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But the door was locked and the
key gone. -~ @aa1

kew gone, -@@+ dA11
"This. is too-toe. much! =, she
cried. aHe knew lit i lad found
it all out, and would follow him.
Aad to be locked up in my own
house, and have my dwn servants to
set watch over. me! I'ns never~sub-
NIT 20 n neverA IN % hSnsts hy
darling mother, and1 hever, never
leave again!"
The thought game fke4an inspira-
tion,- and she at once p{eeeededt to act
upon it.
When Thompsonreturned, in about
ten minutes, with the family physi-
clan, he was met in the hall by the
bewildered Mary. Her mistress was
at the top Of the stairs, looking down
upon them and listenings ia sa4 ass.s
40, sir, missus is in such a way! /!
She's packing up all her things and
going to run. away and .csrry--the
precious children along with her."
II told you so, DOCTOR" said Mr..
Thompson, with a look of agony.
"She's entirely out of her mind.
Can nothing be done for her?''
"Before I see your wife," said the
doctor, deliberately, "describe TO me
as wen as You can how this. sudden
attack came ON. Have you observed
any symptoms before this EVENING""
"Never!"
"Has anything occurred during the
day to excite or affect her?"
''Not that / know of. Atbreak.
fast she was as well as usual, Except
= All, stay! she was little wor'
ried by my not being able to-supply
her at once with money for d spring
bonnet and dress ~
'Ah!" said the doctor, knowingly
1.-TWO such cases in the Midland Asy
lum. Anything else?'' =.
Nothing except Yes, there wa.
a little vexation about a letter. J.
| ga letter." said the doctor, look
ing interested.
Nothing of importance. 1 hap
pened to receive a letter, which, upol
opening, discovered to be intended
for quite another person Young Joh1
Thompson, of Cresswelf & Co. :
was from a lady friend. and 1, o
course, could not crafty Mrs. Thomp
sons curiosity in regard to it, AM
she seemed vexed.' % zs|S 80 :
/ Mrs. Thompson crept away fron
the head of the stairs, and very quiet
ly laid down upon lounge. Sh
Hooked pale, but serene. TIFF
r'How are you my now, dear?" in
lquired her husband, softly, seatin
himself by her side.
"a great deal better, love.
have had nervous attack, but it's a
over now.'' -
A few days thereafter the Who'll
town was excited and triumphar
over the elopement Of young. job
Thompson with the lovely Kat
Lindsay, whose. cruel and hare
hearted brother, Todd, had oppose
their union.
~''I fully expected IT, said ThornI
son, to his wife. ~~>s 7"ss-'- =>ss-
\ And then he told her all about tt
letter, which he said he fastened
deliver his namesake, for whom
had been intended.
"Why dida't you tell me this :
once?' inquired Mrs. Thompson, r'
proaehfaIly.
'Beea1se, my dear, I know th'
you, or any other woman, woul
have told it in confidence to a doze
friends, and so have spoiled the 10,
p
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18
County and City Directory
COUNTY DIRECTORY

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 p,
September, and january.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms--First Monday in May, August,
November and February.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18
GUITEAU.
His Case Before the Court In Bane.

His Case Before the Court In Banc.
Tho argument Of this matter was
commenced on the 9th inst, before
the Judge Of the Supreme Court sit
ting in banc. Reed argued that
Guiteau's crime was not indictable in
the District because the crime was
not completed there. The Chief JUS
tice intimated that felony had un-
doubted been committed. Whereupon
Reed admitted that Guiteau might
have been indicted and, If sane,
might have been convicted of assault
with intent to kill. What he had
meant was, that he could be neither
held nor tried for murder. Various
authorities were referred to in order
to confirm want of jurisdiction.
Reed also argued that the sentence
Of death passed upon Guiteau was
void, because under the statutes its
execution should have been fixed for
some day within thirty days after the
fourth Monday of October, 1882.
Objection was next made to the evi-
dence of DIR. Barker and Mrs. Dun
more, the latter having been the wife
of the defendant. And finally, the
argument was closed by an appeal to
the court to save this land, under the
law and by the law, from the disgrace
of sending an insane man to the gall
lows.
| Corkhill in reply ridiculed the posi-
ton taken, that because Gen. Garfield
was not allowed TO die in Washington
the district court had no jurisdiction.
He quoted the decision of the SUI
preme Court Of Tennessee, that such
an offence as was charged against de-
fendant was committed where the
blow was struck; and argued that it
was justifiable, in rebuttal, to go to
any length to show that the acts Of
the defendant, offered in evidence of
Insanity, were rather the product of
immortality. He insisted also that in
examining Mrs. Dunmore, the domain
of confidential communication between
, husband and wife had been invaded.
!. The argument on jurisdiction was
concluded by Davidge, with the asser-
ton that it would be monstrous TO
, declare the head Of such nation as
|, ours could be murdered at its seat of
, government, and, because he died
t elsewhere, it was powerless to avenge
( the deed. 1t is rather the duty of
this court to expound in unmistakable
: terms the meaning of its laws, and
E thus vindicate the sovereignty of this
g republic committed to its keeping.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18
Prom the Marshall News.

