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TOMpKfEe, GAGE 90.

RAwLkY SPRINGS. va, coo feet .
~ above tde-wster. Capacity three MY
700 guests. Open june 1. For particulars add r..
o. A. SPRINKEL. Treas, Harrisonburg. We
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Diver SPRINGS now open for We option OF
~ ROARDkRS from JUNE LIST to SEP =
IEMBER LIST: Ample facilities for DO It vEA
ing, fishing, bathing. grabbing: fruit in 'h.kf
abundance. Terms. 81 rs per day. over four days
shorter time, 81 60 per day. Address Dr. r. p
BLACKSTONE, River Springs Pc. Md Pas
engers On Arrowsmith land at Colton's wharf
iel. 3m
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y oCK ENuN SPRINGS AND BATHS. VA.

OPEN JUNE I. <
Telegraph in the hotel. delightful Lss
home tor families. No Bar
For circulars aud terms apply to
A. b PRATT, Proprietor,
m11-3m f0l 9th street, washington n q.
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STOCKTOE HOTEL, CAPE MAY, N -CHAs
- DuEFY. OF Continental Hotel. Phiisdei- n . n
phia. Manassr Greatly enlarged and i'm Ev
new billiard room and bowling allev. passenger
elevator snd electric bells: Comfortable accom no.
dsron for ], GOO guests. Music by Simon Hassler's
celebrated Orches'ra Opens June %, 1881.
Rcom Clerk, HARRY DENIsoN, late Of the G!rsrd
Philadelphia. iel- On
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fSu CASSor PLEASE Your BOYS better han
sy giving them new eutfit from tue spien1'n
stoc- OF clothlng fer sale at the boys cIofhing
avenue, A'''Aa
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BEAUMONT HOUSE. corner Atlantic n ]. . =
~ and Virgins avenues, At antic city, Nh
new MANAGEMENT Terms monerate " III
STEON6, proprietor. formerly of BAltimore)
m27- Pun
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RLOCK ISLAND, r. LOGAN VIEW RO-
DfEL. TEN MILES AT SEA surf aud q . A
s Blue Mftea oaat dtss SPLENDID bass and
hret- class accommodates $50 guests; telegraphic
Ga6ie seDd for illustrated circular. o. 8. MAR
OENs manager. mia I'm
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The EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS Messrs. Saks
COS establishment Is TO undergo makes n
necessary Tor them On order TO provide a pIac
lot The display OF the goods usually shown or
the nrst nooI) to clean out the goods on TN,
second floor and those In the annex over RI,
Dank adjoining. They refer to the advertlsins
columns which tell the 81 ory far hatIer
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BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.

BROWN CHEluCAL COMPANY.
ms-eo BALxUoaSI Nd.
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IRON BITrEBH,
A true Tonic.
1HON BITTERS
Complete
Strength ,ner.
RON BITTERH

See that all IRON Writers are manufactured
by BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY, and have
crossed red lines on the wrapper.
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CONGRESS HALL. CAFE MAY. AA
Unequaled locStion. substantial buila- lE.SH
ing, new fnri iture, prompt and attentive service
elevator, electric bells.
TABLE OF PARTICULAR EXCELLENCE
The Orchestr- will be conducted by Mr.. thinner
81. j. g. r. CRUMP
OF Colorado Hotel. PHILADELPHIA
ro0Q
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MEMPHRENAGoG HOUSE NEWPORT, VT,
HA commanding ms gnifoeDt view Of n
the lake ard mountains Newly fitted YrAAV
up: supplied with steam and gas; accom- &E:sX ~
modates 400 guests. SO per day, $40 TO Si7 80 per
week spt cial rates 10 family. CHAS. A. 9LkA-
SON. Mansser. ml7-2r
T lockwood HOUSE, HARPsR's FERRY.
IL w. VA MRs. 3. T.. I0VETT. Pro- n
prletress Hish elevation dne scenery yfAR
large rooms: table supplied FROM country S..E
market; fine fishing. Terms IS per week. Hpecial
terms Address the above. Open June I. 1851.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
SlleriHs Sale.

