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Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
FEEDING AN ARMY.
How Grant Opened Line OF Sup.
plies TO Chattanooga.

From Gen. Grants article on the
Chattanooga campaign. in the No
vember Century, We quote the fol-
lowing description of the means en-
ployed to open a second line of sup
plies during the siege. Col. Dodge,
beside being most capable soldier,
was an experienced railroad builder.
He had no tools to work with but
those Of the pioneers - axes, picks
and spades. With these he was able
to intrench his men, and protect
them against surprises by small par
ties of the enemy. AS he had no
base Of supplies until the road could
be completed back to Nashville, the
first matter to consider, after pro-
tecting his men, was the getting in Of
food and forage from the surround
ing country. He had his men and
teams bring in all the grain they
could find, or all they needed, and
all the cattle for beef, and such other
food as could be found. Millers
were detailed from the ranks to run
the mills along the line of the army;
when these were not near enough to
the troops for protection, they were
taken down and moved up to the line
OF the road. Blacksmith shops, with
all the iron and steel found in them,
were moved up in like manner.
Blacksmiths were detailed and set to
work making the tools necessary in
railroad and bridge building. .1.-nen
were put to work getting out timber
for bridges, and cutting fuel for the
locomotives when the road was CON-
pleted; car-builders were set to work
repairing the locomotives and cars.
Thus every branch of RAILROAD build
ing, making tools to work with, and
supplying the workmen with food
) was all gong on at once, and without
the aid of mechanic or laborer ex.
cept what the command itself furn
ished. But rails and cars the mer
: could not make without material, an6
D there was not enough rolling stock t.
keep the road we already had worked
to its full capacity. There were nj
rails except those in use. To suppl,
3 these deficiencies I ordered eight o
!, the ten engines Gen. Mcpherson ha,
=. at Vicksburg to be sent to Nashville
Z and all the cars he had except ten.
y also ordered the troops in West Ter
l nessee to points on the river and tn
;, Memphis & Charleston road, and tn
y cars, locomotives and rails from 9th
}; er railroads to be sent to the sam
g destination. The military manage
: of railroads also was directed
y furnish more rolling stock, and, a
|; far as he could, bridge materia
i Gen. Dodge had the work assigne
D him finished within 40 days after re
II ceiving his order. The number {
Il bridges to rebuild was 1872, many {
! them over deep and wide tchasmi
= The length of road repaired was 10
miles,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
morrow night.

According TO an exchange, George
Tollinger, aged Al years, lost the
ends of both thumbs and several
fingers by picking at cartridge with
needle" 1t is not so stated, but
it is believed he lost the cartridge
also.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

The Ruling Passion Strong in Death.
''Do you suffer- said she, as she
bent tenderly over him.
"No-"replied the dying man.
"Tell me what you see?"
f-little-white angels
-oh-so-beautiful!" !"
"Do you want anything, dearest
grandpaa"
"Only-rest. And-yet-I-would
-like-to-know-whether-th the -
angels-have - got the score -
right-3-to-0-in-favor--of-th
Chicagos."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

A Missouri scientist has discovered
a round piece Of rock formed in
twenty layers, each of a different
color. 1t is believed that some ene
must have imposed piece Of Rood.
house, Ill. jelly cake upon the old
man
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
Press of Mexico.

The Mexico Daily InteAigencer
comes to US regularly, notwithstand-
ling the Office was entirely consumed
by fire last week. Bro. White of the
LEDGER, kindly assisted Capt. Cook
by giving him use of his office, and
material and the paper hasn't missed
an issue. Mexico can boast of two
of the best papers in the state
Sturgeon Leader.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

Col. Bob White, of the Mexico
LEDGER, is agitating the establish
ment OF night school 10 Mexico.
We heartily commend the enterprise.
I-Moberly Headlight.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
PToUS JOHNNY.

