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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
Party Organ.

We notice Wash Jones is utilizing
some of the money furnished by the
administration at Washington, so they
say, to establish Greenback organs.
That's all right. Every party ought
to have an organ, at least every re-
spectacle party should have one
hence the administration money coult
not be better invested. An Austir
woman, subsisting on public charity
once took eight dollars collected TO
her and purchased spnng bonnet
that she might look respectable wheI
going around begging. No part.
who begs for votes can expect to b
treated respectfully unless it has al
organ.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
POST OFFICE.

GEORGE A. .PoTEET--.......-...... -Postmaster.
DAILY MAILS.
st. Louis mail arrives at 2: 10 p. m. and 2 !: D
a. m tuightl
st. Louis mail closes II m. and p. m.
chicago mail arrives at 3 80 a. m. q
Chlc1go mail closes II and p. IN.
hansas City mail (by G. q A. Il. r. arrives at
f2 IS p. M. closes s 10 D. m.
ST. Louis and Chicago mail {via G.. & A. r. RI
arrives at 80 a. m, closes 12 20 p. m.
Jefferson Glfy mail arrives at IL 80 p. m. s.s
Jefferson City mail closes 3: 1Op. M
Western mal arrives at "a D. H.
Western mail closes at p. m
West Hartford and Perry mails arrive at 1 IA
a. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Close
at u. m. same days.
Santa Fe mail arrives at u IL. TUESDAYS and
Fridays-departs1 !: 20 p. IN. same days.
Young Greek and Long Branch mails arrive
at 12 m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and SATURDAYS
Close at II 80 p. m. same days.
ModOc and Younger mail arrives at II a. m.
Saturdays. Closes at p. m. same day.
Pest Office opens at q. m; closes at ,. m.
Open Sundays from to m.
~ Money orders on all important points IN
the United States, England and Ireland.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

Thsre Is always on the stage risk In
pathetic situations, for the "illusion OF
the stage" is 80 much more talked about
than felt. Thus great effects in pathos
ere almost always reached in o single
sentence, . word sometimes, even tone,
. gesture. Long speeches, . protracted
situation, rarely reach the heart, partly
because the actors can not keep them.
selves for so long TO the proper pitch,
partly because the spectators can not
keep up their sympathy for SO long 70,
what they know-though fash Of gen.
ius may make them for en- instant forget
ito be but fictitious woe. Thus path6s,
no matter how beautiful its expression,
10 be truly effective anywhere in fiction,
should always be brief And il should
always be born, not made. Brevity and
naturalness are the essential qualities Of
pathos. When il lacks these two it be.
comes sentiment. The moment We
begin TO reason about it, the moment We
begin 10 ask ourselves whether this
could really have happened this way o,
that, then we may know that pathoa
has left the scene, and sentiment comes
On. To hunt In highways and bywayI
| Tor sighs, TO exhaust nature and srt fol
tear, Is the act only of man VII,
has no knowledge, no feeling for, tn,
real sorrows Of humanity. Even wher,
1he Ands true note Of pathos struck
hbw often docs il not lose half it's effect
become lost by repetitions The nail 1
hammered aeaip and again until tn
head . knocked away, and the poiu
blunted. "It was always" says FI
staH, "the trick Of our English nation
Il they have good thing, to make IL To-
common" Yet, where can one I'm,
such mastery Il pathos - In him Vii
drew Falsta6f AL the French and Get
psn sentiment that ever was printe'
might be wiped OF the face Of the earth
while there remains "Do not laugh q
me-" Of Lear, the "Oh, Iago, the pit,
6f Il, IAgo," Of Othello, and Hsmlets
"The veet y silence. London Times
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
FROM HARRISON COUNTY.