RH virtue and authority of tran
~ script execution, issued from the
office of the clerk of the circuit court
of Audrain County, Missouri, re-
turnable at the October term, 1881,
of said court, and to Inc directed, IN
favor of James A. Jackson, ana
against d. A. Dennis, | have levied
upon and seized all the right, title,
interest and claim of the said ID. A.
Dennis of, in and to the following
described real estate, to-wit: Inc
west half of the northeast quarter OF
section (6) six. township (5l) hitys
one, range (7) seven, and the east han
of the southwest quarter OF section
(32) thirty-two, township (52) h1ty,
two, range (7) seven, all lying anu
being in the said County, and otate
of Missouri, ana will, on
Friday, the 9TH day Of October,
1881, between hours of nine O'Clock
i'm the forenoon and five O'Clock m
the afternoon of that day, at the eas'
front door of the court house IN tno
City of Mexico, County of Auoralh
aforesaid, sell the same, or SO mncn
thereof as may be required, at puD..s
vendue, to the highest bidder, los
cash in hand, (suject to all prior ilcne
and iudgments,1 to satisfy said eA07
eution and costs.
ID. d. WOODWARD,
2l-tds Sheriff, Audrain 20" Mv'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

Notice is herehy given to the tax
payers of Audrain county that the
tax books of 1881 are now in my
hands ready for collection, and that
the undersigned collector will attend
At the time and places mentioned
below for The purpose of receiving
taxes due for the year of 1881, and
the clinlucnt taxes for back years.
All persons having taxes to pay are
required by law TO come forward
and settle:
Walkers school house. Linn town
ship, Sept. ii and 10.
Rush Hill september 22.
Laddonia, October II and Is.
Farbcr. . ctober p.
Nandalia, October 18th.
Crows school house. October 20.
Zion church, Sailing township, Oc-
tober %.
Friendship, Sailing township, Oc-
to5cr 26th.
Thompson Station, October p aud
%.
Martinsburg, November l and 2.
Mexico court house, balance of the
year.
Road receipts must be presented
to me before the lst of February,
1882. After that time they will not
be received Il. +. DOBHNS,
Collector Reuenuc for Audrain Co
Mexico, Mo-, Sept. 9th, 1881.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
SIleriffS Sale i'm Partition.
f. W. Bradley, and others,
VS..
John p. Jesse, ct al.
In the Circuit of Court of Audrain
County. Missouri.

Try virtue and authority of decree
and order of sale made by the
said court, in the above entitled
cause, and of a certified copy thereof,
dated September End, 1881, / will, on
Friday, the 9TH of October, 1881,
between the hours of nine O'Clock in
the forenoon, and five O'Clock in the
afternoon of that day. at the east
front door of the court house in the
city of Mexico, in Audrain county,
Missouri, sell. at public vendue, to
the highest bidder, the following de-
scribed real estate. viz: West half of
the northeast quarter, section (32)
thirty-two, township (5D fifty-one,
range( (9)nine, west and the southwest
fourth of the northeast fourth of the
northeast quarter, and the northwest
fourth of the southeast fourth of the
northeast quarter, section (32) thirty
two, township SD tifty-one, range
(9) west, containing in all one hun
dred acres. Terms of sale as follows,
viz: One-tifth cash balance in twelve
Q2) months, with 10 per cent. inter-
est from date of sale.
ID. ID. WOODWARD,
2l-tds Sheriff, Audrain Co, Mo-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08

