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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-24
MILWAUKEE,
NEW YORK COTTON vrTuREx.
DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.

E0R WASHINGTON, BAL.e;En.
Il rlMORE. PHfLADtLPH
NEW YORK, AND ALI POINTS NOnIH AND
palace spamer EXCELSIOR, twics daily except
sJndayl between Qusntico AVID Washington. Ia
connection Nth trains of Richmond. Frsderlcks.
burg and Potomac railroad. Lave Richmond
iRichmond. Frederck burg and Potomac raiirosdJ
A. s:lz A. NJ arrive al Washington ts,samer Ex-
ceislorl AZ +. NJ Leave Richmond tRichmond.
fredericksburg and Potomac rails0ad) as 5:I2 r..
NJ /; arrive at Washington Steamer Excehiorl at
INTERCHANGEABLE TICKETS. -Arrange-
mens have been perfected by which alt rail tickets
from all points South TO all points ,rth. East. and
railway, will be received for IransI orr alton on the
boat between Quantco and Washington, without
extra charge. Passengers going North can, II they
desire procure rooms and speed the night on board,
GEORGE MATTISG.Y. superintendent.
=: a. TAYLOR, General Ticket Agent. te24
EoR PHILADELPHIA nsHA
steamer cuEA As srR M.yTE S,D,,,, rscSss r,,
receive freight for the above ports until III o'clock
A. NJ FRIDAY, 2ith instant.
&Z 3-Zt General SO i,hern Agent.
FOR OLD POINT CoM.ei|a,
FORT, NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH,, AND REGU.
LARLANDINGs JAMES RIVER DIRECT.
ALSO
CONNECTING AT OLD POINT SAME AFTER.
NOON WITH STEAMERS FOR WASHING.
Ton, D. c., BALTIMORE AND THE
NORTH. sMlTHFiELD, AND
HAMPTON, VA.
GREATLY REDUCED EATEs.
FARE TO OLD POINT OR NORFOLK, also.
FARE TO OLD POINT OR NORF ok, ANDRE
TURN. ~ 80.
TICKETS GOOD UNTIL USED.
THE SPACIOUS AND ELEGANT STEAMER
ARIEL,
carrying United states NALL
z. c. CLIFFORD. Commander.
leaves Richmond every TUESDAY, THURSDAY,
and SATURDAYat A. NJ for abo' -rainec places,
arriving at old Point at 4 z. ~, connecting with
steamer for Washington, ID. C., and the Bay Line.
which arrives in Baltimore next morniDg In full
lime TOR early trains 10 Philadelphia, New York, and
Boston. Returning. The steamer ARIEL leaves Nor
folk At q 4. VI. aud O'd Point al 7:15 A. VI. every
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, arriving
al Richmond at L. NJ
FAIRS 10 Baltimore. .......................... 8 90
Fare "a Philadelphia Observation-Disclosures. 90
Fare 10 New f0rk.............,.. .......,.. 10 50
Limited tickets 10 Washington, ID. G.. ard return
ria Old Point, Potomac Steamboat Company and
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad,
So
PASSENGERS GOING NORTH BY THIS
LINE HAVE SEVERAL HOURS
AT OLD POINT For A
SALTWATER BATH.
Through tickets on sale on steamer Ariel and a.
CARRIERS Agency, 1000 Main street Baggage
checked through
LOW RATES TO CHURCH, MILL.
OLD POINT, NORFOLK, &C.
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1T CAN BE USED CLEAR OR WITH FRESH
MILK. ICE. SODA, OR HOT WATER,
LEMONADE. OR WITH FINE
ICE, TO SUIT THE TASTE.