To the Editor OF the LEDGER:
BETHANY, Mo-, July thinking
that your many readers, or some of
them at least, might he pleased to
hear from this section, / have con-
cluded to drop you line or two.
Harrison county is located in the
Northwest corner of the State, and is
one of the finest farming and stock
growing counties in the State. The
people are full! of go-a-headativeness,
seem determined to drive right along
in spite of wind or weather. Our
farmers are hopeful still, although
there are many discouraging things.
The heavy rains have proved very
destructive to the crops in this part
Of the state. Corn, oats and wheat
all destroyed on bottom lands.
Grand river bottom has bean under
water thirteen days, everything
washed away. Several persons have
been drowned and considerable stock.
l heard the other day that one man
lost one hundred head of cattle,
horses, quite number Of hogs, chick
ems, &C., by high waters.
There are some very good towns in
this county; Bethany, the county
seat, of course, is the best, having a
population of about $500. Our
business men are doing a very good
business, all things considered. We
have men of means here and as they
expect to make this their permanet
home, they are making good solid
improvements. We have but one
railroad in the county, the c. b. &
O., very excellent road.
The 4th was celebrated by the good
people of the county-the day was a
lovely one and everybody seemed to
enjoy it. Politicians had good
chance to shake hands with the dear
people, also to tell them how much
they thought of them and how well
they (the office scekers) would like
to do something for them. Demo-
Gratis are "few and far between,"
but now and then you will one, and
when you find him you find a .'Simon
pure" A few Greenbackers, not
many. Republicans control every
thing, and will for a while.
My address is Bethany, Mo-, and
will be during my sojourn in this
county-would have my friends ad-
dress me accordingly. Most of the
churches in the county are doing very
well, am glad to say to you that the
people are disposed to lay up some
treasure in Heaven, rs well as in this
world, but my letter is TO long, ex-
cuse me. w. III. Hook.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
SOCIETIES..

A. O.U. W; meets every Tuesday evening q,
80. y. A. Spence, r. M. W.. q. 8. Frest NJ.
W., J. ~. Winscott, q r; r. N. Armstrong q. :;
d. T. Gentry, r.; T. W. Harding, Receiver; 5.
l.. Mexican, f, S.
Crusade Commandery-S. 8. Craig Eminent
Commander, meets third Tuesday evening OF
each month, at 30 NJ.
Mexico Lodge No 26. A. F. and A. NJ. 1st Fri
day night in each month at P. N. j. NJ. Marm-
aGake. w. NJ; L. II. Hightshoe, s: W; j. +.
Llewellyn, J. W.; James Carroll, Secretary;
J. Gibbs, Treasurer; j. G Bassford, 5. NJ; J.
f. Gillian, j. D.; James Clacher, Tyler.
Mexico Chapter No "a, Royal Arch, meets the
end Friday in each month. s. NJ. Edwards, II
P, j. NJ. Marmaduke, Secretary.
Hebron Lode No. 354, A. F. and A. NJ. regular
communications lst Tuesday in every month al
7:30P.M NJ. JIM. Riley, w. NJ,
l. o. o. F-Mexico Lodge No. % meets every
Thursday evening at their hall in 2. NJ. Morris
building. j. NJ. Riley, N q.
Audrain County Medical Society meets every
Friday evening ut clock. DIR. I. A. Keeton.
President; DIR. w. W. Rodman, Secretary.
Salt River Lodge, No. 1896, knights of Honor,
meets LIST and 81 Thursday evenings at Ken.
mans Hall. j. Med. Trimbe, Dictator; 2. W
Harding, Reporter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
Some Dates of Fairs.

Brownsville Fair. August 18th, six
days.
Higginsville Fair, August 22nd, five
days.
Fulton Fair, August 22nd, five
days.
Mexico Fair, August 29th, five
days.
Marshall Fair, August 29th, five
days.
Upton Fair, September 5th, five
days.
Columbia Fair, September 5th, five
days.
Lawrence, Kansas, Fair, September
18th, six days.
Hannibal Fair, September 26th, five
days.
st. Louis Fair, October 2nd, five
days.
Jerseyville, ILL.,, Fair, October 10th
four days.
Palmyra Fair, October 10th, fiv,
davs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

II. l. Patterson, our excellent baker,
left with his family for Mexico last
Tuesday. He has purchased a dwell
ing there, and proposes to 90 into
some business, baking not agreeing
with his health. Mr.. Patterson is a
good citizen, and we send our good
wishes with him to his new home.
We commend HIM TO the Mexicans.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

MEXICO, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1882. 3

lows: Douglass 1405; Edmondson
654; Stuart $50.
DR.. w. H. Lee was nominated for
Coroner.
j. w. Beatty was nominated AS
SCISSOR.
Griggshy and Carter were renomi-
mated for Judges County Court.
Silas NJ. Gilbert was nominated for
Constable of Sail River Township.
The following parties were nomi-
mated for Justices of the Peace for
Salt River Township:
Decatur Harris.
James Kesler.
j. j, WinscOtt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