This is the way Fannie Field in the
"Prairie Farmer" answers the question,
care wives supported?'
''Who has cooked your meals, made,
washed and mended your clothes all
these years? Who made the butter and
cheese that you sold and pocketed the
money for? Who took care of your
children, nursed you when you were
sick, and bore with your outrageous
fault finding when things didn't go to
suit you? Who patched, and darned,
and contrived, and saved, and made
every dollar do the work of three? And
what has she had to pay her for all
this? Just her board and clothes as
she went along, and if you were to
die tomorrow all that she could claim
of the property that she worked so hard
to help you save, would be the use
of one third of the real estate; and in
nine cases out of ten that is literally
worse than nothing. If it had not been
for your wife's help, would you have
been worth 30 much to-day as you are
now? If you had been obliged to hire
a woman to do the work that your wife
has done for her board and clothes, do
you imagine that you could have
done much more than make both ends
meetW
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, Edward Grit and
w and Mary Grit, his wife, by
their certain deed of trust, dated on
the 24th day of August, 1880, and re-
corded in the office of the Recorder
Of Deeds, i'll and for the county of
Audrain and State of Missouri, in
mortgage book ''P," on page 466,
conveyed to one John Jones
the following described real
estate, situated in Audrain county,
State of Missouri, to-wit The south
west fourth of <he southeast quarter
of section (16) sixteen, township (5l)
fifty. one, range(6) six, west, in trust
for the purpose of securing the pay
ment of certain note in said deed
of trust mentioned and, whereas,
it is provided in said deed of trust
that III. case of the inability or retu-
sal of the said Jones Jones to act as
such trustee, the then acting Sheriff
of Audrain county, Missouri, shall
become his successor, and may pro-
ceed to sell the property in said deed
of trust described, or any part there
of, to the highest bidder, at the east
front door of the court house in Mex
leo, Audrain county, Missouri, for
cash; and, whereas, the note men,
toned in said decd is past due and
unpaid, and the said John Jones has
refused to act as such trustee. Now,
therefore, at the request of the holder
of said note, and in pursuance of the
power in me vested by said deed of
trust, 1, ID. D. Woodward, acting
Sheriff of Audrain county, Missouri,
will, on
Thursday, the 3Oth day of September,
1881, at the east front door of the
court house in Mexico, Audrain
county. Missouri, proceed to sell said
real estate, to the highest bidder, for
cash, to pay off said note and the in
terest, and the costs of executing this
trust. d. d. WOODWARD,
al.tds Sheriff, Audrain Co.. Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
Administrators Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that let
ters of administration upon the
estate of Martha Wiggs deceased,
have been granted to the undersigned
by the Audrain Probate Court OF
Audrain county, Missouri. bearing
date of August 20, 1881. All persons
having claims against said estate are
required to exhibit them to me for
allowance within one year from the
date of said letters or they may De
precluded from any benefit from the
estate, and if said claims be not ex-
hibited to me within two years from
the date of the publication OF this
notice, said claims will be forever
barred. OLIVER l.. WOODS,
19-4t Admir- estate Martha Wigs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
That Awful Boy.
GEmAru's penrian1
f~

A young gentleman of our acquaint.
ance was invited to take tea on Sunday
afternoon with family on north Madi.
son street, in which there are several
young ladies, and an irrepressible boy Of
eight autumns, who had, strange to re-
late, heard Pinafore, in all its various
forms. When they were seated at the
table, the precocious boy announced that
he had made new verse to Pinafore,
out of his own head and started out
my name it is Char-l.e.e
I'm a hustler, as you see
slid down the cellar door and tore my pants,
And so did my sisters, and
"Silence" yelled the head of the
house in stern voice, and Charlie was
led out, while the young man blushed
and the ladies giggled. It was some time,
however, before the young poet could be
made to understand just why his effusion
was SO odious to his audience, but he
promised "never to do it again." though
it is quite likely that he will be kept In
the background at future tea parties
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
Those Horrible Fashion Plates.
fRoston Transcript

Mrs. Homespun threw down the pa
per and pulled off her spectacles with q
Jerk.
dts perfectly scand'lous!" she ex-
claimed. "For my part, can't see how
any respectable woman could wear such
a thing as that. When I was gal we
used to wear low necks and short sleeves;
but mercyv"-and here she cast with
ering glance at the paper in her lap be-
fore finging it upon the floor.
"Why, what is the matter, aunt?"
asked Cicely, picking up the paper.
"Matterl matter enough, I should
sayl" cried the old lady; "just look at
that fashion plate there, if you are not
ashamed to look at it. 1t is perfectly
scand'lous, say"
"Why, auntp said Cicely, brim.
ming with fun, "that is only liver pad
picturer
ri don't care what kind of a new-fan-
gled name they give to it," persisted her
aunt; cts scand' 'lous and disgrsceful,
and no woman that's got spark Of
modesty about her would ever be seen
In one Of them"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
How Indians Return Calls.

thti"aukee kHSl ouh'l
A party of Sioux Indians were guests
at leading Milwaukee hotel, and the
ladies had a great deal of amusement,
studying their customs. That is, they
all did except one lady. The ladies
called upon the Indians, and the say
ages returned the calls almost before the
ladies got to their rooms
One of the ladies called on a chiet
and then went to her room and retired,
and pretty soon there was knock at
her door and she found that it was the
chief. She told him to come in the
morning.
The lady unlocks her door in the
morning 80 the porter can come in and
build a fire before she gets up. She
heard a knock in the morning, and, sup
posing it was the porter, she said:
"Come in" The door opened and in
walked Mr.. Indian. She took one look
at him and pulled the bed clothes over
her head. He sat down on the side Of
the bed and said, "How?' Well, she
was so scared that she didn't know
"How'' from Adam. She said to him in
lllG UtSt .ClOuA tiIht sue COuiu CoIuulduu
"Please, good Mr.. Indian, 60 away until
/ get up" but he didn't seem to be in q
hurry. He picked up pieces of her
wearing apparel from the floor, different
articles that he didn't seem to know any
thing about where they were worn, and
made comments on them in the Sioux
tongue. The stockings seemed to para
lyze his untutored mind the most.
They were those long, 9O0 in the shade
stockings, and they were too much for
his feeble intellect. He held them up
by the toes and said "Ugh!" The lady
trembled and wished he would go away.
He seemed to take great delight in ex-
amining the hair on the bureau, and look
ed at the lady as much as to say, "Poor
girl, some hostile tribe has made war on
the pale face and taken many scalps."
Finally, she happened to think of the
bell, and she rang it as though the
house was on fire, and pretty soon the
porter came and invited the Indian to
go down stairs and take drink. The
lady locked that door too quick, and she
will never leave it open again when
there are Indians in town. She says her
hair-on the bureau-fairly turned
gray from fright
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
an.