X. NJ. White, Of the Mexico LED
GER, and his better half, made snort
visit TO Mrs. Whites father, 0spt- l..
C. Mitchell, in this city yesterday.
The also took a view of the western
portion Of the county. Beb is oae of
the Hyeliest pewspaper men in Central
Missouri, md his wife is very esti-
mable lady. We hope they viii be
frequent visitors TO our city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18
THE EXECUTIVE.
UNITED STATES JUDICIARY.
~ Chief Justice. -rra .azz-.s--.
Morrison r. Waite, of Ohio. Salary $40, 500
Associate Justices.
DEPARTMENT OFF JUSTICE.


u. S. Circuit COurt---Western District of
Missouri.
Hon. Samuel +. Miller,
HoI. Ii Arnold krsksl, h - Jadses--salary, ss.sso
Marshal. ............ ........ William NJ Smith.
Regular terms third Monday in April and No
vember, at Jefferson City. &,-s-r s..
q. S. District Court--Western District OF
Missouri. - L
Judge. Arnold h1ekeL
District Attorney. ...............A.H w. Mullins,
Regular terI:is, first Monday in March and Sep.
tember.
Register in Bankruptcy Charles E. Hess, JEFF
ferson City, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18

The celebrated Columbus buggies
lt {. III. ErBASK & Co.'S.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18

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b=issig sew .Yl.e -ilt 10 .i9uNO. 3
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both fancy-nor turn music Tor the
pretty cousin from the city, nor bring
friends home to dinner, nor go round
the house in his stocking feet, nor
leave hairs in the comb, nor put his
blacking-brush on the bed, nor grum-
Die over the, fish-chowder three days
lrunning-''to to use up the fish''-nor
growl when his mother-in-law, and
her parrot, and two cats, and q band
box, and three hair-trunks', comes to
spend the winter. -. =. 1T.
He must be willing to do the chores ;
to get up and make the fire in the
morning to bring the water washing
days, and eat cold beans and pork
for dinner. ,-..-.........s i.
He must "treat' every time he has
q new suit Of clothes. or new baby
Ne can't go to female tea,drinkings
he must marry a woman, Il he marries
anybody, and cynical friend Of ours
says that is punishment enough fol
any simmer! .z.
a He must always get up nights Y
hunt for burglars Under the bed, an
in the closets; he must wear . stove
sp;be hat. and manage to keep it o.
his head when the wind blows; b
must give up his seat in the lecture
foom, which he came half an h0u
/ early TO secure, to the frst t'wonal
who panses in front of him; he mus
hang on by the dangling strap OF
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18
TIME TABLE.

u. HENDERSON. Ticket Agent.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-15
The Magic Flute.

