arrivals, and good
many people would like 10 know how soon
the cold-air wave will telegraph for room.
When Chicago and St. Louis, that have
borne the heat and burden OF this
fierce heat. wece blessed, yesterday, by cooling
breezes, this CIty, with ell the surrounding
region, felt the first attack. 1t was mod
Grated by stir in tho air and by
showers that must have brought some
short relief, at least to many sufferers, but
its effects show how soTely it tried some.
Business was practically suspended IN very
many places all the routes that led from the
city were crowded to their utmost capacity !;
and among those who remained, there had
been, at midnight, 35 cases of sunstroke re-
ported to the police in tins city and Brooklyn,
not counting those persons who were
affected by the heat at their own resi-
dences. To those who have comfortable
homes, however, this heated term can
mean little more than mere personal IN
convenience if proper precautions are OBJ
served, and the wise injunction to keep
"cOol," both physically and mentally, is kept
in mind. 1t is to the poor that the burning
sun comes with a more dreadful aspect than
the freezing blasts of Winter, for these un-
fortunates have no other homes than
houses which breed disease and poison
the air that might save life. Those
who do even little to ameliorate the condition
of the tenement-houso population at this try
ing time, and above all, to aid the charities
that are springing up everywhere to stay the
yearly slaughter of the innOcents, will have at
least the recollection of a good deed. There
is little reason TO suppose that the heat will
abate at once-at midnight the thermometer
stood Just where it did at 6 o'clock last evening
and those who would know what it is to
save life can know.
Year: 1878




The chief of that lgDoble band of highway
men, who robbed the poor shOe-pedler and
paid for their shoes with brutal beating, has
been sentenced, for one of his many burglaries,
to twenty years imprisonment. In old times,
according to all the rOmancers, the lamenta-
tions of the poor followed the gentlemen of
the road on their last ride toward Tyburn !;
but if the pedler be still in the flesh, we dare
say he'll not be sorry when be hears of the
bad luck that has befallen Mr.. George Lent.


If that man be benefactor who makes two
blades of grass grow where one grew before,
what reward should await the man who proves
that where there was thought TO be one vol
cano there is in fact nOne9 Numbers of per-
sons have been led to believe in the existence
of veritable volcano in the North Carolina
Blue Ridge, who may learn from q letter given
elsewhers, from well-infoTmed correspondent
who has made personal examination of the
spot, just ON what commonplace grounds the
marvellous stories rest that have been told
abOut Bald Mountain. The mountain is made up,
according to this Observer account, Of strata Of
easily decOmposible gneiss, which are sliding
downward. Many cracks, great and small,
run at right angles TO these strata. The caves
which have been formed in the mountain are
merely spaces which have been left when
an upper sheet OF rock has slidden of and
"become inclined against the lower" The
rumblings that have been heard are doubtless
the noises which result from this grinding
movement, and the clonds Of smoke that have
been seen are probably clouds of the fine dust
which the decomposition produces, the sides
of these caves being covered with it. There
Is nothing anywhere to show volcanic forma-
tion, and this observer is no doubt right when
Year: 1878

Boston. Aug. 7.-At meeting of the
stockholders and creditors of the Boston
Betting company, held this afternoon, a
proposition will be made to the creditors,
which. if accepted, will enable the company
to pay its Indebtedness in full in order to
continue business under its present charter
but with new management.