Little Johnny Frizzletop got the
idea into his head from attending
sunday-school that be could get any
thing he wants by simply praying for
it. A few evenings ago while engag-
ed in his devotiohs he prayed for q
baseball, q pony. new suit OF sun
day clothes. shotgun, quarter OF
a dollar, and various other things
which he needed. White Johnny was
thus praying lis brother Tomm,
burst into tears and said in sn, agoni
zed voice:
Mamma, please make Johnny
stop. He is praying everything ava,
from me-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

You can now buy of VIM. Wetter,
near the depot, Dicks celebrated
beer and extract OF malt. He Is
ready to attend to your orders. 49h
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

rap Advertisers will do well to note
this statement. Eighteen Hundred and
fffy copies Of the LEDGER printed
every week; at least ten persons read
each paper, making the circulation about
1880, counting extras grand total of
leo 900 readers in month. Everybody
reads the "Gredt Religious Weekly :"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

Go to McKinley's for bread, fruit,
oysters and all kinds of confection-
Iery. 31-tf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19

Theo. Garrett wants your produce
and viii pay a liberal price. 31-3t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
THE LEDGER.
SwornStatement of Circulation
ADVERTISERS, TAKE NOTICE!

,Ee, the undersigned, do sol
EMMY swear that the bona tide
aetuai circulation ssoy. of the
uExsCo AEYLEDGER
is Seventy Four Quires, 25
papers in AZ quire. or 1850 cop
les each week.
q. III. WHITE, PrOp'r.
RIB. EsaJNEGLE, Foreman.
subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 7th day of Nov, A. D., 1885.
BEN. c. JOHNSON,
Circuit Clerk.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
AN INDIRECT BLESSING.

He wrote: ga pin is very queer
sort of a thing. 1t has round head
and a sharp point, and if you stick
pins into you, they hurts. Women
use pins to pin On their cuffs and
collars, and men use pins when the
buttons is off. You can get pins for
five cents a paper; but they have
saved thousands of lives" 'Wby,
Thomas, what do you mean by tbat?'
asked the teacher. The boy answer
ed: "By people not swallowin' of
EN-"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
Not Like the Run of Funerals.

Lewiston Me.) journal.
An Augusta clergyman was asked to
conduct the funeral of man in an ad-
joining town, who died with the reputa-
ton of having been a miser, few days
ago. He is believed to have been worth
SIS 600, but his house was bare and mean
and he had no friends. Before the SER
vice the clergyman asked some of the
trails of the deceased that he might
speak of him appropriately. They told
him how snug the miser had been, how
he had ground the poor that came into
his clutches and 80 on.
"But what were his good qualities?'
asked the clergyman.
Didn't have any" was the laconic re-
Didn't he have one redeeninp trait?"
mot d -one," irreverently answer
ed the neighbor.
1T was the most difficult duty that I
ever performed" said the clergyman af-
.erward. There YVES no Bible in the
house, and it was q long time before one
could be found. Then the man in charge
of the funeral had disappeared. asked
where he was, and my informant said,
with q grin: 'Durno. Guess he is hunt.
ing for mourners.'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
STRANGE wANDERER.
The Story of 3 Female Tramp Who Would
Sleep with Her Dogs.

The Story of Female Tramp Who Would
Sleep with Her Dogs.
Leominster, Mass, October 17.-Yes-
terdsy a wandering female with five dogs
as her only companions, was granted
lodging at the town farm. These she
refused because her brutes could not re-
main with her, and insisted on sleeping
on the floor of the carriage house. She
proved to be the same woman who, two
days ago, was found wandering in the
woods at Bolton, where she was taken
into custody and locked in a cell but she
pleaded IS piteously that her dogs be
not taken from her that her prayer was
needed, and the five CANNES occupied
her, cell with her. This strange creature
gave the name of Jane Whitcomb, and
claimed to be native of the town OF
Bolton. She stated that she is on her
way to North Adams, and proposes to
earn her living en- route by selling salve,
precious stones, etc. Opening bundle
she said: This is my wedding dress. !
always carry it with me wherever l co.
And as she spoke her eyes were sufused
with tears, as there came for q moment
into her disordered mind lucid inter-
val. She told an incoherent story of he1
past and alluded to e tragedy which
occurred some years since in Readsboro,
vt. She asserted that the one whom
she was to have welded was shot down
while standing by her side; that the as.
sassin fred the bullet from the outside
that it came crashing through the win
dow pane, and that after the victim fell
his murderers took his body from the
house and mutilated it. She stated
furthermore that those who killed the
man she loved lived in North Adams
and that they sought her life, to protect
which she was afraid to venture from
her place of abode after dark. No one
could be found who knew the particu.
lars ofthe alleged murder, but distant
connection of the strange woman has
been found, who says that there was
years ago, a tragedy in the section Of
which Jane Whitcomb spoke. The wo
man was allowed to depart, and with
her five brute friends started on the
tramp to North Adams and the scene Of
the tragedy, which years ago had wreck.
ed her life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
A Brave Mans siczness.
Nav York Timex