The most wonderful instrument OF
the magical orchestra is described in :,
Hessisn legend, recorded by the Broth
ers Grimm 4 man kills his brother
while they are out hunting, and burie
the corpse under the arch of n
bridge. Years pass. One day q shep-
herd. crossing the bridge with his flock,
sees below little white bone, shining
like ivory. He goes down, picks it up,
and carves it into q mouthpiece for his
bagpipes. When he began to play, the
mouthpiece, to his horror, began to sing
of its own accord: 'sOh, my dear shep-
herdl you are playing ON one of my
bonesi my brother asssssinated me and
buried me under the bridge" The
shepherd, terrified, took his bagpipes to
the King, who put the mputhpiece tn
his lips, when straightway the r..frain
began: ''Oh, ny dear Kingi You are
playing on one of my bones; my broth
or assassinated me and buried me nnder
the BRIDGE" The King ordered oil his
subj cts to try in turn the bagpipes.
From mouth to mouth the instrument
passed to that of the fractricide, and
then it sang: "Oh, my dear brotheri
you are playing on one of my bones; II
was you who assassinated mel" and the
King caused the murderer to be exc.
cuted.-AH the Year Round.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-15
Nodes that Pay Best.

The profits arising from the several
products of the farm are not usually es-
timated with such care as to enable the
farmer to say which particular source of
income has been the best, ON the score
of net profit. Each days duties, wheth-
er ON or off the farm, II paid for on the
score of time, of course leave their own
estimate when the day is ended. If the
farmer and breeder rested upon any
such basis for getting ahead in the world,
the balance sheet would make q ruinous
showing at the end of the year., III his
plans are not wisely laid, with view to
an indirect hourly gain to his purse,
through the growth of crops, that, while
he Is asleep, reach down into the chem
icl laboratory beneath the surface
which is his mine-bringing up the ele-
meuts of growth, and through the steady
growth of the young stock on the farm
also q mine-then he lacks tact in
using his acres to advantage. The value
of mine is not in the surface it covers,
but in the richness within q given space.
The practical value of n given field is
not that It contains a specified number
of acres, but that the yield is large for
the surface covered.
The profits in farming and stock grow
ing are not usually counted up with pre-
cision, 50 that it may be known whether
there is or is not any profit in given
undertaking. 1t is partially but not
entirely true that 1t is more difficult to
keep accounts on the farm from which
the same accurate conclusions may be
arrived at as is possible in ordinary lines
of trade. If certain enclosure in pas
ture grass Causes given number of
steers to gain o specified number OF
hundred pounds during the season, as
shown by the scales, then it is not diff
cult to show by the figures what the in
come win be from the gross gain. II
farmers would adopt the plan of doing
this, many of them would see the mag
nitude of the mistake made in keeping
cattle that bring only three or four cents
pound, in place of such as bring six
cents. The footings would stagger q
man who had never tested the difference
by figuring up the outgo and the income
on the two classes, side by side.
What Is true of the steers, has an
equally apt illustration in dairying, as
nothing can be easier than to charge up
the grass on given surface, giving
credit on the opposite page for the
amount of butter and cheese produced
during the season.
The same is true of all branches of
stock growing and farming, and the
Journal repeats what Il has urged be-
fore, that strict system of accounts is
necessary on the farm.-Nationdl Lice
Stock Journal
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PITH AND POINT.