Sold by leading wine-merchants, grocers, hotels,
and druggists everywhere. -, =.
Trade supplied at manufacturers prices by
CHRISTIAN & WHITE, Gr0cers, Sl4 Main
street. Richmond, Va. IA 9-GSu'"3fom
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DIED or The TRAIS-ELECp0S OF OFFICERS
Of KNIGHTS OF HONOR, CONNANDERY, AND
CHAPTEE-ACCIDEST TO A LADY AND HER
SoN-NoRE NEWS FROM THE HAIL. STORM,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21

NJ ~.
800 acres in farm. 200 acres under hedge fence,
farm divided into 40 acre fields. good H. story
frame dwelling Z rooms. good barn and cribs,
land. Situated , ar Laadonia, Audrain county
Mo. Price $1,000.
No. 26.
2S0 acres improved prairie land, good frame
house, 4 rooflS. good smoke house, abundance
living water. Land all under fence. Price SIS
per acre.
One of the best stock farms in Missouri, con-
tanning loo acres. 900 acres under fence. 100 acres
meadow, 800 acres pasture, a fine brick house Of
Is rooms built in modern style, good barn, three
/ orchard of 500 apple tress, situated s1-2 milys
south of Mexico, on the c. & A. railroad, churches
and school house in neighbarhood. Price $500
fer ace.
Farm of so ocres all well fenced. good one story
frame dwelling house OF four rooms. kitchen de-
tached. good frame barn 44xA feet. and other
out buildings, yonnd orchard and abundance of
small fruit, 10 acres in cultivation balance tim
bered pasture. Situgte Pig miles west of Mexico.
Price $3.50. terms easy.
$50 acres number one stock farm, all under
good rall fence, well watered by creek. ponds
and wells, GOO acres in tame grass. 400 of which is
pasture. good orchard of three acres in full bear
Ing and variety of small fruit. good frame house
. rooms. porclles add portico, good smoke house
and other out buildings, ward nicely orfiamented
with eyergreens and shrubbery. Avery dcsira-
Bile farm, two miles from Centralia. Price Sl5. 900
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
Robert j. Muir. plf.
VS.. Divorce.
Mary J. Muir, def't. y

NOW, at this day, comes plaintiff,
~ by his attorney, and files his pc
tition, verified by affidavit, alleging,
among other things, that said defend
ant is a nonresident of the State of
Missouri.
You said nonresident defendant
are, therefore, hereby notified Of the
filing of said petition, the object and
general nature ofwhich is to obtain a
decree of divorce from the bonds of
matrimony heretofore contracted !;
and, unless you be and appear at the
next regular term of this court, to
be begun and held at the court house
in the city of Mexico. on the 1st Mon
day in June, next, and plead to said
petition, the same will be taken as
confessed, and judgment rendered
accordingly.
1t is further ordered that a copy
hereof be published, according to
law, in the Mexico Weekly LEDGER,
a ne wspaper printed and published
in Audrain county. A true copy.
Witness my hand as Clerk, and
*......* seal of said court, affixed
SEAL : at office i'll Mexico this, 3rd
*.'.* dav of March, A. D., 1881.
JAMES CARROLL, CLERK.
W. Fl. KEENAN,, ESQ, atty for plff.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
Public Sale!
TUESDAY,, APRIL 26th, 1881.

HAVING LEASED MY FARM for a term OF
Il years, will sell to the highest bidder. on
TUESDAY, AIrRIL 16, 1881, IL miles Northeast
of Mexico and ( miles South Of Santa Fee. Mo-,
on the Florida road. all of my personal property,
consisting Of
IS head of 4 year old steers % head
p year old steers ; some yearlings
g headygood mich COWS; 1 thor
oughbred bull; 200 hid. good sheep,
nearly all ewes and young; 4 head
of well broke mules 8 or 4 good
saddle and harness horses so or 60
No. 1 stock hogs, among them some
good brood sows ; GOO or 800 BUSH
els good wheat; also, corn, oats and
hay 3wagons and harness l reap
er and mower, 1 wheat drill, 1 corn
planter, 8 cultivators, 2 three-horse
breaking pIows, harrows, &C.. &C.,
all nearly new, and many other
articles too tedious to mention.
TERMS OF SALE.-An sums over $40 a credit
will be given until the 18th of December, 1881,
purchaser executing negotiable note, bearing
interest at the rate of s per cent. per annum
from date.
JOHN A. JUDY.
AUCTIoNEERs-M. j. CLARK.
j. W. ATCHISON. ids
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21