Rates So per day. '','
Amy hints about slop-coffee will bt
charged at the rate Of twenty-five
cents per hint. p i-s. asaf
No extra charge for damp sheets
Rheumatism always on hand.
Our beefsteak is cast to order a
one of the largest foundries in ths
country, and can always be depended
on as fresh.
Guests desiring napkins with hole.
in 'em will please give notice at ths
Office twenty minutes before mea
time. t :+t - "a
Our meat cook is an old, expert
enced miner and sapper, and is pro
yided with picks, crow-bars, torpe
does, fuses, &c.
Guests who wash their shirts in the
water bowl will be charged two shill.
ings each. We cannot encourage
cleanliness in this hotel.
Children will not be allowed tt
play in the halls. A beautiful mill
pond will be found two blocks below
to drown them in.
We call especial attention to oul
beds. The mattresses are made oi
the best quality of scrap-iron, and
the pillows are warranted to be OF
hard wood and thoroughly seasoned,
The carpets in the bedrooms have
been use upwards of twenty years.
We can therefore recommend them
without reserve.
Parties who look as if they nigh,
find fault with our particular brand
Of butter will please pay in advance.
To call a servant-press the but.
ton quickly. If you don't get one
under an hour and a half, you may
know that your bell is out Of order.
The towels furnished guests are
the invention of Wisconsin man.
They are warranted superior to any
other shingles in the market.
There is a safe in the office for the
storage Of money and valuable, hut
in case the night clerk skips with the
pile the hotel will not be responsible.
Sour oranges, cheap raisins and
wormy apples carried to rooms will
be charged extra.
Guests desiring hay seed mixed
with their tea will please give notice
at the office. Otherwise it will be al
hay-seed.
Please report any inattention o.
servants. We expect you to fe'
the porter, steward, chambermait
and walters, to pay double for boot
blacking and barbering, to put VI
with flies, dust, dirt and other trifies
to pay half dollar to ride up and a
much more to get back to the depot
but inattention of servants is some
thing we can't permit.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

A Mississippi boatman with i'm
mense feet, stopping at a public
house, asked the porter for a boo t.
jack to pull off his boots. The col.
ored gentleman, after examining the
strangers feet, broke out as follows
''No jack here big nuff for dem feets
Jackass couldn't pull .em off, massa
widout fraktring de leg. Yuse better
20 back about free miles to de fork.
in de roads an pull 'em off dar."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
Live paDer.

Mr.. Runkle, of the Mexico LEDGER,
visited the Progress office last week.
We are always glad to meet the rep
resentatives Of this great institution
called the Missouri press. The Mex
leo LEDGER is a live paper, by the
way. If you don't believe it, stick a
pin in it.-Marshau Progress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
1t is thought that cork trees can be

1t is thought that cork trees can be
successfully raised in every Southern
State. The bark of cork trees, il
will be remembered, is cut up into
short cylindrical forms and used to
prevent the gas from escaping from
bottled soda, or anything that may
happen to be in bottles.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

Old Scotch gentleman sitting in a
Toronto cara young lady enters
and makes rush for the topmost
seat. The car starts rather suddenly,
the young lady lands on the old gem
ueman's knee, blushing and exclaim-
ing: ooh! beg your pardon!' Old
Gentleman: ''Dinna mention it, lassi
I'd rather he ye settin' on my knee
than stannin' on ceremony"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

a correspondent writes to know if
1t is wicked to shoot at pigeons from
trap. There is no positive sin
about 1t, but it is not right to bet the
money your wife gave you TO pay for
her bonnet, that you will hit three
pigeons out of five, and miss them al.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

The coast Of New Jersey is wearing
away at the rate of five feet per year,
and it is only question of time when
the wickedness Of that State will be
distributed throughout the West.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
County and City Directory
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Times of Holding Court

Times of Holding Courts.
AUDRAIN CIRCUIT COURT
Regular Terms---Fourth Monday in January
first Monday in June, and first Monday In
October.
PROBATE COURT.
Regular Terms--Second Monday in March, May
September, and January.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms--First Monday in May, August
November and February.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
STATE OFFICIALS.

Goyern0r--I. T. Crittenden- Salary, g.. 600
Lieut.. Gov.Rosert 4. Campbel.... So per day.
Secretary of State--M X. McGrath. ....S3, 900
Attorney General--Daniel III. Mcintyre. s., 900
Auditor--John W NaiSer. ..........-.... 5000
Treasurer-Fh}. l.. Chappell. So, 900
Register OF Lands Robert McCulioch. 81, 900
Supt. Public Instruction--R. d. shannon. 81, 600
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

Our books are open for inspection,
so all can call and see just the num-
Der Of papers we print each week.
Our mailing list is up in type; you
can call and count the names.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
The Humiliation Of Servility.