"A sign of indigestion" Gone TO
dinner; be back in five minutes. ."-Neae
York Post. r-
Under the head of ' Short Stops" !"
. Chicago paper tells how q man
stopped in jail for three months. they
haven't much idea of time in Chicago.
Detroit Free Press.
-"Very odd," said the compositor,
as he stood mournfully gazing on m ass
of pi; "very odd, indeed. Stewed
tripe for breakfast and strewed type for
dinner. PhilGdelphia Bulletin.
1t was the wife of President Madi-
son who gave the young woman the ex-
cellent advice: "Give your appearances
careful and serious thought in your
dressing-room and forget 1t elsewhere. p"
:" A,three-year-old" discovered the
neighbours hens in her yard scratching
In most indignant tone she reported
to her mother that Mrs. Smiths hens
were "wiping their feet on our grass. ~
We are sometimes so impressed by
q fellow-man's estimate of his import
ance that we tremble at the mere sug-
gestion of what might have been If the
Lord had forgotten to make him. Rome
Sentinel.
docs it pay to stealP" asks the
Philadelphia Times. 1t does, esteemed
contemporary, il does. 1t d7esn't al
ways pay the thief, but just-think of the
large number of criminal lawyers tn
whom it furnishes fat living.-Phild
delphia Chronicle Herald
-"Yes. dear, of course we're going
to Washington this winter; the Presi
dents q widower, you know" show
awfully too utterly sweet" aYes, and
the new British Minister'S bachelor" +"
SHOW too preciously consumm itely
lovelyi" '.I cawnt marry them both,
you know, dear" "No, dear, leave me
just one."
allow are you and your wife com.
ing on?" asked 8 Galveston man of a
colored man. ''She has run me off,
boss" "What's the matterP" s'1 is 10
blame, boss. I gave her splendid
white dress, and den she got so proud
she had no use for me. She lowed was
too dark to match de dress"
Ii was evening. Three OF them
were killing q cat. One of them held a
lantern, another held the cat, and q
third jammed q pistol into the cats eat
and fired. shooting the man in the hand
who held the cat and the one with the
lantern was wounded in the arm. The
cat left when it saw how matters stood
and that ill-feeling was being engen.
dered.
-"I think" said Mrs. Partington,
getting up from the breakfast-table, 4"
will take tower or go on discussion.
The bill says, If recollect rightly, thai
party is to go to q very plural spot,
,and'to mistake of very cold collection.
/ hope it won't be as cold as ours was
for the poor last Sunday. Why, there
wasn't efficient to buy q foot for q resti-
tute widder." And the old lady put on
her sash and left.
Miss Anna Grant, of Boone County,
Ohio, sends the Columbus Herald q
note in which she says: "Dnring the
year 1881 have woven 0,0S5 yards oi
carpet. Who can beat itP'' This il
nearly ten yards day for every work
ing day in the year, and if done by hand
Is probably without a parallel. A
young man OF good habits and mar,
rigable age wants to know If she is
sspoken for"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Two Philadelphia mechanics claim
TO have discovered q device for running
street cars by series of powerful steel
springs. At the end of each trip the
oar is to be wound up like clock.
"A new society founded in Japan
for the investigation of volcanic and
earthquake phenomena, and called the
Seismological Society of Japan, has re-
Gently issued the first volume of its
transactions. a =
So microscopically perfect is the
matchmaking machinery now in use,
that screws are cut with nearly 600
threads to the inch-though the finest
used in the watch has 250. These
threads are invisible to the naked eye,
and it takes IA, 900 of the screws 10
weigh a pound, their value being six
pounds of pure gold. So .lrlf-
LES Mordes reports that M. Dufour-
Get has in the exposed court of his
house two bars of iron planted in the
earth, to each Of " iich is fixed q con-
ductor of coated ire terminating in
telephone receive. He consults the
apparatus twice or thrice every day,
and it never fails, through its indica-
tons of earth-currents, to give notice of
the approach of a storm twelve or if
teen hours before ir actually arrives.
The Science says: stOf all the nu-
merous topics which are the common
field of the physician and the biologist,
none is of as great interest, both in its
practical bearings and intrinsically, as
q fascinating theme, as that of the locs-
ton of mental faculties in the brain.
Year by year scientific inquiry is mar
rowing down the question Of the exist
ence of the mind into the functional
realm of those great masses of nerve
tissue, which, filing out the cavity of
the skull, had already found an empir-
ical and unconscious recognition from
the ancients when they endowed the
goddess Minerva with q higher brow
than Venus and Apollo with o greater
facial angle than Bacchus."
Investigation of the velocities of va
rious wood-cutting tools shows the foi-
lowing results: Circular saw teeth, 5000
20 1900 feet per minute; band saw
teeth, hand feed, 5000 feet; band saw
teeth, power feed. 1000 feeti gang saws.
20-inch stroke, 120 strokes per minute |;
scroll or Jig saws, 800 to 1900 strokes;
planning and molding cutters, 5000 feet
per minute; shaping and carving cut
ters, 6,000 revolutions per minute; Dan
iel's planer cutters, 5000 feet per min
ute; machine augers, l-2-inch diams-
ter, 900 reyolutions-S inch diameter,
1900 revolutions-1 Pinch diameter,
1880 revolutions; rod and dowel ma
chimes, inch and under, 5000 revolu-
tions-2 inches and over, 1000 revolu-
lions; mortising machines, heavy work,
$50 strokes per miuute-light work, 700
strokes; tenoning cutters, $500 revolu,
tons; emery wheels, 6-inch diameter,
$500 revolutions-12-inch diameter,
1,600, and other sizes in proportion !;
main shaft for wood shops, $50 revolu-
tions per minute. Estimates of work
are made on the data afforded by these
figures. u.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-15