New York TimeA
Henry Bierderbick, one of the gallant
survivors of the Greedy Arctic expedl.
tion. has been an inmate OF the hospital
since August 7th. suffering from typhoid
fever. He has had five relapses, but
the honse physician said last evening
| that he was much better, and would no
doubt recover. unless another serious re-
lapse occurred, which was not antlcl-
psted.
the 18th infantry, United States army,
in 1880, when the Greedy expedition was
organised by the signal service bureau,
and he WIS assigned to accompany that
unfortunate expedition to Lady Frank
lin bay, as hospital steward.
He was one of the seven men who
survived the terrors of the four. winters
in the Arctic, and were rescued in q
starving condition at Cape Sabine by the
relief expedition of 1884.
He was found by the rescuing party
in the tent with Lieutenant Greedy,
weak and exhausted, and scarcely able
to stand, much less to walk.
In addition to his extreme weakness
his body was terribly swollen, and this
symptom was sure sign that the relief
came none too soon, and that had it
been delayed much longer he, too,
would have been found buried in the ice
graves of his dead companions.
He is man of sacrificing courage,
and when found by the relief party was
handing the bottle containing the last
few drops of brandy, which would add
few hours to his own life, to his weaker
companions.
He was brought back with the other
survivors of Camp Clay in July of last
year, and, naturally gifted with a strong
constitution, he rapidly recovered from
the effects OF his terrible experience in
the Arctic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31

Olympic had the pink oftke peach bios
som in her cheeks, large blue, prominent
eyes, q Laughing mouth, fine teeth, DIM
pies galore, and q well modelled nose
The white part of the complexion was
like the lily. There was such q wealth
of light brown, wavy hair, shot Wild
gold. that no amount of hair pins could
keep it from falling about. Olympic
Audouard was rich and highly edncat-
ed; imaginative, credulous and good ma
tured. After seeing Adsh Menken IN
Lies Pirates des Savanes," she went 70
America to ride across the prairies ana
was successfully tempted to join the
Shakers and the Mormons. She ended
by taking up equal rights and spiritual
ism, and was asked by the Empress Eu-
genie to give, at the Tulleries, the reason
for her belief in spirits. l heard her
lecture on the phenomena she had wit
messed in America. She had southern
fluency and lovely hands, to which mag
nificent rings called attention. A fan lay
on the desk before her, and she often
used IT with graceful effect. 1t was very
pretty to see how she famed of t1y
that buzzed about her. Her early his
tory was this:
'She was the daughter of very rich
man, and, against her will, was married
to one still richer, who neglected her to
run after pretty actresses. A revolt was
the conse quence. If less beautiful she
might have become famous, for she
really had eloquence. But she enjoyed
too much the incense of admiration ex-
cited by her beauty and home grace to
cultivate her gifts with perseverance.
Olympic made, unintentionally, a con-
quest of the late Emperor, but, as she
was not ambitious, she refused to follow
it up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
A PlCKLED PORK MINER.
The BossRog Story From Col County,
Illinois.

NATION, ILL, Octocer 17.-Among all
the startling discoveries reported of soap
mines and other rich domestic finds in
various quarters, none can come nearer
being an actuality than lead struck by
some pitchers in Coles countrylast week.
They did not exactly find picked PORK
they found the next thing to it, as will
be seen by the following:
Five years ego Patrick Nicholson pur-
chased farm seven miles southeast of
of this city and has lived upon it since.
Some men were cutting deep ditch
through portion of his farm, when the
spade of one struck a soft substance
eight or ten feet under ground, which,
upon Investigation, proved to be the we'll
preserved body of hug. To say that
they we're astounded at the find is ex-
pressing it very mildly. Some of the
men thought they had struck a pork
mine, while others were of the opinion
that some local option dealer had run a
corner on picked pork, and the price
going down on him, had buried his stock
on hand till the market should rise to
his figure. The subject of forming a
stock company to develop the lead was
discussed, and handsome sum agreed
upon as the amount Of capital. 1t was
suggested tina. Mr. Nicholson. the owner
of the land, should be let into the secret,
and also made a member OF the com pany
out of courtesy If nothing more. He was
summoned to the spot and questioned
about the hog. but could give no light
upon the question of how it. happened
to get 81 lar under ground, unless it
might, in it's animate days, have been
a scion of the famous Cahokia stock,
that are trained to root into the bowels
of the earth.
Tho mystery continued to grow until a
mum Der @. Mr.. Nicholson's neighbors,
who ad lived there ten to fifteen years,
heard of the 6nd. and calling upon their
ret ptive memories. we're able to explain
the Cause Of the hogs body being found
in the condition and place it Was.
Seven years ago the man from whom
Mr.. Nicholson bought the farm was feed
ing eight or ten head of hogs in q lot ad-
dining an old abandoned we'll, when
one day some person poured q consid
cradle quantity of salt brine into the hog
trough. Hog like, the greedy animals
proceeded in short order to drink it up.
OF course, they all died from the effects
of the beverage; and, as the easiest
means of getting rid Of the carcasses, the
farmer threw them into the we'll and
then filled them up. The salt in the
brine had picked the flesh, and the fat
and lean meat was plainly Distinguish
BILE when the dltchers brought in to the
surface. The carcasses OF the other ami
mails are supposed TO be deeper in the
earth, but the men will 60 on ditching
and not bother following the lead
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
Extracts From . Coming War Box.