As living becomes more elaborate and
wealth commoner, the unreliability OF
the household service grows more and
more exasperating. In the one kind OF
service which is essential to the comfort
and health of family, it is mere ques-
ton of luck whether an employer will
get anything like the worth Of his
money or not In every other kind Of
hired labor there are well understood
standards of capabiity by which the
question of wages is decided. A printer
Is paid only for what he does. An op-
erative in q factory has his work criti-
cised and his mistakes reckoned up
against him. In housework, however,
this is unheard of. The tidy, industrious
girl who earns every cent of her money,
Is followed by Dinah and filth, and
Bridget and destruction, who must be
paid Just the same price. As for the
skilled labor that can always be had for
money in any other line Of work, it il
simply not in the market. In this mat
ter rich and poor stand on the same
level.
\Aman may, by year of hard work,
get fine house in which to put wife,
but he has no security that in it she will
be any better waited on or less careworn
than she was in the house they rented
for six dollars q month. Architects and
builders do all they can to make the
modern house comfortable. Even
plumbers may be bought with price,
but when the work is all done, who will
guarantee that the first "help" will not
lay the kitchen desolate and make Of ths
back yard waste placer
But while this is true, there are hun
dreds Of women in the city, begging fol
work of kind which they consider
genteel. An advertisement for copyist
brings answers from hundreds Of women.
Every month scores of experienced
capable young women apply at the shops
for positions as saleswomen, at merely
nominal wages, and every popular dress
maker has on her books fifty or seventy
five names ahead Of seamstresses, WHIT
will take work at any price. Every lad,
Of influence has In her acquaintance
dozen women who hover on the edge o
destitution, almost crazy from their owl
helplessness.
II seems strange that the one work 4
which every girl has little training, apS
fof which she may be considered to haS'
An aptitude, Is the one thing which eh'
would never consent to do; and tn
question arises whether there Is any
Thing really degrading In kitchen work
o.. anything disreputable i4 the circuin
stances Of it which should make il a
unfit business for bright, tndustrion
girls who must support themselvet
| Surely there can be nothing lowering i
cooking and Homework. Any Of thes
young women will look forward wit
pleasure to doing it In her own house
The most elegant women must need
have . practical knowledge Of it, or thei
establishments viii never run smoothly
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

II want twenty-four teeth filled
with the best you've got in the
house," is the way cowboy gives
his order to a restaurant waiter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

II Guiteau really got to Heaven
he had a long "trip of it. Washing
ton City is about as far from Heaven
as place usually gets to be.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
4 Wonderful Tree.

Why men occasionally see sea serpents
and other snakes ID plain enough but
what p there In Jersey cedar to 60
count for the following from the Clinton,
y. J., correspondent Of the Philadelphia
znfs. he says:
"a farmer living near Schooley Noun
tain has greatly excited his neighbors
,by N account Of wonderful tree which
he discovered several years ago, and
which he hts bean watching ever since.
He says, for three years it has gone
through the cold weather without she'd
ding leaf. It is q maple tree, and its
''R RTsa Tsss: very good maple sugar g,
lowing the trail of fox up over the
mountain early In December, 1878. All
the other trees, even Of the same species,
were entirely bare, while this tree had
not, to all appearances, lost q single leaf.
There were no dried leaves underneath
It, and the leaves ON the branches were
ell green. It was with great difficulty
that . leaf could be pulled from the
twig to which it was fastened, and q
strong breeze, which was blowing at the
time, had no effect upon the leaves.
astonished was the discoverer ut
phenomenon that he forgot all abor
fox he was after and the cold char
OF the day, and spent several hou
amining the tree.
He went home greatly puzzled,
returned several days later with clergy.
man living in the vicinity. They de-
termined to mark several Of the leaves
and zee how long they remained where
they were. They also resolved to keen
the thing secret and watch its progress
until spring. This they did. When
April arrived the leaves which they had
marked were just as green and fresh as
In December, and the tree itself was not
affected in the least by the severity of
the weather and the many windy blasts.
The bark was tapped every week and
yielded q plentiful supply Of SAP !:
enough to keep both the farmers and min
ister's families in syrup all winter long.
The same has been tried ever since !; not
o leaf has fallen, to the best Of their be-
lief, since the day the tree was first
noticed, and the sap has flowed with the
same regularity and profusion.
"As far as can be ascertained, there Is
no cause for the mysterious vitality Of
that particular maple. There is nothing
In the sod or sub-sol to render growth
more available or make the trunk and
branches better able TO stand the storms
and cold weather.
"a number Of people have lately Wis.
tied the curiosity, but each one comes
away perfectly mystifed. At the pres
ent time not another tree on the whole
mountain, with the exception Of several
evergreens near the hotels, has leaf on
1t, and the trunks and branches stand ont
bleak and bare. This maple is in IN
exposed spot, unprotected from the
winds and surrounded by rocks. Just
why it is as it Is battles the ingenuity OF
all beholders. Even the regular Decem-
Der fox hunt ID cast in the shade BY this
perpetually green maple tree."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
SUPREME COURT.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM--FULTON.
Resident Officers.