The average weight of an adult man is
l40 pounds Is ounces.
The average weight of skeleton is
about IA pounds.
Number of bones, 240.
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the height of the living man.
The average weight of the brain Of a
man is 81 pounds; of woman, 2 pounds
IL ounces.
The brain of man exceeds twice that
of any other animal.
The average height of an Englishmarl
is 5 feet inches; of Frenchman, feet
4 inches; and of a Belgian, 5 feet 81
inches.
The average weight of an Englishman
is $50 pounds; of 4 Frenchman, l36
pounds; and of Belgian, 140 pounds.
The average number of teeth is 80.
A man breathes about 20 times in a
minute, or !, 200 times in an hour.
A man breathes about IS pints of air
in a minute, or upward of 7 hogsheads
in a day.
A man gives off 4.OS per cent. carbonic
gas of the air he respires; respires 1866
cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in "a
hours; consumes l0.G67 cubic feet of
oxygen in 2i hours, equal to 1875 cubic
inches of common air.
A man annually contributes to vegeta-
tion l24 pounds of carbon.
The average of the pulse in infancy is
l20 per minute; in manhood, so; at 60
years, 60. The pulse of females is more
frequent than that of males.
The weight of the circulating blood is
about % pounds.
The heart beats IS times q minute
sends nearly 10 pounds of blood through
the veins and arteries each beat; makes
beats while we breathe once.
$40 pounds, or l hogshead II pints of
blood pass through the heart in one hour
$4,000 pounds or "a hogsheads, gal
Ions, or 1O,7s23 pints pass through the
heart in "a hours
1000 ounces, of blood pass through
the kidneys in one hour.
174,000,000 holes or cells are in the
lungs, which would cover surface
thirty times greater than the human
body.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
The Male Sex Dress.
INeyy VoyL S,,r .,

"The fact is that there are very few
men who are formed regularly. What a
professional cutter would call regular
proportion is the measurement of thirty
six inches to the breast and thirty-six
inches to the waist. But those measure
ments are seldom met with" This was
said to Sun reporter in reply 10 inquir-
les as to the shapes that are encountered
by tailors who make custom clothing.
Experienced cutters say that they are
obliged to make allowances for peculiar
forms in almost every case. Many men
have one shoulder higher than the other.
This is particularly the case with those
who do much writing. The right arm is
Oftenest kept continually on the desk,
while the left arm is rested and low
cred. Naturally, in such cases mans
right shoulder is raised and his left de-
pressed. To remedy this slight deform-
ity, the expert cutter must resort to pad
ding.
"Talk about padding" said an old
cutter, "the men are really padded as
much as the women"
"Do you think that men are as
particular about their dress as women7"
"When they care at all, they are more
fastidious. The trouble with men is that
they do not always know what they
want. Women are more apt to know
exactly what they want, because they
make a study of dress. They think Of
it from childhood. They see something
they would like, and say, make it like
that They know how goods will
look when made up. But men are
unreasonably fastidious. One thinks he
pufs out to undue proportions. When
the coat is finished, he tries it on, he
says it doesn't fit, when the real trouble
is that he does not swell himself out
as he did when he was measured. If a
man is punctilious about very neat,
close fit, the chances are that he will
complain that his clothes are too tight
when he tries them on. Then the man
who says he wants them easy, and is
not particular about the fit is to be
feared. When he gets his clothes home,
his wife, or his sister, or his fellow
boarders will scrutinize his garments
and send him back to the unfortunate
tailor"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
Correspondence of the Ledger.
STEAMSHIP CITY OF BERLIN.
Tuesday, Aug. II, 'S1.