NO z.
100 acres. Ali under good hedge and rail
fence. 40 acres new meadow, so acres pasture,
balance in cultivation. New frame house OF SIX
rooms, good barn. cribs, etc. Good wells at
hoNse and barn. Stock ponds. young orchard,
good timber, Situated 6 miles northwest OF
Mexico. Price $500 per acre.
NOD.
sG5 acres in farm. 100 acres timbered land
watered by Young creek, 1870 acres grass iand
fincluding 50 acres meadow balance in cultiva-
ton. Young orchard just beginning to bear:
plenty small fruit. two-Story frame house OF u
rooIas, tenant house of 2 saoms. ice-house,
smoke-house and other out buildings. Frame
barn 5sxH feet, good double corn crib, living
stream of wafer runs throuhh farm. two good
ponds. school house within l mile and 2 churches
within a mile.
30 acres, fronting half mile on public road,
iGG acres In meadow, orchard of 10 acres, balance
number one tillable land, large two-story house
handsomely finished, all necessary out build
lngs, Situated pig miles south of Mexico.
Price $40 per acre.
100 acres all well fenced and nicely s .b-divid-
Ell, % acres good Timothy meadow. 20 acres good
pasture, balance in cultivation and timber good
orchard. good / 1-2 story frame house hVe oootns,
good stable and other out buildings, high rolling
land as hood as any in the county. Price 5000
per acre.
Nc II.
100 acres. all under good hedge and plank
fence. coed two story frame house, new and IN
good orier, number one cellar and smoke house.
coal house and barn. good land and in good
neighborinod. Situated 10 miles north east OF
Mexico. Price $500.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
Signs Of Spring.

The dark shadow of the coming
house~cleaning broods like q bird OF
evil omen over your once happy
home.
The wife of your bosom talks of
new carpets and new furniture.
AZ you ride homeward in the cars
you hear stories of early peas.
The English sparrow has set his
alarm clock on hour earlier, and now
arouses you from your slumbers at
4 q. %.
The pussy willow asserts itself, and
the willow pollard shows forth q jaun-
diced tint.
The mud sticketh to yGnr shoes,
and the passing vehicle supplies your
raiment with the sape article.
Anon the dust rises and fills your
eyes and your mouth.
The wind blows where it listeth.
The lightning-rod man and the per.
ipatetic vender Of step..adders knock
q your door.
Your liver begins to assert itself.
Easter cards and Easter bonneta
~ the shop windows.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
Dissolution NAtice.

Dissolution Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
co-partnership composed of
Thomas Flint and james F. McWill-
Jams, late partners in the practice of
dentistry in the city of Mexico. Mo-,
under the firm name and style of
Flint & McWilliams, was on the 1st
day Of March, 1881. dissolved by
mutual consent.
THOMAS FLINT.
j. F. MCWILLIAMs.
P. S.-All accounts due said firm
will be collected and receipted for by
j. +. McWilliams. 48-4W
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21

1wenr ah remhme5 oNoa acres ae amA Gnm and Farming Imhmh State of Missouri at bedrock prices 4
nd Bm property the dyd h@hoM NO.
Humorapuhne auu hU United snM my ABILITIES r@Mgr enhmngpw property ms supposedly oohga agency
The mTmmmf my gE lands are situate vm@ easy dHmefn Mexico hnmmy@ad Adnm county, and rlp ma
ny hdmu nd States The following list rahap hn fmyL Lam Register:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21