Resident Officers.
I X. II. Smith, NJ. D., Superintendent and Ply
sician.--Sa!ary S3, coo per year.
\. WilkersOn, NJ. D., First Assistant Physician.
salary 81 500 per year.
I. \. Howard, NJ. D., Second Assistant Ply
sican. Salary ST 800.
q o. Atkinson. Steward. Salary, 81, 20G
Il. 7. Bailey, Treasurer. Salary, 81 ,2oC
4. A. Russell, Book-keeper. ....... Salary, S6GO
Mrs. NJ. X. dunbar, Matron. Salary, S6UG
DEAF AND DUMB AsYLUM---FULTON.
w. ID. Kerr, \. NJ, Sup't. Salary, 81 800
James X. shelley, Jr., Steward. Salary, 81 ,OOG
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

Business is business, and We want
our patrons to know what they are
getting for their money.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

L. $ Circuit Court---Wsstern District of
Missouri.
Hon. Samuel L. Miller, !
I"5 II"E ," Arn"k Krskel n1fe J"dges-salry $1,000
Clerk. Henry GeISUurg.
Marshal. ..........-.. -....... William Nj. Smith.
Regular terms third Monday i'll April and No
yenber, at jefferson City.
L. :. District Cuurt--Western District of
Missouri.
.iutige--..-. j .ArnDiu hfekel.
District Attorney. ...............A w. hnlllus,
Regular ierI:ls, first Monday i'll March and Sep
ttmber.
Register in Bankruptcy Charles Z. Hess, JEFF
ferion City, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

The boy who wanted a situation at
the poulterer' was brave lad. lie
was ready for the hen-counter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

Salary of each, SS, Gv1.)
Secretary of State--F. T. frelnghuysen. of n j.
Secretary OF War Robert lincoln, OF Illinois.
Secretary OF Treasury T. Fplger, of \. Y.
Secretary of Navy--Wm. f. Chandler. Of New
Hampshire.
Secretary of Interior--H. f. Teller, of Ohio.
Attorney GeneralBcn. H. Brewster, of Penn.
Postmaster Overwhelmingly y. Howe. of Wis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
r. M. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor
DIRECTORY.
National and State Directory.
THE EXECUTIVE.
THf. CABIN ET.

Presidential Chester \. Arthur. Salary, $50, OOG
Vice PRESIDENT David Davis.... salary, IS ,OUC
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13

SOUTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE,
.iiE all their friends, and the public
ma, a. arge, to call and get a good, square
Va ioheh. HI
merything neat. clean and fresh. The
ao'es OF the season always on hand.
,.nsusa eais served at all hours. First-class
lunch counter, well stocked.
GIVE Us A CALL.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-29
WHEN PROUD DIsDAlv PROVES IN.
ADEQUATE

A o0lored man living on Indiana
street lately had occasion TO ask the nd
vice Ut the patrolnan in tn It district a.
to how he should treat some bows who
called him names AZ he p ssed q certain
corner.
II wouldn't mind EN-" was the reply
"Jist what reckon d on said the
complainant. II had my mind m ,de
up to treat 'em Wild proud disdain. Blu,
dar's Il naybur u mine Who frcws club.
at my dog an cussss my chll'cn. Would
You also come Dc proud disdain over
himi"
"Yes, think So"
"An' dar's white man libin' round
de cO'ner who say stole his Az. l resk-
Oh dat proud dlsd lin will fix him If
kssp it up long en"ugh!'
1T certainly will"
''W.ll. den it am settled dat doan
talk back In none o. desc casss, bat dai
am one ting want understood rieh,
heal an now. De mex tune I am en-.
joyin' an ebsnin' si-sta ON do doorsteps
and six pound cabbage hits ne ON dc
middle west-button, dar' won't be M
proud disd an to be had in a grocery
f1r mile rOun'! I'se Rw,ne t. rlz vi
an yell fur revenge an shout fur blood
an Dc OYSTER who interfsres wild me Am
Rwihe tO be rendered unconscious ful
fOriy-ei .ht dayev'