Lille.
at the battle of Shilo me and grant
was right together all the time. I ken
cool sll day, but sometimes grant got sor.
ter excited. As gallupt cross the bat
tle-feel with my blak hare flowin' and
lookin' like the smoke comm out the
the chimley of q steam mime, grant
stopt me and sed to me: 'Genrul, your
life is too preshus to be flung away
Then sorter toned down and pade ten
ton to the pumshells flying thickern
hailstones in q storm. When the fus'
days fight was over the inemy thawt we
was licked; but We had jes' drawed 'em
into trap whar We Good pestle them all
to peeces the mex day. Sum folks thawt
We had bin serprised; but We want ser
priseL . bit. We was jee' foolin, an the
mex mornin' we jes' cut loose an made
the confedrits git up an git q way from
that place same as passed. of chickens
when they see Q chicken hork sailin' in
the u. / made . big speche to my men
after the fite, an grant went to the tent
and maid plans for the mex campane."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
WHERE THEY NOW ARE.

Some CoDfeder ate Generals and What Tho
Fiad to do in Times of Peace.
Gen. Longstreet will next month open 9
winter hotel in Georgia near the gull
coast.
Gen. Beauregard continues to act az
counsel and promoter of the Louisiana
lottery.
Fitz Hugh Lee is ehort and stout, with
grayish chin whiskers, and looks like a
arMer.
Gen. w. n. II. (Runy) Lee. son of the
late Robert E. Lee, is new prosperous
farmer in Virginia.
Most of the ex-confederate generals
who are not in politics are interested in
some way it'll railroads.
As then he "did all the sTearing for
Stonewall Jackson" Jubal Early contin-
ues to enjoy the distinction of being the
"tallest swearer in Virginia"
One of Mahone's fast friends is Gen.
V.D. Groner, now living at Norfalk, and
occupying the position of president OF
the national compress company.
It is curious that Gen. Curtis Lee,
though grandson of Mrs. Curtis, bears
amost marked and striking resemblance
to the pictures of Washington.
Wherever he appears to speak in the
Virginia campaign Fitz Hugh Lee is re.
ceived with enth asiasm, and bodies OF
mounted men ride out from every town
to meet him and escort him to the hotel.
Gen. Walker, who commanded the
Stonewall brigade after Jackson's death,
is now over so years of age. He is
practicing lawyer in Virginia and has
been lieutenant governor OF the state.
Gen. Taliaterro, who commanded the
Virginia militia at the time of the John
Brown trouble, is still an active man,
over six feet high, and attends to his
large estate near Gloucester Point, Va,
bordering on Chesapeake bay.
Dark as an Indian and straight as an
arrow, stands six feet four inches, Gen.
r. Lindsey Walker has not changed
as superintendent of the state houte in
Austin.
The commandment of the troops in the
Shenandoa valley for q long time was
Gen. John Echols, who is now director
in the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and
president of the Lexington and Big
Sandy road.
Gen. Hooker, who lost an arm at
Vicksburg,is now practiciDg law in Miss.
issippi, and is very intimate friend of
Jefferson Davis. During the past sum-
mer he was at the Virginia warm
springs.
Age has not made many inroads upon
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, now United
States railroad commissioner. He has
gotten over the nervous trouble from
which he has suffered for many years.
He is married but has no children.
Over half q dozen of the ex-confede-
rate generals who went into the war
bachelors, have remained eipgle ever
since, among them Gen. Curtis Lee, the
handsome and popular son of the con
federate chieftsin, and Gen. Jubal Early,
who is now 70-odd.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
GRAPE WINE