NO. tots
11s e0-Ioo aeres-108 90-100 acres in farm 10
acres timber. detached. Prairie portion Wen
fenced with plank and post fence all broker
save 10 acres; 10 acres timothy meadow 10
acres sown to wheat good frame house. l l-2
stores of rooms good cellar. good discern ;
frame barn, 40x40 feet wagon shed and corn
cribs 100 fruit trees of all varieties. Situated 3
miles east of Mexico and 2 miles west OF Benton
CITY. Price, S2.500. $500 cash. balance on Time
to suit purchaser, at s pei cent.
No IA.
100 acre farm divided into six fields, all under
good fence, 20 acres timothy and clover, 20 acres
blue grass pasture, Is acres t!mbered pasture, 40
acres in cultivation, 5 acres lots and orchard.
good one story frame house 5 rooms. porch and
Dortieo. good new barn, two wells, good stock
ponds. four miles west of Mexico, on the county
road. Price 5000.
No. 70.
$50 acres in farm. all under fence, 10 acres TIM
bered pasture 10 acres good meadow so acres
pasture balance in cultivation plenty of timber
for home use creek runs through farm good
orchard. Good one and a half story frame
dwelling in good repair Outbuildings fair. The
land is first-class Situated four and a half
miles northeast OF EMexico, Missouri. Price, $40
per acre.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
The Clerks,

How difficult it is to distinguish
them from the proprietor until you
are used to them. Then it is easy.
Proprietors wear clothes that clerks
wouldn't be seen sitting ashes in.
At the start, however, clerks speak
of themselves in a lawdy dawdy style
as s.salesmen." They have a faint
idea that the latter is a dictionary
word and means something.
The king clerk is the floor walker
He is drum major without bearskin
cap or baton, and fills an important
position in an important manner.
Poor humanity always feels its knees
quake wheE Sefore his awful presence,
until he says, "Show these ladies
them hose,'' and it is proved that be
is but a mortal.
The &C live clerk shows all the
goods in his department, talks a
steady stream and wears a customer
out. He makes a few sales, and
doesn't staylong in any place.
The ~listless clerk, with dropping
eyes and pale necktie, drops his goods
on the counter in a don't care-a-tiye
way, wearied by the exsrtion, and
the customer trades with him because
he is so r~efreshingly lazy.
The average clerk comes up town
in the morning the very ideal of
spic-span newness. He is fresh every
day, his collar and shirt front are
just from the smoothing iron, bis
clothes are moulded to his form, and
his hair looks as if his good, kind
grandmother had slicked it down
with bears oil.
The poorly dressed clerk. There
Is no facts in regard to bis nonenity.
"The masher a q clerk" He is
engaged because OF his superlative
attraction to silly women, who call
on him every day and buy some little
knick-knack in order to bask in the
sunshine Of his radiant and charming
smile.
The genial clerk is a man who is
always toe good for his position, and
. positive addition to a well-regulated
establishment. One clerk of this
sort is worth a whole store full of
average clerks. He sells goods be-
fore you know you have bought them.
The genuine business man some
times begins life as a clerk, but he
pushes out of the position in an
amazing hurry.
The lady clerk. Who would be so
ungallant as to say she is not inter-
esting? She Is. Gentlemen like to
trade at the counter where she pre-
sides, and she is usually assigned to
= department where they are sure to
come on little errands. Ladies'. on
the contrary. do not like to purchase
OF them, and it is q noticeable fact
that she Is seldom seen in the dry
goods department.
There are a great many varieties
Of clerks-drug clerks, grocery clerks
and ten thousand others. They are
the ornamental and somewhat useful
mile-posts on the highway to bust
ness. They seem to be q necessity.
but why they should carry the world
In It's entirety on their shoulders, and
superintend the progress of the plan
cts in their orbets, is mystery. But
they all do it, or at least they think
they do.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21