OIEAMSHlP CIT1 OF bERL1N,
Tuesday, Aug. IL, 'S1.
Here we are steaming along in the
middle of the great black Atlantic
at II miles an hour, the wind from
the west and four large sails adding
their help to the monster screw fan
beneath. This latter curiosity is un-
der water entirely, and is said to be
18 feet in expanse of its wings, fas-
tened upon a rotary shaft twenty
inches in diameter and of solid iron,
making fifty-four revolutions per
minute. Our party Of five from
Mexico were all stricken down with
sea-sickness, except your writer.
The first evening after passing Sandy
Hook as the sea was a little rough
and the heat very oppressive, they
passed bad night but gradually ral-
lied themselves. Since getting away
from fogs off the banks Of New Found
land all are out on deck once more.
We breakfast at 7.3O; lunch at 12;
dine at $50; tea at 10. Everything
is English style and very elaborate
aud it is Lot little amusing to see
some who are little fresh trying to
get outside of everything on the bills.
On the voyage of the City of Ber-
lin twenty-nine Doctors of Divinity
are with US to counsel us as to the
great spiritual voyage of life and
about ten medical practitioners Of
known ability to help in time of need
The large number of ladies, old and
young, would indicate that about
one-third of the males have brought
one or more ladies, and the great
promenade decks are a lively scene
from 8 O'Clock in the morning until
Q late hour at night. There is not
much TO see on the sea. The clouds
seem to meet the water out about
fifteen miles. There are some dozen
sea gulls in sight now, and whale
has been sighted on two different
mornings, neither very large, said to
be about thirty feet long. The one
this morning was but few hundred
yards away, Our ladies were fright
enea yesterday afternoon by the sud-
den cessation of the everlasting
throb of the engines and as the great
ship slowed in speed until she
seemed to drift helplessly in the
trough of the sea, and the wind
freshening up from the south now
struck her broadside. Many were
the conjectures as TO why the engines
we're stopped, but the welcome seaoa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08

NOTICE is hereby given that |. the
undersigned Public Administra-
tor, have taken charge of the estate
of Annie Porter, deceased. late of
Audrain county. Missouri. for the
purpose OF administering the same ::
that the date of taking cha, &c of said
estate is September Z, 1881. All per-
sons having claims against said es-
tate are required to exhibit them to
me for allowance within one year
from the date of my taking charge Of
said estate, or they may be precluded
from any benefit OF such estate; and,
if such claims be not exhibited with
in two years from the time of the
publication of this notice, they will
be forever barred.
GEORGE ROBERTSON,
21-iw Administrator
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08

Of the great throb soon allaytd all
fears and we were seenyploHsng the
brine at the us fal s hed There are
two engines a& tselve hohers. 1t
was to tighten qf tln packing of the
engines thaA - stopped. Our cap
tain, James Kennedy, was the COM
-mander of the Great Eastern upon
rbeE first trip, he being "a years of
'dge at that time, and he is ordered
to bring out the new steamer City of
Rome upon her first trip. This lat
ter steamer being the largest ship
ever built by this line. The City of
Berlin is 600 feet in length, so feet
wide and carries $500 tons, displac-
ing $4,000 tons of water, and has
made "a round trips crossing the
Atlantic 1O8 times. 1 heard captain
Kennedy say that he had crossed the
Atlantic over 500 times. 1t IS a
cloudy day and we are sitting now in
the ladies cabin. Francis Murphy
has just passed down the centre
stairway to l O'Clock lunch. He is
a man of pleasant manners, but great
force of character marked in his feat
ures. He has been sea-sick all the
way so far but is better to-day. His
son, full grown young man, is here
and quite a favorite with the young
ladies, but the older ones think he
smokes too many cigars. We saw
number of porpoises, to-day, jumping
from one wave to another.
D. II.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08
Executors Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that let
ters of administration upon the
estate of Henry Shock deceased, have
been granted the undersigned by the
Audrain Probate Court of Au-
drain county, Missouri, beai ing date
of Auust Is, 1881. All persons hav-
ing claims against said estate are re-
quired to exhibit them to me for al
lowance within one year from the
date of said letters or they may be
precluded from any benefit from the
estate, and if said claims be not ex-
hibited to me within two years from
the date of the publication of this
notice, said claims will be forever
barred. w. ID. SHOCK, Executor,
lS-It Estate Henry Shock.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-08

Joe Barth, of the firm of Joe d
Vic Bar,h, has just returned from the
East with full and complete line of
clothing, gents furnishing goods, &c.
Call and see for yourself