|. Take twenty pounds of grapes, put
them into stone jar and pour over them
six quarts of boiling water; when sufi.
GENTLY cool to allow it, squeeze them
thoroughly with the hand; after which
allow them to stand three days, with q
cloth thrown over the Jar. Then
squeeze out the juice and add ten pounds
of crushed sugar, and let it remain .
week longer in the jar. Then take of
the scum end put into bottles or jugs,
leaving . vent until done fermenting,
then, STRAIN again, bottle tight and. lay
the bottles on the side in . cool place.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31

A Phillips county timber ctlturist has
been experimenting and reports: In the
fall of 1888 he planted seedlings few
hundred trees There were several varie-
ties, as honey locust, black locust, catal-
pa, ailanthus, and two varieties of mul-
berry. The trees were carefully "heeled
in" and in the spring of "a were planted,
care being taken to prevent the roots
from drying. None of the trees were
large. being only q summers growth
from the seed, but all were thrifty and
in perfect order. After the trees had
been planted twenty-one months he
took measures of their growth. One box
elder was six and three-fourth inches in
circumference; several were over six
inches, and more than half of the num-
Der planted were over four inches. The
height, of course, varied, nearly all of
them being seven feet high and the tall
est about nine and one-half feet high.
Single limbs of the past seasons growth
were more than three inches in circum-
ference. The honey-locust made good
growth, the largest one being IL inches
in circumference, and Z IL feet high.
The ailanthus is fast growing tree, but
it is not hardy enough for our winter
climate. It freezes down nearly to the
ground but it IS said that after suffici
emily large root and stump is formed, it
grows large and becomes a good tree.
Several of them were eight inches in cir
conference st the stump, and nine feet
high. The catalpa and mulberry have
also grown well, some of them being an
inch and half in diameter at the stump.
But it is the black locusts that have
proven themselves to be the tree for tim
Der culture claims in this part of the
state. Nearly every one of them had
lived that bad been sent him. The
largest of the lot was seven and three
quater inches at the stump and eleven
feet high.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31

Vegetables are raised in Greenland
despite its short summers. At the Dan
ish station of Godtaab, latitude "a degrees
near the sea, radishee, turnips and let
tuca are grown. About 30 miles further
north, in the inland country, the cli-
mate is milder, and cabbage and carrots
do well. while potatoes grow freely. In
South Greenland-the site of the old
Norsemen's Observation-Disclosures il
practiced under moro favorable circum-
OtanceA s
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31

II you are tired taking the large old
fashioned gripping pills, and are satisfied
that purging yours If till you are weak
and sick is not good common sense,
then try Carter's Little Liver Pills and
learn how easy it is to be free from Bill
iousnes, Headache, Constipation, and all
liver troubles. These little pills are
smaller, easier to take and give quicker
relief than any pill in use. Forty in a
vial. One dose. Price rs cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31

y e; shall break the engagement" she
ut is really too much trouble TO convarse
with him; he's as deaf as post, and tax.
like he hada mouthful OF mush. Besides.
the way he HAWKS and splits is disgusting"
Don't break the engagement for that: tell
him to take DR.. Sage's Catarrah Remedy.
It will cure him completely" "Weli. I'll
tell him. 1 do hate to break. it off. for in
a! other respects he's quite too charming"
or course, it cured his catarrah.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31

IOuuOu IIOIu. :
Olympic Audouard has subsidized. She
was harum ecarum beauty ofa Rubens
type. And did she not know how to set
her charms of to the best advantage? /
shall never forget the. feet she pr, due
ed in the PAla de Justice when che
went there IN tine character off perse.
cutet wife. The bar gnvitated to the
bench on which she wassetting. Elderly
barristess we've perhaps moro empress
In their attentions than young ones.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
s.Delsys are Dangerous"

Ifyou are pale, emaciated. have hack
ing cough, with night sweats, splitting of
blood and shortness of breath, you have no
time to lose. Do not hesitate too long
till you are past cure, fol-, taken in its early
stages, consumption can be cured by the
use of Dr.. Pie1cs's Golden Medical Dis
covery," as thousands can testify. By
drr ggist.