The membership a the New York
pntIer and cheese exchange Is growing
20 rapidly that larger quarters are nee,
essa,y. The membership win soon
NUMBER eight hundred, and the initiation
zee VIII be raised to $500.
-A recent ensilage convention
oeao m New York. . large number Of
Eenlemen from various sections of the
country were present and gave their views
on TINS new feed All are of the opinion
that it u meritorious and when tried
good results have been obtained. From
tnis meeting win go out reports Of
success which must lead others to inyes-
ogate and Try ensilage for themselves.
Society Of Public Analysis of
Grcst Britain has adopted = Standard
Tor the poorest milk of nine per cent. OF
solids and twenty-five per cent of fats.
Professor Cameron states that examina-
tons Of the milk Of forty-two
short horn COWS, during the winter
OF 1880, gave 9.70 per cent. of solids
and 4. 20 per cent OF fats in the poorest
milk, the COWS being housed and well
led. The average yield per day was
lit quarts per cow. In. every instance
more milk was given in the morning
than. in the evening. The quality of
milk improved IN each case as the time
for calving drew near. The older cows
were found to give both more and better
milk than the younger ones.
-Foot-rot in cows Is caused by blood
disease similar to that which produces
salt rheum" in persons The foot be-
tween the claws of the hoof becomes in
AAmed. and breaks out with blisters;
these run together and form raw spots,
which discharge yellow serum. In
bad cases the hoof separates at the coro-
net, and in time drops OF The treat
ment II 70 give the cows or oxen q pound
OF epson salts, followed by one ounce of
hyposulphite of soda daily. The feet
should be washed with q solution of one
dram Of sulphate Of zinc in q quart of
water, and should be cleaned and dressed
thoroughly between the hoofs. Then
dress the parts with an ointment made
Zone pound Of lard, two ounces of tur-
pentine, and one ounce Of finely pow
aersd verdigris acetate of copper. 1t is
caused by impure air Of close stables, by
the absorption of filth through the skin
of the feet. as well rs by the irritation
produced by standing too long upon hard
plank floors. It is not contagious ex-
espting when Ii becomes very bad and
thafeet suppurate. when the poisonous
matter viii produce the disease in other
cattle But when it appears in herd it
generally goes through it, because all
sre subject to the conditions which pro-
duce it.-& y Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-15
Culture Of Cabbage.

Until recently cabbages have been
more easily raised than almost any gar
den crop. Since the advent of the inn
ported cabbage insect, however, their
production has been very difficult. Dur
ing the past year the market has been
very poorly supplied with cabbage, al
though large quantities have been i'm
ported. Sauerkraut has also been
brought from Germany to supply the
demand. Persons who live in localities
that have not been visited by the cab
bage insect will find this a very profita-
BILE crop to raise. Cabbsges are easily
shipped, and are very certain To COM
msnd good prices. The demand for
them is large in all towns having an ex-
tensive German population. Sauer-
kraut is now q regular article of COM
merce, and can be advautageously man.
ufactured in places where the cabbages
are raised and sent to market in bar
rels. Various means have been en-
ployed for killing the cabbage insect,
but the employment of any of >them is
attended with considerable expense and
Entomologist of Illinois, does not think
it pays to try to kill the cabbage insect
with hot water or by means of any Of
the poisons in general use. he recon-
mends raising the crop in time to have
1t mature before the cabbage fly APP
pears. He would not restrict the crop
to early varieties, but would plant the
seed of late varieties in hot-beds and
cold frames, transplant as soon as the
soil and atmosphere are entirely warm,
and hasten the growth as fast as possi-
BILE by careful cultivation. That a good
crop of cabbage can be raised in this
way with less trouble than Is expert
enced in fighting insects Is quite certain I;
but the difficulty appears to be in pre-
serving them for use In the fan and win;
ter. Cabbages are chiefly in demand
quite late in the season, after other veg
etables have .shad their day." 1t may
be practical to preserve them in deep
pits.-CSicGgo Times.