49,
No one ever hears 4 boy complain
about the back-breaking, soul-killine
hardahips Of wood-sawing. All such
talk 10 confined to adults, and it has
no red foundation. There is only
one way to saw wood and take com
fort at the same time, and every boy
has that way. Yesterday afternoon
half . cord Of four foot wood was
Hung down ut the gate of q house,
and the wagon had only departed
when . boy Is years old appeared
With . buck-saw in his hand. All
his actions indicated his purpose to
% through that wood-pile like chain
lightning, but il took him exactly
seven minutes to discover that he had
left the saw-buck in the wood shed,
and five minutes more to bring it out.
Some boys would have dropped the
saw-buck wherever it happened and
pitched right in, but this boy epent
I'VE minutes in selecting q location OF
the first water BY this time he had
the presence of three other boys to
cheer him on to victory. The three
boys made the following sggestions
In the order given below:
ssI'd hire q masheen."
"I'd run away and fight Injuns.''
sid let. the old man do it."
But the hero went right ahead with
his work. In twenty minutes after
his move he had q stick of wood on
the saw-bnck. He turned it over
four timesbefore it settled down to
his satisfactory and then he picked
up the saw. A buek-ssR is a simple
yet ingenious piece of machinery.
Men who were saving Woody the
day have been known to stand and
gaze at the saw for an hour at a time
without being able to solve its mys-
FERROUS points. This boy picked up
the saw and carefully examined it.
In the course of seven Minutes, with
the aid of the other three boys, he
was enabled to discover:
|. That the teeth we're all there. +
2. That the frame work was OF
beech.
3. That it was in perfect order, as
far as a boy could judge.
When these discoveries had been
made, a discussion arose to whether
a boy could saw faster by saving left
handed. The vote on this question
was carried in the negative, and now
the moment arrived for action.
The boy spit on his hands.
He removed his coat.
He bumped up his back.
He pulled his cap ever his ears.
He had bis knee on the stick and
the saw in hand, when q little three
cent dog down on the next corner
ran out at a passing goat. The goat
rushed into a yard and a girl was
heard screaming. The saw fell to
the ground, the saw-buck was upset,
and the boy went tearing down to the
corner like a cheap whirlwind, aud
when darkness began to settle down
" the face of the earth he returned
to carry the saw and buck into the
WOOdshed for the night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
Order Of Publication.

@ On yacation) s~
State of Missouri, County OF Audrain.
Audrain Circuit Court, March 8, 1881.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21

No, 81.
$50 acres. all under fence, subdividad 49,.
heids, young hedge fence, $50 acres ms.d iaao nyt
acres under plow. $50 acres timheraS NV, 10
two small frame houses, good water tp sss'ife
creek runs through farm, a no. 1 stoeL ,aa std
ate miles northwest of Mexico. prica y
per acre. AANe $Na0
No. 80.
$50 acreS) all in cultivation. 200 aeras in ,u,
tfon; balance In blue grass and ttmothy Iva.
brlck anu frame house with Is rooms. ies .asge
buggy houre and all Necessary imnroy u noa.e.
three good orchards, running water fhrornh ~ ~
farm, good coal bank 81 inch vein A iae
farm OF number one land. Price low. 'p''n0ia
No. 80.
252 acres all under good fence excent An a..
timber detached | l-2 miles. 70 acres f 4 ~
good orchard. balance in cultivation ooaa aIs,
story frame house five rooms, COCA Stshia o1s
clstern. fine lot of shade trees around tba haa saa
good school house on farm. school fuhd s,,t Ecas
to run school s months in the wear, ahnndanaslh
stock water. Situate on the Mexico and y
snarles I2ta, nine mics east of Mexico, 5 nilss
from Laddonla and Benton City. A nne faTa
Well l~ocatedgood range for stock. Price sa 8
per acre. ~N%N
No. ii.
GIG acres river bottom land, all in gohd sh.r.
lbo acres blue grass. 100 acres timothy. in acsS
IiilbeTed pasture, balance under plow ali III
FENCED, good ! l-2 story frame house Isx4s H..
Win Ell loN32 leet, good ice house, buggy hons
&c. Barn ioNG0 feet with basement +eysa ts.s
plenty water for all purposes, improyemsns
nearly new and IN good shape, good Land Ss
uate five miles north of Mexico, on comfy ma
Price $50 per acre,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-21
No. o.

80 acres improved land. two miles northeast OF
Mexico. GO acres In cultivation, 20 acres in pas
ture. house with two rooms and kitchen. log
barn and number ode smoke house. one mile of
hedge fence, good we'll and two ponds, orchard
six wears old. Price $2,0op.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Social Status of New England.

Rev. Samuel W. Dixie of Royalton, Vt,
has taken divorce law and public chastity
for his speciality in social science, and the
cream of his elaborate researches was re-
Gently SKINNED in one of the Monday"
lectures in Boston. A large portion is in
regard to the evil of divorce, but he shows
that general crime has increased in Massa-
chusetts 20 per cent. in twenty years and
offenses against chastity "a per cent. He
addressed letters of inquiry to 100 prom
inent citizens in all parts Of New England
and their responses lead him to conclude as
follows
Il form, so far as these letters go, the
opinion that there is probably less of open
and coarse vice of certain kinds in many
respectable country towns than there was
70 or 80 years ago-very likely less than so
years ago. But, with this exception, which
covers but part of our country towns, and
occasionally city, as correct a summary of
opinion as could give would be like this:
In three-fourths Of the localities reporting
on this point RIGHTEOUSNESS is said to be
increasing. In nearly as many the destruc-
ton Of unborn life goes on as fast, or faster,
than ever. Physicians are very emphatic
on this point, and many speak with great
indignation Of the wicked practices Of some
church-members. In one-half the places,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
ESthetic Philanthropy.
From the London World


Imagine the faces of the British workman
and his wife on being told, when suffering
from the pangs of such seasonable weather
ings of Providence which claimed their
gratitude was a society founded to bring
the refining and cheering influences of nat
ural and artistic beauty" to his home. Such
is the object which number of ladies and
gentlemen, under the presidency of Prince
Leopold, gravely propose to themselves.
Estheticism disguised as philanthropy is
one Of the characteristic hypocricies Of the
time. 1t is easy, agreeable, inexpensive,
and it involves no exertion which is not in
itself pleasure. Soup societies, coal so.
cieties, associations for teaching the orphan
boy to read, and the orphan girl to sew
these are coarse, material, prosaic, and irk-
some efforts. Any person who chooses to
be charitable can have the commonplace
consciousness that he contributes by his
aims, giving to the relief Of the unutter-
able misery of this great city. But there
are no imagination and no humor in CIV
ing starving wretch loaf, in sending
q sack of Goals into squalid, comfortless
home, in helping those who cannot help
themselves against the inclemencies of eli
mate and the rigor of their circumstances.
1Aere LAS uot Deeu 30 mucn uistress Us
there is now at the East End of London for
- years. One may therefore trace fine
and, to use the approved cant of the school,
subtle irony in the selection of the present
moment for the Inauguration of the "Kyrle
Stciety" with the purpose which has already
been explained. The people are perishing,
not only for lack of knowledge, but for lack
of food. What then? Let US, say the men,
beers Of this delightful organization, Solace
them with dado, and relieve them with q
portiere. There is neither bread, meat, nor
fire in their dwellings; is that any reason
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
and drinking are found to-

RIGHTEOUSNESS and drinking are found to-
gether, while one quarter report more licen-
tious than incorporate persons in their COM
munities. Nearly all find the increase among
the native population, while several call
attention to the recent increase among peo-
pie of foreign birth, and especially their
descendants in the second generation.
Some alarming things are said by few Of
the mischiefs wrought in shops, and espec-
tally by commercial travellers. Very few re-
port an improved public conscience, Or
stricter punishment of vice and its crimes,
while on no point do find SO near an ap-
proach to. unanimity as in the opinion that
the public conscience is dormant, and that
these offenses are punished less frequently
than formerly"
Mr.. Dixie does not lay all these evils of
course to divorce. but merely points out the
increase common to all these social evils.
He moreover finds the same tendency in the
New England stock on the western reserve
in Ohio, while in counties peopled by Welsh
men and Southerners it is less marked.